The Sloppy Boys - 6. White Russian

Episode Date: November 27, 2020

The guys check out The Dude's beverage of choice.WHITE RUSSIAN RECIPE Vodka - 1.7oz/50ml Coffee Liqueur - .66oz/20ml Fresh CreamPour the ingredients into an old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Float fresh cream on top and stir slowly.Recipes via the International Bartenders Association | 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. Oh! And Tim Kalpakis. Yes, yes, yes! And we're your hosts, the Sloppy Boys. Alright. How's it going, everybody?

Back on the pod. I love it. Pod me, yes. And we're your hosts, the Sloppy Boys. All right. How's it going, everybody? Back on the pod. I love it. Pod me, baby. I love getting on this pod and just chit-chatting with you two. Yeah. Me and Tim? Yeah, you two specifically about the drink and just whatever's going on in the world of booze. It is nice just to have some friends.

That's true. I have to go on record agreeing with that. Yeah. Mike, you and I haven't lost touch since you left for New York, but it is nice to have a weekly thing where we get together and do something a little special. Yeah, that's right. And I've tried. And you wanted to bring your friend Tim along. That's nice, too. Thanks for having me. I said, Tim, let's get on a Zoom with Jeff. He'll record it. We'll talk about drinks. It'll be great. Your friend Tim is awesome. Yeah. Well, you guys knew each other already.

Acquaintances. Acquaintances and work friends. Hey, check me out. I got a windscreen. Did you guys notice? I got a windscreen so I can pop my peas now. Yeah. We've gotten a lot of complaints about the pea popping. I really did, though. I had only ever

listened to our show in earbuds, and then I was in a car, and I played an episode, and I was popping the car all over the place. And every sentence I said, it happened to have so many peas. I was like a piece of poop. Yeah, at one point, you were like, pipe, pipe, pipe. I remember because I had to duck the volume for each fucking P. My earbuds shot out of my ears when I heard that.

It felt like a goddamn earthquake in the car when I heard that thing. I don't know anything about audio by the fact that for a lot of this, early on in this podcast, the first couple episodes, I was using my mic backwards, and you couldn't hear me very well. But I found the correct position. But with something like a windscreen, I love when, you know, an audio person be like, yeah, put the windscreen up. It'll pop the piece. I'm like, yeah, it's just a little sock. It doesn't matter. And then when you do hear it, it sounds better. You're like, oh yeah, that little windscreen is better. And an audio person knows maybe what

they're talking about. Yeah. But now I sound amazing. Yeah. Well, you were a shoe-in for the Prince of Plosives. That's what I was going for. And now somebody else is probably going to run away with it. I'm fine with that. What's the Prince of Plosives? These are plosives. Puh, puh. They're explosive on the microphone.

Okay. But now I can't get them through no matter how hard I try. With this screen, I can't. Close. Give us your biggest pee. Couldn't even hear it. Well, that's bad. I can't even hear you now.

I think we ruined it. Hey, who wants to hear a little bit of booze news? Oh! Me. As everybody all around the world knows, we got this segment where we have booze news. Today, I got a little check-in of my own, and then my correspondent, Mike, has a little bit of booze news. Actually,

Mike, I'm going to throw it to you right off the bat. What's happening over in your corner of booze news? Thank you, Tim. I have an update on the ever-present, ever-developing story of Pepsi. Is Pepsi going hard seltzer? Are they joining the hard seltzer movement that sort of swept up the nation? I can't escape all of the speculation about this. It's all you hear about when you turn on the TV.

It's insane. Well, I actually found some of this, the information I found on hard seltzer news.com. That's a source. That's a website. Check it out if you need to know more about hard seltzer than I'm telling you. But last month, Coca-Cola went all in on the fast growing U.S. hard seltzer category, signing up with Molson Coors Beverage to manufacture, market, and distribute Coke's new Topo Chico hard seltzer.S. hard seltzer category. Signing up with Molson Coors Beverage to manufacture, market, and distribute Coke's new Topo Chico

hard seltzer. Whoa! That's Coca-Cola. That's great. So Coca-Cola is going they're moving fast on this. I didn't know that Coke owned Topo Chico. That's big news. I love Topo Chico. You know, you gotta keep up with the hardseltzernews.com. I'm gonna make that my homepage from now on.

Topo Chico is, uh, happening in Europe next month. Says hard seltzer news.com. Pepsi co the story though is about Pepsi. They have decided right now to step back and not jump in the hard seltzer game for the foreseeable future. What are they doing?

They are putting their efforts towards energy drinks. People don't want energy. It's so funny to put out a press release about this that we're like, we're not going to do something. It was several websites that had news about this. Jesus Christ. See, I feel like Coke is like the Marvel. Right. And they're

going to run away with this fucking thing. And then Pepsi is going to be tripping all over themselves trying to do anything to keep up. They lost it. Pepsi bought Rockstar Energy earlier this year. Okay. So they're saying we're doing the energy stuff from here on out. But doesn't energy drinks seem like two steps behind?

I think we're over it. Have you guys had Bing? That's the one that I like. No. That's a search engine. Yeah. Well, I search for my energy drinks on it. Is there something also called Bang?

That's Orange Bang. Yes, there's one called Bang that I don't like, but there's an all-natural cherry-based one that's called Bing, like a Bing cherry, and they have a flavor that's crisp apple, and it's so good. Try it. It's very autumnal.

