The Sloppy Boys - 297. Fitzgerald

Episode Date: June 26, 2026

The guys make a gin sour devised by legendary bartender and friend of the pod Dale DeGroff!FITZGERALD RECIPE:1.5oz/45ml GIN1oz/30ml SIMPLE SYRUP  .75oz/22ml LEMON JUICE2 dashes ANGOSTURA BITTERS Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a rocks glass filled with ice. Garnish with lemon piece.Recipe via Dale DeGroffThe Boys are on tour! Tickets on sale now:https://linktr.ee/thesloppyboysWANT 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 Hanford and Tim Calpacchus. What is up? What's up guys? Yeah, we won't be talking about sports today. I want to know what movies have you seen the movies are what everybody's talking about. Disclosure day, back rooms obsession.

That's right. Jeff, you are so predictable. Here, the World Cup has happened. Do you understand this, Jeff? In our nation, we have other nations coming together to celebrate one thing. Our least popular sport. And you know what they're not celebrating? They're not celebrating walking around the back rooms. Yeah, they are. They should be. They ought to be. They're probably walking around some of those back rooms when they're trying to get to the field. Sports versus film, folks, we want to hear from you. Let us know. Okay.

I'll tell you what, Charlie didn't say anything about sports. She said music, fashion film won't save us, but maybe World Cup will save us. Charlie bit my finger, though, so I'm not really too cool. I'm not a hip on Charlie right now. No, Jeff, listen to me. Did you see my text? we, the sloppy boys is right, I'm going to say it now. We're officially picking Curacao, the country of Curacao, as our World Cup team to follow.

This is true, Mike. Very good. I forgot all about that. Curacao, the official team of the sloppy boys LLC. Folks, get into them. Curacao is their first, as we all know, it's the blue liqueur that we have celebrated several times on this pod. You'd have to go on Sloppydrinks.com to figure out which drinks. But check that out, folks.

And you can get to it by going to sloppyboys.com, the sloppyboys.com where we got our merch and every other link you could possibly want. But Curacao, folks, it's their first time in the tournament ever. Yeah, you wouldn't have that blue, blue, adios motherfucker, if not for Curacao. Audios. That's right. That's right. It's the first time in.

They're this tiny little nation. Where the hell are they? They're down kind of a little hero. Aruba. Yeah, they're an island. It was a Spanish colony. Mm-hmm. Caribbean?

I'll say Caribbean, but it's very close to Venezuela, so what do we think? What do we think about that? That's Caribbean to me. I think it's a Caribbean nation. But it's very exciting that we are, we haven't sent any money to them yet, but we're sort of the unofficial sponsors. I've been sending them money privately. Oh, God. Well, we're sort of backing them.

We're backing them emotionally for now, for now. Maybe Badger Bev can get off its butt and get some money down to Curacao. Send them some drinks, Badgerbebs. Mike, did you have to subscribe to any service to watch World Cup games? Yes, I did. They're all on Fox, but I had to get the Fox One app because I don't have cable. I'm not a soccer fan, but just when everyone is like, it starts today. I was like, I'll put this thing on.

So I subscribed to, like, through YouTube, you could just get the Fox One. one channel. YouTube. So then there's a bunch of sports going on there. I mean, soccer is fun just because you know the whole world's watching, like the Olympics or something like that. I must admit, as much as I don't want to feel this way, and to all you soccer fans listening, get ready to be mad to me.

I know I got friends who are really into soccer, right? Neil Campbell, huge into soccer. Jocelyn Richard, huge into soccer. My friend Garth has friends in low places. Garth Brooks, Jeff, he's talking about. Oh, Tim, you don't need to slow down with that stupid shit. Just keep going.

So I was talking about my friends who were into soccer and then you thought about friends. Now you've gone. Now we're wasting so much time. Well, Tim, you made the error of saying friends. You said the word friends. No, no, no, no.

You said, I've got friends. Okay. If you just say the word friends, I'm going to go, man, na, na, na, na, no, no. Stop. Okay, so like as a guy who's not a big sports guy, I see people jumping up and down for sports. And look for them.

They love it. You know? And like, for example, I'm from upstate New York. So when, you know, like, Knicks seeing a lot of back home friends excited about the Knicks, you're like they love that team through the hard times. But for some reason with Team USA, just because I know like soccer is this international thing and that it's not the number one sport. America. Yeah. When I see Team USA fans like crying and jumping up and down and screaming and stuff, I,

I can't help but think that they're faking it. And just that it's just like, like, this is the way a soccer fan acts, you know, because you'll be like, hell yeah, my NBA team. Hell yeah, my NFL team. And then when Team USA scores a goal, they're like, yeah, I agree. It always looks like the American team is sort of like, or the fans are like cosplaying a A little bit. Yeah, and it's, it has, like, I wish I didn't feel his way, but there's this kind of

air of pretension because it's a worldly sport and it's an international sport. So, like, a lot of bookish guys, I know are soccer fans. You're kind of a book guy. I actually, you joke, but I actually did a birthday boy sketch called Book Guy now on Instagram. I know. I joked in that thing with you. That was the joke.

No, within the comedy sketch, we joked. Yes, that's why I said you joke because I'm referring to the video. You joked when you were in that sketch. Jeff, what do you say? Do you think people really like soccer or they're being performative males? I think, uh, blowing up in my face. I thought we were going to really go for Curacao and the World Cup.

But, uh, my, uh, co-host did not take the cue. Maybe if you guys need a few more improv classes at UCB. Uh, no, and I'd like to move on to booze news, please. I try to do one good thing. So we're not talking about movies. We're just not going to talk about that. Go ahead. What the hell?

You're the fucking host here. Folks, we'd like to nominate the official director of the sloppy boys LLC is Kane Parsons. That's right. Young, young Kane Parsons, edged out Curry Barker for the title of the official young director of the sloppy boys LLC. Congrats, Kane.

Congrats, Kane. I didn't know every LLC had official teams and directors. We got all sorts of official shit. Timmy, yeah, look at the sheet. We, we,

well, that's our official young director because our official director is PD, P.T. Anderson,

because you saw our, our t-shirt ones on a PA and he said, what's that? So now he knows who we are. He said it looked cool and he was

going to look into it. We just no word. Oh, he said he was going to look into it. He said, I'll have to check him out. I'll have to check him out. Good, good.

He will. he will. Pedy, if you did, drop us a line and come on the pod and defend yourself. Pedy. Mike, speaking of your, you bring up a topic and I'm blowing up your face because me and Jeffton, yes, and you. I also, another thing off to a bad start here. Did you guys realize that right before we started rolling, right in a row, all three of us had tech problems, but we took turns. Yes.

Jeff. Jeff sent the email to start this podcast. Jeff's email just never sent. Then Mike, his microphone wasn't working. He had to restart. And then everyone was the thing that was ready to go. Tim's computer crash. This is like a haunted episode. It should be our October episode.

