The Sloppy Boys - 9. Hot Toddy

Episode Date: December 18, 2020

The guys kick back and get cozy for once with this warm, wintry whiskey drink.HOT TODDY 1.5oz/45ml Whiskey  1 cup Hot Water  .5oz/15ml Lemon Juice 1 tbsp HoneyCombine ingredients in a warmed mug. Garnish with lemon wedge, cinnamon stick, clove or star anise. 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! And Tim Kalpakis. Ho ho ho! And we're your hosts, the Sloppy Boys. What's up dudes? How's it going? Not much. Tim, you bring up a good point with the ho, ho. And we're your hosts, the Sloppy Boys. What's up, dudes? How's it going? Not much.

Tim, you bring up a good point with the ho, ho, ho. That fat bastard's going to be showing his fat ass pretty soon, isn't he? That chunky sack of shit's on his way down here. Bringing us all the things we put on our dumbass lists. Oh, I've got a PS5 on mine. I've got the new Dr. Dre album. Jeff? I have some of that Fenty

blush. Fentanyl? Don't get that, Jeff. Rihanna's expensive makeup. Oh. You can't afford that. Yeah, you can't afford that, Jeff. I don't know if it's expensive. The point is probably that it's not. Yeah, you can't afford that, Jeff. I don't know if it's expensive. It's probably not. The point is probably that it's not.

Folks, we need to start a, whoever wants to start a GoFundMe for Jeff to buy some Fenty blush. Let's get that going. Even though it's Christmas and people should be giving it to him. Scratch that. Send Jeff Fenty blush.

It would be so great if in the new year you dress the same, you do everything else the same, but then you've got really rosy cheeks from expensive makeup and everyone's like holy shit look at that guy's cheeks what happened to jeff during quarantine he's so rosy he got really healthy it's the first day of 2021 and quarantine is over uh boop boop boop boop i've got some booze news oh uh uh okay booze news this is where weuh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh. Okay, booze news.

This is where we got to go through all the news from around the earth. The first couple little things here. First one is I told you guys that I had obtained the Fireball eggnog from- I thought you were going to say you obtained unobtainium, and I was going to be like, not possible. I've been trying to get that stuff, and I just can't do it. What movie is that from, Jeff? Is that?

Avatar. Avatar 1. Yes. Those new movies should be coming out soon. Go ahead, Tim. You had booze news. I interrupted with unattainium. When Avatar 2 arrives, it's going to be on booze news

and I'll let everybody know. Blues news. You should put it on. Oh, yeah. Blues news. Because before you see the Navi are that hue. I've got the eggnog. I haven't drank it yet,

but the fireball nog has gotten down to temperature in my fridge. It's nice and cold. Took you all week. I actually checked. Get it down. Hey, listen to this. Guess what temperature my fridge is. I actually just checked it and I was shocked.

40? Very close. I don't know what a normal fridge is supposed to be. Yeah, 70? Well, I thought it was like 68 or something. My fridge is 38 degrees. Ooh. Don't go in there.

Yeah, that makes, I mean, a warm day outside is 68. Yeah. You gonna leave your milk outdoors? No. No, you're not. You're going to leave it in the fridge, aren't you? Okay. So, but moving on here, that was not my booze news. That was my clever way in too, because we were talking about eggnog and I've had a lot of slop heads reaching out about eggnog related matters and then something huge hit. And then when I saw this, I said,

holy shit. I remember I was calling you guys you guys it was like it was like the movie um um spotlight yeah it came across my desk and i said tim you gotta go with this this is a tip we got from a guy on twitter named at bison dick okay his twitter name is dick bison but then his handle is at Bison Dick. So who knows what's what. Here's the scoop. Guess who's making an eggnog, and this one is alcoholic. A spirit that we all know has put out their very own eggnog this holiday season. Guess who?

Maker's Mark. The new eggnog is manufactured by by chicago's own malort no no can you believe it oh no no no nasty malort um i do not support the malort oh i support the malort but even though it tastes bad the uh for those who don't know Malort, we've talked about it, uh, once or twice before, but I first heard of it from like a John Hodgman podcast or something, but it's this Chicago based Swedish liqueur made from wormwood. And it it's, it tastes like medicine kind of, and it's really bitter and it's disgusting, but people in Chicago drink it. Cause they got hometown pride. Yeah. I guess like they must just be used to it by then. Right.

Or like if you just drink it a bunch, I don't know. I watched a little, uh, video, YouTube video, like at the factory, a promotional video. And the people that work there don't even hide the fact that they don't like it. They think it's funny and they're proud. I think it's basically like this guy, a Swedish guy in Chicago started making it like a hundred years ago. And then during prohibition, he was able to sell it as like a medicinal thing. So I think a lot of people acquired a taste when they were pretending it was medicine and getting drunk off it. And then prohibition ended and a lot of old grandfathers and great grandfathers in Chicago just continued to drink it. Interesting.

