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Speaker 1: Welcome to you stuff you should know from house Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant Lives and by

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Speaker 1: fogs hany stander planning? Oh yeah, bad's the good stuff?

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Speaker 1: Can qua rap for everyone? Alright? Good man? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: have to say alcohol makes a difference in the energy level,

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Speaker 1: a huge difference. Popcorn popcorn and diet coke just does

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Speaker 1: not cut it. Now. Uh So we're here today, hanging out,

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Speaker 1: just doing our thing, and I have a question for you.

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Speaker 1: All right, Chuck, have you ever been to a bar? Yes? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know you have. That was this set up? Um?

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Speaker 1: Did you realize though, that while you were at this bar,

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Speaker 1: you were in one of the oldest businesses known to

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Speaker 1: human kind? The oldest profession. No, not the oldest profession.

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Speaker 1: This is the oldest business known to human kind. One

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Speaker 1: of bars have been around a very long time, they have,

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Speaker 1: but not as long, it turns out, as alcohol does

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Speaker 1: anybody who's listening to our How Beer Works episode. It's

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Speaker 1: entirely possible that bread was invented as a starter for beer,

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Speaker 1: which is pretty awesome. I mean, that makes humanity as

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Speaker 1: a whole, like a pretty awesome species. Um. The thing was,

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Speaker 1: booze was around for a very long time before bars,

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Speaker 1: So there wasn't a place where you just went to

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Speaker 1: go drink. You just drank everywhere you went pretty much. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You literally like you could drink at work, you could

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Speaker 1: drink at school. There would be meetings and civic meetings.

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Speaker 1: You would drink there. But there wasn't an establishment with

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Speaker 1: four walls set up just for drinking at this point, right,

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Speaker 1: You would drink it like this Saturday night ritual sacrifice

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Speaker 1: or something like yeah, as you do. Yeah. And so

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Speaker 1: the first bars then that really kind of pop up

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Speaker 1: are around the turn of not this past millennia, but

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Speaker 1: the one before. And you can find them in Italy

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Speaker 1: in a place called Pompeii. And these aren't necessarily the

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Speaker 1: oldest bars in the world, but they are one of

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Speaker 1: the earliest established bars. And they were basically, um, hot

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Speaker 1: snack bars. They're called it sounds gross there, it does

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Speaker 1: hot snacks. Hot snacks. Yeah. Well it's like you know,

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Speaker 1: chicken wings or poutine is a hot snack. That's a

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Speaker 1: hot snack. That's the hottest snack. That's yeah, because they

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Speaker 1: took a hot snack and then poured hot gravy. And

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Speaker 1: what is a cheese that's hot? Right? That's hot? Uh?

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Speaker 1: You know this was more like I imagine hot olives hot.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, hot tomatoes. The point is that there

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Speaker 1: was there was wine at these places, right. And actually,

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Speaker 1: if you've ever been to Bombay Pompeii um as I have,

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Speaker 1: with holes cut out, and they put like jugs of olives,

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Speaker 1: poutine and wine and stuff. And you would go down

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Speaker 1: to this this area and hang out and drink and

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Speaker 1: hang out with your neighbors. And sure like, look at

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Speaker 1: malt pvesuvius over there. It isn't it lovely? I think

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Speaker 1: it's ever gonna do it that. We're good. Don't be ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: You were drunk. So again, the an't these are the

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Speaker 1: earliest bars, but they're among the earliest um. And the

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Speaker 1: Romans were really kind of big with bars. In home itself,

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Speaker 1: there were lots of bars like there were in vesuvious Um.

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Speaker 1: But the Romans also did something else that led to

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Speaker 1: of all, they conquered the world and then they built roads,

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Speaker 1: and along these roads there were inns for travelers, and

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Speaker 1: at night you might get mugged and killed. So they

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Speaker 1: would do their trading and traveling during the day and

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Speaker 1: And that's what the tradesmen did in ancient Rome. You

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Speaker 1: celebrate not getting murdered that day on the Roman road.

