The Sloppy Boys - 131. Russian Spring Punch

Episode Date: April 21, 2023

Spring has sprung! The guys make another 80's cocktail from Londoner Dick Bradsell.RUSSIAN SPRING PUNCH RECIPE.8oz/25ml Vodka.8oz/25ml Lemon Juice.5oz/15ml Creme de Cassis.33oz/10ml Simple Syruptop up with Sparkling WinePour ingredients (except sparkling wine) into a cocktail shaker. Shake well with ice, strain into a chilled tall glass filled with ice, and top up with wine. Garnish with blackberries and optionally, a lemon slice.Recipe via the International Bartenders Association (www.iba-world.com) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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What is up? Spring has sprung, stylies. Wow, finally. Still, spring is springing. All everywhere you go. Are you getting out? Are you doing spring things? All I've done is every day I go for a flower walk. Yeah.

In a white tuxedo. I drove past a patch of daisies. And I said, who's that over there? And it was Tim. Yeah, and I was singing. I love the flowers. I know you two are joking because you guys are very jokey guys. You like to be funny and fun around.

But I think you two should go to Huntington Gardens. Yeah. Is it in bloom? Bringing a little flask of something nice. Oh. Stop with that. Get up there. See the thing.

Come on, see the flowers. Huntington Gardens, one of the best places to bring a visitor to. You walk them around and say, hey, California, you're pretty beautiful, eh? But if you live here, it is kind of funny to just go there, you know? Well, yeah, yeah, sure. They've got museums, too. So if you like old stuff, they've got old scrolls. I think they've got some old Dickens scrolls or something.

Oh, nice. Cool. You mean I can read this book standing up? Oh, neat. Talk about something I would hate as a kid. Like, we're going to Huntington Gardens. We're looking at the flowers. I know.

Oh, I care about Wolverine, not flowers. Yeah, but Jeff, imagine how easily Wolverine could slash these down with his adamantium claws. Oh, cool. I could imagine that for a few hours. A few quiet hours. Nice. It's like looking at houses. Or go ahead. No, no, you you go did your parents ever do that like oh we're gonna take the long way home and look at houses i'd be like oh this sucks we have a house

oh not look at them to like look if to like buy one no no just like a look at them or like christmas lights or something like christmas lights i do that i just know but but even just houses they would look i think my parents will just look at houses on a drive, too. Look over there. Oh, that one. Wow, imagine how much that is worth. What a beaut. The bane of my existence when I

was a kid was antiquing. Same thing. Oh, damn. We had a summer house in Vermont, and it would be like, hey, Tim, we're going looking for antiques. And to a kid, you're like old stuff we want the latest we want stuff with mikey and raff on it man i want a new pair of pumps i uh i went to the americana with a friend of ours with a child and um the parents ran into another group of parents who they knew. And so they got to talking and I felt rude just sort of like standing around being like,

yeah. And it was the exact same feeling that you have like in the department store or the grocery store when your mom runs into somebody that you don't know and you're like, oh, this is interminable. It is funny when that would happen and you'd be like, can we go? Wrap it up.

I used to, when my mom would take me to the grocery store, I would just go to the magazines and read like, look at skateboarding magazines and Mad Magazine and stuff. Perfect. And it would be like, sometimes it would be like, I should be doing like a lot of shopping so I get some good magazine time in. Yeah. Look at the Playboys. I'll be at the magazines. Oh, Jeff, they didn't have Playboys. The best you could do was a tattoo magazine time in. Yeah. Look at the Playboys. I'll be at the magazines.

Oh, Jeff, they didn't have Playboys. The best you could do was a tattoo magazine. That's true. At the department store, you know, I would hide in the coats. Like, you know, you find those, like, the trees of the thing and, like, hide in the display. I have, I feel like this happened to me a lot. If I was in a place with my mom holding her hand, like when I was really little, like

a freshman in high school, I would be walking with her and then all of a sudden look up and be holding someone else's hand. Like I would take my hand off and just grab somebody else's hand. No, that's not a relatable one, Mike. Nobody else did that. I was just out of touch.

Out to lunch. There's a funny thing where adults that have kids... You've told me that before. Adults that have kids generally take part in the parenting of kids in public. They'll just help kids out

or you see a kid and... Takes a village. Yeah, that's true. But I don't do that. And I try to be nice to kids and everything. But I was in Las Vegas this weekend. And then I was at the buffet.

And I was waiting in line. And behind me there's a little girl kind of rushing me a little bit. I was waiting to see what the next plate is. And she was like, is that pasta? And I just didn't answer her. Get the fuck away from me. I'm like, I'm not your dad. Go talk to your dad. Ask your dad what that is. That's what you gotta do. You gotta ignore.

