Murray & McDavid, Glenallachie, Bib and Tucker, World Whiskey Society

Podcast Transcription

Dan: Episode 222 of the Library Pubcast, 90th and Fort.
Mark: Moving right along.
Dan: In Omaha. All that pre-recorded stuff we always talk about. Good stuff.
Matt: Talk about silly shit.

Dan: Yeah, it’s always good stuff that never makes the podcast. Let’s see, the next Whiskey Wednesday is going to be a Whistlepig vertical featuring five-ish Whistlepigs.
Matt: We have five up there right now.
Dan: I always throw in the “ish” factor to cover myself.
Matt: It’s safe.
Dan: Coming up October 2nd. That’s just a couple of weeks away. Get your tickets in person at the Library Pub 90th and Fort. Busy football weekend. Dallas Cowboys continue to be Dallas Cowboys. Got their asses handed to them. Green Bay won?
Matt: Green Bay did win.
Dan: Chicago, did they win last night?
Chris: No, but they played really well.
Dan: Did they?
Chris: Yeah. Their defense is actually pretty… I’m surprised.
Matt: Dumb uniforms on last night.
Chris: Yeah, they did.
Matt: Bright Orange jerseys.
Dan: Huskers won along with the Hawkeyes.
Matt: The Midwest just a bunch of winners right now.
Dan: Right now we are just definitely a bunch of winners.
Matt: I think Nebraska volleyball won.
Chris: KC won. Yeah. KC won. Think it’s hurting me that he is like saying [inaudible].
Dan: I am being you in picking.
Chris: Got it.
Dan: Picking.
Chris: It’s not working.
Matt: It was a good game though.
Dan: It is working.
Chris: It is not working.
Dan: I can hear it in your… Is it working?
Chris: No.
Dan: I can hear it in his voice. He is so freaking irritated.
Chris: No, I’m not. I’m not irritated. I am not irritated about that. I knew that shit was going to happen, man. It’s laughable. It’s funny. It was the best game this weekend by far. Hands down. It was the best game that was on TV this weekend.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: So I can’t be mad about that, and it’s going to be that way over the next five years.
Dan: It was all because Taylor Swift was on TV.
Chris: I don’t know. I didn’t…
Matt: Are the Paralympics over?
Chris: I think they are.
Dan: I couldn’t even have told you they started.
Matt: Yeah, I made sure to have a TV in here on the Paralympics because some of that stuff’s pretty unbelievable that they do.
Chris: I know. What they need to do-
Matt: It’s not the Special Olympics, it’s the Paralympics.
Chris: What they need to do is they need to have that special in the Paralympics before the normal Olympics. I feel like everybody’s just done.
Dan: Olympics exhausted.
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: Maybe bookend the Olympics with the Paralympics. Do one week before and one week after.
Chris: Yeah, there you go. So it’s like a full month instead of just two weeks. Yeah.
Matt: Well, and a lot of those people are used to being cut off anyway, so… A bit of a zing, pow.
Dan: As always, if you’d like anything deleted from the Library Pubcast, feel free to donate $5 to the Alzheimer’s Association. I’ll delete it. Or I’ll probably just delete it anyway.
Matt: I’m just going to forget.
Dan: Let’s see, what else. So apparently former President Trump was shot at again.
Matt: Someone had a gun.
Dan: Yeah, that’s what I’d heard, that he was shot at. And then the actual report came out and said no, they saw the shooter before the shooter had a chance to take a shot.
Matt: I think they just caught a guy with a gun.
Dan: It was the Secret Service that ended up taking the shots. They caught him like 10 minutes later on the Philadelphia Expressway. Something like that.
Matt: Yeah.
Dan: And then when we were talking about this, you would know, and that’s actually not an old joke, but because you are the most…
Chris: Seasoned.
Dan: Seasoned person of the podcast.
Matt: Senior.
Dan: Senior, yes. I can’t think of another political person that has had two attempts on their life.
Mark: Reagan.
Chris: Reagan. Yeah.
Dan: Reagan had two? Because I know he was shot once, which saved his presidency.
Chris: I think it happens more than we’re led on to believe, that there is not an active bullet, but stuff that gets squashed. I feel like that’s… Honestly, I am really surprised that… I don’t know, you might have to mark this, but I’m really surprised that Obama didn’t get it.
Dan: Dude, when he got elected, I’m like, I do not want to be a Secret Service agent. Their job just got really hard.
Matt: I couldn’t believe Trump didn’t have shots taken at him while he was president.
Chris: Fair.
Dan: So you may be onto something that, in order to not tip anybody off, they don’t talk about the ones that they foil.
