The Sloppy Boys - 225. Cardinale

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

The guys make a Negroni variant named in honor New York's Cardinal Spellman (at the Excelsior Hotel in the 1950's, of course.)CARDINALE RECIPE: 1.33oz/40ml GIN.66oz/20ml BITTER CAMPARI .33oz/10mlDRY VERMOUTHPour ingredients into a mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.Recipe via the International Bartenders Association | www.iba-world.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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You know, for texting and stuff. And if you're not getting rewards like extra data and dollars off with your mobile plan, you're not with Fizz. Switch today. Conditions apply, details at Fizz.ca. Hey folks, welcome to the Sloppy Boys where we take a deep dive into the drinks that you love. I'm Jeff Dutton, along with Michael Hanford. Yo.

And Timothy Kalpakis. What is up? And we are your host, the Sloppy Boys band, fresh off the road. Timothy. Hard at work, bringing in new listeners every day. Welcome folks, if you're new to the show. Thanks for those who came out to see us live.

Those were some good shows down in Carolina. Ooh, yeah, Jeff, you're right. We're out there doing the hard work bringing in new listeners. The people listening now, they get to wake up, oh, was it Friday? Maybe I'll check my phone, listen to the episode. Yeah, I'm glad you're comfortable.

We're out there, Raleigh, Charleston, pouting the pavement, pulling with a crowbar. Ooh, pulling. a crowbar. Eeeewww! Pulling it. Each listener by hand. Let us in! Eeeewww! And some of you, eeeewww! Yeah, they don't want to come, that's the thing.

They're giving a lot of resistance. Eeeewww! You gotta come to the shows, folks. You gotta come to the shows. That's where the real show is. Let me ask you guys about this with the touring and traveling and stuff.

Did you guys get chapped hands on the road? Um, got chapped hands. No, we're young and virile. We don't have chapped hands. No, not me. I'll say that a lot of your behavior chapped my ass. I'm going from, I'm going into these hotels and using their hard ass water and being in the cold

and being like, ah, my hands are red and the skin is coming off of them. Yeah, that's what it is. Hotel water makes your skin come off your hands. I have the thing kind of, I think this happened to Jeff on a recent trip, but we're kind of life on the road. Hey, it's, there's planes, there's hotel rooms,

there's crazy drunken shows, there's the late're, there's planes, there's hotel rooms, there's crazy drunken shows, there's the late night pizzas, of course, there's not a lot of sleep, there's all this stuff. I was living life and invincible while we were on the road, and then the very second I got home, step inside my home, sick as a dog, body fell apart, everything.

Suddenly very invincible. Body fell apart. Everything. Suddenly very invincible. Vincable. And it was funny because it was everything I was like, oh, do I have a cough? Yeah. Do I have body aches? Yep. Do I have a stomach ache?

Yep. Just everything went wrong. And now I feel okay, but for 24 hours or so, it was just like, I went through all of the bodily body problems I should have had on the road. The adrenaline was keeping them bottled up and then I got home and I said, Tim, now you may fall apart. Tim, that's great.

That happens to us all the time. I'm going to follow up with you, but folks, this is sort of a new segment. You're going to follow up with me in life, but I'll hear from you again? Yeah, yeah, we're going to follow up on your health. No, I wanted to play this first before we got into it, but this is this is a new segment, folks. Tour tapes, records of the road. Whoa. Hey, folks, we're halfway through the Southern double here on the tour tapes, the records from the road. How's it going over there? It's going great. I just got the rental cars an EV Have that show going to Raleigh last night to me

You know, it was good. I don't know what sex is. I was up an hour ago fresh as a daisy But then I just got a little more sleep and now I'm grog. Oh, did the sleepy head today. We're headed to Charleston tonight It's gonna be a snooze fest down in Charles. I got a sleepy show Jeff does. The tour tapes. Jeff, get that thing away from me. See you next time. I've got records on the road. Your guests seem pretty reluctant on the tour tapes.

Yeah. The notes from the road really fell apart at the end. If you'll remember, that was at the Longleaf Hotel at, oh, I don't know, nine thirty in the morning. Nice little hotel. That I just did a thing that we do a lot on the podcast in that tape. I started a sentence wrong where I said, you know, it's good or you know, it sucks. I'm really groggy. It's like you just started sentence, you know, it's good.

I feel like we've done it before the show. Like, oh man, you know, it's funny. I mean, no, actually it's really sad, but it's, it's notable. You're just so, you're so used to saying like, yeah, it's just like, you know what's something I'm going to tell you. But since we do comedy all the time, it's like, you know, it's funny. Well, not really. You know, it's a fact that's going to come out of my mouth.

Well that's where you get, that's when you get Mielen involved, guys. That's where you give them a load of notes. Hey, Mielen, cut my flub, will you? Make me look good out there. Cut my flow. Yeah, so this is a little peek behind the curtain for the listener. Now, me and Michael, every once in a while, tell Mielen, hey,

cut this thing I said. It was a little too offensive or I was being too hot for TV. Or just like, hey, I was wrong about that fact. I was so. The fact that I was wrong. Yeah, I was just plain wrong. I was so confident in saying. Jeff likes to say, hey, Meyland, fix up this,

fix that stammer, fix it. I want all the people to think that I'm just, everything is just so. I don't want the people to know. Yes, he might go real, real humans, you know, but I want to I want to seem like a god up on Mount Olympus where Tim's ancestors are from. Well, see, you know, you guys are and you say that in your notes. I do. I do. I mentioned your ancestors.

But also I get really stuttery, especially when we get like drinking, when we get to drink and I started. Oh, you get excited to like, hey, guys. It's so fun to be here. I also like you guys are very cutting voices and I got it. I got a butter knife of a voice. And so oftentimes I'll have little interjections where I'm like, yeah. And and and I'm like, me, just cut that shit until they give me a fucking word and edgewise and then let me go.

Right. You have a lot of stuff that's sort of like, hey, you're here. Hey, hey, look, wait for me. It's beta, Mike. You have to cut that stuff. Hey, wait for me. It's beta stuff. I actually wasn't listening, Jeff, because I'm too alpha. Well, that's why you got to start. So to say that you guys are sending this like me.

Hey, you know, what's good? I mean, you know what sucks? Jeff, you need to take up space. You gotta say, I'm here now and I'm talking about Mega Man. Yeah, 2025 I will take up space. Yeah, space bar. I'm excited about the tour tapes. It's weird there's a new series on the show.

It's a little worrisome as the editor in chief of Boo's News, I've worked with Dutton's Delights and Dutton's Demolitions. I'm a little curious as to why you're going your own way and you're including the tour tapes up at the top of the show during the shit chat. I figured we would jump right into it. And so you might as well get that segment out there.

Ah, it's almost like when when BuzzFeed came out and it was like, oh, people are getting the news on BuzzFeed, not from the New York Times as much. Jeff is BuzzFeed. And I'll be ready for the real shit goes. Wait, so you're saying I'm the legacy media. Yeah. Oh, and I'll be ready. Yeah, I'm I'm here breaking Michael Jackson's death. Tim. Oh, and I'll be ready. Yeah, I'm here breaking Michael Jackson's death.

Tim. Oh, Mike is a champ. Yeah, I'm here talking about which memes are OK to use now. Is that what goes down in fortune? Which means are OK to use? Yeah, all of the names are OK on fortune. They get nasty. They're nuts over there. I don't know. Remember when Michael Jackson died and hearing about it on TMZ and how wrong that felt?

I think I was in the car when I heard about it. I forget about that. I was in LA for sure. I was in LA. Have you been watching our Instagram guys? To follow up on... I mentioned a couple weeks ago on the show that there's a history, there's an Instagram account that posts historic clips from history. And I mentioned a few weeks ago on the show that they're disproportionately Michael Jackson centric and I started to think they were trolling.

And recently, like in the past week or so, there were two, and I'm telling you, everything else is just like FDR. It's like Pearl Harbor. FDR said about Jacko's passage. FDR's great grandchildren mourn Jacko. There were two things. It was like when Michael Jackson took his sunglasses off during his Grammy acceptance speech.

