The Sloppy Boys - 255. Absinthe

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

The guys "chase the Green Fairy" to see if the infamous sipper lives up to its hallucinogenic hype!ABSINTHE METHOD:Pour 2oz of absinthe into a glass. Place a sugar cube on a slotted absinthe spoon over the glass and slowly drip 4oz of cold water over the cube, dissolving it into the drink. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey, everybody. This is Tim from the Sloppy Boys podcast. I just wanted to take a moment here to personally let you know about a product that I've tried and I think could work for you. And that is Sloppy Boys tour tickets. We're going on the road. Our band is going to be rocking. We're throwing in a couple live cocktail podcasts in the mix. So you've got to come out to these places. Folks, here we go. Nashville Cocktail Podcast at City Winery on October 12th. Then the band is burning through Chapel Hill, Local 506, October 14. DC, Pearl Street Warehouse, October 15th, Philly, Milkboy, October 17th. Then in Newark, New Jersey, we're going to be doing a live cocktail podcast at the Victoria Theater on October 18th. Then we're getting those amps and drums back out to roll through Boston, mid-east upstairs on October 19th. Portland, Maine, OXpo Brewing, October 21st, Hamden, Connecticut at Space Ballroom, October 22nd. Woodstock, New York, Colony on October 23rd. Amherst Mass, the Drake, October 24th.

Then we're doing a Denver Live cocktail podcast at the Gothic Theater on November 4th. Then crank up that musical instrument gear because the band is going to be rolling right through Minneapolis, Zora Darling, on November 6th, Milwaukee, X-ray Arcade, November 7th. Two shows in Chicago on one night at Beat Kitchen, November 8th. Indianapolis, Black Circle Brewing, November 9th, Columbus, Ohio. Rumba Cafe, November 11th, Pittsburgh Craft House, November 12th. Then we're doing two live podcasts in one night in Cincinnati at Commonwealth Comedy Club on November 13th.

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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. Hello. And Tim Kelpacchis. What a year's up. Oh, and we're your host of Sloppy Boys ready to dive into yet another delectable little drink. How are you two doing? I just, we just saw each other in L.A.

That was fun. L.A. was fun. The tour, the upcoming tour is going to be fun. Yeah. Ooh, that might be a little fun. Where are we heading for that tour? Well, we're starting in Nashville, I'll tell you that much. Mm-hmm.

Jeff's got Nashville covered, and then I'll mention that we're going to Chapel Hill, D.C., Philly, Newark, Boston, Portland, Hamden, Woodstock, Amherst, Denver, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Detroit, Lansing. Yeah, but it's all really about that. Nashville. Yeah, that Nashville hot chicken. How are you guys living? Good.

I feel like you guys have been traveling and I've just been sitting here wasting the way. Yeah, you got to move that body, Tim. You are stuck in one spot. You were in first gear. Jeff and I, we really amped it up. I've been doing that kind of job of the hut lifestyle. Ooh.

Putting your enemies on the wall encased in carbonite. Jeff, you're enjoying the new season of Fortnite as am I. Tim, what? Have we gotten close at all to getting you into that world, to buying you a PS5? I would see that my interest is 0%. Is that up from any other number? That can't be true.

Zero percent. Yeah, I would say it's 0%. I think he used to be at like a negative 10, though. So we're doing, we're working on him. Hold on a second. Hold on a second, Joe. You know what? It was at $1,000. You guys are doing great.

you, Jeff and I play this game and you know we enjoy it and you have zero, not a molecule of interest in what you and me and Jeff are doing. Even when we stop this pot, when we end the episode, I still think to myself, what Tim's probably good? What's Tim doing right at about now? He's probably getting something to eat. Probably getting something to eat. Probably get something to eat.

That's good. So do you guys play Fortnite instead of eating? I have an interest in what you do after the pod. That's what I'm saying. Any thought whatsoever, that's an interest in it. I guess I do get some food. No, no, we're talking about Fortnite. That was just an example you could understand.

I mean, you got me excited about food. I was thinking about, you know, fine, what are you in these days? What are your after pod snacks? This is the after pod snack reveal, folks. I just got a big fucking thing of banana of banana peppers. That's going to be a bad news for my stomach. Just banana peppers?

Yeah, it is. It's going to be bad, because I can't stop eating those things. I love them. Is the big thing a jar or what? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it's a jar. It's a jar.

It has not been a jar yet. Hey, I'll tell you what, for all our Chicago fans, in two days, I'll be going to all chival Manhattan style. They brought one here. I'm going with Ben Axelred and possibly the commissioner Evan Susser from a different podcast. I hope that's okay. Yeah. I hope I can do all right.

It's like a crossover character. Yeah. Because it's not a spinoff, but he's allowed to come over to this show just to kind of boost the signal over there. I feel like if you're like a doughboys guy, if you eat at a normal restaurant that's not a chain, it must taste so good to you.

You know, you spend so much in your life. Like eating the crappy version of everything. Yeah, like, and I, not to be like a snob, but it's like if you're eating fast food all the time and saying, this is good fast food. This is not as good fast. This is great fast food. If you eat all, like, go into shock and like pass out. If you're debating between like F food and D food all the time, imagine when you get it up to the B's and the A's. I, I hate when I go to like, it's like, oh, Wendy's is doing their version of, I'm just making this up, but like, uh, parogi. and like the picture looks cool and then you try like this

doesn't look anything like a parogi or it's like a tiny version of you know the thing they're trying to do ooh parogi poppers has anyone done that no that would be good though we should do that oh Jeff I like the way you stink sell them on tour

little pierogies you dip them you know the sloppy boys they're a band and they also have parogi poppers they sell parogi poppers only IRL though parogi poppers you dip them you dip them

RIRL Jeff how was New Hampshire New Hampshire was great I went on a boat you know I'm on a boat etc Now you went to Portland too right Maine

Portland Maine Portland Maine Home with a lobster Did you get any lobster Because you told us last time Sometimes lobster is as cheap as ground beef Yeah it wasn't that cheap this time unfortunately you have one yeah i had like three i'm responsible for the demise of

three lobsters yeah you put them out of their misery um it's freezing out there so judging from your instagram though uh in the new hampshire portion of your trip it seems like you took the live free option yes very much so i've yet to take the die option good not as popular an option up there you can imagine i don't have you hang around some of those old folks homes Jeff, a lot of people checking out. A lot of people taking that final option. Ouch. Jeff, come on.

