Podcast Transcription
| Dan: | Episode 242 of the Library Pubcast being recorded 90th & Fort in Omaha. Omaha. Omaha. |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Dan: | That’s all I had. |
| Matt: | That’s it. Okay. Well thanks for listening everybody. |
| Dan: | Yep. Have a good one. |
| Matt: | That’s a quick one for you. |
| Dan: | Absolutely gorgeous couple of days. |
| Matt: | It’s dumb out right now. |
| Dan: | I realized as I was driving to the pub Monday morning that I forgot to turn the air conditioner off yesterday when I left. |
| Chris: | So it was pretty cold? |
| Dan: | It got hot in here. |
| Matt: | It was really hot in here. |
| Dan: | It was hot. |
| Matt: | It was like 60 out. And you were running around in pants and pants. |
| Dan: | Yeah. It was a long-sleeve shirt that I had pulled up. It wasn’t Bill Ramsey pulled up, but it was pulled up. |
| Matt: | Well, because the weather was beautiful, there was no need to pull your sleeves up. |
| Dan: | I did make a note of it maybe three hours after I got to the pub it was probably 40, 45 degrees outside. Very sunny. The internal temperature of my car was 111 degrees. |
| Chris: | Holy crap. |
| Matt: | That just blows my mind. |
| Dan: | That thing is a greenhouse. If you ever buy a Tesla, go get yourself some UV blocking window tint. |
| Matt: | And don’t keep chocolate in your car. |
| Dan: | Do not. Or bottles of Bomgaars. Bomgaars. |
| Matt: | Boom. Bomgaars. |
| Dan: | What’s on my mind? |
| Chris: | Yeah, your car gets exceptionally hotter than normal. |
| Matt: | Why? |
| Chris: | I don’t know. |
| Matt: | Why do Tesla’s get so hot? |
| Dan: | It’s all glass. |
| Chris: | That’s true. |
| Dan: | The sunroof is all glass. Windows, sides. |
| Matt: | You might want to crack a window. |
| Dan: | Yeah. It has a feature where you, that’s all I did was I just hit a button in my car and it drops the windows down about a inch. |
| Matt: | I’ll go grab a hammer and go crack one for you right now. |
| Dan: | All right. Weekends. Let’s start with Matt. |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | How was your weekend? |
| Matt: | It was good. I worked Friday. We were pretty busy. Saturday I went shopping for the vacation. |
| Dan: | Would you leave on Saturday? |
| Matt: | I leave on Saturday to go to Mexico. |
| Dan: | Oh God, that reminds me. I should probably take Sunday off because none of the regulars are going to be here. |
| Matt: | Some of them will be here. |
| Chris: | Who’s going? |
| Matt: | We still have the Millers and those guys. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Evan’s gone. Evan and Missy. |
| Matt: | No Evan and Missy. |
| Dan: | Hannah? |
| Matt: | Nope. |
| Dan: | God damn it. |
| Matt: | No, she’s not going. |
| Dan: | Can you take her? |
| Matt: | I can’t. |
| Dan: | Please. |
| Matt: | I am already having to get a bigger suitcase. |
| Dan: | Put her in your luggage or carry-on. |
| Matt: | I mean, I do get two bags with Southwest. |
| Dan: | So it’s agreed? |
| Matt: | So probably not. |
| Dan: | Walker? |
| Matt: | Walker is not going. |
| Dan: | Okay. Whaley? |
| Matt: | Whaley is not going. |
| Dan: | All right. I’ll work. |
| Matt: | We tried to get them all to go. Just nobody wanted to go. |
| Dan: | Evan kept asking me and I couldn’t quite tell him why. Sarah didn’t want to go on a vacation where she couldn’t drink. |
| Matt: | That’s fair. Especially to do the all-inclusive thing. I probably wouldn’t want to either if I was in her condition. Cirrhosis. |
| Dan: | Right. |
| Matt: | Cirrhosis of the uterus. |
| Dan: | She has a parasite right now. The only reason why it’s tolerable to go to an all-inclusive resort is that you are also drunk with everybody else. |
| Matt: | Yes. |
| Dan: | If you are the sober one at the all-inclusive resort, that has got to be unbearable. |
| Matt: | See, I don’t start drinking till later in the day. |
| Dan: | Oh God, no. |
| Matt: | I’ll get up and have a coffee with a shot of Bailey’s or something in it, but I probably won’t start drinking until after lunch sometimes. So, 2:00 or 3:00. |
| Dan: | I usually after on day two or three that’s the way it is. But that day one, I try to get a lot of the drinking out of my system. |
| Matt: | Well, at any vacation, most people absolutely lose their brains on the first day. And it’s just a big drunken mess. So, I’m going to try not to have that happen. Which the over-under on Evan’s drinks on the plane is 10. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Hopefully you won’t pee any in bushes. |
| Matt: | I’m going to do my best not to pee in any flower pots near the main pool of our resort this time, but I can’t make any promises. |
| Chris: | It’s true. |
| Matt: | But I’m going to try to be on my best behavior. |
| Chris: | Good. |
| Matt: | And then yesterday I came up here and had a couple drinks and cooked some hamburgers and hot dogs. |
| Dan: | Thank you for that by the way. I’m not just trying to… |
| Matt: | The hamburgers were- |
| Dan: | … be overly [inaudible 00:04:34] |
| Matt: | … thin so they cooked quick. |
| Dan: | Yeah, those fucking brats you made for me were amazing. |
| Matt: | Good. I’m glad. |
| Dan: | God, they were good. |
| Matt: | Which those just sat there for a few minutes. Then since I was running stuff back and forth, I just put them on the top rack, let them bake. |
| Dan: | I always had a bad habit of cooking brats at high temperature. Just get them done. |
| Matt: | Yeah, no. |
| Dan: | You’ve got to go low and slow. |
| Matt: | They’re too thick. |
| Dan: | Almost smoke them. |
| Matt: | Kind of. Yeah. Top rack them. |
| Dan: | Nailed them. |
| Matt: | Otherwise, that was my weekend. It was a pretty fun weekend. |
| Dan: | It was fun. Mark, the Dodgers aren’t playing yet? Creighton did good yesterday. |
| Mark: | I couldn’t watch it. |
| Dan: | Why? |
| Mark: | It was on Peacock. |
| Matt: | Oh. |
| Mark: | I went home specifically to watch the game. |
| Dan: | I know. Because I asked you if you were staying and you’re like, “There’s no way I could stay. Moe would kill me if I didn’t come home until 6:00.” |
| Mark: | Exactly. Creighton did well. We had a great weekend at the pub. Finally, the weather improved enough. That’s about it. You know when you can’t walk and you can’t talk, there’s not a whole lot of recreational things to do. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Let’s think of some. |
| Matt: | You could roll. We take you to the top of a tall hill and roll you down. |
| Dan: | You could attempt to break the stop, drop and roll record. |
| Mark: | No, because once I dropped and rolled I would not be able to get back up. |
| Dan: | You couldn’t stop? |
| Matt: | Or maybe not stop, depending on the hill. |
| Chris: | You could get into some knitting. |
| Dan: | That might help your fingers and your dexterity. |
| Matt: | Knitting. Knit one, pearl two. |
| Mark: | The fact that the back of my brain is rotting away is why my hands do what they do. |
| Chris: | Why is the back of your brain rotting away? Do I not know this? That sucks. |
| Mark: | That’s what causes all this. |
| Matt: | I think the doctor would probably use a term like deteriorating instead of rotting away. That doesn’t seem very medical. |
| Chris: | Yeah. You’re safe in a zombie apocalypse then because they want brain. |
| Matt: | Yeah, they like brains. |
| Mark: | It’s called ataxia. |
| Dan: | Mmm. Yeah. The old ataxia. |
| Chris: | Well that sucks. |
| Mark: | Oh well I ain’t dead yet. |
| Chris: | Nope. |
| Mark: | My wife still likes me most days. |
| Matt: | Three hearts. |
| Mark: | She responded yesterday with the one heart. |
| Dan: | Uh-oh. |
| Mark: | So I responded, “Only one heart? What is wrong?” So she sent 30. |
| Dan: | That’s hilarious. |
| Matt: | That’s funny. That is funny. Dan, what’d you do this weekend? |
| Chris: | Yeah, what’d you do? |
| Dan: | Oh boy. Let me tell you. Saturday we got up and cleaned all fucking day. |
| Matt: | Yuck. |
| Dan: | We did a serious deep clean on the house because ever since the news is, well, ever since we found out that Sarah’s pregnant, I’ve laid off of her of, “Get this done, get that done.” |
| Matt: | Did you guys figure out who the dad is yet? |
| Dan: | No. We have to wait for the DNA test to come back. |
