Podcast Transcription
| Dan: | Episode 239 of the Library Pubcast being recorded 90th and Fort in Omaha, Nebraska. Apparently the same location as the Fōwling warehouse. |
| Matt: | Fōwling. |
| Dan: | Fōwling? |
| Matt: | Fōwling. |
| Dan: | I didn’t say that wrong, it’s my client. |
| Matt: | Fōwling? |
| Dan: | I didn’t say it right. |
| Matt: | The Fōwling. |
| Dan: | [inaudible 00:00:23] I lost my buyer so- |
| Mark: | That place is going to be open for less than 18 months. |
| Dan: | That’s a huge area to pay rent on. |
| Mark: | Exactly. And everybody’s going to go once and also we did this. |
| Dan: | Yeah, well it’s been open for six months already, so I think we got another year and yeah, we’ll see how it goes but anyways. |
| Matt: | They must have some money in the bank. |
| Mark: | Kevin went and even Kevin who’s into weird shit like that. |
| Dan: | You pull that mic a little closer, it’s just too low. |
| Mark: | Even Kevin is into weird shit like that said, “Well, the lanes are too long and pins are hard to hit.” |
| Matt: | Well, it’s also Mr. No sports. |
| Mark: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | So, someone that can throw a football. |
| Chris: | You got to pick up your own pins? |
| Dan: | Everyone on the commercial looks like they’re having a good time. |
| Matt: | Well, of course they do. |
| Mark: | Well, of course they do. |
| Dan: | And that was the reference to it was that we saw a commercial yesterday during one of the football games and it said it was located on 90th and Fort and somebody turns around and goes, “Where at? We’re at 90th and Fort and I don’t see this place.” It’s over closer to [inaudible 00:01:28] than anything. |
| Matt: | They should say a block south. |
| Mark: | So- |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Sorry, a block north of the Fort. |
| Chris: | Are the lanes … Sorry Matt. Are the lanes long enough or I’m sorry, wide enough that the pins don’t go flying than the other pins? |
| Matt: | Well, I mean you’re throwing a regular football at bowling pins. |
| Chris: | I know but the pins can they- |
| Dan: | I think there’s nets that separate- |
| Chris: | That’s all I was wondering is like, are they lined up, is there a ten-foot between- |
| Mark: | And the way they’ve set it up I think is that it’s like- |
| Dan: | Cornhole? |
| Mark: | Cornhole. |
| Matt: | Got it. |
| Mark: | So, there’s no pins there you just have- |
| Chris: | Right. Go and set them up yourself? |
| Matt: | Yeah, it’s, “Here, do all the work yourself and pay a bunch of money.” |
| Chris: | That’s ridiculous. It’s like that food place that you dip the stuff in to cook it yourself. I’m like, “Here, we’re going to bring out all the raw meat and you can cook it in,” what’s that place called? |
| Dan: | I kind of like that, like a fondue? |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | I’ve always wanted to do fondue. |
| Chris: | It’s just weird. |
| Matt: | Those restaurants don’t really last. |
| Chris: | Yeah. They don’t want to cook for themselves. |
| Dan: | Yeah, it’s a schtick and when you do it once and you’re like, “Okay, that was cool.” Like axe throwing is fun. If somebody was like, “Hey, let’s go axe throwing,” I would do it, but I probably wouldn’t do it more than a couple of times a year. |
| Chris: | Yeah, I’ve only done it once when it’s free. |
| Dan: | But it’s fun. |
| Matt: | I’ve thrown axes at my house. |
| Dan: | Well yeah. |
| Matt: | I never went to a place. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | It’s way cheaper that way. |
| Dan: | It is. And more exhilarating because it’s less safe. |
| Matt: | Sure. |
| Dan: | Yeah. All right, so coming up February 5th, which is this Wednesday, next Wednesday, the following Wednesday, not this coming Wednesday, which is publish day on the 29th. It’ll come up the following Wednesday, February 5th. We’re going to do surprising blondes? Blends. |
| Chris: | For real? |
| Dan: | Blends. That might’ve been wishful thinking. |
| Chris: | I mean, Dan. I chose violence this morning, don’t make it easy for me. |
| Matt: | Yeah, right. Is it time for Sarah to dye her hair back? |
| Dan: | Well, maybe. Compass Box. |
| Matt: | What’s her hair color this time? |
| Dan: | It’s brown. Orchard House, Dewar’s 25 and 32 and then Johnny Walker Blue. Really? |
| Chris: | It’s not peppery. |
| Dan: | Are you trying to get rid of Johnny Walker Blue? |
| Matt: | What? |
| Dan: | Are you trying to get rid of Johnny Walker? Blue? |
| Matt: | No. |
| Dan: | Oh, okay. |
| Mark: | Dan, how was your weekend? Let’s start with you first. |
| Dan: | It was great. Friday, I hated my job and I drank heavily. Took a nap, woke up, fixed a bunch of computers and drank heavily. |
| Mark: | What did you hate about your job? |
| Dan: | Saturday we had another coyote attack. Luckily, everyone survived and then the coyotes came back Sunday night overnight, so we’re definitely on lockdown with the chickens for a while. |
| Matt: | Are you bringing them inside? |
| Dan: | No, they’re just not going to get let out to free-range. |
| Chris: | Should we set up a tent out there? |
| Dan: | If you want to. |
| Chris: | And [inaudible 00:04:26] with some BB guns? |
| Dan: | Oh no, I’m thinking something a little more permanent. |
| Chris: | BB guns will- |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | 22 with long rifle shells. |
| Chris: | I feel like some of those super high-powered BB pellet guns would do the job too. |
| Matt: | If you’re good enough shot. |
| Dan: | I don’t want to kill a coyote. |
| Chris: | Oh yeah, it would. |
| Matt: | No, probably not a coyote. |
| Chris: | Man. |
| Matt: | They have pretty thick skin. |
| Chris: | Yeah, they’re so do freakin’ watermelons but it’ll explode a watermelon. |
| Matt: | Explode a watermelon? |
| Chris: | Yeah, like it’ll crack it and- |
| Dan: | I’m open to ideas. I also run into the issue of- |
| Matt: | What size, we’re talking a 177 pellet? |
| Mark: | Yeah. Listen, Preston had it and brought it up to Niobrara and we freakin’ shot a bunch of. |
| Dan: | Is it a BB with a tip like Rambo had on his bow that he could shoot this thing and it would make a nuclear explosion? |
| Matt: | Like a grenade bomb? |
| Chris: | Yeah, it’s like a pellet. |
| Dan: | So anyways, we got lucky, everyone survived. We got great footage of Piper chasing the coyote off, which I know everybody has told me how bad of an idea that is because right now it’s apparently mating season for coyotes and they’re incredibly aggressive and they love to lure animals to the pack. |
| Matt: | And then they will tear her apart. |
| Dan: | Yeah. But she did her job, she came back, she got a big old pup cup. Sunday was a good day at the pub, we did pizza and wings. |
| Mark: | And boy did we have a lot of pizza here. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | And at one point I counted that there were 12 pizza boxes. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Tom, I couldn’t believe this happened, Tom brought a pizza from Casey’s. |
| Mark: | No, his wife did. |
| Dan: | Oh, okay. Then I believe that. Evan brought two pizzas from Zio’s and then I was going to order a pizza but I decided I would go with wings instead and I got 32 wings, which they’re pretty damn good, they’re from your place, bb.q Chicken. |
| Matt: | Bbq, bb.q. |
| Dan: | bb.q Chicken? |
| Matt: | It’s not my place. |
| Dan: | bb.q Chicken? Maybe it’s Eric Francis then. I thought he said Chris was your rep, either way. Those are really good chicken wings and then watched the Eagles pound Washington and- |
| Matt: | God, they just did beat the shit out of them. |
| Mark: | Well, how long did it take for [inaudible 00:06:56] to get 150 yards and two touchdowns? |
| Dan: | It took a while, but opening play for Philadelphia was an 80 some yard touchdown run for Saquon because then he didn’t touch the ball much after that and he was having thigh issues or something like that. But yeah, I watched the Chiefs play last night, great game between them and Buffalo and went home and re-watched it and went to bed about three o’clock ’cause I couldn’t calm down. |
| Matt: | I get it, I get it. I got something for you though, Dan. |
| Mark: | Was there cheating involved? |
| Matt: | Of course, of course, yeah. |
| Mark: | [inaudible 00:07:38]. |
| Chris: | I thought I’m okay with whether that game went. There was just a couple of plays that were a little questionable but … |
| Matt: | The only one that me pissed off was when Kelce purposely ran to the end zone to talk shit to the guy. And then, the other Bills player comes in to stick up for the midget that Kelce was yelling at and he gets the flag. |
| Dan: | Yeah. That’s the way it’s been in the NFL and I know this is a point of contention and I’m on board with it. Travis Kelce knows that he can start some shit, get the other player to overreact. |
| Matt: | And get away with it. |
| Dan: | And get a penalty. And that’s been something that teams have done to other players for years. |
| Matt: | Oh, it’s just part of the sport. |
| Dan: | You know that there’s a player that’s got a short fuse so you run up you start talking shit to him, you egg him on and eventually you’re going to get a personal penalty. Why can I not think of it? Personal foul. And you’re going to get 15 yards. And Travis Kelce is really good at getting people to do it. I don’t like it, I don’t think they should be able to do that and I think the NFL needs to look at doing something in the off-season about if there’s a player instigating something, then it’s offsetting personal fouls, no penalty. |
| Matt: | In that instance, definitely should have been offsetting personal fouls. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Yep. So, what do you got? |
| Chris: | I have your hat, I have a hat for you. And may maybe that will get you three Super Bowl victories in a row. |
| Dan: | Thank you. |
| Chris: | And you got to wear that and you could wear that. |
| Dan: | I really don’t know what to do right now. |