Au naturel. And now, the story I've been tracking thank you mike yes uh more on this story as it develops good night and good luck i'm on you're on the pepsi beat and i'm on the uh the fireball beat um i have tracked down i haven't acquired it yet but i have tracked down uh fireball beat. Um, I have tracked down, I haven't acquired it yet, but I have tracked down, uh, fireball eggnog. It,

they do have it at a, uh, a Walmart in Rosemead, California. So I'm going to, okay, I'll be driving out to Rosemead this week. But in the meantime,

some of our, uh, listeners very kindly had, uh, reached out on social media and, and suggested other mixers for Fireball. People said root beer. I thought it was interesting. And then somebody on Instagram said that there is a drink.

This one is real. They didn't make it up. There's something called Angry Balls, which is a shot of Fireball in a pint of angry orchard hard cider. Whoa. So like a, um, like a car bomb or a Jaeger bomb. Yep.

But you don't, you don't, you don't do, it's not the drop and chug. You, you just pour in the shot and then you drink your leisure and get ready to have your hair blown back. I'm drinking one right now.

Whoa. On the pod. Whoa. Um, and I gotta say, Tim, blown back. I'm drinking one right now. Whoa! On the pod. Whoa! And I gotta say... Tim, you're like the self-inserting documentarian. That's exactly it. Yeah, wow. The new age media personality. I'm not a pencil pusher desk jockey, okay?

I'm right out there. You're the Michael Moore. You're banging on the door of Heston right now. Mike, when you were talking about Pepsi, I was like, where's the Pepsi? What? I want to live in the moment. Well, I'll be up all night if I drink a Pepsi right now. Tim, take us, take a nice big sip and tell us what you feel. Not a fan. Thanks to those who reached out and, uh, keep on reaching out. But this is like,

you know, I had never had Angry Orchard before. Have you guys? It's a cider. It's a cider. It's the most popular hard cider. I think I've had one, but I can't say like, oh, it's a great one. I never had it because the name sounds kind of like Ed Hardy to me, and I had avoided them.

Yeah, same reason I don't drink Arrogant Bastard. Yes. And a lot of the Mike's Hard Products type of things are not appealing to me. me and I had avoided them. Yeah. Same reason I don't drink arrogant bastard. Yes. Uh, and, and a lot of the Mike's hard products type of things are not appealing to me. I think this is a good cider. I like the real dry ones. Uh, this one is maybe a little on the sweet side, but then when you pour the fireball and it's like cinnamon apple would work, but it's also, it's a cinnamon whiskey. So I'm drinking whiskey. It's a double drink. And it's a valiant effort. And I'm interested in it. And I'll continue drinking it.

But I- Sounds like a big whiff from the slopheads. But for a flavor as extreme as Fireball, to mix it with another alcohol seems a step, a bridge too far. Yeah. But I do like this root beer idea. Because we all know root beer pairs well with

vodka if you're making a Russian root. Everybody knows about the Russian root. If you don't, you should by now. Well, thanks everyone. I do like that our booze news beats are just checking up with Pepsi and Fireball.

The two things we've talked about on booze news. Well, anyone listening on Twitter and Instagram, send us if you know about some drink we're missing, let us know. We've also got the email thesloppyboyspodcast at gmail.com.

We want to be in the immediacy. We want to be duking it out in the Twitter sphere, so tag us. If this doesn't work out, we'll open this up to some snooze news if you've got mattresses that you like, if there's new technology in pillows. After a few more of these

ciders, I'm going to be snooze news myself. Hey, you guys ever wear those pajamas that the pants and the shirt buttons up? Yeah, when I was a kid, yeah. The foot footy ones but like you see uh no no no no like you would see on like a 50s uh uh sitcom where like the father of the family is wearing like a matching pants and button up pajama yes i jessica gave me a pair of those

monogrammed they say t TJK on the cuffs. Nice. And I'm a sweaty sleeper, so I don't really need them. But in the winter, I'll wear them. And let me tell you, you put them on and you say, it's time to sleep. And then you wake up and when you take them off in the morning, you're like, I'm done sleeping. And it gives you a little structure. All right.

That's good. I can't believe it's comfortable enough for me. I like to, I wear a short pant and that's about it. Are we looking at a flannel or are we looking at like more of a silk there, T? Mine is like a crisp cotton. Starched cotton. Option three. Okay. But if you like a silk pajamas, you'll be happy to know that one time I delivered a script to Sasha Baron Cohen and he came to the door 5 p.m. sleepy eyed. Oh, hello. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. And he was wearing silk pajamas, having his little afternoon nap. Wow. He must've just come. He probably came from across the pond. Yeah. And maybe he was catching up on some sleep. He was probably jet lag.. He said he was like,

I'm tired because I've just come up with an idea for a character that I might do in a series of films. Was that Borat? I think he came up with the character of Borat and it made him tired. He saw you and said, Borat. Yes, basically. I saw him when I met him once and he looked at me and said, Boring.

I said, come on, you don't even know my name yet. That's rude. You're a rude dude, man. He's probably punking you for his next film. Oh, God. I'm probably going to show up in Borat 3. That would be great. Well, guys, let me start telling you about today's drink.

Now, today's drink is simple to make. Today's drink is a drink that is very tasty. Today's drink is a drink that's usually held by a guy who says something like, obviously you're not a golfer. Or Owen Wilson doing a impression. I do mind. The dude minds this aggression will not stand

or careful man there's a beverage here. I'm talking about a white Russian yeah baby and the person who says that type of stuff is the Big Lebowski Jeff Lebowski from the movie The Big Lebowski. His nickname

in the movie was The Dude, okay? I can't believe when you did that voice, I thought it was Bridges. Yeah, the first one, Jeff, you're right, was a little more Owen Wilson. Obviously, you're not a golfer. That's pretty good, man. That's pretty good. But The Dude is, you see, The Dude is more, hey, it's more from the throat, hey. Yeah.

