GlenAllachie, Highland Park, G&W, Leadslingers, and Jack Daniel’s

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GlenAllachie, Highland Park, G&W, Leadslingers, and Jack Daniel’s

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Dan:Episode 246 of the Library Pubcast being recorded, 90th and Fort in Omaha, Nebraska, on a beautiful but slightly chilly Monday.
Matt:It’s pretty nice out.
Dan:By the way if everything goes all according to plan, by the time this podcast publishes, Sarah and I should be married.
Matt:What?
Dan:We’re going to go down to the courthouse on Tuesday and get it done.
Matt:Well that’s cool.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:Who’s going to be your witnesses?
Dan:We’re working on that. She really wants to go to Colorado, because in Colorado, they allow your dog to be the witness.
Matt:That’s the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard in my life.
Dan:Well.
Matt:A bunch of stoners. A bunch of…
Dan:It really is. I mean…
Matt:Fucking potheads.
Dan:Shrooms, man. Shrooms.
Matt:How does the dog sign?
Dan:Paw print. On an ink pad.
Matt:Should be their nose prints. The noses are the-
Dan:Should be.
Chris:Should be that.
Matt:… or the ass print.
Dan:Yeah.
Chris:Or the finger.
Dan:Like the thumbprint?
Chris:Yeah. Seriously, the noses, they-
Dan:Really?
Chris:… no two dogs’ noses are alike.
Dan:Really?
Chris:Mm-hmm. Now you know.
Dan:Matt, how was your weekend?
Mark:My dog has a cute nose and-
Chris:He does have a cute nose.
Matt:Your dogs are, they kind of have cute everything.
Mark:Yeah, it’s-
Dan:Yeah, you’re right. They-
Chris:[inaudible 00:01:18] balls.
Matt:Except for Artie’s dick. That thing is frightening.
Dan:It’s a little scary. You’re like, “Oh, a little cute dog. Oh!”
Chris:[inaudible 00:01:24]-
Matt:And he sleeps-
Chris:… Christ.
Matt:… on your shoulder. Can you imagine, if he has one really, really sexy dream? And then he wakes up, and he’s… Just dribbling that sienna sausage right over you.
Mark:That’s disgusting.
Matt:I mean, everyone loves their pets, but don’t love your pets.
Mark:I think that’s illegal-
Dan:Just going right across the mustache.
Mark:… in most states.
Dan:Just going right across-
Matt:I would guess-
Dan:… the mustache.
Matt:… at least north of the Mason Dixon, that’s illegal.
Dan:Well, yeah. We all love our pets when shit like that happens. Last time Piper was pregnant, she was laying in our bed with us and she walked across my face and one of her nipples slipped into my mouth.
Matt:Oh.
Mark:Oh. Oh.
Matt:That’s-
Dan:Which you don’t admit.
Matt:That’s pretty gross.
Dan:I mean, this, you don’t admit.
Matt:I’d probably keep my mouth closed when the dog’s walking over me.
Dan:You know what? You should have. There’s a number-
Matt:Especially with big, dangly, aboriginal nipples.
Dan:Yeah, they were huge.
Mark:Oh, my God.
Chris:Oh, my word.
Matt:Oh, Jesus.
Dan:Matt, how was your weekend?
Chris:This is how the day is going to go.
Matt:Worked Friday, we got our asses kicked. Saturday, watched basketball, ate some Romeo’s tacos and pizza, which was delightful.
Dan:Here, or… Oh, you were at your-
Matt:Nope, I was out at my buddy Hill’s house.
Dan:Yeah, that’s right. You were saying that yesterday.
Matt:And then yesterday I came up here and had a couple of drinks, and watched some more basketball, and chuckled and… Good old time.
Dan:The sandwich bracket, did I hear right, that the hot dog finally got eliminated?
Matt:Yesterday it did.
Dan:So we haven’t talked a lot about the sandwich bracket.
Matt:We haven’t. It’s been kind of fun, though.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:We matched up a sandwich, or sandwich-like item, to every team in the tournament. And this weekend, with the Final Four coming up, we will be trying all four sandwiches.
Dan:So this was a… Who started this? You, or Chris Miller?
Mark:Chris.
Matt:Miller comes up with some weird ideas.
Dan:They came up with 64 sandwiches. And there’s a couple of them in there that, much like the NCAA basketball tournament, probably a couple of them that didn’t deserve to be there.
Matt:Well, a hot dog is not a sandwich.
Dan:Maybe they didn’t quite classify. There was definitely some arguing going on.
Matt:But a gyro is not a sandwich.
Dan:But there were two people that were in charge of deciding what was on the 64 bracket. Mark, you then seeded all the sandwiches.
Mark:The top 20.
Dan:Top 20. Did Miller do the rest, the other 34?
Matt:I think they were random.
Mark:They were random after the first 20.
Dan:Okay. And then, depending on their seeding, they got matched up with the same seeding in the actual NCAA bracket.
Matt:Yeah. Each basketball team got a sandwich.
Dan:And as the March Madness bracket, or March Madness tournament continues, teams get eliminated. Then that sandwich gets eliminated.
Matt:Yeah.
Dan:Hot dog made it to the Sweet 16?
Matt:Hot dog is in, made it to the Elite Eight, I think.
Dan:Oh.
Matt:Yeah. Gyro’s in the Final Four.
Dan:Oh, Jesus.
Matt:No, gyro. Gyro.
Dan:Yeah, it’s not gyro, it’s gyro. That’s one of those great marketing commercials that’s never going to leave the Midwest’s heads.
Matt:No.
Dan:All right, so then I came up to the pub, and hung out with Evan during his birthday.
Matt:It was my birthday, and we all did shots of Euler.
Dan:Yep. There was actually more monster bombs poured yesterday-
Matt:Really?
Dan:… than, I believe, Euler’s.
Matt:Really?
Dan:It’s really close, because… Who bought a round? Oh, one of the customers bought a round for the entire bar, of Euler’s, and that adds up very quickly at six bucks a shot.
Matt:A lot of Euler’s
Dan:And then Evan, just so that he could have a tab, did 12 Euler’s.
Matt:Yeah, because I took the rest of his tab, and put it on my tab-
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:… and then Evan said, “I got to spend something. It’s a party.”
Dan:I was looking forward to him not having a tab, but.
Matt:Which would be weird for Evan.
Dan:It would be. Mark? The Tigers suck.
Mark:They do. The high point of my weekend was the Dodgers sweeping the Tigers. Ergo, Evan lost his bet and had to pay me a hundred bucks.
Dan:Now was the bet that the Dodgers had to sweep, or was it that… Win the series?
Mark:It was $50 to win the series, but if team swept, it went to a hundred.
Dan:Yeah.
Mark:So, as he-
Matt:Double double.
Mark:… as he handed me the hundred bucks I said, “Give everybody a shot of Euler,” handed the hundred bucks to Dan and said, “The rest is a tip.”
Chris:** That was awesome.
Dan:It ended up coming out to $72, and I got a $28 tip.
Matt:That’s a nice tip.
Dan:Pretty happy with that.
Matt:I know you like the tip.
Mark:And then-
Matt:Just the tip.
Dan:Oh, I’ll take the whole thing.
Mark:… and then, without prompting, he had to yell that the Tigers suck.
Matt:Well, Danny Whaley tried to do a nice thank you to Mark.
Dan:Yeah. But I fixed that.
Matt:And Dan’s standing back here recording.
Speaker 7:Hey Danny.
Speaker 8:Happy Sunday. You have enough glasses?
Dan:Oh no, that’s because the Tigers suck.
Speaker 8:Oh!
Speaker 7:Oh!
Speaker 8:Sure. [inaudible 00:06:41]
Dan:I won’t drink them. Happy- anyways.
Matt:And they do. They’re not good.
Dan:Yeah, they’re not good. And the Dodgers are really good.
Mark:They are. Other than that, I watched baseball and hung out.
Dan:The Yankees are continuing to just not even worry about base runners? They just keep hitting home runs?
Matt:Well, they’re using like, cricket bats.
Dan:Are they?
Matt:They’re using these weird new bats that… They’re not cheating yet, but I’m sure baseball-
Dan:Is it just the Yankees that are using these newly developed bats?
Matt:I think so.
Mark:Well, based on how the Yankees are hitting, other teams are looking for them.
Matt:Yeah, they’re probably trying to beat up Yankees players and steal their bats.
Dan:Probably. Because those Yankee boys are big.
Matt:What’d they win? 21 to 6, or something-
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:… the other night?
Dan:And then they came out Sunday and played, I don’t even know who, but every time I looked up I thought I saw a Yankees player running around the base.
Matt:It was like they were just jogging.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:Just, “Okay. Go jog.”
Dan:Right. We’re… Yeah.
Matt:Yeah. Fucking Yankees.
Dan:Chris?
Chris:Very busy weekend. Let’s see, I had a wine tasting on Friday night. Went really, really well. Saturday, I had, my nephew’s getting married in June. So we had a couple’s shower, whatever, at my parents’ house. And it was Hawaiian themed, it was fun, it was cool. Sunday was, a friend is moving to Hawaii, so said Hawaiian party that we set up for, all of the decorations went down for that party, and went up for the going away to Hawaii party. So it was very busy. I’m really tired.
