Podcast Transcription
| Dan: | Episode 236 of Library Pubcast. |
| Matt: | Jesus. |
| Dan: | This episode is also our first episode without our 36th president alive. |
| Matt: | Oh, man. Jimmy Carter. |
| Dan: | Jimmy Carter finally passed. |
| Mark: | And for the people that had him on the 2024 Deadpool, they’re all going, “Whew.” |
| Dan: | You got to imagine, he was one of the most popular picks. |
| Matt: | Well, I don’t see how he couldn’t have been. |
| Dan: | I mean, he’s been the most popular pick for three years. |
| Mark: | He’s been in hospice for like five years. |
| Dan: | Fuck. It’s pretty close. Who do you think is a more popular pick, him or Keith Rodgers? |
| Matt: | Keith Richards? |
| Dan: | Richards. Thank you. |
| Matt: | Probably Carter. |
| Dan: | I would say Carter also. |
| Matt: | Keith Richards is still on two feet. |
| Dan: | A, he’s not in hospice, to Mark’s point. |
| Matt: | Yeah, he’s still on two feet doing stuff. |
| Dan: | Rest in peace. The peanut man. |
| Matt: | Peanut president. |
| Mark: | And Linda Lavin died this weekend. |
| Dan: | Linda who? |
| Mark: | Linda Lavin. |
| Dan: | She played Alice. Oh, in the Brady Bunch? |
| Matt: | On Alice’s Diner. |
| Mark: | No, Alice was the name of the show. It was sitcom back in- |
| Dan: | Alice in Wonderland. |
| Matt: | No- |
| Mark: | No, Alice was the name of the show. |
| Dan: | It was just Alice. |
| Matt: | It’s the “kiss my grits”. It’s not that lady, it’s that show. |
| Dan: | Got it. |
| Matt: | I think Flo is already dead. |
| Dan: | That must not have been TGI Friday. |
| Matt: | No. Yeah, she was on a bunch of stuff back in the sixties and seventies. |
| Dan: | Also, lost Brian Gumbel this weekend. |
| Matt: | Yeah, really? |
| Dan: | I think on Friday. |
| Matt: | Brian Gumbel died. |
| Dan: | Yeah, they announced his passing. His family announced, I think he lost his battle with cancer Friday afternoon. |
| Matt: | I guess I didn’t even know he had cancer. |
| Dan: | I don’t think a lot of people did. I think he suffered in silence. |
| Matt: | That would suck. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Why? |
| Matt: | The alliterations good. |
| Mark: | If you got cancer, why tell people? They’ll treat you different. |
| Dan: | I think I can see it both ways. I think the argument in the other side of that is that if Matt had cancer and I didn’t know it, I would probably go a little bit more… And if Matt had cancer and I knew it, I would probably go a little more out of my way to spend some time with you. |
| Matt: | Knock on wood. |
| Dan: | Yeah. If you didn’t, I would do the typical thing that we do as humans and I’ll see him next week. |
| Matt: | See you when I see you. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | I just went through this with the guy that… Stan Caesar that passed away, that was my mentor at the racetracks. A great announcer. And everybody knew that he had cancer and that he was fighting it, but they didn’t realize how bad it was and I had that conversation with several people of like, “I think we need to tell them that he’s not doing great and that if you want to go and see him, you need to go and see him and talk to him one last time.” I was shouted down, not shouted down, but said, “No, we’re not going to go that direction.” |
| Matt: | “Shut the fuck up, Dan!” |
| Dan: | That’s not what he wants. |
| Matt: | “How dare you have feelings, dick.” |
| Dan: | Right, exactly. All right. Brighter side of things. We’ve got a Whiskey Wednesday coming up, kicking off the first of the year. We’re not doing it on New Year’s Day, right? |
| Matt: | No. |
| Mark: | The eighth. |
| Dan: | So this is one of those rare occasions where we don’t do it the first Wednesday of the month because nobody’s going to want to come in and drink… Well, maybe not nobody, but it’s a Dalmore vertical featuring the Port Wood, the fourteen-year, the fifteen-year, the eighteen-year, and the cigar malt. |
| Mark: | That is what I need to order. |
| Dan: | And possibly the twenty-five-year. |
| Mark: | Fuck no. Why not send it here? |
| Matt: | It’s so good. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Come on, let’s kick off the year with a nice scotch. |
| Matt: | With a bang. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | I’ll tell you what, I’ll start the tasting. It’s four to five bucks. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Mark: | If you all want to do 25 also, it’s 90. |
| Dan: | Oh. |
| Matt: | And that’s fair. |
| Dan: | That’s fair. |
| Matt: | That’s still at a good price. |
| Dan: | 75? |
| Mark: | 90 and I’m giving it a discount. |
| Dan: | I think you should offer it that way. If they want to try it, I honestly think that it’s going to be one of those plants in the timeshare conference, if you get one person to do it, everybody’s going to do it. |
| Matt: | This hotel’s great. Yeah. No. |
| Dan: | That’s a plant. Anyways. |
| Matt: | Clickbait. |
| Dan: | That’s coming up January 8th. Starts at 45 bucks for five great Dalmores, possibly six. |
| Matt: | I’ll tell you, when I saw the price, I was like, “That can’t be right.” |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | And you figured it out too. It’s right. |
| Matt: | I redid all the math on it. 45 bucks is… |
| Dan: | Wow. |
| Matt: | And that’s a hell of a price. |
| Dan: | I love the story of Dalmore. Chris, do you have a moment to tell the story of the Dalmore? Maybe just a brief overview. |
| Chris: | Sure. King was hunting, almost got ran over through by a whatever, deer. |
| Mark: | Elk. |
| Chris: | Elk, deer thing and then- |
| Dan: | Stag. |
| Chris: | Stag, whatever. And then- |
| Dan: | Just got ran over through. |
| Chris: | Yeah. And then he didn’t. And the person that saved him… |
| Mark: | The pro-ginger of the Dalmore clan shot the deer and killed it right before it hit the king. So the king gave the Dalmore clan the right to use the royal elk as their crest. |
| Dan: | By the way, your enunciation is very nice today. |
| Mark: | I am working very hard at it because it is getting worse. Just like my walking. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I could have just played the commercial. |
| Dan: | I thought I’d get Chris involved. |
| Matt: | Here you go. |
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| Dan: | That commercial is exactly what marketing needs to be. |
| Matt: | It was probably one of my favorite commercials we did. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | It’s awesome. It tells a great story. It’s clean. That’s one of my prideful commercials. |
| Mark: | One of the things about that commercial though is it was long time ago when we were advertising 2000 bottles of whiskey. |
| Dan: | I know. I told somebody yesterday we probably have, in the building, 3000 bottles. |
| Matt: | Oh, easily. |
| Mark: | More than that. |
| Dan: | Well, I just took a shot because typically I say about 2000 to 2,500. I think by the way that back room looks, 3 is a safe number. |
| Matt: | There’s a few bottles back there. |
| Dan: | Although we are 9 bottles of whiskey shorter after the weekend and Kevin’s got a lot of beers to put on tap today. We got very blowy over the weekend. |
| Matt: | Only on a good weekend. |
| Dan: | Gurgle, gurgle. Speaking of good weekends, Mark, how was yours? |
