Tobermory, McCallan, Yellowstone, Wild Turkey, 2XO
Podcast Transcription
Dan: Episode 225 of the Library Pubcast. Where’s it being recorded?
Matt: Deuce and a quarter.
Dan: Where’s it being recorded at?
Matt: Here.
Dan: 90th and Fort.
Matt: Library Pub.
Chris: Block south of 90th and Fort.
Dan: Apparently we have 4,000 bottles of whiskey on hand.
Matt: I don’t know.
Dan: Listen to last week’s episode. You’ll get it.
Matt: Last week was fun.
Chris: Don’t we have more than that?
Dan: I don’t think so.
Matt: No.
Dan: Typically we hover around 200 to 2,500.
Matt: Yeah, somewhere around there.
Dan: I think with the way the back room looks, we’re probably closer to that 2,500. But you know what? Come into Library Pub, grab a beer, start counting.
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: Oh man.
Chris: Come in over the next 2,500 days and have a new whiskey each day.
Matt: Oh my god.
Dan: Kevin, every once in a while does go through and count the bottles. Right.
Chris: Hey, since-
Matt: You can look on the list on the whiskey list and there’s a rough number in there.
Chris: Yeah. Since those Chicago closed, why don’t you guys just steal the whole whiskey tour thing?
Dan: Do the mugs, the beer tour?
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: Oh God.
Dan: I suggested
Chris: That would be-
Matt: A lot of work.
Chris: Yeah, it would be a lot of work. And that person that finishes it, man. Good job.
Matt: They just get the bar.
Dan: I ran into a lady that actually for years has done the Old Chicago mug tour and she figures she spent somewhere around $10,000 a year. Because in order to have that mug, you have to complete all the mini tours, the seasonal tours, the annual tour, every tour.
Matt: But you get keychains and decks of cards along the way.
Dan: You do. And T-shirts.
Chris: It’s a lot of calories.
Matt: Yeah, how big was she?
Dan: She looked good.
Matt: Yeah?
Dan: Yeah, she wouldn’t say where she worked for. She just kept saying she was a federal investigator.
Matt: Oh. I would guess with one of those federal agencies that investigates.
Dan: Possibly one that has an I at the end of it?
Matt: It’s a bureau that investigates things federally.
Dan: Possibly. I figured after because I asked and then I kind of played dumb and asked it again, because usually if you ask somebody the same question twice, they’re going to give you generally the same answer, but they’re going to word it differently.
Chris: Or maybe she works for FEMA and she sucks.
Dan: They’re a little busy down in the south right now. Can’t imagine how she’s up in Omaha. Anyway, so yeah, Old Chicago’s in Omaha closed, that sucked last week.
Chris: Sucks.
Dan: Yeah, I went there-
Chris: There’s been some closings there, man. There’s been some closings the last couple of weeks.
Dan: It’s whatever. People could say… Honestly, I liked going to Old Chicago’s, but in my perception, if I wanted to go to an Old Chicago, I had to have 30 bucks.
Matt: Oh, minimum.
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: Just for me.
Matt: Right, minimum.
Dan: Now, if it was date night with Sarah and I and if she’s in her drinking phase, probably around 70 bucks.
Matt: She better drink a lot of water and you can have a side salad.
Dan: Possibly. Maybe kid’s salad.
Matt: Or the croutons off of mine.
Dan: Well, because I can’t eat gluten.
Matt: While I’m sitting there chomping down ribs and stuff.
Dan: Yeah, it was just an expensive place to go and eat. I mean, just ridiculous. But again, this is one of the reasons why I have an immense amount of love for this place, but also a little bit of hate. Because I go anywhere else and have a beer and I get pissed at the prices. Come here. Most beers are six bucks, some beers are seven bucks, a few beers are eight bucks.
Chris: This place totally ruined you going to other places.
Dan: Yes.
Chris: I absolutely get that.
Dan: I go anywhere else and get a Glen Moranji original 10 year. It’s 16 bucks for an ounce and a half.
Chris: Yeah, $16 to $20, yep.
Dan: Here, what are you $12 now?
Chris: For the 10?
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: For a full two-ounce quart.
Dan: Two and a quarter ounce quart. I thought it went up a little bit. What used to be $10?
Matt: The Glenwell?
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: It might be $11.
Dan: Yeah. In fact, I think once you say that, I think you’re right.
Matt: It might be $11.
Chris: Thank you for not being greedy, Mark.
Dan: So nice. Even after spending so much money to put an air conditioner in this place. Thank you.
Matt: You’re welcome?
Dan: Thank you.
Chris: There was quite the pause there.
Dan: All right, let’s talk weekends. How are the Dodgers doing?
Chris: Won one, lost one.
Dan: To the?
Chris: Padres.
Dan: You’re welcome, Jeremiah.
Matt: Oh man.
Dan: We’re in the playoffs now.
Matt: Yes.
Dan: So is it best of three or best of five right now?
Matt: Best of five.
Dan: Best of five, all right.
Matt: And if they lose, they’re done.
Dan: Yeah, they’re bounced out.
Matt: Again this year.
Dan: Again. By the Padres.
Matt: By the Padres.
Dan: Was it the Padres that beat you out last year?
Matt: Swept them. Didn’t they sweep them last year?
Dan: Well you’re getting better then.
Matt: That’s rough, man. I know. At least they can’t get sweat now.
Dan: You could just see Jeremiah driving around giddy.
Matt: Just giggling.
Dan: Let’s see. Chiefs play Monday night.
Chris: Which is two days ago.
Dan: Don’t have a lot of feet in that. Yeah.
Matt: With Chiefs.
Dan: Just kind of feels like one of those games that the Chiefs are going to play to the level of the opponent. Saints.
Chris: I think you guys will be fine.
Dan: Bengals lost but in a close game.
Chris: Yep.
Dan: They definitely looked a hell of a lot better this week.
Mark: Best one in four team in the NFL.
Matt: Like I said earlier-
Dan: Listen dude, it’s not the offense. It’s the defense. I mean, they scored 38 points on arguably the best NFL team right now. So I don’t know. I think they also showed how to beat the Ravens. So I think the Ravens are going to have a real tough time going forward, because they showed exactly what you need to do. You take away King Henry and you contain Lamar, end of story. He might throw, I mean Lamar threw four touchdowns. Don’t get me wrong.
Matt: He’s still a hell of a ball player, but I think the Bengals are finally playing well because Burrow’s hair is growing out.
Dan: It is.
Matt: And he doesn’t look quite so dip-shitty.
Dan: Yes, it’s true.
Matt: I think he looks good.
Dan: I think he looks good. I think he looks great.
Matt: Well guys like you and me are just jealous, because we can’t do it.
Dan: I think he looks great.
Matt: I mean we could do it, but frosted tips on the bozo ring.
Dan: But it’s not like he went out and got frosted tips. He did it right. He shaved it and then he did it platinum and then he let it grow out and it’s like, “I got frosted tips.” He didn’t just go and get frosted tips like I’m going to go get a perm.
Matt: Pulled his hair through the little cap.
Dan: I don’t know if I would ever say he did it right.
Chris: He did it right.
Dan: And you know what Joe Burrow gives two shits what you think.
Matt: I give two what he thinks.
Dan: That’s true.
Matt: It’s still fun to talk about it.
Dan: Packers had a nail biter.
Matt: They did. Pulled it out.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: Pulled it out.
Dan: Did they play the London game? They were just the early game?
Matt: No, they were the 03:30 game.
Dan: Who was the London game?
Chris: It was Aaron Rodgers.
Dan: The Jets, yeah. They got hurt.
Matt: They sucked.
Chris: He got hurt?
Dan: Yeah, he thinks it’s a high ankle sprain.
Matt: It’s a high ego sprain.
Dan: Also, I had to give Noah a little bit of grief. Buffalo looks terrible and apparently Josh Allen doing his best Tua impression. Getting completely knocked out.
Matt: Was he throwing gang signs up?
Dan: Oh, he tensed and then he went limp and then he started to move again.
Matt: And he crapped himself.
Dan: They took him to the sideline, they did the concussion test and somehow gave him his helmet back and he went back onto the field.
Matt: I feel fine coach.
Dan: I’m.
Matt: Jesus.
Dan: I don’t know how he doesn’t have a concussed.
Matt: How he’s not in the protocol, which he may be today. Josh, we need you to go back out there and suck some more.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: Who’s Josh?
Mark: What?
Matt: Take me to the Bat Cave.
Dan: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won at Talladega yesterday.
Mark: Biggest wreck in NASCAR history.
Dan: Dude, it was.
Mark: I watched it.
Dan: I came around how many laps left to go 32 car pile-up.
Matt: Jesus.
Dan: I saw that and I was like, “It’s not even going to be an interesting finish. We’re just going to.”