Not unlike our, our drink today. Okay. Now we're finally getting somewhere. Possibly used as a thing, but I have, hold on. I have booze news.

Oh, I'm doing, you have booze. I have now booze news. So it was my girlfriend's birthday recently happy birthday maria happy birthday marie and um she from some friends of hers sent her uh something called uh tipsy scoop have you heard of that no on a pooper scooper i know no no no no they did not send her a pooper scooper something called tipsy scoop uh through gold belly it's and what it is it's ice cream with a five percent alcohol

uh oh in rating in it in it in it i like the sound of this five percent is like a a beer type percentage yeah and you can you have to be 21 to buy this ice cream and uh there's it's in new york there's a place in brooklyn and manhattan and i think atlantic city or atlantic new york or something like that atlantic beach uh and the flavors we got which they sent four of them we got uh strawberry white sangria sorbet, spiked hazelnut coffee ice cream, dark chocolate whiskey salted caramel ice cream, and cake batter vodka martini ice cream. Damn. So they're kind of like specific-y, sort of bougie tastes, but they're pretty good.

The cake batter one was the best one, I thought. Wait, and was the cake batter just called cake batter, or did it also mention a liquor in the name cake batter cake batter vodka martini and that one was like it was good just because the ice cream is good for the most part you couldn't really taste the liquor at all uh except for maybe the coffee one i think it was was like whoa this one has a lot of the booze in it, but a tipsy scoop. Interesting. Why didn't I think that you could do that with ice cream? Cause if you bake with liquor, the alcohol just cooks out because of the heat,

right? That's why, that's why there's no foods that get you drunk per se. Right. Or if you're like cooking with wine and I'm like a stove. Right. You keep the flavor, but yeah.

And, but, um, well, cause you don't cook ice cream. You keep the flavor, but. Yeah. And, but. Well, because you don't cook ice cream. You don't, because you don't cook ice cream. It's going to be melted. That's what it is. You shouldn't. That's what I'm doing wrong.

I keep boiling it. Well, let me ask you this. Please. Did it affect the consistency of the ice cream at all? Because, you know, liquor doesn't freeze the way that ice cream freezes well i didn't have it out it wasn't around long enough if you know what i mean i bet not quickly because i love ice cream and i'm a drunk um you know what i've been doing i also love my two loves are ice cream and booze and i i think i would like this tipsy scoop stuff because here's the thing i've been doing that's kind of weird.

I'll have a DiSerono and ice cream where I just have a cup with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream. And then I pour almond liqueur, DiSerono, all over it. And the first couple of times I made it for Jessica and I'd be like, see, I just barely drizzle the liqueur. So it's not like it's boozy, but it's just a nice little touch. And then by like the second time I was full on dumping like two shots on top. Yeah. And we loved it. You're just like eating, you're eating ice cream.

And then when you want to have a slurp of liquor, you take it and you're, you're getting drunk and cooled down at the same time. Yeah, that's right. That's what you need. Uh, well,

yes. So that's all I have on Tipsy Scoop. The other thing I have to mention about them is they have a website that you can look at. HTTP backslash? Backslash, colon, colon, backslash. And they call their locations their Barler locations. It's a bar, ice cream parlor. I thought that was a little extra cute and I was

not a fan. Yeah, I think it's awesome. It's called Tipsy Scoops. Tipsy Scoops. I love the ice cream. It was great. Who doesn't like ice cream? What about a beer, like there's root beer floats, but what about like a beer float? Do people do that? Oh yeah, Golden State in LA used to

do those a bunch. Yeah. Were they good? I got bunch. Yeah. Were they good? Uh, I got one. Nice. Nice. In Pulp Fiction when, uh, when they ordered the $5 shake at Jackrabbit Slims and then, uh, John Travolta is like, you don't put a shot of bourbon in there or anything. I've never had that, but I always thought that sounded so good. Even when I was a kid and didn't know what bourbon was, I was like, Oh, shut up bourbon in there. Well, you're talking about,

uh, pulp fiction. Yeah. What's a mad magazine dubbed plot friction. Oh, roasted. They got them good. How did they ever recover?

Tarantino. You think he's still pissed off about that? It's so funny. The people in mad magazine were like, Hey, Hey, this, uh, this movie is kind of told out of order. This is, let's get him on this.

My favorite, I think I've told you about this guy one before, but when South Park first came out, the Mad Magazine parody was Mouth Park because there's so many curse words. It was like, so the weird old white mustachioed cartoonists at Mad Magazine that used to be the satirists, like the bad boys, are now mad. And as if Trey and Matt don't know, they're like, yeah, that's the premise. It's a foul-mouthed cartoon. That's the way it's pitched.

Oh, they are mad indeed. Well, let's close up Boo's news, eh? Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo. Well, Mike, you had such a good transition last time and you blew it. I know. Okay, well, pretend I'm still, Tim just said, Malort was used for medicinal purposes.

