Podcast Transcription
| Dan: | Episode 233 of Library Pubcast. A lot to talk about today. A lot to go over. I want to start off like we’ve been doing for the last couple of weeks, talking football. |
| Mark: | Well, I have a question. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Mark: | My friend Bob was in this morning. |
| Dan: | This morning? |
| Mark: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Just missed him? Dang. |
| Mark: | He had a doctor’s appointment, so he stopped for coffee. Anyway, we all know the Chiefs pay off the NFL refs. |
| Chris: | Okay? |
| Mark: | We all know that’s the case. |
| Dan: | Hang on guys, let me just translate the next six minutes for you, “We can’t win a game.” |
| Mark: | My question is what do you have to pay a goal post to get it to dink in instead of dink out? |
| Dan: | Jesus Christ. That game ended at, I want to say like 10 something, early 10 o’clock Sunday night and my heart was just going a thousand miles an hour with that fucking kicker. And I was just, you got to be the shitting, the way it doinked, as Tirico said, “It doinked for the division.” |
| Mark: | When it hit the goal post, there’s no way that can go through. And it turned left. |
| Dan: | What I was thinking the whole time was like, okay, so the Chiefs had first and 10. Kneeled it twice, came back two yards. What if Mahomes would have moved back just a little bit more? |
| Matt: | He’d have been fucked. |
| Dan: | I think six feet, that ball missed the field. Missed it. That was- |
| Mark: | Three feet. |
| Dan: | …so close. |
| Mark: | Three feet and it bounces out instead of in. |
| Dan: | Yeah, maybe even a foot. That was so close. But what I wanted to talk about was Josh Allen or Saquon Barkley, who is the league MVP right now? |
| Matt: | Josh Allen’s playing like a madman. |
| Dan: | I was buying into some conversation about how tired a lot of people are that quarterbacks win the MVP so much. I think the last time a running back won it was early teens? |
| Mark: | Doesn’t it make sense though? The quarterbacks win? |
| Dan: | It does. Because they handle it. They do a lot of the play calling, the audibling. They have to handle a lot of the offense. But I was on board, Saquon is just a fucking beast. He’s amazing. |
| Chris: | If a running back beats the all-time running back record, then they are MVP. |
| Dan: | That should be. |
| Chris: | That’s just the way that I feel. |
| Dan: | Should be. |
| Chris: | Should be. That’s the way I feel. |
| Dan: | But the way Josh Allen is playing. |
| Chris: | I know, I know. |
| Dan: | He has set a new NFL record two weeks in a row. |
| Matt: | Well, the one two weeks ago that’s… |
| Dan: | That’s kind of like one of those little fluky ESPN stats. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | But this one, three rushing touchdowns and three passing touchdowns, is fucking nuts. |
| Chris: | I have a running quarterback, I expect that. |
| Matt: | He looked good yesterday. |
| Chris: | He did look good. |
| Dan: | I was, my God. And I was listening to the New Heights podcast- |
| Mark: | Didn’t they lose? |
| Dan: | … With the Kelce brothers. |
| Matt: | They lost. |
| Chris: | Overtime. |
| Dan: | And, yes they did. Yes they did. Anyways, I was listening to the New Heights podcast and of course one of the Kelce’s is making a call that, damn it who’s the quarterback for the Ravens? |
| Chris: | Lamar. |
| Dan: | Lamar Jackson should be MVP again. And I’m like, “You’re nuts.” He shouldn’t have been League MVP last year. And he shouldn’t be it this year. Josh Allen is probably going to win it because he’s a fucking beast. |
| Chris: | Dude there’s argument for Joe Burrow too. The only thing that he against is- |
| Dan: | Stat wise. Yes. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Stat wise. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | And stat wise, correct. |
| Matt: | Yeah. The only thing Burrows not doing is winning. |
| Chris: | Winning. Yeah. |
| Matt: | He’s putting up great. |
| Dan: | Yeah and I think that’s probably a big factor. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | His putting up great numbers. |
| Chris: | That’s 100%. Yeah. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Top three. We’ll see what happens tonight. |
| Matt: | Jordan Love MVP all the way. |
| Dan: | We always, of course we record on Mondays and Monday Night Football is the Bengals and Cowboys. |
| Chris: | Correct. |
| Kevin: | On the Simpsons |
| Dan: | And I’m kind of excited. |
| Chris: | Dude, I’m pumped. |
| Dan: | So it’s AI. |
| Chris: | Like one screens going to yeah, one screen’s going to be, in my house, it’s going to be on Disney plus watching the Simpsons version, the other one’s going to be watching the real version. |
| Dan: | Yeah. So AI in real time is going to change all of the players to Simpsons characters. |
| Matt: | Oh my God. |
| Dan: | Or is it actual characters or caricatures? |
| Chris: | No, it’s like Joe Burrow. |
| Dan: | Like Homer is going to be out there and- |
| Chris: | No, they’re coaching from what I believe. Homer’s coaching the Cowboys and Bart I think is coaching- |
| Dan: | Oh, that’s funny. |
| Chris: | The Bengals. I think that’s what’s happening. |
| Dan: | Well that kind of fits. |
| Chris: | Because they did post the pictures of their characters already. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Joe Burrow has- |
| Dan: | I wonder how long of a delay they have to do- |
| Chris: | It’s got to be like- |
| Dan: | … To feed through that process and then- |
| Matt: | Instantaneously. |
| Kevin: | Five minutes. |
| Dan: | I don’t doubt it. |
| Kevin: | Five minutes. |
| Matt: | Oh, I bet it’s going to be like a 30 second delay. |
| Dan: | Probably just, yeah. Because you could do that on Snapchat- |
| Matt: | I’m kind of excited about it. |
| Dan: | … On your cellphone. |
| Kevin: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | I’m kind of excited. It’s going to be fun. It’s going to be fun to watch. It’s going to be fun to watch. |
| Dan: | So we’ll see Tuesday morning. Can I throw in a hypothetical question? |
| Chris: | Sure. |
| Dan: | If the Cowboys win tonight, what is your mental state? |
| Chris: | Oh, I’m fine. We’re already out. I’m already accepted that this is a lost season. A hundred percent. |
| Dan: | I know, but I’m saying I think if I was in your shoes and my team lost to the Cowboys. |
| Matt: | Sure. |
| Dan: | I’m not saying any teams. I’m saying the Cowboys, they are dog shit. |
| Matt: | Right. |
| Dan: | They’re so bad. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Jordan Love MVP. |
| Dan: | Matt and I were having a conversation on Sunday after the bang- |
| Chris: | Oh, I’m fine. I’ll be fine. I’ll be fine. |
| Dan: | … It was last Sunday, I think. |
| Chris: | I got a bet. I got a bet for lunch and beers so… |
| Dan: | Well let’s get into the weekends. Chris, do you want to start with you, or do you want to take a minute and start with Matt? |
| Chris: | Sure. We can start with me. |
| Dan: | How was your weekend? |
| Chris: | Pretty chill. Howie fractured his foot last Monday, so it’s been kind of a chill week of just doing nothing. |