I was like, that's weird. And then the best was there was a supercut of news reports about famous people's deaths. And of course, I was like, well, I wonder if they're going to include Michael Jackson and right off the bat, it was like Michael Jackson dead. So wait, so this is just an Instagram history feed, and they must have had like a Michael Jackson hit. And they're just trying to replicate that hit with more Michael Jackson videos. But it's throwing off the whole premise of what they started doing in the first place.

Either that or they're being funny and I'm the only person in on the joke. Now is there a way and is it still consistently just Michael Jackson stuff or they peppering in? They're peppering in other stuff. If Princess Di. It's just heavy Michael Jackson stuff. John Benet Ramsey. It would be a funny thing to do though, to start something that just felt like National Geographic or Smithsonian or whatever,

and just post, get a million followers, get everyone's trust, and then slowly start just posting about one thing every day. Now look, I've made it very clear that I do not exactly know what AI is, but I'm going to say this, maybe it's an account run by AI figuring out an algorithm. So it's going, figuring out an algorithm.

I got it inside with you, Mike. It's AI figuring out an algorithm. It's a tough position to take, but when you really think about it, it's like, yeah, that's probably what's going on. How about we head down to the sphere and ask around and see what we can find. Any chance I can get to get down to that sphere, I will take it.

Oh, I saw a funny video. Not funny. Sad. This is kind of like how Tim will start an anecdote. It was a guy having a bad trip at the sphere. Oh, I saw that. Me too. And he was like sort of doing the backstroke. And his friends were like the audience, like holding him still. So he doesn't like fall forward. But he was like windmilling his arms and being like, oh, yeah. It was it was sad because, you know,

it's not a fun headspace to be in. And I'm surprised there's not more bad trips at this fear. It seems like fertile ground for people having freak outs. Sure, sure. Yeah. I wonder if I wonder if it's just happening a lot. And but people aren't videotaping it because they're too stoned out to. That was also he was he was doing that backstroke move. And then it seemed like a friend to help him

reach around from the back and held him like so he wouldn't fall down. Yeah. And I think fucking junk man is reaching around and stop that. I heard no sure. I'm sorry. Well, you're right. Is the gutter. So'm sorry. Well, mine is in the gutter. I had to know like reached an arm over his shoulder. But I think the tripping guy took that as like, I'm being grabbed from by he probably thought there were spiders coming up behind him.

He was seeing a boa constrictor wrapping around. He started violently kicking his legs like to get out from that scary. No, dude, it's your friends. It's your friends. It's your friends. Oh, we love you. And if we go to the sphere, good trips only when Tim and I go again.

But yeah, good trips only. Oh, click. It'll be a good trip. Well, Tim, you and I had a good trip at the sphere. We actually went to a good trip to the sphere to the sphere. Exactly. Exactly. That's what I mean. You'll you'll the audience, the cute audience, cute eared audience listener right now will

surely understand that I am in a bad mood today. You two dealt with it earlier. Now, Mike, I had up. Oh, it's that movie you're talking about. Kiss my ass. I joined the call a little bit later and I and I already back off. Back it up. You were already mid mood. Did Jeff do something to piss you off or what happened?

Well, he did something a long time ago that pissed me off. He sent me a very nice camera that doesn't work on my computer No, it's here's what happened I got home from You guys got home a day early from the tour. I got home just yesterday because I went to Florida Thanks everyone for coming out to the show in st. Augustine funny little crowd down there half slop heads half Close to retirement age people. I mean, what was the venue?

It was called Cafe 11 or the 11 cafe. Well, it was a Saturday night show. And I didn't cross my mind that you do a comedy show prime time Saturday night in Florida. A bunch of old people are like, let's go laugh. It was a sold out show, which I was happy about. And they weren't old, they weren't like, what did you say, Sonny?

But it was just like, whoops, this isn't the Brooklyn crowd I'm used to. Right. Gonna take a little more finessing. So you know me, I did a few dances, kinda did my funny voices, I got out of there. Do you count down the number of dances? Like hey, I'm gonna do seven dances,

and here's number six. Yeah, it's like, here's number five. And then I'll do some more jokes, like, oh, coming in at number four. That's dance. It's a countdown. So then I got home yesterday. And I was like, all right, OK, I'm home.

And Tim, it sort of happened to me, too. This morning, I woke up at like 10. I was like, OK, I'm up. I'm not sick yet, but I'm still a little feeling tired. and then I took a nap at one from one to five o'clock And I was just like no Because then you wake up in the dark, dude My yeah, my alarm was going off for like hours. I was like, oh stop I just reset it and slept for like another hour and it's just one of those like I have not woken up yet and any little

Any little inconvenience will tick me off. You came on the, you came on the pod and I was like, Jeff, why doesn't this work? Jeff, we should, we should be very careful. We're going to be walking on eggshells. Thank God it's not whiskey sour week because there'd be even more eggshells for us to walk on. Yes, yes.

Well, thank God we're not doing this in person. Cause I would, I would probably be throttling to both of you while I'm recording. Yeah, yeah, Tim. Thank God we're not doing this in person, because I would probably be throttling the both of you while I'm recording. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right around the neck. I tell you, man, the sleeping, the naps are hard, the timing of the waking up and... But it's like my body needed it,

because I was just like, I just couldn't, I was sitting on the couch trying to watch the news while I was eating lunch, I was like, oh, I can't do this. Mm-hmm. But you're not sick, you're just you're just worn out. No, just run down and maybe tomorrow I'll wake up sicker than a dog. You know, it's funny is like people used to get hospitalized

for exhaustion all the time. Yeah. And I remember being like, what does Madonna have to be exhausted about? What does Katy Perry have to be exhausted about? Have some coffee. I absolutely get it Totally totally and and Jeff you you know this we're not saying we're as big as those bands obviously When p.m.. We are physically the three of us stacked on top of each other could take any starlet

true in a height contest But yeah, you think about like the Taylor Swift doing the the errors thing. It's like, well, she's got every comfort and convenience, but you still have to go out on stage and hit your marks. And it's like for years she's doing this like a two year run now. Yeah, like the human body gets run down. You don't have any say over your body, like getting tired and lacking vitamins

and getting sick. And this isn't, and this isn't a weird getting old thing. I don't think we were like in our prime in our 25 year old bodies. We went to the San Francisco sketch fest and then Chicago sketch fest right after it. And we all seven of us went home and got sick. It was just like, we had gone too hard every single night

and went whee. It's funny, I think there's something about the performing too because there's a positive, there's an adrenaline dump and a dopamine and a serotonin dump of performing that is extremely fun. And we've noticed when we do our shows, I can drink, somehow the audience will buy me like seven shots and I'll do them and I'll get a little tipsy.

And that's about it. Like for some reason I'm like, again, invincible. And like normal human rules don't apply to me, but it's just because it's like, I'm on stage. Part of it is mental. And then you walk off stage and you crash into the t-shirt table. Yeah, exactly.

That's true. Also, I'm eating pizza. Jeff orders pizza to the room at 3 a.m. It's so good, but I'm so tired that the chewing is too much work. I lay the slice, I've got deep dish buffalo chicken pizza with jalapenos on it on my chest and I'm chewing and I put on the chest my chest I'm probably just gonna fall asleep because I've been chewing

for so long. This is the third time I've heard about the chewing being too hard. I'm on my team. Jeff I'm pissed at you too. I think too much chewing on this trip. Next time we'll baby bird it into your mouth. Wait it happened also the next night we were in Charleston and our friends from MIDS took us out to a pizza place and they're like,

you'll love it, it has huge slices. And we loved it, but I was eating these huge slices and I was like, ah, it's really, it's so much chewing. And I ran out of time. It's so much chewing. Like, you know me, I can eat so much food, but I was looking around at everyone else finishing their slices and I was like, hold on, wait!

And I left a whole big slice behind. That's kind of tough. Mike, it's too much chewing. So you went to the airport first to go to Fort Lauderdale. Tim and I go to the airport and we're looking for places to eat. And we found of all places, DeSano's Pizzeria. Insane. The only other one I've seen is like a hip spot in LA. We're like, wait a minute.

