The Sloppy Boys - 163. Ve.n.to

Episode Date: December 1, 2023

The guys finally get past the weird name and weird ingredients and tackle the newest cocktail on the IBA list.VE.N.TO RECIPE1.5oz/45ml White Smooth Grappa.75oz/22.5ml Lemon Juice.5oz/15ml Honey Syrup*.5oz/15ml Chamomile Cordial.33oz/10ml Egg WhitePour ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled tumbler glass filled ice. Garnish with lemon zest and white grapes.*If desired, replace water with chamomile tea.Recipe via the International Bartenders Association (https://www.iba-world.com/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey folks, welcome to the Sloppy Boys where we take a deep dive into the drinks that you love. I'm Jeff Dutton along with Mike Hanford. Yoo-hoo! And Tim Kalpakis. What is up? And we are your hosts of the show with timeless integrity, the Sloppy Boys Band. Really hitting that hard lately. It's true, though.

So, Jeff, I didn't realize you're no longer saying we take a deep dive into the drinks that you love. This has replaced. Sure do. Oh, you said that as well. Yeah, I did. I just knocked that out right up top. People know that already. Oh, OK. So it's not even that it's a new tagline it's an additional tagline

yeah yeah some sub tagline it's just sort of like a credit like um you know like like the laurels at the end of a trailer so it would say like the sloppy boys and then in parentheses timeless integrity timeless integrity titles integrity that people are going to listen to back at this years from now i say god they were right yeah god they were yeah they're like chipped of is sauce now wow it's timeless we're all doing it and they started it i wonder how let's see i wonder how far back a listener has gone. How do I want to say this? Like if someone's listening now, if someone's just a new listener now, how far back they've gone to like catch up? People do it. Do they start from the beginning, you think?

Sure. Yeah. Some people. Interesting. I had a friend who was listening backwards. Some people done two laps through the whole thing. backwards. Some people have done two laps through the whole thing. Yeah, it's crazy. Normally with the show, you cherry pick guests. We don't trouble people with

such things. Right. So they're cherry picking drinks, probably. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. They're cherry picking cherries, like if we say Luxardo Maraschino, you know. That's funny. Come on. You guys can laugh. If I make a high quality fruit joke, you can let it rip and laugh away.

A high-quality fruit joke? I wouldn't mind some high-quality fruit around now. The fruit I have here sucks. Yeah. It's post-harvest. I got some grapes for the drink today, and they suck. Hey, no spoilers. I know.

But I will say, I went to Tim's today. We had to swap some drinks swap some liqueurs swap us some grappa he said hey you want some grapes and i thought he was just offering me grapes as a snack because he knew i was coming off that dusty trail a weary traveler probably needed a grape yeah yeah i just like sure i'll help myself to a little cluster of grapes and then he's like yeah for the drink tonight oh yeah i'm like i'm like uh here's grapes and he's like oh great and he starts eating them and then i grab him like a plastic bag to take some and i'm like here and he's like oh no i'm good and i which is funny because i i can see you

mistaking me offering us uh you know drink recipe for me offering a snack but the idea that i thought you would want to take grapes for the road it for the road like if someone's over your house and you have like chips you know like i've been eating a lot of fritos but the idea that i've definitely left some fritos with them you've been eating a lot of fritos i've been eating a lot of doritos um yeah what what flavor because my thing with the fritos was one time mookie and jeff were here watching a movie and I had every flavor. Oh, right. All in a Frito buffet. That sounds good. No, mine is just the classics.

I'll get, I got a little, I don't know. I think my mom sent to me for my birthday. Yeah, that's where I got it. She sent me just like a box of like snacks. I was like, Ooh, that's nice. New care package for an adult man. There's been some hot Cheetos. Well, for birthday, for birthday.

A birthday care. You gotta, you gotta allow me a few gifts from mommy on birthday allow you a few treats yes uh you want to you want to talk about real big treats though you guys haven't mentioned it yet it's it's i'm not expecting you to notice a big a big treat I can get a notice. A big, a big treat. New couch for me. Look at me.

Whoa. Michael. This is a nice fluffer. Oh, that's nice. Cause you had kind of a firm, like one that kind of flipped down. It was, it had a cool idea.

Like the back, like backrest, like flip down to make it a bed, not a futon necessarily but but it was one of those mid-century couches that it's you don't really sink into it yeah it was like from it was cheap it was like from wayfair or something and i got it for like a hundred bucks when i moved in here just to like i saw it online and it was like fine i'll do it just give me something that was a good sleep though mike it's good sleep. Good place to saw some logs.

You could see exactly where I sat, usually, on this couch, and I could just feel it all falling away. So, but this couch has a very interesting story. So, finally, I was talking to someone on Facebook. This couch has a very interesting story. Gather around. You know, this couch has a very interesting story. This is like the beginning of a movie. This will kill some time on the podcast.

Couch Tales with Mike Hanford. So it's a Mitchell and Gold, I think is the brand name, which is a nice couch, but they've gone out of business and this is a used couch. But it's nice. And it's got some nice bounce to it. So I get it. I finally figured it out with a lady.

I'm texting with the lady on Facebook Marketplace. She's like, okay, do you want to, he'll be there. This is last Saturday. She said, he'll be there on Saturday. I said, he'll be there. I'm paying for delivery and removal of my other place. We need two people here. And I'm not doing it because I'm paying for it.

You understand? I didn't say that. I think I said a back problem or something. I'm the money guy in this situation. It didn't work that Saturday because she didn't have two people. So then this past Saturday, two people, they show up. Great guys. They move my couch out, move this one up.

But ooh, pause. Red light. We can't get the couch through my fucking front door i was gonna ask it's sort of at a little angle yeah it's at a weird little angle and they just could not get it was so close and they're starting to like pull it in and it's like leaving like um scuffing the paint marks on the couch was like all right let's stop do that and i gave him some gatorades and we sat down we thought about it for a second I was like, all right, let's stop doing that. And I gave him some Gatorades, and we sat down, and we thought about it for a second.