It's so cool to hear the process. I love when impressionists are like, you know, Stallone is basically a Tony Bennett, buddy. He's got a little looser jaw. I love when people go on late night shows. Yeah. It'll be impressionists or people who like played a big character in a movie and then like Leno or whoever will be like,

oh, let's hear a little bit of that guy. And the actor will be like, let me see if I can find him here. You know exactly where he is. Yeah. And then they somehow do a bad impression of like their own character. Like they clearly haven't seen the movie as much as the fans. So it's always disappointing when like somebody goes on the show and then they do like an okay version of the, of the real character when they are the person.

Yeah. Let's see if I can find him here, Jay. All right. And then. Oh no. Oh Jim. God damn it. So this is a Lebowski drink is what you're saying.

That's the, this is the Lebowski drink is what you're saying. This is the Lebowski drink. This is a drink the white Russian was falling into obscurity. And then in 1998, when the Lebowski movie came out, it came back on top. It became famous again. I think this is cool. This reminds me sort of of when we did the Cosmo, Cosmopolitan to the layperson.

The pink drink. We saw this history kind of happen. You know, with the drinks, I feel like lots of times we're just going back to prohibition all the time or whatever. Yeah. But it's nice to see that this, the white Russian is like invented in 1949 and people had it in the 60s, but it wasn't very popular. very popular. And then the Cohen brothers say, what if this guy's a, a nineties holdover from the sixties and he's, let's give him a dusty old drink that's gone out of style. Yeah. And that when, yeah, when I look, I looked at the Wikipedia page for this drink and it, the, the Lebowski is the thing, like that's what made it, it wasn't super beloved when it was

around for the first time. And that's the same thing with Cosmo where like sex in the city is the thing. So we, we saw it happen. We witnessed this. Yeah. I like this because it's like an unsophisticated drink. It's like sugary and kind of like maybe in the same way the Cosmopolitan was, I don't know.

Yeah. But was, it kind of makes sense that Lebowski was drinking them because they're just sort of like cheap milkshake, like alcoholic milkshakes. Yeah. Two ingredients. Well, sorry, the IBA lists the black Russian. We're doing the white Russian because it's more clickable. You dog. So three ingredients, if you add the cream. You clicked on it, didn't you? Admit it, listeners. Yeah, the three ingredients are for the white Russian. Well, hold on. Real quick, though, Dutz.

It's not like the IBA hasn't heard of the white Russian. It says, when you look up the black Russian, it says, optional, float on the cream. So they know. They know. We're not going rogue. Right. I think also the black Russian may have been introduced first,

but the same guy who made the black Russian, I think also made the white Russian. And this is one of those ones too, which I don't think we've seen yet. The, uh, other than like the zombie, the person who made this,

it's a very clear story. It was 1949. Gustav tops made it in. He was a Belgian bar man in the hotel Metropole in Brussels in honor of Pearl Metza, the U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg. And that's the story everyone knows. And he did the black Russian first, then the white Russian.

Yeah. And then I think it like caught on like in the 60s in Oakland. It's kind of like a loungy drink like for kind of cheesy, almost like a disco-ish thing eventually. We got 50 milliliters of vodka. So that's a shot and a little bit, maybe shot and a third?

Shot and a half? A little drizzle. A shot and a drop. And then 20 millimeters of coffee liqueur. So that's like a little less than a shot. That is like your Kahluas. And would you guys use Kahlua? Kahluas. And would you guys use Kahlua?

Kahlua. And then the rest of it is a float cream on the top and stirring slowly. So like I'm doing whole milk on this one. Nice. Or no, full cream. Nice. I found a heavy cream. And I've read to use half and half, if not all the way heavy cream because. Heavy cream, that's what I'm using.

Milk will be not so good. In Lebowski, that first scene at Ralph's, he's buying half and half. Yeah. So I think that's his chosen thing. I, um, well, do you guys ever make these like in normal life? I have, I've had one before, but, uh, I rarely make them in high school. I've had a couple I've had. Yeah. I kind of think it is a good high school or a drink. It's like, if you don't really like alcohol, this is a good entree. Kind of tastes like a mudslide. But I make these every once in a while just because I have a bottle of Kahlua and I don't know what the hell else to do with a bottle of Kahlua. It's been like 10 years on my shelf.

Yeah. I just took a sip of straight Kahlua. Delish. Yeah. Ooh, interesting. Also, one thing I should have done when we made the zombie, I should have tried each of the

ingredients as I was making it, but we try to make them really quickly because we're recording. We just run away from the computers and run back, but I tried straight falernum. It's delicious. Oh, really? Did you put it on the rocks or just a little sip? Just a little sip out of the bottle. You little bastard.

I mean, it's like syrup, basically, but man, it's good. I would love it if you just became a fuller. Wait, hold on, hold on. We're getting away from what's going on. I didn't even talk about the method. Oh. Oh. The method of making the drink.

We've got the ingredients. Yes. And then we're veering off. And hey, I'm no help. I brought us out there in the different topics. We're all the ingredients. Yes. And then we're veering off. And hey, I'm no help. I brought us out there in the different topics. We're all to blame. The method is pour the ingredients into an old-fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Stir gently.

