The Sloppy Boys - 294. Spanish Gin and Tonic

Episode Date: June 5, 2026

The guys make spruced-up G&Ts inspired by the Basque Country.SPANISH GIN AND TONIC RECIPE:2oz/60ml GIN4oz/120ml TONIC WATER5-10 JUNIPER BERRIES1 wheel LEMON1 sprig THYMEPour gin into a wine glass filled 3/4 with ice. Top with tonic and stir gently. Garnish with juniper berries, a lemon wheel and a thyme sprig.Recipe via Liquor.comWANT 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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Hey folks. Welcome to the Sloppy Boys. where we take a deep dive into the drinks that you love. I'm Jeff Dutton along with Mike Amford. Yo. And Tim Kalpacchis. What is up? Oh, and we're your host fresh from the road.

We still stink. I'm still a little, yeah, I'm still a little rusty. Sitting in that van. Thanks everybody for coming on out. I haven't gone to bed. I kept the party going from the southern streak straight to the pod. We rocked the south, folks. Yes, we did.

We rocked a very hot, very humid south. The south is in shambles, folks, and we're back on bond. It was reminiscent of the Civil War when the Confederacy tried to break away. And the Union, it was like, no, you're still in. We went, you know, they wanted to be left alone. We went down there and rocked them back in. Thanks to everybody at Nashville Jorts Fest. That was fun as fuck.

We wore Jorts. We rocked. What a fest. Indoor festival in a bowling alley with three stages indoors. That was sick. It was a retrofitted Kmart. Kmart. That had been a couple of, I think 2019, they said got retrofitted in this like kind of cool lanes.

How many would you say like 10 bowling lanes? Not like a huge, the hugest place ever. But it was like the Eastside Bowl in East Nashville. Somebody I was talking to was saying like they were modeling it off of the Brooklyn Bowl thing. He's like, and we also have two Brooklyn Bowls in Nashville on Broadway. I was like, whoa, Jesus. This Brooklyn bowl is... Big bowling down.

Yeah, really. But it's funny, even approaching it from the outside, like, I remember feeling like it had like almost a smash mouth aesthetic. Like, they're kind of doing whatever smash mouth was hearkening back to... Is that postmodern... What does that look? It's like... I don't know.

It's like a mid-century jetons. Yeah, it's mid-century googie. Yeah. Mid-century. You mentioned that. there was a, it had a smash mode aesthetic. I did see, there was this girl inside and she was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead.

Yeah. Oh, shit. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Okay. Did she enjoy the show?

She did. But yeah, that was, that was very cool. The, uh, each, there were three stages. So like, there was always, uh, a band going on each stage. And we could walk from like room to room. It felt like, Boy, I felt really cool that day. And how about East Nashville just in general?

Like we've been to Nashville proper. Yeah. And to all the three-story honky talks and all that stuff. But this was our first time kind of going to like the Brooklyn of Nashville. Like the East East Nashville. We went to a showman's, which is my favorite new little dive, I got to say. Wonderful. Ooh, perfect execution.

You know, it's like you're stepping into an old-timey old man dive bar, except it's new and it's clean and it doesn't stink and everything's new. But they didn't, you know, like all of the beer memorabilia on the walls, it was all grail items, great choices. Like real halogen bulbs, then get hot and not like LED reissues. Like my live music sign behind my head right now? Sure, sure. That's like a USB plug coming out of there. And then also, Shulman's, you know, we have places in L.A. like Lowboy that I love that do this type of thing, like the dive bar themed new bar.

But you just got to be careful with the prices. And Loeboy isn't bad because they do have shot in beer specials. But in general, if I'm at a quote unquote dive bar and then I have a $16 cocktail, it's no longer a dive bar. As soon as they start getting like vintage slits stuff on the wall, they're like, oh, now we can do like $19 for a margarita. No, no, no, no. That's that you're being like a revisionist dive, like a glitter dive or something. Yeah. This is a new dive that is clean, but appreciates old.

without being pretentious and expensive. And the food, the food was really, you know, went along with the prices as it was inexpensive. But it also like, what I, Jeff and I got these, like, pastrami sandwiches, basically. And they weren't huge. They weren't, like, huge, but it didn't feel like it was, like, shrinkflation stuff. It was, like, appropriately priced for, like, a correct amount of food without being like, oh, I ate way too much. I went to a great place in East Nashville. We all left on different flights.

so there's a bit of a stagger. So I found myself with an extra couple hours to kill all by my lonesome in Nashville. Jeff and I left in the afternoon. And Tim, you sort of fly by night, goodbye. You remind me of the band Rush, who we talked about on this week's episode of the blowout, Patreon.com slash the sloppy boys. A good one. That is right.

That is right. We dove deep into Rush. The drinks that you love. We felt the rush. I went to a place called Dinos. That was a kind of like a dive, divey bar. Well, I was more of a divey burger place that then had like, you could get like a fernet, not even,

they had bronca, but then they also had weird fernets that I didn't even know. And they were cheap. But then I got this like burger and fries. And then listen to this. You know, they were, they were, lots of people of places will kind of model themselves after in and out burger. This didn't look like it. It's like a dive bar.

But the fries, you could get the fries animal style. And I live in California. I say, I know animal style from in and out. That is... They called them animal style, too. They called them animal style. It was like, melted cheese,

grilled onions, and Thousand Island, right? But then they had this other one that was their own that was called Joe's style. And I was like, oh, what's Joe's style fries? And they said,

Velvita, grilled onions, chili oil and tartar sauce. Oh! It was so fucking good. And you could see how each... It's like the tartar sauce instead. I was sort of doing the Vince McMahon meme

when you were saying all the yeah yeah the galaxy brain guy um very I'm doing from now on everything I do Joe's style hey Tim

how do you want your food Joe's style I said hey how do you want us to do your taxes uh your weeys you still want your weaties the IRS gets a tax forms

they're all soggy um and and also the fact that they had Fernette means I'm drinking my DG stiff as I pig out. So, you know, I'm kind of digesting. That's good. It's like nothing's happening. Nothing's happening. Yeah. Completely level. Tim, you're a perpetual

motion machine at that point. I had reached equilibrium. I'll tell you one surprise I got. We got back from the tour and I was looking in my fridge and I say, I got a little bit of pineapple juice left for this can, old dull can of pineapple juice for a few weeks ago. And I was

like, I wonder if this is still good because I was drinking it like until the day that I left for the tour and I go I'm gonna pour myself a small juice glass of pineapple juice. This is no hyperbole. It came out completely black. Oh, was it rust? Like the top of the can I guess was rusty.

But then the juice was it was like thick like pineapple juice and just dark black like as if when Burger King did the Darth Vader burger and they made the Whopper bun black. It would be it was like if. Dole had done the Darth Vader juice. Oh, it was like if Dolded that? Dolded Darth now? It was like that. It was like if dolded that?

Damn, I can't believe it. That's vile, man. Were there any chunks? Come on, you can tell us. No, that's what's weird. It was pristine juice other than instead of yellow, it was dark black. Hmm. Now, did you, when you poured this juice, did you pour it out of like a pitcher or a can or

like did you pour out like the bottom of your oil pan in your car? I poured out of the bottom of the oil pan in my car. That's what I'm thinking. Maybe this is old used oil. That could be it. It's crude. That could very well be it. Crude oil.

Nah, probably ain't. Well, do we get into some booze news? Boobib, bit, bit, bit, bit, booze news hit it. Grew, Grogoo, Grogoo. Grit, Grooo, Grooo, Grooo. Grew and Grogoo was sent to us by Tom Hand and If you have a booze news theme, email it to the sloppy boys podcast at gmail.com. The handyman.

