The Kings of Monaco are four lifelong friends who share the history of their friendship, what it was like growing up in the 90s, and talk about current events going on in our world today. Oh, they like making fun of one another.
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To say about that really um Vince you bought a Jeep we want to talk about that because we’re kind of Jeep fans yeah put it who go well there there are three Jeep fans and one three yet to be Jeep fan we’re going to convince you a little
Bit later Carlo I I actually like the way Jeeps look I think they’re awesome vehicles um it’s getting my wife to like them that’s the that’s the challenge all right well how about the three of us drive over there and then well Vince can’t he’s in Florida but Le and I could
Drive over there we’re gonna talk about Shane Gillis who was on SNL maybe just some controversial stuff The Comedians are going on in our world today um leau had a fun topic what if you won the lotto what would you do we’re going to talk about that what would each one man
Do what we would do with the money if we had it uh how about driving in Colorado we’re going to talk about that because and not just driving but in the snow didn’t you guys get snow today or it is it’s Tuesday today right where today’s Tuesday yeah National cigar day which is
Another topic we’re gonna talk about National cigar day so let’s kick it off Vince you bought a Jeep yeah talk about it man what year what make model all that fun stuff so I bought a 2020 Jeep Wrangler um not used but you you guys
Know you don’t have to buy a new Jeep they look they’ve looked the same since when like the ’90s yeah it’s like you could buy a 1995 Jeep and you’re like is that a 95 or a 20 I don’t I could couldn’t tell depending on
How you take care of it I mean the only thing to be fair though the led the new LED beams pretty those look pretty sick but could always mod that too for any Jeep any year any yeah so I I um I’m going to tell you guys the reason why I
Bought it because like I don’t know about you guys but I don’t like spending money a lot like I don’t I don’t want to spend money and so I had a um you’re like goo just kid so I um I I had a Ford Edge and it
Was it was an older model but man the thing was uh great car I I’m not going to I’m not going to dog on the car because it got me to a a from A to B but um yeah like last week it just died on
Me that’s because it only gets you to B bro there’s more letters in the alphabet yeah it was like yeah I needed to get to p and I only got to like M you know so um okay but um but yeah man you got you gota be ready with that man super
Excited um been wed a a Jeep for a little while you know I had to join the family which now we we’re g to convince Carlos to join the Jeep family because um I thought Joe I thought you had a Bronco I feel like when you came over
This summer you had a Bronco I did but I wrecked it I got in an accident Joe doesn’t know how to drive so we had to get a g you didn’t know that no so yeah I had the 2022 Jeep um the sport one pretty blue
You guys saw it at your house we’re driving on our way to the gym um Bronco sorry 20 20 uh Bronco 2022 bronos sport there it is and we’re on our way to the gym my wife and I driving up uh AR rapo and it was one of
Those days speaking of driving in Colorado driving in the winter yeah driv in winter this guy comes out D you know on the other side of a rapo uh turns on to it and just loses his loses his control he’s just spinning spinning spinning I’m like oh my God this guy’s
Gonna hit us I knew like I knew I was gonna have to get off the road because he was just all over the place I started driving off to the side he crushed the side of the car where on my side spun out we ended up facing each other
Airbags go off my iPhone calls 911 like all of the above happened so anyway I was totaled and I said I’m getting a Jeep now so you know what comes to mind as you’re talking about your crash and and also on the subject of jeeps do you
Remember when you I can’t remember who you were with was it Leo maybe and you guys saw that wreck on i7 that guy in I25 yeah I25 over over by Gates over off of uh on I25 and like yep yep where they was it the one where they flipped over
And then ended up right back on yeah the chick that flipped over the Jeep right on the on R dude and I like to laugh at that kind of stuff but she literally flipped over Flip Flip Flip and landed right back on our tires and all I
Remember is I mean thank God she had her seat belt on but just I just remember like a rag doll just everywhere inside that thing did she have long hair yeah yeah she had long hair the top was off it was a nice sunny day I don’t
Know how this is happening it was just out of nowhere boom boom boom dude and yeah just bo bo right back on your tires I I thought a better story would have been as like Joe was like honey I’m just gonna put my cycling shoes on right
Now so and then his like feet were slipping on the pedals and he wrecked no no that might have been a better story invention CL on clip on driving shoes yeah he’s like clipped on his he has reck that would yeah dude you know it would be
Hilarious well not what would be but what is hilarious and no no shame to to cyclist out there uh but the funniest thing to me is when you’re like at a stoplight and this big hulken like tree trunk leg guy pulls up next to you
And he uncs his shoe and then he steps on the on the asphalt it’s all tick it’s like the small it’s you know what that is for a minute you know what those are like the clips from the bike I know that but it’s hilarious because it it reminds me of
Like high heels you have this like Hulk man or person and they’re like so just for the record I don’t wear those okay just just for the record I wear these These are um they’re called TMS right and they actually look like a tennis shoe they have vcro and then
Check it out Boom the clip is hiding on the inside right there so you can literally walk walk around in these you’re not going to click like high hills like Carlos just said what do you mean it looks like a tennis shoe it is a
Tennis shoe really I mean yeah I mean it it looks like sorry let me get it like a normal shoe why does it have a big old giant like velcro thing though like what is the point behind that because there’s no do you want to tie your shoes or do
You want to just do this yeah I guess don’t get your that main reason yeah your shoelace yeah Vince said it exactly you don’t want your shoelaces getting caught in your pedals so you’re less likely if you don’t have any um shoelaces this is super ease of use and
Then so yeah they look like shoes but they’re the like they’re super stiff the sole so every cycling shoe is gonna have a really stiff sole and then um that that is what we call a SPD clip right there they make them there’s different types but that’s my
Newest one TM shout me out looking for a brand out dang there you go it’s a goodl looking shoe yeah um so you brought what color is your Jeep man it’s um it’s a dark gray I I believe it’s gunmetal gray it’s the it’s granite crystal dude oh it’s graned
Crystal I’m sorry like is it really the know that it is yeah I checked it out it’s it’s pretty sick I mean I know you sent us a photo is that is that what color yours is Joe yeah no mine mine is gray it’s like a like a a flat gray
That’s not the technical term what’s the technical term I don’t remember what is it Le Joe’s a ship um ship it’s like a warship gray like what is it called yeah I don’t know something like that whale gr yeah so super exciting I um I actually put the put the top up today
And man it was nice out I know yeah we can’t do that thank you for saying that top top up up and then down I don’t um did you one of those did you install like the the whole thing in your in a garage or how did you take the top
Does is it a soft top or I don’t remember it’s a soft top okay so it’s easier yeah cool yeah Jo is Anvil color Anvil y Anvil all right Anvil and then it’s an electric or one of those 4 by E 4X so it has what’s that 4xe yeah 4xe