| Dan: | Is he fairly mobile? Mobile at all? |
| Chris: | Yeah, he’s mobile. Just keeping him mobile. He’s got a boot. |
| Matt: | Keeping him good and doped up. |
| Chris: | He’s got a boot. The doctor even said if he just bone bruised it, he would’ve been just in the amount of pain. It’s the same. So I don’t know. For a second of there I felt like a bad dad, because he’s dramatic like his mom. So like Jen- |
| Matt: | That is so polite. |
| Chris: | … Jen was with me on this, so it happened on Monday after school. He was complaining about it and he was really excited just to sit in his chair and sleep on the chair and watch TV. So I was like my skeptical, everything went on. |
| Matt: | Howie’s not a sit down and chill kind of kid most of the time. |
| Chris: | Yeah. So- |
| Mark: | So basically what you’re saying is you ignored his broken leg? |
| Chris: | Fractured foot. Jen took him to the emergency room and yeah, it’s tiny little fracture and boot and pretty pumped. |
| Dan: | This group of guys, we’ve all got a story like that. When I was in track practice- |
| Matt: | You ran track? |
| Dan: | … In high school. Yeah, I was the four by one and four by two. |
| Matt: | What? You were a sprinter? |
| Kevin: | Dope. |
| Matt: | What in the shit? |
| Dan: | Yep. So it was the last track practice before- |
| Mark: | For those of you who have never been in here- |
| Chris: | Yeah, you’re not getting away from this. So we can start talking about this. |
| Mark: | Let me explain. I’ve known Dan for all, probably five- |
| Dan: | You see me run every Sunday. |
| Matt: | It’s true. You were chased by a dog. |
| Mark: | But it’s kind of like, did you ever see Ghostbusters? |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | The marshmallow man. |
| Chris: | Geez. |
| Matt: | Stay puff over here. |
| Kevin: | I think more like, yeah. I thinks it’s more of an overweight willow. That’s what I like. Bowling ball. |
| Matt: | Wow. He called you a midget. You can touch yourself now. |
| Kevin: | Yeah, but you have have normal-sized hands so you can do things. You can palm a- |
| Matt: | Like Willow. |
| Kevin: | … You can palm a basketball. |
| Dan: | I can grab three bottles of a Hose Cabot 750 with one hand. |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Dan: | Top. So anyways, we were a track practice and we were standing over by, not the high jump, but the- |
| Matt: | Long jump? |
| Kevin: | Triple jump? |
| Dan: | Maybe it was the high jump and then there’s a pole vault, right? |
| Kevin: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Yeah. With big- |
| Dan: | The one where you don’t use a pole. |
| Matt: | … Big pass. |
| Dan: | I jump plain on the pad. |
| Matt: | That’s your high jump, yeah. |
| Dan: | And that bar, somebody grabbed it and instead of just moving it through their hands, they swung it around. |
| Matt: | Oh. |
| Dan: | And I’m standing there talking to a buddy of mine and all of a sudden my hand’s up in the air and it comes down and I was like, “Ha, that hurts.” And yeah, it ended up breaking my wrist. And I complained to my mom and when she came and picked me up and I was like, “My wrist really hurts and I can’t move my hand very well.” And she’s like, “You’re fine, you’re fine.” |
| Matt: | Quit being a pussy, Dan. |
| Dan: | Get home, tell my dad, same thing. I want to say this was like a Wednesday or a Thursday. We ran in a track meet on Friday. I ran a four by one with a fractured wrist. Finally, I complained enough. They took me to the doctor on Saturday and sure enough I had a fractured wrist. And I got to go home and show my dad the x-ray and say, “See, I wasn’t being dramatic.” |
| Matt: | Jerk. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Sorry. I know I’m grounded. |
| Dan: | Yeah, but I’m sure we’ve all got stories like that. I remember my brother falling at my grandma’s house, cutting his eye, right here, and just profuse amount of blood and my grandma goes, “Oh, just go in the bathroom and wash it off.” |
| Matt: | Just get a towel. |
| Dan: | Yeah, it’s like you don’t go to the hospital for stuff. Mark. Never had an instant like that? Kevin never hurt himself and you were like, “He’s fine.” No shit kind of dangling. |
| Mark: | Nope. |
| Kevin: | What? |
| Matt: | Yeah, I went two weeks with a broken finger before we went. |
| Dan: | Would any of us as fathers have called that boxing match with the two women during the Tyson, Paul fight? Because that chick’s eyelid. |
| Matt: | I thought her eyeball was going to fall out. |
| Dan: | If that was our daughter- |
| Chris: | Seriously? |
| Dan: | … We would have called the match and take her to the hospital. |
| Chris: | No, she chose her… |
| Matt: | It is boxing. |
| Kevin: | They don’t get paid, man. |
| Matt: | Yeah. It’s boxing. You got to just- |
| Chris: | That point. |
| Matt: | … Got to expect. |
| Chris: | Go. |
| Dan: | All right, quit bitching and quit waving at me. |
| Kevin: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | My junior of high school, I was playing football and jammed my hand into a helmet, broke my little finger. It just bent over. One of the sideline Coach, “Coach, I broke my finger.” And he put it in grease. |
| Dan: | Four at him, one at the ground. |
| Mark: | He grabbed my little finger, pulls, wrapped the whole four fingers in tape. He says, “Get back out there.” |
| Dan: | Yeah. Oh he first, was it Ronnie Lott that bit his finger off during half-time? |
| Matt: | He had it amputated. |
| Dan: | I thought he bit it off. |
| Matt: | No, he had it amputated, but he got it caught between two helmets on a tackle. So yeah. Boom. Ouch. They said either we can cut it off right here in the locker room, tape it up, or we can take you to the hospital and they’ll do the same thing there. And he’s like, “Well it’s halftime. Chop that fucker off.” |
| Dan: | Oh, man. |
| Matt: | Yeah. No thanks. I probably would’ve gone to the hospital. |
| Dan: | I think I probably would’ve too. |
| Matt: | But I’m not Ronnie Lott. |
| Dan: | We’re definitely not Ronnie Lott. That gut, he’s- |
| Matt: | He was an animal. |
| Dan: | So, broken foot, and by the way, I think that’s any, Sarah and I are like this. I can only compare to our chickens and ducks, but she looks and she’s like, “The ducks eyes looking weird. We’re going to take it to the vet.” And I’m like, “It’s fine. It’s probably just gas.” |
| Chris: | Just got some dirt in his eyeball. |
| Dan: | Yeah. But the number of times that she’s came back and she’s like, “It has a pretty bad infection, we get give some antibiotics or it would’ve died.” And I’m like- |
| Mark: | It’s a fucking duck. |
| Dan: | … Shit. So, anyways. |
| Kevin: | Mr Quackers. |
| Chris: | So that Friday, what did I do Friday? Oh, Jen had girls night Friday. So Howie and I just chilled and watched a movie, some Christmas movie. It was a great Saturday. Nothing. Didn’t do anything. I think it was a very non-productive weekend. |
| Dan: | It’s a good weekend to sit around and let his leg heal. |
| Matt: | It sounds glorious. |
| Dan: | Foot heal. |
| Chris: | Had a couple of fires in the backyard, but- |
| Matt: | Woody got those out and- |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | … No problem. |