Chris: How many cars finished then?
Dan: I’ll have to look.
Mark: They all finished.
Dan: There was 32 cars involved. Most of them didn’t finish after that wreck. Some of them were able to limp across.
Mark: I think there were six that were not involved in the wreck.
Matt: Did any of them get out and run to the finish line, like in Talladega nights?
Dan: No, they did not.
Chris: What do they call it? So I don’t know anything about NASCAR. So what do they call? They get in a wreck and they’re not able to finish it. Just like did not finish.
Matt: DNF.
Dan: No. So a lot of them you see on the sheet, their current status. 40th through 32nd were listed as accident. And you can tell they didn’t finish, because there was 195 laps completed.
Matt: Because their clock is still rolling.
Dan: So 22 cars finished on the lead lap. Five finished a lap down. The rest were all farther back. So there was a lot of cars that were involved in that accident, but they were able to keep going. At Talladega, you basically do anything to your car and your chances of winning are gone, because those cars are so aerodynamically honed that any sheet metal rubbing, cuts, bangs, dents, anything.
Matt: Banging the metal.
Dan: And you’ve taken that little edge off that you need to stay with the pack.
Chris: What’s the P behind their name mean?
Dan: Their playoff drivers. Those are the drivers that are in the playoffs for the championships.
Matt: Playoffs? Drive-offs.
Dan: And look at that.
Matt: Oh, look at that.
Dan: Yep. Traveler Whiskey sponsoring NASCAR.
Matt: Not surprising.
Dan: Yeah. I loved when Traveler first came out. It was kind of talked a little bit that it was obviously from the Buffalo Trace Distillery, but since it’s not doing what they want it to do now they’re basically saying, “Traveler whiskey at the Buffalo Trace Distillery and Chris Stapleton.”
Matt: And then do they play a little jingle that he sings?
Mark: On the bright side Nebraska is one win away from being bowl eligible.
Dan: Now, we’ve been to this point before.
Chris: It feels different, Dan.
Dan: I didn’t want to interrupt him. I shouldn’t have. I’ll finish my thought when you’re done.
Mark: I think we should get one more by accident.
Dan: Yeah, I was going to say you guys have been here before but then lost to Iowa.
Matt: Well that was five wins at the end of the season, though.
Dan: Right.
Matt: That was a must win.
Dan: So much, much better situation right now.
Matt: We’ve got a lot of chance to get our asses kicked for a while longer.
Dan: Oh yeah.
Matt: Before it goes to that situation.
Dan: What’s the schedule look like? Is it decent?
Matt: By week this week?
Chris: Ohio State and then we come back, right?
Matt: Indiana in two weeks, which Indiana is ranked like 11th or 13th, something like that.
Mark: And then we get our ass kicked by Ohio State.
Matt: And then we get Ohio State, who I believe is ranked second or third. And then USC, UCLA and Iowa. Is that it? No Wisconsin’s in there somewhere.
Dan: Wisconsin’s right before the Iowa game.
Matt: So USC, UCLA, Wisconsin and then Iowa.
Chris: Number two Ohio State.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: Oof.
Matt: And I only saw their highlights, but those were good.
Chris: Well when they have a… What was it? $30 million NIL? Is that what they said? $30 million NIL freaking-
Matt: For the football team?
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: Jesus.
Chris: Yeah, that’s how many players are on the NIL and that’s how much money they-
Dan: And that’s less than they were paying their players before the NIL.
Matt: Well it was tattoos for Jerseys.
Chris: Cars, PlayStations things like that.
Dan: I think that UCLA game should be a win. Wisconsin’s always tough.
Mark: Oh, I could see’s losing all of them.
Chris: I could see losing all of them too.
Dan: God, wouldn’t it be great if it came down to Iowa again?
Mark: No.
Dan: You guys just won that game. You go on a bowl game.
Chris: No.
Matt: And we get whatever stupid trophy they pass out after the game.
Chris: Yeah, I’d be okay with winning all the rest of these and then losing to Iowa.
Dan: Really?
Chris: Absolutely, dude. And still getting into the freaking Big 10 championship.
Matt: I was not very good this year, so.
Dan: We got a better offense this year than we had.
Matt: They’re waving arms are strong.
Dan: Yes. Do you see the picture of them all turning around and flipping off-
Matt: Trump? Oh yeah. Yeah. No, I’ll root for Iowa as long as they’re not playing Nebraska.
Dan: So that’ll be interesting. Nebraska looked good. Well, actually I didn’t watch the game, but all heard not very great.
Matt: Slow start. Wonderful second half.
Chris: It was a fun game for sure.
Dan: What else?
Mark: Was not a game you could relax on?
Matt: No, and we did learn that Raiola’s not very mobile.
Dan: Oh, we did have a RIP. Boy, we had a lot of celebrities we lost in the last 10 days.
Chris: Oh yeah.
Matt: Triple triple.
Dan: Pete Rose.
Matt: I think we talked about Pete Rose last week.
Dan: I thought he died just afterwards.
Matt: Old Johnny Baseball. Mr. Baseball.
Chris: I don’t remember.
Dan: I think he died on Tuesday or something like that.
Matt: I actually got to meet him. He was a really nice guy. We had him as an autograph signer at another bar here in town. He was very nice.
Dan: Yeah. He died on Monday, so it was probably after we recorded, unless… Did you breaking news it? I think you breaking news it.
Chris: I think we broke news with that.
Matt: We either broken news it or to Kimbe.
Dan: Oh yep.
Matt: Forever linked.
Speaker 5: My, my, my look at the time.
Dan: Well, it’s the only real baseball fan at the dais. Should he get into the Hall of Fame?
Mark: Yes.
Dan: I mean you lived the entire thing. I can only watch the ESPN documentaries.
Mark: Okay. He got in trouble for things he did as a manager, but he’d go into the Hall of Fame as a player. So yes, he should be in.
Dan: But they’re not going to let him in, because of what he did as a manager. They’ll probably eventually let him in.
Speaker 5: I think the current voters all have to die and get new voters.
Matt: God, it’s like getting weed legal in Nebraska.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Dan: Oh, speaking of that, I saw next fall they’re going to allow alcohol sales at Memorial Stadium.
Matt: They are?
Dan: Mm-hmm.
Speaker 5: Great idea.
Matt: I’ll tell you, I could have used one right after halftime of the Colorado game. The hangover was kicking in. We might’ve gotten there a little too early. I could have used a quick trip down or the little kid with the tray. But alas it’s not allowed. So we suffered.
Tobermory 12
Mark: Tobermory 12.
Dan: But Frank from American Pickers died as well as Taggart.
Chris: Yep.
Matt: John Amos, which I found out. John Amos actually now died like a month ago.
Chris: Yeah, that’s crazy stuff.
Matt: His daughter, I guess has kind of just turned his life into a big shit show the last few years.
Dan: Is it his daughter?
Matt: It’s one of his children.
Dan: Is it the children? Is it… Okay.
Matt: Well the children blame the manager, his manager of over 30 years.
Dan: Right.
Matt: And the manager blames the children.
Dan: It’s crazy.
Matt: So yeah, he died like a month ago. And they didn’t make a post or tell the kids until the kids read it on Instagram or whatever. He got a bad Yelp review for not being very lively.
Dan: Rough.
Matt: Okay, sorry.
Dan: We had a long text message of the celebrities that were all dying.
Chris: I think that was really, we’d named it.
Matt: Yeah. And the guy that played Taggart in Beverly Hills Cop. Now, was he in the one that’s on Netflix? I haven’t seen it yet.
Chris: It’s good. I liked it.
Dan: I started to watch it.
Speaker 5: I liked it.
Dan: I liked it. Yeah, it’s good. It has enough throwback. You can watch this movie too, Mark. It was good. Eddie Murphy’s still gots it. Still gots it.
Matt: As long as you’re not a transvestite hooker.
Dan: I mean people can change their ways.
Mark: Was he hanging out with Puff?
Dan: I don’t know.
Matt: Stevie backs him because he ain’t seen shit.
Dan: He’s not lying.
Mark: Okay, Tobermory 12 made by-
Matt: What are you looking for?
Dan: The bottle. Oh, right there.
Matt: It’s right in front of you, sir.
Chris: Tobermory.
Dan: It’s behind your Stanley cup.
Chris: Tobermory.
Matt: Such a sorority girl.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he is. Unpeated.
Dan: Green Top. Is there rye in it?
Chris: Must be a rye scotch. I’m just kidding people out there listening.
Matt: All seven of you.
Mark: That’s good.
Chris: 1798. They’ve been making booze for a long time.
Mark: Yeah, it’s not overly complicated.
Dan: No.
Mark: Just got a nice fruity.
Dan: It does have a little bit of a rye bite.
Chris: Would you say gently sweet, unpeated and floral.
