Podcast Transcription
| Dan: | Episode 253 of the Library Pubcast. Being recorded, 90th and Fort in Omaha, Nebraska. Coming up day after Publication Day. That is this Thursday right? The slideshow in Kinkaider takeover? |
| Matt: | The Sideshow Kinkaider tap takeover whiskey pairing thingamabober. |
| Dan: | Is that this Thursday? |
| Matt: | Yes. Yes. Tomorrow. |
| Dan: | So, it’s tomorrow. Yeah. I just saw it yesterday when I was working at the pub and I didn’t ask for a date, but I assumed it was this coming Thursday. But anyways, it’s going to be four Sideshow bourbons paired with probably four or five- |
| Matt: | Some Sideshow beer. |
| Dan: | … Kinkaider beers? |
| Matt: | Sure. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Those guys too. These burritos are delicious. |
| Chris: | I know. |
| Dan: | They’re really good. |
| Chris: | They really are. |
| Dan: | And they’re oddly filling. I always buy like four or five of them for myself and then I eat one and I’m like, you know what? I’m actually good. |
| Matt: | They really hit the spot. |
| Chris: | I think I can only do maybe two in a sitting. Like maybe, but I usually get the bacon, egg and cheese bagel and one, and I put all the hot sauce on it. |
| Dan: | We’re talking about the ones from McDonald’s. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | They’re nice and easy, simple, probably healthy for you. |
| Matt: | And not expensive. |
| Mark: | I couldn’t eat it. I can’t swallow it. |
| Dan: | So Kinkaider and slideshow… Sideshow, damn it, have a partnership. Are they same ownership group or is it just that they kind of work together? |
| Mark: | Same owner. |
| Dan: | Same ownership group. Kip, a former guest on the library pub cast is going to come in. |
| Matt: | Allegedly. |
| Dan: | Very- |
| Mark: | Odd. |
| Matt: | Kip’s a nice guy. |
| Dan: | He’s a great guy. |
| Mark: | He’s [inaudible 00:01:47]. |
| Dan: | I don’t like to use the word odd because whenever I hear it I hear like an old Jewish woman going, “He’s kind of odd.” It’s a real dig. He’s eclectic, he’s different, he’s an interesting guys who’s a little odd. |
| Matt: | Little different. |
| Dan: | And that’s totally fine. |
| Chris: | Doesn’t follow the norms. |
| Dan: | Yeah, that’s right. |
| Chris: | It’s fine. It’s all right. We need those people. |
| Dan: | He’s got an amazing beard, right? |
| Matt: | He does have a good beard. |
| Dan: | Very Kevin-esque circa 2019. |
| Chris: | Yes. |
| Matt: | Kevin could have been in ZZ Top with his beard. Other than the fact- |
| Dan: | I think Kevin wasn’t ZZ Top and he shaved it because they kicked him out. |
| Matt: | He’s way too skinny to be in ZZ Top. |
| Dan: | And young. |
| Matt: | And doesn’t know how to play any instruments. |
| Dan: | That does hinder him a little. |
| Matt: | Maybe like the slide-whistle and cowbell. Yeah. |
| Dan: | All right, so get out of here on Thursday starting at about 5:00. They’re going to do some pairings and tastings. This isn’t going to be like a typical Whiskey Wednesday where it’s a sit-down, talk about the bourbons, talk about this. It’s kind of more of the tap takeovers where you come at your leisure and you try them. |
| Matt: | Yeah. And the guys from Kinkaider will be here just kind of wandering around, answering questions, talking about their stuff. Kinkaider and Sideshow, or slideshow. |
| Dan: | Tap takeovers are a lot of fun and there’s one coming tomorrow on Thursday, June something. Weekends, quite a bit happened in the world. |
| Matt: | It was a weekend. |
| Dan: | Yeah. There was almost a political fight up here yesterday. |
| Chris: | Oh really? |
| Dan: | Really. That perked Mark up. |
| Matt: | Well, it wasn’t really a fight. |
| Mark: | Ellie? |
| Dan: | Nope. Not two people you would’ve thought. |
| Matt: | No. |
| Dan: | Steve Coppard and Jeremiah. |
| Mark: | Oh, yeah. |
| Matt: | Which Miller was was in on that too. |
| Dan: | I didn’t think it was getting out of hand until Miller said, “I’m going to move over here and make sure he doesn’t punch him.” I’m like, “Oh.” |
| Mark: | Jeremiah is about as far right as you can get. |
| Dan: | He is. |
| Mark: | And Coppard is a socialist. |
| Chris: | I bet that was fun. |
| Dan: | But it was what it needed to be. It was a good conversation. Nobody got offended. Everybody was being respectful. The only person I think that really got offended was Sarah Miller. She got really mad. |
| Matt: | She got up and went and sat elsewhere for a little bit, but everyone survived it. |
| Dan: | They broke one of the three rules while at a bar. Don’t talk about love, politics or religion. |
| Matt: | Well, love’s going to get talked about. That’s just one of those things that people cry into their drinks. |
| Dan: | But it’s a good thing to avoid because it generally creates emotions that don’t pair well with lots of alcohol. |
| Matt: | Politics and religion are the two bad ones. |
| Dan: | Yes. |
| Matt: | Okay. |
| Dan: | Also don’t fall asleep at the Library Pub. That’s a no-no. |
| Matt: | No, we’ll wake you up. |
| Mark: | Who fell asleep? |
| Dan: | Nobody. I was just saying that one in there too. |
| Matt: | It’s a hint. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Not try and get political. |
| Dan: | Yep. But I’m going to get political. |
| Matt: | But here we go. |
| Mark: | I’ve watched the news all weekend, there’s riots in LA. |
| Dan: | No, there’s protests in LA. |
| Mark: | Riot, protests. You say this, I say- |
| Dan: | I don’t believe any property was damaged. Anybody was hurt. |
| Mark: | The car burning in middle of the street was part of it. Anyway, I don’t care. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Mark: | I don’t care who’s right and who’s wrong. Doesn’t matter to me. This is what I don’t understand. Why if you’re protesting to stay in the United States, there are a bunch of cars driving around with Mexican flags hanging up? |
| Dan: | Because it was an immigration protest. |
| Mark: | No, it was a… Okay. |
| Matt: | It was against ICE and their activities. |
| Mark: | But why if you want to stay here, are you waving a Guatemalan flag? |
| Dan: | Because the point is that you can come here and be here and as long as you obtain legal citizenship, you could still be proud of your former country. |
| Mark: | And we agree. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Nevermind. |
| Matt: | I think part of the problem was they’re deporting people that are actually here legally. |
| Dan: | Yes. That does seem to be- |
| Matt: | I think that’s a- |
| Dan: | …the contention that I’m hearing. |
| Matt: | … a large part of the problem. |
| Dan: | Yes. All right. We ready to try some whiskey? |
| Mark: | We didn’t do Weekends. We didn’t- |
| Dan: | Well, I was just going to say, unless we had some Weekends we were going to talk about it. |
| Matt: | I golfed in the rain yesterday. That was pretty dumb. |
| Dan: | You did? Did you have a puddle in your pocket afterwards? |
| Matt: | I did not have a puddle in my pocket. |
| Chris: | That was weird. That rain was weird. I woke up kind of early to go get some coffee and then I came back and sat down on the couch and then it started raining and I had no idea it starting raining. |
| Dan: | It was very, very light rain. |
| Matt: | It was really nice when we got to the course [inaudible 00:06:55]. |
| Mark: | There was no rain early. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | It was like 9:00. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it was so weird. |
| Mark: | There’s rain. What the fuck? |
| Matt: | Yep. And it rained hard and then it didn’t rain and then it was mist and then it would rain hard again. It was a great time at the golf course. |
| Dan: | And it was straight down rain too. A lot of times rain gets moved a little bit- |
| Matt: | Yeah, there was no wind. |
| Dan: | … by the wind or the breeze or anything. But as I was driving out to work at right around 10:00 AM, there was about four or five sections of the interstate, as I’m driving west on 80 before I get to 680, that went from wet to completely dry. |
| Matt: | It was like straight. |
| Mark: | Were you actually driving or was your car driving? |
| Dan: | I was driving. I actually got plenty of sleep so I didn’t let my car drive. |
| Matt: | You got motivated yesterday. Good job, Dan. |
| Dan: | I had a little extra energy. |
| Mark: | Do you still have auto drive on your car? |
| Dan: | The basic version, not the full version. I’m not paying 100 bucks a month for that, although- |
| Matt: | 100 a month? |
| Dan: | … some nights- |
| Chris: | It’s really not that bad, when you can expense it, right? |
| Dan: | … that’s kind of worth it. That’s what pisses me off about that is I’m like, I could justify that- |
| Chris: | Yeah, you could. |
| Dan: | … six ways from Wednesday. |
| Chris: | And you could write it off. |
| Mark: | One- |
| Dan: | [inaudible 00:08:08] by the way. |
| Mark: | … DUI would pay for two years. |
| Dan: | Oh, definitely. Definitely. |
| Chris: | That’s true. That is true. |
| Dan: | So Matt, you golfed? |
| Matt: | Yep. Golfed. Really, that was about my excitement for the weekend was golfing and walking outside in the morning going, wow, it’s really nice out not checking the weather. Everyone else in the entire group of eight of us had raincoats and stuff that goes along with staying dry. |
| Mark: | We did have a D3 sighting on Sunday. |
| Dan: | Let’s get back to that. Right now we’re talking about Matt’s weekend. |
| Matt: | So yeah, that was about it for me for this weekend. |
| Dan: | Fantastic. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | So Dan, the third came in on Sunday night? |
| Dan: | No. |
| Mark: | Early day. |
| Dan: | Before I got here? |
| Mark: | Yes, but he drank Monster. |
| Dan: | Chris, how was your weekend? |
| Matt: | Go Brown. |
| Chris: | It was good. I mean, it was okay. Howie was sick for the most part of all the weekend. He got better on Sunday, but it was mostly just hanging out. I had a mustache photo shoot on Saturday morning for Mustache for Kids for finishing how I finished. So yeah, that’s going to be a fun 15-month calendar that starts in May. |
