Barrels, Bottles, And The Stories Between Them; We Tried A 142.8-Proof Stagg And Lived To Tell It

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Rare pours belong in glasses, not on pedestals. We sat down with Jerry from Neat Or Stir to unpack how a Detroit-area bourbon club turns the chase into a craft: buying whole barrels, tasting blind, and building real relationships with stores to secure bottles worth opening. If you’ve ever felt burned by Michigan pricing or baffled by allocations, this conversation maps a smarter path from shelf envy to satisfying sips.

We start with the local reality—tight distribution and wild price swings across the Ohio line—then explore why club barrel picks deliver more value than camping for drops. Jerry walks us through the group’s process: 20-plus barrels a year, private blind flights, and a priority system that rewards participation without becoming elitist. Along the way we taste through an eight-year Old Louisville (Bardstown distillate) packed with brown sugar and spice, a Four Roses OBSV with high-rye bite and fruit-forward lift, and a standout Stagg single barrel that converted a skeptic. The crescendo is a generous pour of the 2025 George T. Stagg at 142.8 proof—dense cocoa, dried fruit, and an absurdly long finish with no nose-burn theatrics.

Expect practical wisdom you can use right away: how temperature and glass size change viscosity and aroma, why blind tasting beats label worship, what Four Roses recipes actually signal on the palate, and how to be the kind of customer stores want to call for special picks. More than anything, it’s a reminder that the best bottle is the one you share. When community meets curation, even hazmat-proof whiskey becomes welcoming.

If you love whiskey stories, crave better barrel picks, or want a clearer path through the allocation maze, you’ll feel right at home here. Hit follow, share this with a bourbon friend, and leave a review with your favorite single barrel of the year—we might feature it on a future tasting. Cheers.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_05 (00:16):
We're gonna drink a fine whiskey and smoke a really
fine cigar.

SPEAKER_06 (00:24):
It is time for happy hour.
It is the man cave happy hour,whiskey, cigars, spirits, the
stories that go along with it.
I'm Jamie Flanagan.

SPEAKER_05 (00:32):
On that side of the table is one, Mr.
August Gitchley.

SPEAKER_03 (00:36):
And to hear that from the the sexy Matt Fox, to
have your voice introduce me uheach and every Monday.
Give it to me.
Give it to me.
It just makes a certain swell.
I can feel it in my plums.
Anyway, they're ripening.
Welcome to the show, guys.

SPEAKER_06 (00:56):
Yeah, yeah.
Friends of the show, Jenniferand Spencer are here again.
Thank you guys.

SPEAKER_07 (01:01):
Always love having you.

SPEAKER_06 (01:03):
I know.
I know.
And then I said we're having astag party.
What?
Yeah, it's uh it's uh it's astag party, and and joining us
Jennifer and Spencer, uhShanghai Jerry, uh, and brought
him in and said, Jerry, you gotsome bottles kicking around your
house.
How about you come on and be ona podcast?
And he's like, What?

SPEAKER_05 (01:24):
What's a podcast?

SPEAKER_06 (01:26):
Okay, radio show that's not really on the radio,
but it's kind of on theFacebook.
It's like on demand, it's likeNetflix, it's for your ears.
You can fast forward through allAugust bullshit.
Um, yeah, so exactly like that.
And and Jerry's gonna tell usall about uh Neat and Stir.
Uh Neat and Stir.
It's uh it's a it's a localbourbon club doing all kinds of

(01:47):
illegal things.
Oh, come on.
Uh it's listening.
I know, I know, I know.
Michigan is Michigan isridiculous.
Uh there's so many uh rules andregulations.
And it's better than it used tobe, and it's ridiculous.
We're in Metro, yeah, we're inMetro Detroit, and uh, if you

(02:08):
drive uh about 90 minutes south,you you cross the Ohio border
and you're a good 20 minutesinto Ohio, and uh it's there's a
plethora of things that you justcan't find, or if you find them
here, in it'll be a$200 bottlehere,$29.95 south of the border.
It's at least one dollar bottle.
It's crazy.
So uh Jerry said, To hell withall of that, I'm just gonna buy

(02:30):
a damn barrel.
It's the best way to do it.
Yeah, and so then you get whatyou like.
All right, so Jerry, uh, beforewe get into uh the the club, the
the neat here it comes neat andstir.
Tell me about your childhood.
There it is.

SPEAKER_03 (02:45):
We haven't had a good tell me about your
childhood in a while.

SPEAKER_00 (02:48):
So you're the youngest one here, so I am the
youngest one here, so as far asI'm concerned, you know.
Local guy, we're in uh theSouthfield area here.
I grew up not too far in OakPark, uh 10 mile in Coolidge
area.
All right, and um stayed inMichigan, left to go to Florida

(03:08):
for a short period, andotherwise stayed here and what
what was in Florida?

SPEAKER_05 (03:13):
I sing a ring on your fingers.
Did you get married down there?

SPEAKER_00 (03:15):
I did not.
No, got divorced down thereactually.
Get that practice wife out ofthe way early, man.
There you go.
Um, but uh sorry, no, moved downthere for business and then uh
decided to come back.
Yeah, welcome back.

SPEAKER_01 (03:29):
Glad you're here.
I'm glad you uh decided not tostay there.

SPEAKER_00 (03:32):
Yeah, much better here.
Love the people here muchbetter.
So this guy, uh he just got tomeet us.
I don't I don't know him wellenough, yes.

SPEAKER_03 (03:40):
You know, yeah, I mean he knows to learn
something.

SPEAKER_05 (03:44):
Okay, okay, I hear you.
I hear you.
Did anything eventful happenthis weekend for you?
For me, yeah, what happened thisweek?
I was uh on the road a lot.

SPEAKER_06 (03:51):
What about you, Jamie?
Uh we went to two differentthings Friday and then Saturday.
We went uh oh, I went to thethis guy I know.
So, Matt, there's this guy Iknow, okay, and uh he fancies
himself mayor of Hamptramic andking of the city or something,
so he holds court down at theDIA.
Was this you office?

SPEAKER_03 (04:10):
What I was gonna talk about.
He was talking about holdingcourt event at the DIA.

SPEAKER_06 (04:14):
But we did on Friday, we went down to the
holding court, yeah.
Uh, and then we tried to go downto Detroit tree lighting.
Uh, and then that was stupidbecause traffic was nutty.
I heard nothing this way.
We knew it was gonna be a shitshow.
I heard nothing but peoplereporting that they went into
it, that it was absolutely allwe got we got a quarter of the
way from the DIA there and said,Oh, screw this, and we went to
Bakersfield and drank totequila.

SPEAKER_03 (04:35):
So Catherine and I made a decision this weekend
that I think is pretty damnfunny.
Did you get a Christmas tree?
No, we decided that when we getmarried, uh-huh, we're not
engaged yet.
Uh okay.
When we get married, all right,but there's time she's gonna
wear a black dress and wait atthe altar for me to come down
the aisle in a white suitbecause she's been married
before.
Um like plastic dreams.

(04:56):
Are you gonna play JD?
How funny is that?
She's like, I think that'd be areally good idea.
I'm like, we can't telleverybody, even though I just
told her on the podcast, thankgod none of my friends or family
listen to this.
Yeah, you know, right?
I think that'd be absolutelyhilarious.
Okay, but it was like her, she'slike, Yeah, I'm down with that.

SPEAKER_01 (05:10):
Like, how did this transpire?

SPEAKER_05 (05:12):
So are you you're gonna walk in with the in a
white tux and is it gonna be tothe Imperial March?
That's what I really want toknow.

SPEAKER_03 (05:17):
Well no, I if it's a white tux, no.
Maybe when she comes out,waiting up there in a black
dress, and my mom's walking medown the aisle to give you away
to her.
No, Matt, we'll have a black,we'll have a black staff.

SPEAKER_04 (05:31):
Kane, cane in a pimp cut.
You shall not okay, go ahead.

SPEAKER_06 (05:37):
So it's funny, like so.
I I teach high school, and thenyou know, prom comes around, and
then they put out all the rulesfor prom.
It's like, you know, no hats, nolimos, no whatever.
No limos.
I know, right, right, yeah.
They don't want the party buses,they don't want the party buses
because they don't want the kidspartying, right?
What do you do on a party bus?
You have a party, right?

SPEAKER_03 (05:57):
So, uh, so yeah, so this drive the driver into
buying you booze, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (06:00):
So the kids are all sitting there complaining, and I
go, didn't say nothing about nopimp cups.
Y'all, y'all should y'all shouldcome roaming in with the bling.
I go, well, next year theyprobably will.
I haven't been able to talk kida kid into bringing a pimp cup
to prom.
I've been trying, I've beentrying for the last 20 years.

SPEAKER_03 (06:20):
Where like things you know blow up in the middle
of the hallway, and it's liketake will you go to prom with me
and all that kind of dump dumpshit?

SPEAKER_06 (06:26):
Promposals, yeah, prom posals and homecoming
posals.
And it's like, boy, you know,these kids talk about peeking
out in high school, man.
It's like holy smokes.

SPEAKER_05 (06:37):
I I know what that's like, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (06:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Not me personally, but I feellike I still haven't.

SPEAKER_05 (06:44):
Sorry, man.
No, you're good, Jennifer.

SPEAKER_06 (06:46):
So, but yeah, it's uh uh and then Saturday we saw
the planet of fun playing out,Billy's tipping in way out in
White Lake.
Oh, right there was on Kentuckyon uh Saturday night.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was a waterbird.
So that was my weekend.
Um but uh Monday's about to takea turn.
But Jerry, yeah, so you're like,can you see him?
So with the camp, we got thecameras, you can't see anything.

(07:08):
But I mentioned uh there's somethings on the thing.
So Jerry, you do uh a podcastclub.
You don't do a podcast club, youdo a bourbon club.
I have a podcast club.
You do it's called Podcast YourVoice, and people come here and
make podcasts.
It's a club house.
Um it's not even in a tree.
I know, I know.
It's just uh so much fun.
Uh, you have a bourbon club.