| Matt: | That’s good. |
| Dan: | My bet is the mailman, but he’s a really nice guy. |
| Matt: | That’s a good trade to have. |
| Dan: | Which I’m okay with that. At least he’s got a good pension coming. |
| Matt: | Yeah, it’s true. He’ll be able to afford the kid. |
| Chris: | He’ll be able to see the kid every day. |
| Matt: | For a minute. |
| Chris: | As long as he doesn’t change. |
| Dan: | Saturday we deep clean the house. Saturday night we went out to Finicky Franks, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite restaurants in town. |
| Chris: | Dude, it’s always been fantastic. |
| Dan: | Oh my God. |
| Chris: | Always been good. That was my first wine dinner that I’ve ever done in this industry. |
| Dan: | Was that yours before? |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Oh man, I love those guys. So there were several qualities that I came out of this eating there. Obviously the food is fantastic, but I had their Saturday night special, which is their chicken dinner. It comes with four pieces of chicken. Basically you get a half a chicken. Left side or right side. You get a breast, a wing, a leg and a thigh. |
| Matt: | Like at Twix. |
| Dan: | Yeah. I did ask for the left side by the way, because the left side is always better. You get a side of mashed potatoes. |
| Chris: | Why is left side always better? |
| Dan: | Left-handed. |
| Chris: | I didn’t know if the hearts on the right side and it made the other side… |
| Dan: | No actual logic behind it. |
| Matt: | The blood pumps better on the left side. |
| Chris: | Oh really? I’m never eating the right side of a chicken ever again. |
| Matt: | That’s probably why it makes you fart. |
| Chris: | Maybe. |
| Dan: | You get a side of mashed potatoes, which were delicious. White gravy and then a side of cream corn and a biscuit. |
| Matt: | I like brown gravy. |
| Dan: | I do too. I prefer brown gravy. |
| Matt: | I mean I like white gravy. |
| Dan: | This was good. So what’s rule number one when you get a deep-fried chicken? |
| Chris: | You need napkins. |
| Matt: | Wait till it cools off. |
| Dan: | Matt set it off microphone. You’ve got to wait 20 minutes till it cools off because that motherfucker comes out nuclear. So, I anticipated this. Turns out I don’t know how they do it or what they do, but it was not mouth-burnable right on the plate. Right as soon as it sat down. |
| Matt: | That’s weird. |
| Dan: | I took a bite out of one of the legs. And usually the leg is what you start with because it’s smaller so it dissipates. I took a bite out of it and I was like, “Oh wait a minute. That’s perfect temperature.” It was phenomenal. I love that place. Their prime rib is amazing. |
| Matt: | You ever done the Alpine Inn? |
| Dan: | Oh yeah. |
| Matt: | They’ve got good chicken. |
| Dan: | They’ve got really good chicken. I think maybe Finicky Frank’s might be better. |
| Matt: | That’s okay. |
| Dan: | It is. Yeah. I love Alpine Inn for a lot of different reasons. |
| Matt: | I like the Dirty Raccoons. |
| Dan: | Yeah. That’s number one. |
| Matt: | That’s one of my favorites. |
| Dan: | Then Sunday I got my ass kicked at the pub and I loved it. I had a fun day. |
| Matt: | And then he still had to bartend. |
| Dan: | Yep. I loved it when I first got here and Mark goes, “Dan, stop everything you’re doing. Go grab a box in the back and very gently save the bottles next to the TV.” So one of the shelves had broke. |
| Matt: | It was starting to crack. |
| Dan: | And thanks to the bottles of Kentucky [inaudible 00:11:00]. |
| Mark: | It was not starting to crack, the only thing holding it up was the tall bottles there. |
| Dan: | Yeah. The bottles of Kentucky Al stopped because [inaudible 00:11:08] it folded in from the middle and that stopped it from falling completely. |
| Matt: | It’s because those shelves aren’t solid pieces of wood. They’re all- |
| Dan: | I discovered that. |
| Matt: | … they’re glued strips. |
| Mark: | Which is the way you’re supposed to make shelves, but after 15 years the glue starts to dry out. |
| Matt: | Well 15 years and the amount of weight that we expect these poor shelves to support some of them. |
| Dan: | So had a good weekend. |
| Matt: | We’ll get that all remedied when it’s warm outside. |
| Dan: | It’s going to have to be one by one [inaudible 00:11:42] |
| Matt: | Cut a bunch of them. |
| Dan: | Oh, okay. Yare you going to do solid pieces? |
| Matt: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | All right. Chris? |
| Chris: | Friday wasn’t much of anything. Just a chill night with Howie and I. Jen had something going on, a retreat or something. Whatever she had going on. Yeah. Howie and I chilled. We watched movies. It’s been a long time since he saw Toy Story 1. Dude, that movie came out like, oh my god, 35 years ago or 30 years ago and it blows my mind. I was a senior in high school when they came out or something like that. |
| Dan: | It was still good then. |
| Chris: | Oh, it’s still good now. So Howie he doesn’t remember at all. He is like, “Dad, I don’t remember this movie.” I’m like, “We’ve watched it [inaudible 00:12:24] |
| Matt: | When you were a baby. |
| Dan: | I was going for, we were in that age where it was like it wasn’t cool to cartoons like that, but it was such a good cartoon. It was fun. |
| Matt: | Oh dude, it was Pixar. Everyone loved Pixar stuff. |
| Chris: | Thankfully I was a nerd. |
| Dan: | That was the start of Pixar, right? Toy Story was the first Pixar movie. |
| Chris: | Yeah, I feel like it was. |
| Dan: | I think it was. |
| Matt: | Yeah. I think it was the first big one. And then they never stopped. |
| Dan: | I didn’t realize that Steve Jobs owned Pixar. |
| Chris: | I did not know that either. |
| Dan: | When he got ousted from Apple, him and a couple of buddies started Pixar. |
| Chris: | I did not know that. |
| Mark: | Wow. That worked out for him. |
| Dan: | It did. Very well. Especially when he sold his shares and went back to Apple. |
| Matt: | Yeah. I mean he never was really hurting for money. |
| Chris: | Nope. Saturday Jen continued to have said retreat, so Howie and I hung out more. And then Saturday night I had an event at Field Club, which was a Burgers and Brew. So I got to pair a bunch of full-fledged beers with some awesome frickin little sliders that they made. And I legit, these were some of the best hamburgers I’ve ever had. I was amazed to be honest with you. So we paired the full-fledged, spicy, my gosh, what’s it called? |
| Dan: | Chili Buzz. |
| Chris: | Yeah. So paired Chili Buzz with a beef, jalapeno cream cheese cheddar slider. It was phenomenal. Then we did, not Floyd. |
| Dan: | Dank? |
| Chris: | Dank. Dank with a bison burger, which paired amazing with it. And then they had this lamb burger that was pretty much, might as well just been a giro and paired that with the Kölsche and dude, it was really, really good. A lot of fun. Marshall, super cool guy. |
| Dan: | He is awesome. |
| Matt: | I do love a good lamb burger. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it was good. It was good. I could have that lamb burger once a week for the rest of my life and be completely fine with that being one of my dinners of the week. It was so good. |
| Matt: | Anytime I go to Ems, it’s a lamb burger. |
| Chris: | Yep. So that was my week. Oh nope. Nope. Sunday I had my mom’s 89th birthday. So we all celebrated that and it was fine and dandy and great and all the kids were there. |
| Matt: | I just saw the pictures. Your mom does not look 89 years old. |
| Chris: | She’s getting old. She looks good. She was super happy. We embarrassed her a lot and she loves that. |
| Matt: | Lots of laughing, but no, she does not look three years younger than my great-grandma. |
| Chris: | Still swims 100 miles a year. |
| Matt: | Damn. |
| Chris: | Wow. |
| Matt: | Just like in the river? |
| Chris: | Nope. In a pool. |
| Matt: | In a pool? That’s probably safer. |
| Chris: | In the YMCA pool. That’s what she does. I don’t know how long it takes her, but she does it three times a week. |
| Matt: | And she swims how far? |
| Chris: | It’s 100 miles a year. She’s part of the 100-Mile Club and has been for like 15, 20 years or something like that. |
| Matt: | Well the mile is 1,650, which is 66 laps. |
| Chris: | In a? |
| Matt: | In a 25 yard pool. |
