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Speaker 1: pub in Australia.
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Speaker 1: Kurt Brown Older, How you doing, buddy.
Speaker 2: I'm standing desk, folks. People, studies have come out. They
Speaker 2: don't help your health at all.
Speaker 1: Oh see, I was thought sitting down was bad for you.
Speaker 2: But still love a stand and desk. I still love
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Speaker 1: I like it too, I have one. I think they're great.
Speaker 2: I think it's fantastic to go up and down. That's
Speaker 2: the trick. If it's just standing. If this was constantly,
Speaker 2: always standing, I.
Speaker 1: Would get them.
Speaker 2: I was sick and tired.
Speaker 1: Of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't mind.
Speaker 1: I've never done a walking desk. That seems difficult for
Speaker 1: me as a writer. That seems like now it would
Speaker 1: slow me down.
Speaker 2: I think I wonder if I could podcast while walking.
Speaker 2: I bet I bet you I'd be a better podcaster
Speaker 2: while walking.
Speaker 1: We could try to do a walking episode. We could
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Speaker 1: We can do a we can do a walk in chat.
Speaker 2: Oh, let's do a walk in chat this year. Look
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Speaker 1: and chat. Yeah, we'll do an outdoors episode. That's great.
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Speaker 1: this podcast. We're coming from around the world. Apparently eighty
Speaker 1: five countries listened to Bananas, So hello to eighty all
Speaker 1: eighty five and Kurt I picked this story. And I
Speaker 1: say that statistic because my Newyear's resolution this year is
Speaker 1: I want to have a margarita in Greenland.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, a margarite in Greenland. I don't like. All
Speaker 2: I know about Greenland is that the is nothing. I
Speaker 2: was gonna imagine something I know about Greenland, and I
Speaker 2: don't think I know anything other than Greenland is fill
Speaker 2: of ice, and Iceland's mostly green.
Speaker 1: So I don't know anything either. And I thought about
Speaker 1: that the other day. I was, you know, sometimes you
Speaker 1: see a map in life, and I just went, look
Speaker 1: how big Greenland is. Yea, that is such a big country.
Speaker 1: I've never met one person from there. I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about it, but I did google are there bars
Speaker 1: in Greenland? Because I didn't know if there was some
Speaker 1: crazy political thing right here. I seriously know so little,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna educate myself. I'm gonna sometime in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five fly to Greenland. There are plenty of bars
Speaker 1: with breweries, with local I'm gonna take some local Greenlandish beer,
Speaker 1: green beer, whatever it's called. Yeah, but I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to Greenland. I want that stamp in my passport and
Speaker 1: I want to order martarita.
Speaker 2: What city do you fly into in Greenland?
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but one of the bars is
Speaker 1: in a town called it's ny U, UK, So I
Speaker 1: don't know how you say that. I would say Nuke
Speaker 1: or New UK. Yeah. So, but I'm gonna come back
Speaker 1: wisened Oh yeah, and I'm gonna do it. So next
Speaker 1: time I'm on these coasts. I'm just gonna figure it out.
Speaker 1: I'd guess you fly through JFK maybe, or Boston or
Speaker 1: Nova Scotia. So but that's my resolution, Margarita and Greenland.
Speaker 1: I can't wait.
Speaker 2: You know, I continually have a day dream about moving
Speaker 2: somewhere that's cold most of the year, just because I
Speaker 2: do love those those landscapes, and I love that summer.
Speaker 2: That summer where like that summer in like northern United
Speaker 2: States or southern Canada is like so delightful because everything
Speaker 2: explodes in such a crazy way. You have enough water,
Speaker 2: all that sort of stuff. I mean, but the winter
Speaker 2: is a really, really long and I haven't done a
Speaker 2: winter in twelve years. Man, I don't know the first
Speaker 2: winter after twelve years of no winters. That's a hard winter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're a get outside guy. You've become a
Speaker 1: get outside guy now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. But you know, in winter you just
Speaker 2: have to do the get outside things. You know, you
Speaker 2: have to ski, cross country ski, you have to ice fish,
Speaker 2: those sorts of things, which I'm all down to do.
Speaker 2: I used to surf in in New York during the winter.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm down with outside activities in the winter time.
Speaker 1: I went one time working z red Bull. I was
Speaker 1: in western Massachusetts and we were told to go give
Speaker 1: out red bulls to a snowshoe race. It was it
Speaker 1: was very deep snow, and we drove like two hours up.
Speaker 1: It was up towards Pittsfield. It was pretty far up.
Speaker 1: Actually it was up near like Williamstown. It was pretty
Speaker 1: far up there, and we drove, drove, drove, drove, drove
Speaker 1: icy conditions, and I don't remember the exact number of racers,
Speaker 1: but the total number of people at the thing were
Speaker 1: five people. So the race was like, there are five
Speaker 1: people there are they all snowshoes? And I think three
Speaker 1: of them raced and it was like my boss was
Speaker 1: like say what. I was like, yeah, so we gave
Speaker 1: out five red bulls. They were really grateful we were there.
Speaker 1: We were the only like corporate sponsor that was there.
Speaker 1: And my boss was like, that's awesome. Those are the
Speaker 1: connections we want to make. They'll never forget about it.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, man, I suddenly realized I was
Speaker 1: a cog in the corporate wheel. Yeah, we like go
Speaker 1: all the way out there. I think actually it might
Speaker 1: have been two people raced and then there were like
Speaker 1: two people there and then like one person got out
Speaker 1: of the car when we showed up and was like,
Speaker 1: what are you guys doing?
Speaker 2: That's crazy?
Speaker 1: That's I know.
Speaker 2: Also, but also like, so as an employee of that
Speaker 2: corporate cog, did you feel because you don't give a
Speaker 2: shit if people drink red bull? Right, do you? Was
Speaker 2: it nice though, because you're just like, hey, we got
Speaker 2: to travel all the way up here and now we're
Speaker 2: just traveling back and we don't have to work for
Speaker 2: the rest.
Speaker 1: Of the greatest. It was the greatest when I was doing it,
Speaker 1: and I was like twenty twenty one, twenty two. It
Speaker 1: paid pretty well for the time. I love driving and
Speaker 1: so a lot of times I'd be the driver. It
Speaker 1: was always at least two people, but the number of
Speaker 1: events that we went to, you know, kayak races, mountain
Speaker 1: climbing marathons, ultra marathons, haunted houses like you name it.
Speaker 1: When they were introducing the product to America, the whole
Speaker 1: job initially was wear street clothes, walk up to people,
Speaker 1: talk to them, mention red Bull exists, then leave. That
Speaker 1: was the first wave for me and so and then yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I would walk back to the van and
Speaker 1: be like, oh, here's one, and I'd like give them
Speaker 1: one and be like, have a nice day, guys. I'd
Speaker 1: like we would sample secretly by hanging out with people.