(07:29):
And uh, did you did you startthe bourbon club?
Is this it did you start it withpeople or did you join this?
What's uh tell me about similartell me about Neat uh Neat or
Stir, the the bourbon club.

SPEAKER_00 (07:41):
Yeah, so Neat or Stir, we uh we kind of put this
together a group of guys that wedo all the barrel picks together
with one main store uh here inMichigan.

SPEAKER_03 (07:50):
And we can plug your friends, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (07:54):
So bottles and stuff, bottles and stuff.
Yep.
My brother from another mother,Chris.
That's there.
A lot of people that go there,they know him in Lavonia.

SPEAKER_06 (08:02):
Is it your honey hole, and you're like, I don't
know, people can't do it.
Anybody can go, anybody can go.
What's what's the one I startedhearing about?

SPEAKER_05 (08:07):
You can plug your friends, you can plug your nose,
but you can't plug your friends'nose.

SPEAKER_06 (08:11):
You have not been downtown on a Friday night,
apparently.
Y'all haven't been to First.
Okay, anyhow.
Uh so but I know there was uh uhKenwood, I think, on Woodward,
like down in the city.
Adam's a great guy there, yeah.
And it's like, yeah, becausehe's like that's kind of like
not many people are willing togo there.

(08:32):
Yep.
Um, east siders, that's all.
Yeah, it's like I'm like, youknow, I mean, it's like if I if
my window didn't get popped oncea year going to St.
Andrews back in the day, I willyou know, I wasn't living, you
know.
Uh, but yeah, so the the city ismuch better than it used to be.
But I I still know people thatwon't go to the city, and I'm
like, wow, that's on.
I'm like, where is this?

(08:53):
They're so oh, there's thisbottle.
It's it, yeah, and I'm like,what party store?
I'm like, where the hell isthat?
I'm like, holy crap, that's likedown on Woodward, uh in the
city.
That's like right near theBoston and Edison district area.

SPEAKER_00 (09:04):
It's uh yeah, it's in Detroit.
When you think of Detroit, it'sin Detroit.

SPEAKER_06 (09:07):
It is, it is very Detroit.
That's where it is.
It is very Detroit over there.
Yeah, anyhow.
With the glass that the bottlesare behind.
Oh, yeah, it's great.
Bottles and things though.
Bottles and stuff, bottles andstuff.

SPEAKER_03 (09:17):
Yes, I'm in Boston Edison quite often.
Bottles and stuff.

SPEAKER_06 (09:20):
That's over in Lavonia.

SPEAKER_00 (09:22):
Yes, yeah.
So the Adam, you said nope,Chris.
Chris.
Yep.
Adam's at Kenwood.
Need another.
I know we gotta make I'm gonnawrite it all down here.
Jerry, no, I got Jerry.
I'll do a roadmap.

SPEAKER_06 (09:32):
I remembered looking at the and something in Lavonia.
I'm doing pretty good.

SPEAKER_02 (09:38):
I think Jimmy's gonna have to rewind and watch
this over again to remember thisstuff.

SPEAKER_03 (09:41):
Uh so these are all it all gets fixed in the edit.
You had your hands on, right?
You had your fingers and yeah,so I brought a little selection
of stuff.
Exactly.
Got it in.
I just got sticking.

SPEAKER_06 (09:50):
Finger, finger, baby, loose.
Uh, so it's like the word of theday.
Um, so when did you guys startthis bourbon club though?
So you're 12.
You mean how you couldn't nowyou can't even buy legally yet?
13.
So on a good day.

SPEAKER_00 (10:08):
We started a couple years ago.
Uh, we started doing because wedo a lot of store picks.
We pick probably 20 plus barrelsa year, yeah.
And it usually gets splitbetween all of the group
members, and then some of itgoes to the store for the
customers and things like that.
And legality, um, sure, right?
Yes.
Well, that's what yeah, yeah.
And then uh what we would do iswe would do samplers for the

(10:29):
group so that way people can getblind samplers, and that way
they can try these things sideby side because so many people
judge it based on the label.
You look at stag, oh my god,that's the best thing on the
table.
But is it that four roses couldbe better at old Louisville?

SPEAKER_03 (10:44):
That people don't know really about side by
signing with side by siding thebarrel picks with the standard
off the shelf is my part.
I think that is the priority,just to so you can prove that
this is and they always had theynever I've never been
disappointed yet.
Yeah, in the that there is adifferent, there's a different
test them all, you gotta tastethem all next to each other.

SPEAKER_00 (11:02):
Yeah, there's there's so much difference
between all of the differentbrands that are out there, and
then when you get into singlebarrels, then you're getting
into even more differences inthe flavor profiles, yeah, yeah,
yeah.
So it's a lot of fun, it's agreat hobby, yeah.
And um, so I wanted to bring acouple things for y'all too.
That's a great hobby.
Well, that's when you're chasingthese, yeah, but if you're
chasing those, not so much,right?

(11:24):
Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_06 (11:25):
Yeah, um, so but there's a lot of bourbon clubs
in in town.

SPEAKER_00 (11:30):
Well, you just do good for those guys, or no, I
participate in a lot of thedifferent groups with it, you
know, chat and listening.
It's like, oh check on mycamera.

SPEAKER_06 (11:38):
No, I have a bourbon club.
I got a bourbon club.
Jerry show you.
You guys are kind of low profilethough, because I've never
really is it a Facebook group?

SPEAKER_00 (11:47):
It is a Facebook group, it's a private group that
we do for all the members thatparticipate in the barrels.
I uh I started an Instagram andI don't really know what I'm
doing with it, so I'm trying toput a couple posts up every once
in a while.
He doesn't know the Instagram.
I don't know about Instagram.

unknown (12:04):
He might need your help.

SPEAKER_06 (12:05):
He needs a TikTok.
I saw you doing the dances onthe TikTok.

SPEAKER_00 (12:09):
Oh my son does a TikTok, he does this like gym
fitness tick tock stuff.
It is outrageous.
The like the likes and thefollowings, and people want to
subscribe.
It's it's a whole differentworld.
I have no idea how he does it.

SPEAKER_06 (12:23):
So, all right, so a couple of years in into nip and
tuck.
Um neat or stir, it's close,close enough.
That was on purpose.
I know.
All right, so uh, and and howmany barrels would you say you
have you you guys have done intotal?
In oh god, I couldn't evenprobably a hundred.
You probably do like 20 a year,you said.

(12:45):
Yeah, that is nutty.

SPEAKER_00 (12:46):
Yeah, how many people are in the bottom in the
in the group?
Yeah, uh, I think we have over200 people in the group.
Not everyone gets all thebottles, but it gets right split
up pretty good.
That's gonna make more sense.

SPEAKER_03 (12:57):
I was like, wow, it's private group and they're
getting barrels.
How much liquid do you guys takeat home?
You know, cases, you know,you're on the hook for a case of
this stuff.
I thought I was tired ofmortgage payments.

SPEAKER_00 (13:06):
Oh my god, there was there was this one time I went
down to Tennessee, okay, toNashville, and so we had you
know um a hundred plus people inthe group at the time.
This was a couple years back,and we were picking at Nashville
Barrel Company, great spot.
Um, it's all MGP juice for themost part, especially at that
point.
It was five-year bourbon that wewere picking, which actually

(13:27):
tastes better than most 10years.
And we, you know, they told me,yeah, the barrel yields about
160 to 180 bottles.

SPEAKER_05 (13:36):
What's the angel share though?

SPEAKER_00 (13:37):
So I don't know.
So that's that's what they saidwas good.
I was like, okay, no problem.
So I got with all the people inthe group, we made sure we had
enough to break it all down, andthen they dumped the barrel that
day, which is really coolcompared to a lot of the big
distilleries, yeah.
Um, and it yielded uh 220bottles.
So I planned for like 150, 160.

(13:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Got 220 out of it, and I'm like,okay, I hope people want these
because they're like$125 abottle, it adds up.
So it was uh I was stressing,but once everyone tried it, oh
my god, they were gone good likegood right away.

SPEAKER_03 (14:14):
So um, yeah, it's it's my experience that finds
these suck.
Some of them are right as goodas others, and they're you don't
want to, yeah, but it then noneof them are like, Oh, I'm never
gonna drink that it's sitting onmy shelf.
I mean, except for maybe thatone bourbon.
I've had a lot that I there'sbeen a couple.
What was that one bourbon?
Uh Chris Stapleton's bourbon.
I never want to drink that shitagain.

SPEAKER_02 (14:34):
Oh, the traveling, I don't want to drink that stuff
again.
So some of them I don't evenwant to mix with.

SPEAKER_03 (14:38):
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (14:40):
So where where do you where should we start?
Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (14:42):
So there's a single barrel, a four roses.
We had we had just did fourroses.
We did the or by that's up toyou guys if you want to go
proof.
You want to go, um they're allwe're gonna barrel proof.
We're gonna let you guide usthrough where to start and where
to end.
Uh, but yeah, we just did a fourroses, uh, but we did the uh OBF

(15:03):
S or whatever, the one with theaccent.
OB the OB.
I think that was a high soldier.
So we did that.

SPEAKER_00 (15:07):
That was one of the uh that they're releasing now,
right?
The single barrel product, yeah.
Yeah, so that one was a barrel.
The cool thing about four roseswhen you go to do a barrel pick,
there is you try all 10 recipesblind.

SPEAKER_06 (15:19):
Oh, nice.
Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 (15:20):
So you'll go through all of them.

SPEAKER_05 (15:21):
You start staves that you want.
Nope, that's makers.
I'm sorry, yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_00 (15:25):
Yeah, right.
So with the four roses, you'lldo them all blind, all 10
recipes, go back, forth, andthen filter it down to three
recipes.
Step out, they mix them up, trythose blind, and that's the one
you go with.
Wow.
So it's not like oh, the OESO isthe one you gotta have.
That's what everybody wants.
It's gotta be a 12-year tiersix.

