February 25, 2025 • 35 mins
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This episode was originally released on 3/12/2024 with Special Guest Matt Madigan
Join Matt and Phil in this hilarious and informative episode of Whiskey Bits! They dive into the world of whiskey, specifically exploring Weller Full Proof, a unique and special bourbon. As they share their thoughts on the aroma and taste, you'll get a behind-the-scenes look at the banter and camaraderie between the hosts.
But wait, there's more! The duo is joined by the one and only Matt Madigan, returning for another episode as their special guest. Together, they take an unexpected turn into the historical "Emu War" that took place in Australia in 1932. Discover the bizarre and true story of how the Australian government faced off against a massive emu population causing havoc on farmlands. This part of the podcast is not only informative but filled with laughter and unexpected twists.
Tune in for a delightful blend of whiskey talk, comedy, and a historical tale that will leave you entertained and craving more Whiskey Bits!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So again, we're here with Matt.
Welcome back, matt.
Thank you, I'm excited to behere.
You came back, I came back.
Yeah, wow, the travel time.
Are we going to travel again?
I don't want to do travelersever again.
All right, fair enough, I thinkyou should cut that, because
we're trying to stay evergreen.
(00:21):
That's true.
Yeah, I'll cut that.
Dang it, matt Idi.
We're trying to stay evergreen,that's true.
Yeah, I'll cut that.
Dang it, matt Idiot.
What does that mean?
Evergreen, evergreen's, like wedon't want to talk about.
Oh, tomorrow's Valentine's Daybecause it dates the podcast.
Versus making it evergreen,I'll cut all this.
Like we could do the jobs,because we're thinking about
putting the jobs episode outwhen, you know, after the dry
(00:42):
bar, so we can use the dry bar.
Yes, absolutely, so that mightnot come out until later.
That makes sense.
Evergreen, evergreen, gotcha.
All this is going to be on it.
And that is a look behind thescenes.
Behind the scenes, welcome toWhiskey Bits with Matt and Phil,
(01:05):
where we talk all thingswhiskey and all things comedy.
So what do we have today?
Phil, I have been dying.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
Sorry, if you're dying, I meanto try this.
Oh, it was just really.
I've been dying to try thiswhiskey, since you called me
(01:25):
last Friday and it's Tuesday now.
Speaking of being evergreen, wecan't talk about dates or days.
It's January 1st, all right,set us back up.
We're doing this again.
He's just naming dates.
I had to break the tension.
It's Halloween now.
No, this is good.
It's Halloween now.
(01:46):
Welcome, this is good.
It's Halloween now.
Welcome back, matt, welcomeback, welcome back again.
All that travel Gosh.
You guys are the worst.
I'm going to be listening tothis and you're just going to
hear smacks.
Now the coughing.
So many noises.
Reset, stop, reset, start.
(02:08):
Okay, wave off.
All right, what do we got, phil?
So this is the Weller Foamproofand the gold label on the side
is a Sazerac Barrel Selectpicked by Binnie's.
So this is a Barrel Select.
So this is a littleazeracBarrel Select picked by Binnie's
.
So that is, this is a BarrelSelect.
So this is a little bit morespecial than just your one of
(02:31):
the mill.
I didn't know that.
So what does that mean?
Are you aware of this, matt?
I think Matt needs to knowabout this, because this is cool
.
I'm a total noob.
So somebody from Binnie's, or agroup of people from Binnie's,
went down to Buffalo Trace andthey were given the opportunity
to drink out of this barrel, totry it and say we like it or we
(02:52):
don't, and they picked thebarrel that this entire what?
Yeah, so this is a singlebarrel, full proof Weller from
one barrel, from one barrel,which is what single barrel
means.
I did.
I did deduce thatuce, that,thankfully, there's that noise
again.
There is that noise again.
Oh, it's a good.
You know what that noisereminds me of what?
(03:16):
Probably when you're doing thedrug testing, the sound of the
guy's when he's peeing in a cup,it's much more consistent.
I'll say that's like a thicksound, like what did you just
drink?
Jello for three straight weeksand what are you doing?
So the?
The reason I think weller is uh, uh, one of the best is it's
the original weeded bourbon, andso this one is uh, it's
(03:39):
actually the same mash bill as,uh, pappy van winkle.
Oh, it's the same.
Okay, explain all that again.
We did bourbon first of all.
Yeah, I was gonna ask.
All right, here he goes.
This is why he doesn't want tobe.
He doesn't want to be called.
Uh, what did I call you anaficionado?
He doesn't want to be called anaficionado, which sounds cool.
Nobody knows he could be anaficionado.
(04:01):
He doesn't want to be calledthat that, but he's an
enthusiast, a hobbyist, anenthusiast, but he really does
know stuff.
Okay, go ahead.
So, first of all, it's a bourbon, so we can cross that off the
list.
So we know it's made in America.
It was aged in new oak barrels.
Okay, it has nothing added butwater to it.
(04:22):
It's 51% corn.
Now we add the weeded part,which is it is a heavier wheat
that's put into it than maybeanother bourbon would be, and so
they can throw that on there,that there's a significant
amount of wheat that's in here.
Typically, wheat will bring outa little bit more of a
(04:44):
sweetness.
Like, if you think of wheatbread, I think of wheat bread
all the time.
I'm thinking about it right now.
I'm thinking about it nowbecause we mentioned it.
Oh yeah, maybe that's why.
That's exactly why I'm sostupid.
So a mash bill is a collectionof grain Idiot that is then
distilled down to the alcohol,put into.
(05:05):
I missed everything you justsaid.
Start over, no, I'm kidding, goahead, just the mash build,
just run it back.
No, but oh, I'll just re-watchthis and then I'll get it later.
You'll understand later.
But the mash build, but insteadyou've interrupted me.
I know I have to start over.
No, the mash build though,because that's my question is a
week for a weeded bourbon.
It's not that they backfill itwith a weed thing, no, there's
(05:29):
just more weed in it In the mash.
But it's still 51% corn.
So let's just for giggles.
Do we still giggle as men?
You do?
Okay, for giggles.
Who's giggles?
I don't know.
My old babysitter that's.
We're moving on.
Gosh, where did that come from?
(05:51):
Childhood memory that justpopped in my good lord.
Moving on, um, giggles theclown.
Okay, so for, we're gonna findthis track and be back on it at
some point.
I promise, yeah, for the mashbuild, it'll return 51% corn.
Sure, could it be 50.5?
(06:12):
Or 50.0001 and still beconsidered a bourbon Corn, or
does it have to be 51?
I think 51% corn is prettyStandard.
I mean, well, that's the rule,okay, but not like so it has to
be 51.
That's the number, okay, atleast.
Okay, it can be 99% Mellow corn, 100,000% corn, 100,000% corn.
(06:35):
Just, you're drinking corn juice.
It's wheat milk.
Have you ever had Creep?
Yeah, you take the kernels, ohthat, and you take the kernels,
oh that.
And now you're drinking milk,milk in the corn?
Yeah right, you can milkanything.
So the wheat, though, thencomes in with the corn in that
same mash, mm-hmm.
Okay, so there's going to be,you know, maybe there's barley
or there's some rye or there'ssome other grains that are in
(06:58):
that mash bill that you know gointo the distilling process to
get the alcohol out of.
Why don't they?
You know, you look at a fooditem, it's always going to have
the ingredients and thepercentages.
Why don't they do that?
Is it just because it's sosecretive?
It's because it's so secretive,they just don't want people to
know.
Yeah, they can't tell you.
Then you could make it.
(07:19):
But Froot Loops I know what'sin Fruit Loops.
I'm like I'm not going to makeFruit Loops, no, but you know
the 11 herbs and spices that gointo KFC.
Yeah, salt Pepper, we're goingto do all of them.
We're going to do this now.
Salt, seasoned salt Probably alot of salt Seasoned salt, yeah,
(07:41):
okay, bubba Gump, are we goingto go into naming all of the
salts that you can come up with,bubba Gump?
And, yes, it is secretivebecause anybody could make it at
that point.
So they do hold that.
Those master distillers holdthat pretty close to the best
(08:02):
they do wear vests, okay, oraprons or whatever.
