Podcast Transcription
| Dan: | Episode 254 of the Library Pubcast being recorded 90th and Fort in Omaha, Nebraska. So, my soapbox of this week is don’t go down to the College World series. The flex pricing is definitely on. Instead, swing out to the places out west that are going to have everyday Omaha prices. If you happen to be in the area for the College World Series and you’re thinking, my God, this town is expensive. Get the hell out of, what do you say? Probably 72nd. You got to go west of 72nd to get away from that College World Series pricing? |
| Matt: | Pretty much.You can probably get up into Benson, I’d say west of 60th maybe. |
| Dan: | Yeah, Benson’s probably still pretty competitive. |
| Matt: | So yeah, it’s- |
| Dan: | Lot of great places, including the library pub, which we probably wouldn’t mind the profit margin increases by flex pricing, but we don’t want to change the prices in the system. |
| Mark: | It’s just too much for- |
| Dan: | It’s a lot of work. |
| Matt: | Yes, it is. |
| Dan: | And we have to do it enough when we get a bottle of something else in, we’re like, crap. We got to add another dollar to it. I’ll do it tomorrow. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Anyways, anything going on? Anybody have fun weekends, exciting things to talk about? |
| Matt: | Watch some college baseball this weekend. Not in person, just on TV because going down there is just a terrible idea. |
| Chris: | I was down there the whole time. |
| Matt: | Sorry. |
| Dan: | Yeah. You were down there on Father’s Day weekend. |
| Chris: | Yep. I was down there Saturday from about 9:45 till 6:30 I think, Saturday. |
| Matt: | You paid to be down there or is this pleasure trips into the abyss? |
| Chris: | No, it was just at an event that I was running an activation down at Omaha Marriott, so it was such a good activation that the NCAA tried to shut us down because there were logos and images and things that they couldn’t air because of the wonderful radio guy promotion that I did. So it was a true radio. I mean anywhere you looked it was, it was Cuervo Devils Reserve, 30 foot blow up bottle. The Bronco down there. Yeah, it was good. |
| Dan: | It was still crap. |
| Mark: | No, it’s not. |
| Chris: | It sold well. It sells well, man. When it’s a Cuervo project, I know that the last thing that they tried to do was singe and you have a really bad taste because singe left a bad taste, but this one fucking sells. |
| Dan: | Pun intended or no? |
| Matt: | No. It definitely left a bad taste. |
| Chris: | It did. |
| Matt: | In real life. But that Cinnamon Agave. Devils Reserve- |
| Dan: | Devils Reserve is totally different than what Jose Cuervo has ever done before. And for a watermelon-y flavored tequila. |
| Chris: | Jalapeno tequila? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | It’s different. |
| Dan: | It is. |
| Matt: | I bet it’d be good in like a margarita. |
| Dan: | It is. |
| Chris: | It was good. It was good In a margarita, we sold lots of $10 margaritas. That’s |
| Matt: | That’s super crazy. That’s like giving it away down at the old market down into [inaudible 00:03:16]. |
| Chris: | And they were frozen too, so anybody that was super hot, it was like they came up on the balcony, free samples and a $10 margarita? Okay. |
| Matt: | Yeah. That’s way better than a $12 Coors Light. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Right? |
| Chris: | So yeah, good times. |
| Dan: | Fantastic. |
| Chris: | Good times. Good times and Father’s Day. |
| Matt: | Oh yeah, Father’s Day. |
| Dan: | Father’s Day happened this weekend? |
| Matt: | Yep. |
| Chris: | Ate a lot of meat. It was great. |
| Matt: | I did nothing. |
| Dan: | You didn’t have to grill though, did you? |
| Matt: | No, I wound up not cooking. Dad did a pork butt. |
| Dan: | Nice. |
| Matt: | So that was a nice surprise to come into. |
| Dan: | Yeah, |
| Matt: | I had a glorious nap- |
| Dan: | Delicious too. |
| Matt: | … for Father’s Day. That was nice. |
| Dan: | I’m going to start putting that on my list of things I want for Christmas and birthdays just a nice day. |
| Matt: | Yeah, just give me two hours and let me take a nap. |
| Dan: | Yeah, I got nothing for the weekend. Mark, you had anything for the weekend? |
| Mark: | No. |
| Dan: | Pretty slow over the weekend for the pub? |
| Mark: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Expected |
| Mark: | I watched the US Open and baseball. |
| Chris: | That US Open was pretty awesome. Them getting a freaking 40-foot birdie to win it? That was awesome. |
