Podcast Transcription
| Dan: | Episode 235 of the Library Pubcast being recorded, 90th and Fort in the great city of Omaha, Nebraska. |
| Matt: | Allegedly. |
| Dan: | Allegedly. No longer a flyover state. You stay here. We have a professional volleyball team now, not named the Nebraska Cornhuskers. |
| Matt: | Two professional volleyball teams. |
| Dan: | Busy weekend for everybody. Seemed like it was very much a year to procrastinate on Christmas shopping. |
| Matt: | Oh, God, yeah. |
| Dan: | I’m really glad that I didn’t have to be out and about. I heard Saturday was a complete nightmare around Omaha. |
| Matt: | I’m going today. |
| Dan: | You know I did see a meme online, I think it was on Sunday morning, said, “All right, guys, you don’t have to start doing it now, but it’s probably time to start thinking about what you’re going to go and get on the 24th.” |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | And it’s absolutely true. |
| Chris: | Just make sure you’re nice to retail workers. |
| Dan: | God yes. |
| Chris: | It’s not their fault you waited til- |
| Matt: | No. |
| Chris: | … Mary’s water broke to frigging… |
| Matt: | Damn. |
| Dan: | I was like, “Mary? Who’s Mary?” I’m sorry. |
| Matt: | I was a little curious myself who the fuck Mary was. And then I went, “Oh, that chick in the Bible.” |
| Chris: | Right, [inaudible 00:01:36] the original. |
| Dan: | Christmas. |
| Chris: | The OG mom. |
| Matt: | Yeah, the chick in the Bible, in that one book. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Oops. |
| Dan: | Let’s see. Don’t… Yeah, you’re absolutely right, nailed it. That’s the best point of the day. Don’t be shitty to retail people. |
| Matt: | No, they’re just trying to do their job. |
| Chris: | And give them the benefit of the doubt. If they’re shitty to you, it just means that someone else was probably pretty shitty to them. |
| Dan: | Just be nice. |
| Chris: | Just be nice. |
| Matt: | I figure three months or three weeks out of the year, they hate their lives. |
| Dan: | Oh, yeah. |
| Chris: | Give them a compliment. Say they have nice hair or something. |
| Dan: | Did all of us work a Black Friday in retail? |
| Matt: | That’s racist, but yes. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Yeah, oh yeah. |
| Dan: | Chris, I’m sure you did. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Mark, I don’t know, did you ever work a retail job? |
| Mark: | No. |
| Dan: | Yeah. What was your entry-level job? |
| Mark: | Lawyer. |
| Dan: | That was your first job? |
| Mark: | Oh, you mean like when |
| Dan: | Yeah, we all had that job like 16, 17. |
| Matt: | What’s the shittiest job you ever had? |
| Dan: | Lawyer. |
| Chris: | Lawyer. |
| Mark: | I worked at a bowling alley. |
| Matt: | That would suck. But I think that’s more like Thanksgiving-y. |
| Dan: | Would it suck? Was that a fun job? |
| Mark: | As any job, there are parts of that are fun, parts of it that are not fun. |
| Chris: | I worked at a very special bowling alley, so my bowling alley experience was amazing. |
| Dan: | What was special about it? |
| Chris: | Ranch Bowl. |
| Dan: | Oh, yeah, yeah. That would have been great. |
| Matt: | It’s not your typical bowling alley. |
| Chris: | It was a lot of fun. |
| Dan: | Those of you outside of the metro area, the Ranch Bowl was an incredibly popular, very tiny venue on 72nd and Dodge. |
| Chris: | With the likes of Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers and Helmet and Kevin Bacon. |
| Dan: | It was a concert venue, recording studio, and bowling alley all in one tiny building. |
| Chris: | With three bars. |
| Dan: | Oh, and a [inaudible 00:03:23] volleyball court? |
| Chris: | And volleyball, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was awesome. It was so fun. We were talking about this on some, I don’t know, some Facebook page that I’m a part of and it’s like… “Was it really a special place or are we just missing it because we were in our twenties?” And here’s the thing is I disagree that we’re missing it just because we were in our twenties because there isn’t literally a spot that you can go just to hang out with the scene. And that place was that literally for us going there. You can go bowl with 311. You could do anything there, literally anything. |
| Dan: | I think you can. I think the difference is now that there’s multiple venues that you have that just got to go to. |
| Mark: | No. |
| Chris: | You can’t go there for a show. You can’t just go there like, “I’m going to go to Matthew’s Pub and just have a beer and then whoever’s going to show up shows up.” I don’t know. |
| Matt: | Yeah, maybe catch a [inaudible 00:04:16] show. |
| Dan: | I think my answer to that is- |
| Chris: | Yes to both. |
| Dan: | Nostalgia does a lot for the memory. You forget the bad stuff about it. When you walked into that place, there was maybe 10 ceiling tiles. There was probably piss and shit on the walls. |
| Matt: | It always stunk in there. |
| Dan: | It was just run down. But we don’t remember that. We remember listening… I watched Cold and… God damn it. Who was the “Click Click Boom?” I think I want to say Savage Garden, but it’s not. |
| Chris: | Definitely not. |
| Matt: | And I want to say it’s Cottonmouth. |
| Dan: | It’s not Cottonmouth. |
| Matt: | But it’s not Cottonmouth either. |
| Chris: | That’s the fifties in my trunk. |
| Dan: | But they were there too. But whoever it was… Not Smash Mouth. Shit. |
| Matt: | But you could go there for anything. |
| Chris: | Click click boom, let the bodies hit the floor. Wasn’t that them? |
| Dan: | No. |
| Chris: | It’s not that band? |
| Dan: | Two different bands, two different songs and two different bands. That was Drowning Pool. |
| Chris: | Oh, I don’t know. They all sound the same to me. |
| Dan: | Saliva. |
| Chris: | Saliva. |
| Dan: | Hawk tuah. That hurt. |
| Matt: | It was tough. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | We’re going to name our band Saliva. |
| Dan: | Great band though. |
| Matt: | It’s better than Spit. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Is it? |
| Matt: | Spit sounds like a made-up movie band. |
| Chris: | Sounds like a heavy metal band. |
| Dan: | It does. |
| Matt: | “We’re going to go see- “ |
| Chris: | Spit opening for Helmet. |
| Matt: | Yeah. “Oh, it was Spit Helmet.” |
| Chris: | Spit Helmet. |
| Matt: | “It’s the Spit Helmet tour.” |
| Chris: | Mark has no idea of the last… |
| Mark: | I don’t know. |
| Dan: | God, the albums. “We don’t swallow. We… “ |
| Matt: | Spit. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | “We saliva on it.” |
| Chris: | Hawk tuah girl’s on the front page. |
| Dan: | Mark, how was your weekend? That’d be the reunion tour They’d have Haliey whatever her name is on the tour with them. Mark, how was your weekend? |
| Mark: | Good. Thank you for asking. I find it interesting that President Biden has commuted the death sentence on 48 of the 51 people on death row federally. |
| Dan: | There’s only 51 people on death row? |
| Mark: | Federally. |
| Dan: | Oh. |
| Mark: | But what I find… How bad this other three have to be? Dude, I mean… |
| Dan: | Man, you really got, they had to have been… He commuted 49 death sentences? Or 48? Wow. Anyways, wow. |
| Mark: | I’d rather that and went, “How bad are these three?” |