Well, the handman likes the handyman on that one. That was fucking awesome. Was that vapor wave, you think? That was its own type of wave. Some sort of wave. Goo. Goo wave. Yeah, we should have done more with the gru, gru, grew, and grow goo.

I did a whole shirt, but we never came out with it. Let's put it out. Let's try. Let's do it. Grute, grew, and grow, goo. It's the goo crew. It's a funny gru. It's a good one. I like

this shirt that's coming out. It sort of hurts to say. See this shirt I'm wearing? Did we ever put these out? Yeah, the naked lady's ear farting. Yeah, we sold at least a dozen of those. What? I got to get a new one. This one's faded. I love this shirt. It's also funny when it's just a a JPEG in the middle of a shirt. That's just rectangular.

I ordered this when I was, I came home and I was, it was in my cups a little bit that night. And I decided, I sort of out of nowhere it was like, oh, geez, I got to put, I got to make this image now. Made it, set it on over to Vista print type of thing.

A few days later, had it. It's just that fast. Now you got yourself a wearable. That's nice. I hope I get my cups this episode a little bit. I've got, I'm half in a cup right now, I'll tell you. You had some pre-show.

Marks. Marks. You did? Yeah, it's a national holiday, Mike, at time of recording. Oh, and that's why we're all wearing white shirts here. That makes sense. It's officially summer. Listeners, imagine your three new classic guys in white shirts.

All different types. We got Jeff and a collard, Tim and a graphic and me and a homemade. We should do a wet t-shirt contest on the blowup. Yes. That wouldn't be so bad. And we'll describe each other's nipples to the listeners. They're protruding. See the boys nips.

What's the actual booze news here, Tim? Oh, free the nipple, I meant to say. Free the nipple. Free the bush. Tim, take it away. Jeff, listen up. Remember earlier you mentioned Schlitz beer? a Schlitz beer sign.

You mentioned Schlitz? Yeah. Well, prepare yourself. Schlitz beer has shut down, folks. After 177 years, the Milwaukee legend is gone. They're owned by Pabst and they have been discontinued. Sales were getting so low that Paps wasn't even making themselves anymore. They were, they're outsourcing it to Bush and Bush was making Schlitz for Paps.

Oh, God. Jesus Christ. They're outsourcing it to Bush. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. Slits is making Pabrude. There's another Grogoo and Grogu on our hands. Don't expect a shirt out of this one, folks.

This one's too contended. Pabst is making Schlitz for Bush is making Schlitz for Pats. Oh, fuck my life. Oh, it's being all underwritten by the Avalon Group. Oh, brother. That's also, that's like that meme of the, like, couple in bed.

Like, he's probably thinking about other girls. and then it says, Papp's is having Bushman Schlitz. It's a picture of our, it's a video of our podcast saying it's not even his own. Okay, so, and one interesting thing about that was for the last batch,

which happened last week, the Wisconsin Brewing Company, they were like, can we make the last batch? Because they were like the old company that had like then sold it to PAP. So Papp said, yeah, go for it. So there was like the final batch was made in Wisconsin, and then there was a big party, a last batch party.

And everyone celebrated. You know, RIP to a real one, because Schlitz has some of the best merch you've ever seen. Yeah, Schlitz is a time-honored brand. And can nothing survive anymore? Jeez. I remember Schlitz gay on... Schmitz. Oh, but that's an obvious reference to Schlitz.

Is it not? You are dead wrong, Jeff. There's a different beer called Schmitz. Oh, I'm sorry, I got to call you out. I respectfully, I bow out. I'm done. I'm not podcasting anymore. I'm tired of it.

This is a debate, like a Charlie Kirk style YouTube video where I just dunked on you real hard. This is a real gotcha moment, Tim. Yeah. Wait, Tim, you, you say, who did you say is, uh, uh, brewing the last schlitz's, last round? Uh, Wisconsin Brewing Company. Do they, what, what beers do they make? Maybe you said this, I just didn't hear. Um, other beers, I don't know in Wisconsin.

Oh, is it, it's, okay. Oh, wait, no. What's that beer we always have when we're at, uh, when we're in Cudahey, Wisconsin? Oh, yeah. Uh, it's like, it can't go out of that state, you mean? That one? Yeah, yeah, what's that one? The blue, yeah.

Blue cow beer. Cow beer. Cow beer. Moo cow. Mu cow. Mo cow. Green cow. Okay, I'm going to look this up. It's the one that it's really good, but it's all like, it's also, I think you can't bring it across state lines or something.

It can only be new glaris. Yeah, yeah, yeah, hold on. Claris. Lake Louie. Spotted cow. Spotted cow. everyone at home is streaming at their mobile devices. There you go.

What a state. How do you fucking idiots. Yeah, that is a nice little state. So that's the new Glyris Brewing Company. That is not the Wisconsin Brewing Company. Fuck! Okay. Similarly, though,

talking about cheap beers, Miller High Life, I was telling you guys that I recently saw a post on social media from Miller saying, say goodbye to the, old look of Miller High Life because we're redoing our look. Idiots.

That's bad news. That's a bad idea. And we were griping. I was saying those fools because their their bottle has become fools. It's beloved and it's like more in style now than ever. And it pairs with a shot beautifully. Well, they have unveiled the new look and I'm going to text to you guys right now. Folks at home, you could find it on their Instagram.

Mike and Jeff. check your phones. This is not going to be good. I was rather puzzled. It looks exactly the same. So the can maybe looks different, but the bottle looks the same? I can't fucking tell what they changed whatsoever.

It looks exactly the same. Maybe the packaging is different, but the bottle, which was, look, I only cared about the bottle. And the bottle looks the same. The bottle looks exactly the same. The can, the top of the can, has like, see this sort of cream colored thing?

It doesn't go around the can evenly. It kind of like dips down. Right. So this is just like, drink or like where you put your mouth, I guess. So you know where it is. Like Wendy's or any company re-does their thing every year and never makes a big deal of this.

Like they promoted this, but it's the slightest design change. Here I'm texting you in the old can and it's almost identical. But it's just like, yeah, it's like, maybe the colors are slightly faded and maybe there's no like on the red label there's no

gold outlining on it or something no that's insane what you just sent us is exactly the same I know exact weird that's what I thought but that's from October Jeff huh this is very strange I do like those little cufflings though

the little uh Miller High Life okay here's what I venture and this is tough to tell If you zoom in on the old can, you'll see in the red little border there, there's a gold pinstripe. And there's gold pinstriping around the words high life. Now, when we go to the new one, I think they've gotten rid of that. And it's just more like stark.

Yeah. Yeah. That's the only difference. They've just, they've mildly simplified. But that's like all these companies just make it simpler, flatter. Right. I mean, I'm relieved because I didn't want this thing to change majorly. Tim, we all dodged a bullet today.

Yeah. Yeah, I really thought when you, when you, we first heard like, uh, inklings of this, they really bummed me out. Well, because we were pissed two, three years ago, they redid the Miller genuine draft bottle and they turned it from the, the, the classic look of what you found on the woods on the floor of the woods. The woods beer. The woods beer.

probably the penultimate woods beer well not penultimate would mean second to last the ultimate woods beer I was waiting for your big announcement I never knew it penultimate man second to last maybe it'll be red dog maybe it'll be ultimate

but do you remember the new MGD was like very behind the times it was like two three years ago maybe and then they did like an Ed Hardy look where the eagle was really big and red and it like spills out over the label and you're like, oh, fuck. Oh, no, no, no.

I actually, Tim, I actually think that's the tits. Jeff. What? Where are you hearing that? Is that something people say? That's tits. Jav. I know Tim doesn't like that.

I don't like that. Well, Tim's not very tits about that, eh? I'll tell you, that's one of those ones where it's like, it's not like people I hate say that. I've got some good friends to say that. The thing for me about that one, and there's like no reason for it other than like you just want to say that word.

