The Sloppy Boys - 276. Dirty Soda with Bridger Winegar

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

The guys welcome Bridger Winger (I Said No Gifts) to discuss the dirty soda "Texas Tab" made famous by Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.DIRTY SODA RECIPE: lots of DR. PEPPERa squirt VANILLA SYRUPa swirl COCONUT CREME COFFEE MATEFill a giant cup with pebble ice and Dr. Pepper. Add a squirt of vanilla syrup and a swirl of coconut creme Coffee Mate-Recipe via SwigWANT MORE SLOP? Check out:PatreonSHOP the webstore at:The Sloppy Boys WebsiteLISTEN to The Sloppy Boys hit songs on:Apple MusicSpotifyYoutubeTOUR DATES, SOCIALS and more at:LinktreeT H E   S L O P P Y   B O Y S   L L CExpand Ascend Conquer Retain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I'm Jeff Dutton along with Michael Hanford. Hello. And Tim Calpacus. What is up. Ooh, and joining us today is a very funny writer and actor. You might know him from his excellent podcast. I said no gifts. Bridger Wyniger is here.

Am I allowed to talk now? This is the thing. I'm already talking to you guys. You're on the pod. Oh, yeah. It's that fast. You're in. I don't want to step on any toes.

We say, name of pod, name of hosts, go. Now you have to talk for the next, if you have 20 minutes, if you can just go. For an hour and a half. Bridger? Wow.

I'm so happy to be here. Hello, Bridger. Thank you for coming on the show. Oh, I'm thrilled. I knew you, well, first I knew you as, you and I were the bad boys at Twitter for a while. But then I met you on the...

The Bash Brothers. Then I met you on the picket lines of, WGA strike and um because we're both union strong uh we're both we're both we're health insurance enthusiasts really right of course i'm so union strong that i'm still not working oh you're still on strike yeah yeah i'm so striking would you describe you you you're less interested in like story structure and character development uh it's really just the insurance when it comes down to that's that's sort of the love you have it's

purely the insurance where I started. Affording doctors, procedures. We met on the picket line out here in New York for a brief moment. Somebody introduced us, maybe. Was it Brad Evans maybe or Nick Sierra Leyen? It would have been Brad Evans. That's

somebody who I was kicking around with those wild afternoons. Yeah, why was I in the New York picket thing? I guess how did that happen? We needed help. We needed big time help. We didn't have we didn't have a stranger things day or whatever was happening in LA. There were some like singles only strikes or,

uh, pickets and stuff. Weezer showed up at one. That was kind of fun. It gets people out, Mike. That's good. Yeah.

In New York, did you guys have the Drew Carey lunch? Or was that at LA only? No, no, I think that was LA only. And I really abused that. That was LA only.

I ate at swingers a lot during the strike. I forgot to do that. It was like you just go to Swingers, you show your WGA card, and Drew Carey would pick up the tab and tip and everything, right? Yeah, he paid for all of it. Tim, you forgot to do that.

You of all people forgot to do the free lunch at Swingers or Bob's Big Boy. I'm going to try to get it now. That's like Michael Jordan, forgetting to do a slam dunk. Yeah. He got all the way up there and he forgot what to do. Wait, Bridger, did you do that a lot?

you go to those diners? Oh my God, at least once a week, if not more. Which is kind of humiliating. But it was just like, why not? It felt good for swingers, too. You know, I was ultimately supporting a local diner. It had nothing to do with me wanting free food. It was supporting

a small business. It's good. It's good. It rubs off. You're supporting them by getting Drew Carey's money to go to them. Yes, exactly. That was crazy. I mean, because that was like, how long was that strike? Like five months? Four months? At least. for him to cover everyone

that's way to go Drew Carey and I think people were like taking full families you know they would take their kids you know those bills were not small I would love to know how much you paid

that's like very generous of him but it also lets you know like that's how deep network money goes like yeah right from Drew Carey show to the what's his what's the game show

price is right I mean I mean like that must have cost him millions of dollars right millions of dollars. And it didn't bother him. It was nothing.

Well, I've heard stories. Like, he used to pal around with a sketch group at UCB. And, like, they'd hang out and go on vacations and stuff all the time. It seems like creeper than it was. But, like, he was, yeah, I think he's just a big-hearted guy who likes to treat those who make him laugh well. Yeah, I think he just likes this. He has the money and he spends it. Yeah.

I like if it's just that. I don't know why I read into it that it was sort of him like a toning for something like, you know, like, um, for the blowup dolls. Right. I mean, he is, he's, I feel like that was a hush, hush thing. And now it's probably out of the over that he's kind of a, a kinkster. American families take it in stride. But like, I've Googled in that, that's out there that he like famously has like a fog machine in his bedroom.

A fog machine. Yeah. That's not weird. Okay. He's just interested in weather, I guess. Cloud kink. He's got the spinning cups and his... Yeah.

But him buying every writer lunch for six months, it reminded me of like, the reason we have Griffith Park is because Griffith J. Griffith shot his wife and in the face and she lived. and then to try to like save face and to be like, I'm a good guy. He like gave all this land to L.A.

And then everyone's like, okay, like we like him now. And it kind of worked. I'm a good guy. Was he trying to kill her? Yeah. Yeah. When you shoot someone in the face, that tends to be the,

what happened after like, she was alive? He didn't go to prison? He was trying to murder somebody by shooting them. And what? And also, they were at a hotel like in Santa Monica and she like jumped out the window and landed on an awning and lived and like got away bounced off was she like a stunt person you know what maybe he did go to jail for a while because I do think there was like a trial of it but I just know like that's it's like you know the reason we have the observatory in the Greek theater and like and all this stuff was just like he thought if he donated a big chunk of land to the city that people would like him and it

It worked. It worked. More rich people should be shameful and guilty about things and we would get some serious shit. And shooting their wife in the face. Yes.

Yes. If that's what it takes. What did he do that he had so much money? Was he a railroad guy? Just because there's those railroads in the, in Griffith Park. Oh yeah.

Yeah. He was a railroad guy and that little train that's in Griffith Park. He loved tiny trains. He became a billionaire He's like, look, I tried to shoot my wife in the face. I'll take a small train.

I don't need a big train. I understand what I've done. But I also just love the guys. That is real name, first name and last name, both Griffiths. Wow. That's good. Chris Christofferson. Yeah.

There's a dude from a, oh God, craftwork who had a funny name too. don't say a word until he finds out. Everybody be very quiet. Even better, even better. Never mind. You just said, does someone from craftwork have a funny name and I said, no? I started watching the craftwork documentary. It's too long.

It's three hours long and it's like, it's made by people who are too close to electronic music and think everything is interesting. But somebody, a talking head popped up that was like, Gunther Guntersson or something like that. So that's why I was trying to dig up. Anyway. Well, Bridger, I wanted to ask you, before we even get into today's drinking all of that, we're, this is, the occasion is that we're doing our annual dry January episode.