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Speaker 1: I traded some spices, I didn't get killed, So bring

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Speaker 1: them the gropp up exactly. And um, so out of

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Speaker 1: this came the taverns, the ends, the pubs, like they

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Speaker 1: basically said, that's great, you've gotten in, but we've got

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Speaker 1: the to the bar part those are, that's how those

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Speaker 1: to the oldest bar in the world right now. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's called Shawn's. Has anyone ever heard of Shawn's in Athlone, Ireland.

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Speaker 1: coolest thing about Shawn's actually is, um, it predates the

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Speaker 1: town that it's in now. It used to be for

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years just Shawn's Bar and this

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Speaker 1: old Roman road. And apparently people got tired of like

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Speaker 1: and uh, it's interesting fact. That's not true. Interesting fact

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Speaker 1: about Shawn's Bar. In nineteen seven it was owned by

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Speaker 1: boy George. Yeah, the boy George, not the one you

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Speaker 1: were thinking of. Boy George. Yeah, I guess you. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. He thought it was a safe investment. It

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Speaker 1: had been there for you know that many years. But

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Speaker 1: be true. Yeah, I think it's true. So we did

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Speaker 1: a little research on your town and we were very

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Speaker 1: pleasantly surprised to find that, you know, your town was

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Speaker 1: founded on a bar, right, y'all know that gassy Jack.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Gassie Jack. Within twenty four hours of landing

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Speaker 1: and founding gas Town, Gassy Jack built a bar. That's

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Speaker 1: the first thing he did. He's like, I'm gonna have

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Speaker 1: just do every show live. So there's there's a there's

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Speaker 1: that boring? Yeah? I was all pumped up. I was like,

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Speaker 1: this guy farted a lot and it's like, just let

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Speaker 1: let them erect a statue that says gassy Jay. It

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Speaker 1: was just because he talked a lot. And they do

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Speaker 1: have a statue there right, Yeah, at Water and Carroll Streets.

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Speaker 1: So Vancouver itself would have older bars than it does

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Speaker 1: course because you're a strong city. But um, in Victoria

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Speaker 1: we have the six Mile Pub eighty six not too shabby,

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Speaker 1: eighteen sixty seven, except that it's not bad as far

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Speaker 1: and then the hotel because that whole tradition of having

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Speaker 1: the pioneer in in Tavern. Liley. Yes, we won't stay here, right,

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Speaker 1: And very quickly bars sprouted in neighborhoods and became customary,

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Speaker 1: There were where people congregated. It was the center of politics.

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Speaker 1: In fact, back in the day, it was untoward to

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Speaker 1: actually have legitimate advertisements and political campaigns. That was no good.

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Speaker 1: What you could do is get everyone loaded on election day.

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Speaker 1: And they even had a name for it, which was

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Speaker 1: swilling the planters with bumbo, and bumbo was a rum

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Speaker 1: and the planters were the voters. The voters and basically

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Speaker 1: whoever got the most people drunk on election day one

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Speaker 1: like almost literally that's the case, Yeah, which is pretty solid. George,

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Speaker 1: George Washington, who's the father of our country. He uh,

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Speaker 1: eighty percent of his entire campaign fund on booze on

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Speaker 1: rife with corruption. Of course, anytime you're getting people drunk

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Speaker 1: to vote for you, eventually they're gonna evolve as a

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Speaker 1: nation and say, yeah, no, maybe that sounds such a

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Speaker 1: good idea, So let's outlaw drinking on election day altogether.

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Speaker 1: And for many years that was the case. And in

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Speaker 1: getting south right along with the guys. Right. Great, But

423
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 1: it was because there weren't any rules. It was like

424
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: a speakeasy was operating illegally. So a woman would come

425
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 1: to the door and be like, what are you gonna

426
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 1: not let me in, you know, like you're not even

427
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: supposed to be serving booze anyway. Yeah, and there's another

428
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: unbelievable fact here that Josh dug up that I still

429
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: take issue with. Apparently, up until the nineteen eighties and Alberta,

430
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: where is that that way? This way? Is that? Easter's

431
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: that way? Apparently in Alberta they had laws on the

432
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 1: books and up until the nineteen eighties that still were

433
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 1: gender specific with bars. I know, hey, man, we're pretty

434
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 1: telling you guys about it. We didn't create the laws. Well,

435
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:52,959
Speaker 1: I think it might have been. I don't know if

436
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 1: it was in Forest. Surely not, because they had the

437
00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 1: sixties in the seventies too, right, catching up toward the eights.

