Podcast Transcription
| Dan: | Episode 243 of the Library Pubcast, being recorded 90th and Fort on the Irish of all Irish days. See, we already recorded the first 10 minutes of the podcast and I forgot to unmute and now we’re trying to do it again because it was, I don’t know. It was interesting as far as the podcast is concerned, but- |
| Mark: | There are no snakes in Ireland. |
| Chris: | No snakes in Ireland. |
| Dan: | Chris, do you know if there’s any snakes in Hawaii? |
| Chris: | Yeah, I guess there’s some snakes in, they’re not native. |
| Dan: | They’re not native? |
| Chris: | I think they came on some, around ladies, beautiful ladies necks, as a bow. |
| Dan: | Adornments? |
| Chris: | A bow, a boa. |
| Dan: | Hopefully it wasn’t a constrictor. |
| Chris: | I don’t know where that came from. It’s only |
| Dan: | It’s only funny to us. Chris, tell me about your weekend while Mark takes a nice drink of his lovely coffee. |
| Chris: | Let’s see, car almost blew up. The transmission was going out and I made it into the dealership to trade it in and get a new car. So that was Saturday. Friday, how we got a trampoline that one of our friends gave us. So I’m in pain right now. |
| Mark: | There’s a certain age where you stop doing trampolines, and I think you’ve got there. |
| Chris: | No, I think it’s doing tricks- |
| Dan: | Mark? |
| Chris: | … on the trampoline. |
| Dan: | Mark? |
| Chris: | Because I could still jump. My body’s just not… |
| Dan: | I would venture to say, maybe a part of your suffrage in life is that you stopped jumping on a trampoline. |
| Mark: | Maybe. |
| Chris: | I mean trampolines when I was a kid were only like the rich kids had them, right? |
| Dan: | Yeah. Oh yeah. |
| Mark: | And when I was a kid, no one had them. |
| Chris: | Yeah, yeah. Like what is that circus family with their trampoline in their backyard? |
| Dan: | Oh, and there was always the, “Well, we can’t have trampolines. Our homeowners insurance will go up. |
| Chris: | Yeah, you’ll break your neck. Yeah. But this one’s pretty safe. |
| Dan: | I think we need to bring an element of danger back into this life. |
| Chris: | That’s fun. |
| Dan: | I know that- |
| Chris: | Double bouncing Howie is pretty hilarious. |
| Dan: | You got to get that on video. |
| Mark: | I spent my whole childhood on a bicycle without a helmet. I survived. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Did you put cards between your spokes? |
| Mark: | You don’t actually put it between the spokes, you put on the fork, sticking into the spokes, it goes… |
| Chris: | Yep. |
| Mark: | And yes. |
| Chris: | Yes? Okay. All right. |
| Dan: | That’s a trend I’m glad went away. How fucking annoying after a couple of minutes? |
| Chris: | Probably. Yeah. |
| Dan: | What was the point? |
| Chris: | Right, right. To hear that you’re coming. |
| Dan: | I guess. |
| Chris: | I guess. |
| Dan: | Hey, watch out. I’m coming. |
| Mark: | They never lasted long. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I can’t imagine. Did I ever show you guys the video of Sarah on a trampoline trying to do a front flip? |
| Chris: | No. |
| Dan: | It’s the funny, I don’t think it’s on my phone anymore. |
| Chris: | Did she hurt herself? |
| Dan: | No. No. I managed to catch it in slow motion, and you can watch as she is so confident she’s going to do a front flip, but she forgets to tuck, and then she gets scared and bails out. You can see everything on the look of her face. Oh, it’s awesome. It’s so perfect. |
| Chris: | Awesome. |
| Dan: | Anyways, so you got a new car? |
| Chris: | Yeah. Yeah. Got a new car. It’s all right. I’m just not- |
| Dan: | Pretty excited though. |
| Chris: | It is exciting. It’s fun. It’s cool. It’s nice. It’s quiet. |
| Dan: | Oh my God. Yeah. |
| Chris: | So quiet. |
| Mark: | The transmission works. |
| Chris: | The transmission works. I don’t have to look at my phone. It all just syncs. It’s pretty nice, reading text messages to me. That’s pretty cool. I like that. Leather seats. Didn’t get any super bells and, and it has this panoramic sunroof though. It goes all the way back. It’s fucking awesome. |
| Dan: | Heated seats? |
| Chris: | Not heated seats. |
| Dan: | Oh man. |
| Chris: | Not heated. |
| Dan: | That’s all right. Next one. |
| Chris: | Next one. I’m probably going to lease a car for Jen here in the next year or so, but I will go back to that. I had a really good experience at Kia. I don’t know, my sales guy’s a friend, but it was a really good experience. Really, really good, really quick. |
| Dan: | Awesome. |
| Chris: | So yeah, yeah, that was my weekend. Grilled out twice. Saturday and Sunday. |
| Dan: | Man. |
| Chris: | So ate like a king. |
| Dan: | Sarah wanted a grill out, but I was like, our grill is buried in the back of the garage, so we have to wait a couple more weeks and apparently with the massive snowstorm that’s coming on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, I’m going to need to get the snowblower out again. |
| Chris: | It’s going to be gone. |
| Mark: | I’ve looked at the weather. It looks like more rain than snow. |
| Dan: | We were talking about this before we started recording, but I’m fairly certain that weather forecasting was the first clickbait. All the articles you’re seeing out there is that we’re- |
| Chris: | Totally true dude. |
| Dan: | … going to get two to four inches of snow. Well, common sense tells you that’s probably not going to happen because of global warming. Also, the ground isn’t frozen anymore, so nothing’s going to stick. |
| Mark: | And there’s going to be rain before and afterwards. It’s going to melt the snow. It’s just going to be messy. |
| Dan: | It’s going to be a sloppy mess. |
| Mark: | But my wife, when I rolled out of bed this morning, “Oh my God. Wednesday’s going to be horrible.” |
| Dan: | Clickbait. Yep. |
| Chris: | Well, I mean Jim Flowers is pretty right on with his stuff on Facebook, man. He has been for the last two years. |
| Dan: | I think he is too, but also the great thing about clickbait is that it’s usually not wrong. It’s just not containing all of the information. So it probably will snow two to four inches, but like we’re saying, none of it is going to stick. It’s going to hit the ground and melt instantly. But anyways, Mark, how was your weekend? |
| Mark: | Uneventful. Decent week in the bar. Saturday was weird. We were over-busy for a Saturday. I don’t know why. |
| Dan: | Noah said it was pretty chill until about 10 o’clock when a group of 40 came in, and then about a half an hour later, a group of 20 came in, and it was staining room only until they closed, which is just awesome. |
| Mark: | And they actually stayed until two. |
| Dan: | Wow. |
| Mark: | Which Noah and Mike never stayed until two. |
| Dan: | Dodgers looking good for the year? |
| Mark: | They have too many good players. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Are they going to get picked apart? |
| Mark: | No. The problem is you only can have so many players on your roster so they are dumping other good players. |
| Dan: | I saw that, is it Davante Adams was getting released by the Jets? |
| Chris: | Does not surprise me. |
| Dan: | Yeah, Rogers sounds like he’s moving on from the Jets. |
| Chris: | Does not surprise me. Who else? Deebo Samuels went to Washington. |
| Dan: | Yep. Went to the Commander’s. That is going to be a good acquisition. |
| Chris: | If he cannot be the diva that he is. Yes. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I almost, I think the Commanders in their receiving corps were good. I don’t know if you need to add that. |
| Chris: | Absolutely, dude. No, they’re very good. |
| Dan: | And then the Rams resigned their quarterback Stafford. |
| Chris: | I didn’t see that. |