Thank you for correcting my life right now um you’re like I just bought the jape just bought it dude God yeah it’s got the blue accents it’s fun um but super so so how how do you like it so far I like it man it’s uh
It’s funny my wife Bri she was like man it’s really noisy I’m like yeah it’s a g like that’s because the top is down honey they’re super noisy when the Top’s down driving yeah it’s part of the fun though is there are there a lot of jeeps
Out there in Florida I I think Jeep is like a like a hill vehicle like a Colorado Montana vehicle so it it’s cool because um there’s beaches out beaches out here that you could actually drive up on the beach and park on the beach and you’re right there and like you see
A ton of jeeps doing that out there out here um so that’s what we’ll be doing this summer nice nice yeah and this would help you convince your wife Carlos this is like The Ultimate Driving Experience you’re ble to like get around in the snow in the winter of Colorado
When you need to and then if we need to take off to like like mccon where there’s like Sun and Sand we can have you could have the doors and the top off and everything and you can get around in the sand and enjoy the Sun and all that
Good stuff you got you got it’s just all about how you’re gonna sell it to her man that’s the thing dely man ultimately like the ultimate allaround vehicle well do you like it Carlos I mean do you you like them anyway I do I think think they’re awesome I do I would
Prefer the hard top though I’m more of like an East Coast guy we talked about it in one of the episodes I can’t remember but one of my one of my childhood dream cars was actually a Jeep a hard top jeep you know um and I think
It was probably a Wrangler uh and they have some amazing looking Jeeps now I do like the way they look I think they look awesome I don’t know what their safety record is like obviously having little ones that’s important um but you know I think um I don’t know I just don’t think
She’s into Jeeps I I have to say I’m not like you know on that childhood dream anymore uh but it would be fun to have a Jeep I’ve actually mentioned it on a couple of occasions that I’d like to buy a Jeep but then I see like you know like
The new Ford Expeditions or like I’ve been thinking about buying a truck for like 10 years like a pickup truck yeah you know just because of the utility of them but so I’m I’m sort of all over the place honestly that’s that’s why I bought the Gladiator bro because you’re going to
Get you’re going to add that one extra element that’s missing from the Jeep itself is the truck bed so now you have that as well you have the towing capacity of it the cargo capacity all the extra stuff too so that they they came up with a a solution to your
Problem too as far as like having a truck attached as well nice yeah I I would say the only thing that I didn’t realize about the jeep was there is limited cargo capacity on the back it’s not very big and that’s the one thing that I’m like oh I wish there was a
Little more room back here for the size of the vehicle but other than that I love it it’s a fun car what what kind of Jeep do you have I have a Wrangler Sierra Sierra so you have the back seat and then you just have like a little
Tiny cubby in the back or what or do you have like a little bit of it’s a four door it’s a four door but there’s still SP back there it’s just you you would expect more like especially when like for if if I’m folding the um soft top it
Pretty much takes up all that room back there yeah that’s the only bad thing but yeah it’s fun though all right on well we’re gonna get another vehicle like you were saying Carlos if you want to get something that’s you know still Jeep brand um cuz that brand has been
Around since 1941 still Jeep brand but like not on the Wrangler side more of like a looks side you mentioned the Expedition Jeep came out with um a throwback the the Jeep Wagoner and the wagon a three row with extra cargo space the thing is huge freak huge yeah it’s
Not gonna be the light end of price but um it’s definitely if you’re if you’re considering like an expedition or something to keep par with the Expedition or the Escalade or something like that the je the Jeep wagon near would be something that you would definitely want to look at
It you know yeah the other thing that limits me and you know we’re I I don’t want to make this into an ad for cars but the other thing that limits me is you know we have a travel trailer so I sort of want a vehicle that will you know kill multiple
Birds with one stone and I don’t think a Jeep would even the big one I don’t know that it would have sufficient towing capacity which is a barrier for me you know I I I don’t want to have just a spare car parked in the garage um it’s really gota got to be
A jack of all trades yeah it’s got a 7,000 pound towing capacity the knows all the stuff you have envil you have a gunal you have 7,000 points whatever like or gonna get a sponsor by je I’m trying to get je to shout me out if I need to sponsor
I mean it was just shoes for me I mean for vehicles that’s a that’s a that’s a leap bro hey let’s talk about um about uh some of the comedians uh Shane Gillis uh being on SNL recently and just anything surrounding uh that topic of of uh of potentially cancel stuff cancel
Culture whatever that might be uh Carlos what do you got man well you know I I feel like it ha it’s very cyclical right so as we get closer to election time it sort of feels like the American public starts to walk on eggshells and I’m not suggesting that
All comedy is fair game I do think that there are limits in lines that that some comedians cross um at the end of the day right you’re you’re in control over what you decide to consume from a Content standpoint if you don’t like it the channel right it’s that old adage um on
The same token you know I do think like I said that there are comedians out there that that that have cross the line on certain instances um what reminded me of that was this this character Shane uh whatever his last name is um him having been invited back to SNL after being
Fired from SNL back in the day uh for some controversial remarks that he made right that were uh culturally insensitive apparently and so he gets fired he gets cancelled and now he’s back to SNL so I guess my my question in in in all of this is is that reasonable right for the
American public to take such a polarizing stance on this type of of art medium uh I know for me you know if there’s a comedian that I feel is is um is degrading or is just not fun to listen to it’s an easy fix for me right
I turn off the television or I change the channel or I change the the uh the Spotify Channel whatever the case might be um is is cancel culture taking it too far that’s what I’m curious about yeah um first I would I would kind of preface
All of that with the fact that because of social media it put the power in the people’s hands so other words before social media before we were all able to voice our opinion and say what we were and weren’t going to do it was just whatever was on TV again to your point
Carlos you could change the channel but you can’t say anything about it there was like really nowhere you might call the network maybe email them you know whatever but now you have masses of people who don’t like something uh that was said done broadcasted whatever and
And then you have a movement that says we are no longer going to subscribe to Netflix so we’re no going to no longer going to listen to you or we’re going to take away sponsorships like it’s in the power of the people so I would say that
That’s the world that we’re living in I mean and and so uh when in in regards to your question um say that again rephrase phrase your question again so my question is yeah my question is is it reasonable for you know Society to have the ability
