The Sloppy Boys - 191. Garden Party with Eva Anderson

Episode Date: June 14, 2024

The guys welcome Eva Anderson for a summery, flowery gin drink inspired by a Kentucky Derby party from their past!GARDEN PARTY RECIPE:2oz/60ml GIN1oz/30ml DRY VERMOUTH1oz/30ml LEMON JUICE.5oz/15ml AGAVE NECTARAdd ingredients into a shaker filled with ice. Shake until chilled and pour into a rocks glass filled with ice. Garnish with lemon wedges and edible flowers.Recipe via Eva AndersonInterior Chinatown debuts on Hulu later this year! 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 Michael Hanford. Hi. And Tim Kalpakis. What is up? And joining us today, a very special guest. We have writer and producer from the upcoming Interior Chinatown, Eva Anderson.

Yay! Yes. Eva, welcome. Eva, you've been on the pod before, but this is a proper guest slot. I'm so honored. Last time was a blast tasting the legendary Russian root and reporting back to bully Hanford. And now we get to do something nice for people for a change. Hey, people don't like nice stuff.

They're going to skip this and go back to the trolley one. Yeah, we need to give them a little Eva. You know what? Forget all that crap crap water under the bridge i made a drink you made a drink whatever one ended up on the grounds let bygones be bygones water was on the ground but everyone got drunk that night and they were having a great time um i thought we were making a russian root again yeah Yeah. And so I ordered dandelion root. Wow.

And sassafras root bark to make like scratch root beer, which I don't actually want to make. Cause I don't like root beer. I was going to have like jugs. Oh yeah. So that's why you didn't like the Russian root. You don't like half of the ingredients. That's why you didn't like the Russian root. You don't like half of the ingredients. That's why you didn't like the Russian.

This is a wintergreen flavoring. I have this much wintergreen flavoring now. So now I do have to make this syrup at some point. That is so funny that send me some of that. If you may, if you make too much. Yeah, that's a funny,

that's the great thing about Eva when she makes something. Cause I've, we've all seen you make stuff for Thanksgiving. It's down to the barest of ingredients that she makes them. I've seen you put together the hydrogens and the oxygens to make the water. It's almost that level, Tim. It's almost that level. She's colliding atoms.

No, no, I'm not kidding. You're saying that is that level. Right. Two hydrogens, one oxygen. That's the recipe. Right. atoms no no i i i'm uh i'm not kidding because you're saying that is that level right two hydrogens one oxygen that's the recipe right let's put that on our instagram um wait so with what i think i knew about sassafras but does root beer always have dandelion in it it's that or i think birch is the other one i was looking at a bunch of options i don't know because you can just get birch beer yeah birch beer or something it's true this is to make a syrup and then you mix the syrup with sparkling water which i feel like could be fun for summer no matter what just

to make some like scratch root beer syrup so i might you might be seeing it on my feed no matter what oh uh the audience for those of you who don't know this, we have Eva Anderson on the show. What we're referring to is a long time ago, back to the birthday boys slash sloppy boys house. We had a Kentucky Derby party. And some people made drinks. Some people dressed up. I wore a shirt with a bow tie, I think. And I made Russian root.

Russian root was developed on that day. And Eva made something akin to what we're going to have today. And I put mine up on the same nice table as Eva's drink. And I go off to host the party. It's my house. One sixth of it is my house. I'm hosting. Making, concocting a brand new drink for guests.

Wow. You don't really see that very often. Well, what'd you bring? Did you get some beers? keg no i invented a drink that's okay cool we'll try it it goes i loop around make my loop make my round hi how you doing i look around at the damn cocktail table and all my ingredients are on the ground sad place on the ground and the sign that you made was on the ground well the sign was the funniest part because like eva made a nice sign for her nice punch right so then you're like oh we're making signs you're like i have computer paper and a sharpie so yeah okay i think it was

construction paper they put the ingredients on there but that's all behind us we ended up having a great time i forget who won that race we did find out uh barks root beer and svedka vodka ice optional won the race that day yeah they won the race that day when you when you think we're throwing an old-timey horse racing americana garden party you think svedka vodka yeah a big two liter of mug root beer that mike did not buy for that drink he already had it and there there were others you had already drank some it was half gone a little warm flat innovation my boy innovation wow well now there's Web redemption No this is web redemption In the idea in the sense that Even I have nothing to

Quibble about anymore Let's move on with our lives Yes thank you All four of us enjoy this experience On the Sloppy Boys podcast The podcast that expands, ascends And conquers That's our new tagline That's and conquers. That's our new tagline, Eva.

Right, right. That's the new thing, Eva. Get on board. That's our new military-style branding. I love it. Well, did we get into some booze news? Yes. Booze news, hit it!

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that type of syllable sound the long a on the zach mac and if you have a booze news theme email to the sloppy boys podcast at gmail.com um okay so this this is some interesting booze news for once. Uh, it's, it's something that came up to me recently and then I, I've been puzzled by it. So I wanted to bring it to you three, maybe help me and help me make heads or tails of something that was, I found rather interesting. This is good. You want to impress the guest.

Exactly. Impress the guest. Let's call this episode. Impress the guest. Yes. Impress me. exactly impress the guest let's call this episode impress the guest yes impress me we should have a little meter that shows your um impression i'll just hold my hand and i'll move it up and down for an hour and then as i'm talking it's plunging we're too low up up up up um okay so Okay, so last week I was listening to the Apple Music Internet radio show Time Crisis, and they were doing a deep dive on Nirvana, right? You guys are aware of the grunge band.

They really blew hair metal out of the water in the early 90s. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we did. Mike, you were there for it it i was part of the scene it's mainly centered around seattle and then one guy in rochester um okay so like on this show they were talking about they were reading all these nirvana lyrics and stuff and they were they were pointing out how nirvana liked to like twist up their harsh grungy vibes with little nods to like fifties,

sixties, mid century references as like a kind of reaction counterpoint to the squeaky clean mainstream aesthetic of that time. Oh, sort of shitting on it, huh? Exactly. Or they're saying,

get out of here. Okay. Um, yeah. Fucking Warren and June Cleaver, man. Fuck that shit. I i mean that stuff was so fucking fake um but like i was thinking about it since and there is a lot of like uh

you know uh that song drain you is like one maybe two it's kind of a 50s melody and then they had that music video for in bloom where they're like on the ed sullivan show and stuff like that um well on time crisis they were talking they're pointing out these moments and they were saying even like come as you are that phrase they're using it as like an anthem for outsiders but like originally that's something that would be like like a dinner party yeah like a betty crocker like cookout invite or something would be like come as you are you don't have to get dressed up. Like come as you are. Um,

like don't worry, darling dinner party. Exactly. I still have to see that film by the way. Yeah. But I know the twist. Yeah. Um,

okay. So this brings me to the thing that made me say, Oh, I got to bring this into the show. Uh, they were talking about, they're going through the lyrics it smells like teen spirit load up on guns and bring your friends

blah blah blah blah hello hello hello then the chorus with the lights out it's less dangerous here we are now entertain us i feel stupid and contagious here we are now entertain us and then at the end of the chorus we hear this series of words hit it jeff okay so the first word i don't think i'm supposed to say it's a it's like the it's a term for like mixed race uhacial. You don't say it anymore. It's like a dated term for that. You know that word. And then the next one is albino.

Which is fine to say. Love it. Letter rib, Tim. It's fine to say, and also I mean it in a derogatory way. You don't like those people. Then a mosquito. My libido. Oh. My libido. Oh, my libido.