| Chris: | No, she’s insane. |
| Matt: | So you do the math. |
| Chris: | Yeah, she’s insane. |
| Dan: | But probably way more fit than all of us. |
| Chris: | 100%. |
| Dan: | Awesome. |
| Chris: | Yeah, so that was it. Now I’m here. |
| Dan: | I don’t think we had any big news. I think another plane crashed probably. |
| Chris: | Probably. |
| Matt: | There’ve been a few. |
| Dan: | The United States has been a little plane crashy lately. Kind of getting concerned. Especially since I’m putting my pregnant girlfriend on a plane tomorrow. |
| Matt: | Ah, she’ll be fine. |
| Dan: | She’s only flying Delta. |
| Matt: | Yeah, they’ll be fine. They got rid of the bad planes. |
| Chris: | I don’t know. She might be screwed. |
| Dan: | I did double check her life insurance and it’s up-to-date. |
| Matt: | Did you up the limit on it? |
| Dan: | I should have. |
| Chris: | No, I think, still you put her in a car every day and that’s worse. |
| Dan: | And I let her out of the house. That’s the first mistake. |
| Chris: | And you let her wear pants? Dude. |
| Dan: | Not in the house. |
| Chris: | Doing it wrong man. |
| Dan: | Not in the house. |
| Matt: | Not so much pants. It’s the shoes. Got to keep her barefoot. You already got her pregnant. |
| Dan: | I did. We made a joke Saturday while cleaning. She was walking around barefoot and she goes, “well you got two of the three right?” And I go, “What do you mean?” She goes, “Well you’ve got me, I’m barefoot pregnant.” And I go, “Get the fuck in the kitchen.” |
| Matt: | Go make me a pie. How’d she respond to that? |
| Dan: | She laughed. It was partially her joke. |
| Chris: | Did she go into make a sandwich though? |
| Dan: | She was working on it. A tuna sandwich. They were really good. |
| Chris: | Good. |
| Matt: | Oh, I thought that was a euphemism. |
| Dan: | No, we’ve already had enough of those. |
| Matt: | Dan’s done with the tuna. |
| Dan: | This smells delicious. |
Port Dundas – 18
| Chris: | What are we on? Let’s do this. Whiskey. |
| Matt: | What are we on? |
| Chris: | Port Dundas. |
| Mark: | Port Dundas 18. First of all, Port Dundas is is no longer open or there. |
| Chris: | Ooh, it’s a very pretty bottle. |
| Mark: | The oldest story was the top of the highest peak in Glasgow. |
| Chris: | Wow. |
| Matt: | That’s cool. |
| Mark: | It was bought by Diageo a long time ago. They closed it down in 2011, but they had all the whiskey from before that. They’re still putting it out. It’s cost-effective. |
| Matt: | And yummy. |
| Mark: | Well I haven’t taken a sip yet. |
| Matt: | That’s not my fault. |
| Dan: | All right, so this is the dumber of the Wizards, right? |
| Chris: | This is more like, I think this is a place where they all congregate. This is like a Camelot. |
| Dan: | Oh this is location? |
| Matt: | Wow. |
| Chris: | But not the Camelot. Like, “We must meet at Port Dundas. Come.” |
| Dan: | The committee at Port Dundas, the council at Port Dundas. |
| Mark: | It was the highest point in Glasgow. So you don’t… |
| Chris: | That’s where their lightning needs to strike for experiments because they do experiments because they’re also scientists. |
| Matt: | They recharge their wizard staffs up there. |
| Dan: | Absolutely, you’re right. |
| Matt: | They put them up there and then, “Kaah.” It’s their Camelot. |
| Dan: | Did you guys hear where Glenn Farquhar got to go this weekend? |
| Matt: | No. |
| Dan: | He got to go to Port Dundas. |
| Matt: | Really? Lucky Glenn. Dang. |
| Dan: | We’ve been wanting to go to Port Dundas for a while. |
| Matt: | We can’t. It’s gone now. |
| Chris: | You know the battle of 2005. |
| Dan: | Two tickets gets to Port Dundas. |
| Matt: | 2011 |
| Chris: | Oh, 2011. This is when the whole coup started in 2005. I’m sorry. |
| Mark: | Honey. |
| Dan: | It’s not bad. |
| Mark: | Orange. |
| Matt: | Lots of orange. |
| Mark: | Lots of orange. |
| Chris: | Like candied orange. Like those sugar covered orange candies that are squishy. |
| Matt: | Those slices. |
| Chris: | Yeah. Right? |
| Mark: | It’s a little thin. It doesn’t quite have the depth you would like. |
| Matt: | It does not hit like a depth charge. |
| Mark: | But at 100 bucks a bottle, wonderful. And when it’s gone, it’s gone. |
| Dan: | It’s very pretty. It just is pretty. |
| Matt: | It is a nice color, very wheaty gold. That was good. |
| Chris: | This is really good. |
| Matt: | Yeah. 15 bucks for a full pour. Ah. Finished it like it’s Gatorade. |
| Chris: | It’s two thumbs up for that one. |
| Dan: | Pretty good. Liked it? Everyone liked it? |
| Mark: | It was very good. |
| Dan: | It’s good. |
| Mark: | Oh, a black bottle. Oh. |
| Dan: | Man. |
| Matt: | The cork broke. |
| Dan: | It seems to be happening about once a month or about every four or five episodes. So Matt, are you going to pick a different one or? Okay, so Matt’s going to pick a different whiskey because the cork broke off in the bottle. Ooh, I like this bottle too. |
| Chris: | All right. Song titles. We’re just going to do a little break here. Song titles [inaudible 00:21:09] this one’s good. Come on. This helps with your memory. I need song titles with animals in them. Go. I already got a couple, but Eye of the Tiger. |
| Mark: | Wooly Bully. |
| Dan: | Because the wooly mammoth, right? Or a bull? |
| Mark: | No, there is a song called Wooly Bully. It came out in 1958. |
| Matt: | But what animal? |
| Dan: | Bull? |
| Mark: | Yes. |
| Dan: | Oh, okay. Or wooly mammoth. |
| Chris: | I didn’t even think of bully. Yeah, I thought more like, I’m going to beat you up because I’m a jerk. War Pigs. |
| Dan: | Oh yeah. Banshee by Disturbed. |
| Chris: | Yeah. What’s the Duran Duran song? |
| Mark: | Hungry like a Wolf. |
| Chris: | Hungry Like a Wolf. |
| Matt: | Her name is Rio. |
| Dan: | Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand. |
| Matt: | Yeah, she does. |
| Dan: | All right. Matt’s back. |
| Mark: | Well now we did try a whiskey that I have no idea what it is. |
| Dan: | Barracuda. It’s so funny… Sarah, while Matt’s boring, I’ll stall a little bit longer. Sarah and I are very much into this game. It’s a Blockbuster game where you have to name movie titles. |
| Chris: | Oh, I love it. |
| Dan: | When you’re on the clock and having to name- |
| Chris: | You can’t think of anything. |
| Dan: | … movie titles. |
| Chris: | It’s impossible. |
| Dan: | Yeah, it is so hard. Just like this. |
| Chris: | Go on a game show, dude. |
| Dan: | I bet if I’m driving around today I can name 50 song titles with animals in it, but right now nothing. |
| Chris: | Yep. You’re put on the spot. |
| Matt: | Quick recovery. |
| Dan: | Did well. |
The Lost Distillery – Gerston
| Mark: | Well this is Gerston, which is a blended Scotch whiskey, which means they buy whiskeys from different distilleries and then blend them together. This is in the Lost Distillery series, which means Gerston Distillery is no longer around. And Lost Distillery tried to figure out what it used to taste like and then blend to get that. There’s a bunch of notes on the label and even with my glasses I can’t read them. |
| Matt: | Let’s see. Oh wow, that’s little. A marriage of smoky malts. Nope. I can’t really read them either. Nope, not a chance. |
| Mark: | What is a pour Matt? |
| Matt: | 9 |
| Mark: | Which means it’s a 40 to $50 bottle of scotch. |
| Chris: | Oh okay. I feel like it’s been many a podcast that I’ve had that iodine nose. |
| Matt: | So I’m assuming it’s probably not very old? |
| Dan: | Boy at the very, quite a bit of a finish later I got a mouthful of peat. |
| Chris: | Yeah, that’s… |
| Mark: | There’s peat at the end, but there’s a sweetness up front. |
| Dan: | For me it took that peat a while to get there. |
| Mark: | For a peated Scotch that is actually pretty good. |
| Matt: | That sweetness really balances it out a lot. |
| Mark: | It does. And for 50 bucks? |
| Chris: | Yeah, this could be an easily, this could easily be something that a scotch drinker like you being more into the fruity side of scotches. |
| Mark: | I could still drink this. It’s good. |
| Chris: | We could get someone understanding peat with this. And this would be a good educational- |
| Matt: | It’d be a good opener. A good first attempt into peat. You don’t want to throw him a Laphroaig 10. I gag when I smell the empty glasses doing the dishes. |