To cancel someone like a Shane or like a Chris Rock or like anybody right like a Dave Chappelle right for for for jokes that are offensive to you or can jokes you know is is it substantive enough for you to be like yeah that guy’s gota he’s
Got to be fired indefinitely again I say that cautiously because I know again you know we’re we’re sort of in the spotlight right because oh I’m sure there’ll be people writing in and you know making com comments about about my very comments uh but it’s an honest
Question you know to what degree do we as you know consumers of this content have the right or the ability to cancel these people so I like we this whole podcast is based on like we’re we’re from the Gen X you know era and back it it seemed back then
Everything was kind of like a a comedian was comedian uh a TV star was a TV star a musician was a musician a football player was a football player it was like now everybody because of like um Joe said the the the social platforms that we have now everybody’s like well I got
Something to say and I I mean what what are we doing here you know but we’re here just like it’s it’s like um back back in the Gen X it’s like we didn’t have all those resources so we were like it it didn’t seem like those those lines were blurred at all
Everything just kind of seemed like every everything had its platform and it wasn’t as exposed as before but we did we did have our opinion though right like we would all talk about a certain show a certain communion we just didn’t have a platform to put it out in the
Public but is it fair though like is it is it right is it fair Leo what do you think like like is it fair is it right I’m kind of all over the place on this topic dude because you know the simple fact by having an opinion is is an issue
Right like so I’m kind of all over the place with it um I think that and I’m wondering I kind of think back I was thinking about this the other day I was thinking back where did this like cancel culture type of mentality come from and it’s literally I was thinking when they
Started outlawing um indoor smoking is kind of when it believe it or not is when this type of stuff happened when you made this law to where you’re like saying okay well you can no longer smoke indoors because you’re harming me and so now that takes that freedom away from
That person but it’s the same freedom to the person that’s smoking in order to harm themselves and so on and so forth that’s I think that’s kind of when this whole like like woe is me like cancel culture like my my rights are greater than your rights type of movement
Happens when they stopped indoor smoking I what do you guys think like do you think that’s when this kind of like stuff started happening yeah you know you’re hitting you’re hitting on such a like big topic we can literally unpack that multiple episodes but yeah I mean to what degree is someone’s rights
Greater than the next person’s right when when you talk about uh cancel culture and just public figures in general everybody has an opinion right Leo hit the nail on the head just by having an opinion that could be offensive to people regardless of what that opinion is because the fact of the
Matter is there’s going to be somebody that disagrees with you to at some point right you could be the best you could have the best intentions in mind you’re you’re you’re bound to come across somebody who disagrees with you at some point and I I just you know I’m curious
About that and I’m not saying that it’s fair or unfair but it’s a question it’s a question that I have because you know to me uh comedians are comedians they say stupid things and they sort of get paid for saying stupid things and um I don’t know that that
Necessarily gives them a hall pass for crossing those lines that I’m talking about there are just some things that you don’t joke about right that you don’t uh play with um but I think about when we were kids back in the90s 80s and 90s if someone had dropped a microphone in our conversation
Right we would have been cancelled every single day of Our Lives because that’s what you know when you have an opinion I mean let’s just let’s just be honest here you’re not always uh politically correct or in line with you know what what is socially acceptable you’re just
You’re just you right so it’s an honest question to get us to thinking as as we approach the 2024 election and I’m sure it’s going to be fireworks just like it was you know uh the first time around 2020 but I’m curious yes 2020 thank you
But I’m curious about you know man the fact man what does you know what does everybody think about that gosh you know um supposedly this gentleman Shane uh was able to gather the highest viewer ratings for SNL in a I want to say like in a couple of decades maybe
And I could be wrong on that for this last for this last appearance yeah apparently it was like like a major like ratings raking raking for uh for SNL I don’t know if that’s true that’s what you hear from you know some of the folks that that support this guy people that
Disagree with this guy are saying oh no it was the worst show of all time right his jokes were flat they were ter his monologue was terrible so it’s like you know it’s just so polarizing well well you like a couple things that we didn’t hear back like um socially acceptable
Politically correct I mean we didn’t like th those were phrases that just weren’t like relevant back when we were um I I think they were well socially acceptable was like am I accepted into like the you know the the Rockers or or the the you know a certain group of
People there was a different type of social acceptance right yeah now like yeah yeah it’s it it’s pressing to am I am I able to put my craft out there because it it’s um it’s pushing the threshold of like you say politically correctness and all that stuff um but I
I like I’m I’m with you Leo I mean there there’s a lot of um there’s a there’s a lot of comedians who have pushed that threshold way too far and I think people are like pushing back on that but um but then everybody while we got this guy to
Stop doing that so let’s let’s push to where we could stop him from doing this let’s stop him from doing this to where it’s like oh now we we can’t do anything you know yeah you know I think opponents opponents of of of um cancel culture right we’ll say but
It’s free speech right uh there there are many Advocates out there that will say I have the right to say whatever I want right irrespective of whether or not I have a large platform or not irrespective of whether or not it’s offensive to you and I totally get that
And again I’m I’m not suggesting that it’s right or wrong I’m not suggesting that Kel culture you know has a moral High ground or not um it it’s I think a topic that we all need to consider that we need to think about because at the
End of the day right we live in one Society we live in one Community we live in one human race and at the end of the day we have to find a way to coexist and find a way to find a ground that is harmonious irrespective of how you feel
About politics about uh social issues about anything else right you have to find a way to get through and be able to extend your hand to that person across the aisle or across the Divide whatever that divide is and be able to get along and be able to coexist and again if they
Say something or do something that is egregious and offensive um don’t listen to it don’t consume that content right and let it end there from from my perspective I certainly would a lot of people don’t don’t agree with that they’re gonna fight you know a lot of people are
Goingon to say no you they shouldn’t say it anyway I think um I think you know there’s there’s this balance between and I’ll kind of bounce off of what you’re saying Carlos because I I agree like there’s there’s a balance between um uh freedom of speech and com comedy specifically being there’s a
Threat of Truth and all comedy that’s what makes it funny it’s that it’s kind of true right they’re just putting a fun spin on it and then you have culture that like changes every five 10 years you know every every decade whatever it changes and I feel feel like I feel like
