The Sloppy Boys - 142. Hugo Spritz

Episode Date: July 7, 2023

The guys try another summery sparkler, a popular variant made with St. Germain elderflower liqueur.HUGO SPRITZ RECIPE4oz/120ml Prosecco.5oz/15ml St. Germain1oz/30ml Club Soda1 sprig MintSt. Germain and mint sprig into wine glass. Muddle gently and let sit for 3 minutes. Add ice, Prosecco and soda and stir gently. Garnish with a mint sprig and lemon wheel.Recipe via Liquor.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Come on in, folks. This makes me want to do a little of this. Yeah. A little move side to side. What are you doing for the listeners? Jeff's moving a little this way and a little of that way. A little bit of the lombada. Ooh, this is smooth.

And hey, don't forget this move. Ha! Yeah. Hey, it makes me want to do the mashed potato. Yeah, it makes me want to dork. Hey, folks, there's a new song is what's going on. We dropped a single today. Wow.

Can you believe this shit? A little single called give it time off the forthcoming album yeah number four the forthcoming fourth album yeah coming forth album but second single uh and this was this is a song uh uh called give it time it's a song recorded at the sonic ranch in torneo tex. It's a song produced by Money Mark himself from the Beastie Boys and Beck and David Byrne and Cypress Hill and all the rest. And I think you must agree

it certainly has a sophisticated sound. Yeah. Oh, it's quite refined indeed. Sound like no other. This song is hashtag elegance unlimited. It's hashtag I love it. Yeah, it's hashtag go listen to it on Spotify. Because we need the algorithm to give it a little kiss.

And share. It's hashtag share the Spotify thing, the Spotify canvas on your Instagram. And most importantly, it's hashtag let's start the fucking show. 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 Hanford. Hello. And Tim. What is up?

And we are your hosts, the band the Sloppy Boys. Yes, yes, at it again. Ooh ooh the discography is coming along nicely yes you've got you've got Dutz has music out you've got Sloppy Boys has music out oh it's the summer of funner uh Livrod is putting out music Olivia Rodrigo

everyone's Gail is is on the Barbie soundtrack Gail's on the Barbie soundtrack Gail's opening for Taylorbie soundtrack opening for taylor swift everyone all the artists are out and about and we're firmly at the center geez that would have been that would have been something that the uh the gail watch 2022 would have been right on but i guess in 2023 there isn't really much of a budget for gail watch did you i feel like you lost funding for your helicopter isn't that right something like that feel like you lost funding for your helicopter.

Isn't that right? Something like that happened. I lost funding and I was abusing the equipment is what they told me. Right. Well, it's not you. It's sort of an ACAST problem. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They need to get the money together so I can get back to the skies to check out what Gale is up to. Well, I'm glad that news didn't slip through the cracks

with the chopter copter being down. Yeah, yeah.. Well, I'm glad that news didn't slip through the cracks with the chopter copter being down. Yeah, you know, I know a lot of people come here for their Gale news and probably for the last 40 episodes have just been thinking what is going on? Where are they going? Where's the Gale news? Listening to 40 hours of content being like, God damn,

they got nothing on Gale. For new listeners who are joining us because they just love the song Give It Time by the Sloppy Boys and it's the first time they're hearing the podcast, I think it's safe for you to assume that we used to have a helicopter that Hanford flew around watching pop star Gale

and reporting on her every move. Not even really just watching her, just seeing what her next, where she would perform next, if she was touring with anybody. Yeah, you kind of went up in the helicopter and then just checked twitter yeah it was really no need for the helicopter and that's what the acas people are telling me yeah our our uh our overlords oh and as far as livrod goes um i don't know if you guys remember my little head-to-head with her

hamford our song something's wrong went up against Olivia Rodrigo's Vampire. Did we beat her? Did we end up beating her? Well, I actually have a copy of the Billboard 100 right here. Oh, nice. Yeah, she's right up toward the top there. Okay. Hold on. Scan down a little bit.

There's only one page, so. Well, it's hot 100, so if you go past 100, you don't see duds. What's wrong, Jeff? You sound a little... Just a little confused because I thought the slop heads had our back on this one. You know what, Jeff? It's not on there at all? It's not on there at all, Mike.

Did you have enough toner in your printer? Because you never know it could have fallen off that page Tim it's right up to the top oh no dripping oozing black

ink all over your desk and I got back stock oh god okay well then maybe the song sucked maybe that's the problem

I blame myself I shouldn't have been on that Jeff that's your album and I'm in there goofing off. No, no, Mike. I took a chance on a hot young singer. Hot young singer.

It'll pay off. A vocorded young singer. Eventually. But here's the thing. I think people are hip now to like, this sort of thing is a marketing ploy so that it boosts the sales of both Olivia's and my songs. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We get that. We get that. She probably saw a little bump off Dutz. Yeah, yeah. That's true. You don't know. You don't know. I'm assuming she'll send you a bottle of champagne or two soon.

I mean, not her. Her management company or agents and things. Yeah. Her label. Disney. I'll be on the lookout, Livrod. i'll be at my front stoop waiting i i emailed live rod was like hey would you like to come on the podcast and i i didn't hear back and this is like months ago and i bumped it again say hey just bumping this and i still haven't heard back that's so weird at this this point, I'm like, are you just too big for us

or are you trying to be a jerk? Because Gail gets back to me all the time. Give it 24 hours. Wait, you're saying one of the options though is that Olivia Rodrigo is too busy and famous to come on our podcast. Yeah. Which I don't know if I agree

with. I know the audience doesn't agree with that. Yeah. Our podcast audience, but we haven't checked if I agree with. I know the audience doesn't agree with that. Yeah. Yeah, our podcast audience, but we haven't checked with her music audience. Mike, are you sure? Is it olivia.rodrigo at gmail.com? Yeah, it's olivia.rodrigo at gmail.com. I've been sending this to some fake...

