The Sloppy Boys - 174. Old Cuban

Episode Date: February 16, 2024

The guys make a new, Mojito-inspired drink from New York bartending legend Audrey Saunders.INGREDIENTS: 1.5oz/45ml AGED RUM.75oz/22.5ml LIME JUICE1oz/30ml SIMPLE SYRUP2 dashes ANGOSTURA BITTERS6 to 8 MINT LEAVES2oz/60ml BRUT CHAMPAGNE OR PROSECCOPour ingredients (except the wine) into a cocktail shaker. Shake well with ice and strain into a chilled elegant cocktail glass. Top up with the wine. Garnish with mint sprigs.Recipe via the International Bartenders Association I www.iba-world.com 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. Hello Jeff, I have issue with you, I'll talk about it in a second. Huh? And Tim Kalpakis. What is up? no issues here nice what stylies any stylies today tim issue list stylies my issue jeff my issue with you specifically and it just came up just now when are we going to start this podcast mid conversation like all

the fun ones we're supposed to do come downptown, Jeff. Every once in a while. No, we're specifically supposed to say, are we rolling? Oh, yeah. We already started. Come on. I want to feel like

I'm on the cat range. Would it help if we do that when we come back from break? Yeah. Are we back from break? No, it doesn't work if you plan it. Especially if we're coming back

like we made drinks in our kitchens and we took selfies in our bathrooms. Yeah, alright. No, tomorrow? Not tomorrow. Next week, a smooth what is it called? Media res beginning of the

podcast. Oh, are we starting? We don't have to, yeah. It's just, you know, I try to create a little conflict on this show so people so there's somewhere to go. I mean, we need a resolution of you and me by the end of this app nice okay uh tim you said you were just mentioning like you know acting making it seem like where it's just off the cuff but we took pictures and we made the cocktails and stuff it's so funny to think of anytime you see any social media or something, somebody behind it was like, oh boy, okay, I got to get the lighting here. I got to hold my camera. I look insane. So let me

take a shower. All right, now I'm going to post about my concert coming up and it's so uncool, all of it. And like the 50 draft photos, like there's the one that went up and then there's like the fucking million around. I remember, uh, um, uh, John early posted something once that was this year. I don't even know what it was,

but it was years ago. And he posted like a grid of all his takes from some, like he, he did the picture. Then you swipe through and then all the takes from it. And I thought that was very funny. I thought it was fun. Hmm.

Mike, a little chapstick. Nice. My fucking lips. You gotta a little chapstick. Nice. My fucking lips are... You got to be careful, Mike. It's addictive. People say it's addictive. Burt's Bees chapstick.

It'll addict you. But actually, I'm doing Burt's Bees over here. I found this in my own home. It is mine. Okay. But I lost it for a while. And I have probably any one time five chapsticks floating around in my bags coats the prodigal bert's bees has returned it's returned but my fucking uh it's so dry in my

apartment i woke up this morning you need a humidifier i'd have one but it's still i was dealing with dry lips from i was on a trip i went to pittsburgh i want to thank everyone for coming out to the pitt. That was real fun. But I stayed in a place that was very dry and I did not have my... Was it a sauna? A dry sauna? Stop. Was that where you stayed?

Stop, Jeff. Jeff, we're already at odds today. And you want to come at me with this shit? Well, I was going to tell you about my we spa experience but maybe we save it for a blowout i want to hear about that i want to hear about that privately anyway i woke up this morning my fucking lip was split right down the middle and front we moved on from chapstick talk we're talking spas i want to tell you i saw sandler i saw adam sandler

do stand up the other day i want to talk about that. Jeff's in the spa, yet we're still on Burt's Bees. Now we're off to Burt's Bees. We're going to talk about Burt's Bees. The whole hour. Let's keep it to an hour today. Thank you very much. I've gotten, I saw everyone in Pittsburgh when they came up to me after the show. I was saying hello to people.

They all said, hey, big fan of the Sloppy Show. Does it have to be ever over an hour? Come on. Keep it tight. They said that. I said the main, you're sure the main. They said 57 is about right. Does it have to be ever over an hour come on keep it tight they said that i said the main you're sure the main they said 57 is about right does it have to be ever over an hour people are telling you this they shouted

it at me it's not that you're tired and want to stop midway through every podcast we do i could do this show at noon on a wednesday and still not want to be doing over an hour. Mike, I've really never listened to any other podcast and hear one of the hosts just yawn on the mic. No shame about it. I think it's what gives us more of that conflict I was talking about. Oh, yeah. That's good. Yeah.

Works for the Doughboys. Okay. Yes. Love the Doughboys. Tim, you saw The Sandman. Jeff, you went to a spa. We're going to talk about that. We spa. Jeff, did you go like overnight? No. Because that's the cool, I hear you go. I got plans at night, Tim. I sleep.

They have a napping floor. They do. They have a quiet room. And then beyond the quiet room is like the sleeping room so there's two layers of quietness damn damn that's good did you did and you didn't do any napping or sleeping no i had work to do if you're napping i'm showering i'm shaving i'm i'm soaking if you usually shave there yeah they have everything yeah i know they have it but that's weird tim i maxed it out If I'm ever at a spa or something, I'm using stuff I don't use. Like, what is this? If you were, if you're in the napping room and you're taking a nap, it's, you know, say 15, 20 minutes, and then you start to

dip down into REM sleep, do they wake you up and move you to the sleep room? Tim, you can do whatever you want. I think they do, but they don't wake you up um they pick you up they pick you up and just cuddle carry you i tell you when i was at uh balnea that spa out like in the mountains outside of montreal i i was in a in a kind of a room with a like little round beds and a fire and there's like me and like 20 people and uh all these like french people and And then I fell asleep and then I snored myself awake. And I was like, oh my God, I wonder how long these people that like paid to be at this fancy spa were just listening to me like sawing away.

Sacre bleu. Sacre bleu to you. Dang. Damn. Well, we're going to, we're going to Wii Spa when you come out, Mike, and we'll do a whole thing about it. Do a blowout. Perfect.

I'll be there. I'll be there in March. Great. And I get to show you the clay, the clay ballroom. Oh, now what do you think that is? We don't go into the ball.

I'm thinking of ball pit, but that's not, you can't, you don't, you don't dance in it. It's not that kind of ballroom. It's not, it's not clay Tatum.

