The Sloppy Boys - 75. French 75

Episode Date: March 25, 2022

The guys meet the strong, bubbly, citrusy star of the brunch scene.FRENCH 75 RECIPE1oz/30 ml Gin.5oz/15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice.5oz/15 ml Sugar Syrup2oz/60 ml ChampagnePour all the ingredients, except Champagne, into a shaker. Shake well and strain into a Champagne flute. Top up with Champagne. Stir gently.Recipe via the International Bartenders Association (https://www.iba-world.com/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hello, Jeff. And Tim Kalpakis. What is up, le styliste français? Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Alpacas. What is up? Le style is Francais. Oh.

Hey, bigs. Give a shout out right up top. The French laugh goes right into a nice little. Oh, Le Swine. Here's something. Guys, here's something crazy. Yeah. Did you? We didn't, I didn't realize this.

Did you realize what number episode this is and what drink we're doing today? Is it 75? Oh my God. This is the 75th episode and we did not choose the drink on purpose. Wow. Honestly, we did not choose episode 69 to be... Which one was that? Between the Sheets?

Oh, yeah. I think it was the Valentine's Day episode, wasn't it? Yeah. Sex on the Beach? Yeah. Have we done Sex on the Beach yet? Yeah, we did. It was one of the sexes.

We'll have to dip into the archives to figure that out. Yeah. These numbers, the numbers coinciding with the drinks, this is when you know that God is watching over us and choosing us as the chosen ones. God is watching us. The Western God, the one true God. Yahweh. The Judeo-Christian God.

Yeah, nice try, everybody else. You're going to hell. Hey. And we're right there with you. Oh, stop it. We're going to party with you down there. We're going to party with the Reds right there with you oh stop it we're gonna party with you down there we're gonna party with the reds we're all atheists we worship ricky gervais um us on this show we worship the almighty dollar let's be honest that's true anytime we can uh

put uh cash beef cash in hand is the sort of the way we pray. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. That's right. Well. I'm still doing well with the no meat march.

Great. I freaking. Did you have any pepperoni pizzas? No pepperoni pizzas, but this weekend, this Sunday, I said, you know what? This is going to be, I'm doing one meal. I'll have a little bit of meat in a meal. So I got myself, I went over to the bodega, and I said, I want an Italian sub.

Give me this Italian sub. And there was a little something lost in the communication, and I got home, and I had a tuna sub. I'm sorry, a turkey sub. Turkey sub. And I thought to myself, you know what? I'm still going to eat this. And it's probably better that I'm doing that anyway. I think I know what happened is the deli guy kind of probably thought you were Dutton.

It was a turkey sandwich. Yeah, that's probably it. Well, it was one of those things where I was talking with my mask on. And I said Italian sub., and I said Italian sub. He thought I said turkey sub. And then the questions he was asking me, like when I was like, oh, can I get banana peppers and jalapenos on that too? And he was kind of looking like, okay.

Wait, you want me to put that stuff on top of this gobble gobble meat? I couldn't understand him. Like, yeah, yeah, I'm going to gobble gobble it up.'t understand him like yeah yeah i'm gonna gobble gobble it up what are you talking as much gobble ghoul as you want on that thing oh that's the probably a gobble ghoul yeah i think it's time to get to maybe we don't need to review a single thing. Oh, shit. Woke up this morning. Got your prescription.

Oh, no. Your mama always said you need a prescription. She said you wanted a million. You got a per-scription. Falling under a bad sign with a per-scription in your eyes, yeah. Woke up this morning. You got your per-scription. You got your per-scription.

You got your per-scription. It's booze news, you one-shoe cocksucker. Oh! That woke up this morning, got yourself a prescription by Red Fabry, a.k.a. Danny Noonan on the Sloppy Boys Discord. And if you have a Booze News theme song, email it to thesloppyboyspodcast at gmail.com. Here's my question.

What did he say at the end there? You one shoe? One shoe cocksucker? That must be a spoiler or something. Must be a... I don't get it, but it sounds like a Sopranos reference. Oh, yeah. Who's the guy with the silver hair? Pauly. Pauly, yeah. Pauly lost his shoe in the woods that time. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Who's the guy with the silver hair?

Pauly. Pauly, yeah. Pauly lost his shoe in the woods that time. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Pine Barrens. That's right. There you go. That's right.

That's good. That is good. I like cramming in the word prescriptions so much at the end. Well, yeah. It fit with the phrasing there at the end. I like it just being jammed in for most most of the song you know for any of our we got a lot of every week we have thousands of people jumping on and listening to this podcast for the first time so we should remember that

that hey folks oh yeah you're probably huge french 75 fans you clicked on this podcast the first time you don't realize that when mike tries to quote tony soprano he always says hey give me the prescriptions there you go now you're caught up to date now you can laugh that was kind of a thing from like it frees you up you can laugh that was like a six month ago thing i think we were probably doing the that was really hitting the prescriptions thing really hard the sopranos yep yeah we were hey nothing wrong with i'm glad uh i'm glad glad danny noonan sent that in but uh it's just funny long ago it was long ago the actor that uh played danny noonan in caddyshack is now in the hbo series winning time and i did not put it together mike you texted something

about like dan danny noonan's character or whatever and i was not put it together mike you texted something about like dan danny newton's character or whatever and i was like what the fuck is right right i didn't track this he's not it was when it clicked for me it was shocking because he is so much uh older but i also like the uh there's something novel about who what once was the slob is now the snob oh that's yeah he's playing the old stuffy rich guy on the show i wonder how much of the that the thought that thought was in casting or if it was just like hey we want to get this this actor in here because he's good but then like oh yes yes or whoever did cast he was like hey we should cast a one slob or whoever did casting was like,

hey, we should cast a once slob. A once slob. Now slob. And they were like, what the F? What, the control alt delete? Well, who's got the booze news? I got a hankering. Oh, shit. Well, I had the top story of the day well old bay vodka old bay that's the

