The Sloppy Boys - 203. Hot Dog Water Cocktail

Episode Date: September 6, 2024

The guys make the viral sensation from the Kroger corporation!Hot Dog Water Cocktail Recipe: 2oz/60ml HOT DOG WATER*2oz/60ml JIM BEAM1 squeeze LEMON JUICECombine all ingredients in a shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into a rocks glass filled ice. Garnish with cocktail onion, yellow pepper, cherry tomato and cocktail weiner.*Boil hot dogs in waterRecipe via Kroger 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 and expand, ascend, and conquer. The podcast with timeless integrity, it's the best choice for you. Wow. I'm Jeff Dutton along with mike hanford yes yes and tim kelpakis what he is up oh i say yes to that enthusiasm and oh what a summer it's been oh the summer's gone a week ago we locked we've really accrued podcast slogans throughout the summer and it's great that you don't ever have to shake off any of the old ones. You just stack them on there. Just add them on.

Because then it makes you say, oh, this podcast has so many catchphrases. They've got history. They've been around for a while. Yes. Good, good. And they've all been good. They're not out of rotation. Just because you don't hear it every episode doesn't mean it's not still good.

Right. It's a golden oldie. You can use you can use, you know, ba da ba ba ba. I'm loving it still for McDonald's. Why can't we use? Yeah. All of our own slogans. Yeah.

You can still use Yo Kiero Taco Bell and people know what you're talking about. Yeah. You can still run to the border. And we could even use that for this Yo Kiero Taco Bell. The sloppy boys. Yeah. Add that on, Jeff, to the border. And we could even use that for this. Yo quiero Taco Bell. The Sloppy Boys. Yeah. Add that on, Jeff, to the next episode. Yo quiero Taco Bell.

Add it to the pile. Jeff, when you were saying what a summer it's been, were you sort of referring to the fact that summer has drawn to a close? And here we have been, you know, kind of tracking the drink of the summer all summer. We also went on tour. We also did a live podcast in chicago we also put out a movie we also announced a fall podcast tour of the west coast and don't forget the summer jam slam the summer jam slam was it was a giant hit in los angeles so you're referring to all that stuff yeah not to mention the adventures at the local water park. Big. That's quite a bit.

Good one to add, Jeff. Good one to add. That's right up there with coming out with a movie. Not to mention we went to a water park. We went to a water park. But you're also referring to the people who subscribe $5 a month to patreon.com slash the sloppy boys, that they get an extra episode every single week where we go to water parks and we go to the venice room and we eat steaks and we kind of have all kinds of fun kind of shit we do push-ups and all kinds of right because this is like live media you know like um

people used to like watch a movie or read a magazine that's dead media yeah it's not ongoing it ends when it's done yeah it's not living out there in the world kind of like we three we three guys we three guys i gotta say behind the we're having all that fun uh on the blowout behind in that uh you become a patron patreon uh patron clean that up meeland so people understand we're trying to sell this thing je Jeff. We got to make this as clear as possible. No, we're having all that fun over there. And guess what? We want you to be part of it.

Yeah, we do. We do. Because it's all kind of part of the... We have ascended and expanded. Hello to all the new listeners. got we've got a lot of people who got on board this summer but here's the thing is we um yeah we are kind of cool guys um yeah it's a whole groovement tim i think this is what you're trying to say it's a groovement is what i was getting at yeah oh the movement's a groovement well here's the thing here's the thing i'm also thinking about.

Tim, you just mentioned all that great stuff we did this summer. We did this. We did that. We were giving, giving, giving. And it gave a little back now. And now's the time to give back. This is almost like a charity drive. Charity drive.

This is like the NPR drive. Right. Well, it's a very good cause. Yeah, it's a very good cause. We got a lot of great stuff happening back behind that paywall. You got to give it a go. But it's cooler But it's cooler than when Obama comes out and says, five bucks, that's all you need. My friend Kamala, shut the fuck up.

Kamala gets all her money from Colgate, Palmolive. Fuck you. Colgate. Don't raise money from fucking corporations and then go to the common man who probably would rather spend five bucks on a podcast and have a little joy in their life every week. Yeah. But also, you know what?

Folks, I'm a crest man proudly. Really? Sensodyne over here. Pronamel. Yeah. Yeah. Sensodyne Pronamel. Oh, what about a little bit of Tom's of Maine?

You ever get into Tom's of Maine? That shit doesn't work. I'll tell you what. It doesn't at all. When I was staying at tim's house tim you had the uh dr bronner's you know and uh and it smells like orgeat oh the almond the almond one yeah i do i do mint i didn't put together but i do like that that smell uh it's it's uh it's got a lot of it's watery do you water it down or is that just because the

shower head the cap was open and some water bounced off my naked greek body and fell into the bottom drop it inside no cap yeah hey no cap but but but like it's supposed to be much spicier because i've done it before i put on my armpits in my on my private parts that's the peppermint oh that's specifically i got peppermint's the spicy one they're not all spicy got Hey, you know what I was doing? Speaking of summer ending, guys, I haven't gotten on a boat yet. That was my big... That was your whole thing.

Shit. It was my biggest summer wish. What happened? It didn't happen. It was your wish most fervent. It was too damn expensive, these captained boats that I wanted to take out. Yeah. You can rent a kayak, Mike.

No, I know, but I wanted to be on a captained boat. Oh, right. It was specifically a captained boat. I think so. Right, right, right. Okay. I tried to get you on the hornblower, Mike. No, you wouldn't go on the hornblower, would you?

No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't go on the hornblower. I think it was just because it would have been just you and me on a very long trip. Sounds fun to me um here's a topic that i wanted to uh bring up mike do you have the package that i sent oh yes let me go let me find that jeff i could re-explain what's going on yeah yeah tim explain so um on an episode of the sloppy boys blowout which is that cool subscription show i was just talking about um we covered uh we were talking about a certain uh type of a thing a garment and then maybe we also uh at one point we're talking about a certain uh brand and mike had mentioned sort of

uh that he maybe was this was a topic of interest to him here's what i did okay i live on pod i bought something that's what you were up to you guys see me when i'm glued to my vice device you think i'm probably just scrolling tiktoks i'm usually looking at sports scores he's shopping for his homies i'm shopping i gotta lie on a whole all the new fall fashions are coming for both of you. Anything from Zara? We talked about this. I did this. Yeah. I had a joke like this in a writer's room where the girls were talking about a brand name called Lake Girl. And I quietly ordered myself a Lake Girl shirt.

And I was like, I'm going to wear it. I'm going to wear it to work. All this Lake Girl stuff, I don't remember. I remember this. a lake girl shirt and i was like i'm gonna wear it i'm gonna wear it to work all this girl stuff i don't remember i remember this it was like a purple shirt that said lake girl on it it's a brand for like uh kind of like wine moms i guess but um i thought i was gonna be really funny i ordered it live in the room while no one was looking at my screen and then the strike started and i didn't get to wear my uh thing and then we got back to the strike and i was like hey everybody will remember this joke and they're like yeah yeah so that's

what's good what this is gonna be you want me should i open it up well that's what this is gonna be because these are this is something that you said you wanted though this is less of a joke more of just a good gift this is what two three weeks ago he said he wanted this a month ago yeah all right well i'm opening it it was here truth be told it already got semi-opened i think i explained this but i uh didn't look inside of it no problem man just finish it up oh tim he got me a tank top with the can i get it on here the chang logo oh damn it i can't get it on here we go chang beer chang beer that's it, I can't get it on here. Here we go. Chang Beer.

Chang Beer. That's a good one, Tim. Now, do you recall this logo came up specifically? I forget where... Jeff, you were talking about the Shrimp Lover in LA. A Thai restaurant. We were talking

about Chang. Mike said, I love that logo. I'm going to get a shirt with that logo. And it was during the tank top era of the show. So I clicked, I thought this was going to be a delivered and, and on the air the very next week. I didn't think there'd be a month of nothingness. Yeah.

But Hey, Timmy, Hey, you brought up a good point. The sleeveless era was also this summer, man. It covered so much ground. And the Brad era. I mean, we were sleeveless era was also this summer. Man, it covered so much ground. And the Brad era.