438
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: So prohibition happens, right, and um, everybody's like that was

439
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 1: a really bad idea. Let's never do that again, let's

440
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 1: repeal it, and um oh, let's go to war. So

441
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: World War two happened, and that actually had a pretty

442
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,680
Speaker 1: significant effect on bars too. Apparently up here they sent

443
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 1: all of your guys over to Europe to fight, and

444
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,880
Speaker 1: your guys came back and said, there are these pubs

445
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 1: in Europe that are awesome, so let's build them. Everywhere.

446
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 1: And then after that, like, yeah, we got the pubs.

447
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 1: How about some sports bars too, Let's mix those in

448
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 1: a little bit. And that's pretty much how things went

449
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: for a while in Canada. In the US, um our

450
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 1: guys apparently all went to the South Pacific and came

451
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,719
Speaker 1: back and we're like tiki culture, and tiki was huge

452
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: in the United States. Not a fan here. I don't

453
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 1: understand this at all, Like, how do you not like tiki?

454
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: There's like fun uh shirts right, All the drinks are good,

455
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: very very easty stuff. Uh. The restaurants that you go

456
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: to to drink are fun. It's just nice. Yeah, I'm

457
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: a pub guy. I don't I don't see why you

458
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: have to differentiates anyway. So that's how things were in

459
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: the US and Canada until there's a very dark time

460
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 1: that settled over the land. Not as dark as Prohibition,

461
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 1: but pretty close. And this was the age of the

462
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 1: fern bar. Does anyone know what a fern bar is?

463
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:29,919
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of that? You know, how you

464
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,199
Speaker 1: go to Red Robin and there's like tiffany lamps and

465
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,120
Speaker 1: like terrible drinks and all that stuff. Well, you can

466
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: thank the invention of the fern bar for that, Like,

467
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: have you ever seen a Three's company? Remember the Regal

468
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: That was a firm bar and in the seventies they

469
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: were all the rage. Yeah, there was a guy in

470
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: San Francisco and he went by the name of Henry

471
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 1: Africa because that's a super fun name. His real name

472
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 1: was Norman hob Day and he opened his bar Henry

473
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: Africa's because Norman hobb Days is this really bad name

474
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 1: for a bar as well. Plus also he apparently all

475
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 1: the time wore safari gear in like a helmet. Yeah,

476
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,919
Speaker 1: And so he went by Henry Africa and Jerry Thomas

477
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 1: were sort of similar. I think they were both flamboyant.

478
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: One ruined things, one did great things back. So he

479
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: opened up Henry Africa's. There was another one in San

480
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: Francisco too in the early uh it was a yeah

481
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 1: in the nineteen seventies and name is called Perry's. And

482
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: they were like, you know what, let's get rid of

483
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: these classy oak dark bars that everyone loves because they're awesome,

484
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: and let's put in ferns and tippany lamps and fat

485
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: chairs and let's bring the lights up and let's serve

486
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: nasty drinks mixed and machines nasty from bags of mixed

487
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: chemical flavored things. Yeah, and I have an idea. This

488
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: is gonna make us a million bucks. I'm gonna make

489
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: a gun that shoots soda, water and orange juice out

490
00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: of the same thing. And everyone apparently said, it's the

491
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,959
Speaker 1: seventies who cares about anything. Let's go this way for

492
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: the firm bars. They did, true, and it was the

493
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: sexual revolution. So the ladies that were already going to

494
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: bars now felt like, Hey, I'm in a bar and

495
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: I can be like a more aggressive all of a sudden,

496
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: it's a it's the hip happening times. I'm Diane Keaton.

