November 5, 2024 • 57 mins
Andy, Chris, and Siobhan join Matt for some drink tasking and story telling, Matt and Friends Drink the Universe style. Imagine standing on the edge of a 70-foot cliff on the island of Lanai, feeling the adrenaline and the Hawaiian sun on your skin, just before plunging into the crystal waters below. That's the spirit behind the Gold Cliff IPA from Kona Brewing, and the spark for our storytelling adventure. In this episode, Chris takes us back to his 10th wedding anniversary in Hawaii, where he and Siobhan renewed their vows amidst the breathtaking landscapes of Kauai.
Next Siobhan shares with us a harrowing tail of an encounter with bees. She loves to trauma dump for these episodes! This inevitably leads to all of us sharing tales of winged devils and the various times we have been terrorized by all manner of things with stingers.
Matt then takes us to the Cayman Islands, where the iconic mudslide recipe stirred up sweet honeymoon memories and humorous tales of driving challenges.
Our storytelling then takes a cultural turn with Andy as he shares a taste of Lithuanian spirits, comparing the robust flavors of fermented rye mash to familiar whiskeys, and recalling a personal visit to Lithuania that was as warming as the spirits themselves. In the end, we promise not just laughter and nostalgia but a chance to connect over the universal language of good drinks and great adventures.
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Matt (00:00):
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1.
We have liftoff.
Welcome to Matt and Friends.
(00:33):
Drink the Universe.
Drink the Universe.
All right, everybody.
Welcome back to Matt andFriends Drink the Universe.
This is the format whereeverybody brought a drink that
has a story attached to it.
We're going to go around thetable, we're going to hear those
stories.
And also, if you remember,episode one, season one, matt
flagrantly disregarded the rules.
It does not have to actually bebeer.
Andy (00:53):
That's good.
Chris (00:54):
I didn't bring beer.
Matt (00:55):
There you go.
Siobhan (00:56):
I'm not alone.
I followed the rules, yeah,right.
Matt (00:58):
Spoiler alert I did not bring beer either.
Let's go around the table andintroduce ourselves.
Siobhan (01:04):
Oh hey, it's Siobhan.
Matt (01:06):
I'm Andy and Chris and I'm Matt and Chris.
You're going first for this one.
Yes, All right.
Last time you brought a beerthat was either going to kill us
or taste really good and welanded on.
Siobhan (01:19):
It tasted really great.
Yeah, that was a good one,Burton Batten right.
Matt (01:22):
It's just fun to say Burton Batten, Burton Batten,
Burton Batten.
Siobhan (01:25):
Oh, that was good, Matt .
Chris (01:26):
This time, I've brought another beer that just so
happened to still be in myfridge, which was very
advantageous for myself as I wasplanning for this podcast
episode, because it's from KonaBrewing, which, if you don't
know is from Hawaii.
They make a lot of really goodbeer.
This one that I brought todayis their Gold Cliff IPA Very,
(01:52):
very nice beer, and so I pulledup their website, which talks
about kind of the origin storyof this beer, and they talk
about the origin story beingabout Diver's Paradise, which is
at the southern tip of Lanai.
If you don't know, lanai is awhole separate island in the
chain of Hawaiian islands thatnot a lot of people go to, and
(02:13):
we actually haven't been toLanai at this point.
Siobhan (02:15):
I don't even know if you can only get there by boat,
correct, you can only get thereby boat.
Chris (02:19):
There's no airport or anything like that and there's
just a lot of really naturalstuff there.
It's not like a tourist spot.
So there is this kind of cliffthat people used to way, way,
way, way back in the day.
There's a 70 foot jump that.
Hawaiians used to jump off ofto prove their courage.
Siobhan (02:39):
That checks out, yeah exactly, I would not be good at
that.
Andy (02:44):
I'm not afraid of heights, but I don't know about that.
Chris (02:46):
Yeah it's also not just jumping off a 70 foot cliff,
you're jumping through a keyholewhat into the water I'm afraid
of broken legs there's a videoof this, so it sounds absolutely
crazy.
Um, and you can still see likeit still is there today.
Siobhan (02:59):
There's still this area where you can still see, like
it still is there today.
Chris (03:03):
There's still this area where you can see people like
fearlessly dive off a cliff,which is absolutely crazy.
So anyway, that's all to linkto what recently this past
summer Siobhan and I celebratedour 10th anniversary and so we
Congratulations.
Matt (03:22):
Andy was there, I was Andy did come on our honeymoon,
twist my arm into going intoHawaii.
Chris (03:26):
That's right On our honeymoon, siobhan and I did a
awesome two-week honeymoon inHawaii and while we were sipping
drinks in Hawaii that honeymoonwe decided you know, in 10
years, no matter what, come hellor high water, we're coming
back here and we made it happen,and not only did we get to make
(03:47):
it happen.
We got to do it with a bunch offriends and family.
So I brought this beer today tokind of harken back to that
awesome summer we just had andtell a little story about it.
But before I tell that story,let me crack this sucker open.
Matt (04:01):
So and you renewed your wedding vows.
Is that spoiler alert or no?
This sucker open so and yourenewed your wedding vows.
Is that spoiler alert or no?
Well, that's what we did.
No, it already happened.
It's not spoiling, so youagreed to do it again so you
know they say like the biggestthing when purchasing a product
or getting involved withsomething is would you do it
again?
Siobhan (04:16):
you did, so there's chris's five-star yelp review
yeah, he gets five stars.
It was good he wrote his.
We wrote our own vows for thevow renewal because we did not
get to do that at our actualwedding, because we had a
Catholic wedding where,notoriously, you are not able to
write your own vows at those.
You typically just pick someand you have them as part of the
mass.
(04:36):
But yeah, I was determined thatwe write our own vows and he
wrote them that morning, afterreturning from a hefty hike that
I was hopeful that he wouldcome back to the ceremony from
hangover style.
Andy (04:51):
I almost forgot about that .
We well, that's why we got upearly in the morning yep, hiked
up, this massive hike, yep,which was great, amazing.
And we got up to the top and wewere literally in the clouds.
We couldn't see a fucking thing.
Chris (05:04):
Yeah, so we got up really early because, again, this is
on the day of the vow renewal.
Siobhan (05:11):
Right.
Chris (05:11):
That we're doing which was.
Siobhan (05:13):
You know, had a little gathering the night before
Everybody come over to the coolplace we had rented, had a good
amount of drinks Yep, definitelydrank in.
Chris (05:21):
So in the first place we woke up.
Siobhan (05:23):
I mean, at least I woke up a little hungover Like
nothing crazy, I didn't, I wasfine, it was good, we had
planned this ahead of time.
Chris (05:31):
Rob and his wife Dorothy, and Andy and his wife Rachel
All came in the night beforethey like just arrived Because
they were doing their own kindof tour of Hawaii.
Andy (05:40):
Yeah, we had already spent a couple days on the Big Island
.
Chris (05:43):
Big Island yeah, we were on.
Siobhan (05:45):
Kauai.
To be fair, I don't know if wementioned that.
Chris (05:47):
Oh yeah, yeah.
This is all taking place onKauai, yeah.
Andy (05:49):
We had spent a couple days on the Big Island because we
really wanted to hit Volcanoes.
National Park there which wasamazing, absolutely amazing so
we had already done a lot ofhiking yeah.
Chris (06:10):
So they came in the night before.
I've been loafing it around.
We were there for a day so far,I think, doing a beach thing.
Actually, no, it was that day wearrived in kawaii, the day that
we had the gathering party, andthen the next day was the
renewal right, and next morningwe decided we're gonna go on a
hike, so we got up real earlyand had to make like about an
hour's drive was like a 45minute drive all the way up to
the trailhead.
And this is in waimea canyon,or just just north of of waimea
(06:33):
canyon, which is the grandcanyon of hawaii, and it is
gorgeous, pretty gorgeous yeahabsolutely, and they're gorgeous
which indeed it has a bunch ofdifferent places.
You can see it from, just likethe grand canyon, obviously, but
which makes it really nice, youknow.
And then if you keep going upthe the road, which is this
(06:54):
windy road, and there's likegiant potholes that will swallow
your car if you hit them thewrong way, which was really fun
in a rental car eventually youend up at the pahia trailhead,
which is the trail we did thethe hike on.
And what's really cool is youkind of park in this parking lot
and then you kind of climb up.
Uh, not climb up, but like yougo up a pathway.
(07:15):
That's a pretty steep pathwaysteep but pretty easy.
Yeah, it was still paved atthat point right with the
railing and everything and youget to a lookout where you're
supposed to be able to look outover this crazy open the part of
the nepali coast.
You know, look at the nepalicoast.
But because it's so early, it'sjust clouds.
We are walking through cloudsso we can barely see anything.
(07:37):
So we're like, all right, don'tbother about the look, let's
just start hiking.
So we hike down and up and inand out it was it was it was
more than any of us reallyexpected it to be through mud.
There were parts of the trailthat were completely foot deep
mud that you couldn't walkthrough, so we had to, like,
climb along tree roots and upand down.
Andy (08:00):
Super fun it was fun.
Chris (08:02):
I wiped out at least three times damn yep, we, we
were all muddy by the end yeahand the end of the trail we got
to.
It was still a little bit cloudy, but we could kind of see into
the nepali coast, which isreally cool.
We have some great photos.
And then, as we started to hikeback, that's when the sun
started to come out and burn offthe clouds and as we were
(08:24):
getting all the way to the backto the beginning, we finally
were able to start looking outthrough some of the really great
views.
Andy (08:31):
Beautiful view of this one little bay.
Chris (08:33):
It's gorgeous.
Andy (08:34):
Rachel's actually making a painting of it.
Chris (08:36):
I can't wait for that.
Andy (08:38):
It was supposed to be my Christmas present, but yeah,
she's working on a painting ofit.
Chris (08:46):
And so, to wrap up the story, which it was such a fun
day, I was absolutely wiped.
Siobhan was mad at me.
Siobhan (08:53):
Oh, I don't think I was mad.
Chris (08:54):
You were mad at me.
It's fine.
Not like pissed at me oranything, no, I just felt
slightly irked.
Siobhan (09:01):
Maybe I was a little.
I don't know if I was mad,though I think I was just bummed
Cause I was like, well, we'resupposed to have a party now and
like I don't want you to feellike you're yeah, like I don't
want you to feel like you werelike dead to the world at this
party, so I got back and I tooka nap for like an hour or two or
whatever, and then we werestaying at this really cool
resort that was like right on abeach it wasn't like what you
(09:22):
would think of as a normal beach, but it was just our own
cottages.
Chris (09:26):
Shout out yeah, coolest place, our own little beach area
, and so I took a chair and Ikind of drug it out into the
middle of nowhere and I put myheadphones on and so for like a
half an hour I just sat therewith this gorgeous view of the
ocean and wrote my vows, myrenewal vows, there.
So it was just such a reallypeaceful day for me, even though
(09:47):
I was like dead tired from thishike but what a cool experience
gave me like a really funclarity to be able to write
those vows.
So it was really really specialday for me with an amazing
experience.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely so.
This beer super tropically.
Andy (10:03):
It's got pineapple.
It's good stuff, very good.
Chris (10:05):
Super light and brought it to share with everyone.
Andy (10:08):
We did go to Kona Brewing while we were down there,
jealous.
Chris (10:13):
We got to do that our first time we didn't do this
this past time.
Matt (10:16):
I remember you talking about that.
Chris (10:17):
I'm like.
Matt (10:18):
I love Kona like the big wave.
Siobhan (10:20):
Yeah, and the other one's like they're just so good,
the Coco Brown best beer handsdown.
Matt (10:27):
It is like my number one beer.
Chris (10:29):
It's just so good I could drink it any time of the year.
Rich coconut, chocolate,wonderful beer.
So shout out to Kona.
Thank you so much for great,great experiences.
Andy (10:41):
We had such a great time down there.
You know, we kind of did islandhopping because we really
wanted to hit the national parksand stuff like that and we
ended up our last day down there.
We were on maui and likeliterally the next day the fire
started right, like we literallyflew out of maui, and the next
day I'm getting text messages oflike um, are you still?
Siobhan (11:01):
down there when we left too, and we were getting texts
too while we were flying, andpeople were like is everything
crazy?
It is crazy, and like?
Andy (11:08):
I don't think so.
Like on the news around herepeople talked about like people
were jumping into the ocean toget away from the fires and
stuff and like we think of thatas like the atlantic ocean by
jersey, which it's just likeright, it's a beach.
Siobhan (11:21):
You walk out like half a mile and you're still, you
know, only in six feet of water.
Andy (11:25):
But like in Maui, it is surf that breaks by the road,
like people surf literally up tothe highway.
It's insane, so like jumpinginto the water there, like
that's a whole different worldthan what we think about.
But it was a great experience.
Siobhan (11:43):
Would absolutely go back again yeah, yeah, we did,
and I will do it again 10 moreyears, 10 more years, yep, all
right we're your vows for itsiobhan who should we talk to?
Andy (11:53):
I'm a little out of breath .
No, who should we talk to tobook that?
Siobhan (11:57):
oh yeah, who should we trip down to hawaii in 10 years?
Matt (12:01):
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Siobhan (12:21):
Yeah, good segue.
Chris (12:23):
All right.
Siobhan (12:26):
Are we, he'll do that as well.
Matt (12:26):
Good stuff, yeah, good segue all right, are we moving
over?
Yes, we are staying in the beerworld.
Are you gonna tell us aboutsome place in hawaii?
You almost drowned again thistime no, we're not gonna talk.
Siobhan (12:32):
It is gonna be a traumatic experience for siobhan
, which seems to be a theme thetheme for sharing stories, which
I know everyone's like, greatso do you?
Matt (12:41):
have happy times.
Welcome to therapy corner withmatt.
With Matt and Friends Drank theUniverse.
Feel free to get your catharsis.
Siobhan (12:47):
Indeed.
Matt (12:48):
It's a can of catharsis.
Siobhan (12:50):
I will first tell you about the beer that I brought,
which is from Tired Hands, whichis a somewhat local brewery.
Andy (12:57):
Is it Where's?
Siobhan (12:57):
that.
Matt (12:58):
Ardmore Philly, oh, okay.
Siobhan (12:59):
Philly-ish.
Matt (13:07):
Not Lehigh Valley, not lehigh valley, but like local in
that.
