Tomatin, Bladnoch, Shenk’s, Bomberger’s, and Michter’s

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Tomatin, Bladnoch, Shenk’s, Bomberger’s, and Michter’s

Dan:Episode 244, the Library Pubcast being recorded in 90th and Fort, in Omaha. I think this is probably the best day of the year so far.
Chris:Yeah, it’s pretty beautiful out. It’s pretty beautiful out.
Matt:Pretty nice.
Chris:Pretty beautiful out. You guys, remember when we were planning a 200 episode?
Matt:Well, we thought we were.
Chris:Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Dan:Remember when we talked about planning it?
Chris:Yeah, it was great, there were so many good ideas and we didn’t do it. What about 250? I want to try again for 250.
Dan:We got six episodes, so.
Matt:We could talk about it for a good eight weeks now.
Dan:We’re on 244. We’ll talk about doing something special for episode 250 for about eight episodes or nine.
Matt:Do something for like 257.
Dan:Yeah, technically we’re a little bit farther ahead because I played a little joke of doing 199.4, 199.7 to buy us a couple extra episodes and it didn’t work.
Matt:No, we just kept talking.
Dan:We went with it. Absolutely gorgeous, nearly 80 degrees on record day, 70 degrees on publication day. And then 74 on Friday and 46 on Saturday.
Matt:Didn’t you guys have a blizzard last week?
Chris:Yeah, we did.
Dan:Yeah. I started, as I was-
Chris:Tuesday.
Dan:What’s that?
Chris:Tuesday.
Dan:Tuesday? As I was editing the podcast Tuesday night as the blizzard was hitting, and I think it started at like-
Chris:5:00 or 6:00.
Dan:5:00 or 6:00. By the time I went down to the basement about 8:30 to edit it, the snow had begun piling up. And I’m listening to the part where Mark and I are talking about how none of it’s going to stick. It’s been too warm. It’s going to rain before. It’s going to rain after. I
Matt:I like to call that Midwest shit talk.
Dan:This is why I didn’t become a weather guy.
Chris:Oh, that’s why?
Dan:That’s why.
Chris:Okay.
Dan:That’s why.
Chris:I don’t know if it was the schooling.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:Do they really go to school?
Chris:Yeah, they do.
Dan:They do.
Matt:You can’t just call yourself a meteorologist and guess?
Dan:Well, these days you can lick my finger.
Matt:Yeah, it’s windy.
Chris:It’s windy, it’s raining.
Dan:Who’s the autistic kid from Canada?
Matt:Oh, shit.
Chris:It’s not Freddie, is it?
Matt:It might be.
Chris:Frankie.
Dan:Frankie, Frankie, Frankie.
Chris:And he’s great, he’s great.
Dan:So I don’t think he’s got a degree.
Matt:Probably not.
Dan:But he’s got a ton of followers.
Matt:He’s got his own action figure.
Dan:Does he really?
Matt:He does.
Dan:Is it a big head.
Matt:Put the gap in his teeth and everything.
Dan:Damn.
Chris:I want to know how much that kid gets from his YouTube streams because-
Dan:Oh, Facebook?
Chris:… he’s got tons of freaking followers, so he’s getting a check.
Dan:I bet so.
Chris:He’s getting a check.
Dan:I bet it’s a decent check.
Matt:It’s better than the check I get from you two.
Chris:It’s better than the check that I just get probably.
Matt:That’s fair.
Dan:Probably.
Matt:That’s fair.
Dan:Speaking of that, Chris, how was your weekend?
Chris:It was good, it was beautiful out. Did a bunch of hopping on the trampoline with Howie.
Matt:A lot of hopping.
Chris:We had a trampoline. We got Rusty’s old trampoline.
Matt:Those are dangerous, man.
Chris:It’s fun. I know, I know. We know this.
Matt:It’s a good way to break an ankle.
Chris:Yep, yep. Nope.
Dan:Do I need to redact it so that your homeowner’s insurance doesn’t go up?
Matt:No, no.
Chris:No, no. Don’t need to worry about that. We’re fine. We’re fine.
Dan:Okay.
Chris:But yeah, did that. Went down to Script Town’s Bach Fest on Saturday with the family. That was fun. They had goats.
Matt:Goats are fun.
Dan:Really?
Chris:Yeah.
Dan:To eat or for show?
Chris:For show.
Matt:[Inaudible 00:03:38].
Chris:I wish they were, man.
Matt:Because that would’ve been fun.
Chris:Because I would’ve been out there the whole time like-
Dan:Blah.
Chris:Blah. Just blah, clonk, clonk.
Matt:Howie watch this.
Chris:Howie, scream. So that was it.
Dan:That was it?
Chris:Pretty uneventful, chill. Awesome weekend.
Dan:Great. Matt, welcome back.
Matt:Thanks.
Dan:You were absent last episode because you’re sitting on a beach in Mexico.
Matt:I was, it was pretty nice.
Dan:Pretty rough.
Matt:I felt bad for myself for having to be there, I really did.
Chris:Yeah. We were worried about you, like the pots-
Matt:I didn’t pee on anything this time.
Chris:You didn’t pee? Sweet, nice. Good.
Dan:Congratulations.
Matt:Yeah. I was on my best behavior. I didn’t even really get drunk, drunk.
Dan:Really?
Matt:I’d catch a buzz and then switch over to water. I was trying to be the adult of the group.
Dan:And you’ve kind of slowed down drinking.
Matt:That scares me.
Chris:I know, that’s why I’m laughing because of the group that he went with.
Matt:Yeah. We had some rough nights for some people.
Dan:I bet. We got some inappropriate pictures of Evan.
Chris:Did any booze go in pockets?
Matt:Well, did you?
Dan:Definitely looked like his wienus was out, but it turns out it might’ve just been his leg.
Matt:Really? I don’t think I saw that picture.
Dan:He was sitting in a pool arm spread.
Matt:Yeah.
Dan:You could see down-
Matt:He sat in a pool a lot.
Dan:Yeah, I would if I was him.
Matt:But yeah, it was fun. I got attacked by a little jellyfish, larva.
Chris:Oh, how did that feel?
Matt:You don’t notice it until you start to dry yourself off because they’re so small, they only sting to protect themselves.
Chris:Did you have to pee on yourself?
Dan:Did you have to-
Matt:I didn’t.
Dan:Did somebody pee on you?
Chris:Did someone else pee on you?
Matt:Nobody else peed on me, which I didn’t even really know about them for a little while.
Dan:What happened, did it just let you start burning?
Matt:Yeah, burning and stinging and then my legs turned purple.
Dan:Oh.
Chris:Oh, jeez.
Dan:Where did sting you at?
Matt:On my shins, my knees down on both legs. Which these little guys normally will collect in your swimsuit. And then when your swimsuit starts drying out, they start to panic and they start stinging you in all the fun parts.
Dan:All right. We’re having another problem. It did it again. So I’m going to switch you over to that one, now talk.
Matt:Is that better? Hello? Checking if [inaudible 00:06:06]-
Dan:No, it’s fine. It must be the microphone.
Matt:Do we have another microphone?
Dan:Yep.
Chris:That’s weird.
Dan:I like the ribbon cables. So sometimes they pick up fine and sometimes they don’t.
Chris:Omni-directional microphones.
Dan:Okay.
Matt:Hello? Is that better?
Dan:Still nothing. What the fuck? I’m moving you over to Dan.
Matt:What about now? How am I doing now?
Dan:You’re there.
Chris:Yeah.
Dan:Okay. Is that me? That’s me. Yeah. Mute, mute, unmute. And this concludes a part of the podcast where you couldn’t hear Matt.
Matt:Yeah, but I’m back.
Dan:You’re back.
Matt:Back.
Dan:For now, I’ll keep an eye on it.
Matt:We’ll see what happens.
Dan:Yeah, I hate it when that happens. Sorry everybody.
Matt:But yeah, normally the little jellyfish larva will collect in your swimsuits and sting you on your twig berries. And I’m glad they didn’t do that.
Chris:Yeah, that would’ve really-
Matt:I changed out of my suit pretty quick after I got out of the ocean. So now-
Dan:Did you know what was going on right away or were you like what the…
Matt:When I started to kind of feel the burning, I had a rough idea because I think it happened to me last time I was down there. But I also get out in the ocean, I act like I’m 12.
Dan:Where at in Mexico? Oh, God-
Matt:We were in Cancun.
Dan:Cancun? Oh. I’m like a little kid, literally I would just go and play in the ocean.
Matt:Oh, I’m out there body surfing. I’m out there swimming around, acting like an idiot, just having a good old time.