So we, that's how we, we came to this drink. But it occurred to me, I never, I don't even know. Do you, do you drink? Do you drink alcohol? I've almost had a dry life. I've had so little alcohol. But I grew up Mormon and just like, for whatever reason, it just, I never had any interest in drinking. Right.

So you were like in your 20s when you left Mormonism, right? Yeah, yeah. So the first time I ever drank, I was probably 26. What was it? Vodka. Like shots? Vodka shot. Yeah.

Yeah. Shots of vodka. And like the hangover and everything was so intense that I just didn't continue. Like I'll have a drink maybe twice a year if I'm at like a nice party or something. Or if like there's a hotel I'll go to in Palm Springs and I'll give you a sangria when you check in or whatever. But I just, I think the never doing it for cultural reasons and then the expense, because I'm such a cheap person, have just fed into me not drinking. I would never be like, oh, I'm going to buy alcohol. that would kill me.

I like that thing. I mean, there are people buying alcohol in the millions right now but just like, I would never buy alcohol. I've never put money down for this day. It's outlandish.

It's outlandish. It's happening. I just check into hotels and they bring me Zangria. That's my main method of getting alcohol. It's got to be an easier way to get alcohol. Man. Yeah, thinking about this, though,

I've literally never paid for a drink. Ooh. That's amazing. Keep that streak alive. That's the way to do it. That's a really cool part of my personality. Tim and Mike, you guys have had things that you refuse to pay for too because you've only gotten them for free. I want to say, Tim. Sex for me.

I don't buy candy bars. Tim won't buy LeCoy. Mike has got sex for free ones? Oh my God. I'll get sex for free. I don't pay for it. How did you do that? I feel like it was Zanku.

One of you won't ever buy Zanku? I think, yeah. Oh. Maybe, I maybe talked about this on Bridgers podcast that like, um, there's a whole bunch of salad restaurants that I like, but I got them for free at offices like tender greens and Mendocino Farms. But then it's really the LaCroi. Like, to me, like, LeCroix is free.

And I just can't fathom like buying it. It would feel so weird. And it just tastes like work. It's always just been. free. I will say I don't I don't really like La Croy's anymore because I do only associate them with

like leaving a writer's room just to wander around because I'm bored and like drinking something I don't really like. Yeah. Now it should remind you of employment though Mike. You should be thirsting for La Croy's. I don't know. This is my employment, the podcast. You're my boss. Me?

And please do not bring in any more La Croyce. We can't handle him here. I'm sick of them. Sink of them here at work. No, I was just going to say, I would be very curious to see LaCroix sales numbers since, like, the writing industry has been demolished.

I truly think it must have really hit them hard. Yeah, I bet you're right. It is like a writer's room product. Yeah. Yeah, because the other, we're not the only ones who are like, ooh, I just drink that at work. I think that's part of it, too, why I don't like LaCroi that much is they, that I rarely ever have been like, I'm thirsty, so I'm reaching for a LaCroix.

It's like what Mike said, like, I want to get out of the room so I go to the break room. And then I'm like, what am I going to do? What's something to do? And then you're just opening one of those, those coconut ones that just tastes like sunscreen. Oh, no, don't even, don't even do those. The worst.

It tastes like sunscreen. You're right. Oh, speak, I hate the taste of fake coconut. If I'm tasting coconut, it better be a coconut. but um damn fake coconut and fake banana are two of the worst artificial flavors for those are tough yeah okay have you heard uh uh the theory about the fake banana flavor oh somebody told me about this and i can't remember it's wild when the flavorists like in the 50s started making that taste our bananas i guess did taste like that and i feel like it was like a different strain it was like mctavish bananas

or something. And like, I don't know if, I don't know if this is true because they also, maybe the flavors are saying this. They're like, no, no, no, yeah, it's a different strain of banana. Yeah, right. We did a really good job, actually. But it would be weird to go back in time and then eat a banana and be like, it tastes like runts.

But the banana that is based on, the banana that the runt is based on has been like bred out of existence because of probably capitalism. Because everyone hated it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. People hated it. We all switched over to runs and we didn't need it anymore. I've said this before in the pod and Bridger, I'll bring you up to date.

If you went back in time, I think food would taste crazy. I think if you went back to like, oh, I don't know, the pre-1800s and had like a steak, it would be so weird. It would taste insane. I bet it would. I'm sure there would be way less seasoning, too. I'm sure it was just bad. But like, I wonder if, like, all the, the hormones and stuff pumped into our food now, like, I don't know if that's good.

If it's making it more tasty or, like, less tasty. I don't know. Less. I would say more. I think everything was, like, pretty shriveled. Like, chickens were skinny and deflated and shriveled all of the food. Oh, yeah, that's the other things. Like, the food we.

They looked like raisins. Just raisins roll around in the. Get those chickens out of here. I like to think of like 1800s. Like peasants are starving and then all they have is a chicken and the chicken is also like really skinny. Everything's starving, even the food? Well, gets a peanut butter and put those chickens out of

a piece of celery. Mike is famously reading a book about salt and he's been reading this for about five months and half the year. Yeah, yeah. I've just put it down. I've just kind of stopped for now. I'm moving on to something else. Would you

intend to return to it? What did you learn? I wish I was learning a lot more. That's the thing. There's just so many What a waste of time. It is a waste of time. It's as boring as you think. But there's not, it's just, these little

facts are just kind of dropped in, but there's no like the author doesn't delve too far into fun little facts, so I don't really know much. It's mostly about like I learned that salary comes from the word salt. The word salary. Oh, wow. Yeah, because so, well, yeah, this is interesting. You're right. See, I don't get this type of attitude, Bridger, from these two.

I get a lot of years. You're still reading that shit? Yes. Well, back in the old days, soldiers used to get paid in salt. And Saul, S-A-L was how it's the Latin. the Latin root. So salary, that comes from salt. There's other words, too, that I've now forgotten since I've put the book.

Salad? Salad, I'm sure. Salamander. Salamander, they're salty little guys. They got salty edgy. Famously salty. Can they be killed with salt like a snail? That's a question for the book.

That's a good question for the book. Yeah, we've only ever tried it on snails. We should try it on other creatures. That's insane that we all know that and we've all. done that like tortured an animal every every animal has a weakness snail salt ant magnifying glass humans bullets so true very true well do we get into some booze news bib bib booze news hit it tim went to a garlic party to serve booze to his old friends, but he didn't know the difference between a bulb and a clove.

