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Speaker 2: Zaren.
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Speaker 2: percent ridiculous. You damn right tequila? Do you like Tequila's Aaronara?
Speaker 3: I love tequila, Elizabeth. You know it's only a card
Speaker 3: like ry drink.
Speaker 2: I think some of the dumbest, most regrettable things I've
Speaker 2: done while drunk happened because of tequila, not my own
Speaker 2: poor judgment. It was tequila's.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, you blame tequila the king of spirits?
Speaker 2: Yes, oh, oh, what do you know about tequila? Stop there,
Speaker 2: I'd rather lecture you about something that you already know about.
Speaker 2: I don't know anything about tequila delicious. It's made from
Speaker 2: blue agave. What's that like champagne? You're only supposed to
Speaker 2: call it tequila if it comes from the Mexican state
Speaker 2: of Jalisco.
Speaker 3: Ah, so there's like a terror for this.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Jalisco home to Guadalajara, which is home to both tequila
Speaker 2: and Mariacci music. I love Guadalajara, right. There are two
Speaker 2: main types of tequila. What types? There's one hundred percent
Speaker 2: agave and then there's meekstos that's like at least half
Speaker 2: a gave, and then the rest is like various sugars.
Speaker 3: Oh, sugars, not like mescal. Oh interesting, okay.
Speaker 2: If if the bottle doesn't say one hundred percent agave,
Speaker 2: then it's a meeksto.
Speaker 3: Okay, good.
Speaker 2: There are four categories of tequila.
Speaker 3: Hit me with them.
Speaker 2: Blanco, which is not aged and it's generally like stored
Speaker 2: in stainless steel barrels. Tell them Pablo sent you blanco.
Speaker 2: Then there's reposado, which is aged between two months and
Speaker 2: a year in an oak barrel.
Speaker 3: That means rested.
Speaker 2: Yes. Then we have on yeho and that's aged one
Speaker 2: to three years in smaller oak barrel.
Speaker 3: Yes, thus on yeho meaning one yeah.
Speaker 2: And then lastly we have crystallino. It means crystalline, so
Speaker 2: that's age stuff like on yeho, but they filter out
Speaker 2: all of the color before they bottle it through charcoal.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's like a kind of new thing
Speaker 2: within the last fifteen.
Speaker 3: Ye I don't know that one.
Speaker 2: It's bonus, okay. I only know repo and jehoo exactly.
Speaker 2: So in Mexico, people either drink it neat or in
Speaker 2: the case of my family there mix it with squirt soda.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The way I drink tequila is with your brother.
Speaker 2: Drink so tequila and squirt is a paloma. People try
Speaker 2: and be fancy time. I had wor and so. In
Speaker 2: the States, people drink it as shots with salt and
Speaker 2: the lime. I think you've probably done that, ye or
Speaker 2: in Margarita's, whether blended or on the rocks. Germany, in
Speaker 2: some places they do something called tequila oro, which is
Speaker 2: a tequila shot with cinnamon on a slice of orange. After.
Speaker 2: That's a party side dish that I used to make.
Speaker 2: I'm serious. You slice up a bunch of good oranges
Speaker 2: like cara cars, and you soak them in tequila and
Speaker 2: you sprinkle it all with cinnamon. I like to call
Speaker 2: it the bad Choice express.
Speaker 3: It sounds like like another form of jello shot. It's
Speaker 3: not going to be like chaos tequila.
Speaker 2: You know, when you're having like a big party and
Speaker 2: you're making all this food. It's a great for a
Speaker 2: kid's birthday party.
Speaker 3: Of course.
Speaker 2: Good tequila is orange slices. Kids take them to a
Speaker 2: soccer exactly, let the fun start before the game. Good
Speaker 2: tequila it's like good scotch.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so.
Speaker 2: You savor it and it's super smooth. There are celebrity
Speaker 2: tequila brands, you know, Yes, I've ever heard about this
Speaker 2: George Clooney. He has Casamigos that's pretty well known.
Speaker 3: That's him and some other celebrity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think some other dude guy brown hair. I
Speaker 2: believe that was so Casamigos well known. There's also Casa
Speaker 2: del Soul. That's Eva Longoria's brand of tequila. I like her,
Speaker 2: hundred percent Mexican owned and like really high end. Yes,
Speaker 2: the label has an image of the Aztec goddess of
Speaker 2: agave and fertility.
Speaker 3: My instincts are sounds. She was like, give it up
Speaker 3: to the rail.
Speaker 2: I do like her too. Then there are even more.
Speaker 2: The Rock has a brand called Teramana.
Speaker 3: Oh god, the rocks like squeezing in there.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Marky Mark has one called Fletcher Azul Fletcher
Speaker 2: Fletcher Okay, she is called it Fletch. The brand Cali
Speaker 2: Rosa was found by Adam Levine of Maroon five out
Speaker 2: of town.
Speaker 3: For real, He's got tequila too.
Speaker 2: It was actually a tequila made for three generations by
Speaker 2: a family in Jalisco. But then I guess Levine and
Speaker 2: a business partner bought it up. Took Yeah, you got
Speaker 2: eight one eight tequila.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad. I don't keep up on the tequila business.
Speaker 2: You're missing out tequila them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, with a family trade of never being one to
Speaker 2: pass up a marketing opportunity. That one's owned by Kendall Jenner.
Speaker 3: Eight the valley the area.
Speaker 2: Code for Calabases, the whole valley. Yeah, the whole book.
Speaker 3: Come on, Yeah, that's right for Calabas.
Speaker 2: It's the center of it. This is turning into like
Speaker 2: a real murderer's row of an opportunities. Lebron James has one,
Speaker 2: oh Man King James called Lobos seventeen oh seven. I
Speaker 2: don't know why he first tasted this tequila while he
Speaker 2: was on a yacht in the Mediterranean. He thought, I've
Speaker 2: got to own this, Okay. Don't you hate when that happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're like, oh, I must own this company,
Speaker 3: Jonah Yes.
Speaker 2: And fashion designer John Varvados, Oh Wowvados. Those two they
Speaker 2: got a brand of tequila called Via one and they
Speaker 2: brought its like Vo five, but it's like Via like
Speaker 2: a city, Oh Via one or Villa one whatever they
Speaker 2: brought in. Godfather, do you know that name? There it is.
Speaker 2: Then there's the big dog of celebrity tequila's originators, just
Speaker 2: like you. He can't drive fifty five. That's right, Sammy Hagar.
Speaker 2: His Cabo Wabo was pretty much the first huge celebrity tequila.
Speaker 3: Of course it was let me.
Speaker 2: Read to you from the Cabo website. Sammy Hagar, our
Speaker 2: founder and an American legend in his own right, was
Speaker 2: devoted to creating a tequila that would embody his beliefs
Speaker 2: of living free, working hard, and playing harder. A tequila
Speaker 2: that would celebrate his spiritual stomping ground Cabo See and
Speaker 2: Lucas please without limitations, inhibitions, boundaries. The result is an
Speaker 2: unquestionably Mexican tequila made with an undeniably American spirit.
