The Sloppy Boys - 110. Brandy Old Fashioned Sweet

Episode Date: November 25, 2022

The guys celebrate Thanksgiving with an Old Fashioned variant hailing from the supper clubs of Wisconsin.BRANDY OLD FASHIONED SWEET RECIPE2oz/60ml brandy3 dashes Angostura bitters2 orange slices2 brandied or maraschino cheries1 sugar cube7up, Sprite or club soda, chilled, to topAdd bitters, orange slices, cherries and sugar cube to an Old Fashioned glass and muddle to combine. Add ice to fill the glass, then add the brandy. Top with 7up, Sprite or club soda, and stir to chill. Garnish with a skewered cherry and an orange slice.Recipe via Liquor.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey folks, welcome to the Sloppy Boys, where we take a deep dive into the drinks that you love. I'm Jeff Dutton, along with Mike Hanford. Ooh, you caught me yawning, Jeff. Already? And Tim Kalpakis. What is up, tryptophan stylies? Oh,

yeah. I am sleepy. Yes, it's kind of a long weekend to laze around, huh? Oh, yeah. It's been nice to do that. And it keeps on going two more days. Oh, yeah. You guys watch the parade?

Yes, I do it every year and i when santa comes at the end i scream at what i want at the tv i want a red suit like yours i want every new nerf product that you didn't give me last year when i was a kid i asked santa for like uh i was like well it's santa so it doesn't matter and i asked him because it was like during my ninja turtle phase my long ninja turtle phase and uh i asked for like 100 foot soldiers he's santa he doesn't care may as well you know it's up to him to say no you can ask for what you want that was the funny thing about like that G.I. Joe's. All the foot soldiers, the grunt work guys, you just got one of them. Right. Unless you're Richie Rich.

Yeah. But he does the work of 10 men. When I was a kid writing a wish list, we didn't really do a Santa list for real, but when I did do it a couple of times, I remember it was era when it was very like funny to be a precocious kid so i remember purposely being like one corvette fully loaded like like trying to be funny so that my parents would be like tim you asked for too much and you lost well you're also secretly hoping like santa will know i'm funny so it'll be extra nice to me. Santa will give me a little slap on my bottom. Okay.

What? I'm still hoping for that. You may just get that. Not from the big man. From two medium men. For me, I'm coming out there. When I come out there, I'm going to get you. I'm overdue for one spank.

I wanted to mention this. The significance of Thanksgiving weekend. Everybody knows Thanksgiving day, big hoopla, but there's a whole culture to the layabout weekend that follows. And a lot of people forget it's the anniversary of the Calpe cordial. Yeah, no, we don't forget it on here, Sam. We don't. It's the anniversary.

Wow, that's crazy. Yeah, invented in Y That's crazy. Yeah? Invented in a duck about. Yeah, do you say anniversary or birthday? I feel like they're interchangeable a lot. Like, I remember when we hit 104 episodes on the pod, and I said sort of like happy birthday, and you were like, yep, happy anniversary. And I, oh, I couldn't live it down.

Yeah, because you're thinking the Calpe Cordial was created that day. It was born that day. It was born that day. It was probably born earlier than that. I mean, I did launch it out of my pussy. Yeah. Oh, jeez. Hey, the Tam O'Shanter, our beloved Tam O'Shanter, 100 years this year.

Ooh, that'll be good. 1922. Yeah, Muzo and Frank was 100 years a couple years ago. 2022, yeah. 1922. Oh, much like Gale Watch, of years ago. 22. Yeah. 1922. Much like Gail watch 2022. We do like some old ass shit. I can't believe Gail watch Gail watch 2022 is coming to a close.

I wonder if 23, the budget will be cleared and we can get back to business with the Gail. This, this is big to any newer listeners on the pod. We used to talk a lot about this pop star Gail, because we liked her name, the song, A, B, C, D, E song abcdefu mike was doing gail watch then gail canceled her fall tour because she announced like she needed to get her shit together she's like i'm a teenager and this is hard for me

i canceled my tour and she got a pimple i can't do her for a year on account of this major zit. No, did you hear the big news? She's opening for Taylor Swift on the Eras Tour. Yes, yes, I did hear that. She just got some big news today, too. She's like, she got a Grammy nom or something. Right. That's big for her.

Everyone else. The Grammy noms came out? The Taylor Swift openers are all super hip. It's like Moona and like King Princess or stuff like that. And then Gale. I don't know who Moona or King Princess is, but I do know Gale. Girl in Red maybe was on the list. It's all like, it's this very kind of- I thought Haim was doing it too, right?

Yeah. They're a big name. Sure. They seem like big name. Sure. They seem like a too big a name, but probably if Taylor Swift was like, hey, you want to open? They're like, yeah, sure. We'll definitely do it.

They're also part of the Taylor squad. They're in her videos, and she did a song with them, and it's a friend thing. It's a friend thing. I wish you had told me that early, because now I seem like a fucking buffoon. Okay, we'll delete that.

Hey, who's in our squad? The three of us. We need to put together a good squad. Yeah, Mitch is in the squad. Anyone who's been a guest. We got Mitch, Fran, Gabrus, Tart. That's good. You two, me,

Neil. We use YouTube from time to time. We got Neil. And then, you know, like Hank Hill and Marge. Yeah. And unfortunately, Benedicto and that asshole. Yeah, unfortunately. They don't always have to be positive additions to the squad. No.

They can be the wild card. Your squad's your squad, and that's that. Our squad sucks. I hope we don't hear from those guys or any guys like them anytime soon. Any pairs of weird little guys. Not into it. They did have one I really liked that you brought.

Yeah, I remember that. That you brought in. I like that one. Oh, Seals and Crofts Jr. Yeah. They have the pedigree, you gotta imagine. Right. I hate seeing nepotism like that in the industry oh well it worked on mike that time yeah it worked on me hey you guys seeing what's going on behind me here this plant plant yeah it was a pixelated plant oh it was nice

and bright green couple days ago all of a sudden, boom, dying. What happened? What changed? Not its watering routine, I'll tell you that much. Maybe it was just not a fan of the stinky owner. Yeah. I've had it here. I'm going to kill myself.

You guys are clear as a bell right now. I love it. Love it. Hey, maybe a cold snap took out that plant. You ever think of that? That could be. That could be.

All right. Well, how about you want to get into a little booze news? Hey, maybe a cold snap took out that plant. You ever think of that? That could be. That could be. All right. Well, how about you want to get in a little booze news? Please. Bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, booze news. Hit it. Somebody out there who's a classical person, make a classical version of your booze news.

Front of the line pass. I think that is called a note. Let's be honest. These people who play music from sheet music instead of from fucking second grade school. Put your heart in it. There's no soul in that type of music. No, no, no. That shit sucks. There's no soul.

There's no feeling. I can't touch your heart because i don't have one the classic booze news was sent to us by t chill bBop. And if you have a Booze News theme, email it to thesloppyboyspodcast at gmail.com. TChillBop. Getting closer to what the request was. I don't know. That seemed like computer music or video game music. It sounded like Sigur Rós or something to me.