Interesting. Have you ever thought about these words? You ever think about what he's saying here? He's not horny. He's got a teeny mosquito libido. Oh, mosquito libido. That's good. Oh, probably from all the lithium he's on.

Lithium. Yeah, they should call this album bad news for courtney love he's like my dick is as soft as a little baby's in a pool oh that's what that was all about it was all there we're just putting the puzzle pieces together um okay so you know like uh i don't think i ever really thought much about it but i thought maybe at first maybe he's like list again with the outsider thing he's listing people like that are sort of like i don't know um like outsider groups in society and then by the time it's like mosquito libido i thought he was just being funny and saying rhymes but um um they pointed this out on the show i was listening to and then

i went and i looked at the on the genius.com page you know that analyzes songs and somebody's pointed out that everything he lists here is the name of an old classic cocktail and they're making a point that here it's come this is coming off of here we are now, entertain us. So saying entertain us is not like I'm going to sit and watch you, but like entertain us in the sense of having me into your home and entertaining guests. Host me. Host me. Host me, baby. And he's listing off drinks here being like, you're entertaining me and my grungy dudes here.

So I don't know. i just came across this a couple days ago and i've been i haven't got a wink of sleep and and i was like is that gonna be and i don't know like uh you know like sometimes you could just look up a word and find out it's a cocktail but all of these things happen to exist as cocktails there's a libido cocktail a mosquito cocktail that's what you're saying yeah there's an albino cocktail the yeah there is and and i was the libido i don't really know i can't really find the history of it the other ones are like from the era he's talking about like old entertaining type drinks and then libido might be just that's possibly like a sex on the beach 80s. And albino old fashioned is a white whiskey old fashioned with muddled grapefruit. White grapefruit.

Yeah. What's white whiskey? White whiskey. I've never heard of white whiskey. White whiskey. Is it like whiskey that hasn't been aged yet? No barrel. Yeah.

Interesting. Clear whiskey. That's funny to think of clear whiskey. I guess that's what like moonshine is, right? Like moonshine is... Maybe, yeah. Oh, I have a jar of moonshine that I've never opened. Is moonshine supposed to be a type of whiskey or is it its own thing? I think it's grain, right?

Is whiskey made with grain? Isn't moonshine just like, that's more an indicator of it's DIY. Like that it was made in a bathtub. I was in Nashville last week and I went to a party at the Moonshine Factory. Ooh. Like the brand moonshine that makes the mason jar liquor?

Oh, cool. Wow. And they were pouring shots of all their kind of infused flavors of moonshine that's cool even that's good for you you're a big infuser you're probably the first infuser i ever met my whole life oh wow thank you i don't do it as much as i used to but i used to be way into it i do think i learned that word from you like you put a vanilla bean in some vodka or something and i was like infusion huh yeah you'd bring those to like thanksgivings or christmas parties or something those are good oh thanks like

jars with uh i put like cinnamon and and uh orange peels and stuff into a jar you just you basically just leave it in there for what a month months let it soak like a week yeah oh you know what has really good infusions is the death and company cookbook oh yeah they do some fancy stuff and when we talk about soaking Mike we're not talking about your sex act okay what are you talking about Mike you gotta stop

with the Mormon shit for once but now you've got I'm getting two things going here what are you talking about that's a thing right the is it's like you don't you put it in but you don't thrust you put it in you leave it be and then and then you pay your friend 50 to shake your bed oh yeah right right kids actually do that like they have their friends shake the bed so they're like oh oh that's why it's a mormon thing i see what you're saying wow well you guys are both both inappropriate to say the least.

No, we're not shaming. This is another instance of me and Mike having the same algorithm and you having a different algorithm than us. Me? I mean, me and Jeff having the same algorithm. Yeah, me. Yeah. And then yours is all monkeys in suits and stuff. That is true.

Well, hold on. I want to bring up a little bit of business so when we were on last time we were playing some live shows we were in philadelphia and we were gifted hell yeah two bottles one bottle of single malt whiskey and one of juniper distilled Gin from a company called Red Brick. Gorgeous. Red Brick. Hold on. They gave us a little thing here. This is from Aaron and Brian at Red Brick Craft Distillery,

and they gave it to us. We want to thank them for giving those to us. I like this part of their letter. Please enjoy the best American whiskey ever and gin from our little distillery in Philadelphia. So hold on. Her husband, Eric, I guess does. No, wait. Aaron and Brian. Brian does everything in the 900 square foot distillery.

Damn. Wish we could have gone. Pretty cool. We have life on the road, you know. To all the the brands out there we love when you send us free stuff and send it again remember we we got a po box and then people sent us stuff and then a whole year passed and we never checked the po box and then the post office mailed everything back to everybody that ever sent us anything is that true yeah oh no That's a major fuck up. Damn.

We had a whole year to check and we didn't. No, thank you. We could have had gold bars in there. Damn. Yeah, there were a lot of gold bars, I think. Wait a minute.

Hold on. I'm just reading more of this stuff. The berries, the juniper berries, they get off the trees from their farm. Damn. White oak barrels for the whiskey okay

mike is really thrilled by this product giveaway i find this interesting i'm going to be using this red brick gin for our drink today but i won't get into that part yet well hold on while we're talking philly gifts we also got a shout out j, who gave us this beautiful Bird Gang bourbon whiskey. Oh, yeah. That's a cool one. It's got the Eagles logo on it. It's got the Eagles logo on it. Thanks, Jake.

Nice green color. Yeah. And I mean, while we're talking about this, I mean, I had a delicious Poland spring water while I was in Philadelphia. Who gave it to you? Some fucking guy. Yo, yeah. Well, is that it for Booze News? No, you guys have to vote on whether

you think Kurt was referencing cocktails or do you think that this is mere hearsay and he was doing some other Gen X grungy shit? I say hearsay. I was going to pitch that he did mean cocktails and that you guys should make all four and one

episode yeah the nirvana episode the nirvana episode what if you drink the nirvana challenge there's all four of these cocktails well i don't want to do because there's one that we're not even supposed to say right yeah it shall not be named yeah we'll just bleep it okay well that's the one that looks good though you also have to um play teen it feels like teen spirit the whole time and talk over it over it we're yelling over it i wanted to do that we should we should do that with like our own play one of our albums underneath the whole episode that's a good idea why not it's like we're having a party like it's playing in the background have you been to one of those japanese vinyl bars where they tell you like please keep your voice below the volume of the music eva you're so mad

because the best one ever in downtown la closed and it was like my favorite bar in la in sheep's clothing yes that place is great yeah i love that place it's a it's an italian disco now is great yeah i love that place it's a it's an italian disco now it's still fun it's bright pink but it's all neon and stuff but man that was a cool place because it was a tea bar in the morning and then in the afternoon it became a whiskey bar and in between hot toddies yeah overlap and the music was so good we were told to be or I was told to be quiet there once, right? Were you screaming? Not screaming, but I was speaking at a reasonable volume to my friends. Speaking of discos downtown, you know, I don't know if it's just a venue, like an event space,

or if it's an actual place you can go to normally, but there is a disco downtown that has the light-up floor, like the light-up squares. There's a couple in LA, and one is downtown. That's cool. I want to go to one so bad. I even had like a little map. Tim, I've been tracking this. You're talking to the right guy.

