The Sloppy Boys - 117. French Connection

Episode Date: January 13, 2023

The guys stir up a 70's staple named after the Gene Hackman film.FRENCH CONNECTION COCKTAIL1.2oz/35ml Cognac1.2oz/35ml AmarettoPour all ingredients directly into an old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Stir gently.Recipe via the International Bartenders Association (https://www.iba-world.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. Yeah, what's up, dude? and Tim Kalpakis what is up Michael explain yourself what's that dude oh my god he's so cool he's so relaxed

he's cool laid back um uh yeah it's whatever just uh it's whatever it's cool no it's great to be here

this is it's awesome oh my god he's such a cool guy he's unfazed by anything and I love I love the way you two interact On this thing it's so fun Oh you do?

Yeah it's great to be a part of this thing Sorry can I swear on this thing? Is this like a new year in full swing? Like you're just Brand new you? I just sort of decided to chill out That was my resolution to chill out a little more And it actually took hold.

The vocal fry. It actually took hold. I'm just kidding! I'm still as cartoony as ever. The man's a goofball after all. Could you imagine acting that way? That's how most people act kind

of like i've i've definitely listened to podcasts uh and you know you know these people but i'm not gonna name them but you know people who host a podcast and do they're sort of like um you know i think when someone is being trying is, talking cool, and it comes from insecurity, right? You know, they're like, if I show my true self, I might not get laid. So I have to put on a voice. You're talking like Machine Gun Kelly types? Yeah. Oh, that's Earth's best example.

That's a guy who's a rock star on top of the world but like he's afraid that i tim kelpakis might see him in an interview and notice that he's actually a dorkus very shy man yeah well it's true like anyone like shirani yeah anyone who uh spends that much time like on their craft and their you know i think his job is like a 24-7 job doing promo and whatever not his craft necessarily but promo he's uh got no life so he's just is kind of a nerd i mean in a way like if you're doing something that long it's like you're a nerd about it he's probably burying himself uh in life because he doesn't connect with any humans but he also does it's not just promo he writes graphic novels and directs movies that nobody watches. That guy works.

Right, right, right, right. I forgot about that. That's right. Well, if you were to watch the doc like we did, they make it sound like he's in the studio until 3 a.m., bro. Yeah. Well, he probably is because he's just got that type of time and he's got to move on to his movies.

Easy to be in the studio until 3am when you start at 11pm. That's a thing they don't mention. Yeah, they do that. They do a late dinner, then they get to work. Maybe you should leave that studio a little earlier and his songs would be good. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Maybe take one was better than

take 200. Yeah. I mean the cheese crunch. Yeah. I mean the cheese crunch. Nice. Don't! I had to edit them out last time. There's a few snuck in there. I like that. No, I know. Well, we're gonna hear about it, I'm sure. The listeners love it. Speaking of last time,

that last water episode, look what I got over here. Look at the size of this water jug. Whoa. A life is good. 50-ouncer! When it's full, it's hard to hold. It's carrying around an anvil. It really is. I drink two of these a day. No shit.

That's too much water, Mike. Do you whiz a lot? That's too much water, you say? I think so. Well, I'll tell you what. I really got onto this New Year's resolution thing. Hanford Gets Healthy? It's a Hanford Gets Healthy day over here.

I thought it was talking cool. No, that was just kind of a joke. Which is a cool thing to do. I'm trying to, and it's not a specific thing, but just trying to be like, put the phone down more, wake up earlier, like consistently wake up earlier, drink the water, do the phone down more. Wake up earlier. Like, consistently wake up earlier. Drink the water.

Do the runs. Now, Mike, on New Year's Day, I had lunch with you in New York. And I'm trying to remember what you ordered. I had deep fried duck and a beer. Yeah. Did you eat healthy on that meal? Were you at Hanford Gets Healthy? I may have stayed keto. I did the wonton soup.

Not keto. And sesame the wonton soup. Not keto. And sesame chicken over white rice. Junk food. Trash. Yeah, well, you know, that was New Year's Day. Yes, it was still a holiday. That was New Year's Day. And look, this is Hanford Gets Healthy.

This is Hanford every single meal has a slice of kale and watercress. Hanford isn't leading a Spartan life of joylessness. No, no, no. You know, joy is a big part of his life. I was sort of thinking, no actual resolutions, but was like, you know, got a little partied out over the holidays with the boozing and the chewing. Schmoozing. Boozing and schmoozing.

Chewing, the swallowing. Chewing it out. I was not chewing. Oh, that would be a... Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. What?

We should track a piece of food from bite to butt? No, no, no. I was going to say... From bite to butt? That's good. From bite to butt. That's good, too. We are very good at coming up with

Titles for things And then not do anything with it I was going to say if we did like a Sloppy Boys meet and greet it would be called Sloppy Boys Booze and Schmooze That is very good We could charge a lot of money for a Booze and Schmooze Yeah who wants to Booze and Schmooze

Okay the tour is now The tour is now the Booze and Schmooze Oh no it's Booze now the booze and schmooze. Oh, no, it's booze because the booze is bougie. Booze and schmooze. Booze and schmooze. Hey, are you paying $200? $200 for the sloppy boys?

Booze and schmooze? Go down to the booze and schmooze. We're going to shake your head. We're doing it all for moose month. We'll pass you a Negroni and talk to you about the sports game that's on TV. It's us sitting alone at a table. No one comes over.

We had to pay 200 bucks to get in. This is a failed Booze and Schmooze. Hey, can we talk about fish real quick before we get into Bibbibbibbib? Yeah, we hadn't talked about our time here. I want to hear our i want to hear i want to hear all the every chord every note you're referring to new year's eve madison square garden me and hanford on stage with trey well above the stage in our seats but um uh mike

this it was your third show that week yeah i uh i'd never done this before but i did a bunch of shows in a row they played four shows i did the first two nights, skipped the third, and then went to the fourth, which was New Year's. And I had a lot of fun. It was very fun to do that, to sort of get into a rhythm of it and say, hey, I'm going to be back here tomorrow. We'll see how the sets stack up. And it was fun.

