Rum & Nerdy

Episode 4.53: Happy New Year. We are happy to bring you "The Last Meal," The fifty-third episode in the increasingly inaccurately named 52 episode season.
This week the guys wrap up the year, talk about holiday cooking, what happened with family and then do a preview of what movies we are looking forward to in 2025.  

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Episode 4.52 - Eggnog: The guys did it! Every week of 2024 had an episode, and this one is our annual holiday special. The guys discuss their Christmas menus and share the best ways to cook beef for the holidays. They also try R&N Eggnog, talk about the shows they're watching, and reveal their plans for the holiday time off. 

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Episode 4.51 - Cup of Coffee On The Go: The end of the year is nearing and this week the guys chat about Garrick's day exploring Downtown Orlando and the upcoming 21st birthday celebration for Greg's son Riley.  No matter daytime or evening, Downtown Orlando has a lot of great things to do. 

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Episode 4.50 - Moonshine Pickles: Sean is back on the show, this time so they can finally review the Old Smoky Distillery haul from the trip to Pigeons Forge, Tennessee.  The tasting included 7 flavors from the trip and another 3 that Greg had in his stock already.  The tasting is followed up with some great conversations about TAIT and concert load ins. 

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Episode 4.49 - Ruffle Crumbles & Tostitos Scoops: This is it Rum Nation, this was the week we hit 10K downloads & we marked the occasions with our first live stream.  This week we discuss the premier of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew.  We talk about making Eggnog and our favorite parts of the IAAPA Episodes. 

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Episode 4.48 - Banana Pudding: Back in the studio, the guys just focussing on catching up and looking at the plans of the rest of the year.  There is a lot of content to finish before we call it quits for 2024.  And don't forget to listen to the end for information on a special episode coming soon. 

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Episode 4.47.4 - IAAPA 2024 Day 4: The guys are guest of Bridgewater Studios Booth today and we learn about their amazing Design and Fabrication capabilities.  This group has really made refining the process an art form.  What a great way to wrap up IAAPA

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Episode 4.47.3 - IAAPA Day 3: Today the guys meet with the aquatic design firm Martin Aquatic with their second generation figurehead, Josh.  Josh shares his Old Forester Bourbon (it was amazing) and we celebrate their IAAPA Brass Ring award.  

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Episode 4.47.2 - IAAPA 2024 Day 2: The guys hit Day 2 at TEA Central with Christine from the TEA Team.  They hear all about what's new at TEA, TEA Central and tonights party at Seaworld. She even has her own Malort Stories 

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Episode 4.47.1 - IAAPA 2024 Day 1: The guys are with the shows great friend Scott at the ETC booth on the last day of load in.  They kick off the week right talking about some of ETC's new gear and throw out some learning about lighting.  It is going to be a great week.  

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Episode 4.46 - Bacon Wrapped: Two idiots do a bad job sharing other people doing a bad job.  That's right, the guys are talking about the online game of "Movies Explained Badly". The guys are getting ready for IAAPA coming next week and discuss some of the plans and preparations to get ready.  The rum this week is Flor De Caña 5 year. 

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Episode 4.45 - Taco Salad: This week the guys go back to their roots and get very nerdy and discus obscure trivia about Star Wars.  There is a lot of really interesting factoids out there around everyone's favorite Space Opera, and they go digging.  

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Episode 4.44 - Halloween Candy: Happy halloween everyone.  This week the guys are reviewing halloween classics.  What do you think is the good, the scary and the funniest halloween movie? We know we didn't mention them all.  We have a version of the drink witch doctor made with Plantation: Stiggins' Fancy.  listen to hear what we thought.   

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Episode 4.43 - Cinnamon Bread: This week the guys wrap up SATE weekend with our friend Andy, Sr Director of Strategic Planning and Development at Herschend Family Entertainment, and Dollywood. We learn some great stories of the early days of Dollywood and how Dolly got involved in theme parks. Andy has some great stories and is a fantastic Guest.  A Must listen to episode. 

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Episode 4.42 - Grits: The guys are in Pigeon Forge for the TEA SATE Conference and got to record at the DreamMore Hotel with Demo Dave.  There is rum, cookies and cold wind in this special travel episode. 

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Episode 4.41 - Bottled Water & MREs: This week we record as Hurricane Milton is nearing the coast.  We talk about what is about to happen while trying Couva 5 year rum.  Riley moved out, we debate sandwich bread, SATE prep and the show Kaos. 

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Episode 4.40 - Tailgate Bar-B-Que: It is the end of the first quarter of the NFL regular season and the guys talk about how the first 4 games have gone.  They discuss Dr Who, new Lego, hurricane flooding and the rare conversation on politics (Floridians, vote yes on 3 and 4).  Don't forget you can register to vote and find information on candidates and issues at vote411.org. 

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Episode 4.39 - Butter Chicken: We ave a big episode for you this week so grab some snacks.  Our buddy Diego makes his first visor to the show and has brought us som La Hechicera from his trip to Columbia earlier this year.  There is a lot to chat about to pass the time but we hear about the show Sunny (Apple TV) starring Rashida Jones and many other topics 

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Episode 4.38 - Snuck In Candy: This week we finally had the long discussed secret challenge that Greg had in mind for Garrick, a movie soundtrack game.  Obviously Garrick needed someone to compete against so we brought in our buddy Sean.  Stay tuned to see who wins the challenge. 

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