James Bonding - James Bonding Cocktail Party Podcast Part 1

Episode Date: August 21, 2024

LICENCE TO DRINK!It’s the James Bonding Cocktail Party Podcast Part 1: the gathering so nice, they episoded it twice. Craig Ormiston and Eddy Colloton from Licence to Drink, join the Matts and many of our season 2 guests for a series of 007-themed cocktails and kinship. Enjoy drop-ins by Ben Blacker, James Bladon, Emily Schmemily, Bobak Ferdowsi, Mike Simses, and Julie Lacouture.Drink along with Matt and Matt as they descend into drunkenness and the quality of the episode lessens sip by sip! Listen to Part 2, with even more drinks and guests, next week on StitcherPremium.com. Use promo code: BOND. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello everybody. Matt Gourley here and welcome to the James Bonding Cocktail Party extravaganza. Craig and Eddie from the wonderful organization, licensed to drink, flew all the way out here and mixed us something like six different cocktails. I was drunk by the end, I don't know. And we invited all the guests of season two back for a big celebration and walk down memory lane with a general bond discussion and whatever else came up. Yes, it descends into drunkenness. Yes, it went on so long that we made two episodes out of it. And yes, if you really want to hear that drunkenness, you got to subscribe to Stitcher Premium or get 30 days free at StitcherPremium.com promo code Bond. But you'll hear the first hour, totally free, here today with many special guests. Enjoy.

Well, it's 309 on a Saturday. I had a decent-sized breakfast, but I've had no lunch, and we're about to have a bunch of James Bond cocktails funnel poured down our throats. This is the James Bonding podcast cocktail athon 2018. Matt, how you feeling? Oh, well, Matt, thanks for asking. I feel very similarly. I had a couple sousvete egg bites this morning at Starbucks. Ooh.

And then I highlight a little peek at our first guest. Yep. Can't hide his reaction. It's been pretty much air since then. I love it. So here we are. I'm very excited. It's a very special episode.

We're having a lot of returning guests from season two to start off season three. And honestly, I hear cocktails being shaken. Nothing stirred. Yeah. TBD, actually. I don't know if they're going to stirring anything. Well, I don't know. But that's the thing is we've got Craig and Eddie from Licensed to Drink who traveled far and wide to

come here today to provide this hospitality to our guests. We're going to podcast the whole thing. You listen to whatever and however much you want. You don't have to listen to this listener. That's so true. I know you're here now, but you have permission to bail. However, this could be great. We don't know.

It's an experiment. I think we should start saying to our listeners, they have a license to bail. I love it. I love it. Thanks for joining us on License to Bail, the Christian Bail podcast. Let's talk about what he's up to lately. Good question. Where's Christian Bail at?

Where has he been? Ben, do you know? Hi. It's a great time to introduce our first guest, Ben Blacker. Christian Bale. Christian Bale. You know Ben from the Die Another Day season one episode. Oh, my God.

What was your season two? Hang on, I'll pull it. What did we watch? We? Oh, never say never again. Yes. I get the weird ones. I'll listen.

We owe you. you a decent bond. We owe you... No, I'm good. I like... There's plenty to talk about on the weird ones. Hi, thanks for having me.

I've already had three cocktails for breakfast and a suvied egg. Oh, a suede egg fizz. Look, have you not had a suvied egg fight? What are you talking about? I believe I have. Look, it's really great. You know... It's a little pocket of egg.

It's a little pocket of egg that comes out and like a little... I would describe it as a... If you were to put two cupcakes into some sort of a cupcake holder, that's how the eggs come out. And they're great. They're great. Matt, do you live your life? Gourley, take a break.

Got it. Do you live your life saying, let me, let me rephrase. Yeah, sure. You should live your life saying, would James Bond do this? Great, great point. He probably would not have had that. He would. He eats eggs scrambled eggs a lot in the books and the movie.

Yeah, but this is not a scrambled egg we're talking about. Does he scramble them himself? No, and. Well, he can't make a kish as we once learned. Is that right? That's canon. Yeah, that is actually canon. That's the first thing when you look at the James Bond story Bible, the first thing is,

Bond makes a mean kush. We haven't even had a drink. You're going to be one of the only guests to be on this podcast that has yet to imbibe, because in just a minute, Eddie and Craig are going to come in and tell us about our first cocktail. They're surprising us. We don't know what these are, but they're Bond-specific cocktails, and we don't know what they are. That's exciting. Oh, another guest is here.

This doorbell situation is actually. Well, while that happens, I don't know if you've already set this up, if you're going to drop that in later. But how did you set up this day? How did you find these gentlemen? Well, you know, Matt was the one to find the license to drink. They found us. They found us. We talked about wanting to do this, and they reached out. Wow, I thought that was a chicken and an egg situation.

Oh, there is. Blase. My God. My God. My God. Wow. Look at you look amazing. You got a super ego time?

Oh, welcome, welcome, welcome. Please, please, please. James, you're going to be in and out the whole afternoon because you're basically the third James Bond on this. Well, thank you. The amount of hours you've put in, James. I think this is my very fifth appearance. Always comes in with something.

We're locked and loaded. Did that just come out or did you write it on the way? It's something I've said before. But I love it. And I'm not, I'm in. Okay. I'm saying I'm into it. You want to see how the sausage is made.

I just love it. You know, I think it could have used a little more oomph. Get back in the car, drive around a little while, come back with another one. Do you want to punch that out a little bit? When our, the drinks Meisters showed up and they had suits as well. Both Matt and I went, what were we thinking? Yeah, why did we not put a suit on? I was a little surprised to find you both wearing soft clothing.

I agree with this entirely. I know. We did dress up in London, and I did put up a Union Jack Pennett bunting in the living room. Did you see that? It did. Everyone's remarking on it. I see it. And if they're not, well, could you ask them to?

The house is a buzz with that Union Jack situation that's happening up there. That looks nice. James, welcome to the program. Thank you. Let's recap what you've done on this show. What were your films? Octopusy. First one was Octopus.

The first one was the rating the cold opens. Oh, big episode. Cold openings, hot rankings, huge episode. Third one was Moonmaker, I want to say? I want you to say it too. All right. Moonwaker. I don't know what the origin is.

with because the other one I did was... Spy Who Love Me? Was the Star Wars Minute. Oh, yes, right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that counts. Didn't you also do Spy Who Love Me? No, I... Wait, yes.

Oh, in the first run, right? No, in the second run. Did the Spy Who Love Me? Yeah, in season two. And if you're listening and you are the guest who are forgetting, it is not you. I can't remember who did what in any sense. Right.

You've done 300 of these. I know. You can't keep trying. I try to remember each and every podcast, verbatim. that I've ever done. Well, I screwed them all ahead of time. Yeah. Yeah.

And write them. Yeah. But speaking of Moonraker, guys, as a gift for enjoying this today, take a pack of these are crazy. Moonraker trading cards. Wow. Sent in by a lovely guest. I'm sorry, I went to Earwolf the other day to find a wheelbarrow load of things people had

sent into James Bonding. And it was so kind and nice and we really appreciate it. That's cool. Yeah. Dude, I loved these trading cards, not the Bond one specifically. like these are representative of this era of movie, you know, ephemera. Right. Which, do they do this anymore?

I love it so much. They rarely do this kind of thing anymore, most because the trading card industry has bellied up itself. Sure. That's true. Well, it's a huge scandal. But the Poceman's, they're still selling, right? Are they?

