The Sloppy Boys - 247. Lusitania with Neil Campbell

Episode Date: July 11, 2025

The guys welcome Neil Campbell (Digman) and discover a cocktail so historic it was named after the sinking ship... before it even sank!LUSITANIA RECIPE:1oz/30ml DRY VERMOUTH.5oz/15ml BRANDY1 dash ABSINTHE1 dash ORANGE BITTERSCombine ingredients in a shaker. Dry shake and serve in a cocktail glass.Recipe via Drinks by Jacques StraubSeason 2 of Digman premieres July 23rd on Comedy Central! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey folks! Uh oh! And oh no! The Sloppy Boys are going on tour! We can't wait! We're gonna go on tour this fall! We're gonna hit so many cities! We're so pumped! I can't even wait! We? I'm with you Tim! I also can't wait! In fact, I can't wait for October 12th in Nashville, Tennessee! At City Winery? That's it! Yeah, at City Winery! That's a podcast show, you understand? October 14th, the band's gonna be rocking Chapel Hill, North Carolina at Local 506. Oh yeah, and the very next day, October 15th in Washington, D.C., we're rocking Pearl Street Warehouse.

October 17th in Philadelphia, we're at Milk Boy. Uh oh, October 18th, we're doing a live podcast in Newark, New Jersey. That's a cocktail show, we're talking Victoria Theater. That's good, come on out and chug, chug, chug. And then, on the 19th, we're in Boston, Mass. We're at Victoria Theater. That's good, come on out and chug, chug, chug. And then on the 19th, we're in Boston, Mass. We're at the Middle East. Ah, the famous Middle East upstairs at the Middle East.

Very nice. Then on October 22nd, we're heading south to Hamden, Connecticut. We're heading up the Space Ballroom. That's Hamden, folks. And then, folks, on a serious note, October 23rd, we're going to be in my hometown, Woodstock, New York, at Colony Rockin'.

I just can't wait. That's such a fun venue. My family's coming. Sort of a homecoming tea cat showdown. Oh, very nice. October 24th, we're in Amherst, Massachusetts at the Drake. Ooh, that's pretty good. And hey, I don't think all the fun's happening in October.

November 4th in Denver, Colorado, the Gothic Theater, folks, that's a podcast. Come out and see a live podcast. You're welcome, Denver. You've been asking for us to come to a live podcast and we're finally gonna be there. But don't think we're staying there for the rest of our lives because November 6th, we're gonna be rocking Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Zora, darling. Oh, the band's gonna rock that place. And we should also check out Prince's House. Ooh, the Paisley House. On November 7th, we're gonna make our way over to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the X-Rayed Arcade. Love that place, we're gonna rock it. Love that place.

Oh, our glorious return. And then, hey, don't forget the 8th, Chicago, Illinois, we love Chicago. We're playing Beat Kitchen. That's another two-show showdown. You can come to the early show, or you can come to the late show and get nasty with your boys. We played there last New Year's Eve. That was a nice time.

Yeah, and you know what's cool for Chicago? July 24th, we're going to be playing at the Iowa Theater. But that's not part of this ad, because November 9th, we're going to be playing at the IO theater, but that's not part of this ad because November 9th, we're gonna be rocking Indianapolis Indiana black circle brewing Wow November 11th Columbus, Ohio at the Roomba Cafe Pretty good in the next day the 12th Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania craft house

Okay, and then to everyone who thought that we won't be doing a live podcast Okay, and then to everyone who thought that we won't be doing a live podcast November 13th in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Commonwealth Sanctuary. We got news for you. You're wrong Wrong and guess what on November 14th, we're back at it with that rock and roll music in Detroit, Michigan home of the car We do that over a PJ's logger house Yeah, and November 15th, we're going to Lansing, Michigan for one last spud at Gruul Hall, Gruul Hall. Ooh, come out out to the shows folks. This fall and winter tour is gonna be out of sight.

I personally can't wait. I think it's gonna be so much fun and I also can't wait to eventually announce a top secret New Year's Eve kind of a thing coming soon. But I can't say. Different head, top secret New Year's Eve kind of a thing coming soon, but I can't say it. Just a different end! Just a different end! Oh, just be ready for some New Year's Eve stuff! Yikes! Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh!

Folks, we'll see you out there fall winter 2025. All that money you've been saving up for Christmas presents, spend on us. Mm-hmm. And come out and party with us fall winter long. Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe Heeeey! Hey folks, welcome to the Sloppy Boys, where we take a deep dive into the drinks that you love. I'm Jeff Duttonton along with Mike Hanford. Hello. And Tim Kalpakis.

What is up? And joining us today is a very special guest, Digman's daddy and contest winner, Neil Campbell. Bloody good to be here. Oh, he's British. I was British. He's British now. I don't know why that would happen. Why would he be British now?

I don't know. It just keeps happening. Did you expatriate? Are you a British citizen? I know why he's British. I've, I've, well. Spell it. It's just because I've read Dead Wake, the last crossing of the Lusitania.

So, which is the drink that I know is dead. Wow. I get it. It's a British ship. Bingo. There you go. To him, and I read the book. So you're literate.

I did want to say real quick, and I hope this doesn't mean like that I'll be a bad podcast guest, but I just did want to let you guys know that I am a man of few words. Oh. This couldn't have come at a worse time, Neil. Are you at all maybe feeling like stepping out

of character on this day? Maybe your personality, you want to expand your personality? No. Oh, he thought about it. That's all we can ask. He picked the shortest word. The second shortest word. God, we should have interviewed Neil in any other format,

but the podcast is maybe just not the form for him. Crap. Well, we'll have to post a bunch of clips of him. I'm concerned also, Neil, so you're the co-creator and show runner of Digman on Comedy Central, along with Andy Samberg, the show that employs me. You just mentioned before we started recording that you've been doing press junket interviews

with Andy all day. When you're on this show so far, does this feel kind of just business as usual, I mentioned before we started recording that you've been doing press junket interviews with Andy all day. When you're on this show so far, does this feel kind of just business as usual, like the same as all those other ones? Yeah, yeah, exactly. You guys are just, you know, three more members of the fourth estate,

and you're, I'm just giving you a little time to sort of promo, you know, plug my project. Do you think we'll be able to get you to go to stray from the talking points at all? You know, oddly they didn't really lay out a bunch of you know, the talking points to hammer home about Digment. They kind of let us do what we wanted. I figured that Paramount would send you and Andy off

to some sort of media training camp for the whole summer to get you ready for this promo cycle. They might've wanted to, but they neglected to make the request in time. So we just had to kind of fly blind today. In time? You have a very strict timeline you and Andy do. If the questions are not brought to us within 48 hours.

I am worried. Is this show got your journalism? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, very much so. Crap. Yeah. Got you a drink. All right. I was worried you guys might be muck rakers. How would you worry about that? You know, I know. A man could worry. And you like this show. you listen to it a lot I know but I didn't know if it's always been raking muck. I was unaware of a man can worry

Format changes are always happening. Yeah, if someone good when you go to journalism school Do you think you have a choice to major in journalism or yellow journalism? Yeah, this is yellow podcasting. What was yellow journalism again? I remember that was like a raking Wait, what was my podcasting. What was yellow journalism again? I remember that was like raking Wait, what was my cranking nasty stuff, man? Oh just bring like gossip rags and stuff like that slander wait I'm trying to think in my book. I've the jungle maybe was the example they gave no, that's kind of Was that about the factories like I feel like yellow journalism is more like Hearst Yeah, and I might be wrong I'm talking out of my ass here Was that about the factories? I feel like yellow journalism is more like Hearst. Yeah. And I might be wrong, I'm talking out of my ass here.

Obviously someone could just Google this and figure it out, but I feel like it was closer to like, No, no, no, no. having an agenda behind the, it wasn't just a unbiased reporting of the facts, but there's maybe some sort of agenda driving it. Yes, yes. So, well then to answer your question, yes.

Oh. No. All right, well I'm getting off this topic of journalism and altogether, because this is not journalism, this is podcasting, baby. Neil, have you been, it's been a while since you've been on the pod. First you've been on as a contest winner.

You've done Neil's corrections when we've got and clarifications when we've got things wrong. But we haven't checked in on you in a while. We haven't heard from him probably because the pod has been note perfect. Yeah, I listen every app and I haven't found a single thing to correct. Is it disappointing to you

when an episode ends with no errors? Yeah, it sort of leaves me kind of questioning what I even exist on this earth for, but I'll also say when I was doing it, I was like, this is a real pleasant color to the corrector coming in. Everyone likes the host, the guy comes in and is like, here's why they're wrong. Do you do this with any other podcasts? Yeah, I do with a daily, but they just don't air it. I also did. Then you've got one for like every day of theirs. It's filled with lies and misinformation.

Wait, wait, a bit of a personal, on a personal note, I know that, I don't know if Jeff and Mike know what you've been up to recently, you just took a drawing class. That's true, I took a drawing class. I heard about this. At the Armory in Pasadena. And I've seen the fruits of your labor, it's very impressive. What are you drawing over there, Neil? Well, it was different things, different days.

But what Tim saw was- It wasn't the same thing every single class. Well, there are a few dedicated to sort of similar self-portraits or still lifes or something. But the last class, you could kind of do whatever you want. So I was, I tried to draw an old timey baseball player. You're like, can I be the model? So I did an old Old Hoss Radborn.