Dan:We’re a bunch of farm kids that have never-
Matt:Very rarely,
Dan:Very little have anything to do with the ocean. So I imagine it’d be like a ocean bum playing in a cornfield for the first time. It could be fun.
Matt:The sand down there is like powdered sugar.
Dan:I love that.
Chris:It’s pretty.
Matt:It’s literally paradise.
Chris:It’s pretty.
Dan:Welcome back.
Matt:Thanks. It’s good to be back. And I’m glad I could bring some nice weather back for you guys.
Dan:Yeah, we appreciate that a lot.
Matt:I’m a giver.
Dan:Mark, I heard Creighton won their game on Saturday night.
Mark:Yes.
Dan:Against
Mark:Seton Hall.
Dan:Seton Hall. Was that a shoulda won it?
Mark:Yes.
Dan:Or was it a big win?
Mark:No.
Dan:The Creighton people, we were down at the CHI Center at the same time the game got out and the Creighton people just seemed like normal Creighton people. So I didn’t know if they lost or if it was an expected win.
Mark:They won big and should have.
Dan:Yeah. Yeah. What else? How was your weekend?
Mark:You know, Dan, you ask me that every weekend.
Dan:Sometimes, you’ve got something different.
Mark:I can’t walk and I can’t talk, so I don’t do very much.
Dan:Did you watch a movie?
Mark:I did. I watched two Marvel movies on Saturday. What’s the one? The black thing?
Matt:Black Panther?
Chris:Black Panther?
Mark:No.
Dan:Spawn?
Mark:Yeah.
Matt:Oh. Venom.
Dan:Oh, did you watch the new one?
Chris:Oh, venom?
Mark:Venom.
Dan:Did you watch the third one?
Mark:No.
Dan:Okay.
Matt:Venom’s a good series
Mark:And then on Sunday, the boys wore over, meaning Randy and Yanni.
Matt:Randy.
Dan:Come on.
Mark:No, they’re nice guys.
Dan:No, no. I’m saying I want to hear your Randy.
Mark:Randy.
Dan:That’s really what I do live for a lot is your Pedro Jimenez. The hand’s got to be up. Randy.
Matt:It does brighten the day.
Dan:What else you got?
Mark:That’s about it.
Dan:See, you did more than you were leaning on. How did you like the Marvel movies?
Matt:Yeah.
Mark:They were entertaining, they weren’t great.
Dan:Yeah, it seems like the superhero burnout is definitely in full effect.
Matt:Yeah, definitely.
Dan:That’s all we got forever. And now Hollywood’s like, shit, we got to start making movies again.
Matt:Like regular movies.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:Let’s remake Titanic.
Dan:I’m really excited about this Mickey 17 that comes out. I think it might’ve came out this weekend.
Mark:It looks like it should be good.
Dan:Yeah. Robert Pattinson is, from what I’ve seen in the recent previews is that he signs up to be a cloned scientific experiment.
Mark:Correct.
Dan:Mickey 1 was the original and then every iteration after that is this advanced-species version of humans sending him to a planet with these aliens and then he gets killed and then they check his body for the way he was killed for medical advancements. And then he wakes up as Mickey 3.
Matt:Oh, damn.
Dan:So then they throw him into a volcano and then he wakes up as Mickey 4.
Matt:They just keep killing this poor guy?
Dan:Mickey 17 is where something happens.
Matt:They know he is a vampire and he can’t die?
Dan:He doesn’t die.
Chris:Haven’t they watched, what’s that Michael Keaton movies?
Dan:Multiplicity?
Chris:Yeah, didn’t they watch that? “Steve.”
Matt:“Hey, Steve.”
Dan:That’s my puppy.
Matt:That’s one of his best movies, I don’t even care.
Dan:You can’t make a clone of a clone.
Matt:“Steve, I got Pizza in my wallet, Steve.”
Dan:I did watch that a couple of-
Matt:It’s funny.
Dan:Maybe two years ago. It kind of holds up. It’s a little-
Matt:It does hold up.
Dan:It’s a little late-’80s, early-’90s, catchy. But-
Matt:“Steve, she touched my puppy.” It’s so funny.
Dan:Yeah, that was a great movie.
Matt:I like Michael Keaton.
Dan:I’m excited about Mickey 17.
Matt:Which I did see the new Beetlejuice over the weekend.
Dan:Oh, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Matt:Which is not that new anymore, but watched it on the plane. I thought it was funny.
Dan:It’s all right.
Matt:Winona Ryder has not aged all that great.
Chris:She still hot.
Dan:Well, she looks rough and Stranger Things.
Chris:Yeah, she does.
Matt:Does she?
Dan:But still-
Chris:Yeah, she looks like she did drugs.
Dan:She did plenty, twice.
Matt:With all the other people that did drugs and stole stuff.
Dan:All in a group. All right. I did not have a very entertaining weekend. The only thing I’ve got to contribute is that we got four new chickens.
Matt:Whoa.
Mark:World of Wheels.
Dan:Well, it was just-
Matt:Was that this weekend?
Dan:It was last weekend.
Matt:Oh, man.
Dan:We didn’t get any passes, Ryder helped you out. But it was 25 interviews over two days. I’m exhausted, I’m burnt out. I’m physically exhausted, which I don’t understand because I sat in a chair and talked to people, but I was pretty wiped last night.
Matt:Brain capacity.
Dan:Yeah. And it was swamped. I mean it was busy, which was good to see because that car show has kind of struggled the last 10 or 15 years. Not really struggled but just not done what it used to do because everyone always talks about, well, I remember when it was the entire civic center and it was out in the parking lot. Well, it was pretty fricking big this weekend.
Matt:Good for it.
Dan:But yeah, we got four new chickens. We’ve got one of them that’s got a bum leg, so we’re calling it Cricket. If you’ve ever seen the movie Limitless? By the way, add it to your list, fantastic fricking movie about prohibition and regulators and-
Matt:Mount up.
Chris:Mounting up.
Dan:Fantastic movie. There’s a character in there that’s got a bum leg and he has trouble walking and moving and his nickname is Cricket.
Matt:Cricket.
Dan:So we called our chicken with the bum leg Cricket.
Matt:Why has it got a bum leg?
Dan:We don’t know. It was just a little chick we went and picked up at Bomgaars on I think Wednesday or Thursday and it didn’t show any signs there. And the next day when we were kind of checking them over, it wasn’t moving around as much as the other one, so it clearly has an issue.
Chris:Poor little guy.
Matt:Probably needs a-
Dan:Yeah.
Mark:Can you return a chicken?
Dan:Only if it’s dead after 24 hours.
Matt:Well, we could have done that.
Dan:We could have, but we’re saviors. We like to save.
Matt:You’re going to build him like a Popsicle leg if this one doesn’t snap back.
Dan:That’d be awesome.
Matt:Like a Popsicle stick leg?
Dan:It’s got a doctor’s appointment on the Thursday.
Matt:Are you fucking kidding me? How much did you pay for this chicken?
Dan:I didn’t pay anything.
Matt:How much was the chickens cost?
Dan:8
Matt:How much do you think the doctor’s appointment’s going to cost?
Dan:Over 100.
Matt:So now you have $108 chicken?
Dan:Yep, yep.
Matt:Fucker better lay eggs like crazy.
Dan:Right. And Sarah’s fairly certain that it was put in the wrong group of chickens.
Matt:They didn’t put it in the special chicken group?
Dan:It’s apparently one that’s called a leghorn and it doesn’t produce very many eggs. It’s incredibly skittish and it’s a pain in the ass and it’s typically like a dollar.
Matt:So that’s one you’re going to set out for the coyotes?
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:For the raccoon.
Dan:That’ll be our decoy, yeah.
Matt:That’s the decoy chicken.
Chris:Oh, man.
Dan:Yeah, that’s all I got.
Matt:Oh man.
Dan:Apparently a lot of news happened. We do know what Gene Hackman died of, they announced it.
Chris:Crazy stuff.
Dan:Fucking tragic.
Chris:Yeah man.
Dan:So apparently his wife died of some neurological disease.
Chris:Like six days earlier?
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:Oh, she died first?
Chris:Six days earlier.
Dan:She died several days earlier.
Matt:I haven’t seen any of this.
Dan:He was suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s.
Matt:Right.
Dan:And nobody was checking on him.
Matt:So he just laid down and died?
Dan:Well, he died of another brain disease in Alzheimer’s, but he just kind of wandered around for six days and they’re fairly certain that he didn’t take his medication, it just slowly got worse and worse.