Is it? No. And it's not Les Clay Pool either. Oh, Clay Pool would be cool. Are there pools at this spa? Yes. What type of things are there? Cold plunge, hot plunge?

Hot tub, cold tub. Steam room sauna. That's in the naked section. That's men only, butt ass naked. Just the boys. People showering, shaving, doing all that stuff. Showing off the cheeks, baby. Women have their own.

I haven't seen it. I don't know what goes on in there. Then there's the co-ed floor. People chilling out on puffy little mats. People ordering food at the cafeteria. Reading a book from the library. Checking their email on the computer lab. Is there an arcade with games on free play yes

what play wait is this are they still in are you still in uh your bathing suit you're everybody is in the standard we spa shorts and t-shirt okay and then there's um in the co-ed section there is a salt uh sauna i like that jade sauna like super hot sauna. Like one that feels like you're walking into a brick oven. And then the best one is like the clay ball one where picture like... Wait, keep that a secret. I want to be surprised when I see it go in the clay ball room. Don't step on

the clay balls though. We'll save that for Patreon. You got to tune in. Now when we do this episode, we are that means all three slops penis out. Penis out. Basically that episode should be a review of, it's really a penis review. This is going to be bad news

for me because I don't, this is not my best feature. Not my best foot forward. Let's say this, start trimming the pubes now so that you're ready by the time. Tim, would I if there were some shears that could handle the job? If there were some pubes to trim?

If they would grow? I never got that far in puberty. They're not coming in. Full armpit hair. I could do a beard and a mustache, but no. I'm sorry. We'll get you a graft, Mike. We'll take hair from your ass.

I'll just wear a merkin. That's fine. Wait, I want to hear about the Sandman, Tim. Me too. The Sandman. You got to love him, right? Funny. Love the Sandman.

Have a doobie. Imagine, we've all seen him together, but it was at like, you know, the Nokia Theater, some giant huge show. Yeah. But it was at the Nokia Theater, some giant, huge show. This was just him doing maybe like 90 minutes because he's putting together a new – He just did a 20-city tour. He's putting together a new Netflix special. But Dynasty Typewriter, small venue in LA.

Intimate. This is like a 200-seat theater. They announce the last minute. It sells out in like a minute. And it's just like this teeny room. And it's just like, okay, ladies and gentlemen,

Adam Sandler, no open or anything comes out. Does 90 minutes. He's so funny. I'm right up front laughing. Nice. That's it. He's got,

I'm going to do another, she's another one of my jokes. And here's me. He's going to do a joke. So no, no accompaniment, no piano guy from his special, right? No, I believe that dude is now a writer on SNL, but Dan Bulla, I'm going to say his name is, I think. Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and say that as well.

But no, Sandler, first he was just standing at the mic doing standup, but then he had he had an acoustic guitar in a stand and then he picked it up and did a lot of like songs that are like not even full songs but are uh basically like 30 seconds of music with a punch line kind of like what's he singing about and then and it was it's great it's good for tiktok there you go thick deck he did a bunch of those in his last special kind of just a little mini song um but it was so just he's so good at just effortless now he's like 57 he's still dressed like a little kid you know he had like big green like pattern pants and a hawaiian shirt and a hoodie and it was like hard to look at but uh he's so not trying you know like none of the you don't there's not a sweaty punch line because you're just laughing even just all along the way he's

not even pulling out the big guns he didn't't even do voices or yell much. He's just so chill. The whole thing was just like, the guy's effortless. Interesting. Let me ask you this, Tim. Did it feel like he, was he like reading off a notebook? You know what? He was reading off an iPad. They were

scrolling for him. Oh. Wait, they were scrolling for him? On a monitor or something like it like he had like a little uh prompter that that he was scrolling himself or someone else somebody else in the wings like scrolling for him ah i wonder if that that's like word for word or just what's coming next um yeah it might just be a set list yeah or then lyrics for the songs because then there was a couple of full-length songs did you get the idea he was just doing joke joke joke or was he like okay what's in the room what are you doing who are you well

he he did riff around a little bit something some organically really funny stuff happened with like some people in the audience and he played off it well but for the most part it felt like he was just like i'm doing a whole bunch of bits to see which ones you guys laugh at and i'm gonna carve it down to an hour. And so it was like a big, long show on tour. He does like two hours. He does like an hour of standup,

then takes out the guitar and he plays all the hits. Wow. Yep. Sounds cool. And he plays like huge stadiums. When you say, um, like he didn't take out the big guns and didn't do a lot of like yelling and,

and like voices and stuff that kind of reminds me of, I heard Chris rock one time say that when he's prepping a special, he gives it like no mustard. Yeah. And, and there's like really kind of just cause he knows he's judging the writing. Yeah. Yeah.

He's like, I know I can sell this with like performance and I really don't want to do that. Like I want to hone the set so that I think his quote was like, if I die the day of the show that my mother could put on the show and still kill. I wonder if that'll ever happen. But like, you know, Sandler and him are contemporaries, Tim.

I wonder if he took a page out of Rock's book. The bad boys of SNL. You know who's not going to fill in for him if that ever happens? Who? Will Smith. No, they have beef. Nope. They had beef from the moment he the moment will slapped okay chris on

stage he had beef with him yeah that was a turning point in their friendship that was definitely all right let's get into booze news why why stop we don't need to relitigate this chris rock stuff no but we know that that's when the beef with them started. Well, you make a good point. Like, you can't really do a timeline of their relationship and not mention the slap. This was huge.

Right, the slap was huge. And I'm thinking maybe there was beef before that. Why would you make a timeline of their relationship otherwise? I have to for a school project. Can we start Booze News? Sure, but I'm just saying. Hit it. Booze News.

Bip, bip, bip, bip, bip. Hit it. Hit it. Okay, great. Here we go. And we're back. Grimace pisses in hand. It doesn't look bad. Did you stir yours? Because I got a beautiful two-tone yellow top, purple bottom. Raw, raw, raw. I got a beautiful two-tone yellow top, purple bottom.