| Dan: | I had a great fire in the backyard on Saturday night. |
| Kevin: | It was, yeah, me too. |
| Dan: | It was so nice on Saturday and Sunday. Mark, how was your weekend? |
| Mark: | It was good. Moe’s out of town. |
| Dan: | So peaceful. |
| Mark: | And I watched a lot of basketball. |
| Dan: | Oh yeah. |
| Mark: | And just point out my Creighton Blue Jays beat the number one team in the country going away. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Kevin: | Right. |
| Chris: | Oh, yeah. |
| Dan: | And they lost the next game. |
| Kevin: | Great game. |
| Dan: | They lost to Missouri on Sunday. |
| Matt: | Creighton came out, looked like a JV team. |
| Kevin: | Wasn’t even close. Wasn’t even close. |
| Chris: | That Kansas game. |
| Kevin: | It’s hilarious. |
| Mark: | Our shooting guard is out for the season. |
| Dan: | Who? |
| Mark: | Pop Isaac’s is the shooting guard and he’s done for the season. Mind you, they announced that the day after he scored 27 points and had 11 assists. |
| Dan: | What’s wrong with him? |
| Mark: | Hip. |
| Dan: | Oh. |
| Kevin: | It’s not connected to the leg bone? |
| Matt: | It is, just not correctly. I don’t think. |
| Mark: | He had surgery last spring for that hip and it just didn’t heal right. |
| Dan: | God, imagine being that, what’s he 19? |
| Mark: | 20 I think. |
| Dan: | You’re already facing down the barrel with your second hip surgery. |
| Matt: | Well, you’re looking at career ending surgery possibly at 20. And he’s good. |
| Dan: | It just when I entered my forties, I- |
| Mark: | And his real name by the way is Richard. |
| Dan: | Oh. |
| Kevin: | Oh, Richard. |
| Mark: | But he is listed in the program as Pop. |
| Dan: | Yeah, I’d go with Pop too. Anything else? |
| Mark: | No. I watched a lot of basketball. |
| Dan: | Nice, nice. Matt? |
| Matt: | Worked Friday night. We got beat up a little bit in here. We’re pretty busy. Saturday, slept in a little bit, didn’t do much. Yesterday I came up here and had a couple drinks and then went and watched some football at a buddy of mine’s house. |
| Dan: | Did you guys get to do any golfing? |
| Matt: | No. No. I did walk outside yesterday morning to have my morning cigarette and the first thing that came into my head was, “We could have golfed in this.” |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | It wasn’t bad out. |
| Dan: | I was surprised Evan didn’t. But I think he tried, but they didn’t have a tee time. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | When I drove home past La Vista Springs golf course, the park, that was two, the parking lot was more than half full. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Oh yeah. There were people golfing at Benson Sunday. It was gorgeous. |
| Dan: | Listening outside of the window, like getting caught up on old episodes or whatever. The previous week was high thirties- |
| Matt: | Yeah, it was cold. |
| Dan: | … At best. It was pretty chilly. And then Saturday and Sunday both hit 60. |
| Matt: | Just gorgeous. |
| Dan: | It was beautiful weather. Absolutely perfect. So watch football at your buddy’s place. |
| Matt: | Watch football. Stopped at Burger King on the way home and ate some food real quick. Has anyone watched the Travis Kelce game show? Are you smarter than a celebrity? |
| Dan: | Not a chance. |
| Matt: | It’s actually funny. For whatever reason it was on this morning when I woke up. It’s on Prime, I think. And they asked sixth grade level and below questions and the celebrity gets a guess and you get a guess. It’s pretty funny. Travis Kelce is a funny guy. |
| Dan: | Travis Kelce is a very funny guy. I used to watch that show when it was hosted by Jeff Foxworthy and then I stopped. It kind of feels like he’s gearing up to this. He’s probably going to be retiring at the end of this season. |
| Matt: | I would say this year. |
| Dan: | Oh, fuck. |
| Matt: | Depending on what they do. |
| Dan: | There you go. I should turn you back up. |
| Matt: | Oh, whatever. |
| Dan: | After I fuck with it. So… |
| Matt: | I’d say probably retired this year or next year depending on what the Chiefs postseason stuff looks like. |
| Kevin: | Yeah, man. If they get beat on the first game in the playoffs. |
| Matt: | It’d be awesome. |
| Kevin: | It would be pretty funny. |
| Matt: | Jordan Love MVP. |
| Dan: | Jordan Love MVP. I had a very fun weekend. Friday night we had the nephew. And we went and did light looking at the Lauritzen Gardens. |
| Matt: | Oh. |
| Dan: | However you say that. |
| Matt: | I have never been there. |
| Dan: | It’s really cool. It’s a little pricey for what they offer, but you know it’s worth it. He loves it. He wants to go every year and look at the different Christmas lights and stuff like that. |
| Matt: | I’m sure it’s beautiful. |
| Dan: | Yeah, it’s worth a little bit of time over there. |
| Matt: | The zoo lights are always fun too. |
| Dan: | Yeah, yeah. It’s fun watching the evolution of Sarah because when her and I first started dating, she would poke at me a little bit when it was like, “Hey, let’s go do this-“ |
| Mark: | Pretty and… |
| Dan: | She was 24 when we started dating. I’ll stick with that. No, she was 23. Anyways, when I didn’t have my nieces and nephews- |
| Kevin: | I remember. |
| Dan: | … They’d be talking about like, “Let’s go do this and that.” And I’d be like, “I don’t know if I have money for that right now.” And Sarah’s like, “Oh no Dan, that’d be a lot of fun. Let’s go.” Let’s get kind of just sticking it to me with the expensive stuff and now right away we were leaving Lauritzen Gardens and seeing the zoo lights and Gus goes, “I want to go see those.” And Sarah goes, “No, those are way too expensive.” I was like, “Hmm.” Because they are. It’s like with the zoo membership, it’s still $27- |
| Matt: | A person. |
| Dan: | … Per person to get in. |
| Matt: | To go look at lights. |
| Dan: | Kids are not discounted. |
| Matt: | No. |
| Dan: | That’s $27 everybody. |
| Matt: | Yeah. Happy Christmas. |
| Dan: | So the next morning, because it was beautiful out, we went to the zoo and Sarah’s like, “See, there’s the lights.” |
| Matt: | There’s the lights. |
| Dan: | I’m like, “You are such a tightwad now. Now that you have to pay for it.” |
| Matt: | It’s because her fake last name’s your last name. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | She’s taking on your characteristics. |
| Dan: | We were trying to decide which last name she was going to take and I just said, “Well, in the whole spirit of not using her real last name, let’s just pick the shorter of the two names and go with that, because it’s all about not having to spell that. |
| Matt: | Now how do you pronounce her last name? Shufflebuying? |
| Dan: | Shefflebuying. |
| Matt: | Shefflebuying. |
| Dan: | And it should be Shefflevine, because it’s German. |
| Matt: | Yeah, we’re America. |
| Dan: | But they Americanized it when they came over. Just a hint. |
| Matt: | Sheffle. |
| Dan: | I wanted to talk about- |
| Matt: | She could be Sheeflekins. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Could be. |
| Matt: | And a pet name too. |
| Dan: | Hang on, I got one more I got to talk about. |