Matt:That’s very economical partying.
Chris:It was, I’ve been going nonstop since last Wednesday, and I’m just exhausted.
Dan:Yeah.
Chris:And my nerves are like on their very last, so I’m just waiting-
Matt:It’s going to blow up.
Chris:… for something else to happen.
Matt:It’s going to blow up.
Dan:Dude, it is… The day we’re recording, it’s end of month, and yeah. Well, here comes, they’re, they just happened as we’re talking.
Chris:Yeah.
Dan:It’s end of month in the liquor industry, and it’s not only end of month-
Chris:Just the end of sales, yeah.
Dan:… it’s end of fiscal year for several of our suppliers, so they’re trying to hit some crazy goals. It’s fun. Anyways.
Chris:Anyways. Good times. Great [inaudible 00:09:02]
Dan:Um…
Matt:How was your weekend?
Dan:It was great.
Matt:You worked Sunday.
Dan:Friday night, Sarah messaged and said, “What are we doing for dinner?” And I said, “I don’t know, a steak sounds really good, but-“
Matt:“Cook something, woman.”
Dan:… ” but I ain’t got no money.” I already played that card, “But I ain’t got no money.”
Matt:She made him sandwiches.
Dan:She showed up with some nice giant cowboy rib eye steaks.
Matt:Wow.
Dan:Baked potatoes.
Matt:Dang.
Dan:I bet that steak was, bone on, 16 ounces?
Matt:Nice. That’s a good size rib eye.
Dan:I ate the whole fucking thing.
Chris:Yeah, hell, yeah.
Matt:I would.
Dan:I was miserable, though. I was happily miserable.
Matt:Did you throw the bone out for the neighborhood coyotes?
Dan:No, I chewed on it. Much like Mark watched me do with chicken wings yesterday. Not only do you just nibble the meat off of it, you also kind of suck on it a little bit, because you get some-
Matt:It was kind of disturbing watching Dan eat-
Dan:I definitely suck on the bone.
Matt:… his wings yesterday.
Chris:I suck on the bone when I’m doing the-
Dan:Oh, God.
Chris:Yeah.
Dan:Did your dads ever used to do that? Like, when you guys would have pork chops? Like, my dad would always take the bone off of my plate, because I was done eating. And he would nibble, get all that, the rest of that meat off there. Because, I would come to find out later, that’s some of the best meat.
Matt:Yeah, no, we learned that early. We were a big steak family.
Dan:No, he didn’t tell us that. He’s like-
Matt:So yeah, we learned that early.
Dan:He got the best stuff, and then also gave us a hard time for not finishing our dinner.
Matt:“Wasting my money.”
Dan:He knew exactly how to do, how to play us. So Saturday, got out to the racetrack and cleaned, we had to get the booth ready for the racetrack. That was awesome. Lots of fun.
Matt:Back to you in the booth.
Dan:Yep. A couple of weeks until the racing starts. And then worked Sunday morning, Sunday day, and had a great day. A lot of-
Matt:How dirty does the booth get in the off-season?
Dan:I should have taken a picture. I don’t know, nobody actually knows why this happens, but there’s flies. Not like, “Oh, let’s put out a fly trap and we’ll solve it.” Like, there is not a square inch on that floor that is not covered in flies.
Matt:That’s gross.
Mark:Weird.
Dan:It is insane. And then, there’s physical piles of them that are probably two to three inches tall, next to the windows.
Matt:That’s also gross.
Dan:It’s insane.
Matt:Maybe try sealing those windows up.
Dan:It’s a lost cause, at this point. I mean there’s no sealing that booth in.
Matt:Or put some fly traps out.
Dan:Yeah, we could. But I mean, you’d have to put out hundreds of fly traps.
Matt:Well, what’s making them go in there? Warmth?
Dan:I think because it’s warmer. I think at the end of the year they lay all their eggs somewhere in there, and then they hatch, and they got nowhere to-
Matt:Meet their demise.
Dan:Well, they’re not smart enough to get out-
Matt:They are flies.
Dan:… because there is openings, to be able to get in and out of there. But, anyways.
Matt:That’s weird.
Dan:Oh, we announced the, what we’re now calling, it’s been named three different things. The Hector versus Scarlet Pool.
Matt:Who’s Hector?
Dan:Hector is what Sarah used to call My Baby. My Belly.
Matt:Oh.
Dan:That I was growing a little Hector.
Matt:My Baby. Aw.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:See, because growing up, a hector for me was a half drank beer at a party.
Dan:Oh really?
Matt:“Who left all these hectors laying around?” I don’t know why.
Dan:It’s because, it a hectare?
Matt:No.
Dan:So we started a pool online. We’ve got some good amount of people that are in it right now.
Chris:I didn’t know about a pool.
Dan:Yeah, well, I’m telling you now.
Chris:Okay.
Dan:Last Saturday, out of I don’t know why, Sarah and I decided to measure our circumference at our belly buttons. I came out to be 43 inches, and she was 38 inches.
Matt:Now did you stick your stomach out when you did it-
Dan:Nope.
Matt:… or just normal?
Dan:Well, I relaxed. We both-
Matt:Just normal.
Dan:… just relaxed.
Matt:Don’t ever tell Sarah to just relax.
Dan:I know. I found that out. And I was 43 inches, she was 38 inches. So we decided to start a pool to guess the day that she surpasses 43 inches.
Matt:I tried to-
Dan:Now, my belly will not, my measurement will not change. I don’t want to affect the number.
Matt:You should.
Dan:Because I could just-
Matt:You should.
Chris:[inaudible 00:13:16] inches, dude.
Dan:… keep eating 16 ounce cowboy rib eyes, and she’ll never catch me.
Matt:That’s fair.
Dan:But instead, she’s got to get to-
Chris:Yes, she will.
Dan:… 43 inches.
Chris:She has something growing inside her.
Dan:I know.
Chris:She will catch you. She will catch you.
Matt:She’s got a tapeworm.
Chris:There will be a point where she can’t catch you, but I don’t think that’s anything [inaudible 00:13:33]
Dan:I don’t think so, either. Because apparently, in the third trimester, at the end of the, close to the end. The baby starts gaining a pound a week.
Chris:Yeah, yeah. It’s insane.
Matt:That’s a lot of pounds.
Dan:Yeah. So I think it’s-
Matt:Honestly, the coolest thing for me is, I don’t know if you’ve downloaded What to Expect? It’s a sweet app. Actually, I will show it to you, I think it’s probably still on my phone. But it’s cool, dude. It’ll show you by the day like, “Hey, our baby is the size of a grapefruit,” and then the very next day… It’s kind of cool.
Chris:Grapefruit, yeah.
Dan:I think she’s got something like that, because she’ll update me every once in a while. So anyways, $10 to pick a day. If you want to get involved, you definitely can. There’s plenty of days left open. And the winner gets $50, the rest of it goes towards Scarlett’s college fund-
Chris:Oh, here it is. I just saw it.
Dan:… which we’re going to work on opening up.
Chris:Just popped up on my Facebook.
Dan:That’s all I got.
Chris:Cool.
Dan:Anybody got anything else? Anybody die? We talked about George Foreman.
Matt:I don’t think I heard of anyone dying over the weekend. I mean, I’m sure plenty of people died, but nobody famous I don’t think.
Chris:Hey Siri, did anybody famous die this weekend?
Kevin:Yes.
Dan:Who?
Kevin:The grill guy.
Matt:George Foreman. That was last week.
Dan:Yeah, we covered that last Saturday.
Matt:Worth 300 million, he was.
Dan:Or, last Saturday? Last Monday.
Matt:Last podcast.
Dan:Jesus Christ. Mark, can we drink some alcohol?
Mark:Sure.
Dan:Kevin, there’s a bottle over by the C taps that I’m using as a surprise bottle.
Kevin:Do we want it?
Dan:If you want to. Sure. Thanks.
Mark:For sure.
  

GlenAllachie – 12 Year

Dan:Thank you, Matt. All right, Mark, what’s our first one?
Chris:It smells like a Jolly Rancher.
Mark:The first whisky we’re tasting is a GlenAllachie 12. This is GlenAllachie’s entry level, aged in sherry oak. Un-peated. Very fruity.
Dan:Very dark. What did you say? 12 year?
Chris:It is very dark, yeah.
Matt:You’re such a smart ass.
Mark:That is a really good 50 or $60 bottle of whisky.
Dan:This seems to be a common-
Matt:It has some-
Dan:… theme with these guys, with GlenAllachie.
Matt:They know what they’re doing.
Dan:And they’re not proud of it. I mean, they’re not too proud of it.
Matt:They’re proud. They’re just not expensive.
Dan:Right.
Chris:Can I see the bottle? Ooh man, that is some mouth spice. What the heck?
Matt:I get a slight touch of breakfast burrito.
Dan:There might be some external influences-
Matt:Marzipan.
Dan:… there.
Matt:Orchard fruit tones.
Dan:A little dryness, a little… I want to say dry, not bitter.
Mark:The finish is a little dry.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:It’s dry, but it makes my mouth water.
