The Sloppy Boys - 140. Pickle Martini

Episode Date: June 23, 2023

The guys investigate whispers of a new summer drink craze... but can those vinegary cukes make the jump from your sandwich to your cocktail glass?PICKLE MARTINI RECIPE2oz/60ml Vodka1oz/30ml Pickle JuiceCombine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass. For best results, experiment with different pickle juices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Yo, and Tim Kalpakis. What is up? And we are your hosts, the Sloppy Boys Band. Aha! I'm just making sure I'm recording. I am. You have to. It's a podcast. Don't record. If you hear me, I'm recording. Don't. I fuck something up. We should put out an episode that's me and Jeff talking and then big spaces

where Mike was. Like Garfield without, or John without Arbuckle without Garfield. I think it's called Garfield without Garfield. Garfield without, or John without, Arbuckle without Garfield? Is that what that is? I think it's called Garfield without Garfield. Garfield without Garfield. There you go.

Oh, and it's just John talking to himself. Yeah. Just saying. That's good. It's like, have you seen Friends with No Laugh Track?

And there's just these long, long pauses. Those are so funny to me. I love any internet stuff where they put in the clothes shuffling and like the footsteps instead of like laughter. We all know the Dancing in the Street, David Bowie and Mick Jensen.

That's the best one. It's so funny. How about Jeopardy and everybody's Jeff and everyone's great. Oh, that's good. That's good. Jeff and Jeff. Now, Jeff, when you see something like that, are you like, hey, or are you like, this is great. We're getting the word out.

No, initially I was like, hey. Because it's my name and all. Sure, sure, sure. Well, I've got a little piece of a tidbit of something to talk about. I am weaning off of keto. I did my month. Mike, let me help you let me help you what mission accomplished yeah thank you i did i was gonna do three weeks i did a month i lost 14

pounds wow holy shit that is mission accomplished i was being joking accomplished for sure i don't know if i ever reached ketosis who knows i think to actually know who cares if you have your blood test or something but um yeah i so i'm i think it was for more for me just like uh now i got some like healthier habits in line and it's not like pizza i'll have five pieces you did a deep dive into low carb yeah low carb now i'm gonna switch yeah i'm not gonna be more low carb not no carb well low low on the carbs is good and healthy but also i mean it's funny if keto taught you healthy habits because like you're saying no pizza but you could eat the pepperoni and the cheese right and on keto but that would still kill you just in life yeah so it's sort of like it's hard to this is a problem

i have like all the time it's like i can drop 10 pounds in the blink of an eye just no bread no pasta but i don't think i ever actually learned a healthy like i think you're supposed to wake up have overnight oats yeah and you at lunch you have over day oats and then dinner nice fresh hard oats no water involved. I was talking to my sister-in-law, who's a nurse, and she was impressed that I was doing it. But then she was like, don't be on this for too long. This is not good. It's a temporary. Yeah, it's like a stunt crash diet.

Especially look in your family. Some people are just not going to get high cholesterol, and then they're home free. They can eat fatty stuff but if you got if you got any heart attack or stroke in your family i might want to not live on ketosis mode i think we got let's see we got my aunt and uncle are uh iron man runners my mom and dad are marathon yeah i think i'll be okay my grandparents shit themselves to the death watch out for that hey here's the thing uh jeff you're wearing a lavender shirt mike you're wearing a lavender shirt uh this is our first uh episode back since the lavender haze blunder where we accidentally the the cosmopolitan recipe for taylor swift's lavender lemonade yeah had a Had a misprint. We should have known something was up there.

That was five ounces of liquor is unheard of. We sort of read it wrong, drank it wrong. We didn't read it wrong. They posted it wrong. Yeah, right. It was supposed to say 1.5 ounces of gin, but it said like ingredient one, period, five ounces of gin. So there was a misplaced space. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a blank a blank space baby and i'll write your name got a long list of they needed lovers period space period

is what they need um do you remember also wait in that in that recipe they kicked it off with add this and this and this into the shaker in that order. Do you remember them specifying that? Yeah. There's no reason for that. I believe it was like gin, falernum, and- Lemon. Lemon in that order. And I don't think that that meant anything. Looking at them, it's not like it was anything with egg white

or anything that the lemon juice would fuck up. There's nothing that could have a reaction or curdle. And also, it's not even going the Jack Schramm method of going cheapest to most expensive. Jack Schramm would have balked at that. Nonsense. And then also it said, then add the ice. It was just bizarre.

The whole thing was fishy. Well, Cosmopolitan is not a cocktail publication. It felt like maybe AI wrote it. Oh. But the thing about the five ounces of gin, couldn't the the it's not like it tasted to gin to alcohol yeah i was like this is fine we and we chalked it up to like well it's a big stadium drink of course it's gonna be you have it for a whole hour okay but honestly like the drink that we had is probably better than the normal drink because it's probably pretty sweet and lemonade-y, I guess.

But ours was like... No, ours was dynamite. It was good. And also, you've got to split the difference. The fact that they called for an ounce and a half of gin is not enough, especially because you know that stadium's still charging $28. I would say you need a comfortable three ounces. You've got to bring your own gin and add it to it. Spike it.

Swifties out there. Oh, I wonder if any Swifties stuck around and are listening to this episode too. Mike? Yeah, droves. They all did. In droves. That would be so... I can't imagine anyone who goes, who's like a Taylor Swift fan, a traditional Taylor Swift fan, listening

to this and being like, well, I kind of like this. I'm like, oh, God. Oh, great. I'm hooked on the sloppy boys now. This sucks. The Taylor Swift fans don't pick up the search bar and say, I'm looking for anyone to say anything about Taylor Swift. Oh, the sloppy boys.

I used the hashtag. But I just can't imagine anyone listens for the first time from the Swifty camp. They'd be like, I i'm gonna continue this um i bet i bet i would say probably about 100 million people like that are listening right now um and i hope they liked our patreon episode where on the blowout last week we did best taylor swift song and i've spent the whole week since then thinking of best taylor swift songs that slipped through the cracks like none of us said Cruel Summer. And I feel like Cruel Summer is kind of like the big boy for a lot of people.