I did a drawing of an old timey baseball player, a charcoal drawing. And so that's what Tim has seen that my basically my final. Wow. Wait, what did you do it off of like an old baseball card or? Oh, yeah, like a photo. Exactly. Damn, I haven't seen Neil's art since my naked dad. Oh, Neil, you got to put those back out. I have the actual art of all of those, but I'll and any website that once existed is gone. Yeah.

Wait, is there not a web? This was your old comic strip that used to animate like 20 years ago. Is the URL not active right now? Correct. Yeah, that fades away many moons ago. But yes, it was a webcomic. It was like it was just three panels, right? Yeah, like every three or four, it would depend.

But yeah. It was about a kid and his dad who was naked. And the dad was always naked. Yeah, and the dad was kind of a goofball. And the kid was frustrated by that. The nudity sometimes came into play, but frequently was unremarked upon. Normally it was just like, he's naked, but that has nothing to do with what's going on.

Yeah, it was more that he was kind of he was kind of an embarrassing dad or an obnoxious dad, but the nudity was not really a factor. The nudity not mentioned frequently ending in just the kid face palming in the last. Yeah, or like kind of flying out of like, er. Or like his feet, his feet up in the. Yeah, Bazooka Joe style flying out of the frame. Yeah, it's so funny. You know, when like a teeny little thing will just stick in your brain and then come up in your little brain constantly,

there was there was one strip of my naked dad where he he referred to Harry Potter as Hymsey Plopper. And I- I didn't know where that came from. Every time, literally every time somebody in my life says Harry Potter or I hear Harry Potter, I think Hymsey Plopper. So you can see me when I go to Universal Studios, Neil. Oh yeah. I remember Harris had a great tweet once.

It was like, hey, at Neil Campbell, bring back my naked dad, you naked ass. Yeah, he was a he was a nice proponent. He posted a few strips here and there. That was probably the most attention I ever got. Well, do we get into some booze news? What do you think? Sure. Neil, with your permission. It seems the time and the place I say go for it.

Hold on a second. Just because Neil is Tim's boss doesn't mean he's all of our bosses. Wait, that doesn't carry over here. No, no, no, no. Jeff's our boss here for the for the. No, no, I'm not the boss. I don't want to be the boss for the main. You are just like I'm the I'm the boss for the blowout. Hanford was also a voice on the show.

Hanford was a voice on the show, so Neil's our boss. Yeah, but I didn't really listen to what you were saying. That's true. I didn't take that direction. It was insane. Did you find Hanford to be a disobedient employee? No, no. I felt he was quite malleable.

I could. His brain could be molded, no, I felt he was quite malleable. I could. His brain could be molded, no problem. He's quite suggestible. His smooth brain could be turned this way or that. Mold him to whatever my whims desired. Yeah. And then he didn't even know he's not even really he wasn't smart enough to even realize. He was just the cock of the woks.

Yeah. Oh, I know, now. Oh yeah, I'm telling all my friends, you gotta see this performance I delivered for the new season of Digmant. It's all my own stuff. I was in the studio for something that's Neil would use reverse psychology, be like, oh Mike, don't do this next take a little faster,

and then Mike would be like, oh yeah. Yeah? He'd be fucking micromachining that next take. You think you're so tough because you got a cartoon strip that doesn't even exist anymore. And now all your cartoons are moving around TV. Wait, but for real, just before we get into the booze news, Digman season two, which I write for,

which you're the show runner of, and Andy Samberg is the star of, that just came back. Oh, you mean the show that's coming back July 23rd on Comedy Central? Watch Watch Watchy and laugh away. Season two is all new? Season two is all new. And it airs after South Park.

Wow, not like those other shows that just rerun season one and call it season two. I hate that. This year too is new. Yeah we're paired up with South Park. This is this is this is huge. This is big broadcast news. The season premiere which was written by me and in the way that we know television is written by the entire room and all of that but but it has to get credited to someone. Yeah yeah but you you probably put your finger your touch on this one. I put my finger touch on this one. I don't know, I put my finger touch on this one.

But I did. Finger print, I'm gonna say. Oh, it's a. Ah, it's a. Ah, it's a. Now, as I understand it, the season premieres written by Mr. Neal Campbell, and then the next one, episode 202, is written by Catman.

Uh-oh. Episode 202? Yeah. Ooh, Tim O2. This is very exciting for me. Folks. And it leads perfectly into buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh. Ooh.

Booze news, hit it. The Beatles were pretty out there, man. Just musically, man. Oh, yeah. Ha-ha. Hold your boy friend's hand, my dear. Hold him next to mine. Hold both of our heads in one hand dear

Hold your head up high, I'm a beetle guy What are you talking about? I hope you have huge hands I hope you have huge hands I hope you have huge hands I hope you have huge hands It's booze news, you beetle boys. Beetle Boys was sent to us by Joshy J. And if you have a booze news theme, email it to

thesloppyboyspodcast.gmail.com. Who did that one? Josh. Oh wait, you said Josh? Joshy J. Joshy J. What was that last... Yeah, that would sound familiar. That tickled my brain in a way that... Oh, wait, you said Josh. Joshy J. Joshy J. What was that last? Yeah, that would sound familiar.

That tickled my brain in a way that. Yeah, that's really familiar. Was that Doc Man? It's a toy or something. Do do do do do do do do. Yeah, I don't think it was Mozart. Oh, God. Well, we can rule that out for sure.

Yeah. Yeah, there wasn't a violin in it. You're right. Pfft. OK. Yeah, there wasn't a violin in it, you're right. Okay. Booze news. Here's, I mean, lots of things to cover. Name one.

Okay, I will. Do you guys remember a certain drink invented by me called the Calpe cordial, which was cherry Coke and spice rum? Yes. Who could forget? All too well, my boy. And now, do you guys remember a drink invented by Jeff that was called the Grape Gorilla?

Mm-hmm. They all do as well. And what Jeff had did is he took the Grape Ape, which had grape soda in it, but then he pumped it up to the max by adding grape Celsius, swapping in grape Celsius instead of the- Pumped it up to the max? Pumped it up to the max. adding grape Celsius, swapping in grape Celsius instead of the- Pumpting it up to the max?

Pumpting it up to the max. You added taurine and caffeine to the drink and made it more of a high voltage affair. Well, folks, I was at Albertsons today and look what I just came across in the Celsius aisle. No. Celsius sparkling cherry cola. Whoa. No. Celsius sparkling cherry cola.

Whoa. No. And therefore you can now make my drink the Calphe Cordial with Celsius sparkling cherry cola and crank it up to the max as Jeff. Calphe Gorilla. How about that? Calphe Gorilla Gator style. Gator style.

No, great Gator style. Butator style. No great Gator style. But it served in five cups. It's convoluted. No, but I just got me excited. I do want, I'm going to, I want to, well, first I'm going to do a live taste test and let me tell you guys if this is good. And that's cherry, cherry soda flavor. Ooh, that's one of my faves.

Yes. This tastes like cherry cola. So this will get the job done, but then also get you all. And that's cherry, cherry soda flavor. Ooh, that's one of my faves. Yes, this tastes like cherry cola. So this will get the job done, but then also get you all charred up. And that doesn't count as first sips, folks, because it's not the drink of the day. Nor is it alcoholic. Not first sips.

Yeah, sorry, folks. Does that, Tim, does that have any like a chemically taste to it? Like that, like an energy drink taste? Celsius is not so bad about that. Like, this is not as great as a cherry Coke, but it just seems like a cherry Coke is a little bit off and a little bit flat,

but it's not particularly chemically. But I was going to ask you guys, yeah, for name pitches. Cause the one I came up with was instead of Calpe cordial, Calpe courageous. Oh, right. Oh, right. Right. Right. Celsius Celsius is let's see it zips you up.

So and you're not so concerned with being cordial in this case. Yeah, you don't want to be cordial cordiality is out the window. Congeniality Calpy Calpy crank cranked. Oh yeah. Or you say, can I do it? I could cranked Calpy cordial. Calpy cantankerous.

Yeah. Calpy cappuccino. Just trying to pick a primate. Calpuccino. Calpuccino. Cappuccino like the primate. Yeah, exactly. Oh, I've never heard of this primate.

He's a cute little bugger. Yeah, they're funny. Is it like a long armed guy? I'll have to look these boogers up. Are they long armed? I'm not sure. I do think they're funny. They're really, you go to the zoo and they're kind of being goofy.

Maybe, yeah, I like crank, whatever is the Calpe cordial. If you say Calpe cordial, but I'll take it cranked. Yeah, that's good. You know, it's like the cranked option. For like cranked like the movie crank. Yeah. And crank to. Yeah. Crank to crank to. I still have a Celsius in my fridge from when we did the the gorilla.

And I want to try I want to try that on its own. Which one? Grape Rush. Yeah, I think it was a great brush. Damn. I'm fine. We're talking products. I found a bit of boo a great brush. Damn. I'm fine. Well, we're talking products. I found a bit of booze news. My damn self. Oh, well, we'll report to us.

Pull out your mobile devices. People. OK, I'm on Miller Lite Pringles collapse. Ha. Oh, whoa. That's right. Limited edition Pringles featuring Miller Lite flavors, grilled beer brat

and beer can chicken. Sure as. Do you think these are- The chicken I don't like when, ugh. Chicken is no good on a chip. What were you saying, Neil? Do you think these are vegetarian? Well, I mean it.