I got a beautiful two-tone yellow top, purple bottom. I got a beautiful two-tone yellow top, purple bottom. I got a beautiful two-tone yellow top, purple bottom. I got a beautiful two-tone yellow top, purple bottom. Soggy bottom brag wastoed yellow top, purple bottom. Soggy Bottom Brag was sent

to us by Pixel Tree Mill, and if you have a Booze News theme, email it to thesloppyboyspodcast at gmail.com. That little piano reminded me of Broccoli by Drum and Lil' Lil' Yachty. I love it. That's one of my favorite songs.

You were on a broccoli kick i remember this and i'll tell you what i've been eating a lot of broccolini the two dram songs broccoli and what's his other song that he's got i spy oh i mean those those are like fucking songs from there's there's two that just like always come up on my uh spotify because i listen to a lot of one of them was broccoli and the other one i forget is it dream i spotify guys i looked i watched a video of him saying his own name he says drum i was calling him dream too i was calling dream too um what were you that what was the phrasing on that uh a purple beautiful two top yellow two two tone yellow topper is it a bramble bramble i think new y Sour would have a red top, yellow bottom, or

purple top. It's a bramble or one of the ones that came on the heels of the bramble. Or a Grimace Piss? No. No. Grimace Piss was pretty much purple. Wait, no. At the top of that track, didn't it say Grimace Piss? The fuck? Play it again. It says Sloppy Bottom Brag.

Oh, you want to hear it again? I just want to hear the... The unprecedented double play of the Booze News theme? I know, this is weird. And we're back. Grimace pisses in hand. It doesn't look... I got a beautiful two-tone yellow top purple bottom. I should listen to the things that go on in this podcast.

Yeah, me too. Oh, shit. I got a beautiful two-tone yellow... I should listen to the things that go on in this podcast. Yeah. I got a beautiful. Do you guys want to hear the booze news of the day? Yes. And then I do want to get back to this Chris Rock thing. Mike, you're in luck. You're in luck.

No, no. I hope he's not in luck. He's in luck. He's in luck. Jeff, Mike's in luck. I hope he's not in luck. I pray he's not in luck. He's in luck. Jeff, Mike's in luck. I pray Mike's not in luck. Mike, you're in huge luck because listen to the top news story. Do you guys remember our beloved Danish film? Another round? Yes. With Mads Mikkelsen. Mads Mikkelsen. It's a wonderful movie about a group of teachers who decide that it's not, you shouldn't go through life totally stone sober. You should have a BAC of like 0.02 or 0.03. They're like 0.05.

They're like microdosing alcohol, but in a professional setting. Yeah. They're like, they're saying like you should always be at a two drink buzz your whole life or something like that. And it's a great movie. If you like this podcast on our patreon show the blowout we watched and talked about it but just in general it's like a it's a great movie and especially if you like booze um but there is an american remake coming

produced by leo dicaprio my favorite sketch comedian cappy cappy and guess who cappy has tappied to helm the film rock chris rock is directing directing taps rock tap tap rock cap tap slap Cap, tap, slap. Ooh. Slapped. Cap taps the slapped. Ooh, the slapped. That's good. Yeah. See, you should write for variety, Tim. What if Chris Rock's next special is called The Slapped?

Or that's like a drama movie he comes out with. Is his next special the one after he addressed it? Yeah. I mean, I don't know. Taylor milked the Kanyeye thing for a hundred albums am i right oh new taylor album coming out uh in april yeah and i'm hearing more and more about this french blonde that the drink that she likes the saint germain and whatever like oh yeah that's still that's still happening so we should do that we making it. Maybe we do it in April, the week her album drops.

Man, what a, what a productive lady, huh? Oh my God. Can you believe it? She, yes,

she is getting up at the crack of dawn, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I'm a little concerned because I wouldn't, another round is one of these, the Danish movie.

It's part of that. What is that Danish movement of the 90s? Dogma 95, Kim. Yeah. This, now there's absolute humor to this movie. And Mads Mikkelsen, everyone in the movie is like, you're laughing, but there's a, it's, you're really feeling a lot in this movie as well. There's heart. But now I'm wondering, there's heart.

I, in general, I'm a guy who doesn't want heart in my comedies. I want a hard comedy, but a heart movie being funny is great. I'm looking at, I'm saying, Leo, you're my boy.

Why are you not tapping a Marty to direct this? Chris Rock. What are you? He directed like five, take five. Top five. I like that. i thought that was like a really good one it was kind of a woody allen vibe right did he i wonder if he directed he was in a saw movie did he wrecked or no yes i think he wrote that or at least he pitched it like he went to the

saw people and was like i have an idea for a saw movie damn isn't that crazy that is crazy because i i never know like if you have a franchise, so I was probably what? 14 movies now. Yeah. I don't know, but it's, I just assume they get those from whatever writer and just like crank them

out. But I like that they're taking some, uh, putting some thought into it. Yeah. Okay. I like that. Um,

and I have one other quick little piece of booze news, uh, quick, quick bit. Uh, this, this involves a boozy band, um,

that has a certain discord that I just mentioned. And if you, if you subscribe to our Patreon, you get access to the discord, you can befriend, you can befriend all these other slop heads and, and have a great social life. Um,

did you guys see on the Discord what they'd been up to recently? They had a bracket and they voted on the best Sloppy Boys song and this was orchestrated by Discord user JD. Great work, JD. Not the initials JD like Jeff Dutton.

J-A-Y space D-E-E. Nice. That was a close one. I feel like this was happening all month. They're voting. There was a bracket. There was a winner's bracket. There's a loser's bracket. There's a championship.

And then the winner of the best Sloppy Boy song. Did you see what it was? No. Let me guess. I'm guessing Tom Collins. Tom Collins. There you go. It's like the rookie card.

You got to like Tom Collins. Yeah. That's our Wayne Gretzky guy. But that's because it's track one, album one. So I wonder if all the rest of the results were just chronological. Collins. Yeah. That's our Wayne Gretzky guy. But that's because it's track one, album one. So I wonder if all the rest of the results were just chronological. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. But it's, it's that, but it's also a ripper and it's pod episode one. And it's a video. We made our first video, but it's not our biggest track on Spotify. Uh,

uh, uh, here for the beer has double, if not triple. Woo. Yeah. That has like five, 600,000 listens, I think. And I saw that Tom Collins

is almost at the 200,000. It's crested, man. It's just crested. But you know Collins. Tom Collins, that's your encore. If you've seen the Slops Live, you know we're playing that dead fucking last. That's why you say Slops Live, Jeff. Should we tease that we're going to be playing shows in March?