| Mark: | Sixty-five foot. |
| Matt: | What about the 270 yard albatross? |
| Chris: | That was pretty cool too, but yeah, he crushed it. That was good. That was good. That was a good finish. I got to watch a little bit of that while eating steak. |
| Matt: | Which got to watch Arizona completely implode and Louisville wound up beating them by like five or six yesterday, |
| Chris: | Coastal Carolina. |
| Matt: | They’re studs, man. |
| Chris: | It’s great. |
| Matt: | I kind of kind of root for them |
| Chris: | What is a mascot for Coastal- |
| Matt: | It’s like clear. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Which is- |
| Matt: | It’s a rooster. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it’s a fancy- |
| Matt: | It’s a fancy cock. |
| Mark: | I knew what the [inaudible 00:05:11] was. |
| Chris: | Ca-caw. Yeah. It’s a fancy rooster. |
| Matt: | Cluck-cluck. |
| Chris: | Cluck-cluck. Welcome to my beach house with the other hens. Cluck-cluck. We were making a joke about it last night because we were- |
| Dan: | I could tell. |
| Chris: | It was funny. It was funny. |
| Mark: | Where did I go so totally wrong that I’m sitting here on Monday morning listening in to a sexy chicken. |
| Chris: | Sexy chicken? It was a stuck-up I’m very rich chicken. |
| Dan: | I’m not entirely sure how you’re finding Negativity in this. This is great. |
| Matt: | I mean it’s still not as cool as a sexy rattlesnake. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Hmm, I’m a sexy rattlesnake. Forgot about the sexy rattlesnake. |
Bladnoch – Alinta
| Dan: | All right, let’s get to drinking some whiskey. |
| Chris: | Matt’s just going to drive off the road when I said that. |
| Dan: | I don’t think there’s a lot of news to talk about. I mean world news. We’re just going to stay away from that. Regional News in the United States, we’re just going to stay away from that. |
| Matt: | We had two very peaceful protests here. |
| Dan: | We did. |
| Matt: | In Omaha over the weekend, which I think is worth noting because normally, stuff gets a little crazy when they protest here, when people protest. |
| Dan: | Yep. |
| Matt: | Very peaceful. It was good. |
| Dan: | Good to see peaceful protests happening. |
| Chris: | It was very kind of surprised to be completely honest with you guys. |
| Matt: | Extremely surprised. Yeah. I mean anyway. |
| Dan: | Yep. All right, I got nothing else. |
| Chris: | Whiskey. |
| Dan: | Yep. Mark? |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | That’s your cue. |
| Mark: | Well, well, well. Doesn’t matter. |
| Dan: | I love is it the 12 year doesn’t matter or the 15 year doesn’t matter? |
| Mark: | The 12 year. |
| Dan: | Okay. I made an age statement joke there not realizing that I actually picked a 12-year and a 15-year scotch so my joke, which was supposed to be kind of a smart joke, ended up being a little more in line. Matt, please pull quick. |
| Matt: | I can’t. This bottle sucks. |
| Dan: | He’s glaring at me. |
| Mark: | Dan picked two bottles of whiskey, both that are short, fat and hard to pour. So Matt, blame Dan. |
| Dan: | This is a- |
| Mark: | Bladnoch. |
| Dan: | I like the nose. I’m sorry to interrupt. I like the nose. I couldn’t resist. |
| Mark: | This is a lowland whiskey. One of the largest privately owned distilleries in Scotland, was purchased in 2015 by a rich Australian guy who liked whiskey. They started just by not spinning around since the 1880s, but this iteration started in 2015. |
| Dan: | It’s very dark. |
| Mark: | I will now try it. |
| Dan: | Well, Mark is trying it and Chris is answering the phone. I did think of something we absolutely have to talk about on the podcast, which is the announcement that Spaceballs 2 is coming. |
| Matt: | It’s true. Next year? |
| Dan: | No. |
| Matt: | 2026, isn’t it? |
| Dan: | 2027, I believe. |
| Matt: | Oh, so two years. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | That kind of sucks. |
| Dan: | I saw this start propagating my social media feed I think Friday night and until I saw an actual trailer from Mel Brooks, not a trailer for the movie because they haven’t even started filming it yet. Instead, a announcement that they’re going to start working on it, which was absolutely perfect. It was a Star Wars scroll Mocking every Star Wars movie- |
| Matt: | All the movies. |
| Dan: | … series and comic books that has been released since the last Spaceballs movie. |
| Matt: | Yeah, it was pretty vibe. Evan showed it to me on Friday night and he asked me to read it out loud |