Siobhan (13:08):
You know, yes, it's not kona from hawaii, which could
not be farther maybe from wherewe are.
It is called hive mind, whichit's a double ipa which chris
and I are on the ipa train we'rebringing them here um, double
ip with honey and there's a bigold bee on the front love it and
he's looking a little scary bythe way he's like.
Matt (13:23):
He is like creepy devil slash the hp lovecraft yeah yeah
, exactly that guy once crawleddown a marching band uniform I
had on and stung me under thesuspender.
Siobhan (13:33):
Well, that's what we're all here for today is to hear
about all the bee sting storiesthat I have dealt with in my
life of which I have three andthey are not that long, I hate
it I hate all of you.
Matt (13:48):
As.
Chris (13:48):
Siobhan's pouring the spirit and tell you, siobhan,
that the other day driving homethere was a yellow jacket in the
Prius.
Andy (13:55):
Oh no.
Siobhan (13:56):
My whole face just fell .
Chris (14:00):
As I'm driving from Lowe's to rehearsal.
I look over at the passengerwindow and there's just a yellow
jacket there.
Siobhan (14:07):
And I was like nope, no , no.
Matt (14:09):
I literally drive your car into a ditch and get out of it.
There's no way, you guys.
Chris (14:14):
We have insurance.
Siobhan (14:15):
Especially yellow jackets.
Chris (14:16):
I took my sunglasses case , which is like a hard glasses
case.
I deleted that.
Siobhan (14:24):
I'm so glad it was a giant puddle of nothingness we
should just all tell b storiesand I've got one.
Matt (14:32):
Oh my god, I got one too this is my wait.
Siobhan (14:33):
First of all, this is peak siobhan, because I come
with stories and then I tellother people to tell stories,
because I am a connector in thatway but, I
Chris (14:43):
am so afraid of bees, and before oh, this smells so good,
by the way, sorry, before allthe bee activists come for me,
okay, because I don't know whothey are.
Siobhan (14:54):
But like yes, you're right, it is rachel, I do not
have an issue with especiallypollinators, good bees honeybees
.
Yeah, it does I like the smell,but it tastes good bees that are
here to help our gardens growand the ecology and ecosystems
thrive.
Right, I'm here for that.
(15:15):
Get the fuck out of my faceokay, and a wasp burn it down.
Kill all of their families,their lineage, fuck them, okay.
Holy shit, shame on all of yourfamily.
I hate it.
Okay, so I've been stung.
This is the funny part, becauseI'm not allergic that I know,
(15:38):
of which now I'm convinced thatI am she's not.
No, I'm convinced that I am asan adult, because I have not
been stung in at least 20 years.
Andy (15:45):
Fun fact, fun fact.
I just learned this you getstung by a bee and you taste
banana.
You're allergic.
That's a sign of an allergicreaction about to happen.
Chris (15:53):
Well, now I'm going to be stung All of a sudden like bee
facts.
Matt (15:58):
Weird.
Hashtag bee facts Also if youget stung and stop breathing.
That's also right.
Siobhan (16:04):
I mean, it's a bad sign if you need an epi pen, you
might be allergic to bees.
Yeah, right, so I have beenstung three times that I can
recall, which I'm assuming isonly three times, because I
would probably recall them allinstead of trauma dumping them
because I might assume that Iwould do that, but who knows?
so the three that I remember,two of them happened in a
(16:27):
different state and anothercountry, and the other one was
in Connecticut where I grew up.
So I'll go in order of horrifictraumatic experiences and then
others can tell bee stories.
Third of the three stepped on abee when I was at my aunt's
house, stepped on a bee, had abee sting on my foot.
That sucked.
Right, that sucks because youdon't know you're going to do it
(16:51):
.
It stinks.
I will also say all of these Iwas like a young child, like I
was probably, I know, the firstone.
I was only six, but so I wasalways young.
So it was always very dramatic,right Cause, when you're
younger, even now, I mean, let'sbe real about how it would be
(17:11):
now if I got stung by a bee.
It would end my life.
So second, in colorado,visiting family friends in
colorado had a hornet that gotstuck in my hair.
Um, that sounds terrible justyou know, around this table I'm
telling a hair story that no onecan identify with, but that's
okay.
Andy (17:25):
I used to have hair.
Yeah, me too.
Siobhan (17:27):
Hornets, so like when they sting you.
That's the other thing aboutbees.
For those who don't know whichis probably nobody but that's
fine Bees who are honeybees.
Obviously, if they sting you,it is because they are trying to
protect their hive and theywill potentially lose their life
from stinging you, which doesmake me feel mildly sad.
Matt (17:44):
Horn lose their life from stinging you, which does make me
feel mildly sad.
Siobhan (17:46):
Hornets and wasps they don't give a fuck, they will
sting you forever.
I got stung three times in myhead from that hornet getting
stuck in my hair Horrific, okay.
And then the worst one, whichis just because of the way that
it happened.
Andy (18:02):
I love watching your hands .
Siobhan (18:04):
I know I'm so uncomfortable, even telling I've
chosen to tell these stories,but it is such so when I was in
Ireland as a six-year-old.
Okay, and you're like, arethere bees in Ireland?
There are.
Andy (18:17):
St Patrick didn't take care of those two?
He sure didn't.
Matt (18:20):
Just the snakes, and I never saw a snake snake, so he
did pretty well, but he couldn'tdo the bees so I remember this.
Siobhan (18:27):
I remember we had a rental car.
It was my parents and my auntwho came on this trip to ireland
with me in august of 1989 whenI was six years old and I
remember being in the backseatof the car and I remember being
like restless because I'm sixand I'm moving around, and I
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remember sitting back down inthe car on a b and I got stung
in the ass.
Cheek in the back of the car sonof me and I literally was like
ah, like I started screaming, mymother's like oh, and of course
they're driving, so they'relike freaking out.
Sure what's happening, and I'mlike I got stung by a bee.
(19:07):
I sat on a bee.
My mom's like just you're fineand I'm like I'm not fine.
I sat on a bee and we had to goto like the chemist in Ireland,
which is basically a pharmacy,to get cream because I,
thankfully, was not allergic,didn't taste the banana, but I
needed the butt cream for thesting that I got from the
(19:31):
freaking bee.
Chris (19:32):
Well, thank God you survived.
I know.
Matt (19:34):
Was your aunt's name Beatrice.
It was not sadly.
It was Evelyn, which hasnothing to do with bees, but
still just bee stories, beestories, we all have them.
I empathize greatly.
I, at my parents' house inPalmer, when they still lived
there, I stepped on if youremember that it was one of
those kind of older stylecarpets where the colors kind of
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ran together.
It was like a brown with likeblack speckles and like that
kind of thing which does nothelp the color blind.
Nope, I stepped on a wasp andhe got me like two or three
times in the foot.
I fell over.
Now he also suffered Matt tothe head, so he was kind of
limping and I just.
Chris (20:12):
The last thing he saw was my angry fist come down on him
and I was like I don't care ifhe stings my head, he's going to
die.
Matt (20:21):
And then I laid around with peanut butter on my foot
because the stinger was stuck inthere, so peanut butter on my
foot because the stinger wasstuck in there, so yeah, that
was the thing like peanut butterhelped get the stinger out
peeing on your foot when you geta jellyfish.
I've never heard that before.
Neither have I, stepmotherrobin.
She wanted me to put peanutbutter on the foot, so I had.
Chris (20:39):
Maybe she was just doing that to screw with me.
I don't know what.
Andy (20:41):
That'd be hilarious or it was like the like oh, you're
fine here, just if you putpeanut butter on your foot, it's
the peter griffin thing whereshe just looks around the room
and if you put a peanut butteron your foot, it's worth
mentioning, I was college age atthat point, it wasn't like I
was 10 years old.
Siobhan (21:00):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well that that makes me
think of the time that chris hadto kill a wasp in our old house
, because how many times?
Chris (21:08):
oh, I mean 42 times sure
Siobhan (21:10):
but the one that I remember because it was in our
bedroom and we had blinds likemini blinds in our bedroom and
it had gotten into our room andI literally walked in the room
and I heard like from the blindand I went nope and I closed the
door.
Well, I got the cat.
I got the cat because I was soscared.
The cat would like go after itand I'm like no.
(21:31):
So I grabbed the cat and then II literally slammed the door.
Nobody else is in the room.
I slammed the door and I godown and I tell Chris, you got
to go take care of this this isyour problem now if you want
this room again, was that?
The time you broke the lamp onthe fan.
Chris (21:50):
We have so many bee stories.
It's hilarious.
They follow my ass around, letme tell you.
Siobhan (21:54):
But he had to hit that wasp.
That wasp was like made of bodyarmor.
No, no, no.
Chris (22:01):
That's the bee we trapped in the window.
I got him to crawl out thewindow and so slam the window on
him, and then he lived for fouror five days in the window, in
the window like between thescreen and the window, we spray
him with something at one.
Siobhan (22:14):
No, no, no, I just let him suffer my god good to death
you wouldn't think like they'reso tiny.
Andy (22:20):
You would think and they like they don't have to eat that
long.
Siobhan (22:22):
But that's the thing the speed of the wings, like you
would think, and they like thespeed.
Andy (22:24):
But that's the thing the speed of the wings.
Chris (22:25):
Like you would think, that would require them to eat
more often, and then the otherone is yes, in my office, so we
had a oh, that's a fan in theoffice with a single light and
we were playing games togetherlike I probably heroes of the
storm or something in the office.
There's a callback, she freaksout because she sees a bee in
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the room runs like her hair's onfire.
Siobhan (22:51):
Which it basically is.
Chris (22:52):
And then I see there's a bee flying around the room, so
I'm like trying to get it toland on something, to kill it.
It finally lands on the light,on the fan, and I took a flip
flop peace out.
We can buy you light not onlydeleted the beat, but deleted
(23:14):
that light shattered literallyshattered and I remember being
like.
Siobhan (23:20):
I don't think that was my goal that was not, you should
not have broken property buthere we are.
Chris (23:27):
I will delete your beats.
Matt (23:29):
So we used to have and I just just popped in my head.
Andy (23:32):
We used to have the cicada killers here in my backyard
those things are horrifying,part of the reason they'll leave
you alone, but they're freaking, scary, terrifying.
Matt (23:40):
So we had a queen and when she would fly by if you were
out back it was like a lowflying 747 past your head, so
loud.
That is part of the reason Ihave that concrete patio.
My solution to that was I'mgoing to drop 20 tons of
concrete on your nest and we'rejust going to get rid of it.
I watched Jen kill one of thosewith an electrified bug racket.
She literally held it againstthe side.
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It was the most evil look I'veever seen in my wife held it
against the side, as it was themost evil look I've ever seen in
my wife like she just held itup there and let it go for 30
seconds while that thing died.
My god, I was like I'm neverscrewing with this woman, ever
again it was absolutelyhilarious.
Siobhan (24:13):
So killing bees favorite pastime oh my god, no,
it was wasps my story.
Andy (24:19):
so, as we're going to talk about in a bit, I'm in the army
band and I'm one of the armybands and I was doing a ceremony
and I was playing trombone atthe time.
So I'm standing there.
This is an outdoor ceremony, sowe're standing.
You're at attention pretty muchthe whole time, and it's time
(24:39):
for us to play.
And I bring my trombone up.
Matt (24:43):
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no , no, no.
Oh yes, this is going exactlywhere you think it is I hate it.
Andy (24:48):
I feel something against my lips.
A bee had landed in mymouthpiece or some kind of
flying insect, but so as Ibrought it up to buzz, it's
flapping its wings literallyagainst my face.
So obviously like I flinch awayand pull the mouthpiece away
and I guess it flew off okay.
(25:09):
But like I, know, I thought Iwas gonna be stung on the damn
lips before I was about to notonly play, but march across the
field yeah, life flash beforeyour eyes.
Chris (25:18):
If I have a, can of something.
Siobhan (25:19):
I shake it all the time to see if I'm gonna hear a buzz
before I drink it every summer.
Andy (25:24):
No, I can't imagine what my reaction would have been if
that thing would have actuallystung you, that would have been
terrible.
Siobhan (25:32):
See, that's what I'm saying.
Chris (25:34):
One last very quick story .
Siobhan (25:37):
Brings us all together.
Weed whacking trimming Never agood start to a story.
Chris (25:43):
This is the hive in the ground that we've had, so I just
cut the grass and so finishingup with a good old wee whacking,
and we have what's called thedog run in our yard, so it's
basically just a small pen areathat you would be able to put a
dog in, and so I'm trimming thisand, unbeknownst to me, a
colony of wasps decided to liveunder that and I hit that area.
(26:09):
They were not happy about that.
And a wasp the size of Mothra.
Andy (26:16):
Sure.
Siobhan (26:18):
I couldn't think of anything better Almost a
caterpillar size.
Chris (26:21):
Latched onto my leg, bit me.
I had to pull it off of my legno, no with it a chunk of my
flesh went oh my god, I had torun I?
I just, yeah, like I yeeted theweed whacker and then slapped
(26:43):
at my leg, which did not help.
So then I had to pull it offand run for the house Full
unlatched yeah.
Wow.
Siobhan (26:51):
I'm lightheaded.
Chris (26:52):
I had a crater in my leg of flesh.
Matt (26:55):
I remember that that it ripped off One of those cicada
killers.
I also had a weed whacker whenit flew by.
I didn't eat the weed whacker?
Chris (27:01):
No, I went Tusken Raider, that's what I remember.
Siobhan (27:08):
Yeah, it doesn't help but it makes you feel better in
the moment.
We called the exterminatorright after that happened.
Chris (27:13):
B Mageddon.
Siobhan (27:14):
Yeah, and the guy had to put a bee suit on and come
and do the whole thing and hehad to put powder in it.
I didn't leave the house forthree days to go out in the
backyard because we have a videoof them leaving the nest.
And when I tell you there aretens upon twenties of wasps
going in and out of that nest inthe ground, horrifying.
(27:37):
And then they came back thenext summer and we did it again.
Chris (27:43):
And now we have yet to see.
I filled in the hole the secondyear.
We think we're good now becauseI think and now we were, we
have yet to see.
Siobhan (27:45):
I feel, yeah, I filled in the hole the second year we
think we're good now, because Ithink last year we were fine.
