The Sloppy Boys - 211. Harvest Sparkle

Episode Date: November 1, 2024

The guys make a hit whiskey-and-champagne cocktail from the craft blogosphereHARVEST SPARKLE RECIPE: 1oz/30ml WHISKEY1tbsp + 1tsp CIDER HONEY SYRUP* 1oz/30ml (or top up) PROSECCOCIDER HONE SYRUP RECIPE: 1/2 cup HONEY1/4 tsp GROUND GINGER1/4 tsp GROUND CINNAMON1/8 tsp GROUND CLOVES1 cup ORANGE JUICEIn a small saucepan over medium heat, whisk ingredients together until it starts to bubble. Remove from heat and let it cool for 5 minutes.Combine whiskey and cider honey syrup in a shaker filled with ice.Shake and strain into a cocktail glass, then add prosecco. Garnish with rosemary sprig.Recipe via Fedandfit.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Listen to Heaven Bent wherever you get your podcasts. Acast helps creators launch, grow and monetize their podcasts everywhere. Acast.com. Hey folks, welcome to the Sloppy Boys where we take a deep dive into the drinks that you love. I'm Jeff Juddon, along with Michael Hanford. We have new mics. And Timothy Jordan Kalpakis. What is up on a new mic?

Jeff, we have new mics. You got to tell the people about it. They can tell. They can tell. they can tell. It's so funny because it's like, I was thinking, oh my God, of course, we gotta talk about these new mics on the show, but it's like, when you listen to a podcast,

no one's talking about the mics. No, they do, Joe Rogan does, Tom Sagerra does. The idea that I've ever once heard about a microphone, and it's like, oh, so you, in fact, it's a rule that you don't. Well, last time we talked about the mics, it was when I was using my mic backwards for a couple episodes, for most of the episodes.

Oh yeah, that was a rough start, the first month of this podcast, you were talking to the back end. I was like, why do we get a juice mic so much? I'd like to see a cut of that back end, but I don't want to talk into the back end. Stop, stop, stop. Why? Like, you don't want to talk into the thing. Stop, stop, stop. Why?

You don't get points on a podcast. You don't work for points. We should do that. We should figure that out. This is good, because we're a little more transparent than your normal podcast, right? Right. Yeah, we're approachable.

Approachable, salt of the earth, independent artists. Pretty good. Timeless integrity too. Not too bad. And authentic autumn as well. And authentic autumn as well. We're in the thick of authentic autumn. That's right.

And we got the drink to prove it. What's going on over in the East Coast Leafwise? Mike, are you peeping the leafs? Are you a leaf peeper? Have you peaked? Have we reached peak peak? We have not reached peak peak. We have not leaked peep peep.

We have not leaked peep peak. But I will say this, actually by the time this episode came out, it may be, because those leaves, they will switch on a dime, Jeff. You got to be watching them. You can't take your eyes off them because you look away. I was on the Comedy Bang Bang tour. I did a couple shows with them,

and we drove from, I want to say Troy, New York, down to New Haven, and that's when the leaves were out. That's when the leaves were out. That's when the leaves were out. It was wonderful. This guy's dropping some big names here. Troy, home of, there's a dinosaur barbecue there and famous lunch. New Haven, there's Frank Pepe's, there's Sally's a Beats.

These are big sloppy stops. People, we did have time for pizza, but man, I got to get back to that. That's the good stuff. People were saying after the show, they were like, you getting a beats? A beats? And I was like, what are you talking about?

And they were like, that's how we say pizza. I was like, I did not know that. Yeah, I hate to bring it to citizens of Connecticut, but it's stupid that you say it differently because he still, you added an A to the beginning. You didn't take the A off the back end, so why is it not a pizza? Why is it a Beats?

Yeah, they're shuffling things all around over there. You know, people are starting to say that that's the better pizza than the New York pizza. That's the big debate these days. Who, them? They're saying that? I'm a firm believer in that. Tim, you join them?

Yeah. You side with them? Now is it Connecticut in general or just New Haven? I'll say this, New York style pizza, worst style of pizza in America. Wow. Well, we got some pizza huts around here. I gotta get to a pizza hut again, that's some good stuff.

I like the real, I mean Lombardi's, Mike, where'd you take DeFarra, DeFarra. You know, Patsy's or John's or whatever. These are good, but in general, who wants a big old flat triangle of pizza? Fuck off. Fuck you.

Damn. Damn. I think I'm too grumpy in this episode. I'm going to start fresh. Hey everybody, I love all the listeners and I have gratitude. That's so great. I woke up, I woke up on the wrong side

of the bed today myself. I had to get out of the funk. I had a tired, all day, tired day yesterday and I talked to a lot of other people that did. It was weird. There's something, you know what? One of the planets is in retrograde. Mm-hmm. Which one? It's Pluto. You know what, one of the planets is in retrograde.

Which one? Which planets? Pluto. You know what, I think all of them. Every single one? Yeah, they're all scootin' around the moon right now instead of the sun. How come you never get Earth retrograde, huh? Well, I guess on other planets,

Earth would be in retrograde, wouldn't you think? Yeah, I like thinkin' that the Martians are like, ah man, brrrr, the earth's in retrograde and my ray gun didn't work. Yes, yes, yes, very good, very good. The leaf people, yes, the leaves are good here in New York as well. The leaves are good there? The leaves are good, my street specifically is really popping right now.

Golden brown? Just golden all the way down. I think they're ash trees, I'm not sure. But it is funny trying to catch those leaves. My mom is very attuned to it, like when the foliage is peaking, because my parents live up in the Adirondacks and there was like a year where I was like,

how are the leaves? And they're like, we didn't get any reds or oranges this year, it just went from green to brown. Like it just switched. They were probably attuned to it because like, Woodstock is like, that's where people would come up from the city, right? So there's probably like a big influx like in the-

Do you get like tourist peepers? Oh right, so it's probably like a big influx. Like in the- Do you get like tourist peepers? Oh yeah, my dad's pizzeria, Winchell's Pizza in Shokan, New York on Route 28, that it was all Weekenders, so if you had nice leaves, a lot of Weekenders, ugly leaves, ugly Weekenders. Hey, but they're still gonna eat that pizza though, huh? Yeah, a Beats.

Can I have a piece of a beets? Well, to begin with some booze news. Booze news, hit it. Yeah, and the breaths and the silences are so apparent. When there's only two of you, that's when you really lean on mealin'. Lean on mealin' When Pod's not strong. He'll be your editor. Help you sell Patrons. Okay, I'm off.

Wait, you were going somewhere, too. I was. It's booze news for the Koi Boy Coterie. Wow, Lean on Milan was sent to us by Nick Andrews and if you have a booze news theme, email it to thesloppyboyspodcast.gmail.com. Nick? What were they saying at the end there?

Koi boy what? For the koi boy, Kotori. Kotori, I see. Was a Kotori like a contingent? Yes. That word is in. A Kotori is like a Kortoroi, oh boy. That word is in. A corduroy. A corduroy. A corduroy. Oh boy. That word is in a song that I hear all the time.

Maybe a Grateful Dead song. Tim, does that ring a bell to you? Coterie. They have that one song, LSD Coterie. Coterie is also a brand of diaper. Ugh. Ugh. Well that's not what, we don't wear those.