I think I've seen. They have one location in Hollywood. Yeah, we got off the plane in Charleston once and noticed it. This time me and Jeff. But the idea that there's one location right by our homes on Santa Monica Boulevard, and then the other one is the Charleston Airport,

and it's very good very good personal It is fired pizzas. Maybe not wood fired but fired. Yeah. Yeah, it was propane, but those domes so it got really hot It was great point being we had pizza three or four days in a row constant constant constant pizza constant pizzas. I'll tell you Here's carrying forward into life. What I've done wrong is I was sick, and after all that pizza, I was like, Tim, Tim, soothe the soul with soup. That definitely just soothed the soul. And then because, but then the problem with me is I try to make everything fun.

So I'm like, oh, well, I don't know, maybe I'll order some fun soup. I don't know. But now then what it becomes, instead of having some like healthy soup. It's like spicy soup. I'm just going fucking crazy with spicy ramen and salty, salty, spicy.

I'm making ramen in my home now, and it's just a hot sauce bowl. That's not healthy. I got to do that. Next time we're all together, we should do a DIY ramen thing. Because I've found some really good spicy ones I like, but they don't have that cream. Did you? Oh, yeah. Butter, man. That't have that like cream. Did you, oh yeah. Butter, man. That is the.

Pad of butter. That's the, yeah, the butter helped me. When Tim told us that, that helps. I also have done just creamer. Like. Smart. Kelsey was saying mayo, which grosses me out. Now you know what I've done with mayo. I put that, make hollandaise with mayo.

Butter and lemon. I don't know, it works for me. I've seen you do that. And what do you, do you put asparagus in there or what? Artichoke. I'm usually doing artichoke, dip those leaves. Artichoke, that's your thing. My ramen thing, I think that this is incorrect

and real ramen people hate me for this. I put the noodles in like early and so that the noodles get really soft but then the starch from the noodle makes the water kind of cloudy. So my noodles are not really intact They're kind of blobby globos. So the noodles are sort of taken one for the broth Exactly I can compromise the integrity of my noodles just a little bit. Have you guys seen there was a hot ones? Just a little bit. Have you guys seen there was a Hot Ones ramen, like the Maruchan single packs that you can get? And I haven't been able to see them, find them anywhere.

I think they might only be in Walmarts. But have you come across this at all in your internet? I have not. So it's fun. Yeah, I think if I can find them, if I can track those down, we should do that. That's smarter than. I do Bulldog, which is a brand you see in H Mart.

That's what I did today when I was like, I'll be healthy. And I'm like, it's like insane to eat that stuff. Those things always kind of scare me because they look if it's ever like a brand I've never heard of, which is just like Maruchan. I'm like, ah, that might just be a little too nutty for me. I'm going to just go to the thing I know and add the spice myself. Well, because they also have like a cute little cartoon chicken on there that's like screaming fire and like has no pupils. So it looks like a zombie or something like that.

I don't want that to be me, man. I like the smiling character here on this one. Hey, I was today years old when I realized that Maruchan and Top Ramen are different brands. I thought it was Maruchan Top Ramen. No, no, they're two different. I've been interchangeably grabbing the chicken flavor of those for my whole life. Now, do you guys, when you do the,

when you do Maruchan or top ramen, do you do the like square package or the cup? These days square package. Yeah, I mean, because with those you can add more stuff. I wanna make a big punch bowl and plop eggs and seaweed and pork belly in mine. Yeah. Yeah. I've also seen online advertised to me.

Ramen toppers, dehydrated packs of like different. A culture. Yeah. So they give you a little packet and you rip it open and it's got the little one of those little swirly pink things. Yeah, what are those? I always think those are like, are those fake? Like, are they designed that way or is it fake crab or something? They're real. Oh, they're real. They're 100 percent authentic. What is that? It's like fish cake or something.

OK, no. Yeah, you know, the Japanese fish cake. The pink and white swirly things in ramen are called naru Tomaki, which are a type of Japanese fish cake. What's a fish cake? Now I don't want to know what that is. I don't think I think it's like just what it sounds like. Is it dried fish pressings? Yeah, it's it's white fish paste pressings put into a log and then sliced. You made it a lot grosser with making pressings.

Pressings. Why did he have to say? and sliced. You made it a lot grosser with making pressings. Yeah, pressings. Why did he have to say pressings? Pressings are depressing. Depressing. Well, hey, speaking of pressing, do you want to get into some booze news? Oh, yes.

Yeah, but right before we wrap up the shit chat and you were talking about a tour. Yes. And we should mention that if you wanna see the Sloppy Boys on tour, oh boy, we're coming to your town and we got dates. We're really, really excited because we're about to do some live podcasts in February, this very month,

starting on the 16th. We're gonna be in Austin, Atlanta, DC, Philly, New York, Boston, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul. Then we're going to take a few weeks off, we're going to grab our amps and drum set, and then we're going to hit the road on a rock and roll concert tour of the West Coast where we're doing Seattle, Portland, San Francisco,

L.A., San Diego, Phoenix. You got to look at our socials to buy the tickets and see the dates in the venues. Damn, that's good. It's all happening. These are fun shows. Even when we meet some scheduling adversity down in Charleston, we had the venue shift.

We started doing a show out there in a brewery, like out in their warehouses. And thank you Slopheads for rolling with that. We were wearing our coats on stage. Yeah, and thank you for the brew, for Lo-Fi. Lo-Fi brewing, yeah. Thanks for putting us up. Here we are, we were in a state of emergency in LA.

LA was on fire and we went, we flew to South Carolina only to find that they were having snow and they were, which they don't know how to handle there because they never get it. And they don't have a, like, there's no plows, there's no salts. There's like not a plow in the area. Yeah, so we went from one state of emergency to another.

It was crazy. And like, you know, we were fucking freezing playing that show. Oh yeah. It was a great show. I'm glad we were playing music. Those are our choices, freeze to death or burn alive. That's no good.

Yeah, seriously. I will say that Charleston show, I was wearing a hoodie and a jacket and jeans and a hat and the sunglasses. I was like, oh, that's a cool look. I might just start switching up some looks these days. The clips looked very eight mile. They do, and also they remind me

of the Beatles on the roof or something. You don't often see rocker dudes in coats. I said, don't let me down. You said that? I thought it, I thought it. I was singing don't let me down. You said that. I thought it. I thought I was singing the lyrics of our songs. I have a one going to, you know, I'm going to do one of these days. I'm going to come out with a big one piece T-shirt jumpsuit, you know, short sleeve shirt jumpsuit, short sleeve jumpsuit.

Yeah, that's what I like. It's like a custodian or something. I'm a That's nice. It's like a custodian or something. A mechanic. Yep. A machanic. A machanic, Mike. Yeah, Viet. At least you didn't turn it Italian

and say a machaniacio. Machaniacio. Hey, wait. I was just saying that when we performed with our jackets and hoods on, we had a sort of an eight mile vibe. Yeah, yeah. Our show in Detroit at the Magic Bag Theater

on February 27th, it's Ferndale, Michigan. I was like, where's Ferndale? And Ferndale is Detroit, but I zoomed in. The Magic Bag Theater is on Nine Mile Road. Oh! One block from rabbits, where rabbit did his bidding. The rabbit.

I thought you were going to say that Eminem Marshall Mathers had bought a ticket to the show. Yeah, we see everyone's name as the ticket sales roll in. There'll be some matters. It'll be so funny if somehow Eminem got a hold of this podcast, like I kind of like this. He listens for years and comes to our show and is like, I just want to meet you guys.

Yeah, he's more of a Shane Gillis guy. Yeah, that's probably right. Hey, what? The other day I was listening, I heard Eminem and he was, I'm Slim Shady, I'm the real shade. He was saying, here's a concept that works, 20 million other white rappers emerge. But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but,

and I was like, yeah, I mean, he got really popular, but then I was like, wait, in the wake of Eminem, I don't actually remember a bunch of white rapper wannabes, do you? I don't know. And that's something with like, especially that era of rap when I was listening to it, I never knew what they were talking about because I was just never, ever like clued in acts like Kid Rock.

Oh, Kid Rock is also from Detroit or New Metal. I also wonder if it was just like, oh, he's seeing that record record labels are like trying to sign their new M&M. Who's your new M&M? So maybe none of them blew up. So we didn't see them, but it was- I guess not, or maybe it was just fabricated. Like, sometimes I think some rappers

will put the world against them to make their- Well, I mean, the whole song is him airing grievances, and I've never really thought about that one. I was like, yeah, all those other white rappers. Hey, wait a second, I actually can't. I remember white rappers before him, more so. And much later, you know, you got your posts and your Machine Gun Kelly's.