Matt:Oh, that sucks.
Dan:They still don’t know what killed the dog though.
Mark:That was timing.
Chris:Yeah, that was.
Dan:That dog’s not dead. Also, Allen, what’s his name? Josh Allen got paid.
Chris:Oh, did he?
Matt:Oh, did he sign a contract extension?
Dan:Four year, $350 million deal.
Matt:That’s my home’s money.
Dan:250 guaranteed. Largest guaranteed amount of money in the NFL in history.
Matt:Oh, he’s going to be able to buy so many handicapped chickens.
Dan:He’s going to get hurt now.
Matt:All the handicapped chickens are his.
Dan:He’s going to get hurt. And then also Miles Garrett from-
Chris:He got paid, reset the market for non-QBs.
Dan:Yeah.
Chris:It’s work-
Matt:It’s ridiculous the money these guys make.
Dan:Oh my God.
Matt:But I guess when-
Chris:We’re not even talking about what do the freaking owners make, because that’s probably in the billions.
Matt:Well, and these guys are going to be mentally challenged by the time they’re 40.
Dan:Yeah, definitely.
Matt:So have fun.
Dan:Good for their families, I guess.
Matt:Yeah, good job, kids.
Dan:Once the mentally challenged player dies the family got all that money.
Matt:Yeah, poor chickens.
Dan:Mark, you’re ready to drink?
Mark:I am always ready to drink.
Dan:Well, let’s get to drinking.
Matt:Which one do you want to start with, Mark?
Dan:And I’m freaking starving.
Mark:I don’t care.
Matt:All right, this one’s closest.
Mark:Matt went and picked up the scotch for us taste and evidently he’s feeling poor. So we’re balling on a budget.
Matt:Sorry. I spent a lot of money on vacation, which the whiskey selection down there is terrible.
Dan:I bet.
Matt:Bourbon was Jack or Jim. Scotch was, at least at the regular bar, scotch was Johnny Red, Johnny Black, Dewar’s White Label.
Chris:They didn’t even get any of the good wizards.
Matt:Didn’t even have a McCallan.
Dan:Oh, come on.
Chris:What is wrong?
Matt:Or any of the Glenn’s.
Chris:How was the tequila selection?
Matt:Enormous.
Dan:Really?
Matt:Weird.
Dan:I’ve been a couple of resorts where they’re like, oh, a bunch of white Americans and Europeans coming in, we’re going to have some generic tequila.
Chris:Some Teremana.
Dan:So the people [inaudible 00:18:22] Mexico and had Jose Cuervo-
Matt:Casamigos. Which they had Cuervo there too.
Dan:You got to, it’s the father of tequila.
  

Tomatin 12

Mark:This first whiskey we’re tasting is Tomatin 12. Retails at about 50 to $60 depending on where you go. Aged for 11 plus years in a bourbon barrel. And spent six to nine months in an old Rosso Sherry Barrel.
Chris:69?
Dan:69 or six to nine?
Mark:Six to nine.
Dan:I heard the exact same thing. By the way-
Chris:What’s your favorite number? 69.
Matt:If they alternate, stack them.
Dan:When you listen to the podcast next week, Mark is very excited about your pores being back.
Matt:Jesus Christ, were they kind of heavy last week?
Dan:Yeah.
Chris:Fuck.
Dan:Dan’s like, fuck it, we’re getting drunk.
Chris:For real, I can take it from him.
Dan:I think we had like seven whiskies.
Matt:Oh. Sure, go crazy when I’m on vacation.
Dan:Yeah, we had to fill the time.
Matt:That’s all right. I’m not mad about it, I was having a good old time.
Dan:I don’t blame you.
Matt:It’s a beautiful resort.
Mark:No one was kidnapped.
Matt:Not that I know of, there are a lot of thongs on the beach down there though.
Dan:It was. But after he gave him their demands for monster bombs, they brought him back.
Matt:They were like-
Dan:Just him right in my pocket.
Matt:Take him.
Mark:Did you ever read the book as a kid called The Ransom of Red Chief?
Dan:Ransom of Red Chief?
Mark:It’s about a twelve-year-old kidnapped and held for ransom and after a week they give them back.
Dan:My parents always said that to me.
Chris:It’s a great movie.
Dan:We don’t have to worry about a movie kidnap because they’re just going to bring you back, you won’t shut up. It sounds like a great-
Chris:Comedy.
Dan:It does. Is it a comedy?
Chris:No. I said just it-
Matt:It could be.
Chris:Could be.
Matt:I did watch Throw Mama from the Train while I was in Mexico.
Chris:I haven’t seen that movie forever. “Louie Armstrong was trying to kill me.”
Dan:This is pretty good. Tomatin 12-
Chris:It’s the aromas of Wilde Heather.
Matt:Heather Bush.
Dan:Everyone does love a good Wilde Heather.
Chris:Heather. (singing) Sorry. Whenever I think of that, anyway, I just started singing Mother from, I don’t know.
Matt:I do like a little Danzig in my life.
Chris:Danzig. (singing)
Matt:This is pretty good for… Oh, wrong tube.
Dan:Wrong tube.
Mark:Well, here’s drinking and breathing, don’t breathe. Drinking is bad.
Matt:I learned that in the ocean.
Chris:Oh, whoa. Way chest burn. Or maybe that’s just my first sip of the day.
Matt:This is a 43 percenter.
Dan:I do get some warmth, but that’s probably the 11 and a half months of bourbon barrel aging
Matt:Could be the-
Mark:11 and a half years of bourbon-
Dan:Oh, years. Big difference.
Chris:That’s like indigestion.
Mark:You can tell it’s young. It’s a little thin on the palate. You do get a lot of the vanilla from the bourbon barrel.
Matt:It’s kind of deserty with the vanilla and then the fruity sweet from the-
Chris:Buttery finish.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:I like this. And for nine bucks, shit.
Mark:Yeah. Like I said, of retail is like 50, 60 bucks.
Matt:Yeah, for nine bucks.
Mark:That depends, if the tariffs going to affect then it’ll be 70, 80.
Dan:I saw news reports that he’s suspended them again.
Mark:I honest to God don’t think had any intention of putting them on in the first place.
Matt:Probably not.
Dan:He said a quote that it’s going to be the greatest thing that has happened to America. We’re going to make so much money, we’re not going to know what to do with it.
Matt:It’s going to be huge.
Dan:And I realize I’m not an economist and we’re dipping into the political rule a little bit here, but we’ll play nice. Let’s take wood for example. If we put a 25 cent tariff on two by fours here in the United States. They’re going to be-
Chris:Bucks a two by four.
Dan:They’re going to be 25% more expensive.
Mark:Dan, let me cut chase for you. It’s a tax on us.
Dan:Yes. I guess that is a much shorter way of getting to what I was talking about. How is America going to have so much more money when their people are going to be more poor?
Matt:Well, it’s just our money just recirculating around.
Mark:Yeah. It’s not like Canada is going to pay the tariff and go, “Oh, well.”
Dan:Yeah. Like in our case with liquor, the prices are going to go up April 1st, regardless.
Chris:And they’ll never go back down, even the tariffs go.
Dan:Right.
Mark:I hate to be a scotch knob. This is all right, but never buy it.
Dan:No. What is it, a poor?
Mark:Nine bucks.
Chris:Nine bucks.
Dan:See, I think that’s worth it. It’s not amazing, but for nine bucks it’s pretty good.
Mark:I meant buy a bottle for home. I obviously bought it, it’s sitting on the bar.
Matt:It’s true, I see it. No, here I would buy a drink of it. I probably wouldn’t do a bottle of it for the house or if someone had it at their house, I would not be upset.
Chris:No, we’d crush it if I had this at my house.
Matt:Yeah. Yay.
Dan:Yay. Tomatin 12. Man, I’m definitely going to need some AJ’s. I’m already feeling it. One drink.
Matt:Drink kicking back in from the weekend?
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:I do have to say, I was a little sad to see that you weren’t here yesterday, Dan.
Dan:I got a message from Evan. That’s very heartening that Evan said, “Hey, I really missed you today, we had Everett’s.” And I’m like, “Fucker.”
Matt:We did and they were good.
Dan:I love Everett’s.
  

Bladnoch 11

Matt:This bottle sucks.
Chris:Square bottles with a weird lip.
Matt:No, nick.
Dan:Oh, yeah.
Matt:It’s like a fat kid bottle.
Dan:It looks a lot like the IW Harper bottle without the gnarling. Gnarling, I think is the term.
Matt:Bladnoch. Oh.