| Dan: | Yeah, I guess he reached out to a couple of teams, got some bids and the Rams matched him and now he’s going to be a Ram for another year or two. |
| Chris: | He was seen skiing with Tom Brady. |
| Dan: | Oh yeah? |
| Chris: | That’s good news. Tom Brady is now a part owner of- |
| Dan: | The Raiders. Yeah. |
| Chris: | … Raiders. They thought he was trying to court him over there. |
| Dan: | Apparently the NFL announced that they’re going to implement sensors to correctly place the ball. |
| Chris: | I did not hear that. I heard that there’s a lot more replayability on certain penalties. With all the face masks. |
| Dan: | I think there’s going to some- |
| Chris: | The problem is, they have to miss a hundred. |
| Dan: | I think there’s going to be some big rule changes that situations the last two years have. |
| Chris: | Listen, they do it in tennis. How long has that been a thing in tennis? Why can’t they? |
| Dan: | So our weekend, let’s see… |
| Chris: | Yeah, how was your weekend? |
| Dan: | Friday we went out and did music bingo in Springfield with my financial advisor. |
| Mark: | You have none. |
| Dan: | What’s that? |
| Mark: | Finance? |
| Dan: | No, when I had a long full-time job, I had a big 401k, so I moved it over to him. So I’ve got a little bit of money. Not a lot. It’s not for the podcast. Well obviously people on podcast can’t see it, but that was my bingo card. There was four open spots and if I’d have gotten three of them, I’d have had a bingo in several different directions. |
| Chris: | Nobody, Rick Ashley, do you? |
| Dan: | Yeah, it played like eight songs after the person got the last bingo. No, that was the fullest bingo card you could get without actually having bingo. Yeah. Anyways, then Saturday we had our nephew. Went to the zoo. |
| Chris: | It was a little cold Saturday. |
| Dan: | The great thing about our zoo is a lot of it’s indoors, so as long as you can stand walking between buildings, you’re fine. And then yeah, we talked a little bit about what happened Saturday night. Then Sunday just working at the pub and yeah, I did have a big life thing, I bought a bidet. |
| Chris: | Oh yeah, nice. Did you hook it up? I bought a new showerhead. |
| Dan: | Yes I did. Did you? |
| Chris: | It’s amazing. Yeah, dude. |
| Dan: | I’ve saying for about nine years I’m going to get a new shower head. |
| Chris: | Man, we got this. So we don’t have a soft water or anything like that, so the water’s hard in Omaha. There’s a filter in this bad boy, dude. |
| Dan: | Really? |
| Chris: | Yeah, and it fills up the filter and then it pressurizes and kicks it out. So it doesn’t matter how crappy your water is, it’s feels so good. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Man, that’d be nice. |
| Chris: | Anyway, sorry, your bidet. Not to hijack. |
| Dan: | About every month or two I have to go around with CLR and clean everything because little calcium rocks collect everywhere. So the funny story out of this whole thing was I’ve been thinking about getting a bidet for a long time, and I finally went ahead and pulled the trigger. It was like 45 bucks, so I didn’t feel like I was out a lot of money. |
| Chris: | It’s not like they’re expensive. |
| Dan: | Super easy to hook up. So the first time I got to use it, it’s got this little turn knob. |
| Chris: | For the pressure? |
| Dan: | The more pressure. And I crack her open and it’s pressure right off the bat, and it’s a feeling of I can successfully say I’ve never felt in my life before. |
| Chris: | Good or bad? |
| Dan: | Well, it was just different and I learned to work it, I was like, “Okay, we’re going to have to be very easy on that switch.” Ease into the pressure, right? So I told Sarah this the next day and I was like, “You got to be really careful. There’s a lot of pressure right off the bat. So you got to very slowly open that thing up and let it do its business.” I am sitting in the living room and all of a sudden I hear, “Oh.” |
| Chris: | That’s Sarah? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Awesome. Hilarious. |
| Dan: | I just started laughing and I go, “I wasn’t kidding.” And she goes, “God, you were right.” I love it. It’s great. It’s going to save us so much toilet paper. So much toilet paper. |
| Chris: | So what do you do? Wipe your butt off with a… |
| Dan: | Well, I use probably maybe 5% of the toilet paper I use normally because I just use a couple of squares to dry off. |
| Chris: | Right, fair. |
| Dan: | And make sure all the… |
| Mark: | I really don’t want to sit here thinking you- |
Writers’ Tears – Double Oak
| Dan: | Should we start drinking whiskey? |
| Mark: | Let’s drink whiskey. |
| Dan: | Wiping your ass. But that’s me. What do you want to start with Mark? |
| Mark: | Let’s start with Writers’ Tears. |
| Dan: | While I pour, Chris, why don’t you tell us about the Whiskey Wednesday coming up on publication day. |
| Chris: | Whiskey Wednesday. Is that this Wednesday? |
| Mark: | Yes it is. |
| Chris: | That’s this Wednesday. It looks like it’s a lovely Irish tasting with all the Irish favorites like Writers’ Tears, Middleton, Knappogue Castle 21, Redbreast 21. Looks like there’s some Keeper’s Heart back there. There’s a whole bunch. Sorry Mark. |
| Dan: | Some Keeper’s Heart. |
| Chris: | What is that? Blackpitts, is that right? Am I saying that right? |
| Mark: | I think it’s Blackbutts. |
| Chris: | Cannot lie. |
| Dan: | No, it is pitts, Well it looks like, or it could be ditz. |
| Chris: | Putts. |
| Dan: | That looks like a pitts. P-I-T-T-S. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Anyway, interesting bottle. |
| Mark: | It’s something new that I thought we’d try. |
| Chris: | Cool. That’s a nice little Irish lineup. 55 bucks. Oh it says it right there. Writer’s Tear Double Oak, Teeling Blackpitts, Middleton 2022 release, Knappogue Castle 21, Redbreast 21, $55. |
| Dan: | Man, that Redbreast would be worth it alone. |
| Mark: | It’s really good. |
| Chris: | This Writer’s Tears is pretty freaking good too. |
| Dan: | All right, Mark, Writer’s Tears Double Oak Irish whiskey. |
| Mark: | This is Writer’s Tears Double Oak. It is a combination of single malt and single pot still Irish whiskey. It’s all made in copper stills, then aged in two different oak barrels. |
| Chris: | American and French oak. Okay, cool. |
| Dan: | I feel like I was getting a cotton candy or a bubble cognac. |
| Chris: | French cognac. You do. |
| Dan: | Bubble gum. |
| Chris: | Probably, yeah. Bubblegum would be a good descriptor for sure. |
| Mark: | Especially on the finish, that kind of, what’s a bubblegum that’s wrapped in the paper and twisted on the side? |
| Chris: | It’s not Bazooka Joe. It’s not Bazooka Joe. |
| Dan: | Dubble Bubble? |
| Chris: | Dubble loses its flavor in like- |
| Dan: | Two chews? |
| Mark: | Basically, yeah. |
| Chris: | Yeah, I know what you’re talking about. |
| Dan: | It starts off rock solid and by the time you loosen it up you lost the flavor. |
| Mark: | Oh, that’s great. |
| Chris: | Two minutes later you’re spitting it out. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Yeah, this is nice. |
| Mark: | 50 to 75 bucks depending on where you buy it. |
| Chris: | So this is chapter three, so obviously they’ve done two others besides this. |
| Dan: | This is solid. It’s kind of nice for being an Irish whiskey. It’s got a little bit more burn to it like a bourbon. Which is probably the double oat coming out. |
| Mark: | With Irish whiskey, generally it’s not going to offend anyone. There’s never a great deal of peat. There’s never a great deal of sherry. It is just kind of whiskey. |
| Chris: | I like that one. |
| Dan: | That’s really good. |
| Chris: | It’s nice. Yeah, you get all of that. |
| Dan: | You can really taste the lack of snakes on the island. |