spice yes oh you know you know about arby's how they made vodka you know about how lays made vodka and now the winner of the sloppy boys patreon best spice episode old bay made by mccormick spice um you this was a funny thing it's it's mccormick that makes old bay and they partnered with mcclintock or mcclinic or something very similar with that forgot uh it's a vodka company but is also maryland based so this is some real chesapeake bay type thing and you know people often put old bay in their bloody marys and stuff but now you can just get it right in that vodka that stinky orange powder that we we put it our our shellfish i was uh i was frying up some shrimp today and I

put some Old Bay on that. Were you? Oh, yeah. Yeah, sure. Does that count for meatless? Yeah, pescetage. I think we set up top. I'm doing fish is fine. Fish is fine. And I'll eat chicken every

day, too. And you know, if a pepperoni pizza gets in there, there's no way to stop that. I'm allowed to have a steak once in a while. Yeah, every week. You've got to keep your iron up. You have a breakfast steak. Keep my iron up. See, that sounds like a good one.

That sounds like a good vodka. I would try that old thing. I'd try that, too. Now, is that going to be another limited edition, you can't get it we just want the press type deal i really don't think i read an article in food and wine that makes the sound like sound like it's an actual product because it's not as stunty as the other ones uh so it's not exactly you know it's not like this went ultra viral or anything although a good number of slopheads did tag us in it uh which is very helpful as the editor and chief of booze news so continue to tag us um but yeah um it's sometimes i'm like well what's the point because i have old bay and i could just shake

it in to my bloody mary or whatever so why do i need to use old bay vodka but i do like the idea of maybe just drinking this straight we like i like a savory drink and maybe just Old Bay Vodka on the rocks will be a thing. Do you know that Old Bay is really having a moment? And I think we should take credit and say that it's ever since we shouted it out on our Patreon. But during COVID, there was a shortage. People were buying so much Old Bay that McCormick had to like cut down on their production of other spices so they could put more people in the factory that makes Old Bay. Awesome. Wow.

And there was a whole thing about Old Bay hot sauce, which is really good. I have a bottle of it. It took me a long time to even get some because it was like sold out and it was selling on eBay for like $100 a bottle. out and it was selling on ebay for like a hundred dollars dollars a bottle uh and then i waited until it was back down to like four dollars and uh it pretty much tastes like frank's with a little bit old bay in it but i might do that old bay it's a hit man it's a hit my hands on some of that just don't quit on some of that bay a little bay for jay hey baby uh baby did we did we do a talk about a chip that was spiced with Old Bay yeah was that Zaps

did Zaps have Old Bay not Old Bay brand well I had been squawking about Utz crab flavored chips which are not they don't taste like crab they taste like Old Bay yeah there's a variety of Zaps voodoo is the best They don't taste like crab. They taste like Old Bay. Right, right, right. But then, yeah, there's a variety of zaps.

Voodoo? Voodoo is the best, but then there's also the crawdad flavor. No, that's the one. It is sort of Old Bay. The crawdad. Oh, that sounds good. I just housed some voodoos this weekend, guys. You should see them.

I saw it on Instagram. I saw your video walking across the room and it went right into the chip bag. I thought that was funny. And there was one chip left. And then I saw Mookie putz around the bag. I said, what is going on here? And I knew it was a bachelor party.

Mookie stole my line. What the fuck? Mookie is up. What the heck? I noticed at a bar that we hang out here sometimes in LA, Hyperion Public, they've got bags of Zaps Voodoo at the bar. And you can order them. And I'll do that.

I'll say, hey, give me a Boulevardier and a bag of Zaps and shut up. And then I just saw a different bar has them too. I think it's – I like the bar snack. I feel like that kind of went away. But I like the idea of you being at a bar and being able to point to a little bag of chips yeah yeah bartender's head remember the remember the uh the white horse what was it called the white or the wild horse or something in uh the hot dog yeah in la they used to have hot dogs it was like the lady who owned it they were free they were free yeah it was like this old polish lady they would just be cooking up a

bunch of hot dogs and put them out for free. And they would be like just steamed. Those were free? Holy shit. Like free, plain, steamed hot dogs. Yeah. She would just come around and be like, hey, the new dogs are up. Yeah.

They are? She was like a den mom. Yeah. That was a great place. The whole place felt like a basement or something. Yeah. Nice vibe. But in a good way, folks.

In a good way. But now it's something else. It's either closed after COVID or it's... It was like a clubby club. It was under new ownership as still called the White Horse, and then that went out of business again. Oh. Oh, it did?

Yeah. There was like... It was called like something at the White Horse. It was called like Wild Girl at the Crazy Horse or something like that. I went to it once and I got a Tecate for like eight bucks. I was like, guys, I don't think this is sustainable. And they said,

you still have to pay. And I said, catch me. Out the door. Out the front door. Well, I got a little update here, Jeff. If you want to play the clip, I got a little I got something I have a little update here, Jeff If you want to play the clip I got an update from Great, yeah

From something I've been up to Sort of interested in lately Oh boy G-G-G-Gale Watch 2022 Hey guys, Mike here From Gale Watch 2022 Where we keep an eye on all things Gale Watch 2022. Hey, guys. Mike here from Gale Watch 2022, where we keep an eye on all things Gale. We are not up in the chopter copter today. We're just hanging out in the office.

Something, the engine blew up on the thing. It caught fire. We were in midair, to put it bluntly. We were flying around. The thing caught fire. We had to land quickly. We did a sully. We did a landing sully stylies in the Hudson River.

So we all got out safe, and now we're just kind of chilling here at the office waiting for the chopper cop to get it fixed. We're, you know, searching the Internet, looking for all things Gale, seeing what concert she's got going on. But, you know, we're turning lemons into lemonade over here, and we're having a good time making the best of it. So hopefully next week I'm back up there in the sky where

we'll be buzzing around the city seeing what we can find, keeping you up to breast with all things Gale. Alright, back to you in the studio, guys. I'll talk to you later. Bye-bye. All right, back to you in the studio, guys. I'll talk to you later. Bye-bye.