| Matt: | It’s got a ball on it. |
| Dan: | I was expecting … |
| Chris: | What? |
| Dan: | Is there poop in it? |
| Chris: | No. |
| Dan: | Did it get peed on? |
| Chris: | Nope. Nope. Nothing’s wrong with it. |
| Mark: | Did you steal it? |
| Chris: | Nope. |
| Dan: | What is the story? He gave me a Kansas City Chiefs stocking cap. |
| Chris: | Oh, my neighbor gave that to me. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Chris: | Remember when I talked about that? So, it’s yours. |
| Dan: | Well, thank you. |
| Chris: | You’re welcome. |
| Dan: | Are you sure? |
| Chris: | Yeah, absolutely. What am I going to do with that? I’m not going to have Howie wear it, Jen’s not going to put it on. |
| Dan: | Ah, that’s Don’s, that’s Don’s wallet. I’ll explain. |
| Chris: | So, now you’ve got to wear that for the next two weeks. |
| Dan: | Okay. Can I take the ball off? |
| Chris: | No, the ball’s the cool part. It’ll all come undone if you take the ball. |
| Dan: | It won’t, they make them so that they just come right off. |
| Matt: | You guys would be like twinsies. |
| Dan: | Yeah, anyways. |
| Chris: | No, leave the ball, leave the ball, it’s in thing. |
| Dan: | It was a great game, I can’t believe Kansas City won. |
| Chris: | Yes, you can, shut up, Dan. |
| Dan: | No, I can’t. I can’t. I had confidence that they could get it done and oddly most of that game felt like Kansas City was in control and this is probably just me being the fan that I am, but in the last three or four minutes of the game, Josh Allen looks scared. |
| Matt: | He did kind of have that wide-eyed look. |
| Dan: | He had several moments that there was one in particular when it was a two-minute warning, he was standing, there was a shot of him as they went to commercial break. He was standing alone with his jacket on and he is staring off into the distance like a deer in the headlights and I’m like, “Oh my God, they’ve rattled him.” |
| Chris: | That’s Josh Allen’s look when he knows he’s going to get beat. |
| Dan: | Is it? |
| Chris: | Yeah. I mean, anytime the Bengals have played him, he looked that way in the second quarter when the Bengals played him in the playoffs. |
| Matt: | Why wouldn’t Chris Jones stop crying? |
| Dan: | I don’t know. Maybe he, is this his last year? Is he going to retire? |
| Matt: | I don’t think so. |
| Chris: | He’s super emotional. |
| Dan: | This is a bigger thing but I think win or lose Super Bowl, Kansas City’s team is going to be decimated. Coaching staff. |
| Matt: | Why? |
| Dan: | Back office. Because every NFL team is just going to poach him. |
| Matt: | Well, they’re not going to be able to- |
| Dan: | They’re going to pay him great money. |
| Matt: | To afford all the players anymore. |
| Dan: | Yeah. And I think a lot of the stars aligned and they sold a lot of players not renegotiating their contract and coaches staying around on stay for the three peat. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Give us a chance at the three peat and we’ll talk but anyways. |
| Matt: | It was a great game. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I’ll give it that much. I sat on the edge of my seat. |
| Dan: | If you’re Buffalo and I just had a conversation with one of my clients who’s a Buffalo fan and he was critical of this too. If the quarterback sneak isn’t working because Kansas City is watching enough film to stack the left side of the line. |
| Matt: | I’ve seen the Bills enough. |
| Dan: | Why do you keep fucking doing it? |
| Chris: | Stop going to the left. |
| Dan: | Stop going to the left. |
| Matt: | Well, even Tony Romo twice last night was like, “Oh, and Allen really loves running off his left guard.” |
| Dan: | Yeah. He said that in their conversations with some of the defensive guys that they said, “We realized it right away in the film that when it’s a quarterback sneak, Josh goes to his left every time.” And so, they purposefully brought in packages to put their biggest players on the left side. And this is where I give Kansas City a lot of credit because when it comes to fourth down, third down, short distance, you have no idea what they’re going to do. Now, chances are you’re going to leave the ball, you’re going to give the opportunity to patch up with Mahomes so you can get up with his peat. |
| Matt: | You don’t know on first down what Mahomes is going to do. |
| Dan: | Yeah. They do such a good job of changing the play calls and schemes that it’s so hard to stop them and Buffalo just kept going left. |
| Matt: | And the tush push it worked a couple of times. |
| Dan: | No, in the Philadelphia game it- |
| Chris: | Worked every time. |
| Dan: | That was, I was referring to the on purpose off sides that Washington kept trying. |
| Chris: | I just like Saquon before that game or what was it, a few days before the game, he was like, “No, we want to show the world that running the ball can still get you to a championship.” Because you guys remember a couple of years ago they were like, “Is the running back position dead?” No. He says absolutely not. |
| Dan: | He has a rare talent that he’s insane and I really like him because he seems to be the most selfless person on that team. |
| Matt: | He seems pretty down to earth when you see interviews and stuff. |
| Dan: | And you guys heard on the podcast and I talked about it a hundred times, why would you not let the guy try to get the single-season Rushing record? |
| Matt: | Yeah, I know. |
| Dan: | Turns out it’s because he said, “I don’t want it. Sit me, rest me, let somebody else get some yards and some playing time.” That’s all. |
| Matt: | Nope, I need 100 yards, Give me two quarters. |
| Dan: | Exactly. |
| Matt: | I’ll sit the second half. |
| Dan: | Exactly. |
| Matt: | If I don’t get it, I’ll sit the second half. |
| Dan: | You’re never going to have, but he’s that selfless that he said, “Don’t worry about it, I don’t need it.” |
| Chris: | I would say, pay me a million dollars less, let me play and then watch the money just come in because I will have this record for years. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Because he is saying no to a pretty sizeable bonus I believe. |
| Dan: | Well, even history. |
| Chris: | History. Yeah. |
| Dan: | I mean, that’s the biggest, these guys are playing for wins, rings, a little bit of money, but it’s mostly ego. |
| Matt: | A lot of money. |
| Dan: | If their name can continuously forever be talked about, they’re set. |
| Matt: | A lot of money. |
| Dan: | Mark, how was your weekend? |
| Mark: | Creighton rolled. They looked like shit in the first 10 minutes, they looked mediocre in the second 10 minutes and they came out after half and just destroyed. Business was good, it’s warm here again, thank God. |
| Dan: | I was sweating. Actually, Brett and I were both sweating yesterday. |
| Mark: | Yesterday was a good day. |
| Dan: | Doesn’t take much for this fat guy to sweat but … |
| Matt: | I know the feeling. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | And Brett sweats since still. |
| Matt: | Which is weird for a guy. He’s in pretty good shape, he plays soccer a couple nights a week and what can you do? |
| Dan: | Yeah, it was maybe like 7:45 or so and I had him go get me my third high noon and he came back and he was full sweat on. Yeah. That’s all I got. |
| Matt: | Full sweat on. |
| Dan: | Anything else? |
| Mark: | Nope. |
| Dan: | Creighton and good weekend in business. Matt? |
| Matt: | Which I love Colt Brenner’s commercial. The Uber commercial where he doesn’t fit in the Uber. |
| Chris: | I haven’t seen it. |
| Matt: | It’s fucking funny. |
| Chris: | Nice. |
| Matt: | Because he’s seven foot tall. |
| Dan: | He’s a big dude. |
| Matt: | And they send one of the little tiny economy Ubers to pick him up. |
| Mark: | That’s so funny, he should’ve got the XL. |
| Matt: | It’s true. It’s just … |
| Dan: | He’s got some of that NIL money, he could be able to afford an XL. |
| Matt: | I don’t know what he makes for NIL. |
| Dan: | I can afford an XL every once in a while. |
| Chris: | He’s got an Uber commercial, so give him free fucking Ubers. |
| Dan: | XLs. |
| Chris: | XLs. |
| Mark: | Black. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it’s called Black, isn’t it? Yeah. |
| Matt: | I don’t know, I don’t Uber very often. |
| Chris: | I don’t Uber very often either. And I don’t think I would be an Uber driver if I was going to jump in that, I would be an Uber food delivery guy. I wouldn’t want people in my- |
| Matt: | Probably not. |
| Chris: | Not now. |
| Matt: | Not drunk. I’d do it during the day, I’d do like the airport runs. |
| Chris: | Right. Yeah. |
| Matt: | That’d be fine. |
| Dan: | Yeah, early morning to late afternoon. Yeah, I’d do those. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Gosh, I did- |
| Dan: | It’s just most days anymore, I just don’t want to fucking talk to people. |
| Matt: | Nope. |
| Dan: | So, I’d be a better- |
| Matt: | Preach. |
| Dan: | Food driver. Yeah. |
| Mark: | Look, I said Dan, you don’t want to talk to people, I can’t talk to people. |
| Dan: | Together, we make a great sitcom. |
| Matt: | Oh my God. |
| Dan: | Anything else going on this weekend? |
| Matt: | Not really. Came up yesterday watching a little bit of football, had a couple drinks. Friday, worked. Did really nothing Saturday. I left and went and went to wash my car and stopped and got dinner. That was it. |
| Dan: | Yeah, we’ve got, for those of you listening outside of this timeframe we’re in a different area. We’ve got 50 degree temperatures coming the next couple of days. And well, I had planned on taking PTO to try to get some stuff done around the house, take the Christmas decorations down, clean the garage. |
| Matt: | You still have Christmas decorations up? |
| Dan: | Yeah, they’re up, they’re just not on. |
| Matt: | Oh, I do. |
| Dan: | And instead, there’s a pretty good chance I’m going to have jury duty so. |
| Chris: | What? |
| Matt: | Aw. |
| Chris: | When did that come? |
