The Scotchy Bourbon Boys taste and rate Old Fitzgerald 7-Year, finding this Heaven Hill wheated bourbon delivers impressive butterscotch and toasted coconut notes at a reasonable price point.
• Old Fitzgerald 7-Year is part of Heaven Hill's wheated bourbon program including Larceny and other Old Fitzgerald expressions
• This bottled-in-bond 100 proof bourbon presents rich caramel and butterscotch on the nose
• The body has impressive viscosity with thick legs that coat the glass nicely
• Flavor profile includes distinctive toasted coconut butterscotch notes
• At $60, it represents good value compared to other premium bourbons
• Final rating: 15 out of 18 on the Old Louisville Whiskey Company Barrel Bottle Breakdown
• This bottling outperforms some older Old Fitzgerald expressions that become too oak-dominant
• Kentucky Bourbon Festival appearances include Revival Vintage Spirits (Saturday 7-9:30pm), Neely Distillery, and Whiskey Thief
Come see the Scotchy Bourbon Boys during Kentucky Bourbon Festival week at our special events and tastings. Remember good bourbon equals good times and good friends. Drink responsibly and live your life uncut and unfiltered.
Heaven Hill's Old Fitzgerald bottled-in-bond series has gained a devoted following among wheated bourbon enthusiasts, and the 7-year expression might just be the sweet spot in their lineup. This elegant decanter-style bottle with its distinguished wooden top houses a remarkable spirit that strikes the perfect balance between youthful vibrancy and mature complexity.
When I poured this bourbon into my Glencairn glass, the rich amber liquid immediately caught my attention with its impressive viscosity. At 100 proof, it coats the glass with medium-thick legs that slowly cascade down the sides – a promising indication of the full-bodied experience to come. The nose opens with waves of caramel complemented by subtle ethanol, followed by enticing hints of butterscotch and gentle toasted oak notes that become more pronounced as the whiskey breathes.
The tasting experience truly elevates this bourbon above many of its competitors. That first sip delivers a distinctive toasted coconut butterscotch flavor that sets it apart from other wheated bourbons on the market. The sweetness is perfectly balanced by oak tannins that provide structure without dominating the delicate wheat characteristics – a problem that sometimes affects the older expressions in this series. While the finish isn't extraordinarily long, it leaves a pleasant impression with lingering notes of butterscotch and subtle oak warmth.
At approximately $60, this expression represents excellent value in today's premium bourbon landscape. It earned an impressive 15 out of 18 points on our comprehensive barrel breakdown rating system, with particularly high marks for its exceptional taste profile. Whether you're a dedicated collector or simply looking for a delicious pour to share with friends, the Old Fitzgerald 7-Year delivers a refined experience that showcases Heaven Hill's mastery of wheated bourbon production. Try it alongside other offerings in their wheated portfolio like Larceny or Bernheim Wheat Whiskey for a fascinating comparative tasting experience!
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So what we can do here is I'mgoing to plus this out.
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That was crazy.
None of the speakers areworking, so let me see what
happened.
Let's just start the podcast.
If the speaker.
Oh, I got to try and seek.
It's like let's go see.
All right, everybody, this iswhere we've started and, uh,
(01:31):
good thing, let's just see if Ican get the speaker to work.
It would be nice.
I don't know what the hellhappened.
Something happened, uh.
What do we got?
Did we turn off power down herebefore we left.
We could have.
Let's see.
Oh no, did I just unplug mycomputers?
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Yes, you're about to?
Oh my God, am I stupid?
Oh, wow, there we go.
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Everybody just went offline.
That is awesome, holy crap.
Let's see if that'll start.
The whole thing went offline.
Oh my god, I am having a night.
That was not the thing to do.
Holy shit.
Let's try this again.
Everybody's on, everybody'sshared.
Let's see, it's right here.
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I'm still recording on one endbecause that didn't turn off.
My other Didn't turn off that.
So, welcome everybody to thepodcast while I get everybody
back online live.
Ah, I don't think I lostYouTube because it's on my phone
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, but I definitely lost Facebook.