No, an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose. Coterie. I don't know. Maybe it's a Bell and Sebastian song. I've gotten back into them recently. You guys listen to Bell and Sebastian? No. That's good fall music, kind of back to school vibes.

Yeah, it is exactly that. And it's definitely what I was listening to my freshman year of college. And I have like a couple albums that I've listened to. I think when we were like, back in our CD days, I would say like, I have a lot of Bell and Sebastian CDs. They're like the most CDs I have of any band. I feel like I flipped through your case logic

and I said like, Mike, wow, is this your favorite band? And you're like, you know what? I guess I'm a fan. It's sneakily one of my favorite bands. And as I've been listening to them recently, I went online today, you're like, you know what? I guess I'm a fan. It's sneakily one of my favorite bands. And as I've been listening to them recently, I went online today, I was like, you know what? I know nothing about this band. Let me take a look.

And I was like, no, I don't want to know anything about this band. I like them just being this seven group, group of seven, I think Scottish people. Works for me. I love it. Are they from Glasgow? Yes.

Yep. Now, well, A, I was going to say, I remember being freshman year of Ithaca, listening to the song Books, and that was just funny because it was like, I got to hit the books, you know? B, when we were saying Coterie, I already said corduroy.

Mike, have you been wearing those new corduroys you got at Zara? Yes, and no, those were from Uniqlo. Uniqlo, sorry. Which I just, I, I. The shirt was Zara, the pants were Uniqlo. Shirt was Zara, and I, yes, I have been wearing them. Not only have I been wearing them, Tim and Jeff,

I bought a second pair, same color, and a third pair in brown. Wow. No, Jeff, here's the thing. You're probably thinking, oh, Mike Hanford, these are just kind of a normal old pleated, normal cut, normal trouser cut. No, these are, this is, I would call this a jogger,

right Mike, at the bottom of the foot. Oh, you got a little cinch. Cinch. Big up top, cinch down bottom. No, no, no, it's a wide leg, it's wide leg. It's a wide leg but with a cinch. Thin whale corduroy. Elastic top.

And an extra thin crotch. The pants are wide but the cords are tight, tight, tight. Right, and it's a waistband that's elastic with a zipper, no button. I don't know who comes up with this shit. But the price point is so nice on these pairs of pants. These are all Uniqlo. Yeah. And I found out that Uniqlo is not actually like fast fashion. Exactly.

No, not exactly. Zara is the one that puts like stuff out every week. Yeah. They're their worst offender. Yeah. And I don't know that they them and H&M. I mean, I don't know if they. Them and H&M. I mean, I don't know if Uniqlo has any better business practices as far as their factories and stuff.

But I think fast fashion refers to not just that end, but that you're ripping off designer stuff. Whereas Uniqlo, that has its own look. You could look at it and be like, yeah, they're designing that. Whereas Zara is just like Prada, but in two weeks. I think Uniqlo's thing is more like, yeah, they're designing that. Whereas Zara is just like Prada, but in two weeks. I think unit clothes thing is more like, yeah, right. They see it and then replicate it.

They're more sustainable. But they have like more Asian silhouettes. Huh? They have more like Japanese silhouettes, like drop shoulder shirts and like. Oh, oh, oh, I get you. But you can also get like solid gap, you know, like dress shirts and socks.

Yeah, I think their thing is like, these are the basics. Everything's, dress shirts and. I think the thing is like these are the basics. Everything's just like, yeah, I don't think that's a double base. Basic, but like a little Jeff, you're right. There's this modern spin that's like a like a blazer will have kind of round shoulders, almost like a cardigan. Then I'll be like, it's a casual kind of a blazer. It's a casual mess. I like you, Nicole. It's cool.

Me too. All right. What's the actual booze news? OK, Niccolo. It's cool. Me too. All right, what's the actual booze news? Okay, this isn't fashion news for men who have wonderful taste. It's not fall, winter 2024. No, no, no. We should do another episode of our Patreon about fall fashions.

That was fun when we had talked about our best garments. We had an idea to go, we would each go out and get a fall fit. Get a fall fit at a store and take a picture and then Fall fit, fantastic. Have people vote. Have people vote. Let's do that on election weekend.

You don't have to buy them, you just, you have to take a picture. You get loaded up in the dressing room, take a pic, I'm like, all right, put this all back. Yeah, I'm not putting this shit. OK, Booze News. Yes. You guys are probably thinking, oh, yeah, he

covers all just whatever the different headlines of the day are. No, this last week and this week, Booze News has been more like Sarah Koenig-style serial, where I'm on the case of a serialized thing and wouldn't you know, look at this, boosh. Case of Natty Light. Craft Cocktails Made Simple again,

the same book from last week. It's backwards on my screen, but yes, yes, that was the AI thing, right? Yes, Mike, can you read it phonetically as it looks on your screen? Tfark, slack cock. as it looks on your screen. Tfark, Slackcock. Perfect.

Last week I sent you guys pictures. Yes you did, Tim, yes you did. This week I have a physical copy of the book which I have ordered, and I'll tell you what, I flipped through our three Sloppy Boy's original cocktails are referenced in this. So we're very proud to be in this book. It's like a- I'm not proud, I'm not in that book.

Speak for yourselves. Well, you're proud of your book. You're in this book, you're a Sloppy Boy, aren't you? Yeah, I'm a Sloppy Boy, but you got, one of you got two drinks, one of you got one. Dutz came in with a goose egg. That's not how we do it here, Jeff. It's a Sloppy Boy's drink.

When we're playing a song on stage, do you think I'm not proud of the drum beat? Yeah, you're proud of it. I always sing about it. I see you beaming, beaming with every stomp of the kick. What do you think I'm singing about on that microphone? I'm proud of the drum beat, baby. I'm proud of my boy behind me.

I'd give anything for my boy. All right, all right, I'm back to proud. I'm back to my boy behind me. I'll give anything for my boy. All right, all right. I'm back to proud. I'm back to proud. Yeah. So our drinks are in here. There's no reference to like, hey, welcome. I'm a podcast fan and these are new drinks.

We're up there with the big boys. I got to say there's no obscure new drinks. It's all classic cocktails plus the Calpe cordial, the Russian root, and the Southern sipper. So you probably, Harry Craddock probably in there, probably Dale deGroff in there. Yeah, dude, yes. And then, here's about the author.

This book is printed in Ontario, so that makes me think it's north of the border. I'm thinking that, too. That's a clue. That's a clue, and here's the other clue. On the back, there's a picture of the guy, Tommy Marshall. Tommy Marshall loves making good food for his friends and family.

In this book, Tommy has taken everything he's learned from home cooking and restaurants and distilled it down into these fun recipes. There's a picture of him. He's a smiley, handsome guy with a red beard, red hair. Kind of looks like the type of guy you see in a lot of commercials, you know, if you have the red beard, red hair. kind of looks like the type of guy you see in a lot of commercials. You know, if you have the red beard, red hair. Yeah. Yeah.