I mean, we were sleeveless brats all during that water park, weren't we, Jeff? Yeah, we were. This is a good logo because I just seen somebody, I think in the subway. I forget. I feel like I saw someone wearing a hat of this. Did I say that on the pod? But it struck me. I said, that's good.

Well, now it's going to be your autumn tank top. Ooh, yeah autumn tank top. Ooh, yeah. Autumn tank. Um, and, uh, and then I have one piece of shit chat for you,

Jeff, which is not a gift or anything, but maybe perhaps the gift of knowledge, which is something, you know, I welcome that Tim. That's great. Yeah.

Um, remember one time we went on Alison Rosen's podcast. Um, yes. Alison Rosen's podcast? Yes. Alison Rosen's your new best friend? I feel like I know what you're going to say. Go ahead. You shared a weird behavior of yours, which is that you dust your little feet off before you get into bed.

Yes. I scrub them together. And like, if you, if you didn't know, it would happen right under your little noses. And I'm so quick with it. It's like a little, like a cricket. And the way you've done it, it's, it's ape-like. It's chimp-like, yes.

Chimp-like, chimp-like. And I can do it sitting. I can do it in almost any position. Sometimes I'll be like crawling into bed. Like, you know, I got basically like a knee on the bed. And right before I slide into the sheets, you don't even notice it. But you hear it it's funny anytime you do anything nimble with your feet like sometimes i'll be walking

like in my bedroom and then there's a receipt on the floor and i pick it up with my toes and i'm like oh look at me a little monkey man a little more sepia boy sounds like planet of the apes better rethink their moves but then the weird thing is i pick it up with my toes and then i walk it all the way to my accountant's office and i hand it to her and let me guess she's a fucking orangutan what are you saying you want banana you changed all my money into banana peels um well jeff here's what i was going to say that i made a note I wanted to bring up on the pod was that, oh, we all laughed

at you and I particularly mocked you for your weird foot behavior. Yeah. Cut to Katy Perry. Yep. Lint rolls her feet. It's all over the net. Katy Perry. Lint rolls her feet. Lint rolls the bottom of her feet. Before she goes to bed. Jeez, that must

feel good. Because I even know, because I do the, I've been doing the thing too, Jeff. I've been, you know, kind of do it quick. You got to. If you're walking around your apartment barefoot all the time, you got debris, folks. You got debris. I try to wear a Birkenstock or a Croc around the house. Yeah, yeah.

I got a house slipper. It's nice. But anyway, that would feel good to get that. Oh, get all that dirt off. I don't know. Because I'm house slippers. It's nice. But anyway, that would feel good to get all that dirt off. I don't know. Because I'm still bringing dirt in the bed. And she looks like such a little pretty princess that are a little vanity with that thing. I got to say, it's not the pop star

that you want to be associated with right now. I wanted to do the bedtime foot behavior of Charlie XCX, Sabrina Carpenter, somebody cool, you know? Yeah. with right now yeah i wanted to do the the the bed bedtime foot behavior of charlie xcx sabrina carpenter somebody cool you know yeah but uh katie perry's out there putting out bad songs and flopping all over the videos turd videos dropping turds i think we talked about camila cabello was kind of trying to act a little bit charlie i uh katie perry was like putting on big black sunglasses and kind of has the charlie hair sometimes it's like ladies you're not you're not pulling this off i listened to that tim and i think i was texting you about that charlie or that um camilla camilla camillo

is so you know it's so like trying to be the other stuff. So perfectly bad at it. It's great. Yeah, it's like a hyper-pop album. Have you heard of Jeff? She was wearing a shirt. Nah. Her shirt. It's cool. I mean, there's moments of it that are kind of cool,

but when you know it's coming from her, it just feels extra contrived. Yeah, cut through the noise, guys. You can't blame them. Yeah. She had a photo op in Beverly Hills where she was wearing a t-shirt that said, like, pop stars suck or whatever.

And I was like, your publicist set up this shirt. Can I go back to this foot thing? I came up with a better way. Rather than, like, lint roller just doesn't seem good. Here's what you need to do. Get, like, a glue trap situation. You know what I mean? Jeff, they have these for basketball players yeah like

you've seen those weird um shoe videos where people like step on a foam thing and then they put their foot in a sock oh that is i don't i think that's a trolling thing what is that stuff well you know those mouse traps that are really sticky and gooey yeah that's something like that it doesn't need to be quite as sticky and gooey as the mousetrap. You need a lot of get out of that one. You want to get out of that. I think that this is what Chapel Roan does with her feet before she gets on the bed. Just the cooler version of what Katy Perry does?

Jeff, you, I mean, go online tonight and buy a, I don't know what they call them, but basketball players, they step on them and get all the dust off their shoes. So they squeak. Yeah, like a sticky pad. Like a sticky pad. Yeah. And then you just, I'm players, they step on them and get all the dust off their shoes. So they squeak. Yeah, like a sticky pad. Like a sticky pad. Yeah. And then you just, I'm sure you just tear it off and use the next one. You got to get one of these.

Yeah, that's good. But it's got to be healthy for bare feet. It is not. What I'm thinking of. Dang. It'll rip the skin right off. It's safe for dunks, but not for feet. You're right.

I've been doing a thing, and I know we need to get the shit chat jones we get into we haven't even gotten into booze news yet and you know we're never quick about getting into the booze news once the theme even fucking plays my last thing this will be my last thing to say uh what i've been doing jeff instead of sitting on my bottom side and clapping my feet together like a chimp i've been going i don't yeah okay knees on the bed first the feet do their business off the bed off the bed that's what i do oh okay because when you showed us you were a chimp yo i didn't have a bed i couldn't put knees on a bed it's like a cricket almost almost when you're knees on the bed you're just just and see if you're sharing a bed with someone they wouldn't

even know no no no you'd be crawling in onto the bed but they should be doing the same thing i'm like hey babe babe babe do like this do like this oh do the juice how am i gonna get all this dust off my feet yo babe do like this do like this all right can we get us some booze news please hit it so Damn. Slop Anthem, our new walkout music, was sent to us by Bobby TBD. And if you have a booze news theme, email it to thesloppyboyspodcast at gmail.com.

And please do so because we got to refill the hopper for the fall. Bobby TBD. That was, that was fire, bro. That was really good. I liked it a lot. I thought that may have been Bobby Digital.

Do we know that it's not Bobby Digital? We don't know that. We know it's, well, maybe the D in TBD is digital. Bobby the Digital.

What was TBD? Bobby to be digital. To be droid. To be digital. I don't know, but when I heard that song, I don't know about you guys, I was bouncing. That was, that should be our walkout. That's going to play before our shows now. That's good.

Yeah. Can we use that? Bobby? Yeah. Bobby said in his email, here's your new walkout music. Okay. This is the intention. Oh, nice.

We should, Tim, you should put that disclaimer down. his email this here's your new walkout music okay this is the intention oh nice we should uh tim you should put that disclaimer down like hey if you got an idea for the sloppy boys send it into the gmail and uh it's ours to use and uh we own it we own we retain oh that reminds me we got to end i have this track for the end of the episode um everybody knows this was brat girl summer but a lot of people also know that we were ahead of the game of the sun King bitch kind of way ahead of the curve on, on, and kind of in a way a lot better. Um, uh, but, uh, Dan Padley, AKA paddles who plays guitar with us sometimes on our Midwest gigs.

Um, he made a, a remix of a King bitch and it's fantastic. And we should close the show with it to bring Brat Summer to a close. Yes, thank you, Padman. Yeah, Padley, that's good. What is that? Is that an air horn that's being put into a MIDI and then playing different notes with it? I think it's just like a bendy-ass synth.