Because, Mike, you had solicited classical Booze News themes, but then you said you didn't want them to have like break beats and stuff you wanted them to just be actual classical compositions like yes i love hearing us talk music us saying every good boy deserves fudge like that's how we talk in the studio it's like what note is this man but uh you know at the same time that was a very good i got lost in that one a little bit. It was moving. Yeah. That was like Brian Eno. Yes. Oh, yeah. Big Ship.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was it literally that? No, no, no. But if you want to hear Big Ship, watch the classic Birthday Boy sketch on YouTube. The Veteran Cop and the Veteran Cop. Oh, yes. I always thought that was Moby. Did we use Mby for something um yes god passing over the face of the water yeah okay that's heat that's at the end of here i love

putting it in stuff but i don't think i think we put it in our live show a lot but didn't make it okay hey there's another song god there's god there's another song am i loud enough yeah you sound great. Good, good, good. You know that song that's like, Dung, dung, dung, dung. Dung, dung, dung, dung. Dung, dung, dung, dung.

Sing to Jason. Having a wonderful Christmas time. That one? Coming up, Joe. The moon is right. No, but you're right. You are right. I'm wrong.

Ding, ding, ding, ding. It's like that one. It's very British. And I think it's like the end of Tra spotting when like shit starts moving real fast and it's uh it's like called like knucks world i don't know never mind i'm cutting this whole section no keep it um what's the booze news no hold on i had a memory am i not allowed to share no you please i just remembered i was very beginning of freshman year don't know anyone right i've maybe just met my roommate and probably eric shiner as well um anyway i i'm in my dorm and through the wall i hear that moby song god passing over the face of the waters and yeah

you know you gotta sometimes push yourself to make friends you know um some people like it's very it's very easy to make friends but i remember freshman year i don't have to sort of like i should go talk to that guy do that type of thing it takes a little bit of extra effort you're in a new place you don't know a lot of people i remember hearing this song i liked through the wall and i was like this guy's door's closed maybe i'll knock on his door and i'll tell him uh i like that i like that song yeah it's like day one of college maybe i'll maybe i'll become friends you gotta so i knock on the door and the guy goes yeah and i open it and i was like i see this you know fucking nerd sitting at his computer and And I'm like, hey, I'm Tim. I live next door. He's like, oh, okay.

And I was like, I love Heat. He's like, what? I was like, I love Heat. What? I love AC. Get out of my room. This song. I go, this song is from Heat.

I love that movie. I love Michael Mann. And he was like, oh, I don't know. This is Moby. And it was also like not even, he didn't even love the song. It was just like playing. I was like, okay. Well, I'm Tim.

And he's like, I'm Alex. And it was like, I didn't, it's not like I got rejected because I immediately saw I didn't want to be friends with Alex. Yeah, no, you did the right thing and Alex is bad. Alex missed out. He could have been fucking partying with Calpy. Could have been listening to Weezer in room 12. And one day strutting down the sunset strip. Exactly.

Conceivably. It is funny in like college or high school. Anytime you're going into a new situation and you like meet somebody and it's like, okay, we're eating lunch together, me and this person. We're getting along. And then as your time in college or the new job or whatever starts to go forward and you're not friends with that person anymore and you're like,

huh, that first day I ate lunch with them like they were going to be my best friend and then I learned more about them and I didn't we didn't match up friend-wise and I don't like that person very much. remember saying that when i went home for thanksgiving the first semester of college i remember telling my family they're like so yeah friends how's it going and i was like i i've got this group of friends and i like them and i guarantee they won't be my friends next year it's just like they live on my floor and like one guy from that floor

is still my friend, Eric Shiner. But like, I was very aware that I made a bunch of temporary friends because I was like, these friends fucking suck, man. Alex? Well, then you go home. You went home too. Alex? You expect me to hang out with Alex, dad?

I'm screaming at my dad. You think I'm hanging out with Alex? I don't see you hanging with Alex. He's never seen all of heat. Yeah. I remember you going home to, your mom told me about this in the first semester and she was, you came in and she's like, how's your, who are your friends? You're like,

they're okay. I haven't met Mike and Jeff yet, but what I have now is okay. I was crying into her shoulder and she's like, don't worry, you'll meet your Mike and Jeff someday. And not my brother Jeff. I said i said wait a second here's what'll happen i'll meet mike sophomore year at a table where you sign up to write for college tv shows and then i'll meet jeff junior year when i walk into his friend's dorm and i'm doing a Boston accent because I think it's funny

because I'm drinking Sam Adams. That was very funny, Tim. I remember clearly, clear as a bell. You were like, I parked in a red lot because you used to not be able to park in red lots. And the whole idea was so fun to me. Well, isn't it funny to think this is how how art changes over the years what's more hacky than doing a boston accent now but at the time i was doing it based on like boston-y people i had just met that were going to ithaca i thought i was creating a comedy character then jimmy fallon and tina fey are doing it all over town all the time actually no they were probably maybe even before college yeah i mean you go to Boston, you hear a lot of people talk like that. Remember we went to Chicago, and this was early on in the Birthday Boys,

and I walked by a cop, a big cop with a big mustache, and he was talking to his buddy. He was like, what's a fucking Chicago accent? Yeah, we got to go over there and do this. I was like, oh, my god, this guy talks exactly like what the thing is. Good on you, sir. So you better leave me alone.

You did not disappoint. I ate lunch at Antoine's. Old restaurant in New Orleans, Antoine's, and I sat down, I got lunch there by myself and I was getting like oysters, Rockefeller, and a bunch of old timey New Orleans food and my waiter

looked just like me. Same age as me, looked exactly like me, but he was like, oh, what can I get you for your lunch? I was like, holy shit! This is what I become if I move here? You should have like each

sort of envied the other's life and tried to switch places. You'd be the prince and the pauper. That'd be nice. Here's the weird thing. I was like, you're just like me. What's your name? And he's like, I'm Cajun Calpy.

How's it going? Cajun Calpy? You had a tough time with that first Cajun part there. I never did get a hang of it. Your own name. He hasn't met you yet, but his name is a modification on your name already.

I always wondered why my mama named me Ancient Calphie. You go around introducing yourself as Normal Calphie wondering what's so normal about it. Normal Calphie? What is that supposed to mean? Maybe I'll find out one day when I go to New Orleans. You guys want to hear some booze news?