Well, Jeff, here's the thing. It's listed on me and Jessica. We were going to rent this out For Jessica's birthday one year And it wasn't too expensive So if there were to be like a Dutz Disco night There's also

Have you heard of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang? The film The film, yeah Not the film There's a place in the Line Hotel Which is also Break Room 86 Oh yeah i've stayed at the line hotel

yeah oh you like yeah we went in the pool together that's right um they have a place called kiss kiss bang bang which looks a little bit like the baz lerman gatsby uh aesthetic it's like glass and brass and a little bit of disco and And I guess they have a light-up floor, too. Glass and brass. I'm going to confirm that before I shoot it out into the potosphere. The pink Italian disco is called Let's Go Disco. I'm looking this up. And it's 70s pink neon. It's actually quite cool. Let's Go Disco.

Eva's got the, you know what's going on all the time. You do, Eva. You know what's going on all the time. You do, Eva. This is gone. You know what's going on. I never know what's going on. Did you guys see First Omen? Did anybody see the movie First Omen? Nope.

No. They go to a cool disco in that movie, and it looks like this one. Anyway. Wait. Speaking of you going places, what were you in Nashville for? Did you go to a true crime convention or something? I did. I went to crime con, uh, at the Gaylord Opryland hotel. And it was, it was crazy. I was thinking about a lot because I met, I met this group of moms

from, uh, the Midwest and one of them twice on two different nights was so drunk that she got in big trouble. Uh, this is a woman in her fifties. And the second night we were at this event called sketch and sip where it was like, you were drinking and you were sketching, uh, um, like a courtroom sketch with a famous 90 year old courtroom artist teaching you how to do it. And this woman got thrown out for yelling. And both these times she

got this drunk. Entirely it appeared on white claws. Like she somehow got to the point of being ejected from Sketch and Sip just all of white claws somehow. Of course. I mean, you can't give a bunch of white claws to a 50 year old that's like she must have drank a hundred white claws like i can't even it was wild a white claw is like too good to be true for a 50 year old like they've been they've been reared on way harder shit that doesn't taste as good one night her uh her husband

cut her money off while we were all out. What the fuck? This woman's a menace. She was a menace. I was fascinated. I was like, you go, girl. You get it. You get it. Whatever it is.

Dude, imagine just getting your money cut off and you're out. That's scary. Hey, don't anybody ever do that to me. She looked at her phone and looked up. She was like, he cut off my money. Oh, my gosh. he cut off my money oh my god my money um this this sketch artist this uh courtroom artist who is guiding this yeah um how different is that from normal sketch and sips or paint and sips or whatever like like they're really telling

you like no that's not how we do it in in the courthouse no it was like they put up a photo and we had to do the photo. But he was the one who did the Manson courtroom sketches. He did the famous sketch of Manson diving at the judge trying to kill him with a pencil. Whoa! Yeah. And so you have to draw that really fast while it's happening, right?

Yeah, exactly. Wow, I'm looking it up. Yeah, there he is, drawn fast. Yeah. Drawn fast. He also did OJ. Wow. I'm looking it up. Yeah, there he is. Drawn fast. Yeah. Drawn fast. He also did OJ. Wow. And he's still working his 90.

And this week he's doing the Dodgers translator trial. Yeah. Was that ballplayers name? Shohai Ohtani? Yeah. Yeah. He's going to be drawing that little guy. That's funny because I didn't follow that story closely.

And I just kind of actually at all i just assumed that translator was like being scapegoated like a fall guy and now there's like an actual trial going on so but it was like a lot of money right it was like millions of millions somehow seven million dollars or something crazy like that jesus christ yeah but he gambled damn well is that it for Booze News? Wrap it up? Yes, yes. Major crimes.

Shit. All right, with Booze News out of the way, we turn our attention to the drink of the day. You're referring to the garden party, correct? Sure am. Well, we heard it's the back story back story was the is the the horse race story oh yeah so this is like a version 2.0 of um the drink that dethroned the russian route so this is like a what would you call it it's not a reattempt it didn't need fixing it's not a web redemption

no but so this was we were having a uh this kentucky derby party and then eva wanted to make a nice drink. And then Eva, what got you, had you had garden parties before, or was this a result of, uh, some searching around?

I had made, I had taken a, a class at this place downtown. That was a cocktail class. And they were doing like a summer cocktails and light bites menu. And so I think I, I had made mint juleps because that's the classic kentucky derby drink and then this is like a secondary drink that i had learned about from that class which is like yeah gin based lemon um and then what what sets it apart is that it has

like really beautiful little things floating in it. Specifically, if you can get them, flowers. So you feel like you're in a garden having a party. It's a very nice summery drink. And did you make this as like, did you batch it as a punch in a punch bowl or something? I think I probably did. Oh yeah, or like a pitcher? It was in like a glass jug.

It was like a nice dispenser. Yeah. Yeah. Eva, back then when you would take like, you know, it's normal now to us to take a cocktail class. But back then when we were like fresh to L.A. and like barely sleeping on real beds and you were like, I took a cocktail class downtown. You might as well have said like, I am in space camp. I'm going to Mars. It's like, it just seems so distant oh now you're the experts yeah we were not cocktail dudes at the time that house was really a place where people go to drink session brand beer which is really cheap

beer called session and i haven't seen it since oh man i haven't seen that in a while but uh session and i haven't seen it since oh man i haven't seen that in a while but uh so with with this drink i i have never in my life i i've i'm sure i've eaten edible flowers like on top of an appetizer or something but i've never i've never like worked with them at all and when i was reading a link you sent us i kind of thought that edible flowers were like special flowers that tasted good it's more just that like there's certain flowers that are not poisonous non-toxic you're allowed to eat yeah they don't taste good they don't taste like anything i got these from a store from a grocery store i was like oh my god those are flowers they're beautiful they're so beautiful you got orchids edible flowers it's not even like uh looks like a mai tai orchid yeah yeah wow better

than what i got i got a similar container like that but it had like 10 different small flowers of different colors yeah but it's just funny to me that's just edible it doesn't say a name the type of the flower orchid purple orchid orchid i do think that just the punch of the flowers makes the presentation of this drink very special oh yeah that's why i pitch it i mean it's gonna go viral like you want to impress your in-laws oh yeah yeah mix up some garden parties this summer this would be a good one too if you have empress jinn too because it gives it that like pinky Michael. I just saw Empress Gin and I was looking it up. Some history here. Do you have Empress still?

I have some left over. I think I still have some of it. Oh man, I love that stuff. I burned through it though. It's expansive. Yeah, but I'm going to use this red brick. Red brick. Oh dudes. Oh shit. Did I keep it? Alright.

I don't have it, but I went to Albertsons to get my gin. Actually, I'm going to save it for after the break. Ooh. Ooh. Nice. Oh, you're going to, people are going to hang on for that. I know I will. So the recipe we're using today is what, like, and where did we get it from?

This is not necessarily like your go-to always recipe Eva right but this is one that we're using today it was on total wine total wine two ounces of gin one ounce dry vermouth three quarters ounce lemon juice and a quarter ounce lime now did you say you like to do just lemon I that's my preference now why is that even i'm a lime freak so i want to get that lime then do it okay i like the simplicity damn i was expecting a little pushback get that lime i just want to make it easier on myself okay a half ounce agave nectar we've got the leftover from the tommy's margarita one slice lemon wedges this strawberries, but you've omitted them, correct? That's disgusting to me to float strawberries in this drink.

Wow. Why? It feels like too much. It's kitchen sinky to have edible flowers. Disgusting. And that says lemon wedges, strawberries,

edible flowers. I think we're going to do edible flowers is going to be my garnish. Okay. And I did, I did, instead of agave,

I'm doing doing simple syrup. Oh, yeah. But yours is infused with mint, right? You're doing a fancy one. What are you putting in it? I put a little mint in it. I steeped it in like a little tea. Nice.

