April 22, 2025 • 30 mins
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Matt and Phil explore the unique world of Widow Jane Decadence bourbon, finished in Crown maple syrup barrels, while discussing what makes various aspects of life truly "decadent."
• Widow Jane Decadence is a 91-proof bourbon finished in barrels previously used for maple syrup
• The barrels travel a circular journey: from bourbon to maple syrup and back to bourbon again
• Crown Maple creates bourbon barrel-aged syrup using Widow Jane's barrels in a reciprocal relationship
• The tasting reveals subtle maple sweetness without overwhelming the bourbon's character
• Finished bourbons offer unique flavor profiles beyond traditional aging methods
• Beyond whiskey, the hosts explore what makes food, clothing, and activities truly decadent
• At $80-90, Widow Jane Decadence earns the hosts' stamp of approval for whiskey enthusiasts
If you find Widow Jane Decadence or Crown Bourbon Barrel Aged Maple Syrup, grab them - both are worth experiencing.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So, phil, yeah, I feel like last episode we just
talked a ton about me.
Is that what we normally do?
Yeah, oh gosh.
No, I don't know if we do ornot, but I think we can talk
about you again.
(00:20):
You don't want to talk aboutyou.
What my uncle used to say usedto say, like I am tired of
hearing myself talk what do youthink of me?
Oh, what do I think of you?
Is that a joke?
Did I miss a joke?
Again?
As always, roll the intro, ohgosh.
(00:41):
Welcome to whiskey bits withmatt and phil, where we sip on
everyday whiskeys and find thefunny in our everyday lives.
What did you bring today?
So today we've got the WidowJane Decadence.
Oh, it sounds so fancy.
It is so fancy.
Age to perfection.
This is a blend of straightbourbon whiskeys finished in
(01:04):
maple syrup barrels.
This is the Widow Jane.
Come on, this is batch 29,bottle 588.
That makes perfect sense.
Has a date of 2024.
This is date 2024.
That's just the whole year.
45 and a half percent.
So this is a 91 proof 91.
Wow, so it's really low proof91.
(01:24):
Wow, so it's really low proof91.
Yeah, yeah, I mean the lowestyou can get and still be bourbon
, it's 80.
Oh, you're right.
Yeah, so this is 90.
One One.
Hey, nice shirt.
Can I tell you something?
Yep, there is no other word todescribe this Decadence.
(01:48):
We took some of our legendarybarrels and finished them.
Sorry, let me read that again.
Wait, hold on, you're readingthat.
That's what they said.
There's no other word, widowJane.
Decadence Okay, there's noother word to describe this.
We took some of our legendarybourbons and finished them in
(02:10):
barrels that held New York'sfinest artisanal.
Why is artisanal so funny?
I don't know.
It's good Artisanal maple syrupfrom Crown Maple.
The result is a rich, creamy,smooth and slightly sweet
mouthful of whiskey flavor.
That is way beyond good.
Way beyond good.
It's decadent.
Hey, I like it.
Like you know, I I will say,but it's also aged to perfection
(02:34):
.
It is.
How did they get that?
How did they age it toperfection?
Well, wait till you try it, allright.
So this again, we're, you know,season two.
We're starting off with maybe alittle bit harder to find
whiskeys, break some rules thatare still out there and like,
hey, we're going to try itbecause we found it.
And if you are wondering,should I drop $80 on that bottle
(02:57):
of whiskey?
I want to be able to tell youwhether or not you should, right
.
So that's what we're going todo here.
We're going to try some thatare a little bit harder to find,
but you do see these on theshelf.
They do pop up every once in awhile.
That's a good point.
Uh, I like that.
That's a good theme.
You like that?
I do, I like that.
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey easy,whoa, hey, hey, easy bud, wow,
(03:18):
whoa.
You know, I just treating themicrophone equipment like it's
1995.
Not, I don't know, I don't knowwhat you're saying.
That doesn't mean, but let'ssniff it.
Sniff it, not the microphone.
I guess you could.
Okay, you know what this smellslike to me Apple Decadence.
(03:40):
I should have known, because tome it smells like perfection.
I bet you say that to all theboys.
So what's really cool?
So they age this in those crownmaple syrup barrels.
First of all, they put maplesyrup in barrels.
I didn't know that.
(04:01):
They just put everything inbarrels.
So they age this in maple.
They, I didn't know that.
Yeah, yeah, just put everythingin barrels.
Okay, yeah, so they age this inmaple.
They finish it in maple syrupbarrels.
Does it say how long they keepit in there for.
It does not say how long itstays in there for, but I mean,
you can smell it's sweet, likeyou can smell the caramelly.