He put too much garlic in. When Tim got to the garlic party, he poured out some garlic shots. One sip was all it took for his friends to know. Tim's brain was free from thoughts, but it's all right, Tim. It ain't no cardinal sin. To confuse garlic cloves and garlic bulbs and give us all some grins. Bip, Bip, Bip Bip Bip Bip Bippy Bip. Bip, Ricky Nelson, Bip Bip Bip Boghorn noise goes here.

Oh my God. Garlic Party was sent to us by Pat, aka Bruce Willis and Armageddon on the Soppy Boys Discord. and if you have a booze news theme, email it to the sloppy boys podcast at gmail.com. That was good. That was all a true story. Nick Nanny and Claire O'Kane had a garlic-themed party. I made garlic vodka, but the recipe said for cloves or I still don't have it straight. Yeah, clothes.

I put like 36 times the amount of garlic that you're supposed to put in. And I was walking around the party being like, everybody try my thing. And everyone's up. It was like, Bair! Is everyone's drink disgusting? Mine is. It'd be weird if that hadn't happened

and that guy sent that song in. This is a very imaginative listener. It's so funny when you go on someone else's podcast and, you know, something like that pops up and you're like, okay, well, this is in this weird corner of the world, these people are insane here. Yep.

They think about this, and this is weird. Okay, well, here's today's booze news, which is in the category of, it's awards season. This is some entertainment, Hollywoody news for us. And this one I dipped into the mailbag for, we got a message from Slophead, Madeline,

who we know she used to put covers of, like, college night and our songs on YouTube and stuff like that. Oh, that Madeline, yeah. Yes. Okay, but listen. to this DM we got from Madeline. She writes, this is such a random thing to send,

but I was the office PA on one battle after another. And one day, I was wearing a sloppy boys shirt. What? Paul walked in and greeted me, then stopped, looked at my shirt and said,

who are the sloppy boys? And I said, there are a comedy band here in L.A. And he raised his eyebrows and was like, Oh, cool. I have to check them out. It's truly like the only conversation I had with Paul while I was working on that movie. And I just had to share, PTA officially acknowledges the existence of the sloppy boys.

Wow. Pretty cool. That makes me way happier than it has a right to. I'm so embarrassed to how happy that makes me. I mean, do you think that he went home that? night. And he and Meyer Rudolph, after putting the kids to bed, they sat down on the couch, opened a bottle of wine, and listened to the slobby boys all night to check out the band. Maybe he was like, hey, Maya, you're a comedian, right? Here's some comedy stuff I heard.

You might enjoy this. You listen to it first. Let me know if it's any good. Come here, come here. You don't like this. You like comedy. Yeah, only comedians like comedy. I'm glad. I'm glad the story was that she said, we're the sloby boys and she wasn't just like, I couldn't think of what to say and I didn't. That's what I would do. I would be so embarrassed. I'm like, oh, it's nothing.

It's nothing. Do you need help with the dailies? It's nothing. It's nothing. They suck. They suck. You're the only good thing in the world. Everything else sucks.

Bridger, were you a fan of one battle after another? Did you like? Have you seen? I loved it. Yeah, me too. Me too. What a great time.

a hell of a film. I saw it twice in the theater. Ooh. He could, PTA could be listening as we, yes. Oh, shit. So it's a good thing we all love to the movie. That's true. Okay. Dude, we love the movie. We would do our next music video, I guess.

Yeah. I don't think it costs too much. I wish it costs more. Yeah. I could see how though our comedy maybe influenced the tone of that movie if he was working on the movie and he's seeing hilarious t-shirts around the office. That's true. You know, it could be somewhere kind of in the fabric of that masterpiece. Funny band, huh?

Funny band. Oh, I just thought of something funny for Leo to say. Leo, be funny. But if the movie wasn't, like, didn't have a humorous part in it. And he was like, you know what? You say this is a comment. comedy band, huh? Well, comedy could be in movies, too. I'll try that with my movies. Could be in movies, too.

Well, look, we like his stuff that stands to reason he would like our stuff too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. That's very true. And that's all I got for our boo's news this week. That's good. Wrap it up. Hey, Mielin, wrap it up. You've been drinking today? I've had a few. A few what? Be small beers.

Ah, pretty good. very good and now with with booze news out of the way Bridger we turn our attention to the drink of the day this is what people tune in for the main event sort of the drink of the day for our annual

dry January episode you would think that we would maybe do a dry January month but we're doing just the last week of January we are today we're going to be drinking a dirty soda specifically

Texas tab. You've had? Not had. Not had. Not had. I'm excited, though, for this dirty soda. I've had. I've one time...

Oh, you've had it. About a year ago, I was in Utah, and I went to Swig, and I had it because I heard about it on TikTok. But this whole thing... So, Bridger, you're from Utah, are like the concept of dirty sodas it like exploded in the in the last like year or so

but was this a thing that's always like were you familiar with these before it got popular? I was familiar with them but there you are like even within Utah like a fairly recent thing I would say maybe in the last 10 to 15 years they've really blown up like as a kid there was this wasn't a thing at all and then Swig I think was the first one and then that blew up

but then there were a million copycats. And now they're like, anytime I go back there on every corner, it's crazy. Wow. Yes, Swig started in 2010. And, yeah, and then it's funny. Like, quickly, there was so delicious, fizz, quench it. And then I think that Swig is the first, is the chain that then, I think they trademarked dirty soda. Like, they say that on their menu and the other ones can't.

but so the whole concept here is that in the Mormon scripture I wrote this down doctrine of covenants in the section called Word I'm going to correct everything you say are you familiar with the scripture this is the word of wisdom

yeah yes I couldn't quote but I'm obviously very familiar with this but go ahead. Well, so, so, so, uh, that's all I know is that like that, that's a, a, a book that, like, it, it goes into, like, uh, what you can and can't put into your body and on the list of, along with, like, alcohol and drugs and stuff is, quote unquote, hot drinks. Mm-hmm.

And then so, then that's the, so the funny thing is, like, I guess originally hot drinks meant coffee and tea, but they don't flat out say caffeine. but I guess that that's that was the idea, right? Oh, but it's, I mean, it's so confusing.

It's, it's such a vague rule. And Mormons do drink caffeine and soda, but most do. Like, you can find particularly annoying Mormons who don't drink caffeine at all. But it's,

but, and also, I mean, like hot drinks, you would think, oh, so you can't drink hot chocolate. But of course,

Mormons are drinking, you know, hot chocolate or hot apple cider or whatever. it's very there's a lot of room for interpretation but it basically is coffee or tea uh even cold coffee and cold tea interesting ah okay i didn't know that okay now well you didn't drink alcohol for a long time then when you did it was vodka and to this day you haven't paid for a drink what was it like when you had your first cup of coffee or tea um my first i was interning at letterman actually and my bosses would order coffee every morning and i was too shy and like

I didn't know how to order coffee. So I would just, I'd be like, oh, I'll have whatever you're having. And they would order these massive ice coffees just loaded with hazelnut syrup and cream. I was like, oh, this is terrible. I drink one of those probably every day for five months. And so that was my introduction to coffee. But wait, you think that would be a good way into coffee is like the sugary syrupy stuff. Oh, but it's just for me, I don't like things to be too sweet.