I think so. The gatherings of magic. It's all digital now, right? Yeah, you know, look. Oh, right. That's right. When the Star Wars card trading app came out, is that right?

Oh, this was a huge thing. No. You downloaded this? This was like three, two years ago. And it's literally an app where you trade trading cards that don't exist. It's like Bitcoin for novelty bullshit. Is the inflation similar? It's, yeah.

Had I held on to my BobaFet? Could I have gotten more for it now? Not if it was hard copy, but there are, that's garbage. There are rarefied ones. No, there are like digital BobaFet's got to be worth $800,000 by now, right? Probably. There are rarefied ones, and people will put money into their coin collection to buy these things. So it's actual currency.

I mean, it's bat-shick crazy, and I applaud the people that are doing it, but I also wonder about them. Here's the tagline for that, right? The most current currency. That's what you should. Any digital currency. I'm going to go. I'm going to start paying for shit in Moonraker cards.

I don't. How many nights will you be staying? How many nights will this get me? Chang in Venice. Maybe one flower of death. Very rare. Bond and the G-Force machine. Oh.

I remember having these for Raiders. I remember Raiders of Lost Ark set. But that's what I was going to ask. What were the card sets you remember having? What was the most? Well, Star Wars. But then I had two of those novelty sticker sets that I loved. One, which most people remember, which is, I don't apparently remember.

Wacky packages? Yes. What is that? It was just like fake products that had puns and they were kind of humorous. And then there was weird wheels, which was the same kind of thing. I've never heard of things. Oh, they're wacky packages. Yeah, we have some of those.

They're kind of like... They reissued them, I think. Yeah, I think they did. Wasn't there also, like... Was garbage pale kids? Yeah, garbage pill kids, I was big into those, too. And we really would trade those at school. Yeah.

Because you wanted the ones with your name. Oh, right. Right. Yeah. Like, give us an example pun from wacky packages. I'm trying to think of what they would do, but like... Yeah. It would be like...

Well, I really screeched it to a home. I can remember a lot of garbage pale kids. Really? There was Adam Baum. It was a child named Adam whose head was exploding with a mushroom cloud. There was donkey nose pizza. There was some snot on the pizza. Donkey nose, like domino's pizza?

It was characters. It was all garbage bail kids. Was the kids named Pete? No, no, no. The kid seemingly had a donkey. The kid's name was donkey? Donkey nose pizza. Here we go.

This is not a real card, but I'm just imagining. that, like, they would do thick products like Ajax? Oh. Guys, I'm going to get the hell out of here. Okay. Wait, what? What? No.

This is what is happening, Ben. You can come back at will, whatever you like. Thank you, I will. After two drinks. He's drinks. Now he's going to be with this. Tommy, Eddie and Craig? I have not.

Okay. All right. Hi, guys. Hi. Now. Please, please. Thank you. Real quick.

I just want to say Captain Crud and Swedish fist were two of those wacky packages. But this is out of control. Okay. Eddie and Craig have a seat. James, you've... James, hop, hop, hop, hop over next to Matt over here. Come on over.

Take a window bench with me, pal. Yeah. Now, first, before we even take a sip into this, the first of six, is that right? That's correct. Six. This is very exciting. Tell us about yourselves. Tell us what you brought you here.

Tell us why your angels on this earth. I don't have an answer for the last one. My name's Eddie. I'm Craig. And we do James Bond-themed cocktail series. that's based in Denver, Colorado. It's called License to Drink. Wow.

Now, when you say you do a cocktail series, does that mean that it is a series of evenings, or is it a, please, continue, yes. Tell me that. So we'll do a theme party for each movie, and for each movie we design three craft cocktails to, like, sort of accompanying the movie, and then there's, like, a theme for the party, too.

So everybody comes dressed up. Like, we did an 80s party. We did a Kentucky Derby party. We did a Mardi Gras theme party for Living Let Die. Yeah. Yeah. So it's been fun. We nerded out from the beginning.

We were, Eddie and I reconnected in Denver when he moved back for a job. And we looked at each other one day and we're like, we kind of recollected that we were James Bond fans, but we didn't. Just by looking at it. Yeah. Just by the cut of its gym. I was like, sir, I bet you like. So please. Guys, tell us, I'm trying to figure out a good

drink on my airline. No, I did not. I did not. I'm trying to put it there so I can take a nice photo of the drink. I once hosted a night of James Bond's back like 15 years ago and I made a cocktail from each movie, but it was very basic and it seems like what you guys are doing here.

Already the garnishing. We're looking at what looks like a lime zest peel and a pineapple with an umbrella here in a... Is this a lowball glass? It's a rocks glass. Rock's glass. Sorry. What's a low ball glass? Well, these are good to know.

Yeah. I don't know. Technical glassware, yeah. Okay. Yeah, it's a good question. They're not glassware specialist math. Some people call them old fashions. This is a beautiful glass.

Old fashion glasses, yeah, rocks glasses. But either way, the idea is that it can fit a solid rock in there. Gotcha. Tell us what we're about to track. Well, I recommend that you try it first and guess. Oh. We're going to play a game. You're going to tell us what movie that makes you think of it.

Oh, I feel like I'm. in Jamaica. Just really like having a good time. Maybe I've thrown someone into some red stripe boxes. Oh wow, he's dead on already. You know, I feel like

quarrel might have a knife. Is there like spiced rum in that? There is. Coming up. Jamaican rum in there. What else is there? Hang on. Now, are these your own inventions?

Yeah. Oh my God. All from scratch. I mean, obviously there's lots of cocktails in James Bond movies and novels, right? So we definitely pull from when they're mentioned. we'll pull from those.

But we also like to kind of get inspired by a silly line that's in one of the movies, a one-liner or a locale or... Am I tasting any honey in this? No? No. Think of a sweeter fruit. Sugar fruit. Think about something that might come from a tree that might...

You write a song about it. Underneath the mango tree, me honey and me. Big boolal loops soon. Wow. So this is the... Underneath the mango tree. It's a mango tree! Look at the umbrella's a tree!

Oh my God. But no honey. But no honey. Don't need it. We made a separate cocktail dedicated to the honey writer. They have cards. This is incredible. Okay, so license to drink.

First of all, I want to get this in now and later. Where can people find you if they want you to come to them and do this business? Which already, I couldn't recommend more. And I'm No, I am drunk, I've had one sip. All right. Oh man, I can't pull his way. So we have a website that's like a blog

that's just licensed to drink.com, license spelled the English way with two Cs. And then we have an Instagram as well that's just at License to Drink. Again, spelled the right way with two Cs. So this is Dr. Noe underneath the mango tree Aki-infused plantation three-star rum, tangerine juice,

cocoa-nibed-infused Jafard banane or bananae, lime, mango puree. Oh my God. And then there's lyrics for the song. I'm in a special kind of heaven right now. So, yeah, if you, one of the verses the song lists a bunch of ingredients

that are native to Jamaica. Oh, yeah, sugar and, wait, man. By the way, I cannot believe how on my taste buds were, but yeah. They was impressed by that. They might fade away quickly. But yeah, mango banana and tangerine.

Sugar and Aki and cocoa bean. When we get merry, we make them grow. A nine little chilling in a row. Oh. We had a recipe for the cocktail right there, but the funny thing is we didn't know what some of those ingredients were. Like, have you ever heard of Aki fruit before? No way. Yeah.

It's a, I don't want to offend anybody who likes Acki a lot, but it's really gross. It's a fruit? It is technically a fruit. It tastes like hearty or like savory. So it's not a weird point. It tastes like hard. The reason why we haven't heard about it a lot in the United States. A horsey sauce.