(15:46):
No, we're gonna pick what tastesbest at that time, perfect, and
that's it.
So it's a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_06 (15:52):
So also on the table is the tall boy you guys gotta
try, uh, the George T stagbarrel proof, barrel proof.
You bring the tiny one carrier,yeah.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (16:02):
When was the last time you had a stag uh bourbon,
Jamie?

SPEAKER_06 (16:07):
Oh, I don't I don't know.
I can't even we we we had thestag with Big Tony.

SPEAKER_03 (16:13):
Um God, that was that'll be the only time I ever
it had to be pre-tony if I everhad it was pre-COVID the last
time I had sometimes uh thosethose big Tony back room nights.
I don't remember because I wasliving really close to that
place.
What's the bag?

SPEAKER_06 (16:25):
And then this is gonna be fun.
Uh so I'm excited about this.
So you can tell us a little bitabout old Louisville.
Uh the and you're wearing theold Louisville t-shirt.
So old Louisville, you thoughtthis wasn't yet.
And this is not an issue fromMichigan.
Should we start with that?
So Amina's working on it, yeah.
Breaking the law.
Let's start let's start there.
Just not uh so tell us a littlebit about Old Louisville and

(16:47):
what drew you to it.

SPEAKER_00 (16:48):
So Old Louisville is a um bottling company, kind of
like Nashville Barrel Company,kind of like Ever North, uh,
where they're not actuallydistilling the product, they're
just buying barrels from allover the place.
MGP, they're buying it from notjust MB MGP, but all over, yeah,
yeah.
So, like so this, so this isactually an eight-year
Bardstown.
Okay.

(17:08):
Um, I don't know of Bardstownreleasing an eight-year of
something they distilled uh whenwe picked this, and it was
pretty unique at the time.

SPEAKER_06 (17:16):
The barts barts towns are uh uh desirable now,
yeah.
Uh they make some pricey, theyare pricey on the shelves.
Yeah, they're they're making it.
They did the they had a uh theyhad a founders one, they had a
founders one, and I was like,ooh, but then I looked at the
price, I was like, I'll waittill Tony has that on the shelf
at the best kept secret so I cantry it there.

(17:38):
There you go.
Um, we're getting all the tablethinking, all the bottles
sliding across.

SPEAKER_03 (17:43):
No, it's a good thing, it's a good thing, it's
part of the ambient noise of thethe tasting.

SPEAKER_00 (17:47):
You gotta you gotta so what when did you pick up
when did you pick this guy?
So we picked that one um at thebeginning of this year, earlier
this year.
So this is a 25 product deal.
This is a 25 sorry about that.

SPEAKER_03 (17:59):
All right, my hat hit the microphone so we can
dump on the sound.
You're fine.

SPEAKER_00 (18:04):
With this one, it like I said, it's an eight-year
product, 123.6 proof.

SPEAKER_03 (18:08):
Only and it's uh wait, wait, uh with 125.6.
This is hard though.
This is the star.

SPEAKER_05 (18:15):
This is where we're starting is the low one.
Yeah, it's the low one, is thatwhat you said?

SPEAKER_00 (18:22):
Yeah, but it's got a really nice golden color to it.
If you look at it on the glass,it's got great legs, good
viscosity.
Really good legs.

SPEAKER_04 (18:32):
It's like Z Z top on the glass.

SPEAKER_01 (18:39):
It's good, it's spicy.

SPEAKER_06 (18:41):
But it's not, it's not it's got a little bit of
heat.

SPEAKER_05 (18:44):
It's also my not a you know boost the warmth, the
warmth, right?
But it's it's just it coats sowell.

SPEAKER_02 (18:49):
Yeah, it's not the warmth, it's not the alcohol
warmth as well.

SPEAKER_05 (18:51):
No, it's just warmth, it's yeah, and it's just
continually warming as it's likemy penguin flannel Christmas
pajamas.

SPEAKER_00 (18:59):
Decidedly a bourbon, but there's like a sugary sweet.
Yeah, baking spices, brownsugar.
I wonder if the othercaramelized sugar at the end.

SPEAKER_06 (19:10):
So, but this is gone, right?
So you guys did your barrelpick, you got this, and then
that's that, right?
It's gone, yeah.
It moves pretty quick.
That's uh it's sad becauseyou're like, I would I would buy
a bottle of that, yeah, right?

SPEAKER_00 (19:21):
But if if you go, it's not gonna be that, right?
I usually try to keep uh a fewbottles for myself, yeah.
But just you know, when somebodyreaches out and they really need
another one, they want one,dude, and you're like, I'll part
with it.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, how I mean how manychildren though?

SPEAKER_06 (19:35):
You can part with yeah, keep one on the trophy
shelf for one of the picks thatI've done, and then how many uh
how many uh uh bottles would yousay are in your in your man
cave?

SPEAKER_00 (19:47):
Oh there's uh you'd fill this room, yeah.
Yeah, oh my god, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (19:52):
There's quite a bit.

SPEAKER_03 (19:53):
So you're not interested in the second
vacation home?
You'd rather have a whole bunchof bottles of liquid in the
basement.

SPEAKER_06 (19:58):
That's kind of how it's working out.
Yeah, he's good for us.

SPEAKER_03 (20:03):
You don't want your own private island, you just
want to like those two kids inTexas who want to take over an
island in Haiti.
Yeah, see, that was prettyfunny.

SPEAKER_05 (20:14):
You don't want your own private Idaho?

SPEAKER_07 (20:18):
Oh, that is so sweet.

SPEAKER_06 (20:22):
It's almost like a it's almost like a what do you
mean an icing, like a pop-tarticing at the end.

SPEAKER_02 (20:27):
Oh yeah, think about it.
He owns a part of Kentucky.

SPEAKER_00 (20:31):
It's memories, okay, guys.

SPEAKER_06 (20:33):
It's all memories.
It is.
I I would say I counted somebodybecause you when somebody asked
me the other day how manybottles I had, and I'm like, I
got no idea.
And I went home, I counted, andthere's about 48.
Yeah, I have like six in variousin various states of openness.

SPEAKER_05 (20:49):
Yeah, I got like I'm drinking them both at the same
time.

SPEAKER_02 (20:52):
We have 480.

SPEAKER_00 (20:54):
I started an Excel spreadsheet once, and then I
gave up.
Just once.

SPEAKER_03 (20:57):
You did.
No, I said 48.
I tried that once and I had togive up.

SPEAKER_05 (21:03):
He said 60.

SPEAKER_03 (21:04):
Someone found it and then I wasn't having fun.
I had 67.
Not a problem.
Trust me, it's not a problem.
I'm kidding, I never had aspreadsheet, honey.
I know you're listening.

SPEAKER_02 (21:12):
Yeah, but how many of those are open?

SPEAKER_06 (21:14):
Uh, most of them, most all, most all of them are.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Uh and then it's likeThanksgiving.
You're like, oh, I don't want tofinish that one, I'll set it
aside.
And it's like, because I likeit, I want to have it.
I did that.

SPEAKER_03 (21:26):
And this weekend I finished two bottles.
I just had that one.
I got the the link left.
Yeah, basically the old Foresterfrom uh Butter Run just
finished, and the Buffalo Tracefrom the Charlevoy.
You find one of them I liked awhole lot better than the other,
and when I had them side byside, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (21:41):
Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 (21:42):
So I'm gonna try to get Dave Hard on the phone.

SPEAKER_05 (21:44):
A couple of soldiers are are are disappointed.

SPEAKER_03 (21:47):
Yes, are dismissed a couple.
We had a proper ceremony.
Okay, you know, I have a hardtime finishing off the bottle.

SPEAKER_00 (21:52):
Like it's just it's sad when it goes, yeah,
especially if it's good.

SPEAKER_06 (21:56):
Right, right.
The really good ones.

unknown (21:59):
Do you keep your bottles?

SPEAKER_00 (22:00):
Depending on the bottle, some of them might keep
because eventually I want to tryto do some art type product with
it.

SPEAKER_06 (22:04):
Yeah, because you got you got uh you you do the
the the interesting taterstickers, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (22:09):
Try to make it fun with some of them.

SPEAKER_06 (22:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (22:14):
I have a couple, yeah, yeah.
I have a few different onesbecause like when I would do the
blind samplers, yeah.
Um, I would take all the sixbottles that were used in the
blind sampler and then take thelast couple ounces from each
one, mix them together, andthat's that's the mix.
Or I would do um I would goaround to all the different
stores and buy all the the knobcreek picks or the yellowstone
picks, and you'd get like youknow, 10 or 12 of them, and I

(22:37):
would sample them all out to thegroup, and then I would take
them and blend them alltogether, and that would be a
blend.

SPEAKER_05 (22:43):
Most of the time I end up using it for making
cocktails, but uh it's a it's afun little way to to use up that
little bit of when you'rewalking into an establishment
and they see it coming, do theygo, Oh shit, here he comes, and
they start.
Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 (22:57):
Yeah, they're like, All right, what's he buying
today?

SPEAKER_06 (23:04):
Oh, that was lovely.
So old Louisville, do you knowif they're trying to get into
Messi again?

SPEAKER_00 (23:10):
Yeah, he's get he's getting pretty close.
Um, there's so many restrictionsand guidelines, and they you
know more allocation reasons, oris that no?
It's uh there's just a lot ofguidelines to be able to bring
your product in, get the rightdistributor, make the right
deals.
They take a lot more money fromyou as a company.
He's a small independent youknow, company for the most part.

(23:32):
It's not like a big Sazerac oranything.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Uh he does.
Yep, yep, he is not Michiganyet.
He is outside of Kentucky.

SPEAKER_01 (23:40):
Where did you find him?

SPEAKER_00 (23:41):
You just were in through uh some friends, some
friends in the group.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (23:45):
I've heard of old Louisville.

