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I like it. Yeah, I bet you do. I bet you do like

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it. Oh, boy. Coming in hot today. Oh, man. So

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it's Tuesday, right? It is. It's our normal Tuesday.

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Election day. It's election day. It is election

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day. Some of your fruitcakes that you... Everybody

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go out and vote? Voted. I did. Last week. Voted.

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Tried to get Sean out there, but he was... I

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don't know what I was doing. Work got in the

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way. I ended up going. Chuck and I went. He made

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it. I know. Did you do early voting? Early voting.

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I think it was the first day, yeah. Smart. Our

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guest is smart? Eh. Eh. That's yet to be seen.

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Let's follow the rules here and there. Little

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things like that. Little moments. So, I mean,

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we went over most of the stuff. Chuck printed

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up that little cheat sheet, which kind of turned

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out to be pretty significant. I took that thing

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in there. I was able to use it. Did a little

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research. Not much. A lot of people that didn't

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have any competitors. A lot of judges, yeah.

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Yeah, I saw that. That's the way it typically

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is for the judges, especially for the primaries.

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So now, will you guys vote on somebody that you

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don't know any of them? Like, if there's four

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people you don't know, would you vote? It's specifically,

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it depends what their last name is. Wow. So Smith

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instead of Johnson? Right. That's exactly what

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he meant. Good call, Jeff. That's exactly what

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he meant. That's kind of what I meant. All right,

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well, look, it's Tuesday. It's March 3rd, 2026.

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Already the third frickin' – we're 25 % into

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the first year of this year. Isn't that crazy?

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It goes fast. It's flying in. Actually – 25 %

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no we're not we're two months yeah we're two

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months well March I was counting it March March

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3rd well hold on what's that percentage that's

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16 % first half of the dudes like us podcast

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check us out on Facebook Instagram dudes like

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us podcast or Woodcraft you know for our woodcrafting

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stuff that we got going we're on TikTok YouTube

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and Instagram Instagram. Yeah, we're on all dudes

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like us. I'm Sean. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff. And

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I'm Mark. And Mr. Producer behind the scenes.

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Thank you, Mr. Chuck, for taking care of business.

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I almost got all the 1845 stuff done. I got two

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or three left. Oh, those things. Oh, okay. Those

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are the guest boxes or the, yeah. Yeah, I've

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also brought the barrel into the garage because

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it's supposed to rain. Good call. Basically the

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next week. It is? Yeah, it is. I didn't know

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that. Yeah, I had to cancel some of my job stuff

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for Friday. It's going to start raining spotty

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on Thursday, full -on rain Friday. What do you

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all have? A barrel? The 1845. Yeah, we're kind

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of a big deal. I've heard. I've heard. From you

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specifically. It sheds brain, probably. We were

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able to get a barrel from 1845. It's what, our

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third? A full barrel? Oh, it's full, yeah. Wouldn't

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that be wonderful? Are you kidding me? Of course,

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that'd be awesome. No, we got an empty barrel.

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Oh, it's for decor. Well, that's what I meant.

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I meant the full size. We dropped $58 ,000 to

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pick up a barrel. Actually, at Jim Beam, I think

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they said it was $12 ,000 for a barrel. A barrel

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of Jim Beam. You just got to do the math, yeah.

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Really? Now, I think when you said like 58 ,000,

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I was like, dude, it's not anywhere near that.

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Maybe that's where our character, I don't know.

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Depends on the bottle, I guess. And I think when

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you buy a barrel, they bottle it for you. They

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don't just give you a barrel full of liquor.

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They literally will give you however many bottles

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are in a barrel. So you've got like 80 cases

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sitting in your garage. But you get the barrel.

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You're like, that's going to last. What if you

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want it in the barrel? I would kind of want to

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tap. Maybe you can. I don't know. You're going

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to keep it in your pickup? Yeah. Every morning,

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go into the kitchen, tailgate. It's on the counter.

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Yeah, it's on the counter, and you just kind

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of have a little tap. What could go wrong with

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that? It'd have to be on the island, man. This

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thing will never empty. It's like one of those

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boxes of wine. You never know when that thing

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is going to empty. It lasts forever. That would

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age, continue to age. Yes. By the time you're

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done with it in like 20 years. Yeah, but I could

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just see. It'd be so good. I could just be. I

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was like a week. I'm waking up, you know, in

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the bedroom and then I hear Shelly in the kitchen.

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What the hell is this? Yeah. Why is your barrel

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in my hand? Surprise. Yeah. Honey. I mean, it's

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going to be good forever. Happy Mother's Day.

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It's a good mixer. It's Jim Beam. No, I would

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never get a barrel of Jim Beam. Hey, you poor

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little baby. Unless you want to age it. I mean,

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come on. So I've got some coworkers in Huntsville,

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Alabama that would go and buy a barrel of Jack

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Daniels. And then they would, you know, say it's

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going to be, I don't even know how much each

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bottle came out to be. It's going to be $30 a

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bottle. Do you save money that way? You know

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what? That's a good question. I want to say it

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wasn't very much of a cost savings to do it that

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way. Well, it was more they got to pick their

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own barrel. You got to pick your own barrel.

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You got the barrel itself when you were done.

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And they probably lasered something special on

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it. Say it's this bourbon club. Yeah. Well, you

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get 240 to 260. So 250 divided by 48 bucks a

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bottle. See, look at me. I was right. It says

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$10 ,000 to $12 ,000. So it'd be $48 for a bottle

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of Jack. That's about what they charge at Total

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Wine. No, for the handle. No, that's a very good

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point. All right, so you're getting a little

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bit of a break. No, you're not. No, but these

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are people that have a ton of money and aren't

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buying it to get a bottle. Now, that is a single

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barrel. Right. Oh, okay, yeah. So those are,

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you know, 50, 60 true. Yeah. Are they? Retail,

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yeah. Right. And you're picking your own single

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barrel? Are they? What's the proof, though? Is

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that going to be the 80 proof stuff, or is that

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going to be the 130 single barrel type stuff?

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I imagine it's barrel strength, right? I don't

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know. But if that's the case, then yeah, that's

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a good deal. But this is not atypical. I mean,

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when I was visiting Heaven's Hill, which is,

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yeah, Heaven Hill, right? It's Heaven Hill, yeah.

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Heaven Hill. They were talking about how, when

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we were going through the rickhouse, bourbon

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clubs all the time or like any club, any guy's

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club. It's a YMCA club. I mean, we could do it

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at 1845. I heard the latest email said that they

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had the Houston, I think it was Houston SWAT

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team. Right. Pick a barrel, pick a barrel. They're

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going to bottle it. And it says Houston SWAT.

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There's a few bottles to buy up. Yeah. And I

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was chatting, I was chatting with some of the

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guys from that group. And, uh, and they said,

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you know, beforehand, you got to say how many

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cases you're good for because, Oh yeah, of course.

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Because when, When they make the decision and

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they buy the barrel, no one, that's it. No one

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else is getting in on this. Right. Oh, yeah,

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true. And so people would come home with, like,

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four boxes. And they were like, dude, I just

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want one bottle. And they're like, sorry, bro.

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I mean, these are all mine. I mean, they were

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like, you know, feudal lords over there. Right,

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right. Over their cases of, yeah, it was crazy.

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But, like, you could buy one from me. Double

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the price. You know? I think I would get sick

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of it. You know? That's what I mean. That's a

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lot of bourbon. I do enjoy diversity when it

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comes to my whiskey selection. No other reason?

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About the only time you'll ever hear me say diversity.

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You don't like diversity? You like homogenous?

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Yeah. You want all barrels to be included. It's

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just, you know, I mean, can you imagine being

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stuck with the same whiskey day in, day out?

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Well, if it's really good, who cares? Like a

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wife? Yeah. You're just not into monogamy when

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it comes to bourbon. Yeah, but your wife gets

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to age. Once the whiskey's in the bottle, it's

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the same. Well, you could put it back in those

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Red Rooster barrels. Oh, yeah. What was it called?

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Red Robin? Red Rooster? Was it Red Rooster? No,

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I thought you had it up for a second there. I

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don't know. It was something. I thought it was

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Red Robin. And then you could jam a bunch of

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cherries in it. Oh, that went bad. Yeah, that

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was horrible. For our listeners out there that

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don't know what we're talking about, which is

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probably all of you, we, during our first, before

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we started really diving in as much as we do

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this podcast now, we ended up buying like ancient

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age, just some horrible gut raw benchmark, just

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some well whiskey. Bourbon whiskey. And we put

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it, we wanted to age it in these little liter

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barrels. So we bought some liter barrels from

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Red Robin or Red Bird or whatever the hell it's

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called. I don't know why the Texas. Yeah, it

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was out east. We went out there and we picked

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them up and we're kind of like, oh, this is pretty

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cool. I mean, they're little, you know, little

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pony barrels. Oh, it just, it was, it kind of,

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it reminds me of like brewing beer. You know,

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it's just like there's cost involved in it. You

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got to do stuff. And at the end of it, it's kind

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of like. I could have just bought a six -pack.

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It was just a novelty thing. It is a novelty

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thing. Yeah, but we all pick something different.

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That's the whole point. And I picked Henry McKenna.

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What did you pick? At ancient age. Ancient age.

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What did you have? I have no idea. You had benchmark

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is what you got. It was benchmark. And it was

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good for one shot, basically, for six weeks.

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For six weeks. But mine actually turned out.

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Well, hold on. You barreled it and nothing else?

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Did you add anything to it or did you just put

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it in the barrel? The first one, I don't think

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we did. No, we did not. It was just regular.

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And it did have a lot of sawdust, you know, the

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uncut, unfiltered taste inside of a cleaned out

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barrel. Oh, really? So they weren't charred on

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the inside? Oh, yeah, it was charred. Was it?

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Yeah, it was charred. Yeah, it was. Yeah, but

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you still, when you pour the little spout, you

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can see there was like sawdust kind of floating

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at the top. Right. But, I mean, the second one.

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Uncut, unfiltered, baby. We ended up, I think,

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Jeff, did you put vanilla beans in yours? I got

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some vanilla beans. Big, long vanilla beans.

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And I split them open and I jammed them in there.

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And... I don't think I put enough or something,

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but there was maybe a very slight hint, but there

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wasn't much of anything. Did you do that on the

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first pass? No, that was the second pass. So

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we tried to run it through again after. And Paul

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put like maraschino cherries. I did. The first

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one worked out really well. I mean, it was just

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Henry McKenna, that age, and I could tell a difference.

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It was smoother and darker, and it was cool.

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I was like, well, now I'm going to make myself

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a cherry bourbon. And I put like two in there

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and I waited a week. And I was like, man, that's

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nothing. And I had been drinking. And that was

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a mistake. I say it's not so. And I was like,

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you know what? I'll just put the rest of the

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damn bottle in there. And I stuffed, I don't

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know how many I did, but I stuffed a whole bunch

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in there. And then the second pass, it was disgusting.

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I think I did four things. I did two or three

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bourbons and I did a tequila as well. Oh, nice.

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Yeah, I remember that. And it was kind of cool

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because the first run, you know, of course, The

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flavors get into the barrel. And then you did

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the tequila. And did you do vodka at the last

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one? I did a vodka as well. All in the same barrel.

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All in the same barrel. So there was some transference

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of flavors in there. It was kind of interesting.

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But again, at the end of it, I'm just going to

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go to Total Wine and buy my stuff. I know. It

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is a novelty thing, though. My buddy did that,

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and he put in some port wine. Just a little bit

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of port wine. Oh, nice. Tasted phenomenal. And

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it was the same thing. It was like a benchmark

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or a cheaper whiskey. And it was a small little

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barrel. Small barrel and just a little bit of

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port wine. And I'm telling you, it turned out

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great. Interesting. Okay. Let's try it again.

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Yeah, I know. Let's do it. Well, we're about

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experimenting like that. I mean, you saw at the

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house, we had the Ambarano, the wood stave we

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put in there. Now, I had bought two staves, and

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I think we added it to the Weller's. The Weller

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you tasted, sampled at the house, it was kind

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of light. Taste it, but... I've got the 114 out

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there if you want to try it. Yeah, that one's

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a little bit different, too. It's stronger. The

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RD1 Spirits, I think, is one of the... It's got

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a really good flavor. I'll tell you who made

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their own that tasted fantastic, the best I've

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tasted, was Scott Cash. He mixed his with the

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10 -year Eagle Rare. And that was excellent.

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By far the most excellent mix of Ambarano staves

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and whiskey. But doesn't Penelope make... make

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one themselves, an Ambarana? Or was that one

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of the ones where they put the steak in there?

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It was a real... It was good. Yeah. It was a

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little too sweet for me. It was kind of a mix

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of praline, Nestle cereal, and like... Kind of

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like a TX whiskey. But it wasn't flavored. It

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just had the Ambarana. No, they added some stuff

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in there. It wasn't just the water. Was it an

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Ambarana cask or did they put the staves in it?

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Probably the staves. Yeah, it was just the staves.

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They may have done French oak with that Rio as

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well. It doesn't take much to get the flavor.

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No, it doesn't. The one I had at Sean's house,

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it tasted really good. They didn't put anything

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in it. They just aged it in an Ambarana cask

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and then a honey cask after that. So they didn't

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add anything to it. There's no additives. Oh,

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they did do it. Finished it. They did do it.

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What is an American honey cask? Come on, everybody.

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I'll show you. It's just American beans. That's

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a honey pot, by the way. Oh, yeah. And don't.

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Don't show us your honey pot. Never mind. I shouldn't

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have said that. All right. All right, well, hold

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on. Yeah, okay. I want to kind of go back a little

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bit. Yeah, yeah, we jumped out there. Yeah, okay,

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because we have a guest with us tonight, Mr.