It's just like, this is awful. I see, I see. And often, like, the ice would have melted. Especially when they're, like, huge, too. Yeah. Just gagging that down. Yeah. It's like, why do we need so much of this stuff?

So, if you can't do caffeine and you weren't big on sugar, like, did you have vices growing up? Or, like, what was the release or, you know? I mean, I did drink a lot of soda, and I do like baked goods, but just not in excess. and like, like, I bake cookies almost every night, but like, really? Yes. You said not in excess, but I do bake them every night. Well, I bake one.

So I said that you're baking one, you're one small cookie. Oh, one of the time. One, like, nice size cookie. I see, I see. I make dough at like the beginning of the week. And this is all totally normal. And I don't know why any of you are having any reaction at all. I'll make a bunch of dough,

I then refrigerate it, and then make one cookie, well, make one cookie a night because there was a period when I was eating like, you're meal prepping. We understand.

Wheel prepping, yes, exactly, thank you. I was eating like nine cookies a night when I was living in L.A. for the first four years or so, and I realized,

oh, this is probably a bad thing for me. You're like, LA's crazy, man, I don't know. I have to say, I don't think I've ever seen a single cookie get baked.

ever. I've only seen a whole batch. You haven't lived. Oh, sure, sure. Yeah, usually people bake a dozen cookies or whatever. I've got an, I heat up an entire oven and then bake a single cookie. I like that.

Well, it's funny that you found your way to cookies though, because then other than Swig and all the soda places, the other trend is like crumble and the cookie places. Crumbles, have you guys had crumble? No. It's super sweet, right? It's a lot.

It's, if you're, if you're not a sweet tooth, like you're saying, like it does feel like, sometimes I bite into a crumble, I'm just like, ooh, this is too much chunk. Oh, they're disgusting. Is that the ice cream sandwich between cookies? Or what is that? No, crumbles, they might have something like that, but Crumbes

is just a brand, it's C-R-U-M-B-L. Right? Oh, so it's like, they spell it like a dating app or whatever. It's a very web 2.0. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. but it's just like, you know, big fatty cookies that are good. They taste good, but they're very, very, very sugary. They're like, they're very much made to take a picture of. They're very, like, Instagram friendly cookies.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's kind of like the texture of Plato. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It reminds me of, of, like, some of the donut places out here. There's, like, a lot of, like, designer donaty places that have, like, cereal all, like, it's got fruity pebbles all over it or whatever. Um, which, by the way, I hear, um, um,

that a lot of these dirty sodas, the food served alongside it is donuts. Or sugar cookies. Or sugar cookies. I think Swig is like their famous thing is like soda and a sugar cookie. I mean, the combination is insane. So they're getting all zipped up over there.

There's no contrasts at all. So this, it seems like, like this trend, these stores and stuff was like you said the last 10 years. But soda in Salt Lake City has just been a big deal. even since you were a kid you were saying right so it's just just soda has always been okay soda like sweets ice cream those are yeah yeah yeah what was your brand dude uh wait my brand of

what soda soda oh my so energy is uh i think for a long time it started with root beer as a kid moved to dr pepper then to diet coke and i still drink a lot of Diet Coke now. If I'm like, if I go to, like, I'll go to Clark Street Diner and they're just aware at this point that I, like the servers will bring me Diet Coke before I've even ordered it. Damn. That's cool. It's very cool. Well, it's funny because also, I mean, Diet Coke, the, the ultimate office drink, writers room drink, yet still, I drink it outside of work and I don't, I guess it's just so ubiquitous that it can't be tied to anyone place. But work has never ruined Diet Coke for me. I still crush

People are as addicted to Diet Coke as like cigarettes, though. Like Diet Coke people are very, they're loyal like. Yeah, yeah. There's no substitute. Well, Bridger, how do you feel about Coke Zero? I don't mind it, but they changed the recipe recently and it tastes worse. Really? Yeah, I don't know with these moves to change a soda recipe.

It's like, what's the goal there? They're like, let's make it worse. no one is asking for the flavor to change there must be like a cheaper ingredient or something yeah shrinkflation I was at a little football watching a party the other day and I had a mini can of Dr. Pepper and I had a Dr. Pepper in forever

and I think I had like three more after that they were so I was just like chugging them down I was also very just like thirsty I needed water but it was so damn good It's been a long time since I had them. It's very sweet. Very sweet.

And I do appreciate the small kit. Mike, you got to be careful with all the Dr. Peppers. Forrest Gump did. He drank 15 Dr. Peppers and then he told him the president he had to pee. So you got to be careful with that. That could happen to you. If you ever go to the White House. I make you to the White House for whatever.

Do you want anything to drink? I'm like, no, no, no, nothing to drink, please. I don't want to embarrass myself. I refuse to be... I don't want to embarrass myself in front of Trump. The one thing I know. I need to stay tough here. Oh, man.

So getting back to the timeline of Swig and the dirty sodas, during the 20 teams, they blow up and there's all these copycat chains, and then it spreads, like, even like New York City gets one and Minnesota gets one. But really, um, looking through, like, like the timeline of it. I guess in 2021, Olivia Rodriguez posted a TikTok where she was showing off her swig soda and that was a big deal. But really, the thing that made these explode

is 2024, the release on Hulu of the secret lives of Mormon wives, not to be confused with the real housewives of Salt Lake City. I've made that mistake before. Very different. Very good. Now, Bridger, you,

this show, you have like a recap podcast of Secret Lives. Yeah, I recap it on my Patreon. It's exhausting. I watched like one episode of it and it's, it's all about like, it's like, what was the scandal? They're all young moms with a bunch of kids and they're only like 20 years old and they all kind of have the same hairdo. And what was the scandal? So they were, they're part of this. group called mom talk where they were doing like dances on tic talk or whatever and i think that was

essentially it and then it came out that some of them were swinging they were part of a swingers group which feels so throwback in such a weird way and then that came out one of them revealed that they had been swinging but then they started saying like it becomes so unclear and if you watch the whole show you start to think like do they know what swinging is but then they start to start referring to it as soft swinging. It's so confusing. But then they start talking about like, oh, we played spin the bottle. Like, it's so unclear what actually happened.

Wow. But that really blew up the group. So it's like somebody kissed somebody else's husband, but they, and they called it, like it made it like it's a swinger community. Yes, exactly. I think something more did. I mean, I think there was some level of actual swinging, which again, it's like, what decade is this?

