The Sloppy Boys - 205. Gimlet

Episode Date: September 20, 2024

The guys make and old and storied Gin drink named after a naval doctor, Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Desmond GimletteGIMLET RECIPE2oz/60ml LONDON DRY GIN.75oz/22ml LIME JUICE .75oz/22ml SIMPLE SYRUP Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.Recipe via Vinepair 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 and not stupid viral TikTok drinks. Classy cocktails that stood the test of time. This isn't, this isn't, this isn't freak pod.com where we do weird shit. No. Hate that stuff. I'm Jeff Dunn along with Mike Hanford. Hello.

And Tim Kalpakis. What is up? And we're your hosts, the band, the Sloppy Boys. It's nice to kind of keep things classy now, We're your hosts, the Bay and the Sloppy Boys. It's nice to kind of keep things classy now, rounding the corner into autumn. Yeah. Yes. It's a time to be traditional.

It is a time to be classic. It's the fall. What's the fall highball? Speaking of drinks that are not traditional or classic, me and Jeff had some stupid drinks this weekend at that Star Wars bar. What's that place called, Jeff? Oh, Scum and Villainy on, I want to say Hollywood or Sunset. Yeah, I'd never been.

Oh, I think I've heard of this place. It's an off-brand Star Wars, but they did a pretty good job with the vibe. But I was realizing after what really got me was it was like a hundred degrees outside and then we walked in and it was air conditioned. I was like, Ooh, it's like hoss. Yeah. Well, they did a good job, like arting it up. Like you could tell that it was like, they wanted it to be like a perfect Star Wars Cantina.

And this was before Star Wars land actually did it. But then, you know, they kind of had to be like, ah, it's just, it's a catch all nerd bar. Right. That's what they did at the, uh, the Beetleju kind of had to be like, it's just, it's a catch-all nerd bar. Right. That's what they did at the Beetlejuice bar. It was like, well, it's really just a Tim Burton bar. Some of the drinks will be like, live long and prosper. And some of the drinks will be like, the one ring. I had one drink, I forget what it was called, but it was silly and it was too, it was like a toasted marshmallow horchata type of drink. Yeah, that was silly. It was, and I it was silly and it was too, it was like a toasted marshmallow horchata type of drink.

Yeah, that was silly. It was, and I couldn't get through it, but then, but this is something that's on trend we've talked about. They had a lot of shot and beer specials. I had like a shot of bourbon and a mickle-tra. And a Tom Tom blood shot. And I was like, that's not, that's not very, that's not very Mos sizely of you.

No, but you did have some bantha wings to be fair. They were good. Real good. OK, now it's now. No, no. Hold on. Now, what's Bantha? Is that a care a little creature? Is that what Anselo cuts open to put Luke inside?

No, that's a tauntaun. That's a tauntaun. Banthas are the big hairy elephant looking things that the Tusken Raiders ride. Now, time and time again on this podcast, we hear Tim say, that's geek shit. That's nerd shit. I don't like that stuff. And yet here he is. And not even the not even the good Star Wars bar, because there's a good one in California.

Oh, yeah, I've never been to that one. No, I don't like geek, should I stand by? If I had to choose, everything I just said I'd disagree with. Would you give it all up? I would give it all up in a heartbeat. All those moments with Luke, all those checking out Leia, Tim, you little freak. You old nasty man. Get a life.

You know what's funny is a classic geek thing is to be like, oh, Leia in Jedi, oh, slave Leia in the whole. Yeah. I saw that when I was- Nothing wrong with that, Tim. I think because I watched it when I was very young, I didn't sexualize her. So even now as an adult, it's like looking at a lady and I'm like a kid. I'm now like two decades older than Slave Leia. I wouldn't be able to be attracted to that because it

feels like it's like one of my mom's friends or something and I'm like five years old. Do you remember when there was that rumor going around that Ben Affleck had sex with Carrie Fisher in the Slave Leia costume? I didn't hear the costume part. I didn't hear the costume part. I already hooked up with her. Yeah, I heard that.

I mean, that was probably just like a pulling out the rest of that little add on. Yeah. Little cherry on top. just like pulling out the rest of that little add on. Little cherry on top. And you know, and he was dressed as a Boba Fett, a Ton Ton. Who's the guy I like so much from the new ones, that little guy, Babu Frick. Babu Frick?

Babu Frick. I like him so much. I like that, well he's funny sounding. He's a funny little guy. It's like they snuck a minion in there. And it's like it's funny in those movies because you never know what you're going to get with these Star Wars movies.

Like, well, there's a little spot that I liked. Oh, a little bright spot. That's fun. Hi. This sucks so much that we started off the episode saying classy Classy classic cocktail pod and we're not we're not tick-tock. You're chasing trends of the summer drinks anymore, right? Then right out the gate. We turned into geek pod fuck

Hey, how about this? We can change everything geek pod right now if you want I have the key Yeah, you have the key. Let me do it. key? Want me to do it? Yeah. Yeah. Tim, why don't you send out another little Twitter poll. We'll see who this week, if the people are liking Harris or Trump more or less than last week. Oh, tracking the politics. Because last week we had, I think, 11.

Should I say who do you like more? Last time I said who should be president. I don't know. do you like more? Last time I said who should be president. I don't know. I think who should be president. I stick with, yeah, I wanna see if these numbers go up and down. Is that with the wording? Or who's the best president?

Or who should be president? Who should be president. Yeah, who should be president. Who should be president? And I put like Harris Walls and Trump fans, right? This is good, we can track it over time. We're sort of like FiveThirtyEight. You're a little Nate Silver.

What if we tap into something we notice a trend like, oh, my God, no. I sent this over to Kornecki. The mainstream media hasn't picked up on this pattern. Amongst slobheads. Kanger's voting blue. Three little statisticians. Isn't that funny? If you took like, if somebody, obviously I'm not a statistician, but if somebody was like, all right, here's the poll info.

What do you make of it? I feel like, I see that the results here. I don't know. OK, the poll has been posted on X. That's out there. That's fun. And just for last time, we had about 400 participants. And then at the end of the episode, we checked it. And it was, I think, 11 people for Trump, right? 11% are 11 people.

11%. 11%, right? The 11 percenters. Because it was because it was like five. Yeah, I forget how we did the math there. And regardless of winning who wins the election, we are going to tweak our sensibilities to fit this demographic. So we're gonna have to we're gonna be trying to be exactly 11% conservative from

now on. And then hey, who knows maybe your votes in the poll will affect our votes in the poll. At the polling place. Yes. Yes. That little polling place. All right. Can we get into some booze news, please?

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Cause it was like, it's so boozy. Dupy, bye. That boy, you saying boy is so funny. Bye. Did I tell that bull story on the main card or on the blowout? I feel like subscribe to hear that my neighbor called me bye. Oh, I forget. Yeah, I think it was a blowout.

I forget what episode that would have been. Maybe it'll usher them over the paywall. You never know. Yeah. That's not bad for us. Come on over, folks. Come on to the paywall. It's very nice over there. That's where we spend most of our time. Okay. Yeah. That's not bad for us. Come on over, folks. Come on to the paywall. It's very nice over there.

That's where we spend most of our time. Okay. Yeah. You guys are probably thinking, Tim, Brad Summer's way in the rearview, we shouldn't even be listening to a Booze News theme like that. Well, but here's the thing. Yes, it's in the rearview, but there was one last piece of like, brat related news that kind of came out more recently. So I do have to address this today's top booze news story,

which was this. Now is this brat related in Charlie XCX terms or brat related in terms of it being the summer? Okay. Charlie XCX terms. So. Exciting. We talked about how the summer went from Brad to Demure, but then Vine Pear at the end of

the summer posted this graphic on Instagram that I'm sending to you guys right now. Okay. Okay. I'm clicking. Oh, OK. They have a scale of cocktails. Right. From Demure on the left in pink. And then it's kind of going along. What do you call a spectrum to Brad in green on the right?

And I've seen this. This is great. All the cocktails and there the the they're supposed to say whether you were Demure or Brad. Ah, what is what is in a swamp water again? They're supposed to say whether you are Demure or Brat. Ah. What is in a swamp water again? This is very funny and this is why I wanted to bring this up. Nope. I will shut my mouth.