Did you, where'd you stay, Tim, in Vegas? Mandalay Bay. Ooh, on the Strip. Yes? You gotta be right. Have you ever heard of someone going to Vegas and not staying on the strip? I have. I think there's a bad idea. I think there's like, yeah, Jeff, we say Jeff's like family's timeshare or something. It was like a... Sure, but that was very close to the strip. But there was, what's the thing? There's like a Hard Rock hotel that's like off the strip, I think. Yeah, yeah.

It's like its own thing. But that's not on the strip, the Hard Rock? I don so maybe i'm wrong um how does it how did it feel did you gamble at all um i didn't gamble uh gambled with my life uh yeah but um no i didn't gamble i i uh but but i was there with our friend ben and he lost 400 bucks. Ooh. Benny boy. You guys are food tourists, right? We're food tourists, but he also was sort of like, he did the thing of like, took out $500 for the weekend and was like, that's a fun weekend of gambling. I won't be sad if I lose $500 over the course of a whole weekend. So he didn't lose all of it.

He lost 400 of it. So to him, he had a fun time. Okay. Okay. Did you eat anywhere cool i ate at michael's gourmet room uh i table side uh cherries jubilee flambéed oh if you watch the the sloppy boys instagram you saw a picture of there's a palate cleanser between the appetizers and the entrees. And they, they give you a little, uh,

thing of, um, fuck you and lemon sorbet. And then they poured champagne over it. Nice. You know, I like pouring booze over my ice cream. And look,

you got to do that. You can't go into the main course of bringing in all that appetizers stuff. No, no, no. You have to cleanse the palate champagne on sorbet gag me with a spoon what's past is past bring on the main course i said what i really like to do between courses is is do a cleanse i chug a lot of sea salt and i'm shitting for like 40 minutes

yeah yeah sure then i'm like bring me my sirloin. Remember when lemon juice and cayenne pepper cleanses were happening in LA? People were doing those. People walking around, much like Borg culture, people walking around with their gallons. That's like all they could drink. No, it was like four things. It was lemon juice, cayenne pepper.

I want to say maple syrup. Is that crazy? honey maple syrup or honey maybe honey and then like one other thing hmm water and that's all you drank all day i think so and it was like it was to lose weight or yeah i think it's a whole body reset you do that for like three days and then your body's like reset fine i'll do it i'll do it it'll be part of my hamper gets healthy jeff how's the uh pump and iron going good baby jacked by june yeah jack by june today let's see let's see your uh muscle oh hey all right i've never seen you do that before so i don't know that's the barometer you did that like a six-year-old boy see that's the thing with me

that's the thing with me you That's the thing with me. You're not going to see a before picture. Only after. Only after. So we won't know. We'll be like, good job, I guess. And also, just another housekeeping question. Have you guys seen a Mario movie?

No. No. Which is crazy to say for me, knowing me i know you like that mario guy i saw it i enjoyed it i thought it was fun i don't know if it was you know i don't know i don't know i think they'll make another one yeah you think so i think so i don't like it didn't leave off in a way but it just feels feels like it's going to make a ton of money and they'll make another one, right? Sure.

It kind of feels like, having not seen it, they didn't leave a lot in the hopper. They were like, okay, we're doing Mario, so that means we're also doing Donkey Kong and Mario Kart and a bunch of other stuff. Is there anything left to do, Mike? The whole time I was watching, I was like, well, we've got the bad guy and we've got the main people.

Okay. Maybe they won't. Well, I think it's for us to decide, so we should come up with a decision. That's true. I got a fucking eyelash in my eye. Great. Great.

This is great podcasting. Can we go to fucking Booze News while Mike deals with himself? Booze News. Hit it. Come on. What you doing after the movie? Stop! What? Give me a beat!

Nasty Boy. Nasty Boy is a nasty man. Always ordered escargot. Nasty Boys. Nasty boys and nasty men. Always ordered escargot. Oh, you nasty boys. Nasty boys. Nasty boys and nasty men. I was thinking that someday he'll grow up to be a nasty boy. Who's that eating that nasty food?

Can you believe I like liverwurst? Yeah, I love it. Yeah, and a glass of snot. Nasty Boys. Damn it, Janet. This is booze news. We want proper talk and no clothing malfunctions, please. It's good night from Channel 2.

It's good night from channel two. Nasty Boy was sent to us by Tommy, AKA teenage fan sub on the Sloppy Boys Discord. And if you have a booze news theme, email it to the sloppy boys podcast at gmail.com. Tommy, he's on fire, huh? We heard from him recently. He's good. That was a good one.

I love the evolution of Nasty Man. We group it together. It could be raunchy, pervy, improper talk, or it could be eating liver or escargot. Either way, you're a nasty boy, and you grew up to be a nasty man. And also, Nasty Man can fly. Oh, right. No, no, no, no. That's Memory Man.