497
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 1: I can That's what they said to themselves. I can

498
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: look for Mr Goodbar and uh and and and have

499
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: a drink and go meet a man. Uh. I'd like

500
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: I'd like to was it was my lady from the

501
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: seventies impression. I have to see Mr Goodbar looking searching

502
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 1: for Mr Goodbar, looking for Mr One. Has nobody ever

503
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: seen that movie? Oh my god, that was a pity clap.

504
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: They don't have Diane Keaton in Canada. Have you seen it?

505
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: I think my threes company references way more well received better,

506
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: But the point is you could bad drinks in these bars,

507
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: and it's sort of a dark time for the craft

508
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: of bartending. Like the Bahama Mama, the Kama Kazi um,

509
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: the sides. Yeah, the Harvey Wallbanger, which apparently was so

510
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: popular it had its own mascot. It was like, uh,

511
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:21,719
Speaker 1: basically a drunken version of Ziggy just wandering around and

512
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: I guess like you would get a sticker or something

513
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: if you ordered a Harvey Wallbanger. This is the level

514
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: of thought people were putting into drinks. If you just

515
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: sell the drink, you give a sticker out, then that's

516
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: that's not a place you want to be in. Especially

517
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: Ziggy with like exces for eyes. Pretty much changed my mind.

518
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 1: I think have like one of those inclines coming off

519
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: of them is kind of nice. I'll get you one

520
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: for Christmas. They have the money bay. So this is

521
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: the way things were going for a while, uh, until

522
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: this very faithful meeting between this guy named Dale de

523
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: Groff and a dude who owned a restaurant and he

524
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: wanted to Grof to set up a bar for him.

525
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: And he said, you know what, I don't want this

526
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: usual firm bar crud. This is awful, this New York City, Like,

527
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: we gotta do this, right, Yeah, let's let's get back

528
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: to basics. And he tossed Dale de Groff a book,

529
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: a very important book. What book, the Bomby Box Companion

530
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: from eighteen sixty two. Everything came full circle. Yeah, and

531
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: Dale de Groff was like, this is amazing. We can

532
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: bring craftsmanship back into bartending. Unlet's use real ingredients. Let's

533
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: get rid of these stupid swirly mixing machines and these

534
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: bags of chemical fruit flavored things, and let's use real fruit,

535
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: because there is such a thing as real fruit, and

536
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: we should put it in drinks again, like in the

537
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: nineteenth century, right, And that's what they did, and the

538
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: bar was saved. So when you go to like the

539
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: Cascade Room or the Diamond or I don't know if

540
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: you guys have been to Boulevard, I know it's like

541
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: pretty new. But if you finally do go and you

542
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: enjoy a cocktail there, we did our search, uh, and

543
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: I hope that was dead on because we I really

544
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: put us out there just then. But if you go

545
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: to a place where there's a decent cocktail and somebody's

546
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: really putting thought into it, you can thank this Dale

547
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 1: Degrof guy for bringing it all back, but really you

548
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 1: should thank Jerry Thomas to tell you the truth. Now,

549
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: do you understand why he's my hero? See? They love

550
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: Jerry Thomas. But let's talk a little more about him. Right. So,

551
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: like at the bars is, they're evolving and bartenders are evolving.

552
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: They're going from diamond studded to you know, just normal um.

553
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: Cocktails are evolving too. Like early on, basically everybody made

554
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: their own booze and they had it in a jug

555
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: with three X is on it and they just turned

556
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: it up and that was like their cocktail. It's how

557
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: they drank. Yeah, like chuck yeah, based turned the three

558
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: X jug out. Um. And then when when Jerry Thomas

559
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: came on the scenes, like we can do better than this.