| Chris: | Yes. The bourbon. |
| Mark: | I taste no snake in that at all. |
Midleton Very Rare – Barry Crockett Legacy
| Chris: | Taste no snakes. |
| Dan: | All right, Writer’s Tear at Double Oak. That was Mark’s first submission. Next up we’ve got Middleton, very rare. Barry Crockett Legacy. |
| Chris: | Who’s Barry Crockett? |
| Mark: | I have no clue. |
| Dan: | Okay. All right. Come on Brother of David or Davey. |
| Chris: | That doesn’t sound correct. |
| Mark: | Sit down. |
| Dan: | It’s definitely not. |
| Mark: | Well Middleton is an interesting story. 150 years ago there was a wine salesman in Dublin named Middleton. And he sold wine. A handsome wine salesman. And he had empty wine barrels. So he went to Jameson and started buying whiskey and aging it himself. And then selling the whiskey. Well, it was really good and sold very well. So Jameson then bought Middleton, so it is a Jameson product. |
| Dan: | Barry Crockett was the second generation master distiller at the Middleton distillery, succeeding his father Max Crockett in 1981 and is known for significant contributions in the Middleton style of whiskey. He retired in March, 2013. Did you find the same thing? |
| Chris: | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| Mark: | Dan? |
| Dan: | Yes sir. |
| Mark: | When you’re pouring me tastes, pour a little less. |
| Chris: | I said the same thing. |
| Mark: | I’m going to get hammered here with this size portions. |
| Dan: | Not only am I pouring heavy- |
| Chris: | It’s Monday, man. |
| Dan: | We got a lot of whiskeys to pick from. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Well and you can pour yourself all you want. I just don’t want to be hammered at noon. |
| Dan: | By the way, we didn’t mention it, Matt is on a beach in Mexico while the rest of us are sitting here in Nebraska and Iowa. So our normal pourer, and contributor to the podcast is on vacation. Middleton, very rare, Barry Crockett Collection. Legacy, sorry, |
| Chris: | Can I see that bottle? |
| Dan: | Well, we haven’t done yours yet. We haven’t done it yet. |
| Mark: | The Middleton. |
| Dan: | We’re still tasting it. |
| Mark: | The Middleton, you should try it. It is probably one of the three best Irish whiskies around. Now, what pisses me off about Middleton is… |
| Dan: | Oh, come on. That’s fucking delicious. |
| Mark: | Yes it is. |
| Chris: | Middleton’s great, man. |
| Dan: | Oh. |
| Chris: | I really like those bottles. |
| Dan: | Where have you been? |
| Mark: | I would assume sherry, but I can’t- |
| Chris: | No, this is exclusively in American bourbon barrels. |
| Mark: | Oh, okay. |
| Chris: | This one is. |
| Dan: | Wow. Really? |
| Chris: | Yeah. At least that’s what it… |
| Dan: | Yeah, no, I expected the sweetness off of it to not be there at all. |
| Chris: | So this is what they get on the nose. So everybody’s tooken a sip, right, and smelled it? |
| Dan: | Yep, |
| Mark: | Taken. |
| Chris: | Okay, so this is what they- |
| Mark: | Taken. |
| Chris: | Taken. |
| Dan: | Did you tooken it? You said tooken? |
| Chris: | Did I say tooken? |
| Mark: | You did. |
| Chris: | Oh my gosh, I’m sorry. Everybody tooken a drink yet? |
| Dan: | Oh yeah, I seen it the other day. |
| Chris: | Saw, I’m sawing it. I sawn it. Elegant aromas of vanilla and toasted oak compliments by a touch of lime, succulent green berries, pears and green sweet pepper on the nose. Yep. I get over that. I get all of that. Every single little bit of what they just said. |
| Mark: | Not a thing. |
| Chris: | No, I get the lime. That’s what kind of threw me off at the first, taste-wise, light pepper, fresh citrus, limes, mandarin oranges, hint of cinnamon with vanilla. |
| Mark: | Cinnamonamon. |
| Chris: | Cinnamon. Oh that’s great. That is light and flavorful. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Man. |
| Mark: | Now if Dan would allow me to finish what I was saying. What pisses me off about Middleton is until 2018, 2019, it was just Middleton. Then they said, “Wow, how do we sell more of this $500 a bottle Irish whiskey? |
| Dan: | Make it less expensive? |
| Mark: | So they put a, what do they call that? A vintage statement on each bottle. So every year, well this is the 2022 Middleton, and this is the 2023. Well at 500 bucks a bottle, we really don’t sell a bottle a year. So suddenly now I’ve got six bottles half full. |
| Dan: | But it’s really good stuff. This is 18 an ounce, 35 for a full pour. Although this Barry Crockett legacy won’t be available at the Whiskey Tasting. You can drink it after the Whiskey Tasting, there will be a Middleton available and it is the 2022. What’s that last word? |
| Chris: | Very rare. |
| Dan: | What’s it say on the board? |
| Chris: | Release. |
| Dan: | Release, 2022 release. |
| Mark: | Damn, that is good. |
| Dan: | That’ll be coming up this Wednesday, $55. Chris, do you want to go or you want me to go? |
| Chris: | Let’s just do this one first. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Chris: | Before we get into this other stuff. |
| Dan: | Do you want to pour or do you want me to keep trying to get better at it? |
| Chris: | I mean you’re a bartender. I guess, yeah. |
| Mark: | Well… |
| Dan: | Oh yeah, by the way, I got to have this Sunday off. |
| Mark: | We had this discussion yesterday. |
High West – Cask Collection
| Dan: | It’s my annual trip to the World of Wheels car show where I would rather be sitting at the pub working, but I’ll be interviewing 35 drivers over two days. It’s freaking exhausting. All right, Chris, tell us what we got here. |
| Chris: | High West. Clay, this is a gift to the pub. |
| Mark: | Bill. |
| Chris: | So this is a corn release. |
| Mark: | Stop for a minute. This is a gift from Bill the accountant, who is not my accountant anymore because he retired, which is bullshit. |
| Chris: | So this one is a corn select. So a coalition of retailers of Nebraska got together and they usually do releases between all of them a few times a year and they must’ve gotten together and tasted a bunch of different High West barrels and they came up with this one. This one is a blend of straight whiskies finished in Sauvignon Blanc barrels. I don’t think that we’ve tried one with a Sauvignon barrels. No, I think it’s going to be very interesting in a good way. |
| Mark: | What’s the proof on it? |
| Chris: | The proof is somewhere on this bottle. |
| Mark: | It’s got to be on the front label by law. |
| Chris: | It’s 50-something. Here’s the deal, you can’t even see it, Dan, back me up. You can’t even, try looking that in the light. You can’t even hardly… |
| Dan: | Oh yeah, it’s like embossed rather than any ink. That doesn’t even help. |
| Chris: | 50-something. |
| Dan: | High West cask collection. |
| Mark: | The only reason I asked is usual when something is called cask it’s higher proof. |
| Dan: | It doesn’t, it’s not tickling my nose like it’s super, super high proof. But I’m interested because this Sauvignon Blanc, right? That’s grapefruit, citrus acidity. Is that going to come with this? |
| Bill: | I think it’s good. |
| Chris: | Oh, it’s super soft. |
| Mark: | It’s definitely bourbon. |
| Bill: | That is good. Actually it is really good. |
| Dan: | Oh yeah, it’s just the lettering just got rubbed off. I think it’s 59? |
| Chris: | Wow. I don’t get 59% at all. |
| Dan: | 50, sorry. |
| Mark: | I get all the citrus on the finish. |
| Chris: | Yep, I do. My mouth is watering. |
| Mark: | Not much on palette but on the finish it lingers with a… Which grapefruit is sweeter? Pink or- |
| Chris: | Pink. |
| Mark: | So that would be what is it, kind of a sweet grapefruit flavor. |
| Chris: | That’s really nice. I really like that. I bet it’s California Sauvignon though. Barrels. |