Um the culture or the the cancel cancellation if you will that has up has uprooted itself over the last decade or whatever um it’s it followed culture culture became sensitive because of things that happen in the world and then now you can’t say certain things about certain things that happen in the world
So now that stifles comedy now that stifles this now that stifles freedom of speech now and then and then now you have an upright of newer uh and potentially former uh comedians saying no we’re still going to say what we want to say and there’s an
Audience that will be okay with that now and now it’s like the culture it just kind of flows with culture I think as culture changes so does that you know you back to your point earlier when we were in the 90s we used to cut each other down and say really bad things
Right like if anybody posted that on social media all of us would be considered really bad people for what we each other I can’t even say the things that we said when we were kid imagine if we had Snapchat or IG back then and we were like cutting into each other like
Publicly about some of the stuff we would like I mean it would be bad it would be bad but that that was our culture right and then culture changed you know and then again I I just think as as Society things happen things happen in our culture Community world
That affects these things and then it stifles them and then people get tired of being stifled then they come back and then they have a following that come you know it just kind of comes and goes so I yeah go ahead Lio I was just gonna say
So Joe I’m I’m with you I agree like there’s like there’s definitely something that it follows and is this culture the thing that it follows CU When I think about it sometimes I think about it in terms of like majority rules is what it follows yeah um because
Whoever makes the loudest noise whoever makes the most impact um vocally seems to get the most attention and and Society tends to drift to that nature I mean it’s called it’s it’s a pack mentality it’s about people ganging up on the lesser of people or the Lesser minority like for example black lives
Matters like it was a pack mentality black lives matters someone made a big uproar about black lives matters and then people started making issues about you know all lives matter and all this that and the other so it became a different kind of social issue and it
Seemed like to follow the majority rules more than a culture change I don’t it’s it’s confu it’s definitely confusing in in that aspect for sure yeah yeah you know it’s an interesting it’s an interesting um issue right and it’s very polarizing and I’m sure that there are people who might be watching or
Listening in that that are forming their own opinions about us right just by talking about it um I I I personally um uh value that I try and instill in my children is that you know if if there’s someone that is robbing you of your peace whatever that piece is the more
The more time you spend thinking about that person or about that issue um the more you rob yourself of that piece and the more influence and empowerment that you’re giving to that individual or that entity over your feelings right and ultimately you are in control over how you feel simply by prioritizing your
Attention right and maybe that’s at the heart of cancel culture right and let me just put a spin on that maybe that’s at the heart of of what those individuals that you know cancel comedians maybe that’s what they’re trying to do is to regain that control right to regain that
That peace and not Empower someone to to have that type of influence over how they feel anyway it’s it’s a it’s an interesting subject it was something that um you know got my mind thinking as as I was seeing just the different threads on social media about I actually
Didn’t even watch the show ironically I didn’t even watch it I stopped watching SNL a long time ago yeah just because you know I I was a big old school SNL fan with Chris Farley and and all those dudes um but I I just thought that it
Was an it would be an interesting thing to uh to talk about and dissect because even the four of us probably veryy in opinion over it right so what might offend Joe might not offend me especially after a couple shots at tequila right and what might offend leau
Might not offend Vince right so it’s just an interesting uh concept interesting subject to to talk about I’d love to hear what some of the audience members think about it yeah comment below for sure on what you’re thinking I I think I don’t know that any of us
Could offend any of us any more than we probably have tried to In Our Lifetime because we’ve told each other some really bad thing at some point we’re going to get to some of that too but definitely we could take another dive on this at at another time because uh it’s
It’s such an interesting topic uh to to um to you know to talk about uh so leau you had a a question that had me thinking all week because we we like to chat I love that we have by the way like if you’re we we we are real friends like
We really love each other we really care about each other we have this chat that is going on probably almost daily at this point we’re always sending each other fun stuff calling each other out sending a Tik Tok whatever we think is funny for the day whatever you know and
We we upload um or we chat about different ideas that we want to talk about on the podcast and leau had mentioned let’s talk about what if what you what you would do with the money if you won the lotto that that’s a fun one that’s a fun one because because who
Hasn’t driven by the the billboard seen the commercial watched the ad whatever you know and thought about what they would do so Leos since you thought about this man you kick it off man what would you do yeah and and that was my how much
How much is it let’s just put a let’s put a number on it um I think it’s what is it right now ball and Mega Millions I think one of them’s like at 600 million the other one’s like at 400 million or something like that I don’t I
Don’t know I all right let’s go with 500 million if you had million 500 million right half a billion dollars I I was that day when I when you guys were like man let’s talk about something you know popped in my head because I was literally driving by that sign Joe and I
Seen that up there and I’m like hey man like I’ve thought so many times about winning that thing I never play it so I’m probably never gonna win it but I have definitely found myself like in like daydream mode of like what could be done with that kind of money
Statics are definitely not in your favor if you’re not playing dude hold on real quick is it true that your grandparents won a small Lotto when you were younger yeah when I was when I was younger my grandparents they won um so what is this
Like this is like the 80s and 90s or something like that they won um in the tens of thousands of dollars from a lottery ticket so nice yeah that is true um and then they gave you he spent it all on [Laughter] chicks he SP spent all that money on
Spandex spandex for sure repair dude that was hilarious oh my gosh they uh yeah I’ve I’ve fantas you know had you know Day Dreams and fantasies about what I would do with the money um I’m not sure fantasy is the word whatever right thinking about Le now walking around in full body spandex
Outfits and through the week I was I was through the week I was thinking about man there’s so many different things that I could do with this you know what would you do with it so and I ultimately found out what I would do with it at the
End of the day what I would do dude it was is I would buy that piece that Carlos was talking about I would just buy time to myself like just no bills no nothing just just find peace just find time to enjoy my life that’s what I
Would ultimately buy if I won the Mega so buying that means that you would have to pay everything off and not have any of those distractions not have to work not have to okay that’s what that means specifically and and I was like man I