I would say don't even tease it. Say we're going to play Chicago and Milwaukee. Oh, okay. Chicago, Illinois at Beat Kitchen, April 25th and 26th. Milwaukee, we're playing Cactus Club, April 27th. That's an early show. The doors are at 5 p.m., folks. But the Chicago shows, that's two nights in a row. That's an early show. The doors are at 5 p.m., folks. Ooh.

But the Chicago shows, that's two nights in a row. That's two nights. Thursday and Friday, ooh. And we've played Subterranean before, but this time we're playing the sort of sister venue, Beat Kitchen. Beat Kitchen, yeah, yeah. That's going to be fun for me. That's going to be a good time in my life.

Also, we're playing in fucking March in L.A. Well, is that it for Booze News? Who could possibly top that? Wrap it up. Wrap it up. Wrap it and tap it, baby. That's it for Booze News. Let's kick shell! Well, we know that for

sure. Ninja Turtle. Karate Snail. The Ninja Turtle. Battletoads on the half shell, baby. battle paddles all right mike why do you don't make that face you have the drink of the day we both know it i was waiting for you to say who's got the drink of the day it's me for crying out loud it's me hi for crying out loud today we're talking about a drink called the old cuban you've had no no or heard it's a new it's a new era drink off the iba i think we have three ibas

left after this yes wow i think even two i think we had three until just this very moment perfect let's get those done and get because we've realized we've come to learn that the iba is kind of like shifting year after year and they were a sham to begin with we think this on their best day they're not worth our time this one i think got on to the iba like uh oh yeah not it wasn't on there when we first started they must have removed one and added one or something they every year they update it and it's kind of funny to see the ones they put out to pasture um they put out to pasture they shoot it now they it's mating with it's made it's fucking it's just living out its life that's all it's fucking its way yes what was the end of that it's just fucking its way through the life. It's just fucking its way through.

Wherever it's going. Yeah. So we got to get this before the numbers start getting bigger on us. Today, we're talking about the old Cuban. This is a drink that is new. It was invented in 2001. Okay. Nice.

By Audrey. What song? one okay nice by audrey what song what song what film i know i know a monkey plays the drum with a with a bone monkey bone monkey bone brandon frazier all right hold on let's let's not get away from ourselves. Yeah, this is a sensitive moment, rolling out the drink, Tim. Yeah, this can be, this could go good, this could go well or poorly. I hope it's goaded. So, in 2001, Audrey Sanders, okay? She is, I did some research on her because I didn't know who she was. She's a big name in cocktail lounges and the new york cocktail scene wow i feel like we've

brought we've talked about her before no well i think that she maybe i don't know what this drink but is she involved with like the pegu club yes i've never been there but i know that that's a big very respected cocktail it yeah it closed It was like 2005 to 2020. It was around and closed during the COVID pandemic. Yes. COVID changed so much about the Pegu Club. Right. The Pegu Club. I remember Pegu Club before COVID was like open.

You could go. You order drinks. And then after that, it was like you're like zooming on in quiplashing and you're like yeah that's like i'm not going out to the club as much anymore yeah i want to twerk at the club but you know yeah i'm with you uh okay so she uh had this club she was she ran it she was also before that, though, she started off. This is interesting. She was co-founder of a corporate cleaning company. OK. Later in life, later in life, she said, I'm going to start working as a bartender. She worked as a bartender at Waterfront Ale House in Brooklyn.

Then in a class, a cocktail making class, she met Dale DeGroff. We know this name. Oh, my God. King of the Cosmo. Dale DeGroff. We know this name. Oh my God. King of the Cosmo. King of the Cosmo. King of the cocktail. She worked with him and she was, she's sort of, I'm going to say apprenticed with him. Okay. I don't know if that's the actual term, but she would go work with him, work on like for

free at like charity events and stuff like that. She went on to work at a, wrote him down, Tonic, Bemelmans. We know that. Mike, you love Bemelmans. Pegu Club. So this, she invented this drink while she was working at The Beacon.

I don't know that bar either. Beacon Theater. Yes, this is 2001, right? The cocktail renaissance is getting big. She invents this drink we all drink we also invented the gin gin mule you might like that jeff gin gin mule i think it's yeah gin gin i don't know what the i'm guessing it's ginger beer in there a ball mule most certainly should right what what is what is a mule usually maybe it's gin maybe it's a gin mule

instead of a vodka mule ah oh vodka is the other yes yes yes yeah you're right that's what it is it's gin and ginger beer and mint and i've seen this on menus in mint and lime um but this drink so yes she made this in at the beacon 2001 i'm going to give you the recipe now let me find it on my phone uh it was a drink inspired by the mojito right that makes sense drink i also do not like okay i don't think i'm gonna like this here we go six to eight pieces mint leave 45 milliliters aged rum 22.55 milliliters fresh joie de l'im. 11 milliliters simple syrup. Lime juice. You've got to tell people.

We have new listeners. Do the joke, but then say it. That's how I speak French. 30 milliliters simple syrup. Two dashes Angostura bitters. 60 milliliters, and this is where I run into problems, Brut Champagne or Prosecco.

Oh. Not going to enjoy this one. Method, pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker except the wine which i think they mean prosecco uh shake well with ice strain into an uh into chilled elegant cocktail glass wow top up with the sparkling wine garnish they've never specified elegant before this This is nice. It seems like each recipe is written by a different person. They usually say bullshit cocktail glass, run of the mill. Put it in a dirty glass. Elegant cocktail glass, garnished with a mint sprig. Now, I did some reading, and she uses a Nicanora glass.

That's what it's meant. The Nicanora glass we know from was named after Nick and Nora. The Infinite Playlist. Wait a minute. In the Thin Man book. Yeah. The series. But the Infinite Playlist people were named in honor of the Thin Man book.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you know, Jeff's just pulling. It's a U-shaped champagne glass. Or no, it's like a tiny. It's a tiny coupe. It's a U-shaped champagne glass. Or no, it's like a tiny. It's a tiny coupe. It's a coupe that's a little more tiny and vertical. Yeah. It's elegant.