I don't think they wear aprons.
I can see like a lab Hazmatsuits, yeah, or like one of
those like lab leather labaprons, you know, maybe like a
horseshoe putter on a guy towear.
Oh, that's probably what theyused for the last one.
That's why it tasted like aleather shoe, that's right.
(08:24):
Oh, he's getting to become.
He's an aficionado in and ofitself, hobbyist, hobbyist,
enthusiast, better than alobbyist, yeah.
So should we try it?
Yeah, I think we should try it.
It's been sitting here for acouple minutes, which I think is
good.
Is that bad, though?
Do we miss out on?
No, I don't think so, becausethis is a full proof.
(08:46):
So a lot of times, with bourbonand other whiskeys, they'll
proof it down to somethingthat's a little bit more
manageable and drinkable.
So you don't die.
So you don't die.
So I'm going to die.
Yep, okay, very likely.
Great, this may be your firstand last episode.
There you go.
Or your or your last and second, depending on the release order
.
Your third and fifth.
(09:07):
There we go again.
Evergreen, you guys arescrewing this up.
Who cares?
Nobody cares.
So this is, uh, I can smell italready.
I barely like.
I think, when you brought it by, I can smell it.
Oh my goodness, and doesn't itsmell fantastic, I feel like you
can smell something.
I feel like it smells likeapples in the apple orchard.
That's, that's that orchard?
That's really amazing.
It's really amazing.
(09:28):
Yeah, so a lot of bourbon.
You don't even have to bring itclose, no, no, they'll proof
them down to 100 proof.
90 proof.
That's usually what you'relooking at.
This one will have the actualproof listed on it.
Is it like 109?
Listed on it 114.
So 57% alcohol.
The actual.
Was it like 109?
(09:48):
Listed on 114?
So 57 alcohol.
You know, most of these thingsput hair on your chest.
This will burn it straight off.
Man, gone your chest, yourthroat, your face, everywhere
that you nailed it.
Caramel apple, telling you, itreminds me of fall.
Yeah, lots of caramel apple.
For for me, a lot of caramelapple.
That just smells amazing.
See, there's a thing likeremember how I said the last
(10:10):
couple times I've I've done thenose test and is it called
nosing?
Yeah, okay, so I've justsmelled alcohol.
But higher quality stuff, man,I'm telling you, yeah, I
actually get the fruits andstuff.
This is 114 proof.
The other stuff that we'vetried in the past less 90, 100,
(10:32):
something like that.
It's all ethanol, it's kind ofburning off of there.
Yeah, wow, do you smell like, inall honesty, like can you get
fruit notes and stuff?
Well, I definitely caught theapple when it's like yeah, right
, like it was, like whose glassit was, but wafting it towards
my face and it's just all over.
It's so strong, it smells sogood, I almost don't want to
(10:56):
stop spelling it.
You don't have to and I won'topens up.
It'll keep spelling better andbetter.
Yeah, yeah.
So what's happening?
I know this is probably juvenile, or what did they call that?
When it's like Moronic no, notmoronic.
When you ask a stupid question,yeah, like in food, they're
like oh, it's so this, why don'tyou ask the question?
(11:20):
We'll work our way back ratherthan just stabbing in the dark.
There's a word.
I can't think of it.
I thought maybe by my facialexpression you'd get it, but oh,
yeah, does it have letters?
Yes, okay, right, letters.
Do you know what the lettersare?
No, okay, sounds sure.
Okay, it's so pedestrian,that's it.
(11:41):
Yeah, that's usually what theysay about people who are eating
food or walking in the street.
Pedestrian, why did?
Why did I even say that.
What were we talking about?
You said tell me what'shappening.
This is so, what's the word forit?
They say this is so pedestrian,bringing it back.
(12:02):
This is a probably so pedestrianto say this as a whiskey person
.
But and again, I'm not, who amI?
But why?
Again, you explained it to meonce before.
Why does it?
Even with wine?
I'm like, okay, I don't get it.
Why does it open up?
Why do the flavors come outmore as it sits?
(12:22):
Yeah, that's uh.
As the oxygen penetrates andburns off some of that ethanol,
it will release some of theflavors and notes and things
like that that you, that you getin the whiskey.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
You said penetrates and I can't.
Ladies and gentlemen, 12 yearold, 12 year old.
(12:43):
Is this a 12 year?
Oh, I'm a 12 year old.
Is this a 12 year?
Oh, I'm a 12 year old.
Yeah, that's, that's probablytrue.
Okay.
So I said to penetrating oxygen, did you know?
This is what I want to know.
This is called a bunghole.
Did you know that?
I did.
I learned that.
He told me that last time.
No, it really is.
That's what it's called.
(13:03):
It's called a bunghole and inone after the, you present that
after the 12-year-old moment.
I know it just keeps it going.
Just got to get it all outwhile it's on the mind.
I said penetrate.
You looked right at him.
I'm not really sure why.
It's because I've seen himnaked.
I've seen you naked Also.
True, have you me naked?
(13:31):
Yeah, oh, I didn't know aboutthat.
Yeah, man, I'm learning a lottoday.
This is really good.
You asked how old it is.
Right, yeah, and I haven't evensipped it yet.
People probably like what theheck am I listening to?
If they've made it this far,congratulations.
I thank you for your service to, uh, my own mental health.
Oh, full proof indeed, mm-hmm.
Oh, yeah, you know, like thelittle hole in the top of your
(13:54):
mouth, mm-hmm, it went up inthere Into your nose.
It is now a part of that one,that hole, it is now a part of
my sinus system.
So, no age statement on this one.
So we don't know how long it'sat.
Why do they do that?
I want to know.
Is it because, again, therecipe thing they don't want to
put it on there?
No, I don't, I don't.
(14:14):
I don't really know why theywouldn't put an age statement on
it.
Probably because it's notrequired to and maybe it's going
to detract from the value,perceived value, of it.
They probably, maybe they don'tput it on the same potentially
right, it's always a, that'salways a potential concern,
(14:35):
because if that's a four year,you would think different of it,
right?
I wouldn't think anything of itbecause I don't think of
whiskey in an aged sort of way.
No, because don't they say thatthere's a certain amount of
years.
Somebody told me this is likesix or eight where it actually
gets worse or it doesn't getmuch better, it doesn't get
better, it doesn't get better.
And then you have therisk-reward, because the longer
(14:58):
it sits in the barrel, the lessyou're going to get out of that
barrel.
Because of evaporation, becauseof the angel's share, because
of the devil's cut, all of thosereasons Devil don't get me down
.
You're going to maybe come upwith less whiskey than what you
can put in and the amount ofwhiskey is going to stink
because you may or may not getgood whiskey.
(15:18):
Well, or it's going to be good.
I mean the aging process.
It's going to be good, butagain you're going to have so
few.
I mean it aging process it'sgoing to be good, but again
you're going to have so few.
I mean, well, there's barrelsthat you think are going to be
fantastic barrels, 20 yearslater and it's completely empty.
What?
Oh, wow, really.
Yeah, I feel bad for that guy.
He's like this is the best mashI've ever done.
(15:39):
It's going to be the greatest.
I tell you, pop it open, pop itopen.
Where'd it go?
There's nothing in here.
When I hear the crazy, crazything is in Kentucky, where a
majority of this stuff is made,you actually pay taxes on the
space that the barrel takes up,as if it were full for the
number of years.
(15:59):
So imagine aging a barrel ofwhiskey for 20 years, opening up
it's empty.
You've paid taxes on all ofthat alcohol and you get nothing
out of it.
You get nothing out of it, itjust sunk.
He's not going to do that again, mad.
Again, that would suck, itwould be bad.
(16:20):
Does it happen with wine?
Great question, no idea.
This isn't a wine podcast.
Take your wine question andleave.
He idea.
I don't know.
This isn't a wine podcast.
Wine, take your wine questionand leave.
He's not a wine enthusiast,come on.
Oh, that's true Wine.
Don't you take that somewhereelse?
Oh gosh, here we go Every timewe do a dad joke, we got to take
a shot from the.
