Spey, Jura, Remus, Very Old Bartons. Hand Barrel

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Dan: Episode 217 of the Library Pubcast.
Matt: Maybe.
Dan: Finally. Fuck. Yeah, dude. Yeah, working with some… I’ve left my goddam charger cable back at the announcer’s booth at Eagle Raceway on our regular recording laptop, and so I had to use a spare and this thing, it definitely is a pile of crap.

Matt: It has issues? Why don’t you fix it, computer guy, Dan?
Dan: It was sitting in my queue of things to fix.
Matt: Oh.
Dan: It has definitely gotten bumped up. So, I’m going to listen to the audio. There’s a chance this maybe a complete waste of time, because the audio may be kind of too choppy and sound terrible. But we’ll give it a shot. See what happens. All right, guys. Weekends. How’d everybody’s weekends go, do?
Matt: Mine was good. Went up to Benson Days on Saturday. Got to watch some crack heads dance at one of the bars we went to. Sunday, golfed and drank and napped.
Dan: I miss naps.
Matt: Yeah, they’re great.
Dan: I get to do them every once in a while after work, but I just… A good Sunday nap.
Matt: They’re great.
Dan: I tried to take one here, but Evan needed another monster bomb, so…
Matt: Need a Bud Light.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: Which it is funny, he does always, “I’ll take another beer, so… And I’ll take a Bud Light, like he switched.
Dan: Yeah. Chris, how was your weekend?
Chris: It was great. It was good. Dad’s birthday party on Friday, 88 years old, so that was a good time to grill some hot dogs and burgers for him. So, that was fun. The whole family was there.
Mark: Now, the whole family, define that, because you have like a hundred brothers and sisters.
Chris: Yeah, brothers and sisters.
Matt: You guys have to like rent a hall?
Chris: No. My parents’ house.
Matt: With all the kids and…
Chris: No. There’s enough levels at my parents’ house…
Matt: Levels.
Chris: … that people can go and be outside or inside, or downstairs in the basement or up in the kitchen.
Matt: Having old-fashioned forced upon them by your dad?
Chris: Yep. I did. I made him an old-fashioned with very old Bartons, so he loved it.
Dan: The one we’re going to try today?
Chris: Yep.
Dan: Nice. Have we had the 100 before?
Chris: No, we have not.
Dan: I thought that a former host brought us a bottle of hundred proof.
Matt: I don’t think he ever had a hundred. I don’t think.
Chris: Because I know I would remember trying this, because I’ve been upset that we haven’t been able to get this in Nebraska.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: So… Saturday, what did I do Saturday? I don’t remember what I did Saturday.
Matt: Oh, sounds exciting.
Chris: I literally don’t know what I… I don’t remember.
Dan: We’ll come back to Chris. Let him think about this. Mark…
Chris: Oh, no. I had chicken.
Dan: … how are the Dodgers doing?
Matt: I grilled chicken. I had chicken.
Mark: They dropped two to the Astros over the weekend.
Dan: Fucking Astros, man. Are the Astros good this year or…
Mark: The Astros are good and-
Matt: Cheaters.
Mark: If you read the IL for the Dodgers, it reads like the all-star team.
Dan: Got a bunch of guys down?
Mark: 18 people, including four starting pitchers and our second best player.
Dan: Arrr…
Matt: Yar.
Dan: Did I see… Did you guys trade a big player away or get a big trade?
Mark: Not yet.
Dan: No?
Mark: Trade deadline is Wednesday.
Dan: Sounds like it wasn’t a very eventful weekend. I mean, it was just miserably hot in the metro, so…
Matt: It was warm. It wasn’t too bad at golf. We were done by 10:30 though, so that always helps, too.
Dan: My yard is about… Well, it’s tasseling and I refuse to mow it because it’s so fucking hot outside.
Matt: Why don’t you just-
Dan: But I think I’m going to finally have to break down and mow it.
Matt: Just take your milkshake out there and have one of the boys do it.
Dan: My milkshake hasn’t brought the boys to the yard in sometime.
Matt: Oh, it’s too bad. Maybe, try soy milk.
Dan: I grew my milkshake to…
Matt: And it just kept going.
Dan: Yep. Kept eating them ho hoes.
Matt: Oh, no pun intended.
Dan: None at all. Let’s see. I don’t have any real news.
Matt: Yeah. What did you do, Dan?
Dan: I mean, there’s…
Matt: Chicken stuff?
Dan: Yeah. Sat at the racetrack. Had the fire department called on me.
Matt: Really?
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: What’d you do?
Dan: Apparently, I have a disgruntled neighbor that gets mad when I’m burning stuff in my backyard, which…
Matt: The nerve.
Dan: I really do love it, because they show up almost like they’re expecting a three alarm fire, lights blazing, full size firetruck. Four guys get out, I greet them at the driveway. We walk to the back. He looks at my fire pit and he says, “What are you burning?” And I said, I’m just burning some old hay bales from the wintertime. And he’s like, “All right, well, you’re not supposed to be burning hay bales. But it looks like you got wood over there. Everything else is fine. Not going to write you a ticket”.
Matt: No real danger?
Dan: And then, the guy behind me goes… So, there was another guy standing back there and he goes, “You know, if you redesign that and open up a little air, it wouldn’t be quite as smoky so your neighbors wouldn’t complain”.
Matt: That’s funny.
Dan: And I just stopped and thought the fire department isn’t telling me to stop doing it. They’re telling me how to get away with it.
Matt: Do it better.
Dan: So, I got some redesigning in my fire pit to do.
Matt: Oh, wow.
Dan: And of course, I’m sitting in the house that night finishing up dinner and I thought… I actually said to Sarah, “Let’s go outside and have a fire”. She goes, “Goddam it, Dan. No”. Like, I wasn’t doing… I won’t do anything illegal. I’ll just burn wood”, but I want to have a fire every fucking night now just to piss that neighbor off.
Matt: That’s vindictive.
Dan: It is. It’s not the best side of me.
Matt: But it’s fun.
Mark: So, what you’re saying is you guys don’t bullshit over the fence?
Dan: Nope. Not this one. And he didn’t say who it was, but he said it was a couple of houses down, so I got a pretty good idea. But that’s it. The Olympics got started. Fucking America leading in the medals.
Matt: Yeah. Did you see the big stink about the opening ceremonies and…
Dan: Oh, yeah.
Matt: … the last supper portrayal with a bunch of… Were they cross-dressers?
Dan: I don’t know. Whatever. Literally, I did actually see that, and I think for the first time, I am on board that… People will get mad about anything.
Matt: Oh, yeah.
Dan: Everything.
Chris: It’s French. If you know anything about French history or like… Religion is pretty much non-existent there since they had their revolution.
Dan: Revolution?
Chris: Yeah. So…
Dan: I did see a picture of… I can go back and try to find it, of every last supper parody. And I’m using air quotes, that has been in the mainstream media and it’s Avengers posters to-
Matt: There’s a ton of them.
Dan: Battlestar Galactica had a really nice one. Football teams have done it. But all of a sudden because it’s… I don’t know whatever reason, people are deciding to get pissed off about it.
Matt: I don’t know. I could really care. Seemed like it was the longest opening ceremonies ever.
Dan: Yeah, I don’t get it. I don’t watch those. It seems like it’s just a whole lot of pump and circumstance and I could fall asleep six times before anything important happened.
Matt: It was pretty funny seeing, like you have teams like the United States with 600 people that are participating, and then, you see other smaller countries that have four and they all had their own boats.
Chris: Definitely, interesting people, the French.
Matt: Oui.
