The Sloppy Boys - 261. Appletini

Episode Date: October 17, 2025

The guys bravely defy societal norms and tackle the much-mocked sissy drink from the '90s/2000s.APPLETINI RECIPE:1.5oz/45ml VODKA 1.5oz/45ml PUCKER SOUR APPLE.5oz/15ml SOUR MIX Add ingredients into a shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with Granny Smith apple slice.Recipe via the 1990s Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey guys, this is Milan Patel, the editor of the pod. And today, the guys wanted me to address something a little serious. And that is that the guys are going on tour. That's right, folks. The band is playing live, and they're also mixing in a few live podcast recordings. So check out these dates. On October 17th, they're going to Philadelphia to play at Milk Boy. October 19th, Boston, Massachusetts, Middle East upstairs.

October 21st, Portland, May. Oxbow Brewing. October 22nd, Hamden, Connecticut at Space Ballroom. October 23rd, Woodstock, New York at Colony. October 24th. Amherst, Massachusetts at The Drake. Is that it? No, there's more.

On November 4th, they're doing a live podcast recording in Denver, Colorado at the Gothic Theater. Then November 6th, they're playing some music in Minneapolis at Zora Darling. November 7th, Milwaukee, at X-ray Arcade. Then it's two shows. count them two shows on November 8th in Chicago at Beat Kitchen. Okay, now we're definitely done. No, there's more. November 9th, Indianapolis at Black Circle Brewing. November 11th, Columbus, Ohio, Rumba Cafe. November 12th, Pittsburgh at Craft House. Then it's a live podcast recording on November 13th. It's two shows in Cincinnati, Ohio. That's at Commonwealth. November 14th, Detroit,

Michigan at Logger House. Then finally, on November 15th, it's a live podcast recording in Lansing, Michigan at Greywall Hall. You can get tickets at the sloppy boys.com. These days, everything's online. And I guess those are all the dates that I had to tell you about, except no, I'm also going on tour. That's right, folks. I'm going to be touring the East Coast on my Beast Coast Roar. On November 2nd, I'm going to be in Brooklyn, New York at Union Hall doing my variety show, Milan Patelan Enemies. Mike Hanford's going to be on that show. November 3rd, I'm going to be in Boston

headlining city winery. November 4th, I'm in Philadelphia at Philomoka. And then finally, on November 5th, I'm going to be in Washington, D.C., headlining the D.C. Comedy loft. And you can get those tickets, you guessed it, online at milan Patelcom.com.

You can also find that ticket link on my Instagram. Well, that's enough of the seriousness for today. Let's just kick back, relax, and enjoy some comedy from our three favorite podcast hosts. Hey folks, welcome with The Sloppy Boys, where we take a deep dive into the drinks that you love. I'm Jeff Dutton along with Michael Hanford. Hello, Jeff.

And Timothy Calpacus. What he is up? Oh, and we're your host, The Sloppy Boys, packing our bags and tuning our guitars. It's oiling. I'm oiling up the amps. We're actually on the road right now, folks. We're on the road.

Yeah. It's true that we're currently on the road and you can see us at your local rock venue. But did you guys also know what is special about today's episode? I know what is up. Special about today's episode. Hmm. This is our fifth anniversary special. Oh!

Oh, oh, no. Yes. Our first episode was October 22nd, 2020. Wow. The Tom Collins, and this episode drops on the 17th, so it's anniversary week. Get out of there in the streets and have a parade, everybody. Five years.

That's pretty exciting. Ding, ding, ding. So what did you guys get me? I got you five cups. Oh, five we should. do a five cups. The five cups. Oh, we should reach to, let's just put on the five cups episode again this month. Folks, there it is, the five cups episode. I would like a booze news mashup where somebody takes David Bowie five years and makes it about our anniversary.

Oh, I'd like that too. Five years. And we all did shots. That's a line right there, folks. You can, whoever's going to tackle that. Or make it your own. That's fine. You don't have to do what Mike says. Yeah, make it your own, but that's just something. That's a wonderful song. One of my favorite Bowie songs. And you know what it conjures when I think of it? Riding in Hanford's Accura Integra. You had to Ziggi start a CD back in the day.

Riding in Hanford's. Running in Hanford's Integra. That was a good car. That was Accura, Integra, 99. Ooh, I cruised in that thing, didn't that? That thing was good, but it got stolen a lot, didn't it? Well, I got broken into once and stolen once. Maybe broken into twice.

yes you had a club on there I had the club that was after I got stolen I got the club you should have had it before he got stole yeah it was yeah that's what the guy club dot com said to me hey speaking old cars Tim my favorite old car moment

and this is this is the sloppy boy's old car moment brought to you by pet boys do a little jalopy sound there out of me it's time for old car moments when we found we moved to the old house and we found like an old big screen TV

you're like you know not not flat screen like a thick deep boy like washed out projection screen yeah that's right and uh god it must have been like 60 inch or something huge and uh we found it on the street with a piece of paper on it that said works and so we took tim's old labaron is uh it's like wine colored labaron over down the street convertible convertible and then hoisted it into the back seat where it filled it and so like just the screen

was like poking up it just sat there like it was a person and it looks like when the flintstones pick up the ribs yeah and i looked like fred And I ate dinner like him that night, too. But it looked like a parade float driving down the street. We, like, rode with Tim. It was just in our block, but we rode with Tim, then we loaded it. And then he drove it back and we walked behind it, I think, just to make sure it wasn't going to fall out. That was funny looking.

Then we got that TV in our living room. We were so proud of it. We watched a TV on a forever. But the problem was we immediately realized it had been used as like a security camera monitor. So there were quadrants. burned into it like if you leave up the same video thing on a screen for too long so you could be you'd be watching we were probably watching uh flight of the concords but if you kind of squint you could see that there was like four surveillance cameras yeah and like the outline of a pool in like

the bottom right corner it was a like cam one like patio cam and stuff so wait what what house was it was it stephan marbury's house or was it some other richie rich house i think he would have had a fancier tv even in his garbage than that one yes right. That was probably some old guy. Yeah, it was further down than that. But yeah, I mean, like, Fredonia drive is where a lot of, like, old Hollywood guys would have ended up. So it could, it could have been like, you know, Dick Cavett. I brought a TV to the Fredonia. I think my, my TV was the one that got replaced. Was it gray? It was a little gray one, right? It was a gray Phillips, a little gray Phillips, but it was like, you know, it had component in, which at the time was

very crisp. I think it ended up in, uh, Chris's rub? lucky guy I think you're right lucky guy because we got into we got an old Nintendo 64 out and start playing Mario Go Kart

and that was on or Mario Kart and that was on the big screen TV and that was like the best night of my life I like this for our fifth anniversary we're reminiscing about things

happened 20 years ago that's what they say on your 20th you look five years that's what you do opposite I was going to share it. My favorite old car moment is when

my next car, the green Honda, it broke down right in front of the Los Felas Library, where Leonardo DiCaprio grew up back in was a duplex. So I was waiting for AAA to come in front of my broken ass Honda Civic, and this was at the time that the birthday boys show

was on IFC, so I was a big TV star. So I'm standing there with my shitty civic broken down on the side of the road in a guy who goes by, rides by and goes, love the show. Just seeing me the most compromised vulnerable. My Honda Civic doesn't work. Ooh, I had a really cool getting recognized moment the other day.

I was in the subway. It was busy. So it was kind of like on the platform, people are walking by. You get a $5 foot long? Get a $5. Yeah, get a foot long. No, I'm walking up some stairs and like a bunch of people walking the other way. And so I just hear some guy go, hey, man.