Give us some happy news about New Hampshire. Oh, I went to a fun spot, one of the largest arcades in the world. There was a, wasn't there a Donkey Kong record set on that machine in there? And I made my girlfriend watch it as soon as we came home. Oh, you're talking about the documentary. The King of Kong. I was like, yeah, sure, that was fun. You were really patient with me all night showing you this arcade museum,

Would you like to watch a movie that takes place where we just were? It's like all about it. It's like, you mean the things I read on the placards at the arcade museum? Those, those ones. How is Portland? I got to get, I still want to get up to Port Smith, first of all, and then Portland. Oh, I do have a great story about Portland. Ooh.

I was so pumped to fucking find this place. It's called Bubba's. Mm-hmm. It's got a whole name. Hold on. Portland, Maine. It's got a whole ass name. Bubba's. It's weird.

Bubba's sulky lounge. Salky. Ooh. You go into this place. It looks like, what's it called? Antiques Roadshow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's disco lights everywhere, and there are three light up disco floors.

This is like... I saw this on your Instagram. Yes, yes, yes, yes. That was cool. sprawling nightclub with like every demographic possible. and like the back room you look up and it's just like 200 rusty 80s lunch boxes and like no joke like 30 bicycles above your head and then there's this light up dance floor cheap drinks great staff um unfortunately not open the day we're going to be in portland oh it was like truly

one of those places i was like i've never seen anything like it and i got to show the guys and they're just not open they're just stuck in that Happened for the J-Man. That's too bad. Well, that's fun, though. What is sulky? It's fun when you find yourself in one of those, yeah, what are they? It was sulky, like, you know, E.R.

Like, thanks for noticing me. But is that like, is that like a New Hampshire-y thing? Or like a Portlandian thing? I don't know. I don't know why. They would do that. Yeah. Okay.

Morose, bad-tempered, and resentful. Is there another definition for sulky? No. No. It's a place that has three dance floors. Morose, bad temper. and having fun in an arcade and dancing. The hell's going on?

Oh, wait a minute, down here. Noun. Sulkie, noun. A light two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for one person. All right. That makes more sense. Antique. Sulkie, maybe.

I get you. And there's like, there's a horse and buggy place in, like, there's a place called the horse and buggy in New York, right? Or L.A. Yeah Salky It's a type of Horse drawn carriage

A two wheeled for one person A two wheeled Do we get in some booze news Yes Bibib bit bit Bib booze news hit it If I have a Beech a dogma

Let me shake a man You got me Tombsman You got me I'm good. Tram Collins was sent to me. You got me. Oh, boy, boy.

Oh, you got me. Trom Collins was sent to us by Chris Finky, aka Stinky Fink. And if you have a booze news team, email to Sloppy Boys podcast at gmail.com. The Stinky Finky Stinks again. That was a good one, finkster. No, I haven't played too much trombone.

champ, but I think that was, that's not a game. That's him playing a real trombone. Oh, you think? And many of them. Wow. There was, there was certain parts of it that sound like it was like the voice, the trombone was saying like, all the little, uh, the little, uh, word changes. Very good, fink.

Oh, mouth shapes. Nice job, Fink. Very good, Finky. The Fink man. Um, that's funny, though. I don't think of, you know, Tim, you're very melodic songwriter. Oh, yeah. But that one, that one's sort of a punky shouter, isn't it?

Isn't it, Tim? It is, what is it about hearing, like, when you hear the lead vocal of a song played on an instrument, you realize how few notes there are, you know, where it's like, brum, blah, pooh, pooh, pooh, pooh, pooh, pooh. Whenever I look at, like, pretty simple classic rock songs on the bass, it's a lot of just like hanging out on one for a while, then we're going up to this one for a little bit, then back out of the other one for a long time.

Tim, do you remember when we were, I want to say we were mixing or mastering one of the albums and we went to Jeff Marshall's and we were listening through tracks and kind of identifying little things and something came out. It might have been,

or something like that. And do you remember it was like, it was like, go yeah wait wait let's solo that and turn it up and see if it's the right note and he just turned around I was just like I guys I can tell you it's not the right yeah I solo that I thought that we were like enhancing and doing some fine toing and he's like oh it's way off key that's been that's a funny process for us like me especially when we do sound checks learning like uh what what am I supposed to talk here what are we doing uh I'll be playing

like, okay, stop playing because we're trying to do something. I never know when it's my time. The funny thing about your life in a band is sometimes when you're like sound, you're setting up your instruments, your sound checking. If I'm trying to listen to something on my amp, I'm trying to like, you know, turn the treble down or the bass up on my amp.

If Jeff hits a drum, I'm like, what the fuck? Oh, fuck. If one of you guys, like, is trying to do something and I'm playing, you're like, Can you just? Like, you think the other person who's playing is, like, the biggest moron in the world for simply playing their instrument? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I know it almost feels like we should go up one at a time and do it. Or not do it at all. I've always thought we never needed a sound jack. Right. It's funny. Also, like, when we go through a tour, like, we kind of get all that little ancillary stuff down. Like how you, you know, when you go around and you play everything, he's like, he's like, let's start with the kick. Let's do the snare. Let me get a little bass. Now bass vocal.

And then you go around and you turn up your monitors with simple hand signals. And by the end of the tour, I got all this shit down. And then we start another tour and I got to start again from the top. I don't remember any of that shit. None of these hand signals. None of the order what we're supposed to do. And sound check takes a little bit longer. Just a little longer. Very good. What is the, is there a booze news today? Yes. To tell it would be divine.

Okay. We see some headlines like this coming from small, weird places. But this is from the New York Times, a big story that just broke. U.S. drinking drops to new low. Oh, I've heard of it. This has been talked about. Yes. So this is official.

This is like a Gallup poll. They really know what they're doing. doing. They said that basically the past couple of decades, if you were to ask adults in America if they drank alcohol, 60% said yes. And that held firm from the 90s all the way to the early 2020s. And then last year, it went down from 60% to 58%. And it was like, oh, whoa and then this year down to 54% oh slop heads we got to pull up on that yoke we got to make up for everybody falling off the train this is great that we're uh you know trying to build this podcast about a

trend that's going down that's smart of us very fuck we should have done crypto well maybe we're we're like outlaws like like punk rock counterculture guys yeah that's kind of cool too that's true i also there's like a massive uptick in a Catholic churchgoers. Really? I wouldn't expect that. I know. I feel like there's just like the economy being worse is like there's this drop in individual zeal.

I thought that's kind of holing up and kind of resorting to more traditional stuff. Individual zeal. Looking for quiet community or something? Well, you ain't going to find it on Animal Crossing folks. get out there with us at the bar. There was a GQ article recently about Really?