You got me, Gardens of Gomorrah. Gardens of Gomorrah, for sure. And hipster rap, Santa rap, presidential rap. My Twitter hits. Wait, who's that other guy? Who's that other guy? He's in the new, oh, Jack Harlow. Yep.

Oh yeah. Who did Thrift Shop? Macklemore. Macklemore. Mack no more. Harlow did that funny pivot where he was like, he was being the type of rap that was like, bling type of, like, I could put you in first class up in the sky, and then he was kind of associated

with that type of rap, and then his very next album, he's got like no shirt and he's in like standing out on the street in his hometown. Like, I'm just a guy out here in the streets. I'm like, I'm just a low class kind of a guy. He did it backwards, man. Yeah. All right, can we get into some booze news, please?

Please. We've delayed too long. Finally, finally, finally. I don't want the new listeners to think that the show is always this. I don't want to say bad. Most people tuning in just want to learn how to make a cardinal. Yeah, OK. Let's get on with it for those people. For the cardinal crowd. Yeah, the cardinals. Here we go. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum,

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The Fink Man. The Fiskman. Some good ones. He's got some good. It's also funny that Chris Finkie, he does. It's very talented, makes us these great themes. I shouldn't call him Stinky Fink. Oh, I'm sure he loves it. Let's call him Wonderful Finkie.

Wonderful. Doesn't leave the same ring to it. There was a Fred Armisen had a joke I saw him do once that may have made it onto his stand up for drummers special on Netflix, where he's talking about that type of music was that do up for that. Do a bob, bob, bob, bob, bob, bang, bang, bang. He was like, what's with these bands? The first time they did that, they're a practice and the guy's like, what if we start like bow to bob ball, but by and by and by?

And then he's like, and then the other guy's like, OK, well, yeah, we're not going to do that. Let's actually practice. Right. No, yeah, that would be stupid to do. Yeah. Crazy. Hey, it's kind of funny. None of us did like a a cappella group, so any of that sort of shit in college. They're so huge on college campuses. My brother did our college, especially. Yeah.

Right. I think I had like a award winning team or something. I as an oldies kid, I was into do up, but I don't have the voice and the vocal nimbleness to agility to be in a a cappella group. That's not true. Also, maybe I would like it. If I joined an a cappella group and they were doing do op or barbershop even, maybe that would be fun. But I don't want to do the ones where you're like doing modern pop songs,

but you're going like scoop, skip, skip, skip, scatting always feels gross a little bit. Yeah. What's the one? What's the big like group? Pentatonix, pentatonix, pentatonix. My parents saw pentatonix and they it was too much. They didn't really like it. That's the funniest thing ever. Like, hey, we went and saw pentatonix.

You did. What do you think? We didn't like it. OK, OK. We didn't like that. Well, there you go. That's what happens to everyone who sees Pentatonix, I hope. Do they do the Pentatonix scale? Is that the deal?

Only that. Yeah, they just warm up with the scales. They've been teasing that eventually they're gonna sing a sixth note. Can I tell you, I've been thinking the Pentatonix scale is the blues scale this whole time. Is it not? Depending on where you start it.

Hold on, I had a sheet of paper that told me otherwise. Maybe I was reading the, damn. If you start it in one spot, it's just major, but if you slide it down, it's got some blue notes in it. We gotta figure this out, Tim. I'm looking at this little chart I've got here. I don't, it doesn't make any sense. Yeah, Tim, that's good you know that stuff.

I feel like I should know that stuff, I don't. Yeah, maybe you could tell Jeff and me sometimes about some of this stuff. Jeff, Jeff, your musical knowledge is perplexing to me. I think that Mike, I know what you know and there's a lot of people that are at your level. I think my level, a lot of people are at my, which is not a high level, but Jeff.

It was mine a high level? Yes. Berkeley School of Music shit. Oh. I would say I'm your pretty standard like guy who played some Weezer on guitar and then has just been lazy about it. You can solo.

I think that's a. I think that's a. When I have the pentatonic scale I can solo. Right, but I think that's like a, like that's a different level. But. I can't do that. I can't solo.

But wouldn't you agree that Jeff is a guy who will sometimes explain something musically that's complex and over my head, and then other times not know what the pentatonic scale is? Or sometimes you'll be showing me something that's hard for me to play, and then I'll say, it starts on this note, and you're like, I don't know, and you don't know the names of the notes that you're playing.

It's quite interesting, Jeff. Yeah. Jeff is like from a different planet, and not in the way that Ziggy Stardust was. No, I kind of like that. Superman? He holds the drums, he drums wrong, he doesn't know chord names,

but he can play the songs, and I don't get it. Thanks, guys. I don't get it. Thanks, these are put downs. What are you talking about? You know what it is? Is my parents started me playing the Suzuki method. Are you here to this?

They don't teach you to read music. It's just by ear piano. They call it Suzuki Suzuki method. Yeah. Then I used to when I did saxophone, I would write the letter of the note on top of the notes so that my end of my band teacher saw my sheet music and it said, BAGD, what are you doing to these notes? You're not actually learning at all. This music is bad.

And yeah, so it took me a while. Well, but like I've said to you before, and this was a couple of years ago, I was like, play a G and you're like, oh, which one's a G? Yeah, on guitar. But if you gave me a sax, I could do it. Yeah, a guitar, yeah.

A sax which I never touched other than once every five years. I just think it's funny, and I'm like this too with other stuff, but you know, to memorize what frets or what notes would take you one afternoon, but the idea that it's just like, no, I guess I don't have that knowledge. Yeah, me too. I still, I bring that little sheet of paper out

that has all the notes. I just can't learn this, I guess. Did you have a tape on the back of your guitar? Like a little not taped on the back of the car, but I just recently put numbers on the neck of my guitar. That's what I saw for the five and three, five and seven. Just just so I can see where I am in the heat of the moment. You just got to be able to know in an instant and have it written helps Tim. All right. What's the actual booze news, please?

Guys, I think we bump the booze news. We've been having so much fun chatting. I have like a big booze news. I was going to go into boot it. Fuck booze news. We already did. Tour tapes, records of the tour tapes. We're having fun with each other.

How about this? I've been wanting to do this. You know, when we played, we did a live podcast show in, uh, in LA, we did, uh, the Milan report. Yeah. Now I would like to open something up here. Let's do the Milan minute. Milan, if you'd like to, uh, record something and put it in here if you want. 60 seconds, whatever you want.

Yeah, it's, it's the Milan minute. If you don't want to do it, Milan, you can delete all this stuff and it never happened. That would be pretty creative if this just goes on and he shows, I chose the option to not do it. Ha ha ha. Lost again! Are we doing this? Wait for it.

Wait for it. Ow! Ah! Get over here! What's up everyone? You listening to the Milan Minute? Milan Minute. Hey guys, I ended up spending a lot more time working on the intro music for this segment than I expected to, so I don't really have much to say for the segment itself. I also got food poisoning and that kind of took a lot out of me so I don't have a lot of energy to think of a thing but I would love to do something for the next one and I hope you guys will give me another chance. Thanks. You just listened to the Meal in Minute. Meal in Minute.

Meal in Minute. Meal in Minute. Oh, cool man, handbag it. Well, everyone, I hope you enjoyed the Meal in Minute in lieu of. If it happened. If it happened. If it happened. Or the lack of it.

I hope you enjoyed that more than Boo's News'll we'll hit you next week with some whatever. Whatever comes across my desk this week is going to jump, is going to be right up there. If it bleeds, it leads. That's what we can maybe just take a moment to tell people. Booze news is when we sort of scour the web for the the hottest up and coming things happening in the world of booze. So this is normally in the show. That's it's straight away. You're getting that crucial, crucial info before we start cracking wise and drinking.