| Dan: | Matt. |
| Matt: | So I did. Matt, could you read it out loud? |
| Dan: | Could you read it out loud for the group? |
| Matt: | Yeah. This whiskey is tough. |
| Dan: | No, I like the nose. |
| Matt: | It’s really peaty. |
| Dan: | Well, you know what, as it’s sat and matured in the glass, it has definitely taken a peatiness. |
| Matt: | In your glass? |
| Chris: | [inaudible 00:10:03] raisins for me |
| Mark: | Oh, and also- |
| Chris: | In a chase chest one. |
| Mark: | What movie where Liam Neeson picked a bad day to quit? |
| Dan: | Airplanes? |
| Matt: | That was- |
| Mark: | They’re making a new Airplane. |
| Dan: | Is it Airplane or is it Naked gun? |
| Matt: | Naked Gun. |
| Dan: | Because it’s Liam Neeson is playing his child. |
| Mark: | So do you think Liam Neeson at some point in the movie goes if it’s money you want, I have them. What you do have is a particular set of skills. |
| Chris: | No, but I think he’s going to leave a microphone on and go to the bathroom. |
| Matt: | Oh, he is got to. Right? |
| Mark: | That was such a funny freaking scene. |
| Matt: | That was Lloyd Bridges. |
| Chris: | Oh, that was Lloyd Bridges. |
| Matt: | “I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue. I picked the wrong day to stop doing amphetamines.” |
| Dan: | It all started, I picked the wrong day to quit smoking. |
| Mark: | I think he worked for Air India. |
| Dan: | Whoa. Too soon. |
| Mark: | Too soon? |
| Dan: | Do you see there was… Okay, by the way, if you didn’t know there was a commuter plane that crashed just after takeoff from Air India, 200-plus people on board, one Survivor. He walked away from the plane crash. I mean he was limping but he walked away from the plane Crash. |
| Matt: | Pretty heavy limp. |
| Dan: | And there was people trying to help him and he’s swatting him away like flies. He’s like, “Get away. I need my space.” |
| Matt: | It’s like when Trump got shot, catch up packet. |
| Dan: | I’ve got customer tickets to take care of. |
| Matt: | Yeah. Oh, he was an employee? |
| Dan: | I don’t know. I can’t drink this. |
| Matt: | Do not manhandle me, sir. |
| Dan: | Kevin? |
| Matt: | Kevin. |
| Dan: | Can Kevin be our sacrificial lamb? |
| Matt: | Nope. |
| Dan: | All right. That was Bladnoch Alinta. Way more peaty than I expected. |
| Mark: | It is what is supposed to be Harvard. That being said, you got to like peat. |
| Dan: | Yeah, that should be in the peat section. |
| Mark: | It’s not an eye blade, it’s a lowland. |
| Dan: | Yeah, but I don’t want to mistakenly give that to somebody. I’m kind of dumb and I’m going to forget how bad it is. |
| Matt: | Read the label, Dan, because the label does say peated release, which the Pedro Menez and the bourbon did not help it at all. If I like peat, that’d probably be delicious. |
| Mark: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Peat’s kind of an ass. |
| Mark: | Now what I will say, if you can get by the peat, there are some really nice fruit in the background. |
| Chris: | I was getting dried raisins pretty hardcore. That’s what I was getting predominantly. |
| Mark: | Predominantly. |
| Chris: | Predominantly. |
| Mark: | I’m the guy that can’t talk. |
| Chris: | Didn’t I just say that right? |
| Mark: | No, you- |
| Chris: | What did I say? |
| Mark: | Predemantly? |
| Chris: | No, I didn’t. |
| Mark: | You did. |
| Matt: | Predominantly. |
| Dan: | I was busy typing up. |
| Chris: | We’re going to find out. When you edit this, mark it so you can go back and say Chris said it right or |
| Dan: | Mark- |
| Chris: | Plumb doesn’t know how to talk, which is both possible. |
| Matt: | Accurate |
| Dan: | Little from column a little from column B. |
| Matt: | I don’t hate this. |
Cardhu – 12 Year Old
| Dan: | I get a lot of fruitiness. Now what was this again? Even though I picked it? |
| Mark: | Cardhu 12. |
| Dan: | It does- |
| Mark: | Can I see the bottle, because I can’t- |
| Matt: | Does sound very fancy. Cardhu. Which it sounds like it should be like an Indian whiskey. |
| Dan: | It does ,actually. |
| Matt: | You know what, I- |
| Dan: | [inaudible 00:14:00] go this weekend. I think. Went to Cardhu. O. |
| Mark: | Cardhu. I just had my second sip of the Bladnoch. Not as bad as the first. Nope. |
| Dan: | Nope. Do you want mine? |
| Mark: | Keep in mind I haven’t drank for three months. This is it. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Yeah. By the way, good job on that too. I was wondering about that yesterday. Ever since the health scare, you’ve taken a break from drinking and that’s tough. That’s hard. |