And it's, you know, that's just exactly what the IBA said. It's elegant. That glass, my friend, was made by Dale DeGroff. What? That's what I came to understand. But Nick and Nora Thin Man is from the 30s. Dale DeGroff. What? That's what I came to read to understand. But Nick and Nora Thin Man is from the 30s and Dale DeGroff.

Well, maybe he was a baby when he invented it. I think no, I think he had these glasses made and named him after the Nick and Nora. Oh, yeah.

Oh, interesting. Now, I didn't understand as I was reading his Wikipedia was like he had the made for I think the Rainbow Room when he was working there or something. But I didn't understand if like they had them made for uh i think the rainbow room when he was working there

or something but i didn't understand if like they had been around for a while and then just went out of production and he just had new ones made or if he invented the size of the nick and nor glass all right right maybe he saw the movie and and and then just commissioned to have some made for the rainbow room i think that's cool as hell Michael, have you ever gotten to go to the Rainbow Room? No. Damn, I would love to go there. I've never been there either. Damn, that would have been great.

That would have been great podcasting if you'd been. But we should all go next New York trip. Let's all go up there. I've wanted to go there forever. Is that Top of the Rock? Is that that place? Yeah. I mean, it's a bar restaurant that's at the top of 30 Rock,

but I also know Top of the rock might be something different. That might be just like the tourist, like you look out or something or that's it. Oh yeah. Yeah. So wait, what's, what's the LA rainbow room? Is that any relation? No, that's the rain, just the rainbow club or the rainbow grill. That's the, that's the Hollywood vampires drinking club.

We went and said yeah we went yeah no but dale dougroff it was like he was mixing up martinis like in like the 70s at the top of 30 rock i wonder if we the sloppy boys could do a show on the strip somewhere i played it i played a set the fucking at the viper room viper room with charlene yee and armin weitzman oh right like 10 years like a long time ago they have a band name or was Room with Charlene Yee and Armin Weitzman oh right like 10 years like a long time ago did they have a band name

or was it just Charlene Yee and Armin Weitzman that's so funny they asked me to play a guitar solo and I was like at the Viper Room

hell yeah and uh we should see if we can do a show at the Rainbow Room I uh I played the Key Club with Gene Simmons' son Nick Simmons

oh yeah Gene Simmons Family Jewels, episode 102. Hey, and the three of us. Maybe I'll dig that up. With Fred Armisen, Scott Aukerman, and Mark Maron played the last, second to last show at Roseland Ballroom. Yeah, the IFC Supergroup. That was fun.

Yeah, for the upfronts, the New York upfronts. God. And then Lady Gaga played like two days later, and then they closed it to make condos. Wow. We do have a storied history, huh? Remember, we were sound checking. It was like us. Hey, stick around long enough, you're going to have a history.

Stop. We were sound checking with Mark Maron, Scott Aukerman, but Fred and then, uh, but, but, uh, Fred Armisen was not there for sound. He was going to be the lead singer of our band and he was not there for soundcheck. And then we had gotten word that it was like, well, he's, um, uh, taping, uh, Myers today, Seth Myers. And he's, he's really busy. And then we had a friend who was a writer on the show. We texted and we're like, is Fred really busy? And they're like, I'm looking at him right now. He's eating a taco. he was like a block away from us looking at him right now does he still do stuff on uh yeah he's still in the band like he'll like what if he's in

new york he goes and plays oh that's cool man that's a cool uh gig to be able to pop in and out like that which isn't it funny that that's the theme on Myers overall? We know a lot of writers that over the years have worked there and then taken a sabbatical and gone back and come and go and then even Fred's on screen and he can do it. Seems like Seth is pretty chill boss. Dude's chilled

out. It's funny to think of Seth being Fred's boss. Fred! Fred! I can call them by their first names by the the way, because I've met them both. Oh, nice. Cool. I'll call them Fred and Mr. Myers. I'm using a rum tonight that I've never used before.

I got it as a gift a while ago. It's called, I'm looking right at it. Tim, that one was for you. It's called Santa Teresa 1796, and it's a um venezuelan rum is it aged i'm sure 1796 is not the uh when it was made i don't think jeff what rum are you using appleton estate beautiful i i was looking at my appleton and it says aged and then i was looking at my havana club and it says a i mean i guess any rum but i guess any rum that has color to it because it's aged in a barrel right right oh versus your bacardi whites i might do half one run half the other just because i don't know

if either of them are right but i always know you mix two rums together it's pretty good it's pretty good it's pretty good well do you want to get into it yeah but after the ads well sure we'll play the ads yes but i want to see if this drink can overcome oh that prosecco oh that's gonna be i'm not looking forward to this look at the with the sorry so you would say this is a take on a mojito but if you look at the angostura and the champagne it's kind of like that champagne cocktail we had the champagne cocktail champagne cocktail it's kind of like that champagne cocktail we had. The champagne cocktail, right? The champagne cocktail. It's a mashup of the two. That's my official stance.

Okay, cool. Well, we'll see if that holds true after this. And we're back. Old cubans in hand lift them up be proud of them oh that looks nice look at you guys beautiful mine's a little haggard and yeah i had questions for you guys did you put the questions for lennon yeah for lennon uh did you put the mint leaves in the shaker and then also garnish with mint so it's like instead of muddling with like with a mojito you're just kind of shaking it up okay yeah but it pulverized the mint it did it made it murky and then my cocktail shaker didn't strain enough so that i had to bust out the hawthorne strainer and i still have little little leaf bits in there oh yeah this thing said doesn it say like fine strain?

Not on an IBA, it doesn't. I don't have a fine strainer. Yeah, it didn't say that either. Well, I'll just get mint in my teeth. Yeah, I guess I'll just get mint in my teeth. Also, the photo on the IBA doesn't have the garnish in the drink. It's tied around the

stem like a little bow tie. That's rather odd. Alright, sips. Sips. Mmm. Oh, yeah. I mean, there's still the Prosecco. The Prosecco haunts it a little bit, though, doesn't it?

It's not undetectable. It's nice to have a little bubble in there. It's like a spritz. Finally, Prosecco doesn't overpower. Guys, if you called this a mojito spritz, you'd like it. No. No. I am swayed by the mint a little bit, the smell.