That would be so good. Gale, Gale, Gale, Gale, Gale, Gale Watch. Watch, watch, watch, watch, watch, watch, watch, watch, watch. Gale Watch 2022. Oh, yes. Tough times. You remember the outro to Gale Watch is, you remember that the outro to Gale Watch is a little longer than the intro to Gale Watch. Yes.

It really takes it on home. Yeah. This is Gale, as in the 17-year-old pop star who has a hit song, A, B, C, D, E, F, U, who has been coming out with a lot of versions of her songs.

It didn't feel like there was much, you know, to report this week. Not on Gail. It's sort of like now Gail Watch has become the news, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Well, and we wish we could have gotten up there to, you know, provide the information we do each week for everyone who's interested in Gail Watch 2022. Or even if you're not interested, you're going to hear it anyway,

because Gale is so omnipresent in our culture these days. Yeah, more so than Livrod, Olivia Edwards. Livrod, yeah. Livrod's barely involved in Gale Watch. But you searched. You did a Google search, and then you didn't say if you found anything. We like to deliver all the news from the copter chapter. Oh, okay. So you're holding, okay. Well, I'm really looking forward to the next Gale Watch then, too. anything so we like to deliver all the news from the copter chapter oh okay so you hold on okay

well i'm really looking forward to the next gail watch then too because we got some good we got some good for y'all sounds like a fun office you get a little music in the background and stuff people were having yeah i was trying to pick out what the that was ever clear it sounded like yeah santa monica uh we had the whole album on it. Somebody had a CD. The pilot brought the CD in. Wow, really downsizing, it seems like. You used to have the fax machine and the whole chopter copter. We still have the fax machine. There's just not much to be faxing around when you're not.

Let me tell you something from experience. Ain't nobody want to fax you when you're not in a chopper. Well, I'm glad to hear the fax machine made it. And, you know, not all of ACAST's investment went down in flames Well, again, I think we're going to be able to get the chapter up soon Hopefully by next week We'll be back in the skies Great

And this has got to be You know, you mentioned, like, somebody coming on the list of the podcast for the first time They're like, what is this? They're talking about Old Bay And they did a Best Spices episode, and now they got Gale Watch. I'm not even sure who Gale is. This show's about getting prescriptions and listening to Gale.

There's a lot of, yeah. I don't think I like this show. Maybe I'm a fool for listening. There's a lot of this and that happening before we get to the drink. You're not a fool for listening. Yeah. Early on, we did talk about, hey, how much are we going to talk about the drink and how much are we just going to goof?

And we said, you know, let's not try and predetermine these things. These things will work themselves out in the best possible way. But did we say early on, did we say like how much of the topic show should be used for Gale Watch and the Chopter Copter? At that time when we were coming up with this show i don't think we knew much about gail we could have used the chopper she was only 16 gail watch was a twinkle in hanford's eye at that point we had no way of knowing yeah you could there really is no gail watch without gail she had to kind of break down the door first then gail watch in. She had to put a song out

and put that song out several more times. Four times. You know what? I have to go back to the tapes. Why did Gale Watch even start? I don't even remember why that was, why we took to the skies. Yeah.

You don't remember? I don't remember. Well, I think you pitched it to ACAST and they gave you a big check and the rest is history. We went nuts. Hey, a friend of ours met Gale recently, so there's a lot of Gale stuff happening

and I'm happy that we have Gale Watch. That's what it was. It's because we had heard of our friend seeing it and I said, Gale's all over the place. He can't keep track of Gale, so we need Gale Watch 2022. And Gale's Gale and that's that, we all know that's that finger on the pulse this show old bay is having a moment we're

right there gail's having a moment we're right there too this is what gen z is talking about gail and old bay they probably spell bay a little differently come on and they probably change old to new what what do you expect from the third best comedy podcast on planet earth he's right there in culture you think do you think that mccormick is gonna come out with old bay for gen z kids and it's called new bay b-a-e i i kind of think bay that even is more of a millennial thing, isn't it? Calling something bae? Yes. I think that millennials

created it, but Gen Z grew up with it. It's just the word that they know instead of baby. Gen Z improved it and perfected it. Like when you talk to a Gen Z baby who's still in diapers, they're like, hey, I'm a little goo goo gaga. I'm Bay.

I'm Bay. Yeah. In a few years, you'll be old Bay. Mm hmm. Yeah. Well, what do we have today? You got to wrap this segment up, Jeff. Oh, yeah.

That's it for Booze News. Insert sound here. Booze News. Insert sound here. Note to editor Jeff. There will have been a good sound there. We should call you EJ. Don't call me EJ. Yeah.

Don't have to. Okay, so we're not calling you EJ. Got it. I'll write that down. Continue calling him Jeff. Okay, so we're not calling you AJ. Got it. I'll write that down. Continue calling him Jeff. Okay, let's get down to the drink of the day. This is a big one. You guys, I hope you're all revved and ramped up because, quite frankly, this is a clickable, shareable episode.

This is going to be people from all over the world saying, I love that drink. I'm going to listen. And it's a certain drink entitled the french 75 you've had not and not heard i've had you've had and dresden baby have you heard i guess also also i think uh mookie makes these mookie likes these little Lil Mookie B? The very same. Okay, now Mike, you said not had, not heard. Not had or heard. We should clarify because I feel like this comes

up every... I've heard of it in the sense we've talked about it on the podcast or when we're discussing it. That should just be the asterisk on every time we say not had, not heard. Not that you've heard of it while scrolling the IBA list for our podcast, but you're out of it. But every week I feel like I have to be like, well, I've heard of it while scrolling the iba list for our podcast but you're out of it but i every week i feel like i have to be like well i've heard it before when i

was like you can just relax man i gotta ask when i ask you've heard i mean you've had is pretty yeah self-explanatory that's clear heard is like uh we're looking for what do you what do you think what does it conjure jeff you've had when you think of a french 75 drinker or the set of circumstances and under which one would order it what's coming to mind it's kind of brunchy sparkling long but but but it's in it's in a cocktail glass right it's sort of a dainty little tippy guy which i don't like it's in a champagne flute jefferson but there's definitely a highball version with uh with rocks because here's the thing guys we're talking gin sugar lemon with champagne right so that's a gin sour that's topped up with champagne if what what is that reminders of a fucking tom collins

would be gin sugar lemon topped up with seltzer So this is just like a Frenchie take on Tom. I think of it as a... Now, just having heard it here. Are you hearing it here first? It's like one of these movable feast era drinks. Ah, yes. Paris in the 20s, Michael. Is that right?