Well, hey, so is today's drink was kind of used for that, medicinal purposes. But we're talking today about the hot toddy. Oh, too hot. A hot toddy. Now, the hot toddy is, we've all had this before. I don't think I've had a proper one. I've had like a cider, you know, like a mulled cider or something like that. Right.

I haven't had a proper. I've had a handful that I made with internet recipes that were not tonight's recipe. So I've never had it made by someone who, it feels like they're on the rise. I've heard people saying, oh, you're sick. Have a hot toddy. But no, I'm not, it's not really a thing I've had. I'm sure the hot toddy is like, it's very, it's probably very easy to like have a different take on it. So yes, I'm not surprised it's getting popular, but let me talk about the ingredients first, and then I'll talk about the rest of it. I mean, let's just be honest with ourselves on what's going to

happen. The most basic recipe is an ounce and a half of whiskey, one tablespoon honey, a half an ounce of lemon juice, and one cup hot water. You're making yourself a bit of a tea here.

See, because I always thought it was a tea, but it turns out it's not. Right. That's what I thought. I thought it was just tea with liquor in it. But here's some more stuff. Combine the first four ingredients on the bottom of a warmed mug. If desired, garnish with lemon wedge, cinnamon stick, clove, or star anise. Now, what is so cool about this episode and why everyone is like this show so awesome is that we are once again ditching the iba cocktail list we uh we started off saying hey we're sticking to the the iba but they didn't have a hot uh hot toddy no and we wanted to try one because it is the season of course right but um But, um, when we were, we looked through many recipes and this is one of these drinks where there

isn't a definitive one and kind of every publication, even the standards love to be like, you know, you could actually put a little fucking nutmeg in there. Don't tell anyone. I don't tell the IBA guys about this, but I think we looked at a lot that had Earl gray tea. We looked at a lot that used rum.

We, uh, blah, blah, blah. And then this recipe, we wanted like a somewhat standard one. So this is from Wine Enthusiast. And basically it was like the common denominator. Like lots of different places added different things. But this was like the down the middle one. They all seem to have honey.

They all seem to have lemon. Yeah. A lot of them say that lemon is too, like david wondrich a fancy liquor historian says that lemon is acidic so it's better to just use the lemon peel for the taste so let's taste for that oh wondrich the originally like in england and scotland when this sort of was starting to happen in the 1700s maybe. Scottish pubs just pour hot water into scotch whiskey. That's like the most basic. And then there was something in India in the 1600s called, in Hindi was the word Tadi,

which meant a beverage made from fermented palm sap. So then I think that idea got up to England because England had colonized India and a lot of the spices from India came up and that's where like the cinnamon and the lemons sort of come in the orange and the cloves. This gives me a chance to break out the old cinnamon stick.

Yeah, right. Yeah, you've had an itchy trigger finger with that cinnamon stick. Yeah, I've been looking at this one stick for weeks. Staring you down. That's the story I like. There's another, like a lot of these, there's another one that's like an Irish doctor named Robert Bentley Todd ordered his patients to drink hot brandy, cinnamon, and sugar water. No.

Fake. And the most likely, it's a combination of the two stories. I think it's all bullshit. And I think it's sort of cool the way that oral tradition can sort of change a story through the generations if it's not written down in pro-university. That's very cool. That is cool, man. That's exactly what I was going for. It was cool.

There are other versions of this. You can do a cranberry hot toddy. Pretty obvious. Grapefruit hot toddy. Basically any fruit hot toddy you want. I wouldn't do banana. I think that would be weird. Yeah, that's strange.

One thing I found in this article, it was talking about like different, the newest trend, it said red wine hot chocolate. Have you ever heard of that? No. That sounds so gross. I would throw up immediately upon it touching my lip. I think for anyone who has a, um,

you know, a garnish that they like, here's where you get to shine because we have this very standard recipe. And then, uh, it's sort of optional. If you want to throw the cinnamon stick, you want to do the lemon wedge, the lemon peel, lots of places say the cloves, whatever you want to throw in there. That's customizable, interactive, awesome content.

Do any of you guys have garnish? I got cinnamon stick, much like you. I didn't know what else to do with the cinnamon stick. It's sort of like, you guys know in Beauty and the Beast, how that one rose is sitting under glass and the beast looks at it? I've been keeping my cinnamon stick in one of those. And every day I look at it and go, oh, there is so much time.

I got to, I guess, kiss your wife. I got to make my wife fall in love with me. Oh, honey. Pucker up, ma'am. But this is exciting, right? We have not had a hot beverage on this pod. And I think I like hot beverages. I like getting a little cozy on the couch.