Chris: It’s a copycat, man. Yeah, copycat, copycat, copycat. “Oh, that guy didn’t do it. I can one up him and get my name out there.”
Dan: Yeah.
Mark: That and school shooters.
Dan: Yeah. Let’s see what else happened. Oh, we didn’t even get to talk about it because it hadn’t hit the news yet. The legendary James Earl Jones passed away last Monday.
Matt: He did.
Chris: It’s very sad.
Dan: Very sad.
Matt: I was very sad.
Dan: Man, he was a great actor. Just an enormous voice.
Matt: It took him two hours to record the Star Wars, the first Star Wars.
Dan: Really?
Matt: For the whole movie.
Dan: Did the whole thing?
Matt: Yeah.
Mark: The reason he talked like he talks is because he had a stutter.
Dan: Yeah, he was a stutterer from… What’s his line? George Lucas took a leap on a stutterer from…
Matt: He’s from somewhere down in Mississippi.
Dan: I thought it was in Minnesota.
Matt: I don’t know. Let’s look.
Dan: Yes, Aunt Google. Where was James Earl Jones from? But died at the age of 93. I didn’t see what though.
Speaker 5: James Earl Jones was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi.
Dan: Mississippi.
Matt: Mississippi. Arkabutla, what in the shit is that?
Dan: So apparently if I say Aunt Google it activates my phone.
Chris: That’s funny.
Dan: Arkabutla. Yeah. That’d make me stutter if I had to say that name too. Too soon?
Matt: Definitely make me move.
Dan: Too soon? Yeah. But man, I saw a comparison of, was it David Pierce who was the actor that portrayed…
Mark: I believe so.
Dan: Darth Vader. And it just, it’s obvious that we’re going to be a little biased because of how deep and menacing of a voice we heard and we’re used to. But this little British accent, “You are part of the Rebel Alliance.” Just doesn’t have the same ring.
Chris: Yeah. Dude, it’s so funny. So I saw this… What was it? So what’s the one right before New Hope? Or I’m sorry, what’s the scene? What’s the, why am I forgetting this? The scene where they added into A New Hope where it led up to it. What is that? Is that-
Dan: Rogue One.
Chris: Rogue One. Okay. They added ACDC to his intro, like his walking up. Dude, it was so good. It was like it made it more scary.
Dan: Yeah. Man, I tell you, it’s one of the few characters in science fiction, or non-fiction… Fiction, that it does get to you. When it’s like an all dark black screen and all of a sudden the red lightsaber extends and you’re like, “Oh fuck.” And especially in the latest iterations of him in Obi Wan and Rogue One, where he’s actually kind of a badass and not… Obviously in New Hope they were still trying to figure out what he was and what he could do, and all of his powers and stuff like that. But that concludes the Star Wars segment of the Library Pubcast.
Chris: I never will. I have something to say about that.
Mark: I’m going to start doing my Python.
Dan: And now for the PS edition of-
Chris: The Obi Wan scene.
Mark: I’m not dead yet.
Chris: The Obi Wan-
Mark: I think I’m going for a walk.
Chris: … Series when he fought Vader.
Dan: Oh yeah.
Chris: Dude.
Mark: Some call me Tim.
Dan: And even in the Ahsoka series when it was-
Mark: Would you shut up.
Dan: … When it was back, that scene when he’s walking towards Ahsoka in the world between worlds, and it flashes between Vader and…
Mark: Evidently he asked would you shut up is, no, have you even hang out with my wife?
Dan: That actually just encourages me.
Mark: Have you been hanging out with my wife?
Dan: No. No, no.
Matt: I haven’t watched The Star Wars in a long time.
Dan: Oh my God. Anyways, rest in peace James Earl Jones. What else? Anybody else have any fun stuff they did over the weekend?
Chris: I went camping Friday night.
Dan: Yeah, man, how’d that go?
Chris: It was beautiful.
Dan: Hey, if you need any firewood, please come get some.
Chris: We had so much firewood it was great.
Dan: Oh, that’s right.
Chris: We had so much firewood.
Matt: They were dancing around it naked.
Dan: I’m getting to the point of that.
Chris: There’s no trees, so nothing really to hide behind, and I don’t want to scare other campers.
Matt: Loincloths.
Mark: How close was the next close camper?
Chris: Up the hill. So I don’t know, 50 to a hundred yards.
Mark: Okay.
Chris: But they had a perfect overlook of our camp, so there’s no naked running.
Dan: Where were you guys at?
Chris: Lake Wanahoo. It’s right outside of Wahoo.
Dan: Oh.
Matt: Never been there.
Chris: It’s newish.
Dan: Me either.
Matt: Yeah. Like 10, 15 years old.
Dan: Just Friday?