You nailed it. Yes. You absolutely nailed it. Hemingway drinking them up. Hammers, Fitzy Boy. Slurp, slurp. Who else was in that era? Owen Wilson.

Hemingway, Fitz... Gertrude Stein. Gerald Owen Wilson. Steiner. George Steinbrenner. Stein spelled beer mug stylies. Yes. Okay, so it did come out of that scene. And guess if a drink is coming out of that scene,

guess who it's often attributed to? Henry. Harry. Harry Macalone of Harry's New York Bar in Paris, a.k.a. we call him the Fuck Jerry of drinks because he had this book. He put the recipes in there, and then people tend to give him credit.

That's how convenient that is. The ABCs of mixing cocktails. So that's the deal with this drink as well, where a lot of people say that Harry invented it. But to be fair to Harry on this one, he did at one point at least in his book credit the bucks club in london um and he's like i came up with the idea when i was there yeah uh i was struck when i was drinking a drink there it hit me um no he credited the bartender

i came up with a better idea so this is the the same. And it also later popped up in a different Harry, Harry Craddock from the Savoy hotel in London. Guys, this is the, it's the usual suspects as far as like the drinks. When we talk about the sidecar and the mimosa and the Boulevardier, all of these same kinds of names come up and it tends to be the bucks club or Harry's bar.

And the truth is like somewhere, you know, between the two or three places. Because, of course, there's also early versions of this that goes back to like Dickensian times when people were putting stuff in their champagne. But comes out of Paris in the 20s. That's all you need to know. Fancy European drink sipped by luminaries. Comes to America. Not unlike Eric Murphy himself. Was that? Sipped by luminaries comes to America not unlike Eric Murphy himself.

What's that? Sipped by luminaries today too. About to be. Yeah, I'm looking at two of them right now on the Zoom screen. It got popular at the Stork Club in the Big Apple, aka New York. Squawks. And then its big major claim

to fame is in the celluloid classic Casablanca, Bogie's Frenchie girlfriend Yvonne, who is a bit of a lush. Did he just hold the screen, Bogart? God. Mike, stop. He was on there. You couldn't look away.

He just had you. I forget Mike is such a cinephile. He loves literature, but also a classic film. Classic film. Any literature. Who are you going with, though? Dream blunt rotation. You only got one slot left.

You going bogey or you going Frank? I'm going bogey. And you know my other two, Hepburn and John Waters. Mine are Beavis and Butthead uh and bogey yeah mine are oh sorry i'm going minor bebop and rocksteady but not from ninja turtles uh my oh your grandparents and um and uh elmo mo where where beavis and butthead they were never stoners right i mean i always assumed it was implied but they just couldn't actually ever that's like i was just wondering if i just missed it like as a kid because i was you know didn't understand what's going on but looking at a

different part of the screen yeah it's it's funny if they're not and just that butthead is just like oh for no morons they're just done i like it it's funnier to make them just yeah uh what is it just like unexplainable morons yeah because i i seem to remember them trying to get beer or something yeah the uh trying to get beer was was is the thing they could talk about but i feel like drugs are too hot for mtv i always love the thing favorite thing about beavis and butthead they're little shorts yeah it's so funny they're like socks and black sneakers yeah those black shoes hey speaking of mtv i remember um you know how on like real world and on jersey shore like there's there's a lot of drinking like

there's underage drinking is there not i remember uh i directed a video that snooki was in for funny or die way back in the day and i was like hey how come there's no weed on jersey shore or like any mtv shows and she said like the producers get like they forbid it if you if you're smoking weed in the house you're like kicked off the show but she said that like some cast members they would they would sneak out yeah oh i'm sure they have an edible a little do you think they can do it now because it's uh legal where they if it's legal where they shoot curious i hope so i bet it's more about i bet just like the sponsors on the network don't want to be associated with it yeah that's true

that's always what it is the money the money yeah corporate shit back to the drink yes oh I was talking about

Casablanca yeah Bogie's girlfriend Yvonne who's the French lady Yvonne she at one point shows up with a new boyfriend

and she's like line them up i want a row of french 75s from here to here um and she's like a lush character so i think the thing with this drink is yeah it's a little strong jeff you mentioned brunch um i texted fran fran gillespie of pickleback fame and i said you like french 75s right uh and she's like yeah yeah i get them at brunch but you got to be careful because they're strong and and it's true because it's you know it's not like a mimosa where you're watering down the shit yeah yeah it's like there's a gin in there floating around yeah and that's the deal that's why it's called the french 75 it's a reference to this this french artillery like a 75 millimeter cannon that was used in World War I.

That's a cool name. A cannon. You know, this is probably because I'm, you know, I've seen the movie French Dispatch recently, but it makes me think of a, makes me think of like a Wes Anderson term. Like if somebody had a, I don't know, like a tennis rack and it's like oh you can borrow mine oh my gosh you have a french 75 yeah it's it was very popular yeah it's a little it sounds very distinguished and precious yeah yeah yeah um i always think i've had and i like these a lot and i've never actually had it at brunch though that makes sense but i do think of it as a fancy day drink because it's kind of

sweet like i think of it as like maybe you're arriving at a wedding and it's the thing that's on the trays you know and it's still light outside but i want something kind of fancy it's kind of upscale wedding but then i walk in like hey how you doing like wally sparks wally sparks in there like a big set piece where he has a big boner poking in his in his Great to meet you. Like Wally Sparks. Wally Sparks, isn't there like a big set piece where he has a big boner poking in his pants? He's like walking around a party and everyone's like, that man has an erection.