Chris:Oh, I can’t wait to say this name.
Matt:Like a bad wizard.
Dan:This is very bad wizard.
Mark:Bladnoch 11.
Chris:Bladnoch.
Mark:Again, balling on a budget, 50, 60 bucks a bottle.
Chris:I can honestly say I’ve never heard of Bladnoch.
Mark:Wow.
Dan:Yeah.
Mark:I’m looking at my pour and I’m looking at Chris’s pour.
Matt:Sorry, the bottle’s tough.
Chris:That was a tough bottle. Let’s see. They’re not very different.
Dan:I feel vindicated.
Mark:Bladnoch-
Chris:Bladnoch.
Mark:… is a relatively new distillery and it is a lowland distillery.
Chris:Wigtownshire Scotland.
Matt:Wigtownshire?
Chris:Wigtownshire. It’s all one word, I’m probably totally saying it wrong. Wigtownshire. So lowlands use more peat to dry stuff out, right? Pretty much, right?
Mark:More than space size, but less than Highlands.
Chris:Highland. Okay. Less than Highlands? Okay.
Matt:Which their head distiller’s name is Dr. Nick Savage, which sounds like a porn star’s name.
Mark:Or a 1960s private eye movement.
Chris:There you go.
Matt:Nick Savage on the case.
Dan:This is a very, very random nose I got. I smell horse manure.
Matt:So I got uttered popcorn.
Chris:This totally two different things. Now the horse could have been eating that.
Dan:All of a sudden I met-
Chris:Pop, pop, pop.
Matt:How did I know the horse had diabetes?
Dan:Had no foot.
Chris:Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop
Matt:From Half Baked.
Dan:Oh, God, I haven’t seen that movie in too long.
Matt:Oh, it’s one of the best stoner movies.
Dan:It is, I don’t think I can quote it anymore.
Matt:It’s the best stoner movie behind all the Cheech and Chong movies, except for Corsican Brothers, that one was weird.
Chris:Looking at the history of this place dates back to 1817. And at its peak the site had six washbacks and animal production of approximately 230,000 liters of alcohol, which made it status as the queen of the lowlands.
Matt:That’s what I want to be is the queen of something, super-duper. I don’t dislike this.
Chris:Oh, was owned by Author Bell and Sons, which that’s the Guinness and United Distillers people. Australian entrepreneurs. So this is Australian owned, must be, Australian entrepreneur David Pryor acquired the company from Raymond and Colin Armstrong and then putting a ton of money into it.
Matt:Which it’s 46.7%.
Dan:Dr. Nick Savage.
Matt:Dr. Nick Savage.
Dan:Look at this guy. “Hey, everybody.”
Matt:Oh, he could have been a ’70s porn guy.
Dan:He could have been.
Matt:Totally.
Chris:It looks like he a used car salesman.
Dan:[inaudible 00:28:40] in the juice.
Chris:Slanging the wang.
Dan:That’s got a little bit more burn to it than I think the first one did, than the Tomatin.
Chris:What’s a Galloway spirit? Have you heard that term?
Mark:No.
Chris:There said a Bladnoch and it’s bold Galloway spirit celebrates. Its 207th anniversary. I don’t know what that is, it’s the technique.
Mark:Probably it’s like their area.
Chris:Okay, okay. That makes sense.
Dan:Galloway? It sounds like a term they made up just to seem smart.
Matt:Well, there’s a Galloway Spirits in Galloway, Ohio. That’s what came up when I Googled that.
Dan:You think they have a phone number on the side of their bottle?
Matt:You know? Oh, you mean this bottle? Probably not.
Dan:Galloway Spirits.
Mark:I really like-
Matt:It’s a liquor story.
Mark:… the finish on this. It’s very long, very floral. Go ahead, Dan.
Dan:Done.
Matt:No, I like this Bladnoch.
Dan:That’s not bad. How much bottle or pour?
Matt:11
Dan:See, this is economical drinking. Getting you saved up for paying extra money thanks to the tariffs and the massive collapse of the American economy.
Mark:I find-
Chris:Yeah, you’re right, by the way. Sorry. It’s a Galloway region of Scotland or a term used to describe horses between 14 and 15 hands tall in Australia. Anyway, sorry.
Dan:You think that’s the manure smell I’m getting?
Chris:Maybe. They didn’t wash their hands?
Dan:See, you guys make fun of me, but my nose-
Chris:No, we were agreeing, we weren’t making fun of you. Like the horse had some stuff and you could smell it in his poo.
Dan:Mark, we interrupted you.
Matt:Repeatedly.
Mark:That’s okay.
Dan:All right. Galloway, 11 year.
Matt:So you said 14 to 15 hands tall, would that be my hands or Dan’s hands?
Chris:I don’t know-
Dan:Hey, I got big hands.
Mark:Actually, you can look.
Dan:I think for our height, I got big hands.
Matt:Yeah.
Dan:Good for spanking.
Matt:Good for Sarah.
Dan:Chris-
Matt:Oh, you guys are like hand twins.
Chris:Hand twins.
Dan:Jesus Christ.
Chris:I know, sweaty hands.
Matt:Oh, he’s a sweaty guy.
Dan:I need a shower now.
Mark:A hand is actually a unit of measure and it’s like four or five inches.
Dan:It’s so weird.
Mark:It’s only used in horses.
Dan:Right.
Mark:I don’t know why.
Dan:The original guy, did he just measure his hand and he’s like, all right, that’s a good length.
Mark:Well, is it this way or this way?
Dan:Yeah. Or is it tip of pinky to base of-
Matt:Nope, that’s penis. That’s penis size.
Dan:That’s true. Is that it?
Chris:Yeah.
Dan:No, that’s not right at all.
Chris:I think it might be the tip of the thumb to the end of the pinky.
Dan:Must have an oblong because that pinky length is not correct.
Matt:What happens if you have an awkward curve?
Dan:What do they call that?
Mark:Peyronie’s disease.
Dan:See I missed my weekly dose of Dan Whaley, so I didn’t know the bent dick-
Matt:Bent dick.
Dan:… scientific name.
Matt:Bent dick syndrome.
Chris:I get to do the whiskies this week on the bourbon side. So I was lucky enough to be gifted these three bottles and I’m going to share them with you guys.
Matt:My vacations continues.
Dan:Ooh, the 2024.
  

Shenk’s 2024 Edition

Chris:Yeah, so this is Shenk’s. So I know we’ve done Shenk’s probably multiple times. This is the newest release, 2024.
Dan:I don’t think we have.
Chris:Really?
Matt:It’s probably been a while.
Chris:So ties to Michter. So I can tell you the kind of history, just a little bit about this. So 1753. Yes. It’s older than the United States. John Shanks opened this distillery and it was in Pennsylvania, which that was a huge rye farming and that was what they were planning on doing. But he did this as sour mash. There’s so much history involved with this that in 1778, George Washington, there’s a coin that says that he did this, went up, pulled up to the distillery and bought a bunch of barrels for the winter in Valley Forge of 1778. So that’s pretty cool. There’s tons of history. We’re actually going to do this then we’re going to do Bombergers and then we’re going to jump into Michters Rye, 10-year rye. So we’re just going to go through the whole story of Michters. I feel like that’s what we should do. It’s super interesting, super cool. Mark does not like it. This is 91.2 proof. I am going to go ahead and pour Marks into mine. There you go.
Dan:No, you can take it all.
Chris:No, no. You take the rest of it.
Dan:By the way, my story was Shanks is it was a 2023 bottle that exploded in my car.
Chris:Oh, that’s right. I forgot about that.
Dan:The Shanks bottle. The bottom blew out and on the Bombergers.
Chris:The bottom?
Dan:Yeah. On the Bombergers, the top-
Chris:You saved the Bomberger?
Dan:The cork popped.
Chris:You were able to save the Bombergers?
Dan:Yeah.
Chris:Cool.
Dan:It’s in my infinity bottle.
Chris:Nice.
Dan:Which I have to bring up here and we have to consume.
Chris:What didn’t you like about this?
Mark:Following those two very soft sweet scratches. It’s a little too spicy.
Chris:Okay, all right. Sour mash. It is a sour mash.
Matt:So this is a 91.3 it looks like in little tiny letters and numbers.
Chris:If I remember correctly, I’ve always drifted towards the Bombergers. This is the first year of Shanks that I’m like this is just… For me, it’s easy drinking.
Dan:Ooh.
Chris:That’s crushable.
Dan:It’s got a little bit of heat to it, but a great palate. You really taste this, I get a lot of sweetness.
Matt:A lot of cherry and orange.