And Mike, I'm sure you really get to know Madison Square Garden like it's your own living room. A little bit. You stroll in there, you know where the bathrooms are, you know where the trash is, the concessions. You know what's so funny? The first time, so I went with we've hung out with our buddy Eric Lenz. I went with him. He's a big Fish fan.

Is he a Wook? He's a Wook? What is a Wook? I a what is a wook i forget what a wook exactly i think a look is like a big bearded guys oh i thought it was just a fish fan i don't know i forget but anyway we we go to this we go to this part uh i i'm trying to ignore it he's gonna pop that blood vessel in his forehead at the very beginning of the year so for the first two nights I went with him and he sort of organized it he got the tickets and stuff

and there were nice seats and we're walking in with our group and he's like oh guys it's this way and we went into like the suite only entrance we didn't have suite seats but he goes so we go up he's like yep these six guys were in the suite so we go up he's like yep i'm uh these six guys were in the suite so we go right in it's easy through the uh the checkpoint and everything

and then the next night we try because he didn't have suite tickets but he just said like hey you show some confidence you walk right in no shit the next night we go up he's like yeah uh these six guys and he's like it was a different security guy's like let me see your ticket no you guys can't use this entrance he He's like, we did yesterday. He's like, yeah, but you don't have the ticket for it. So it was like the security head. Anyway, so yes, Jeff, knowing the back and forth of MSG for the three days was fun. Noise.

They played a lot of great hits. They played the hits you hear on the radio all the time. Tim, I think Tim had a fun time. I had a great time. I especially loved, like, for the midnight zone of the night. I mean, where else? The gag. I have had, in my long 39-year life, how many good New Year's Eves have I had? I haven't had any bad ones, but i maybe had a stretch of like three years in my 20s where i had new year's eve figured out where i we would go to the

the ucb party on franklin the best people that you wanted to see on the night you wanted to be with people wonderful party uh you know you'd have duds djing you'd have Dutz DJing, you'd have Jessica DJing. It was like a very fun type of a night. You'd have me by the DJ booth saying, could you play this? Can you play us a different song, please? I felt like before that, when I was a teenager, my best friends all were valets at a country club. So they would all have to cater uh parties on new year's eve and i

so i i was like and then even in college they'd be doing that and you know i and i'd be with i'd be back home so i have a long track record of new year's eve being like ah whatever and then and then it was great for a while in my 20s and then more recently like you have to make a choice like new year's eve am i going getting some friends together or am i gonna have a little maybe a nice dinner is just thinking but like it's it's a weird night for like fomo where you feel like i can be sort of a homebody these days and i do like to stay home but i just feel weird doing it on a big night like that so anyway in a year post-covid decided i wanted to do something big and it's like one of the things if you're not going to be in time square you're going to be a few blocks away at msg it's like a thing we i mean

we wanted to do it last year and it got canceled because of covid but i felt like when fish played three sets and the third set started a little bit after 11 or so and that's where there was like set pieces they did a whole gag about a time machine time travel thing they had like 50 dancers it was it's their 40th anniversary 83 was when they officially started so wow this year it's their 40th so they did a bunch of yeah dancers and and set pieces that tim's talking about were all kind of like touch tones from the years and different uh new year's eve celebrations and stuff like that and i didn't there's like i could feel throughout the night lots of references i was like as a non-fish fan but a guy who loves watching live music i would say the first two sets i was like just enjoying

being in i'd never been to a show at madison square garden before but i watched like i'm from upstate new york so msg means a lot to me so just being in the room was cool seeing 20 000 people grooving on drugs was fun the people watching is amazing we were having a fun time i did get a little bit tuckered i would say in the 10 o'clock hour i've been watching two hours of noodling and i still have a while i still have a while to go so during the second set i was sort of like timmy maybe let's like go for a walk around eat some food to have a seat somewhere and like save you'd also been shushed somebody shushed you okay so this is interesting picture a guy picture of a couple guys they're 22 they're in tie-dye they're grooving and they're

specifically doing like the fish dance like head down hands kind of buried in their chest like grooving the whole show and then two times they turn around to me and John Haskell and say, hey, can you, would you mind talking quieter? And I'm loud. And I was being loud. In fact, at one point I was singing the corn kids song, but, but I was just like, oh, I didn't really think of shushing as a thing that happens at a loud rock concert.

Yeah, that happened to me at one of the shows too. A guy turned around and kind of like, he like put his hand, like hand motion, like keep it down a little bit. And then he, we kind of looked at each other like, what? And then he turned around again and was like, gave a thumbs up. He's like, sorry.

Like he kind of knew it was a weird thing to do. Well, I did that on the first year guys repent tim my guys the first guy he the first time he did it uh he did it a good way he was like hey would you mind talking a little quieter and i had that quick fight or flight response i'm gonna punch him i'm gonna sprint away you know what i'm gonna do here um and i caught myself i said tim it's a kind vibe here and what i did was i i thought for two seconds and i held up a peace sign and he was like cool okay perfect so tim's cool like you want to speak to him in his native language you know yeah also i understand

this this i had i had had my second puff of weed of the year. So for me, I was really in a complete shutdown. Oh, yeah, Tim was on a different planet, man. I was up in the celestial space at this moment. But then the second time, and that was when I was singing the Corn Kid song, the second time he shushed John. And there's something about your friend getting shushed that's almost kind of worse. Like, you know, John, you can shush me. I'm a big big fat guy full of loud mouth soup but then when he's just john i was like john really wasn't talking that loud

and i don't know and that second time it uh left a maybe dirtier taste in my mouth but not enough to feel like embarrassed i don't know what are you gonna shush the band next what's what's going on how loud were you talking that you were i, I've seen the amps at these fish shows. The PA speakers are dropping from the ceiling. Well, I turned the volume knob down on the amp because I wanted to make my point. I imagine you guys are joking and shouting over the music. Yeah, we were joking and shouting over the music,

but we were also like way up in the nosebleeds and you should be able to just have your... I love being in a concert way up high and just having your night, just partying. Yeah. If you like, if you were like, oh,

this song's great. And John was like, yeah, this is a great song. Did you know they played it last year? Like they probably wouldn't have bothered you, but if you are, you guys were just talking about whatever.