Okay. That's what it is. I mistyped it. All right, I will try that again and get back to you and see if she's coming on the show. Liv Rod. No one outlives Rod. Liv Rod.

Liv Rod. Kobe. All right. Is that it for shit chat? I guess so. I got nothing new going on in my life. What are you talking about? You dropped a the single today you got two songs out yeah but nothing i care about going on the song i got everything i live you got your whole life out of you but give it time is is

an amazing new sloppy boy song today's episode is sort of our fun release party. We're doing a sophisticated drink. It's a sophisticated song. Ooh, yeah. Maybe we get into some bi-bi-bip-bip-bip-bip booze news. Yeah. Yeah.

Nasty man. Nasty man. It could be raunchy, pervy, improper talk, or it could be eating liver. Either way, you're nasty man nasty man it could be raunchy pervy improper talk or it could be eating liver either way you're nasty man memory man that's memory man memory man can fly he's got a good memory and he can fly it's so weird they call him memory man hello ringo star here speaking of memory i remember playing the drums in a certain famous pop rock group some people certainly considered us nasty boys but that's besides the point it's booze news take it away clapp nasty man verse memory man was sent to us by tommy aka teenage fan sub on the sloppy boys discord he's killing it lately and you can gain access and you to the discord

you can mix it up with other slob heads when you subscribe to our patreon at patreon.com slash the sloppy boys and you can hear all of our bomb ass podcast and if you have a booze news theme email it to the sloppy boys podcast at gmail.com that's so weird that ringo star famously is done signing autographs and yet yeah and yet he will guest on a booze news theme out of the kindness of his heart right he's a cool guy after all he's all about you know it did seem like he was just he was shutting down he's like I'm not doing any more autographs. It seems like, hey man, don't be a jerk. But now he's cool after all.

That song was by They Might Be Giants. What's the name of it? Oh, the backing? I didn't recognize that. It's like triangle man, triangle man. Oh. They Might Be Giants. They've got a special spot in my brain from an old mixtape I had.

Mike, I think I, in senior year of college, borrowed a They Might Be Giants CD from you and listened to it in my apartment in Ithaca. I don't think I ever owned a They Might Be Giants CD. It was a CD-R. Ah! This could be exactly what you're talking about. Actually, you know what? I think it was a Flaming Lips album and a They Might Be Giants album all fit onto the same CD. Sure, 80 megs, of course.

Wait, that's like, I had that as a tape. Did I put that tape onto a CD? Maybe it was a tape. Why are you asking us? Then maybe it was a tape. Yes, had that as a tape. Did I put that tape onto a CD? Why are you asking us? Then maybe it was a tape. Yes, maybe it was a tape. It was a tape. You guys were trading tapes in college? Well, I had a car that had a tape deck because it was crappy.

Ah, yes. And I'm sure... Oh, and I had a tape deck in my alarm clock. That's what it was. I'm so happy you guys found each other. Yeah. The two last guys on a college campus with tape decks. And tapes.

Well, we majored in tapes. I was just thinking the other day about when I used to go on an airplane, and you'd bring like a Discman with you, and like, you know, the little sleeve of CDs that you had to bring, and be like, okay, which ones am I going to listen to on the plane? And like so much shit I had to bring and now it's all on my phone. Or I just watch whatever the TV is in front of me. Usually you would say the newer technology is better.

And in the case of the phone, absolutely. But I like the tapes and the Walkman better than the Discman. No good. Skippy, awkward, and the case logic big. But you get on a plane, and you got a tape tucked in your breast pocket, and then you got a Walkman with a different tape in it clipped to your belt.

You're good to go. You're listening to two tapes that ride. Count them. Timmy, two tapes to come on every flight. Pilot, I'm listening to two tapes. Roger. Two tapes. Aye, aye,, I've listened to two tapes. Roger. I've listened to two tapes. Aye, aye, matey.

Hey, two tapes. Hey, what's up? What do you need me? You need to talk to two tapes. My tape days were all soundtracks. I had the Ghostbusters soundtrack, the Ninja Turtles soundtrack. Yep.

But hey, don't forget, not a soundtrack, Billy Joel, River of Dreams. Yeah. Made it into my collection. Oh, hell yeah. That was a huge one at one point. I think I had the Secret of the Ooze Ninja Turtles soundtrack. For sure I had that.

A little Vanilla Ice. There was a song at the end of that. There was a song at the end of that that was just like, Ninja Turtles, uh, mega mix or like the half shell orchestra presents. And it was just like little samples from the movie kind of peppered into like a little synthy thing. Oh man.

It was weird. Back then they must've just been like, okay, well we're doing a turtles album. We got some music movies, movie music. And then just like, I don't know, come up with some bullshit and get these things on the shelves yesterday.

They'll buy them. Yeah. Right now. All right, Timmy, what's the booze news? Very big booze news here. The top story of the day is canned Borg. Canned. Whoa.

Canned Borg. I've heard of Sham Borg. Not Sham Borg. sham board no no i i wish i'm looking this up um go well go to drink borgs.com which was a link sent to me by slophead on instagram's uh saver growl but if you guys remember the borg the blackout rage gallon that swept college campuses uh at the beginning of this year and emergency rooms and emergency rooms because kids were drinking a gallon of water that had a whole bottle of vodka in it and water and uh mio flavoring but they thought it was going to hydrate them to the point of not having hangovers but there was a day on the umass campus where 28 ambulances were called because kids were blacking out.