Garnish? Not applicable. Thank God you got that out. Everyone was waiting for garnishes. Well, I don't know. Some people are thinking I've got these all in the little mixing pods. And they're probably thinking, I got an itchy trigger finger with all my

garnishes. I'm going to put cherries and mint all over the top of this thing. But no, garnish is not applicable. I'm looking forward to this because I make these every once in a while, but not properly. I just kind of wing it, and I always use skim milk because that's what I have in my home. So today I have heavy, heavy whipping cream is the only, yeah. And, and I'm, I'm curious, it says stir gently. Are you guys going to stir it

until it's all the way stirred or is it supposed to look like a floater up top and, and be a little bit concrete? That's a good question. I think it's supposed to kind of have the consistency of coffee. Yeah, the dude puts his finger in and spins it all around. There you go. I think I'm going to start to serve gently, but then get a little more aggressive and then bring it right back down to gentle. Okay.

If that's what the dude does, then Mike abides. Whoa. All right. Well, shall we? We'll be right back. Yes, I was just saying we will we'll be right back all right we're back in talking about the white Russian and the white Russian. This is a podcast first made myself a double. Wow. So you got what do you got there?

A hundred milliliters of vodka. Yeah. And did you double the Kahlua too? You know, I did. I see. I'm a law abiding citizen. You're going to be drunk. And here's the problem. I filled a highball with ice.

And then when I did the normal proportions, it looks so dinky. I was like, I got to fill this bad boy up. You, my friend, filled up an old fashioned glass. A highball is taller than that. Oh, yeah. And you know what? I think I'm going to be glad I did. Oh, yeah.

Jefferson! Chef, my man. I'll say this, though. That cream? Maybe a little chunky. It's got some body to it. Wait, is it old? I thought when I was pouring mine in, it was fresh from the store,

but I was pouring mine in, I thought I saw some curdling and I got scared. Same. But then when I mixed it, I'm not eating any chunks. Are you eating chunks? No, and I smelled the container and I was like, smells good. I think it's just like when they say it's heavy cream, they mean thick. Look out, baby. Mine was a smooth, heavy cream poured right in thick. That's that thing that happens with an Irish car bomb. The Bailey's curdles when it hits the Guinness. So you have to drink it real fast. Yeah. I think maybe we have a version of that. Maybe you have to mix it.

Maybe that's why I said stir gently or something. Maybe if you mix too hard. Let me ask you this. Could you use Bailey's in this? Is Bailey's a coffee liqueur? No, it's like cream. Oh, good. Oh, wait. It's crème de menthe.

It's not mint. Well, I went and got Bailey's thinking that's what it was and I got home and I was like, I don't know if Bailey's is right. I looked it up and it was Kahlua and I went back and I returned two nips of Bailey's and he gave me back two nips of Kahlua and since I didn't have my receipt

he was like, okay, well, you have 57, we owe you 57 cents. Mike, you're gonna need the Bailey's in like three weeks. I know, I should have kept it. I like returning, that transaction is so funny because he's probably thinking like, sir, when you buy these little bottles,

you're supposed to drink them in the parking lot and lay face down. Excuse me, actually for my cocktail podcast, I didn't get a lot. It's a receipt because for my taxes, it's a write-off. It's a write-off. So you understand that. Well, what do you guys think?

Because I think this cream is good. It's noticeably thicker than when I make it with normal milk. And it is like a real fribble. Yeah, it's good. It's got the consistency, a little bit of an eggnog, or makes me think of an eggnog, which I do not like. But this, well, I do like. And it's...

You let me yammer on. All I ever do is talk about the fireball eggnog on this podcast, and you don't even like eggnog? Not really. I'm fucked. Didn't I mention that the first time you brought it up? I said, Tim, I'm going to go with you on this because I'm a news Didn't I mention that the first time you brought it up? I said, Tim, I'm going to go with you on this because I'm a news

partner with you two, but I don't know about me actually liking this stuff. You're going to win a Pulitzer for putting the news above your tastes. Here's what I'll say. Wait, what will I say about this? Oh, I tried it. I sipped it when it was just a black Russian before I put the

white into it. Yeah. And? And pretty good. I don't think I would enjoy like a full one of those. It was a little more smokier on the breath. I think the milk cuts it down. Yeah. What did you guys use for vodka? Tito's.

Me too. Right out the freezer, baby. I forget the vodka. It was Amsterdam vodka. Never heard of it. I think it's a cheapo. Oh, Michael. Those two were nips.

I love going and getting the nips, especially the weird stuff like Kahlua. I like getting the nips, and it's nice and clean for the podcast purposes and stuff, but it is crazy that it's like they're so expensive for what they are. They're like $6 for some of those. And at this point, I'm surprised when I have to go get a new alcohol because we're six weeks in, and I feel when I have to go get a new alcohol because, you know, we're we're six weeks in and I feel like I have I have an incredible bar now more than more alcohol than I've ever had in my life. So I need to go buy like a specialized thing. I'm like, huh, I guess I need to buy Kahlua.

Yeah, it sucks realizing that you just added like, well, I don't have Kahlua, but I do have Demerara rum and four other types of rum. I looked it up, too. There's, there's other fun, uh, types of, uh, Of Russians? Yeah. Well, there's a white Canadian, which is made with goat's milk instead of cream. Then I found the white Mexican, which is, uses horchata instead of cream. The white Cuban uses rum instead of vodka. White Belgian uses a chocolate liqueur instead of a coffee liqueur. And a dirty Russian, which is made with chocolate milk instead of cream.