Yeah, I see. You know, that's why I read this here. Let me read this one from makemeadrink.com. I was reading about the hot toddy. And this paragraph made me laugh. The name itself can vary being spelled toddy, T-O-T-T-Y or T-O-T-T-I-E at times, though these spellings are uncommon and some would say simply wrong. There are no options. Well, then take it out over your article.

There are no options when it comes to hotness for the hot toddy, as it is one of the most popular cold weather drinks, even more popular in ski lodges than in pubs. What? A hot toddy literally should be made and enjoyed at home with a good book or a good friend. Was this article just from somebody's Tumblr? What's going on here? I don't know. Make me a drink.com.

But it was just funny. Like, it's best with a friend, of course. Well, hey, we're good in that department. Three friends. And not a book to be seen. Nope. Can't read. All right.

You want to get into it? Yeah. I got to boil up some water here. This might take a second. This might take a second. Shit. All right. We'll take a little break.

And when we come back, we'll be sipping on the hottest of toddies. Check, check, check. I'm back. Ooh, this smells good. Yeah, let me see. Lou Jeffy, you know what i did the other day what's that i was uh having a few brewskis over here and uh they were kind of running out and i was getting drunk and then i started uh drinking the rest of the sweater pack oh dude i've like given them away it's it was it was, it was like, you know, I'm drunk enough where I'm just like,

yeah, exactly. I mean, even peppermint Patty. I think I still have that one left. Maybe I'll, after this, I'll be drinking that.

I mean, apple crisp is fine. I did that night. Finish it. The ginger one was as long as the ginger one, as long as you say, Hey, this is a ginger ale. Every sip, hey, this is ginger ale.

Every sip. Hey, this is ginger ale. By yourself. Hey. Hey. Hey, here's Tim. Ginger ale. Did you know that?

Yo. And we're back talking about the hot toddy. Hey. Oh, toddy time. Ready for a little first sip sip. i ever time to sip shall we yeah man yes oh well i don't mind that one bit not half bad it's warm it's a little too warm to to really get a good sip going this might be a a real snoozy, sleepy pod.

This is the snoozy booze hour. This might be a bit of a log saw. That is good. That does just bring you right down to back to level you out. That's very nice. It's a nice sheep counter. Yes, yes. That's a nice sleepy drink.

Ooh. I panicked. Interesting. So, A, I love drinking a hot beverage out of a mug. This makes me want to go caroling. This is very good, by the way. I did a tea. I put tea in here. It was like a lemon vanilla tea, chamomile. Damn. So I did that and then cinnamon, ground cinnamon. I just dashed that in there and then Jameson whiskey and honey. Are you getting any tea flavor when you put Jameson in or does it mainly taste like Jameson? No, I don't really taste much of the Jameson at all.

You're doing lemon? Really? You're doing lemon in there, Mike? I did a little lemon too. Yeah. Great. Cool. lemon really you doing lemon in there mike i did a little lemon too yeah great cool i did maker's mark water lemon i garnished with a lemon peel i took a little peel off the back of that lemon after squeezing it and then i threw in a cinnamon stick yeah i threw in the whole stick i'm not you know it's kind of funny in theory cinnamon and lemon together sounds kind of wrong, doesn't it? That's like a big old bowl of wrong.

But I'm not getting a ton of cinnamon flavor. I am getting a little sniff of it when I lean in. And I know, Jeff, you get mad when I comment on the smell. Have I said anything about that? Yes, you didn't like it in the mint julep when we smelled the mint before we drank it, okay? Or the zombie. Ah, yes, okay? Or the zombie. Ah, yes. Suede by the smell. You don't want to be suede by the smell. That's right. Suede by the smell.

Suede by the smell. Hey, everyone, we're trying to make that trending on Twitter. Suede by the smell. Suede by the smell happening. Suede is spelled like the material. Yeah, right. For some reason that nobody knows. S-U-E. If you need to be caught up on that idea, it was the three of us in suede jackets

standing next to a sewer, I think. I don't think anyone needs to be caught up on the idea. I think that's like saying, hey, have you heard of fucking Batman? Fucking Batman. Tim, what website are you visiting? And can you email me a link? HTTP, baby.

This drink, here's a funny thing. I've got like the heat on already. I didn't need to be warmed up. So I'm just already dripping sweat. Yeah. Oh, what I was going to say is that this, you were talking about caroling. Whenever Auld Lang Syne plays and they talk about have a cup of kindness, that's kind of the thing I'm picturing with this.