Memory Man. Memory Man can fly. Memory Man can fly. memory man can fly memory man can fly it's so weird they call him memory man that's the thing about him what's his two powers well he's got a good memory and he can fly oh he's memory man you know another thing uh just talking about powers and that sort of thing have you seen seen Casino Royale? The Bond movie with all the poker in it? Like the Daniel Craig one? The Craig-er.

What movie? Casino Royale. Yes. I've seen the scene where he orders a Vesper. Oh, yeah. We talked about it on the pod. It's a good movie. Mads Mikkelsen is the villain.

You know that dude from Another another round but he plays a lot of villains uh not the least of which is this fella and um they do that thing in bond movies or like they tell you in screenwriting like give your villain a a limp or an eye patch or something like make him stand out and bond movies are like particularly on the nose about like his thing is this the hit the mads mickelson's character bleeds from his eye like he cries blood that happens once or twice but then also he has an inhaler cool two hooks like the crying blood wasn't enough he needs an inhaler he's got asthma um when we finally make the sloppy boys movie which will be kind of a big budget studio type of film honestly not film

because it's it's just crap it's it'll it's for the masses uh it's gonna be one of these big popcorn movies it's gonna be yeah part of the um super mario like that. It would be great if we have a villain in every scene, we reveal a new gimmick for him. Well, he can fly too. We meet the villain Memory Man. He can fly higher than Memory Man. And look at, as he's flying, he's being a bit of a nasty boy. Oh, a nasty boy. What's he doing up there?

He's eating escargot up there. Oh, fuck. All right. Do we have there? He's eating escargot up there. Oh, fuck. All right. Do we have any actual booze news? Okay. We must. Well, I wanted to do something a little different around here for booze news today. Oh, great.

We got an email from a slophead, Dave. Ferguson? I wish. Slophead Dave with the subject line missed connection and i thought that this could be a good thing to read on the pod oh here we go yeah greetings boys long time listener first time writer here i have a special sloppy boys experience i would like to share with y'all that has been weighing on me over the last year okay way away let me set the scene i've flown into atlanta on a whim to catch recent friends of the pod king giz and the liz whiz at shakey knees music fest i like these friends that they're

friends of the pod because we mentioned them this was a last minute trip planned the day before but i found out i could stay for free at the Hilton with my friends who are attending the simultaneous music experience Sweetwater 420 Fest. Okay, Dave. Right on. He says, yada, yada, yada. Not much to say except the hotel is popping when I arrive early Saturday afternoon. Get to the room. My friends bail to go to 420 Fest.

As I'm changing, getting ready, what do I hear echoing through the adjourning door of the hotel room but the sloppy boys' discussion of Dave and Buster's? Cool. A classic episode that can only be listened to if you're a fellow Patron of the pod. Subscribe to our Patreon, folks. And he says, says tea quickly wait wait wait no no i skipped a line there here he goes i remember hearing the part where timmy k's boisterous

voice is commenting on his procurement of a long island iced tea quickly i've got a glass to the door trying to listen in i immediately hit the discord to find out what my fellow slop heads would do in a situation like this the responses begin flowing in with answers like slip a note under the door that says what is up uh some people said why knock when you can knack knack knack i was losing my mind to have come into such close contact of a slophead in the wild, blaring the Patreon episode loud and proud throughout the hotel. Unfortunately, it sounded like their hotel mate had returned and I was unable to make their acquaintance. Looking back, I should have knocked and introduced myself, but I couldn't believe to hear the fellow's voice coming through the wall on such a chance encounter as the day went on many people chimed in on discord saying they were at shaky

knees or saw i saw other members posting about being there however no one came forward to say that they were the ones listening in their hotel room my small slophead community in jacks florida have discussed it multiple times over the year and felt like it was time to write you guys to inform me of your guys reach ah as well as hope the individual who's listening may hear this and come forth cheers and slop on here's what i say guys what what should you in this scenario i feel like there should be a slophead thing that you do to meet each other, to encounter each other. Oh, like a call. Secret handshake thing.

Like a call, like a bird call. Right, right. How about kokoro? How about the call of the wild bird, the yellow bird? The call of the yellow bird. Climb up that yellow bird tree. Yeah. Oh, geez.

You got to have yourself, here's what you do. Slopheads all over the world. Go to the ocean and find yourself a nice big conch shell. Carry it with you. So when you hear somebody else listening to the pod, you can go. Just assume if you see someone with a conch shell that could be probably a slop head yeah so carry carry one around everywhere you go so what so this guy yeah that's that's a weird thing to do i like not a weird thing to do but like could you just knock on the door because

it is a pretty tight-knit small community he should have knocked well what if the knock was like us to a sloppy boy's beat that someone wouldn't notice you know yeah that's true i mean that that would be the thing is like pull i would say pull up a song or like pull up another episode of the podcast and then you start blaring it. And maybe they notice it. This dude is in a hotel and next door a beautiful woman is listening to the blowout and he doesn't even knock? I think he

just wants to see who it was. I don't think it was a romantic connection. No, I'm pretty sure it was a beautiful woman next door. Oh, I see. And this was a misconnection of romance, Mike. Wait, so what is this? I'm looking at the email here. There's an email from Kathy Ireland saying that she was –

Greetings, gents. I was – I wanted to say to you good fellows, I was taking a sudsy shower recently. I was taking a sudsy shower recently. And as I made my way to my sudsy ass, the guy next door chickened out of saying hi to me. Oh. I heard the sound of a glass against the wall. Mystery solved.