Can get a boat I I mean I have a boat that’s the thing too I was like I’ve I have things in my life where like you know you know know the boat the car the house the thing you know I’ve done that stuff in my life the library behind you
You think he already won the lottery I saw a set up today and I’m like we’re going to be talking about winning the lottery looks like Leal already won the loty you know I already have those things so I’m like dud you have a library at your house I know and so that
One of those little ladders that go by do you have a librarian to take care of that Library too librarian um but no I I you know okay so be just a hair more specific you would have to do all that stuff but would you move would you buy a
House somewhere else would you go somewhere you know a different part of definit be warm I would definitely move somewhere warmer but I’d keep my Colorado home because that’s where my family is my my family’s going to be part of that piece right enjoying my
Family is going to be part of that piece um but I would definitely have a second home somewhere um probably Arizona um and I’d probably golf smoke some cigars chill all day long that would be my thing man I wouldn’t want to get too crazy you know and and it can be donated
To somewhere when I’m done by my kids or whatever they want to do with it is there anything that you would want to do Arizona’s not warm if in case you don’t know Arizona’s freaking hot yeah it’s it’s it’s fire I’m b style though man I’m I’m I’ll sweat it up dude like
I’m good with Arizona all right so would would you do anything um are there any aspirations dreams that you like if I had money and I’ve always wanted to do this outside of the fact that it’s gonna buy you time it’s gonna buy you peace it’s gonna buy
You you know family you know time with with all that but is there anything that you would do as far as just like a like a a hobby or something you just I thought about that during the week to and I think what one thing I thought
About was I would take myself to college I’d go to CU dude and like get a degree in something really auspicious and stupid but yeah I would do like that you don’t know what particular you would you’d have to figure it out not have to
Figure it out dude so so I have a question would you be a good student or would you be like a what’s that movie with Will Happy Gilmore no that happy gilmar no I’d be a good student man I’d be a good student because I think that
That we would we’d all kind of maybe do that like college thing over differently if we had a chance the would join a frat I am the fat house brother yeah I am the house no that’s cool man that’s cool Vince what would you do man what about
You Vince half a billion dollars what would you do man I think leau hit it on the head like buying peace is um that’s that’s the biggest thing like I would OD bu like we love it here in Florida um we moveed moved here about six years ago or
So and we’ve we’ve grown to love it out here in Florida but I do love it still in Colorado I mean so I would you know I’d have multiple properties um and I’d like to buy something over um you know somewhere in Spain or Italy or something like that
Buy uh Europe Cottage or something out out there you know out of the country dude yeah wow yeah love to that dude Europe’s Europe’s on point yeah you you just took a vacation earlier Europe last year right yeah I mean there’s some uh outside of United States there just some beautiful
Places but um yeah I like I always thought like it it would be great to buy like three homes right next to each other um um like in a small like a a secluded area by like um three homes and that way when you want family out family
Come out forget getting hotels forget getting airbnbs we’re this is we’re going to have a big family gathering you know all the family come you know come stay over here no time limit to when you’re GNA be out family friends whatever you know that be sick
Yeah it like um just what about some Hobbies what what would you do with uh you know we know you love to sing and write music and and would you do anything with that yeah I mean uh like you always think about um like investing in like finding some like crazy talented
Person and be able to invest that money into like um building up something like that you know um building up an artist you know from scratch you know and seeing that grow um doing something that but maybe buying a studio state of the art equipment go finding some Talent
Being the producer all that stuff that would be cool be an executive producer and just like watch it grow um that would be amazing but also like um like I love playing golf you know I’d love to GNA say bro like I I don’t know why
We’re not golf better at golf and I would like a membership at you know one of the top end golf courses and just be like thrown down you know right on bringing that Karma City into the country club you know part of the fun of golf outside of
The game is just driving around on that stinking cart bro that’s just fun hopping in the cart and then having whatever you like to drink your drink of choice some snacks and just the whole like you know uh uh in like Community aspect of it like leau and I went not too long
Ago it’s just fun just to hop in like you could have a bad day and it’s just fun like to be be around you know your your people your tribe or whatever that’s cool man and and a nice golf course Joe that golf course that we
Played at man sick Beyond like that that thing was awesome bro like yeah it’s like a video game Vince will kind of understand this there’s this elevated te it’s probably 300 F feet high no no joke dude and it’s only like 200 yards long so you’re like
You’re basically hitting it off the top of a c and straight down where was it at U Bar it’s called a Mariana but it’s in in loveling Colorado it’s oh okay gorgeous gge like those are beautiful I’ve played a couple of those where you like it it’s 200 yards but it plays
About 150 so you’re like hitting an eight or nine iron for 200 yards yeah it’s wild Carlos what would you do man well I would need a driver to hit 190 yards but um and that’s if I hit the ball gu on the ball bro and he is not lying and
That’s if I hit the ball um gosh man first of all I want to bring you guys back to reality so half a millon half half a billion dollars right off the bat when you pay taxes is not half billion dollars so you’re going to have to pay
Uncle Sam right off the top so you’re left with probably you know 60% of that whatever the case might be definitely pay off all the bills you pay off all the debt which you know thankfully I have a good wife I have a good Steward
Of of our money we we we really don’t have much to pay off I would get a few more pairs of these I see it come on Gord you didn’t even there you go love get a few more pair those and um uh definitely invest in some
Companies some businesses um I I love be a company that if you had that amount of money what would be a company that you would invest in well I’d have to do some research but definitely I think real estate is always really safe to invest
In I think that you know buying land is probably going to be a pretty safe bet into the future um I’d also get into uh precious metals more so I’d buy more gold more silver stuff that isn’t going to depreciate over time you don’t have to worry about the stock market eating
It up right we all experience that right after covid where man a big chunk of our retirement funds were eaten up by by those um uh by those downturns um so I I would buy more into precious metals I’m you know you guys know me well I am not traditionally a benevolent
Person although I do give people people money you know like if I see somebody in need on the street that needs food and if I have cash on hand I I freely give um but I’ve never really been big into like um like I I’ll I’ll just use it as