Dan:Yeah. Whoo. And this is the 2024. So is the mash bill different every year, Chris? Or is the aging different.
Chris:The mash bill’s not different, from what I understand. But it’s just it is different every year as far as the aging.
Matt:This is from the place you buy chickens.
  

Bomberger’s

Chris:The next one is Bombergers, so Bombergers, Abraham Bomberger bought Shanks, obviously turned it into his last name because who wouldn’t? I would. 1861 is when that happened. Went all the way to 1918 to prohibition, they shut the doors until 1934. And then they opened back up, lasted till about 1950. And then that’s when the next owner of Michters came about.
Matt:Oh, Bill Michter.
Chris:Lou Foreman actually, which I’m trying to figure out-
Dan:No relation.
Chris:I don’t know.
Dan:She said in their [inaudible 00:35:49].
Chris:Oh, there’s no relation to the Foreman? Okay, cool, cool, cool. That’s what I was wondering.
Dan:I wasn’t typing on my keyboard, I actually heard that part.
Chris:I did not hear that part.
Matt:George Foreman?
Dan:I got yelled at. Was that Friday or Thursday? That was Thursday.
Chris:Thursday.
Dan:I got yelled at Thursday by my co-worker sitting next to me, understandably. And my manager, because I was typing on my keyboard too much during our meeting. But I did manage to hear her joke. The Foreman, Larry Foreman? Lester Foreman?
Chris:Lou Foreman. This guy-
Dan:Lou Foreman. No relation to-
Chris:The Brown Foremans?
Dan:Brown Foreman.
Chris:Yeah.
Matt:Yeah or [inaudible 00:36:21].
Chris:I honestly was going to look that up. So thank you because I didn’t hear that for some reason.
Dan:You were probably too busy thinking would he stop fucking typing.
Chris:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Matt:Click, click, click, click, click.
Chris:This one I do get the heat from, it’s 108 proof. Yeah, this is Bombergers.
Matt:This is bottle 393 out of 2,500.
Dan:I don’t think they release the mash bill on these.
Chris:They don’t. No, they keep the Michters pretty-
Mark:To me that drinks not as hot as the last one.
Chris:Really? It’s got to be that rye content.
Matt:No, I think the Shanks drinks hotter than this.
Chris:There is a lot of spice going on this one
Dan:There is.
Chris:Right up front.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:Yeah, it’s busy.
Chris:Yeah.
Dan:I like busy too.
Matt:They wrote in cursive on the back so no one over 30 will be able to read it.
Chris:I said that in the tasting.
Dan:Was it cursive and gold?
Matt:No, but it’s really tiny.
Dan:It is tiny.
Chris:I was doing a tasting with this stuff and I was like, “And look, the back is in cursive so your kids can’t read it?”
Matt:Nope, they’ll never know. This is good.
Dan:These are really good. These are annual releases out of the Michters portfolio. And they come out, what are we in March? They came out in October, I think.
Chris:Yeah.
Matt:Yes.
Dan:Somewhere around there?
Matt:Yep, yep. Last quarter I think.
Dan:Yeah.
  

Michter’s 10 year

Chris:The next one, we are going to jump into is Michter single barrel 10 year rye. So something to keep note about Michters is that they are truly, when they say small batch on that regular bourbon, it is only 20 barrels, that is super small. When you have the next people up doing their small batches, 200 barrels. 20 barrels is tiny.
Dan:There’s no regulation on the term small barrel.
Chris:Which is crazy.
Dan:Or small batch.
Chris:Just has to be smaller than what you normally do, which is interesting.
Dan:Which I would get behind if Doge started creating regulations on terms, organic free-range.
Chris:Right.
Dan:Small batch.
Chris:Right.
Matt:Broke-leg chicken
Dan:Broke-leg chicken.
Mark:Handmade vodka.
Chris:Yeah, yeah, yeah. And crafted.
Dan:And crafted.
Chris:And crafted.
Dan:How do you hand make a vodka?
Chris:So-
Matt:With your hands.
Chris:1950s Lou Foreman bought this and turned it to Michter’s-
Dan:Thank you, sir.
Chris:Which everybody seems to think what?
Mark:You’re pointing at it and calling this-
Dan:Isn’t this [inaudible 00:39:16].
Chris:I know, I’m just pointing it for my own use just to talk.
Mark:They call it Michter, so they know what you’re talking about.
Chris:Well, I was getting into how he named it Michters.
Mark:Oh.
Dan:He was trained how to do radio. You were supposed to use your hands and you’re supposed to move around while you’re talking.
Matt:It helps with annunciation.
Dan:Because it helps you with your enthusiasm and annunciation.
Chris:So Lou wanted to change it away from Bombergers and he named it after his son’s Michael, the first part of Michael, last part of Peter, so Michter’s, that’s how you got it. That’s how he came up with the name, named it after his kids.
Dan:By the way not Michners.
Chris:Michers.
Matt:Michters.
Chris:And they don’t care what you call it, honestly. They really don’t, they just want you to drink it.
Matt:Yeah, just buy it.
Dan:Our direct manager kept calling it Michners.
Chris:Yeah. And everybody was making fun of him.
Dan:Everyone kept calling him out on it.
Matt:There’s no N in there.
Dan:Yeah.
Chris:So believe it or not, is the one that coined, not coined, but made green the color of rye. They’re the first ones that put that on the market and now everybody uses it. I didn’t know that until last week.
Dan:You did know that? We talked about it about a year ago on the podcast.
Chris:I forgot about that.
Mark:We did it, it was like, why are all rye bottles green labeled?
Dan:And it turns out-
Chris:I must’ve been typing on the computer.
Dan:A lot of them were emulating Michter’s because it was such a popular rye.
Mark:ChatGPT. Why are all rye labels green?
Dan:We’ll do that.
Mark:Do they charge you when you use ChatGPT?
Chris:They should, it’s free. 1989 Michter’s closed and up until this point, it was still in Kentucky or not Kentucky, Pennsylvania. So they shut the doors in Pennsylvania, 1989. Then 1990s is when the current owners picked it up and started rebuilding the brand.
Dan:Sorry, I get confused with numbers. You said 1989?
Chris:Yep, that’s when they filed bankruptcy.
Dan:So it was only closed for a very short time?
Chris:Yeah, probably less than five years.
Matt:There won’t be a test.
Chris:Yeah. And they-
Dan:Taylor Swift wrote an album about it.
Matt:About Michter’s?
Dan:1989
Chris:That’s true, was that when she was born?
Matt:Did she include that in there?
Dan:Should have.
Chris:She should have.
Matt:<< And my favorite distillery closed >>.
Dan:<< Bankrupt >>
Chris:<< But then they reopened >> So they’re big-
Mark:<< And then they broke up with me >> Fucking John Mayor.
Chris:So whiskey in the ’90s, I couldn’t drink really through the ’90s legally. I feel like the bourbon scene was not… Obviously it wasn’t anything that it was like today.
Matt:No, Jim and Jack.
Chris:I think it was building. There was a bunch of people that were like, hey, this is where the future of United States whiskey is going to be. So that’s when all of their advisors, for lack of better terms, told them to go to Kentucky. So they went to Kentucky and for a long time they were having other people, they weren’t using their own whiskey.
Matt:They were sourcing?
Chris:Some they were sourcing it for a long time. Phase two was they were pretty much like a ghost kitchen. They had all their recipes, but they went other places to distill and do it. And then phase three is when they started buying their own distillery. And now there’s three properties and that’s pretty much it. They also have the highest selling ever sold, they’ve only sold one single barrel like privately. Otherwise, they don’t have a barrel program for-
Matt:Really?
Chris:Otherwise we would totally get a Michters barrel for here. It would be sweet.
Dan:I wish we could.
Matt:I would love it.
Chris:It sold for 209K at a charity auction.
Matt:All right. I think that might be just a touch above what our budget is on barrels.
Dan:Just a little bit.
Matt:Just a scooch.
Dan:Just a little bit. This is everything I love about ryes right now. It is so fucking good.
Chris:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I wanted to share these with you guys, I know we might have done some of this. But yeah, Michters is pretty important brand.
Matt:It’s the fruitfulness. 46.4 I think that says. Yeah.
Mark:That’s good.
Chris:You totally surprise me. I thought that you were going to hate the Bombergers, which you liked, the Bombergers. You were going to like the Shanks and you were going to hate this rye. For whatever reason that’s where I thought, I’m completely wrong though, completely wrong.
Mark:It’s a rye but it’s soft rye.
Chris:Yeah, yeah.