Dan: That sounds perfect, Chris. Sounds like you read it off the label.
Chris: I did read it off the label. That’s pretty crazy.
Mark: I was looking at his phone to see if he did a search for it.
Chris: It says right there in black letters.
Matt: No, this is nice.
Mark: It is. Especially for the cost.
Dan: I like the bottle. It’s not over the top. The nose is really nice.
Matt: Kind of appley and fruity, which as a young whiskey it is tidbit of stringent.
Dan: I kind of like that. It’s just kind of nice little bite to it.
Matt: It lets you know you’re alive.
Dan: Yeah.
Mark: This is the replacement. They used to bottle a 10 and now they’ve dropped the 10 and replaced it with the 12th.
Matt: They’re more patient in their old age.
Chris: Or just two years went by and they didn’t sell all the tens.
Matt: Well, no shit.
Dan: No, this is-
Matt: No, this is good.
Dan: This could get me in trouble.
Matt: Yeah, 18 a pour? I’d pay that all day and
Dan: Probably well into the evening.
Matt: Definitely. I’d pay that all day. That is really solid. Simple. Good stuff.
Chris: Tobermory.
Dan: How do you correctly pronounce it?
Mark: Tobermory?
Dan: Oh, okay. All right.
Matt: I don’t know. He would be like the candy wizard.
Chris: I was going to say that he’s the wizard that doesn’t want to get involved in politics at all. He’s like, “Listen, I’m middle of the road. I don’t care.”
Dan: He was once considered for Spider-man.
Matt: Tobermory?
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: He was great on That Seventies Show.
Dan: That’s exactly where I was going. I could see it being Tobermory.
Chris: Let’s ask the computer.
Dan: What does he say?
Matt: Computer tell us how.
Dan: How do you pronounce Tobermory?
Matt: As we all wait with bated breath with our bells on.
Mark: Worms on our tongue.
Matt: Gross.
Mark: Baited breath.
Matt: I don’t want the worms on my tongue. That’s icky.
Dan: Yeah, we got it.
Matt: Good job guys. First try.
Dan: We were in a training, I think last week, I don’t know it all kind of blends together now, with the distillery for Bruichladdich. And I remember the first time that they launched it, we picked up the Remy portfolio and we sat in the room and everybody had to say Bruichladdich. And repeat it and repeat it and the new guy kept saying it wrong. I just want to be like, “It’s Bruichladdich.” By the way, their classic Laddie, fucking amazing.
Matt: It’s good.
Mark: Now, I would recommend saving a little of this back to compare it with the next one we’re going to drink.
Dan: I could have used that eight seconds ago.
Mark: I tried to say it, but you’re in such a hurry to swallow. I couldn’t get it out.
Matt: He always is
Mark: You know I had a problem with Dan Whaley all day yesterday.
Chris: He was in rare form yesterday.
Matt: Oh it was dirty. He golfed way too well. He was in a wonderful mood.
Macallan 17 Fine Oak
Mark: This is the Macallan 17 Fine Oak.
Dan: Oh man.
Matt: Also featured in our tasting this next month.
Dan: Oh, we got another Macallan vertical.
Mark: Yes.
Dan: Oh my god.
Mark: You still won’t show up
Dan: It’s Wednesday night.
Matt: Mark came up with this one all on his own.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: It was his idea, no input from anybody else. This would be a good one.
Chris: 60 bucks.
Dan: Holy shit.
Chris: 60 bucks.
Dan: 12 year, 15 year, 17 year, 18 year. And?
Mark: If we go and-
Dan: It’s only four.
Matt: There’s five up there. Rare casks.
Chris: Expensive bottle.
Mark: Yes, it is.
Matt: Great thing is we’ve had it for a while.
Dan: Oh, so it’s aged perfectly in the bottle.
Matt: It has aged wonderfully in the bottle.
Chris: Secondary market. It’s 700 plus bucks.
Mark: It’s quite rare. Macallan generally does not do odd numbers until they get to 25.
Dan: They don’t do a 21.
Mark: They did. I don’t know if they still are.
Matt: This is delicious.
Mark: You want to get mad at Macallan, because they’re so expensive. But then you drink one and you go, “Oh, yeah. Okay I get it. I get it.”
Matt: Okay. I’m not that mad.
Dan: Would you say that they’re proud of their juice?
Mark: I think that every one of their whiskeys after 12 is a $100 too expensive.
Dan: Okay, so they’re a little proud of their stuff.
Mark: Yeah.
Dan: To me when you say that they’re very proud of their stuff means that it’s a little overpriced. It’s a nice way of saying it’s a little overpriced.
Mark: The under 21s are expensive, but I’m all right. Once you get to the 25s and the 30s, it’s-
Matt: Yeah, just dumb. Which this is a fine oak triple cask.
Dan: God, look how dark that is.
Chris: So comparing these two, the last one and this one, the Macallan makes the other one taste like it’s all artificial sweeteners. It’s just that much better. I mean it is. The sweetness is a different type of sweetness. It’s really good. It’s really like, yep. I get mango on the nose. Mango, there’s something else. There’s something else too.
Dan: Coming this Fall.
Matt: Orange.
Chris: I get that on the finish for sure.
Matt: Tons of it.
Mark: So if you go to the bar, try these. Please drink the Tobermory first, because if you drink the Macallan first you’re going to be disappointed in the Tobermory.
Chris: And the Tobermory is great.
Mark: Yeah. And Tobermory is good.
Matt: Bang for the buck. Macallan or Tobermory?
Mark: You going to have two bottle-
Dan: Tobermory. Is that one ounce?
Matt: No, that’s a full pour.
Dan: Wait, how much for full pour?
Matt: $30.
Chris: Honestly, if I was going to have one and I had like 40 bucks, I would do that over two of the Toby.
Dan: I expect that to be a ounce.
Chris: Yeah, that’s two and a half ounces, man. That’s good shit.
Mark: We’ve had that a long time.
Matt: Yes.
Chris: That’s good shit.
Mark: I don’t know what retail is now on it. He was looking at-
Chris: Secondary was $700 that I saw. $750 around there. All right, Toby.
Mark: We should race right now.
Matt: We can.
Dan: I know. They got it on the order. Yeah, I mean this one, this Macallan makes that other one just tastes like a candy bomb to me.
Chris: These are two very good submissions, Mark. Thank you.
Mark: Well, Matt picked them out.
Chris: Good job, Matt.
Matt: Which this one is-
Chris: These are two very good submissions, Matt.
Matt: Hey, thanks. The Macallan’s a 43 percenter.
Chris: And what’s the other one? 46%?
Mark: It’s over there. The reason I have Matt pick out our Scotch every week now is because I found that going back to my favorites. So I said, “Matt, you start picking them. We’ll just do those.”
Dan: And it’s easier to get him to go over there versus you.
Matt: 46.3%.
Mark: This is true. Hard for me to carry on with a walker.
Dan: 46%?
Matt: 46.3%.
Dan: A little bit warmer. Not too much. So that was Macallan 17 Fine Oak.
Matt: Triple cask matured.
Mark: So I’m assuming it’s a bourbon barrel and then a sherry barrel. And what’s the third one?
Matt: This says American Oak Bourbon seasoned with Sherry and, sorry it’s very small print, and bourbon and Sherry Oaks and just regular sherry casks. So two different cherries in a bourbon.
Dan: There’s a joke in there, but.
Matt: Yep. We’ll just let that lie.
Dan: Matt.
Matt: Hey, yeah?
Yellowstone 101 2024 Release
Dan: What you got for us today?
Mark: Yellowstone.
Dan: Oh, I like this. I guess I don’t know if I like this, but I have enjoyed previous submissions.
Matt: I haven’t had either one of mine that we’re doing today. We just got this on Thursday. This is the new Yellowstone 101 2024 release. It is double finished in Brandy and French cognac barrels.
Mark: Cognac.
Matt: Cognac. It’s a blend of 7 year and 17 year. And this is their first double barrel finish that they’ve done since 2015.
Dan: Let’s take the D on this bad boy.
Matt: It’s funny, 101.
Dan: That would be why it’s the Yellowstone 101 proof.
Chris: Yeah, I didn’t even see that 101. And honestly I wasn’t listening when he said it. So I just saw the Yellowstone.
Matt: I’m used to it.
Chris: I mean I know it’s Yellowstone, because you put it right in front of me. Just that 101 gets lost on the label a little bit.
Dan: It does.
Matt: Ooh.
Chris: But the Toby Scotch is a lot more hot than this.
Matt: This drinks really easy.
Chris: This is real smooth.
Matt: Really, really easy.
Chris: I’d be so hungover with this bottle.
Matt: Oh, this bottle would be gone.
Chris: Yeah, sitting around a campfire. This is also, I feel like a cold weather whiskey.