Maybe we'll drop it again. Months from now. I was going to say, let's hold it for October. But no, let's drop it now and in October. We're not doing double work. Yeah, we'll take October off. We already get this in the camp. Although I did

This is my last negative thing I'm going to say That I'm going to be all positive I was working today Like on a bunch of shit And then I was like Like ooh Tim you got to get in pod mode But I felt like I wasn't that You know like I was like I'm not locked in

Yeah and how do you guys get into pod mode anyway? How do you pod? I It was 10 minutes before we go I was like I don't feel like I'm funny loose Tim I know I'm gonna go for a walk and just a quick six minute lap around the block. So I'm walking around the block.

And then, Tim, you know, there's a lot of seniors out there. I know. Trust me, they've been congregating outside my house. Especially when we record for you that they're heading off to that silver special. Early bird special. There's a lot of matinees happening. This is their moment to shine. Early bird time.

Oh, no. Tim's coming out. You see him slowly scurried. of the streets. They turned their walkers around. Okay, luckily I didn't encounter any seniors, but as I walked, I was like, I'm still not feeling locked in it.

And then I thought, maybe I'm having a cortisol spike. Oh, yeah. And then I remembered a headline I just read. If you're experiencing a cortisol spike, stick your tongue out for 40 seconds. I saw this, Tim. And it said that article had a lot of specifics.

It's like it has to be exactly 40 seconds. What? It's like, It doesn't do the trick if it's 39. If you go 41, then you overdid it. You've been tongue tired and now you're grumpy again. You have to go to the emergency room. For life.

We should do that. As an LLC though next time, we'll all do it. Stick our tongues out? We should do it as a whole blowout episode. Well, what we should do, though, if we're sticking our tongues out one person at a time, though, so we don't run into a 40 seconds. No, no, no.

We all do it 40 seconds of silence, and so does the listener. And all the cortisol in the world just plummet. and the rest of the episode's really happy. And then the world is, the world is joining hands across the name. Cortisol is the only villain the whole door. Or at least 100 people in each state. What is,

I mean, like cortisol is just one of these, or not catch all, but the word of word de jour on Instagram. It's just like the bad toxins. It's the, it's a stress chemical, Mike. Right.

It's like when something bad happens to you and your brain is like, hey, body, something bad happens. of your, then the chemical that goes through into your bloodstream is cortisol. And the problem with it is it sticks around. Like, that's why you could be in a bad mood for a while after something happens. And kind of famously, I think this is coming up a lot as a men's thing because it's like,

allegedly women can access their emotions, put him away and move on faster, whereas a man will be in a bad mood for 48 hours after an argument or something. After a curassow loss. God, God. Oh, God. You have a one-tracked mind. As of this recording, they got spanked by Germany, 7 to 1. That doesn't mean they're eliminated.

No, no, they've got guaranteed three games, but I don't know if they get out of this stage. What? Go ahead. 7 to 1. So I'm walking, and I say, Tim, give yourself 40 seconds to stick your tongue out. I go full on doctor mode. Tongue all the way out, right? And I'm walking.

I got a good like 20 seconds under my belt. Then I round the corner and I'm walking. And then I'm like, I got about 15 seconds left. But then there's a girl walking towards me with her dog, walking her dog. And I'm thinking, I can't have this lady see me sticking my tongue out like this. A, it's weird and embarrassing. B, I'll be me too. It was kind of a, you know, I'm fully, ah.

Yeah, you're doing, you look like Jim Carrey in the mask with your tongue all unraveled. It's tracking on the ground. I looked like the emoji. like it's like something horny that's like ha, eh, eh, yeah. But you also don't want to ruin your 40. Exactly. And I didn't want to have to start over a new 40. There's nothing worse than

starting a new 40, amen. And this is 40. This is funny. They're coming up with a sequel called This is 40. It's in parentheses. It says stick out tongue. So this is how Tim thinks in the

clutch. What I did instantly, I just I hold my hand up in front of my mouth. No, my God. And I just finished, I finished my time. I walked past her so she saw a man who was holding up his hand in front of his face. She also saw a man free of cortisol, all cortisol. Yeah.

But then I sat down ready to, I felt locked in, ready to go, and then we had our tech problems. And then I googled to all of our astrology fans out there, when we had our three tech problems, I googled if Mercury is in retrograde and it's not so astrology's fake. Is anything in retrograde? Is anything in retrograde? Is anything in retrograde? Fashion is retro, baby.

Yeah, I'll take it. Well, do we get in some booze news? Booze news, hit it. Rich in the city. Witch in the city. Witch in the streets. She's a witch in the city bitch in the streets

What? Yeah, all right She's a witch Witch in the city And a bitch in the streets She's a witch in the city And a bitch in the streets She's a witch in the city

Witching her out What? Yeah All right Witch in the city was sent to us by Owen A. And if you have a boo's news theme email it to the sloppy boys podcast at gmail.com. Damn, order again. Owen A.

Yeah, he's been around before. That was a good one. And hey, it seems like this is the witchy, spooky episode. We do have to save this for October. This is fully our hogover. This is a witch in the city. Now, why is it when we were singing that, which in the city, bitch in the streets?

Are there no streets in the city? What is the city but a mere creative streets? That's true. That's true. Maybe she's inside interiors. She's in the back rooms. I really like that. I also like we joke a lot about what?

Yeah. Being a song with some perplexing thing that's like, what? And then the guy just comes in, yeah. And nice theremin work also, O.A. Yeah. Oh, shit. I would O.A. A theme from him again.

Order again from the theme. Send them in. Oh, and we're waiting on you. Everyone else were shutting you down for a little while. Yeah. You old. Sorry, Tapper. Sorry, Tapper.

All right, Timmy, what's the, well, wait, not even necessarily Tim. Is Tim the editor-in-chief? Yes, sure. Anybody can have booze news, though. I know that I don't. Who's got it? Okay, I just wanted to do a little follow-up on a story we've been tracking. Do you guys remember a few weeks ago in not so much just this conversation about

the drink of the summer of 2026, which tends to be a conversation that can piss us off. Just an actual exploding trend right now that is happening organically. We talked about it a few weeks ago was soft-served margaritas. Yes, yes, yes, yes. We Googled them.

They're very pleasing to look at because they'll be like twisty two colors in their pastel, and you need a soft-served machine to make them. Started in Cleveland, and then it was spreading. And I think that I mentioned to you guys a headline that was like from a Philadelphia newspaper that was like, here's the bars in Philadelphia that have soft serve machines so you can go get these or whatever. This has been a funny thing that's been growing.

In the last few weeks, this drink is spreading and it's pretty much everywhere now. But the conversation is so specific because it's about like bars tracking down machines. So I copy-pasted seven headlines from around the country, but listen to how similar. It's where to find soft-served margaritas in Metro Detroit? Where to find viral soft-served margarita trend in Des Moines? These viral soft-served margaritas have made their way to Iowa from Royal Oak Michigan. Soft-served margaritas arrive at our area Mexican restaurant. Viral soft-served margaritas arrive in Gulf.