But yeah, so now there's a company called Borg vodka water, drink borgs.com. And they're like the slim cans and it's a vodka water, natural flavorings. Okay. And the flavors are lemon, lime,

raspberry, peach, peach apple and grape yeah looking at it apple oh is that peach and apple or one something called peach apple peach apple they show a peach and an apple on it though weird they missed the boat on this to me this is too late they're not gonna the zoomers aren't going for this. I agree. And the one thing that would have made me think it's cool is they put it in a can like anything else. But imagine if they were selling gallon jugs. Or just like small gallon jugs. Oh, that would be kind of cool. Yeah, shrink a 12-ounce gallon.

No gallon, but shrink it down so it looks like a miniature. I would buy one of those. You could have a tiny little blackout. Just a little blackout. Just a blink. A momentary. What the fuck am I? And I'm not seeing anything here about like hydration, like electrolytes or extra hydration multipliers, which was kind of the whole point of Borgs.

I mean, I guess that a Borg is a vodka water, which is a drink. Like you can get that at a bar, vodka water. If you're weird, yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. Vodka water. which is a drink like you can get that at a bar of vodka water if you're weird yeah that's interesting yeah um did i squawk about this on the podcast that i saw an episode of love is blind um no stranger things it was the first um i same streamer no um it was actually the ultimatum queer love but i thought love is blind because they all have all these Netflix reality shows. They drink out of these like chrome wine glasses.

Have you seen those? I've seen those glasses, but not those shows. And the reason for those metal glasses is for continuity so the drink levels don't jump around. Oh, smart. But now they like sell them and Netflix fans are drinking wine out of them.

I find them to be a major turnoff to look at. Are they metal? Yeah. Are they just like plastic here or something? They're metal. It's so funny to think of a reality show that it's become such a real business. It's like, hey, let's even make sure where the continuity is the same. Right.

They're so cheaply thrown together that it just feels like, yeah, just do whatever. I think it's a real editor's delight. Wait, what show? Upper Decker? Love is Blind and the Ultimatum Queer Love. Hold on a second. Jeff's trying to get away with something here by saying Upper Decker. The show is called Below Deck.

That's taking a shit in the top of a toilet. That could be a show. That could be a good show. Okay, MacGruber. Jeff, you don't try to pull that stuff with us. it in the top of a toilet and that could be a show it could be a good show okay mcgruber jeff you don't try to pull that stuff with us i almost snuck it by the goalie there i'm i'm not a fan of the bravo shows or the netflix shows really but the bravo uh the one i do uh below deck is a great show yeah and it's fun to watch the boat stuff that's what i hear and that was the one we talked about it on our espresso martini episode,

because that really did help make that drink get huge because the people, the charter guests on, on the yachts drank them because they wanted to party. And then the crew drank them cause they needed to stay up, uh, late. So it was kind of the drink of, of the show.

And then that was sort of like, you know, all the articles about espresso martinis last year um but i brought all that up to say that uh in the ultimatum queer love in the first episode everyone's going on mini dates with each other and they have these those metal glasses you can't see in so they're asking each other like what are you drinking what are you drinking and like two or three people in a row mentioned like oh i'm having a tequila and water oh i'm having an old-fashioned in water and i was one i've never heard of just adding water willy-nilly to cocktails and i was wondering if it was a netflix thing that like reality shows like the bachelor have gotten in hot water for having people get too drunk and do

weird shit yeah so i wonder if netflix is, everyone has to have an alcohol and a water and when they say their drinks, they have to say it out loud so that we don't get in trouble for getting you guys all drunk. Yeah, that is not a trend I've seen in the world that seems like specific to that. Soda, people like soda.

But yeah, no one gets an old fashioned in soda. Not a cocktail. Here's the thing. If you want to do a vodka water or something, I've heard of that. But if there's like a finished cocktail that has a balance and a name, you wouldn't just add a bunch of water to it. Yeah, it didn't take all the flavor away. You made a whole thing that's nicely balanced,

and then you just throw it off. It's fucked up. It's freaked off. And we don't stand for it. Not here on our podcast. I got a little bit of booze news. Remember last week I was talking about I got that ramp, something called a ramp, and I sent it back because it wasn't the flavor. It was like a garlic martini that a bartender made for you and you said, I don't like this, sir.

Yep. And he said he was totally cool with it. We had a rapport. It was great. So yesterday I'm out at a bar with a friend of mine. He goes inside to get it. We're out in the patio area. He goes inside to get a drink.

He says, what do you want? I said, give me a Powers whiskey on ice. I'd had a Powers before, and then I said, my second drink, give me a Powers on ice. He went inside, brought me back a drink. Seemingly looks like a whiskey on ice. I take a, brought me back a drink, seemingly looks like whiskey on ice. I take a sip, and I go, ooh, this doesn't taste right. Take a few more sips.

This doesn't taste right. And I kind of smell it, and it's like, I think the glass is dirty here. Something's wrong. So I go inside, and I say to the guy, hey, I think the glass is dirty here. Can I just get a new one? He said, yeah, what did you have? I said, Powers. And he goes, McCullins?

And I said, because he pulls McCullins off the shelf. I was like, no, no, Powers. And he goes, okay, wait. The guy just bought you this drink. He went outside. He had a beer in this. Yeah, he asked for McCullins. It's a scotch.

And I was like, oh, okay. If it's scotch, that's fine. If it's not a dirty glass,ins. It's a scotch. And I was like, oh, okay. If it's scotch, that's fine. If it's not a dirty glass, I'm fine drinking a scotch. I drank it. And then I went up to my friend and I said, here's what happened. He heard, when you said Powers, he heard McCullins. Because when I just said Powers, he heard McCullins again.

This man hears Powers as McCullins. I know. But I asked him too. Extra syllables, different letters. What's going on? And it wasn't necessarily a loud bar, but it was like twice in a row. And I asked him, too. I was like, is it like crazy proof or something?