Wow. I was like, there's no way she's using normal ass simple syrup. I'm using agave nectar and I'm already dreading how much that stuff is going to stick in my jigger when I pour it. But I'm thinking, what if I run that thing under some hot water first? Like honey. Right, because it always gets gunked in there. Okay, here are the instructions. Add gin, dry vermouth, lemon juice, and agave nectar to a cocktail shaker with ice.

Shake for 10-12 seconds until shaker is frosted. I like that they point that out. You shake until your shaker is frosted on the outside. Pour the mixture from the shaker into a rocks glass with ice, garnish with lemon wedges and edible flowers. Hey, this doesn't even have the lime juice in this. It doesn't say put the lime juice in. Yeah, I know.

I noticed that too. The lime juice is in the recipe, but not in the instructions. That's funny. Maybe it's you drink it as a chaser. Just have it by, have it close by. The sidecar, like the porn star martini. All right. I'm ready.

Let's do it, folks. We'll be right back with our fresh drinks. And until then, get a load of these ads. and we're back garden parties in hand let's see them probably the best looking drink i've made here beautiful wow some really pretty flowers i'm seeing you really the flowers. You just put a flower on your drink, it makes it look good. Mike, you've got a big honking purple guy right next to a lemon wedge. That looks good. Yeah, I got the purple and yellow, purple and yellow.

It's very Mai Tai, that purple guy. You see those a lot. I tore some petals off and scattered them around. But Mike, I'm going to want you to eat that whole orchid at the end. I know. I don't know if I want to eat eat that whole orchid at the end i know i don't know if i want to eat this whole thing look at the assorted colors in jeff's one though i tried i tried to do it everything but yellow for the thing oh jeff it's so pretty you've got some some good one it looks like you got a whole ass marigold in there i do i've got a couple but

this is my favorite glass to drink out of which is a skull glass that i got at the magic castle oh shit it was their seasonal halloween i was gonna guess it was a dan akroyd vodka glass but no magic it feels like it was made from a crystal head vodka bottle or something but yeah it's got that heft to it but it's uh it's really nice is that the size of a real skull you think like if you put if you held your a child yeah yeah that child, yeah, I'm taking a sip. Okay. So here we go. Sips. Oh my.

Oh, that's a good drink. That's good. Yeah, baby. That's a, it's a gin sour and it's a delicious one. Now, when I, when you think of the vermouth there, you know, I usually don't like so much vermouth, but there's a lot of other stuff. The agave helps, the simple syrup helps pull that away. Yeah, it's not overpowering.

But you have just a little bit of it. It's kind of just like softening it a little bit. Whoa. Yeah. That is very nice. It also kind of reminds me of a Vesper a little bit. Yeah. A Vesper.

It's got a little bit of that, like, a little hang on the back of your. Oh, yeah. I like that. Now I'm going to eat a flower petal. Yeah, me too. Oh, yeah. Eat a flower. Ready down the hatch.

How? Mm-hmm. Okay. Mm. When I got some of the drink on it it helped me i made it kind of a not like even grass or something tastes like it tastes like a flower it tastes like a flower i don't know if i would want to like pop a whole one of those flowers in my mouth just i mean maybe i will just because i have them, but I saw a cool one.

I was looking up the drink online and, uh, somebody had taken tweezers or something and taken each flower and like plastered it flat up against the glass. So I had like a pattern of these little flowers in there. Ooh, it looked cool, but it seemed like a bit of a,

you're doing that whole flower. Chomp, chomp, chomp. She loves it. Oh oh she's so happy you look like the uh the uh silence of the land it's like it's just funny to be like standing with somebody for a long time and they don't know and you open your mouth and a flower comes out i've been hanging with you all day and there was a flower in your mouth? You didn't speak? This is very spring-like.

I put it right up there with the bramble as spring stuff, man. This is, I want to saunter around a park. I was so happy when this came down

the text chain. We're doing the garden party. I wouldn't have minded a little squirt of lime in here. I might do that for my round two. Just a bit. What gin did you guys use? Z-Grimms.

I did London Dry Gin. Nice. I use Red Brick. When you're making a garden party, reach for the Red Brick Jasmine Juniper Gin. Mike, you're so in the pocket of Red Brick, I don't know if I can trust you anymore.

I don't care man with a product like this i will throw everything behind everything i got i will throw everything i got behind this man just having your first sip now i'll put everything i got behind that i'll take it i'm using boring old tangare but it's like i'm gonna spin you a little yarn, okay? Oh. I like the idea of doing the pink gin with this. That's such a nice drink. The pink gin? The Empress. Oh, the Empress.

Well, that's the favorite gin of all. Empress 1908, I want to say. That's right. Yeah. Is that Irish? Where's it from? Or is it? Oh, I think Taylor Swift makes it.

Oh, that may be from Ireland. I'm not sure, Ava. How do I eat it? I'm going to makes it. Oh, that's maybe from Ireland. I'm not sure. I had to buy you to be. I'm going to look it up. We bought it because we were making Taylor Swift's lavender haze lemonade. So it's from Pennsylvania. Like Swift herself. Oh, yeah. That's some good shit.

Don't be fooled. Taylor Swift is not from Nashville. She's a Pennsylvania kid. I know she moved there. Her dad moved there so that she could become a star for her. know. She moved there. Her dad moved there so that she could become a star. For her, right?

Yeah. Yeah. He like got all of his his finance bros to crunch the numbers of where they should be living and moved her team there. Oh, that's not cool.

We don't even have a team. Let's talk more about Nirvana. When are me and my dad going to move to Nashville? Wait, wait. My big gin story. My big gin story. Oh, yes.

All right. You've been to Albertsons, right? Yep. Never heard of it. Now, Mookie, he told me, hey, you know what you should do is get the Albertsons app. You know? That way you can, every once in a while, it'll be like, hey, you get a free tub of ice cream. Hey, you get a free bread or whatever.

A free bread. So I boot up the app. Every time I go in there, what's the problem with Albertsons? You all know it. You pull out your phone and Albertsons. Not enough bread. Not enough bread. No, no service at all.

There's no Wi-Fi, no service. You can't text anybody inside Albertsons. Not enough bread. No. No service at all. There's no Wi-Fi, no service. You can't text anybody inside Albertsons. I can. That's not true. Is that true? AT&T, baby. Well, Verizon's slacking. I walk through there and I see all these coupons, right?

And it's like, hey, just scan the code. Just scan the code. Only problem is, can't scan the code if you don't have connection. Yeah. I walk in there, and I see big jugs. Big jugs. Oh, no, stop there. Were you looking in the magazine section?

Come on. Jesus Christ. Big jugs of liquor. Wow, Jeff. Was Angelina there? No. Hey, if somebody's making a drop, that's a good clip. Dolly Parton was there picking up bread.

I've seen Angeline there a lot. I know. That's where I bought a bunch of shirts from her, in that parking lot. No, I see big handles of vodka, big handles of whiskey, and big handles of Tanqueray gin. The very gin I need for today's episode and i see that they're on sale and extra on sale if you buzz the little code lucky for me this is towards the entrance of the store so i'm like i might actually be able to zap this code what do you know the app works. And Duddy saves $25 on this handle of Tangeray.