| Mark: | Bill, I got to tell you, that is really good whiskey. |
| Chris: | It is really good whiskey. |
| Mark: | I could get in trouble with that at 110 proof. |
| Chris: | Absolutely. I was not- |
| Mark: | It wasn’t hot, it wasn’t burning. |
| Chris: | I didn’t get any burn at all. |
| Mark: | The finish is so nice. |
| Bill: | I thought it was good. |
| Dan: | It’s good stuff. |
| Chris: | Utah whisky, that Mormon whiskey. |
G&W – Straight
| Dan: | It was High West Cask Collection. All right, moving on Chris. |
| Chris: | I couldn’t find anything about this whiskey, so it makes me wonder if this is just like a G&W straight, and listen guys, I didn’t look at, I just did a throw my finger up in the air and this is what we’re going to go with and that’s where it’s hit. So this one doesn’t even have an amount, so I don’t know anything. Literally I cannot find anything about this. I cannot find this label. |
| Mark: | Okay. |
| Chris: | Let’s try it. |
| Mark: | Just so you know. Cheap. |
| Chris: | Okay. All right. Fair. |
| Mark: | Value pricing. |
| Chris: | Okay. All right. All right, GNW, so I want to read the back because they don’t have anything about, this is aged. It’s five years. It’s aged in something. |
| Mark: | No. |
| Chris: | There’s none of that. Get wise, get G&W. It’s good whisky. |
| Dan: | Oh My God. |
| Chris: | Eliminate the guess work. |
| Dan: | Is guess in quotes, air quotes? |
| Chris: | No. But it is bolded out. |
| Dan: | Oh. |
| Chris: | When it comes to picking out your next bottle of bourbon, indulge in the Kentucky passion with G&w bourbon. Experience the allure in essence of this fine 86 proof whiskey, whether it’s sipped neat or mixed in a cocktail. It goes well with any occasion, no matter the company. Dude. So let’s try it. I don’t know. |
| Dan: | I already did it twice. |
| Bill: | Chris, did you bring this? |
| Chris: | I did not bring it. This is way over there. It was way in the corner. |
| Mark: | Well, the reason we have it is because the last bottle sold. |
| Chris: | All right. |
| Dan: | Is it not in the system? |
| Chris: | I don’t know. |
| Mark: | How would Chris know what there’s in the system or not? |
| Chris: | Yes, it’s in the system because it’s on the shelf. |
| Mark: | I’m going to guess nine, eight for a full pour. Two and a quarter ounces. |
| Chris: | Yes. |
| Dan: | Oh, found it. |
| Chris: | Nice. |
| Dan: | Seven. |
| Chris: | All right. Good work. Seven a full pour. This would probably be really good with Coca-Cola. I mean there’s nothing wrong with this. It’s not hot, it’s not as stringent. It is just whiskey. |
| Dan: | Yep. |
| Chris: | Right. This could be barrel whiskey. This could be like, I mean… |
| Mark: | There is absolutely nothing worth remarking about. |
| Chris: | Nothing bad either. |
| Mark: | No. |
| Chris: | It’s good whiskey. See what I did? See what I did there? |
| Mark: | CW. |
| Dan: | For $7 a pour, I’ll fucking drink this all day. |
| Mark: | I know, right? |
| Dan: | All right. |
| Chris: | It’s a five-year private stock barrel. According to our computer, it’s from a G&W Distillers out of Scobeyville, New Jersey. Scooby, Scooby Doo. All right. |
| Dan: | Wow. Good pick. Chris. |
| Chris: | I guess, I guess. |
| Mark: | I want to visit Scobeyville, New Jersey, just because it’s named Scooby-Ville. |
World Whiskey Society – Contour Collection 6 Years
| Chris: | Yeah, it’s got to Scooby-Ville. I think we might have the same issue with this whiskey as well. This is a World Whiskey Society Contour collection aged six years, single barrel finished in Oloroso barrels. I need to probably look up some more, but I’m sure this is probably just a selection from the World Whiskey Society. Yeah, let’s try it. We didn’t even get the |
| Mark: | WWS is usually pretty good whiskey. |
| Chris: | It’s not expensive. It’s nine. It looks pretty fancy. Yeah, it does. Let me look up some stuff here real quick. The |
| Dan: | Contour collection. This looks like the cover of the next Dune movie. |
| Bill: | Dune part |
| Dan: | Three. Yeah. Which by the way, Dune did not collect any Oscars last night. |
| Chris: | Ridiculous, stupid, |
| Dan: | Ridiculous. Disappointed. |
| Chris: | I forgot that the Oscars were even on last night. |
| Dan: | I only know because it was on the taps by mistake. World Whiskey Society Contour. Wait, |
| Chris: | It’s culture is that culture. |
| Dan: | I can’t read cursive. That’s culture. Well, it’s not contour either. There’s no |
| Chris: | End. |
| Dan: | We |
| Chris: | Are dumb. You’re dumb. |
| Dan: | C-O-U-T-U-R-E. |
| Mark: | Not good. |
| Dan: | Okay, first off, I’m off that it’s pretentiousness. Okay. Yeah. |
| Mark: | I would much rather drink the GNW. |
| Chris: | Here we go. Let’s see here. It’s a corn whiskey corn made out of corn whiskey. |
| Mark: | Well, all bourbon is made out of corn. |
| Chris: | Well, world Whiskey society was established in 2020 according to the company’s websites. Comprises an ultra premium collection of rare expressions previously unavailable to even the most sophisticated whiskey enthusiasts. |
| Mark: | That is not very good. |
| Dan: | It’s fine. Nine bucks. I’m not mad. |
| Mark: | I’d rather pay seven for the GNW. |
| Chris: | I think I’m with you on that too. I’m actually with you on that as well. This has got this. No, no mark’s no on that one. Goes over to you. Yeah, it’s got a funk on the nose too. |
| Mark: | Yeah, the nose is weird. The palate is |
| Chris: | Unpleasant. Oh, it lets you know that you’re drinking whiskey too. When it’s in your mouth, |
| Dan: | It lets you know you’re drinking |
| Chris: | Whiskey. |
| Dan: | Oh, come on. I’m changing my mind on the one I’m doing. |
| Chris: | The muff. |
| Dan: | Yeah, but it’s a peated whiskey. |
| Chris: | Oh boy. Why would you do that to us? Let’s not do that one. |
| Dan: | I didn’t realize, I didn’t. I put it away. I’m not doing it. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it’s got some spice on the mouth. |
| Mark: | Yeah. You definitely need some water afterwards. |
| Dan: | Interesting. So this is called Lost Irish. Triple distilled Irish whiskey. Our whiskey is worldly aged in casks from six continents. Cool. We celebrate all three styles of Irish whiskey while enjoying wandering the Irish spirits born in Ireland, lost in the world. So this is aged in South African Brandy casks, Japanese Mizunara oak, sherry casks, US bourbon cask. |
| Mark: | Let’s get this in our belly. |
| Dan: | Caribbean rum casks. Australian tawny casks, and Colombian rum casks. |
| Chris: | I just want to say with this bottle shape and everything the way it looks, like this is a bottle that I would expect to wash up in the ocean. I want to pour the cork off too with my mouth and just start pouring it out. I feel like this is going to taste different every single time you drink it. It’s just going to depend on what you’ve eaten that day, what you’ve drank, that’s aged in so many different things. |
| Dan: | I can’t say enough. The bottle is just intriguing me. It’s a green bottle, embossed labeling with painting on the embossed part of the words. |
| Chris: | Can I see the bottle when you get done? |
| Dan: | Orange label. I love green and orange contrast. |
| Chris: | It doesn’t say anywhere how long it’s aged in these things right? |
| Dan: | Okay. For as many casks as it sits in. |
| Chris: | I want to let you guys try it before I… |
| Dan: | Well, that’s what I was wondering is how much time, because look how light that is color-wise. |
| Mark: | I like that. |
| Dan: | I’m sorry. |
| Mark: | I like that |
| Chris: | You like it. |
| Dan: | I expect more flavor out of it. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Like I said though, I think it’s what we’ve been drinking before that, I really do feel like this one is going to taste different every single time depending on what you’ve had or your day, how your day’s going. This is nice. |