Yeah. Yeah, it is kind of like a cup of kindness. When you say cup, it's not a fancy martini glass of uppity kindness. It's a little tin cup. All you can afford is a tin cup, but I'm with my friends and we've got a little bit of whiskey for all. It's a steamy mug. It's a steamy mug it's a steamy mug it's it's a small mug but it'll do and there's there's yet to call on the fire we can make do

hey you know uh by the way old lang zine in our on our patreon show i mentioned that is my favorite christmas song and then i made a version of it that's kind of become the definitive version yeah i think sure well yeah you won the you won it folks you can anyone can hear it but it'll cost you five bucks yeah five measly fucking george washington's hey what do you guys think about hot cocktails in general? Because this one is very nice and it is medicinal. I do feel, I understand why grannies would say, have a hot toddy when you're sick, bud. Do you guys drink the other, we're talking like mulled wine,

a hot cider with some whiskey in it. Do you guys drink any of those? I have had those and I like this better than that. Crap. That's crap now to me. Wow! This is booze news. This is the bomb. That's crap. That's crap. That's crap to me.

I don't know, man. What's this one that's like wassail? Wassail? Wassail. Wassail? That's something. Wassailing. Yeah. You know, do you remember the California Raisins claymation special? Well, hold on. We can't just say wassling and then not know what it means.

Well, I'm going to lead you into it. Wassling, I think, is caroling. Yeah, but why do we name it? And making merry. Making merry. Yeah. That's why we name a drink. That's why a drink is called a wassel. Oh, a drink is called is called a wassel well the problem is they did a little waffling when they

were naming it you know should we name it this should we name it that what's the fucking name well what i was going to bring up about the claymation christmas special with featuring the california raisins from the 80s sure was it so do you have you guys seen that no uh um i can picture it oh that was like a huge deal for me. It's like this little Christmas special where they just sing carols. And it's hosted by these two. It's claymation, so it's, you know, the best. And it's hosted by these two dinosaurs.

And one's a real stuffy guy. And one's named Herb. And he wants to eat a lot. He's one of those guys. And they're trying to talk about wassailing the whole time they're trying to figure out where it is and one at one point a waffle cart comes by and he's like yes waffle and he's like no herb so i just made a joke that they made on a california raisins cartoon for babies it wasn't for babies it was for mature young adults um my favorite christmas special is that Muppets Family Christmas because they got the band

rocking out. I love that Muppet band. Now, that's not Muppet Christmas, Carol. No. That's a different thing. Which is also great. I like that. No, that's good too.

They're all good. The Muppet Christmas, what's it called? The Muppet Christmas Vacation? Oh, it's Muppets. It's like Muppet Family Christmas. Itmas like emmett otter he's part of it no no that's a different let me talk about that in just a moment but that one you're talking about tim it's great when like everyone shows up to the house and they're like in the rafters swinging around having fun yeah i want to go to that house that looked like such a fun party to

be in okay now what's emmett otter emmett otter is also like a henson thing but but it's fucking miserable it's like so slow a mother and a son it's it's so much about money it's like well i've got four pennies but you only have three pennies for christmas the mom and the son the dad's gone died i believe and they're they're otters it's they're cute it's a gift to the magi. Right. But there's a fun rock. There's like a battle of the bands happening too at the end when the Riverbottom Nightmare

band plays. And that's fun. That reminds me of, do you guys remember the Wind in the Willows TV show? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Talk about like a dark, sad, slow show that would be on during kid Christmas time, but it would just be woodland creatures being like, I don't think we'll make it through this winter.

Yeah, that's like the rats in NIMH where it's so melancholy. Why do they make that for kids? Everything is shades of tan and brown and the animals look wet and sad. It's so bad. Kids, this is what it'll be like when you're not just adults, but old, old people and you're getting sad. That's so funny.

I remember it, but I didn't realize it was a TV show. Like every day it came on. It's from a series of books that Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is also from. Yeah. And I'm sure in like. That's fun. Yeah, exactly. I tuned in wanting to be like, yeah, Wild Ride. Mr. Toad, let Ride is also from. Yeah. And I'm sure in like... That's fun. Yeah, exactly. I tuned in wanting to be like,

yeah, Wild Ride, Mr. Toad, let's fucking go, dude. And then it would just be like a family of badgers being like, oh dear, not this year, I'm afraid. It's like Winnie the Pooh is also that like real like low energy, like low stakes.

Yeah, real low energy Jeb Bush shit. Yeah, and why do they got to guilt this out on Christopher Robin, whether or not he's going to spend enough time with Winnie the Pooh, is just like Andy in Toy Story and forgetting his toys. Why are you guilting kids out about their inanimate objects? Yeah, not good. I did feel bad for my inanimate objects when I was a kid. Is that all kids or just me?

I still feel bad about my flashlight. Why? Yeah, because it's getting no use from what I hear. Oh, come on. Hey, Tim, pass that thing over to the Jay, man. From what I hear, your flashlight's getting

a film letter of dust on it. Okay, Dice Clay. What's the matter, Tim? Can't get your fleshlight wet? Oh, no way. Me, I'm doing that thing every night of the week. Yeah, right. Yeah, right.