And I go, hey, just kept walking. But it was funny. I didn't see who said it. I liked your little episode recently where you were staying with me. And you kept seeing your friend Charles Gould out in the world. And one time we drove by, you were in my T-Bird and we drove past him and you went, Charles Gould. And then another time you were borrowing my T-Bird and you were like, Charles Gould. And he was like, he told people like, there's like this car following me around.

Yeah, because he must live in your neighbor. They know my full name, my full government name. And I was like, at the second time I saw him like, you go into Nick and Claire's party? Because there was a party that night. He's like, yeah. I don't know who you are. I was like, at the party, I was like, Charles, well, you need to respond to me correctly. He's like, I didn't know it was you.

Hey, see, speaking of spottings, guess who I saw today? Who? Tim and Mookie on a walk. Oh, boy. Walking up. Getting your steps in, I see. Just cresting Los Felas Boulevard. And you were driving or were you on foot?

I was driving. I was going to take a picture and I was like, ah, I got stuff to do. It was too late. I don't have one 24th of a second. I've spotted you more often than even that. I would say maybe once every other month I see a flitting glance of Tim. You got to compile a dossier.

a dossier of his looks out and about looks. Jeff, we'll dive into this more on this week's blow-o, but I think I saw you at the supermarket the other day, and I, from the back, I was like, no, that can't be, Jeff, this guy's, that guy's really tall. That's in the

supermarket. I was like, look at this tall, tall, skinny guy. That's not Jeff. And then I had another look. I was like, I think that is, Jeff. But you struck me as very tall and skinny from the back. Hey, abs by advent for you, man. I am skinnier, but I'm not any taller. But I think you have lost weight, so just know you're out there.

It reads to the world as height. Great. I've gotten to the gym two times this week so far. And guys, it's the reminder. Every single time I put in a little bit of effort, I feel better. I go, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I have to work out to feel good. I should do that more.

It's a bummer that you hit that point where it's just like, this isn't just bonus. It's required. Yeah. But it is a bummer because, Jeff, because I always forget it. That's the bummer in my mind. Yeah. Because I'm dumb. And I find that it's tougher to start.

Like, I'm so good when I've got like three or four days in a pattern. But those first like one, two, three days, I'm like, oh, I'd rather do anything else. You know what's a big part of the gym for me that's a tough barrier is going there. When you go there just like once a week, you're like, I feel like a stranger here. I feel like I'm in people's way. If you're there three days at a row, you feel like, oh, yeah, I'm not an idiot. Who doesn't know how to use any of this stuff?

You're in my way, actually. Yeah. Tim, you don't like the weights, but you're a big cardio man, huh? Yeah, here's where I struggle with the weights. There's nothing wrong with wanting to look toned and fit and toned and toned. Yeah. But it is so funny, like, that weight training, like, is for looks, right?

Because, like, I don't know. You tell me, but like but well how often are you using your strength in the real world i guess is my every day all the time yeah fucking mega man you're mashing those buttons down i'm looking to play a wolvering sometime soon tim so i'm uh beefing up for that i think that when i work out i'm thinking about my heart and my blood pressure and the length of my life i'm i'm not really thinking about being a hot guy i already have sort of like a hot fat guy thing going on so i'm just going to stick with

that you don't want to get in the way of that oh yeah you're fine i'm in this weird world of is he fat is he thin would you tell us would you pick one it's it's a it's a it's a joke a stand-up joke that besser had a long time ago he's like he's like what's going on here a skinny guy he's like he's fat and skinny at the same time i'm fat and thin at the same time skinny at the same time skinny limbs fat gut uh mike you you called it out once i called me like yeah i got that Grinch Bond. Oh, yeah. But Tim, the thing I've learned, the thing that

the trainer at the gym I was at who was canceled told me is that weight training is good because you're burning fat and calories after the workout. Like when it's cardio, you're only burning it while you're going. If you're breaking down all those muscle fibers, your body's working afterwards

when you're not. It's like the healing process from the soreness is good. Yeah, you get this time release. I got to make my workout work for me. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Shit. That's what we've been saying, man. I guess I have this thing, my hang up with, like, good God, they're coming for me in the DMs after I say this, but I'm going to say it anyway, because I'm brave.

As a man who's never been a member of a gym other than to just use the parking at golds or never worked out in a gym. My Instagram field feed gets a lot of, just because I'm a man, I get a lot of gym bro stuff. get a lot of guys eating off of cutting boards that have stakes and why is it cutting boards and avocado and eggs and guys just eating egg or like have you seen that teenage boy who's like

he's sad yes he's the raw milk kid oh what says he's a little muscle guy he's like a young muscle boy he's like 16 and he's like I don't go on dates I don't drink I eat I don't sleep around I don't sleep around oh

you may have said with me one of those chefs yeah Christian is like a Christian. He's a, he's like a faith guy. He's so, he's so preachy and like negative about it being like, here's what I do, but it's weird because you're like, dude, he's in college. He's 18 and he looks like he's 12. So it's like whatever you're doing might be like stunting your, your glands, man. Like he's fucking himself up maybe. Yeah. I don't like to comment on the appearance of a boy, but he's legal. Well, here's my issue, not necessarily. Oh, yeah, I guess, yeah, necessarily with him. Um, I think it's awesome. to be shredded. I think it's awesome to have be in good shape and to be hot, hot, hot and major strength. But I do, I still have this need to think that you then

live a life with those things. And I know a lot of men who if, to me it's like if you wear the under armor every day, if you wear basketball shorts and underarmers like tank tops like that's what you wear and then your personality

is talking about your diet and your gym thing. you forgot the cool part of being in good shape, which is like going out and live in a life. And like, hey, you know, you're hot. If you also had the slightest bit of fashion sense, you could dress well. And like, if you wanted to date women,

you could talk to them about things other than your diet. You know, like get some hobbies and then you'll be the fully formed man. It quickly becomes a substitute for a personality, which is not good. Not for Jeff and I, though. We've balanced it just nicely, and we can talk about the arts. We can talk about the gridiron. I think you guys only talk about protein and reps and sets.

Oh, and the bard, and the bard. And the bard, and the bar, which is getting the amount of weights I put on stuff to the left. Well, we talk more about our health this week on the blowout. Check it out, folks. Where I get a colonoscopy. I'll take you through the whole thing. Very interesting topic for listeners. You're going to want to subscribe.

dot com slash the sloppy boys only five dollars a month before we move on to boo's news can i i wrote a little something down that i wanted to bring to you guys and and because we're a band i want to prove to the audience this doesn't prove we're a band but we think about musical stuff don't absolutely oh yes now you guys you know the song uh uh uh um what's what's the song that plays right before we are the champions we will rock you yes we will rock you same track you've only if you if you hear that on the on the radio. You've always heard that and it goes right into We Are the Champions. It's funny. I always knew those from the Mighty Ducks

2 soundtrack where both are included but they don't do the linkage. They don't. So this is what I was going to say, Jeff. I was listening to my Apple music or whatever. We Will Rocky plays and it gets out to the big huge solo

at the end. It's awesome. And then it stops and it doesn't go into We Are the Champions because it's a mix and it goes into, it felt so strange. I was like, what? This is a weird vibe. So is it like they're different tracks but they're right after each other on the album? Yeah, I think like you always

just hear those together, almost as if they're one single track. And the song they played instead was that Who song that's like, uh, it's the Eminens fun. It's a put on. Yeah, funky, funky who. Oh yeah. It's like, yeah, the Eminence front, I think they're saying.

