The Sloppy Boys - 123. Dark 'n Stormy

Episode Date: February 24, 2023

The guys make an iconic two-tone tiki-adjacent bubbler.DARK 'N STORMY RECIPE2oz/60ml Goslings Rum3.33oz/100ml Ginger BeerIn a highball glass filled with ice pour the ginger beer and top floating with the Rum. Garnish with lime wedge or slice.Recipe via the International Bartenders Association (https://www.iba-world.com/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh, Slopheads, we're going on tour this spring and you gotta come see us. We're gonna be out there with the band Dear Blanca. They're great. Everyone's gonna be drinking Calpe Cordials all over the place. You got Hanford getting healthy. You got Big Purple P. Duddy Dutz on drums. You're gonna sing along with our songs and then you're gonna hang out with us, get some selfies and we'll sign your goddamn t-shirt. We're coming to New Orleans,

Memphis, St. Louis, Davenport, St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville, Atlanta. Get tickets in the links in our bios, man. You gotta see us on tour. hey folks welcome to the sloppy boys where we take a deep dive into the drinks that you love i'm jeff dutton along with mike hanford what up and tim kelpakis what is up and we are your hosts mike you look a lot better i I feel better. You're feeling better? Good. I feel alive. But I will say that you look really good between the beard. Yeah, you got a certain area, Mike, between your upper lip and your lower nose. The mustache. A few more hairs than you might typically have. You look like H.I. McDonough. Well, here's the thing. I had the hairs. I just had more beard

hairs. I got rid of the beard. Well, it looks great, Mike. You look like a cop, but one of the good ones. Ha ha. Thank you. Coming over to your house to help you get your cat out of the tree. That's more of a fire department type of thing.

Jeff, do you feel the pressure now to grow a mustache to fit in with your bandmates well see i'm looking at uh h.i mcdonough and pedro pascal and i wonder what i would look like with a mustache never really did it never tried it jeff what do you do here you don't come out to new york you don't grow mustache jesus christ what would you say you do you don't go to fish concerts. You don't do jack shit. Get on board with the group. Oh, no.

You got to do something about it. He's devilish. He's devil may care. Well, I just had two very large sandwiches, so I'm nice and peppy for the part. Two? I'll tell you that. You make your own? Yeah. Peppy for the, I'll tell you that.

You make your own? Yeah. I'm talking turkey, pepper jack, pickle, onion, arugula on Dave's Killer Bread. Wait, hold on. I missed the, what was the meat there? Did you have a meat? Turkey. Oh, turkey.

I didn't hear you say that. I led with it. I'm still thinking this guy is making two sandwiches at home. I feel like I saw a tweet recently about dave's killer bread and about if you read the back of the the bag i think that they donate like a portion of proceeds to like ex-convicts like finding oh yeah in society and stuff like that because dave is like an ex-con but it's dave's killer bread so was he a murderer is that what was no no no well i hope not that would be too far i mean it's interesting if that's his his cause is is like incarceration issues and he's his bread is called

dave's killer bread i think killer is just because his like he's playing a killer guitar solo yeah i hope he's holding a guitar on the front go to twitter.com for more oh shit do you remember who it was or just that it's out there no but i remember the website twitter.com okay i found i found the the deets on reddit it says dave doll co-founder of dave's killer bread served a combined 15 years in prison for doug jesus christ for drug distribution bur burglary, armed robbery, and assault before creating Dave's Killer Bread. Wow. So he stopped short of murder. It's funny because it's not tied to, you know, like,

it's great to see when like cannabis companies are hiring people convicted for cannabis crimes and stuff like that. Yeah. I like the thing of like, he's a burglar, he did a little this, a little that a little that now he's a baker oh somebody's popping one open i just looked up how many tweets are there every year 200 billion tweets we gotta pump those numbers up and how many characters per

tweet that i don't know but i just want to know how many tweets there ever were but no one seems cumulatively? Yeah. There's definitely a few that I missed. I tried to read them all. Very cute. I know I read that one about you're telling me a shrimp fried this rice. I definitely read that one.

That's good. That's pretty much it. Good tweet. And then some of the early Ashton Kutcher ones. It's so funny to think of like yeah he was big early on and like steve martin i think still tweets but like what what celebrities jumped onto it and so what we're just like yeah whatever i'll promote whatever book i have coming out i feel like kutcher like twitter was around for a couple years and no one talked about it and then kutcher like the when twitter was first mentioned on like you know like mainstream news sources it was like ashton kutcher has taken to twittering twittering or tweeting as it will soon be called remember i feel like that used to happen

like you would tweet and then your tweets would go on facebook and it would say twittering oh yeah also uh remember when the Twitter logo was not the bird, but a lowercase t? Oh, yeah. I said what that Twitter bird's name was. Do you remember? Larry? Larry.

Larry the bird. Have you heard the term larried up for drunk? You're all larried up? No's that no it's a very bird is it larry bird i hope not no i don't think so but i don't i heard bam margera say it on a there's recently a great like something bam would say oh man this is a good listen that i recommend uh to all on earth it was um there's a podcast called the nine club and uh a couple weeks ago bam margera and family stopped in everybody bam uh his brothers and april and phil and their accents are flying all over the place and he keeps telling these stories like we were at

duffer's pub and we were all larried up. And someone's like, what's larried up? Ape is like, what's larried up? He's like, drunk. And then he says it like 10 more times in the episode. It's just how he says drunk is larried up. Interesting. I've never heard that before. I wonder if it is a Western, no, Eastern Pennsylvania.

I think it's a Delco. Next time we go to Philadelphia, we should ask people. Next time we go to Duffer's Pub, you should get all larried up. Wait, Tim, you posted something recently. It was we go to Duffer's Pub, you should get all larried up. Wait, Tim, you posted something recently. It was somebody doing a Bam Margera impression that was funny, but I forget what they were talking about. There's a TikTok guy that does...