Like, do you think a chicken or pork flavored Pringle actually has any real meat or could a vegetarian. Well, now we got to find out. It would be kind of awesome if the if the if the broth of the beer brought one had a lot of pork in it. But I wonder about that in general. Like you ever have chicken in a biscuit those crackers they do those that really have chicken bouillon in them.

I haven't had this. I bet you a bouillon or broth. Yeah, that's what I wonder. Could just be a brothy thing. These are both weird choices, because beer can chicken, I've always been sort of a skeptic. Beer broths, I get it, you boil them in beer, but they don't really take on any of the taste anywhere,

but beer can chicken is kind of like a nice way to prop up a chicken on the grill, but the beer flavor never really makes its way into that. Is it the ideas like underneath it or it's poured in top unlike the top of it? It sits, you put the can up the chicken's butt. So it's just like a way of like sitting and then the beer

is boiling underneath there and evaporating like supposedly into the chicken, but I've never been able to like tell that it did anything. I always find the beer like even the even sausages and stuff. I'm like, I really have to be thinking like, oh yeah Beer tastes is in there somewhere. Oh Tim. There's a steak one, too. Oh ribeye beer braised steak. No ribeye. No ribeye. That doesn't count as 36 takes Chips no problem in a year. Yeah that you do one of his 36 each chip. I can eat 30 chips. No problem. In a year. Yeah.

Bet you can't just eat one in a year. I'm looking at ingredients and I'm not seeing any meats. That doesn't mean that there isn't some like derivative thing with a name I don't recognize, but. Right. I'd feel more comfortable if it had the little V like vegan friendly or whatever that's on. Yeah. You know, most vegetarian or vegan packaging. Oh, I didn't know that was a thing, Neil,

because I know you keep vegetarian or pescatarian. Pescatarian, yeah. But I didn't know there was a special, I didn't know there was a special. I mean, it's a lot of times like on beans, you can see it, like a can of beans to, yeah. Yeah.

Like refried beans, they're like vegetarian ones, and there are ones made with like whatever large or something. And so if you look, there's a little V on the bottom. You know, yeah, OK, this is a vegetarian. And now you still you, Jeff. Neil, you're still showing me your your your V card the other day. Yeah, I've been trying to catch it. You can give that to anyone.

It's it's time, man. Neil, you were been trying to catch it in. It's time man Neal you were showing it to him. Yeah, it's really shiny. He's like look what I still got. I was like Neal you gotta get It's not it doesn't even have a scratch on it. You're bragging how well-kept it is This thing has been in no danger of getting a Tarnished. No bites even. Nothing's come out of the wall at once. Yeah, no one's taken the hole punch and punched it.

Here you go. Well, and then the only other thing I wanted to say in Boo's News, other than the fact that the Sloppy Boys are playing in Chicago on July 24th at IO Fest, was I'm continuing, I don't know any trends you guys are seeing on menus right now, but I would say I'm maybe even more so than the paper plane. I'm really seeing the naked and famous on cocktail menus.

And I've been taking pictures of menus when I see it, and my camera roll is maxing out basically at this point. But like I was at, just yesterday I was at Little Joy in Echo Park and they had a Naked and Famous and I swear to God I saw Naked and Famous on like almost every menu that I've looked at this week. Wow. Damn.

It's because the world went mezcal crazy and now they need, everyone's just Googling to be like, well, what cocktails do we put this in rather than just swapping it in for tequila and everything that's a tequila drink? Because that was like a distinctly mezcal creation by Death and Company. Yeah. Well, but that too, but also, I mean, modern 2025 society is so laser focused on pornography that even just naked in anything, oh, wow, I'm interested.

I want to get involved with that people these days. I'm looking to be involved in some way with this matter at hand. Some sort of nude calisthenics, we can call it. Everyone wants to get into the Criterion closet. I heard you have Mike Leeds naked in here. That makes me sick. Yeah, you see people lining up down the street

just to get in that Criterion closet to sneak a peek at the cover of naked. Sick. David Thulis. If I were ever in that Criterion closet, you know, I do, and they want me to just to promote season episode 202 of Digman, having written that episode, they want, they want me to go into Criterion. That's great.

My plan is to just do a rat, like do a little spin around, look at it and say, I find all of this to be too mainstream. Wow. Whoa. mainstream. Wow. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wow. And I'll tell you what, a lot of the other shit I ain't never heard of. Yeah.

Okay, well. I'll tell you what. I'm not gonna say, I feel like that maybe applies to most of this. You saw one movie you thought was mainstream. That's the problem with movies, they're either do it mainstream or I ain't fucking heard of them, you saw one movie you thought was right, sir. That's the problem with movies. They're either do it mainstream or I ain't fucking art of them, okay?

I heard that the Criterion Collection closet was the old set for Michael Bryan's Seven Minutes in Heaven. I love hearing about how sets like, you know, what sound stages. How different closet sets get changed. you know, what's our closet sets, you know, they shot at midnight on the, I love Lucy stage and stuff like that.

Oh wow. Oh wow. Is that true? And the set for rock that sitcom was like the same as the Cosby show set. This is real riveting stuff. I feel like it was, I might be wrong. Real good stuff.

I've been drawing Digman with the same pen that, um, uh, Walt Disney used for Mickey Mouse. Wow. You're drawing Digman? Season seven. Oh, you need a head start. It's in my contract that if we make it to season seven, I can draw it all by myself. Yeah. So you're starting to get good at it? It was a gamble we were willing to take that he would succumb to some sort of illness before

then. He gets zero paychecks for season one and two, but still picks up at season seven. It would make sense for him. Like, if it's my episode, if I'm the credited writer on the episode, I should be able to say like, hey Comedy Central, I'd like a big music budget. I want to play some, you know, Olivia Rodrigo songs in this episode. So I'll save money elsewhere.

I'll draw a couple of these scenes by myself. I'll draw myself. Notebook, yeah. Perfect. You know what gets in the way of that though? Unions. Wow. And that's the message here today.

Oh! The only reason we can't allow that. It's so sad. Wait, I have some booze news. Yes. Oh, Neil. I do too after Neil and Mike. Mine's business though. Mine's business. Mine's so tiny, but it is a little man on the street reporting.

Mike, are you standing on business? I'll tell you about. On the Berlant and Novak podcast, Kate Berlant called out the Vesper Martini at LNE as being a personal fave. And then I was there the other night and I asked the bartender, I was like, hey, do you hear that Kate Berlant?

Shout out. And he was like, oh yeah. And he said it was a big deal. Oh cool. Oh, that's awesome. Damn. Now the Vesper that's got Lillet Blanc and a and a twist. Yes, yes, I agree. Not to mention the vodka and gin split base. There you go.

And it was first invented in the novel Casino Royale. Bloody hell. Rushbar. And I had one. Oh no, Neil's British again when I mentioned James Bond. I thought I recognized the name with that drink. Ooh. Any of us could. There's a new James Bond director.

Any of us could be the next Bond. We gotta throw our hats in the ring. Any of us? Oh, I don't know. Is there audition tape? You heard who it's likely gonna be, right? Ooh. Okay. I, you's likely gonna be, right? Okay, you're saying Tom Holland, right? Yeah, yeah, which I don't.

But I feel like someone made that up as a joke and then everyone has started to really run with it and now people, but then I saw people say like, oh, it might actually be that. So I don't know if it's real or not, yeah. I feel like we're gonna get like a action star one that's like more, I feel like- Like a John Cena type guy?

Yeah, but even like- Interesting. Like The Rock or something. I mean, they've been pushing for Idris Elba for a while. Well, it was also like- Oh yeah. The rights went to Amazon. The Broccoli family had the rights forever.

And then they finally sold them all over to Amazon. The what? So now Amazon has the rights to James Bond. So all the rumors had been like, ooh, they've actually secretly already made a deal with Aaron Taylor Johnson to be the next Bond. But now I don't know if all of that is like thrown out the window and it's like,

well, who does Amazon want and who does Denny Villanueva want? And if he's like, I'm thinking of doing Young Bond and it's gonna be Tom Holland, then that's, I guess where they'll go. But you know, who knows if that's really what he wants. But that would definitely be like a younger bond than we've seen.

Yeah, no kidding. Now folks, if you like Neal's talking about movies, he is also gonna be on the blowout. He's on the blowout this week where we talk about, we vote on best movie. Oh yeah. So we don't vote on it. We determine it.

We determine it. Yeah. We send it out to the Twitter sphere or the Instagram is fear. Once and for all, the best movie. So jump on over that a Patreon blowout. I want, I want to just say I've got a two shows coming up. One, I got a bunch of shows coming up actually, but in July here, I'm at W Westerly Rhode Island on the 11th today

Get out there today folks Wow, and then on the 26th of July Toronto, Ontario I'm doing two shows then I got Cleveland Nashville Cincinnati and Bethlehem coming up check those out folks like you love it Neil. Did you say you had more booze news? No, it's just the burlant. Oh, yes., I wanted to say, what was the name of that primate you mentioned before? Cappuccine. Cappuccine. Okay, that's the official name.

The Calpe Cappuccine is the name of my drink. Don't you think people are gonna think that's a cappuccino? A guy like me would. I don't care. My friend said cappuccine and that's what I'm doing, okay? I really did need to win. Your friend is hopped up on caffeine. Your friend is a fucking moron.