Ah, facebook, I mean becauseit's on my phone, but I
definitely lost Facebook,facebook, my passwords to
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restart the whole damn thing.
But but youtube's going, that'sgood.
Everybody, hold on, wait whileI get everybody back on.
I'm pretty sure the meetings,everything's up.
Let's see, I'm not gonna worryabout that.
Let's see, is that gonna?
That going to come up?
Is the question?
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That's YouTube, with no problem.
Is Facebook coming?
We got to see about.
There's that part of Facebook.
Let's join the meeting, startmeeting.
Oh my God, god, here we go.
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Uh, start, let's do this rightthere.
Uh, we volume should be good.
All right, we're still onFacebook.
It looks like it says we're onFacebook, new, start, short
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immerse, change.
Things start meaning well,let's see, exit full screen.
Are we on Facebook?
Is the question.
Let's see.
Yeah, we're back on Facebook,right, all right, everybody,
what fun.
Let's see if Facebook works now.
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Let's see Over here, over here,maybe it'll work now that I can
.
Ah, it works, I don't know whatthat?
All right, everybody.
Um, uh, let me know now,because everything's working,
everything's back up.
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I'm on youtube, I'm on facebook,this is so you guys all.
Hey, terry, good to see you,john and everybody flip to
youtube.
That's kind of fun, I'm prettysure.
No, I'm on youtube everybody's.
Let's go to youtube now, righthere, and see about that.
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I think that never, that wasnever affected.
All right, everybody.
Thanks, jeff.
I mean, come on, yeah, that'swhat I need is some Jack Daniels
.
Uh, there we go.
All right, anybody?
I wonder if I got sound now,that would be cool if the sound
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was there.
Nope, there is no sound.
I'm not worried about it.
Can everybody hear me?
I'm pretty sure everybody canhear me.
Let's see.
Sound was there.
Yep, sound is there.
All right, we're ready to go.
I'm going to skip over the themesongs tonight because, guess
(06:23):
what, there's no sound beingplayed in my speakers and that
just makes no sense why thatwould happen.
But it did and I got to get outof this back up to this anyways
.
Um, can't even play play thetheme song at the end because I
(06:45):
don't have the side speakers andeverything going.
But that's okay, all right.
So we're going to do no musictonight.
So so what a way to end up atthis is a great way to end up at
Is that it Heaven Hill?
There, it is Quality guarantee.
Yeah, there's a seven-year-oldFitzgerald right there.
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Got that set up.
Welcome everybody to thepodcast tonight.
Tonight we are going to be doingthe old whiskey, the old
Louisville Whiskey Company'sbarrel bottle breakdown of old
Fitzgerald 7.
Let me first.
Oh my god, now something elseis happening here.
(07:29):
Let's get out of that.
I don't have to see this, Ineed to see that.
All right.
Ah, now I can hear.
All right, good, everybody canhear.
All right.
So, old Fitzgerald this is thisone I was able to pick up.
Uh, john Ritt, who's watchingtonight, picked this up for me
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in Chicago.
When this hit in Ohio, I wasn'tin town, didn't think I was
going to get one and this wasall over Chicago.
So John picked that up for me.
So this is what we're going tobe tasting tonight.
I'm excited because I do likeHeaven Hill weeded projects.
You know you're talking aboutlarceny as far as a weeded
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bourbon.
Old Fitzgerald is a weededbourbon and what was there was,
oh my God.
Well, actually Bernheim is awheat whiskey.
So you've got a bunch of weededbourbon coming out of Heaven
Hill.
And whiskeys wheat whiskeys.
So love that.
I love their weeded grain toglass program.
(08:37):
So very excited about thishaving this.
So we're the Scotchy BourbonBoys wwwscotchybourbonboyscom.
For all things Scotchy BourbonBoys.
Check out our website.
You'll find the bios, you'll beable to pick up Glen Karen's
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And then also we're on Facebook, youtube, instagram and Axe,
(08:58):
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us and leave good feedback.
And then also there's a bunchof stuff on YouTube, you guys,
you can check out.