| Dan: | Those are the three that undeniably did it. And he’s like, “No, you’re staying there.” Matt, how was your weekend? |
| Matt: | It was pretty good. |
| Dan: | Pack Attack won? |
| Matt: | Yeah. What’d I- |
| Dan: | Or do they play tonight? |
| Chris: | No, they played tonight. Pretty sure they play tonight. |
| Dan: | I think they play tonight. |
| Matt: | I don’t know. |
| Dan: | But they’re going to win. |
| Chris: | Probably. |
| Matt: | I went home and proceeded to just pass the hell out yesterday. |
| Dan: | Yeah? I was remembering as we’re coming in today… Do you remember when you ordered your last drink and everyone started cheering? |
| Matt: | Because Troy was going to buy it? |
| Dan: | Yes, but there was another thing that I don’t think you were aware of. |
| Chris: | Why was everybody cheering? |
| Matt: | I was not. What did I do? |
| Dan: | Troy and I had a side bet that I could get you to have another drink and I won, and then he had to buy it. |
| Matt: | Well, it’s not that tough. “Hey, Matt, Troy wants to buy you a drink.” “Okay.” |
| Dan: | But I had to sell it to you. That was the thing, which… We can cut this out if you don’t want it to be in there, but it was just very simple conversation of… He’s like, “Why don’t you get everybody one round?” And I’m like, “Well, Matt tapped out. He’s done drinking.” And he’s like, “Oh yeah, he probably doesn’t want him to drink.” And I said, “I bet I could sell him a drink.” And he’s like, “You’re a good sales guy. I bet you could too.” So I turned you and I said, “Matt, do you want a beer?” And he goes, “No.” And Troy goes, “Ha!” And I said, “Matt, do you want another Crown?” You go, “Okay.” |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | It didn’t take a lot. It was- |
| Matt: | No, it really didn’t. I was drunk enough to the point that one more drink sounded like a good idea. |
| Dan: | Really, if you can’t sell alcohol. |
| Matt: | In a bar? |
| Dan: | Yeah, maybe you should just go to… |
| Matt: | To someone that’s already- |
| Dan: | You could even sell alcohol in church. |
| Matt: | … A little buzzy. |
| Dan: | It’s the blood of God. |
| Matt: | Just a little tiny glasses in church though. |
| Dan: | It goes a long way. All right, so the Packers play Monday night. |
| Mark: | I thought- |
| Dan: | What? |
| Mark: | I thought the funniest thing was Danny [inaudible 00:08:36] going, “Well, Dan, what did I drink?” |
| Dan: | Yeah, I do that. So every once in a while, if you’re a bartender, somebody gets a little crazy, and I know that Dan [inaudible 00:08:52] got an area that when he comes in and has a couple of beers, a couple of mixed drinks, he’s in a general area. Evan’s in a general area. Troy’s in a… Everybody’s in their general areas, and every once in a while, I’ll take a look at their tab and when it’s getting a little bit higher outside of their general area, I’ll print it off and slide it in front of them and let them know. Dan was right on pace last Sunday, and then he ordered for the bar. |
| Matt: | Yeah, for alcohol poisoning. |
| Dan: | Huh? |
| Matt: | Dan was on pace last Sunday for alcohol poisoning. |
| Dan: | He had a goal. Then the last thing he did was order the entire bar a shot, and they were all [inaudible 00:09:28], which are six bucks a piece. |
| Mark: | Holy shit. |
| Dan: | And there was eight of them. Eight times $6 stacks up pretty quick. It doubled his bill. So he said… So when came in on Sunday- |
| Mark: | He did not remember ordering shots. |
| Dan: | Oh yeah. So when he came in on Sunday, being very much Dan [inaudible 00:09:46], which is… He’s been on the show before. He is probably one of the nicest guys that comes into this bar on a continuous basis. Said, “Dan, can I ask you a question?” I said, “Of course.” And he goes, “What did I drink last Sunday?” I said, “A lot.” And then I kind of laughed and I knew exactly what he was talking about. So I found it, our new POS system, you could print it off. So I gave it to him and he goes, “Oh, that’s where I went wrong.” And I’m like, “Yep.” |
| Mark: | Oh no. |
| Dan: | That screen door was a motherfucker to him. And then it caught him. He had trouble getting it open, swings open, then he starts to fall back and he hits the door and then it pushes him forward into the big wooden door. |
| Matt: | Jesus. |
| Dan: | Then he does the… We’ve all done it, sober and drunk, the 10 minutes… |
| Matt: | “Which key?” |
| Dan: | Of trying to grab the correct door key. |
| Chris: | God, I want to see this video so bad. |
| Matt: | Now he’s been opening this front door for 25 years. “Which key unlocks my door?” |
| Chris: | I wish I would see that video. |
| Dan: | It was awesome. He’s on Christmas break and there was rumors of him coming up today, so we’ll see. |
| Chris: | Well, he’s got Festivus tonight. |
| Dan: | He does have Festivus. |
| Chris: | Which is up here. |
| Matt: | Yes, it is. |
| Dan: | On Monday night. |
| Chris: | So I doubt that he’s going to show up for the podcast. |
| Dan: | It was just one of those great stories. |
| Matt: | I’ll bet he slept in. I’d sleep in if I was a teacher. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Evan also was a little questionable on his tab last Sunday, and I just said- |
| Matt: | “Dan.” |
| Dan: | … “There was two of you this week,” and he goes, “Oh yeah, Missy was here.” |
| Matt: | Fucking Missy. |
| Dan: | That was it. |
| Matt: | Missy, stopped drinking so much. |
| Dan: | Right, right? |
| Matt: | You lush. |
| Dan: | And it was… The Nebraska Cornhuskers were playing Wisconsin and I think that was the game on Sunday, last Sunday. |
| Matt: | Oh, volleyball. |
| Dan: | Yeah. And Missy, Hannah, and Emily were all trading shots, rounds of shots, so they stacked up pretty quick. Anyways. Matt, how was your weekend? |
| Matt: | It was good. |
| Dan: | We did this already. |
| Matt: | Some of it. |
| Dan: | We talked about the Green Bay Packers. |
| Matt: | Yep. Worked Friday. Kevin and me got our asses kicked. Saturday, went out and celebrated my mom’s birthday. We went to Prehistoric Golf or Dino Golf for whatever it’s called. |
| Dan: | Prehistoric Putt. |
| Matt: | There you go. |
| Chris: | It’s fun. |
| Matt: | It’s a cool little place. |
| Chris: | Howie loves it. |
| Matt: | And then we went to Brother Sebastian’s for dinner and then yesterday I came up here and drank a little. |
| Dan: | Oh, I love Sebastian’s. Sarah used to be a big fan of it and we went there one time. That’s the one that’s over on 119th and Pacific? |
| Matt: | Over by Big Fred’s. Yeah. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I wasn’t impressed with it. |
| Matt: | It’s always weird when you walk up and they’ve got “Ho-ahhh- “ |
| Chris: | The whole Hungarian chants. |
| Matt: | … And stuff playing when you walk up. You’re like- |
| Chris: | “Bring out your dead.” |
| Matt: | It’s like, “What in the fuck is going on in this place?” |
| Dan: | I think I had a salad there and I was stuffed, which is great. |
| Matt: | I ate a lot. I was really full. |
| Dan: | I bet. |
| Matt: | But it was really good food. |
| Dan: | I wouldn’t say it’s bad and I definitely wouldn’t turn anybody away from going there, but if I’m going to spend over $100 on a meal, I’m probably going 801 Chop House Spencer’s or 360 Steakhouse, or, honestly now, Texas De Brazil is my absolute favorite. |