All right folks, that's it for Booze News. Wrap it up. This is wrong. You are my teacher. And with Booze News behind us, we turn our attention to the drink of the week, the drink of the day. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, You've had? Ooh. I've not had. No. Not had. Nor heard. You've heard?

I've heard of the ship. I've heard of the ship, you know, through this book, of course, I read the whole book. Now, Mike, you are a podcaster, so when you hold up a book, you also have to say something along with that. Dead Wake. Dead Wake by Eric Larson. So when you hold up a book, you also have to say something along with that dead wake Dead wake by Eric Larson. He also wrote devil in the white city. Oh About the Chicago World's Fair. Now you sound like me Tim a

Guy who loves Eric Larson, huh? Is Eric Larson related to Gary Larson? Yes of Far-Side spell different from Savage Dragon. It's kind of like a Jekyll and Hyde type thing. Hmm. All right. The Lusitania. I had not heard about this drink until my friend, Tim Kelpakis told me about his existence. As we were discussing what could we could do

because this episode upcoming of Digman that Tim wrote has to do with the wreckage of the Lusitania. I tune in everybody. Amongst people I know, Tim's sort of the Eric Larson of people I know and that he's the Lusitania expert. And so about this drink, according to some internet articles that didn't cite their sources,

but that I trust with my entire heart and soul, the drink was named in honor of the British ocean liner, the RMS Lusitania, in honor of it making a transatlantic voyage in fewer than five days. Yell, that's pretty speedy. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure that so many people listening were saying that out loud just as Neil exclaimed there. They're probably like, is my radio receiving now as well as? This is a two way phone? Yes, all phones are two way. Oh yes. Oh good.

You fool. It's a smartphone. Yes, all phones are too. Yes. Oh good you fool It's a smartphone. So the recipe for the lucidania appears in the book drinks by Jacques Straub That was published in both 1913 and 1914 So that's no Neil. I think I think a lot of the guys on the French hockey team were Jacques Straub's too. Hmm. Mike, we have guests. I'm trying to entertain my guests. And I'm loving every minute of it. Okay, so there's no conflict.

Then please continue. I will, once I finish cracking up. You can do that on your own time. So Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in 1915. So this is not a drink named in honor of it posthumously. This was a drink named after its speedy transatlantic voyage. So apparently prior to the sinking.

So and you can find both the 1913 and 1914 editions of drinks online for free in their entirety. You can just flip through page by page. And the author Jacques Straub, it saddens me to tell you he's no longer with us. He passed away. He went down with elicitane. You thought that maybe he was like 160 years old.

Yeah, but he passed away from an illness in 1920. Thankfully for him, he never had to see prohibition, but he was a sommelier at the Penn Dennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky, and later became the wine steward at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, both of which are still in existence today. And he did all of this as a teetoler. Really?

That's right, he was an abstemious man who worked by sense of smell and color alone. So he didn't invent the drink. I don't know who invented it, but his inclusion of it in his book gives us the recipe we are using today. And that recipe is. Wow, that's cool.

One dash of orange bitters, one dash of absinthe, two thirds a jigger of French vermouth, which according to drinks, it basically means dry vermouth. And one third jigger, good brandy. So you could use a cognac for that. And then shake. And this is from the section of the book that is drinks without ice.

So there's no ice option. Oh, dry shake. This is from the section of the book that drinks without ice. So there's no ice option. Oh, dry shake. Ooh. So just shake and put into, I would guess a, cocktail glass. Like an old fashioned glass. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, cocktail glass.

Oh damn. So that's the history and the recipe. All right. Nice dude. That is so cool. I totally assumed that it was, it would have been named after the shipwreck honoring a great shipwreck. But the fact that this was out, it just means that there was a big fancy boat like the Titanic and that they made like he made this to be like, Hey, they probably drink something like

this in that big fancy boat. We've all been hearing about that. So funny. That's funny. That wasn't even like a drink. They were like serving on the boat. It might have been. I don't know.

I mean, or maybe after it got invented. But it's not like it's not like they made it on the boat as promoting. It's hard to figure out where where it was invented. The one thing that I read said it was invented to honor the boat doing this under five day transatlantic voyage, transatlantic voyage, but I don't know who invented that, where maybe it was invented on the boat or maybe it was just invented some port of call.

Interesting. But yeah, I mean, looking at the Wikipedia here, the Lusitania would go back and forth from like Liverpool to New York and stuff. So yeah, it wasn't swinging by Louisville, Kentucky at all or more Chicago. No, no, this guy just, his book is a huge compendium of drinks so I don't think he claims to have invented any of these cocktails.

He just made this book. This would be, this is, oh, I see what you're saying. He's sort of a Harry Craddock in that way, Tim, no? A Hymsey Craddock. Yep. Great, Neil. Now every time I try to hear Harry Craddock, I'm gonna hear Hymsey Craddock from now on.

Oh, I wish I could go back in time and not say that. Well, we can't change the past. You need the powers of Hensley Plopper himself. Dan, that's pretty good, Neil. Do you guys want to go make these drinks and we'll come back for more Jibber Jabber? Yeah, but yes. See you next week. Bye folks. What's up, Slopheads? This is Milan Patel, official editor of the pod and performer. That right folks I'm going on my first ever world tour of America specifically the West Coast and I'd love to see you guys out there if you've ever been listening to the sloppy boys podcast or the

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It's gonna be stand-up sketch videos that I can't post online because they're just too hot for TV. On August 4th, I'm gonna be in my hometown of Portland, Oregon, headlining at the Goodfoot Lounge. And then finally, on August 6th, I'll be in San Francisco performing at the Lost Church, hosting my show, Mila and Petal and Enemies, once again, bringing on the best and brightest comics in the Bay Area. You're not going to want to miss that one folks. You can get tickets to all my shows on my website milanpatelcomedy.com.

You can also find me on Instagram and the ticket link is there as well. I got my passport stamped, my fanny pack tightened around my waist and a wanderlust that can only be satiated by traveling the globe. So please come see me on my World Tour. I'm back talking Lusitania, the fast fast ship and the warm, warm drink. Okay. First sips. Looking good. What did you guys do for two thirds of a jigger, one third of a jigger?

What did you do? Yeah, I did. I took my jigger and just did the big end and then the small end. And I got not a lot of yield here. Like this feels like a shot. So I think I got to go back. Yeah, I did a, I tried, I, yeah, basically I went, I did the same thing and then there was a little spillage

on my shake and I was like, boy, now I have like, this one little thin layer. So I went back and did, I just did two parts to one part, you know? Right. Yeah, same. I did like ounce to half ounce, but I doubled it. Two ounce to ounce. That's, that's exactly what I do.

I, at first I was just doing parts and using half ounces and it was too small, so then I doubled it two ounce to ounce. That's exactly what I do. At first I was just doing parts and using half ounces and it was too small. So then I doubled it. But then your your bitters and your your dash of bitters here, dash of absinthe become a little weird. So I kind of I kind of just doubled my dashes around a dash like a dash is is so not like not an official thing that always throws everything off for me. Yeah. Yeah, I don't like dash Rendar is an official member of the Ripple I know I know I know but and I and you tell me that every time but I just don't know how that applies Let's not forget the Incredibles as well And me line get there from you all the time, too

Yeah, he's like a bar spoons worth of like absinthe basically, actually even a little more than that. And then a few dashes of the orange bitters. At some point we should look at what like a standard jigger to me, I always use the one that's two ounces and one ounce, but I think the standard one is one and a half and three quarters of an ounce, but who knows in 1913 what the fuck a jigger was, you know? Yeah.

Should we sipy? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Should we sippy? Sips. Sips, sips, sips. Hey, cheers to you guys and all of you, everyone of the Lusitania. Oh boy. I'm nervous. Shalud.

Woo hoo hoo. Okay, there's something happening here. Yeah. Something happening here. And what it is, I ain't exactly clear. Yeah, you're right. Mine has a little bit of a tint to it too, Tim. It's a little tan, it's a little brown.

Yeah, I got it. The brown side of town. There's something happening here. Ooh, Neil, you got the stout little, what would you call that? That little glass. That's like a Negroni glass, actually. Me and Tim's is is more green yeah mine

looks like a dirty martini what the fuck it must be it's probably the brandy we used oh yes mine's not as probably not as dark as I use a Hennessy are you guys familiar do you have much experience with absence you know I mean I tried to drink a bottle in college because my friend was like this stuff will make you trip man and we we split a whole bottle this stuff will make you trip, man. And we split a whole bottle that he got on a trip and then we didn't feel shit. I'll do anything you say, Jeff. I've had a bottle of absinthe in my life that,

you know, like, oh, let's do shots or whatever. But I've I've I'm not sure I've ever done the like, putting it over a sugar cube. Like the whole like proper way to do it. Yeah. The slotted spoon sugar cube. Did you see a green fairy? Yes.

I saw Shrek. He sat on me. I just did this slotted spoon experience as seen in the perfect drug by nine is nails music video I when I was in New Orleans, I went to an absinthe bar and talked to the the bartender and she steered me towards like I was like first-timer I want right on the nose absent and then she she had she was a big caterpillar smoking those absent and then she she had. She was a big caterpillar smoking out of a water.

Nothing strange about that. Oh, you. Hey, Allison, Wonderland, one of my recent obsessions. I was in Blunderland. Watch yourself. Wait, wait, Tim, go on. I want to hear more about this Wyrmwood bar. He will. But we're talking about Alice in Wonderland. Wait, is it made from Wyrmwood?