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But I mean, there's places Ibelieve that you can give us
their Super Chats and you candonate for Super Chats and this
way you get across the board onYouTube of what we're doing and
everything like that.
You get across the board onYouTube of what we're doing and
everything like that.
So you know, check that, checkus out on all the different
formats and enjoy.
So we're let's just get into it.
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Kentucky Bourbon Festival ishappening coming up a week.
It'll be a week from Thursday.
It will be kicking off, butwe're kicking off on Saturday
and I can't wait to get going onSaturday because Saturday is
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the time we go out and it's abig day for us.
We are going down, checkinginto our Airbnb, doing a staff
meeting for Kentucky BourbonFestival, for all the volunteers
, and then headed up to Neelyand then we're going to go from
Neely to.
We're going to go from Neely toRevival, revival, vintage
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Spirits and Bottle Shop and thatis on Saturday night where you
can come see the Scotchy BourbonBoys and come see us.
It is 7, it'll start at 7 to9.30.
We're going to start off with apodcast and then we're just
going to have fun.
You're talking about vintagepours, cigars just a good time
(10:59):
hanging out with Scotchy BourbonBoys.
Super Nash will be there, ctwill be there, I'll be there,
roxy will be there, we'll all bethere.
Come meet us, come check us outat Revival Vintage Spirits and
Bottle Shop in Covington,kentucky.
It's going to be a great time.
Check that out.
It's going to be a great time.
Check that out.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
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So I can't wait for that tohappen.
And then also we are going tobe doing a new barrel pick or a
barrel selection at Maker's Mark.
So we're really kind of excitedabout that.
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That'll happen on Thursday.
Wednesday is our bus tour.
Our bus tour is fantastic.
We got 28 people going.
I mean, you are talking aboutthe pours that we're going to
have the kickoff in the morning.
It starts off.
It's going to kick off at, Ibelieve, 9, 8.
They leave at.
The bus is leaving at 8.30.
They should be down there by 9.
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So we should be on the road by10, but at 9.30, we'll kick it
off, get everybody loaded on thebus with their bus assignments
and then head up to Louisvillefor a fantastic it's basically
Evan Williams bourbon experience.
Then you get into, you go fromthere to.
We go to the Penn dentist clubfor lunch, then we go to whiskey
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thief or old carter.
In one of those orders oldcarter, then whiskey thief
distilling uh company and attheir new lou location, and then
we head off and with get with amean um from uh, the owner and
operator of old louisvillewhiskey company.
So this is going to be quitethe experience, um, fantastic
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experience.
Then then, uh, drive back to umbardstown and uh, then the
party's just started.
Uh, roxy is going to be having abig birthday celebration coming
up and one of these nightsyou'll be able to check it out.
We'll be basically celebratingit the whole time from Saturday.
She's going to get a week-longcelebration, so check it out.
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Yes, the Whiskey Doc is goingto be there too.
Sorry about that, mr WhiskeyDoc.
I don't think Walker's going tobe there.
I think Walker comes in thenext day.
So this is going to be a lot offun.
We're going to have a lot ofstuff.
Now, this is our last podcast.
(13:30):
It's funny I'm having audioproblems, but this is the last
podcast.
Thursday I'm gonna run ourIronfish podcast, uh, and I'm
gonna be packing.
So, um, this is the lastpodcast of season six.
I believe this is podcast.
I want to say 108.
So uh, gonna gonna.
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This should be a really, really, um, this was a great season.
Never have we gone over 100,and we almost went 10 over 100.
I want to thank all thefollowers and everybody.
As far as this, then, what yougot to do when we start off
season Season 7 will start offin September You're going to get
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weekly podcasts on the audioand you're going to get a lot of
lives of the podcast that won'tbe on standard times.
We will do the lives while wepodcast from the different
places.
We got a podcast set up atNeely, we got a podcast set up
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at Revival and then, as far aspodcasts, that will happen right
from the festival.
You know that's what we got togo for.
So that's what you know we cando and I'm looking forward to it
extensively, looking forward tothis time.