We tried to get the feet off of it, but the feet are, like, really solidly glued in. Oh, yeah, that's what you got to do. So they said, guys, or I told them, guys, I'm texting with a couple of couch doctors in the area, and I found one that can take it in the next day at 9 30 and what a couch doctor is i did not know about this a guy came up to my floor he had uh furniture making tools took the whole back panel off my couch undid like undid all the staples that keep

the uh fabric wow flipped it off brought it in piece by piece himself put it back together and now it's in my my house there's a couch doctor isn't that crazy that that people do that so wait so the the arriving couch couldn't get in where did it stay in the interim in the hallway are you for real for for just just a night it was just overnight okay and i texted my landlord and said like hey uh this is up there don't mess with it don't sit on it you don't have to throw it away don't start any fires in the building it's a fire hazard yeah yeah um and so wait it was just like upright like a like a tall petris piece um no it was kind of it was kind of long ways there was there was a piece of wall man that's that couch doctor is such good news because you know you've seen my couch i got a used couch from from our buddy randy and um great couch you guys have both

good couches they're good good slitting couches thank you tim's got a nice nice big wraparound sprawler um but mine 360 i need to fluff the cushions and you can't the cushions are the couch yeah they don't come off couch doctor you can't. The cushions are the couch. They don't come off. You can't fluff them. I need a couch doctor. Well, the couch doctor is going to take your couch apart. Good. He needs to take it apart and put more feathers in. I see. I see. I see. I bet they do

do stuff like that. Do do? Oh, gross to our immature listeners. Oh, my couch needs a midlife goose. Give me that goose. give me that goose well so the couch doctor did such a great job and i said i said my god this is a great couch i'm so happy so much better than my other one and he said he said yeah mitchell and gold they're they're uh they're good and i said take a sit down on it. He did some good work here. So he and I are sitting down. He's, uh, I had soccer on TV. He's enjoying his handiwork. He was like, do you like soccer? I said, yeah, I'm just watching this game. I'm not really sure where it is. Uh, and then I

start to take a few sniffs. Oh, and this guy it's early in the morning it's 9 30 in the morning probably hasn't done a shower he's been working hard so he's sweating and he's got some bad bo he's got to go on the new couch no less no i didn't i didn't rush him out but i made i sort of stood up and said okay well you had the couch sit uh so he left and then uh he his bo lingered and i said oh fuck is this the couch does the couch smell oh the couch itself and it i opened the window it dissipated immediately so but that was something that if you're buying a couch for a used couch you gotta say hey wait it might smell bad yeah but it doesn't you don't want to be swayed by the smell of a couch that would be you want a maybe a swayed couch

sure absolutely yeah but you don't want to be swayed by the smell right right got it

we're in agreement all three yes yes yes swayed by smell not good right not good on for couch

no but swayed couch very good yeah I came home yesterday I was out watching a little football Bill's football with a friend of mine i came back here i i uh was watching another game or something on tv i fell right asleep this is a comfy couch oh mike you're a goner you were already a couch sleeper yes uh sometimes you'd nod off oh it's great to have a seat put on a movie, saw some logs, that's the life. Oh, yeah, yeah. Put on a movie

you're supposed to do for homework for this show and just sleep away. No, no, you don't put on Day of the Dead. You put on something that you can just disregard. It'd be funny, Tim, if you're like, when I sleep, I don't snore when I'm watching something I know I'm supposed to be watching for

the podcast. It's interesting. I keep it down. Yeah, I wonder. I watched the Please Don't Destroy movie with Mitch the other day, and I fell asleep. I'm like, why did he? I wonder if he even heard one word of that film or if he was just hearing. He probably thinks the movie was about sawing logs.

Well, they're in the forest, aren't they? You know that chainsaw movie? It's loud. It's very loud. It's loud. It's funny, but it's loud. Well, should we get into some booze news? Booze news.

Hit it. I'm going to take life. A whole lot of precious lime Simple syrup, gin and some lime Making a gimlet, a gimlet, a gimlet A gimlet, a gimlet Slap heads But now it's time for Booze News

Yeah, now it's time for Booze News Yeah, now it's time for Booze News. Yeah, now it's time for Booze News. Yeah, now it's time for Booze News. Yes, now it's time for Booze News. Nice. All right. Set On You was sent to us by Chris Finke and Danny Noonan from the Sloppy Boys Discord. If you have a Booze News theme, email it to thesloppyboyspodcast at gmail.com. And if you want to be friend Chris and Danny, subscribe to our Patreon, gain access to the Discord.

And these guys are serenading us sleep every night. Damn. Finky. Finky featuring Noonan. That's nice. Two-hander. Stinky Finky featuring the Noon Man. The Noon Man.

He did sort of tread pretty uh he felt pretty comfortable in the kitchen here you know he was uh like oh i'm gonna make myself a little i'm gonna make myself a little mash-up like the guys do no no no the assignment is a booze news theme folks that's true this was almost as if this was the gimlet episode of the sloppy boys podcast which we haven't done yet and then here he is as if he was just telling a long story about bumping into george harrison on the sunset strip or stealing a george harrison demo in his bbds from a bunker this these fucking guys are trying to take our jobs they're coming for the crown they're coming for the crown well we got we got

that crown pretty tight on our heads. Now, what if you, when we do do the Gimlet episode, you do bump into George Harrison and you do record him. And he, he sings or he tells you a song similar to that. We're not liable. No, I am obligated to also report on that.

If that happens. And then we'll, it'll be for the viewer. We'll be bored as hell, the listener that is, but as you know me, editor-in-chief of Booze News, I've taken a Hippocratic Oath.

Oh boy. I got a question for you. Oh good. What was the in that song, what was he's going to make a gimlet, he said. What was he, I'm blanking on the real words of that song is what I'm trying to make a gimlet he said what was he I'm blanking on the real words of that song is what I'm trying to say I got my mind set on you

and he was singing I'm gonna make a gimlet booze I don't know the verses oh the booze news yeah oh it's like whole lot of money right it's gonna take money or a whole lot of precious time lime oh lime was for time and then gimlet for

money i guess um what if he did like uh i'm gonna make martini something like that yeah i'm gonna use maraschino or something like that sure i'm gonna use pernode that could be good pernode i'm trying to get M words. Oh, M words. Okay, okay. That'll be my little task. When we took an online cocktail making class with celebrity bartender Jack Schramm when we first met him, he used a gimlet as a way to teach us how to make a sour because it's kind of your classic liquor, sweet, and citrus.

That was great. And now we have a firm grasp of the basics thanks to sharan oh my god my grasp of the fundamentals is ferocious yeah okay here's the booze news wait one quick thing yeah yes yes yes yes oh please that george harrison song word did you know it's a cover it's a cover he didn't write it folks really no Did you know it's a cover? It's a cover. He didn't write it, folks. Really? No. Is it like a cover from a really old song? Let me find out. Maybe a

I bet it's a song from the 60s, actually. James Ray. James Earl Ray? No. James Earl Ray, Jeff? You're thinking James Earl earl jones oh yes nope james ray raymond ah take it away tim didn't when he did um i really wanna see you is kind of based on a run at song too the guy was he the guy was feeling nostalgic i guess did he rip off a clapton song or like

no he ripped off uh harrison's wife though he started dating not a song a whole human no no uh he's got some joke where he's like oh i liked your song so much i wrote it again that's isn't that uh uh i think he wrote it again he's talking about his wife that's nasty how about this the beatles signed young james taylor to apple records they brought him in and he had a song called uh something in the way she moves and then george right after wrote something in the way she moves. And then George right after wrote something in the way she moves. Oh, really?