Or maybe he work. Maybe he's like a Game of Thrones type of guy like that red beard guy. Oh, boy. I just saw that guy in a commercial and I was like, damn, I hope he's doing well. Yeah, he does like lawn care commercials now. What is it? I hope he gets more stuff. I like that. He's like a miracle grow guy now. What is it? I hope he gets more stuff. I like that guy. He's like a miracle grow guy now. Wait, so he said he learned this from home cooking

and restaurants. No mention of podcasts. That's fishy. OK, wait, hold on. Stop everything. OK, I tried to Google him before, but Tommy Marshall was too popular of a name. Tommy Marshall, isn't that the name of Jason Voorhees' next of kin? You're thinking of Tom Marshall, one that the name of? Jason Voorhees is

Next of kin you're thinking of Tom Marshall one of the co-writer the co-writer of a lot of fish songs No, who's the who's the kid from Jason? Voorhees, you know in the first movie the killer was actually the mother No, no, no 10,000 people. That's up there with like the shark's name on Jaws was called the Jaws because it was a Spielberg. We do see Jason at the very end, but he's not the killer the whole time.

Folks, it's Tommy Jarvis. Tim, continue. Tommy Jarvis. I found him, I was having trouble finding a guy named Tommy Marshall, but then on Instagram, I saw, now I have found him, and it's just, he's bleached his hair since he took his, about the author photo, so he's no longer.

As to not be recognized, yes, to cover his tracks. Now he looks less like a commercial actor, and more like a, you know, I guess a cool guy. Tommy, you're looking cool. Can we see that picture? Red beard, blonde hair? What's he doing? Well now, here's a picture of him currently.

He's got like a bleached blonde beard and bleached blonde hair. Nice. But he appears to be a comedy guy, says he's a director writer. So Tommy Marshall, show yourself. Wow. Tommy!

I was certain that was AI, written by AI. Me too. But this is why I want to reach out to him, is say maybe he is the guy who led the AI, you know, said AI, go do this book. Yeah, right. Somebody on this Bang Bang tour showed us a book that they made, like AI wrote, and it was like,

you could see like Mike Hanford of the Birthday Boys does John Lennon on the comedy Bang Bang. I was like, whoa, computer knew that? Computer knew that? So Tim, you ordered that book on Amazon? Is that like print to order? eBay, no, it came real fast. So it was not print to order.

And it cost a couple of loons. It cost, it was a $5 book and $5 shipping. Hmm, 10 bucks. Yeah, 10 bucks even. That's one way of looking at it. You hand over a Hamilton, they're gonna give you a book in the mail. Here's a weird thing though.

We've had this by guys for four years looks for Hamilton's. We've been talking about making a book for four years and we haven't done it yet. This guy, we've been talking about reading a book. We have to read a book for the blowout and a thick one too. Oh, Oh, to kill a mockingbird. Oohout, and a thick one too. Ooh. Ooh. To Kill a Mockingbird.

Ooh. That's not even that thick. Well, it is written by Harper Lee though. I'm going to guess that's 230 pages. No, it's more than that. I'm going to look at it. I bet you're right, it's not too long. I bet it's 319, let's see.

I'm thinking of like a paperback. How many pages? And I'm thinking of the big type for old people with bad vision. Oh man, I had like 80 pages left of the book I was reading, Northwoods, and I fucking lost it on a plane. And then I had to re-buy it just to read the last 80 chapters or 80 pages.

Sucks. Lost a good bookmark too. 323 paperbackback 376 hardcover Damn way to go Harper Lee Wait, what? This episode comes out the November 1st So people have candy hangovers, so we got an election coming up still oh, this is our this is our election episode

You guys want to talk about the candy hangover? You'd rather talk about the election? Jeff, I don't even know if I'm going to be eating candy this year. I have to worry about this election. OK. You have to worry about it. I'm happy to pivot.

Are you guys worried at all? This is going to be a shit show, I think. Yeah. Whew, either way it goes, it's going to be wild. I don't know about this one, man. Tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to get out there and vote. Yeah, me too.

Do get out and vote if you can folks. If you can't do it anyway. We used to do a funny bit where we would tweet it out. No, vote if you're registered, but boy, make sure you go vote peeps No, vote if you're registered, but boy, make sure you go vote, peeps. And vote for whoever you want, but be nice to people. When we put that thing out on Twitter,

it turned into an argument right away. Whew, don't like that. Yeah, we were stoking division. That was not a good idea. Stoking division, all we're doing is saying, we vote. We literally said who should be president and named the two real candidates. No, we My stoking division, all we're doing is saying, we literally said who should be president and named the two real candidates.

We were stoking. It's absurd, but it's the tone of X these days. And it is funny to see how fast, I mean, we talked about this, just like any big tweet now, look below it, and it's fucked up videos and porn, like in all the replies. Well, don't forget hate speech too.

And hate speech, but sometimes the hate speechers can't even get the attention anymore because there's so much F to video. They can't get word in edgewise, these hate speechers. They're like, oh excuse me, I have a slur to say. Are you guys feeling this at all? And as I've mentioned before, I have been focusing on politics this election,

so I'm hoisted by my own petard on this one. This is a season for it, yeah. This is a season for it. But are you guys, I'm just so fucking sick of all everything. It's just so much constant, constant hate talk back and forth. It is really bumming me out, man, to hear everyone just always be like, mad at each other, it's not good for us.

Yeah, I know, I know. It's just you though, Mike. My take is that I'm voting for Kamala Harris and I'm not voting for Donald Trump, but that's just my personal take on the situation. Sure, sure. I mean, but, all right. Folks, be nice out there.

Yeah, I know. I just came from a battleground state and it was really funny seeing the amount of signs like, yeah, we've had elections before. And yeah, you've seen signs. But this was like maybe normally wouldn't put up a sign. We're like, my neighbors got a Kamala sign, so I'm putting up a Trump sign. And like it felt like retaliatory signage. And it was so even split. It was like, you can feel the tension in old Arizona.

It's crazy. But folks, you got to remember, we got more in common than we do dividing us. Yep. We all got big, huge dicks and long, long titties. Well, Tim clearly doesn't want to take this issue seriously. Hope folks. I hope I literally just told you I was voting for Kamala.

That's a serious thing. All right. Can we wrap up by please? I have one last thing to say. Oh, go ahead. Trump if you're listening, I hope you lose, but I'll admit you begrudging me. Lee make me laugh quite a bit. You're a funny guy.

I hope you go away and go to hell and all of it, but you're very funny. You're very funny. I wish you would focus on making people laugh and not policing bodies and packing Supreme courts. Here's what I want. Imagine this, 2025, a new season of The Apprentice. How fucking awesome would that be?

It would be so funny. Oh, we all want that so bad. No, but it's literally what he wants. Like that's what got him into all this shit. So if he just went back and then he was the top show on TV, he'd be so happy. Oh my, yeah. That would be like, exactly, yeah.

That's all he wanted was the top thing. He doesn't have to do meetings, he doesn't have to govern. He can just yell at people on camera. He can tweet, he can make jokes. He's good. Oh boy. That's it for Booze News. You're fired.