See, if you heard someone playing U2 and you were a U2 fan, you couldn't just knock on and be like, hey, I'm a U2 fan too because there's so many U2 fans. But if you were just a Sloppy Boys fan, that would be like, whoa, I don't hear this anywhere. Right. Yep. I think you could knock on the door there and say hey. But per his request, yes, if you were at the 420 Fest or

whatever, listening in a hotel, Hilton Hotel, call him. Yeah, what was the name of the hotel? We should just call that out. What's the name of the hotel? It was Hilton in Atlanta. Hilton. Atlanta, around the time of the 420

Fest or the Gizzard Lizard Wizard Fest. Shaky Knees Music Fest or Sweetwater 420 Fest. If that's you, dear listener, write us and say, I'm the guy slash beautiful woman. And say, let us know what part of your body you were sudsing.

Stop. Stop that too. I was sudsing one of my big balls and one of my protruding nipples. Okay. Alright. Well, you've taken a nice thing and ruined it, both of you. Well, I'm a nasty boy.

A nasty boy gives a nasty man treatment. Alright. Nasty boy, you'll be a nasty man soon. Nasty man. Okay. Enough. Yeah. Is that it for Booze News? Enough is enough. Wrap it up. That's it for booze news enough z enough wrap it up that's it for booze news doc man the kong man himself king king kong all right well well well today what are we talking about oh

fuck i just remembered i forgot to buy the garnish for the drink the garnish that doesn't make me happy the fucking garnish well i walked into the the supermarket i was like give me a fucking garnish i'm making a russian spring punch then i got i got lost in the cereals then they go russian spring uh punch garnishes those are aisle five and then you go and it's all r Russian spring punch garnishes. Those are aisle five. And then you go, it's all Russian spring punch. All different brands of spring punch. Okay.

So we're talking about the Russian spring punch. You had? Not had, not heard. Not heard. Same, same. This is an IBA thing. And it is one of these ones where we're getting to the end of the list and now we're making Russian punches tying up loose ends and here's the thing you mean to

tell me that we looked at the IBA list for weeks and weeks looking for spring drinks and we missed Russian spring punch well I think that first word threw us off true yeah Russian true this is going to be I'm looking up. It's weird that they have all four seasons there. I thought it was just winter. Interesting. Hold on. Before we go any further, I need to look up what category this is.

I think it's a New Era drink. Oh, yeah. Yep. New Era drink. Okay. This one actually has a pretty cool story about how it came to be. Nice. So this was created in the 1980s by Dick Bradsell.

Didn't we deal with him recently? Yeah, we did. He invented the Bramble. He invented the Espresso Martini. We said he's kind of the Harry Craddock of the 1980s. Yeah, that's right. And he's not a party boy. He's more of a buttoned up boy.

He's a Dapper Dan. Dapper Dan. Now, he made this in the 80s, and it conforms to the punch formula of one sweet, two sour, three strong, four weak, except in most of the weak, usually people have soda or juice. Yeah. He replaced the weak here with champagne. Nice. So it's going to pack a little bit of a punch.

Basically what he did, let me tell you what's in it first so the story makes more sense. 25 milliliters vodka. Okay. Love that. 25 milliliters fresh joie de lemon. You have to say lemon juice.

Somebody might be listening for the first time. They don't know all this stuff. They don't know nasty math. They don't know all this stuff. They don't know Mastibat. They don't know French. 15 milliliters creme de cassis. More French. 10 milliliters sugar syrup and top up with sparkling wine, a.k.a. champagne. Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker.

Accept the sparkling wine. Shake well with ice. Strain into a chilled tall tumbler glass filled with ice and top up with sparkling wine, uh, garnish with blackberries and optional, uh, optionally a lemon slice as well. So pretty simple to make it. I feel like this is going to be the pictures I've seen. They're in those kind of tall, uh, remember you've ever seen those beer glasses that are like really tall, kind of vase like.

Sure. Kind of like those. I've seen them. I've seen them. Well, anyway, so here's how it got created. Dick Bradsell, in the 80s, he had some friends who wanted to have a party. It's fine.

