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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Zaren.

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Speaker 3: What, Oh, I'm sorry it's meditating.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Elizabeth, you know it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I do you coming in and imitating me when

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to sit here and meditate and you're like, hey, Saren,

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Speaker 3: I'll need to ask you questions. It's ridiculous. It is, no,

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Speaker 3: but noone else is ridiculous, Saren. Thank you for asking. Saren.

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Speaker 3: So I found something I think that you need.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: It's the world's most expensive pillow.

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Speaker 2: Oh tell me more.

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Speaker 3: Do you know about the world's most expensive pill Are

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Speaker 3: you like down the road on me on this?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: No, okay, because there's something called the tailor Made Pillow

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Speaker 3: Gold Edition.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Now this thing, this this sting, this bad boy,

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Speaker 3: this got gold edition. Here, Elizabeth. It's got a twenty

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Speaker 3: fourth K, twenty four K gold cover, the world's first.

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Speaker 2: Real gold fabric, golde y fabric.

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Speaker 3: And you know why it's gold, Great question, Elizabeth, because

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Speaker 3: it blocks out the electromagnetic radiation during the night wrote

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Speaker 3: a safer and healthier.

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Speaker 2: Sleep get out.

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Speaker 3: But more than that, the zipper has a huge twenty

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Speaker 3: two point five carrot sapphire with four diamonds.

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Speaker 2: I am, I would be guaranteed to sleep with that

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Speaker 2: against my face and wake up with a huge divot.

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Speaker 3: But the core of the pillow is made out of

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Speaker 3: premium Dutch memory foam.

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Speaker 2: Oh, get on it, and.

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Speaker 3: Fully tailored to the customer. That's you using a three

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Speaker 3: D scanner. How much, Elizabeth? How much do you think

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Speaker 3: this abomination costs?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I'll give you a hint. It was revealed to the

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Speaker 3: world in twenty seventeen in Dubai.

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Speaker 2: Let's say thirty five thousand dollars pillow.

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Speaker 3: The normal tailor made pillows costs three nine ninety five dollars. Okay,

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Speaker 3: how much is this bad Boy the gold edition? It

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Speaker 3: will I can get you in this pillow out the

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Speaker 3: door for fifty seven thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: Wow, one pillow. Wow, memory foam inside of the gold

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Speaker 2: rink wrap. That's ridiculous. It's damn is ridiculous. Do you

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Speaker 2: want to know what else is ridiculous? Thinking you can

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Speaker 2: get away with crime in Flavortown? This is Ridiculous Crime

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Speaker 2: A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, hets and cons.

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Speaker 2: It's always ninety nine percent murder free. And one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent ridiculous. You damn right tequila? Do you like Tequila's Aaronara?

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Speaker 3: I love tequila, Elizabeth. You know it's only a card

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Speaker 3: like ry drink.

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Speaker 2: I think some of the dumbest, most regrettable things I've

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Speaker 2: done while drunk happened because of tequila, not my own

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Speaker 2: poor judgment. It was tequila's.

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Speaker 3: Wait a minute, you blame tequila the king of spirits?

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Speaker 2: Yes, oh, oh, what do you know about tequila? Stop there,

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Speaker 2: I'd rather lecture you about something that you already know about.

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Speaker 2: I don't know anything about tequila delicious. It's made from

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Speaker 2: blue agave. What's that like champagne? You're only supposed to

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Speaker 2: call it tequila if it comes from the Mexican state

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Speaker 2: of Jalisco.

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Speaker 3: Ah, so there's like a terror for this.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Jalisco home to Guadalajara, which is home to both tequila

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Speaker 2: and Mariacci music. I love Guadalajara, right. There are two

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Speaker 2: main types of tequila. What types? There's one hundred percent

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Speaker 2: agave and then there's meekstos that's like at least half

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Speaker 2: a gave, and then the rest is like various sugars.

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Speaker 3: Oh, sugars, not like mescal. Oh interesting, okay.

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Speaker 2: If if the bottle doesn't say one hundred percent agave,

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Speaker 2: then it's a meeksto.

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Speaker 3: Okay, good.

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Speaker 2: There are four categories of tequila.

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Speaker 3: Hit me with them.

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Speaker 2: Blanco, which is not aged and it's generally like stored

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Speaker 2: in stainless steel barrels. Tell them Pablo sent you blanco.

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Speaker 2: Then there's reposado, which is aged between two months and

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Speaker 2: a year in an oak barrel.

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Speaker 3: That means rested.

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Speaker 2: Yes. Then we have on yeho and that's aged one

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Speaker 2: to three years in smaller oak barrel.

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Speaker 3: Yes, thus on yeho meaning one yeah.

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Speaker 2: And then lastly we have crystallino. It means crystalline, so

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Speaker 2: that's age stuff like on yeho, but they filter out

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Speaker 2: all of the color before they bottle it through charcoal.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. It's like a kind of new thing

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Speaker 3: Ye I don't know that one.

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Speaker 2: It's bonus, okay. I only know repo and jehoo exactly.

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Speaker 2: So in Mexico, people either drink it neat or in

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Speaker 2: the case of my family there mix it with squirt soda.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The way I drink tequila is with your brother.

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Speaker 2: Drink so tequila and squirt is a paloma. People try

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Speaker 2: and be fancy time. I had wor and so. In

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Speaker 2: the States, people drink it as shots with salt and

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Speaker 2: the lime. I think you've probably done that, ye or

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Speaker 2: in Margarita's, whether blended or on the rocks. Germany, in

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Speaker 2: some places they do something called tequila oro, which is

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Speaker 2: a tequila shot with cinnamon on a slice of orange. After.

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Speaker 2: That's a party side dish that I used to make.

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Speaker 2: I'm serious. You slice up a bunch of good oranges

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Speaker 2: like cara cars, and you soak them in tequila and

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Speaker 2: you sprinkle it all with cinnamon. I like to call

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Speaker 2: it the bad Choice express.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like like another form of jello shot. It's

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Speaker 3: not going to be like chaos tequila.

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Speaker 2: You know, when you're having like a big party and

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Speaker 2: you're making all this food. It's a great for a

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Speaker 2: kid's birthday party.

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Speaker 3: Of course.

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Speaker 2: Good tequila is orange slices. Kids take them to a

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Speaker 2: soccer exactly, let the fun start before the game. Good

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Speaker 2: tequila it's like good scotch.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so.

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Speaker 2: You savor it and it's super smooth. There are celebrity

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Speaker 2: tequila brands, you know, Yes, I've ever heard about this

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Speaker 2: George Clooney. He has Casamigos that's pretty well known.

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Speaker 3: That's him and some other celebrity.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think some other dude guy brown hair. I

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Speaker 2: believe that was so Casamigos well known. There's also Casa

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Speaker 2: del Soul. That's Eva Longoria's brand of tequila. I like her,

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Speaker 2: hundred percent Mexican owned and like really high end. Yes,

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Speaker 2: the label has an image of the Aztec goddess of

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Speaker 2: agave and fertility.