I was wondering if it was like the classic but manipulated by the... Could be gotta ask bobby tbd i'll ask him a friend of mine um all right what's the actual booze news though the booze news is uh as summer draws to a close big episode for us labor day weekend is to us when we feel summer drawing to a close and we had our last hurrah. Yeah, we had the dog days and those were good, but they were kind of dogging. They were dogging. Bow wow wow

yippee. Well, yo, yippee yay. So now it's time to take stock and before we're going to get into the drink of the day, which is one of these viral sensation of the summer, kind're kind of the last submission getting to getting our consideration. So now that the door is closing on candidates for the drink of the summer, I was just going to do a little roundup of the honorable mentions that we didn't necessarily get to just so that they're on your radar so you guys know and when we're talking we've kind of said that we're going to end today's episode by deciding upon the drink of the summer yeah and i

so i wanted to you to make sure you're aware of these and see if maybe you'd seen them on menus or come across these ones um okay gator wine now i had talked about in booze news, Gatorade cocktails, and then we eventually had the Rosetta raid. But after that, the one that finally blew up was it came from a YouTube video from like a YouTube influencer suggestion from a, from a commenter. And then there was also some big tweet from some, I didn't recognize his name, his name, but maybe it was like a conservative media guy or something. Gator wine. It's it's cheap red wine and specifically the light blue glacier freeze Gatorade equal parts. And that's that's the Gatorade cocktail that eventually took the crown of Gatorade drinks. OK, but and I haven't heard of that one at all.

So it's like, you know, we kind of misjudged it. We maybe should have picked that one. This is much like how there was this race. We make the rules here. There was this race between Blu-ray and HD DVD. You remember? Yeah, HD DVD. And a lot of people bet on HD DVD

and they were wrong. Blu-ray just has the better name. HD DVD. Shut up. And people were like, we already-ray just has the better name. H-D-D-V-D. Shut up. Shut up. And people were like, we already have that. We already have DVD. Yeah, we want Blu-ray.

Ray. We want laser rays. You know what? You know what settled it? Porn, of course. Porn went Blu-ray and so everybody else did too. Why was,

what was H-D, H-D-D-V-D, what was it's like, just not as clear or? No porn. No porn. Pornless. No, it was the same sort of like higher resolution disc,

but it was just a different format. But even Spielberg was like, I'm throwing all my weight behind HD DVD. Well, that happened with beta, beta max too, right? Beta it's VCR or VHS or beta. VHS and beta was better like tape. Like it looked, but it was more expensive, more latest. Right. I never saw, I've never, I've never seen an eight track tape and I've never watched a beta max.

How about a laser disc? You ever see a laser disc? Yeah, they're huge. I mean, they're, they're like. But you ever watched one? No, I've never opened one. I remember seeing them like on shelves and being like, oh, it's, it's a album of movie. But I never saw one. Is it shiny like a cd yeah it's like the size of a vinyl record but it's shiny like a cd shiny

like a cd and it's like both sides i think yeah you gotta flip it halfway through the movie which is weird damn well um okay so gatorine was one thing um that that broke big at the end of the summer taking you back to the beginning of summer um there was a there was a new york times article last year about the tinto de verano tinto de verano uh which is very similarly red wine and sprite uh actually the wikipedia page says uh red wine and soft drink. It's usually Sprite. So this is a classier. This is a Spain thing.

It's both of these. One is fancier than the other, but both Gator Wine and the Tinto de Verano, they're both kind of doing this cheeky sangria thing. It's supposed to be like Cali Mocho. It's like a hack to make something that tastes like delicious sangria when you only have two ingredients. Yum. Love it. Yum.

Then also early in the summer, this was a weird one. The Carajillo. C-A-R-A-J-I-L-L-O. Carajillo? Carajillo. Carajillo. Carajillo? Carajillo. Carajillo. Carajillo. Carajillo.

This is a Spanish coffee drink that early in the year, a lot of people were saying, well, if you thought the espresso martini was big, here's the next coffee cocktail craze. You fools. And what's funny about this one, it kind of, it did have a moment, but when I was following up on it, it only blew up in Texas. Like, it was like, there's all these articles about it in Houston, and then I found

one article in Dallas, and I was like, nobody... We'll ask Robert about it. Yeah, we should. It's East Texas, though. We'll probably call them up and be drunk on them. Yeah, they used to be big, but somebody drank them all up. Let's be honest. The espresso martini never went away. It stayed huge this whole summer. I still think, yeah.

And then, okay, last two. This is a full novelty. This is a challenge, TikTok challenge. The Lot Lizard, Jack Daniels, and tuna water from a can. Nope. No, man. Nasty. Yeah, nasty, but come on. No, man. No, ma'am. challenge tiktok challenge the lot lizard jack daniels and tuna water from a can nope no man nasty but no man no ma'am thank you you can't look down your nose at that based on what we're doing here today uh actually jeff let me make me uh i can make you like it less i was like where's that name come from and lot lizard is like what the name for like a uh a truck stop sex worker oh don't like that

so then when you think jack daniel's in tune water there i think that's fucking nasty inappropriate for the pod very inappropriate for this pod at least they did this to our pod oh maybe on maybe on i don't know jenna jameson uh her new podcast yeah she's probably all excited about that oh my god all right then then there's one last one i mean that that makes the grimace piss look like uh uh uh dom perignon absolutely now if you had a bottle of dom perignon you'd leave it in your fucking freezer again and have it fucking pop. Yeah, fucking blow up all over your fucking ice cubes. Don't ever buy me Dom.

Don't ever buy me Dom. It's the meanest thing you could do to Mike. Hey, don't buy me Dom. Hey, you want to mess me up? Buy me Dom. Mess me up for a week. It's like a guy, a Bob's just saying to his wife, don't ask about my business.

You meet someone new. Hey, hey, I'm a great guy. I'm a great guy. Don't ever buy me buy me don't ever buy me expensive champagne i'm gonna ruin it um and then lastly um we had the uh pina colada pina pina colada corona on the pod and we noticed there there were lots of other in the tradition of the spaghet there were a lot of other beer cocktails and i when i circled back at the end of the summer i found that one was still the most viral of them there was one called similar called the corona sunrise that's uh corona with oj grenadine and tequila that sounds good um and then there was a viral video of a lady at costco talking about coors light and

disaronno and uh she said that tastes like dr pepper and that was kind of a hit so wait but these were all drinks that we didn't cover except for the pina colada corona you mentioned yeah i was just bringing it up to say that we thought we would probably be doing more beer bottle cocktails and we never did but then i went to see which ones took off and they were these gotcha well also since we're talking um since we're gonna be talking later about drink of the summer we also covered this summer the lone ranger bandera shots uzo chicago handshake rosetta raid rocket fuel limoncello spritz the pina colada corona and brass, if you want to count that.

And a hand slammer. Of course. Now, I feel like Limoncello Spritz was definitely one that was booming because of Sabrina Carpenter. And Lone Ranger, it was definitely a submission. A lot of those, we were drinking them because they specifically had been called. The Lone Ranger was a good one. That was last week, the red wines. That was very good.

A couple more in June. Orange Whip, Garden Party, and Porn Star Martini. So we have been busy, boys. Oh, Porn Star Martini. So that one was, there were articles about it being the drink of the summer. And while that clearly didn't happen, I definitely saw a lot of passion fruit all over the place yeah i did see like weird knockoffy like passion fruit vanilla vodka attempts attempts nice try nice try let's try it you know it's not nearly viral but didn't blow up but i think because we did the chicago handshake i had my eye out for like uh boiler

makers and bartenders handshakes and that type of thing. And I didn't know there. I knew I noticed as far as like not what's a tick tock sensation or anything like that, but actually walking into bars and looking at menus. I did notice an uptick in shot beer special. Yeah, I

kind of have noticed a lot too. I didn't I haven't been tracking it. But now you say that I've a place I was last night, Adam. Holy shit. Holy shit balls. Um, okay,

great. Is that it for booze news? Oh, oh. And then I was also going to say, we never actually did the, the bromosa. That was one of those beer ones,

but I never heard much of it after that one video. It was a golf course drink. Isn't bromosa close to a Spaghet? No, that was the NASCAR. NASCAR Spritz. Spritz, right. Which is just a different name that people have been saying instead of Spaghet. I've also heard message in a bottle.

Hmm. Dunno. Whatever. Well, that's it for Booze News. Wrap it up. Oh, cool, man. Hamburger. All right.