| Dan: | Fun. I was actually thinking you guys need to do a calendar. |
| Chris: | We are. We are. So it’s usually they did the top 15 growers and then the two major winners of the Stashies, which is Rookie of the Year and the Sweetest Stash. So anyway, that’s what I did. |
| Mark: | Before everybody got here, Chris had AI create a theme song for mustaches. I looked into it. I think we need one for the podcast. |
| Dan: | Do we? |
| Chris: | We might. |
| Mark: | Oh yeah. Oh yeah. |
| Dan: | There’s obviously a lot of, which you want to call it? God, what am I even thinking of? The term for cautionary tales about AI? That’s the term I’m trying to think about. |
| Chris: | Dude, we’re going to be dumb. Like, we’re going to be so dumb. |
| Matt: | It’s Wall-E getting ready to happen. |
| Dan: | We’re already dumb. Let’s just face it. But there’s a couple of things that AI is absolutely nailing it on and I use it almost every day to give me tasting notes, sales tips. You just ask it a question and it generates off of quick internet searches a good response. |
| Chris: | Yeah, absolutely. And literally that feature that you’re using is 10% of what it can do. We can ask it to make a business plan and it would have something for us inside of 24-hours, of just our interests. I could literally ask my ChatGP, “Hey, figure out a business of all the stuff I’ve interview for the mustache in the month of May. Figure out a business for me.” And boom, it will have a business plan. It’ll have a go-to-market date. It’s insane. |
| Matt: | All I can think of when you say that is we’ve all seen A Million Ways to Die in the West, right? |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Yeah, yeah. |
| Matt: | When he walks in to the mustache shop, he’s like, “I want one that goes here and it goes up to here and it turns into my hair, but then it comes down here.” That’s all I can think of is Chris running a mustache shop? |
| Chris: | That is such a funny movie. I showed this Mark we’re kicking around the idea of starting a mustache podcast and we want to do 24 episodes, but it’s mostly a show, a live stupid show with pre-produced items, and this song is the intro and there’s a couple different ones. So I showed Mark the rock one. There’s a rock one where I wanted to be like, “Stash Cash. Stash Cash.” |
| Dan: | Like Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson? |
| Chris: | No, no. Rock and roll. |
| Matt: | Rock and roll. |
| Dan: | Oh, okay. Okay. |
| Matt: | Like Creed. |
| Dan: | Yeah. My next guess was Alcatraz, but I was going to be way off. |
| Chris: | You guys want to hear a snippet of one? |
| Dan: | Sure. If we can hear it. |
| Matt: | I don’t see how we say no. |
| Chris: | So here’s the rock one and then I’ll show you the punk. Which one do you want to do? |
| Mark: | The German one is the best. |
| Chris: | I have eight of them. So there’s a rap one, there’s a German one, there’s a rock one. |
| Matt: | I’ve never used- |
| Chris: | There’s an indie rock one. |
| Matt: | … ChatGPT. |
| Dan: | Dude, I used it yesterday. Somebody asked me that Tamagotchi 3 year, and I asked you just out of default and you’re like, “I’m the bourbon guy. I have no idea about a Japanese whiskey.” |
| Matt: | Listen, we might have it. |
| Dan: | So as I’m walking up here, I said, “Tell me tasting notes on the Tamagotchi 3 year. And when I got to the front of the bar, I just read off the tasting notes and the aroma and all that, and she’s like, “That sounds really amazing. I think I’m going to get a pour of that.” And both pours- |
| Chris: | It works. |
| Dan: | … they loved them. But it was so flawless- |
| Chris: | It’s insane, dude. |
| Dan: | … and simple. |
| Chris: | It’s insane. All right, ready? So this is the German one. |
| Dan: | Turn it way up into the mic. |
| Music: | La, la, la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. |
| Matt: | It’s like I’m at Beer Fest. |
| Chris: | It is. |
| Dan: | I really want to tap three right now. Which by the way, our tap three is Warsteiner Dunkel. |
| Chris: | Stop. Now stop. Stop. How do you get it to stop? Oh my God. |
| Matt: | In German you can’t. |
| Chris: | But it’s so funny because it wasn’t quite understanding like, hey, we just need this to be the intro. It doesn’t need to be long. So it created a whole song. There’s even German lines in there that I have no idea what it’s saying. |
| Dan: | Oh my God. |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Chris: | And then they did a rock one. |
| Dan: | We definitely need one for the Library Pub. |
| Chris: | So this is the rock one, which is like, it’s rock. It’s like think- |
| Mark: | Can they do one in Scottish? |
| Chris: | Probably. |
| Dan: | Can we do one in the accent of Brian Scott? |
| Chris: | Yeah, there we go. |
| Dan: | Or Brian Cox. |
| Chris: | I just gave it the lyrics. I just wanted it to say the, “Officially unofficial Stash Cast, because that’s what it’s going to be. And then Stash Cast repeated twice, and here we go. So this is the rock one. This is so cock rock. |
| Dan: | Get it closer. |
| Matt: | This is the eighties hair rock at it’s best. |
| Dan: | I think this is- |
| Music: | Say yeah. Yeah. |
| Dan: | This is a Saturday morning cartoon theme song. |
| Matt: | Dude, this is a song where the guitarist go back to back. |
| Chris: | Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. |
| Music: | The officially unofficial Stash Cash. Stash Cash. |
| Dan: | This is awesome. |
| Mark: | The German one is way better. |
| Dan: | So yeah, I’ve been having fun trying to think of ideas. |
| Matt: | That was just Poison. |
| Dan: | Congratulations. You just volunteered yourself to create the Library Pubcast next music theme song. |
| Chris: | Great. Great. |
| Matt: | Wow. Yeah. |
| Dan: | Congratulations. |
| Mark: | Bumper music. |
| Dan: | Oh, man. |
| Matt: | Stash Cash. |
| Dan: | Man. |
| Chris: | Do you guys want to hear the rap one? The rap one’s pretty good too. |
| Matt: | Oh, my jeez. If we got time. |
| Dan: | No, I don’t care. I don’t like rap. |
| Chris: | This is so fun. But you might like this. |
| Matt: | It’s mustache rap though. |
| Dan: | It’s mustache rap. |
| Chris: | All right. You want to hear it? |
| Matt: | Sure. |
| Dan: | Last one. |
| Matt: | Here it goes. |
| Chris: | Last one. Here we go. |
| Music: | The officially unofficial Stash Cash. |
| Stash in Cash. Stash in Cash. | |
| The officially unofficial Stash Cash. | |
| Stash in Cash. Stash in Cash. | |
| Chris: | That’s just what it said. It’s like I would listen to this. |
| Music: | The officially unofficial Stash Cash. |
| Matt: | This is a bunch of white dudes rapping. |
| Music: | Stash in Cash. Stash in Cash. |
| Dan: | I mean, it is- |
| Music: | The officially unofficial Stash Cash. |
| Dan: | If Vanilla Ice made a song today. All right. |
| Chris: | Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. |
| Dan: | That doesn’t sound a lot like rap. |
| Chris: | Well- |
| Matt: | Top 40 rap. |
| Chris: | Top 40 Rap. That was my weekend. |
| Dan: | Awesome. |
| Chris: | Those were created on a late Saturday night when I was hanging out with Rusty. |
| Matt: | Been drinking. |
| Chris: | Yeah, had some beers. |
| Dan: | Rusty. |
| Chris: | It is, you know. |
| Dan: | All right. My weekends, yeah. I’m going to start one with a downer. I had to put my cat down on Saturday morning. |
| Matt: | I saw that on Facebook. Sorry to hear that. |
| Chris: | Yeah, dude. That sucks. |
| Dan: | It’s a cool story of how I got her and I won’t tell it because it gets boring, but= |
| Chris: | He found her in a trash can and basically brought her home pretty much. |
| Dan: | Bushes in the back of Z92. At the back of the radio studios, and I was trying not to because I already had one cat, and Sarah, we just kind of starting hanging out and literally my thought is, “If I’m going to get this girl to date me, I can’t be a single guy with two cats.” I actually said that to several people. |
| Matt: | That’s fair. |
| Dan: | And she came up to me later and she’s like, “Hey, you know that if you don’t take that cat home that a raccoons going to kill it, right?” |
| Matt: | Wow. That’s a downer. So Dan took it home and ate it. |
| Dan: | I took it home, so I took it home. Yeah. |
| Chris: | Oh, nice. |
| Matt: | Agree. |
| Dan: | Then Saturday night out at the racetrack, we had a great night of racing. Then bartended on Sunday and it was another busy day for Dan’s almost 50th birthday, which is actually today on recording day. |
| Matt: | Today. There are a lot of birthdays going on around here the last week. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I may be poking in the bear a little bit with this, but I think it’s important Library Pub news. Two weeks ago we had Noah’s going away party, Thursday, I think. Well maybe next Sunday we can have Noah’s coming back party because he was planning on moving to Orlando and then things changed and now they’re staying in Omaha, and so this made me think of how many times has insert rock and roll band here, done their farewell tour and then six months later kicked off another world tour? |
| Matt: | He’s just fucking Aerosmith. |
| Mark: | Six months, 10 days. |
| Dan: | I know. |
| Matt: | He just took a vacation. |
| Dan: | Things change. Well, he took more of a vacation when he went to Vegas for three weeks. |
| Matt: | Well, that’s true. |
| Chris: | That was like two weeks. |
| Dan: | Oh yes. Well, still. |
| Matt: | It was kind of a like a month. |
| Dan: | I don’t want to say this. So Noah’s back, maybe. I guess there was conversation of if he was coming back or I don’t know. |
| Matt: | I don’t know, it’s a slippery slope because usually when someone leaves people step into their role, and then a week later when someone wants to come back, their role’s filled. |
| Dan: | Right. |
| Matt: | So kind of start back at the bottom sometimes. Not always. |
| Dan: | I give Noah credit. He turned in his two weeks. |
| Matt: | Sort of. |