I don't mind whatever it is. And I went outside. And then a few minutes later, like 10 minutes later, he came out. He's like, is that OK for you? Should I change it? I was like, is it OK for me? I was like, it's just scotch, right? What's going on here? And he's like, yeah, you want me to switch it? I was like is it okay for me i was like it's just scotch right what's what's going on here and he's like yeah you want me to switch it i was like it's fine i'm i'm uh

i'm over it now damn i am over this and i'm over you dude yeah but it was just so funny powers and he pulled he's like okay i was like no no that's not the what are you doing dude i had a funny uh interaction let me let me see what your take on this um i was at really fun at a usc bar uh kind of like downtown called 1901 bar and grill very fun lively kind of crazy college bar and i go up to the bar and i say hey can i get a crown Royal on the rocks, a Jameson on the rocks, a Guinness and a Modelo? And the guy's like, yep. And then the bartender comes back and all these drinks, the whiskeys especially, were like huge, huge pours to the brim. And then the beers were double, were big steins.

And he goes, oh, hey, it's happy hour. It's two for one right now so i gave you all doubles oh my god and i was like well that's kind of odd that he didn't ask because if he would have said it's two for one then i would have been like i would have picked one whiskey and one beer got two of each and then and then we got more drinks later and a different bartender did the same thing so like they just have this secret two for one thing and they just give you doubles and double charge you or they didn't actually double charges. They didn't,

but they just didn't want to be upfront about, usually you say, Hey everyone, it's happy hour two for one. And people order half the number of drinks, but these people wanted to pour double the double the pores and make the same amount of money. It's weird.

It was a delightful place but i was i still was confused you see it's also sometimes it's like if they're if i'm like hey give me a drink and they give me a huge one on their own i'm like well maybe i didn't want all that like i'm driving or something i'm driving and i was i was driving and i was drinking then i when i got my second crown on the rocks it Rocks, it was like a pint glass full of Crown Royal. I was like, what the hell am I going to do? So I'm driving home like a fucking bumper car, banging into this, banging into that.

You should see my T-Bird. Bars, be clear about your deals. And also, be careful out there, folks. Drinking and driving is no game. Tim is joking. Yeah. Actually, I don out there, folks. Drinking and driving is no game. Tim is joking. Yeah. Actually, I don't drive drunk ever. I don't drive after more than two drinks.

That's the real deal, Slopheads. That's true. I've seen you lift for almost no reason. I'm an Uber guy. Yeah, because I hate lift. I will drink, yeah, two or after my third pint glass of gin, I will go. I will Lyft. I will drink, I will drink, yeah, two pint, two or, after my third pint glass of gin, I will go, I will drive home.

All right, is that it for Booze News? Ruppet up. Oh. All right. Summer's in full swing, is it not? It should be. We got two singles under our belts, do we not?

It is in full swing. I feel like for a long time it was taking a while to get started. Now it's... I caught myself mid-June being like, ooh, can't wait for summer. Yeah. Brother, you're in it. Yeah. Brother.

yeah brother um uh it being summer would are you do you do you have interest in sort of like light low alcohol crisp cocktails oh crisp crisp Try the crisp. Because if so, you might be interested in the drink of the day, the Hugo Spritz you've had. Yes, yes. No, I've not had. I'm looking at the recipe right now, though. Not had. I got to go get this stuff.

I've not had. Got to make a run. You've heard. Oh, yes, yes. Heard. We heard about Oh, yes, yes. Heard. We heard about it on Booze News. This is that great thing we do where, sure, you tune in to hear about the latest drink. And then in Booze News, you think, oh, that's an interesting lead.

And then your boys follow up. And we give it the spotlight treatment. Yeah, because if it bleeds, it leads. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, if you've seen Spot seen spotlight we're just like the the reporters in the bullpen there we gotta get to the bottom of this we're like mark ruffalo and the girl from the notebook yes and instead of putting together a list of pedo school teachers we're making a list of delicious drinks for the summer yeah rachel mcadams how could I forget? Winnick Adams. And also Michael Keaton. Batman.

Batters himself. Batters. Batters. Okay, so basically ever since the summer of the Aperol Spritz a few years ago, which we definitely covered in our Crapper All Shits episode, there's been this kind of expectation that a drink is going to emerge as the drink of the summer and it's a narrative that we say is clearly just kind of pushed by magazines and blogs that need articles to publish in the spring um but you know we have had the dirty shirley the espresso martini the spaghetti um there does seem to be this type of thing happening but there's also

tons of flimsy articles that are just like picking drinks early on and acting like it's a big thing when it's not because they're trying to make it happen they're trying to make content but um this one the hugo spritz has popped us up enough for us to take a look and was sent to us by a lot of very friendly slop heads who said i hate to you know kind of like the the eyes emoji hey tim or you know the uh the side eye that you know that like oh yeah the monkey puppet it's kind of a claymation monkey or something like i love that little guy oh yeah yeah um he's good. So we talked about it on Booze News last week, and yeah, this is, you know, there's,

I don't know about you guys out there in the wild, I'm seeing a lot of bars and restaurants that have a Spritz menu now. You know, like, here's our four Spritzes, and a lot of them are homespun, and a lot of them are legit ones, but one, oh, also, you know, um, you know, the book spritz, can you picture that? There's like, there's like a hit book that's on

tables at every Barnes and Noble and stuff that's called spritz. And it's sort of like, I think a couple of food writers that were like driving around Italy in a Fiat, like tasting all the spritzes and they compiled this book. It's like a coffee table book I've seen around a lot. And so there's all kinds of spritzes, but one such hit spritz is this Hugo spritz invented in 2005, uh, in a little town in Northern Italy by the Austrian border,

Naturo in the South Tyrol province in the dolomite mountains and uh a guy by the name of in the dolomite mountains tired tyr tyr south tyro and dolomite that's where i was born well naturo is an anime and dolomite? That's where I was born. Well, Naturo is an anime, and Dolomite is another character. Oh, like an exploitation movie. Oh, yeah, Naturo. No, Naruto is the anime. Sorry. Tig Naturo. Tig Naturo is a comedian. Anyway, back in 2005, bartender Roland Gruber came up with this drink,

and it's basically an A aperol spritz with elderflower liqueur instead of aperol uh pretty much the same specs as all the spritzes and well i think he used a local elderflower cordial but the most popular elderflower liqueur is saint germain yeah it's gonna travel better that's a big famous liqueur that everybody that you see all over the place i i have a bottle of it and jeff i poured you some today and i could have sworn we used it for a drink on the podcast but now i can't remember maybe i just have a bottle of saint germain for no reason and i just bought it i i never had it uh i went out and bought one today so unless there was a drink where i didn't use the main alcohol. No.