| Mark: | Nebraska finally figured out how to win a game. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I just read about the game. Totally. |
| Mark: | They worked really hard at pissing down the leg in the last five minutes. |
| Dan: | They fucking tried. |
| Matt: | They sure did. |
| Dan: | Sarah and I were sitting there watching it- |
| Mark: | You know what? At the end of the game it was a W. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Sarah and I were sitting there watching it and I want to say it was right after that blocked punt for a touchdown and I said, “They’re going to fuck this away.” |
| Mark: | Yes. Everybody got that. |
| Dan: | They’re going to fuck it away. |
| Matt: | I was waiting for it. |
| Dan: | They tried. Oh my God, they tried. |
| Chris: | I was driving home because I thought that game was freaking over and then I’m listening to it on the radio. I’m like, “Oh my God. Really?” |
| Dan: | But you know what? That’s something you haven’t seen out of Nebraska for a long time. It was all but the last four minutes Nebraska dominated that game. |
| Matt: | Jerule’s like, “Kneel the ball, kneel the ball. Fuck! Kneel the ball.” |
| Dan: | And also, just to be an Iowa critic of Nebraska. What the was Raiola doing taking a delay a game? |
| Chris: | I don’t know if that was intentional. I don’t know. |
| Dan: | God bless Sarah, she calls him foe Holmes. |
| Chris: | Foe Holmes. That’s awesome. |
| Dan: | But I think he was trying to be… And at the end of the game, the play clock was six seconds longer than the game clock. So you didn’t need to take a delay a game. |
| Matt: | No. |
| Dan: | Walk back five yards, wait for the game clock to run or the play clock to run down again and snap it and then kneel it. What was the point? |
| Matt: | With the way Nebraska’s luck goes, I’m fine with the delay of game call. |
| Dan: | This is the last of it. |
| Matt: | Let’s not run any plays. |
| Mark: | We did not fumble. |
| Matt: | No. Yeah, let’s not throw an interception. Let’s not fumble. Let’s not fuck up somehow. Let’s- |
| Dan: | The football IQ is difficult for a lot of people, including me. I’ve watched Mahomes a couple of times when the- |
| Matt: | Who? |
| Dan: | … game clock was… Patrick’s Mahomes. |
| Matt: | Raiola? Oh, Mahomes? Raiola? |
| Dan: | No, I’m talking about Mahomes. |
| Matt: | Okay. We went to pronoun. |
| Dan: | I’ve watched him when the game clock was positive by a couple of seconds versus what it would’ve been for the three or four downs on the play clock. Game clock still would’ve had more time on him. So when he snapped it, he didn’t immediately kneel. He stepped back a couple of yards and then when the defense was there, then he kneeled and he wore time off that light. |
| Matt: | It ruins his rushing stats. |
| Dan: | I don’t understand the delay of game. I don’t know if anybody can explain it to me, please. |
| Matt: | Go Big Red. |
| Chris: | I don’t know if there’s any- |
| Dan: | I know. When it happened, I was like… |
| Chris: | Freshman. |
| Dan: | “What?” They have the same quarterback coach. |
| Matt: | Yes. |
| Dan: | Mahomes and Raiola. |
| Matt: | Offseason coach, yes. |
| Dan: | Yeah. So that’s why you see a lot of these kinds of strategical things that… Because they’re training with the same dude. Anyways. Hell of a win for Iowa State. I walked away from that game really happy for them and just thinking, “Fuck you, announcers.” They kept putting up shit that just absolutely took a shit on Iowa State. |
| Matt: | That’s easy to do. |
| Dan: | The graphic that really made me mad was, it was a side-by-side graphic comparing three categories. Year of establishment, eighteen-something for Iowa State, early nineteen-something for Miami. Number of national championships, Iowa State, zero, Miami, six. Number of first round draft picks, Iowa State, 2, Miami, 60. What the fuck is the point of that? |
| Matt: | What was the deal with Miami’s quarterback there at the end? He sets that passing record and then refused to go back in. |
| Dan: | I thought it was the… Was it the quarter? I thought it was a wide receiver. |
| Matt: | It was one of them. |
| Dan: | He’s supposed to be like a top five draft pick and he decided at halftime that he wasn’t going to come back out and play the second half. |
| Matt: | Who the fuck does that? |
| Dan: | If I was his teammate, especially when you’ve got that last drive, you’ve got 50 seconds left to win the Bowl game and he’s like, “You guys don’t matter to me anymore.” |
| Mark: | I was reading to something the other day, Tennessee, who was in the playoffs lost 17 players to the portal. Now, how are they going to play a playoff game? |
| Dan: | I don’t know if it was Tennessee, but I heard one team forfeited their Bowl game. |
| Mark: | Marshall forfeited their Bowl game because they lost 24 players. |
| Matt: | Can’t even feel the team when you lose that many players. |
| Mark: | On a 54 man roster, you lose 24, you got 30 guys. |
| Dan: | Yeah. You’re not putting… They forfeited it. That sucks. Mark, anything else going on this weekend? |
| Mark: | We were busier than hell. Matt got his ass kicked on Friday. |
| Matt: | Yes. Yes, we did. |
| Mark: | And I almost use that M word. The Saturday night bartenders got busy too. |
| Matt: | Hopefully not with each other. |
| Mark: | Ooh. |
| Dan: | I didn’t hear any stories. All right. Anyways. Matt, how was your weekend? |
| Matt: | Pretty uneventful. I had a little cold all weekend. |
| Chris: | Me too, dude. |
| Matt: | I just kind of sat at home and coughed and hacked and that was pretty much my Saturday. Yesterday I came up, had a couple drinks, watched a little football. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Drinking Pimm’s. |
| Matt: | Yeah, I love it. |
| Mark: | I almost asked for a sip because I have never tried Pimm’s. |
| Matt: | I think it’s good. It kind of tastes like Angostura bitters. |
| Mark: | Okay. So it- |
| Matt: | It’s got a little tinge to it and it’s a real easy drinker, it’s a little lower proof. I was trying to drink responsibly yesterday, which I still wound up a little intoxicated. |
| Mark: | How is the gout doing? |
| Matt: | Much better now that I’m not drinking the yellow beer. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Mark, you want to pull that microphone closer? |
| Matt: | Much better. |
| Dan: | Just turn it a little bit. |
| Matt: | So yeah, my toes feel great as long as I stay away from big box beer, which I can drink the dark stuff and it doesn’t hurt my toes. |
| Mark: | Which is weird. |
| Matt: | Makes no sense to me. But what can you do? |
| Dan: | Yeah, I got to start getting healthy in the new year too. It’s about time to get my- |
| Matt: | I’m going to jog from the second to the fourth and then I’m going to quit. |
| Dan: | Yeah, you should get a gym membership while you’re at it. |
| Matt: | I probably will. I’ll probably find the most expensive gym. Pay for the full year and never go |
| Chris: | No, go like five days. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | For the first week. |
| Dan: | Like every other American does. What is it like? 80% of new year memberships are canceled by the 1st of February. |
| Matt: | Just a waste. |