Speaker 1: That's and then they made you know, the that was
Speaker 1: in like vans, and then they had the cars with
Speaker 1: the giant cans on it, and then all the dudes.
Speaker 1: Around the time I was in brook and Queens when
Speaker 1: you and I were friends and you were teaching improv
Speaker 1: at Red Bull or for Red Bull. Uh, they started
Speaker 1: letting all the guys to go and only having women
Speaker 1: drive the Mini Coopers and the steer Boggins and stuff.
Speaker 1: But it was, yeah, the number of experiences. Overnights went
Speaker 1: to Savannah for the first time, Savannah, Georgia for the
Speaker 1: first time, went to Oh I have I've told the
Speaker 1: story about when I went to Talladega and yeah, so
Speaker 1: I went to Talladega for the Remembers. So we get
Speaker 1: sent because Alabama they were like, hey, they didn't have
Speaker 1: a team yet, and then they sent me and this
Speaker 1: other dude, Carl, nice guy, to teach and train the
Speaker 1: new hires at the Birmingham team. You got a per
Speaker 1: diem of like sixty dollars.
Speaker 2: A day and love a per diem and it.
Speaker 1: Was so great. And Carl was like experienced, he had
Speaker 1: more jobs in life experience than me. So he goes,
Speaker 1: this is what we do. We had a one dollar
Speaker 1: or two dollars a bagel and then we go get
Speaker 1: a fifty eight dollar dinner every night. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is so genus because also in Birmingham, Alabama, in
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Dollar dinner is an eight course meal.
Speaker 1: Best restaurant, best restaurant they got, and it was so good.
Speaker 1: And so anyways, one time they were like, you guys
Speaker 1: are going to Talladega and I was like, okay, I
Speaker 1: had heard of it, but I don't follow NASCAR, but
Speaker 1: I knew it was a big one. And it's like
Speaker 1: the whole identity of Alabama before.
Speaker 2: Nights it was.
Speaker 1: It was before I think it was, but I So
Speaker 1: we drive out there. We have so the big Ford
Speaker 1: Explorer version they had. I think we had put something
Speaker 1: like one hundred cases of red Bull on ice that morning,
Speaker 1: so that's right, it's twenty four Kansas case. It was
Speaker 1: a lot of red Bull. We pull into the biggest
Speaker 1: tailgate I've ever seen in my life. The race has
Speaker 1: already started and you can hear it, but the number
Speaker 1: of like RVs and campus it's unthinkable.
Speaker 2: Until you see it very large, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's it's crazy. Intalladega is like a wild race, super
Speaker 1: proggressive race, and it's deep South. And so we pull
Speaker 1: up and we're sampling. We sampled out all one hundred
Speaker 1: cases in about thirty minutes, and then we were there
Speaker 1: for yeah, and because people in racing sort of knew
Speaker 1: what Red Bull was like it had been other places,
Speaker 1: and so we just got to hang out. So I
Speaker 1: was walking around. We were over nights. My boss wasn't there,
Speaker 1: so people were offering us beers and stuff. So I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, let's just hang out and tailgate
Speaker 1: because we didn't have tickets, just we were only there
Speaker 1: for the ticket.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 1: It was incredible. And at some point, you know, I
Speaker 1: was working, so I was like, I can't get drunk,
Speaker 1: and so we're like walking back and the other teammate
Speaker 1: I was with were walking back to the car and
Speaker 1: I just see this man, undoubtedly southern, I would get
Speaker 1: put him at about five foot six, five foot seven,
Speaker 1: as skinny as somebody you can be. But muscular, shirtless, shoeless,
Speaker 1: glassy eyed, red, glassy eyes, sunburnt as if he.
Speaker 2: Was a little piece of bacon, popped.
Speaker 1: The sun on the nose and then flew back to earth.
Speaker 1: And he's wearing daisy dukes, or he was wearing gene
Speaker 1: cut off shorts. I guess they weren't quite as short
Speaker 1: as dukes. And he's stumbling towards the Red Bull car
Speaker 1: because he sees it and he thinks it's beer. He
Speaker 1: thinks it's alcohol because it looks like alcohol. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: so I'm like, oh god, here it comes, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: just just get in the car. We'll just go. Let's
Speaker 1: just get in the car. And he's coming out about
Speaker 1: fifty yards and like forty yards and like thirty yards
Speaker 1: and then just walking dead towards the Red bullcan not
Speaker 1: saying anything like a light smile's face, and then he
Speaker 1: just stops and pisses his pants or pisses his shorts,
Speaker 1: and we were like, okay, time to go. And I
Speaker 1: think we were gone within I don't know nine seconds.
Speaker 1: It was such a and they were like no, don't
Speaker 1: you know, people like don't worry about him, don't worry
Speaker 1: about him. You're like, Okay, I'm slightly worried about zomb
Speaker 1: the urinating, sunburned zombie walking towards my giant beacon of alcohol.
Speaker 1: It was a good time, but that was Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was my first time going to Talladega and seeing it
Speaker 1: and we're probably there, I don't know, a few hours,
Speaker 1: five hours, six. It was pretty amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 2: When you're in your twenties and you get to travel
Speaker 2: for a job, it feels like you figured out the
Speaker 2: biggest scam agreed in the world. I only got to
Speaker 2: do it a couple times in my twenties, but every
Speaker 2: time I was just like, well, well, well, what a delight.
Speaker 1: The per diem is game changer. Even now, if I
Speaker 1: get one on a TV show or movie set, I'm like,
Speaker 1: so all my food is free every day and you
Speaker 1: just treat you. I never forgot that lesson.
Speaker 2: You know, what they've been starting to do with per
Speaker 2: Diem is just put it into your paycheck, and I'm
Speaker 2: just so angry about that. I'm just like, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I want it in cash right here, right now, because
Speaker 2: that is the It's the best part of this is
Speaker 2: that I don't have to spend my own money on
Speaker 2: food while I'm while I'm in Bulgaria.
Speaker 1: You're damn right, it's the best. Yeah, you go to
Speaker 1: waffle House, you eat the All Star Special for five
Speaker 1: ninety nine, and then you go get yourself a great
Speaker 1: fifty dollars dinner somewhere. Anyways, here's a story Da muse Fitzomos,
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Speaker 2: Moose Damus damusz on fire.
Speaker 1: Let's yes, this was on broadsheet dot com, which is
Speaker 1: a very good looking website by the way, written by
Speaker 1: it is it's like pretty nice written by Madeline Walman,
Speaker 1: who's when you're talking pub crawls, she's the best in
Speaker 1: the beeswax. Meet the retired couple on a mission to
Speaker 1: visit every pub in Australia. Retirement looks different for everybody.