Dan:I’m right there with you.
Chris:I think that’s the… So, both can be right. Right? It can dry out your mouth, and it can make your mouth water.
Matt:Yeah.
Chris:The watering mouth part for me is the nose. I think when you’re sipping it with your mouth open, your mouth completely waters up. But then when you drink it, it’ll dry it out at the end. And it does, like warming mocha, butterscotch and grated nutmeg.
Dan:I can get the butterscotch.
Chris:I get the butterscotch and the mocha.
Dan:Nutmeg to me is the same as like, a bay leaf. I’ve never tasted anything and thought, “You know…” Actually, nutmeg, I take that back. When it’s over nutmeg-ed you can definitely tell. Can I have that?
Chris:Yeah, sure.
Matt:I don’t think I’ve ever just taken some nutmeg and tasted that by itself.
Chris:That’s always the hardest thing for me is like, “Hey, there’s these adjectives of these fruits, and or spices, that-“
Matt:I’ve never had.
Chris:… you’ve never had on its own. It’s either-
Matt:Yeah.
Chris:… in something, right? So that’s always been the hardest part for me, with this industry.
Matt:I get kind of a tobacco-y, on the back end. I.
Dan:It says “non-chill filtered,” maybe I got my head backwards. Isn’t chill filtered the preferred method?
Matt:No.
Mark:No. No one chill filters anymore.
Dan:Okay.
Matt:Because you take all the fat out of it.
Dan:And lipids.
Matt:And flavor.
Chris:Is Jack Daniels chill filtered?
Matt:I don’t think so.
Chris:Here, let me look.
Matt:It is barreled and aged at the distillery. So they don’t like to take it to the pet store to… You know, it is convenient.
Dan:Sorry, I’m laughing at a text conversation, that Chris hasn’t gotten caught up yet.
Matt:It’s made with cave spring water. I don’t see anything about chill filtering or non-chill filtering on the bottle. This is good.
Dan:Yeah. Maybe they don’t want that on the label anymore, since no one’s doing it.
Matt:They may not.
Mark:You know how you can find out?
Matt:How?
Mark:Put it in the freezer.
Matt:It’s true. You can get it cold, and if it gets cloudy.
Dan:is this just their regular 12 year?
Matt:Yeah.
Dan:Because I couldn’t see if there was any kind of a…
Matt:Yeah, GlenAllachie’s having a lot of fun changing their packaging around right now.
Dan:12 bucks a pour.
Matt:12
Dan:Duggard would do a full pour of that.
Matt:He would. He wouldn’t make you measure an ounce out. Did he have one of the Fanged Pursuits yesterday? The orphan barrel?
Dan:Mm-mm.
Matt:He’s had one every time he’s come in, like the last four times. In my Duggard voice. “It’s just so good.”
Dan:It’s so good. Good call there, Kev. He hid the bottle for me.
Kevin:Yeah. I figured, a nice way to do it. And you can say, “What’s in the box?”
Dan:What’s in the box? Spicy.
Mark:Why do we have-
Kevin:What, that last one?
Dan:Yeah.
Chris:Yeah, dude, I’m telling you.
Mark:[inaudible 00:19:56] the bar?
Kevin:Why do we have a what?
Mark:A [inaudible 00:19:59]? A 175.
Dan:Of rye?
Kevin:That is a one liter.
Chris:Geez. That’s a one liter?
Kevin:Just a big, fucking-
Chris:It’s huge.
Kevin:… heavy bottle, plus [inaudible 00:20:13]-
Matt:It’s huge.
Dan:It’s the same thing with that Basil Hayden one liter, is huge.
Mark:Yeah. What the hell?
Matt:That was the guy that had Templeton and Coke yesterday, didn’t he?
Dan:Yeah. God. And it’s just, we’ve all been through this, we know it’s an asshole thing to do. But he had one eye, and I couldn’t help but stare at the bad eye.
Matt:Dude. His-
Dan:And by the way, he was easily twice as tall as me.
Matt:Oh, he was a big boy.
Dan:He could have just-
Matt:He was taller than me.
Dan:… he could have just, “I go pound,” and Dan’s dead.
Chris:You just go towards his-
Matt:Oh, he had-
Chris:… and he can’t see him. It’s always one to his left.
Matt:Well, that’s the problem, he-
Dan:I can weave to the left.
Matt:He was kind of looking like a gecko.
Dan:I kept, I [inaudible 00:20:56]-
Matt:It’s hard not to, Dan.
Dan:I just, I’m so awkward sometimes, in those situations.
Matt:It’s okay.
  

Highland Park – Full Volume

Mark:Next. We’re going to try Highland Park Full Volume.
Chris:That was such a good segue, Mark.
Dan:Mark moving us on.
Matt:Such a good segue.
Mark:Highland Park is known for their sherry finishing. This particular Scotch, however, they stepped out of the box and did it 100% ex-bourbon barrel. So there’s not going to be nearly as much fruity sweetness as you expect, for a Highland Park.
Matt:And Highland Park is, I ask this every single time and I forget every single… Highland Park is one of your favorite-
Mark:Yes.
Matt:… brands. Okay.
Chris:This did not taste like the nose, for me. Yeah. Right?
Matt:It’s a lot more peated than what it-
Chris:Yeah.
Matt:… and I know Highland Park is peated very, very gently. But this was, that peat kind of jumped out at me.
Chris:And the iodine at the end is sticking with me.
Matt:I like this.
Chris:Yeah. It’s not bad at all.
Mark:The reason the peat comes through more than other Highland Parks is, it doesn’t have the sweetness to balance it off.
Matt:To help share in it. To help hide it a little. I like this, though. At $18 for a full pour. I would pay that.
Dan:Yeah, I would too.
Chris:This is like a cigar scotch. You can see having a nice cigar with this, for whatever reason.
Matt:This is definitely a sit, and kind of hang out and savor.
Dan:I’m still waiting for the GlenAllachie to stop finishing on my tongue.
Matt:Whoa. Fucking blend.
Dan:So the second sip for me-
Mark:I’ll finish on your tongue.
Dan:Again.
Matt:Blar lar lar lar.
Chris:Yeah. This for me is… You said this was finished or aged in bourbon?
Mark:All bourbon.
Chris:All bourbon. I get it all up, like I get all of that bourbon notes up front, but then it’s peat at the end. A little bit. Sweet peat.
Matt:I like this.
Chris:Good old sweet peat.
Dan:That’s right on the edge of too much peat for me. For me. It’s not a lot.
Matt:No, it’s not a lot at all.
Dan:Which, any is still too much for me.
Chris:Oh, hold on a second.
Dan:But-
Chris:It says Full Volume. It does go up to 11. That’s freaking awesome.
Dan:What?
Chris:Yeah, Highland Park, it’s called Full Volume, and they have a dial that goes up to 11 on it.
Matt:That’s pretty great.
Chris:That’s actually really awesome.
Matt:Got to love a sense of humor.
Chris:Heck, yeah. And since they’re coming out with a second movie, Spinal Tap II.
Matt:They should just call it Spinal Tap II.
Chris:They should.
Mark:I think the amount of peat that comes through it works very well with the whiskey.
Chris:Yep. With the sweetness. Yeah, absolutely.
Mark:It gives it a long finish.
Dan:Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, has a release date of September 12th, 2025.
Chris:Nice.
Matt:Wow.
Chris:In September.
Dan:Yeah.
Chris:I’m excited. Might go to the movie theaters for that one.
Matt:Now, is it going to be in the theaters?
Chris:Oh man, that would be even better, if I could just go to my garage.
Matt:Or is it just like a Netflix release
Dan:In the theaters?
Matt:They let you do stuff in the garage that they don’t in the theaters. Like watch it without pants on.
Chris:Bring in your own booze.
Dan:You know, it’s not being produced or distributed by any of the streaming companies, so I would suspect it’s going to be in theaters.
Matt:Good.
Dan:If that makes any sense
Chris:Or both. Isn’t that a thing, too?
Dan:Yeah.
Chris:They release them both in the theaters and streaming?
Dan:Yeah. I remember a time, I think it was Saving Private Ryan. It was released in theaters, did so well, about eight months to nine months later it was re-released in theaters. We had to wait a year and a half for it to come out on rental. Now you’ve got to wait like two, three weeks, depending on its run.
Matt:Depending on who the streaming service is.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:Disney likes to hold it off a couple months. Just because they’re Disney.
Dan:Yeah. Bastards.
Matt:Fuckheads.
  

G&W – 5 Year Private Stock

Dan:All right. Matt, what do you got for us?
Matt:This? Oh, here. Let me pass them out.
Dan:Oh, this is still…
Matt:This is the G&W Private Stock bourbon. As I knock the bottle off the bar.
Mark:Where is that? The physical bottle?
Matt:In my hand.
Mark:They changed the bottles.
Matt:They did. Bottles and labels.
Chris:Good whisky.
Matt:This is a five-year private stock. 43%, 86 proof, mash build is 75% corn, 13% rye, and 12% malted barley. Right around 30-ish dollars a bottle.