And that's what he was saying. I like your song so much. I wrote it. George. And then right down the hall, Nirvana was writing something in the way. Yeah. That hall, man. Before that song, Jeff, they were writing.

yeah that hall man before that song jeff they were writing they just had that they didn't have any instruments yet they said that should sound like this they replaced all the dave girl sitting in the back he's like hold on let me write that down you said okay thanks karen i just had a little quick little banger of booze news which was that um boom he's like hold on let me write that down boo chop boom you said okay thanks Kurt chop boom I just had a little quick little banger of booze news which was that um I was uh I follow some Taylor Swift uh Instagram accounts one of them is like TS on tour or you know Swifty yeah and and you get a lot of day-to-day not the big oh she was at the Chiefs game but just like where she

went to dinner like here she is leaving her the Dums game but just like where she went to dinner like here she is leaving her the dumois stuff yeah just like it's a picture of her like leaving her tribeca apartment or whatever and getting into a car and it's pretty she goes out a lot like she eats at cool restaurants every night but here's what uh made me say oh um she went out partying with the band heim and they were slagging some cocktails and there was one cocktail that they were all drinking together at a hip new york city restaurant um and uh guess what they are drinking i know it mike you go for it uh manhattan's I know it. Mike, you go for it.

Manhattan's. Cosmo. Cosmo. Cosmo. Nice. Cosmos. Love it. I knew I loved Taylor Swift for something.

They were having a whole Cosmo night. I feel like this is really, we talk a lot about the 90s martini menu, the Sex and the City drinks. We've recently done the french martini uh which you think would come from france no it's kind of like a sex in the city thing and espresso martini as well but i think if you got taylor and heim out there slamming cosmos i feel like it's boom and just like that the cosmo is back baby it's that's a fish you love to hear if the biggest star on earth is doing it. Yeah. Signed, sealed, delivered. Well, we brought it back somewhat, I would say.

Early. I feel like we did it. That was like our third episode or something. Yeah. And it was sort of like, oh, that's a girl drink. No, no, no, no. The Cosmo is a gender neutral. Everyone should be drinking it all the time.

It's great. It's fantastic. Great, great. And the boys, if you want to get it on the rocks, that might change the way you feel about it. Jeff, you don't like walking around with a martini glass. Too tippy. Maybe if you had a lowball. Too tippy.

A little lowball. Oh, boy. That's like me after a night of drinking at a bar, too, when the bill comes, when I'm signing out with my credit card. And they hand me the thing and they say tip and I get too tippy. Hey, I saw Alana Heim today in Los Feliz walking. What? She was going to a restaurant where I've seen Danielle Heim there twice. Not Little Dumbs?

All time, baby. All time. I've been there. Yeah. Cute spot. Cute spot. You know, it's the home of the $20 egg. I've been there. Yeah. Cute spot. Cute spot. You know,

it's the home of the $20 egg. It's one of those places. It sure is. It's good. It is good. I welcomed it to the neighborhood and I said, I enjoy the new, the upper,

the high class clientele you've brought. I want to see cousin Greg every night of the week. Yeah. I had some cheesy scrambled eggs there that I thought were very good. Very good. Have you been to part-time next to it? Isn't that new? There's all-time and now there's part-time. Oh, yeah. That's what they call the little extension. Oh.

It's like grab-and-go maybe? Gulp-and-go. Gulp-and-go. Gulp-and-drive? It's a gulp and drive, yeah. We've talked about so many spots up and down Los Feliz area. I wonder if Slopheads eventually will start coming out and doing like the Sloppy Boys Hillhurst tour or something. We should release a walking tour.

A walking tour would be fun. We should release the official MP3, the official. A bar crawl. The official MP3. The official Sloppy Boys Hillhurst MP3. And you can start up at the top and go all the way down. That's pretty good. We should go from city to city and organize bar crawls. We don't do them

without, you know, like, we try them out and we write down where to go and what to get, but in each major city. We curate. Yeah. And we do like a European book. It's a book, okay? Yes. Or an app. It's an app and a book. It's an app.

It's got an app and there's MP3s. Yep. This is, okay. We have to go offline to talk about this idea. This is a good idea. Yeah, this is really good. We're going to be fucking rich. I got some really big, big ideas. i need someone who knows how to make apps we're gonna get so rich off of this especially i feel like here's the problem though the los feliz bar tour is gonna make me so rich i'm gonna have to move to beverly hills then you do one over there then

do one over there okay i have some booze news and it just occurred to me hit it i heard about this bar from uh our buddy tim we went to the fish show with him that not this tim calpakis yeah oh yeah yeah pretty much my boy at this point love tim love his two co-hosts we okay we uh now i'm lost we uh he sent me a uh article this brand new bar it's called t gray t-i-g-r-e done by the same people who made maison premier now you told her we talked about that place is up in winchester red great martinis and that's that's one of the premier houses yes right that's right well he sent me this article so i went this weekend past weekend the place had only been open for like three days so it wasn't busy and this is the type of place i feel like is going to get

reserved up it's nice mike hanford early adopter it was so cool it would felt like i was in a it was so chilled out it had like golden lighting everywhere i felt like i was in a stanley kubrick set you know movie and nice everyone walking around is like, all the, all those staff had like, they looked like characters for like a movie. Like there's a guy walking around with a, like a corduroy suit and a sweater on a turtleneck and had a shaved head and a big mustache. And it was just kind of like circling around the place. He looked really funny. It was great. The drinks were fantastic.

It was so chilled out. Mike, that's what you call a CNBC. That's where you go out and just sort of like, look at the people, you know? Yeah, we call it a CNBC. I was kind of like, are they, did they hire a few like character-y type people to be at the bar? Because they look so like big glasses, weirdo haircut, and like reading a book. Like a hardcover book. Yeah, the way that at Disney, you know, you walk like reading a book, like a hardcover book. Yeah, the way that at Disney, you know, you walk around and, oh, there's Chip and Dale.

There's Goofy. But I think for an opening, I wouldn't put it past a place. Yeah. To make sure there's cool people. Anyway, go to Tigre if you're in New York. Nice. I will. Before it starts filling up.

Maybe, you know what, Mike? Next time in New York, maybe you take me there. You buy me anything I want all night. I'll take you there. I'll take your little buddy here, Jeff, with you too. Yeah, a night on the town. If we could ever get him out to New York City without him puking all over the place.

Food poisoning. Hey, I don't puke often, but I have. When I do, I do it in New York. I have lately. I have lately. Oh yeah jeff did some hurling when we were in napa everyone was looking at tim tim's gonna hurl tim said he's probably gonna hurl you know at the end of the night tim powers through he never pukes he's awoken to the sound of jeff uh yeah that's too bad it was possibly the best meal I've had in a decade. Oh, no.