How about It was like, why are all men wearing black loafers, white socks, and shorts and which is a look that we had been talking about recently on the sloppy boys blowout. In fact, Jeff has worse look for a dude. And not, and those weren't the Normans we found out about.

That was something different. no, no, no, no. But this GQ article was submitting that it's like there's almost like right now a comfort in dressing like everybody else. And they called it a smooth brain comfort to just be like, we're all wearing this. Okay. And that there is like a hearkening, the throwbackiness to it. It's like that was a look people did in the 80s, but even then they were throwing it back to the 50s. So now we're like in a third.

generation nostalgia loop where the kids doing it, it's sort of this like, it's a mashup of something old with like, post streetwear skater type looks. But it's like they don't even, they're not even thinking about what type of retro they're doing. They just know they're doing something old. Something dangerous. I saw, I've been seeing lately people with like A6 that looked like the, like the sockenies. I used to wear what I would run in like the 2000. 2006-2007-ish era And I'm like That feels like too quick to have come back

But I guess it's been 20 or almost 20 years But like that seems like it's It's very quick Coming back That's like I heard MGMT kids on K Earth 101 Whoa It was like hey hey hey

That song's not even 20 years old That song's like 15 years old We're reprogramming sir It's like, you know, when we first moved to L.A. 20 years ago, I feel like K. Earth was like Bwam, b'am, b'am, b'u ma'am, b'u-a-pav-a-a-a-paw-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-old. But, yeah, you're doing, Mike, those wab-a-baba-lub-s songs, it's funny to think of radio stations like putting them out to pasture for like taking them off hard drives and deleting little richard it's going to be funny when like old women are like put like oh put on material girl we used to listen to that when i was a kid or like uh grandma grandpa music used to just be like

what's that uh it's like daddy don't do a lady it's like it's like megaphone and now old person music's going to be like here i am where we're yeah mike you don't what's really interesting is those ladies that listen to Madonna and stuff I consider them to be really old. Oh shit. You've been hanging out with Leo too much. And like Madonna,

like I consider her like an old lady. Wow. Now wait a minute. Isn't that interesting? Oh, you're so young. No, it's more my perception of them. Oh. Well, I'd have to blame the media. Tim gets off. I don't

pass on this one. I blame the media. Well, bringing it back to the thing about drinking going down, this New York Times article submits, because we've talked about it before being like, is it just that Gen Z is so, has such access to cannabis or whatever.

But this article is really saying it's most likely knowledge of the health effects that it was like, the general average Joe on the street, wisdom in the past couple decades was like a couple of glasses of Red wine with dinner is a healthy thing for some reason.

And there have been a flood of studies recently being like alcohol is poisoning. You know, like any alcohol you put in your system is bad. Of course, of course, not the drinks we make folks on this podcast. No, no, no, not absent. These are vetted. We maintain this is a lifestyle podcast. This isn't a cocktail podcast. This is, we have a lot of listeners who don't even drink.

They just like the community and the camaraderie. Yeah, yeah, right. Name one. Kieler. We've been getting to the drink later and later in each episode. Yeah, exactly. And by speaking of getting to the drink, can we get to the fucking drink of the day? Wait, can I just

say a few things? A few words. Yeah, sure. I've got some stand-up comedy dates coming up. If you're in Brooklyn, come to Union Hall on September 18th. I'm going to have Julia Shipplet there and David Cross, the David Cross from all the comedy you love. So check that out. I'm then on

September 19th, I'm going to be Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. And then on September 27th, I'm going to be in Atlanta, Georgia. September 28th, Raleigh, North Carolina. Come out out, folks. Nice, dude. Ooh, they're good towns, man. Love to see you there.

Now, David Cross, he was on that Netflix series with Bob and David. Yes, but I see him on Netflix mostly these days on Arrested Development. On Netflix. These days. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to see him.

I haven't seen him do standard but a couple of years and every once while I host shows I always I'll always ask him and be like, hey, you're around? And finally he's been around. Got him. Gotcha. Nice, dude.

It should be fun. And now do we turn our attention to the drink of the day? Well, we didn't even wrap it up. Wrap it up. Oh, yeah. Wrap it up. Got to wrap it up.

Well, excuse me. Ah, now. it comes to the drink oh the day yes we're talking today about absinth you've had i have yes uh you've heard i we've done absinth in a drink what was the drink we just did with absinth in it what the hell was it was like two no it was like three drinks ago yes no i'm going to sloppy drinks dot com yes lucetania yes i'll of course solicitating.

But I've never, I don't think I've ever had it just like on its own. Like it's sort of the, uh, the mystical magical. Oh, you haven't chased the green fairy, man. Yeah. We can talk about all that stuff. I was, you know, people thought it was a hallucinogen and isn't, but, uh, we talk about that later. I, because guys, I came across, um, yeah, you know, sometimes I have a tough time

getting to sleep. So I was like, hey, I'm going to listen to this. sort of sleep story. It's like a just calming sleep story gets his sleep. You do the breathing exercise. You can call it a bedtime story.

It's all right. A bedtime story for adults. Okay. But I was like, you know what? Since I am an adult, maybe I could do something a little scary. So I went to the magical mystical section in the,

in the bedtime story. The Benson Boone section? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Now, I found this bedtime story that I thought was very appropriate, it, but also kind of scary and chilling. So we can...

Well, chilling, it's just creepy. We can listen to it here. Okay. Boy. You boy. Come here, boy. Come here. Come here. Come into my shop, boy. Yes, yes. You like the shop here, don't you, boy? What is the name of the shop? Why, it's Michael's Twisted Shop of Otterty's.

Enough of Teethy. Look around the room, boy. Can I interest you in a shrunken head? Perhaps an old picture of a wizard. Oh, I see you eyeing the back room. Very curious you are. Very curious indeed. What's in that back room?

You are very curious. That's Michael's twisted chamber of oddities and novelties. Well, you're not... Come, come. Follow me. Right this way through the beaded curtain. Good folly work here, yeah. Beho, the ancient torture devices, medieval scrolls, and modern day, dildos!

I see you eyeing that particularly green liquid. Very curious you are. What you're hoving is a liquid known as Absinth. And I assume you want me to tell you. all about it as if I've got nothing better to do Absinth was created in the canton of New Chatelle

in Switzerland in the late 18th century and some say it was precisely in the year 1792 boy the French physician Pierre Ordinaire He hadn't thrown in a boy in a while

Absin is an in anise flavored spirit derived from several plants including flowers and leaves What? Keep going? You are curious, sir, and curious, sir, indeed. Portonair created his recipe as an all-purpose remedy, and then later he passed it on to the Henriard Sisters of Cuvet, who sold it as a medicinal elixir.