| Matt: | Oh. Jesus Christ. |
| Dan: | No, my name is Dan. |
| Matt: | Obviously. |
| Dan: | But it is the season. I watched an absolutely horrible movie over the weekend that I did talk about it yesterday a little bit and I really encourage anybody out there to watch it, because I want other feedback. |
| Kevin: | I might’ve already watched it. What is it? |
| Dan: | So this movie is Japanese made based on the Fukushima, the 50 employees of the Fukushima nuclear power plant that stayed behind to keep working to resolve the issues after the tsunami- |
| Matt: | Oh. |
| Dan: | … 2012? |
| Matt: | That was a wet. |
| Dan: | Whatever monsters. I quickly realized there was a couple of things that I am not privy to. One of them several lines in the way that the Japanese actors reacted. And it’s American dubbed over, but their body language- |
| Matt: | It’s like Godzilla. |
| Dan: | … If this dude on point, either their filmmaking society has not evolved since Godzilla was released. The original Godzilla was released, or this guy is incredibly racist towards Asian stereotypes. Because it was- |
| Matt: | They’re funny. |
| Dan: | … Blatant. Either that is the way that their culture is. |
| Kevin: | What was it? |
| Dan: | I don’t think it’s a good idea for me to recreate it. |
| Chris: | You brought up this whole freaking thing so- |
| Matt: | True. |
| Dan: | That’s why I need you guys to watch it. I need anybody to- |
| Kevin: | So one of us says it instead of you? |
| Dan: | No. To tell me where I’m at with this. |
| Matt: | Oh. |
| Dan: | It’s called Fukujima 50 and it’s on Amazon Prime. I also watched National Lampoon’s Christmas vacation. |
| Matt: | Great movie. |
| Dan: | Yep. I forgot how many times I quote that movie in my everyday life. |
| Chris: | Quit the whole thing all the way through. |
| Matt: | Sugar is full. “Why is the carpet wet, Todd? I don’t know, Margo.” |
| Chris: | “I don’t know, Margo.” |
| Dan: | “You know it’s best just to let him finish.” |
| Kevin: | “Save the neck for me.” |
| Matt: | “I Pledge allegiance to the flag.” |
| Dan: | Such a great movie. “Can you do the prayer hun?” And she starts doing the Pledge of Allegiance. |
| Matt: | And he stands up and salutes. |
| Kevin: | “Holy shit, where’s the Tylenol?” |
| Dan: | Then the sledding scene is one of my all-time favorite. |
| Matt: | Super slick. |
| Dan: | So back, yeah. |
| Mark: | This is The Library Pubcast. We drink whiskey and talk about it. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Can we do that now? |
| Dan: | I don’t know. We’re all having fun. You can sip all you want to right now. |
| Matt: | Rawr. |
| Dan: | And then I watched the Chiefs win last night. |
| Matt: | Fuck the Chiefs. Jordan Love MVP. |
| Dan: | Jordan Love MVP. Apparently that’s the battle cry. |
Arran 10 year old
| Matt: | Got to have something. Mark, what’s our first whiskey? |
| Mark: | Aaron Malt. Ten-year-old. This is the entry level from Aaron Malt. Aaron Malt is a just story on the Isle of Aaron. |
| Dan: | Aaron or Arran? A-R-R-A-N. Not A-A-R-O-N. |
| Mark: | A-A-Ron. |
| Dan: | A-A-Ron. |
| Kevin: | Aaron. |
| Matt: | Case of the giggles. |
| Dan: | You regretting moving forward yet? |
| Mark: | I regret lots of things, Dan. |
| Chris: | Aaron just sounds like the little brother of Wizards. |
| Kevin: | Oh, Aaron like- |
| Dan: | He was the wizard that- |
| Kevin: | He’ll eat anything. |
| Dan: | … They decided they want to name the kid after the great-grandfather, but they had to be cool hippie kids and change the spelling. |
| Chris: | Yeah. There we go. Yeah. Yeah. I’m going to name my dog, D-O-G, but spell it D-I-O-G-E. |
| Dan: | Apostrophe. |
| Chris: | D.O.G. D-O-G. |
| Dan: | This is just the regular tenure? |
| Matt: | I feel like there’s too many dots in there. |
| Chris: | It might have been. |
| Kevin: | Apple. |
| Chris: | This is good. |
| Mark: | It is. |
| Dan: | It’s got a great nose. |
| Kevin: | I don’t think I’ve had a bad Aaron. Aaron. |
| Matt: | That didn’t sound gay at all. |
| Chris: | No. |
| Dan: | Aaron. |
| Matt: | I love my errands. |
| Mark: | I could have stayed home. |
| Dan: | Not with that shirt. |
| Chris: | I love it. |
| Matt: | You get put on a road crew. |
| Dan: | Oh yeah. By the way, we are a low on lime so we may need your shirt. |
| Matt: | I don’t know if I want to eat that lime. |
| Chris: | It’s what the Seattle Seahawks wear when they get on the plane to go play other people. |
| Dan: | So when we- |
| Mark: | Anyway, Aaron Malt Tenure, it’s their entry-level whiskey. It comes in at about 60 to 70 bucks a bottle. |
| Dan: | Oh, that’s awesome. That’s fantastic. |
| Chris: | I bet you that when I first started drinking Scotches, I would’ve not liked this one. Just because of that tiny little peat, smoke peat. I’m still getting it confused, because there’s so much fruit on this. But I feel like this is something that I would’ve not liked. |
| Mark: | I don’t know if it’s peat as much as grass. |
| Matt: | Yeah, because it doesn’t have that funky pea- |
| Mark: | It doesn’t have that rotten flavor to it. |
| Matt: | Yeah. Yeah. |
| Mark: | You can still taste the grassiness. |
| Matt: | It doesn’t taste like a swamp smells. |
| Kevin: | Yeah, it tastes like fresh. Fresh peat, I guess. |
| Matt: | There you go. Kind of hayish. |
| Kevin: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | I don’t think I would’ve liked this five years ago when we started this podcast. |
| Mark: | It wouldn’t have liked you either. |
| Chris: | No. It would’ve just jumped out of my glass and spilled all over my nicest clothes. |
| Dan: | Chris is a very likable guy, even in his intensity. |
| Chris: | I do. |
| Matt: | That’s fair. I like this. This is nice and- |
| Kevin: | This is really good. |
| Matt: | … Fruity. Super fruity on the nose. |
| Chris: | It’s making my insides warm. |
| Matt: | Makes my mouth water. |
| Kevin: | Yeah, my mouth watering. Yeah. |
| Mark: | If you get those to the kind of sour apple. |
| Matt: | That’s nice. |
| Kevin: | 46%. |
| Dan: | God, it’s good. That’s a pretty solid starter. |
| Matt: | I agree with Chris when I don’t think I’ve had an Aaron Malt that I didn’t like. |
| Chris: | No. |
| Mark: | And what’s good about the Aaron Malt is they’re not overpriced. |
| Chris: | No. Yeah, that was good. I liked that a lot. |
| Dan: | Good pick. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | It’s a good way to start the podcast off. |
| Matt: | And that’s a tenure, so that’s pretty young too. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | I definitely get sour apple on finish, sides of the tongue. |
| Chris: | Agreed. |
| Matt: | Green granny Smithy- |
| Mark: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | … Type apple. |
| Mark: | Exactly. |
| Chris: | It’s a nice numbness like the tongue area. |
| Dan: | I like this next one. |
Balvenie 14 Caribbean Cast
| Kevin: | The Balvenie. I feel like we’ve done this one. |
| Dan: | I’m sure we have and I’m okay with doing it again. |
| Kevin: | Yeah, the Caribbean cast is always- |
| Matt: | I think it’s been a while since we’ve done a Balvenie. |
| Mark: | As a purveyor of fine Scotch, if someone, well we are. |