Please. Yes, yes. Well, I got a bit of a special segment here because Thanksgiving weekend, like it is right now, this is a time for friends, is it not? People you're close to uh you know people people that people that you love and and who who are your closest friends you know who the closest friends are the real ones the ones the friends who hold you accountable

the friends who call you out the friends who love you enough to help you become the best version of yourself even if it means being a little hard on you sometimes right the writer dies i get what you're saying yeah jeff hit the clip oh shit i have a feeling this is neil campbell back with another edition of campbell's corrections this correction was actually sent in by ian campbell so if you'd like to send in a correction just make sure your last name is campbell and you can send it to me ian wanted me to offer a correction about the song big yellow taxi by joni mitchell it has been falsely claimed on the podcast that that song is about how in the late 60s a popular nightclub in Los Angeles was

torn down and replaced with a parking lot. But Big Yellow Taxi was inspired by a trip Joni Mitchell took to Honolulu where she stayed at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, the pink hotel mentioned in the lyrics. As Ms. Mitchell said, I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. When I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then I looked down, and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart. It seems like you guys might be getting that song confused with the song For What It's

Worth by Buffalo Springfield, which people commonly think was written about the Vietnam War or even the Kent State shootings, which occurred four years later. In reality, that song was inspired by the Sunset Strip curfew riots and the forced closure of the Pandora's Box nightclub, a popular hangout for youngsters. Alright, this has been another

stirring edition of Campbell's Corrections. Why did he laugh? Man, we were held accountable. Guys, do you know how many times i have shared that fun fact falsely that's my number one fact okay okay we don't have to freak out here this is okay we just will change the story next time we tell it that's all yeah we caught this just in time i've been spreading misinformation

left and right and i did i wasn't getting it confused with for what it's worth i always knew that was about the curfew on the sunset strip um how does that song go i can't think of something oh yeah that was just like a bunch of dumb fucking boomers. Boomers were like partying in the streets and the cops told them to go home. And they were like, you can't tell us to do that. But even more interesting, the Royal Hawaiian guys, we've been there. We had blue Hawaiians there. We were there with them. That's very cool.

With the corrector himself. She must have been not beachfront room-ish. Yeah, right? Oh, yeah, facing the parking lot. Yeah, that's... Okay, Joni. Take that up with the concierge. Yeah, next time have your management make sure they get you a nice room there.

Well, you know what? It's not too bad. If you're saying like, oh, I've been telling people the wrong thing, it sounds like people, a lot of people think that anyway. You know what I mean? Like that's a popular story. It's not like you misheard a story. You heard an incorrect story that everyone is telling.

Yeah, but why am I then sharing it without doing my own research and verifying it? Oh, nobody, half the things I say are researched. Yeah. I also want to say one other thing I haven't really looked into. There's this guy Q, and he does these drops. Yeah. They're very good. That's pretty good.

They're very good. I've heard of this guy. We could start going this direction. We could be that kind of thing. I like the Campbell's Corrections coming in again. I spoke to contest winner Neil Campbell, and I said it was funny that he has the funny music on it, and he said he didn't put that in.

Oh, that just happened to be in the environment. That was added by our editor-in-chief here of the Booze News. Yeah. Oh. When you're the editor-in-chief here of the Booze News. Yeah. Oh. When you're the editor-in-chief, you have to sometimes add music to segments. I like this image of Neil as a fancy guy in his study, and it makes me happy to add a little sound music too. Because Neil's playing a very studious character,

and studious people without music, that's boring. Also, our listeners are, these are Gen Z kids. You have to stimulate them. Otherwise, they're swiping to the next TikTok. Right. I know. I can't believe he goes over 15 seconds on these corrections and expects people to stick around.

That was a minute long. At least kids are scrolled away. Oh, my God. The scroll rate is crazy. They want the next soda challenge. Neil, you got to keep it tight. Yeah, they're flipping around their favorite podcast app. They're listening to Smartless right now.

Kids love Smartless. From Sloppy Boys to Smartless. They keep swiping. It's the next one alphabetically, I assume. Sure. And the ages of the hosts just go up and up and up. Smartless. Now, I wish I had a pair of underwear that was shirtless,

but that has yet to be for me. Not even one? You don't own one? No. I mean, upon opening the package, yes, I own them for a brief period. Yeah, they go on clean. It's so annoying how briefly they stay. Maybe that's why they call them briefs.

Yeah, it is. Briefly, it's a shortening of briefly clean underwear. Until you wear them, these are squeaky. That's good. That's good etymology behind the word briefs. Eventually they just drop the Lee clean. Briefly.

Well, thank, that's great that Neil sent those. I like that he keeps doing those. He's good. Yeah, me too. Keep them coming. Contest winner. He's holding us accountable. Now, okay, yes, that's good.

Good for the checks and balances. I got a little booze news myself. So yesterday at Thanksgiving, I was in charge of making the cocktails because, you know, when you come with, when everyone knows and everyone in the family knows you're a podcaster by cocktails, you don't get a day off even for Thanksgiving.

So I'm mixing and I'm buying this stuff. Hey, make me a Singapore sling. Singapore. Singapore. Pour me another one. Of those Singapore. Anyway, I made the Vieux Carré. Oh.

Because I really liked it. Recency bias. Recency bias. Recency bias. It was perfect for autumn, and it went over fantastically. People loved it. It's very fancy. If people feel the... I'll tell you this.

Here on the pod, we tend to like shake in our drinks, but Vieux Carré is a very nice stirrer drink around my house. I made a big pitcher of it, and then had the... I made a big pitcher of it. And then had the... At first, I had just an orange with a peeler next to it. And I had instructions like, pour this, add the cherries here, and add the orange peel.

But I was like, people don't know. So I peeled a bunch of orange peels and left them in a little dish. That's pretty nice. You're like a real mixologist. Yeah, I gave it a little stir every so often I passed by and I left some ice out and people did it up. Mike, when you make a big pitcher like that, bartenders, they call that batching.

You made a batch. So you could walk around telling everyone, you know, I batched it. It's batched. Does anyone have Vucaray? They're batched. They're batched over by the cocktail area yeah and batch by me sometimes people will be like oh i love that i'm a batch bitch give me more of that yeah yeah well that's the thing that i'm going around my great-grandma's like yeah bitched by you i was like what the fuck did you just say to me

what the fuck you say step outside i'm gonna beat your ass with a drumstick. Give me that thing. Save the drumstick for me, I'm going to beat Granny's ass. Great Granny Lydia's ass. Turn the lights off, we're going to the... We're going to the garage, turn the lights off. And then she's saying, spank me, Daddy. And you're like whoa you don't need to bring great granddad into this whoa bebop relax that's all fucked up

i'm telling rocksteady about this come on well that's what she she did that to get my head and then she just swiped my feet out and got the uh drumstick away from me she did the old sweep she ate it i said, Granny's moving quick. Rolling around in the garage by myself. She's already back inside eating dessert. All right. Yeah, she's knee deep in pumpkin pie. I got fucked up.

All right, Mike, that's enough nonsense. All right, all right, all right. I'm curious to hear about the drink of the day. Well, first you have to wrap up Booze News. Sorry, I always forget. Okay, two seconds. All right, wrappedrapped up. Okay.

The drink of the day. Brandy old-fashioned sweet you've had. No. Never had. I have not had. Have you heard? I haven't even heard officially. No, no.