Chris: Just Friday.
Dan: Tented or?
Chris: Tent. Yeah.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: Yep. Yep. It was good. It was good. Relaxing. I didn’t catch any fish. I think all of us caught maybe two bluegill, which is really crazy because it’s really easy to catch fish out there, but for some reason they weren’t biting.
Matt: Well, I think they stocked the lake. Yeah. Yeah, they do.
Dan: The whole family, you, Jen and Howie?
Chris: Nope, just me and some dudes.
Dan: Really? Just a couple of friends?
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: Fun.
Mark: Did you get drunk?
Chris: I was, yeah. I had tequila.
Mark: Oh.
Chris: It was great.
Dan: What? Can I…
Chris: Camarena Anejo.
Dan: Oh, God.
Chris: It’s just nice to pour over ice.
Dan: It is.
Chris: And sip.
Dan: I just feel so bad for the bad connotation that tequila has, because unfortunately it’s the same thing with that people tell us with whiskey. They’re like, I don’t like whiskey. I had too much Jack Daniels and I’m like, you have no idea how much of a contradiction that is. Yes, I get it. Jack Daniels is whiskey, but it’s bad whiskey.
Matt: Well, the problem is there’s a lot of both of those things out there that are bad, that people have had horrible experiences with. So I still try not to drink tequila if I can help it. Every once in a while.
Dan: I love it.
Matt: I don’t like the drunk.
Dan: Me love it.
Matt: I love it.
Dan: How’d the Dodgers do?
Mark: Lost two one last night. Played again tonight.
Dan: Okay. Same team or different?
Mark: Same team.
Dan: Same team. Creighton?
Matt: Women’s volleyball looked good the other day. I don’t know if they won or not.
Dan: How’d they play though?
Matt: Zing. I’m never mad at a six-foot-tall woman.
Dan: Not at all.
Matt: Unless they punch me in the face.
Dan: Even then I’m kind of like, hey.
Matt: Maybe one more time before we get home.
Dan: All right. Yeah.
Matt: Huskers won. Husker volleyball won.
Mark: And weren’t they down two and came back and won last three sets?
Matt: I think they lost the first one and then the second, third and fourth they won.
Dan: We saw Saturday night was Sarah and I’s final night, finally a night for us to just chill. We had way too much stuff going on this week. And we watched a new movie called The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
Chris: It’s pretty good. It’s pretty good.
Dan: My best description of it is they took a historical event. There’s some stuff that is factually correct at the beginning and probably at the end. Everything in between is a little bit of a satirical take. Would you agree with that assessment, Mr. [inaudible]?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. It’s good.
Mark: What is the historical event?
Dan: There was a storage vessel in a neutral port in Africa that was, I believe, controlled by the Swedish?
Chris: I don’t know.
Dan: And it contained supplies for all of the submarines in the north in the Atlantic, that were wreaking havoc in the early parts of World War II. And they devised, the British, somebody devised a scheme to blow the ship up and destroy a lot of these supplies that was then going to cripple the submarines, the German submarines. That was the general plot. The big thing they kept focusing on, yes, there was fuel and there was food and supplies and stuff on there. But the big thing was the CO2 scrubbers. The filters that, if they were able to destroy those, it was going to take them six months. You can’t be in a submarine without a CO2 scrubber.
Matt: No, you’ll die.
Dan: Right.
Mark: Who was in the movie?
Dan: Henry Cavill was one of the main guys.
Matt: Superman.
Dan: And then the guy that plays the new Jack Reacher in the TV series. His name’s Alan Richson?
Chris: He’s like a Swedish guy.
Dan: Yeah. Oh my God. So funny.
Chris: So funny, dude.
Dan: If you don’t know if you’re going to like the movie, watch the first five minutes of it.
Chris: Yeah, that’s perfect.
Dan: You will instantly know. That giant of a man going, “He is the Peter Puffer” is so hilarious.
Chris: He is, dude, he is like Hulk Hogan.
Matt: Is he gay in the movie?
Dan: No.
Chris: Wasn’t he kind of acting gay in that scene? They’re undercover agents pretty much.
Matt: Oh God.
Dan: It’s a great movie.
Chris: It took me by surprise. That movie took me by surprise. I’ll tell you that.
Matt: I’ll need to check that one out.
Dan: First line he’s like, “He’s a girly boy.” I’m like, oh my God.
Chris: Then he starts cutting people’s heads off and you’re like, what?
Matt: Wow.
Dan: And he is a huge 30-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger looking dude.
Chris: He’s huge.
Dan: Tall, incredibly built, and just this little tiny Swedish accent and it’s so funny. All right, so that’s what we did this week. Oh. And I cut up a shitload of trees and I didn’t break myself.