We got to watch that. We should do Wally Sparks. We got to watch that on the blowout. That's good. Is he like a Jerry Springer type guy? You're thinking of The Ringer. The Ringer starring Johnny Knoxville? No, The Ringleader is the...

Oh, right. Jerry Springer is The Ringleader. Wait, isn't Wally Sparks, that's sort of like the pseudo sequel to... What's the other movie he's in where he's got a weird name? Rodney. Caddyshack?

I don't know. That's like the title of the movie, though? Yeah. Hmm. Ladybugs? I guess there's a million movies where he's just like, I'm a low-class dude in a high-class situation. And they're all good.

Are you thinking of King Ralph? No, that's John Goodman goodman no i know i know that oh you were gonna try to make a fool out of jeff huh no not a fool just trying to not this trying to help just trying to piece together some some thoughts maybe sometimes it takes a friend just to put your thoughts in place and i think that our i i must admit our listeners would love it if we sometimes piece together some thoughts. Yeah, those are always the best episodes when some ideas can come together in any type of sentences that work with each other. Well, speaking of coming together, let's hear the ingredients that are about to come together in this Francais Sept Sank.

Francais sept-cinq. That's a weird way of saying that, but it is the way you say it. The IBA recipe for this baby is 30 milliliters of gin. Now, that's an ounce of gin, folks. Dry gin. And it's very popular to make this drink with cognac. In fact, if you order a French 75 in new orleans they say gin or cognac um cognac sounds great because i i love it but we're doing the gin version which is the more popular iba recognized version now tim you've been on a cognac kick are you a little you're a little sad about that? Maybe round two, I'll bust out the Hennessy.

I thought you might. Next up, we've got 15 milliliters, a.k.a. half an ounce of fresh lime juice. Then we've got 15 milliliters, a.k.a. half an ounce of sugar syrup. Simple syrup. You said lime juice. Is it lemon juice?

I always do that. Lemon juice. Thank you for making sure. You're holding me accountable is the thing. You're seeing yellow, but you're saying green. What if I'm colorblind? Yeah, a colorblind guy sees lemon and he says lime because it's a different color. He sees a word for a yellow thing.

Like he sees bananas, like unripe banana. I felt very bad. One time I was in junior high in science class and I said to this kid, hey, Johnny, pass me that red book and he handed me a green book and i was like whoa johnny what the hell and he was colorblind and i i felt really bad but i had a good laugh at johnny's expense oh man did it was that him finding out he was colorblind no he knew but he hadn't been mocked publicly for it. Ah, yes. After the lemon and sugar syrup, we've got 60 milliliters, a.k.a. two ounces of champagne, preferably French if you got it.

You know, champagne. The method? Pour all ingredients except champagne into a shaker. Shake well and strain into a champagne flute. Top up with champagne. Stir gently. And if you think that garnish applies, no. Garnish does not apply.

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Okay, we got all different glasses. Kind of a juice glass. And Jeff with a kind of a Nick and Nora coupe type glass. Nick and Nora? Infinite playlist? Well, you've got yourself a little infinite playlist coupe type glass. Nick and Nora? Infinite playlist? Well, you've got yourself a little infinite playlist themed glass there. I meant to say this before

as we were talking about the drink, but we were just having so much fun. This does not excite me at all. This drink, I am not looking forward to this. I think this is like, not my thing. You dislike champagne. Dislike champagne.

I dislike brunch drink. Did you like the Tom Collins when we did the Tom Collins in episode one? Yes. Yes, of course. Um, how did your construction work? I made a rookie mistake where I poured my champagne too fast,

too high, and it overflowed and I had to go and sip the frog. I opened mine. Oh, I should have sabered it. That would have been good. But I opened my champagne, let it sit, then did my mixing, then I poured it. Yes. Smart.

I tried to make a double because I was like, I don't like a small little drink, and I thought a double will fit in like this hurricane glass. And then it didn't quite fill that, so I said, all right, I'll pour it back in a coupe glass. And tail between your legs. That's a big hurricane glass. Yeah. Well, shall we sip?

Yep. Let's sip. There you go. Wrong pipe. Michael has a very matter-of-fact head nod. My suspicions were correct, and I'm going to do something. This is a first, okay, on this podcast. Are you guys watching?

Oh, no. Pour it out into a bucket. I'm done with this. I do not like this. I'm not interested. He had a bucket ready. He was so confident he wasn't going to like it. It's gone.

Don't want it anymore. I had the sip. I get it. Unfun drink. Wow. Damn. Can you mail that bucket out to me? Because I love it.

I'm going to mail this bucket out the window. Yeah, pour a drink in the bucket. Pour the bucket out the window. It's crisp. It's a daytime sipper. Let me tell you something. I, you know, sometimes you worry a drink like this will be too sweet because you're adding some simple syrup into champagne, which is already kind of a sweet drink but it was only a half ounce of the syrup

it's to me it's it's perfectly balanced and this is i would much rather drink this than a plain old glass of champagne or the brunch standard mimosa yeah the mimosa is no good The brunch drink, I said I don't like brunch drinks But the Bloody Mary is fantastic Well, you know who often gets credit for inventing the Bloody Mary? Harry Harry Harry the man Harry and the Hendersons Harry and the Hendersons as well

Now, do you think we haven't done the Bloody Mary, have we? No. Not yet. We should do that when I'm out there soon because that'll be a good everybody get in there type of drink. And you know what we should do? We should record it during the morning. Yeah, 6 a.m.

Yeah. And we should get really drunk the night before so that it's actually a hangover cure test. Yeah, this is a good plan. Nice, nice, nice. Mike, how soon can you get out of here? Maybe that's the blowout. And then the next day we record the drink, which will be the...

Oh, I've said this before. What if the blowout is the Sloppy Boys start three beers deep. So we drink three beers and then we start recording and then the blowout's just a mess that's already what it is yeah yes yes but but yes yes and yes some more yes and yes now mike i get not liking champagne. Yeah. I do. But I think you're a little swayed. I think you just don't like the idea of brunch drink. I like gin a lot.