Because we're in a way Wyrmwood is what Mallort is made out of. No, Wyrmwood is absent? Because, wait, wormwood is what Malort is made out of. No, wormwood is absent for sure. Oh. In absent. That's supposed to be the psychedelic, supposedly the psychedelic thing. Well, I'll say this.

There was nothing psychedelic, but then also even the flavors, like she did the sugar cube on the slotted spoon, and then there was some cool 19th century spout of water that dribbled the water down into the thing. It all clouded up. I drank it. It tasted like good and plenty. Then on my second round, I said, give me an absence that's entirely different from that

one I just had. And then we went to the whole thing and I sipped it and it tasted like good and plenty. So interesting. The, uh, yeah, the, that place, um, Maison Premiere in, Premiere in Williamsburg that I like. Williamsburg. They do. They do. Absinthe a lot too.

Like they've got the drips and stuff, but I've never done it. Don't slip on the drip. I'd say this has a warm quality. Like I can imagine being on the on the deck of a speeding ocean liner going blazing through the cold North Atlantic and sipping one of these to warm me up. Basically a motorboat. Yeah. I can see myself as President Woodrow Wilson

sitting at home thinking, how am I gonna get myself into this World War I? Mike? Why, I'll have my ship sunk. Is that conspiratorial thinking? No, he didn't have it sunk, but that was a big push into the World War I. So that's why this, at Digman, when I pitched a Lusitania episode, I was almost just going based on this. I didn't look into it at all, but when I picture my history book, the name Lusitania has always

been funny to me because there's a few things like this where I can just picture my fourth grade history book or whatever year we're learning about World War I, and I can picture, there's a picture, there's a photo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. In his car? No, he's standing. He's he's standing there. He looks magnificent. But it's like he the assassination of Archie Franz Ferdinand is what started World War One.

And that's like that's one sentence. I never looked into who he is any more than that or whatever. But it's just that. And then the next sentence would say, but don't forget the sinking of the Lusitania. But Mike, is it World War I when, up at the old birthday boys' house, we used to get in a fight where you would say, the Balkans were a powder keg. Yeah, yeah. Well, it wasn't just the assassination, the Balkans were a powder keg.

It's as if we're going to fight over that. Of course, a war happened. Of course, there's tensions. A world war, there's going gonna be tensions around the world. Paul Rust and I would have an argument over, if in the suburbs, I would say, the white picket fences and perfectly manicured lawns represent the perfect order and purity of the homes within. And he would argue.

And there's not more than meets the eyes. Yeah, and he would argue that in fact, they were a cover for the darkness. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Well, it's funny to me then. Mike, you said you've read the book. What's that Eric Larson book called? This one? Dead Wake is the name of this one. Well.

Dead Wake. So Dead Wake is a recent, only came out within the last five years or so, and it was a hit New York Times best seller. And I was curious, I was like, Tim, you've been talking about the Lusitania forever, you're doing a podcast about it, you wrote an episode of Digman about it,

maybe you should get to the bottom of the actual history of the thing. So what I brought in, I went on, you guys know I subscribed to Audible and they had the audio book on there and I get six credits a month. Tim, I find that laudable. You find it laudable that I have audible?

Mm-hmm. Oh. I didn't know that about you. I didn't know that was one of your personality traits. Well, you know, that's on me too, because I haven't told you and I haven't expressed myself that way. Well, no, it's well, that's why we come here on the podcast to share things that we didn't have opportunity to air our grievances. That's why we come on here.

That's the only reason and to make the drink of the week. Ne we come on here. That's the only reason. And to make the drink of the week. Neil's over here. Oh, I thought it was to get fucked up. Neil. Neil, you're a party boy? Yeah, and I like getting fucked up. Oh, God.

I thought you were British and proper. Not anymore. I'm a little scamp who just wants to get fucked up. Oh, God. Can we just end this episode? And I'm a man of few words. No, you're saying so many. Oh, yeah Can we just end this episode? And I'm a man of few words. No, you're saying so many.

Oh yeah, what happened to that part? Yeah. I know not. Oh. He's moved away from the mic. He's not talking anytime soon. All right, Tim, go ahead. You know what's real quick aside, this drink,

I feel like vermouth is sort of like an and orange bears rounder kind of flavors and stuff. But then that one dash of absinthe did kind of sharpen it up on the tongue. When you take a sip, it's almost like you're reaching for the badger. Don't reach past the badger. Breaking bad, Matt Jones. Breaking bad. So Tim, you're looking up that you're researching Alucetania, you're on Audible.

It's Laudable. I traded in one of my credits for Audible and I brought in the audiobook of... What's it called again? Dark. Oh, it's Dead Wake. Dead Wake by Eric Larson. I'm really excited to finally learn the real history of the Lusitania. So, Jeff, I brought the clip. Why don't you hit play?

Great, folks. Here's the clip that we absolutely are authorized to play here on the podcast. This is Audible. Dead Wake, The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Eric Larson. Chapter 1. The Lusitania got sunk on May 7th, 1915. Got sunk. Chapter two. The door to the Digman writer's room flew open. In between sips of his Venti Mocha Javaccino,

the plot of episode 202 absolutely poured out of Tim Kalkakis. The writer's assistant's fingers flew, desperately trying to get it all down. The other writers sat there dumbfounded. It had been a slow morning and nobody had any ideas yet, let alone provocative ideas that pushed the very limits of the form itself. They all turned and looked to showrunner Neal Campbell.

Surely this had to be stopped? Neal merely sat back and smiled. Stopped? Let him go, he said. Let him do his thing. The episode came out fully formed. Not a writer's draft, but a final shooting script. And when the writer's assistant's fingers began to bleed, Neil stayed calm. He merely sat back and smiled and screamed. Keep typing or you're fired, you son of a bitch. Eventually, Neil stood. Type fast, you fucking son of a bitch.

Afterward, at the Emmy party, Neil and Tim hoovered long, fat rails of Columbia's finest powdery white. The end. Wow. Wow. Wow. You've been working on that book for a long time, Hanford? Wow.

It's all. Yeah, it's true. I mean, I can vouch for everything that happened there. So just for the timeline, so Tim bursts through the door, the character, yeah, Tim bursts through the door and he's spilling out, he's pouring out this episode. And it said, you know, they'd been working all morning at this thing.

So it's Tim getting there late in the day. He seems to be late, yeah. Oh, you know what? I think I had a meeting with the head of the president of the network that morning. Okay. Talking spin-offs. Oh, Neil, I gotta tell you, they want a few spin-offs.

Oh, shit. A few? Yeah, they want a few of, I forget what Oh, shit. A few? Yeah, they want a few of, I forget what some of them were though. Oh, no. So Tim shows up late in the writers' room and just absolutely dominates, regardless. Yeah.

So he's sort of like, sort of slack-jawed, yeah. He's like a Dennis Rodman figure. Slack-jawed? Yeah, Dennis Rodman, yeah. Just showing up and dominating. But you know what, Dennis Rodman, yeah, just showing up and dominating. But you know what? Dennis Rodman was also known for his Rebounds. Yes.

Yeah. And I like to think that sometimes other writers on the show try to pitch an episode they fail, but then I kind of take the idea and spin it into something usable. There's a lot of talented people on the staff. Oh my God. I agree. I agree. Speaking of rebounds, I mean, we're all guys,

everyone spill it. What's your nastiest rebound story? Nasty. Well, I don't know. I dated a girl for two years and then I did another girl for six months after that. Is that? You got the board. I did another girl for two years and then I did another girl for six months after that? Is that? Oh! Oh!

You got the board! I liked the voiceover artist that read the audio book. That was really natural. I like how it said, absolutely poured out of Tim Kalkakis. Like I wonder what prompt he was given to get that sort of performance. I guess it was just something he chose to do in the studio. Eric Larson really, his writing style is similar to yours too, Tim.

That's probably why you could listen to it so well. Like, do your thang is something I've heard you talk about a lot. I think that was a quote from me, maybe. Yeah, that was a quote. Oh, that was a quote from me, maybe. Yeah, that was a quote. Oh, that was a quote from Neil, okay. But even things like Hoovered and the, yeah, just isms of yours that I recognize.

I guess, yeah, like a lot of, whether you write historic history books about Lusitania or Comedy Central episodes about it, maybe it's just a certain type of a guy. Yeah. Well, even just like, I remember even at the bang bang room you used to do this joke about, oh, I got the whole season written,

a shooting script ready. It's just funny that that's still connected with you. Like Eric Larson could tell. I used to do bits like that 10 years ago on one job, yes. And then I stopped. Bits, those were bits. Bits, yeah. Yes, then you stopped to write. Then you started to. Bits, yeah. Yes, then you stopped to write.

Then you started to really write ahead, yeah. Yes, yes, yes. He actually did do that, okay. Now, Neil, I have this reputation of being the rock star of the room. Is that really true though? You're there, is it really like that? Yeah, I think you leave the room and we're all like,

do you think he noticed me today? Oh. Oh. Wouldn't it be weird if I asked him for a selfie? I told you to wear the poodle skirt. I meant, we should start doing a thing at work, you know, where at the end of the day, I text you a list of who I noticed, and that way you can tell them.

Yeah, and it would be cool if like, Rachel, Kaylee got a selfie with you sometime. Depending on the mood I'm in that day. Okay, okay. I'll let her know. Tim on the mood I'm in that day. OK, OK. Tim can say who he noticed throughout the day, and then you'll know who not to invite back the next day, if they weren't really looked up. Neil got a text the other day that just said, none today.

