Working 9 to Wine

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everybody, and welcome welcome back. It's been a while.
Took a couple of weeks off, but guess what, I'm
back in the saddle, and today I want to talk
about some wine. So we're talking ball backs and bottles
and bottles and bottles of the stuff. Ooh, that could
get us in a lot of trouble, now, couldn't it
might be Oh stop thinking about that, you know. So

(00:21):
we're making a little fun of wine. We're doing a
lot of things to make fun of the people that
take drinking wine. So dagdam seriously, I mean, really, why
do you drink wine because it tastes good? Well, maybe
not right at first. It's kind of an acquired taste sometimes.
But you know what, I tell you what, Once you
have about three glasses, you don't care what it tastes like.

(00:44):
It's just all good, right, it's just good wine. I
mean then you get the four or five glasses and
you're like, this is the best wine I have ever had.
And that's the truth. I tell you. My wine drinking
started when I was in college. Didn't drink a whole
lot then, but we drank Chabilee, and I think it

(01:07):
was Paul Massan, remember that Paul Masan. It had a
flip top and it said we will serve no wine
before it's time. That was so deep and profound, and
we didn't care. We popped that. It was like a
Mickey's Big Mouth top, you know, talking about back in
the day. You just pop that thing off. That thing

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had been in the refrigerator and you ready to go.
I mean, when you're a beer drinker and you start
drinking wine and you can stomach it, that's the best
thing in the world. You just didn't You just found
something right then. And you know, every time I do
this little, this little these little episodes, I have to
have a little sip or something. So we'll have a

(01:48):
little sip right now. That's good. And you know what,
Right now I'm drinking like one of the cheapest Peanut
and the Wars that had in the grocery store. Just
so I could give you a report. This is Barefoot
Pino in a war. It's a gold medal Winter from
the fair. I don't know which fair, but that definitely

(02:09):
has a gold metal label on it. It is eleven
ninety nine for a big bottle. Oh, I don't know,
is that big bottle is that two whole bottles of
normal sized bottles. There's a bottle and a half. I
don't know either way. It was a heck of a bargain,
you know what, It's not bad. It's not the best
I've ever had, but I can sit here and drink this.

(02:31):
This could get me in trouble by the end of
the night, because you know, I've worked really hard today.
I worked from nine to wine about that, and it
is this after five is five thirty my time, so
nine to wine works just fine. You know. There's so
many funny sayings about wine, right that some of it's

(02:55):
really cheesy. But I'm cheesy and I like it that way,
you know. I always like I used to have a
T shirt that said, sip happens. And it's cheesy, I
know it, but it makes me kind of laugh, you know,
because it was true. I was sitting there having a
glass of wine, so sip was happening. You know, Wine

(03:17):
a little I don't like winers, but wine a little
laugh a lot, right, And that's true. For some reason, wine,
particularly red wine, can sometimes just give me the giggles
and the googles. But the giggles almost like I like
half a gummy or something. You know, I'm just like,
start laughing. It's just a good time. It doesn't have

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to be like a bottle or two bottles. It just
be a couple of classes. Just loosen up, have a
good time, enjoy it, Enjoy the wine, enjoy the conversation.
It's not about always about the wine. It's not about
how sophisticated you think it is and how incredibly intuned
your palette is. Is it. It's just not, is it.

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It's about your company, who you're with, who you're hanging with,
who you are joining your wine with, how the night's going,
how it's loosen you up and you're talking, You're having
a good time. That's what it's all about. It's not
about Listen. We can all play and pretend. And you know,
right now I'm swirling my wine and my little glass.
I got one of those cool glasses too, us. It's

(04:21):
stimless and it has the you know, the finger cutouts.
So you know, I guess so if you drink a
little too much, it doesn't slip out of your out
of your grip, right, that's kind of nice. I like it. Well,
since I'm experience, and I guess I should have another sip. Right,

(04:42):
Oh yeah, that barefoot man. Here we go. What are
some more funny sayings? I mean I need to put
like something out there and have everybody send me some
some uh some funny sayings I tried to find. If
you save water, drink wine. Hm, that's not too funny.
I like this one. I want cloud wine. That's pretty good.

(05:08):
Let's see, roses are red, so is my wine. Refill
my glass. It'll be just fine. See that's nice. I'm
a poet, but I don't know it. You know, my
middle name is long fella. Anyway, I'm just ramling right now,
and that's the way it goes. That's that's really all
the funny stuff I found, just real quick. Let me

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see what's this one wine? Because no great story started
with someone eating a salad? Remember the the Homer Simpson
episode where they did that dance in the kitchen like
the conga, and it was can't make friends with salad,
can't make friends with salad, can't make friends with I
know you don't, nobody does, but I still sing that.