Speaker 1: Mike conjure up images of moving broad spending time with
Speaker 1: the grandkids, volunteering or diving into hobbies. For many Australians,
Speaker 1: the retirement dream involves selling the nest and becoming gray nomads,
Speaker 1: traveling around the country in a camper van. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. You probably knew that.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Nomad's it's in a bluey episode. That's why
Speaker 2: the gray Nomads are coming.
Speaker 1: Oh that's fine. Honestly, sounds pretty good. Yeah, are you kidding?
Speaker 1: A big island?
Speaker 2: I would love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you would love it. I would love it too.
Speaker 1: But Andrew and Ursula great, I love an ursula. You
Speaker 1: just don't meet Ursul's anymore. Andrew and Ursula Keith are
Speaker 1: taking it one step further. The retired couple has been
Speaker 1: on the road since twenty nineteen with a personal mission
Speaker 1: visit every pub in Australia. Is there my list? Is
Speaker 1: there a list? Okay, yes there is. That's a great question.
Speaker 1: It was my idea Ursula Tell's broadsheet. Crazy when I
Speaker 1: think about it now, Andrew continues, we had so many
Speaker 1: people tell us there's just no way that it's impossible
Speaker 1: to do it. But just because nobody's ever done it
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's not possible. There's a first for everything.
Speaker 1: Great banana's attitude, Yes, honorary bananimals. These two Andrew or Nursula.
Speaker 1: So in the initial stages of planning their pursuit, the
Speaker 1: couple used pub Location, a catalog of Aussie pubs, only
Speaker 1: to find out it hadn't been updated in a decade.
Speaker 2: Come on, Publication, you can't have the best name in
Speaker 2: the biz and not do the work.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Why people that started it? What
Speaker 1: got so busy that you can't update? Also, are pubs
Speaker 1: opening in the thousands? It's like no, there's probably a
Speaker 1: couple of new ones every year. Anyways, the couple used
Speaker 1: Publication a calog of Vossi pubs on you find out
Speaker 1: it hadn't been updated in over a decade. Instead, they
Speaker 1: went old school, cross checking government websites and spending hours
Speaker 1: mapping out their stops and ensure no pub went unvisited.
Speaker 2: And there so is is a pub a specific definition
Speaker 2: in Australia or is it just any bar?
Speaker 1: Hmmm? You know they a little later in this art Okay.
Speaker 1: The venues must have a hotel. Oh they had guiding print.
Speaker 1: Pair's three guiding principles. The venues must have a hotel
Speaker 1: or tavern license. The couple must have at least one
Speaker 1: drink at each place. Why would you go a pub
Speaker 1: and not drink, said ursula. Exactly great, that's exactly right,
Speaker 1: that's the ursula gets it, and the document the document.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, and they must document their visit with a
Speaker 1: photo uploaded to a dedicated Instagram page, covering at least
Speaker 1: three venues each day. The adventurous pair has clocked two thousand,
Speaker 1: nine hundred and four pub visits at the time of
Speaker 1: this writing, and should hit the big three thousand in
Speaker 1: Albany before the end of the year.
Speaker 2: And how many total are there that they need to visit.
Speaker 1: It's I think it's over four thousand. I think somewhere.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, they're almost done.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, there's five thousand. Okay, cool.
Speaker 2: Still they're doing great.
Speaker 1: What a great adventure. Three a day is pretty damn good.
Speaker 2: So yeah, when they have a pub day, right, I
Speaker 2: mean they've got to do other things, but I guess
Speaker 2: they're just drinking three drinks a day.
Speaker 1: I love it driving their house. When you're driving your house, yeah,
Speaker 1: anything is possible. Yeah, you drink one, you drive, you drink,
Speaker 1: the next one you drive, you drink, the third one
Speaker 1: you sleep in the parking lot in your house. You're
Speaker 1: rolling house.
Speaker 2: Also in Australia you can get little drinks. You can
Speaker 2: get little beers too.
Speaker 1: Man, don't you love a pony bottle. If somebody gives
Speaker 1: me a pony bottle like Miller High Life, I drink
Speaker 1: that thing and I'm like, oh, I could drink a
Speaker 1: hundred of these, And then you drink and you're like,
Speaker 1: it's fine.
Speaker 2: Very cold. I have found you know what I've been,
Speaker 2: I've gotten. I was a big beer drinker when I
Speaker 2: met you, I was yeah, and then I just stopped.
Speaker 2: Stopped around the time that I uh dated in Australian
Speaker 2: because they she just drank so much. I couldn't keep
Speaker 2: up drinking beer because I'd just be like, my Beley
Speaker 2: is too bloated. So I started drinking vodka and I've
Speaker 2: just never stopped. But I just I got back into
Speaker 2: beer just through spotting. I love having a spot in
Speaker 2: that uh oh, red Lion. We've just been going to
Speaker 2: Red Lion recently and I get a German lager. Delightful, delightful.
Speaker 1: That Instagram If anybody does want to follow them and
Speaker 1: tell them the Banana Boys sent you and we're going
Speaker 1: to follo him and root them on too. It's Kezy
Speaker 1: pub Adventures and Keysy is k e E s e Y.
Speaker 1: I believe that's their last name, Ezy pub Adventures. So
Speaker 1: give them a follow and they have almost ten thousand followers.
Speaker 1: They're very cute and seemingly very happy. All the photos
Speaker 1: cart are them like touching heads smiling in front of pubs.
Speaker 1: That's like just leaning into each other, and their smiles
Speaker 1: are almost exactly the same. It's it's so you actually
Speaker 1: have to look at the pub because they're doing the
Speaker 1: exact same pose in everyone, and so you find yourself
Speaker 1: looking in the background. According to the key C's, the
Speaker 1: recipe for a perfect pub is simple. You need a
Speaker 1: good public first start. That's essential. We went into one
Speaker 1: shitty looking pub in New South Wales, parked the motor
Speaker 1: home and the publican was sitting out front with his
Speaker 1: patron shrinking a beer. He saw us coming and asked
Speaker 1: us what we do. Straight away, he got behind the
Speaker 1: bar and said, listen, shut the fuck up, everybody. These
Speaker 1: legends are doing every pub and everyone cheered. We felt
Speaker 1: like rock stars.
Speaker 2: Shut the fuck up everybody.
Speaker 1: These are legends doing every pub and everyone cheered. While
Speaker 1: Pokey's are a no, no, really good staff, great locals,
Speaker 1: just always want to have a chet community, live blah
Speaker 1: blah blah poke in, it says, while Pokey's are a
Speaker 1: no no, that's what it says.
Speaker 2: You just blew through? What while Pokey's are a nod?
Speaker 1: While poke I hope you?
Speaker 2: Does that mean just like poking your head in? I
Speaker 2: bet you that's what.
Speaker 1: I bet you.
Speaker 2: That's what it means, like poking your head into not
Speaker 2: having a.