| Mark: | I like that a lot. |
| Chris: | This’ll probably get me into trouble. |
| Dan: | It’s a great bottle though. |
| Chris: | This is a great bottle. |
| Mark: | Dan. |
| Chris: | I do like green bottles. |
| Mark: | I think the problem you’re having after reading all those different casks is you think there should be flavor from each one. I think the problem, not the problem. I think that combination works off of each other so you don’t really taste any one of the casks. |
| Chris: | It’s Bourbon. That’s the bourbon side. |
| Mark: | Does that make sense? |
| Chris: | Yeah, yeah. Yes. Yep. |
| Mark: | It’s kind of like eating Indian food. Okay. There’s a hundred spices in there that come to one flavor and you don’t taste all this single |
| Chris: | One. Yeah. I’d be curious how it sits and how old is this? Does this say how old it is? |
| Dan: | I couldn’t find anything on age. |
| Chris: | That’d be cool if they’re like satin brandy for a year. Then moved to Mizunura Oak, then sherry. |
| Mark: | I’m sure with that many casks they age it separately. |
| Chris: | Yeah. And then blend it? |
| Dan: | Oh, and then blend it? |
| Mark: | And then mix it together. |
| Chris: | Oh, I see. Taking it from not going from barrel, starting it. Okay. That would make a hell of a lot more sense. |
| Dan: | And it looks like this is their only whiskey. Their website only has this one bottle. I’m not offended by this at all. I would drink it, especially for eight bucks a pour. I think it’s pretty damn good. I know what you were saying. Just with it being aged, whatever that means in so many different casks. I kind of expected a little more complexity out of it, but I’m not offended by it. |
| Chris: | Super dry. It dried my mouth out like crazy. Anybody else? |
| Mark: | I think that’s good. |
| Chris: | Yeah, I have no, that’s super light and flavorful for me. That’s as good, and eight bucks. Okay, let’s throw some signs up. Let’s get lost on some lost Irish whiskey. |
| Dan: | Yeah, that’s a fun bottle. I would just, even after the bottle was empty, I’d probably keep that bottle just because I think it looks cool in a collection. |
| Chris: | You look cool in a collection Dan. |
| Dan: | Thanks man. |
| Chris: | You’re welcome. |
| Dan: | Thank you. So that was the lost Irish. Once again, three different aging techniques, or sorry, three different styles. Grains for sweetness, malt for fruitness and pot still for creaminess and spice, and then it’s aged in six different barrels from around, sorry, six different continents. Seven different types of barrels actually, because they use two in the United States, and it’s $8 a pour available at the Library Pub. What’s next? |
| Mark: | I don’t know. You tell us. |
| Dan: | Well, I’ve been kind of trying to work on a top 10 list but without the assistance of Matt here to kind of distract you guys every once in a while. Haven’t done a very good job. |
Redbreast – 15 Year Old
| Mark: | I was thinking another whiskey. |
| Dan: | If you want to do another whiskey, it’s your booze. It gives me time to work on the top 10 list a little bit more. I think I’ve landed on a category I want do. |
| Mark: | Redbreast 15. |
| Chris: | This smells so fantastic. |
| Mark: | And now I’m getting just a little of their new sip in there. How further out? |
| Dan: | I poured too much into the first one. Then I tried to split it into three. |
| Mark: | There you go. |
| Chris: | I know Redbreast is good. I’m glad we waited because I’m probably just going sit on this and nose it for a while because it’s… |
| Mark: | Pour Bill a little. |
| Bill: | You like this? |
| Chris: | Yeah, yeah. |
| Mark: | This is really good. |
| Dan: | Is that a little enough? |
| Mark: | For me or for- |
| Dan: | Bill, is that enough? |
| Bill: | That’s fine. |
| Dan: | Okay. I’m not trying to be a smart ass. |
| Mark: | You were being a smart ass. |
| Dan: | I really wasn’t. |
| Bill: | You’re trying hard. |
| Dan: | I don’t have to try very hard. Mark, you want to tell us about Redbreast 15? |
| Mark: | No. |
| Chris: | It’s exceptional Irish whiskey. There is many different SKUs of that you probably can’t go wrong with any Irish whiskey. |
| Bill: | Boy, Great nose. |
| Chris: | It’s fantastic. This is… Yeah. |
| Mark: | And that is the 15 and we’re drinking the 21 for the tasting. That is so pleasant. |
| Chris: | It has everything that you’re looking for with whiskey. I don’t know how you can be a Canadian drinker and you don’t easily transfer over to Irish whiskeys because the sweetness factor is just, there’s nothing that you need to do to this. There’s nothing. |
| Mark: | It needs no water. It needs no ice. It’s perfect. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I would have a couple pours of that and then I would go back for my third pour and I would pour way entirely too much. That’s where I think I would be. And I would drink it and I would be in a very rough shape. |
| Chris: | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| Dan: | I could see myself doing that also. |
| Chris: | There’s no unpleasant qualities about this whiskey at all. It even has a nice little methane. Not methane. Not methane. Hell yeah, maybe. Methanol. |
| Dan: | Methanol. |
| Chris: | Methanol. When you inhale a little bit, it kind of brightens your… anyway, I don’t know how to describe what I’m saying. |
| Mark: | Damn, that’s good. |
| Chris: | Yeah, that was really, really good. What do we got for this top 10? |
| Dan: | Not real happy with it. |
| Chris: | Okay. |
| Dan: | But we’re going to go with it. Because I mean why not? Top 10 most influential companies, and I’m going of our time because it’s going to be tough to compare Rockefeller Steel with Amazon. |
| Mark: | Rockefeller did not do steel. Carnegie did. |
| Dan: | No, Rockefeller was the railroads. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | Carnegie and J.P. Morgan and some incredibly rich guys that I believe compared to modern times were broke. |
| Chris: | They’re probably billionaires if it transferred to our time. I’m sure. All right, lets go. I’m going to hate every bit of this. |
| Dan: | Top 10 most influential companies of our time. Our time is going to be very subjective. We’re going to start off with the toughest I think. Apple. |
| Mark: | Three. |
| Chris: | Yeah, three, easy. |
| Dan: | Apple probably influenced a large majority of our technology. |
| Chris: | It’s pretty crazy. |
| Dan: | And culture. And culture. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it’s true. |
| Dan: | To me as a Google guy, Apple was a good computer company, but they were really good at branding themselves with a culture and it made them cool. |
| Mark: | Did you know that Apple put out a line of clothing? |
| Chris: | I did not know that. That’s crazy. |
| Mark: | It didn’t go over very well nor last very long. |
| Dan: | I can’t imagine. |
| Chris: | I wouldn’t buy clothing from a tech place anyway. Apple’s interesting man. They’re an interesting company as far as they’re putting so much money in the United States right now. |
| Dan: | Really? |
| Chris: | Yeah. They’ve pledged something like, I don’t know, 400, 500 billion over the next four years and they’ve moved a bunch of their factories here. Factory just went online in Dallas. It’s weird. |
| Mark: | What’s being built up here? |
| Chris: | Is it Google? It’s another Google data center. Apple though, man, I just, you’re right. The culture and everything and the fact that it wasn’t gaming too. Video games, like what a big industry video games is. Dan, you know this, but they did not even go into video games If you bought a Mac, there was no video games for it. It was all PC games, so that’s pretty crazy. I hated that about them because I’m a Mac guy. They’re super easy to use. Anyway, continue. Sorry. |