SPEAKER_03 (23:46):
Yeah, it's a city of Kentucky.
Yes, I've heard about him.
Uh I've been heard about him.
At least you said it right intoold Louisville.
At least you said it right.
Yeah, with any Tennessee shit.
Asking you, Jerk, do you fuckwith any Tennessee shit?

SPEAKER_00 (24:03):
Or any Tennessee distillate?
There's just Jack Daniels, someJack Daniels product.
Um, some of the stuff that I'vehad from you know the other
states really haven't been oldsoul.
Yeah, oh old soul.
So does old soul distill though,or is it MGP MGP or sourced?
I thought they I thought theyhad some sourced product.

(24:24):
I didn't know if they distilled.
I'm not positive.
Um, but we've had some gorgeousbottles.
I've had some hit and missesfrom okay from them.

SPEAKER_03 (24:30):
Oh, so you've been okay.
Yeah, I've definitely beenthrough the old soul.
You are an old soul a young oldsoul.
Yeah, I know.
Old soul.

SPEAKER_06 (24:37):
All right, wow, that's fun.
Uh, what next?
The four roses or one of thestags?

SPEAKER_03 (24:42):
Those stags next next to each other, right?

SPEAKER_06 (24:44):
Yeah, that's recommended.
Yeah, I would dip into the fourroses, see how you like that.

SPEAKER_03 (24:47):
That's one of my faves.
All right, hit hit me, Mick.
That one's uh is a is a standardin the house.
I always like to have a bottle.

SPEAKER_00 (24:53):
I think that one is an obsv.

SPEAKER_03 (24:56):
This is a straight up right there.

SPEAKER_05 (24:58):
Yeah, OBS put them in the syrup.

SPEAKER_00 (25:00):
Yeah, so we I hear everything.
So you got a high rye mash billon that.
You got um the yeast strainthat's gonna bring a little more
of the fruits to it, so usuallyit's a little sweeter.
That one we picked not thisyear, but last year.
Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (25:17):
I just wanted to see how much.
Thank you, sir.

SPEAKER_06 (25:22):
I'm gonna pass this across the table.
Thank you.
There's good table set.

SPEAKER_03 (25:28):
Yes.
I don't know, it might be toobright.

SPEAKER_05 (25:31):
So, Jerry, I gotta tell you studio lighting in here
now from playing in.
For for your first podcast thatyou've ever done, you're doing
exceptionally well.

SPEAKER_00 (25:38):
I just gotta you haven't done a podcast before.
I haven't.
Oh, yeah.
You're doing amazing.
You know, I did ask Copilot likeany tips or tricks or anything,
and it just said I have fun.

SPEAKER_02 (25:50):
Yeah, I think you practice in front of you.
Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 (25:55):
You didn't do a mirror practice.
I didn't do a mirror practice.

SPEAKER_03 (25:57):
No, I'm not being facetious, but I remember you
know, if you hold a small mirrorjust right.
I remember how nervous I was,and I actually had who is now
the a woman who's now thecurrently the editor of the
Detroit Free Press.
Yeah, I I she listened, I hadher listen to it.
I go, How was it?
She goes, You minimize the umsand the uhs.
That was great.
That's how scared I was to be ona podcast.

SPEAKER_01 (26:15):
You just don't seem like you would be scared or
frightened.

SPEAKER_04 (26:18):
Yes, what what is your?
I was like seven years old.
I mean, come on, that's what isyour crutch, what is your crutch
word?
Do you know what your crutchword is when you're when you're
talking?
When you're in a finger bangjoke.
That's your crutch word?
Finger bang?
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (26:32):
I had to work it back in.

SPEAKER_06 (26:33):
Oh my god, there it is.
The hotel bell.
I don't it's I brought it out.
I just it's uh that's on me.

SPEAKER_05 (26:47):
Oh, I love this.
I love a good four rows.

SPEAKER_03 (26:49):
Whenever I'm in a spot, I just talk about how
handsome you are and you justchange the subject.

SPEAKER_06 (26:53):
It's it's it's funny that uh my mom is she's 93, god
bless her soul, and uh justasked me about the podcast.

SPEAKER_05 (27:02):
She still kicks your ass at golfing, though.
She does.
And uh so yeah.
Oh no, four.

SPEAKER_06 (27:08):
I let her putt.
I let her putt.
All right, come on, you can comeover and putting.
Sure, we're down to justputting.
But uh uh, so we were doing one,and uh, I had bought some four
roses, and she's like, Oh mygosh, boy, you're like it came,
it was like a wash, and she waslike, Oh my gosh, she goes, My
dad used to drink four roses,but it wasn't anyone, it was it

(27:30):
wasn't a single bear, it wasthat the the least expensive
four rose uh down in Amptramicback in the 40s and 50s, yeah,
yeah.
So, but yeah, she it was sofunny when she saw the label.
She just like I could see it iswash over.
She's like, Oh my gosh, myfather used to drink that.
Uh my great grandmother.
So I love I love the four roses.

SPEAKER_00 (27:49):
So these are very similar.
It's up for sale right now.
You can buy it.
Oh, four roses for sale.

SPEAKER_03 (27:54):
Hey, I'm retiring, I need a hobby.

SPEAKER_04 (27:56):
Owned by somebody else, like some big so uh
they're selling it, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (28:01):
So it's not owned by all put our money together.

SPEAKER_03 (28:04):
We'll have 20 bucks.

SPEAKER_01 (28:06):
No, no, it's okay.

SPEAKER_00 (28:10):
Oh, so the brand is but they but they are uh they're
selling maybe we all would youtalk about Jerry's I think it's
uh these are bubble too muchmillion dollar proof.

SPEAKER_01 (28:19):
Not so much.
Do we can we put our about thesame proof?

SPEAKER_06 (28:23):
This one this one tastes whistle tick guy, he'll
buy it.
This tastes hotter, yeah, right.
He's too busy.
He's too busy.
It seems um like a higher ittastes like a higher proof.
I hate using the word smooth,but the the the old Louisville
was was was was not as it was awarmth, yeah.
Yeah, this has got a little bitmore of a bite, a little bit

(28:44):
more of a bite.

SPEAKER_02 (28:45):
That's about it.
Yeah, I think because it's alittle bit more of a bite.
Where are you at?
I've always enjoyed it for awhile.

SPEAKER_03 (28:51):
You like the flavor better.
I think that my face was it wentinto shock.
Like I think my first I want tofeel it.
I didn't have much of a welcomecocktail, I had something that
was rather sweet.
So then you're not really sure.
So I feel like the oil just kindof kicked me in the face, and
then so you want to feel it.
Yeah, well I'm not gonna we'renot gonna tell you.

(29:13):
Okay, ding.
It only happened in the bed.
That's a ding.

SPEAKER_06 (29:16):
That's uh there you are.
Fair play.

SPEAKER_03 (29:18):
It's like a three-ding podcast.
That's it.
That's it.
What'd you call one, two, three?
What'd you call I like these?

SPEAKER_06 (29:24):
I like the the the fun, the neat and stir
Glencarens there, but they'rethe the half Glencarens are
about their one ounce GlenKarens.

SPEAKER_00 (29:31):
This is how I'm controlling my intake.

SPEAKER_03 (29:36):
It's like a cheer in a glass, it's like all the same
thing.
Yeah, look at the size of that.

SPEAKER_00 (29:41):
Well, you can uh it's it's two ounces to the top
compared to six ounces for aregular Glen.
Right.
So when you get a nice littlepour down here, you're doing
like half ounce pours.
Yeah, that way you can try abunch of things and not take in
too much, right?
Otherwise, you could survive theday.
Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 (29:57):
You can actually taste it.

SPEAKER_01 (29:58):
I'd like to purchase a couple of these.
Thank you.

SPEAKER_06 (30:00):
So my kids are always like Tuesday, Tuesday
very often end up as movie daysin Mr.
Flanagan's classroom becausewe're watching Wonka.
I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 (30:11):
What do you bring in on every week?

SPEAKER_02 (30:14):
You know, Jamie rehearses uh weekend at Bernie's
uh and his uh his class onTuesday.
I do English 12.

SPEAKER_05 (30:21):
Kids, we're watching Lord of the Flies.

SPEAKER_06 (30:23):
You're watching Shakespeare and Moth.
Okay.

SPEAKER_07 (30:26):
I love that.

SPEAKER_06 (30:27):
No, I don't show movies.
Actually, well, because it's theday before break, I'll probably
show Charlie Brown'sThanksgiving.
Oh, you could do it.
And at least one of my classesbe perfect.
I got one class.
That's just I got 40 kids inthree different sections piled
into one class.
Journalism one, journalism two abroadcast.
Oh, 40 kids all piled into oneclassroom.
I only have 36 chairs.
We figure it out.

(30:48):
Double up, y'all.
Susie wasn't absent today, soyou're gonna have to double up.
Got a counting on it.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, it's like jobsecurity.
There's more little ramblers.
I get to keep my job, I justkeep populating the community.
Of your own volition.

(31:08):
Yeah.
That's a yeah.
All right.
So now what are we doing?
What are we thinking tonight?
Where do we go from here?
We're doing Charlie Ruth becausethat's a that class is a nice
podcast of tangents.

SPEAKER_01 (31:19):
Let's get Jerry's take.

SPEAKER_03 (31:21):
Jerry, what's your take?

SPEAKER_01 (31:23):
The bourbon.

unknown (31:24):
Okay.

SPEAKER_01 (31:24):
Not that I don't want to.

SPEAKER_06 (31:25):
So was this before they came out with their they
did the three on the neck uhreleases?
This was probably just prior tothat.
If you did this last year,because those came out like
those came out this year.

SPEAKER_00 (31:34):
Early this year.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (31:35):
And they're like, Jerry had a damn good idea.
Let's uh market this SOB.

SPEAKER_00 (31:40):
Everybody wants the different recipes, and uh you
know, other than getting asingle barrel from a store, then
that's a great alternative forwhat they're putting out.