Speaker 1: Drink, right or not right? It says Pokey's are a
Speaker 1: no no. Really good staff, have great locals who want
Speaker 1: to have a chat community and live music are musts.
Speaker 1: I don't know, We'll have to look Australian animals. What
Speaker 1: does wild pokes are? No no mean d ms. We'll
Speaker 1: share it in our stories.
Speaker 2: I'll look it up. What does pokes mean?
Speaker 1: What does we have so many ok I E s? Yes,
Speaker 1: classic Pokeys, We've had so many pubs tell us that
Speaker 1: since COVID they've stopped live music. But COVID finished years ago.
Speaker 1: It feels like an excuse.
Speaker 2: It's a poker machine. Oh, they just put the I
Speaker 2: E on the end of everything. That is so Australian there,
Speaker 2: you know. Motorcycle gangs are called bikey gangs, which is
Speaker 2: makes them sound adorable. Yeah, incredibly violent over there, and
Speaker 2: they are just adorably named bikey gangs.
Speaker 1: That is so funny. Adelaide. Oh so here's this is
Speaker 1: also a nice thing. Here are some of their favorites
Speaker 1: because they've been to two thousand and nine and four ok.
Speaker 1: Adelaide's General Havelock is a favorite, as is Clancy's Fish
Speaker 1: Pub in Fremantle. I want to go if they want
Speaker 1: to go to both of these.
Speaker 2: They don't publish a book. I mean I hope they
Speaker 2: got a book in the works because I would want that,
Speaker 2: Like if I'm going to Australia, I want that book,
Speaker 2: and I want to go to all the pubs that
Speaker 2: they like.
Speaker 1: I know, this should be called a thing. It should
Speaker 1: be called like the Kisi Crawl or something. And then,
Speaker 1: but more often than not, it's the thirst thwarting pubs
Speaker 1: of tiny towns that tick all the boxes, like Queensland's
Speaker 1: Ninda Gully Pub. I mean, who doesn't want to get
Speaker 1: sauced at Ninda Gully Pub?
Speaker 2: And probably you can probably get a meat pie with
Speaker 2: your drink there. Meat Australian meat pies are so good
Speaker 2: and delightful. It beats a hot dog. Honestly, it beats
Speaker 2: a hot dog, oh so much better.
Speaker 1: It has been easy in the windsor motor home they've
Speaker 1: dubbed Pubsy. So they just named their caravan Pubsey.
Speaker 2: I love that. That's great.
Speaker 1: Why or think it? Why? Over instant first thought, best thought,
Speaker 1: This is pobsy. Get in, babe, We're gonna go drinking.
Speaker 1: The Keysies have driven through creek beds, along flooded dirt
Speaker 1: roads and dirt standstill traffic, and navigated a global pandemic,
Speaker 1: not to mention motor home repairs, all just to get
Speaker 1: to the pub, but for the positive pair of their drinks,
Speaker 1: typically a Guinness or an espresso martini.
Speaker 2: For Ursula, that.
Speaker 1: Those are really having another moment.
Speaker 2: By the way, they are so much having them.
Speaker 3: They're everywhere, is so popular.
Speaker 2: I have never had one. It seems too sweet.
Speaker 1: You would love one. I feel all those drinks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're also they can get you a little pumped up,
Speaker 1: and that's fine too, But they are truly having a moment.
Speaker 1: Or they like local beers on tap or gin and tonic.
Speaker 1: For Andrew, I think that's great. And so five years
Speaker 1: into their ten year mission, here I'll wrap it up
Speaker 1: with this. They've now gone to a pub in Queensland,
Speaker 1: South Australia, Northern Territory, in the bulk of Western Australia
Speaker 1: under their belt. We're two years ahead of schedule, Andrew says.
Speaker 1: The pair has developed a bit of a reputation. Eagle
Speaker 1: eedpublicans anticipate their arrival, usher them in and eagerly pour
Speaker 1: them each a drink on the house that rules. In
Speaker 1: fact bartenders, no publicans know they are and are like,
Speaker 1: get in here and are celebrating it. This is great spirit.
Speaker 1: I love this energy. Over the final few weeks of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, so that'll be twenty thirty five, their
Speaker 1: followers will see them continue their journey throughout Western Australia,
Speaker 1: returning to Sydney for a brief break, and then they say,
Speaker 1: we're going to do our four thousandth pub in Victoria
Speaker 1: and our five thousandth in Tasmania, and then eventually we're
Speaker 1: going to finish at the Rocks in New South Wales,
Speaker 1: says Andrew. They've got nothing but time, open road and
Speaker 1: thousands of pints ahead of them.
Speaker 2: Oh that sounds so great. Also, the driving in Australia
Speaker 2: is is legend. It is so crazy because everything's just
Speaker 2: far away, especially in Tasmania. Like if you go out
Speaker 2: to like these little little places you can be driving on,
Speaker 2: like the road to It is a dirt dirt road
Speaker 2: that you have to drive down for like three hours
Speaker 2: in it's crazy. Whoa, yeah, it is, really is. It
Speaker 2: is a delightful adventure. Good they're gonna we're gonna do
Speaker 2: their last one in Tasmania, maybe in Hobart. That makes
Speaker 2: sense in Hobart to go do it at the South or.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or they said, uh oh no, the last one's
Speaker 1: gonna be at the Rocks in New South Wales. So
Speaker 1: ban animals in Australia will keep following on Instagram and
Speaker 1: go meet up with them. If they're in your town,
Speaker 1: go buy them a beer. That seems so friendly and
Speaker 1: nice and social and also let's just Andrew and Nursula
Speaker 1: keys Bananas of the week.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, you know. My most surprising thing. I think
Speaker 2: one of the most surprising things I found about Australia
Speaker 2: is how much they value good coffee.
Speaker 4: I did not know you were going to say that, right, No,
Speaker 4: it's it's against everything, like you don't and they're they're like, oh, well,
Speaker 4: you haven't had you know, you haven't had an Australian cappuccino.
Speaker 2: And then the cappuccinos are like just amazing. They're just
Speaker 2: so good. They're like they you know, it's like rivals
Speaker 2: being in Italy or in France. That was in Melbourne
Speaker 2: at least, I don't know about the other places, but
Speaker 2: they was, and everyone would talk about it like this.
Speaker 2: But also they didn't understand that I wanted three shots
Speaker 2: over ice with some milk. Like everyone was like, what
Speaker 2: what do you want? And it was like three shots
Speaker 2: over ice with some milk, and they're like that doesn't
Speaker 2: not a drink here. I'm like, well, we're gonna make
Speaker 2: it one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty easy to make. It's two poles and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna drink it and milk comes from a cow
Speaker 1: and it's pretty easy. That's but that's such a fun adventure.