Everyone can do that. Can't blame them. But they didn't have a huge drink budget, so what Bradsell did, he said he's going to make the base, basically what I said, except for the he said he's going to make like the base, basically what I said except for the champagne, I'm going to make that and put it in glasses all over the bar. Everyone has to bring their own champagne

and just top off those things, and that can be their drink. So if you want to have a really good drink, you bring good champagne. If you don't, you bring bad champagne. So I think that's kind of a fun way of doing a party too. Do you think some people are in the mood for a bad drink and they go looking for bad champagne? Well, you kind of put it like, it's on you if you want to have a

high quality drink or not. And then, so basically people did that and they had a lot of fun. And let's see, he said it was in this little article. It was lethal. It was lethal, that thing. We had people falling down the stairs and dancing around with wild abandon. Nice. It's called the Russian Spring Punch because it has vodka in it, which is Russian, and it's a Collins or a Fizz, which is a spring drink. Nice. Nice.

I like that. I like that it has a story. Cut and dry. We know it's that. And I like that it has a story. Cut and dry. We know it's there. Well-named drink. Russian because it's vodka, spring because it's Collins, and punch because it follows the punch rules. This is amazing.

Yeah. Dick Brancel, you're one hell of a guy. Get over here, you little rascal. He's good. And I like the story of how it came together. Damn. It seems like a fun party. Let me ask you this. What did you guys do for creme de cassis or is it creme de cassis

cassis i say cassis yeah where's that pronunciation guy when you need him i also say joie de leon uh i got creme de cassis yeah i got creme de cassis uh also i'll sound out the brand when we come back because it's very frange. Mine's Lloyd's. Oh, okay. Well, folks at home, we're going to go prep these drinks. Why don't you take a gander at the ads, unless you sub to the Patreon doing the ad-free stuff, and we will be right back. Nice.

And we're back with Russian Spring Punches. Look at that garnish, Jefferson. Yeah, I did blackberry, lemon rind, blackberry, lemon rind, blackberry. Alternating. Well, I'm... So mine is going to look a little different than Jeff's. The bottom half of a beer glass. The bottom half of a beer glass. I didn't have a good glass for it.

But no ice? No, it says no ice, doesn't it? I don't think so. wait a minute glass filled with ice oh i fucked this up too why did i not read that what the fuck folks had ice you gotta have ice you want it cold don't you i fucked up the drink you want a warm punch come on jeff what type of glass did you use? Hurricane. Just because I had one. That's good because it says a tall tumbler glass

and their picture is like a pedestal glass. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I got a snifter. Yeah, why don't you go throw some ice in there? I'll put some ice in there. You want to enjoy it. Jeff, you riff while we get ice. Oh, great. So I don't think I'm going to enjoy this drink. That's a hell of an attitude to have.

Well, I don't like champagne, you know that. But I do like creme de cassis. As I was pouring it out, I was like, oh, yeah, this is that thick cough syrupy stuff. I got a little pissed off. So what did we say? Cme de cassis is a french black currant liqueur and you're telling me i'm a guy who's got creme de more already in my house not to mention raspberry syrup already in my house right tim well this is the this is the curse of spring is sprung you need all all that weird shit. Slightly different.

When we were doing a creme de more drink, it said it was okay to get creme de cassis. That's, yeah, you're right. So I got creme de cassis. But you look at the thing and it's a different berry. Read it in weed. I feel like the thing. Dijon. We got a Dijon there. Remember.

Is there some mustard in here? What's going on? The summer of 2022 was all about like pouring things into beer bottles making spaghetts and that type of thing i feel like 2023 is going to be about having a bottle of like blackberry or black raspberry liqueur around and topping up all your little drinks with it oh i'm having champagne no put a splash of this splash of that you think that for real or just what because we've been doing it lately like i think that for real wow have you been seeing that happen no but i mean think about it yeah think about it mike we're tip of the spear for culture you know that's true that's very true

um the other day you know because i've been making so many brambles i took a little creme de more and i listened i read the back and it said hey you could also put a little of this on ice or in some club soda or some champagne and i said i have one you could also put a little of this on ice or in some club soda or some champagne. And I said, I have one of those little champagnes. I'm going to try that. Nice. So now I'm going to be comparing this directly to a creme de more in champagne. I don't think we've

had anyone submit any pictures or videos of their Bramble Ramble yet, have we? We've got a couple. Pim's Cup on your Bramble Ramble. We have? Oh yeah, on Instagram there have been a couple. That's cup on your bramble we have oh yeah on instagram uh there have been a couple that's true oh hey check out so tim this is the one we got and i split it with you earlier today laritie guyot beautiful laritie guyot good looking label i got this at top line wine and spirits in glendale the woman was very yeah. She said, if you're using it for mixing, you're going to want to get this or this other kind.