And then a man named Major Doobie acquired the formula from the sisters, and in 1797 opened the first. Absinth Distillery named Dubed Pierre Et Filles in Cuvett with his son Marsilion and son-in-law Henri-Louis Pernard. Absin's popularity grew throughout the 1840s. Absinth became so popular in bars, bistros, cafes, and cabarets, that by the 1860s, 5 p.m. was referred to as la U.Vert, or the The Green Hour to you, boy. New Orleans is also known for its absinthe consumption. Starting with the old Absinthe House Bar on Bourbon Street,

there you could poke your head in and see the likes of Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, FDR, Alistair Crowley, and Frank Sinatra. Soon enough, Absinth would become associated with violent crimes and social disorder. Many say this is where the myth of Absinth being a hallucinogen was created, There are claims that smear campaigns were brought about by the temperance movement and the wine industry to get people off of absinth. And all across the world, people started to outlaw absinth from Belgium to Brazil to the Netherlands and the United States and France. But cooler heads prevailed and in the 1990s there was a resurgence of absinth after a lot of the laws had been lifted on the liquor. and by the early 21st century

Nearly 200 brands of absinth Were being produced in a dozen countries All right Well, I've talked too much What's funny about the thing you got to go Goodbye boy What, me? Who am I? Why, I'm Michael

And this is my twisted Oh, good-bye Bye, goodbye then Tell your friends and lovers About Michael's twisted shire of novelties. Bye Bye.

Bye. Oh man. That guy was like totally awesome. All right. Well, you should be sufficiently relaxed now. Sleep tight.

Oh, right. Because this was like this was a thing. you found. It was a sleep. Yeah, it was a sleep aide. I thought you got that. I forgot about that part. Yeah, that's what that was at the end. Yeah, so I found that very interesting. It didn't put me to sleep, but it

can be interested. I mean, how could it? It's so exciting. It got a little, it got a little dense and boring at a certain part, don't you think? Maybe Mieling can cut out the dense and boring. Maybe Meele can take care of that or add more sound effects. It's weird though when you say

boring, it's more that it's like also the guy making the recording was bored with that type of stuff, but I don't know, me, he's interested in that type of thing. Yeah, that's good info. I guess because there weren't any jokes, it was boring to the listener. Yeah, I mean, it's just funny. The guy talking about the history of absinthe would be

totally bored with the topic of absence, but I'm interested. It's weird. It's like he's bored with it, but it's like you just go on Wikipedia and read it. Right. Yeah, he didn't know that, but you might even see some of the same sentence structures. Oh, shit.

Oh, really? Really? Mm-hmm. Speaking of similarities, I think it's interesting when you listen to recordings like this much like the parable of the Five Cups. Oftentimes you're pulled back deeper into world and oftentimes you see the imagery, a motif of a beaded curtain will arise. Right. It's like you always have this one room and then there's another room you have to go back to. Right, right. Because there was the twisted shop and then also within the twisted shop was the twisted chamber. The chamber was back there. The shop, the shop, the shop, the shop. The chamber was within the shop. Well, thank God they went to the chamber.

It sort of reminds me of the tiger room at Calpe's Hideaway. That's going to be fun. I want to hear, of course, Tim, you tell us if there's any updates, I'm sure. There's like a sleep recording that tells them all the updates going on there. Oh, that'll be great if we could get our hands on that. Yeah. I thought it was weird, the sleep recording. I always thought the point is that these kind of like keep going and ramble and then you fall asleep.

I didn't know that they end and they do. tell you that you, they tell you that you're relaxed. Yeah, they'd end with sort of a shocking sting and tell you it's done. Yeah, so we're, of course, doing absence today. That's pretty much all I've, yeah, I did some research on that. And, oh, here's how we're going to do it. So, you know, there's the, the slotted spoon way. You'll probably, you've probably heard about that.

Jeff, what do you got there? Oh, you just got the absinth. This is the bottle I got. So what you do, you take an ounce and a half to two ounces. of absence, put it in your glass, then take your slotted spoon. I'm going to use, I don't have one, so I'm using this kind of strainer like this, and you just put it over your glass and put a, put it a sugar cube in there. So then you take the ice water and drip, drip, drip it on the sugar cube. And you, this was kind of what, what I found here, it was like

disparaging amounts. You can do, like some people were just doing it as much as it filled up the glass because the glass was like an absent size glass. I would say probably not do more than three ounces, two ounces. Oh. Yeah. It's, I don't think you want too much. Do you want to dissolve the whole cube or is that not necessary? From what I was seeing, I think if you've got like the drip thing, like an actual absence drip, it can like, you can monitor easier so you can just kind of leave it. The way we're going to do it, the way I'm going to do it, I'll probably just kind of be watching it. And then when it gets small enough, just dump it all in. Yeah, okay.

You know what I mean? And the absence of the sports supposed to be greenish, but then when you do this with the sugar, it's supposed to cloud it up and make it a little more mystical. Ooh, I like that. And what else could I tell you about the,

it's going to bring out the taste more. That's what the sugar does. Oh. It's supposed to mix in with these, these anises and it's a wormwood. It's a wormwood. Lecure. Oh, much like Mallort.

That's right. I'm curious to, I'd love to do a, back to back of Malorton and this just to kind of see like if I'm like, oh, I think there's what the wormwood taste is because I still don't really know what it is. You get it? I get it. I get it. I'm going to go get my thing. I'm going to do my dripping like with you guys here on the pod. You want do live drip on pod? I think so because I'm going to, I'm going to, the way I'm going to do is just have it here and just like drip a little bit drip drip drip. I wish I had a science class pipette. I know. I know you

do for accurate drips. What else am I going to do like take a whole glass or like a Brita filter and pour it? Yeah, I would take like if you have like a measuring cup or something. So it's got the little beak on it. Hmm. Tim, do you have, I understand, a slotted spoon. In the traditional method. Yes. I was pumped on this. Should we get our stuff and get going on this so we can be talking about it? Sure. Yeah. Sounds good. All right folks. We'll be right back with more sloppy boys after this. We're back absent in hand It said to use like a stemmed glass But I kind of have this deep little sieve

So I'm kind of using a rocks glass like this Because I also saw that like yeah You are supposed to add like four whole ounces of cold water Like I'm seeing four and a half to six anyway on liquor.com. That sounds nice because this, my absinthe is 55 proof. I'm assuming you guys is pretty strong too.

