Balblair, Glenmoray, Penelope, Barrel, Fireball

Podcast Transcription

Dan: Episode 221 again. I have a bunch of confused guys staring at me because I kind of can’t find the audio from the previous episode 221.
Chris: Which was two weeks ago?
Dan: Yeah, yeah. It always saves to my Google Drive. I’ve contacted Google support to try to track down the lost file. I’ve scanned my hard drive for the lost file. It’s gone. So we’re doing 221 again.

Chris: Cool.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: That was such a great episode.
Dan: It was probably one of our top two.
Chris: Yep. 200. Top 200. Yeah.
Dan: Well.
Chris: We did taste Fireball Blazing Apple that episode.
Dan: I think that was the one before.
Chris: Nope, it was definitely that episode because I had the sample. I got a sample in the car.
Dan: I got a bottle in my car too.
Chris: You should go get it.
Dan: Do you want to do it again?
Chris: It was not gross. Not one of us said it was gross. I just want to throw that out there, including Mark.
Matt: It’s very sweet. Yeah, it’s cloying but not horrible.
Chris: Maybe we should try it chilled this time. We didn’t try it chilled last time.
Dan: Well, let me throw it in the ice bucket. I’ll be back. This is me leaving.
Chris: We can talk.
Dan: You guys talk. Chris, how was your weekend?
Chris: Let’s see. My weekend was a concert on Friday. OAR, and I’ll tell you what, man… Are you still listening? All right. Big Head Todd and the Monsters, dude. Holy crap.
Matt: They’ve been around forever.
Chris: Yeah, they’re as good, if not better, than the last time I saw him. And that dude is pushing 60. And he was, it’s just good rock and roll. It is good live rock and roll, where the guy is not looking at his guitar at all and he’s just in his own headspace with the weird freaking like hitting weird notes and it hurts him. Face hurts when he hit these high notes. It’s so good.
Matt: Does Big Head Todd actually have a big head?
Chris: Yeah, he’s got a big head.
Matt: And his name is Todd.
Chris: His name is Todd.
Matt: Okay.
Chris: And he’s amazing. He’s just a really, really good guitar player. It was a solid, solid concert. And then OAR got on and OAR was just singing up there and they’re singing and they’re very serious band. It just was a very weird, there’s Todd letting his hair down, going nuts, going crazy, and there’s these guys who are Canadian and…
Matt: Hey. Ready to rock?
Chris: All smiles. Yeah. All right. It was a good concert. It was fun.
Matt: They’re like the opposite polar ends of Dave Matthews Band.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.
Matt: And they’re both jam bands.
Chris: What’s really funny about Dave Matthews Band is they opened for Big Head Todd.
Matt: That doesn’t surprise me.
Chris: Dave Matthews opened for Big Head Todd back in the day, so that’s really cool. Saturday was helped a buddy move and then football. Watching the Huskers was a good time.
Matt: It’s a great game. I’ll tell you that.
Chris: It was awesome.
Matt: I got tickets to go down to the stadium and it was just-
Chris: Electric.
Matt: Oh man. The first half. I had goosebumps most of the first half. Now it was a lot like going to a Catholic wedding. There was a lot of standing and sitting. But Nebraska looked great.
Mark: I watched the game up here, had it on DVR at home, went home and watched the entire game again just to find out if the refs were really that bad. And I’m not being a Homer here. Not bad for Nebraska. They were just fucking bad.
Chris: You said they were pretty bad.
Matt: It was a big 10 crew.
Dan: Was it three targeting calls in that game?
Mark: Three targeting calls and at least six holding calls that weren’t holding. One of the holding calls, I’d lie, and I can’t remember if it was them or us, pushed a guy from the back. Guy was going pushed him down. Holding. What?
Dan: I watched the game for a little bit and boy, Colt McCoy’s got some ways to go to be a good announcer.
Chris: He is not-
Matt: He was struggling.
Chris: No, he’s not. No.
Mark: And my seven sleeves of…
Dan: Into the microphone please.
Mark: My seven sleeves of the 99s, we unsleeved them, put them in a box where you couldn’t see the bottom of the box, and then sent them to an Iowa State watch party. And they were just reaching, grab one.
Chris: That was nice of you.
Mark: And I got a text from the person that took it, that said his wife is really pissed at me because everybody was fucked up.
Dan: That’s hilarious. That’s hilarious. Those 99 shooters, I finally had somebody in the industry admitted the other day of we all know what 50 mils are for, driving down the road and getting right as quickly as you can.
Mark: Well, I think with the next seven sleeves I’m going to pour them all in a gallon jug.
Chris: Oh my God.
Mark: All together and then sell them at 2.50 a piece for shots.
Chris: Have fun opening all those 50 mils.
Dan: It might taste good. Oh my God. Especially they’ve got the newer tops sometimes, but the little metal ones, you’re going to need a pair of pliers, Matt. Don’t even bother. I’ve used my teeth three times, which actually as I say that out loud…
Matt: You really need-
Dan: I might need to quit drinking again.
Matt: I need it. I need it.
Dan: I was just sitting in the basement and it was just after we got all those samples, when we took over the Sazerac portfolio and I was like, I need to see what this 99 is all about. And I’m cranking down on it and I cannot get this thing out. So finally I just stuck it in my mouth and I’m still talking about the 99 sleeve.
Matt: Wow. Sure. Sure you are.
Mark: The worst one though are the about one in five cases of Wheatley’s, the top won’t come off.
Dan: Really?
Matt: It just spins.
Mark: It just spins.
Chris: How do you get it off?
Dan: That’s your liters though, right?
Matt: I used wire cutters last time.
Mark: You take a little knife and you put a cut in the bottom of it, then take a pair of pliers and grab it, and then you just start tearing the aluminum off as it goes up.
Dan: Yeah. Something about the threads in the aluminum top and the glass threads, they just strip out. And it’s that little safety seal that’s down on the bottom of it, that tells you that it hasn’t been opened yet. It’s incredible cranked on and yeah. I’ve brought it up to the Sazerac people and they’ve sent it up the chain.
Mark: I’m sure they have.
Chris: It’s all in your head.
Dan: They sent a note.
Mark: I was going to swat it.
Dan: All right, so the Huskers. I think we need to actually talk about it. They looked really fucking good in the first half.
Mark: Both teams, had it not been for bad calls, would’ve scored two more touch-downs and it wouldn’t have been what, 42 or 44 to 28 or 44 to 21.
Dan: It was good seeing the Huskers have some composure.
Mark: Their defense was great.
Chris: Their defense was playing with their hair on fire. It was so good.
Dan: Or is Colorado that bad?
Mark: Their offense, I watched-
Dan: They beat a good team last week.
Mark: I watched the North Dakota state game and their offense played really, really well, and they have no defense. We found that out, but their offense did not… Dude, no running game at all.
Chris: Matt, was that the loudest that you heard the stadium?
Matt: The decibel meter that when I was paying attention, topped out at 114, and more than once did I plug my ears. It was really loud.
Chris: That’s awesome, dude. That is so cool.
Matt: I don’t know how you can play football with it being that loud. And I’m talking snap counts trying to be heard on the field from all these guys out there screaming.
Mark: Especially considering the fact the average age of season ticket holders is like 105.