Cruel Summer, a.k.a. Halloween on the Beach. Yes. That could be a good movie that we write. There's a surfing Jack Colenton. The cruel thing about the summer is that it's fall. Yeah, I guess. I forgot to say Delicate, too too that's one of my faves i was listening that song lover that's a good one too we mentioned it but it really is like that mazzy star uh yeah yeah fade into you well that album lover uh

kind of a disappointment for her right she talks about that in Americana, the doc. But this was the thing, is that Cruel Summer, track two, obviously, it just sounds like such a perfect pop hit. It was supposed to be the single, I think she came out with like, that first song, You Need to Chill, oh no, I forgot you existed, or

Chill, oh yeah, You Need to Chill Out, or whatever. Anyway, no, no. All I'm trying to get out here i mean i think the worst taylor swift song in history is on that album right me me me but anyway people made fun of her for that but then the big single was supposed to be cruel summer and it was slated to come out summer 2020 and then that was the covid summer and they decided not to come out with a single called cruel summer in history's cruelest summer so that song really it's on the album people know it but it never had its moment of being pushed like it's big day in

the sun so i think that now in the eras tour that it's kind of like finally getting the single treatment okay i mean i feel like banana rama is getting played all throughout covid wait what is cruel summer by banana rama that's a good song wait what's it cool summer it's a cruel i can't say no i don't know oh i thought that was gruel gruel summer also kanye has a Gruel Summer album. Does he not? He does. It's called Gruel.

What the hell? Gruel Summer is the mixtape with like... Well, people don't like when I bring up Kanye, but... Yay. They just want you to call him yay. Yeah, it's got like... Click on it. I don't know any of this.

Ain't nobody fucking with my click. Click. Adam Sandler was in click. Did you guys know I have a famous meme? It's Adam Sandler's face. What's that meme up to, by the way? Numbers wise. Numbers wise?

Not socially. I don't know. The money's rolling in. I don't know. I can't tell how many hits it's getting anymore. They need to figure out a way that if you get a like, you get a dollar. A dollar. Yeah.

A doll hair. Great. I'd post all the time if that was the case. It adds up, Jeff. Yeah. All right. Is that it for? Is that it for Shit Chat?

Is that it for Shit Chat? Yes. Wrap it up. It's time for Booze News. Hit it. That is, now I'm curious if Burgess did that on his keyboard or if he has a string quartet. Oh.

Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, the little string in the background is doing the earworm uh that was gardens of gomorrah string quartet as sent to us by the great paul burgess and if you have a booze news theme email it to the sloppy boys podcast at gmail.com are you saying that that was our hit single gardens of gamora but it was done with strings that's what we were looking for the whole time yeah that was awesome he never answered the question though we don't know whether he's using midi strings or real strings what do you guys think uh i would just i would guess it's sounds really real. How many instruments do you think were in there?

Quartet? Four. Oh, nice. But that means he's got to own one of each. A violin, a cello. Or has access to. A bass and a super bass. He borrowed it from Minaj. From Nicki Minaj.

That was cool. Now, we probably should maybe look at this from a legal angle and take him to court. Yeah. Consider him sued. Fry him. I say lock him up and fry him, man. Whoa. Okay, booze news.

This is very exciting for longtime listeners of this podcast. We'll be very happy to hear. What about the hosts? Longtime co-hosts. A lot of people who listen to this show, they'll come up to me and they say, you know, Tim is pretty much my boy at this point. I love Tim and I love his two co-hosts. And people like that and my co-hosts are going to be really excited to hear that there's been something I've been, we've been talking about on this pod for a really long time, a place I wanted to go, a thing I wanted to try.

I finally, finally got to do it recently and it all rests within this very special pre taped booze news segment. Sit back, relax and hit it. Oh, this is nice. Mike eats his way through New York City.

T-Boy edition. Cal P.K. makes his way through the Midwest today. makes his way through the Midwest today. What is up? Cal Piquet here reporting live from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I'm... It's kind of a rowdy sidewalk here.

I'm out here with Ben Axarat. How's it going, Ben? Hey, baby. So we just... I just had my first Wisconsin Supper Club dining experience. Ben, this was your first one too, right? It was, it was. Let's recap.

The question with Wisconsin Supper Clubs is, we didn't know, is it just a restaurant? Is it just a steakhouse? Are we just talking about a family restaurant where old people eat? But let's recap. We went to a place called it was i looked at the official wisconsin supper club list and there were three or four of them within the city limits it's usually a rural thing and we chose one that had the vibe and it was called the five o'clock steakhouse um okay so let's what what made it not a normal restaurant we stepped in it. It's a bar. There was live entertainment.

There was a cello player playing Radiohead. I think maybe even before I'll say it, I think the first, maybe to me, the first thing that stood out was, okay, we're going to a place called the 5 o'clock club. What time does the 5 o'clock club open? 4.30. That's fucked. And our reservation was for 7?

Like, what even? I can't even. Like, we're living in the upside down at this point, okay? Fucking Demogorgon fucking on my ass. We go in there. Well, here's what's funny. I made a 7 o'clock reservation. We get there at 645.

We walk up to the host booth, and she says, have a seat at the bar. Now, I love that. A lot of times at steak house, I like to have a drink before dinner. But it wasn't because we were early they have everybody go to the bar right completely customary and she said i was like oh because we're early she's like no just have a seat and you put in a drink order and then i'll come tell you when your table's ready so we sat down you had a coke i had a brandy old-fashioned sweet they muddled it they shook it with the Sprite in it. That was interesting.

It was delicious. And then, so we're sitting at the bar. She came up. There was more stuff. She took our order. Yep, yep. So she gives us the menus at the bar and says, you're not getting your food here. Because she hands us the menus.

I was like, hey, look, bitch, I don't want to eat at the bar. I was like, I don't want to eat at the bar. I want a table. And she was like, no, no, no. You order at the bar, and we'll get your your food going and then you'll sit at the table. So we put in our order and then here was the real kicker. We finish up our drinks. She tells us our table is ready.

And then she walks us into the dining room and we arrive. Like we had said what salad dressing we wanted with our salad and stuff. We arrive to a table set with food and really and what was there there was a relish tray what was in there uh we had uh some uh we had some pickles a little bit of uh i couldn't tell if there was like a light pickling to the other vegetables we had some uh we didn't venture we didn't venture beyond the pickles no no we didn't there was like radishes and bell peppers and a carrot in a little charming little metal tray. And we had like a table salad to split that we both had garlic parmesan.

Parmesan peppercorn. Parmesan peppercorn. And then they brought us bread with butter and honey. But stepping up to a table that was already set, that was the thing. Then from that point forward, there's lots of carts rolling around. They brought out our – Ben had a porterhouse. I had a ribeye. Both were fantastic.

And then when dinner came, Ben had the key lime pie, and this was real Wisconsin to me. They had after-dinner drinks, spirited ice cream drinks they called them. They had a grasshopper all kinds of and i got the brandy alexander yeah absolutely delicious iconically supper club was there anything else that was about that room uh i don't think i don't know necessarily anything specific about the room it just had a it had a classic uh uh Us kind of vibe to it. It felt... Do you guys know where the Outsider is by any chance?

Is it the rooftop bar here at the Kimpton? Yeah. This is the Kimpton Hotel, and you just take the up to the ninth floor. Yeah, Tim knows where the bar is. The Kimpton. Oh, thank you. A little bit of Midwestern hospitality. We've got to get us to sign a release.