It's because it's poisonous. It's poisonous. It's the horsey sauce of fruit. It's poisonous. So it blooms. It's a fruit that blooms. We have the end of it. Yeah.

Nice try. Laos. Yeah, exactly. If you eat it raw before it's been, where it naturally blooms, it's poisonous. Inside, once it blooms, there's fruit along a stem and there's a little black seed on the top of you eat the black seed it's poisonous. So basically the United States was like, we're not touching that.

We're not going for it. But once you take that fruit off, it kind of mushes like scrambled eggs. It kind of looks like scrambled eggs. And some people think it tastes like scrambled eggs. It's not sweet. It's savory. So how did you guys get it? You can Amazon?

There's a couple distributors now where you can get things on from can, like in can form. And it's Brian. There's like a couple people. From now on, I'd like you to say, I know a guy in the Amazon. Yeah, yeah. I know a guy in the Amazon. Say the Amazon. His name's Jeff.

Wait, so we've got a potentially lethal, savory fruit. We've drank a lot of it, and we're still alive. No, I got no problem. If I go today, that's good. I'm just saying I love it. We thought it'd be worth it. And that there's some potential lie to me if this isn't the case. Like contraband bootleg issue where you had to smuggle it in.

It's entirely possible. Oh, that's great. So, yeah, it was a challenge to get all these ingredients in the one cocktail. It's already complex. Most of the time, cocktails are good if they're simple. So to kind of bring all that in, we were trying syrups.

We were trying all sorts of things, and we landed on infusions. The aci is kind of more on the bitter side, so it actually bodied and mellowed out the rum, the sweetness of the rum. Yeah, spice rum can be, like, so tangy and abrasive. So infusing it,

leaving, like, a kind of savory fruit in there for, what is it, like a few, it's like three days. How did you arrive at that duration? It's crazy. Just by trying. trial and error. Like, we just put it in there and Craig had some rum every day.

How do you find yourself so knowledgeable about these things without sounding like a jerk? Because most people, like, they come in and they're like, man, man, man. You guys are just nice, wonderful guys. They're not in tweet vests. Well, thank you. That's nice. I mean, and we are, we're very much hobbyists. Like this is just like a thing that we do for fun.

Neither of us are our bartenders by trade. Yeah, so we are also lovers and not experts of James Bond cocktails. Thank you, sir. It's taken a lot of failures. So I can only tell you how many bottles of things went into my liver before the liver to you today. Your liver, sir, is a hero. My liver, national, national, challenge. Yeah, we're going to have that bronzed.

James, what do you think? I think it's fantastic. As soon as you said Jamaica, then I was thinking, Dr. No. But I don't know if I would have pulled that out of the hat like Matt, so expertly did. Well done. Yeah, that was well done. Look, I've seen a mango here and there. and I've tasted some things.

But I'm surprised that there is no pineapple because I feel like the combination of these flavors is... It's not in the song. It almost makes it. It naturally lines to it. Yeah. Yeah. We played with a couple different garnishes,

but eventually it started getting overwhelming and we wanted to celebrate the mango. So, yeah, it's... That one was a wild ride, but it ended up being a hit at our party, so we're happy to share it with you today. I think it's a hit here at the license to drink James Bonding crossover event of the century.

And so we're going to see you guys throughout the afternoon as you come back in and you'll also be plying our guests with these cocktails. And you're doing the Lord's work. You're doing the devil's work. You're meeting in the middle here on earth and making it a better place. That's right. Guys, thanks for joining us in the devil's triangle. The pleasure is ours. We'll be back in a little bit with the next drink.

Fantastic. Wow. Thank you. This is good. This is real good. I'm not going to lie, this is amazing. Did I hear Secunda out there? No, there's Bobbock is here.

You guys, come on in whenever you want. Enjoy the drinks. Hi, Emily. Hi. How are you? Hello, Emily. Good to see you. Can I sit here? Please, have a seat, Emily.

Did you get one of the... Oh, you did. All right, Emily. Guys, big, big, big, command that I take this drink. Big event. S is here. Have you met James?

I don't think I'm glad. Ginny Blades. Nice to meet you. Emily, our head of social, friend of the show. Codename S. You were a guest on the man with the golden gun.

Is that correct? That is correct. Yeah. Everybody's responsibilities. Do you feel that you were done a service or a disservice by having been given that film? Um, I think it was a service. I agree. Look, I enjoy them.

I've said this and I'll say it again. Emily, you know our stance on the man with the golden gun. Great, great soundtrack. Probably the best. One of them. Well, yeah. One of the most controversially best, maybe. Yeah, look, anytime you can work honky tonk piano and do a James Bond film, I'm on board.

Yeah. Yeah, thank you, James, for agreeing. I agree, just by saying yes. Hey, by the way, take a pack of Moon Raker. You know, you can look, you can say whatever, you could go for whatever you'd like. This one right here is the flower of death. We also have, this is a lazy one, escorted by Jaws.

I'll trade you an escorted by Jaws for a flower of death, okay? No way, man. Come on. Just look, it's just as escorted by Jaws. Come on. don't have one. What's your top card there, Emily? Well, I really like the, the sort of grammar formatting on this one, Q's newest weapons. Because Q is in apostrophes, but then there's all, or in quotes rather, but then there's also an

apostrophe on the S. So there's just kind of a lot going on there. That's crazy. Yeah. Is it presented as such in the novelizations? Is it Q? Is Q written with quotations around it? I don't believe. No, I don't think so. No, neither is M. I don't think. Yeah. It's very strange choice. So tell us your thought about, this drink. Did you hear about what goes into it and where it comes from? No, I walked in the room and... You were just handed.

I was... Someone, I wasn't even handed. Someone pointed to a drink and said, drink that. I was like, okay, I guess I'm drinking this. So right now, Emily, you are partaking in the underneath the mango tree. Oh. Which is, they have worked the lyrics of the song that has sung many times throughout the film

Dr. No, into a delicious beverage. Yeah. And I'm... Yeah, I'm seeing that. I'm... Almost one full drink in. Oh, I've done. Are you? Way done. This is going to not end well. I know, I'm feeling it too, Matt. Are you?

Yeah. Because we know James and I are like in many ways, and that is we like our drinks fruity and her lack of a better term, girly. Yeah. Absolutely. And it hits us fast. And I didn't have lunch. I didn't either.

We all didn't eat. Are there snacks out there? Yeah, there are. I think it will also be post-mating some pizzas over here. I thought we might get some pizza too. Yeah. I'm very un-James Bond. Yeah, I probably could have eaten more today knowing that I was drinking.

Has James Bond ever eaten a pizza? No. I think in Italy maybe. Like a real pizza. Like you're saying like off screen. Behind the scene. I don't think we've seen him eat one on screen. You know what we should have done?

No, we shouldn't have done this. I'm glad we didn't do this. But my thought was I should have cubby broccolied some spaghetti and marinera. Like just a big vat of spaghetti. What do you mean cubby broccolied some? You know, to get the morale up for the cast of, live and let die. No, it was a spy who love me.

When everyone got sick from the Egyptian food, right. He decided that he would have some spaghetti and marinerre flown in, and he would prepare it. So he's out there. There are many photos of him standing at a stove with a giant vat of spaghetti boiling. That's what you want when you're sick. It's just a nice rich mariner.