Matt (27:49):
It's been two years, I can recommend dropping 20 tons of
concrete on top of the effectivesolution.
See, I knew we had I knew wehad the right exterminator when
the guy showed up and one ofthose big ass cicada killers
flew by and he goes big and hepumped his thing a couple times.
He goes.
They die too okay, there you goI was like, all right, we got
the right guy here man.
Well, I'm glad I could bring usall together with some bee wasp
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stories bonding over our hatredof connects his mind drop your
worst bee story in the comments.
Andy (28:18):
Yeah, really, yeah, right, I'm sure there's a lot to hear
your trauma.
Siobhan (28:22):
Don't tell us that you're killing good pollinators,
because I will stand up forthat.
Bees are obviously helpful forall of our ecologists.
Chris (28:29):
I'm obsessed with the Instagram and TikTok Videos of
like Bee rescue people.
They're pretty sick Heroes.
Siobhan (28:39):
I will say, as someone who is not a fan of bees, I
still love the activism Behindit and, like I will watch some
of those, I don't want to glossover it.
This beer is very good.
Matt (28:48):
It is.
Andy (28:49):
I already killed mine.
Matt (28:51):
It is beautiful.
Siobhan (28:52):
It is beautiful.
Chris (28:54):
Oh my god, is there any more?
Matt (28:59):
You guys like the Bee Rescue.
I like to watch the one.
I can't remember the dude'sname, but he likes to get stung
and bit by different stuff, justto tell you how much it hurts.
Andy (29:06):
I know you're talking about that.
Siobhan (29:09):
What the?
Andy (29:10):
shit is that.
Matt (29:10):
He got stung by one of those murder hornets.
He got bit by a bullet.
Chris (29:13):
ant the murder hornets don't really actually sting that
bad?
Siobhan (29:16):
I thought they don't even sting.
They do, but that's notactually an actual thing for for
them to use For whateverhorrifying thing they do.
Andy (29:22):
It was the bullet ant one.
Yeah, this dude will like tauntscorpions and shit.
No, bro, I've seen that stuff.
Get out of here, do bullet ants?
There's got to be a better wayto make it.
No, thank you.
Chris (29:34):
I've heard that's the worst thing ever.
So when I was in basic trainingTalk to Steve-O when I was in
basic training as we we weredoing our final march field
experience.
Andy (29:44):
We, every once, while they would shout out amber, which
meant get down, get into afighting position, right, so
we're marching along this road,they would shout out amber, you
toss your pack down, you getdown behind it in a fighting
position, and the dude,literally like two guys, down
for me, ow, ow, what the ow?
Well, it's south carolina, helaid down in a fire ant oh no,
(30:09):
no, and he was swarming withfire ants so like, literally, we
ripped his clothes off of him.
We're all pouring our canteensof water over him to get him off
and like he just had freakingwelts all over yeah I know
you're not supposed to leave aman behind, but in that
particular scenario, Later.
No, we took care of him.
Matt (30:29):
We took care of him.
Andy (30:30):
All right, well, I'm out of BBR here, so who's next?
Matt is it you or is it me?
Matt (30:35):
You want me to go next?
I feel like you should closethe show here.
Oh, that's a lot of pressure,but ahead, matt, what you got
all right.
So what I brought today is amudslide, but it is a mudslide
recipe that is very special tome.
We talked about tropicalislands earlier and nuptials and
things like that, so thisrecipe is very special to me.
This is the mudslide recipefrom rum point in the cayman
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islands, and when jen and I gotmarried, we had our honeymoon in
the cayman islands and we werethere for a solid week and it
was a wonderful experienceoverall.
We stayed at a place calledMoritz.
They actually had a barracudaoff the end of the bar.
So at the end of the night,when you got done eating or
whatever, they kind of justchucked your food in the water.
You see, like six or sevenbarracuda come up and just
completely devour Yikes yeah itwas really cool, but the
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original mudslide came from RumPoint in the Cayman Islands, and
the mudslide that some of youmight be used to will have ice
cream in it, it will have heavycream in it, it will have a lot
of different things.
The original recipe does nothave any of that.
It is vodka, kahlua, bailey'sIrish cream over a crap ton of
ice with a little cinnamon onthe top, and in the straw is a
(31:43):
floater of Kahlua.
So that first sip you take isgoing to be pretty much.
I didn't do a full straw you'resupposed to but you will get a
shot of Kahlua and then you'llget the rest of the taste All
right, all righty.
Cheers to that Cheers.
Andy (31:56):
I'll say I don't think I've ever had a mudslide before.
This is delicious, just what.
Siobhan (32:00):
I expected.
Did I get any cinnamon?
Chris (32:04):
I don't want to admit that I like this Yep Stellar sin
.
Siobhan (32:11):
I will say I might taste banana.
So I wonder if I'm allergic tobees?
I'm not gonna.
Chris (32:16):
This is exactly what I would want If I'm sitting on a
beach.
Oh yeah, hot day on a beach,right yeah, and it's this cold,
it's got to be this cold.
Andy (32:26):
This cold hot day on a beach, You're going to get this
at the next cruise?
Matt (32:29):
Yeah, the story that I wanted to tell was that the
Cayman Islands is a left-handdrive country which people might
not know, and in my infinitewisdom now most of you here know
(32:51):
my yeah know my automotivehistory.
Infinite of zero, not a wholelot those of you that knew me as
a teenager through, let's say,age 25, when my car insurance
rates were very high.
I did not have, let let's say,a very safe driving history up
until about 25 and I decided torent this car and drive in a
left-hand drive country, whichwas a bit of an adventure, and
the way that the grand cayman isshaped is rather interesting,
because it's kind of a u-shapeand you can't go between the top
(33:15):
portions of the, so if you needto go to one side of the island
to the other, you have to driveall.
To the other, you have to goall.
Siobhan (33:20):
It's about 45 minute drive like it's not that far,
isn't it like a big atoll?
Or like it's all water like inthat middle of that?
You?
We were just in the caymanislands.
Matt (33:28):
So everybody that has a really nice house lives on the
right side of the?
U and there are like boat taxisand things like that that go
back and forth.
But if you're a tourist and youwant to go, say, to the very
cool turtle farm to hold thelittle baby sea turtles,
stingray, and which is what wedid so we did, uh, the sea
turtle farm in the morning, andI think that was the day after
we'd done swimming with dolphins, which is up on the wall.
(33:49):
That's where that one picture isfrom.
But the baby sea turtles were.
That was the coolest thinglittle flippers in the hand and
like, and then they had thefully grown ones that you could
look down on.
You're like okay, you're goingto get a lot bigger when you're
older.
Siobhan (34:01):
It was super cool.
Matt (34:03):
But drove.
So our hotel was on the rightside, drove the?
U up to the Sea Turtle, droveback, drove back past the hotel
and then we had dinner laterthat night up at the other end
of the?
U.
So I went across back and forthacross the island like one and
a half times, two times that dayand I was I did a really good
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job driving left hand where mybrain kicked in and, like the
american showed, as soon as Igot into a parking lot the brain
was like default settings.
You're on this side of the roadnow and all the locals are
honking at me and I'm likeswerving people and it was like
that scene from euro trip, whenthey're in the bus and they're
like yelling at you to get inthe wrong, like that's exactly,
uh, what it was.
But it was a beautiful island,that was a huge, great adventure
.
Uh, for that, we did that.
(34:44):
We swam with stingrays thatweek and, um, I really
desperately want to.
Jen and I are going to bemarried.
Siobhan (34:50):
Uh, it's 13 years this year, for our 15th, do it yeah,
it'll be for our 15th.
Matt (34:57):
I would love to go back there.
Or we got engaged in saintmartin, which was the other
story that Jen got her wirescrossed and we were laughing.
She goes.
You remember what you did to mein St Martin?
I'm like we went snorkeling andthere were sea urchins
underneath and we were swimmingand I pinched her butt.
She swung at me fist first,like fist first, with a snorkel
mask on and I barely dodged it.
Siobhan (35:21):
But I totally deserved it, just for screwing with her
in the middle of the.
Chris (35:23):
We weren't anywhere near land we were in open water and
they were big.
Matt (35:25):
They were very large, but I'm glad you all enjoyed the
slide and if you ever get thechance, definitely have them in
the Cayman Islands.
Rum Point is a really cool bar.
Also, I believe it's called theWreck is the bar at Rum Point
(35:51):
no-transcript.
It's crazy because you walk tothe end of that dock and you can
still see the bottom as clearlyas you can when you're two feet
.
I mean mean it's that kind ofbeach.
But that bar is where themudslide originated.
I guess the story is some guywalked up and said I want a
mudslide, I want a white russian, and they were out of milk.
And the guy said well, I'm justgonna throw some bailey's irish
cream, put it over ice.
We're gonna see what happensand the mudslide was born.
Chris (36:14):
This is, yeah, that's really good, delicious, fun fact
.
You mentioned barracuda earlier.
We learned when we were in thecayman islands because we did a
uh stingray thing the guys onthe ship that that were taking
us out had just caught abarracuda and they're famously
known for being poisonous.
Uh, but, and I don't rememberif there was an biological,
(36:38):
ecological reason for why somebarracuda are and some barracuda
are not poisonous.
I can't remember why, but theway they test for it is, they
will scoop up a handful of antsand they will have the ants
crawl over the barracuda, whichthey just naturally pick up all
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of the secretions from thebarracuda, as they just
naturally pick up all of thesecretions, oils and everything
from the barracuda as they'rewalking across it, and if the
ants die, it's a poisonousbarracuda.
Siobhan (37:08):
If the ants survive, you can eat it and, if you like,
what is it if you eat it?
Interesting it's poisonous.
Chris (37:14):
You lose all your teeth yeah, your teeth will fall out
um like that's what there's,like methamphetamine, it will it
will.
It will erode your heartbecause your heart oh, we killed
him, you killed him.
Siobhan (37:34):
Oh no, oh, my god, you guys.
Andy (37:43):
Yeah, there's the barracudas that are caught in
florida.
Chris (37:46):
Yeah, yes, yeah, the bath salt, methane feta fish, yeah
yeah, apparently they will alsolike cause very severe heart
conditions and it's somethingthat you won't notice for like a
few weeks, if not a month ortwo but the guy was saying like
it.
Like eats your heart from theinside.
Yikes walter whitefish.
Matt (38:07):
Yeah and so it's like doing this for a while.
Chris (38:10):
Yeah, all of a sudden, like you'll have like a heart
attack like symptom and die andpeople are like, okay, yeah,
that guy, uh, that guy ate a.
He's literally dying.
Did you eat barracuda, andy?
Siobhan (38:26):
it's okay do you taste banana?
So I was thinking likecombining stories.
Matt (38:31):
The next time, andy, if you're with somebody and they
happen to lay down on an anthill, you're just gonna grab the
barracuda absolutely primarytest right and then they're like
well, it's poison.
Siobhan (38:40):
and the guy's like that's cool, I'm still on the
fire.
Like, can I get up now?
Matt (38:45):
None of this has helped anything going on.
Nope, this has not helpedanything.
Siobhan (38:48):
Well, at least we now know that barracuda is not
poisonous.
That's awesome, Matt.
Chris (39:01):
Thank you for this, did I get cinnamon.
Siobhan (39:02):
I didn't get cinnamon.
No, no, he poured fourtablespoons on his own.
He does have a lot, and then Itold him not to kill the rest of
us with the cinnamon challenge.
Matt (39:11):
I can make you another one later if you would like.
Andy (39:13):
I definitely did the cinnamon challenge.
I didn't realize what it was.
I was working at Dairy Queen.
Oh no, and one other person Iwas working with At Dairy Queen
goes hey, do you like cinnamon?
Siobhan (39:27):
Of course, who doesn't?
Andy (39:28):
Take a spoonful of cinnamon.
And I did Sounds like aterrific idea and that's when we
learned that when I throw up,Everybody throws up no.
I throw up so hard that I breakblood vessels in my face.
Chris (39:41):
Oh no, In your yelling nose and eyes.
Andy (39:44):
All over.
Chris (39:45):
Like literally all over my entire face.
Oh no, that sucks.
Andy (39:49):
Blood vessels broke everywhere in my face, so I'm
still in high school right.
Chris (39:55):
They're like oh, we killed Andy, Okay Right.
No, so they're like oh, wekilled Andy, Okay Right.
Andy (39:58):
No.
So I go home and there's likeI'm fine, Right, I look like
shit, but I'm fine.
But my mom is like what thehell happened?
Siobhan (40:07):
What is wrong with you?
Andy (40:09):
And of course I'm not going to say, like I did the
cinnamon challenge, I forgetwhat the hell I did, but I'm
like I don't know.
I think I had a reaction tosomething blah blah blah.
That's a good excuse, she mademe go to the doctor.
Yeah, of course.
So I go to the doctor's office,right, and the doctor's like
all right.
So it says here you had likesome kind of weird reaction to
something and I'm like all right, here's what happened.
Siobhan (40:32):
I'm stupid.
Andy (40:33):
Doctor starts cracking the hell up, yep, yep, and goes do
you mind if I bring the internsin?
Oh god, and I'm like absolutelyright, because, like you know,
I'm scared of my parents, so I'mnot going to tell them what
happened, but like other thanthat, like I don't care.
So all these interns come inand the doctor's like all right.
So this is a fascinating story.
(40:53):
If you ever have this hat, seethis.
Like here's what actuallyhappened.
That's awesome.
You know every last.
Matt (41:02):
One of those interns is still telling that story to
patients yeah I hope so thedoctor thought it was the best
thing.
Andy (41:09):
So I have to ask the last, the very first.
Matt (41:11):
Uh, how did we get beer?
I brought the mezcal.
Have I redeemed?
Siobhan (41:16):
myself for sure.
Andy (41:17):
I think you might have redeemed yourself from many
things on this podcast with thisdrink there you go yeah I'm I'm
gonna have to say well sir,when I come back, I'm expecting
this yeah, 100 as soon as mybrain freeze wears off that I
currently have from sucking downhalf of those right now bunch
of wusses especially as we getcloser to summer, like you know
(41:37):
oh yeah, this better be preparedwhen I get here now.
Chris (41:39):
This just makes me want summer more you know it's, it's
not warm outside right now.
Matt (41:45):
I know and I just want we can get an earthquake we're
gonna get an eclipse, but wecan't get a day over 60 and
that's all I want.