Matt: Little cinnamon kind of. Kind of brûléed caramels.
Dan: Maybe a apple flavored cinnamon whiskey.
Matt: Not that one. Gross.
Dan: Available-
Mark: At your local Mega Martin.
Chris: It’s in 500 places, but that’s not enough.
Dan: Got to go to a thousand.
Matt: Jesus
Dan: Fireballs had 27 years to get to 1100 places in Nebraska.
Chris: No, I know how they could do that as if they gave a free bottle on a case of fireball. Holy crap. It would be everywhere.
Dan: It would be everywhere.
Chris: And they would only have to do it one time. Crazy marketing man. These people are geniuses.
Dan: Thanks for buying this. How about you try out our new product
Matt: Oh, and this whiskey has nothing to do with the TV show.
Dan: That’s right. Has anybody watched that?
Chris: No.
Dan: I have a diversion to it. To me, it’s just is not appealing.
Chris: I have an aversion to it the same way I had an aversion to Breaking Bad. Because everybody’s like, “You got to watch it. You’re going to love it.” Don’t tell me what I know and what I don’t know.
Matt: I couldn’t get into it. I tried to watch it. I couldn’t get into it.
Dan: Yellowstone?
I think mine is, whoever wears the black cowboy hat has the extreme draw.
Matt: He’s the bad guy.
Chris: I also know that I’m going to like it. That’s also one of those things where I know that I’m going to like it. Breaking Bad, we watched the first season, I did love it, but then something else got my attention. Squirrel, whatever.
Dan: Definitely wasn’t Lord of the Rings.
Matt: No, definitely wasn’t Lord of the Rings.
Chris: It’s pretty bad.
Dan: Rings of Power.
Matt: Yeah, we talked about that last week.
Mark: I’ve heard it’s horrible.
Matt: It’s the 12 minutes I watched was pretty garbage.
Dan: Jesus, it’s so fucking slow.
Matt: But then again, I couldn’t get into Game of Thrones or any of that medieval shit.
Dan: Game of Thrones is nowhere on the same level as Rings of Power.
Matt: Give me Black Night with Martin Lawrence any day.
Chris: How he got those horn guys to do that song. That’s amazing. They knew it
Matt: He went back in time in his Jets jersey and he was the black knight.
Chris: He was the black knight.
Matt: And he made funny faces. And it was great.
Dan: And it was awesome.
Chris: And he said, “Damn it, Gina. Yeah, I used to watch that show on Fox 42.
Dan: I did too. It was so funny.
Matt: The guy from the fifth floor?
Dan: So funny.
Matt: He would just climb in through his window and just make himself a sandwich. Climb back out through the window. He’s from the fifth floor.
Dan: Who was the annoying neighbor?
Matt: Which one?
Dan: The chick.
Matt: Are you talking about the really loud one?
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: That was Gina’s best friend.
Dan: Yeah. Oh, wasn’t it her neighbor?
Matt: No, the neighbor was the guy from the fifth floor that would make sandwiches.
Dan: That shit. Dude, it’s so funny. You go back and watch those shows now and you’re like, this is so formulaic.
Matt: Oh, it’s just the Cosby show.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: Without the rape.
Chris: And the sweaters.
Dan: And the sweaters.
Matt: Actually no, Martin, there were some sweaters.
Chris: I’m sure.
Matt: Definitely. It was still the new edition age.
Chris: Oh, then they’re sweater vests.
Matt: Cardigans.
Chris: Or cardigans, yeah.
Dan: That Cosby show is still great.
Chris: This is really sweet whiskey.
Dan: Matt, you nailed it. This is fucking delicious.
Chris: Like sweet.
Matt: I did nothing. Just pulled it off a shelf.
Chris: Take all the credit.
Dan: You know what, just say thank you.
Matt: But you’re correct. It is delicious whiskey.
Dan: Say thank you.
Matt: I could drink a lot of this bottle all at once.
Dan: Just say thank you.
Matt: Thanks. Hey, thanks Dan. I did nail it. Fuck yeah.
Dan: Yeah, you did. Self high five.
Mark: I bought it.
Dan: Mo bought it.
Matt: She’ll tell you.
Chris: Oh, oh. What did I miss? What did I miss?
Matt: She’ll tell you in multiple languages.
Dan: Somehow yesterday I had two really good zingers on Gary. So Markita walked in the door. And if you’ve ever been to Library Pub and you turn and look towards the parking lot, the main entrance, especially on a sunny day, it is difficult to pick out who’s walking into the bar.
Matt: She was all boobs when she got here.
Dan: Apparently that was a wardrobe malfunction. And she was unaware.
Matt: Bullshit.
Dan: I said, don’t worry, we’re okay with it. Let the girls breathe.
Matt: Well, she was walking up and I was out smoking. I said, “Boy, aren’t you quite chesty today?” And she’s like, “Yeah, they’re kind of out.”
Chris: Cool.
Dan: Yeah, apparently she didn’t realize they were that far out.
Matt: They were out.
Dan: Anyway, so she walks in, Gary is sitting at the bar and he ignores her. And she walks up. And she’s giving a little of a hard time, “I’m giving you love. Walked in.” Yada yada. And he said, “I’m sorry I couldn’t see you.” And I said, “That’s true. He didn’t even see the DEA coming.”
Matt: Wow.
Mark: One DEA was OPD.
Dan: Doesn’t matter. It was funnier with the DEA.
Matt: What did he say?
Dan: He laughed pretty hard.
Matt: That’s good.
Dan: And then he said something to the order of a little bit later of, “Man, I’m just an old black guy sitting here trying to enjoy a drink.” And I said, “Bill Cosby said the same thing.”
Matt: Oh wow.
Dan: And he looks at me and he goes, “Why do you hate me?” And I go, “Because the Steelers fucking suck.”
Chris: Yes. Boom. Yes. High five.
Matt: That’s awesome.
Chris: Because the Steelers do fucking suck. The Raven suck harder.
Matt: Oh yeah?
Dan: I felt like I had two good singers and I was like, “I’m done talking the day.”
Matt: So then you called Noah to see if he’d come in early. He’s like, “My work here is done.”
Dan: Speaking of that, any Bears fans that are listening, the Library Pub will be opening up on Sunday morning at about 08:00 AM, because the Bears are playing the Jaguars in London, England.
Chris: You sound like you’re from London.
Mark: No, you don’t.
Dan: So we’re going to open up a little bit early. And there is conversations ongoing of the type of food that we available. Currently Dan Whaley is submitting his blue waffle maker.
Matt: Oh, gross.
Dan: I know. And I’m apparently making pancakes. There was some conversation about eggs in a crock pot with bacon and sausage.
Matt: Oh, I know Evan is skipping golf next week to come eat breakfast food at the pub.
Dan: Yeah, so it’s going to be a great time. There was a bunch of Bears fans that came in this weekend and let them know about it. So I think we’re actually going to be somewhat busy. Obviously do not submit Malört. But is there a Chicago beer?
Matt: Old style, which we can’t get.
Dan: Is that pretty popular? We can’t get Old Style?
Matt: We can get a keg of it. But a keg of Old Style would last about as long as the Cotton Candy Shandy we had.
Chris: How long did that last?
Matt: Six months.
Mark: It’s not good.
Matt: The nose on it was fantastic. Smelled just like cotton candy. But then you had to drink it. And it tasted like butt hole cotton candy. It was bad.
Dan: How long have we had that strawberry pickle on tap?
Matt: Way too long.
Dan: That’s been two months?
Chris: Strawberry pickle?
Matt: Have you never had it?
Chris: No, let me try this right now.
Dan: I would not say it’s horrible. And I sampled out to a person yesterday who ended up buying a pint of it. And I’m like, “You just have to understand it’s a strong pickle and a little bit of strawberry.” And he’s like, “I love pickle.” And I’m like, “I think you’re going to actually enjoy this.” So he tasted the sample and he’s like, “I like this.”
Mark: I don’t like pickle.
Chris: I love pickle.
Dan: It’s pretty good.
Chris: Is it a sour?
Matt: Sort of.
Dan: It’s tough when it’s that pickle to be a sour.
Matt: I mean, vinegar is pretty sour.
Chris: I like the nose.
Matt: When you were a kid, did you ever have Kool-Aid pickles?
Dan: No.
Matt: Or you would take dill pickles and you soak them in like cherry Kool-Aid or something like that.
Dan: This is amazing idea. This never reached the farms of Iowa.
Matt: Yeah, I figured it started in the farms of Iowa.
Dan: We couldn’t afford Kool-Aid.
Matt: Well you had to spice it up.
Chris: But I don’t it.
Matt: You’ll get it. Here it comes.
Dan: Strawberry comes late.
Chris: Strawberry comes out right away for me.
Dan: Really?