You're on booze news lady um so yeah and then you're a lot of old people eating a lot of families i was just charmed by the room you know wooden veneer kind of wood paneling and schlitz signs and that type of thing and i thought like so the question the question of uh is a wisconsin supper Club different than a restaurant. I think to the untrained eye, just looking at a menu or hearing about the experience, not necessarily, but when you are there, it is a unique experience unto itself. And some of the things, like some of the club vibes to it

are just the way in which, like, this is protocol for how we do it. Sit down at the bar. They explain to us that most people come in fresh off of work. They a quick drink then they sit down at their table this has been going on since 1955 which told us that it's definitely a symbol of the patriarchy and we're back for it that you here's i i think you're right there's a general there's a je ne sais quoi about the way they're treating the dining experience my only complaint i don't know if this happened to you, my only complaint is I had a lovely time. We loved our server. We loved our food.

When I went to the bathroom, I was standing at the urinal, and I took out my dick, and it was, like, really small. And, like, I was looking at my zipper. I was like, it's all pubes down here. Like, babe, where is this fucking thing? So I didn't like that. And that's just the type of thing that sours my evening you know i don't fly all the way out here to just have my little tiny dick be hard to find you know i could i could do that in la um but other than that i i give the uh the five o'clock steakhouse five clocks how

about you five inches for me too i mean mean 5 o'clock for me as well. 5 inches? Holy shit. Fucking John Holmes motherfucker. Who's another porn star? Jeremy. Ron Jeremy. Okay, that's it for Booze News.

Peace, bye. It was Mike Eats' way through new york city whoa not a tcat edition to get us out not at the end it's like the parent company is mike eats its way oh it's sort of like his production logo right right wow so you went to it i i finally yeah like two years in the making we've been talking about these supper clubs and um you know the name of the game is the brandy old-fashioned sweet and the brandy old-fashioned sour i drank them both the whole week that i was there and i gotta say it's really fun to see how they vary like sometimes i'll be at a dive bar i would get one it'll be huge in a pint glass and like lots of places do their own spin but

it's just trying it's not like the fancy old fashions we get elsewhere these these are like it's a red cherry it's an orange slice it's a big drink a lot of the brandy old-fashioned sweets were like pretty cloyingly sweet so i would have the sour and even the sour would be a little on the sweet side. But when they get a little melty, they're delicious. This is just a big brandy town. Everybody's drinking brandy everywhere. Having the meal, going to your table and your food is there is like. That's so weird.

A game changer. It was like being called for dinner. Yeah, that's cool. It feels like you're Scrooge and you wake up and then outside your bed canopy, there's a whole banquet of food waiting for you. Now, wait's cool. It feels like you're Scrooge and you wake up and then outside your bed canopy, there's a whole banquet of food waiting for you. Now, wait a minute. What would this place look like? I'm guessing it was like wood paneled stuff with carpet everywhere.

And it smelled like old stakes, like the walls and carpet smell in a good way. What's the leather chair with the buttons? You know, like the buttons are pressed in. so the chair has like bread loafy lumps. It still has wheels on it. There's a name for that. It's like Puffered or something or Cuffered. Puffered. Puffered.

Puffy. Hanford, I think. Big Puffered chair. But yeah, it was charming as hell. And then a thing that I think that we've we've been doing every thanksgiving we've been doing old fashions right we did an old fashion then we did a brandy old fashion sweet uh we should do the brandy old fashion sour next but i would say the thing i gleaned for this podcast is about these after dinner ice cream cocktails i have seen these before in the midwest

and i never had them but it they the two big boys are the grasshopper and the brandy alexander and i asked our server which one is more popular and she said they are absolutely tied and they are the two most popular by far but they had a whole many there was a banana one with banana liqueur and then there was a galliano one there's like they're like eight or ten different ice cream cocktails but everybody you look around the room everybody's having grasshoppers and Brandy Alexanders and they're like milkshakes in a martini glass. They have actual ice cream in them. Yep. Oh, that's good. We got to get. Oh, yeah, because they have too much ice cream

over there. They got to get rid of it. Yeah. Wait, now, did you have a big potato? I did not. Steaks were a la carte. We got creamed spinach and some other side. Something next time. Get that big potato. Yeah.

Sorry. I don't know. I don't know if that's right or wrong. It's called tufted, by the way, with the leather with the buttons. Ah, tufted. But is that it for Booze News? Wrap it up. Great Booze News this week, Tim.

Was that punch out? Yeah, it was just sort of the generic NES cheer oh yeah yeah it reminded me of beating Piston Honda in Mike Tyson's punch out what was that game Golden Axe for like

Sega I think it was yeah that's a game I used to play the arcade version at a bowling alley and that reminded me of something like when someone got killed they were like it was like crunchy yeah all scratchy wait a second did we learn was it here or elsewhere that i learned that there was like there was like an offensive character that was taken out of like soda popinsky was actually like vodka drinkinsky or something like that well i think they had a uh i think there was a lot of people that there was a lot

of racially insensitive one but there was one that was saying that a certain type of uh nationality people were drunk oh i bet you it's an irish it was an irish thing that they changed to soda popinsky because he's got like red hair like that. Popinski doesn't sound like an Irish name, though. Well, they probably changed it to Accommodate. Hey, folks. The character's original name was Vodka Drunkenski. I'll tell you one fun fact I remember. Sure, we played a lot of Mario Kart 64,

but did you ever play the Super Nintendo Mario Kart? Yeah. Yep. a lot of mario kart 64 but did you ever play the super nintendo mario kart yeah yep in the japanese version when you win as peach or bowser and you're on the top of that little stand it says congratulations they would drink the champagne peach would be like red faced and bowser would have like a big wide mouth but then on the american version it's all squeaky clean and they just like throw the bottle up and down in celebration interesting i think that's kind of funny that's funny to still celebrate but with the bottle just not drinking it yeah also it is a little suspect that like mario or luigi don't drink but they're like yeah but peach gets fucked up it's sus it's yeah it's

sus and it's well they're probably like our main guys we can't even show our main guys drinking so we'll have the the lesser characters yeah these are my guys these are my guys wow peach mario luigi luigi hmm luigi wears green overalls what else is green he doesn't wear green overalls he wears a green undershirt yeah well there are other vegetables and things that are green but where are you going with this pickle martini ah trickles trickles my boy you lean into the microphone you son of a bitch oh mike wants to get into the drink of the day. I thought that might be something to do, but I,

I'm not introing. So I will hang back. The pickle, the drink of the day is the pickle martini. You've had, have not had, not had excited to have. Yeah.