Dan: And they’re having some issues, too. I always kind of thought of France… I know that they’re having their political issues right now, but God, their civilians are doing everything they can to disrupt the Olympics. There was arson attacks on the subway systems coming into the city on Friday for opening ceremonies. There was some like three and a half million people that were stranded.
Chris: That’s got rained in?
Dan: Yes.
Matt: All while eating baguettes.
Dan: And then, over the weekend there was attacks on the wireless service, so they lost internet, they lost cell service. And it’s all just like anarchist. People are just like, fuck it, we’re going to mess with them as much as we can.
Matt: Just people being dicks.
Dan: Yeah. Pretty much.
Chris: Is there a difference between…
Matt: It’s the French.
Chris: And I’m seriously asking this question. Is there a difference between a terrorist and anarchist?
Dan: Perception.
Chris: Okay.
Dan: And this isn’t a poke on you, but I always love the old saying of the difference between a cult and a religion is time.
Mark: A religion is simply like a cult that made it.
Dan: Yeah. Time. They lasted, yeah. It’s all in the eyes of the beholder. We are freedom fighters, or we’re rebels.
Matt: Yep. Patriots.
Dan: Yep. All right. Well, I think today we’ll mark the first time in about 216 episodes that I’m not going to torture Mark at the beginning of the episode. Mark, what are we drinking today?
Mark: It’s red.
Dan: It is red.
Matt: It is red.
Dan: Wait, I recognize this.
Chris: It looks like the bottle of that Faretti. It looks like a Faretti bottle.
Dan: Teah. No, I’m recognizing it because of the T-E-N-N-E, which, I think three or four episodes ago, we struggled with.
Chris: Tenné.
Matt: Did we? I thought we did one of the other ones.
Chris: Tenné. Tenné?
Matt: And I know, last week, we did a port finished.
Dan: I’ll drink it again. Because I think our review was, it was a little too-
Matt: Too whiny?
Dan: And you can get it on the nose.
Chris: Too tawny?
Matt: Yeah, it’s super whiny on the nose.
Dan: Like Fran Drescher whiny?
Chris: Eww.
Dan: That’s the kind of whiny, you just… You don’t condone domestic violence, but you just kind of want to punch her.
Matt: At least, ball gag it.
Dan: Yeah. That’s probably a better way to do it.
Mark: The voice was terrible.
Chris: It’s super whiny since you said that now, like that’s all that I’m getting.
Dan: So, you know what else I also learned over the weekend? Fran Drescher is the head…
Chris: Of the… Yeah. I was going to say it.
Dan: … of the SAG Actors Guild.
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: Really?
Chris: She’s the spokesperson. You wonder why these negotiations take so long, is because the people on the other side are going, fucking… I can’t listen to her.
Mark: You think she actually sounds like that in real life?
Dan: She does.
Matt: Well, she was in Saturday Night Fever and it was very muted.
Dan: Oh, I don’t-
Chris: Like Bob Dylan…
Dan: I think she accentuates it-
Chris: … figuring out his voice later in life and…
Dan: [inaudible 00:11:27].
Mark: This will be way better.

Spey Tenne

Dan: Tenne. Whiny.
Mark: Originally, aged in American oak, and then, finished in tawny port barrel. And I’m assuming from the taste, that is a first-filled tawny port barrel, and maybe, they even left some tawny port in it.
Chris: How many different things can they do to it? Like, it’s in bourbon barrels, it’s in wine finished, and then, it’s in port?
Mark: Port is wine.
Chris: Yes. Yes. I think that was stupid.
Matt: And a lot of single malts are initially aged in…
Chris: I know.
Matt: … ex bourbon barrels.
Chris: I know. It just seems a lot.
Dan: And this is… You want to talk… I mean, I would say this…
Mark: I kind of like it.
Dan: … this is slightly light for a red wine. If I saw this on the shelf, I would not believe it was a scotch, or a whisky.
Matt: No, not until I read the label.
Dan: Yeah. I mean, it is so fricking red. And even in the bottle, I mean, or the glass, it reminds me more of brandy or cognac.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Dan: The look is all I’m saying.
Matt: Cognac.
Dan: Oh. Cog-
Chris: Really slow warmth.
Dan: I forgot about that episode.
Chris: And I don’t know if that’s just…
Matt: Cognac.
Chris: I don’t know if that’s just because I haven’t had any alcohol it today, but it’s a very slow, slow warmth.
Mark: I’m trying to decide what candy it tastes like.
Matt: I added water to mine, and it kind of toned down the wine a little bit. Well, if we tried this a few weeks ago and none of us liked it, I like it today.
Dan: I don’t know if we didn’t like it. I think we just felt like it was too porty. But this is kind of a fun little… I would love to go back and grab that… Maybe, I’ll go back and grab that audio and replay that clip. Or maybe, people could just go back two or three episodes ago…
Matt: Yeah.
Dan: … and listen to it again. Because it always fascinates me how you can drink a whiskey, either like it or not like it, and then, you come back a week, a month, six months later, you try the exact same bottle and it’s the opposite.
Matt: Well, and like what you’ve done, what you’ve eaten, what you’ve drank.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: I’m sure that all has some sort of effect.
Dan: The fact that I haven’t ate sunflower seeds yet this morning, so my tongue’s not…
Matt: Raw.
Dan: … over-salted and raw.
Matt: Yeah.
Chris: Raspberry. Raspberry-like jam. That’s what they say it’s supposed to, so I don’t know if that’s… But then, they also say at the end, the taste is almond. Like you got an almond nut.
Mark: I don’t get any nut food to it. Well, you’re trying to figure this out, I tell you about a friend of mine that got audited. Got called in by the IRS.
Dan: Oh, yeah.
Mark: Yeah. Got his attorney, went to the meeting. Came in and sat down. The auditor goes, “Well you have these large cash transactions”. “Well, I’m a gambler”. “A gambler?” “Yeah. And I’m really good at it. I’ll prove it. I’ll bet you a thousand dollars, I can bite my eye”. And the auditor said, “Okay”. Gary reaches up, pulls out his glass eye and nibbles on it. Sticks the eye back in. Wow. The auditor… I just lost a thousand dollars. Okay, let’s tell you what, I will bet you I can bite my other eye. And the auditor looks at it. Obviously, the guy’s not blind. So, he, then, two glass of eyes. So the auditor goes fine, 2,000 bucks. Guy takes out his teeth, reaches up, and bites his other eye.
Dan: Oh, God.
Matt: Gross.
Mark: 2,000 bucks. Well, the auditor says, well… Guys, tell you what, I’ll eat and make some money. I’ll bet you $6,000, that I can sit on the left side of your desk, pee in the trash can on the right side of your desk, and not get any pees on your desk. Guy’s got like a seven-foot desk. He’s going, okay, we will give a shot. Guy stands up, walks to the left side of his desk, whips it out, and just pees all over his desk. The auditor’s going, yes, great, yes. The attorney starts crying. The auditor goes, “What’s wrong?” “Oh, well, on the way into your office, he bet me $25,000 he’d pee on your desk and you’d be happy about it”.
Chris: Nice. It’s a large cash transaction, for sure.
Dan: All right, so that was SPEY Tenné.
Chris: Thank you, Matt.
Dan: Probably.
Mark: Just spell it, T-E-N-N-E.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: I knew a girl named that, spelled the exact same way.
Mark: How does she pronounce her name?
Chris: Tenné.
Dan: Of course.
Matt: When I was a kid, I wore tennies a lot. I liked sports.
Dan: So, I got another story to tell before we get to this one. It’s going to be a little bit of a long week because I get to give you some backstory, so…
Chris: Let me pee.