And this looked more French, so I got it. Well, I don't know if you guys can hear this, but out in the stairwell in my apartment building right now, somebody's got a guitar and they're like probably recording themselves. Are they playing sloppy voice songs? No, no, no, no. She's playing some, I think an original. I don't recognize it, but she's probably using the acoustics in the hallway.

This whole apartment building is full of artists. Yeah, it's a place to come to get inspired. You know? The building is amused. You open the front door and it's just billows of pot smoke coming out the front. All right, hey, we should probably sip these.

Yeah, let's take some sips. Sips. Get back to the chit-chat. I added quite a bit of champagne to fill the glass. That was maybe an error. No, that's why I did halfway. And then I added the ice. That's why it's all like that.

Yes. Okay. Hmm. I can give you my assessment right now. No, Mike. No, don't you don't. Don't you don't. Don't you damn well do that.

Now, Mike doesn't like champagne, so the cards are stacked against this drink for Michael. Yep. I would say pretty. I understand why Dick Bradsell said people got all fucked up at this party because much like remember we did the French 75. And they hit us kind of hard because we're like, oh, you're thinking of this like it's a mimosa or something because it's kind of brunchy. But it's a cocktail. It's a cocktail that has champagne in it so same thing with this like this is a this is sweet this is a lot of taste this is a lot

is a lot it's not champagne and fruit juice it's champagne and liquor right and you can't really taste the liquor at all i couldn't taste jack shit in here i maybe wouldn't need to have this simple syrup in here with this creme de cassis is very sweet i don't even mind that i would like top this with soda and make it more spritzy or something it's it's it's a little intense look at this i got i got one of these little uh champagnes i got exactly that, the LaMarca three-pack. It's like not a... But there was an even smaller one than this. This is a 375 milliliter. I got the super small, yeah.

Yeah. So maybe I will drink this whole thing by the end of the night, but I won't enjoy it as much as I would, say, a gin and tonic or a... Or a Pabst Blue Ribbon. Right. Or filling a old boot with fucking seawater. Seawater. And vodka.

What's the scene in... What's a David Lynch movie where it's like, Pabst Blue Ribbon! Blue Velvet. And is that Dennis Hopper?per yeah and what's the context um oh god it's really funny too uh he offers him a beer and he's like what do you got and he's and the guy's like heineken and he goes heineken fuck that shit pabst blue ribbon like the most intense dennis hoppery way it's great i uh i don't think i think

i've seen that movie but like half of it when i was too not too young but too early in me uh trying to give a movie like that a chance i was like i don't get this see you oh it's fucked up i know dude i did a lot of that too where i was probably like 15 when i was like i'm a little movie fan uh and then i read like books about movies so then i'd be like picking out these cool indie movies or international movies buffalo 66 sure and in that era i mean that's when that connected with me but i feel like a lot of that stuff i was watching at that time it was like i'm picking up a book that's telling me what are the best movies to watch, but I'm 15 and I'm not, I don't think I've experienced enough of a film to then watch David Lynch and see how it was different, you know? Yeah.

Yeah. And you've, you've barely, you know, you're just falling into the meet Joe black realm at that age. Right. Exactly. Oh, my meet Joe black era. I, oh, oh, you got to excuse him. He's in his Meet Joe Black era. Isn't that a funny thing?

Like, maybe we've talked about this before, but when you're a kid, you accept things. You're like, hey, there's this new movie. Meet Joe Black. And then you're like, I hear it's out. It's out in the theater. I hear it's really long and it's got Brad Pitt in it. Yeah. And then now you'd be like, what is this?

Meat show black. Sounds long. And then to find out that I never watched the whole movie. I watched the end and it was preposterous. But it's sort of a, I think it's a dumb movie, probably. And it's just so funny that when you're a kid, you're just like. You take it all as a given you're like oh a movie yeah a movie a new movie descended from the heavens perfect

yeah they wouldn't have made it if it wasn't intentional the best thing ever uh i remember a lot of like movies i would see like joe black would be like oh well um let's see it's out and it's playing at a time when i my mom will take me to the movie theater. So, yeah, that's the movie I want to see, Joe Black. Man, I remember my friends, Keith Carson, listening, probably. Hey, Keith, what up? He was like, the first movie I saw that was like a movie movie, like a kind of a serious movie, like a drama with my friends, was American Beauty in theaters.