Dan: Yeah, I really want to take a decibel meter out to the racetrack sometime and see what the comparison is. I was sitting in a racetrack Sunday night in the actual pits, rather than in my normal spot at the announcer’s booth, and we had a bigger engine sprint cars out. And man, they went humming by and it fucking hurt my ear until I finally got my earplug back in. It was just one of those moments. I had to take it out real quick and then I wasn’t paying attention so I had to stick the plug back in. But yeah, it’s fucking painful and I wonder what the decibel level is on those as they’re coming by.
Mark: Aren’t the exhaust systems on those all pointing to the left?
Dan: For NASCAR. Used to be. A couple years ago, they were all porting towards the fans and that was for a safety reason. But NASCAR has changed it with their latest generation car. It depends on the car, but they’re generally coming out both sides. They want to run as short as exhaust as possible. Less resistance.
Matt: Less weight.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: That’s fair. Yeah, no, all the bars we went to were crazy loud. There were people doing the Go Big Red thing everywhere. Excuse me.
Chris: How was the tailgate?
Matt: I did not make it to the Johnson Brothers tailgate, because I was not walking in a straight line.
Dan: Neither were probably many of the people [inaudible 00:09:52].
Matt: It was kind of like a big snake, getting to the game.
Mark: So you get all drunk up and then go to the game, try and sober up four hours to drive home.
Matt: The hangover kicked in about the middle of third quarter.
Dan: Man.
Matt: Which we drank. We went, oh, what’s the bar with the Elk Creek’s? We drank eight pitchers of those. Yep, yep. Which their door guy had a walking cane. I did not feel intimidated one bit.
Dan: Is Mo aware that we do a podcast?
Mark: That’s not Mo.
Dan: Chris now
Matt: Jen.
Dan: Mark, how are the Dodgers? I haven’t asked in a couple of weeks.
Mark: They’re the best team in the National League. They beat the best team in the American League two out of three games over the weekend.
Dan: Nice. I think I’ve asked you this before, but let’s get an update. Are you more confident going into this year’s post season, or less confident than you were last year?
Mark: Less.
Dan: Less confident?
Mark: Not because they’re not as good, but because last season I was really, really confident, and we got run by a team we beat 17 out of 19 times.
Dan: Yeah, I still feel bad about asking you about that. I think that was the same episode that Jeremiah was on, and it was Jeremiah’s team that beat you.
Mark: Yes it was.
Matt: Yep. And the Padres aren’t that good.
Dan: No, actually, I don’t know why I agree with that because I haven’t watched a lick of baseball this year. College old series.
Matt: I’ve seen a little, which College World Series won’t help you with this.
Dan: No.
Matt: Maybe in a few years.
Dan: It will not. Kansas City Chiefs won by…
Matt: An inch.
Dan: Not even.
Matt: A toe? A big toe.
Dan: That was when I saw that, I’m like, thank God for 39 camera angles and high definition TV. Because what, even a couple years ago that wouldn’t have been called back.
Mark: I didn’t watch the game. So he was called out and he wasn’t, or he was called in and he was out?
Chris: I’m so happy about that.
Dan: Originally he was called touchdown, but when they went back and watched the replay, because it was within two minutes and it was a scoring drive.
Matt: They review every single score now.
Dan: They review everything.
Matt: Everything.
Dan: His toe, Mark, I’m telling you it was a quarter of an inch.
Chris: Was his toenail over.
Matt: It was the length of his toenail.
Dan: You could literally just see his black shoe breaking the plane at the back of the end zone, just barely. And he was out of bounds.
Matt: Game over.
Dan: That was the end of the game. Otherwise they were calling for two and they were going to try to end it, which I think was a brilliant call because I don’t think Kansas City could have stopped him. Kansas City was so gassed at the end of that game.
Matt: Well, they hadn’t been able to stop him yet.
Mark: People would hate me as a football coach because I would go for two every time.
Dan: I think you’re… Well, I don’t know. That’d be interesting because-
Mark: You’d make at least half of them so you’d be in the same spot if your point afters, but if you make two in a row, you’re then up by three.
Dan: Yeah, yeah. It was a great game. Kansas City did really well. Just until about the midway of the third quarter and then they started getting tired, and Baltimore had a better game plan. Started to come back and made it an interesting game.
Matt: It was a fun game.
Chris: How bad are the Chiefs going to beat the Bengals next week, Dan?
Dan: They won’t beat them bad. I think Kansas City wins by three touchdowns.
Matt: I think Kansas City wins by 21.
Chris: If this team shows up that played on Sunday.
Dan: That’s the great thing for you guys is that, now they’ve got shit to work on this week. I think the worst thing you could do is one of your first couple of games come out and just dominate a team, and you’re like, we’re good, we’re fine.
Chris: I don’t know. I wouldn’t know that. I’m a Bengals fan. They haven’t won their first game in six, seven years.
Mark: I mean this facetiously, speaking of fandom, because I don’t really feel this way, but for all of those Nebraska fans out there, dude, we are going to the playoffs. We are going to win at least two rounds in the playoffs. No, you played a bad team and what evidently is a bad team.
Dan: I can see what happens, man.
Matt: I don’t think I can call Colorado a bad team.
Dan: I can’t either. I’m not calling them a good team. It’s honestly like Nebraska had, in my eyes, Nebraska had a great game plan. They came out and played their game.
Chris: Definitely on coach.
Dan: But Nebraska’s Achilles heel the last 10 years is that when they get punched in the nose, they fold. And never did Nebraska really get punched in the nose during that Colorado game nor during UTEP? What was it?
Matt: Well, yeah, but it’s UTEP.
Dan: That’s what I’m saying.
Chris: Just for the sake of arguing. I don’t know if I agree with that because the last two years we have gotten punched in the nose, and we’ve only lost by a touchdown, a field goal. There have been multiple games where if we just executed, we would have a winning record the last two years. Even Scott Frost last year, there were multiple games.
Dan: Two years ago.
Matt: His Scott Frost last year.
Dan: Scott Frost last year.
Matt: His final year.
Dan: His final year. Yeah.
Matt: Love that half.
Mark: They lost five games by a touchdown in the last-
Dan: Yeah, it’s a college record. So I don’t know, man. We turned that corner of just finishing games.
Mark: I love the we.
Dan: Yeah.
Mark: I say Nebraska, because I-
Dan: Well, but that’s ownership of your team.
Mark: I did not attend Nebraska, so I can’t call it ownership. [inaudible 00:15:32].
Chris: I did not graduate from there.
Dan: The majority of the people at this bar have contributed heavily to Nebraska’s funding.
Matt: Delinquency.
Dan: Right. Tickets to the game.
Matt: We’ve got a few.
Dan: Jerseys, merchandise, memorabilia. Contributed heavily. I think anybody that has spent as much money as Nebraska fans have, absolutely get to use we. Because without them you guys couldn’t afford Dominic Raiola.
Matt: Raiola.
Chris: Raiola.
Dan: By the way, I did see a funny picture today about how much he looks like Patrick Mahomes.
Matt: Well, when he showed up to the stadium Saturday, they said he was all Mahomesed out.
Mark: He does have Mahomes haircut.
Matt: And he wears number 15, but the number 15’s not for Mahomes. It was because he was a…
Dan: That was the number of shots Scott Frost took when he fucked up the recruiting call.
Matt: I can’t remember. Growing up, he had an idol that wore number 15 and I don’t remember who it was.