560
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: There's some cool ingredients that I want to kind of

561
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: mess with and create new stuff. So originally there were punches,

562
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: which is a huge bowl of hot booze that everybody

563
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: drank from the bumbo that the planners swilled. Right. Then

564
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: there was a toddy, which apparently from what I can gather,

565
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: it is just like a single serving hot punch, right,

566
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: And then there were slings and slings were the ones

567
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: that had the most promised. Those became what we understand

568
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: now as cocktails. They were basically booze um, a little

569
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 1: bit of water, a little bit of sugar and then

570
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: maybe some fruit juice. And Jerry Thomas looks at the

571
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: sling and he goes, I can do something with this,

572
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: and he creates what's called the Baroque Age of cocktails,

573
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: where there's just like this great experimentation going on. Nobody

574
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: knows what the hell anybody else is doing, but everybody's

575
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: trying new stuff and um. All of these The foundation

576
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: for what we know now as cocktails came out of Thera. Yeah,

577
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: and the first cocktail was mentioned in print the word

578
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: in eighteen o three in Amherst, New Hampshire, with the

579
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: slogan it's excellent for the head because it was a

580
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 1: morning drink. It was you were supposed to drink a cocktail.

581
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: That's where it comes from, the rooster cocktail, that's where

582
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: the word comes from. And if you drank too much

583
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: of the night before, you would get up in the

584
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,760
Speaker 1: morning and make your little fizzy cocktail drink with bitters,

585
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: and it was it's like the hair of the dog

586
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,439
Speaker 1: that with some of us know and love. You would

587
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,280
Speaker 1: drink your cocktail, get punched in the face by your wife,

588
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 1: pick up your acts, and go back out there and

589
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:35,280
Speaker 1: work another day. That's what they used to do. Jerry

590
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,720
Speaker 1: Thomas said, you know what, I love the morning cocktail

591
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: as much as anybody else. But why can't we keep

592
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 1: drinking throughout the day? Let me see if I can

593
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,919
Speaker 1: mess with this. I save alcoholism for the morning. So

594
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: through this Baroque era of drink making, it was very

595
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: very nuanced, like you would have like a sour, and

596
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: a sour was just booze citrus and a little bit

597
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: of sweetener usually maybe be curius how or something like that,

598
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 1: and then you would change that dramatically by adding soda,

599
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you had a fizz

600
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: or if you wanted to use um booze a little

601
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: bit of grenadine I think, or was it curius how

602
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: sweetener and um brandy or something, you would have a daisy.

603
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: And then in Mexico they added tequila to the daisy,

604
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 1: and in um Spanish daisy is margarita, So that's where

605
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: the margarita came from. Around this time, I got some

606
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:35,760
Speaker 1: margarita fans out there. Huh So Jerry Thomas was very influential,

607
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 1: but he was Uh, if you ever pick up a

608
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: copy of the Bombay Companion and try and read this thing,

609
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: it's it doesn't translate that crate to today's um proportions,

610
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: Like what is a glug like literally like three glugs

611
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: of this and a pinch of that, and uh, well,

612
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: I guess pinches easy enough, but well no, I still

613
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: don't understand pinch. I mean, yeah, it makes sense, but

614
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: what if you're like, that's that's a lot more than

615
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: it's a good point. So it took like cocktail historians,

616
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: uh to to kind of read the thing and bring

617
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: it into the modern era because back then, sugar came

618
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: in a big loaf, and sugar wasn't like refined like

619
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: it is today, and ice, you know, was had a

620
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 1: big deal chip it away exactly how you wanted to,

621
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: And so it took cocktail historians to really kind of

622
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: translate all this stuff right, and they did, and along

623
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: the way, Jerry Thomas dies, but he creates his great

624
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 1: body of work that's added to over time, and then

625
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 1: eventually we come to like the streamlined classic cocktails that

626
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: we have today. Like the Martini or the Manhattan and

627
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: all of this was from the work of these like

628
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: wonderful genius people who are like fighting on the front

629
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: lines against the temperance movement and making life better for

630
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: every hero heroes, real heroes, you know, shirking out of

631
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: like the Civil War and all that stuff, just doing

632
00:36:53,600 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: God's work basically. And the Martini. We're gonna talk about

633
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,720
Speaker 1: some of these classic cocktails and martini. Uh if anyone

634
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: here drinks martinis, it's always any Martini things. I love Martini,

635
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: says the guy with the PBR, and it's hand some

636
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: Martinis right now. I'm just gonna put these back in

637
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: my helmet and drink them from my stall. So the Martini,

638
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: if you've ever had a Martini, it's very dependent on

639
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 1: the individual on how exactly you like it. Everyone says