When it's hot and you're sick. Yeah. You want some sweaty. Look, you know, you lead from the top, and Cubby's the kind of guy who not only did his family bring broccoli into this country. But he can make a nice, you can make an al dente. That's right. It sounds like it was a photo op.

Look, James, you're not here to shatter the images we have of our heroes. Guys, someone's got to bring a little reality in this situation. You think you're just rolling in here with a submariner and think you're king of James Bond? Oh, you've noticed. Of course I have. I'm a watchman. That's the first thing you looks at. I don't even wear a watch.

I don't even have a tan line for a watch. My wrist is over here, Matt. Look, I'll have you know. Right now I'm wearing an Omega Speedmaster, the only watch certified by NASA for flight, for manned missions to space. Wow. This was on the moon.

Not this one. Not that one. Do you wear a watch? I don't. I'm not now and I don't ever. I don't either. And I, for my whole. life I did, and then when cell phones really came around, like, when I was like, all right, these are here to stay.

Yeah. It seems like a weird. What year was that, Matt? You thought, like, hey, it's 2005. These are here to stay. I give them eight more months. They're gone. He thought they were a fad until 2007.

Yeah. But then I felt naked with that one, but then I started using my phone and then I shed it and I've never felt so free. Yeah. You shed what? The watch. The watch. Literally something that represents

a shackle and the like oppression of time. What are we doing here? We're trying to live free. Live on time. Die on time. Die on time next James Bond.

Let's go to the drink counter. One. One drink in. We're going to kill time. I'm worried. We're already changing society. And I think we're peaking. I think this is as good as it.

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Mad and! Mad and! Emily, I would like an update on the Super Mario Brothers movie. What minute are you in? We've finished. We have wrapped the podcast. How many times through have you going? So if listeners will recall, I host a podcast, our host did a podcast called the Super Mario Bros. Minute's Minute's Minute's Live Action Film, the number of times that it is.

So minute one, we watched one time, minute two we watched two times on and on until minute 105, which we did watch 105 times. My alcohol just hit me. That's truly. What was that hot? Exercise and sadism. It was great. I literally, I loved every second of it. It's a perfect movie.

Super Mario Brothers. What was it like for you? No, I've never seen it. It's extremely good. Is it? Yes. What can you tell me about minutes 17? Minutes 17.

They're probably still in Brooklyn. I don't think they'd made it to Dino Hatton at that point. That's probably the double date between Luigi and Daisy and Mario and Daniela with such iconic lines as, so let me get this straight. We're talking bones. I've never seen it. Wow. Are there any names in it that we would know?

Oh, for sure. Bob Hoskins plays Mario. Oh, Bob Hoskins. Of course. I do remember that. Thomas was Luigi. Dennis Hopper. Wow.

There are no names you don't know. Samantha Mathis is Daisy. Can you please name someone that I don't recognize? They're playing iconic actors. It's iconic actors playing iconic characters in a film that, quite frankly, is appreciated enough. You've seen it, Matt? Thanks to me, I would say. Of course.

I'm sorry I had the temerity. They asked you. No, look, as someone who came of age and a Nintendo Entertainment System days, the fact that Mario would be leaving my television and entering the big screen was big news for me. Yeah. And I went and quite frankly, I was like, this is too dark. It is dark, right? Even visually, is it dark?

It's a very gritty, yeah. It's the aesthetics of this movie are sort of Blade Runner-esque, I would say, but grittier. Like almost too much. Yeah, a little bit. Engel on it. Yeah. Blade Runner-esque, I've never heard a Mario Brothers film described as such. Emily, thank you.

Yeah, I mean, it's there. It's in the text. You can see it. It's about what they're not doing, okay? Yeah, it's the Mario between the notes. Exactly. This is tremendously. Oh, my God.

There's more drinks coming in. Holy shit. Wow. Okay. All right. Step up to the mic. I'm going to give you the mic. Okay.

Oh, no. Have a seat. Yeah, have a seat. You get, I mean, you're only a sip or two into that if you want a new one. Okay. So, this is a much easier one to guess. Oh, this is a much easier one to guess. Oh, this is.

We're looking at a Vesper martini here. It's got to be right. On site. No little James Bond spreads complete without a Vesper. Nor should it be. Look at this. You got a beautiful cooped martini glass. We got our twisted lemon peel to bring out the oils, I imagine, right?

That's correct. I made one of these last night. That's hot. Oh, nice. So what are your, I don't want to look yet, because there's a lot of controversy with the Vesper. Yes. In terms of Kina Lale doesn't exist anymore,

so what do you substitute it with? gin and what vodka? Absolutely. What did you guys go with? I mean, this was kind of an opportunity for us to just sort of play around to. We sort of with that caveat of like, okay, you can't get the original, like the, is it Plymouth that's in the original? Well, Gordon's, but like that recipes change and you can't get the proper proof.

Basically no ingredient that's in there you can get now. Yeah, what was Gordon then is very different than what Gordon's is now. It was aviation fuel and a little bit of salt. Yeah, exactly. Which we found, even when we were chasing, we saw. started with Gordons and that's just not a very good gin today. I mean, it's fine. Yeah.

No, no hard feelings, Gordons, but you have some room for improvement. You know what, Gordons? Go screw. Yeah. You got work to do. Sounds fire. So we were playing around a bunch of different things. Gordon's was traditionally a London dry gin, which is also harsher, and that's where you're

getting the jet fuel vibes. So technically the proper... The jet fuel vibe. The proper Vesper should have London dry in it, but we started experimenting with Old Tom as a format, which is way more mellow and... It smells incredible. Like the lemon that pops right out of there. Oh, here I go.

Yeah, gin loves lemon. They go together. Perfect couple. Gin loves lemon and I love gin. I'm a gin guy. My gin is right there. Botanist gin, have you guys already? Yeah, very good joy.

Yeah, I'm a fan. This is delicious. I have to say... That's a dangerous cocktail. It's easy to drink a lot of them. I don't like straight martinis. That's the best Vesper I've ever had. But a proper Vesper...

Thank you. It doesn't taste like a martini. It tastes like its own thing. thing. Isn't that good? And it's genuinely the best Vesper I've ever had. Thank you.

And I've had plenty. Imagine the most delicious lemon cough drop you've ever had. And I don't mean that to bring this down to the level of cop drop. I'm elevating a cough drop. That's incredible. This is what every cop drop should taste

like you feel better immediately. And commonly you will see Kino Lillet substituted with either Koki Americano or Lillet Blanc. And we kind of were you know, doing like a Pepsi challenge of those two different ones. And on a whim, after we like kind of couldn't decide there were things about one that

we're good, there were things about the other that we're good. And we were just like, what if you just like put them together? And we just sort of dumped them together. And it's like a perfect combination. Yeah, it just sort of like hit the best of both worlds. Because you rarely get vermouth in a martini, right? Is that right? No, you get vermouth.

No, like dry vermouth. Dry vermouth. Yeah, dry vermouth. Sure. Okay, sorry, dry vermouth, but the sweet vermouth is what makes it. But not like a wine fortified. Yeah, this is wine in a cocktail, right? But it's just a more robust wine.

Yeah. And the original, Keniloli had more quinine in it, which actually gave it the bitterness to make it more palatable. These are just like straight sugar, like water. So it makes it really palatable in a lot of ways. It's just sweeter than you would normally get. You know, it's funny because like whenever I've tried to, or I have made Vespers at home or or if I've had them out and about, I always, I just assumed that, Ian Fleming was a fucking maniac and just wanted the most

alcoholic beverage you could find because it never tasted great it just tasted refreshing and this tastes great and is also refreshing. We moved through a lot of gin the night we threw this party. And we, to be fair, we backed off

the vodka a little bit because that is one of the things that usually just makes it like kind of burn while you're drinking it. Like when you go to a bar and get a Vespros usually very vodka form. I want a cocktail that, you know, I'm out of fuel in my jet pack that's in the back of my ass in Martin.