I don't think I, it seems like something people just made up to be like, hey, here's another way we can say this one. Yeah. Taters. Next piece of news. A couple last things here. In social media news, the sloppy boys introduced this drink a few weeks ago called the piss and shit.

Oh, yeah. And they posted a video of it on Instagram, and it has 1.5 million views for us. We went viral. Finally. And folks, this is a win for all of us for the three new classic guys hosting. And each and every one of you listening at home. This is a win for a slop nation. For sure.

And let me tell you this, too, we had people, the last southern stampede we just did. we had bartenders bringing them to us on stage. We had audience members. People were ordering them themselves. Bars were making them. Everyone who tried it for the first time was like, this is really good. I'm surprised it's good and it tastes teaky to meeky.

The sloppy boys have a hit after all. Wait, everyone said it tastes teaky to meeky. That wasn't even like a thing we asked them to say. No, but that's definitely going on the T-shirt though, huh? A little quote on the brinkie. on the breast part it tastes tiki to meiki and then in the back

Hey it tastes teaky to meiki Okay Last little piece of news here Have you guys followed what's going on With the band The Strokes What about them? Let's see I was reading about them I read about them last night

But it was getting late And I didn't read That reminds me of one of their songs in a way Well they just They've been in the news lot lately they've got an album coming out this summer but they played coachella and julian was on subway takes and they've been like they came out with a couple singles and they've been getting a lot of like flack because of their use of auto tune and then they're one of their guitar players

nick valenci dropped out for the tour so there's just been like a lot of strokes news and then i just read this weird thing they they took one of their old songs from their first album and they just re they redid it and they just re-released it today. Let's give it a listen. I brought in the track. Let's see if we could hear what changed. Okay. Can't you see I'm trying a drink and I like it. It has dark rum, pineapple and sour mix, but I'm tweaking because of the namesake I can't keep straight. I'm just way too confused. This piss shit.

This piss shit. This piss shit. Short hers and too. Yeah, much, much shorter. Wow. Well, that's, I mean, I don't like that for the band's, the strokes. I like that band, but I don't think that's a good re-recorded. But boy, the timing on that is fucking perfect for our purposes.

For me, I prefer the old one, but this is great for us. Yeah. This is great. great for us. I mean, this is... Business-wise, this is, I'll take it. And this is not without precedent. Like, a lot of times, not a lot, but it doesn't... Sometimes, you know, somebody like a Taylor Swift, or I don't know if you heard, uh, car seat headrest is re-releasing, uh, an album and it's like, got different parts and like different lyrics. Uh, so that is, this isn't without precedent, Tim. Oh, I know. Yes. This is very, very precedented. I thought you were going to say on this

pod because we've had already even on this podcast people it happens here more than most place talking about the piss and shit already have been like coming up with songs about this it's really cool well folks um just i guess keep in mind that no piss is not shit they're two different things um and the cocktail is dark rum pineapple and sour mix yeah right exactly right piss is shit well that's it for booze news wrap it up Can we just say that for the second time on tour we've stumbled into a hotel room and waited for food and return of the Jedi was on

particularly the Jabba's Palace part. How nice. Crazy. It was very, yeah, that was very fun, especially having just watch. Oh, wait.

I think in my drunk brain, I assumed that you put that on, like you were streaming that. That was on cable? No, it was on cable. You just happened to be on. Oh, my God. It was on like Sundance TV or something. It's so fun.

Didn't we notice, too, there was Jurassic Park Marathon, a all the Star Wars marathon. It seems like cable TV now is just playing all the, like, series of movies in a row. Get the good shit. It's like, all day, Saturday you can watch all the fucking Star Wars you ever seen. Yeah. If you're one of those, like, boring, movie channels, it's a way to make your programming seem interesting. Like someone's like, oh, they're doing a

marathon. I got to watch the whole thing. That's what I'm thinking. Like, it's probably there's no other way to get people to watch TV other than be like, you gotta watch the fucking commercials like a loser. Like, nobody's watching. Put on the damn dino. Put on that dino. First one? Second one.

No, the second one. The second one. Okay. What's the drink of the day? The drink of the day, the Spanish gin and tonic, aka hintonica, like gin tonica, but I know with the other end in Spanish. You've had? No, excited to have.

Not particularly, no. You've heard. Nor heard. I mean, I've gone to the gin and tonic bar, Ombray. Is that what it's called? At the Americana Mall in Glendale, California. Yes, yes, before I go, before I wobble into the AMC. Oh, I've been there with you before, Jeff.

That's a cool place. And you can make all sorts of crazy. stuff and they have all the herbs and all the little spices and you can pick your gin, you pick your tonic, pick your ads. It's almost like a counterburger or a, wow. You tried to think of something in life that's customizable and you chose a burger place. Or what's the pizza place, mod pizza or a, hmm. Every pizza place is kind of pick, like that mod place is that the place that cooks a pizza in

like 10 minutes? Yeah, that's like a quick fire. Like you go through like a Chipotle and you go And that's that place that has like a Maude Flanders theme to it. Yes, right. Ned's, Ned Flander's dead wife? Yeah,

She got knocked over. She got knocked over. Well, let's see, they were at a NASCAR event. I think she got hit by a big tire. Like a car crashing a tire hit her in the stands, I think. When we were in high school, they advertised that as like eight, like one of the cast will die this week. And then they, it was weird.

It's weird. I remember that. And like when Barney got sober for a little bit, it was kind of like, oh, shit, this cartoon is changing the rules and going, like, actually. One of the things is actually like sticking for a couple seasons. Yeah, I guess they made some pivots, much like how Rush, you know, kind of started using the synthesizers at some point. Over on the blowout, patreon.com slash the sloppy words. They evolved. Yes, yes.

Okay, so back to the Hintonica. I love that place you're talking about, Jeff. If you're outside during the day doing a mix and match gin and tonic is great. Also, a great restaurant in L.A. that just closed down. Tex, T-A-I-X. They used to have a gin and tonic that had mango and peppercorns in it. Mookie was obsessed with it, and we used to get that a lot. All of these are served, though, in these big balloon glasses,

Copa de Balone wine glass. I don't have that. I don't have that here today. have like a nice big white wine glass. Stemless. That'll do. And it's not that big. It's actually the smallest one I got.

But like, you know, these things you're talking about like it's basically a softball. It's like a softball size or a cantaloupe size. It's like a goldfish bowl. Is it like a brandy sniffer? Is that the same thing? Kind of. Yeah, but it doesn't have that fluted. Ah, yes.

It's not fluted in that way. Is this fully round? I've seen a bunch of different types. This is a big old rounder, man. Now, Jeff, you were pitching we should do some gin and tonics on the show. What inspired you just that the warm weather has arrived? I was talking to my man, Hanford. We were walking through the airport.

How did we get on? Because I was, Timothy. I was like, we should do a whiskey drink. No, we should probably do vodka. No, maybe we should do rum. You're like, well, just do chintinotin. Shut the fuck up. I cannot be around you anymore.

It's like, oh, geez, Jeff. We were talking about, like, we could do like a gin and tonic month. Yeah, there's like a million gin and tonics. Because we've done gin and tonic in the past here on the show. Yeah, that's how it started. I didn't remember that we did. I was like, is that a sneaky little simple one we've never done,

which is a very, it's a very summary drink to me. And then you said, you were like, oh, there's many of them, which I didn't realize. Because, like, you could do many episodes on different gin and tonics. Now, you said this, and I was, hopeful that it was true, but my feeling is like there's the, there's the mix. I'm still hopeful that it's true. Well, there's the mix and match nature that you're talking about where it's like,

oh, that brand of gin, this brand of tonic and this type of fruit and that type of herb, yes. But they don't like have names. Right. You know, so like the Spanish genitonica, hintonica is the, is the blanket term. But like, if you had a craft blog, you could easily do like a bunch of these and give them names. But when on the show, if we're like trying to do like official ones, I couldn't find when I clicked around the internet, I was getting just like a lot of those kind of annoying things where it's just like some guy that's like, I made an Apple one. Right, right.