Chris:For whatever reason, and I don’t know why, this is just me. I’ll get over it. Whenever I see the word private, for some reason my brain goes to rum. And I don’t know why. I think it has something to do with pirates, and private. I know. This is the way my brain works.
Dan:Privateer?
Chris:Yeah, maybe. I don’t know. But when I see private it’s like, “Oh, rum.”
Dan:Is there a popular rum brand that… No?
Chris:Markets itself as a private something?
Matt:Well, Captain Morgan has one of their, I don’t want to call it an upper level but it’s better than what’s in the well, that they call a private stock or private reserve.
Dan:What did we decide G&W stands for?
Chris:Good whiskey. I don’t know. That’s-
Matt:I don’t know. I-
Chris:… didn’t we do that? Didn’t we do one just a few weeks ago?
Dan:Yeah. This has come up before. Five year-
Mark:That is a very tasty, easy-drinking bourbon.
Chris:You guys will remember, here we go. Let’s read the back.
Matt:That is good.
Chris:“Get wise. Get G&W. It’s good whisky.”
Mark:Oh yeah, I remember this.
Chris:“Eliminate the guesswork when it comes to picking out your next bottle of bourbon. Indulge in the Kentucky passion with G&W bourbon. Experience-“
Dan:They’re trying to brand G&W with anything, aren’t they?
Chris:Yeah. “Whether sipped neat or mixed in a cocktail, it goes,” wait for it, “well with any occasion, no matter the company.”
Matt:Now, do they capitalize all the Gs and all the Ws on the back?
Chris:Yeah, yeah. Absolutely do.
Matt:So it basically stands for nothing. Scooby bagel.
Dan:God damn it.
Matt:[inaudible 00:27:53] jersey.
Dan:That is really good.
Chris:It’s not bad.
Matt:I think we like the other one, too.
Dan:17 to pour?
Matt:No. Seven.
Dan:Seven? No way.
Matt:That’ll probably get moved to eight.
Dan:That’s really sweet.
Chris:Oh, that is a dollar sign. But not like-
Matt:Residual sugar sweet.
Chris:No.
Matt:Not RS sweet.
Chris:This is really nice.
Dan:This is [inaudible 00:28:14]-
Matt:For 30 bucks.
Chris:It’s got to be a great cocktail bourbon.
Dan:… it’s kind of like that sweet, it’s that sits in the recliner, and just doesn’t make a scene at the party. That didn’t come out right.
Matt:This could really get you in trouble.
Chris:Until you get up from the chair, and then you fall through the glass table. And everybody’s like, “Is he all right? He was just sitting there.”
Matt:Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Dan:No, I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine. This happens every once in a while. I’m fine. I’m fine.
Mark:It’s fine. I must have not have eaten today.
Dan:Every one of us has done that.
Chris:Yeah, I did it at a wine tasting one time. That was not good.
Matt:You fell through a coffee table?
Chris:Oh, no. But I had a tad bit too much to drink.
Dan:Man, that happens fast.
Matt:Three Manhattans will get you.
Dan:They will.
Matt:Get you to fall down the steps.
Chris:In my defense, I drank those in like 30 minutes.
Mark:The last two went really fast.
Dan:Because it’s so good, I want you to touch my lips.
Matt:Scotch-y, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly. Mm-mm-mm.
Dan:So far we’ve had GlenAllachie 12 year, that was Mark’s first scotch. Then he followed it up with a Highland Park Full Volume.
Matt:Staff of Oonch.
Dan:It goes to 11. We just had G&W Five Year Private Stock. So far, I think we’re batting a thousand. Everyone really enjoys what we’re trying today?
Matt:Yeah, this-
  

Leadslingers Bourbon Whiskey

Dan:Matt? No pressure.
Matt:This might fuck it all up.
Dan:No pressure. Oh, no. Don’t worry. I got that one. I mean…
Matt:This is Leadslingers, which, I’ve decided to kind of start going around and trying the more obscure bottles-
Dan:I love it.
Matt:… that I haven’t tried before. This was founded, the distillery was founded in 2013, by seven combat veterans-
Chris:No way.
Matt:… from the United States Air Force.
Dan:Wait.
Matt:The tac ops.
Dan:Didn’t I hear this story before?
Matt:Possibly. The Army Rangers, Green Berets-
Mark:No, that’s Horse Soldiers.
Matt:… and some paratroopers.
Dan:I was trying to say it without saying it.
Chris:Well, I mean, the label has an eagle, carrying an M-16.
Matt:They’re very pro Second Amendment.
Chris:Yep. With the American-
Dan:The stripes of the American flag.
Chris:And there’s some stars up there, too.
Dan:Oh, yep.
Chris:Some stars up there.
Dan:Wait, that’s on the wrong side.
Chris:But on the back, I like how on the inside of the label, there’s an inside back label you can see through, it’s a-
Matt:Kind of flag.
Chris:It’s an American flag.
Matt:But these guys have a few things that they put out. They’ve got the, let me find it again. The Leadslinger bourbon. They have got a Blue Line whiskey.
Dan:Is that the Thin Blue Line?
Matt:They’ve got a Napalm cinnamon whiskey.
Dan:Ooh. Very popular in Vietnam.
Matt:Probably not so much.
Dan:Too soon?
Matt:Maybe.
Dan:Okay.
Matt:Black Flag rum. And that’s their lineup.
Dan:Nice.
Matt:So they got a little bit of everything for you. I’m scared to try this.
Mark:Dan? I don’t think it’s too soon, as Vietnam is now a tourist destination for people from the US.
Dan:Ever since I saw Anthony Bourdain go there, I want to go there.
Matt:Yep.
Dan:And I still [inaudible 00:31:40]-
Chris:Thailand and Vietnam have some of the best beaches in the world.
Matt:Which, I would go to Thailand. I’ve got a buddy of mine that owns land in Thailand.
Chris:I would go to Viet-
Matt:Sort of.
Chris:I feel like I would go to Vietnam before I would go to Thailand, and I don’t know why. And I think it’s just because of that Bangkok song. Bangkok.
Matt:One Night in Bangkok.
Dan:<< Some night in Bangkok makes the world >> something.
Chris:Yeah. Something like that.
Matt:I just want to hear Mike Tyson sing it again.
Dan:Oh my God, that was such an epic scene.
Matt:You know they had to pay him like $3 million to be in the second movie?
Dan:Really?
Matt:Yeah. And sing One Night in Bangkok. This is good.
Chris:You know what it smells like? America.
Dan:Did you say America? Or, Murica?
Chris:Both.
Dan:Okay. Because I think the second is more correct.
Chris:Murica. I said America, but I emphasized the mur-ca.
Mark:I don’t like the finish.
Chris:It’s very-
Mark:Side of the tongue and kind of-
Matt:Kind of cough-drop-y, a little bit.
Chris:The viscosity of it is very water-ish. Not in a bad way. I know that I could pound this-
Dan:Right off the bat.
Chris:… I mean, I can, this is meant to drink.
Matt:Oh, yeah.
Dan:Right off the bat. My initial felt like, “Okay this is just going to be watered down.”
Chris:“Let’s go shoot some guns, and then drink some whiskey.”
Dan:But it did have a decent flavor rush.
Matt:I think it’s pretty good. And like Mark said, it’s pretty good up until the finish. And then the finish gets a little medicinal, cough-drop-y.
Mark:I feel like that I would not order this again, simply because of the finish. The palate and nose are great, but the finish is like, eh.
Chris:Do you think you’ll get more of the finish if you drink more of it? Because I feel like that second.
Dan:Do you like another pour?
Chris:No, no, no.
Matt:You mean like, bigger drinks?
Chris:No. No, no, no, no. I just feel like there’s a half-life to the end of it. Like the more you drink, the more you’re going to get the flavor.
Dan:I think the more you drink, the more you’re going to forget the flavor.
Matt:Or-
Chris:Fair. I mean, that’s-
Matt:… just not care.
Chris:Yeah.
Matt:I like this, though.
Chris:Yeah, it’s not bad.
Matt:For these being, I don’t want to call them unknowns, but relatively unknowns. These both were-
Chris:Yeah.
Matt:… pretty damn good for less than 10 bucks. 10 or less a pour.
Dan:Again, the last one Matt brought to us was Leadslingers. That’s got to be a unit.
Matt:It’s veteran owned.
Dan:Yeah, it’s got to be a unit.
Matt:Could have been a shitty miniseries on TV, too.
Dan:Could have been. The American History Channel.
Matt:Yeah. History of the Leadslingers.
Dan:All right, we got one more. Pass it down.
Matt:Which, I’m just going to stay quiet, since I already know what this is. On accident.
Dan:Yeah. I just-
Matt:That was my fault-
Chris:Oh, sorry.
Matt:… and I apologize.
Dan:So give your first taste, and then we’ll talk about what it is.
Chris:This is a flavored whisky? Can I ask a question first?
Dan:Mm-mm. It is not a flavored whisky.
Chris:Because it definitely has butter, to it. Like a ton of butter.
Matt:Smells like corn on the cob to me.
Chris:Man, I kind of like that butterscotch nose.
Mark:This is damn cheap drinkable whisky. There ain’t nothing really good about it, but there ain’t nothing really bad about it.