Mark:It’s not-
Dan:Snowflake rye.
Mark:I don’t understand that, so I’ll ignore it.
Dan:How do you not know the term snowflake? You know the term snowflake. It’s a term for very sensitive liberals or soft-
Matt:Just people. Just people.
Chris:Just sensitive people. There’s both sides, I would say there’s snowflakes on both sides.
Dan:Right, moving on.
Matt:I do like this
Dan:There’s absolutely snowflakes on both sides.
Matt:But I’m a big fan of their barrel-proof rye.
Chris:Yeah.
Matt:It’s really good.
Chris:It’s really good.
Dan:So their basic rye. What’s that one?
Chris:That one is a single barrel rye.
Dan:Okay.
Chris:It’s just their regular single barrel-
Matt:Yeah, single barrel, small batch.
Dan:This is total insider talk, but I hate the description in our system for Michters.
Chris:Yeah.
Dan:Because if I’m looking at it and saying single barrel, to me that’s going to be a very limited run. And the only way I’m able to differentiate is because of the price of the bottle.
Chris:Yeah.
Mark:That’s really good.
Chris:I like all the original four. So the bourbon, the rye, the sour mash, and the American.
Matt:Which I like the American.
Chris:I do too, man. That was the one that got me into Michters brand.
Matt:It’s super easy.
Chris:It’s second-filled bourbon barrels, right?
Dan:Is it?
Chris:Yep, so that’s what the American is. That’s what got me into Michters is that one. But the sour mash is the best of both worlds, it’s up front of the bourbon and then it finishes the rye.
Dan:I know this is going to set Chris off, but I did a little bit of a Infinity glass.
Matt:Oh.
Dan:I mixed the-
Chris:Why would that set me off? Let me try it. I wouldn’t do it, but I want to try it.
Matt:This is going to be weird.
Dan:I mixed the Bladnoch?
Matt:The Bladnoch.
Chris:Oh my God. Okay, all right.
Dan:The Bombergers and the Shanks, all into one glass.
Chris:On accident?
Dan:Nope. I regrettably did it on purpose only because you don’t want to do that with such a limited release in Bombergers and Shanks.
Chris:With the horse manure one?
Dan:Yeah.
Mark:You ruined this scotch.
Chris:He ruined everything.
Matt:It kind of tastes like nothing.
Dan:It’s weird, it’s flat.
Matt:Yeah. Anybody else want to?
Chris:Yeah, I’ll try it. Why the hell not?
Matt:It kind of tastes like nothing.
Dan:Yeah. It’s weird, the Bombergers and the Shanks have got so much flavor to it, but-
Matt:They just all cancel each other out. And I didn’t get any poo on the nose.
Dan:No.
Chris:Yeah, the poo nose is gone.
Matt:Poo’s gone.
Dan:The poo nose. By the way, I think I’m proud of my top 10 for today. I randomly thought about it when we were talking about Heather Bush. And I very quickly was able to come up with the list.
Chris:Lisa.
Matt:Lisa, Heather Bush.
Chris:I know where you’re going dude. I know exactly where you’re going. I know exactly where you’re going. I did not see you Google it, but I know that you’re probably going to do something like… Can I guess?
Dan:Yeah, take a drink and then guess.
Chris:Top 10.
Dan:Talk into the mic.
Chris:Top 10. This is going to-
Mark:Words you use to describe whiskey that mean nothing.
Chris:Mine, I feel like it’s the top 10 craziest girls-
Matt:Crazy chick names.
Chris:Yes, yes.
Dan:Our list for today is the top 10 craziest women names.
Matt:If Melissa’s on there, I’m just going to go straight to one.
Chris:Yeah, right. Well, mine’s Lisa.
Dan:So this is going to be so subjective. I think it’s going to be funny.
Chris:Can we also add on a caveat to what they do for a living?
Dan:Yes.
Chris:I feel like that’s-
Matt:Massage therapist, man.
Chris:Freaking-
Matt:Bartenders.
Chris:Equestrian or gymnast.
Dan:You used to look at [inaudible 00:47:52].
Matt:Stripper.
Dan:Try that already. Come on.
Chris:All right, sorry.
Matt:Wow.
Chris:Yeah.
Dan:Look at Mark.
Matt:It’s like nothing.
Chris:I think you should try it.
Matt:It’s not offensive.
Dan:No, I’m going to give him a little once.
Matt:It’s not offensive, but it just tastes literally like nothing.
Dan:It’s weird. How does something with so much flavor in the Bombergers and Shanks get canceled out by that scotch?
Matt:They all just cancel each other out because I don’t taste any of the scotch in there either.
Chris:That gave me some heartburn. Oh my God. Yeah.
Dan:That’s so weird.
Chris:Neh.
Matt:Neh.
Dan:Oh yeah, it’s not very good,
Matt:But it has no flavor.
Dan:All right, let’s get to our top 10 list.
Chris:All right.
Dan:Top 10 craziest women names. Now this is a little bit of a caveat. Let’s assume that we’re all single and dating and that our friend says, “Hey, I want to hook you up with…” Insert name here.
Chris:Okay.
Matt:Okay.
Chris:And we got to rank the names that if they were to say Tiffany-
Matt:Oh.
Chris:Dang dude.
Matt:Where do you put a Tiffany?
Chris:How many names do you have, first of all?
Dan:Like 17.
Matt:400, all the names.
Chris:So Matt, while you were gone, we did put a little rule into this. You want to explain it, Dan?
Dan:Do we?
Chris:Yeah.
Dan:I don’t know if I like it.
Chris:I do.
Dan:Okay, all right.
Chris:I like it.
Dan:So if there’s a name that you cannot agree on or a number that you, whatever the item is, if you cannot agree on, you can hold it for three-
Chris:Three more things. Three more thing.
Matt:Oh, like you can freeze it.
Chris:Freeze it, yeah.
Matt:Okay.
Chris:But then it has to be in play.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:If you freeze it, you can’t dump it.
Dan:You can’t veto it.
Chris:You can’t veto it?
Dan:Yeah.
Chris:Okay, yeah.
Dan:If you’re going to hold onto it, you can’t veto it.
Chris:You can’t veto it.
Dan:I like that rule, that makes it more difficult. Tiffany, man, but I don’t-
Matt:Most of Tiffany’s I know are pretty cool.
Mark:Four.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:So Mark’s had a bad Tiffany.
Mark:Not really. But I think of Tiffany, I think of Airhead.
Matt:I’m thinking of a Tiffany that worked for me at the strip club that went by Bubbles, so that fits.
Dan:I think a part of this is that we have to talk about our personal experiences. I don’t think I’ve ever dated a Tiffany.
Matt:I don’t think I have either.
Dan:There’s not a lot of Tiffany’s that grew up around me.
Chris:I don’t hate the name Tiffany, that’s kind of my childhood << Running through the forest and the… >>
Dan:Wasn’t there a pop artist in the ’80s, Tiffany.
Matt:There was.
Chris:Yeah, and she’s pretty cool.
Matt:She was a hot redhead.
Chris:I’ve met her and she’s actually pretty good-looking now.
Mark:The question is, if your friend setting you up said her name was Tiffany or Tiff, would it make a difference?
Dan:To me I’m stepping away if it was Tiffany Jo, if the middle name or a second name is involved, it’s definitely crazy.
Chris:I think that’s like-
Matt:That’s any.
Chris:I feel like that’s any, like any.
Matt:I dated a Bobby Jo once, she was pretty nuts, but a lot of fun.
Dan:I don’t know. I was thinking about this with Scarlett. Sarah’s like, “Well, I want to call her Scarlett Jo.” And I’m like, “No, we can’t.”
Matt:Don’t make her crazy just by nature.
Dan:Unless we have to move to the trailer park, we cannot call her Stephanie or-
Chris:<< I think we’re alone now >>
Matt:Now any of them.
Dan:Yeah.
Chris:<< Doesn’t seem to be anyone around >>
Kevin:[inaudible 00:51:26].
Dan:Kevin said she’s going to make you breakfast.
Chris:<< I think we’re alone now >>
Dan:And that might sell it for me.
Chris:Breakfast in Tiffany’s. Yes, Kevin. See, I don’t hate the name Tiffany. I actually don’t.
Dan:You guys can’t veto it. I think Mark, you said four?
Chris:Oh gosh, that’s 6 to 10. It’s not a bad name. We’re going to do it like worst names, right? Number one is the worst.
Dan:Is guaranteed crazy.
Chris:All right.
Dan:And I think I’ve got at least three candidates in here.
Chris:All right.