Yeah. 55? 55, yeah. Mine's 92 proof. 55% 110 proof, sorry. And Tim, is yours the same bottle that we had split, you know, like two years ago for a corpse survivor or whatever it was? Honestly, I think it was episode two of the podcast

when we did the zombie. Okay. I have like the split bottle that we shared. So I've got the same thing. Isn't that a stingo? Okay, do we start dripping? My Absinthe brand is Absinthe Ordinaire, who is the, you know, the Dr. Ordinaire, as opposed to Extraordinaire?

No, no, no. You'll remember, of course, from the recording that Dr. Ordinaire came up with this beautiful drink. Of course, yeah. Right, okay. You'll, of course, remember that. Who was that other guy? His name was like Major Stone. or something like that.

Yeah, I didn't know. It was a French name, and it was like, it was major, I think, D. Major Duby. Yeah, D-U-B-I-E. How would you say that in French? Dubu-D-B-B? Major duby. Yeah, he was fucking dubing, man.

Do we start dripping? Yeah, I think so. I have all the accoutrement. I have an absent glass. I have a slotted spoon all of it. And then I was going to, I did my drip already. And while I was doing it, I was doing it, was shooting a video and, uh, I, I was trying to manage my video, my camera and the thing at

once. And I basically just dumped the water really fast. So the sugar didn't really have a chance to, uh, dissolve into it. So then I ended up just like knocking my sugar cube into the water and stirring it up a little bit. But it did look cool. It clouded up. Looks kind of nice. Stir it up. Looks kind of nice. Oh, wow. That does look good. It looks like, uh, Ghostbusters. Oh, you've got the glass too. So that glass, Tim, could you describe it? for us? It's the perfect glass. It's like got a little bulb on the bottom

of it. It's going to stem and above that is a little bulb. And I think you fill that little bulb up with enough absinthe and then that's all you need. You don't really have to measure it, I don't think. My cube is melting nicely. That's good, Jeff. I'm missing my cube. Two ounces down.

Did you guys first see this done in the 9-inch Nails music video, Perfect Drug? No, but I Oh, fuck I fucking made a mess That's the curse Of the black magic

That's what that old Weirdo was talking about Is it also in Moulon Rouge Probably Yeah Moulin Rouge Yeah that sounds about right It sounds like something

That'd be in that movie I feel like Bazz would put that in Yeah, Baz was doing that Oh, the Lurman The Lurman I don't know where my... Spill it out of my electronics over here. This is not good.

Now, remember a few minutes ago when Mike was like, I'm going to do my drip live on the air. No, don't remember that. This is looking nice, though. It's like the sugar drips away quicker than I thought it would. Yeah, right. You know, here we go. Should we go for it?

We shall. Sips. Mm-hmm. Hmm, you are the perfect drug. You are the perfect drug. Good and plenty is the perfect candy. I don't like this. Like it's too soon to say.

I know, but that gets us talking about it. Somebody's got to say something. I think it's one of the great disappointments of life to hear about absinthe for so long. And then finally have it and finds that it tastes like good and plenty, a Halloween candy you did not even like. You're like, not psychoactive and also doesn't taste good. This is even putting the water in here to break down the sugar cube, like dilute this to a point of,

like I just know it's watered down liquor. But it's not really watered down. It's because it started strong as fuck. Yeah, that's true. But I think I like the, I like taking a sip of the. strong one over a sip of this. When I was in New Orleans recently, I went to

an absent bar and I asked the bartender, they were doing this whole thing, this whole setup and then they were pouring the water out of like a big scary water fountain. And they had a big menu of absence

and I said, hey, I'm a newcomer here. Give me like kind of your real straightforward iconic absence. And then for my second round, I was like, okay, now give me one from the opposite at end of the spectrum and she did and it tastes it

exactly like this so it's a good and plenty drink it's good and there's plenty of us it's a good and plenty

also I gotta say kind of lukewarm like I ran the cold water through it and you know it does seem like yeah this is kind of a bummer drink

it does seem like what like Jack the Ripper would be drinking but it seems like a cool drink but like if it's if you got

all the cool stuff like Tim, let's see your slotted spoon there. Yeah, the glass looks cool. You got to admit it. You got to give it up for the glass. You give it up for the glass. Tim, did you have a little spoon thing?

Yeah, it's in the kitchen, but it's sort of leaf-shaped with a bunch of little holes in it. I mean, that seems like the cool thing is like, ooh, everyone's got a cool, different color, or shaped spoon. I love the, I love a little espresso cup or tea cup or like, you know, cutlery at a fancy restaurant.

But this, like, it didn't actually work. Like, the slots, I poured my water too fast and the water just bounced around the sides of the spoon. I may as well have just been like laying a normal spoon across this thing. Yeah, yeah. Hmm. Have you guys been to a bar and, Tim, when you did this at the bar, you was with the drip and everything, like the whole process? Drip, drip from the tap, don't slip, baby. That's right.

That's right. But yeah, it just, it feels like this is, I would only kind of enjoy this maybe with it being like in the room. You know what I mean? You had to be there. Like if somebody's doing it like. The writer's room? Yeah, the writer's room.

And somebody's like, hey, you know, this is going to be a cool thing. Maybe telling us a story about it or something or giving me like the lore. I want to hear the lore. I want to hear about the little green fairy that came in and made the poet. write some dirty poems I do get a little mouth tingle yeah me too get a little tingle on the tongue

I'm getting a little bit of like Sichuan numb taste chili oil vibes I'm going to add a little more absence to maybe give it some kick I wouldn't say that I'm hallucinating but when I'm looking at my Zoom screen here I see Jeff I see Mike and then I

see this green dragon, and he's beckoning me to his den of iniquities. It's funny with the hallucination thing. It's like, I feel like the common wisdom is, oh, there was an absent that you elucidate from, but you can't get in America. Yeah, that's what I had heard. That the answer is always a lie. but like that hasn't been like disproven in a fun and harsh way it's kind of like you when you look at wikipedia it's like well some people thought this and you're like well have the scientists not like officially debunk yeah doesn't seem like people care enough to look into this it was something wait i did it was like it had the same uh oh boy it had the same like um elementers or some type of compound right that was also found in a hallucinage in like mushrooms or something like that.

So it's like because of there was this one element that's, I don't know. But it should be definitive. It's, but it seems to me like, you're right. Like this day and age, we should be able to say what's happened. Get the myth busters on it. Have Trump do a special investigation. Right, but. Let's put this to bed once and for all.