(16:40):
Oh, take a shot from the dadjoke bottle.
That would be a dangerous thing.
That actually sounds like athing that we should do.
Yes, every dad joke, you got totake one out of there.
You got to take a sip of that.
I kind of like that idea.
It's like getting smacked, it'slike the slap thing all over
again.
It is, it's literally nodifferent.
Drinking Old Tub is like doingprofessional slap in the face
sport, but then it will be aninfinity bottle.
(17:01):
So what's in there?
It's old tub, old tub, old tub,unfiltered, uncut, undelicious,
undeserving, undelicious.
We want to stay.
I mean, somebody likes it andif you like it, please come over
and drink.
Please come on over and tell usabout it and then we'll kick
you out.
You really could just smell this.
(17:21):
Yeah, oh, you know what.
There was like another on thatone.
I got another flavor, like,yeah, I don't know, apple pie.
Is that wrong?
No, I mean caramel, apple andapple pie.
Yeah, yeah, that would makesense.
But this is gonna have a littlebit more of the spice.
Right, you caught a little bitmore of the spice.
It's definitely got.
(17:42):
And the the savory.
Yeah, now you got a little bitof a spice on it.
Yep, yeah, like a cinnamon, oryou're not.
Yeah, yeah, you're not wrong.
Yeah, oh, I kind of I really dowant to let this one sit a
little bit longer.
Delicious, I feel like it'sgonna get sweeter as it's.
I bet it does.
Yeah, I bet it does.
I found I don't know how I cameupon this article.
(18:06):
I just think it's funny and I'mlike I don't know, maybe
somebody's done a joke on it.
But did you guys know, have youheard of the emu?
Emu, emu war, emu war.
You know what emu is?
Yes, like the animal.
Yeah, an emu.
Like the large bird.
It looks like a giant bird.
(18:26):
It is a giant bird.
Yeah, it also looks like agiant bird.
It's like an ostrich.
It looks like a giant ostrich.
It looks like a giant bird.
It also is a giant bird.
Therefore, emu war.
Have you heard of the emu war?
No, what is that?
It sounds like you're reallystruggling to say emu war.
I can say either.
(18:50):
Does it matter, it does to theemus?
I'm not sure the emus care,because their brain is the size
of a pea.
We're gonna have emus knockingdown the door.
Apparently, in Australia, thegreat emu war, not just the Emu
War the Great.
Are you saying Emu Award?
(19:12):
No, emu Bird War?
Okay, a war of emus, emus, justthink about this.
Are the emus fighting eachother?
Wait, are there people ridingon emus?
I will get Like, just thinkabout this.
Are the emus fighting eachother?
Wait, are there people ridingon emus?
(19:32):
I will get there.
We joked in a podcast episodeabout a chicken army.
Yes, this is a real thing, anemu army.
In 1932 in Australia, there wereso many emus, which are large
flightless birds indigenous toAustralia, that they were
destroying crops.
And so the government said, hey, we need to like kill some emus
(19:59):
.
Well, apparently.
So I love this story, matt,thank you so much.
Hold on.
Well, apparently.
So I love the story, matt,thank you so much, hold on.
Apparently, people wereunsuccessful at killing emus, so
much so that the RoyalAustralian Artillery Soldiers
had to get involved.
What Armed with Lewis guns?
(20:20):
I don't even know what that isLewis guns.
This is Wikipedia, so thiscould just be crap.
This could be like someteenager like I'm going to make,
gonna make a story.
I kind of feel like madiganmight know what a lewis gun is.
I do know what the heck is alewis gun.
I mean, it's like a cannon.
Is the cannons that we'reshooting at the chickens?
That's, we didn't even know.
(20:41):
We were talking about history.
We had had no idea.
Right, because chickens, theRoyal Australian, you can look
this up.
Royal Australian artillerysoldiers armed with Lewis guns
leading the media to adopt thename Emu War or Emu War when
referring to the incident.
Although many, this is whatkills me.
It's the Australians lost.
(21:05):
Oh no, I was wrong, it's.
It's not a, it's not like anart, it's not a shot, it's like
an early machine gun.
Okay, well, that's even funnier.
They basically hired all therambos all the way.
They lost against.
They lost emus.
Although many birds were killed, the emu population persisted
(21:27):
and continued to cause cropdestruction.
End of story, that's it.
There were too many emus.
They tried to kill them.
They couldn't kill them fastenough.
How many Australians were lostin the Battle of the Emus?
That's what I would love toknow.
I feel like oh man, can youimagine World War I, large
number following World War I.
(21:49):
So you get out of World War, ISurvive the trenches.
Large numbers of dischargedveterans who served in the war
were given land.
Okay, so they were given landand they started farming.
And blah, blah, blah, they comeback.
Oh my gosh, the life for theseguys, man.
They have World War I Lifesucked.
They're given land after mygosh.
The life for these guys, man.
They have world war one,they're given.
They're given land after thewar.
Great, oh, we're going to be afarmer.
(22:10):
Great, oh yeah.
Great depression hits, yeah,okay.
So then, because of the greatdepression, they got to work
harder and make more wheat.
I'm just getting this fromWikipedia.
I don't know what the talkingabout, but it's interesting.
Yeah, yeah, they had to getmore wheat.
(22:30):
Okay, cool.
The problem the government'slike hey, this is gonna be great
for you, we're gonna give yousome subsidies.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Wheat prices still fell.
It was so intense.
Farmers preparing to harvestthese, wow.
So I'll just read this part.
Wheat prices continued to falland by october 1932 this is from
wikipedia the situationintensified, with the farmers
preparing to harvest theseason's crop while
simultaneously threatening torefuse to deliver the wheat
(22:52):
because the prices fell.
They grew so much of it, butthen the prices kept falling.
The government's like hey,we're going to give you some
subsidies to help with the pricefalling Didn't help.
Well then, all of that, thedifficulties of the farmers were
worsened by the arrival ofapproximately 20,000 emus 20,000
?
Because they migrate forbreeding.
(23:13):
Oh my gosh, with the clearedland and additional water
supplies being made availablefor the livestock by the farmers
, the emus found that thecultivated lands were good
habitat Basically.
Hey, the emus are like hey,they're, they're doing some good
things over, they got a lot ofwater, they got a lot of crops.
It's like the promised land foremus, let's go great.
(23:35):
The moses of the emus was likethe moses, we're going to the
promised land, baby, let'sinvade our homeland.
Yeah, they get to the promiseindigenous of well now.
Well, now that they'reindigenous because they're there
, and then there's a war thatstarts.
So these poor farmers, thefarmers, are caught between the
royal army and the emu.
Oh my gosh, can you imagineLike we thought we had it bad
(23:59):
with COVID?
That's much worse Emusattacking, destroying your crops
that the government isn't goingto pay you for anymore.
Oh my gosh, there's a joke inhere somewhere.
The whole thing's a joke.
Well, it's very sad, I mean.
I'm sure it's similar to likethe potato famine in Ireland.
Well, potatoes aren't trying tokill you, though, correct, like
(24:21):
what did the?
Here's what I want to know.
Here's where the joke is, here'swhere I think it is what does,
what does the battle look likefrom one soldier to one emu?
That's what I want to see.
Like if you were to be like,let's do a document, like I want
to see, like history channel doa documentary talking about
lewis got like that's a machinegun.
Are they like this?
The bird is just yeah, they'relike around, like they're
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dodging.
They're like the matrix birdyeah, it's like the matrix of
all of them and the.
Are they like gatheringtogether?
Do they have a plan?
Like, are the emus like, okay,where you know, are they drawing
?
Do they have little maps thatare like okay, this farm's over
here, bill, you're going to goover there.
Well, I think they've got Likedo they come out at night?
(25:06):
Do they just go in broaddaylight?
Like, what is their battlestrategy?
One thing we know for sure theydid not have an air force.
They are flightless birds.
They are flightless birds,that's true.
It was a complete ground attack.
It was a full-on ground attack.
Yes, well, I mean, are we surethey didn't enlist any other
(25:27):
bird allies, right?
Or do they have allies?
What about kangaroos?
True?