Dan: Every year, we-
Mark: See you later, Chris.
Dan: We do a fun contest at the racetrack where fans get to buy water balloons, and then, during intermission, they get to throw them at the officials. Flagman, tech officials, race director, track owner, myself, my crew up in the announcer’s booth. So, the night of this, we always try to do things to incite the crowd a little bit and get them to buy more water balloons.
Matt: Cocaine.
Dan: Well, I do cocaine normally…
Matt: Oh, okay.
Dan: … before I do the races.
Matt: All right.
Dan: You got to get excited somehow.
Matt: It’s true.
Dan: The water balloons are a dollar a piece, and then, we all line up on the front concourse, and then, the fans throw them at us. It’s a lot of fun.
Matt: Does anyone ever get hurt?
Dan: I got one right in the nutsac, and it hurt a lot.
Matt: I bet that hurt.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: Okay.
Mark: Do you think the person was aiming?
Dan: No. No, no, no. One of my posts on Saturday morning just to fire people up was, I’m not really too worried about getting hit with water balloons tonight. After all, we are in Nebraska, and these fans throw like they’re quarterbacks.
Matt: Wow.
Dan: Hashtag, no one gives a shit about 30 years ago. Mind you…
Matt: Wow.
Dan: … I am just trying to fire people up to buy water balloons.
Matt: Lucky, they weren’t throwing rocks at you.
Dan: Right. So, we were joking before the races got started and it was hot laps. We were going to start calling all the drivers by their wrong names. We ended up calling all of the male drivers by female names, so if it was Nick, it was Nicole. If it was Josh, it was Jill. So on. Not really complicated. And then, we decided, next year, we may do the Key and Peele skit where we blacken everybody’s name.
Mark: Blacken?
Dan: Yeah. Instead of Aaron, it’s a A-A-Ron.
Matt: Got to watch out on that one. Remember Key and Peele both black.
Dan: That’s very true.
Matt: So, they can get away with some shit.
Dan: That’s very true. Yeah. But that was kind of… I thought it’d be kind of funny to try that. But then, I realized it probably wouldn’t be that…
Matt: Say all the wrong numbers.
Dan: It might be funny to a few, but also, incredibly offensive. All right, back to it. Drinking.
Mark: Drinking.

Jura Seven Wood

Dan: What’s next? Mark? Somebody?
Mark: Jura Seven Wood.
Dan: I’ll give you Seven Wood.
Chris: Definitely.
Mark: Again, a non-aged statement scotch distilled on the isle of Jura, which is the next island over from Islay. It is initially, again, an aged American white oak, and then, it’s aged in six different French oak barrels.
Dan: I get a little peatiness on the finish.
Mark: I haven’t tried it yet.
Chris: I have a Seven Wood in golf bag.
Matt: Yeah, I hit my Seven Wood very well yesterday.
Chris: Nice.
Dan: Was it the Seven Wood that ended up in the tree with Jeremiah?
Matt: No, that was his driver.
Dan: Okay.
Matt: So, that ended up in the shop the following week.
Dan: He reminded me several times almost pointing it out that he does listen to every episode.
Matt: But he’s going to be… it’s going to be Christmas-
Chris: Yeah, Jeremiah are going to win.
Dan: Are you?
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: I don’t know about that.
Chris: Top three.
Matt: We’re going to win today.
Chris: Top three. Top three.
Dan: Did you guys really sign up Miller?
Matt: No.
Dan: Okay.
Matt: No. I told him if he didn’t want to golf, I’m not going to make him golf. I said I’m probably going to cry, at least, for the front nine.
Dan: Yeah. I think he’d be a great ball girl.
Mark: The finish on that is really medicinal.
Matt: It is.
Dan: Yeah? You think so? By the way, golf outing full yet?
Matt: No.
Dan: Getting there?
Matt: August 11th.
Chris: Week from Sunday.
Matt: We do our…
Chris: Sunday, Saturday.
Matt: … drawing on Friday the night before. And, yeah, it’ll be a couple nights before. It’s usually a pretty dang good time.
Dan: Good deal.
Matt: Big drunken mess.
Dan: Good deal. Yeah-
Matt: I told Jen she can’t golf in it because we’re not golfing together.
Dan: I keep thinking that… I’m like, yeah, we got a month or so still to go, because that’s August. And then, all of a sudden, as we were having…
Matt: It’s August.
Dan: … the discussion before the show tonight, the podcast today, that NFL preseason game is this Thursday, and then, the pub outing is next Sunday, is the following Sunday. And so, all of a sudden, it’s-
Matt: I’m excited for preseason.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: You’re so excited for preseason?
Mark: I hope you’re kidding.
Chris: I’m just excited for football.
Matt: I am, I’m just excited to have football back around.
Chris: It means, Thursday night come over, after you get off.
Matt: There’s a good chance.
Chris: Cool. See how-
Matt: I mean, preseason always sucks, but at least, you get to watch football again.
Mark: For me, I get excited that preseason starting every year, and then, you watch part of preseason go, “This is fucking horrible”.
Matt: I mean, you better make sure you see the beginning of the game if you want to see any names, you know?
Dan: Because week one, it’s going to be, the starters are going to come out for like a driver two.
Matt: Probably, like eight ways.
Dan: Just to kind of get the feel of game time a little bit, and then, they sit down and they let the second and third string…
Mark: All the guys that are still jocking for a roster spot.
Dan: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Yep.
Matt: Yep.
Dan: Jura Seven Wood.
Matt: I like it.
Dan: You like it?
Chris: I feel like we’ve done this one before.
Matt: Which I added a little water.
Mark: We have not.
Chris: We haven’t?
Matt: Which I’ve added a little water to it, and it kind of knocked that medicinal down.
Mark: The medicinal for me on finish is almost like, remember the Ludens cherry cough drops?
Matt: Yes.
Chris: Yes.
Mark: That’s kind of what I get out of it.
Chris: I can see that.
Matt: When you burp, it’s really medicinal.
Dan: Is it?
Matt: Yeah.
Mark: You know, most tasting notes, they don’t talk about the burp.
Dan: They should.
Mark: I would say-
Matt: That should be a category.
Dan: It should be.
Mark: Yeah. Because on a really peaty scotch, you’re going to burp that peaty for about a week.
Matt: But what happens if you ate enchiladas for lunch, and on the burp, I get a little fruity cherry almondy enchilada. This is spanish scotch.
Dan: Jura Seven Wood, that was our next one, so…
Matt: I think some water helped this.
Chris: I don’t know, I drank mine already.
Matt: And that’s probably about what I put in mine. Now, it is-
Mark: Drinking it without water didn’t feel that it needed water, but I wanted to try since you think it helps.
Matt: Which I think it knocked some of that medicinal down, but it’s still a little novocainey.
Dan: Two down, two to go. Matt, what is our… well, what is your pick of the day?
Matt: We’re going to start with…
Mark: [inaudible 00:23:40]with your computer.
Matt: … I.W. Harper. This is a new one from them. It is a cabernet finish, 45%, 90 proof, non-age statement. But Whisky Advocate magazine did give it an 88 out of a hundred. So, here let me pour this.
Chris: Yeah, this stuff is… You usually put out good stuff, right?
Mark: They put out a 15-year that’s really good but you can’t get it.
Matt: It’s very difficult to get. You have to know someone who knows someone or-
Chris: It’s just because it’s not here or very low…
Mark: It used to be here, and then, bourbon got very popular in 16 and 17, now, you can’t find it.