Matt: Good job.
Chris: That’s good.
Matt: I mean, I do see a band-aid.
Dan: Well, that was from this morning when I was stocking shelves at a Casey’s and I got a box cut.
Matt: Oh my God. Those are the worst.
Dan: Cardboard box.
Matt: Those hurt so bad.
Dan: It started bleeding everywhere. So I’m like, okay, I got to put a band-aid on, so it stops.
Matt: And they bleed forever.
Dan: I know.
Matt: I usually get one a week sometime unloading liquor.
Dan: Mark.
Mark: Dan.
Dan: Oh, one more thing, is Tua Tugalulua done?
Chris: He needs to be.
Matt: He should be, but he said he’s not.
Dan: Dude, third concussion is like, that’s got to be… Third time you’re done, you’re out.
Chris: He didn’t get one last year. That’s what they’re saying. Oh, he is fine. Didn’t have one in a year.
Dan: Great. They stack up.
Chris: Dude, he’s got kids. He’s got so much money. Anytime that anybody is going to talk about whatever the CTE or whatever they call, what is it? Whatever the brain disease.
Matt: The concussion stuff.
Chris: They’re going to call Tua. They’re going to have Tua come on so he can make money for the rest of his life just on that simple fact.
Matt: He’ll wind up killing himself or someone else.
Dan: Probably. He’s going to keep getting concussions easier and easier every time.
Matt: Did you see his eyes when they walked him off the field?
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: No. Was he bad?
Matt: He was gone. He was not-
Dan: And it’s a shame.
Matt: … In the moment.
Dan: I’m kind of happy because he’s kind of a threat to the Kansas City Chiefs and the rest of the league, because he is really good.
Matt: He’s a good quarterback.
Dan: But I’m also like, that sucks because he’s an incredibly talented player that three years in the league?
Matt: Three or four.
Dan: His career should be over with. But it’s going to take one more.
Matt: Three concussions in the last two seasons.
Mark: That we know of.
Dan: That we know of.
Matt: That have been diagnosed. With one he finished the game. So that’s taking more headshots on top of one headshot.
Dan: Who was, I want to say it was either Brett Favre or Troy Aikman was talking to a head specialist and he’s like, if you ever took a hit and then this and this happened, you had a concussion, whether it was mild or not. And he goes, after I thought about it, I bet I had a thousand of those in my entire career. And Troy Aikman and Brett Favre played during the we don’t protect quarterback ears.
Matt: Yeah, yeah.
Dan: And…
Matt: Not near as much as they do now.
Dan: Right. Which I’m glad they do because Tua is the exact reason why they do.
Chris: They only protect Patrick Mahomes, dude.
Mark: But he’s not mad.
Chris: I’m not mad.
Dan: He’s not mad at all.
Chris: I just think it’s hilarious.
Dan: Not at all.
Matt: It’s funny, but well, he’s just the new Tom Brady.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: He’s the new poster boy for the NFL.
Mark: All righty then. Whiskey.
Dan: So now we got to ask ourselves, Mark’s ready to drink whiskey. Do we poke at him?
Matt: Do you think Colt McCoy’s been practicing this week?
Chris: Patrick Mahomes doesn’t like whiskey.
Dan: Jesus.
Matt: Doesn’t he?
Chris: No.
Dan: I thought he did.
Matt: I bet he drinks Tequila.
Chris: No, he doesn’t. He doesn’t like whiskey. He’s a girly man with weird hair.
Dan: He likes the sausage.
Matt: Just the face you make when you do it.
Chris: I want you to create a podcast where you just talk that way the whole time.
Dan: Just do the… What was the-
Chris: Swedish Dan. Swedish Dan talks hot dogs. I can’t do it as well as you.
Dan: I can’t even do it either now.
Matt: American sausages.
Chris: I wouldn’t be able to be on that podcast with you.
Dan: Mark, please save us.
Mark: Okay.
Dan: Another, you’ve brought us a beautiful nose.

Murray & McDavid Benchmark 14yr

Mark: This is a Murray McDavid release, which means it’s a single cask, probably 200 bottles total.
Dan: Oh my gosh.
Mark: It is a rye finished scotch whiskey. Matt, can you hand the bottle to…
Chris: Me?
Dan: His name’s Chris.
Matt: Whoever’s got the best eyes.
Mark: With my lisp down there someplace.
Dan: No, no, no, no. You need to read that.
Mark: No.
Matt: A lot of esses?
Chris: With the dog, above the dog? Oh, Allt-A-Bhainne.
Dan: Allt-A-Bhainne.
Chris: Right?
Dan: I bet the B is silent.