I heard you got a full pack of condoms at home and a dry-ass pocket pussy. This is bullshit that's so funny to like uh you've seen that trope of like oh so and so is not satisfying his wife why don't i get a try yeah just do it about his relationship with his wife is better and he doesn't need to use the uh flashlight flashlight is also it's so funny let's call it a flashlight uh yeah because everyone uses the the flashlight function i mean not that it works but it looks like a flashlight that fakes everyone out oh his carry-on it's just a flashlight in case the plane goes dark oh good oh good great then you sit up front. Here's another hot drink.

Hot buttered rum. Have you guys had hot buttered rum? No. I have heard about it forever and thought that sounds real nice. And then you know where I finally had it? The Tam O'Shanter. Oh, yeah. That sounds like a place you could get a good hot buttered rum. I think that I've looked it up for this podcast.

It's kind of a to do, isn't it well i wasn't making it i was just ordering it but it it really didn't have you go behind the bar and whip it up yourself i tried to get back there they said get out of there you little freak um it's i mean it tastes like a hot cup of rum but then it is like fatty butter floating on top and it was like brown sugary and very delicious. For those outside of LA, Tamashant, we don't have a lot of old establishments in LA, the way that New York has a McSorley's or a Peter Luger or something.

So Tamashant. What about ye old Jamba Juice? Yeah. And the elderly Botox clinic. Yeah, yeah. The Ferrari dealership slash Botox. Sorry, go ahead. Hot butter rum.

Well, just so that, when I saw the one place we have in LA that's over 100 years old, you got to order the hot buttered rum. That's the place where Walt Disney used to hang out. Also, the Seven Dwarfs house is supposedly based on Tamar Shanter. Here we go. This is a really good drink. It's good. I agree. I'm not a hot drink guy when it comes to booze.

Me too. That's why I'm excited about this. I feel like if I had two of these, I'd be like, and now I shall slumber. Put on the cap, blow out the candle. Yeah, it is funny to put like a lot of hot liquid in you when you want to party. Well, that's why this is a cozy drink. You're trying to unwind. Hopefully everybody at home is getting cozy, putting on a blanket, and maybe throw another log on the fire. And having some of my sweaty balls.

I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But I do think you're not supposed to drink this and hit the town like a Cosmo. I do think this is a solitary, lonesome. Oh, now there's a drink that Cosmo, huh? You guys remember that Cosmo? Oh, God, that was a fun one. Yeah, this shit sucks.

Oh, God, that was a fun one. Yeah, this shit sucks. Hey, speaking of the hot toddy, which one of you guys had mentioned at some point, I think, you know what I actually did is I made a song about the hot toddy. It's a mashup. You did? You did.

Oh, good. Yeah, because you know that I'm a musician, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You fit in well in the band because of it. Yeah, ostensibly a musician, yeah. Exactly. So I kind of thought, here we have a drink, a little bit of an obscure drink, a little bit of an outdated drink. And I thought that maybe I could use my musical prowess.

And I made a mashup about a hot toddy, and I thought it could help get the word out. Oh, I see what you're doing. That's cool. Please. Because if the song were to catch on and say we're, I don't know, top the word out. Oh, I see what you're doing. That's cool. Because if the song were to catch on and say we're top of the charts or something, it could be like inform and educate people about the drink at hand.

That's great because I didn't even know what a hot toddy really was and I kind of wasn't looking forward to this episode because of it, but now I'm glad. Maybe put it on the map and do for the toddy what Carrie and the gang did for the Cosmo. Exactly. Thank you.

And next time you're kind of scrolling through Spotify, you'll say, well, there's an idea for a drink that I'll have tonight. You used to pour me a hot. You used to, you used to. You used to pour me a hot. You used to, you used to. You used to pour me a hot chocolate. Oh. With whipped cream and marshmallows. You used to pour me a hot cider. Tea and cappuccinos.

But I want a hot toddy. Yeah, okay. Because it has honey Yeah, I want a hot toddy And by the way, it has honey Nice Ever since I left Swiss Missy U Well, not bad That's pretty good, man

And it ends there, okay It just ends right on it. Well, it's a little short. That's okay. Well, this is like a proof of concept. This is like a proof of concept. It's good for its commercial length. That was great.

I didn't know what we were going for then. And I said, of course I know this song. This is great. I'll admit, I was very heavily influenced by Drake. And it shows. Yeah. Well, no, he's's so popular how can you not be especially because the fact that drake is from toronto a very cold city it's almost weird that this wasn't the original version yeah i know does he mention hot toddies in any of his songs um i think he has the one that's like is it too late to have a toddy? Yeah.

That's just a Bieber. I'm just thinking that's Bieber. Yeah, so that's a Bieber song. Well, he's from Canada too. Yeah, that explains it though. He's from Canada too. That explains it. That's why you thought that. And what did we learn with the song?