Matt: Yeah. I get strawberry on the front and then it’s just Pickle forever.
Chris: And then it’s pickles.
Matt: Pickles.
Chris: I don’t hate it. I don’t hate this.
Matt: I’ll tell you, I’ve had more women drink it than men drink it.
Dan: Really?
Matt: Yeah.
Dan: Well women do love the pickle.
Matt: Zing.
Chris: Well, if I didn’t have a beard, people would say I’m a chick.
Mark: Speaking of that.
Matt: Here we go.
Mark: I’ve listened to your put together clip.
Dan: Oh yeah?
Mark: In listening to that you would think all we do is tell Dick jokes.
Chris: What are you talking about?
Dan: The special edition episode that we put out that was all the funny clips.
Mark: No, it wasn’t all the funny clips, because you did not have midgets in it.
Matt: I think that might’ve been after it.
Dan: Well, the midget conversation was tough, because it wasn’t like a funny clip. It was an awesome, hilarious conversation.
Mark: But the whole thing was… It was all dick jokes.
Dan: Yeah.
Mark: The whole thing. It was like I felt bad about myself. Like, “Is that all I talk about?”
Chris: Yeah, that and some whiskey.
Dan: So Sarah and I were talking with a lady the last week. I’m completely drawing a blank on who it was, but I know it was a lady. And we were talking about all the different stuff that I do and I was like, “One of them is a whiskey podcast.” She’s like, “Oh, I really like whiskey. Maybe I’ll listen to it.” And I go, “You’re not our demographic.”
Chris: We’re not for you.
Dan: She’s like, “But I like whiskey.” And I go, “Yeah, it’s four guys sitting around a bar making dick and fart jokes and tasting whiskey.” And she’s like, “Well, I don’t know. I can be one of the guys. I can handle it.” And I go, “I would love for you to listen but you’re not one of our demographic.” Your mom is one of our biggest fans.
Matt: I have a person that listens to it and she thinks it’s absolutely fantastic.
Chris: Who?
Dan: You have to know-
Matt: Her name is Renee. And she loves it.
Dan: You have to go into it knowing that it’s going to be inappropriate. And it’s really funny because every Tuesday night when I scheduled the podcast to publish after it uploads, you type in all the details at the very bottom it says, “Is there explicit content?” I don’t even bother. I just click, “Yes.”
Matt: Oh, yeah.
Chris: Absolutely. Every time. We’re Primus. This sucks.
Matt: And Brenda’s got a big brown beaver.
Mark: This takes a little bit of story. You guys will understand it, but for those listening. We all have a friend that is going on a cruise. He’s going on a cruise to Norway in December to see the Northern Lights. Friday morning I was in here, comes up on my little feed from MSN that there was the solar flare on Saturday. Evidently solar flares have something to do with the Northern Lights.
Dan: Solar flares cause the Northern Lights.
Mark: Right, so the Northern Lights were going to be visible as far south as Sioux Falls.
Dan: I saw that same post.
Mark: So I actually froze that, waited for this guy who was our friend again, comes in on Friday afternoons. And saved it for him. He walked in, I showed and all he said was, “Fuck you, Mark.”
Matt: Well, just a few months ago you just had to go to Bennington.
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: Now granted you had to take pictures of the sky and look at the pictures, but.
Dan: Oddly enough, I don’t know, I’ve been watching a bunch of shit on YouTube lately and my biggest fear right now is a coronal mass ejection. Because if that happens we’re fucked.
Mark: I think your biggest fear right now should be Ron.
Matt: Who’s Ron?
Mark: Iran.
Matt: Oh, Iran.
Chris: I ran so far away.
Matt: The shit that’s going on in Middle East.
Mark: Somebody is going to shoot a nuke at somebody.
Dan: It’s getting there.
Mark: Between Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Lebanon.
Dan: Got to talk into the mic.
Mark: Iran, Israel.
Dan: China helping Russia. China also blocking the United States. United States making moves in the Pacific Ocean to basically prepare for an invasion or a massive war with China.
Matt: So let’s put Trump in office.
Dan: All of that. I’m not kidding. I pay attention to all this stuff. I do try. It’s the coronal mass ejection that makes me worried, because there is nothing we can do.
Mark: And we’ll have three minutes warning.
Dan: 30. Most of them are 30.
Chris: Just going to go out and get a suntan.
Dan: But still it won’t do anything. It’s not going to hurt us. But as a computer guy, I’ve often thought about, “What can I do in that situation?” Nothing. You can’t do anything. My laptop’s sitting here, if it is unplugged from the power source, the amount of magnetic electricity that will wave through us will fry the motherboard on everything.
Matt: Make sure you shut it down right.
Dan: You can’t even shut it down.
Matt: Yeah, no. Just make sure you shut it down right.
Dan: That’s true. Yeah. You got to wait for it to shut down.
Matt: Yeah. It’ll be fine.
Mark: But I will have electricity at my house.
Dan: You won’t because it’s going to fry the generator too.
Mark: Damnit.
Dan: It fries everything.
Chris: Even Faraday cages? Because that’s not a EMP, got it.
Dan: That’s a good question.
Chris: Because it’s not an EMP.
Dan: It’s a very, very strong EMP.
Matt: Dan’s got an unlimited supply of batteries in his car though.
Dan: Well don’t, because when the CME hits us-
Matt: It’s going to ruin batteries too?
Dan: It fries everything. Power poles. Transistors will explode.
Matt: Eggs? Because that sounds delicious.
Mark: No, in Star Trek discovery they had this with dilithium. It all exploded at one time.
Dan: All right, we got a little sidetracked. Shocker.
Matt: That’s how Spock died.
Chris: He’s not dead.
Matt: Yeah, he’s dead. Leonard Nimoy.
Dan: [inaudible 00:44:36] Spock died also. In the second Star Trek.
Mark: Yeah, he came back in third.
Matt: He came back because of the Genesis project.
Chris: Then he wanted to swim with some whales.
Matt: He did. He was talking to them.
Dan: “We really need to save the whales. How are we going to do this? People, let’s put them in a Star Trek movie.” Free Willie was better.
Mark: I’m a huge Star Trek fan, okay. But the most unwatchable Star Trek, which I will never go watch again, is the original Star Trek series. It was horrible.
Dan: The actual TV series?
Mark: Yes. It was so fucking campy.
Matt: But it wasn’t back then.
Mark: When I was 10 and I watching it, I was enthralled. But now I go, “Oh, come on.”
Dan: I don’t think it was that popular even back then. They got canceled after two seasons. Three? But it’s in the reruns that it really made its head.
Mark: Yes. But if you watch what they’re doing now, the Chris Pine movies, the Prequels and sequels, they’re very well done.
Dan: Yeah. Still my favorite Star Trek series is Deep Space Nine.
Mark: In the last two years I’ve gone back and watched every one of the series. The only one I hadn’t watched all of was DS Nine, because it was like fucking 20 seasons.
Dan: Nine, but yes.
Mark: But you’re right. It was good. The problem is Bucket’s kid grew up too fast.
Dan: Oh my God.
Matt: Will?
Chris: No, is it the other?
Dan: No, you’re thinking of Next Generation.
Matt: Is it the one with Wil Wheaton?
Chris: Wil Wheaton was in a few of those episodes.
Dan: Wil Wheaton was in Next Generation. He was the ensign.
Chris: He was Beverly’s son.
Dan: Beverly’s son, yeah. You’re talking, I can’t think of his name and I can’t even think of the actor’s name, but he was a big civil rights mover.
Mark: Yes, but his kid in the first season was like 4’10. And then season two he was 6’8. I was like, “What happened?”
Chris: Jake Sisko.
Mark: There you go. Cisco.
Matt: Oh, the black guy.
Dan: We’ll get back to Whiskey tasting in a second. I apologize. I remember losing track of Sopranos for a couple of years and then picking it back up again. So we’ll just say, don’t quote me on these years, but season three, I stopped watching it for a couple of years, came back a couple of years later and started watching season four again. And I got all sorts of pissed off, because they replaced the actor that played Tony’s son. And then somebody’s like, “No, that’s the same actor.” He went through a growth spurt. He went from this little tiny pudgy fat little kid to all of a sudden tall and slender.
Matt: And Willow got really good looking.
Dan: Yeah. Not Willow.
Matt: That was his daughter’s name.
Mark: See all these shows, Sopranos, Breaking Bad. All those were around when I first opened the bar. I never watched him. But then I went back and it was like, “Why didn’t I watch Sopranos or Breaking Bad?” They are so good.
Matt: I really like Sopranos until the last season.
Mark: It got weird.
Matt: Well, they just tried to tie up all the loose ends in four episodes.
Dan: Meadow.
Matt: Meadow. I was close.
Dan: And everybody hated the end. I fucking loved it.