I can just pour this in and I'm good to go. You backed off the vodka, so it's like three to one vodka, gin to vodka, right? So what do you guys do? I think what is the novel? It's three to one. No, it's three to one.

Oh, okay. So it's funny, we kind of backed off originally. That was our original approach, but then the wines came back in. We like the wine combination so much so we brought it up. Oh, am I missing remembering?

Is it actually the same ratio? Yeah. And so what is that like you want? So it's basically, that's one and a half, ounces of gin so that's your three part right and then we technically did one and a half parts of vodka so we did three quarters worth of wine

so it's not a three one half ratio we did a you know three one and a half one and a half ratio to really mellow it out and make it a way more palatable drink and thought that like three ounces of gin and one ounce of vodka might like you know ruin someone's night so when we originally started designing it we were looking for a higher proof vodka

because just the regular regular vodka's that go to market aren't, you know, where it's at back in the, back in the day, back in the 50s. Vodka 10 to the clock ended up about a 50% like 100 proof. And Stolley has a product in the market that's that hot. So when we were playing around. It is. It comes through.

You're going to burn when you drink that. But like technically if you're chasing and we're still experimented in this and I'm like a little bit more anal about it than Eddie is. I really want to like make the classic. You're the brain. Yeah. Craig is definitely like the stickler of the two of us. I always want to like just go wild.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Craig, it's always like kind of trying to bring its back in and be like, this isn't like on theme enough. I'm the bad cop. Yes, but it results in good cocktails.

It sure does. We've had fun with it. So yeah, to make the proper one, what we're experimenting with still is you should actually do Stollies 100. So they're like high fortified stuff. I wouldn't recommend three quarters ounce in that. Yeah.

You should probably do an actual full on. not a Navy strength. The Navy strength is not. Like a full on a London dry. Navy strength? Yeah, we're playing around to something else right now that has that in it.

What's Navy strength? Like it can run a destroyer? Runs a fleet. Runs the Pacific Fleet. It's a higher proof to be able to... Yeah, it's more. To, for the, what's it called,

preservative qualities? You're the German... The stick around? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, sure. I think that that is the technical term, thank you, Matt. The Navy strength's got more stick-arounds in it than the other one.

Wow. So it's higher-proof for that reason. Wait, did you guys feel that? I just did. Drunk it in this. Well, you're two for six so far, so. I am honestly so excited. Also, find out what people want in their pizzas.

Yeah, let's get. You guys hungry? I'm hungry. Should we bring the circuitry board in here? No, no. We're going to go empty stomach until we can't bear it anymore. Oh, great. All right.

Should bake for good podcast. Gorgeous. And I love the coop glass rather. What do you call standard martini? Just martini glasses. Talk those guys. It's the worst design glass, correct? Yeah, so easy to spill.

Yeah, it's ridiculous. It's such a pain in the ass. Good point. Now, someone once told me that a coop glass was designed on the shape of Marie Antoinette's breast. Is that? I didn't know that. I like that rumor. I don't look it up because I'm afraid you'll find it isn't true, but that's what I was once told.

No, that's better. I also heard that it was Marie Antoinette's breasts that made her husband stick-arounds. Boo! Maybe strength. Deleted. So far, I've heard nothing that needs to be edited out. And that was kept. It's not good.

Now, Matt, you and I were basically going to be the through line through this, Jimmy Blades as well. Yep. But if we need to one of us, the three of us, take a, you know, sabbatical. A Walter P.P.K. Yeah. Or run to the charcuttery plate.

Yeah. Which I'm going to do right now. Yeah, it's allowed. Absolutely. Okay. We're also happy to this, sir. This was for Emily. I don't know.

Oh. Oh. Oh. We got best for three days. This, uh, I, honestly, the previously best, Vesper I had had. Was it the Edgewood in, uh, Seattle. Okay.

I don't know if you're familiar with that hotel, but it is the rock and roll hotel where I believe that is the famous Led Zeppelin fish story or the who, whoever fucked someone with a fish, that one. And also the Beatles would, you can, the beauty of that hotel is you can fish from your window. It's built onto the top of the pier. So you're welcome to fish out the window. But they have a great bar downstairs, and one of their signature drinks is the Vesper. And that was previously my favorite. you have now surpassed that. We're honored, sir.

Yeah, that's very flattering. It's really, you've made it a drink that is not just for the purposes of getting drunk. And I appreciate that. Or we just streamlined the process. No, I think you did. I mean, you made it to where I would have three. Usually I'd cut it down at two. Oh, there he is, the man who can't make a good-looking shirkutory plate.

You're the Jackson Pollock of shirkutory plate. Yeah, I know. It's so well-plated. Get down to monster. Mark is on the scene. Please, would you like a, would you like it? Please, take a salami. I'm going to take a salami.

We are, first time we've offered our guest salami, and I think it's going well. Salami? Salami? No comment. Violently. I'm really excited about whatever could be next. More to come. I'm going to find some pizza.

I'm going to nurse this Vesper because I. Not me. You feel it? I can feel it coming in the air tonight. Hold on. And I've been waiting for this moment. For all my life. Hold on.

Hang on away. Nothing for you, Margo. All right. All right. We'll finish it off. Thank you. All right. Blades?

Yeah. What do you know? I'm here. Glad you're here. Guys, it's great to be here. This is like coming home. It always feels... You drink as much as you like...

You got a couch to crash on. Thank you. I did an Uber over here. So, none of us did. You didn't either? No, we're going to be here until 12, waiting for it all fall away. My wife's in Mexico. I got this...

She's not here? Your wife's in Mexico? Sounds like we're in Pasadena. What does that mean? She's not here? She's not here? She's out of town this weekend. Wow.

So I got... I got... room to spare. Thank you, Matt. You know, I usually... I didn't say this because when the guys were in here, because I didn't have a microphone. What's that?

I didn't say it's because he was too... He didn't have a microphone. I didn't have a microphone. But I usually kind of fear martinis a little bit because they're so intense. As you said before, we like our drinks a little on the girly side. Yeah.

Little in touch with their feminine side. Sure. The Matt Gurley side. But this one is very different. It's very lemony. Mm-hmm. And the alcohol is somewhat obfuscated. Yeah.

I just took a drink right now. Me too. And I really taste the alcohol this time. Yeah. Maybe it's because of the cheese. Bobbick! But forgive me for chewing. I'm chewing it.

I don't know if you can hear this. I've some podcast listeners love to hear people. I'll try to move away. It's the most. Bobbick. Bobik Ferdosey. Moonraker. This is like Moonwaker Redux.

Speaking of that, Hi, Bob. Take a Moonraker trading card a lot of it. Whatever pack you'd like, look at your top card. I pulled that one. Tell us what it is. Flowers of Death. Oh, that's for James.

Oh, you did not. Oh, you did not. I can't choose because they all look really good. This is great. You stick around at the end. I just take all the leftovers. I do have some Three's Company trading cards at home. That's amazing.

Which, you really? Yeah. Three's company. I'm great. I have a Holly Blass the enemy. She is holding a gun. Not at the enemy, of course. She's just sort of holding it as you would casually.