Yeah, it's like Bam Margera at all these historical events and it's like, Pilate found out that Jesus is the king of the Jews and now he's crucifying him and April and Filler here, and John the Baptist getting his head cut off. Very funny.

I forget the TikTok guy's name, but it's out there. What is Bam's current status? Because I heard him on the Steve-O podcast. Not good. Yeah, and Steve-O was really worried about him. I feel like the last thing I heard was he reached out and was like, hey, man, I've tried to help. I can't really do anything for you. And now I feel like I'm just going to like wait on by my phone for bad news

or something. Yeah. I think like this week he's okay. And he's been on sort of present, but even just within the last few months, it's like he's been in and out of rehab in Florida and he'll sort of pop up in like Boca Raton at a bar in the morning or something. There've been times where he disappears and like his family's like posting on his instagram looking for

him it bums me out so much because it makes me so happy to see him out skating like you will see occasional videos where it's like bam's doing okay look at him he's like more active and he's skating and stuff and he's hanging out with old buds and then uh i guess had a good appearance on steve-o and then the very that very night went out and got like blackout and was scaring everybody well like that's how addiction works it's it's funny that you even expect like oh he sounded good on one podcast you're like i think he's good from now on it's like that's a disease he'll live with forever but um he made a good point on the on the nine club that i never heard before he was talking about in skate videos that if you have a good song then your part of the video is good

and he was talking about like if you do tricks and tricks and tricks but the songs i mean his taste in music is debatable but um and then he was talking about how on on viva labam he pushed back so hard because mtv had to do placement with like, oh, there's a new Green Day single. We're going to put it in Viva La Bam. And he'd be like, no, we're going to get Turbo Negro. Yeah. We're going to get H.I.M.

No. I remember when that CKY album came out. Bernadette Near, that one? Bernadette, not Bernadette Near. The other one, like something Infiltrate Destroy. Okay.ette near that one bernadette not bernadette near the other one like something infiltrate destroy okay you know that one wait the the album or dvd yeah the album oh i don't know i don't really know cky's music other than well uh i know that um bam made a big deal of like we're gonna make a video for every track on the album and i think think he did. Wow. He was an industrious young boy.

What was his... What was his... His brother's in CKY. Yeah, what was his band? He has a band too, right? Is that H.I.M.? They're like a Swedish metal band. Oh, okay. Does that sound... Not him, but he's got the tattoo, the heartogram,

and all that shit. Right. Oh, Finnish band. Yeah, Finnish goth rock band from Helsinki. Helsinki. him but he's got the tattoo the heartogram and all that shit right oh finnish band yeah finnish goth rock band from helsinki helsinki all right we caught up with bam we caught up with each other you want to get into some bit bit please booze news hit it Bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, booznooz. Oh.

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A lot of people don't parody Weird Al songs. Yeah, that's true. It's about time someone went after like a surgeon instead of like a nurse. Hey. Hey, that reminded me. Madonna reminded me of, I had another one of these things where, you know how we said we were going to talk about Madonna and do Badabads. Yeah, we did. Don't remind, yeah, we barely. We did do talk about Madonna and do Badada Buds.

Yeah, we did. Don't remind – yeah, we barely – We did do Madonna. It did. We did. It just included one Madonna movie. It was a sparse – Badada Movie Month was supposed to be four episodes in a row of Madonna movies, and that did not happen, Jeff. That did not happen.

Regardless, we talked about it months ago. We said we're going to do Madonna Movie Month and then we were making the point that Madonna's going to come back. Madonna's coming back into the zeitgeist, probably we're predicting, and then it did happen. She announced her tour. Now she's going on a world tour and we get credit for it, basically.

We might want to open for one of those shows. Yeah. I could imagine that that would be wild if the three of us got up there like a surgeon hey I had this happen again where

my family privately in my private life really into on the family text chain we've been talking a lot about mortadella are you familiar with the uh with the jelly meat mortadella meat it's it's a recursive bologna from bologna it's got the like the white spots on it it's got the white spots and an occasional pistachio um what is that white stuff is that fat i might be gelatinous or maybe it's fat i don't know you're not supposed to be eating the gelatinous fat the gelatinous fat i gotta talk to your

family about bringing that up with you more often or just not bringing it up with you like a lot of people i had been talking gabagool a lot because i re-watched the sprannos during the pandemic like everybody and then i was talking about gabagool with my family and then when i was home for christmas i pitched let's have a hoagie night where we get all the meats and we have a competition to see who can make the best hoagie hoagie nice hoagie and one of the one of the meats on there was mortadella and i was saying like hey mortadella deserves more credit it kind of gets gets lost in the context of an Italian sub because of the prosciutto and the salami are very flashy items and you can't really taste the mortadella. Anyway. So you're using your platform to sort of like shine a light.

Exactly. And my platform just kind of being the family chat. And I would get a mortadella sub or I'd get a pound of mortadella from a deli and i'd take a picture and i'd send it to my family and they'd text me mortadella pictures that's how we keep in touch sure yeah by the platform i met the podcast by the way the family chat is good too well here's the thing i thought and it's funny because mortadella even sounds like madonna but um i just want to chime in for a second. Have we hit booze news yet?

Or is this pre-booze news? We're getting there. This is not booze news, but this was inspired by the Madonna reference in the booze. You got someplace to be, Mike? No, no. I'm just trying to judge what if this is going to be news coming in. Was this not on your 2023 bingo card? It was.