| Mark: | But then they make it hard for you to cancel it. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Well, and there’s a lot of them that’ll do like to sign up for a dollar and then you pay whatever the 24 bucks a month after that. But what they don’t tell you is that you owe the whole thing up front and it’s non-refundable. |
| Matt: | There’s a cancellation fee usually. So I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I look pretty good. |
| Dan: | I try to stay active. |
| Matt: | … for an old guy. |
| Dan: | Chris? Bengals won. |
| Chris: | We did. |
| Dan: | Huskers won. |
| Chris: | We did. It was weird. I honestly totally forgot about the Huskers because of that game. That was a- |
| Dan: | You’re not used to them playing in a Bowl game. |
| Chris: | No, I’m not used to them… Yeah, it’s just weird. That was a full-on good day of football. I was not expecting any of it, to be honest with you. |
| Dan: | Which was another one that they kept talking about, Nebraska’s first Bowl game win since 2015. Nebraska’s first winning season since 2016. |
| Matt: | Dude, if that would’ve been a drinking game, people all over the state would’ve been dead. |
| Dan: | Oh my God. Deader. |
| Chris: | That was a fun Saturday. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Yeah. It was just fun. |
| Dan: | It was beautiful on Saturday too. |
| Chris: | Gorgeous. Yeah, it was- |
| Mark: | It was really cloudy and foggy early, but then by about 11:30, 12 the sun came out. The golf course that I drive by, I went by at 1 in the afternoon or 2 and it was packed. |
| Matt: | Oh, I bet. |
| Dan: | For those outside the area, it’s been very foggy since about Wednesday. |
| Matt: | Yeah. Non-stop. |
| Dan: | Yeah. And finally, the sun came out on Saturday and I thought, “Sweet. The fogs gone.” Nope. The fog came right back Saturday night. |
| Matt: | It was foggy as shit most of the day, yesterday too. |
| Dan: | And then foggy yesterday. And it’s really weird, I should grab the video off my car, I’m of course driving home last night, crossing the bridge into Iowa, right at the bank of the river on the Iowa side is a wall of fog because it’s all a low-lining area, so it just rolled in and stayed there. |
| Matt: | That was creepy. |
| Mark: | Keep that in mind, we are in Nebraska, it’s December 30th. I’ll take fog. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it’s supposed to snow this afternoon. |
| Mark: | Yeah- |
| Matt: | Three inches. |
| Dan: | We’ll see. |
| Chris: | It’s just going to be on grass so they said. Yeah. |
| Mark: | Because it’s not supposed to be less than freezing. |
| Dan: | I don’t really have a lot for the weekend. It was pretty chill. I had a lot I wanted to do on Saturday, but after eating lunch I just turned into a fucking couch potato and just laid on the couch. |
| Chris: | It was great. It was a great weekend to do that, man. It was just a busy week last week. |
| Matt: | It’s the holidays. |
| Dan: | The holidays are so exhausting. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | And I ask Sarah this every time, “Why do we do this to ourselves?” Why do you always- |
| Chris: | Because you love family. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | You feel the obligation to family. |
| Dan: | Maybe it was because we were kids, but I don’t remember it being like this on my parents when we were kids. |
| Matt: | I can only imagine the people with divorced parents that have to do multiple, multiple Christmases. |
| Dan: | That’s us. We had- |
| Matt: | Two’s just fine. Two, you can handle. |
| Dan: | The only two Christmases we had were her mom and then her dad. |
| Matt: | Yeah. You didn’t go see your folks? |
| Dan: | We did it on Thanksgiving. |
| Matt: | Oh, nice. |
| Dan: | My sister was going to be on vacation or something. |
| Matt: | I do like a nice vacation. |
| Dan: | Chiefs had a handed win. Probably their most confident win all year long. |
| Matt: | Not Green Bay. |
| Dan: | I don’t even know if they won by two touchdowns. Oh, yeah. Green Bay last night. God-damn it. |
| Matt: | Just garbage. |
| Chris: | I’m mad that I didn’t watch that game. |
| Matt: | Jordan Love MVP. |
| Dan: | Jordan Love MVP. |
| Chris: | Burrow MVP. If they get to the playoffs, dude, tell me that he should not be the MVP. He leads in all categories with the exception of completions percentage, which Lamar’s freaking killing with that. But the next closest person in yards is freaking Baker Mayfield with 4,200. Joe has 4,600, like over 400 yards. |
| Dan: | You got to get the wins though. |
| Matt: | I thought we’d never hear that about Baker Mayfield. |
| Chris: | Dude, I’ve always liked Baker Mayfield. I thought that the Browns really, really screwed him. |
| Matt: | He’s a good quarterback. He just doesn’t- |
| Chris: | Gun slinger is what he was. |
| Matt: | He doesn’t have the supporting cast of what a lot of the other quarterbacks do. |
| Chris: | This is going to piss you off, but do you know who he reminds me of? Fricking Brett Favre. He’s a gunslinger like him, he has that attitude like him. I just- |
| Matt: | He kind of has a “fuck you” attitude. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Do you think he’s got a knack for fraud? |
| Chris: | Maybe down the line. Who doesn’t? |
| Matt: | Give him time. |
| Dan: | Is he sending dick pics? |
| Chris: | I don’t know. That’s a weird dick though. That’s a weird dick. He has a weird dick. |
| Dan: | All right. I got nothing else. You guys got anything else? |
| Matt: | No. |
| Chris: | Go Bengals. |
| Dan: | I watched Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea this weekend because I haven’t seen it in a while. |
| Chris: | Is that one of your favorite movies? |
| Dan: | It’s just one of those movies that- |
| Mark: | It’s so… The first one, right? |
| Dan: | Yeah. Oh, yeah. |
| Mark: | It’s so hokey. God. |
| Dan: | The Captain Nemo, when he gets shot on the island and he gets carried back to the boat, “The Nautilus is going down with me because I’m dying.” And is it Michael Douglas or Kirk Douglas? |
| Mark: | Kirk. |
| Dan: | Kirk. I can’t keep the two names straight. |
| Matt: | I did watch Red One again. |
| Dan: | Oh, you did? |
| Chris: | It’s pretty all right. |
| Matt: | I just can’t get over how jacked- |
| Chris: | I know dude. |
| Matt: | And I can never remember his name. |
| Dan: | JK Simmons. |
| Matt: | Yeah. I want to call him J.K. Rowling, but that is not him. But he’s jacked. He’s like almost 80 and he’s just ripped. I want what he’s on. |
| Dan: | He’s still my favorite. He might be on CGI. |
| Chris: | No, he’s not. He is jacked bro. |
| Matt: | He is jacked. |
| Chris: | Hearing his interview of why he got jacked. He’s going to be jacked till he’s dead. He’s like, “I turned 60 and I just wanted to work out for the rest of my life and be ripped.” That’s what- |
| Matt: | When you look at before-and-after pictures, he was just a little skinny guy beforehand and now he’s huge. |
| Chris: | Just ripped. |
| Matt: | He was lifting with The Rock and they’re comparable. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I think my favorite performance of his has got to be Whiplash. And if you’ve never seen the movie Whiplash… |
| Chris: | I feel like I have. |
| Dan: | Take two hours out of your life and watch it. That’s when Miles Teller jumped on my radar and I was like, “Guy, that kid’s a great actor.” |