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Mark. Mark, do you want to announce your last

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name? Is that all right? My last name is pronounced

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Lavienka. It's a Czechoslovakian name. Most people

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don't mention their last name because they don't

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want our listeners to go after them because we've

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got a lot of years. Oh, I don't care. I'm used

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to it. So I've been saying it wrong for 30 years.

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Yes, you have. Appreciate you just now telling

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me how you actually are supposed to say it. How

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do you say it? Lavienka. Yeah. And that's the

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way that everybody says it. I always take pride

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in saying it, and I've been wrong the whole time.

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I've always. What's his last name? Oh, it's Hlavenka.

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Hlavenka. Hlavenka. Yeah, that's not offensive

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at all. You're on the wrong podcast. No, you

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got thin skin, bro. Is it like, is it like wheat

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thin? Yeah. What did you say? What? Hla, hla.

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Cool whip. Ooh, let me have some of that cool

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whip. What'd you say? You can't have a pie without

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cool whip. Cool whip? Cool whip, yeah. You mean

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cool whip. Yeah, cool whip. Cool whip. Cool whip.

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Cool whip. Cool whip. You're saying it weird.

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Why are you putting so much emphasis on the H?

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What are you talking about? I'm just saying it.

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Cool whip. You put cool whip on pie. Pie tastes

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better with cool whip. Say whip. Whip. Now say

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cool whip. Cool whip. Cool whip. Cool whip. Cool

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whip. Cool whip. You're eating hair! What is

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happening? That's the second half type of stuff.

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All right. So, look, to give us a little background,

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we've known Mark for a very long time. Both Paul

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and I have. I don't know who met him. I think

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Paul met him first. So, I mean, we knew each

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other through Pagenet and just friends growing

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up. And we ended up doing a couple vacations.

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You had a house out in Pottsboro, Texas. Yes.

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Oh, boy. Which has been the source of many conversations

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on the podcast. So, I will tell you, the first

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time I heard you guys, it was a mention about...

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When we would go to Pottsboro, we would do a

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paintball thing out there. Yes. And they were

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so much fun. They were. I mean, we were a lot

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younger. Yeah. We could definitely get around

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a little bit better, but they were a lot of fun.

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They were. We'd leave Frisco, Texas at 4 .15,

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4 .30 in the morning. We'd get out to the Pottsboro

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house at 6 -ish, crack a beer, and start the

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bonfire. And you had a nice big backyard. Oh,

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it was huge. With tons of trees. Lots of trees.

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And it was always mowed nicely because you had

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a wonderful mower. Yeah, and we went over to

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Armstrong Relocation Moving Company, and Uncle

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Mike worked there as the president, CEO, and

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he would always say, just go pick out some boxes,

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but use the used ones. And so I'd go, and we'd

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show up with, what, 20 wardrobe boxes? And it's

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crazy. And I think we've mentioned this before

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on some of the podcasts, but if you take a paintball

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gun and shoot it through a cardboard, it goes

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through the first half. but it won't go through

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the second half, which kind of leads into my

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next story where you have this guy named Ryan

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Benson who thought it was fun because we were

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to start the game, and Ryan climbs into one of

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these boxes, cuts the two holes in the side to

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put his arms through, and he's running around

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the backyard looking like SpongeBob, and we're

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just... pelting him, and they're going through

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the first later and hitting him. He can't get

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out of the box. I think his own team was trying

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to shoot him, too. It was a lot of fun. A lot

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of memories there. A lot of questionable decision

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-making. Third -degree burns. Oh, yes. A lot

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of things could have gone horribly worse. Jet

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fuel. I was telling Sean that I've got some pictures

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that show up on my timeline every once in a while,

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and one of them is Sean's third -degree burn.

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Oh, I bet that's lovely looking. Yeah. Well,

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that was crazy because that was where we had

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the bonfire. Bonfire was part of it. I got to

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tell you, man, the whole experience of the bonfire,

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not just sitting around drinking, but gathering

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the wood throughout the day and making sure it's

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maintained and just everything about it. One

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of our cousins came over and thought it was cool

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to throw in a... A glow stick. And the glow stick

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has that little glass, I don't know, ramekin

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or vessel inside there. When you break it, it

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glows. Well, if you don't break it, well, that

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thing will heat up and explode. Well, we were

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throwing in the small ones. And the small ones

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were like, puff, poof. Oh, it was no big deal.

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Fucking Sam walks over there with one that looked

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like, you know, AD cell batteries and threw the

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freaking thing on there like a mag line. It went

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off like an M80. Shit went everywhere. And I

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was just like, oh, that was a fucking big explosion.

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And I didn't know until I kind of see smoke.

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That's weird. There's smoke coming off my leg.

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I reached down there, and I was wearing these

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parachute pants. They were kind of parachute

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pants. Yeah, it was. Because they melted to your

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skin. They did. They were nylon. And, man, I

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could not. It was rough. I remember somehow.

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You got naked faster than any man. We were laughing

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so hard. My ding dong came out because I was

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trying to pull off the pants. Because I started

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to panic. And those pants were super strong.

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You can't rip them. For some reason, I think

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I was going to rip them off like they were made

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out of cotton or something. Like you came off

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the bench in a basketball game. Like you're the

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Hulk. I was thinking more like Magic Mike. But

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yeah, let's go with the basketball. Okay, yeah.

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That works too. So, you know. Pull those things

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off, and I finally pull them down to my legs,

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and my underwear comes with it, man. I don't

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know who was sitting next to me. I think poor

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PJ got it. Yeah. No one needed to see that. It

00:18:23.289 --> 00:18:24.170
was funny right up until that point. He got a

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dick across the face. Oh, dude. Dude, dude, really?

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He's like, oh, man. Oh, dude. Do you ever see

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that? Do you ever see that? There's a movie out

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there where the lady is sitting there, and the

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dolphin comes up, starts playing with her. Oh,

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it's kind of hard on. He starts humping her,

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and then he goes back, and also the dolphin comes

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out. smacks her in the face with his dick. Don't

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they have it in slow -mo? Yeah, so it's like...

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And it's like... I don't know what movie that

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is, but I've seen it several times. Nailed it.

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It's funny. So that's what happened that night.

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I got to tell you, it's great memories, I mean,

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across the board, because it's not just the bonfire,

00:19:02.809 --> 00:19:04.730
but you got the venue next to us, which was a

00:19:04.730 --> 00:19:06.869
barbecue, which once was a gas station, turned

00:19:06.869 --> 00:19:10.099
into a barbecue shack, and... It was basically

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like absolutely a shed. It was a big shed. Yeah.

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And they had a band playing one night. Yeah,

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the old dudes are playing there. Oh, yeah. They

00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:19.460
were good. Guy had a keytar. They were meth heads.

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Oh, were they? That's how they stayed in business.

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Oh. We were so drunk, they sounded wonderful.

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Oh, they sounded great. It didn't matter. I agree.

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It was fun. It was a good time, for sure. And

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you sell the property. You know, one of the things

00:19:38.619 --> 00:19:40.759
I regret, the weirdest things going out there

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and not keeping. Out on the property, there were

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these little stone white balls. Do you remember

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those? They were about the size of a baseball,

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maybe a little smaller. And it was kind of like,

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I don't know where they came from, but they were

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littered around the property here randomly. I

00:20:00.660 --> 00:20:03.799
don't remember that. Yeah. Anyway, so you pick

00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:06.180
them up and they're about as heavy as a, like.

00:20:06.460 --> 00:20:09.279
granite you know and they were had the consistency

00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:11.700
of it i was just like lobbing them in the forest

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and i was thinking man i should have kept some

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of those those geodes maybe uh no they they look

00:20:16.819 --> 00:20:19.099
man -made like some little cement balls yeah

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they weren't smet though it was like someone's

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trying to cord drill into something and they

00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:24.779
try to spin it i don't know like some homemade

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stuff but whatever that's one of those things

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i was hoping we'd kept i'll tell you margaret

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i went out there one time to do some work and

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you know that is kind of like and we talk about

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this every now and then one of the greatest moments

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ever when it comes to whiskey and it was kind

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of like uh hey i'm gonna go inside and make us

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a drink okay i go inside the uh the house and

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you know we don't there's no full bar or anything

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you know there's like a maker's mark and there

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was just enough to make two drinks but We had

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big 16 -ounce cups or something like that. So

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I said, that's not enough. And I grabbed a bottle

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of vodka, and I topped off the Maker's Mark with

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some vodka and some RC Cola, and there was probably

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something else in there. And I go outside. I

00:21:07.710 --> 00:21:09.809
hand it to Mark, and it's got a little fire going,

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snowflakes coming down out of the sky. We looked

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at each other deep. Oh. That's right. It's a

00:21:17.569 --> 00:21:19.650
magical moment. It's like, just drink it. Yeah.

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Did you spoon? Man, I tell you, it was probably

00:21:22.789 --> 00:21:25.470
one of the best drinks ever. It was. Because

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it was the moment. Yes, I know. Yes. How long

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ago was that? 25 years ago? 20 years ago, yeah.

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Something like that. Holy shnikes, Tom Flies.

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Then we had a night where we decided to joyride

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on your lawnmower. I'm amazed we still have our

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legs. Oh, yeah. That's when I was a gin drinker.

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Paul and I got out there early. It was hot. We

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were going to get everything ready for our wives

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to come out. And I was pouring 32 -ounce gin

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and tonics because, I mean, it tastes like a

00:21:55.230 --> 00:21:57.349
Sprite almost. It's hot outside. On a hot day,

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perfect. Oh, my God. That was horrible. That

00:22:00.910 --> 00:22:05.109
night was not good. Not good at all. It was really

00:22:05.109 --> 00:22:08.390
fun memories. Oh, yeah. It was good stuff. We

00:22:08.390 --> 00:22:10.369
got to make more of those. I agree. It doesn't

00:22:10.369 --> 00:22:12.190
have to be. Well, hey, speaking of, I brought

00:22:12.190 --> 00:22:14.750
you guys a little something for letting me come

00:22:14.750 --> 00:22:17.970
on your podcast. Oh, look at that. Goodie gloves.

00:22:18.109 --> 00:22:22.539
I didn't have any bags. Nice. So my next door

00:22:22.539 --> 00:22:24.980
neighbor, his name's Gooey. He's from Sweden.

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He's got a daughter. It is a glove. That's funny.

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She has a 3D printer. And I asked her to make

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these up for you guys. So I don't know if you've

00:22:34.980 --> 00:22:36.440
ever seen these, but these go on top of your

00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:41.559
Glencairn glass. Oh, badass. Oh, look at that.

00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:43.680
It's got a little dudes like us thing on there.

00:22:43.720 --> 00:22:47.359
Very nice. So shout out to Alex. Alex, fantastic.

00:22:47.819 --> 00:22:49.920
Thank you very much. And it's got a rim on the

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inside of it. Oh, yeah. It's perfect. It fits

00:22:52.019 --> 00:22:53.180
perfect on your Glencairn. I'm going to go get

00:22:53.180 --> 00:22:56.079
it, Glencairn. Yeah, no kidding. Dude, this is

00:22:56.079 --> 00:22:58.220
awesome. Thank you very much. That was very thoughtful.

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And who has the, the GUI has the 3D printer?

00:23:02.140 --> 00:23:04.940
No, his daughter. Daughter Alex has the 3D printer.

00:23:06.470 --> 00:23:08.710
These are terrific. Aren't they cool? I haven't

00:23:08.710 --> 00:23:10.809
heard that name in a long, long time. So he's

00:23:10.809 --> 00:23:13.069
still your neighbor? Oh, yeah. He's a great guy.

00:23:13.170 --> 00:23:16.710
As a matter of fact, I was over at his house

00:23:16.710 --> 00:23:18.049
the other day, and I was telling him that I was

00:23:18.049 --> 00:23:20.009
coming on the podcast, and we were going to do

00:23:20.009 --> 00:23:22.910
this sampling. And so later on tonight, I want

00:23:22.910 --> 00:23:25.230
you guys to try this whiskey. It's from Gooey,

00:23:25.250 --> 00:23:26.829
and I'll tell you all about it when we try it.

00:23:26.849 --> 00:23:28.869
But he said, hey, bring this to the guys and

00:23:28.869 --> 00:23:31.549
have them try it out. It's an Icelandic whiskey.

00:23:31.549 --> 00:23:33.029
I was going to say the name on it makes me think

00:23:33.029 --> 00:23:36.309
Viking. Yep. Nice. Well, I mean. And it's a whiskey.

00:23:36.329 --> 00:23:38.369
And this as well. It's a whiskey, yeah. Interesting.

00:23:38.609 --> 00:23:42.170
This cool ass Viking helmet. I think Paul's going

00:23:42.170 --> 00:23:45.730
to put this on the tip of his wiener. Go charging

00:23:45.730 --> 00:23:47.390
it. Too bad for Shelly. Here, give me a minute.

00:23:47.990 --> 00:23:50.589
She's going to get her red towel. Don't get me.

00:23:51.049 --> 00:23:55.430
Wow. Come on, big boy. He runs by. She grabs

00:23:55.430 --> 00:23:58.769
one of those arrows. An hour later, I'm just

00:23:58.769 --> 00:24:00.710
frustrated, sitting on the ground. With a bunch

00:24:00.710 --> 00:24:03.569
of arrows in you. This is not fun. All right.