Unused still shot. Definitely. Was rejected. But I definitely like this. I did not even know they made moonwicker cards. This is great. Why that film of all? Because Star Wars.

This is the only one? Oh, it's the merchandising from Star Wars, definitely. This is the only film that has trading cards. Is that right? I'm sure. But it's the one I have. we see so probably well guys i hate to burst everyone's bubble but i had a set of jamsman trading cards that included the entire run up through die another day but that was some kind

of reissue something like no that was like the 25th anniversary thing but they weren't like 1962 style no no no no yeah no no no no i think uh bobic what do you like on a pizza let's just hear that right now i'm a huge fan of pepperoni me too yeah always i mean i'm more of a meat You're among. Olives are great. You're among friends. Babak and I are good pizza friends because we have different things. I don't eat any meat.

Okay. If that's a problem. What do you need? You want a pepper and onion situation? Or do you like an olive on there? You're like a black olive? I like a, yeah, like tomato and onion. Tomato and onion.

Well, tomato is just there because that's pizza. So. No, that's in the sauce form, sure. Look, here's what I'm getting you right now. We're going to have a white onion situation. From where are you ordering? I don't know. Okay.

A highly recommended place. What's it called? I'm ordering an authentic New York 18-inch style. From New York? From where? Something called Big Mamas. Have you heard of it? Oh.

This is a gigantic pizzas. It's 18 inches. But they make much larger pizzas. Like, that's why they're called Big Mamas. Right. They do the, hello. They do the table size. Hello, Mike.

They do the giant giant. Oh, my God. It's complete. Oh, yeah. Should I stick this in with the... Sticking in there. Mike is easy. not on Mike right now, but he's holding an alcohol.

He's holding an alcohol. He'll cycle people through, but make yourself at home. Excellent. Okay. Bobbick, where are you in your walk with Bond? Your walk with Bond? You've accepted Bond. I'm at the part where there's only one set of footsteps in the sand.

So who's carrying who? I think at this point I'm carrying Bond. I think we all are. Yeah. But you know who's about to carry Bond? Carry Fukenaga. Yeah. That is, I'm excited.

Let me tell you the good news about Carrie Fukunaga. Do you think that the, here's my worry, and I'm going to ask our guests if they feel the same. He's an auteur, right? He's a visionary. He sort of has his own idea of how to do things. Do you worry that he will have any conflict with Broccoli and Wilson? By the way, we're recording this on September 29th, so if by the time you listen to this, he's already gone. That's not our fault.

Yeah. Bob. It's a question to you and the audience. We've already covered it. I'm not super worried. Yeah. You think he's going to work with those two? I worry about Wilson, honestly, more than broccoli.

Cremudgeonly. It might be time to put him down. I think it might be. Who? Michael G. Wilson. Producer of the Bond franchise. Put him down?

He's not making good decisions. We essentially take him to his last vet appointment, if you know what I mean. Oh. I think you don't hire Kerry. Yeah. If you don't know. If you don't know what he's going to give you. Matt has not seen true detective.

True. Have you? I have. And what do you think? I mean, obviously, a very solid first season. It's amazing. Yeah. Yeah.

I know. I'm, yeah. Where do you fall in the second season? Not so good. Was Carrie responsible? Was he on board for both? No. Just that, well, he's an executive producer of second season, but he wasn't involved in it.

In fact, they go out of their way to do a passive-aggressive dig at him in season two where a director of a movie that's within the show is played by like a half-Japanese guy. Oh, hmm. Because he and the creator, Nick Pizzolato, notoriously, may have butted heads of it. What do they say about that character that's a dig? It's just he's kind of a bit of a, like, douchey guy. Yeah. And at that time, Fukunaga had, like, long hair with a man bun, and this guy kind of does.

Look like that. It's a ponytail. But you know what? I go to bat for both those seasons. The second is as good as the first one. But there's something in there for everyone. Yeah. I look, I hope that Kerry does a good job.

Oh, my God. It's Carrie Grant. Hold on. Oh, no. I carry, Gwaren. This is one of the two things we did it. I'm joking about tea. What did you say, Matt?

Oh, nothing, Carrie Grant. Thanks for coming by. My pleasure. Bobbick, have you make the Carrie? I have not. I'm such a huge fan. Well, that's not him. He's not here.

Hello. What do you have to say about this director, Carrie? I love the name Carrie. What do you think is the key to a good carry, grant, Carrie? No attention to detail. No resemblance of the original person. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Mild wacism.

Uh-huh. Edited out, in other words. Right. This is where your editor is going to earn his keep. Let me do a marker, 4905. Nope. You don't have to do a marker. We're going to listen to it. That's right. And actually do it. You're paying someone to do this. It's very exciting. Guys, I'm still building our pizzas. This is the problem. I'm not like not paying attention.

You're not here with those. I'm just like, what's a 36 inch pizza? How do you feel about spinach Florentine as a pizza? Into it. How do I make that happen? Spinach Florentine? Yeah. I thought you said Spanish Florentine. Or Spanish. I mean, that sounds great.

I don't know what that is. Guys, how does anyone feel about a white pizza? Yeah, I mean. I fucking love a white pizza. No, you don't care about it. No, I don't care for a white pizza. The white pizza's had it. It's entitled.

Yeah. Okay. Well, look, uh, this is awkward because I've already added one. Okay. A broccoli pizza? Do you want a broccoli pizza? I would do it. I can make that happen right here.

No, I don't know. Getting back to James Bond, are you guys excited about true detective Season 3? There's a True Detective Season 3 coming? Getting back to James Bond, are you excited about True Detective

Season 3? Is Carrie involved in season 3? Not at all. Involved. Oh, involving? Is Kerry involved?

Uh-oh. Uh-oh. I'll tell you how to direct something. I had one go with a born film. Give me another. Yes, never say never again.

Alec Guinness, ladies and gentlemen. Excuse me. Carrie, if you wouldn't mine scooching over. No problem. I'd like to see this whole thing unfold. Here's what's happening.

Guys, I'm feeling these drinks, if that's not already evident. Now, Bobbick, are you feeling, you've just had about half, not even half, probably a few sips of your first. Well, there's a lot of ice. I mean, there's a big tube ice. So I feel like I've had half the liquid. Okay. And the ice is.

We're like almost two in. I'm about, you give me about a half a cocktail. That's when I start to feel it. I'm certainly at the point of drinking in my life. where one cocktail is a very good place to be. Yeah. I honestly... Lost my footing.

I love... I don't drink very often. I'll do it, you know, let's say... I would say I'd average once every other month. So I'm like a six time a year drinker. Yeah. Wait, what? Well, I like to keep my reflexes as sharp as humanly possible.

That's nice. Just in case anything goes down. Once every other day, I'm heading straight to Fleming territory. But you smoke What? I sure do, pal So it's not for health reasons That you don't drink more

I sadly And for the record this air is in January I've probably quit by now Thanks You smoke, I drink Shee Oh yeah We got it

We got our lemmings Guys I'm choosing The last of the pizzas Okay Okay ready? Here's the situation This is an 18 inch This is a large pizza

They call it an extra large pizza We're going with a mozzarella cheese Nice A thin crust Or should I go Should I go regular cross Regular. A regular.

I like a regular. I thought you liked it thin. It's Jeremy that likes it. Oh. And you've already got your veggie situation. Okay. So stay the fuck out of this, James. You take it, Matt.

Here's the meat. We got pepperoni for Bobbick. Oh, there's pepperoni coming. Of course. That's a big one. I want everybody. Uh, should we get, like, should we go, like, can you go light on the, uh, done?