The one with the rum makes a lot of sense to me. I think that rum, I'm liking this drink, but rum seems correct instead of vodka. Yeah. Also, Kahlua has rum in it. It's coffee liqueur with rum. Oh. You know what would be good? I think something with,

if you add a little peppermint schnapps to this, then you would have maybe a nice holiday treat. Hey. Ooh, that would be like a Starbucks, like I like the Starbucks peppermint mocha when that comes around. That's kind of like a- Me too, I love it. I could see a garnish in this being a candy cane.

You're walking around, ring dong, ding-dong. Listen to this creative process, Rav. I feel like I'm in the writer's room of Johnny Carson. Sleigh bells ring, you know, that type of thing. And people are kind of, hey, this guy's singing a carol. Why don't we sing with him? Are you listening?

How? Wow. Let's start the secret Santa. I got an iPhone. You know what I might do is one day I would swap out the, the Kahlua even and put in DeSarono, uh, Amaretto.

It's for an almondy treat. Oh, wait, is Amaretto. I'm thinking hazelnut. I'm a, I'm a big hazelnut coffee mate guy. You're a big pain in my ass. What's, what's the version that I would like? There must be a hazelnut coffee mate guy. You're a big pain in my ass.

What's the version that I would like? There must be a hazelnut liqueur. How could there not be? I mean, I would just add the normal hazelnut coffee mate to this. Yeah, to this. I think that's what you could do. Yes. And you can use coffee mate instead of cream in one scene of lebowski i think uh when when julianne moore is in bed and

she's trying to conceive and he's like would you like a cocktail the dude makes himself a white russian and he uses like uh creamer powder instead of cream oh man so there's options i remember when uh when friends of mine like in high school, that movie was popular with kids. And like my group of friends had like got into it and I hadn't seen it yet. And someone was explaining to me, Lebowski, like what it was about. And this kid was like, oh, this is great. He's super funny. This guy, this other guy pees on his rug and he's like got to get his rug back.

So he's like, and he's like focusing on the rug stuff too much. I was like, oh yeah, that seems like a weird movie. A friend who just tracked the ransom plot line. Saying nothing of like the interesting funny characters. But Bunny Lebowski was actually in Palm Springs. Yeah, he's just blowing the whole mystery for me. Man, Lebowski like Swingers has so many sort of California colloquial things that i was not picking up at all as a kid didn't diminish my enjoyment of it right but now that i've lived in california

for a little bit it's funny to like he's got a ralph's card he goes up to malibu and they're like stay out of malibu there's a lot of funny little things um all this uh lebowski talk kind of makes me want to be like mike and quote it don't go ahead yeah i think i might give a little quote mr lebowski um we need you to hand off the ransom mr lebowski please call us back so you you focused on some of the characters that really didn't have much, uh, going on at all. Is that Philip Seymour Hoffman? Who is that? Yes. That's Philip Seymour Hoffman. Oh, what a cool cast. I thought, I thought you were doing, uh, the, the three German guys. Yeah. Also in the movie, you got flea. You got flea. That is a very hip cast. I'll spot any bass player in a movie. Yeah.

That is a very hip cast. I'll spot any bass player in a movie. Yeah. Well, then you might spot me in... Have you been in a movie? You must have. Dream Girls. I was an extra in the movie Dream Girls. I did.

I spotted you. Were you on set with Eddie Murphy? He was... We were on the same set, yes, but I don't think we were really allowed to see each other. He was first team he was higher up on the call sheet than you uh yeah well so I was an extra so I was uh led from a one pen to another pen and uh I was given a certain amount of food at a very late hour a certain amount and

uh I was yeah we sat in a big group scene some some theater in downtown L.A. And they dressed us up like guys from the 60s. I wore a cool suit and then sat there and watched him like kind of lip sync. Did you guys hear that Eddie Murphy paid to win the Oscar for Dreamgirls and then did not? Pay who? That's just a rumor I heard. Not to campaign, but you mean like paid to the Academy? All I heard was the rumor, baby. But who would you pay in that situation?

The Academy? Like you- I don't know. Slip hundreds to some- I was walking down the street and I heard, Eddie Murphy paid for the Oscar. That does make sense in retrospect because you know during the Oscars,

they have the camera on each of the nominees and then you see them react? Yeah. I remember that year when they announced the winner it wasn't Eddie Murphy. Instead of just clapping politely, he turned to his camera and said, well, there goes that investment

down the tubes. Yeah, it slipped by a lot of people but you caught it. I noticed it but I didn't think anything of it. That's weird. That doesn't make sense. I haven't heard any rumors about him buying off the Academy. Oh, well. Now, Jeff, when you heard this news, when you're walking down the street, were you like, this isn't a booze news, so I don't really care. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, talk to me in like five or six years. We should have an interesting news segment. Hey, here's some booze news for you.

That's also interesting news. Lebowski is another Miller movie, right? When they're at the bowling alley, they drink Miller Light. It just says light on it. Okay. Those cans. And then there's some MGD bottles and stuff. What studio? It's an indie, right? It's got to be Coen Brothers.

But in the 90s and the 80s, because we've watched Coyote Ugly and we've watched Cocktail on our Patreon, and we've noticed a lot of MGD in the mix. And we still haven't tried MGD to see if it really tastes like a draft beer that's in a can. No, we have not. And we never will. Because this is a cocktail podcast. Or might we?

Maybe we will. I think we probably will. We probably should. We're going to run out of cocktails right quick. Do you know how many Caucasians, as the dude said, how many he drank throughout the movie?

Seven. Let me see. Hold on. I thought you guys would know. Are you scanning through the movie right now? Fast forwarding? I'm counting them all. He drinks nine of those Caucasians. Damn.