Chris: We need to get…
Dan: Here.
Chris: Yeah, have what’s his name say it.
Matt: For us.
Dan: James? Oh, you mean-
Chris: Yeah, the guy. What’s his name?
Matt: Magic computer voice guy. Yeah.
Dan: No, Brian Scott. It hits like a depth charge.
Mark: That won’t [inaudible] in there.
Matt: Hello.
Chris: We did this… What? We did one of these just a few weeks ago, right?
Matt: Just a few weeks ago.
Chris: It was really good.
Matt: It’s fun to go back there and see what’s back there from time to time, because most of them are pretty dang good.
Dan: Standby.
Chris: I can’t believe that the mouth feel and taste is going to be what I’m expecting because of that rye. I don’t think it’s going to be like the nose.
Dan: It’s Allt-A-Bhainne.
Chris: Allt-A-Bhainne.
Dan: Yeah. Even though it’s spelled B-H-A-I-N-N-E, it’s vine. Done the audio through…
Chris: That’s got that rye spice.
Mark: It does.
Matt: That’s weird.
Mark: It is.
Matt: Because it’s scotch up front and rye on the back.
Mark: Yeah, and heavily rye.
Matt: Heavily rye, yeah.
Dan: Here we go. I had to get through all the fucking YouTube ads.
Speaker 6: Allt-A-Bhainne. Allt-A-Bhainne. Allt-A-Bhainne.
Chris: Allt-A-Bhainne. Look-
Dan: You got to have the fingers.
Chris: Yeah, he’s air dicking.
Matt: He is air dicking. Air jacking.
Chris: All right, and let’s just have a little fun here.
Dan: Double air dicking.
Chris: On his back bar is he’s got some decent stuff in his back bar. He’s flexing in this. Traverse City Whiskey Company, Caol, Old Forester, Rebel Yell, EH Taylor looks like small batch.
Matt: Looks like he just made it to the liquor store on allocation day. Is he still air dicking?
Chris: Yeah.
Mark: Who is this guy?
Chris: He’s got some decent stuff behind him. I’m not sure.
Matt: We know he’s an air dicker.
Chris: He is. He was too funny. Such a funny scene.
Matt: He plays a slide whistle too?
Mark: I got to be honest, I am not a fan. It’s too confusing for me.
Matt: It is, yeah.
Chris: Oh man. After you taste it too, the nose changes for me.
Matt: It’s single malt up front and it’s rye whiskey on the back.
Dan: I am 100% opposite on that. I got rye right off the bat.
Matt: You’re kind of rye sensitive.
Dan: I am.
Chris: You get any dill?
Dan: No. No dill.
Mark: Nope.
Dan: I think I’m-
Matt: It’s really different.
Dan: I’m with Mark on that. It’s…
Mark: Just weird.
Matt: It’s a 14 year. I don’t know what the-
Chris: It’s got five years inside rye casks.
Mark: See they override it.
Dan: 14 years in rye casks?
Chris: No, five years.
Dan: Five years.
Chris: Small rye. Small rye so…
Matt: Lot of flavor.
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: Which I don’t hate.
Chris: I don’t hate this either.
Matt: I don’t hate it, but I’m not a hundred percent sure what to think about it.
Chris: Wonder what happens if we put any water in it? Can I have a little tiny glass of water please? Bet you it probably dulls down that rye.
Mark: I think that’s my problem with it is it’s just so big on the rye.
Chris: It’s spicy. It’s very spicy. Thank you.
Dan: Yeah, I don’t get any real scotch off that. The nose.
Chris: The taste, but now the nose is not scotchy. It’s not that fruitiness for me.
Dan: Is this benchmark series, is it a series? Do you know of the Murray McDavid benchmark down here in the bottom?
Mark: Right, yes.
Matt: That makes it weirder.
Chris: Yeah, makes it spicier. I thought it would dull that down.
Matt: No, this is… I could drink this, but I’m going to have a weird-looking face while I do it.
Dan: I think I would lean towards Keeper’s Heart [inaudible].
Mark: Matt, you already have a weird-looking face.
Matt: I got a face for radio.
Dan: We all do.
Matt: Definitely. But nope, this stuff’s weird.
Chris: Speak for yourself. I’m good-looking.
Mark: If you like bald, gray-haired men.
Chris: They were like, “Oh, he’s probably got a face for radio,” and then they see me. They’re like, “Oh yeah, you could be on TV. You’re good-looking.”
Matt: I’m totally kidding. I mean, I am good-looking. Ask my mom. Well, duh.
Dan: And moving on.
Chris: And moving on. Yeah. That is really actually the side of my throat. Not like full throat. It went down one side of my throat as hot or spicy, or has something versus the other side. Does that happen to you guys?