Breeze, Florida. They're here. People are obsessing over the soft serve mergers in Toronto. That's where they arrived after all. Right. And it's also like you would just say like, hey, there's this drink somewhere, but they're assuming that we've all been waiting.

Yeah, it's not like the circuses in town. We should make it a, our duty this week as from the booze news desk to all go out and get one of these things and report back. I bet LA's got them. Tim, have you come across them? I've got a list. I have not seen it with my eyeballs, but I read that there's a place in Pasadena

called Cultura's Latin Kitchen and canteen. And then there's a chain that's got, that's called Calaveras, and they have locations in Silver Lake, Burbank, and all over SoCal. And now Mikey in New York, there's Mama Coco in Queens, Colima Tagorea in the Bronx,

Velvet Room in Brooklyn. Oh, this might be your move. It's in Brownsville, like east of Crown Heights. Velvet. Okay. I'll check it out. And then in Manhattan, they have tipsy scoop, 26 and third. Oh, I've heard of tipsy scoop before. Tipsy scoop.

Like that's been around for a while, right? I think, so tipsy scoop has been doing their own thing. And then this trend happened. So they're like, okay, we'll just have that flavor too. So they were probably locked and ready to go with the machine. But anyway, Slopheads, if you, I'm only. still seeing these as like a thing that people are waiting on or frustrated by. But if you're out there and you're eating these, take a picture and put it on Instagram

because I want to see the slop hits. Getting in on the trend. Now I'm saying? Yeah, it's time to get in on the trend instead of watching it pass by. Get in it and get out. Yeah, we want to see the slurp. Send in your slurps. Hey, we haven't, we haven't been hearing too much about the,

piss and shit out there. I mean, we've been hearing about it, but we haven't been getting a little voice memos or videos about the piss and shits. I hope that's not dying out, folks. Oh, no, it's not. I think it's actually going strong. It's taken on a life of its own, Mike.

It doesn't need to report back. It's out there in a world. It's already gotten bigger. So it's on the dark internet, the dark web? Yeah, it's on 4chan. It's on 4chan, Fortnite. 8-night. A. Chan, 8-night. Imagine 8-night.

Oh, God, I would love it. I couldn't imagine. Tim. Oh, fuck, yeah. That's the type of thing that would be a rumor, like, when we were kids, it'd be like, oh, my cousin has 8-night. Oh, man, I had a kid in my school say that he plugged in his Nintendo and a Sega Genesis into the same TV, and then you can play Mario versus Sonny. That is creative, and I like that life.

It makes sense that that should work, but no way he tried it. I had a kid on my bus once in grade school tell me he was like, yeah, I can get you a Nintendo if you want. I was like, really? He's like, yeah, I'll just say, I'll have my mom buy you one. I was like, great. I was like, do that.

And it was like, every day I'd be like, does that come in or what's happened with that? He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, I got to ask my mom. Like after I was like, oh, man, I'm an idiot. Busy mom. She just didn't have time to take a meeting with her son. To buy a kid she's never heard of before. I remember there being a rumor.

Like some kid with no friends in my school, it was like, yeah, no, he's giving away all these video games if you like go hang out with them. And I was like, I don't know if I want to hang out with them.

That's true. I've got some, a piece of news here. Jeff, you want to play the theme here. All right. He's up. and about

yes, Hanford's something about it's Hanford out and about Yes, it's time for another installment of Hanford out and about where I'm out there.

I've never heard that before another installment. Yes, sorry, that is, this is a property I brought over from a different podcast. Yes, these are all, this is property. Did you license it?

No, damn it. No. We're fucked. No. Yes, this is a brand new segment. This is Hadford out and about. This is where I'll be out and about and I come across something. And I want to share it with you two and then eventually the whole audience.

Folks, I was out recently and about headed to New Jersey. I was going to Kevin Smith's cinema. Napa Boys was going to screen there and he was going to introduce it in the movie. And Nick and Armin were with it. Excuse me, with me. And we went out there. and rather I was with them. It's their movie.

And we stopped at a rest stop to go to the bathroom and get some drinks. And while I was in there, I found a little something I'd never seen before called Fireball Blazin Apple. Yeah. You ever heard of this? No. Let me see. It is, I want to see what the.

What's the proof on that thing? 16.5% alcohol. So it's one of these gas station. Right? That's a little one. Yeah, they're like technically wine. Yeah. Let me see what the bouquet is. Ooh.

All right, here we go. A live test. This is hampered out in about it. Curious if it's cinnamon apple or just apple. Now, folks, we came across this with angry orchard and putting a fireball in an angry orchard in a way. Too many flavors. Too many competing chemically fake flavors. Like, you know what I mean?

Like the cinnamon of a fireball is fake. Like, it's a fake cinnamon. And then the apple here is also very faky and they do not work well together. Are they, is the apple they're going for like a sour apple pucker? Yeah. Yeah, it's like a, it's like a sour apple thing. I guess that's all apple candy and all artificial apple is always that, right?

You never have a green apple version. Yeah, you never get a Fuji. Yeah, it's never like there's a red delicious. Yeah, yeah. This is, uh, this is bad, but I will say like I only did half of it. I don't even, it's making me sick. It's making wretch to even think. about doing another one. But I'm going to throw it in the

freezer when we make the drinks for the day and then see how it is it can. Oh, that could be very good. Yeah. Damn. Blase and Apple, Fireball. Jeff, I don't know. I'm the fan of the Michael Out and About segment. I think it's a hit. Jeff, what do you think?

I like it. Let's play that song one more time. Let's take us out with a theme. He's out and a about. Yes, Hedford's up and a bow. Harmony. It's Hedford. It's like a barbershop quartet. And you know my boy, play that.

I played that myself. I mean, that's part of the, look, I had fun doing the piece, but that was really just me trying to work on my skills of playing piano and recording. It's impressive. You played that Dr. Dre song a couple weeks. You were getting down to it. Hey, I made a joke just now about like, oh, we didn't license out and about and, oh, we're going to get in trouble or whatever. That was merely a joke, but I'll tell you what's real,

Slopheads. We, the Slop Boys, have a band T-shirt, not B-A-N-D, but a B-A-N-N-E-D. The Gou-Crew shirt that has been flying off the shelves, making us basically rich, has been taken down. Now, Jeff, who do you think, which studio do you think came after us? Oh, yeah.

Was it the despicable me people, the Guardians of the Galaxy? I got to imagine it was illumination. studios. One of those minions came across our design said, uh-uh. Are we going to see

are we going to see minions versus monsters is a blowout this summer? We should. Fuck yeah. You know, I'm there. I think I liked the minions movie we saw. I don't remember it at all.