00:24:03.569 --> 00:24:05.809
Well, the other thing you did as well is you

00:24:05.809 --> 00:24:09.069
set up this blind tasting test. Yeah. I say we

00:24:09.069 --> 00:24:11.549
get into this. Yeah. It's going to take a while,

00:24:11.670 --> 00:24:13.309
and we're excited about it. And we have yet to

00:24:13.309 --> 00:24:16.210
have any bourbon tonight. So the whole idea behind

00:24:16.210 --> 00:24:20.089
this, I brought five different whiskeys for you

00:24:20.089 --> 00:24:24.250
guys to try. Okay. And you can't tell what they

00:24:24.250 --> 00:24:25.809
are just by looking at them, obviously. So I

00:24:25.809 --> 00:24:28.529
want you guys to try each one. And then after

00:24:28.529 --> 00:24:31.150
you try it. on the sheet of paper, I want you

00:24:31.150 --> 00:24:32.950
to write down between one and ten how you rate

00:24:32.950 --> 00:24:36.509
it. One being you hate it, ten being it's awesome.

00:24:36.829 --> 00:24:38.569
And then after you've rated them all, I'll bring

00:24:38.569 --> 00:24:40.410
out the actual bottles themselves and I'll show

00:24:40.410 --> 00:24:41.930
you the bottles and what you had and just kind

00:24:41.930 --> 00:24:44.750
of see if it aligns with what you think it is.

00:24:44.750 --> 00:24:46.609
Maybe we give the points and then we rank them

00:24:46.609 --> 00:24:49.589
and say, okay, number one got the most points

00:24:49.589 --> 00:24:52.910
of all of us. We'll show that would last kind

00:24:52.910 --> 00:24:54.890
of a thing. Okay, we can do that. Do that kind

00:24:54.890 --> 00:24:56.329
of a thing. And so I guess, Chuck, while we're

00:24:56.329 --> 00:24:59.809
doing this, you have to queue up some. I was

00:24:59.809 --> 00:25:01.769
thinking the same thing. I don't know. Well,

00:25:01.769 --> 00:25:03.089
we can do some talking, too. Yeah, we'll talk

00:25:03.089 --> 00:25:05.069
while we're doing this. We're going to try number

00:25:05.069 --> 00:25:08.069
one. Can we describe what we're tasting? Oh,

00:25:08.069 --> 00:25:10.930
yeah. Describe it all you want. I'll just give

00:25:10.930 --> 00:25:13.390
you a bit of a background. These are all whiskeys,

00:25:13.430 --> 00:25:20.410
and they range in proof from 40 % to 50%. So

00:25:20.410 --> 00:25:22.089
80 % to 100 % proof. 80 % to 100 % proof, yeah.

00:25:22.450 --> 00:25:25.430
Okay. I smell grass on this. This one's definitely

00:25:25.430 --> 00:25:32.230
80 % proof. Very easy. Small, nut, little nutty

00:25:32.230 --> 00:25:38.250
flavor. Yeah, that's light. I'm picking up some

00:25:38.250 --> 00:25:40.829
tobacco on that. Are you able to say how much

00:25:40.829 --> 00:25:43.529
it cost? I'm going to show you all the details

00:25:43.529 --> 00:25:47.269
at the end. The cost is not part of this. Exactly.

00:25:47.769 --> 00:25:50.170
It seemed like a fair question. It is a fair

00:25:50.170 --> 00:25:53.029
question. I'll tell you another reason I wanted

00:25:53.029 --> 00:25:55.109
to do this was because I was watching one of

00:25:55.109 --> 00:25:57.720
your little vignettes. I think Sean brought a

00:25:57.720 --> 00:26:00.519
whiskey that you guys were going to try. And,

00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:02.420
you know, he's reading it. He said, oh, you know,

00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:04.779
it says it's got hints of vanilla. And I think

00:26:04.779 --> 00:26:09.119
you said, well, it's an MGP. Screw it. It's an

00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:13.200
MGP. And so immediately when you see what's on

00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:15.579
the bottle, you kind of, in my mind, you have

00:26:15.579 --> 00:26:17.599
preconceived notions of how it's going to taste.

00:26:17.859 --> 00:26:20.730
And even from a price standpoint. And from a

00:26:20.730 --> 00:26:22.869
proof standpoint as well. Absolutely, yeah. Yeah,

00:26:22.869 --> 00:26:26.049
but we've learned that that's simply just not

00:26:26.049 --> 00:26:28.650
fair because it's just the distillate, you know?

00:26:29.069 --> 00:26:33.109
Oh, the MGP thing? Yeah. I agree. MGP makes good

00:26:33.109 --> 00:26:37.109
stuff. It's just, I don't know. We have more

00:26:37.109 --> 00:26:39.130
respect for the distilleries that have their

00:26:39.130 --> 00:26:41.750
own stuff. I agree. But it doesn't diminish how

00:26:41.750 --> 00:26:43.630
good the MGP stuff is. All right, so hold on.

00:26:43.670 --> 00:26:46.210
So this ranking, are we doing from 1 to 100 points?

00:26:46.450 --> 00:26:48.950
1 to 10, typically. 1 to 10. Yeah. 1 to 10. Yeah.

00:26:49.339 --> 00:26:51.140
And you can rate them all tens if you want to.

00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:55.200
So I used to do blind tastings at the house and

00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:58.220
I would have, you know, invite 20 guys or 20

00:26:58.220 --> 00:27:00.599
people and they would bring a bottle. I'd say

00:27:00.599 --> 00:27:03.200
bring your favorite bottle and bring it like

00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:06.099
in a paper bag so no one knows what it is. And

00:27:06.099 --> 00:27:09.519
sometimes I'd give requirements like it has to

00:27:09.519 --> 00:27:11.619
be a single malt or it has to be a bourbon. But

00:27:11.619 --> 00:27:13.140
typically it's just like if it's distilled from

00:27:13.140 --> 00:27:16.789
grain, it's free game. Bring it over. Sure. Typically,

00:27:16.829 --> 00:27:18.690
it would be a bunch of guys like you guys who

00:27:18.690 --> 00:27:20.690
actually enjoy whiskey, but then you'd get the

00:27:20.690 --> 00:27:23.569
ones that'll bring like a peach, you know, Crown

00:27:23.569 --> 00:27:26.390
Royal or something like that. Right. But the

00:27:26.390 --> 00:27:28.509
idea is we would do the exact same thing. Did

00:27:28.509 --> 00:27:30.710
you say peach Crown Royal? Yes. They would never

00:27:30.710 --> 00:27:33.589
come back. Did you bring peach Jim Beam to one

00:27:33.589 --> 00:27:37.160
of our concerts? And we were all sticky. How

00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:40.819
dare you bring that up? And it was disgusting.

00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:43.579
He tried so hard to forget that moment. I just

00:27:43.579 --> 00:27:46.960
remember being all sticky. It was honey, wasn't

00:27:46.960 --> 00:27:49.680
it? No, it was peach. It was peach Jim Beam or

00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:54.119
something like that. Horrible. We smuggled in.

00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:56.180
We went diabetic that day. So number one, right

00:27:56.180 --> 00:27:58.019
off the bat, I'm going to go ahead and vote this.

00:27:58.119 --> 00:27:59.359
But first of all, before that, I'm going to say

00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:03.880
it's light, spicy, it's nutty. It lingers. For

00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:05.940
about a minute. We're not saying what our rating

00:28:05.940 --> 00:28:09.660
is. Don't say what our rating is. No. We'll do

00:28:09.660 --> 00:28:12.799
it all at the end. At the end. Because, honestly,

00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:16.380
I may be adjusting things based on how I feel

00:28:16.380 --> 00:28:18.460
about other ones. Agreed. And if you think somebody

00:28:18.460 --> 00:28:20.000
else is rating it high, that'll put a little

00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:23.640
butterfly in your head and rate it a little bit

00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:25.480
higher. There you go. I'm moving on to number

00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:30.690
two now. Number two. Oh, and I have the ability

00:28:30.690 --> 00:28:32.809
to clear my palate. Nobody else does. That was

00:28:32.809 --> 00:28:34.470
dumb. That's definitely a single malt. It smells

00:28:34.470 --> 00:28:39.069
like a single malt. So, yeah, back to the, I

00:28:39.069 --> 00:28:43.369
would do these tastings at the house, and, you

00:28:43.369 --> 00:28:45.130
know, you'd have 20 people bring, there'd be

00:28:45.130 --> 00:28:47.029
20 different bottles, or not necessarily different

00:28:47.029 --> 00:28:49.930
bottles, there'd be 20 bottles. And so you would

00:28:49.930 --> 00:28:51.430
sit down just like we're doing here, and you'd

00:28:51.430 --> 00:28:53.750
have 20 little samples in front of you. And we

00:28:53.750 --> 00:28:55.849
would randomly draw a number out of a hat. Okay,

00:28:55.950 --> 00:28:57.869
everybody try number five. And so everybody would

00:28:57.869 --> 00:28:59.569
find their number five cup and try it. And we

00:28:59.569 --> 00:29:02.470
would do the same rating. And then at the end,

00:29:02.470 --> 00:29:05.329
I would gather everybody's cards up and go put

00:29:05.329 --> 00:29:07.390
it in a spreadsheet. And we would do exactly

00:29:07.390 --> 00:29:09.569
what you were saying. We would go the lowest

00:29:09.569 --> 00:29:11.890
number of points to the highest number of points.

00:29:11.950 --> 00:29:13.730
And I would go and bring them out one at a time

00:29:13.730 --> 00:29:17.049
from the lowest to the highest. And a lot of

00:29:17.049 --> 00:29:18.849
times I'd say, hey, everybody bring five or 10

00:29:18.849 --> 00:29:21.650
bucks. And I would go and buy. two or three bottles

00:29:21.650 --> 00:29:24.069
for kind of like giveaways. So typically the

00:29:24.069 --> 00:29:26.470
person who brought the whiskey that got the least

00:29:26.470 --> 00:29:28.549
amount of points would get a good bottle of whiskey.

00:29:28.589 --> 00:29:31.710
Yeah, just as a consolation prize. But it's a

00:29:31.710 --> 00:29:34.970
fun time, for sure. Yeah, you have a trend of

00:29:34.970 --> 00:29:37.950
doing things like that. Back 15 years ago, we

00:29:37.950 --> 00:29:41.059
were doing, 18 years ago, we were doing... Beer

00:29:41.059 --> 00:29:42.980
tasting at the house. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we bring

00:29:42.980 --> 00:29:45.859
over your favorite case of beer, 12 -pack of

00:29:45.859 --> 00:29:49.059
beer, and we sample it. Remember? A or B, A or

00:29:49.059 --> 00:29:51.960
B, A or B. Right. Oh, my gosh. That might have

00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:54.240
been, I couldn't remember. I went to one at your

00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:56.539
house. That might have been the beer one. It

00:29:56.539 --> 00:29:57.960
might have been the beer one, and yes, the A

00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:00.559
or B, A or B. Yeah, that was. And then by the

00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:04.259
seventh or eighth, it was like C or D, but there

00:30:04.259 --> 00:30:08.349
is no C, Paul. Yeah. Oh, okay. Right. Okay. All

00:30:08.349 --> 00:30:09.710
right. There we go. All right. Are we moving

00:30:09.710 --> 00:30:12.809
on to three? I've not scored this yet. I'm thinking.

00:30:12.970 --> 00:30:14.829
Let's pause. Yeah. I'm not going to score mine

00:30:14.829 --> 00:30:19.730
until later. Oh. Okay. Interesting strategy.

00:30:20.849 --> 00:30:22.410
At the end of it, you're going to remember. I

00:30:22.410 --> 00:30:25.210
don't remember it, and now it's gone. I'm taking

00:30:25.210 --> 00:30:31.910
notes. He's gargling with it. Are we going? Number

00:30:31.910 --> 00:30:33.109
three is definitely. Are we on number three?

00:30:33.109 --> 00:30:36.559
Okay. This is definitely the 100 proof one. It's

00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:38.640
a little bit hotter than the other two. Oh, I

00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:41.099
get something strange in that too. Yeah, there

00:30:41.099 --> 00:30:47.740
is. It's almost like mustard to me. I've never

00:30:47.740 --> 00:30:49.279
heard that one. Got a little grain, a little

00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:51.640
tobacco. It was something. It was something different.

00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:55.079
But it's got some... I don't know what that mustard,

00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:59.720
that tang or... I don't know what that mustard.

00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:02.339
Yeah, I don't know what it is yet. It's right

00:31:02.339 --> 00:31:07.109
up front, then it goes away. All right. I was

00:31:07.109 --> 00:31:10.569
going to say a niece, but your niece. Whose niece?

00:31:11.529 --> 00:31:14.490
Tastes like your niece. That was a bad joke.

00:31:15.210 --> 00:31:18.849
Sorry. I retract. What? I said whose niece? Just

00:31:18.849 --> 00:31:20.549
a niece. It tastes like your niece. What are

00:31:20.549 --> 00:31:25.349
you saying? A niece. Oh, a niece. A niece. Not

00:31:25.349 --> 00:31:28.589
like your niece. Anus? Tastes like what? Tastes

00:31:28.589 --> 00:31:31.029
like anus. What kind of podcast is this? It really

00:31:31.029 --> 00:31:33.250
is. Yeah, it really is. You're going to be a

00:31:33.250 --> 00:31:35.480
regular, by the way. We brought gloves for exploration

00:31:35.480 --> 00:31:39.140
later. That's what he's trying. We're going to

00:31:39.140 --> 00:31:41.059
give ourselves complimentary prostate checks

00:31:41.059 --> 00:31:44.240
later. They're black, so they, you know, will

00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:54.440
hide things. Like what? Smears. Alright, number

00:31:54.440 --> 00:31:57.720
four. Can we not? I mean, in the middle of a

00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:00.779
taste test? Are we serious right now? I taste

00:32:00.779 --> 00:32:06.559
nuts. All right, so we're on sample number four.