| Matt: | That kid, it’s the drum movie. |
| Chris: | Oh, yeah. I have seen that. Yeah, that is a great movie. |
| Dan: | The psychological shit, I … That last five minutes trying to understand what he was doing to the drummer kid. Was he admitting that the kid’s good? Was he continuing to fuck with him? I keep watching it and I change my opinion almost every time. But it’s just one of those great things. But anyways- |
| Chris: | I got caught up on Skeleton Crew. |
| Dan: | I haven’t started yet. |
| Chris: | Dude, it’s so good. It’s so good. It’s just good. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Sarah’s kind of mad at me because she’s been asking to get Netflix for a couple of months and I’m like, “No, we don’t need any more streaming services. We don’t have the money. I’m being very tight on our budget.” Tuesday, I woke up Wednesday morning and bought Netflix because that’s what the Chiefs were playing on. |
| Matt: | What a dick. |
| Dan: | And literally, Tuesday night she’s like, “Can we get Netflix because I really want to watch this movie?” And I was like, “No, we can’t get Netflix.” And the next morning it dawned on me and I was like, “Hey, I think we’re going to get Netflix.” And she’s like, “Oh, okay. That’s awesome.” And then immediately I turned it on and went to the game and she goes, “Wait, is it because the Chiefs are only playing on here?” I said, “No, no, no. Get back to the kitchen.” |
| Matt: | “You shut up and bake me a pie. Go feed the chickens.” |
| Chris: | I didn’t have any problem streaming that game. |
| Dan: | I didn’t either. |
| Chris: | Everybody was bitching about it, it was buffering. I did not have a single problem whatsoever. I’m like- |
| Dan: | As the tech guy, I reply back, “Show me your system and I’ll tell you if it’s a streaming problem or not.” And 9 times out of 10, it’s their computer. |
| Chris: | Dude, but I had immense problems with the boxing match. |
| Dan: | The fight. Yeah. |
| Chris: | I had tons of problems. |
| Matt: | You figured there weren’t a billion people trying to watch the Chiefs play. |
| Dan: | Half a billion. |
| Matt: | You figure it’s half a free Tyson fight, everyone’s going to watch it. They want to get their money back on those- |
| Chris: | But they say it peaked out at 26 million or something like that. That’s a lot of people. |
| Dan: | And I watched it on a full-fledged, we never had a single issue. And it probably has a lot to do… There’s so many factors, where you’re at, if you have Cox or whatever, streaming internet service, where you’re at from the main hub in your neighborhood, you’ll see the boxes around the neighborhoods. If you’re one of the farthest ones away, the internet’s going to be worse for you. And there’s nothing really they can do about it. It’s just the way shit works. |
| Chris: | Super happy with FiberFirst. |
| Dan: | Are you? |
| Chris: | Yeah, I am. It’s like seeing that- |
| Matt: | Is it cheaper than Cox? |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Can’t be any more expensive. |
| Chris: | It’s 75 bucks for a gig. |
| Dan: | Oh, shit. That reminds me, I got to pay my bill. They keep texting me. |
| Chris: | Yeah, tell them you’re going to go with Fiber and they’ll give you a gig speed for 70 bucks. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Chris: | Just run that by them. Like, “Hey, I got a buddy that just said that you guys offered him $70 for a gig and…” |
| Dan: | Deal. Did you get a code or anything? |
| Chris: | No. |
| Dan: | Referral code? |
| Chris: | This is why Cox pissed me off because I went… We’ll get to Whiskey. I’m sorry. But we- |
| Mark: | Someday. |
| Chris: | Someday. But we were getting this done. It was being installed and so I called them two weeks before- |
| Dan: | I think we talked about this on a podcast. |
| Chris: | Did we talk about this? Okay. |
| Dan: | Either we did it in person or I think we did it on the podcast and they didn’t give a shit. |
| Chris: | Yeah, no. They were like, “Nope, nope. It’s 150 bucks if you want to go up to the next thing.” I’m like, “Okay, well, I’m leaving you guys literally in two weeks.” “Okay, cool.” All right. So then I call to cancel and they’re like, “Oh, we got $70 for you for a gig.” I’m like, “Bro. I stayed with you-“ |
| Matt: | Its a little late. Should have done this two weeks ago. |
| Chris: | So when I went in to return this stuff just last Friday or whatever it was, they’re like, “Oh, hey, can I call you in a week? Because we’ve heard bad things about Fiber First.” And I was like, “Make it a month and a half and you have a deal. Call me in a month and a half, see how it is.” But dude, I like seeing 1T when my downloads for games or whatever it is. 1G. It’s crazy. |
| Dan: | Another show I got to recommend real quick before we get to Mark’s whiskey, is he just beats his head on the bar top. |
| Matt: | He just gets up and leaves. |
| Dan: | Yeah. On Apple Plus, it’s a show called Dark Matter. |
| Chris: | I tried to get into that the first. |
| Dan: | Dude! |
| Chris: | I tried to, just a little bit to [inaudible 00:24:38]. |
| Dan: | These shows, Mark, I think you’d like it. It’s a more scientifically correct version of almost every Star Trek episode where there’s alternate realities. |
| Chris: | Wow. |
| Dan: | It does take a little bit to get into, but it is so fricking good. I stayed up until three o’clock this morning finishing the season. I had to see how it finished. But it deals with multiple realities and the way they do it, the way they unfold. And the acting is great. Jennifer Connelly is in it. |
| Chris: | My, my, my look at the time. |
| Dan: | It’s worth it just to watch for Jennifer Connelly. Am I right? Am right, guys? |
| Matt: | Sure. |
| Dan: | Mark, what do you got? |
Murray & McDavid Benchmark Series Glentauchers 13 Year Old
| Mark: | This is another in the benchmark series from Murray and McDavid. It is a Glentauchers Pedro Ximenez cask finished Speyside whiskey. |
| Dan: | That’s a mouthful. |
| Chris: | There’s lots of malt. |
| Mark: | Well, that’s all I know about it. |
| Chris: | There’s lots of malt. Yeah. You get malt? |
| Matt: | I honestly haven’t even picked up my glass yet. Whoa. Yes. |
| Chris: | Yeah, right. |
| Matt: | Kind of multi molasses. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I get molasses. On the nose. |
| Chris: | Molasses milk ball. Malted milk ball, which I love malted milk balls. It’s one of my favorite candies. I don’t know why. |
| Dan: | Wow. |
| Matt: | Were you praying? Were you feeling the spirit? |
| Dan: | Jesus! |
| Mark: | That is good. |
| Dan: | I was going to say, “Touch me,” but he didn’t. |
| Matt: | Wow. Okay then. |
| Dan: | They passed me over. |
| Matt: | You must be Catholic. |
| Dan: | Presbyterian. |
| Chris: | Catholic light. |
| Matt: | Whatever works. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Catholic light. |
| Mark: | No, that’s Luther. All the religion, half of the guilt. |
| Chris: | But I mean they got crazy sacraments too. I guess they only have two. Presbyterian does have… Anyway, nevermind. |
| Dan: | That has got a rye like bite. |
| Matt: | That’s yummy. |
| Chris: | Kind of made the middle of my tongue go numb. |
| Dan: | I can see that. |
| Mark: | It is very hot for a scotch. |
| Chris: | What is it? |
| Mark: | 112 |
| Dan: | Wow. |