I mean, did they maybe try toget some kangaroos involved?
Maybe the kangaroo mafiastepped away and was like we're
not messing with this, because Ifeel like I could be making
this up, the quote, unquote war.
And here's the thing.
There's a guy Wait, wait, wait.
(25:47):
Which?
The war are we talking about?
World war one, the emu war orthe emu?
The emu war, the great war, thegreat emu defense?
This is the best statement I'veever read on any article ever.
Are you ready for this?
The fact that the guy had to dothis, he's probably thinking
what am I?
This is my life, this is I'mactually having this I have.
This is a, this is agovernmental order.
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Okay, wait, wait, wait, let'sset the scene here.
It's 1932.
It's 1932.
You are the what in theAustralia Defense minister.
You are the defense minister ofall of Australia, of Australia.
And you have to come out infront of people, give a speech
(26:31):
About birds.
And you have to come out infront of people, give a speech
and say About birds, and say andyou have to say what you have
to, defense Minister, sir GeorgePierce ordered the army to cull
the emu population.
He was later called theMinister of the Emu war in
parliament, by senator jamesdunn.
(26:54):
Meanwhile.
Meanwhile, in europe, right, oh, no, oh man, this is what we're
worried about in australia,worried about the emus conducted
under blah blah blah, the royalartillery, seventh heavy
artillery, with meredithcommanding soldiers, sergeant s
(27:17):
mcmurray and gunner jo halloran,armed with two lewis guns and
10 000 rounds.
Of this is the problem threeguys to take care of 20 000
birds.
However I, however, I see theissue.
Here's the thing, though it wasraining, so they had to delay
it Because it was raining, whichit caused the emus to scatter,
(27:39):
oh my gosh.
So here's the thing we haveguns, but they scatter with rain
.
You know what that sounds like.
That sounds like the ministerwas like hey, can you put
together a group to just dealwith these birds?
And some general was like yeah,I got it, I got it, I got the
best guys, and he gets the threebiggest idiots that he needs to
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deal with and sends them offinto the bush and like they just
, they like shoot everything,that's not.
And then they have to like well, how do we explain that?
We lost, we lost, it rained, itrained, it rained and they ran,
the birds fled.
We just got to cover this up.
It's like they could have justsprayed them with a hose.
(28:25):
They would have fled Ugh.
With a hose they would havefled.
The rain lasted from October toNovember and then they deployed
troops, multiple troops,multiple troops Plural.
That's why they need to getsent three so they can make it
plural.
(28:45):
This is just odd.
The troops were deployed.
Now we're getting the rainceased, they deploy troops,
according to this some newspaper, and they said that the uh,
they had to assist farmers and,according to a newspaper account
, to collect 100 emu skins sothat their feathers could be
used to make hats for lighthorsemen.
(29:09):
So now they're going intofashion.
They got distracted they'relike hey look by the fashion
opportunity.
Not only are we going to killthese guys, but there's an
opportunity Well, could youimagine For some new fashion
wear for our light horsemen?
Imagine the Australian outcry.
If you're just going to call awhole bunch of emus, at least do
something with them.
Oh, we'll make hats.
(29:29):
Can we at least get some hats?
We'll make some hats.
It's a little funny.
Then somebody got real excitedabout the hats.
I love how there's a yeah,there's an article.
Part of the article is hisfirst attempt, which alludes to
the fact that there's more thanone attempt More than one to
kill the birds oh my gosh, thegiant flightless bird.
(29:50):
Why don't you just take all ofthat wheat, buy up all of that
wheat, put it in one corner of afield and let them have it.
Just go over there.
Just eat all of that over there.
It's insane.
And then, while they'reenjoying the wheat, build a
fence.
Oh, there you go.
They can't fly over it, mm-hmm.
And now you can send the threeidiots.
(30:13):
Now you have a source ofprotein.
Now you get the three idiotsthat can go over there and shoot
fish in a barrel.
Exactly, hold on a second, itgets better.
We're in the legacy section now.
No, there's a legacy section ofthe story.
Oh no, in 2019, a musicaladaptation of the story was
workshopped oh my goodness, wasworkshopped in Melbourne.
What is it, court?
(30:33):
Come on.
It's workshopped in Melbourneby playwright Simeon and
composer James Court.
An action comedy film titledthe Emu War premiered there.
At least it's an action comedy,oh yeah.
At least they knew what theyhad Ready for this.
Another At least it's an actioncomedy.
Oh yeah, hold on, they knewwhat they had Ready for this.
Another action comedy retellingof events was written by John
Cleese, monty Franklin, robSchneider.
(30:55):
This makes sense.
One of my faves, camilla Cleeseand Jim Jeffries was aiming to
begin production in 2023 or 24.
I got to ask my buddy, jamie, ifhe knows anything about that.
What?
Yeah, that's ridiculous.
So we knows anything about that.
Yeah, that that's so.
We're gonna get a monty pythonversion.
I want to see this movie.
If any movie gets made, thatmovie will make a billion
(31:16):
dollars in the box office.
I just think, like there's noteven a joke.
The whole thing's a joke.
It's just telling the story.
Yeah, I think telling the story.
But like, what's funny aboutthat?
Like similar with the drugthing, right, like the funny
thing about the drug is when yougo, okay, yeah, this happens,
you do drug testing for athletes, but then you take a weird, you
(31:37):
know a weird um sport likecurling, and you say, what are
we testing them for?
Well, same thing with this.
What is the war strategyagainst emus?
Like this is being made up onthe spot and then, like they're
winning.
So like, what's their strategy?
Are winning, what are theydoing?
And can we then learn from thiswhen we go to war?
(31:58):
Right, so that we now havebetter.
I think you hit the nail on thehead when you said I want to see
how this played out.
Yes, because I want to see whatyou would look like pretending
to be an emu.
I'm already from, I'm alreadypretending to be a rapper
running from a lewis gun.
Yes, show me.
I think it's just you dodging,got a lewis gun dodging.
(32:23):
I may not be able to do vocalimpressions, but I can do body
impressions.
Yeah, yeah, I'm very interestedin this.
More so, I would say more so tofigure out, is it emu or emu?
I don't know, nobody knows.
Someone knows, but they're notgoing to tell us that somebody
was probably killed by the emu.
(32:43):
Seriously, any fatalities inthat, human fatalities?
I really, I really hope thereweren't any right um, but I
would like to know.
But like you wouldn't wantpeople to know as well, I'm
telling you cover up, it'stotally a government cover-up.
Were they really emus?
Were they aliens?
We don't know.
We we'll never know.
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It's insane.
I just thought that was a funnystory.
I'm like story.
I'm like what are we gonna callthis episode?
Weller, foolproof emu, justweller emu, weller emu war.
But here's the problem isnobody's gonna know how to say
the name of the episode.
Yeah, no one's gonna be true.
We just did it twice and wehave no.
(33:25):
We're probably just reallystupid, right?
And like it's obvious, what it'scalled Emu, emu, emus don't fly
, they don't swim, they don't doanything.
What do they do?
How could you not take care of20,000 emus?
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Underestimating them?
Never underestimated an emu,never underestimated the
intelligence.
The intelligence we've learnedanything today, it's that we
don't know how old this whiskeyis, and never underestimate an
emu.
Those are the.
Those are the two takeaways.
Yeah, definitely the end.
Thanks for listening.
That's good.
Be careful out there.
There might be an emu next timeon whiskey bits.
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My grandpa looks almost exactlylike ray.
Fine, okay, that's probably why.
That's probably why I see it,but I'd like to think it looked
like maybe a ryan gosling orlike a ryan reynolds or really
any of the ryans.
Yeah, ryan pitt.
I don't know who.
Ryan pitt is the lesser knownbrother of brad.
(34:32):
He's actually a car mechanic.
Hey, ryan, you done with mymuffler.
You work on that.
You need to finish that up forme.
Oh, you're not done with it.
Oh, you broke it.
The muffler's still broken,okay, ryan, well, look, you said
you were the best and Ibelieved you, but now I'm
starting to think that you'renot.
I will talk to Brad right now.
(34:55):
Don't let me.
I will bring Brad into thisconversation about my muffler.