Dan: I’m marking that whole part.
Matt: That’s definitely going on a best-of. Which I did listen to our audio clip episode the other day.
Dan: Was that 100 or something like that?
Matt: No, this one was when you just took all the little five-second audio grabs and made it like we were all kind of having a conversation except-
Dan: God, that took forever.
Matt: It was hilarious. So I don’t know what episode it was, 197 or something like that.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: Which I can’t stop drinking this stuff.
Chris: I know. I’m drinking Mark’s right now. I don’t hate this. It’s actually growing on me pretty quickly. I don’t hate it.
Dan: If anybody was to share with me…
Chris: Mulled apple. Here, you can have the rest of that. Mulled apple toffee sweet malt on the palate.
Dan: Did you say mold?
Chris: Mulled apple.
Matt: Moldy. Moldy apple.
Mark: M-U-L-L-E-D. Mulled.
Matt: Mulled, like mulled like cider.
Dan: Oh, got it. Not like mildew mold.
Matt: Not like rotten.
Dan: I was like, “Wow, they’re really going out there, aren’t they?”
Matt: I don’t know what a rotten apple tastes like.
Chris: Got their wood from Koval Distillery in Chicago.
Matt: Should we actually get another one up there? That’s a bourbon finish.
Chris: Of the Koval?
Matt: They have Koval. It’s a single malt that they finished in Koval.
Chris: I don’t have any problems with Koval.
Dan: There’s some left in there if you want to finish it.
Chris: No, I was just… Go for it.
Dan: Oh, I left it for you. I’ll finish it.
Chris: Oh no, no, you got it.
Dan: All right. So I’m drinking it a little bit different and I’m less offended by it, but I don’t think it would be high on my list of “I really want to try this” or “I got to have a bottle of it.”
Chris: If I was in the mood for scotch, I’d be pissed about this. Someone like, “Yeah, you got to try this,” and it’s like nah, this is way bourbon-y rye-y for me.
Dan: Yeah, I don’t get a lot of scotch off that.
Chris: No, the nose I did.
Dan: Yeah. Again, the nose absolutely.
Chris: Had that peach nose.
Matt: I get all kind of that single malt sweetness up front, and then it goes right into a piece of rye bread.
Dan: By the way, Artie found a new love yesterday.
Matt: Oh, Piper?
Dan: Yeah. Sarah brought Piper up for a little while, and Artie sat at the door and cried for about 10 minutes after Piper and Sarah left.
Matt: Oh man, that was depressing.
Dan: It was.
Mark: Just sat there staring at the door like, “Where is my friend?”
Matt: The occasional little whine.
Dan: 10 more minutes I’d have had her.
Matt: I already miss humping her back.
Dan: Oh, that leg was worn out.
Matt: They were both very well-behaved.
Dan: Yeah, Piper started [inaudible].
Chris: Blake went right to sleep.
Dan: Piper is my female dog, by the way. And we all know Artie, the head of security and human resources at the Library Pub.
Mark: Who is seven inches tall, and Piper’s probably two feet tall.
Dan: Seven inches tall? Standing up on his hind legs?
Mark: At the top of his head.
Matt: Dick height never really changes for him though.
Dan: Oh yeah.
Mark: At the shoulder, she’s about five and a half.
Dan: He’s dragging when he’s full steam.
Matt: Oh yeah.
Dan: All right, so that was Murray & McDavid Benchmark 14 Year. Very interesting. And I would encourage you to come try it at $17 for a full two and a quarter-ounce pour. Mark, scotch number two.

Glenallachie

Mark: This is another custom-labeled scotch, but not by Murray McDavid and-
Matt: It’s the smartass.
Chris: Glenallachie?
Matt: He’s a smart alec.
Dan: Mark got kind of offended.
Mark: Are you talking to me?
Matt: What’d you say about my mama?
Dan: All the things that have been said to you this weekend, and that’s what got you offended?
Chris: You got it. Don’t take it out on me, man.
Dan: I deleted that. Go ahead.
Mark: This is Glenallachie. It was distilled in 2010, bottled in 2021. So it’s an 11-year-old scotch finished in… I love this… Napa Valley wine barrels. Now, if I check, there’s more than one kind of wine in Napa Valley.
Matt: They’re just driving down the street and found a couple of barrels, and they weren’t labeled.
Mark: Being a newly minted wine letter guy…
Dan: He doesn’t know shit. He hasn’t been to the wineries.
Chris: I’ve been to the ones in Napa, bro.
Dan: No.
Chris: I’ve been to the ones in Napa.
Dan: That doesn’t fit my argument.