Matt: Where it just goes black. So you don’t know if he’s dead or if he goes and witness protection or what happens.
Dan: Yes. And they have, I don’t know if it’s just them putting a tiny bow on everything, but ever since James Gandolfini has died, they have basically said that he did get killed. Because there was several lead up to it two seasons before about how when you die, everything just goes black. They would say those things. And there were precursors to it. But I mean just that last scene, especially when Meadow’s trying to park the car and you’re like, they’re going to kill Tony’s daughter.
Matt: They’re going to kill them both.
Dan: And then it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen. And you’re relaxed and then all of a sudden it just goes black. And I remember watching that and I was so pissed off and so left without a resolution that it was perfect.
Matt: Which people had watch parties for that last episode. And then it goes black and they’re like, “What in the fuck?”
Dan: And I love that because Dave Chase told all the actors said, “Go on vacation and get out of the country if you can. Nobody answers any questions about anything. We’re leaving the media blank. We’re not going to talk about it.” And so nobody was allowed to talk. That was awesome.
Wild Turkey’s Jimmy Russell 70th Anniversary
Anyway, I think I taste a little bit of this. Is this Wild Turkey?
Matt: It is. This is the Wild Turkey’s 70th anniversary of Jimmy Russell.
Dan: And this is our unopened treasure.
Matt: This is the unopened treasure. This celebrates the 70 years that Jimmy Russell has been at Wild Turkey, which when he was hired there, it was called Anderson County Distilling. Then it changed its name to J.T.S. Brown and Sons. And that was for quite a while until it turned into Wild Turkey. So yeah, he’s been doing this stuff for 70 years.
Dan: Goddamn. Tough job.
Matt: Which it drinks hotter than 101.
Mark: Yeah.
Matt: But the finish on it flavor-wise is fantastic.
Chris: Oh, I’d like to say congratulations to Mr. Tugboat James over here, because eight years ago his life changed and he became a member of Bob White as of today.
Matt: Was that today?
Dan: Congratulations.
Matt: I haven’t been on Facebook today.
Chris: You are today. Eight years ago I got you involved in a very bad addiction.
Matt: Very expensive addiction.
Chris: You’re welcome. And now golf has taken its place.
Matt: It’s getting there. I did break a club this weekend.
Chris: Oh, on purpose?
Matt: No, I’m not a club breaker.
Chris: I know you’re not, that’s why I asked.
Matt: I’ll throw them. Had a bad shot, you just kind of slam your club down on the ground. Well right now, because everything’s so damn dry out, it was like I may as well have done it on the parking lot. Sure enough, I slammed it down on the ground, and all of a sudden half of the club was flying backwards at me.
Mark: Oh, fun. I used to golf.
Matt: Seven Iron.
Chris: Oh.
Mark: I used to golf with the guy who was a long-hitter. No short game, but he could drive out. He’d go through 320. And he teed off a hole one time, and the club head followed the ball. Not the grip, not the shaft, just the head.
Dan: I’ll give you just the head.
Chris: I knew that would come.
Matt: Not just the shaft because that’s hard to do.
Dan: Yeah.
Mark: She got the gold mine, I got the shaft.
Matt: The more I drink this, the more I like it. And it kind of calms down. I don’t think water would hurt this.
Dan: I’m not entirely sure water is necessary. I do like whiskeys with a bit of a bite every once in a while. And I think this falls into that category.
Matt: Just as an eight year. A celebratory eight. So yeah, no, it’s rock solid, just like Wild Turkey and pretty much anything that Jimmy Russell puts his finger in.
Mark: Including this one?
Matt: Maybe.
Dan: Wild Turkey.
Matt: Yeah. Eight year Jimmy Russell 70-year anniversary edition. I like it. It is a tidbit warm though. I would guess hotter than 101.
Dan: You know what’s not warm? That coffee.
Matt: It’s not. There’s more going right now.
Dan: They’re getting made. One more left, right?
Chris: Yeah.
Matt: Sneaker Pimps.
Chris: Sneaker Pimps, wow. What song do they sing? I should know this. I know that I know it. Sneaker Pimps. Dan, you know this, you were on the radio at that time.
Dan: That is not ringing a bell at all.
Chris: Sneaker Pimps?
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: Matt, does that ring a bell for you, right?
Matt: Yeah.
Chris: That’s why you probably said it.
Matt: It’s exactly why I said it.
Chris: Pimps song.
Matt: No, I couldn’t tell you what song it was. They were cool like 25 years ago.
Dan: That happened right when I was on the radio.
Chris: Now, this might be a little bit-
Matt: Little newer?
Chris: No, little older.
Dan: You definitely played it on the Friday Night Buzz.
Chris: Six Underground, but that was ’96. So yes, I probably played it on Friday Night Buzz. It was probably requested. I didn’t start the Friday Night Buzz until 2003. 2002 probably, because I got kicked off the show.
Dan: You did?
Chris: Yeah.
Dan: I didn’t know that.
Chris: Because Capone was getting angry at the amount of people that wanted to call and talk to me.
Dan: That doesn’t surprise me.
Chris: No, he was mad.
Dan: Man.
Chris: Anyway.
Dan: He was an interesting individual.
Chris: He was. We had some fun. But man, was he…
Matt: The syphilis ate his brain like crazy man.
Chris: I mean, you’re not wrong.
Dan: He had some ego issues.
Chris: He had some self-esteem issues.
Dan: Had a lot of issues, yeah. Anyways, we don’t talk about that.
Matt: Substance abuse is cool.
Dan: Rest in peace, Dominic Femiano. For some reason, one of those names I will…
Matt: How do you not use that as your radio name?
Dan: Well, it was because it was his real name when I got started.
Matt: No, not you. Him instead of Capone. Dominic Fiamminamiamo?
Dan: Dominic Femiano.
Matt: Yeah, I was close. My uncle used his real name. And he was kind of a big deal.
Dan: Yeah, I mean using your first real name is one thing.
Chris: I use my real name.
Dan: Yeah.
Chris: Spelled different.
Dan: Well, you went by Flum.
Chris: Which is my real name.
Matt: Chris P.
Dan: Which nobody can spell Flum searching it at the time.
Matt: I still don’t spell it right in text. I don’t put all those extra letters in there.
Dan: My phone’s still autocorrecting it correctly. And I’m like, “Damn AI.”
Matt: I guess I text him a lot.
Dan: Hey, Chris.
Chris: Yeah?
2XO – Sneakerhead
Dan: Tell me about this 2XO.
Matt: Sneaker Pimps.
Chris: It’s done by Dixon Dedman, whose claim to fame is Kentucky Owl. He’s doing all these one-offs.
Mark: Isn’t he also like Oprah’s boyfriend or something?
Matt: No, that’s Stedman.
Mark: Oh, Stedman.
Matt: And this guy’s white.
Dan: By the way, Dixon Dedman, his real name.
Matt: Yeah.
Chris: Double D.
Dan: Doesn’t that sound like a guy that there’s a bunch of people sitting around a bar and one guy runs in and says, “Dixon Dedman’s on the edge of town.” And everyone goes, “Oh, shit.”
Matt: They start hiding their stuff.
Dan: Yeah.
Matt: He’s going to come in and kick everyone’s ass and take their stuff.
Dan: Instead, this Dixon Dedman likes sneakers.
Chris: And aging things in two times oak. But yeah, this is his next release, part of the Icon Series. I think this is part of the Icon Series. Yep, it is. Icon Series, limited release. When he first came out, everybody was like, “Okay, it’s okay. It’s not super awesome, whatever.” But steadily and surely, he’s been getting better. And these things, when they’re not made anymore, people are going to search for these. They are getting really good ratings.
Matt: Very fruity.
Dan: I think you’re right, Chris. There are three different levels to the way he’s releasing his blends, and this is the middle level.
Mark: That’s good.
Dan: These are really good for the price. His high-tier one, the Gem of Kentucky, for my pocketbook, was a little expensive, but it was delicious, and I bought a bottle.
Matt: It was really good, but bang for the buck, it’s a little tough.
Dan: And now they’ve raised the price on it, so I think it’s a little bit outside of what I’d like to pay for, but that Gem of Kentucky is phenomenal. This sneakerhead is what, $70 a bottle?
Chris: Yeah, about $70, $75. Not more.
Matt: It’s not bad.
Chris: I mean retail is like $89, $90.
Matt: So a $100 at the liquor store.
Dan: Yeah, I still think it’s worth it. This is really good stuff, and the way that he does this is kind of fun. I like the story behind how it all came together. It’s all insider baseball, but I think it’s kind of neat.
Chris: Tell the story, Dan.
Matt: He was burping.