| Dan: | Next one. Netflix. This company in its original incarnation was a mail-by-DVD service that put the rental business out of business. You can easily say that they’re the reason why Blockbuster, Hollywood Video… |
| Chris: | They are. |
| Dan: | They’re no longer around. Then Netflix turned around and created another entire industry in the streaming world. If they’re not the ones that are credited with creating it, they’re definitely the ones that popularized it. |
| Mark: | Eight. |
| Chris: | Okay. I want an explanation behind your number because I’m going to say like two or four. |
| Mark: | Because I can turn on my TV. He said current. |
| Chris: | Correct. |
| Mark: | I can turn on my TV and there’s 12 streaming services. |
| Chris: | Yeah, but they were the first. |
| Dan: | They wouldn’t be there if it wasn’t for them. |
| Mark: | Okay, fine then let’s pick Ford. |
| Chris: | All right, good. |
| Dan: | Don’t jump ahead. |
| Chris: | All right. Wow. |
| Dan: | Let’s focus on Netflix. |
| Chris: | All right, well if that’s, wow. Man. |
| Mark: | All I’m saying with Netflix is yes they’re the first streaming service, but it actually to me was not that innovative once you got smart TVs. |
| Dan: | All right, I know you get irritated when I do this, but would you have smart TVs if it wasn’t for Netflix and streaming services? |
| Mark: | Say that- |
| Chris: | I don’t have a dog in this fight. |
| Mark: | Say it again. |
| Dan: | Would you have smart TVs if it wasn’t for Netflix and streaming services. |
| Mark: | End it. |
| Dan: | Yes, because Netflix created the genre. They created it. |
| Mark: | Ford. |
| Dan: | Okay, that’s next. We’ll talk about Ford and the automotive industry next, but right now we’re talking about Netflix and streaming. |
| Mark: | I just think that- |
| Chris: | It’s got to be top five. |
| Mark: | No, I just think that streaming was inevitable. |
| Chris: | Is this going to be our first veto? Because we can’t agree. How many do you have? Just so you know, how many vetoes we get this week? |
| Dan: | 12, I think. |
| Chris: | Okay, we get two vetoes. And we can’t, can we throw in a caveat we don’t want, can we skip it and come back to it? Can we do a one skip? How about when Matt comes back, we add a skip. |
| Dan: | No, we can do it now. You know, how about this? We bounce it for three, I’ll do three more companies, and then you guys have to come back and decide on Netflix. |
| Chris: | How do you feel about that? |
| Mark: | Okay. |
| Chris: | Okay. All right. |
| Dan: | Well, since Mark already ruined it, Ford. |
| Mark: | Are we talking… |
| Chris: | Most influential in our lifetime, right? Is that what the title is? |
| Dan: | I’m going to submit this as my argument. |
| Chris: | His lifetime is a lot longer than- |
| Dan: | If it was not for Henry Ford, who by the way was a bigger piece of shit than Elon Musk is turning out to be. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | If it was not for Henry Ford, we may never have gotten the affordable automobile. |
| Mark: | I agree, but you have to give me a timeframe. |
| Dan: | Well, I said modern era, so I would actually argue that Ford is probably slipping into the lower part of that because they haven’t really revolutionized anything. |
| Chris: | What’s modern era? Last 50 years? |
| Dan: | I would, yeah, I mean modern era between this panel is a long time. |
| Chris: | It’s 50 years. |
| Dan: | I didn’t say that. |
| Chris: | Well, I mean 50 years goes back to what, 1970s? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | So I would put them at the bottom of the top 10 at best. Now if you wanted to go 120 years, I give them a two. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Yeah. They’ve really been super innovative. |
| Mark: | I read this some place. Ford, Henry was sourcing some part, don’t remember what the part was, but he went to the company and said, “You have to ship to us in this box.” And the box had certain holes in it and was a certain size. And when it got there, they took apart the box and it became the floorboard of the model T. |
| Chris: | Wow. That’s brilliant. |
| Mark: | He was an anti-Semitic Nazi asshole. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Horrible to his kids. Horrible to his employees. Set equal rights back a long time. But anyways, Mark, I would agree with you. I would say probably eight or nine if we’re judging it based on the last 50 years. |
| Chris: | Yeah, yeah, Last 50 years. |
| Mark: | No, I would say with what’s coming up, I’d drop it to 10. |
| Dan: | All right. |
| Chris: | Dude, I’m right there with you at 10. |
| Dan: | 10? |
| Chris: | Unless you got like, never mind I’m not going to guess what’s coming up. |
| Dan: | I fucking hate this. But it’s going to make for a good discussion. Pfizer. |
| Chris: | Oh fuck you. I knew a pharmaceutical company was going to be on this and I fucking hate them dude. |
| Dan: | Whether you like it or not, Pfizer has had- |
| Chris: | Nine. Nine. |
| Dan: | … a Major impact, albeit mostly probably negative. |
| Chris: | Nine. Nine. Nine. |
| Dan: | You want to talk about fueling epidemics, mass murder, government payoffs. |
| Chris: | Nine. |
| Dan: | Improper business practices. Pfizer’s got it all. |
| Chris: | Nine. |
| Dan: | And they’re not a sponsor of this podcast. If they want to be… |
| Chris: | Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Hold on. |
| Dan: | And we’ll take their money. |
| Chris: | One. I’m just kidding. I’m still at a nine. |
| Dan: | Cialis would totally be a sponsor of this podcast. “Got whiskey dick?” |
| Mark: | I have to be honest, I don’t know enough about Pfizer to rank them. |
| Chris: | Were they the ones that came up with one million kids and growing? I mean that was Flintstone vitamins. |
| Dan: | Yeah, that was the Flintstone’s vitamins. Let’s see. Come on. Pfizer product listing. |
| Chris: | Oh my god, dude. Yeah. Come on. |
| Dan: | I mean let’s go top Pfizer, Pfizer Top 10 products. Jesus. COVID-19 vaccine generated 11 billion in revenue for them. |
| Mark: | Totally uneeded. |
| Dan: | ELIQUIS generated six and a half billion dollars for them. Prevnar, this was a bad idea because nobody’s going to know any of these. |
| Chris: | Nine. |
| Mark: | Throw them off the list. |
| Chris: | Oh yeah. I don’t want ’em on the list. |
| Dan: | Nine of their top 10 products generated over a billion dollars. Several of them, multiple billion dollars. Their 10th best product generated 928 million. By the way, that’s just in 2023. Just in one year. |
| Mark: | Veto. |
| Chris: | Veto. |
| Dan: | All right. Vetoed. Gone. Nike. |
| Mark: | Oh my God. I’ve got to put Nike at number four. |
| Chris: | I’m right there with you. I was going to say in the top five, listen to everything that they’ve done. They are a shitbag company. |
| Dan: | Yeah, they are. |
| Mark: | They are. But they created the whole tennis shoe thing. |
| Dan: | God. Are they the ones that created the false fad? |
| Chris: | False fad. |
| Dan: | That we currently have to deal with bourbon? Jordan releases a shoe and they say we’re only producing a thousand of these shoes and they’re $500 apiece. Well, they could easily create 20,000 of those shoes, sell more of them, but they can’t charge $500 for the shoe. So they create, it’s when Crown Royal comes out with each flavor. |
| Chris: | I don’t know if they were first to do that. |
| Mark: | I give them number four or five. Not because of their shit, but the fact that they started branded athletic wear. Before Nike, there was no $5 tennis shoes and $200 sweatpants. |