I've been close. I've always been curious about it, but no cigar. He was so close, but just so far out of reach. Um, I've had, I've, I've been known to put a splash of pickle juice or like uh horseradish into my vodka rocks at home sometimes but um i've had a pickle martini at uh verdugo bar in la and um new york restaurant in catskill okay but there there's some rando ones you just find

that have always been around. But I would say that there's been this growing rumbling about this drink for the last few years. And it feels like it's starting to reach a fever pitch. And it's been on Booze News last week. And we had to address... Oh, so you're saying, Tim, you're saying, it could have been a contender

it could it could currently be a contender it is a contender um listen to these headlines men's journal is 2023 the year of the pickle martini forbes shake up your martini with a french pickle jezebel here's your cocktail this summer trust me and they mentioned a pickle martini from a cocktail bar in williamsburg aol news had a list of restaurant trends and pointed out pickle martinis at maison pickle mono and mono and chezu all of which are in manhattan wow maison pickle sounds like a pretty good bet yeah maybe i'll maybe i'll take my recording equipment out tim and do a uh martin pickle martini tour a new york version of uh calpe makes his way through the midwest um and yeah so i think that why i talked about this jezebel article on booze news and we said

let's run with it it bleeds it leads we're doing it we wanted to try it and when poking around like there's not like this isn't on the iba list or in differeds or on liquor.com per se there's not really any one recipe but the idea here is you're making a dirty martini with pickle juice instead of olive brine and um because martinis are like the most customizable of the drinks. Obviously, recipes are all over the place. So I did a little Googling, found too many options. I talked to celebrity bartender Jack Schramm, and he said the way that he does it is just vodka and pickle juice. And he uses the same spec that he would for a dirty martini. He uses the same spec that he would for a dirty martini. And, you know, he's told us before that he doesn't really think that salty olive brine works well with gin or vermouth.

So and I kind of agree with that. So here's what we're going to do is Jack's recipe that he said he would use if somebody ordered at a bar is two ounces of vodka and one ounce of pickle juice um and he said that that's for like that's the spec he uses for like calling it like a dirty martini and that's what i think we should do today but he said if you just want a little bit of the pickle taste that he alters it to two and a half ounces of vodka half an ounce of pickle less pickle forward i was gonna say one ounce seems like not enough pickle for me, but I'll do two to one to start. Yeah, I'm going to do the... And he was saying that doing it with gin,

like gin is too florally of a taste. Right, that juniper-y taste has its own kind of thing going on, so we don't really need it here. He said vodka, he recommended a rye vodka like belvedere or sobieski and um he said kind of the fun of this drink is experimenting with your favorite pickle juice he likes spicy mcclure's which oh yeah that'd be good remember i tracked that down when we did picklebacks because that's what they originally used in brooklyn for the first picklebacks and i had to go to like bristol farms in pasadena to find yeah i I couldn't find it. Um, it's delicious, but, um, so we each got our own juice and yeah,

I think, you know, um, there's no official method, so I'm going to shake mine. Uh, you could stir if you want, but you know,

a lot of times when you, you know, people say like, Oh, you know, you should stir if it's gin. Cause you don't want to bruise the gin. Well,

we don't have gin or you should stir because vermouth is making a silky viscous drink, but we're not using vermouth. So I'm just going to shake the shit out of mine. And for garnish, I don't know, pickle? Pickle garnish? Yeah, pickle. Why not?

Makes sense. If you have a tiny little pickle, throw it in there. If you have a big pickle, do a slice and put it on there like a wheel. Just lay it on there. That's great. I'm very excited about this. Yeah, me too. Now, before this episode we recorded,

I got in contact with our podcast, a resident pickle expert, Franny G, Franny Gillespie. Whoa. Nice. And I texted her. I said, we're doing the pickle martini. Care to comment? And this is what she sent in.

I enjoy drinking pickle martinis. I much prefer them to bellinis. In fact, they're so sublime, they inspired this rhyme, which I will submit to McSweeney's. I never knew that that's what inspired that rhyme. I know. I guess so. And I didn't know she was submitting to McSweeney's.

That's fantastic. I hope she gets in. I mean, once you do all that work, you've written the first three lines. You may as well submit to McSweeney's and mention it in the final line. So, yeah, I think she's down. She's in. Perfect. Cool.

After we did pickleback shots, I was doing just picklebacks on the rocks, like as a cocktail worked. And then I even got wicked pickle whiskey at one point which i liked so i'm no stranger drink of pickly drinks but i've never had this exact ratio of vodka and pickle juice right you will you will i have various pickle options but let's talk about them when we come back as we said, see you in a bit. Now we're back. Pickle martinis in hand. Yo.

Check this one out. Ooh. Nice. Oh, you did the same thing, Mike. The little. And look at me. The dill chip. Yeah. There we go. Yay, that's great. Guys, and we The little... And look at me. The dill chip. Yeah, there we go.

Yay, that's great. Guys, and we're all... We all have like electric yellow. Yeah, neon green grocery store. None of the pictures on the internet look like this, but we all are dumb guys. I'm curious what flavors you use. But first, Jeff.

Sips. First sips. All right. Ooh, interesting. Interesting. Yeah, right. Ooh, interesting. Interesting. Yeah, baby. Yeah, baby. Hoo-hoo!

Hey, Zip! Imagine if you had a full ribeye in your stomach and you sipped that. Boom! Yeah, I wonder if the pickle juice makes it sharper or more of a dull blade that kind of knocks it down like a broadsword. It's a blunt object. It beats it around a little bit like an old knight. A club. Ooh.

Interesting. I was expecting... I mean, I only drink gin martini, so I was... I know I put vodka in here, but I was still like, ooh, gin taste? Not there. Mike, you can do whatever you want. It's customizable. I'm going to do gin after this. Oh, really? I just wouldn't do a very floral botanical gin,

but if you had yourself a Gordon's. A beet feeder. Yeah, beet feeder is perfect. I've got a beet feeder. There is a wide, wide variance in pickle juices. Yes. Oh, yeah. I have been saving forever because anytime there's pickle.

Saving your money? Yeah, yeah. I've been saving up for the good pickle juice to get the good golden pickle no no no i have so many jars that look like this of the uh grocery store signature select hamburger dill pickle chips that i throw in every sandwich and salad and whatever else but i always keep the juice because uh forbacks. And then also I like to sneak a little sip. Jefferson. Every so often you see.

Wow. But here's the thing. Wow. I knew for this episode, I wanted to do like a spicy McClure's, like a spicy dill. I go to my local Albertsons and they have famous Dave's hot ones,

you know, but I saw, I was like, no, that's, that's hot and sweet. I don't want a sweet pickle with pepper in it. Yeah. And so I grabbed the Vlasic extreme heat chips. Ooh. Like, so. Oh, look at that. I don't think I've ever had that.

Problem is these are also hot and sweet. I got no use for them. You're a little hot and sweet yourself. I think the McClure's have a little sweet to them. They're not fully bread and butter, but I don't think you're too far off. So I guess round two I'm going to try this, but I don't look forward to it.