We learned that it's got honey in it. We got that drilled into us twice, so we know. And it brings over the people who think like i'm more of a swiss miss guy yeah well maybe not maybe maybe you give the hot toddy a shot ever since he left swiss missy yeah and the cool thing is like if you don't know what a hot toddy is like it tells you that it's got honey but then if you weren't if you're a gen z and you have uh you know a short attention span you didn't listen to that it kind got honey. But then if you weren't, if you're a Gen Z and you have a short attention span, you didn't listen to that,

it kind of mentions it again that it's got honey. So it's kind of awesome. That is pretty awesome. I'm glad that that's out there. I'm glad it talked about the honey. And hey folks, we'll see you back here in a minute. Right?

Yeah, that's good. Yes, that's very good. Hey, folks, we're back with our final thoughts on the hot toddy. Guys, what do you think? I am a fan. Super fan. I didn't think I'd like this. I didn't know what it was all about and now I like it.

And it's very underrated, I think. Yes, it's just around the holidays. So you drink it around the holidays. I get that. I'm not going to drink this in the summertime. Right. Sure. Tim?

I would like a nice picture of it in August, you know, when I'm out at the beach. Well, there is something called a cold toddy. You want me to read what that is? Let me find this. The cold toddy is made with rye whiskey, oranges, lemons, cinnamon sticks, ginger, earl grey tea, cloves, honey, and orange or regular bitters. Jesus. You can keep it. Served with ice and stirred till it is very cold no god that's a fucking lot i like this one where it's mostly hot water yeah and it's a lemon and honey yes i my final thought is that i like this i will continue to have it i'd maybe go a little lighter on the honey because mine was kind of sweet.

And I'd maybe go a little lighter on the lemon and maybe I'll do the rind instead. But what's kind of fun about this one is having that whole cup of hot water. It's a nice weak drink. We have a lot of stiffies on this show. And I don't mean it that way. Okay. Okay. As long as you don't.

Yeah. Mr. Flashlight's not talking about stiffies for once. But I love it. It's a good drink. I'm going to go ahead and say a phrase I say a lot on this podcast. Appointment only. Oh. This is for an occasion.

Yeah, oh, for sure. If somebody's like, hey, we're doing hot toddies, I'll say, fine. I'm never in my life going to be like, when am I going to next have a hot toddy? I like it, but just barely. I think you're going to have it again when you want the excuse to have a drink when you're feeling sick. Because in the long winter months and you're coughing, you have COVID, and then the hot toddy is the one that you can have and people will say oh that's good that you had that if i'm sick i'm gonna reach for the orderly sleeve give them a tug and be like cosmopolitan

oh i thought you'd you pull the orderly closer and say tell my podcast host mates that they can continue without me. Give Tim my fleshlight. He has two dicks. And the doctor is like, yes, right away. Absolutely. I will do it. I will leave my shift right now. I will say this is not like a second rounder.

Like I couldn't see myself drinking another one of these right now. What if you're wassailing? If I'm wassailing, that's a different story. That's true. If I'm outdoors, maybe I do need to get warmed up. Look, if somebody's making a pot of this, if Eva Anderson, friend of the podcast, is like, hey, come on over. We're wassailing and I've made a big steaming jug of hot toddy. Yeah.

Go have a nuttier life. I'm there. Well, sure. But that is once again, don't you feel like that's sort of seasonal? Like I don't really go wassailing very much in the summer. You don't. Yeah, I guess. I guess not.

Most of my wassailing is in December. And most of my waffling is in the morning. Most of my waffling is in December and most of most of my waffling was is in the morning most of my waffling is at fucking IHOP let's check out some listener mail Mike don't don't usher me along I'll say when it's mail time

when it's fucking mail time all right Jackson emails us not to ask a question but to admonish us oh no is this Janet Jackson no I'm not going us not to ask a question, but to admonish us. Oh, no. Is this Janet Jackson? No, I'm not going to dox him. Wait, is it Miss Jackson if you're nasty?

Go ahead, Jeff. I'm sorry, Miss Jackson. Woo! Okay. So before I read this, I'll say we're not going to issue a lot of corrections on this podcast. We're going to assume if you're listening that you know that we are novices. We're stupid.

And we're learning as we go. Hobbyists. Tim, I'd say you're maybe intermediate. I aspire to know all this stuff. I want to, in 10 years, be a grade A booze hound. And there you have it. Well, here you go. Jackson says, hey, boys, I know you're looking for questions, but I had to provide some info on types of whiskey.

Nice. Here we go. Bourbon has to be made in America from a 51% plus corn mash. Got it. Didn't I say that on the pod? I think you did. Okay. No minimum aging requirements.