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Speaker 3: My instincts are sounds. She was like, give it up

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Speaker 3: to the rail.

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Speaker 2: I do like her too. Then there are even more.

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Speaker 2: The Rock has a brand called Teramana.

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Speaker 3: Oh god, the rocks like squeezing in there.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Marky Mark has one called Fletcher Azul Fletcher

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Speaker 2: Fletcher Okay, she is called it Fletch. The brand Cali

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Speaker 2: Rosa was found by Adam Levine of Maroon five out

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Speaker 3: For real, He's got tequila too.

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Speaker 2: It was actually a tequila made for three generations by

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Speaker 2: a family in Jalisco. But then I guess Levine and

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Speaker 2: a business partner bought it up. Took Yeah, you got

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Speaker 2: eight one eight tequila.

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Speaker 3: I'm so glad. I don't keep up on the tequila business.

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Speaker 2: You're missing out tequila them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, with a family trade of never being one to

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Speaker 2: pass up a marketing opportunity. That one's owned by Kendall Jenner.

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Speaker 3: Eight the valley the area.

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Speaker 2: Code for Calabases, the whole valley. Yeah, the whole book.

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Speaker 3: Come on, Yeah, that's right for Calabas.

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Speaker 2: It's the center of it. This is turning into like

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Speaker 2: a real murderer's row of an opportunities. Lebron James has one,

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Speaker 2: oh Man King James called Lobos seventeen oh seven. I

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Speaker 2: don't know why he first tasted this tequila while he

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Speaker 2: was on a yacht in the Mediterranean. He thought, I've

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Speaker 2: got to own this, Okay. Don't you hate when that happens.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're like, oh, I must own this company,

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Speaker 3: Jonah Yes.

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Speaker 2: And fashion designer John Varvados, Oh Wowvados. Those two they

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Speaker 2: got a brand of tequila called Via one and they

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Speaker 2: brought its like Vo five, but it's like Via like

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Speaker 2: a city, Oh Via one or Villa one whatever they

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Speaker 2: brought in. Godfather, do you know that name? There it is.

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Speaker 2: Then there's the big dog of celebrity tequila's originators, just

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Speaker 2: like you. He can't drive fifty five. That's right, Sammy Hagar.

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Speaker 2: His Cabo Wabo was pretty much the first huge celebrity tequila.

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Speaker 3: Of course it was let me.

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Speaker 2: Read to you from the Cabo website. Sammy Hagar, our

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Speaker 2: founder and an American legend in his own right, was

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Speaker 2: devoted to creating a tequila that would embody his beliefs

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Speaker 2: of living free, working hard, and playing harder. A tequila

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Speaker 2: that would celebrate his spiritual stomping ground Cabo See and

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Speaker 2: Lucas please without limitations, inhibitions, boundaries. The result is an

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Speaker 2: unquestionably Mexican tequila made with an undeniably American spirit.

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Speaker 3: I've never heard of pr like a memo that is

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Speaker 3: sent out and it sounds like a wolf whistle.

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Speaker 2: Wobbles. The whole thing is totally I know. It started

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Speaker 2: as a nightclub and then was a tequila.

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Speaker 3: Brand and they just grew into.

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Speaker 2: Actually it started as a Van Halen song. Yeah. It

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Speaker 2: was on the OU eight one two album, the band's

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Speaker 2: second record with Sammy Hagar on vocals after the departure

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Speaker 2: of mister David Lee Ross David le Ross. The album

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Speaker 2: had the hits when It's Love and Finish what You started, Oh,

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Speaker 2: yeahd treat the big old farted. It also had the

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Speaker 2: tune Cabo Wabbo on there right? Can I read you

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Speaker 2: some of the lyrics?

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Speaker 3: I was afraid i'd have to have.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. There's a sleepy town as south of the border.

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Speaker 2: If you go there once, you'll be there twice. Lots

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Speaker 2: of pretty girls coming by the dozens. The white sand

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Speaker 2: sure makes a tan look nice. We can crash on

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Speaker 2: the beach, you know, I want to make love in

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Speaker 2: the sea. We gotta try a little dance. So Cabo Wabo,

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Speaker 2: It's all right by me. Come on, let me take

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Speaker 2: you down. I will show you around. Let me take

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Speaker 2: you down, face down in Cabo kissing the ground. Whoa, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it just goes downhill, goes downhill from there. So Sammy

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Speaker 2: and the boys they love going to Cabo San Lucas

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Speaker 2: in Mexico, right on the Gulf of California, once known

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Speaker 2: as the Sea of Quartez. Great place to make love

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Speaker 2: in the sand and go face down.

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Speaker 3: I've heard recommendation.

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Speaker 2: It's right at the bottom of Baja California. A big

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Speaker 2: party place, big tour respond. Sammy fell in love with

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Speaker 2: Tequila while visiting Cabo San Lucas, in the mid eighties,

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Speaker 2: like most of the tequila that made it up to

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Speaker 2: the States was Meexto and he tried the one gave

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Speaker 2: stuff blown away. Yeah, whoa, he's like ours yourselves. Two

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Speaker 2: years after OU eight one two came out, Sammy and

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Speaker 2: the rest of the band they bought a cantina in

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Speaker 2: Cabo and they called it Cabo Wabbo and the motto

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Speaker 2: was quote where the land ends and the party begins.

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Speaker 2: So it was fourteen thousand square feet in or outdoor

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Speaker 2: Place was a flop, just fell apart. Yeah, So Sammy

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Speaker 2: he bought out the rest of the band, revamped it,

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Speaker 2: Excuse me the what the wabo Ritas is that?

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Speaker 2: Their tour was pretty much just like one giant promo

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Speaker 3: So you say that because you haven't been to Fresnew.

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Speaker 2: No, he said that Sammy was this crazy micromanager who

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Speaker 2: my personal sound system manager. He has a personal sound source.

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Speaker 3: Totally.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Sammy wanted Cabo Wabbo tequila to be the well tequila.

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Speaker 3: Does he not understand how business works?

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Speaker 2: Like a slash into profits and barbius. He tries to

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Speaker 3: of Rock Like does that matter?

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Speaker 2: Really?

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Speaker 2: Another blow to profits was that Sammy didn't want there

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Speaker 2: Everyone in Fresno has to go at least once a week.

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Speaker 2: So it's like that's serious cash. Sammy was like, I

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Speaker 2: so long, millions of dollars is what Barbus is saying.

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Speaker 2: He accused Sammy and his partners of emotional distress. He

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Speaker 2: said he got a voicemail where Sammy said, like a

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Speaker 3: I'm going to kill you, Like yes, he's calling.