This one looks like maybe Yoda. Oh, Grogu. Yeah, yeah. The frosty, the snowman. Ooh, grogoo. Yeah, part of the goo crew. So, Grogo. Well, okay, so for the history of the gin and tonic, folks, go back and listen to our

gin and tonic. episode because it's a fascinating, both gin and tonic have like amazing, like British colonial military histories because they were like health products that got spun into a drink by troops. Oh, and I talked about the gene craze. Remember that? Like people were like selling their babies clothes for gin money. Oh yeah, yeah. They all wanted to take a shot of gin.

That reminds me of Dr. Benedicto and a little thrill of Patreon.com slash a slobby waste. Those two came up on stage. day and I could not remember their fucking, it was like, Lil, who the hell are these guys? We've even talked about for a long time. Also, what could be more obscure? If you're, like, that was a festival. So some people in the audience are watching us and they don't even know who we are.

And then we're, we're referencing something. No, I didn't do. I did that in Atlanta, I thought. Was that at the festival? Oh, okay, good. But either way, we're referencing something that we haven't brought, they haven't done in like two, three years and it's behind a pay. Yeah.

We're trying to get the audience who's never heard us to be like, oh, we like these guys. They're relatable. And I understand what they say. Okay, but this Spanish take on the gin and tonic. This comes from the early 2000s in San Sebastian in the Basque region of Spain. There was a series of annual culinary summits called The Best of Gastronomy. Mike, take it away. I, Tim, as you two know, and I think the listener knows at this point, I'm reading, the sun also rises.

there you go by Ernest Hemingway Yes yes yes now the characters in this story where I'm at I think they move on He's neutered in a way He's neutered in a way He refused to learn anything more about this book I read it I just forget

Well you just want that to be What is canon about the book The main character Jack Burns and his Jake Burns and his friends They are going to Pamplona For the running the bulls and the bullfights but some of the party meets them later and they are stopped in San Sebastian

kind of having a fun time. And it's a really cool looking. I took a look at some pictures and it reminds me a little bit of the Catalina vibe where it's like a little bay in a valley. It's, ooh, we're going there. I'm working on it. The three of us, we're going to Spain.

Oh, God. Really? I would love to. I'm thinking that could be the next good spot for us. Oh, no. This area, too, like the, Basque part is cool because it's like, it's, it's like between Spain, I mean, it's in Spain, but it's like between Spain and France, it's kind of its own culture. I don't know much about Basque, but I know there is like, it's, you're right.

It's like this specific thing, but it's like, you know, that's very Basque like, but I don't, it's like a forgotten culture or lost, lost culture or lost. Yeah, Las Culturistas. It's like, it's like a, it's like a culture that didn't align with, uh, country. boundary boundaries, you know, it just got lumped in with Spain, but they're like kind of are a little different. But you know how like, if you, if you are born in Armenia and you move to America, they like tell you, go to Glendale and that's like the spot where, um, Boise, Idaho has all the Basque people in it. I was there one time and I had all this back food. It was fascinating.

Now, this, come on, this is going to be a whole Basque episode, but I got to ask, what type of food is Basque food? Like what, uh, okay, so it's Spanish, but it's, it's funny. You look at a table of food and you're like, okay, there's some spaghetti, there's some hot dogs, there's some this, it's like separate plates and stuff that don't go together. But, you know, Spanish food is like paella, lots of fish, that type of shit going on. Ooh, I think I would like some Basque food. Fish. All right. Basque in the cuisine. Ooh. I like Jeff's idea about fish, too. I love those slippery little dudes. Okay. Gotta put us back in the water, though. If you don't eat us, you gotta throw us

Those are little guppies that are too small to be kept. That could be a Pixar movie that we write. Little Guppy they got kept? It's about, yeah, the little guppy who got kept. Tim, I'm sure that's already finding Nemo 3. Got kept? Well, then we should be pitching on finding Nemo 3. Give us some of that.

Just going back to the little guppy who got kept, the tagline could be just got kept. got capped or get capped get capped little guppy got capped little get capped little guppy

fighting nemo part three this summer rated NC 17 what is the name oh shit yeah he has a big hard cock the whole movie what that

this guppy's big floppy cogs going all over the ocean nasty stuff over there guys let me tell you this though back in San Sebastian in the Basque region of Spain in the early 2000s annually for several years there, there was this culinary summit called the Best of Gastronomy and all the chefs from the area would come together and have all these food events.

And when they'd be making food, they'd be doing demonstrations and stuff during the day. Then at night they'd go out drinking together. They'd go hang out at this bar in San Sebastian and just kind of naturally, organically, gin and tonic became what everyone was ordering. Maybe it was summer. Maybe they just were ordering gin and tonics. But almost just like when you're on vacation, you're like, hey, we're having rum and coax or whatever.

Yeah. Almost like magic. Yeah. Magic the gathering. No, no, no, no. Almost like magic they just all gravitate towards the same opportune drink. So they're drinking those. It's a British drink.

But because they're chefs, they start having fun with the garnishes. And then it's like, oh, every year we go to this thing and we all get drunk on gin and tonics. But we're chefs. so suddenly they're digging deeper into the kitchen and out comes fruits and herbs and whatever happens to be fresh so they're garnishing these gin and tonics that were traditionally British drinks

now they're throwing lime, rosemary, lavender, vanilla bean, pods, sliced cherries, berries, saffron in there and it's this thing they do every year in San Sebastian but then as those chefs go home every year they're bringing it back to their restaurants they work out they're putting on the menus it spreads it becomes the Spanish gin and tonic.

Woo. Hin tonica. So what do we got in store for us today? The recipe from liquor.com, which is two ounces London dried gin. Four ounces tonic water chilled. Ideally, badger baths. It's got to be badger.

Ooh, yeah, no ideal about it. We're going to be garnishing with juniper berries lemon wheel time. Okay, you're going to want to pour gin into a wine glass filled. three quarters of the way with ice. Top with tonic and stir gently and briefly combine. Garnish with juniper berries, a lemon wheel, and time sprig.

Do you think we'll slap that time sprig the way we do with mint? I'm slapping it. If you like. Yeah, that's fun. Let's just go in there. Yeah, I guess they just go, because we don't muddle or anything, huh? I ate a juniper berry before the pod. Well, yeah, how was it?

It's weird. It just tastes like gin, and you realize gin is basically just, it's vodka. You know, like they totally distill it. And then they distill it again with these juniper berries. What the fuck? You know what's so great? I found some juniper berries today. And we have so often when gin has come up been like, yeah, it's junipery.

Junipery. Like we know what we're talking about. We didn't know. We just knew that that's what you say about gin and that's the taste that you're getting. And now I'm going to eat a juniper berry. And I think that we're probably the only podcasts. to eat a juniper berry and talk about it. I don't think one other podcast has done.

You got to think, though. That's what you're getting here on the sloppy boys podcast, folks. You're getting journalism. We're going to go there. We're going to go where other pods don't go. Jeff, that's interesting. I wonder in the world of all the podcasts

that are out there with all, because like, there are so many with like, even just one listener, there's got to have been with the amount of people in the world, someone's got I wonder Didn't it? Didn't Bobby Lee do it on an episode of that Best Friends podcast?

Yeah, I think it was the first episode. Yeah. Yeah. I'd be stunned. Like we're starting this episode the way we'll start all of our episodes we'll eat one Juniperberry. But I can't wait to know what I'm talking about.