I did a little scroll on my phone, like in the podcast app, looking at the names of our episodes, which is crazy. We have so many episodes, like 140 something. This is 145, I think. Yep. No, 142. 142. I didn't see any cocktail names that made me think St. Germain. I'm not seeing it.

Well, either way, St. Germain's a French liqueur made from flower petals, elder flower petals, the eldest flowers of the garden. And Roland Gruber makes his drink. It spreads from Italy to to germany around the world and then last week you heard me on booze news saying gadouge better homes and gardens the hugo spritz is poised to become the drink of the summer here's why delish.com move over apparel there's a new spritz in town the hugo spritz is the drink of 2023 yahoo news tiktok is saying hugo spritz will be the cocktail summer 2023 and now it's time for

the slops to weigh in and it's not an iba drink so we're going off of liquor.com which we trust for nice standard recipes and here is the recipe a half ounce of Germain, one sprig mint, four ounces Prosecco, chilled. One ounce soda water, chilled. Garnish, mint sprig, garnish, lemon wheel. Steps. Add the St. Germain and mint sprig into a wine glass. Gently muddle and let sit for three minutes. Add ice, the Prosecco, and the soda, and stir briefly and gently to combine.

Garnish with a mint sprig and a lemon wheel. Now, when you say mint sprig, I'm trying to look at the picture here, but, of course, my damn phone. Is the sprig the whole, like, stem there, huh? Yeah, the leaf is the leaf and the sprig is the tree. Branch. All right. Jeez, you know, I wish...

Is St. Germain going to be ginny? Kind of a gin-ish? It's kind of sweet, no? It's its own thing entirely. I just wish there wasn't... we weren't doing this Prosecco in this, you know what I mean? Why? I don't like the taste of it.

Do you have it? It's champagne. I got it right there. I'm looking right... I forgot to chill it. God bless it. Yes. You got cubes. You got cubes. I got cubes. You're damn right I got cubes.

I just... You know, this is going to be... I'm already not looking forward to this. Historically, champagne does not fare well with the handman. Right. Ruins a drink. All right. Well, I'm looking forward to it i think the world

is waiting and uh with bated breath on how we're gonna adjudicate this drink i'm waiting worth the hype i don't know i pray it is i pray it is too because i want to have a good drink with my boys all right folks we're going to take a little break and when we come back we'll have hugo spritzes in hand yes now we're back hugo spritzes in hand yes hold them up yes be proud oh jeff stemless stemless oh wow i forgot my lemon wheel i thought i had a lemon i don't but i've got a big green starbucks straw don't i nice a lot a lot of mint in this thing. With the muddled mint and then the garnish of the mint. Yeah. And not a lot of

St. Germain. Not a lot. I know. I'm not loving that. Let's take a little sip, huh? I'm going to put my lemon right in it. Me too. Oh yeah, that's fresh, baby. Okay.

I'm not getting any St. Germain, but what I am getting is Prosecco that has been made better in a mysterious way. Watered down a little bit. I can actually go for more soda in this. Me too. It's like,

for a non-champagne fan like Hanford, we minted it up We alder flowered it down It's an improved champagne Mike would you agree? Yeah oh yeah oh it's great I love it No I hate this

It's terrible I would never order this again What about the smell aren't you swayed by the minty smell? Yeah, I was going like, oh, this is probably going to taste like a mojito or something. But no. Tastes like champagne. Yep, that's the primary taste. And I even secretly went light on the champagne.

I did four ounces, but not all the way. Four small ounces. Four separate small ounces. Four small ounces. Four separate small ounces. Four smallies. What is the ratio? I'm looking at Liquor.com for their Aperol Spritz. They say four ounces Prosecco, three ounces Aperol, one ounce Club Soda. I mean, sorry.

They say three ounces Prosecco, two ounces Aperol, one ounce Club Soda. Three, two, one, I think is the standard. This is kind of an odd recipe that has got a lot of Prosecco and a little. I'm already thinking in round two, I want to do this. I want to do more St. Germain and less Prosecco because I'm really just tasting a big champagne glass. Yeah. And even the mint, like the muddled mint and the,

maybe I didn't stir this well enough. I thought the initial smell of the St. Germ, like the muddled mint and the, maybe I didn't stir this well enough. I thought the initial smell of the St. Germain and the muddled mint, now that was a nice smell. I wish this tasted more like that smelled. Tim, you came by, how many hours ago do you think? Three hours ago? Four hours ago. And he gave me a nice bushel of fresh mint. Mikey, you should have seen it.

How big? Fresh from the grocery store. He just got a nice little wad of it and I pulled off a little wad. A wad makes me think it's wet. Four hours in the fridge and it looks like seaweed. Oh yeah, sure. How do you keep it

nice? Because it's not the kind with the dirt in it that keeps it alive. Is that what it is? Remember, I mean, it always dies fast, but if you, at Albertsons, they have that living mint that ideally you would bring home and plant, put in a little pot.