I've heard about it on this pod, but never before. Never more, never more. Just from you last week. Great. Well, last year on the show at Thanksgiving, we did the old fashioned. And we thought- Did we? Or was it two years ago?

Some Thanksgiving we did it, yeah. Right. And Jeff, you were the one to say maybe we should have the tradition of old fashions. It's a very Thanksgiving-y cocktail. Did I say that? That's good. That's good. It's a very Thanksgiving cocktail. Did I say that? That's good. That's good. It's very good.

It's, it's, it's a warm holiday type of drink, but it's also stiff enough. You know, when you're eating all that, a big plate of food, it's hard to take down like a big creamy highball,

creamy highball. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. Yeah. Well, I, I like,

I think that like a nice light beer pairs very well with thanksgiving dinner but you can only fit one in your stomach so no no the real estate's too valuable in the stomach for a big old beer maybe you have early in the day of a bud light but then when you're eating you're having an old-fashioned have a view carry stop actually no that's perfect why continue um so we said maybe different thanksgivings we can do different takes there's many takes on the old-fashioned and the first one that came to mind is this drink that i've been wanting to do ever since we've started doing this podcast and interacting with drink fans because a while ago i heard about this thing that none of us have

experienced in real life but there's something called the Wisconsin Supper Clubs. You've heard me kind of talk about this, right? Yes, yes. I had watched. Grasshoppers. Yeah, a lot of Midwest sloppers have turned us on to it. And I watched a little PBS documentary and some YouTube videos. There's all these places like uh the buckhorn supper club and

ishnala and layman's and basically throughout wisconsin there's like 50 of them there are these old big old restaurants family owned and they have like you walk in and there's a big bar and when you sit down at your table they give you a little relish tray that's like a little bucket of carrots and ranishes, that type of thing. Lots of times they have a salad bar. In fact, the salad bar was first introduced at the Sky Club in Wisconsin. So that's a Wisconsin thing. Oh, like just the whole idea of a salad bar?

That's wild. The very first salad bar was like relish trays were popular. And they're like, what if we have a table with ice where we can keep the stuff for the relish trays and then that kind of became the salad bar phenomenon what what around when do you think that would be um this is like like 60s yeah this it's like mid 20th century so i think these started in the 30s but that type of thing was like a 50s 60s uh innovation and i think salad bars didn't really totally catch on until 70s 80s maybe um the look of these restaurants is like big tables with families eating surf and turf and they're talking and they're squawking and you kind of walk around and check in with people you know it's kind of a community vibe and i think that

you eat for like two hours friday nights they have a fish fry saturday nights they have a prime rib special and i think that like i've i've eventually got the vibe i can picture it but it is very frustrating to get an exact definition of what makes a wisconsin summer club because every interview in these documentaries it's always like an owner being like what makes a wisconsin supper club well first off you gotta have great food and then yeah like you know goes on to just describe what a restaurant is and other people will be waiters at a supper. You sit at a table and you pay for dinner. That's a summer club.

I remember one of the things we talked about was that since it's Wisconsin, they have like the thriving dairy industry. And so you have all that ice cream for your grasshoppers and your desserts. Right, because their desserts are a lot of like, it'll be a big piled up ice cream sundae that's like, a grasshopper is like the thin minty flavored one and stuff. Yeah. And I think there's a long before local was cool.

I think they're using a lot of like the cattle is local. Sure. You know, I imagine they're not short on cheese either. Locally sourced. I will not eat unless there's locally sourced meats and vegetables in the restaurant. Wow. Including Mickey D's. I will ask them if it's locally sourced. If they say no, I vegetables in the restaurant. Wow. Including Mickey D's. I will ask them if it's locally sourced.

If they say no, I'm out the door. Well, so you're always out the door. Always out the door to McDonald's. Yeah, it's local. It's from the next room over. These restaurants, they're rustic. They're steakhouse-y kind of, and everybody. They're eating their food.

They're talking, but what are they drinking? Are we talking like a smokehouse tam o'shanter what do we got i think both of those are are close because it's very it's very steakhouse-esque um yeah like a big big family restaurant steakhouse but we talked about what they're eating but what are they drinking brandy old fashions yeah baby i love we we all love old fashions and i think it's cool because there's like look there's no shortage of like a pretentious waxy mustache old fashion at a fancy bar but i love seeing a quick quick and easy cheapy old fashion with a red cherry and normal ice that fills the glass and is, you know,

just normal old-fashioned. And that's what these are like. And to the point where when you order an old... They don't use whiskey. They use brandy, which is made from grapes, and it's sweeter. And when you order a brandy old-fashioned at a supper club, they say sweet or sour.

And the sour gets a little splash of sour mix. Okay. And the sweet gets a little splash of sour mix. Okay. And the sweet gets a little of Sprite lemon lime. So yes, yes, that's what we're doing. Okay. Cause yeah,

I saw it referred to as the brandy old fashioned sweet. And there's also, I guess the sour brandy old fashioned. So this episode is called brandy old fashioned sweet. And perhaps next year we'll do brandy old fashioned sour so this episode is called brandy old-fashioned sweet and perhaps next year we'll do brandy old-fashioned sour um great cool and this is like this drink is like it really is what everybody's uh drinking it's i've never had one but it is obviously going to be very sweet because it's it's got the soda in it not club soda it's got sweetened seven up but then it still has the sugar and brandy is more sweet than whiskey.

So we're talking about a pretty sweet drink. And I think that Midwestern old people tastes maybe is kind of sweet. Okay. One thing I want to earmark just for when we talk about the ingredients, how is brandy different from cognac? Great question. Like, is it one of the square rectangle relationships where it's like not all brandies or cognacs but exactly all cognacs or brandies it's like tequila or champagne where it's cognac is a distinction within brandy it's all brandy and it's it's basically a spirit that

is made from grapes and then gets woody and it gives you a buzz and it's a great great toy story drink um but cognac just it adheres to a higher standard and it's french okay because i did go out and buy some uh brandy today that i maybe didn't need to do could use my cognac i did that i'm excited though i i had some fancy crevasse But I kind of wanted to have, I bought some like American, cheap American brandy like E&J.

Yeah, what's it called? Like XO or, yeah, E&J. E&J. That's what I got. And I went to the liquor store. I was like, what size brandy?

Like, what's your smallest brandy? And she like held one up. I was like, oh, I have that at home. Thank you. Nevermind. You lost the sale, bitch. And she's like,

get back here. What are you making? Why does it go live? You're like the Coppertone girl. You're running out. She's pulling down your pants from the back. Yeah. Just white ass hanging out.

Yeah. Well, I think at the Wisconsin Suburbs, they're not using French cognac. I think they're just pouring some American brandy. Oh. Oh, also, I want to say, Tim, before before we uh you know you mentioned old fashions and how great they are and how uh ubiquitous they are during covid i was making old fashions left and right because when i watch sopranos it makes me want a goddamn old fashion and you know i don't make it with i make it with good cherries and the big block ice,

but I'm eyeballing it. I don't care too much. I'm doing makers or bullet or whatever, but I got the shit and I'm making them. You're making them, dude. Now,

have you watched Mad Men? No, I know it's going to be even worse. Well, it's like, as far as like the drive to like, I need a cocktail while I watch this TV show.