Speaker 1: What a great I mean, that's a fun retirement. I
Speaker 1: almost hope that they like slow down and enjoy it
Speaker 1: a little bit more. They're they're really racing through it,
Speaker 1: like maybe they need to start doing like two bar
Speaker 1: two pubs a day, not three. You gotta stretch this out.
Speaker 1: They look pretty fit. They look pretty fit. Indeed, that's
Speaker 1: a great one. Also, you I haven't old or I
Speaker 1: have a story I haven't done yet. That'll do for
Speaker 1: a second story about coffee. Since you brought that up,
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna like it.
Speaker 2: Nice, Okay, do it?
Speaker 1: Do it?
Speaker 2: I want to hear it.
Speaker 1: You just want me to dive in.
Speaker 2: Yes, Scotty, why don't you? Why don't you just tell
Speaker 2: us another one?
Speaker 1: I'm loving all right, we'll do a double dip. But
Speaker 1: there's no rules. We make the rules on bananas and
Speaker 1: there are no rules. Just get nicer, not meaner. That's
Speaker 1: our whole thing. Marmoda eight sent this in thank you.
Speaker 1: I double checked this, actually triple checked this because of
Speaker 1: the website, Kurt Okay, and also the writer of this article.
Speaker 1: They made me say, let me do a little deeper
Speaker 1: dive Google. This was on Oddity Central.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I guess you got a double check Odity
Speaker 2: Central every once in a while, don't you.
Speaker 1: Well, when it's written by Spooky, you want to look
Speaker 1: into it. I mean, Spooky's good. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's the first time we've done a
Speaker 2: spooky article on Oddity Central.
Speaker 1: Me too. And when Spooky tickles those lovely typing keys,
Speaker 1: they he she, maybe it's a robot. I don't know, right,
Speaker 1: really well, like very good journalism, peak stuff best in
Speaker 1: the bees. At nine hundred and twenty eight milligram caffeine
Speaker 1: per serving, the world's strongest coffee is not for the
Speaker 1: faint of heart.
Speaker 2: What nine hundred and twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Milligram caffeine per serving the world's strongest coffee is not
Speaker 1: for the feint of heart?
Speaker 2: Oh, you would have a heart. I mean like if
Speaker 2: I have two hundred or two fifty milligrams and I
Speaker 2: drink a lot of coffee.
Speaker 1: And you're a big guy, that.
Speaker 2: That definitely could kill you. Nobody's drinking this.
Speaker 1: Or are they? Biohazard coffee is recognized as the strongest
Speaker 1: coffee in the world. It has a caffeine content of
Speaker 1: nine hundred twenty eight milligrams per twelve ounce cup. That's
Speaker 1: a small cup, which.
Speaker 2: Is more beliefs. That means one sip is like having
Speaker 2: a cup of coffee.
Speaker 1: I know. It's so good, truly banatas which is more
Speaker 1: than double the daily recommended dose of caffeine and a
Speaker 1: lot more than your average energy drink. The title of
Speaker 1: world strongest coffee has been attributed to various brands over
Speaker 1: the last decade. In twenty thirteen, we wrote about Death Wish,
Speaker 1: a blend that promised two hundred percent the caffeine content
Speaker 1: of most average dark roasts. Shout out to our friend
Speaker 1: Aaron Erman and Page Roasters and Champagne Illinois, Champagne Alan
Speaker 1: most of the country.
Speaker 2: Aaron just let us know that someone was ordering some
Speaker 2: coffee from them and said, hey, by the way, I
Speaker 2: heard about John Bananas, so little Bananimal community is pretty.
Speaker 1: Cool, pretty good. They promised two hundred percent of the
Speaker 1: average dark roast. Then there was Black Insomnia Coffee. They're
Speaker 1: good at naming their roasters, that's for sure, a brand
Speaker 1: that boasted caffeine content of seven hundred and two milligrams
Speaker 1: per twelve ounce cup. But now we have another title holder,
Speaker 1: and this one is going to be difficult to beat.
Speaker 1: It was long unch In twenty sixteen, Biohazard Coffee has
Speaker 1: established itself as the strongest coffee money can buy anywhere
Speaker 1: in the world, with caffeine content that barely makes it
Speaker 1: safe to consume.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, wait, you can actually buy this. I'm looking
Speaker 2: it up.
Speaker 1: Like biohazard coffee. There's a website and everything. That's what
Speaker 1: I looked up. I was like, there's no way, man,
Speaker 1: it's it's way. The Food and Drug Administration recommends up
Speaker 1: to four hundred milligrams of caffeine per day for adults
Speaker 1: with no increased risk factors like heart disease, also mentioning
Speaker 1: that rapidly consuming around one two hundred milligrams of caffeine
Speaker 1: is enough to induce excuse me, DEI induce poison like
Speaker 1: symptoms such as seizures. With a caffeine content of nine
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty milligrams per twelve ounce cup, biohazard coffee
Speaker 1: is definitely a risky beverage to consume. So but animals
Speaker 1: don't consume this.
Speaker 2: No, no, it exists not And I'm happy I looked
Speaker 2: it up and it's it's beans. You get a beans
Speaker 2: or you can get a ground. I'm so happy that
Speaker 2: it's not a can of uh of like that a
Speaker 2: kid could get to, because I definitely would when as
Speaker 2: a teenager, I would be like, that's all we were
Speaker 2: obsessed with, like Joel, it was just drink Joel, and
Speaker 2: you know, I would have totally been like we gave
Speaker 2: Jimmy three cans of biohazard and then his heart exploded.
Speaker 1: I know four loco, the original four logo went hard.
Speaker 1: I only drank that twice, I think once with you,
Speaker 1: and I loved it. Yeah it was. It was pretty wild.
Speaker 1: But people drink four of those and you're like, see
Speaker 1: you in the er.
Speaker 2: It would Those would be the wildest nights, the four
Speaker 2: Loco nights where it was just like, we're just gonna
Speaker 2: do it it crazy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we did too. And then they switched the
Speaker 1: recipe up and college kids drank them till they died.
Speaker 1: It was a tragedy. It should not have happened, but
Speaker 1: it did. Treat bio hazard coffee and animals like like
Speaker 1: walking up and slapping a gorilla in the face. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you could certainly do that. You could, but do not
Speaker 1: do that. It is not going to end well for
Speaker 1: you or anybody involved. We wanted a good jolt of
Speaker 1: energy for our long days without having to sacrifice the taste.
Speaker 1: Biohazard co founder Yona tan pinn Hazoff said about creating
Speaker 1: the world's strongest coffee after countless hours of drinking horrible
Speaker 1: tasting coffee that promised high energy levels. We decided to
Speaker 1: take it into our own hands. We thought about all
Speaker 1: the other people that were just like us, self starters,
Speaker 1: parents with long days, grad students, eight hour workday people.