Matt: It was… When I first started working here, we probably had six or eight bottles of the I.W. Harper 15, and now, it has turned into special occasion whisky it, which I’m lucky enough to have a bottle and a dribble and another bottle left at home. Yeah, this is their cabernet finished. They don’t tell you how old it is, or any of the fun, interesting stuff.
Chris: It’s good. It’s bourbon. A little bit more hearty because of that cab cask, but…
Matt: These guys are-
Chris: It’s great.
Matt: It’s very dry.
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: They get a lot of dry.
Chris: Like right at the tip of the tongue.
Matt: This is made by Stitzel-Weller, who is owned by Diageo. About $60 a bottle.
Mark: Is that like less than a hundred proof?
Matt: Yes. 95. Or 90 proof. I’m sorry.
Mark: It does not drink hot… No?
Matt: No, not one bit.
Mark: You get a very, very late chest warmy.
Matt: Like a nice, little hug.
Mark: You’re right. It’s not hot, it’s warmy.
Matt: I tried this the other day, and I wasn’t a huge fan of it. Now, that I’ve tried it again, I actually think I kind of like it quite a bit.
Dan: Oh.
Matt: It’s a cabernet finished, Dan, so a little more wine in your life.
Dan: I got plenty of that.
Mark: In your wife or life?
Dan: Yes. It’s so fierce. The name is throwing me off. I would figure this would be a Sazerac product with the Weller name, but it’s not.
Matt: No, it’s Stitzel-Weller which used to be Weller. I think.
Chris: A number of brands were sold off to other companies such as Heaven Hill and Buffalo Trace and the facility finally closed in 1992. Although some products such as Bullet and Crown Royal continue to be aged there. Crown Royal, the Canadian…
Matt: Yep.
Chris: Just want to throw that.
Dan: Which is distilled in the United States, shipped up to Cananada…
Chris: Cananada.
Dan: … for some sort of minimum requirement, and then, shipped back.
Chris: Yeah, 10%.
Mark: The… Five.
Chris: 5%.
Mark: 5% of the whisky… Legally, 5% of the whisky in Canadian whisky has to be made someplace else. Not Canada.
Dan: Yeah, adding a little bit of water kind of toned this down. It seems to be an add a water day, and really enjoy it.
Matt: I wouldn’t put any water with this.
Dan: No?
Matt: No. The only reason I’d put water is if I didn’t like something about it, and see what it did. Well, I think all in all, this just kind of follows their line. They make good stuff.
Mark: I think…
Chris: And so-
Mark: … Dan and Matt know this, but yesterday were sitting here around noon early, and a couple starts coming towards the door. I’d seen the guy before, but not a lot. He gets to the door, grabs his handle, lets it go really quick, turns around and starts trotting to his car. As he’s trotting to his car, I turn around and he’s pulling a gun out of his waistband, was the size of fucking bazooka. And then, he comes and says, “Oh I forgot, I had my gun on me”. And I looked at him and thought, how do you keep that bazooka in your pants? But he didn’t say it. I thought about it first, and I was like, no, no. A very nice guy, wasn’t mad or anything.
Chris: Was it like a dirty hairy type, like the joker from Batman?
Mark: I believe that it was a 45 automatic.
Matt: And not like a compact or a subcompact?
Mark: No. No.
Chris: It’s not like-
Matt: It’s not like-
Mark: It had to be this long.
Chris: It’s not like the Jokers and he pulled it out, and then, he’s got…
Dan: Still talking about his gun?
Chris: Telescoping thing, and then, he has that batwing?
Dan: Oh, yeah.
Chris: Such a great movie.
Matt: Oh, down it goes.
Dan: It wasn’t that long… Was it that long? I thought he’d telescope it out.
Chris: No, he pulled it out of his pants. It’s so great. Such a great…
Dan: You’re talking about the Tim Burton Batman years ago?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. The good one.
Matt: He was the most cartoony.
Dan: I am Batman. Not that, “I am Batman”.
Matt: Version.
Dan: I don’t know. Christian Bale was a really good Batman.
Chris: He was, but he growled a little bit too much.
Dan: Even though he knew how to shit out of me when it’s like, hi, I’m Bruce Wayne, I’m Batman.
Chris: Well, you only recognize it when it got to the second movie, because it was more pronounced in the second movie.
Mark: But that was not him. They ran him through a computer to make it sound like that, and won’t-
Dan: No. That was him.
Chris: It had to… He wouldn’t let him do… Knowing Christian Bale and what he is, like as far as-
Dan: I’ve seen conversations he’s had between him and, Chris Nolan?
Chris: Chris… Yeah.
Dan: Now, I’m fucking it up.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Dan: They were talking about how to differentiate between the two, and they wanted to go with something kind of dark like that voice to give it more depth.
Matt: I still am a huge fan of Bane’s voice. Oh. Oh, Batman.
Dan: I continue to watch that and I don’t care what happens, I still don’t believe that was Tom Hardy.
Chris: He says it was him.
Dan: I know it was him. Absolutely believe it was him.
Matt: It’s me.
Chris: You know what Tom Hardy just did last weekend?
Dan: You saw that, too?
Matt: The jiu-jitsu world, competed in it?
Chris: Yeah. Quietly entered it and won it. And the guys that were number one in the sport, they were like, “Yeah, he’s legit”. Like he definitely lived up to the Bane name.
Dan: Tom Hardy is one of those that easily is probably top five actors right now.
Matt: I mean, he’s Mad Max.
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: He’s…
Chris: Everything.
Dan: … fucking great.
Chris: I think he’s great in Venom.
Matt: Oh, he’s wonderful in Venom.
Mark: Has anybody seen the new Mad Max? It’s pretty cool.
Chris: I did. It’s really good.
Mark: [inaudible 00:30:43] Road?
Chris: It’s really good. It’s really good.
Mark: Because the last one I didn’t think was good at all.
Dan: What?
Matt: I thought it was pretty awesome.
Dan: What’s the matter with you?
Mark: How long do I have to watch somebody drive across the desert?
Matt: Well, they broke it up with fights.
Mark: Yeah.
Chris: Well, they’re chasing some problems.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: As long as that person’s still ahead of them, that’s, as long as you got to watch.
Dan: I don’t care. I will watch a chase scene for days when Charlize Theron is involved.
Matt: Even with a machine arm?
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: It was a good movie.
Mark: If you like chase scenes, watch the movie Bullitt.
Matt: That’s all it is, is one… Or Gone in 60 Seconds. That’s just one long chase scene.
Chris: Cannonball Run or it’s a mad, mad, bad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad World?
Mark: Bullitt is probably the best chase scene ever filmed, and it is the entire movie. Steve McQueen driving a…
Chris: Oh, okay, got it.
Mark: … 69 Mustang Fastback. They had like nine of them. One of them survived, and recently, sold for like $2.4 million.
Chris: I don’t know why this movie popped into my head, but probably because of chase. But you guys remember that movie of the guy that’s driving down the road, and then, the semi is chasing him and there’s really not too much conversation about it, it’s just the guy driving. I think it was a short story published in Playboy, and you never see the driver of the semi’s face at all, but he’s always… what is that movie?
Mark: I think that is a Stephen King-
Chris: It is. I think it is. It’s creepy, and it’s really good, but it will definitely make you raise your eyebrow to any sort of semi that is behind you, and they don’t show his face at all. He doesn’t talk, just, arrr, arrrr… And then, behind him, like ramming him. It was pretty creepy.
Dan: Sometimes, that’s the best. I was like watching like sci-fi movies with aliens that invade or, I suppose signs is probably the best example I can come up with that part of the suspense is the scariness…
Mark: That was a dumb movie.
Chris: Really?
Dan: Is the fact that you don’t see the aliens.