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Speaker 2: He had filed his own lawsuit in December of two

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Speaker 2: But in the twenty ten suit, Barbas said he was

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Speaker 2: hired to kill Barbus unless he Barbas settled the case.

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Speaker 3: He imagine telling somebody in total straight face, Sammy Hagar

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Speaker 3: hired a hitman to kill.

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Speaker 2: Exactly exactly, lay up the Kabobo. I'm not sure how

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Speaker 2: that all shook out. Likely a settlement, like.

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Speaker 3: Maybe just take you right to like rehab.

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Speaker 2: You're like, you gotta go. This has all been a lot.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a break and hopefully you'll see where I'm

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Speaker 5: Okay, Saren, hey e, Saren.

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Speaker 2: After the Fresno Cabo Wabbo canteena tobacle. Yes, Sammy Hagar

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Speaker 2: was undeterred.

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Speaker 3: I bet he was, man heart.

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Speaker 2: Cabo Wabbo Las Vegas finally opened in Planet Hollywood in

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Speaker 2: November two thousand and nine, and it caters mainly the Boomers. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: of course, the Cabo Wabbo Cantina still exists in Cabo

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Speaker 3: Of course, you got to have the main flagship.

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Speaker 2: This is from their website. Quote since opening in nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 2: The Cantina has long been one of the.

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Speaker 6: Top most places to eat and party in Mexico in

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Speaker 6: the world. Featured on MTV, VH one, each channel, Travel Channel,

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Speaker 6: and then many dreams of partiers and would be partiers,

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Speaker 6: the Cantina distinguished status among the world's greatest feist goers.

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Speaker 6: Come experience the Cantina and you will quickly see why

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Speaker 2: There is a partiers and would be parties. That is

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Speaker 2: a great phrase. Yeah, so let me hit you with

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Speaker 2: a quote from the old red rocker himself.

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Speaker 3: Oh please.

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Speaker 2: Cabo Wabbo is a lifestyle, something that requires only a

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Speaker 2: willingness to enjoy your life and embrace all that makes

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Speaker 2: you happy. That's the reason that Cantina was created.

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Speaker 3: Wait a minute, I've been living the cobo wabbo lifestyle

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Speaker 2: I didn't know it. You have a willingness to enjoy

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Speaker 2: your life. The trip Advisor reviews of the place are amazing.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, did you go pers Of course.

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Speaker 2: I did so. February twenty twelve, site user green Chili

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Speaker 2: Smuggler Green Chili wrote a five star review titled quote

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Speaker 2: you have no soul if you ignore Cabo Wabbo okay.

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Speaker 2: In it, he writes, quote, Wabo Rita shizam, great vibe,

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Speaker 2: great breeze, great tunes, very much a vacation maximizer. Helpful tip,

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Speaker 2: Park rental car at the mall two dollars and walk

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Speaker 2: to Cabo Wabbo. Walk everywhere as parking as impossible? Did

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Speaker 2: I mention the Wabbo ritos were delicious? Back to Drew

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Speaker 2: walking everywhere? I mean please. There's also a one star

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Speaker 2: review from user ice Que called quote also got robbed

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Speaker 2: by security slash doorman at Cabo Wabbo somebody else care.

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Speaker 2: Wall of text in the review describes her husband gets

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Speaker 2: a shakedown at the urinals with security demanded he empty

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Speaker 2: Here's the part I love quote. I am very disgusted

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Speaker 2: that this happened at Cabo Wabbo. I would not be

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Speaker 2: too upset if this happened at a local hole in

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Speaker 2: the wall, our tourists are not invited to come, but

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Speaker 2: happened at Cabo Wabbo. What is more disgusting is that

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Speaker 2: we found a review on this bar of the same

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Speaker 2: thing happening to another family at Cabo Wabbo. I think, Sammy,

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Speaker 2: you need to clean house and get some respectful staff

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Speaker 2: at Cabo. I mean, this happens all the time at

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Speaker 2: my local dive bar, and I'm cool with it. But

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Speaker 2: if it does happen with the golden sand on my

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Speaker 2: ocean breeze, but the tequila playground taking it too far?

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Speaker 2: Good sir. So we're talking about tequila, we're talking about crime.

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Speaker 2: They go hand in hand. Here's a weird angle, though,

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Speaker 2: you know how tequila goes best with lime.

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Speaker 3: I thought you said somebody like me from behind. Here's

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Speaker 3: a weird angle.

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Speaker 2: WHOA, No, most so you're getting too much tequila. Most

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Speaker 2: Mexican food goes best with lime. Yes, one of my

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Speaker 2: hobbies and or interests is finding the best carnitas tacos

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Speaker 2: in the Bay Area.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that is true. Are you talking about.

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Speaker 2: Mexican pulled pork? Let's top a tia on Grand Avenue

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Speaker 2: in South San Francisco Primo Jalisco Restaurant on East fourteenth

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Speaker 3: Sure, any others, No, not.

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Speaker 2: That I'm willing to divulge in particular. So the meat

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Speaker 2: or it's all bland. Oh pork, yeah, yeah. I find

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Speaker 2: that some of the best add Mexican coke or even

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Speaker 2: what's really important is that they also have to be crispy,

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Speaker 2: no soggy carneathas well.

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Speaker 3: The problem is is that pork is the tofu of meats.

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Speaker 2: Let's get out of here. See you got to crisp

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Speaker 2: it up on la plancha, miho, That's what I do,

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Speaker 2: so add in dyced onion cilantro andsmeo. It's perfect, of course, meo.

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Speaker 2: But you also have to give me a lime wedge

436
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,440
Speaker 2: to squeeze over the top. Yes, like those tacos need limes.

437
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 2: Yes totally. I've actually had to give you my lines

438
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 2: when we've eat lunch again, bacon of limes.

439
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:55,760
Speaker 5: Huh.

440
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,159
Speaker 2: So have you noticed that sometimes you go to a

441
00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 2: Mexican restaurant or even like a bar, and something you'd

442
00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 2: normally get with the lime has a lemon instead. Yeah,

443
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,359
Speaker 2: you know who you can blame for that. No, the cartels.

444
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:09,640
Speaker 3: I hate them.

445
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 2: I hate the cartels. So Mexico is the largest producer

446
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:15,679
Speaker 2: of limes in the world.

447
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 3: Yes, I've heard this.

448
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 2: And sometimes there are bad seasons, sometimes there's bumper crops.

449
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:24,360
Speaker 2: Cartels put in these crazy controls over producers during bumper

450
00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 2: crop season, and this is so that they can fund

451
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 2: the war in Maturacot between Jalisco New Generation Cartels and

452
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 2: then these other local groups known as United Cartels. So Roman, Yes,

453
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:47,439
Speaker 2: Romaine LeCour who's with a think tank Mexico Evalua. He said, quote,

454
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 2: the lime trade is a billion dollar industry and for

455
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 2: any criminal group, it's very easy and extremely profitable for

456
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,199
Speaker 2: them to go to the farmers and tell them what

457
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 2: they need to pay for protection. It's classic mafia.