Yeah. And I like lemon. And simple syrup. You know what I did before I put the champagne in? I took a little sip. A little sip. Yeah. And I said, that's pretty much tom collins it really was i took a sip i was like i could do like a shot of this i was like oh well it's

already drinking well it's funny because part of what's fun about a tom collins is i kind of do like putting a lot of seltzer and making a kind of weak one but then you're kind of chugging it on a hot summer day so it's funny with this one when you're using champagne you're you can get yourself drunk but i feel like every take on champagne i like more than i do like champagne if it's good champagne like vouve cliquot or something like that. But when I'm drinking normal champagne, any time, if I've had like a Cur Royale or a Bellini or a Mimosa, I think I like every variation better than just a glass of champagne. What's the Bellini again?

Peach juice. Peach. Peach juice. Princess peach juice. I like that. I'm looking very much forward to coming out to Los Angeles. Maybe we'll do a brunch, too. That's a good idea.

Maybe that should be a blowout. Brunch. Blowout. Brunch. The boys brunch. You know, that would be good. We should go to a brunch hotspot like all time and see some celebs. And then when they come over to our table to tell us that they're fans of us,

we record them. Yeah. Put it on the pod. Can we record? Yes. I was hoping for it. My career depends on it. I know,

you know, we, we all love brunch because what's, what's not to like, but I'll tell you what's not to like is brunch culture. I feel like there's the, in LA, especially there's like a,

there's a sort of like eye roll about brunch culture Jeff you're about to get involved with another culture called cancel culture because of this opinion you have brunch brunch has been big for like in sort of the modern twist of it for like

years like 15 years right yeah it's so much so that the backlash is kind of played out and I'm back to brunch all over again. You're back to brunch. Hey, no, I'm team brunch for sure. The boys are going back to brunch, spread the word. But do you like the food or do you like the...

Yes, breakfast food's the best, plus liquor, awesome. I like how it kind of like turns the day into a big party because sometimes you do brunch and then you're... Sometimes you go to mess hall, you do a big brunch and then you're like, hey, we could go to rustic we could just walk down the street we can eat chicken wings there if we want uh yeah i don't like brunch i don't like the whole thing i don't like the you gotta wait in line for the that's the thing is the waiting i don't mind the waiting i don't mind any of it you like the waiting you like because you're

taking in it's a sunday it's your day because you're not just i don't take the waiting I don't mind any of it You like the waiting Because you're taking in It's a Sunday It's your day off Well because you're not just I don't take You know I'm a rise and grind guy You know that And it's wake up Sunday

I can't be waiting in lines To eat you know some Mashed avocado or whatever $20 egg You're on your hustle I'm on my hustle You got your grind set Uh huh You sort of post elon musk quotes on your instagram i see you do a little sort of like

rise and grind grind set type shit yeah they're they're elon musk quotes but they're all quotes from his snl monologue yeah how he's a stutterer um well you know my stance on breakfast foods is i mean i love all god's foods but i don't get so revved up about breakfast and some of the devils too the way some people certain people do here's what i like i'll be the guy at brunch oh yeah it's brunch sure it's brunch looking at the menu eyes go right down to the bottom fried chicken sandwich or whatever is the bottom thing on the menu that's a lunch item that's what i order yeah and everyone's like hey tim's taking part in in right down to the bottom, fried chicken sandwich or whatever is the bottom thing on the menu that's a lunch item.

That's what I order. And everyone's like, hey, Tim's taking part in breakfast. And I say, I'm having five Bloody Marys and a fried chicken sandwich. That's a good breakfast. That's putting the lunch back in brunch.

That's nice. Me at brunch, I'm like, sure, it's brunch, sure, it's brunch. And the bill shows up and I look all the way down at the bottom and I go, and I go, Yeah, but that's the problem with you, shows up and I look all the way down at the bottom and I go, and I go, Yeah, but that's the problem with you, Jeff.

The whole time you're scanning down the individual priced items, you're fine with it. It's not till you get to the total. You go, Because you get so drunk at brunch. You're like, you know what?

This is all on me. I got all this. Eat, eat, eat up. Eat, eat. Bringing other tables in. You eat too. I want my friends well fed. Yes, yes. eat, eat. Bringing other tables in. You eat too. I want my friends well fed. Yes, yes.

Yes, yes. Remember, Mike, one time we were at the Las Vegas airport on a Comedy Bang Bang Writers trip and then we came up with this idea for a character that was, hey, I'm a brunch bitch. And then we were like, hey, I'm a brunch bitch.

And then we were like, oh, this will be great. We'll get back to the room and we'll pitch this brunch bitch. Brunch bitch. Turned out that's not the type of character that gets on TV. No, yeah. It's the type of character where you're hungover and you're kind of having fun waiting for a plane. But when you write it out it's not

very good the character was i mean the network they said to us like hey this character uh so like where did this uh happen and we were like oh well it happened in vegas and they're like okay well then where should that stay and we said oh they got you no more check me legally not allowed to put this if you come up with an idea in Vegas, you can't. Mike, you know what that reminds me of? The brunch bitch reminds me of the Thanksgiving bitch. Do you remember the Thanksgiving bitch? I'm sure I, but that was all pulled from the same idea.

No, no, no, no. I remember we were hosting Thanksgiving one time, and you were like, well, hey, everybody come over at this time. We're going to eat at this time. But just going to warn you, you might see a bit of the old Thanksgiving bitch. Was that what it was? It was just like you having an attitude and kind of bossing people around? Yeah. Well, you know me.

