Bourbon and Badges the Podcast

Bourbon and Badges the Podcast

Four retired police officers chat about current events and joke around while sampling and rating bourbon. Like their bourbon, they are uncut and unfiltered.

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July 29, 2025 67 mins

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Step up and grab your free ticket to this runaway train we call a podcast. Tuning in, you will find our canaries of the airwaves singing the sweet song of bourbon, with a little Old Smoky Moonshine thrown in. The stories flow as freely as the whisky, so put your big boy britches on and find a nice cool hiding place so the old lady doesn’t interrupt your me time. You will need a cool place because the stories are as ho...

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Is this episode coming to you from Studio 77 or Camp Jellystone? You figure it out as Yogi Bear makes a guest appearance to open up this action-packed podcast. It seems that serial killers keep popping up, taking our gang down yet another rabbit hole of police related topics that only Yogi can grasp. We don’t know where Boo Boo is, but we have a Doby Dwag who flexes his proverbial idiom muscles, schooling our loyal li...

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During this episode, the bourbon flows as freely as the conversation. The only thing missing is Hound Dog, who ditched the guys for some good old down-home barbecue.  Look at Hound Dog thinking with his belly as our boys in blue are left to stew in their thoughts of misconduct touched with just a flavor of misbehavior to guide them through the smothering waller of intellectual conversation. Tuning in, you will find th...

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Series four of four of the serial killers episodes. Our boys in blue wrap things up with John Wayne Gacy, the clown killer. No, he didn't kill clowns, although if he had, I would have referred him to the movie "IT." Steven King scares the shit out of me. With a body count of 33 young men, Gacy made it easy for the scholars of all things known to man to fill the one-hour episode with his crime spree. So ...

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Tuning in this week, we find our thin-blue-line scholars on episode three of a four- part series about serial killers. The one and only Rodinator leads the way down the rabbit hole of all things Gregory Green, the Michigan killer. Talk about having a family to kill for, this beats the cake. Speaking of cake. Is there such a thing as a bourbon cake? If not, there should be. Either way, plant your butt in a chair as you...

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Series two of four on the topic of serial killers. This week, we find our guys discussing Wayne Bertram Williams. Narrated by our beloved Doby Dawg, listen in as you are taken down the sad but true memory lane of one of the notorious killers. Do the other boys of blue chime in? Darn skipping they do. All of us have opinions on the who, what, where, when, and how such things happen among the fine people like you, our l...

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Our guys in blue are killing it in this episode. H. H. Holmes is their first serial killer of four in this series. Listen in as Hound Dog narrates the written accounts of this first known killer that rocked the nation with his dastardly deeds. Say you don't like serial killers? The next time you visit your local grocery store, stay out of the cereal aisle, and you should be okay. Lock your doors, get out the old ...

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What a rarity! Tuning in, you will find the masters of the airways all drinking the same whisky: Knob Creek Bourbon Rye. Rye, you ask? Because they can, they did, and you know they rated it. Other than bourbon, what else are the boys known for? You guessed it, rabbit holes. Our whisky-pickled scholars crawl down a hole so deep, it's going to take at least four episodes to dig themselves out. Serial Killers, that&...

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As always, Enjoy the Ride

Drink responsibly. Never drink and drive.



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White cap or yellow cap, what is your choice? You don't know what the hell I'm talking about? Well, our bourbon burping boys do. Listening in, we find the quadruplets covering such topics as a handyman is not so handy. No due process for you. There goes the judge. The media needs to shut up and Phone Spineinitis. On a serious note, our gang raises their glasses and pays homage to our beloved fallen officers ...

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That's right, boys and girls, it's the podcast, not a podcast. Listen in as our whisky-spewing, bourbon-soaked foursome dive deep into their ever-growing oversized brains to try and answer such questions as;

  • Does Buffalo Trace float?
  • Is the bitch crazy? 
  • Does a good guy with a gun trump a bad guy with a gun?
  • Was that dog used correctly?
  • Jailer, is your paperwork filled out correctly?
  • Should Old Crow and Double...
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Another episode and a whisky pour or four brings us to this week's mischief that only our boys can get into. There's nowhere to hide for Hound Dog as he gets the pink slip from DOGE as the Ninja Turtles fly overhead. The Rodinator loads the gang up in his little red wagon and takes them down the road of politics that leads to a fountain of rabbit holes. So be like our song birds of the podcast world. Get you...

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Crazy Wild! Tuning in, we find our boys in blue covering a number of off-the-beaten-path topics this week. Where do they find this stuff? Surffing the internet? Dumpster diving? Paying some third-world underage sweatshop worker for the info? Who the hell knows? Maybe it's the foolproof bourbon our heroes are soaking their palates in this week, which led them down the road to the tomfoolery that causes people to l...

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March 19, 2025 89 mins

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Tuning in this week you will find a Special Edition of Bigfoot. Our boys have gone off the rails and down the rabbit hole of Sasquatch led by no other than Jerry Millwood, a cryptozoologist known as Casar Rebal. He is back by popular demand and shares stories, personal experiences, and investigations into the worldwide phenomena of this hairy bipedalism creature, particularly of the South Mountains of North Carolina. ...

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How do they do it? Season Seven, Episode Nine. Our boys in blue keep cracking it out, week after week. The masterminds of the airwaves owe all to easy targets, or as Chief Sult would say, " low-hanging fruit ." Fill your whisky glass as you listen in while deep thoughts are pondered and spewed into the neverending universe of subtonic scales that tickle deep inside your ears as you find out about Robin in th...

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Join the master podcasters for their pre-podcast meeting and of course their pre-podcast pour, (PPP). As the show is green-lighted expect to hear facts, figures, and stats or to be baffled with bullshit.  You decide as you indulge yourself with your favorite pour. Speaking of favorite pours, listen in as our four professional crime fighters ( these guys should be wearing capes) enjoy their whisky while covering such t...

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The boys are in the house for another head-spinning, jaw-dropping episode. Tune in to find our manly men sipping whisky, sharing stories, and blazing the magical airways as only our four intellectual professors of the academic society of all things known to man can do. Crap, try saying that when you are snookered. Speaking of snookered, listen in to find out such things as; what the four retirees use for everyday carr...

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Bourbon and Badges, the Podcast! (Mic Drop) Enjoy the Ride.

Season seven, episode six

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As always, Enjoy the Ride

Drink responsibly. Never drink and drive.



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February 12, 2025 63 mins

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Our beloved Buck opens the show this week, leading the gang down memory lane. If you have been a lifelong listener of the show, you know Buck as one of the founding members of this great creation we call Bourbon and Badges.  Tuning in you will find the elegant, brilliant, highly gifted Gnomes of the Golden Airways ranting over such things as the love for Luigi Mangione, the Wrongful arrest of a stroke-laden lady, boun...

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February 4, 2025 65 mins

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So much to see and hear as our kings of the airway, masters of the liquid universe, and darn smart guys are at it again. Topics this week include the border patrol, ICE, bounty hunters, a possible road trip, and Sky News. All while SLO fights a losing battle with an army of gummy bears.  Only three out of the four mics are served scattered, smothered, and covered in the wonderful elixir of booze as The Rodintaor recov...

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