Matt: I thought it was scary.
Chris: I thought it was creepiest…
Dan: That movie was… I am a big M. Night Shyamalan fan.
Mark: His problem is he made the greatest movie he will ever make first.
Dan: I don’t think so. I mean, Signs was great, but there was several of them before that. But…
Mark: The Sixth Sense was his first movie.
Dan: Yeah, Sixth Sense.
Chris: That was a great movie. I thought it was-
Dan: No. Unbreakable was before that.
Chris: Was it?
Dan: Yeah.
Mark: No, I don’t think so. I think Unbreakable came… Was the next three after that.
Dan: But I thought The Village was great. People hated The Village because they didn’t like the twist at the end of it, but my retort is always, you didn’t see it coming.
Matt: Well, but that’s what M. Night Shyamalan does.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: There’s always some sort of crazy twist at some point in the movie, that you’re like, what the fuck was that?
Dan: Yep.
Matt: And it changes the whole course of the movie.
Chris: Duel. Duel is the name of the movie that I was talking about. 1971. It was directed by Steven Spielberg.
Matt: Is there a shark in it?
Chris: Nope. It’s definitely a really scary-looking sci-fi.
Matt: Oh. Damn.
Chris: I’m telling you. He didn’t do anything, like he didn’t do anything wrong either.
Matt: What’s the one with the semi where they’re going “Candy” “Candy….
Chris: I don’t know.
Matt: Over the radio?
Chris: That’s not like Maximum Overdrive or anything like that?
Matt: No. The Maximum Overdrive Joker face was just found in a junkyard somewhere.
Chris: Really?
Matt: Yeah. Yep. With good, old… Who started that? Emilio Estevez?
Chris: Mm-hmm.
Matt: How do you go wrong with an Estevez?
Dan: No, that’s not right.
Chris: What’s not right?
Dan: Well, I’m trying to find out the timeline of his movies released. Which is-
Chris: Just go to IMDb.
Dan: I don’t like IMDb. There’s way too many fucking popup ads.
Chris: M. Night Shyamalan Ding Dong.
Dan: So, yeah, Sixth Sense was basically it, but he did one called Wide Awake right before that, the year before that. And Unbreakables, which I thought was before that was the next one after it. Signs was awesome. The Happening. That always freaks me the fuck out when I’m sitting outside, and there’s just this nice light breeze, I kind of look around and I’m like, fuck, is it happening?
Matt: It almost happened at the race the other night for you.
Dan: That’s true. All right, so where are we at? I.W. Harper, I thought it was a little warm, added a little bit of water and it went down really nicely.
Chris: I’ll tell you what piss me off about M. Night Shyamalan.
Dan: You tell me.
Chris: Just so bad, I will tell you.
Dan: You tell me.
Chris: That Village, the promotion of it was a lie.
Dan: It was a suspense.
Chris: No, it’s not. It’s a straight up lie to get people butts in the seats.
Dan: Why? How was it a lie?
Chris: That’s what it was. Because it totally misled you to accentuate the twist ending.
Matt: It’s a twist.
Chris: These village, this is village.
Dan: Are they supposed to fake the twist ending?
Chris: No, but I’m saying like don’t say that there’s monsters when it’s fake.
Matt: Did he do The Ring?
Chris: They did absolutely very… Dan, Dan…
Dan: Chris.
Chris: Dan, don’t political talk this bullshit. Don’t try to spin it. You know… Everybody went to see that movie for the same reason, and it’s because of that, except for Mark, Mark’s right, it sucked.
Dan: It was an awesome-
Chris: It sucked ass. It was horrible.
Dan: It was awesome.
Chris: Horrible.
Dan: I loved it.
Chris: There were kids that live in a forest that’s surrounded by walls and we’ve never hiked out, we’ve never jumped on a bike like we all did, and like went miles.
Matt: Did they have a bike?
Chris: No, probably not, because they were hidden.
Matt: No, no. That explains why they never…
Chris: It’s so dumb.
Matt: … rode a bike.
Chris: They live in Thomasville, Hills, whatever it’s called.
Dan: It was in their myth that if they-
Chris: Thomason Woods, it’s how big that place is.
Dan: It was in their myth that if they went to the woods, they get killed.
Chris: Surrounded by a fricking… Surrounded by an interstate and they hear cars, come on, man. I hate that movie. I really do.
Mark: By the way, Tomlinson Woods.
Chris: Thomason Woods, thank you. Yeah, it’s right off 114, or Dodge and Pacific.
Dan: Should we change the-
Mark: South Side Pacific, yeah, 120. No, 140-
Matt: Let it go.
Dan: Should we let it go?
Matt: Yeah.
Dan: Man. I like poking at him though.
Chris: No. Poke, poke, poke.
Dan: He’s so worked up.
Chris: I do.
Matt: It does get really worked up.
Chris: I do.
Dan: Oh, God. Anyways. Matt…
Matt: Wow.
Chris: Mark…

Remus Babe Ruth Reserve

Dan: … I see a bottle of Remus.
Matt: There it is.
Chris: Yeah, we just did that. Didn’t we?
Matt: Nope.
Chris: Wait, is this mine?
Matt: That’s yours.
Chris: Oh, cool.
Matt: This is the latest release from Remus. This is the Babe Ruth Reserve.
Chris: That has a really awesome nose.
Matt: It’s pretty tasty.
Chris: Phone’s ringing.
Dan: Jesus. I got it muted so we can’t hear it.
Matt: Oh, okay. This stuff is the Babe Ruth Reserve from Remus. It is $150 a bottle. It’s 111 proof. They age at six to seven years. It’s a blend of three different mash bills, which they don’t tell you what the mash bills are. And there are 10,624 bottles available, which is the same amount of plate appearances that Babe Ruth had.
Chris: Oh, this is number 27, 17.
Matt: 17.
Chris: Who was George Remus? Was he a gangster?
Mark: No. He was the guy that taught Jack Daniels how to make whiskey, and he was a black man.
Matt: That’s Uncle Nearest.
Dan: You’re thinking Uncle Nearest.
Mark: Oh, Uncle Nearest. Sorry.
Matt: Yeah. Remus, I believe, was just a whiskey maker and businessman.
Chris: Is he the one that shot his wife on the street because she cheated on him?
Matt: I do not know of that.
Mark: I was looking at the list yesterday of 50 most important chefs, not necessarily the best, but most important. And Jane Beard was number one, Bourdain was number two, but in the middle of the pack, they had this black and white photo, and it was a black man who got caught cheating on his wife, not a chef. Got caught cheating on his wife, and his wife, to teach him a lesson, made him his favorite meal, fried chicken and soaked it in hot sauce. And he ate it and thought this is actually good. And he’s the guy that invented the-
Dan: The hot chicken sandwich.
Mark: Hot chicken. Guy wasn’t a chef and he didn’t even invented it, his wife did.
Dan: The greatest opening line in a Wikipedia bio page, George Remus was a German-born American lawyer who was a bootlegger during the early days of prohibition, and later, murdered his wife.
Matt: Oh.
Dan: That’s it.
Matt: I guess he is the one that shot his wife.
Dan: Yeah. I do love this story, because I believe that the wife dimed him out to the FBI that he was a bootlegger, because she was sleeping with the FBI agent and wanted him gone. He went and served like three or four years in prison because of it. He promptly got out of prison, went and bought a gun, found his wife, shot her, killed her, got arrested, stood in front of the judge and the judge relieved him of all charges because it was… What do I want to say? They felt it was appropriate.
Matt: Crime of passion?
Dan: It was appropriate. I missed good old time law.
