The Sloppy Boys - 119. Stinger

Episode Date: January 27, 2023

The guys drink an upper-class cocktail from the turn of the century.STINGER RECIPE1.69oz/50ml Cognac.66oz/20ml White Crème the MenthePour all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with mint (optional.)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. Yo-ho. And Tim Kalpakis. What is up? And we are your hosts of the show that is no longer the best of any universe on any planet. No. What happened? We've lost our accreditation. Well, what happened? Accreditation. We're on a list.

No publication deemed us top anything last year. Is this something we actually want to be announcing, though? This is a PR disaster. Despite the show getting better and better every week, I must say. Yeah. I've been kind of funny this year. A lot of people, I don't know if you've heard this a lot, a lot of people have been saying they'll be like,

Tim is pretty much my boy at this point. I love Tim, and I love his two co-hosts. Yeah, I've heard that. I've seen that being bounced around on Twitter. A common refrain. This was Twittersphere. Twinder, yeah. Twinder is saying that a lot. Tim,

hold on a second. What t-shirt is that? What do you got? It's hiding behind your microphone. Budweiser, baby. Oh, he's got a Budweiser shirt. King of beers, all right. It's just the one color. It's red ink on black t-shirt. Well, I specifically look for it because I wear a lot of beer shirts

yeah and i have the classic budweiser shirt that's the label on white but when we were going on a tour recently i'm and hey for the tour we have upcoming this spring midwest and south check us out on social media um midwest a couple southern stragglers it's the middle band of the country that's what we're doing. Yeah, but what about Atlanta? I would call that East Coast. Yeah, we're jumping on the East Coast for that one. It's not on the coast.

It's coastal. I also like that we swing through Tennessee and then do a couple shows and then back to Tennessee. Yeah, why not? Wait, do we do Nashville and Memphis at different times? Yeah. This is FUBar, man. No, it's not. It works out because we go up and then we go down. Oh, I didn't think of it that way.

So it's not foobar at all. Yeah, no, it's not foobar. That's good. Well, look at the shirt I'm wearing. Speaking of the tour. Hey. Dear Blanca sweatshirt. Got my Dear Blanca sweatshirt on.

I got it at the end of the tour. They had one left and I had an eye in it. and I said, all right, I'm buying this thing. And I think Dylan said, no, you don't pay. And I said, yes, I do pay. Because I don't want you coming back at me later saying, well, we actually need that to sell to somebody. No, this is mine now. I own it. I heard you.

My money's no good here. Well, why don't I smash your guitars? Well, it's also the guitar Tim uses. Ah, shit. We share guitars. Oh, checkmate. Checkmate. I won't smash your equipment because we also use the same equipment.

Dear Blanca of Columbia, South Carolina, the indie rock band we tour with, they rule. I was going to say that I'm inhibited by my, what would you call it? My proclivity to perspire is that I should What a fancy way of saying it One way to say it is a sweat hog but I think a proclivity to

listen. Tim up there, he's going to be a sweaty little pig. I try to wear black on stage or at least like things that don't really make sweat pop when i when i wear when i wear a white t-shirt it turns into a wet t-shirt contest um so i specifically went looking for a black budweiser shirt in falun i said you're coming on tour you see yeah you little shirt are the rumors true tim when you go out on tour go to any vacation you you lay all your clothing out on your bed

and you kind of have conversations with each thing. You do a sort of global conversation with everyone. And then you pick them and go into a different room. Okay, you're going on this trip with us. We're very excited. You're a pair of a white undershirt. You get in the case. Yeah, to answer your question, yes, the rumors are true.

Okay. Jeff, you were about to say? Well, hopefully it was about the rumors oh unfortunately no uh seeing the budweiser logo on a black t-shirt makes it look like a woods beer oh yeah it kind of does yes yes mgg vibe i haven't had it i haven't had a woods beer all year can you believe it yeah we gotta go drink beers in the woods and then smash the bottles so that only the labels are keeping the broken glass together. Oh, remember? Remember we had a joke

or somebody said, I think Tim said a joke about like, oh, I've been writing blank on all my, I've been writing 2022 on all my checks. And I was like, oh, you hear a lot of different versions of that one. I was like trying to think of a new one. Well, I thought I've been doing a new one

in some standup, which I don't, I can't do it forever because it's not going to be, you can't do a new year's joke. Do it here. Good father for the pod. Well, the new joke is I'd say,

oh my God, it's been three weeks since New Year's. I can't believe we're already three years into the new year and I'm still writing 2023 on my checks. And then I'll say, which is good because, oh because oh it's 2023 you could do that all year you could be like it's july and i'm still writing 2023 on my checks yeah but then people like why are you talking about like that's something you talk about in the new year time look i'm not saying it's a perfect joke but what are you gonna do a different joke what's so good about that what's

so good about that other joke you might do this hypothetical joke yeah that's true i could just fill that space with dead air a blank stare well you know what you could do is you ever you ever do the kind of the thumb hey i'm making pulling my thumb right off of my finger off my thumb you ever do that trick on stage yeah they might like that on stage i open and close with it and they go fucking nuts they say you are doing it twice you are good we enjoy this performance hey enough shit chat i want to get really yeah what's do you have booze news? Is that why you're so excited? No. What did you just open up over there, Mr. Kutz? Mr. Kutz. Oh.

Mr. Kutz just opened up a lime soleil. Soleil is the new thing. Am I close? Well, it's cheaper than LaCroix. Oh. But some say it's even better. But is LaCroix on its way out? I feel like everyone's LaCroix-ed out.

Not for me. I like that stuff. Okay, you. But is LaCroix on its way out? I feel like everyone's LaCroix-ed out. Not for me. I like that stuff. Okay, you're still liking LaCroix. It's fun, you know? So you don't want tap water. You don't want beers. It's a good daytime. Like, give me something fun.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It feels like the trend of it, you feel it more out here in LA, but in upstate New York growing up, I felt flavored seltzers were part of life. We had polar and you could walk down a whole aisle and get flavored seltzers. So it wasn't, but then suddenly living in LA, uh,

the, when, during the boom of LaCroix felt like there's flavored seltzers now. Flavored seltzers is water now. Oh God. Chip dig. Chip dig. Chip dig is... Let's not go down that road. Chip dig is

sauce now. There's probably new listeners who don't know what you're saying. There was something newer that I didn't even follow. It wasn't even about sauce. It was chip dip is egg filler now. Because I was using the chip tip in that. All right.

No, no, no, no. Booze news. This is all bad. That's bad. Booze news. Let's stick to the reliable format. What's the booze news, please, Tim? Bib, bib, bib, bib.