And I threw half of it up. You didn't get to digest it, Jeff. Oh, you got the good part of it. Yeah. The tomahawk ribeye, the cacio e pepe, all wasted, all down to the toilet. You had a tomahawk ribeye? Jesus, that's great. Well, yeah, tomahawk ribeye is good on the way down.

When it comes back up, it's... It's that acidic tasting. It's kind of... Yeah. No. Because like, Mike, you know, you like a nice medium well ribeye. There's a certain char taste you like. Lately, I have been enjoying those, yes.

But you don't like it when then it's got that kind of stomach acid and bile flavor. Stingy stink on it. No, I don't like that. It sucks. The stingy stink that goes in the sink. All right. Enough of the gross stuff. Are we done with booze news?

Yes. Well, now, wait a second, Jeff. Are we done with booze news? I'm a little disappointed if we are. With you. Why? Why is that? Because you should be reporting to me

some Deadpool 3 news. Reporting to me? People are sending me memes. I didn't even read the articles because I assumed that I would be... Mike? Yeah? July 26th, 2024.

24? Yes! Oh, that's coming up. Okay, okay, okay. July 26th? Oh, that's coming up. Okay, okay, okay. July 26th? Ooh, I'll be there. The height of summer, baby. Deadpool coming at you.

That's going to be great. That's going to be great. I wish I didn't have to coax it out of you, Jeff. I wish you sort of had your feelers out for this type of thing, but I'm excited. Well, folks, that's it for Booze News. What the hell nasty that mp3 is called grim fart dot mp3 it was grim the brother's grim grim grim have you have have you seen the tiktok trend guess my fart yes no i have it's very funny it'll be like a couple hanging out and then like the lady will the TikTok trend, guess my fart. Yes. No, I have.

It's very funny. It'll be like a couple hanging out. And then like the lady will be like to the guy like, hey, guess my fart. And then he makes a sound like, and then she farts. And then sometimes it matches up. And it was the sound that the person, the other, the partner. I'm like, it's usually style. Like the, I shouldn't be so passionate about this.

It's like the boyfriend will be like, and then you'll get something like that. And sometimes then you hear it as similar. You know, we go out. Yeah, but you can cheat that stuff. I don't see how. Everything's so fake these days. Yeah, that's probably right. Maybe it's not all.

Everything's so fake these days. Yeah, that's probably right. Maybe it's not all. How about exercising your rectum in a certain way that's going to create a certain sound? Yeah, I agree. That's cheating. All right, enough turd talk. Yes.

Can we get into the drink of the day? Yeah, the classy drink of the day, please. Oh, yeah. After a fucking fart hour? Okay. The drink of the day, oh yeah after a fucking fart hour okay uh the drink of the day the vento v e dot n dot t o you've had huh no who named this fucking drink uh elon musk yeah tim elon musk well his children certainly had some strange names. I know. Why the periods in the middle of the name? I hope

Tim, you can answer that. Well, I will, Mike. Tim, we need your help now more than ever. Listen to me now more than you ever have before. Okay. Here's the story, folks. Quite very recently with this.

What's the category of the IBA list? It's like. New Era. New Era. Very recently. Maybe this is the newest drink ever covered on the pod. 2021. Wow.

Crazy. Two Italian guys are at the Riva Bar which mario and luigi they're american but they but they have italian accents they're italian yeah not in the latest movie and that's what i'm going off and in the 90s movie they also they're like brooklyn guys but in the video games i'm a mario am i gonna win they're japanese yeah they're japanese okay so there's this bar called the riva bar which according to my googling seems to be an italian themed bar but is actually in munich but these two italian dudes at this bar uh want to make a cocktail that pays tribute to their beloved italian grappas from back home grappa oh grappa now grappa of course

um you may know it as a thing that the three of us had at the uh the finger lakes wine tour we took during senior week of college uh was it sweet no uh i remember we all fell in love with some berry flavored i bought a bottle of radical raspberry oh yeah it was it was like we tasted all the wines and i was like this radical raspberry red is pretty good well i remember going to the wine tour because we went to like what two three wineries in a in a tiny little limo we packed them in packed in the college kids stinky little boys and then um at each spot they were like okay here's the wine wine wine and then we have this grappa and we realized that like hey bang for your buck you just go right for the grappa

it's 80 proof ah yes as you get you tanked i had not had it since then and grappa of course uh to all the vino heads out there you know that it's a distilled spirit it's a digestif and it's distilled from all the gunk like the stuff left over from the wine making process so the grape guts and the stems and the mashed up peels shit after you've gotten all the the wine out of the wine um skins and so these dudes at the riva bar love grappa from italy and they want to make a cocktail with grappa so they cook up this fancy drink under the supervision of the president of the international bartenders association you're kidding me immediately immediately makes it onto the iba list a convenient, shall we say?

This is like, you know, when you hear about like FIFA or the Olympic Committee making it. Yes. I don't like this at all. What is this organization? What are they doing? Why? Think of all the drinks that are not on the IBA list and then this one is.

And they made it. Who've put in the time. We hooked our wagon to the wrong star. I'll tell you that much. But the name, Michael, you asked of the drink uh it's it's vento which means wind in italian but they spelled it v e dot n dot t o to separate the v e and the t o to pay tribute to italy's two the main uh grappa making regions in italy are venice and trentino so they wanted the ve and the to is the abbreviation for trentino so that's where the dots are there so you just say vento or went to yeah vento the n doesn't

stand for anything probably for northern italy then is like and you know like uh the n is for no it doesn't stand for anything no no no this portion of the word shall be disregarded this is so annoying it's so we skipped this drink for so long because just looking at the name it looks annoying look at the looking at the ingredients they look annoying yeah for real i every week we're looking for what drink to do and we have scrolled past this so many times and then it's like because the ingredients are like i'm like i don't know if i have time to get all that weird stuff this week and then also like the name is not making this any more approachable it just feels like i gotta

set aside take a sabbatical and figure out what's going on with looking at the name it looks like a screen name or something yes because the punctuation normally you see nerd n-e-r-d the band there's a dot between all of the letters or any uh what is it an acronym yeah yeah yeah but this one there's only dot on each side of the n so it hurts my head just to look at it it's weird and i fucking googled it and if you just google vento spelled like this i got like an error because it thought the dot to was like like instead of dot com like a toronto and it just like weird kept taking me to error pages i was like why can't i and um uh yeah very weird but we were being brave this week we decided let's just fucking do it the this is we're kind of giving this drink it's big break and i thought also since me and jeff

we're just up in wine country we've got grapes on the brain may as well do a grappa drink that's nice here is the recipe for the vento 45 milliliters white smooth grava. Ooh. Okay. 22 and a half milliliters fresh lemon juice. 22.5 is a half of a jigger? Uh, three quarters. Yes. 15

milliliters honey mix. Now, honey mix, also known as honey syrup, is a mixture of honey and water to make it more manageable usually half and half some people do it two to one but they're saying here instead of using water use chamomile chamomile tea cozy chamomile yeah next up 15 milliliters chamomile cordial a little redundant and i was at a liquor store and i asked the owner and he said i've never heard of the shit and then the supply guy with an ipad happened to be there who supplies the whole fucking store he had never heard of it and he was like i would just do like chamomile tea and simple syrup but

then jeffy goes out and finds chamomile cordial yeah i had to call around venmo didn't know i was talking about top line wine and spirits of bevmo you're thinking the sloppy boys uh song tom collins you spent a venmo to bevmo oh wait what did i say venmomo? Oh, Bevmo. Bevmo. Yes. Yes. Well, we got Vento, Bevmo. Yeah. What is it? It's like V E N week. I know.