So wait, for this first one you just use the regular dill chip. Regular grocery store dill. Yeah. I used B&G hamburger dill. That's such a Hanford hanford looking jar bng bng big and green i had some funny options i had the uh i had a pickle in a bag one of those solo one oh yeah the gas station i want to say was gifted to me by fran i can't be sure um she's given me one of those before i think that's her her go-to i gave it a taste and it i

think it would have been the right taste but it was like electric green and then jeff i had famous dave's but but i have uh not the sweet hot i have famous dave's uh devil's spit devil's spit that's the hottest one i'm gonna try that for round two because i think that's probably the i haven't had it yet but i think that's will be my attempt at a spicy mcclure's which is what brooklyn based mcclure's yeah but what i ended up going with i had all my jars out and i tasted and i i used a uh mount olive brand dill relish and i just took a spoon in the relish. What? Of everything I had, it tasted like the most straightforward classic.

It wasn't a sweet relish. It was a dill relish. So you got just the juice of the relish. How do you just get the juice? It sounds like a fiasco. It's the type of relish that was- You got to push the spoon down. No, it was just like a bunch of diced pickle at the bottom of the jar. And then the whole jar was just pickle juice.

Oh, so it's not like slime. So you don't really have to push the spoon down. No, I know you want me to push the spoon down. You know what I'm talking about. Push it down, let all the liquid fill up, spoon comes up. You know what I mean. Hey, you ever see these? Mount Olive.

Are those singles? Pickle juicers. What's that? Pickle juice singles. Mount Olive has released pickle juicers. Are people drinking pickle juice singles mount olive has released pickle juicers are people are people drinking juice like pickle juice like a thing it's good for you yeah is it you know what's really good have you had the fee brothers pickle juice electrolytes you know fee

brothers like the bitters brand they have a they have a spicy pickle juice it's bomb that's interesting because like you know dirty sue does just olive juice yep and they're kind of getting in that game oh yeah i had that dirty sue stuff once and i didn't really like it something was off about it was like sweet or something i think i think it was like the main just like the original or like regular style i like dirty sue but i i hear what you're saying and i would prefer just like a good brine from a good jar of olives. But what was really funny is during the pandemic, I had the big bottle of dirty soup. And, you know, when I make martinis, I only make them very slightly dirty.

And it was in a wine bottle. Right. So that's what? 750 milliliters. And it was so weird to finish that bottle because when i use it i use like an eyedropper so the fact that i finish it is like oh i guess i had like 400 martinis you guys like pickles regularly yeah dude like just a big fat pickle i love i love uh more garlicky i like a baton pickle.

I like Bubby's, the little ones. I like Cornichon a lot. That would be Cornichon juice would be good in here. Because that's like really tight and tart and potent. Yeah, I like Cornichon with some fatty foie gras on a little toast. Ooh.

I've never had foie gras. Well, it's unethical, but you go up to the Hudson Valley, they have some amazing foie gras up there. There's that one Cornichon brand. I forget what it is. But you open up the top and you pull a little plastic elevator up. It, like, separates the Cornichons from the juice. A dumbwaiter?

Going up. That's really cute, man. It is cute. Do you know the difference between a cornichon and a gherkin? I like them both, but one is really clovey and one is more pickly

and I don't know what's what. Clovey? Interesting. Probably that. What was the first... Cornichon. Cornichon and gherkin. No, no.

Before that, you said a... It was a bubby was one even before that. Batomp? Batomp. I've never even before that. Batomp? Batomp, I've never heard of that. I'm looking it up. It's like a red and white striped label.

Oh, it's two words. Oh, it's a brand, Tim. It's a brand. Yeah, yeah, you recognize that jar, though, right? Yes, I recognize the jar. They're garlic dills. These, yeah, they look like a company that would make pickled eggs. I've never had a pickled egg. Have you?

You think it's batompte? I don't know what it is. Batompte. Yeah, I like pickled eggs. I love all that food that's on a... There's a scene in the Ladies' Man movie where they do a challenge, and they're eating like pig knuckles and pickled eggs from the the bar of a dive bar i love all that shit they sell it at at uh

philippe's original french dips in la now what is a pig knuckle i've heard that before but is it actually the hoof it's just what it sounds like my my man. But they don't got hands. Sure they do. Pigs don't got hands. Sure they do. They do not. They got a funny nose. They got a curled tail. But pay pigs do.

Like, we love the pay pigs. Love, love, love the pay pig. Yes, they're a fine swine. Hey, pig, I think I love you. You're kissing a pig? We should do a photo shoot where we're kissing pigs on the lips and say, this one goes out to the pigs. We love our pay pigs.

We should do a thing like, hey, up until October 9th, however many pay pigs we have, we will go out and find that number of pigs and take our picture with them, and you can have it. Wow. We'll take our picture with them. Well, we'll it. Wow. We'll take our picture with them. Well, we'll sign it and send it to them. They want their privacy.

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Striking? Striking. I understand why SRAM gave us the option to dial back the juice because this is very dirty i love the taste i love sour stuff but i gotta say as a salt sensitive individual when i have this much salt there's a little peek into my private life i'm gonna have to have some z-quil tonight otherwise i, I'm going to have restless... Keeps you up. I'm going to have restless leg syndrome, and I'm going to have a parched mouth,

and I'm going to be waking up, not to mention my fucking CPAP machine blowing air in my fucking head. How's that going, by the way? I got enough going on. This sucks. Yeah, your sleep is an event. There's a lot going on in there.

There's a lot going on. You got the 100-count Egyptian cotton things that you get. Mike, we should sell tickets to that thing. Yeah. I would love to see what goes on in that bedroom. Oh, it's nasty, man. Yeah, up to a point, I should say.

Tim, for real, the salt has to do with restless leg syndrome? I thought that was an iron deficiency thing. Yeah, I don't know all the science. Restless leg syndrome is a thing that has come and gone for me over the years, but there's a similar restlessness that's not necessarily just the legs. But like if I have. Restless arm or neck. Restless torso.

If I have like a salted rim on my Bloody Mary or margarita or something. Or let's say I have sushi and I'm really dunking in the soy sauce. Oh, yeah. Kablu. I'll just lay in bed go blue i'll have to drink so much water before bed and then i'll wake me up to piss all night or i just go to bed and i'm like it's just i have this unsettled salty feeling it's so weird because like in in the day if i have too much salt i feel fatigued but then at night i can't sleep and you're like you mean to tell me i was tired during the day if i have too much salt i feel fatigued but then at night i

can't sleep and you're like you mean to tell me i was tired during the day and awake at the night yeah tim the best the saltiest thing that i had accidentally which i still get is is it yucca's taco stand oh yeah baby you got the cheeseburger the cochinita pibil burrito has like a fine dust of salt all over it. Like micro fine dust. And I was like, why are my fingers all dried out? Oh, because this entire burrito is fucking covered in like nano dust of the saltiest salt. Ground down salt. I've watched them because I go there all the time and I get a double cheeseburger plain.