An example like adoption right just because it hasn’t ever been on the radar but I have to tell you if I had half a billion dollars after all of that was done maybe even before that I would try to look for some organizations some nonprofits like orphanages or you know
Some places that are legitimately trying to make this world a better place and give again it sounds weird even just listening to me say that because I’m traditionally not the guy who goes out looking for you know places to give out money to now I will volunteer I volunteer a lot
Um we do a bunch of stuff you know with the girl school school and um it would be great to be able to have those types of resources to dedicate to people who who really need it now I I thought about that over the week too Carlos adoption like just adopting some
Kids and like taking care of some other lives and stuff too but that this is one of those things that crossed my mind and I think that’s that’s legitimate like thing for whatever reason well you know it’s a complicated matter right because when you adopt a child you have
Obviously raise that child you have to care for that child as as your own child and you know I I hate to say it but you know some of these kids just have such traumatic experiences that the average person probably isn’t equipped you know to help them or to provide the help that
That child actually needs psychologically emotionally Etc so that piece of it does intimidate me a little bit and that’s why I’m saying you know I would look for an organization that is actually equipped to help these kids truly uh and help them get on their feet right help them become uh active pillars
Of society but yeah I mean having that amount of money to me is just it’s hard to even think about because it’s so much money you know yeah it almost feels like an infinite amount of money but here’s the other fact there are probably very few if any lottery winners that still
Have Lottery money right they all they all go broke very quickly uh because they they don’t ever see that money ending and the reality is that man there’s there’s there’s a finite limit to to what money can get you even at that level right yeah U because your
Spending becomes bigger your your dreams become bigger your Ambitions become bigger and um I tell you if if you can live a modest life the way we live today well the way I live today I I know you all Jeep owners out there um you know
Aren’t as modest as I am but if you can live a modest life if you win you knowon doll yeah he had a BMW before any of us even had a card actually no I didn’t my my wife had a Range Rover yeah and a Range Rover you have a Range Rover out
Of here modest boy modest stripe on [Laughter] I would buy another one of those probably before a Jeep okay anyway sorry we broke your your flow I know you know it it is hard to conceptualize though right it is hard to think like what in the world what is
Grand enough for me to spend that kind of money on and I love Leo’s response to that I would buy peace I would buy you know quietness I would buy money doesn’t necessarily buy happiness but it really makes the journey to happiness a lot shorter right
Because you don’t have a lot of the other pressures that you have along the way um and man I’ll tell you what that that response to me is as Grand as the thought of winning half a billion dollars that’s dope Joe what about you Joe man I thought about
It too and and now that y’all are being all charitable I feel like a like selfish no go for it dude no no no so I would do I would do a couple of things no honestly honestly I’d do a couple of things I I love the I love the local
Church I always have always will I would build um a state-of-the-art church I’ve always wanted a church inside of like a like a um like a a a building or of course a building but a like a warehouse type of environment right with you know this the the big the latest of
Everything because I’m just into technology I’m into like whatever modern technology there is I want that and I don’t think uh I don’t I don’t consider that selfish because I would use it for the kingdom you know I just think that modern stuff makes things better easier brighter shinier more attractive
Whatever that is uh and and so I would definitely do that and one thing I would do different if I had that kind of money was would be to hire people that help people that I can’t that I don’t have time to reach so in other words um as as a small
Church Pastor I just don’t have time to to go visit people all the time or go to the hospital or reach out or whatever but there’s still a lot of people that that need that you know and uh so I would have you know gifted people who
Have a passion for that helping that that capacity the other thing I would do is build me an a cycling Studio that would double as a in person um experience kind of like a cycle bar uh whatever type of type of place and then also at the at the same time be a
YouTube recording studio where you can record um those things you know and then put it out in the world uh I would have kind of like what we’re doing here like a multi-environment place where we can do podcasts you could do inperson interviews you could go to the Next Room
Put on a class host with you know invite many people to come in and and take a class whatever and uh and so do those two like I I feel I feel super blessed because I get a do to a degree all you know both of those now yeah just at a at
A level that um you know at at the level that I can do it based on of you know my current capacity if you will with with money and and and time and all that stuff but I feel like I would do the same things just at a bigger level with
Bigger toys and more expensive cameras you know that that would be or what I would do and obviously pay off everything um definitely get get a another house in a warmer climate um Eevee would love that she’s from Puerto Rico she always gets depressed in the
Winter so we definitely have to be have to have something where we can we can go to but that’s what I would do that’s what I do well you know I I mean um I’m sure all of us you know thought about the selfish things but um I was and I
Always think about like even the reports on on like third world countries like the way even the way the four of us are living right now is we’re like a small percentage of and I I feel really blessed like I I I thank God every day
For the things that we’re able to do um like being able to do what we’re doing right here um having the capability to do that um with with my closest friends I mean that’s that’s a blessing man I it’s like um you know we all we always
Think man man if I only had that much more money if I had this but sometimes you just needing to take that step back and say man I’m I’m blessed right now the way I am you know you know there there are stresses in life and there are
Things but like there’s there’s a lot of stuff that I’ve been blessed with um that like man I’ve I’ve kind of I I feel like I’ve won um one part of that like Lottery that life Lottery with with a lot of the things that I’ve been blessed with in my life
You know yeah so and I mean just just being able to do this kind of stuff um having the time with my family that I do have um but of of course you know as Carlos said it’s like having that extra cash in the pocket it always makes it
Easier you know but um man so so so blessed to well here’s the thing too I I think I don’t think anything any of us said is is selfish in it of itself meaning that at the end of the day if you buy peace it’s because you want more
Time with your family it’s you want more time with people that that you want to spend time with that you want to you know uh uh uh do life with if if I want to get a cycle student I want more people healthy right like if you know
There’s there’s none of what we said really is just a selfish it’s all about me it’s all about how can I put my family in a better place how can I help other people how can I you know get something the the best camera so that