| Chris: | I gag when I friggin see the bottle. |
| Dan: | I gag. I just gag. |
| Mark: | I made you gag. |
| Matt: | I usually gag when I hit the balls. |
| Dan: | Anywho. Awkward silence. |
| Matt: | Is that weird? Sorry. |
| Dan: | The only image I got is from Tropic Thunder when he’s tied to the tree. “Let me loose. I’ll [inaudible 00:26:16] I’ll do whatever like that. |
| Matt: | “I’ll suck your dick.” |
| Dan: | “I’ll [inaudible 00:26:21]” He says it’s so funny, so funny. I need to watch that movie again. |
| Matt: | I think it’s on Prime. Yeah, I liked that. |
| Mark: | That’s good. |
| Chris: | It was pretty easy. Very sweet. |
| Mark: | But the sweet and the peat balance each other off and it just becomes tasty. |
| Matt: | Yeah, I like that. I like the beginning. I like the finish. I like the middle. That’s good. And it is, it’s very well-balanced. Which I guess you can do when you blend. |
| Chris: | Oh, it’s growing from an illicit still. |
| Matt: | Oh, watch out. |
| Chris: | Illegal. |
| Dan: | Huh. Gerston. Gerston was an angry wizard. God, the finish on that. I’m still getting just a lot of burn. Almost like a [inaudible 00:27:35]. |
| Chris: | I’m getting heartburn. |
| Dan: | Like it’s top of, it’s the palette. It’s just getting a lot of heat. |
| Matt: | I feel like Gerston’s a giant. |
| Chris: | A giant? |
| Matt: | Like the name for a giant. |
| Mark: | And I am finding the finish on that quite pleasant. |
| Dan: | Are you? |
| Mark: | Mm-hmm. |
| Dan: | I don’t know if I’m opposed to it. It’s just, it’s more than I was expecting. |
| Chris: | It’s like congestion heavy chest for me if that makes… I need to get it out or… |
| Matt: | It kind of dries your chest out. Interesting. |
| Chris: | Gerston. |
| Dan: | Gerston, the Lost Distillery. |
| Matt: | I better find it. |
| Dan: | It probably has a lot more play in the wizard world than we’re probably leading onto. It’s lost. It’s scary. |
| Matt: | That’s why I think Gerston is a giant because you never see giants. |
| Dan: | It’s true. |
| Matt: | You see people that think they’re wizards at Elmwood Park all the time. |
| Chris: | All the time. And they’re not wizards. |
| Matt: | They’re not even close. |
| Dan: | God bless them. |
| Matt: | They’re just nerds. |
| Chris: | They don’t even use real weapons. |
| Matt: | No, no foam staffs. That’s just going to melt when you get up to the- |
| Chris: | For real. Absolutely. |
| Matt: | To recharge it just blah. |
| Dan: | When you get up to Port Dundas to recharge your… |
| Matt: | Yeah, to recharge your wizard staff. |
| Chris: | You’re going to make the pilgrimage once a year. |
| Matt: | Not with a foam wizard staff you’re not. |
| Chris: | No, you’re definitely not doing that. Gosh, what are female wizards called? Sorceresses, right? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Chris: | All right man. There’s not a lot of- |
| Matt: | Chizzards. |
| Chris: | We should start figuring out if the whiskey is like a sorcerer or like a wizard. |
| Mark: | So what is different between sorcerers and warlocks? |
| Matt: | I think the hat. |
| Mark: | And sorcerers and witches? |
| Dan: | You saw somebody stumble on the turf monster there. They’re just walking all of a sudden, “Sor, sor, sor, sor, sor, sor.” |
| Matt: | There were a lot of S’s. |
| Mark: | Sorry. |
| Dan: | Difference between a warlock, I think it all comes down to, well it’s, I believe what they study. I think warlocks are more- |
| Matt: | One’s a good guy? |
| Dan: | They’re more herbal. I don’t know. A warlock I feel like is evil, bad. |
| Chris: | I’m going to ask ChatGPT, because that’s a good question. I’m going to see what ChatGPT says about… |
| Dan: | Chat who? |
| Chris: | ChatGPT. |
| Dan: | That’s like me trying to say post-traumatic stress. |
| Matt: | “The key difference between a wizard and a warlock is that a wizard typically gains their magical abilities through extensive study and learning. While a warlock receives the powers through a pact with a supernatural entity.” |
| Chris: | They’re just evil. They just take the easy way out. |
| Dan: | They’re born evil. |
| Matt: | I bet they could be good guys too. |
| Dan: | Anakin became a wizard? |
| Matt: | Kind of. |
| Chris: | I don’t even know how to spell sorceress. |
| Mark: | S-O-R-C-E-R-E-R I think. Or O-R. |
| Dan: | And I believe a sorcerer is male. Mostly women that are in that job description are just witches. They don’t get very many distinctions. |
| Matt: | “Wizards often have a broad range of spells that they can learn and master through study. While warlocks have a more limited selection of spells, but may be able to modify them with their patrons influence.” |
| Mark: | Hey Matt, what am I drinking? |
| Dan: | This will be an excellent time to let anybody know that if you’re entered in this conversation, there is a D&D event at Backswing Brewing fourth Monday of every month. Next month in March, they’re going to incorporate BuzzBallz as a- |
| Matt: | Oh my God. |
| Dan: | … as a potion. |
| Matt: | You’re a bunch of dorks. |
| Dan: | You’re going to get to buy potions. |
| Chris: | Are you playing in this? |
| Dan: | No, I’m going to watch it though. |
| Chris: | I’ll play with you dude. I never played it either. Is there a beginner 101? |
| Dan: | Probably. |
| Chris: | Mark, let’s go. We’ll pick you up. You were trying to find something to do. This uses your supreme intellect. |
| Mark: | I played D&D for the first time in 1975. |
| Matt: | You’re a closet nerd? |
| Chris: | What was your character? |
| Mark: | I don’t even remember. |
| Dan: | You don’t remember? Did you just play it once or twice? |
| Mark: | About a year. |
| Dan: | Because I think you would be good at it. I don’t know anything about it. But you seem, not that you’re nerdy, but that you’re strategy based. You can plan out your moves. |
| Chris: | I think he would like Warhammer more than- |
| Dan: | The glasses are coming off. |
| Matt: | Warhammer? |
| Dan: | Oh I though you were making a point. Usually the glasses come off when you make a point off. |
| Mark: | No, my left lens has a big dirty streak on it. |
Bulleit – Bottled-in-Bond
| Dan: | All right, let’s get back on track. What are we drinking? |
| Chris: | This is quite the tangent. |
| Matt: | This is new from Bulleit. Which Bulleit is a Diageo product. This is their Bottle in Bond. It’s around $50 a bottle. Was released just this month. Non-age statement, but they did have a press release that they put out that called it a seven year, so whatever that means. |
| Dan: | I get a lot of brown sugar on the tip. |
| Matt: | And it’s a high rye mash bill. [inaudible 00:33:27] |
| Mark: | Very, very brown sugar on the nose. |
| Dan: | You said a high rye mash bill. |
| Matt: | High rye mash bill. |
| Dan: | For those of you that don’t know, Matt wasn’t making an incentive impression. He took a drink and I asked him a question. |
| Matt: | Had a mouthful of whiskey. This is good. |
| Dan: | That sounds like a country song. |
| Matt: | Mouth full of whiskey? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Mouth full of whiskey. |
| Dan: | Post Malone and Chris Stapleton put that out together. Right? |
| Matt: | Probably before they both got sober. I like this and I’m not normally a big Bulleit fan. |
| Mark: | It definitely does not taste like a Bulleit product. |
| Matt: | And I think it drinks a little lighter than what Bottle in Bond typically do. At least for me. |
| Chris: | Yeah. I’m not really getting too much burn at all. |
| Mark: | A lot of sugar, vanilla. Duh. It’s a bourbon Mark. |
| Chris: | Hungover. |
| Matt: | This is good. This would be one that could get you in trouble. |
| Chris: | Yep. I’d be hungover. |
| Matt: | I think this would be a fantastic cocktail whiskey. |
| Chris: | Yeah. This is good stuff. Absolutely. |
| Matt: | This would make a really good old-fashioned. |
| Chris: | Agreed. |
| Matt: | Or even whiskey sour. |
| Mark: | Availability? |
| Matt: | It sounds like it’s going to be a mainstay in their lineup. Now availability right now is probably going to be limited. Just because they’re trying to get it out to everybody, but give it another month and it’ll be sitting on shelves next to the orange bottle. 11 bucks a pour here. That’s good. |