This is put it to bed. Finally. In general, it feels like, because it is like a sexy drug thing, you would think someone will have gleefully myth busted it, but it doesn't seem like people really. of care. They're just like, it's just like, man. I feel like people will do it and are probably just like,

ooh, I feel embarrassed. I thought this was going to be something real. You feeling anything, man? No, not yet, man. Just sick, man. I mean, I had the classic in college, much like in high school when you like drink, you know, like a,

you had a non-alcoholic beer and act like you're all drunk or whatever. My weirdo philosophy major roommate Cliff, who was really into Ninthage Nails, ordered really expensive bottle of absence from Spain. We had it in our dorm. And I only drank one so I knew I wasn't getting enough to like hallucinate, but he drank like the whole bottle over the course of a week. And he was like, yeah, basically, it's very interesting. I was actually extra clear. Like my body was drunk, but my mind was clear. I was like, well, that sounds awful.

That sounds like the worst. To have a drunk body and a sober brain seems like torture. Also, I think that was just, he drank too much of a green liquid and he felt sick. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I had that same thing where like some college friend came back from abroad with a bottle from the place, I don't know, France or something. And we were like, you can't get the real stuff.

in the U.S., but this is the real stuff. And so we started really cautiously drinking it. Nothing happened. Kept drinking it. Nothing happened. And then the bottle was gone. And we had it like a mild buzz. Like we'd have three or four beers.

It was like, whatever, man. This is whack. Right. This sucks, man. We were supposed to get drunk. It's also weird to be like judging your hallucination while you're slowly getting drunker and drunker.

So you're drinking 110 proof liquor. And after like five of them being like, I might be starting to hallucinate. You're like, well, you wouldn't know. Now you're drunk. Do you know what the pink elephants thing? I mean, it's like a drunken hallucination, but why it's like,

well, this guy's seeing pink elephants. Yeah, I wonder. Think of it as an LSD thing. And there must have been like in, in Palo Alto, in 1967, one person must have seen a pink elephant, and I know we've just been talking about it ever since.

So, like, it's on a delirium tremens bottle. Yeah, I'm looking at the Wikipedia here. Seeing pink elephants is a euphemism for hallucinations caused by delirium tremens or alcoholic hallucinations, especially the former. The term dates back to the early 20th centuries emerging from earlier

idioms about seeing snakes and other creatures, alcoholic character in Jack London's 1913. novel John Barleycorn makes reference to hallucination of blue mice and pink elephants while describing these two. So, okay. That's crazy because Delirium Tremens is the shakes you get from not drinking alcohol when you're an alcoholic. So the withdrawal makes people see pink elephants. I thought acid made people see pink elephants when they're tripping. Or at least the fun part of drinking, like the drinking part, not the withdrawal part. Become an alcoholic for 20 years,

then stop and then you'll see pink elephants. I got to do all that to see one elephant. Yeah, I thought it was like you drink a lot. Like in Dumbo, that he like falls into a barrel and then the pink elephants. I was going to say, Dumbo falls into the barrel of ale. And then he starts seeing not just pink,

every color of elephant. Every neon. I guess it's less important if you yourself are an elephant and you see a pink elephant. Yeah, yeah. He was just seeing pink things. Pink me's. Okay, Dumbo.

now we know how I got your name. All right, what do you think? How would you do the... Go ahead, Jeff. You can do that part. No. Do we have to do a second round of this? I don't want to.

I don't want to do this. I mean, I'm going to keep sipping. I'm going to do my... I'm going to add more ice water to mine because I only put two ounces, so I'm going to put two more ounces so that it was a nice full guy. Okay, cool. All right, folks, we're going to doctor up these drinks. And when we come back, final thoughts.

Dacta, doc, give me the news. Doctor Strange And we're half on the beer We have on a beer Let me make a perfect thing Fucking And we're back With round two of absence

I just did an ice cube and a splash Of absence to freshen it up Um I added a bunch more water and I have an announcement to make which is this is absinth week on the podcast

yeah wicked black magic uh cursed uh uh behaviors of the cult

have we have we even talked about that's Alster Crowley used to drink this stuff and that he was an occult guy and that's what sort of spurred this whole thing right that because we all

yes okay good good back to Jed tip Tim What it seems to be when you drink such a wicked evil beverage that Tim's computer, this whole episode up until now, was not working right. So if any listeners were like, wait, Tim hasn't been speaking as 33%. He's full of absent. Tim's been sort of grumpy and distracted this whole episode fighting with his computer because of all sorts of computer issues

and you know what just happened? What? I solved the issue by I unplugged my big monitor and it was that it was my big monitor was slowing down the works for some reason.

So now I'm just on my laptop and everything's cut up so there's just no logic behind that. Hey, there's a new one for the Geeks Squad. No, the only explanation is that Alistair Crowley's favorite. It is wicked ways. Did you accidentally

maybe you dripped a drip of absinth into the computer it's so. Yes. And, but then I dripped some water through the sugar cube upon it as well. Damn, Tim, that really smoothed out. You really did solve it. Yep. Perfect. Hmm.

Okay. Monitor problems. Well, I guess it's time then for our ultimate fateful. Final thoughts. Vital thoughts. Tim, why you kick us off now as you're coming in smooth? Yeah. I mean, if I would have been reviewing this

even five minutes ago I would have said bad drink I'm sad but now I'm having a blast I love the drink I'm squawking it up on the pod I'll tell you this though this star anise type of licorice flavor is one of the most it's it's been the the not the boon but bust of the entire podcast experience four years into a podcast still we talked about it like on like week two but I'm like it's so disappointing to me the number of things that have this taste but I will say, as much as the taste of this drink does nothing for me, when I added more water to this, so it was two ounces of absent, one sugar cube and four ounces of water, it's diluted to the point where if it's like Halloween and I had some friends over for a weird night

and I used these glasses and accoutrement that I bought, appointment only and I would maybe do that, but like it's not a good drink, it's a bad. Kind and fair, man. Appointment only is the very best way to put it. And by that, the appointment has to be made by a professional cocktail maker who's spooky. And it's not doing, he's not doing like, as long as you have 30 bucks, you can come in. This is you have to be invited because it's a spooky. It's funny to be getting into the spooky stuff.

And it's really only September. Yes. The spookiest month. Yeah. Well, you know what comes right after September? is October. That's true. Come on.

Does October Halloween stuff has been out for months now? There's a funny thing that for any Angelino is listening to the pod.