I was thinking that too. Which sucks because we've been planning V E N week. Like it's coming up in 2024 and we didn't, we don't want to tip it. We got some, Hey, slap us. We got some really good stuff lined up for ven ven ven week yeah we have a ventriloquist we booked on a podcast you just hear his voice like okay we're gonna do some venn diagrams this is gonna be great but we ended up with marolo mia chamomile grapp Oh, the grappa itself is chamomile.

So there's grappa in here. It's a chamomile and grappa liqueur. Weird. And it's not as strong as regular grappa. And I've seen it recommended on other websites. So I think we're in good hands with this stuff. All right. They really want you to get some chamomile tea flavor in here.

But I got to say, when I made my honey mix with chamomile tea, I lost most of the tea flavor to the honey. So, sure. I also don't love chamomile flavor. You ever had cozy chamomile? Yeah, it's not great. It's not my fave. I never get too revved up on any tea.

It feels like I'm drinking ragweed or pollen or dandelion or something. It is just that kind of daisy-ish looking flower, I think, right? I don't like it. Or type of like dandelion or something. It is just like that kind of daisy ish looking flower. I think, right? I don't like it. Type of type of flower. I don't know. I'm a mint medley man. Me too. I'm with you. English breakfast. I like raspberry zinger. Okay. The final ingredient is 10 milliliters egg white. So that's a third of an ounce of egg white, but that's optional. So that one's for the eggheads out there. I'm going to avoid that option, I think. Here is the method. Pour all ingredients into a shaker.

Shake vigorously with ice. Strain into a chilled, small tumbler glass filled with ice. Note, if desired, water can be replaced by chamomile. If. If desired, water. Oh, if desired, comma. Water can be replaced by chamomile i already said that part garnish with a lemon zest and white grapes the white grape garnish is white grape different i

just got green grapes but is white grape different than green that's green yeah same my question here is to you guys how do you make that uh honey mixture again? Half honey, half chamomile tea for this. Good. That's good to know. I did not get the liqueur, so I'm just doing the chamomile tea thing. Great. I'm excited. Jeff, did you taste the cordial yet? Because I wonder if there's something that Hanford could add. So to boost his up a little bit, like because a lot of liqueurs and cordials taste similar.

I wonder about like a little splash of chartreuse or Benedictine or something like that to make up for what he's missing. Should I do it now or should we round to it? Why don't you take a little sniff? Do now if you could, just so I could. Yeah, all right. Two seconds. A live sip will be fun and it'll kind of maybe get us good ratings on the pod. You think something like this is really going to boost us into the sort of

popular podcast strata stratosphere are people saying stratosphere much anymore yeah i'm trying to you might be the guy to do this taste thing let me see what we got here i'm going out the bottle don't shame me you shamed me before tim oh boy what are you getting there a niece is it an easy no he's staring at the bottle I would say just more grappa. Okay. There's a little bit of chamomile in there, but like, yeah, the other whole half of it is grappa. Okay. I'll do like a little extra grappa.

Mike, do you have any tea to use for your honey mix? Normal tea? Other teas? Yeah, I have the chamomile tea. Oh, great. Oh, you're good. I made up a little thing of chamomile tea. Oh, so we're sitting pretty. Great. Yeah, we're going to be great. Oh, you're good. I made up a little thing of chamomile tea. Oh, so we're sitting pretty.

Great. Yeah, we're going to be great. Tim, you try a sip of that stuff, and you tell me what you think of that. I'm sure a lot of people, like, not a lot, but I'm sure a number of people making this drink at home will also not be able to find that thing. So it would be good to have one without the liqueur. All right, folks. Why don't you tune into these ads, and we'll be right back after these messages. Didn't want to say ads again.

And we're back. Ventos in hand. Let's see them good looking drink pretty classic looking vento yeah not bad good looking drinks very nice fellas funny to have grapes instead of olives it sort of makes you look twice yeah yeah yeah now i tasted some of that grappa and i did not like yeah on its own it was pretty intense the grappa, and I did not like it on its own. It was pretty intense. The grappa is a little intense compared to the Marolo. Yeah. I'd say the cordial, I tasted it, and I was getting a lot of chamomile, and it was sweet.

So I would say bump up your chamomile honey mix a little bit, and then the grappa as well to make up for the alcohol. But I would say mixing grappa and honey mix pretty much makes chamomile cordial and yeah the grappa has like yeah you know when we did the uh uh caipirinha we had cachaca and there's a grassiness to cachaca that's because it's from a by it's like a leftover byproduct of sugar cane that's not being used for rum. This had a similar earthy grassiness that made me think. It's like, oh, well, when you make a drink from the byproducts, it's like compost drinks. You know what? Maybe we should look up what a good substitute for this would be because it is sweeter than I thought. It tastes like chamomile.

It makes me think of, or like it had a little drambouille quality or something to it. Oh, yes. That's, yeah, drambouille. Ooh, drambouille. I would say yellow chartreuse a little bit too, but chamomile for sure. Ooh. Yeah, if you're Mr. Moneybags.

Excuse me. Right on microphone. excuse me right on microphone i'm sort of uh sort of getting to the can we take some sips soon oh oh oh oh it's pointedly pointedly i know i was making i wasn't really saying that jeff i was just making up why i was coughing um this bottle had like glass shards around the top Or maybe there's a grain to this liquid That I didn't really notice before Glass shards? You ever open a bottle and it's like great

The lid has like a Crusty glass shit in it So I drank a little bit of glass I don't want that going through my digestive system You're probably good Tim I think it was me Okay sips You guys all took the egg option right

nope i did i did the letter of the law well it sure does help to be friends with the IBA guy, doesn't it? Yeah. They have improved upon grappa, right? I mean, I guess I would rather have this lemony. It's sour. It's got a lemony tartness. And then the breath afterwards is chamomile tea. And frothy from the egg. I have tea breath.