Whoa! So it was like $10 or $15? Regular $46.99 and I walked out of there and I saved $19 and then $6. Wow! That's the best deal I've

ever gotten for you deal heads out there. Best deal I've ever heard of. For the shrew 2199. That's the best deal I've ever gotten for you. For you. You know, deal. Best deal I've ever heard of. For the shrewd slophead. I feel like a fucking idiot because I go to that Albertsons constantly and I don't have the app. I'm paying through the nose. Now, Eva, tell us about your, uh, the, what you're working on, the show you're working

on right now. Oh, I'm not working on anything right now. You mean the show that's coming out next year? Aha! It's in the can. Yeah, yeah. The mystery is solved. No, I worked on it last year, but it's coming out in the fall on Hulu.

It's called Interior Chinatown. That's a cool name for a show. It's a cool show. It's based on this book called Interior Chinatown that won the National Book Award. Is that a reference to like a slug line in a script? Interior Chinatown. The book's written in script format. It's like a very trippy, weird book.

That's cool. And I do recommend people read it because it's... I think somebody didn't sell a screenplay and then sold us a book. And that was a screenplay. No, I'm'm kidding i mean he the guy who wrote it who was the showrunner also like who wrote on westworld and stuff but so he he was melding all of his like skill sets or whatever but it's cool um jimmy o yang is the lead lisa gilroy if for comedy heads is got a one of the big parts on it. She's so cool. Is it a comedy?

It's a drama, but it's very funny. And it's very trippy. And yeah, it's coming out in the fall. It sounds cool. I'm excited. Yeah. Lisa Gilroy is in a little film called Fine Dining by Jefferson Dutton. Oh, yeah.

Lisa Gilroy from Fine Dining. That's great. That's her credit. And Alan McLeod, Molasses Boy pops up, as I understand. He plays a cop in it. He's got a really fun part. Yeah, Lisa and him both play cops.

And Lil Mookie B? Oh, cool. Are they like a duo? No, Lisa's like one of the main duo cops. And then Alan works at the station and he's a desk sergeant. he's a desk, desk sergeant. He's a fast talking desk sergeant. Fast talking,

fast walking. Um, it's cool. Uh, we shot it like all over LA. We, we shot it like in weird parts of LA, like the South,

like my favorite place that we went to to shoot is this restaurant we found out about in San Pedro called the chowder barge. And if people live in LA, I encourage them to in a san pedro called the chowder barge and if people live in la i encourage them to go to the floating restaurant the chowder barge i live in la it's a yeah it's the main thing they serve there is a cheeseburger drowning in clam chowder like on a bun with like yeah with cheese on it and they just pork presentationally does this look like the titanic half sunk or is it like here's your chowder there's a burger somewhere in there it's like it's like the chowder but like there's a mound of chowder covered burger in the middle and i had to go there so many times on scouts and i kept convincing everybody that i was going to

eat a chowder burger so a bunch of other people would order them and then i wouldn't order they should put it so that like part of the burger is sticking out so that you could like take it out no it's just like you're eating soup and there's a burger i encourage everyone to look up the eater la article on the chowder barge that came out while we were shooting there so people kept showing up and it was closed for the week oh shit but you can see the chowder burger hold on i gotta see this burger i gotta lay eyes oh my god it looks so silly okay it's a little bit more like it's a little bit more above ground yeah burger these are two tastes i feel like i was oh yeah that's funny it's drenched chowder and burger don't really i don't like those two together and the other thing about the chowder barge is it's a floating

in the middle of like a like a boat dock which is basically like a tenement like a bunch of the boats are abandoned or very like crazy and broken and then there's like a train tracks running next to the boat dock somehow it's the it's the craziest place oh they they put a pun a bunch of stuff in chowder it's not just a burger you can get like fish and chips covered in chowder like anything covered in chowder it's also just a cool looking place if you see uh the eater article has like beautiful photos of it yeah it's awesome anyway chowder barge san pedro has cool stuff you you find these play you you always have such a a knack for like knowing what's happening weird la peculiar for sure like so this show is so perfect for you that you found a thing where you could be like scouting of the chowder chowder barge.

I was like on all the scouts, people were like, oh, Eva's going to like this place. And then we'll just be like the dumbest place in the world. This place is dumb. She's going to love it. The dumbest place in the world. Uh, but yeah, actually getting like having a location scout and then also like, yeah, it was the guy who's like the water dude for L.A. who knows where to find boats and stuff, who told us about Chowder Barge. And he's like, it's pretty sketchy, but we might be what you're looking for. Took us there and we were all just like, whoa.

Anyway, had you ever been to this is another curiosity that is recently out of business, like Jack's Cafe or Cafe Jack? The one down, oh, the one, yeah, in Koreatown? It's like a Titanic. It's like Jack from- I never went in. Yeah, I think it closed during COVID, but it's a boat. It's like a restaurant on a boat in the city, and you go in and it's all themed it's all leo's character from titanic themed it's not just titanic it's specifically jack they're trying to

do a bubba gump with jack there used to be a place in like on a western in korea town called pirate restaurant that i would go to pirate bar that was also had like um had banners of Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow but with all with the name Pirates of the Caribbean taken off it so it was just and it would say pirate bar like on with his face above it and there was like hanging mannequins like on ropes and stuff I mean there was a rash of speakeasies for a while there. I, did you, did you ever go to the Austin powers bar or the Beetlejuice bar?

I know I should have. I did Austin powers. There's that bad. I've been to the star Wars one in Hollywood. Oh, scum and villainy. Where they also are. They do the tri wizard tournament there,

which is weird. It bothers me. That's a Harry. That's a Harry Potter thing. Oh harry potter thing okay so they opened it up a little bit it's just yeah but it's still like a space cantina anything can be here any type of branded thing can be wizards welcome at the space cantina exactly it's like ready player one where it's just like every type of person can come in yeah every character i love a themed bar you are the one who told me for years you were telling me tim you got to go to the venice room why are not you're not going to the venice room and

when i finally went now i've been a bunch that's my favorite favorite place in la the venice is the greatest so you've gotten a steak now yes i've gotten a steak i've cooked my own steak and i've also gone back just to the bar and like it's the best when you go and you grill your own steak but sitting at the bar their drink menu is just like all these weird sweet drinks from the 70s and 80s and then on like thursday nights they have a karaoke night where there's an old guy with an electric guitar playing along like i've heard of like live band karaoke. This is karaoke with, with the track,

but then also this old guy just wants to jam along. That's great. So they let him. I once did an eight minute song by traffic while that guy jammed behind me. I did the low, low spark of highly high healed boys. He was just like, yeah, he's amazing.

I'm so happy that guy survived COVID. Yeah. Like that he was, you thought he was going to pass away. And there were signs everywhere that say no dancing. And then also when you go on karaoke nights, sometimes people will come and bring their own music, like old dudes who brought their own song and that, that they just like play, they do the same song every night. Oh, so cool. Not their own song. Like they wrote it, their own song and that they just like they do the same song every night oh so cool

not their own song like they wrote it their own song that would be cool no but they like brought their cd with the music they like to do their song they like they treat it like open mic night is it like an old building or uh yeah it's like a place that's like been around forever it's like booths uh and there's a mural of venice italy around it it always and with like the weird neon out front it does feel like this is where james ellroy's mother was murdered it's what i always think when i see it very very much the vibe and it's wood kind of the paneling uh veneers on the on the walls and like oh man it's the best signs everyone say no dancing tim brought i tried to dance mookie and i yeah he tried to dance. Mookie and I.