Siobhan (41:54):
Well, we did.
A month ago it was fall spring.
Matt (41:56):
It was the spring.
I hate that ground.
I'm gonna kill that groundhog,okay, well, that that kill that
groundhog.
That is not.
That is not an actual threatagainst Punxsutawney Phil.
Okay, I just want to be veryclear on this.
Just had a baby.
Andy (42:07):
Yeah, punxsutawney family just had a baby.
Chris (42:12):
Or Phyllis, I don't know Phyllis, no judgment Officially
pounded that mudslide.
Andy (42:19):
I freaking killed it.
Siobhan (42:21):
Alright, now I'm scared for Andy's.
Alright, I'm very excited forthis, so to be fair absolutely
no idea what this is going totaste like Hell.
Yeah, nope, so scared.
Andy (42:29):
Alright.
So what we're passing aroundthe table here is a bottle of
Starkey which is a LithuanianStarkey Star.
Sorry, kai Starkey it, which isa Lithuanian Star Kai, star Kai
.
Siobhan (42:44):
It's a foreign language .
Andy (42:45):
I know this R is supposed to be slightly rolled, so Star
Kai, I think, is the correctpronunciation.
Now we've lost Siobhan.
Matt (42:53):
Hold on, hold on, just laugh, laugh it out.
You don't want to hold that in,it'll hurt later.
Siobhan (43:02):
I'm going to start crying.
Okay, we're fine, we're fine,I'm going to recommend.
Matt (43:10):
I'm going to recommend a fresh cup.
That was good, right.
Siobhan (43:13):
Yeah so.
Andy (43:13):
I did study Lithuanian.
I'm going to recommend a freshcup.
I'm good.
I'm going to recommend a freshcup.
I'm good, okay, well, that waslike a magic trick.
I'm not sure how I did that.
All right, so this is a 43%, ohLord.
So I'm going to recommend, atleast to start you go easy with
this.
I think this should be.
(43:34):
You all right there?
Yeah, I don't know, are you allright?
That's not what I'm doing.
I think this should be similarto a brandy.
Siobhan (43:44):
Oh, so, if you go into it with that in mind, you drink
it already, I might have with mynose it is a strong smell paint
yeah, that's um I'm, that'swhat it makes me think of oh
anyone have an injury.
Matt (43:59):
We could absolutely cauterize your wound.
I like the stork on the label.
It's a great label, the stork.
Siobhan (44:07):
Is that what it is?
Andy (44:09):
Are we all going to sip this together?
Siobhan (44:10):
Everybody smell it.
Chris (44:13):
It smells like that peanut butter whiskey.
Siobhan (44:16):
What?
No, it doesn't.
Chris (44:17):
No, you're right, it does , I agree.
Screwball no, not that whiskey.
Siobhan (44:21):
What?
No, it doesn't.
No, you're right, it does, Iagree.
Chris (44:22):
Screwball, we all know what you're talking about.
No, not that.
What's the super cheap stuff?
Huh?
Matt (44:30):
Is there a style of liquor that this is, I believe?
Andy (44:35):
it's from a rye mash, so it should be similar to a brandy
or a rye whiskey.
You ready, it's a a rye mash.
Chris (44:40):
So it should be similar to like a brandy or a rye
whiskey, you ready Peanut butterOkay.
Andy (44:42):
Hold on.
It's a distilled alcoholicbeverage made from fermented rye
mash.
Siobhan (44:47):
Okay.
Andy (44:49):
So it's aged in oak barrels.
Okay so we'll find out.
Chris (44:55):
Here we go.
Siobhan (44:55):
One Cheers Is there a cheers, a Lithuanian cheers.
Andy (44:59):
Oh, it's Fakata, Fakata.
Matt (45:01):
It's Fakata, fakata, it's Fakata.
Andy (45:03):
It's Fakata it's.
Siobhan (45:04):
Fakata.
Andy (45:05):
You're supposed to say it after you, cheers.
Oh well shit, because it's, andnow you, it's Fakata.
Siobhan (45:11):
Oh, I like that, I love that.
Cheers from America, because wedo that before we drink.
Lithuania's got a lot of weirdtraditions, and one of them you
cannot have one drink.
Okay, well, you must have atleast I'm on board.
Challenge accepted, because ifyou have one drink.
Andy (45:29):
It's all going to go into one leg and you'll be out of
balance and you'll fall overfair enough.
Siobhan (45:33):
I love that for them.
Andy (45:34):
All right, we're doing it here we go oh, it's not as
strong as I was expecting.
It's very warming.
It is like that after like thisis, this is almost like that
bourbon hug okay hold that face,hold that face hold
Chris (45:55):
the face it burns a little too much oh, I don't get
the burn no, yeah I do, but itdoesn't last that long.
Siobhan (46:04):
I literally swished it around my tongue, which might
have been a mistake.
Chris (46:07):
So this is.
Andy (46:08):
Isfakata, isfakata, isfakata, isfakata.
Siobhan (46:12):
Isfakata, we fukakata, we're all fucked.
Matt (46:15):
Is it?
Andy (46:15):
fakata or fakata Isfakata.
Is it Focatta or Focatta?
It's Focatta.
Chris (46:19):
Focatta it's.
Andy (46:21):
Focatta.
Chris (46:21):
This makes me think of black velvet toasted caramel
whiskey.
It's like $6 a bottle, whichshould tell you everything you
need to know.
But that's what this tasteslike.
It's like sweet, but whiskey atthe same time.
Siobhan (46:38):
I wasn't bad at all.
Matt (46:39):
I like the sweet as an aperitif.
This would be really nice.
I whiskey at the same time.
I wasn't bad at all.
I like the sweet as an aperitif.
This would be really nice.
I just did the whole thing.
Chris (46:45):
Just like you had a whole meal.
Andy (46:47):
you've been drinking, and now this is afterwards You're
having a heavy cake or something, and this is what you drink
with it, so several peopleposted online that they use this
for making fruitcakes.
Matt (47:00):
Oh, I could see that in a reduction.
Yeah, yeah, we should do that.
Siobhan (47:04):
Um, not really, but like no, I could see I'm not
doing that, but yeah but yeah,so, um, last summer I spent time
in lithuania.
Andy (47:14):
So again, I'm a military musician and we were over there
for a military tattoo.
Thank you for your service.
It was a fantastic trip.
I had an absolute blast.
I learned a lot, but I decided,obviously, before coming back,
I was going to grab at least onebottle.
I grabbed two bottles ofLithuanian spirits.
(47:36):
Over there, they like to drinkwhat we would probably call
tinctures.
Right so, like an alcohol oversome kind of herb, right, um,
and like you know, drink thisone for an upset stomach, drink
this one for a headache orwhatever drink this one for a
shit day at work.
Right, drink this one toobliterate all memories my big
(47:59):
story from lithuania with thisis um, it wasn't specifically
with this I have.
I've literally never tastedthis before.
Right now I bought.
I bought it because it waslithuanian spirit and brought it
back with me.
But while we were over there,at one point we had a party with
some of the lithuanians.
Okay, at a couple points we hadparties with Lithuanians and at
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the one party I said to the oneguy hey, I'd love to try some
of your more local like what areyour traditional drinks around
here?
And the big one is the BalticPorters.
Right, it's a Baltic state, sothe Baltic Porters, Yep nice.
Their Baltic Porters weredelicious Strongly recommend,
love it yeah.
But he started bringing outsome of these again.
Delicious, strongly recommend,love it yeah.
(48:41):
But he started bringing outsome of these again what we
would call a tincture.
And we tried this one and wewere like, oh my God, this is
delicious.
All of us were like this islike so smooth and so flavorful.
And then finally we're like,can we see the bottle?
Like we're going to have toimport this.
What is this Right?
So he pulls out the bottle andon the bottle Like we're going
(49:03):
to have to import this, what isthis Right?
Siobhan (49:05):
So he pulls out the bottle and on the bottle is this
big old pot leaf.
Hell yeah, Weed tincture.
Andy (49:08):
It was a weed tincture.
Guess what you don't have toimport that.
Siobhan (49:10):
We got it here.
Andy (49:11):
Well, but as you probably know, military, we get random
drug tests.
So all of us who just took acouple drinks of this start to
freaking panic of like when isthe next time?
We're probably going to getrandom tested.
And we were all fine, yeah,right, but it wasn't enough in
(49:34):
there to.
Matt (49:34):
I'm sure the local Lithuanians who we were hanging
out with gave us something.
I'm really sorry.
Might have gotten it done, atleast Correct, yeah.
Andy (49:44):
But no, it was a great time.
The trip over to Lithuania wasfantastic.
My other story from Lithuaniathe trip over.
No, the trip over was not great.
Oh, yeah, right, I do notrecommend flying on a military
In Lithuania was great.
Matt (49:57):
The time we spent there, did you fly on a uh c-130?
Andy (50:02):
c-130.
Matt (50:03):
Yeah, it was rough is it true that there are no bathrooms
on a c-130 I?
Chris (50:09):
mean there's a bucket there is a bathroom.
Andy (50:11):
I do have a picture I could pull up.
But for the dudes, when you haveto take a leak, there's like
this canister that you take aleak into they just open that
hatch strappy and say go yeah, Idon't know, but if you have to
drop a deuce or if you're a lady, there is a very shallow bottom
toilet that is specificallymarked for emergency use only.
(50:32):
And how long was that flight itwas?
I want to say it was nine hoursthere, 10 hours coming back,
because coming back you'reagainst the jet stream, yep.
So nine hours there.
The floor of the plane wasabout 40 degrees.
The ceiling of the plane wasprobably about 85, 90 degrees,
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so in the middle there you triedto get comfortable.
So I was told yeah.
So I was told like I was told itwas going to be cold.
So I was prepared for cold.
I had like under armor on andstuff like that.
I was prepared for that.
But I also had a blanket withme because I was prepared to put
that over me.
What I quickly realized?
Because the floor was so cold,I actually needed that blanket
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under me and I needed my jacketoff, so like I've got a blanket
under me and I needed my jacketoff.
Chris (51:26):
So, like I'm, I've got a blanket under me to block the
cold coming up.
Yeah, but no top so wild, justlike an undershirt on to keep
you know I think it's calledinsulation yeah, the science
part of your brain is like that.
Totally makes sense.
But at the same time, science.
There you go.
You don't anticipate that atall.
Siobhan (51:46):
No, that's such a cool experience to hear about.
I know it's a crazy one, butit's such a cool one.
Matt (51:52):
Two things.
Siobhan (51:53):
The first one make me another mudslide, I will.
Matt (51:57):
I did not over-cinnamon this mudslide.
Chris (52:00):
The cinnamon I put in here actually works really well.
I'm now at the bottom and I'mcinnamon challenging myself and
I'm enjoying it, oh it's greathe's like my blood vessels are
broken, but I feel great it'sabsolutely great.
Matt (52:09):
The second thing I wanted to say is that I have immense
amount of respect for the menand women of the armed services
who fly on those planes on aconsistent basis.
The worst okay, the worstflying experience I ever had was
frontier airlines when they ranout of snacks and alcohol.
They're like we're not going toserve you at nine o'clock at
night that to me was a worldending crisis.
Siobhan (52:32):
I was ready to take like when I was like problems I
want a beer.
Matt (52:36):
I'm going on vacation like we don't have any beer on board
.
Andy (52:39):
It's six o'clock at night.
Matt (52:40):
And I was like nope, nope, this is unacceptable.
Andy (52:43):
So when we got back and we landed, a customs agent came on
the plane and was like do youguys have anything to claim?
Siobhan (52:49):
We're like, of course not Of course we all had bottles
of booze.
Yeah right, that's what you'retaking back.
Do you know who I am, sir, theydo.
Andy (52:58):
No.
So I will say I was expectingthis to have a lot more of a
burn than it does.
Matt (53:05):
It doesn't Well.
My right leg feels boozy.
It's got a tiny bit.
Chris (53:08):
He's got to get the left one.
He's got to get the left one.
Matt (53:10):
Another one for the left leg.
Andy (53:20):
My right leg is boozy now.
Is it okay?
Well, especially like my liveris numb, I can't feel my liver.
So we hung out with theLithuanians about six years ago.
Siobhan (53:27):
I feel like we're all going to just hang out and tell
all these stories.
Andy (53:30):
Sure, why not?
He can keep the good stories inand cut the bad ones out.
That is what?
How?
Matt (53:35):
did we get beer is about.
Andy (53:37):
I agree.
So when we hung out with theLithuanians the first time, like
our higher ups specificallysaid like hey, Don't try, don't
try and hang out with them.
Their booze are higher proofthan ours, don't try and hang
with them.
So obviously we did.
But like the one time we wereat the one hotel and I just had
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a bottle of bourbon I'm abourbon drinker.
I had a bottle of bourbon andall the Lithuanians Were like,
oh, we don't fuck with bourbon.
Siobhan (54:11):
They drink clearer stuff.
I mean that's not clear foranyone that one can see that's
listening.
It's not clear.
Matt (54:18):
He wants more.
Yeah, sure, sure, sure.
I want some more.
That's listening.
Can I have a little more ofthat?
What's that he wants?
Siobhan (54:21):
more.
Yeah, sure, sure, sure, yeah,yeah, yeah.
Please, sir, have some Starca.
I want some more Starca.
Matt (54:25):
It's got like a honey flavor to it.
Siobhan (54:27):
It has a little bit of sweetness.
It does have a little bit ofsweetness.
A little bit of sweetness, yeah, yeah, it's nice.
I like it Aperitif, digestive,that's the thing that you would
say Aperitif served for beforeand it had just a tiny bit of
burn.
Chris (54:46):
That's why I said earlier it burned just a little bit,
but not bad.
You don't feel it in your chestthat much.
It's not the Kentucky hug we'vetalked about.
Matt (54:56):
Previously.
No, you don't get that warmfuzzy feeling.
Andy (55:00):
You get a little bit, but it doesn't linger too long.
I still feel my palate a littlebit.
Siobhan (55:05):
This is a fancy store.
Chris (55:08):
He's very dignified.
Matt (55:08):
The label.
He works at the Four Seasons.
Siobhan (55:13):
He's a fancy guy.
Chris (55:14):
All right, should we wrap this?
Siobhan (55:15):
thing, up.
Matt (55:17):
I think the train is, the steam's coming out, the train's
rolling into the station.