Speaker 1: How could we just make this better for everyone? You know,
Speaker 1: just lower doses of lower caffeine, just enjoying cups of
Speaker 1: coffee throughout the day might be a little better, would
Speaker 1: be my vote. I don't even like. Well, we'll get
Speaker 1: into this in a second. A warning on the package.
Speaker 1: Let's consumers know that, at nine hundred and twenty eight
Speaker 1: milligrams per two amounts, this coffee contains four times the
Speaker 1: caffeine of the coffee your barista normally serves you, and
Speaker 1: that it may result in overproductivity all nighters in the
Speaker 1: occasional feeling of invincibility. I mean, yeah, well they're targeting
Speaker 1: speed freaks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, so you know what they have at seven eleven.
Speaker 2: I just found out, no idea. It's pretty dope for
Speaker 2: people who because like seven eleven or things like it,
Speaker 2: are oftentimes on road trips the only place you can
Speaker 2: get a cup of coffee you need to stay awake
Speaker 2: to keep driving, that sort of thing. So they now
Speaker 2: have little you know, like the little creamers they have,
Speaker 2: so instead of a little creamer, it's a shot of
Speaker 2: espresso and it's just there with the cream. So when
Speaker 2: you get your regular drip coffee, you can just pour
Speaker 2: in like three or four shots of espresso into your
Speaker 2: regular coffee. And that is exactly what I've been looking
Speaker 2: for in coffee from a gas station for forever, because
Speaker 2: it's always not strong enough.
Speaker 1: Sometimes things work out, you know, sometimes things get better,
Speaker 1: and that sounds like an upgrade. I haven't had a
Speaker 1: seven eleven coffee in a while, but I do remember
Speaker 1: being pretty good.
Speaker 2: It's fine. I mean there's different types of it now
Speaker 2: and they have like cappuccino and espresso. You know, it's
Speaker 2: pretty good.
Speaker 1: Like you said on a road chip, I'm sure in
Speaker 1: Japan they rule. I'm sure the seven elevens are so great.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they have the best ATMs. It's a great
Speaker 1: place to be. Biohazard recommends that use our coffee after
Speaker 1: building up a high tolerance and proceed with caution, noting
Speaker 1: that this is not coffee for the faint hearted. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's crazy, Biohazar. Here we go. This will give it
Speaker 1: some wee real world comparisons biohazard coffee contains more caffeine
Speaker 1: by volume than almost every energy drink, although the latter
Speaker 1: energy drinks contain taurine and other stimulants. But still, nine
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty milligrams is oh. Here, Just to put
Speaker 1: in perspective, a sixteen ounce McDonald's coffee contains one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty milligrams. Okay, so that's sixteen ounces one fifty.
Speaker 1: So there's this twelve nine to twenty eight. And then
Speaker 1: I was a red Bull guy eight point three whatever,
Speaker 1: eight point four ounce can of Red bull is only
Speaker 1: eighty milligrams, so this is like, this is like almost
Speaker 1: what eleven eleven red red bulls. Yeah, eleven and a
Speaker 1: half Red bulls.
Speaker 2: Eleven and a half Red bulls. Imagine. That's a great
Speaker 2: way to put it in perspective.
Speaker 1: So don't drink it. Just know it's there.
Speaker 2: Just know it's there.
Speaker 1: Have enjoy lower octane coffees for longer throughout the day,
Speaker 1: and you don't need to go for four hundred milligrams.
Speaker 3: Guys, but what was your first coffee, first coffee ever?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, I briefly dated an architect who drank.
Speaker 2: Dated a coffee detect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you met her. I won't I won't name her,
Speaker 1: but you met her. She was really nice and back
Speaker 1: in New York.
Speaker 2: Architects seems like a like a like a job that
Speaker 2: only exists in movies for me, like, I don't think
Speaker 2: I've ever met I guess I have met an architect,
Speaker 2: but my god, I've always like I I would.
Speaker 1: Love it was very lovely. Her friends were very boring.
Speaker 1: I thought the same thing, like whenever you read something there,
Speaker 1: you know, you read a page turning beach read, it's
Speaker 1: like the studley guy or the smart gal is always
Speaker 1: an architect. That's the sophisticated one, and then all the dinners.
Speaker 1: Her friends were extremely boring. She was very nice and lovely.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm not naming her. But she in college,
Speaker 1: in architecture school or whatever. She would stay up late
Speaker 1: drafting with her other students, and they got hooked on
Speaker 1: instant coffee. So not like Sanka, but Tanka, and so
Speaker 1: she used to come over and make that. Because I
Speaker 1: didn't drink coffee until I was like twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: I didn't start drinking coffee until my first TV job
Speaker 1: because I would fade in the afternoon at that hot
Speaker 1: office that you worked in for Mega driving money from changers.
Speaker 1: And I wrote through the winter. So when I started
Speaker 1: in probably October, sun was setting, you know, four forty five,
Speaker 1: and then it felt like the sun was hiding behind
Speaker 1: the buildings at I don't know three. So I started
Speaker 1: drinking half cups of coffee at lyon TV on Hudson.
Speaker 1: And now I love it, and now I can drink
Speaker 1: it pretty much as much as I want, Like I
Speaker 1: won't go out and drink two giant coal brews, but
Speaker 1: coffee just has a very pleasant effect and I greatly
Speaker 1: enjoy one or two cups a day.
Speaker 3: Okay, what about you? I was twelve years I was
Speaker 3: twelve years I was about to joke, were you seven
Speaker 3: years old?
Speaker 2: I was twelve years old and getting ready for school
Speaker 2: in the morning with my mom. And my mom something
Speaker 2: happened where like I dropped something or she dropped something,
Speaker 2: and I just said fuck. And then it was the
Speaker 2: first time I ever cursed in front of my mind. Oh.
Speaker 2: And she looked at me and I was like, oh, no,
Speaker 2: I'm going to get in trouble, and it was like
Speaker 2: like a three count and then she just goes, you
Speaker 2: want a cup? Of coffee.
Speaker 1: That's a great story.
Speaker 2: And then we went into the kitchen and like that
Speaker 2: was the day I became a mayo, like it was.
Speaker 2: And then it was like I was allowed to curse
Speaker 2: in the house and and I drank coffee every morning.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. It was like it was a great story.
Speaker 2: I can't believe I've never told it. I thought I
Speaker 2: told it on the podcast.
Speaker 1: You may have the god, but I forgot it. If
Speaker 1: you did, man, that is so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember. It was just I thought i'd get
Speaker 2: in trouble and she didn't. She just offered me a
Speaker 2: cup of coffee.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, that's your next that's your next cold open
Speaker 1: of whatever TV highlight you. Right, that's such a great scene.