See, Jeff is smart. We did recently get a bunch of new listeners this show. So you're explaining this is how this goes. I'm stupid. And I forgot to say, everyone, here's what booze news is. That's what Jeff just said. That's what it is. No, but I but this is a good lesson for all our new listeners

that we can we can live produce this thing. Whatever we can shift this way and that way, you're going to have a lot of fun here because you're going to feel like there's no floor beneath you. But you're going to use Zigweez. I think pod. Yeah. Yeah, it does. I do have to remind myself occasionally whenever I'm like, oh, I got to do this for the pod. Oh, I got to give notes or I I'm not ready

I got too much to do before pod and I'm like Jeffy this show can be whatever you want it to be That's what I've been trying to tell you for four years Well, it's kind of getting to my thick head like well, that's I mean Jeff I've said it before Your ones and zeros. I'm hippie trip out guy. And that's how we do things. Yeah, you got to see a real pain, that movie, a real pain. Yeah, I still need to see The Brutalist. I know it's divisive, but I want to see the big three hour thing in the theater with the intermission.

Get the popcorn, have the Coke. Come on, talk out, yell it at the screen. Picture, pictures pictures up everyone. You Adrian. It's time to view. No, no, wait, what was it? The Diet Coke commercial that he's in after he after he got nominated for best supporting actor.

Oh, Adrian Brody did a Diet Coke commercial and he's just like walking down the street with like animated bubbles popping around. He's kind of like dance. And then everybody is like a bro. Adrian Brody. Brody. The agency was like, we have to say his name. Nobody knows who this fucking actor is.

All right. With booze news, we've got a we we still didn't wrap up last week's bullshit. OK, maybe hopefully that's what the hopefully that's what Milan will be reporting in the Milan minute. And normally when we do business, we have to wrap it up before we can move on with the rest of the show. We didn't wrap it up last week. So let's wrap it up.

Hey, Brody. Hey, nice. Nice. Nice. And now with Boo's News out of the way, we turn our attention to the drink of the day. It's the main feature of this podcast. This is the deep dive we mentioned earlier. Yes. Yeah. This is kind of what 100% of the listeners, they don't like us. They don't like comedy.

They just were searching on their phones because they really needed to make a cocktail for their dinner party tonight. It's sort of like how you fast forward through the first 15 minutes of WTF. A lot of people will do that to this. This one has been about 40 minutes of leading up this like this funky episode. And Jeff, when you fast forward, you're not saying you don't like click ahead 15 seconds or like 30 seconds, 30 seconds. You you speed through the first 15 minutes of Marinara

and go beep beep beep beep beep beep. Pow, I just shook my pants, pow. The cats. Is his name Marc Marin or Marc Marinara? Cause I've been too kind of embarrassed to ask. You're listening to the wrong pod, Mike. You don't, I think you just say whatever you say and people won't correct you. I think both are okay at this point. I've been listening to What the Fettucc Mike. You don't. I think you just say whatever you say and people correct you.

I think both are OK at this point. I've listened to What the Fettuccine with Mark. You're like, what is the big deal with the show? Why does everyone like it so much? There's this show that also has like 1,200 episodes. Well, I was like, OK, Obama came on What the Fettuccine and he sucked on it. It's like, what the hell?

All right, all right, all right, all right. Okay, okay, okay. Everybody stop this silliness. The cardinal you've had? Never had nor heard. Never had nor heard. And when I came across this very recently, I texted it to you guys.

Did you happen to notice the link that I sent you? I know, this very recently. I texted it to you guys. Did you happen to notice the link that I sent you? I know this is exciting. This is exciting for our listeners from way back when. I didn't like it on first blush. I got excited folks. This is a drink coming to us from the International Bartenders Association cocktail list. When we started this podcast,

we were doing the IBA cocktail list. We were started this podcast, we were doing the IBA cocktail list. We said, let's do all 88 of their drinks. This is the very association that had us caged for two years more. Yeah. Well, we put ourselves in the cage, locked them in lock and threw the key. Locked us in. Yeah. We're sort of subby like that. When we finished that list, we went off on our own and we said we started doing whatever cocktails we wanted. In the meantime, they have added and subtracted some cocktails from that list like they always

do. I was taking a perusal. We've discussed how they fancied up their website and that's nice. There's some interesting new cocktails on there. I see the Jungle Bird finally made it on there. That's like the kind of known as the Campari Tiki drink. That's a fun one. Did they knock the Yellow Bird off?

Actually, maybe. Damn. No, no, no, no, it's still there. That's what, yeah, they call it the two bird list now. Anyway, we'll go into more IVA cocktails soon, but that's how I had not heard, none of us have had. But let me ask you. It looks like a classy little drink.

Oh, it certainly is, especially as photographed by the ABA. They did it nice. Have you guys been to Rome? No. No, I've been to Sublime with Rome. Rome, New York I've been to. sublime with Rome. Rome, New York I've been to. Sublime with Rome, Rome, New York. But well, have either of you ever stayed

at the Excelsior Hotel in Rome, Italy? No. No, sorry. Are you familiar with the bartender Giovanni Raimondo who was sort of a big Roman bartender on the scene back during- Yes. During Pope Pius VII's Holy Jubilee year of 1950. Mm-hmm, him I'm aware of.

Yeah, that we know. I knew that one of them would get to you. Well, and then my final question is, do you know the cardinal from the 50, New York Catholic Cardinal Spellman? Yeah. Yes. Yes.

Out with it. Okay, this is a drink invented in 1950 in Rome by Giovanni Raimondo. Okay, that's why you're bringing all this, as goes. You thought I was just going off into a weird. Ice. I was like, what is this? What is he talking about?

You know Cardinals wear red. You know Cardinal birds are red by the way, but Cardinal. Tim, you're talking to Bishop Gertin Cardinal. Whoa, that was your. My high school team. Oh. Tim, I was the Johnny Coleman

Catholic high school statesman. Oh, statesman. Ooh, I was the Knights Coleman Catholic high school statesman. Oh, statesman. Ooh, I was the Knights. Ooh, the Knights. Knights is very good. Hot Knights. Yeah. McQuade Knights.

Yeah. What's the Wishing? My sword. A sword. Oh, okay. Um. And me a Cardinal. Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft.

Yeah, and me an avid Cardinal fan. Ooh, look at that, look at that, Plubage. Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft. Yeah, and me an avid Cardinal fan, ooh, look at that, look at that, plubage, pfft, pfft, pfft. Hey, our friend Ben is a birder. I've been hanging out with him sometimes, he sees a bird, he takes a picture and there's an app that tells him what bird it is and he logs it.

Ben Axelrad? Yeah, he's keeping track of all the birds he sees in his whole life. That's cool, I have that for my plants in my apartment. You, when you look around your apartment, you see a plant and then you wanna identify it? I'm like, oh, a snake plant. I've got all three of these plants logged on an app. Okay, so in Rome at the Excelsior Hotel

when bartender Giovanni Raimondo first created this cocktail in honor of Cardinal Spellman. He used wine, he used Riesling, but it's come to be way more common to use dry vermouth. But guys, what are we looking at here? This is a drink that has gin, gumpari, dry vermouth. What is that spell? Dry Negroni. It's a take on a Negroni. We know the Negroni Spagliata with Prosecco. We know. I forgot about that.

That took us by storm. The white Negroni made with Lillet. And there's lots of different things in the Negroni family. This is a dry one. We've done the Negroni proper more than once on Pod. Twice. It's the only drink we've revisited to date.

Yeah. Oh, we've done the Trinidad Sour twice. For Christmas specials. You're right. Right. But that was special. This was special too. Kind of shocking though that we did the Negroni once

on the pod and you guys didn't like it and then people requested we cover it again once our palates have matured. We did it again in Portland on tour. You guys didn't like it and then. It fared no better. But the crowd also voted against it. That's what shocked me.

See, Negronis are big. People love them. Yes, it's a very Negronis are big. People love them. Yes, it's a very popular drink. It's weird. People love them. And I love them. And I think it's very, but I will admit, part of the reason I love it is the equal parts.

That's nice. Easy make, easy make. Easy make. If you're just dabbling, you decide you want to become a cocktail guy, just, you know, learn how to make a sour and a Negroni and an old fashioned bourge. Come on.

What's in this damn drink? Because I want to talk about one of the ingredients that I've had trouble with before. Okay, so typically. Oh and also I meant to ask Tim, or maybe you covered this. In the IBA they have new era drinks, like old classics and what? Unforgettables.