Bib, bib, bib, bib, bib. Booze news. Hit it. You know, you're in a city or something here in New York City. You're like, oh, geez, I got to be somewhere. But I want to kind of get buzzed on the way, pop into a thing at a Topo Chico and a small nip of a whatever.

Yeah, you're saying it's a good road soda, huh? Ooh, yeah. Ho-pone, ho-pone, ho-pone, no, no, no. Ho-pone, ho-pone, ho-pone, no, no, no. Ho-pone, ho-pone, ho-pone, no, no, no. It's a walkie-talkie, copy, no, no. It's booze News. You are breaking bimbos.

Dang. Popo no no no was sent to us by Jordan Stalling. And if you have a Booze News theme, email it to thesloppyboyspodcast at gmail.com. Good work, Jordan. Punchy. Punchy. Funny. Clever.

Tight. Sound effects. This guy's good. So goofy sounds. I think. This guy's good. Goofy sounds. Goofy sounds. Always a hit. I got to break down the Popo no-no. So for those who don't know, it's like if you have a drink that's mixed with like, if you take a, I think he just explained it in the thing.

You're drinking a drink on the street that the police wouldn't know about. Yeah. Popo being slang for police. No-no meaning no, no. Knowledge no no knowledge no knowledge but it's popo no no no it got convoluted there's an extra no in there i think either it's no or know there's one x somebody on instagram made the topo chico logo and just said popo no no and i thought that that was great. That's what makes sense. The first no is N-O. The second no

is K-N-O-W. No knowledge. But then what's the third no? That's a gimme. You take it, you use it however you want. That just makes it funny and unique. But it would be another K-N-O-W. Yeah. Okay. Right, because you're like, you're holding your index finger to your head and saying, no, no. just makes it funny and unique yeah but it would be another know yeah yeah okay okay good good

good right because you're like imagine you're holding your index finger your head and saying no no no right you see that all the time oh yeah do you step on my front door without seeing that do you know no people point to that yeah i see that point to their head you're like winnie the pooh will do that like think think think you know yeah and he's good people like him christopher robin certainly loved him for a time sure he was a meme he's a popular meme yeah sometimes he's just sitting there other times he's wearing a loosened tuxedo who makes up these memes okay booze news oh yes okay now we all remember the the media feeding frenzy when when there was the ancillary footage clip from house of dragon and the negroni spagliato with prosecco in it it rocked the blogosphere did it not wait a minute i thought we were done with that is that

aren't we done with that we are done with that oh i thought i was gonna set you up for no it's back i tell you what mike yeah to show you how much we're not done we're done with it but i was out at uh uh dresden jeff you were there uh with some people recently and somebody ordered a negroni but was kind of ordering it slowly like um yeah i'll have um i guess a negroni and the waitress said spagliato it's like oh shit we're at the point now yeah it's like ordering a martini and having the follow-up questions that the negronis are being assumed Spogliato at this point. Holy shit. Anyway,

what I'm saying is we just had, that is over, but we maybe just triggered a new little thing. Not, not to the level of Negroni Spogliato with Prosecco in it, but there was a big TV moment and I've been dealing, I've been out there in the DMs dealing with this. You guys don't have to worry about it.

Oh, yeah, I don't. Tim, thanks for taking care of that, buddy. Yeah, it's a living hell. But I have to be the point man on this. I'm sure you saw Tom Hanks was on Stephen Colbert. And he talked about one time he was out at an event trying to get some caffeine this was earlier this month he's talking about it on the show he had a diet coke trying to pep up pep it up and someone came around with some champagne because people were celebrating and

he said yeah i'll take some champagne in my diet coke and they said huh and he said it's actually pretty good so they he told the story and they drank it on uh on colbert they poured some and tom hanks has called it because it's coke and champagne he calls it a cocaine oh geez tom colbert said we should call either tom collins should be tom hanks and the tom hanks said no i got a funnier name i am america's dad by the way. And so this was a whole big thing. And then people online are making it. People are drinking it. They say it's good.

I have not had. What do you think? I have not had. You know how I feel about champagne. Yeah. You hate it. I hate it, but I love Coca-Cola. And I know Coca-Cola has bubbles in it so maybe

the bubbles that i don't like from the champagne get taken over as mixed in with the coke what if you can tell the difference as you're drinking you're like well there's a nice big coke bubble and there's a teeny little champagne bubble ouch spit that bubble out my whisk got stuck in my whiskers. I just think the champagne taste would get in the way, and I wouldn't like it. Also, the BAC would be, the alcohol by volume would be so low. That's my thing, Jay. What's the point? What's the point of this? You're just topping off, like, you have half a diet Coke, and you top it off with champagne.

What are you drinking there? You're drinking nothing. You're drinking a whole big bowl of wrong out of a champagne flute. Why is he hanging around drinking novelty drinks when he should be talking to his son Chet and trying to straighten him out? Straighten him out? Get him in line. Chet, I thought he needs to be straightened out again.

Chet. I mean, his brain does. He's in good shape physically. i thought he maybe did something again uh he just sort of he's he's a he's the black sheep of the family we'll put it that way yeah yeah yeah how do you think i feel i'm watching him as a guest on z-way he was funny on that that's the only interview i've ever seen on Z-Way. He was. He was good on Z-Way. I like him.

He's likable. If you had to choose, Chet or Colin, who are you going with? Ooh. These days, Chet. Yeah, these days I might be a Chet man. When I look around. I will always, before those, I will always pick the goat. Tommy. Tommy.

Yeah. The Hank man. You know that Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks' wife, is Greek. She's a pillar of the Greek community here in LA. I went to the LA Greek Fest one time. She, like, helps promote it. Tom Hanks is also, like like on the posters for it and stuff the day that i was there they were not there but you know who was there

the father of jennifer anastonakis changed her name jennifer aniston's dad is named mr anastonakis now does he uh is he an actor or celebrity of some sort he's a greek guy he's a prominent greek oh i see i see i'll tell you one thing so there's uh down on on pico across the street from papa cristo's is the big greek orthodox church in la like a big cathedral and the main guy the main priest who who preaches there looks exactly like me no have you ever met another calpacus outside of uh family? No, there's some on Facebook. It does happen, but I've not met them. Tim, I remember I told you at one point,

you remind me so much of my childhood friend Andy Tamulinas, and you were like, yeah, he's Greek. Tamulina. I don't think I've ever heard the same Greek name more than once. Yeah.

They're like beautiful than once. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like I've never, yeah, it's a good, good last name. Good last name. You don't like, you say like,

Oh, Stamatopoulos. I'll remember that. Maybe I'll meet another. Nope. Galifianakis. I'll remember that. Maybe I'll meet another.