Added. Yeah. Does anyone... Is this like a buffalo mozzarella or is it just like a... It seems like it's a regular mozzarella situation. Because, I mean, that sounded great with. with the prosciutto by the way. Yeah.

You know what type of guy I am? When anybody asks me what type of pizza they want, I always say whatever you want. And it's not out of kindness, it's out of, I can't get involved. Guess what? No, what you do when someone says, do you want a pizza, you say, yeah, as long as you order it. That's true.

I hate dealing with that kind of thing. It seems like it's pizza specifically. It is, because pizzas are complicated because you still can't really get a pizza easily on a net. app, you know? Yeah, because there's so many special things. Like, I want light crust. Yeah, that's too much.

I don't care. Yeah, there's a lot of special instructions. Yeah. Look, I like what we have here, and if we need to change it at all, I'm happy to update later. Maybe add something else. How many pizzas are you getting, Matt? I'm getting an 18 inch, a 28 inch. Oh, and an 18 inch.

The 28 has the pepperoni situation. Okay. There's also some fries coming and three orders of chicken tenders. Oh, my God. I feel like this is enough for these. I don't think the fries are a good choice. You say no to the fries. And the reason being is there's no way fries stay delicious being delivered over a 20 minutes span.

I like what you're saying. This is why you launch things perfectly in the space. That's the engineer and me. That's true. I think we should. I write 80s fart jokes. So let's see. Should I sub something out for that?

Guys, we've got to get back to James Bond. Okay, James Bond. You have to. I'm busy ordering a pizza. I forgot my car, but I looked at it on. the outside the trivia card. And it was, has James Bond ever been to space? And I thought that was very appropriate for our group. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, guys. He absolutely has. Mottarella sticks are coming. I don't care what you say. That's a great choice. They're coming.

Yeah. I'm ordering this. It is getting delivered to Matt's address. And it is coming to me. And I am hitting save. It's not coming to us. So this is a question for experts. Are there other lovers, not experts? Oh. Are there other James. Bond films that have any dealing with space besides Moonwrecker? Well, yeah, diamonds are forever. Has a satellite. Die another day has a like laser satellite. This is why I come to you guys.

This is where you only live twice. Make an appointment though next time. They've got the... Yeah, you only live twice as trying to eat the Gemini rock. That's a big one. Yeah. Superman 2. But they don't always go to space.

To be clear, Bond doesn't always... Superman too. remotely done. Yeah. Bond has only been to... his space the one time. And it was a fantastical situation because not only did he'd have a perfect jumpsuit that fit him

chef's kiss, as we say, but he also was able to shoot lasers. And quite frankly, the Moonraker gun, if you're playing a Golden Eye on a Nintendo 64, it's a deadly weapon. One shot, you're dead. Really? Yeah. Because

it's the laser? I think so. I think it burns through your body. Visually, I always like the effects in Moonraker, but I didn't like the sound of the laser. You don't like the The pew-poo. Just that like, it's just kind of like slimy. Where Star Wars is like, crisp? It's got a pulse.

Yeah, it's crisp. It's dry. You're right. Well, it's like they, I think they went out to one of those high-tension wire situations. But that's what Star Wars did, right? But they didn't do anything else to it. No, they probably got a garden hose. So I think that space is wide open.

I think James Bond should return to space. If he does it in this one, that'd be great. You know, maybe we work in the new Space Force. No. Just really update it. There is a lot of talk of this next one, including Russians. And I'm curious about that, because as we all know, the Russians are the new Russians in that they're the enemy. Well, I think, you know, it's like any sort of great thing from the 80s.

It just eventually comes back. And the villainous Russians have returned. If you're listening, are you Russian? And if so, why? Yeah. Why are you Russian? Guys, this is airing in January when the Russians aren't our enemy anymore. Oh.

What happens? They completely... What happened? They become our friends, Matt. It all wraps up nicely. They admit to what they did. They apologize. Oh, okay.

And we say it's fine, as long as you feel remorseful. Yeah. Hello, I'm Vladimir Putin. I'm Vladimir Putin, and I'd like to apologize. Yeah. They said they wouldn't interfere in any more elections. Also, I'm kidding. That's pretty good, actually.

No, no, no. No? That's not, no. That's not him. Lidemar Putin. Vladimir Putin. It's kind of a mixture of Putin and robot. I am Lydemian.

What is your query? Yeah, it's Siri set to Russian accent. Vladimir, what's the weather? It's when a temperature or a climate is something that you wish to hear about. I have them on set on literal. That's right. Bobbick, tell us what you're up to. Are you digging into ice?

Are you melting a boat down to Europa? No, me personally, I'm not landing anything. But the lab is, we've got another Mars lander coming up in November 26. So that will be after this air, before this air. So all of you hope you watch that. And then there's another Mars rover launching in 2020 and getting there in 2021. What is going to make this one? Yeah, what's this one doing?

Are they going to put like... It's got all new instruments and some old instruments. We took the best of the old instruments, made them better, and then put new instruments. What's this one called? It's called Mars 2020 for now because the naming competition isn't done yet. So we get the kids to start naming it in the next year. Do you fear that it might be Mars McMars face? There is...

These are beautiful. Beautiful drinks have arrived. Oh, my God. This is gorgeous. Thank you. It has a heart in the phone. This looks like a volcano or something. wait a minute

oh my god this is amazing no no we're talking about serious things guys you know I don't know if you're familiar with Bobbick but he's trying to

make sure the all of mankind is bettered so before we get to the drinks Matt say hi oh like physically say hi I don't know if it's a video photo is it a boomerang these are gorgeous looking

so what do you call these flutes stemless flutes It's like champagne flute. Yeah. Yeah, we're calling it a Collins flute. A Collins flute. So it is... Mike Collins, the greatest astronaut to ever live?

Yeah, thank you. Yeah, thank you. I agree. CMP pilot. Okay. So this has... Apollo 11. Like a creamy paint that's darker at the top that flows to lighter at the bottom.

There's a fizz element or an egg white element? Yeah. And then it looks to be like a pink heart. It's like a very Sakura, like a Japanese cherry blossom. color if I were to describe it. It's incredible. Yeah. So let me, in that sense, is it you only live twice related?

No? This one's harder. Colder. Well, let me taste it. Let me smell it first. Yeah. Hmm. This one's turkey.

I'm keen to guess. Okay, so it's sparkling. It's got a bit of sparkle. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Some bubbles. Is there some champagne in there? Or is it soda? Soda.

Soto. We tried champagne in this one. We preferred the soda. Okay. I'm sorry. Would you like one? Oh, no. I'm sorry.

It's sort of a guessing game of this. This is... I am bad. My taste is... Is this the lavender? Yeah. Oh, it is. Lavender.

Okay, so this is a Bond movie that takes place in Ohio, California. Right. Hang on a second. Hang on a second, guys. Might we be dealing with the flowers of death from Moonraker? I wish we were. I wish we were.

I wish we were. I wish we were. Are we not dealing with a lot of it? of you to a kill here. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, is this a Silicon Valley delight? How did you do that? You didn't lead us on that path, by the way. You just sort of got there.

I said, oh hi, and Craig kind of gave me a... Wait a second, wait a second. Is there purebred... Is there purebred stallion in this? Shingen Smythe. Yeah. Hold on, so... We actually, so you're not tricky, but we did do a cocktail called the Sengen Smitz Mite.