Wow. That's why people do like the Lebowski challenge or whatever. What is that? To drink one when he does? Yeah. It's like every time he smokes a joint, you smoke a joint, man. Jesus Christ. Not to mention the a joint, man. Jesus Christ. Not to mention the Caucasians, man.

Mention them. I do it the way, I do the Bunny Lebowski challenge, and every time she loses a toe. Oh, Jesus. I lose a toe. How many times have you seen the movie? Ten little piggy times. Oh, little piggy times. That would be a good name for a newspaper

for feet. Ten little piggy times. Because you have the New York Times and the LA Times. Exactly. It makes sense if he drank nine of these Caucasians in the movie that it makes they really wanted us to notice

and they wanted it to be a thing because you know yeah sometimes the character has something twice and it's sort of an inside joke on set or something but no one's paying attention but nine times they wanted us to walk out of the theater and be like damn a lot of white russians in that movie and knowing like and knowing the the coen brothers like very very specific and detail oriented. They were probably like white Russians, very specific to this dude, this like slacker guy. And let's not forget the Superbowl commercial from 2019.

Hey, we've done both of the drinks. Yeah. We did the sex in the city Cosmo and we did the, uh, big Lebowski. What was that a commercial for Stella? See,

that's how, you know, okay. I was going to say, that's how's how you know it's not a good commercial if you don't know what the product was. I'm not saying it's a good commercial. It was a Stella the whole time. I was expecting James Bond to pop up. Daniel Craig

himself. Shaken not stirred. The dude, Jeff Dowd, the guy who the dude is based off of, like in an interview so it was like oh do you drink white russians he's like i've had white russians i drink them from time to time but like uh i usually drink you know if i drink like uh harvey wall bangers or just like a vodka soda that's not interesting it's funny to see a white russian rather than like a character who

drinks white russians funnier than a guy who drinks vodka sodas. Let me ask you this about, what was his name, Harvey Dowd? Jeff Dowd. Jeff Dowd is the real dude. Do you think that he abides? I actually heard he didn't. I think that they did a good move

by not calling the movie the big dowd like that name is a good punch-up whoever came up with lebowski good move it's kind of in there lebowski dowd they they hit it in there but they gave it to us yeah oh it's very it's it's it's deep in there it's codified i like that oh i like that. Yes. What do you think it is about that movie that, okay, so I've seen it recently and it's good. And I knew it was good back in the day and it's good now. Yeah. Coen Brothers rule, good movie. But you associate people who dress up like Lebowski and people that quote it too much,

you associate that with people that you don't like. Yes. That are bad. The fans ruin it like most things. Wait a minute. That's not fair to say. bad. The fans ruin it like most things. Wait a minute. That's not fair to say. Well, I'm saying it on my pod. But I just think, how is it that those people know that this movie,

it's such a nuanced thing. I always marvel when Seinfeld is the best show and it's also a hit, and you're like, but the public's stupid. How do they know? Seinfeld's an interesting one where it's like that is the best writing and the best you know like really interesting funny stuff and everybody loves it and everybody sat down on thursday nights to watch a smart thing uh-huh that's not happening with this podcast i'll tell you that much yeah no not anymore anyway no cool cast too obowski by It's like, you know, imagine if you're Julianne Moore and you're Philip Seymour Hoffman.

You're between Boogie Nights and Magnolia, maybe, and you go to Lebowski, and you're all the coolest young people in L.A. That's cool. Oh, yeah, they were in all those movies together. And you got Turturro. You got Buscemi. You got John Goodman. And they're all like at cool moments of their career where they haven't,

they haven't jumped the shark as far as like the Bill Murray-ification of a, of an actor where you're like, yeah, we get it. You're a meme now. Like they were legit. It was inspired casting back then and they were cool and they did do a good job. It's so funny how funny John Goodman is in it. Crazy. So good.

He's so, that character is like such a funny specific, oh, everyone's so funny in it, but like, yeah, even just the way he talks in that movie

really makes me laugh. I'm going to say something that's going to get me canceled, folks. I don't like skinny John Goodman. Put on the pounds. What if it ends his life early? Worth it. Jeff, he can't be King Ralph.

He can't be making King Ralph 2, 3, and 4, 5 just for your pleasure. I saw a promo for the Connors where he looks like, I'm trying to think of a skinny guy. Who's a skinny guy? Me. I'm trying to think of a skinny guy. Who's a skinny guy? Me.

I mean, didn't mean to laugh that hard. No, you dropped your drink and you rolled on the floor. You have to edit out of 20 minutes of laughing. You pissed your pants. And he looks like Ichabod Crane.

Yes. Would you rather he look like the headrest? Oh, God. Oh, God. I suck down this white Russian too much. Here we go. It's starting to hit. I feel it.

And so does Mike, baby. That's the cream talking. When we record these podcasts, I don't eat all day. Just to prep? Just to prep. So the first sip knocks me over. I want this one serving to body slam my liver. This has got another one, the sound I love with the drinks.

Oh, here it is. That's a good clink. That's a delightful sound. People don't like eating on mic, but come on, you can't argue with this. Yeah. Hey, folks, how's it going? Listen to the packets. What I like about this drink is it looks like the the one I made looks like the ones from the movie.

Like it's not not hard to screw up, but as I feel like, hey, I did it. I did it. Guilty as charged. We should get Dave Matthews on this podcast. Honestly, that's what that song's about. I think it could happen. I think he would, he would love this. And we should not warm up to it at all. Like it'll be guest number two.