SPEAKER_05 (31:49):
This is the OBS V, right?
Okay, yeah, you have to rememberthat because that's uh that's a
tasty beverage.

SPEAKER_00 (31:54):
Anytime you get the B, you're getting a high rye for
the mash bill.
Um, the E's are the uh lowerrye.
Yeah, like they have a wholechart.
It's like a chart.
A few episodes back, Jerry.

SPEAKER_05 (32:06):
A few episodes back.
We actually went through a colorvariation with the Katie tried
to math us color wheels.

SPEAKER_06 (32:12):
I'm more of a summer.

SPEAKER_03 (32:15):
No, you're not, you're Irish.
That is winter.

SPEAKER_06 (32:20):
I am it's a yeah, it's you're a peeled potato.
I am pretty much.
Yeah, it's it's Irish joke.
Uh so yeah, I'm I I wouldgravitate to the OBSV.
You like the flavor on this onemore?
I like the flavor, but Iwouldn't say I liked it more.
I because I'm but I'm I like Ilike a sweet I like that I like
that sugary kind of on the oldLouisville.

(32:41):
I like that Pop Tart icing.
You like it up front though, youlike it on the front of your
sweeter, but that ended withsweetness of the icing flavor
for me, and I like it.

SPEAKER_00 (32:51):
I mean this is a nine-year, seven months this
one's uh eight year plus.
So this one's older, but itdoesn't have the viscosity that
the uh Friday, the oldLouisville.

SPEAKER_03 (33:01):
Well, I'm just looking at size, and size
doesn't really matter.
It holds the same amount ofalcohol, all right.

SPEAKER_01 (33:06):
No, I meant more of a it doesn't look like it would,
right?

SPEAKER_03 (33:08):
But it does.

SPEAKER_01 (33:10):
You know my Wednesday.

SPEAKER_03 (33:13):
That's the same alcohol, you're absolutely
right.

SPEAKER_05 (33:19):
How many days of the week start with tea, Jennifer?
Today and tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 (33:28):
Ah joke, uh he's a teacher.
Yes, it should be a teacherjoke.
That is man.
Where's uh where's my dad jokewhen I need it?
Now we're looking at the stag.

SPEAKER_06 (33:39):
So we have what are the there's uh is what uh so
this is just stag.
So there's a stag store pack.

SPEAKER_00 (33:46):
So this one I will tell you, we are super excited.
We were the I think we are theonly it was the only store in
the state to get well, therewere maybe two.
There might have been two in thestate, but I didn't see any
other stores release it for astag single barrel pick.
Phenomenal.
Wow, it's it when we went andpicked it, it was uh it was an

(34:09):
interesting picking experiencebecause it was cold in the Rick
House and the glasses were cold,and we tried to warm them up the
best we could to get the youknow best taste out of it.
And um, when it came in, it'sunreal.
And I don't like stag junior,like personally, I really do not
like stag junior.
This is just stag, it's so theydropped the junior, okay.

(34:31):
I was just still like the smallbottle, the small bottle, yeah,
yeah.
It's a junior to me, it's alwaysgonna be junior to me, but they
don't have the junior on itanymore.
It doesn't have the junior on itanymore.

SPEAKER_06 (34:41):
That's what I thought.
All right, fair play.
Um probably so they could sellit for more.
I don't know.
The junior might be worth less.
So let's put the thing.
All right, fair play.
Um, tell me about the uh vanitysticker on this one with the
Detroit Lion.
Uh, is that the kicker doing it?

SPEAKER_05 (34:58):
Yeah, so right, so so right after uh is that Fox or
is that Bates?

SPEAKER_00 (35:02):
Bates.
So so you know how like they hadthat one meme that went around
for a long time of Bates likedoing the stretching and yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (35:10):
He's doing that uh Bert Reynolds playgirl pose.
So he's doing the play, yeah.
Burt Reynolds playground.
That happened like right whenthis barrel came in.

SPEAKER_04 (35:18):
Was that the best little whorehouse?
That was the best littlewhorehouse in Texas.
That's the Bert Reynolds.
That's the Bert Reynolds on theon the on the bear skin, yes.

SPEAKER_00 (35:26):
Oh yeah, so I thought it was uh pretty fun,
and that was a picture of thebarrels from while you were
there picking, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (35:32):
Oh fun.

SPEAKER_00 (35:33):
Yep.
Uh so I did a little clippingand cutting and pasting and made
a sticker.

SPEAKER_06 (35:40):
So yeah, um who came up with the name before we get
into it, neat or stir, who cameup with uh the the name?

SPEAKER_00 (35:47):
I did just because um, you know, whether you like
to have it neat, so like you youget a uh four roses pick, sure,
sure, and most people will havea neat pour of it, but you could
also make a cocktail with it, sothat's the stir portion of it,
sure.
And um one of our uh one of ourgroup members that uh helps pick
all the barrels, Gabe.

(36:07):
He's a phenomenal likemixologist, not for a living,
just for fun.
And he comes up with the bestcocktails, and so um you know
being able to use these and allthe different cocktails makes it
uh a lot of fun.
You get creative with it.

SPEAKER_06 (36:22):
Yeah, you come back.
I don't know.
Well, if you're like uh no, no,and I'm gonna gabe.
Oh my god, you would so you comeback with games and we'll do
we'll sit up on the bar overthere and totally uh cocktails.
Well, also let us know.

SPEAKER_03 (36:33):
We haven't done one on the bar in forever.
A bar or restaurant are securitysomething that you can do.

SPEAKER_01 (36:37):
I'm thinking January, which means I'm coming
too that as well.

SPEAKER_03 (36:40):
We've done it, yeah.
That's we're like doing remotesfrom out in the wild.

SPEAKER_00 (36:44):
Yeah, there's a handful of stores that I'll do
the same.
I'll you know, I'll do thebarrel picks with.

SPEAKER_06 (36:48):
Yeah, we've done it at the wine garden before the
wine garden was a thing.
We've done it at Keiko's.
Okay, have you been to Keiko's?
Yeah, Caicos, good people, yeah,yeah.
Joe and Giovanni.
Yep.
Um, I it's I love those guys.

SPEAKER_03 (37:01):
It's like I gotta get a hold of Zatuna.

SPEAKER_00 (37:03):
They don't get a ton of barrels, but they get a few.
Jack, yeah, Jack's my dude.
Jack is my guy, so we split alot of barrels.
Jack just got his uh Blanton'sgold in.
I don't know if he wants to betelling people, but yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah.
We picked it over a year ago,which and it just came to the
store.
Uh Zaytuna's in uh RochesterHills.

SPEAKER_07 (37:21):
Okay, Jack Zetuna.

SPEAKER_06 (37:22):
Is that the one right at M59?

SPEAKER_00 (37:24):
Yes, yes, okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (37:25):
So so Spence, so somebody had the gold uh over on
the west side.

SPEAKER_00 (37:30):
Yeah, there were a couple stores that just got it.
Buffalo Chase decided to deliverevery barrel that was picked
this year for the most part.

SPEAKER_06 (37:36):
Load them on the truck, send them to Michigan.

SPEAKER_00 (37:38):
Yep, and you were talking about Kenwood.
Kenwood just got their EagleRare in, yeah, that they picked.
Yeah, good stuff.
Yep.
So I was supposed to go to theday.
I got it.

SPEAKER_05 (37:46):
I was gonna ask Spence this question, but I'm
gonna ask the table here.
How does everyone's face feelright now?
Table doesn't have a mouth, itcan't answer bad.
I'm asking everyone at thetable.
Oh, how does everyone's how doeseverybody's face feel right now?

SPEAKER_02 (37:58):
I can't feel my drinking snag.

SPEAKER_05 (38:01):
No, but you're you're about to answer Jamie.

SPEAKER_02 (38:03):
Well, no, I can feel my lips from the last two.
Okay, that you actually hadtasted the the bourbon.
So this is gonna be Huey Lewisor the one.
I know this one actually is alot higher proof than the other.

SPEAKER_05 (38:12):
Yeah, because this this next step, and this isn't
that much higher, it's 132.4.
Only 132.4.
Come on, guys.

SPEAKER_00 (38:19):
It's you don't get all the flavors unless you get
over 120.
Okay.

SPEAKER_05 (38:26):
So if you can't feel my face with um when I'm with
you, was that is that how itgoes?
Yeah, okay.
I can't feel my feed my face.

SPEAKER_06 (38:33):
Then I was thinking Huey Lewis, I want to do drug in
school today.
I don't know why.
I don't know what the hell.

SPEAKER_01 (38:38):
I want to come to your classroom tomorrow.
Now I want to see how you get tothe case.
This was a special one.

SPEAKER_00 (38:43):
We were super happy when this came in.
So stag, everybody chases thestag.
You know, they do they used todo I think two releases a year,
now they're up to like four.
Okay, but when you get thosethat are like um you know, the
the basic batched releases,yeah, nothing close to this.
Sure.
This single barrel, I like it iscaramel.

(39:03):
It is when did you get when didyou pick this guy?
We picked this last year, and uhI didn't have enough bottles to
go around.
When did it come in?
It was it was it was good.
See, this is so good.
Yeah, I haven't, I haven't, Istill feel it.
This is still this is gamechanging.
Here we go.
This is game changing stuff.

SPEAKER_03 (39:21):
I'm diving maybe from able to drive to not able
to drive.
It is game changing.
Oh no, this is all that dancedaround though.

SPEAKER_02 (39:28):
Next is not able to drive.

SPEAKER_06 (39:29):
That dance oh Jiminy Crickets.

SPEAKER_01 (39:32):
That dance caramel, it's just a hint.

SPEAKER_00 (39:34):
This is very rich.
It dances around there's so muchin this.

SPEAKER_05 (39:38):
Good night, everybody.
I'm out.
That is really Matt.