Speaker 1: Tells you everything about the kid, tells you everything about
Speaker 1: the mom. Yeah, that's a great man, that's a good
Speaker 1: I love that good old barber just cranking out the
Speaker 1: coffee to twelve year old pirate mouth Kurt Brown Owler
Speaker 1: her pride, enjoy the apple of her eye.
Speaker 2: And then we were just but you know, we're like
Speaker 2: just buddies. Then you know, it's just like then we're
Speaker 2: like all right, here we go. Also, at that time,
Speaker 2: I was like six ' two, do you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? So it's like your twelve year old who's
Speaker 2: gigant A giant also seems a lot older.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wish there was the TV trope whenever anybody
Speaker 1: visits anybody usually detectives or whatever. But it's just like
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee or it's like just put some
Speaker 1: on or I can make them real quick. It's like
Speaker 1: coffee does take a little while.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if the if detectives show up at my house anytime,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna be like you want a cup of coffee?
Speaker 1: Us? I don't want to.
Speaker 2: That's a long long period of time to have the
Speaker 2: cops entertained in your home.
Speaker 1: I'm not even unchaining the front door. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: like what and then can I talk to you? I'm
Speaker 1: like no, And I'll put two of those seven to
Speaker 1: eleven espresso pods out the door with my left hand
Speaker 1: and drop it near their shoes and then slowly close
Speaker 1: the door and never.
Speaker 2: Don't want to be inhospitable No.
Speaker 1: Also, maybe we're just raised wrong or something, But like
Speaker 1: if you swung by and I wouldn't be like, do
Speaker 1: you want a cup of coffee? I'd be like do
Speaker 1: you want a beer or I'd be like, hey, I
Speaker 1: can make you a martini real quick. I guess we're
Speaker 1: just alcoholics. No, but I think we I just can't
Speaker 1: imagine putting coffee on for somebody at like five pm, yeah,
Speaker 1: and sitting there and holding with two hands.
Speaker 2: But also the coffee, the coffee after dinner. Coffee used
Speaker 2: to be so much weaker that you could have a meal,
Speaker 2: have a couple of drinks, then drink coffee, and then
Speaker 2: go directly to bed.
Speaker 1: That's correct. That's crazy that my grandparents always woul drink.
Speaker 1: My grandma would drink a cup of coffee after dinner.
Speaker 2: As an older person too, who would be like more
Speaker 2: sensitive to caffeine. Is it is wild? I just got
Speaker 2: I just got kind of a little excited because tonight
Speaker 2: is Tonight's the last weekly hot tub.
Speaker 1: I'll be there.
Speaker 2: It's uh, it's just hours away for me. Currently, this
Speaker 2: will be far in the past by this time, by
Speaker 2: the time this comes out, But I kind of am.
Speaker 2: I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good, you should be. It's a very exciting thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get there early. I think I mentioned
Speaker 1: to you before. I'm going to get there I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get there like six thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's uh, that's good. I will also try and
Speaker 2: reserve those two seats at the end of.
Speaker 1: Yes, the bathroom seats. I think Rachel's is covin Albertina.
Speaker 1: I think I think a lot of people. Maybe the
Speaker 1: Levano says it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so a little story, little little story for me.
Speaker 1: You got a little news story. Yeah, I got a couple.
Speaker 2: I got a couple.
Speaker 1: We might only need one, but maybe do too.
Speaker 2: Yeah one, I'll do this one. Since we've been doing drinks,
Speaker 2: this this just yels in line with what we've been doing.
Speaker 1: I'm excited.
Speaker 2: Bob Miller High Life's new perfume smells like a dive bar.
Speaker 2: Quote in a good way by a ton of people.
Speaker 2: Thank you to everyone who sent this in. This was
Speaker 2: in Food and Wine, So that's I love always reading
Speaker 2: the dumbest articles in Food and Wine. Yeah. This was
Speaker 2: written by Stacy Leska. Oh stay, Stacy, have you ever thought, man,
Speaker 2: I really wish I could smell exactly like my favorite
Speaker 2: dive bar. Well, guess what my love? Now is your
Speaker 2: time to shine. On Tuesday, Miller High Life announced its
Speaker 2: plans to release a brand new perfume that mixes all
Speaker 2: the essential sense of a neighborhood dive bar. Honestly, I
Speaker 2: want this, I kind.
Speaker 1: Of do want it for you.
Speaker 2: And it's called what else Miller High Life dive bar fume.
Speaker 2: It's a great idea, and this isn't a scent for
Speaker 2: any old time of year. According to a statement by
Speaker 2: the brand, the premium fragments is somehow also ideal for
Speaker 2: the holidays. We're not cut sure why or howbit will
Speaker 2: take it. According to Miller High Life, the perfume quote
Speaker 2: captures every familiar dive bar sent from the satisfying crack
Speaker 2: of a freshly opened beer to the comforting, savory taste
Speaker 2: of classic bar snacks. That's a lot to take in
Speaker 2: the quote. Transformative blend, it added, includes notes of cedarwood
Speaker 2: and pechuli. Yeeee okay, so every spritz takes you. You
Speaker 2: know what, Patchuli isn't a bad smell on its own.
Speaker 2: It's the fact that every time I've ever smelled patchuli,
Speaker 2: it has been on a person who has not taken
Speaker 2: a shower in a long time. And so the smell
Speaker 2: of pachuli is always mixed with the smell of body odor,
Speaker 2: and that smell is not a fun smell but pachuli itself.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, I get what you're saying. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: go with you on that one quote.
Speaker 2: So every sprits takes you back to that well loved
Speaker 2: bar top and tobacco and leather, which are meant to
Speaker 2: evoke the comforting musk of worn in barnstools, or tobacco
Speaker 2: and leather. There are also notes of chompaca blossom.
Speaker 1: Mm.
Speaker 2: You know what, A lot of time I'm looking for
Speaker 2: that perfect smell. I'm always going for a chump paca blossom. Yeah,
Speaker 2: me too, for that crisp refreshing aroma. They say the
Speaker 2: eighth year of marriage is chumppaca blossom, that crisp refreshing aroma.
Speaker 2: When the bartender crieks open. I'm just reading. I'm reading
Speaker 2: marketing copy right now from Miller High Life and a
Speaker 2: little whisper of sea salt. This is insane, okay. So
Speaker 2: all these quotes and the sea salt is from the
Speaker 2: basket of fries you look forward to at the end
Speaker 2: of the night. So what the actual smell is if
Speaker 2: I take out all of their marketing quotes. Cearwood Petulli, Champaca, blossom,
Speaker 2: sea salt. It could. It might not be that bad.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna make it smell bad, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's interesting, cedar. Anybody who's ever had like, you know,
Speaker 1: durables or closets with moths in it, Cedar, So you
Speaker 1: can go a lot of ways. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's an ease into the evening smell. But then again,
Speaker 1: maybe this is a proprietary blend that I would enjoy
Speaker 1: with both nostrils. But also, no dive bar smells like that. No,
Speaker 1: every dive bar does smell the same. You can walk
Speaker 1: into it smells like years and years and years of
Speaker 1: alcohol soaking in the wood getting mopped with the same
Speaker 1: type of cleaners. Yeah, and then the next night the
Speaker 1: same thing again, with like a little dash of blood
Speaker 1: and a little dash of vomit and a little dash
Speaker 1: of the mildew of having so many fluids inside a
Speaker 1: closed area.