They tell you not to plant that, though, which is weird. Do they just not want you to have a competitive edge in the mint game? It's that company's like, don't plant this nike does that too these days they're like don't make your own shoes at home don't don't make your own nikes we'll do it but the mint my mint looks like uh looks like the poor unfortunate souls from the little mermaid 2023 yeah yeah the new one uh yeah mint i'll like it's funny because it's it's a small package but there's still a lot of mint in there and it's like you you know you use like one leaf per recipe it's like how much mint you use yeah it's all fucked now i know you guys aren't loving this

but but but let me put you in the mindset of a spritz which is you're seeing it outside on a sidewalk it's a cafe during the day it's 4 19 so you're you you're stressed out because you have to toke up in a minute yeah but you know there's something to take that edge off before I really take that edge off. There's some soccer on the TV. You're sitting with me, and I'm telling one of my prized anecdotes. What story? What city are we in?

L.A. Oh. WeHo. I brought you out to WeHo for brunch, and we're having a toast. I thought you were going to say we were in Europe where this was invented. No, no. WeHo. West Hollywood.

And it's me saying, hey, did I ever tell you about the time I wrote for the 2015 Emmys? I drove you all the way out here to WeHo to tell you about it. We sat in traffic on Santa Monica Boulevard. It took us 45 minutes. One of us was with you at those Emmy Awards writing for them. So true. Mike, you can join in and add to the anecdote. You can corroborate the story.

Oh, it's very true. Ah, yes, that did happen. Oh, that didn't happen. But does it help you guys to picture, to think about sitting outside on a beautiful afternoon sure there we are we ho on the patio saddle ranch sipping these frat boys chugging whiskey all around me potato skins up to my waist although i could go for a potato skin hey admit it we did see the soup nazi there i'll admit it. Also, Mike, I like the, no wonder you don't like this.

It's interesting. The guy who doesn't like the Hugo Spritz would get excited at the mention of potato skins. Kind of telling about your palate. Ooh, hey, the cheddar bacon sour cream. Hey, maybe dip that into some nacho sauce even. I haven't had a good nacho sauce in a while. But that's my own problem. You gotta go to a Dodger game.

I know, where they dip it in. Oh, jeez. Wouldn't mind swimming. That stuff is so smooth looking, you know what I mean? Did you know that Velveeta was made by Pabst during Prohibition and then after they were allowed to make beer again they sold off Velveeta to Kraft or whatever? Wow.

Damn, Tim. That's a great anecdote. I learned it on my Milwaukee Pabst tour. Oh, yeah. Are you kidding me? They sold it off. They're like, all right, get this fucking cheese out of here. Back to beer.

Get this cheese. It'll be in a ton of stuff. Velveeta cheeses. I don't think I've had Velveeta in like 10 years. I used to love the idea of it. It's cheese food. You're not allowed to call it cheese. Right, right, right.

So it's like handy snacks goo, right? It's like a soft orange goo. Some type of goo. Another fun thing about that, Pabst store, they said that in the old days, they like, I mean, who knows? Maybe they were just saying this because it's Pabst. But they're like, they paid their workers really well and it was like a real happy factory and stuff. And that in your contract that every employee of Pabst got a beer break every three hours and that you would stop and drink a beer. One beer? One beer,

one beer. And then, but then there's accounts from the employees being like, come on, you think it was really only three hours. We drank beer all day, but you'd be like on the line in the brewery or in the office or whatever, just drinking,

drinking paps all day. Dude, that's really, I mean, it also seems like a place where there's probably heavy machinery about. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, probably a lot of loose hands and feet on the ground. You mean to tell me the forklift operator has got a Pabst in the cup holder?

I'm trying to tell you. And these days you can get forklifts certified on VR. I learned that from a slob head somewhere. Tim with the factoids this week Jeff load up a forklift operating VR on the metaverse on your meta quest or whatever oh yeah we should do that again

when you come out here I want to do the walk the plank game where you're doing the tightrope between the buildings oh yeah I was just watching a video of that and like some, this guy was, the dad was doing his like, daughter like pushed him off and he was like, no!

He like freaked out. And I said, this guy's gotta get back into reality. Yeah, man. This drink, as I've stirred it up more and the ice has melted a little bit, it kind of tastes like nothing now. Okay.

It's good. It's in a good way though, right? It's spritzier. Yeah. Your heart grew two sizes. And I'm really getting the smell of all this mint because now that the drink goes down, the mint is being exposed.

Are you getting swayed? Ew. Ah, yes. Take a little sniff of your drink yeah hold on hold on hold on sloppy boys detecting notes of mint um i i like a i like a heavy soda pour in my spritzes because the whole point is is is that and i i feel like and i don't know but i i i love this drink but i i feel like i want to monkey with the uh i'm gonna monkey the hell out of it i can't wait for round two you hey tim you look really funny with that straw stick out because it's like a straw for a large drink most of the rest of the straw is out of the cup. The Starbucks venti straw. Hey, speaking of Starbucks, did you guys see that

they now, Costco sells a box of frozen sous vide egg bites now. Oh my gosh, yes. I'm not a Costco member. I'll have to, I gotta sign up for the membership again. That's huge. And head down there. Maybe I'll get a $1.50 hot dog while I'm down there. Get a hot

dog, get a new TV, everything. Get your glasses prescription filled. The sous-vides, though, you got to think, for you, Tim, part of the fun of the sous-vides is taking the walk. Getting out on the walk of life. I would say that actually that is the majority of the fun, is to wake up and say, I got to go. I got to go. They're expecting me down at the Starbucks Reserve.

I'm taking the heelel Toe Express. The sous-vides. Oh, it's a good one. I got two the other day, so four total. Bacon Gruyere or kale mushroom? I got kale mushroom and bacon Gruyere. Wow. Yes, Michael, yes.