But this is a good little list. We should say before we get there, left to right, there are a lot of drinks we've covered on the pod. Far left Demure to far right Brat. French 75. Leachy Martini. Oh, you missed me with both of those things. And this next one.

Hugo Spritz. Hugo Spritz. Paloma. Oh, a Shumi. Cosmopolitan were towards the middle. That's like, that's like, that's like center Demure. And then center Brat, Negroni. Then the espresso Martini the Bloody Mary They're starting to get a little haggard. Yeah Swamp water and then finally the pickle back shot. I'm surprised they didn't come up with more bratty brat stuff probably

Yeah, I agree. Yeah, I bet they were just going with like the most popular. I don't know what's going on here Pickle shot brat. Okay. Yes, what's going on here. Pickle shot, Brad. OK. It's like party girl, 365 party girl. I would have thought espresso martini would have been more we demure. Yeah, but it but that's like it's an upper also. It's people trying to rage. That's party. Oh, I've never had one other than the one we made that one time.

You don't admit that on the pod. You've never had one. I did have one on the pod. On the pod. That one time. It was terrible. I made it so bad. I love them.

I think I used instant coffee or something. Bullshit. Tim, you had swamp water news? Yes. So this... Let's go out to the field. So David Wunderich, cocktail historian, talked about this on a podcast once and I thought it was very funny where the dawn of the dark ages of cocktails, the 70s, when everything

was like all about, it was vodka drinks that were really sweet and juicy and sugary ruled the day. You know, when we covered the Harvey Wallbanger on the show, it was like that the Harvey Wallbanger is vodka, OJ and Gagliano. And that came from like a Don Draper type on Madison Avenue, like that was working for Galeano Italian Liqueur. They were trying to come up with ways like, kids aren't drinking Galeano Italian Liqueur. How are we going to trick them into doing it? So they cooked up this California surfer drink and it's like Harvey Wallbanger, he's a surfer who drank to any of these and he banged into walls and it worked for them.

And he's like a perplexed, he's got a pretty severe look on his face. He's like a sad stoner. Yeah. If you've never seen Harvey Wallbanger, you should Google him because he's a very funny looking cartoon man. Yeah, he's got like three strands of hair.

Galeano used to haunt the pod a little bit more. Like we were kind of in a Galeano mode for a while. Yeah, I'm with you, Jeff. And it hasn't popped up in like a year. Yeah, the piss spike. I feel like we had it and we started, yeah, we had the piss spikes and then we started like, oh, since we have this, why don't we do? Ah, well, I don't know, though, Jeff, because that those were IBA. Maybe it's just the IBA is sort of Galeano focused. We find out it's like whoever the company that owns the Galeano is running the IPA.

They're in cahoots. They're in cahoots. Okay. So in the wake of that, during this era, premium spirits were not selling. So another premium spirit that was in the same situation as Galeano was chartreuse, which we know to be made by Carthusian monks. Currently there's a shortage. They take a vow of silence. Only two of them know the whole recipe.

There's a three hour documentary we have to watch about them that has only natural light and no speaking in it. Yeah, we should, let's put that towards the top of the list because that is a real strange one we've been talking about for a while. We should watch it together because I think it'll be very boring. We can entertain each other. You want to be bored altogether. So it's a fancy French liqueur and people in America were not buying it.

And then the monks, I guess, had some Don Draper's working for them that were like saw what Gagliano had done with the Harvey Wallbanger. So they came out with a drink. And here I'm messaging you guys some pictures of this. It's so funny. The swamp water is chartreuse, pineapple juice, and lime. And they came up with like a cartoon alligator and then these special glasses, like these mason jars you're supposed to use.

Oh man. I see this. Oh, but these are like from like the 70s. It's supposed to be like a frat boy party drink. That's so weird. That's really funny. No, the green chartreuse and pineapple juice is not that you can't call that swamp water. Those are like highfalutin ingredients.

I know. Swamp water. It's trying to sound like Floridian, but it's 110 proof. Okay. Yeah, I forget green chartreuse is overproof 110. So that's why they're trying to make it sound like a like a party animal thing. Oh, interesting. Wow.

I'm just while chartreuse ain't cheap, don't you wish you stocked up on it when it was 109 a case? Wow. How much? This is a funny sentence in this. It's talking about an ad here in the article. Not only ad gives recipes for making one drink or a whole gallon, but also advise on how to ask a bartender to make one.

If he asks you what the fuck it is, tell him. Tell him. Tell him. Nowadays, they probably use the F word because it was all the little. It's in the ad. That's funny. Yeah. But they also did that in the Harvey Wallbanger ads where it was like, my name is Harvey Wallbanger and I can be made.

And it had the, like you were supposed to ask a bartender to make it for you. I just think it's so funny in these ads to see swamp water in its dumb glass with like the alligator or whatever, but then to, uh, then see a fancy French bottle of liquor next to it. Like how, how uncool it kind of reminds me of like buying a pre-ripped jeans. It's like, Hey, I thought I saw this, uh, cool ad for a, uh, frat drink. We can try it. Night deer.

That's so weird to, uh, with any drink ad to be like, be ready to explain it to a bartender. It's so stupid. It takes some fun out of it. I want something people know how to make it is good and people know that it's good. Bring this ad to your local bar and have them. Don't put the responsibility on me to teach a bartender how to make it for me. Yeah, so loud in there. I can barely get anything done. Swamp water, though. That's cool.

I mean, like, is that that's having a moment now because of this brat meme? it for me. Yeah, it's so loud in there. I can barely get anything done. Swamp water though. That's cool. I mean, like that's having a moment now because of this brat meme. I don't know if it can actually fully have a moment because there's still a chartreuse shortage. I have a little bit left over if you guys want to make it on the pod, but I think that last time we talked about this chartreuse shortage on Booze News. I have chartreuse still. I talked about how there are now like,

because the monks are like, we're not gonna step up production. We were praying all day and we don't care about money. So now there's a lot of like American distillers making copycat versions of chartreuse. Ooh, we should do an episode. Do they call it chartreuse? Like, excuse me, or have they changed the name?

But they have winky names. It's like green monk liqueur. Green char stuff. Ooh, the licorice monk. We should do a little, we should do a little, we should do a little taste test sometime of the new ones. Oh, that's a good idea. Ooh, who can spot the real monk work?

That's good. When you just said, what did you just say, Jeff? The the licorice monk. Yeah, licorice monk. Have you guys did you guys see that movie Monkey Man that came out? I did. Is it good? I was going to watch it the other night and I was like, you know,

I haven't heard much about this. It is. Way to go, Dev Patel. Like that's one of those movies where it's like he directed it. He's accident. He got jacked for it. He you know, he did everything written, directed. What was Dev Patel's big thing?

Way back in the day, it was who wants to be not who wants to. Slumdog Millionaire, Slumdog Millionaire. Right. Right. Right. Who wants to be a slumdog? Who wants to watch Slumdog Millionaire? What a funny framing device for a movie. It's like he's on who wants to be a slumdog. Who wants to watch Slumdog Millionaire? What a funny framing device for a movie. It's like he's on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and he's remembering all of the memories of his past. That was Danny Boyle, right?

Yeah, Danny Boyle. Weird filmography on that guy. Weird filmography. And that just seems like a director who's like such a his own thing. Yeah. He's a little bit of a Baz Lerman, a little bit. He's a bit of a Baz.

He's a bit of a Baz. You'll be a bit of a Baz. God, I'd love to be a bit of a Baz. Danny Boyle directed 28 days later. I love it. And weeks, 28 weeks later came out on much later, different directors. Are they going to do 20 months? They just wrapped filming on years.

They skipped the months entirely. They they they're doing 28 years later. Hopefully it's a it's an indie sort of horror. Yeah. Foreign thing. And they want it to be a trilogy. Of course. They want to get Killian Murphy back. Of course. But I'm excited.

I just hope this is one of those movies where, you know, this doesn't have often. But the monsters of the horrible thing comes out and attacks the audience. The audience. Oh, yeah. I don't know. What a horrible group. I think you're safe on that. Those zombies are horrible. They're horrid. They stink. I should be safe, I should be safe.