Siobhan (55:21):
So thank you all, like I said, for being on this
journey with us.
Matt (55:24):
Yeah, that's all right.
You, you tried valiantly.
No, but also thank all of youfor bringing the the phenomenal
drinks and sharing the stories Ithis is one of my favorite this
is really one of my favoriteformats that we do for sure.
Chris (55:38):
It's just, yeah, so much good like conversation that we
can have absolutely, absolutelyso.
Matt (55:43):
Thank you all, cheers I know you're all still here.
Thank you all for listeningwhatever.
Siobhan (55:47):
What's that?
Lithuanian cheers again it'sfocata all right on to you guys
on to you.
Chris (55:52):
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All right, everybody.
Welcome back to Matt andFriends Drink the Universe.
This is the format whereeverybody brought a drink that
has a story attached to it.
We're going to go around thetable, we're going to hear those
stories.
And also, if you remember,episode one, season one, matt
flagrantly disregarded the rules.
It does not have to actually bebeer.
Andy (00:53):
That's good.
Chris (00:54):
I didn't bring beer.
Matt (00:55):
There you go.
Siobhan (00:56):
I'm not alone.
I followed the rules, yeah,right.
Matt (00:58):
Spoiler alert I did not bring beer either.
Let's go around the table andintroduce ourselves.
Siobhan (01:04):
Oh hey, it's Siobhan.
Matt (01:06):
I'm Andy and Chris and I'm Matt and Chris.
You're going first for this one.
Yes, All right.
Last time you brought a beerthat was either going to kill us
or taste really good and welanded on.
Siobhan (01:19):
It tasted really great.
Yeah, that was a good one,Burton Batten right.
Matt (01:22):
It's just fun to say Burton Batten, Burton Batten,
Burton Batten.
Siobhan (01:25):
Oh, that was good, Matt .
Chris (01:26):
This time, I've brought another beer that just so
happened to still be in myfridge, which was very
advantageous for myself as I wasplanning for this podcast
episode, because it's from KonaBrewing, which, if you don't
know is from Hawaii.
They make a lot of really goodbeer.
This one that I brought todayis their Gold Cliff IPA Very,
(01:52):
very nice beer, and so I pulledup their website, which talks
about kind of the origin storyof this beer, and they talk
about the origin story beingabout Diver's Paradise, which is
at the southern tip of Lanai.
If you don't know, lanai is awhole separate island in the
chain of Hawaiian islands thatnot a lot of people go to, and
(02:13):
we actually haven't been toLanai at this point.
Siobhan (02:15):
I don't even know if you can only get there by boat,
correct, you can only get thereby boat.
Chris (02:19):
There's no airport or anything like that and there's
just a lot of really naturalstuff there.
It's not like a tourist spot.
So there is this kind of cliffthat people used to way, way,
way, way back in the day.
There's a 70 foot jump that.
Hawaiians used to jump off ofto prove their courage.
Siobhan (02:39):
That checks out, yeah exactly, I would not be good at
that.
Andy (02:44):
I'm not afraid of heights, but I don't know about that.
Chris (02:46):
Yeah it's also not just jumping off a 70 foot cliff,
you're jumping through a keyholewhat into the water I'm afraid
of broken legs there's a videoof this, so it sounds absolutely
crazy.
Um, and you can still see likeit still is there today.
Siobhan (02:59):
There's still this area where you can still see, like
it still is there today.
Chris (03:03):
There's still this area where you can see people like
fearlessly dive off a cliff,which is absolutely crazy.
So anyway, that's all to linkto what recently this past
summer Siobhan and I celebratedour 10th anniversary and so we
Congratulations.
Matt (03:22):
Andy was there, I was Andy did come on our honeymoon,
twist my arm into going intoHawaii.
Chris (03:26):
That's right On our honeymoon, siobhan and I did a
awesome two-week honeymoon inHawaii and while we were sipping
drinks in Hawaii that honeymoonwe decided you know, in 10
years, no matter what, come hellor high water, we're coming
back here and we made it happen,and not only did we get to make
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it happen.
We got to do it with a bunch offriends and family.
So I brought this beer today tokind of harken back to that
awesome summer we just had andtell a little story about it.
But before I tell that story,let me crack this sucker open.
Matt (04:01):
So and you renewed your wedding vows.
Is that spoiler alert or no?
This sucker open so and yourenewed your wedding vows.
Is that spoiler alert or no?
Well, that's what we did.
No, it already happened.
It's not spoiling, so youagreed to do it again so you
know they say like the biggestthing when purchasing a product
or getting involved withsomething is would you do it
again?
Siobhan (04:16):
you did, so there's chris's five-star yelp review
yeah, he gets five stars.
It was good he wrote his.
We wrote our own vows for thevow renewal because we did not
get to do that at our actualwedding, because we had a
Catholic wedding where,notoriously, you are not able to
write your own vows at those.
You typically just pick someand you have them as part of the
mass.
(04:36):
But yeah, I was determined thatwe write our own vows and he
wrote them that morning, afterreturning from a hefty hike that
I was hopeful that he wouldcome back to the ceremony from
hangover style.
Andy (04:51):
I almost forgot about that .
We well, that's why we got upearly in the morning yep, hiked
up, this massive hike, yep,which was great, amazing.
And we got up to the top and wewere literally in the clouds.
We couldn't see a fucking thing.
Chris (05:04):
Yeah, so we got up really early because, again, this is
on the day of the vow renewal.
Siobhan (05:11):
Right.
Chris (05:11):
That we're doing which was.
Siobhan (05:13):
You know, had a little gathering the night before
Everybody come over to the coolplace we had rented, had a good
amount of drinks Yep, definitelydrank in.
Chris (05:21):
So in the first place we woke up.
Siobhan (05:23):
I mean, at least I woke up a little hungover Like
nothing crazy, I didn't, I wasfine, it was good, we had
planned this ahead of time.
Chris (05:31):
Rob and his wife Dorothy, and Andy and his wife Rachel
All came in the night beforethey like just arrived Because
they were doing their own kindof tour of Hawaii.
Andy (05:40):
Yeah, we had already spent a couple days on the Big Island
.
Chris (05:43):
Big Island yeah, we were on.
Siobhan (05:45):
Kauai.
To be fair, I don't know if wementioned that.
Chris (05:47):
Oh yeah, yeah.
This is all taking place onKauai, yeah.
Andy (05:49):
We had spent a couple days on the Big Island because we
really wanted to hit Volcanoes.
National Park there which wasamazing, absolutely amazing so
we had already done a lot ofhiking yeah.
Chris (06:10):
So they came in the night before.
I've been loafing it around.
We were there for a day so far,I think, doing a beach thing.
Actually, no, it was that day wearrived in kawaii, the day that
we had the gathering party, andthen the next day was the
renewal right, and next morningwe decided we're gonna go on a
hike, so we got up real earlyand had to make like about an
hour's drive was like a 45minute drive all the way up to
the trailhead.
And this is in waimea canyon,or just just north of of waimea
(06:33):
canyon, which is the grandcanyon of hawaii, and it is
gorgeous, pretty gorgeous yeahabsolutely, and they're gorgeous
which indeed it has a bunch ofdifferent places.
You can see it from, just likethe grand canyon, obviously, but
which makes it really nice, youknow.
And then if you keep going upthe the road, which is this
(06:54):
windy road, and there's likegiant potholes that will swallow
your car if you hit them thewrong way, which was really fun
in a rental car eventually youend up at the pahia trailhead,
which is the trail we did thethe hike on.
And what's really cool is youkind of park in this parking lot
and then you kind of climb up.
Uh, not climb up, but like yougo up a pathway.
(07:15):
That's a pretty steep pathwaysteep but pretty easy.
Yeah, it was still paved atthat point right with the
railing and everything and youget to a lookout where you're
supposed to be able to look outover this crazy open the part of
the nepali coast.
You know, look at the nepalicoast.
But because it's so early, it'sjust clouds.
We are walking through cloudsso we can barely see anything.
(07:37):
So we're like, all right, don'tbother about the look, let's
just start hiking.
So we hike down and up and inand out it was it was it was
more than any of us reallyexpected it to be through mud.
There were parts of the trailthat were completely foot deep
mud that you couldn't walkthrough, so we had to, like,
climb along tree roots and upand down.
Andy (08:00):
Super fun it was fun.
Chris (08:02):
I wiped out at least three times damn yep, we, we
were all muddy by the end yeahand the end of the trail we got
to.
It was still a little bit cloudy, but we could kind of see into
the nepali coast, which isreally cool.
We have some great photos.
And then, as we started to hikeback, that's when the sun
started to come out and burn offthe clouds and as we were
(08:24):
getting all the way to the backto the beginning, we finally
were able to start looking outthrough some of the really great
views.
Andy (08:31):
Beautiful view of this one little bay.
Chris (08:33):
It's gorgeous.
Andy (08:34):
Rachel's actually making a painting of it.
Chris (08:36):
I can't wait for that.
Andy (08:38):
It was supposed to be my Christmas present, but yeah,
she's working on a painting ofit.
Chris (08:46):
And so, to wrap up the story, which it was such a fun
day, I was absolutely wiped.
Siobhan was mad at me.
Siobhan (08:53):
Oh, I don't think I was mad.
Chris (08:54):
You were mad at me.
It's fine.
Not like pissed at me oranything, no, I just felt
slightly irked.
Siobhan (09:01):
Maybe I was a little.
I don't know if I was mad,though I think I was just bummed
Cause I was like, well, we'resupposed to have a party now and
like I don't want you to feellike you're yeah, like I don't
want you to feel like you werelike dead to the world at this
party, so I got back and I tooka nap for like an hour or two or
whatever, and then we werestaying at this really cool
resort that was like right on abeach it wasn't like what you
(09:22):
would think of as a normal beach, but it was just our own
cottages.
Chris (09:26):
Shout out yeah, coolest place, our own little beach area
, and so I took a chair and Ikind of drug it out into the
middle of nowhere and I put myheadphones on and so for like a
half an hour I just sat therewith this gorgeous view of the
ocean and wrote my vows, myrenewal vows, there.
So it was just such a reallypeaceful day for me, even though
(09:47):
I was like dead tired from thishike but what a cool experience
gave me like a really funclarity to be able to write
those vows.
So it was really really specialday for me with an amazing
experience.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely so.
This beer super tropically.
Andy (10:03):
It's got pineapple.
It's good stuff, very good.
Chris (10:05):
Super light and brought it to share with everyone.
Andy (10:08):
We did go to Kona Brewing while we were down there,
jealous.
Chris (10:13):
We got to do that our first time we didn't do this
this past time.
Matt (10:16):
I remember you talking about that.
Chris (10:17):
I'm like.
Matt (10:18):
I love Kona like the big wave.
Siobhan (10:20):
Yeah, and the other one's like they're just so good,
the Coco Brown best beer handsdown.
Matt (10:27):
It is like my number one beer.
Chris (10:29):
It's just so good I could drink it any time of the year.
Rich coconut, chocolate,wonderful beer.
So shout out to Kona.
Thank you so much for great,great experiences.
Andy (10:41):
We had such a great time down there.
You know, we kind of did islandhopping because we really
wanted to hit the national parksand stuff like that and we
ended up our last day down there.
We were on maui and likeliterally the next day the fire
started right, like we literallyflew out of maui, and the next
day I'm getting text messages oflike um, are you still?
Siobhan (11:01):
down there when we left too, and we were getting texts
too while we were flying, andpeople were like is everything
crazy?
It is crazy, and like?
Andy (11:08):
I don't think so.
Like on the news around herepeople talked about like people
were jumping into the ocean toget away from the fires and
stuff and like we think of thatas like the atlantic ocean by
jersey, which it's just likeright, it's a beach.
Siobhan (11:21):
You walk out like half a mile and you're still, you
know, only in six feet of water.
Andy (11:25):
But like in Maui, it is surf that breaks by the road,
like people surf literally up tothe highway.
It's insane, so like jumpinginto the water there, like
that's a whole different worldthan what we think about.
But it was a great experience.
Siobhan (11:43):
Would absolutely go back again yeah, yeah, we did,
and I will do it again 10 moreyears, 10 more years, yep, all
right we're your vows for itsiobhan who should we talk to?
Andy (11:53):
I'm a little out of breath .
No, who should we talk to tobook that?
Siobhan (11:57):
oh yeah, who should we trip down to hawaii in 10 years?
Matt (12:01):
poppin's travel would be happy to book your trip to
Hawaii for you.
Reach out, there are links justdown below the podcast
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And, knowing John as soon as hecan figure out trips to Mars,
he'll do that as well.
Good stuff.
Siobhan (12:21):
Yeah, good segue.
Chris (12:23):
All right.
Siobhan (12:26):
Are we, he'll do that as well.
Matt (12:26):
Good stuff, yeah, good segue all right, are we moving
over?
Yes, we are staying in the beerworld.
Are you gonna tell us aboutsome place in hawaii?
You almost drowned again thistime no, we're not gonna talk.
Siobhan (12:32):
It is gonna be a traumatic experience for siobhan
, which seems to be a theme thetheme for sharing stories, which
I know everyone's like, greatso do you?
Matt (12:41):
have happy times.
Welcome to therapy corner withmatt.
With Matt and Friends Drank theUniverse.
Feel free to get your catharsis.
Siobhan (12:47):
Indeed.
Matt (12:48):
It's a can of catharsis.
Siobhan (12:50):
I will first tell you about the beer that I brought,
which is from Tired Hands, whichis a somewhat local brewery.
Andy (12:57):
Is it Where's?
Siobhan (12:57):
that.
Matt (12:58):
Ardmore Philly, oh, okay.
Siobhan (12:59):
Philly-ish.
Matt (13:07):
Not Lehigh Valley, not lehigh valley, but like local in
that.
Siobhan (13:08):
You know, yes, it's not kona from hawaii, which could
not be farther maybe from wherewe are.
It is called hive mind, whichit's a double ipa which chris
and I are on the ipa train we'rebringing them here um, double
ip with honey and there's a bigold bee on the front love it and
he's looking a little scary bythe way he's like.
Matt (13:23):
He is like creepy devil slash the hp lovecraft yeah yeah
, exactly that guy once crawleddown a marching band uniform I
had on and stung me under thesuspender.