It's a put on. But yeah, it's like the who from the 80s. It's a put on. And I was just like, well, look, there's a time in place for that song, but it ain't right now, Apple. And I can't believe, I can't believe these companies who are touting that they're so fucking smart. Yeah, that's fucked. So this is your Spotify, Mike, or Apple? This is, yeah, Apple music. I'm off the classic rock.

It's funny to me that you listen to that stuff because I've, I just from 12 to 35, I listen to all that music's too much. and like it just sounds like the way that water tastes or that air breathes it's just around well I've noticed that like with my classic rock I get enough of it just out in the world you know what I mean like yeah

you don't need to seek it out it's just sort of the soundtrack of the world anyway so when it comes time for you to press play you don't got to press play on that stuff it's I think it's coming from my I've been in an Elton John mood I've been listening to Mona Lisa's and Matt Hatter's and that's I've been kind of having that

loop over you Trump likes Elton John. No, wait, no, he doesn't. He does.

He does. Can you imagine? Oh, really? I can't imagine him liking any, putting him any song on.

I saw a great interview with him pre-presidential race, the first one, where he was saying that he was, whatever, diagnosed as very musically gifted, and that for a short time, he played the flute,

and that his father talked him out of all that stuff, which is not surprising. Yeah, makes sense. but wait, as far as songs going into other songs, what's the Green Day song that goes into the other song?

D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D. Justin Andrew Reynolds. And it ends with... Oh, no, it goes into Badoom-Bum-B-B-B-A-R is one of them. Well, Badoom- Boom, Boom, Boom was a single. J-A-R was not. Well, what's the... J-A-Rs for Mangus.

No, I know, but they do connect, I think. Weirdly. Yeah, I like that when a song tease-up to next one. That's fun. Oh, way, I just heard a good version of that and it is nope, forgot it. But I like that when you, sometimes you'll even use the last five seconds of a song specifically

to tee up the next one and I like that. Oh yeah. Yeah. Hey folks, Dutz here with the Campbell's clarification. The two Green Day songs are brain stew into jaded. That's off insomniac. Ooh, and Tim just sort of teed up like that. Like we thought he was going to tell something in my head and he didn't say it in my head

I was like, it's a put on. It's a boon. God, you're, I'm a real eminence front. It's a put on. God, the Who, that's weird. I love Pete Townsend, but the Who can be really stupid sometimes, huh? The whom. The whom. All right, can we get us

in some booze news, please? Bip, Bip, Bibbibbib, booze news, hit it. Tim Calpicus. Tim Calpacus. Tim Calpacus. Tim Calpacus. Tim Calpacus. Done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done. Thank you.

Tim Calpacus. Tim Calpacus. Tim Calpacus. Tim Calpacus. Dun, done, done, done, done, done. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Talk about Brian and going to. It's been the stairs. Tim Calpicus was sent to us by Paige Reagan, a.k.a. Pagan Rage. And if you have a booze news team email to the sloppy boys podcast at gmail.com. That's good. Paige Reagan, we met down in Raleigh just recently. How are you? Hi, Paige. Hi, Paige. Pagan Rage. That was a good name. That was cool. That reminded me of, uh, because the night belongs to heaven. because the night belongs to Judd's.

Did somebody do that or did you guys come up with that? No, we came up with that. We came up with that on tour. But that's Tim, that would be Tim singing about. Me passionately seeing the way. I'm staying back at the motel because the night belongs to. Yeah, I picture,

I picture Tim singing that as Jeff and I walk out of the room, I'd go separate ways like this way it belongs to Hamper, this one, it belongs to Dots. They're not coming together, but damn, good for them. That's a passionate song. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Written by Bruce Springsteen for Patty Smith. That's what it is.

Tim, how are we feeling about the Bruce Springsteen movie? Excited? My, the feelings are so complicated. You couldn't even, it's like, remember last year when that movie Saturday night came out? Yeah, right. The S&Ls. Yes. I saw it with Mugi, and we walked out, and I was like,

let's not talk about it. I know I just have too many opinions, and if I start, it won't even ever stop. So with this Springsteen movie, it's just, I could either not talk or I could talk for a thousand years. You're going to see it, right? Are you interested to see it?

Yes, for sure. I might even make you guys see it with me on tour. We should do it for this. It should be a blowout. Come on. If we have like a dead day out on tour, we should see it. Oh, no dead days on tour.

But yeah, we just see it. What about a, I remember we saw a complete unknown together. We had a whole blowout about it. And I was, I was shocked how much I like that one. Yeah, that was fun. Well, this is similarly using one chapter of an artist's life rather than a full biopic. Oh, that must be like the new like biopic formula. It's more, it makes sense.

It's smarter than to try and like just like take an actor or take a musician and put them over the hero's journey. They all have the same. story. When you watch Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocket Man back to back, you're like, why do I watch both? Why did they both write Bohemian Rhapsody? Maybe I only saw the one movie twice. That's Boozsne's team.

That's Seth Myers and Andy Sandberg from the Lonely Island and Seth Myers podcast. They mentioned me in an episode about the MTV Awards, but folks, go listen to the episode about the naked gun. I did a voice, I sent in like a 90-second voice note and they played it on the show and talked. Awesome.

That's cool. Wait, wait a minute. Wait, hold on a second. Because Akiva directed, right? Well, they had talked about me in the previous week about the MTV Awards, but they bumped my voice note. So then they kick off the next episode

with my voice. I'm talking about my experiences at the MTV Awards. That's great. I can spin a yarn. So that was Seth Meyer saying Calpacus? But who, so who's saying Dutton Hanford? So it's also Seth Meyer saying Dutton because there was a writer in the room. I forget his first name.

He was a three-name writer and his last name was Dutton. Oh, fuck. There was somebody, Haskell fucking put my name in, in Fallon's mouth. Yes. Yeah. At one point. He was just like, yeah, sometimes I do that. I'll just like, take somebody.

name and hope that the bit like finds them out in the world but he's like hey check this out this is for my friend Jeff Dutton I was like what the fuck to just come across it it didn't make it to air

but when we wrote for the Emmys there was a commercial on the day we banged out a bunch of commercials Neil wrote one that Andy Sandberg did that was like September 20th it's not only the day

or he goes September 20th it's not just Donna Kelpacus his birthday. It's also the primetime Emmys on ABC. Give me a break. We shot it and we turned it in like we sent it to the network. Oh my God.

That was, that's cool. But I clipped it out and sent it to my mom and she was excited. I don't think she knew Andy Sandberg was at the time. What? Wasted. She's more of a Jake Peralta guy, not as much of a dick in the box guy.

Right. Okay. That's what I was, that's why I was like, what? Because she's seen all. of Berklin 99, I thought. Okay, so for today's booze news, this is fun. I brought in two Instagram videos that I want to show to you, two viral clips, and they're very similar. They're both things that people have forwarded to me

that are like mash-up drinks that someone has made that went a little bit viral. You texted this or I'm not seeing it in the chat here. It's coming in. Here comes the first one in your in the chat. Okay, here we go. This first video comes to us from Emmy McSwain and

hit it. Here's a hack they don't want you to know. This is Coors Banquet and what? Diet Coke. Kind of good. Why? Why is it good? Dude, it's good.

It's so good. Oh, it's good. It's like more refreshing than a beer. All right, that's great. Yeah, that kind of reminds it's a little bit like the Duolipa Diet Coke. She put jalapeno and pickles juice in there, which we never tried. Maybe dry January, get into that.