When I taste a juniper, I feel like I can look down on so many other cocktail podcasts. I'll tell you, my experience eating a Juniperberry just now was that it made me feel the same way when I ate a hop and I lost respect for IPAs.

I was just like, oh, so gin is just this. It's just that. It's vodka. It's just this. Interesting. When I bought them. It's this. The woman at the counter was like, what are these? I said, it says right on it's Juniper Barry. She didn't know they sold them.

And she said, it's your store. She said, what are you buying them for? I said, gin and tonics. Like fancy gin and tonics. you know, cocktails. And she's like, huh, what do they taste like? And I said, I don't know. I imagine there's a little, they're a little spicy or I don't garden-y. What's that mean?

Oh, Jesus. I'll tell you next week when I know. We should, Jeff, you should get a go back and tell her and record on your phone so we can listen. That's a great idea. I wish I was recording this little spirit interaction ahead. See if you can redo it. What do you say? we take a little break.

We'll go make these drinks. These suckers are listening to the ads. And when we come back, we'll do first sips of the Spanish genitonex. I love that. Ooh. Folks, we'll be right back

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everywhere else. You get the tickets. You come to the show. You're going to have a hell of a time, baby. Woo! Spanish gin and tonic in hand. I did try a juniper berry. And Tim, you're right.

It's exactly gin. It's just gin in a little ball form. Hard ball. A BB of gin. Those look nice guys. Yeah, this is cool. Mike, where'd you get yours? Where'd you find juniper?

Mike. You got like a water glass. I like that. Where did I get him? Yeah. Oh, this is a, this is just a wine glass.

That's nice. No, but where'd you get your juniper? Oh, uh, it was, oh, I found a,

uh, store near me. It was like a huge, like spice and like roots. Juniper berry outlet. The spice emporium. But it's one of those places you walk in is like the wall is, wall to wall with like little packets of spices and stuff.

I was like, okay, let me see here. Oh, they're an alphabetical order. I was like, there you go. And I got some ginger chews.

You can probably hear my throat is a little torn up. Okay. The ginger chews are doing it. Yeah, I like that. I like to think so. First sips. Sips. Bouch.

Oh, wow. I feel like I'm at Ombre. Oh, that's good. You feel like you're about to go to AMC theaters? I feel like I'm about to see Minions versus Monsters. Ah, a grout film. I sort of pushed everything down into my drink here, but I certainly was swayed by the smell on first sip.

On that time. It was just banging me in the face. It was flapping me in the face. Yeah. Do you get any time in there? Yeah. It's a funny smell because I smell it. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's because I can never keep spices straight.

And I'm like, that's time all right, but I don't know. It's sort of between a Christmas tree and a rose. Rosemary or something. You're right. It is rosemary. Yeah. What makes stuffing have that taste? Saffron?

Or is it this? Oh, stove top. You can do rosemary. You can do rosemary stuffing I've heard of. Nah. It's sage. Sage. Wait, what happens when you just used to get it as an RA, Jeff?

Oh, yeah. You make that stuff. You just add water and butter and you let it waft. Just let it waft through the quality. It is amazing how we've talked about before, how easy it is to make stuffing, how stuffing one of the greatest foods ever. You'd have it tomorrow if you want. And nobody does. Little chunks of bread and who knows what else, I guess celery and maybe a little onion.

And now we're hearing rosemary and saffron. Wow. This is refreshing. I feel like I'm out on the veranda. Yeah, me too. This is just a gin and tonic with like very well-slashel. garnish. Yeah, and like just a little bit more gin taste.

Right. And I think it's actually the same measurements. When we did the gin and tonic, I think we did two ounces and four ounces. So we're just pretty much having that. But oh, that badger Bev's tonic is nice. Yeah. For the badger. Reach for the badger.

Reach for the Bev. Yeah. The juniper berry is a funny garnish because I like having these little black balls floating in my drink. But they don't, they're not fragrant. You have to bite into them to taste the gin taste. So they kind of should have been muddled or something because otherwise, like,

they're just aesthetic. Yeah. Yeah. I was wondering if each one, if you snapped each one of them or something. It'd be super gin. Yeah. Maybe around two, we do a little muddling, huh? Yeah, I think I'm like a muddle. What if the sloppy boys come out with our gin brand,

we just buy some cheap grain alcohol and get some of these juniper berries. We make gin. And we make bank. Yeah, and gin is in. Hey, should we, should we at the merch table, should we sell like, like bottle openers or mudlers, maybe a little muddler with the sloppy boys on a little wooden muddler? Ooh, that could be kind of classy, actually.

It's almost like when you get the little bats at a baseball game. Yeah. A little tiny Red Sox bat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a good idea. I'd like a sloppy boys mudler. It says the sloppy boys end underneath it says in small. this is not a sex toy.

It's a muddler for muddling. And it's not a weapon. Yeah. It's a weapon for things that will be muddled in your drink. You know, sometimes you see that meme of like, like, there'll be like a horny, a horny post going around and then the response will be a dog getting bonked on the head. No, I mean, I don't.

With a bat, a little bat. Oh, sounds familiar. You haven't seen this? It's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like you sort of get, You sort of get bonked on the head for being horny or posting. It's a gift. It has motion to it, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, I get the idea, but it's the same Shiba Inu that's in all the memes. Oh, oh, oh, oh, I have meme now. It's, it's, it's shaming you for being horny on me. Yeah, but he's being bonked. He's, he's being bonked now. I am has meme now. Now, Jeff, you, you missed this video game conversation, but on tour I was telling become meme.

I was telling Hanford that bonk. from TurboGraphic 16 was as big in my household as Mario. Bunk was about a caveman. We were at TurboGraphic 16 home. For Bunks, from Bunk's adventure? Yep. I need to look up Bunk because he was a little caveman.

He's a little boy, a bald boy with a big head and he bent. He headbutted things. What was the name of the system, Tim? Turbo Graphics 16. Graphics with an X. Oh, yeah. at turbographic 16. Now, I had heard it was like, no, there's this great console that's like better.

There were only like eight games for it. But I was really into it. Yeah, yeah. I remember it was like, oh, they have turbographic 16. Holy fuck. That was me. This is not what I was picturing. Well, I'm picturing maybe a Nintendo's super Nintendo game where it was like a caveman guy,

but he was a little more triangular body, a little more like cartoon and like, uh, well, you might be thinking Joe and Mac. Joe and Mac. Joe and Mac for Super Nintendo. Speaking of English. I just said, let me see. No, that's not what I'm thinking either. I'll find it.

Super Nintendo Sega Genesis. Bunk looks very much like a prehistoric Charlie Brown in a way. Yeah. He kind of looks like I was going to say a Harvey Wallbanger precursor too. Ooh. Super Nintendo. Yeah, this is worth looking up. Welcome to Google Pod.

And you know what it's bringing me? You know what it's bringing me to? Joe and Mac. Which is not what I'm thinking about. How are you guys doing? What's been going on lately? How are your BMs? Regular.

Oh, God. And lengthy. Anything funny happened to us on tour? Yeah, I'm trying to think. I feel like I had a lot to tell you guys. but then I just got so excited. It's all coming to. I think the listener will be interested to hear that when we were in Atlanta,

me and Jeff went to a wonderful place called the Claremont Lounge, which was really fun, but also for dinner, we went to. Oh, yeah, didn't you describe that place as a hornball heaven? Yeah, it was when we were there. But for dinner, we went to Taffer's Tavern, John Taffer from a restaurant from Bar Rescue and we got to experience the guy who knows all the stuff about all the perfect bar,

what you got to do if you want to make a profit? Yeah. I like, I've only seen a little bit of Bar Rescue, but I think he's a bozo with some good knowledge. Some bozo with the know-how. No-o-mo-o with the know-how. You know, I think his whole thing is, He's like a, you know, a businessman that knows business tricks.