That's when we went to, that was the first time we went to, uh, the look cinemas. Look cinema. We got the watery, or I got the watery chicken,

uh, I like minions. I don't love, and you got the hot ice cream. Yeah, you give me those minions. Oh, no, no, grew, no crew, yeah. Gru.

That's weird how the 90 minutes of my life is just blank. I remember that my ice cream Sunday was hot. Do you remember there's a scene they got on a plane? And there was a, there was a lot of hijacks on the plane. Actually, I take it back. I do like Gru when he's part of the goo crew. When he's, when Gru is with GroGoo and Groot, I like the Groot crew crew. A lot of people are saying that.

Wait, so did we sell, did we sell any? Did we sell any shirts before? We sold a bunch and they are taken down. Folks, if you didn't get your goo crew shirt, you can't get them anymore. Those are collectors items now. Oh, that was a collector. Have fun in the aftermarket. You could probably turn quite a profit.

I'm seeing these on D-pop for thousands now. The goo crew. Hey, we got some fucking live concerts coming up. Speaking of... Oh, yeah, you want to hear the dates? Bet your ass. I'll hit you with the dates of the sloppy boys summer. tour and it's going to be fun uh-uh-uh oh yeah timmy spank him with those dates

whosh ah oh god yeah come on tim spank him i really don't want to say them now because it feels like i'm part of the spanking now i don't want to say him what i'm going to be doing that on stage all tour long so the listeners are bending over and the dates are hitting them on their butt cheeks Yes, but that is us going, we're doing the prince, the little prince squeal. We're doing both sides of that. Okay.

Toronto, Drake, Underground, July 15th. Buffalo, rec room, July 16th. Pittsburgh, bottle rocket social hall, July 17th. Detroit, Smalls, July 19th. Cleveland, Ohio, Beachland Tavern, July 20th. St. Louis, Blueberry Hill, Duck Room, July 20th. Minneapolis, Zora Darling, July 22nd, and we're closing it out in Chicago at Improv Olympic for I-O-Fest,

July 23rd, baby. Hey, I bet we play that song Bulls at that Chicago show. Hey, you know what? We talked about, and maybe we'll take this off the pot. You bet that? If we don't want to, yeah, I'm going to put that on Kelsey. Oh, God. I, we talked about this, and we could take this out of the pot if we want.

but we had mentioned at each show being like, hey, a slop, some slophead fan, getting the word out there. If you are a good photographer, you can get in the show for free if you bring your good camera and take pictures and give us the pictures at the end. Wouldn't that be a good, how should we do that? Can we do that? Hit us up. Because I love when we have good pictures at the shows and we need them, folks. We need them for our instance. I love this except for the free part.

What about, hey, photographers, bring your camera, snap away. We're giving you permission. Yeah, that's good. I like that. I don't mind that. But yes, bring your, but it has to be a good camera. How about we make this the camera tour? It's the camera tour.

Is the rest of the audience excited to go to a tour that's about what the other audience member is going to do? It's about they're excited to go see a tour where we're more interested in getting video for our Instagram. These guys are getting content galore. All right, all right. So maybe that's not a great idea. But folks, take those pictures out there. We need them. Yeah, we like that.

We like good pictures. Yeah, I love it. I always, and I'm trying to mug for the camera. I'm fucking up songs mugging for the camera, folks. And then when you don't post them, you've fucked up a song, basically. You've been mugging when you should have been mugging. Well, is that it for booze news? Wrap it up.

Well, with that out of the way, we turn our attention to the drink of the day. the main event, everybody tunes in for. Hopefully they don't skip the beginning of the pod, like, you know, on WTF with Mark Merron to get to the drink of the day. It rest in peace. Yeah, RIP. Cheese, Jeff. I mean, that's a dig on the WTF. They even had to say the full name of the podcast.

WTF, you know who it's weird. You know who it is. All right, folks, the drink of the day is the Fitzgerald. You've had, liking Tim? Never. I've not had, quite frankly, hadn't even heard until this past week. Well, it's funny because here on the pod,

we are sort of a momentous occasion at the LLC. We're covering our first book on the blowout over at patreon.com slash the sloppy boys. And what book do you start with? You start with the great Gatsby, the great American novel. The Great American podcast takes on the great American novel and it's all happening behind the blowout.

behind the paywall at the blowout brought to you by Patreon this is all still part of the tagline and you're surprised by the paywall behind the blowout well we thought well what better drink we would be nice to have a nice

an nice old timey east egg West egg type drink for this week and we found not only a drink called the Fitzgerald but a drink called the Fitzgerald invented by Friend of the Pod Dale DeGroff. Famed bartender. Woo!

A titan in the community. Jeff, are you talking about a legendary bartender that we met up with in Rhode Island a couple summers ago and had a little meeting of the minds and talked cocktails in a Battle of Wits, with? What's a Battle of Wits? Yes. A Battle of Wits?

With. Timmy got us. drunk. Okay. Yeah. He did. I couldn't believe it. Here we are. Seasoned young drinkers. Professionals. This guy, this guy did it all and then some, and he did it

wearing what looked like five layers of clothes. Do you remember this? He had a, yeah. He looked well put together the whole time, too. He was cool, calm, collected, and he drank us under the table, but he was kind of still chill. Yes, this look of the five layers thing. He was one of those well-dressed guys that looks like you can only picture his stuff being

taken out of like an oak boudoirs. Yeah, yeah, right. And it's all like it takes a minute and he's got the cufflings that match up just so. Pocket Square. Look at good at it. Boudoir, that's where I pose for my photos.

All right. Can we please move on, Jeff? Take it away. Keep it behind the paywallton. Jesus. Yeah, we're not getting into your only fans. Fitzgerald originally published in his 2000 book

in Dale's 2000 book, The Craft of the Cocktail. Sorry, Jeff, I read it to cut you off. Folks, chime in if you, I don't think we're ever going to do this,

but how much would you pay to see a sloppy boy's only fan page? And I mean, it's nasty. It's inside and out, if you get me. Isn't it funny that there are some only fans pages where it's just like,

well, I post my art there, post my recipes and my writing. Like, it's not just nudes. Yeah, yeah. Right, because, I mean,

I think it started as more, it was like Patreon. Yeah, it's like a Patreon. kinds of stuff. Hey, maybe on our Patreon quips we could start posting our nudes and I'll be part of that family. Oh yeah, folks, head on over

to the Patreon.com slash the stopby boys for the quips. That's for the quips. I thought that was the door date. Clips too. Oh! Well, Fitzgerald originally was published in Dale DeGroft's 2002 book

The Craft of the Cocktail, which I believe we have a copy of, do we not? A compliment I heard coffee for meeting the man. He gave, I already owned the book, but then he gifted us the new edition when we were hanging out with him. Fitzgerald, he has a nice, tight little blurb here. Tight, tight, tight, tight. I'm just going to read it verbatim. It's nice and short.