You promised me a muffler fix.
Right now I'm not seeing it.
I don't know why.
That's funny.
I don't think it would be funnynormally Ryan Pitt fixing my
muffler so dumb.
But the best part is thatyou're friends with Brad Pitt
(35:15):
and you have his brother workingon your car.
His brother, ryan, is a carmechanic.
Hey, thanks for sticking around.
That's it for this episode ofWhiskey Bits, but if you enjoyed
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So again, we're here with Matt.
Welcome back, matt.
Thank you, I'm excited to behere.
You came back, I came back.
Yeah, wow, the travel time.
Are we going to travel again?
I don't want to do travelersever again.
All right, fair enough, I thinkyou should cut that, because
we're trying to stay evergreen.
(00:21):
That's true.
Yeah, I'll cut that.
Dang it, matt Idi.
We're trying to stay evergreen,that's true.
Yeah, I'll cut that.
Dang it, matt Idiot.
What does that mean?
Evergreen, evergreen's, like wedon't want to talk about.
Oh, tomorrow's Valentine's Daybecause it dates the podcast.
Versus making it evergreen,I'll cut all this.
Like we could do the jobs,because we're thinking about
putting the jobs episode outwhen, you know, after the dry
(00:42):
bar, so we can use the dry bar.
Yes, absolutely, so that mightnot come out until later.
That makes sense.
Evergreen, evergreen, gotcha.
All this is going to be on it.
And that is a look behind thescenes.
Behind the scenes, welcome toWhiskey Bits with Matt and Phil,
(01:05):
where we talk all thingswhiskey and all things comedy.
So what do we have today?
Phil, I have been dying.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
Sorry, if you're dying, I meanto try this.
Oh, it was just really.
I've been dying to try thiswhiskey, since you called me
(01:25):
last Friday and it's Tuesday now.
Speaking of being evergreen, wecan't talk about dates or days.
It's January 1st, all right,set us back up.
We're doing this again.
He's just naming dates.
I had to break the tension.
It's Halloween now.
No, this is good.
It's Halloween now.
(01:46):
Welcome, this is good.
It's Halloween now.
Welcome back, matt, welcomeback, welcome back again.
All that travel Gosh.
You guys are the worst.
I'm going to be listening tothis and you're just going to
hear smacks.
Now the coughing.
So many noises.
Reset, stop, reset, start.
(02:08):
Okay, wave off.
All right, what do we got, phil?
So this is the Weller Foamproofand the gold label on the side
is a Sazerac Barrel Selectpicked by Binnie's.
So this is a Barrel Select.
So this is a littleazeracBarrel Select picked by Binnie's
.
So that is, this is a BarrelSelect.
So this is a little bit morespecial than just your one of
(02:31):
the mill.
I didn't know that.
So what does that mean?
Are you aware of this, matt?
I think Matt needs to knowabout this, because this is cool
.
I'm a total noob.
So somebody from Binnie's, or agroup of people from Binnie's,
went down to Buffalo Trace andthey were given the opportunity
to drink out of this barrel, totry it and say we like it or we
(02:52):
don't, and they picked thebarrel that this entire what?
Yeah, so this is a singlebarrel, full proof Weller from
one barrel, from one barrel,which is what single barrel
means.
I did.
I did deduce thatuce, that,thankfully, there's that noise
again.
There is that noise again.
Oh, it's a good.
You know what that noisereminds me of what?
(03:16):
Probably when you're doing thedrug testing, the sound of the
guy's when he's peeing in a cup,it's much more consistent.
I'll say that's like a thicksound, like what did you just
drink?
Jello for three straight weeksand what are you doing?
So the?
The reason I think weller is uh, uh, one of the best is it's
the original weeded bourbon, andso this one is uh, it's
(03:39):
actually the same mash bill as,uh, pappy van winkle.
Oh, it's the same.
Okay, explain all that again.
We did bourbon first of all.
Yeah, I was gonna ask.
All right, here he goes.
This is why he doesn't want tobe.
He doesn't want to be called.
Uh, what did I call you anaficionado?
He doesn't want to be called anaficionado, which sounds cool.
Nobody knows he could be anaficionado.
(04:01):
He doesn't want to be calledthat that, but he's an
enthusiast, a hobbyist, anenthusiast, but he really does
know stuff.
Okay, go ahead.
So, first of all, it's a bourbon, so we can cross that off the
list.
So we know it's made in America.
It was aged in new oak barrels.
Okay, it has nothing added butwater to it.
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It's 51% corn.
Now we add the weeded part,which is it is a heavier wheat
that's put into it than maybeanother bourbon would be, and so
they can throw that on there,that there's a significant
amount of wheat that's in here.
Typically, wheat will bring outa little bit more of a
(04:44):
sweetness.
Like, if you think of wheatbread, I think of wheat bread
all the time.
I'm thinking about it right now.
I'm thinking about it nowbecause we mentioned it.
Oh yeah, maybe that's why.
That's exactly why I'm sostupid.
So a mash bill is a collectionof grain Idiot that is then
distilled down to the alcohol,put into.
(05:05):
I missed everything you justsaid.
Start over, no, I'm kidding, goahead, just the mash build,
just run it back.
No, but oh, I'll just re-watchthis and then I'll get it later.
You'll understand later.
But the mash build, but insteadyou've interrupted me.
I know I have to start over.
No, the mash build though,because that's my question is a
week for a weeded bourbon.
It's not that they backfill itwith a weed thing, no, there's
(05:29):
just more weed in it In the mash.
But it's still 51% corn.
So let's just for giggles.
Do we still giggle as men?
You do?
Okay, for giggles.
Who's giggles?
I don't know.
My old babysitter that's.
We're moving on.
Gosh, where did that come from?
(05:51):
Childhood memory that justpopped in my good lord.
Moving on, um, giggles theclown.
Okay, so for, we're gonna findthis track and be back on it at
some point.
I promise, yeah, for the mashbuild, it'll return 51% corn.
Sure, could it be 50.5?
(06:12):
Or 50.0001 and still beconsidered a bourbon Corn, or
does it have to be 51?
I think 51% corn is prettyStandard.
I mean, well, that's the rule,okay, but not like so it has to
be 51.
That's the number, okay, atleast.
Okay, it can be 99% Mellow corn, 100,000% corn, 100,000% corn.
(06:35):
Just, you're drinking corn juice.
It's wheat milk.
Have you ever had Creep?
Yeah, you take the kernels, ohthat, and you take the kernels,
oh that.
And now you're drinking milk,milk in the corn?
Yeah right, you can milkanything.
So the wheat, though, thencomes in with the corn in that
same mash, mm-hmm.
Okay, so there's going to be,you know, maybe there's barley
or there's some rye or there'ssome other grains that are in
(06:58):
that mash bill that you know gointo the distilling process to
get the alcohol out of.
Why don't they?
You know, you look at a fooditem, it's always going to have
the ingredients and thepercentages.
Why don't they do that?
Is it just because it's sosecretive?
It's because it's so secretive,they just don't want people to
know.
Yeah, they can't tell you.
Then you could make it.
(07:19):
But Froot Loops I know what'sin Fruit Loops.
I'm like I'm not going to makeFruit Loops, no, but you know
the 11 herbs and spices that gointo KFC.
Yeah, salt Pepper, we're goingto do all of them.
We're going to do this now.
Salt, seasoned salt Probably alot of salt Seasoned salt, yeah,
(07:41):
okay, bubba Gump, are we goingto go into naming all of the
salts that you can come up with,bubba Gump?
And, yes, it is secretivebecause anybody could make it at
that point.
So they do hold that.
Those master distillers holdthat pretty close to the best
(08:02):
they do wear vests, okay, oraprons or whatever.
I don't think they wear aprons.
I can see like a lab Hazmatsuits, yeah, or like one of
those like lab leather labaprons, you know, maybe like a
horseshoe putter on a guy towear.
Oh, that's probably what theyused for the last one.
That's why it tasted like aleather shoe, that's right.
(08:24):
Oh, he's getting to become.
He's an aficionado in and ofitself, hobbyist, hobbyist,
enthusiast, better than alobbyist, yeah.