| Dan: | About a month ago. And I just kind of ignored it. I got to check in Monday night at five o’clock to see. |
| Chris: | [inaudible 00:17:36]. |
| Dan: | No, City. |
| Chris: | Yeah, he won’t. |
| Matt: | Jury duty’s fun. |
| Chris: | They’ll make you come down there and sit and they’ll be like, “Okay, you don’t have to be here anymore.” And then you’re like, “Oh, thanks for the $25 [inaudible 00:17:46].” |
| Dan: | The last time I had a summons I forgot to call and check in. |
| Matt: | Oh, no. |
| Dan: | And I called the next day and I’m freaking the fuck out and I called and I’m like, “I’m so sorry,” she goes, “It’s okay, we ended up filling the bench, we didn’t need alternatives.” And I’m like, “So, I’m okay?” She’s like, “Yeah, you’re fine. Just next time, make sure you call in.” And now, I get emails, text messages and I get a letter every week. “Don’t forget, this is your jury number, juror number and you have to call in Monday after five.” |
| Matt: | But this is for Council Bluffs, isn’t it? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | So, they probably call like 17 people. When I got it done down at Omaha’s Courthouse, there were probably 80 people sitting in there. |
| Dan: | Wow. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | And it is, it’s like 30 bucks a day. It’s ridiculous, it’s stupid money. |
| Matt: | Which the nice thing is your employers still have to pay you what they would normally pay you. |
| Chris: | Stupid as in- |
| Dan: | Which is nothing. |
| Chris: | Stupid as in good or stupid as in bad? |
| Matt: | Bad. |
| Chris: | Okay, all right. You were saying it with a smile I was like, “Ah.” |
| Matt: | It basically pays for your parking and your lunch. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I didn’t think I could actually get paid worse than Sazerac portfolio but- |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Dan: | It turns out just to have to be a jury duty. |
| Matt: | Whoa. |
| Dan: | That’s what civil service gets you. Sorry Matt, anything else going on? |
| Matt: | Nope, that’s it. No jury duty for me. |
| Dan: | No. Have you ever gotten summons? |
| Matt: | I have. I actually a few years ago got chose to be on a child abuse case, sexual child abuse case that we actually found the accused innocent. |
| Dan: | Oh, nice. I don’t know if I’d say nice but … |
| Matt: | No one could get their story straight. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | The kid’s stories were different from the adult stories and the mom’s story was different from the dad’s story. And so yeah, we kind of had no choice. But I mean, the way this guy was, I kind of believed it. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I’m going to have to go home and watch 12 Angry Men. |
| Mark: | That’s a great movie. |
| Dan: | It’s an awesome movie. Can you get called for jury duty since you’re a former lawyer or are you exempt? |
| Mark: | No, I am not exempt. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Matt: | No, but the second they hear lawyer. |
| Mark: | I’m immediately thrown off. |
| Matt: | Oh, yeah. |
| Mark: | But so yeah. |
| Dan: | Chris, how was your weekend? |
| Chris: | Chill. I didn’t really do anything. Yep. Howie and I, let’s see. Nope, just played some Fall Guys with Howie, watched Silo with Jen, so trying to get caught up on that. |
| Dan: | Which is Silo? |
| Chris: | Silo’s a really, really good, it’s based about … You started out watching it and it’s a doomsday bunker and there’s 10,000 people that live in it. |
| Dan: | Oh, wow. |
| Chris: | And it’s what’s his name? Andy from … |
| Matt: | The Conan Show? |
| Chris: | No, the prison movie, Shawshank Redemption. |
| Dan: | Oh, Tim. |
| Matt: | Oh, it’s Tim Robbins. |
| Chris: | Yeah, he’s in it. |
| Matt: | He’s a good actor. |
| Chris: | Yep. |
| Dan: | Tall. |
| Matt: | He’s tall. |
| Chris: | You would love the show, it’s great. It’s a really good, if you guys ever a chance to watch it. |
| Mark: | Chris. |
| Chris: | I know you guys don’t have it, but whatever. What Mark? What are you going to say? You want me to stop talking? I will stop talking, let’s take some freakin’ stuff. |
| Mark: | No, I was just going to say it’s not whether I would like it as whether my wife would like it. |
| Chris: | She would love it, she would love it too. |
| Dan: | We were talking about this yesterday. |
| Mark: | I wasn’t picking on you Chris. |
| Matt: | Not this time. |
| Chris: | But every single time that I go to tell a story you’re like, “Nope, let’s talk some whiskey.” |
| Dan: | He’s being very patient today. I was looking down and we’re 25 minutes in and he hasn’t begun to show the signs of being … |
| Matt: | Chris is having a rough day. |
| Dan: | Very rough day. |
| Matt: | He’s having a rough two weeks. |
| Mark: | He’s chosen violence. |
| Chris: | I have chosen violence. |
| Dan: | And so, has Teddy. |
| Chris: | But I do love you, Mark. |
| Mark: | Great. |
| Chris: | Silo’s great anyway, watch it if you guys get a chance, it’s good. It’s a good show. |
| Dan: | Good. |
| Chris: | It’s a good show. |
| Dan: | What’s it on? |
| Chris: | It is Apple TV. |
| Dan: | Sarah and I finally finished Skeleton Crew. |
| Chris: | What did you think? |
| Dan: | It was good. |
| Chris: | It was. You bet they’re not going to do a freakin’ second season. |
| Dan: | Well, they just haven’t announced it yet. |
| Chris: | Yeah, I hope they do. |
| Dan: | But it’s not their time to announce seasons. |
| Chris: | I hope they do. |
| Dan: | From all things I’ve seen that it got some really nice reviews, didn’t cost Disney a ton of money, which by the way its budget over seven or eight episodes was $138 million. |
| Chris: | Is that not a lot? |
| Dan: | How do you spend $138 million on an eight-episode series with one notable actor? |
| Chris: | I mean, it’s like movie quality. |
| Dan: | The Acolyte was 187 million. |
| Chris: | What? |
| Matt: | Oh my God. |
Port Dundas – 18 Years Old
| Dan: | Which is one of the reasons why it didn’t get renewed is because it got not great reviews and cost a shitload of money to produce. |
| Matt: | Oh. |
| Chris: | Whiskey. |
| Dan: | Dear God. That smells awesome. |
| Matt: | I like this distillery stuff. |
| Dan: | Mark? |
| Mark: | This is Port Dundas 18, they quit distilling. |
| Dan: | No. |
| Chris: | I was just looking to see what, I’ve never heard of this at all. |
| Dan: | Me neither. It was behind a couple of bottles. |
| Mark: | They quit distilling in 2010 and they’re just peedering out what was in-house at the time. The old distillery sits on a hill in the middle of Glasgow. |
| Chris: | Bubble gummy. |
| Mark: | It is not a single malt Scotch, it is a single grain Scotch. |
| Dan: | Jesus, that’s the first time I’ve ever gotten bubblegum. You guys have talked about it on some other stuff and I never really pick it up. But right at the very beginning you get that bubble gummy. |
| Mark: | I’m sorry, I might’ve put it in your head by saying, “Oh, it’s bubble gummy.” |
| Dan: | Maybe. |
| Matt: | I get kind of bubble gum cotton candy out of a few different bourbons. |
| Chris: | Yeah. That’s wet socks. Oh, yes. Mm. |
| Matt: | Mm. |
| Chris: | Mm. |
| Mark: | I get more Juicy Fruit. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Gum. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | It is very fruity. |
| Chris: | That is good. It doesn’t coat your mouth though with those flavors. |
| Mark: | Oh, that’s definitely Juicy Fruit. Yep. |
| Dan: | God, I miss a good stick of Juicy Fruit. I need to get some in the store today. |
| Matt: | Remember when it used to be a quarter pack? It is not a quarter a pack anymore. |
| Dan: | I remember when we used to be able to get it from people in a white van. |
| Mark: | I am so old for Juicy Fruit. |
| Dan: | That’s true. |
| Mark: | I am so old that when I was a kid you bought a pack of Juicy Fruit for a nickel. |
| Dan: | So, can I tell a quick story and it should be a quick story. |
| Matt: | I don’t see why not. |
| Dan: | Yesterday Mark made the comment of something like, “Dan, you got to remember that Matt and I are the oldest people here.” And I turned to Mark and I go, “You don’t have to remind me, I know.” And this is the part that got me. He turns very gently and looks at me and goes, “What happened to you being nice?” I go, “Well, I guess it’s over.” |
| Matt: | So, I was up, I was in the group with the oldest people here. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Because I think Tom’s a little bit older than me and the Millers are a touch older than me. |
| Dan: | I think the Millers were gone at that time. |
| Matt: | No, I left before the Millers did yesterday. |
| Dan: | You did? |
| Matt: | I did. I literally had two drinks and … |
| Dan: | You did. |
| Mark: | Well, you drank water for the first hour and a half. |
| Matt: | I did have three or four glasses of water, it’s just good for you. |
| Chris: | Who are you? |
| Dan: | It really is. |
| Chris: | Who are you? |
| Matt: | I didn’t feel like drinking yet. |
| Chris: | Give me my friend Matt back. |
| Dan: | I said, “Matt, can I get you something to drink? You want your Pimm’s?” And he goes, “You know Dan, I’m still trying to decide if I’m going to drink.” |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | I just kind of braced myself for a moment. |
| Chris: | This is really weird. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Some days you just- |
| Chris: | Last week was a weird week, what happened to you, Matt? |
| Matt: | You’re just not feeling it. |
| Dan: | And that’s totally fine. |
| Matt: | Just some days you don’t feel it. |
| Dan: | Dan Whaley didn’t come up at all yesterday and I think that’s totally fine. I missed him. |
| Matt: | Well, I heard he kind of tied one on Saturday. |
| Dan: | Well, I mean that happens. |
| Matt: | Which I didn’t. I got 14 hours of sleep Saturday. I literally left the house to get food and wash my car to get gas. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Port Dundas 18 year, this is good stuff. It’s a shame that it’s not being distributed anymore, distilled anymore, but … |