640
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: that that they like make the perfect martini, but the

641
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: ratio for removed the gin and uh no, no no,

642
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 1: I make the perfect Martini Si. Everyone thinks that make

643
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: how do you make it? Okay? I use um two

644
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: to three ounces? Okay, I used three o three like

645
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: Scotch over three three ounces of gin and half an

646
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: ounce of uh stir itt. Some crushed ice because it

647
00:37:55,600 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: gets cold or faster. It's way better strain it. Um. Sometimes,

648
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: if you want to get a little crazy and you

649
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: want to go original, the Martini is actually supposed to

650
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 1: have orange bitters in it. A couple of dashes of

651
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: orange bitters. Yeah, you say what, and it seems weird,

652
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,280
Speaker 1: but you don't taste the orange. It just does something

653
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 1: different to it. And then a couple of all of us,

654
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 1: all right, Martin, all of juice, I drinklin journey. Do

655
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: you do you really drink your sturdy? Oh yeah, I

656
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: like it. It's salty. I don't know. Is that wrong? No? No, no,

657
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: that's the thing, Chuck, that's the key. There's you enjoy it.

658
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: There's no wrong. Absolutely. But the origins of the Martini

659
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: are equally contentious because everyone thinks they invented it. There

660
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: was a drink in Martinez, California invented the Martini. There

661
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 1: was a place in California called Martinez, and they in Martinez,

662
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 1: they made a drink called the Martinez and they claimed

663
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: that the Martini came out of the Martinez, that they

664
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: are the inventors, but they're just one of several. Right,

665
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: there's another one that um said, it's just named after

666
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: Martini and Rossi, the ver with makers. Does anyone else

667
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: make vermouth? Oh? Yeah, there's tons of other women. Why

668
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: is that the only one I ever see anywhere? I

669
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: guess marketing. Okay, man, it's the worst kind of vermouth too,

670
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: Oh is it really? Yeah, like every other vermouth on

671
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 1: the planet is better than Martini and Rossy. And that's

672
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: the one that everybody knows is Martini and Rossy. I

673
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 1: feel like a heel. No, no, you're fine, Okay, you're

674
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: fine if you enjoy Martini and Rossy, patronize me. I'm

675
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,919
Speaker 1: getting you back for that one, dude. The West Coast, Yes,

676
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: we're on the West Coast drinking. What about the dacri? Yeah?

677
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: The dacari was invented in Cuba by an American who

678
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: was there working and mines and was bored and uh

679
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 1: went to a bar and said, you know what, don't

680
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 1: you take some rum and some lime and some sugar

681
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,399
Speaker 1: and mix that all up and let's make a drink. Uh,

682
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: and let's call it a dacori. And that's how the

683
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 1: decor was born. Yeah. And then the first you know,

684
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 1: but making the rosen you take out of the freezer

685
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,959
Speaker 1: and put into a blender and put like a fifth

686
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:08,359
Speaker 1: of romans get wasted. Um, that's the firm bar version.

687
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 1: And your wife punches in. You get your acts and

688
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,760
Speaker 1: you gotta work. You can't work in on a blender

689
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: full of dacori, believe me. The Tom Collins has an

690
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: interesting history. Um, kind of dorky now, but in New

691
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,800
Speaker 1: York in the eighteen hundreds, it was a big fun

692
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 1: joke to tell everyone that this guy at Tom Collins

693
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: has been talking about you. Yeah, because apparently, like just

694
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: going to a bar to drink wasn't amusing enough, Like

695
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: they had to jazz it up with hoaxes. You know,

696
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: they didn't have ziggy stickers at the time, so there

697
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: was no Tom Collins. Of course it was just a

698
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,760
Speaker 1: big hoax, but apparently, and it was a big laugh

699
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 1: back then to tell people that. So bartenders got the

700
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 1: idea like, hey, these people come around asking where it's

701
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: just Tom Collins. I gotta have a word with him.

702
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: So let's make a drink called the Tom Collins. So

703
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: when they come in and ask for it, to serve

704
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 1: it to him, and they have to give us money,

705
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: easy sail, easy peasy every time. What about um, the

706
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 1: Mohito's anybody here like a mohito. I like a mohito too.