| Dan: | Jesus. Yeah, that’s pretty good stuff. And I am sorry, you said it. Is it readily available? |
| Matt: | It is. The only problem is its brand spanking new. Literally we’ve had it a week. And like most new things people grab them up real quick and then in about a month you’ll be able to find more. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Okay. Bulleit, Bottle in Bond? |
| Mark: | Just so you know Dan, you can’t see my glasses. I’m three for three. |
| Chris: | Whoa. |
| Dan: | You went four for four last week, didn’t you? |
| Mark: | I think so. |
| Chris: | I think so too. |
| Dan: | Is Bottle in Bond the correct thing or is there a different identifier to it? |
| Matt: | Yes, it’s Bottle in Bond. |
| Dan: | What was the second one we did? |
| Chris: | That was the- |
| Matt: | The Gerston. |
| Chris: | The Lost Distillery. It’s where they find the- |
| Dan: | Can I have that bottle? |
| Chris: | … ring of transformation. |
| Dan: | No, not that one. Sorry. The other one. Yeah. By the way, you said bib and it reminded me of the time that I… |
| Chris: | Wore a bib? |
| Dan: | It was a dumbass. And so Gosling’s ginger beer offers a bib packaging. And in our system it’s titled BIB. Early Times has a bib packaging and I really tried to sell it to my bar is it could go on the gun. |
| Matt: | Which BIB also stands for Bag in a Box. |
| Dan: | Yeah. It stands for Bottle in Bond and Bag in a Box. And I wasn’t completely thinking, at the [inaudible 00:37:07] homey in. |
| Chris: | Oh my god. |
| Matt: | You put it right next to the champaign. |
| Dan: | He goes, “You know Dan, I think that stands for Bottle in Bond.” |
| Chris: | How red did your face get? |
| Dan: | I just put my head down. |
| Matt: | Did you just ask him for a bowl of peanuts? |
Orphan Barrel – Fanged Pursuit
| Dan: | All right, so what’s next? |
| Matt: | This is from our friends at Orphan Barrel. |
| Chris: | This smells fantastic. I’ve been waiting for you to talk about this. |
| Matt: | This is called the Fanged Pursuit. |
| Chris: | A sweet panther or something. That’s not a panther. That’s a [inaudible 00:37:53] |
| Matt: | 46% 92 proof. They don’t tell you where they got it from, but they do say it was distilled in Bardstown. It’s a 17-year. And it’s about $200 a bottle. There’s not a lot of information you get out of these. |
| Mark: | Ginger snap. |
| Chris: | Twizzlers. Like red cherry. |
| Dan: | Why’d they put it… So I had this yesterday. Phil Duggart, as he’s been doing, loves to come up and try our new section. And so I got a little taste of it yesterday. I didn’t like it at all. |
| Chris: | That’s bitter. I have never had a whiskey that’s like… |
| Mark: | The finish is weird. |
| Chris: | I’m going to drink this, but it’s bitter and I don’t- |
| Matt: | Cherry Twizzlers. |
| Chris: | It’s crazy though. |
| Matt: | It’s so weird. |
| Chris: | The nose is… |
| Dan: | The nose is amazing. I smelled the bottle and I was like, “God, this is going to be awesome.” |
| Mark: | Oh, and the finish just keeps getting more Twizzlers and more Twizzlers. |
| Matt: | It’s a very long finish. |
| Dan: | It is. |
| Matt: | I like this. |
| Dan: | I don’t think it’s bad. I’m not as opposed to it today as I was yesterday. |
| Mark: | Sounds like song lyrics. |
| Matt: | It does sound like song lyrics. |
| Chris: | This is 17-year-old? |
| Matt: | 17 year, which it’s not oaky at all. I mean it’s oaky but it’s not over oaked. |
| Chris: | I mean it’s making my… |
| Matt: | It’s a dry- |
| Chris: | Even though I said bitter, it’s still making my mouth water like I want more. |
| Mark: | See, I don’t get bitter out of it. I get fake candy. |
| Dan: | Like Twizzlers. |
| Mark: | I get dry. |
| Chris: | You know how coffee can be bitter at your very first sip. You know that a good cup of black? |
| Matt: | A good dark roast? |
| Dan: | Yeah, that’s the bitter. |
| Mark: | Brett coffee first cup. |
| Matt: | That’s why I put a sign on- |
| Dan: | I laughed at that. |
| Matt: | That’s if it even pours out of the coffee pot. |
| Dan: | Yeah, the Sunday night bartender for a while kept putting at least two scoops of coffee and not like two tablespoons. It was a metal scooper that’s probably a cup. |
| Matt: | I think it’s a half cup. |
| Dan: | A half cup. So he was putting about a cup of coffee grounds in the pot. |
| Mark: | Oh my God. |
| Matt: | I really like this. |
| Mark: | One lawful scoop makes strong coffee. Two heaping scoops makes battery acid. |
| Matt: | Mud. |
| Dan: | It’s thick. Yeah. |
| Matt: | Thank you. |
| Dan: | I don’t know how I feel about this. I think I’m kind of impartial. |
| Mark: | Matt, how much is it? |
| Matt: | It’s a little over $200 a bottle and we are charging $25 an ounce. |
| Mark: | Not a fucking chance. |
| Dan: | Mark, you’ve got to sell this. You bought the bottle now you’ve got to sell the juice. |
| Matt: | No, I have to sell it. |
| Dan: | Oh well. Yeah. |
| Mark: | Well Dan, as you know, I do not sample at all because if I sampled I wouldn’t have bought this. But somebody else might come in and think it’s the greatest shit ever. |
| Dan: | Sure. Listen. |
| Mark: | People drink Ardbeg for god’s sakes. |
| Dan: | There’s people that drink Malört. We sell a lot of Malört for the wrong reasons. |
| Matt: | Fucking Chatty. |
| Dan: | We sell a lot of Malört. |
| Matt: | Malört’s like a punishment though. |
| Dan: | That’s what I’m saying. For the wrong reasons. No one’s drinking it to enjoy it. Unless your name is John Chapman. |
| Chris: | Just Chap. Jen likes Malört. |
| Matt: | She’s a weirdo. |
| Dan: | Who? |
| Chris: | Yeah, she does. My wife, she’s like the bitterness and herbal qualities. I’m like, dude, what is it? |
| Matt: | It’s the bitterness. It matches my outlook. That’s why I love it. |
| Dan: | All right, here comes our top 10 list for this week. |
| Chris: | Let’s do it. |
| Dan: | This is going to be a tough one for me to describe, but I think you’re all going to get it pretty easily. Top 10 annoying traffic habits. |
| Mark: | Oh, that’s not hard to understand. |
| Dan: | But I have to describe the traffic habits. |
| Matt: | There’s just so many. |
| Dan: | Which I think it’s going to be a lot harder than Baby Ruth and- |
| Matt: | Butter Fingers. |
| Dan: | The easier things we’ve done in the past. |
| Matt: | Baby Ruth. |
| Chris: | Okay, let’s go. Let’s start. |
| Dan: | So here’s the 10 items. Actually I have 13 that I came up with. I’m going to randomly pick them and you are going to sort them into top 10. And you can veto three. If I counted right. |
| Chris: | Let’s do it. |
| Dan: | Texting and driving. How annoying is texting and driving? |
| Matt: | I think for Mark, that’d probably be a number one. |
| Mark: | For me, I’ll give that a one with a bullet. |
| Matt: | Little explanation at the bottom. |
| Dan: | Or a power pull. |
| Matt: | It’s definitely, I’d give it top three. |
| Chris: | I do it so frequently I’m so bad. I’m just going to admit it. |
| Matt: | It’s so dangerous. |
| Chris: | It’s so bad. |
| Matt: | It’s so dangerous. |
| Chris: | So that’s why I think I get pissed when I see other people do it. It’s like, “I’m going to post a picture of you while I’m doing this because I just took one of you of you texting.” Nope, can’t do that because I literally was just using my phone to take the picture and to post. |
| Mark: | Driving down 90th Street on the way home. You get behind the car and they wander to the left, tap the curb. |
| Dan: | Hold on. You’re crossing over into several options. |
| Mark: | Wander to the right over the line and then you hold your breath and go by them as fast as you can. You see them looking down to the right. You know they’re texting. It is like, “Dude, I can’t walk or talk because of you. Thank you very much.” |
| Matt: | I would sat that’s a one or two. |
| Chris: | Yeah, it probably is. |
| Dan: | When I worked in radio, when the radio stations of the TV stations first merged, they created a joint promotion together that Stop Texting and Driving. And they found statistics that were beginning to show that texting and driving was more deadly than drunk driving. |
| Mark: | It is. |
| Dan: | Absolutely is. |
| Mark: | More accidents happen because of texters than drunks. |
| Dan: | And there’s the thing [inaudible 00:44:38] |