Oh, now a cold chill falls across the pod. The leaves crunch underfoot. Oh, you got it, Jeff, you got it. No, you can join it. It helps to have a little, you know, fully. Well, I'll do the fully while you tell the story. Oh, and and the blogs are rolling by. Craft blogs with their fake drinks. One catches our eye. Maybe this is more than just a blog drink. What have we here? Folks,

it's the harvest sparkle. You really broke through the noise on that one. What do we, we folks? It's all part of the magic of discovery. Folks, it's Casey Joy Garcia and her blog, fedandfit.com. Fetty Wap. Fetty Wap. 1738. Back in the autumn of 2015, Casey gifted the world with the Harvest Sparkle.

And this is one that I had actually heard of. A friend of mine said like, oh you need a Thanksgiving drink. This is maybe last year. Have you done the Harvest Sparkle? And I jotted it down because we're hard up for Thanksgiving stuff. Christmas is easy.

Summer stuff, there's plenty of that too. But the autumnal seasonal content, we're scraping the barrel. Folks who are here on year four, taking a deep dive. Because we say there's a lot of variations on the old fashioned, but we save those for Thanksgiving. I was pitching the Jack Rose. I think we should do the Jack Rose. Jack Rose, as in the two leads from James Cameron's Titanic?

Yep. Isn't that that drink that served with a big ice cube? Yeah, it's. It's served on a door. It's the only drink with an ice cube. There's a door floating in it that could hold two garnishes, but only one goes on the door. I think it's really just, if you see any drink,

like it could be up, you know, like a strange drink, a syrup, if you see an ice cube in a drink, you would say, oh, like that's a Jack Rose cocktail. Like, different, like an old fashioned can be a Jack Rose cocktail. And then get it Titanic style, meaning you hit the giant ice cube and so hard it smashes the glass There's way more ice under the surface than above the surface that's what you worry about

Yeah icebergs Tip of the iceberg as they say on this pod tip of the iceberg to you Stop it What you guys are laughing like that was funny enough to laugh at it. I don't think it is it's an association Tip of the iceberg to you is funny because I'm picturing someone holding an iceberg on his head and tipping it off his head like it's a Okay, well, you didn't give me the visual. Of course. I think that's funny. Well, you're a creative guy I thought maybe you visualize it. You were giving me the space to have my own theater

of the mind and I blew it. Exactly. Well, do you want to know how to make one of the Harvest sparkles? No, first I wanted to pause and just say, this speaks to how much you trusted, you trust your friends, Jeff, is that we have sort of avoided craft blog, mommy blogger, hey, here's a Halloween cocktail

that I just made up because I have to write up 13 of them for my website. It's the mummy because it's in a mason jar with craft paper wrapped around it. But it brings up an interesting point. So we've tended to avoid those, but then you were like, hey, how about the harvest sparkle? But it brings up an interesting point. So we've tended to avoid those, but then you were like,

hey, how about the Harvest Sparkle? And then we were saying, hey, we want to taste that. We're allowed to want to taste a crafty drink every once in a while. I want to taste that. And I saw enough variations on it. Like there were enough people saying like, yeah, Harvest Sparkle, Harvest Sparkle,

that all do kind of go back to fedandfit.com, which is a little silly. Harvest Sparkle kind of has, it comes out of your mouth easily, but it almost has a little bit of that fastest ghosts artists, fastest artists. Yeah. Harvest Sparkle. I was going to say that too, cause it's, and it's not a rhyme. It's like a slant harvest sparkle. It's assidents alliteration. And also, you know, it's, it's eight years old now, nine years old.

We've covered drinks that new that are in the IBA. This is no less legitimate, I'd say, than the Vento when we covered the Vento. Right, the Vento didn't catch on. I don't think we have to apologize or over explain this at all. This is our show and we picked it. Thank you, Michael.

I'm just bringing up to say it's an interesting gray area. I have no apologies, but when does the Southern Sipper go from something that Tim Kallpak has thought up to being in the pages of craft cocktails made simple by Tommy Marshall? You're asking when that happens? Where is, when does, does life begin at conception or birth? Jeff is what I'm saying.

Jesus Christ. And this weekend. Here's how you make it for us. First, first things first. Sure, you want to drink, but first you need to make cider honey syrup. Oh, here's how you make it. Oh, half cup honey, quarter teaspoon ground ginger,

quarter teaspoon ground cinnamon, quarter teaspoon ground cinnamon, eighth teaspoon ground cloves, one cup orange juice. This is when you're gonna get your autumnal spices. And it also, she says on her blog, hey, if you wanna tweak it for Christmas, no need. It's Christmas ready, no tweaks. Nice. She said as much. She was like,

it's actually the same spices I would use in a winter drink. So I have at it. It's it could be a Christmas sparkle, a Yuletide sparkle. It could be a holiday sparkle. It could be a Fourth of July sparkle. Here's how you make it, folks. She lists two recipes, one for batching, one for singles. We're going singles. It's singles night here on the pod. One ounce whisky or bourbon, one tablespoon and one teaspoon. The aforementioned cider honey syrup. Wait, what? One tablespoon.

I don't get that. You get it. You get it. It's just it could be. And one teaspoon. Yes. Why not say one and a half? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't know if that's the same. I don't. I don't like it. It's just and one teaspoon. Yes. Why not? Oh, because there's just not a. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't know if that's the same. I don't I don't like it. I get it, but I don't.

I got a dirty two spoons for this. I don't like that. One ounce Prosecco champagne or sparkling white wine. This is just a top up and then half sprig rosemary if you got it. Mm hmm. I es. I issued that one. And, you know, like our other like our other sparkles, you shake your whiskey and your honey syrup on ice, poured into an ice filled glass, top up with that Prosecco.

I've got Lamarca. Do I have Lamarca, too? What did you drop off? I think I have Lamarca, too. Corbel. Oh, Cabell. When I was- Cabell. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Go ahead.

Garnish with sprig. Oh, that's sprig we talked about? Garnish with it. It looks like a little Christmas tree frond. Yeah, that is nice. That's what makes it Christmassy to me. But we're not there yet. What was I gonna say, Jeff, about this little drink? Yeah, that is nice. That's what makes it Christmassy to me. But we're not there yet.

What was I going to say, Jeff, about this little drink? Yes, I saw the picture of this drink. I said, this is going to be great. And I'm looking through the list and I said, you know what? This is going to be a difficult barrier of entry for me with this Prosecco floating around. So, I'm going to do, I'll do the first round, but I feel like I know what my second round is gonna be all about.

Ooh, you already have grand designs. Oh, what type of glass are we putting this in, did it say? It did say. Looked like a coupe. Yes, a coupe. I'm gonna do a little guy so I don't put as much Prosecco. I think it packs a punch too, she says, so she might even suggest a flute, you know, narrow top,

keep those bubbles in and in. No, her picture is all coops. And guys, there's only, is there only one ounce of Prosecco in this? That's not a lot. It's one ounce of whiskey and one ounce of Prosecco. So this- Or enough to top up the glass.

Well, that's going to be way more. I don't know about this. Hey, question, how much of the syrup do I put in? One tablespoon and one teaspoon. Oh, right. OK. Perfect. My eyeballs can't read this website.

I don't know why. I know. This is one of those. There's so much. Every time you move the thing around on your phone, all these different ads start popping up, like they scoot down from the top, or just pop up from the bottom.