00:32:06.619 --> 00:32:09.539
Number four is a little lighter. Lighter than

00:32:09.539 --> 00:32:13.940
number three for sure. More caramelly. I'll even

00:32:13.940 --> 00:32:16.740
venture to say marshmallow -y. This is very similar

00:32:16.740 --> 00:32:20.519
to number one, in my opinion. I think number

00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:23.099
one had a lot more tobacco on the finish, at

00:32:23.099 --> 00:32:25.380
least for me. My rating is almost identical to

00:32:25.380 --> 00:32:27.500
a number one on that one. Funny you say that.

00:32:29.220 --> 00:32:32.259
You know, another thing, going back to the blind

00:32:32.259 --> 00:32:34.180
tastings I would do, every once in a while, two

00:32:34.180 --> 00:32:36.579
people would bring the same whiskey. And it's

00:32:36.579 --> 00:32:39.500
always interesting to see. Do they get the same

00:32:39.500 --> 00:32:41.339
rating? Do they get the same vote? Somebody won

00:32:41.339 --> 00:32:42.900
the whole thing and the other one got the conversation

00:32:42.900 --> 00:32:44.319
first. Yes, right, exactly. And that has happened

00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:47.539
before. Well, sometimes. these three bourbons

00:32:47.539 --> 00:32:49.420
are going to impact what that tastes like. We

00:32:49.420 --> 00:32:52.660
should have water up here. That's why I'm cheating

00:32:52.660 --> 00:32:55.440
and drinking water. Are you guys scotch drinkers

00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:58.539
at all? We're starting to get into some scotches.

00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:01.500
Single malts. The American single malts, we've

00:33:01.500 --> 00:33:04.599
had a number of them now. We enjoy single malts

00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:07.900
across the board. I think some of them that were

00:33:07.900 --> 00:33:10.420
not really... Getting into just yet is some of

00:33:10.420 --> 00:33:13.720
the peated stuff. Yes. The peated stuff is an

00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:16.660
acquired taste. 100%. And that's what I was going

00:33:16.660 --> 00:33:19.859
to say was some folks would bring a very peated

00:33:19.859 --> 00:33:22.220
scotch to this tasting. If you're not used to

00:33:22.220 --> 00:33:23.720
that, you're like, yeah, that's crap. And I'll

00:33:23.720 --> 00:33:25.960
tell you, and it is like, to me, it's like licking

00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:29.740
an ashtray. Right. It is beyond just campfire

00:33:29.740 --> 00:33:33.400
smoky. It is smoky, smoky. Yeah. So if you taste

00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:37.700
something after that. No, it's the best thing

00:33:37.700 --> 00:33:40.140
in the world because you've tasted a turd and

00:33:40.140 --> 00:33:43.980
now you've got a filet mignon. I'll never forget

00:33:43.980 --> 00:33:46.019
when I was at Specs and I was overhearing the

00:33:46.019 --> 00:33:48.839
guy that worked there explain different scotches.

00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:52.579
And he goes, this one's peated so it'll taste

00:33:52.579 --> 00:33:57.440
like burning rubber. And he said it like it was

00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:01.339
a good thing. And I was starting to laugh. I

00:34:01.339 --> 00:34:04.599
was like, we're looking at one of the art bags,

00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:06.359
I think. And he's like, yeah, that one's going

00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:09.780
to be pretty burnt rubber. Burnt rubber. And

00:34:09.780 --> 00:34:11.980
I was like, okay, we'll pass. We'll stay away

00:34:11.980 --> 00:34:14.059
from that one. No, I know guys that love that.

00:34:14.139 --> 00:34:18.179
They absolutely love that. I don't mind the smoky

00:34:18.179 --> 00:34:20.559
one. Jeff's not a fan of smoky bourbon, but I

00:34:20.559 --> 00:34:24.420
love smoky bourbon. Smoky bourbon. Or whiskeys.

00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:26.739
We have some brimstone out there, which is not

00:34:26.739 --> 00:34:29.260
a bourbon. It's a balconies. Balconies, yeah.

00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:32.760
So we had balconies come out to that house one

00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:34.639
time. This is before they were like really big.

00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:36.920
And they did a tasting in our house. And they

00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:40.280
brought the, what is it called? Brimstone? They

00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:44.639
brought a brimstone. And it was interesting because

00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:47.380
he said they smoke it after they've distilled

00:34:47.380 --> 00:34:49.940
it. Whereas in the scotch, you smoke the grain.

00:34:50.059 --> 00:34:51.880
You smoke the grain. But it's kind of like they

00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:54.239
already have the liquid and they somehow infuse

00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:57.179
it with smoke. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of that.

00:34:58.699 --> 00:35:01.440
Okay. Are we on to number five yet? Yeah, I've

00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:06.599
already started it. Very interesting. Something

00:35:06.599 --> 00:35:13.400
unique with this one, too. Ooh, that is unique.

00:35:13.940 --> 00:35:15.500
I don't know if that's another single malt or

00:35:15.500 --> 00:35:21.179
not. I don't think it is. That is odd. All right,

00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:23.039
I'm going to put a number down, but I'm going

00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:25.380
to wait and go back to some of these other ones.

00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:29.920
I wish I had not. I've got... There's some more

00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:31.840
in the bottles. I've got the full bottle if you

00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:34.099
really want it. So what are y 'all thinking?

00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:38.519
How do we want to go about doing the numbers?

00:35:39.179 --> 00:35:42.760
Well, our producer has got a schedule up on the

00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:45.380
board. Do we want to write our names and have

00:35:45.380 --> 00:35:49.179
him enter them? I could just tell them if you

00:35:49.179 --> 00:35:54.039
want. Let's just tell them. With me, going across

00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:57.480
the board, starting with one, it's 5 -2 -1 -3

00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:02.269
-4. Oh, you just rank. You didn't put like a

00:36:02.269 --> 00:36:06.130
five rank one to ten. No, no. It's. Oh, shit.

00:36:06.190 --> 00:36:08.309
I'm sorry. I was ranking them in order. My bad.

00:36:08.349 --> 00:36:10.849
Hold on. What do you mean? I was ranking them

00:36:10.849 --> 00:36:13.110
in order from one to five. I didn't rank. I just.

00:36:13.349 --> 00:36:15.989
I ranked them. Oh, I see. I see. I got it. Okay.

00:36:17.190 --> 00:36:18.989
Yeah, we're doing scores. Does anybody have a

00:36:18.989 --> 00:36:20.630
score? I've got scores. But what's going to be

00:36:20.630 --> 00:36:23.869
tricky about this is, I mean, if I thought they

00:36:23.869 --> 00:36:26.710
were all like, okay. Yeah. That's still okay.

00:36:26.909 --> 00:36:30.139
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, and so. My whole thing

00:36:30.139 --> 00:36:34.000
with the blind tasting is that I love bourbon,

00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:37.880
but I would say 95 % of the bourbons that I've

00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:41.119
ever had are all good. And I would put them in

00:36:41.119 --> 00:36:43.519
a good category. Okay. There's a small percentage

00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:45.380
that are horrible and a small percentage that

00:36:45.380 --> 00:36:50.699
are terrific. I'm ready, Chuck. 5, 7, 7, 6, 6.

00:36:51.539 --> 00:36:54.719
I mean, you seem like an asshole, but okay. I

00:36:54.719 --> 00:37:01.909
did 3, 4, 5, 3 .5, and 5. What a dick. That kind

00:37:01.909 --> 00:37:03.989
of implies that I hated them all, but I didn't.

00:37:04.769 --> 00:37:11.550
Mine is six, four, seven, three, and six and

00:37:11.550 --> 00:37:15.309
a half. I wish I had my glasses. I like how our

00:37:15.309 --> 00:37:17.769
producer, Mr. Chuck, has already got the averages

00:37:17.769 --> 00:37:21.510
rolling there. Yeah. I love that. Nice. Wow.

00:37:21.690 --> 00:37:24.170
You love that one. That's a really high score.

00:37:24.829 --> 00:37:28.199
55. I should have used more points. Like .1s

00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:30.619
or .2s. Yeah. Because I have some similars. Well,

00:37:30.619 --> 00:37:32.260
it would have been cool. All right, Chuck. I've

00:37:32.260 --> 00:37:38.039
got 6, 8, 7, 9, 10. Ooh. Damn. Just went up.

00:37:39.860 --> 00:37:43.940
A 10? A 10. Damn. That's a perfect bourbon. Perfect.

00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:48.139
There's no such thing. See, now I'm... I don't

00:37:48.139 --> 00:37:49.500
know what to think. All right. Anyway, go ahead.

00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:52.300
I was rating them like we rate our bourbon. No,

00:37:52.300 --> 00:37:54.059
that's fine. And that's fine. That's how I did.

00:37:54.380 --> 00:37:58.199
That's how I did. Okay. Do you want me to pull

00:37:58.199 --> 00:38:02.280
them out? Hold on. Number one got the lowest.

00:38:02.340 --> 00:38:05.400
What's number one? That was the lowest for me

00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:10.079
as well. Go ahead and pull it out. It's an easy

00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:13.920
drinking one. Super easy. It's light. There's

00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:19.940
nothing special. JTS Brown. No way. It's number

00:38:19.940 --> 00:38:23.679
one? That's our lowest rated. That was my lowest

00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:27.039
rating. Hold on. Let me give you the price. Oh,

00:38:27.039 --> 00:38:29.440
that's like $8. It's less than $8. It's less

00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:32.800
than $10. $8. By the way, it's a fantastic mixer,

00:38:32.860 --> 00:38:35.699
though. Hey, I'm telling you, I had never had

00:38:35.699 --> 00:38:37.539
that, but I was looking for the cheapest bourbon

00:38:37.539 --> 00:38:39.280
I could find. And if you mix that with Coke...

00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:40.820
And I tried that. Oh, yeah. It's great. You would

00:38:40.820 --> 00:38:44.039
have no idea. I actually have a bottle of that,

00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:47.860
and I mix it with Coke. Okay, so this was a bit

00:38:47.860 --> 00:38:51.480
of a... I kind of threw this in there. Wait,

00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:53.340
are you doing the second... Number four. This

00:38:53.340 --> 00:38:55.630
is the single malt. Number four. Oh, you want

00:38:55.630 --> 00:38:58.369
to do number four. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, we're

00:38:58.369 --> 00:39:01.369
doing worst to best. Oh, okay. You got to throw

00:39:01.369 --> 00:39:06.449
me. All right. So this is number four. This is

00:39:06.449 --> 00:39:09.730
number four. Rare Stash. Oh, I've never even

00:39:09.730 --> 00:39:11.590
heard of this one. Yeah, I haven't either. I

00:39:11.590 --> 00:39:13.150
had a girlfriend with a nickname like that. Very

00:39:13.150 --> 00:39:15.429
familiar bottle, though. That's an 1845 bottle.

00:39:15.510 --> 00:39:18.050
It sure is. Okay, so this is the second lowest

00:39:18.050 --> 00:39:20.469
rated one, right? It's got a taller neck. And

00:39:20.469 --> 00:39:23.480
that is exactly what I have as well. 91 proof,

00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:26.460
blend of straight bourbon, rare stash. Yeah,

00:39:26.500 --> 00:39:34.019
that was my least favorite. Live rare, be rare.

00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:37.099
Grain to glass, USA. So grain to glass, they

00:39:37.099 --> 00:39:39.320
make their own stuff, huh? And the price is on

00:39:39.320 --> 00:39:40.659
the bottom. Check out the price of that one.

00:39:44.340 --> 00:39:48.789
Is that $105? $105. My notes were it was a little

00:39:48.789 --> 00:39:51.789
better than number one. So, yeah. A $8 bottle

00:39:51.789 --> 00:39:55.849
to a $105 bottle. Oh, my God. What a great point.

00:39:55.909 --> 00:39:58.170
Yeah, yeah. Exactly. So, this one I wrote down,

00:39:58.329 --> 00:40:00.710
marshmallows. It's extremely... I don't understand

00:40:00.710 --> 00:40:04.010
where the $105 comes from. I mean... No, not

00:40:04.010 --> 00:40:06.210
at all. So, what's the proof on that one? That's

00:40:06.210 --> 00:40:09.610
a higher proof? Okay. So, it's... Yeah. Yeah,

00:40:09.650 --> 00:40:11.869
I don't know. I don't know if it's... Is that

00:40:11.869 --> 00:40:13.829
a small batch maybe or something where they didn't

00:40:13.829 --> 00:40:16.900
make very many of them? Take a closer look. When

00:40:16.900 --> 00:40:20.539
we see the whiskeys, the color of it's pretty

00:40:20.539 --> 00:40:24.460
important. How many years is that? Why is it

00:40:24.460 --> 00:40:29.739
$105? Who knows? Total wine. All this is total

00:40:29.739 --> 00:40:33.860
wine. By the way, Kevin helped me out with some

00:40:33.860 --> 00:40:37.039
of this stuff. I told him what I was doing and

00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:38.860
I said, yeah, I'm going on a podcast. He goes,

00:40:38.940 --> 00:40:42.940
what's the name of the podcast? Oh, no! I said,

00:40:42.940 --> 00:40:47.579
it's Dudes Like Us. I've been on it. I got hammered

00:40:47.579 --> 00:40:50.659
on the podcast. That he did. Yeah, he's a good

00:40:50.659 --> 00:40:56.639
guy. Oh, Sean. He did at the end. Okay, so that

00:40:56.639 --> 00:41:00.039
was, what's the next one then? So number two

00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:04.900
is the next one? Five point, yes. And by the

00:41:04.900 --> 00:41:06.880
way, this is a blend. This is not a single barrel.