707
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: It's good like a mohito. It turns out the mohito

708
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: might be the oldest cocktail in the entire world. Yeah,

709
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:22,359
Speaker 1: it's what mint little sweetener. Right, that's a different drink.

710
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: Actually it's a mint soda water, some sweetener and uh. Rum.

711
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,439
Speaker 1: But originally the reason they put all this stuff because

712
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: these are pirates drinking this in the sixteenth century. Um.

713
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: And the reason they put all this stuff in was

714
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: because the stuff they were drinking was just kind of

715
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 1: like a proto rum called taffia or agua gardie nice. Um.

716
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: It tasted so bad that you had to put all

717
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: this other stuff into it. Um. And so eventually they

718
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,959
Speaker 1: introduced copper stills to Cuba and started making like really

719
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: good rum there. But they were like, no, I still

720
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: like the it and this sugar. Yeah, this is a

721
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: really delicious drink. So that's the mohito drink. Here in Canada,

722
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: you have a drink called the Caesar, another popular morning drink,

723
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: and uh man, they love the Caesar here a Canada.

724
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: I know we had eight this morning. I have been

725
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: making those for years, unknowingly calling them bloody Mary's the

726
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: whole time I did. My friend taught me a recipe.

727
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:36,840
Speaker 1: He taught me a recipe to had clomato in it,

728
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 1: and it was delicious, and so I was like, well,

729
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 1: this is my bloody mary. It's with clomato. I did

730
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,399
Speaker 1: not know it was had a different name. It's I'm

731
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: gonna call it a Caesar from now on because it

732
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: is delicious. It's pretty good, and I really it's it's

733
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: way better with the clomato to me than just regular

734
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 1: tomato drink. It's it's great despite its origins. Apparently, the

735
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: guy I think his name is Walter Chell, Yeah, from

736
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:03,800
Speaker 1: the Cold to re in Um. He went to Venice

737
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: and tried a spaghetti dish. It was like, I want

738
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 1: to drink that tastes like that, and he came up

739
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 1: with the Caesar, which you guys love, so you love

740
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: spaghetti in the glass? A clam dish basically, yeah, what

741
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: would be really good in this drink? Clams clamns. Yeah,

742
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: it is a good drink. We just um, and then

743
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: of course we figure you guys are probably beat us

744
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: to death with your shoes if we didn't conclude this

745
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: podcast with a lengthy, lengthy discussion on Canadian whiskey, which

746
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: you call rye, which we're big fans of actually, and

747
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: in in Toronto for the first show that we did, um,

748
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: we said we're going to talk about Canadian whiskey, and

749
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 1: everybody went ry and we thought everybody's going why and

750
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: we we just like looked at each other, like, oh,

751
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: we just lost the crowd. This is not good. Somebody

752
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: would I thought they would love this. Yeah. Uh. It

753
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:06,280
Speaker 1: turns out we finally everybody calmed down. One person basically

754
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,919
Speaker 1: raised their hand and and addressed you guys for us

755
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 1: and said, everyone's saying rye. We call it ry here,

756
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 1: and we're like, okay, so just disregard the last like

757
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: forty five seconds of panic that you saw us go through.

758
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 1: So we understand how you guys call it rye, but

759
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: we call it Canadian whiskey. The first distillery here in

760
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 1: Canada was open in Quebec City you may have heard

761
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: of in seventeen sixty nine. That was number one, and

762
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: then by the eighteen forties there were over two hundred distilleries,

763
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: which is not too bad. You guys love making your

764
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: whiskey because you had people from Europe in Scotland and

765
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 1: Ireland coming over and saying, we know how to make

766
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 1: this stuff. We know how to spell it without the

767
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: e like the rest of those dummies. And that's why

768
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: you spell whiskey without the e was because of those immigrants.