Dan: Dan Marino.
Matt: No, but that’s way before his time.
Dan: And not 15.
Matt: You got to remember this kid’s 14 years old.
Dan: I know. I don’t think Dan Marino was 15 either, was he?
Matt: I don’t know.
Dan: I can’t remember what jersey Dan Marino wore. Three?
Chris: Do you even remember Dan Marino playing?
Matt: I remember him from Ace Ventura.
Chris: Do you honestly remember Dan Marino playing? You remember Dan Marino playing?
Dan: Yes, I used to watch him. Yeah.
Chris: How old were you?
Dan: I grew up in the John Ellway, Dan Marino, Vince Young.
Matt: Vince Young. That’s a jump.
Dan: Vince Gill.
Matt: Vince Gill. Isn’t he a Christian country singer?
Dan: He is.
Matt: Weird.

Balblair 12

Dan: Hey Mark, this whiskey smells magnificent.
Matt: Vince Gill.
Mark: This is Balblair 12.
Dan: Not young.
Matt: Steve Young.
Dan: Steve Young.
Matt: Joe Montana.
Dan: Thank you. I had to fix that or it was going to throw me off the rest of the day.
Matt: This does have a great nose.
Dan: Jim Kelly. Love that era.
Chris: When were you born?
Dan: ’82.
Chris: Okay. All right, so you were one when Dan Marino got into the NFL. And I’m not much better, but I was six, so ’83 was his first year. Blows my mind, man.
Mark: That’s what year I graduated undergraduate.
Dan: Isn’t that kind of the essential, the epitome of I grew up watching those guys?
Chris: Yeah, you did. You did. You did. You did.
Dan: So if anything, I grew up more than you did because you were already…
Chris: Yeah, but I actually remember it.
Dan: I remember it too.
Chris: You remember-
Matt: The last year.
Chris: The nineties.
Matt: Have you ever seen an Isotoner commercial?
Dan: Come on, it’s Monday night was mom go to bowling and I would have spaghetti for dinner.
Matt: Here we go.
Dan: We’d watch Alf. Monday Night Football and was it Alf then MacGyver?
Chris: Maybe.
Dan: Oh, you don’t remember. Well, you lived it.
Chris: Well, I don’t remember my childhood based on the times that TV shows were on.
Dan: But you remember watching Dan Marino play football?
Chris: I absolutely remember Dan Marino watching football, because I am essentially a football fan. So yes, I do remember Dan Marino playing.
Dan: Okay. All right, moving along.
Mark: I remember the first Nebraska game I went to.
Dan: It was 19 ought 2. 19 hundreds.
Mark: You’re close. 1972 and it was against Army, and Nebraska scored on every position. The final score was 77 nothing.
Chris: I’m just going to keep on putting Nebraska by a hundred on Facebook every single time. It’s just great.
Mark: Anyway, this is-
Dan: Hey Kev, be careful if you dig into the ice bay, there’s a bottle of Fireball sitting in there chilling.
Mark: This is for the price, which is about 55 bucks a bottle, really good whiskey.
Dan: The nose is-
Mark: Very appley and nice appley, kind of that tart Granny Smith apple.
Chris: It’s very warm. Not bad warm. And it’s also my first sip.
Dan: Booker’s warm?
Chris: No, no, no, no, no. This is like-
Mark: 46%. It’s warm-
Chris: Like head warm.
Mark: It drinks warmer than scotches usually do.
Chris: Yeah, but I don’t even… Like it’s a…
Matt: It’s a chest warmth. Nice hug.
Dan: Not even chest. It’s like, for me anyway, it’s like this is totally going to sound bad but like indigestion warmth.
Matt: Oh, fun.
Dan: But it’s not bad.
Matt: Pour up another round.
Mark: That’s really good.
Chris: Yeah, it’s great.
Dan: Yeah, I’m not…
Chris: There’s like a heartburn.
Dan: I’m getting that. Yeah, I know what you’re trying to get to and you’re not off on your explanation. It’s just gives a bad connotation.
Mark: The finish, the front and the nose and the initial palate is very, to me, tart apple. But then the finish gives you a little bit of honey on the finish. A little bit of orange.
Chris: Maybe some smoke.
Dan: Are you getting burn on the tip of the tongue?
Chris: Just right when you said that, but otherwise-
Mark: That’s really good.
Chris: This is pleasant. Yeah, it’s really good.
Mark: And like I said, for a 55, $60 bottle of scotch, I ain’t mad at it.
Chris: Yeah. If I had this in food form, I’d be like, give me some Tums.
Matt: Oh, yeah.
Chris: You know what I’m saying? That’s the best way, but it’s not bad. This is great whiskey.
Matt: I think it’s for $12 a pour, all day long, until I ran out of $12 bills. Plus tip.
Chris: Do you think they made fun of him? Do you think the other wizards in Wizard School made fun of him? Balblair. Hey Balls, where’s Blair? Blair Witch. Ha, ba dum bum.
Dan: All I can think of is he’s a Ballchinian. That’s so funny.
Chris: It’s what? That’s so funny. That was so funny, dude. I laughed and laughed and laughed.
Mark: I guess I don’t understand the-
Dan: Men in Black two.
Chris: Was it two?
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: All right because I thought it was one.
Dan: No, because it was in the basement as they were trying to reboot K’s memory.
Chris: Kick him in the chin.
Dan: He’s a Ballchinian.
Chris: Watch out. He’s a Ballchinian. Dude, I laughed hard for a good few minutes.
Dan: What was the line where… I can’t remember what the alien said to him then he goes, no, you are too low.
Chris: I don’t remember that one.
Dan: Oh, that fell flat.
Mark: Yeah, it did.
Chris: I don’t remember that one, but I’d have to see it.
Dan: Yeah, anyways.
Chris: It is probably really funny.
Matt: It’s probably one you had to be there for though.
Dan: Yeah, I bet it was hilarious. So that’s a nice movie reference. Balblair 12.
Matt: 12. It’s a buck a year.
Chris: The favorite scotch of Ballchinians everywhere.
Dan: It really tickles the chins.
Mark: The next whiskey we’re going to taste, Ballchinian.
Dan: Now that you say it, can you imagine? Let’s just go through. Imagine sitting there while they’re writing this script. They’re like, come up with the name Ballchinians. You can’t tell me that they didn’t sit there and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh. Ballchinians, this is going to be great.
Chris: Just one of those things.
Dan: So stupid. It’s funny.
Matt: It’s like canal.
Chris: You had to be there for it.
Matt: You got to stay away from the canal, that’s where the crocodiles live.
Chris: You guys don’t even know the connotation. It’s still hilarious.
Matt: It’s still funny.
Mark: We haven’t found a goddamn thing.
Chris: We ain’t found shit.
Matt: It’s canal. Nope, it’s canal.
Mark: Anyway.
Dan: See anything over there? We can’t not. It’s so funny. Mark just trudge forward.
Mark: I’m trying.
Chris: He is trying. Glen Moray eel.
Matt: What?

Glen Moray 25

Mark: The next whiskey we’re tasting is Glen Moray 25.
Chris: Oh geez. 25.
Mark: And this bottle of 25-year-old whiskey has been in the bar so long the label is starting to peel off. Anyway, it was distilled in 1988. Bottled in 2012. We bought it in 2013. So we had this bottle for about 10 years.