And not just any cocktail. Don Draper drinks old fashions and there's an iconic scene where he's at a wedding and he sneaks off to a darkened bar and he makes an old fashioned while he's talking to Conrad Hilton. Yes, yes.

Whose great granddaughter was a little too promiscuous for my taste. Tim, you swore you wouldn't make such jokes. I'm trying to finish this story here he makes this old-fashioned and it's like you could just feel it like a lot of thought went into it it's like an iconic scene and people are like creaming their jeans watching him make this it's like watching tucci make a fucking negroni spagliato with prosecco in it no stunning did you do the recipe yet tim because? Because I got a big question about it. Here it comes.

The recipe is from liquor.com. Not an IBA drink. Here we go. Liquor is quicker. Okay. Three dashes of Angostura bitters. Two orange slices. Two brandied maraschino cherries.

One sugar cube. Two ounces brandy. Seven up Sprite or club soda chilled to top. Garnish, brandied or maraschino cherry, brandied, interesting. Garnish, orange slice. And here are the steps. Add bitters, orange slices, cherries, and sugar cube to an old-fashioned glass and muddle to combine. So this is more like what Draper was up to.

Yes. Add ice to fill glass. So you're not doing the one fancy cube. Then add brandy. And then here's the kicker top with seven up Sprite or club soda. Stir to chill. Garnish with a skewered cherry and an orange slice. Wow.

So here's my question. Oh, God. So there's two orange slices in there already? And then you put a garnish as a slice? Two orange slices, like thin slices, right? Yeah. Yeah, we're not talking like soccer practice wedges. We're talking like, yeah.

When I first read that's what I was picturing. I was like, how big is this cup? Dan's going to fill the glass. It's's fun though to watch them in this documentary i watched like you see a bartender making these fast and he's like orange sliced cherry quick muddle it's it's a down and dirty dry i have all the shit i am so excited to do it two specs i'll say this i got club soda so i'll be the guy to report on that i don't have spreader seven up i got sprite good to know i don't have Sprite or 7up I got Sprite I don't have a cube I'm just going to do a little dash of

Shug that's the one thing I don't have this is going to be crazy man okay cool you want to get into it I'm excited to sip and talk I've got a few things to tell you guys about too when we get back coming up

folks we're going to go do the about two when we get back. Tell us off, boss. That's good. Coming up. Folks, we're going to go do the muddling and the stirring. And the stirring. And we'll be right back here with Brandy Old Fashioned Sweets in Hand.

Brandy makes you Randy. Ooh. And we're back. Brandy Old Fashioned sweets in hand. Hooey, look at that thing, huh? Beautiful. Yeah. A lot of orange in there. A lot of orange.

Three orange slices, three cherries. Wow. Yeah, I kind of glazed over the cherry part there. That's two cherries mushed up in there. This is going to be a sweet-ass drink. You know, I've got a qualm with the muddling. Like, fucking, doesn't the brandy

get sucked up into that fruit and we're losing some? I'm going to have to chew on my muddled orange pulp at the end to make sure I get all my brandy. That's okay. Sure, yeah. You don't see me complaining. I bet there's going to make sure I could get all my grain. That's okay. Sure, yeah. You don't see me complaining. I bet there's going to be some crunchy sugar down there as well. It's hard to muddle those squeaky little wet fruit, huh?

Sliding around all over the place. I was using the back of my knife, and it was like they were getting away from me. And didn't we learn about muddling? This was at least true for something like the mint julep. You're not really supposed to mash it all. You're just supposed to give it a few taps just to kind of pop it open for mint. That's what they do at Wisconsin supper clubs.

It's just a smash smash. Knock knock. Yeah, it's not like a grind them into a paste. Well, I pulverized it. Jeff, you love muddling. You're always so excited when you see muddle on the- Because I have the little bat I feel like batter up it's Jeffy

batter up bitch now here we go squishes look at all that this is like an old punch this looks amazing oh yeah interesting

yeah you're not coming back for one of these first reaction i wish i did have some seven upper sprite i wouldn't mind a little sweet lemon lime yeah i gotta tell you i'm not really tasting the sprite at all it's all the uh booze and the sugar and the cherry stuff i'm getting i'm not tasting sprite but i'm getting it's a very sweet drink but it's nice it's like it's not cloying it's like you're sitting around a wisconsin supper club and you want a sweet drink i don't go fuck i uh this is one of those ones where like i poured the sprite in but, but my glass was already pretty full, so it was just a very gentle pouring, so none of the bubbles even started to fizz.

It's just like flat soda because it's so calm. See, Mike, I like how you're saying my glass was already pretty full, whereas Jeff would be like, well, my glass was actually pretty empty at the time. My glass was empty, and no one cared about me, and everyone else gets stuff, but what? Jeff! Everyone else gets stuff. But what? Jeff! Everyone else gets stuff. Why doesn't Jeff have anything? Why doesn't Jeff have anything?

He's got it all. He's got it all. He's got it all. He's got the two best co-hosts a guy could ever hope for. He's got a family and a friend group that love him. Sometimes what you've been looking for has been right in front of you the whole time. Is that true?

Yeah, it's true. Not for me. I want to, I want to create a star Wars style franchise, but for other people, yeah, it's,

I want a fucking Tesla. Watch yourself. Um, Hey, when I've topped up, I felt like I was adding a lot of club soda, and now I'm wondering if my drink is not as good as yours. I added a lot of Sprite. There you go, Jeff.

Mine's not as good as his. Compare and despair, Jeff. He's got the thing that I want. You have a drink in your hand, do you not? Is it getting you drunk? I do. It's good. It's good, but it's not what he has.

I'm with you, man. My problem is I chose my best looking old fashioned glass, which is like this, it was a Crown Royal giveaway and it's a nice looking glass, but it's a double old-fashioned glass. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. This glass is bigger than what I saw in the Supper Club documentary, and therefore, I had to add a lot of 7-Up to top up. Side note.

And ice. If you're an adult and you drink 7-Up, you're insane. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Wait, what did you use? You didn't drink 7-Up, you're insane. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Wait, what did you use? You didn't use 7-Up or Sprite? I did use 7-Up, yes. But I feel like on round two, I'm going to use a smaller old-fashioned glass that looks like what they did in the show.

Yeah. Great. I got to say, I have these kind of old-fashioned glasses, and they're a little small. I want to set a two thick old-fashioned glasses, and they're a little small. I want to set a two thick old-fashioned glasses, like real whiskey boys. Yeah, like heavy glass bottom. I just had this where on our Vieux Carré episode,

Jeff roasted my ass for having a faulty microphone cable. And I was like, sorry, I haven't bought a new microphone cable yet. And you're like, you're a professional podcaster. Order a new cable. Here's what you do. Now, the other day. Jeff's microphone was working well that day. Yelling.