Yeah, that's how you know it's legit. But I know, it's like, I hate these types of blogs. It's like so much shit. Well, see, this is the best part, because we sort of weeded through it. We're picking the gems and giving them to the listeners. You don't have to go to the site at all. We actually don't want you to.

You just listen to the pod, you make the drinks that we make and you tell us what you think online. Yeah. Okay, I scrolled to the bottom and now I see it very clearly. I was trying to read it where it was written out in long prose. And I made my syrup that way reading the long prose. It was weird.

All right, folks, we're going to go get our teaspoons and tablespoons ready. And when we come back, harvest sparkle for sips. Great. Ooh. And I'm putting my new microphone on mute with one tap. Damn, I missed it. microphone on mute with one tap.

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A tumble. Yeah. You like to break the rosemary with your fingers and get that piney smell in the air. It was so aromatic. Oh, I forgot to slap. Making Jack Schramm proud. You don't have to, do you have to slap rosemary? I'll slap you. You could slap any herb. Normally, it's basil or mint. Slap them all.

It doesn't necessarily, like there's certain, you know, if you slap mint it brings it to life, yes, but if you could slap anything you want, it might not do anything but you're allowed. I was making a sandwich, I was slapping the bread around a little bit. Yeah, I slap each of the turkey slices on their way onto the bread. I was kind of slapping my salami the other day in a way.

Were you making a sandwich? Yeah. Yikes. Oh, that didn't sound good. Do you know what you just said? Oh man. I have a ethical question. Do you think it would be ethical or unethical?

I was going to bring up that, make fun of that kid who was trying to get on SNL who did that rap video on TikTok. I was going to bring him up and make fun of him, but is that unethical for us to do and should we just move on? He may have already, yeah, he's had death threats and stuff, so I think he's gotten his, he's hit the limit.

Well, I want to keep him alive. I'll stand by his side and fight. There was like an article about that whole thing that came out like two years ago, it was pretty rough. He worked at a theme park or something like that and people were taking videos of him and like kind of in a mocking fashion, which makes me sad.

But I mean, that was a pretty cringy video. Sure, sure. Getting off the topic of him entirely, but just back in a big picture, it's interesting in the modern era, the... The mirror? The concept, yes, the concept of death threats has really been diluted because, I'm not saying it's illegitimate,

but when people like, you know, I've been getting death threats, when someone says that now, it could be, you know, a reply to a tweet or a comment on Instagram, you know, kill yourself, or you know, or even if it is direct. Now, 20 years ago, if you said, I'm getting death threats, holy shit.

That means like, somebody wrote you a letter longhand and mailed them to you. You're like, oh fuck, this fucker is going to kill me. I got news for you. Even 20 years ago, they were emails. We got to go back farther. Yeah. Okay. Fine. 30. Uh, that's, I mean, that's really funny to emails. CZ Tim. It's got a return address. Yeah. Sent from my, uh, AOL account. Um, but you know, like if, if anyone ever in my face said, I'm going to kill you, I'd be like,

Oh my God, please don't. My parents will be so sad. If somebody replies to you on Twitter, oh, die. Right. You're like, I don't know if I call that a death threat. Right. But anyway, Hey, I don't want to get any death threats on the pod. I said that this should be poured onto fresh ice. No folks. It's served up. Oh, I would death threat you. You should KMS. Yeah, you should kiss my ass, Jay.

I'll KMS you. Yeah, you should KMA. Can we please sip? If I were you, I'd unalive myself. Here we go. Mm, bourbon, champagne, spices. I tell you what, let me guess. Mm. Urban. Champagne. Spices. I'll tell you what. Let me guess. That's a harvest sparkle.

Whoa. Did not expect that. I'm saving my to the end. I hate it, but I'm saying is it. I only put the one out. Why don't they just refer to Prosecco? If I go into a liquor store, I don't want to say where's the Prosecco, I'll just say, hey, where's the drink ruiner?

Is there a drink ruiner in this fucking store? I want one, a small one, because I don't want to ever have it again. I need an ounce of this crap to ruin one drink, and then I'm going to dump it out, and then make it the right way. But do you think they would also then still have imported drink ruiners and top shelf drink ruiners, and oh, this drink ruiner is really dry. dump it out and then make it the right way. Do you think they would also then still have like imported drink ruiners and top shelf drink ruiners and oh this drink

ruiners really dry? No this one is probably. Wait Mike there was one drink now it's a time for reflection. It wasn't too far ago. I know what you're talking about. There was one drink that you didn't hate. It was sparkling rose. It was like pink. Yeah. Was it in the Lone Ranger? Yes.

Jefferson. The memory man. The memory man. The memory man comply. No, this isn't bad. And it's... I like this. I really only put the one ounce of Prosecco,

so it's 50-50, so those bubbles you're getting, you're getting some sharpness from a bubble, but you're not totally getting like a champagne taste. That said, imagine if instead of champagne, you bubbled this up with some apple soda, AKA the Fall High Ball. Oh, Timothy. It's weird to hear the Fall High Ball

said quiet like that, the Fall High Ball. See, normally it's this big booming announcement with all this. The Fall High Ball! Yeah, see, there you go. Put, Mealan, put the echoes still on the quieter, Fall High Balls. Yeah, what's the Fall High Ball?

Yo, yeah. That's funny. The Fall High Ball. on the quieter fall high balls. Yeah, that's the fall high ball. Yeah, yeah. That's funny. The whole high ball. To hear a whisper like echoing through a canyon, a whisper echo through the through the gymnasium, through the Grand Canyon. Hello. Hello. Hello.

Shh. We spring as quiet as I can. I want this to have more of a taste though. Don't you, are you guys really getting like the honey and all that stuff? Oh, Jay. No, I mean I put so much work into that syrup and the only, I only put a tablespoon and a teaspoon.

Yeah, that's the thing. I think I'm gonna make this a little more of that stuff. I may, I have like a whole pot of it on my stove right now. A whole pot, a whole cauldron, a whole cauldron of honey. Jeff, I gave you a lot. You have bottled up many ingredients for me over the years, but. And I'm thankful for that to have a whole lot. Well, yeah, I gave you like nine tenths of the syrup I made And I'm thankful for that to have a whole lot.

Well yeah, I gave you like nine tenths of the syrup I made because I felt weird filling up a bottle halfway. You gave me 60 tablespoons and 60 teaspoons. I gave you a gallon and a liter. I poured, I accidentally poured this honey syrup or honey cider into a one ounce jigger. And then I was like, oh no, wait, it's the two and two. So I got out a teaspoon of table spoon. I was like, well, there's a tiny bit left.

It's going right into the drink. Yeah, right, of course. Where else is it going to go? What is this for? I mean, I didn't want leftovers because I was like, what do I, it's not like, the syrup tastes good, right? What is this for? It's not like, like the syrup tastes good, right? But it's like just some sweet syrup to have in my fridge.

But there's, yet again, there's an uncanny valley here. I wasn't able to articulate it before. cocktails and real cocktails, but why is it? If I looked in my fridge and I saw this syrup, I'd be like, harvest sparkle syrup? No thanks. But if I looked into my- But Tim, but Tim, perhaps bee's knees syrup as well? No, bee's knees is just honey and water. Huh?