So should we try it?
Yeah, I think we should try it.
It's been sitting here for acouple minutes, which I think is
good.
Is that bad, though?
Do we miss out on?
No, I don't think so, becausethis is a full proof.
(08:46):
So a lot of times, with bourbonand other whiskeys, they'll
proof it down to somethingthat's a little bit more
manageable and drinkable.
So you don't die.
So you don't die.
So I'm going to die.
Yep, okay, very likely.
Great, this may be your firstand last episode.
There you go.
Or your or your last and second, depending on the release order
.
Your third and fifth.
(09:07):
There we go again.
Evergreen, you guys arescrewing this up.
Who cares?
Nobody cares.
So this is, uh, I can smell italready.
I barely like.
I think, when you brought it by, I can smell it.
Oh my goodness, and doesn't itsmell fantastic, I feel like you
can smell something.
I feel like it smells likeapples in the apple orchard.
That's, that's that orchard?
That's really amazing.
It's really amazing.
(09:28):
Yeah, so a lot of bourbon.
You don't even have to bring itclose, no, no, they'll proof
them down to 100 proof.
90 proof.
That's usually what you'relooking at.
This one will have the actualproof listed on it.
Is it like 109?
Listed on it 114.
So 57% alcohol.
The actual.
Was it like 109?
(09:48):
Listed on 114?
So 57 alcohol.
You know, most of these thingsput hair on your chest.
This will burn it straight off.
Man, gone your chest, yourthroat, your face, everywhere
that you nailed it.
Caramel apple, telling you, itreminds me of fall.
Yeah, lots of caramel apple.
For for me, a lot of caramelapple.
That just smells amazing.
See, there's a thing likeremember how I said the last
(10:10):
couple times I've I've done thenose test and is it called
nosing?
Yeah, okay, so I've justsmelled alcohol.
But higher quality stuff, man,I'm telling you, yeah, I
actually get the fruits andstuff.
This is 114 proof.
The other stuff that we'vetried in the past less 90, 100,
(10:32):
something like that.
It's all ethanol, it's kind ofburning off of there.
Yeah, wow, do you smell like, inall honesty, like can you get
fruit notes and stuff?
Well, I definitely caught theapple when it's like yeah, right
, like it was, like whose glassit was, but wafting it towards
my face and it's just all over.
It's so strong, it smells sogood, I almost don't want to
(10:56):
stop spelling it.
You don't have to and I won'topens up.
It'll keep spelling better andbetter.
Yeah, yeah.
So what's happening?
I know this is probably juvenile, or what did they call that?
When it's like Moronic no, notmoronic.
When you ask a stupid question,yeah, like in food, they're
like oh, it's so this, why don'tyou ask the question?
(11:20):
We'll work our way back ratherthan just stabbing in the dark.
There's a word.
I can't think of it.
I thought maybe by my facialexpression you'd get it, but oh,
yeah, does it have letters?
Yes, okay, right, letters.
Do you know what the lettersare?
No, okay, sounds sure.
Okay, it's so pedestrian,that's it.
(11:41):
Yeah, that's usually what theysay about people who are eating
food or walking in the street.
Pedestrian, why did?
Why did I even say that.
What were we talking about?
You said tell me what'shappening.
This is so, what's the word forit?
They say this is so pedestrian,bringing it back.
(12:02):
This is a probably so pedestrianto say this as a whiskey person
.
But and again, I'm not, who amI?
But why?
Again, you explained it to meonce before.
Why does it?
Even with wine?
I'm like, okay, I don't get it.
Why does it open up?
Why do the flavors come outmore as it sits?
(12:22):
Yeah, that's uh.
As the oxygen penetrates andburns off some of that ethanol,
it will release some of theflavors and notes and things
like that that you, that you getin the whiskey.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
You said penetrates and I can't.
Ladies and gentlemen, 12 yearold, 12 year old.
(12:43):
Is this a 12 year?
Oh, I'm a 12 year old.
Is this a 12 year?
Oh, I'm a 12 year old.
Yeah, that's, that's probablytrue.
Okay.
So I said to penetrating oxygen, did you know?
This is what I want to know.
This is called a bunghole.
Did you know that?
I did.
I learned that.
He told me that last time.
No, it really is.
That's what it's called.
(13:03):
It's called a bunghole and inone after the, you present that
after the 12-year-old moment.
I know it just keeps it going.
Just got to get it all outwhile it's on the mind.
I said penetrate.
You looked right at him.
I'm not really sure why.
It's because I've seen himnaked.
I've seen you naked Also.
True, have you me naked?
(13:31):
Yeah, oh, I didn't know aboutthat.
Yeah, man, I'm learning a lottoday.
This is really good.
You asked how old it is.
Right, yeah, and I haven't evensipped it yet.
People probably like what theheck am I listening to?
If they've made it this far,congratulations.
I thank you for your service to, uh, my own mental health.
Oh, full proof indeed, mm-hmm.
Oh, yeah, you know, like thelittle hole in the top of your
(13:54):
mouth, mm-hmm, it went up inthere Into your nose.
It is now a part of that one,that hole, it is now a part of
my sinus system.
So, no age statement on this one.
So we don't know how long it'sat.
Why do they do that?
I want to know.
Is it because, again, therecipe thing they don't want to
put it on there?
No, I don't, I don't.
(14:14):
I don't really know why theywouldn't put an age statement on
it.
Probably because it's notrequired to and maybe it's going
to detract from the value,perceived value, of it.
They probably, maybe they don'tput it on the same potentially
right, it's always a, that'salways a potential concern,
(14:35):
because if that's a four year,you would think different of it,
right?
I wouldn't think anything of itbecause I don't think of
whiskey in an aged sort of way.
No, because don't they say thatthere's a certain amount of
years.
Somebody told me this is likesix or eight where it actually
gets worse or it doesn't getmuch better, it doesn't get
better, it doesn't get better.
And then you have therisk-reward, because the longer
(14:58):
it sits in the barrel, the lessyou're going to get out of that
barrel.
Because of evaporation, becauseof the angel's share, because
of the devil's cut, all of thosereasons Devil don't get me down
.
You're going to maybe come upwith less whiskey than what you
can put in and the amount ofwhiskey is going to stink
because you may or may not getgood whiskey.
(15:18):
Well, or it's going to be good.
I mean the aging process.
It's going to be good, butagain you're going to have so
few.
I mean it aging process it'sgoing to be good, but again
you're going to have so few.
I mean, well, there's barrelsthat you think are going to be
fantastic barrels, 20 yearslater and it's completely empty.
What?
Oh, wow, really.
Yeah, I feel bad for that guy.
He's like this is the best mashI've ever done.
(15:39):
It's going to be the greatest.
I tell you, pop it open, pop itopen.
Where'd it go?
There's nothing in here.
When I hear the crazy, crazything is in Kentucky, where a
majority of this stuff is made,you actually pay taxes on the
space that the barrel takes up,as if it were full for the
number of years.
(15:59):
So imagine aging a barrel ofwhiskey for 20 years, opening up
it's empty.
You've paid taxes on all ofthat alcohol and you get nothing
out of it.
You get nothing out of it, itjust sunk.
He's not going to do that again, mad.
Again, that would suck, itwould be bad.
(16:20):
Does it happen with wine?
Great question, no idea.
This isn't a wine podcast.
Take your wine question andleave.
He idea.
I don't know.
This isn't a wine podcast.
Wine, take your wine questionand leave.
He's not a wine enthusiast,come on.
Oh, that's true Wine.
Don't you take that somewhereelse?
Oh gosh, here we go Every timewe do a dad joke, we got to take
a shot from the.
(16:40):
Oh, take a shot from the dadjoke bottle.
That would be a dangerous thing.
That actually sounds like athing that we should do.
Yes, every dad joke, you got totake one out of there.
You got to take a sip of that.
I kind of like that idea.
It's like getting smacked, it'slike the slap thing all over
again.
It is, it's literally nodifferent.
Drinking Old Tub is like doingprofessional slap in the face
sport, but then it will be aninfinity bottle.
(17:01):
So what's in there?