Unforget, where is this in that? Oh, this is a contemporary classic. Gotcha, okay. Which is an odd distinction, it was invented in Rome in 1950. I'm not super interested in those three categories, because that's just something that they do, but I feel like.

Well maybe some of the listeners are. Well you're allowed to be interested in things I'm not interested in, but I guess I don't really see the purpose of calling something between the first two. It's all this bureaucratic bullshit over the IBA. We know that, that's why they have so much trouble with these lists. I'm just thinking if you're making a list

of the classic cocktails that everyone needs to know, then you shouldn't be on that list at all unless you've become like an unforgettable. Nah, I'm saying. Yeah. Anyway. You know, they're crazy over there. To answer Mike's question of what's in this drink.

Dias. Now, a lot of places will also make this equal parts, Diffords and stuff, I think a bunch of places that I saw online were doing equal parts, but I'm gonna use the IBA recipe, which is 40 milliliters gin, 20 milliliters dry vermouth, 10 milliliters bitter Campari, pour all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice cubes,

stir well, strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon zest. I still need, I'm looking at the picture here, I still need to get these, some of those little tiny cocktail glasses that don't have the, not a coupe glass and not a martini glass, but these little kind of guys.

Yeah. Look like, almost like little shot glasses. Nick and Nora? That's like a Nick and Nora, yeah. I like little shot glasses. Nick and Nora. It's that's like a Nick and Nora. I like those. Yes. Now, Mike, you, you sound off on your problematic ingredient because I have one too.

I want to talk about the Campari, the bitter Campari. I have it right here. I've said before it's ashy. It's I think when we did the Negroni, that's where it came out. But I want to ask you, I've also got this Luxardo bitter. You guys ever, is this, is that the same thing? Is Campari and Luxardo Bitter the same thing?

You should do a taste test. This may have been when I got into trouble all those years ago when people were like, this guy doesn't know how to make the drinks. I think this was my big switch up. I believe the answer is yes, because you know, when you're talking, like there's like bitter Italian,

like as opposed to like your bitters, you know, like Angostura and stuff like that Italian bitter aperitivos. I think that any red bitter thing like that They're all you can you can have different brands of it, but they're all going for the same thing. They smell pretty similar ashy Nasty alright for me. I want to talk about vermouth now Yes, you know new listeners don't know that, you know, we've gone through a whole thing.

We did Vermouth Month. And that was a huge success for the new listeners. They need to know about the huge. But I struggle with vermouth because I don't buy good vermouth and then I also don't refrigerate it. So I end up having stuff with vermouth and I'm like, this sucks. And people online will say, well, this is a good vermouth you like and you'll like your drinks.

And what I found out was I forgot that I recently, the last time we did this, got a nice martini and Rossi dry vermouth and put it in the fridge. So this is the first time that vermouth is getting nice, solid, clean at bat with the J man. That's a good, that's good, Jeff. Good for you. I'll be using an ancient vermouth, but at least it was refrigerated. I was just thinking we've been talking about it's come up before that. If you're making a Manhattan and then there's something called like a perfect Manhattan is when you split, you do both vermouths. Yeah, that was really funny. When we were at a bar one time and the bartender was like, do you want a perfect Manhattan is when you split, you do both of her moves. Yeah, that was really funny. When we were at a bar one time,

and the bartender was like, do you want a perfect Manhattan? And we were like, yeah. Make it perfectly. We would like all of our drinks all night to be perfect, in fact. I'll have a perfect old-fashioned, too. Wouldn't mind my steak to be done perfectly.

Should we make the motherfucker? Yeah, I think we should. And you know what, folks, this is where people like to reach for their wallets and pull out their debit cards, because the ads are coming. But you don't have to listen to the ads if you go to patreon.com slash the sloppy boys. Some of the tiers we have on there,

you get the ad-free version of the main feed podcast. Just so you know, that's an option. But I know a lot of you are excited for the ads, so I don't want to get in the way of that. Asking just on behalf of the new listeners, Jeff, is there, there's a show on there that's called the sloppy boys blowout where we kind of wild out talk about whatever we want. There's a show called like questions for Lenin. That's like really funny. Has a lot of cool comedy people on it.

Yeah. There's sort of like a whole world of content over there from the sloppy boys LLC. For the new listeners. A whole new is a whole new and new team. Yeah, that's true. All listeners, you can continue to listen. All right, folks, we're going to go make these drinks. And when we come back for sips. Ooh. The scoreboard app here with trusted stats and real-time sports news. Yeah, hey, who should I take in the Boston game?

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Bobby Cannavali. Look at that. Married to Rose McGowan. Rose McGowan. I thought she was still I thought she was going out with Marilyn Manson. Oh, sorry. Rose Byrne. Rose Byrne. Rose Byrne. I thought she was going out with Marilyn Manson. Going out is so funny. Going out with. Yeah.

I know they're going out. It's like that's like middle school dating. Who you going out with? Beautiful hue of pink, right? The only red thing in here is a teeny little bit of Campari, so it's very nice, light pink. It looks like it reminded me of a rose. Mike, did you use the Luxardo or the Campari?

The Campari. Nice. For some reason, yours looks more like a pink lemonade than ours or something, or fruit punch. Well, it could also be just my, you guys are on the nice cams, I didn't get mine going yet. Let's not talk about the tech. We're not doing the cam stuff.

No tech talk, Mike. Hey, as long as we're talking about stuff we're not allowed to talk about, our shirts, look at the color palette, huh? Mike has a pink shirt, Jeff, you have a lavender shirt, I have a purple shirt. Yep, Tim, you got that plum. Tim's got that Barney drip.

We look like a fucking paint swatch for someone who wants to do a fucking that. You're never going to believe this. Arms reach. I too have a lavender shirt. Yeah. It's not coming in right. But it's nice. It's nice. All right. First steps. Bottoms up. Uh huh. I really wanted to give this one a shot, you know what I mean? Yeah, you know, you have a platform, you want to be positive.

Yep. It's not always in the cards. On first sips, this is wretchable. Maybe that's something they like. Wretchable, able to be wretched if you want to. Yeah, maybe you just ate some raw meat or something like, oh shit, that wasn't cooked right. I got a wretch here. Make me a carnival.

A carnival. Cardinal. I'm stuck on Bobby carnival. He's kind of all. Isn't he? Ah, double screw up on my part. He's kind of Olly isn't he? Double screw up on my part. I would say this is The definition of complex right where I because you're used to having a Negroni and that sweet red vermouth sort of teams up with the Campari

Whereas this dry The the white vermouth it's really not what you expect when you taste something that's got some bitter right on the nose. You're expecting it to go down in the way that a Negroni does, but instead it goes dry. It's this other taste. It's given me sort of that, that sort of like warm chest feel,

that warm esophagus feeling. It's giving you heartburn. Yeah, it's very close to heartburn. But I think it might be, maybe my vermouth is old or something, I don't know. I would guarantee that, yeah. Yeah, why, I doubt that. But it was in my fridge.

It's supposed to be fresh, right? Even mine is, it was in the fridge, but it's probably six months, eight months old. It's supposed to be within two or three months. And who can drink that much for who's going through that much for mood, Tim? I mean, no, you answer him. It's hard to get through a fucking bottle of vermouth. I make my martinis very dry.

I use about an eyedropper full. So it's impossible to shit. And then this. So what? There's 20 milliliters in this drink. That's as much dry vermouth as I'm ever using. So this is its real big day in the sun. But here's my problem. I've got a fresh unopened bottle of Dolan, which I love. The dry?

Yeah. Okay. But I didn't want to open it because I had an opened bottle of Martini and Rossi dry in the fridge already. I know Martini and Rossi is worse than Dolan, but I didn't want to open a new bottle of Dolan to use 20 milliliters. Tim, why was I thinking that Martini and Rossi is nice,

just because it has the word Martini on it? I mean, they're both fine. Am I that gullible? I'm not saying that one is shitty. Like Dolan is also pretty cheap. Hmm. Well, when I went to Topline Wine and Spirit, I went in looking for vermouth and I told them exactly what I told you before. I was like, I don't generally go for it, but it's maybe because I get bad stuff.

And the lady brought me right up to the Dolan and I was like, yeah, yeah, this is the stuff I have. I don't like. And so she said, yeah, you just don't like it. Thanks, lady. I just told you that. Yeah, you're allowed to just not like. But the day wasn't a total waste. Check this out. If you'll allow me a small departure.