Anyway, all I want to say is a lot of mortadella talk on the family thread then suddenly i know there's yes there's an la times article about like oh my god mortadella the buzzy trendy meat that everybody's talking about and i was like what and i read it and apparently like there's all these places making that are big into mortadella and it's like everyone knows mortadella is really posh right now and family chats the world over are lighting up with mortadella my brother sent me a picture of a hat like the hats i wear like a roper vintage baseball cap and it was pink and then red lettering said mortadella that That's a good hat. Off of Instagram. And then like there's been all this.

Now my algorithm has latched onto Mortadella and the whole fucking internet for me is Mortadella. Wow. I got a feeling somebody is hacking into your family chats, which I don't like. But yes, it is weird when that type of stuff happens. When you start, you're like, why all of a sudden? Am I the person introducing this into the world?

I tend to look for the reasons for parallel thinking and i bet much like me it was like the sopranos got me back into hoagies and then everyone was talking gabagool and i thought i would be more hip and underground by getting into mortadella but other yeah other geniuses gabagool yeah could be all this stuff was sort of happening and you were this all this stuff was this mortadella stuff was happening around you but you weren't keying in on it until you were talking about more and it's on your brain hey it's like a confirmation bias you go through life looking for mortadella you're gonna find it you're gonna find it every in every nook and cranny of your personal life that's why when you get a new car you start seeing all the new cars the same car everywhere and you say the stuff out loud you share it and it sort of brings more to

you it's like that uh the secret is it like the secret what's the exactly you're you're putting positive vibes into the universe you're sort of like yeah yeah you're attracting what you put out is the secret the manifest the yeah the secret's the oprah book from about 15 years ago right what would the what's the one about uh picking up uh picking up people at a bar uh isn't that wasn't that by like a magician the game yeah yeah the secret had do you remember in the video version of the secret there was a thing about a guy who was like, it's the power of positive thought. And he was like, well, you know, I'm gay and I'm insecure about it.

And I always wanted to do stand up, but I didn't want to go on stage and I was insecure about my homosexuality. And then I did The Secret and through the power of positive thought, I did great. And then she was walking on stage and and goes I'm a very gay man and the audience claps and laughs this guy's great it was like that was the whole cycle well okay what's the actual booze news well the booze news is Borg have you heard of Borg from Star Trek Borg now what is Borg yeah Star Trek Borg. Huh? Have you heard of Borg? From Star Trek? Borg. Now, what is Borg? Star Trek Borg?

Blackout Rage Gallon. Whoa. Hold on. Hold on. Blackout Rage Gallon? Blackout Rage Gallon. This came from a couple different slopheads. Thank you to everyone on the Discord and in the DMs sending this to us. I've got to look up what this looks like.

Google it. So this is a big thing with teenagers and college kids and it's a drink where you it's gigantic you take like a big gallon jug of water and you dump in a bunch of vodka and it has a lot of water in it and then you flavor it with like little flavor squirters like that neo stuff oh my gosh but yeah okay but the thing about it and this is why it's really huge right now is that it's supposed to be hangover proof because you're hydrating so some kids will drink this it has a lot of vodka and knowingly they're gonna black out but they're having a lot of water and they even sometimes pour those liquid IV packets in there, like those hydration. So you're chugging and you're blacking out, but you're waking up fine.

And it's a way of being like it's being touted as this drink of like you're in charge. You know what you're going to almost like when we talked about, I think, in our Gaber's episode, I talked about my plan for a bar where you walk in and you order the size of the beer that's gonna all the beer you're gonna drink for the whole night and you can walk around it but it's a way of like controlling what you drink and you put a cap on it so nobody's gonna roof you and you know you're having water and you know you're having electrolytes wait so it's half water i i missed that part um so there's all different recipes there's all different recipes there's all different recipes it's a lot of water it's a lot of vodka and a little squirt of flavoring i see yeah weird i'm seeing one part water one part vodka and an energy shot it's funny it's funny to be like so you know

you're hydrating and you know what you're getting but it's like calling it black like you're getting blackout drunk yeah Yeah. Very responsible. If you look it up on TikTok, it's really funny because the whole thing is people coming up with their own. And then you give them names like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Soulja Borg and Rick and Borgie. That would be Borg from Star Trek. Borg from Star Trek. Borg from the TikTok trend. Do you have to say where it's from in the name? You're supposed to say where the trend is from. Chairman of the Borg from Star Trek. Borg from the TikTok trend. Do you have to say where it's from in the name?

You're supposed to say where the trend is from. Chairman of the Borg. Okay. Chairman of the Borg. That's good, Jeff. Thanks. That's good for you. But there's millions of them.

Look at all the different colors and flavors on here. Yeah. Borg it up. Borg it up. You know, that's not great for people to do that, I wouldn't think. We don't condone that here on the sloppy boys. I was trying to think of like the latest crazy trend that I heard about. I guess it would be the Tide Pods thing where I'm just like, what the hell?

And this makes more sense to me than that, at least. Yeah, I think it's just, it's poorly named. I think the idea of trying to stay super duper hydrated when you drink a lot is commendable. We should salute these people. Yeah, it's tough to get parents on board and be like, no, no, it's called blackout rage gallon. But don't get so focused on blackout or rage.

Think of gallon as a gallon of water, but there's a lot of vodka in it. When gallon is the most responsible word, it's not good. Blackout, rage, gallon, yeesh. What the rage to is what about rave, gallon? There you go. I like that.

People aren't doing raves. Remember the warehouse, secret warehouse raves? I never did them. I thinkaves? I never did them. I never did them either. You're not getting the e-vite, Mike. Yeah, this day and age, it is an e-vite, isn't it?