It's old tub, old tub, old tub,unfiltered, uncut, undelicious,
undeserving, undelicious.
We want to stay.
I mean, somebody likes it andif you like it, please come over
and drink.
Please come on over and tell usabout it and then we'll kick
you out.
You really could just smell this.
(17:21):
Yeah, oh, you know what.
There was like another on thatone.
I got another flavor, like,yeah, I don't know, apple pie.
Is that wrong?
No, I mean caramel, apple andapple pie.
Yeah, yeah, that would makesense.
But this is gonna have a littlebit more of the spice.
Right, you caught a little bitmore of the spice.
It's definitely got.
(17:42):
And the the savory.
Yeah, now you got a little bitof a spice on it.
Yep, yeah, like a cinnamon, oryou're not.
Yeah, yeah, you're not wrong.
Yeah, oh, I kind of I really dowant to let this one sit a
little bit longer.
Delicious, I feel like it'sgonna get sweeter as it's.
I bet it does.
Yeah, I bet it does.
I found I don't know how I cameupon this article.
(18:06):
I just think it's funny and I'mlike I don't know, maybe
somebody's done a joke on it.
But did you guys know, have youheard of the emu?
Emu, emu war, emu war.
You know what emu is?
Yes, like the animal.
Yeah, an emu.
Like the large bird.
It looks like a giant bird.
(18:26):
It is a giant bird.
Yeah, it also looks like agiant bird.
It's like an ostrich.
It looks like a giant ostrich.
It looks like a giant bird.
It also is a giant bird.
Therefore, emu war.
Have you heard of the emu war?
No, what is that?
It sounds like you're reallystruggling to say emu war.
I can say either.
(18:50):
Does it matter, it does to theemus?
I'm not sure the emus care,because their brain is the size
of a pea.
We're gonna have emus knockingdown the door.
Apparently, in Australia, thegreat emu war, not just the Emu
War the Great.
Are you saying Emu Award?
(19:12):
No, emu Bird War?
Okay, a war of emus, emus, justthink about this.
Are the emus fighting eachother?
Wait, are there people ridingon emus?
I will get Like, just thinkabout this.
Are the emus fighting eachother?
Wait, are there people ridingon emus?
(19:32):
I will get there.
We joked in a podcast episodeabout a chicken army.
Yes, this is a real thing, anemu army.
In 1932 in Australia, there wereso many emus, which are large
flightless birds indigenous toAustralia, that they were
destroying crops.
And so the government said, hey, we need to like kill some emus
(19:59):
.
Well, apparently.
So I love this story, matt,thank you so much.
Hold on.
Well, apparently.
So I love the story, matt,thank you so much, hold on.
Apparently, people wereunsuccessful at killing emus, so
much so that the RoyalAustralian Artillery Soldiers
had to get involved.
What Armed with Lewis guns?
(20:20):
I don't even know what that isLewis guns.
This is Wikipedia, so thiscould just be crap.
This could be like someteenager like I'm going to make,
gonna make a story.
I kind of feel like madiganmight know what a lewis gun is.
I do know what the heck is alewis gun.
I mean, it's like a cannon.
Is the cannons that we'reshooting at the chickens?
That's, we didn't even know.
(20:41):
We were talking about history.
We had had no idea.
Right, because chickens, theRoyal Australian, you can look
this up.
Royal Australian artillerysoldiers armed with Lewis guns
leading the media to adopt thename Emu War or Emu War when
referring to the incident.
Although many, this is whatkills me.
It's the Australians lost.
(21:05):
Oh no, I was wrong, it's.
It's not a, it's not like anart, it's not a shot, it's like
an early machine gun.
Okay, well, that's even funnier.
They basically hired all therambos all the way.
They lost against.
They lost emus.
Although many birds were killed, the emu population persisted
(21:27):
and continued to cause cropdestruction.
End of story, that's it.
There were too many emus.
They tried to kill them.
They couldn't kill them fastenough.
How many Australians were lostin the Battle of the Emus?
That's what I would love toknow.
I feel like oh man, can youimagine World War I, large
number following World War I.
(21:49):
So you get out of World War, ISurvive the trenches.
Large numbers of dischargedveterans who served in the war
were given land.
Okay, so they were given landand they started farming.
And blah, blah, blah, they comeback.
Oh my gosh, the life for theseguys, man.
They have World War I Lifesucked.
They're given land after mygosh.
The life for these guys, man.
They have world war one,they're given.
They're given land after thewar.
Great, oh, we're going to be afarmer.
(22:10):
Great, oh yeah.
Great depression hits, yeah,okay.
So then, because of the greatdepression, they got to work
harder and make more wheat.
I'm just getting this fromWikipedia.
I don't know what the talkingabout, but it's interesting.
Yeah, yeah, they had to getmore wheat.
(22:30):
Okay, cool.
The problem the government'slike hey, this is gonna be great
for you, we're gonna give yousome subsidies.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Wheat prices still fell.
It was so intense.
Farmers preparing to harvestthese, wow.
So I'll just read this part.
Wheat prices continued to falland by october 1932 this is from
wikipedia the situationintensified, with the farmers
preparing to harvest theseason's crop while
simultaneously threatening torefuse to deliver the wheat
(22:52):
because the prices fell.
They grew so much of it, butthen the prices kept falling.
The government's like hey,we're going to give you some
subsidies to help with the pricefalling Didn't help.
Well then, all of that, thedifficulties of the farmers were
worsened by the arrival ofapproximately 20,000 emus 20,000
?
Because they migrate forbreeding.
(23:13):
Oh my gosh, with the clearedland and additional water
supplies being made availablefor the livestock by the farmers
, the emus found that thecultivated lands were good
habitat Basically.
Hey, the emus are like hey,they're, they're doing some good
things over, they got a lot ofwater, they got a lot of crops.
It's like the promised land foremus, let's go great.
(23:35):
The moses of the emus was likethe moses, we're going to the
promised land, baby, let'sinvade our homeland.
Yeah, they get to the promiseindigenous of well now.
Well, now that they'reindigenous because they're there
, and then there's a war thatstarts.
So these poor farmers, thefarmers, are caught between the
royal army and the emu.
Oh my gosh, can you imagineLike we thought we had it bad
(23:59):
with COVID?
That's much worse Emusattacking, destroying your crops
that the government isn't goingto pay you for anymore.
Oh my gosh, there's a joke inhere somewhere.
The whole thing's a joke.
Well, it's very sad, I mean.
I'm sure it's similar to likethe potato famine in Ireland.
Well, potatoes aren't trying tokill you, though, correct, like
(24:21):
what did the?
Here's what I want to know.
Here's where the joke is, here'swhere I think it is what does,
what does the battle look likefrom one soldier to one emu?
That's what I want to see.
Like if you were to be like,let's do a document, like I want
to see, like history channel doa documentary talking about
lewis got like that's a machinegun.
Are they like this?
The bird is just yeah, they'relike around, like they're
(24:44):
dodging.
They're like the matrix birdyeah, it's like the matrix of
all of them and the.
Are they like gatheringtogether?
Do they have a plan?
Like, are the emus like, okay,where you know, are they drawing
?
Do they have little maps thatare like okay, this farm's over
here, bill, you're going to goover there.
Well, I think they've got Likedo they come out at night?
(25:06):
Do they just go in broaddaylight?
Like, what is their battlestrategy?
One thing we know for sure theydid not have an air force.
They are flightless birds.
They are flightless birds,that's true.
It was a complete ground attack.
It was a full-on ground attack.
Yes, well, I mean, are we surethey didn't enlist any other
(25:27):
bird allies, right?
Or do they have allies?
What about kangaroos?
True?
I mean, did they maybe try toget some kangaroos involved?
Maybe the kangaroo mafiastepped away and was like we're
not messing with this, because Ifeel like I could be making
this up, the quote, unquote war.
And here's the thing.
There's a guy Wait, wait, wait.
(25:47):
Which?
The war are we talking about?
World war one, the emu war orthe emu?
The emu war, the great war, thegreat emu defense?
This is the best statement I'veever read on any article ever.
Are you ready for this?