Mike, what do you say? I'm okay with it, but I want to hear like the first two minutes first, and then we can decide if we want to continue. Cause I have no idea what this departure is going to be. What if it's only like two minutes and four seconds? I will in the first five seconds Jeff I'll give you a thumbs up or down for my vote. Okay I'm looking for Tiki rum. Thumbs up. Okay keep going with this baby.

Okay. Appleton Estates. Buddy that's what I was looking for I was like where's the Appleton Estate? It's a little amber gold boy and it tiki fies all my rum drinks and they didn't have any but they did have some good looking bottles and Some of them were real cheap. Check this out Plantation rum that aisle of Fiji it comes in like a little wicker basket thing 15 bucks and she was like- Say again where this was, Jeff? Top Line Wine and Spirits.

Gotcha. And the lady was like, these are really cheap because the company is rebranding to Plantaray. So you want to get rid of the old logo? Yes, so they're getting rid of the old bottles that have the old brand on them. Well, they're changing it to what?

Plantaray. So are they just changing it to what? Plantaray. So are they just changing the name or a whole new vibe? Cause that bottle has sort of a Jimmy Buffet vibe to it. Yeah. There's the new bottle. Oh yeah. They're going a little fancier, looking a little more Plantaray.

But this one in particular has like an iguana on it and it's like all blue and hibiscus looking. But the lady said she really likes this and drinks it on ice. So I should have grabbed a couple bottles. Just that nice, that's cool. Yeah, but folks get out there and grab up that plantation rum before they make the switch.

I don't think I've ever had rum just by itself on ice. Nah, not since college. I kinda never, yeah. I've never heard of really anyone doing that other than like whiskey or scotch or do people drink vodka rocks It's weird that it's not popular the rum like like a little screw if you had an Appleton and then you put a little squeeze A lime, maybe hey wait on tour In Raleigh people somebody brought up a shot of Captain Morgan's and we did we did shots of Captain Morgan's I got his a Ruppelmann, too. That was a funny story.

The bartender was like, I told you, Tim. He was like, or he told you. He was like, yeah, I don't we don't carry Rumpelmann's, but if you guys want it, I can track some down. I was like, it's not allowed. The last three bottles of it in the county. He said, I know that's that's weird that it's was so hard to come by. But so that's a hundred proof shot.

And do you think that he outlawed it in his bar just because people get a little rowdy? It's weird that it's was so hard to come by. But so that's a hundred proof shot. And do you think that he outlawed it in his bar just because people get a little rowdy? Yeah, I think that he, I think it had a reputation. Ah, bad reputation. He should go to a reputation tour. He should go and do all of Taylor Swift's songs. I don't care about the reputation.

Isn't it funny though, how there's that reputation for like every drink. You say Fireball, people are like no. You say Jägermeister, people are like no. Pretty much anything. Rumple Mints at least it's justified because it is a sneaky 100 proof. It tastes sweet, tastes minty, but it's 100 proof.

Right. Funny name too. Give me some Rumple Mints. Rumple me up. Crumple mints. Rumble me up. Crumple mints. You know what doesn't get that reaction though is a lot of the drinks we come up with on pod. When you say Alpine crush, when you say hand slammer,

people don't go, no! They say yes. They say yes. They say, right this way. Come this way, my friend. And may you- Come in and know me better, man. May you be rested in full here at your stay.

Mm-hmm. I think Rumpelmintz has a little bit of a reputation as like a bartender, not a bartender's handshake in that like you order it in a bartender's like, yo, this guy must be a bartender. But as a, you know, when you, if you sit at a bar all night and you drink and you talk to the bar turn a lot and then you and your party are closing out, at the end of the night, if that bartender likes you and wants to do a shot with you or buy you a shot, it's never, it's always something distinct. And I think that rumple mints is, if they're not going fancy, Rumpelmints is

like the funny sleazy thing to do. And I do think it has that sort of history to it. Like a chat. It's a little bit of a challenge shot just because it's, it's not, it's not a like gag shot because it's so alcoholicy. It's like a, well, that's a lot of mint. And it's like that sort of mentally. Yeah. It's also a good end of the night. Maybe you're gonna lay a smooch on your crush. Ooh, so you wanna have a little breath, yeah. Yeah. Instead of saying your crush,

I need to stop talking to you and go track down a breath mint because I fucking stink. I gotta track down some Colgate. Or even better, your beautiful date has bad breath, and you don't know how to say that, so that you instead say, hey, bar gender, how about a shot of Rumplen's for my fucking date

over here? Mm-hmm. And that explains, I was on a date the other day with a beautiful, statuesque, I think she was a formal model, and she's doing a lot of charity work these days. But anyway, we're walking into a restaurant and she was like, hey, look, right before

at the Maidardese station, she was like, look at this, they've got mince. I was like, oh, you know, I think those are for after the meal. She's like, no, I think you could take them now. Why don't you have one now? Yeah, you got those for kids, ladies? I said, I don't want to eat it now.

I want to have my Limburger and Liver first. Yeah. The onion platter, please. I had to have my Limburger and liver first. Yeah. Onion platter, please. I had it for lunch and I'm having it for dinner. I want my egg and onion salad. Well, so I mean, everything else went great, but we didn't have we didn't kiss it the other night. We did everything else.

No sex. Oh, sex. OK. It was everything else except kissing. She was like, you just have to eat that mint. I said, well, then this is me. Like Pretty Woman. Yep. Pretty Hanford. A movie I haven't seen. We have not seen Pretty Woman.

I just know people joke about that. Jeff, I've seen it. And I think I remember liking it. I watched it during Covid. It's funny, all the stuff that you watch in Covid, I have no memory of it. It was all just way too much stuff. You're drunk half the time. That's true, too. And you're kind of not watching either.

You're just like, what's going to happen in this world? Yeah. Well, what would you change about the drink? I would change the dry vermouth to sweet red vermouth and just make it a Negroni and have a Negroni. I am enjoying it up though. I like my Negroni's up sometimes and I'm liking the up. I'm, I gotta say, I'm not liking this drink,

but it's each sip isn't as bad as the prior. So it's getting me drunk, I think. I'm getting swayed by the ABV. Each sip isn't as bad as the prior. I think if we do a round two, I'm just gonna add ice to this one. Yeah, ice is good to keep it cold, but I also feel like it delays this taste I don't like.

It impairs the taste. The thing I would change, Jeff, is I would use fresh ingredients. All fresh. Brand new. Farm to table. They didn't even put the QR, the skew number on it yet. It's right off the belt. So that would be the Hanford take on this recipe

is to not use old rancid ingredients like he's using. Yep. That is my take. OK. But it is it's given me it's given me a little that warm feeling in my chest. It's given me a little brightness in the cheeks here. You can see. Hey, look, Jolly.

Well, I feel Jolly. Well, let's go make a second round. I'm probably just going to do the same old thing, maybe with an ice cube. I'm going to see what type of fun. I'm just going to do what I usually do. I'm gonna see what type of fun map. I'm just gonna do what I usually do. I'm gonna put orange bitters in it. I think that'll work. Cause you know, with a Negroni,

you express an orange sometimes. I think you're right. Well, here's another idea to me. The thing I learned on this pod is that like you, you don't just add volume. Right, right, right, right. When I was a kid, if I had a taste, I didn't like, I would add a bunch of club soda

and it would just create more volume of the taste I didn't like. And what I've learned is like, think of the taste buds as being coordinates on the tongue. This is lacking sweet or something. It's got bitter. So you're gonna put a splash of simple? Yeah, like is it, would that be gross?

Hey, you know what? I would say that then if it's your drink if you think it lacks sweet. What if you used apperol instead of Campari? Yeah, isn't that a drink though gin apperol and drive remove hmm hmm I like apperol more than yeah apperol Negroni. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, Aperol Negroni. Yeah. Yeah.

But it's also it was an it's an Aperol Cardinal. Yeah. It's bugly. Also, like I want that lemon. I want that orange wedge. You know, I just I need to brighten this thing up. Yeah. Did you guys I didn't do a lemon twist. I didn't know garnish. No, I did. My lemon twist. You did. It. No garnish, yeah. I did my lemon twist.