| Matt: | Brother Sebastian’s is going to be way more affordable than any of those places you just said. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I got a filet Oscar, which is filet with lump crab meat on top of it. It was like $51. |
| Dan: | Really? |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | I might have to give it another shot then. |
| Matt: | With the salad, with all the stuff, it was great. |
| Dan: | Plus- |
| Mark: | They have a great salad bar. |
| Matt: | Yeah, they do a wonderful salad there. |
| Dan: | Did you also say you had a prime rib somewhere? |
| Matt: | My brother had a prime rib and I had a couple bites of it and it was pretty damn good. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I’m just not a huge prime rib guy. |
| Dan: | I fucking love prime rib. And for some reason, with the two years I’ve had my smoker, I’ve only done one prime rib. |
| Matt: | Prime ribs are tough to smoke. |
| Dan: | Oh, they’re so good though. |
| Matt: | It’s real easy to overdo them. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Yeah. Chris? |
| Chris: | Hi. |
| Dan: | How was your weekend? |
| Chris: | It was good. |
| Dan: | How was old left foot Howie? |
| Chris: | Howie is good. He’s walking around with his boot, so he’s fine. He’s ready for Christmas. |
| Dan: | I bet. Did you get all of the shopping done? |
| Chris: | Yeah, so we do Christmas over at Jen’s parents’ house, which is a lighter Christmas. And then just because of how crappy the end of the year is for us in this, we don’t celebrate Christmas until January. Honestly, Jen Howie and I, well, we don’t do it until the 8th of January, so he’ll get most of his presents then, which is nice. |
| Dan: | Interesting. Yeah. |
| Chris: | Yeah. So yeah. Friday, I didn’t do anything. Hung out with Jen and Howie. Watched a movie. Howie went to sleep and Jen and I watched Red One, which was fun. |
| Matt: | It’s a great movie. |
| Chris: | It’s fun. |
| Matt: | I think it’s funny. |
| Chris: | It’s fun. Yeah, I laughed. I heard there were multiple times that I laughed. |
| Dan: | Sarah was watching it Friday or Saturday and I don’t know. I’m not a big fan of The Rock anymore. I think he’s just kind of… |
| Chris: | The same character in every single movie? |
| Dan: | And I’m kind of done with him. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | But I bet you still love Ryan Reynolds. |
| Dan: | I fucking love Ryan Reynolds. |
| Matt: | Yeah. Same character in every movie. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | It’s true. |
| Matt: | He just plays Ryan Reynolds with a different name. |
| Dan: | Yeah, I did see him in… What was the video game one he just did? |
| Chris: | I know what you’re talking about. |
| Dan: | Which apparently they’re coming out with a second one. |
| Chris: | Makes sense. |
| Dan: | That and Deadpool. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Anyways. |
| Chris: | Saturday, I had our family Pflaum Family Christmas deal-io. |
| Matt: | That’d be fun. |
| Chris: | So the girls, all the women, extended family, cousins, everything go over to my parents’ house and they do an ornament exchange between the ladies, and then the dudes all get together and we’d go drink or bowl or whatever, so we went down and hit the simulators at Field Club, which was fun. |
| Matt: | Oh nice. |
| Chris: | So that was a lot of fun. Watched my Bengals win. |
| Dan: | Who’d they play? |
| Chris: | They played the Browns. So they swept the Browns this year. They’re still have a playoff chance, which is really, really strange with the Chargers beating the Broncos on freaking Thursday night football. That was the first step. |
| Dan: | That was… |
| Chris: | That kind of blew my mind, dude. I did not expect it. |
| Dan: | I couldn’t believe the Broncos after they came out so strong in the first half, just completely laid an egg and fucked it away. |
| Chris: | Yep. I stopped watching it because I was like, “All right, well… “ |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | But now we’ll see. We play the Broncos on Sunday, so we need to win. We need the Colts to lose and we need Dolphins to lose and we need- |
| Dan: | Dolphins won on Sunday, right? |
| Chris: | Yeah. They need to lose one game, the last two. Same with Colts, which they possibly can. |
| Dan: | They probably will. |
| Chris: | And we’ll see if the… Which is this is possible, because we know Casey does not like to see Cincinnati in the playoffs. Right? You guys don’t very possible that they will tank the game against the Broncos at the end of the season. |
| Dan: | I don’t think so. I think- |
| Chris: | I mean, they’re already going to secure the number one spot. If they win this next week, why would they? |
| Dan: | I know, but they’re not guaranteed to do it. |
| Matt: | Why take a chance? |
| Dan: | I think the first priority is home field advantage in first week bye. |
| Chris: | Right, you- |
| Dan: | And I also think of any years you want to face the Bengals, this is the year. |
| Chris: | Okay. |
| Matt: | That’s kind of fair. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Bengals have struggled this year. |
| Dan: | I want the Bengals and the Bills to play and I would pay you a lot of money to knock off the Bills. They look very vulnerable. |
| Chris: | That’s… Yeah. |
| Mark: | I don’t know. They’re due. |
| Dan: | They’re really vulnerable after Sunday. |
| Matt: | The Bills? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | I think everybody will freak out if the Bengals get in the playoffs because that will be just like 2021, where they had a horrible defense and they went on this huge tear and Joe Burrow got sacked like 900 times in the three playoff games that he was in. So I don’t know. That would off a lot of people. There’s a lot of teams playing real well and if the Bengals sneak into the AFC Championship, oh my God. |
| Mark: | I mean, we’ll see how the script plays out. |
| Chris: | Right? |
| Dan: | Right. |
| Chris: | I mean they [inaudible 00:18:17]. |
| Dan: | All been written. That’s right. It’s all been written. |
| Matt: | Yep. |
| Dan: | Sarah and I had a good weekend. I don’t remember much of it. |
| Matt: | Drunk? |
| Dan: | No. |
| Matt: | It was just busy? |
| Dan: | Yeah. Fuck. Friday, I met up with, I’m becoming pretty good friends with one of our suppliers and we meet up every Friday at Blue Chip Ultra Lounge and say we’re going to have a beer or two and then eight beers later, we’re like, “Okay, we seriously have to leave now.” So I went home and I smoked… Did a spatchcocked chicken for the first time. |
| Matt: | That’s always a fun experience. |
| Dan: | Yep. I don’t know if I’m ever do it again. |
| Matt: | It’s a lot of work. |
| Dan: | Well, it’s just… |
| Matt: | To do it right. |
| Dan: | I mean, I cut it in half, cut out the spine, spread it out, and then put it on the smoker and smoked it and it’s fine. I think I would rather smoke chicken and prepare it in other ways. I still think I would rather deep-fry it than anything. It’s just so juicy. |
| Matt: | I do like fried chicken. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Big fan. |
| Dan: | Yeah. It’s delicious. And then I also did smoked cream cheese for the first time. |
| Matt: | Interesting. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | A little cold smoke action. |
| Dan: | No, 250. |