They could see me better and hear me better like it’s really like not even about us at the end of the day so I love that and I I wanted to to thank you uh Vince because I like every once in a while man you you’ll shout me out online
Or you’ll share something you know from our church and you’ll be like oh this is my one of my best friends and this is him doing what he loves to do like dude you don’t know how much that means to me I just got to tell you like like it it’s
I don’t even know how to respond sometimes because it coming from you coming from one of my closest friends and just doing that as simple as it might be or is the few seconds that it takes for you to do that like really really like does something for my heart
So I I appreciate you bro I love you for that man it’s like thank thank you thank you for I got to tell you that for sure yeah I’m like uh it I I’m telling you I’m like there’s um because you guys are my brothers it’s like watching my
Brothers succeed in things that they’re doing and it’s like man I’m so proud of of Carlos being um taking the yeah I mean we we’ve talked about it that where he started in life to where he is now um it it makes me so proud as
A brother of seeing him you know succeed in life the way he has Leo like I I mean there’s you youve you’ve you’ve had challenges throughout your life but I mean there there’s there’s such a a joy to what you bring in everyday life and man it it’s
Um it it’s it’s just such a blessing to be surrounded by that um be surrounded by you guys and it just pushes me as a person you know I I always thought about this like um and I always think about like man did I ever really have a mentor
You know an actual like and I as a mentor I think somebody who’s like Elder to me that besides my parents you know somebody else who actually mentored me in my life and I’m like man I I really didn’t have like that that type of mentor
But I did have people in my life that kind of influenced what and molded me to what I’ve become and where I’m my direction I still do and the the three of you guys have been like part of that influential and um of succeeding keeping
Me in line of where I need to be and everything and I thank you guys a lot for that you know um really appreciate that it’s been good man it’s been difficult keeping you off drugs that’s for [Laughter] sure it’s been hard not to fill up our
Our memory on our uh our capacity limits on our YouTube um Channel with your cheeks on the face of this I I happen to like my cheeks very much they cheeks all right let me ask you question let me ask you guys an honest question would it be
Selfish if I took a little bit of that Lottery of those Lottery proceeds and got a uh BBL would that be selfish I can’t face I was trying to is itbl is that what it’s called leau you know what a BBL is MHM that would I would say that would be
Selfish spandex really nice though I mean you you know Vince was talking about how you’ve had struggles you definitely had struggles of the spandex variety for sure yeah I wasn’t lacking dude I didn’t need a BBL back in the 80s WR I like full hits I guess you’re G to
Have to refresh me on the BBL yeah I’m like I’m lost right now Brazilian butt lift dude are you serious dead what car said’ be selfish if he took the money and he got himself a Brazilian butlift Kim Kardashian style listen hey if I feel good if I feel good I can make
Others feel good that’s not s go there there’s The Shining there it is there’s the there it is hey yeah I got I got I just just take those cheats and put those so you’d be face off but off oh my God awesome you know and it’s
All right too and there’s nothing wrong with doing something for ourselves either um but I think I feel like you can trace everything back to to Carlos’s Point like to some kind of joy for somebody else yeah I have a luxurious hind quarter hind quarter all right well
Hopefully it’ll be more than a quarter it’ll be you know all right let’s do something fun um it’s we were gonna talk about driving in the snow in Colorado I’m not really feeling that unless you guys are but I feel like National cigar day yeah what
What’s that Leo I think we covered that with with your accident Man I no we we people lose their mind when they they drive especially the first time it snows but it is um National cigar day so we’re gonna finish with something fun here I want to put some photos on the I
Appreciate you guys always humoring me with my like dumb little stuff that I come with at the last minute too by the way I got something for I got something for you son National cigar day all right let me uh what you got Carlos over there I see you pulling something hey wait
Let’s let’s uh wait almost removed you wa hold my after hours toy here nice bro see you stepping your game up bro we gotta go golfing Carlos what are you doing over there well I will drink the whiskey and I will smoke the cigars in the golf cart and enjoy enjoy um letting
My BBL heal while you guys uh hack it up oh man all right so leot walk us through this man you you have some photos that you sent you sent us excuse me um does it matter which one I show first no it doesn’t really matter since
It’s National cigar gate will go with it Carlos just pulled out himself a cap compana all kind of different sizes of cigars you had the you know the one that Carlos had and it you know the distinctive nature of thear he had had that pointed end it’s like the fourth
One down there the K that pointed in and then the cigars they kind of go by ring size You Like A 5.6 six and a ring size of 42 40 35 30 so on and so forth and that’s kind of like true to your ring size of um um your wedding ring size
It’s it definitely correlates to the exact same size um there’s a cigar and you can go to the next slide whenever you want Joe this pot is educational I didn’t know that all right educational this is my favorite cigar right here so the reason why this is my favorite cigar
Is it’s a leaf by Oscar and I need I need a shout out to Leaf so that I can get a sponsorship through leaf G oh whoops that’s the wrong one sorry never mind I’ll stop doing that go ahead Leo sorry so leave by Oscar the
Reason why I smoke these one is because most cigars they come with a plastic wrapper um so you know Plastics have have recently came to light and Carlos probably knows a little bit about this have recently came to light like being really infused in in our water bottles
And and our food and everything else so to try to stay PL away from plastic as much as possible is definitely my route and you know not that cigars are by any means healthy or anything like that I’m not saying that they do have benefits and some of those benefits um like
Relaxation and and and all that kind of stuff that piece all that good stuff comes along with cigars but some bad stuff comes along with cigars too and that’s addiction and and you know there there are you know you can have cancerous um cancer causing you know of course um
Um but this particular cigar comes wrapped in a tobacco leaf as you can see in the backround there so as you get it it comes like with a a tobacco leaf WRA type can you buy that yeah where would you buy that at um most any like fine
Cigar shops have these um you’re probably not going to pick this up at you know the gas station or anything like that but you know most fine cigar places are going to have these and they’re not they’re not in expensive either so when you’re were talking about
Hobbies a little bit earlier and winning the lotto I think I’m going to have to win the lotto to support the cigar habit dude these cigars right here these are 21 bucks a piece okay it’s not the all right cost effective thing to go with and then back to ring sizes I actually
Go ahead and you can hit the next slide there Joe yep oh these are the rapper types so informational thing like Joe was saying these are the wrapper types you have at the bottom here you have this um kandela which is like a green kind of
Wrapper um and then you have one up from that was my favorite it’s Connecticut and believe it or not those tobacco leaves are actually grown in the United States in Connecticut that’s where the the the strain of that leaf comes from which is odd like you wouldn’t expect