| Mark: | You know what’s funny? It hasn’t been. |
| Dan: | Really? |
| Mark: | Yeah, just now I will say I drink a lot of coffee at home. |
| Matt: | Pee a lot. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Matt: | That’s good. It helps keep your insides cleansed out. |
| Dan: | Are you doing just the regular coffee maker or are you upgrading to a really nice one? Do you have an espresso? |
| Mark: | No, I have the high end… What’s the one with the low- |
| Matt: | Keurig. |
| Dan: | Keurig. Yeah. |
| Matt: | Those are nice. |
| Dan: | Coffee’s a great art. I think it’s a lot like whiskey. It’s interesting how they can have different notes in the cooking method. |
| Matt: | Yeah, different bitterness levels. |
| Mark: | I’m wild and crazy. I drink Folger. |
| Dan: | Whoa. What? Wild and crazy guy. |
| Matt: | Everybody’s back up. |
| Mark: | Plain Folgers. |
| Dan: | Hey, if you like it, you like it. There’s no need to step out. All right. This was Cardhu 12. I like it. I think it’s good. |
| Matt: | I like Cardhu 12. I think it’s- |
| Dan: | Was it nine? |
| Matt: | Yeah, nine a pour, for a full pour. |
| Chris: | That was Mark’s. You just… You’re- |
| Dan: | You’re not- |
| Matt: | That was suicide now. That’s not going to be good now. |
| Chris: | I thought you were drinking that. Fuck. |
| Matt: | Well, he was. |
| Chris: | See what your little blend is. All this is the Duncan Taylor blend. Front stretch blend. I’m not trying that. Not a try. |
| Matt: | No way. |
| Mark: | No, I finished mine. |
| Dan: | I gave you mine back to give to him because he liked it. It’s less offensive. |
| Matt: | Tastes like steak. |
| Dan: | Come on. |
| Matt: | No, I’m good. I really like this Cardhu though. Fruity and cherry and I like it. |
| Dan: | I hate my life choices right now. |
| Matt: | We all have our moments. |
| Dan: | Cardhu 12. All right, Cardhu. |
| Matt: | Which the Cardhu runs 40%, 80 proof, nine bucks a pour. Those bottles. – |
| Mark: | I would rather drink the Bladnoch. I think this Cardhu is kind of boring. |
| Dan: | It’s very sweet. |
| Chris: | That second sip is… |
| Matt: | I just like the fact that it doesn’t taste like there’s been a dirty sock in the bottle. |
| Dan: | Yeah, that helps. |
| Matt: | Cardhu. |
| Chris: | That’s how I would pronounce this. Cardhu. Mark’s looking at me again |
| Matt: | Over the glasses. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Surprised he’s not doing this. I don’t hate this though. And for nine bucks, you can’t be mad at it. |
| Dan: | I think that’s priced perfectly to be appealing. |
Row 94
| Matt: | I actually will finish this one. I like this one. |
| Dan: | Thank you. |
| Matt: | I like the heavy fruit notes. |
| Chris: | Yeah, there’s like a candy sweetness too. |
| Dan: | This is my blend, right? I think this is my personal blend. I’m setting that down at the end of my read, so that way later this afternoon or after the podcast when I need another drink, I mistakenly drink that. Row 94. |
| Matt: | This is Dierks Bentley’s new bourbon. Here, let me pass it out to everybody. Row 94, which I like his music. |
| Dan: | Some of his music. |
| Matt: | I bet his whiskey’s okay. It’s 30 to 40 bucks a bottle, 47%, 94 proof, 70% corn, 21% rye, 9% malted barley. |
| Chris: | I don’t smell anything on this. I have to take a deep inhale to smell. |
| Matt: | But you don’t even really get any astringency in the nose either. Maybe a touch put at 94 proof I.. No? |
| Chris: | It’s 94 proof. I don’t know. I know what I’m tasting. |
| Mark: | What are you tasting? |
| Chris: | My mouth is hot. |
| Mark: | Oh baby. Really? |
| Chris: | Yeah. Whoa. And I just, like I said, I don’t have no nose. This isn’t for me. That’s where I’m at. |
| Matt: | I think on the palate it’s good. Heavy cinnamon, kind of cherry notes. |
| Chris: | Super heavy cinnamon. |
| Matt: | And it’s a little red. Which this is by Green River that this is another new one to the state that came out when those other three green Rivers were released. I don’t hate this. I think it’s great for a paintball thing. I think this is way better than Traveler from Buffalo Trace. |
| Dan: | Oh, why are you’re going to be like that. |
| Matt: | Now, I still think Chris Stapleton would win in a fist fight. |
| Mark: | My wife wanted to go to Denver in August to see Chris Stapleton. |
| Matt: | Which I thought, I think he’s coming to Omaha or Lincoln. |