He says, I came up with this one on the fly one busy night at the Rainbow Room Promenade Bar when a customer who was bored with his regular summer libation, gin and tonic, asked me for a new gin drink for summer. The drink has appeared on craft bar menus around the world. Thanks to the internet. We all have a love-hate relationship with the internet. List this one under love. Oh.

Dale, we love you. That's great. I can't wait to sip. Jeff, you mentioned the other day you're like, hey, we should reach out to Dale, see if he has anything to say about us doing it.

Like he wants to make a comment about the drink. I emailed him. No response. No. So file that one under, you know, we have a love. relationship with the internet, file that one under hate.

All the way on hate? An unanswered emailed I hate. Dale, I love. That's my boy right there. Oh, oh, oh, yeah. What is up, Calpiquet here? You know, a mutual friend from Rhode Island has since reached out, and let me know that Dale may have had some knee surgery recently.

So, Dale, take a load off, take your time, get well soon. We love you, pal. And to everyone else, check out de Groff Spirits. He's got a delicious Amaro, a delicious bitter a patif. Check them out now. DeGroftspirits.com. You'd love it. Delicious stuff, folks.

Here is the recipe. One and a half ounces of gin. One ounce of simple syrup. Three quarter ounces fresh lemon juice. Two dashes. Angostura bitters. Lemon piece for garnish. Shake all the ingredients with ice and strain into a round.

rocks glass. Straight. Garnish with the aforementioned lemon piece. Oh, so the very same one that was mentioned, not just saying if a new lemon piece came along in the meantime while you were making this.

Shit, man, I'm really excited by this because it's a simple drink. We're talking about it. It's a gin sour with bitters. And this fits in with, remember I had a whole tirade one time? I was really spouting off about if you're Getting into being like a cocktail guy who hosts people at your house.

Yeah. It's all about the gin sour. Dress it up, dress it down. Night at home, night of the town. Yeah, it's a little black dress of cocktails. It can be the east side. It could be the south side. It could be the bramble.

It could be the French 75. And now. Dress it up, dress it down, night at the home night on the town. That's right. Elbaid. We're going to go shake these up and strain onto fresh ice. I love that. Shaking on ice, pour on a fresh ice.

What one time of glass you use it? I miss that. Are you using rocks, rocks, rocks. Okay, good. Rocks glass. Short and stout. Folks, we're going to go shake these up. And when we come back, first sips of the Fitzgerald.

Back Fitzgerald's in hand. Wow. Oh, I like the little, I got a pink hue from my. Yeah. I must have, my dashes must have been bigger than your guys because it made my bitters. I made my drink pink. My dashes. Be right back.

My dash, like, it's not his whole bottle of, uh, my dashes. He's got two dashes sitting out. Um, I got dashes in there, but yeah, maybe I just went a little lighter. I got my heavy dasher. I should have told you that. When I was taking, uh, a picture of my drink for, to post on Instagram and I tried to do the Leo Gatsby. Mm-hmm.

And I, and I, was, I couldn't really get it right. And I splashed and I spilled and I fucked it all up. You're going to want those sips. You're going to wish you had those sifts. Yep. Yeah, I'm going to be licking them off the bathroom floor later. Okay, Mike, you got your dashes. Got my dashes.

Okay, from dashes to sips. Here we go. Bottoms up. Oh. Oh, wow. That is very welcoming. Yeah. Wow.

Okay, this is a nice, easy drink. Dale, you brilliant bastard. Really? Dale, where you've been hiding this one, man? Come on. Jeff, where your tiny dashes coming through? Damn, Dale, where'd you find this? What was that, Tim?

With your small dashes, is the taste coming through? Oh, yes. But see, I don't, I don't, Anguster is there to just bless the drink. You know, like, I never really want to taste Anguster unless it's a Trinidad add sour, of course. Jeff, are you saying that bitters are like the salt and pepper of cocktails? I am, Tim. I am indeed.

I think the celebrity bartender, Jack Schramm told us that. Oh, Jack Schramm. Oh, Jack, Schramm. Speaking of Schrammer, you know, he taught us the 2-1-1 method of sour. And then he said everyone, you know, the one in the one can be dialed up. Like some people like, they did a little more sweet, little more sour back and forth.

Dale chose to dial down the lemon here, but keep the sour mix at an ounce. So this is a very sweet lemonadeia affair, not really sour, sour. You know what I liked about this drink, measuring it, in my little measuring cup, I have,

there's a line for an ounce and a half, an ounce, and three quarters. So it's just going down the, down the ladder. Down, down, down. That's one of these down the ladder drinks. Yeah, we should, that should be

because we like the, we love the equal parts drinks, but, oh, this is a good one too. You don't hear as much about the down the ladder drinks. Down the ladder, down the hatch.

Dan, this is good. I will admit, I made some of these last night when I watched the Great Gatsby Baz Luhrman edition. Ooh. The Lurman.

Nice. The Lurmer cut. And I'll say, I'll say now what I said, then, this tastes like a bramble. you said that then I said this is a bramble minus

you stood up on your coffee table this is a bramble minus the sham board um okay yeah I too watched that film after reading the book and what did you say I said

well I wasn't drinking this drink while I watched oh wait were you drinking this drink Tim you must have said something wait wait hold on Did I hear your story wrong? Did you drink the drink of the day while you were watching it? Yeah, I cheated.

I did an early sip yesterday. I told you. Mike, do you know this? I'm just hearing about it now. And I'm beside myself. This is, Jeff, what the hell are you doing over there? Does it mean anything that I came clean? Yeah, I mean, it's quite a bit, actually.

Yeah, but you came clean in a way that confused me and it floated right by me because it was more about the, you know, your name checking, Baz Luhrming. You're talking about. You're doing a funny voice. Next thing I know. You're wowing us with Bazelerman. All this razzle dazzle is a bait and switch. Not unlike one of Gatsby's parties

themselves. Of course we're going to be talking about on the blowout folks. Jump out over the blowout this week. Oh yeah. I wanted to save folks. Go to patreon.com slash the sloppy boys here.

Let's talk about the great Gatsby. So we're saving our Gatsby talk for the behind the paywall. But I was reminded. I was reminded. of a funny thing I was telling Jeff about drunkenly the other night at a party.