I was a junior or senior in high school and up to that point everything i saw had sort of like a genre bent to it you know because i i like monsters and spaceships and stupid shit and this was like my and mega man and don't forget mega man but like this was like my high school buddies being like we're gonna go see american beauty and um odd but it was the first time i sat down i was like wow we're just watching i'm here with the boys watching a movie about a guy in the suburbs jacking off in the shower smoking weed and we all loved it i mean american beauty is a great uh it probably hasn't aged very well especially the kevin spacey aspect but that was like the first movie movie i saw that

didn't have like an alien in it yeah yeah man it had a bag it's so funny to think of kids watching that and i remember i remember my parents not wanting me to see it which was rare they didn't really uh police that stuff too closely but i remember them being like don't go seeing that american beauty movie and they must they must have heard it calls out our whole way of life me and your father um but it's like so then you know i probably went and watched fight club instead or like i literally like just as dangerous not subversive at all fight club yes i remember one day uh being real young uh and being like hey mom can you bring me and sal to the mall we want to see a movie and it's opening night of boogie nights and she was like yep drove us to the mall we watched opening night of boogie nights

she picked us up brought us home and then the next day she was like what movie did you say you saw last night we're like boogie nights she's like i just heard some of the people talking about this movie and you found out it was a porno movie and she uh driven us there oh sure gotcha gotcha you got one past the goalie on that one t i got your mom i saw a fake dick and real breasts so did your father. What? Man, that's such a funny one because that's another one that I saw. I think I saw that on a DVD in my bedroom or something like that. Talk about a movie that starts fun

and then gets super dark super fast. That and Requiem for a Dream. They start off and they're so fun-loving and then by the end of it, it's like it's harrowing. You're not getting away with something when you watch Boogie Nights as a 15 year old. You're having a very

emotional experience. You're hurting yourself. It was amazing. It blew me away. I don't think I had seen a real movie. Tim, did you see any shows when you were in Vegas? Did I ask that already las vegas yeah lost wages um you know what i actually saw um not a show per se but there were shows there i went to uh lost spirits which is a rum distillery in las vegas off the strip yeah and they did this

cool you've been there jay no but that rings a bell why do i know it yeah well it's it's a popular rum company but they turned their distillery into like an experience where you go and like you pay for a ticket that's good for five rum tastings and they have these very like good like syrupy rums but you're walking around in the dark and it's got kind of a tiki pirate-ish almost vibe to it but then like there's like five different performance areas so you're like this is our pineapple rum you're like okay thank you and then you walk into a room and there's like a burlesque show going on it's like halfway you're like whoa and then you walk over you're like here's a this rum is 120 proof and you're

like okay thank you and then you look and you're like oh there a this room is 120 proof and you're like okay thank you and then you look and you're like oh there's a contortionist doing a show over here and you're kind of and and then there's all these different themes and so it had kind of like a meow wolf vibe is it do you ever turn a corner and there's just a guy doing something normal um i i turned a corner i was in the men's room yeah and i walk around the corner. I was in the men's room. Yeah. And I walk around the corner and there was a guy peeing. That's a good palate cleanser. Yeah. Here's a man tucking in his shirt.

Doesn't have to all be contortionists and sexy ladies. Right. Not everyone needs to wear booby tassels, Tim. Yeah. If I had things my way, they would. We should do a music video where the three of us have tasseled pasties on our nipples and they're circling. And the three of us are walking down the street with spinning tassels.

Yeah, yeah. Everyone's going... Yeah, Mike, you got a picture of them spinning. You know, I get it. I get it. No, they're not just hanging low. They're... Yeah.

Or sometimes we walk slow and they're just sort of penduluming back and forth. Oh yeah, that's kind of cool. What if we took off like tails from Sonic and Hedgehog? Sonic and Hedgehog? Sonic the Hedgehog? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we fly backwards. It looks like this Russian punch is working.

Because the tails are in front. We fly backwards. Right, right, right. Ah, yes. Good, good, good. That sounds good to me. I'm down. I am so down for that. Okay. Look, let's just take a few more concerted sips. It's tough to sip.

Mine's got a real sour taste to it. Not for me. It's getting easier to sip, actually, Mike. I'm coming around. Ooh, Tim is grimacing. I wish my cubes were doing more melting or something. This is essentially enough taste for two drinks in one drink. I would pour this out into two glasses, and then I would get my club soda.

I'd top them off. Then I would have a nice spring sprints. It's sweet tarts it's the sweet tart drink too tart yep what would you change well hold on mike we haven't we we simply aren't there yet um um how do you fix how do you fix it needs fixing doesn't it well i think that goes along with how do you change oh wait a minute yeah fuck i'm hey i am feeling tipsy how about that yeah geez hey tipsy here's my qualm is i when they say top up they're leaving it up to uh uh human error right and this didn't give an amount of

shampers did it no no and if it give you a standard glass, that'd tell you, but it doesn't. It didn't. So me not knowing the correct glass, the correct amount of ice or whatever, I don't know if I'm drinking what Dick Bradsell intended, but I know what I'm drinking is quite sweet and quite strong and quite it feels like you took a couple of cocktails and you boiled them down in the beaker into one well this is something i should have mentioned earlier uh dick bradsell says the uh many springs ago i conceived the russian spring punch which is basically a spiked cure royale cure royal over ice k-i-r k-i-r which i think yeah that's on the list

that's one of the loose ends we gotta wrap up so the iba list has a kyr k-i-r that's just that's uh white wine with creme de cassis what's what's the what's the royale what's the difference i mean we can talk about it next week. Royale is with... Cheese. A cur is white wine with creme de cassis. A cur royale is champagne with creme de cassis. All right, what would you fix for real? We got to go to break. What would you change? I would not put champagne in here.