| Dan: | I say whiskey. |
| Matt: | No, I like this one. I think it’s a nice easy drinker. Not super high proof, but it is a little warm on the front end. |
| Dan: | That. I’m sorry, I’m trying to process the taste on my tongue right now. |
| Mark: | I’d let it go, Dan. |
| Dan: | You did let it go. |
| Mark: | Whoa. |
| Dan: | This is why you got the people’s brow. Chris Stapleton is not coming to the Omaha area. |
| Matt: | Didn’t he? I wonder who I’m thinking of then. |
| Dan: | At least not through July 25th. |
| Matt: | Boo. |
| Mark: | If he does, Matt, can I hire you to take Moe. |
| Matt: | I’ll probably have to work that night. Pretty sure, I mean I work a lot. |
| Dan: | I don’t know what that entails, but I’ll have to work that night. |
| Matt: | I would assume it’s a Friday and I have to be here. I can take a Tuesday off maybe. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Not on his website. Is he coming? |
| Matt: | Fridays are tough. |
| Dan: | He’s got scheduled through November 1st. |
| Chris: | What Matt meant to say is, gosh, I have to work that night. Can I make so much money that night? If there was some way that I could do it, that I won’t lose my pay. |
| Matt: | How I pay for things. |
| Chris: | Yeah. How. |
| Matt: | I like this. I like this whiskey. |
| Dan: | It’s the same thing I told Sarah. I don’t know if I like this. It’s different. She’s like, can’t you take a day off of work? And I’m like, sure. Where are we going to get the money for groceries? |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Are you picking up a shift somewhere? |
| Matt: | Are we going to kill a chicken? |
| Dan: | All right then. |
| Matt: | Kill a chicken and eat some dandelion greens out of the yard. I mean you are a homesteader. I eat dandelion greens out of my yard. I do not. |
| Chris: | I had not a full plate of them, but added it into a mixed green salad. The bitterness is great. |
| Dan: | I just reached down and grabbed a handful and shove it in my mouth. |
| Chris: | Okay. See? Well- |
| Dan: | Especially after I sprayed. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Stop. Dan, you’re making this too easy. I just reached out and shove it my mouth. |
| Dan: | And you didn’t take it still. I got that bait hanging out there. You’re going to bite one of these times. All right Matt. I’m a little biased but I think Chris Stapleton’s whiskey is a lot better. |
| Matt: | I think his is less flavorful and watery. |
| Dan: | A lot like his music. |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Dan: | Yep. |
| Matt: | That’s- |
| Dan: | Yep. |
| Matt: | I like his music. |
| Dan: | Said it. Two more. |
| Matt: | And this might be the dumbest bottle ever. |
| Dan: | Oh my God. |
| Matt: | Which is the main reason why I picked it. We just got it in last week. |
| Dan: | Version of a 1940s canteen. |
| Matt: | Yeah. I just don’t understand why people would put booze into a metal bottle. |
| Dan: | All right. Oh, where was the bottle for that last one? Sorry? It was a… What was the name of it? Row 94. |
| Matt: | Row 94 Dierks Bentley. |
Montana Whiskey Company – Blackfoot River Bourbon
| Dan: | And this one is? |
| Matt: | This is from the Montana Whiskey Company. This is their Blackfoot River bourbon. It’s aged in Montana’s extremes. Our bourbon packs notes of heavy caramel, spicy rye. |
| Dan: | What’s wrong with the booze? |
| Matt: | And a hint of oak all with a crisp finish. Drink it straight up like we do. Or make your favorite mixer better. Oh, I see where they did there |
| Chris: | You getting anything on the nose? Did anybody get anything on the nose or do I have COVID? What’s going on here? |
| Matt: | No. |
| Dan: | It’s a very light nose. |
| Matt: | Okay. I’m not getting hardly anything on the nose, which this is 40%, 80 proof. I was kind of having a hard time finding a mash bill on it. |
| Chris: | I don’t know what I feel about this one. |
| Matt: | So they also do a straight whiskey and a straight bourbon. So this one must be like their fancy bourbon or something. |
| Chris: | So for me, the nose, I don’t smell. Very, very light nose. Taste- |
| Matt: | I get lots of corn. |
| Chris: | On the nose? |
| Matt: | On the palate. |
| Chris: | The second sip is better than the first sip, but I don’t know about this one. |
| Matt: | Corn and a little bit of light fruitiness. Not a lot of sweetness. As much as I hate to say it, I don’t hate this. |
| Chris: | Yeah. There’s not a Hotness in my mouth to it, but it did make my tongue go numb. |