I think I could see that. We know that we've learned that the Cincinnati cocktail is beer and seltzer. Seltzer? Yeah. But. Can't say I'm looking forward to that one. Oh, there was also Tom Hanks was on Colbert in the last year. And he made champagne and Diet Coke.

and that went viral. Interestingo. Okay, so that is... Hanks, come on. That is interesting drink, Max, number one. The next one comes to us from an influencer named Very Good Drinks on Instagram. Oh, that's fun. And, uh, booge.

Booge. I have texted you guys three. Two, one, watch. Fango. Fango orange, soda from Michigan. And Angastura Bitters, Ango, Fango.

Oh, wow, she's been in Angasura. Ooh, and lemon and orange. I like that there's ICP music. Oh, and she squeezed lemon in there too. This is, it's like a girl in the woods in Michigan Pins. Oh, that looks good. She's got one of those long ice cubes in it. too. Yeah.

That, I like that. I mean, think about it. In an old fashion, you have Angostura bitters and then you express an orange on top. So we've had versions of that. I can see that being good. Yeah. It's got your sweet. It's got your sweet, but it's also got your bitter. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you got me there, Tim. It has a lot. Two of the five cups. Two of the five cups.

Ooh. I feel like both of these. are worth trying. I feel like the fago is fango, fango is more likely to be like surprisingly good words. I think I know what Coors and diacoke is, but they act like

there was some alchemy, I don't know. Coors is, and the Diet Coke one is interesting to me because that's a beer that's very, got a distinct taste, but it's pretty watery, you know, a light chivalry type beer. I mean, banquet's heavier than the light, but still, it's that Colorado

water coming through. And then Diet Coke is just I don't drink Diet Coke's a lot So my every time I have one I'm like oh this is a weird taste So two That could be fun It could be fun

Me neither I wonder like People who drink Diet Coke Are cuckoo for it Like I think it truly is addictive Something about like the aspartame Nutrisate whatever whatever they're doing It's a big like businessmen's

Yeah Stock guy drink I just Yeah And like workout ladies and stuff Do you know the writer I think you guys know her. Jen DeAngelo? Yes.

She referred, I heard her once call, like is everyone in, you know, people in offices drink Diet Coke, cans of Diet Coke, but she will drink a red can of original Coke and she calls it the Hollywood Power Move. In like a room of TV writers, if there's one person with a red can, you're like, whoa, you're confident. You're drinking a lot of sugar. Full strength Coke. Wow.

You don't care what your dentist says. That's wild. Okay, well, these are, I happen to know a podcast that is going to Denver where Coors is made and Michigan, Lansing, Michigan, where they're in Figo. So I don't know, but also let me close out Boos News by saying that, uh, tonight, the Sloppy Boys Band is playing in Philadelphia. No. And then on the 19th, we're in Boston. The 21st were in Portland, Maine. And then it's going to be Hamden, Connecticut, Woodstock, New York, Amherst, Mass, Denver, Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Detroit, Lansing.

Go to our Instagram, buy tickets to those shows. Ooh. We are road dogs through and through. Hey, Mike, you've got, wait, wait, Mike's got some booze news. I've got a few things. We can call this, well, this is almost like a show and tell. I brought in two items I want to show you guys, and they, they're going to be very appropriate for this podcast. Now, my parents were just in town, and my mom came on by, and she gave me one of these.

It's a B-52 shot in a sealed shot glass. So what we got here, a B-52 shot is a real shot. I've seen the B-52 on the menu at the Venice Room. I don't know what it is. Oh, really? Yeah. It's, let's see, it is coffee, this has coffee-flavored cream liqueur and orange-flavored liqueur, split in half by some plastic

and then I'll rip the top off and they'll mix and we'll see how that tastes. Which one's creamy? The coffee side is cream to me? The beige, the beige. Oh, the beige is creamy? Okay. The real recipe is Kalua Bailey's Irish cream

and Grand Monty. So this is... Ooh, that sounds kind of cool. Kind of like that jelly donut shot that I found at the rustic. Mike, go for it. So I've got to put my like mouth right in the middle of this

divider here and try to Mix them both. At the same time. Yeah, you kind of turn it sideways, so you're getting everything all at once. I think he can manage it. Yeah, here we go. Let's give it a whirl. Ow.

Down the hatch, baby. Well, how's the taste? Oh, that's good. That's very good. What flavor comes to the forefront? It tastes to me like you ever have those orange around Christmas time, those orange chocolate. Yeah. One of those.

Yeah, not my thing. Actually, when I was a kid, I hated those. They were fun to smash them, but then I never wanted to eat it. Yeah. I was expecting a very, like, I was expecting a very chemically taste just because this is like a really producing. Well, that was like a weird, like peel top. It was like a giant thing of like a half and a half or a coffee made. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Now, I will say I'm experiencing quite a bit of throat burn here, like an antacid. Acid reflux. Oh, you need an antacid. See, now you want the acid to flux. You don't want it to re-flux. If it fluxes once, great. You eat Pepsiid.

Pepsi, AC. Yeah. Probably a sponsor on this tour. You know what I miss that was orange juice? They don't really have them anymore, but I saw them in a movie, and I can't remember the movie. They're little paper cartons that look like orange juice or milk, and it's got orange chicklet gum in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's like an orange on the carton, and you dump it out like you dump it out like you dump

out a liquid. I know what you're talking about. But it's orange gum chicklets. Bring it back. There was all sorts of fruits, but orange was the popular one. Were they in black? Was the carton black? No, it was orange. I feel like I've seen one that was oh, the carton was orange. I feel like I've seen

one with a grape situation also happening. Okay, I got one more thing to show you guys. This is perfect for tour. I got myself a new guitar cable just to plug in the guitar of the amp. Check it out. It's a 30-footer. I'm going to be going.

That looks good, dude. Mike is going to be roaming the stage. I'm going to be all over the fucking place at these venues. And that looks like that's a good investment. You didn't get the cheapy weepy. Well, no, I went to Guitar Center and got their brand live wire. And get this. If you guys, I didn't know about this.

If you guys are musicians out there, I am. Get Live Wire at Guitar Center because the guy said if it goes down, I come in and he gives me a brand new one free. that's the guarantee with live wire he says so do that that's why I brought it on the show to tell anyone out there who's a musician I feel like any time we go on the road we're haunted by bad chords there's always like a bad chord

that's what I said to the guy I was like is there some trick here all the chords I play on my guitar I said is there like some trick here where I don't like what makes these things break in like 30 seconds he's like oh any number of thing and he just gives me his long answer I said get the fuck never mind I think it's buying the cheaper one go go one rung up on the wall and it's fine don't go to the amazon five

pack for like that's what i've done the past all right well he this is good lots of fake fruit talk in booze news so true but is that it for booze news wrap it up yes wrap it up wrap it up well very good another booze is out of the way and we had a lengthy shit chat it's time to turn our attention to the main event. Folks, this is the drink of the day, and this week we're looking at the Appletini. You've had? Have not had.

I don't think I have. I've seen it on a thousand menus, but no. Let me ask you, why didn't you get it? Were you afraid of any sort of backlash? I admit it. It's the Cosmo factor. It's the Carrie Bradshaw factor, and I don't think I was secure enough in my masculinity.

I was an M rock solid in my masculinity. I know exactly what I need and exactly what I want. And what I'll take. I stayed away from it because I don't love sour apple candy. And I have just been like, oh, this, I've known this one as like, oh, this is the sweety, sweet thing that you're not real drinkers get you. You're crazy if you get one of these things. Right.

But people make fun of Pucker, but we had it in. Washington with the Washington in Seattle, the Washington apple. And we said, Puckers kind of good, man. Ah, we did. Hey, people make fun of us. We're pretty good. Not everything that's made fun of is bad. Some of it's great.