| Chris: | I didn’t get the heat, heat. I’m only noticing this because my tongue is numb and we’ve had way more powerful stuff that has not made my… So I thought maybe it’s just the first whiskey of the Monday morning, but… That’s pretty good. What’s the cost? |
| Matt: | $17 a pour. |
| Chris: | That’s… Okay. |
| Mark: | That is really good. |
| Chris: | Glentauchers. |
| Dan: | Better with the… |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | It lets a little more of the fruit come out. |
| Dan: | And by the way, for those of you that are new to the podcast, what I meant to say there when Mark knew what I was asking, kind of put a little dropper to a water in it. Want to say rest in peace to a nearly full glass of Oban 14. |
| Matt: | Oh, man. |
| Dan: | Just to paint a little bit of a picture for you, yesterday, what I can only surmise is a Spanish descent mother came in with her son and his girlfriend, could have been the daughter, but it felt like it was a girlfriend and they ordered two full pours… well, they actually ordered a pour and a half pour of Oban 14. And the son asked for a half pour because he didn’t want to get crazy and this is the part when I wanted to take her home because she said, “No, son of mine drinks a half a pour.” |
| Chris: | Oh my God. |
| Mark: | I like her. |
| Chris: | Awesome, awesome, awesome. |
| Dan: | He kind of looked at her and he knew, I knew she’s not the kind of mom you say no to. So I poured the full pour. I would say, over-exaggerating, might’ve taken three drinks. |
| Matt: | Three sips. |
| Dan: | Yes. And then left. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Now, this is something that I would like society to change for this exact reason. It should not be socially unacceptable to drink the rest of that whiskey, but it is. |
| Matt: | It is medically unacceptable. |
| Dan: | Yes. And by the way, we did check the proof to see if perhaps it was hot enough to kill any bacteria, but it was not. And so unfortunately a $20 pour of… Well, it was probably $17 left of a Oban 14 went down the drain. |
| Chris: | That’s dumb. |
| Mark: | Especially since Oban 14 is such good whiskey. |
| Chris: | The daughter or the mom? |
| Dan: | The mom drank all hers. |
| Chris: | Why didn’t she give the rest to the- |
| Dan: | I don’t know. It was still sitting there. |
| Matt: | They all just up and marched on out. |
| Dan: | I brought it over to the corner crew and it was Matt, Renee, Evan and Hannah wasn’t there. |
| Matt: | The corner crew. |
| Dan: | The corner crew, and sat it down and slid it in front of Matt and he explained to him what it was and Renee’s like, “Well, just drink it.” And I’m like, “Well, you drink it. I’m not drinking it.” |
| Chris: | Why are you guys so scared? |
| Dan: | Because it’s not hot enough to kill the bacteria. |
| Matt: | No. I don’t want to take a chance on getting face herpes. |
| Chris: | Well, I mean, did he have any visible sores on his face? |
| Dan: | He might’ve been in remission. |
| Chris: | They have to be open and pussy. |
| Matt: | That’s not accurate. But if I’m getting face herpes, I don’t want to get them from a stranger’s glass of scotch. |
| Dan: | If it was that- |
| Matt: | I want a good story. |
| Dan: | If it was that GlenAllachie 33- |
| Chris: | That’s a pretty good story. |
| Dan: | That might be a different story. |
| Chris: | This is a pretty good story. |
| Dan: | That GlenAllachie 33, if there’s a half a glass left of that- |
| Matt: | I’m probably drinking that. |
| Dan: | I would probably drink that. |
| Matt: | I’ll take my chances on it. |
| Chris: | It’s better than any other herpes story. “Oh, I went to Vegas and came home and it follows me home.” |
| Dan: | How’d you get herpes? It was for an Oban 14 that I could have got for 20 bucks. |
| Matt: | It was a- |
| Dan: | Well, here’s $600 worth of treatment. |
| Chris: | It was a leftover drink from this Mexican fella. |
| Dan: | Hispanic. No, he was Spanish. |
| Chris: | Spanish fella. |
| Dan: | They definitely seemed Spanish. Anyways, so that’s the Oban 14 story. Rest in peace that glass of Oban 14. |
| Matt: | It was a little disappointing. |
| Dan: | Which Oban 14 is one of the best inexpensive scotches out there. |
| Matt: | It’s just nice. |
| Dan: | 20 bucks for a full pour. It is so good. |
| Matt: | Easy to drink. |
| Dan: | So good. |
| Matt: | Very flavorful. |
| Chris: | This sounds good. |
| Dan: | Mark, what’s next? |
| Mark: | I’m still on the first one and that nose is so brown sugar. |
| Chris: | Yeah, I know. It’s gone. |
| Matt: | Oh, yeah. Mine’s long gone. |
| Chris: | Murray and McDavid. |
| Dan: | What did we decide this wizard was? |
| Chris: | I think it’s two wizards and they’re like David Copper… No, it’s like the- |
| Dan: | Cisco an Ebert? |
| Chris: | Or like- |
| Dan: | Siegfried and Roy. |
| Chris: | Thank you. Yeah, they’re like that- |
| Matt: | “Oh, it’s so beautiful.” |
| Chris: | But they also got made fun of because their names are really weird compared to everybody else’s. |
| Matt: | I feel like they’re conjoined twins. |
| Dan: | Here comes Murray and McDavid. |
| Chris: | With one butthole. |
| Matt: | Stuck together at the forehead or something. |
| Dan: | Why did you bring up one butthole? |
| Chris: | Because it’s hilarious. |
| Matt: | Two mouths, one butthole. I wonder if those are real. |
| Dan: | What’s next? |
| Chris: | This is McMurray and David. |
| Mark: | This, again, is a Murray and McDavid. This is in their cask craft series. This is a Linkwood whiskey aged in a Barrique Cask. |
| Dan: | A who cask? |
| Mark: | A Barrique. B-A-R-R-I-Q-U-E. |
| Matt: | Huh. |
| Chris: | What is that? |
| Mark: | I believe that is a burgundy barrel. |
| Chris: | Oh, okay. |
| Dan: | And these are guys that, they’re going to these distillers and buying barrels that they basically don’t want. Are they doing any more aging to it and changing of it, or are they just repackaging it and trying to sell it? |
| Mark: | It depends which group. Some groups buy them young and age them themselves because they get it cheaper. Others go out and buy one that’s ready to bottle so they can make some money. |
| Dan: | Shit. I just drank all mine. |
| Chris: | Looks like already on the front though. |
| Dan: | That’s good. That’s a hell of a lot lighter than the first one. |
| Matt: | That’s very good. |
| Mark: | Well, it’s also only- |
| Chris: | Oh, sorry, that’s that one. 44.5. |
| Mark: | It’s also 90 proof instead of 112. |
| Chris: | Wow. Did you know it’s already on the list? |
| Mark: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Or rose. |
| Dan: | My God, that is already. |
| Chris: | It could be rose too. |
| Dan: | Have we mentioned that? We’ve had to have mentioned that. This is definitely not the first time Chris noticed that. |
| Chris: | No, that’s the first time Chris has noticed that. |
| Matt: | Yeah, this stuff’s fantastic. |
| Dan: | This is not going to last very long. |
| Chris: | They’re both 17, man, right? 17. |
| Matt: | This one is 12 a pour. |
| Chris: | Jeez. |
| Dan: | It’s really not going to last long. So Murray and McDavid, single malt scotch whiskey. |
| Mark: | That’s good, but it’s not as good as the first one. |
| Dan: | You like the first one more? Even with the burn? You’re talking the first one after a little bit of water. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Mark: | There’s something about pallet on that that’s a little odd. |