Nope. Just one offs. It's a bunch of one offs. Who's a, what's a, I'm blanking on his name. Jesse from full house. Stamos.

Stamos. But, but that seems like it's, what's, I'm blanking on his name, Jesse from Full House. Stamos. Stamos. But that seems like, he's Greek, right? Yeah. It seems like maybe that got shortened down from something. I thought the same thing about Sampras. That's probably shortened down. Ah. Yeah, I think they all end in Accus.

Accus. Well, there's also Opulus. Ah, there you go. And Aki, is that one too? Yep. What was your grandfather's name athanasius acropolis athanasius well that acropolis i added in the sketch but athanasius kelpakis yeah uh and everybody called him tom hmm ah not unlike america's dad what a glow down it must be athanasius hangs aanasius, but my friends call me Tom.

Oh. Oh. Was that it for Booze News? Wrap it up. Yep. Okay. The drink of the day is called the Stinger. Yeah.

Had not had. Not had. Not had, not heard. Heard? Mike heard? I get it confused with a snake bite, but it's not the snake bite. I have heard of it, but I do. Didn't I say it once as a reference, doing a little character on the show,

and Tim, you were like, oh, is that a real drink? That sounds funny. That's exactly why I heard it from the first time it was from you. So it's funny. You don't know anything about it, but I just know it is a drink. You probably scrolled it on the IBA list, huh? No, I think I've just heard of it. You've heard of it. So you've heard, I've heard, be proud, but stand up for yourself. You've heard not had had. Okay, well. So I guess here's what you need to know about this drink. It is a fancy person drink, okay? Okay.

Perfect. So it pops up first prohibition, before prohibition. It's a sweet after dinner drink. Nice and simple. Two ingredients. Likely invented by bartender James B. Regan at the knickerbocker hotel in midtown manhattan which okay we've mentioned because that hotel is it used to be the home of the the the king cole painting mike that is now at the saint regis bar oh interesting we talked about that one time anyway

um stinger is a boxing term for a jab to the head ouch so um so that's that's the beginning of it but here's what you got to know is it gets gobbled up by this guy named reggie vanderbilt of the vanderbilt he is a big rich gilded age billionaire living in a mansion on fifth Avenue. He starts drinking them. And, um, at his home a lot, he loves them. He's popularizing them.

He's telling people about them. And he's saying, I don't only drink it as a sweet after dinner drink. I'm just for this, my favorite drink. And now Reggie is of course, the father of Gloria Vanderbilt, who has some big scandal that I've purposely never looked into,

but I know that Gloria Vanderbilt has a big scandal. You know, maybe she was kidnapped. Maybe she wasn't. I don't know. Maybe she's a fashion designer. Okay. But what's most important to know about her

is that her son is Anderson Cooper. Somebody just brought that up around me recently. Isn't that funny that he's a fucking Vanderbilt? But he didn't get the fortune because his mom, whatever this scandal is, she left her fortune.

So he's like a self-made Vanderbilt, I guess. He didn't get the fortune, but he got the fame. Yes. Okay, so Reggie Vanderbilt i guess he didn't get the fortune but he got the fame yes yes yeah um okay so reggie vanderbilt in the 20s is drinking stingers telling everyone it's his favorite drink they start serving them over at the waldorf astoria and other fancy establishments like that it's such an upper crust drink that it's even name dropped in the movie high society bing crosby tells grace ke, it's a stinger.

It removes the sting. And fancy Cary Grant orders one. He's playing a pilot in a movie and he orders one at lunch with some fancy ladies. And weird. He's like Mr. Preppy Fancy Man. But then also the fact that he's a pilot is significant because this drink did catch on with pilots like in World War II. And then after that, like fly boys drinking their stingers is sort of a thing okay and um the lots of film references here the apartment shampoo mad men i

don't know if you've ever heard of it prestige tv seen it not only heard i've seen i've listened to all the episodes but i gotta got to go back and watch. Always sort of referenced as this old timey upper crust sweet after dinner drink. That's so funny that it's got its name from boxing, which feels like a blue collar sport. Or it's probably that rich folks were watching and betting on the poor boxers. It could be. Or it's just that this one rich guy loved this boxing named drink. And then everyone forgot about the boxing thing.

And we're just like, it's a rich guy drink. It's funny, but boxing still is like, when you see big main events, there's like celebrities there. And it's like a CNBC type place. You know,

what's a rich guy thing that just shocked me. And I only learned, maybe we talked about this on tour. Cause we were watching it at a rest stop. Formula one racing. Yeah. Oh, when I see race car,

I think NASCAR, I think, right. You know, I think what you think Bobby. Yeah. But then formula one is international. You got,

it's like, like wealthy people traveling around the world. Like you got like, even like Ricky Bobby, it isn't, isn't Sasha Baronhen playing like a french formula one guy in that movie yeah so that's interesting so wait is is formula one on a track or is it like in the streets like uh track i think it depends i mean they do have like they can go through cities i think uh but like uh oh yeah i'm seeing weird tracks like there's some weird looking ones it's it is yeah it is kind of like uh should we build

i do think of like and see if they can get it into the tour isn't there i'm blanking on all this stuff but isn't there on like one of the bond movies or a jason bourne movie or something like there's a big event in like monte carlo a big racing event in monte carlo i don't know about that mike but i do know that the stinger was referenced in diamonds are forever hello diamonds are forever um lots of film references for the stinger folks always fancy um and and then to catch you up to speed uh uh me tim kubakis i had not heard of the drink and then yes one time here on this very podcast we were talking about the austin powers bar that used to be in glendale electric pussy can yes we were joking about what if that was that used to be in Glendale. Electric pussy can.

Yes. We were joking about, what if that was just your local watering hole and every day after work, you went to the Austin Powers bar and then Mike, you made a joke and you said, mini me set me up with a stinger. Ah, that was it. And Jeff laughed, so I laughed.

Meanwhile, I'm thinking, what the fuck is a fucking stinger? What the fuck is this fucking guy talking about? Cut to a few weeks later, I'm at Musso and fuck is this fucking guy talking about? Cut to a few weeks later. I'm at Musso and Frank. I look at the menu. I see a stinger. I order it.

It comes out. Now, I thought it was a delightful drink. It was sweet, but they served it on the rocks, so it had a chance to get melty. Tonight, we're going to be having it up. Right. Interesting. Here is the the iba official recipe hit me 50 milliliters of cognac oh 50 a nice pour 20 milliliters of white creme de menthe now you know i had green creme de menthe because we used it in the grasshopper.

Sure. But if you make it with the green stuff, it's actually called an emerald. And that would be illegitimate podcasting if I made an emerald and called it a stinger. So, Jeff, where'd you go to get us this white creme de menthe? Timothy, I went to Cap and Cork, which is where you go for the weird stuff. Yep. And of course, I said, I don't want to ask the guy immediately. I want to look around, see and be seen.