That could be a good... month. Does that even lead on? Hey, wait a minute. We are coming up on the scariest month of them all. And we gotta do Little Ghost at some point. Oh man.

The terribly translated German animated movie So we got to do little ghost at some point. Oh, man. Terribly translated German animated movie. Little yes. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. And I think maybe it was Swedish. Maybe we won't dedicate a whole episode, but we should probably watch it.

A whole bunch through it. A whole bunch. Hey, how about we do monk month, and we'll drink all the different chartreuses, and we'll watch Mike's episode of Monk. Ooh. That's pretty good. There's got to be other Monk stuff. We could also do Funky Monks. A bulletproof Monk with Sean William Scott. Wait isn't Funky Monk

Funky Monk is Red Hot Chili Peppers? Yeah, Red Hot Chili Peppers. That's a documentary or an album? Album. Oh I think it's. Oh no yeah Freaky Styly is an album. Funky Monk is the doc. We should watch that. It's a making of blood, sugar, sex magic. Did we not do it on? I'm stunned. We got to watch it for the pot. Yeah, I don't think we watched for the. I know we watch. I watched it right before we went down to Sonic Ranch to get inspired.

Me too. Who would Monk Month be? What's? Wait, we might have covered it. But but we haven't done Monk month. No, we have. That's for sure. That's for bunk bumps. Bunk bugs. Bunk Bunk.

But out of movie bugs. But out of. All right. Is that it for booze news? Wrap it up. And then you might. Hey, hey, what do you say? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, for Booze News. Wrap it up. I really like so a little peek behind the curtain. Sometimes Mealan puts in his own sound effects and the one he did last week was very funny. It was a line of dialogue that we had talked about. Yeah we'd

referred to something and he popped it in there. Also one time he did a hamburger cool. Yeah, that was a good one too. That was a good pull. Good pull. He's listening. He's listening when he's editing. That's good.

They better be. You gotta. I don't even listen when I'm recording. Hmm, Jeff, you were saying something. I was waiting impatiently to get on with the drink of the day. We don't just jerk off on this podcast, folks. Jerk pod. We have an organized approach

to some of the best cocktails. And today's episode is no different. No. It is not. Today we're talking about a classy one. Finally, no more hot dogs. No more. What was another weird one? Rosatorade. No more Gatorade in the drink. We actually, here's the thing. We've been hard on

ourselves. We didn't do that many sleazy drinks. No, we shouldn't be hard on ourselves. I think we only did, we did like three of them. And then I think it's just that then we were also we were Celebrating the movie and we were celebrating our 200th episode so we did shots of Uzo and we did shots of Bandera So it just feels like we haven't done a classic cocktail in a very long time, right? Right. That's true Hey, you know, we did that pina colada Corona, right? Yeah, we did a couple weird things That's true. Hey, you know, we did that Pina Colada Corona. Right.

Yeah, we did a couple of weird things. You know, it'd be good to hold on a second. I got to hear something. I don't know why I just interrupted you and then get, oh, hold on a second. You want the floor to be yours. I was trying to play a damn YouTube video. We can't hear it if you do. I know, but I just need to hear so I can tell you. Oh, OK.

So I can tell you. I don't basically I want Milan to play. Well, as we're talking about this classy stuff. Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na That's all I wanted to do. Now, who's got the drink of the day? I got it. Talk, my boy. Talk about it is until you can't speak anymore. This is good. Until you can't speak anymore. With that intro and knowing the listeners, you're in for a treat.

This is an interesting episode because you heard all the context. The sloppy boys are trying to get classy. Course correct. And this came up on the, I think I specifically said, Gimlet, let's do Gimlet. I think that's classy. So this is going to kind of be a take a turn and then there's going to be some choices for us to make here. It's going to be a forum for ideas and it's going to be cool for listeners to get to hear us in real time, sort of figure out what we want to do here. But the drink of the day is the gimlet you've had. I've not had. Yes, I had one. You have mine. Just a few weeks ago, I had one of the Odeon. Very good. I had a movie with one of you guys recently at the Dresden. Who's that? Oh, you

and I were there. Yeah, it would have been me. We were Dave and Neil was there. I always chug him at the Dresden. Uh, well, I'll tell you this. I, uh, I kind of ordered them a lot. Truth be told, I like them more than margaritas. If you're doing something that's kind of lime lime cocktail. Jeff, you think you haven't had one, but you have, you have. Because- Was I blacked out? Way back in early 2021, We the Sloppy Boys got an offer by a young boy who had come to

be known as celebrity bartender Jack Schramm. Oh yes. He reached out and said, hey, I'm a bartender. I teach cocktail classes on a website called Gush. And if you guys are interested in learning the fundamentals, and we said, yeah, excuse me. He said something like, I love the show. Would you guys be interested in getting a firm grasp of the fundamentals? Excuse me, sir. We were offended and confused, but we took them up on it. And he gave us a cocktail making class. This was like during COVID, it was like Zoom style.

And when, you know, we made like a few different things like, oh, this is a, you know, old fashioned shows you how to build something in a glass. Or like we did something like a, maybe Tom Collins was a high ball. But when he wanted to teach us about a sour. Right. I thought it was a daiquiri, but no, you're right.

Well, Jeff, all the sour, the daiquiri, the whiskey sour, the daisy, the sidecar, you name it. Tim, you got your gotcha moment, OK? I've had a gimlet before. I got to get you. Good. Well, Jack taught us when you're making sours, he used the gimlet to be the one that we made.

OK, this is my parents calling on Google Meet. Let me just turn that off. I'm having computer problems today, I'm sad. But they know you do this show, and they kind of call in a lot. They always call in threes, and they know they call in threes. They're like, we call in threes.

They're proud of it. But that doesn't change it. They know that you work, like you're working now. And yes, folks, we do consider this work. Yeah, no, that would be they know they call in threes. That's they know that. But for them to memorize the fact that I record on this night of the week. No.

Okay, so here's the thing, guys. Jack taught us, hey, I'm showing you this with the gimlet, but in general, when you're making any sour, there's the golden ratio is two one one, two ounces of liquor, two ounces of something sweet. One one one, two one one. Two ounces of liquor, one ounce of something sweet, one ounce of a citrus. Okay. Yeah. That's two one one two one one two one one one two one one. I can't place where that's from. Like I do run run run a do run run. Yeah. Tribe or something. But there's also a rap song where he's like your crew run run run your crew run run.

Right. Do run run. The first one like the oldie song is like the run. Do run run. And run to the dead. I do run, run, run, run, run. That's funny, too. I met a guy. His name is Bill. Yeah.

And I think Biggie Smalls is the other. Oh, yeah, it's hypnotized. Yeah. Wow. Damn, I remember when that hypnotized music video came out. It was like a huge deal on MTV. It was like it was like this is a minute multi-million dollar video. I saw I gotta watch Tim take it away, buddy

If the golden ratio is two one one don't say any other things Jack said, you know, like everyone tweaks that to their own taste. Yeah, he likes to roll it back. Mm hmm. He likes to roll it back. I'm sorry, it's just that your video is on display. So when you when you guys talk, I'm seeing it and I'm wondering what I'm wondering when I'm going to hear it. And it's fucking my brain

So bad disclose your eyes to him. It's weird though, because when I don't look at anything, it's really lonely It's a podcast. No, it's it's strange. God damn it. It's weird. How much this is fucking pissing me off You know what? Hold on a second to move move here. I wish I could choke someone and kill him Just like a tip to move. Move here. I wish I could choke someone and kill him. Don't think Tim, if I was there with you, I'd let you do it because you were in a bad way today, my man. Yeah. And then I could finish the pot with Jeff. Nice, cool and calm.

So wait, can't you just move the whole window off to the side so you're covered or are you in the middle? I moved it. I moved it so I can't see myself, but I can see you guys. And now you just can't hear us. but I can see you guys. And now you just caught up. You can't hear us. Okay. Everything's fine right now. Okay. Then talk, talk, talk, talk. So the golden ratio is two, one, one,

but everybody tweaks that every bartender does little tweaks. So like when Jack told us how to make the gimlet, he did two, three quarters, three quarters. He said, that's better. If I want a dryer, maybe I'll even drop down the sugar even lower than that. And you know, like liquor.com's recipe for a gimlet is very gin forward.