No condiments, no tacos. The burgers there are fantastic taco stand and i see them going ting ting ting with the the salt shaker they have like one of those like old like a metal salt shaker with a handle and they go ting ting ting with the tongs and they salt it up so good i'm like oh thanks for my burger on the salt sure and i say yeah pass the sequel because i gotta sleep hey the new pepper a burger go ahead yeah uh cafe los filas yeah now does cheeseburgers they do i haven't had him yet i saw it on hot goss on hillhurst and i'll tell you you want to know something

that even hot goss doesn't know yet what twice. I have fired up the Postmates pickup version, not delivery, for Cafe Los Feliz, and the breakfast burrito has been buy one, get one free. What? Yes. Wow. The signature item on the menu, twice. Only on the Postmates app? Those are good.

Postmates, I mean, I haven't tried it elsewhere. Postmates app in the morning, I want to say, it might have actually been two different Sunday mornings. Wait, I'm confused, though. I don't like Postmates, but you're saying that you can use it for pickup? That means there's no Postmate. Yeah, exactly. So it's just a way of dealing with the restaurant,

and it's cheaper. Is it so the restaurant doesn't have to set up their own system? Yeah, I guess so. I mean, they probably also still do it, but it's just got my payment information and it's, you know. Yeah, yeah. I ordered some Guisado's tacos the other day on DoorDash. And they kept delaying and delaying,

and it was taking like an hour longer than they said. So I called up the restaurant. I was like, hey, what's going on? And they're like, yeah, we got your bag of food here sitting getting cold, but there's no dashers available. So I was like, can I just come there and get my food? And they're like, yeah, we got your bag of food here sitting getting cold, but there's no dashers available. So I was like, can I just come? Can I just come there and get my food? And they're like, sure.

So I went there and I'm like, hey, I'm Tim. And they're like, oh, great, here's your food. And I was like, well, no dasher ever came. What should I do? And they're like, cancel your order, I guess. And I'm like, won't you guys not get any money? And they're like, I think we'll get the money. And then I canceled the order and they didn't get any money.

So I guess they shouldn't talk about it on a podcast, but I like to live my life out loud. Wow. Well, hold on. A quick little update here. Yes. I fired up the Cafe Los Feliz on Postmates. The store is closed.

However, the offer, buy one, get one free, breakfast burrito is right up top. That's amazing. I'm going to do this every day. That's a life changer. Yeah, that is. It's so good. It's such a good burrito. It's so buttery. That hot

sauce is really good, too. It's very unique. I don't know what the deal is. It's like a spicy mayo. Oh, yeah. I was telling Tim, I like all sauces that look like that. Any creamy pink sauce. A creamy pink orange sauce that comes with either hot chicken or fries or this burrito.

It's generally a mayonnaise with some sort of spicy shit in it. That's the best. Hey, for our listeners in Holyoke, Massachusetts, this past week I was in Holyoke, and I had Crave, a taco place. Oh, I thought you meant Crave the cereal with a K. No, no, with a C. It was very good.

Go to them. Was it epic? It was epic sauce, and I loved it. I got one of each of the pork, beef, chicken, and shrimp. Wow. And it comes with this taco equivalent of au jus sauce. Oh, yeah. Drippins.

Yeah. I may have eaten some with a spoon, like a soup. You got to dunk it in the drippins. The now defunct El Patio on, was it Western or Vermont in LA? We used to go there. They had a moat,

a chorizo fat moat, where they would take, they would dredge your tortillas through red fat. Wow. And then cook it or that was the last step? Let's say you got an asada taco. They take your tortilla, drip it through a chorizo fat moat,

and then put it on the grill, sizzle up, and then put your asada on it. You know, Tim, what they should do is like, you've been to a sushi place where the sushi comes around on boats. They should have a chorizo fat that kind of goes around and your food just kind of floats by you just grab it chorizo river I gotta do one of those sushi boat

things yeah that's fun we also gotta do a lazy river oh yeah for a sloppy boys blowout let's get the three of us damn I love lazy rivers get some beers get some girls and go down the lazy river. Let's go to a fucking water park soon, please. Can we just do that?

Or I just did a lazy river at Mandalay Bay in Vegas. But, guys, we should go to Austin, Texas and do a river float. You bring an onion bag full of beers. You have some brisket at the end. A friend of mine saw a couple of people having sex there. Wow. On the floats? No, at the end of the river on land float, there was people

in missionary on the dirt having sex. Wow. They must have been on shrooms, man. They were trying to start a family. Wait, I think they were trying to start a fire. Were they skinny? Yeah, they're skinny as sticks. Were they two Groots? Gro groots you can't have sex you're gonna start a fire that's that's groot's problem yeah that's why he's still a virgin still haven't seen uh still have not seen you were so excited i will i'll see

it i'm gonna see it i I'm going to see it. I saw Spider-Man. Yeah, I saw Spider-Man. I saw Spider-Man. I got to see it. Across the universe? It's cool. Oh, man, it's cool. That's so cool because I loved Into the Spider-Verse, so I'm really excited for Across the Spider-Verse.

Oh, Tim, don't mock us. Nice. No, they're actually good. Don't. You're being facetious. No, I know. They are good, Tim. They are good stories.

No, dude, you have to believe me. I get it. Marvel movies, blah, blah. You got to see these spider movies, man. Jeff, mute him. Mute him. Well, here's the thing. The animation is really cool.

No, but guys. No, no. They have heart. It is. They have heart. They don't have heart. They have good storytelling. They have heart.

Get out of town. Yeah, yeah. You got to have a heart. I took my uh nephew to uh to see it uh recently and uh we stopped at a walgreens to maybe pick up a little candy just to bring in our pockets and uh some fucking guy at the register like gave us a spoiler i was like jesus oh really's like, I haven't seen it yet, but I heard this one thing.

It's not a huge spoiler. And they said it. I was like, great. That's fucking stupid. I don't want to say what it is, but it was just like, oh, man. You dork. He should be fired. That's what I... I talked to the manager about that, and he was like, I am the manager. I was like, well, then I'm fucking

shit out of luck. Alright, let me steer back to the drink. that, and he was like, I am the manager. I was like, well, then I'm fucking shit out of luck. All right. Let me steer back to the drink. I'm this far down. Chug it. Yeah, me too. Just a little bit more to go. I finished mine a long time ago.

I'm loving this, and I'll tell you why. I love martinis. They're so good. A savory drink. Tim, I know what's your fave. What's that? I know what's your fave. I know it's Mike's fave.