458
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 3: So it's like he also do this with the avocados.

459
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 2: Right, yes, yes, So what cartels will do is limit

460
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 2: picking to a few days a week. They create this scarcity,

461
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 2: they drive up the prices. Some farmers have walked away

462
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 2: completely because it's just too much trouble, too dangerous that

463
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,159
Speaker 2: it was difficult. Yeah, I'm going to get into that.

464
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 2: So they're bandits, hijack shipments from the farms to the warehouse.

465
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 2: More than twenty eight hundred Mexican Army and National Guard

466
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 2: troops were sent to Matulkan in twenty twenty two trying

467
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 2: to like squelch the limes. Yeah, and it was in

468
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 2: response to Jalisco the cartel cutting huge ditches into a

469
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 2: main road to cut off access.

470
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,880
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, so they couldn't get trucks then, And.

471
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:42,400
Speaker 2: Like you said, they're starting to do the same thing

472
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 2: with avocados. So I asked Lime Expert, bar owner and

473
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,479
Speaker 2: Ridiculous Crime musical director and composer Travis Dutton about this.

474
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 2: Oh yes, So he told me that in general he

475
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 2: gets limes for about twenty five to thirty dollars a case,

476
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 2: and that's maybe like one hundred and fifty or you know,

477
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 2: so limes depending on the side of them. So he'll

478
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 2: start to see the prices creep up, and he knows

479
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 2: that the cartels are tinkering with it again, and so

480
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 2: it'll go to like sixty a case, then eighty a case,

481
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 2: that's more than creeping up. Yeah, then it hits one

482
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,199
Speaker 2: hundred for like a week or so. It fluctuates some

483
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 2: and then it creeps back down, but it tops out

484
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 2: at about one hundred dollars, and then it goes back up,

485
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 2: goes back down.

486
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 3: It's over and over again.

487
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:23,879
Speaker 2: Yeah. He said he doesn't let the cost of the

488
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 2: limes change how they make drinks at his bar. But

489
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 2: he told me that if you go to a Tacorea

490
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 2: and they give you a lemon with your food instead

491
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,439
Speaker 2: of a lime, then the limes are back up to

492
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,400
Speaker 2: like ninety a case. Okay, and his wholesalers just tell

493
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,159
Speaker 2: him Mexican mafia and shrug when the prices go up.

494
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 3: I say that too, Like I go to the dentists,

495
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 3: They're like, why did you fly us? I'm like, Mexican mafia.

496
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,159
Speaker 2: And see, here's the thing, Like we moan about the

497
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,160
Speaker 2: prices of our food and drink, but there are real

498
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,880
Speaker 2: world consequences to this, like the people on the other

499
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,440
Speaker 2: side of the revision absolutely so. Like recently, lime producers

500
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 2: in Machoacon they suspended their work due to the extortion

501
00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:02,199
Speaker 2: by the cartels. According to Texas Public Radio quote, the

502
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 2: strike was expected to have immediate effects including reduced line production,

503
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 2: higher prices, and unemployment, affecting more than ten thousand families

504
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 2: who depend on the industry. Yeah, so the line producers

505
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 2: they wanted their security guaranteed by the government before they

506
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 2: go back. And so that's like seventy to eighty percent

507
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 2: of the packing companies in the two main producing regions

508
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 2: suspended operations and then line prices went up about fifty

509
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 2: percent across Mexico. So the people are terrified they lose money.

510
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 2: The consumers hit two. But Choacon is the second largest

511
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 2: line producer in Mexico and they supply mostly their domestic

512
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 2: market and only a little bit is sent out from

513
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 2: the States from Michocon. So there's this incredible writer and journalist,

514
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 2: Gustavo Ariano.

515
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally.

516
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 2: He has a book called Taco Usa, How Mexican Food

517
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 2: Conquered America. Guys amazing. He talks a lot about the

518
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 2: cartel influence on Mexican food. Quote, it's a perfect storm

519
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 2: of problems with limes, and sadly, the American consumer only

520
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 2: cares about their margarita and squeezing wedges of lime on

521
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 2: their tacos. Limes and avocados have essentially become the edible

522
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 2: version of drugs due to the misery. Their growing consumption

523
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 2: is causing wow yeah, blood free and the consumption is

524
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:22,199
Speaker 2: expanding like crazy. So going back to tequila, please, we

525
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 2: see all these celebrity brands total bell weather that the

526
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,880
Speaker 2: industry is booming. You know, if you know that they

527
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 2: want to get their beaks wet, then it's got to

528
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 2: be that you.

529
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 3: Don't see celebrity limes.

530
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,959
Speaker 2: Right exactly. So, speaking of getting your beak wet, Yes,

531
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 2: whatever happened to Cabo Wabo tequila?

532
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 3: Yeah?

533
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 2: What had Zarah Bird? I'm going to tell you close eye, Oh,

534
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 2: I want you to picture it. It's two thousand and seven.

535
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 2: You are a bikini clad cocktail waitress at Cabo Wabo

536
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 2: Cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. You moved down here

537
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 2: from Scottsdale, Arizona, about five years ago. You love it,

538
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 2: the sea, the sand, the party dibes. You like working

539
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 2: at Cabo Wabbos. Tips are great, the bouncers shake people

540
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,919
Speaker 2: down for cash and the toilets and the owner's really nice,

541
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 2: laid back guy for a celebrity. The other night you

542
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 2: were standing by the bar. In the afternoon, while Sammy

543
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 2: Hagar lounged in a hammock and chatted with a friend.

544
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 2: He told the guy that he'd been getting tons of

545
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 2: offers to sell his tequila brand, Cabba Wabbo. He said

546
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 2: he'd been given offers of twenty million, thirty million, fifty million,

547
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,880
Speaker 2: and he'd turn them all down, but that, he said,

548
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 2: may all change. Tonight is Sammy's annual birthday bash, a

549
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 2: huge celebration at the cantena. The place will be packed.

550
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 2: There's a stage setup where the Red Rocker and his

551
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 2: pals are going to perform. Later. You're passing through the

552
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 2: cantenas outdoor table area, warm party lights and colorful flag

553
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 2: banners waving in the gentle breeze. Above you, servers are

554
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 2: setting up the tables and wiping down the bar. Your

555
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,239
Speaker 2: manager pulls you aside and asks you to take care

556
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 2: of the guests in Sammy's office in the back. You

557
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 2: head back to the office where Sammy sits at his

558
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 2: desk wearing bright red board shorts, a loud Hawaiian shirt

559
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 2: unbuttoned halfway down in flip flops. Across from him sit

560
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 2: two very European, very fancy looking dudes in very expensive suits.

561
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 2: You can hear the muffled sound of the Rodies sound

562
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 2: checking the stage equipment outside. Sammy introduces you to the men.