No one really goes to him for like, he's a busy man. Craft cocktail stuff. But he's not a business man. He's a business man. Stop that. I just said that. God damn it. Oh, fuck.

I don't listen to my co-hose. Like, Tim, take it away. God damn. That's your main problem. Do you remember when Anthony Bourdain first got famous? It was because he wrote the book, Kitchen Confidential. which I read two years ago, three years ago. I read it way back in the day.

But when he went on his... I've yet to read it. Tim, take it away. Jeff, you would hate it, don't read it. It's truly a book that's like, The Taste of an Oyster. Oh. Yeah, it's about class and sophistication.

You'd probably hate it, Jeff. Your response? Michael. Oh, you're so lucky. Oh, you're safe and sound in Brooklyn, Mike. If I had said that, I'd be getting my ass kicked in five minutes. Save it sound in Brooklyn. It's crazy here.

I would ring your little neck. I am not saving sound in New York City. This town wants me out. In Brooklyn, you got to dodge those trolleys out here. Yeah, oh yeah, exactly. On the promo tour for his book, it's just, you know, the book was like a memoir that said, oh, did a lot of different things. But what made the book so successful was when he went on Oprah and stuff,

he had these little bond moths that were like, don't order fish on Monday. You know, he's like, well, because the fish department. And it's like, you want to know if the kitchen is clean, take a look in the bathroom. You know, like, that's the same cleaning, you know. Yes. If all the pots and pans are in there, it is not clean.

If there's a pot of shit in the bathroom. Dude, those are insights that I remember for like from high school or something. Like I remember, okay, so this is interesting because like not being a chefy guy. A Jeffie guy. Jeffie. Yeah, I'm Jeffy guy. More of a Jeffy guy. Yes, Jeff.

Those are insights that did hit me when I was in, you know, whatever junior high high school. That's why it was such good promotion. And that's why it's good that our podcast is kind of sprawling. But like when we say that we're, you know, like culture starts here, the new classic guys, people understand, you know. When I read, when I read, when I read, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Kitchen competition. I really like that part about like,

oh, don't eat, don't get fish on a Monday because it's the old stuff. I liked all that stuff and couldn't, I can't remember any of it. It's like so cool, but it's like, oh shit, what, when? It's also like, you know, that's not the thrust of the book. So just like in interviews, he said five or six of those and people loved it. And then the book is about like doing heroin in Cape Cod and stuff. But I feel like Taffer, though, you could feel that Taffer is like, I'm going to have some of those.

so he's always he reminds me of like Super Dave Bob I'm sorry Yeah he's like he's just very intense And he's like yelling all the time But he's always like Really wide-eyed saying one of those facts

It's like If you put an extra quarter ounce of liquor Into a cocktail over the course of a year That is $200,000 you lost And it's just all yeah That was so funny to go into his like well oiled machine of taffers tavern. And the first thing that we noticed was that the,

um, the fabric on the seat was far too grippy in the booth that we couldn't slide. It was like, it was like the grippiest rubber. It looked like leather. So that we, you thought you could just slide your ass deep into the booth. Not noticeable.

It was like like intentionally. It looked like leather. Everyone likes to slide their butt down the booth. We were all stuck. It was adhesive. You, you had to lower yourself perfectly vertically right down on top of where wanted to sit. Yeah, you had to crab walk because of a boot. You had to like lift your butt with your hands and shuffle to the left, deep into the booth. But everything there was so intentional.

I feel like that is like he probably picked that fabric. Look, we made fun of it because some of the offerings were a little cliche. There was a drink called, oh God, it was like the, um, a smore martini, but they even like put another word in smore. So martini. Well, I got the, I got the campfire, which was like a smoky old fashion and they just, they came out and they lit some wood chips on fire and then next to the glass. Yeah, they're like with the butane

lighter. The thing the thing I noticed about the whole place was like like you're saying with this tafford the way he like micromans is that the right word? Every single thing felt too practiced and rehearsed. Everything out of the waiter's mouth was like

so scripted and the cute little word instead of, they didn't say the handhelds and Sammies and stuff, but that type of, like, the language, I was just like, oh, this just feels like this person we're talking to doesn't even exist.

You're all dead. You're not. I feel like I'm talking to a damn droid. Well, the whole point is him saying, like, you need the human, like a human touch. So there should be some humor and then you should have a personal fact and you should do this. But then when some like 19-year-old waitress who doesn't give a fuck

is just running through those things really fast. It's like it backfires very hard. And you know that, you know that like the the wood chip burning thing has been like calculated down to what it's worth. Like any cool things like it's worth it for us to have this and we're going to make money on this. A little bit of pageantry though, which we all ordered stuff. Tim had the one thing that showed up with a little bit of a special event. You know, when it showed up. It's sort of like the fajitas arriving, sizzling. that sort of thing. And we did remark that one of taffers' tenants or whatever is that if curiosity might get

you in the door the first time, maybe you come a second time. But if you go a third time, you're like, you're a customer because now you go to taffers. I go there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think that there's something true. Me especially, I don't know, I'm such a creature or habit that I eat, left to my own devices. I eat a very small repertoire of the same stuff that I just know I like every day at home. I think I think that's kind of every that's a lot of people.

Like everybody, right? Not me. I think Tim's maybe got a castle a wide net. Although I do eat a lot of egg bites, suede egg bites. But he gets sufied. We also know Tim gets chicken wings. Like you have your go-toes. He's got some go-toes.

Right, but it's not about safety. I feel like Jeff, when we were more like newly friends, I remember you saying like, oh, I pretty much only want to get the chicken burrito from Baja fresh. That was your thing. Remember? When we interned in L.A. I'm not menu adventurous. If I find something I like and that works for me, it kind of nullifies any curiosity about like the rest of a menu, which being friends with like Tim and Mitch and Mookie, like, they are, they're just like, they want to try all the stuff in their menu curious. And it's been honestly good for me to hang out with them.

Well, there you go. that way. Me too. I love going out with you guys or I'll also throw our friend Ben Axelrad in there. Our foodie friends where I'm just kind of like, hey, I'll take the hands off the wheel. I know this guy's not going to take me to a place that's bad or I also don't really think any restaurant food's bad. I'm pretty good with everything. Right.

If other people make it, it's good. The funny thing about being adventurous with your ordering is you have to be okay with duds and like just like biffin it a lot. The one that comes to mind the most is like a place that we love that we go to very frequently is the Red Lion in Silver Lake. And it's a German restaurant. Everybody there, it's a beer garden vibe. Everybody there is just having either the big pretzel or the sausage platter where the sausages chopped up, there's little toothpicks in them. Everyone is just having those.

But it does happen to be a giant menu. So every time I go, I'm ordering something I can't pronounce from this giant German menu. and I recommend I love that place everyone go there and give them money because I love them but I will say

like once in a while I have something that's like fucking repugnant oh there goes 2395 yeah and then like there goes

my dinner and everyone around me is eating big pretzels and sausage platters and I'm stuck there with some weird like head cheese or something

I'm funny to think I'm picturing like the staff be like all right it's an easy night here we're just doing pretzels and sausages

the easiest fucking thing in the world and then it's like, what, it's Friday? What time is it? Tim's walking. He's like, oh, fuck, no. You can have to stay here, bring out pieces of a kitchen equipment they haven't used it like ever.

Last time I was there, I got, I got, I ordered the pork shank, a baked pork shank. And I was like, how many pork shanks, how many people ordered pork shanks this week? I bet it was the only person. No, first of the month. Yeah, so how many, the pork shake is not something you cook up from scratch when it's ordered. So like, it's like wrapped up in foil in the fridge and then. They're like nuking up an old pork shank when I ordered it. That would be like the ordained thing.