Wow. And now with Booze News done and the summer sun is setting, we get to try one last summer drink. Isn't that nice? That is nice. Yeah, that is nice. And we're going to. Now, yeah, this is going to be good. Well, look, I think that we did a lot of gimmicky shit this summer thank you to the listeners who

bared with us hating every second of it but most people enjoyed it they didn't hate they liked down deep they liked the headline of the year for us was that we broke free from the shackles of the international bartenders association cocktail list yeah that was a big yeah yeah that was big and then i think that some people liked all those classy drinks we used to do and we're gonna get back into that it's just how tough that was to look at the list and be like okay summer's coming up what can we do uh we still haven't done the vento yeah uh we still haven't done the spicy 50 that all we kick the can on all the hard to make ones and then our last 10 weeks were like Oh, we gotta go to the grocery store

And we made it clear that this summer was gonna be fun It's fun summer Right, so I think that A, we like doing fun stuff in the summer And we had a lot to celebrate So we were doing shots But then also just stuff like rosé tirade You know, it happens during the summer

So we explored it Yeah, you gotta try it But I do think I'm excited to have a gimlet a classy drink I just had a gimlet last night at the Odeon you mean just rum, lime and syrup?

no gin gin, lime and syrup gin, lemon and lemon? gin, lime, sugar there it is it was great Lemon and... Lemon? No. Gin, lime, sugar. That's right. There it is.

It was great. I'm thinking daiquiri. The Odeon from... What's that book I like? The Odeon. Who came and who did not come to the Odeon. Bright Lights, Big City. Yes.

Yes, Cerritos. Okay. I just shit-talked gimmicky drinks, and now I'm going to introduce the most gimmicky drink of them all. Ladies and gentlemen, the hot dog cocktail from Kroger you've had. No, I have not. You've heard. I've heard, yes.

Yeah, only from the chain. But only on this podcast. Only on this cast. Only from the GC. We saved this for last, but I would have to say, call it a novelty or whatever this was the most tagged the most texts i've gotten in my wet bathing suit pocket my notification center was overflowing it was a mess zapped um full zapped by a mile folks uh i appreciate everyone who sends us drinks and especially things that are labeled drink of the summer this this was like 10 to

1 dwarfed everything else sent to us it was a big viral thing um and i gotta say i also just noticed hot dog stuff in general did you notice like like in women's clothing in the sort of like post fashion brand company era, like you would see like hot babes in like a hot dog dress and stuff like that. Did you notice? I felt like a hot dog stuff. I saw a guy, I saw a guy at some point this summer looked like he had a hot dog in his pocket.

It turned out he was excited to see me. Come on. No, I, I i that's interesting i haven't that did not uh hit me i don't know if we did we do like i know we did a bratwurst episode i don't know if we did something where i was doing hot dog research but my algorithm got very hot dog centric for a while i feel like yours may already have been anyway and that's why jeff and i you were teetering on the cliff to begin with tim there there was a week there where my entire uh fyp was just like ironic hot dog memes um but yeah no i just saw little hot dogs popping up as like funny normcore type uh style choices uh but then this was a video a viral video from kroger foods which is funny kroger like they own ralph's it's like a grocery distributor yeah yeah yeah i want to say like

probably like safeway or you know they they just own a bunch of nationwide um hell i think i heard that kroger and vons might even merge and therefore our beloved Albertsons would be in the Kroger family. Um, but they made this video and then they did the thing where like they re kept putting the video out with different music. Like one time it would have like million dollar baby as the song. And then another time it will have some other song. We should fucking do that.

Why not? Yeah, we should put the same music videos with the difference yeah put a real good one on there yeah put million dollar baby over one of our music videos um and there i also saw then other like hot dog drinks, hot dog martini. There was like a hot dog juice martini from at cocktails. That was complicated though. Cause that one had like, Oh, first of all,

you want to soak your vermouth with tomatoes for three days. Yeah. A joke drink that starts with a two day infusion is pretty stupid. But you know that, I mean, that was another thing of the year, though, right, was us hitting the wall on the savory martinis. And that one, the last one you mentioned, had no actual hot dog water in it. It didn't? That one just had, like, garnished with hot dog. We went with the balls of your choice.

We're going for that briny, slippery stuff. Yeah. Well, if you want to see the video, you can look it up on Kroger Co. They'll follow Kroger Co. Don't worry about it. It should be your homepage, folks. It's just the POV video

making the drink. They don't even give it a name, so we're calling it the hot dog cocktail. Hot dog water cocktail. Hot dog water cocktail. Clickable. Oh, yeah. I didn't say that before when i asked if you had or heard i mean hot dog water yeah i have had and heard of hot dog water cocktail but tim you did some good detective work on this video because we were watching the program video searching all over

being like what's the liquor they put in it? Because people were just jokingly referring to it as brown liquor. But you only see a fleeting glimpse of the bottle. Right. Because this video was more of a joke. It wasn't really like walking you through the recipe. You had to look close. So we saw the hot dog water and then a squeeze of lemon. And then when there was a bottle, my little peepers, I freeze framed it.

I was like, I think it might be Jim Beam honey. Right. and then a bartender friend of mine says that's jim beam i was like yeah do you think it's jim beam honey no jim beam and then i put i i put the screen grab out to uh our instagram and said hey what's this bottle and i got like 10 more people immediately say jim beam then i went this morning to the grocery store. Bright and early. And I texted you guys. I think you were the first one in, Tim. I'm working on a job right now,

so I had to get my fun out of the way. Oh, right, right, right. You got to get that Jim Beam research done early before you go to the office. Drain that bottle of Jim Beam and off to the office. I recreated, I took a picture of my hand holding the Jim Beam bottle from that angle and texted it to you guys and you said, by George.

He's got it. That's it. So we cracked the case and here it is. Here is the recipe. It was just a mystery size jigger they were using, but I'm going to call it two ounces because a cocktail should have two ounces of liquor. Two ounces of hot dog water, meaning boil some hot dogs,

and then scoop two ounces of the water. Take the resultant water and put it aside. Is it okay that if you use one of those hot dogs and... Oh, man. ...dinner for the night? I had hot dogs for breakfast, lunch... No, Tim. Too many nitrates. I had hot dogs for breakfast. Lunch. No.

How many nitrates? I bit down on a big nitrate, too. Ow! I boiled three, ate one. I boiled two, ate two, kept the water aside. I should have kept the water. Okay. Kidding.

I'm kidding. Two ounces of hot dog water one squeeze a lemon let's say you take half a lemon and just squeeze it in there as much as you can easy you just take that lemon and pour yeah let's call it was your a half lamp one squeeze half of the lemon or whatever you really get the response you are just gonna get a nice grab on that lemon and... Okay. This time I heard the sound effect and I think it's funny. Great. Oh, he loves it.

Of course he loves it. He's wearing a yellow shirt. He loves lemon humor right now. No, I put it in tribute to mustard for hot dogs. Nice. French's. Okay. Ingredient three is two ounces of liquor, which we have determined to be Jim Beam.

I was fighting right up until the last minute that I wanted to make this with vodka, but we're going to make Jim Beam bourbon. Yep. With the white label, the OG. Mm-hmm. And here's, I wrote up the method, but kind of just based on me watching the video and it's pour ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. and it's pour ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice shake and strain into a rocks glass that has been wetted with a pickle and rimmed with salt and pepper so like instead of doing

the lime around the top yeah yeah you get some of that pickly juice and and that rocks glass should be filled with ice then you you know you've strained your drink into that rocks glass full of ice that's been rimmed and then you garnish with a cocktail weenie, yellow hot chili pepper, tomato, and cocktail onion. I don't have all of those. I got a couple of those. I got something I'm going to do. I don't have any of those, but it looks really cool. It looks very cool.

Yeah, but okay. We'll talk about that garnish. I'm just garnishing with a pickle. If you have a jar of those little pearl cocktail onions, those are fun make gibsons with yeah you know it's nice it's nice how before we do it are you guys confident in your hot dog water that it did it look cloudy enough to have flavor let's talk about this first because yeah i was gonna maybe save this for after break but is it we're not strangers to hot dogs the three of us no way no i glizzy. But do you, is this your preferred method? Do you boil in water?