Matt: ’86.
Chris: You buy this from-
Mark: ’86?
Matt: ’86.
Mark: Oh.
Matt: At least that’s what the peely label says.
Chris: This is now a Sazerac product.
Matt: And it’s got a…
Mark: Do you have the 25 in stock?
Matt: I do not. And it’s a port wood.
Chris: This is port wood?
Matt: Yes. This is a port wood finish.
Chris: Okay. I do not.
Matt: So Mark’s going to love it. Mark likes his port finish.
Dan: It’s tad darker than the last one.
Chris: Well yeah, it’s 25 years.
Mark: That’s because it’s 25 years old and it spends the last three years in port pipes and…
Dan: I was more describing it for the people that can’t see it. I definitely wasn’t describing it for you guys that can all see it.
Matt: What?
Dan: I mean, James is sitting next to me.
Mark: Huh? How is James?
Dan: Sorry James. He’s doing good. He’s a little depressed that the end of the race season has come.
Chris: Probably pretty happy about his Cowboys.
Dan: Did they win?
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: And they’re giving Dak a bajillion dollars.
Chris: Lots of money. Making 60 million a year.
Dan: I think he’s also depressed because it’s the Cowboys. I unplugged the USB charger. I needed power.
Mark: I need the power.
Matt: It’s I have the power.
Chris: He-Man? He-Man reference?
Matt: She-Ra.
Dan: Okay. Okay. Glen Moray 25 port wood. Mark, tell us more.
Mark: It’s tasty, but what do we charge for that?
Matt: $20 for a full pour.
Chris: You must have got this when it was super inexpensive, I feel like. It definitely wasn’t 250. That’s what it’s in the system for.
Mark: No, we got it. If we’re $20 a pour, we bought it for a buck and a half, buck 40. Which for 25-year-old whiskey is really, really cheap.
Dan: What’s it at now, Chris?
Chris: 250, 1500 a six-pack. Well, our cost.
Mark: Yeah. Everybody’s going to buy a six-pack of this. I get some sugar on the nose. Lots of oak, which would, since it spends it’s first 22 years in ex-bourbon barrels, there’s good reason.
Matt: There’s a lot of oak there.
Mark: On the palate, vanilla again, because of the ex-bourbon. I do get again some orange, but sweeter orange. Not a tart orange.
Dan: Much, much more Rob Santana.
Matt: It’s good.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: For 20 bucks it’s great.
Mark: I get a lot-
Matt: Flavors like way long.
Mark: I get a lot more alcohol flavor on the palate than the Balblair.
Chris: Does this say what batch this is? Maybe on the front. Just curious.
Matt: It’s bottle number 546. I do not see a batch number.
Chris: Thank you.
Dan: Sorry, it just popped up on the TV. The contract extension for Dak Prescott. How stupid.
Mark: Well…
Dan: He’s not that good.
Mark: What’d they give him?
Matt: 231 million.
Dan: 231 million guaranteed over four years.
Mark: So he’s getting no tiny money.
Chris: Beat Joe Burrow by like 10 mil.
Mark: Which would you rather have your quarterback?
Chris: Joe Burrow.
Dan: Joe Burrow.
Mark: I know I was being sarcastic.
Matt: Dylan Raiola.
Chris: Well, one more injury to Joe Burrow. Let’s freaking queue him up.
Matt: There’s the chance.
Mark: There’s an interesting question. How long, if Raiola continues to play like we think he’s going to, how long does he stay at Nebraska?
Dan: Oh, I think he’s here.
Matt: I think he’s here for at least three years.
Dan: Two more years.
Chris: So this year and next year or-
Mark: This year and next year. And then I don’t think he plays college anymore.
Matt: I think he’ll go three. Mainly because with the money the university’s paying him, I’m guessing there’s some sort of other contract that has been signed.
Mark: On the…
Dan: Longevity contract, you mean?
Chris: Going into that, I think your reasoning is good, but I think this kid’s going be competing against for every single quarterback.
Mark: I know that we don’t actually know, so it’s conjecture. If you give somebody 2 million a year NIL, can you make them sign a contract that says they won’t transfer?
Chris: I don’t know. It’s a good question.
Dan: Well, keep in mind a couple of years ago you weren’t allowed to pay players to come play college football for you, but a lot of teams did.
Matt: I’m guessing a lot of the NIL stuff is still written in pencil.
Dan: Yeah, there’s always the gentleman’s agreement of… And if you’re Raiola, I mean, shit, if you come to the end of this season and you’re the number one overall quarterback, I feel like you got to go. Because you never know what another season will do. Well, defenses, you’ll play a different schedule. Will better defenses expose your weaknesses?
Matt: It’s true. But you also don’t know if you come back and play that following year, how much more that raises your stock.
Dan: You can’t get any better than number one overall.
Matt: Oh, you can though.
Mark: How old do you have to be to be drafted in the NFL?
Dan: I just think you have to play one year of college football, right?
Matt: It’s either one or two.
Chris: So NIL, this is what it’s saying. The NIL is typically making athletes stay for another year, because of how much money that they’re getting. So they will typically stay an extra year. So if he’s going to leave, he’d leave his junior year.
Matt: After his junior year.
Chris: After his junior year. Yeah. Yes. Yep. He’ll play his junior year.
Matt: So you got to remember, he is a true freshman, so he does have an injury year somewhere in there, where they can throw the red shirt on him.
Mark: He gets what, five games?
Matt: Five.
Chris: It is keeping kids in school longer, now that they’re probably going to Science labs.
Dan: Yeah. And they weren’t before.
Matt: No.
Mark: Anyway. All right, so Glen Moray 25. Good stuff. Can’t buy it right now because the distributor doesn’t have any, and probably never will because they’re known for not wanting to buy expensive booze.
Dan: Jets and Forty-Niners are playing tonight.
Mark: Oh by the way.
Matt: That’d be a good game.
Mark: Chris?
Chris: Yeah?
Mark: Dalmore is putting out a 30.
Chris: I think I told you that.
Mark: I read it. For six grand a bottle.
Chris: Yeah, you want to buy one?
Mark: Like your company would ever bring it in, Mark.
Chris: Got it.
Mark: I’m not trying to get you guys in trouble. I’m really not.
Chris: Might send an email about it for you.
Dan: You don’t have to try. We do a good enough job on our own.
Mark: Well, the fact to get this 25, I had to wait until a distillery rep was in the bar, and chewed his ass out for not getting it to me.
Dan: I’m going to mark this part two.
Chris: Well, we have two bottles. Didn’t you want to buy two bottles of 25?
Dan: No.
Chris: Okay.
Mark: You’ll still have two bottles of 25 when I’m out of the one I have.
Chris: I bet you we won’t because that’s your luck.
Mark: True.
Dan: I’m asking a question that is absolutely going to get deleted from the podcast. All right.
Matt: And mark.
Dan: Anyways, Glen Moray 25, I think this is good at 20 bucks, whatever the new cost will be because of inflation and-
Mark: 20 bucks an ounce.
Dan: It’ll be 20 bucks an ounce and this is 20 bucks for a two and a quarter ounce right now. I think it’s worth it at that 20 bucks. But the 20 bucks an ounce.
Mark: I’ll give you 12 football player all day.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: Oh yeah.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: Totally.