| Matt: | Numb? |
| Chris: | Numb. I am like it’s… But I don’t know if that’s the combination of the last one and this one, but an 80 proof shouldn’t be doing that to my tongue. That’s where I’,- |
| Matt: | Very viscous, sticks to the side of the glass. |
| Chris: | I would use that as a water bottle- |
| Matt: | Canteen. |
| Chris: | Yeah. All day long. It’s actually a sweet, sweet package, |
| Matt: | Which I don’t think you could use this in a cocktail. It’s just too light. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I feel like it’s just going to come up missing. Straight, I don’t hate it. |
| Dan: | This is an interesting category because it’s not light in the world on fire. It’s not doing anything crazy but it’s also not offending. It’s kind of like- |
| Matt: | Yeah, it’s not bad. |
| Dan: | … all right, |
| Matt: | This is one at someone’s house. I’d probably go back for seconds. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Just nice and easy. Doesn’t need anything. You don’t have to add water, you don’t have to put any ice in it. You can put this in a paintball pouch. The bottle, yes. |
| Chris: | You could be rolling around as a paintball pod that- |
| Matt: | Could use it as a paintball pod. Gets kicked out. |
| Chris: | Not if it’s filled with- |
| Matt: | So, I’ve heard. |
| Dan: | Probably. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | All right. That was Montana Whiskey Company, Blackfoot River Bourbon. |
| Matt: | Yep. |
| Dan: | We’re all kind of like meh. |
| Matt: | It’s not exciting, it’s not horrible. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Also, I think that’s probably the quality it’s got going for. It’s that it’s not bad. |
| Matt: | Yeah. But it’s not amazing and it’s not bad. It’s just right in the middle. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I’m okay with that. |
| Dan: | All right Chris, you got to get going? |
| Chris: | I do. |
| Dan: | Okay. You are going to miss out on our top 10, which is going to be top 10 Harrison Ford movies. |
| Matt: | Oh wow. Star Wars, Indiana Jones. |
| Chris: | Indiana Jones is number one. |
| Dan: | There’s some good entries here. |
| Matt: | I’m a big fan of- |
| Dan: | Although once I got past five or six I had some issues. |
| Matt: | What’s the one he did with Tommy Lee Jones? Where’s he’s like, “I didn’t kill my wife”, and Tommy Lee Jones goes, “I don’t care.” |
| Dan: | I don’t care. Yep. All right, well we might as well start there. Top 10 Harrison Ford movies. The Fugitive. |
| Matt: | Do we get vetoes or anything? |
| Dan: | I do have 15, but I think I’m going to trim it down to just 12 so that way you’ve each got one veto. |
| Matt: | One veto each. Oh, I’d put the Fugitive right in the middle. |
| Mark: | Five or six. |
| Matt: | Yeah, four, five or six. So I would say let’s just go with five, right? |
| Dan: | Five. |
| Matt: | Right off the bat. |
| Dan: | Okay, so The Fugitive is the middle of the road. And by the way, I do want to say that Han Solo in Star Wars is one and Indiana Jones in the Indiana Jones series is one. Some of these lists just completely copped out and ranked his acting in the four Star Wars movies that he was in. |
| Matt: | Oh God. No, he’s just Han Solo. Give me a break. |
| Dan: | All right. American Graffiti. |
| Matt: | Oh, that’s a big movie. |
| Mark: | On that one, I rank it for his or for the movie. He wasn’t in very much of it. |
| Chris: | No. |
| Matt: | Yeah, that’d be like a nine or 10 for me just because he wasn’t in the movie very much. |
| Mark: | Yeah, it’s a great movie, but I’d go 8, 9. |
| Matt: | A lot of huge names. So we were at American Graffiti. For me, that’d be like 9 or 10. |
| Dan: | Okay. I’ve got some other ones that I can substitute out if you guys, because like I said, I didn’t watch American Graffiti so I didn’t see how much he was in it. If you feel like we should kick that one out, it’s a non-deal. |
| Mark: | Well he did say a car’s color was cross puke Green and pitch yellow, so believe man. |
| Dan: | All right. American Graffiti. |
| Matt: | I would go 9. |
| Mark: | Eight or nine. |
| Dan: | Matt? |
| Matt: | So nine. |
| Dan: | Patriot Games. |
| Matt: | Good movie. I’d probably go maybe a four with Patriot Games. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Matt: | Four or six. Since five’s taken. |
| Mark: | I’d go to six because we don’t know what’s coming up. |
| Matt: | It’s true. We have to save two spots for Indiana Jones and Han Solo. |
| Dan: | Six. |
| Matt: | Six. |