Speaker 3: I've never heard of pr like a memo that is
Speaker 3: sent out and it sounds like a wolf whistle.
Speaker 2: Wobbles. The whole thing is totally I know. It started
Speaker 2: as a nightclub and then was a tequila.
Speaker 3: Brand and they just grew into.
Speaker 2: Actually it started as a Van Halen song. Yeah. It
Speaker 2: was on the OU eight one two album, the band's
Speaker 2: second record with Sammy Hagar on vocals after the departure
Speaker 2: of mister David Lee Ross David le Ross. The album
Speaker 2: had the hits when It's Love and Finish what You started, Oh,
Speaker 2: yeahd treat the big old farted. It also had the
Speaker 2: tune Cabo Wabbo on there right? Can I read you
Speaker 2: some of the lyrics?
Speaker 3: I was afraid i'd have to have.
Speaker 2: Thank you. There's a sleepy town as south of the border.
Speaker 2: If you go there once, you'll be there twice. Lots
Speaker 2: of pretty girls coming by the dozens. The white sand
Speaker 2: sure makes a tan look nice. We can crash on
Speaker 2: the beach, you know, I want to make love in
Speaker 2: the sea. We gotta try a little dance. So Cabo Wabo,
Speaker 2: It's all right by me. Come on, let me take
Speaker 2: you down. I will show you around. Let me take
Speaker 2: you down, face down in Cabo kissing the ground. Whoa, yeah,
Speaker 2: it just goes downhill, goes downhill from there. So Sammy
Speaker 2: and the boys they love going to Cabo San Lucas
Speaker 2: in Mexico, right on the Gulf of California, once known
Speaker 2: as the Sea of Quartez. Great place to make love
Speaker 2: in the sand and go face down.
Speaker 3: I've heard recommendation.
Speaker 2: It's right at the bottom of Baja California. A big
Speaker 2: party place, big tour respond. Sammy fell in love with
Speaker 2: Tequila while visiting Cabo San Lucas, in the mid eighties,
Speaker 2: like most of the tequila that made it up to
Speaker 2: the States was Meexto and he tried the one gave
Speaker 2: stuff blown away. Yeah, whoa, he's like ours yourselves. Two
Speaker 2: years after OU eight one two came out, Sammy and
Speaker 2: the rest of the band they bought a cantina in
Speaker 2: Cabo and they called it Cabo Wabbo and the motto
Speaker 2: was quote where the land ends and the party begins.
Speaker 2: So it was fourteen thousand square feet in or outdoor
Speaker 2: seating for one thousand. They had concerts, they had jam sessions.
Speaker 2: Place was a flop, just fell apart. Yeah, So Sammy
Speaker 2: he bought out the rest of the band, revamped it,
Speaker 2: and then it became this major success because like he
Speaker 2: he picked it back up. As Cabo San Lucas really
Speaker 2: starts to develop.
Speaker 3: The vision, I said, the man's a visionary, right.
Speaker 2: Well, they had like a dirt road to the to
Speaker 2: the airport when he got.
Speaker 3: Into and they had to like, yeah, get the infrastructure,
Speaker 3: we'll get those expensive.
Speaker 2: Tourists, right. And so as the business grows, Sammy decides
Speaker 2: that he wants to sell his own to tequila. So
Speaker 2: he hooked up with Juan Eduardo Nunez, a third generation
Speaker 2: distiller in the highlands of Jalisco. Cool. So at first,
Speaker 2: Nunyas He's like sending Sammy tequila in five gallon cans
Speaker 2: that the Cabo Wabbo staff would then like decant into
Speaker 2: oak barrels and then serve straight to restaurant customers out
Speaker 2: of a spigot. That's do, and that couldn't last. So
Speaker 2: then Sammy started bottling his house tequila in hand blown
Speaker 2: blue bottles. Beautiful, and it was the only tequila they'd
Speaker 2: serve at Cabo Wabbo. At the club. You could only
Speaker 2: get that. So then tourists they'd pick up a bottle
Speaker 2: from the gift shop there before they headed home. Word spreads.
Speaker 2: At this point, they're like producing maybe like two thousand
Speaker 2: cases a year.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety nine, this legendary talent manager named Shep Gordon
Speaker 2: also happens to be a good pal of Sammy's. He
Speaker 2: helps him make a wine deal to import Cabo Wabbo
Speaker 2: into America. Oh wow, so one hundred percent of Gave
Speaker 2: tequila is just taking off at this time. Brands an
Speaker 2: instant success. They started selling thirty seven thousand cases first
Speaker 2: year full distribution.
Speaker 3: And Homie can keep up with the demand.
Speaker 2: He's just cranking him out. So Sammy he quit Van
Speaker 2: Halen and then he started his own band, the Wabarritas.
Speaker 2: Excuse me the what the wabo Ritas is that?
Speaker 3: Named after a drink he serves atta.
Speaker 2: Their tour was pretty much just like one giant promo
Speaker 2: for Cabo Wabbo tequila. I'm serious, I like that. And
Speaker 2: he kind of gets ragged by reviewers for this. But
Speaker 2: so in two thousand and four he's going to like
Speaker 2: open a location in Vegas.
Speaker 3: He's doing a career backwards like that.
Speaker 2: To take this game, you gotta go back so Vegas.
Speaker 2: He wants the location there two thousand and four, that
Speaker 2: is like the prime era. Oh yes, please. It didn't
Speaker 2: work out, so he opened a new location in the
Speaker 2: basement of Harvey's Casino, South Lake Tahoe, close up for
Speaker 2: government work. That place isn't there anymore. Two thousand and six,
Speaker 2: Cabo Wabbo's the second best selling tequila in America behind
Speaker 2: Jose Cuervo. They're moving one hundred and fifty thousand cases
Speaker 2: a year. Damn right. He opened a third location of
Speaker 2: Cabo Wabbo Cantina in inexplicably Fresno, California, in two thousand
Speaker 2: and eight.
Speaker 3: So you say that because you haven't been to Fresnew.
Speaker 2: The place he opens in two thousand and eight, it
Speaker 2: shutters in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 4: But it was.
Speaker 2: That was a controversy and lawsuits. So the development where
Speaker 2: the Cabo Wabbo location opened was like struggling, sure, and
Speaker 2: right when it got going, two months after the restaurant
Speaker 2: club more of a nightclub open, Sammy broke ties with
Speaker 2: the developer. Place shuts down. The developer, Milt Barbois. He
Speaker 2: sued Sammy Hagar in federal court in twenty ten, saying
Speaker 2: that Sammy quote doomed the project before Cabo Wabbo even
Speaker 2: opened in Fresnow.
Speaker 3: He didn't give us a chance.
Speaker 2: No, he said that Sammy was this crazy micromanager who
Speaker 2: had no idea about costs or like, and it was
Speaker 2: just delaying the project.
Speaker 3: He's in there picking paints for the bathroom.
Speaker 2: No, like they budgeted a sound system for around like
Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars. Sammy's like, you have to use
Speaker 2: my personal sound system manager. He has a personal sound source.
Speaker 2: When all said and done, sound system winds up costing
Speaker 2: four hundred and eighty four thousand dollars more than double.