00:41:06.980 --> 00:41:08.639
This is not a small batch. It's a blend. This

00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:14.190
is a blend of bourbon whiskeys. It trips me out

00:41:14.190 --> 00:41:17.250
that it's $105. 100%. Yeah, I agree. And again,

00:41:17.329 --> 00:41:18.989
I wouldn't kick it out of bed. It's not horrible.

00:41:18.989 --> 00:41:22.050
No, but if I were going to buy a bottle, I would

00:41:22.050 --> 00:41:25.150
not typically spend $105. No. Oh, well, that's

00:41:25.150 --> 00:41:29.489
unfortunate. I'm off the podcast. So this is

00:41:29.489 --> 00:41:31.929
bottle number two. This is a Balvenie. This is

00:41:31.929 --> 00:41:37.329
a Scotch. Yeah. So Scotch is, to me, I love Scotch.

00:41:37.349 --> 00:41:39.730
If I had to choose between a Scotch and a bourbon,

00:41:39.750 --> 00:41:42.340
I would choose a Scotch. This type of scotch.

00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:46.059
Specific scotches. Because there are some great

00:41:46.059 --> 00:41:50.119
scotches. I mean, I have some Ben Rhines scotch.

00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:55.559
Phenomenal. It doesn't taste like the cliche

00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:58.199
scotches that we're used to. The single malt.

00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:00.460
I mean, one of the newest spirits in the United

00:42:00.460 --> 00:42:03.880
States is the American single malt. So we are

00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:06.320
jumping on that bandwagon. They've got, who's

00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:10.579
the Fox? Swift. Swift. Let you taste some. Bourbon?

00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:13.320
It's a single malt. It's a single malt. I'll

00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:14.840
go get something for you to taste if you like.

00:42:14.860 --> 00:42:17.760
Single malt. So explain to me single malt. That

00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:20.500
means it's the same distiller. It's only barley.

00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:25.179
It's only barley? Oh, okay. See, that's one thing

00:42:25.179 --> 00:42:27.480
that confuses me about whiskeys is all the different.

00:42:27.579 --> 00:42:30.260
So a single malt is one grain? It's more than

00:42:30.260 --> 00:42:33.460
that. I thought it was one distiller does everything.

00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:37.199
No, it's one grain, but from what I understood,

00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:41.199
it's one grain, but it's also from the same field.

00:42:41.239 --> 00:42:43.739
The same harvest. It was the same harvest is

00:42:43.739 --> 00:42:49.039
what it was. Yeah, you know the Balvenie. Is

00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:51.900
that how you pronounce it? The Balvenie. The

00:42:51.900 --> 00:42:56.099
Balvenie. It's got double wood. It's very light.

00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:00.760
It's really, really good. Single malt Texas whiskey.

00:43:00.940 --> 00:43:05.130
And it's barley. Because I tell you... I was

00:43:05.130 --> 00:43:07.550
thinking it was an American single malt is what

00:43:07.550 --> 00:43:09.429
it was. Oh, wow. That is really good. It did

00:43:09.429 --> 00:43:13.070
not taste like scotch. So there is a crossbreed

00:43:13.070 --> 00:43:16.150
of the whiskeys from the single malt to scotch.

00:43:18.130 --> 00:43:20.250
And it's a good way to transfer over. I mean,

00:43:20.269 --> 00:43:23.250
really, from a marketing perspective. Well, I

00:43:23.250 --> 00:43:25.809
mean, you know you're drinking a bourbon. I mean,

00:43:25.809 --> 00:43:28.449
it kicks you in the throat. This is super light,

00:43:28.510 --> 00:43:32.889
super tasty, and it's got a very sweet tone afterwards,

00:43:32.989 --> 00:43:35.739
and it's tinny. You talking about the Balvenie?

00:43:35.800 --> 00:43:37.139
Yeah, the Balvenie. Yeah, yeah. I mean, they're

00:43:37.139 --> 00:43:41.639
typically older. This is 12 years. That's a 12

00:43:41.639 --> 00:43:44.500
-year -old. And it's a double wood. Double wood.

00:43:44.739 --> 00:43:47.380
Double wood. That's why I like it. It's MGP.

00:43:48.019 --> 00:43:51.519
I'll cop it. Wow. It's MGP. All right, number

00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:54.000
three. All right, here we go. All right, this

00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:55.400
is number three. I know that you guys have had

00:43:55.400 --> 00:43:57.300
this one. The whistle pig. Oh, the whistle pig.

00:43:57.420 --> 00:43:59.360
Yeah, we got that out there. Piggyback. Number

00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:03.110
three. This was my highest ranked. Yeah. Oh,

00:44:03.150 --> 00:44:04.969
before you say anything, what was the price of

00:44:04.969 --> 00:44:07.269
the Balvenie? Does it say on the bottom? $70.

00:44:07.349 --> 00:44:09.289
That's about right. That's a great price, man.

00:44:09.389 --> 00:44:13.690
How much? $70? $70? And the Whistlepig, wow.

00:44:13.949 --> 00:44:17.150
I got to tell you, the Whistlepig tasted hotter

00:44:17.150 --> 00:44:19.369
than 100 proof. I knew it was 100 because you

00:44:19.369 --> 00:44:21.429
gave us a range. Well, that is 100 proof. But

00:44:21.429 --> 00:44:25.309
it tasted hotter than 100 proof. Agree. Age six

00:44:25.309 --> 00:44:27.670
years. You know, we've done a lot of Whistlepigs,

00:44:27.730 --> 00:44:31.860
and I'm really... Not that impressed with them.

00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:34.519
This one was good, and I think I scored it number

00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:37.500
one. I did. This was by number three? This is

00:44:37.500 --> 00:44:41.199
by number one. So this is definitely number one,

00:44:41.219 --> 00:44:43.900
because I like stronger stuff. And this one,

00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:48.059
it's got some deep tastes in there. I didn't

00:44:48.059 --> 00:44:50.199
write any notes on there. I wrote 100%, which

00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:52.760
means I liked it. Which one was this? Number

00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:55.619
three. The Whistle Pig. It's a piggyback bourbon

00:44:55.619 --> 00:44:58.340
whiskey. This is the one who gave me the odd

00:44:58.340 --> 00:45:01.679
mustard. Yes. Oh, okay. That's the one you and

00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:03.480
I immediately thought there was something weird

00:45:03.480 --> 00:45:06.380
in there. Okay. Next one. All right, so the winner.

00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:11.619
So this is the winner. This is a Tres Hombres.

00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:20.059
Have y 'all had that? No. I've never had that

00:45:20.059 --> 00:45:24.599
either. As a matter of fact, Kevin, he very highly

00:45:24.599 --> 00:45:27.500
rated that one. And I will tell you. I think

00:45:27.500 --> 00:45:29.619
I rated... What number was that? That was number

00:45:29.619 --> 00:45:32.219
four. That was number... This was our highest.

00:45:32.239 --> 00:45:34.519
Number five. I rated that the highest. I think

00:45:34.519 --> 00:45:36.219
that one tastes really good. This was my second

00:45:36.219 --> 00:45:40.619
favorite. So this is a blend. And it's finished

00:45:40.619 --> 00:45:43.480
in American single malt cast. It's Chuck's favorite.

00:45:43.699 --> 00:45:46.699
But it is a bourbon. Yeah. Sean's... It's 94

00:45:46.699 --> 00:45:51.639
proof. You're kind of the middle. Yeah. And Paul,

00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:54.059
that's... That was Chuck's favorite. Kind of...

00:45:54.599 --> 00:45:57.940
So, here's the thing. Well, just go from, I'm

00:45:57.940 --> 00:46:00.280
in the exact same order as lowest to highest,

00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:04.079
except my top two were tied. Yeah. Five and five.

00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:07.920
So, let's talk about some of these, I'm going

00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:09.719
to call them allocated, like Tres Hombres. Is

00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:11.920
it ZZ Top? It is ZZ Top. So, they've got these

00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:14.579
artists, football players. Celebrity bourbons.

00:46:15.139 --> 00:46:19.559
Celebrity endorsed stuff. I mean, they had. Yeah,

00:46:19.559 --> 00:46:21.920
McConaughey had the gin. Yeah, there's a ton.

00:46:22.059 --> 00:46:23.780
I mean, there's just. You know, you're kind of

00:46:23.780 --> 00:46:26.320
like, ah, come on. You know, you guys are just...

00:46:26.320 --> 00:46:28.219
But you know what? This is actually pretty good.

00:46:28.360 --> 00:46:30.320
I thought that one was really good. But that

00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:34.940
kind of brings home my point, is that Whistlepig,

00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:37.820
highly marketed, that thing's got some sort of

00:46:37.820 --> 00:46:41.340
celebrity endorsement. And that's really what

00:46:41.340 --> 00:46:43.159
you're paying for, in my mind. You're paying

00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:45.800
for the bottles that are, like, really cool.

00:46:46.260 --> 00:46:49.659
And all that marketing stuff that goes behind

00:46:49.659 --> 00:46:53.219
it. That's why the whole MGP thing, I'm kind

00:46:53.219 --> 00:46:56.320
of with you on if you tell me that it's MGP,

00:46:56.460 --> 00:46:59.139
I'm okay with it. But if you don't tell me that

00:46:59.139 --> 00:47:01.639
it's MGP and I'm thinking that, oh, you're growing

00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:04.780
your grain and you're babying it. I think from

00:47:04.780 --> 00:47:07.460
a marketing perspective, they need to stop saying

00:47:07.460 --> 00:47:10.340
MGP and they need to start calling it multigrain

00:47:10.340 --> 00:47:12.679
products. Well, they have their own distillery

00:47:12.679 --> 00:47:15.119
called Ross and Squibb where they make their

00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:18.599
own shit now. They sell their own? Yeah, Ross

00:47:18.599 --> 00:47:22.920
and Squibb. is their distillery where they actually

00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:25.239
release bottles. Can you inform me a little bit?

00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:27.460
I'm going to put these. I'm pitting these against

00:47:27.460 --> 00:47:30.139
each other again. Whistlepig versus Tres Hombres.

00:47:30.619 --> 00:47:32.539
Do you need some of this? I've got Tres Hombres.

00:47:32.619 --> 00:47:34.679
So what is the price of that one? A little bit

00:47:34.679 --> 00:47:36.719
more of Whistlepig. The Tres Hombres was a $45.

00:47:36.980 --> 00:47:39.619
So the Whistlepig and the Tres Hombres, about

00:47:39.619 --> 00:47:43.539
the same price. You've got this $8 JT. What is

00:47:43.539 --> 00:47:46.400
it? JT Brown? JTF Brown. JT such a bad. JTS,

00:47:46.659 --> 00:47:52.329
yes. So you go from an $8 to $105, and then a

00:47:52.329 --> 00:47:54.110
couple that are in the middle. Oh, yeah. What

00:47:54.110 --> 00:47:57.150
was the price on this one? Sorry. $45. I think

00:47:57.150 --> 00:47:59.269
it's Whistlepig. Whistlepig's about another $45,

00:47:59.289 --> 00:48:00.829
I think it was. Okay. So they're comparable in

00:48:00.829 --> 00:48:04.230
price. So when you go to the store, that, in

00:48:04.230 --> 00:48:07.429
my mind, is a normal price for a decent bottle

00:48:07.429 --> 00:48:09.449
of whiskey. Decent bottle of bourbon. It puts

00:48:09.449 --> 00:48:11.690
things in perspective. Yeah. You know, I think...

00:48:13.050 --> 00:48:14.789
Our palates are a little different, even though

00:48:14.789 --> 00:48:17.869
we all agree what was good, because they were.

00:48:18.010 --> 00:48:21.289
Hell, the JTS brown was good. But we all agree,

00:48:21.469 --> 00:48:24.289
at least we do, we really gravitate towards some

00:48:24.289 --> 00:48:26.050
of the hotter stuff. You know, the hotter stuff.

00:48:26.090 --> 00:48:28.530
Oh, yeah. You like what you like. We're enjoying

00:48:28.530 --> 00:48:32.730
the deep raisins and the deep figs and just the

00:48:32.730 --> 00:48:37.849
white pepper, just the tones. Rare characters.

00:48:38.510 --> 00:48:41.039
This is great. This was a great experience. And

00:48:41.039 --> 00:48:43.860
so getting back to this $8 bottle of JTS Brown,

00:48:44.019 --> 00:48:49.039
it can only be a bourbon unless it meets a certain

00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:52.199
criteria of what a bourbon can be. And I was

00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:54.500
looking into this. It's obviously a bourbon,

00:48:54.519 --> 00:48:57.500
so it meets all the criteria, and it's not mixed

00:48:57.500 --> 00:49:02.960
with anything. So what makes a good bourbon and

00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:05.780
a really good bourbon? Is that bourbon, though?

00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:08.309
Yes. Age. Age is a big part of it. Because it's

00:49:08.309 --> 00:49:10.230
got to be an age. I kind of wonder sometimes,

00:49:10.429 --> 00:49:12.710
because you've got these tequilas that really

00:49:12.710 --> 00:49:15.969
are tequilas. They're basically, it's agave with

00:49:15.969 --> 00:49:19.690
a lot of vodka. Yeah. In fact, a lot of these

00:49:19.690 --> 00:49:22.429
tequila companies are getting sued from Mexico

00:49:22.429 --> 00:49:26.389
because it's not a real tequila. I'm wondering

00:49:26.389 --> 00:49:29.489
if JTS Brown, maybe it's not, but it sure does

00:49:29.489 --> 00:49:31.110
taste like it. It's a bourbon. No, this is a

00:49:31.110 --> 00:49:33.480
bourbon. Heaven Hill makes this. That's exactly

00:49:33.480 --> 00:49:35.320
why they came up with this criteria, so that

00:49:35.320 --> 00:49:38.380
you wouldn't have ambiguity as to how they put

00:49:38.380 --> 00:49:41.260
it in here. But the reality is, it's two things.