The fact that the guy had to dothis, he's probably thinking
what am I?
This is my life, this is I'mactually having this I have.
This is a, this is agovernmental order.
(26:09):
Okay, wait, wait, wait, let'sset the scene here.
It's 1932.
It's 1932.
You are the what in theAustralia Defense minister.
You are the defense minister ofall of Australia, of Australia.
And you have to come out infront of people, give a speech
(26:31):
About birds.
And you have to come out infront of people, give a speech
and say About birds, and say andyou have to say what you have
to, defense Minister, sir GeorgePierce ordered the army to cull
the emu population.
He was later called theMinister of the Emu war in
parliament, by senator jamesdunn.
(26:54):
Meanwhile.
Meanwhile, in europe, right, oh, no, oh man, this is what we're
worried about in australia,worried about the emus conducted
under blah blah blah, the royalartillery, seventh heavy
artillery, with meredithcommanding soldiers, sergeant s
(27:17):
mcmurray and gunner jo halloran,armed with two lewis guns and
10 000 rounds.
Of this is the problem threeguys to take care of 20 000
birds.
However I, however, I see theissue.
Here's the thing, though it wasraining, so they had to delay
it Because it was raining, whichit caused the emus to scatter,
(27:39):
oh my gosh.
So here's the thing we haveguns, but they scatter with rain
.
You know what that sounds like.
That sounds like the ministerwas like hey, can you put
together a group to just dealwith these birds?
And some general was like yeah,I got it, I got it, I got the
best guys, and he gets the threebiggest idiots that he needs to
(28:03):
deal with and sends them offinto the bush and like they just
, they like shoot everything,that's not.
And then they have to like well, how do we explain that?
We lost, we lost, it rained, itrained, it rained and they ran,
the birds fled.
We just got to cover this up.
It's like they could have justsprayed them with a hose.
(28:25):
They would have fled Ugh.
With a hose they would havefled.
The rain lasted from October toNovember and then they deployed
troops, multiple troops,multiple troops Plural.
That's why they need to getsent three so they can make it
plural.
(28:45):
This is just odd.
The troops were deployed.
Now we're getting the rainceased, they deploy troops,
according to this some newspaper, and they said that the uh,
they had to assist farmers and,according to a newspaper account
, to collect 100 emu skins sothat their feathers could be
used to make hats for lighthorsemen.
(29:09):
So now they're going intofashion.
They got distracted they'relike hey look by the fashion
opportunity.
Not only are we going to killthese guys, but there's an
opportunity Well, could youimagine For some new fashion
wear for our light horsemen?
Imagine the Australian outcry.
If you're just going to call awhole bunch of emus, at least do
something with them.
Oh, we'll make hats.
(29:29):
Can we at least get some hats?
We'll make some hats.
It's a little funny.
Then somebody got real excitedabout the hats.
I love how there's a yeah,there's an article.
Part of the article is hisfirst attempt, which alludes to
the fact that there's more thanone attempt More than one to
kill the birds oh my gosh, thegiant flightless bird.
(29:50):
Why don't you just take all ofthat wheat, buy up all of that
wheat, put it in one corner of afield and let them have it.
Just go over there.
Just eat all of that over there.
It's insane.
And then, while they'reenjoying the wheat, build a
fence.
Oh, there you go.
They can't fly over it, mm-hmm.
And now you can send the threeidiots.
(30:13):
Now you have a source ofprotein.
Now you get the three idiotsthat can go over there and shoot
fish in a barrel.
Exactly, hold on a second, itgets better.
We're in the legacy section now.
No, there's a legacy section ofthe story.
Oh no, in 2019, a musicaladaptation of the story was
workshopped oh my goodness, wasworkshopped in Melbourne.
What is it, court?
(30:33):
Come on.
It's workshopped in Melbourneby playwright Simeon and
composer James Court.
An action comedy film titledthe Emu War premiered there.
At least it's an action comedy,oh yeah.
At least they knew what theyhad Ready for this.
Another At least it's an actioncomedy.
Oh yeah, hold on, they knewwhat they had Ready for this.
Another action comedy retellingof events was written by John
Cleese, monty Franklin, robSchneider.
(30:55):
This makes sense.
One of my faves, camilla Cleeseand Jim Jeffries was aiming to
begin production in 2023 or 24.
I got to ask my buddy, jamie, ifhe knows anything about that.
What?
Yeah, that's ridiculous.
So we knows anything about that.
Yeah, that that's so.
We're gonna get a monty pythonversion.
I want to see this movie.
If any movie gets made, thatmovie will make a billion
(31:16):
dollars in the box office.
I just think, like there's noteven a joke.
The whole thing's a joke.
It's just telling the story.
Yeah, I think telling the story.
But like, what's funny aboutthat?
Like similar with the drugthing, right, like the funny
thing about the drug is when yougo, okay, yeah, this happens,
you do drug testing for athletes, but then you take a weird, you
(31:37):
know a weird um sport likecurling, and you say, what are
we testing them for?
Well, same thing with this.
What is the war strategyagainst emus?
Like this is being made up onthe spot and then, like they're
winning.
So like, what's their strategy?
Are winning, what are theydoing?
And can we then learn from thiswhen we go to war?
(31:58):
Right, so that we now havebetter.
I think you hit the nail on thehead when you said I want to see
how this played out.
Yes, because I want to see whatyou would look like pretending
to be an emu.
I'm already from, I'm alreadypretending to be a rapper
running from a lewis gun.
Yes, show me.
I think it's just you dodging,got a lewis gun dodging.
(32:23):
I may not be able to do vocalimpressions, but I can do body
impressions.
Yeah, yeah, I'm very interestedin this.
More so, I would say more so tofigure out, is it emu or emu?
I don't know, nobody knows.
Someone knows, but they're notgoing to tell us that somebody
was probably killed by the emu.
(32:43):
Seriously, any fatalities inthat, human fatalities?
I really, I really hope thereweren't any right um, but I
would like to know.
But like you wouldn't wantpeople to know as well, I'm
telling you cover up, it'stotally a government cover-up.
Were they really emus?
Were they aliens?
We don't know.
We we'll never know.
(33:04):
It's insane.
I just thought that was a funnystory.
I'm like story.
I'm like what are we gonna callthis episode?
Weller, foolproof emu, justweller emu, weller emu war.
But here's the problem isnobody's gonna know how to say
the name of the episode.
Yeah, no one's gonna be true.
We just did it twice and wehave no.
(33:25):
We're probably just reallystupid, right?
And like it's obvious, what it'scalled Emu, emu, emus don't fly
, they don't swim, they don't doanything.
What do they do?
How could you not take care of20,000 emus?
(33:47):
Underestimating them?
Never underestimated an emu,never underestimated the
intelligence.
The intelligence we've learnedanything today, it's that we
don't know how old this whiskeyis, and never underestimate an
emu.
Those are the.
Those are the two takeaways.
Yeah, definitely the end.
Thanks for listening.
That's good.
Be careful out there.
There might be an emu next timeon whiskey bits.
(34:11):
My grandpa looks almost exactlylike ray.
Fine, okay, that's probably why.
That's probably why I see it,but I'd like to think it looked
like maybe a ryan gosling orlike a ryan reynolds or really
any of the ryans.
Yeah, ryan pitt.
I don't know who.
Ryan pitt is the lesser knownbrother of brad.
(34:32):
He's actually a car mechanic.
Hey, ryan, you done with mymuffler.
You work on that.
You need to finish that up forme.
Oh, you're not done with it.
Oh, you broke it.
The muffler's still broken,okay, ryan, well, look, you said
you were the best and Ibelieved you, but now I'm
starting to think that you'renot.
I will talk to Brad right now.
(34:55):
Don't let me.
I will bring Brad into thisconversation about my muffler.
You promised me a muffler fix.
Right now I'm not seeing it.
I don't know why.
That's funny.
I don't think it would be funnynormally Ryan Pitt fixing my
muffler so dumb.
But the best part is thatyou're friends with Brad Pitt
(35:15):
and you have his brother workingon your car.
His brother, ryan, is a carmechanic.
Hey, thanks for sticking around.
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