Unrelated, unrelated stuff. I was like, how's work at the tonight show. But I, I, so aside from that, and that that didn't didn't damper my spirits i i loved being in madison square garden up in the we swapped sections for a little while

and my mike when i went up to the up to the rafters there that really felt like oh this feels like the 1994 rangers that i know like it's like really more like the old garden up there my section was a little more vip um and then but then at the end of the night like like midnight i mean come on then after hours and hours of noodling they covered bohemian rhapsody which is like so played out and so on the nose but so fun to hear with 20 000 people and they they played like that kind of that cool disco-ish version of 2001 A Space Odyssey. And then at midnight, Auld Lang Syne with Confetti Fawn. It was magical.

And it made me be like, yeah, even if you're not a fan of the band, being in the room for the midnight countdown at a thing like that was very fun. They didn't have balloons come down. They usually have balloons fall from, like a ton of balloons fall from the ceiling. And they didn't do that this year. I don't know why. What was the time travel gag you said? Oh, it was like these sort of barbershop quartet guys came out and sang happy birthday.

And then we're like, oh, I forget what it was said. But, like, we want to take you guys all the way back. So they brought this, like, time machine out and had this, you know, we want to take you guys all the way back. So they brought this time machine out and had this lever that they were pulling. That's cool. They went all the way back and a little video played. Yeah, it was just a big montage. Because on the New Year's Eve,

they always have a giant hot dog in the sky or something like that. I wonder what gags people can expect when we hit the road for our 10th anniversary in March. Well, we're keeping that under lock and key. It'll be different because Fish, they go for the big broad set pieces but us, it might just be a Cunning's barb

from one of our satirical lips. It also might be just getting those notes right and getting the lyrics right. Maybe a couple surprise rest notes in the mix. Ooh! Hey surprise rest notes. In the mix. Ooh. Hey, wait, hold on, Jeff. This made me think of something.

Have you guys seen Tar? Not yet. A chunk. I've seen Avatar, but not Tar. No, I'm not talking about Avatar, nor am I talking about the sticky substance itself, Tar. With the molasses taste, I'm talking about the sticky substance itself tar with the molasses taste i'm talking

about the film there's this is not spoiling anything but tar is talking at one point and she's talking about how the conductor controls time during a symphony performance uh-huh and she's talking about beethoven's fifth and she says you know it's on the conductor to start because it's a very interesting melody it starts on the upbeat so it's like it's on the conductor to start because it's a very interesting melody it it starts on the upbeat so it's like and and everyone's like oh yeah yeah and i'm sitting there watching we're like oh yeah and then i was like wait a second i never thought about that i i think one and two three or whatever but i never thought of did you think when you hear the first notes, you eventually settle into it? But we've talked about this on the blowout that when you have like when a beat starts in a song.

Sure. There was some pop song we talked about. Well, it's only natural to think it would be the downbeat. Right. And there's some pop song we talked about where a Kanye song. What's the really long one with the piano note? Runaway. Oh, Runaway. Raway runaway they talk about on

dissect that that same deal when you when the song starts you think you're hearing one beat but then when you actually the uh the beat drops you're like oh shit these piano notes are on like it was an upbeat the whole time the whole time wild damn well let's get into some booze news hit it oh booz news booz news booz news

booz news that fish themed booze news theme was courtesy of x height from the discord and features other slop heads spotted stripers pat dwyer fish six seven one ralph bombo jay bergs harry hood look at this all the slop heads on the discord getting together to do booze news instead of Wilson. Look at that. And if you have a Booze News theme, email it to thesloppyboyspodcast at gmail.com or if you want to schmooze with other slopheads on the Discord, sign up for our Patreon. But that's different from the Booze and Schmooze, which is...

Yeah, that's different. We still don't have a date for that. That's a paid event. It's a Booze and Schmooze. The Booze and Schmooze. um okay top story on booze news uh punch drink.com which is like the cocktail blog that i kind of go to we've come across that sure yeah all the time they're very hip celebrity bartender jack schramm sometimes will uh you know be like a correspondent for them so you know it's good they had an interesting

article to kick off the year what drink trends should disappear in 2023 oh i like this this is sort of like the in list out list yes exactly and they did a bunch of drink trends and then they have a bunch of different bartenders consulting gave their opinion as, and then they kind of tallied up and landed on for each thing. Should it stay? Should it go? Or is it in purgatory? Okay. So I was going to run through some of their,

what they thought about these drink trends and see what you guys think of them. Nice. A purgatory is a great way of being like nothing. It's nothing. Well, it's funny because it's also go or purgatory. Purgatory is such a grand term for stay, go.

Or like, you are stuck in purgatory. Eternal limbo for you. Okay, there's like five of these. First was the 90s redux. Appletinis, Midori Sours, Blue Hawaiians, like ironic, winky, colorful, sweet drinks. We've talked about this. To the left, to the left.

Our friend Jack Schram Jack did a great job. Yeah, Mike, is that good or bad? I thought that means bad. I don't know. Go ahead. Jack is sort of in favor of anything that's fun throughout all this, but the quorum here said stay,

that they're enjoying the fun the fun whimsy of these cocktails and i agree good i like that's cool i like anything to get cocktails away from the gatekeepers the wax mustache scotch bros uh anything that's against that's the opposite of that i'm on for even if it's new yorkie inside jokey winky uh irony i'm i am on board for that yeah tim you're made of the people we know this thank you next up disco aperitivo these kind of mirror clad disco ball jewel toned bars that are glittery mike i don't know if you've ever seen any of these where they're serving aperitivos and the Punch Gang said stay.

They said it's a good trend. Oh, I don't know. So this is just like the decor of the bar, the style of the bar. Yeah, you're drinking an Italian aperitivo on a dance floor that's kind of disco-y. I'd love to see that. I've never been.