That's for damn sure. Tea breath. That's for damn sure. Tea breath. Hmm. Yeah, okay. This thing is springy, huh? Yes. It's summer, like springy seasonal? Springtime.

Yeah, I think you're right. It's got that sort of stringent grippiness to it, too. You guys feel on your tongue like... Tannic. This is interesting. Are you tasting any honey? Yeah. Yeah. With the tea at the end.

I have like a very... Mine's in there. I'm getting like bouge grappa lemon up front and then honey chamomile on the back. I wish it was more honey tasting. I have been itching for a toasted maple old-fashioned recently. Oh. Now, are you making that up or have you had? I've had it at this place up in Scribner, up in this hotel up in upstate.

Oh, up in my area. Yeah, you've been there, too. Yeah, I love it. It's just like a maple syrupy type that's the flavor I want with something and I just haven't been able to find but the toast did they do something toasty with their maple

something like they're like burning some wood or something that'll get toasty yeah I'm not sure how they do it but it's good and I wish I had one instead of this now Mike is that something you would do before christmas that would be something i'd do before christmas now did you say it was

an old-fashioned that's the one i've had before yeah okay maybe we wait for next year for that because we just did the yeah sour old-fashioned well that's a good variation. We're going to run out. Yeah, who gives a fuck? The world could end tomorrow. Seize the day. We should find some type of maple-y drink, though, for this Christmas season. Yeah. Maple fucking white Russian.

Ooh, that's good. Yeah, do that. Maybe put some of that Cardi B whipped cream stuff on the top that's that's a flawed product man i saw that at the grocery store it is so expensive how much is it it's like 17 dollars oh for a yeah that's no good i'm eating my garnish good hmm i'm eating my garnish i haven't uh that sounds like a nasty boy thing to say a nasty boy to a nasty man i'm eating my garnish oh most people don't eat that with their escargot now this is getting a little watered down because the cubes and i don't mind that yeah well you guys know i've been i'm sort of outside the test kitchen now i haven't

had time to get in the test kitchen and work on my new drink but i don't think it's going to be a christmasy one right because you said it's a martini you did it could go i may it could go any time i may have you did say that any teeny time. Hey, it's five o'clock somewhere. Now, Mike, could it be a good kickoff the new year type of drink? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ring dong, ding dong, that type of thing? That's right. It'll be a huge kickoff.

Fresh start. Mm-hmm. Yeah. French start. Oh, I've said too much. Pow! Pow. Pow! Pow! Pow!

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Or have we, have we used them yet? Uh, TMI. No, have we, have we gotten those yet? Or gotten them, sorry, got them on the show yet? Have we done a fucking sponsor for them? Yes, yes, yes. We've plugged Flex One condoms on the show. And then they, we were on an email chain where they reached out to us and they said, hey,

sloppy boys, would you like us to send you some free product and then i haven't gotten any yet jeff replied all and said yeah you got any extra smalls hey you know another thing i want a free product jamesallen.com diamonds let's get some diamonds on each of us guys huh oh geez yeah that'd be. If we were all iced up and blinged out to the max, I like the sound of this. Just like diamond earrings and diamond rings like a fancy lady.

Give us your cheapest diamonds, too. We don't care. Give us the throwaway ones, the clearance bin, you know, like the dented cans at the back of the grocery store. We'll take the bad diamonds. Give us what a grappa distiller would use when he goes to a winery and takes

all the bad, the used up stuff. Now I was talking to the guy at the wine store when I bought this grappa. Janine Garoppolo, by the way. My call. Something you could say. Okay. Janine Garoppolo, big Birthday Boys fan. We ran into her once in San Francisco

during the San Francisco San Francisco Sketch Fest is what it was. That's how they talk up there in the Bay Area. Birthday boys? Oh, I love you. She was getting into a shuttle van to like, I think, go off to wherever we're staying in the same hotel. That's cool. That's awesome. That's birthday

boys. Yeah. Well, she's an old Bob head. She's an old Bob, an old O an old bob olden kirk pal yeah another olden kirk pal uh one time when sarah silverman uh got a star on the hollywood walk of fame um i wish she's my old boss so i went to the party and uh jeff garland walks up to me yeah he pats me on the back and says big fan big faners, big fan. And then as he's walking away, he announces out to the whole room and points at me and goes, funny guy. Oh, that's good.

That's great, dude. Funny guy. And you know me, I'm a private person and I'm modest. So I hated that. Hey, the party was at Russo and Frank. That's a fun party spot.

Good place to get a whiskey sour. Damn, if I was to have a party, you know where I'd have it? T-Gray, the brand new restaurant bar. And I'd bring a handful of Flex One condoms made with graphene. Hey, if I had a party, you know where I'd have it? DZ. Remember DZ? The Discovery Zone. Discovery Zone. Discover what I can do on my own. fiend hey if i had a party you know where i'd have it dz remember dz the discovery zone

discover what i can do on my own that's what the song said that's so funny discover what i can do on my own like uh you can be a little independent your your parents will drop you off. It was like, I can jump, swing, crawl. I can jump, swing, crawl, or mountain climb. Yeah. D.C. Where I can cut loose and be on my own. I can cut loose. D.C.

Where kids want to be. I can cut loose and be on my own. Well, my mom and dad are boning at home. That was sweet. Boning at home. They're going to bone right at home. They're going to bone on my own. Well, my mom and dad are boning at home. That was weird. Boning at home. They're going to bone right at home. They're going to bone on my toys. My dad's got a big long

dong. My mom's got a tiny bit of puss. That was so weird. Oh, God damn it. That was so weird. That was weird. That was only when they played, like, every once in a while, like, a commercial have, like, the 45 second version. Yes, right, like, for the Super bowl or whatever yeah yeah it was usually the cut down one yeah usually the cut down because it doesn't have anything to do with dz the discovery zone you

know right well uh it sounds like a couple is discovering each other sexually yeah yeah well they want to show on the commercial they want to show more games and rides and not cut back to the mom and the dad. Yeah, yeah. That's stuff they couldn't air. Yeah, they would have to, they were always blurring the mom and dad scenes. I went by, I was walking in Greenpoint

and there was a... Walking in Greenpoint. There was a, I knew I was going to get that right when I said that. There was like a American Ninja Warrior like studio. Oh. I mean, I don't know if, it just had a lot of that type of stuff.

And there was older adults that looked like they were trained. There was kids bopping around in some like spot. It seemed like I got to get in there and just try out all the stuff this is in green point hey folks if you have any connection to american ninja warrior or wipe out any of those get the slops on there get us on there we'd be funny and we'd be really good and it would be a good blowout yeah i would love to do one of those like you get the slippery stairs you can do the the joust oh it's like an american gladiator style i feel like we're due for another uh american gladiator reboot i think it's on doesn't that feel like that comes around every uh 15 years or something oh no we, we have American Ninja Warrior. Right, right, right.