Sure. You know my podcast, anyone? I see the Hiram Walker. No sign of it. They got the green stuff, but I keep looking. On another shelf, they have Tempus Fugit. Ooh. Oh, yeah.

Look at that label. Glacial. Beautiful. Now,, yeah. Look at that label. Glacial. Beautiful. Now, this thing ran us about $46. I knew it. I went and talked to the guy and said, hey, I need like 20 milliliters of this. Do you have a cheaper or smaller version of this?

And he said, yeah, come on back. And he said, Hiram Walker makes the clear version too. Out of stock. Only green. And he said, oh, well, there's this other one. There's this other one we have. Out of stock. So I said, you know what? The Sloppy Boys LLC is taking care of this bottle and I'm splitting it with the tea, man.

And you're going to spend months just sipping on that neat now. I love it. It's funny because you already have some of it gone because you split it with Tim already. So it looks like you've already gone through half a bottle of white creme de menthe. I will say the guy at Cap'n Cork said, that is one of the best cordials you can buy. He said that it's way better than normal creme de menthe. And like, once you have it, you won't go back.

But he did say this bottle will last you a year or two. Well, I'm excited because I've had, mean the green high room walker stuff it you know tastes like toothpaste or it tastes like like gum i kind of wanted something french so i'm excited and it's funny i text you that same thing i was like i bet they have a 50 bottle of something fancy from france but check i bet high room walkers got your back. And no, sold out. Damn. Well, I'll tell you guys this. Tonight, I'll be drinking an emerald.

I got the green stuff. I looked online at one entry that was like, white and green are interchangeable as far as taste. I said, that's all I need to hear. Dude, that's why I bought this bottle. Because I was like, I bet one of us is going to have an Emerald. Well, Mike, it's going to be a classic when I post it on Instagram. I know. It's going to be, oh, Jeff's drink looks like this.

Tim's drink looks like this. And Hanford's got a different color. I knew that. I made that decision when I said to myself today, I'm not going out to buy it. And whatever. People can be small-minded and pick on me on the grams, and it's so fun, but they don't realize it's the same thing. It's the same taste.

So I guess all those people can shove it up their fucking asses. Well, listeners, I like it. Anyway, here's the method. We're going to pour all ingredients I like the listeners Tim I love the listeners but if you want to come at me and talk about how I make my drinks and how they are presented that's

kind of your own problem and you can deal with that yourself in therapy yeah get help okay everyone listening in fact sign up for BetterHelp our sponsor hey you might be hearing that very soon. Pour all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well.

Strain into a chilled martini cocktail glass. Oh. Optional garnish, mint leaf. Mmm. Mmm. Great. I like this. I bet it's going to be sweet, but we're going to say it's an after dinner drink.

Yeah. You're out on the veranda. After your meal, you're having a stogie. Oh, wow. I got to start doing more stogies. Remember I said I was going to do that? Hey, new year, new resolution. Smoke a stogie every morning when you wake up.

In the shower. That sounds great, Timmy. I can't wait to get into it. I'm very curious about this. Guys, what if we smoke stogies on the tour? That could be our thing. We already did a cigar blowout. Yeah, I know, but imagine us walking up and down Bourbon Street

in New Orleans smoking out stogies. Leading the marching band. Who are also stogie smokers? No horns, just stoves. We ran right past this, but mixing glass. This is not a shaker. Interesting. Oh, yeah, I ran right past it.

Mixing glass. This is not a shaker. So you're going to want to get that swizzle spoon, put the back against the inside of the glass, and twirl, twirl, twirl. Yes. It's nice because cognac is a nice sort of thick, syrupy drink. You don't want to disturb it by shaking it up.

You mustn't bruise the cognac. Nyack, nyack. Nyack, nyack. All right, folks, why don't we go make these drinks, and when we come back, first sips. I love that for us. Okay. 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. Stingers in hand hand let's see them i used a little guy short glass very nice oh very nice mine is emerald green i like the color of it and folks i understand what's going on i did not make a mistake. No, no, no. Tim, did you happen to taste, did you take a little taste of the pure? I snuck a little taste of the creme de menthe

and ooh, it toppled, it kept going. Really? It unraveled itself to me. It's funny because it tastes very authentic and minty, but it doesn't have that sort of like, ugh, peppermint extract fakiness. All of the mint we're eating is like gum and fucking candy

and fucking candy canes and scope. And this was like, this is like they probably took mint leaves and they probably fucking distilled them. I'll tell you, before we get into first sips, the back of the bottle says, Our creme de menthe is completely pot distilled from peppermint leaves and provides a depth and complexity impossible to achieve in the typical mass-produced creme de menthe. There you go. Interesting.

Well, sips? Please. Let's sip, sip sip sip away mm-hmm oh yo oh okay so this is way more balanced than the one i had at moose on frank i was getting that that mint real hard this one one is nice and balanced. Oh, I forgot to clap my mint sprig. Yeah, me too. I'm going to clap a wet mint

sprig. Ready? Oh, that's nice. That's nice and that's just it's cognac. The cognac with a little mint aftertaste. This is a strong flavored drink. Yeah, you getting a lot of Listerine, Mike? Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I got to say, mine's a little more minty than I thought, too. I thought it'd be a little more balanced, like our Godfather. You know, that's a drink. Oh, man, I made a Godfather this... Yeah, me too, me too. A couple nights ago, I had a night in.

I had nothing to do, so I watched something on TV and made a couple Godfathers. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, baby. Let me guess. Was it a Francis Ford Coppola film, perhaps? No, but...

Oh, what? Paul T. Goldman? Oh, I love Paul T. Goldman. That show is so good. You guys watching? Haven't seen. I'll watch it. Yeah, but what were you watching when you drank the Godfather?

I forgot what I was watching. I may have been flipping around, but what were you watching when you drank the Godfather? I forgot what I was watching. I may have been flipping around. This place rules. Maybe. Yes, it was. It was that. Well, Mike, the guy's a sexual predator. Congrats for watching.

Yeah, how do you feel now? Really? Way to go, dude. Way to go. Real nice. Real nice, Mike. Jeez. And you bring that into our pod?