Yeah. Good. How do you feel, Jay?'s your fave. What's that? I know it's your fave. I know it's Mike's fave. Yeah. Good. How do you feel, Jay? Not my fave, but way up there. But you don't like the glass because you want to walk around the room. Hey, everybody, it's me, Dutz. Do you know that I'm a director?

Well, this was nice because it wasn't so much liquid that it went off to the way tippy-top. Yeah. I want it sharper. I'm going to do famous dave's devil's spit for my second round and see what um the what the fuss is and it's okay to use if you guys have sweet like bread and butter pickles that's allowed too a lot of the recipes i saw

online use that it's all i'm gonna do it for round two velastic extreme heat chips. Ooh. Are you going to stick with the one ounce of juice or are you going to go to the lower half ounce of juice? I think I'm going to stick to the same just because I really do like it a juice. Yeah, I like it a juice. That's good. Do you guys remember earlier when Tim was like, Tim was like, oh, have you had or heard?

And I said, no, I haven't even heard of it or had it. I was so fucking stupid back then. I have had this. That's 45 minutes ago. I know. I was younger then. I went to this. I got, I don't know how I got tickets for this.

I think it was like you go listen to a timeshare spiel and then you get tickets to this thing. I went to a cocktail cooking, cocktail making lesson with Kenny Loggins once. Did I tell you guys this? No, you never mentioned it. No. I never mentioned it. Well, it was like, you know, he's basically this huge conference room.

350 people were there. He's in front on the stage. Everyone's got all the ways to make a drink. And he's teaching us how to make piccolatini. What the fuck? It was crazy. It was like, and he's a nice guy. Three strange things, though. I thought. Three strange

things. I thought, in this situation. He couldn't remember the exact the whole word for one of the ingredients. Okay. Okay, so he had part of the word. Part of the word.

The other one was, he also just couldn't remember what one of the ingredients was called, which was like... Kind of a variation on the first problem. I think he just got like, he was out by the pool, and they were like,

hey, don't forget, you got this thing. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he just got up there and winged it. And the third thing, he's got like, he was out by the pool and they were like, hey, don't forget you got this thing. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he just got up there and winged it. And the third thing, he's got a great singing voice. We all know that. Sure. Have you heard his speaking voice? Come to think of it, probably not.

I probably haven't. It's strange. Yeah, nobody knows what Kenny Loggins sounds like. Couldn't sound like anything. Well, when he was doing the lesson, I kind of, you know, without dropping it in my brine or anything, I got my phone out and hit the record button on my voice app. And I'll share it with you now if, Jeff, you want to press play.

But this is, yeah, Kenny Loggins teaching us how to make pickle-tini. So just to get this straight, Kenny Loggins teaching us how to make pickle martinis. get this straight kenny loggins teaching us how to make pickle martinis he's got two problems though he can't remember one full ingredient and the partial other ingredient right and then his speaking voices and then speaking was unique to me it was unique to you yeah yeah i wouldn't expect it juice pick juice then you add a clear booze forgot the name but i know it rhymes with something shake it up and pour it into your martini glass cheers with me here's to the Piccletini! Everybody pour, everybody pour! Everybody pour, everybody pour! Everybody pour, everybody pour! Everybody pour, pig juice!

Thanks, everyone, for coming to my cocktail class. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go take a piss. class. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go take a piss. And maybe a shit. His speaking voice is not what I expected. Strange.

Strange, strange. Even his singing voice isn't that good. But it's strange. Strange guy. Sounds like Dudley Moore with a lisp or something. Something. Something's going on. He's got some or something something's going on that's some uh a long island lockjaw going on also it's weird he he couldn't think of the the name of the drink but he and he knew it rhymed with something he knew it rhymed with something but he couldn't think of probably couldn't think of that word yeah he's well he's forgetful i guess that's yeah he's he's uh very

he was it was very quick lesson, too. Yeah. So that was it? Just in and out? In and out, yeah. That's what a hamburger's all about. Hold on, hold on. He couldn't remember the name of the drink?

No. But then... He was calling pickle juice, pick juice. Yeah, but then he also said piccoltini at one point. Yeah, so he remembered that part. So what he forgetting pickle martini pickle juice he just forgot the name of that you know he's saying pick juice yeah okay because i guess it didn't fit in his

you know the phrasing of his song that he made up he has such a closed-minded view of phrasing, you know? I know. I know. It's done this way, and it can't be changed. And yet, martini glass, he shoved into where we all thought the word cup was going to be. Right. I was fully ready for cup, and then I got martini glass. Yeah. He's a freak.

Egregious. But we love him. We love him all the same. Yeah, come on the pod and defend yourself, Ken. We love your work, Ken. Ken. Yeah. Bye, Ken.

That's his name, Ken. Ken Loggins. All right. Let's go make a second round, huh? Yeah. Yeah, baby. And then we'll come back and we'll give it a serious appraisal. I'm going to do mine. I'm going to just do one ounce gin and then a half ounce pickle. You don't want to get tanked? I'm already a little tanked,. I'm going to do mine. I'm going to just do one ounce gin and then a half ounce pickle.

You don't want to get tanked? I'm already a little tanked, so I'm going to. I'm pretty tanked myself. I'm feeling a little fuzzy in the face. It's like a, like if it's, a martini is not supposed to be your first drink of the night, according to Ernest Hemingway. Says who? Big Bird?

Hemingway says you tiptoe in with an aperitivo Then you have your evening drinks And then you have your digestives What do I cannonball into my man Yeah First you get a swimming pool full of liquor Then you dive in it Huh? What's that?

Hip hop Kung fu Kenny I have that feeling of like it's hitting me too I feel flush and slapped in the face. Do you feel like that? Oh, yeah. Royal flush. All right, folks.

We're going to go. And when we come back, we'll have our final thoughts. Now we're back with round two. I got the Vlasic Extra Hot. Oh, yeah. It's a little foamier. Whatever they put in the Extra Hot, it's got a little more foamy viscousness. Remember how before I was saying, like, oh, I'm just going to do half the recipe.

I did the same specs. Michael. Still looks like highlighter yellow. I know. Swamp juice. To me? I did the same spec, but I did famous Dave's Devil's Spit. And when I tasted it straight from the jar, it tasted sweet.

Let's see what we got. Yeah. Is Devil's Spit like it's supposed to be hot? Because of all the extra hot. Hellfire. Yeahfire yeah okay it's got sugar on the nose it's sweet sugar on the nose and then and then the heat sneaks around back but um it's not sugar on the nose it's it's not like mcclure's whatsoever but it's good it's um i would say the sweetness doesn't go very well with vodka agreed uh the sweetness forward i don't like in any form really on the pickle chips or on the pickles but you know what i wish i'd gotten in retrospect you know you go into the grocery store and you see all these

natural pickles in a clear jar with clear brine but then i'm afraid they won't have that i want the pickle punch i associate the highlighter yellow with having like a really tart pickly punch but you want like i like a garlicky pick like those batons or bubbies they have such a big punch but they're they just don't have like food dye in them aren't isn't this yellow stuff is dye because think about it cucumbers cucumbers are not yellow or is it that a little bit of green comes out of the skin and makes the whole thing yellow no they add yellow five or something yeah really i i uh i don't really like those garlicky ones and i wonder if like my taste in pickles is more towards like the velaski yellow five ones i wonder if it's just because it's like i've had those more or grew up with those as a kid.