Penelope

Dan: All right Matt, what have you got for us?
Matt: We’re going to start off with the latest barrel release from Penelope. It is a blended whiskey that is corn, rye, wheat, and malted barley. So that also means that it’s a four grain. This is batch 16 and it’s on shiny stuff. 116 proof.
Chris: This is really good.
Dan: Welcome back my old friend.
Chris: Yeah, I really like…
Matt: That’s the rye.
Chris: I don’t get too much pickle on this one.
Dan: Oh, I get a hot chicken sandwich type of dill pickle. It’s potent.
Chris: Not for me.
Matt: A hot pickle sandwich.
Dan: Hot chicken. Because they put dill pickles on there. Oh God. I thought I kicked a dog. I kicked the chair. We’re okay.
Mark: The dog is on Kevin’s lap.
Matt: Which the ultimate mash bill of this is 74% corn, 16% wheat, 7% rye, and 3% malted barley.
Chris: They do a good job.
Dan: That’s got a nice rye bite. Oh, I like that.
Matt: I like four grain whiskeys.
Mark: Hey Dan, if you like a rye, next month there’s a rye tasting.
Dan: Oh yeah? Oh, look at that Whistlepig.
Matt: Yeah. Vertical.
Dan: Four of them?
Mark: No, there’s going to be more.
Dan: Okay, more. One more?
Mark: And you missed on the-
Dan: I know. Guess what time I got done working on Wednesday? 10:30.
Matt: Why?
Dan: At night.
Matt: What was going on?
Mark: That was not only a good tasting, Eric brought a bottle of Jura 25 and shared. It was good.
Dan: He’s a nice guy.
Matt: Really, really good. Which Mark thought he was trying to sell it to him, and Eric’s like, well no, I’ll just let everyone have some and then I’ll take what’s left of the bottle with me.
Mark: I went, okay.
Matt: Okie dokie. Which I popped the cork on that Jura and it was like, oh man. It was really good.
Dan: I knew it. And by the way, when I finally stood up from my computer and walked away at 10:30, I was like, oh shit, I missed the whiskey tasting.
Mark: I would guess that it is the best tasting we’ve done in a couple years. And I was in a great mood so we had fun.
Dan: Yeah, I did. I dropped well, all that day working for Johnson Brothers till about six. Recorded a podcast, recorded two podcasts, worked for Johnson Brothers another a couple hours, edited the podcast, and then went to bed at about 11:15.
Chris: Sounds like a shitty day.
Dan: I was tired. But that’s…
Matt: That’s the way it goes with work.
Dan: Yep.
Matt: You do what you got to do. Which all this stuff is four to six years old, which kind of surprised me. Which how flavorful it is.
Dan: Yeah. How much for a pour?
Matt: This is $13.
Dan: That’s worth it.
Chris: Yeah, man, Penelope does good stuff. There’s so much of their one-offs that are coming out. It’s just they turn around every single time and it’s like one-off. I just really wish that they would stick to some of the good one-offs, make it every day.
Matt: That Penelope Rio that was released, I don’t know, a couple months ago, has been very well received. And then they do a Valencia that is finished in vino, some orange wine cask. Vino de naranja. And it’s been very well received. It’s excellent. So I don’t mind their one-offs, but I think their core stuff’s great.
Chris: Yeah, their one-offs are great. I just want some of them to be every day.
Matt: Yeah. Oh yeah, definitely
Chris: Man. They’re crushing it with the one-offs.
Matt: Which I do just love a good four grain. I think Penelope and Koval knock it out of the park with their four grain stuff.
Chris: So I just texted someone about the Dalmore 40.
Dan: 30.
Chris: I thought it was you said 40? Did he not say 40?
Matt: No, 30.
Dan: He said 30.
Chris: He said 30. Sorry, I meant Dalmore 30. He said maybe. But it must be pre-sold and guaranteed sale. Ball’s in your court sir.
Matt: What? Balls where?
Mark: No, I’m not going to buy a $6000 bottle.
Dan: Oh well, now look what’s happening. Well, I bought it, but your company isn’t interested in selling it.
Mark: No, I did not say that. I said they’re coming out with 30.
Chris: I don’t know. We got it recorded.
Dan: Let’s check the tape.
Mark: Fine.
Dan: Throw the yellow flag. By the way, coming to episode 222 and beyond, we’re going to have a court stenographer.
Matt: We’re going to be able to review.
Mark: I knew how much it would cost. I would buy it if I could sell it. Yes.
Chris: Cash to PayPal you something.
Dan: I don’t care. Order something up. I really am craving Schlotzsky’s today, so…
Matt: It’s delicious food.
Dan: I’m Ubering it here. Just take the phone around, order up whatever you guys need to, we’ll divvy it up when you get here.
Chris: Just want the original.
Matt: I’m good on Schlotzsky’s.
Dan: The originals. There we go.
Mark: Just give me an original.
Dan: Two originals. Okay. Three originals.
Matt: I’m good.
Dan: Matt’s good?
Matt: Yeah, I’m good. I’m actually meeting somebody for lunch today.
Chris: Tell us the story.
Matt: Pretty fancy.
Chris: What’s her name?
Dan: Or his name?
Matt: Well, take it for what it’s worth.
Dan: Listen, it’s our own shortsightedness to stick to an opposite gender. We’re missing out on half the population.
Mark: Hey, if you swing both ways, you double your chances.
Dan: Right. And I’d still strike out 90% of the time.
Matt: Yeah. I’d be eating alone a lot.
Dan: I had somebody pose the question to me when I was younger of, if a guy hit on you, would you be insulted? And I’m like, no.
Chris: That’s why I shaved my head.
Matt: It depends on how they hit on you.
Chris: A hundred percent.
Dan: Yeah. I’ve had guys hit on me and I’m just like…
Matt: Because I’ve worked in a gay bar, so a lot of it depends on how they hit on you. Which the ones that are like, oh, you’re gay, you just don’t know it yet. It’s like, well, pretty sure I do know it, that I’m not.
Dan: Yeah, you have those long bouts of singleness and you’re sitting there to lighten night.
Mark: Do we need extra meat on our original Schlotzsky’s?
Dan: No, they’re big.
Mark: Okay.
Dan: You definitely don’t. But you’re sitting there, you’re like, it’s not working with the women.
Matt: No, that thought’s never crossed my mind.
Dan: And then you kind of analyze it and you’re like, yeah, I’m not interested in guys at all.
Matt: Dude, if being gay was sitting around and watching sports with your friends, I’d be gay all day long. But there’s that whole butt thing and that whole gluck gluck thing.
Dan: I know.
Matt: So that’s kind of where I draw the line is, if I can’t get my own in my mouth, I’m definitely not putting yours in my mouth.
Dan: I respect the beautiful ness of Brad Pitt.
Matt: Oh yeah. Love is Love.
Dan: And Ryan Reynolds and great. I respect how gorgeous they are. When I see them on TV without their shirt on, it doesn’t do anything.
Matt: No. Boner doesn’t happen.
Mark: Speaking of how gorgeous they are, yesterday was Tom Brady’s first football announcing. And I was sitting here and watching him and I thought to myself, okay, you are devastatingly good-looking. You have millions and millions of dollars. You were married to Giselle Bundchen.
Dan: No he’s not.
Matt: He was.
Dan: Was. Thank you.
Mark: And now you could be… Fuck you.