Next up, the Long Island Ice Tea served hot or large format on draft. The Long Island Ice Tea has had its best year since 1980, and the Punch Gang put it in purgatory. I'm a big fan. I don't necessarily like making it fancy and adding tea to it or making it hot, but I think a Long Island, more in the 90s, winky, fun way. I thought you misspoke. When you said hot, I said, like, sir, he surely doesn't mean what I think a Long Island more in the nineties winky fun way. I thought you misspoke when you,

yeah. When you said hot, I said like, sir, he surely doesn't mean what I think he means. Yeah. I didn't hear that. A hot, there's craft bars are,

are, are doing it hot or, or, or saying like, yeah, we love a lot of Long Islands, but they're making an entirely different drink. Sure.

I like the classic stinky. Yeah. Mike, when we were in, um, the shitty one, Montauk, I ordered a Long Island and the bartender made fun of me.

He's like, I don't like it, but I'll make it. Really? I think it's a fun drink. We were in Montauk, too. Jeff, would you get out here on one of these New York trips for once? Christ. We were in Montauk, too. What else you got?

Okay. The return of foam. I guess foam came back this year and uh the punch gang says go i agree i don't like foam i don't like pretension i watched that show drink masters on netflix and i didn't like any time there was elements that were non-taste elements well you mean that big silly foam right not just a look egg white that's froth that's not foam that's froth the foam on the head of white, that's froth. That's not foam. That's froth. The foam on the head of a beer, that's good. But we're talking like fancy science foam.

Oh. I tend to not like even the froth either, like egg white froth on stuff. But that's a personal preference. My call. Hey, more for me. Yes. You can just pull it off, push it off into Jeff's glass. Off the rims... Sorry. sorry off the rails salt rims the salt rim is

no longer confined to the lip of the glass and it's not just salt 2022 saw pop rocks barbecue dust all kinds of things became fair game and the punch gang said go they said keep it classy with yeah no i would do salt uh but i will make an exception for tahini. Exception for tahini. Me too. I like when micheladas go crazy with the tamarind candy and all that. But let us not forget the time I went to Sleepy Hollow this Halloween season. I had a pumpkin beer with a sugar cinnamon rim. Let us not forget. Yeah, we won't forget.

Let us always keep in our prayers. Where on punch.com does't mention that right that's today's top story in news of the boring they're just getting that out now yeah uh i have a little a small segment of booze news it's more of a show and tell check this out what do you what i got in the mail. You know what this is? It looks like a sock in a Ziploc bag. I would guess it's a... Oh, citric acid. You're looking at a pound of pure citric acid. Wow.

Columbia's finest citric acid. It looks like a sack of Coke. Well, now, why do you have this? He's going to acid adjust his oj yes he's gonna turn oj into lime juice or lemon juice tile style sourness don't you get it don't you see oh right right i i know you were talking about that but i never really understood what it did well here's the thing i got this and it showed up in a big old bag and i said great i'm just gonna sort of like put some in some cocktails and then i googled it and the first thing it said was don't just put some in a cocktail

there's like warnings all over it's like don't handle with your hands don't touch your eyes use a measuring thing this is like for a science chemistry lab yeah even even in cocktail mode you're supposed to use like a quarter teaspoon of this per ounce of water and like make a solution and use a um like a bitters dropper. You're not supposed to kind of go. You want to dump it. I wanted to dump it. Sad.

But Mike, next time you come out for the Lodge Room Show, maybe we do a little experiment with some AA OJ. Sure. I love it. And we should, wait, what's AA? Oh, acid adjusted. OJ. Sure. I love it. And we should, um, wait, what's a, a, oh, um, we should make a simple drink, like a whiskey sour, you know,

that's just like something you would do with lemon juice. That's really simple. Or like a gimlet or something. Or hell, but Paul McCartney should be using the shit for his Mac. I'm right. Right. All Paul,

listen to the bod, dude. Well, now, Jeff, I like that you used the acronym, AA, because that leads into my first piece of booze news. So I was at the Fish Show, one of the ones that the second night, first night, second night. And I went out into the lobby during the set break, and I'm walking around Sort of the big hallway That goes all around the

Oh hold on I gotta take a sip out of my My big water jug I'll cover for you Hey everybody I gotta take a sip out of my water mug Hey everybody Okay We're all back So I'm walking around

And I'm walking by the concessions area One of the concessions area And one of the concessions area. And all of a sudden, I see in the mob of people sort of milling about, a circle of people lined up, you know, circled up. And I said, what is going on here? And this one guy is talking to everybody, and he's blowing up a big yellow balloon. And he ties it off, and he's got a balloon in his hand. And I get closer, and I'm listening.

I can kind of hear what's going on. And they're passing the balloon back and forth, and it passes to one guy, and the guy's holding the balloon, and he's like, hey, my name's Dave. I've been not drinking alcohol or doing drugs or whatever. I couldn't really hear very well for the last seven years and blah, blah, blah. And I found out it's this group called The Fellowship, with a PH for the Phish fans,

to have meetings na and aa meetings during set breaks and i was like floored by this that something like this happens and i was so like i stuck around for a while just to i just to kind of get the vibe and i was talking to one of the ladies who runs it i'm standing with like a huge miller highland fucking miller white uh but i you know gave a few dollars to donate and uh they gave me a sticker standing where like a huge Miller Highland, Miller White. But I, you know, gave a few dollars to donate and they gave me a sticker and some candy, which I very much appreciate.

Man, that's gotta be such a triggersome atmosphere. That's cool that they have, they're like, okay, well, I want to go to fish shows. Yeah.

It's a hotbed of booze and drugs. So we're going to like, just bring our support structure with us. So we're going to do these during breaks. And I think, I forget how long they've been doing for many, many years, like 20 years or something. But it was really a very nice thing to see that people could still go to shows, have support.

And yeah, I mean, the whole concert for a lot of people is just a place to do drugs and that's how you get into the music. But I put the sticker on and i saw some guys after the show and they're like oh are you part of the fellowship i said no i'm not sober but i'm uh they're like oh well thanks so much for the candy but they appreciated the support and i was appreciate uh happy to help but um it made me think you know you know we do this cocktail podcast and it's all about doing cocktails but i But I always like to see when people listen to this podcast who don't drink. Right.