Siobhan (13:33):
Well, that's what we're all here for today is to hear
about all the bee sting storiesthat I have dealt with in my
life of which I have three andthey are not that long, I hate
it I hate all of you.
Matt (13:48):
As.
Chris (13:48):
Siobhan's pouring the spirit and tell you, siobhan,
that the other day driving homethere was a yellow jacket in the
Prius.
Andy (13:55):
Oh no.
Siobhan (13:56):
My whole face just fell .
Chris (14:00):
As I'm driving from Lowe's to rehearsal.
I look over at the passengerwindow and there's just a yellow
jacket there.
Siobhan (14:07):
And I was like nope, no , no.
Matt (14:09):
I literally drive your car into a ditch and get out of it.
There's no way, you guys.
Chris (14:14):
We have insurance.
Siobhan (14:15):
Especially yellow jackets.
Chris (14:16):
I took my sunglasses case , which is like a hard glasses
case.
I deleted that.
Siobhan (14:24):
I'm so glad it was a giant puddle of nothingness we
should just all tell b storiesand I've got one.
Matt (14:32):
Oh my god, I got one too this is my wait.
Siobhan (14:33):
First of all, this is peak siobhan, because I come
with stories and then I tellother people to tell stories,
because I am a connector in thatway but, I
Chris (14:43):
am so afraid of bees, and before oh, this smells so good,
by the way, sorry, before allthe bee activists come for me,
okay, because I don't know whothey are.
Siobhan (14:54):
But like yes, you're right, it is rachel, I do not
have an issue with especiallypollinators, good bees honeybees
.
Yeah, it does I like the smell,but it tastes good bees that are
here to help our gardens growand the ecology and ecosystems
thrive.
Right, I'm here for that.
(15:15):
Get the fuck out of my faceokay, and a wasp burn it down.
Kill all of their families,their lineage, fuck them, okay.
Holy shit, shame on all of yourfamily.
I hate it.
Okay, so I've been stung.
This is the funny part, becauseI'm not allergic that I know,
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of which now I'm convinced thatI am she's not.
No, I'm convinced that I am asan adult, because I have not
been stung in at least 20 years.
Andy (15:45):
Fun fact, fun fact.
I just learned this you getstung by a bee and you taste
banana.
You're allergic.
That's a sign of an allergicreaction about to happen.
Chris (15:53):
Well, now I'm going to be stung All of a sudden like bee
facts.
Matt (15:58):
Weird.
Hashtag bee facts Also if youget stung and stop breathing.
That's also right.
Siobhan (16:04):
I mean, it's a bad sign if you need an epi pen, you
might be allergic to bees.
Yeah, right, so I have beenstung three times that I can
recall, which I'm assuming isonly three times, because I
would probably recall them allinstead of trauma dumping them
because I might assume that Iwould do that, but who knows?
so the three that I remember,two of them happened in a
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different state and anothercountry, and the other one was
in Connecticut where I grew up.
So I'll go in order of horrifictraumatic experiences and then
others can tell bee stories.
Third of the three stepped on abee when I was at my aunt's
house, stepped on a bee, had abee sting on my foot.
That sucked.
Right, that sucks because youdon't know you're going to do it
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.
It stinks.
I will also say all of these Iwas like a young child, like I
was probably, I know, the firstone.
I was only six, but so I wasalways young.
So it was always very dramatic,right Cause, when you're
younger, even now, I mean, let'sbe real about how it would be
(17:11):
now if I got stung by a bee.
It would end my life.
So second, in colorado,visiting family friends in
colorado had a hornet that gotstuck in my hair.
Um, that sounds terrible justyou know, around this table I'm
telling a hair story that no onecan identify with, but that's
okay.
Andy (17:25):
I used to have hair.
Yeah, me too.
Siobhan (17:27):
Hornets, so like when they sting you.
That's the other thing aboutbees.
For those who don't know whichis probably nobody but that's
fine Bees who are honeybees.
Obviously, if they sting you,it is because they are trying to
protect their hive and theywill potentially lose their life
from stinging you, which doesmake me feel mildly sad.
Matt (17:44):
Horn lose their life from stinging you, which does make me
feel mildly sad.
Siobhan (17:46):
Hornets and wasps they don't give a fuck, they will
sting you forever.
I got stung three times in myhead from that hornet getting
stuck in my hair Horrific, okay.
And then the worst one, whichis just because of the way that
it happened.
Andy (18:02):
I love watching your hands .
Siobhan (18:04):
I know I'm so uncomfortable, even telling I've
chosen to tell these stories,but it is such so when I was in
Ireland as a six-year-old.
Okay, and you're like, arethere bees in Ireland?
There are.
Andy (18:17):
St Patrick didn't take care of those two?
He sure didn't.
Matt (18:20):
Just the snakes, and I never saw a snake snake, so he
did pretty well, but he couldn'tdo the bees so I remember this.
Siobhan (18:27):
I remember we had a rental car.
It was my parents and my auntwho came on this trip to ireland
with me in august of 1989 whenI was six years old and I
remember being in the backseatof the car and I remember being
like restless because I'm sixand I'm moving around, and I
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remember sitting back down inthe car on a b and I got stung
in the ass.
Cheek in the back of the car sonof me and I literally was like
ah, like I started screaming, mymother's like oh, and of course
they're driving, so they'relike freaking out.
Sure what's happening, and I'mlike I got stung by a bee.
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I sat on a bee.
My mom's like just you're fineand I'm like I'm not fine.
I sat on a bee and we had to goto like the chemist in Ireland,
which is basically a pharmacy,to get cream because I,
thankfully, was not allergic,didn't taste the banana, but I
needed the butt cream for thesting that I got from the
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freaking bee.
Chris (19:32):
Well, thank God you survived.
I know.
Matt (19:34):
Was your aunt's name Beatrice.
It was not sadly.
It was Evelyn, which hasnothing to do with bees, but
still just bee stories, beestories, we all have them.
I empathize greatly.
I, at my parents' house inPalmer, when they still lived
there, I stepped on if youremember that it was one of
those kind of older stylecarpets where the colors kind of
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ran together.
It was like a brown with likeblack speckles and like that
kind of thing which does nothelp the color blind.
Nope, I stepped on a wasp andhe got me like two or three
times in the foot.
I fell over.
Now he also suffered Matt tothe head, so he was kind of
limping and I just.
Chris (20:12):
The last thing he saw was my angry fist come down on him
and I was like I don't care ifhe stings my head, he's going to
die.
Matt (20:21):
And then I laid around with peanut butter on my foot
because the stinger was stuck inthere, so peanut butter on my
foot because the stinger wasstuck in there, so yeah, that
was the thing like peanut butterhelped get the stinger out
peeing on your foot when you geta jellyfish.
I've never heard that before.
Neither have I, stepmotherrobin.
She wanted me to put peanutbutter on the foot, so I had.
Chris (20:39):
Maybe she was just doing that to screw with me.
I don't know what.
Andy (20:41):
That'd be hilarious or it was like the like oh, you're
fine here, just if you putpeanut butter on your foot, it's
the peter griffin thing whereshe just looks around the room
and if you put a peanut butteron your foot, it's worth
mentioning, I was college age atthat point, it wasn't like I
was 10 years old.
Siobhan (21:00):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well that that makes me
think of the time that chris hadto kill a wasp in our old house
, because how many times?
Chris (21:08):
oh, I mean 42 times sure
Siobhan (21:10):
but the one that I remember because it was in our
bedroom and we had blinds likemini blinds in our bedroom and
it had gotten into our room andI literally walked in the room
and I heard like from the blindand I went nope and I closed the
door.
Well, I got the cat.
I got the cat because I was soscared.
The cat would like go after itand I'm like no.
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So I grabbed the cat and then II literally slammed the door.
Nobody else is in the room.
I slammed the door and I godown and I tell Chris, you got
to go take care of this this isyour problem now if you want
this room again, was that?
The time you broke the lamp onthe fan.
Chris (21:50):
We have so many bee stories.
It's hilarious.
They follow my ass around, letme tell you.
Siobhan (21:54):
But he had to hit that wasp.
That wasp was like made of bodyarmor.
No, no, no.
Chris (22:01):
That's the bee we trapped in the window.
I got him to crawl out thewindow and so slam the window on
him, and then he lived for fouror five days in the window, in
the window like between thescreen and the window, we spray
him with something at one.
Siobhan (22:14):
No, no, no, I just let him suffer my god good to death
you wouldn't think like they'reso tiny.
Andy (22:20):
You would think and they like they don't have to eat that
long.
Siobhan (22:22):
But that's the thing the speed of the wings, like you
would think, and they like thespeed.
Andy (22:24):
But that's the thing the speed of the wings.
Chris (22:25):
Like you would think, that would require them to eat
more often, and then the otherone is yes, in my office, so we
had a oh, that's a fan in theoffice with a single light and
we were playing games togetherlike I probably heroes of the
storm or something in the office.
There's a callback, she freaksout because she sees a bee in
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the room runs like her hair's onfire.
Siobhan (22:51):
Which it basically is.
Chris (22:52):
And then I see there's a bee flying around the room, so
I'm like trying to get it toland on something, to kill it.
It finally lands on the light,on the fan, and I took a flip
flop peace out.
We can buy you light not onlydeleted the beat, but deleted
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that light shattered literallyshattered and I remember being
like.
Siobhan (23:20):
I don't think that was my goal that was not, you should
not have broken property buthere we are.
Chris (23:27):
I will delete your beats.
Matt (23:29):
So we used to have and I just just popped in my head.
Andy (23:32):
We used to have the cicada killers here in my backyard
those things are horrifying,part of the reason they'll leave
you alone, but they're freaking, scary, terrifying.
Matt (23:40):
So we had a queen and when she would fly by if you were
out back it was like a lowflying 747 past your head, so
loud.
That is part of the reason Ihave that concrete patio.
My solution to that was I'mgoing to drop 20 tons of
concrete on your nest and we'rejust going to get rid of it.
I watched Jen kill one of thosewith an electrified bug racket.
She literally held it againstthe side.
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It was the most evil look I'veever seen in my wife held it
against the side, as it was themost evil look I've ever seen in
my wife like she just held itup there and let it go for 30
seconds while that thing died.
My god, I was like I'm neverscrewing with this woman, ever
again it was absolutelyhilarious.
Siobhan (24:13):
So killing bees favorite pastime oh my god, no,
it was wasps my story.
Andy (24:19):
so, as we're going to talk about in a bit, I'm in the army
band and I'm one of the armybands and I was doing a ceremony
and I was playing trombone atthe time.
So I'm standing there.
This is an outdoor ceremony, sowe're standing.
You're at attention pretty muchthe whole time, and it's time
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for us to play.
And I bring my trombone up.
Matt (24:43):
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no , no, no.
Oh yes, this is going exactlywhere you think it is I hate it.
Andy (24:48):
I feel something against my lips.
A bee had landed in mymouthpiece or some kind of
flying insect, but so as Ibrought it up to buzz, it's
flapping its wings literallyagainst my face.
So obviously like I flinch awayand pull the mouthpiece away
and I guess it flew off okay.
(25:09):
But like I, know, I thought Iwas gonna be stung on the damn
lips before I was about to notonly play, but march across the
field yeah, life flash beforeyour eyes.
Chris (25:18):
If I have a, can of something.
Siobhan (25:19):
I shake it all the time to see if I'm gonna hear a buzz
before I drink it every summer.
Andy (25:24):
No, I can't imagine what my reaction would have been if
that thing would have actuallystung you, that would have been
terrible.
Siobhan (25:32):
See, that's what I'm saying.
Chris (25:34):
One last very quick story .
Siobhan (25:37):
Brings us all together.
Weed whacking trimming Never agood start to a story.
Chris (25:43):
This is the hive in the ground that we've had, so I just
cut the grass and so finishingup with a good old wee whacking,
and we have what's called thedog run in our yard, so it's
basically just a small pen areathat you would be able to put a
dog in, and so I'm trimming thisand, unbeknownst to me, a
colony of wasps decided to liveunder that and I hit that area.
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They were not happy about that.
And a wasp the size of Mothra.
Andy (26:16):
Sure.
Siobhan (26:18):
I couldn't think of anything better Almost a
caterpillar size.
Chris (26:21):
Latched onto my leg, bit me.
I had to pull it off of my legno, no with it a chunk of my
flesh went oh my god, I had torun I?
I just, yeah, like I yeeted theweed whacker and then slapped
(26:43):
at my leg, which did not help.
So then I had to pull it offand run for the house Full
unlatched yeah.
Wow.
Siobhan (26:51):
I'm lightheaded.
Chris (26:52):
I had a crater in my leg of flesh.
Matt (26:55):
I remember that that it ripped off One of those cicada
killers.
I also had a weed whacker whenit flew by.
I didn't eat the weed whacker?
Chris (27:01):
No, I went Tusken Raider, that's what I remember.
Siobhan (27:08):
Yeah, it doesn't help but it makes you feel better in
the moment.
We called the exterminatorright after that happened.
Chris (27:13):
B Mageddon.
Siobhan (27:14):
Yeah, and the guy had to put a bee suit on and come
and do the whole thing and hehad to put powder in it.
I didn't leave the house forthree days to go out in the
backyard because we have a videoof them leaving the nest.
And when I tell you there aretens upon twenties of wasps
going in and out of that nest inthe ground, horrifying.
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And then they came back thenext summer and we did it again.
Chris (27:43):
And now we have yet to see.
I filled in the hole the secondyear.
We think we're good now becauseI think and now we were, we
have yet to see.
Siobhan (27:45):
I feel, yeah, I filled in the hole the second year we
think we're good now, because Ithink last year we were fine.
Matt (27:49):
It's been two years, I can recommend dropping 20 tons of
concrete on top of the effectivesolution.
See, I knew we had I knew wehad the right exterminator when
the guy showed up and one ofthose big ass cicada killers
flew by and he goes big and hepumped his thing a couple times.
He goes.
They die too okay, there you goI was like, all right, we got
the right guy here man.
Well, I'm glad I could bring usall together with some bee wasp
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stories bonding over our hatredof connects his mind drop your
worst bee story in the comments.
Andy (28:18):
Yeah, really, yeah, right, I'm sure there's a lot to hear
your trauma.
Siobhan (28:22):
Don't tell us that you're killing good pollinators,
because I will stand up forthat.
Bees are obviously helpful forall of our ecologists.