I always call September my kind of like grumpiest time of year because a lot of the country is transitioning to fall and L.A. is just starting to really for real have a summer and it fucks with my brain.

That's the weirdest. Yeah, that is weird. It's awful. To be hitting 100 degrees when you see your New York friends having pumpkin spice lattes and wearing their sweaters and stuff. It makes me feel so weird. It sucks. It makes me feel disconnected from the rest of our country. It gives me body dysmorphia. And Jeff, the rest of the year, you feel locked in with the whole country. Jeff, you love, you like hot weather, though.

Hot weather. Yeah, I do. When I was texting before, I was like, how is New Hampshire? Like, it's awesome. It's 90 degrees. I love it. Yeah, it's true. But then I came back to L.A. and I was like, too hot man. I don't understand. All that hot weather stuff, Jeff. You got to get out of that weather, man. I tend to want the weather that we don't have.

So when it's hot, I'm like, ah, I wish I had a sweater. I could wish it was sweater weather and vice versa. It's been getting, yeah. We have had a few days of cold around here and it's been, ooh, nice. Seeing some crinkly leaves wishing around. Oh, a first crispy night or our first frosty morning.

Those are nice. Christopher would a frother me. I actually love hot weather. To me, it's just when the name of the month doesn't align. Like, you know, June is sort of cold and gray. June gloom. And then September is hot. And you're like, if we just renamed the month so that I can have a warm June, I'd be happy.

Yeah. California, get on the same page as the rest of the country. Gavin Newsome. I'm talking to you. Can I give my final thoughts? Oh yeah, mine was not ordering it. Damn. I like it okay just because I'm reaching the bottom of the glass.

I kind of feel like I'm warming up to it like Tim, but I do feel like for all that it's bringing to the table is the star in East good and plenty. I agree, Tim. This stuff haunts the recipe book in a way. I don't know what it's bringing. it's not worth it this is an unwelcome guest

it's got to be it's got to be just you're right jeff this this haunts the liquor cabinet the way john cina haunts comedies at the multiplex very similar very similar this feels like a drink that's like because of the lore of it and the

oh it'll make it trip is probably why it's popular I'm sure there's so many people who drink this are like yeah yeah I really like this. It's really good tasting, but it's like, I think you like the spoon pouring in the sugar and all the posers wearing a bunch of wings wearing a bunch of rings and a topette. Yeah, yeah, the pickup artist community probably loves their shit. It really is the pickup artist guys. But what is it about like, it's so weird with the context that you bring to a drink where it's like this taste, especially

with the water and the sugar cube, this tastes exactly, exactly like Sambucah, exactly like like Uzo. So, so like, the idea that this one is wicked and sinister, whereas like Sambuca is like, oh, I just ate a lot of pasta and I'm supposed to my family. And I'm feeling sinister. Oh, it's the traditional Greek. We love it. They each have their own unique origins, but they arrived at the same destination. What are we doing with this star in East? We don't eat it. Right. And it's like, if absent were the only one, because I think that's its like main flavor, then it's fine. But like, then why are these other liquors? using anise i think that all the anise of the world should be rounded up and disposed of

well wow a harsh adjudication of absinth here on pod we should look into who the anise farmers are though they're fucking up our life growing little stars for every fucking thing oh well hey take heart absinth is behind us good great now we turn our attention to The Black Magic Quiz. Whoa! Yes, folks, it's the Black Magic Quiz here on the pod. Wow. I begin with a quote from English author, Alan Moore.

There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. Magic in its earliest descriptions is often referred to as the art. I believe this is completely literal. I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture or any other form is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words, or images to achieve changes in consciousness. Indeed, to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change people's consciousness. And I believe that this is why

an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world that you are likely to see to a shaman. Ooh, I like that. That's exciting. I would say this podcast is even sort of magical. Go ahead, yeah. Yeah, it's funny because when he said that, podcast weren't out yet. They weren't out.

I can only assume that if they were, they would be right up in there. Yeah, he'd like them too. Who was that quote from? Alan Moore, writer of Watchman, V for Vendetta, from hell, Swamp Thing, and Kinney. Beloved others. The Sultan of Geek shit is.

Did he do a Batman too? Yeah, he did. He did the killing joke from my friend. The killing joke. That's right. The killing joke. But he's to be very esteemed on this night. Sure.

Question number one. In The Nightmare Before Christmas. Sally uses this ingredient to poison Dr. Finkelstein. It is named after a class of vegetable. Oh, damn. It is called. All the root marm? No.

Oh, dying nightshade. Mike? Wilting nightshade? I'll give it to you. Deadly nightshade. Ah, deadly nightshade. I'll give it to him too.

That's very impressive. And he, yes. Okay, good, good. Okay, so nightshades, do we know what nightshades are? No. Sunglasses. Tomato, eggplant, even tobacco. And it refers to how the plants prosper

in the night. Oh. And in the shade. Mike, that point is for you. Thank you. Here's looking at you, Mike. Question number two, you want to speak to the dead? A Ouija board won't get you very far unless you have one of these little pointers. Planchette. Oh, Tim. Wait a minute. Somebody saw Digman recently. Somebody's been watching Digman season two. Folks, if you didn't get that one, you ain't watching Digman. that's so funny because I knew it was from something recently

I was like I just heard this fucking thing that exchange was the funniest most Neil Campbelly like every character runs in the room and knows the word knows the word and being like yes of course we know the word I'm telling swooper that

man that's very funny there's a lot of jokes on season two that's uh digman like showing off his vocabulary yeah

I like that Rip himself has gotten more obnoxious in season, too. He's kind of like, hey, saltine. Well, it's funny. It's such a great contrast that he just like sounds like a, like a Nick Cage, like Hick. Right. Like a dumbass. But then he also knows a lot of intelligent words and talks a lot in like really elegant ways. He knows them but needs to step on it when it's like it's a risk of fish or like a murder of crabs.

And then he turns to camera and says, those are all the rat words, you know. But I like, Jeff, you saying, if you didn't know that one, you haven't been watching season two of Digman, like that's, we're trying to root out who out there in the, who of the seven billion people on earth is not watching season two of Digman. Question number three here on the quiz.

This member of the pussy posse, can hold his breath a really long time. Hmm. Um, um, um, hold his breath a really long time. Decapreo? No. Um, wait, is this? This member of the pussy Pussy can hold his breath for a really long time.

Toby McGuire? Come on. We talked about this. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's not the guy that got killed by his car. That would be dark. Uh-uh. Okay. No points awarded here on the quiz.