| Matt: | Which I also found out Friday night that the Waterford Irish whiskeys, the distillery has gone- |
| Dan: | Bankrupt. |
| Chris: | Bankrupt. |
| Matt: | Out of business, so try that while you can. |
| Chris: | That was the guy with the crazy Irish guy that we did on the, were you in that one? He was like, “How is this guy? Okay.” |
| Dan: | I think that was at the end of the GSM when I’d already poured myself too much wine and spirits. |
Dewar’s – 32 Year Old
| Chris: | Oh, Dewar’s. |
| Dan: | I got a little astringency. |
| Chris: | It is definitely tickly in the nosy. |
| Matt: | That’s because it is 92 proof. |
| Chris: | Okay, makes sense. |
| Mark: | This is Dewar’s 32. |
| Matt: | Part of our next tasting. |
| Mark: | Part of our next tasting, which we’re doing, what do they call it, surprising blends? |
| Chris: | Surprising blondes. |
| Matt: | Surprising blondes. |
| Chris: | Full circle back to the beginning. |
| Dan: | Honestly, if we could do a tasting of surprising blondes, I might actually show up to that one. |
| Matt: | It’s probably more than 50 bucks. |
| Chris: | $50 water or is it the $10,000 one? |
| Dan: | I’d rather be at the $10,000 one because the $50 one, they’re probably coming with me from Council Bluffs. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | So glad I get to do the tastings for free. |
| Chris: | Took the words right out of my mouth. |
| Matt: | You can pick him up at jury duty. |
| Chris: | Is this older than your girlfriend by the way? |
| Dan: | 20, 32. |
| Matt: | 32 |
| Dan: | Exact age. |
| Chris: | Maybe you should buy this for her. |
| Dan: | Wait, no, she’s 33 now? No, she’s 32. She just turned 32 in December. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Anyway, this is a blended Scotch whiskey which is aged in what they call a double double. |
| Chris: | I need to taste it. Go ahead. Sorry, I need to taste it again ’cause that was not that initial taste was … Go ahead Mark. |
| Dan: | It’s got bite. For a 32, that’s got bite. This is not for me. That first taste is what I was going to say. |
| Chris: | It’s much different than that first one, so it was kind of a little bit of a shock to my palate. I need water. |
| Mark: | Oh, the nose is all alcohol. |
| Chris: | The bottle’s interesting. |
| Matt: | It’s a pain in the ass for the shelf. |
| Chris: | Yeah, I bet. It’s like they left it on the … |
| Mark: | That’s actually pretty good. |
| Matt: | It’s 40 a pour. |
| Mark: | Right now retail on it is 499. |
| Dan: | Dollars? |
| Mark: | 499 |
| Dan: | $4 and 99 cents? |
| Mark: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | In certain countries. |
| Mark: | The finish, there’s a nice sweetness on the finish. |
| Matt: | It is Pedro Ximenez finish. |
| Mark: | Did you say Pedro Ximenez? |
| Matt: | I did, but not with as much vigor. |
| Mark: | The way they aged this is they age it in two different sherry barrels for 12 years. Put it back together, let it sit in American oak and then it split up again between the two sherry barrels. Now, I’m not- |
| Chris: | I can still get all that malt on the mouth. |
| Mark: | Matt is at a 700. |
| Chris: | It’s 375. |
| Matt: | Yeah, this is just a little guy bottle. Three … God, it sucks getting old. |
| Dan: | Dude, and it just happens. We’re talking about ice though. |
| Matt: | 375 |
| Chris: | Matt’s having a hard time reading it and it’s only because you’re old. It’s so weird though. I had LASIK. |
| Mark: | Macular degeneration. |
| Chris: | But it happens overnight, literally. I could have read this bottle last week and now I have to go like, “I don’t understand how quick it happened.” |
| Matt: | Some of the words you just guess on them. |
| Chris: | Yeah, totally. Oh, I can see the first one- |
| Dan: | I remember a time when I could get out of bed and be like, “Oh, I’m out of bed,” now I’m like, “Ugh.” |
| Matt: | I don’t want to get out, it hurts. Yeah, I know the feeling. |
| Mark: | I like that. |
| Dan: | I probably should have gotten shit-faced and jumped into a three-foot pool in Mexico, that would’ve helped. |
| Matt: | That’ll do it. |
| Dan: | Did you like it? |
| Matt: | I do, I don’t hate this. |
| Dan: | I liked the second drink better than the first. |
| Mark: | I would probably put just a touch of water with it, which I’m about to do. |
| Chris: | Did it dry anybody else’s tongue out? It’s super dry. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Which is definitely not my favorite, but I have definitely had worse Scotches. |
| Chris: | I mean yeah, there is definitely worse Scotches. |
| Mark: | Called Ardbeg, Laphroaig or Dewar’s regular. |
| Matt: | Which I’ve had some rough nights with Dewar’s White Label. |
| Chris: | Yeah. This isn’t for me. I don’t know, something about it. Man, my mouth is like the Sahara Desert. |
| Mark: | Try it with water. |
| Dan: | Dewar’s 32? |
| Matt: | I’ll try it with water, yep. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Mark: | You do not get, in my opinion … |
| Matt: | It does change it quite a bit, yeah, especially- |
| Mark: | You don’t get the full bodiness and the depth that you get out of a single malt depth charge, hit like a [inaudible 00:32:43]. |
| Chris: | I don’t. That actually kind of, thank you sir, did fix it a little bit. |
| Dan: | Did you add a little water? |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | It takes kind of that opening funk away from it. |
| Dan: | My second taste was a lot different. That first one it was just so hot and maybe it was because we approached it with the- |
| Mark: | Right after that release with Port Dundas? |
| Dan: | Dundas. |
| Chris: | Yeah, that first one, that first sip was not pleasant for me. |
| Dan: | See, that’s too watered down for me now. There’s probably an area there. |
| Chris: | But at least we get some fruit when there’s water in it. |
Backbone Bourbon – Uncut
| Dan: | I’d let somebody buy me a full pour of that to kind of play around but- |
| Chris: | Blackbone, oh. |
| Matt: | Blackbone? |
| Chris: | Sorry. |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Dan: | I even got it right. |
| Chris: | Oh, Backbone? |
| Dan: | Yeah, he didn’t look at the backside of it. |
| Matt: | Blackbone. |
| Chris: | [inaudible 00:33:36]. |
| Mark: | That’s racist. |
| Matt: | Blackbone uncut. |
| Mark: | That’s really racist, dude. |
| Chris: | No, it’s not. It’s just an observation. |
| Dan: | Matt, the whiskey guy, what’s your first one? |
| Chris: | And they’re just penises. |
| Matt: | Big black cocks running around the quays. This is Backbone Bourbon. |
| Chris: | I don’t know what it was. |
| Matt: | This is their Uncut Bourbon, which they don’t water anything, it’s all barrel strength. |
| Chris: | Okay. All right. |
| Matt: | Out of Indianapolis, Indiana. |
| Mark: | Nothing says bourbon like Indianapolis, Indiana. |
| Matt: | Each batch is 10 53-gallon barrels, no water added ever. And they are a firm believer that full-proof whiskies have more flavor. So, this is 74% corn, 21% rye, 5% barley. This is one that it’s been on the shelf for a long time and it’s been a really long time since I’ve had it so … |
| Chris: | I’m not getting any nose burn on that, I haven’t taken a sip of this yet so I don’t know, but I … |
| Matt: | Which ad did I say, it’s 56.5 or 113 proof? |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | If you said it, I missed it ’cause I was going to ask you. |
| Chris: | I don’t think he said it, he just said barrel strength so I was assuming that it was super, super, super high proof. Yeah. |
| Matt: | I don’t think this drink’s 113. |
| Chris: | It doesn’t smell 113. |
| Matt: | Gave Mark the shivers. |
| Chris: | Gave him the shrug, ooh. |
| Dan: | I missed it? |
| Matt: | The shoulder shrug. |
| Dan: | Damn, I was clicking away at my computer. |
| Mark: | It has a really, really good bourbon flavor, but God, it’s hot. |
| Matt: | Now try it. It’s warm, it’s definitely not the hottest one we’re going to have today. |
| Dan: | It is warm. |
| Matt: | Ooh, yeah. |
| Mark: | Oh, it sounds like Matt has plans. |
| Matt: | But yeah, I don’t hate this at all. And for $9 a pour, which that’s one of the old stickers so when we get another bottle it will possibly go up to $10 a pour. |
| Chris: | I’m not getting any super heat out of that, which is really weird. I’m just desensitized to heat now, I guess. |
| Dan: | I’m not either. |
| Matt: | I get warmth in the back of my throat. |
| Chris: | Right away, but then there’s no heat heat. |
| Matt: | Yep, that’s what I said. |
| Dan: | Nobody, nobody taking advantage of that. Mark, you disappoint me some days. He said- |
| Matt: | I don’t think Mark heard me. |
| Mark: | I did not. I just got a flash across my MSN. Highland Park is putting out their oldest Scotch ever. |
| Chris: | For $4 million. |
| Mark: | A 56-year-old. Now, [inaudible 00:36:29] here I was looking to see how much this cost. |
| Matt: | How much was it? |
| Mark: | I haven’t found it yet. |
| Dan: | All right, let’s play this game a little bit. What would you be comfortable paying for that? Knowing everything you know of how much it’s probably going to cost. |
| Matt: | How old is it? |
| Mark: | 56 |
| Matt: | That’s probably, Highland Park? Shit, it’s probably 12 grand. |
| Dan: | I was going to say north of 10. |
| Chris: | I was going to say 20 something. |
| Dan: | So, what’s Mark comfortable paying? |
| Mark: | Well, I’m never going to buy it. |
| Dan: | That’s a tough question because you’re a bit of a tight one, which you got to be to be a business owner. |
| Mark: | Well, let’s put it this way, it will never be in this bar. |
| Chris: | Unless it’s given to him. Jeremiah. |
| Mark: | And if it were, it would be $5,000 an ounce. |
| Dan: | How much is the bottle? |
| Mark: | 50 grand. |