Chris (28:29):
I'm obsessed with the Instagram and TikTok Videos of
like Bee rescue people.
They're pretty sick Heroes.
Siobhan (28:39):
I will say, as someone who is not a fan of bees, I
still love the activism Behindit and, like I will watch some
of those, I don't want to glossover it.
This beer is very good.
Matt (28:48):
It is.
Andy (28:49):
I already killed mine.
Matt (28:51):
It is beautiful.
Siobhan (28:52):
It is beautiful.
Chris (28:54):
Oh my god, is there any more?
Matt (28:59):
You guys like the Bee Rescue.
I like to watch the one.
I can't remember the dude'sname, but he likes to get stung
and bit by different stuff, justto tell you how much it hurts.
Andy (29:06):
I know you're talking about that.
Siobhan (29:09):
What the?
Andy (29:10):
shit is that.
Matt (29:10):
He got stung by one of those murder hornets.
He got bit by a bullet.
Chris (29:13):
ant the murder hornets don't really actually sting that
bad?
Siobhan (29:16):
I thought they don't even sting.
They do, but that's notactually an actual thing for for
them to use For whateverhorrifying thing they do.
Andy (29:22):
It was the bullet ant one.
Yeah, this dude will like tauntscorpions and shit.
No, bro, I've seen that stuff.
Get out of here, do bullet ants?
There's got to be a better wayto make it.
No, thank you.
Chris (29:34):
I've heard that's the worst thing ever.
So when I was in basic trainingTalk to Steve-O when I was in
basic training as we we weredoing our final march field
experience.
Andy (29:44):
We, every once, while they would shout out amber, which
meant get down, get into afighting position, right, so
we're marching along this road,they would shout out amber, you
toss your pack down, you getdown behind it in a fighting
position, and the dude,literally like two guys, down
for me, ow, ow, what the ow?
Well, it's south carolina, helaid down in a fire ant oh no,
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no, and he was swarming withfire ants so like, literally, we
ripped his clothes off of him.
We're all pouring our canteensof water over him to get him off
and like he just had freakingwelts all over yeah I know
you're not supposed to leave aman behind, but in that
particular scenario, Later.
No, we took care of him.
Matt (30:29):
We took care of him.
Andy (30:30):
All right, well, I'm out of BBR here, so who's next?
Matt is it you or is it me?
Matt (30:35):
You want me to go next?
I feel like you should closethe show here.
Oh, that's a lot of pressure,but ahead, matt, what you got
all right.
So what I brought today is amudslide, but it is a mudslide
recipe that is very special tome.
We talked about tropicalislands earlier and nuptials and
things like that, so thisrecipe is very special to me.
This is the mudslide recipefrom rum point in the cayman
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islands, and when jen and I gotmarried, we had our honeymoon in
the cayman islands and we werethere for a solid week and it
was a wonderful experienceoverall.
We stayed at a place calledMoritz.
They actually had a barracudaoff the end of the bar.
So at the end of the night,when you got done eating or
whatever, they kind of justchucked your food in the water.
You see, like six or sevenbarracuda come up and just
completely devour Yikes yeah itwas really cool, but the
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original mudslide came from RumPoint in the Cayman Islands, and
the mudslide that some of youmight be used to will have ice
cream in it, it will have heavycream in it, it will have a lot
of different things.
The original recipe does nothave any of that.
It is vodka, kahlua, bailey'sIrish cream over a crap ton of
ice with a little cinnamon onthe top, and in the straw is a
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floater of Kahlua.
So that first sip you take isgoing to be pretty much.
I didn't do a full straw you'resupposed to but you will get a
shot of Kahlua and then you'llget the rest of the taste All
right, all righty.
Cheers to that Cheers.
Andy (31:56):
I'll say I don't think I've ever had a mudslide before.
This is delicious, just what.
Siobhan (32:00):
I expected.
Did I get any cinnamon?
Chris (32:04):
I don't want to admit that I like this Yep Stellar sin
.
Siobhan (32:11):
I will say I might taste banana.
So I wonder if I'm allergic tobees?
I'm not gonna.
Chris (32:16):
This is exactly what I would want If I'm sitting on a
beach.
Oh yeah, hot day on a beach,right yeah, and it's this cold,
it's got to be this cold.
Andy (32:26):
This cold hot day on a beach, You're going to get this
at the next cruise?
Matt (32:29):
Yeah, the story that I wanted to tell was that the
Cayman Islands is a left-handdrive country which people might
not know, and in my infinitewisdom now most of you here know
(32:51):
my yeah know my automotivehistory.
Infinite of zero, not a wholelot those of you that knew me as
a teenager through, let's say,age 25, when my car insurance
rates were very high.
I did not have, let let's say,a very safe driving history up
until about 25 and I decided torent this car and drive in a
left-hand drive country, whichwas a bit of an adventure, and
the way that the grand cayman isshaped is rather interesting,
because it's kind of a u-shapeand you can't go between the top
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portions of the, so if you needto go to one side of the island
to the other, you have to driveall.
To the other, you have to goall.
Siobhan (33:20):
It's about 45 minute drive like it's not that far,
isn't it like a big atoll?
Or like it's all water like inthat middle of that?
You?
We were just in the caymanislands.
Matt (33:28):
So everybody that has a really nice house lives on the
right side of the?
U and there are like boat taxisand things like that that go
back and forth.
But if you're a tourist and youwant to go, say, to the very
cool turtle farm to hold thelittle baby sea turtles,
stingray, and which is what wedid so we did, uh, the sea
turtle farm in the morning, andI think that was the day after
we'd done swimming with dolphins, which is up on the wall.
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That's where that one picture isfrom.
But the baby sea turtles were.
That was the coolest thinglittle flippers in the hand and
like, and then they had thefully grown ones that you could
look down on.
You're like okay, you're goingto get a lot bigger when you're
older.
Siobhan (34:01):
It was super cool.
Matt (34:03):
But drove.
So our hotel was on the rightside, drove the?
U up to the Sea Turtle, droveback, drove back past the hotel
and then we had dinner laterthat night up at the other end
of the?
U.
So I went across back and forthacross the island like one and
a half times, two times that dayand I was I did a really good
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job driving left hand where mybrain kicked in and, like the
american showed, as soon as Igot into a parking lot the brain
was like default settings.
You're on this side of the roadnow and all the locals are
honking at me and I'm likeswerving people and it was like
that scene from euro trip, whenthey're in the bus and they're
like yelling at you to get inthe wrong, like that's exactly,
uh, what it was.
But it was a beautiful island,that was a huge, great adventure
.
Uh, for that, we did that.
(34:44):
We swam with stingrays thatweek and, um, I really
desperately want to.
Jen and I are going to bemarried.
Siobhan (34:50):
Uh, it's 13 years this year, for our 15th, do it yeah,
it'll be for our 15th.
Matt (34:57):
I would love to go back there.
Or we got engaged in saintmartin, which was the other
story that Jen got her wirescrossed and we were laughing.
She goes.
You remember what you did to mein St Martin?
I'm like we went snorkeling andthere were sea urchins
underneath and we were swimmingand I pinched her butt.
She swung at me fist first,like fist first, with a snorkel
mask on and I barely dodged it.
Siobhan (35:21):
But I totally deserved it, just for screwing with her
in the middle of the.
Chris (35:23):
We weren't anywhere near land we were in open water and
they were big.
Matt (35:25):
They were very large, but I'm glad you all enjoyed the
slide and if you ever get thechance, definitely have them in
the Cayman Islands.
Rum Point is a really cool bar.
Also, I believe it's called theWreck is the bar at Rum Point
(35:51):
no-transcript.
It's crazy because you walk tothe end of that dock and you can
still see the bottom as clearlyas you can when you're two feet
.
I mean mean it's that kind ofbeach.
But that bar is where themudslide originated.
I guess the story is some guywalked up and said I want a
mudslide, I want a white russian, and they were out of milk.
And the guy said well, I'm justgonna throw some bailey's irish
cream, put it over ice.
We're gonna see what happensand the mudslide was born.
Chris (36:14):
This is, yeah, that's really good, delicious, fun fact
.
You mentioned barracuda earlier.
We learned when we were in thecayman islands because we did a
uh stingray thing the guys onthe ship that that were taking
us out had just caught abarracuda and they're famously
known for being poisonous.
Uh, but, and I don't rememberif there was an biological,
(36:38):
ecological reason for why somebarracuda are and some barracuda
are not poisonous.
I can't remember why, but theway they test for it is, they
will scoop up a handful of antsand they will have the ants
crawl over the barracuda, whichthey just naturally pick up all
(36:59):
of the secretions from thebarracuda, as they just
naturally pick up all of thesecretions, oils and everything
from the barracuda as they'rewalking across it, and if the
ants die, it's a poisonousbarracuda.
Siobhan (37:08):
If the ants survive, you can eat it and, if you like,
what is it if you eat it?
Interesting it's poisonous.
Chris (37:14):
You lose all your teeth yeah, your teeth will fall out
um like that's what there's,like methamphetamine, it will it
will.
It will erode your heartbecause your heart oh, we killed
him, you killed him.
Siobhan (37:34):
Oh no, oh, my god, you guys.
Andy (37:43):
Yeah, there's the barracudas that are caught in
florida.
Chris (37:46):
Yeah, yes, yeah, the bath salt, methane feta fish, yeah
yeah, apparently they will alsolike cause very severe heart
conditions and it's somethingthat you won't notice for like a
few weeks, if not a month ortwo but the guy was saying like
it.
Like eats your heart from theinside.
Yikes walter whitefish.
Matt (38:07):
Yeah and so it's like doing this for a while.
Chris (38:10):
Yeah, all of a sudden, like you'll have like a heart
attack like symptom and die andpeople are like, okay, yeah,
that guy, uh, that guy ate a.
He's literally dying.
Did you eat barracuda, andy?
Siobhan (38:26):
it's okay do you taste banana?
So I was thinking likecombining stories.
Matt (38:31):
The next time, andy, if you're with somebody and they
happen to lay down on an anthill, you're just gonna grab the
barracuda absolutely primarytest right and then they're like
well, it's poison.
Siobhan (38:40):
and the guy's like that's cool, I'm still on the
fire.
Like, can I get up now?
Matt (38:45):
None of this has helped anything going on.
Nope, this has not helpedanything.
Siobhan (38:48):
Well, at least we now know that barracuda is not
poisonous.
That's awesome, Matt.
Chris (39:01):
Thank you for this, did I get cinnamon.
Siobhan (39:02):
I didn't get cinnamon.
No, no, he poured fourtablespoons on his own.
He does have a lot, and then Itold him not to kill the rest of
us with the cinnamon challenge.
Matt (39:11):
I can make you another one later if you would like.
Andy (39:13):
I definitely did the cinnamon challenge.
I didn't realize what it was.
I was working at Dairy Queen.
Oh no, and one other person Iwas working with At Dairy Queen
goes hey, do you like cinnamon?
Siobhan (39:27):
Of course, who doesn't?
Andy (39:28):
Take a spoonful of cinnamon.
And I did Sounds like aterrific idea and that's when we
learned that when I throw up,Everybody throws up no.
I throw up so hard that I breakblood vessels in my face.
Chris (39:41):
Oh no, In your yelling nose and eyes.
Andy (39:44):
All over.
Chris (39:45):
Like literally all over my entire face.
Oh no, that sucks.
Andy (39:49):
Blood vessels broke everywhere in my face, so I'm
still in high school right.
Chris (39:55):
They're like oh, we killed Andy, Okay Right.
No, so they're like oh, wekilled Andy, Okay Right.
Andy (39:58):
No.
So I go home and there's likeI'm fine, Right, I look like
shit, but I'm fine.
But my mom is like what thehell happened?
Siobhan (40:07):
What is wrong with you?
Andy (40:09):
And of course I'm not going to say, like I did the
cinnamon challenge, I forgetwhat the hell I did, but I'm
like I don't know.
I think I had a reaction tosomething blah blah blah.
That's a good excuse, she mademe go to the doctor.
Yeah, of course.
So I go to the doctor's office,right, and the doctor's like
all right.
So it says here you had likesome kind of weird reaction to
something and I'm like all right, here's what happened.
Siobhan (40:32):
I'm stupid.
Andy (40:33):
Doctor starts cracking the hell up, yep, yep, and goes do
you mind if I bring the internsin?
Oh god, and I'm like absolutelyright, because, like you know,
I'm scared of my parents, so I'mnot going to tell them what
happened, but like other thanthat, like I don't care.
So all these interns come inand the doctor's like all right.
So this is a fascinating story.
(40:53):
If you ever have this hat, seethis.
Like here's what actuallyhappened.
That's awesome.
You know every last.
Matt (41:02):
One of those interns is still telling that story to
patients yeah I hope so thedoctor thought it was the best
thing.
Andy (41:09):
So I have to ask the last, the very first.
Matt (41:11):
Uh, how did we get beer?
I brought the mezcal.
Have I redeemed?
Siobhan (41:16):
myself for sure.
Andy (41:17):
I think you might have redeemed yourself from many
things on this podcast with thisdrink there you go yeah I'm I'm
gonna have to say well sir,when I come back, I'm expecting
this yeah, 100 as soon as mybrain freeze wears off that I
currently have from sucking downhalf of those right now bunch
of wusses especially as we getcloser to summer, like you know
(41:37):
oh yeah, this better be preparedwhen I get here now.
Chris (41:39):
This just makes me want summer more you know it's, it's
not warm outside right now.
Matt (41:45):
I know and I just want we can get an earthquake we're
gonna get an eclipse, but wecan't get a day over 60 and
that's all I want.
Siobhan (41:54):
Well, we did.
A month ago it was fall spring.
Matt (41:56):
It was the spring.
I hate that ground.
I'm gonna kill that groundhog,okay, well, that that kill that
groundhog.
That is not.
That is not an actual threatagainst Punxsutawney Phil.
Okay, I just want to be veryclear on this.
Just had a baby.
Andy (42:07):
Yeah, punxsutawney family just had a baby.
Chris (42:12):
Or Phyllis, I don't know Phyllis, no judgment Officially
pounded that mudslide.
Andy (42:19):
I freaking killed it.
Siobhan (42:21):
Alright, now I'm scared for Andy's.
Alright, I'm very excited forthis, so to be fair absolutely
no idea what this is going totaste like Hell.