That's not this one, but we did a French... Basically, yeah. French spirits inspired cocktail called Sinchen Smy. This is delicious. That's... You know,

yeah, Sazerag basically. But this one, you're very close with it. Your Avidu Akeel is correct. And then it's like bubbly. It's also correct. That's in the name. Is it the hot tub?

Is it the Fiona Fullerton? It is. Oh, my God. How did you do that? The name of the... Tickle my Chikovsky. Oh my God. You know,

I told everybody in junior high that Chikovsky was Russian. for basically Because you saw it in a Bond movie Yeah and I never thought she was making a pun Or like that was a like derailed train of thought

Lavender infused Stolich Naya vodka Saint Germain lemon Simple aquifaba soda Pishos bitters Wow This owed to Polo Ivanova Bond's female KGB counterpart

Takes its name from one of the films More kitsy moments As the spies enjoy Spa Time in San Francisco even though it tells James, de Tant can be beautiful. Beautiful indeed. Wait, I want to keep one of every one of these cards.

I know. That's exactly what I just was like thinking I should probably photograph each. I've got it underneath the mango tree, but I'm going to take this one because that one's so... We've got more. We've got more cards. Yeah, we got a couple of Xries, yeah. This is amazing.

So, yeah, this drink started in a couple different directions. Lean into that microphone there. Yeah, there's a classic cocktail called the San Francisco. or the San Francisco cocktail. There's slow gin and a couple other things, and we like the idea since fizzes, fizzes are normally done with egg whites, right? But there's, like, vegan trends and things going on

that really led to aqua faba, which is the chickpea water. It's, like, chickpea. So if you got a can of chickpeas, it's the, like, water that's, or the brine that's in the chickpeas. Oh, interesting. And that's the vegan equivalent of using egg whites in a cocktail. Is the slow gin why it's pink, because that's dark purple? Good question.

So Craig tried like hell to get Slogen into this cocktail, and we were really struggling with it. Oh, you guys are looking at each other like you had a moment. I went through probably three bottles of Slogen by myself, trying to figure it. Just straight from the bottle alone at night. Yeah, just like letting go. Dealing with the pressure. And it ended up becoming two drinks.

Yeah, so I was working on the bubbles ticomai Tachowski with, like, champagne in it. That was what I was initially thinking. And he was working on. this like vodka fizz or slojin fizz cocktail also bubbly but and then we just kind of like crossed cross the streams to jump uh movie franchises um yeah yeah and i don't know it resulted in two different drinks so one was more of a manhattan with slow gin in it it's celebrating mayday and then the other one we took the bubbles that was coming from the fizz concept and we doubled down with some with a vodka base to celebrate uh the russian it's it's it's great

gorgeous. It's truly... This is like a day in the life cocktail version. Yeah. Like it's a combination of Paul McCartney and Lenin. Oh, right.

The way that you find the two sons. Yeah. It really is. Yeah, and one part of the drink is clearly better than the other part. Wait a minute. Which part? Think about it.

You'll know the answer. Deep down. Not that part. I can comb across my head. What is that about? he's singing this song about just like daily abliction. Yeah, and then Paul has to take us from waking up

and combing his hair to getting the bus and seconds flat. It's ridiculous. Anyway, he knows how many holes it takes. That's right. So there you go. Bubbles took him by Tchaikovsky. It's great. I love the names.

I love life. He does, he does. luckily as the heavier Matt it has yet to hit me as much as my co-host but I have to say this this might be my favorite yet as far as the I just think that the flavor of this one this one tastes like it looks yes which is not to say yes anyway it's fantastic but also the silhouette of these three so far where you've got the coop glass, the stemless flute, the rocks glass, which has these gorgeous engravings in it with a little green mango tree.

What a trio. Do you think it's because they haven't been able to wash the glasses? So we just have to kind of keep moving along. We should probably have someone bust these. James. Would you mind holding a little linen towel over your arm? Yeah. We'll come back for some of these glasses soon.

We don't need them yet. Take your time. Well done. How's everybody feeling? Great. We got three more in us? I have at least three more. Great.

And if you want to double up on one, let us know. No, I better play it. At some point, I have to drive from my office to the bedroom. And guys, guess what? Pizza's coming. I've ordered it. Awesome. Right.

Awesome. The most James Bond food ever. Right. Yes. Great. Well, I have to say, this is the greatest episode we've ever done. It's the greatest day of my life. And that includes the day I was born.

Yeah. The day I was married. Yep. And the day that I died. Yeah. That was in the running. And it happened three weeks ago. Oh, mad.

You are looking a little pale. I've been pickled. Well, guys, I'm just so excited that you've accepted my license to drink. Thank you. And I can't wait to see what comes out next. And who comes in to meet us? We've got people rotating in the whole time. we've got a license to drink

I can't remember It's going straight to your liver There we go The magical liver But thank you gentlemen I can't wait Honestly if you do find another one of those line around You just let me know

Can I ask the question though What is the etymology of this aqua Faba? Oh yeah Oh I don't know Do you know where the name came Okay Faba water

I mean it sounds better than saying like Chikki water or whatever. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That's got to be it. Bobbick, we talked about this off, Mike, but I want to be sure to cover it on Mike. You got the thank you card for my sister. I did. I didn't get that. I thought it was strange to have a thank you card waiting for me when I got here. Bobbick was nice enough to, very nice to take my father and my sister and my nephew and me and James as well on a tour through JPL.

And they loved it. Wait, James. You went? Do you know who hasn't been, by the way? I was not. I was going to say, do you know who hasn't been? I have never been to JPL. You were outside of JPL. I was outside of JPL shooting a ridiculous segment called.

What the hell did we call that? Nerdist in Space, I think we called that? Yeah, it was Joan and I just stealing locations left and right. You need to come by. I do, absolutely. I've done it twice. It's wonderful. It was very nice of Bobbick to do it.

And let me just say, he won't say this, but they fear him over there. Yeah, as they should. He is a big wig. He's got the run of the place. I've also got a. say, are you in a bulking phase? Because you look jacked right now. Like, are you lifting?

Thank you guys. No, what I'm saying is, they fear you even more. Babick says jump and they say in what gravity. Yeah. What six, the Earth? The moon.

Jump and they say to what planet and or satellite. They have me lifting more satellites. You know, have you been... Here's a thing I could maybe exchange with one of these JPL tours. Are you familiar with Ronald Dean Moore's new series for all mankind.

Oh, for all mankind. I am, I am tangentially aware of it because I have a friend who's also working a little bit on it. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. Maybe you want to visit one of these moonsets? I do. Okay. All right, we're going to be in touch about it.

It is not, but let me tell you, they have a, when does this come out? January, when does that show come out? I probably can't say these things. Yeah. But there's some cool shit happening over at Sony and quite frankly, I'll drag you through. Ben, you can't leave. Ben Blacker. Ben, we need at least your reaction to a drink.

What do you got? What's happening? Ben, what has been your favorite beverage so far? Have you tried the three that have been coming out? Which one are you? I've had several. I'm one of the mats. Now we're talking.

That's the language that I understand to speak. The Vesper was. Wasn't it like the best Vesper you've ever had? The only. That's fair. That's fair. Julie, I know you don't like going on the mic. Mike.

Have you met Julie? Yeah. Did you like to give a drink? I did have a drink. Which one did you love? I had... Under the mango tree, that was the first defining. What's that?

This is the um, the bubbles tickle my Chikovsky. That's the name of it. And it's... Bye everyone. Bye, Ben. Man, and... Mad and... Mad and...

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