Speaker 2: He demanded that a lighthouse be built on the outside
Speaker 2: of the building.
Speaker 3: A real lighthouse, right operating.
Speaker 2: Lighthouse, because that's there's one in Cabo. No, you gotta
Speaker 2: have a lighthouse, and he gets a lighthouse, but that
Speaker 2: wasn't in the original plans.
Speaker 3: Is that expensive?
Speaker 2: Yeah, a big lighthouse is big expensive. You know how
Speaker 2: the well drinks are at most places are like the
Speaker 2: basic cheapest booze, and then there's the upsell to like
Speaker 2: better more expensive.
Speaker 3: Totally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sammy wanted Cabo Wabbo tequila to be the well tequila.
Speaker 3: Does he not understand how business works?
Speaker 2: Like a slash into profits and barbius. He tries to
Speaker 2: push back on this, but Sammy allegedly said, quote because
Speaker 2: I said, so, I'm a Hall of Fame rock star,
Speaker 2: I can do what I want.
Speaker 3: Fame rockstar. Yeah, I would love to hear other rock
Speaker 3: stars brag ab by being in the Hall of Fame
Speaker 3: of Rock Like does that matter?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Another blow to profits was that Sammy didn't want there
Speaker 2: to be a cover charge, so the original budget called
Speaker 2: for like a twenty dollars cover charge in Fresno with
Speaker 2: an estimated they were estimating like eighteen hundred to twenty
Speaker 2: four hundred people a night. What Yeah, at the club
Speaker 2: that's where Fresno.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but from where they would have to draw from
Speaker 3: other states.
Speaker 2: Everyone in Fresno has to go at least once a week.
Speaker 2: So it's like that's serious cash. Sammy was like, I
Speaker 2: will back out if you do a cover charge, So like,
Speaker 2: so long, millions of dollars is what Barbus is saying.
Speaker 2: He accused Sammy and his partners of emotional distress. He
Speaker 2: said he got a voicemail where Sammy said, like a
Speaker 2: bunch of times quote, I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 3: Oh. I was about to make a joke him saying
Speaker 3: I'm going to kill you, Like yes, he's calling.
Speaker 2: He had filed his own lawsuit in December of two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight, like right after the place opened for
Speaker 2: Prea Chacon to start off that way, and then he
Speaker 2: and Barbis they got like a confidential agreement March of
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine to make that suit go away.
Speaker 2: But in the twenty ten suit, Barbas said he was
Speaker 2: under quote extreme duress when he agreed to that settlement,
Speaker 2: and in his lawsuit, it says, quote Hagar told Barbas
Speaker 2: that he Hagar was going to kill him. Barbas was
Speaker 2: told by a third party that there was a hitman
Speaker 2: hired to kill Barbus unless he Barbas settled the case.
Speaker 3: He imagine telling somebody in total straight face, Sammy Hagar
Speaker 3: hired a hitman to kill.
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly, lay up the Kabobo. I'm not sure how
Speaker 2: that all shook out. Likely a settlement, like.
Speaker 3: Maybe just take you right to like rehab.
Speaker 2: You're like, you gotta go. This has all been a lot.
Speaker 2: Let's take a break and hopefully you'll see where I'm
Speaker 2: going with all of this.
Speaker 5: Okay, Saren, hey e, Saren.
Speaker 2: After the Fresno Cabo Wabbo canteena tobacle. Yes, Sammy Hagar
Speaker 2: was undeterred.
Speaker 3: I bet he was, man heart.
Speaker 2: Cabo Wabbo Las Vegas finally opened in Planet Hollywood in
Speaker 2: November two thousand and nine, and it caters mainly the Boomers. Yeah,
Speaker 2: of course, the Cabo Wabbo Cantina still exists in Cabo
Speaker 2: San Lucas.
Speaker 3: Of course, you got to have the main flagship.
Speaker 2: This is from their website. Quote since opening in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2: The Cantina has long been one of the.
Speaker 6: Top most places to eat and party in Mexico in
Speaker 6: the world. Featured on MTV, VH one, each channel, Travel Channel,
Speaker 6: and then many dreams of partiers and would be partiers,
Speaker 6: the Cantina distinguished status among the world's greatest feist goers.
Speaker 6: Come experience the Cantina and you will quickly see why
Speaker 6: this spot gave birth to the Cabo wabbo way in life.
Speaker 2: There is a partiers and would be parties. That is
Speaker 2: a great phrase. Yeah, so let me hit you with
Speaker 2: a quote from the old red rocker himself.
Speaker 3: Oh please.
Speaker 2: Cabo Wabbo is a lifestyle, something that requires only a
Speaker 2: willingness to enjoy your life and embrace all that makes
Speaker 2: you happy. That's the reason that Cantina was created.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, I've been living the cobo wabbo lifestyle
Speaker 3: all this time.
Speaker 2: I didn't know it. You have a willingness to enjoy
Speaker 2: your life. The trip Advisor reviews of the place are amazing.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, did you go pers Of course.
Speaker 2: I did so. February twenty twelve, site user green Chili
Speaker 2: Smuggler Green Chili wrote a five star review titled quote
Speaker 2: you have no soul if you ignore Cabo Wabbo okay.
Speaker 2: In it, he writes, quote, Wabo Rita shizam, great vibe,
Speaker 2: great breeze, great tunes, very much a vacation maximizer. Helpful tip,
Speaker 2: Park rental car at the mall two dollars and walk
Speaker 2: to Cabo Wabbo. Walk everywhere as parking as impossible? Did
Speaker 2: I mention the Wabbo ritos were delicious? Back to Drew
Speaker 2: walking everywhere? I mean please. There's also a one star
Speaker 2: review from user ice Que called quote also got robbed
Speaker 2: by security slash doorman at Cabo Wabbo somebody else care.
Speaker 2: Wall of text in the review describes her husband gets
Speaker 2: a shakedown at the urinals with security demanded he empty
Speaker 2: his pockets and hand over all his cash, otherwise they
Speaker 2: were going to call the cops and say he was
Speaker 2: doing drugs in the bathroom, and they took his two
Speaker 2: hundred dollars and they kicked him out of the club.
Speaker 2: Here's the part I love quote. I am very disgusted
Speaker 2: that this happened at Cabo Wabbo. I would not be
Speaker 2: too upset if this happened at a local hole in
Speaker 2: the wall, our tourists are not invited to come, but
Speaker 2: happened at Cabo Wabbo. What is more disgusting is that
Speaker 2: we found a review on this bar of the same
Speaker 2: thing happening to another family at Cabo Wabbo. I think, Sammy,
Speaker 2: you need to clean house and get some respectful staff
Speaker 2: at Cabo. I mean, this happens all the time at
Speaker 2: my local dive bar, and I'm cool with it. But
Speaker 2: if it does happen with the golden sand on my
Speaker 2: toes and the sun shining down on me through gentle
Speaker 2: ocean breeze, but the tequila playground taking it too far?
Speaker 2: Good sir. So we're talking about tequila, we're talking about crime.
Speaker 2: They go hand in hand. Here's a weird angle, though,
Speaker 2: you know how tequila goes best with lime.