| Chris: | We covered all of our faces on scotch levels. |
| Mark: | This is if someone comes in and says, “You know, I’m a bourbon drinker, I never really liked Scotch. What would you recommend as something to get into Scotch drinking?” Boom. Balvenie curry and cask 14. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | This is the bacon of Scotch. |
| Chris: | Agreed. I wish we had it first. |
| Mark: | Nobody can hate on this whiskey. |
| Matt: | Well, you can, but you’re kind of a dick head if you do. |
| Dan: | Yeah, obviously there’s people that hate their life and murder children or murder kittens- |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Dan: | … That don’t like bacon. But then the rest of the world just absolutely loves it. |
| Mark: | Dan, truly, would you ever completely trust a person that did not like bacon? |
| Dan: | Don’t have to even finish it. Not at all. |
| Mark: | The only worst person a person doesn’t like bacon is Evan. |
| Kevin: | Evan doesn’t like bacon? |
| Mark: | He wants his bacon just warmed. |
| Matt: | Yeah, he likes it floppy and chewy and so it’s not crispy. |
| Dan: | Oh, god. |
| Matt: | Gross. |
| Kevin: | Doesn’t he just boil it? You just boil it. |
| Matt: | How’d you cook this bacon? I boiled it. It’s steamed. Gross |
| Dan: | On the beginning it’s much lighter than the Aaron Malt tenure. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Like I said, I wish we had this first, because there’s something with that Aaron Malt that’s hiding a ton of stuff for me on this. I might actually set this aside. |
| Matt: | I also think it’s cool that Balvenie makes their own rum to- |
| Mark: | Just to get the barrels. |
| Kevin: | That’s awesome. |
| Mark: | To condition the casks. |
| Kevin: | Do you guys have any of their rum? Do they sell? |
| Matt: | They don’t sell it. |
| Chris: | They sell, distillery- |
| Matt: | They dump it down the drain. |
| Dan: | No way. |
| Chris: | So that makes me mad, because rum, first of all, it’s literally one of the worst spirits for the environment that you can make, especially if they’re dumping it down the drain. I’m curious to see if anybody has got pissed, but probably not. Because this is good. |
| Matt: | We’ll allow it. |
| Chris: | So we’ll allow you to kill the bogs. |
| Matt: | Please go ahead and kill the bogs. |
| Chris: | Yeah, this is good. |
| Matt: | What’s the proof on that, Chris? |
| Chris: | It is 43%. |
| Matt: | So an 80 sixer? Yeah, this is probably- |
| Kevin: | And 17 ounce, full pour? |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | All day. |
| Mark: | File cost is about 80 bucks. Oh, heavy. Heavy brown sugar. It’s picking up a lot of that brown sugaring molasses from the rum cask. |
| Dan: | Oh, yeah. |
| Matt: | Mine’s gone. |
| Mark: | You must have spilt it, Matt. You may want to pour yourself a little more. |
| Matt: | I do enjoy the Caribbean cask. I’ll tell you, it’s probably my favorite way to convince people that scotch is good. |
| Mark: | It is definitely a go-to. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it’s just- |
| Mark: | You’re almost speechless. |
| Chris: | Yeah, I am. It’s good. It’s good. It’s a super easy bourbon drinker. You guys probably already said that. I’m sure someone did, but yeah, Matt. |
| Matt: | Yeah, it’s a real easy cost cover. |
| Chris: | Oh, I don’t like scotch I just drink bourbon. Here you go. Tell me that again. |
| Matt: | But there’s a few of them. You kind of got to read the person, which I think the Balvenie Double Oak Double Barrel is- |
| Chris: | The board. |
| Matt: | … Really easy to- |
| Kevin: | Oh, that’s good. |
| Chris: | It is really good. |
| Matt: | … For bourbon drinkers to drink also. |
| Mark: | Yes, because you don’t have any of that added sweetness from the rum barrel. |
| Matt: | Well, and one of the barrels is a bourbon barrel, so it gives it kind of a bourbon esque flavor. |
| Kevin: | Characterized by toffee vanilla in a hint of fruit. |
| Dan: | I think I like the Aaron Malt just a scooch more. |
| Chris: | I don’t think you would say that if you tried the Balvenie first. I think there’s something that’s overpowering in the Aaron. |
| Dan: | I had a little bit of the Aaron Malt left and after I finished the Balvenie- |
| Chris: | I still think that- |
| Dan: | I cleared my palate and tried it. |
| Chris: | I still think the Aaron is doing something to your palate. I really do. |
| Mark: | I think- |
| Dan: | Do you think Aaron’s doing something with my palate? |
| Chris: | Yeah, I do. |
| Matt: | Yeah. All over his tongue. |
| Chris: | All over your tongue. |
| Mark: | For me, I think that Granny Smith apple on the finish is a little overpowering. They’re both really good, but I take the fourteen-year Caribbean cask all day every day. |
| Dan: | Neither are bad and I wouldn’t turn down either of them. It’s a close race. |
| Matt: | For free? No. |
| Mark: | If I went to someones house and they gave me one and said, “Would you like another?” I would say yes. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | And another and another. And soon the bottle would be laying on the side. |
| Dan: | That’s different. |
| Chris: | And so would we. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | Matt, what have you sat down for us? |
Clay Turner 4 Year Old Straight Bourbon
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I grabbed a couple bottles that I know very little about and don’t think I’ve ever had them. So yeah, this will be interesting. This is the Clay Turner out of Vermilion, South Dakota. It’s a four-year straight bourbon, 40% 80 proof. Runs 40 ish dollars a bottle from the Stone Faces Distillery. |
| Mark: | I saw what they did there. Mount Rushmore stone faces. Yeah. |
| Kevin: | Do we know who Clay Turner was? |
| Matt: | I did not get that far on my research. |
| Kevin: | Bet he was a cowboy. |
| Matt: | He probably was. |
| Chris: | Speaking of Cowboys, started watching this Wyatt Earp Cowboy. |
| Dan: | Chris, please, this is the whiskey podcast. We’re supposed to be talking about whiskey. |
| Chris: | Fine. |
| Mark: | Fuck you, Dan. |
| Matt: | Oh, shit. |
| Dan: | It’s been a while since one of us have been mad at each other. |
| Matt: | This shit’s good. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Is it? |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | I think this is a failed country singer that decided to do whiskey instead. |
| Matt: | He tried to go solo and- |
| Dan: | He’s like- |
| Matt: | … They’re like, no. |
| Dan: | … I can be a mix between Clay Walker and Tina Turner. I’m going to hit it big. |
| Matt: | You need Chet back to play guitar for you. |
| Dan: | Clay Walker. |
| Chris: | Is that the guy that was on- |
| Dan: | No, you’re thinking of Clay Aiken’s. |
| Chris: | Oh, Clay Aiken. See, I was going to say Clay Aitken’s and Turner from Turner and Hooch. |
| Dan: | Not going to verify Clay Walker as a country singer. |
| Mark: | I like that movie. It was dumb, but- |
| Kevin: | Totally great movie. |
| Dan: | What movie? |
| Mark: | Turner and Hooch. |
| Chris: | Turner and Hooch. |
| Dan: | Oh. Yeah. |