| Dan: | He did his thing and he finished out his last shift and had to call in help for his last shift because it was pretty busy that night. |
| Matt: | It was busy. |
| Dan: | But yeah, so we’ll see what happens. But Library Pub is always still hiring, by the way. If you’re a quality bartender that- |
| Mark: | No, we are not. |
| Dan: | Oh, library pub is not hiring. Never mind. |
| Matt: | We were looking for a week or so. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Yeah. I found a guy that I talked to Mark about it, and I talked to him about it. I talked to him about it four times. Like, “Hey, go up and talk to the owner. You’ve got whiskey knowledge, you’re young, you’re a good bartender. Go up and talk to the owner.” |
| Matt: | No. |
| Dan: | Did he ever come talk to you? |
| Matt: | No. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | That’s pretty standard. |
| Dan: | Yeah. These young kids, and by the way, not because I’m old, every kid of every generation has ignored the previous generation trying to set him up with a good job. I don’t know how many times my dad tried to get me to start a lawn mowing business for all the farmers in the area. |
| Matt: | Don’t farmers have lawnmowers? |
| Chris: | You could have made a ton of money. |
| Dan: | We had a lawn mower. I would’ve made a ton of money. No I wish I would’ve done it. |
| Mark: | John Hoy started with one 28 inch push mower. Today’s worth $120 million. |
| Matt: | That’s a lot of money. |
| Dan: | First off- |
| Chris: | A lot of money. |
| Matt: | It’s a lot of yards. |
| Dan: | … 28 inch push mower, that’s not bad. That’s actually bigger than my first riding mower, which I think was 22 inches. Yeah. |
| Matt: | I don’t know how big the mower is that I have. |
| Dan: | Anyways, all right. I’ve got whiskey on my nose. |
| Matt: | That’s weird. |
| Dan: | Oh, Jermaine Pratt just got released from the Bengals. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Not surprised. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Going to save us a ton of money. |
| Dan: | And he’s old. |
| Matt: | And he’s old. |
| Dan: | Oh, the other thing to talk about, which we’ll talk about after we drink this, Aaron Rodgers is officially got a new home. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it’s so funny. I can’t wait for him to experience the AFC North. Going to kill. |
| Dan: | It’s |
| Chris: | Going to be awesome. |
Spey – Chairman’s Choice
| Dan: | Mark, what’s the first whiskey? |
| Chris: | It’s delicious in my glass. Which one is this? |
| Matt: | Oh. |
| Chris: | Spey. Chairman’s Choice. |
| Mark: | That’s really good for cheap-ass whiskey. |
| Matt: | Well, it’s not that cheap. We charge 18 a pour here. |
| Chris: | Is it cheap relatively speaking? |
| Matt: | Cheap compared to well some scotches. Yes. |
| Mark: | This is a strange series of whiskey. They’re custom bottles and they went out and tried to find the best representation of each of the- |
| Matt: | The regions? |
| Mark: | The regions. Thank you. Regions of Scotland. But I mean, the only label on it calls it Chairman’s Choice. I don’t know who’s doing it, been around for a while, but it is very, very tasty. Very luxurious on the palate. |
| Dan: | Single malt whiskey. The secret that cannot be told, only discovered. Keep the secret. Push the buttons. |
| Matt: | The Chairman’s Choice is their current chairman, john McDonough oversees a limited global allocation of Chairman’s Choice. So it’s like one of their super limited. |
| Mark: | That’s really good. |
| Dan: | It’s imported by Keepers Choice in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If anybody needed to know. |
| Chris: | It’s called Spey. |
| Dan: | Spey. S-P-E-Y. |
| Chris: | How do Scottish people say hey? |
| Dan: | Hello. |
| Chris: | Spey. |
| Matt: | Dork. Terrible. Don’t laugh at that. |
| Dan: | I’m sorry. |
| Matt: | It’s not funny at all. |
| Chris: | It’s hilarious. I’m going to keep that one later. It’s hilarious. |
| Dan: | Because this Sunday or this Saturday is Father’s Day tribute at the racetrack. So I make sure, and- |
| Chris: | I just made that up. |
| Dan: | I make sure and tell bad dad jokes. |
| Matt: | No, really? |
| Chris: | I just made that up. I didn’t look that up and whiskey, bad jokes. |
| Dan: | Nice. |
| Chris: | So, pretty clever. |
| Dan: | Congratulations to Buffalo Bill’s quarterback Josh Allen. He finally got a ring. |
| Matt: | He married somebody. |
| Dan: | Married Haley Steinfeld. |
| Chris: | She’s so hot. She’s such a great actress too. |
| Dan: | And a singer too, I don’t know any of her songs. |
| Matt: | Yeah, she was an American Idler back in the day I believe. |
| Chris: | Was she. |
| Dan: | I didn’t pay attention. I guess I shouldn’t act like I know better. I haven’t paid attention since Kelly Clarkson. |
| Chris: | The second… She’s the second… Oh, what’s the singing group? Singing group series of movies. Pitch Perfect. She’s Pitch Perfect. |
| Mark: | The finish on that- |
| Chris: | Second. She’s the second. |
| Mark: | … is very fair blonde. |
| Dan: | Red head? Brown? |
| Chris: | Just keep pulling us back here. |
| Matt: | Oh, she was the one that was in Transformers? |
| Chris: | Correct. |
| Matt: | Okay. No, then I was wrong. |
| Dan: | No, she’s in bumblebee. |
| Matt: | Shut up, Dan. I will punch you in your bumblebee face. |
| Mark: | Stop now. Suffice it to say this is really good whiskey with very nice palm fruit background. |
| Dan: | Yeah, this is good. I get a little bit of non-offensive peediness on it. Well, like I said, non-offensive amount of peediness. |
| Chris: | Yeah, this is nice. It’s a chocolate to it that I’m getting. |
| Dan: | Oh yeah, definitely getting some chocolate finish on that. It’s a nice complex whiskey with no E. $18 a pour available at the Library Pub. There’s plenty of it. It’s over in the- |
| Matt: | Yeah, the bottle’s pretty full. |
| Dan: | … Scottish section. |
| Matt: | Single malts, tall skinny, good-looking bottle. |
| Dan: | So Aaron Rodgers signed a one year $13 million deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers. |
| Chris: | Geezus. It’s so funny. |
| Mark: | Give it the fuck up. |
| Dan: | I think he’s still got a year. |
| Chris: | He’s going to on multiple times. |
| Dan: | He’s got one year. |
| Matt: | He’s getting his last couple paychecks. Give the guy a break. He’s got a lot of crystals and that he needs to buy. |
| Chris: | Yeah, for real. |
| Dan: | Honestly though, I think the Steelers are being built in the preseason to be a really good team this year. They were pretty good last year. It’ll be interesting to see what him and Tomlin do because Rogers has had a habit of influencing the coach. |
| Matt: | Taking things over? |
| Dan: | Yes. Well he got his last coach fired at New York, which I mean, it’s not like he didn’t deserve it, but now it’ll be interesting because Tomlin, they- |
| Chris: | It’s a rather losing season. |
| Dan: | Is there still love in there? |
| Chris: | I think there is a love-hate relationship with Tomlin. I think there is a huge divide of people that think that he is amazing and there’s people that are sick that yes, they don’t have losing records during the season. Yes, they get to the playoffs but they suck in the playoffs since Big Ben. Long time. |
| Dan: | Aaron Rodgers has a more recent playoff win than the Pittsburgh Steelers do. |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Dan: | I think the last Pittsburgh Steelers playoff win was like 2018 or ’19 I saw. |
| Matt: | It’s been a bit. |
| Dan: | Rodgers was 20 or 21. |
| Chris: | I just want to know what’s going to happen with DK Metcalf there and Aaron Rodgers and those two personalities. They got rid of George Pickens, which was great. That would’ve been a horrible mixture in, but who knows? Who knows. |
| Matt: | So how long until the Steelers sign Devonte Adams? |
| Chris: | I don’t know. Is he- |
| Matt: | I think Kevin said a week. |
| Dan: | I thought he signed a full deal with another team like a couple-year deal. |
| Matt: | I don’t know. |
Balblair – 15 Year
| Dan: | Devonte Adams. Anyways. All right, so the first one we just had from Mark was Spey, Chairman’s Choice available for $18 a pour at the Library Pub and that is a full pour. Whiskey number two, Mr. Smith? |
| Mark: | BalBlair15. A Highland Whiskey aged initially in American Oak bourbon barrels and then finished in Sherry barreled. Nice nose. |
| Matt: | It’s not quite as fruity as the last one, but this is still, you can tell it’s a Sherry finished. |
| Dan: | By the way, just to follow up on that, back in March of this year, Devonte Adams signed a two year $44 million deal- |
| Chris: | Rams. |
| Dan: | … with Rams. |
| Chris: | That’s right. That’s right. I remember that. |
| Matt: | That’s where receivers go to die. Not literally. |
| Mark: | Did you know of the weekend in the last couple weeks, global warming is done. |
| Chris: | It’s done? |
| Mark: | Taken care of. |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Mark: | Because Greta Thunberg is now going- |
| Chris: | Oh, Greta. |
| Mark: | … to Gaza and not mentioning global warming. |
| Matt: | Interesting. So it’s done. All right, one last thing, right? |
| Mark: | All finished. |
| Matt: | One less thing to worry about. |
| Dan: | And according to [inaudible 00:29:16], it’s a high of 71 today. |
| Chris: | Yeah, I’m going to be able dream today? |
| Dan: | 73 |
| Matt: | It only got up to like 63 yesterday. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | It was not cool. I mean, it was cool. Like chilly. |
| Dan: | I had to turn the heater on here mostly because all the golfers were coming back and I knew you guys were going to be soaking wet. |
| Matt: | Oh, man. I was so cold. I was sitting here and someone touched my hand and they’re, “Why is your hand so cold?” I was like, “Because my dumb ass played golf in the rain today.” |
| Dan: | All right. BalBlair15. |
| Mark: | Actually, I really enjoyed that Spey we had. I like this better specifically because as Matt said, it’s a little less Sherry finish. Are you laughing at me? |
| Dan: | No. I’ll tell you- |