Yeah, he tried to dance. They didn't take too kindly to that. But when we were up doing our steaks, the owner came out and he was just like, hey guys, where are you from? Hey, thanks for coming. He was like, it's hard to be in the restaurant industry these days. Thanks, Kevin. Nobody wants to work anymore.

They put a plate on your table and it's got a steak with wrapped in butcher paper a frozen um uh garlic bread and was there another thing tim or is that then there's a baked potato that is cooked baked potato that is cooked but then you you walk over to the to the grill they got the hood blasting so it's just like this big hot grill in the corner of the room and then all the spices you could ever want you got your m McCormick, you know, little things. And then you got your Lowry's and Old Bay. Yeah, Old Bay and Montreal spice. You can go to town.

What a spot. What I never, I went there and I was like, then what was the other place Eva told me I should go to? And this is long gone. That was like a tiki, a big tiki bar in the San Gabriel Valley called like, yeah, that's gone. I've heard that like a lot of their stuff got like auctioned off to other tiki bars in the area,

but I never, a lot of it is in the top floor of, Oh, I was about to bring this up. Clifton's, but then that's closed. What the fuck? Seven C's. No, it's back. What the fuck? Seven C's.

No, it's back. It's back again. It's back again. It is back? Wait, the whole building or just Seven C's? Back again, baby. The cafeteria is open?

I'm going to eat lunch there tomorrow. They're making it into sort of a Cirque du Soleil show. A burlesque nightly dinner show. It's gone away and come back several times in our time in LA.

Yeah. But when it was Clifton's that was it was really cool and then pandemic happened right yeah it hasn't really reopened since pandemic well it closed it closed even before that they made a big reopen and then it just kind of closed on its own it's such a big swing to start with like you go in and it's a cafeteria and it's like um almost like um national park themed like there's animatronic like beavers and bears around and stuff it feels very like national geographic right am i am i dreaming i feel like there's all these little tucked away hideaways i don't think they're animatronic but there's kind of little like they're stuffed yeah they're just stuffed okay Like etched in into the wood type of stuff. If you're on LSD, there's animatronics.

Yeah, yeah. I'm thinking Bigfoot Lodge. Yeah, no, they're on loan from the Natural History Museum. For real? Yeah, they're dioramas that they borrowed from Natural History. But there is like, yeah, there's like giant stuffed buffalo. There's like a moon rock too. Oh, okay.

Then the second floor, there's the... it's got like a gothic church vibe. It's all red and black. And there is a moon rock lodged in the bar that is a meteorite. It feels very like Twin Peaks kind of. It feels occultish. And there's a tree growing up through the middle too. Tree growing up through the middle too tree growing up through the middle and this is where like l ron hubbard would meet with like ray bradbury and other sci-fi

writers they would like go to the cafeteria and this upstairs little church bar is where they would hang out and then you go up to the third floor and it's this tiki bar so like what a big swing to even run this operation i can't even imagine how many employees they need it's no surprise that it nosedives every couple of years and comes back with like new money. Yeah.

I love it. I love it too. And I, one time I had, I had jury duty for two weeks and I just like ate lunch there every day

and it was so fun to go to a cafeteria. I mean, before it got hipped up, it was even better. Like the original Clifton's where it was just like, yes,

I'll have a little dish of peas for 40 cents. tim can i ask you probably can't say but was it the jinx what oh my trial the trial i can't say but let me just nod my head up and down um i was in new orleans when he was apprehended by by the way. So I'm involved a little bit. Oh, cool. Oh, yeah. They thanked you, didn't they? Did you help?

It was the day of my 17-mile saunter. Okay, no. Hold on now. Stop everything. I got a drink in me, and I want to ask Eva. Let's talk about when you met us, Eva. It's 15 years ago. You're hanging around UCD. Tim, you're taking, Eva. It's 15 years ago. You're hanging around UCB.

Tim, you're taking me back. Yeah, 15 years ago. Whoa. You're taking me back like more than 10, 11, 12 years. There's a new sketch group around UCB called the Birthday Boys. They're fresh from Ithaca College. You are in a hit legendary sketch group called A Kiss from Daddy. That's the dream team of all the best sketch

comedians of the era do you remember which of us or our greater group the birthday boys that you first met or how you came to know us or do you have any memory of any of that era i feel like i first heard about you a lot from neil and paul because they were hosting the late night open mic sketch uh not too shabby and we did like a whole summer where we signed up for that every Friday yeah so they were basically talking about you guys all the time and so then I just like went to some of them and saw you guys you were like shut up shut up about these guys I think I saw I don't know if I saw the pie sketch first you're famous gotta get that pie or if it was just some weird thing

where Mitch was walking around in a dress and I was like, these guys are funny. That's a pie sketch. That's a pie sketch too. This is supposed to be humor? It's like a man in a dress? That's their idea? Is this Monty Python?

No. Did you guys open for, you didn't open for, before they were Giants, right? That was Hendershaw. That was Hendershaw. That was Hendershaw. Okay, cool. We were in the audience for those. Yeah.

No, I think I just sort of like slowly like saw you guys showing up and like just saw your sketches and I was like, these guys are funny. I like them. And then we started doing like these guys are funny and then we and then we started doing like the monthly show uh together together yeah that was awesome I always think of um you wrote one of my favorite sketch comedy sketches of all time that's super funny and also heartbreaking where you're a mom what is it you buy you get a hat that says like hand over the chocolate and nobody gets hurt yeah that's what it says and buy you get a hat that says like hand over the chocolate and nobody gets hurt that's what it says and then you come home when you're like hand over the chocolate nobody gets

hurt and then your your husband and son are like this is so funny you're being so funny and then this your son is like calls his friends he's like guys i can't hang out tonight my mom is being so so funny and then and then it cuts and it's like uh this was all just a fantasy she's got a shitty husband and a shitty kid who was mean to her but it's such a hard switch flip when she when you wake up like back into reality do you have the the funny shirt again yeah but when i tell them about it they're like shut up it's so harsh that turn because it's like already so funny that she's like she's having the time of her life and then when there's that turn it's just like a sketch that ends and you're just sad about life her only dream is just

that her son would think that her joke was funny that's all she wants the ultimate fantasy is that her family is nice to her the joke is that like, what is it, a hat she bought or a shirt she bought or something? Yeah, she bought it at the mall. She didn't even come up with it. I've been in that situation so many times, and I try to be the good son, and sometimes I'm the bad son. Yeah. Oh, man.

Thanks, Tim. That's really sweet of you to say. I mean, all the feelings are mutual you guys are the funniest guys who ever lived you're my faves oh we're the top three ever you're the top three ever that rocks wow and you and you've seen mrs downfire and she's seen some big ones hey wait there's a mrs downfire play in la right now i just saw signs for it really go see it i saw it uh i saw it here i think the musical the guy won best he won and it was tootsie the musical where the guy won best actor mrs doubtfire though i think the guy was nominated for best actor the one i saw

he it was impressive who i mean it's this doubtfire but what he had to like all the different things he had to do was pretty yeah he's got to have dinner with his boss and dinner with his children. You got to put whipped cream on his face. He had to say hello. When I was a kid, I so bad. This is when I started to like fall in love with like movie magic. And we have a camcorder.

I could do some of this stuff. It was my dream to put on, put socks in my shirt, like fake Miss Doubtfire tits and set them on fire and clap them out with, with pot lids. And my mom was like, she would help me. My mom would sort of allow all sorts of like little film and video stuff. And that was when she was like, I'll be so mad if you even try that. You're not allowed to set anything on fire in the kitchen. I like you're like, I'm Johnny Knoxville and I'm going to, this is Mrs. Doubtfire fire tits. Man.