I don't know. I shouldn't have been watching anything. Well, you know what I watched just recently? This past weekend. You know, I should take some time, not watch something for a while. I should be listening more than watching right now. I watched Paddington 1 over the weekend. I don't hear about Paddington 1. I hear about Paddington

2. I hear about Paddington 2 as well, but I wanted to at least start with Paddington. Yeah, yeah, sure. Because I hear Paddington 2 is the best movie ever, brings you to tears, blah, blah, blah. Paddington 1, quaint, which I liked. Did it feel just like a kid's movie, though? It did, but not so formulaic. Should I watch it, or should I jump whole hog right into paddington 2

well see i i assume you don't need much to watch paddington 2 from paddington 1 you know he's a bear watch it if you want but i wouldn't okay great no i i enjoyed it paddington is such a funny character because he's just like oh paddington's up to trouble. He's getting too much scotch tape on him. He's trying to tape stuff together. Extremely mild. Yeah. Or like, uh-oh, he's letting the water run all over the place. And it floods the house for a little bit.

It's all fine in two seconds. Cute. That's why, I mean, I remember watching the Paddington tv show on lunchbox on nickelodeon and it was just sort of like he's got to go to the bookshop to buy a book and then he buys a book and he's like well time to get home with me book did he in the in the tv show like the kids show did he ever like get into trouble and stuff all the time yeah he got arrested for jacking off in public oh shit jesus the brits sure are patient huh sure oh yeah you ever see like david the gnome that that was another like old school british

thing where it was just like oh no david's in trouble he better call swift the fox and then i think about that you know so soft it's like so like, there's nothing, no urgency to it. Very pastoral. If Brit media is like that, I always think to remind myself with rock music, because you can kind of think of the Beatles as being kind of soft and fuddy-duddy, but they're coming from that culture. It must have been wild when, if you're in London and suddenly Led Zeppelin. Wow. Yeah.

The who? Yeah. The Who? Yeah. Oasis? Not to mention Blur. Blur. You know as best as Blur. You know, much later, Oasis and Blur. Hey, Wind in the Willows.

That's another one we used to bring up a lot. Very melancholy. Yeah. Not to mention the Willows. That's another one we used to bring up a lot. Very melancholy. Not to mention the infinite sadness. Yes, yes, yes. Very good, very good. Is that good? So this is an upper crust drink, eh? Yeah, I don't know.

I taste that. I taste upper crust. I think that that's fancy. Maybe I used cognac that was too fancy. You guys used normal brandy or did you use cognac? Henny. I used normal cognac that was too fancy. You guys used normal brandy or did you use cognac? Henny. I used normal cognac. Or cognac.

Ooh. Yeah. Mint stuff is a little challenging in general because it's hard to associate. I like this drink. I think it tastes good. But it's hard to associate mint with fun. Yeah. I like mint chip ice cream.

Yeah. And then I actually, our friend Ben Axelrod loves peppermint ice cream. And I was hanging out with him and we ate some peppermint ice cream. I like that too. And I was like, this is good, but I would like it as one scoop.

And then I also have chocolate or vanilla with it. But, but like just peppermint ice cream. I'm like the whole month of December, December candy canes are free, you know? And even beyond you, candy canes are free, you know? Yeah, yeah. And beyond.

You see a candy cane, you grab it. You don't pay anyone for it. And then so it's kind of weird to be like, now it's my turn at Baskin Robbins and I choose peppermint. Yeah, I'm going to pay. I'm going to reach into my wallet. It's like getting water flavor. Now, see, I do my teas. I like mint and peppermint teas. Sure.

But other than that It's kind of where I Mint medley? Stop Huh? Mint medley? Celestial seasonings? Oh it could be

No that's not Mint medley is not a celestial seasoning I forget That's a bigelow I forget Oh that's a bigelow You guys ever do a York Or a Junior Mint?

No I hate those You hate them? I hate York We've talked about that I think I brought this up on the candy episode, candy bar episode. No York for me, please. Slide it my way.

Yeah, but doesn't it give you the feeling of shoosh, skiing the ice, shoosh. Shoosh. Yes, it does. I could drink more of those. Well, it worked. No, no, I don't get that feeling. I get the feeling of, I wish this was not in my mouth. Come on.

Is it a mouthwash taste that you don't like? Is that the issue? I don't like the chocolate with the mint. Oh, the best part? You don't like the best part? The taste? Go ahead, Tim. You got something to say about a York?

With this drink, I was putting myself in the mindset of 1913 when this was first made at the knickerbocker hotel and i'm asking myself timmy maybe mint stuff wasn't all over the place back back in the day yeah this could have been novel you would probably get excited that once a year you have a sugar plum and that's the most amazing thing you ever have yeah and maybe there's no scope and maybe there's no colgate total whitening yeah they don't get total whitening every day the way we do they got their teeth rotted out they smell like shit and mint is a delicacy that is a very good point if i was back then and i got my hands on some mint. If I was back then. If I was back then. If I was back then.

If some mint came my way, I would rub it on my pits in privates. Yeah. Oh, God. And then the ladies would thank you after. Hey, you didn't stink as much as the other guys I blow all day. Oh, Jesus Christ. You started it, Jeff. You want to talk about your privates?

Gloria Vanderbilt is this is this the scandal that was the scandal um i was i was at the dresden didn't mean to drop dresden twice in one episode but it just happens i was eating dinner there recently and i i wanted something really old-timey i got the rack of lamb and it came out with the paper frills on the bones oh my god man that is dresden is very traditional it's so funny it really is so i'm eating it delicious very good like that that place is is not always the freshest food in town but this was a very good recommendation shining recommendation i mean i love i i love that place but you know it's it's not like

it's not very expensive so it's not like fancy steakhouse it's like mid-level but um it came with traditionally with lamb unless you're like uh you know greek or something lamb would come with mint jelly have you ever had that and it's just like it's like smucker's mint jelly my mom would that. My mom would like make a lamb every once in a while. And we always had like an old small jar of mint jelly in the fridge. Because that's the only thing to use it for. Like Smucker's makes it and no one's putting it on a PB&J. But when I was eating this delicious rag of lamb at Dresden, I was like, I'm not going to ruin my lamb with this mint jelly. So I just ate all my lamb with salt and pepper.

And then afterwards I ate the mint jelly as a little dessert. Did you have any, you didn't try one? I thought maybe you liked it. I tried one. I didn't think the flavor combo, it worked, but I thought that the lamb on its own was better. I see. Sure.

I see. Sure. I get it now. Now, Jeff, you're drinking cre the lamb on its own was better. I see. Sure. I see. Sure. I get it now. Now, Jeff, you're drinking creme de menthe to the dome. How is that? You know, I just... Ooh, man. Okay.

I just took a little sip of the Hiram Walker Neon Green, and it's Scope. Yeah. And this is gentler, but also more like oily effervescent. Does that make sense? It feels like more real and raw. It makes perfect sense. But is the mint flavor the same? No, actually, like the gentler flavor is the clear stuff.