00:49:41.500 --> 00:49:44.559
It's the mash bill, and it's how long it's aged.

00:49:44.699 --> 00:49:47.900
Sure. That's it. And then other things. And we're

00:49:47.900 --> 00:49:50.039
in the rickhouse. We're in the rickhouse. Yeah.

00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:54.500
If it's on the first floor, it's JTS Brown. Could

00:49:54.500 --> 00:49:58.000
be. Could be. Or a basement. Thank you guys for...

00:49:59.019 --> 00:50:00.760
Playing along with me. No, it's fun. We've been

00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:02.699
actually talking that we want to do more of this

00:50:02.699 --> 00:50:05.179
kind of stuff. Yeah. And we'd love to do some

00:50:05.179 --> 00:50:07.679
special events. Yeah. Yeah. We can do some special

00:50:07.679 --> 00:50:10.119
events. We've got the equipment to set it up.

00:50:10.139 --> 00:50:12.059
It doesn't necessarily be here. It's more fun

00:50:12.059 --> 00:50:14.159
when we're here. Yeah. But we can go over your

00:50:14.159 --> 00:50:18.340
house. I want to ask you, the Balcona is contact

00:50:18.340 --> 00:50:20.840
you have. You still have that contact? It wasn't

00:50:20.840 --> 00:50:23.300
a contact that I had. So I had a buddy that worked

00:50:23.300 --> 00:50:27.739
at Total Wine. His name was Barry Foster. and

00:50:27.739 --> 00:50:31.579
he had a contact at Balcones. You might want

00:50:31.579 --> 00:50:34.539
to ask Kevin and see if he has any kind of contact

00:50:34.539 --> 00:50:36.440
like that. Well, Balcones has kind of pumped

00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:39.119
the brakes on a lot of their expenditures. Yeah,

00:50:39.119 --> 00:50:43.059
I'm sure. The whole market seems to be, I don't

00:50:43.059 --> 00:50:45.579
want to say collapsing, but it's not going in

00:50:45.579 --> 00:50:47.480
a positive direction. It's having a correction.

00:50:48.239 --> 00:50:52.480
You mean the whiskey? Bourbon specifically. I've

00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:56.630
got to tell you, Balcones, in my opinion, is

00:50:56.630 --> 00:50:59.269
great. I enjoy a lot of their products. I enjoy

00:50:59.269 --> 00:51:01.429
a lot of the single malts they have. They come

00:51:01.429 --> 00:51:04.369
out with some rums that aren't available. Super

00:51:04.369 --> 00:51:07.969
strong stuff. Paul and I went there on the way

00:51:07.969 --> 00:51:10.369
to College Station or something. And we stopped

00:51:10.369 --> 00:51:13.710
by there. That's in Waco? Where's it at? I can't

00:51:13.710 --> 00:51:17.469
remember. It's in Waco. They've got the staff

00:51:17.469 --> 00:51:20.909
there. I mean, gosh. They're all over the place.

00:51:21.849 --> 00:51:24.230
You're walking in there like, dude, are you...

00:51:24.409 --> 00:51:26.610
Are you wearing Wicked Witch of the West socks?

00:51:26.710 --> 00:51:28.829
What the fuck is going on here? Yeah, one dude,

00:51:28.909 --> 00:51:32.090
I thought he was in a clown outfit, and I wasn't

00:51:32.090 --> 00:51:34.250
sure if that was like a kid's event that was

00:51:34.250 --> 00:51:36.070
coming up. Is it Halloween, or is that just true?

00:51:36.170 --> 00:51:39.070
No, man. So that kind of made us go. And I'm

00:51:39.070 --> 00:51:40.570
going to say, I'm going to use the word woke,

00:51:40.730 --> 00:51:42.969
but I mean, I don't want to like really, but

00:51:42.969 --> 00:51:48.869
they're hardcore on their style, which is synonymous

00:51:48.869 --> 00:51:51.650
of other. They produce a good whiskey. Yeah.

00:51:52.010 --> 00:51:54.829
Hey, we'll forgive anything. Exactly. They don't

00:51:54.829 --> 00:51:56.690
produce anything. They're just the staff that

00:51:56.690 --> 00:52:00.389
work there. Yeah, right. We had a good time there.

00:52:00.530 --> 00:52:03.769
I mean, we ordered a flight, and they had their

00:52:03.769 --> 00:52:06.289
own beer there. I mean, I'd go back. They've

00:52:06.289 --> 00:52:10.219
really narrowed their focus. Yeah, they should.

00:52:10.980 --> 00:52:13.519
Is that really all they produce now? Yeah, right

00:52:13.519 --> 00:52:17.840
now. Yeah, because they got rid of the, God bless

00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:21.980
it. Rumble. The single malt is always good. Yep.

00:52:22.099 --> 00:52:24.539
So the True Blue, they don't make anymore. So

00:52:24.539 --> 00:52:26.960
what we finished last week, you can't find again.

00:52:27.059 --> 00:52:28.960
We had the one the other day. That was really

00:52:28.960 --> 00:52:31.099
good. We finished that fucking bottle? Yes, we

00:52:31.099 --> 00:52:33.769
did. So I'll tell you, when they came up to the

00:52:33.769 --> 00:52:35.269
bottle. Because you pour like that much in your

00:52:35.269 --> 00:52:38.909
glass. I don't remember that. I have it on video,

00:52:38.909 --> 00:52:42.570
bro. I have video proof. That did not happen.

00:52:42.610 --> 00:52:46.869
All right, I'll send it to you. No, so yeah,

00:52:46.929 --> 00:52:48.769
you're right. This is right when bourbon was

00:52:48.769 --> 00:52:51.889
starting to really pick up. And Barry hooked

00:52:51.889 --> 00:52:54.170
us up with a contact. And they were two. What

00:52:54.170 --> 00:52:57.269
is that? I've had that. I'm not a fan of that

00:52:57.269 --> 00:53:00.369
one. Is that whiskey? It's a single malt. I've

00:53:00.369 --> 00:53:02.690
had that at Total Wine. Have you really? I've

00:53:02.690 --> 00:53:04.389
never heard of that. Yeah. I would buy that.

00:53:05.250 --> 00:53:07.250
Balcones was there. You were there. Caraleja?

00:53:07.730 --> 00:53:10.690
Yeah. Wasn't that at Plano? I just like saying

00:53:10.690 --> 00:53:14.469
it. Caraleja. No. Look at me. The Balcones guy

00:53:14.469 --> 00:53:17.130
was one of the taster guys was up there. And

00:53:17.130 --> 00:53:18.829
they had that one and there was another one.

00:53:19.030 --> 00:53:21.989
And that one. Mirador. The Mirador. We're drunk.

00:53:22.269 --> 00:53:25.710
They do have Baby Blue. They don't have the True

00:53:25.710 --> 00:53:27.530
Blue. Oh, that's right. Go over to Baby Blue

00:53:27.530 --> 00:53:29.789
for a second. That kind of triggers me a little

00:53:29.789 --> 00:53:32.309
bit. Do you remember the night that I had to

00:53:32.309 --> 00:53:35.150
shell out money for my son's engagement party?

00:53:35.329 --> 00:53:36.889
How much were you paying for those baby blue

00:53:36.889 --> 00:53:42.170
shots? Wow. I'm guessing maybe $180 a pop. What?

00:53:42.269 --> 00:53:46.150
A bottle or? Dude, I told you I spent $2 ,700.

00:53:46.829 --> 00:53:48.690
Yeah, hold on. Pump the brakes. You were doing

00:53:48.690 --> 00:53:50.530
how much? This was the only whiskey available.

00:53:51.090 --> 00:53:53.710
Baby blue or true blue? Baby blue. Baby blue.

00:53:53.889 --> 00:53:57.380
And it was. How much? $2 ,700. Now, it's for

00:53:57.380 --> 00:53:59.159
a wedding party. I mean, for an engagement party.

00:53:59.260 --> 00:54:00.880
No, but back up. We want to know per drink. Did

00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:02.300
you say per drink or per bottle? I don't know.

00:54:02.340 --> 00:54:04.699
That was an extravagant price. Well, I'm just

00:54:04.699 --> 00:54:06.440
throwing that out there. I was joking because...

00:54:06.440 --> 00:54:08.139
Oh, okay, right. And that wasn't even the whole

00:54:08.139 --> 00:54:10.280
night. That was when it had already run out.

00:54:12.500 --> 00:54:14.340
You should have said, yeah, I'm not paying that.

00:54:14.440 --> 00:54:16.320
I know. Do you want to get married or do you

00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:17.940
want to have this? And it was just an engagement

00:54:17.940 --> 00:54:19.900
party, not the wedding party. You should have

00:54:19.900 --> 00:54:22.760
showed up with a satchel full of Jack Daniels

00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:24.800
singles and been, hey, man. Exactly. You learned

00:54:24.800 --> 00:54:26.480
your lesson. Everybody's drinking. Everybody's

00:54:26.480 --> 00:54:27.920
having a good time. I'm going to stay in the

00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:29.460
bathroom. Just come and meet me if you want a

00:54:29.460 --> 00:54:31.420
shot. They already maxed it out. What do you

00:54:31.420 --> 00:54:34.000
want to do? Yeah, I got it. I got it. Hey, kids,

00:54:34.079 --> 00:54:35.880
you guys have fun. I got you. You should have

00:54:35.880 --> 00:54:37.599
filled up all the really nice bottles. That's

00:54:37.599 --> 00:54:39.780
exactly what happened. With JTS Brown. You swung

00:54:39.780 --> 00:54:41.780
your stick around. And it had been like, okay,

00:54:41.780 --> 00:54:43.519
yeah. I was helicoptering. Jeff, that's what

00:54:43.519 --> 00:54:45.139
you need to do. I was helicoptering behind the

00:54:45.139 --> 00:54:47.659
bar. This is on me. This is on me. I'll take

00:54:47.659 --> 00:54:50.539
like the Jack Daniels, the Tanyard I have. Let's

00:54:50.539 --> 00:54:52.659
fill it up with JTS Brown. Let's take it to California

00:54:52.659 --> 00:54:55.159
with us. Hey, I'm going to have a clue. I'll

00:54:55.159 --> 00:54:56.460
tell you something that I did. They won't. They

00:54:56.460 --> 00:55:01.239
won't. So you guys have had, oh my gosh, the

00:55:01.239 --> 00:55:03.960
Balcones. The one with the horse on top. Oh,

00:55:03.960 --> 00:55:07.260
Blanton's. Blanton's. So I remember it was so

00:55:07.260 --> 00:55:10.940
overrated. But I remember the first time I had

00:55:10.940 --> 00:55:12.739
it, I was like, oh, I'm so excited. As a matter

00:55:12.739 --> 00:55:15.719
of fact, it was my buddy Barry from Total Wine

00:55:15.719 --> 00:55:17.719
that gave it out. It's almost like he – Are you

00:55:17.719 --> 00:55:19.139
hanging out with Barry or something? It's like

00:55:19.139 --> 00:55:22.480
he brought it out on this – majestic platter.

00:55:23.739 --> 00:55:26.820
And he lifted the lid off the platter. And smoke

00:55:26.820 --> 00:55:29.920
starts coming out of it. But no, I was like,

00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:31.539
I'm so excited to try this out. And he's like,

00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:36.099
be conservative with your pour. And I tried it,

00:55:36.119 --> 00:55:39.039
and I'm like, eh, okay. I mean, it's whiskey.

00:55:39.159 --> 00:55:42.079
It's no big deal. But I had gotten a bottle of

00:55:42.079 --> 00:55:46.539
it at some point. And it's not even high proof.

00:55:46.719 --> 00:55:48.559
It's low proof. After I finished it, I filled

00:55:48.559 --> 00:55:52.539
it up with something not No. And I would bring

00:55:52.539 --> 00:55:54.139
it out, and they'd be like, oh, my God, I've

00:55:54.139 --> 00:55:55.980
never had that. Oh, this is so good. It's great.

00:55:56.059 --> 00:55:58.820
It's amazing. J .T .S. Brown. I could have literally

00:55:58.820 --> 00:56:00.420
put J .T .S. Brown. What did you put in it? Do

00:56:00.420 --> 00:56:01.900
you remember? It was something cheap. It was

00:56:01.900 --> 00:56:04.460
like a benchmark or something on the bottom.

00:56:05.320 --> 00:56:08.039
100%. Yeah, yeah. That just goes to show it's

00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:10.179
all bullshit. It's all bullshit. Except for our

00:56:10.179 --> 00:56:12.659
tasting test. This is official. We're bourbon

00:56:12.659 --> 00:56:16.039
stewards. 100 % official. Ah. Yeah. Well, you

00:56:16.039 --> 00:56:19.909
know, we've sampled a lot. I would say that we've

00:56:19.909 --> 00:56:24.329
all got our own thing, but we still, we could

00:56:24.329 --> 00:56:27.789
nail it. So do you guys still, I remember y 'all

00:56:27.789 --> 00:56:29.730
would get a bottle, what would it be, a bottle

00:56:29.730 --> 00:56:31.570
of peace? Well, we were doing that for quite

00:56:31.570 --> 00:56:35.269
a while, and then we stopped because our weekly.

00:56:36.299 --> 00:56:40.739
cost was going up. It was that, but it was also...