This is my first time ever boiling in water. I'm a grill guy or a pan fry guy. Everything else is better. If you're going to boil, you may as well just pop it into the microwave. Fucking weird. And so I did that for lunch. I ate two hot dogs and then I just put it in a coffee mug and put it in the fridge. And I'm hoping, hoping against hope, that there's not a thin layer of fat wax dried on top of this thing.

You might have to break it up. There very well might be. But it did look briny and oily, and it had like the effervescent pearlescent dots all in it. Yeah, it's a strange thing. Like, just the idea of hot dog water, that's not a thing you ever really, you know, nobody's ever quantified it. For Fred Durst? Fred Durst did. Yeah, I think he was talking about something else, though.

Okay, well, Jeff, when you mentioned the fat on the hot dog water, something just clicked for me. Yeah? This silly drink of whiskey, hot dog water, I'm realizing that we have had old fashions that have pork fat in them that's the thing there's there is such thing as a bacon old-fashioned yeah fat washed me when uh when me and mike were at uh pdt with jack shram in new york we had a fat washed old fashioned so whiskey and pork fat are not, I mean I've got all beef ranks. It's not as strange as it seems.

Not as strange as it seems. It's not totally random. The lemon instead of just a zest, it was a big old squeeze. Well, you know what? It kind of fits in with that theme of the drinks of the summer, which we were saying some of them are a poor man man sangria or like an easier way of making a higher brow thing.

So, hey, this is a poor man's fat washed old fashioned. Yeah. Okay. It's a true, it's a true chip dip is sauce now moment. Okay, great. Well, folks, we're going to go fetch our hot dog waters. Okay, great. And when we come back, first sips.

I'm wearing the new shirt, Jeff. Yeah, great. I love it. It looks good on you. It does look really good. Thank you. It's a nice feel. And in these hot last remaining days of the summer.

Let's see these drinks. It's nice to have a t-shirt. Oh, Jefferson. Jeff, you got a whole hot dog in there as a swizzle stick? My garnish is a whole Nathan's jumbo. That's good. It looks like it hasn't been cooked. It's sort of like the celery stick. Yeah, this is a whole nathan's jumbo that's good it looks like it hasn't been cooked it's sort of like the celery stick yeah this is a cold dog straight out the package

it's funny you can tell a cold hot dog is this got a different shape it's got like a square shape it's so flattened from packing i used hoffy natural casing oh hoffy natural that's good too now jeff my my hot dog water did have that dreaded layer of fat you were talking about. Yeah, I didn't bother reheating or anything. I just poured it, and yeah, some fat pellets got in there, and they got shook up. I think that's it, yeah. I think they broke up into the mix, but now looking at my drink, I see like, yeah, the flex of ice you love to see, and then probably some fat balls too. Yeah. Shall we?

I'll tell you what what this is going to be the best garnish i ever ate that's going to be oh yeah that's for sure did you now what did you do tim for the garnish did you do the full thing i just put i i put two little pieces of hot dog as if they're cocktail weenies and i didn't have a uh yellow hot chili pepper so i just used one banana pepper ring like the kind you would have on a sub i'll tell you what i wish i had a uh i wish i had some more of those cocktail weenies just around the house. Those are good. I couldn't find them.

Why don't you take a peek in your underwear? Hey, hey, hey. That's for me to say. That's for me to say only. Do those come in like – I looked all over the normal hot dog section. They're not there. Do they come in like a can or in like another place? I know.

They must be in a different spot. No, those are Vienna sausages that come in a can. I tried to find them last year. Yeah, I couldn't. They should be over by the hot dogs. I bought them by the hot dogs. I couldn't even find them by the Crescent Rolls. Now, we should take a drink of these things. We're talking about rolls. Okay. Sips.

Okay. Hmm. Oh! I'm glad to have this garnish Okay. Hmm. Oh. Oh. I'm glad to have this garnish here to take the taste of that away. The salt helps. Salt rim helps. Yeah, why the salt and pepper?

Rim. I mean, why any of this? Right. Yeah. Nah, I don't like this. Why? What's the word I'm looking for bullshit no it's just like tepid uh it's not going one way or the other jeff i think i know what you mean

because i wanted it to be like a bullshot it completely like i i can't taste the uh the liquor very well. No, it's... Can you guys... At least the Bullshot Beef Bouillon has like an umami taste to it. This is just like fatty water. It's not like you taste hot dog, right? It's just a watered down whiskey. Yeah, it's just like a slicker mouthfeel.

A slicker liquor. Yeah, it's watered down whiskey. That's why I'm not getting the whiskey taste. And the lemon is like indistinguishable. Are you swayed by the smell though? Think about that too. No real smell. I've got no smell. I'm getting a little bit of a hot dog brine

smell. Maybe it's because I've got a whole dog in there. Yeah, the dog's going to burn your nose. I think that's your garnish. You were saying that your hot dog was poking in your nostril. I will say one good thing about this drink is I got new big ice cubes. I got a big ice cube maker.

Oh, Michael. Not a maker, just a big sleeve, a little holder for them to be made. Mold. Press. Mold! A little water holder that they'll be turned into ice. As predicted, this is the best garnish, most delicious

garnish I've ever had. Beets, a Luxardo cherry. Yeah, I'll tell you, I'm, because of this drink, I got myself a big old jar of whole dill pickles. Mike, I got myself a big jar

of the sandwich slices. Oh, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like the stacker slices. Yeah. But not Vlasic. Not Vlasic. Good, good. The good ones from the freezer section.

Freezer section? It's a fridge section. Refrigerated pickles. Clawson? Yeah, they may be Clawson's. Baton? I really lost my cool there when you said freezer section. The only reason I say that is because i've never heard of frozen

pickle and i said what is this new technology what is up uh uh oh but but these pickles i got they don't have they're like b and g pickle it's a b and something like bread oh bread and butter but i know b and g is like a rock bottom cheap brand right yeah but i thought because i never really see because i know vlasic I thought Vlasic was the lowest and B&G I was like, oh, this looks, maybe this is the good one. You can go a lot lower than Vlasic. And they didn't snap. They didn't snap. You know, they just

kind of mush. So I'll probably be eating them unhappily but eating the whole jar. Wow. I don't like this and here's why. Lots of times you taste something that's gross but then you can tell yourself no this is a delicacy

people love this so learn to appreciate it I sip this I don't like the taste and then I'm like oh it's fucking hot dog water that's stupid I shouldn't drink it yeah the wateriness is the thing that's getting to me.

Two ounces is a lot of water to put in. Yeah. Hot dog or otherwise. And it's not flavored enough. It's vacant. It's just like sweaty. Well, and that's the thing. I cooked my hot dogs until they seemed done.

I don't know. And like there was some viscosity to the water. And then I said, that should be good. I let mine keep bubbling longer than usual to make sure that water had... It was nice and gold. Yep. I don't know about this.

Hey, to take our minds off this into something more exciting, I have an idea. I'm not going to tell you guys what it is on the pod because this is a brilliant idea. People will take it from us. Okay. I got an idea for I'm not going to tell you guys what it is on the pod because this is a brilliant idea. People will take it from us. Okay. I got an idea for a sauce. Okay.

Okay. Marinara. Nope. Buffalo. It could be a dipping sauce. It could be a marinade. I'm not sure yet, but I want to make it and I want to run it by you guys. I think the sloppy boys needs to expand past medium.

Yeah. No more. It's not just about content we need a sauce brand we're not content with content exactly i'm i'm coughing here because i swallowed some pepper here pepper flakes right in my damn throat i have a sauce i'll even say it on the air i don't know if that's a good idea, Jeff, because we want to make this into a profitable business. Yeah. Well, here's what I used to do as a kid. Yeah, you have hot dogs with your family, right? Yeah. What do the hot dogs normally get served with? Bun.

Buns. Keep going. Potato chips. I'm going beans. Oh, God. Franks and beans. No. Yes.

Your family had Franks and beans for dinner? What do you mean no? You never heard of Franks and beans. No. Yes. Your family had Franks and beans for dinner? What do you mean no? You never heard of Franks and beans? I say no because I hate baked beans, so I don't. Oh, I fucking love a baked bean. Give me a Bush's baked bean with a little bacon hunk in there. I like everything, but I would put Franks and beans at probably dead last in the dinner. Get the fuck out of here.