You stack them up. I went for it. No, I wanted to cut Yep. You stack them up. I went for it. No, I wanted to cut them. Make a big stack them up like pogs. Bouncing a Starbucks cup off it trying to flip the pogs. Have you guys ever played pogs

when those were big? Yeah, but I think like most people, I didn't know how to play. Yeah, I didn't know what it was. But like, you know, we all had slammers, like the big plastic chunky pogs that you hit on the paper pogs yeah yeah tim you fell silent you didn't play pogs i'm i'm thinking i'm like i know i bought pogs i know i owned pogs but i can't remember ever once playing the game yeah iogs were one of those things where I can't... The fact that the three of us had them

in different towns and states and stuff. How did they get so big? Did West Coast kids play with Pogs? Skaters? It felt more like a hobby shop thing, like a Magic the Gathering store at the mall would be selling Pogs. I've never played magic or uh

pokemon but i can't really under i don't really understand what it is well the pokemon go to the polls yeah that's true i played pokemon go did you do uh i played i mean hey a lot of people played pokemon go did you guys ever played dungeons and dragons never once i did once i went on one one time i was at a friend's house in like fourth or fifth grade and his brother was oh yeah you're right i was gonna say no but i guess um a buddy's birthday of mine we played like the star wars version of it so you know i sat around a table and played make believe did anyone catch your balbazar um oh I'm gonna hear about it in the chat rooms right now

this is more pog than Dungeons and Dragons or anything but thinking about toy trends you know there's things that are big in the world other things are just big in your house and you don't really know if everyone's doing it yeah like what is yours was uh willow or hooker oh movie wise yeah dick tracy was huge willow was

huge i had no idea that rocketeer was not a huge hit movie um but did you ever play with a toy called spinjas yes those rips were fucking great That was such a fun thing. Those were very cool. And they were very cool looking. Kind of compact little guys. What would you call that? It was almost like little dreidels. And you spin them and they would bump into each other in a little ring. There's a little plastic arena

that is sloped towards the center. A tiny arena. And then you take a wind-up guy. It's about the size of a Bic lighter. And you put your Spinja. It was like a little top dreidel guy. Ninja who spins. Ninja who spins. You crank it up and then you press the button and they

both hit the arena and they start bumping into each other and you see who gets like knocked down or knocked out. So they came in this, they each came with like a little ring, but I had like a big giant one. It was huge. It looked like a, like a Colosseum.

If you just look up Spinges image search, like it's, it's in one of those pictures. Okay. Wow. There's another thing. I'm looking at these guys. Past our time.

It's, it's basically Spinges, but it had like an anime tie-in, so it's sort of like a Pokemon trying to do Spinges. It's called Beyblade. B-E-Y blade. Does that ring a bell? I feel like my little cousins were into this shit. No.

And unlike Spinges, they would be like certain ones, they'd be rated like, ooh, this one's heavier, but it doesn't spin as fast. Ooh, this one spins real fast, but it's really light. So there's like stats. Oh, that's cool. I like that. Me too. Choose your player. Did you have anything called dino riders?

Yes. Fuck yeah. Yeah, dino riders. Yeah, yeah. These guys. yeah yeah dino right yeah yeah these guys they were dinosaurs that had like a metallic robot equipment and people rode around on top of them those were the types of toys where i would have like i'd have like one of them and then look at the back of the package and be like wow there's a lot of these we can get like mom we have a lot of work to do mom tell dad um damn dino i so i'm not familiar with dino

riders but the logo is really cool there's some really good uh crew neck sweatshirts and t-shirts but oh this is so uh you know you're a 90s kid like robo like dinosaurs with robot stuff on them that's so funny like yeah that's our generation in a nutshell where it's like futuristic retrofuturism it really is like plopped right on there too it's like i don't know he's got a laser on his head wait a second ninja turtles got into that too where you'd have guys it's just like all of a sudden have all these robot uh crap on them so yeah crap on it i'm looking at a t-rex toy that i had on ebay and i'm realizing it was a taiko dino rider but it doesn't have any of the robo shit on it was just a t-rex and i remember i remember bringing it to church and sitting sitting down on the floor under the pew and my mom being like yeah you can play with your t-rex and i was like i remember yeah like i could bring toys to church

and it was like trying to pick like which ones and it'd be like yeah because you can only really choose one so you can pick up fill a ziploc bag with some gi joes this is so weird this t-rex like i'm i see pictures of it naked, like what I had, and then I see pictures where it has all the robo shit on it. I was like, why didn't my parents buy me the robo shit?

What the fuck? Huh. You probably lost it, Tim, or your brother lost it. You think Jeff... You probably had to prove to them that you like them well enough, and then,

and you take care of the dinosaur, and then they'd give you the... Then they'd give me the robo shit. You guys remember Dinosaucers? That's another thing from that era. Dino. And you take care of the dinosaur and then they give you the robot gear. You guys remember Dino Saucers? That's another thing from that era. Dino Saucers. What is it like?

You know, like a Bearnaise sauce and a Hollandaise sauce. It's another cartoon. Oh, yeah. I watched this show. It's very Transformers-y. It's like there's a space war and they come to Earth, but instead of being more than meets the eye, they're dinosaurs. Damn, the dino thing really, even before Jurassic Park,

we just were obsessed with dinos. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's cool. You tell a kid like, hey, look at all these monsters. Cool. They actually existed. They were actually on Earth. You're a kid, like, hey, look at all these monsters. And you're like, cool. And they actually existed. They were actually on Earth.

You're like, what the fuck? What the fuck you? Fuck you, I'm a dad. There was a TV show I remember, and maybe some toys, definitely toys, but it was called, like, I don't know. It was these, like, guys in metallic suits in space, and they had, like, bird helmets on, and they were kind of bird-like. Did what?

In space. Space birds. This is a cartoon? I think so. Space Hawk? Try Space Hawk. Space. Not Space Hog.