Speaker 3: I thought you said somebody like me from behind. Here's
Speaker 3: a weird angle.
Speaker 2: WHOA, No, most so you're getting too much tequila. Most
Speaker 2: Mexican food goes best with lime. Yes, one of my
Speaker 2: hobbies and or interests is finding the best carnitas tacos
Speaker 2: in the Bay Area.
Speaker 3: Yes, that is true. Are you talking about.
Speaker 2: Mexican pulled pork? Let's top a tia on Grand Avenue
Speaker 2: in South San Francisco Primo Jalisco Restaurant on East fourteenth
Speaker 2: and Oakland Amazing.
Speaker 3: Sure, any others, No, not.
Speaker 2: That I'm willing to divulge in particular. So the meat
Speaker 2: has to be super slow cooked, flavorful like a lot
Speaker 2: of times it's not it doesn't really taste like anything,
Speaker 2: or it's all bland. Oh pork, yeah, yeah. I find
Speaker 2: that some of the best add Mexican coke or even
Speaker 2: milk to the mix. Oh interesting, to the marinade. But
Speaker 2: what's really important is that they also have to be crispy,
Speaker 2: no soggy carneathas well.
Speaker 3: The problem is is that pork is the tofu of meats.
Speaker 2: Let's get out of here. See you got to crisp
Speaker 2: it up on la plancha, miho, That's what I do,
Speaker 2: so add in dyced onion cilantro andsmeo. It's perfect, of course, meo.
Speaker 2: But you also have to give me a lime wedge
Speaker 2: to squeeze over the top. Yes, like those tacos need limes.
Speaker 2: Yes totally. I've actually had to give you my lines
Speaker 2: when we've eat lunch again, bacon of limes.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 2: So have you noticed that sometimes you go to a
Speaker 2: Mexican restaurant or even like a bar, and something you'd
Speaker 2: normally get with the lime has a lemon instead. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know who you can blame for that. No, the cartels.
Speaker 3: I hate them.
Speaker 2: I hate the cartels. So Mexico is the largest producer
Speaker 2: of limes in the world.
Speaker 3: Yes, I've heard this.
Speaker 2: And sometimes there are bad seasons, sometimes there's bumper crops.
Speaker 2: Cartels put in these crazy controls over producers during bumper
Speaker 2: crop season, and this is so that they can fund
Speaker 2: the war in Maturacot between Jalisco New Generation Cartels and
Speaker 2: then these other local groups known as United Cartels. So Roman, Yes,
Speaker 2: Romaine LeCour who's with a think tank Mexico Evalua. He said, quote,
Speaker 2: the lime trade is a billion dollar industry and for
Speaker 2: any criminal group, it's very easy and extremely profitable for
Speaker 2: them to go to the farmers and tell them what
Speaker 2: they need to pay for protection. It's classic mafia.
Speaker 3: So it's like he also do this with the avocados.
Speaker 2: Right, yes, yes, So what cartels will do is limit
Speaker 2: picking to a few days a week. They create this scarcity,
Speaker 2: they drive up the prices. Some farmers have walked away
Speaker 2: completely because it's just too much trouble, too dangerous that
Speaker 2: it was difficult. Yeah, I'm going to get into that.
Speaker 2: So they're bandits, hijack shipments from the farms to the warehouse.
Speaker 2: More than twenty eight hundred Mexican Army and National Guard
Speaker 2: troops were sent to Matulkan in twenty twenty two trying
Speaker 2: to like squelch the limes. Yeah, and it was in
Speaker 2: response to Jalisco the cartel cutting huge ditches into a
Speaker 2: main road to cut off access.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, so they couldn't get trucks then, And.
Speaker 2: Like you said, they're starting to do the same thing
Speaker 2: with avocados. So I asked Lime Expert, bar owner and
Speaker 2: Ridiculous Crime musical director and composer Travis Dutton about this.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, So he told me that in general he
Speaker 2: gets limes for about twenty five to thirty dollars a case,
Speaker 2: and that's maybe like one hundred and fifty or you know,
Speaker 2: so limes depending on the side of them. So he'll
Speaker 2: start to see the prices creep up, and he knows
Speaker 2: that the cartels are tinkering with it again, and so
Speaker 2: it'll go to like sixty a case, then eighty a case,
Speaker 2: that's more than creeping up. Yeah, then it hits one
Speaker 2: hundred for like a week or so. It fluctuates some
Speaker 2: and then it creeps back down, but it tops out
Speaker 2: at about one hundred dollars, and then it goes back up,
Speaker 2: goes back down.
Speaker 3: It's over and over again.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He said he doesn't let the cost of the
Speaker 2: limes change how they make drinks at his bar. But
Speaker 2: he told me that if you go to a Tacorea
Speaker 2: and they give you a lemon with your food instead
Speaker 2: of a lime, then the limes are back up to
Speaker 2: like ninety a case. Okay, and his wholesalers just tell
Speaker 2: him Mexican mafia and shrug when the prices go up.
Speaker 3: I say that too, Like I go to the dentists,
Speaker 3: They're like, why did you fly us? I'm like, Mexican mafia.
Speaker 2: And see, here's the thing, Like we moan about the
Speaker 2: prices of our food and drink, but there are real
Speaker 2: world consequences to this, like the people on the other
Speaker 2: side of the revision absolutely so. Like recently, lime producers
Speaker 2: in Machoacon they suspended their work due to the extortion
Speaker 2: by the cartels. According to Texas Public Radio quote, the
Speaker 2: strike was expected to have immediate effects including reduced line production,
Speaker 2: higher prices, and unemployment, affecting more than ten thousand families
Speaker 2: who depend on the industry. Yeah, so the line producers
Speaker 2: they wanted their security guaranteed by the government before they
Speaker 2: go back. And so that's like seventy to eighty percent
Speaker 2: of the packing companies in the two main producing regions
Speaker 2: suspended operations and then line prices went up about fifty
Speaker 2: percent across Mexico. So the people are terrified they lose money.
Speaker 2: The consumers hit two. But Choacon is the second largest
Speaker 2: line producer in Mexico and they supply mostly their domestic
Speaker 2: market and only a little bit is sent out from
Speaker 2: the States from Michocon. So there's this incredible writer and journalist,
Speaker 2: Gustavo Ariano.
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 2: He has a book called Taco Usa, How Mexican Food
Speaker 2: Conquered America. Guys amazing. He talks a lot about the
Speaker 2: cartel influence on Mexican food. Quote, it's a perfect storm
Speaker 2: of problems with limes, and sadly, the American consumer only
Speaker 2: cares about their margarita and squeezing wedges of lime on
Speaker 2: their tacos. Limes and avocados have essentially become the edible
Speaker 2: version of drugs due to the misery. Their growing consumption
Speaker 2: is causing wow yeah, blood free and the consumption is
Speaker 2: expanding like crazy. So going back to tequila, please, we
Speaker 2: see all these celebrity brands total bell weather that the
Speaker 2: industry is booming. You know, if you know that they
Speaker 2: want to get their beaks wet, then it's got to
Speaker 2: be that you.