| Chris: | How could you not be happy with the cute little puppies? Bet they’re all dead now. |
| Dan: | I think, that was Tom Hanks right? |
| Kevin: | What the fuck? |
| Mark: | I remember the dog. |
| Kevin: | It a hundred percent was Tom Hanks. |
| Matt: | It’s been like 35 years since that movie came out. |
| Dan: | Yeah. And they are all dead. |
| Chris: | They’re probably all dead. Hey Siri, are any of the dogs from Turner and Hooch still alive? |
| Speaker 6: | No. |
| Mark: | No. |
| Dan: | Jesus, she just laid it out there. |
| Mark: | No. |
| Chris: | At the age of 14. It’s pretty long for that dog to live. |
| Matt: | Dog day borgon or whatever they are. Yeah. It’s a type of Mastiff. |
| Chris: | Yeah, that’s 14 years? |
| Mark: | That’s a long time that they- |
| Chris: | For a Mastiff? |
| Matt: | They’re like a small Mastiff. They’re not like the Mastiffs I had that were 200 plus pounds. I think that guy probably gets up to 140, which is still a big dog. |
| Mark: | You need to come in with- |
| Chris: | Rose. |
| Mark: | No. Yes, you did that too, but with Howie and introduce him to Lady Mac. That dog, she is so chill. When she gets tired she lays in front of the front door and will not move. She just lays there. If someone walks in and sits over, she looks up, “Hi.” |
| Matt: | Yep. |
| Mark: | I’ll roll on my back if you scratch my tummy. |
| Matt: | I wasn’t lying when I said this is good. |
| Dan: | This is incredibly not offensive at all. Just nice and easy. This is a great bourbon. |
| Matt: | It looks like- |
| Chris: | And hardwood aged. |
| Matt: | … Looks like these guys do brandy and vodka and they do a rye and they do a five-year rye and they also make rum. |
| Chris: | What other hardwoods are there besides oak that they would age stuff in? |
| Matt: | Mesquite. |
| Mark: | It’s a bourbon, so it has to be at least initially aged in oak. |
| Chris: | But why wouldn’t it say oak? |
| Matt: | Because hardwood sounds way cooler. |
| Chris: | It does. |
| Matt: | Yeah. They’re just right up by 29. A couple hours |
| Dan: | Available in Nebraska or was this something that you picked up on your travels? |
| Matt: | No. This is available in Nebraska. I couldn’t tell you the last time I was in South Dakota other than Sioux City. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Kevin: | Clay County. |
| Chris: | Wow. |
| Mark: | As you all know, if you’ve listen to this podcast, I’m not a huge bourbon fan. That is really good bourbon. Thank you, Matt. |
| Matt: | Just nice and light and easy and yeah. And it’s only a four-year, I get into some trouble with this. |
| Dan: | Oh, yeah. |
| Mark: | Well, and I don’t know what it come from, but there’s a little bit of complexity on the finish that is quite nice. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it’s like a bubble gummi or something like I don’t- |
| Matt: | Candy. |
| Chris: | Yeah, like- |
| Dan: | 40, 50 bucks a bottle. |
| Chris: | Fruity bubble gummi. |
| Dan: | Wow. You must have one of their old bottles? Because their new ones are more of the square, like a bird dog bottle. |
| Matt: | I’ve been looking at this bottle for a while, so I would assume it’s an older one. |
| Dan: | You can get married on the premise. |
| Chris: | She gets to look up his nose her entire life. She’s very short. |
| Dan: | She was. All right, so that was Clay Turner Bourbon, four year. |
| Matt: | Out of Vermilion, South Dakota. |
| Dan: | Yeah, four years straight. |
| Matt: | Four year straight bourbon whiskey. |
| Dan: | Is Matt our Whiskey Guy? |
| Mark: | I finished all my whiskey so far today. |
| Dan: | I’m okay with that. I don’t need any extras. |
| Mark: | You know what I do need? What I do need. |
| Dan: | What’s that? |
| Mark: | I need a pork tenderloin sandwich. |
| Dan: | Dude, I’ve been looking forward to it since about 7:30 this morning when I was- |
| Chris: | That too. |
| Dan: | Those pork tenderloin sandwiches over at AJ’s are so good. I’m really lucky they’re not open on Sundays. |
| Mark: | Oh. |
| Dan: | Because I’d eat that and the food that. |
| Chris: | I think they should give us free breakfast at least once a week if we announce AJ’s. Who wants to go over and pitch that? |
| Matt: | I’m good. |
| Dan: | You got it? Thanks, Matt. |
| Chris: | Okay, good. |
| Matt: | No, I don’t eat at AJ’s. |
| Dan: | I nominate Matt. |
| Chris: | I nominate you. |
| Dan: | Damn it. |
| Chris: | Be like, look at this belly that I got from eating over here. We talk about you on the podcast all, I’m just kidding. No, that was really mean. It’s the whiskey. |
| Matt: | Whiskey makes me aggressive. All righty. |
| Dan: | Yes, please, |
| Matt: | Matt. |
Left Bank Straight Bourbon
| Dan: | An open treasure. |
| Matt: | This is the left bank straight bourbon from left bank Distilled Spirits in New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| Kevin: | New Orleans. Left Bank. |
| Matt: | This particular bottle is batch number two and right here on the back it says Aged at least cab two years. |
| Chris: | In cab barrels? |
| Mark: | Paris has a whole left bank thing. |
| Chris: | That’s what I was, yeah, that’s what I was going to say. |
| Mark: | New Orleans does, but doesn’t the left bank depend on where you’re standing? |
| Chris: | Or which direction you’re facing? |
| Matt: | Turn around. |
| Chris: | It has to do with the direction of the river flowing. |
| Dan: | Oh. |
| Mark: | I didn’t think of that. |
| Dan: | Or does it have to do with facing North? |
| Chris: | It could be that too. That’s a really good question though, Mark, but I know that for a fact, left bank Bordeaux is cab. Right bank is Merlot. And I’m holding up seas, because that’s how I know. Left bank is my left hand, it’s a cabs. You guys, you guys will never forget now. I will have that. |
| Dan: | I may have already forgot. |
| Mark: | I will because I don’t care. It’s gone. |
| Matt: | Yeah. This is made on the banks of the Ohio River. I would assume the left bank- |
| Dan: | Weird. |
| Matt: | … Of the Ohio River in- |
| Mark: | Isn’t it the Mississippi River that goes to New Orleans? Excuse my geography. |
| Dan: | Well. |
| Matt: | I was going to finish this. It was made on the left banks- |
| Chris: | Don’t do that or you’ll get sick. |
| Matt: | … Of the Ohio River in Kentucky. It takes a winding journey by barrel on the river to New Orleans where it is carefully married into small batches and bottled. |
| Chris: | Carefully married. |
| Matt: | They don’t do it all. They’re just throwing up in the air. |
| Chris: | They definitely use funnels. |
| Matt: | Probably big ones. |
| Chris: | Yep. |
| Dan: | So wherever to be determined. |
| Mark: | Once Matt finished it made sense. |
| Matt: | It’s made on the Ohio River. |
| Dan: | Oh God. Number of times when Matt finished it made sense. |
| Matt: | Yep. 50. |
| Dan: | He got a penny every time. |
| Matt: | And then they throw it on a boat, take it down to New Orleans and do the bottling process. |
| Kevin: | I knew he was going to say it, because it’s 54%. |
| Dan: | Sarah and I got an opportunity to go to a New Orleans. |
| Kevin: | New Orleans. |
| Dan: | Next year. |
| Mark: | It smells bad all the time. |