In the meantime. Oh, Space Hawk looks like something. Yeah, Space Hawk. Space Hawks. Space Hawks. Oh, I see a Space Hawk looks like something. Yeah, Space Hawk. Space Hawks. Space Hawks. Ooh, I see a Space Hawk guitar. Yeah, he was like a cowboy kind of guy. I don't remember anything about this, but my cousin had some of these.

I'm seeing a guy that looks kind of like me. Well, he's got a big square jaw. Kind of a wide guy. Wide guy. Ladies and gentlemen, wide guy. Wide guy. Ladies and gentlemen, wide guy. Like the SNL musical guest. Ladies and gentlemen, wide guy. Once again, wide guy.

Wide guy. All right. Once again, we need to take a little break yeah so why don't we um change up the recipe i'm gonna do very little champagne very little give me that club soda give me that saint g i'm gonna do the three two one method it's gonna be way too much saint g but i'm curious okay mike for you not doing it you're gonna just go without going without don't why don't you have a saint germain on the rock see if you like that you know what maybe i'll just dump a saint germain and what's i have nothing left in

this so i'll just add saint germain to this there you go all right folks we'll be right back after this All right, folks, we'll be right back after this. And we're back. I'm joined by Tim and Fred Durst, by the looks of things. I'm worried. Nookie. What kind of hat is that he's got a backwards red a red baseball cap that's worn backwards it's just my uh canadian's hat but it's worn backwards it's a fitted hat so i look like it's just one of those days all right what are your tweaks let's get your ass raw tweaks this is just the that's just saint germain on your leftover stuff yeah that's better

it's good right it's an interesting on this show we buy a lot of liqueurs and you're like well it just tastes like all the other licorices or all the other sharp cruise ones this elderflower liqueur is at least a brand new taste, and it's interesting. It's not bad. Oh, it's a brand new taste for the summer of 2023. I did equal parts. Get this. Champagne, equal parts Prosecco, St. Germain, club soda.

Just to try it. Interesting. It turns out too syrupy flower flowery, too much St. John. And now I find myself adding more club soda to it. It is pretty good, though. I feel like if it gets melty and I add a bunch of soda, it's better than having just that super Prosecco-y taste. I'm with you, Mike.

I'm kind of tired of it. Of the Prosecco? Thank you. My round two is just like yours, Jay, where I wanted to do the 3-2-1 method and use like the Aperol spritz ratio for this drink. I stole a little sip in the kitchen. It was way too St. Germain-y. So then I grabbed my club soda and I a shitload of club soda all the way to the top. And now it's delicious.

I think make the drink weak, but just make sure you put enough St. Germain that you taste more elderflower than Prosecco. Listen to this. I pulled this tag off my St. Germain bottle and it's got St. Germain spritz on it. 40ml

St. Germain, 60ml champagne Prosecco, 60ml soda water, one twist of lemon. Okay. That's pretty, pretty simple. So no mint or no, yeah. One thing I'll say I've learned on this pod, here I am adding a bunch of club soda to this.

And that's what I used to do. If there was something I didn't like the taste of, I would just try and dilute it with like water weight or soda weight and what i would find is that it was just creating more volume of that same taste yes on the on this show i've noticed that like you you gotta pick the opposite coordinate on the tongue if something's missing you gotta add like lemon juice or like a bitter and then that way you're not adding all this volume. You're balancing, you're canceling out a bad taste without just, without, uh, I guess my, my old theory used to be just dilute, dilute, dilute. In this case, it kind of works, but I did feel like, oh, this is sort of like what I used to do. Not, it's not the more sophisticated modern day, Jeffy.

That's funny, Jeff. When I'm, yours is dilute, dilute, dil Duluth When I'm similar to mine, when I'm shopping for work pants It's just Duluth, Duluth, Duluth Duluth, yeah When I'm on a military base It's salute, salute, salute Yeah, yeah, yeah And when I watch movies It's generally Groot, Groot, Groot

Damn, I still haven't seen that Most movies for you? Holy shit Wait, I mean he only seen that third one. Most movies for you? Holy shit. Yeah. Wait. I mean, he only shows up in maybe four total. I should have pronounced it Garut, Garut, Garut. Yeah, yeah.

So true. They got it, though. They made a trio movie star. My God, Hollywood. They made a trio movie star. They did surgery on a grape. Wait, what's that from? It's a meme from a year or two ago. They did surgery on a grape.

It's like a robot. They peeled the skin. Yeah, it was like a real delicate procedure a robot did. They did surgery on a grape. Okay, final thoughts. Mike, go ahead. We know you don't like it nope no thanks waste of my time nope waste of now i got uh well there's the prosecco i got a mini bottle so that's going right into the toilet the whole glass bottle i don't care if it plugs it all up smash it and

flush it i'd rather have dirty toilet water all over my house than this Prosecco near it. All right. I'm probably the middle guy, so I'll say it's fine. Need some tweaking. I would go way more club soda, just a touch of Prosecco, like you would with vermouth. You want to mention the essence of Prosecco, but I'm kind of tired of it too. Like I'm turning on it.

I am excited to have Saint Germain now in my life because who knows what I can do with it. I'll look up. I like elderflower taste because of the lavender haze. That was a hit for me, a real hit. Yeah. I bet just Saint Germain and soda soda that's a good drink and it's laid back and chill um i like the mid too that's good i like this drink the most of any of us i would order it again i think it is a good drink but is it the drink of the summer 2023 no way in

hell because it's absolutely it's not better than a aper spritz. So why would we do get all excited about a different spritz? That's not any better than that. We're not excited. Not all of us anyway. No, nope. So, so far on the pod,

we'll say that of the big contenders for the drink of the summer, lavender haze is beating the Hugo spritz. We should just mention what next week's is. Let's talk about it. Because we would have done that today, but we went for the Hugo. Oh, yeah. Oh, right. Johnny's Dream from Twitter.

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