Mark: How many different grapes do they grow in Napa? A gazillion?
Chris: Yeah. I mean, it’s a lot. Enough. It’s predominantly cab probably.
Dan: What you’re getting at is to generalize it as…
Mark: Napa Valley.
Dan: Does not summarize it at all.
Mark: No. Tell me what kind of wine.
Matt: This one is a little warm.
Mark: What’s it blast off at?
Matt: 59.9.
Mark: Ooh, 118 proof.
Matt: So this one’s…
Dan: Anybody getting…
Chris: Like gin? Like juniper?
Mark: God, I hope not. I don’t like gin.
Chris: I know it was the first thing. I’m like, or Christmas tree or evergreen or something green like that. Piney.
Dan: It’s all…
Mark: Pining full of fields.
Chris: Well, now I lost it. This quitting cigarette stuff is for the birds. I don’t know what I’m smelling.
Mark: That’s good. But I’m thinking it’s not a cab. I’m thinking it’s more of a chardonnay barrel.
Dan: No, I’m thinking cab.
Matt: That’s really fruity.
Dan: I get that kind of deep. I don’t know what to describe it. The only way I’ve been able to describe it to you guys is to show you when you go.
Matt: I think they finished it in Chablis barrels.
Dan: Oh, Chablis.
Matt: That’s the good one.
Dan: Was it a nice Chianti barrel?
Matt: I’ll tell you, you can get some good Chiantis out there for not a lot of money.
Dan: I hear so. Fava…
Matt: Fava.
Dan: You know I’ve never actually seen that movie.
Chris: Really?
Matt: You’ve never seen Silence of the Lambs?
Dan: Silence of the Lambs.
Mark: You should.
Dan: I really haven’t needed to because everyone quotes it so much.
Chris: Thought you were talking about Something About Mary saying fava.
Dan: No, I’ve definitely seen… Oh, you’ve got some hair gel on your ear.
Matt: Thanks. I needed some. Gross. That’s jizz.
Dan: How did get the beans above the frank?
Matt: Frank and beans.
Dan: Have you seen my penis?
Matt: Dude, the best part about the movie are the guys that sing, that do the segue little songs.
Chris: Isn’t that the Coen brothers? Isn’t that the actual guy? I think it is, man.
Matt: I think it is.
Chris: I think it is the Coen brothers.
Matt: And then he gets shot at the end of the movie. They kill them both at the end of the movie.
Dan: I need to go back and watch that. I haven’t seen that in, boy, decades.
Chris: Six, not seven.
Matt: Six-minute abs, baby.
Chris: Step into my office because you’re fucking fired. Such a great… I like Ben Stiller, man.
Dan: What if somebody came out with five-minute abs? Oh.
Chris: No.
Dan: Anyways, Mark.
Matt: This stuff’s good.
Dan: Glenallachie.
Mark: This is really good. It does not drink 120.
Chris: No, it does not at all, and that scares me.
Mark: It’s very light though. The palate is thin, but it’s got a good kind of fruity, finishy background. I like it.
Matt: And it’s got a relatively long finish for what it is.
Dan: And I do get that wine finish.
Matt: Definitely.
Dan: I do think it’s more of a deep red, like a cabernet.
Mark: See, I think it’s more of a lighter finish.
Dan: And I also kind of get a little hint of smoke or peat right at the end.
Chris: I get it right in the beginning.
Matt: I do get some smoke, some char, which it’s not an off-putting amount.
Dan: That is-
Matt: It’s a nice amount.
Dan: How much?
Matt: $18.
Dan: A quote from a customer yesterday: “How much are you asking for your, what was it? I think it was an Old Forrester and I think it was like $18 for an ounce.” And he said, “Goddammit. Why are you guys so much cheaper than everybody else?” And I said, “Because we’re not greedy motherfuckers.”
Matt: Don’t forget to tip.
Dan: Yeah, Noah mostly served him, so Noah got the tip.
Matt: Fucking Noah. I bet he takes the tip well though.
Dan: Oh, he does take the tip well. With that hair, all day.
Matt: Yeah, but he wears his hat like a fruit loop.
Dan: I know.
Matt: Like he’s part of the New Kids on the Block or something.
Dan: Maybe he is, and we just don’t know it. He’s like the sixth member of the New Kids on the Block.
Matt: He’s hanging tough.
Chris: He was the sound guy. Choreographer.
Matt: He was their drug guy.
Chris: Guy in the back doing the dances along with it.
Dan: No, sharper. You must be sharper.
Matt: 5, 6, 7, 8, go.
Mark: Why do they always start with 5, 6, 7, 8? Why not 1, 2, 3, 4?
Dan: Being different, I guess.