Some of it's the best of all. I had watermelon pucker in college, but not green apple. This would be a first other than I guess that Washington apple. So that era, though, of the college Pucker era, you'd walk down a whole aisle of puckers and they had them all. but I feel like green apple's got to be the original, right? I don't think it is, but it was one of the first. It might have been watermelon the first, weirdly.

See, because I'm interested in where's the handoff of like De Kuiper liqueurs, and they're doing it? I feel like the name Pucker was first on their, their Seraabro. They used to lead with it. It was like Pucker. And then Pucker became its own thing. But I want to say much like Peach Trees Schnapps that Pucker was the name of the apple, but I just don't know.

Yeah, right. I think watermelon was first quickly followed by sour apple because I remember those both saying pucker in big letters and then there was a red one and a green one. Whereas now you go to De Kuiper and you see all the flavors and there's a bunch of different flavors, but they don't all say pucker. The ones that say pucker remain watermelon and apple,

but in tiny, classy letters. They're trying to like rebrand a little bit. But anyway, folks, Let me take you back to 1997 in Los Angeles on Fairfax Avenue. This is before people are lining up for Gulf Wang. People are now lining up for Lola's bar and restaurant where this thing kicks off. Wow. Yeah, a bunch of silly martinis here, banana, pumpkin, espresso.

Like, they're doing weird stuff at the bar. No shit. It's closed now. damn i would have thought you were going to take us to dick bradsell london or or lower manhattan or something fascinating now i did see we'll get we'll get to that in a bit this is the end of the dark ages before the cocktail revival uh yes bartender adam carston is charged with you know do something with that sour apple pucker because it's gathering dust on the top shelf nobody knows what to do with it and he does he mixes it with kettle one which the brand

reps for kettle one are also trying to find things to do with it. They're pushing the kettle one. He mixes them together, equal parts with some sour mix. And what he does, I don't have the goods to do this, but he took a little, a little slice of Granny Smith and soaked it in lemon juice as like a floater as like a garnish. And he originally named it the Adam's apple, get it, because his name's Adam. But eventually they just dropped the Adam because people are calling it the Appletini. And boy, is it a hit. It eventually accounts for about 30% of the sales at this bar. And it becomes so notorious, wow, amongst young drinkers specifically that they took it off the menu because people were being irresponsible.

Whoa. Holy shit. They said, if you can't drink them responsibly, we're not going to serve them. And people revolted. People started canceling dinner reservations. And because now, Lola's isn't a restaurant with a bar. It's a bar that happens to have a restaurant. restaurant. It flips the whole weight of Lola's. And after about a month of it being off the

menu, they quietly put it back on. And it spread like wildfire through L.A. Everybody's got their take on it. Some people are doing a little maraschino. Some people are already trying to class it up a little bit. But it's basically a sicky, sweet flavor, brightly colored, attracting all the new drinkers, the novices, the college kids, et cetera. And they're sort of attracted by those things but also the elegance of the martini glass you know it's sort of this it's like you get to fake like you're a fancy guy but really it's a it's a chucky cheese type trick yeah this opened up that whole world of like martini menus that are not martini it broadened the the definition of the word so many attempts to approve upon it but that's not what we're doing today folks we're looking at building it

like so. Oounce and a half. Vodka. Outs and a half. Sour Apple Pucker. Half ounce sour mix. Shake it on ice and dump it into a chilled coop glass or martini glass. Martini glass.

Love that. Here's my big question of the day. What was, maybe you said this, what were they using with the Pucker mix, sour apple mix before this? Were there, because I can't even think of anything other than this. drink. Well, according, it was new, but it was, I think it came out the year before 96. But according to this guy, there wasn't much to do with it. Um, and you can find a great breakdown on the Eater article. When did America turn on the Appletini? Uh, it's really funny to,

to have this stuff like, I don't know what to do with it and mix it with vodka. And it's like vodka is the, that just has become like vodka and anything is a drink. It's such a no brainer. Like a strong, flavored weird thing with vodka, like the chameleon. Yeah, that'll a word. What do you put in it? Oh, yeah, martini glass. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Also, I'll admit, before we get into it,

I came across the Adams Apple Martini or the Adams Apple drink that was older than this, maybe. Oh. Now, as we know, this was just a different name for what would become the Appletini. Yes, yes. Even they eventually called it the Appletini. Even the creator himself.

Yeah, see, I'm seeing a version here that's like, The Adams Apple cocktail origin is not known, but it's thought to have been popular in the 30s and 40s. But that's not the version we're doing. Like that, that version is Apple, Brandy, Grenadine, triple sec, lemon juice type stuff. Ah, I see. I'm, I just looked up Lola's in Hollywood to be like, hey, that bar is now blank. And it doesn't really look like as anything. It's a stretch of Fairfax just south of Santa Monica Boulevard.

But, like, it's, it's like a crust from an eye doctor and it's hidden behind some bushes. I don't know what's there now. Ooh. I was going to be like, oh, my God, it's now Cantors. It's still got a Yelp. Yeah, I know. It still has a Yelp. That's interesting.

I guess it passed in the aughts. I want to say, like, 2013, maybe. Such is life. Oh, sweet. Well, you want to make these up? Yeah. Yeah, let's make these up. That sounds good.

Folks, we're going to make these up. And we'll be right back. With more The Sloppy Boys. You! If I ever meet Tom Collins, I'll kiss them on the lips. It squeezes little hips. Do some twirls and tips. Hold them in my grips.

To thank them for the tips. Because they got me. And we're back. Appletini's in hand. Ooh, look at them. Yehoo. whoa ended up being a lot more

like a lighter green than I thought it was going to be based on the pucker it's very honey-dew I'm going to take a sip because I'm going to lose it sips here we go okay well that's nothing wrong there okay no and and they kept it in check

it's not fully a sweet sweet sweet jolly rancher it's the taste is there but it's vodka for it I was expecting to do like almost like a bitter beer face after right to be a sip of that. Yeah, I was expecting the sour apple. Yeah, this is very calm. From the Charms Blow Pop commercial?

Blow Pop, yeah. Sour Apple. The dorky kid like the sour apple. Oh, that's funny. Sour apple's not a go-to for me, but... He neither. This is really good. This really doesn't have much of a kick at all.

Alcohol kick, obviously, for sure. But when we did our episode about the Washington apple shop. The current recipe is Canadian whiskey, Pucker, and cranberry juice. But when I was telling the history about it, there's a back story, which is

very false. It was like, well, there was a bad apple harvest. There was a bug infestation in Washington State. So it was a bad apple harvest. There were rotten apples everywhere. And one day, this guy fell into a pile of rotten apples. Some got in his mouth. And he was like, that gives me an idea.

fell into a pile. Man. I wouldn't mind falling into a pile of apple d's. I'll tell you what. The glass, Tim. When I was mixing this up, I took a picture of the bottle and I sent it to my college friends group chat.

And it has sent us into a tizzy. Now there's like 30 messages. People are like, oh, God, the first thing I got drunk off. Oh, God. Okay, so we're talking Laura. We're talking Lauren. We're talking to Liot.

Exactly those three. Like, I remember freshman year, Ithaca College, Talcott Hall, getting a bottle of watermelon pucker and sort of getting some friends who'd never drank before, drunk for the first time. And just just on the pucker, you weren't mixing it with watermelon pucker. Some, one or two people mixed it with Sprite. I can't imagine mixing that with anything. Wow, with something sweet. Yeah.