00:56:40.739 --> 00:56:43.559
We became snobs. It was the quality. So back

00:56:43.559 --> 00:56:46.360
then, it was quantity, and then it started evolving

00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:49.519
into quality. And we were like, well, we kind

00:56:49.519 --> 00:56:51.860
of want the $100 bottles, and we're kind of tired

00:56:51.860 --> 00:56:53.880
of spending... Because we were doing like $70,

00:56:53.920 --> 00:56:56.360
$70, $70 a week. That's a lot of money. Every

00:56:56.360 --> 00:56:59.260
week. So we were kind of like, all right, let's

00:56:59.260 --> 00:57:02.480
cut that out. Because we're doing... We drink

00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:04.469
half a bottle in a night. Let's just say it.

00:57:04.469 --> 00:57:06.730
We will typically drink, between all four of

00:57:06.730 --> 00:57:08.769
us, we'll probably do about a half a bottle a

00:57:08.769 --> 00:57:11.329
night. Sure. We think of it like having two runs,

00:57:11.530 --> 00:57:14.449
and the remainder of it should go into the bottle,

00:57:14.550 --> 00:57:17.469
the Infinity bottle. Infinity, yeah. If we do

00:57:17.469 --> 00:57:20.869
it right. Yeah. Sometimes it's one of those nights

00:57:20.869 --> 00:57:23.989
where we just do an extra one and can't talk

00:57:23.989 --> 00:57:26.230
at the end of the night. JTS Brown, there it

00:57:26.230 --> 00:57:28.590
is. Jeff knows. It is made by Evan Hill. I've

00:57:28.590 --> 00:57:30.710
witnessed it. Very good. So how much is a bottle

00:57:30.710 --> 00:57:33.929
of? Y 'all have a Heaven Hill out there, right?

00:57:33.929 --> 00:57:37.010
We do, yeah. Is there... Do they make, like,

00:57:37.010 --> 00:57:39.329
different... Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, bookers and...

00:57:39.329 --> 00:57:40.949
No, no, I mean, are there different Heaven Hills,

00:57:40.969 --> 00:57:43.849
like a small batch and all that other kind of

00:57:43.849 --> 00:57:45.630
stuff? I've not really seen it. They have a grain

00:57:45.630 --> 00:57:49.070
of glass. They have grain of glass. They have

00:57:49.070 --> 00:57:53.650
the bottle and bond. I've had that on the left,

00:57:53.690 --> 00:57:55.309
yeah. That's Heaven's Door. That's Heaven's Door.

00:57:56.509 --> 00:57:58.889
They have the Bottle of Bond. They have Elijah

00:57:58.889 --> 00:58:01.789
Craig comes from Heaven Hill. Is it Knob Creek?

00:58:02.210 --> 00:58:06.309
No, that's Jim Beam. Great. Who are you? Oh,

00:58:06.349 --> 00:58:08.150
I think I am thinking of Heaven's Door. That's

00:58:08.150 --> 00:58:10.969
what I thought. That's what I had. Then you have

00:58:10.969 --> 00:58:15.730
the Larceny. So, yeah, we have. Oh, there's the

00:58:15.730 --> 00:58:18.010
family. We basically have all of that out there.

00:58:18.269 --> 00:58:19.869
The house is a bourbon. We can take that home

00:58:19.869 --> 00:58:22.980
with you. We have several. I just got through

00:58:22.980 --> 00:58:24.519
watching Game of Thrones. This reminds me of

00:58:24.519 --> 00:58:28.219
Game of Thrones. I need to watch that again.

00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:31.000
That was Targaryen. Have you watched the new

00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:36.800
one? No. Is it the night it's been off? After

00:58:36.800 --> 00:58:39.860
Game of Thrones? It's actually before, I think.

00:58:39.940 --> 00:58:41.480
I thought it was before. I haven't seen it. It's

00:58:41.480 --> 00:58:44.880
before. This is the second spinoff. They're about

00:58:44.880 --> 00:58:48.800
half hour to 45 minute episodes. I've got one

00:58:48.800 --> 00:58:51.760
left. Very well done. Quite a bit different than

00:58:51.760 --> 00:58:55.019
your normal Game of Thrones. It's very, very

00:58:55.019 --> 00:58:59.400
condensed. Not condensed, but very one story,

00:58:59.599 --> 00:59:02.260
basically. Oh, I see. It's called Night of the

00:59:02.260 --> 00:59:04.280
Seven Kingdoms? Is that correct? That's the name

00:59:04.280 --> 00:59:06.460
of the spinoff. Yeah, and there's a dude with

00:59:06.460 --> 00:59:08.880
a - They've got seven shows, right, in a season?

00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:10.840
Eight. I think there's eight. Is it the same

00:59:10.840 --> 00:59:13.460
families kind of thing? Yeah, Targaryen and stuff

00:59:13.460 --> 00:59:15.679
like that. Was it from a century before or something?

00:59:15.880 --> 00:59:18.820
I don't think it was that far out, but it was

00:59:18.820 --> 00:59:22.690
before the - Game of Thrones series that we did.

00:59:23.349 --> 00:59:26.610
It's so cool. It's well done. I read all the

00:59:26.610 --> 00:59:28.849
books and it was just like... I'm just disappointed

00:59:28.849 --> 00:59:31.590
how it ended. It wasn't supposed to end that

00:59:31.590 --> 00:59:36.730
way. I literally just watched it less than a

00:59:36.730 --> 00:59:39.010
year ago and everyone was saying the ending sucked.

00:59:39.690 --> 00:59:41.829
I wasn't that disappointed. I was like, I can

00:59:41.829 --> 00:59:44.789
kind of see how it should have turned out like

00:59:44.789 --> 00:59:48.019
this. You build it up and... It's just like the

00:59:48.019 --> 00:59:51.760
producing of it, and it was just poorly done.

00:59:52.380 --> 00:59:56.320
I mean, they spent so much money on stuff. They

00:59:56.320 --> 00:59:58.960
just did such a poor job. The fight scene, I

00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:00.480
brought this up several times. The fight scene

01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:02.519
was completely black. You can't even see what

01:00:02.519 --> 01:00:05.039
the hell's going on. The final? Like the final

01:00:05.039 --> 01:00:07.800
episode? Two or three episodes. There was a big

01:00:07.800 --> 01:00:11.380
fight. I may have been in the final. It's a dragon

01:00:11.380 --> 01:00:12.900
destroyer. They went after the White Walkers.

01:00:13.360 --> 01:00:14.980
Yeah, when the White Walkers are going in there

01:00:14.980 --> 01:00:16.579
and it's like everything's black and they're

01:00:16.579 --> 01:00:20.840
fighting. But you can't see anything. I'm like,

01:00:20.900 --> 01:00:22.500
come on. It's because they didn't want to spend

01:00:22.500 --> 01:00:24.619
the money. So they're like, let's show a little

01:00:24.619 --> 01:00:26.619
bit. But it's so dark, we're not really going

01:00:26.619 --> 01:00:27.920
to show it because we're going to save costs.

01:00:28.260 --> 01:00:30.840
So did somebody fart in that scene that you just

01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:33.239
described? Well, they were squeezing his bowels,

01:00:33.239 --> 01:00:35.739
I guess. Oh, okay. I wasn't sure. He was disemboweled.

01:00:35.760 --> 01:00:39.090
Yeah, that was different. Yes. Good stuff, though.

01:00:39.150 --> 01:00:41.329
Mark, man, I appreciate you bringing this out.

01:00:41.489 --> 01:00:43.269
Absolutely, yeah. That was fun. The experience

01:00:43.269 --> 01:00:46.630
was excellent. Yeah, we need to do more of this.

01:00:46.829 --> 01:00:49.329
How much time we got, Chuck? 10 minutes. So do

01:00:49.329 --> 01:00:51.949
you guys truly, truly feel then, based on the

01:00:51.949 --> 01:00:54.530
scores, that Tres Hombres was the winner outright?

01:00:55.150 --> 01:00:58.050
I liked that better than that, but that is a

01:00:58.050 --> 01:01:00.309
close second. I did a final taste test of those

01:01:00.309 --> 01:01:03.250
two, and I would give Little Pig the edge. I'm

01:01:03.250 --> 01:01:05.610
like, the Balvenine for me was the winner. In

01:01:05.610 --> 01:01:07.369
my opinion, this is the winner. I had that one

01:01:07.369 --> 01:01:09.590
again, and I like that one more now. In fact,

01:01:09.630 --> 01:01:11.349
I'm going to have another one. So that is a scotch,

01:01:11.349 --> 01:01:15.429
right? Yeah. That's actually, the second one

01:01:15.429 --> 01:01:18.130
had a lot of sweetness to it for me. Second pull

01:01:18.130 --> 01:01:20.269
of it, you're saying. Well, yeah, a little. Yeah,

01:01:20.329 --> 01:01:21.969
yeah, yeah. And honestly, that's the reason I

01:01:21.969 --> 01:01:25.030
like scotch, is because I love bourbon, but again,

01:01:25.210 --> 01:01:27.670
you know you're drinking alcohol when you drink

01:01:27.670 --> 01:01:29.110
a bourbon. I mean, it kicks you in the throat,

01:01:29.190 --> 01:01:33.159
especially with the higher proof. With a very

01:01:33.159 --> 01:01:36.159
mellow scotch like that, it's just easy drinking.

01:01:36.300 --> 01:01:39.760
You get the same flavors, but intensified and

01:01:39.760 --> 01:01:41.320
maybe a little bit more. Mark, it all boils down

01:01:41.320 --> 01:01:45.239
to who do you love? Are you an American? Oh,

01:01:45.260 --> 01:01:47.860
boy. Wow. We're going there already? Oh, boy.

01:01:48.159 --> 01:01:50.699
Let me drink a little bit more. Have you eaten

01:01:50.699 --> 01:01:56.639
today? You really haven't? I had a little bowl

01:01:56.639 --> 01:02:00.340
of chicken stew. I have to lose weight, man.

01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:03.420
I'm fat. You can't do it on podcast night, though.

01:02:03.539 --> 01:02:06.099
I'm fine. Right. Okay. Well, just remember him

01:02:06.099 --> 01:02:08.260
like he is. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Because

01:02:08.260 --> 01:02:12.440
later. He's going to be svelte. He won't. He'll

01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:15.920
be what? Svelte. The part I'm talking about is

01:02:15.920 --> 01:02:20.219
that if I had a preference between the single

01:02:20.219 --> 01:02:23.159
malts, because we have now a new single malt,

01:02:23.199 --> 01:02:24.639
American single malt. So we're going to jump

01:02:24.639 --> 01:02:27.639
on that bandwagon. Yeah. So again, if we've got

01:02:27.639 --> 01:02:32.610
time, a single malt is. A single grain? Barley.

01:02:32.610 --> 01:02:36.070
It has to be barley. That's what a single malt

01:02:36.070 --> 01:02:38.670
is. Malted barley. Okay. Yes. So you couldn't

01:02:38.670 --> 01:02:43.730
have a single malt? Not a malt. Bourbon. You

01:02:43.730 --> 01:02:46.369
could have a single grain. Like we have a single

01:02:46.369 --> 01:02:50.030
grain fray out there. It's just wheat. It's a

01:02:50.030 --> 01:02:52.050
wheat whiskey. It's single grain. It tastes like

01:02:52.050 --> 01:02:55.050
vanilla ice cream. So literally single malt means

01:02:55.050 --> 01:02:58.630
butter. It's like one of my favorites ever. Why

01:02:58.630 --> 01:03:00.969
don't we see that more? Why don't we see single

01:03:00.969 --> 01:03:03.269
grain? They're out there. Wheat whiskeys, corn

01:03:03.269 --> 01:03:05.550
whiskey. They're deep cuts. They're deep cuts

01:03:05.550 --> 01:03:07.730
in every distillery. Kind of like 1845 distillery.

01:03:07.750 --> 01:03:10.369
It's like they're only available at the distillery.

01:03:10.789 --> 01:03:12.769
Some of them, I guess. Like the Fray Ranch one,

01:03:12.869 --> 01:03:14.849
they were selling to the local vendors out there

01:03:14.849 --> 01:03:17.250
in Nevada. You're not going to be able to find

01:03:17.250 --> 01:03:19.110
those out here. You're saying the one I couldn't

01:03:19.110 --> 01:03:22.150
stand, the Fray one, the buttery, crazy buttery

01:03:22.150 --> 01:03:24.909
one, is a single grain. It's all wheat. 100 %

01:03:24.909 --> 01:03:28.559
wheat. Interesting. It is beautiful. I wonder

01:03:28.559 --> 01:03:31.139
if they make a single grain bourbon. I mean,

01:03:31.139 --> 01:03:34.880
do they make 100 % bourbon? Bourbon has rules,

01:03:35.039 --> 01:03:38.440
right? 51 % corn. At least 51%, right? At least

01:03:38.440 --> 01:03:40.920
51 % corn. But it has to be cut with another

01:03:40.920 --> 01:03:43.800
grain? And then you have... That's a good point.

01:03:44.159 --> 01:03:46.780
So... Yes. Like, mellow corn is not a bourbon.

01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:51.119
It's not. But you have 51 % corn, then it's barley,

01:03:51.519 --> 01:03:55.409
malt barley, and then it's wheat or... Are you

01:03:55.409 --> 01:03:58.110
sure? I'm not so sure about that. Yeah, I think

01:03:58.110 --> 01:04:02.869
it just has to be at least 51 % barley or corn.