And also, furthermore, if you maybe are somebody who's like, oh, I don't want to go to concerts or something because of the temptation or whatever it is. I don't know really the terminology or whatever. But look into something like that. There might be something that your favorite band shows. Damn. To help you out. It really blew my mind. That's be something at your favorite band's shows. Damn. To help you out.

It really blew my mind. That's great. During the set breaks. That's amazing. Yeah. Here I am wasting my set breaks eating rice balls at the concessions. I know. You could have been passing a balloon.

Do you know if they have any 12-step programs for overeaters anonymous during the show? I don't think they do. I didn't talk long enough to the people. So that was my one piece of booze news. I love it. I was thrilled about it. It was just so cool to see people, like, getting together and helping each other. And then the other piece of booze news is...

Oh, fuck. Yes, go ahead. Go ahead. I was just going to say I think it's cool as hell. Continue. I think that... I have a good piece of booze news. Oh, fuck. Yes, go ahead. Go ahead. I was just going to say I think it's cool as hell. Continue. I think that I have a good piece of booze news.

This is a culinary booze news right here. So the other day, you know how... Is this about Starburst Softs? No, no. It's not about candy.

You know how these days chip dip is sauce now? Yes. Yeah, Lay's garlic dip. Ever since you used French onion dip as Alfredo sauce. Yes, yes. Well, these days in my kitchen, I did this recently.

I got some of that Tostitos spinach dip that they make. Pretty simple. It's creamy. It's got some spinach in it. It's next to the salsa. It's the lesser known. Yeah. And I got some tortilla chips.

I was dipping that. But then the other day, I'm making scrambled eggs. And what do I see next to the egg carton? The spinach dip. Florentine. Boom. I put it in.

I mix it in with the eggs. Oh. And there you got a creamy, spinachy egg. I got something. Chip dig is egg ingredient now. Chip dig is omelette sauce now. Chip dig

is schmooze. Bring your chip dig egg schmooze to the booze and schmooze. Come out to the Sloppy Boys show early and bring your chip dip. Bring your chip dip. We'll put it all.

We'll cover your whole breakfast with it. Bring your chip dip. Your crispy bacon and a chip dip. Are you saying you put it in a scramble? I mixed it into the scramble, yeah. Oh. Now, what's eggs Florentine? I want to say eggs Florentine has spinach in it,

but what's the other? It's not hollandaise. That would be more of a Benedict. That's eggs Benny, huh? Benny. Eggs Florentine. Much like Florence itself. Beep, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.

What is the difference between eggs Florentine versus eggs Benedict? What's the difference? Primary difference between eggs Florentine versus eggs benedict what's the difference primary difference between eggs florentine eggs benedict is the addition of spinach while eggs florentine may or may not yeah i've seen a lot of like florentine scrambles where it's just some spinach in the eggs but mike i think you're smart i haven't seen this chip dip um it always interests me when you guys talk about food it's interesting to me because i would say i'm the most unhealthy eater of this podcast but i do it all out like in my home i just only have health food and then every time i step out the front door i have a slice of pizza but um when when you guys were both like yeah yeah yeah we go down the chip aisle and you buy the

the tostitos and this is one of the other i like i don't We go down the chip aisle and you buy the Tostillos and this is one or the other. I don't even walk down the chip aisle. I like picturing you guys wheeling those carts down the chip aisle. No, man, you got to go down the chip aisle for both Cheez-Its and Goldfish, the two king snacks. Yeah, because a lot of times the chip aisle butts up right against the cracker aisle. Yep. But if I'm going to the chip aisle, I'm going to walk out with a bag of those Maui onion chips I love so damn much. Or some zaps. We love zaps.

Zaps. Fuck. I had some voodoos the other day. Oh, Jeff, I'll give anything that trade places with you. But for now, is that it for Booze News? That is it for Booze News. Oh yeah, I want to say that if anyone's interested in that Punch article, there's more Stego purgatories.

But we've got to move on with the show. Yes, Michael. Wrap it up. I would love to hear about the drink of the day. Hold on. Did you wrap it up properly? You didn't even do the sound effect. Okay, here we go.

All right. The drink of the day. Well, let me start by saying a man's name. Gene Hackman. A man's name. Gene Hackman. A man's name. Gene Hackman. You know him. Behind enemy lines. Royal Tenenbaum. Welcome to Moose

Port. The conversation. Royal Tenenbaum. Ants. The quick and the dead. Ants. Birdcage. Reds. Birdcage. You young Frankenstein of course. You could go on and on about his Hawaii. A, young Frankenstein, of course. You could go on and on about his Hawaii, a movie called Hawaii from 1960.

Superman. Superman, indeed. You also know him from a movie called The French Connection. There we go. That's what you were getting at. A movie title that shares the same name as the drink of the day. Boss Nass? Yes.

Richard Nixon? Nixon meets Nass here on the pod. We're talking about the French connection today. It is as simple as simple gets regarding both recipe and history. Great. The history of this one is super simple. I'm just going to read it verbatim off of Difford's Guide

Named after the 1971 American crime thriller film The French Connection This brandy-based cocktail is a sibling to the whiskey-based Godfather Also named after a film, Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 The Godfather Right Both cocktails appear in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Bar Guide. Now, it's a very simple drink. Let me just tell you what's in it, and then we can get more chit-chatting.

35 milliliters cognac, 35 milliliters amaretto. Method, pour all ingredients directly into an old-fashioned glass filled with ice cubes stirred gently, garnish not applicable. Love it. Equal parts. Wow. On the rocks. On the rocks.

This sounds so good. Two faves. I'm going to fucking love this. Two faves for me. I get to have DiSorono and Cuvazier at the same time. And Hennessy for me, yeah. Yeah. I think suggested to in a snifter glass,

which I don't think any of us have a snifter glass. Come on. That's just a difference. That wasn't it. I want to do a rocks glass. Yeah, yeah. A French connection says, sorry, the IBA says old-fashioned glass, but Diffords, I think, is saying snifter. I like that we have poked our way.