Laura DM? Michael. People are DMing these days. I swear it. I know they're DMing. I know it. I just know it. I take my DMs are empty, but I know somebody out there is doing this shit. They're out there. People are out there

DMing each other and they're not cluing me in. Just see. Is that it for Booze News? I don't even mind being on a group DM. Just get me going. Just to get it started. Does Twitter do group DMs? Yeah. Twitter do group.

Twitter do group.s? Yeah. Twitter do group. Twitter do group. Would it kill someone to send me one of those? I'm not included. Let's get a group going. Can I wrap up Booze News, please? Please. Oh! Wow, that was a good wrap-up. Zoof.

Damn, dude. Zoof and Zorch. Well, the drink of... I thought you were about to sneeze there, Tim, and then you faked me out. You caught it. A cough or a sneeze? You know, I said,ff is gullible i'm gonna trickle you know what's you know what's interesting jeff jeff will give you a uh a gazuta uh uh god bless you for a cough no he'll hear you cough in the other room go bless you it's a cough but

okay i'm just very polite man but i actually when i and go, bless you, it was just a cough, but okay. I'm just very polite, Mike. But actually, when I coughed, though, it was like, ah. I put that on you. Yeah, it's on me for being the weirdo. All right, can we hear about the drink of the day? My new favorite drink, I'm sure. I'm sure it will be. Dark and stormy, you've had.

I don't think I have had. What? I've heard. I've had so many similar things. Jeff, you love a Moscow Mule, and you've never had a dark and stormy? And a whiskey ginger. There's so many near misses. I've never had.

I've heard. This is a drink I thought I would always confuse this with a black and tan. Which is two different types of beer. A beer and a nail? Yeah. Well, when you think of a dark and stormy, does it conjure anything? What do you think of? A beer.

Two beers. So you still think it's a black and tan? I still think it's a black still think that i think it goslings uh goslings rum which i don't know much about but i know is dark yep and then does goslings also make ginger beer they do i think they do i've seen that i remember the very first time i laid eyes on it i went this is a drink from bermuda i've been to bermuda we might even let's call it a bermudan drink when did you go mike i went after my freshman year of college i like bermuda because it's you would think it's in the caribbean but

it's not it's out there kind of in the middle of the at. I'm going to say it's like as high up on the latitude as South Carolina. Keep talking, Tim, and I will continue. I'll look it up. Well, I went to Bermuda a couple times when I was a kid. In fact, I remember being there on Easter. And I think I won an easter egg hunt there hey nice you know people dress their shirts down there look like easter egg color so that's it's funny and they wear the bermuda shorts which are like suit slacks but they stop at the knee

yeah and the and the houses are all kind of easter egg color easter outfits are funny i went that we just feel like your mom used to dress you up in pastels so sometimes as an adult i'm like i guess i'm wearing pastels hey you're wearing one right now look down look at your shirt i'll never so tim how old were you during this egg hunt i think i was probably five in the egg hunt um and i was dolled up i think my mom dressed me and my brother and matching blue blazers and loafers but anyway i won the egg hunt but a thing that i remember is being like in a park during the day on a hot sunny day and there were some dudes like local bermuda guys hanging out in a gazebo and one of them was drinking from a can and the can said dark and stormy and i had never seen like a

cocktail in a can before i think you mentioned this on the last podcast you said something like you saw one of those i try to bring this up on every podcast i didn't realize it was you were five-year-old coming from an easter hunt. Well, I was on my way home. But I do remember thinking, like, that looks fun. I had never had a drink, obviously, but I was like, someday I'm going to be like that guy. You're like, one day, one day. I'm pretty much there.

I just need the gazebo. So that is the origin of it. It is a Bermuda drink. Gosling's Rum is from Bermuda. It started in the 1800s by a British guy. And it's like Gosling's black seal rum. Black seal refers to the black wax

that they use to seal the bottle. Like the red wax on a maker's mark or something. And then originally the ginger beer was Barrett's, which is also from Bermuda. And naval officers like British Navy guys drank ginger beer because it helps with seasickness. So they had that around.

And sooner or later, people are mixing the Gosling's with the Barrett's. And then at kind of a shanty bar down there, some sailor looks at the goslings floating on top of the Barrett's and he goes, that looks like a cloud you would only sail under if you were a fool or a dead man. And he's, give me another one of those dark and stormies and hence the name. Boosh. Nice.

The drink gets huge, spreads around the world, lands on the IBA cocktail list. Yeah, ha ha, where we find ourselves today. And here is that recipe. 60 milliliters, two ounces, Gosling's rum. Specifically. Yeah. They have patented this drink, Dark and Stormy.

So if you call a drink a Dark and Stormy, you're legally obligated to drink Gosling's. Then 100 milliliters of ginger beer. That's a big pour. And Gosling's had a falling out with Barrett's, so you don't have to use Barrett's anymore. But it is a cool can, and I've had the stuff. But

now you could use any ginger beer that you fancy. Well, we're in a renaissance of ginger beer. You got all sorts of great options. Sure, you got Bundaberg. that you fancy. We're in a renaissance of ginger beer. You got all sorts of great options. Sure, you got Bundaberg. You got Q. I got Q. Yeah, Q is the one I picked up. I love a Q.

They're always on sale at Albertsons, my local grocery. Q has some interesting drops, actually. Yeah. You open the drink and you pull out a little scroll and it's got the drop. Okay, go ahead. Pull out a little scroll. Okay, I the drop okay go ahead pull out a little scroll okay I got I went with Gosling's I matched my

ooh rum brand loyal ginger beer but use ginger beer not ginger ale folks yes right yes yes unless I will say I mean it's not the same we know it's not the same because it's not brewed but Canada Dry Bold has that ginger beer sting it does have a little bit of that oh yeah but if you bold has that ginger beer sting. It does have a little bit of that.