Matt: And he is worth a bajillion dollars.
Chris: How was he? Was he good?
Mark: He wasn’t bad.
Chris: Wasn’t bad?
Dan: If I was a network guy-
Chris: Was he better than Colt McCoy?
Mark: Way, way better than Colt McCoy.
Matt: Jim Carrey doing the ass talking Ace Ventura is better than Colt McCoy was.
Mark: I must ass you a few questions.
Matt: Care for a mint?
Chris: How about a breath spray?
Dan: What is this post? This I’m seeing on the Pat McAfee show. Apparently Tyreek Hill was handcuffed before the game?
Chris: Yeah, that was pretty big news. He’s speeding.
Matt: He got pulled over for reckless driving, is what they wound up ticketing him for.
Mark: On his way to the city.
Chris: Now that police officer is on leave.
Matt: Probably.
Chris: Because he had him face down in handcuffs.
Matt: They said that Tyreek got a little lippy and was very combative with the officer.
Dan: This is why we have to have body cams now.
Matt: Which I’m guessing-
Dan: He said she said until the body cam comes out and then one side’s like, oh nevermind.
Matt: I’m guessing he threw out a, do you know who I am?
Mark: Oh, yeah.
Matt: And as the cop, I would go, I don’t give a flying fuck who you are, dickface.
Mark: My question is, what was Tyreek Hill driving to get to the stadium?
Matt: That’s a good question.
Dan: A minivan because of all his kids.
Matt: An Aerostar.
Dan: It’s still one of the best clips. Was it the hard knocks when the San Diego Chargers defensive lineman or defensive player was trying to list off all of his kids, and he forgot four of them.
Chris: Wow. Because those kids don’t need therapy.
Dan: They don’t. They got their dad’s money. Oh, this wasn’t his story. My connection to Kyle Busch, infamous NASCAR driver, got caught going 128. He did not drop the… Oh, it was 128 in a 45.
Mark: Whoa.
Dan: He did not drop the, do you know who I am card. He just went right to jail. Anyways.
Mark: Well, I have driven from Omaha to Lincoln. 128. Dude. I mean I go the speed limit, 75, and people are past me like I am walking.
Dan: Sometimes. Yeah. That might be a fun little conversation. Matt, what’s your largest speeding ticket?
Matt: 90. It’s not bad. 90 in a 55.
Chris: Probably something like that.
Matt: He was driving a brand new McLaren 720S.
Mark: To, the tune of $1 million.
Matt: $350,000 to rent it.
Chris: There’s like seven in the world.
Mark: There is another NFL player will be bankrupt three years after he quits playing.
Dan: I don’t think so. He got fucking paid.
Chris: Dude, he’s got 14 kids. The amount of money and child support is going to be millions of-
Matt: Zero to 60, 2.8 seconds.
Dan: That’s true because it’s not like a set amount per child.
Mark: Does it have picture, Matt?
Dan: I wonder what it is.
Matt: It does not, but I bet I can find one.
Mark: I think that, isn’t that the one that is a three passenger car where the driver, the middle and the front and there’s two back seats?
Matt: I don’t think the McLaren, no. I think that’s barely a two person car. But it could be. I don’t know much about them. But yeah, zero to 60 in 2.8 seconds.
Dan: All right, so we just Googled. We’re on three different subjects right now, so good luck following along people. Tyreek Hill, according to a quick Google search, Tyreek Hill pays about $2,500 per child for child support, which I got to imagine he easily pays more in taxes than he does in child support.
Chris: $2,500.
Mark: How many kids are there?
Matt: I thought he had like 10.
Dan: 10? This article says 10 and this article is from May this year.
Mark: So there could be 11-
Chris: He could have easily popped out three.
Dan: You know what? There could be more. I mean, you’re narrowing it down to one woman.
Mark: Oh, it’s not the same mom.
Dan: Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. He could easily impregnate three or four women…
Matt: A day.
Dan: Yeah. I mean, my horny uncle had 14 kids.
Matt: It’s true. And he loved to bang it out.
Chris: How many different women?
Matt: With the pioneer women.
Dan: Three. Just think about that for a minute though. Three different wives and they all died. He didn’t unalive them.
Chris: He didn’t have to deal with one while he was with another one?
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: Cool.
Matt: That sounds like a win.
Mark: My ex wife’s dad is from a family of 13. All by the same mom.
Dan: You’re the youngest of eight?
Chris: Seven.
Dan: Seven? Seven that you know of.
Chris: Seven. If you know my parents, it’s seven.
Mark: They had seven kids. Not because dad was horny, because they were good Catholics and it was their duty.
Dan: Well, and you had to. This is kind of a tad bit off subject, but on Saturday I was splitting some firewood that I’ve got a long project. And I just kept thinking, boy, it’d be nice to have a 16, 17-year-old son that I could force him to help me.
Mark: That’s why farmers always had big families. It’s free labor.
Dan: Yeah. No child labor laws when it comes into the family. By the way, my largest speeding ticket, I was radared at 119 in a 55.
Matt: Wow.
Dan: He wrote me a ticket for 75 in a 55.
Matt: That was nice of him.
Dan: Very nice of him.
Chris: Where were you? Were you on a road that no one was on and everybody’s like, I just want to see what my car would do?
Dan: No, this is the dumbest reason to speed, but it was so annoying. So have any of you seen What Dreams May Come?
Mark: No.
Dan: The Robin Williams movie.
Chris: I feel like yeah, but it’s a long time ago.
Dan: It’s such a great movie.
Matt: That’s the Tyreek Hill car.
Mark: Nice.
Dan: And we were watching it in Bible class. And I’d seen that movie four times, but I kept missing the ending of it.
Matt: Did you say Bible class or Baba class?
Dan: Bible class.
Matt: Bible class, okay.
Dan: And I was helping my dad that day mow a graveyard about 20 miles away. And we got done late and I really wanted to make sure I got to the Bible class on time to watch the last half of the movie, so I could finally see how the movie ends.
Mark: So you were driving 119 miles an hour to get to Bible study?
Dan: Yep.
Matt: Wow.
Dan: And that’s exactly what I told the officer.
Chris: And what did he say?
Dan: Come on. What did he say?
Chris: 75.
Mark: Come on. Really?
Dan: Yeah. No, he believed me and he gave the old classic, well, you keep driving like this, you’re never going to see Bible class again. And I was just like, okay. But he even said to me, he goes, that’s what I radared you at. I saw him and lifted. So I had to have been doing 130, 135 when I first saw him. In a 1976 Chevy Silverado.
Chris: Nice.
Dan: Green and white. I love that truck.
Matt: It didn’t just vibrate apart.
Dan: I was lucky.
Chris: We got a new whiskey?
Dan: Anyways.
Matt: We do.
Dan: I just keep freaking drinking. Where did all these things come from?
Chris: I don’t know. Is this the new one?
Matt: That’s the new one for you. That’s the new one for you.
Dan: Thank you.
Mark: What I gave [inaudible 00:48:11].
Chris: Oh, here. That’s for you.
Dan: Goddammit.
Matt: This is from our friends at Barrel Bourbon. This is a cask-strength blend of straight bourbon whiskies. It is a blend of nine-year Kentucky whiskey, seven and a half, eight and 10 year Indiana whiskies, and eight and 15 year Tennessee whiskies. This is batch 36. Proofs out at 114.44.