It's two and a half ounces of gin and then half ounce, half ounce. So that would be a real stiffy. But with any sour, this is something, you hold close to your heart, how you like to tweak that two, one, one. And you don't tell anybody. You keep it close to your chest.

That's good to remember that SRAM ratio. That SRAM ratio is sort of like the Fibonacci sequence found in nature. You're gonna see it all over the place. I'll tell you this. Here's an interesting thing. The SRAM ratio, two, three quarter, three quarter, is also the ratio that VinePair uses for this.

VinePair, who made that demure to brat spectrum, they also go with the two, three quarter, three quarter. And that's funny because SRAM also freelance writes for them sometimes. So maybe he's not that. Oh, every time I hear vine pair, I always think it's the German like someone saying wine pair because you think about wine pairings and vine, I understand wine comes from a vine, but. Yeah, vine pair vine pair.

Who go to Transylvania to meet count Vagracula, the wine bear. Why did it get to Transylvania to meet Count Vagracula the Vine pair. Why did he get the Transylvania though? Because he's a vampire. Oh. Vine pair, kind of sounds like vampire to some people like me. Vine pair.

Vine pair. Vine pair? So now that you guys have a firm grasp of the whole two, one, one and its tweaks, here's me thinking this week, oh great, okay great, that'll be, we'll make this classy gimlet. Let me just look up the backstory.

Here's where things take an interesting turn. One of the first things I come across when I'm reading about the gimlet is a passage from Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye. You guys know Raymond Chandler, he's an LA noir writer, boozy LA noir writer. I've seen the movie but I don't I have never read his stuff. I've seen movies. Well that's what's interesting. Most of the movies are like 30s, 40s noir but

then The Long Goodbye is like an Elliot Gould 70s LA movie that they never got around to making for 30 years. But his character, I've seen that one too and the plot holds true. Philip Marlowe is hanging out with his drunk friend Terry Lennox, who's got a scarred up face and he's a drinker. And Terry Lennox says this, we sat, oh no, no, this is Mar this is, this is Marlowe recounting his, his drinks with Terry. He says, we sat in the corner of the bar at Victor's and drank gimlets. They don't know how to make them here, Terry said. What they call a gimlet is just some lime or lemon juice and gin and a dash of sugar and bitters.

A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow. Wow. roses lime juice. That was shocking to me. This is a thing that we avoid here on the pod. I love roses grenadine. But it's like limeade. Yes, it's kind of nasty. Rose's sweet lime juice is cheap, and we say squeeze your own limes, avoid this. But I've never heard roses held in high regard before. Yeah. And I think one factor is that roses used to be better. Now it's got chemicals, now it's made with high fructose corn syrup.

But back in the day, it was sugar. Cane sugar and lime juice. Yeah, it was like a cordial that was made. Dude, Timmy, I was talking to my parents earlier today, because I actually pick up on my parents call. And they were like, what are you doing on the pod tonight? And I said, gimlet. And they both laughed.

Really? Like I don't normally get much of a, like a specific response out of a drink out of my parents. But they were like, oh, Gimlet and- You were conceived on Gimlet's birthday. Kind of. They were like, oh, you guys are doing, you guys are doing like 1977.

And I was like, yeah, you know, it's just like gin, lime juice and sugar. And they were like, yeah, but it's not lime juice, right? It's that roses. No, it's that roses. Listen, they knew like the era. They confirmed that like, no, that's how odd people made gimlets back in like the late 70s or 80s. David and Mary Ellen Dutton are have their finger on the pulse of this drink.

Crazy. They're probably doing gimlet night tonight. I think they just love Elliott Gould. Gimlet night. Oh, what a night. Okay. So here, I'm going to give you a real quick nutshell history that gets us back up to that. And then we're going to make these drinks. Now, do you guys remember what Mike taught us about the whiskey sour or when we went on the Doughboys double, we did the Navy grog or we've done other punches. These drinks always take you back to sailors and scurvy, right, because in the British Navy,

those guys were going around the Caribbean, they were getting scurvy because they didn't have vitamin C. One way to not get scurvy is to eat limes or drink lime juice so much so that the Navy gave their sailors limes, and then people started using the slur limey for British people. Because they were eating so many limes and then people started using the slur limey for British people.

Because they were eating so many limes on these ships. Oh, that's a slur. I think I said that earlier today. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's not pretty weak as far as slurs go in good fun. It's in good fun. Also, you guys are you guys both have British blood, right? I should start calling you guys liners around the pod. Yeah, yeah, you should. He's called Jeff for sure. He loves limes. I'd take it as a compliment. Okay, so here's the thing with the limes, guys. They didn't have refrigeration. So in order to preserve limes, first they were mixing them with alcohol.

They were mixing it with rum, and that's where you're getting your grog and your planters punching your daiquiri and stuff. But there soon was another way to preserve citrus fruit because a Scottish guy who worked in the shipping industry realized that you can preserve lime with sugar. So what did he do? He started making and selling lime juice for sailors and it's sweetened with sugar. And what was this Scottish guy's name? Lachlan Rose and his juice was Rose's lime cordial. Wow.

Get out of here. He makes it specifically for sailors. Now they were like, we had a good thing going with our cocktails. So they're buying this, but now they're mixing it with gin, cause they're British and they love gin. And they're starting to get drunk off these 50 50 gin and roses mixes. There's a Royal Navy rear admiral, Sir Thomas Gimley. Oh, I think we found our namesake. He's mixing these up for people

and he's saying it's medicinal, it's medicinal, but then also there's a tool called a gimlet that you punch into a barrel that use like that little faucet-y tool that like, oh yeah. And that is called a gimlet and it's pierces and it has the piercing effects of a gimlet may have also been named after that. We're not sure. But either way, the drink spreads. Harry Macalone puts it in his book, The ABCs and Mixing Cocktails.

Harry Craddock puts it in his Savoy Cocktail book. Raymond Chandler name drops it a lot in 1953's The Long Goodbye. Hemingway's taking them on safaris and writing about them all the time. David and Marielle and Dutton are drinking them in the 70s. In the 90s, in the sort of cosmopolitan Appletini era, when vodka drinks were popular, lots of people were making vodka gimlets in New York in the 90s. Then in the modern era, when modern tastes are geared more towards fresh lime juice, bartenders started in making it with the lime

and mixing it Jack Schramm style and saying, we don't really like roses anymore because roses is not the classy way of doing it. Some fancy guys are making their own cordial with their own limes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But that gets us all caught up to right now where we have a choice in front of us guys. We can make the Liquor.com gimlet recipe, which is the gin forward one, two and a half ounces of gin, half ounce lime juice, half ounce simple syrup.

Or we could do the vine pear recipe, which Jack Tram backs up two ounces of gin, three quarter ounce of lime juice, three quarter ounce of simple syrup. Or we could do the original, you guys don't have roses on you, do you? No. You do? Wow. We needed it for something, I don't know why I have it.

I've got some roses, maybe we could do that in another episode or we could try it for round two. But I kind of, me, I feel like we'd either want to try like a two, one, one, or maybe we do this vine pair Jack Schramm approved one that's just two ounces of gin, three quarters and three quarters.

What do you guys have a feeling here, what we should do? Or do we stick with liquor.com? We've been doing a lot of liquor.com. I mean, it'd be nice to all kind of like stay together on this first one and then kind of branch off. Yeah, the first one we agree. Yeah, let's not do that. Let's not do the roses one first because we need to get a base here.

I think what do you guys think of doing the vine pair, which is also Jack Schramm's recipe? I like that. We'll start with that one. I think I think that liquor.com is wilding out a little bit with this two and a half ounces of gin. It's just the very gin. Yeah, so I'm not I'm not in a huge boozy mood right now myself. I am, but I'll just have several of these. Okay. Here we go. From VinePair.com. Two ounces

London dried gin, three quarter ounce fresh lime juice, three quarter ounce simple syrup. Combine all ingredients in a shaker tin. Add ice to a small shaker tin. Shake vigorously until tin is frosted over. I like that. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with a lime wheel, and enjoy. Wow. Taking it back classic, I can't wait to make it. Ready to do this?