01:04:03.210 --> 01:04:06.309
Well, there's two. Then you need malted barley

01:04:06.309 --> 01:04:09.010
and other. I mean, maybe you have to have it

01:04:09.010 --> 01:04:10.769
for the flavoring, but I don't know if that's

01:04:10.769 --> 01:04:12.070
part of the rule. All right, well, let's look

01:04:12.070 --> 01:04:14.469
at that. Producer, pull it up. Bourbon can be

01:04:14.469 --> 01:04:18.769
made from 100 % corn. While federal law mandates

01:04:18.769 --> 01:04:22.329
a minimum of 51 % corn, in the mash bill, there's

01:04:22.329 --> 01:04:26.409
no legal upper limit. Yeah, there's got to be

01:04:26.409 --> 01:04:28.929
a taste reason. Well, it says for 100 % corn

01:04:28.929 --> 01:04:30.849
spirit to be legally labeled a bourbon rather

01:04:30.849 --> 01:04:32.889
than a corn whiskey, it must follow specific

01:04:32.889 --> 01:04:36.789
aging rules. It must be aged in a new charred

01:04:36.789 --> 01:04:40.309
oak container. If a spirit with 80 % or more

01:04:40.309 --> 01:04:45.329
corn is aged and used or uncharred oak, it must

01:04:45.329 --> 01:04:47.690
be labeled as corn whiskey. Plus, it has to go

01:04:47.690 --> 01:04:49.750
in the barrel at a certain... Yeah. Percent.

01:04:49.750 --> 01:04:51.909
Right. So that's the biggest difference. Whether

01:04:51.909 --> 01:04:53.429
or not it's in a charred barrel or not. So technically,

01:04:53.650 --> 01:04:56.969
yes, you could have a 100 % corn bourbon, but

01:04:56.969 --> 01:04:58.690
there's a lot of other rules it needs to match

01:04:58.690 --> 01:05:00.929
first. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Is that the

01:05:00.929 --> 01:05:02.809
one you were talking about, the Frey Ranch? Y

01:05:02.809 --> 01:05:04.309
'all were just talking about... It's Frey Ranch.

01:05:04.329 --> 01:05:06.269
It's not that one, but yeah, Frey Ranch, it's

01:05:06.269 --> 01:05:09.869
a single grain. I'm a huge... I don't want to

01:05:09.869 --> 01:05:12.269
say huge. I'm a fan of Frey Ranch, and I am a

01:05:12.269 --> 01:05:14.690
huge fan. If I have a Frey Ranch on my shelf,

01:05:14.849 --> 01:05:17.230
it's there for a reason. It's good stuff. It

01:05:17.230 --> 01:05:20.840
costs 80 bucks a bottle. Is that the one in Utah?

01:05:21.559 --> 01:05:24.480
No. Why do you think it's always Utah? What is

01:05:24.480 --> 01:05:26.099
it? Nevada. That's where your Mormon connections

01:05:26.099 --> 01:05:28.039
are kind of bringing? I'm going to see how close

01:05:28.039 --> 01:05:30.960
you're going to be to Fray Ranch. Seriously,

01:05:30.980 --> 01:05:33.420
it's literally a dozen times I've said that same

01:05:33.420 --> 01:05:36.380
thing. Yes. To the point where now Jeff's irritated.

01:05:36.659 --> 01:05:39.139
Yeah. He's angry. He's calling you out. He was

01:05:39.139 --> 01:05:41.880
trying to kick you and kick me. I was like, we're

01:05:41.880 --> 01:05:46.059
past irritation. It's now anger. I got you. I'm

01:05:46.059 --> 01:05:48.489
just going to say, yes, it's Utah. Yes. I knew

01:05:48.489 --> 01:05:50.630
it. I was right. Next time you're in Utah, let's

01:05:50.630 --> 01:05:54.610
go to Frey Ranch. I'm surprised they were able

01:05:54.610 --> 01:05:59.590
to make any whiskeys in Utah. Nevada. No, in

01:05:59.590 --> 01:06:05.650
Utah. Do they make whiskeys in Utah? I would

01:06:05.650 --> 01:06:08.869
imagine they do. I don't know either. Who the

01:06:08.869 --> 01:06:11.010
hell is going to go to Utah? So you could drive

01:06:11.010 --> 01:06:14.650
to Frey Ranch in five hours. Seriously? While

01:06:14.650 --> 01:06:18.289
you're in California. Oh, well. Hold on. That

01:06:18.289 --> 01:06:20.550
little caveat. No, no, no. Hold on. You got to

01:06:20.550 --> 01:06:23.010
get to California first. This has merit. That's

01:06:23.010 --> 01:06:26.449
a 10 -hour round trip. You're running in buying

01:06:26.449 --> 01:06:28.130
something and immediately leaving. So you're

01:06:28.130 --> 01:06:31.110
saying there's a chance. Well, you have to get

01:06:31.110 --> 01:06:33.130
these guys on board for that. Fuck it. I'll get

01:06:33.130 --> 01:06:35.090
my own car. I'll drive out there. If you beat

01:06:35.090 --> 01:06:37.809
the land speed record, you can be there. I'll

01:06:37.809 --> 01:06:41.289
be the blue thunder. Right. You'll need a Smokey.

01:06:41.409 --> 01:06:43.590
Smokey and the Bandit. No, I don't think I'd

01:06:43.590 --> 01:06:46.190
do that. You know, at all. There's about five

01:06:46.190 --> 01:06:49.530
distilleries in Utah. There you go. Oh, High

01:06:49.530 --> 01:06:51.889
West. High West. There you go. Yes. Come on.

01:06:52.150 --> 01:06:54.449
Spirits of the Wasatch. That's a good one, too.

01:06:54.670 --> 01:06:56.050
They've got the smoky stuff, too. I think they

01:06:56.050 --> 01:07:01.730
have one called Five Wives. Five Wives. It's

01:07:01.730 --> 01:07:04.690
10, by the way. Sister Wives bourbon. You low

01:07:04.690 --> 01:07:06.590
-balled that one. Their bourbon's called polygamy.

01:07:10.510 --> 01:07:15.210
Yes. Wow. Boom. Yeah. Good one. Anything else

01:07:15.210 --> 01:07:16.829
going on? What kind of news we got going on?

01:07:16.869 --> 01:07:20.110
Obviously, we got the butt smack going on in

01:07:20.110 --> 01:07:21.829
Iran. What else we got going on? Anything kind

01:07:21.829 --> 01:07:26.289
of fun? I don't know. Well, today was voting

01:07:26.289 --> 01:07:29.949
day. Oh, yeah. Did you guys go and vote? Why

01:07:29.949 --> 01:07:33.150
don't Paul talk about Punch the Monkey real quick?

01:07:33.510 --> 01:07:35.449
Punch the Monkey. You want to finish on Punch

01:07:35.449 --> 01:07:37.230
the Monkey? Sure. It's better than Spank the

01:07:37.230 --> 01:07:40.570
Monkey. This is a story out of Japan, and it's

01:07:40.570 --> 01:07:47.340
a little macau. Is that how you say it? No. Little

01:07:47.340 --> 01:07:49.599
monkey. There it is. See, look at him. They're

01:07:49.599 --> 01:07:51.139
bullying this poor little monkey. So this poor

01:07:51.139 --> 01:07:54.880
little monkey in the zoo, the mom abandoned it.

01:07:54.880 --> 01:07:57.400
Oh, my God. They're ripping him anew. Abandoned

01:07:57.400 --> 01:08:00.219
it, and it got all upset, and it has a stuffed

01:08:00.219 --> 01:08:03.219
animal that is an orangutan. Oh, my poor guy.

01:08:03.460 --> 01:08:06.400
Right. And so it went super viral. And so here

01:08:06.400 --> 01:08:09.219
it is hiding and scared and hugging its orangutan.

01:08:09.579 --> 01:08:12.340
And it took that thing everywhere. It crawls

01:08:12.340 --> 01:08:15.940
around the zoo. dragging it with him, and they

01:08:15.940 --> 01:08:17.939
were harassing him and bullying him. See, I connect

01:08:17.939 --> 01:08:20.460
with this. I kind of do, too. I connect with

01:08:20.460 --> 01:08:24.060
it because, especially Sean, during podcasts,

01:08:24.260 --> 01:08:28.260
I feel like punch. Anyway, we'll move on. You

01:08:28.260 --> 01:08:31.279
just gave yourself a nickname. No, fuck you.

01:08:31.680 --> 01:08:35.300
No. Anyway, so. Punch me. Thank you, Chuck. Okay,

01:08:35.380 --> 01:08:40.159
so get this. So then another female adult saw

01:08:40.159 --> 01:08:42.260
what was going on and went over there and basically

01:08:42.260 --> 01:08:44.439
claimed him. And gave them a big hug, and now

01:08:44.439 --> 01:08:46.359
they're inseparable. But the funny thing is,

01:08:46.380 --> 01:08:49.840
this was super viral. And the orangutan, I guess,

01:08:49.840 --> 01:08:55.939
was a plush toy that you can buy at Ikea in Japan.

01:08:55.939 --> 01:08:57.680
There's a little bit more to that story. And

01:08:57.680 --> 01:09:03.720
it sold out like crazy. The father of that orangutan,

01:09:03.859 --> 01:09:07.039
or whatever kind of animal that is, was supposed

01:09:07.039 --> 01:09:12.439
to be the alpha in the group. oh yeah so the

01:09:12.439 --> 01:09:15.739
reason i bring that up uh -huh is because the

01:09:15.739 --> 01:09:22.479
person that the the animal that oh it's cute

01:09:22.479 --> 01:09:25.640
it's so cute she's just looking she's like well

01:09:25.640 --> 01:09:28.359
i'm gonna take the the offspring i'm gonna take

01:09:30.420 --> 01:09:33.760
See, that's how you solve problems. Back the

01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:37.159
fuck up. I will knock your ass out. He's packing

01:09:37.159 --> 01:09:39.159
a punch. Time to punch back is what he says.

01:09:39.260 --> 01:09:42.619
There we go. I didn't even think about all the

01:09:42.619 --> 01:09:46.520
memes. She's thinking that she wanted to raise

01:09:46.520 --> 01:09:49.220
the child of the alpha. That is the only thing

01:09:49.220 --> 01:09:52.359
I can think of. I mean, is that what they do

01:09:52.359 --> 01:09:54.359
in this little tribal experience tucked away

01:09:54.359 --> 01:09:57.189
in a zoo? Are you a monkeyologist? You know what?

01:09:57.229 --> 01:09:59.270
I feel like I've got a little bit of experience.

01:09:59.569 --> 01:10:01.229
See how mean they were being to him? Look at

01:10:01.229 --> 01:10:04.170
that shit, man. Nature's brutal, man. It is.

01:10:04.369 --> 01:10:06.649
Oh, so it's okay? I'm not saying it's okay. You

01:10:06.649 --> 01:10:07.989
think they should fuck up punch like that? Mark,

01:10:08.029 --> 01:10:08.649
would you like a sweet tart? If they're out in

01:10:08.649 --> 01:10:12.409
the wild, that monkey would be dead. I can't

01:10:12.409 --> 01:10:13.770
stand sweet tarts, but for some reason I love

01:10:13.770 --> 01:10:16.220
them. No, it'd be like Planet of the Apes. He

01:10:16.220 --> 01:10:18.699
breaks out of the zoo, and then six months later,

01:10:18.800 --> 01:10:21.859
he's speaking English. Come get me, bitch. Yeah.

01:10:22.199 --> 01:10:23.720
He's like, you left me. I mean, the Planet of

01:10:23.720 --> 01:10:26.319
the Apes is kind of creepy. It's super creepy.

01:10:26.420 --> 01:10:28.920
I mean, the eyes, when the apes look at it, and

01:10:28.920 --> 01:10:31.539
it's got human eyes, you're like, oh, man. Well,

01:10:31.560 --> 01:10:32.800
they were wearing a mask. They could totally

01:10:32.800 --> 01:10:34.739
have. Oh, yeah, the originals. No, that's different.

01:10:35.119 --> 01:10:37.340
The original was awesome. The little spiral thing

01:10:37.340 --> 01:10:39.119
coming out of the ground. It comes out, boom.

01:10:39.960 --> 01:10:42.600
Hey, man, where we at? I don't remember that.

01:10:42.760 --> 01:10:44.789
You don't remember that? No. Oh, they got this

01:10:44.789 --> 01:10:48.210
drill that was subterranean, and it'd come out

01:10:48.210 --> 01:10:49.630
of the ground, and they were like, Soylent Green

01:10:49.630 --> 01:10:53.090
is people! Again, wrong movie. I don't remember

01:10:53.090 --> 01:10:55.770
that one either. Oh, really? Yes. Same guy, though,

01:10:55.789 --> 01:10:58.470
right? Soylent Green is people. Soylent Green.

01:10:58.689 --> 01:11:02.210
I think we're one and done with this podcast

01:11:02.210 --> 01:11:07.369
tonight. All right, well, check it out. What

01:11:07.369 --> 01:11:10.789
the hell? It's Tuesday. It's March 3rd. First

01:11:10.789 --> 01:11:12.529
half of the Dudes Like Us podcast. Thank you,

01:11:12.550 --> 01:11:14.310
Chuck, for staying on top of stuff. Mark, are

01:11:14.310 --> 01:11:15.630
you going to join us for the second half? I'd

01:11:15.630 --> 01:11:17.390
love to. Excellent. We're going to have to clean

01:11:17.390 --> 01:11:21.069
up all this barrage of stuff going on. Jeff's

01:11:21.069 --> 01:11:23.109
wife's going to come up here. What the fuck is

01:11:23.109 --> 01:11:24.630
going on here? She's out of town, so we're good.

01:11:25.449 --> 01:11:27.350
Nice. Dudes Like Us, I'm Sean. We're doing a

01:11:27.350 --> 01:11:29.569
third podcast. I'm Paul. And I'm Jeff. And I'm

01:11:29.569 --> 01:11:32.029
Mark. Good night, guys. Actually, we'll be back.