Oh yeah. But if you're going to find ginger, if you find Canada dry bold, you're probably in a place that'll have ginger beer. No. Yeah. Yeah. No,

Tim. Yeah. Well, you mad. I called you out on your burial pod. Well, I can't have an idea now and again. That was your idea for the week. I called you out on your burial pod. What, I can't have an idea now and again? Not again.

That was your idea for the week. Tim, I've got Mount Gay Beer and Smith and Cross. It's not Gosling. Is this going to be a dark and stormy for real for me? Mike, no more ideas on the pod for you either. You're both cut off I don't have Gosling's you don't have a Dark and Stormy you'll have a

dim and breezy breezy wait you have is your Mount Gate dark you said okay well that's good I think Myers will work I think I mean Gosling's has a specific taste but I think that it's,

you know, some of the dark rums that I even like better, uh, like whaler or even like crack. That's a dark spiced rum. So it's like this little like Captain Morgan's. Yeah. It's what,

it's like a dark version, but it'll, let's say yes. Use whatever you want. I don't give a fuck. Here's the method. In a highball glass filled with ice, pour the ginger beer and top floating with the rum. Garnish with a lime wedge or slice.

And I'm surprised that's just a garnish. I always thought you would squeeze it in there, but it's just a garnish. I kind of feel when I hear garnish like that, it is give a little squeeze and then plop it in. Yeah, you're giving the consumer the option. Yeah. It's customizable. That's awesome. You know, I'm going a nice big wedge.

It's like I have the power to decide how. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't even want to do it. All right. yeah yeah yeah yeah i don't even want to do it all right well why don't we leave these suckers with the ads and we'll come back with these fantastic sounding drinks oh perfect nice folks we'll see you in a bit Now we're back. Darkened stories in hand. Ooh, that looks good. Ooh, they all look good. Look at that.

Oh, boy. Michael. I'm going to get some BS from this. Now, you promised me that your Mount Gay rum was dark. It's darker than McCarty. That's what I thought you meant. That's what I thought you meant. Tim, I thought that's what you meant.

Is it gold rum? I think it's gold rum you got there. It's golden as the hills of Bermuda. Well, I mean, that sounds authentic. Sounds nice, doesn't it? Nice place to visit I had to make a double to fill the glass How about y'all? Did you double up both?

It looks like you just doubled the rum I doubled up both Which, by the way, is four ounces of dark rum Yikes, good luck You're gonna be crunk, my man I didn't double up the rum, but I added 100 milliliters

of ginger beer. I added 120, I think. Nice. When you sip this, you're just supposed to take it right off the top, like you're just having a whole bunch of goslings? I feel like you give it a stir. The sips mix it up, I think.

I'm going to squeeze my lime and give it a light stir. I might sip a little top, sip a little bottom, do kind of customizable. I'm in control. I have the power. I love that. Well, I guess I'll do one quick sip. I'm just going to do one quickie. And I squeezed my lime.

Ooh, that's dark oh oh my line fell in my lap what the hell is it doing out oh yeah oh that's got some bite to it baby yeah real yeah i'm squeezing the lime too yeah me too i'm i'm now just swirling and swishing and you probably hear it it's interesting how oh dark this rum has like a real sharp dark to it. Dark as rum has. Okay, Yoda. And then the ginger beer, you're like, that's a harsh taste. You put them both together and somehow some sort of like vanilla. Rum has a way of sort of turning Coke kind of vanilla-y. I like that. Rum has a way.

Rum finds a way. I'm kind of like a Don Draper kind of a guy. Ooh. In looks only, I've always said. Ooh, it's good. You're right about the vanilla. Also, lime helps a lot. It just turned into a Cuba Libre right under my nose.

Yeah. Sheep. Mm. Yo. Ooh. You know what? Stirring it up, I like, you would think you would get more rum first, but stirring it up, I felt like I got more.

No, sorry, before I stirred it up, I felt like I got more of the ginger beer taste. Like it snuck in underneath. But now that it's mixed a little more, it's a nice blend. I can't pick them out. They've joined hands and they're doing the forbidden lombada together. That's the idea of these. I was going to say do-si-do, but you went a little more X-rated with it. It's got kind of a naval seafaring man flavor.

It's got that sort of grog thing of like, hey, let's keep away the scurvy and the seasickness. Ooh, the grog was good. We didn't do grog here. We did grog thing of like hey let's keep away the scurvy and the seasickness oh the grog was good we had it we didn't do grog here we did grog on um doughboys that's a good um you know we said we're not going to mention other podcasts but uh the grog was really good i was surprised that was another drink similar to the borg that has water as an ingredient and i didn't buy it i didn't buy it. I didn't buy it till I tried it. Don't buy it till you try it. Don't buy it till you try it. I'm a sloppy boy. Deal with it.

Damn, that is... That would be such a great slogan for a product. Don't buy it till you try it. Have it somewhere else, and then... It reminds me of... Go ahead. I was going to change the subject. You go.

I was in the supermarket the other day, and they had a cheese sample out. A little guy giving away cheese samples. Sure. And I had one, which was great, and went back for a second one a little while later. I did a loop. Same cheese, not even.