SPEAKER_01 (39:42):
Your cheeks are a little rosier than they were two
seconds ago.

SPEAKER_02 (39:45):
Matt, can you feel your face?

SPEAKER_06 (39:46):
I know.
So but here's the thing, right?

SPEAKER_01 (39:48):
Matt, like this.

SPEAKER_06 (39:49):
The the four roses, um, and more bitey than than
this is.
Yeah, correct.
I agree.
Um, it this is this is like, butyou feel you'd feel the alcohol
just soaking in through everypore in your mouth.

SPEAKER_00 (40:03):
I like to put the uh the spice that you're getting to
the rye.
It's a high rye on that fourroses.
Okay, okay.
And so you get a lot more ofthat spice, maybe.
Yeah, a little peppery, but somebaking spice, cinnamon-ish.
Um, this, well, they do not letanyone know.
It is a high corn, 75 to 80, Iwould guess.
Yeah, okay.
Um, and it's probably 10 to 16percent, I would think, rye, not

(40:30):
much.
Yeah, sure.
Um, but this is this isMashville 1, which is the same
as yeah, um, yeah, I believe thesame as Buffalo Trace.

SPEAKER_05 (40:37):
The last um the last stage differently.
The last time I had stag was in2020, and I had a little bit
left and I held on to it.

SPEAKER_00 (40:45):
And from the junior or from the from the the big boy
from the junior the 2020 big boyis my absolute favorite.

SPEAKER_05 (40:52):
Oh I can't wait.
But that that is just taking meback.

SPEAKER_00 (40:56):
It's good stuff.

SPEAKER_06 (40:57):
This is that's chocolate.
There's uh after the finish,there's like chocolate.
There, what's going on?
Not chocolate, but there's acocoa cocoa.
It's like you just got to setthat up really it's like Nova
Cain.

SPEAKER_03 (41:10):
I start talking like a teacher in uh in uh the
Charlie Brown.
I don't have my all hall pastma'am.
I just looked over and you werelike in your own comfortable
state of thinking.

SPEAKER_01 (41:25):
Like you were you know what?

SPEAKER_03 (41:27):
Welcome to the party.

SPEAKER_06 (41:28):
I was gonna say stop looking at me, but don't you got
that straight hair, you got thatsassy straight hair today.

SPEAKER_01 (41:35):
I'm Jenna when I have this.

SPEAKER_06 (41:36):
Oh, Jenna's Jenna's got that straight hair.

SPEAKER_01 (41:38):
Um, you you just have bad to get in your zone.

SPEAKER_05 (41:42):
Oh man, that was tasty.

SPEAKER_06 (41:43):
Uh that yeah, this is I like the I like the cocoa
three.
I like the cocoa three.
That was the that that was butyou gotta you gotta be in the
you gotta you gotta you can't doa lot of it's got heat, but it's
like a warm and comforting heat.

SPEAKER_00 (41:57):
Yeah, I can see it goes on, it goes on forever.
So now you talked about whileyou were picking this, it was
very, very cold.

SPEAKER_06 (42:03):
It was so yeah, right, and that people do that.
They're like, they why do theyput yeg and why do they triple
freeze Jagermeister when theyserve it?
Because it tastes like ass, andyou can you only get like 80% of
the flavor when it's frozen, soit's like it's like why do the
people put vodka in freezersbecause they're awful and you
can serve an awful vodka frozenor near frozen, put it through

(42:25):
your bread up, right?

SPEAKER_00 (42:28):
12 more times, 12 more times to say, so but when
the color, yeah, because it's soyou lose some of the flavor when
doing this, and you're trying tokeep it warm because it comes
straight from the barrel, andthe barrel's in the warehouse,
and it was cold in thewarehouse.

SPEAKER_01 (42:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So how did it be curious when itwas cold, like that?
How did it taste different thanit does now?

SPEAKER_00 (42:45):
Like it it doesn't um when it's colder, it doesn't
give you uh as much flavordoesn't have as much viscosity,
you know.
It's it's yeah, thicker.

SPEAKER_05 (42:56):
So this is barrel proof, it's the molecules that
are in the bourbon itself, andwhen they're when the molecules
are heat uh heat up, yeah, theytend to you get a lot more depth
when it's more at a room temp.

SPEAKER_00 (43:06):
Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_06 (43:06):
You get a lot more depth in the so the barrels you
pick, are they they barrelproof?
They're not cut at all.
That's the proof out of thebarrel.
They don't cut them, they don'tcut them.
And is that a goal for you andyour club?
Or generally, generally, do yougenerally do uh barrel proofs or
do you have them generally?

SPEAKER_00 (43:22):
They're the the barrel proof cast strength.

SPEAKER_05 (43:25):
Yeah, well, we uh uh somebody checked out.
When are we going on our next uhchat?
Michael Keyes checked in.
Mike Mike Keyes checked in.
So hey, thanks for coming.

SPEAKER_06 (43:33):
Oh yeah, pour it pouring envy.
Yeah, it's that Mike, you're notkidding, man.
These are these are crazy.
Pat Johnson checked in too.
He's one of those little thumbsup and my upper front gums.

SPEAKER_04 (43:43):
Are you are you okay over there?
They're a little numb.
We need someone to smack them.

SPEAKER_05 (43:47):
No, I just figure finger bang them, you'll be all
right.
No, everything else I feel justfine.

SPEAKER_03 (43:52):
August, there's some advantages to that.
I'm like, my upper gums aregone.
Yeah, you got that.
Cheers.
Yeah, there you go.
That's that's a dirty.
I get it.
I get it.
I I I'm in a podcast where wedrink, but this this high proof
stuff is just not for me.
Kick in the dick.
We'll finish it for one.
Come on, you got another onethat's gonna I have no choice.
Are you gonna finish it?

SPEAKER_01 (44:12):
August, aren't you here every Monday?

SPEAKER_03 (44:13):
Yeah, so we don't drink 170,000 proof stuff all
the time.

SPEAKER_01 (44:17):
I'm sorry, only 150 proof.
Oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_03 (44:19):
Well, are you gonna finish that, August?

SPEAKER_01 (44:21):
Yeah, well, I felt that I was gonna say I'd finish
it for him.
Right in my ear.
I felt that one of my eardrums.

SPEAKER_06 (44:28):
I felt that one of my eardrums.
I did.

SPEAKER_01 (44:30):
So, Jerry, we have fun here.

SPEAKER_02 (44:33):
Oh, for sure.
I'll bring Gabe, we'll make copuh cop tape.
I would definitely go back tothis thing.

SPEAKER_01 (44:38):
All right, like I'm not I'm not a regular, but I've
invited myself to the time.
Oh, yeah.
The man cave door is is open forwomen cavers, not just man
cavers.

SPEAKER_06 (44:48):
The man cave cavers.

SPEAKER_03 (44:52):
It's a podcast for everyone.
All right, it sounds throughoutthe yeah, and after well, and
after and after the after themismouth podcast, the whole man
cave thing is part.

SPEAKER_05 (45:00):
I opened that up two days ago.
You opened this bottle two daysago.
I opened that bottle two daysago, and this is the George T
stag straight Kentucky bourbonor whiskey on the side.

SPEAKER_02 (45:10):
Do you want to read the proof on that one?
Bourbon.

SPEAKER_05 (45:11):
No, I don't actually.

SPEAKER_02 (45:15):
It's a don't ask, don't tell situation.
That might be better.
Actually, everyone tastes itwithout knowing the proof.

SPEAKER_06 (45:20):
Yeah, don't ask, don't tell situations.

SPEAKER_00 (45:24):
Yeah, if you don't know what the proof is, you will
have no idea what it is.
That's what I look for in a highproof.

SPEAKER_03 (45:30):
Yeah, but I don't my notice gums don't go numb.
Notice your phone.
Look at the color.
Look at the color on there.

SPEAKER_02 (45:37):
You're having a little trouble speaking there.
It's unbelievable.

SPEAKER_01 (45:41):
Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 (45:43):
What did I open myself up to here?
You I that's I'm sorry, you'renot used to me being here.
No, I I have no problem.
What do you mean, open yourselfup?
You're always open, Jennifer.
Woof, Matt.
We didn't have a second OBGYNreference today.
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (45:57):
Hey, that's the same pour that I gave myself, dude.
Come on.
All right, I'm gonna pour thisfor everybody.

SPEAKER_01 (46:02):
No, no, I'll take it then.

SPEAKER_05 (46:03):
Spencer, the last time I was here, because I want
you guys to have this because uhJerry already to take any home.

SPEAKER_06 (46:11):
Oh, he doesn't want you to see.
I might have this one more, Idon't know.
Bottle to see the proof.
Jerry already knows thebusiness.
So you this is a barrel pickfrom your club.

SPEAKER_00 (46:23):
No, you oh this is the 2025 Buffalo Trace Antique
Collection, George T Stagrelease.
This is a bit this is the likenow.

SPEAKER_01 (46:33):
He wants an explanation, Jerry.
Come on.

SPEAKER_06 (46:34):
Jerry, this is kind of a big deal.
This is a big deal.

SPEAKER_01 (46:38):
Jerry Jerry is a big deal.

SPEAKER_06 (46:40):
Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 (46:41):
Don't smell it.
No, no, seriously.

SPEAKER_06 (46:43):
This is a big deal.
That's a big deal.
That's I'm gonna say thank youfor bringing that.
That's extraordinarily generous.

SPEAKER_00 (46:49):
That's what it's all about, you know.
That's what I love about bourbonis sharing, creating memories,
meeting new people, like anypart.

SPEAKER_06 (46:57):
You are the best man on the planet.
Like I fucked up.
Don't call me that.
That's my wife's ex-boyfriend.
Thank you.
That's that's extraordinarilygenerous.

SPEAKER_01 (47:08):
We're all coming to that, August.

SPEAKER_05 (47:12):
So, August, I want to know what you think the proof
is.

SPEAKER_00 (47:15):
You gotta start with the nose.
Start with the nose.