You'd want to like know when their shanks come in. Don't order a pork shank on a Monday. When are the new shanks come in? Yeah. Oh, I had a funny thing like that. There's a great diner in Kingston, New York called Broadway Lights and it's Greek and they have a big selection of Greek food.

And I was there on like a Saturday afternoon and I ordered some Greek food. And then the owner lady was Greek and she came out to the table. She was serving me and she was, you should come back Monday night because it's Greek night. And I was like, oh, my God. Yeah. And she gave me the flyer that was like the special menu for Greek food. And I looked at it and I was like, Monday night's Greek night. And everything on the menu Monday night was the same stuff that I had just eaten.

And I was like, oh, they like make it on Monday. And then or it's the opposite. They're getting rid of it on Monday. Ooh. Yeah. Like was yours fresh or the old? Like, hey, do you want to have that same? exact meal one more time on Monday?

Come on a different night. But it really was. It was everything that I had had. And I was like, okay. You have to go back the second time to be like, if it's fresher, you're like, hey, you fucked me. We're like, oh. You're fucking me now. I got to handed to Tafer's Tavern that like, when the food showed up, I did like

everything. Like, we got, uh, you and I only got salads. We got like, uh, we got salads, but we also got like chicken fingers for the table and different sauces. And I try, I tried to bite of Tim's burger and you know

you talk a lot of shit and you say like you know Taffer he's kind of like ooh or he's like he's kind of just like he's like a TV restaurant tour

but then like when the food shows up and it's like a solid B and not like I don't know I don't want to talk shit but it's better

it's better than like BJ's right BJ's brewhouse, yeah. Like as a West Coast chain, you know, like BJ's brewhouse or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a cut above like a TGI Friday's, Applebee's, whatever, which I also would go to any day of the week. But, so, so Dafer brings a little something to the table.

You must agree. Sure. The dinner table. I mean, I would. I ordered the burger because I could picture him saying, you got to have a great burger. You know, like in a town of the middle. like that. When you mentioned BJs, it reminded me of my niece

like grumpy teenage niece who wanted, it was like we were hanging out. Like she wanted to go to a party on a Friday night and her parents. Her mom said no. And she was grumpy. She had to come out to dinner with us. And then we were like, oh, yeah. And she was like, fine, whatever. I'll just have a Pizuki.

And we're like, what? And it's like the BJ's brewhouse cookie pizza. A Pizuki, what? A pizza cookie. To have toot about it. Like, just give me a Suzuki. Yeah. Oh, going back to the Bordane thing about the fish,

I want to go to, there's one in New York, I think, or at least there used to be, and I'm sure there's one in L.A. Go to, like, the early fish market where, like, 4 a.m. We're, like, throwing the fish around, and you get a fish. I want to do that.

I love those slippery little dudes. And I want to get tuna fish and make my own. sushi We talked about this, yes. I know, I want to do it. Wait, do we talk about it on pot or in life? I feel like it's on pod.

I can't remember. It was a question I had for you guys. Yeah, I like the idea of like going and getting one of those big red, chunky filets. And like, hey, send that home with me. I do with it what I want. I don't want to know what you're doing with it. I take two of those pieces. I get a rubber band and I get this thing real tight.

and then I think we got an idea what Jeff is doing with the tuna. Nasty Mike. If you were to just go down to the docks at 5 a.m. when all the sushi chefs and the seafood the fish mongers are doing their business, I feel it feels like you need like a membership or something. Like the sloppy boys can't just like waltz up

and be like, yeah, we'll have that big swordfish. I would be like in the way. And then I probably have to just wait until everyone gets their first picks. I'm like, I'll have that gray fish right there. I feel like, oh, they wouldn't even allow us. They'd probably pants us and laugh at us. I feel like that's the type of thing you can maybe do in the movies in like the

70s or something. But it has to exist, right? Like, they are pulling fish in like, like in Santa Barbara, for example. They're pulling fishing. The restaurants are so popular here. The fish are swimming to the restaurants themselves. They don't even need to pull them out. That's actually crazy.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Hey, why don't we make a second round. When we come back, we'll come back for more chit-chat. We can kind of like talk about our life experience. Great. And then also final thoughts. Here's what I'm going to do. I don't have any alt fruits or alt herbs to try, which would be the Spanish move. But what I am going to do is I'm going to muddle my juniper in time. Me too. Me too. It's going to look like the Dagaba system. But that's where Yota lives.

yoder folks we're going to come back in a little minute with fresh round twos of the Spanish G&T did you think I was going to say something I was holding my breath

because I got out there was just a long there was a long second of silence I thought you were going to send us out but then I realized it wasn't the blowout Jeff's hosting yeah I'm trying to host I'm sorry. Folks, we'll be back after this. Back with muddled Spanish G&Ts.

I couldn't manage to muddle a juniper. I, yeah, I put mine in this more of a thicker, what do you call these? Not coop. Yeah, rocks glass. Rocks glass. And I kind of took a heavy part of like a ladle and just kind of like dropped it on each one. Like, have you ever seen those things who do like excavate? They just keep going,

Oh, yeah. And I kept doing that until they, like, they finally started cracking, but it started smelling good, too. Yeah, I had a wooden muddler. And as I was doing it, I was like, I feel so uncouth doing this with a gin drink. This feels like a British high society drink. It ought not be muddled.

That's more of like a mojito thing or something. But I didn't even manage to muddle a berry. I'm sure I bossed them around a little bit, but I didn't get to break one. Yeah. Then they started organizing. They came back, came at me. I was just going crazy with the back of a wooden spoon.

I managed to smash a few of them. And then I slapped a shit out of my time. I'll tell you what. This does taste like gin-flavored gin now. Yeah. Yeah. It does it. Yeah, it brings it out.

It's good. Like, you know, absolute has like absolute vanilla. This is like, this is a, this is gin. flavor gin. What gin did you, what gin did you use? I did a feeder my new favorite Ford's. Oh, uh, uh, a Bombay Sapphire for me. Mm. So you guys are more like name brand dudes. Yeah. You don't think the Ford's is named brand? I do, but I feel like Ford's is like well, is like name brand well or something. I don't know if I've ever had Ford's. I've seen this, but I was under the impression, uh, fords is more of a craft, small brand, but craft.

Okay, yes. But I heard of it as like a recommended for mixing type thing versus your tangerays and Hendricks, which are like top shelfy flowery. Right, right. Jins. I like bottom shelf gin, man. I like seagrams.

I like Gordons. Me too. My favorite is what you got over there, beef eater. But I do like in this. Otherwise, I go with the sapphire. But I was just looking up this Ford's gin. I was looking at a image search

so I can see what the bottle looked like and there's a picture of this engine it's called engine organic gin I think you got I wasn't there but I think you guys had it when you went to Neil and Franz to watch Twisted Metal when Mitch was you guys did like a screening of season one and they made drinks I think

and one of them was from the pictures I saw this type of gin that's called engine and it comes in like looks like an oil like an old oil Like an oil oil canned. And that's like still in their kitchen. I've seen it. But that's like any like liquor is so liquor brands are so like jam packed with options.

It's like, ooh, the one that looks like that's in a clear bottle or ooh, the one that's in a fucking can. Hell yeah. When we do, when we sell piss and shits, we should sell them in little toilets like the shape. You said this at one point that there's a little porcelain. shot glasses that look like toilets. We should sell, uh, yeah, if you're slowing me down, this is good, these are good ideas.

We take these little things. They look like fucking toilets and they, they're disposable. Shots already mixed in it. Peel it off, drink it. Oh, you, oh, and it's just, you peel, you peel off the top.