| Dan: | This one? |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Matt: | Makes my nose tickle. |
| Chris: | Yeah, me too. I was just about ready to sneeze and I don’t know why. |
| Dan: | Tickle, tickle. |
| Matt: | Tickle, tickle. |
| Dan: | What was that from? |
| Matt: | That was during Covid, I went golfing, and this was back when I was still married. I went golfing and proceeded to attempt to pee in the vent in the living room floor, the heat vent. |
| Chris: | That would’ve been horrible. |
| Matt: | I don’t know why. It would’ve been bad. I was redirected to the front porch to pee in the flowers and Sherry went to go get her food out of the microwave and I disappeared. And I disappeared to the side yard on the far side of the house where I proceeded to lay down and take a little nap. |
| Dan: | I feel it’s an accomplishment. And you were laying there saying, “Tickle, tickle.” Right? |
| Matt: | After she grabbed her phone so she could record it, she came out to wake me up and get me back in the house and I stuck my finger between her toes and I went, “Tickle, tickle.” |
| Chris: | You know? |
| Matt: | Yeah. Not one of my brightest shining moments. |
| Dan: | No, that’s great. That is a shining moment. |
| Mark: | I’m going to give Moe kudos. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Mark: | Because- |
| Dan: | You’re going to mark this or? |
| Mark: | No. |
| Dan: | For posterity. |
| Mark: | Jay and Wendy, who used to be customers here, every time Jay fell down, Wendy would take pictures of him before she would help him up. And so you’d see pictures of Jay in a crumpled heap in the garage. I fall down periodically now, my wife has never ever grabbed for her phone before she’s helped me up. |
| Matt: | But you’re not drunk falling down. |
| Mark: | No, I’m not. |
| Matt: | You’re just falling just to fall. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Sarah’s- |
| Mark: | I’m falling because my legs don’t work. |
| Dan: | Sarah’s absolutely got a folder on her computer of me laying in front of the toilet. |
| Matt: | Oh, I bet. |
| Dan: | Passed out. |
| Matt: | I bet. |
| Dan: | Blanket and usually cat on me. |
| Matt: | I’ve seen some of those pictures actually. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | So that’s the story behind the, “Tickle, tickle.” |
| Dan: | Great stuff. |
| Matt: | Yep. |
Murray & McDavid – Madeira Finished Barrique Cask
| Dan: | Murray McDavid, Madeira finished, Barrique cask. |
| Mark: | I don’t believe it says it’s Madeira finished. I believe that, traditionally… Or does it? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Oh, good. |
| Dan: | Right below the big barrel. |
| Mark: | Oh, I was not paying enough attention. I’m sorry. |
| Dan: | It’s slightly gold lettering. We’ll let it slide this time. |
| Matt: | Slightly gold lettering. That’s orange, Dan. |
| Dan: | Could be considered slightly gold in the right light. |
| Matt: | Okay, I’ll allow it. |
| Dan: | Matt, moving on. |
| Chris: | Oh, look at what we’re tasting. Before you get into this, did anybody see Kenny Pickett’s flip that he did yesterday? Oh, God. I’ll have to show you guys this play. Just in the meantime while Matt’s talking about this just type in, “Kenny Pickett flip” in the Google. |
| Dan: | In the Google. |
| Chris: | Dude, it is the craziest, weirdest play I have… I’m embarrassed for him. |
| Dan: | Fumble play? |
| Chris: | Yeah, dude. Dude. You’ll just have to watch it, dude. It is like- |
| Dan: | This is a week ago? |
| Chris: | This was yesterday. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Chris: | Or two days ago. |
| Dan: | Air’s out. |
| Mark: | As we’re in a pause. The problem with this last week and this week is I’m not going to know what fucking day it is. |
| Dan: | I know. |
| Mark: | … until next week sometime. |
| Dan: | It’s going to take a couple of weeks to get your bearings back. We’ve all got Wednesday off. |
| Matt: | I don’t. |
| Dan: | Well, not… Sorry. |
| Matt: | But I don’t come in until later. |
| Dan: | All right, Matt… |
| Matt: | Dan. |
| Dan: | What is your whiskey of the week? |
EH Taylor Straight Rye
| Matt: | This is one of the allocations we got last week and I was sitting talking to Kevin, Friday… Friday? Yeah, Friday. And I don’t think I’ve ever tried this, so I figured we’ll give her a go. It’s the Colonel EH Taylor Straight Rye. Bottled-in-Bond, so 50%, 100 proof. What it’s supposed to cost for a bottle is around 80 bucks. What I’ve found online is anywhere from 200, 250 up to $2,000 a bottle. |
| Dan: | That’s ridiculous. |
| Mark: | And what are we selling it for, for a drink? |
| Matt: | Well, it’s written on a purple label with dark writing at $12 an ounce. |
| Dan: | What? |
| Chris: | This stuff makes my mouth water like crazy. Is that doing it for anybody else? Have you tried it yet? |
| Dan: | Yeah, actually. |
| Mark: | Dan, go ahead, you want say it. |
| Dan: | I know I did say it really quietly. |
| Matt: | You get a pickle? |
| Dan: | James heard it. |
| Matt: | Did you get pickle? |
| Dan: | No. |
| Matt: | Weird. |
| Mark: | He’s going to make Chris’s mouth water. |
| Matt: | Oh, I get all sorts of dill out of this. |
| Dan: | Do you? |
| Chris: | Yeah, I do too, now that you said that. |
| Matt: | All sorts of dill. |
| Chris: | But me and my mouth is watering. |
| Matt: | Yeah, this stuff, you don’t see a whole lot of it, so I understand the secondary cost on it. |
| Chris: | Matt, I’m with you. I don’t think I’ve ever had this. |
| Mark: | I agree with you, Matt. That is so pickle and I never get pickle. |
| Matt: | No. And you get it on the nose. I get it on the nose, I get it on the palate and I get it on the back end. |
| Chris: | Did you say this was only… This is how much percentage rye did you say? It didn’t say. |
| Matt: | There is not a… |
| Chris: | Okay. For some reason I thought you said 50, but that’s alcohol. |
| Matt: | I would assume it’s probably 100% rye. |
| Chris: | That makes sense. My mouth is super watery right now. There’s not a super amount of flavor. I get the dill, get everything you’re supposed to get out of it, but the amount that my mouth is watering right now, the flavors gone. My mouth is just watering. |
| Matt: | I get so much dill on the nose. |
| Dan: | Everything that I love about rye’s, it’s going to be really hard to describe, but it’s like it’s got the bite to where you’re getting this extreme reaction on your tongue. But it’s not a burn, it’s not an astringency, it’s just… I fucking love rye’s. |
| Mark: | Here’s a problem for me. I don’t like pickles. Ergo. |
| Dan: | Really? |
| Mark: | I know, it’s weird, isn’t it? Ergo, I don’t really like this. It’s not offensive. It’s not like icky, icky, icky. But I don’t like pickles. |
| Chris: | Do you not like cucumbers? |
| Mark: | Cucumbers are all right. |
| Chris: | Okay. |
| Mark: | I like cucumbers in water in the summertime. |
| Chris: | Okay. |
| Mark: | There’s like prepubescent pickles. |
| Dan: | I think that’s a song, isn’t it? Cucumbers in water in the summertime. |
| Chris: | Isn’t that watermelon? |
| Matt: | Its Sly and the Family Stone, I think. |
| Dan: | I was thinking Natalie Imbruglia, but… |