Dan:It is a blended scotch.
Chris:What? This is scotch?
Matt:Yeah. Yes. Yes, it is. From Scotland. In a bourbon.
Chris:Is it a wizard name?
Dan:Are you ready for the unveil?
Chris:Yeah.
Matt:It’s definitely not a wizard name.
Chris:I knew it was going to be Cutty Sark. All right.
Matt:He’s probably a pirate.
Chris:He is definitely a pirate that founded someone’s staff of Oonch, and put it on his pirate ship.
Dan:Their Wiki page-
Matt:Their pirate ship.
Dan:… is severely lacking. “This whisky, without an E, was created March 23rd, 1923, as a product of the Berry Bros & Rudd, with its first home of blend considered to be the Glenrothes distillery in the Speyside region of Scotland.”
Chris:I understand why everybody’s grandpa likes that. I understand it.
Mark:It is, again, a drinkable cheap whisky.
Matt:It’s just almost too easy to drink.
Chris:There’s a lot of butterscotch on that.
Matt:Yeah, but Werther’s Original, with that?
Chris:It’s probably pretty dang good.
Matt:Very sweet.
Chris:Oh, no. I guess I’m wrong.
Matt:Teddy’s not about the Werther’s.
Chris:Teddy disagrees.
Matt:But yeah, I could sit and drink too much of this.
Dan:7.50 of this is, retail, probably 25? Maybe 24?
Matt:I would guess. How much you say it was, cost?
Dan:25? Oh, cost is 16.50.
Matt:I guess. Probably right around 20, 21.
Chris:Yeah.
Matt:Something like that. Right around there. Yeah.
Chris:21.99, probably, [inaudible 00:37:00]-
Dan:This has been sitting on my shelf. When we picked up the-
Matt:Is he barking at the wheelchair again?
Dan:No.
Mark:No, no.
Matt:He was doing that the other day.
Dan:Definitely looking at the door. Teddy!
Kevin:Nobody there.
Matt:There’s nothing there.
Dan:You’re fine, dude. We’re okay, bud. Yeah, yeah. You’re okay. Yeah. You’re fine.
Chris:You ever thought for a minute, your dog or cat freaks out about something, and it’s there?
Dan:Dead. We’re trying to do a podcast.
Matt:Dan, don’t hit him.
Chris:Dan.
Matt:Don’t punch him, Dan.
Chris:Stop beating the dog.
Matt:Jesus. What kind of parent are you going to be?
Mark:Dan.
Matt:“Scarlet. Shut up.”
Mark:You’re going to mark all this. Take his kennel and move it back far enough-
Matt:And put him in it, and throw it away.
Mark:… so he can get in it. He’s scared of the wheelchair.
Matt:Teddy is a very skittish little dog.
Mark:Timid.
Matt:Very timid.
Dan:You know, the worst thing is, that cute little dog is now cowering when I come around. We got some making up to do.
Matt:It’s because you hit him. You punched him twice, in his cute little nose.
Dan:He had it coming.
Matt:He’s kind of a dick. No, actually, Teddy is-
Dan:No, he’s got that pressed in nose.
Matt:… Teddy is a sweetheart. Oh, he’s a pug.
Dan:But you ever sat and thought like, if your dog or cat or something was kind of freaking out at nothing. Do you ever stop and think, “What are they seeing that I don’t?”
Matt:Well, they say that animals can see ghosts.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:So maybe there’s like a ghost outside-
Dan:Right.
Matt:… making faces at him.
Dan:Right. Anyways. We picked up this brand a couple of months ago, as a part of the Sazerac portfolio, and-
Matt:That’s a Sazerac product?
Dan:Yep. Sure is.
Matt:I did not know that.
Dan:Yeah, it’s technically Park 375, but.
Chris:I didn’t know it was until we picked it up.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:I had no clue.
Dan:Yeah.
Chris:Interesting.
Dan:This comes out of… Yeah. So this was rumored to be the Glen Moray… Glenrothes distillery. So.
Matt:Damn Glens.
Dan:Yeah, that’s Cutty Sark. Pretty-
Matt:I don’t hate it.
Dan:… simple little bottle. Yeah.
Matt:Now, I don’t know if I’d be happy about paying $22 for it.
Dan:Honestly, House of Scott. House of Stuart. We’ll have to do a taste test between the two.
Chris:Oh yeah, we will.
Dan:Because House of Stuart is the $2 and $36 bottle of scotch.
Chris:It’s not even whisky. It can’t be whisky, dude. It cannot be whisky.
Matt:It’s just weird water.
Dan:It’s got so much flavor for less than $10. It’s insane.
Matt:So do I. What?
Dan:Sorry, that’s me. For some reason, I’m… Yeah, $2.58 cents when you buy it by the case.
Matt:Wow.
Chris:Do we have any more of those?
Dan:No, I think that’s it.
Matt:Nope, that’s-
Dan:That’s it, right?
Matt:… that’s all four of them.
Mark:Well, let’s wait for just a second.
Dan:Now, keep in mind, we got a top 10 still to do.
Mark:Well, I was going to have you taste something that was unobtainium.
Chris:Let’s go.
Matt:Yeah, I’m good with that.
Mark:But if you don’t want to-
Chris:Nope, nope, nope.
Dan:I’ve already retracted my previous statement-
Matt:I could-
Chris:Top 10-
Dan:.. and filed an apology.
Chris:… what’s that?
Matt:You can save your voice, but yeah.
Mark:The Jack Daniels 14.
Chris:What?
Dan:While that is being poured, do you want to talk about your Top 10?
Matt:Yeah, let’s talk about Top 10.
Dan:We’ll fill some time with talking about the Top 10?
Chris:So, Top 10. I have, what’d I say, 16? So you guys get two vetoes each.
Dan:Okay.
Chris:And I did Top 10 modes of transportation in movies and TV. Okay? So it’s wide open. We’re talking sci-fi, we’re talking-
Matt:This is-
Chris:Fantasy. We’re talking everything. So, you guys ready?
Dan:How are we supposed to rank this? Like coolest, the most-
Chris:However you guys feel like, let’s… Like, cultural impact.
Dan:Okay. Well, I mean, that’s going to be tough with sci-fi, because-
Chris:No, it won’t. Not the ones that I have chosen.
Dan:If The Defiant is one of the options, I can’t tell you how culturally impactive that’s been.
Chris:It’s not. It’ll be-
Dan:I wouldn’t want to be on it.
Chris:It would be something that’s well-known.
Dan:Okay.
Chris:So. All right, we’ll start. Right at the bat, we’re going to start, so you guys will know which direction kind of that I’m going.
  

Jack Daniel’s – 14 Year

Dan:And then we’ll try the whiskey, and then we’ll do the list?
Chris:Do we want to do the first one? Or we can talk, we can, let’s just sip this whiskey.
Dan:Very fluid, [inaudible 00:41:45].
Chris:Jack Daniels 14. Let’s talk about it. Real quick.
Mark:Now first of all, so you all know-
Matt:It’s dangerous.
Mark:… I am a Jack Daniels hater.
Chris:You’re not an advocate.
Dan:Most whiskey fans are.
Matt:Jack Black.
Dan:… but a 126 proof Jack Daniels? Holy shit.
Matt:Yeah. They’re not messing around with this stuff, which this is the first batch they’ve done of the 14 year, which we also have a bottle of a 10 year and a bottle of a 12 year. This is…
Mark:Oh, my.
Chris:Holy-
Mark:Even the nose is hot.
Matt:Yeah. 126.3 or 63.15%. And it’s 14.
Chris:Has that Jack Daniels flavor, that only Jack Daniels has.
Matt:Well, I think that’s probably because-
Mark:Nope, can’t do it.
Matt:… of the Johnson County process.
Chris:Try to put some water in it. No?
Mark:No.
Chris:All right. Dan, this is yours. I don’t know if I can do it either, but I’m going to have this.
Matt:Oh, it’s warm.
Dan:Wow.
Mark:It’s…
Chris:I need some water.
Dan:I feel like I just ate Indian food. I like my Indian food hot.
Matt:Probably not at Curry In A Hurry.
Dan:No.
Matt:Wow. This is really brown sugary.
Dan:All right. I watered the rest of mine down, and accidentally put an ice cube in it. Perfect.
Matt:It is a little warm. I think it drinks definitely above what the bottle says.
Mark:It drinks hot.
Chris:Because it is.
Mark:But it still has that off-putting Jack Daniel’s charcoal.
Matt:Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s exactly-
Mark:Over charcoaled.
Matt:Which, that’s the Johnson County process.
Mark:Right. If you like it, great.
Matt:Yeah, absolutely.
Mark:It’s just, I don’t like Ardbeg, either.
Dan:We haven’t said it in a while, but to each their own.
Mark:Abso-fucking-lutely.
Dan:We have the way that we like to do whiskey, we like to drink whiskey, and we have recommendations for the ways you should do it. But if you want to put your Yamazaki 12 over ice, that’s your call.
Matt:I’m not going to do it for you-
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:… but you can do it.
Dan:… but like I always tell people, we will not be responsible for ruining a good glass of whiskey.
Chris:There’s so much dill, after I put water in this.