Yeah, nope, so scared.
Andy (42:29):
Alright.
So what we're passing aroundthe table here is a bottle of
Starkey which is a LithuanianStarkey Star.
Sorry, kai Starkey it, which isa Lithuanian Star Kai, star Kai
.
Siobhan (42:44):
It's a foreign language .
Andy (42:45):
I know this R is supposed to be slightly rolled, so Star
Kai, I think, is the correctpronunciation.
Now we've lost Siobhan.
Matt (42:53):
Hold on, hold on, just laugh, laugh it out.
You don't want to hold that in,it'll hurt later.
Siobhan (43:02):
I'm going to start crying.
Okay, we're fine, we're fine,I'm going to recommend.
Matt (43:10):
I'm going to recommend a fresh cup.
That was good, right.
Siobhan (43:13):
Yeah so.
Andy (43:13):
I did study Lithuanian.
I'm going to recommend a freshcup.
I'm good.
I'm going to recommend a freshcup.
I'm good, okay, well, that waslike a magic trick.
I'm not sure how I did that.
All right, so this is a 43%, ohLord.
So I'm going to recommend, atleast to start you go easy with
this.
I think this should be.
(43:34):
You all right there?
Yeah, I don't know, are you allright?
That's not what I'm doing.
I think this should be similarto a brandy.
Siobhan (43:44):
Oh, so, if you go into it with that in mind, you drink
it already, I might have with mynose it is a strong smell paint
yeah, that's um I'm, that'swhat it makes me think of oh
anyone have an injury.
Matt (43:59):
We could absolutely cauterize your wound.
I like the stork on the label.
It's a great label, the stork.
Siobhan (44:07):
Is that what it is?
Andy (44:09):
Are we all going to sip this together?
Siobhan (44:10):
Everybody smell it.
Chris (44:13):
It smells like that peanut butter whiskey.
Siobhan (44:16):
What?
No, it doesn't.
Chris (44:17):
No, you're right, it does , I agree.
Screwball no, not that whiskey.
Siobhan (44:21):
What?
No, it doesn't.
No, you're right, it does, Iagree.
Chris (44:22):
Screwball, we all know what you're talking about.
No, not that.
What's the super cheap stuff?
Huh?
Matt (44:30):
Is there a style of liquor that this is, I believe?
Andy (44:35):
it's from a rye mash, so it should be similar to a brandy
or a rye whiskey.
You ready, it's a a rye mash.
Chris (44:40):
So it should be similar to like a brandy or a rye
whiskey, you ready Peanut butterOkay.
Andy (44:42):
Hold on.
It's a distilled alcoholicbeverage made from fermented rye
mash.
Siobhan (44:47):
Okay.
Andy (44:49):
So it's aged in oak barrels.
Okay so we'll find out.
Chris (44:55):
Here we go.
Siobhan (44:55):
One Cheers Is there a cheers, a Lithuanian cheers.
Andy (44:59):
Oh, it's Fakata, Fakata.
Matt (45:01):
It's Fakata, fakata, it's Fakata.
Andy (45:03):
It's Fakata it's.
Siobhan (45:04):
Fakata.
Andy (45:05):
You're supposed to say it after you, cheers.
Oh well shit, because it's, andnow you, it's Fakata.
Siobhan (45:11):
Oh, I like that, I love that.
Cheers from America, because wedo that before we drink.
Lithuania's got a lot of weirdtraditions, and one of them you
cannot have one drink.
Okay, well, you must have atleast I'm on board.
Challenge accepted, because ifyou have one drink.
Andy (45:29):
It's all going to go into one leg and you'll be out of
balance and you'll fall overfair enough.
Siobhan (45:33):
I love that for them.
Andy (45:34):
All right, we're doing it here we go oh, it's not as
strong as I was expecting.
It's very warming.
It is like that after like thisis, this is almost like that
bourbon hug okay hold that face,hold that face hold
Chris (45:55):
the face it burns a little too much oh, I don't get
the burn no, yeah I do, but itdoesn't last that long.
Siobhan (46:04):
I literally swished it around my tongue, which might
have been a mistake.
Chris (46:07):
So this is.
Andy (46:08):
Isfakata, isfakata, isfakata, isfakata.
Siobhan (46:12):
Isfakata, we fukakata, we're all fucked.
Matt (46:15):
Is it?
Andy (46:15):
fakata or fakata Isfakata.
Is it Focatta or Focatta?
It's Focatta.
Chris (46:19):
Focatta it's.
Andy (46:21):
Focatta.
Chris (46:21):
This makes me think of black velvet toasted caramel
whiskey.
It's like $6 a bottle, whichshould tell you everything you
need to know.
But that's what this tasteslike.
It's like sweet, but whiskey atthe same time.
Siobhan (46:38):
I wasn't bad at all.
Matt (46:39):
I like the sweet as an aperitif.
This would be really nice.
I whiskey at the same time.
I wasn't bad at all.
I like the sweet as an aperitif.
This would be really nice.
I just did the whole thing.
Chris (46:45):
Just like you had a whole meal.
Andy (46:47):
you've been drinking, and now this is afterwards You're
having a heavy cake or something, and this is what you drink
with it, so several peopleposted online that they use this
for making fruitcakes.
Matt (47:00):
Oh, I could see that in a reduction.
Yeah, yeah, we should do that.
Siobhan (47:04):
Um, not really, but like no, I could see I'm not
doing that, but yeah but yeah,so, um, last summer I spent time
in lithuania.
Andy (47:14):
So again, I'm a military musician and we were over there
for a military tattoo.
Thank you for your service.
It was a fantastic trip.
I had an absolute blast.
I learned a lot, but I decided,obviously, before coming back,
I was going to grab at least onebottle.
I grabbed two bottles ofLithuanian spirits.
(47:36):
Over there, they like to drinkwhat we would probably call
tinctures.
Right so, like an alcohol oversome kind of herb, right, um,
and like you know, drink thisone for an upset stomach, drink
this one for a headache orwhatever drink this one for a
shit day at work.
Right, drink this one toobliterate all memories my big
(47:59):
story from lithuania with thisis um, it wasn't specifically
with this I have.
I've literally never tastedthis before.
Right now I bought.
I bought it because it waslithuanian spirit and brought it
back with me.
But while we were over there,at one point we had a party with
some of the lithuanians.
Okay, at a couple points we hadparties with Lithuanians and at
(48:20):
the one party I said to the oneguy hey, I'd love to try some
of your more local like what areyour traditional drinks around
here?
And the big one is the BalticPorters.
Right, it's a Baltic state, sothe Baltic Porters, Yep nice.
Their Baltic Porters weredelicious Strongly recommend,
love it yeah.
But he started bringing outsome of these again.
Delicious, strongly recommend,love it yeah.
(48:41):
But he started bringing outsome of these again what we
would call a tincture.
And we tried this one and wewere like, oh my God, this is
delicious.
All of us were like this islike so smooth and so flavorful.
And then finally we're like,can we see the bottle?
Like we're going to have toimport this.
What is this Right?
So he pulls out the bottle andon the bottle Like we're going
(49:03):
to have to import this, what isthis Right?
Siobhan (49:05):
So he pulls out the bottle and on the bottle is this
big old pot leaf.
Hell yeah, Weed tincture.
Andy (49:08):
It was a weed tincture.
Guess what you don't have toimport that.
Siobhan (49:10):
We got it here.
Andy (49:11):
Well, but as you probably know, military, we get random
drug tests.
So all of us who just took acouple drinks of this start to
freaking panic of like when isthe next time?
We're probably going to getrandom tested.
And we were all fine, yeah,right, but it wasn't enough in
(49:34):
there to.
Matt (49:34):
I'm sure the local Lithuanians who we were hanging
out with gave us something.
I'm really sorry.
Might have gotten it done, atleast Correct, yeah.
Andy (49:44):
But no, it was a great time.
The trip over to Lithuania wasfantastic.
My other story from Lithuaniathe trip over.
No, the trip over was not great.
Oh, yeah, right, I do notrecommend flying on a military
In Lithuania was great.
Matt (49:57):
The time we spent there, did you fly on a uh c-130?
Andy (50:02):
c-130.
Matt (50:03):
Yeah, it was rough is it true that there are no bathrooms
on a c-130 I?
Chris (50:09):
mean there's a bucket there is a bathroom.
Andy (50:11):
I do have a picture I could pull up.
But for the dudes, when you haveto take a leak, there's like
this canister that you take aleak into they just open that
hatch strappy and say go yeah, Idon't know, but if you have to
drop a deuce or if you're a lady, there is a very shallow bottom
toilet that is specificallymarked for emergency use only.
(50:32):
And how long was that flight itwas?
I want to say it was nine hoursthere, 10 hours coming back,
because coming back you'reagainst the jet stream, yep.
So nine hours there.
The floor of the plane wasabout 40 degrees.
The ceiling of the plane wasprobably about 85, 90 degrees,
(50:55):
so in the middle there you triedto get comfortable.
So I was told yeah.
So I was told like I was told itwas going to be cold.
So I was prepared for cold.
I had like under armor on andstuff like that.
I was prepared for that.
But I also had a blanket withme because I was prepared to put
that over me.
What I quickly realized?
Because the floor was so cold,I actually needed that blanket
(51:15):
under me and I needed my jacketoff, so like I've got a blanket
under me and I needed my jacketoff.
Chris (51:26):
So, like I'm, I've got a blanket under me to block the
cold coming up.
Yeah, but no top so wild, justlike an undershirt on to keep
you know I think it's calledinsulation yeah, the science
part of your brain is like that.
Totally makes sense.
But at the same time, science.
There you go.
You don't anticipate that atall.
Siobhan (51:46):
No, that's such a cool experience to hear about.
I know it's a crazy one, butit's such a cool one.
Matt (51:52):
Two things.
Siobhan (51:53):
The first one make me another mudslide, I will.
Matt (51:57):
I did not over-cinnamon this mudslide.
Chris (52:00):
The cinnamon I put in here actually works really well.
I'm now at the bottom and I'mcinnamon challenging myself and
I'm enjoying it, oh it's greathe's like my blood vessels are
broken, but I feel great it'sabsolutely great.
Matt (52:09):
The second thing I wanted to say is that I have immense
amount of respect for the menand women of the armed services
who fly on those planes on aconsistent basis.
The worst okay, the worstflying experience I ever had was
frontier airlines when they ranout of snacks and alcohol.
They're like we're not going toserve you at nine o'clock at
night that to me was a worldending crisis.
Siobhan (52:32):
I was ready to take like when I was like problems I
want a beer.
Matt (52:36):
I'm going on vacation like we don't have any beer on board
.
Andy (52:39):
It's six o'clock at night.
Matt (52:40):
And I was like nope, nope, this is unacceptable.
Andy (52:43):
So when we got back and we landed, a customs agent came on
the plane and was like do youguys have anything to claim?
Siobhan (52:49):
We're like, of course not Of course we all had bottles
of booze.
Yeah right, that's what you'retaking back.
Do you know who I am, sir, theydo.
Andy (52:58):
No.
So I will say I was expectingthis to have a lot more of a
burn than it does.
Matt (53:05):
It doesn't Well.
My right leg feels boozy.
It's got a tiny bit.
Chris (53:08):
He's got to get the left one.
He's got to get the left one.
Matt (53:10):
Another one for the left leg.
Andy (53:20):
My right leg is boozy now.
Is it okay?
Well, especially like my liveris numb, I can't feel my liver.
So we hung out with theLithuanians about six years ago.
Siobhan (53:27):
I feel like we're all going to just hang out and tell
all these stories.
Andy (53:30):
Sure, why not?
He can keep the good stories inand cut the bad ones out.
That is what?
How?
Matt (53:35):
did we get beer is about.
Andy (53:37):
I agree.
So when we hung out with theLithuanians the first time, like
our higher ups specificallysaid like hey, Don't try, don't
try and hang out with them.
Their booze are higher proofthan ours, don't try and hang
with them.
So obviously we did.
But like the one time we wereat the one hotel and I just had
(54:02):
a bottle of bourbon I'm abourbon drinker.
I had a bottle of bourbon andall the Lithuanians Were like,
oh, we don't fuck with bourbon.
Siobhan (54:11):
They drink clearer stuff.
I mean that's not clear foranyone that one can see that's
listening.
It's not clear.
Matt (54:18):
He wants more.
Yeah, sure, sure, sure.
I want some more.
That's listening.
Can I have a little more ofthat?
What's that he wants?
Siobhan (54:21):
more.
Yeah, sure, sure, sure, yeah,yeah, yeah.
Please, sir, have some Starca.
I want some more Starca.
Matt (54:25):
It's got like a honey flavor to it.
Siobhan (54:27):
It has a little bit of sweetness.
It does have a little bit ofsweetness.
A little bit of sweetness, yeah, yeah, it's nice.
I like it Aperitif, digestive,that's the thing that you would
say Aperitif served for beforeand it had just a tiny bit of
burn.
Chris (54:46):
That's why I said earlier it burned just a little bit,
but not bad.
You don't feel it in your chestthat much.
It's not the Kentucky hug we'vetalked about.
Matt (54:56):
Previously.
No, you don't get that warmfuzzy feeling.
Andy (55:00):
You get a little bit, but it doesn't linger too long.
I still feel my palate a littlebit.
Siobhan (55:05):
This is a fancy store.
Chris (55:08):
He's very dignified.
Matt (55:08):
The label.
He works at the Four Seasons.
Siobhan (55:13):
He's a fancy guy.
Chris (55:14):
All right, should we wrap this?
Siobhan (55:15):
thing, up.
Matt (55:17):
I think the train is, the steam's coming out, the train's
rolling into the station.
Siobhan (55:21):
So thank you all, like I said, for being on this
journey with us.
Matt (55:24):
Yeah, that's all right.
You, you tried valiantly.
No, but also thank all of youfor bringing the the phenomenal
drinks and sharing the stories Ithis is one of my favorite this
is really one of my favoriteformats that we do for sure.
Chris (55:38):
It's just, yeah, so much good like conversation that we
can have absolutely, absolutelyso.
Matt (55:43):
Thank you all, cheers I know you're all still here.
Thank you all for listeningwhatever.
Siobhan (55:47):
What's that?
Lithuanian cheers again it'sfocata all right on to you guys
on to you.
Chris (55:52):
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