I got a little bit left. See, I got my little bottle of lamarca yeah i'm gonna make another round i'm gonna use it up but i'm gonna really just do club soda i got some club soda and i think that's gonna be the way to go left here oh boy i would i would 86 the simple syrup probably i would i would use use club soda instead of champagne. I would drink a Bramble instead. Yeah, no shit. Yep.

And take it on a Bramble ramble. Don't sit at home and do it. Yeah. Here's the other thing, Tim. I was drinking right out of the bottle of the Le Retier Guyot. And it says, Once opened, keep the bottle in the refrigerator to preserve the fruit freshness.

I wouldn't have done that unless I read the fine print. No. So you got to do it too. Oh, I don't want to though. You need to. Make room in the fridge. You must. All right, folks, we're going to make a second round.

And when we come back, final thoughts. Ooh, love it and we're back with round two here i go still a no oh what were your adjustments again i did less champagne and I thought I had club soda, I didn't luckily I had berry LaCroix so I put in some, I figured that works still berry it's difficult

what a tricky drink, it gives me pause yes P-A-W-S? last week we did the fucking dog the clover club we added vermouth to and it tastes better WS? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Last week we did the- Turn me into a fucking dog. The Clover Club we added vermouth to and it tastes better. Yeah.

Do that. I don't- Was that during Vermouth Month? That was the end, tail end of Vermouth Month for last week. You guys want to see my tweaks to the Russian Spring Punch? Tweak of the week? Yeah. Sure. I'm a tweak freak.

There's what I did on round two. Just a glass of champagne. The rest of my clue bell. In a flute. In a flute. Nice. It's going to go flat. I got to drink it tonight. I don't want to have another tart, tangy, sweet, sweet wangy. I know. I think I'm going to

probably end up drinking the rest of this champagne as well, even though I don't love it. Well, let's wind into some final thoughts, huh? Okay. Here's my final thought. No. Never again. Yeah. Not happening. Not gonna dat.

Would it be prudent, though? Would not be prudent. End us juncture. I think this is an okay drink, but Slopheads, you can skip this one. Ooh.

Skip it or sip it? Skip it. This is skip. Skip or skip. Yeah, I would say fucking... I mean, this is heightened by the fact that we've just had the Bramble and the Clover Club, right? So we've been having similar drinks that are better, but I would say Dick Bradsell, even the Sultan of Swing, Babe Ruth himself has a big whiff every once in a while.

Sure. And, uh, and you whiffed. And to you, I say, you blew it. You've sullied your name. And I'm going to hold it against you. And I'm going to hold a grudge. This is a do not order again. This drink is too much taste for me.

This is a type of drink where I would go into a bar and I saw that they had these ingredients. I would take the bottles and dump them down the drain. So no one could have this. So no one can have. Wow. Yeah. I don't want anyone to suffer this.

Um, uh, yeah. Well, you just said about the drinks we've been having. So I'm, we're all new to creme de cassis with our recent drinks. And so I've tasted drinks that I like with that flavor.

And now I'm tasting this that I don't like. So it's like, Oh, I know what creme de cassis can do. And this ain't it. So wait, you had it? Because I've had creme de moure, and I've had raspberry syrup. You were using, and I've had chambord.

I was using creme de cassis for whatever we needed more, creme de moure. And you also used it for the one we, did we need chambord yet? No, we didn't need it. We didn't need it. for last week's i don't believe copy copy so dick bradsell is that his name yeah uh he made the bramble did he ever and this drink wow yeah it's kind of like how darren aronofsky made both the wrestler and the whale crazy yeah but here's a fatal flaw no of ours that we're not taking into account dick had a very fun idea for a party right people they're coming in and just the punch is made and then you're adding the champagne it is fun to be serving a communal cocktail and then people are topping up off their own champagne bottle let's say people are walking around with

their champagne bottle in their hand. Hey, what type of champagne do you have? I don't know. What type of champagne do you have? Hey, want to come back to my place? I would love that. I actually love you now. What type of champagne are you drinking? Oh, only the best. Oh, why don't you come here for a little gluh, gluh, gluh.

Oh, jeez. Jeff, end this now. That's them drinking champagne, Mike. You are a nasty boy. That's them drinking champagne. end this now. That's them drinking champagne, Mike. You are a nasty boy. That's them drinking champagne. End this now. All right. End this now. That's our show. Follow us on social media, at The Sloppy Boys, where we release these recipes ahead of time.

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