| Matt: | For cream cheese? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | So you did smoked cooked cream cheese? |
| Dan: | Yes. The recipe that I got, I really trust this guy and I was really surprised he did it at 250 for two hours. So I mimic the recipe. |
| Matt: | It seems awful hot for a cheese. |
| Dan: | Turned out it was. I don’t know what I did wrong or maybe I misunderstood his instructions or what, but it definitely needed to be 200 at an hour. You’re not looking to cook the cream cheese. You just need to warm it up, make a gooey. |
| Matt: | Well, you just want to get some smoke flavor on it. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | You can always warm it up in the microwave. |
| Dan: | It was good. It was just dry. |
| Matt: | It’s like doing regular cheese. You cold smoke it. |
| Dan: | Right? Yeah. I don’t know how to cold smoke. |
| Matt: | You just don’t get the fire very hot. |
| Dan: | Oh. So that was my weekend. |
| Matt: | That still sounds like fun. A lot of work. |
| Dan: | Decently busy day on Sunday. |
| Matt: | Pretty busy. |
| Dan: | Missed my goal of selling a thousand dollars worth of booze by $64. |
| Matt: | Yeah, I was going to say you couldn’t have missed it by much. |
| Dan: | I sat there when I ran that report, I was like, “Do I want to spend $64 to hit this goal?” |
| Matt: | It’s not that important. |
| Dan: | Yeah, yeah. But it was a fun day. We had sold a couple of bottles, sold a bottle of Penelope architect, which the guy came in and he’s like, “Hey, I need a bottle of Penelope architect.” And I’m like, “Wait, you want a drink of it or you want a bottle of it?” Because no one’s ever bought a bottle. |
| Matt: | He loves that stuff. |
| Dan: | Yeah. So I was like, “Huh. If we have it in the back.” And we had it at the back and then had a guy come in and buy two bottles of the Jefferson Barrel pick. |
| Matt: | Nice. |
| Dan: | So |
| Matt: | That’s a winner of a pick. |
| Dan: | I thought as soon as that one I was out the door, I was like, “I got this thousand dollars in the bank. Got it in the bank.” |
| Mark: | 31 bucks. |
| Dan: | 31? |
| Mark: | Mm-hmm. |
| Dan: | Still missed it. Doesn’t matter. |
| Matt: | whomp-whomp. |
GlenAllachie 2010 Single Cask
| Dan: | Yep. Well, should we get to try and some whiskey, Mark? |
| Mark: | Sure. |
| Dan: | Fantastic. What do you got for us today? |
| Mark: | GlenAllachie 2010. |
| Matt: | This one’s from- |
| Chris: | Oh man. [inaudible 00:21:45] Smart Alec that year. |
| Matt: | This one’s from ImpEx. Oh, here. Let me pass out the rest. |
| Chris: | Oh, thanks. |
| Dan: | GlenAllachie 2010. |
| Chris: | It’s totally going to interrupt the flow, but Joe Burrow story, which just is hilarious. This is funny. |
| Mark: | No, because you’re going to laugh in the middle of your own story. |
| Chris: | No, I’m not going to laugh in the middle of it. Jeez. |
| Mark: | [inaudible 00:22:11]. |
| Chris: | So well, right, because I’m making fun of you and that makes me laugh. So Joe Burrow got his line for Christmas samurai swords, and so the story goes is they all wanted guns and he’s like, “Guys, I can’t buy you guns for Christmas.” So he went and had his person buy a samurai sword that each one was made before 1400 and each are from a different village in Japan. |
| Matt: | That’s kind of cool. |
| Chris: | And he’d set them up in a room and he had them go in and told them the stories of each one and each guy got to pick the one that they wanted. |
| Dan: | Damn. |
| Matt: | That’s pretty cool. |
| Chris: | Super cool. He’s like, “Well, they asked me for guns, said no, but so my brain path was already going towards weapons.” |
| Mark: | I told you were going to laugh at your own story. |
| Chris: | It is, because it’s cool. It’s all right. I can laugh. |
| Matt: | He should have gotten them all the Ninja Turtle weapons. |
| Chris: | Right? That would’ve been cool. |
| Matt: | It’d have been way cooler. Nun-chucks. |
| Chris: | Nun-chucks. |
| Matt: | And stick. |
| Chris: | Bo staff. Kais… Whatever they call them. |
| Matt: | I don’t know. |
| Chris: | The forks. What are they called? |
| Dan: | Tri- |
| Matt: | Tri… Kais? |
| Dan: | Mark. |
| Chris: | Go on, Mark. |
| Mark: | I was ignoring. |
| Chris: | The forks. |
| Dan: | Tri- |
| Chris: | The pick weapons. They looked like forks. |
| Dan: | Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles. |
| Matt: | God. |
| Dan: | One had a stick, one had two swords, one had nun-chucks, and the other one had… |
| Mark: | A trident. |
| Dan: | Tri… |
| Matt: | No. |
| Chris: | It’s not a trident. |
| Dan: | It’s not a trident. Damn it. |
| Matt: | That’s what Aquaman carries. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | They’re like… It “Ai” something like that. |
| Matt: | I wish there was a device we could use to learn what this is. |
| Dan: | Teen… |
| Chris: | Just say what weapon did Raphael use? Wow. You’re typing a lot. |
| Matt: | This is riveting. |
| Dan: | It’s not auto-filling. Shock. Shock. |
| Chris: | Hey Siri, what weapon did Raphael use? |
| Dan: | Twin katanas. |
| Matt: | Swords. |
| Chris: | Sai. |
| Matt: | A sai. |
| Dan: | Twin sai. |
| Chris: | Sai, sai. All right, sorry. |
| Dan: | So Saturday night while I was drinking… I’m sorry Mark, we’ll get back to you someday. I promise. This is a good story though, and I won’t laugh until the end. |
| Chris: | This is good. I’ll laugh the whole thing. |
| Mark: | Matt, what is a proof on that? |
| Chris: | Meep. Meep. Meep. Meep. |
| Matt: | This is just under 60%. |
| Chris: | Meep, meep, meep, meep, meep meep. |
| Dan: | Saturday… So it’s always kind of fun when you Google something the auto-fill. Like you start the sentence like, “What weapon did… “, And then you just read the auto-fill of what Google fills in because it’s the most commonly searched things in rank… We were having a discussion of if crocodiles or alligators… Or crocodiles or sharks are older, and I’m pretty sure it’s sharks. |
| Matt: | Sharks. |
| Dan: | So then I typed in “Is a shark older than… ” The auto-fill blew my fucking mind. |
| Chris: | What did it say? “Baby shark, do, do, do, do?” |
| Dan: | “Older than Saturn’s rings.” |
| Mark: | That’s old. |
| Chris: | Wow. Wait, so someone asked if sharks are older than Saturn’s rings? |
| Dan: | Yes, and I- |
| Chris: | Multiple people |
| Dan: | … Made fun… It was the third most asked thing. |
| Chris: | Well, are they? |
| Dan: | Yes. Sharks are older than Saturn’s rings. |
| Chris: | Wow! |
| Dan: | Originally, scientists thought they were somewhere around four in a million years old after Cassini flew through them. They’re pretty certain… And it’s a big range. They’re somewhere between 10 and 100 million years old. Sharks are 450 million years old. |
| Chris: | Sharks are miracle animals. |
| Matt: | They’re old. |
| Dan: | That’s one of those times that I was like, “Well, I got to click on this because that’s got to be the dumbest answer in the world.” And turns out yes, sharks are older than Saturn’s rings. |
| Matt: | Interesting. |
| Dan: | Very interesting. Mark, tell me more about GlenAllachie 2010. 2010. |
| Mark: | Well, because it impacts, we have no information. |
| Dan: | In the year 2000. |
| Matt: | Mark’s going to throw his Yeti at you. |
| Dan: | In the year 2010. |
| Mark: | Why are you staring at me oddly? |