You think with this podcast, hey, we've done all there is to do we've gone through sky highs and rock bottom lows uh we're but but this was is a new little we kicked a hole in a little cocktail corner here that i didn't know about where we got to this drink because a slophead had reached out on instagram and told us about the godfather scotch and amaretto and i told you guys hey let's do this scotch and amaretto and then uh jeff you pointed out well yeah we could do that and it exists but it's not on the iba list whereas this french connection is on the iba list and let's start now mike what we do i'm just looking here and you i didn't know that the french connection was just named after the

movie and obviously the godfather is too so this is funny these two little sister drinks from the 70s where it's like these pop culture references with the Amaretto I couldn't find anything but I do I have to wonder if like Di Serono or some Amaretto company was like yeah

mix with us for this you like that movie mix with this everything I found about the history of it was just that it was named after the drink, not like anyone drank one in French Connection or anything like that. It was just named after. Now, this one website says that this drink was popular in the 60s before either the movie or the book that it was based on existed. But this is the one thing I found.

It is possible, though, that it is named for the actual heroin smuggling scheme that spawned the book and the movie. And if that's so, perhaps the use of a French spirit and Italian liquor was a nod to the Corsican origin of the scheme's masterminds.

So I don't know. I've seen the film. Have you guys seen it? It's got the iconic car chase. Nah. I think I always confuse this movie with, there's a Francis Ford Coppola movie with Gene Hackman. The Conversation?

The Conversation. That's great. This is a gritty 70s grit fest, very low-key and mumblecore. And he's like a cop who's, I think, going undercover in his cocaine ring or whatever. But yeah, it's kind of remembered for the big chase. I would say was probably one of the best chases in film history until the Padres kind of dethroned it. Oh, sure.

Yeah, yeah. Annie versus Sebulba. And then Boss Nass came in in that same film and dethroned the Padres as best scene in the film. Folks, folks, we don't even plan these coincidences.

The Padres doing the Boss Nass before. This is exciting. Yeah, this is exciting. I'm excited, too. I think we should do the Godfather next week and sort of do a sea breeze, bay breeze twofer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we should. So now this is a... We're doing basically...

Oh, oh, let me say this, too. Now there's a drink called the God... I'm just going to find it here. The Godchild. Creamer versus Creamer? No, no, no, no. There's God Mother and God Child as well. God Mother I didn't see, but I'm curious what that is.

God Child is made with brandy of an unstipulated origin, while the French Connection specifically calls for cognac brandy. That's what we're doing today. God Mother is vodka and amaretto. Yes. Now, I'm correct. I'm using my disaronno here right oh yeah okay yeah and amarettos they can be there's i've owned a few different i'm obsessed with disaronno because i put it on my ice cream but i've had a few different amarettos and and they vary because a lot of the time you think amaretto is going to be made from like almonds but a lot of the time it's made

from peach pits or other stone fruit pits that are burnt and sugared up and they start to taste like a almond I like the sound of that I just saw something I saw something on TikTok recently

it was a guy pouring something into a beer, and it was supposed to taste like... Oh. Dr. Pepper. Do you remember what it was? What was that? That's the problem with TikTok. They're so fast that I don't know. I can picture it, but...

And now you're on to the next thing, and it's... Yeah. My problem with TikTok is you see a funny thing. In the old days when I was butt young I'd be like hey remember that funny video I'll google it and then you would find it on YouTube now when I'm like oh I learned something about this on TikTok

and then what do I do you can't even search TikTok for it because it's not like you can search TikTok it took me two days to find the song you know the sword dodging song you've seen the meme where like somebody runs at somebody with a sword and they're sort of like It took me two days to find the song. You know the sword dodging song? You've seen the meme where somebody runs at somebody with a sword, and they're sort of prodding it at them,

and they're kind of dodging back and forth. It's a band called Pogo, I want to say, but it's just got that sort of slowed down song. It's like... It took me forever to search it. Like, what's the sword dodge song on TikTok? Two days. TikTok.

You can search TikTok, though. I know that there's the search function, but you can search it for, like, users or hashtags or topics. But you can't find sword dodge theme song. I know. And I so often want to see, like, the ridge. And you can't get it and you can't get it. You can't get it. Well, why don't we take a little break, and when we come back, French connections in hand.

What is 35 milliliters? That's a shot? An ounce is 30. Oh, right. Okay, here's another thing. These are equal parts, and that's great. It's equal parts. Why would they choose 35? I know, that's strange. It's super weird, and then also, here's another thing. These are equal parts, and that's great. It's equal parts. Why would they choose 35?

I know, that's strange. Super weird. And then also, I'll be honest, I was looking around. I see a lot of people calling for more cognac. But that's for segment two. There you go. There you go. Folks, we'll see you after the ads.

Coup de'Acier. You want to pronounce this word? All right, all right. As women, our life stages come with unique risk factors, like high blood pressure developed during pregnancy, which can put us two times more at risk of heart disease or stroke. Know your risks. Visit heartandstroke.ca.

And we're back. French connections in hand. Now this is a nice, tidy little drink. Look at that. Yeah, look at that. Oh, you got French Connections in hand. Now this is a nice tidy little drink. Look at that. Yeah, look at that. Oh, you got the one cube in there. Little glass, one cube, and just two warm golden liqueurs. I got many little cubes because I have a feeling this one's going to get melty and get better and better. It's going to be a little sweet off the bat.

Well, now wouldn't just cubes melt too? Here we go. While a larger cube has less surface area, it melts a little slower. Bottoms up. Sips. I don't know if that's true. Heckman, you've done it again. We're getting away with something. This is nice. Ha! Heckman, you've done it again. The Heckman!

We're getting away with something. This is nice. It's simple. That's the problem. People want to add a thousand ingredients. No. Wrong. It's got like a honey sweetness. It's the perfect pairing. It is a honey type of thing. It's like, you know, Amaretto on its own. Amaretto on the rocks would be sort of a strange thing to drink

because it's so, I mean, I do it, but it's so sweet. And so this cognac is the perfect pairing where it just sort of chilled it out a little bit. It didn't even add a new taste. It just said, hey, come on. I would be really curious. I'd be really curious to sit down and do a taste test between this, the Godfather, the Goodfella, the Godmother, whatever other ones we said.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. This is great. I should just be okay with this one first. A two-ingredient, equal parts drink that's this good. You serve this for friends. You say, hey, everybody, check me out. I got this. Yes.