The first guest will be like Mitch and the second guest be Dave Matthews. What if we don't ask him anything about his career also? And we just be like, okay, so Dave, have you ever had a Harvey wallbanger before? Yeah. So what did you buy to make it yeah did you have trouble tracking down the falernum did you do any shortcuts or uh could you not find a certain liquor

also i've seen one or two people say like oh they should have guests you know what fuck off we're gonna have them but like this is the pod. You got to be down. Also, who's saying this? Fools, because here's the problem. When I go on someone else's podcast, when I'm the guest, that's what gets everybody to listen and everyone's all excited because I'm the guest. So if I'm already

the host, it's redundant. You're the protagonist of life, so people are going to come here. And I'm the host of this podcast. I picture, I feel like I'm the guest. I'm your guys's guest each week.

I felt like for the first few, the first few episodes when your microphone was broken, you definitely seemed like you were just a guest watching and chiming in. Hey guys, thanks for having me. I don't think I'm set up right. Hey guys. Uh, I, I had a ship too Can anyone hear me?

Oh yeah, maybe we should get Maybe we should get Owen Wilson on the pod Sounds like we got him, my god Mr. Lebowski Or maybe we should get Lebowski, man That's the Lebowski we're going for. Hey, I'm Jeff Lebowski. What the fuck is that?

That's Jeff Lebowski from the movie Big Lebowski. Yes, it is. Give me one of his lines. Give me a Lebowski line. That's Jeff Lebowski two octaves up. Say there's a beverage present. Hey, there's a beverage present, man. You kind of sound like that other, what's his name?

It's like a Wolfman Jack. No, the narrator guy at the bar that says, Lebowski. Oh, Sam Elliott? Yeah. Sometime you eat the bar, sometime the bar eats you. You have to eat so many customers. I can do all the characters from the movie.

You're making me want to watch it. I am not privy to the real real sam elliott does that make sense only like versions of him that have been yeah yeah i only have seen the things where he's like kind of like well you know my persona and here i am like on big lebowski or uh like a star is born a star is born is so weird because bradley cooper is doing an impression of him and then he is also in the movie you're like he can't he admits you know that's a that's a cool thing about the end of the movie where bradley cooper is just like you know daddy wasn't my hero you was that's why i don't like you the whole time that's why i rip you off big brother

i remember when sam elliott in the movie is like are you taking my voice and That's why I rip you off, big brother. I remember when Sam Elliott in the movie is like, are you taking my voice? And he's like, I did it. Are you taking my voice? I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe I'll do the rest of this. I'll guest on this podcast more as a Sam Elliott

character. Yeah, you should do some of your characters. That would be funny. From now on, this is how I'm going to talk on this podcast, just for this episode. Yeah, you should do some of your characters. That would be funny. From now on, this is how I'm going to talk on this podcast, just for this episode. Yeah, me too. That's how I'm going to talk as well. That's how I'll talk. Now, if you're going to be talking in that voice, are you not going to use the other one? Because

if you're not going to use it, I'll do the, hey, I'm going to talk like this. That's Jeff Bridges. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're doing Jeff Bridges there. Oh, I'm a stellar artois. Yeah, I'm a stellar artois. Now, careful, Mike.

You're almost doing a... She was a great big fat person. She was a great big fat person. Now I'm doing... Yeah, so it's all very low. Tim, do you know who that is? Buffalo Bill. That's right.

That's correct. You won the one question quiz. Oh, hell yeah. I didn't know we were doing a quiz tonight. This is great. That's right. That's correct. You won the one question quiz. Oh, hell yeah. I didn't know we were doing a quiz tonight. This is great. Sneak attack. Yeah, that was the one question. You know what's really funny?

Go on YouTube and look up Jeff Bridges at his Golden Globes. What was he accepting? He was accepting some type of award. Like a Golden Globe. Lifetime achievement. Man of the Year type of award. Because he was talking to people out that were very close to him in the audience. Michael Cimino.

He's got some great. It's just very great. He's very delightful. And he's just listing off so many funny names. When he gets to the point where he's listing people off and they sound like fake people. Steve Cooper. Yeah. Who else?

Michael Cimino. He started this whole thing, man. Is he a dude like guy? I don't think I've seen an interview with Bridges. I think he is. He kept this, the cardigan, like the, the sort of like, uh, what's the word? Jackard cardigan. Yeah. Oh, where, where it's like crazy patterned or whatever. Okay. And he has made multiple appearances like as the dude. Do you think that that character like is his, it's, it's his defining, uh, like, is his defining character, right?

Much like the white Russian, there was a previous history. Right. But then this kind of oddball move in 1998 became the definitive thing. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, have you guys seen Tron? No, man. I think I saw the new one.

I haven't seen. We should watch the old school Tron. Yeah. Behind the Patreon paywall. Deep behind it. Fuck you Tron. Yeah. Behind the Patreon paywall. Deep behind it. Fuck you, listeners. Good luck getting through that paywall. Oh, hey, that reminds me.

We've been talking a lot about the cocktail of the night of the episode. Yeah, it's what we're here to do, baby. And then I was thinking about that. And I was also thinking about a certain season that we're coming upon, and I took it upon myself to make a parody song. Oh, interesting. Because you know I'm a musician.

Uh-huh. I know that. I think Jeff knows that. I think the whole listening audience knows it. Lyricist. I'm registered with BMI, if you want to license any of my music. So I made it as a parody song I wanted to play for you guys. I'm excited to play it, but I want to license any of my music. Um, I, so I made it as a parody song. I wanted

to play for you guys. Um, I'm excited to play it, but I gotta be honest. I just, I don't know that it's my best work, but that's okay. Hmm. This is a safe environment, Tim. This is good for, uh, workshopping. That's exactly what I wanted to hear because I put my heart and soul into this because I was thinking, uh, thinking about the cocktail of the night and I was thinking about the time of the year that's coming up and I made a parody song and I just, I hope I did my best, but if let's play it and let's give it a listen.