| Chris: | I knew it was going to be upwards of that. |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Chris: | Somewhere around there, it’s ridiculous. |
| Matt: | I guess. |
| Chris: | How many bottles, like 50 of them? |
| Mark: | No, more than that. |
| Chris: | 120, 160. I bet it’s probably just a barrel. |
| Mark: | I figure it said there were 10 barrels. |
| Dan: | Because at that age, what’d you say, was it 30? |
| Chris: | 1500 bottles? |
| Mark: | 56 |
| Dan: | 56-year? |
| Matt: | Yeah, give or take. |
| Dan: | That’s a lot of angel’s share that just disappeared. I think I saw, I did a Google search in Scotland, it’s like 3% every year. Thank you. |
| Matt: | For Scotch? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Kentucky’s more like seven to eight. |
| Matt: | I think Kentucky is around five to seven, maybe a little bit more depending on how hot the summer is. |
| Chris: | Seven to eight maybe? |
| Matt: | Hot summer. I don’t know, we talked about this few weeks. |
| Mark: | Hot summer night. |
| Dan: | Dude, ’cause I think you said seven to nine and I was like seven to eight. |
| Matt: | I think I said Scotch was two to five, somewhere around there. |
| Dan: | Sorry, Kentucky bourbon. |
| Mark: | Scotch is less than 2% and bourbon, they average out at four and a half. |
| Dan: | See, Google says three and then seven to nine. Scotch is about 3% every year. And in Kentucky, bourbon aging in Kentucky’s seven to 9% every year. Anyways, so that was Backbone. I lost my notes. |
| Matt: | That was Backbone. |
| Dan: | Uncut. |
| Matt: | Uncut straight bourbon whiskey. This was distilled on, I can’t read that but 2008 bottled in 2016, 10 of 2016. So yeah, Backbone. |
| Dan: | There we go. |
| Matt: | Or Blackbone. |
| Dan: | That’s not bad, I think that’s good stuff. Nine bucks a pour you said? |
| Matt: | Yeah. I’m not mad at it one bit. |
| Dan: | All right, so that was Matt’s first pick. Now we’ve got- |
| Matt: | This is our- |
| Dan: | This is our unopened treasure, I’ve got one right here. |
| Chris: | I know, this is Mark’s. |
| Dan: | Mark’s? Okay. |
| Chris: | First one, second one or third one. |
| Dan: | Jesus, you got to help me out. |
| Chris: | No. |
Elijah Craig – Barrel Proof
| Dan: | Help me out, I have to get work done today, I have jury duty tomorrow. |
| Chris: | This is the only drinking I’m doing this whole week. |
| Dan: | Huh? |
| Chris: | This is the only drinking I’m doing this whole week. |
| Dan: | Then- |
| Chris: | I don’t need it. |
| Dan: | Dude. Matt? |
| Matt: | This is Elijah Craig. |
| Dan: | Thank you. |
| Matt: | Barrel Proof. |
| Mark: | Matt. |
| Matt: | What? |
| Mark: | I don’t want any. |
| Chris: | That was it, that was what you gave [inaudible 00:40:14]- |
| Matt: | That one you just had. |
| Mark: | Oh, okay. I was right. |
| Matt: | This is the Elijah Craig Barrel Proof, this is the last release of 2024, the 924 batch. 129 proof. |
| Chris: | What the … |
| Matt: | 64 and a half percent. Should be 60 to $70 but most places you’re going to pay minimum of 100 for it. It’s an 11-year. |
| Chris: | I have effectively burnt all of my heat receptors out. |
| Matt: | This one doesn’t feel hot. |
| Chris: | This is not hot to me at all. That’s dangerous. I’m not getting any heat on the mouth, I don’t. |
| Matt: | You might want to see a doctor. |
| Chris: | I know, man. |
| Matt: | This shit’s good though. |
| Chris: | I don’t think we’re talking physical doctor. |
| Dan: | A mental doctor? |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Well, duh. Maybe a touch, maybe a touch of both offices. |
| Chris: | Are they two in one? |
| Matt: | Could be. |
| Dan: | Oh, definitely not. |
| Matt: | Buy one, get one. |
| Chris: | Well, I mean maybe there’s a little heat right there, but it’s way late. |
| Matt: | I get a lot of cherry out of this. |
| Chris: | Very sweet. |
| Matt: | It is. I like this. |
| Chris: | See what I’m saying? There’s no burn at all. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Mark, you got to try that. |
| Mark: | I did. |
| Dan: | Oh, you did? Was it burning? |
| Mark: | To me, it was. |
| Chris: | Mark’s heat receptors are on. He’s never lost them. |
| Dan: | God damn it. This is nice and light and simple and I would not have expected Barrel Proof. |
| Chris: | Now I’m getting heat, but that’s way, way, way after. I finished that at least two minutes ago. |
| Matt: | Which it’s still just warm. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | It’s not crazy hot for being kind of crazy hot. |
| Dan: | Oh, wait a minute, I drank the wrong one. I don’t know what I drank. |
| Matt: | Yeah, you’re going to want to retry this one because it’s going to be different. Probably finish that. |
| Dan: | That had to have been the Backbone. |
| Matt: | Probably the Blackbone. |
| Dan: | Blackbone? |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Backbone? |
| Matt: | Yeah. You call it what you want to call it. |
| Dan: | Shit. |
| Chris: | Ooh, burps are hot though. Ooh, there it is. I don’t think I’ve ever had a whiskey that’s that late of a burn, ever. That’s strange to me. |
| Dan: | All right. I get way more burn than the last one, that’s more like a Barrel Proof. |
| Matt: | It’s a bit warmer. |
| Dan: | It often helps when you drink the right whiskey. |
| Matt: | It’s true. That way you can relate to the rest of us. |
| Dan: | All right. |
| Matt: | But I don’t hate that. I like the stuff that Heaven Hill does. |
| Dan: | Elijah Craig Barrel Proof. |
| Matt: | Yep, that’s what the label says. |
| Dan: | Do we want to do another top 10? |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | We can. Here, we can start it while I pour this. |
| Dan: | Okay. So, I’ll give you guys a heads-up. Mark and Matt kind of have an idea of what we’re doing because despite my best efforts, it turned into a conversation at the pub yesterday on Sunday. So, we are doing top 10 moments that changed the world and I had some suggestions from a contributor, who we all very much like, what’s that? |
| Mark: | Hiroshima. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Mark: | That would be number one. |
| Dan: | Okay. No, the one that will be number one is one of the 10 I give you. |
| Mark: | Well, if Hiroshima isn’t on the list, your list isn’t quite- |
| Chris: | I think it’s just the top 10 of the list that he’s giving it. Like Hiroshima, I would agree with you but if that’s not on the list then it’s not a number one from his list. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | I understand it, right? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Right. But I agree with you. Mark. |
| Dan: | The contributor that I was talking about offered some stuff that- |
| Mark: | Poor Nagasaki, second place once again. |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Dan: | I’m just powering through, he made some suggestions that felt more like they would be in a different top 10, which I think they’ll get cycled into a different top 10. But I was looking for single moments that absolutely changed the world. For instance, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, that absolutely changed the world. |
| Matt: | Fake moon landing. |
| Dan: | The moon landing may have changed the world, so we’ll do that after we drink. |
| Chris: | Let’s do it while we drink. This is just tequila. |
| Dan: | Okay. Well, do you want to talk about it real quick while we drink it and we’ll- |
| Chris: | Sure. Don Fulano is the Añejo, this is everything that I look for in tequila. It hits all the points for me to like it. So, all additive-free, it’s done in clay pots. The only thing maybe that I would be against is that it’s mechanically-pressed versus hand-pressed. That would be the only thing. But otherwise, we just kicked this off. This is an on-premise for Nebraska exclusive for 60 to 90 days. This is good. This is probably the best tequila that I have. |
| Mark: | Hold on, hold on. Back up. |
| Chris: | Yep. |
| Mark: | Your company actually decided to do this, right? And release it on-premise first so people can try it. |
| Chris: | I wouldn’t say that that was necessarily Johnson Brothers or Gallow. |
| Dan: | It was a Gallow. |
| Mark: | Well, okay, Gallow, whoever made that decision was bright. |
| Chris: | Dude, Gallow- |
| Dan: | Johnson Brothers, whoever has encouraged them to do it, has made a couple of decisions in the last two months that makes me think they remember there is an on-premise side of liquor consumption. |
| Matt: | Huh, there is? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Oh, weird. |
| Dan: | It’s very important and it needs to be taken care of. And for the last three years, four years that I’ve worked for the company, they haven’t given two shits about on-premise. And for those of you that don’t understand on-premises bars and restaurants, off-premise is retail. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | And it took me two and a half years to find the difference between the two because I could never keep it straight. And somebody said, “Well, if it’s on-premise, you can only drink it on the premise. If it’s off-premise, you can take it off-premise the premise and drink it.” And I’m like, “Okay, that took two and a half fucking years for somebody to say something like that and I got it.” |
| Matt: | This isn’t horrible, I like the fact that what agave that you do get goes away fast, but it’s flavor-wise, it’s decent. |
| Chris: | It’s so good. |
| Dan: | And I think it’s reasonably priced, it’s not crazy. |
| Matt: | I think your cost is 66 bucks so retail’s going to be right around 70, 80. |
| Dan: | I think that’s about normal for tequilas right now. |
| Matt: | That would be off-premise. |
| Mark: | But still back to the relation on-premise first. No one is going to walk into Hy-Vee, walk down the tequila aisle and pick up an $80 bottle of tequila they’ve never tried and buy it. |
| Chris: | Unless there’s a hot tasting agent there. |
| Matt: | That helps. |
| Dan: | It does help. |
| Matt: | Definitely. |