There's no orange in there? I better hit sloppydrinks.com before I mouth off on the pot. Is it honey, triple sec, and I thought it was lemon, gin, honey, anyway. But if I were to look at my fridge and see Harvest Sparkle Syrup, I'd be like, that's some fake thing. But I look at my fridge and I see like, Orgeat,

I'm like, well, that's a real thing, it's got a name. It's storied. Why is it that I, they both taste good. Why do I need the Fee brothers to legitimize food? That's true. Yo, yo, bee's knees. Dry gin, lemon juice, orange juice, honey syrup. Jeff, I apologize.

You're right and I was wrong. I feel stupid. I knew that honey was in, I know it's orange from, and I was wrong. I feel stupid. I knew that honey was in this orange somewhere. I like the smell of this stuff, as the honey syrup I was making it, and it reminded me, I had a friend growing up, like in the fall, like around Christmas time, or in the fall, even Christmas,

his mom used to, like on the stove, just cook up, like, I think it was like orange peels, like what this is, cloves, orange peels, and like cinnamon, just to get like a smell going. Just to get things going. Yeah. I was like, oh, this is what this is, kinda. And I kinda like that.

My mom used to put clementine peels on top of the wood stove, and I said, Mom, what are you doing? She's like, it's nice. We're out of chestnuts. I like to do it, leave me alone. I think the ingredients are good. The ingredients are good.

Are the proportions right? No. I topped up with Prosecco, but not all the way up. I got it in a little coupe glass here. All the way up. It's more than an ounce of all the way up. But here's the thing, I want more of everything. Like, I just want more to drink.

So I was like, I'm doubling the bourbon next time and I'm doubling the syrup. And, you know, I might double. I sounds like you're making a double double the prosecco as well. Well, it's funny that you said the blog or the blog is saying, like, this can hit pretty hard. It's like, not really. It's a shot of like, this isn't a very strong drink. Yeah, it's one ounce and one ounce

Mm-hmm. I think two ounces of bourbon a little bit more Maybe three tablespoons of that syrup. What about? Oh, go ahead Jeff Fisher. No, and then you top up. Yeah. What about orange bitters Oh Michael Michael orange bitters. Oh, Michael. Michael. How could you? Here on the pod? No, I have orange bitters.

They're my second favorite bitter. No, no, no. It's a bitters. Hey, hey, rank them. Oh man, I didn't think we were gonna do this today. Hold on, hold on. Okay, number one, Angostura. Number two, Pei Shoed. Number three, orange. I don't think we were gonna do this today. Hold on, hold on. Okay, number one, Angostura, number two, Pey Chaud, number three, Orange.

I don't even know any other ones. Okay, that's true, but I gotta give a shout out. Gotta give, yo, I gotta give a shout out to my boy Rhubarb Bitters from the Lavender Haze Lemonade. That stuff is good, and I think rhubarb flavor has masqueraded as other flavors from our youth. It's familiar to me, but it's not like I was drinking rhubarb soda or having rhubarb snow cones, but it reminds me of like, I think it masqueraded as fake 90s blue raspberry or something.

I mean, I definitely remember as a kid, my mom's saying here's some strawberry rhubarb pie. And I'm like, yeah, it's strawberry pie with something else weird in it. Now I'm thinking maybe rhubarb is doing a lot of the heavy lifting over there, huh? Yeah. You think of rhubarb as like a root. Don't you have some orange peels to put on the fireplace? I'm being an asshole to my nice mom.

Yeah, yeah. I'm going to go peel an orange. That reminds me of the like, if there, what was this? Like, I want a sunny side up. I want sunny side up. If the yolk breaks, you break. peel an orange. and you have a whole different dynamic, and you're like, you're allowed to be like this? Yeah. This place is nuts. I remember going to a friend's house as a kid, and it was late at night, and his mom was playing, oh, what's that game? It's like Domino's.

Battle Toads? No, I mean, it's like Domino's, but it's with Japanese characters on them. But anyway, she was playing it on, I know. No. Anyway, she was playing it on Sega Genesis know. No. Anyway, she was playing it on like Sega Genesis. I was like, oh, OK.

I thought that was just like a kid's thing. Sega, the parents are playing. So the mom plays Sega. You know what I want to do? I remember in the Mortal Kombat days there was the fabled nude code. Mm hmm. You ever heard about this? Yeah, it was like, oh say you could do the nude code.

And a kid in my school, I tried forever to like, just was like jump over a statue or something. I don't know what it was, but I lost a whole year of my life to that. One kid in my school was like, I did it. Did you see your boobs? And we were like, you did it. And he was like, well, it was really hard. So I had my mom do it. We're like, you had your mom do it. How did that go? And he was like, you did it. And he was like, well, it was really hard. So I had my mom do it. We were like, you had your mom do it?

How did that go? And he was like, yeah, she did it. And then she left the room. That kid never saw, she didn't do it. He never got the cheat code. There was no cheat code. But I believed him. Like we all did.

I believe him still. This is fake news before, you know, Breitbart fake news. But codes are imagined for what a great thing for kids that the video games have codes, you know, that you could be like, what about down, down, left, left, right, right, up, C, down, C. And then you do it and you and you're like, it was real. It was real. And hey, speaking of nude codes, there is a Tomb Raider nude code.

We actually did that one. Okay. Oh wait, I thought we were talking Tomb Raider. What were you saying? What game were you saying? Mortal Kombat. Oh no, no. No, there's a Tomb Raider one.

Is there a Tomb Raider show out now? Is that something? On Netflix? I don't know. I saw a little clip on Instagram of Matt Parker, On Netflix? I saw a little clip on Instagram of Matt Parker talking about, he's like, man, he did this in the early 2000s on MTV once about pop music. I remember it, but he was like, yeah, TV these days, I get tricked every time. on MTV once about pop music.

I get tricked every time. Finally I sit down and I watch the show everyone's talking about. I watch up to episode seven and it sucks and I'm tricked and I hate it and I don't watch shows anymore. I was like, oh man, it's always so crazy to hear a top entertainment person be like, yeah, some stuff sucks. And I remember on MTV back in, probably when Britney Spears and stuff, that was happening, they were on a Carson Daly show

and they were like, yeah, it's a cycle. Music sucks right now, it'll get better, but it's just like, it gets big and then there's a revolt against the pop stuff and then that becomes popular. I was like, whoa, you're saying that to me. Wow. It was a cool dude, man.

That's very, yeah, validating to hear that you're, if you dislike stuff, sometimes you're right. You know? Yeah, yeah, really. It's funny, I really, I see the value now in the Britney Backstreet, all that stuff, because I have come around to really value like the production. So it's like the, you know, the Swedish, the Max Martens and the Chirons. There's a book called The

Song Machine, right? I read it. Yeah, yeah, me too. And that's a great little deep dive into the Swedish producers that went from your from your ABBA's and your ace of bases into your backstreet and St. Christina, Brittany, et cetera, et cetera. From Dennis Pop to Max Martin. That's right.

Oh, but I did. I hated pop as a kid. And now I have a sweet spot for it. Yeah. That millennial pop. Millennial pop. Well, you're a millennial. Not me though, I'm a year older than you. I'm an elder than you.