| Matt: | When you’re drunk, you’re still trying. |
| Dan: | … they don’t really talk about is that when you look down onto your phone and you’re texting, you completely lose track of what’s going on in front of you, but when you’re drunk driving you are trying to focus as hard as possible. |
| Matt: | Your hardest. |
| Mark: | The thing is- |
| Dan: | So your distracted driving is far higher. |
| Mark: | When you look down to text and then look back up, it takes a second for you to focus distance, what’s going on. |
| Matt: | Figure it all out. |
| Dan: | All right. Annoying traffic habits. It’s texting and driving? |
| Chris: | All right, top three. |
| Mark: | I’m going number one. |
| Matt: | I would agree with one. |
| Dan: | Number one? |
| Chris: | Cool. Yeah. |
| Dan: | Okay. Number one it is. |
| Matt: | It was a quick one. |
| Chris: | Well we have- |
| Dan: | Let’s see. |
| Chris: | Not using your turn signal. I’m sure that’s a top one for me. That one really pisses me off. |
| Matt: | I don’t mind it in a turn lane. |
| Chris: | Sure. |
| Matt: | It’s when you’re slowing down just to turn right on a regular corner. That bugs me. |
| Chris: | Or not even looking and you’re switching lanes. |
| Dan: | This might be just one of my irritants, but I mean that’s what this list is all about. Creeping into an intersection waiting for the traffic to get by so you can pull out. And you just keep pulling out in the middle of the intersection. And then I get super pissed when the light changes and then the person’s sitting there. |
| Chris: | And you’re behind that said person? |
| Dan: | Not necessarily behind them but just like- |
| Matt: | You’re still stuck waiting. |
| Chris: | What you’re saying. |
| Dan: | … stop at the fucking line and wait for the traffic to stop. That way if you don’t make it, you don’t impede everybody else that’s trying to get through the intersection. |
| Matt: | I creep out in the turn lanes. I don’t creep out in the straight lane. |
| Dan: | Well a straight lane you wouldn’t. But it is specifically the turn lane that I’m talking about but creeping out into the lane. |
| Chris: | Yeah, that doesn’t bother me so much. |
| Matt: | No, it’d be like a nine. |
| Dan: | Is that a veto? |
| Mark: | I’d go nine. |
| Chris: | I would veto that. |
| Dan: | Matt? |
| Chris: | But nine is fine. We can go with nine. |
| Matt: | Niner. |
| Chris: | Niner. |
| Dan: | Niner? Okay. I say parking it in your blind spot, but that person that just seems to just stop- |
| Chris: | Staying there? |
| Dan: | … right there in your blind spot. And you’ve noticed them before that they were coming up behind you but then they got to your blind spot and just slowed down and parked right in your blind spot. |
| Matt: | Those people, I always feel like they’re just fucking with me. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Mark: | Have you ever noticed that people have a tendency to drive the speed you are driving? |
| Dan: | Yep. |
| Mark: | They’ll catch up with you, get right next to you and then suddenly they’re going, “Well what the fuck?” |
| Matt: | Especially on the interstate. |
| Mark: | And then because I drive the way I drive which is very carefully these days I will slow down so they’ll go by and then they slow down with you. |
| Dan: | We used to do this thing when we were in high school. A buddy of mine pointed out that when you’re driving around people don’t like somebody being right next to them. So we would on a two lane road in Red Oak at the time, like going down the main street, we would pull up next to somebody and just stay there. And they would either speed up or slow down. It wasn’t that they were trying to get into another lane, they just couldn’t stand- |
| Matt: | Trying to get to a comfort level. |
| Dan: | They couldn’t stand somebody being over there so we would just mimic their speed. |
| Matt: | Which I don’t like that on the interstate at all. |
| Dan: | Yeah. All right, so parking in your blind spot? |
| Mark: | I’d go high with that. So I would say eight or 10. |
| Chris: | Same. |
| Matt: | Yep. We’ll do 10. |
| Chris: | Yep. 10 on that one. |
| Dan: | Okay. Not using your turn signal? |
| Chris: | Fucking two. That shit pisses me off so much. So much. |
| Mark: | I wouldn’t go two, I’d go four. What’s worse for me is that person that is going to turn right starts slowing down and as they’re starting to turn they put on their blinkers. Dude… |
| Chris: | What was your finger doing literally three seconds and two inches before that? Just, I don’t know, that’s like a two or a three for me. |
| Mark: | Are we just talking rights and lefts or are we talking lanes also? |
| Dan: | Lanes also. Not using your turn signal at all. |
| Matt: | Yeah, changing lanes. Yeah. That’d probably go like a two or three. |
| Chris: | If I get pissed at anything in the car on a daily basis, it’s that. 100%. |
| Matt: | And you see it a million times. |
| Chris: | A million times. |
| Dan: | And I know this makes me a little person, but if I know somebody is trying to get into a lane, I will park. They can see me. I’m not in their blind spot, but I will stay there until I see their blinker turn on and then I’ll slow down and let them in. |
| Mark: | See, you’re kind of an asshole. |
| Dan: | Yeah, I am. |
| Matt: | I’m not the police. |
| Chris: | I’m not mad at that man. I can’t get mad at that. |
| Dan: | Keep in mind Chris and I drive around like 1000 miles a day. |
| Matt: | No, I used to play the salesman game. |
| Dan: | We experience this stuff every single day, which is the reason why I thought about it. |
| Chris: | Matt, it’s gotten a million times worse. |
| Matt: | Oh, well just people’s driving in general. |
| Dan: | It’s terrible. |
| Chris: | There’s Teslas out there that literally on their dashboard you can see that there’s a car right next to you. There’s all sorts of vehicles that do that now. Turn on, use your fucking turn signal. |
| Dan: | Just turn on your turn signal. It makes life so much easier. |
| Chris: | Anyway. |
| Dan: | All right. Two or three, four? |
| Chris: | Two for me. But it’s up to these guys. |
| Matt: | I would say Flum said two, Mark said four. Let’s go three. |
| Chris: | Perfect. |
| Dan: | Three? Okay. Driving 10 miles an hour under the speed limit? |
| Chris: | Where? Because that’s different on the interstate. |
| Dan: | I’m going to say interstate and- |
| Matt: | Or in a neighborhood. |
| Dan: | … busy roads. |
| Chris: | Don’t even say driving 10 miles under the speed limit in the left lane because I will murder someone. |
| Matt: | Just ram them. |
| Dan: | Just anywhere you’re going like 10 miles an hour. |
| Mark: | Now in defense, I am an under the speed limit driver. In defense I always am in the right lane. |
| Matt: | And I think that’s acceptable. |
| Mark: | And when I say under the speed limit, I’m not talking 25 in 35, I’ll go 33 in 35, 41 in a 45. |
| Dan: | I get mad at the people driving 10 miles an hour on Dodge. Because Dodge is a street that if you go within five miles an hour of the speed limit, if it’s 35, if you go 30 to 40, you’re going to hit every light green. Thanks to you going 10 under I now have to sit at the stoplight for eight minutes. |
| Matt: | See I’m fine with it in a residential neighborhood, drive slow. [inaudible 00:51:44] Kids are out playing, shit like that. |
| Mark: | When I get to my neighborhood, I know that I drive by maybe 20 houses to get in my house. I know which houses have kids. When I start getting close to those, I’m looking, slowing down and my step-brother did run over one of their remote control cars one night. |
| Dan: | Oh, I remember that story. |
| Chris: | Yeah. 10 miles, I don’t know, 10 an hour it’s not that big of a deal to me except on the interstate. |
| Matt: | If you do it right. |
| Chris: | And if you’re in the middle or the left lane, I will get those old, not those, any people that drive under 10 miles and everybody has to go around them. There’s that car and everybody’s going the normal speed limit. |
| Mark: | I have no problem with going less than the speed limit. Get all the way to the right. |
| Chris: | All the way over. |