So that brings us to myfavorite segment.
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It's the Old Louisville WhiskeyCompany.
You got to check out Amin'splace there in Louisville,
kentucky, the Old LouisvilleWhiskey Company.
You can get a hold of him, call, make an appointment.
What you're talking about, whatAmin's experience?
He's got a nice.
He's got a nice gift shopavailable bottles, but what his
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real?
He doesn't sell anything underseven years old and he has a
barrel collection fromeverywhere in his warehouse and
what he releases?
He releases some fantastic whathe he gets whiskey from,
purchases it from differentplaces.
Then he puts it in otherbarrels, so then sometimes it's
like a French oak barrel orwhatnot.
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Sometimes he leaves it in thebarrel for, let's say, he buys a
eight year something or anotherand he lets it go.
So he's released 16 and 17 yearold barrel strength whiskey
that he's aging in his warehouseright there at his place in uh
old louisville whiskey companyand he takes you around and you
(16:03):
could sample some of thosebottles.
That's what's going to happenon this trip.
Uh, call to make a reservation,come in groups.
Uh, he loves, he does a greatjob and uh, we can't wait to see
him because he's going to bepart of our bus tour this year
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and, with Whiskey Thief and OldLouisville being our sponsors, I
can't wait.
This is just going to be afantastic bus tour, so can't
wait to see you, amin.
So the way the Old LouisvilleWhiskey Company barrel bottle
breakdown works is the ratingscale goes of four categories
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Nose, taste, body, finish.
Now on the categories, you canget up to four barrel knocks on
the barrel for the nose and thebody and up to five barrel
knocks on the taste and thefinish.
So let's open this baby and seewhat happens.
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Now, a lot of times with wheatwhiskeys as Ed Bly has said many
times from Rising Tide Spiritsis that a wheat whiskey is more
delicate.
So sometimes when you open itup it basically has been put in
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the bottle and it takes a whilefor it to get better.
Wow, here we go.
This is going to be a new crack.
Here it comes.
It wasn't very loud so, excuseme, the protein shake that I had
(18:01):
today didn't go down real well,I don't know why.
I think I had had too many noteating enough getting ready for
this awesome tour.
And you know thing, I've beenpushing the exercise, eating
healthy, extra vitamin C.
So here we go in my glass.
All right.
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I mean, this is like a newthing for the bottled in bond
seven year.
It's got a nice it's not thefull decanter bottle.
The top is a decanter with anice wood top.
This bottle, uh, I believe johnsaid um, if I'm not great.
I believe john said that, theprice, what was it?
(18:49):
118 somewhere around there.
I'm not exactly sure he mightbe able to chime in and let me
know Fantastic nose, justcaramel.
There is a lot of caramel onthere, it's a hundred proof.
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There's a little bit of ethanol.
Okay, he said it was 60, sothat's decent.
I think I forget which one 50,he said59.99.
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So which is a really good price.
What was the bottle then that wegot?
That was one something.
I forget what it was.
You picked up for me.
All right, nice, I like thenose.
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I know as we go this'll nose,the ethanol, that, but it's 100
proof.
So it's there.
Let's see what it does.
As far as body in this glen, Ilove to roll, roll the glens.
I poured the right amount to beable to do this.
All right, come on, baby.
So the great thing about thistasting glass is you can do this
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and this is called coating thesidewalls.
And then, as you pick it up,you look at what happens in the
glass.
Now it's a hundred proof weeded.
So a lot of times there's alittle thin, but those legs are
starting, they come, they'recoming down and they're pretty
thick.
It's not thin and it sticks tothe walls for a nice clear coat.
(20:52):
And then, as it starts to go,yeah, yeah, there, they are over
here, nice, so the body shouldbe decent.
The Star Hill Farms, thank you,was the 118.
Mmm, wow, wow, ooh, oh, thankyou.
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The reaper cheers, thank you.
Um, what, what you drinking onman tonight?
Good to see you.
I think I put this one backtogether a little bit better,
but we're not going to have anymusic at the end either, unless
I can figure something elsethere, because I don't have my
sound working, which upsets mefor the last one.