| Matt: | He’s singing. Oh, that wasn’t awkward. |
| Dan: | I gave him a wink. |
| Chris: | Napa Valley wine barrels. |
| Mark: | I don’t think Scotch should be bottled at 120 proof. |
| Dan: | What? |
| Matt: | Yeah, this stuff’s hot. |
| Dan: | That’s 120? |
| Matt: | 59.9%. |
| Dan: | That’s got a kick on the tongue. |
| Mark: | Yes it does. |
| Chris: | You don’t get the kick on the tongue… Man, something’s wrong with my mouth. |
| Dan: | I got peat- |
| Chris: | I don’t get the… I don’t get the heat anymore in my mouth. This is… I don’t get any heat on this in the mouth. |
| Mark: | That’ll get your attention the first set. |
| Matt: | That definitely wakes you up. |
| Chris: | There’s a lot of stuff going on in there. |
| Dan: | Man. |
| Chris: | Green apple on the nose. There’s some- |
| Dan: | Son of a bitch. I definitely get peat. I was with it until the peat came to town. |
| Matt: | Yeah, you kind of apple-ly. Lots of fruit. |
| Mark: | Green apple. |
| Matt: | Lots of it. |
| Mark: | Granny Smith. |
| Chris: | Yep. Yep. Green apple. |
| Mark: | It’s much better with a little water. |
| Dan: | Do you want a little water, anybody? |
| Chris: | I’m good. |
| Dan: | I am going to take a minute and just gather myself and then I’m going to try it again. I really was not expecting… GlenAllachie, so far the ones we’ve had, have been pretty calm. |
| Mark: | Very light. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | But that barrel proof is- |
| Dan: | This is definitely the GlenAllachie that sat in the back of the room. |
| Matt: | Oh, this guy was a dick. |
| Chris: | Sorry. |
| Matt: | Which I can’t believe GlenAllachie didn’t bottle this for themselves. |
| Dan: | So tell me about that ImpEx. Somebody they sold this to ImpEx? |
| Mark: | Yeah, that’s like Murray and McDavid and Chieftains. A person goes into GlenAllachie and GlenAllachie says, “Well, here’s 10 barrels we can buy. Pick one.” |
| Dan: | Yeah. I guess… Matt, I… For the sake of conversation, I could see why they would give this away, because it is not like anything else on their normal line. |
| Matt: | No, it’s not. |
| Dan: | While it’s good… |
| Matt: | If I was a distillery, I would get something like this, that’s good like this, proof it down and make it a one-off. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Matt: | Because this stuff’s really good. Super, super apple-ly, lots of kind of red berries. I think it’s- |
| Dan: | How much is it? |
| Matt: | This is $18 a pour. |
| Dan: | That’s right there. That’s good. That’s not bad. Yeah, I do get the apple after water, but then I also get quite a bit of peat. |
| Matt: | I can get a little campfire going on in my mouth. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it’s really sweet. |
| Matt: | But I like this. I think this is rock-solid and it would only take a couple to get you where you need to go. |
| Dan: | Oh yeah. 120 proof. |
| Chris: | That was good. |
| Dan: | Add a little water to it, changes it. |
| Matt: | I already poured this. |
| Dan: | Yeah, so that was GlenAllachie 2010. Is that all the name of it? |
| Matt: | Let’s see. |
| Dan: | Sorry. |
| Matt: | “2010 single cast. Bottled exclusively for ImpEx Beverages USA.” It’s a… It’s 11 year. This was ca number 4635. |
| Dan: | Wait- |
| Matt: | It’s finished in a Napa Valley wine barrel. |
| Dan: | I thought it was a single cask. |
| Matt: | It is. |
| Dan: | Yet it was cask number… |
| Matt: | That was… They number all their casks. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | That way they can keep track of them. |
| Dan: | Except it was a single cask. |
| Matt: | Yep. |
| Dan: | Almost like the term means nothing, like it’s a marketing term. Matt’s back from his phone call. |
| Matt: | Yep. |
| Dan: | Matt, would you like to tell the audience that we don’t sell our bottles of BTAC if we get them? |
| Matt: | I mean, we sell them. We just sell them an ounce at a time. |
| Dan: | Yes. We do not sell them by the bottle. |
| Matt: | We don’t get enough of that stuff to worry about selling it by the bottle. What can you do? |
| Dan: | Not sell it by the bottle. |
| Matt: | It’s true. |
| Dan: | Okay. Whiskey numbered dose. |
| Matt: | Deux. |
| Dan: | You getting pretty excited about Mexico? You guys are a couple months away, right? |
| Matt: | Yeah, we’re nothing until first week of March is when we’ll go. |
| Dan: | A little early to get excited, |
| Matt: | Which I haven’t even booked my trip yet. |
| Dan: | Really? |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | I thought everything’s all signed, sealed and delivered. |
| Matt: | It pretty much is. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | But I- |
| Dan: | You’ve committed. |
| Matt: | I just still haven’t booked it. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | But there’s probably six or eight more people that still haven’t booked. |
| Dan: | Are you going to miss St. Patrick’s Day? |
| Matt: | No. |
| Dan: | Okay. Don’t miss St. Patrick’s Day. It’s the best day of the year. |
| Matt: | Well, the last time we went to Mexico, it was the St. Patty’s Week and NCAA basketball tournament. So we had the Creighton game on a 10 foot tall projection screen in the middle of the resort and had people from all over the world rooting for Creighton, which it helped the first game. Not so much the second. |
Murray & McDavid
| Dan: | Not so much. Mark, whisky number two. |
| Mark: | This is a Murray and McDavid, which again, a custom-labeled Scotch. It is from, and I’m going to kill this name, Mannouchmore distillery. It is finished in Port… Finished Barrique Casks. |
| Dan: | What? |
| Mark: | B-A-R-R-I-Q-U-E. |
| Dan: | Oh, I thought you said “Freak casks.” I was like, “How have I never heard of this?” |
| Matt: | Puff Daddy casks. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Puff Daddy. P. Diddy. |
| Mark: | And they call this- |
| Matt: | Tim. |
| Mark: | Rich- |
| Matt: | Sorry, I had to. |
| Mark: | Who should out with my- |
| Matt: | I fucking had to. Once in four years. |
| Dan: | God damn it, Matt. |
| Matt: | Once in four years, damn it. |
| Mark: | Not dead yet. |
| Chris: | Bring out your dead. |
| Matt: | Jeez. Sorry. |
| Dan: | Murray and McDavid. |
| Mark: | And it’s called Rich and Fruity. |
| Dan: | Who? |
| Mark: | Rich and Fruity. |
| Dan: | I think that was a country band, wasn’t it? |
| Chris: | Isn’t that Big and Rich? |
| Mark: | It was Big and Rich. |
| Matt: | And Fruity, but they got rid of him. He just didn’t fit in with the genre. |
| Chris: | [inaudible 00:32:48]. His hair was too blonde. |
| Dan: | Wow. That’s an interesting distillery. Do you know anything about that distillery? They got it from? |
| Mark: | I do not. I don’t believe they export. |
| Dan: | All right. Murray and McDavid. |
| Matt: | I do like port finished stuff. |
| Dan: | It’s so good. |
| Matt: | This is fantastic, |
| Chris: | My nose. |
| Dan: | Trying to decide if- |
| Mark: | That is really good. |
| Dan: | … Christmas gift to myself this year is going to be a Bowman Brothers Port Barrel. |
| Mark: | I’m getting pepper. You guys getting any pepper? White pepper? |
| Matt: | Pepper and lots of that port… Lots and lots of that wine. |
| Chris: | It’s good. It’s good. It’s good. It’s good. It’s good. |
| Mark: | It’s good. |
| Dan: | It’s good. It’s good. |
| Matt: | Both of these were nice. |