Wait, what's the, what's the ABV on a pucker I didn't look? at my yeah I gotta look my bottle I gotta imagine it's 15 or something yeah this is this is damn good did you guys make did you guys make

uh sweet and sour or um the sour mix sweet and sour mix sour mix yes I did I had a bottle me too I made mine it was uh do squeeze juice

squeeze fruit I squeezed the juice yeah I did it's equal parts uh water lemon juice lime juice and sugar I think yeah right i did a little less sugar i just put a cube in i did simple syrup and uh i had some like ready made lime juice but you can use lemon right or is the official one like half lemon half lime oh i just

yeah whatever uh whatever citrus you got one yeah i just found one online i'm sure there's many ways to make it but uh the lot the lemon helps us out a lot if this was just limey tasting i think this would be uh hmm not so good it's the lemony sour helps me out okay um here's an interesting thing yeah um now I know that sex in the city is more of a cosmopolitan than

apaltini but I definitely thought this was a sex in the city drink yeah not so much yeah according to a quick internet search it seems that there was never nobody actually ever name checks an apaltini in sex in the city or and just like that but era you you must admit era for sure, but it's, it's kind of funny how that happens. Like, I, if you would have asked, before I thought a lot about cocktails, if you

would ask me 10 years ago, I would have thought, like, not even the Cosmo, I would have thought the Appletini was Carrie Bradshaw's go-to drink on the show. Sure, sure. I thought it was her fucking name. I'm sitting around with these talking to people watching the show and I said, yeah, I didn't like when Appletini dumped Mr. Big. What are you talking about? I'm an Appletini.

Yeah, yeah. You may be a... Yeah, you're a Miranda. Yeah, I'm an Appletini. You're a Miranda. You're a Gretchen. Help me out here. And I'm an Appletini. Hey, me and Mike went to the Odion in Lower Manhattan and had some Cosmos. That's a very sex-of-the-city... Oedion. A type of menu there, huh? I swung by, picked up Tim, then we went over to the Roxy to watch.

Matrix 2. Yeah. Matrix 2. Matrix? For real? Reloaded, yeah. Long film. Jeff, this is the type of fun you could be having if you just come to New York City.

Go east, young man. I could go into the majors. I take it old fun. Take it old thriller movies. Damn. No, that was Nick Nanny. Set that up. Nice going, Nick.

The Nann Man. The Nanman. The Nannor. We stole him. Now he's an L.A. guy. We stole him. We're stealing all your friends, Mike. I know. Everyone's moving to L.A. sheesh.

Oh, that's all right. Well, he got over it pretty fast. I'll find some new friends. I'll find some new friends. They'll all move out there, realize there's nothing out there for them. Not anymore. Speaking of Los Angeles, the land where movies are made and continue to be made. And films.

Bring them back, baby. Love those flickery TV shows. Jeff, you know how you've talked about the, trend of like slowed down songs in in movie trailers oh yeah and i guess we kind of said it started maybe maybe was it like something in the way was in the batman or something like that that's the very first one was a great one it was the social network uh choir singing oh yeah yes but that didn't kick it off for like everybody's doing it eventually like there were some more um like maybe years later

the other one I remember behind why creep was used and right yeah it didn't become a go-to or it's like now you have to do it essentially and it just became the norm and then on promos for Digman we had somebody

wants to hold me but it's a lot to slow down the new thing I saw good boy with Mitch the other day and it sucked the dog movie what's good what's good it's a movie starring a dog with with

with who else is there a big star? Just a dog named Ivy is the star in Indy. Oh. Oh, okay. The movie sucks, but then there's a feature right after being like, we made this with a dog. Here's how. And you're like, well, it's a pretty good acting dog. The dog doesn't talk. Yeah, he's one of the best boyos

we've ever seen. A 13 out of 10 would recommend. He is our fur baby after all. He's a little pupper. He's a little pucker. You know what's tough to see is when you stumble on a Instagram site that's like for a specific dog or a specific cat and they have like 200 followers. Right. It's like they thought it was going to take off and it didn't.

Like grumpy cat. No, no, just like they're trying to get something going or, yeah, or just hasn't taken off. It's like, your dog ain't cute, lady. You don't get cute and you got no social media presence. That's tough. Anyway, back to my interesting point about movie trailer songs. Yeah, Mike, your friend Tim was in the middle of a point.

There's a conversation, Jeff, not a lecture. there were back-to-back movie trailers where the song it wasn't the slowed down song but it was a full-on just like taking the vocal from the song and and like using the vocal as like a sample like a couple of words and just plopping into a weird soundscape and I heard both um you know that song it's like uh da da da da da da I can for a thousand years yeah yeah it's a love song I heard that and then also please please please by a sabrina carpenter oh yeah both of which just the the vocals sniffed out and then just put in an over like a cinematic like orchestral ambient thing and it was fully back to back using the exact same way in two movies it was weird what was please please please was it the um uh weathering heights yes is that charlie that's charlie but i did see that trailer so it could very well be that hmm there's a lot of weird stuff coming out.

I like the sound of that. There's also the Frankenstein's bride trailer. Do you see that? The, Maggie Joan Hall directed that we got

Christian Bail is, Christian Bail is Frankenstein is sort of doing a Bonnie and Clyde thing. Ah.

And then, and then, that could have been the thousand years one. It could have been. Geremo del Toro has a,

just a straight up Frankenstein thing coming out. With Oscar Isaac, maybe? We're cuckoo for Frankenstein. Yeah,

what is this Frankenstein year all of a sudden give us fucking Dracula. we wanted Dracula this whole time. We said Dracula in 2025, you fucking idiots. We should at least have Frankenstein's monster,

not just Frankenstein himself and all these movies. That's why that movie's not going to sell. No one's going to know what's going on. They've kind of done all the classic ghouls, huh? Like Dracula, Frankenstein, mummy. I'm thinking of the universal originals. Yeah, but before Tom Cruise's mummy, flopped. Wasn't there supposed to be all the universal creepies were coming back? Who else is in that

mix? They wanted it to be a cinematic universe called Dark Universe. Right, right, right. They never really got a Wolfman off the ground. Like, I remember somebody, like that switched director hands a thousand times and probably even another property has come out since then. Yeah. Wolfman. Hmm. Tough. I think Mark Romantic had that. He can't nail them down. Yeah, at one point. Can't nail him down. I saw a tweet that made me laugh that was like it was just some random dude tweeting this as a joke

but in the form of a deadline announcement that said Benny Safty tapped to play AJ in the Costco guys movie and if you look at Benny Safty and AJ back to back we were talking about Benny Safty almost played Andy Kaufman

in Saturday night and he does have a boyish and like like blue eyes and boyish cheeks but but a j has that too and kind of like like those eyes are kind of like sad a little bit or oh yeah the blue eye they're like lighter eyes but a little bit kind of like little diamonds all of them have like the boyish but like sad cherubic vibe to them interesting that's a good one huh huh wow well congratulations whoever wrote that ex post Yes, folks, if you know who that was, track him or her down. We would love to dedicate a little episode to interviewing them and figuring it out.

See where they're coming from on this one. Hey, this just takes me back to like, it just takes me back. What do you guys think? Did you have any sort of like early embarrassing drinks like this? Like, you know, we've talked a great liked about your Mike's hards and stuff, but I have a cringe memory of before I knew what Tiki drinks were. I remember being around my pool and inviting people over to the pool. And I was like, I'm mixing up like poolside drinks. And I remember pouring somebody like a whole pint of orange juice with Kaluah.