He didn't notice me or care. I probably could have right away been like, hey, can I have another one right now? But right fucking now. Do you feel obligated at all when you take a free sample at the grocery store do you fake it even for a second that you're standing in front of the person to give the samples and you're chewing it like maybe i'll buy some maybe yeah i look at i i'll say something like what is what's the brand okay yeah maybe i'll feed that to my family for dinner

tonight yeah yeah yeah maybe yeah well sir you're walking away you gotta take one of these if you Maybe I'll feed that to my family for dinner tonight Yeah, maybe Well, sir, you're walking away You gotta take one of these if you want to buy it Oh, yeah Am I walking? Look at that, my feet, left, right, left, right They're walking away I feel I'm moving away from you

Okay, later, we'll pep it up I'll be back later for my second sample The reason I bring it up is I feel like I haven't seen samples in a long time Especially during COVID Shrinkflation baby Oh yeah COVID killed it COVID killed the sample star

As they used to sing on MTV Ooh Ooh it's so good You know what this is It's a very popular drink And it's a rum drink But it's not It's not a tiki drink and i feel like that's because it's not a it's not a don beach it's not a trader vick but it's one of

it's one of the foremost ones in that category of tiki adjacent but actually like more popular like you know tiki bars a lot of people that aren't into tiki are like, what do you got there? Probably dark and stormies. But I would say a dark and stormy, a pina colada, a daiquiri, even a margarita. People sort of picture those as like they're the tropical drinks that are not tiki. Not tiki. And we've determined before that the difference between tropical and tiki is often spice right your nut megs your yeah some weird stuff in the mix some weird stuff and then also multiple rums that's the other calling card hmm but i mean you'll see a dark and stormy atonga hut yeah you know why

these are popular yeah because it's got still has the sea sort of a nautical theme you know i bet these are popular dark and Stormy is a cool name for a drink. I like that. It's cool. It's a trademark. Watch yourself. I know. Oh, geez. We should stamp this episode with a TM. And the N, it's N

apostrophe. It's like Dark and Stormy. So don't bring an ampersand around here. I thought it was a Darky Stormyy Darky stormy What would you change anything? Be honest I'm trying to think of what Maybe like a cherry flavor

Like a cherry Like a maraschino cherry drip Or something Great hand for his test kitchen Here we go Tim let him cook This thing is in perfect measure If you put a little cherry in there Test kitchen. Here we go. That would be nice. No, no. Tim, let him cook. Yeah, let the boy cook. This thing is in perfect measure.

If you put a little cherry in there, you have to cut back on the ginger. No, no. No, no, no. No cutbacks. No cutbacks. No, ginger beers, I don't think it's sweet. I think it's like spiky. Spiky, thorny.

Kind of a spiky one. But this way, you just put a little drip of that cherry, that maraschino cherry syrup. I like that you're on board. I don't like that Tim's not on board. That's fun. It's good for the podcast listener. Oh, Mike has to win Tim over by the end of the episode. For the podcast, it's great. But just in general. I mean, this is gold, of course. I'm clearing space for the webbies as I speak.

What are the podcast awards? Are there any? There's got to be. Streamies. Poddies. Casties. Casties. Poddies.

The Oscars. Yes, the Oscars. And the Oscar goes to the Sloppy Boys podcast. Not the movie. I would have no problem with that. Yeah, and then the co-host is like, wait, hold on a second. It's Moonlight. Just give the first person you say.

So if you say us, you got to give it to us. Remember that? God, the Moonlight thing, the slap. 10 years apart, but yeah, sure. sure no those weren't 10 years apart i think they might be no no no no no that was five five the la la land and moonlight thing was was exciting wild sure wasn't it that was so crazy it was like what the fuck this they messed it up yeah it really i mean the better movie won like one i probably no moonlight one you think la la land lost yeah yeah that's what you said no hmm was that the same year as adele was that the same year as adele dazeem oh could it be oh i think that's the Globes.

That was the Tonys, I think. The Tonys, right. He was introducing a song. The Tonys? But I would... I was at a restaurant watching that live. Guys, I wouldn't be watching the Tonys, though. No, but you would have seen the next day, you know.

The goofs, yeah. The goofs, the blooper, the blooper tweets. The wickedly talented Adele Dazeel. That's so funny. All right, well, why don't we go fix these, you know, make some tweaks. We'll come back and we'll give our final thoughts. I'm putting my cherry in there.

Yeah, me too. As women, our life stages come with unique risk factors. Like when our estrogen levels drop during menopause, causing the risk of heart disease to go up. Know your risks. Visit heartandstroke.ca. And we're back with round two of the dark and stormy. I just put in half a teaspoon of the Luxardo Maraschino.

Yeah, I got to stir mine up. It just dropped. Yeah. Dropped like a brick. Ooh, that's good. Can you get a three-layer effect? Kind of, yeah. You could if you designed it around that. You know what we should call

these, Jeff? What? What's the rhyme? Oh, the rhyme is Red Sky at Morning, Sailor Take Warning. Red Sky at Night, Sailor's Delight. Do we want to call it Sailor Take Warning or Sailor's Delight? Sailor's Delight.

Sailor's Delight. Because it's a nice. It's nice. Because it's nice. Because it's a Redight. This is a nice. It's nice. Because it's nice. Because it's a Red Scott. You're drinking these at night, most likely. And now to test them. Yeah.

Ooh. Fantastic. Not bad. I probably could have done more. I just did kind of a drip. Hey, this is pretty similar also to the Yule Mule. Yeah, wait a minute.

Come to think of it. What the hell? I think you've got a lawsuit you can bring up to Goslings, the good people at Gos. The good people at Gos. Give them the Gos. Tim, did you make any tweaks? I did not make any tweaks, and the same thing again,

because I liked it as is. But speaking of Gosling, I one time made a delivery to Ryan Gosling's house back in the day you did see me i brought him the script for the the james l brooks movie how do you know uh i want to say he was up for the role that eventually went to owen wilson sure that would make sense yeah i brought him the script he wasn't home but he but he was dating Rachel McAdams at the time. And I think it was Notebook Era. He wasn't home, but it was kind of a small ranch house, kind of cool. And then there was on the front porch, all vintage motorcycles, like Triumph gear, like disassembled motorcycles.