Matt: You can get away with shit back then. But anyways, they have, with this bottle of Babe Ruth Reserve, 7,605 of them are plate appearance bottles 2,537 or home run bottles. 324 are multi-home run bottles, and 158 are milestone bottles. You go on the back little label here and they’ve got a QR code, and you scan it, and you put your bottle number in. And that, they tell you what your specific bottle stands for.
Mark: And?
Matt: So, ours represents a home run bottle.
Mark: Oh. Nice.
Matt: Friday, June 9th, 1922, Babe Ruth has five plate appearances for the Yankees going two for five against Chicago with one home run.
Mark: Do you think Babe Ruth would even get a hit against a starting pitcher today?
Dan: Not a chance.
Matt: I don’t think any of those guys back then hit any of the stuff.
Dan: Not a chance.
Matt: But they had 75-mile an hour fastballs coming at him.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: Nowadays, we have 80-mile an hour changeups.
Chris: Yeah, it’s true.
Mark: There’s a kid named River something. His first-
Dan: Phoenix?
Mark: No.
Dan: He’s not alive.
Mark: But he’s a rookie pitcher for the Dodgers. Throws a 92-mile an hour changeup.
Chris: What?
Matt: It’s just a fastball.
Mark: No, his fastball is over a hundred.
Matt: But a 92 miles an hour, that’s not a changeup. You’re really not changing 192 to 102. It’s only a lot if you’re a cop with a radar gun.
Dan: This is probably one of the more creative… I don’t know what you want to call it-
Mark: Marketing ploys?
Dan: Yeah. Behind… I mean, whoever thought this up is a fucking genius or drunk.
Mark: Or a little bit of both.
Dan: And the answer is probably yes.
Mark: Next, we’re going to have Barry Bonds?
Chris: It’s just like…
Mark: And this is the pre-home run pre [inaudible 00:42:33] and the home run post…
Dan: I heard a stat, oh, I was driving around listening to AP News again, and like the leading home run hitter this year is at like 35 or 37 or something like that. And we’re after the all-star break, right? So, we’re halfway through the midpoint of the season.
Mark: We are 60%… No. 70% done with the season.
Dan: And what’s the home run record like? 79?
Chris: Yeah, that’s right. I thought it was like 70-
Mark: 70 something. Yeah.
Dan: Yeah. That’s insane. Now, again, we all get it, they were using steroids and it was a little unfair, but…
Matt: But baseball was sure good back then.
Chris: Mind you, Mark McGwire’s head looked like it was going to pop off his fricking body.
Dan: Dude.
Matt: Barry Bonds holds it with 73 in 2021.
Chris: 2021?
Matt: 2001.
Chris: Oh, okay. I was like, Jesus… He was old.
Matt: McGwire had set the record in ’98 with 70.
Chris: But it’s asterisk… asterisk.
Dan: I don’t think it is. Is it?
Chris: I think that was the whole joke with the asterisk, right? Like we were putting asterisk on it.
Dan: Everybody wanted it. Because we all knew it, but…
Matt: When Barry Bonds set the record, he hit 28 home runs in the first 50 games. That’s outrageous. And you know, everyone says he’s an asshole.
Chris: Why pitch to him? Why pitch to him?
Matt: I wouldn’t.
Chris: Like why you just throw it to the catcher outside the box, why?
Dan: Why it’s good for the game.
Mark: Good for my pitching stance.
Matt: I like the home run era.
Mark: They changed the rule now. If you’re intentionally walking to somebody, all the managers stands up and goes… And the guy just walks down the first. They don’t have to throw the ball-
Chris: They don’t waste, yeah.
Matt: Waste the pitches.
Chris: Yeah.
Mark: They brought that when they… Not last year but the year before, I believe. They’re trying to speed up the game.
Chris: You know what would be really cool-
Mark: Now, wait for just a second. I have seen, watching baseball, a guy they’re trying to intentionally walk who reached out with his bat and hits the intentional ball.
Chris: Oh, I did see that.
Dan: Yeah. I see that, too.
Chris: It was just a base hit, it wasn’t a home run or anything like that.
Dan: No.
Chris: I just want for them to maybe like, one weekend, all the teams play with a stick and go back to stickball and see what would happen. Obviously, they’d have to get a really strong stick, but that would be really fun.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: It would be really fun. I would watch-
Dan: Because these days, they would [inaudible 00:45:15] that stick easily.
Chris: It would. They’d have to use titanium wood or something.
Matt: I mean, if you’re throwing a 92 mile an hour changeup.
Chris: Yeah. Right? But that would be a really fun weekend to watch baseball.
Dan: God, you would see-
Mark: I want more drink.
Matt: Just, this is the last one.
Dan: I’m going to have to go over to AJ’s. I didn’t eat anything before I got here, and it’s taken its toll.
Matt: It’s taken its toll. Woo, I like that nose.

Old Bartons

Chris: So, this is something that I think all of us are actually very fond of. It’s very old Bartons, because we all believe that it’s very inexpensive for the quality that it is.
Matt: Definitely, drinks above $16 a bottle.
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: Yes.
Matt: Which I think this one-
Chris: This one is 16.
Matt: Is this one 16?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Matt: I thought this was 19, since it’s the hundred proof.
Chris: 16.99. Get it in Iowa. Mark, this is going to be probably rough for you. Actually, you know what, here is what I say about this? Because I did make a old fat Manhattan… Whatever. I made one of these for my dad for his birthday. It’s very flavorful up front, but that burn is long, and it is a burn, it’s not a warmth. It is… I will say that.
Dan: This is-
Chris: But this makes a really good cocktail.
Dan: This is kind of one of those… I don’t know. The fun things about whiskey really, is that this is the same juice, same mash bill, same everything, just different proof. And it changes so much when you go from… My favorite is the 80 proof. The 90 proof is fine. I’m interested to see how this does.
Matt: I like this better than the 90 proof.
Dan: Yeah?
Matt: You get a lot of kind cherry, fruity sweetness.
Chris: But now, they had all this other whiskey, like I’m not getting out there… It’s like a warmth, I’m not… that’s…
Matt: I’m not getting a whole lot of burney.
Dan: I’m not either.
Chris: Just wait right like here in about two minutes.
Dan: Like where that proof-
Chris: Yeah, where that proof was that you were talking about earlier. Like it’s a warmth. Like indigestion.
Mark: What? That’s not a good description.
Matt: Ooh, I want drink more of that.
Chris: Can have some of that indigestion that Blum was talking about.
Matt: This would be great. I’d love to drink something that makes my stomach go crazy.
Chris: But how there’s no like mouth burn in this quality of whiskey kind of surprises me a little bit.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: Because, you know, it’s minimum aged.
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: It’s $17 a bottle. It’s totally minimum-aged.
Chris: Yeah. Yep. But if we got this, if we had this in Nebraska, I would probably have one on my back bar all the time, for cocktail purposes.
Matt: Which I have some old Bartons at the house. I don’t feel like it’s very old.
Dan: I think I still have five or six bottles from the last case I bought. I don’t drink on it nearly enough.
Chris: Yeah. This makes a really good cocktail.
Dan: Chris, I’m sorry. I’m never getting that. Nothing.
Chris: Really?
Dan: It went down…
Matt: Yeah. I’m not getting the burn either.
Chris: Really?
Dan: … like any proof does.
Chris: All right, cool.
Matt: But, yeah, this is, at a hundred proof, super easy drinker. I get a little tongue burn.
Chris: Yep. There is so much flavor though with that. There is.
Matt: It’s surprisingly flavorful for what it is.