He wasn't even peaking and he was screaming. He's good so i had basically maybe for four months had a crackly microphone cable and i didn't do anything about it the other day i finally went on amazon and i ordered a new cable and i want to say round trip i mean i ordered this thing it took 30 seconds And then it was one day delivery for free on Amazon. And it was here. And I'm thinking about this when you say like, I got to get those old fashioned glasses. Isn't it funny how a thing could just kick around? You're like,

I got to do it. And when you, when you finally do it, they're going to be $2 a piece. Anything that's outside of your routine takes forever to begin. Yeah. Like I, I have a,

you know, I grind my teeth when I sleep. I'm sure I'm well documented on the pod about that. Jeff, I'm with you. And then, so I got on Amazon, and also fuck Amazon. It's a bummer that that's the solution to everybody's product

problems. But I got the boil, you boil it in a, and then you make the depression on your teeth teeth and so it fits and you you trim it yeah it took me months to order it now it's sitting on my shelf unboiled for another month i'm just never gonna i'm gonna be a teeth grinder till the day i die i that's the the tooth mouth guard thing is i have tooth mouth guard the mouth guard thing is I have one too. And like a dentist made it for me and stuff. And I have worn that thing maybe like 5% of the time.

It's always something I just fucking forget. Wait, are you also because you're gritting your teeth? Uh-huh. So all three of us, I had this too. And I had to have like three appointments. My dentist made the thing, fitted the thing, and I never once wore it. Do you think that we're grinding our teeth in our sleep because we're so frustrated with each other?

No. My dentist, he said it was just one of you. Oh. You can tell that by, he's like, oh, it's just on the left side. He's like, you don't, yeah. You have a podcast with two co-hosts or are there three of you

there's three ah okay this is coming from one of them i said well which one he said i'm not a fucking fortune teller i don't listen to your shit uh but yeah it is i think i think teeth people with mouth guards like i think almost everyone has one yeah well you hear everyone everyone just like i don't wear it, but I have one. Well, I'm curious because I've got a large jaw and my assumption is that I have a big jaw bone, but it's possible that it's just weird muscle head that has grown around from clenching my teeth while I sleep. Damn. Yeah.

Hmm. Wow. Your chin is doing like a Bowflex exercise while you're asleep. Yeah, rise and grind. Rise and grind. Yeah, go to bed and grind too. Hey, Sigma grinds that.

That's good. It's weird to go to bed and grind because I'm coming home from the club where I was grinding on the dance floor. Yeah, so you grind at the office, you grind at the club floor yeah so you grind at the office you grind to the club and then you grind it so you got you grind all the day and between those i'm scrolling through the grinder app seeing what's what i need some time away from and your lunch is usually a grinder yeah jeff you were talking about uh watchingopranos and seeing what they got going on there. When they bring those fucking Italian subs into frame,

I just about lose my mind. Dude, I've been walking over to the Eastside Market and get myself a number nine or whatever. Timmy, that's my move. The number nine at the Eastside Market. I got it the other day. It's dynamite. LA doesn't have a lot of that shit. Just quick easy cheap italian sub so good you go up to the counter they give it to you in three minutes and they say do you want it with uh you know

the oil and salt and pepper and oregano and you say yes i want all the stuff you son of a bitch that's something i forget about when i make a sandwich myself at home it's like oh which i don't do much anymore because of the bread and i'm on keto but it's like oh yeah salt and pepper that's good here's the other thing those little yellow okay they're not pepperoncinis those are the wrinkly ones banana peppers though they're smooth they look like little um pepperoncinis, but you bite the tips off them. Just the tip. Yes. And then you squeeze,

you dribble the juices all over the inside of the scene. It's like, it's like nature's ketchup packet or something, you know? Yeah. I like when you look back in the kitchen, you see the chef biting the end off and squeeze. No,

you don't let the chef do it. You do it yourself. I'll give me those. I'll do those out here. Dude, when I was during the pandemic doing a Sopranos rewatch, happily getting fat because it didn't matter. I was eating a lot of, making a lot of sandwiches at home and I had a bottle of hoagie dressing. Oh, nice. Then spreading that out.

That made it, the stuff I was making at home really tasted like a deli sub. It was so good. Now, what is that? The stuff I was making at home really tasted like a deli sub. It was so good. Now, what is that? Is it like aioli or is it like wine vinegar? No, it's- Is it clear or is it creamy?

It's a vinaigrette, but it's higher in the oil. If it was a salad dressing, it would be more vinegary. This is just mainly oil, a little bit of vinegar, and a lot of little floaties in there and it's a brand you would know it's not it's not like bombante maybe it's it's like pickle brand and vlasic maybe bombante classic classic classic uh this is a damn good drink damn good drink let's do another round and Oh, wait. I want to talk real quick about a supper club I was at recently. Sure.

You've been going to supper clubs? About a month ago. Yeah, I mentioned I opened a couple shows for Kevin Nealon. Oh, yeah. It was like Bull Run or something? Bull Run, yeah. Up in Shirley, Massachusetts. I didn't know what to expect because it was pretty far

off the beaten path. And we get there and it's this really cool restaurant. I didn't, they had like a lot of steaks and stuff and like surf and turf. And I was like, okay, where's the show

going to be here? The hostess walks me all the way back and yeah, it's just this big banquet room with a bunch of round tables with people eating prime rib and that type of stuff. I was like, wow, this will be interesting. room with a bunch of round tables with people eating prime rib and uh that sounds great that

type of stuff i was like wow this will be interesting i've never done this before so you perform where like jessica rabbit would perform no no that that would be a different cool place this was like where you would have a banquet for like any any like a retirement party or uh for the end of a soccer season or something but you go out on stage and like part of the act i had to look around and be like hey what did you have tonight the prime rib and i kept going and somebody else had like the chicken and it was like the prime rib and the chicken on the each side of the stage were like the two things I just kept calling back. I don't know if I've talked about this before, but doing the shows with Kevin Nealon, his audience is a little older than what I'm used to,

so my stuff didn't go terribly well. But this was probably the best one it did, and I had a good show, but it was all just relying on like, Hey, it was like prime rib over here, right? Prime rib.

You talked about that before. Yeah. Okay. I always think it's, I've never really performed, formed in a, in a comedy club. We did a couple of show birthday boys,

a couple of sets at a laugh factory, but it's so weird. They were a little weird little we're used to performing in comedy theaters to have the waitresses buzzing around and taking drink orders is really hard to tune out it's tough to uh create the fourth wall when there's that much yeah uh activity and and people aren't just like we're sitting silent facing forward disbelief suspended right right right i think if i were to go to like a proper uh club like comedy club and like someone heckled me i'd be like i don't know what to fucking do here

this doesn't usually happen um everyone's usually paid their five dollars and wants to see a comedic premise we tom arnold was booking a stand-up show at the Laugh Factory for a while, and he wanted to get some young blood in there and some sketch stuff in there. So back in the day when we were hot on the scene, we did some birthday boy sets. But you say in the heckle thing, nobody heckled us. In fact, those shows went really well for us. They were also like at 6 in the afternoon.