Dan:Really?
Matt:You know, after the first couple of little sips, it kind of cools down a little. Because I’m still at full tilt, over here. It kind of cools down and I think your mouth gets used to the heat. And then you get a lot of kind of that sweet butterscotch. You just do get the-
Chris:I could see how this could grow on me, with ice, and or water.
Matt:You do get the sugar maple charcoal.
Mark:No. No, because it’s not going to take that bitter, charcoal-y flavor away.
Dan:I can also see how this would strip the corrosion off of a battery.
Matt:Definitely would make it conduct better.
Dan:Man, I’m trying. I’ve put some water to this.
Matt:But I like this, and it’s-
Dan:Go ahead.
Matt:… typically the lower end Jack Daniels, you get all that sugar maple charcoal. And the higher end, it’s lighter, but it’s still there. And that’s just how they do their, it’s just how Jack Daniels does their whiskey. It’s part of making whiskey in Tennessee.
Dan:Johnson County? I’m having a tough time finding the good out of this. But it’s going to be one of those that, it’s just not my style.
Chris:I’m just going to take a tiny little sip, each.
Dan:But if you want to try it, it is available for an incredibly limited time. What, about a quarter of a bottle?
Matt:Yeah.
Dan:I think the chances are going to be very high by the time this publishes-
Matt:It’ll probably be gone.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:It’s a good chance. We sold a lot on Friday.
Dan:Oh, man. I’m going to finish it. Kevin, did you want to try it?
Kevin:Yeah, I might as well.
Matt:It’s definitely chest burn-y.
Chris:All right. Number one, on the Top 10 modes of transportation in movies and TV. I have Starship Enterprise.
Mark:Well.
Matt:I’m starting right off, hard.
Mark:First of all, as a Star Trek aficionado-
Chris:I feel like this would be in your top three.
Mark:Well.
Dan:Yeah, he’s got it, I’m on the same question as you are.
Mark:Which one?
Matt:There are a bunch of them.
Mark:Okay? So, or-
Chris:I’m going to do original.
Mark:Hold on. Well, then, it doesn’t belong on the list. The original sucked.
Dan:It did.
Mark:Now-
Chris:Okay.
Mark:… if you say, kind of combine all of them.
Dan:Let me back up. When he says original, do you mean the Scott Bakula Enterprise?
Matt:No, the Captain Kirk.
Dan:The Captain Kirk Enterprise, okay.
Matt:Yeah.
Dan:Because there was an Enterprise before the Enterprise.
Mark:Which is a really good Enterprise.
Dan:Great show.
Mark:Give me more seasons.
Dan:Yeah. By the way, I tried watching Discovery. I got about a season and a half into it and I’m like, “I can’t, anymore.” It’s just, I don’t know. Maybe I need to hold on a little bit longer, but I’ve lost all interest in it. Anyways.
Chris:Scott Bakula will always be Quantum Leap for me.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:Which, it’s on one of the streaming services, the original Quantum Leap.
Dan:Is it? All right.
Chris:So is that a veto for you, for-
Mark:Well, again, are we talking, saying Enterprise and looking at all of them as one? Or are we looking at a specific one?
Chris:Because there’s going to be a couple of things on here like that, so maybe I just do idea of the Starship Enterprise.
Mark:If you want to pick one, it should be Next Gen.
Matt:I love Next Gens.
Chris:Yeah.
Mark:Because it had the longest run.
Matt:Yeah.
Dan:It’s true.
Matt:And that makes sense.
Dan:And the disc separated. And the disc separates. When they did that, I was like, “What?”
Matt:The original Enterprise-
Dan:“This is the coolest thing ever.”
Matt:The original Enterprise separated. That was their escape ship, was the-
Dan:What? Was it?
Matt:… was the saucer part and the bottom part?
Chris:And actually, the man knows.
Dan:Did it?
Matt:That’s like their escape ship.
Mark:I haven’t watched the original Star Trek in 50 years.
Matt:Because they had to do it with Wrath of Khan.
Dan:Huh. Interesting.
Chris:There might or might not be more iconic things on this list.
Dan:We got 16, so Starship Enterprise.
Mark:If you’re going to combine them all together, I’ll go for.
Dan:I think it’ll be pretty fucking badass to fly around the universe, or at least the galaxy-
Chris:Yeah.
Matt:I wouldn’t, I’m more excited about being able to be beamed places.
Dan:Yeah. I can order all the 16 ounce bone-in rib eyes I want with my-
Chris:“Why didn’t anybody tell me my ass-“
Dan:… replicators.
Chris:… “was so big?” Sorry.
Matt:Oh, from Space Balls? They beamed him from his bedroom to the bridge.
Dan:I’ll watch. I’ll watch.
Chris:To the next room.
Matt:The next room over.
Chris:So. We’ve got four.
Dan:I’m okay with four. Matt?
Matt:I’m good with four.
Dan:Okay.
Chris:Number four.
Dan:Starship Enterprise.
Chris:Starship Enterprise.
Matt:Clickety, clickety. Tap, tap.
Chris:Clickety, clickety, clickety. All right. Number two.
Dan:Kitt, Knight Rider.
Matt:Oh, fuck.
Dan:I know dude, this is not, I did not make this easy on you guys.
Matt:David.
Chris:So.
Matt:Mr. Feeney. It’s Mr. Feeney’s voice.
Chris:This would be a top three for me.
Matt:He was also in Magnum P.I.
Dan:Only watched a couple episodes of Knight Rider.
Chris:He was?
Mark:It was an ugly car and voice-
Matt:No. I would drive one today.
Mark:… was dumb.
Dan:What was it, a-
Chris:You would drive one today?
Matt:I’d drive the shit out of it.
Dan:… T-Bird?
Mark:A Trans Am.
Matt:Trans AM.
Dan:Trans Am?
Matt:Mid ’80s Trans Am. So it was [inaudible 00:49:59]-
Dan:It did a lot, though. I mean, it was almost as versatile-
Matt:Dude.
Dan:… as the Batmobile.
Matt:It almost flew.
Dan:Might as well have.
Matt:Such a cool car.
Mark:To make you happy-
Chris:You guys don’t have to, you still got three vetoes each. Two vetoes each, sorry. Two vetoes each.
Mark:… to make you happy, I’ll consent to 10.
Chris:Oh, okay.
Mark:If you want to do anything better than 10, I will veto it.
Chris:Okay.
Matt:My only thing with it is, that’s one of those things that-
Chris:It’s also generational.
Matt:… it is very generational. And it translated to off the TV a little bit, too. Because they were selling the little kits where you could put them-
Chris:Absolutely.
Matt:… the light. You could buy a thing that plugged into your cigarette lighter on the inside, that had the voice, and you just push a button.
Dan:What was the, I forgot all about this.
Matt:Michael.
Dan:… what was the spin-off series? And that wasn’t a spin-off series, it was a-
Matt:It was like, Knight Rider 2000.
Dan:No, it wasn’t a spin-off series. It was, they basically made the same TV show to compete with Knight Rider, but it was like a Cougar that could cloak, and change shapes?
Matt:I don’t remember that.
Mark:I got nothing.
Dan:Man.
Matt:I was busy watching Knight Rider.
Dan:It’s a really popular car model.
Matt:Yeah, I don’t know about that, but I wish there was a way we could find out about it.
Chris:Weird.
Matt:Some neat invention or something.
Chris:All right, so Mark says 10, otherwise he’s going to veto.
Matt:I’m okay with 10.
Chris:Dan?
Dan:Yeah, I’m fine with 10.
Chris:Okay.
Matt:Because I would definitely rate the A-Team van higher than that. Just because, Mr. T.
Chris:All right. Number three. The DeLorean.
Matt:Oh, Back to the Future? Or just the DeLorean in general?
Chris:Back to the Future, the DeLorean.
Dan:Oh yeah, that’s a good question. Is it the actual, real life DeLorean?
Chris:Back to the Future DeLorean.
Dan:That’s top one or two, for me.
Mark:Two.
Dan:I mean, for God’s sake, you can go into time. And you could do it on waste.
Mark:On a banana.
Dan:On waste.
Chris:Only in the second one ,though. But you’re right, on waste.
Matt:“What, Doc, is my kid an asshole or something?”
Chris:“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”
Dan:Did you guys ever see, did you ever notice the Doc-
Chris:“It flies, too.”
Dan:… cameo in A Thousand Ways to Die in the West?
Matt:Yes. When he opens the barn door, and he turns around and just goes, “Great Scott.”
Dan:I’m at two for that, only because, I don’t want to take one yet.
Mark:Me neither. I’ll go two.
Matt:I’m good at two.
Chris:All right. Oh, I got to spell DeLorean.
Matt:D-E-L-O-R-E-A-N.
Chris:D-E-L-O-R… L-O-R, all right.
Matt:D-E-L-O-R-E-A-N.
Dan:E-A-N.
Chris:I think we might be coming up to our first veto.
Matt:It’s going to be a veto here, folks.
Chris:Ecto-1.
Matt:Oh, the Ghostbusters ambulance.
Chris:Ambulance.
Dan:Hmm.
Chris:In multiple movies.