What do you bet when you go to a good deli, Mike, like you go to Katz and you get a pastrami sandwich, don't you like those ones on the table? Yeah, that's true, but they also give you like a bunch of different kinds and I'm not sure which is which. There's usually just a quick pickle and a half sour. Isn't that what they call it?

Red pickle? Quick pickle. It's like a grab and go well this this with the gin is uh better than the vodka for me really i don't like the sweet i wouldn't do sweet again but i could see the sweet working with something else with like bourbon or something just not with vodka yeah um all right i'm gonna go into my final thoughts which are yes this is an order again however i don't feel like I had the best. I had two versions of this drink tonight, and I don't think I had the best for me. Yeah.

There's a better one out there somewhere. You're always going to be searching in life. I think you're right. I think I like these. Now that I'm drinking a second one, I'm really getting sick of the pickle taste. What? This might be a one and dunner you know what i mean oh so not an order again oh order again but one for the night right mike

when you do two in a row if you did not order yeah order again in life if you have a martini night you probably have three martinis would you go dirty in all three of them because i don't i can't oh i think i would probably do two martinis at most i don dirty in all three of them? Because I don't. I can't. I think I would probably do two martinis at most. I don't think I've ever done three. Oh. Unless I'm... Cross-eyed drunk.

Crazy. If you have three, you end up on a flatbed. Yeah. Yep. No, that was actually two, but it was a sidewalk slammer. Yeah.

The slammer started the party. A sidewalk slammer, two martinis, and don't forget the ribeye yeah that's true i love this drink i'm gonna drink it again i think pickle martinis should be quite prevalent i think olive brine is better but i think pickle martinis should be fully in the stable in the mix there should be more savory cocktails in the world folks and i enjoyed this sweet one's bad but i enjoyed my dill pickle martini at the beginning and if i were not on a podcast i would probably dial back

the juice uh and have it be just a hint of pickle for like a real because yeah i wouldn't i wouldn't drink several rounds of this much pickle juice is kind of nasty. No. I kind of think it needs some other thing in it. I think if I was to make these again, I would do less pickle juice. See, I think something else in there. I feel like the bitter. So is pickle juice weaker than olive juice brine wise? Does that make sense? Right, right.

I know it's a different flavor, but I also feel like I want more punch. I would guess yes. I think that pickle juice to me seems somewhat drinkable, whereas olive brine is like zippy-ow. Yeah, seawater basically. Yeah. Well, folks, let us know what you think. Rank and report.

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Put your notebook back in your breast pocket and walk away. Close your little notebook, stick it up your ass. Spindle it up until it's tight. Anyway. They know what to do. Tight little cylinder and... That's our show. Follow us on social media at The Sloppy Boys where we release these

recipes ahead of time. And if you can't get enough boys, you gotta go to patreon.com slash the sloppy boys where we just talked about the best liquor logo on the blowout that's a fun that would appeal to me if i were a podcast listener and i just listened to like an hour of pickle martini talk and i would i'd be like best liquor logo that's something that's interesting i want to hear these guys talk about that what's what's so nice about the discord is you you hear us on this and then the discord people get to listen to us it's not the discord sorry patreon get to listen to us uh drunk unfiltered the real us right yeah yeah they're gonna they're gonna it's a little looser. It's a little bit, you know, the music's up a little too loud.

The neighbors are saying, hey, we got to, but hey, I don't know what's going on, man. I thought it was low. I thought it was low. I thought it was low. I thought it was low. They tried to make me change the volume. I thought it was low, low, low. That's good, Tim.

Hey, we should come out with more songs soon. That would be fun. Hearing you spin that little tune just off the cuff like that makes me want to hear more from my boys. Yeah, I wouldn't mind. More, more, more. You cut this from the episode, but I wouldn't mind another single off of forthcoming Sloppy Boy's album.

What? I wouldn't also mind a single coming off of that album. Yeah, shit. Yeah, yeah, shit. I'll make sure to cut that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all in the cutting room. Cut that out.

We're safe. Ooh, and Slopheads, if you want to see me do some stand-up, I'm going to be in Chicago on July 28th and 29th at the Lincoln Lodge. I'm doing a... I'm the headliner. Would you believe that? So I'll be doing a long set. Up to an hour, they say. Can it be done? Yes, it can. And it can be very funny.

Come check that out. Go on the Lincoln Lodge website and get tickets there. Nice. Folks, get over there. Hell yeah Folks, get over there. Hell yeah. Great episode, guys. Thank you. And great episode those of you listening at home. You're a part of the show as well. A very important part.

We love when you tell a friend. Get them on board with the slops. Keeps the engine running hot. Hey, and don't forget about the sloppyboys.com website. Grab yourself a t-shirt for these summer months. Oh, yeah. Log on and spend, spend, spend.

Ooh, I got a, I'm working on a little bit of a design for Coolidge, the cat, the orange cat. Oh, the Coolidge, the solid orange cat. You're doing character designs? No, I got a little idea for a new t-shirt for it, so look at that. It might take me, because I'm the best drawer in the world you know there's another cartoon cat we forgot all about I don't know his name

or the name of the strip but the strip has a penguin in it a thoughtful penguin is the cat orange? yes penguin and cat comic you'll know as soon as I say it. I found him.

Opus. Opus the Penguin. Oh, yeah. What's the cat's name? Bill. Bill the Cat. And guess what? Bill Clinton.

He's got stripes. Yes, I remember that. My mom used to have a little stuffed animal of Opus. He was holding a little heart. He always looks sort of zonked. I think it was from the same person who did Doonesbury. I feel like that was the same world.

Remember Doonesbury? From the guys who brought you Doonesbury? When is Marvel going to introduce the Doonesbury crew into their universe? Yeah. Bill the Cat. Bill... Oh wait, what did I say? Yeah, Bill the Cat. Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin. Bill... Oh, wait. What did I say? Yeah, Bill the Cat. Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin. Mmm.

Wow. Wow. Don't forget Habs. Oh! Well, he's a tiger. He's an orange cat. Yeah, same with Tigger if we're going into tiger territory. Cat family.

Give it up for your boy. Oh, I'm drunk. Yeah, we got it. What are we talking about? Let's cut this. No, this is all good stuff. People love this. Bye, folks.

Bye. Give it up for your boys. Give it up for your boys. Give it up for your boys. Give it up for your boys