| Dan: | Air Force One. |
| Matt: | Another good movie. |
| Dan: | One of your quintessential late ’90s hero movies for the president of the United States. Played by Harrison Ford is on Air Force One and I think it was probably Israeli commandos took over the plane. |
| Matt: | If it would’ve been the eighties, it would’ve been Russian. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I mean name one of our presidents that could have fought anybody off on an airplane. |
| Matt: | Oh man. Maybe Roosevelt had carried a big stick. |
| Dan: | He did. Truman was kind of fragile. Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt. |
| Matt: | Yeah, Teddy. |
| Dan: | Teddy. Teddy could have kicked anybody’s. |
| Matt: | Yes. He was a big boy. |
| Dan: | He was a rough rider. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | He was a tough dude. |
| Matt: | I was a rough rider yesterday when I blew the ass out of my underwear, |
| Dan: | I saw the picture. |
| Matt: | I’ve just been over to pick up a golf ball and there it goes. |
| Dan: | There she goes. |
| Matt: | Built-in air conditioning. |
| Dan: | Air Force One. |
| Matt: | Probably go like a seven. |
| Dan: | I haven’t watched it in a long time, so- |
| Mark: | I’m all right with that. |
| Dan: | Seven. K-19. |
| Matt: | I don’t think I know that movie. |
| Mark: | I don’t. |
| Dan: | Really? This is one of my favorite, not only just Harrison Ford movies, but movies. The K-19 was the first Russian nuclear submarine. It’s based on a true story by the way. |
| Matt: | So it’s like a different version of Hunt for Red October. |
| Dan: | It is, except instead of a Scottish guy having a bad Russian accent, it’s an American guy having with a bad Russian accent. But it’s a great movie and I love based on true story movies like that and yeah, the Russians rushed this nuclear submarine into production and it had all sorts of issues. K-19, Widowmaker. You do have vetoes. |
| Matt: | I don’t know that movie, so I think we had to veto it. |
| Dan: | You kind of got to veto it. |
| Matt: | Got to get rid of it. |
| Dan: | Who wants to use their veto? |
| Matt: | I’ll use mine. |
| Dan: | Okay. I think it’s a fantastic movie and it’s well worth the watch. Six Days, Seven Nights. |
| Matt: | Is that the one with Anne Heche? The plane crashes and they’re trapped on the island. |
| Dan: | Anne Heche takes too many volume. |
| Matt: | So it was just like her regular life. |
| Dan: | Yeah, I absolutely love this movie. |
| Matt: | That’d be up there for me. That’d be… What do we have left? Eight? Eight and 10 probably just because Anne Heche is in a bikini half of it, I’d probably go eight. |
| Dan: | The Braless too. In some point. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Mark, did you ever see it? |
| Mark: | Nope. |
| Dan: | Oh eight It is, unless Mark, you have an objection you want to veto? |
| Mark: | Nope. |
| Dan: | Okay. Blade Runner. |
| Mark: | Which one? |
| Dan: | I’m going to go with the first one because he’s only in the second one at the very end. |
| Mark: | I would go three. |
| Matt: | Yeah, I was thinking three. Three because again, we still have to leave one and two for Han Solo and the other guy. |
| Dan: | Clear and Present Danger. |
| Matt: | Oh, it’s been a while. |
| Dan: | I believe this was, this is the what the hell’s the CIA operatives, the series that Ben Affleck and Jack Ryan. |
| Matt: | I’d probably go 10 on that. |
| Dan: | I think this was the Jack Ryan movie. |
| Matt: | Yeah, I’d probably go 10 on that. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Mark: | I’m all right with that. |
| Dan: | 10. All right, let’s just get it out of the way. Star Wars, Han Solo. |
| Matt: | Number two. |
| Dan: | Is the Swashbuckling Pirate from the Space movie better than the Archaeologist? |
| Mark: | No. I would go two and save one for in the end. Yeah. |
| Dan: | Okay. We’ll just go ahead and put Indy at number one. |
| Matt: | That’s exactly what I was thinking. |
| Dan: | And you’ve got two options left. Hollywood Homicide is one that I put on there because it’s one of my favorite Harrison Ford movies and quite frankly, I kind of ran out of movies that I think any of us saw. Hollywood Homicide is, he’s a Longtime detective trying to train Josh Hartnett and he’s also trying to transition into becoming an actor. |
| Matt: | Josh Hartnett. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen it. |
| Mark: | I have not. |
| Dan: | All right, well have you seen Working Girl? |