And this guy puts corn on a bagel. Yeah, that's good. Here's what bagel. Here's what you did. Here's what you did if you're like me. Yeah, you got the dog on there and you could put ketchup on it. Yeah, you could put some mustard on it. Or you could go for that rich, savory bean sauce juice. That's what goes on the dog. That's the sauce they should bottle.

Bean sauce. Bean sauce, folks. Yeah, that's what goes on the dog. That's the sauce they should bottle. Bean sauce. Bean sauce, folks. Yeah, that's what you put. How about you put some of that bean sauce in this drink and give it some flavor? Strictly something. I would even say hot sauce would liven this drink up. Well, you should have put our yellow hot chili pepper. Yeah.

You know those little ones you bite off the tip and then you squeeze it like it's a little bit of hot sauce? Yes, that's what I do on my Italian sandwiches, Tim. A little sport pepper. Can I ask you this? Hold on, we're getting away from this. We're getting away from the sauce idea. Is there a way, can we make a sauce and actually sell it? Dexter Holland did.

Hmm. Yeah, what about a... Oh, Dexter Holland. I thought that was a sauce brand. I was like, who's Dexter? No, but he made a sauce. He made a hot sauce. I was getting my hair done at a fellow barbershop.

And the guy was telling me that he's coming out with like a hair wax. And he was telling me, he's like, you get, there are these companies that like mix up. You tell them like, I want like this percentage of this ingredient and that percentage of that. And they make a balm for him. And then he reached out to a different company that makes the little hockey puck shaped like container and then printer and all this. And then, you know, you can get this. We would have to come up with a recipe. Mike, what if it's like a garbage plate sauce?

Yeah. What if it's. Well, maybe, you know, let's not talk about the sauce here while we're being recorded. So he wants to talk about the sauce. He doesn't want to talk about the sauce. I don't want to talk about the sauce here while we're being recorded. So he wants to talk about the sauce. He doesn't want to talk about the sauce. I don't want to talk about the specifics of the sauce. So is it just called sauce and we don't say what type of sauce it is and people just buy it on blind faith? No, no, no, no.

Of course the sauce will have packaging. Of course. You can't sell naked bottles of just sauce in it. People would lose their minds. Sauce. It's just the only word on the whole bottle is sauce. Sauce. Sauce.

Sauce. Sauce. Sauce. Sauce. sauce sauce it's just the only word on the whole bottle is sauce sauce sauce it's in sauce sauce ingredients sauce and that's the commercial people looking over the sky it's lowercase in the front you turn around it's uppercase with exclamation point sauce sauce sauce Sauce Sauce Sauce What the hell is this Sauce Well No but my point is Can we As a company The birthday boys company

Cause we gotta Start putting up booze That's eventually gonna happen Sloppy boys What'd I say Birthday It's fine Yeah

It's the same kind of group Similar Similar crossover But We're gonna eventually have to make A sloppy boys booze That's going to happen but what if we just kind of make this whole sloppy boys food

booze kit maybe you buy the old kit I like that yeah that's good but that seems like people can do you can make a sauce you just make it how about a buffalo wing sauce ooh that could be good no a blue cheese dip we got to make a blue cheese dip. We gotta make the

blue cheese celery in the buffalo sauce. What about blue cheese sauce with a little something else? You know? That's what we gotta figure out. Like what? I don't know. Pistachio. Ooh,

pistachio. Serve it with a pistachio shell. Hmm. That's too small. Hmm, hmm, hmm. That's too small. Well, you can move on with this topic, Jeff, if you want. Me?

It's up to you. You're the host. Yeah, I know. I had a topic. Me? I thought that sauce thing would really open things up. It did. No.

Not for me. Not for me. Not for me. Also, I put the cap on it pretty quickly. I meant to bring this up at the top of the show, and then we started talking about other topics. But do you guys remember we were talking about socks? Yeah. We did a sock check, you and me, and Mookie one day.

Yeah. And we were saying that what were the different styles of sock we're saying gen z wears socks halfway up the calf full crew crew and then uh i was saying i wear ankle socks but i don't like wearing no-show socks right and we were talking about the difference between millennials and gen z and their sock wear right oh yeah last week that was a good episode i wake up those are the eyelids opening. Like I went in Stimpy close up. For me, that's the knee joints.

I went straight, straight outside, like within moments opening the eyeballs, I'm walking to get coffee, right? Yeah. I walked to the coffee place to get the coffee. I'm walking back. Carpet. Carpet. And let's say that this i wasn't thinking about what i wore at all right morning morning early morning yeah cock-a-doodle-doo what do i

have on my feet i've got sperry boat shoes no socks right on my feet yeah love it it's a hot summer day it's august for Christ's sake. At the time. A couple of young guys. I'd play some 20 years old. Tall fellows. Walking the opposite way. I'm drinking my coffee. Walking sockless.

And one of the guys looks at me. Laughs. And goes. No time for socks this morning? What? What the fuck? And I looked down at my feet. That is not a weird thing to wear.

That is not a mentionable offense. I looked at my family. I was like, yeah, I guess not. And then I was like, our sock conversation didn't hit me yet. And I was like, oh, and then I look at this guy's feet. He's doing that. Look, we've talked about the kind of black loafers with the white socks, dress shoes, Michael Jackson. Oh, yeah.

So this is this fucker's out there thinking about his feet footwear. He's at 845 in the morning. Right. It's a statement for him. And then he sees me, a creative, not thinking about my attire, but more about what a beautiful, how beautiful it is to be alive on this morning. And he thought that bear, and I'm not trying to look cool at all. I look like shit, but he thought that bear ankles were so weird that he commented on

it. Sorry. Was he with friends? Was he trying to rise? He was with one friend and there were two goons who laughed at me and they're gooning their way through town. Were they like like were they like good looking people like were they like hip no like they had he was dressed that way because he thought it was cool but he was a stupid ugly guy whatever happened to the gen z empathy you hear about all the time they

don't go around making fun of people's socks what the fuck is like the biggest thing to these people apparently what's the only thing they seem to care about anymore. Well, it's just so strange, Tim, because like, yeah, you're right. He put more thought into his outfit at 845 than you. And it's like, you can tell that you're a guy who's doing other stuff that day, not just like, all right, I'm getting a coffee. I'm going to say that wasn't apparent. I i'm gonna be on the gen z side for that that was maybe not apparent that he had a busy day ahead of him wardrobe change most likely i i've had this thought

though before anytime like a young person feels cool around me i have this funny thing it's like i don't need to express it because i'm not insecure but I'm like do you know what I fucking do for a living I'm in like a I'm a writer and I'm in a band and I drink cocktails like I'm not a stiff I'm not some fucking loser like you know fuck off this kid is this kid is clearly uh taking something out on you he's filling a hole Tim he's like yeah he's spending time thinking about his socks. His dad didn't love him. Exactly. His sockless father abandoned him.

I think his father wore too many socks. Wore socks up to his crotch. Too many. I don't know what I would do differently in this drink. This might be, I got to be honest with you, this might be a dump, because I haven't finished, this might be a dump because i haven't finished it might be a dump out and make a something other type of drink yeah i was sort of in the mood to like get a little tipsy on the pod with my boys and i don't want to drink more of this but i want

to drink yeah it's kind of turned me off the whole thing i might do i might do just like a big ice cube and uh some simple syrup and some jim bean yeah jim bean you're maybe like a jim and simple jim a jim and simple jimple it's the drink of the summer i'm gonna do that too i'm gonna have a gin and sim and i mean your gym it's it's an old-fashioned without the angostura or without any of the uh flavor yeah yeah you know maybe I'll put some orange bitters in it why not yeah I don't know

I'm gonna I'm gonna experiment too I think I'm also done with the hot dog water no need for a re-approach yeah I'm gonna make a whiskey sour I'm gonna use the

other half of my lemon and I'll pull a little simple syrup I'm gonna have a whiskey sour okay great I'm gonna go rogue yeah I took like

after I put you know use my hot dog water I'm like okay back in the fridge for the next round this is gonna be so good fuck that it's not good at all as a matter of fact and you know what i poured the i poured the hot dog water into my measuring device when i dump it out it's all congealed and got a bunch of crazy crap on the inside now i'm gonna rinse that out that's a that's a tear down for that too. You're going to need to do your measuring. This is a total fucking do-over.