| Dan: | Oh, not the whiskey, the city. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I can believe that. |
| Matt: | Once you get past the youngness and the astringency on the front, this is kind of a nice little fruity, I think water would probably help this a little bit. |
| Dan: | I get something on the nose and I was thinking maybe it was pickle, but I don’t think it is. |
| Chris: | I was wondering that too. |
| Matt: | The nose make my eyes water. |
| Chris: | But this heat, this 108 just stays in the back of my mouth and it doesn’t go down my throat. It doesn’t coat my throat. It’s just there. It’s right there. It doesn’t do anything except stay there. |
| Matt: | I’m not sure how to respond to all that. |
| Dan: | Oh, I hit the back of the throat pretty good. Yeah, this is good. |
| Matt: | It’s not amazing. |
| Dan: | I can’t form words, but- |
| Chris: | So much going on this bottle. |
| Matt: | 30 bucks a bottle too. |
| Chris: | This is like before the internet, you would read this bottle while you poop. |
| Matt: | Like a shampoo bottle. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Yes, yes. Then after you done reading it, you count how many letters are in the paragraph and- |
| Matt: | I never went that crazy. |
| Chris: | … Yeah. I was like, “I’m not done pooping yet. 1, 2, 3, 4.” |
| Matt: | There are 77. |
| Mark: | Where did we go so wrong? |
| Chris: | This is The Library Pubcast. Been doing it for five years. We’re super famous. |
| Matt: | Other than this stuff being young and astringent, I think flavor-wise, it’s not bad. |
| Chris: | I’d drink it. |
| Mark: | I would not. |
| Matt: | Yeah. Let this go a few more years, but this stuff could be fantastic. |
| Chris: | A camping whiskey. |
| Mark: | No, that Caribbean Cask would be a camping whiskey. |
| Chris: | Yeah. It’s too expensive to go camping. |
| Matt: | Yeah. I don’t know many people that have taken a hundred dollars bottles. |
| Chris: | If I have- |
| Mark: | I would. Well, I’m not going to- |
| Chris: | You also have a motor home. |
| Matt: | You’re on a little different economical level than the rest of us. |
| Dan: | What would it take to get you to go camping? |
| Chris: | A motor home. |
| Matt: | Yes. Like a nice one. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | I’m not trying to be mean. I’m legitimately thinking this out. I don’t think you can get in and out. |
| Mark: | Oh, I can. |
| Dan: | Yeah? |
| Matt: | Just someone stand behind him. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Keeping in mind, Dan, Dan, when I get home, I walk from my car in the driveway through the garage, go up four steps into my house. So I do steps. It’s just really slow. Don’t be a dick, Dan. |
| Dan: | I’m being nice for the rest of December. |
| Matt: | How did I know this was going to be the bottle that he picked? |
| Dan: | Because we talked about it last week. |
| Matt: | Well, we had three to choose from. |
| Chris: | Yeah. The other ones, that’s for next week. Because its in my garage. |
| Mark: | Because I forgot it. |
| Chris: | I did, but this was going to be the next one anyway. Because it’s just what’s in the price range. |
| Mark: | Did I tell you why I don’t have Dog here today? |
| Chris: | I was guessing because Moe got home and they wanted to snuggle with her. |
| Mark: | Well, Moe got home and she needed quality time with the dogs. |
| Chris: | Makes sense. |
| Mark: | As they were both sleeping on a blanket on the other side of the room. But that’s how I know my dogs are happy, when they sleep all four legs straight up near. |
| Chris: | This is true. That’s Rose. All right. |
| Dan: | All right. |
Mary Dowling Kentucky Straight Bourbon
| Chris: | Mary Dowling. We spoke about her last week. |
| Dan: | Mary Dowling. Don’t get into a knife fight with this woman. You’ll lose. |
| Chris: | Probably. |
| Matt: | The grandmother. |
| Chris: | Mother. |
| Matt: | Godmother. |
| Chris: | Mother. |
| Dan: | All the above. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Mother. |
| Chris: | Such a female figure. |
| Dan: | Kentucky straight bourbon. |
| Matt: | Strong female figure. |
| Chris: | Finished in tequila barrels, because she set up shop down at Louisville after they tried running her out. |
| Dan: | That just says another thing. She set up, well, I don’t know how bad Mexico was back then, but it can be very rough at times now. |
| Matt: | Well, you figured it was- |
| Dan: | But then again, so can Chicago. |
| Matt: | … It was the Wild West in a good chunk of America still, so I would assume it was very wild westie. |
| Dan: | Pancho Villa was still running around maybe? |
| Matt: | See. |
| Dan: | There needs to be a Pancho Villa movie. |
| Matt: | I bet there is. |
| Mark: | There is. |
| Dan: | There is? |
| Mark: | It’s in black and white. |
| Dan: | Oh. I have a tough time with black and white movies. |
| Chris: | Here’s the thing that surprises me about Mary Dowling. As high as the proof is on these, and I don’t know if it’s because of everything that we’ve had, but I don’t get much burn. Now, I am also, I have forgotten how to taste alcohol in the actual heat. If I get it, it has to be super prominent, but because of all the high proof whiskey that I drink I just- |
| Matt: | I don’t see a proof on here. |
| Dan: | It’s in gold. |
| Matt: | Which it could just be me. If it’s in gold, then I won’t see it. I’m colorblind in shiny gold. |
| Chris: | 93 proof. |
| Matt: | Oh, it’s on the back. Interesting place. |
| Dan: | I thought it had to be on the front. |
| Mark: | I thought it was too. |
| Dan: | Well, obviously not. |
| Chris: | Obviously not. |
| Matt: | Evidently not for Mary. |
| Dan: | Or the government missed that one. |
| Chris: | Nope. This is aged in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| Dan: | In the microphone. |
| Chris: | Louisville, Kentucky. |
| Mark: | In Kentucky, it’s called Louisville. |
| Chris: | Louisville. |
| Matt: | Well, you got to say it like you got a dick in your mouth, Louisville. |
| Mark: | New Brassica is pronounced Louisville. |
| Matt: | Louisville. |
| Chris: | That’s where we go camping and play paintball. |
| Matt: | We drive right through there. |
| Dan: | My favorite things to hear on a national level is when somebody’s talking about Papillon, Nebraska. Or my new latest favorite is Beatrice, Nebraska. |
| Matt: | They’ve been doing Beatrice for a long time. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Where’re Beatrice Shuler. |
| Matt: | Yeah. Instead of Schuyler. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | No. |
| Dan: | Yeah, but it’s got a U. |
| Matt: | Yeah, but the U is at the end, isn’t it? |
| Dan: | It’s in the middle. |
| Chris: | It’s in the middle. |
| Mark: | S-C-U-L-Y-E-R. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I was usually probably pretty stoned when I was on my way to Columbus, so I wasn’t paying much attention. |
| Dan: | Nice little town. So it was Beatrice, Nebraska. By the way, the birthplace of one James, nearly blind James. That’s his hometown. |
| Matt: | Is Beatrice? |
| Dan: | Beatrice, Nebraska. |
| Matt: | Interesting. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | We are Beatrice. I don’t hate this. I don’t love it. |