| Mark: | I thought the first one was way too hot. Once I put some water with it, it was good though. |
| Matt: | Mannouchmore? |
| Mark: | Yeah, like I said. |
| Matt: | It’s Tawny Port barrels. Casks. Interesting. I think that’s good. I like it. |
| Dan: | It’s really good. A little bit of fruitiness. I get some of that bitterness from the port wine. It’s pretty good. Pretty, pretty… Mark, what do you think? |
| Mark: | I like this one much better than the first one. I think it’s a little more approachable. You’re not getting beat up by the proof. |
| Matt: | Or the price. |
| Mark: | And it finishes very, very nicely. Very light finished, but long. |
| Dan: | I thought for sure you’d chosen a [inaudible 00:34:54] by the shape of that bottle. |
| Mark: | Nope. |
| Matt: | Nope. I’m doing stuff that I know for sure that… Mostly for sure that I’ve probably never had. |
| Dan: | Yeah, no problem, that. |
| Matt: | This is one that I don’t know a whole lot about. |
| Dan: | So for those of you that weren’t paying attention to class once again, that was Murray and McDavid Rich and Fruity, available with the library Pub for… Do you remember how much a pour? |
| Matt: | $12, I think. |
| Dan: | We’ll go with $12. |
| Matt: | I think it was $12. |
| Dan: | That’s fine. |
| Matt: | Is what I read on the… |
| Mark: | And it is newer. We just got it in last week. |
| Dan: | Our new section is pretty healthy right now. |
| Mark: | It is. |
| Dan: | That and bourbon. |
| Mark: | That time of year. |
| Dan: | Yep. |
| Matt: | Got some good stuff over there. |
477 Bourbon
| Dan: | Matt, what have you brought for us as a part of your pick? |
| Matt: | This is the 477 Bourbon. |
| Dan: | 477 bourbon. |
| Matt: | 90 proof, 45%. It’s around $45 to $50 a bottle. This stuff is aged in unused American oak barrels and that’s it. Won the 2019 Denver International Spirits, the 93 points. 2020, the ADI Spirits competition, got a silver. 2021 Denver International, got a gold. They’re out of Greeley, Colorado and they just opened a tasting room in Loveland, I believe. So yeah. |
| Dan: | Never been to Loveland, Colorado. |
| Matt: | That’s what I got on this. I had a cousin that used to live there. At least, I think he lived in Loveland. |
| Chris: | Good buddies lives there. |
| Dan: | Is it a nice town? |
| Chris: | Yeah, it’s the highest mountain that you can ski in Colorado. I think it’s got the highest ski lift, I think. Something like that. |
| Dan: | I think we, Sarah and I, of tentatively booked a trip to Colorado end of October next year, early November. |
| Matt: | Colorado’s a great trip. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | There’s so much stuff to see and do. |
| Dan: | We had a really good time. My sister organized a family vacation over there for Thanksgiving a couple of years ago and it was… We didn’t even ski. We went up to Breckenridge and Sarah and I just walked around the town and did- |
| Matt: | Breckenridge is pretty cool town. |
| Dan: | … Some fun stuff. Yeah. |
| Matt: | It’s expensive. |
| Dan: | We rode the ski lifts, but we never got off and skied. |
| Matt: | Oh, you guys probably went up to the… Oh, it’s the one that you have to ride a ski lift to get to the resort. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | That’s up halfway up the mountain. |
| Dan: | We went up to the resort. We weren’t staying there. We rented a cabin down just a mile outside of town, but it was really cool. |
| Matt: | Yeah, we did that. We did that resort. |
| Mark: | Since nobody else is talking whiskey, give me a second. We’ll come around this, but you have let me go with- |
| Dan: | You bet. We’ll come around. |
| Mark: | Have you seen Crocodile Dundee? |
| Dan: | Yeah, |
| Matt: | It’s been a while. |
| Mark: | “You call that a knife?” |
| Dan: | “You call that a knife?” |
| Mark: | Do you remember the crocodile that was in it? |
| Dan: | There was several of them. |
| Mark: | The big one. |
| Chris: | The one that ate his boat? |
| Dan: | The one he wrestled away from the reporter. |
| Mark: | His name was Burt. Burt just died. |
| Chris: | Oh, man. |
| Dan: | Oh, come on. |
| Matt: | He was a thousand years old. |
| Chris: | At 90 years old. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Jesus. |
| Dan: | I didn’t realize how long crocodiles lived until we were at the zoo a couple of weeks ago. And the zookeeper, we overheard the zookeeper saying that that crocodile is the oldest animal they have at the zoo at 64. |
| Matt: | That’s just a spring chicken of a crocodile. |
| Dan: | Which by the way, didn’t we say yesterday while at the pub on Sunday, that we had a celebrity death. |
| Chris: | Who? |
| Matt: | Oh, we did. And I don’t remember who it was. |
| Chris: | Baseball player. |
| Matt: | Oh yeah. Ricky Henderson. |
| Dan: | Ricky Anderson. |
| Matt: | King of the stolen base. |
| Dan: | What’s the comment? Ricky said, “Ricky out.” Oh, it’s always good. I mean, fresh off their death and we can still make fun of them. |
| Matt: | Yeah, they’re not going to get mad about it. |
| Dan: | He’s not the one that keeps getting paid by the Mets, right? |
| Matt: | No, that’s Bobby Bonilla. |
| Mark: | Bobby Bonilla. |
| Dan: | Bobby… Okay. |
| Matt: | And is it the Mets or the Pirates? |
| Chris: | I thought it was the Mets. |
| Matt: | It might the be the Mets. |
| Chris: | I don’t remember. You should know this. |
| Matt: | I know he- |
| Mark: | I thought it was the Mets. |
| Matt: | I know he played for the Pirates. I just didn’t know which team was his last team. |
| Dan: | How long are the Atlanta Falcons going to have to pay Kirk Cousin? |
| Matt: | For the rest of his life? |
| Chris: | As long as the Broncos have to pay Russell Wilson. Like a year. |
| Dan: | Jesus. Some of these contracts. That’s what makes me so nervous about that Met contract with that player. 10 years. $735 million. |
| Mark: | Juan Soto? |
| Dan: | What if the guy… And it’s all guaranteed. There’s not a clause in there that says that if you get hurt and can’t play the last eight years of your season- |
| Chris: | Are you sure? |
| Dan: | That’s what I assumed guaranteed means. |
| Chris: | Well no, that’s… |
| Mark: | And also they then insure the player for injury. |
| Dan: | Yeah. So an insurance company will pay him out if he gets… Okay. I didn’t even think of that. So rest in peace, Ricky Henderson. |
| Matt: | The first sentence on the back of this bottle label is “Whiskey, because no good story starts with a glass of milk.” It’s pretty accurate. |
| Dan: | God damn it. That might be my spirit animal now. |
| Matt: | Yeah, this stuff’s probably $35 to $45 a bottle, which I think it’s pretty dang good. Very fruity. Nice vanillas. |
| Dan: | I get a lot of vanilla creaminess. |
| Matt: | Super easy to drink. |
| Dan: | Oh, this is like the aftertaste of a cream soda, otherwise known in the industry is a finish. |
| Matt: | The finish. The aftertaste. |
| Dan: | Jesus Christ. |
| Matt: | It’s okay, Dan. |
| Dan: | I need this year to end. |
| Matt: | Just another couple weeks. |
| Dan: | That’s really good. God damn it, Matt. |
| Matt: | I’m pleasantly surprised with this one. |
| Dan: | Is this here or is this your collection? |
| Matt: | This is here. |
| Dan: | Wow. |
| Chris: | This was good. |
| Matt: | Yeah, this is here. $9 for a big fat two ounce port. |