| Dan: | And I get irritated at people that I am all the way over in the lanes. When I’m driving to Lincoln, I’m in the third lane and I’m doing the speed limit 75. And people still drive up on my ass. And I’m like, “I’m not moving into the other lane for you. It’s your responsibility to get into the lefter lane and pass me.” |
| Matt: | The lefter lane. |
| Chris: | The lefter lane. This one is not a super big deal. |
| Dan: | Veto it? |
| Chris: | Maybe. |
| Dan: | You’ve got three vetoes and we used up four spots. |
| Matt: | I’m okay with a veto. |
| Chris: | I’m okay with a veto. |
| Mark: | It’s fine. |
| Matt: | Because it’s one you can work around. |
| Chris: | If you would’ve said in the left lane on the interstate, I’d have been like, “Bro, that’s like a four.” |
| Dan: | Speaking of that, camping in the left lane? |
| Chris: | Nope. Four. What’s the highest one left? |
| Dan: | Two. |
| Chris: | Two. It’s so annoying, dude. I just- |
| Mark: | See for me, since I don’t drive on the interstate anymore, I probably should withdraw from discussion of this one. |
| Dan: | But you drive on a two-lane road every day and if there’s somebody camped in the left-hand lane? |
| Mark: | It doesn’t bother me because I drive under the speed limit in the right lane. |
| Matt: | He’s a right-lane camper. |
| Dan: | That’s fine. Right Lane’s fine. I don’t mind. If you want to go slow, stay in the right-hand lane. |
| Matt: | Well, it doesn’t affect him because he doesn’t get in the left lane. Unless he has to turn. |
| Dan: | I see what you’re saying. All right. The two people that are still in the committee at Port Dundas. |
| Chris: | I hate it. That’s a hater for me. I just… |
| Mark: | Chris, it sounds to me like talking about this is you hate everything. You want to make everything two. |
| Chris: | Yeah, if it’s driving. |
| Dan: | He did say this was four. |
| Chris: | This is something that is like just get over. |
| Matt: | I mean if you can get back over, you should get back over. |
| Chris: | Just get over. |
| Matt: | Which really you shouldn’t drive in the left lane all the time anyways. |
| Dan: | No. Camping in the left lane, you’ve got two, four, five, six, seven and eight? |
| Mark: | Four or five at best. |
| Dan: | I’ll go with four. |
| Matt: | I’d go four or five. |
| Chris: | Four. Man, stay out of the left lane. Otherwise, you’ll get a finger if I have to go around you. |
| Matt: | No one wants the finger. |
| Dan: | Tailgating? |
| Chris: | Tailgating sucks. |
| Matt: | Tailgating drives me nuts. |
| Chris: | Oh, that’s the two, I knew that tailgating was going to be on here. |
| Mark: | I’m going two on that. |
| Chris: | I agree. |
| Mark: | I am generally a very, very, very cautious driver. You tailgate me dude, I’ll be doing 15 miles an hour in a 40. |
| Matt: | Which when I was younger I would brake check and now I learned that brake checking is bad. So then I just don’t use my accelerator. |
| Dan: | I used to go as far as I would use my parking brake. |
| Matt: | Oh, Jesus. |
| Dan: | So the brake lights didn’t come on. And I would pull out the handle so it wouldn’t latch, but then just press on the pedal just enough to where you’re slowing down abnormally fast. |
| Matt: | That sounds like a dangerous thing to do while driving. |
| Dan: | Yes. Well it was fine. There’s not a lot to do on the country roads. Again, I can’t do that anymore now. I don’t even touch the brake pedal anymore. |
| Mark: | I drive a medium-sized SUV. If I look in the mirror and can’t see the headlights of the car behind me, dude, I’m slowing down. |
| Dan: | Yep. |
| Matt: | Yeah, I’d say that’s- |
| Dan: | Tailgating? Two? |
| Chris: | Yeah, I’m okay with two on that one. |
| Matt: | Yeah, I’m good with two on that. Two car lengths people. Two car lengths. |
| Dan: | Rubbernecking? |
| Matt: | The nice thing about rubbernecking is it normally happens at slower speeds because you’re rubbernecking at an accident, so everyone’s slowed down a little bit, so that doesn’t bother me as much. |
| Mark: | I’m going to veto that one. |
| Chris: | Actually, I don’t disagree with the veto. |
| Matt: | I’m fine with that. |
| Chris: | Everybody else is doing it [inaudible 00:56:45] |
| Mark: | You can call it rubbernecking, but I’m trying to be safe. |
| Dan: | I might know the person. I know a lot of people. So this kind of folds in with using your phone because I think a lot of times it comes into that factor, but not paying attention when the light changes? |
| Matt: | Oh. |
| Dan: | Now a majority of us all sit in traffic in Omaha and you know have a finite amount of time to get through that stoplight. And those stoplights usually take forever to change back to green. |
| Chris: | This whole top 10 is making my hands sweat. |
| Matt: | He’s just walking to his next account. |
| Dan: | I get so freaking mad. And it does take me a while, but I’ll honk at them. But the Teslas do not have a “beep” horn. It is a, “Maa.” It’s a- |
| Matt: | It’s loud? |
| Dan: | There’s no being a plight of like, “Hey, you’re not paying attention.” |
| Mark: | That’s why there should be two horns on all cars. The loud horn and the, “Excuse me. Would you go now,” horn. |
| Matt: | So you have the horn that you honk at people at the red light and then you have the horn that you honk at people when you wave? Which one’s like, “Beep beep.” And the other one’s like, “Rrrrr.” |
| Chris: | Like a train horn, “Maaa maaa.” |
| Dan: | People not paying attention at the- |
| Mark: | I would put that on the list closer to the bottom. |
| Dan: | You’ve got eight, seven, six and five? |
| Matt: | I’d probably do a seven or eight on that. |
| Chris: | Eight, seven. I mean I’ve screamed out my window, “What shade of green are you waiting for?” It only gets so green. So I don’t know. Seven or eight. I’m cool with an eight. |
| Mark: | Eight. |
| Matt: | Yeah. Eight’s good. |
| Dan: | Eight it is. Driving in two lanes? |
| Chris: | Just because you’re not paying attention? |
| Dan: | Yeah, maybe you’re just trying to get along and [inaudible 00:58:35] |
| Matt: | Just enough you can’t get by. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Yeah, that’s pretty annoying. |
| Chris: | It’s annoying but I don’t see it too often. |
| Matt: | That’d be up there. I’d call that a 10. |
| Dan: | Yeah. Especially if I had, again, this goes back to my, sadistic is not the right word, but if I know they’re trying to get into the other lane and they’re just slowly taking their time, they haven’t quite made up their mind if they’re going to get into the other lane and their turn signal’s definitely not on, I’ll pull up right next to them. I don’t care. Rubbing the curb or whatever, I’ll just pull up right next to them and be like, “Hey.” |
| Matt: | Well if you’re going to drive just down the street with your turn signal on for no reason- |
| Dan: | That might be another one. |
| Matt: | … I’m fine with that. |
| Dan: | Not only the people that don’t turn on the turn signal but people that don’t them off turn off. All right. Driving in two lanes? You’ve got one more veto. |
| Matt: | I’d probably veto that. |
| Chris: | I’d probably veto that one. I just don’t see it that often. |
| Dan: | Driving with your bright lights on? |
| Chris: | While it’s a dickhead move, it does not bother me. |
| Dan: | No? |
| Chris: | I don’t drive enough at night. |
| Matt: | On two lane highways, like on Thursdays when I go out to Bennington to have dinner and I’m coming back down State street and people have their brights on, it’s quite a bit, but you can usually just, sometimes you forget you’ve got your brights on. So you just give them the little flashy flash. |
| Dan: | Little flashy flash. Yeah. |
| Matt: | And most people will give you the little flashy flash apology and then turn them off. |
| Dan: | Yeah. The only time this really does bother me, because I get it that if you forget your lights on when it’s opposing traffic, but when somebody comes up behind me and they’ve got their brights on and I’m like, “All right, I really can’t see.” |
| Matt: | I don’t get that a whole lot though. |
| Dan: | And especially in this day and age with automatic bright lights becoming like an automatic, you shouldn’t be driving around with your bright lights on. |
| Chris: | Right. Yeah. |
| Dan: | All right, so where’s that at? Driving around with your brights on? |
| Matt: | I’d probably be like a eight or nine. |