David Blaine. Ah, the Blainester. Very good. The Blainester. I forgot he was part of the Pussy Pussy. I don't really know the Pussy Pussy. I know you did. I know if you didn't, you'd have got the point, my.

You're saying that like you should be. It's okay. I didn't know the answer that one. No, I didn't know that. Jeff, don't count that. We didn't know it. Well, this was interesting. David Blaine set the world record for oxygen-assisted

static apnea in 2008. What that means is that they take a deep breath of pure oxygen and it enables you... Which is liquid, right? Oh, is it? No, I don't think so. That's fucked up. But in 2008, his record was 17 minutes, four seconds.

Wow. And he doesn't have it today. Folks, currently 29 minutes, three seconds. Shattering. From Croatian free diver, Vitamir Marich. Wow. Moving on with the quiz. Number four, here on the quiz, here on the pod.

This enchantress practically made a musical genre out of scars, heartbreak, and witchiness. And now, Whispers in the Winds suggests resurrection for her ill-fated band. No, Michael. Illfated band. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kate Bush. No. Ill-fated.

What band was ill-fated? Oh, they just broke up. That's all that is. Oh. They didn't die. Garbage. No doubt. Wait, what was that, Mike?

Garbage. No. This enchantress practically made a musical genre out of scarves, heartbreak, and witchiness. Ah, the woman from rumors. Yes, Michael. Fleetwood Macs, Stevie Nix. There you go. I got to give it to Tim.

He said the words sooner. I got to. And did you guys see that on Instagram? Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nix You know Sort of referenced each other Is this just for the remaster of 73s Buckingham Nix or is it something more

Seems they've made peace We're waiting to find out That's a whole thing I know they had like problems and fights and stuff But I don't know anything about Like Fleetwood Mac so I only know like Oh yeah they were sleeping with everybody But I don't know the the fights and the splits and stuff

I've followed it and it's like They waited too long and this means nothing to me Like, I love these people, but you're, like, trotting them out in their 80s to be like, we're back to get out now. We put our differences aside. Like, I certainly don't want to hear any music they make. If they were just, like, friends again, that would be nice. Question number five here on the quiz.

A male witch is sometimes referred to as a... Warlock. Bitch. Warlock. Mike, I was looking for warlock. Tim, the term witch. is gender neutral. So how to play this one. He didn't say which. What'd you say, Tim? Um, I said, uh, warlock. What did you say? He said the B word. Can we hurry this up, please?

Jesus Christ. No, we can't hurry this up. We're only a couple questions in to the... Come on. We've been out here forever. I'm trying to get out of here. You got other plans? Yes. I got to play four-night and sleep. Yeah, I got to meet you there, man. Number six here on the quiz. Yes. You're in the pod. in Haitian voodoo folklore Hold on Mike you're the sole point winner on that last one

Number six though Number six In Haitian voodoo folklore A witch doctor might use Poisonous Powder To turn people into these Known for their submissive Translike state

Zombies Zambi I wouldn't mind watching a boover About some of those zombies Now that's the traditional definition The Tradish definition. The Tritishy Definishy. Going into number seven here on the quiz here on the pod,

known as the wickedest man in the world. This English occultist wrote the book of the law. Alistair Crowley. Ooh, that's a dead tie if I've ever heard one. How about this for a bonus? What's the name of the religion he made? Phelma. Phelma and Louise.

I can't give you points for that. But I got the bonus what I made. up. When you say he's the wickedest, is it just his vibe or was he killing people? What was his deal? No, he wasn't killing people, but he's a weird guy. He was a controversial. He was twisted in the head. He's a twisted figure, a sinister man. Say no more. Alistair's sinister. Say no more. The book of the law in 1904, which urges do what thou wilt. That's like the first commandment over there at Telemah. Now, it is not a command to act hedonistically, no, no, but an instruction to discover and follow one's true will or true spiritual purpose in life as a path to spiritual fulfillment.

Very interesting stuff from the wickedest man. The wicked winch of the west. Number eight, one of Crowley's disciples was this prolific chemist and rocket engineer, a founder. Parsons. Oh, fuck, Tim, very good.

Pasadena zone. Founding member of the Jet Propulsion Lab in California. Yeah, that's right. Wow.

Subject of the show, Strange Angel, which I haven't seen. No, me either. Strangely. I just know that it was, that guy's always been interesting to me

because he's like a scientist, but he's into that shit. So, like, you really think he was on to something, you know, if there was any, ever going to be someone

to make me believe in the paranoid. Como. Do you be really? It would be like a JPL scientist. I'm right there with you to you. Thank you. Now, it is Michael Hanford with four points and Tim Calpacchus with three points.

Now, the funniest thing, we're heading into the final question. This one is worth a deliciously dastedly two points. Ooh, Jeff, you're as wicked as out of his second self. This is wicked. Number nine, the final question. So we went from Alistair Crowley to Jack Parsons, right? No. Number nine, this business partner of Jack Parsons stole a large sum of his money,

ran off with his girlfriend, Sarah, and with her help, published his book, Dianetics, the modern science of mental love. Timothy won the fucking Blackmagic quiz. I did not know that. That's amazing. Repeat what that was, Jeff. That was Al Ron Hubbard ran away with who's white with...

Stole Jack Parsons' girlfriend. By the way, Jack Parsons' girlfriend was his wife's sister. Oh. Huh. Interesting. The three, Jack, the girlfriend, and Ron live together for a short time in 1945 where they practice sex magic intended to summon the reincarnation of a goddess.

Oh, a goddess. So that's, I learned about Jack Parsons on the, like, esoteric creepy tours in Pasadena, like I was on a bus that went to his house. And that's what's funny. He was kind of like a hunky dude that had these sex parties. And he was like a rich scientist and into all this shit. But I didn't know El Ron Hubbard was involved at all. Is this girlfriend that he stole?

Does that end up being Amy Adams and the master? I don't think. I was disappointed by, um, That the master wasn't one-to-one Elron Hubbard. Right. They didn't get into, like, all that occult shit in the master. But there was a wink to, like, this, like, dominating wife who was pulling strings from behind the scenes, kind of, yeah. That does make sense.

Yeah. Because I think she had more to do with the birth of Dianetics than they'll tell you. Creepiness abides. Dianetics. that's our show follow us on social media at the sloppy boys where we release these recipes ahead of time and if you can't get enough boys it's patreon.com slash the sloppy boys that's where the real shit's going down we had some good ones in the last couple weeks folks you got to pay the five check it out that's a good show I love that show and you know what

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