Right. But that fractured the group in a way, but also blew them up because suddenly everyone was talking about it. And then that became the main drama. Well, actually, it's not really the drama of the show. They constantly refer back to it, but like that happened years before the show began. And so now it's just about all these little micro dramas about like the big one in season one is like they might go to a Chippendales show. And that pisses off one of the husbands. It's so crazy.

So is it a lot of like things bumping up against their Mormon values, right? Like that's kind of an engine behind the whole thing. They're all pretty like loose Mormons. I think maybe one of them is like really sticking to Mormonism. The rest of them, they're unraveling pretty quickly. I've seen a few episodes of Real Housewise of Salt Lake City. And that too, I think had a storyline of some swinging happening. Or at least somebody was telling me like off the camera there was some swing.

stuff happening, which is funny the two salt lake shows are like, well, that's one thing too. They drink a lot of soda and they're swinging. Well, it's the repression. It's the flip side of the

repression from the back up. Mm-hmm. Blowing up. Yeah, I feel like what happened in real housewives? I feel like somebody, there was like a rumor that someone had given

someone else a blowjob to get Utah jazz tickets or something. Oh, God. But Secret Lives of Mormon wives, I think, really is true to Utah culture in a way that real housewives is not as much. Those women, like, one of them is from New York and lives most of the time in New York. Two of them are kind of Mormon, like ex-Morman. But it doesn't feel like when I started. One of them is Greek and always talks about being Greek, right?

She's obsessed. She's embarrassing the Greek community. She's got to, like, tone it down a little bit. She brings great shame to me and my family. I'm sure. I'm going to pray to Zeus about this. This last season was entirely her just like talking. She was constantly in Greek flag clothing, bothering her daughter about being Greek.

It's pretty clear, like, she's never really focused on this until she was on camera. It was like, I need a hook. I need a hook. People are going to love this. I need a Greek thing. Okay, so on secret lives of more and wives, do you see these sodas in their hands and stuff? Oh, yeah. I mean, in my recaps, I keep pretty good track of when they first appear in the season. Season two, the brand poppy, which is like one of those diarrhea sodas, the probiotic or whatever, was clearly like dumping money in for them to be drinking poppy, but you could tell none of them wanted that.

So there was less swig. But swig pops up in every season. You will see at least a couple different cups of someone. And they take them to like events. It's such a, this is a really weird part of, I think of Utah culture where people will go to a swig or a gas station, get a soda and then go to like a party. They'll, or like a wedding and carry the soda in. It's very odd. Do you remember when like Starbucks, I feel like when I first moved to L.A., celebrities being photographed with like big obnoxious Starbucks cups was like a big thing.

Like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton having like a big Rappuccino. with a whipped cream on top was like it was sort of a status symbol for like a little minute there would this be like the moms bringing in like the big stanley mugs and like just yeah it feels like it feels like very much like Stanley mug culture yes okay okay that's i'm picturing exactly ladies like a big cup l lbc okay but so the the main lady on the show is uh uh taylor frankie paul and i found on On Swig's TikTok, their official TikTok, I found this video about this certain dirty soda, Jeff, go ahead, hit the clip. Taylor Frankie Paul is iconic. Of course her swig order will be too.

She's a Texas tab, girly, so let's make her one. Start with some pebble ice, then fill up that cup with crispy doctor pepper. Add a splash of vanilla and top it off with a swirl of coconut cream. And there you have it. If you're going to cause some drama, you might as well have a signature drink. Yeah, I mean, that logic checks out. If you're going to cause some drama, you might as well have a signature drink, yeah?

Yeah. I should mention quickly, this is drinking related. A recent drama on Secret Lives of Mormon Wives was there was this thing about something tasting like fruity pebbles during sex for one of the characters. And it recently came out that her, what tasted like fruity pebbles was her husband drinking her pee. Oh.

That's like the later. drama. Oh, now wait a minute. Can I guess what it is? I bet you it's like pediolite or something like that. You know, like the,

you know, like porn stars do. Yeah. Oh, interesting. Wait, now hold on. Why do you,

porn stars drink pedolite? Yeah, because they lose so much fluids. Oh. And so then their pee tastes like fruity pebbles. Yes. Like, uh,

I've heard, uh, you know, like, don't make me say squatters, squirters. Squirters. Oh.

Don't do what don't say And they drink grape pediolite And then sort of tastes like grapeedialite So that's what I'm guessing Wow that logic does make sense I think you may have uncovered something here Yep Jeff I've seen I

You're talking about you're talking about porn stars Losing fluid I saw a video Where this one porn star was doing nothing But gaining fluid If you get a minute It was a special section on the site. Nothing but.

He wasn't going to fluid. Fluid. How much fluid this is late you need? My gosh. It was fluid.com. All right. All right. All right.

Okay. So this drink, we chose of all the dirty sodas. And if you look at the menu, Swigs menu, they got Life's a Peach, raspberry dreams, Spring, Fling,

Princess Peach, Big Al, a million of them, but kind of the flagship, popular one, is the Texas tab. And that is Taylor Frankie, Paul's drink of choice. And the recipe, as said, I don't have exact measurements, so we're going to do splashes and swirls, like she said. But according to Swig, it's pebble ice. I don't have pebble ice, but I do have a bag of, like, store-bought ice that's kind of smashy rather than just cubes. then get a nice big cup you fill up with pebble eyes then fill it almost all the way with uh dr pepper and then she's in that tic-tock she said one's a splash of vanilla syrup and the the brand they use

is torani that italian coffee syrup okay um do you guys have that that's i was able to find that at albertsons yeah i got some i went cheaper just because i could those are one of those things where I've seen them, like you've seen them, I see them all the time. And I'm like, oh yeah, where do I fucking see those things every time I go to the grocery store?

And you see them in the wild with like a pump. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tarani, Torino. Yeah. It's a weird thing to buy at the grocery store. It feels like something that should only be bought for a drink place or something to walk out of the store

with a vanilla syrup. What are you doing with that? Right. And it's also weird. Are there people making their like coffee at home in the morning? and it's like hazelnut and vanilla and almond and all those flavors. I mean, I guess so. Oh, just looking at the menu on the website.

It's got pictures of all the drinks, but they all look just like pebble ice and cola in them. They all look exactly the same. Yeah, it's all brown water. It's, yeah. And they're all like, you're always adding syrups and creamers. Is that right? I thought it was like candy and ice cream and stuff,

but it's more like syrups and creamers. Right. It's kind of just like extreme coffee. You're like adding sugar to the sugaryest drink commercially available. This is unbelievable. You're not cutting it at all. There was something. When I went there and I tried it, there was some add-ons you could get.

And one of the things I got was like these like flavor burst balls, like strawberry flavor, like almost like a bobo ball, but artificial. And that you would get one like, you'd be stuck in a shot on you. Popping pearls. Yeah. Popping pearls. popping pearls here. So it's like gushers. It looks like.