All right. Any tweaks to round two? I'm about due for round two. I'm going to do, I'm going to put some lime in this one. I'm about due for round two I'm gonna do I'm gonna put some lime In this one I did lime

This time And I couldn't really tell the difference It was Got lost in the liming But Mike We'll see how you fare Eva

Any big tweaks What's the big tweak I'm gonna cut it With a little bit of Topo Chico lime Oh Make it a little more Of a spritz

Very good I might do that I'm making it kind of Tom Collins-y This is very good more of a spritz. Ooh. Very good. I might do that as well. Kind of making it kind of Tom Collins-y kind of. This is very good. Yeah. It's a nice summer

sipper. That's really good. All right, folks. We'll be right back with more Sloppy Boys after this. And we're back. Round two of the garden party hey check my out empress in this one's got a little bit of the pinky it's very pastel yeah oh man the pink one with the big flat with the big orchid in it would be

such a mom drink like a perfect mom or aunt or girlfriend drink. I added a whole other flower. Beautiful. Wow, packed with flowers. No, it's just all flowers. Ooh. See, I want to show mine, but I don't want Eva to get mad. Because it's so beautiful?

It's so beautiful. Oh, that's a strawberry, Anna. It's a straw. What? I'm a disruptor. Oh. She supports it, Eva. You've come a long way since you've put people's drinks on the floor.

That bad habit of yours is long gone. Wow. I just didn't want there to be a bunch of soggy, weird strawberries mucking it up. I think you put it on the edge, which is the right where it deserves to be. That's where I live, baby. I live on the edge. Strawberries are so funny because there's no like, I mean, you can get liquid out of them,

but they're not so liquidy. But they get soggy. I know what you mean. I'm with you. What about a dehydrated strawberry floating in there could be cool? No, it's got to be hydrated. You're all about the hydrated strawberries.

I know that about you. Oh, baby. And I topped it up with a little bit of lime LaCroix Because I like that long drink I put it in a big old pint glass I used a little bit of lime and a tiny bit Excuse me, less vermouth And I think I've got a winner here Wow

And it's getting me a little drunkified here Tin tweaks? I did it exactly the same all over again, and I'm just loving it. A law-abiding citizen. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, you know? Yeah. Well, I think it's time for our final thoughts on the garden party. OA for me.

That's an order again. O-O-A. O-A. O-O-A. Eva? for me that's an order again oh oh hey oh hey eva um i would put any drink on the ground for this drink no it's not true but you know i like it a lot so it wasn't really any it's not a diss to the to the creator of the russian root any drink, even a martini made by Dale DeGroff himself would have been displaced by this drink.

And we've had some years now to cool off and we all understand. Some years. We're cool. No, I think it's a classic. It might be the drink of the summer Have you guys

Do you guys pick a drink Of the summer We do We do We tiptoe around What it's going to be So far we've heard Possibly the

Hornstar Martini Might be Okay Yeah A candidate Tim Your final thoughts please Did you submit them

I love it It's in order again And here's the thing it's useful to slop heads to know the bramble the clover club bramble the bears the french 75 there's a on this show we tend to drink things and forget and drink things and forget but i always want us to bring knowledge forth. And, um,

I think that it's, let's say you're some shitty dude who listens to this podcast, but what you've learned is that if you know how to make just a gin, sour gin, lemon, simple syrup. And if you have on hand creme de cassis for a bramble champagne for a French 75 raspberry syrup for a clover club and now fucking dry vermouth for uh for a garden party that's that's like a cool

tool belt to have in the spring and summer and don't forget to impress the in-laws the edible flowers really do oh yeah quite a bit yeah maybe uh some inedibles for some of those in-laws. Some deadly nightshade for the in-laws you don't like. Jeff, was it an order again for you? For me? Yeah, this is an order again and again.

And again. See, I wanted to be really clear about the final thoughts because was it last week We just straight up We forgot them We got drunk And we kept going But

So you That was your final thoughts On a drink Called the garden party Right So we all Are pretty familiar With this drink

That's called That has the word Garden in it Right And we could give it up For our boys right now We could But have you heard about the garden

quiz that's right folks i the quiz master have prepared a skill testing quiz uh around the theme of gardens are you ready yeah i'm yeah eva are you ready Because this is such a curveball for our guests. I'm so sorry. I can handle it. Okay. Winner takes all. Winner gets scratch-off money for the year. Whoa.

Whoa. From you? Yeah. And it depends on what your own scratch-off budget is. So if it's Hanford, I got to give him a lot of money because he's in the scratch-offs for a year. An indeterminate amount of money for a year. Wish it was for life.

Okay, here we go. I'm going to ask you some questions that surround a garden theme. You're going to blurt out your response. You don't have to buzz in or anything. You just say the answer. Jeff, you have a question. Quick question. What's the pace of this? Fast pace.

Oh, okay. If you're familiar with the java lance questionnaire this is kind of like that type of thing how many questions i don't want to count them but there's a lot okay here we go and we and we have to sorry we buzz no no no you just say the answer just blurt okay cool and i the quiz master will be detecting your sound waves to see who said the answer first. All right. Now, Jeff and I are in Los Feliz, so he has an advantage. The sound waves get to me fastest. Mike's way on Brooklyn.

Eve, are you in Santa Monica? Yes. Okay. Eve is the middle. The Buddha would be proud. She's the middle way. The middle way. Okay.

It's time for the garden quiz here we go question one this rocker has played 149 times at the madison square one billy joel billy joel billy joel mike hanford gets it wow hot on his heels and jeff nothing i didn't know it oh i didn't know it. Oh, I didn't know it. Okay, Jeff gets the point. Okay. Question two on the garden quiz. This rocker wrote a song about being booed off the stage of the Madison Square One.

Bruce Springsteen. Elton John. No. Nelson. Yes! Do you got the first name, Michael? Don't need it. Don't need it. You just have to know. It's Jeopardy Rules. I will. It's Ricky Nelson, the song Garden Party.

Ricky Nelson. Garden Party. He had some songs like Mary Lou or whatever, and then he tried some of his new stuff at the garden. He got booed right off the stage. Wow. Very much like how Drake got booed off the stage at Camp Flogna. Tim, continue.

Wow. Very much, yes. I kind of remember that for the Camp Flogna quiz, but here we go. Question three on the garden quiz yeah the madison square one well this jam band has played their 83 times mike you get mike oh you know eve was hot on the hills but mike has an unfair advantage when it comes to fish this sounds like it's going to be a Madison Square Garden quiz. I know. How many times have you seen fish at the garden? Me?

Can I guess if I guess it right? Yeah, let me think here. I think six. Damn. Did you go to the sphere? Yeah, Tim and I went. It was really cool. It was cool. Polite pass from me.

Did you guys want to have a vagina to carry? Yep. I was typing that tweet and I saw he already tweeted and I was like, oh, great. I was also going to buy all the writers diner lunches during the writer's strike and I saw he did that.

That didn't occur to me. Did you yeah i blanked on that okay mike is out to a big lead with three but luckily there's a lot of questions on the garden quiz here we go up next choo choo this train station is below the mad Square one. Penn Station. My God. More specifically, Moynihan Trail. Wow. Mike has such an unfair advantage here on so many levels. He lives closest to the location, I guess. He's from New York. And Mike, are you using an Ethernet cable direct connection this season?