Sad. Whole new batch. You know what's sad? I think I've squawked to each of you individually about how I'm currently listening to the Larry Charles memoir on Audible. Comedy or Seinfeld writer, Larry Charles, Borat director.

Director of Dicks? Director of Dicks the musical, yeah. And Borat? Masque and Anonymous? Yes, have you seen that? I've not seen it. I've never seen it. Oh, that's Bob Dylan's movie?

Or he's Bob Dylan's? Yes. Yay. never seen it. Oh, that's Bob Dylan's movie. Or he's Bob Dylan's. Yes. Yeah. Oh, my God. To Bob Dylan's. Yeah, it's like a three and a half hour to make a movie that makes no sense. But he stands by it. He's just like people didn't get it. But there was a there was a that's your that's your only choice.

If you make a stinker, you can't be like, yeah, I fucked that one up. They got it. But well, you can't be like, yeah, I fucked that one up. They got it. But well, speaking of people wanting selfies with me, just remind me, he had a story where his back in his Seinfeld days, his dad wanted to, he was like, can I get a picture? Can I come visit LA? Can I have a picture with Jerry Seinfeld?

And Larry Charles was like, oh boy, I don't want to ask him about fine. And his dad came into the offices and he's like, hey Jerry, can my dad get a picture with you? And Jerry Seinfeld was like, yeah. And then they posed for a picture. And then Jerry Seinfeld was like, hey, Larry Charles, you get in here too, let's get one of the three of us.

And then an assistant took a picture. It's like Jerry Seinfeld, Larry Charles, and Larry Charles' dad standing together. And then Larry Charles said a couple months later, he went and visited his dad and he looked on his wall and there's a framed picture of Jerry Seinfeld and the dad. That's good. That's good.

Didn't make the cut. Didn't make the cut. Oh, that's too bad. Let's bring it back to the drink for just one second. I'm I'm liking this drink, but I feel like it's a little I got to I got to change up some dimensions of this a little bit. Not as much for more for Brandy. He means proportions. What did I say? Dimensions

out of fourth dimension. Crang lives in a dimension. That's a I know just thinking dimension X. Land of Crang lives in a dimension. That's a, I know Jeff's thinking, dimension X. Land of Crang. I would like to add the dimension of time to this cocktail. Yeah, I think I'm going to do less, maybe a little vermouth, because I are a little more absent, I mean,

because I'm liking that good and plenty taste. Like, what if you fully just swapped the, I mean look, dry vermouth is a problem ingredient for me. It's a weird drink, I don't like drinking it alone. Although, me and Neil went to an aperitivo bar the other day and I had some dry vermouth with soda and it was a shit ton of soda and it was a nice crispy. It was good, yeah.

Yeah, it was a crushable summer porch pounder, I said. Barbachetti in Echo Park, it was quite good. But that's better vermouth than my dusty ass Dolan that I keep warm for years. Yeah, I even got a brand new one today, trying to, because I saw I was gonna, like kind of a lot of vermouth in this one. It's just funny though, because it's like brandy.

Yeah, Tim, you're talking flippin'. Well, yeah, I mean, I'm trying to figure out in this one. It's just funny though, because it's like brandy. You're talking flipping. Well, yeah, I mean, I'm trying to figure out what to do with the one ingredient that's the one that we really don't like very much. Because it's like brandy with orange bitters, that sounds like a great drink. A little dash of absinthe, okay, that makes a little bit like a Sazerac kind of, why not?

But then maybe sweet red vermouth would have been nice or if this was just like a rinse of dry vermouth. But it's just really hard for me to just drink red vermouth would have been nice or if this was just like a rinse of dry vermouth. But it's just really hard for me to just drink dry vermouth and not be like wishing I was having any other liquid on earth. Yeah. I kind of like the dry vermouth taste, but this could have been like the proportions I use,

but it feels more like it's just the base collecting the other flavors on this one for me, because I'm definitely getting way more absent than Brandy than. Oh. You said the base collecting the other flavors on this one for me, because I'm definitely getting way more absinthe and brandy than. Oh. You said the base collecting other flavor? What do you mean by that? Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I just sort of mean like I'm not getting, even though it's the largest ingredient in there, I feel like it's absorbing the brandy and absinthe flavors or something, and that's what are coming through a little more for me. Ah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like if you use less, it might be not noticeable at all

because the other ones would be too overpowering. Well, I don't know, that's good. Hey, it's worth a shot. It's worth two shots, my man. We got a four days voyage ahead. Four days, geez, now that's super fast. Neil, I guess you're having my dream experience because I wish mine was soaking up more

of those other flavors and merely reflecting them, signal boosting them. But no, I'm getting that olive-y. Remember the bartender at the Aperitivo place described the dry vermouth as olive-y. And I'm getting that olive-y taste. Yeah, I wouldn't flip them, but I am going to dial down the vermouth this time.

And dial up the absinthe? No, the brandy. Okay, I'm dialing up the absinthe way up. Any other tweaks you'd like to announce? I'm just gonna flip the script upside down. Oh, you're gonna flip the script on it. I wanna shake this on ice this time, because it's very hot here.

I mean, and you gotta realize, some of these drinks that are from that era, it's, you know, ice is not in large supply, you know? So. Was I not, I wasn't listening to, I guess, maybe, I shook mine on ice, what was I supposed to do? Dry shake, dry. Dry shake, warm, you guys are drinking warm drink?

Yeah. But it does feel like a real old timey-ish drink though, because it is warm. Like it feels like something to have at a saloon. Yeah. On St. Christmas's day. Oh God. What? Okay, you're right. No, you're right.

He is English. Is he? He was for a brief moment, now he's not. Should we make some more? Yeah, let's make some more. Um, folks We'll be right back with more sloppy boys after this Hey everybody, it's time for the ads. Well, I hope you come on down to my store. I'm selling a big old wagon You're gonna

Carried it all around. Well, come on down to my store. It's right on the corner No one's gonna be able to find that store. We're spending every Saturday on Sunday. Whoa, Buddha be proud? Oh, most proud indeed. I did equal parts Brandy and Absinthe. Ooh, wow. I increased the Brandy, but didn't go full equal parts. And Tim? I flipped the script, put a lot more Brandy in and I like it because it tastes like a brandy drink now,

and now it's good. Mike, how's that? You're that much, the absinthe is, what is this? Mine's like 130 proof or something. I didn't realize that it's, I know, yeah. Yeah, his eyes are rolling back. Yeah, that's the thing about absinthe. It's the myth is that you hallucinate

because it's so high, right? The ABD. Yeah, when we grin, are our teeth remaining but the rest of us fading away? Yeah. Well, you have to say something funny to make us grin and that hasn't happened yet. Yeah, that's true.

We've been frowning most of the time. We just think that. No, this is, I mean, it's gonna hit me hard, I think, but it tastes good. It's hard to drink a real stiff drink like this is first drink of the night, empty stomach. I feel red faced and my neck is sort of red. Look at that.

Yeah, but I somehow feel like I'm more witty than ever. That's true. I find people are showing me respect and women are attracted to me. I find that women are attracted to other respectful people and I'm observing it. And I am sober enough to observe. You know what's a cool thing that I came across during the break just now was, well, Neil's on the show and he's got this TV show called Digman. And I was looking, Neil, I went poking through our drop box for Digman, the shared drop box that the writers

all use and stuff, and production uses. It's still active. So I went there, I was clicking around and I was thinking, oh, well, if there's anything cool that we could bring, that could bring in the podcast, it might be a thrill for super fans, get people excited about season two and stuff like that. Yeah, was there? Was there anything like that? Jeff, I'm so happy you asked because I was going to just move my score up of the drink.

But yes, there's an MB3, I just sent it over to you, Jeff. It says, Digman main theme song original version. Oh wow. Okay. And it's weird because you can see with an MP3, like the date of it, it says like a couple years ago and stuff, but then like the owner of the file,

it says Neil Campbell, like this is like, so it looks like this was like an original version that Neil had maybe sent. Oh, that you made Neil? That Neil had put in the Dropbox. Yeah, I guess. Oh, Neil just put it in, okay. But I don't know, we could even listen

and see how it has changed from the original to like the one that we all know and love from Comedy Central. Okay, okay, cool. And just so you know, the original is written by Trevor Rabin from the band Yes. Oh, wow. That's cool as fuck.

Who has done a lot of good like Jerry Bruckheimer scores. Wow. And I'm, am I a big fan of him? Yes. Well, let's hear what you guys, what the original one that you kind of cut up was. Yeah, I'm so curious what the original is, yeah. ["The Last Supper"]

Hi, it's Neil. Just a quick heads up. All of the characters in this show are drawings, so if you see them in the real world, you should get your head checked. Buy some quack. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. I mean, now I remember laying those tracks down.

That came back to you as we were listening? Wow. Now, why, I guess they went without that because you don't really, so many cartoons are happening and they never say anything about the characters being drawn. That's just assumed, wouldn't you think? Yes, I would assume that.

I mean, the question is for you, Neil. You're the one who made that song, so. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm looking at Tim's screen, but I mean to be looking at yours. Do you guys still have on your IMDB a random funny or die video? Yes, a bunch of weird shit.