Matt:And it was always kind of the same.
Chris:Multiple movies.
Matt:Until the Paul Rudd movies.
Chris:And it came back in the new ones.
Dan:It did?
Chris:It did.
Matt:It’s a toy.
Dan:And now it has a gunner seat.
Mark:Veto.
Chris:Mark’s going to veto.
Dan:I think so, too.
Mark:It doesn’t do anything.
Dan:And it doesn’t do anything.
Chris:It absolutely does things. All right, on that note, vetoed.
Dan:Super fucking annoying.
Chris:That is vetoed, writer’s veto. All right. This might be another one, but it’s just fun. The Nimbus 2000, Harry Potter’s broom.
Matt:I’d veto the shit out of that.
Chris:Dan?
Matt:Yeah, I’m vetoing it.
Chris:Okay.
Dan:Damn it.
Chris:All right, all right. Vetoed.
Dan:The Nimbus 2000.
Chris:So Mark has a veto, and Matt has one veto.
Dan:By the way, I know how to spell that.
Matt:V-E-T-O.
Dan:Oh. No, T-H-A-T.
Matt:Yeah. Good job.
Chris:All right.
Matt:I can spell it.
Chris:Luke Skywalker’s X-Wing.
Matt:Oh, man.
Dan:His specific X-Wing?
Chris:His specific X-Wing.
Dan:That adds-
Matt:So that would be, what was he, Red Three?
Dan:Five.
Matt:Was he Red Five.
Chris:So technically, his is one of the only X-Wings that has hyper-drive, because I think they all have to be together in order for them to fly hyper-drive. But I could be completely wrong about that. I could be completely wrong about that.
Dan:I don’t actually know that. But you’re right, he did fly in hyperspace to-
Matt:Dagobah.
Dan:Dagobah.
Matt:The Dagobah system.
Mark:I would go eight.
Chris:Eight? All right.
Dan:Ooh.
Matt:I think eight’s good.
Mark:It’s cool, but there’s a lot of stuff left that may still be on the list.
Matt:Yeah. There is.
Chris:But-
Matt:And it does you no good if you don’t have an R-2 unit.
Chris:That’s right.
Dan:How many of those things can blow up the Death Star?
Matt:One.
Dan:Yeah.
Matt:That’s all it takes. Because he used the Force, and then he let go.
Chris:It’s like shooting womp rats.
Dan:I mean, that’s not necessarily true.
Matt:He used the Force, and then he let go.
Dan:He did. He did.
Mark:Luke.
Dan:[inaudible 00:54:55] necessarily true.
Chris:Eight?
Dan:All right, I’m fine with eight.
Matt:I think eight’s good.
Chris:And we’re going to keep in the same genre, and say the Millennium Falcon. Right? Very next.
Matt:Oh, shit.
Chris:Because it could have destroyed the, it could have destroyed.
Dan:It could have.
Chris:Because it was in there. It was in there, in Return of the Jedi.
Matt:Did it fit in the-
Chris:He came in and, remember he, they came in.
Matt:Lando flew in with it, right?
Mark:Well, he made the castle run in less than three parsecs.
Dan:12 parsecs.
Matt:Yeah, but he cheated.
Chris:He did. That was such a great-
Dan:He rounded up.
Chris:It was such a great, it’s such a great… That is a great movie. So, Millennium Falcon.
Mark:Seven. One better than the X-Wing.
Matt:I’d go six or seven. Yeah.
Dan:I think I’d be six. Because it also flew out of the mouth of a, whatever meteor, monster.
Chris:Space worm?
Matt:Yeah.
Dan:Meteor worm.
Matt:Yeah.
Chris:Meteor Worm.
Matt:Meteor worm.
Chris:Six, seven. What do we want?
Matt:It sounds like you need-
Dan:I’d like six.
Matt:… meteor worm sounds like you need penicillin.
Chris:Six?
Matt:I’m good with six.
Chris:Mark?
Mark:I don’t care.
Chris:Well, we have 16 of these. All right, so the next one. Matt, you read my mind, the A-Team van.
Matt:It’d be like a five, for me.
Dan:See, I’m tempted to veto. A, pre my time. B, it was just a black van.
Matt:It was not just a black van.
Dan:It had red, and it had fricking-
Matt:It had a wing on it.
Chris:A spoiler?
Dan:… and a wing on it, dude.
Matt:And it did all sorts of stuff.
Dan:It did contain the A-Team.
Chris:You have two vetoes left. You do. Four vetoes in general.
Matt:I’m okay with a veto. That’s fine.
Dan:All right, we’re vetoing.
Chris:All right. Vetoed.
Matt:It was a pretty dope ass van, though.
Chris:It was pretty dope. I would drive it today.
Matt:Oh, yeah. As long as Mr. T would be in it with me. “I pity the fool.”
Dan:I saw a picture of a person, it was a picture of a person-
Chris:<< In the year 2000>>.
Dan:… looking at the back, sitting in the back of a van, looking at their feet. And it was obviously a white van and it said, “I’m totally ready for my chickens.”
Matt:Jesus.
Chris:Keeping in the van theme, Mystery Machine.
Matt:Oh, Scooby-Doo.
Chris:I’m telling you, I did not go easy on you guys.
Matt:I don’t know what the inside of that van looks like.
Chris:I don’t know what the inside of that van looks like, either.
Matt:I would assume-
Dan:Scooby doesn’t even remember.
Matt:I would assume there’s a giant bong in the back.
Chris:Yeah, you’re right.
Mark:Veto.
Matt:Probably some beanbag chairs.
Chris:All right, vetoes, Mark’s vetoes are done.
Dan:All right. Mark’s last veto. Mystery Van?
Chris:Mystery van.
Matt:Machine.
Chris:Mystery Machine.
Dan:Oh, Machine.
Matt:Which, have you seen the Mystery Machine van that drives around Omaha?
Chris:No.
Dan:No.
Matt:That they have-
Dan:Really? How have I missed this?
Matt:Replicated it pretty fucking close.
Dan:I have not seen it. How have I missed that?
Matt:Yeah.
Chris:All right. This one I feel like is going to be high. Bandit’s Trans Am. Smokey and the Bandit.
Matt:Oh, man.
Dan:By the way, we have done a great job of taking 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10.
Chris:Yes.
Matt:Oh, crap.
Dan:How did we manage to do that? We took every other one.
Chris:So one, three, five, seven and nine.
Matt:Yeah. I would-
Chris:And we still have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven left.
Matt:Bandit’s Trans Am.
Chris:We got a customer.
Matt:Yeah, I’d probably go like three, on that. It’s pretty iconic.
Chris:It is super iconic.
Matt:Until the other movies came out.
Dan:What was it again? Sorry.
Chris:Bandit’s Trans Am.
Dan:Oh.
Matt:Yeah.
Chris:Smokey and the Bandit. Taking Coors to everybody, everywhere.
Dan:Yeah. I think James would definitely put this top three.
Chris:Honestly, I would have top five for me.
Matt:I’d go three or five.
Chris:Yep.
Dan:Well, we have three and five available.
Matt:That’s what I mean.
Dan:Five?
Mark:Five.
Chris:Five?
Matt:Okay.
Dan:Did you say five, Mark?
Matt:But you do see one every once in a while on the streets.
Dan:You do.
Matt:And then you’re like-
Mark:“Oh, shit.”
Chris:… “Oh, I want that.”
Matt:It makes me sing the song Eastbound and Down, even though I know it’s not from that movie.
Dan:By the way, speaking of that, for some reason I woke up this morning with the Golden Girls theme song in my head.
Matt:Thanks For Being a Friend?
Dan:<< Thank you for being a friend >>
Matt:That’s not weird at all.
Dan:Not at all. You really got to wonder what the fuck I was dreaming about. All right.
Matt:Betty White.
Chris:Next one. F-14 Tomcat, Top Gun.
Matt:Oh, wow.
Chris:Made every single kid, woman, child, want to be a freaking-
Dan:Now was that the one with, the wings folded? They-
Chris:It’s the first one.
Dan:They came back-
Matt:Yeah.
Chris:They did a-
Matt:They fold back when they go into-
Dan:Like super speed?
Matt:… sub-
Chris:It was not-
Matt:… supersonic or whatever.
Chris:… it wasn’t an F-14 that he flew in the newest one. It’s not an F-14-
Dan:Okay.
Chris:… from what I understand.
Matt:Yeah, I looked that up, about being a pilot right after that.
Dan:Everybody did, dude.
Matt:And realized that fighter pilots are like five foot six.
Dan:Yeah.
Chris:And it’s like, you got to have perfect eyesight, and there was me with my Coke bottle glasses.
Dan:That’s three for me.
Chris:Three? All right.
Dan:Mark, is that one?
Chris:Five?
Mark:No.
Matt:Three works.
Chris:Three? Okay.
Matt:Don’t forget, there’s still two vetoes floating around out there.
Chris:There are.
Dan:Top Gun F-14?
Chris:All right. The Bullitt Mustang.
Dan:The Bullitt Mustang?
Chris:Yeah. So that’s the Mustang that’s in-
Matt:It’s the silver Mustang, and gone in 60 seconds.