Chris: I’m just surprised that this hasn’t like… It hadn’t caught on to people or-
Dan: I know.
Matt: Because it’s got the name Bartons.
Dan: And you know what? I’m kind of glad it doesn’t.
Chris: Yeah, I know.
Dan: Because as soon as it gets popular, it’s going to get expensive.
Matt: Yeah. It’s got the name Bartons in it, so people aren’t going to look at it anyways. And yes, it is that Bartons.
Dan: Yeah, I used to think that it wasn’t from that same distillery but it is.
Chris: Totally.
Matt: Which they also make 1792. So, there’s that.
Dan: I was at Boone County Raceway in Albion, Nebraska on Friday night, doing…
Matt: Woo-hoo.
Dan: … a high noon tea tasting.
Matt: Oh, wow. A high noon tea tasting?
Dan: Yeah. And first off, I don’t revel in being the guy that knows some stuff. I mean, I do like to be a know-it-all, but the number of times people would walk by me and say, no, I’ve had it, I’m good, and I’m like, you’re in BFE, Nebraska. No, you haven’t. Because it’s four months out, three months out?
Chris: Yep.
Dan: There’s no way BFE Nebraska’s got it yet. In fact, I can look at the sales history and tell you that it hasn’t. Anyways, so I had one guy that walked by it and I was like… He goes, oh no, no I’ve had it. And I said, no you haven’t. So then, he stopped and looks at me and I go, this has only been out for a couple of months, you haven’t had it. And he goes, I’ve had all the high noons and I said, you’ve had the tea. And he goes, oh tea. No, I haven’t had the tea. So we started having a conversation. Turns out he was a liquor store in town. He’s going to order a couple cases, but he was talking about how he’s frustrated with the bourbon world about how the really good stuff is hard to get. And I said it’s actually not. Again, trying not to be the know-it-all guy of like, oh, but… I was like, you need to talk to your Johnson Brothers sales rep about getting yourself a case of Bartons 80 proof, and that stuff is like nine to $10 a bottle, and it hits above its weight.
Matt: Oh, yeah.
Dan: Because he was talking about how frustrating it is that he can’t get Buffalo Trace, can’t get Blanton’s, can’t get Eagle Rare. I’m like, that’s fine.
Matt: He’s not talking good stuff. He’s talking recognizable name stuff.
Dan: Yes. And I’ll go on… Say it again, I think the Buffalo Trace stuff, I think Buffalo Trace is really good bourbon…
Matt: It’s good.
Dan: … at $30 a bottle.
Matt: Not at 60 for a regular Buffalo Trace.
Dan: Exactly. Not what… it’s a secondary marketing, yeah.
Matt: Or a hundred for an Eagle Rare.
Dan: Exactly.
Matt: Or 150 for a Blanton’s.
Dan: Very old Bartons, I think retail is like 11.99 or 12.99. It is so freaking good.
Chris: Sorry. I mean, this is not-
Matt: That’s funny.
Chris: It just popped
Dan: I can’t not… God dammit. Be that guy that…
Matt: The eyebrows are just outrageous.
Chris: The brows.
Dan: That brows.
Chris: He’s definitely Middle Eastern, right, or Indian.
Dan: Chris, I think there’s a very good chance that that photo was fake.
Chris: Why?
Matt: I don’t think it is.
Dan: I mean, even for being Greek… is he Greek?
Chris: That’s a little outrageous.
Dan: I’m saying that if he was Greek, I don’t know if he is, the Greek seemed to still have retained the most body to hair ratio.
Matt: Hair ratios. Unless you get those old circus carnival freaks that had the fur on their faces.
Dan: Oh, yeah.
Matt: Or the dog boys.
Chris: Fat French ladies, that freaking… in the Olympics.
Matt: They’re at the Olympics.
Chris: That has a two…
Matt: Oui.
Chris: I said nothing bad
Matt: Oui.
Chris: I said nothing bad.
Dan: Get you some jelly on that.
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: Wow.
Dan: Or just use-
Mark: I’ve actually watched… I actually watch more Olympics than I thought I would, but I’m watching weird sports.
Dan: That’s how weird it is.
Chris: Yeah. There was a weird-
Matt: We sat up here and watched kayaking, and cross country horse jumping or some shit yesterday.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: I missed the sand volleyball for dudes. I mean, I know I was supposed to be watching the women’s, but that’s coming up soon. But volleyball is really fun.
Mark: It’s over the weekend.
Chris: The women’s? Is it over?
Mark: No. First round was over the weekend.
Dan: I’m fairly certain that the Olympic is filled… Olympics are filled with 80% sports that nobody has ever fucking heard of.
Mark: Who came up with making break dancing an Olympic sport? That-
Chris: French people.
Dan: French people? I don’t know.
Matt: I want to say the same people that make skateboarding an Olympic sport.
Dan: I mean, seriously, let’s-
Chris: Skateboarding could be a thing though. I mean, I can see that.
Dan: But we really need to… I mean, the X Games is kind of a big thing, like I get it, I guess I understand that we’re in America, and so, our little corner of the world is everything to us. But I don’t see water polo and luging… And quite frankly, what’s the winter games where they take the sled through the ice course?
Matt: The skel?
Mark: It depends. Feet first is the skel, head first is the luge.
Matt: Or suicide.
Dan: Have you ever, ever been out in life, and went, oh, look, there’s a skel course?
Mark: In other words, how do you start… We were having this conversation yesterday. It’s the harp. You know the full size… You got to start out with a different instrument, don’t you? You don’t just, one day, say, Hey mom, dad, buy me a $25,000-harp to sit in the living room, so I go…
Dan: My parents wouldn’t buy me a $35-trumpet.
Chris: Same. I couldn’t… I wanted to learn to play the guitar, like we have a piano. Like what?
Mark: My youngest stepdaughter…
Matt: They’re both stringed instruments.
Mark: … convinced my wife…
Dan: Noah?
Mark: No, this is pre Noah. My high school sophomore stepdaughter convinced my wife to buy her an $11,000-flute.
Dan: Listen, you portray that… Does it blow itself?
Mark: Yeah.
Dan: My God. You portray that as if it is difficult to convince Mo to spend money.
Mark: On the [inaudible 00:54:42].
Dan: Especially when it comes to her daughter. But the fact that there is an $11,000-flute out there is a little ridiculous.
Matt: This one time at band camp…
Mark: The reason it was for sale-
Dan: Speaking of Noah. Hi, Noah.
Noah: Oh, yes.
Mark: We’re talking about Skye’s extremely expensive flute that never gets played.
Noah: Oh, I thought you were going to be talking about the extremely-expensive dog we just bought.
Dan: No. Was it $11,000?
Chris: Yeah. How is that dog?
Noah: [inaudible 00:55:10] 10%, that’s still way too fucking high.
Dan: Yeah. I’ve got all my dogs for free.
Matt: Yeah. My expensive dog was $300.
Mark: Anyway, the band teacher who was a flute player…
Dan: Probably didn’t make $11,000 a year.
Mark: … it was her flute and she wanted a better flute.
Dan: Oh, Jesus.
Mark: And she convinced Skye to convince Mo to buy her old flute. So, it was not only an $11,000-flute, it was huge.
Matt: It had some mileage on it.
Dan: What was the value of that? Is that like on the antique roadshow?
Matt: You’re probably not looking it up in the Thrifty Nickel.
Dan: All right, we are past the…
Chris: That Thrifty Nickel…
Dan: … 12:00 hour.
Chris: … man, that’s some super good poop reading.
Dan: Oh, yeah. We were past the 12:00 hour, so things are getting a little busy at the pub. Get out to the library pub this coming Wednesday for the… No, next Wednesday, August 7th, for the next Whiskey Wednesday. What’s that?