Minty fresh. And the dark rum. Aged rum. Aged rum. Oh, this is great. I don't't know i don't know about this you know i i was gonna be a hater and i was gonna say why is the iba put a drink like this on there right because if it's a goose up mojito but it never spread out of new york and i've never heard of it i've never seen it what's it doing you know like i know not every new era drink is going to be something i've heard of but if you look through their new era section yeah i know

that paper plane i know the penicillin i know the spritz i certainly know this yeah sure um so so i didn't think that this deserved to be on the list but i'm'm tasting it. It's elegant. It's refined. Yes. I think it's probably you know, like they have to keep moving stuff around and adding things to the list. So this was just the next one they added, I guess. And some of these drinks, let's be honest, we've learned that like, oh, they're friends with the guys at the IBA.

So it's on the list now. Oh, the Vento. Yeah, the Vento. It was like designed in collaboration with the president of the Vento. It was designed in collaboration with the president of the IBA. It's ridiculous. Collab. That is a drink that has only ever been drank on

this podcast, probably. Yeah. Now, you guys, Jeff, you were so confidently saying that we have like two left. Or was that Tim? Me. Have you guys, have you gone through and actually like double check that we have like two left or was that tim me have you guys have you gone through and actually like double check that we've done all because i i'm every time i look at i'm like we haven't does this and you're like yeah we did this back in 2021 i've triple checked dog that thing really we're down to two i'm pretty sure i think they maybe did away with

a couple of the ones that we hadn't gotten to which is a relief but there's also a lot that we had been putting off and relief for you folks because you don't have to buy you know creme de banana come to who gives a fuck there was a lot of weird shit uh and we it's it's funny we avoided this one for so long because it's not hard to make but we were afraid of ones that had a lot of ingredients yeah and last week's i mean it was nice to shake this up for a normal amount of time and not five minutes. Yeah. Last week's was crazy. I'll tell you this. So we shook last time for three minutes for each drink that we made. Right. I, after I did, after I made that, I was washing all my stuff. I couldn't get the top off my shaker all week long.

stuff I couldn't get the top off my shaker all week long I would see it like in my uh I just kind of kept in the sink all day all week and was like trying to open it and washing it leave like leaving cold water and leaving hot water and then today I just had between my legs and popped off so did you have like a whiteboard of ideas you wake up every morning looking at, okay, I'm going to try the cold water. It was like TNT. We didn't work. Elbow grease. Have you ever seen, um, Oh wait,

Jeff, you said you have, you've, you have held in your hands in real life, a stick of dynamite, right? Yeah. Quarter stick.

And did it, was it red with a wick? Yep. It was exactly as you like bright red or cause I'm picturing like dark red. And, you know, it was about this, it was about yay big,

maybe like two inches tall. It looked like, um, it resembled a roll of quarters. We've all seen a roll of quarters. Oh yeah, certainly. I've about that thick. Y'all been to Chuck E.

Cheese, haven't you? And then, um, but the outside of it was like dark brick red and it had a thick green wick coming out of it. I've seen like M80s, like old school M80s before. Is that the same or different? I think it's the same.

I think an M80 is considered like a quarter stick of dynamite. Yeah, it looked very much like this. Interesting. Who's the band that plays I thought that was Gorillaz. Oh, that's M83. Ah. M83's got a cool song called Cyborg.

That's all you wanted to find out? I have something else to say. But it's a topic change, though. So you finish what you're saying about explosives i think this topic is kind of just windy and rambly anyway this might be a good time to leap over to a new topic i wanted to uh share my w post my w's here oh you have to do that here's a big w for the t-man okay so there was a um is this gonna be a long story yes there was an... Is this going to be a long story? Yes. There was an arcade in Echo Park called Button Mash.

Was there not? I'm loving this story, Tim. I've been. Take your time, baby. I've had a birthday there once. I'm all ears for a video game story. I went to probably Mike's birthday there, got a whole roll of tokens.

I don't know if I invited you that year yeah tim you were on a shit list that year we were feuding when i threw his 33 yeah i don't know if we got along that year i hated you at that point um i uh got a whole roll of tokens and then i did the tim thing i don't really like video games played a little probably probably Galaga or Tapper and tapped out. And then, but I had this whole roll of tokens and then they went out of business. They closed and I was like, fuck my life.

I might have done the same thing, Tim. And, but lo, I just heard three days ago, Button Mash lives. It's back. It is reopened. It's back. I've been. Yes, and I got a It's back. I've been. Yes. And I got a roll of tokens.

So we should go. I still have the tokens around. Wow. Nice. That's a good blowout too. But, but hold on. It's a W for Tim,

right? Yeah. It's a W for Tim. Yeah. Fly that W. Hold on to your tokens, kid, because you never know if the arcade will reopen.

Yeah, that's right. But it also applies to life. You know, it's not just about arcades and tokens. Hold on to your tokens. It might, tokens can be anything. It could be the people in your. That's right. But it also applies to life. It's not just about arcades and tokens. Hold on to your tokens. Tokens can be anything. It could be the people in your life that you love. Hold on to them. If they start to be bad for a while,

still hold on to them because you never know. You never know when you'll need to bring them to a video game store. Ladies, let's say you got a toxic boyfriend. Stay with him, okay? You never know. In a couple years, he could be good. You've seen Beauty and the Beast? Terrible. Terrible.

Terrible advice. You want your kitchenware to dance around, don't you? Yeah. You want your fucking spoons to sing, don't you, dude? You want your fucking candelabras to walk around the house, don't you? Stick around.

Does Buttmatch do food? They do food, right? Yeah, they do good food. It used to be this place called Starry Kitchen. I don't know if it's still that. No, now it's some new hip restaurant with weird food. But even then, I remember having like Korean wings and then being sticky all over the buttons. Yeah.

Oh, wait. Tim, you mentioned Tapper. Sticky all over the buttons. You mentioned Tapper. And I wanted to say they had another, like a sister game there called Logger, I think. Does that, Jeff, does that, I'm going to cross-check that with you. I bet Logger came first. It's called Timber, but yeah.