He was wrenching on his hot rods out there yep cool cool guy that's cool that must have been around the time where hanford and i were loading in for a ucb show one time oh yeah oh yeah we met uh at the um newsstand right next to ucb franklin uh-huh and i hear hanford go hey dude and hanford starts talking to his buddy yeah to his friend i knew my friend zach knew him they're in dead man's bones together if i remember he dated rachel mcadams's sister at one point so that's how he met ryan gosling and that band was just those two guys it wasn't even just those two guys yeah and wasn't even a full band. Just those two guys. Yeah. And you know, you're in that situation, Tim, where your friend sees their friend

and then you're stuck talking to their friend. So you had to talk to Ryan Gosling? And so I look over and I was like, hey, man, you know, and I realized like, hey, this guy's mighty tall and mighty handsome. This guy's pretty cool. In fact, this guy's Ryan Gosling. That's funny.

It is funny though to like, Gosling, a big, huge celebrity, A-lister, some might say. But see, Mike, he's probably still thinking the same thing about Dots. Right. Well, it's just funny to think of, like, that guy in that situation having to be like,

okay, let's go. That guy probably never waits like that. He had to wait. Ryan, wait. Ryan, wait. I'm talking to Mike. Right on that. He had to wait. Ryan, wait. Ryan, wait. I'm talking to Mike. Right on that same block at La Pubelle, I had that same situation with Justin Long,

where I was there with a friend, and Justin Long was at a table with his brother, and my friend sat down to say hi to Justin Long's brother. So I sat at the table, too. And then Justin Long long staring at me and i'm like hi and he's like uh hi uh how's it going uh i'm i'm justin long and i was like yep yep is that your real ass name who are you i'm tim i'm tim tim carpacos what is up have you guys been back to lapu bell since um since uh covet or is it still open

it's still open it's a similar scene but uh my fun fact is did you know that howlin ray of howlin ray's hot chicken used to be the cook at really lapu bell interesting no shit his own did his own thing wow went to nashville had a life-changing experience started a truck and started a brick and mortar hey there's a new um fancy cocktail uh establishment around the corner too do you see that on the other side of oaks gourmet or schwartz and sandys have you been haven't, but do you know the deal with that place? No, not other than the cocktails are $20. It's a reality show place. There's like a whole season of Vanderpump Rules.

No. Two of the guys are like, we're going to open the hottest club in Hollywood, and they open Schwartz and Sandy's. Schwartz, I remember his it's it's one i remember that guy's name because i watched one of the vanderpump uh seasons or vanderpump yeah yeah yeah wait but they they all work they've opened like several bars yeah they worked at pump but they also opened a bar like in west hollywood pump. Like I think in that area and now they have even another bar.

Well, there's Lisa Vander pump is like the matron of the whole scene. And she owns a few restaurants, including like a pump and another place, but she owns like a Vegas restaurant and all kinds of stuff. But this, as far as I know, was the first time I don't watch the show,

but you, I reckon the two guys, they've got like the tall we ho haircuts and they were like we're buddying up and we're opening a place because they interesting they're they're both named tom and they did have another restaurant tom and tom juice guys yeah but you're saying this is right by lapu bell yeah it used to be victor square right so this is their like second uh i think the other one probably still is open unless it closed during so this is like their second party so wow but this isn't the basis of a reality show tim they're not like shooting a season of tv or i did they the opening of it. Oh, like when they were like standing in Victor's square deli being like, Hey,

I, what if, or no, cause it was more recently Vita Cantina, right? It's a cursed location and no one can get it. Oh yeah. It's a tough,

you can't even see it. That's the problem. But they were walking around Vita talking about like how they wanted Schwartz and Sandys to look. And that was a whole season of the show. So I assume now that it's open, it will be talked about on the show as well. It does look very nice. I bet you it'll find an audience. Oh, cool.

We should go by. We're in media. Those guys are in media. Yeah. Oh, that's true. Wow. I walked by there on a Saturday night recently and I I saw a gang of ladies out front, like moms, posing for a picture with a sign.

And the valet was taking a picture, and he was like, where are you ladies from? And they went, Chicago! A big bachelor party, bachelor party vibe. It was great. That's funny. Wow, what a star-studded episode of the pod, huh? Oh, we mentioned.

Two mentions of the gauze. We mentioned. Justin Long. And huh? We mentioned... Two mentions of the gauze. We mentioned... Justin Long. And then these pump folks? Two mentions of the gauze. And plus we talked about Madonna herself. Mm-hmm. And the three of us have a pretty popular podcast.

We're no slouches in the celebrity department. Mm-hmm. Hey, did you see the Madonna touring schedule? It's fucking crazy. She coming to, what, New York City, LA? She's coming everywhere. How old do you think she is? Probably... 60. Yeah, I was gonna say

62. She's touring for about six months straight. 58. She's 58, I was gonna say. But, like, can you imagine? Well, do you have an answer? What, what? For her age? No, I will... 58. Oh, no. Oh, you're asking me what her age is yes madonna is 64

64 64 yeah wow but like we wouldn't i'm concerned for her health is i guess what i'm saying we have a hell of a tour cut out for us no she does but i bet you know what jeff i bet that when she tours that her travel and accommodations are probably like more like up class upper class like they're probably more lux then she's probably not in a van with like she's probably not having to drive the van at certain like i bet she's never even slept on kim's couch right like her bonus zone would be like a whole floor of a hotel room yeah like a floor of a hotel like a penthouse suite the bonus zone of the van that you uh uh that you discovered behind the front seats but in front of the bench yeah yeah the footwell in the back well that you sleep

in and then go oh that sucked oh my fucking back yeah yeah the bonus zone Yeah the bonus zone You don't hear about too many A-list touring artists You don't hear about them like us Doing this sound a lot If you lay on the floor you can Oh Either that they slept on the floor