| Dan: | I don’t think it’s offensive. Is this the second in the three? |
| Chris: | This is the second of the three. |
| Dan: | Yeah, I think this is kind of where it’s starting to find its area. What’s the bottle cost? |
| Chris: | So grocery store here, it’s probably right around 69, 70. Let’s just go with 69. |
| Dan: | Yeah, I’m fine with that. |
| Matt: | I don’t know. I keep looking back at the Clay Turner bottle. |
| Dan: | That’s solid bourbon for- |
| Chris: | How much was it a bottle again? |
| Dan: | Like about 42 online? I saw 42 online. |
| Matt: | I got anywhere from 40 to 45 is what I saw. |
| Dan: | It’s about 42 online. |
| Matt: | So yeah, probably online somewhere for 42. |
| Dan: | You know how gratifying that is? Because I did that exact same thing to you a couple of weeks ago. |
| Matt: | Yeah, probably right around $42 online somewhere. |
| Chris: | Yeah, I could get in trouble with this. |
| Dan: | I would love to get in trouble with this. This is good stuff. All right, so the next Whiskey Wednesday is to be determined, coming up. |
| Matt: | It is this Wednesday. |
| Dan: | No sir. |
| Matt: | Yes sir. |
| Dan: | No sir. |
| Matt: | Yes sir. |
| Dan: | Are we doing a special Whiskey Wednesday? |
| Mark: | Not that one. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Matt: | The Whiskey Wednesday this week is, we’re doing all of our barrel picks. |
| Chris: | Ooh. |
| Dan: | What? |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | You guys got to wait for this. |
| Chris: | Swing. |
| Dan: | Give it time to get out there. There’s got to be a Facebook event page. |
| Chris: | Swing. |
| Matt: | Well, we’ve been advertising it for the last few, which we’ve talked about it on the podcast. It’s $25. If you buy one of our barrel picks, you get your 25 bucks back. |
| Dan: | Oh, I remember you guys discussing this. I just didn’t think it had been a date. |
| Matt: | Yep. |
| Dan: | Okay, so that’s coming up on publication day, which by the way, Mark is? |
| Mark: | Wednesday. |
| Dan: | Wednesday |
| Matt: | Wednesday. |
| Dan: | Starts at seven o’clock. $25 for a drink. |
| Matt: | 25 bucks a person. |
| Dan: | So I assume that you’re only going with the ones that we have Pub picks available. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | Smooth Ambler, old Elk and Deer Hammer. |
| Mark: | And Jefferson. |
| Dan: | Oh, Jefferson’s. Right. |
| Matt: | Yep. |
| Dan: | And you’re not going to tease people with the Amazing Barrel. |
| Mark: | We have one bottle of that left. |
| Dan: | One bottle left. |
| Mark: | And Kevin was going to get it out. I went, “No.” |
| Dan: | Yeah. How does it make you feel that I have more bottles at my house than you guys have- |
| Chris: | Of the Barrel Barrel pick. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | I have one bottle. |
| Dan: | I think we need to try that again. It is so good. |
| Chris: | We need to try it again. |
| Dan: | I do have- |
| Kevin: | How many barrel picks have we done? |
| Chris: | A Buffalo trace. Done a barrel. We’ve done- |
| Dan: | Old elk. |
| Chris: | Six elk. Let’s do them on the podcast. |
| Matt: | We’ve done them all on the podcast. |
| Chris: | All at once. |
| Matt: | Oh, that could be a big drunken mess. |
| Kevin: | It means it’s no different. It’s only six. |
| Dan: | Sounds like a good idea for episode 200. |
| Matt: | That would’ve worked out great for 200. |
| Dan: | All right, so there’s a Whiskey Wednesday coming up this Wednesday. It is the available pub barrel picks and it’s $25 and then if you buy one of the barrel picks, you get that $25 towards the discount. |
| Matt: | Yep. The tasting is now free for you. |
| Dan: | Nice. |
| Matt: | Yeah. It’s a good deal. |
| Dan: | And these are great opportunities for presents for the holidays coming up, whether it be a whiskey friend, whiskey fan in your- |
| Matt: | Christmas. |
| Dan: | … Family, friend group, bosses. Anyone who- |
| Matt: | New Years. |
| Dan: | … Yeah. I’ll mark that. |
| Mark: | Mark. |
| Matt: | The answer was no. |
| Chris: | No. |
| Dan: | The answer was Pod. All right, so then we’ve probably got some tap takeovers coming. Make sure to like and follow The Library Pub Facebook page and stay up to date on the- |
| Matt: | I think there’s a Sorrow Tap takeover coming up. |
| Dan: | Really? |
| Matt: | Yep. So some tasty ciders from Lincoln, Nebraska. |
| Dan: | I think Kev’s pooping, so I can’t ask him right now. |
| Mark: | No, he went out back door. |
| Dan: | He might be pooping out back. |
| Matt: | Could be. By the dumpster. If he can hold onto the front of it. Get a good squat. |
| Chris: | Get more out. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | It’s Squatty Potty. |
| Dan: | Anything else? |
| Mark: | It’s a real thing. That was the thing for a while. |
| Dan: | I still have mine and I love it. |
| Matt: | They have them at their houses. Yeah. |
| Dan: | I give them out as wedding presents. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | And everybody- |
| Chris: | You don’t realize how much time you spend on a toilet pooping until you get a squatty potty. |
| Dan: | And that, man, it makes a huge difference. |
| Chris: | It does get empty. You get empty. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | You float out of the back. |
| Dan: | Full evacuation is what Howard Stern used to say. |
| Matt: | Full evacuation. Full evacuation. It makes it sound like there’s a bomb coming. Like you’re under attack. |
| Dan: | Kev, is there a sorrow tap takeover on the books? |
| Kevin: | Yes. |
| Dan: | Date? |
| Kevin: | 19th I think. |
| Dan: | 19th. |
| Kevin: | Thursday. Yeah. |
| Matt: | So two weeks. |
| Dan: | No, as publication day. It would be the next Thursday. Not this coming Thursday, but the next Thursday. |
| Matt: | So two Thursdays. |
| Dan: | I had that conversation with somebody. This is totally just a bullshit thing. When you say next Sunday, to me that means not this Sunday, but the next Sunday. |
| Mark: | No. |
| Dan: | To other people it means the next one coming. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | I had- |
| Matt: | See, to me it’s this Sunday. Next Sunday. |
| Dan: | Right. So you and I are on that same page. |
| Matt: | So you work this Sunday. |
| Dan: | Correct. |
| Matt: | And you’re probably not working next Sunday. |
| Chris: | That’s too confusing. That’s too confusing. |
| Dan: | It’s the next. It’s next. Yeah. |
| Chris: | The Sunday after. |
| Dan: | So that Sorrow tap takeover coming up on Thursday, December 19th. Whether it be next or the next or the following. It’s the 19th. |
| Matt: | It’s on a Thursday. |
| Dan: | It’s on a Thursday and it’s the 19th starting at about seven o’clock. Usually there’s some nice games that are played too. Some prizes to be given out. I’m sure since it’s from Great Brewery in Lincoln that there’ll be some representatives from the brewery. |
| Matt: | I would hope so. Yeah. |
| Dan: | Matt, you got anything else? |
| Matt: | I would hope so. I really don’t. |
| Dan: | You going to have a pork tenderloin? |
| Matt: | Probably not. |
| Dan: | You want to close this out? |
| Matt: | Bye. |