563
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 2: Guy on the left is Luca Garavoglia. He smiles pleasantly

564
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 2: at you and nods. Sammy introduces the other guy, Bob

565
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 2: Kunsick consuvants. He gives you a big grim. Sammy tells

566
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 2: you the men have just flown in from the lawn.

567
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 2: You ask the gentleman what they want, and Sammy pipes

568
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 2: up to say that all three of them will have

569
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 2: glasses of Cabo wabo reposado. You tell them you'll be

570
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 2: back with their orders immediately. You head out to the

571
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 2: bar and place the order, telling the bartender you need

572
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 2: them immediately and who it's for. He pours three neat

573
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 2: glasses at tequila. You place them on your serving train.

574
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 2: You head back to Sammy's office. As you head down

575
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 2: the hallway, you hear Luca ask Sammy, if that's not enough,

576
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 2: how much money would be enough to change your life.

577
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 2: You hear Sammy say one hundred million dollars. Just as

578
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 2: you push open the office door, Lucas says, you got it.

579
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 2: Sammy looks stunned. If you got a deal, he yells.

580
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 2: He tells you you're just in time for the drinks,

581
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 2: and that you should have brought one for yourself. After all,

582
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 2: this calls for a toast. Sammy just sold eighty percent

583
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 2: of Cabo Wabbo to the Campari Group.

584
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 3: Wow, and for one hundred million.

585
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, very exciting, Zarin. The Compari Group is an Italian

586
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 2: company that since eighteen sixty has been peddling fine spirits.

587
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 2: So they own they own like more than fifty brand.

588
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, they like the Bromfmen. They own like most of liquor.

589
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, Apparol, which is again that's a huge one that

590
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 2: took off huge, Yeah, big Sinzano Sky Vodka, Wild Turkey,

591
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Gramollier and now Cabo Wabbo. Interesting so choice.

592
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 2: Eventually he sold the rest of Cabo Wabbo to Campari,

593
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 2: and then he he signed a tequila non compete clause

594
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 2: that would hold until twenty seventeen. So when the non

595
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 2: compete was up, Sammy he got back in the tequila game. Oh,

596
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 2: let's take a break. No, when we come back, I'm

597
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 2: going to tell you all about the next chapter in

598
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 2: Sammy's tequila journey. Zarin. Yeah, I was drinking tequila, getting

599
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 2: a little cabo over there. When you wrote for Mel magazine.

600
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 2: They made you cook your way through the guy Fiery.

601
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 2: Do you remember that? Oh?

602
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 3: How could I forget?

603
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 2: One of the things you you made that I got

604
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 2: to witness was like this blue cocktail. Oh god, yes,

605
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 2: and I don't remember what it was called. Yes, who knows,

606
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 2: but it had tequila in it. And every item in

607
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 2: that cookbook had tequila, as far as I chicken, the

608
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 2: vegetables you you asked for. My assessment of the drink is.

609
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 3: Very tequila forward.

610
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 2: As a chef, tequila and salt. Yes, so you made

611
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 2: the drink. You had to write this article.

612
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 3: I can't remember it.

613
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 2: Something you asked me for an assessment of it, a

614
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 2: quote for the article.

615
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 3: Yes, I did, actually, Yeah, I asked you to try.

616
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 2: It, and I did, and I wrote a long take

617
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 2: on it, and your editor cut the whole thing that

618
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 2: I wrote. Yes, I went back and I found what

619
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 2: I wrote, and I'm going to read it into the

620
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 2: record here because I think it's an important take on

621
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 2: all blue colored tequila cocktails.

622
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 3: That's why I asked you.

623
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 2: This cocktail tastes like impending sunburn. This is what happens

624
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 2: when a Bath and Bodyworks customer loyalty card shape shifts

625
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 2: into a cocktail. This cocktail really wants you to listen

626
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 2: to it. Try to play steel drum. This cocktail thinks

627
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 2: Brittany Madison and Chastity are being total bitches about what

628
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 2: happened at the hotel's continental breakfast this morning. When you

629
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 2: sip this cocktail, you instantly grow a toe ring. This

630
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 2: cocktail has a Salt Life sticker on its lifted truck

631
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty miles inland. This cocktail is super

632
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 2: excited to swim with the dolphins tomorrow. Many people believe

633
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 2: this cocktail owns a houseboat rental company. This cocktail is

634
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 2: the official cocktail of sun damaged and wrinkled Declatage. This

635
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 2: cocktail wears cargo shorts and Kirkland elevens. Drinking this cocktail

636
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 2: immediately breads and fries all the food around you. This

637
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 2: cocktail grows its own coozy. So there you have it.

638
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 3: This cocktail review rose pregnant.

639
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 2: My review meets the light to day. Wait, didn't you

640
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 2: have an You wrote something about how another cocktail in

641
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 2: the book called you a racial slurt from wy Park.

642
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 2: I think, oh it's good, good, good, good times speaking

643
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 2: a guy here, all right, PMIL Magazine. Yeah right. Do

644
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 2: you remember that the non compete clause that Sammy Hagar

645
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 2: signed when he sold Cabo Wabbo remember seventeen?

646
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 3: Yeah? I thought that notes a.

647
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 2: Long time ago back too. Speaking of Guy Fieri, did

648
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 2: you know who Sammy Hagar started a new tequila company with?

649
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,399
Speaker 3: Wait, he really did go back and you said he did,

650
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 3: but I thought it was more like he's planning to who.

651
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 2: Elizabeth the mayor of Flavor toown the bleached out bozo,

652
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 2: the right winged chicken wing, the bowling shirt barbecuer. None

653
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 2: other than Guy Fieri, Go Guy twenty nineteen. Twenty nineteen,

654
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 2: Sammy and Guy.

655
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 3: Friend of the Show, Guy Pierre, they they got.

656
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 2: Together and they started Santo Tequila.

657
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 3: I think our first episode was a Guy Fieri story.

658
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was. It was it was his

659
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,760
Speaker 2: cargeting stolen just saying Friend of the show circle. Here's

660
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 2: the mission statement of Santo Tequila.

661
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 3: Please Tonto, the Saint of Tequila's.

662
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 2: Friends and founders, Sammy Hagar and Guy Fieri built their

663
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 2: own success on artistry, hard work, and going all the

664
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,280
Speaker 2: way every day, putting their heart and soul into everything

665
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 2: they do, and then some Sammy grew up the son

666
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 2: of farmers. As a boy, he picked fruit under the

667
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 2: hot California son, saving up forty dollars to buy his

668
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 2: first guitar. This union of hard work, gumption, and an

669
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 2: innate craving for music laid out the foundation of a

670
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:33,800
Speaker 2: life spent rock and concert stadiums and building a tequil lampire.

671
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 2: In Sammy, Guy Fieri found a kindred spirit.