I don't like people in my home, and there aren't in my home. Definitely not in the kitchen. Yeah, you got to get out. Yeah, get out, out, out. I was hitting people uh ladles on the hands of the dipping their finger into the gravy spoil your appetite oh oh shit guys uh yeah i hate to derail the conversation every second but you know how i always do this every every time we do an episode of the show i always um i set a google alert for all of the ingredients and the ingredient list just to see if anyone's gonna i think it's going on with any of the ingredients yeah well

do you do that for real well i've done it let's see this was my 75th time doing it so yeah i do it for uh every episode also what am i talking for real you're talking real right now yeah it's the tone that you're regular speaking to well i was trying to laugh along when you guys were going on and on about the thanksgiving bitch and all that stuff but i got i just got an email a gmail here and alert that yeah it looks like i got a google alert for one of the ingredients in this cocktail just got a mention online okay there's only four of them so hmm yeah i wonder which one well maybe we should listen it says this uh this is a song that just came out that's an attachment

yes it's looks like there's a new song on the Billboard charts. This is coming from Billboard.com. Okay. Wow. And apparently it triggered a Google alert because it mentions one of these ingredients. Maybe we should listen, huh? Yeah. I had other foods, but they were too sweet. Now I found one that is not.

It goes good in booze if you give it a squeeze. A, B, C, D, E. Lamb juice. It's the fruit of the yellow fruited tree that's been crushed till it's wet and all liquidy. Lamb juice. It's produce that's produced from a sphere. If you think it's not sour, then get out of here. Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.

A, B, C, D, E, lem juice. Lem juice. Wow, Gail is, she's spreading her wings, which I love to see. It's too much. That was Gail, right? That was Gail. That was Gail is she's spreading her wings which I love to see it's too much that was Gail right that was Gail looks like that was Gail it's the new version of ABCD it's the new ABCD

and I like that you know just the way that she articulates crush till it's wet describing a lemon as a sphere a lot of nice stuff that really grabs you. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Maybe this is her best version of the song.

She's getting better. She did another version that was chartreuse, was it? Drambu. Drambu. Drambu for the rusty nail. Oh, I hope that she's not listening and gets an idea for chartreuse. Yeah, I wonder if she heard the uh the dram boo one that's okay gave her the idea for this so i'm sorry where did you see this it was this pitchfork you said she got it he got an alert i got a billboard i got a billboard.com alert i got a google alert yeah

google yes yes because so uh read it if can you read a little bit on the post there? Is it a new song he's putting out? Well, it just says, while hot off the presses here at Billboard, there's a new big song out, and it's the number one of all. Man. It makes sense that it came through your Google alert, because as we know, Gale Watch 2022 was down this week. Right.

You were literally down. We would have caught it. If they had been up in the chopter copter, you would have definitely caught it. Yeah, we would have had our binoculars out hovering over it because we always make a round past the billboard building just to kind of see what they're typing on their computers in there. So you have binoculars. You're looking through the windows of the billboard.

It's not really – I don't know if that's ethical journalism that you go to other news sources and peek at what they're saying. It's not hacking. We looked into it. Legally, it's not hacking. We're not touching their computers. It's airspace. We are cleared to be in, and you can have binoculars in a chopper.

Any information that you can glean from the chopter copter yeah fair game it's right yep that's right damn but yeah gail wow hey you know what i what i realized listening to that song for the uh what seems like the millionth time or sorry not that song but you know some version of abcd yes one of her yeah yeah is uh I think it owes a lot to Miley Cyrus' We Can't Stop. I think it's got a little bit of that like- That kind of cut time. Come a little of that. I can't think of it.

Head nod stuff. Because like, especially because when Miley goes- Because we can't stop. You know that part? That reminds me of- Yes, I'll tell you. Tim was starting to- What is the song you're talking about?

I just can't think of- It's our party. We can do what we want. Because we can't stop. And we don't know what we. I love that album. Bangers has some bangers on it. You don't think that could.

You don't think that could. Wait, you don't think that's. Oh, Miley. I was thinking melodically. Lem ju- Kind of a little Pixies Where Is My Mind thing going on there. But just on the Lem Juice version. Yeah, on the most recent...

You know everyone knows the iconic lyrics. You know that song where you're like, Lem juice in your goose... Yeah. Man. Damn. Hmm. Hmm. Man. Damn.

I'd be surprised. I mean, what can't she make a hit out of? I know. It seems like that song is like the skeleton key. You could put anything on that thing. You know, they say that about some artists. They're like, you know, he or she has been writing the same song for their whole career. Yeah.

It's working here. Hey, Gail, don't miss. It's just another LEM career. It's working here. Hey, Gail, don't miss. It's just another Lem song. Let me check the complaint box. Yeah, empty. Fully empty. It's working, Gail. Hey, speaking of Lem, Lem Can Help,

hosted by Fred Armisen, has an episode featuring Tim Kalpagas and Mike Hanford. So give it a listen. Audible is where it's at these days, folks. That's true. They got Summer Nargal. They got this.

This is crazy. Hey, if it's not audible, you're not listening to it. If it's not audible, it's awful. If it's not audible, it's visual. That's pretty good. They should do something like that. Hey, if it's not audible, you can't hear it. Damn. If it's not audible, you can't hear it. Damn.

If it's not audible, it's visual. If it's not audible, it's vegetable. Guys, I'm getting contact high from these French 75s. I'll tell you what. I see you've been taking sips out of that bucket, man. You don't think you would have any notice. No, I've been taking sips out of my cup because there's a lot of sugar on the bottom of it. Oh, yeah.

All right, let's take a second round. I made my sugar syrup too thick. I'm going to make a cognac one. I'm doing a cognac one. And make a cognac one. Great. And then, folks, we'll see you in a minute. Ooh, Tim's going to get yacky.

Yack, yack. You should come next time you come to a party. Have cognac in your hand and be like, yack, nyack You should come next time you come to a party Have cognac in your hand And be like, nyack, nyack Guess who's here Yes And we're back with round two of the French 75. I just did a standard, but Timmy. Nyack, nyack.

He's here. Come in. Come on in. Come in and know me better, man. Nyack, nyack. This is delicious with the cognac. It's warm. It's sweet.