Dan:Man, I don’t know, seven, eight for me.
Matt:I would be on the higher end of the spectrum, yeah.
Dan:We’re not talking about your autism.
Matt:Darn.
Dan:Come on, Frankie.
Mark:I will go with whatever the group on it.
Dan:I heard a seven.
Matt:I’d be like seven or eight.
Chris:Let’s do seven.
Dan:Tiffany’s going into seven. Monique.
Chris:<< I think we’re alone now >>
Matt:Whoa.
Mark:Whoa. One with a bullet.
Matt:Wow. An asterisk and an explanation behind it. That was fast.
Dan:Geez.
Matt:That was real fast. See, and I was going to say, let’s veto it.
Chris:Oh my word. No comment. Veto.
Dan:If you don’t know why that’s so funny, go back and listen to previous episodes, it’ll become very funny.
Chris:All of them.
Matt:Oh man, I have tears in my ears
Mark:Now don’t get me wrong. I love my wife, but she is fucking nuts.
Dan:I’ve known a couple of Moniques in my life and they’ve been borderlines.
Matt:I’ve known a couple.
Chris:Your wife is one of the sweetest, I am not on the day-to-day, but she is literally one of the sweetest human beings I’ve ever met in my entire life.
Matt:She’s nice.
Chris:I wouldn’t put her as crazy.
Dan:She’s fucking crazy.
Chris:Was she crazy before?
Mark:No.
Chris:Okay, so it’s the disease.
Dan:Yeah, it’s the disease.
Matt:She’s had help.
Dan:She’s had some help. All right, are we vetoing or going with it? Because that was mostly a joke.
Chris:It’s not number one for me, I won’t say number one.
Matt:Honestly, I think current relationships probably should get vetoed.
Dan:Okay.
Matt:Just to save all of us.
Dan:All right, deal.
Matt:But we can still talk shit.
Dan:We’re vetoing.
Matt:All right, let’s veto it.
Dan:We’re vetoing Monique. Let’s go-
Chris:[inaudible 00:54:00].
Dan:Well, let’s go with the inspiration behind this list. Heather.
Matt:I’ve known a few crazy Heathers.
Chris:I’ve known a few crazy. That’s middle of the road for me.
Matt:It’d probably be like a four or five.
Chris:Yep, yep.
Dan:Okay.
Mark:Mark, a five.
Chris:Yeah, five.
Dan:Five?
Matt:Yeah, I’m going to agree with that because I’ve known some cool Heathers too.
Chris:Yeah, yeah.
Dan:Lindsay.
Chris:(singing)
Matt:Oh, I know one Lindsay and she’s batshit crazy.
Chris:I don’t know too many Lindsay’s, so I can’t-
Dan:I’ve known a couple, it was mostly in high school. There was a couple of Lindsay’s in our school.
Chris:And you have 17 names?
Dan:I have 18 now because I thought of another one.
Chris:Oh, shits. I think-
Mark:The problem we have here is a lot of this is generational.
Chris:Sure
Dan:True.
Chris:There were no Lindsay’s when I was growing up.
Dan:That’s true.
Matt:Lindsey Buckingham.
Chris:That’s a dude, right?
Matt:Yeah.
Dan:Oh, and last name too.
Matt:Okay, all right.
Dan:All right, Lindsay?
Chris:I feel like that’s a veto one maybe.
Matt:Yeah, I think we have a lot of vetoes today.
Dan:Okay. Yeah, we have 18 options. Karen.
Matt:She’s just a bitch.
Chris:How is it spelled?
Dan:K-A-R-E-N.
Matt:Karen.
Dan:Yeah. I know a Karen and she is an absolutely amazing woman.
Chris:I am the same way. And I feel bad for said like Karen’s, because they aren’t Karen’s and-
Dan:Karen’s took a big hit with the online Karen’s.
Chris:When did that first start?
Dan:Oh God, that’s been-
Chris:I know, but what was the-
Matt:COVID-ish?
Dan:I think it was pre-COVID.
Matt:Was it?
Dan:Let’s see if Google knows.
Chris:That had to be during the last time Trump won or ran for-
Dan:2014 is when it first started appearing on Reddit. It hit Urban Dictionary in 2018.
Matt:Karen would be a higher number for me.
Dan:You’ve got 8, 9, and 10?
Chris:Four? Oh, higher.
Matt:Yeah, higher on the… Because one of my best friend’s moms was Karen and she was one of the sweetest women ever.
Dan:Okay. Mark, how do you feel about Karen?
Mark:[inaudible 00:56:21].
Chris:I’ll put it at a 10.
Dan:10? Sherry. I’m totally kidding.
Chris:No you’re not, you have it right on there.
Dan:Vetoed it.
Matt:How’s it spelled?
Chris:But it’s not-
Matt:How’s it spelled?
Dan:I had Monique, Sherry, Jen and Sarah. I had all of our significant others on there. Then Matt’s like, “I think we should automatically veto.”
Matt:I didn’t say past relationships.
Chris:Yeah-
Dan:That’s why I left Sherry on there. I took Jen and Sarah off.
Matt:She still wouldn’t be a top five, but she has her moments.
Chris:She’s the only Sherry I know.
Dan:S-H-E-R-R-Y.
Matt:No.
Dan:Oh, yours was C-H-E-R-I.
Matt:C-H-E-R-I-E.
Dan:I-E?
Matt:I-E.
Dan:Also, it does determine how she spells it.
Chris:Yeah, absolutely. Man, I know our Sherri.
Dan:I took Sherry off there, I was just kidding around. Crystal?
Chris:That’s not so much a crazy name as a stripper name.
Matt:It’s definitely a stripper name.
Dan:Matt’s sitting at the orientation and somebody’s like, “We just hired some new people.” And Matt’s like, “Here comes a crystal. We got another crystal.”
Chris:Crystal one with a C, or Krystal with a K.
Matt:And she was nuts With a Y in the middle of it.
Dan:That’s a recent thing, I think.
Matt:Crystal.
Dan:Crystal.
Chris:With the Y in it.
Dan:Where’s Crystal at?
Matt:She was nuts. She liked to throw tacos at people.
Mark:I would put her at-
Matt:Like literal tacos.
Dan:Hard shell or soft shell?
Matt:Soft shell.
Dan:Her taco or-
Matt:No, they were my taco.
Chris:Real tacos. I wouldn’t be mad about that, she’s just trying to feed the masses.
Dan:She’s throwing her taco at people, she’s a good strip.
Matt:It was not a pink taco.
Dan:Okay. Crystal?
Mark:I would put it at like eight.
Dan:Really?
Mark:I just feel like eight.
Dan:I know a couple of crazy crystals.
Matt:I’d probably go a little closer to one on that.
Dan:Six?
Matt:Maybe a six.
Dan:Would you go top five?
Matt:She was fucking nuts. I’d probably go like a three.
Dan:Three? Chris?
Matt:Three or four.
Dan:You compromising there?
Matt:I’ll do four. I’ll do four.
Dan:Four?
Matt:I’ll do four.
Dan:Four. Mark, you good with four? Mark’s good with four. Brandy?
Matt:Is it bad that I just keep going back to strippers that I know?
Chris:Well, is it bad that Dan’s just picking stripper names?
Dan:This entire list is totally our experiences in life.
Matt:Because I have a, you said brandy? I have a brandy that used to date one of the pizza moguls here in town that’s a fucking nut job.
Chris:Pizza guy.
Dan:The Godfather’s guy?
Matt:He’s just a little pizza mogul.
Chris:The pizza mogul. Made my fortune on pizzas, I’m a mogul.
Matt:And cocaine. Pizza and cocaine.
Dan:He’s the Godfather’s guy, since he?
Matt:“Do it.”
Chris:“Do it. Do it. Do it.”
Matt:No, that’s Little Caesars. All right. Crystal is fourth. Brandy?
Chris:Brandy?
Mark:That’s way up there.
Matt:Yeah. Brandy’s like a two or three.
Dan:I think Brandy is-
Chris:Is with an I or a Y?
Dan:Well, I’m going to change it to an I.
Matt:That makes it way crazier.
Chris:Then we’re top three.
Matt:She’s definitely like top two or three.
Dan:I think Brandi is very sensible, but she goes through bipolar issues and-
Matt:Will cut you.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:I watched the Brandi that I know set a car on fire.
Dan:Dude, that’s easily top three.
Matt:It said pizza mogul bought for her. It was a purple Mustang convertible.
Dan:You’ve got one, two and three left. Three?
Matt:Yeah, three.
Dan:Three. Mark?
Mark:Three’s fine.