They were like a weird time there was a guy you think six is the afternoon i call that evening um there's a stand-up comedian who you would know who does this bit where he he has his he puts two fingers on his nose on the bridge of his nose and he is like oh my god i'm so neurotic and i talk like this and then i put my head down and like i'm kind of like this and then i put my do you know this guy he's like a 90s club guy and it's like it's probably better we don't name him anyway but keep going i remember this story well well i i just remembered that like uh that harris whittles said that when we were we were doing our sketch on stage and doing well and getting laughs and stuff but it

was like i mean it was sketch comedy and we were naked it was a whole thing but that that guy was in the back of the room being like like just needing to be the boomer who yeah of course oh it's any booze news theme makers you could use that sample yeah yeah here's one for you but it's funny they're just like the paying public didn't have a problem with us but the old fucking fart who does stand up there is like yeah oh he's back there trying to gatekeep hoping that people hear his scoffs and then join in but nobody joined in they left him hanging out to dry and you know what i heard he's up to now what dead die die dead of bad comedy etiquette damn that's tough well rest in peace hey you know who's at one of those shows uh steve-o and it was

like he was just starting stand-up yeah and now he's like touring and so yeah he was and he was super nervous he was like he was and he did not do well but i'm sure he's a lot better now i think he like tours and does big shows now yeah yeah yeah and that like i think he um has really found himself as a podcaster one of he's one of us i think he just likes to talk to people about their experiences and stuff and isn't so much like a get on stage and tell punch lines kind of funny guy but he's i mean steve-o is great he's the steve-o man now have you two as sloppy boys have you you felt Steve-O had like the blue chic Farley thing of being having a presence on screen that people expected you to be in real life? And Steve-O has talked about in his normal life. He thought in the same way that like Johnny Knoxville carries around a mousetrap in case he has to snap somebody's balls.

Steve-O built a persona on screen that then he enjoyed living up to in life and that was part of his addiction and stuff you guys are sloppy boys you guys are a mythical proportions you're a party rock band you're podcasters who drink have you two felt pressure in real life to live up to your name i this has come up come this has crossed my path before and it's happened before shows we know people will say like hey can i get you a drink can i get you a shot or something yeah that's the biggest one i know the whole thing is like we're a party band but i say you know i don't drink until i'm on stage i like to stay uh i like to start it up there like i bring a beer or two but you know

me and jeff like to get shithouse before the show so right now somebody's got to keep track of what's going on no shit house per se no i do like but me and jeff do like two drinks you do zero before the show right until i'm on stage i have two beers with me but uh yeah that that had to be a thing where i had to like i had certain people i've i always very nice that people uh ask but a little bit of disappointment like oh um well that's what i thought you did yeah right i mean i love it on just a civilian night when you're out at a bar in la and someone sends over a scorpion ball that fucking rules oh that's right slop heads if you're listening we love talk to us send us drinks

we fucking love it show night yeah you're you're you're keeping a little tally but um i mean i love it when somebody gives me five red ball fireball five fireballs in a row and i go cross-eyed it's fun and if you and if you see me out and i'm saying something like no i've got an early morning or i've gotta you to really be on point tomorrow because something very important, I've got a job review, don't listen to me. Push those drinks on me.

Here's what I love. When we're, if you're a bar owner or something, take note of this. A boner? With Sloppy Boys, we're in Chicago. We were playing a show at Subterranean. We go over to,

what's that? It's like the Old town pub or the old old town ale house it's like a a bar that's near second style yes kind of kind of an old uh second city comedy hangout what the we go up yeah yeah we we say hey we're in chicago let's get some uh old styles and some malorts and stuff and the bartender there no charge he knows the sloppy boys bing bang boom then in that same city i go to three dots in a dash the tiki bar walk downstairs say hey this is my kind of place walk up to the bar order myself a mai tai no charge this is the town you know this? This is a good town. And that's the Midwest for you. Speaking of Wisconsin suburb clubs, fucking these people know the good shit.

Speaking of good shit, I might do a second one. I don't usually go in for that sort of thing. I need to make a second one because I don't think that my proportions were right. I'm doing a smaller glass. I want to get a good read on this one. Yeah, smaller glass.

I've got so much crap in this glass still. I'm just going to add to this. Yeah, you'd be right to do so. I ate my orange pulp and it was very brandy soaked. So you might want to do that. Eat your pulp. Nice. Eat your pulp.

Chew it. All right, folks. We'll be right back after this. Now we're back with round two. Check out this little Ikea glass. Oh, that's nice. I'm hoping the proportions work out. Check me out. I have a smaller...

Now this is the Crown Royal royal glass so the other one was a covasia glass this looks pretty perfect small same glass for me same thing sips oh yes yeah that's a little better yep still missing the uh seven up sprite though i gotta say this smaller glass is great because I still put a splash of 7-Up, but I don't have a big glugger of, you know, sweet soda. Right. Mmm.

Those maraschino cherries soaked in that syrup. Come on. Yeah. I wish I had... It's come on. I wish I had some more of the uh the filthies tim that you got me i wish i had i wish i had some filthies that could be a song tim i don't like that song okay sorry well you don't like you don't like your version is great your version is great i don't like i'm

better than steve lacy yep yep yep here's the thing i can great. I don't like that. I'm better than Steve Lacey? Yep, yep, yep. Jeff! But here's the thing. I can't believe you don't like that song. What the fuck? No shit. I think the melodies are bad. He drunk. I think he's...

It's a bad outsider artist-esque song that doesn't work for me. It's like a Daniel Johnson-esque stab at making rock music. If you're judging it against other bedroom pop songs, I get you. But you don't think that that's cool that that's at the top of the charts? No, I think it's bad. You think it's bad for music?

Yeah, it's not just that part. That part is actually melodically less offensive to me. The verse is just fingernails on a chalkboard to me but anyway we're not here to talk about steve lacy no save that for lizzie triana anyway this uh i'm using full-on luxardo cherries on this three per drink yeah this drink is costing me like this is like even in my own home this is like a seven, even in my own home, this is like a $7 cocktail. In my own home. And do you put that into the tip jar when you make yourself one? In my own home?

Yeah. Cherries are so good that we make such a fuss on this show about how we all love Luxardo fancy cherries, but then also just the cheapy maraschinos, what I'm having right now, are just as delicious. Like, they're different, but it's great. Yeah, I would beg to differ with you on that one. yeah you ask yourself am i in the mood for a bright red or a dark red yeah at the fable in eagle rock at little mookie b's birthday i was having these i had old fashions there and they did similar to this little glass filled to the top with ice and that's I don't know why.

I don't like the look of an old fashioned. It's just like the big cube and then the tiny dribble. Just the one cube. Yeah. Really? I want it. I like a small glasses filled. Tim, I'm going to make you one.