Yeah. But American Ninja Warrior is like maybe a little bit more legit as far as... Yeah. I think people like train for it. Gladiators is just raw. It's like wrestling basically. It's like taking regular people and putting them in the... I mean the one from the 90s.

Regular people, extreme circumstances. Fighting big guys hey i went to i recently went to a an aew full gear wrestling event yes i saw the picture you and mitch look so funny there yeah we got spotted uh by a few different people on on the net posted screen we had good we had really good, uh, seats. Cause Mitch's friends with Samoa Joe, because they were on,

uh, yeah. Twisted metal together, but sweet tooth. So we had floor seats and, and we're up close and it was wild. Cause I am not a wrestling guy. I truly am out of the loop entirely.

And if anything, talk a lot of shit about it, but I got to say, I had a really good time and being up close did you guys know like you're watching wrestling and it's like passe to be like oh wrestling's fake because it's like it's still you know it's like wrestling we know what it is but out comes the fucking uh barbed wire oh shit and these guys are cutting each other and it's real cuts and they're dripping lots of real blood and these dudes are covered in each other's blood like drinking each other's blood at one

point so much blood in the ring that they have to change the mat between doesn't sound too bad to me i've got season tickets count Count Chocula? Where was this? Where did they dispose of the old match? Dracula, I'm not telling you it was at the Kia Forum. Oh! Damn. Oh! Where's the Kia Forum?

Is that Anaheim? The Forum is now the Kia Forum. Oh! Inglewood. I'm thinking the Honda Center. Mitch has taken me to a wrestling show, and it was very impressive. It it's funny though as far as the the real and fake of it all it's funny because when you're up close let's say a guy punches punching a guy in the face like five times like some of those punches look extra fake when you're up close but then other ones you're like god damn that guy

hit that guy really fucking hard and you hear the loud slaps yep do you remember what they called that match with the barbed wire it's got like a it's like the bloody buddy it's not like a i think bloody buddy yeah i forget what it's called but yeah i mean just like jumping around like that and slamming onto the ground uh is this guy's hurts yes and it's funny that like some of it would be choreographed and and it'd be illusion whereas like then you do the most violent part the cutting and the bleeding and the dribbling the blood that was that's real really intense they were rapping they get really creative too that's what i like it it's like you're like, okay, this is a wrestling match that's happening and there's like a chair and some barbed wire.

And the number of ways – or like this time there's a ladder or this time there's a table. The number of ways they use each apparatus was like very creative. It's funny watching these guys, these big, strong wrestlers, and you're like, oh, that clever bastard. He's going to do that with a ladder? I didn't think he'd do that with a ladder. watching these guys these big strong wrestlers and you're like oh that clever bastard he's like he's gonna do that with a ladder i didn't think you'd do that with a ladder it's funny that those staples have remained the same since like 1980s wc oh the staple gun oh oh the staple gun's crazy

oh you mean staples there was also a staple gun these guys are taking it in the fucking face yeah like uh that wasn't like the wrestler remember when he when he comes out and he's like oh they're they're i don't want to do that shit or whatever i don't know they were doing all that bar bar and all that i love that movie this the state the i meant staples as in the go-to's yeah uh steel chair table ladder yeah have been part of the rotation for 30 years now, and they're still doing it. Finding new ways to do the steel chair. Someone was calling it behind me.

Someone was yelling out table, like table. And I thought he was quoting a, I think you should leave like tables. And then the, then they were smashing the table. I was like, Oh,

that's what it was. But Ooh, something very funny happens there which was it's an interesting crowd at wrestling because you could at the same time call wrestling like a geek thing and you know i love geek shit uh it's it's sort of nerdy to be into wrestling but then it's also like aggro bros that like fighting so a lot of the crowd there is like, you know, like big creatine guys indulging their fantasy, you know, in a geeky way. A lot of duds types all around. But the crowd.

So this is like a sold out show at the forum. So I don't know, 15,000 people. Damn. So I don't know, 15,000 people, um, a funny group kind of joke happened where during the matches, these guys are wrestling, uh, in the ring. And there were these huge video screens that just said like AEW full gear and they weren't showing the broadcast of the, the fights. It was just like a screensaver that said like aew uh full gear and then every once in a while they would the screens would flip over and then be shown the live broadcast and you would get good shots like when you're watching a concert and the jumbotron's on and you can like see what's happening and it's really helpful if he's sitting far away or i was up close so

i cut when they went down to the mat i couldn't see what's happening because there's people in front of me so when they promote when they projected it up on the big screens everyone in the forum was really happy and we could see better and then when they took it down and it went back to the like the screensaver everyone would be sad so people started being like we want screen we want screen and but it didn't and then the screen would come on we'd be like yeah and then the screen would go off we'd be like no and uh and this rhythm was happening where everyone the place would go apeshit when the when the screens were on but whoever controlled the screen was like not aware of this at all was not listening to us didn't know and then the crowd was chanting screen so much that then it just became an inside joke with 15 000

people to just say screen for everything so like someone would win a a match and then the crowd would be like screen and and for anything like someone would get hit and be like screen screen and then at one point i lost my shit because like a guy had another guy up against the ropes and was like holding his hair with one hand and doing like wrestling, wrestling, like punches on the top of his head, like 10 in a row. And for every punch, the whole forum went screen, screen, screen, screen, screen, screen. And it was, I was like, this is legitimately funny. And these people are smart and funny. That's I've, I've watched a few aw things with uh our buddy ben and uh yeah there's like a real

sense of humor throughout the whole thing that maybe maybe it's that's what it's been like for a while but it uh because i watched wrestling like when i was younger but coming back to it being like wow this is like that type of thing is so fun yeah uh man that's kind of like a fish concert thing when people catch on to something but anyway that's a stretch my one disappointment though you know ben who you just mentioned he used to write for wwe and he wrote like the backstory and and stuff or the arc of the week and the season and stuff yeah um i was a little disappointed that in the room there were no only once or twice before a match where the guys like getting interviewed in the room there were no only once or twice before a match where

the guys like getting interviewed in the room saying like i'm gonna mess you up i'm gonna kill you and like once or twice but the rest of the time it felt like everyone else at the forum just like knew the backstory and just happened or maybe maybe there's interviews happening backstage but there wasn't a lot of that and i was like most looking forward to guys grabbing the microphone and saying, I'm going to bury you. Is that more of like a I mean, I don't know how AEW WWE. Yeah, I think maybe WWE or what it used to be. WWF. I think they do the they do an AEW, too. But it used to be like, oh, Hulk hogan took macho man's car and crashed it

like like really larger than life he blew up his house dude here was it was a good piece of story that happened was early in the night some guy like got his like leg broken and they were like we gotta load him into the uh ambulance and we gotta drive him away and there was and and they were like we gotta load them into the uh ambulance and we gotta drive them away and there was and and they showed him the screens and i was uh when i was like arriving i like saw the ambulance and then for the big title match at the end of the night it was like oh here comes the ambulance and the ambulance is coming back and the guy with the broken leg was driving the ambulance and he hops out and he like limps up to the ring like i'm gonna bury you that's fun oh tim was there a female ring uh um ref yeah oh no not ref there was there were many

female bouts but there was not a female rep uh one time i was watching with with uh ben and he was there was a female ref who who does a lot of the events and he was like, she's really good at this. I was like, now what do you mean she's good at it? He's like, just watch her. She gets out of the way of the camera. She frames up the shot kind of nicely by getting out of the way.