Dan:Three’s good? Shannon? Now I feel like I’m a little tainted in this because of Shannon Doherty.
Matt:We know a crazy Shannon.
Chris:Yep. Not like upper spectrum crazy, but like eight, nine crazy Shannon.
Dan:You got eight and nine available.
Matt:I don’t know. She locked old boy in his room when they lived together.
Chris:Who?
Matt:Schmiker.
Chris:Oh, that Shannon, yeah. Oh, crap.
Matt:Yeah, she’s up there. She locked him in his video game room from the outside and wouldn’t let him out.
Dan:That sounds awesome.
Matt:It’s crazy.
Chris:That does sounds awesome.
Dan:I remember when I got a gaming console, my parents put me in my room for timeout and I was like, “This is great. I’m doing this more often.”
Chris:His dad passed away.
Dan:Shannon.
Chris:His dad passed
Matt:Sorry.
Dan:All right, Shannon?
Chris:Yeah, since you mentioned that one, that might be a two.
Matt:I try to find the craziest one in the list.
Dan:Mark, you ever had a Shannon?
Chris:There’s also a six, an eight and a nine. But I also feel like there might be crazier people than Shannon.
Matt:I’d give her a six.
Chris:So six, yeah. Six.
Dan:Mark, you ever had a crazy Shannon?
Mark:She wasn’t completely crazy. I go with 8 and 9, 10.
Dan:Eight and nine are available.
Matt:I’m good with eight.
Chris:Yeah, I’m cool with eight.
Matt:She was nuts though.
Chris:Eight. We said eight, not nine, eight.
Dan:Oh, thank you.
Chris:Yeah.
Dan:Rebecca?
Chris:I don’t know really any-
Dan:Shorted to Becca.
Chris:Becca.
Matt:Or Beck.
Mark:Or Becky.
Matt:Becky.
Chris:Becky. All fond memories of Becky’s, for me.
Matt:I would veto that one.
Chris:I’m going to veto her, my main one.
Matt:My main Rebecca was pretty awesome-
Chris:Because they’re pretty fun.
Dan:You’ve got five names left and one, two, three, four spots left. I did end up taking out several of the names that-
Chris:Okay.
Matt:Okay.
Chris:And I also realized I put one in twice, which was-
Kevin:Hey, hey, hey.
Dan:Teddy.
Chris:Teddy.
Dan:Teddy.
Kevin:Teddy, teddy.
Dan:Next up, Allison?
Matt:See, the Allison’s I know were just weird. They weren’t like crazy, they were just weird.
Dan:Weird, Alleys. I don’t know-
Mark:I would have to go high on the list, one, two, three.
Dan:You could veto one more.
Chris:I would veto Allison.
Kevin:Okay, I told you-
Dan:Wait a minute, did we decide on Becca, Rebecca?
Matt:I would say veto or Rebecca or Becca or any of that stuff.
Dan:We’ll wait until Ted calms down.
Mark:Put him in his kennel.
Dan:All right. Did we decide on Rebecca, Becca?
Chris:Didn’t we-
Matt:Mine would’ve either been veto or 10.
Chris:Didn’t we veto that one?
Dan:I didn’t.
Chris:I thought we vetoed because I know a lot of like Becky’s-
Dan:We did. Sorry, we vetoed it.
Chris:Because they’re cool people.
Matt:For the most part, there’s a lot of them out there.
Dan:Allison? No more vetoes left by the way.
Chris:No more vetoes?
Mark:I put Allison as high on the list as we have.
Chris:I feel like you need to tell this story. I feel like you need to tell the story.
Mark:I had a bartender named-
Chris:Okay, Alley.
Mark:… Alley.
Dan:Okay.
Mark:And she was fucking nuts.
Dan:One or two?
Matt:She was a sweetheart though, but she was out there.
Dan:They can do that, they’re very chameleon-like.
Chris:I would put them low, like the lowest one that we got. Nine.
Dan:Six or nine?
Chris:Nine. I don’t know. I know a lot of alleys that are really, really great and they’re not-
Dan:Mark’s pretty adamant, high on list. So I-
Matt:Alley was weird, I think six is good.
Dan:Six?
Matt:I know a couple weird Alleys.
Dan:Okay.
Chris:Alley still always reaches out and wishes me happy birthday. So she’s not overly crazy. She’s good.
Dan:Boy, Ted. In your kennel.
Matt:Yeah, he doesn’t bark that much in a week.
Dan:Ashley?
Matt:Well, I’ve got a cousin, Ashley, and she’s bad-shit crazy.
Dan:Ashley. Ash?
Chris:Yep, nine.
Mark:Nine is fine.
Matt:That’s fine. That’s fine.
Dan:Kimberly? Kim. Kimmy.
Mark:Kimberly, a lot depends on how they introduce themselves.
Dan:Oh.
Mark:If they introduce themselves as Kim, not crazy.
Matt:Probably pretty normal.
Chris:There’s so many-
Dan:I’m going to submit mine number one because my mother-in-law’s name is Kimberly.
Matt:Oh. Yeah, but if they introduce themselves as Kimmy.
Chris:“I’m Kimmy.”
Matt:Oh yeah, you’re going to bleach my clothes after we’re done dating
Dan:Chris?
Chris:Man, we got one and two, right?
Dan:Got one and two.
Mark:Put that one on the hold.
Matt:Yeah.
Chris:Because we got two left, right?
Dan:Yeah. So last option. Christina, Chrissy?
Mark:Oh, God.
Matt:Tina.
Dan:Tina. Man, there’s a lot.
Matt:There’s just too many aliases with that.
Mark:I would go number one, no question about it.
Matt:Wow.
Dan:Can you share?
Matt:She’d probably bleached Marks clothes.
Mark:Let’s just say I dated a Chris and to Christie and in their own way, they were both nuts.
Matt:I know some Christie’s that are… Yeah, yeah.
Chris:I know Christina, she’s super hot.
Dan:One or two?
Mark:I’d go one.
Dan:Matt?
Matt:I’m fine with one.
Chris:Fine.
Dan:Chris, one? All right. That puts Kimberly at two. Our top 10 craziest women names, stay away from Christina in all iterations. Kimberly, then Brandi, Crystal, and Heather comes in at five. Allison, Tiffany, Shannon, Ashley, and Karen is at the end.
Chris:We have no Melissa? Like no Melissa? Like no Melissa?
Dan:Oh, Melissa would’ve been a good one. It didn’t show up on any of my Google lists.
Matt:Melissa would be a resounding one for me.
Dan:My favorite thing I saw was-
Chris:“Oh, you’re such a cute little doggy.”
Matt:“The cheeseburger.”
Dan:There was a radio station that posted an article of top 15 craziest women names, and that’s kind of what I went off of. Of course, there’s 9,000 comments of tagging their friend. Brandi should definitely be added, that’s why I added Brandi.
Chris:Kelly, Stephanie.
Dan:There’s a few more that I’m Facebook friends with and a couple of ex’s, so I don’t want to catch hell for mentioning them. Absolutely correct on the L rule in the names, if there’s multiple L’s, they’re absolutely crazy.
Matt:Yeah.
Chris:Multiple L’s, that’s hilarious.
Dan:One person says, ‘Great, my first and middle name are on the list.”
Matt:Oh, wow.
Dan:Mona, which actually made me think of Monique.
Matt:Mona.
Dan:Said, “Ha, I’m safe.” No you’re not. No you are not.
Matt:Mona.
Chris:Monique is actually on this list that I’m looking at her right now.
Dan:The other thing I thought about wrapping up this episode, which we’re getting a little bit [inaudible 01:07:46]-
Chris:Deborah.
Dan:… so we can’t close it up-
Matt:Debbie,
Dan:… is thought it’d be fun if we told our favorite or our best crazy girlfriend stories.
Chris:No, let’s just wrap it up. Let’s just wrap it up.
Dan:That’s going to do it for us today-
Matt:It’s a good motto
Dan:The next Whiskey Wednesday coming up?
Matt:It’ll be on a Wednesday.
Dan:In April.
Matt:Yeah.
Dan:Tuesday’s the 1st, so it’ll be the 2nd?
Chris:Sure.
Dan:I think Tuesday’s the 1st? Yeah. Yep. So Wednesday, April 2nd, we’ll get you guys information and details to come. Make sure to like and share the Library Pubcast and get on the Library Pub Facebook page for details and information about events coming up, specials, all that kind of fun stuff. From Matt, Mark, Chris, I’m Dan. Bye, everybody.
Chris:Bye.
Matt:Fuck them tacos.

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