Exactly. But it is weird to just be sucking them up a straw. And biting, anyway, we're not doing any popping pearls here. But then, okay, the final ingredient is top off with a swirl

of coconut cream. And when I first read coconut cream, I was like, oh, it's going to be hard to figure out what this is. And then Swig officially uses coconut cream flavor.

coffee mate. And they use a lot of coffee mates and Toranis. That's what's going on over there. I found that in the at Albertsons. You guys have coconut cream? Yeah, I was just saying I don't like fake coconut flavor. Yeah. Coffee mate.

Coffee mate just on its own is one of those things that like picturing just that without it mixed anything in my mouth is so disgusting. It's like that stuff is so like it's got its own flavor. just can't, just picturing it in my mouth alone is so gross. That stuff is so thick and rich. It feels like we've moved on from coffee made. It feels like as a society, we don't need coffee made anymore. Yeah. It is weird. It's still around. And it's like, it feels like it was just like a powder, like in the 80s and 90s, like a powder people use. But I was surprised to see a whole refrigerator full of them. There was like 10 flavors still. Big bottles. I'll do

French vanilla or hazelnut occasionally, but I've, even I've moved on to Chopani and, you know, we've all grown up. The other sort of oat milk ones. Yes, yes, we've all grown up. Should we make these things? Yeah, we should get it going. So I, you know, like, I guess it's up to us to each to define what is a splash of vanilla syrup and a swirl of coconut cream. But, you know, it's like watching other TikToks, the kind of people were saying, it's like one to two pumps of Tarani, and the pumps were like tablespoons, which is like, you know, tablespoon.

How big are you making your, how big of a drink you make it? The biggest cup that I have is like 16 ounces. That's what I'm going with. Yeah. I'm not going to do a huge. Look at this. Hell, yeah.

Whoa. Look at that thing. Is that Wendy's? Where's that from? No, this is, this is from the extram. mile. That's down at the Chevron station. That's a nice big

cup. Oh, damn. Big boy. I really wanted it to be as authentic as possible. These, the secret, the Mormon wives are like tiny little ladies and they always, they always have like the 44 ounce massive amounts of liquid.

Yeah. Okay, great. Shall we let's take a break and make these? Dude, let's do it. Folks, we'll be right back with more The Sloppy Boys. Man Dirty soda

Texas tab in hand Yeesh This is wild I can't believe People are drinking these My creamer was settling On the bottom And I sort of kick it up

Yeah I went kind of heavy On the creamer I'm worried Me too First sips I don't think I wouldn't Well let's go

Mike you barely have any creamer I know I know I know I know I know Oh, that's the worst flavor. This is too much.

Too much of a thing. Wow. I can't imagine like I'm, what is this? Maybe a 16 ounce mug type thing here. Having 44 ounces of this in my hand would like make my teeth feel like they want to fall out. This is so bad. Imagine drinking all of that in less than like two hours. or so.

Crazy. And that's horrifying flavor. And it's like your everyday thing. That's like 6,000 calories. Oh. Yeah. So is this like,

I feel like this is just an upper, right? Like this is just the way that people in the Appalachians use Mountain do as like an antidepressant. Right? Oh, yeah.

Absolutely. Like it's just, it's for people to get zipped up. Yeah. I mean, because there's no coffee. Wait, what do you mean Mountain Dew? Like, truly in the Appalachians, they use Mountain Dew as like, oh, as like a mood regulator.

Well, like, in the old old days, Mountain Dew was like a, what's a, like, like, um, light, what's that, uh, moonshine? Moonshine. It was moonshine, basically. But they would call it mountain dew. Well, I hope I'm not getting my wires crossed. Yeah, I mean, I think it's both things that I, I'm guessing that it's like,

yeah, when you can't have any other vices. that's like then sugar, we've like perverted sugar and turned it into the to the thing. But then I also, when I went to Swig in, um, uh, Salt Lake City, it was like, as I was ordering at the counter and I could see out the takeout window as the cars were pulling up. And it was all like 20 something girls that were like so happy to get these, uh, big cups handed to them. And I, I really, I felt like it's like the, the, I, I do think it's about being left out of Starbucks.

Like so much of it is just about like. Completely. Yeah. Like I just, I want a conversation piece and I want to like arrive to a thing with a clangy, bangy, uh, uh,

drink. But like, I do wonder like how if you were like to, I, when I was looking at when I found that TikTok that we played here, I found 2,000 TikToks of girls like mixing their own versions of these and like loving the flavor. And I'm like,

oh, that's weird to me that if you, I could understand wanting a ton of sugar and I could understand wanting a big cup. It's weird to me if you think that diet or that Dr. Pepper is better with coconut and vanilla added to it. Yeah, it's funny because Diet Pepper is such a unique thing anyway than to add, like I would do if it was Coke.

It already has 23 flavors. 23 flavors. It's the whole thing. You didn't need two more. So now it's 25, baby. This is just, I really can't. get my head around. Like, I know drinking more than like two coffees a day is a lot for some people, but just drinking more than one of these every single day is like, and to look forward to

drinking something like this. It's so weird to me. Just just because I'm, it's so sweet. Nasty. Right. And the vanilla is like pointless in this. There's, what is that adding in any way? Exactly. Literally more sweet. Just more, more, more calories. And it feels like redundant that it's like, in the mix in Dr. Pepper, there's a vanilla-ish type thing. And then when you're coconut, you're like, oh, coconut also has like, and it's like creamy. It's so weird to then be adding vanilla. It's just like, okay, it's there too. There's not like a synergy going on.

I taste the three ingredients very clearly, you know? It's, I think you're right with the creamy. It's like, it's taken the crisp out of the, like, the sodiness of the Dr. Pepper. You know what I mean? What I enjoyed at that football party just the other day, I am not enjoying anymore. You're hooked. You're absolutely hooked. Well, I like it.

You love it. Jeff finished this. I'm finding myself reaching for it. Yeah. I don't want to drink this every day, but on a podcast with my bros, you'll suck one of these down. Yeah. How do you feel about the coconut? It sticks out.

I don't like it. but uh main flavor it's it's like 200% sweet like this is the sweetest thing i've maybe ever had yep but uh i don't i don't know it's as a novelty thing i could finish this tonight but look how small yours is that's not what they're serving this is a uh it's not as big as yours brigger come on but i this is a this is a venty uh Starbucks venty So it's a venty, okay. So 24 ounces? 24?

Yeah, I think that's 24 ounces. So I guess that's a, that's like a kid size of swig. Yeah. Okay. I'll tell you, there ain't no way I'm falling asleep tonight. This is too much sugar, too late in the night for me. You're going to be all wound up. Yes, I'll be up reading all night, I'm sure.