Yep. I'm sorry, we're doing the vine pair one. That's just for me, vine pair, yes. That's for me to remember. Three quarter, three quarter. Yes, love it. Shaken and three quarter. Shake it in the strain. Folks, we're gonna go shake up these drinks and when we come back,

Gimlet first sips. Now we're back. Gimlets in hand. This is the Vine Pair two ounce gin, three quarter ounce line, three quarter ounce simple syrup. Looking good fellas. It's a nice, it's a pretty simple looking drink. It's just kind of clear ish and no nothing on the rim.

No fuss. No fuss, no moss. That's a gimlet. I got no garnish either. Damn. That's what I'm room. No fuss. No fuss, no moss. That's a gimlet. I got no garnish either, damn. That's what I'm saying. Sips? Sips. That's all right.

Yeah, baby. Yes, it beats martini's hollow. What did he say? Yeah, it beats martini's hollow. Let's call this for another sip. Oh, that's good. Now this, this one, Vine Pear slash Jack's Ram Method, that's very balanced, balanced as fuck.

I feel like I had that done. Yeah, that's really good. The Liquor.com version, I feel like, is probably what I get a lot when you're kind of the gin and the lime are doing a little juniper citrus interplay a lot of the time. A little dance. A little dance, a devilish dance. I'm not saying this is, it's not too sour. It's not too sweet. It's not too boozy.

It's a perfect balance. And this is like a perfect balance for a guy who likes a strong martini. Like this does feel like a martini's cousin. This really is like a sweet drink to me though. It's like, tastes like Kool-Aid. Like it's a good sweet kind of drink, or sour I guess, but it's got kind of that like a fruitiness, a tartness that you would maybe,

Yeah. If you just want that and not like a full blown drink with all types of crazy shit in it. It's a good one to have. Understated. You know what's weird? I was just thinking about the roses of it all. If we'd made this with roses,

it would be an entirely different drink. It wouldn't be cloudy. It wouldn't be sour. It would be some strange sweet other drink. But it made me think, why don't people just use... Every grocery store has too many of a margarita mix. There's always like several margarita mixes and there's always an artisan one that's like lime and sugar and that you could just be making a gimlet with gin and margarita mix,

nah? Yeah. Yeah. Because it's not like they put the triple sec in there. No, it's supposed to be half and half. So like sweet and sour mix. Yeah. Damn.

It was exciting stuff. It's funny kind of picturing Philip Marlowe and Terry Lennox drinking these because like you said, Mike, it is a kind of a sweet, it's a nice drink for, I would say, I would picture a fancy lady. I would picture, Zelda Fitzgerald getting pretty crunk on these. It's a good pull.

Good pull, Timmy. Now I always, I confuse Gimlet and Gibson a lot. Gibson is like a martini, but with the little onion. Yeah, the cocktail onion. I'm always thinking with these things, I'm like, oh yeah, gimlet, I probably wouldn't want that. And then I forget that it's this, it's this.

I confuse the Gibson with the split base martini. What's that called, Timmy? 50-50 or no wait, split bases in. Vesper. Vesper. Oh. Right? Vesper. Well, when he's talking in split bays, I'm thinking,

you go to Rao's and get the black and blue and it's a gin and vodka 50 50. No vermouth. It's delicious. Rao's. Wait, Rao's like the, uh, Italian restaurant. Yeah. Oh, you had it at the restaurant, not at the good store, I see. Not at the pasta plant where they make the sauces. No, I thought you were saying, I thought you were saying you got like a mix and rau, rau? Rau? Rau.

I said rau one time and I got called out. I got lambasted. By who? Who did this to you? By fucking Calpacca's. Yeah, I'll take you down. Very famous restaurant, Rayo's, but what's interesting is the Rayo's in New York is like, it's up in Harlem, it's been there forever.

You don't have to laugh when he says Rayo's. I liked it because we just saw Beetlejuice. Tim, go for it. You have the floor. Okay, okay. I'll allow it because we just saw Beetlejuice. You don't have to laugh. Hey, okay. I'll allow it because we just saw Beetlejuice. You don't have to laugh.

Hey, you don't have to make him feel good. Don't encourage him. Um, well, he was doing that Jeff laugh. It wasn't necessarily a real laugh. It was, which Jeff, I've noticed when I listen about this pod, that's your obligatory laugh. If I say something that's not funny, but you want to give me a laugh, you go, That's not true. Well, I mean, I think it's funny.

You're kind of like mutley from dastardly and mutley. Yeah. Not everything can be a true blue belly guffaw. We'd get nothing done. We would get nothing done in this podcast. No, but here's what I needed to tell you about Rayo's, was that the one in Harlem, impossible to get a table so much so that like people own booths. And if you want to go there, you don't even call the restaurant.

You feel like ask someone to think you can use their booth. It's like that type of a place. That's insane. I think Haskell's brother went there like last year and he was telling me about it. He should bring me a bucket list item. Yeah. But what's crazy is then they opened one in L.A. that nobody knows about. Nobody cares about. Nobody goes to it.

It's it's right next to the Sunset Las Palmas lot. So I used to hang out there when I was working on that Sarah Silverman show, me and John Haskell and Chris Romano would go there. Jocelyn maybe, Jocelyn heading over there. Jocelyn Richard, sure. But it was great because you just walk right in and you can get a table and the food is fantastic.

But it was just very demystified because not a lot of people there. But I'll tell you what, lots of birthday boys fans on staff there. Right. This is the guy who knew you from the cheese. He had like a cheese line that he said to you, right? Yes. The bartender was telling me that the prep cooks when they're grinding the cheese for the night, they say from Monterey Jack to Cheddar and Back. From the vow. From the vow.

From the vow, that's right. Wait, Tim, I bet that has like, that's interesting that you grew up in a restaurant family and this is a sketch that you wrote that like, you know, you have food on the brain a lot of times, so you got some food stuff there. And then like, it went back to people who work at restaurants, like it hit with them because subconsciously it probably came out, you work at restaurants and it kind of got into that vibe. They find their own. And then I did that. Like when I was 17, I was grinding mozzarella with a big cheese

grinder for the night. Like that was a prep. That was part of my job. Oh, sure. They find their own. Nature finds a way. When you say, say, uh, both you guys, I, one at a time, Jeff, say that, say the type of cheese that goes on top of a pizza. Muts.

Okay. Tim. Moots. I say mozzarella. Me too. Mozzarella. I say mozzarella. Me too, mozzarella. Like a white boy. Yeah, okay, me too, me too.

I don't know these pieces of mozzarella. Is it like Italian? Mozzarella. It always hits my ear weird because the person will be talking like this and yeah, we're gonna get pizza and probably cover it with mozzarella. I, somebody, where is it?

You can't code shift like that. We'll be like, yeah, we'd love to have the fajitas with the guacamole. I just heard somebody, I forget who it was, but somebody made me laugh saying, when you get to a word like that, and you're trying to decide whether you're gonna pronounce it correctly and make a whole thing of it,

or incorrectly, and then they were like, I don't know if I should try to sound like an idiot or an asshole because if you say it wrong, you're an idiot, but if you say it right, you're an asshole. Yeah. You gotta thread the needle just right. You gotta go right between the two. I mean, moots is weird.

I would get if you were gonna say mozzarella as moots-orella, but when people are like, moots, you're like, well, what about the whole back half of the word? Yeah. But they're saying it as if you would say mozzarella as mooz-orella. So they're just saying moots. And they're so familiar, Tim.

They just don't need the back half. But then I guess the other thing is they know this cheese for years. They don't need to, they're friends with this cheese. I had mozzarella sticks at the AMC when I saw Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. So don't tell me. I'm picturing string cheese. That would be good to have. Oh God. You know, sometimes you could make mozzarella sticks out of string cheese. Do you not? Yeah. You just cover them in

bread. We should in half, cover him in bread. Okay, we should make our own someday, but that's not what I wanna get to. We went to Sinespia Cemetery Screening. All of us, it was great. See, now I would have said Sinespia, but I don't know. Okay, when it's your anecdote, you say it how you want. I used to say Sinespia, and then on the night, they said Sinespia, the guy said Sinespia.