Yep, they're, you buy the fucking thing. And you lift the lid. Sure, you put, you peel off the, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's small, stashry, we put a little raisinette in there, too. Yeah.

Or even a chocolate chip. You know, back in the day, you go into a liquor store and you look over the cashier's head and there's like a tequila in a gun, you know, like a glass. Oh, yeah, yeah, dude. I got one of those for someone once. What if we had a big, a big toilet, a big glass toilet for a piss of shit? It's an actual size toilet. But it costs $300.

And it's filled. American standard. With premium sour mix, pineapple juice, and dark rum. Wow. Ooh. Oh,

you get a bunch of straws. You can all drink it like a scorpion bowl. Oh, that is a good. These are great ideas. You just, you buy a bag of ice from the, for the grocery store,

just dump it in the toilet. Dude. Also, hey, how often, like, sometimes you go to a restaurant or something, there's ice in the euro,

Yes. Guys, you see this. This is, this is kind of like that. It's a dive bar classic move. That's good. This is great. I love when the ice is in there. I think of that as like a nice place move weirdly. But it seems like a trashy thing. Yeah, me too. Not me. I think of that is a trashy thing. I know they do it at a drawing room. And it does sort of bring out like the competitive edge. Like I want the top score. I want to melt the most ice. Yes. I want to cause a cave in. You know what I mean? I want the biggest, hottest piss of all. do it at the drawing room in Los Phyllis? They do it at Snappers in Kingston dive bar in my hometown. I think they do it at

Shee of Wul Sol I hear. Wow, that's fancy. I don't know if they're doing it. I don't know if they do it Shay Garson or whatever you said. A Wusson. What's called? Vouson.

I told Kelsey about it and she didn't believe me and was like cackling in disbelief that I was like no, there are, no, No, no. Some places there's ice in the urinal, and we all try and melt it. She was like, no, get the fuck out. And succeed.

She's like, what? They put jello in the girls' room toilets. Jello? Yeah, so the piss bounces off. That, I like this piss and shit idea with the selling the little guys. And then we can say, you know, when you buy it, you get like a giant thing of, I don't know, Vuv-Clok-oh, you can get those magnums of champagne.

That's what these would be. That's what these would be. The big toilets. And it would be similar to getting a magnum of Vuv-Cliko. Well, that's enough toilet talk. I think it's time we turn our attention to the harsh adjudication of this drink as we do every drink on the, on the, on here on the pod.

Michael, your final thoughts, please. Well, okay, this is a tough one, because I like gin and tonic the drink itself very much. This to me just kind of feels like the same thing with even smushing up these junipers. It's not enough of like an add-on

for me to be like, and it's, you know, next time I have gin, I've got to put juniper in it. I think I just get a junipery gin and make a gin and tonic with this stuff. It's about the same. You know what I mean? I like the, I like the look of it, but for me,

me not order again because I'm just going to go with a regular gene t I would blame the liquor.com recipe for this they they talked a big game about Spanish genotinotin and then they pretty much gave us the same recipe as yeah but I don't just like it. Timothy? I like it for if the thing where you have like mango and strawberries and all the stuff and you're going crazy and it's like a it's like the brunch of a bachelorette party and everybody's getting drunk on that I think it is great. I do like this.

I would order again, but I got to agree with Mike that I am a G&T drinker and I prefer. I kind of knew that is going in, though, that I do just want, I love gin and tonic

and a little squeeze of lemon is all I need. I do lime. I like lime, but I do lemon and I stand by that fact. Okay. And I'll tell you why.

There's just so many. There's not enough. I love. lemon and there's not a lot of opportunities to use it in drinks compared to like like you're putting lime in a lot of things and it kind of in general I'm a lime guy and me too lime is great in it but it kind of brings things south of the border so I kind of like if I'm having a gin and tonic when I squeeze the lemon like I associate lemon with like seafood in New England and stuff like it kind of brings you south of the border it kind of

brings you outside the bun kind of crunch you easy I something about the lemon for me keeps it British, I don't know. Yes, yes indeed. The Levin keeps it British. Well, I guess I'm going to be the guy, the brave man, like the Norman Rockwell painting, to stand up and say, folks, this is a G&T done right.

If you're trying to impress someone, look, yeah, could you just get gin and tonic and put it together like its namesake? Yeah, anyone can do that. And look, we all have citrus lying around, like Tim said. And yeah, he wants to go for a, Lemon over a lime, congratulations, man. You know I'm listening still, right?

Oh, shit. Well, how many people are reaching for that... Badger? Time. How many people are reaching for that juniper? And how many can reach for that badger. This is maybe one of the better gin and tonics I've ever had. And you don't need to muddle.

You don't need to create a... super gin, which I did. But I'm so happy to be sipping this all night long as I talk with my boys on the blowout discussing rush. Real time so yeah. Follow us on social media.

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This is crazy. This is episode 2904. We're coming up on the old 300. Wow. What are we going to do for the 300? We should watch the movie 300. Yes, we should. Yes, we should.

Do you guys have a blowout ideas you want to do? Because I was thinking, I want to do the... I got one. I want to do the goofy movie and an extremely goofy movie, but do it as one. Because I don't need to be doing two weeks on it. Let's just like watch these goofy movies and be done with it. We got to watch two movies for one pop. Why are we watching the goofy movie?

It's good. It's culturally relevant. People love goofy. I'm going to look into that. You're more like George Geese. than any other animated dude I've ever seen in my life. I take a lot of my cues from George Geef and Goofy himself. But my point is, this movie has nothing to do with us, like, I don't know this movie.

Do you know this movie? Mike, are you not a 90s kid? I'm a 70s brat. Now, Jeff, but you were saying, well, you were saying that a goofy movie has, like, been kept alive by Gen Z, right? Wasn't that the thing? like it's like it's like shrek Tim I say a lot of stuff on it here I don't really remember if I totally

want to honor with you don't know where it comes from don't know what I'm saying but you neither you haven't seen goofy movie or the sequel yes I saw the first goofy movie movie when it was new I don't remember and at the time I had that that feeling of like

oh no they're trying to be cool I want to watch Goofy go skiing in Switzerland oh you had TFW where he is being cool and not going ski. I guess I had TFW. Yeah. Well, do you guys have any ideas for blowouts?

Damn, I'm trying to do some heavy lifting here. I'm trying to think a non-movie ones because I want to watch the big night. You guys have never seen the big night and I want to watch the big night. I said that the other day. I'm from the green room. I said, hey, we got to watch Big Night soon. Brib Big Night. We're going to watch Big Night.

We're going to watch a night's tale. We're going to watch Nightbreed. We'll have a whole... Night month. Night month. I'll tell you what. This drink has got me a little. Ruhu. It's the time.

Me too. A little brou as well. It's the time. No, for the goofy thing, what we should do, let's do the goofy movie, and let's also do just like a bunch of fun, goofy shorts. There's one I've been trying to track down where it's like goofy. Skiing? That was the one

I always associated with you. No, no, no. It's goofy, like, learns how to smoke or has to quit smoking or something like that. And it's about him smoking cigarettes. And it's tough to find it. for obvious reasons, but... I saw a video today about Goofy getting mini pregnant.

It was an AI kind of slop, slop thing. Have you seen this? It's kind of been going around. It's not just me being a perv. It's going around. It's mainstream, in a way. In a way. Let's do a goofy episode. I am excited about this stuff. I have a lot to say.

How about that? A goofy episode. We'll watch the first goofy movie. We won't cram to, and we'll do the whole goofy episode where he began, where he's going. A Goofy episode. George Geep Week. Geep Week. Hey, it's Geep Week, folks.

Geep Week. Geep Week. Geith Week. See you next week, folks. We love you. Bring a friend next time. M-M-M-M-W. Bye, Geif. Peace.