You're like, I made, you make so many videos over the years and stuff, but somehow like the funnier die ones. Equally weighted. Equally weighted. A TV show you worked hard on or something you do the friend some favor for two hours. Yeah, but then like, if you did that friend a favor

for like a YouTube video that might have 500,000 times the views that might not be on there, but somehow the Funny or Die ones got on there. Anyway, there's a Funny or Die one that's called Behind the Scenes of Toy Story 3. And it's sort of, it's me and Harris and Paul and we're kind of talking about the characters of Toy Story 3, but we keep saying drawing.

And then like, so about the characters of Toy Story 3, but we keep saying drawing and then like. So then the drawing of Woody starts talking about the drawing of Buzz or whatever. Because you have to every single time say, oh, drawing. Yeah. And then like someone's like, and then Buzz says this like, wait, but how would Buzz? And then the drawing of Buzz. I just summed up the entire video in 30 seconds. That's all it is.

But is that currently on YouTube? I have no idea if it's still available. Is it on your IMDB? It's definitely on my IMDB. Yeah. Oh yeah. I remember, wait, one of you, is it Mitch or maybe Mike, like you were in somebody's video when Sarah Palin

was campaigning. There was, yeah. It was our like UCBComedy.com sketch that we did for class. It was like a thing we learned. You didn't even write it, right? It was like somebody in the class. Somebody, but we all had to like be in it or something like that.

Yeah, Sarah Palin. The premise, it was like when UCBCommie.com was trying to be provocative, so it was just like, I don't like Sarah Palin's policies on the issues, blah, blah, blah, but hey, I'd fuck her. And that was the premise of the sketch of men saying that over and over again. So the name of the sketch is I'd Fuck Palin.

So I remember looking at your IMDB and it's like, Mike Hanford has seen an eyed fuck and it just like makes you seem like a fucking asshole. Shit head guy. Cause no one is going to take the time to be like, wait, what is this? Oh, this is crappy from early 2000s. Yeah.

I had that forever where Paul and I, I had written on the right now show in 2007, a sketch pilot that did not get picked up. And I was in the audience of that pilot taping, continue. Thank you. And that is where Between Two Ferns began, was on this sketch pilot. That's its sort of legacy.

But- And then I took Between Two Ferns to the next level, continue. I agree. And the, Ruben Fleischer directed like the pre-tapes for that. And then- Of Zombieland fame?

Of Zombieland fame and all that. And Ruben wasischer directed the pre-tapes for that. And then, of Zombieland fame. Of Zombieland fame and all that. And Ruben was really nice, and he was also an EP on Robin Big. And he was like, Oh yeah. Our normal consulting producers are gonna be gone for a week. Neil and Paul, do you wanna come in

and just get paid for a week of work? You just have to give us a list of ideas of things Robin Big could do every day. And then we got there and we were like, kinda, there was not a lot of work, you just have to like, give us a list of ideas of things Robin Bigg could do every day. And then we got there and we were like, kind of, there was not a lot of work to do. And we gave him like a list of like, funny things Robin Bigg could do while camping or whatever.

And had a week, got paid, really nice of Ruben. And then, I don't know if this is true or not, but like my IMDB then said I worked on like, 26 episodes of Robin Big. You're the Robin Big guy. I don't know if like someone just saw like the credits on one and extrapolated, oh, he must've worked on all episodes or if they accidentally credited us

on every episode, I have no idea. Cause I never wound up watching that season of the show. That's so funny. I've seen that. I can see like, I can see a TV TV show, a reality-ish show like that, not having the, especially back then, not putting the names in correctly. It's like, yeah, here's all of our writers.

They're for all shows? Yeah. But for so long, it would be on my IMDb known for Robin Big. And I'm like, I don't know what. Neil, that made an impression. I forgot all about it for the last 10 years, but way back, I was like,

yeah, Neil and Paul were big on Robin Big. Nope, we weren't there for one week, and Ruben was super busy even, and he was just like, sorry guys, I can't, sorry I'm not working with you guys more, but these ideas you send are great, but sorry, and we just sat in an office by ourselves and mostly worked on our own stuff.

But so do you think, if you had to choose Robin Big or Digman, what's more indicative of your sensibility? Robin Big for sure. Because I'm live action and I'm not a drawing. Oh that's true. You know what's a funny thing like that is, I think I was at one point a two week guest writer

on SNL at the end of a season. It's just a thing you do, you kind of pop in, you are a guest writer and you leave, it's just a thing you do. You kind of pop in, you are a guest writer and you leave and it's just a fun little thing. They throw you in a Max Rebo costume until you get out there. Yes. That's where everybody.

You give the performance of a lifetime as Max Rebo. But what's funny is it's on IMDB as me having written for that whole season, which is funny because normally, I'm the type of guy that if I get too many credits, I'm fine with it, and I like to exaggerate my credits, but they're actually, weirdly, there's a treat, with SNL, there's a treat, like, writing for one season,

it looks like you wrote for one season and got fired, it makes you look kind of bad, whereas two episodes is like, oh cool, like Neil Brennan pops in and works on it. Yeah, right. Yeah, but like one season looks like you failed and you tried really hard. Tim Kail-Pack has not asked back.

I know. It's like if it said two seasons, you'd be like, wow. If it said one episode, you'd be like, wow. But one season and done is like, sorry, loser, you're out. I one time for an afternoon thought I was in the, I think Incredibles, did they make a third movie or a second movie? Second.

I think I saw an IMDb that like my name, I looked on my page and my most recent credit was like, Mike Hanford voice in Incredibles, post production or something like that, or pre-production. I was like, oh, did I get cast? Did somebody not tell me that like, I'm going to be in this? So I called my manager, I was like, did you see this?

What is this? They're like, I'm sure it's the same. Is the industry a buzz? I have a few, well, I also like, I was like a consulting producer on like half a season of Love and that's not in my IMDB credits. Which like you'd want that on. Yeah, I'd want that, yeah.

But then I have like special thanks that I didn't even realize I was in the special thanks until I saw it on my IMDB credits. Wait, so you were consulting producer on Love, but you also played the role of Wyatt. What was it like hopping in front of the camera, hopping behind the camera? No, no, I played the role of Kyle.

Fuck. So wait, you're telling me we have Kyle and Walter here on the same pod? And I was Wyatt. Yes, yes. Neil and I had a scene together where we had to discuss. We were editors. We were video editors.

That's right. We were editors. Yeah, that was great. Did they let you edit the series then? No, that sucks. Because I thought we were. Yeah. Yeah, so like all day on set, I'm like making notes and Neil, like I was like,

do we have any time code for this? And Neil's like, we have to worry about it. Yeah. Do we have a steam back? Yeah. Then the union got in the way. Mm hmm. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, I grabbed my drawing. If you want to see my baseball player drawing. Yes. Oh, yeah. That would be nice. Haas. Old Haas.

Haas Radborn. Sounds like that sounds like us. They call him old. Yes. He was born old. It sounds like a Star Wars. Oh, there he is. That's pretty good. That Neil, that's undeniably old Haas Radborn.

Yeah. OK, wait, now, are you showing us your drawing or is that the photograph? Because I can't tell the difference. That is my drawing, actually. Oh, sorry, I are you showing us your drawing or is that the photograph? Because I can't tell the difference. That is my drawing actually. Oh, sorry, I'll get back on mic. That is my drawing. Yeah, it's, well, and the thing is, because the photograph, his eyes and ears

aren't grossly misaligned. Like some sort of a circus freak, you know. As the artist, Neil, why did you choose to go that way with the eyes and ears? Well, you know. As the artist, Neil, why did you choose to go that way with the eyes and ears? Well, you know, sometimes with art, it's that expression of how you view the subject, but I would say in my case, it's more, there's sort of,

it's like a limitation to my talent. Oh. Oh. Well, can't you just have your brain tell your hand to move more precisely? I tried, I was I was I was whacking the side of my head. Get the message across, you fool. A brain tell hand. Not this hand. The other hand had a mind of its own, you know.

Sad. The thing it was, you know, things you make me do. The terrible things you make me do. The terrible things you make me do. Ouch! You know, I'm here in New York City and I have access, as anyone in the public has, to MoMA and the Whitney and a number of museums, maybe. I'll show them.

I took a little picture of that when you held it up there, so I'll bring that picture and say, hey, you see this? Obviously, it's from a camera photographing a zoom, but you get the idea. Is he good enough to go up here? I think there's like a weekend every year the Met takes submissions.

So if you wouldn't mind just- It's baseball week. Yeah. They do baseball week. Yeah, they combine with the Met's, yeah. I did that embarrassing thing where I went to MoMA for a day, was looking at stuff, was really moved by everything I saw.

Then I got home, found it after, I had gone to MoMA for a day, was looking at stuff, was really moved by everything I saw. Then I got home, found it after I had gone to MoMA Fuku. Pfft. Wow. They're not affiliated, right? No. Starry Night has so many ramen noodles. I was like, I love all those long, starchy, swirly works of art they have there.

Tim, I did the exact opposite of you and I ended up with the biggest stomach ache I've ever had. Mm-hmm. Oh no. Right, right. You ate paintings. You ate a Kandinsky. Ate painting and sculpture.

Sculpture too. Yep, sculpture. Pottery, ceramic. I went to the Skrball Center this past weekend. Dutz, you might be interested in this if you haven't seen already the Jack Kirby exhibit screwball center. I thought I got a pretty high high score on Skrball, but go ahead. Did you get the Jack Kirby exhibit? Oh, you're into geek shit like me. Yes.