Reading one of my books. Reading? Oh, it's the only thing I find. Reading about salt. Reading about salt all night. Oh, ate too much. much sugar. Now I'm reading too much about salt. What's wrong with me?

For my round two, though, I definitely gonna splash a little vanilla vodka in here. Oh. Oh. You need more vanilla. Not regular vodka, vanilla vodka. It'll certainly diminish things. I can imagine whiskey, this being a mixer for

whiskey could be kind of fun. I've had whiskey and Dr. Pepper before. I think people down south. do that. But you know what's weird is looking at the menu, it is strange to use all the sodas that are the base sodas in the soda section on their menu is Dr. Pepper, Coke, and Mountain Dew. But then there's other, there's a, there's a section called, as opposed to sodas, there's refreshers. And those are water based. And then you're adding, flavors to us. So you're basically like making

lemonade and stuff like that. Interesting. So Starbucks had refreshers. I don't know if it's like, you know, refreshers trademark or something, but members, like, Starbucks had a bunch of like, it was like dragon fruit. Yeah, dragon fruit or like seafone green or like a coral colored one. I feel like

they had a famous, they had like a lemonade that was viral or something. I do think that Starbucks is watching Swig and being like, oh, we got to keep our like non-coffee. drinks going because people want this stuff. Do the swing places have like

sitting areas the way like a coffee shop would? Like are they trying to make it a third space type thing? They are being like, come on and read a book. Yeah, it's sort of like a center of like art and philosophy. Philosophy. I've never seen the one that I went to was just a counter. But Bridger, have you like sat down and hung out at one? Yeah, the last time I was in Utah, I went to one.

that had tables, but it was just my mom and I in the store, and they had like truly nine teens behind the counter making sodas for two people. None of it made any sense to me. And it's like, you know, it's like those cheap IKEA metal chairs that somebody clearly just bought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The easiest thing they could buy. It's not, it's, it's not a cozy atmosphere, I would say. Gotcha, gotcha.

I also smelled highly of some sort of, like, industrial. real cleaner. So the atmosphere was not exactly what you're looking for when you're drinking soda and eating cookies. The bare minimum for an establishment. Yeah, exactly. I mean, you can feel the bare minimumness and the fact that they use coffee meat like openly. Like it feels like they should be making their own coffee or syrups or whatever. The fact that these teenagers are just like these brand name things is feels so half-assed. Yeah, it feels like there's a hole in the market there for a company to make them well. Just simply like the...

Yeah. Maybe the sloppy boys. Use some level of quality. This has the, I mean, this is being, this is brought up all the time these days, but like, this has a very like idiocacy vibe to it. Like, you like your soda with extra soda in it. Yes. You know, that type of nasty. Totally.

And here's a weird, like, logic kind of mind fuck is like the third second. There's sodas, there's refresh. We love these here. There's sodas, there's refreshers, and then there's a menu section that's revivers. And what is that? These are, the base is energy drink. They have, like, their own version of Red Bull.

And I'm looking it up, it does have caffeine. It has like a Red Bull amount of caffeine in it. So we're so far off the logic of hot drink stuff. You know, like where it's like, if you can essentially have Red Bull, that's wild. Yeah, like the maneuvers to get around drinking coffee, like the thing you're getting out of coffee is crazy. Right.

The extent people will go to get caffeine, which is just like, well, if you just had a natural beverage that has caffeine in it, rather than whatever the hell this is. And the idea that like we, the reason for the sugar, it being so sugary was we were saying before like, oh, you're getting like a sugar high because you can't do other things. But if you have like Red Bull in your cup,

why are you then also needing that sugar fix if you have like a bunch of caffeine? Is it just for taste? Is it Torrine and B vitamins or anything? Anything like that or like? Let's let me see if I was Tori. Bridger, do you drink coffee at all? Are you a coffee person? Yeah, I drink coffee a lot.

Yeah. I drink you consider well amount of just black coffee. Oh. Oh. I just got myself a French press over here. So I'm excited to have this vanilla thing. This vanilla syrup. Oh, yeah.

You've got that to ruin your coffee. Anytime I try, like maybe once every few months, I'll be like, oh, I'm going to get like a fancy coffee drink and I'll order it. And then I'll just realize, oh, I just like the taste of coffee. Why did I get this chocolate, whatever? Yeah, yeah. We were, I was writing on a show and the, the writer's assistant had gone to like Trader Joe's to buy coffee for the writers. And she was not a coffee drinker herself. And she was like, check it out.

I think I did pretty good. And it was like, around the holidays. So it was like, look, I got like peppermint coffee and gingerbread coffee and all these coffees and none of them normal. And it was like, oh, she doesn't realize like we like coffee. like we want to cough. We're not trying to hide by the candy taste. Yes, on the Torrine, by the way, the revivors do have Torin. Get the fuck out of here.

The thing I'm surprised about Tim is when you said the refreshers, I kind of assumed it would be like sparkling water would be the base. And they just simply don't have that as an option. That's the one thing that makes kind of sense of like putting flavor into sparkling water. Right. Like an Italian soda, that sounds normal and wonderful. But it does. look funny. Like on the menu just to see

the word water so much, it's like Oh, it's like, oh, what's in the mistletoe madness? Water is the first thing. And every one of it is. My favorite ingredient. Okay, wait a second. The summer splash is the one that does have sparkling water.

Okay. Oh, okay. But that's summer splash. Anything was Sprite or seven up? That's sort of my go to. Yep, riptied, Mike. You'd like riptide. What would you guys change for a round two of this? I think that I am going to

I don't want to finish this big one I made but what I want to do is pour some of it into a rocks glass and put a shot of whiskey and see if I can turn my dirty soda into a dirtier soda kind of to a filthy soda. Yeah, I want to sort of counteract it

like balance it out like maybe some sort of bitters or something in there to just like, okay, I got enough sweet. What's the other, what's the other coordinate on the tongue that I can. You're going to have to dig deep. Damn, bitters than this, Jeff, it sounds crazy. Like, just because this is such a weird flavor. Hoof, I wish you well.

It is funny that in the normal, like, cocktail world, if it drinks too sweet, yeah, it's like, oh, balance it out with sour or bitter, but this is so sweet. You can have to put so much of some other mystery ingredient. It's like sweet in its own weird. Well, Jeff, do you still have some of that, uh, Do you have citric acid powder leftover from we did that? That'll probably balance it up.

I do. I do. I'm going to take a big swig of this and then I'm going to put vanilla vodka. Does there are any big plans for you? Would you tweak your ratio? This is not salvageable. I would just not.

I would just drink a soda if I wanted a soda. maybe put a lime in it. Ooh, okay. I like a lime in a in a cola. Oh, yes. That's as far as, that's the only thing you should add. But would you have a lime in a Dr. Pepper?