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Sometimes My wife looks at me like I've absolutely gone bonkers,
you know. But the bottom line is this, we just
have to lose all the stuffy, the stuffiness that goes
with drinking wine, and let's just have a good time,
you know, the stuffy pronouncements and the overly serious wine

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critic faces. I mean, he's just if you're like me,
you're gonna laugh at that. Just have a good time. Right, So,
wine tasting, you know, at its core what it's all about.
It's about pleasure and not just a little bitty sip
of the wine. You know, it's about you. I don't

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want to go to a wine tasting and have a
little bitty sip and then eat a cracker with cheese,
all right. I want to go have a big glass
of wine and then have a steak. To me, that's
wine tasting, all of this little mumbo jumbo stuff about.
Let's go have a sip of wine and un less. Oh,
let's smell it. Let's stick our nose as far into

(06:57):
that glass as we possibly can and sniff as hard
as we can. We're just going to clean our sinuses out,
you know, no things. I don't care how complex the
smell is, right, I don't want you to tell me
there are black notes of cherry and wet dog and

(07:18):
low tide you know that sounds I don't know. That
doesn't sound good it does it? I don't understand sometimes,
So let's talk about just the sheer, unadulterated joy of
experienced wine. That's why we're here. That's what I'm making
fun of. I'm not making fun of wine, right, I'm

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making fun of a lot of the culture that has
grown up around wine, because you know, at some point,
if you don't take it with a grain of salt,
salty wine and chocolate, maybe we're into something. It just
isn't fun anymore, you know when you got to it? Okay, Well,

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sometimes you go to a nice restaurant, right, and that's
all good. And sometimes you want to pretend like you're
all to fancy and you're all dressed up and you're
say you're at Hauls Chop House in Charleston, South Carolina,
and you know this, only a comes out and he's
you know, you know what you want to order. You
want to order that cheapest bottle of red wine on

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the menu, which is still about fifty five dollars. And
you tell them that, you tell this expert guy that
that's what I want. But guess what, within thirty seconds,
he's either got you or whoever you're with at that time,
they've got your mind changed already. And suddenly that price

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point is it fifty five dollars for a bottle, It's
two hundred and fifty five dollars. Somehow they have changed
my bottle of Barefoot on the Water, which, believe me,
they do not have it. It hauls chop House. Maybe
they should, but you know, And suddenly I'm drinking a
bottle of Camus Preserve and I'm maxing out my credit
card right now, just because this guy explained the wine

(09:09):
and made it sound so good, and and you didn't
want to say, I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't understand what do you mean? It's wine? But
you know you got to impress. I mean, you're all
dressed up and everything, and you got all these people
around you, you know, so you gotta you gotta impress everybody.
I'll let them know I know what I'm talking about

(09:30):
with my wine. And then it comes right. So you know,
it's like you're you're holding a glass, the cool, smooth
curve just fitting perfectly in your hand. The wine itself
is a shimmering ruby or a pale golden straw, you know,

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and it's just catching the light just right, and before
you take a sip, your brain is already engaging and
anticipating the experience. This is where the magic began, the anticipation,
the build up, the promise of a sensory of the light.

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It's a ritual, a prelude to the bit event, and
it's early delightful. No it's not. I'm sorry, that's not cool,
you know what. You know, what was cool for me
today was going into the cabinet and pulling out my
glass that has the fingers cut out for it so
it doesn't slip, and then going into my wine cabinet,

(10:34):
which is my pantry, and pulling out a big ball
of bare foot pedo the water and twisting off the cap.
How about that. That's all I did. I twisted off
the cap and I was good to go, you know.
So I didn't need all this other stuff. I didn't

(10:55):
need it. It just wasn't what was needed. So the
first act, so I'm going to go back to my
being all crazy about the wines. So the first act
of the symphony, we're backing it up, is the aroma,
the gently swirl the wine in your glass, which I

(11:16):
just did, releasing those captivating fragrances. Don't be afraid to
bury your nose right in there. It's perfectly acceptable and encouraged.
And yes, you do look silly. What do you smell?
Red fruit, black fruit, floral notes, earthy undertones, spices. Don't

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worry about identifying each note with pinpoint accuracy, because you
can't because you're just making it up. Just let the
smells wash over you. It's a reminiscent of a sun
drenched vineyard, a damp forest floor, a spice market in
Marray Cash. I mean, really, you know, one person's right

(12:04):
plumb might be another slightly bruised BlackBerry. So there's no
wrong or right answer. There's only your experience. So why
do we go through the whole song of dance? That's
what this whole thing is about. You and I had
like pages of things that I had written out here
that we were going to discuss to make all of
this funny. And guess what is all I did this
whole time was ramble about my pino and a war

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that is barefoot, big bottle, big. I just call it bigfoot,
you know. From now I'm just calling it bigfoot, so
I hope that Why don't you guys go out and
get you a bottle of Bigfoot pino in a war.
Barefoot pino in a war. Chardonay is pretty good too,
from what I understand, I got a buddy of mine

(12:47):
that's you know, he's quite successful and he loves his
barefoot Shardonnay in the big bottle the bigfoot. So anyway,
we'll we'll get cranking into a little bit more specific
stuff and not just me rambling. I just had to
get back into what, you know. When I did, I
hope you guys got at least a little laugh out
of this. So you know, I just worked from nine

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to wine and I'm done, guys, I'm out. Hope y'all
have a great day and I will see you next time.
And don't let your wine vibrate too much. I'm out, bye, guys.
God bless