Or that they ate too many chicken wings In the hotel room I bet her private jet doesn't even have a bonus zone or does he just doesn't know where it is when we stayed at a shitty motel in long beach i was like i'm gonna order wings and i ordered like the ghost kitchen fake restaurant wings in the middle of the night and it was like three dozen wings and they were awful and we didn't eat any of them and i just left them in the hotel and left three that was a negative experience in my life oh well wings gotta be pretty bad to uh not get eaten by the k-man i like a good wing i like a very good wing i could go for a wing a very good wing all right we didn't do final thoughts we gotta do them

sure who's up i am i am go ahead i love it it's a classic i'm surprised you guys hadn't had this i'm surprised this to me is like a heavy hitter like this is like a ratings boon when we post this episode everybody loves this drink yeah i love this drink it's a hit order again and again no tweaks no tweaks damn wait everyone else loves it classic wow stone he's hurling every award it's a good tip to the tiki world order it at your local bar that's a not a tiki bar and and feel confident they're gonna make it right Order it at your local bar that's not a tiki bar and feel confident. They're going to make it right. Make it at home.

Give it to your friends, and it's got the two-tone effect, and they'll see the gradient, and they'll think you're cool. Two-tone effect is cool. It harkens back to one of my faves, the Tequila Sunrise. Ooh, that's a good one. A little drop. Well, I will say it was very good. I don't know if it tops the Moscow Mule, the Whiskey Ginger, or even, dare I say, the Yule Mule.

But it's an order again and again and again. I'm going to stop short of saying it's not Stone Cold. It's not Stone Cold. How can it not top the Moscow Mule? Vodka, Earth's most boring liquor, which I love, but you kind of, most boring liquor Which I love But you use it In order to be Inoffensive and to be healthy

Almost You like that better than a delicious Rummy treat that can't be beat Well I like the in between really I like the whiskey and the ginger You're right Wait but whiskey ginger Any fool can order ginger, but get a horse's neck, right? That's whiskey, ginger beer.

Ooh. Wasn't that the horse's neck? Yeah. Okay, when I make a whiskey, ginger at home, I do it with ginger beer. You're right, Tim. The vodka would be the yin to the gosling's yang. One too light, the other too strong. Oh, brandy.

Horse's neck was brandy. Mike, what say you? I've been thinking about this drink since I poured it. I've been thinking. Wow. That's a good 25 minutes. I know. I've been thinking, do I like this?

Do I not like this? Some sips good, some sips I can't get past that ginger beer. We all know Hanford does not like the ginger beer. What? I don't like the taste of it. So, this drink is a very hesitant, very quiet, very meek order again. Meaning if I'll be at a bar and say, they say, what can I get you?

I'll say, what was that? Just give me a gin and tonic. If they can hear me and give it to me, if they can hear me and get it to me, I'll drink it. So it's a challenge to the bartender. I give it a shot. I give it one shot. Hey, bartenders, keep your ears open. So it's a challenge to the bartender. I give it one shot. Hey, bartenders, keep your ears open.

Stay sharp out there. I'm not so sold on this, but I will say this. I will say this. Even though I don't like it, Tim's idea of it being a Stone Cold Classic is not far off. This is a drink that people love.

You don't like it, but it might be a Stone Cold Classic. Stone Cold Classic goes above and beyond the drinker. It's the cultural. It's historical. So I could see this being a Stone Cold Classic in the sense that everyone knows it.

Almost everyone loves it. I just happen not to. Some people don't like pizza. Yeah, weird freaks. I don't know. I like that this is a drink that you can taste the backstory right like when you taste this think of bermuda right straw is the drink you can taste a giant straw it's the drink you can drink um no but picture a tropical island that is a British colony, right? Yeah.

And even that, that was interesting. Like when I was there as a kid, I'm like in an island paradise, but I'm seeing like kilts and bagpipes. And I'm like, that's odd. Little did I know that's like, that's colonization that was going on there. But you're like, this is a, the the ginger of the shipping the reasons for the for the the boats and the ginger and then the the rum coming from the local sugar molasses whatever becoming the thing it's very naval is very you can taste the history right there in the fucking thing hello fucking thing. Hello. Hey.

Can I say a few words? Thank you. You know what this drink for me is good for? If like I'm out and it's like I don't want to drink three drinks boom boom boom right in a row. I want to do like slow. This is a sipper for me because it's not. There's like a sting in the in the ginger

beer. Yeah. That puts me off of it a little bit. We should do a drink. I was thinking about when we earlier were talking about Easter clothes. We're on the pod here. When we get to Easter, let's think of a good drink that fits Easter.

Something with egg. Something with eggs. Something with egg. And then we kind of wear pastels and like madras kind of like style like how your mom would dress you on Easter Sunday. A nice drink. What's madras? It's kind of like pink

plaid. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I'll do that. I can do that. So we need another egg drink that's not a whiskey sour uh the uh the bunny garnish garnish with a peep i bet i bet those remember when i was looking for like crazy uh christmas drinks and it was like you know put a whole gingerbread cookie in a drink it was i bet there are there are like peep drinks. Yeah, like the craft blogs. I'm so tired of those ads on TV.

You know, they're like, hey, peep the peeps. I'm so tired of those. Yeah, you're looking here, you're looking there, but all you really got to do is peep the peeps. Put a peep in your pie hole. Put a peep in your ass. Sit on a peep this Easter Sunday. No, no, no. We're not

doing peeps. We gotta do proper talk. We're not sitting on peeps this Easter Sunday. We put out a statement. We are not sitting on peeps this Easter Sunday. It's about the resurrection. Thank you. There's a picture of a peep

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