It just has to enter a new charred oak barrel once. So Jackson has given us the echo effect here just repeating back to us what we do so far this is um this is old news jackson but it's a good starting point if you haven't listened to that mint julep app but jackson is this email just gonna be a transcript from the fucking pod he goes on to say bottled in bond bourbon that's a phrase bottled in bond has to be aged for four years normally has a hundred proof now i looked it up bottled in bond is a distinction given to certain bourbons so it's like a it's like stamped nice nice okay well i i i actually i actually didn't

know anything about that well see this is where we need jackson okay okay i i'm uh i feel bad for really getting on jack Jackson's ass there. Rye whiskey is any whiskey that has more than 51% rye in the mash. Of course. It has a spicier taste, and lots of people think it has a minty type character. Okay, okay. Rye? But when he says it has that much rye in it, is rye like grain? Yeah. It's like yellow grass? Yeah, like you make bread from.

Oh, yeah. Marble rye. Famous episode of a show. Friends? The Simpsons. Nobody knows, I don't think. Irish whiskey is made in Ireland. It is triple distilled

and has a buttery sweet taste. Served in a potato. So Mike has Jameson. That's Irish whiskey. Does it taste buttery mike well you know what it probably helped the uh it probably was complemented very well in this drink very buttery scotch whiskey no e w h i s k y is made in scotland there are lots of variations to this but the main idea is that they have high malted barley mash bills and are aged in used barrels.

Some brands are peaty, meaning that when they malt the barley, stopping the germination process by cooking, they use peat moss as fuel. Thought this might be useful for the future. I'm really enjoying the show. It's fun to hear you guys talk about liquor. Jackson.

Jackson, what can I say but thank you for giving us some more information about the whiskey. I feel super smart, like my brain just grew. I listen to that stuff and it just is like, man, there's so many different things out there I'll never know or even know that I can know. I find that I'm more passionate about the things that i like so when we get into like scotch being more peaty than other things i kind of it loses me because i'm not a scotch drinker but then when if you if you talk about the differences between rum i'm like oh hell yeah what is this i specifically don't like the peaty scotchy i hear that adjective all the time but do do you think PD is like, it's like mossy?

Maybe that's like the band-aid-y taste. Yeah, I think it is. Oh. PD. PD. Not for meaty. I don't know too much about scotch, but I did, my whole family on my wife's side of my family is Scottish and they live in Scotland. And I went to a wedding there one time and when

I got off the plane at the airport, they had little free tastes of Glen Fittich. So I had it and I don't know anything about Scotch. I turned to Jessica and I said, Glen Fittich, this is good. Oh, that's really good. I like it. And then I got to the wedding and then the Scottish guy was like, have you had any Scotch

since you've been here? And I was like, yeah, actually, proud of myself. At the airport, I had some Glenn Fittich. And he looks at me, he's like, Glenn Fittich is piss. I was humiliated because I was talking it up to him, but I never had the good stuff. I feel like I've done that too. Like if you go to, I was in Australia once

and jokingly told someone I was like, uh, I like, um, fosters. And the response was the same, like fosters is piss. And I was like, all right, well,

I'm just joking around first of all, but it seems like everything is pissed to you. I'm a dumb guy. I recently saw a big, one of those big cans of fosters at the grocery store and I bought it just to taste it. And it was very fun. It's just,

it's a light beer, like any light beer, uh, light lager. And, but that big barrel can it's funny wide pop top and it's not it is good beer it's not made in australia it's not it's like an american i don't believe so i think it's an american thing what well now i have to drink it more out of duty to my country perhaps that will show up in uh booze news next week hey do you guys remember those little Heineken kegs? Oh yeah. My mom used to get them for me for my birthday. They were like, uh, the size of a football basically. Yeah. Maybe like a rugby ball. Pony keg. Yeah. Pony keg. I feel like a God when I walk into a gathering with one of those, I like, you know, they have

them for German beers like Bitburger and spotting and you get one of those, I like, you know, they have them for German beers like Bitburger and Spaten. Yeah. And you get one of those, it's like 20 bucks, but you look awesome. Tim, remember you had a Christmas party once at your house and I walked in with a bottle of beer, like Heineken, that was huge. It was a big, huge Magnum of beer with a bow on it. You were like Scrooge arriving, having turned happy, you arrived at the party. That was a fantastic party. That was a part that felt like one of those, uh, Muppets, uh, all coming in. There was like tons of people there. Everyone was in sweaters.

It really was. I gotta, I gotta do another one of those. It was so fun. I remember I was, I took pride in the, the, the display of the fridge. You open the fridge and I had like, you know, here's all the Guinness and then here's all the this and that. I don't know what the other beers were, but there are a lot of them. That, Tim, when I brought that big bottle to your party, I was walking to your house. And who do I see walking on the street, stubbed their toe on an outside bench? Lizzie Kaplan. Oh, my God.

What a sighting. And that is a celebrity stub. You got on the stub. Watch. I love when you see, it's a great thing about living at LA, seeing a famous person in a bad moment. Like I was at Rite Aid one time

and I saw the soup Nazi fighting with a cashier about being overcharged about something. And I said, I turned to him both, and I said, only in Hollyweird. And I'll be taking these groceries gratis. Well, if you've got a question for the boys,

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