| Chris: | Yeah, I’m with that. Seven. |
| Dan: | Seven’s the highest you’ve got left. |
| Chris: | Okay then seven. |
| Dan: | Seven? Okay. |
| Chris: | How many more have we got? |
| Dan: | Driving way under the speed limit on an on-ramp to get on the interstate? |
| Chris: | I hate that too. |
| Mark: | Again, Chris, you hate everything. |
| Matt: | When it comes to driving. |
| Chris: | When it comes to in this town… |
| Dan: | It’s so much of our life we have to deal with this stuff. |
| Matt: | That’s fair. |
| Dan: | That when you deal with it on a daily basis of people just and then oh my god. And this is all things that [inaudible 01:01:10] |
| Chris: | Let’s ask how courteous we are as of driving too, because I’m pretty fucking courteous. |
| Dan: | This one is when I really boil over is when they take their sweet-ass time getting up to speed on the interstate and then they go to merge and they fucking hit their brakes. |
| Chris: | Oh dude. |
| Dan: | They haven’t been paying attention to the oncoming traffic. They haven’t paced themselves to merge into traffic like you’re supposed to and then they fucking break. That’s when I start losing my shit. |
| Chris: | Or they break before the off-ramp. “Why are you slowing down right now?” |
| Matt: | Well, sometimes it’s the car in front of you. |
| Chris: | Sure. |
| Matt: | Or over by Crescent, you’re getting on to come back to Omaha and it’s now you go from 70 to 25 in 50 feet. |
| Dan: | Yeah. We actually just hit that Saturday. Because I pulled in front of a semi and I was like, “I’ve got to get enough space in front of us so I don’t seem too big of an asshole.” Because I definitely wasn’t getting stuck on that on-ramp behind a semi. |
| Matt: | No. Well you might get to see the semi tip over. |
| Dan: | All right. Taking their sweet-ass time on an on-ramp? You’ve got five and six. |
| Matt: | I’d say like five or six. |
| Chris: | What do you think? |
| Mark: | I don’t drive on the interstate. |
| Matt: | But that is annoying. |
| Chris: | Like six. |
| Dan: | Six? |
| Chris: | Yeah. |
| Dan: | Shit, I just had a duplicate. I’ve got to think of a… |
| Chris: | I’ll tell you how courteous I am as a driver. So those people that leave their turn signals on that we were just talking about, they just forget that it’s on, which happens, they’re listening to music, they’re jamming out. I will speed to pull ahead of them and then I won’t even do that. I’ll click it left and I’ll click it right and I’ll click it left. I’m sorry. Right left, right, left. So they see that my blinkers are on and literally I am 100% they will look down and be like, “Oh, shit mine’s on.” And it’ll be turned off. |
| Dan: | Huh. I’ve often wondered how to signal somebody there… |
| Matt: | I’ll drive by and do… “Blinkers on.” |
| Dan: | What’s this guy doing? That’s your blinker? |
| Matt: | Why is he doing hand puppets at me? |
| Dan: | Totally. He’s totally being Kermit the Frog. |
| Matt: | Hi-ho. Your blinker’s on. Why is he talking like Pat Mahomes? |
| Dan: | All right, so this one’s going to be number five for you, but this is probably one of my top three. |
| Chris: | Oh wow. |
| Dan: | When somebody pulls out in front of you and then slowly accelerates? |
| Matt: | Oh, to the point where you have to hit your brakes? |
| Dan: | You have to slam on your brakes or slow way down or whatever. |
| Matt: | That’s pretty annoying. |
| Chris: | Yeah, that’s annoying. |
| Dan: | So that’s a number five? |
| Matt: | I think five is good. |
| Chris: | That’s five good on that one. |
| Dan: | What did I miss? Because I know there’s traffic habits out there that I definitely missed. |
| Chris: | Putting on your makeup? |
| Dan: | Yeah, that was one of them was the… |
| Chris: | Still wearing a mask in the car when you’re the only person in there. |
| Matt: | And gloves. |
| Dan: | That one doesn’t bother me. |
| Chris: | That one bothers. |
| Matt: | It’s my favorite. |
| Chris: | Or smoking a cigarette with your windows up. That’s weird. With kids in the back, that really fucking bothers me. But that’s not driving habits. I feel like that’s not- |
| Matt: | That’s just a personal thing. |
| Chris: | That’s just personal. Yeah. |
| Dan: | What else? |
| Matt: | I hate the people that do 10 over and weave through traffic. |
| Chris: | Like motorcycles. |
| Dan: | Motorcyclist. It just, I’m kind of mixed in the motorcycles. They have the unique ability to be able to get through traffic cleanly. It’s not necessarily very safe. |
| Matt: | No. |
| Dan: | It’s definitely breaking some laws, but also I’m not opposed to it because they’re not taking up another spot at the stoplight. |
| Chris: | They come up so quick on you though it’s scary. And I have nothing against motor… Most people that I know drive good. |
| Matt: | They cut you off quick. |
| Dan: | I’ve tried to turn in my footage to Aaron. |
| Matt: | The sheriff? |
| Dan: | Yeah, because when they go below and by me at a high rate of speed, they’re obviously breaking several laws and I can see the license plate. And he’s like, “Unfortunately they have the argument of you can’t prove that it was me riding the motorcycle, so I can’t give the ticket.” Is that a legit argument Mark? |
| Matt: | The ticket goes to the person, it doesn’t go to the vehicle. |
| Chris: | I did not know that. |
| Dan: | I didn’t either. And that’s unfortunate because with my Tesla cam, I could have definitely busted a lot of people for reckless driving. |
| Matt: | Yeah, that drives me nuts. |
| Dan: | That’s our top 10 list for the week. We do have a Whiskey Wednesday coming up next Wednesday, March 5th. It is going to be Whiskeys Not Named Jameson. |
| Matt: | From Ireland. |
| Dan: | Working on the list. Irish Whiskeys Not Named Jameson. I was like, “Why are you pointing that out?” And then I realized, I forgot to say the word Irish. |
| Matt: | That’s all right. |
| Dan: | Irish Whiskeys Not Named Jameson. It’s not that Jameson’s bad, it’s just that there’s a lot better whiskeys out there. |
| Matt: | There’s just a lot of Irish whiskey out there in general. |
| Dan: | That’s really freaking good. Really fricking good. |
| Matt: | Some of it. Just like all different styles. There’s some really good stuff and there’s some really not good stuff. |
| Dan: | Feel free to share out the podcast. That way we can continue to grow. And comment on the podcast Facebook post for this episode if we forgot any annoying traffic habits. |
| Matt: | Have we ever gotten an email about any of our lists yet? |
| Dan: | James has messaged me a couple of times. And then Kevin must’ve been really bored on Saturday morning because he sent me like five. |
| Matt: | Kevin, as in our Kevin? |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Okay. Interesting. |
| Dan: | Which he’ll randomly send them to me. |
| Matt: | He must have been really bored. |
| Dan: | So I’ve got a couple of lists to work on, but… |
| Matt: | Five Worst Pokemon. |
| Dan: | That’s going to do it for us today. Thanks everybody for listening and we’ll probably be back next week. |
| Matt: | Most likely. I won’t be back. I’ll be basking in- |
| Dan: | You’re in Mexico. |
| Matt: | … the suns of Mexico. Well that sounded horrible also. |
| Dan: | To each their own. |
| Matt: | All the suns of Mexico. |
| Chris: | The Gulf of… |
| Matt: | The Gulf of America. |
| Dan: | The Gulf of America. |
| Matt: | Do you know what? I bet they all still speak Spanish. |
| Dan: | I bet they do. |
| Chris: | They would probably make it all right if they just put Gulf of the Americas. People would probably be okay with that. |
| Matt: | I’d think we’d just name it Steve. Gulf of Steve. |
| Dan: | I’d be okay with Gulf of Steve. |
| Chris: | Gulf of Cuba, United States and Mexico. You just use the initials. |
| Dan: | We’re all sitting here trying to figure out what that would spell. |
| Matt: | CUSM? |
| Chris: | Just the first letters. Yeah, there you go. There you go. |
| Dan: | Wow. That took forever. |
| Matt: | Well, but it’d be C-U-S-M. United States, Mexico. CUSM. |
| Dan: | It’d be Cuba, United Mexico States because we’re going to own Mexico eventually someday anyways. |
| Matt: | Just like Gaza. |
| Dan: | Yeah. |
| Matt: | Buying it all. |
| Dan: | Matt, why don’t you end this for us. |
| Matt: | Adios amigos. |