Timber, that's what it was. And what you, I forget what you do. You're like. I'm calling Timber. It's going down. I'm playing Timber. I'm playing Timber. I need some quarters i'm looking this up you chop down trees instead of serve beers it's good that's good blue collar gaming though does that

catch the song have a harmonica hook that's like a harmonica lead in that song yeah isn't it it's so weird hearing a harmonica in a modern pop song yeah There's a harmonica solo in Spice Girls Say You'll Be There that's just like real honky-tonk and so bizarre. In Stevie Wonder, Isn't She Lovely, there's a lead harmonica part and you're like, wow, look at him go. Say You'll Be There, doesn't that have that moment where it's like, ooh, I want you!

And then it's like, I think that's when the harmonica starts. Ooh, I want you. Hey then it's like, I think that's when the harmonica starts. I want you. Hey, you know that song from, did you guys see Saltburn? Yes. You finally did, Tim. Yes.

Oh, Jevin, you saw it. Yeah, but I've been wanting to talk to my boys about Saltburn for a minute. I'm going to talk about the last scene. It's a famous scene. Yeah, sure. Folks, this is a spoiler. This is definitely a spoiler. I'm telling you about about the last scene. It's a famous scene. Yeah, sure. Uh, folks, this is a spoiler. This is definitely what I'm telling you about the very last thing. That song, I forget who wrote that song. We got to credit her because that's her whole thing. The dorky boys. No, Sophie Ellis Baxter. Yes. So I was talking to a brit recently and she was saying that that song is especially

interesting because that when that song came out there's something i don't know if this is just the christmas thing or something in england where there's like the top 40 is like a huge deal for oh yeah that's in a love actually isn't it is like there's like the christmas top 40 and like that the rock star guy oh like the Rockstar guy. Oh, yeah, the Christmas Top 40. But I don't know what this is. So maybe it was that or maybe they do this several times through the year. I don't know.

But it was a big thing. It was coming down to Sophie. A lot. And Posh Spice. She was doing her first solo thing. Oh, wow. And Sophie ended up winning. So at the end of this movie, when the little runt is dancing around in the big castle,

it's like, look at me. I'm now here. It's an extra layer of fun for the Brits. Full disclosure, I stopped paying attention when you said Posh Spice. Because I started thinking about her dad had a Rolls Royce. I'm not going to do that because we don't repeat stories in the pod so i'll have to wait and listen you'll have to listen back no posh spice one uh beat out no sorry sophie beat out posh spice in when they were kind of going with murder on the dance floor yes with murder on the dance floor so so that song is especially interesting at the end of the movie it thematically

makes sense that that song it's it's the uh working class conquering the posh yes right that's right how about that good song how about that tea good song great wang that's what they say about that hold on what people say it's so funny when people hear real i read a story about when americans nice nice job there little guy you little fucking weirdo um me no no the actor uh what's his name he's very kogan very kyogen um he was he's very fun to watch i thought it was keegan too like keegan michael key but i think it is kyogen i don't know i don't know but look when that song came out and people were like how was this not a hit it was a hit but it didn't make it to america but like how did this not make it to america of course it didn't make it to

america listen to it it's like absolutely like a b-pop song i remember it like when i heard it in this movie i was like i know that song it made it to. But I'm an indie sleaze guy from back in the day, baby. You knew it from TikTok because you're a millennial, because you're a Gen Z. No, I'm an indie sleaze guy. I'm a pitchfork guy from back in the day. Is that where it's from? I guess so. Because that whole record.

Indie sleaze. That whole album. Yeah, it's all block party and stuff. It's all block party. There's some strokes in there, I believe. I was shocked there was no vampire weekend doesn't the whole thing feel like a vampire weekend movie it does oh but i thought the uh i haven't looked at the the aren't they all british uh artists on the

soundtrack i thought that was the whole thing uh but i swear there was a stroke song no oh yeah you just said strokes um i don't know well block party's british so that would be that but i i watched uh this is evelyn waugh book brideshead revisited and there was like a bbc series of it from the 80s with jeremy irons and salt burn when i watched i was like oh this is like absolutely like a horny modern it's like a take on br's head revisited yes yes and then i've i've heard the first trilogy of vampire weekend related to bride's head revisited because it's a three-part novel as well so yeah i was watching this movie being like when okay where's a punk hit me with a punk yeah never came uh looks like no strokes i was wrong yeah and you're right i'm seeing like

lady tron they're british block party cold war kids cold work i thought cold war kids is from la huh oh i don't know fucking shit hey to dry indie sleaze i was there man silver lake echo park back in the day i was dancing up iron man timmy we should we should comment like we we did not catch indy sleaze we were right there and we had no idea it was going on like one mile away from our place i was reading about it on my computer yeah okay indy sleaze is happening i was in ithaca college uh four hours from brooklyn like, like living it in my dorm. But, and then it was funny.

Yeah, we moved to LA and then we were like hanging out on the Sunset Strip not knowing that like Silver Lake was the coolest shit in the world and we were not,

we were not going there yet. But I saw it, like the tail end of it. I was going to the Echo or the, or Spaceland and seeing some shows I want to say.

Yeah, we played the fucking satellite. We're part of this thing man murder on the dance floor um okay yeah that hey hey is so that's so like doesn't cut it it's just like this milk toast British. That's why it didn't make the jump. What would you do to change the drink? Would you change the drink? I don't have any tweaks.

I thought it was perfect or what it was supposed to be. It was perfectly balanced. I might make a champagne cocktail with my round two because I opened up a mini bottle of Corbel and I'm going to have to use it. I've got the Angostura out. I have some cognac. I'm going to make to use it. I've got the Angostura out. I have some cognac. I'm going to make a champagne cocktail.

I can't believe you, Tim. I, uh, to change this drink. I don't know what I'd change. I, something's got to go.

Something's got to go. I don't like it. Uh, ultimately, but so you don't like mojitos and you don't like champagne. So you didn't like a mojito with champagne in it. I don't know what to do with it. That could change it.

You drink it and you shut your fucking mouth. You'd be grateful. You'd be grateful you got this opportunity to hang out with your friends, create art with drinks. Well, Mike, let me ask you this. Do you have anything else bubbly over there that you could put inside of the champagne?

Here's the true thing. I just don't want to make another drink really right now. Oh, sure. I just want another alcohol drink. And I appreciate you not pushing me further. Not with the tank up, huh? Damn February.