| Chris: | Oh, gosh. She’s so beautiful, dude. I had a thing for her so long ago. |
| Dan: | That song was fucking huge. |
| Chris: | Ex-girlfriend looked just like her. She’s so… You know who she’s married to, right? |
| Dan: | No. |
| Chris: | The guy from Silverchair, lead singer from Silverchair. |
| Dan: | Oh, I did know that. |
| Chris: | I don’t know why I know that. |
| Dan: | And now all of you out there listening to Library Pubcast know that too. |
| Matt: | Congratulations. |
| Chris: | Which Silverchair was an awesome band too, dude. That album was great. |
| Matt: | They were great for about three weeks. |
| Chris: | They were. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | And now he’s married to Natalie Imbruglia, what a lucky guy. |
| Dan: | They’ve never moved the needle for me. |
| Chris: | That did though. |
| Matt: | That was a good one. |
| Dan: | All right, speaking of rye’s… Or did you go with a bourbon? |
| Matt: | I went with a bourbon. |
| Dan: | Our unopened treasure of the week. |
| Matt: | Hold on, I’ll get there. |
| Dan: | Sour mash bourbon, straight bourbon? |
| Matt: | This is… |
| Mark: | Dan, all whiskey made in America is sour mash. |
| Dan: | Yes, but they have a classification of a sour mash bourbon. |
| Matt: | They do. Michter’s. |
| Dan: | Its one of their five available bottles. |
| Mark: | Right. But every one of their bourbons is sour mashed. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Mark: | All that means is they take out five gallons of Tuesday’s mash bill and put it- |
| Dan: | Smack it till it’s sour. |
| Mark: | No, put it in Wednesday’s mash bill because they’re trying to get more consistency. So the yeasts and sugars from Tuesday will influence Wednesday. And then on Wednesday- |
| Dan: | Wednesday, Thursday. |
| Mark: | … for Thursday and… |
Michter’s Small Batch
| Dan: | Yep. So Matt, what is it? |
| Matt: | This is the Michter’s small batch. It is… Hold on, let me get my little piece of paper here. |
| Dan: | I realized yesterday you’ve got your piece of paper. I thought that was going to take longer. |
| Matt: | No, it was just right there. |
| Dan: | Yeah, it was. |
| Matt: | It’s about 40 bucks a bottle. Runs about 45.7% or 91.4 proof. |
| Dan: | I think retail in this is probably going to be 55. |
| Matt: | I saw anywhere from 40 to 60 online. |
| Dan: | Really? That must be well pricing because I think in our system it’s 40 bucks for your guys’ cost. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Oh Dan, you probably want. |
| Dan: | No, that’s okay. Thank you. I realized yesterday I have got to brush up on my Michter’s labels. I stared at three bottles trying to figure out which one was which because they’re all basically the same fucking thing with minor differences. And then there’s one of them that’s got a completely different bottle shape. |
| Mark: | Well, if you happen to not notice one that has a 10 on the front, bring it in. |
| Matt: | Yeah, with the black wax. |
| Dan: | Black wax? |
| Matt: | Yeah. It’s their ten-year bourbon, which is usually really good. And I’ve kind of forgotten what it tastes like. It’s been a minute. |
| Dan: | Did you hear Gloria yell at me that her drink was whack yesterday? |
| Matt: | Her drink is whack? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I would’ve been like, “So are you. Shut the fuck up.” |
| Mark: | How do you respond to your… He knocked the board down. |
| Dan: | I got it this time. |
| Mark: | How do you respond to, “My drink is whack.” Now, if you get a little more, like, “There’s not enough fruit juice, the pop is flat.” |
| Dan: | Or it could be like, “That’s bomb.” Did she mean it was supposed to good or bad whack? |
| Matt: | I think whack is bad. Crack is whack. |
| Chris: | Crack is whack. |
| Matt: | My thing is, how do you respond to an adult that uses the word whack? |
| Dan: | And it was my fault. She ordered a vodka cranberry. I gave her a vodka soda cranberry. |
| Matt: | You son of a bitch. |
| Dan: | And she said, “This is whack.” So I took the drink, dumped it out and remade it. That’s how I responded. |
| Matt: | That’s fair. |
| Dan: | But just to everyone’s amazement… I think even Hannah was like, “Wow, whack.” |
| Matt: | She’s just kind of a shithead. Not Hannah. I love Hannah. |
| Dan: | I am indifferent to Gloria. She’s a pain in the ass when she gets here, sometimes she causes a mess, but she- |
| Matt: | Sometimes she’s very nice. |
| Dan: | Sometimes she’s very nice. Not the greatest tipper. |
| Matt: | No, she’s a terrible tipper. |
| Dan: | I think… I wouldn’t say terrible. She’s a dollar a drink tipper. |
| Matt: | If you’re lucky. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Which Kevin got a dumb dumb sucker from her one time. |
| Dan: | Oh, jeez. |
| Chris: | Is that not… |
| Dan: | That’s under… |
| Chris: | That’s under now? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Well, you figure it’s six bucks if you’re going to do 20%, which is what most people tip, then it would be a dollar 20. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Oh. |
| Mark: | The thing is, the whole dollar- |
| Chris: | If you’re paying cash and going up and dollar each time. |
| Matt: | Depends on what you’re drinking. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I think a mixed cocktail like that… Again, I got skin in the game, I’d like to see two bucks per mixed drink. |
| Matt: | It’d be nice. |
| Dan: | If it’s a shot, something you don’t have to mix, a buck’s fine. Mark, you were saying? |
| Mark: | I think up to $9 a drink, a buck a drink is fine if you’re paying cash. But when you leave, throw an extra five on the bar because it gets tough when you keep going, “Oh, can I get one blah, blah, blah?” As long as when you leave, I’m assuming you have three or four, so the bartender knows you’re tipping dollar, dollar, dollar. Then when you leave, you throw an extra five up there and the bartender goes, “Oh, he knew what he’s doing.” |
| Dan: | Anybody ever know that… I think, Matt, you know this. What tip stands for, or at least what I’ve been- |
| Matt: | To insure prompt service. |
| Dan: | I’ve heard proper, but basically yes. So originally, the tip was meant to be given at the beginning of the service to ensure proper service or prompt service. Yeah, which- |
| Matt: | I think a lot of it kind of depends on what kind of drink it is. If it’s a vodka cran, buck’s fine because it’s a quick drink. |
| Chris: | A tap beer, beer. |
| Mark: | If it’s a- |
| Matt: | If it has multiple shit in it, if I’m making an old-fashioned, a martini or something that takes a little bit of knowledge and a little bit of know-how, then tip accordingly, a couple bucks. |
| Chris: | Yeah, definitely older now. I would always be a dollar when I’m paying cash. Obviously credit cards are different. I pay more in tip on credit cards than I would do. If I’m getting a five-dollar beer, six-dollar beer, dollar on top of it, it’s cash. That can go right in their pocket, blah, blah, blah. |
| Dan: | Pocket. |
| Matt: | In my pocket. That’s my monster bomb. |
| Chris: | Now I feel like I’m cheap. |
| Mark: | There is this thing around where people think they should put their credit card out, but then tip cash. |
| Matt: | I like that. |