Speaker 2: There is.
Speaker 1: It doesn't smell gray in a die bar. And I
Speaker 1: love dive bars.
Speaker 2: I love dive bars. It's not a smell you would
Speaker 2: want on your body.
Speaker 1: I think rustick in which the great wings that place
Speaker 1: is so interesting because I love rustic In. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a bar out here. If you want to get
Speaker 1: Buffalo Wings in Los Angeles, you rustic In is a
Speaker 1: great experience, and I recommend it's got great parking. It's
Speaker 1: next to a Chinese restaurant called China Dynasty that has
Speaker 1: my ties that we call Chai Daimities, And if you
Speaker 1: drink three Chai Daimities, you might never get up off
Speaker 1: the floor. You might need biohazard coffee to feel alive again.
Speaker 2: Is it called China Dynasty. I thought it was called
Speaker 2: Chai Dynasty.
Speaker 1: It is, it's Chai Dynasty. Yeah, Chai Daimiti is a
Speaker 1: delicious drink.
Speaker 2: I had no idea that the end of my tie there.
Speaker 2: I'll definitely go get that much.
Speaker 1: Oh Curdi Bee, take the family, get everybody some sesame
Speaker 1: chicken and some noodles, and then you just sit over there.
Speaker 1: It looks like it's just fruit juice. And yeah, they
Speaker 1: are good, they're strong.
Speaker 2: Oh that sounds delightful. I'm interested in knowing what it
Speaker 2: smells like. If anyone got any I just looked on
Speaker 2: the website. Can't get them sold out. I couldn't find
Speaker 2: I mean gone in a second. That is gone in
Speaker 2: a second.
Speaker 1: Well, every company now just makes a thing. Everybody's making stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know the ranch bag you gave me two or
Speaker 1: three years ago. Incredible. I get compliments all the time,
Speaker 1: all the time, I'm sure right, And nobody even says
Speaker 1: you must really like ranch Now. People just go that's
Speaker 1: fun or that's awesome, or where'd you get that? Like
Speaker 1: my friend gave it to me. It's a but now
Speaker 1: everything you know they made drinkable mayo, they made wine
Speaker 1: out of mayonnaise. That's a story. We got a lot. Uh,
Speaker 1: They're just every product is making some other thing.
Speaker 2: I went to, uh did a show in Boulder recently
Speaker 2: opening for Kamal And then we went to a bar.
Speaker 2: We went to, like a very fancy bar. What's it called. Oh,
Speaker 2: there's one here, there's one here. It's like the classic.
Speaker 1: Applebee's some small.
Speaker 2: No, I can't remember it. And I asked them and
Speaker 2: the server was very nice, and I asked her if
Speaker 2: what her like like this is these are the kinds
Speaker 2: of things I like, you just make me something like that.
Speaker 2: And she's like, here's what the bartender made you And
Speaker 2: it was tomato gin. Have you ever had tomato gin?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: I have actually, oh, Dead and Co. That's what that's.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Death and Co.
Speaker 2: Death and Yeah, Dead and Co.
Speaker 1: Grateful Dead Death and Company. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And they had tomato gin and it was not
Speaker 2: my style, not for me, pretty gardeny, real tomato.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And if it's not with other tomato things, it's too
Speaker 2: TOMATOI did what.
Speaker 1: Keywords did you give that server to talk to the bartender?
Speaker 2: Like? I like gin and vodka and crispness. That's what
Speaker 2: I said. I don't want anything sweet. And then the
Speaker 2: tomato gin is sweet. I didn't know you could just
Speaker 2: make gin with whatever you found in the bottom of
Speaker 2: like your fridge.
Speaker 1: I do love a martini. It's a fun martini time.
Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd want to do it with
Speaker 1: a tomato gin martini, but it's close to bloody Mary
Speaker 1: at that point. Yeah's funny. You were like, I wake
Speaker 1: up early. I love putting my hands and feet in soil.
Speaker 1: They're like, okay, we think we know. I enjoy cheeseless pizza.
Speaker 1: I They're like, shut up, we know. Just the thing
Speaker 1: an undrinkable beverage that's gonna cost you nineteen dollars. There's
Speaker 1: really good olive oil gin, and really it is. Damn
Speaker 1: you would love it. It's so good.
Speaker 2: I always thought gin was one thing, and it's that
Speaker 2: very aromatic, very herbal.
Speaker 1: Taste to the gin, junipery juniper.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the only thing that I've had, and now
Speaker 2: there's all these other and I'm like, oh, I don't
Speaker 2: I think. I think gin is delightful. Now a gin marti.
Speaker 2: I always gould to get a vodka martini. A gin
Speaker 2: martini is nice if you ask them to do put
Speaker 2: a little cucumber in there. That's nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is nice. I go Citadel gin okay, and
Speaker 1: Noilely Pratt vermuth. Wow, that combination, okay, is life changing.
Speaker 2: All right, that sounds very good. I'm gonna try that
Speaker 2: next time.
Speaker 1: I'll make sure I have some. Yeah. Noilely Pratt is
Speaker 1: this French vermouth, and I think Citadel is French gin.
Speaker 1: And that combination. You can do it up with a twist.
Speaker 1: I don't even sometimes let's put an olive in it
Speaker 1: just to make it look like.
Speaker 2: A martini, no matter what, even if it's supposed to
Speaker 2: be up. I love it, Scotty do, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say we should do another Musso and
Speaker 1: Frank Night. We should expand it out. We should do
Speaker 1: like a six person instead of just a or we'll
Speaker 1: do like quadruple or something. Yeah, we should do another
Speaker 1: Musso and Frank hearing us all this Martinis, we need
Speaker 1: to go where the old Hollywood elites used to hang.
Speaker 2: That sounds good. This will be coming out probably at
Speaker 2: the end of Dry January for a lot of people.
Speaker 2: I think I'm going dry January.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm dry sixty nine ing for sure this year.
Speaker 1: That's my other resolution besides drinking in Greenland. After that
Speaker 1: Marguerite and green I am gonna dry sixty nine. And
Speaker 1: congratulations to everybody who did I know we just talked
Speaker 1: about booze quite a bit and that chunk. But good
Speaker 1: for you for everybody who yeah, got off and a
Speaker 1: lot of them stayed off.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Scotty. Second episode of the year, pal.
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