Tim made a round of French connections. That's amazing. Tim, this should be the new college drink. This is what the college kids need. Instead of the Fernandito? Or you're not talking Argentinian college? I'm not talking sophisticated Argentinian college kids. I'm saying instead of vodka crayon.

Right. You know, college kids. I'm saying instead of vodka crayon, like, you know, college kids don't even do cocktails. They're drinking Milwaukee's best. I was going to say a rum and coke, like a Cuba Libre, let's say. Cuba Libre is different because it has the lime squeeze, right? Yeah, but really it's just rum and coke. Right, but when you talk about like a rum and coke, I was going to say that's probably the easiest drink we did, but this, easier, has...

I dare say better, but it's too soon to say. It's too... Well, but this is equal parts, so I think that does it. But getting rum and coke is very easy to get. Di Serono is not the easiest thing to get. Hennessy, I already love it. Di Serono is a new friend. Sure. We talked... easiest thing to get hennessey i already love it di serono is a new friend sure we talked have i already talked about the di serono commercial on this podcast the uh the one from the 90s

i forget um and if you have regale us again won't you i know it's on youtube look it up and watch it but it's been it's a di serono commercial where um there's this like sexy bartender and uh yeah yeah or there's a sexy lady going up to a sexy guy but it's like what happens next is up to you no that's uh that's echo kellum in tgi fridays oh okay sorry but similar vibe like suggestive suggestive sex commercials this one is like a lady steps up to a posh bar and all around her people like hey uh can i get a disaroni i'll have a disaroni martini can i have a disaroni like they're all ordering a bunch of disaroni drinks and um then this one lady's like hey can i have a disaroni on the rocks? And the bartender's like, well, here you go.

And then she takes one of the cubes and is like being sexy with the ice cube, like rubbing it on her. Yeah. And it's just supposed to be like, Di Serono is the sexy drink, man. And I remember it, speaking of fish at MSG, I remember watching MSG Network network to watch rangers games and

this de serrano commercial was always on just with his babe being like de serrano on the rocks as if you can't rub an ice cube on yourself without the de serrano involved damn but it's working on me that's a good brand tim that's a good sexy brand oh jeff just took his big cube and he put it up his butt great hold on so if i can ti to for a second i just got a little thing that said like disconnected and then said like reconnected same i think we're good everything seems to be going my quicker is going great great this is good i was wondering uh i was thinking about the french connection we mentioned the car chases do you guys do you have in your mind do you love car chases is there an iconic car chase i know bullet right steve mcqueen is supposed to be an iconic car chase. Yeah, I've seen Bullet. Saw it at the cemetery.

Very good. I hope you didn't stay at the cemetery, Jeff. No, no. The one I think about is the Blues Brothers car chase in the mall. Oh, yeah. Great. That's really cool because they've just so gratuitously are like smashing into things. And it's sort of a funny take on a car chase.

But yeah, the car chase is kind of with fight scenes too. It has to be really, like they kind of blur over me a little bit. I remember loving, there's a forgettable 90s movie called Ronin with Robert De Niro. Yeah. And they have a car chase in Nice in France where the streets are really narrow. I remember that being a really good chase. Italian job, I remember in the 90s.

French connection, Italian job. Yeah. You know what was a good one? Remember, this is the dumbest shit in cinema history, but when we saw hobbs and cha sha at that like x2 theater or whatever it was yeah yeah 3d x4 i think or

4x it was like blowing steam in our face and buzzing our butts all the time yeah uh that had that that chase where like the rock jumps on the back of a big tractor trailer truck, and then he grabs a chain that's holding a helicopter. And then he's pulling them together, and then it cuts to his face, and he's going, ah! Yeah. And it's like, yeah, dude, you're pulling a truck and a helicopter. It's going to hurt. Let go.

You know what's tough? Those movies. I haven't seen a lot of those movies But I bet their car chases get pretty I mean that was Fast 9 the latest one They had some crazy stuff going on I remember leaving the first Fast movie

And thinking like I'm like a car guy now And I would drive my shitty Saab Wait did you say shitty Saab? Yeah I had like an old ass sob cool sob no well yeah my friend tristan also in high school had like an old like an old rotted out sob but still a sob that's fun sobs look like like the certain ones look like old turtles go ahead but that first movie had a lot of practical chases and now the movies are like um you know much more popular and stuff but they feel very weightless and yeah yeah i have a lot of smart people telling

me to go watch the fast movies like they're pretty good if you like can turn your brain off and i always leave feeling like that sucked it sucked well i went the first movie i saw back from uh the pandemic in the theaters was fast nine or whatever and it was great it was like an audience of people who all were excited to be there and like were laughing at it at the right spot like they're such ridiculous movies but i don't even enjoy them in that regard i don't know oh i jeff you might have the problem people you might have the problem i have where i try i go to a movie i say i'm gonna turn my brain off have fun turn my brain off have fun then i'm sitting in the theater what am i thinking uh how am i gonna solve this climate crisis uh how am i

right right right you know inflation i'm gonna use inflation to solve the climate crisis let me just crunch the numbers in my head damn that won't work either now I'm spilling popcorn but you like the fast Mike you're into the fast the one I saw in the movie with everybody or the other one we saw

was that the one where Ludacris drives a car in space yep and the response was appropriate to everybody in the theater Yeah. Or the other one we saw... Wait, was that the one where Ludacris drives a car in space? Yep. And the response was appropriate to everybody in the theater. Hollering and cheering and hooting and throwing their drinks at her. How about this for a car chase?

Technically it is a car chase. The Fury Road. It's like a long... Hour-long car chase. That's cool. That's cool to me. That's like a long... Oh, yeah. Hour-long car chase. That's cool. That's cool to me. That's cool to me, too. That's cool to me.

That's cool, Timmy. Tim... What would you do different with this thing? You know, it'd be fun to try the Grand Marnier Cognac. Oh. It's going to be sweet, Michael. That's going to be a very sweet drink. Too much taste, maybe.