Fans of sweet drinks won't like this one. I mean, people who are not fans of sweet drinks won't like this one uh i mean people who are not fans of sweet drinks won't like this one because enemies cognac is sweeter than gin but it uh i put i used uh hennessy instead of my seagram's gin and um yeah it's more of a thing you know the gin almost disappears into the champagne where this one is saying, hey, there's cognac in this. It's very, very good. Nice. It looks like beer. It looks like you're drinking beer out of a champagne flute. Oh, I wish. I'd give anything to drink beer. Oh my god.

That sounds like something Wally Sparks would do. Let me tell you this. This, to counteract the sweetness, maybe I would serve this on rocks in a highball glass. Then you have the perfect cocktail. Oh, I meant to bring this up, Tim, before in booze news.

Mike, no time like the present. I know. Maybe I should wait till next week. Should we open it back up? Jeff, here comes your show. Oh, no. jeff it's your show you get the idea it's back open back in booze nose all right so now here's my question tim how are things coming along with the kelpie cordial oh very good question um. Any advancements, developments? After the Batman incident when AMC Cinemas, MacGuffin's Pub, made the Batman drink that was Coke, grenadine, and Kraken dark spiced rum,

you know, I felt sort of disillusioned, disgraced, depressed. And now I'm kind of getting myself back up off the ground and kelby's got his group back yeah and i it's almost you know what in life you can turn the negatives into positives right um we did that this week on the in um gail watch 2022 so explain how that was a positive we got to chill out of the in the office oh right right um right sure i was thinking more about how like uh you know kanye talked about when he played basketball in high school and he was short uh he used the the uh the scoop oh yeah oh yeah okay turn turn

your your weaknesses into your strengths um i'm coming back around i'm gonna hit the test kitchen real hard and i'm i'm i'm gonna say now i was a slave to try to make the calpe cordial perfect but then what i've learned from the batman incident in life is this like things are not going to be perfect and you just have to sort of embrace the chaos you know and sometimes you gotta just say fuck it yes oh yeah that's that that's that right grind set tim yes yes i will not be going to brunch this weekend i'll be grinding they do say uh perfect is the enemy of good yeah is that wait i don't know i could i might be i think it's i think it's good as the enemy of great huh well there's a lot of enemies out there but i think that the point was just like

if you if you're not gonna do anything until it's perfect like you're not even gonna like make anything gotcha gotcha gotcha i mean i maybe, maybe the proper thing would be like, perfect is the enemy of finished or completed or released. You know what? We'll delete this whole chunk. I say keep it and I like it. Let's get people into the Sloppy Boys grind set. Yeah. I love that.

It's a groovement, folks. Well, what are our final thoughts? I feel like we have an episode, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. What are our final thoughts i feel like we have an episode right yeah oh yeah what are our final thoughts timmy my final thought is i love it it's an order again both versions i kind of side with the cognac a little more but hey the gin is great too that's the final thought on the drink now the final thought on this episode of our podcast i think the history will tell that we're kind of like these are the episodes where we've been sort of like stuck in a gale rut and i just hope for the future of the show that there's like less gale doesn't it feel like there's just like it's just it's been it's been like it's it's do you

remember when howard stern after janet jackson's uh wardrobe malfunction howard stern was getting fired from and then like what was this great radio show, Legendary, became this kind of like daily bitch fest where he was complaining about the FCC not letting him be. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, so people look back on that as like, that was kind of a dark age for Howard. I feel like in the timeline of our show, people were be like, great show. Try to avoid the Gale years. Huh. Yeah, because this could go on for a couple years. Yeah.

I mean, seeing with her popularity and how she likes to make so many versions of her songs. Do you think that a year from now, people are going to hear this chunk and be like, whoa, Gale. I can't believe they were on the ground floor of Gale, who is now like the new madonna or will it be just like i think so or will it be like oh gail is uh you know wolf mother well my my wolf mother my worry is that we'll be like oh gail's like the new olivia rodrigo and they'll be like wait gail my favorite superstar is like the new who livia

is the new person i don't know anymore who we are just hugo you're just the live rod that i used to know do you think gautier will come out repurpose their hit and do you know that gotye has been looking for their second hit single all these artists have to just do stuff they can't be rewriting their old stuff gotye had that one hit is it a it's just a guy right it's one guy yeah it's just a guy oh yeah it was that was like a popular meme it was like the uh still from that uh somebody that i used to know video and it said, it was like, man, this guy really just dropped this one song and bounced.

Here's, here's, let me do my, I'm going to take a sip from the, the bucket. I spit this or dump this out into, I should give it a fair shake. Yeah. Get a good chug of that oh no he didn't like it

awful awful awful I will never drink that he didn't like the garbage liquid that he had poured out never never again sad sad day for Harry McElhone sad to have wasted my time and said to have wasted your time audience because i i respect you more than that hmm well uh final thoughts for me i think this is maybe

my favorite champagne cocktail except for my beloved poinsettia punch back in the holiday season see something about the cranberry really knocks that uh really it really knocks that champagne into shape and then you got all that nice uh greenery up top but hey i would do this at brunch i would do this anytime i'm gonna do another one of these as we head into the blowout oh you know what we should do is while we're we're on the topic of champagne cocktails is the drink called the champagne cocktail which is I've had these but I never realized now I'm looking at it

champagne cognac Angostura and sugar that's going to be Timmy country that's very good oh those are four of Tim's favorite things Hanford keep the bucket out for that one yeah I'll make one and dump it away. Very good.

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We'll see you next week. Yeah, while we sort of fade out here before we get to the final song, we'll play out with... It's just a livra that I used to... Hey, this is Jeff. Why am I fading it out? Because we don't know the lyrics?

No. No, they haven't been written yet. Mike, you can fade yourself out. Yeah, it's okay. Nyack, nyack, everybody. We should bring back knocking to leave the room, too. You have to get outside. Is it okay if I come out there?

All the squirrels are like, no, you fucking dork. Nah, we're eating nuts. We got enough nuts out here. We don't need you. There it is. Give it up for your boys. Give it up for your boys.

Give it up for your boys. Give it up for your boys Give it up for your boys Give it up for your boys