Chris: I just always want Barrel to be good. I just want them to be successful and be good, and just their barrel that they… Literally the barrel, the first barrel that you guys got is probably one of the best that I’ve ever tasted in this market.
Matt: It was pretty amazing.
Chris: It was really good. It was really, really good. Really good.
Matt: It was pretty amazing.
Chris: Let’s try this.
Matt: Which I only have three out of Barrel that I don’t care for. That means it’s hot.
Mark: Oh no, it’s got a great flavor. I can light my breath now.
Matt: I think this is, it’s nice and for a barrel proof, 114’s not horrible.
Chris: Did they give you the mash bill? Did you say the mash bill?
Matt: They did not. They just give you the states and the ages.
Chris: I get more spice than I do heat.
Dan: Mark, what is the matter with you? That is delicious.
Chris: Are you getting like, I don’t know, just hot? Just super hot?
Dan: I think you drank the wrong one.
Matt: No.
Dan: You had to drink the wrong one.
Matt: You got to remember what Mark normally drinks is typically less than a hundred.
Chris: Peachy and fruity.
Matt: Peachy and fruity.
Dan: I got less anti Rob Santana on this than I did on the other last two we just drank.
Mark: The finish is wonderful. The flavor is good. It is just too, if I was got to a bar and I was drinking that, I would put probably 25% water with it.
Matt: I don’t think water would hurt it. I get a lot of old-fashioned type notes out of this, kind of cherry and orangey.
Chris: I get the cherry and the orange, yeah.
Matt: Just not sweet like an old fashioned is. I like this.
Chris: Just wonder how much rye is in it. I do have that rye spice big time. Not heat, spice.
Mark: Pat McAfee is paying Bill Belichick to be a reoccurring guest on his show.
Chris: Yep. Once a week.
Dan: Did he kick off Aaron Rogers for in this spot?
Chris: It’s because Bill Belichick accepted a whole bunch of stuff in the meantime, since he’s not coaching. He’s doing a podcast, he’s doing this, he’s doing another show.
Dan: It’s so funny to me. The guy that hated the media his entire coaching career-
Matt: He’s now doing podcasts.
Dan: … is now joining it.
Chris: You remember when Bill Cowher went and he was just so bad. Bill Cowher is actually pretty good.
Matt: He’s got now.
Chris: He’s gotten really good.
Matt: So there is hope for Colt McCoy.
Mark: No. I watched him. No, no.
Dan: I think there’s hope for Tom Brady, which again, he wasn’t bad.
Matt: Tom Brady will be fine just because everyone loves him.
Chris: I think Bill Belichick will be good.
Matt: I had Tom Brady and it did football on Monday. Saturday.
Chris: Look at my chin dammit. It has a butt.
Dan: As that player analyst, you got to bring something new and innovative to the table. And you’ve got about five years to do it.
Matt: Unless you’re Shaq.
Dan: Yeah, Shaq’s just a person.
Matt: And then you just come up and you talk and try to get your eyes uncrossed.
Mark: Who’s the other basketball player that is now announcer to the-
Matt: Barkley?
Mark: Yes.
Matt: Charles Barkley is awesome.
Dan: I cannot hear the word terrible without hearing-
Matt: Terrible, terrible.
Dan: Terrible.
Mark: He is so fucking entertaining.
Dan: I can’t believe. I mean, why would somebody put this in a bottle? I said that to Nick today. I’m sorry. That’s totally outside of baseball.
Matt: The funny thing is, when they both played, Shaq and Barkley hated each other. They got into multiple fistfights, but they got into multiple fistfights on the court.
Dan: Why is Barkley, why would you even do that? He is fucking King Kong.
Chris: But you’re Barkley, man. He’s tough. Barkley is tough.
Matt: You got to remember Barkley was the smallest big man.
Dan: He is, but Shaq is the biggest big man.
Matt: Yeah.
Chris: Back then. Yeah.
Dan: You don’t go and fuck with that.
Chris: There was-
Dan: You walk up to me and like, man, I’m going to act like I’m yelling at you, but I’d appreciate if you wouldn’t fucking hit me.
Chris: You would just stop.
Dan: I’ll be in trouble.
Matt: It’s a horrible Charles Barkley.
Chris: I don’t know. That’s pretty good.
Matt: He sounds kind of like a Muppet.
Dan: It kind of turned into the scientist from the Simpsons.
Matt: Little bit.
Chris: Isn’t that Simpsons cartoon, isn’t that character supposed to be a mock up of or making fun of, oh gosh…
Matt: Jerry Lewis.
Chris: Yeah. Jerry Lewis. Yeah.
Matt: The Nutty Professor. Yeah. [inaudible 00:53:28].
Chris: Flubber. Isn’t that what it was? Flubber.
Dan: A Barrel what?

Barrel Batch 36

Matt: Oh, I don’t even know anymore. This is Barrel Batch 36, which I think is-
Chris: I don’t know what that is.
Dan: Fuck, I don’t either. I’m just going to drink it.
Matt: Yeah, get it.
Mark: And wait for my sandwich.
Matt: As soon as the Schlotzsky’s gets here.
Dan: I left the house this morning looking at going, I’m probably going to have to mow this afternoon. That ship sailed.
Matt: Not now. Wear your steel toes.
Chris: You still have one more, right?
Matt: I really like this.
Dan: We do have one more.
Matt: Fuck.

Fireball Apple

Dan: Since episode 221 A is lost in the ether of space, we are going to be trying the brand new, to Nebraska, Fireball Apple. And I did get my information correct. I think I finally sent a text back to Kevin when he asked me. It was Nebraska and Indiana were the two states that got a bottle of Fireball Apple.
Matt: They’re the test market states.
Dan: Excuse me. Not a bottle, but they got…
Kevin: One bottle for everybody.
Dan: Yeah. Which-
Kevin: Hand them out at the capitol.
Dan: I had some interesting conversations with people, because I took it out to the racetrack over the weekend for a big four day race weekend.
Chris: 72,000 bottles were sold.
Matt: Onesies.
Dan: 7,200.
Chris: 72,000. We sold 6,000 cases in the last two weeks.
Dan: Oh, bottles.
Chris: Of just bottles.
Dan: Yeah. So Fireball. It’s so new that they just got the design approved when they sent it to us. They’re only coming in 750s and 50s for the time being.
Mark: Shock. Shock. Onesies.
Dan: Right.
Mark: With Fireball.
Dan: Which Fireball’s whole MO.
Mark: Hold on. You just poured that and suddenly it was like Apple.
Matt: Happy Halloween.
Dan: So some of the maybe not so flattering reviews of this, and flattering reviews. One person said, this tastes like a spent scentsy. No. Hit his screen harder so I can fix it.
Mark: I will if you get me a new laptop three months ago.
Dan: It’s in the queue. It was like six. It was way longer than three months ago.
Chris: Got it. I got the fly though, dudes.
Dan: Atta boy. Fly is finally dead.
Matt: Okay, so how long did they age this?
Dan: Yes. I was telling a buddy of mine that I was trying him on the Fireball dragon, which was that Father’s Day release.
Matt: The barrel aged?
Dan: Yeah. Not barrel aged, barrel rested.
Matt: Oh yeah, sorry.
Dan: Barrel rested in oak stays.