Ooh. I don't know what my brain was thinking. And I was, I had a bunch of that. I had a bunch of juices and a bunch of liquors. And I was like, yeah, I'm doing like beach drinks. I'm probably like 26, just pouring people weird ass shit. shit he had a lot to learn back then the very

the clumsy origins if I could get that back that time back see folks not every Hemingway Esk Bon Vivant starts out like that they got ways to go and that's what people think I think every Hemingway as Bon Vivant starts like that

your boy Tim didn't strut out the pussy the way that he is now are stronger than we thought. Jefferson. These things are kicking in. He's out there. Jeff just turned into a Samantha.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Stop. What do you think we are, honestly? Are we, I think we're three carries, huh? Writers, smart ones. We all got to thinking. Yeah, we don't like, we all got to thinking for sure. And just like that, we started a podcast.

I'm not, I don't have any of that lawyer in me. The lawyer one? I got that dog in me yeah Cynthia Nixon is the lawyer and I keep that thing on me yeah yeah a gun

that's your whole thing is you're very pro second amendment I'm a two-a guy folks you heard it here too way there is video of me wearing a Los Angeles

gun club shirt I remember you wore that shirt a lot before it felt like there was a time it was silly for a minute no yeah it was like people it was like hey it was a thing to do

in L.A., like a bowling alley. Yeah. Yeah, maybe it had just opened or something. I am thinking about getting a gun, though. Don't you guys think, like, we should get armed. Don't shoot me? No, Jesus. You need to get armed with some knowledge.

I would say, I'd probably, I would carry a gun, open carry a gun. I think if I were a lady and I was scared at night to walk to my car and stuff, I think I'd be fucking packing. I'd be packing. Instead of pepper spray, oozy, baby. Creepy guy on the corner doesn't even look at me yet. Just in case. You know when kids are making the machine guns sound with their mouth

into your little skinny? Mike, no gun for you? Have you ever shot? No gun for me. Have you ever shot? I shot a gun. I went to the gun club. I don't think you and I went.

I shot a gun. I didn't take to it. It kind of spooked me. I was like, It's quite loud. Oh, this is much more intense than I like, like shoots your whole arm back. That's probably healthy to feel the power of that, though. I've never felt it.

It is. You've got to have a respect for it. I'm walking around going, clack, clack, clack with my gat. And, you know, I don't know. Like my only experience, many of our only experience with guns was like, seeing them on TV and the art, like, people's arms don't shoot back behind. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's rough.

It's too, there's like too much power there. It's like when you throw a punch and then your fist hurts and you're like, hey, that wasn't part of it. What the hell? My poor little uncles. I never agreed to this. And now I'm on the floor.

I'm on the floor with the bloody nose. That was a good part of it. They punch back. They punch back. They punch back. They punch back. They're big guys. These guys.

Big guys. In New Hampshire, I went to a gun club with my sister and they had fully automatic guns. Meaning, you know, in L.A., you got sent. semi-automatic, meaning like every time you pull the trigger, pop, pop, pop. You mean, like, an AR-15. I mean, you hold it down and it was like,

br-r-r-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h. And it is scary. And to see my little sister do it, I was like, ah, we should get out of here. Yeah. There was something I remember that was creepy about the L.A. gun club where you couldn't be, you couldn't go by yourself. You can't go in solo.

Yeah, you have to go in with somebody because... Suicide risk. That also, when they told us that, I was, I was like, oh, yeah, this isn't like, it's like aiming and trying to shoot a, like hit a target is one kind of fun. But I was like, oh, these are really rough things. Just being reminded of like suicide and walking in. I'm like, oh, this is rough.

Mortality and there's like the sticks of it. And you're like, that's what these machines are for. You downplay it when you're like, I'm shooting at targets. But these are machines of murder. Yeah. Yeah. Rough stuff out there. Machines of murder.

Oh, I'll eat a burger. And I may need a burger, burgers, burgers. We'll figure out the words. Smurger, turger, blurger? I don't know, man. No, I mean, that's just like the demo. We'll figure out the words. Okay, those are placeholders.

Like, I don't know. Well, Tim had something nice there, though. Yeah, placeholders, for sure. I want to make another one of these, but I don't know what to do differently. I want more pucker, I'll say it, because I want the nasty, sick, sweet. Ugh, disgusting. That's what I want. This is too appetizing, too good.

Yeah. The sticky suite is sort of messing with my, after doing that weird shot I did before and then this, I'm getting a little heartburn. Maybe I just had heartburn from something else. And it's really magnifying. Oh, so you're not just fluxing. You're refluxing, huh?

You know what I'm going to do? Jeff, we talked about how the modern era is sort of, there's artisan Appletini's floating around that are more atonal. I think my, it's hard if you're working with Pucker to make that seem authentic, but instead of vodka, I'm going to use Apple Jack, Apple Brandy. Dude.

Wait, so Lairds? Lairds. Oh, that's some good Lairds. I got to bust that out for the autumn time. I also noticed that at Bevmo because I went to my fancy place and they, well, frankly, laughed at me for asking for Pucker.

Top line? Yeah. The dude was like, oh, so you're looking for something like cheesy? And I was like, yeah, yeah. And he's like, oh, we got hypnotic. And I was like, no, it's specifically got a hunker. He's like, oh, you're doing a dumb thing? And I was like, yeah, I'm doing a dumb thing.

Stop judging me. Jagoff. Yeah, you know, next week I'm going to do a dumb thing at another establishment. Thanks, sir. Ooh. Thanks, dude. Vote with your wallet, Jeff. But I did notice, I did, I did notice, uh, we got a lot of contenders now in the

Apple market. We got 99 apples. That's 99 proof probably. Oh, I might have some of that. This is only 30 proof, by the way. Yeah, you got that multi-pack, Tim. When we made Jeff's creation of the Carmen Miranda. Mm, good one.

The fruit of the loom. I have a variety pack of 99s. Let me check for my apple. Hey, what the hell happened there? All summer we came up with drinks and they never took off. What the fuck? We needed a hit and we didn't get it. Well, canonically, we did get a hit.

What was it? I forget what it was. Five cups? Oh, no, it was the thing. Great girl. Headford slammer, hand slammer. No, that was last summer. Jeez, Louise.

All right. Well, all right, folks, we need to do a hit. I thought we had positioned that as a win here. Let's call it a win. Let's not look into it. Let's take the W. Let's not look into it. Yeah, that's a win.

We won, and we sold a lot of those. All right. So, let's come back with a round two. We'll just sort of see what comes up. Great. Yeah, I might end up just doing the same thing, but, oh, wait, can I take us out with something here? I got a little surprise for you.

It's not going to be great. Is it a pub quiz? No, it's not a pub quiz. It's even better. I can't adjust all my equipment to show you guys, but just listen. I got to take my headphones out. So you're going to hear a little something. This will be our outro.

I bet you was going to do something with that cord, Tim. Please allow me to introduce my cello. I'm a man of wave. and taste. Woo-hoo! Michael, wow. Michael, Hanford. We're back.

Round two. Appletini's coming at you. Sips. Ooh. Yours looks mature, Tim. It's browner. Oh, boy. Made it with Apple Jack.

Oh, right. Right. Fantastic. This, guys, Really? Awesome has arrived. You do anything different, Jeff? I just did a half ounce more puckered to taste it.

And I do. And it's still good. Not crazy. It's still like tastes like Kool-Aid or high-see. I made a... Pretty much the same thing. Just a little smaller. I do wish I did lemon versus lime.

I feel like lemon's going to keep that sour versus like lime's just a little bit sweeter than a lemon. A lime almost seems like unnecessary because you're already doing, well, no, I saw that's sour apple, not wine. Lime brings you a little south of the border. Hey, that's not so bad. Mike, you were playing before we went to break, you were playing sympathy for the devil. How about that? I was track one off of Beggars Banquet. Have you been hitting the keys harder now lately?