Hey, any tweaks on the drink? Cause I'm feeling, honestly, I'm feeling nice right now. Asher Roth style. I'm feeling nice right now. I want to have another one. I'm going to top up with more champagne just because I get to get through it all. I'm doing ounce and a half of bourbon.

An ounce of this syrup, big fat cube, stubby glass, what do we call those? Old fashioned glass. Yeah, yeah. Rocks glass with a big cube in it. Big cube. Did I say that? And the orange, the orange orange two dashes of orange

Bitters, we'll see what we got Mike. I love that. I'm gonna do rocks glass more bourbon Yeah, I'm gonna come up with something to me. Oh I'm gonna stay the course or Mike Mike you were excited. I Wanted to ask him when you made the when you majors. Did you use? Grow high. Did you find ground ginger? Yeah. I couldn't find it, so I bought like a tiny bit

of a ginger root and just like, you know those like. Smashed it. You hand ground? Mortar and pestle? Well, you know those like those garlic press things? I just did that and just got a bunch of the liquid. Hand press? Hanford Preston. garlic, those garlic press things. I just did that and just got a bunch of the liquid in. Hand press?

Hand for pressed. I was worried I wasn't going to be able to find powdered clove and I was happy that I did because one time I used my Vitamix to blend up some cloves for this podcast and my fucking Vitamix, that's an expensive item. It stinks. But things are fucking chainsaw. It smells like cloves or allspice or whatever it was.

To this day. Damn. Do you, I, my grandmother, I remember my grandmother making a ham once. Gracie? And she, no, Eleanor on the other side. Damn. She put, she put like those little clove things, like all over it,

you know, like kind of like a classic looking thing. Yeah, there's sort of like a thumb tack that you press into the hand. And then like the, the big like, Pineapple wheel. Pineapple on the side of it. And you'd get it, you have to like pull these little things out.

But it was really good. Like, oh, grandma, these suck. You suck. What? All right, folks, we're going to make round two. And when we come back, um, final thoughts. OK, I'm going on mute with a tap of a. ACAST powers the world's best podcasts. Here's a show that we recommend. He doesn't look like your typical posture. Long hair, slick back, wears a leather jacket. He was so cool.

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You want just one ounce of cocktail ruiner, I see. Look at me. Ooh. Now that's just like, it just tastes like cider. Yeah. That's good. Good cider, I'm fine with it. You made apple. Is this how they make apple? I made apple. I guess that's good. But a good good cider. I'm fine with it. You made apple.

Is this how they make apple? I made apple. I guess that's how they make apple. I made apple. I made apple. The ghost of Steve Jobs. Wozniak. I think Wozniak is still with us.

Well, it could be it could be the living Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow. I Made Apple we did We did Right, how's your round two it is Good it's it's I did what I was I did what I promised I would do and it's good. You're a standup guy. What did you promise?

Oh, sorry, an ounce and a half of bourbon, an ounce of the cider, and then two dashes orange bitters. Oh, is that coming true? And I went ice, I went iceberg styleys. No per sec. No per sec. Tip of the iceberg to you. I went iceberg styleys as well. Tim, your tweaks, announce them please. No, hold sec. Tip of the iceberg icebergs as well.

Tim, your tweaks, announce them, please. No, hold on. I want to do this joke. Tip of the iceberg to you. Yeah, wait a minute. That was a joke you did like. Jeff loves it. Tim, that's very funny. Let's work on me. Let's take a break and laugh.

Here's what I did. Equal parts, whiskey and syrup. Shook them up. No Prosecco. It's delicious. It tastes like a very good holiday old fashioned. And then I'm just, I'm using a chaser of Prosecco, not unlike the porn star martini.

No Prosecco. I think he's got a, he's got a star Martini. No Prosecco. Look he's got a, he's in a flute and everything. That looks nice. Toot toot, it's in a flute. Yeah, this is, you know what I would, I would, as I was making the honey syrup, I was like, I was like, you know what, this should be, I'm going to fuck this up.

This would be much better if it was done like at a professional cocktail place. So I'm, I wish I was a master saucier. But it's from fedandfit.com. It should be approachable. No, I know, I know, but like, just something with that many, like I didn't have the correct ginger.

You know, I'm going to mess something like this up, of course. Mike, you're wearing your infamous, the Vibe is in Shambles, Kermit the Frog skateboarding t-shirt, and his frogginess reminded me, you recently shared a very funny meme that was kind of this sad frog guy, like a proper frog, and he's just sitting there, and it says, me, waiting for everyone to stop talking so I can announce that I'm going home.

He's like low in the frame too, like has no status whatsoever. He's low in the frame, and just the idea that you wait, like your big thing to add to the conversation is that you're leaving. It's being a bummer. It's, I'm getting fed those so much. I'm getting all these ones too that are like,

we've talked about before, like little mice and vultures and possums, yeah. It's like. Yeah, woodland creatures. Me and the crew, when you ask where I am, me and the crew were hanging out. It's like just them like traipsing through the woods. Yeah.

It is exactly what I'm looking for. It's funny out there on the net. I do think like frogs are sort of having a moment. Don't you think? They, yeah, they, they are good. Big time. Fun little proper frogs in tweed suits for sure. Oh yeah. For sure. At least on my timeline. So there's like a classic looking frog, like a big, like a wide mouth frog.

That's like a, uh, it's like a Japanese art print. You'd know it if you saw it you'd be like I've seen that frog before. Oh am I going to have to send it to you in the text. I wonder if frogs have any type of like in any cultures of frogs have any like I don't know what I'm trying to say but yes it's Matsumoto Matsumoto hoji and I'm going to send you the very frog be like some cultures uh, I have no good examples, but like really revere like

Lamb Lamb or something. Yeah, but like this for elephants. Yes, or if like frogs or something. I don't know. Oh, yes, Jeff I've seen this before Worships the frogs the nobles the frog, the noble frog? The toad. The honest frog. A toad and a frog. How different are we talking?

Does a toad never go in water his whole life and frogs always there? See, if you ask me, frog green, toad brown. But if you ask me, frog wet, toad dry. Mm. You might be on something with that. Ah, but if he asked me, frog wet, toad dry. Mmm. Ah. I would say- You might be on to something with that.

I would say frog wet, toad moist. Ew, that word moist, ew. Oh, I can't hear these words. I'm not mature enough. That's what I, when people say, ooh, I hate that word, I am not mature enough to live with the English language flowing around. I'm not fit for the world.

I'm not moist enough. Um. Yeah, that's the problem. I forgot to mention, we were talking about the word aversions recently on the pod. I forgot to bring up, I looked into it, and somebody did like a scholarly study and like published a paper of like is

What is it to this idea that sound that moist? panties moist panties Yeah, but like the people that hate it they're like, oh, it's even just the sound of the very word and it was funny I read this very dry report that was like there is nothing about the sound of the word moist. It is merely the meaning. It is the meaning of the word. And people that don't like the word moist would also not love it if you said, you know,

genital secretion. Right, right, right. Yeah, I guess you're right. I always thought like panties was mine. I was just like, I just don't love like panties. The word. Right. But it's not the sound of the word. It's the infantilizing of the underwear. I think it's OK.