SPEAKER_05 (47:17):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (47:20):
Does it smell like a high proof?

SPEAKER_05 (47:22):
It doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_00 (47:22):
No, it's not burning my nose hairs, no.

SPEAKER_05 (47:24):
It does not.

SPEAKER_02 (47:25):
It doesn't at all, right?
Well, you didn't wax them thistime, so you can you can
actually feel your nose hairsthis time.

SPEAKER_03 (47:29):
I pulled a whole bunch out on the drive over
here, so while you're drivingone-handed, I just want to do
it.

SPEAKER_02 (47:36):
That's why I do my best work.
That's what the battery numberis.
That's what the battery numberis for.

SPEAKER_01 (47:39):
So you drive looking at it.
It's dark outside, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (47:41):
The windows are tinted.

SPEAKER_03 (47:43):
I don't need to look in the mirror.
I do it by hand.
That's my feel.

SPEAKER_01 (47:48):
You do, you do, you do.
Window longer.
All right.
All right, now that I got thatpicture in my hand.

SPEAKER_06 (47:55):
Good luck, Mr.
Flanagan.
No, no, no.
It's just nice.
I I don't know if you're gonnaget the movie right tomorrow.
No, it doesn't.
How do you work this damn DVDplayer?

SPEAKER_01 (48:06):
I mean, we're not Netflixing it, we're DVD.

SPEAKER_05 (48:09):
Yeah, no, it's real to real in his class.

SPEAKER_01 (48:12):
DHS beta, beta, beta going one.

SPEAKER_06 (48:15):
For the old people.

SPEAKER_03 (48:16):
The only way you can watch Song of the South is on
VHS now, so that is fire.

SPEAKER_06 (48:23):
That is that's got a flavor.

SPEAKER_02 (48:24):
That has got some I don't think it's got a lot of
it.
No.

SPEAKER_01 (48:31):
No, I think it tastes strong.
It's got it's got the tingle.

SPEAKER_00 (48:34):
It makes your tongue tingle.

SPEAKER_02 (48:36):
It doesn't taste like not like smack me in the
face, like strong.

SPEAKER_03 (48:40):
It's not like ethanol.
My tongue's still numb from thelast one.
How did it tangle?

SPEAKER_01 (48:43):
Put it to one of your sweet August.

SPEAKER_03 (48:46):
You have problems saying tingle.

SPEAKER_05 (48:47):
A fungo, a tingle tingle, a tongue, but I think
it's your tongue, August.
Jamie's falling over over here.
I don't know what's going on.

SPEAKER_00 (48:53):
No, I was trying to not.
The smell is nice and mild,caramel.
But the taste, you know, youhave a couple sips of it, you
get that caramel oak vanilla,all of those flavor profiles, it
just lingers.
It's got like it sticks aroundfor a while.

SPEAKER_05 (49:10):
It's like a dried cherry almost that that's kind
of hanging around the back ofyour package.
Exactly.

SPEAKER_06 (49:14):
Yeah, yep.

SPEAKER_05 (49:14):
It's got that that dried fruit in the back.

SPEAKER_06 (49:16):
Definitely.
I wouldn't have said a cherry,but yeah, I would have said a
fruit.

SPEAKER_01 (49:20):
Which fruit would you have said?
Apricot?
Apricot.
What would you have said?

SPEAKER_06 (49:24):
No, I don't know.
I hadn't narrowed it down, but Iwouldn't have said cherry.
No.

SPEAKER_01 (49:27):
But there's a lot of different fruits.
I know.
Dried fruit at that.

SPEAKER_06 (49:30):
Chris.

SPEAKER_01 (49:31):
I'm working on their own down.
Let's work on that.

SPEAKER_04 (49:33):
I'm feeling pressure.

SPEAKER_05 (49:35):
The proof.
So the proof you're gonna feel alittle pressure.
It's time for an Andra to meetyou.
Oh, look at this bottle.
Ding man, put the cat by whatare we looking at?

SPEAKER_00 (49:46):
You can examine it.
It is the so funny enough, we uhI had uh Gabe over yesterday.
Sorry, hold on, we need to getthe god Detroit sucks.

SPEAKER_03 (50:01):
He does with the glasses with little bit actually
a little bit, a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 (50:05):
I did not see 142.8 man, big boy.

SPEAKER_06 (50:11):
Wow, I don't know.
That is that is not asthmat,stranger things.

SPEAKER_01 (50:15):
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (50:15):
Does it does it taste that?
So, but here's no, but itthere's a lot going on
alcohol-wise.
I think it overpowers some ofthe flavors.
Uh, you said you can't tasteanything until it's over 120.
I think when you're over 140, Ithink you're losing some because
there's just so much of analcohol blast.

SPEAKER_00 (50:33):
You know what?
That's uh that makes sense.
That makes a lot of sense, andso the this is actually the same
proof as the 2012 version theydid, and I know that because we
tried it side by side yesterday.
Oh, fair play, and uh, I didn'trealize that until then.
Um, 2016 was the other hazmatversion, but 2020 is my absolute

(50:54):
favorite, yeah.
And that one is um that one'smore in the 130 proof range, and
that I believe so, and that onehas all of the same things but
less uh like heat from thealcohol, but it so it gives you
more oak and caramel.
So I could see how when you doget the higher proof, it can
take away a little bit, but umthis but this but once I was

(51:17):
true and it doesn't take it awaycompared to the past four years.
This in my opinion, other than2020, that's second is goal.
Wow, it's it's like really,really so where'd you where'd
you get where'd you lay yourhands on that?

SPEAKER_06 (51:29):
Yeah, that's like if someone's it I mean I mean it's
like at a store.
Did you go a local Michiganstore?
If you know somebody somebodywho knows somebody, oh I don't
know.
That's pretty allocated, right?
That's a pretty very allocated,yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (51:42):
Stores maybe got one, maybe got three.

SPEAKER_06 (51:44):
Well, and you you push barrels to your stores.
So if anybody's got preferenceand deference, then it it's
gonna be jarred.

SPEAKER_00 (51:52):
I like yeah, and I share, and I don't even like it.
I open it up with you know a lotof people to share, try it out.
The people that you know, if Iget it from somebody, we're
usually opening it and we'retrying it.

SPEAKER_06 (52:01):
If we haven't had it open yet, crazy generous.
Thank you, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 (52:06):
Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
That one is incredible.
That's amazing.

SPEAKER_06 (52:09):
That is very nice.

SPEAKER_00 (52:10):
I can get more of these than I can that.

SPEAKER_06 (52:12):
Really?

SPEAKER_01 (52:12):
Wow, wow, very but you know me.
I would like this, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (52:16):
Because these oh it's so limited.
How many came out of the barrel,and then you're done.

SPEAKER_05 (52:20):
Ah, right.

SPEAKER_00 (52:20):
And all the people already probably drank them.
I could put out like some postson the secondary market to try
to buy it, but who's gonna wantto get rid of it?
Do you have it or have it left?

SPEAKER_02 (52:30):
Are you selling any more baits?
I don't have any more at home.
Any more baits to sell?

SPEAKER_00 (52:32):
I'm not giving it to anyone.

SPEAKER_02 (52:33):
No, I don't want to.

SPEAKER_00 (52:36):
Of course you can anytime.
You need to drive.
You are always one, and you needa driver.
Wait, never mind.

SPEAKER_01 (52:40):
I'll drive you at Jerry's house.
He said I was there for hiswife's event, and he knew I was
coming, and he said, I set abottle out for you.

SPEAKER_06 (52:48):
So here's a question B's getting his learner permit,
right?
Do you have to be sober whilehe's driving?
Oh my god, is he getting hislearner's permit already?

SPEAKER_01 (52:57):
No, he's talking about oh who brendon, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (53:00):
Next year, so does it it's his so if he do you do
you have to be sober?
Because he's got to have anadult in the car, but the said
adult have to be sober.
I don't know.
That's why that's uh I don'tknow.

SPEAKER_03 (53:11):
Loophole, I don't know.
She might be teaching short.
The answer is yes.

SPEAKER_01 (53:15):
I mean, you get a different answer each time.

SPEAKER_05 (53:19):
Oh, wait, with without iPhone, just
scholarships eventually.
Oh my god.
Really?
I'm going back to school.

SPEAKER_01 (53:25):
That's right.

SPEAKER_07 (53:25):
All right, masters.
I'm going for 11 and shrinking.
It's cool.

SPEAKER_05 (53:29):
Well, you want to pass that four that four roses
back over this week?

SPEAKER_06 (53:32):
Lordy.
That is just please.
That's nice.
Yeah, it's something special.

SPEAKER_00 (53:39):
Come on, bye I have the rest of the antique
collection you could try it too.

SPEAKER_01 (53:41):
I don't want that, I want this.

SPEAKER_02 (53:43):
You need to compare.

SPEAKER_07 (53:48):
So wait, I had a good one.

SPEAKER_05 (53:48):
Is that everyone's favorite?
Or is it that's my that's myfavorite?

SPEAKER_02 (53:51):
Well, I that's your favorite.
Are we all three?
You don't know, you can't tastethe feeling.
No, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 (53:57):
This is my favorite.
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
No, this is my favorite.

SPEAKER_02 (53:59):
Yeah, that's just it again, August.
I I did like that.

SPEAKER_01 (54:02):
This is my favorite.

SPEAKER_00 (54:03):
I do like that better.

SPEAKER_01 (54:04):
This is my favorite.
I do all of the ones.

SPEAKER_06 (54:06):
Out of the out of those two, you like that one
more?

SPEAKER_00 (54:08):
I do.
And uh August is the I don'tlike the juniors usually.
But that single barrel, it'sjust so unique.

SPEAKER_06 (54:15):
Try the Louisville game.
I'm I'm I'm bouncing between theLouisville and and that as my
number one.
I I I like the four roses, Ilike the other the OF.

SPEAKER_03 (54:25):
I didn't give it a fair shake.
Do you mind?