Hitting the keys. This week I've been playing around with, I'll flip the piano on and just throughout my day. I'll sit down and say, oh, yeah, what are the chords of that song? Look it up on guitar, cords.com, and then just translate it over to the... Why don't you look it up on piano cords.

Yeah, that seems easier. Well, I don't know. It just every time I write up a chords, it shows me the charm. It shows me the guitar one. first, and I say, you know what? It's more. I also think it's because

I'm just used to seeing that. But I've been playing with that one and shine a light. That's another good Stone songs. Much slower, too. Hey, can I tell you to make a recommendation? Puckers hitting. You can make a reservation if you want to come see me. Come over and watch

me. I'll make a reservation to watch you. Reg of the reservations for my desk chair. If you've been in a Stones era, Ooh. Have you listened to Geese, young band, new band, geese? Geese, no. Nothing to do with Goose, the jam band? That's not like a different version. Nothing to do with Goose, the jam band. Oh, geese was mentioned on a on a junket for one battle after another, was it not? Oh, really?

I think Benicio shouted out geese. I don't know, maybe not. It was Killian Murphy for a different movie. I mean, geese is one of these. bands that's like, uh, I hadn't heard of them like a few months ago. And then I heard the song Taxes and I loved it. And then they just came out with an album a couple weeks ago. And they're, they're getting so big right now that there's already a bit of a backlash that it's like, oh, let me guess you like, like they're like the rock band. They're like 24 and it's like the big band of the moment. But I think, I do think there's something there. I think they're

very good. And listen to the song Taxes. It's great. The whole album's great. But I'll take a listen. You're going to get stones vibes. That kind of messy stones, you're like the kind of like, there's a little bluesy twang, but we're kind of fucking around in the studio with some, like exile and main street stuff or even, yeah, yeah, like just messy shit, yes. Yeah. You know what's a good, a good stone song is you can't always get what you want. That's one of those ones, you know, it starts off with like the children's choir.

It's one of those songs who are like, is this even rock and roll anywhere? you know when an album like a band comes out with a song it's like this is i like that queen had a lot of that stuff we're just like this isn't even maximalist production this isn't even rock and roll this is like it's own like pink floyd different type oh pink floyd i was just listened to uh the the floyd album animals the other day give that a listen if you haven't to like it's one of these all the way through ones it's really cool i feel like the floyd heads pointed out a lot because it's like uh what's his name was still in there who's the guy that went cuckoo and fell out of the band?

Sid? Yes. Sid Barrett. Barrett. I think he was still around for animals. You think? Okay.

I don't know the Pink Floyd. Who knows? I've literally never listened to animals, but I thought that that was its reputation. But you know what this rock talk just reminded me of is in one battle after another when Leo was telling his daughter, he was hanging out with his friends and he was like, yeah, my friend, he got this gear.

He was going for that, like, Steely Dan, like, tube sound. But you don't need, you could do that on computers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The best. He just mentions it. He's like, I was over to whoever's house. Oh, you know what was also so funny in that movie? I don't think we talked about in our blowout episode.

Folks, we talked about the hit new movie, one battle after another, on the latest, or last week's blowout. So check that out if you want to have fun. Because this podcast, this episode, or sorry, the main feed episodes are not fun, but behind the payload. That's fun. yes. Anyway, at the very end when Leo is like, hey, I don't know how to work the phone here. The flash is on. I'm trying to take a selfie. And she's telling him, and then he leaves. And he does like such a, he did drop's character and he's just like a handsome actor. Leo, the handsome actor. And he kind of like smiles and gives a tiny wink. I didn't. I like, thinking back on that now, I was like, that's funny just because he's doing a funny thing. But was he, was he. Was he. Was he. Was he. lying that he didn't know how to use the phone just so he could

talk to his daughter a little more so she wouldn't leave so quickly? Either way, something to look at. It's just a funny moment to be. I saw it for a second time. It was it's good. Time two is good. Time two is good. Yeah, because time two, you know the tone. And time one, you're like,

what's the tone? Time two, you know what you're watching. And you know what was really surprising. I had that with once upon a time too. Yeah. Time two. I was at the Vista, so it's like the hometown crowd and a lot of, you know, letterbox bros laughing their ass off and that type of thing. But here's what's interesting. That first chunk that takes you up to present day,

the whole backstory with perfidia Beverly Hills. I can't believe, I don't know if I've ever seen a movie that's like, it has really almost no jokes for that first half hour. And then when we meet up with Leo middle age, the jokes start coming and they don't stop coming. And suddenly you're watching a comedy. I can't really think of any movie that's ever made the shift like that. It's pretty amazing.

Are there no jokes, though? Like, there is, there is like weird humor in it, though, right? Like the boner stuff. There's, like, little, I mean, there's the Sean Penn Boner and there's little stilted things, but there's not like Leo crushing comedy. Yes, yes. He's kind of straight. There's a tiny moment where he, like, he ignites the, you know, he sets the detonator off.

And it's, I don't even know if it's meant to be funny, but he rolls out of the frame. And it just made me laugh because he's buying. himself it didn't even look like he need he probably could just stood up and done tactical it'd be cool if he rolled out of the frame boom poop but but not laugh out loud and like blink you miss it type of thing folks go see that movie oh tim wait do you have do you have your uh your piano set up yep right over there i mean play playable have you got it because i know you're rearranging the room is it playable yet it's playable but i haven't dipped mike he's just in the middle of rearranging the room look no i know i know

I know, I know, but it's going to make for a great tiger. He's smack in the middle of rearrangement. By 2029, I'm going to be playing those things, man. Ebony's and Ivers. But it's, oh, it's fun to play a song. And then I'm learning the chords. That's where it all comes together. Mike, think about this.

Think about this, Mike. Think about it. Yeah. Yeah, you can play the bass on a bass guitar. You can also play the bass on a key tar type thing. Yeah. Where you can play keys sometimes. And then you can also go down to,

Doom, doom, doom, doom, do. Oh, and I was over at a garage, it's garage, guitar center today. While I was picking up those dumb guitar cables, I went down to the keyboard area. And now that I know these chords, I'm all over the thing. And I turn on, like, one of the Moogs, and I turned all the stuff way up so everyone can hear me.

But I was like, zh, zh, zh, zh, zh. No one liked it. Damn. Whenever I touch a MoG, it's like, and I'm like, that's supposed to be a C. And then I play with knobs and it goes, it's like, you're so off the beaten path. I just need a synth that behaves like a keyboard,

or I just need to learn what synthesis is. Ooh, synthesize the sounds. I think I need to go to a synth machine that has everything turned down to zero. So I can go up one, okay, that's what that button does. Okay, this button, okay, that's what that does. One knob per function. That's what you need to learn.

Ooh, I had a really cool on this cord thing I got. I made it sound like an electric guitar on one of these settings. Hold on. I'll see if I got it. If not, whatever. See, we should be wired up to play music on pod. That one bored people to death. No, no, no.

But it'd be nice to do little things like that, what he's doing. Oh, yeah, that is good. I'm liking that. Yeah, he's good. good stuff man I'm running out of steam on this episode I got nothing else to get really good you're kind of like a kid doing show

and towel you're like look at this toy that also that wasn't the the thing I had a tune to before I was like crazy I think our next album is going to be a mostly keyboard album

Piano's fuck keys mugs what are we going to do we're going to be playing those things but we're going to put them on the backing track so we want to have to bring the pianos. 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 after seeing us live and listening every week,

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