Chris: Because that’s like the steps.
Matt: Well, that way they go, 5, 6, 7, 8, and then they start on one. Because that’s like the warm-up. It’s like when the drummer clicks his sticks.
Dan: Another great movie that you definitely need to go back and watch, or watch for the first time. Whiplash. That came up yesterday.
Matt: Yeah. That’s a good movie.
Dan: Awesome.
Chris: It’s a movie.
Matt: That is about…
Dan: JK Rowling— not JK Rowling— JK Simmons.
Chris: Is that the drummer movie?
Dan: Yes.
Chris: With the kid that he’d like.
Dan: Yeah, he totally fucked around. Yeah. I had a tough time describing it in a way that it didn’t make me annoyed the way I was describing it.
Chris: JK Simmons looks so good in that movie, dude.
Dan: So freaking good.
Chris: Isn’t that the movie that both of them won awards for or something like that?
Dan: Yeah. Miles Teller is who I’m thinking of.
Chris: Thank you. What’s the one that just recently came out with him in?
Dan: Road House. Yeah. Well, and he was Top Gun. No.
Chris: Top Gun.
Dan: Jake Gyllenhaal was Road House.
Chris: Yeah. Top Gun. Top Gun is what I’m thinking.
Mark: Did anybody see Road House?
Dan: No.
Matt: I did. It was not very good.
Chris: No, it’s just…
Matt: It’s not Road House.
Dan: It’s not the same if you’re not ripping somebody’s spine out of their back, head, neck?
Matt: Throat out of his neck, and then he just pushes him over into the lake.
Dan: It’s not the same.
Matt: Take that, bully.
Chris: Whoo, so dumb. Was so dumb.
Matt: No, they set the little girl’s shop on fire. Jack was kind of fucked up. And then Jake Gyllenhaal went all crazy on him. He really didn’t. What sucked in the movie was Irish dude, Conor McGregor.
Chris: I was watching their-
Matt: Terrible.
Chris: … The choreography of their fight scene, and he was like, Conor McGregor was actually pretty sweet. I could see him being a fight coordinator for movies. He was like, “All right, you’re going to do this, and I’m going to do this, and I’m going to do…” It was like, holy crap. He actually gets staging and where the camera’s at.
Matt: Which I’ve heard that he’s actually a pretty nice guy once you get him away from the hoopla.
Dan: 80-year-old men that don’t want to drink his shitty whiskey.
Matt: Well.
Dan: Do I need to…
Mark: No, leave it in because it is shitty whiskey.
Dan: I sell his shitty whiskey.
Mark: He doesn’t own-
Dan: Well, I don’t actually sell it because no one buys it from me.
Matt: It’s technically not his anymore.
Dan: Did he sell it?
Mark: Yeah.
Matt: Yeah. He sold it, and they pay him to keep his name on the label.
Chris: Man, I don’t know…
Mark: That was good scotch.
Dan: I like that.
Matt: It was much easier to figure out than the first one.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: The first one was tough.
Dan: Whew. Little lightheaded. Two whiskeys in.
Matt: Uh-oh.
Dan: Might be a Schlotzky’s day again.
Chris: Something nice, guys. Dave Grohl just…
Matt: Wow.
Dan: Oh my God.
Chris: Man, that kind of hurts a little bit.
Dan: Did you see that story?
Matt: It did.
Dan: He kind of actually is like, “Oh.”
Matt: Oh, dammit. Dave.
Dan: The article was, “Dave Grohl announces that he is going to be a father again.”
Matt: They already had the baby. Yeah.
Dan: Outside of his marriage.
Matt: With a 20-year-old.
Dan: Now, there is some…
Chris: Was she 20? I thought she was in her 20s.
Dan: There is some good parts to this in that he is at least acknowledging that it’s his kid. He’s not pulling a…
Mark: Pick your football player.
Chris: “Here’s a whole bunch of money. I am not your father.”
Dan: He’s not pulling a John Lennon, where John Lennon just not only didn’t acknowledge that this kid was his kid, but he also…
Chris: Who, Jude?
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: Hey Jude.
Chris: He wrote a song. How could that not be acknowledged?
Mark: He didn’t write the song. McCartney did.
Matt: Which his son’s name was Sean.
Dan: And he didn’t give him anything. And the guy, they’ve done tests. It’s proven that it’s his kid, and he had to go and fight Yoko Ono.
Matt: Like fistfight her?
Dan: Oh God, I wish.
Matt: I’d watch that. I would totally watch that.
Mark: I’d pay to watch it.
Matt: Yeah, that could be a big thing.
Dan: To get a portion of his dad’s…
Matt: Give me money.
Matt: Stuff.