| Chris: | We’re talking about the brand, but otherwise you’re right because- |
| Mark: | But then you’ve tried it. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I’m totally in that boat with you. I’m way too big of a tightwad to stand in an aisle and go, “Oh, that’s $185, I’m going to buy it because I’m going to crack it open.” First off, subconsciously it’s going to have a tough time overcoming that $185 price range. Second off, if I don’t like it, I’ve got a whole fucking bottle of something I don’t like. |
| Mark: | Right. But … |
| Matt: | You can clean windows with it. |
| Mark: | But if you come in here and try … |
| Matt: | Not this. |
| Dan: | Or a Highland Park 52 apparently. |
| Mark: | Or you come in here and you try having a Park 18 and you go, “Dude, I would spend 140 bucks for that.” |
| Dan: | Yep. That’s the importance of on-premise and it kind of feels like maybe Johnson Brothers is remembering that. |
| Mark: | Nah. |
| Dan: | All right. Are we ready? |
| Chris: | Yep. So, one last thing on this. So, one of the reasons why it probably is, and you do like it, is that the age of their agave plants, there is a determination on what they call so this is very, very mature. So, there’s like a five tier and I don’t know the names of them I’m sure I probably could look them up, but this is the highest matured blue agave that they will let grow and it’s- |
| Dan: | It takes longer. |
| Matt: | So, it’s as old as it gets out of the ground. |
| Chris: | It’s as old as it gets. |
| Mark: | Dan, may I ask a question on your list? |
| Dan: | Sure. |
| Mark: | Are we talking modern era or are we talking- |
| Dan: | No. |
| Chris: | Everything? |
| Dan: | These are, I sat, thank you. I sat and thought of things both affected America, which in turn affected the world, but also really old stuff that dramatically affected the world. |
| Chris: | Like Napoleon Dynamite. |
| Dan: | Could have been. |
| Mark: | [inaudible 00:49:16]? |
| Matt: | Dynamite, gosh. |
| Dan: | These things. |
| Chris: | Talk to Tina. |
| Matt: | My lips are real bad. |
| Dan: | That was going to be probably another list is top 10 cult classics, which we had a long conversation yesterday about cult classics. |
| Matt: | There’s a lot of them. |
| Chris: | I hated that movie the first time I saw it. |
| Dan: | Napoleon Dynamite? |
| Matt: | Oh, I thought it was the dumbest thing ever. |
| Chris: | Oh, it was dumbest that I watched it I was like, “Huh.” |
| Mark: | I never watched it. |
| Chris: | You’re going [inaudible 00:49:38]. |
| Dan: | I never watched it. I’ve never watched it. |
| Chris: | The second time, it’s you know what you’re getting into. You understand what it’s about because the first time you’re like, “Is this kid autistic or dumb or what? I don’t understand this movie.” |
| Matt: | But I think it’s just a touch of both. |
| Mark: | The only good scene in the entire movie is the cow getting shot. |
| Matt: | Next to the school bus. |
| Chris: | I don’t know, like the … |
| Dan: | Never saw it. |
| Chris: | The scene where he’s feeding them freakin’ egg juice, they get down on freakin’ knees just like, “[inaudible 00:50:13],” and they were recording and that is exactly the way that the guy sounds. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | We’ve talked about it, it was definitely not scripted. |
| Matt: | Probably you don’t mind getting paid and changed, can’t find my checkbook. |
| Chris: | It was not a scene, it wasn’t scripted. They just kept rolling and they were in a break, and he said something about the lake, I don’t know whatever it was, but it was so funny they just put it in the movie. |
| Dan: | All right, top 10 moments that changed the world. And obviously, I’ve got a couple extra so you guys can- |
| Matt: | Veto. |
| Dan: | Veto if you need to. |
| Matt: | I do hope the Pam and Tommy Lee video’s on this. |
| Chris: | Can we do something where we’re like, let’s agree on, I don’t want you to go down the list. Can we agree? What’s your third on the list? Matt, what do you want to go with first? |
| Dan: | I’m going to bounce. Well, it’s got to be the ones I- |
| Chris: | Because you do bounce around. Yeah, I know. Are you going to bounce around or are you going to be like, okay, all right. |
| Dan: | I’m bouncing around yeah. Because my goal is also to make it really hard on you guys. I want the last two- |
| Matt: | Don’t make me hard. |
| Dan: | To both be number one. You know what I mean? |
| Matt: | Sure. |
| Dan: | I want to make this hard to read as you’re debating this- |
| Chris: | Okay, let’s do it. |
| Matt: | You want everyone to be aware. |
| Chris: | Let’s go. |
| Matt: | This is fun, let’s go. |
| Dan: | Fall of the Roman Empire. |
| Mark: | Eight. |
| Matt: | Yeah. I’d say that’s probably up there always. |
| Mark: | The only reason I’m giving it eight is because the Fall of the Roman Empire led to us today. But- |
| Chris: | It was so huge. |
| Mark: | It took a long time to get there and that there wasn’t really a … If you follow history, Rome did not rise in the day nor fall in a day. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Rome fell over 300 years. |
| Dan: | Slowly, correct. Yeah. |
| Mark: | I would put it on the list, but I prefer it down the list. |
| Dan: | Where I put it on there I would put, I know I’m not ranking this, I would put it a little bit higher because of the illiteracy rate and the drop in intelligence, notable intelligence after the Roman Empire collapsed, the actual collapse. Not the slow decline but the actual fall of it. And I’m not poking fun at anybody or saying anything bad, but a lot of people turned to religion and religion shunned a lot of the things that the Roman Empire was trying to do, which was science-y side of things. |
| Matt: | Like man-boy-love. |
| Dan: | Right. |
| Mark: | [inaudible 00:52:36]. |
| Chris: | I put it at a five. I’m just going to put it right in the middle ’cause I don’t know what else is on your list and I feel like a five does it justice. |
| Mark: | The reason I want eight is I agree with you, but I don’t know what else is on the list. |
| Dan: | That’s the tough part. |
| Chris: | Five because it was such a huge thing. |
| Matt: | Let’s split it at seven. |
| Mark: | Okay, put it as seven. |
| Dan: | Seven? |
| Matt: | I’ll be the voice of reason this week. |
| Dan: | Whoo. Attack on Pearl Harbor. |
| Chris: | So, I’m trying to think like, okay, so if you had a non-American sitting in this and you asked them what would they think about that? And this is just us being Americans and patriotic, we’re probably going to put this higher. |
| Dan: | So, where I’m justifying this and maybe I sell you guys on this a little bit. |
| Matt: | Well, put America into World War II. |
| Chris: | It never really changed the world more than anything. |
| Dan: | It formally ended the United States’ isolationist policy. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | We were an isolationist nation before World War I. At the conclusion of World War I, we went back to being an isolationist nation. We didn’t trade much, we weren’t a part of the League of Nations, we weren’t involved in the world politics. But Pearl Harbor ended that officially and rolled right into World War II, Cold War, modern nomination and slow collapse. |
| Matt: | You’re kind of throwing big ones up there early. I’d go with a four. |
| Mark: | The highest I would go would be four. I’d prefer to go- |
| Chris: | I would agree with four. |
| Mark: | I would go with six for me. |
| Dan: | Sounds like four. |
| Chris: | I would go with six, I would go with four or six. |
| Matt: | You know what? Let’s put it, let’s split it and go five. |
| Chris: | Yep, let’s go five. |
| Dan: | All right, we’re compromising today. |
| Matt: | Voice of reason. |
| Dan: | All right. It’s going to be a big one. |
| Matt: | Shit. |
| Dan: | You guys ready? |
| Matt: | Release of Boogie Nights. |
| Dan: | Now, before … |
| Matt: | Star Wars. Oh, shit. |
| Dan: | Let me kind sell it to you a little bit too but here it is. The birth of Jesus Christ. Whether you are a religious person or not, it is noted history that there was a person. |
| Matt: | There was a guy named Jesus. |
| Dan: | Named Jesus Christ. |
| Matt: | Yep, from Nazareth. |
| Dan: | And he did claim to be the Holy Spirit’s Son. And there is a religion solely based around him. |
| Chris: | Let me add to this. |
| Dan: | Arguably has made the most impact of any single event in this world. |
| Matt: | Both. |
| Mark: | It’s good and bad. |
| Dan: | Yes, exactly. |
| Chris: | If this is not number one, it’s number two. I don’t know. |
| Mark: | I think for a fact on us today, this has to be number one. |
| Chris: | Yeah. I mean … |
| Mark: | Because so much has every … When was the last time we’re at a war that wasn’t based on religion? |
| Chris: | That’s true. |
| Dan: | Gulf War. |
| Matt: | Money. |
| Chris: | Gulf War. |
| Dan: | Gulf War too, that’s oil. |
| Mark: | That was money. |
| Chris: | That’s true. That’s true. That’s true. Good point. |
| Matt: | I mean, those are the two things that start wars, religion and money. The religious ones go forever. |
| Dan: | All right, so we’re doing birth of Jesus Christ at number one? Because this is our third one and you guys have already, you’re taking number one. |
| Chris: | Well yeah, but what is … I mean, let’s think about world religions. Even Buddha himself was described as Christ-like. |
| Mark: | And Muhammad had said that Christ was the greatest Prophet. |
| Matt: | Muhammad Ali did? |
| Chris: | Yeah, he probably did too. |
| Dan: | Right before he went down. |
| Matt: | Rumble in the jungle. |
| Chris: | I would yeah, one. |
| Mark: | Thrilla in Manila. |
| Chris: | One. I just, that’s … |
| Dan: | Mark? |
| Chris: | That’s too much, he’s the only God type that has ever come back. |
| Mark: | And you know me, I’m a religious. |
| Dan: | There’s a reason why I threw this in here is because three of us at this table are not very religious. I’m spiritual and- |