Hey, more for me. I'm going gonna tank up tank up real good maybe I'll have something else roll this what does this peer pressure

got to me no no I'm a beer yeah I'm a beer I'm a fucking bullshod I'll have to ooh yeah

hey how about this have an angry orchard they sent us each 24 cans angry orchard I am gonna do that for the blowout I'm gonna to crack some.

We love Angry Orchard. Thank you. You know what? I bet an Angry Orchard would be good in this instead of the Prosecco. That's true. It would be good instead of Prosecco. Angry Orchard. You could swap in cider for most Prosecco drinks.

There's something. I know I put a lime in here and I've had trouble discerning between limeade and lemonade before a beach to the punch everyone i'm like i'm like rabbit that way if you if you listen to the blowout i'm gonna say all the things that you hate about me first you're you're like b rabbit beloved rapper b rabbit um i forgot what i was gonna say oh something is like I forgot what I was going to say Oh something is like Lemony or I think it's just a Prosecco Each time I taste it I'm like

Maybe the lime maybe you're confusing I know but like lime shouldn't make me go Lime shouldn't make you go Lemon but neither should Prosecco So I don't know what to tell you Alright folks We're going to go make a second round and when we come back Final thoughts Oh Shit All right, folks, we're going to go make a second round. And when we come back, final thoughts.

Oh, shit. Oh, shit. And we're back, old Cubans. Round two uh i didn't change anything i i wish we were puffing on a couple of old cubans cigars oh yeah we should do another uh cigar blowout yeah we're still giving that was a good blowout hey there's a come to think of it there are a lot of good blowouts that's a better show the sloppy boys blow it on patreon.com is better than the sloppy boys podcast. For sure. I'll tell you something.

I have have things I was sometimes I was going to bring up on the main. Yeah. And I say it for the blowout. Because they're good. They're better. Yeah. Better stories, better topics. Just this is I go forever on that show.

This one, I'm like, let's get it done. Yeah, because you want to go to the blowout. Yep. just this is i go forever on that show this one i'm like let's get it done move it out yeah because you want to go to the blowout yep it's it's like jerry springer too hot for tv that's right now that we have the video component i can just nod and nod all right uh i didn't change anything about this i would have swapped out the prosecco but like i just got to use it up i don't want to hang it out use it up you don't have to change to use it up. I don't want to hang it out. Use it up. You don't have to change anything also, round two,

and you don't have to drink in the first place, Mike. The drinking is the least important part of this show. That's true. We have listeners who do not drink at all, and I love that. And they love the show more than anyone. Ooh. Poof. Hmm.

More than us. Me, I loved the drink of the day, but but i bailed on it and this is a champagne cocktail now i forget what's in that tim what's the red um it's kind of red because of bitters it's got cognac a couple drops of grand marnier sugar cube angostura champagne it's delicious oh so much better than normal champagne i would never drink champagne ever again if you could put angostura and cognac in it is that kind of like an old-fashioned then with with angostura sugar cognac brandy old-fashioned it's like a brandy old-fashioned topped with yeah quite frankly we've done brandy old- fashioned sweet sour and now a brandy old fashioned bubbler brandy old fashioned sweet

has seven up topping the net how do you keep them all straight you'd need a guide a bartender's guide internationally or you'd need to host a podcast and just pay attention every week or you'd need a book coming from the sloppy boys to Barnes and Noble's bookstores. Fuck.

Wouldn't that be cool? Coming to a Borders. It doesn't exist, but it would be cool. It will once we finish this damn IBA. Mm-hmm. That's the only thing holding us back. Now, can we publish a book that has other people's recipes in it? Recipes?

They're for the people. Hey, have you ever heard the term, I'm jumping topics. Have you heard the word swain before? Swain? Swain. Swaggy. Swain, swaggy. Dominique Swain? is that someone? Swain, a young lover or suitor, a country youth. A young Swain. I had it in my head that I heard the word Swain and I said, hmm, Swain, Swain, Bruce Swain, Bruce Swain. That's where they got his name. Bruce Swain. Bruce Swain.

That's where they got his name? Probably not, but got me thinking. That's where they got his name. Bruce Swain. Bruce. I wish the Batman world was set in the South. Who's going to do that movie? Who's going to do that movie?

Who's got the balls? Who's got the gumption to do that movie? Bruce. Yes, Alfred. Who's gonna do that movie? Who's got the balls? Who's got the gumption to do that movie? Bruce Yes Alfred You need to clean your suit Your bat suit They'll sue you Your bat suit

Alright final thoughts Submit them please Hold on Mike what's that they'll sue you You used to say that gallagher it's gallagher on wtf gallagher on the cat ranch when he walked off it has a deep cut he's talking about doing i what's he talking about he's like he tells a joke and he's like you can't tell that joke at a county fair he goes why they'll boo you they'll boo you yeah he was talking about like stuff he

can do in like places like boston and like rural places and stuff they'll boo he's a nut that guy my my um i'm not gonna order this again i didn't i didn't hate it as much as i thought i would i don't hate it uh i really thought i was going to dislike it, but I just don't. With all the other drinks out there, it's going to have to be a not order again. Sure. I pleasantly surprised, loved it, order again. Call it the Mojito Spritz. Yes.

I loved it. Order again. Not a Stone Cold Classic, let's be honest. But you get some nice aged rum in there and that's your main flavor. I did some daiquiris the other night using that Appleton and this is not very much different.

Does this daiquiri have mint in it too? Mm-mm. What are you going to do with the rest of your mint now? It's just going to sit in my fridge and turn brown. It's going to wilt. Mint doesn't really go in a food, really. You can make gum. Yeah, I can make gum.

Maybe I'll make gum. There you have it, folks. 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, we've talked about it like 12 times this episode, it's patreon.com slash the sloppy boys.

That's where you get the bonus, the better show, the sloppy boys blowout. It comes at you every week on Wednesdays. And this week, this week was a, this was a doozy. This is, this is the week to sub because we talked about, we brought back a great segment, memos and demos where we dip into our, this is memos and demos too. We dip into our personal archives. These are, we feel vulnerable.

We're sharing our deep dark memos with the people. It's cool. It's fun. It's cool. Very fun. Fun stuff happening over there. I am going to leave this pod and go there now. Me too. Bye, folks. We'll see you next week. Bye, folks. We love you. I wouldn't be caught dead here ever again. Peace. Peace. No, I do not do this anymore.

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