| Dan: | Yeah, four or five. |
| Chris: | I’m cool with four. |
| Mark: | Four. |
| Dan: | Nike is at four. |
| Chris: | If you guys ever watched that Air Up There or whatever it’s called. |
| Dan: | Is that the one where they’re fighting to sign Jordan? |
| Chris: | Yeah. It’s a great movie. |
| Dan: | It’s really good. Really good. |
| Chris: | And their history about it was literally just a few dudes. So I mean Jordan did take that company to another- |
| Mark: | Now they are abusing little kids in Thailand. |
| Dan: | Yes, yes. Also, they can sell exclusive $500 shoes. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | But they’re doing it to save money. |
| Mark: | And I wear Sketchers. |
| Chris: | Again. Why are they using kids when midgets [inaudible 00:54:35]. They got small hands too. |
| Dan: | I know. They don’t know any better. All right. Amazon. |
| Mark: | Ooh. |
| Dan: | Started out as an online book retailer, probably put bookstores out of business, and then brilliantly shifted to online everything. |
| Chris: | That one’s like two. |
| Mark: | I would give it two or three. |
| Chris: | And you know what? Of the billionaires, I thought Bezos was going to be the one that was going to stick his nose into fucking everything. I didn’t think it was going to be Bill Gates or Elon or, but nope. You don’t hear fucking two words out of Lex Luthor. |
| Dan: | Bezos just… Lazy Eye Luthor. Which by the way, we haven’t even talked about Gene Hackman, but… |
| Mark: | Makes his billions and shuts up. What I find amazing, it’s off to Britain now, is Elon Musk is costing himself billions and billions of dollars. What has his stock done since he turned into this Nazi asshole? |
| Dan: | It’s still not cheap. |
| Mark: | Right. But how far, how much- |
| Chris: | It’s dropped a lot. |
| Dan: | Oh, come on. It’s $300. It’s $300 a share. |
| Chris: | Wasn’t it like 600? |
| Dan: | It was $392 as of February 4th. So it’s dropped about a hundred bucks a share. |
| Chris: | I mean, that’s a good business. |
| Mark: | I read an article by- |
| Dan: | In the last six months. It’s up 85%. |
| Chris: | It’s up? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Because I’m showing… |
| Mark: | It went up before Trump got sworn in. |
| Dan: | Are you on six months? |
| Chris: | Six months? Year-to-date, actually. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | So this would’ve been January 18th, 2025 it peaked out at 530. |
| Mark: | Anyway, a guy was unhappy with his Cyber truck, tried to go trade it in at Tesla and they said, “Sorry, we’re not taking them as trade-ins.” |
| Chris: | Whoops. |
| Mark: | What? |
| Dan: | Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Is there a law that says they have to take them? |
| Mark: | No. |
| Chris: | Come on Dan. I don’t know. Well, could he go to H&H? I think they’d probably give him a pretty good trade-in. |
| Dan: | Technically, maybe not, because there’s a clause in their contract. They’re not able to sell that truck for a year after buying it. Because they didn’t want people buying it at a hundred thousand, and then while inventory was low, reselling it for 150, which people were trying to do and Tesla prosecuted them. |
| Chris: | Wow. |
| Mark: | I’m sorry, I brought Tesla in, we had the world’s biggest Tesla apologist here. |
| Dan: | Where are we at? Amazon? |
| Chris: | What was it? Two? I’d say two. I feel like there’s going to be a bigger one that we’re just not thinking of that we’re going to put it one. |
| Mark: | I go two or three. |
| Dan: | You’ve already got three. Apple’s at three. |
| Mark: | Two. |
| Dan: | Two. Okay. Back to Netflix. |
| Mark: | I’m still sitting on like seven. |
| Chris: | I’ll go with seven. I will compromise with seven. That’s a good one. I mean we would’ve- |
| Dan: | Don’t look at my list. |
| Chris: | I’m not, I’m just looking at the, I’m not, I really am trying, not trying to look at that. |
| Dan: | All right. |
| Chris: | Yeah, I would’ve been wrong. I like the ones that we’ve, the three. |
| Dan: | Facebook. |
| Mark: | Well, the problem with Facebook is five years ago, number two. Today, number eight. |
| Chris: | I was going to say six. |
| Dan: | I think they’re still high because again, they, within our modern-era window of the last 50 years, they popularized social media. |
| Chris: | Did they though? |
| Dan: | Myspace took it to a certain level and then as soon as Facebook came around, Myspace was done. |
| Chris: | Now Myspace could have fought, but Tom was like, “Nope, I’m taking the 500 million and I’m peacing out.” |
| Dan: | By the way, it’s still on. You can still create a MySpace profile and do your- |
| Chris: | And your stuff is still there. |
| Dan: | Yeah. No, mine’s deleted. |
| Chris: | Oh. |
| Dan: | I made sure to delete my account. |
| Chris: | I’ll do like a five or six for that one. Six. |
| Mark: | Seven. |
| Chris: | Seven’s taken, isn’t it? |
| Dan: | Seven is taken by Netflix. |
| Mark: | Okay. Six. But that’s high. |
| Chris: | Hold on. I do feel like Netflix is bigger than Facebook. So maybe we should go to eight for Facebook. |
| Mark: | Okay. |
| Chris: | Eight for Facebook. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Chris: | That’s final, final answer. |
| Dan: | McDonald’s. |
| Chris: | Fuck. I mean, to get a franchise, just one building. What is it, something like, do you have to have like $20 million or something like that? It’s ridiculous. That’s probably way an exaggeration. But it’s in the millions. |
| Dan: | And it probably still turns a profit. |
| Chris: | 100% does. And they can show you. |
| Dan: | That’s the reason why they’re able to charge it, is that you can make that money back in three to five years. |
| Mark: | I’m going to go back to the Ford thing. Okay. McDonald’s in the last 50 years really hasn’t done much. |
| Chris: | Created the value menu. |
| Mark: | The value menu was around 50 years ago. |
| Dan: | Probably. |
| Mark: | I was. I know. |
| Dan: | I didn’t say it. |
| Mark: | What I’m saying is if you give it a hundred years, yes, because I moved them way up. McDonald’s created fast food, but in the last 40 or 50 years. |
| Chris: | They can’t even fix their freakin ice-cream machines. |
| Dan: | Here’s the thing. Well that’s funny. Because if you watch the founder, the guy who made McDonald’s what it is, sold ice cream machines. |
| Chris: | That is funny. |
| Dan: | Have you ever watched it? I thought you were the one that recommended it to me. |
| Chris: | I haven’t watched that. |
| Dan: | It’s really good. Michael Keaton plays the guy who took the McDonald’s idea, franchised it, built it into a large thing. |
| Chris: | McDowell’s. |
| Dan: | Great. |
| Mark: | Again, I think unless you… |
| Dan: | I think you’re right, Mark. Although it continues to have a massive influence on us because look at how fat and unhealthy we are, thanks to what McDonald’s started and continues to do. |
| Chris: | It just gets so much smaller. |
| Mark: | But it’s not just McDonald’s. |
| Dan: | You’re right. You’re right. |
| Mark: | What is the highest number you have left? |
| Dan: | Nine. |
| Mark: | There you go. |
| Chris: | All right, let’s sit at nine. |
| Dan: | Disney. |
| Chris: | I mean that’s, in the last 50 years? They created, Disney’s up there for me. Disney has to be like… |
| Dan: | I think on this list, they’re the only ones that if you expand it out to a hundred, they would still have the same impact on our society. Like you’ve talked about with several of them. |
| Chris: | I don’t know man. |
| Dan: | They had their impact and then they continue to be massive today, but they really haven’t done anything. They haven’t continued to renovate. |
| Chris: | Star Wars. |
| Dan: | Well, they didn’t create it. They just bought it. |