| Dan: | I’d let Jeremiah buy me a bottle of that. |
| Matt: | I’d let him buy me a drink of it. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Hell, I’d just drink some of his. |
| Dan: | Both. All three. All the above. |
| Matt: | Yeah. 1, 2, 3. Go. |
| Dan: | Filled out option D on the Scantron. |
| Matt: | Did you say, “On the Scantron?” |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I haven’t heard that- |
| Dan: | More references to what current generations have no idea what we’re talking about. Do yourself a favor while you’re driving down the road. Pull out your phone and Google ‘Scantron sheet.” |
| Matt: | Maybe at a red light. |
| Dan: | Nope. We live life on the edge. |
| Mark: | I never take my phone out of my pocket when I’m driving. |
| Matt: | I do, but that’s usually because I plug it into the charger. |
| Dan: | I am horrible about it. Absolutely horrible. |
| Matt: | When you have a car that’ll drive you around. Makes it a little easier. |
| Dan: | Yeah, but even then when I don’t have it autopilot… Oh, I’m absolutely horrible about it. All right, Matt, open treasure of the week- |
| Mark: | You don’t watch me use my walker to get back to the restroom and figure out why you shouldn’t text message and drive? |
| Dan: | I know. No, I know why I shouldn’t. I still do it though. Thank you, sir. |
| Matt: | You’re welcome. |
Barrell Whiskey – 33-year Canadian Whiskey
| Dan: | Our unopened treasure of the week? |
| Matt: | This is from our friends at Barrell Whiskey. This is a 33 year French Oak and Oloroso Sherry finished Whiskey. |
| Dan: | Does it have a name to it or is it just the description? |
| Matt: | It’s Barrell’s 33 year. It’s Canadian whiskey. Just- |
| Mark: | I just had my first sip of that first bourbon. |
| Dan: | The 477? |
| Mark: | Yes. That’s really good. |
| Dan: | Yeah, that was good. |
| Mark: | And you’re right, vanilla cream soda. |
| Dan: | That was me. |
| Mark: | Oh, vanilla cream soda finish. |
| Dan: | Don’t give that credit to Chris. |
| Chris: | Oh, so you just said the tasting notes of every single whiskey that comes out… Okay. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I’m taking credit for it. |
| Chris: | Let me guess. This one has- |
| Dan: | Oak. Had some oak. Good. Me, some vanilla. |
| Matt: | Well, this one’s Canadian, so it’ll be a little different. |
| Dan: | I think we’re still talking about the 477 or are you talking about the new one? |
| Chris: | I’m just really just being a smart ass. |
| Matt: | Oh man. |
| Chris: | Because this one is like… This has got some cognac qualities on the nose. |
| Mark: | Yeah, cognac. |
| Chris: | Some cognac. |
| Dan: | By the way, Matt, never… I don’t think I ever heard in my life it pronounced “Cognac.” |
| Matt: | Cognac. |
| Chris: | And [inaudible 00:43:58]- |
| Dan: | Now every time somebody messages me for something in the cognac area, I have to say “Cognac.” So I spell it right in my hand held. |
| Matt: | It’s the easiest way to spell it. |
| Chris: | Is anybody getting those notes, or is it just me? |
| Dan: | What’s that? |
| Chris: | Cognac notes. |
| Dan: | I don’t drink a lot of cognac. |
| Chris: | I don’t because of these notes. That’s… I’m not a super big cognac, but I don’t like the notes. |
| Mark: | I really wanted to say something that when he said that, “Drink a lot of cognac,” but I just didn’t want to go on record of saying it. |
| Matt: | I don’t like cognac. |
| Dan: | Saying what? Now you got to go on record and say it. |
| Mark: | Mark. |
| Chris: | That is your name. |
| Dan: | I’m Dan. We’re leaving that in there. |
| Mark: | Fucker. |
| Chris: | There’s the dill. |
| Mark: | Oh, you’ve got dill. |
| Chris: | Just did. Now it’s gone. Now it’s gone. Dill. Dill. |
| Dan: | Hot. |
| Chris: | Hot. |
| Matt: | Sorry. I won’t warm it up as long next time. |
| Dan: | Thank you. |
| Matt: | Can- |
| Dan: | Yeah, that is up there with the first one with kick and heat. |
| Matt: | So this is a… That can’t be right. 70%? 140 proof? |
| Dan: | No way. |
| Matt: | I don’t think it drinks quite that hot. |
| Chris: | I don’t. |
| Mark: | Kev, have you tried it? |
| Kevin: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Here you go. |
| Chris: | I don’t get any of that. There’s no way that’s one- Really? |
| Matt: | That’s what the label says. |
| Chris: | Man. |
| Dan: | Is that my car going off? |
| Matt: | Might be. |
| Chris: | Can’t you look at like a phone picture? |
| Dan: | What do you think I’m doing? |
| Chris: | I don’t know. |
| Mark: | No, it is not. |
| Matt: | Yeah, this bottle off the shelf runs about $250, which I think this is nice. I could- |
| Mark: | Dan, your lights flash when it does that, right? They’re not flashing. |
| Matt: | I could get in some trouble with this bottle. |
| Chris: | This another one of those ones where I would only have a two, three finger pour and I’d be hammered. |
| Matt: | Just wasted. |
| Chris: | Ham boned. |
| Dan: | So this is- |
| Mark: | I didn’t go to bad. |
| Chris: | I fall down my stairs. |
| Matt: | Again. |
| Chris: | Fall up my stairs. |
| Dan: | The first one we had, the GlenAllachie, was way… I wouldn’t say way, but it was warmer and had a lot more flavor to it. |
| Kevin: | [inaudible 00:46:16]. |
| Mark: | [inaudible 00:46:16]. |
| Dan: | This is just like a step down. It’s a little bit more calm. |
| Chris: | We’re talking about… Mark’s got a story. |
| Dan: | Oh, it’s about you hurting yourself? |
| Mark: | Yes. I was going to bed last night, still had my jeans on and stuff. |
| Chris: | Decent time or was it like- |
| Mark: | Decent time? Like 10:30. |
| Chris: | Okay. |
| Mark: | I think I had two cocktails. I go upstairs, get to the bed and unbuckle my belt. And then you know how you put your toe- |
| Dan: | Slide your pants off? |
| Mark: | You know how you put your toe on the cuff of one pant leg to pull out? Yeah. I got that foot about halfway out and there was this odd gravity surge. |
| Dan: | Down goes Smith. |
| Mark: | Well, luckily it was straight on the bed, but it was like I couldn’t put my foot down. I couldn’t pick it up. I couldn’t do anything. It was like, “Ah.” |
| Dan: | So this was once again Barrell whiskey. 33 year Canadian. Wait, what’s the 33 year? |
| Matt: | That’s how long it’s aged. |
| Dan: | No way. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Thirty- No way. |
| Matt: | Which honestly, I figured it would be- |
| Chris: | That’s older than your girlfriend. |
| Matt: | I figured it’d be- |
| Dan: | It actually is. |
| Matt: | … Way more woody, way more oaky that what it is say. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | And it’s not oaky at all. I mean, you taste the oak, but it’s not overkill. |
| Dan: | Overly oaky. It’s not overaged. Wow. I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m just saying every… Aged 33 years. I mean, look how light that is for 33 years. It’s dark. It’s what I would expect to be a 10 to 12 year. |
| Matt: | Yeah, but most… You would think it’d be even darker. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | But again, they also don’t tell you what the char level of the barrel is. |
| Dan: | Could have been a light char. |
| Matt: | So it may have been like a two or a three. |
| Dan: | Yeah. All right. |
| Chris: | “Luigi pled not guilty to 11 charges.” |
| Matt: | Who? |