Speaker 3: Don't see celebrity limes.
Speaker 2: Right exactly. So, speaking of getting your beak wet, Yes,
Speaker 2: whatever happened to Cabo Wabo tequila?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What had Zarah Bird? I'm going to tell you close eye, Oh,
Speaker 2: I want you to picture it. It's two thousand and seven.
Speaker 2: You are a bikini clad cocktail waitress at Cabo Wabo
Speaker 2: Cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. You moved down here
Speaker 2: from Scottsdale, Arizona, about five years ago. You love it,
Speaker 2: the sea, the sand, the party dibes. You like working
Speaker 2: at Cabo Wabbos. Tips are great, the bouncers shake people
Speaker 2: down for cash and the toilets and the owner's really nice,
Speaker 2: laid back guy for a celebrity. The other night you
Speaker 2: were standing by the bar. In the afternoon, while Sammy
Speaker 2: Hagar lounged in a hammock and chatted with a friend.
Speaker 2: He told the guy that he'd been getting tons of
Speaker 2: offers to sell his tequila brand, Cabba Wabbo. He said
Speaker 2: he'd been given offers of twenty million, thirty million, fifty million,
Speaker 2: and he'd turn them all down, but that, he said,
Speaker 2: may all change. Tonight is Sammy's annual birthday bash, a
Speaker 2: huge celebration at the cantena. The place will be packed.
Speaker 2: There's a stage setup where the Red Rocker and his
Speaker 2: pals are going to perform. Later. You're passing through the
Speaker 2: cantenas outdoor table area, warm party lights and colorful flag
Speaker 2: banners waving in the gentle breeze. Above you, servers are
Speaker 2: setting up the tables and wiping down the bar. Your
Speaker 2: manager pulls you aside and asks you to take care
Speaker 2: of the guests in Sammy's office in the back. You
Speaker 2: head back to the office where Sammy sits at his
Speaker 2: desk wearing bright red board shorts, a loud Hawaiian shirt
Speaker 2: unbuttoned halfway down in flip flops. Across from him sit
Speaker 2: two very European, very fancy looking dudes in very expensive suits.
Speaker 2: You can hear the muffled sound of the Rodies sound
Speaker 2: checking the stage equipment outside. Sammy introduces you to the men.
Speaker 2: Guy on the left is Luca Garavoglia. He smiles pleasantly
Speaker 2: at you and nods. Sammy introduces the other guy, Bob
Speaker 2: Kunsick consuvants. He gives you a big grim. Sammy tells
Speaker 2: you the men have just flown in from the lawn.
Speaker 2: You ask the gentleman what they want, and Sammy pipes
Speaker 2: up to say that all three of them will have
Speaker 2: glasses of Cabo wabo reposado. You tell them you'll be
Speaker 2: back with their orders immediately. You head out to the
Speaker 2: bar and place the order, telling the bartender you need
Speaker 2: them immediately and who it's for. He pours three neat
Speaker 2: glasses at tequila. You place them on your serving train.
Speaker 2: You head back to Sammy's office. As you head down
Speaker 2: the hallway, you hear Luca ask Sammy, if that's not enough,
Speaker 2: how much money would be enough to change your life.
Speaker 2: You hear Sammy say one hundred million dollars. Just as
Speaker 2: you push open the office door, Lucas says, you got it.
Speaker 2: Sammy looks stunned. If you got a deal, he yells.
Speaker 2: He tells you you're just in time for the drinks,
Speaker 2: and that you should have brought one for yourself. After all,
Speaker 2: this calls for a toast. Sammy just sold eighty percent
Speaker 2: of Cabo Wabbo to the Campari Group.
Speaker 3: Wow, and for one hundred million.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very exciting, Zarin. The Compari Group is an Italian
Speaker 2: company that since eighteen sixty has been peddling fine spirits.
Speaker 2: So they own they own like more than fifty brand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they like the Bromfmen. They own like most of liquor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Apparol, which is again that's a huge one that
Speaker 2: took off huge, Yeah, big Sinzano Sky Vodka, Wild Turkey,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Gramollier and now Cabo Wabbo. Interesting so choice.
Speaker 2: Eventually he sold the rest of Cabo Wabbo to Campari,
Speaker 2: and then he he signed a tequila non compete clause
Speaker 2: that would hold until twenty seventeen. So when the non
Speaker 2: compete was up, Sammy he got back in the tequila game. Oh,
Speaker 2: let's take a break. No, when we come back, I'm
Speaker 2: going to tell you all about the next chapter in
Speaker 2: Sammy's tequila journey. Zarin. Yeah, I was drinking tequila, getting
Speaker 2: a little cabo over there. When you wrote for Mel magazine.
Speaker 2: They made you cook your way through the guy Fiery.
Speaker 2: Do you remember that? Oh?
Speaker 3: How could I forget?
Speaker 2: One of the things you you made that I got
Speaker 2: to witness was like this blue cocktail. Oh god, yes,
Speaker 2: and I don't remember what it was called. Yes, who knows,
Speaker 2: but it had tequila in it. And every item in
Speaker 2: that cookbook had tequila, as far as I chicken, the
Speaker 2: vegetables you you asked for. My assessment of the drink is.
Speaker 3: Very tequila forward.
Speaker 2: As a chef, tequila and salt. Yes, so you made
Speaker 2: the drink. You had to write this article.
Speaker 3: I can't remember it.
Speaker 2: Something you asked me for an assessment of it, a
Speaker 2: quote for the article.
Speaker 3: Yes, I did, actually, Yeah, I asked you to try.
Speaker 2: It, and I did, and I wrote a long take
Speaker 2: on it, and your editor cut the whole thing that
Speaker 2: I wrote. Yes, I went back and I found what
Speaker 2: I wrote, and I'm going to read it into the
Speaker 2: record here because I think it's an important take on
Speaker 2: all blue colored tequila cocktails.
Speaker 3: That's why I asked you.
Speaker 2: This cocktail tastes like impending sunburn. This is what happens
Speaker 2: when a Bath and Bodyworks customer loyalty card shape shifts
Speaker 2: into a cocktail. This cocktail really wants you to listen
Speaker 2: to it. Try to play steel drum. This cocktail thinks
Speaker 2: Brittany Madison and Chastity are being total bitches about what
Speaker 2: happened at the hotel's continental breakfast this morning. When you
Speaker 2: sip this cocktail, you instantly grow a toe ring. This
Speaker 2: cocktail has a Salt Life sticker on its lifted truck
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty miles inland. This cocktail is super
Speaker 2: excited to swim with the dolphins tomorrow. Many people believe
Speaker 2: this cocktail owns a houseboat rental company. This cocktail is
Speaker 2: the official cocktail of sun damaged and wrinkled Declatage. This
Speaker 2: cocktail wears cargo shorts and Kirkland elevens. Drinking this cocktail
Speaker 2: immediately breads and fries all the food around you. This
Speaker 2: cocktail grows its own coozy. So there you have it.
Speaker 3: This cocktail review rose pregnant.
Speaker 2: My review meets the light to day. Wait, didn't you
Speaker 2: have an You wrote something about how another cocktail in
Speaker 2: the book called you a racial slurt from wy Park.