Dan: So years ago, Johnson Brothers noticed the trend of bourbon gaining popularity, and at the time, Johnson Brothers was more of a wine company. They started just buying up barrels of bourbon from different sources and aging them. When Dixon Dedman separated from the brand he created and sold, Kentucky Owl, he was in the middle of a non-compete. But when that ended, Johnson Brothers approached him and asked him to work on something new. That’s where the 2XO comes in. He plays around with these blends, double-aging them using oak barrel staves, and that’s how this series came to be.
Matt: Two times oak.
Dan: Yeah, it’s fun to see how it’s made and the inspiration behind it. The French Oak blend? I’ll always keep a bottle of that at home. It’s that good.
Matt: It’s pretty good.
Dan: It’s really good stuff.
Matt: Is this the guy you brought here, with the hat, rings, and we sat here and did blends?
Chris: No, that was Savage & Cook.
Matt: Oh, I knew it was one of these small-batch stories where the guy just decided to do whiskey stuff.
Chris: People are going to go after these bottles in a few years. They’re going to have two or three bottles, and they’ll be on the secondary market, because these are limited releases. Good investment if you hold onto them.
Matt: I don’t want to say it’s a good investment, but… it might be.
Dan: Yeah. I’m having a hard time concentrating with that smell, though. It’s bad.
Chris: Where did that come from all of a sudden?
Dan: Man
Matt: This is 104 proof. Whoa.
Chris: Where did it-
Matt: I just got it.
Chris: I just got it right. When you-
Matt: And it’s gone.
Dan: For a guy who’s incredibly gassy and smells my fart on an hourly basis-
Chris: Did, you fart. Was that what that is?
Dan: No. I would like to claim that was me. That is a hundred percent AJ’s.
Chris: You ever had your fart smell like blueberries?
Matt: Blueberry farts?
Dan: I can’t say I have.
Chris: I did this weekend.
Dan: Did it concern you?
Chris: No.
Matt: Was your poop blue?
Dan: It’s like, “Oh, smells great.” I’ve had several times where I’ve had farts and I’m like, “That’s an interesting nose and I’m a little worried.”
Chris: No, not worried. I was like, “Oh well if it smells sweet, how bad can that be?”
Matt: I always figure if it smelled like that when I ate it, I wouldn’t have eaten it.
Dan: Yeah. “Better in than out.” That’s what I say.
Matt: Boo. Shut up, Shrek.
Dan: Better out than in. That was Austin Powers.
Matt: And Shrek.
Mark: Yeah, it was Shrek. The first one.
Matt: And I think it was Fat Bastard that said that in Austin Powers.
Dan: No, it was Austin Powers.
Matt: Was it?
Dan: In the first movie in the spa with Ivana Humalot, “How dare you break wind before me?” “Sorry doll. I did not realize it was your turn. Pardon me. It was not me, it was my food.”
Mark: It was also Shrek. In the first movie. First 10 minutes he burps and says, “Better out than in.” No, he was having dinner with her parents.
Dan: Oh, okay.
Matt: Not right now.
Dan: Matt, Mark, Chris.
Chris: Finish this Dixon Dedman stuff.
Matt: It is good. I still think the Kentucky Gem is tastier.
Chris: But that’s good.
Matt: But his stuff is just gradually getting better as he releases it too.
Chris: It is. And the ratings are backing us up on that.
Matt: Yeah, his stuff, each bottle gets a little bit better. So in four or five years they’re going to be amazing.
Dan: All right, so coming up this Sunday, we’re opening up early… Do we have any more whiskey to drink?
Matt: No.
Dan: Okay. Coming up this Sunday Library Pub’s going to be opening up early on a rare occasion for the Chicago Bears and the Jacksonville Jaguars playing in London. We’re going to be open up about 08:00 to anybody with the health inspectors, we will not have food available. To those of you that are not health inspectors, there will be pancakes donated from patrons. We will not be charging for the pancakes or waffles or sausage, but it’s pretty nice to buy a drink for the person that provided it.
Matt: It is.
Dan: It’s just courteous. That’ll be going on Sunday as well as every NFL game. Simon came over.
Matt: Simon Cowell?
Dan: Stoicich.
Chris: [inaudible 01:02:56].
Dan: He sent me a text message. He’s like, “Any chance you got the 49ers game on?” And I’m like, “There is a hundred percent chance. Come on over.” He came over and had three beers, left at halftime. Didn’t get to see him watch the 49ers Lose.
Matt: Poor Niners.
Dan: Is it just me or is every NFL team that was good last year just suck this year?
Chris: Nope Bengals still suck. They were sucky last year.
Dan: Well, they were sucky because they lost their franchise quarterback.
Chris: It’s true.
Dan: But Baltimore’s terrible, Buffalo’s terrible, 49ers are terrible.
Chris: No, it’s just. How many undefeated teams are there? One? Baltimore’s terrible. Cincinnati just showed the NFL how to beat them. Just showed them. They are bad. They’re bad.
Dan: I think there’s two NFL teams that are on undefeated still, right?
Chris: Are there?
Matt: Probably not.
Dan: Well, I think there’s-
Matt: Oh, yeah. Two.
Chris: Who?
Matt: Minnesota and Kansas City.
Dan: Yeah, Minnesota and Kansas City.
Chris: Oh yeah, Minnesota, that’s right.
Dan: I know Kansas City’s going to to drop tonight, but it’s fine. We need a loss to get our shit together.
Chris: Washington’s not undefeated, are they?
Dan: No, they lost early.
Chris: They lost one.
Dan: That guy is looking good, that quarterback, Jalon Daniels.
Chris: Yeah, totally.
Dan: He’s looking good.
Chris: Texans?
Dan: No, he plays for the Washington Commanders.
Chris: No, I know that. I just Texans are… They’ve lost one, right?
Dan: Yeah, he’s right. It was two going into this weekend and in Minnesota won.
Chris: Yep.
Dan: All right, so the NFL games this Sunday, like I was mentioning, all NFL games are available on the screens at the Library Pub. So if you want to come up, enjoy a couple of beers, glass of whiskey, watch your team win or lose.
Matt: Popcorn’s free.
Dan: Popcorn is free. And usually, I’m going to tell you this as a little bit of a secret, there’s usually some food available on Sundays. And if you buy the bringer of the food, a shot or a drink, they’re usually very happy to let you indulge.
Matt: They’re very giving people.
Dan: Then we also have the next Whiskey Wednesday coming up November 6th. $60 a ticket. It’s a Macallan vertical feature in a twelve-year, fifteen-year, eighteen-year, and a rare cask and a 17. So that’ll all be going down Wednesday night, November 6th, starting at 07:00.
Kev, have you got any tap takeovers scheduled?
Mark: Not yet.
Dan: Nothing on the books yet, but make sure to follow the Library Pub Facebook page for when those events get announced. And we also have the annual Soup or Bowl coming up.
Matt: It’s true.
Chris: Soup or bowl.
Dan: Which will always inevitably spark the conversation of, “That’s not a soup. That doesn’t count.”
Matt: I almost feel like we need to just have some written down rules as to what constitute a soup.
Chris: Is it liquidy? If it’s liquidy it’s a soup.
Matt: But Chili’s liquidy.
Dan: But if it’s got something in it it’s soup.
Chris: Cereal? Soup.
Matt: It’s definitely-
Chris: Hot dogs are sandwiches, cereal’s fucking soup.
Matt: Hot dogs are not a sandwich.
Chris: They are.
Dan: They’re not.
Matt: No way.
Chris: They are. They’re in between two pieces of-
Matt: No, they’re on a hot dog bun.
Chris: They’re in between buns. Sometimes those buns break and then they’re a sandwich.
Matt: Well, fuck. No, but the hot dog’s still a hot dog.
Chris: I agree. It’s a cylindrical piece of meat that goes inside of two buns.
Matt: Now if you slice the hot dog down the middle and put it on bread, now it’s a sandwich.
Chris: Fair.
Dan: Long ways? Short ways?
Matt: Long ways. How are you going to slice it down the middle short ways?
Mark: [inaudible 01:06:36], so we just ate hot dogs on white bread.
Dan: I did too.
Matt: Yeah. Well college. You didn’t spend the extra money. You’d get a loaf of bread for 79 cents in the cheap-ass Bar-S hot dogs for a buck.
Dan: Nothing gets me more nostalgic than white beans and rice. That and also bread.
Matt: Maybe a Vienna sausage.
Dan: Some pinto beans on bread.
Chris: You know what, Mark? If you’re going to change up any of these plaques on here you can absolutely put on mine, “Cereal is soup.” I’m going to take that to the grave.
Dan: Yeah, mark, you need to start doing that again.
Matt: It’s like a cold soup.
Chris: Yeah. What’s going on? It’s cold soup.
Dan: [Inaudible 01:07:14].
Chris: Is cold coffee coffee still? Yes.
Matt: Oh, but it’s not very good.
Mark: Why is it that people will drink iced tea but they don’t drink iced coffee?