Okay, Sinespia. And what did Sinespia. Okay, Sinespia. And what did we watch? We watched, not Boogie Nights. True romance. True romance. True romance. True romance. True romance.

And we watched, and a poster came up and I said, oh, damn. And it was, you know, before the movie, they put posters on the screen. And it was a movie called Mortadella starring Raquel Welch. Ooh, we got to watch. We were like, how have we never heard of this? Sophia Loren, I think.

Oh, Sophia Loren, OK. And we looked it up and it was called something different in the American or the English title was something else. It's something different, but we should try and get our hands on that and we'll do a whole Mortadella episode. We'll eat it. That was a good poster, too. Here's what's shaping up. And I'm liking this.

I recently brought up the movie Big Night. And you guys are like, we should watch that for a blow up. Now we're talking about Mortadella. Is it possible that this fall, instead of doing some dumb shit like a zombie movie month, that we have a whole month of Italian food movies. In October? November.

Okay. Tim, I'm listening. You have my attention. I'm listening. Now, but you got to, in November, you have to pull aside one episode for our Thanksgiving old fashions, you know. To give thanks. That's very true.

Which old fashion are do in this year? We've done the old fashion and we've done the brandy old fashion sour or brandy old fashion sweet. We did both sweet and sour both. Yeah. But were they both on Thanksgiving? Well, the smoked one was the trickster. The smoked one is trickster. There's also a maple old fashioned.

Good for Mike, he loves the maple. Hey, you know what I've been trying to do around here? I've been trying to work brown sugar into a whiskey drink. Yes, Michael, yes. Brown sugar! But it's good, it's light brown sugar. I got light brown sugar for some reason. And I don't know if it's working as well.

Light brown sugar, the whole point of brown sugar is to be the dark brown sugar, baby. I just grabbed one. I was so fast. Speaking of things in our kitchens, you guys know what's going on in my life? The fridge. New fridge.

Your fridge, yes, when I was there there was falling apart. It was not cold anymore It took a hundred and five degrees to get Tim to take action and get a new fridge in there Jeff Did you we ever explain when Mike was staying with me? Thanks for melting The fridge broke and it was a very funny situation where the free it's a it's the freezer on top fridge on bottom The fridge was lukewarm. Let's say 65 degrees not cold enough to keep your perishables from perishing it's another room it's a small room yeah just an air condition room then the freezer it was not cold enough to freeze things but it

was cold so it was kind of like the fridge. Okay, so freezer you've been demoted to refrigerator. Refrigerator, you're out of commission. So we were, what Mike, you called it like the cold freeze or whatever, but we were putting all our food in this one little box. I lived that way for two weeks. Honestly, kind of fun. Like having a weird little thing like that was a little bit of a funny thing,

but it was 104 degrees in LA. I finally went and bought a new fridge. Stainless steel, baby. Tim, you told me that when you told me that this weekend, you took a big bite out of stainless steel. I knew. I was either going to get a black fridge or a steel. I didn't want another white fridge.

I want a restaurant style. You don't want that granny fridge. You want that stainless steel. What's the brand, Tim? What's the brand? The cheapest one they had at Best Buy, Insignia. But here's the thing. Ooh, Insignia.

That's good. Damn. I was so excited to have a fridge. The guys delivered it. They hauled away my old one. They said it's going to take three hours to cool down. I went to the supermarket. Most fun thing, I threw out everything in the old fridge

Starting from scratch a full reset. I spent $200 on just drinks I don't have any food, but I got this little six ounce cans of every soda. Yeah, I've got five kinds of beer I've got topo Chico's I've got every mixer everything. It looks like a cart on American Airlines It looks it looks like the jet-blue marketplace to Yes. It looks like the JetBlue marketplace. You've got to take a picture of this fridge and send it to us, man. I'll get a picture. It makes me so happy when I open it up and the idea that it's like, if somebody's over, I'll be like, do you want a Coke Zero or Pepsi Zero? I got both.

That's cool. This is... It's fantastic. Man, a freezer. Oh, a brand new clean fridge. Ooh, I need one of those. I probably have to get a new fridge myself. There's a leak happening in mine

and I just can't figure out what the fucking thing is. Pull the plug now because I let it go for an extra year. I had that, remember, my fridge sounded like a dirt bike. It was like eee. Oh God, I hate a loud fridge. It was leaking all over the place, but now, I just got a new shipment. You're going, yeah. Oh god. I hate a loud fridge leaking all over the place But now I just got a new shit Tim Tim. What the hell you doing? He's on top of it. He's taking jumps Like this was speaking of action stuff

This was almost like an action movie because the thing that really pushed me over the top to buy the fridge Jenny's ice cream DM to me and was like Tim Do you want to try the new fall flavors and I was yes. And then they sent them to me and they arrived and I was like, she so I had them on dry ice and I had to kill 48 hours. So I put the whole big box into that cold freezer that was fridge temperature. Cause it is just a cool, like it should seal off like a cooler. Yes. But it was like down to the minute that I got these pints into the, and they're fascinating flavors.

Jenny's does a real good job with the seasonal stuff. But so my new fridge, not only do I have like $200 worth of drinks in there. That was a paid remark. That was a paid remark right there. That's a wonderful brand. Check out my Instagram for videos. I've got all the new Jenny's flavors. And then guys, listen to this.

You know, I got all my different ice trays, all my different ice shapes. I also bought bags of ice in various shapes. He's lousy with ice, folks. I got all the ice you could ever want. I'm having so much fun. I made myself a whiskey sour yesterday. What kind of ice?

You had a reveal. What's the ice reveal? The kind of chunked up, broken up, chipped up. I'm very excited about this fridge, Tim. Is it one of those ones where the freezer is on the bottom or is it a... It opens up top. I love it. Yes.

Classic. Classic. Why do you pay so much for the freezer on bottom? I don't understand that either. I don't get what the deal is. And the freezer on bottom ones, it's a drawer that you pull out. I can't have that because I'm making ice.

I can't be pulling, if I'm checking the ice to see if it's ready and it's not, then I'm splashing ice everywhere. I need a door that opens. Oh, you're right, Tim. I hadn't thought about that. Oh, it moves the whole thing. Yes, yes, yes.

Yes, you're just splashing cold water everywhere down there. Does the Insignia lowest, even if the lowest one, does it still like have any fun smartphone stuff or nothing remotely fun? No ice maker. You can't watch only murders in the building on your fridge. Is it weird how big that was like this? This fridge has a TV on it's like, OK, fuck is hanging out by the fridge that look. There was a funny tweet I saw where like a kid got his phone privileges taken away

and he managed to tweet from the fridge it was like sorry everyone my mom took my Twitter away like managed to punch that out like the refrigerator that's pretty good that's pretty good. Wait, one more thing about the fridge. Yeah? You had to pay for it? Yeah, yeah. Your landlord didn't take care of it?

Oh yeah, this is a good point. Thank you. I said, landlord, fridge broke, get on it, dude. And then he came and he looked at it and he was like, oh yeah, that's broken. You should go out to Lowe's in Monrovia. And I was like, me? You get your ass out to Lowe's in Monrovia. And I was like, me? You get your ass out to Lowe's in Monrovia.

Is he paying for it? No, he said, he's like, we don't provide fridges. Everybody else, all my other tenants, they've all bought their own fridges. You happened to be lucky that when you moved in here, Deanna Russo, who had just moved out, had bought a fridge and didn't want it, so I inherited her fridge, unbeknownst to me.

I thought it belonged to my landlord, Casey Lee. I guess that, like, depending on different leases, landlords can do that, right? Yeah, I guess, it's just like what they said. I think it's pretty standard, standard actually to make you buy your own fridge. A lot of people have to buy fridges it sucks. I didn't do that shit. Well you had to buy your own dishwasher. You got me. Yeah you got me dead to rights. This guy gave me a dishwasher no fridge so hey it's crazy over here. Everything's topsy turvy. Jeff you need you, you know what you need Jeff? You need a microwave. I can't believe you go on without,

and not like I use mine every day, but it's such a like. How do you live without a microwave? There are some things that you microwave easy and then it says like, oh, I gotta boil water to. Jeff, they're 30 bucks. I don't miss it. I don't miss it. No, you do, 30 bucks.