Speaker 2: I think, oh it's good, good, good, good times speaking
Speaker 2: a guy here, all right, PMIL Magazine. Yeah right. Do
Speaker 2: you remember that the non compete clause that Sammy Hagar
Speaker 2: signed when he sold Cabo Wabbo remember seventeen?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I thought that notes a.
Speaker 2: Long time ago back too. Speaking of Guy Fieri, did
Speaker 2: you know who Sammy Hagar started a new tequila company with?
Speaker 3: Wait, he really did go back and you said he did,
Speaker 3: but I thought it was more like he's planning to who.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth the mayor of Flavor toown the bleached out bozo,
Speaker 2: the right winged chicken wing, the bowling shirt barbecuer. None
Speaker 2: other than Guy Fieri, Go Guy twenty nineteen. Twenty nineteen,
Speaker 2: Sammy and Guy.
Speaker 3: Friend of the Show, Guy Pierre, they they got.
Speaker 2: Together and they started Santo Tequila.
Speaker 3: I think our first episode was a Guy Fieri story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was. It was it was his
Speaker 2: cargeting stolen just saying Friend of the show circle. Here's
Speaker 2: the mission statement of Santo Tequila.
Speaker 3: Please Tonto, the Saint of Tequila's.
Speaker 2: Friends and founders, Sammy Hagar and Guy Fieri built their
Speaker 2: own success on artistry, hard work, and going all the
Speaker 2: way every day, putting their heart and soul into everything
Speaker 2: they do, and then some Sammy grew up the son
Speaker 2: of farmers. As a boy, he picked fruit under the
Speaker 2: hot California son, saving up forty dollars to buy his
Speaker 2: first guitar. This union of hard work, gumption, and an
Speaker 2: innate craving for music laid out the foundation of a
Speaker 2: life spent rock and concert stadiums and building a tequil lampire.
Speaker 2: In Sammy, Guy Fieri found a kindred spirit.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Guy also spent his youth in California selling pretzels and
Speaker 2: washing dishes to fund a trip to France, what where
Speaker 2: he forged a passion for the culinary arts. His drive
Speaker 2: to discover and create has culminated in his brand of
Speaker 2: audacity and in your face flavor that's become ever present.
Speaker 2: This uncompromising spirit lives on in Santola at the historic
Speaker 2: Elvieto Distillery. Sammy and Guy have put tradition to work,
Speaker 2: tapping into the soul of old Mexico. The result is
Speaker 2: an ultra premium tequila that stays true to its trus
Speaker 2: born from the sacred blue weber agave, nurtured with craftmanship
Speaker 2: and care, no shortcuts, no added anything, nothing had just
Speaker 2: the fullest, finest expression of a gave flavor turned all
Speaker 2: the way up of course. Yeah right.
Speaker 3: I love that the gumptionen brothers here decide that they're
Speaker 3: gonna Oh yeah, we hired tradition or whatever you use tradition.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you mean you you hired the locals and
Speaker 3: you're paying them under market value in America to make your.
Speaker 2: Together in the hot sun I sold Prenz exactly. Oh,
Speaker 2: to go to France, To go to France. So the
Speaker 2: big selling point with Santo other than living moss and
Speaker 2: like turning life all the way up with two bodacious party.
Speaker 3: Boys, that this stuff is all natural of course and
Speaker 3: additive free, nothing to get in the way of the flat.
Speaker 2: But like the AEO is like kind of pale. It's
Speaker 2: weird anyway. So Bourbon Banter my new favorite publication. Oh
Speaker 2: Bourbon Banter, you you get it at your house. They
Speaker 2: reviewed it and they said, quote Santo Fino on Yejo
Speaker 2: isn't bad, but it's bland for the self appointed mayor
Speaker 2: of Flavortown to scream loudly and seasoned with a big
Speaker 2: scoop in the food world, yet choose the tequila so
Speaker 2: bland that it barely whispers to one's taste buds makes
Speaker 2: little sense. I've had Hagar's Cabo Wabo Blanco and it
Speaker 2: was decent, holy suitable for cocktails. So I'm confused as
Speaker 2: to why he'd sign on to something so bereft of flavor.
Speaker 3: Wow, holy suitable?
Speaker 5: Was his?
Speaker 2: Like cocktails? Like if you mix it with something, I
Speaker 2: can see where Yeah, yeah, you can put it on
Speaker 2: the table. A big ouch.
Speaker 3: Damn yeah that was that was like it cells everywhere.
Speaker 2: The show goes on, Zaren you got words for whiskey words.
Speaker 2: Now the tequila just sells well, it sells pretty well.
Speaker 3: Of course.
Speaker 2: The flavor bottle of Santo is very Von Dutch Christian Audigier.
Speaker 2: Is it really? Oh god, there's like a big cross
Speaker 2: on the label and old English lettering. I went to
Speaker 2: the Total Wine and More website, which I seem to
Speaker 2: be doing a lot these days. Hit more and more
Speaker 2: why and I can report back on the prices please,
Speaker 2: So a bottle of blanco sets you back thirty nine
Speaker 2: dollars bottle, I would have I mean, I don't drink anymore.
Speaker 2: I would have taken a hit for the team and
Speaker 2: tried this, but you know, we'll just pretend I can
Speaker 2: be the team. Yeah, I should have brought some. I
Speaker 2: don't want to pay them. You can get a Repisodo
Speaker 2: for forty two dollars, the Blanco one ten proof, yeah,
Speaker 2: is sixty a bottle okay, sixty one gets you some
Speaker 2: nice on yehoe and then a post a bottle of
Speaker 2: Repisodo barrel select sixty four dollars.
Speaker 3: Now we're talking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I asked my brother if he carries it
Speaker 2: at the bar?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: What did they have a huge selection, like really nice
Speaker 2: and good stuff? Yeah? So the text I got back
Speaker 2: from him read, no, I'm sure it's garbage. Entertain the idea.
Speaker 2: Did you talk to your rep no? Stop. It reminded
Speaker 2: me very much of when you had to cook the
Speaker 2: guy fiery And you texted me, do you know where
Speaker 2: I can get medories because you needed like the drink
Speaker 2: for the mix. Yeah, And I said, hold on, and
Speaker 2: I texted my brother do you have Madori at the bar?
Speaker 2: He texted me back, No, it's not nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 3: Good with it.
Speaker 2: He's good, he's sharp one. So November eighteenth, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: just recently, very recently, Sammy announced a loss of Vegas residency.
Speaker 3: Wait, sam the Hagar, Sammy as a musician.
Speaker 2: Sammy, son of Hagar. Yes, he yeah, all leaving town.
Speaker 2: He's like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: He was still like that. I didn't know he was.
Speaker 2: He swings that way.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: It's gonna feature his best of Both Worlds band. I
Speaker 2: don't know what the both worlds are.
Speaker 3: I didn't know he had a band.