672
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

673
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 2: Guy also spent his youth in California selling pretzels and

674
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 2: washing dishes to fund a trip to France, what where

675
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 2: he forged a passion for the culinary arts. His drive

676
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 2: to discover and create has culminated in his brand of

677
00:35:55,719 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 2: audacity and in your face flavor that's become ever present.

678
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 2: This uncompromising spirit lives on in Santola at the historic

679
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 2: Elvieto Distillery. Sammy and Guy have put tradition to work,

680
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 2: tapping into the soul of old Mexico. The result is

681
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 2: an ultra premium tequila that stays true to its trus

682
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 2: born from the sacred blue weber agave, nurtured with craftmanship

683
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 2: and care, no shortcuts, no added anything, nothing had just

684
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:34,919
Speaker 2: the fullest, finest expression of a gave flavor turned all

685
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 2: the way up of course. Yeah right.

686
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 3: I love that the gumptionen brothers here decide that they're

687
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,800
Speaker 3: gonna Oh yeah, we hired tradition or whatever you use tradition.

688
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 3: I'm like, you mean you you hired the locals and

689
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 3: you're paying them under market value in America to make your.

690
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 2: Together in the hot sun I sold Prenz exactly. Oh,

691
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 2: to go to France, To go to France. So the

692
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 2: big selling point with Santo other than living moss and

693
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 2: like turning life all the way up with two bodacious party.

694
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 3: Boys, that this stuff is all natural of course and

695
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 3: additive free, nothing to get in the way of the flat.

696
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 2: But like the AEO is like kind of pale. It's

697
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 2: weird anyway. So Bourbon Banter my new favorite publication. Oh

698
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 2: Bourbon Banter, you you get it at your house. They

699
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 2: reviewed it and they said, quote Santo Fino on Yejo

700
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 2: isn't bad, but it's bland for the self appointed mayor

701
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,359
Speaker 2: of Flavortown to scream loudly and seasoned with a big

702
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 2: scoop in the food world, yet choose the tequila so

703
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 2: bland that it barely whispers to one's taste buds makes

704
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 2: little sense. I've had Hagar's Cabo Wabo Blanco and it

705
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 2: was decent, holy suitable for cocktails. So I'm confused as

706
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 2: to why he'd sign on to something so bereft of flavor.

707
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 3: Wow, holy suitable?

708
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 5: Was his?

709
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 2: Like cocktails? Like if you mix it with something, I

710
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 2: can see where Yeah, yeah, you can put it on

711
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 2: the table. A big ouch.

712
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 3: Damn yeah that was that was like it cells everywhere.

713
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 2: The show goes on, Zaren you got words for whiskey words.

714
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 2: Now the tequila just sells well, it sells pretty well.

715
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:13,800
Speaker 3: Of course.

716
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 2: The flavor bottle of Santo is very Von Dutch Christian Audigier.

717
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 2: Is it really? Oh god, there's like a big cross

718
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 2: on the label and old English lettering. I went to

719
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 2: the Total Wine and More website, which I seem to

720
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 2: be doing a lot these days. Hit more and more

721
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,240
Speaker 2: why and I can report back on the prices please,

722
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 2: So a bottle of blanco sets you back thirty nine

723
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 2: dollars bottle, I would have I mean, I don't drink anymore.

724
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 2: I would have taken a hit for the team and

725
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 2: tried this, but you know, we'll just pretend I can

726
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 2: be the team. Yeah, I should have brought some. I

727
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 2: don't want to pay them. You can get a Repisodo

728
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 2: for forty two dollars, the Blanco one ten proof, yeah,

729
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 2: is sixty a bottle okay, sixty one gets you some

730
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 2: nice on yehoe and then a post a bottle of

731
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 2: Repisodo barrel select sixty four dollars.

732
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:08,439
Speaker 3: Now we're talking.

733
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I asked my brother if he carries it

734
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 2: at the bar?

735
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:12,280
Speaker 3: Yes?

736
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 2: What did they have a huge selection, like really nice

737
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,399
Speaker 2: and good stuff? Yeah? So the text I got back

738
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:24,760
Speaker 2: from him read, no, I'm sure it's garbage. Entertain the idea.

739
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 2: Did you talk to your rep no? Stop. It reminded

740
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 2: me very much of when you had to cook the

741
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 2: guy fiery And you texted me, do you know where

742
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 2: I can get medories because you needed like the drink

743
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 2: for the mix. Yeah, And I said, hold on, and

744
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,399
Speaker 2: I texted my brother do you have Madori at the bar?

745
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,959
Speaker 2: He texted me back, No, it's not nineteen ninety four.

746
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 3: Good with it.

747
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 2: He's good, he's sharp one. So November eighteenth, twenty twenty four,

748
00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 2: just recently, very recently, Sammy announced a loss of Vegas residency.

749
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 3: Wait, sam the Hagar, Sammy as a musician.

750
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,399
Speaker 2: Sammy, son of Hagar. Yes, he yeah, all leaving town.

751
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 2: He's like, I don't know.

752
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 3: He was still like that. I didn't know he was.

753
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 2: He swings that way.

754
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 5: Uh.

755
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 2: It's gonna feature his best of Both Worlds band. I

756
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 2: don't know what the both worlds are.

757
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 3: I didn't know he had a band.

758
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 2: They gave behind him, the guitarist Joe Satriani, what Joey

759
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 2: said Satriani, bassist Michael Anthony, and drummer Kenny Aronoff. Dude,

760
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 2: you if I saw if you saw a picture of

761
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,800
Speaker 2: Kenny Aroonoff, you'd be like, oh, yeah, that guy. He's

762
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 2: like this crazy session drummer. He's toured with just about everyone,

763
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,879
Speaker 2: bald dude, everyone like but extreme. He played with It's

764
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 2: more Than Words Darren. He played with Smashing Pumpkins, Bob Seeger,

765
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 2: Willie Nelson, Joe Cooking, Tony Iomi, Melissa Ethridge, Lewis, Leonard

766
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 2: skinnerd John bon Jovi. He played drums for John Fogerty,

767
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 2: both live and then on recordings since nineteen ninety six.

768
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 2: This guy yeah, deep respect So Sammy right, he's like

769
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 2: I got Joey, I got Mickey, I got Kenny. Let's

770
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 2: go boys, or like a British you know, heist crew.

771
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 2: So the residency, he needs a terry. He does need

772
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,760
Speaker 2: to Everyone needs a terry. Residency is only nine nights.

773
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 2: That's a residence to see it is it? Said Dolby

774
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 2: Live at the Park MGM in April of May. The

775
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 2: next year April of May, April and May I am

776
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 2: April son of May. So Sammy told the press quote,

777
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 2: I'm so looking forward to this residency and being able

778
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 2: to stay in one place for nine days so we

779
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 2: can get the sound and production completely dialed in. It

780
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 2: also allows the band to experiment with the setlist every night.

