Ep. 149 - Home Repair Drama, Moving Problems & Trump Disaster

Don't Be Sour

Maxx Chewning

Entrepreneurship, Business, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.9 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

The crew's back after a two-week break with stories from the Houston rodeo, golf trips, and life updates. Maxx breaks down his failed attempt to score Metallica tickets at the Sphere (400,000 people in queue), while Joe recounts the Chris Stapleton concert experience and shares the touching backstory about why Stapleton always performs with his wife. The conversation bounces from rodeo fashion and controversies to Christian's upcoming move into his new house, complete with tales of gas leaks, property taxes, and the chaos of packing up.

Things take a turn when the guys dive into deeper territory—discussing Houston's spring break madness, the rodeo brawl that shut everything down, and the broader cultural questions about public behavior and safety. Joe breaks down the Iran situation (with the guys admitting they're probably out of their depth), they debate property taxes and government spending, and Maxx reveals he finally finished his first book in 15 years. Between talk of paid household help, deep sea fishing plans, and Shawley's upcoming run club event, it's a classic rambling session that covers everything from Mormon Housewives to shark cage diving.

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0:00.0	What's up guys? Here we go.
0:05.0	Ugh, you gotta do it closer to the mic.
0:09.0	No, no one likes it.
0:10.0	Yeah, they, mm.
0:12.0	Got a crisp strawberry lemonade, three-dizzle.
0:17.0	3D energy on Amazon now.
0:20.0	Man, how much is it to ship a 12 pack of energy drinks? 3D energy on Amazon now.
0:24.6	Man, how much is it to ship a 12 pack of energy drinks? That eats all the margin for sure, but
0:28.6	Yeah, you're basically just paying for like marketing at that point.
0:31.6	You're like kind of sort of almost making money when you ship a 12.
0:35.6	Someone orders a 12 pack energy drinks and it's like already like, what, 12 bucks, 15 bucks? Well, when we started 3D or Up Energy, I remember that 12 pack costs like, I wanna say like $11 to ship. Yeah, you're just eating it for like awareness. Yeah, but I mean, Amazon I'm sure is like, you know, they have their margin. Yeah, for sure. What's up, guys? Welcome back to another episode. Don't be sour. It's been two weeks. Two weeks. A lot. I haven't been on here in a minute. You always get confused about this. It's been two weeks that we have filmed an episode. This will be the second week.
1:11.4	This will be two weeks since the last episode. Since the Robb episode, right? Yeah. Yeah. I listened
1:17.8	fully to that one. Did you like it? Yeah, I did. One thing I forgot to ask Rob is I wanted to,
1:23.1	and David tried to, like, defend it, but I was like, I was, I wanted to ask him about,
1:27.4	like, I was like, but why does But I was like, I wanted to ask him about like, I was like, boy, why does everyone
1:28.9	overseas like just refuse to use iMessage and it's just like a WhatsApp? You got to use WhatsApp. And like, David was trying to explain it to me. I'm like, yeah, everything you're saying, I can do an I message. Yeah, I don't know. The only thing I can think of is like. He's like, there's like groups and stuff in there.
1:42.6	I was like, yeah, why don't you just have group chats and I message?
1:44.8	Well, okay, so,
1:46.0	Android's are more popular everywhere besides. The only thing I can think of is like... He's like, there's like, there's like, yeah, it's just, why don't you have group chats and I message?
1:45.0	Well, okay, so, androids are more popular everywhere besides the US. Stupid. I know, but I think that's kind of part of the reason. Because I think in Europe, it's like 50-50. We're in the US, it's like 80-20. And then if you do anything with China, you're basically forced to WhatsApp.
1:59.8	I did we chat.
2:02.1	I was another one.
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