Chris: They do drink iced coffee.
Dan: Are you crazy? Have you been to a Starbucks?
Matt: No, he has not.
Mark: No, I have not. Ever.
Matt: He probably drives past like 40 of them on his way home.
Dan: Yeah. White chicks drink the shit out of ice coffee.
Matt: Oh yeah.
Mark: I have been to Scooters, because back when my wife was treating me well she would asked me to go to Scooters.
Chris: Gosh dang, let’s get in depth. Yeah, we got to keep on going with this. What happened lately? But I got to know. She pushed you down the stairs or something?
Mark: Have you seen me walk?
Chris: I know that. That’s why I was asking. She just has to poke you in the back.
Mark: No, I’m teasing.
Dan: To tell you about my friend Smark Mith. That was not in a car accident.
Mark: Dan, this will not be taken out. My wife is lovely and treats me wonderfully.
Dan: We’ll see.
Chris: Okay, Smark. If that’s you’re real name.
Dan: There was a whole thing. He said he got hit while turning or driving down the street. Somebody was really hungry for Popeyes. I heard otherwise though. I heard otherwise.
Chris: That shit’s hilarious.
Matt: Like I love Shmempleton.
Dan: How did the TV get changed to Spanish?
Matt: [foreign language 01:08:59].
Mark: Somebody hit the SAP button.
Matt: Someone thinks they’re funny.
Dan: Oh my god, Evan
Matt: Or Noah’s just trying to figure out how to use a remote.
Mark: It is painful on Sunday mornings in here with Evan and the remote controls.
Dan: I’m telling you.
Matt: Here, just let me do it.
Dan: He was so hammered yesterday trying to figure out the main TV. That’s when I slid him some water, because he needed it.
Matt: Thanks, Dan.
Dan: All right, we got anything else?
Mark: No.
Dan: Guys, it’s been a fun one.
Chris: Smark. That’s so fucking funny. Can’t even say it now.
Mark: Dan, put your right arm out. What the fuck happened to your arm?
Matt: It looks like you were playing paintball this weekend.
Dan: I honestly can’t… I have no idea. It’s one of those bruises that just appeared. I have no idea.
Matt: Ran into a doorknob.
Chris: Did your girlfriend grab you and say, “No Dan.” Really hard.
Dan: Hit me on the nose with a winded up newspaper.
Chris: Grabbed you and pulled you off. Off the teeter-totter. “No, Dan.” Not Teeter-Tottering today.
Dan: I’m pretty sure it was my dog. We’re laying in bed watching TV and the dog decide she’s ready to cuddle she, as any bigger dog does, has no perception of where her paws are going.
Matt: Your dog is not a bigger dog.
Dan: And she steps right on the edge of my bicep and then just slowly pushes down.
Matt: That’s when you got to flex up and tell her.
Dan: I did.
Mark: My dog tries to do that to me, but I just to throw them across the room.
Dan: When your dog steps on your stomach, it goes, “Squeak.”
Matt: Oh, that’s because of the squeaky toy Mark ate.
Mark: I woke up some morning at like 06:30 and, “What the fuck am I laying on?” Big lump and I reach behind two dog toys in the bed.
Dan: It was the dog.
Chris: Okay, so Hurricane Milton is now a category five.
Dan: Yeah, hurricane. So [inaudible 01:11:01] just got done with Hurricane Helene. And they’re working on cleaning it up. And now Hurricane Milton is coming in from the other side and is going to ravage the entire state.
Matt: Well, with a name like Helene, I would expect it to.
Mark: What happened to IJK?
Dan: IJK?
Mark: Well, they go in alphabetical order.
Dan: Well they do, but they don’t hit every letter.
Matt: Or some may have developed, they named them and then they dissipated.
Dan: Helene was two weeks ago.
Matt: Yeah, no Helene, it sounds like a storm that’s going to tear some shit up. Tropical Storm Milton or whatever does not.
Mark: Hurricane Milton doesn’t really strike here.
Matt: No.
Dan: None of these hurricanes do.
Matt: Watch out, here comes Milton.
Dan: I mean there’s going to be some Simpson memes going around, right. I love the annual story at the beginning of hurricane season where the Hurricane Naming Association picks out the 30 to 35 names that they’re going to use that year. And then as the hurricanes develop, they classify them. What a pointless fucking job you have.
Matt: They probably make good money.
Mark: I’ve been disappointed ever since they started using guys names. Hurricanes were more appropriate always named after a woman.
Dan: But it’s more fitting.
Chris: It’s mother nature. I mean it makes sense.
Mark: In winter they’re now naming snowstorms.
Chris: I did not know that.
Dan: Really?
Mark: Yeah. We had three named storms last year.
Chris: You think going to name one Chris?
Dan: We’ve been going for a while and we should probably wrap things up.
Matt: Doesn’t strike fear.
Dan: This is fucking gold.
Chris: It is gold.
Matt: Hurricane Chris.
Chris: Hurricane Chris.
Matt: Hurricane Chris.
Chris: Oh, are you going to make me laugh? Probably.
Matt: Here comes Chris. Watch out.
Dan: It’s going to be real passive-aggressive.
Chris: I’m not passive-aggressive.
Dan: Yeah, you’re not.
Matt: You are.
Chris: You are, Dan.
Matt: This is the most passive-aggressive hurricane ever.
Dan: Just sits on the coast.
Matt: Just touches.
Chris: What’d you say about me? No, I’m not going to do that.
Dan: Oddly enough none of us could be passive-aggressive now.
Matt: No, we’re doing a terrible job at it.
Dan: We can’t do an impression of passive-aggressive, because it’s a spur-of-The-moment thing.
Chris: No, you didn’t pick up your clothes, Chris.
Dan: I guess that’s just where we put our dirty clothes now.
Chris: Yeah, there you go. That’s a good one.
Dan: I had to remember what Sarah says to me. It’s a great thing. I spent all day cleaning this house For you to put that box on that table.
Chris: I feel like that’s what you say because Sarah doesn’t clean.
Dan: I then turned it… No, she does. She’s doing a really good job lately.
Matt: Tell her it’s the new table.
Dan: I then turn to her and go-
Chris: Because she wants you to put seed in her.
Matt: Whoa, like grass seed? That’d be weird.
Dan: He’s a hundred percent right.
Matt: There’s free condoms by the door and the green one’s glow in the dark.
Dan: That would be a counterintuitive. I’ve gotten her to clean. I’ll squirt a baby in her belly. That is a game of Thrones reference.
Matt: Squirt a baby in her belly?
Mark: It’s a commitment level I question.
Dan: Of what? Squirting-
Mark: You won’t marry her, but you’ll have a kid with her.
Dan: I won’t marry her at a principle of how much it costs to marry people.
Chris: It does not cost a lot to marry anybody.
Dan: Great grammar.
Chris: Yeah.
Mark: Mo and I got married for $81.
Dan: $81 is not a problem. That’s fine. I would do that.
Matt: I’m ordained.
Chris: I got married for $8,000.
Dan: That is fucking stupid.
Chris: That’s because of the party that we threw. It was one of the best parties that… if you went-
Matt: I got drunk and swam in a river.
Chris: It was literally an amazing party.
Dan: Awesome. I’d have gone to it.
Chris: Yeah, because there was a nacho cheese fountain. Of course you would’ve.
Matt: There was a nacho cheese. It was good nacho cheese.
Dan: I was not invited.
Chris: We didn’t really like…
Matt: I would’ve invited you. Would’ve been super fun.
Dan: But I still doing past aggressive stuff.
Chris: It was super, super fun.
Mark: I was invited you. I didn’t.
Dan: Really?
Chris: Yeah, that’s back when he could walk and had us goatee. He wore his hat backwards.
Matt: He wore his hat backwards.
Dan: Did you invite Smark Mith?
Chris: No.
Dan: Well, that’s a problem.
Mark: I never wore my hat backwards.
Dan: There’s a photo evidence. I have seen a picture with a goatee.
Mark: Once then.
Chris: And orange jeans.
Mark: I wore orange jeans once.
Dan: I will never forget.
Chris: Hey, I only sold you one bad product. Singe.
Mark: Oh, that’s so not true.
Matt: I don’t know. We bought Viniq at the bar I was at.
Chris: That’s true. I never sold you the Viniq.
Mark: I don’t even know what that is.
Matt: It was sparkly liquor of some sort.
Mark: By Kinky?
Dan: All right, so that all got cut out. Anything else, Kev? Kev’s putting his pants on. It’s nice of you. Appreciate that.
Mark: He’s ignoring you.
Dan: He is.
Mark: That’s Kevin’s version of passive aggressive.
Dan: It’s all right though. Bye everybody. Matt, tell us bye.
Matt: Bye.
Dan: Close this out.
Matt: Bye everyone.