Does the fancy stuff have more, does it taste a little bit more like a mint leaf as opposed to artificial flavoring? You know what, Tim? This tastes a little more hard-earned. Hard-earned. Yeah. Whereas the green stuff, I mean, I'm sure there's good green stuff too,

but this is the Hiram Walker, and it feels a little, it's like applied. It's an applied scent and taste. Ooh. I'm jumping around here a little bit but we were just talking about Upper Crust there was something I saw at a bar this weekend it's really going to make you laugh I was at a bar

it was Friday night it was a cool looking corner bar in Brooklyn but it was packed with people and there was music playing and stuff it was a busy bar and there was a playing and stuff. It was really a busy bar. And there's a guy doing the most, like,

ooh, I hope people notice me type thing, sitting at the bar reading a book. Now, you've seen that before, but you usually see it, and I accept it as normal in the middle of the day or a quiet bar. To be reading a book at a party basically is like what are you doing we all can see you we all think you're so cool was it infinite jest no no it was the anthony key to his biography no scar tissue and i'm sitting there ordering a drink and i was there with a friend of mine, and he's like, oh, my God, this guy's drinking at the bar.

We both had a little, oh, geez. And I look over. I was like, hey, look at what his bookmark is. It was a $100 bill. No. Jesus Christ. This guy sucks, man. I could not believe.

I mean, that is just like who? It felt like it was like a prank show. Like he's a plant to like make people like we'll see people's reactions on a camera or something. Yeah, that's insane. It's so funny. I can't believe that. Yeah, if you're reading an Anthony Kiedis book at a bar, how come everybody that sees that doesn't just in your face go. Even if I were

Flea, I would do that. I wonder if he listens to this pod. If you listen to this pod, let us know. Because I want to ask that person in the 45 minutes you were there reading, first of all, how many pages did you read and do you remember anything?

Zero pages. No, he didn't read any pages. He wanted some girl to come up and say, you're so smart. I saw somebody one time, Saturday night, prime time, Arroyo Chop House in Pasadena. Rich guy reading a Stephen King book and eating a steak by himself at the bar. I thought that was kind of cool because he wasn't trying to be interesting. He was just like, I'm so rich that I can't eat a meal at home. Probably like my wife's out of town and there's just no way that I'm eating at home.

I need to have $100 steak. It costs me less to eat out than eat at home. I'm so rich. Exactly. Damn. I don't know if I'm going to do anything different. I'm still going on my drink. This is not a gulper.

I might go rocks. I'm going to do anything different. I'm still going on my drink. This is not a gulper. I might go rocks. I might do that, too. I can't think of what else to do to it. Fuck with it, dude. Just fuck it up in your own way. This is another one. Okay, okay. You want to have a little fun here.

The Grand Marnier with a little bit of orange taste in it. Yeah. You keep bringing that up. I keep bringing it up because I like the orange taste. I think you have that bottle and you just want to use it. It's right Garnier with a little bit of orange taste in it. Yeah. You keep bringing that up. I keep bringing it up because I like the orange taste. I think you have that bottle and you just want to use it. It's right in my eye. Rather than go shopping. Wait a second.

Wait a second, though. Michael, you're not as nuts as people might think because the Stinger. I don't know. He might be. He might be, Tim. The Stinger has some variations. I'm looking them up. Amaretto Stinger, Irish Stinger, Mexican stinger, white spider, white whey cocktail.

I swear to God there was one of these that had a little bit of orange twang in it. You know what that would be? Like the orange mint Tic Tacs. The orange mint Tic Tacs. That's what that would be. But Mike, you can't just do a clean swap of normal cognac for Grand Marnier because Grand Marnier is just a very sugary liqueur as well. Yeah.

I'm probably not even going to try it. I don't really want to do that. All right. Well, the perfect reason to not. Oh, Tim, when you were saying this drink was named after boxing, the stinger punch, I looked up. There's also something called the uppercut out there.

No, I can't. I don't know if that's newer. A cocktail called the uppercut? No, a punch. No, a boxing move. Oh, really? A cocktail. A mare pecan is an orangish-flavored French bitter, formerly made at 80 proof and now much lower.

That is sometimes included in this, according to David Wondrich. Okay. We trust David. Wondrich. Yeah, of course. Alright, well, why don't we take a little break? Wonder why he's rich? He's David Wondrich. We're going to take a little break, and we'll come back with round two, but in the meantime, folks,

get a load of these ads. Ooh. And we're back with round two of the stinger i added uh ice and a dash of orange bitters there you go i just i just did it on the rocks yeah i think the ice helps this is going to help this drink a lot the ice is nice for. Ooh, not even tasting that orange. Doesn't even cut through the... It disappeared. You need Ameripicon. I like this better. I like it on the rocks, like everything.

I thought it was something else. Mike, did you do a variation or just the same? Nah, same thing. I haven't finished mine yet. You know before where I said it gloria vanderbilt uh i know she has a scandal but i didn't look it up um good i remember i remember i've chosen ignorance as bliss wait what she said good podcasting things that are out there that we don't want to talk about there would be simply no way of

finding it out um but i remembered something else like this that i intentionally didn't i don't know why i did this but i wanted to not know something and i remember being like well into my adulthood let's say i'm 30 years old and i didn't know what the ozarks were oh yeah yeah sure and i remember talking about it kind of proudly like you and I didn't know what the Ozarks were. Oh yeah. Yeah, sure. And I remember talking about it kind of proudly like, you know,

I don't know what the Ozarks are. You get a little, get a few drinks in me and I start to brag about it. Like it's my, my parlor drink. You know me, I don't know what the Ozarks are. You probably think I know it.

And then that fucking Jason Bateman show comes out and I learn it's a mountain range. Yeah. But I don't think I can tell you where it is. The Ozarks, I'm thinking like in Virginia or Carolinas. Yeah, where is it in relation to the Appalachias? Oh, I'm thinking the Appalachians, I think. Appalachian Trail. I liked the word because I was like, really?

Like Ozarks? That doesn't sound like mountains. It could have been anything in the world. Doesn't sound like anything I got to know. That sounds like a YB. A my B. Get out of here. It's Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

Oh, we might be cutting right through those Ozarks. And the extreme southeast corner of Kansas. The extreme. I just turned our tour into the Ozark Apology Tour. Yes, beautiful, beautiful country down here. I have learned so much from the Ozarkian people.

Alright, let's get into some final thoughts, huh? Mm-hmm. Mine's easy. Not over again. Bye. Ooh, wow. Yeah. Decis again. Bye. Ooh, wow. Yeah. Decisive. Yep. Well, I will say there's a little asterisk

because that's an adjudication for the emerald. Yeah. That's true, Mike. That's true. Okay, Mike doesn't like the emerald. We'll find out what he thinks of the thing. I was told online the emerald and the white does not matter. The taste is the same.