I love you, man. He was really chewing my ear, man. Come on, I love you, man. Yeah, that's what I want to tell you. Mike, I want to get you up to speed. I love Jeff. Man. Mike, it looked like that meme where a guy's telling his girlfriend

something at a sports, sporting a game. We were at like a party. We were at a fundraiser for Silver Lake Shorts, and I was talking Hemingway. It was funny because one of the guys that runs the thing heard me, I felt like an asshole just being a guy at a party being like, oh, Hemingway

writes rather spare prose, does he not? You know what? I think parties need to be a little more like that, to be honest with it, Tim. Did you see who got voted off of Love Island? Oh my god, I almost shit myself. Oh, I love the Algo

on my social media apps. I hope there's more AI slop tomorrow. I love the Algo just grabbing me and throwing me around hither and thither. I like being tossed by the algo. No, but the funny thing that I was

drunkenly rambling about was in the book, A Movable Feast by Hemingway, which is a true story that uses real names and real name checks, that came out long after F. Scott Fitzgerald was dead. Heming, and they were supposedly

like great friends and everything. Hemingway tells a story about Scott Fitzgerald being like, hey, can I talk to you? Can we get coffee? And then they get coffee. And what he wanted to talk to him about is that he was afraid that his dick was too small. And that he, Zelda told him that he could never, never please a woman. And then Hemingway took Fitzgerald to the Louvre to show him statues so that he compares other dicks. Could you imagine writing that about your friend 10 years after he died?

I'm going to write that about you guys. Yeah, but it's kind of expected. We talk about that in the podcast. Your book's going to suck if it's just been like, so Tim and Mike they had average penises. That's so funny to think. Oh, by the way, I just finished my

Hemingway book. Sun also rises. Oh, shit. Very different style. than F. Scott's Gatsby. We can talk about that. We talk about that on the pot. Well, would you say that his pros are spare? I would, if I was at that party with you, Tim,

I would have heard you across the room and beeline it. Tomah, I agree with this guy. Now, do you agree with the fact that the protagonist is neutered in a way? Yes. Once Jeff said that, I said, I know way. There's something really funny. So the book is about some friends going to Pamplona for some bullfighting,

but there's much more to it. obviously. But there's some moments in it where like the guys are, I don't know if they say the age, but I think they're in their like 30. I'm guessing in their 30s. And it's like, it kind of reminded me of when the three of us are out on tour because there's a moment when like Hemingway's saying

he's trying to get his friend Bill out of bed. And Bill's like, you're going to have to get me out of bed and like rips the sheets up to his chin. And I'm like, that's what I do. Or like, it's like, yeah, like give me out. It's like guys goofing off in a hotel room. Listeners, you should know, your beloved bass player is quite bed-centric in the mornings.

In the mornings. Well, all night, too. All night long. Well, yes, yes. The nights to be expected. Oh, I'm in bed all now. This guy will, like, get up, take a shower. Also, like, not even necessarily a morning shower.

But if he takes a shower, he might, quote, unquote, dry off in bed. Meaning, like, I guess, use the sheets to dry himself. What the hell are you talking about? I don't get it back into bed wet. Wet. It's insane. I think he do. You think I do.

Have you ever seen? You're crazy. You're just trying to get a rise out of me and get your cloud up here on the pod. Clout chaser. No, I don't think the audience needs to know how I spend my time in my private hotel room. Thank you very much. What I'm doing in towels or otherwise. I haven't seen the water trick, but I notice maybe I think both of you, the rhythm we've hit on tour is if we, let's

Let's say we're staying at a hotel that has a free breakfast down in the lobby. Oh, yeah. You guys... Get some half moons, some Hampton in half moons? We're always... At Hampton, we're praying for those omelets. We had those ones and they were so good and then, poof, they're going back. I think we had them twice and then that's why we expected it from that point for it.

Yeah, and to not get a half moon is a tough one. You really want that. When you just said the scoopy wet eggs when you wanted a half moon... Oh, the watery egg. But you guys are better about like waking, if the food ends at 10 or whatever, you guys are better about like waking up and getting down there. I'll sometimes sleep through it. But then sometimes I'll get up at like 9.59 and make it down there. And then I'm eating breakfast.

I'm like passing you on the elevator as you guys are going down and then I go down to eat breakfast. When I come back, I'm thinking, well, these guys will have started their day. They've been up an hour longer than me. No. They've got their bellies full and they're caffeinated. from coffee and they still disrobed and got back into bed. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. I guess I'm guilty as well of the false start. There's nothing to be guilty of. It's just greeting the day in a different way. I mean, it's however you need to do it. If I've had my coffee, don't talk to me before, I've had my coffee, but I wouldn't get back under the sheets. I'd lay down on a bed if I'm watching TV or looking at my phone.

But to disrobe and get back under the sheets after. you've had eggs and a banana and coffee. That's tricky. That's tricky for you. It's challenging to witness. If I get back into the bed, it depends on when we're leaving or not. Like if we have to get up and be out of here. Sometimes we push it till 12 the checkout because we don't, we can't get to the next place yet without.

I'm used to hearing a phone call happen at some point from Tim. Nope. Hey, I'm in room. Whatever. could we get a late checkout? And they go, nah. And then they're like, oh, we could do 12. We could do 12.

12's the latest we can do. Sorry, I know, just 12. And I'm like, the very time I wanted. You can't do 6 p.m. You don't have any of those two or 3 p.m. Yeah. It's only ever 12. Right.

It's only ever 12 and they can always do it. And they're always like, the answer is no. What city was it where like we got a little rap on the door. I think this is our last. This was Knoxville, maybe. Atlanta? Yes, it was Atlanta. It was. And we're like, we're in here. And this was, this was maybe 10 or something. Like, it was a normal check-in. And we're like, we're like, no, we're in here. No, thanks. Whatever. And then it was like, we got the late checkout. And then a guy knocked and asked like, check out. And we're like, we're late. We're doing, we're doing late checkout. And then he kept knocking. Tim was responding to him and you were, you were heading to the bathroom or something. And he's like,

once your checkout. And you went, noon. Well, he's yelled at the room. He couldn't hear me. So I was like, noon.

And he was like, what? And I was like, no. And then, but he, thankfully, he laughed.

Because you did, you did like a Chuck Jones, like, like a Looney Tunes. Noon. That was really funny to hear of laugh. I wonder. if he was just like

fucking with you like he heard you the first time but just continued to fuck with you until you got to that part. Because also like we got the late checkout because we were trying to relax we didn't want to be

dealing with screaming noon. We weren't we weren't taking any callers you know. Yeah yeah right. Ooh can I bring up I was meant to bring this up in shit chat. This is a complete different topic

but Jeff and I just recently had we're chit chatting with a very high up in the animation world. I'll leave his name just for me and Jeff to know. But let's just say he... Disney's ghost.

Well, maybe. Anyway, he was telling us, remember we've talked about in the pod before? The Bart the General. There's a YouTube video. It's an animated thing. It's very odd.

Jeff, it rubs Jeff the wrong way in the sense. It's very certain shots are just kind of gross looking. It's profane, right? It's profane. It's obscene in a way. God, what's the word?

God, there's a word for it. I got to look it up. I got to look it up. So anyway, this guy was saying that he knows, back in like the early 2000s, there were these little collectives of like animators and art people and stuff, just goofing off and making stuff and just trying to make some art and see what sticks. And he knew the guys who made Bart the General. And there are these Australian dudes and I think they still live in Australia.