| Chris: | Now you have to read it. Now you just got caught passing a note, so now you got to read it. |
| Dan: | So do you guys know about this thing I do at the racetrack when they’re trying to start a race or restart a race and we don’t get a lap in because of a caution. I have the crowd take a drink of their beer, their pop, their water, whatever. It’s been something I started years ago and it’s caught on. Now somebody just tagged me in a post. “You never really know how much your toddler pays attention until they shock you with this morning my son held up his milk and said, “Take a drink.” |
| Matt: | That’s funny. That’s really funny. |
| Chris: | That’s hilarious. |
| Dan: | “This is not the first time that Dan Taylor has been quoted in our household.” |
| Chris: | That’s awesome. |
| Matt: | That’s really funny. |
| Dan: | I’m sort of- |
| Matt: | It means people are paying attention to you at the very least. |
| Chris: | Probably makes you feel good a little bit. |
| Dan: | It’s not the audience I look to but that’s the reason why the last year and a half I’ve changed it to, “If it’s a beer, if it’s a pop, if it’s water, take a drink.” Whatever you want. |
| Matt: | You’re just conditioning future race fans. |
| Dan: | That’s right. And selling some beer. |
| Chris: | And hydrating people. |
| Dan: | Mark, I’m sorry I interrupted your BalBlair15. |
| Mark: | Oh, I’m just saying I like it better than that Spey we tried. Even though the Spey was really good, as Matt said, this is a little less fruit forward. I think it’s more well-balanced. |
| Matt: | Yeah. Compared to the other one, the Spey’s almost candy-ish. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Matt: | Compared to the BalBlair, which they’re both very good. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Is it just me or do I have a tough time not hearing, “Jay. He’s a ball chinny-in.” Whenever. |
| Chris: | What does that mean? |
| Matt: | I have a ball chinny in picture from a vacation. Someone took a picture of me from underwater and just my chin is underwater. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Yeah. It’s a ball chinny-in. |
| Dan: | You’re a ball chinny-in. BalBlair15. This does have quite a bit more complexity to it. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | I guess I would say more loud complexity. As to where the Spey, it had a lot of difference to it and it changed on the tongue quite a bit, but it just was more subtle. |
| Chris: | Here’s what’s interesting to me on this, so on the front label it says, “Matured initially in American Oak ex-Bourbon casts. Followed by the rich influence of first fill Spanish oak butts.” Butts are bigger than cast, so are they taking this ex-Bourbon cast, which both of these could be completely different and dumping them into a butt. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Matt: | That’s what it sounds like. |
| Chris: | Interesting. Super interesting. That could be completely different Bourbon’s that are being blended in that. |
| Mark: | If you look up barrel size, there’s like- |
| Chris: | There’s tons of them. Yeah. |
| Mark: | … pipes and butts. |
| Chris: | Yep. |
| Mark: | And actually, one that’s two smaller ones is a Bourbon barrel. |
| Chris: | So it’s really not getting super influence of oak, Spanish oak. Just that’s probably a ton of gallonage. I don’t know. That’s interesting to me that it would go from a size to another size. |
| Mark: | Dan, I don’t find the flavor loud. Actually, it’s a little more subdued than the Spey. |
| Dan: | Really? |
| Mark: | Because that’s not super sweet forward. It kind of is a combo of all that you like in a good scotch. |
| Dan: | I get a little more burniness to it, so I think that’s where I’m getting loud from. |
| Chris: | I do on the mouth a little bit, but it goes away pretty quickly and then it’s warmth. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | It’s 40… Shit, I can’t read that. 46%, it looks like. |
| Chris: | 500 liters is a butt. |
| Dan: | All right. That was BalBlair15. |
| Chris: | Which is only slightly smaller than a pipe which is significantly smaller than a drum and a gorda and a tune. Wow. There are. There’s one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 different types of casts. |
| Dan: | Wow. That’s a little excessive. |
| Matt: | That’s a lot of stuff. |
| Dan: | Can we narrow that down to single digits? |
| Matt: | Let’s do like three. |
| Dan: | Come on. Did anybody see the picture going around Facebook of the guy that went to the baseball game, sat behind home plate and dressed like Bernie from Weekend at Bernie’s? |
| Chris: | No, but that’s awesome. |
| Matt: | That’s hilarious. |
| Chris: | Did he just not move position? |
| Dan: | I couldn’t tell in the picture but he looked really still in the picture. |
| Chris: | You’re an idiot. You’re an idiot. He had the glasses on and he was kind of cocked to the side a little bit. |
| Matt: | Just kind of hunched over. |
| Chris: | I’m getting to the age that I could be that guy as for Halloween now I feel like, with my mustache. |
| Dan: | I think you should. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Do you know the guy that played Bernie is from Omaha? |
| Chris: | Yeah, I did know that. |
| Dan: | What? |
| Chris: | He did. |
| Matt: | At Westside High School. |
| Dan: | Easiest acting job ever. |
| Chris: | Didn’t he pass away? |
| Mark: | I think they paid him well. |
| Matt: | I’m not sure if did or not? |
| Chris: | I’ll look. |
| Dan: | I think they had to pay him well because of SAG minimums, compared to the rest of us. |
| Matt: | They paid him well enough they made a second one. |
| Dan: | Yeah, he was in the second one too, right? |
| Matt: | Yeah. Which I’m not sure how that works, because you would think he’d be a little decomposed. Just a touch. Everyone around him would be like, “What’s that smell?” |
| Chris: | How can you act with that, dude? Even watching this GIF of them acting with him, how do you not laugh? |
| Matt: | Keep that look on your face the whole time. |
| Chris: | Yes. |
| Dan: | I mean, if you’re the director, you got to make a couple of jokes of, “All right Bernie, that was a good one but we need you a little more dead next time.” |
| Matt: | Just a little better. |
| Dan: | Just a little more dead. “Thank you. Let’s roll again.” |
| Chris: | This is funny. You said something about SAG and it popped up. So played by Terry Kaiser, is his name is portrayed as a dead guy, but in reality he’s an actor acting as a corpse. Due to actor’s union rules at the time, the role of the deceased character was not typically given to a living actor. Despite this, Kaiser was required to portray Bernie as if he were dead, which included being dragged and dropped around for much of the film. He even suffered nerve pain in his neck as a result. |
| Matt: | He falls off the boat and he’s hitting the buoys. |
| Chris: | That’s hilarious. |
| Matt: | It’s great, man. |
| Dan: | By the way, anybody that hasn’t gone out and watched a Weekend at Bernie’s, it is a very different movie. Pretty funny too. |
| Matt: | I did watch Three Amigos over the last week. |
| Dan: | What was the deal with that, by the way? |
| Matt: | It’s such a great movie. |
| Dan: | Didn’t they have to take him to a party to get his welfare check or some sort of check or some sort- |
| Matt: | In Bernie? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Well he was richer than God and he invited the two guys to the party and they were actually going to kill him because they found out that he was laundering money. So they invite him to the party out on the island and then Bernie gets killed and these two wind up with the body. |
| Dan: | There was a reason why they had to take him around and show him that he was still alive because they signed off his insurance policy or something? |
| Matt: | No, the mobster guys that were going to kill him were still chasing him round because they thought Bernie was still alive. So they- |
| Dan: | I’m going to have to go back and rewatch it. |
| Matt: | It’s so good. |
| Dan: | It’s such a stupid premise. |
| Chris: | It’s so great. It’s such a great movie. Such a great movie. |
| Matt: | It’s like the Airplane movies. You know they’re not going to be good but they’re funny. |
| Dan: | You get low expectations. |
| Mark: | All right. When you go have a Nun that speaks to jive is not a bad movie. |
| Matt: | Well the thing is that the lady that spoke Jive was the mom from Leave It to Beaver. |
| Chris: | Was it Leave It Beaver? |
| Dan: | That’s even funnier. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it was Leave it to Beaver. Yeah. |
| Matt: | It was the mom from Leave it to Beaver. |
| Dan: | That’s where they went an extra layer and they were like, okay, we want to get somebody to do this. We got to get the right person to do it. The mom from Leave it to Beaver, who was the most square mom in the 1950s is perfect. |
| Matt: | They had Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as a- |
| Dan: | Pilot. |
| Matt: | … co-Pilot. Look kid, I’d like to see your dad hop up and down the court for 48 minutes with Bill Russell on his back. |
| Dan: | I’ve been carrying Bill Russell, I’ve been hearing this my entire life. |
| Chris: | Quit a hell of a day to quit amphetamines. |
| Matt: | “Johnny, what can you make out of this?” “I can make a broach.” |
| Chris: | “I can make a broach.” |
| Matt: | “I can make a pterodactyl. It could be a hat.” |
| Chris: | This is the greatest. So good. |
| Dan: | Mark doesn’t like this movie. You’re not a fan of Airplane, right? |
| Mark: | No. Airplane was good. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Matt: | The first one was really good. After that they got kind of bad. He’s turning to Jello. |
| Dan: | And we don’t get good parody movies like that anymore. |
| Chris: | Because Leslie Neilsen’s dead. Died with Leslie Neilsen, man. |
| Dan: | The Scary Movie’s were really good. Those made fun of the scary movie genre. I don’t remember a series coming out after that. My favorite ones was Hotshots. |
| Chris: | Oh, yeah and Hot Shots Part Deux. |