What am I gonna microwave? A glass of water? Pop popcorn? You're having your friend Tim over to watch a movie Oh popcorn might be nice for me a little later tonight. I don't know. I don't make popcorn I've never made you would if you had your friend Tim over to watch It's funny though because I guess I have noticed you are kind of a stove guy you bring out the like the tater tots or fries I'm a stove top guy. What do you buy stove top are kind of a stove guy. You bring out the, like the tater tots or fries. I'm a stove top guy. What do you buy stove top? I'm a stuffing guy. Now that is a paid remark through and through.

I'm a stuffing guy. I used to make it in my dorm room. He's speaking college. You just let it waft. Let him come ask. I love this. This, if we had a time machine and time machine and see Jeff in this moment, it is not cool at all. Friday night, 1030 p.m.

The smell of Stove Top emanates from Rowland Hall. And you're thinking, yeah, all those other kids Friday night, all they're going to be care about is the smell of stuff. Hey, where is everybody? What the fuck? Probably going out and buying their own stuff all night long. they're gonna be care about is the smell of stuff. Hey, where is everybody? What the fuck? Probably go down and buy their own stuff all night long. What spices that make stuffing taste like stuffing? Is it sage?

Is it saffron? It's parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. That song was just a recipe for stuff. Stove top recipe? For Simon stuffing. All right, can we take it back to the drink if you very much please? Yeah, I love it.

I am working my way down. Jeff, I can't believe you didn't say not a big yield. Whoa. A very small yield off of this drink. Alright, I can chug. You don't think I can chug? I think you can. I want to go on the roof.

Now here's the big question. It's time for round two. Yeah. Jeff, you get to make this call. Should I try the roses on this round or would you like to wait and then you want to buy a bottle of roses and in the future we'll do an original gimlet made with roses? Or is it, would the waiting kill you too much and I should just do it right now?

And maybe Mike could even try it as well. The waiting kill you. This one's got me by the balls because you guys both have you too much and I should just do it right now. And maybe Mike could even try it as well. We've been waiting to kill you. This one's got me by the balls because you guys both have roses and I do want to hear how it is. So why wait? So why wait? I think you guys go make the roses.

I'm going to make the Liquor.com one, which is just a little more punched up, a little more punched up, right? It's more gin. And then we'll come back and we'll give our final thoughts. Now the roses recipe is half and half. Half and half. Wow. What are you going to do?

Two and two? Yeah, I'm going to do two and two. Okay. I'm going to do one and a half and one and a half. Now a lot of people I saw do the use the cordial, but then they're like, well, you got to squeeze in a little bit of fresh lime juice. But then it's like, well, that's silly. If you're using roses, use roses.

If you have lime, use lime. But squeezing lime into roses. Let me ask you this. Roses wouldn't go bad, would it? Because I've got this thing for a lot. Like, it's one of those things where it's like- No, he did a whole thing about how it preserves. Lachlan Rose invented it for these very this reason.

I tuned I tuned in now. Isn't it cool? Let's say you're a pirate or you're a pirate to be. You don't have much going on. We got pirate day coming up, by the way. I know. If you talk like a pirate day. Oh, wait. You're a land lover, right? But you're like, there's not much going on for me. You're on land. I think I'm going to go to that sea and be a pirate day. Oh, wait. You're a land lover, right? But you're like, there's not much going on for me.

You're on land. I think I'm going to go to that sea and be a pirate. And then they're like, welcome to being a pirate. Here's your rum and your lime. And we're bringing sugar into the mix as well. We like, and this is to keep me healthy? Guys. They didn't know what was going on back then.

That's a dream. Guys, I have bad news. What? We're recording this episode a few days in advance, but when it drops, it's going to be, we will have missed Talk Like a Pirate Day. This episode comes out on my mom's birthday, September 20. But let's get in our Armaides right now.

Armaide, Armaide. Armaide, Armaide. Happy birthday, me lady. Next year, next year, we're going to shiver me timbers. We're going to catch it. Well, we knew this one, we knew this wasn't going to land on a show day or a main or. But I really intended to do a talk like a pirate the week before the 19th leading into it.

Yeah, we'll get it next year. Next year we're going to get them. Yeah. It's been a couple years now. Four years in a row we missed it. We'll get them next year. We'll get it next year. Next year we can get them. Yeah. It's been a couple years now. Four years in a row we missed it. We'll get them next year. We can get it next year. Our matey.

All right, folks. We're going to make these tweaks. We're going to do another. We're giving you a full spectrum view of a classic cocktail here on the pod with timeless integrity. It's the best choice for you. For you. We'll be right back.

Now we're back, round two of Gimlet. I'll go first because I'm more interested in what you guys got. You're doing the gin forward one. Yes. Two and a half, half, half. Still looks about the same there. Same look there for Jeff's. You know, I think I'm not detecting the difference as much as if I'd gone like side by side, because now I have gin coursing through my veins. But you can tell it's stronger.

It's, I mean, obviously it's stronger. This is a lot more gin in it. Stronger. But taste-wise, still balanced. Still good. Still worth your time. So then may as well do that one if it's still balanced out. Maybe it's only like balanced out for a second drink,

you know what I mean? For a drunk guy. Yeah, yeah. This tastes pretty good. And I got more of a green happening here with mine. Yeah. I gotta say, A, I stole a little sip of roses out of the bottle and I'd been giving it a bad rap.

It's better than I remember, but this was me opening a fresh bottle. Secondly, when I shook this, it did cloud up and I was like, oh, it's even cloudy. But now the clouds have subsided and yeah, mine looks like Mike, just a little. Yeah, it looks like a green seawater. It looks like chartreuse.

Yeah, I'm going for it. Me too. Slurp, slurp. I'll tell you, that's a distinct thing. It's very different, but it's a drink. Yeah. I think my lime, Rose's lime is pretty old. You know when you can taste just like a, it wasn't the freezer, but you know that freezer burn taste? It's kind of akin to that. Yeah. You know what that, it's funny because it doesn't mean it like went bad, like you shouldn't eat it, but it's like when hot sauce has been on the table of a restaurant for too long.

Yeah. You're like, I know this Cholula is edible, but this ain't a nice fresh Cholula. Yeah. This is pretty good. I prefer the other one, but this isn't bad. Yeah. I prefer the other one too, but there't bad. Yeah, I prefer the other one too, but there's something to be said about the, you're getting a glassiness, Mike.

I kind of like there's a oily, you know how citrus fruits have. It does look oily. In the skin of a citrus fruit, there's that oil. It feels like the cordial mink got some of that. And this is glassy and like glassy and classy. And even though the other one's better, because it's more like a margarita,

I kind of like the idea of a two ingredient cocktail that's like, won't go bad. You could always just have gin and roses. And it's kind of like, you know, like the trashier version of it in a fun way. But it's both trashy and classy, because it's the original. Yeah. But it's trashy. Interesting. both trashy and classy, because it's the original. Yeah.

But it's trashy. Interesting. When trashy met classy, my God. Sounds like Von Dutch all over again. If you handed me this and I didn't know I was missing out on the fresh lime version, and I didn't know that this was roses, I would think you made me something kind of fancy.

This to me tastes like, you know, I just said trash, like the, what do I want to say here? Like the chain restaurant version of the Gimlet. Yeah. Like the Chili's. You know what I mean? Like this, like, yeah, exactly, exactly. This is very roses forward though. 50-50, I would maybe crank up the gin

and crank down the roses to perfect it, but this is fun. It is something. Man, I've never had roses. I want to, and I want this to be the first drink I use with it. Yes. Dude, I want to be there when you fucking use it, man, because it's going to be awesome. You don't even know. I love roses grenadine. People talk shit, but it's delicious. Oh yeah, that's a good one to have. I've had that a million times. There's like one other I've seen roses like strawberry sauce or something.

Roses chocolate. I think abroad they have like roses marmalade and different. Did the line juice predate the grenadine? It must have. Yeah, because Lachlan Rose invented it for this. Yeah, that's what I'm inferring from your earlier story. Lachlan. You, you, you, what a wonderful guy. What a wonderful job he did. Folks, it's an order again for me. I like that it's got some latitude

and it's got a fun little backstory you can talk about with your friends and you can say, hey, my parents used to make these in the seventies, that's fun. Hey, Jeff's parents used to make these. I want to, I want to, I want to see some, this is an order again for me too. And it's something that's like, I actually will order again. You know what I mean? I want to see some, this is an Oregon for me too.