769
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: And uh, a man named John Molson is credited. It's

770
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:04,919
Speaker 1: starting the first distillery in Canada, whiskey distillery. And and

771
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: you're rye is very similar to our Bourbon, except the

772
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: process is different. Like both of them have corn, a

773
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: lot of corn in them, a lot of malti barley,

774
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: and then a little bit of rye. The differences in

775
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: Bourbon County, Kentucky where they have the soberest elections in

776
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: the country. Um, ironically, ironically, Uh, they take the the

777
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: corn and the rye and the barley and they ferment

778
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: and distill it and age it together. You guys take

779
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 1: your barley and your corn and your rye and you

780
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: make liquor out of them, and then you bring them

781
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: together at the end, which is why rye is a

782
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: blended whiskey like Scotch. Actually, yeah, apparently the rye part

783
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: of it is the smallest grain, the smallest amount of

784
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: grain that they use. But it provides the most flavors.

785
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: So I guess that's why you call it right and

786
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: so um, during the Civil War, our our civil war,

787
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 1: when our our country was torn asunder, you guys were

788
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: totally fine. Um, we were busy fighting. We weren't our

789
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: forefathers were. Um, the Clarks were killing the Bryant's. Yeah,

790
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 1: I feel really bad. It's all good. So during the

791
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: Civil War, during the Civil War, our our distilleries shut down, like,

792
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: we're like, we have other things to focus on, um,

793
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 1: but we still need booze. So Canada said, we got

794
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: plenty of it here, you guys go. And after the

795
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: Civil War, Um, when our distilleries went back online, there

796
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: was an enormous amount of competition still because everybody loved

797
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 1: you're rye. You know, we're like, I just got my

798
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: leg amputated, give me some more of that stuff. And

799
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 1: you guys were more than happy to oblige, so much

800
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: so that the American distillers were like, Congress, we need

801
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: you to step in and do something about this. And

802
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:05,800
Speaker 1: Congress did They said any No, it's true, they said,

803
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 1: any any booze that's manufactured outside of the United States

804
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: has to have his country of origin on the label.

805
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 1: So in eighteen ninety a very very popular whiskey from

806
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:23,240
Speaker 1: Canada called Club Whiskey became Canadian Club. I'm still around

807
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 1: today because of a law, because of us, because of

808
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: our Congress. Thank you, that's right. And uh, Canadian Club

809
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 1: remained super popular still to this day. And in the

810
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,959
Speaker 1: nineteen sixties. One of the reasons. One of their cool

811
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: little advertising tricks was that had this cool campaign called

812
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: hide a Case n sixty seven. They said, Hey, you

813
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 1: know what we'll do. Well, let's appeal to the rich

814
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: drunks of the world and let's hide a case of

815
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 1: whiskey in some remote area and leave clues and magazines.

816
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 1: And the rich drunk said that this is fantastic something

817
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 1: to do with my time. I've been wanting a free

818
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 1: case of Canadian Club for a long time. I want

819
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 1: to spend fifty dollars finding that street case. So they

820
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,799
Speaker 1: hit them in places like Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, the

821
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 1: Great Barrier, reef Uh, Angel Falls, Venezuela, and um they

822
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:22,359
Speaker 1: hit I think the last one in nine the last

823
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: one in nineteen eighty. They hit in Washington, d C. Yeah,

824
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 1: From nineteen sixty five to nineteen eighty they hit twenty

825
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: five cases and it didn't go quite according to plan um.

826
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 1: I think the first case that they hit at Kilimanjaro

827
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: was found by accident like ten years later. He's like

828
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: a guy just tripped over again. He's like, oh, case

829
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: the Canadian Club is here, some rases, I guess it's mine.

830
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: I'm taking good fortune, so U. And then the last one,

831
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: by nineteen eighty, they kind of given up on the

832
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 1: whole thing. It was in Washington, d C. And I

833
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: think they let the people who found it watched them

834
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: just set it down and back away, and they just

835
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:02,800
Speaker 1: walked up. They're like, hi to case, catch the fever.

836
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: But the cool thing is is there's a bunch of

837
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:10,760
Speaker 1: them out there that have never been found, still hidden.

838
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 1: So there any rich drunks out there with some with

839
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: the passport and some spare time. There's some whiskey that

840
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Speaker 1: you could buy at the store, or you could just

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