It was interesting to just watch just the ref and see how she exaggerates her moves when she's counting. It was really uh like entertaining interesting sort of that sort of the the secret uh little subconscious stuff that you don't you can't a little extra sauce yeah you need a you need a knowing guy to help you appreciate that you really do like he was telling me all the backstory stuff it's it's uh yeah so deep and you at home need a so three knowing guys to walk

you through this stuff um would you change anything about this drink uh yeah i would empty it and not make it timothy that's some okay subtle change empty it and not make it i don't think i'm going to do this tonight because i don't really want one but this is definitely a candidate for me of the round two being a martini wow yeah michael sounds i don't want to tip anything but sounds like we're headed toward no order again for you but for me but will it may will i make a grappa martini um predictably this drink got i kind of like it but specific when jeff when you said spring it's a springtime drink i was really thinking about the birds and the bees and i'm out in the flowers in the trees flowers in the trees and there is something here with the the chamomile aftertaste to the grapey grapey grappa taste that is very uh uh pollen-esque and i did enjoy it and i i'm gonna do i'm for my second round i'm gonna make another one but i'm gonna not take the egg

option and see what it's like without the froth but i liked the froth because it was grippy on the mouth he likes the froth what'd you do with the rest of your egg t um it's sitting on a little cup and i think i'm gonna nuke that cup and eat it. Me too. I'm going to do a little ramen and then poach it in that ramen. I love dressing up a top ramen and making it like restaurant ramen. And I'm going to take a little dab of that Apollo sauce from the hot one's blowout. Sorry, the warm singular's blowout.

Put some drops in there and dress it up. That's the hottest ones blow out. Sorry, the warm Singulars blow out. Put some drops in there and dress it up. Now that's the hottest one. Okay. But not Da Bomb. Oh, Apollo, yeah. Even Apollo, man, that knocks me down. All right, folks, we're going to make a second round. And when we come back, final thoughts.

Love it. And we're back with round two of the Vento. Tim, I did the same thing. Just no egg white. Okay. I got one with no egg white, but then also look at this special guest. Live from the kitchen. it's the egg oh you nuked it i nuked my egg in the cup and i put a little lowry's seasoned salt i'm gonna eat that as a little snack don't eat it on the mic i know jeff would you've reminded me the

after my uh what did i eat on the pot recently what was it pickles yeah well after the pickle eating affair oh yeah you said guys this was a rule we forgot but there's no eating on mike it's nasty okay let's drink our eggless uh ventos yeah sure i'm coming around a little bit a little bit i like it better with the egg but i still the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees it's i could see this uh being next spring's bramble no way get out of here oh hold on instead of grappa use gin but get this chamomile aftertaste well yeah i don't know. This is making me miss the bee's knees.

You know, that gin honey cocktail. Lemon honey. Yeah. What else? OJ? Was there OJ in it? I think just lemon honey gin. Okay. This can't be the next Spring's next Bramble Ramble drink because all

three of us would need to agree on it. Yeah, you're right. That's true. We need a quorum. And I'm telling you right now, this is an order never again for me. Yeah. For me, it's appointment only. Like, I get it. I'm not making another one. If somebody makes

a good one and it says, hey, we're doing Ventos. It's Vento night down at the fucking lobster shack. I say, great. I bet no bar ever has had a vento night i mean the lobster shack sounds fun on a normal night event it's probably the worst night i like that yeah the lobster shack sounds like a fun i'm going to the lobster shack anyway if it's vento night that's fine no it's like dude i'm so excited lobster shack oh okay it's it's that's okay it's still um buy one get one lobsters though okay love those little dudes i'm leaning back away from the mic as i eat my little egg

i will say you did a very good job i've never seen such a well-prepared egg via microwave yeah well you just put that in a little a very good job. I've never seen such a well-prepared egg via microwave. Yeah, well, you just put that in a little bowl and microwaved it. I've never done that. You must have put it in for like six seconds, something really specific. Six seconds just for an egg? I typed 2-2-2

hit start and then popped it out after like 40 seconds. Nobody goes all the way down to the bottom of the counter. Yes, Jeff, I'm with you. If I go to a bar and it's like, this is the best Vento in the city, I will say, I'll try it because I know what that is,

but I'm not asking for one. Okay. Tim, did you give your thoughts or did you just talk about the egg? Well, I want to do a quick aside. As I was making my second round, I remembered I was thinking about the garnish. And when we were talking, I said, I'm eating my garnish. And we were saying that's a nasty boy thing to do earlier.

It reminded me. Only if you say it like, I'm eating my garnish. It reminded me of an iconic upstate new york edible garnish and i wanted to ask mike hanford if you've ever been to oneonta new york and eaten that brooks barbecue chicken no i think i've been to oneonta but i've never had brooks bbq cheese it's a famous chicken place and you get like a half chicken on the plate and whatever side you choose and then the garnish like in 70ies fashion, there's like a,

maybe some parsley or a slice of lettuce or something, but then there's a spiced apple, like the slice, a slice of apple that's dyed red and has a little bit of a clovey taste. We're kind of clovey cinnamony taste, but it's just a very like throwbacky thing to just have a thing like nobody eats it i ate it because i was a weird nasty boy but uh you know like when you're eating and you're just there's something on your plate that's like an orange slice and you're like why

the fuck is that yeah yeah yeah but i used to always eat my spiced apple this drink you know i almost look forward to disliking a drink on the show because i'm such a pushover i wanted to dislike this but it won me over the birds the bees the apples the sneeze yeah that's our show follow us on social media at the sloppy boys where we release where we release these episodes ahead of time whoo, Vento. And if you can't get enough boys, go to patreon.com slash the sloppy boys for the blowout, the weekly bonus. And for questions for Lennon, the monthly bonus.

Yeah. Mike, who do we got? We got the very funny Tommy McNamara. This month. Tommy, can you hear me? Yes, he can. Love Tommy. Good episode, dudes. Yeah, real good. Love you, folks. Tommy can you hear me yes he can love Tommy good episode dudes

yeah real good love you folks we'll see ya at the next Vento convention thank you thank you

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