And it's something that's like, I actually will order again. You know what I mean? Like a lot of time we have these drinks like, yeah, we'll order again, meaning I like it. But this is like, I'm going to go out and buy one, order one of these. Yeah. Get them at the Dresden.

I want to try some variations sometime. And to make it home. Like I used to make daiquiris when I had like nothing else. I'm like, man, I got like no mixers. What can I make? And it's just, you know, lime juice, rum, whatever, syrup, right? When you got no frills on the mixers,

all you got citrus and liquor, that's good. Consider the gimlet part of your repertoire. You know what I'd like to try? Yes, keep it close, keep the gimlet close to your heart. Close to your heart. I'm just looking up, liquor.com has a bunch of variations. A lot of them are simple like a vodka or a cucumber. This one that I'm curious into trying

is a cucumber basil lime gimlet. That looks good. Very nice. A trio of greens. The cucumber basil go well with gin. This is gonna be my drink on St. Patrick's Day this year. Cucumber basil lime gimlet. You mean next year?

Yes. End on talk like a pirate day 2025. It'd be funny if I go in and like it's like crowded St. Patrick's Day bar, I'll have a basil gimlet. No, you have to slap the basil. Sir, you're having a Guinness or a bass. Kiss me, I'm Irish. You go to a bartender, you order a hand slammer and then they tell them to make one for themselves. And if they drink it and they like it, they don't charge you for

the one they made for you. That's right. I forgot about that. That's a good deal. On St. Patrick's Day, I wanna hear you yelling that across the, if you like it, I don't have to eat. I don't pay. I don't pay. Cool if I don't pay. Tim, did you announce order again or not?

I'm an emphatic order again, both the fresh version and the roses version. I gotta say, I like my idea of just buying some nice margarita mix instead of limes, you know, as a cross between the roses and the fresh version. But I, for Slopheads, and this is a revelation of this podcast, is that the 50-50 with the roses, it's down and dirty in a way that's pretty charming.

I think if you're a slophead and you don't like to have a lot of ingredients, having a bottle of roses and gin and people are like, I don't like roses. You're like, well, it's actually the original gimlet. I don't know if you've ever heard of Lachlan Rose, nor have you read The Long Goodbye. Check out Harry Craddock. Check out Mary Macalone. They're using roses. Of course, dude.

You know what would help this 50-50 roses and gin? Would just be a garnish of some sort. Well, you're supposed to use a lime. You didn't do it. Lime will. No, but that would be good. That would be good. Yeah, it's recommended.

You didn't do it. It's like, oh, this is the trashy one. But yeah, but guess what? It's got a little thing on it. It's got. You can do it. It's like, oh, this is the trashy one. But yeah, but guess what? It's got a little thing on it. It's got a fresh fruit on it. I see why your parents laughed at this, Jeff, because it is fun. And it does roses taste like it's something you would find in your grandparents basement

or something like that. You know, sure it does. And also gimlet, the word gimlet to me doesn't sound French or like a classy cocktail. Gimlet to me sounds like the weird character on a cartoon show or a movie. Gizmo. You're thinking of you're thinking of Gimli from a. Maybe that's it. But like a guy who's always fucking it up and they're like, Gimli. Gimli. Gim shit.

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So you're going to make sure to follow us on socials so that you keep abreast of all the goings on. It's preposterous. If you're in Toronto on the... It's absolutely preposterous. This Lobby Boys podcast. It's preposterous. It's preposterous. Tim, it's dialed in.

It's classy. It's the right pot for you. That's a good day. It's preposterous. It's preposterous. That's funny. What I was going to say is if you're in, to take it back to some business, if you're in Toronto on October 5th, come see me.

I'm doing two shows on the 7th, or sorry, at 7 o'clock and 9 o'clock at the Comedy Bar in Toronto. Wow, Mike, that's so cool. It's gonna be great. When you do that show, I hope you look in the front row. Who's sitting in the front row? Drake. Because he's always in the front row of the Raptors games. I don't see why he wouldn't be in the front row who's in the front row Drake because mm-hmm he's always in the front row the Raptors games I don't see why he

wouldn't be at the front row of a Hanford stand-up show. I essentially do what the Raptors do I have certain slam dunks in a way If you see Drake, promise me that you'll tell him he's not like us. Dude, I got my own verse ready for you. Wap, wap, wap, wap. Drake, you're a snake and you're oh so fake. That's really good. That's good, man. That's good.

You had to do it to him. He comes to your show, he's supporting you. Drake, you're a snake and you're oh so fake. I had to do it to him. He comes to your show, he's supporting you. Drake you're a snake and you're oh so fake. No! He leaves. More rappers should say oh so. I'm going to the doctor tomorrow, 10.30. Damn.

And uh. Let me guess. Proctologist. Penis reduction. Mm-hmm, both. I found a guy who does both. He cleans, he wipes my butt, and he picks my dick. You just go in, you took a shit,

and instead of wiping, you go to the proctologist? Dude, the amount of money I waste on a proctologist wiping is insane. No, but I go in tomorrow, and I kind of forget why I'm going in. I think it's a checkup from the last time I was in, but I got blood drawn and he called me and we talked about the blood. Out of your ass? What's in the blood? No, this isn't a proctologist.

This is a regular guy. But so tomorrow I kind of now I'm just remembering like did he want me to do another blood test or something? Am I just gonna go in there tomorrow and like sit on the table and he's like, hey, okay, so what's up? I don't know what's up. What's up with you? Just checking in.

I'm out. Did you get those blood tests? No, man. Should I? I had a funny thing at my last physical. Ooh, my. I have a physical coming up and I'm gonna roll, I'm gonna roll on the pod.

In case anything comes up, we should do a whole thing about this. We should do a blowout. Oh, that's funny. So I always get their annuals. But this was a funny thing. My lady was like, hey, your blood pressure was a little high.

Well, let's try it again. And then she took it again and it was lower. You're freaking me out, lady. Yeah, well, it was lower the second time. She was like, were you sort of like uncomfortable the first time? And I was like, I didn't feel nervous, but yeah, you know, like sometimes a little bit.

And she was like, he's like, here's what you do. Get yourself a Blood pressure cuff like Type of thing For home, they're real cheap get them on Amazon and then just do me a favor like check your blood pressure for a week at home and then message me on the UCLA portal and This is very involved him. This is very is very involved. She's like I don't want to I want you to be comfortable when you take your blood pressure so what was funny was that like I guess I had been nervous in the office and then my blood pressure went down for the second

reading so then I get this thing in the mail I'm like okay time to check my blood pressure. Me sitting in this very chair by myself in the middle of the the day, I start to put the cuff on and I get a little nervous. And the first time I took it it was high. And then I waited until I calmed down a bit and I took it and it was normal. And then the whole rest of that week I took it and it was normal. And the moral of the story is I don't have high blood pressure, but it's so funny to get nervous by yourself. I know. Who? What am I? I don't have to tell anyone this number.

This is just me. As the blood as the blood pressure guy, that's the I guess I got my own machine over here. Yeah, you like you get you get like nervous about it. Not nervous is wrong. Oh, just once it's in your head and your body does something and you do have to be like, yeah cuz you're you're invested in the outcome you like this is for keeps but then the other thing is though like

out in my real daily life I'm not like okay I gotta be calm I'm just a mess out the real world so my blood pressure is only low for what I take my tests by the way I took my blood pressure the other day unusually low for when I take my tests. By the way, I took my blood pressure the other day. Unusually low for me, I'm doing great. 120 over 80? Oh, lower than that. It's like 60 over 20. I was like, forget his game.

One over nothing. Final note on the gimlet, the roses one. Once it got warm, this is disgusting and undrinkable. So either dial back the roses or drink it while it's cold, folks. Mike, your bottle. Mine was gone. The gonster.

I would say Tim, your inclination is raised to just lessen the roses in general on this one. Yeah. But a good little good little quick look Give it up for your boys Give it up for your boys