| Dan: | Deux. |
| Matt: | There are a couple out there that make fun of Hunger Games, but its Hunger Games mixed with Ted. |
| Dan: | Oh it was- |
| Matt: | And it’s like the characters from all these other movies are part of the Hunger Games. |
| Dan: | Yes, I’ve watched that and it was- |
| Matt: | It’s horrible acting but it’s kind of funny. |
| Chris: | Isn’t that like stupid, funny? |
| Matt: | There’s a couple superhero ones that they make fun of. |
| Dan: | The Starving Games. That’s it. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Watch Bird on Fire, it’s a Turkey- |
| Mark: | Isn’t Shazam kind of a parody movie? |
| Matt: | Shazam was a real comic book character, but I kind of feel like they made it more comic booky. |
| Dan: | Was that the one with, I don’t know his name, from Garden State? No, wrong movie. |
| Matt: | You talking about the big guy who played Shazam? |
| Dan: | The guy who played Shazam. |
| Matt: | I don’t know what his name is. |
| Dan: | Because it just came out like a year or two ago, right? |
| Matt: | No, Shazam’s been out for a while. |
| Dan: | It’s not the Shaquille O’Neal one. |
| Matt: | No, that’s Kazaam. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | And he was a genie. |
Calumet Farm – Bottled-In-Bond
| Dan: | Jesus. Matt, what are we drinking? |
| Chris: | Terry Kaiser is still alive. That’s the guy that played Bernie, just so you know. |
| Dan: | Yes. |
| Chris: | So when he dies, the amount of memes. |
| Matt: | Oh my God, |
| Dan: | You were going to want to prepare yourself. How old is he? Has it said it in the search? |
| Chris: | Yeah, I bet you. Let’s see here. He is born in ’39, so I don’t know. Let’s see, 85. Holy crap. He’s old. |
| Matt: | Sheesh. All right. Anyways, this is one from these guys I’d never had until we did our tasting. It’s the Calumet Farm bottled in bond. |
| Chris: | Oh, I’ve never had this one. |
| Matt: | Oh, that’s not it. Which one is it? It’s around 70 to $80 a bottle. No H statement. 100 proof because well, bottled in bond. They do this in 50 barrel batches. Calumet Farm’s preferred match bill is 74% corn, 18% rye and 8% multi-barley. One of the cool things about these guys is they named their whiskeys, and most of their whiskeys, after horses that actually were on the farm at some point. And this one is dedicated to [inaudible 00:41:36], which is one of the greatest thoroughbred sires of all time. He sired three Kentucky Derby winners. |
| Dan: | For somebody that’s checking in for the first time on the Library Pub podcast. Talk about bottled in bond? |
| Matt: | Bottled in bond. The easiest way to do it is they age it for four years under lock and key. You can’t go in and mess with it. It just sits there for four years. |
| Dan: | And this is not a marketing term, this is actually a real thing that it’s in law. |
| Matt: | It’s a law. It is a law. |
| Dan: | Yeah. So it’s not like small batch, which means nothing. |
| Matt: | Absolutely nothing. |
| Chris: | This one’s a special release. I’m not sure they do this all the time. If I’m reading this correctly, and Matt, maybe you can tell me. I mean, we sell it so maybe I should know this, but reading this, it’s a commemorative release marking 100 years of Calumet Farms. |
| Matt: | That’s what they released the 18 and the 17 for and this one kind of just tagged along I think. |
| Chris: | Got it. |
| Matt: | But if you get a chance to try the 17 or the 18, they are absolutely fantastic. 18 year scored a 98.5 out of 100- |
| Dan: | Whoo. |
| Matt: | … at the wholesaler show. I believe in California. |
| Dan: | If it was just 98, I’m not interested. But that 0.5. |
| Matt: | That’s what the 17 scored. |
| Chris: | So yeah, the 17 and 18, this is different from those obviously. It’s a younger, more vibrant expression. This is a limited edition release. This is the hundredth anniversary edition, is a one-time release celebrating the century of excellence from Calumet. So yeah, this is it. |
| Matt: | And it’s delicious. |
| Dan: | God, it’s so good. |
| Matt: | I don’t think it drinks at 100 proof. |
| Dan: | No. |
| Chris: | No. Not at all. |
| Dan: | It’s thick too. I mean, when you talk about a liquid- |
| Matt: | Very thick. |
| Dan: | … it’s thick. |
| Matt: | Very oily. |
| Chris: | The nose is pretty light. |
| Matt: | That’s [inaudible 00:43:30]. |
| Mark: | The problem is Last Wednesday we tried to all Calumet Farms upper division. |
| Dan: | This gets lost in it? |
| Mark: | This is the worst one. |
| Dan: | Right. But it’s like saying the worst of the Playboy playmates. |
| Mark: | Well yeah, kind of. |
| Matt: | I guess I can deal with Miss March. |
| Mark: | But the 17, 18 are incredible. |
| Chris: | They deserve all the rankings that they got, in my opinion. |
| Matt: | In doing my research on the 18 year, it was noted in more than one publications that it is possibly the best bourbon in the world right now. |
| Mark: | It was really, really good. |
| Chris: | The spice is amazing on this in the mouth. |
| Dan: | Yeah. This is much more in the everyday wheelhouse. |
| Mark: | Okay, Dan. |
| Dan: | 17, 15, are going to be flexes. |
| Chris: | I mean, yeah, money bags. |
| Dan: | I’m not spending $350. This is like- |
| Chris: | This wouldn’t be all that. Yeah, but it’s unattaining them. Soon as it’s gone, it’s gone. I wouldn’t like- |
| Matt: | Suppose. |
| Dan: | Well I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about price range. |
| Chris: | I mean, they do a 17 and 18 every year. |
| Matt: | They don’t. This is the first time they’ve done it. They have done a 14 or 15, a 16 that come out in this style bottle and then the 17 and 18, these are both commemorative for the 100 year anniversary. I think Calumet’s one of the most underrated distilleries. |
| Chris: | Yeah, absolutely. |
| Dan: | You’ve been a big fan of it. |
| Matt: | I love it. |
| Chris: | Didn’t I introduce you to this at a paintball? |
| Matt: | At a paintball thing standing around a bonfire just handed me, and their old bottles were stupid shaped. |
| Chris: | Yeah, they’re like… Yeah. Right, right, right. |
| Matt: | They just dumb shaped and he’s passing around this thing that just looks like a home decanter. |
| Dan: | Were you guys taking poles right off the bottle? |
| Matt: | Straight out of the bottle. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Spitting the cork into the fire? |
| Matt: | Kind of. It was- |
| Dan: | Leave the bottle. |
| Matt: | … the 12 year. |
| Chris: | Yeah, we were kind of surprised. |
| Matt: | And I just really kind of fell in love with the stuff these guys do. |
| Dan: | Good stuff. |
| Mark: | What’s funny is whiskey is Calumet’s Farm’s farm second job. It’s kind of their side job. |
| Dan: | It’s probably why they’re so good at it. |
| Mark: | Calumet Farm had two Triple Crown winners. Can you name them? |
| Dan: | Calumet and Farm. |
| Chris: | Seabiscuit. |
| Mark: | No. |
| Dan: | Oh, Seabiscuit was- |
| Chris: | That was my first guess. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Wordle Away and Citation. Belt back in [inaudible 00:46:03]. |
| Chris: | Dances with Wolves. |
| Dan: | Wordle Away? |
| Mark: | Word all the way. |
| Dan: | Oh. Calumet Farms bottled in bond. There’s about- |
| Mark: | There’s no S. |
| Dan: | Calumet Farm, bottled in bonds. |
| Matt: | It’s just one farm. |
| Dan: | I threw the S at the end of bonds there. There’s about three, maybe four drinks left. |
| Matt: | Which we’re going to attempt to get another bottle. |
| Dan: | Okay. I know a guy that can hook you up. |
| Matt: | Maybe. |
| Dan: | He can also get you some 17 and 18. |
| Chris: | Maybe. |
| Dan: | There’s four cases of 18 left. |
| Chris: | Oh, and there’s five cases of 17. |
| Dan: | We must’ve got more. |
| Chris: | And there’s five cases to the bottled in bond. |
| Dan: | We had to have gotten another shipment. |
| Chris: | There’s one case. |
| Dan: | All right. |
| Matt: | We’ll talk later. |
| Dan: | Once again, Calumet Farm bottled in bond. |
| Chris: | Ooh. |
| Matt: | Yeah. I do like the fact that their hobby there is making whiskey. |
WhistlePig – Gravestock Liquid Death
| Dan: | Our last whiskey, maybe. Used to be a Don favorite, but he’s a little irritated at the price hike. |
| Chris: | We have to refer to this one as the sounds it makes. No? Anybody? |
| Dan: | Matt, what do you got? |
| Matt: | This is another new glitchy one from WhistlePig. |
| Dan: | Just keep being persistent. It’ll be funny eventually. |
| Matt: | This is the WhistlePig Grave Stock is what they call it. |
| Dan: | Grave Stock. Give me a name. |
| Matt: | Grave Stock. It is a wheat and rye blend that they do in 380 gallon barrels. So that’s a big barrel. And then they proof it down with Liquid Death spring water. |
| Dan: | What? |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | What a really good… Man, that Liquid Death, man. |
| Matt: | Dude, they took the world by storm. |
| Chris: | They absolutely did. The amount of idiots that buy Liquid Death and can water. |
| Dan: | Oh my God, is that all it is canned water? |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | I thought it was an energy drink. |
| Chris: | No. |
| Matt: | Which they have some different flavors and stuff. Natural flavored allegedly. But yeah, it’s just mountain spring water, which these guys WhistlePig is out of Shoreham, Vermont. |
| Chris: | Lived real close to them. Never got a chance to go. |
| Matt: | Oh, ugh. Icky. |
| Dan: | This is, you said it was the Grave Death? |
| Matt: | Yeah, it’s called Grave Stock. |
| Dan: | Grave Stock, sorry. Liquid Death. |
| Matt: | Because they have their Farm Stock, their Home Stock. |
| Chris: | This is strange. |
| Matt: | Weird. But you got to remember it is a wheat and rye blend. |
| Chris: | I’m getting the wheatness. |
| Matt: | Proofed with mountain spring water from a can. |
| Chris: | The rye is very prominent for the spice wise. Right on the tongue right when you take a sip, and then it’s just different. This is one that I would sit within my glass trying to figure out what’s going on. I’m not going to say exactly gross to it just yet, but that is different. |