| Matt: | I know a couple things. |
| Dan: | But Chris is definitely carrying the banner of the religious one. |
| Chris: | I’m not religious, man. |
| Dan: | Oh, you’re not? |
| Chris: | It’s different. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Chris: | It’s different. |
| Matt: | Chris is also knowledgeable about religion because he grew up as a good Catholic boy. |
| Chris: | I mean, I wasn’t like, I was also- |
| Mark: | [inaudible 00:56:51] number one. |
| Chris: | Blinded by Catholicism so. |
| Dan: | Matt, can you be the 12 Angry Men and talk them out of number one? |
| Matt: | Nope. |
| Dan: | Where are you going? |
| Matt: | I am not religious enough to really even care about this, so I’ll just roll with number one with these guys. |
| Dan: | All right. |
| Chris: | I mean, what would you put it at, Dan? |
| Matt: | To a lot of people, he was a big deal. |
| Dan: | If I was in your guys’ shoes I would say, I don’t know. That’s a tough, it’s really tough. |
| Chris: | It is tough, because there’s three guys here that don’t believe in it. |
| Dan: | Is there another single event- |
| Chris: | Talk about one or two. |
| Dan: | That affected the world more than Jesus Christ, than the birth of Jesus Christ? |
| Chris: | That’s the way we do our calendar. |
| Mark: | No. |
| Chris: | We had to change our calendar because people were offended that it said BC, before Christ, and like, no, no. |
| Dan: | It’s not that they were offended, they were just including the rest of the religions. |
| Mark: | They changed that, it’s now BCE and CE. |
| Dan: | Yeah, before common era and common era. |
| Chris: | Yeah, but it’s still, you could change it all you want. Jesus Christ is still the person that you are basing it off of his life and death. |
| Dan: | I base everything off of BBY. |
| Matt: | Who? |
| Dan: | Before the Battle of Yavin. |
| Chris: | Yes, thank you Dan, which is about 1978. |
| Dan: | Yep. By the way, that was the destruction of the first Death Star in Star Wars. All right, here’s the next one. |
| Chris: | Is that on there? |
| Dan: | No. All right, here’s the next one. Columbus discovering the New World. |
| Matt: | But he didn’t. |
| Dan: | He did discover the New World, he wasn’t the first one. He did discover it. |
| Matt: | Well, if you discover it, aren’t you the first one? |
| Dan: | No, because the Vikings discovered it and then they forgot it. |
| Matt: | Well, they pillaged and left, they did what Vikings do. |
| Mark: | Dan, I go 10. |
| Dan: | Really? |
| Chris: | Nine or 10. Because I’m thinking it … |
| Mark: | Two years later somebody else would land here and we’d be celebrating. |
| Dan: | All right. So, what if I changed it to the discovery of the New World? |
| Chris: | No, don’t put it on Columbus ’cause without it, the United States isn’t a thing. |
| Mark: | It was going to get discovered regardless. |
| Dan: | So, regardless of when it got discovered, isn’t that a big world event? It changed everything. |
| Matt: | It’s big for us. |
| Chris: | It did change everything like they went back and they’re like, “Ooh, all this land. We thought we were in Asia.” Nope, not Asia. |
| Dan: | In France. |
| Matt: | We found shit. |
| Dan: | France, England and Spain were the major empires. They haven’t been anything since. |
| Chris: | Discovery of the New World like you putting Columbus. I don’t. Man. Man. Seven? |
| Matt: | I’d say- |
| Chris: | Five? |
| Matt: | Maybe eight. |
| Mark: | Well, and you also said single event and the discovery of the New World was hundreds of events. |
| Dan: | It led to hundreds of events. Then all of a sudden there was a big rush for everyone to leave Europe and come to the New World- |
| Mark: | You can argue with me Dan I’d be honest. |
| Chris: | I think he’s trying to sell you. |
| Dan: | I am. |
| Chris: | He’s trying to [inaudible 01:00:06]. |
| Matt: | Plymouth Rock landed on us. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | I’m standing at 10. |
| Chris: | What do we got left? We got a seven on there. We got an eight. |
| Dan: | You got a lot left, two, three, four, six, eight, nine and 10. |
| Chris: | I would probably say six, I mean, it is a pretty big thing like the amount of money it influxed into the world. And that’s what I’m basing a lot of this stuff off because money rules everything. So, it definitely made the world richer of them discovering the Americas so I would put that at a six. |
| Matt: | We learned how to cook turkeys and grow corn. |
| Dan: | Turkeys are so- |
| Chris: | They found a bunch of pyramids too. |
| Dan: | Yep. |
| Matt: | Yep. Not in America. |
| Dan: | Nope. |
| Matt: | Aliens didn’t want to come to America. |
| Chris: | We just haven’t found them yet. |
| Matt: | They’re like, “We’ll go to Mexico, it’s cool.” |
| Dan: | Where are we at? So, Mark do you say 10? |
| Matt: | I would go nine. |
| Mark: | I’m staying at 10 and those guys can make their decision. |
| Matt: | You know what? Let’s skip it. |
| Dan: | Veto, you want to veto it? |
| Matt: | Let’s trade it out, yeah. |
| Chris: | Vetoing it, all right. |
| Dan: | All right. |
| Chris: | ‘Cause I am adamant that that’s probably a six, that’s a pretty big- |
| Matt: | They should have beat up the Jesus one. |
| Chris: | No, I can’t beat with Jesus, he’s here. |
| Dan: | When the Knights Templar landed on Oak Island. |
| Matt: | Oh, for fuck’s sake. It’s not been proven. |
| Chris: | 10. 11. |
| Dan: | I threw that in there as a total joke. |
| Chris: | Veto. Actually, that’s not even going on the list, [inaudible 01:01:31]. |
| Dan: | I did throw that as a total joke. |
| Matt: | Fuck you, Miller. |
| Dan: | Because I wrote the list and I gave it to Miller to review and then I kept an eye on him for when he read that one. So, Miller has watched every episode of Oak Island and absolutely hates that he’s wasted 89 hours of his life. That’s hilarious. |
| Matt: | And all they’ve found is little pieces of wood. |
| Chris: | Wood. |
| Dan: | Yep. All right, here’s the next one. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. |
| Matt: | I like his music. |
| Dan: | Those of you that don’t know the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was part of the Austrian Empire. He was assassinated while on a political trip in France? Somewhere. |
| Mark: | Yeah, he was in Sarajevo. |
| Dan: | Sarajevo, that’s right. He was assassinated by a group of people that I believe they were called the Black Hand. |
| Chris: | Bet they didn’t like him. |
| Matt: | Not at all. |
| Chris: | And because of his assassination. Germany declared war on people, people declared war on Germany and we had the beginning of World War I. |
| Mark: | Again, my question from the beginning was, if you’re going to go modern era, I would say that’s like four. If you’re going historical, if World War I was a five-year fart. |
| Matt: | It’s a long fart. |
| Dan: | A five-year fart that how many millions of people died? |
| Chris: | Oh, man. A good fart or a bad fart? Because sometimes farting feels so good. |
| Matt: | It sounds like a full dump of the [inaudible 01:03:12]. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | What I’m doing is comparing the birth of Christ and the historical change with World War I and that historical change. And if it would’ve done any good, it wouldn’t had a World War II. |
| Matt: | How popular did the letter W become? That’s where I’m looking at it, this one. |
| Chris: | Which Ws became pretty, it was the first. |
| Dan: | Well, because they had to get used twice. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it’s the first. |
| Matt: | WW. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | WW. |
| Dan: | By the way, 15 to 22 million people died during World War I. Another estimate puts it at 40. |
| Matt: | I’d go with that right around five. |
| Chris: | Yeah, five or six. |
| Dan: | Pearl Harbor is at five so … |
| Chris: | Six. |
| Dan: | Six? |
| Chris: | Six. |
| Dan: | Six? Okay. September 11th. |
| Matt: | Oh. |
| Chris: | It did change a lot of stuff. |
| Matt: | It changed a lot of stuff for us. |
| Dan: | It changed a lot of stuff for people in the Middle East also. |
| Chris: | You still got to take off your shoes when you’re going over in Egypt to freakin’ get on a plane. |
| Dan: | That wasn’t because of 9/11, that was because of several years before that. |
| Chris: | Was it? |
| Dan: | The shoe bomber, yeah. |
| Matt: | I mean, it’s not the- |
| Dan: | That was a policy- |
| Matt: | It’s the biggest terrorist attack that’s affected America but it’s not the first and it’s not going to be the last. |
| Dan: | What, about 2,500 people died? |
| Matt: | Something like that. |
| Dan: | In the World Trade Center collapse. |
| Matt: | In the building collapses, yeah. |
| Dan: | And then, hundreds of thousands since in the name of … |
| Matt: | Of their religion. |
| Dan: | Yeah. September 11th. |
| Mark: | I would put the last possible number we have open. |
| Dan: | 10? |
| Chris: | Yeah. Oh, wait. |
| Dan: | We have 10, nine and eight. |
| Chris: | Man, that was really important. I mean, it did change the Middle East. |
| Mark: | We haven’t seen the way it’s going to play out yet though. What’s going to happen in Israel? What’s going to happen in Iran? What’s going to happen in Lebanon? |
| Dan: | I would say all of those are not because of September 11th. |
| Mark: | Oh yeah, they are. |
| Dan: | They were happening well before September 11th. |
| Mark: | Okay, Dan. |
| Dan: | Were they not? |
| Chris: | I put it at eight. |
| Matt: | I think we have an eight. |
| Dan: | No, you don’t have an eight, nine or 10 and you have a two, three, four left. |
| Chris: | I think there’s more bigger world events that changed the course of history than 9/11 for two three and four. |
| Dan: | Seven? |
| Mark: | Two years after 9/11, we were all living normal lives. |
| Chris: | Mm-hmm, it’s true. Eight. |
| Matt: | You don’t have COVID on this list, do you? |
| Dan: | We’ll find out. |