Who is Jack Kirby? I know that name. He's an old Marvel artist. Yeah. Who basically like did the first fantastic four and an incredible hole. Captain America, Black Panther, Ant-Man. That is my Mount Rushmore of favorite characters. Tim, stop. And that counts all literature, film, everything. And I will say this, Mount Rushmore is my Mount Rushmore favorite president.

They nailed it. That's nice. My dream blood rotation of American presidents. That would be a funny post. My dream blood rotation and it's just the four faces from the mountain. That's funny. Do it post it. You should do it. I'd swap one of them out for Warren G. Harding, except for that teapot dome scandal. Sorry, Neil. That tainted him for me. To the listener, Neil's gritting his teeth, and his face is red and sweaty. In a very unpleasant way.

You could make that swap and then swap him up for Warren G. Ooh. No? As long as we're doing that, why don't we put a G string up there too. Stop. Come on. I mean bass guitar string.

That's my world. Oh, so you're modest. That's so thick. T-Pod Dome is another one, like what I was saying about Archduke Franz Ferdinand, like I've not revisited, I can picture the satirical news cartoon that went along with that in my history book,

but I've never actually went back to look at that. Oh, I was going to say before with muckraking, I always think of Carpetger in that way, too. I'm like, I heard that in class, but couldn't tell you what. That's a poet. That's Hillary Clinton moving to New York and becoming a senator there. But she's actually from Arkansas. Ah, because she's not that's not her where she's from.

Wasn't that one of our booze news cues for you? What do you like better? Yeah. What was it? Muckraking or carpet bagging or red? No, Jerry Mandarin, Jerry Mandarin. Do you see that was our question? I liked carpet bagging and they didn't like Jerry. That makes sense.

They didn't like us. That's for sure. Yeah, no, that was something that they all agreed on. That's our show. Follow us on social media at the sloppy bows, where we release these recipes ahead of time. And if you can't get enough of your boys, it's patreon.com P-A-T-R-E-O-N dot com. Time out! What Jeff doesn't realize is we haven't given our opinions on the drink yet.

Fuck. We all love it. Fuck. Fuck. And folks, this isn't the first time this has happened. No, no, but this is the first time. I didn't realize there was this device in the show where Hanford had a time out thing that stops time.

I got it from Zach Morris. Oh. Oh. What kind of operation is this? Oh no, now he's English again. I don't think maybe time out. Some are you a few words? I thought it was a few words.

Yeah, he's nodding. He's nodding. Truly. OK, yes. All right. In as few words as possible. What do you what do you think of the drink? Mm. Oh, a Michael.

Hmm. It doesn't have to be in as few words. The way Brit Marling. Wait, what? I said I said the way Brit Marling TV shows. A classic example of my wit. I was tuning to season two of Digman for more of this. The rest of the writers talk me out of that stuff. Yeah, it's in a way I like it, but I do the split base.

Folks, this feels like art history to me, this drink. I like it because of that fact, Jeff. Like I'd like to order this at a bar and have somebody else make it for me and just see what they can do with it. What do you think they're gonna do to it? I don't know man, something that I can't even think of. Well it depends on the bar.

If it's coyote ugly, they might do one thing. Yeah, they might spill it on me if they're dancing with it. Bye bye, tip. I would say, I mainly, Mike, I hope you live a long, long happy life, but after you pass, I hope that scientists get that brain and study it because the fact that this is probably one of the most challenging, weird, strange drinks

we've ever had and you like it and you're going to order it again, it's freaking fast. Then meanwhile, so many meatballs that are crowd-pleasers you taste that you say, nope, not for me. It's just, I can't predict, after four years of the pod, I can never predict which way he'll go. I'll tell you, somebody said it best on Reddit or Discord. I'm a normal, I'm the weirdest normal guy out there.

The weirdest version of a normal guy. The weirdest version of a normal guy. You know, we also are, I should admit, this is probably coming way too late in the show, but a little bit late than never. Oh God, don't say hello. As we're talking about the show. Hello.

Oh, God, don't say hello. As we're talking about the show. Nice to meet you. Mike sings a whole song on the first episode. That's a big thing. Hell, yeah. Yes. Yes. That's the first episode. Mike has a big, huge guest star role.

The first episode sings a song, which we've basically never done on the show before. Like, wow, I didn't realize that was the first episode. That was a fun. That was a really funny song. And I had a fun time doing it. Yeah. So you got to tune in and watch Mike's song. Mike, it's a recurring role.

Tim, the shirt Tim has on right now is is we mentioned that the band, the Wattingos in the song. That's right. And this was a this is a season two rap gift. Yeah. Season two rap. I love this because it looks like a real banter. But yeah, this band, the what tingos, that was a Neil Neil creation.

You're like, oh, the best band in the world, the watching. They recur through the season. Yeah, this song is like, oh, baby, I love your purple hair. Purple dress. Ooh, my purple hair could be good for season three. That's great that you could you could come up with a band to enter the pantheon of animated bands.

Yeah, like who sings killer tofu on Doug? Oh, the beats, the beats. You got the gorillas, obviously the Archies. Josie and the Pussycats. Josie and the Pussycats. Ariel sings the song. Sure. Ariel and the clams. And that crab sings one too.

Ooh, that's true. So does the octopus. I can't believe you guys drank this warm. I was ignorant and I put ice and shook my first round. So this was a fun drink as a historical experiment. I won't order again and I also feel like if I had drank, if I had had this room temp not diluted

by a little bit of icy water, not unlike the icy water that the Lusitania did so sail within. Yeah, indeed. I feel like room temp, this would be fucking repugnant and I would send you the crypt. Tim, you've turned me, this is not in order again. I don't know why I was, who am I trying to impress?

Stand proud, Jeff. You don't have to bow down to my whims. No, it's not that. You're trying to impress your parents. Here, I'm fighting through this fucking hot drink. It's hot, folks. Yeah, oh yeah, you need that. The ice cube is much better.

Neil, give us your actual thoughts and you don't have to do it tight-lipped British Mr. Bean style. It would be funnier, but. Oh, he's doing it too. He's doing it Mr. Bean style, yeah. No, I feel like, it's not like this will enter the regular rotation,

but I do like that it seems like a drink from 1913. Yeah. And it's not completely like disgusting or hard to make. It's like ingredients we all still have access to, which makes it kind of fun. I feel like I will make it again at some point in a year when I'm like, I still have seven eighths of a bottle of Absinthe.

What the fuck am I doing with this stuff, man? Yeah. And I'll be like, oh right, I could make that drink with it. But it does feel like a winter drink. I actually think it's like a nice, I could enjoy one of these warm on a cold winter's night. Brandy feels like a winter spirit. Yeah, yeah.

So wait, what kind of brand did you guys use, by the way? I had that popular American brands like Ellen G or Ian J E Yeah, Ian J. Okay. I used I used Hennessy. Oh Cognac my mom but yeah Cognac Cognac all cognac is brandy, but not all brandy is cognac. Ah So true. Yeah, I asked I was at my liquor store and I asked for brandy and the only ones they had were behind the Nice. So true. I was at my liquor store and I asked for brandy

and the only ones they had were behind the counter and they were like, yeah, we've got these two. And it was, yeah, Ellen's V or V and J or something like that. And I was like, man, there's not more brandies out there. Well, brandy is like a catchall term, right? I mean, all cognac is, I'm gonna set it, but like many things are brandy, right? Brandy's gotta be made from grapes.

It's distilled. I think it's just fruit, right? Brandy is fruit in general. That's true because there's pear and like apple brandy and pear brandy. So you're right, fruit, but distilled fruit as opposed to fermented fruit drinks. Exactly, yeah, yeah, it's distilled.

And then cognac is distilled wine made from grapes from the cognac region. Right, so cognac is distilled. You should be on this show. Yeah, man. This is good stuff. I am. You're not hallucinating. Oh, perfect.

You should be a regular host. This is good stuff. Anyway, I honestly thought I wasn't going to like it. I thought it was going to be too weird or something. And I am like, I don't think this hot summer to come, I'm going to be pouring another one of these, but in the cold winter ahead, I might. I mean, a conversation, if you've got like people

over your house and like, I'm going to make you a Lusitania from 1913. I get it. That is a fun thing to do. And like, especially like, I don't know what the fuck to say to this guy. I should have never come here.

I hate the fucking guy. How do I start a conversation with this piece of shit? And just saying it right in front of you and you're staring at them with their drink. So, mom, I... I love you. But remember, you know, like with those historical drinks, remember we had the Hemingway drink, the death in the afternoon, and that was when I was excited to taste, like if in a historical context and be like,

hey, I like Hemingway, maybe I'll kind of be this kind of a guy. But it was half champagne, half absinthe, fucking taste like fucking shit. And you're just not going to go back to that. This one, I guess it is like visiting a museum that you would visit again. You guys ever hear of Armagnac?

Is that like Armenian cognac? I wish. Oh, French. Oh. I got talked into it at Topline Wine and Spirits, but it's French and it says here on the Wiki, Armagnac is the oldest brandy and liquor recorded to be distilled in the world.

Whoa, Arminiac. But I got a cheapy. Ararat. Oh, interesting. Damn, man that's awesome. That rocks, yeah, that's cool. Yeah, yeah. It's drawing what's good. After the show, follow us on social media at the Sloppy Boys where we release these recipes ahead of time.

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