| Matt: | Each drink’s a little different too. Like that last one I got a lot of cherry out of it. That was kind of my first impression. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it’s not good. |
| Matt: | But I gave it another little sip and it’s not as bad as I originally thought it would be. Now, I probably wouldn’t be real happy about spending the money on this, the $80 to buy a bottle, but the 15 or whatever we charge for a pours, it’s an experience. Not my favorite. |
| Dan: | It’s not bad. I don’t know why. Matt, all of a sudden you’re really quiet. |
| Matt: | It’s because I’m shy, Dan. |
| Dan: | God dammit. I think the microphone’s doing it again. I’m just going to fucking buy a new mixer. I’m really sick of this thing. |
| Chris: | Can we Office Space it? |
| Matt: | Is that better? |
| Dan: | I’m close to wanting to. |
| Matt: | Is that better? |
| Dan: | I think it’s the last good pot we have. The slider we have is up fucking up again. |
| Matt: | I got some good pot. |
| Dan: | I know you do. |
| Matt: | What? |
| Dan: | I’m excited…. Nevermind. I’m not going to talk about that. WhistlePig Grave Stock, Liquid Death. It’s a weeded whiskey with some rye it. I think this is fine. How much is it a pour? |
| Matt: | 15, it looks like. |
| Dan: | That’s not bad. |
| Chris: | I just want to figure out, what do they say it tastes like? Because I can’t figure this out right now. |
| Matt: | Ask ChatGPT. |
| Chris: | That’s what I’m doing right now. Actually, I’m just looking it up on their website. WhistlePig Grave Stock review. |
| Matt: | I just kind of feel like rye and wheat are opposite ends of the spectrum. |
| Chris: | Yeah, yeah. |
| Matt: | Probably kind of stay on their respective ends. |
| Chris: | A bold and unique flavor profile. |
| Matt: | That’s accurate. |
| Chris: | Pallet. Smooth layers of wheat. Yeah. Sweetness and rye spice. Yeah. Complimented by a subtle caramel and citrus note. See that’s what I’m not getting. I’m not getting caramel. I don’t think I’m getting any citrus either. |
| Matt: | I’m not getting any citrus and I’m normally pretty susceptible to citrus. |
| Chris: | Yeah, you are. |
| Matt: | I get kind of caramely butterscotch-y on the back end. But this is one- |
| Chris: | There’s like a choc, like a chocolate choc. |
| Matt: | Yeah. This isn’t one that I want to drink every day. |
| Chris: | And they didn’t come out with a sweet topper. |
| Matt: | Oh man, the cork’s really cool. It’s like the top of a pop can. It’s the top of a can of water. |
| Chris: | I really just want a WhistlePig for the pig on the top. The samurai pigs or whatever those are. |
| Matt: | Oh, the boss hog. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Yeah. Echo. |
| Mark: | $600 for a bottle. |
| Chris: | $600 for a rye. |
| Matt: | Now you can turn around and sell the topper back a couple hundred bucks because they’re all handcrafted. Blah, blah, blah. |
| Dan: | All right. WhistlePig. |
| Matt: | All right. It’s not the worst I’ve ever had, but it’s not very good. |
| Dan: | Mark, are you happy? |
| Mark: | Whatever you want to do, Dan. |
| Dan: | No, the last couple of weeks you’ve decided to have an extra one. So I was opening up the opportunity. |
| Mark: | Well, I- |
| Dan: | I think I’m fine to go about my day and have a productive day. |
| Chris: | I’m good. |
| Matt: | Top 10? |
| Chris: | Top 10. |
| Dan: | Top 10. |
| Chris: | Matt, you did the top 10 this week? |
| Matt: | I did the top 10 this week. |
| Chris: | Whoop, whoop. |
| Matt: | Get a little pen out. Top 10 this week is top 10 bad Halloween giveaways. |
| Chris: | Explain. |
| Matt: | So stuff you get when you go trick or treating. |
| Dan: | Oh, bad candy. |
| Matt: | It’s not all candy. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Matt: | So bad trick-or-treat gifts. |
| Mark: | Number one is a popcorn ball. |
| Chris: | Popcorn? I would say apple. Ain’t nobody looking for an apple. Anyway, continue. |
| Matt: | Not unless there’s a- |
| Chris: | Caramel apple. |
| Matt: | Nope. You can’t eat the homemade stuff. |
| Chris: | Yeah, that’s true. People think there’s pot in them. |
| Matt: | Because people are going to put all their pot in it. |
| Chris: | I feel like nobody’s doing that. Ain’t nobody’s doing that. |
| Mark: | I don’t know any pothead giving away pot. |
| Dan: | There’s always the wives’ tale that there’s going to be cocaine- |
| Matt: | Razorblades. |
| Dan: | … and heroin in the candy and you need to check it all, yada yada, yada. And a friend of mine posted, “Dear suburban house mom. Nobody is giving up their supply of cocaine to put it in your kid’s candy.” |
| Matt: | No. |
| Chris: | Are you giving up your quaaludes? |
| Mark: | They don’t make quaaludes anymore. |
| Chris: | Sorry. |
| Matt: | I was going to say, if you can find quaaludes. |
| Chris: | I don’t even know what quaaludes are. I just know that was a thing that they used to do in the nineties and the eighties. |
| Matt: | It’s the pills that they take in, what’s the name of that movie? |
| Dan: | Wolf of Wall Street? |
| Matt: | Wolf of Wall Street. You’ve never seen it. |
| Chris: | Nope. I know, dude. |
| Matt: | He eats a handle of quaaludes and then trashes a Lamborghini. |
| Dan: | Oh my god. That is what- |
| Matt: | “My car’s in the driveway. It’s fine.” |
| Dan: | That is so funny. I didn’t even see that coming. I love that scene so much. But the quaaludes were legal in the sixties and seventies, right? |
| Mark: | Script. |
| Dan: | They were by prescription? And then they outlawed them. And so all the product that had been made legally got snatched up and is sitting locked away for a rainy day. I’ve heard. |
| Matt: | Which, yeah, the boats sinking. He’s like, “I’m not going to die sober.” And they start popping quaaludes. That’s probably a bad idea. |
| Dan: | He had that giant gallon freezer bag of quaaludes. |
| Matt: | And by the end of the movie it was empty. |
| Chris: | Why haven’t I seen that movie? |
| Dan: | Oh my god. |
| Chris: | I don’t know why I haven’t seen that. |
| Matt: | It’s probably one of my favorite Leonardo DiCaprio movies. |
| Dan: | I hated it the first time I watched it, and then I took a couple years away from it, watched it at a second time. It was on TV and I was like, okay, this is actually pretty God damn good. And now I love it. I can watch it every time. The throwing the midgets’ scene. You guys know that’s my favorite part. |
| Matt: | It’s just fun to throw a midget. |
| Dan: | It is. All right, top 10 Halloween giving- |
| Matt: | Top 10 worst trick-or-treat gifts. And we’ll just start at the top and work our way to the bottom. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Matt: | You each have one veto. |
| Dan: | Okay. Three vetoes. |
| Chris: | Okay. Yep. |
| Matt: | Hold on, wait. |
| Chris: | Math. |
| Matt: | One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13. Yes. You each have one veto and we’ll just start right up at the top. Tootsie Roll. |
| Dan: | I like Tootsie Roll. |
| Chris: | I like Tootsie Rolls too. |
| Matt: | Have you ever gotten the old Tootsie Roll? |
| Chris: | The one that’s like from last year’s? |
| Matt: | It’s like aquarium gravel. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Yeah. |
| Dan: | I like to tuck that in my cheek and act like its chew and then just go around for a couple hours while it warms up. |
| Matt: | A couple hours. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Because it takes awhile. |
| Mark: | I don’t want to waste a throw out until 10. |
| Dan: | Yeah, I don’t if I want to- |
| Chris: | So 10 as in- |
| Matt: | 10 as in the worst. |
| Chris: | The worst. |
| Dan: | How are there this many top tens? |
| Mark: | No, 10 is the best of the worst. Number one- |
| Dan: | I see what you’re saying. |
| Chris: | I see what you’re saying. |
| Dan: | Correct. |
| Chris: | So one is the one that you don’t want, hands down is the worst. That’s the worst gift. |
| Matt: | Yes. |
| Mark: | Right. |
| Chris: | So 10 would be pretty good. |
| Matt: | That’d be like, a number one would be like a punch in the mouth. |
| Chris: | Right. |
| Dan: | Okay. Definitely some kids deserve a punch in the mouth. |
| Matt: | Trick or treat. Ow. |
| Dan: | I’m on Mark’s boat with this. I don’t want to use a veto this early. And I suppose if I had a bag of candy sprayed out in front of me, Tootsie Rolls is probably the last thing I’m eating. |
| Chris: | I don’t know. I like Tootsie Rolls a lot. |
| Dan: | I do. I’m saying on this list though. So if there’s Almond Joys or Kitkat’s. |
| Chris: | Butterfingers. |
| Matt: | There’s nothing cool like that on this list. |
| Dan: | Right, right, right. That’s all getting eaten first. So I’m fine with the 10. |
| Matt: | So Tootsie Roll at 10? |
| Dan: | Chris? |
| Chris: | Yeah, good. |
| Matt: | Ring Pops. |
| Dan: | How many people out there have got the Tootsie Roll song stuck in their head now? Jeremiah. |
| Matt: | To get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. |
| Dan: | Tootsie Pop? |
| Matt: | A one, a two- |
| Dan: | A two. |
| Matt: | A three. |
| Dan: | A three. |
| Matt: | Three. Ring Pops. |
| Dan: | Oh my God. |
| Matt: | Ring Pops. |
| Dan: | I can’t say I’ve ever gotten a Ring Pop as a Halloween- |
| Matt: | Really? |
| Dan: | And that might be a reason why. That’s pretty shitty. |
| Chris: | I don’t think I have either. |
| Matt: | They take forever- |
| Dan: | They do. |
| Matt: | … to eat. |
| Chris: | And they don’t fit your finger. |
| Matt: | No, they hurt. |
| Chris: | Even if you’re a kid. |
| Mark: | And you get sticky and gross. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Especially if it’s a little kid eating them. |
| Chris: | Yeah. And he’s like, “Hey, look at my ring.” And you’re like, “No, that’s gross.” |
| Mark: | There’s got to be worst, so I’ll go four or five. |
| Dan: | I was thinking five. |
| Matt: | I’m cool with a five. |
| Dan: | Five? Ring Pop, five. |
| Matt: | Smarties. Those are the little sugar disks. |