Folks, we're going to go to break and when we come back, we're going to see if we can turn this ship around. I know. What a sad ending for the drink of the summer. No, it's good. We crossed it off. No, it's a no. And when we come back, we are going to be discussing

drink of the summer and making some real strong final determinations that you don't want to miss after this. Hey, we're back. Round two is kind of sort of, I just did a whiskey sour to the letter. A good one. With egg white?

With egg white, yes. Ah. I did kind of an old-fashioned-y type thing. I just did whiskey, orange bitters, a little lemon. I didn't put sugar in it, and that's it. Orange bitters, a little lemon. I didn't put sugar in it. That's it.

I had a Jimple with lemon, a.k.a. a whiskey sour. This is much better. This is how I want to end my summer. Yeah. You're going into the fall. The fall highball. Now, remind me, Tim, what was in the Fall Highball? Whiskey and apple soda.

The Fall Highball. Oh, yeah. All right. Can we just adjudicate the hot dog water cocktail? Yeah, never worry. And just get it out of the way. It's a dump out. Yeah, it's the hot out. Yeah. It's, it's, it's the Hawk to a girl of drinks.

We had her this summer. We will never talk about her again. I like Hawk to a girl a lot better than I like this. I shouldn't say we'll never talk about it. She could have a, she's wonderful and has potential. And I think she's great, but you know what I mean? Yeah.

Okay. The drink of the summer. Is this something we had said we could we could uh post on x a poll and get an opinion from the audience offer them a couple picks and see what they think or we can ignore them because we're the brain trust right here yeah it's good to get a little outside uh opinion i think normally this is a blowout thing, something we do behind the paywall, and it kind of settles, you know, best this, best that. We kind of leave it to the people.

Not so in this case, because we know better than people on X. But Tim, you did X out, post on X. You said, what's the drink of the summer? People probably responded with some i already did that earlier in the week i i didn't for i didn't offer a poll i just said what's the drink of the summer to see what people say because i wanted to make sure we weren't like leaving out

some major viral hit um i looked at with their answers um and just people picked a bunch of rando shit. And no, I did not have the feeling like, oh, right, that thing was really huge. A lot of people talking about random shit. A lot of people, a lot of fans of the hand slammer. That's for damn sure. That's for sure. I mean, that's cool. And then a lot of people picking random drinks that we've done on the show or their own little weird thing that they like.

You know, the thing that came up a lot is beer. And I kind of did think like if you're being if you're being honest and you're going by the numbers, Bud Light is the drink of the summer. That was the biggest beer. You think beer is back? We said that beginning. And I don't think beer was back this summer, but it definitely was like, I'm going to drink beers in the summertime. Bud Light is back on top. The White Claw wave is subsiding.

That's for sure. I noticed an uptick in my world of Miller Light, which I was happy to see. And Bud Light is the number one beer again. But should we offer them a poll? Eh. Hmm. We can offer a poll, but we're not going to go on it because this is

too big. We don't need to do a poll because we're not going to use those numbers. We're like the electoral college. We don't need a popular vote. Okay, well. Well, we could, well could well damn we could say uh nominate our three and put it out for 20 minutes no yeah might as well put it out oh oh for them to pick yeah amongst ours okay but then that doesn't necessarily pick it well

either way we know that we're more like supreme court justices than presidents here we can we can yeah skew we we get to do what we want to do yeah yeah uh who wants to kick it off i say i'm gonna say this here's my pick it is uh still espresso martini wow i that is the one i've been consistently seeing on every menu that and and the the list you gave Tim, at the beginning of the episode. Now, I do think Ranch Water was very good. Or not Ranch Water. You saw that out there? No, no, no.

I saw a lot of Ranch Water. Well, what am I trying to say? The Texas, the Lone Ranger. That I thought was, of the ones we did. Quite good. Of the new ones, probably my favorite of the new ones. Looks good, too. It's an attractive, maybe next year for the Lone Ranger.

Jeez. Yes, it could be next year for the Lone Ranger. Sowing the seeds. But I thought, yeah, I think Espresso Martini is hanging out there, and I don't think Sabrina Carpenter's hit heard it. I'm sorry. Wait, what? Sabrina Carpenter's hit, Espresso Me Baby.

Okay, because I was confused. I was conflating. She did a big push for the Limoncello Spritz. Right, right, right. That's confused. Why did she do that? Should have been martinis. Anyway, that's my pick.

I think she has stock in St. Germain. Yeah. All right. Well, I agree. It's been tougher to call than in previous years, but I'm not going to be a bummer and go out there and say, not applicable. I want to play along. Not only do I want to play along, I want to win.

Oh, that's, you know, we talked about that. It's not really it. And I can only go from the heart. Being a podcaster, being a public persona being a you know a public figure the drink i made all summer long and i'm not saying this to puff up the pod to puff up my boy i made a million fucking hand slammers this summer oh my god people have been doing that it's big man even on the tour tour, each venue made it. Yes. I had a big, dusty handle of Captain Morgan.

Nothing to do with it until the hand slammer came along, and now it's gone. And it's not a drink that other people have invented first because it's a different type. It's not. Of rum, and it's a different measurements. What about the ruby daiquiri daggery tim you shut your mouth that's exactly what i'm talking about not the same thing that's just different white gin nobody drinks that anymore i will say this mike i haven't had a classic uh you know to the letter of the law recipe i've always used grapefruit soda not grapefruit juice and you think yeah maybe that's a little

sweeter maybe than than grapefruit or the fancy stuff the pink italian stuff q q q they make the root they make tonic water and they make uh damn i'm queuing on right yeah no you're not um well jeff that still counts because think of the broad definition of so many drinks we make like the name is the hand slammer i am tim and i am i am thinking of that pretty soon you're gonna walk into any juke join or two-bit saloon across this nation order us and slammer they're all gonna have their different take on it sure and look and if they do make those we will be filing lawsuits because that could be another thing we're selling you see you see what i'm saying yeah there's a lot to be sold now what about you tim okay well entered the summer thinking it was going to be batonga because i actually like them yep but that

peaked early went away porn star martini even though passion fruit happened uh porn star martini did not gator wine came along too late for it to be the the drink of the summer lemon drop had some buzz and while lemony stuff was big not the lemon drop limoncello spritz was big sure i had sabrina carpenter plugging it but even that couldn't put it over the top not over the top but i certainly saw it that did happen it's it's refreshing to see like oh i watched a thing happen um as i said you know bud light is probably like the actual real answer and and the beer in the shot specials actually probably like a modelo or a special or a that was last year's because they were they got big yeah modelo got big modelo was number one last summer bud light was number one this summer oh so they they they weathered the storm from all that uh they had the anti-trans stuff and then

then they flip-flopped on okay everybody forgot about that i guess yeah um because it's just the cheapest thing you can buy you know what i made a lot at home was rum palomas because i like rum more than tequila so i had squirting rum all the time almost that's nice now you can't call this the drink of the summer because it's a perennial hit out on fire island but i love the rocket fuel yes and you could call it the drink of the summer what was in that one again it's it was like a pina cool one like a 151 that had some de serrano that was good but i decided upon my vote before this podcast even started and i had already grappled with the logic of there tim what can you nominate do you where are we talking about your favorite are we talking about from the drinks in the pot or are we talking about your favorite? Are we talking about from the drinks in the pot? Or are we talking about from the whole world?