| Matt: | Yes, with Melanie Griffith. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Matt: | That’s a funny movie. |
| Dan: | Hollywood Homicide gets vetoed. Man, just like some of these, they start off as good ideas and then you actually start to work them out and you’re like, crap, this is a bad list. |
| Matt: | Well, you’re banking on everybody knowing about them. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Which is pert near impossible to do on any of our list. |
| Matt: | Kind of a hope and a prayer on some of them. Yeah. |
| Dan: | By the way, a movie that did not make the list, the Star Wars Hollywood special or a holiday special. |
| Matt: | I’m okay with that. |
| Dan: | Oddly enough, the Star Wars holiday special on Rotten Tomatoes is ranked 38th of 42 movies, so in Harrison Ford movies, there is four movies that people have voted are actually worse than the holiday special. |
| Matt: | That he’s in? |
| Dan: | Firewall was one of them. |
| Matt: | Yeah, I don’t know what that is. |
| Dan: | I only watched it because I was kind of a techie guy and I don’t remember a lot of it, but somebody hacked into his house and then it was like a ransom type movie. They held him hostage. He was- |
| Matt: | He gets held hostage a lot. |
| Dan: | I know. He does. He was a programmer. Yeah. |
| Matt: | Yeah. I don’t think I ever saw that one. |
| Dan: | All right, that’s your top 10 Harrison Ford movies. Starting at number 10, Clear And Present Danger number nine, American Graffiti number eight, Six Days, Seven Nights. Number Seven, Air Force One. Number six, Patriot Games. Number five, the Fugitive. Number four, Working Girl. Number three, Blade Runner, number two, Star Wars as Han Solo and number one, the Indiana Jones movies as… |
| Matt: | Indiana Jones. Yeah. |
| Dan: | I think the top three are spot-on. |
| Matt: | You can’t go wrong with Indiana Jones or Han Solo. It was just kind of that cocky, brash that you would imagine because of the way he played them so effortlessly. That’s just kind of how he is in real life. |
| Dan: | He is. I absolutely love it when he goes on like Conan or Jimmy Fallon. What’s the other Jimmy? |
| Matt: | Jimmy Smith’s? |
| Dan: | Jimmy Kimmel. |
| Matt: | Oh, not Jimmy Smith’s. |
| Dan: | The bit that him and Jimmy Kimmel had leading up to the announcement of the latest three Star Wars movies with Chewbacca and apparently Chewie slept with Leia and- |
| Matt: | Yeah, it was a big, big soap opera type ordeal. |
| Dan: | The long game on that, because it wasn’t just one bit when he came on one time. They did it. They carried that bit on several times that he came on. |
| Matt: | Well, and anytime they have Mark Hamill on any of those shows, they make him do his Harrison Ford impersonation, which is pretty- |
| Dan: | “Hey, look” |
| Matt: | “Hey, kid.” |
| Dan: | It’s not this kind of movie. All right, thanks guys for listening. Do we have a plan for the next Whiskey Wednesday coming up in a couple of weeks? |
| Matt: | We’re going to do whiskey. |
| Dan: | We’re going to drink some whiskey. It’s going to be on a Wednesday night. It’s going to be at seven ‘oclock-ish. |
| Matt: | Yep. Those details have been worked out. |
| Dan: | And the popcorn is going to be free. |
| Matt: | Always. |
| Dan: | How’d the side show sampling go? |
| Matt: | It could have been better, but we sold some flights. |
| Dan: | Good. |
| Matt: | We sold some stuff on it and we had Kip here, which Kip’s always fun to talk to, which it was. I felt pretty good that he came up and he’s like, what have you been drinking? Because a lot of these distillers, they know everything, blah, blah blah. He was just like, “What have you been drinking? I want something that someone else really likes.” So I of course went with the Calumet Bottled-in-Bond and he was like, this stuff’s amazing. I said, well enjoy it now. It’s a limited run. |
| Dan: | There’s only a couple left in the warehouse in Nebraska. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | All right. Mark, you got anything else? |
| Mark: | Nope. |
| Dan: | All right, that’s good to do it for us. Guys, make sure to like and share the Library Pub Facebook, wait. Make sure to like and share the Library Pubcast on Spotify. That way we can continue to gain listeners and make sure to follow the Library Pub on Facebook so that way you can see the latest beers that get on tap, the latest events that are being scheduled and the latest whiskeys that arrive. |
| Matt: | Go Coastal Carolina. |
| Dan: | Have a good week. |
| Matt: | Bye. |