| Dan: | They’re not the little… Oh, I’m thinking of- |
| Chris: | I used to eat the crap out of those as a kid. |
| Matt: | That come in the little cellophane pack. |
| Dan: | Shorties. |
| Chris: | I mean, I don’t mind those. |
| Mark: | I like Smarties. |
| Chris: | I do too. I’m probably a seven or an eight for me, but six because I know there’s some chocolate ones in there that are- |
| Dan: | Oh, those things. They’re kind of like a candy life… Okay. |
| Matt: | It’s like a disk of sugar that dissolves in your mouth. |
| Chris: | Yeah. I mean I would throw that at six, four. It’s not the first thing I’d reach for, but I’m not mad if it’s one of the last things. |
| Dan: | I’m definitely not giving this out of my house because I know the kids won’t come back. |
| Matt: | Yeah. That’s why you give it out. |
| Dan: | See, we like having the kids. I’ve told you that Sarah has a log. |
| Matt: | Oh, yeah? |
| Dan: | She keeps a log of what kids came by, what time. |
| Chris: | I love that, dude. |
| Dan: | And what candies they took. |
| Matt: | That’s not creepy one bit. |
| Dan: | Not a bit. |
| Matt: | Not creepy at all. |
| Dan: | Yeah. We’re also working on the financing to get a new van. |
| Matt: | Windowless I hope. |
| Dan: | White. |
| Matt: | Maybe some puppies. |
| Mark: | Free candy. |
| Dan: | Shorties. And spray-painting on the side of it. |
| Matt: | Free candy and puppies. |
| Dan: | Nobody got money for vinyl lettering. |
| Matt: | Come look at our chickens in the back of the van. |
| Dan: | I have actually said that to the kids after school and I’m like, “You guys want to come check out the chickens?” And I’m like, I’m the creepy guy on the block. |
| Matt: | Just don’t choke them. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | All right. So Smarties. |
| Mark: | Seven. |
| Chris: | Yeah, I’m cool with that. |
| Dan: | Seven. |
| Matt: | Seven? Pixie Sticks in the paper tube that gets all soggy and stupid. |
| Dan: | That’s a total sugar rush though. I’m going nine. |
| Chris: | As in you like it? |
| Dan: | I like Pixie Sticks. |
| Chris: | No, I’m somewhere- |
| Matt: | Well, you can always veto it. |
| Chris: | … below five. |
| Dan: | That was the legal version of just put it straight into your vein for a kid with ADD. |
| Chris: | I’m like four. |
| Matt: | I have seen people snort Pixie Sticks before. |
| Dan: | Yeah, you’re right. They cut the straw up. It’s nice that it comes with its own snorting device. |
| Matt: | It does. But so far it’s 10, five and seven are taken and everyone has a veto still. |
| Dan: | I would compromise to I think an eight. |
| Chris: | No. |
| Mark: | They’re horrible. |
| Chris: | They’re not… No, man. |
| Dan: | Well, you guys can outvote me. |
| Chris: | Four. |
| Mark: | Four. |
| Matt: | Four? All right. Two to one. Chick-O-Stick. |
| Dan: | What? |
| Matt: | It’s like the inside of a Butterfinger, but grosser. |
| Dan: | Chick-O-Stick. |
| Chris: | Yeah. I don’t even know what that is. |
| Dan: | Oh God, that might be high. I would hate that for my teeth. |
| Matt: | They’re horrible. |
| Chris: | Oh yeah. That’s got to be like a top three, right? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Because I don’t even know what they are. Actually, you know what? I don’t even know if I’ve had those, so I’m going to just veto this one. Is that easy? |
| Dan: | I don’t know. |
| Chris: | Can I just use my veto? |
| Dan: | I think we leave it on there, because we all hate the idea of having this burnt caramel stuck to our teeth. |
| Chris: | But I don’t know what it is. I’ve never had it. I can’t- |
| Dan: | That description alone. |
| Chris: | That’s like going to voting and not knowing who you’re voting for. |
| Dan: | That’s what I do every election. |
| Mark: | That’s why you voted for Biden. |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Chris: | Dang. |
| Dan: | Well, I didn’t vote Biden. I voted Harris. |
| Mark: | Well, just as bad. |
| Chris: | You vote Biden the first time. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Okay. |
| Dan: | Because you know what this country didn’t need? Another term with him in office. |
| Matt: | Yeah, but it’s- |
| Dan: | Especially after fucking the first term. |
| Chris: | Yeah, but we would’ve gotten it over sooner than it is right now. |
| Matt: | Back again. |
| Chris: | Instead of this being eight years consistently, now we have to deal with 12 years of idiots. |
| Dan: | Yeah, but we had four years of- |
| Chris: | Idiots. |
| Dan: | … mistakes, two years of getting things somewhat fixed and now we’re back to four years of fucking it all up again. |
| Matt: | All right, so what are we doing? |
| Chris: | Yeah, vetoing this. Veto. |
| Dan: | I might be picking a little bit. |
| Matt: | Veto. |
| Chris: | Yeah, veto. |
| Dan: | Chick-O-Sticks. |
| Matt: | A quarter. |
| Chris: | A quarter. |
| Matt: | Yeah, a quarter. |
| Mark: | In what year? |
| Dan: | Listen to Mark. He’s like, “If it’s before 1943, then it’s worth .89 cents.” |
| Matt: | After they were not made of silver. |
| Dan: | I don’t know why Mark had a southern accent there in my impression. |
| Chris: | A nine. That’s awesome. Getting money always is awesome. Unless you get- |
| Mark: | When I was a kid- |
| Dan: | But I don’t care. |
| Mark: | … a quarter was a lot. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Is there other money denominations on your list? Can I ask that? |
| Matt: | No. I just said it. |
| Chris: | Cool. Then it’s money. |
| Matt: | These are all actual things I have got in my childhood. |
| Dan: | Did you get a roll of quarters? |
| Matt: | No. Just a quarter. |
| Chris: | Seven, eight, nine? |
| Dan: | I think I got 10 bucks. |
| Matt: | And some parents would just throw pennies and shit in your bag. |
| Mark: | Oh, fuck them. |
| Dan: | By the way, did I hear right that we’re officially getting rid of the penny? |
| Matt: | That’s what I’ve heard. |
| Dan: | All right. That’s the second thing I’m on board with President Trump with. Get rid of them. |
| Matt: | All right. |
| Dan: | I love it. When was the last time the Library Pub actually used pennies? |
| Matt: | Like actually in the bar? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I don’t know. I’ve thrown a couple at people. |
| Dan: | Right. |
| Matt: | That’s about it. |
| Dan: | There was a guy that used to give us odd change for tips. |
| Matt: | And thank God he doesn’t come in anymore. That’s weird. |
| Dan: | But the Library Pub eliminated them a long time ago. Just uses quarters and honestly, you could probably get rid of that. Anyways. |
| Matt: | All right. Quarters as a Halloween trick-or-treat. |
| Dan: | I think that might be a top three for me. That’s kind of a shitty gift, especially the longer we go on. It’s worth less and less. |
| Chris: | I don’t think getting money for free is ever a shitty gift. You can’t even call somebody who cares. |
| Matt: | It’s true. It’s true. |
| Chris: | That’s 2.50 now. |
| Matt: | Yeah, ask Travis Tritt, he’ll tell you. Here’s a quarter, find two more dollars to call someone who cares. |
| Dan: | Yeah, it’s a great lyric. |
| Chris: | I don’t think it’s a crappy gift. I don’t think it’s crappy. |
| Dan: | That’s what the point of top tens are. |
| Chris: | I don’t think it’s- |
| Dan: | Veto it. |
| Chris: | No, I already vetoed. |
| Dan: | Suggest? |
| Chris: | I think it’s at least a seven. It’s money. |
| Matt: | Seven is the Smarties. |
| Dan: | So here’s my argument for this. Let’s say in a great world you’re going to get bite-sized Snickers, Kitkat’s, Milky Way’s. Every one of those is worth in street value more than a quarter. |
| Chris: | Sure. But you can’t go to the store- |
| Matt: | Street value. |
| Chris: | Like Howie can’t go to the store with four quarters, especially the dollar store, and get some stupid little toy that he loves doing. So I have proof of on the street that Howie would love getting a quarter more than candy. |
| Dan: | Really? |
| Matt: | And that’s why. |
| Chris: | I bribe him with quarters. |
| Dan: | Mark, you’re silent in this. We need your counsel. |
| Mark: | I think quarter is a good one. I give the highest number we have left. |
| Dan: | Nine. |
| Chris: | See, I don’t think it’s- |
| Matt: | A nine? |
| Chris: | … a nine. I think it’s like a seven. Seven. I feel like there’s one better than that, but still it’s money, it needs to be- |
| Mark: | Six. |
| Matt: | Well, Tootsie Rolls 10, Ring Pop is five, Smarties are seven Pixie Stick is four. |
| Chris: | I’d do a six. I’m okay with the six. Dan, are okay with the six. It’s better than average |
| Dan: | I just want, for the record, I think this is a terrible, this is the top three for me. |
| Chris: | Okay. Okay, that’s fine. |
| Matt: | I’d rather Reece’s. |
| Mark: | Yeah, but you voted for Harris, so we discount you. |
| Chris: | Again. |
| Matt: | Which you already know how Mark feels about this one. |
| Dan: | Yeah, let me here. |
| Mark: | Oh, two. |
| Matt: | They are stupid. |
| Chris: | They are dumb. |
| Matt: | They’re always like a small Boulder. |
| Chris: | Two is fine with me. Two is fine with you? |
| Mark: | The only reason I’m giving one is there might be one worse. |
| Matt: | There’s definitely one that I think is worse on here. So everyone good with two on Popcorn Balls? |
| Dan: | Yep. |
| Matt: | This one is fruit. And that’s fruit of any kind. Apples, bananas, oranges. It’s also a stupid Christmas stocking stuffer. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Whoa. |
| Dan: | Yeah. That’s either a one or a three. |
| Mark: | Three. |
| Chris: | Yeah, because if you do say caramel apples, man, caramel apples are great. |
| Matt: | They’re delicious. But I don’t want- |
| Chris: | They’re delicious. |
| Matt: | … one for Halloween. |
| Chris: | And I don’t want one in my bag messing it all up. |
| Matt: | No. And they tell me- |
| Chris: | Mark? |
| Matt: | … you got to watch out for all the heroin that people are going to put in it. |
| Chris: | Right. |
| Matt: | Good and Plenty’s? |
| Chris: | Good and Plenty’s. That’s the pink- |
| Matt: | The little pink, purple box. |