Yeah, I think it's all we can ask for. I'm dreaming of a creamed cocktail Just like that man in that one film Blowing a layup right out the gate. Yeah, you know, when you say that, looking back, I see that I did kind of missed an opportunity. Tim, that was it? Yeah, that was, well, I also, I wanted to ask you guys. Oh, Tim.

I wanted to ask you what you thought of the length. I thought you could have done more just time-wise. Even if it was instrumental, that would have been fine. Right. Because it ends so abruptly. Right. And it ends on a note that is just asking for the next counter note. You did a good job as far as getting the audience engaged and interested.

You didn't have the length, but you had the girth. You had the strength. I mean, it was great. It put me in the mood for christmas you were going for the season you were talking about because i was thinking about the cocktail and i was thinking about the time of the year and then it just it struck me like a bolt of lightning yep yep and you're dreaming of a what was what was the type of cream to cocktail creamed cocktail. Can't fault you for that. Yeah, it could be a couple cocktails though, right? Or, I mean.

Yeah, I mean, I guess it could be a mudslide. But I don't know how many films really feature a mudslide, whereas in this. Right. And I specified that man in that one film. So I think if I were to keep working on this, which is what's cool is I could keep retooling. I would stretch out the length a little bit and maybe try to just work on specificity in the lyrics. Yeah. Yeah. And, and more than a little bit when it comes to stretching it out. Okay. So we'll stretch it a lot and then I'll work just a little bit on the specificity.

I'd say double the length now and then double that length. Great. Um, I'm on it. I'm on the case and I won't sleep a wink until I'm done. Good. Folks, we'll be right back. And we're back. All right. How do you guys feel about these Caucasians?

Are you asking for our final thoughts? Yeah, let's steer it back and let's wrap it up. Well, here's what I think. This is a definite second rounder for me. I'm ordering this again. And it's turned me back onto it. When the bar scene opens back up

and I go out into a bar, I might just say, sir or ma'am give me a white Russian. I think white Russian is also the type of drink that they will have ready. Not mixed up and ready. My dad who's not much of a drinker and

has gotten a little bit more into it as he saw what his son became. uh, he's done, he's done the white Russian when we go out for like Christmas dinner and stuff. For me, this feels like maybe a lot of cream to make a night of this sort of thing. I don't think you're going to drink more than like one or two of these at a time, but yeah. Yeah. I got a big fat double and, uh, I don't know if I can do much more. It's one, we've talked about this with other drinks that you would on this show that you

would never walk into just any bar and ask for without looking at the menu. But I think even though this is a sweet drink and maybe there are people on earth who would make fun of this drink, I would feel confident saying this to any bartender and not being laughed out of the room. You could say, say it loud and proud. Loud and proud. Even at a tough biker bar where it's not their style. If I say it, they have this stuff and they better make it or I'll kick their lily white asses. If I went to a bar and I asked for this and they didn't have it,

then I'd be like, yeah, we're shoe city Sash Barilla. Yeah, baby. My final thoughts on this drink, to quote the film, it's a very good cocktail and thorough. Julianne Moore. I would do a second round. I don't know about a third round, but here I am with a double, and it's treating me right.

It's a good one. I checked my BAC during the break and I blew in my breathalyzer and I'm a.04 right now. Hey! I checked my BVDs and they were a fucking mess. They were.

My BVDs came back brown. Soaked. Guys, let's check out some mail, shall we? Yeah. Matt asks, Hi guys. You know that Family Guy episode where Peter can only play piano if he's drunk? Do you guys have any secret drunk talents? Thanks. I didn't know about this Family Guy episode.

I'm not following the McFarlane-o-verse, uh, but I did that. I played piano after my brother's wedding. I, I was, uh, I drank a whole case of champagne and I was playing piano for everybody and everyone had fun. And then the next morning we all woke up and we're like, Tim doesn't know how to play piano. Really? Yeah. So everyone had had the, the correct amount of champagne so that everyone collectively, I was, i remember playing uh the night they drove old what's that the song by the band they not they drove old dusty down dixie down old dixie down that's a problematic song that i shouldn't have been singing but uh so i also have the peter griffin thing um uh, Lois, this guy Tim's a lot like me.

I wish I could do that. I feel like any time I get a little drunk and I get on an instrument, I'm like, hold on, wait, how's this go? I feel like I play drums better drunk, though. I've been at parties where I can sit in on the drums and sort of bash them out better. Well, you were saying that drums are a little bit more rhythmic. Drums are rhythmic. It's more of a sort of you feel it in the rhythm of your bones, is what I would say.

Yeah, it's not so much the conscious brain driving the drums. It's sort of like you got different levels of chakras. Yeah. That one you play with the stomach and the balls. And you also play it with the sticks. And the sticks. Yeah. That one you play with the stomach and the balls. And you also, you play it with the sticks, so. And the sticks, then. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess my talent when I'm drunk is eating Del Taco and watching Family Guy.

Eating Del Taco and watching Rick and Morty reruns. Oh, reruns. I think I might be slightly better when I'm drunk at jacking off. What kind of problems are you running to when you're sober? It's just the rhythm is wrong. That makes sense because I play the drums better drunk. Like every once in a while, I'll look at my dick and it'll be like, couldn't you take a drink before we start this whole thing?

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