SPEAKER_04 (54:27):
Go right ahead.
That's what it's here for.
You're such a gentleman, August.

SPEAKER_00 (54:32):
I know as he whips out sample bottles and fills
them.

SPEAKER_01 (54:36):
Jerry, do you have open spots?
Jerry, do you have opening?
I would like to join next year.

SPEAKER_00 (54:47):
Next year, we'll definitely do limit.
Do you limit the number ofpeople in your club?
No, it's because we have it.
So we have it set up where see,I told you, they're elitists.

SPEAKER_02 (54:54):
I never got invited.

SPEAKER_01 (54:55):
God he likes me better.
I'm okay, guys.

SPEAKER_05 (54:58):
I'm sorry.
So there's some inviting familyshit going on right now.
So I'm gonna step like a podcastof its own.
So take over the podcast.

SPEAKER_03 (55:08):
Like a podcast of its own.

SPEAKER_06 (55:09):
We might just become Jerry Springer.
I don't know.
All right.
So how do people get in?
Jerry, how do people get intothe Lenny and Squiggy Cock
Bourbon Club?

SPEAKER_03 (55:19):
The Bibb and Shimazo.
Bibb and Tucker makes a goodclub.
They do it.

SPEAKER_04 (55:23):
So stiff meat or stiff is different than meat.

SPEAKER_06 (55:33):
You got to use the right uh article in there.
So uh the right conjunction inthere.
Uh so the neat or stiff, becauseneat and meat and stiff is the
porn Matt was in during collegeand some lean years.
But uh so neat or stiff beingthe bourbon club.
Stir stir stir neat or stiffblame it on the 140 proof.

SPEAKER_03 (55:58):
Well, we've hit the one hour uh uh Mark Folks, blah
blah blah.
My mouth is still number one.

SPEAKER_06 (56:02):
I like stiff, I like stiff better.
Neat or stiff neat or stir, Iwas trying to do that.

SPEAKER_05 (56:07):
That's a whole different page.
Okay, guys, that's a differentpodcast.

SPEAKER_06 (56:10):
Yeah, don't there's some more for that drinking
wise.
That's the 140.
There, uh, but a lot of peopleget involved in this bourbon
club, yeah.
Everyone else stops.

SPEAKER_00 (56:21):
It's usually all just word of mouth, like um
again, there's an Instagram NeatOrster that people can follow,
join, and eventually we're gonnaopen it up to more people.
Right now, we just try to keepit pretty tight because there's
only so many bottles that comeout of a barrel, yeah.
And we have it starting at thebeginning of the year where you
know the the top 50 people thatare getting these uh barrel

(56:41):
picks are going to be locked infor like the Eagle Rare pick,
the H Taylor single barrel pick,you know, some of the more
allocated type picks that we dothe stag.

SPEAKER_06 (56:50):
You first do you get tips, yeah, or do you get like
are you just a random draw?

SPEAKER_00 (56:54):
No, they're like locked in guaranteed for that uh
barrel pick.
And then if we have extras, thenwe'll divvy them out based on
that, or for some like the fourroses.
So like the four roses, usuallyeverybody wants a four roses,
right?
But the top 50 people that havebeen buying all the other picks
and supporting the group aregoing to be able to get two of
those, not just one.

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Oh, okay.
And so we'll do some things likethey can be just glucks.

SPEAKER_06 (57:25):
That's all you that's all it is.
You know a guy that knows a guy,yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (57:28):
I'm gonna go talk another guy and pick them out,
and then will it be in thegroup?

SPEAKER_06 (57:31):
We met a guy tonight, so you got Jerry.
That was like wow, that wasgreat.

SPEAKER_05 (57:36):
Thank you for sharing.
Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_06 (57:39):
Yeah, that stag is uh that is uh for this one.
We could finish that bottletonight.

SPEAKER_05 (57:45):
If you don't accept my request, oh well I'm already
a like, follow, you know, ma'am.

SPEAKER_06 (57:55):
You you have no THC or heroin in your system, but
there are just way too muchbourbon.
I don't know, I don't know howit even charts on a drug test,
but your bourbon content justcharted on a drug test.
So uh I think everyone shouldwe're gonna have to talk.

SPEAKER_03 (58:14):
Nothing will ever top the A and B night when they
brought in like 20 barrel picksbehind them all.

SPEAKER_06 (58:19):
A and B liquor, yeah.
Ivon Yvon's a great guy, Ivon'sgreat guy.
He came in here with two likecarry-on suitcases.
They brought carry on luggagefull of bottles.
I believe it.

SPEAKER_01 (58:29):
Are you serious?
Oh, yeah, god.
Next time I'd like to beincluded.

SPEAKER_03 (58:33):
Then they stayed around and did the next podcast
with the hypnotist talking aboutrelationships.
Well, they were hammered.
Oh boy, that sounds fun.
Oh, it was a blast.

SPEAKER_06 (58:41):
Yeah, he's a psychoanalyst that uses uh
hypnosis in his therapy, and uh,you know, he's a doctor and all
that, and uh yeah, they stayedaround and talked about
relationships, and then they youknow, you know, drinking and
really and just how we had to doit.

SPEAKER_05 (58:55):
It was one of the more fun motor city hypnotist
podcasts that that we've done.

SPEAKER_06 (59:00):
August and I sat in the other room just having an
old-fashioned and just listeninguh going back in and grabbing
buttons.

SPEAKER_03 (59:06):
I didn't go to work till noon the next day.
Yeah, me either, but I startedat seven, and I run a city.
I was this is a nothing week.
This is a nothing week.
He does, he runs the city, likethis is a nothing week, and I we
have the short week because ofthe holiday.

SPEAKER_01 (59:19):
He's not been in skiing yet.

SPEAKER_03 (59:21):
You're not even you're you're just there, you're
barely working right now.
Yeah, then I get on a plane forEurope on Saturday, so I'm out
of here.
So we're going to Krakow,Krekow, Poland.

SPEAKER_01 (59:31):
For how long?

SPEAKER_03 (59:31):
For eight days.

SPEAKER_01 (59:32):
Oh, we gotta talk about this.

SPEAKER_03 (59:33):
We're gonna do the uh the Christmas markets and
then we're going uh you're goingto the uh holiday.
I ain't going to fuckingAuschwitz.
My name's August Gitchlag.
I'm not you're not going, buteveryone else is.
Or but the whole the rest of thefamilies.
Um, I'm going to the bar.
Uh there's a city of rain.
Then they're we're going to themountain town of uh I'm gonna
get it wrong because I'm notspeaking Polish.

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Zu Zakopani.
Like a two hour train ride up inthe mountains, and then we have
like sleigh rides and all thisstuff going on.
There's a shit ton of snowalready.
So yeah, it's a whole thing.
So yeah.
So you packed light, is whatyou're saying.
All right.

SPEAKER_06 (01:00:06):
Yes.
All right.
So um, Jerry, my god.
Thank you.
That was yeah, thanks for havingme.
I really appreciate it.
Jerry, Jerry.

SPEAKER_00 (01:00:14):
Thank you.

SPEAKER_06 (01:00:15):
Jerry.
Jerry.
Jerry.

SPEAKER_05 (01:00:17):
Wait, wait, wait.

SPEAKER_06 (01:00:18):
I was right.
You did.
You made the Springer comment.
So Neat Orster.
I got it right.
Got it right.
Yes.

SPEAKER_01 (01:00:25):
Oh, Jamie.

SPEAKER_06 (01:00:27):
Look for him on Instagram.
And yeah, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 (01:00:30):
Uh, and then or the store.
Right.

SPEAKER_06 (01:00:33):
Yes.
Which store?

SPEAKER_03 (01:00:35):
All of them?
So they do they do good work.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (01:00:37):
If there's anybody that bottles and stuff in
Livonia is the main store that Ido a lot of the pics with.
Zaytuna in Rochester Hills.
Oh, God.
Great guy.
Do lots of stuff with him.

SPEAKER_06 (01:00:47):
So, Jennifer Spencer, thank you for uh uh uh
helping uh subject us to thiswith Jerry.
You guys rock.
So they we love being here, soyeah, yeah, yeah.
So we'll do we'll do more and uhlike subscribe, uh leave a
comment, tell a friend, do allthe podcast things in all the
podcast places.
That's August Kitchlag.

SPEAKER_03 (01:01:08):
This go ahead.
Oh, you're just leaving it forme to just he's just wanted to
talk about you again.
No, yeah, you do take it away.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
No, you you introduce fine.

SPEAKER_06 (01:01:17):
No, ladies.
Oh Jesus, Mary Joseph.

SPEAKER_03 (01:01:20):
I couldn't help it.
You guys those are the voices ofthat's a voice of Matt.
Those are the voices the voicesof Matt Fla Fox.
Wow, are you still numb?
Run the tape back.
We'll fix it.
We're still numb.
Fix it still numb.
The voices of Matt Fox and JamieFlanning.
See, that was brilliant.

SPEAKER_01 (01:01:39):
I love that.

SPEAKER_03 (01:01:40):
The adults in the room.

SPEAKER_05 (01:01:42):
Oh, come on.

SPEAKER_01 (01:01:43):
But I'm older.

SPEAKER_05 (01:01:44):
Don't leave Jerry out.
He's don't leave Jerry out.
He's the youngest.

SPEAKER_03 (01:01:47):
He's the oldest adult here.
He's probably the only adulthere.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.

SPEAKER_02 (01:01:52):
Yeah, happy early Thanksgiving.
Yeah, happy Thanksgiving toeverybody Thanksgiving.
Thanks for playing along.
Cheers.

SPEAKER_06 (01:01:57):
And uh we'll do it again uh very, very soon.

SPEAKER_02 (01:01:59):
Yes, very soon.
Cheers.
Man came happy hour.

SPEAKER_06 (01:02:02):
Yeah, cheers, cheers, cheers, cheers.
Love you.