Oh, yeah. Try it. I've never thought of that. It's a nice little something. You say a lime to a doctor probably. Yeah, yeah, I would do that. You put a lime in a Coke all the time for Cuba Libre, for example. I put a lime in the coconut and call the doctor woke him up.

Come on now. All right, all right. All right. All right, folks. We'll be right back with round two on our Final thoughts on dirty soda after this. With round two, dirty soda. I kind of fucked mine up.

I put in half a juice, half a limes worth of juice. But I did it in the wrong order where I did lime juice first. And then I put the creamer right on top of it and it promptly turned two chunky flakes. Oh. So you can see the flakes. Sort of swimming in there, but I'm still going to try it out. It's like cheese. What if it's really good cheese?

Jeff becomes a cheese monger. Ooh. Bad cheese. Something about like lime and vanilla. I know we've had a drink on the show that combined like lime and vanilla. But actually this is a little more balanced out. It's giving Orange Julius. Ooh, I like that.

Really. Now, Jeff, what about think key lime pie? Does that do it anything? It's giving key lime pie. Hey. No, I. He thought he can, anything he thinks about, he can taste this. Were you guys following the Al Roker, key lime pie on a plane thing?

That sounds familiar, but no. Wait, yes. What is this? Oh, yeah, I heard this. Like, he was talking to People magazine or something and like his, his little secret for being on a plane is like, you can have key lime pie by getting the, the, what are those Biscop? Biscop. squeezing a lime on it this pathetic person

wait a minute where's like the creamy thing come from it's just like it doesn't matter it doesn't matter he's it's probably like yeah you put some you get coffee and you put a little you squeeze a little creamer on there too

but apparently there's something else he does on planes which is he freezes a gallon of coffee and then can carry it on the plane and he like lets it thaw so he can have which i didn't realize was a rule like i guess it i don't know if this is true or not that if you have a frozen liquid you can take more than three ounces this is his way of working around that what he's they're probably letting him do it because he's al roker not because it's the rule i think he just wants to be transgressive that's there's a word for that he's pushing the envelope malicious compliance malicious compliance

Oh, man. I'll tell you, next time I fly, I'm bringing gallons and gallons of liquids all frozen. It's okay. Roker does it. Hundreds of pounds of... You let Roker do it. All right. I put vodka in this and it's...

Not good. It's made it worse. It's taken the flavor away somehow. I don't understand. Maybe just as ice has gotten too much. melty, but this drink is Fubar. At this point,

I'm gonna finish it. I put whiskey in mine and yeah, it doesn't really do anything. It's like, it's still, it just tasted like the other thing, but not with whiskey in it. But it's just like, at least there's a reason that you like use the sweetness and like there's a reason for me to drink this. Now, like I could drink this and get drunk at least. Otherwise, I don't know why one would.

drink a dirty soda. Mine just continues to be the same thing, but the ice is melted more. So that's probably good. Same but warm. If it's diluted. Yeah. It tastes like a horrible snow cone. Yeah.

Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Well, I guess like those, that's kind of our final thoughts. Wouldn't, wouldn't you say? Yeah. I didn't review my round. Well, just in general.

I would I yeah no I'm not I'm not a Texas tab guy too sweet yeah far too sweet it's good to have one only in the occasion of like you're drinking it with your friends on a podcast one time to to joke about it's worth uh dude trying it as like a curiosity just be like whoa there's a whole culture of people somewhere who do this every single day not for millions of gallons every day. Millions of gallons. It's weird though, like the amount, on TikTok, the amount of people making it at home and like, let me

show you how to kind of do this version of Swig or let me show you like this one I came up with. That's weird to me because I really only understand this as a, like I'm not allowed to have Starbucks and I want a big clangy cup of something sweet so I'm going to Swig and driving through. It feels like

that's the experience too. It's like I'm in my car with a giant cup. It's like only experience because like we're saying, it's all sodas you can buy. Like, they use sodas you can buy and coffee creamers you can buy. There's really nothing other than, you can mix this all up in your home like we're doing and not liking it. But you're right.

It's just like, I want to go somewhere with my big cup and drive through a thing and talk to someone. Because I'm the loneliest person in Salt Lake City. The loneliest 22-year-old mom of eight. 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, you know it's patreon.com slash

the sloppy boys. That's where you double your pleasure every week. Hey. That's good. I would like to give a shout out to our listener Melinda, a slobhead who we met

at our show at Indianapolis, who pitched us the idea. She said, hey, you should have Bridgeron and talk dirty sodas. And we said, That's actually a brilliant idea. God bless. That should be inspiration to everyone listening that you could make a difference on this podcast

if you have wonderful massive brainstorms. That's a good listener. You just need to have a good idea. We get so many bad ideas coming our way. You could all learn from Melinda. Linda came at us with a good idea and we took it. Oh and folks, we're going to be in Salt Lake on March 23rd as part of the spring tour for the other dates.

at the socials. No, where are you playing? Quarters, arcade. Oh, that sounds exciting. I'm not, I guess I'm not up on Salt Lake Things anymore. I think it's the biggest arena in the city. That's where the jazz play. Yeah, exactly.

It's where the jazz play jazz. Thanks for doing this, Bridger. Thank you for having me. Where can people find you? I have my podcast. I said no gifts. It has a Patreon. Very funny show.

Thank you. You can find that. Sign up for the Patreon. The podcast industry is ash. Every part of entertainment is ash. So if you can support somebody. Sign up for the sloppy boys Patreon. Sign up for the I said no gifts, Patreon. I will say lives are cratering. You know, we've all heard podcasts before and they all have to have titles and we all get that. I said no gifts is probably the best podcast title I've heard in my podcast wheelings and dealings.

Good for you. That's a good one. I said, thank you. I'm happy to do it. The theme song is Amy Mann. Is that a song? Did she make that for you or is that an existing song?

She wrote it. It's a miracle that she wrote that and recorded it for me. That's great. My boyfriend and I became friends with Amy. a few years ago, and I needed a theme song, and so I can't believe if I even asked her. It must have been a lapse in judgment. Yeah, right, right.

Like, why am I asking Amy Mann to her? But she was happy to, and she wrote, like, that's the one part of my podcast that I can legitimately say is good, because I didn't have anything to do with her. Tune out after that theme song. Yeah. Is it a fuller, is there a longer version of the song, or is it just the theme? No, it's just that. It's great.

It's just that. That's so cool. That's the coolest. Yeah, she is the all-time best. Damn. Oh, yeah. Check her out, folks. Amy Mann on Spotify.

That kind of brings it back to PTA. Magnolia. It does. This is very true. We got to talk to him, see if he's listening to any of the albums yet. PT, come on the podcast. Defend yourself, bro. Yeah.

Defend yourself. Bye, folks. Have a great week. Bye!