But all right.
So the old willowville whiskey,a seven-year weeding?
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Well, it can't be.
It can be, but it can't be 120,because this is the bottled in
bond tracy.
But thank you for acknowledgingthat you have a seven-year
weeded mash bill at 120.
That is very good.
Um, wow, what was that?
(22:41):
There was a flavor on the tons.
That's butterscotch, like atoasted, almost like a toasted
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coconut butterscotch.
Wow, on the finish.
The finish is light, light.
Oh, she's talking about the oldlouisville.
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Okay, there you go.
Let's see what mine is, this oldlouisville.
Right here I've got a couple ofbottles, but this is the one
that I use, because one of themis my original bottle, which is
kentucky tiny one, which was aFrench oak and, uh, it's a.
What did I do here?
It's like I don't usually havethis tied in a knot.
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Someone tied it in a knot, notme.
Oh, that's awesome, let's justget this.
Uh, there we, there we go, Igot it All right.
So this one is an eight-year120 proof.
That was a present from CT andit's a damn good bottle.
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Old Louisville does a reallynice job, there's no doubt about
it, uh-uh.
So let's get back to the.
Uh.
All right, we are ready to dothe ranking.
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I really like it.
I like it a lot.
That is really good.
Good Caramel and there's just atoasted oak aspect to it, a
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little bit of butterscotch onthe nose.
I'd say, out of four, this nosegets three knocks.
Now, body For 100 proof.
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It just doesn't quite hit yourcheeks, but that is a three body
All right.
The strong point is the tastefor a weeded.
This is pretty damn good,really really drinkable.
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I'm going to give the taste afive.
Now, the finish is happening,the finish is fantastic.
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But Now, remember John, nowremember john you can give five
points in the taste and thefinish.
This finish is short.
I do like it what's left, soI'm gonna give it a four out of
five.
So the total on this was 15 outof 18.
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Um, I like this more than someof the older old fits, because
some of the older old fix deal alittle bit too much in oak for
me.
So so I'm going to go.
So the Old Louisville BarrelBottle Breakdown Old Louisville
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Whiskey Company Barrel BottleBreakdown.
Rating of Old Fitzgeraldtonight 15 out of 18.
Not bad.
Three and three is six and fiveand four is nine for a total of
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15.
Thank you, amin, for sponsoringthe podcast.
We appreciate it.
Everybody you should check outOld Louisville Whiskey Company.
Fantastic place to go.
I mean, what Amin's got thereis an experience that's not like
every other experience outthere.
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So, 15 out of 18, friends Veryexcited for this upcoming week.
There's so many chances to seeus.
You're going to be able to seeall the people who's going to
see us on the bus tour.
You could see us at Saturdaynight between 7 and 9.30 at
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Revival Vintage Spirits.
You could see us at NeelyFamily Distillery on Saturday,
probably between 3 and 5 o'clock.
I'd say we get there about 2.30, three o'clock and we're going
to be there.
You probably can see us atWhiskey Thief I'm not sure if
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it's going to be at the farm orthe Louisville location on
Sunday.
Louisville location on Sundaywe're planning on going out to
Whiskey Thief.
So if you're out and about forthe Kentucky Bourbon Festival
then you can see us, definitelystarting Thursday night, friday,
saturday, sunday at KentuckyBourbon Festival.
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So check us out, make sure thatyou come see us and say hi,
look forward to everybody outthere on the trail.
Okay, that's what.
I didn't screw anything upthere, um, but this is like the.
It's going to be a short one,folks tonight, because I have to
(29:35):
get it going.
I got work in the morning.
Uh, love doing this tonight.
I'm gonna we're gonna just endthe podcast for because we don't
have the audio tonight, which Iwish I did, we would be rocking
out with ai, but we're noteverybody.
(29:55):
Thank you on our audio podcast.
Remember good bourbon equalsgood times and good friends.
Make sure you don't drink anddrive.
Drink responsibly and live yourlife uncut and unfiltered.
Good night, alright.
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