Like a a nice cigar to come from Connecticut in the United States right um and then you kind of go up the the chart as you go there’s a Maduro which is a real dark Dark One those are typically um grown in the madural are
Going to be the ones that are going to be like the Cuban style Puerto Rican Dominican those type or like in the Maduro range that’s kind of that’s kind of where that leaf gets its like name from and so on and so forthes do darker cigars that was it there was just the
Three there okay do darker cigars Make You Dance better um I wouldn’t say Make You Dance better however um depending on the shade of those cigars like you were saying Carlos um like a darker cigar you probably it’s going to be more full body when you say full body is when you smoke
It you’re going to definitely feel a difference or like it’s kind of like it’s like drinking the same thing it’s going to make your body feel different when you’re doing it and those darker cigars that are more full-bodied you’re going to definitely feel that if you’re
Not eating or doing something um to help prevent that from helping or happening and you’ll get an upset stomach you probably get a headache probably spit a lot all that kind of stuff so it’s not like the most you know Pleasant thing to be doing if you’re not knowing what
You’re doing and that’s why I’m feeling you guys in so that way if you guys now we’re Ed deci to go this route you know you want to pick yourself a Connecticut something light something short like a Corona or something so on and so forth so and cigars man they have they are
Like almost the epitome of like um how would you say um gim do they have any flat cigars like like current behind Yep they’re called Wafers dude no no they seriously have flat cigars no BBL cigars dude they’re called Wafers they’re actually I have a wafer
Hold on a second I don’t even know if that’s true or not he’s sorry here is a wafer right here if you guys can see this so this cigar is a wafer cigar it’s a Bo press but look if you turn it look how thin it is on one side
That’s how you look sideways uro fente this oh you started it Carlos all right cigars are super gimmicky dude so they always have some sort of like super gimmick stuff that they come up with in order to entice you to purchase their cigar so that like
This one comes with its own little like metal wrapping case this one is comes with a gold wrapper and they have like an anniversary type you know wrapping on it um I had a uh this cigar was a macano vintage that was in this one but it actually comes with
Like a r a ring and it’s just like the most common ring size so you actually have a ring to put on your finger like temp thing like a metal ring or is that plastic it’s metal it’s metal like a real ring dude like this thing is like
Nice um you have different cutting Styles different type of lighting Styles you have a v cut you have a flat cut like this a full through you have a punch some on the bottom of this lighter it has like a little round like punch
Edge to it if you can see it you don’t have to cut it so you don’t have to really necessarily cut it you just kind of punch a hole in the back of it um I have this traveling humodor that I keep with my with me all the time
Oh yeah it’s a little like encased traveling humodor um it comes with your like little like um humidity packs you throw your little humidity packs and then that keeps the cigars humidified um send me a link to where you bought that I will there’s uh they come with like
Some cigars when you buy them they come with these like gimmicky things so like this one comes with its own like flamethrower torch thing that’s a cigar that you just turned on no that’s that was like it came like wrapped together dude I was G to say make sure you put
That in your mouth on the Right End cigar the torch all that roasted your microphone right there’s a I bought this tool so this is called you have a library behind you yeah be careful burn down the those books on fire this one has there’s a punch tool
On one side there’s a bigger punch tool on the other side if you guys can kind of see there’s like an extra little punch tool on the other side yeah and then on one of these there’s this like long Lancer looking knife thing and put it close to the camera because you have
A nice camera you should be able to focus that in that’s pretty cool yeah so like this this basically What’s Happening Here is if you get a cigar that’s rolled too tight or you’re not enjoying it and you’re not able to just kind of enjoy it you’re like feel
Yourself like struggling to smoke it or anything you can take this this tool and you kind of stick it down the middle of the the cigar and you kind of break up the leaf as you go through there and that kind of breaks that leaf up so you
Can get a like a better draw on your cigar and so on and so forth and then the other side of that tool is when you get to the end of your cigar and you’re kind of like not wanting to burn your fingertips but you still kind of want to
Finish your cigar you don’t want to waste it they’re $21 a piece right you I have this other tool if you guys can see that um basically you stick this into the little piece of the cigar that you have left over at the end and then you
Can kind of like just use that like a crutch to smoke the rest of your cigar so you can finish doing what you’re use something similar when you used to smoke your lenos when you were little pretty much same thing as a crutch when you used to smoke your joints Carlos you are
Correct wow thank you for yeah dude that’s like a master class in uh you know express master class in cigars thank you manal cigar day I will say I I stumbled on onto cigar smoking uh gosh it’s probably been about 7even years or so we were in Cancun with a bunch of uh
Friends it was an adult only trip so it gives you an idea of the type of debauchery that was happing in Mexico and um we were hanging out we were going to dinner and one of the guys pulled out a cigar and he’s like you want one I was
Like dude I’ve never smoked anything ever in my life nothing he’s like oh dude it’s super easy here so he lit it up and I have to tell you I I pretty quickly felt so relaxed and calm and just chill and um I actually didn’t have
A cigar hangover and I didn’t to this day knock on wood I haven’t thrown up I haven’t gotten sick my stomach hasn’t gotten upset and I think that’s part of the reason why I enjoy it because I haven’t had any of those negative effects but it actually is a fun relaxing Hobby
You know certainly I would caution anybody out there you know with with addictive personalities um because it is that good you you could potentially you know get to Leo’s level where where you’ve got every tool in the kit but it actually is a very relaxing when you’re burning down
Libraries that’s a number one that is the number one reason Carlos is the relaxation portion of it just to be able to chill out you know that in your hot tub in the back that in the hot tub bro the hot there’s nothing like it bro
Yeah sure all right all right yeah dude there’s nothing modest about your life bro nothing you’re like you’re like freaking the computer you got next to that’s not modest at all you know ever since I got the library that’s when it all changes that’s an educated man right
There oh my God no that’s good that’s good it’s been fun guys it’s been fun uh we we we’re gonna continue to do this we’re definitely driven to uh to meet up if anything it’s just good time for us to hang out and talk and uh and just
Continue to share our lives together as as friends um but we uh we will catch you guys on the next one be sure to like subscribe share all that good stuff yeah and if you have any uh topic stuff throw in the comments throw in the comments
We’ll see you guys on the next one peace peace
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Fun episode fellas…..lotto studs, Uncle Elroys!😂