And I said, well, I don't feel like there was consensus in the whole world. And hey, my podcast is a hit podcast in the culture, is it not? My podcast counts as the culture. Oh, shit. So the best drink that came out of my podcast that I made all summer long, I already decided it hours ago, is the hand slammer. Yes. We're not putting this to x

there's no need this is oh there'll be a waste of time but hand slammer is the drink of the summer thank you guys i didn't even think of it i barely drank in those at all this summer to be honest you're like amadeus i just fucking do this shit and it's if it's good for you the public fine you're just out there creating one-off miracles, not overthinking it. I'm on the sauces now. You hear me? When everyone's saying,

how do we crack the code on the hand slammer recipe? I'm gone. Good luck. And you think we're stupid? Oh, hand slammer, shut up. You guys are smart

because you're with me. You're on the thing. Shut the fuck up. So wait what what kind of press release do we put out are we are we gonna look i did i did i did post a poll just now just to reinforce yeah but i feel like we should have like an instagram post to commemorate that celebrate that we came up with the best drink of the summer okay we already have 17 votes and it's a hundred percent hand slammer zero percent espresso martini damn damn so mike how's it feel to lose the poll but kind of win the summer i'm torn jeff i'm really torn here because i do put a lot of uh i put way too much weight on the polls i think for myself wait what poll did you lose well you lost the poll but he won the drink you know the

espresso martini oh Oh, because you... Yeah. That'd be funny if you were really sad. Ah! I thought I knew the culture better. I'll say this. Espresso martini is here to stay, ain't going nowhere. No.

I don't consider it the drink of any summer. I'm calling it now, it's the drink of the decade by a fucking mile. Wow. The drink of the 20s. I think it's the drink of the decade by a fucking mile. Wow. The drink of the twenties. I think it's, there's no, it's peerless. That is so popular right now.

It's fucking crazy. Yeah. Was it invented? When was it invented? Nineties. Okay. By, uh,

Jeff Brad. So wow, Tim, the memory man. Yeah. Memory man's back. When's Jeff done? I'm going to come up with a, a drink that I would like to see Dutton Brad. The Memory Man. Yeah, Memory Man's back. When's Jeff Dutton going to come up with a drink that,

I would like to see Dutton and Brad Silke together. I see you guys both have names, both have drinks that you made your namesake. That's something I should aspire to, you know? Like you got the Hand Slammer and the Calpe Cordial. Now I'm proud of the Yule Mule. I'm proud of it. Yeah.

But I didn't really put my name on it. I didn't put my moniker on it. Didn't give it the old John Hancock. You might, in this situation, say, oh, people aren't going to remember. But you know what? Like Coke, Coca-Cola. Who made Coca-Cola? Nobody knows.

It's the biggest thing ever, probably because it's not called Johnson Soda. Yeah, that's true. I'm not drinking a Johnson Soda. I'm having a Pepsi over at Johnson's. And look at the worst name in the game, Toms of Maine? Fuck you. Exactly.

We just said it before. Stuff doesn't even work. And also, there doesn't always have to be a drink of the summer. Other stuff happened this summer. The Drake Kendrick Beef. Oh, God, yeah. That was early. not everything in your life needs to be about alcohol folks yeah demure demure is

happening now guys i looked it up and it's not jeff bradsell it's dick bradsell sorry all right oh wait what's demure mean or what does that refer to it's a tiktok thing very very demure very thoughtful it's a tiktoker thing i'll check down the time that was funny like a couple weeks ago that thing of like i wake up open my phone and like my friend is like plugging their stand-up comedy show and i'm like it's gonna be very demure and i'm like oh that's funny and then you flip along and the next person is like commenting on the news saying not very demure and I'm like oh that's kind of odd to my sense I missed something

what the hell is going on here popular word the words are getting popular again words are in okay we're not going to wait to see if we get 200 votes but let's just this was just the icing on the cake that after 60

votes, 90% hand slammer. Wow. Who are the 10%? Who are the Mavericks who went 10%? Those people aren't even looking. Those are bots. They're not even looking. Those are bots. Those are Russian bots. Those are Elon

fanboys. Somebody says espresso martini zips you up, hand slammer knocks you down. I like that. I like that. That's true. Oh, somebody said make mine with a bee sting, please. Hey, the bee sting option. Very nice. My question, my serious question you guys is how much longer do you think

blank of the summer? It's not just drink of the summer. There's other stuff. I think, Tim, as long as we've got like the internet and every website needs a couple articles a day we're gonna have this type of stuff i i agree that there every year someone will posit something and some magazine will say something but i think the farther that we get away from the og Aperol Spritz summer, I think we're realizing we haven't really had a definitive one. Yeah, but it makes it exciting when it does happen.

It's good that we're on the beat. I wouldn't have it any other way. I think I told you that I saw a funny meme that was like a was like a like a picture of a text exchange and it was like while she's smashing her ex and then it was a text from the guy saying what do you think the drink of the summer will be so like that and that made me laugh out loud and i was like oh is it sort of dorky like cool people are out there just living and drinking and getting drunk and then dorks are like what's the drink of the summer yeah right other dorks who don't have yeah yeah no we're cool

that's our show follow us on social media at the sloppy boys where we release these recipes ahead of time and if you can't get enough boys go to patreon.com slash the sloppy boys and get the sloppy boys blow out the bonus episode it'll make you laugh and laugh Jeff and this week what did we do we picked the fucking song of the summer how about that we Happy Boys blow out the bonus episode. It'll make you laugh and laugh.

Jeff, and this week, what did we do? We picked the fucking song of the summer. How about that? We regaled and relished in the memories of all the music that's happened this summer, and we picked this very song of the summer? Wow, that's good. That's some good content, folks. That is good. I'm not content unless I make content.

Yes. I, for one, had a great summer. I enjoyed it from brat to demure, but I'm really excited for the crisp of the leaves and the crackle of the sleeves. Yep. I can't wait until we determine the drink of the autumn. Yes.

Yeah, we should do a pick of the autumn drink. What do you think drink of the autumn will be? But I, for real, am pumped to get into some autumnal drinks, of the autumn yes yeah we should do a pick of the autumn drink drink of the autumn will be but i'm i for real i'm pumped to get into some autumnal drinks but then also a couple classy cocktails i wouldn't mind doing a gibson i wouldn't mind doing a gimlet i wouldn't mind having some classy cocktails and classics for then we're getting the holiday season which is prime time classic cocktail season uh what about we're doing an aspen residency this winter so we're gonna have to oh yeah oh is that happening this winter yes

that is this winter it's happening yes yes yes we gotta figure that out yes i want us to have a show at bigfoot lodge in la which has a little rustic theme yeah and we just call it the aspen residency but it's at the bigfoot lodge in la that's good hey you better be at the lodge room to see our live podcast in november folks we're doing vancouver seattle portland san francisco la all thanksgiving week so you gotta look at our socials and buy your tickets let's go folks the pearl baby let's fucking go let's fucking go. Let's fucking go. All right, folks. We'll see you next week.

And hey, bring a friend next time, huh? Yeah. Love you. And here to play us out, Dan Padley's remix of King Bitch. And just think of what a King Bitch summer it was. I'm King Bitch. I'm King Bitch. was everybody get on off the floor everybody get on off the floor everybody get your ass to the door everybody get your ass to the door everybody Everybody get your ass to the door. Everybody better make some room. Yeah, make fucking way. Everybody better clear out.

Yeah, step aside, okay? You dance hall divas. You dance hall divas. You've had your fun. But need I remind you? I'm King Bitch. Don't piss her off I'm King Bitch Don't piss her off

I'll rain down The writer is A royal shitstorm Everybody gotta gather round Everybody gotta gather round Everybody gotta watch me now Everybody gotta watch me now Everybody Everybody got to watch me now. Everybody get your camera out and see me do my thing.

Everybody let me show you how the bitch became a king. You dancehall divas. You dancehall divas. Don't piss me off. I'll re ring your asses Your asses Your asses Your asses

I'm King Bitch I'm King Bitch I'm King Bitch I'll make you wish You never were born I only push you Because I love you Make me proud of you Or live to regret it

I'm just hard on you Cause I'm mad at you I might go ape shit And kick your kids off! I'm King Bitch! Yeah, he's King Bitch! I'm King Bitch! The hell is King Bitch?

You just met! Fuck off! Your fucking nightmare! I'm King Bitch! Sweet ass bitch! I'm King Bitch! ass bitch I'm King Bitch You just signed Your goddamn death warrant