Speaker 2: They gave behind him, the guitarist Joe Satriani, what Joey
Speaker 2: said Satriani, bassist Michael Anthony, and drummer Kenny Aronoff. Dude,
Speaker 2: you if I saw if you saw a picture of
Speaker 2: Kenny Aroonoff, you'd be like, oh, yeah, that guy. He's
Speaker 2: like this crazy session drummer. He's toured with just about everyone,
Speaker 2: bald dude, everyone like but extreme. He played with It's
Speaker 2: more Than Words Darren. He played with Smashing Pumpkins, Bob Seeger,
Speaker 2: Willie Nelson, Joe Cooking, Tony Iomi, Melissa Ethridge, Lewis, Leonard
Speaker 2: skinnerd John bon Jovi. He played drums for John Fogerty,
Speaker 2: both live and then on recordings since nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 2: This guy yeah, deep respect So Sammy right, he's like
Speaker 2: I got Joey, I got Mickey, I got Kenny. Let's
Speaker 2: go boys, or like a British you know, heist crew.
Speaker 2: So the residency, he needs a terry. He does need
Speaker 2: to Everyone needs a terry. Residency is only nine nights.
Speaker 2: That's a residence to see it is it? Said Dolby
Speaker 2: Live at the Park MGM in April of May. The
Speaker 2: next year April of May, April and May I am
Speaker 2: April son of May. So Sammy told the press quote,
Speaker 2: I'm so looking forward to this residency and being able
Speaker 2: to stay in one place for nine days so we
Speaker 2: can get the sound and production completely dialed in. It
Speaker 2: also allows the band to experiment with the setlist every night.
Speaker 2: That's why it's going to be exclusive to Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: Probably want to come to see multiple shows.
Speaker 2: It's different every night, instead of traveling all day on
Speaker 2: tour when there's no time to rehearse and make changes.
Speaker 2: I plan on digging deeper into the Van Halen catalog, sir,
Speaker 2: it's not your last name, and my solo career Montros
Speaker 2: and chicken Foot as well. Montro Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Somebody still can't drive fans are in for a lot
Speaker 2: of surprises. So as a celebration of the residency, Hagar
Speaker 2: and then Anthony.
Speaker 3: I tease this guy, but God, would I love to
Speaker 3: be able to go through the world like that?
Speaker 2: My God? Yeah, he's so last and ever on the
Speaker 2: planet exactly.
Speaker 3: Sammy Hagen is incredible.
Speaker 2: So he and Michael Anthony they performed during the halftime
Speaker 2: show the Raiders game against the Broncos on November twenty
Speaker 2: fourth at Allegiance Stadium. So why the big splash about
Speaker 2: this nine day residence?
Speaker 3: Please? Why the big splash?
Speaker 2: Elizabeth? That's what I was waiting for you to ask. Well,
Speaker 2: Sammy had bad news to push out of the news cycle.
Speaker 2: Oh really, something happened just a couple of weeks prior
Speaker 2: that rocked his world, and not in a good way.
Speaker 3: I don't read the news, so what was it now,
Speaker 3: I've never.
Speaker 2: Heard of the news. So over the weekend of November
Speaker 2: ninth and tenth, that was recently. Yeah, Santos's trucking partner,
Speaker 2: Johansson or maybe Johansson Johansson or Joe Hanson, they saw
Speaker 2: irregularities in their logistics tracking regularities. They're like, these are
Speaker 2: not regularities. These are irregularities.
Speaker 3: Those are the bad kind of regularity.
Speaker 2: I look for regularities everywhere I go, and then the
Speaker 2: irregularities are like I'm about to ruin your day.
Speaker 3: You know, some people when they are incontinent, like when
Speaker 3: you're like all backed up, no one says like, oh,
Speaker 3: they're like they're feeling regular. No one's like, I'm irregular
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: Or I'm continent right now. Yeah, that's true, right, I
Speaker 2: am currently continent for once. Okay, So two trucks carrying
Speaker 2: tequila made by some anto spirits crossed from Mexico into Laredo, Texas.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 2: Yes, and that's how it was supposed to go. So
Speaker 2: we're okay, great borders crossing, check and check regularities. In Laredo,
Speaker 2: the loads get picked up by legitimate truck drivers, the
Speaker 2: guys who are supposed to pick them up.
Speaker 3: Another check.
Speaker 2: You know what, if you bought it, a trucker brought it, Yes,
Speaker 2: thank you for saying. So they were supposed to take
Speaker 2: back to the truckers, big respect. So they're supposed to
Speaker 2: take the loads to a warehouse in Pennsylvania. And on
Speaker 2: the way though the drivers they get new orders. They're
Speaker 2: told that there are huge problems at the warehouse in
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania and that they have to go to one in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles instead. Wow, so yeah, not like oh one
Speaker 2: another one that's on the way, there are another one
Speaker 2: of them. No, please turn around and drive in the
Speaker 2: opposite direction. And they're like, what this looks like a regularity?
Speaker 2: This is this looks legit.
Speaker 3: I get to LA.
Speaker 2: So they turn around, they go to the LA warehouses.
Speaker 2: The warehouses themselves look legit. They're like great, so they
Speaker 2: left the and took off. Yeah, in those trucks more
Speaker 2: than four thousand cases of tequila. So basically like over
Speaker 2: twenty four thousand bottles of Santo tequila. And this is
Speaker 2: like all of the kinds that they make. Yeah, all
Speaker 2: the early aughts looking bottles are up in there and
Speaker 2: crosses everywhere cross. It's it's especially made extra on Yeho.
Speaker 2: Though that one takes thirty nine months to make, so
Speaker 2: it's not like they can just go and fill up
Speaker 2: extra bottles. It was the first batch available of that
Speaker 2: extra on Yeho.
Speaker 3: It's interesting time three years in one season.
Speaker 2: I suppose, so that's weird. And that was the very
Speaker 2: first batch available of this extra on Yeho, Like sitting
Speaker 2: in it. Wow, stewing in its own juices, percolating. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Santo Spirits was like the load was worth more than
Speaker 2: a million dollars. Oh yes, sure, Yeah. So Johanson, the
Speaker 2: shipping company, they looked into the missing trucks and they
Speaker 2: found that they had been quote illegally double broker to
Speaker 2: other ship carriers. So they said this report, quote, we
Speaker 2: believe the GPS tracking signal we were monitoring was spoofed
Speaker 2: by a GPS emulator application used by the criminals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all that to steal Guy Fieri sequila.
Speaker 2: So Santo president Dan butkis Yes, he told People magazine, quote,
Speaker 2: this is the strangest thing I've ever seen in the
Speaker 2: spirits industry over twenty five years. I've never seen anything
Speaker 2: like this too. Of our trucks four days apart to
Speaker 2: be stolen. It's so out of the ordinary, out of
Speaker 2: the norm, that we're wondering why our trucks may have
Speaker 2: been targeted. I agree. He talks like a cartoon carriacter.
Speaker 2: He is animated, so like, yeah, why did they target Shata.
Speaker 3: Other than obviously the Red Rockers involvement? Listen, who doesn't
Speaker 3: want what he has?
Speaker 2: Detective Guy Fiery has a theory.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, I love Detective Guy Fier.