Matt: They dumped it in a barrel that had a hole in the bottom.
Dan: Which that’s pretty good too. If you could find a bottle of that again for 20 bucks, I’d drink that stuff regularly.
Matt: This shit smells like discount scented soap. Like, ooh, it’s fall. Here’s your caramel apple soap.
Dan: That is the absolute, I think for me that’s what resonates the most is that somebody also said, this smells like you walked into somebody’s house that was ready for Christmas.
Matt: Oh yeah. They love-
Mark: Tastes like Apple Jacks.
Chris: The cereal? Cheers.
Matt: Wow.
Dan: [inaudible 00:56:44] shitty sales.
Matt: Clink.
Mark: It’s not bad.
Chris: You got to do it.
Mark: It’s not bad. It’s just so sweet.
Matt: Each bottle should come with a small vial of insulin.
Chris: Way better chilled.
Dan: It is.
Chris: Never had it chilled before.
Matt: I just drink it out of the bottle.
Dan: I was joking with somebody that was out of state, and I said that was Fireball frozen is number three in your life that you learn as an adult. One, you don’t cheap on toilet paper. Two, you don’t cheap on ranch. And three, Fireball must be frozen.
Matt: As cold as humanly possible. I don’t hate the flavor. It’s just so sweet. It reminds me of going out to Vallis and having a candy apple.
Chris: It’s really good with pineapple juice.
Dan: It’s cheaper than going out to Vallis and having a-
Mark: That ain’t-
Matt: No. You can get a case of this stuff for what a trip to Vallis would cost you.
Dan: I don’t know if I saw it was a fake article or not, but apparently Vallis was considering charging for parking?
Chris: It’s fake.
Matt: I did hear that.
Chris: I think I heard that it was fake. I believed it.
Matt: Which we do have-
Chris: I believed it.
Matt: We do have a contact at Vallis.
Chris: We do?
Matt: We have an ex bartender here that is the head of maintenance out at Vallis.
Dan: Who?
Mark: And where a [inaudible 00:57:59] is.
Matt: Todd. I don’t think Anthony and Tawana work out there anymore.
Chris: They don’t. Okay.
Matt: Which makes me sad, because they used to bring me in pieces of pie and it was delicious.
Mark: And their peach pie in Vallis is really, really good.
Dan: And it’s only $38 a slice.
Mark: That’s why I’m not going out and getting it. But when Anthony and Tawana would bring something in.
Matt: Oh yeah, I’ll definitely eat a piece. I’d eat a piece of that.
Dan: Guys, have we reached the end of the episode?
Matt: Maybe.
Dan: The next Whiskey Wednesday-
Matt: Schlotzsky’s here?
Dan: October. Goddammit. Are you fucking kidding me? We’re talking about October.
Matt: Yeah. That’s why Fireball Apple just came out.
Dan: Fucking October. October 2nd. We got a couple of weeks. It’s going to be a Whistlepig vertical featuring some rye Whistlepigs. Which Whistlepig is all rye, right?
Matt: Yes.
Dan: Mostly rye.
Mark: No, there is a Whistlepig Bourbon now.
Matt: There is one bourbon out now. Yes. I don’t remember if it’s good or not, but most of their ryes are pretty delightful.
Dan: Find out more information about that. They’ll be creating a Facebook event page coming up here in the next week or two. Kev, you got any tap takeovers you’d like to tell me about?
Kevin: No.
Matt: Nope. We just had the Cross Train tap takeover, which seemed to be well received.
Dan: Yeah, and that only cost you $8,000 for four kegs. Sorry, I’m not a competitor.
Matt: Not quite 8,000.
Mark: No. But the keg of Cross Train, all told, were around a thousand. They’re very proud of their-
Dan: For six barrels or half barrels?
Mark: Six barrels.
Dan: Six barrels. Yeah. Most expensive six barrel I’ve sold-
Matt: And one tall boy can.
Dan: The most expensive six barrel I’ve sold was $375. Chris?
Chris: 300 and something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Six Barrel. Uncle Jacob Stout I think was what, three, 400 bucks?
Mark: I think we bought six barrels in the past. I can’t remember what it was, but I think we paid over 500 for it.
Chris: Actually just sold two Dragon Fandango 15 fives for 500 a piece.
Matt: Oh, Dan’s radar is going for Schlotzsky’s. He is like, I can smell the spices.
Dan: Well, I got a call from a Nebraska number I didn’t recognize, so I sent it to my call screener. And then it dawned on me that might’ve been my Uber driver
Matt: Could have been.
Dan: My Uber Eats driver.
Matt: Schlotzsky’s.
Dan: So that’s my cue to wrap things up. Make sure to follow the-
Mark: You should probably turn the open sign to open. That way the guy knows he can stop.
Dan: Well, it is 24 minutes past open.
Matt: Some days.
Kevin: Well, sign says closed.
Dan: What are you looking at me for? I don’t really work here much anymore.
Mark: You’re right. You’re about this close to being at all. We’re going to switch you and Brett and you’ll be the on call guy.
Matt: Well, that means we’ll see you on Monday mornings. Have a great rest of your week.
Dan: Yeah, that’s going to do it for us. Anything else coming up, Mark, you want to talk about?
Mark: No.
Dan: We covered a lot today.
Matt: I do get to see Gary Clark Jr. tonight.
Dan: Oh.
Matt: Pretty stoked about that.
Dan: I just get to see Gary, the one that got arrested [inaudible 01:01:15].
Matt: Yeah. Now I get to see Gary Clark Jr. tonight. I’m pretty excited about that.
Dan: Why do I know that name?
Matt: He’s a blues guitarist.
Mark: Where’s the concert?
Matt: The Apollo, I believe.
Mark: Which is which one?
Dan: The Apollo is the new Sokol?
Matt: I don’t know what they all are anymore.
Dan: No, that’s the auditorium, the archery, the…
Matt: I don’t know. I know that The Waiting Room still is The Waiting Room. And I know that Reverb is still Reverb.
Dan: Yeah. The Sokol auditorium changed to something.
Matt: And all the other ones have changed.
Mark: To the Admiral.
Dan: Admiral?
Mark: Yep. So the Apollo might be the one down by me.
Matt: Yeah. I think the Apollo’s in La Vista, which I’m getting picked up at 4:45.
Dan: Oh Jesus.
Matt: Show starts at 6:30. So we’re going to go get some food and then…
Dan: Where at?
Matt: Jason and I will go to…
Dan: Gomez?
Matt: Yeah.
Mark: What you do, Matt.
Dan: What you do, Matt.
Mark: 90th to Senator. Senator out to 96th. 96 down Giles, and then back and skip 84th Street because it is a mess.
Matt: I don’t know. I’ll be in the passenger seat because I don’t own a car.
Dan: Any plans on where you’re going to go eat?
Matt: I don’t know. My guess would be a bar.
Dan: That serves Bud Light bottles?
Matt: Yeah. Bud Light bottles and cheeseburgers, which I’m good with both of those.
Dan: Goddammit, I’m hungry. That’s going to do it for us guys. Make sure to follow the Library Pub Facebook page for more events and things.
Matt: Dan’s heading to the parking lot to watch for his Uber Eats driver.
Dan: Very patiently.
Matt: Down by 90th Street.
Dan: Bye everybody.
Chris: Bye
Matt: Bye
Mark: Bye.