Put a cherry in it for me. That's sweet on sweet. I don't know if you want that. Sweet on sweet on sweet. I think maybe doing the more cognac version. I've heard some people say two to one. How about that? This is what's great about an equal parts drink.

You're kind of saying to people, yeah, you can tweak to your own personal press. You can tweak it. You can eyeball it. Yeah. And that's why they keep it simple. I feel like it's that way with a Negroni. Everybody knows it's equal parts, but some people tweak it. You tweak for your own tweak and twerk.

Well, why don't we take a little break? And when we come back, we'll have a second round of these very good drinks. Love it. Folks, we'll see you right back here after the ads. And we're back with round two of the French Connection. I didn't do a round two. You know why? Because I'm still sipping on this thing.

And I think that's an interesting testament. It's a good drink, but I'm not like glugging it down. Oh, yeah. Because oftentimes you say like, oh, I'm reaching for this one or I'm not reaching. But yeah, this is it's a slow sipper. It's very welcoming in a way that I think like you know how you make fun of you know people make fun of girl drinks as being too juicy too sugary and then the guy drinks are the cognacs and the scotches and all that stuff yeah i think this is a very welcoming gender neutral crowd pleaser

it's a crowd pleaser it's sweet It's the drink you love to sip. It's two ingredients. It's equal parts. It's delicious. I love it. I call this a Spice Girl drink. Two become one. Oh, instead of a Toy Story drink, it's a Spice Girl drink.

Right. Toy Story. This is not necessarily Toy Story. No, no, no. It's not Woody, and it will give me a buzz, but that's its own movie. Yeah, what drink doesn't give you a buzz? Well, what drink just has no taste and gives you a buzz? That would be a light year drink.

Light year. A light year. A lot of drinks are light years. Most of them, in fact, on the pot have been light years. No Woody, but they give you a buzz. Oh, right. So you're saying even if it's any other taste besides woody. I see.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So a vodka martini, ooh, that's a light year. That's a light year. Give me a couple rounds of light years for me and my friends. All right, final thoughts. Order again. This is great. I'm ooh.

It's very exciting and very tempting to call this a cold stone, stone cold classic. Cold stone creamery. A cold stone creamery. That's when you mash up a bunch of shit. A cold stone stone cold is when you eat a, is when you drink a stone cold in a cold stone. So this is almost that. Yeah.

It's an eye opener. It's a pleasant surprise. Look, I still don't feel like I've articulated what I like so much about this drink. Part of it is that we here at the Sloppy Boys, we're devoted to the IBA. But we've taken down a lot of the big ones. Now we're down to the weirdies where you've got to get the creme de cassis. Yes. And all that sort of weird stuff.

Oh, the raspberry syrup now needs to come out and this was when we found we said hey this is a no shopper i have these two things where did this where was this all the time where was it hiding yeah weird um and it's on the iba we should have scrolled past it a hundred times yeah so anyway it's a it's in order again and again and again. Mike, I'm right there with you. It might be a little new to mint as a Stone Cold Classic, but yeah. Tim? I love it.

It's a Stone Cold Classic. It's an order again. Two ingredients, equal parts. Nice sweet drink, but not too sweet. This is one you're going to want to make for your friends. It's a good early in the evening drink i like that um also wanted to mention that earlier in the show we were talking about gene hackman and i was gonna do a joke about gene hackman that was my nickname after i broke into the the Levi's website. Oh, nice.

I would maybe say Gene Hackman. That was me after I took a machete to my dungarees. Yes. I made shorts, summertime shorts. The higher, the better. I was going to say Gene Hackman. Who are we talking about? John Hammond? Ha ha, yes say Gene Hackman. Who are we talking about? John Hammond?

Ha ha! Yes! Gene Hackman? Gene Hackman. Anything? Gene! Gene. Hackman, yes, because of genetics. Because, you know, he took the frog DNA.

So we all had good jokes, but we chose not to say them, I guess. Yeah, I think we did a little self-editing and said, those aren't good to talk about. Yeah, we're doing some self-care. Gene Hackman and Mean Packman. Before we wrap it up, Tim, yes. You hear Amaretto a lot.

Amaretto this, Amaretto that. Try the Amaretto. Amarosa, big in the Trump world. You got fired era Yeah And then also you have Amaros Italian liqueurs A lot of herbs and spices

Berries Roots Is Amaretto Derivative of Amaro? Nope That's our show Follow us on social media At the Sloppy Boys

Where we release these recipes Ahead of time And hey If you can't get enough boys Saunter on over to Patreon. social media at The Sloppy Boys where we release these recipes ahead of time. And hey, if you can't get enough boys, saunter on over to patreon.com slash the sloppy boys. Sign up. For five bucks a month, you get double the content. And you don't just get double starting now. You get the entire back catalog of The Sloppy Boys Blowout, our weekly bonus episode.

Not to mention questions for Lennon, our monthly bonus episode. And who is on the, who's our guest this month? Ya boy, Dutz. Dutz shows up, man, and he showed up, and he showed up. You know what I mean? Yes. This was a good, this was a good episode. I didn't even know it was coming. I said, Dutz on Lennon? I gotta

hear this, man. This is good. I don't want to keep that a secret. I thought that'd be fun. It was very good. And while you're on the computer, go on over to thesloppyboys.com. I was on that website today. I hadn't been on in a while. That's a good site. And it is a nice site. Jeff put that together.

I tell you what, it's easy to look at. You know when you go to these websites, you want to look at where we have our podcasts or videos or the store. And you're like, what is going on? This is nice. It's smooth. It moves as if you've known it for years. Yes, like an old friend. Folks, that's Squarespace, but they don't sponsor the show,

so let's not get too excited about Squarespace. Let's edit that out. Give them a big bleep on that. Yeah. Use whatever you want. Use Wix. Wix is in the mix. All right.

Good episode, guys, and good episode to all of you listening at home. Peace. Bye, folks. Au revoir. See you later. Give it up for your boys. Give it up for your boys. Give it up for your boys Give it up for your boys

Give it up for your boys