Noah: You don’t want to do it anymore?
Mark: That bottle has made every list of great bourbon you try that you can’t find in the last six months.
Dan: Then, yes. Yes, we need to do one more. Hold the presses, we’re doing another one.
Mark: Every 10 greatest unknown bourbons, 10 bourbons… Has had that bottle on it, and I’d never seen it.
Speaker 6: Right.
Matt: Which… You don’t have many great bourbons that on the back of the bottle it says aged a minimum of two years in new charred oak. I guess, let’s see what it does.
Dan: Wow. And-
Mark: Where did you get this?
Speaker 6: Oklahoma City.
Dan: Nice. By the way, you guys can’t hear Kevin off the mic talking. He was down in Oklahoma City this weekend.
Mark: No. During the week last week.
Dan: During the week last week, and he was at the lake on Sunday, I think. And he came and got ice. Anyways, picked up this bottle, and it is Hand bourbon.
Matt: Very old.

Hand barrel

Dan: Hand barrel.
Chris: Very old.
Dan: Single barrel select. VOB? Listen, I’m not fucking mowing today. 64% corn, 24% rye, 12% malted barley.
Mark: I’m going to sit at home, watch my wife sleep while I watch the Olympics.
Dan: That’s a little creepy.
Mark: Well, she falls asleep on the couch.
Dan: Oh, yeah. Does she snore? She seems like a loud snorer.
Mark: No. She does not. I’m not making this up.
Dan: Hold on. My impression of her snoring, weeeeee….
Mark: Not bad. She doesn’t however snore very often. However, she laughs in her sleep.
Chris: That’s funny.
Dan: I know this has happened to all of us.
Chris: Probably, to her, too.
Dan: But the last couple of nights, Sarah has woken up confused, yelling at something, and not entirely sure what.
Speaker 6: Probably, you.
Matt: Chickens.
Dan: It made no sense. And eventually, I just like, the second night it happened, I just kind of tapped her on the shoulder, and I said, go back to sleep.
Matt: I do like how everything’s written in just ballpoint pen on the label on this.
Dan: Is that an actual bottle that is just shaped and painted?
Matt: As a barrel.
Dan: It’s glass or is it wood? That’s glass.
Matt: This was bottled on 4-25 of 2023. Barrel number 106457. Bottle number 188.
Dan: Get a really odd nose. What is that I’m getting? And I’m not saying odd isn’t a bad thing.
Chris: Smells woody to me.
Mark: I agree with Noah. There’s some cherry in there.
Noah: I get a bit, yeah.
Dan: I got to deal with Richard Hooter tutor. Hello. How are you?
Matt: Address your whiskey.
Dan: What’s your name?
Mark: Who’s your mama?
Chris: It’s pretty good.
Dan: It is a unique nose.
Matt: I do get the cherries.
Dan: I get it right off the tongue.
Mark: It does… it drinks very hot.
Matt: I think this is something I would be disappointed for paying $70. Maybe, 40 or 50. I mean, other than the fact you get a fun bottle.
Dan: Yeah. $70 is kind of… I think that’s kind of where we’re getting at with a decent bottle of bourbon.
Matt: It’s got a really long finish.
Noah: It does.
Dan: Oh, maybe, I shouldn’t drink water then. I should wait and let it finish.
Matt: In your mouth.
Dan: In my mouth.
Mark: I love to finish it in your mouth.
Chris: Wow. Whoa. Oh, wow.
Mark: Mark rap… Before I said that because he knew I was going to say it.
Dan: It didn’t mark actually though, because this computer is a piece of shit.
Matt: The big machine.
Dan: I think it’s fine. It’s bourbon.
Mark: I thought it was too hot.
Dan: It’s bourbon.
Matt: I don’t understand why it’s on lists for anything, other than cool bottle.
Dan: What’s the proof?
Matt: One-
Chris: Tastes like caramel.
Matt: 105.
Chris: It has some stuff on it.
Dan: That’s crazy to me.
Matt: Single barrel select cask strength, and it’s called age the minimum of two years.
Dan: Hand barrel.
Matt: Chits is by Bardstown. Bardstown Bourbon Company.
Dan: If this last two bourbons don’t show you that you cannot judge a bottle on its proof number, I don’t know what will. Because this, yes, while it’s two and a half percent ABV higher than Bartons, drinks way hotter than the Bartons 100 proof.
Mark: It does. I take the hundred proof Bartons way over this.
Matt: All day long.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
Matt: Now, this has got good flavor.
Mark: I can get five bottles of that for the cost of one bottle of that.
Dan: Well, I hate to be a stickler, but you actually can’t get that bottle because they won’t bring it into Nebraska.
Chris: Hey, I can drive over to Iowa.
Mark: I can drive over to Iowa.
Dan: All right.
Chris: Not like we live in the middle of Nebraska.
Dan: I’m just talking, legally-
Chris: Like hey, Dan. When you’re on your way home, can you go to stop at Kum & Go and pick up a bottle of this for me for…
Matt: Pick up a bottle of-
Dan: I always stop at Kum & Go on the way home.
Matt: You come, and then, you go.
Dan: That’s why I got a self-driving car.
Matt: Weird.
Chris: I don’t even…
Mark: And you actually…
Chris: … understand what you just said.
Mark: … fallen sleep, coming to work one day.
Dan: I did. I was that tired. I think I’m probably past the statute of limitations now. When I had my self-driving preview, the full driving preview, I got on the interstate at Madison Avenue in Council Bluffs, I promptly fell asleep, and then, I woke up about the time that Fort Street was coming up.
Chris: That’s scary as shit, dude.
Dan: It’s actually less scary to me knowing how the whole system works, than driving next to some of these fucked tards that are out there driving around with, putting makeup on or looking at their phone, or just actual dip shits that can’t figure out how to keep it between the lines.
Matt: There are some bad drivers.
Dan: And people that are way too excited to get themselves some Popeye chicken, they pull it in front of Mark.
Mark: It wasn’t in front of me. It was right into me.
Dan: Yeah, right into you. That’s right. All right, we got to wrap this up. I got to go over to AJ’s before they close in 30 minutes. Next Whiskey Wednesday, coming up August 7th. Looks like, Japanese tasting?
Matt: Yes.
Dan: It’s all the same… I don’t actual individual ones. We got a library pub event, or there’s an event page, it’ll probably be created-
Matt: Taki-
Dan: It’s all one Japanese distillery.
Matt: Yeah. It’s a barrel.
Dan: And I think Japanese bourbons are a little underrated.
Mark: Whiskey?
Dan: Thank you. If you haven’t tried them yet, you need to come out. What’s the price on it? It’s not up there. It’s the golf tournament.
Mark: Hey, Kev, what did we decide to price that?
Dan: $25.
Mark: No.
Dan: Okay. All right then…
Mark: I got nothing.
Dan: Let’s go with $25.
Matt: It’ll be something.
Dan: Careful.
Mark: No shit. Probably, around 50, 55.
Dan: There you go.
Matt: And it’s six tastes, this is.
Dan: Oh, six.
Matt: Yeah. Extra this week.
Dan: So, if I come.
Mark: You are not coming.
Matt: Don’t get any on me.
Dan: Mark that. I could talk a seventh, Mark?
Mark: No. Because there isn’t one.
Dan: Sounds like a challenge. There never is, until I talk you into it. No answer.
Mark: We’re already at six and a half.
Dan: All right, guys, that’s going to do it for us. Thanks a lot for listening. We’ll be back next week. Probably
Matt: For stuff.