Well, we were talking about the podcast one point. Sorry, we were talking about Bart the General on this podcast. And the guy who made that, the guys who made that, are fans of this podcast and heard us talk about it. So, hello, hello, Lawrence. We love you. Bart the General. Keep making stuff like that. To be clear, I like Bart the General, but the word I'm looking for is depraved.

It comes off. Depraved. It's very depraised. And it's supposed to be. Like, that's the humor of it. Yes. Yes. If you haven't seen it, folks, look up Bart the General.

It's an experience. Thanks, Lawrence. Hi, Lawrence. Hi, Lord. That's so funny. It's an expedience. I love that stuff. Like, I met the G.I. Joe PSA guys went, Fensler. Yeah, I think of Fencelor films.

Oh, I love those. Those guys who's like, man, this was just weird little stuff that I didn't know anyone. You don't even think of who made it or where it came from. Excuse me, came from. Yeah, you don't think of internet stuff as getting made. You know, you're just like, I love this video on my phone. Especially, like, this is before view counts. Like, you know, the G.I. Joe PSA's and Homestar.

runners probably were in like a hundred million views like they crashed websites and stuff right they were just on a website without like the players were within the pages you wouldn't see and it's like you could download them if you want um maybe not home star but the rest damn that was cool we had talked about doing a ebombs world blowout that would be fun that'll be cool to check out some of those old things weird weird that like there's cultural touch touch points with internet stuff. Not weird, but... Normal. Yeah. Yeah.

Quite normal. I mean, it is a fact. I didn't mean weird. I meant quite normal. I mean... I was really reaching there. Hey, isn't it weird, man? They're like, we type emails, man. I think we're 20 years into YouTube now.

So I think that's funny to me of like anything that was a funny YouTube video is no longer of like like that's been around for long enough that there could be like a classic YouTube video that's classic and I was thinking about it when we on the

blowout, patreon.com slash sloppy boys we had a prequel month where we talked about Star Wars movies and I watched what's that channel? Red Letter Media uh Red Tube I think I like

easy Mike Whoa. Wow. There's a guy who had made a feature-length YouTube documentary about why Star Wars Episode 1 is bad, and we had all seen it, and then I went and I re-watched it,

and it was really good, but it was from 11 years ago and it had 10 million views, and I was like, this is as legitimate a film as Star Wars Episode 1 is. If 10 million people have seen it, and it's good,

and it stands the time, test of time. Like, that's a work of film. Oh, and that's like a piece of film criticism. Like that is, that's... Right, right, right. That's right up there with, uh, uh, uh, oh, Gene Shallin.

Jay Shallet. Gee Shall just passed away, I think. I read that. Ah. Shout out to his family. Wait, wait, what's that remind me of? David Gettah or something. Oh, my God. Yeah.

Oh, David Gettas, George Floyd. Oh, yeah. Shout up to a show. The DJ? That DJ who did the... He's like, he's like, he's like DJing and spinning. And then he just like says shout out to Spanley. It's like the least emotional thing you've ever seen.

But no, yeah. I love YouTube with all my heart. And I'm so, I, there's stuff on there that like we put content on there. And other people put content that features themselves or you're trying to monetize or whatever. But to the people out there that are just like putting. like an old kids in the hall sketch on that I happen to want to watch like I'm so grateful

that somebody ripped a DVD and put these are the daves I know on YouTube and I'm like so many people are doing that and like nobody I know does that but millions of people are doing that and hey let's give a special shout out to people who are verticalizing and captioning

and uploading old birthday boy sketches in HD to the birthday boys Instagram handle at the birthday boys. We salute you. Jeff, I'm getting so many, I'm getting so many,

um, uh, people coming up to me like, oh my God, I saw this video. I hadn't seen forever. I was like, Jeff is putting them out.

You got to talk to Jeff. Leave me alone. It's crazy at that animation party. People are like, what's happening with birthday boys? It's like back. And it's just like, it's just that I take a couple hours every once in a while and like,

we'll try and verticalize the video. But yes, doesn't it have the effect of we're back? We're so back. Next time people are like, hey, birthday boys are back and be like, I know, it's just like getting big all of a sudden. I don't know. Yeah, actually, that's, rather than explain it away with logic,

I should just be like, I know, something magical's happening. Something most magical indeed. No, no, it's just us. Don't look at us. It's just us helping ourselves again. We should be like, oh, no, yeah, Warrior Brothers, like, started cutting them up and, like, putting them out. I don't know.

I don't know. We got to, like, sue them or something, right? you know a certain novel called The Great Gatsby was not a hit when it came out but like 20 years later really blew up and then became essential so maybe that's what we're seeing happen

on IFC in 2014 the Gatsby effect but then later it catches hold with a new generation the first generation was too fucking stupid to understand well dude you know what's it

It really does make me happy that people will comment, snarky comments generally to start. We'll say something like Tim and Eric did it or S&L did it or something. And they are thinking of a sketch that came out after ours. They're looking at our 16-year-old video and thinking that it's new. Right, right. Yeah, yeah. Like there's no greater compliment than somebody thinking our old work is, put up new from a new sketch group or something.

Timeless. It makes it feel like that's a... Because for so long, so many people were trying to get us to be relevant. Like, oh, you should do something about ride shares because ride shares are new now. And it's like, well, where are all the ride share videos in 2026, you fucking moron? Jeff, you got to calm down, Jeff. I totally agree, though. I think that we made that choice and we knew we were making it.

and that like, yeah, you don't see a lot of ride chair sketches sticking around. But I do think other than those handful of little time cops who were patrolling the videos or saying that we're pulled over by the time cops. What I love is like I think most people don't care. Like I agree that when a birthday boy's video gets like takes off and gets a lot of views, I think lots of people are thinking it's new. I think some people know it's old. but I think it's cool that at the end of the day,

it doesn't matter because the way that people approach content now is just like, well, I looked at my phone and I laughed. Like, I don't care that it's. I'm not interested in what IFC is or what year this was. Like, I'm happy that I watched a 20-second thing and it made me laugh. Damn. Well, should we do second rounds? Now we reevaluate our second round.

Yeah. I have an idea. Lay it on us, Tim. So this is a gin sour, right? Yeah. And I've got a nice cold bottle of Badger Bev's Club soda. And I was thinking, if I did round two in a highball glass, it would be, it would essentially be Tom Collins. But if it's got, it's got these bitters in it, you know what my name is for it?

What? What? Fizzy Fits. Ooh. Fits Fizz. Fizz. Fizz. That's good.

Fits Fis. Fis. Fis Fis Fis Fis Fis-Fis-Fis-Sherald. So he's pivoting away from a gin. tonic and you're kind of pivoting right back in minus the quinine. Oh, right. The guy was a G&T drinker. Maybe I have some powdered quinine in my kitchen I can use.