Yeah, yeah. Sure, but you're swayed by the color. Ooh, a new distinction. I like the green color. Next week, we're going to do the emerald. Green is my favorite color. Oh, God. I'm in between. I don't think I ever need to have this

again, but I don't hate it. I'll finish it. I like it better with the rocks. It's in order again by a hair. Wow. I just want to point out to the listener mike what he was saying green is my favorite color he was kind of rocking his glass glass back and forth looking at the green in his glass and kind of rocking up some might call him a dork but i would never oh no no no no no, no, no. Oh, no, no. No, they wouldn't. For me, it is an order again as an after dinner drink. You guys know that I aspire to be one of these guys.

The dessert menu comes around. Sure. Everyone's ordering desserts, but I'm looking at the port. I'm looking at the... Oh, right, right, right. Sometimes there's a cheese plate on there. That's kind of cool. Oh, no, yeah.

You know, I've been doing this. I've been having... After dinner, I have a Grand Marnier. That's kind of cool. Oh, no, yeah. I've been doing this. I've been having... After dinner, I have a Grand Marnier. I have a Fernet. I have a... Port is tricky because it's so fucking sweet. But maybe I would do a stinger in that situation.

Appointment only. Ooh. I'd drink a stinger if the appointment was a rack of lamb. Yeah, because you want it to cut right through that rack of lamb I would drink a stinger with a rack Give me one stinger with my RL Mike, that's actually not

that's a good idea I feel like fine dining restaurants in New York would make that pairing You know how your mom used to make the lamb with the mint jelly? Well, here we have like a deconstructed lamb crudo. And it's served with a stinger for that minty kick. And Mike, you could be on chef's table. Yeah, I could.

Ideas like that. Just tossing ideas at the wall. And maybe somebody goes, oh, that could work. Yeah, I could. Ideas like that. Just tossing ideas at the wall and maybe somebody goes, oh, that could work. Yeah. It's good. The stinger has had a decent showing here on the pod. But will the two of you fare as well on the

stinger quiz? No! I mean, you made a good point. The stinger has had a decent show on this pod, but will we? Yeah. Yeah. I think that was my, I sort of had that question from the top of the show, but I felt silly asking it. Well, now the two of you face off against, I believe it's 10 questions.

Yes, 10 questions. Oh, this could end at a tie. We might need a tiebreaker. I don't know what needs to be said about the stinger quiz. No, it's the stinger quiz. I think you just sort of jump right into it and it's a blurter. Can you believe it?

Yep. Nope. Question number one. The stinger of this common pest is actually called a proboscis. Located not on its butt, but on its face. Mosquito. Timothy. Wow.

Skeeters. Skeeters. If you go to the Ozarks, you better be ready for Skeeters. Yep. Get my little score sheet up here. The sound I just made was for the Doug fans. Yeah, that was good. This one goes out to the Snick fans.

And next week, tune in. Our guest is Roger Klotz. Hey, we have been talking about Porkchop a lot. Ain't funny. Alright, number two. For all the crocs, gators, and snakes he's dealt with, this TV survivalist was rescued by medics when he suffered a major allergic reaction to a bee sting in 2019.

Steve Irwin. He was dead by then. Bear Grylls. Timothy Bear Grylls. Very good. That was on his show Born Survivor. And you can see pictures of him. He got stung in the forehead by it.

And then his whole face blew up and his eyes swolled shut. Yikes. Have you ever seen pictures of dogs who bite a bee or get into a bee's nest? They're like, just their mouths are really puffy. They look like that emoji that's like, er. Yeah. You gotta love the dogs out there. Love the dogs.

Nasty dog. Doggy dog. Number three. Ooh. This comic book antihero's backstory was reconceived for the silver screen. The tick. Sidestepping his spidery origins. Spider-Man.

Venom? Venom. Michael Venom. Yesom. Michael Venom. Damn! Sorry about Venom. Oh, dude. Sorry about Venom. Funniest line ever in a movie. A great actress having to say, sorry about Venom.

Sorry about Venom. Sorry about Venom. Sorry about the whole movie. Will you guys see Ant-Man Quantum Quantanium? No, no, no. That's not a question from the quiz. Go ahead.

No, not a question from the quiz. I asked the questions around here. Yes. Number four. The males of this... Wait. Okay. Post office.

I don't know if this is correct, but we're going to ask it anyway. Nice. The males of this aquatic mammal species have ankle spurs on their hind legs capable of delivering a painful swelling sting. Ooh. The males of the... What type of beast? Of this aquatic mammal species... Platypus otter platypus Timmy hey that's right catch mine platypus they rarely sting humans sorry platypuses that's the

plural he sees rarely sting humans they're primarily used in defense against other male platypuses something to think about egg laying mammal the pet platypus odd odd i said aquatic mammal but then i i meant to check it before i would say it out loud i was gonna say duck build but that would be obvious right yeah name a duck build thing that isn't a platypus. Duck. Okay. Okay. Duck build bird. Number five.

This expansion team founded in 1988 is now owned by his heirness, Michael Jordan. Charlotte Hornets. Yes. Oh. Damn. Damn. That was a good blurt. I'm surprised you guys didn't jump right on.

You know what I love? Expansion teams like that when they're new and just everybody's wearing the gear all across the country. I mean, we did that exactly, like Charlotte Hornets and then Raptors soon thereafter. Dude, San Jose Sharks, when they started, I was decked out in the gear in New York. Mighty Ducks?

That also, that look or that color too was big. Teal. Yeah. Of course. Teal in the 90s? That was the move. Teal in the 90s? This guy yeah of course teal in the 90s that was the move teal in the 90s this guy's bigger than teal in the 90s um man you know what i have an embarrassing story one time this is does it end at a question for the quiz this no no no this this is another steve

steve my friend steve., who I once famously said, it seems like you and I are the only two who even care about the turtles anymore. One day, we're all in the cafeteria in like fourth grade, and then one of the teachers gets on the mic and says like, lost and found, like somebody left a hat up here with a B on it and held up a hat and I couldn't see it. And in the back, I said,

Charlotte Hornets thinking she must mean a B, not a Hornet. It was the Bruins. But it was a, it was a fucking, yeah, it was a Red Sox hat. Oh,

Red Sox. And Steve mocked me. I think she should be mocked for saying a hat with a B on it. Yeah. Steve should be mocked for hanging out hat with a B on it. Yeah. Steve should be mocked for hanging out with a guy who still plays with Ninja Turtles. Yeah, I agree. Number six. In an infamous interview

from 1993, this former policeman claimed to have tantric sex for... Yes! Michael! I thought Sting was a former school teacher. But he was in the police my boy Ah ha ha Ah

Yes yes And he had that tantric sex didn't he He sure did In Q magazine he says quote In yoga sex is a spiritual focus of energy It ends when you choose it to If you've gone on for four or five hours, you don't really want to come.