| Chris: | Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pink, purple box. I am not- |
| Matt: | They’re white, pink- |
| Chris: | … a fan of those at all. |
| Matt: | … and black. |
| Mark: | I’m not either. Four. |
| Chris: | Okay. |
| Matt: | Fours already taken. |
| Chris: | What do we got? |
| Matt: | What has been taken is 10, five, seven, four, six and two. |
| Chris: | Three. |
| Mark: | Three. |
| Matt: | Fruit is three. Sorry. |
| Chris: | Sorry. Besides one, what’s the next lowest one? |
| Matt: | Six, seven, eight. Number eight. |
| Mark: | Veto. |
| Chris: | Boom. Thank you Mark. Thank you Mark. Yeah, there’s not a low enough number. I don’t want to give it a one because I know there’s got to be something worse. |
| Matt: | All right. The orange and black wrapped whatever the hell they ares. |
| Chris: | Oh, I know exactly what you’re talking about. |
| Matt: | They’re kind of peanut buttery, they’re kind of terrible. |
| Chris: | Or they might be like taffy, you just don’t know. |
| Matt: | It’s like the worst flavor of saltwater taffy. It’s fun. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it’s like mystery. Halloween mystery. |
| Matt: | They’re kind of peanut buttery. Kind of not. |
| Chris: | I feel like we need to wait for Dan for this one. |
| Matt: | Okay, Dan. |
| Dan: | Sorry. |
| Matt: | While you were gone. |
| Dan: | Yep. Popcorn Ball went? |
| Matt: | Number two. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Matt: | Fruit of any kind. So apples, oranges, bananas. Handful of raisins was number three. |
| Mark: | I like the box of raisins. |
| Dan: | Now me just not following any kind of scientific laws. I don’t see raisins as fruit. |
| Matt: | Well, they used to be. |
| Dan: | I see those as kind of as a candy, honestly. |
| Matt: | I mean, they used to be fruit. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | They used to be used be grapes. |
| Dan: | Right. |
| Matt: | Mark vetoed Good and Plenty’s. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Matt: | And the current one is orange and black wrapped, whatever those things are called. You know what I’m talking about? |
| Dan: | Like taffy? |
| Matt: | The orange and the black wax paper with the whatever flavor that is in there? |
| Dan: | Yeah. Is that taffy? |
| Matt: | It’s like the worst flavored saltwater taffy you can get. |
| Dan: | I don’t know if I’ve ever had that. Even the old women in my country neighborhood didn’t give those out. |
| Matt: | They knew that they sucked. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | See for me, that would be like number one. |
| Dan: | I was going to say that… What did you put for three? |
| Matt: | Three is fruit. |
| Dan: | Fruit, right. I was actually going to say fruit should be one. |
| Chris: | I feel like there’s another worse one though. |
| Dan: | Probably. |
| Matt: | Which there is one. Dan, you have your veto left. |
| Dan: | Man. I don’t know. Those little candies. We have eight and nine. One, eight and nine left. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | They’re definitely not eight and nine. So I feel like we kind of either have to veto them and- |
| Chris: | You got the veto left. |
| Dan: | … wait. Or just go ahead and call them number one. |
| Matt: | Yeah. You’re the only veto left. And there’s one down here that I hated much worse. |
| Dan: | Lets committee this veto. Do you guys think we should veto it- |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | … and wait? |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | All right, it’s vetoed. |
| Chris: | Vetoed. |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Dan: | See government, that’s how you do it. You talk to the person on the other side of the aisle and you get stuff done. |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Dan: | What do we call it- |
| Chris: | My sugar suppliers- |
| Dan: | … orange and black candy? |
| Chris: | … are not going to be happy, but I’ll do this for the people. |
| Matt: | Orange and black candy, taffy. Orange and black yuck. |
| Chris: | Waxy paper. |
| Matt: | Which I left off wax lips. Those are ones that the kids get most years. |
| Chris: | Remember the wax- |
| Matt: | The little bottles. |
| Chris: | … bottles and you can tear off the top? And just squirt the- |
| Dan: | Oh, yeah. |
| Matt: | Yeah, he had a 16th of an ounce of sugar water in it. |
| Chris: | You could chew on the wax for a little bit and then spit it. Anyway. |
| Matt: | Circus peanuts. |
| Chris: | Styrofoam, man. Those would probably be a number one for me. They’re pretty bad. I’ve looked at those in the bag. |
| Dan: | I don’t know, it’s a peanut. |
| Chris: | Yeah, but they’re the peanuts. They’re not peanuts. They’re like the plastic looking- |
| Dan: | Oh, it’s- |
| Matt: | Library Pub. |
| Chris: | I’ll show you. Candy, peanuts. |
| Mark: | Those about this big. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | At number one. |
| Dan: | Oh. Okay. I was thinking you’re talking about actual bag of peanuts from the circus and I’m like, those are kind of good. |
| Matt: | No circus peanut candy. |
| Dan: | Got it. |
| Matt: | Which I think is just made from the souls of children. |
| Chris: | Yeah. No, it’s sugary styrofoam. |
| Dan: | All right. Yeah. Mark says one. I’m inclined to agree. Chris? |
| Chris: | 100%. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Chris: | Let’s look at the nutritional value of these. |
| Matt: | So we have eight and nine left out of these last two. The next last choice is a religious pamphlet. |
| Mark: | Oh. |
| Dan: | You’re such a dick. You did this on purpose. |
| Matt: | I told you I was just starting at the top. |
| Chris: | I’ll read it while I poop. |
| Matt: | It’s like every once in a while you’ll get the folded in half. |
| Chris: | Which religious one though? |
| Matt: | I don’t remember which one it was. I assume it was- |
| Chris: | Are we talking about Mormons? Are we talking about- |
| Matt: | I assume it’s Mormon or Latter Day Saint type stuff. Could have been Seventh Day Adventist. |
| Chris: | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| Matt: | Or Jehovah Witness. |
| Chris: | What do we have left? |
| Dan: | We’re stuck. Eight and nine. |
| Matt: | You have eight and nine. |
| Dan: | Nine. |
| Chris: | Might as well just say screw it. |
| Dan: | Eight. |
| Chris: | Let’s just do it. |
| Dan: | It’s got to be higher than nine. It’s got to be the highest of the options left. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Eight is great. |
| Matt: | And by default. Bitta Honey’s number nine. |
| Chris: | Bitta Honey. |
| Matt: | See, but the Halloween ones are never fresh. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | They’re like Bitta Honey bricks. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | They’re leftover from last year. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | They’re like the hardest thing ever. |
| Chris: | Well, this was a pretty shit top 10. I will tell you that. Of the ones that we’ve done, this is not a good one. |
| Matt: | I thought this one was great. |
| Dan: | No, Matt, it was a good list. |
| Chris: | No, it was a good list. It’s like hard- |
| Dan: | We’re frustrated because this is not the way we would’ve done it. |
| Chris: | Which makes the top 10 fun. |
| Matt: | Top 10 bad Halloween give outs. Tootsie Roll was number 10. Bitta Honey was number nine. A religious pamphlet came in at number eight. Number seven was Smarties. Number six is a quarter. Number five is a Ring Pop. Number four is the good old Pixie Stick. Number three is fruit of any kind, raisins included. Number two is Popcorn Balls and number one was Circus Peanuts. |
| Mark: | I think that list was different if we started at the bottom and went up. |
| Matt: | Oh, yeah. That’s half the fun of doing it though. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Is watching the people that are giving their opinion scramble for the last three. |
| Dan: | Yeah. That religious pamphlet was a real punch in the gut. |
| Matt: | It was a twist. |
| Dan: | It’s a twist. |
| Matt: | It’s like watching an M. Night Shyamalan movie. |
| Dan: | Did I ever tell you that when I was living with my roommates when I was in college, one of didn’t have a job. So we couldn’t pay rent for three or four months. But he was one of my best friends and I just kind of let it go because I was young and dumb. So to passively aggressively get back at him, I used to find Jehovah’s Witnesses around town and send them to our apartment when I knew I was at work. |
| Matt: | That’s mean. It’s of a dick move. |
| Dan: | I’d also go around and register him for baby registries and bridal registries. |
| Matt: | Oh my God. I had a guy that I lived with that I signed up for Victoria’s Secret catalogs. The Venus Swimwear catalogs. |
| Dan: | Yeah. That’s all good private time material. |
| Matt: | No, it’s not. Don’t jack off to a chick in a bikini. That’s just weird. And we were- |
| Dan: | You know what? Grow up on a farm. |
| Matt: | We were grownups- |
| Dan: | You take what you can get. |
| Matt: | Well we were grownups at the time. |
| Dan: | Oh. |
| Matt: | So we could have gone out and at the very least bought some sex. But yeah, signed him up for all sorts of weird catalogs. |
| Dan: | Oh my God. I hate this mixer. I’m going to throw it out the door. All right, that’s going to do it for us. I don’t know why your microphone’s all fucked up again. |
| Matt: | Magic. |
| Dan: | And it makes no sense as why, but whatever. It’s not your microphone. It’s the mixer. |
| Matt: | Weird. |
| Dan: | So I apologize for not being able to hear Matt very well. Just put some headphones in and listen closer. |
| Matt: | Yeah. Turn your radio up. |
| Dan: | We got anything else? We got the Sideshow and Kinkaider Tap Takeover coming up on Thursday. |
| Matt: | Or slideshow. |
| Dan: | Or slideshow. Whichever one. Come up, find out which one it is. Great new whiskeys arriving every day. All sorts of great stuff. For Matt, Mark, Chris- |
| Mark: | Bye. |
| Dan: | … Kevin and Marty. Mark said bye. |