| Matt: | I would put 9/11 probably like seven or eight. |
| Chris: | Eight. |
| Dan: | You’ve already got a seven so eight? |
| Matt: | Okay. |
| Chris: | Eight. |
| Dan: | Okay. |
| Chris: | I would agree with an eight. |
| Dan: | Genghis Khan becoming ruler of Mongolia. |
| Chris: | Man, you know how many people are related to that guy? |
| Dan: | Or the Mongols. |
| Mark: | Two-thirds of the population of the Earth, that has to go up there to four. |
| Dan: | There’s another statistic that carbon dioxide or monoxide levels dropped the largest they have ever dropped. |
| Matt: | They killed a lot of people. |
| Dan: | Because he killed so many people. |
| Chris: | That’s insane. |
| Dan: | People exhaling is it carbon dioxide or carbon dioxide? |
| Chris: | Carbon dioxide. |
| Matt: | Carbon dioxide. |
| Dan: | People exhaling carbon dioxide dropped considerably. |
| Chris: | And darting is carbon monoxide. |
| Matt: | And methane. |
| Chris: | And methane. |
| Dan: | Because he killed so many people. |
| Chris: | I mean, that’s got to be like a four. |
| Mark: | I’ll give you a four. |
| Matt: | Whoa. |
| Chris: | Oh, that one … |
| Matt: | Ooh. There’s lube in the box over there. |
| Dan: | Genghis Khan becoming ruler of the Mongols, four? |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | The Black Plague. |
| Mark: | Three. |
| Dan: | Which by the way … |
| Matt: | Killed a lot of people. |
| Dan: | Killed a lot of people, about 30% of the population? |
| Matt: | A little racist. |
| Dan: | And may have actually been the only reason why Genghis Khan stopped killing people. |
| Mark: | And kickstarted the Renaissance. |
| Dan: | It did kickstart the Renaissance, the Black Plague. |
| Mark: | I give it three. |
| Dan: | Three? |
| Chris: | Three. Yeah. |
| Matt: | Yeah, I think three is fair. We’re saving two. |
| Dan: | The birth of Patrick Mahomes, I’m kidding. It’s a total joke. |
| Matt: | Sorry, you’re going to have to take the Jesus one out of there. |
| Dan: | And I’m really pissed that you said that ’cause I thought that was so funny when I added that yesterday and then you said it as a joke earlier. The assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
| Mark: | Way back. |
| Chris: | Nine. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | 10 |
| Mark: | Nine, 10. Yeah. |
| Matt: | I had almost vetoed that because that- |
| Chris: | How many vetoes do we get? |
| Dan: | You got two and you’ve vetoed the New World. You’ve got two. |
| Chris: | How many do we get? |
| Matt: | Two. |
| Dan: | You’ve got two. |
| Chris: | Okay. |
| Matt: | We get two. |
| Chris: | Okay. I know, but you’re saying- |
| Mark: | I’ll answer your question, quit asking it incorrectly. We get two, we used one. |
| Chris: | Got it, thank you. |
| Dan: | So, assassination of JFK. |
| Chris: | Nine. |
| Dan: | You got two, nine and 10 left. |
| Matt: | Like a 13. |
| Chris: | I don’t know, I got to read all the reports that Trump just released. Was it the driver? Was it the guy in the sewer? Was there another guy? |
| Mark: | I would use our- |
| Chris: | Was it his wife? |
| Matt: | It was the Grassy Knoll guy. |
| Dan: | Was it the Grassy Knoll- |
| Chris: | Was it the car that had a freaking gun that popped out of the console because the guy hit the red button on it? |
| Mark: | I’ll show my age, it was the smoking man from the sewer. |
| Chris: | Oh, I thought it was going to say [inaudible 01:08:50]. I mean, why does this head go back and not forward if he’s getting shot from behind. That’s really good. |
| Matt: | Well, one of the new ones released is you can see the bullet go through the governor’s from the front. |
| Chris: | Oh. |
| Matt: | Do you see the spray come off of the backside of his hand. |
| Chris: | Nobody researched that car. The car could have had a little gun that come out. |
| Dan: | The assassination of JFK, whether- |
| Mark: | Throw it off the list. |
| Chris: | Last, 10. |
| Dan: | Whoever was involved. |
| Chris: | Last. |
| Mark: | Throw it off the list. |
| Dan: | Throw it off the list? |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | We might well use our throw-ups. |
| Dan: | Black Tuesday, the collapse of the United States Stock Exchange leading- |
| Matt: | To The Great Depression. |
| Dan: | To The Great Depression. |
| Mark: | 10 only because we got better. |
| Chris: | I would agree. It’s 10. |
| Matt: | All right. |
| Dan: | Okay. 10. The dropping of the bomb at Hiroshima. |
| Mark: | Two. |
| Matt: | Yeah, that was kind of a big one. |
| Chris: | Two is our only high number left, right? |
| Dan: | Yep. |
| Chris: | The end of the World War killed a whole bunch of people. |
| Mark: | Started the Cold War. |
| Dan: | You got two and nine left. |
| Mark: | I would … |
| Matt: | It’s definitely not a nine. |
| Chris: | Yeah. You don’t think it’s a nine? |
| Matt: | No. |
| Chris: | What money did it make us? |
| Matt: | I think that was a big one. That solidified us as a world power. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | And started the nuclear age. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | Are we going to put that higher than Pearl Harbor? Because you can’t have one higher, I don’t know. I don’t feel like … Because if Pearl Harbor didn’t happen, Hiroshima would never have happened. |
| Matt: | It wouldn’t have happened quite that early. I think it would’ve been developed a little more and we still would’ve used it. |
| Dan: | Somebody would’ve invented it eventually. |
| Matt: | Trump really wants to drop one. |
| Dan: | Germans were really close. |
| Matt: | I think he just wants to see what it’s going to do. It’s like when you wire all the fireworks together on the fourth. |
| Chris: | It also created Godzilla. |
| Matt: | Godzilla. |
| Dan: | It woke up Godzilla. |
| Matt: | It’s true. |
| Chris: | That’s the Sleeping- |
| Matt: | Sleeping Giant. |
| Chris: | Oh yeah, that was the Sleeping Giant. |
| Dan: | Two and nine. |
| Matt: | I want to say you have to go two with it. |
| Mark: | I would go two. |
| Chris: | Okay, I’ll agree with these guys. |
| Dan: | I think you guys are going to be okay with that decision especially since your last one is the Apollo 11. |
| Chris: | They wrote, they had a movie about it, Tom Hanks was in it. |
| Dan: | That was Apollo 13, but … |
| Chris: | Oh, dang it. |
| Matt: | Eleven’s the one that landed on the moon, right? |
| Dan: | Yes. |
| Matt: | Allegedly. |
| Chris: | Oh, that’s fake, that’s 10. |
| Matt: | Allegedly, that’s … |
| Chris: | That’s fake. |
| Matt: | If we had any vetoes left, I’d veto. |
| Dan: | I think you guys are good with that being at nine. |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | So, in order, birth of Jesus Christ number one, dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Number two, the Black Plague number three, Genghis Khan becoming ruler of the Mongols number four, the attack on Pearl Harbor number five, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand number six, Fall of the Roman Empire in seventh, September 11th in eighth, the Apollo 11 space mission number nine and Black Tuesday, 10. If you could change any of them, move them around. |
| Matt: | Number nine would go to 10. |
| Dan: | Black Tuesday would- |
| Mark: | Number nine, what are the two that we- |
| Dan: | Vetoed? |
| Mark: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Pat Mahomes’ birthday. |
| Chris: | I would honestly … |
| Dan: | The assassination of JFK and the discovery of the New World. |
| Mark: | I would get rid of Apollo 11 and put on the discover of the New World. |
| Chris: | I would agree. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | I think that’s a good flip-flop. |
| Chris: | I would also flip-flop the Roman Empire and Pearl Harbor. On a world grand history stage, I would switch those two. |
| Dan: | I think I would agree with that. |
| Chris: | Yeah, ’cause I don’t think we’d be around if the Roman Empire- |
| Mark: | I think this would be a better list if we- |
| Chris: | Your list sucks. |
| Mark: | No. |
| Chris: | Let’s put Superman in there. |
| Mark: | In the last 200 years or 100 years something like that because then you can compare things. You really can’t compare Genghis Khan and Pearl Harbor. |
| Matt: | Or the moon landing. |
| Dan: | Right. Because let’s give it 300 years and see what Pearl Harbor continues to impact. |
| Matt: | Well, maybe Genghis Khan made it to the moon and they just didn’t record it. |
| Chris: | They didn’t know. |
| Matt: | And we don’t know. |
| Chris: | They did create rockets. |
| Matt: | Something cool that we don’t even know. |
| Dan: | All right, that’s going to do it for us. If you guys have a suggestion on a top 10 list that we should do, feel free to comment on our post on Facebook for this episode of the podcast. You can also send us an email librarypubcast@gmail.com or send us a message to the Library Pub page. |
| Matt: | Carrier pigeon. |
| Dan: | If you guys are interested, if you can send a carrier pigeon if you’d like, it’s not going to come home sober. |
| Chris: | Smoke signals. |
| Dan: | If it lands here, we’re getting that pigeon. |
| Matt: | Well, if it comes to your house, it’s getting eaten by a coyote. |
| Dan: | Good chance, good chance. I’d sacrifice it to the coyotes. Don’t forget to join us next Wednesday for our Comparing Blends Whiskey Wednesday. |
| Matt: | Hot Blondes Whiskey Wednesday. |
| Dan: | Starting at seven o’clock, that starts at 10 o’clock. |
| Matt: | 0.4375 |
| Dan: | Comparing hot blondes featuring Compass Box Compass? Canvas? |
| Chris: | Compass. |
| Dan: | Compass Box Canvas. And then, Compass Box Orchard House, Dewar’s 25 and 32 and then Johnny Walker Blue. |
| Matt: | Blue. |
| Dan: | $50 per ticket you get five samples. |
| Matt: | All the popcorn you can eat. |
| Dan: | And some great conversation. Matt, close us out. |
| Matt: | Dan, I will. Bye, see you, adios. Our feet are saying. |
| Dan: | Arriba. |
| Matt: | Adios me amigos. Bye. |