I'm using, you know what I'm using? A phone hotspot. Oh, jeez. That's good. I do that all the time for like Zoom rooms. Humiliating. No, it's good. Yeah, but you know, forget it.

What's next? Are you ready for the next question on the garden quiz? Oh, just forget it. He gets everything he wants. Here we go. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Action.

Here we go Yeah go ahead Action John Barrett May have written This 1994 Non-fiction novel Set in Savannah, Georgia Yes this is true

But it is none other than Midnight in the Garden Of Good and Evil Yes Yes Eva On the board And you know what

Eva I'm happy For you for that I never would have Gotten that in a million years Well then that's sweet That you're happy for her Kevin Spacey I never would have gotten that in a million years. Well, then that's sweet that you're happy for her. Kevin Spacey was the lead in the movie. The rest of the question was,

I was going to say it was none other than Clint Eastwood who directed the 1997 film adaptation. Wouldn't help me. I forgot Eastwood directed Spacey. Damn. I think I'd get back together. You don't see that every day. Yeah.

All right. Next question on the garden quiz. Swish, swish. This NBA team does its dunking at the Madison Square one. Knicks. Yes. Jefferson on the board with a sports question. Jefferson.

Yay. The guy loves that round ball. Yay. Okay. yay yay the guy loves that round ball yay okay next question on the garden quiz okay I don't get through this official thing

I just gotta get through this shit okay here we go alright huh Francis Hodgson Burnett may have written

this 1911 Star-Spangled Banner? 1911 children's novel sure that may be true oh The Secret Garden yes is on the board yet again sorry

it was it was and then I was going to say but it was none other than Bruce Springsteen who recorded the 1995 song as featured in the film. Jerry McGuire. Very good song by a wonderful artist.

Okay. Mike's got four. Eva's got two. Jeff's got one. I have four. I thought I had three. Yeah. Make sure he doesn't have three.

Let's see. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven questions have been asked one two three four five no you got four mike right you drunk off those drinks right on okay next question yeah show me the money this precocious child actor played a character who once commented on the

weight of the human head. Jonathan Lipnicki. Jefferson Lipnicki. What garden? What's the garden connection there? We just going off that last one. Well, secret garden by Bruce Springsteen was the song and Jerry Maguire.

So I'll get it. What's the matter? Getting a little uncomfortable now that we're getting away from New York City. No, I just want to know everything i can about it's trying to take down the quiz because he's getting uncomfortable yeah okay moving on oh well isn't that sweet he had her at hello jerry mcgler Tom Cruise. Jeff's got it. Jeremy Gorm. Coming from behind. Jeff's on a tear.

Jesus Christ. Next question. Thanks, Tim. Oh, well, isn't that sweet? Comedian Aziz Ansari recorded his 2015 Netflix special here. At Madison Square Garden. Eva is catching up Eva's got three

Jeff's got three Mike's got four this is a damn next question you don't say the director of the 1997 film adaptation of a John Barron novel once served as the mayor of this

once served as the mayor of this California city. Calabasas. No. Malibu. No. It's next to San Anselmo. It's called We're looking for next

keepers. Mike's getting close. Monticello No Am I getting close in name sound or location You're close in Latitude But not longitude interesting I'm not going to guess it

Was the mayor of what California city Oh Sol Solito Here's a little hint it's a city by the sea Capistrano? And it has in the title sometimes Pebble Beach Catalina Nope

Blank by the sea Cambridge? Or no Manchester by the sea Fuck Much like Manchester It literally has hyphens And it's blank by the sea

But then lots of people omit that And just say Morrow It's kind of It's kind of got some Thatched roof Hobbity houses But then lots of people omit that and just say... Morrow. It's kind of got some thatched roof hobbity houses. I go there all the time with my in-laws, and I can't remember it because of the garden parties. By the sea. Eva, yes, there are many in-laws events I'd like to forget, too.

Okay. Well, how about this? The name of this town is similar to the brand of ice of a brand of ice cream cake carmel yes carmel yes carmel thank you nice eva has tied it up four four three jeff's got three this is a good quiz, Eva has tied it up with the winner? Yes. Mike and Eva both have four. Jeff has three.

You tied it up with the guy. Okay. Show me the money. You better buy a ticket if you want to see this NHL team play at the Madison Square one. Rangers. New York Rangers. Mike has five. There we go. question help i need somebody this beetle john lennon made his final concert appearance at the madison square one before being

gunned down in front of a certain New York apartment building called the Dakota. Yes, this is true. Damn it. But his coworker Ringo once sang a song about this. About this underwater area. The song's called Octopus's Garden. Jeff got it. I'll give it to Jeff.

Yes. Yes, I feel the power coursing through me. Very good. I just saw a funny reels of, it was the get back moment where Ringo brings that in and like, it's kind of, it's kind of DOA octopus's garden, but then George starts to like,

Oh no, you could do it like this. And he gets on the piano and like suddenly people are starting to get excited about it and it's just a it's just it's a testament to teamwork and batting the ball around that's cool i want to see that because i never thought i thought that they just handed ringo his songs that's cool that he came up with like oh i have an idea about a garden an octopus's garden that's awesome an octopus's garden. Oh, that's awesome. An octopus's garden. It's not just any garden. Okay. We're all tied up, which is great because

we're heading into the home stretch here. For real? Oh, wow. This is nice. We're not all tied up, are we? Oh, no. Oh, sorry. Eva's four, Jeff has four, Mike has five. Thank you, Mike. I didn't mean to disrespect you. But remember earlier I said I didn't have his mate so you know I'm right I'm true here

yeah next question please let's go I am bored of this episode ouch Mike Tyson famously bit Evander Holyfield's ear at this arena Madison Square Garden no the luxor mgm grand

fuck fuck well listen to this mgm grand garden arena in las vegas remember it's the garden quiz and uh final question in 19, this Northeastern Metropolitan Arena opened and soon became the home of Madden Square Garden and NBA teams. In 1995, the Grateful Dead was supposed to play there. Yes, Michael. Yes. Oh, God. This is a good quiz.

Some good misdirection there, Kat. That's a good quiz. Some good misdirection there, Kat. That was a good quiz. Good quiz. You know, here's the final fact there. When it was closing in 1995, the Grateful Dead were supposed to close it out, play the final shows there. But Jerry died and they didn't get to do that. Dang. Kind of some interesting stuff.

Michael, you've won the garden quiz. Congratulations. I'm excited to get the scratch off money for the rest of the year. Yeah. So just text me what your budget is and I will, I'll send you the, I'll Venmo you that. It's honestly not much.

It's like we probably, last time I bought a scratch off ticket was probably when we did that episode three years ago. So you probably owe me nothing. So it's like $4 every three years. It's like $1.33 or something. Yeah. Yeah.

Perfect. Retroactively. So it's just half of this year too. Great. Perfect for me. I'll send you 70 cents. Should be fine. Great.

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Eva, you've brought a winner on to the episode. Thank you very much. Yeah, this is a great episode. Thanks for coming on. Thank you guys for having me. This was so fun. Thank you for doing it, quite frankly. I love you guys. I miss you guys. We love you too. We miss you too. Let's all get together

and tip some brews, huh? Hell yeah. Let's get a let's get a excuse me an outrigger boat and go out Malibu style. You know what I mean? Yep.

Go to the chowder barge. And when you say go out, you mean don't come back. That's right. That's right. Eva, where can people find you? I'm on social media, on Instagram and X,

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Can't wait. Watch it. That's so cool. Bye, folks. Bye. Bye. Bye. Give it up for your boys.

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