| Mark: | Now, in a restaurant, that makes sense because if a credit card in a restaurant, you have to report the tip. In a bar, we don’t have to report tips to the IRS, so it doesn’t matter. |
| Chris: | I did not know that. But I knew that about the restaurant. And I do that quite frequently on where I’m cash on the tips line and then it’s just that and then I throw down a 20 or whatever. And it’s usually more. |
| Matt: | Really, I’m fine either way. Just if you’re drinking, tip appropriately. If you’re out to eat, tip appropriately. |
| Mark: | If you can’t afford to tip, you can’t afford to go out. |
| Matt: | Stay home and have an oldy. |
| Chris: | How do you guys feel about tipping at order up counters? |
| Dan: | Man, Sarah and I had a long conversation about this. |
| Chris: | I don’t tip. I feel dirty though when they flip that screen around and it’s like 20%, 25, 30%. |
| Matt: | What do you mean? You mean like a McDonald’s order up counter? |
| Chris: | Without throwing anybody under the table. Just like you’re going up to order at the desk, then you go sit down and they bring you your food. |
| Mark: | If they bring you your food, then you tip. |
| Chris: | And it’s so- |
| Mark: | If you stand there and wait and they hand you a tray, you don’t tip. |
| Matt: | No. |
| Dan: | And I think a lot of big businesses are taking advantage the tip so that they don’t have to pay their employees as much, which is getting annoying. |
| Matt: | Definitely. |
| Dan: | I successfully tipped on top of my father. We went out to dinner on Friday night- |
| Matt: | That’s a slippery slope. Don’t get caught. |
| Dan: | And he was sitting at the other side of the table. |
| Matt: | Oh, Christmas gifts are going back. |
| Dan: | And I told him. So we went out to Pizza King and Council Bluffs for dinner with my parents. |
| Chris: | Did you drink in front of him? |
| Matt: | I love Pizza King. |
| Dan: | Did I drink in front of my dad? |
| Chris: | Oh, it’s your dad. I’m sorry. I know her parents are super anti-drinking. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Sorry. |
| Dan: | My dad- |
| Mark: | He doesn’t know you’re an alcoholic? |
| Dan: | I think they all know. |
| Mark: | Okay. |
| Dan: | But my dad, traditional farmer, he tips maybe 5% and that’s on top-notch service. |
| Chris: | Dang. And a guy that’s getting all those government subsidies, that’s tough. |
| Matt: | But really, small town people, that’s kind of what I expect. |
| Dan: | Right. And so I’ll give him credit for this, they used gift cards and he tipped off the total bill, not what was left on the gift card, which some people use that as an escape. |
| Matt: | Yes. |
| Dan: | Bullshit. And I think the bill was like 90 bucks and he tipped 10. |
| Mark: | No. |
| Matt: | Whoops. |
| Dan: | And my mom even goes, “Were you unhappy with the service?” And he said no. And I said, “Don’t worry, I’ll get the rest of it.” And I threw another 15 on top and he kind of looked at me and I go, “We’re in the city. If you’re happy with the service, it’s got to be better than 20.” |
| Chris: | “We’re in the city.” |
| Matt: | It’s not Atlantic, dad. |
| Chris: | That’s so weird. |
| Matt: | We’re not eating at Walnut. |
| Chris: | Coming into Omaha, “This is the big city. It’s the big city.” |
| Dan: | Dude, I can’t tell you, in my- |
| Chris: | Its the big city. |
| Dan: | Even my 25 years in the planet and I’ve been here now for 42, the difference of I would come up to the city, which was 45 minutes away from the house that I grew up in. |
| Customer 1: | Are you guys open? |
| Matt: | We are not. |
| Dan: | It’s okay. |
| Customer 1: | Oh, okay. Sorry. |
| Dan: | Nope, we’re- |
| Mark: | You can sit down, the bartender should be here shortly. |
| Customer 1: | Okay. All right. Thank you. |
| Dan: | We’re technically open. He’s just not here yet. |
| Mark: | That’s Ted. |
| Dan: | Anyways, trip to the city to Council Bluffs was twice a year. Trip to Omaha was once a year and we were 45 minutes away. |
| Chris: | In our Hallmark card game, that would be a drink because you mentioned the city. |
| Dan: | It would be. The big city. |
| Chris: | The big city, dude. So this card game is so… |
| Dan: | Jesus. Matt, you might have to start bartending today. |
| Matt: | Probably not. |
| Dan: | Probably not. How’s it going guys? We’ll be opening in a few minutes. |
| Customer 2: | Oh, I’m sorry. |
| Dan: | No, you’re totally fine. Have a seat. Hang out. We’ll be right with you. |
| Mark: | That’s Ted. He loves everybody. |
| Dan: | Matt, we’re getting customers in the door. Let’s go ahead and wrap this baby up. We need to talk about the unopened treasure of the week. |
| Matt: | This is the Michter’s US1 small batch. 91.4 proof, runs 40 to 50 bucks a bottle. I like it. |
| Chris: | Great every day bourbon. |
| Dan: | It’s so good. It really is. |
| Chris: | Great gifting bourbon. Great cocktail bourbon. This one is just… I give it 93 points. |
| Matt: | I could sit here and drink this straight, no problem. |
| Chris: | Absolutely. Absolutely. |
| Matt: | Nice and fruity. No burn to it. |
| Chris: | None. |
| Matt: | Now it’s a non-age statement. They don’t tell you what the mash bill is. |
| Dan: | Man, you’re even getting interrupted by the dog. |
| Matt: | It’s okay. |
| Dan: | It’s okay. |
| Matt: | But it is a minimum of four years. That’s all they’ll cop to on it. |
| Dan: | It’s such a good, easy, everyday drinker. |
| Matt: | Nice easy drinker. |
| Dan: | And for 45, 50 bucks, whatever you can get it for retail, I think if you’re not paying over 60, you’re fine. It’s worth it. |
| Mark: | Keep in mind, people out there, most of these bottles we’re talking about, we’re talking leaders, not 750s. |
| Dan: | Oh, for retail? No, there’s 750s retail. I don’t think Michter’s has a leader bottle. |
| Mark: | I thought their entry level stuff for us was leaders. |
| Dan: | I don’t think so. They’re all 750s. |
| Matt: | This is a 750, I think. Really small printing. |
| Dan: | Which is another thing that we honestly just need to really tackle, as not just the United States, but an entire world, can we come up with one fucking size? |
| Matt: | Nope. |
| Dan: | Can we have leaders? |
| Chris: | They are 700. That’s what we’re doing. |
| Dan: | Now we have leaders in retail, 750 in bar, now we also have 700 in bar. Can we just pick a size? |
| Matt: | Metric. |
| Dan: | It’s all metric. |
| Matt: | That’s the problem. |
| Dan: | But they go by two different… Why do bars have 750s and retail has leaders? Other way around. |
| Mark: | Yeah, other way around. |
| Dan: | Sorry. Anyways, I’ll get off my soap box. Join us for the first Whiskey Wednesday of 2025 coming up January 8th, starting at seven o’clock. It’s $45 for a Dalmore vertical feature in the Port Wood, fourteen-year, fifteen-year, eighteen-year and wrapping it up with the cigar malt. Get more information on the Library Pub Facebook page. Make sure to check out the Library Pub Facebook page for all the latest happenings, step takeovers. |
| Matt: | It’s on Facebook. |
| Dan: | The soup herbal now coming up within a couple of weeks. |
| Matt: | Yep. |
| Dan: | And latest happenings. Mark, you got anything else? |
| Mark: | Nope. |
| Dan: | Okay. Matt? |
| Matt: | Dan? No, I don’t have anything. |
| Dan: | You want to close this out? |
| Matt: | Everyone have a happy New Year and fuck them tacos. |
| Dan: | Fuck them tacos. |