You like clinkers? No, no. I'm going to make you one at the J man's house. Well, Jeff, do you have anything you want to ask us, particularly about this drink? Yeah, I was going to ask what are your final thoughts on a drink like this? Order again. Again?

That's it. Yeah, me too. This falls short of a Stone Cold Classic for me because I don't think I've nailed it personally, even though I'm doing this to specs, liquor.com. Yeah. Jeff,

I would say go a little heavy on the sugar or a splash of simple syrup. If you have, and I don't know if you have a squeeze of lime, you could turn your club soda into homemade Sprite. Yeah, I think you're right. The move is maybe I was just a little too, if I had a,

if I had a sugar cube, I would have nailed it. And I think I guesstimated a little light on the sugar. An honest mistake. That warm behind the ears feeling really sneaks up to you on this one. Sure. Because you feel like you're drinking a soda, an orange soda, and all of a sudden, your ears are warm.

Like, this isn't Slice. Tim, your thoughts thoughts your final your final feelings order again i love it it's sweet but it's knowingly so it's called a brandy old-fashioned sweet so order this when you're in the mood for a sweet drink um as opposed to some drinks we do on the show where it's just like, oh, the measurements offer like, you know, this is delicious when you want a sweet drink. I love it. I would love when the sloppy boys finally tour the Midwest outside of just Chicago. I would love it if we could stop at the fucking Sky Club or Buckhorn's Supper Club and eat a big fat prime rib for hours and hours we imagine us pre-show relish tray salad bar surf and turf 10 or 20 brandy old-fashioned sweets and then we roll up to the

show like pre and post show i think the bpm of our songs might suffer if we do that lyrically as well speaking of the midwest our best post show meal me and hanford and after chicago show went over to piquad's pizza got a a pizza and a pitcher of old style and just fucking went to town at midnight we got something else too like we had a lot of food in front of us we got an app too that was and uh i think we finished that little what a delight when when a town where the kitchens are open late. Not just the bars, but it's midnight and you can still order food. And not just the Taco Bell test kitchen.

These are real restaurants. Chefs putting in late hours. Now, guys, I'm going to a nice cocktail place tomorrow. I'm going to Maison Primaire. Oh, my God. The first house. That's the first house. The first house.

I've been there before. It's very good. And I need to think up, you know, every time we're on this show and we have a cocktail and I'm like, I'll wait until a pro can make me one of those. I got to figure that out and do that tomorrow and have a... Oh, I would say... A pro make one of those. I got to figure that out and do that tomorrow and have a pro make one of our drinks. Oh, you want one that maybe you made wrong and you want a pro to make it right.

Because I was going to say V. Coray would be perfect. Oh yes, that would be good. But you already like those. Their martinis over there are very good. There's something called the Casablanca that I saw on the menu that I might go for. But yeah, I'm going yeah, I'll report back.

That sounds great. I ate at Musso and Frank last week, and I had a stinger, which was sweet but delicious. And that's an old cocktail, classic cocktail. It's not on the IBA list. But Mike, you mentioned it once on the show. Have you heard of stingers? I mentioned it? I don't remember.

Yeah, you said. Maybe I mentioned it as a joke. Yeah, you mentioned it as a joke show have you heard of stingers i mentioned it i don't remember yeah you said maybe i mentioned it as a joke yeah you mentioned it as a joke but you said it you were you were like in an in an old episode we were talking about the uh we were talking about the austin powers bar in glendale and we were saying it would be funny if you just treated that as your everyday watering hole and you were like mini me set me up with a stinger damn i do come up with some good stuff on this podcast every so often well i had when you said it i was like quietly off mic what the fuck's a stinger what the fuck's this guy talking about he doesn't know what the next thing i, I'm eating dinner with my in-laws at fucking Musso and Frank. I say,

give me a stinger. I look it up. It's Richard Nixon's favorite drink. Oh, no comment. No comment. I also had a Ramos fizz, which was delicious

and some other weird fucking thing. Musso and Frank has all the weirdies another one guys we got to do an episode about the fucking venice room in monterey park yes california let's do that when i go out amazing dive bar where you cook your own steak and then the cocktail recipe is from 1982. Recipe? Menu? We've done that before. We said episode last time, too. Yeah, what the fuck?

We've done that. You know, earlier I was talking about the Chicago cop who talked like this. Tim, you going out to dinner with the in-laws and having three cocktails is also like also like yeah that's what people do i guess i do the in-laws are here i gotta i need three stiff drinks keep them coming every time we we we usually go to the arroyo chop house in pasadena and then for special occasions we'll go to mousse on frank but it's always the same thing where i do all kind of my my my cordial chatting in the first third of the meal because i'm well aware that i'm gonna get fucking tanks and then by the end of the meal i'm just sort of like receded back into the leather sure sure

and then mid meal you're like can't talk mouthful yeah that's a good excuse. I also. Jessica, you take it from here. I told all my stories. I pulled a real Calpy move where I always order a ribeye steak. And, you know, I tend to get like a wedge salad and a ribeye. And then. One of your 30 of the year. I was. We were at Musso and I was like, you know what? I'm getting the lobster Thermidor.

And they were like. Wow. You're getting the lobster Thermidor. And were like wow you're getting the lobster thermidor and then keep it down i don't know if i'm going to it was the buzz around the booth and then the waiter took everyone's order ended on me and he was like sir what'd you have and i said ribeye medium rare and everybody said oh he chickened out he chickened out of the lobster correct under pressure you know what i like doing that uh purposely when I'm having dinner with people and be like, oh, what are you going to get?

And saying what I'm going to get. And then when it comes around to me, switching it up. And they go, you didn't get the thing. I go, I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.

I know. I know. I know. It was a little joke for me on you. It just gives us something to talk about. There's nothing ever to talk about. That's our show. Follow us on social media

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To you millennials You fucking millennials spend all your money On your lattes and your iPhone And put our faces on it. Let me tell you something to you millennials. This is quality glassware. You fucking millennials spend all your money on your lattes and your iPhone. But if you saved your money, you could get Sloppy Boy's merch. You could get some merch for the, you get some glassware that you'll never be able to put in your home. Because you can't afford one. You'll never have a home. You'll never own. Hey, speaking of cool glassware.

Folks, you're never going to own. You guys, you talk about cool glassware as if you're not about to see some right now. Booze. Look at that. Oh, shit. That's cool, man. Okay, first of all, it's a glass that looks like a can. It's got the little lip on the top.

We should sell those, too. Utica Club Pilsner Lager Beer. I got this at the brewery in Utica, New York. Oh, that's cool. And I'm wearing a Ham's Beer t-shirt. Damn. Yep. Oh, well, that's good.

That's good. All right. Well, why don't we meet up here the same time next week? Sure. And folks listening, maybe bring a friend next time. Yeah. And don't forget to rank and report. Oh, yeah. Give it up for your boys.

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