Maybe it's the infantilization because panties I like. You know what I mean? Like I like the idea. Women's underwear. What's not to like women's underwear? I love women's underwear. But I like when they say it's Women's underwear? What's not to like? Women's underwear. I love women's underwear. But I like when they say it's women's underwear. Like it's a department store. Women's long johns. Let's be serious about it. But if you don't like panties, but you are a pedo, Jeff, then I don't understand that I'm getting lost.

It's not adding up for you. OK, I understand. It's just a word. It's just confusing how language works. Yeah, panties, though, you're right. It's the infantilization. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

Hmm. Well, do you like it when I, do you ever get turned on when I'm talking about my garments and I'm like, my widow underwear? What? My boxers. I felt gross. My flute of the wombs. Ew.

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November 22nd at the Pearl in Vancouver, November 23rd at Washington Hall in Seattle, November 24th at Hawthorne Theater in Portland, November 25th at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, then an off day on the 26th, and then November 27th at the Lodge Room in Highland Park, Los Angeles, California. Come see those shows. I'm really excited. I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to have fun.

I'm really excited about that off day. Ooh yeah, that might be fun. Get something to eat. That actually sucks. Did you use the way that, I know we already limited this, but our off day is the day that we come back to LA. Like I would love to be in any of these cities.

Any city in the world, really. If we had an off day in Bakersfield, I'd prefer love to be in any of these cities in the world We had an off day in Bakersfield I prefer it I'm getting an extra night in my bed before the LA show is We should know we shouldn't just treat it that way though We should go we should do like a Hollywood bus tour and look at the stars Now Jeff you must have World Series fever because it is three strikes for you You have forgotten to ask us three times a row what we like about this drink if it's an order again or not for us Jeff your Mike you're right. I have World Series Because of the three strike thing

Look, are we so beholden to the format here on the pod? I think you're right. We kind of get like, we get enough. We have to say something though, because we don't do, most shows have some. We'll do it, we'll do it. Right, I know, but like, you know, like,

we're not saying, we don't have like a one to five ranking system or whatever, we just sort of are chill about it, so if we're so chill we stop doing it altogether, I don't know that we're doing our jobs here. Slippery slope, all of a sudden we just don't even do the podcast anymore. It's like, yeah, that's true. Yeah, oh no, episode this week, what?

Still subscribe. We have ads we'll run. Look, folks, isn't it nice that like this time we do the final thoughts and we get that nice jazz piano under that outro jazz. I like that. Underscoring the final thoughts. I think this is an order again. It's funny because I don't love it. And fed and fit dot com.

Casey does want you to batch this for multiple people. But I'm like, if I don't love one, am I going to love 12 of these? Right. Like, is the amounts going to change how I feel about the drink? You wouldn't think so. But I do think like this is a good little autumnal punch. Nobody would ever balk at this if this was at your party and you're dipping a ladle for some of this. They'd say, oh, what is this? And and you're dipping a ladle for some of this, they'd say, Oh,

what is this? And, and you'd say, harvest sparkle, harvest, spark, harvest, sparkle. It is a not or again for me. Don't like, would you say it fell victim to the Prosecco effect? The perspective is Prosecco effect. Oh Mike, that could be a, that could be a screenplay that you're right. The Prosecco effect though. Well, I know what? Ooh, Mike, that could be a screenplay that you write. The Persecho-Efecto. Well, I know what I have. Yeah, that's the title.

And now what happens with it? Damn it! Damn it! I can never get past that title. Well, what's the inciting incident? What's the Dark Knight of the Soul? I know. How about a nerd doesn't like a drink?

Ha ha ha. What if he's cool? I can just hear the EPs right now. What if he's cool? OK can just hear the EPs right now. What if he's cool? Okay. Yeah. Yeah, the people watching are going to want to identify with the lead. What if he's cool?

Yeah, what if he's got mad Riz? He's a skateboarding, rapping guy who gets a drink ruined. You know, this is a plea to fans. Somebody help me out where I'm not an order again I actually like the taste of this Tim will help you out right here on the phone. Great. Please Please I think that this syrup we made was good right this this cider spice It's not side doesn't have apple in it But it's the spice the syrup you would add to cider to make it have spiked be spiced cider

I guess right you'd add orange juice to juice. Yeah, but so I did think this tasted good, but I have some sort of weird block in my brain where like I would way rather just like drink a- a- an old fashioned or a whiskey sour or- or 20 other whiskey drinks other than this. Or for example, we covered the champagne cocktail on this very pod Which was like champagne Angostura and possibly brandy and Maybe Grand Marnier something like that, but it was delicious Remember when we were trying to come up with a name for the early 2000s. We were calling it Von Dutch era

We you know, yeah And then he then somebody finally reached out and said I'm I'm an aestheticist I do this for all the real name is Mick bling for the for the aesthetic of the early 2000s aspirational luxury that assist right that's the name of the style of the of the culture I'm asking for a different type of scientist to reach out to me and say, Tim, why is it that when a drink is called Harvest Sparkle

and it was on fitnfit.com or whatever it is, am I less likely to have it than if it was like, oh, it's on the IBA list and it has a name and I can see it in all these restaurants? Because I never, it's not about taste for me, it's about, IBA list and has a name and I can see it in all these Rest because I never it's not about taste for me. It's about it's I've always with this pod set I like the people aspect and the sociological History aspect yes way more than the taste on the tongue so we're is that I think part of it said nostalgia Sure, we're all guilty of it, but I think you in particular are guilty of it where...

I plead not guilty. Sorry, Tim. We were suspect of Twitter when it first started and we begrudgingly joined. And it's like, there's just this sort of like distrust of things that begin on the internet where you're just like, that's not real. Right. But why then? I mean, I'm on board for a Borg or something like that because it has caught on, but there's just something about...

Tim's saying you need a story, you want to put yourself there. It's got to have real world steam and a real world crowd or a story behind it other than like, this blonde drink is actually pretty okay. Exactly. These flavors tasted good, but I'm looking for like what type of person, like when we found out that a Furnet and Coke or Fernandito is big with, um, like South American college kids, that did so much for me. I can't even fucking tell you because Jeff, you, you order those all the time and I like them and I drink them sometimes. But when I drink it, I'm like, I'm like an Argentinian college kid. Like I can picture the person. I don't know what that is.

I said nostalgia, but I don't think that's nostalgia because I think nostalgia refers to something you did yourself. But it is a thing where you want to, I don't know. We need the aestheticist to come out. Future nostalgia. Maybe we have Dua Lipa on next week. Yeah. We had Dale DeGraw. Maybe next week we get Dua Lipa. We're going through all the D named celebrities. Dua, you're up. She's like, oh fuck, I gotta go on the C. Our holidays goes from D.A. down to D.U. You're up. She's like, wait, shit, you already did Dale? Yeah, we did Dale.

And you do it by first name? She's like, OK, fine, I'll do it. All right, folks, we love seeing you every week, week after week. Why don't you bring a friend next time and hit us up on the Patreon, hit us in the DMs. Hope you have a beautiful voting, and we'll see you on the other side. Peace! Bye!

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