| Chris: | They didn’t create it, but they created everything that we now are getting… |
| Mark: | What do we have available mid-pack? |
| Dan: | Five and six. |
| Mark: | I’d give it a five or six. |
| Chris: | Yeah five is cool with me. |
| Dan: | Google. |
| Mark: | Oh. |
| Chris: | Probably number one. |
| Mark: | I would think one or two. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | We should all love our Google. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Or should we… |
| Mark: | When the name of your company becomes a noun. |
| Dan: | Yeah, you Googled it. |
| Mark: | And a verb at the same time. |
| Chris: | I go with one. |
| Dan: | Mark? |
| Mark: | One or two, I don’t care. |
| Dan: | And your last one. Well, you can veto two of these. You’ve got three options left. Walmart. And your number is six. |
| Chris: | I feel like that’s a fair number for Walmart. I mean they didn’t create that genre. There were K-Marts. There were Service Merchandises. |
| Dan: | I feel like they were the first ones that really did grocery and- |
| Chris: | Yeah, maybe. |
| Dan: | Shopping. |
| Bill: | They’re the biggest retailer in the world. |
| Chris: | They are the biggest retailer in the world. |
| Dan: | Yeah, I can’t think of anything. A lot of other places where you either went and bought your whatever, fishing gear, entertainment stuff and then you had to go to another store to get your groceries. But Walmart was everything. You can literally go and buy wood. |
| Chris: | Five, five or six. |
| Dan: | Six, six. |
| Chris: | Absolutely. |
| Mark: | I’m good with that. |
| Dan: | Six? |
| Chris: | Since we got three left, can we hold and see or does that only one time? You know how we held for three? |
| Dan: | Let’s do this. I’ll list off the last two and you tell me if you want to kick any of them out. |
| Chris: | All right. |
| Dan: | You can retro veto. Microsoft. |
| Chris: | Fuck. I mean you wouldn’t have Google if you didn’t have Microsoft. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | I think Microsoft belongs in the top five. |
| Dan: | I’m going to say this is the argument for your Ford is that Microsoft definitely innovated in the what? 60s, 70s, into 80s. Well, I would say actually it’s probably be 80s. |
| Chris: | Probably 80s. Yeah. |
| Dan: | But what have they done lately? Every other tech company out there does it so much better. And I say to myself and to other people, at least once a week. For as long as they have fucking been doing email, why can they not get it right? Outlook is the shittiest email service out there. And everybody uses it and I fucking hate it. I really, I mean, I lose sleep at night how bad, I talked to you yesterday. I spent two weeks up here trying to get you signed into your OneDrive account so I could back your computer up. I’m a tech guy, I can figure this stuff out. |
| Mark: | And by the way, you backed my stuff up back to my own computer. |
| Dan: | Yeah, well to the cloud also. It saves on your computer, but then it also saves on the cloud. |
| Mark: | So now I have two copies of everything. |
| Dan: | Well, at least you got, it’s better having none. Microsoft. |
| Bill: | They at least added video games. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Okay. They had the Xbox. |
| Bill: | And computer. |
| Dan: | And computer games. |
| Bill: | [inaudible 01:06:02] more than anybody else. |
| Dan: | Kevin submitted video games. That’s- |
| Chris: | They are video games savers. |
| Mark: | Who is- |
| Chris: | Who’s the next one? |
| Mark: | Five, six, and seven. |
| Dan: | Five, six and seven, Disney, Walmart and Netflix. |
| Chris: | What’s the next one though? |
| Dan: | Starbucks. |
| Chris: | Nope. Starbucks can get kicked off. |
| Mark: | Yep. |
| Chris: | So it’s between Microsoft and Google and I, dude, in the last 50 years? |
| Mark: | I would give Microsoft at least a five. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Six. |
| Chris: | Yeah. I would put it over, the fact- |
| Mark: | I would throw off Netflix for all the reasons I gave you and replace it with- |
| Dan: | Microsoft. |
| Mark: | Microsoft. |
| Dan: | I don’t agree with that. I think in the last 50 years, Netflix has had a bigger impact than Microsoft. |
| Bill: | I got two more to add. |
| Dan: | Hang on. |
| Chris: | Yeah, man. I would toss off Ford. I think I’m with you on that. I think I would toss off Ford off that list completely and keep Google and put Google and Microsoft on there. If I’m going to go back and look at this stuff of everything that is on there, McDonald’s I still feel like has a play. Netflix, Facebook. Facebook freaking decided an election. Let’s be real. |
| Dan: | They’ve decided several. |
| Chris: | So yeah, Ford is really the only one. |
| Dan: | Here’s your list right now. Google, Amazon, Apple, Nike. Disney, Walmart, Netflix, Facebook, McDonald’s and Ford. |
| Chris: | And Microsoft’s got to be on there, like high. |
| Mark: | I would drop Walmart down to 10, and put Microsoft in its place. |
| Dan: | I think I would completely agree with that. |
| Chris: | Yeah. I think that’s fair. |
| Dan: | So knock Ford off, put Walmart at 10, and Walmart goes to six. |
| Chris: | Porn. |
| Mark: | I think… |
| Dan: | Okay. Chris did have a really good point, and I’m going to make an argument for this. I said that Netflix created the streaming industry. No, that was actually porn. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | Netflix created the DVD industry, or sorry, porn created the DVD industry. Porn created the VHS industry. Porn created a lot of the health regulations that we have on our- |
| Chris: | Gros. This is gross. |
| Dan: | Porn has absolutely, probably at number one. All right, that’s our list. So Google, Amazon, Apple, Nike. Disney. We put Microsoft at six. Netflix at seven, then Facebook at eight, McDonald’s at nine and Walmart at 10. Vetoed. |
| Bill: | Did I say IBM? |
| Dan: | I didn’t include IBM because I don’t feel like it was really that influential in the last 50 years. |
| Mark: | No, it wasn’t. |
| Dan: | Now they were huge in the 30s, 40s, 50s. |
| Mark: | 40s and 50s and 60s. |
| Dan: | 60s. Probably even into the 70s. But as other computer companies came on board, they really didn’t do anything. |
| Mark: | What I would point out, call me Captain Obvious is realistically this would should be a top 10 of computer shit. |
| Dan: | Well that’s what we’re into today. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Top 10 technology. |
| Dan: | Yeah. That’s what we’re in today. |
| Mark: | Exactly. So throw out the Walmarts and the Fords because they’re all from the mid-1900s. |
| Dan: | And when creating this, I didn’t want to go all computers, but I created it in five minutes. |
| Mark: | Because if you went back 200 years, it would be a way different list because you have US Steel. Ford, AT&T. |
| Chris: | Wells Fargo. |
| Dan: | I don’t know. |
| Chris: | Banking. Banking. I mean, didn’t they revolutionize, anyway, we’re getting off. But yeah. |
| Dan: | It is. |
| Mark: | It is. |
| Dan: | Very much so. All right, that’s going to do it for us today. Thanks everybody for listening. Join us on Wednesday for the great Irish Whiskeys, not named Jamison, featuring Redbreast, Middleton, Knappogue Castle, Teeling. What’s the other one? Writer’s Tears. At least five great Irish whiskeys that I think are honestly going to change your opinion if you have a negative opinion of Irish whiskeys. It’s going on at seven o’clock on Wednesday, $55 a ticket. Get here a little bit early, 6:30, 6:45. Tell the bartender you’re doing a whiskey tasting so they can pour enough glasses and then go and sit in back. Popcorn is free. |
| Mark: | Bye. |
| Dan: | Bye Mark. |
| Chris: | Bye. Adios. |