Yeah. Some of that essential mineral we all need quinine. I'm not going to do another one. I'm going to just do my cooled fireball apple shot. Then my next round. Fireball. I'm going to make another one and maybe I'll get freaky in there. I'll see what I find.

Fun. Folks, we'll be right back with round two after this. Back with round two Fitzgeralds.

I did the I did more just to beat the bitter allegations here. I want to make sure I get it as scripted. That looks good. I hate it.

Oh, you didn't have bitters in yours at all in last one? I did, but small dashes. I did big, big plops now. I think the biters

is sent, important because I think it's really good. It's a good balancer. But I'm tasting it. I'm like, I'm taste in bidders. I put the rest of that fireball nip in this in my, it didn't get super cold.

So I'm just swirling it around in my, what was left of my Fitzgerald in that big cube. So now we're going to learn about half of Fitzgerald. I finished the Fitzgerald. I finished that. That was done. No, a lot of listeners might be wondering what half of Fitzgerald and a blazing apple red ball.

Red, fireball Tastes like. Fireball. Okay. That was interesting. It was cold enough for me to judge. I don't think that's for me. The fireball plays an apple.

As a novelty shot, though, you think it's not going to, the way that people do fireball shots for fun. You don't think that's going to put up numbers. I don't think so just because the apple, the sour apple taste is not a favor of mine, so that's why partially why I don't like it, but I don't think it's,

it's like the fireball has like some heat to it and it's kind of fun the apple just tones down the heat and gets in the way you want that sweet heat I I topped it off I put I went highball glass topped it off with Badger Bev's Club soda the fits fizz it's delicious look at this look how beautiful it's pink pink yeah is that because of like a light coming through the back yeah you're holding it in front of a neon pink light it's that it's that to me too it's it's yeah See, like there you go. That's cool.

So, and the Fitzfiz is delicious. But then also, here's a kind of a cool thing I did. This is interesting. Remember, I was talking earlier about in the book, A Movable Feast when Fitzgerald had that penile issue. Yeah. And I was saying it's kind of embarrassing for Scott Fitzgerald, that Hemingway immortalized them that way.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald? You joke, but Francis Scott Key was his great grandfather. What the fuck? That's why they named them F. Scott. Jesus Christ. Oh, brother. No, so during the break, I was like, I wonder if I could find an audio book clip on Audible of this chapter from a movie. So he's Nepo?

He's Nepo in a way. All his books are about how he doesn't have any money. Here's the thing. Interesting. He grew up like lower middle class. He didn't have a lot of money, but he was like in the rich part of St. Paul. And then he went to Princeton. So he was surrounded by richer people.

But I think naming him after Francis Scott Key, it speaks to the times that it's like they weren't rich like good pedigree, but they kind of wanted to be. so they named their son after the one kind of famous guy they had in their family. Whoa, we're getting a little too close to blowout talk here, folks. Sorry, sorry. Yeah, okay. All behind the paywall. Just so I know it in the future, can I hear the sound again? Okay, okay.

When you hear that sound. No, but so I went on to Audible and I ripped the chapter from Ernest Hemingway's immovable feast, where F. Scott Fitzgerald came to him with a problem, and I thought we could play it here on the pod. Oh, you were able to rip it? I ripped it with, I used some, you know, software. Yeah, I don't want to know. We'll all get in trouble, I think, if we know about it. Well, let's give it a listen. Here we go.

One day, while I was in Paris, having a feast most movable indeed, I was approached by F. Scott Fitzgerald. He told me he had a teeny little week. and he was afraid it was too tiny a peony. Pricky, pricky-picky, wee-willy-wee. I looked up from my feast, movable as it was, and I told him he oughtn't be concerned.

For a man's manhood lies not in his trousers, but in the battlefields of your, and in the jungles of your, and in the wooded woods of your forest. Wah, wow, wow, he cried. Me go peepy in me, dippy. he sobbed Now me needy

Wipey Wimpy dinky As I dried his cock I found it to be A little pittled pinky Very very Winky Pokey Jokey

Lil Smokey Peck pecky A flicky Flecky specky The end Flicky Flicky Specky Oh yeah

Flicky specky Wow That was that's pretty humiliating stuff I can't believe he wrote that about his friend yeah and you know you hear women say sizes and everything it's the motion of the ocean stuff but if you have a flicky flucky specky

yeah yeah I think yeah I just yeah that's that's interesting it's funny that he just from reading I don't know when immovables or the was it movable's feast or immovable movable movable I don't know when that came

but it must have been after Sunnals arising because Sunnals Arise is a very different style of, it's very, just the facts, you know. He doesn't really play with the language the way that he does here in movable feces. There's not this like sing-song rhyming sort of almost like...

Well, remember the first few of those, he's quoting F. Scott directly. So that's more of a Scott thing. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, but then he gets a little loose with it, you must admit. I'll admit that, yeah, I'll admit that. And just saying things like most indeed

come, I don't know, there's other writers that are another writer. Two writers in particular, I know who, uh, I feel like I hear that a lot from. Is it the guys that wrote the Bible? No, it's you and, uh, Neil Campbell, the fact checker. And I think a lot of it's, uh, used to, uh, rhyme. Well, let's turn our attention to the adjudication of the drink, shall we? Yes. Enough nonsense.

Yes. Yeah. Order again all day long. This is a fun, simple drink. And it really feels like, you know, sometimes we'll be drinking these old-timey drinks. And it's like, yeah, I get it. I didn't think it was going to be what I thought, or what it sounded like. This one really feels like, even though it was made after Great Gatsby, it feels like what they would be drinking in that.

Like the descriptions of the drinks in the book. They're like, yeah, this feels like what they'd be having around the old pool. Yeah. I think it's an order again and again. This is a classic and like people aren't talking about it for drink of the summer, but I think it's because of their ignorance. I think you're right. Ignorance is bliss, though.

In this one case, no. It must be why I'm so fucking miserable. I'm going to say order again and I love it. And the gin sour, which we haven't really just done a plain gin sour in the pod, but that's a stone cold classic. And I'm loving every variation. I still implore you young slopheads, make that the core of your repertoire because all the variations are great. And I agree. I thought this is Gatsby Week on the show.

And I was like, oh, it would be cool if we did something from the 20s. This is not from the 20s. But it's from Dale DeGroves an icon. He invented this in like, what, the late 80s? and he was, he said that it was at the Rainbow Room. Rainbow Room is Rockefeller Center. Rockefeller Center is right by all this shit. You're right by fucking all these,

the locations that are very important to Fitzgerald. So now here we are 2026. I would call this a classic cocktail and I think it's utterly divine. Yeah. He really, he really did a good job of like calling at the Fitzgerald and keeping it like of the time. way to go

de Groff Fitzgerald himself drank gin rickies a lot I mean all gin and martinis and stuff but gin rickies is the thing

so that's probably why Dale thought of Ricky don't sip my drink absolutely that's our show follow us on social media at the sloppy boys

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