| Chris: | Shock. Shock. “Including first degree murder.” |
| Dan: | Who’s Luigi? |
| Chris: | Luigi, the guy that is going to start class warfare in the United States. The CEO killer. |
| Dan: | Oh yeah. We really haven’t even talked about that. |
| Chris: | Yeah, we haven’t. |
| Dan: | Should we? Leave it alone? |
| Matt: | We could. I mean- |
| Dan: | A couple of friends and I had this conversation on Saturday night of, are you okay with it? |
| Mark: | No. |
| Chris: | No. I’m not okay with murder. |
| Dan: | I’m not okay with it. |
| Mark: | I’m not okay with the insurance companies or their CEOs. But you shouldn’t kill anybody. |
| Dan: | I kind of don’t have a problem with it. Well, I think a lot- |
| Mark: | You’re a sick fuck. |
| Dan: | I think a lot of these CEOs have a little bit too much comfort in our society today. And when they make decisions that kill people, directly or indirectly, I think they should be a little bit worried if they’re going to get a gun to the head. |
| Chris: | Then do it by the full extent of the law. |
| Dan: | Yeah. We all know that there’s… |
| Chris: | This and that. |
| Dan: | When you get to that level, you’re immune to our law. You’re immune to our justice system. |
| Mark: | Tell P. Diddy that. |
| Dan: | Let’s talk in five years and find out what happened to him. |
| Mark: | He’ll still be in jail. |
| Dan: | Epstein got off by getting off. |
| Mark: | No he didn’t. |
| Matt: | Well, yeah. |
| Dan: | And everybody else that is supposedly on this list that nobody’s ever seen isn’t going to get anything. |
| Matt: | Well, and you don’t hear anything about Ghislaine, what’s gone on with her. |
| Dan: | Right? Because she’s got plenty of money and she’s going to get away with it. |
| Matt: | She’s still alive. |
| Mark: | She’s in jail. |
| Matt: | She’s in jail. She’s not going to get out of jail because of it. But why didn’t someone off her, or why didn’t she off herself? |
| Chris: | I don’t know, man. When people- |
| Matt: | Like, Epstein did. |
| Chris: | When people start fighting back against the government doing things correctly, for example, this past weekend when they are trying to push through a government budget so people can get paid, they came out with this 1500 page document, which had so much fat and other bullshit that they’re trying to freaking pander. And then you have DOGE, which everybody’s against Elon Musk right now, comes in and says, “No, we are not going to do that.” This is like… “No, we’d rather not pay people and show what pieces of you guys are.” And so they take this $1,500… Or $1500. 1500 page document down to 183 pages. |
| Matt: | How do you do that? |
| Chris: | Because there’s so much bullshit in it. |
| Dan: | What do they call it? Pork barrel funding? |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | It’s all shit that- |
| Chris: | It’s like, “Hey, we’re going to give this person $150,000 dollars to research if freaking Warner Brothers cartoons was good or bad for kids.” |
| Dan: | Yeah, it’s all shit. They attach these things to bills, which is the overall reason why bills don’t get passed is that when you’ve got a whatever, a funding bill for Ukraine, but in order for the senator to approve it, you have to give him $300,000 in military aid or whatever. |
| Matt: | In Ukrainian cash. |
| Dan: | Right. It’s something else you have to do. There’s so much layers of to this stuff that… It needs to be in the Constitution or the Bill of the Rights or whatever the correct piece of paper is that says that if it’s a law that addresses this, it can only address this. |
| Chris: | Do I like the awareness that the murder has brought up? Yes. Do I like the reason why? Absolutely not. |
| Dan: | Yeah. It’s a shitty situation our country is in, but we all know it. If you got enough money in this country, you’re basically immune. Look at any politician. |
| Matt: | Could be. Well, look at Trump. |
| Dan: | That’s what I’m saying about politicians. Look at any politician. |
| Chris: | Allegedly. |
| Matt: | Yeah, allegedly. |
| Dan: | Look at Hollywood. Look at massive CEOs. They’re too important that we’re not going to prosecute them. I… Well, again, I don’t agree with murder. |
| Mark: | You just said four minutes ago that you did. |
| Chris: | You kind of did. You seemed okay with it. |
| Dan: | Right? I’m a little conflicted in it. But- |
| Mark: | There can be no conflict. Wrong is wrong, and what they’re doing is wrong, I agree. But killing somebody is wrong. |
| Matt: | God, it’d be a hell of a rush though, wouldn’t it? |
| Dan: | I wouldn’t know. |
| Chris: | I don’t know, man. Maybe for the split second that you pull that trigger, but then after me personally, there would never be a second for the rest of my life that I wouldn’t be thinking about that second. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | So for me, that is not- |
| Matt: | It’d still be a rush. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it would be a rush, but it would definitely be overshadowed by my thoughts for the rest of my life. |
| Dan: | Yeah, it’s kind of- |
| Chris: | Like “Let’s do whippets.” |
| Dan: | I was just talking- |
| Chris: | “Fucking what?” |
| Dan: | I was just talking before we started- |
| Chris: | “[inaudible 00:53:29] for 10 seconds.” “Oh, it was awesome.” |
| Dan: | … Before we started the podcast that I’ve been watching a bunch of World War II stuff lately. And from the bomber that drops the bombs. Is he a murderer? |
| Matt: | Technically yes. |
| Dan: | Technically yes. To the soldier that’s down on the battlefield and fighting hand-to-hand combat and kills a guy. |
| Chris: | Murder is a tough equation because… That’s tough. |
| Dan: | It is. |
| Chris: | That’s a tough one. |
| Matt: | I would have an easier time calling the pilot that drops the bomb a murderer than the guy that’s fighting for his life in the trenches. |
| Chris: | Well, I mean… If we’re- |
| Matt: | That’s… He’s got eminent danger 200 yards in front of him. The pilot doesn’t have for eminent danger. |
| Chris: | If we’re… Murder is wrong. Killing is not wrong. So if we’re going talk moralistic, then let’s go to the thing that a lot of people judge their moralistic abilities on. That’s literally the Ten Commandments. Let’s be real. So Ten Commandments says, “Thou shalt not murder,” not kill. So- |
| Mark: | No, it doesn’t. |
| Chris: | Yes, it does. It translates to “Thou shalt not murder.” Murder, not kill. |
| Mark: | You evidently read the different Ten Commandments than I do. |
| Chris: | That’s what it translates to from the Hebrew. “Thou shalt not murder.” |
| Dan: | In my same kind of tone, I’m thinking about- |
| Chris: | It’s different. |
| Dan: | … The bombardier that pulls the trigger or the bombs- |
| Chris: | Or the scientist that makes it. |
| Dan: | … As the CEO of a health insurance company that creates policies that doesn’t allow people to get health insurance based because it makes it more profitable for them. |
| Kevin: | Y’all remember the French Revolution, too? |
| Dan: | Kevin said, “Should we not remember the French Revolution?” I don’t know much about the French Revolution, but yeah. Anyways, yeah, we’ll leave you on that. Everybody have a Merry Christmas. Matt, you want to close this out? |
| Matt: | Have a safe and Merry Christmas. Don’t drink too much and fuck them tacos. |