You did? It's swaying me by the smell. Here's what I'm gonna do on round two though, guys. I'm gonna add also sweet red vermouth, and I'm gonna make it a perfect cardinal. No, no, it's a perfect Negroni. Sinful. This drink to me reminds me of a cardinal, the bird,

where you just, you don't see him very often. You don't see cardinals very much. And when you see him, you go, hey, look at that. A pretty red bird. You don't see this drink very often. You don't see this drink very often. Blue jays too, those are ones I, when I see that or a cardinal, I said, yeah,

that's one of the tops. Okay, great. Mostly sparrows for me. You see a lot of pigeons, pigeons. Pigeons, sparrows, seagulls, but these are these are Robin, you know, Robin, Blue Jay and Cardinal feel like the big ones. Yeah. Yeah. Or Parrot. That's like you go to Disneyland. You want to see Mickey Mouse? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. You don't see all the fucking toy soldiers from whatever the fuck it is. You don't want to see the rescuers down under. No, I see goofy and original goofy, not Christmas goofy. All right, folks, we're going to come back with round two and win and more sloppy boys after this. The score bad app here with trusted stats and real-time sports news. Yeah, hey, who should I take in the Boston game? Well, statistically speaking...

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Nice. And? Yeah, I mean better. I did orange bitters and ice cubes and bitters made it worse. Your face worse. I added some sweet red vermouth to the mix, made a perfect Negroni, as they say, and it's, the way it tastes, imperfect.

Hehehehe. Oh. But better than the Cardinal, I'll tell you that much, it's sweetened it up. Yeah. Cardinal is a not order again for the hand, man. Yeah, I'm gonna say it's a not order again, a do not order again.

Yep, unlike Bobby Cannavale, I do not wanna ever see this drink again. I guess it's a not order again for me as well because I would rather have it than nothing. I didn't hate the taste of it, but if a Negroni is better and more popular and you're less of a weirdo for ordering one, why would you get this instead of a Negroni? I prefer the Negroni.

Sure. I agree, too. If the option is either drink one of these or exist, sort of experience life as it comes at you, no thanks. I will take this over nothing. Yeah, I'm not going to... Anything to dead end, dull end the everything. No, just all the senses, thanks. I will take this over nothing. Yeah, I'm not gonna Anything to dead in dull in the everything, you know, it's just all the senses. Yeah. Yeah good or bad positive negative Just there's too much going on out there flashing lights loud sounds Yep. Yeah smells not to mention these clowns and in hot in Hollywood and the White House We have a game show host pretty much basically at this Clowns in Hollywood and the White House. In Washington. We have a game show host pretty much basically at this point.

Clowns they are. When you talk about the clowns in Hollywood, are you talking about like? Elysian Theater. Natalie Palamides. Yeah. No, but I was talking about the heads of production studios. But yes, there is a big clowning community.

Yes, yes. Okay, now this drink was the cardinal which is named for a cardinal who wears red and you guys have heard of that and then also we mentioned the bird that red bird cardinals you've heard of those two red things but have you heard of the red quiz no this is an opportunity for Tim to drop some red things, but have you heard of the red quiz? No. Oh, this is an opportunity for Tim to drop some Deadpool stuff on us. Red Bull. OK, it's the red quiz.

I ask questions. I have questions. You've got answers. It's the red quiz. Yeah, OK. Are you ready? Yeah, sure. Before you do the red quiz, can I say a jingle that I hate? Yeah. Safe flight repair, safe flight replace. I was just thinking about that one the other day. I saw a commercial for that thing sucks. It should end back on the home note.

Safe flight repair, safe flight replace that safe flight or something, you know what I mean? Like it's a flight repair, safe, right? Look, but you're thinking about it. You you want to end that. That's on a dangler. Safe light. Or something, you know what I mean? Like it's. Safe light repairs, safe light repairs. But you're thinking about it. You want to end that, that's. On a dangler. My problem is more that you can,

you can feel a little too much that the company had these things they wanted to convey. And like, hey, too many people are thinking safe light repairs, but not enough people are thinking safe light replaces, so can we convey all that? And some of them are saying that that and then a good jingle, they force that information into the jingle and it's defensive.

And it's nothing. And then they also, I bet they were fucking creaming their genes thinking we get to say SafeLight twice. Yeah. And we get to say we repair and replace. Well yes, you know what, say it all you want. We don't like the jingle, we don't sing it. I've never heard anyone until Jeff sing it right now.

I've never heard that jingle outside of that commercial. It sucks. Anyway, Tim, I can't wait for the, what is it? Safe light repair quiz brought to you by safe light repair. What is a safe flight? I don't know when I don't want to do them the dignity of looking it up. I think it's light like L I T E like the weight. It's not, it's not like L-I-T-E like the weight. It's not like L-I-G-H-T, right? What's the product? It's windshield replacement, right?

Yeah. Not just repair? I wouldn't think safe light is a windshield though. It's windshield, yeah, it's auto glass. Interesting. But I wouldn't, safe light, I wouldn't think of it. Jesus Christ, what a waste of advertising. Like I'm going to choose my windshield brand.

Fuck off. Safe flight repair, safe flight replace. The quiz we were getting to. Okay, the red quiz. It's about things that are red and I'm going to ask the questions. You've got questions, we've got answers. That's how we went down that whole path.

Okay, here we go. Question one on the red quiz. I knew you were trouble when you walked in. Taylor. Is on what Taylor Swift album? Red. Red. Mike. Fuck. Yeah, that's the whole question, Jeff.

Here we go. Helps to win the quizzes. Question number two. I'm turning red. Tim, you better answer the next question. You better ask the next question. I'll eat my candy with the pork and beans is on what weezer album? Weezer, weezer, red album.

Mike says, got it. He tripped me up because the last question he told me to wait and then he. Okay. Jeff, I've been playing this ever since Tim announced the quiz I've been playing. Here we go. Question three.

Chapel Rowan once spoke of this wine supernova. Supernova, champagne. Red wine supernova. Jeff. Damn it. Question four. These hot chili peppers are red. Red hot chili peppers are red. Hot chili peppers. Jeff.

I said red. What did Jeff say? He said red hot chili peppers. I said red. Well, who said the word red first? Me. Probably me. So the quiz master doesn't even, he's not even listening to the answers.

What's going on here? I was listening to who said red first, not whether or not they said more, but you were mad that he said chili peppers. Yeah, and Jeff had the follow through, so. You heard red first? I'm only listening for the word red. You could say anything you want after it.

You could say, uh, red, Tim's a fucking idiot. I wouldn't even hear that because I'm so- So I said red first though. Oh. Uh. Jeff, what do you say? It could sort of be a toss up. In the interest of me winning this quiz, I won it.

I won that one. Jeff? I don't agree. Honor system, did you get the point? Do you get the- Okay, no, I didn't get the point. Mike said red first. You knew that the whole time?

Yeah, I'm trying to win the quiz, Mike. You got to watch. You got to watch. Jeff, you yourself heard Mike say red before you. I don't remember that was 30 seconds ago. All right, let's move on. I'm trying to get this episode wrapped up. You know what I mean? He's trying to get to the blowout.

OK, Jeff gets that's a bad attitude. Jeff gets the point because when I'm done with the blowout, I get to Fortnite. So I'm trying to get there. The ultimate really bad attitude. Jeff gets the point. Cause when I'm done with the blowout, I get to Fortnite. So I'm trying to get there. Ultimately. Really bad attitude. Jeff gets the point. Two, two.

That's fine. That's fine. I told you I had a bad attitude coming into this. I slept all night. Here is the final question. If I could get to it, but you keep delaying me on the red quiz. Delaying.

We did 30 minutes on safe light repair, safe light. Come on. Blank jumpsuit apparatus. Red. Jeff. That's it, that's the quiz. You won. Yeah.

Satisfying as ever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Look at Jeff, he's beaming. And look at, and Mike is so sad he didn't win.

Jeff, you can end the episode, I'm just gonna get off now. I'm done. See you guys, I'm done here. Every answer was red, how dare you? If you're wondering why Mike is mad, it's that he didn't win the quiz because he cares so much about the quiz, honors the quiz, respects the quiz,

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