Chris:Gone in 60 seconds.
Mark:No.
Chris:It’s been in other movies, too.
Mark:No.
Dan:Oh, that was-
Matt:Which, it was in the movie Bullitt.
Dan:… a Shelby GT 500.
Chris:Yeah, that was a Shelby GT Mustang.
Dan:That was the, what did he call it? It was his-
Matt:It had a name.
Chris:Eleanor?
Matt:Yeah.
Dan:Yeah. He called it Eleanor, but it was like his one car that he could never steal, or something like that.
Chris:It was his… No, it’s his unicorn. He always had a problem with stealing it.
Dan:Was it a unicorn?
Chris:Every single time he tried to steal it, something went wrong.
Matt:Yeah, he never could, never could pull it off.
Chris:I really put this on the list because I know Mark is high on this Bullitt Mustang.
Mark:I would definitely put it on the list, but I would leave it to you guys to decide where.
Chris:So we got one, seven, and nine.
Dan:[inaudible 01:00:38] on.
Chris:And we still got, Mark’s done with the vetoes. You got a veto, and you got a veto.
Matt:Which, I don’t think it’s a number one, but I don’t feel like it should be as high as a seven.
Dan:So we got a one, seven, and a nine.
Matt:Which it’s, I mean, it’s no Millennium Falcon.
Dan:It’s not. And I think it’s lower than a Knight Rider, so I would veto.
Chris:You can.
Matt:If you want to veto, I’m good with that.
Dan:That’s my last one, right?
Chris:Yep.
Dan:What’d you call it?
Chris:It was the Bullitt Mustang. It’s B-U-L-I-T-T.
Matt:That was Steve McQueen, wasn’t it?
Chris:Yes. Steve McQueen.
Matt:He was a badass for his generation. The original David Hasselhoff.
Dan:He was.
Chris:All right. Next one. Aston Martin’s DB5 in Goldfinger. So that is the one that-
Matt:Oh.
Chris:… Bond drove.
Matt:Yep.
Chris:Did everything, had like missiles, and skis, and like… Super cool.
Matt:I’d go seven on that.
Dan:Yeah.
Mark:Yes.
Chris:Aston Martin. Okay. Got two more. And these are one and nine.
Dan:It’s either going to be one or nine.
Chris:Herbie the Love Bug.
Matt:Nine.
Dan:You son of a bitch.
Matt:You know what?
Dan:You sneaky son of a bitch.
Chris:But there’s been so many movies of Herbie the Love Bug, and I enjoyed that as a kid. It’s like, I wanted one. They were fast, they beat NASCARs. It hopped over things.
Matt:We’re going to go with the veto on that.
Mark:Thank you.
Chris:Matt’s veto.
Matt:Mainly because they-
Dan:Thank God you had one left.
Matt:… they picked up Lindsay Lohan, as part of the series. So.
Dan:I know, but at that time, she was hot.
Matt:Sorry, Herbie.
Dan:She still wasn’t completely messed up.
Matt:She’s still kind of hot. She’s just a fucking head case.
Dan:She is. I don’t know. She’s also pretty plastic surgery-ed up.
Matt:That’s all right. Who in Hollywood doesn’t have something that’s been done?
Dan:Herbie, the…
Matt:Herbie the Love Slug.
Chris:Sorry, hang on. I’m marking this to make sure. All right, last one, because I feel like I must have messed this up, somewhere.
Dan:Did we have too many vetoes? One, two, three, four-
Mark:We choose two.
Dan:… five, six. Yeah, we have six vetoes. We have two open spots, and one item left.
Chris:I suck. So General Lee was the last one that I had.
Matt:Oh, wow. That’s-
Chris:Yeah. I-
Matt:Well, and that thing was iconic back then, and then they brought it back during all the cancel culture. So.
Chris:I got to find the other one, damn it.
Matt:I don’t think it’s a one, but I almost feel like it has to be the one.
Dan:But I think it’s a nine, because it’s an iconic car but it doesn’t do anything other than drive fast.
Matt:It jumps over rivers.
Chris:It jumps over things.
Dan:It’s not like the Aston Martin that can shoot rockets, and do-
Matt:Yeah, but it had-
Dan:… cool shit.
Matt:… Bo and Luke in it. It didn’t need to shoot rockets with Bo and Luke.
Dan:If it had Daisy Duke in it, okay.
Matt:She was busy driving her Jeep.
Dan:Oh, that’s true.
Matt:With her little tiny shorts.
Dan:Did you only have 15?
Chris:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
Dan:What is going on? What did we do?
Chris:What did I miss?
Dan:Because we both came up with the same problem. I’m nine on-
Matt:On the General Lee?
Dan:On the General Lee.
Chris:Did I skip something?
Matt:I think nine’s fair.
Dan:I think it’s an iconic car, but it just doesn’t-
Chris:I did skip one. I’m sorry, guys.
Dan:It just doesn’t do enough.
Chris:I got one. I got one more.
Matt:Okay.
Chris:And this is probably going to be number one, if you guys-
Matt:I would go nine on the General Lee.
Dan:Mark?
Chris:Ferris Bueller’s Ferrari.
Mark:Oh. One.
Chris:Okay. All right, one.
Dan:It’s got to be one, so.
Chris:There we go.
Matt:That’s fair.
Chris:Yeah.
Matt:The Cameron kicks, and it goes flying out of the garage.
Chris:“He’ll keep calling me, he’ll keep calling me. He’ll keep calling me.” “Okay, fine. I’ll go. I’ll go. I’ll go.”
Matt:“I’ll go. I’ll go.”
Chris:“I’ll go. I’ll go. I’ll go.”
Matt:“I’ll go. I’ll go, I’ll go,” and he beats up the seat a little bit. “I’ll go.” No one’s going to believe that her dad drives your piece of shit, Cameron.
Chris:Dude, it’s such a great movie. I need to watch it again. All right.
Matt:Danke Schoen.
Chris:Ferris Bueller Ferrari. All right.
Matt:It is a cool car.
Dan:So how is the Batmobile not on this?
Mark:Too many different ones.
Chris:So I didn’t, like, that’s the thing is, I did have it on there. But I took it off.
Mark:If you’re going to add them together and say all the Batmobiles, that would be number one.
Dan:That’s what I was holding off on number one for-
Matt:That’s be an awesome car.
Dan:… because I thought for sure it’d be on there.
Chris:I didn’t, I had [inaudible 01:05:18] there.
Dan:But, way to throw it off. No, that was good.
Chris:So this is it. This is the Top 10.
Matt:What about Magnum P.I.’s Ferrari?
Chris:Well, see, I was going to do that, but we had the Ferris Bueller Ferrari, which they’re all-
Matt:They’re different Ferraris.
Chris:… they are different Ferraris, but.
Matt:Way different Ferraris.
Dan:Going to do that, go do it.
Chris:So this is what we have. Number one, Ferris Bueller’s Ferrari, two, DeLorean. Three, F-14 Tomcat. Number four, the Starship Enterprise. Five, Smokey’s Trans AM. Number six, Millennium Falcon. Number seven, the Aston Martin. Eight, Luke’s X-Wing. Nine, general Lee. And 10, Knight Rider.
Dan:vetoed Ecto-1, Nimbus 2000, the A-Team van, the Mystery Machine from Scooby-Doo.
Chris:I loved those.
Dan:Bullitt’s Mustang, and Herbie the bug.
Chris:That was fun.
Dan:Herbie the beetle?
Chris:That was fun.
Matt:Good list.
Dan:Good job.
Matt:That was a fun list.
Dan:That was fun.
Chris:This was fun.
Dan:We got any more whiskey to try?
Chris:Nope.
Matt:Nope.
Dan:Well, you can come and try some Japanese whiskeys-
Matt:Good segue.
Chris:That was-
Dan:… on publication day.
Matt:Seamless.
Dan:That’s right. On publication day, it is our next Whiskey Wednesday, April 2nd, $50 a ticket. And let me tell you, it is worth every bit of that, just for the Yamazaki 12.
Matt:Oh, yeah.
Dan:If you haven’t had it, you can get it for $25 an ounce, or you can come to the Library Pub on Wednesday at seven o’clock, or just a little bit before, you can get that taste of it. It’s not going to be an ounce, it’s going to be less than an ounce-
Matt:About a half ounce.
Dan:… but then you’ll get four other really good Japanese whiskeys. Some of them you’ve probably never even heard of, and you’ll have to take notes, because you will go out to the retail stores and buy more.
Matt:You’ll want to.
Dan:Yeah, except for the Yamazaki 12, which is-
Matt:Not possible.
Dan:… unobtainium.
Mark:Well, first of all, we can’t say four of the really good Japanese whiskeys, because we have not tried them. They’re brand new to the market-
Dan:Oh.
Mark:… and unopened.
Dan:Well, we’re going to find out if you find out, Wednesday night.
Matt:We’ll all find out together.
Dan:All together.
Matt:Okay.
Dan:That’s going to do it for this episode of the podcast, of the Library Pubcast. Thanks everybody for listening, and make sure to like and share. Matt, close this up.
Matt:Frank’s Red Hot makes great buffalo wing sauce. Bye.

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