781
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,760
Speaker 2: That's why it's going to be exclusive to Las Vegas.

782
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 3: Probably want to come to see multiple shows.

783
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,799
Speaker 2: It's different every night, instead of traveling all day on

784
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 2: tour when there's no time to rehearse and make changes.

785
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:15,359
Speaker 2: I plan on digging deeper into the Van Halen catalog, sir,

786
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 2: it's not your last name, and my solo career Montros

787
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:24,360
Speaker 2: and chicken Foot as well. Montro Are you kidding me?

788
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 2: Somebody still can't drive fans are in for a lot

789
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:33,720
Speaker 2: of surprises. So as a celebration of the residency, Hagar

790
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 2: and then Anthony.

791
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 3: I tease this guy, but God, would I love to

792
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 3: be able to go through the world like that?

793
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 2: My God? Yeah, he's so last and ever on the

794
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 2: planet exactly.

795
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 3: Sammy Hagen is incredible.

796
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 2: So he and Michael Anthony they performed during the halftime

797
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 2: show the Raiders game against the Broncos on November twenty

798
00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:00,839
Speaker 2: fourth at Allegiance Stadium. So why the big splash about

799
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 2: this nine day residence?

800
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 3: Please? Why the big splash?

801
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 2: Elizabeth? That's what I was waiting for you to ask. Well,

802
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 2: Sammy had bad news to push out of the news cycle.

803
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 2: Oh really, something happened just a couple of weeks prior

804
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 2: that rocked his world, and not in a good way.

805
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 3: I don't read the news, so what was it now,

806
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 3: I've never.

807
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 2: Heard of the news. So over the weekend of November

808
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:22,720
Speaker 2: ninth and tenth, that was recently. Yeah, Santos's trucking partner,

809
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 2: Johansson or maybe Johansson Johansson or Joe Hanson, they saw

810
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 2: irregularities in their logistics tracking regularities. They're like, these are

811
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 2: not regularities. These are irregularities.

812
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 3: Those are the bad kind of regularity.

813
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:40,799
Speaker 2: I look for regularities everywhere I go, and then the

814
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 2: irregularities are like I'm about to ruin your day.

815
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 3: You know, some people when they are incontinent, like when

816
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 3: you're like all backed up, no one says like, oh,

817
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 3: they're like they're feeling regular. No one's like, I'm irregular

818
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 3: right now.

819
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 2: Or I'm continent right now. Yeah, that's true, right, I

820
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 2: am currently continent for once. Okay, So two trucks carrying

821
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 2: tequila made by some anto spirits crossed from Mexico into Laredo, Texas.

822
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 4: Ah.

823
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 2: Yes, and that's how it was supposed to go. So

824
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 2: we're okay, great borders crossing, check and check regularities. In Laredo,

825
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 2: the loads get picked up by legitimate truck drivers, the

826
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,279
Speaker 2: guys who are supposed to pick them up.

827
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:16,879
Speaker 3: Another check.

828
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 2: You know what, if you bought it, a trucker brought it, Yes,

829
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 2: thank you for saying. So they were supposed to take

830
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 2: back to the truckers, big respect. So they're supposed to

831
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 2: take the loads to a warehouse in Pennsylvania. And on

832
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 2: the way though the drivers they get new orders. They're

833
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 2: told that there are huge problems at the warehouse in

834
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania and that they have to go to one in

835
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:41,399
Speaker 2: Los Angeles instead. Wow, so yeah, not like oh one

836
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,399
Speaker 2: another one that's on the way, there are another one

837
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 2: of them. No, please turn around and drive in the

838
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 2: opposite direction. And they're like, what this looks like a regularity?

839
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 2: This is this looks legit.

840
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 3: I get to LA.

841
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,919
Speaker 2: So they turn around, they go to the LA warehouses.

842
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 2: The warehouses themselves look legit. They're like great, so they

843
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 2: left the and took off. Yeah, in those trucks more

844
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:07,439
Speaker 2: than four thousand cases of tequila. So basically like over

845
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 2: twenty four thousand bottles of Santo tequila. And this is

846
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 2: like all of the kinds that they make. Yeah, all

847
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 2: the early aughts looking bottles are up in there and

848
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 2: crosses everywhere cross. It's it's especially made extra on Yeho.

849
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 2: Though that one takes thirty nine months to make, so

850
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 2: it's not like they can just go and fill up

851
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 2: extra bottles. It was the first batch available of that

852
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 2: extra on Yeho.

853
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 3: It's interesting time three years in one season.

854
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 2: I suppose, so that's weird. And that was the very

855
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:41,760
Speaker 2: first batch available of this extra on Yeho, Like sitting

856
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 2: in it. Wow, stewing in its own juices, percolating. Yeah.

857
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 2: Santo Spirits was like the load was worth more than

858
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 2: a million dollars. Oh yes, sure, Yeah. So Johanson, the

859
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,399
Speaker 2: shipping company, they looked into the missing trucks and they

860
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 2: found that they had been quote illegally double broker to

861
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 2: other ship carriers. So they said this report, quote, we

862
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Speaker 2: believe the GPS tracking signal we were monitoring was spoofed

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Speaker 2: by a GPS emulator application used by the criminals.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, all that to steal Guy Fieri sequila.

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Speaker 2: So Santo president Dan butkis Yes, he told People magazine, quote,

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Speaker 2: this is the strangest thing I've ever seen in the

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Speaker 2: spirits industry over twenty five years. I've never seen anything

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00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 2: like this too. Of our trucks four days apart to

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00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 2: be stolen. It's so out of the ordinary, out of

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Speaker 2: the norm, that we're wondering why our trucks may have

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00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,760
Speaker 2: been targeted. I agree. He talks like a cartoon carriacter.

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00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 2: He is animated, so like, yeah, why did they target Shata.

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Speaker 3: Other than obviously the Red Rockers involvement? Listen, who doesn't

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Speaker 3: want what he has?

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Speaker 2: Detective Guy Fiery has a theory.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, I love Detective Guy Fier.

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Speaker 2: He thinks quote someone could be trying to break the

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00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 2: momentum that Santa had been gaining. Quote, I mean one

879
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 2: is one, but now we gotta have double the amount

880
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 2: of people to pull off the double heist. He said,

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00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 2: it just seems so much riskier to take two trucks.

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00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 3: He watched like fast and the Fury is too, and

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00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:26,919
Speaker 3: then came up with his work.

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00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 2: He's like, how these guys operated. It takes one guy

885
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 2: to run one thing. It's going to take two to

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00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 2: rob two puts on the trench. II.

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Speaker 3: You didn't mention getting his own car stolen.

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00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 2: You know, don't don't bring up past traumas.

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Speaker 3: That's true, that's true.

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Speaker 2: Sammy Hagar. Ever, the businessman, he stayed away from conjecture.