Speaker 2: He thinks quote someone could be trying to break the
Speaker 2: momentum that Santa had been gaining. Quote, I mean one
Speaker 2: is one, but now we gotta have double the amount
Speaker 2: of people to pull off the double heist. He said,
Speaker 2: it just seems so much riskier to take two trucks.
Speaker 3: He watched like fast and the Fury is too, and
Speaker 3: then came up with his work.
Speaker 2: He's like, how these guys operated. It takes one guy
Speaker 2: to run one thing. It's going to take two to
Speaker 2: rob two puts on the trench. II.
Speaker 3: You didn't mention getting his own car stolen.
Speaker 2: You know, don't don't bring up past traumas.
Speaker 3: That's true, that's true.
Speaker 2: Sammy Hagar. Ever, the businessman, he stayed away from conjecture.
Speaker 2: He's like, look, I can't do the one plus one
Speaker 2: equals to He said. The theft was quote a gigantic
Speaker 2: setback for any independently owned company and a hugely competitive market.
Speaker 2: But Guy and I are not the type to sit back.
Speaker 2: Can wine over spilled tequila. Our distillery is working day
Speaker 2: and night right now to replace as much stock as
Speaker 2: we can. He's answered, law enforcement and all of the
Speaker 2: jurisdictions got on this. Of course, that's Laredo PD where
Speaker 2: the shipman entered the country. LA's Cargo Criminal Apprehension Team.
Speaker 2: This like federal organization called cargo Net, which is just
Speaker 2: basically like a data analytics and risk assessments and then.
Speaker 3: Red Rocker, what do we need to be?
Speaker 2: So you got the cops and then you got this
Speaker 2: robo data thing. They're all trying to track down more
Speaker 2: than a million dollars worth of missing party dude tequila.
Speaker 2: Uh and this is going down at the worst possible
Speaker 2: time because like right before the holiday season, how am
Speaker 2: I supposed to make my guy Fieri tequila keyla and
Speaker 2: pie for wabbo giving Totally horrible. So, a cargo Net
Speaker 2: spokesperson said, quote, data analytics from various cargo Net project
Speaker 2: that cargo theft has reached an all time high in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four and will be over twenty five percent
Speaker 2: higher than in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: So then why do we get cargo Net?
Speaker 2: That's what I want to guys.
Speaker 3: We're doing on clipboard.
Speaker 2: They told People magazine that a lot of the cargo
Speaker 2: theft last year was for hard Seltzer, which for some
Speaker 2: reason is absolutely hysterical to me. Yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 3: Real in bubbled water.
Speaker 2: That'll get you a little jazzy. This year, the market's
Speaker 2: changed twenty twenty four. It's all about the hard stuff
Speaker 2: stuff like Santo Santo. It's hard. Yeah. But Gus, the
Speaker 2: president of Santo, said, quote, it's unlikely is it bucket?
Speaker 2: Is it TuS? Okay, yeah, buttcuse but coouse, it's unlikely
Speaker 2: that they'll find these truckers. They probably rent the truck,
Speaker 2: get the bid, get the cargo, sell it and then disappear.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there are some phone lines we have from
Speaker 2: them that are already disconnected, and they said they're probably
Speaker 2: parked on the side of the road near Lake have
Speaker 2: su sitting in a puddle of their own set. No,
Speaker 2: he added that last purpose. Oh I make myself laugh some,
Speaker 2: so you know, he didn't say they were fiery though.
Speaker 2: He's not going to give up so easily.
Speaker 3: So no, there's no.
Speaker 2: He was like, yeah, they threw up on each other.
Speaker 2: Do you hear this kind of terrible news? Like okay,
Speaker 2: so guy, he wanted to offer a ten thousand dollars reward,
Speaker 2: and that was just for the extra a yeho. Quote,
Speaker 2: He's like the rest whatever, leave it, he said, quote,
Speaker 2: because it's like the crown jewel of the company, something
Speaker 2: that we've been working on. You can't reproduce something that
Speaker 2: takes four years to make, Okay, well, you know, thirty
Speaker 2: nine months. So he went on to compare it to
Speaker 2: the nineteen seventy eight luft Hans, which we had. Well,
Speaker 2: we haven't covered it because there's too much murder. It
Speaker 2: was the largest cash robbery committed on America Oil when
Speaker 2: it happened. And that's what this is what it makes guys,
Speaker 2: comparisons seem a little hyperbolic, a little so there's no
Speaker 2: mention like if he had any actual ridiculous crime episodes
Speaker 2: that he wanted to draw similarities with, like, for example,
Speaker 2: the cheese theft. That's where I went with that, he said, quote.
Speaker 2: And this is the Actually I'm not making this one out.
Speaker 2: It's like a movie. I never in a million years
Speaker 2: thought this was coming down the pike like this, but
Speaker 2: it's real. Yeah. So Laredo PD, they wanted to make
Speaker 2: sure people understood A it wasn't a hijacking and B
Speaker 2: it didn't take place in Laredo, So they put out
Speaker 2: this statement. They're like, this was next level cargo switcheroo,
Speaker 2: not a strong arm attack in Laredo. Then they also
Speaker 2: slipped into their press release that the freight value was
Speaker 2: listed at approximately three hundred and eighty five five and
Speaker 2: ninety eight dollars and not the million. Wow, like a
Speaker 2: third of what they said. Hey, ps, they're not as
Speaker 2: big as they think. So people this holiday season, if
Speaker 2: you're tempted to buy a bottle of black market Santo
Speaker 2: tequila at a cut rate, I urge you to control yourself.
Speaker 2: If you see something, say something, Say I don't want
Speaker 2: that illegal bottle of Santo. I want a bottle of
Speaker 2: legists instead. I want the good stuff. So, Saron, what's
Speaker 2: your ridiculous takeaway?
Speaker 3: I'm so thirsty for tequila. Now, that's a good one.
Speaker 3: But also, like Guy Fieri and the Red Rocket, the
Speaker 3: Roo Rocket, I really, honestly, I said it earlier. They're
Speaker 3: so lucky in terms of like life ex right, and
Speaker 3: like everyone can tease them all they want, but they're
Speaker 3: laughing at the rest of us till their days. I'm saying,
Speaker 3: but you want to make fun of like, oh, you
Speaker 3: got frosted tips. He's like, yeah, I do.
Speaker 2: Exactly frost these tips. That's it for today. You can
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Speaker 3: Sure? Hey Smoky, you want to you want to talk bout?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Please?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, did you just see the ill ge?
Speaker 7: Hey guys, this is Gravy the truck driver and biscuits. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and uh, anyway, so listening to the John Dolorean podcast,
Speaker 7: I'm caught up to there from your beginnings and uh
Speaker 7: you said that Pontiac produced the Superbird with a crazy wing.
Speaker 7: That was actually Plymouth and Dodge that did this price
Speaker 7: word that did the Superbirds.
Speaker 3: Uh anyway, just thought right, all.
Speaker 2: Right, thank you for the correction. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: And I always like to be on the right road.
Speaker 2: Now we know, and knowing is half the bat.
Speaker 3: Hey it, as Elizabeth said earlier, if you bought a truck,
Speaker 3: brought it, so shout out to the truck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, big up for the truckers. You want to do
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