In 2011, his wife, Trudy Styler, called the claim a drunken boast. That's funny. No shit. He got so famous for that. The idea that it was was it all just, was it just one quote? It was one infamous interview, but then she does

stop short of saying he'd lied about their yoga sex. Yeah, but still, I thought that he was, like, part of the tantric organization and did, like... I didn't think that was just one interview. That, like... That kept his name in the zeitgeist for, like, so many years.

Like, he was, like... You could use him as, like, a punchline for something or forever. Yeah, like... They made jokes about that in Popstar, like, 30 years after. He was like, you could use him as a punchline for something or forever. Yeah, like they made jokes about that in Popstar like 30 years later. It's cool. I've actually been going the other direction. I can have sex for one, two seconds

and it's amazing. Record time? Yeah. Wait, is there a sting joke in Popstar or am I dreaming? Seems like it. Well, I think you're thinking, I forget. Go ahead. There's a good seal joke.

Anyway, who got that? What quote number is it? Mike. Me. I think it's four to two. It is four to two. So this would be question number seven. Fortitude.

Go ahead. Here's a little tee up. Let's make it sure sting lent his vocals to all for love the hit single from the movie the three musketeers but can you name the other two artists right adams right adams phil collins Brian Adams. Phil Collins. You must name both. Brian Adams and Phil Collins. No. Ryan Adams. Brian Adams.

That's pretty good to get one. Jon Bon Jovi. No. Brian Adams and... Peebo Bryson. Seal. Sting. Sting is one of them, yeah, but I gave you that one. Wait, and do we not have either of the other two?

Well, technically Mike got Brian Adams. Yeah, but I knew it too. Okay, so now I just have to get the other one. Adam Resnick. Is it Adam Resnick? Is he there? You're thinking of Johnny resnick from the yeah goo goo dolls who's who's that other guy who's like who'd be in that

yeah i can i know who this guy is but he's he's like is it a name we know jeff yeah's a he's a huge he's a Robert cornball guy singer Robert twist Bolton no great guess great guess oh seltzer or setzer seltzer Brian Seltzer Brian Seltzer no uh wait I know this guy though it's it's like Stevenven steven tyler no no steve think more middle-aged like dorky boomer mom oh oh rod stewart yes oh here's what we're gonna do that's exactly you each get half a point for that hell yeah nice a half point question number eight within five minutes of being stung, humans typically experience extreme pain, shortness of breath, even cardiac arrest. This sea creature's sting is possibly the most venomous in the world. Stingray. Eel.

Mike, I'd like you to be more specific. Manoray. Electric eel. Electric eel. Manoray. Stingray. Coralsnake. Stamper.

Jellyfish? Underwater. Mike, you're close. I'd like you to be more specific than jellyfish. Blowfish, electric jellyfish. Giant jellyfish. North American jellyfish. Box jellyfish. What the most venomous in the world you didn't know okay no i didn't know that you're crazy

all right i'm afraid nobody gets that one yeah you were close with jellyfish but thank you you know oh number nine as we're coming into a close. Ooh, shit. I got to pull my head out of my ass. Yeah, it's four and a half Tim to two and a half Mike Hanford. Yikes. This EpiPen toting musician slash podcaster is Mike Hanford. Ooh, Mike, buy a hair.

Buy a hair. Yes, yes. I was allergic to bees and now I'm not. All thanks to Dr. A a hair. Yes, yes. I was allergic to bees and now I'm not. All thanks to Dr. Aitchis. To Aitchis. He did me good. And I would go in, I've told the story before, but I would go in every six weeks, I think,

and get little shots of bee venom. Tiny little bits in my arm just to build up the immunity. it was always something I forgot about and it was always way across town and I'd always miss my appointments and I would have to start over again from the beginning. Sad.

Took me a long time to get that done because I just couldn't get across town a lot of times. Go ahead. Okay. Okay. It's four and a half, Tim, to three and a half, Michael. Yikes. And the thing with the stinger quiz is that the last question is worth two points.

That's good. So it's a squeaker. Yeah. It's kind of anyone's game if you really think about it. Yep. Here we go. Number 10. Yep.

Yep. Here we go. Number 10. This invasive species, also known as Vespa mandarinia, made national headlines in 2020 when they appeared in Washington state. Killer hornet. Killer hornets. No. Killer wasp.

Close. No. Murder hornet. Yes, Michael. Hey! And with that, Michael, you have won the Stinger Quiz. The Stinger Quiz. I'll take the scratch-off option.

I didn't have those on my 2020 bingo card at the time, I'll tell you that much, but that happened. Did those end up being anything? Was that ever a threat, or was it a fake? I guess not, it was fake. It's a hoax, much like COVID. A hoax or just like, they're like, oh, this thing's called Murder Hornet,

let's get news out about it. No, they called it that in order to make a splash. It's fucking dumb to call it murder hornets. Right. They're not murdering. They're not murdering. They're big, though. They're the largest hornet.

Yo. So they're scary. Yeah, dude. They don't really attack humans. They attack honeybees. So that's also not good. Oh, yeah. The honeybee.

But we shouldn't call them murder honeybees. Murder hornets. Hmm. Murder honeybees. 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, go check out patreon.com slash the sloppy boys for our bonus thing, the blowout, where we talk about the good shit.

We just talked about the worst cover song, debating the worst cover song. Debating the worst cover song. It was fun. Nobody has anything to say about that. It was really fun. Hey, I wanted to say one last thing about the stinger. Yeah. Good for the breath. It's a makeout drink. Hey, come over here, baby. Oh, smile for me. I don't want to kiss you. You just had a big, huge plate of gamey lamb. No, no, no. Yeah, but don't forget about kiss you. You just had a big, huge plate of gamey lamb. No, no, no. Yeah, but don't forget about that jelly I ate right afterwards.

You're covered in lamb grease. Hey, lady, I'm Greek. What do you want from me? Yeah, but the mint goes, cuts right through the lamb grease. Yeah, cuts right through. Shink, shaw. Shink and shaw.

Hey, what's that other liqueur we had, Dr. McGillicuddy? Oh, yeah. When we were in Boston, we had shots of Dr. McGillicuddy's menthol. That was good. It was a menthol, yeah. You know, I wonder how that ranks against this fancy-ass expensive shit. It's probably fine. It's probably fine, but Jeff, we should do shots of this mint stuff shaken.

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