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Speaker 2: He's like, look, I can't do the one plus one

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00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 2: equals to He said. The theft was quote a gigantic

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00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:57,720
Speaker 2: setback for any independently owned company and a hugely competitive market.

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Speaker 2: But Guy and I are not the type to sit back.

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00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 2: Can wine over spilled tequila. Our distillery is working day

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Speaker 2: and night right now to replace as much stock as

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Speaker 2: we can. He's answered, law enforcement and all of the

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00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:14,919
Speaker 2: jurisdictions got on this. Of course, that's Laredo PD where

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00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:19,280
Speaker 2: the shipman entered the country. LA's Cargo Criminal Apprehension Team.

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00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 2: This like federal organization called cargo Net, which is just

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Speaker 2: basically like a data analytics and risk assessments and then.

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Speaker 3: Red Rocker, what do we need to be?

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00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 2: So you got the cops and then you got this

904
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,879
Speaker 2: robo data thing. They're all trying to track down more

905
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 2: than a million dollars worth of missing party dude tequila.

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00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 2: Uh and this is going down at the worst possible

907
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 2: time because like right before the holiday season, how am

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00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 2: I supposed to make my guy Fieri tequila keyla and

909
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 2: pie for wabbo giving Totally horrible. So, a cargo Net

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00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 2: spokesperson said, quote, data analytics from various cargo Net project

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00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 2: that cargo theft has reached an all time high in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four and will be over twenty five percent

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Speaker 2: higher than in twenty twenty three.

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00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 3: So then why do we get cargo Net?

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00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 2: That's what I want to guys.

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00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 3: We're doing on clipboard.

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00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:15,760
Speaker 2: They told People magazine that a lot of the cargo

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00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 2: theft last year was for hard Seltzer, which for some

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00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 2: reason is absolutely hysterical to me. Yeah, yeah, the.

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00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 3: Real in bubbled water.

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00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,840
Speaker 2: That'll get you a little jazzy. This year, the market's

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00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 2: changed twenty twenty four. It's all about the hard stuff

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00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 2: stuff like Santo Santo. It's hard. Yeah. But Gus, the

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00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 2: president of Santo, said, quote, it's unlikely is it bucket?

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00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 2: Is it TuS? Okay, yeah, buttcuse but coouse, it's unlikely

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00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,240
Speaker 2: that they'll find these truckers. They probably rent the truck,

927
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 2: get the bid, get the cargo, sell it and then disappear.

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00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:52,879
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there are some phone lines we have from

929
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:56,320
Speaker 2: them that are already disconnected, and they said they're probably

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00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 2: parked on the side of the road near Lake have

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Speaker 2: su sitting in a puddle of their own set. No,

932
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 2: he added that last purpose. Oh I make myself laugh some,

933
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 2: so you know, he didn't say they were fiery though.

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Speaker 2: He's not going to give up so easily.

935
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Speaker 3: So no, there's no.

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Speaker 2: He was like, yeah, they threw up on each other.

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00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,320
Speaker 2: Do you hear this kind of terrible news? Like okay,

938
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 2: so guy, he wanted to offer a ten thousand dollars reward,

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00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 2: and that was just for the extra a yeho. Quote,

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00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:44,319
Speaker 2: He's like the rest whatever, leave it, he said, quote,

941
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 2: because it's like the crown jewel of the company, something

942
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 2: that we've been working on. You can't reproduce something that

943
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 2: takes four years to make, Okay, well, you know, thirty

944
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Speaker 2: nine months. So he went on to compare it to

945
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 2: the nineteen seventy eight luft Hans, which we had. Well,

946
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 2: we haven't covered it because there's too much murder. It

947
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 2: was the largest cash robbery committed on America Oil when

948
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 2: it happened. And that's what this is what it makes guys,

949
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:17,360
Speaker 2: comparisons seem a little hyperbolic, a little so there's no

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00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 2: mention like if he had any actual ridiculous crime episodes

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00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:23,720
Speaker 2: that he wanted to draw similarities with, like, for example,

952
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 2: the cheese theft. That's where I went with that, he said, quote.

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00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 2: And this is the Actually I'm not making this one out.

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00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 2: It's like a movie. I never in a million years

955
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 2: thought this was coming down the pike like this, but

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00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 2: it's real. Yeah. So Laredo PD, they wanted to make

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00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 2: sure people understood A it wasn't a hijacking and B

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00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 2: it didn't take place in Laredo, So they put out

959
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 2: this statement. They're like, this was next level cargo switcheroo,

960
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 2: not a strong arm attack in Laredo. Then they also

961
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 2: slipped into their press release that the freight value was

962
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 2: listed at approximately three hundred and eighty five five and

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00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 2: ninety eight dollars and not the million. Wow, like a

964
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 2: third of what they said. Hey, ps, they're not as

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Speaker 2: big as they think. So people this holiday season, if

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00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 2: you're tempted to buy a bottle of black market Santo

967
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 2: tequila at a cut rate, I urge you to control yourself.

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00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 2: If you see something, say something, Say I don't want

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00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 2: that illegal bottle of Santo. I want a bottle of

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00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 2: legists instead. I want the good stuff. So, Saron, what's

971
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 2: your ridiculous takeaway?

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Speaker 3: I'm so thirsty for tequila. Now, that's a good one.

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Speaker 3: But also, like Guy Fieri and the Red Rocket, the

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Speaker 3: Roo Rocket, I really, honestly, I said it earlier. They're

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00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 3: so lucky in terms of like life ex right, and

976
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Speaker 3: like everyone can tease them all they want, but they're

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Speaker 3: laughing at the rest of us till their days. I'm saying,

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Speaker 3: but you want to make fun of like, oh, you

979
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:52,359
Speaker 3: got frosted tips. He's like, yeah, I do.

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00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 2: Exactly frost these tips. That's it for today. You can

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Speaker 2: find us online at Ridiculous Crime debt com. We're also

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Speaker 2: at Ridiculous Crime on Twitter, Instagram, and then we're on

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Speaker 2: what's the other one? Blue Sky?

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Speaker 3: Sure? Hey Smoky, you want to you want to talk bout?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Please?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, did you just see the ill ge?

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Speaker 7: Hey guys, this is Gravy the truck driver and biscuits. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: and uh, anyway, so listening to the John Dolorean podcast,

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Speaker 7: I'm caught up to there from your beginnings and uh

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Speaker 7: you said that Pontiac produced the Superbird with a crazy wing.

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Speaker 7: That was actually Plymouth and Dodge that did this price

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Speaker 7: word that did the Superbirds.

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Speaker 3: Uh anyway, just thought right, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, thank you for the correction. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: And I always like to be on the right road.

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Speaker 2: Now we know, and knowing is half the bat.

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Speaker 3: Hey it, as Elizabeth said earlier, if you bought a truck,

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Speaker 3: brought it, so shout out to the truck.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, big up for the truckers. You want to do

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