(04:21):
It's sweet.
I'm not getting the maple smellbut, like I would imagine,
you're not getting a.
You don't smell syrup.
I don't smell like the maplesyrup.
I don't go around, phil, in thegrocery stores.
I mean, get your nose in there.
I don't go open up bottles ofsyrup and smell them.
You will.
Now I will actually, if I tellmyself it's, I'm getting.
(04:46):
There's a little bit of thatsweetness that I'm smelling that
could have that maple-y.
Yeah, alright, I'm really hopingit's very good.
It's not just very good, it'svery good, it's just very good.
(05:06):
It's very good.
It's decadent, it's perfectionin regards to ageness.
In all seriousness, is it notjust profoundly deep?
Is this isn't a wine podcast,phil?
Like there is so much the tasteon the tip of my tongue.
(05:28):
There's so much body in this.
Oh, all right, yes, yes, thereis a slight syrupy.
Is yeah to it.
(05:50):
It's not as it doesn't attackyou, it's not as up front, but
it is there.
It's almost like on the underside of the tongue.
Yeah, in a weird way of sayinglike if you, if you had syrup
and let it sit in your mouth yes, I see what you're saying, you
know, like that's kind of yeah,because maple syrup tends to
(06:12):
have, like yes, it's very sweet,pure sugar.
Sorry, I didn't think I wasgoing to get out of that S sound
Sugar I think I had.
I don't know what happenedthere.
I lost consciousness for aminute.
You kind of sounded likeProfessor Frank.
Do you know Professor Frankfrom the Simpsons?
Oh, I don't know, I don't know,I don't know.
(06:34):
That was like Arnold.
Well, that's a little, yeah, alittle.
Arnold.
Arnold Fink yeah, a little bit.
No, professor Frank, that'sfunny.
No, that's funny.
You were saying about thedecadence.
I was saying that it has alittle bit of a there's almost
to me, there's almost a littlebit of an alcohol type of flavor
(06:56):
to some maple syrups.
Yeah, you know what I'm sayingMm-hmm, and so this carries that
, obviously, because, becauseit's actually alcohol, but it
has a little bit of that.
We were drinking alcohol.
Oh, I can't have that, justkidding.
Oh, are we going to talk aboutother weird things that people
say, yeah, okay, um, really bad.
(07:19):
Is that one of our topics?
Apparently it is.
Might be the topic today whatwe're talking about.
We'll see.
We'll see how this goes.
So then I gotta tell you astory.
Okay, I learned.
So these, I, I had never foundthis bottle before and I was
talked into it.
And so I, this turned into acelebratory bottle because
somebody talked me into it,somebody talked you into a
(07:40):
celebration, try this thing.
And I was like you know what?
It's 90?
My rule is, if it's over 60, Igot to try it first before I
spend.
Yeah, an additional 30.
No, no, no, if it's over 60.
So you're worried about $30 ofcash, is what you're saying.
No, okay, I'm worried about allof it.
Oh, just any amount.
What if it's 61?
Then 60, and if it's 90, I haveto try it before.
(08:06):
That is a hard boundary.
I am not good at boundaries.
I just I say 60 just to kind ofkeep myself level.
Now, if it's a bourbon I know,or a brand I know, or something
that I've, you've tried, veryfamiliar with, or if I've tried
it, I will, I'll pull thetrigger.
But since I hadn't had this one, well, you don't have to shoot
anything.
You just buy it.
You don't have to shoot it.
That's just, that's violentphil.
No, pulling the trigger is notjust you can pull the trigger on
(08:30):
a water nozzle, you could pullthe trigger on any sort of
nozzle, sort of really everynozzle.
Wherever a nozzle is, itprobably has somewhat of a
trigger.
This is kind of like a trigger.
Okay, yeah, all right here,good point.
Yeah, thank you, funny man.
So so this one is sitting therelike 80 or $90 and I'm like I
(08:54):
don't know that I can do it, butI had just like gotten a new
job and there was like somereally good stuff happening and
I was like you know what I'mgonna treat myself, I deserve
this.
I went back in and I bought thebottle.
You bought not only that, butyou bought the.
You were in a real like I'mgonna treat myself mood.
You were like treat yourself,treat yourself to decadence and
perfection.
(09:14):
Yes, because that's what youbought, because that's what I
bought.
So then I, then I I try it andI'm like, oh, this is really,
this is fantastic.
And then I learn about the CrownMaple Syrup.
Sorry, how did I Get this?
Okay, I'm getting it.
Crown Maple Syrup.
They have a variant of theirmaple syrup that's aged in the
(09:37):
whiskey barrels that this comesfrom.
What?
Yes, wait a second Uh-huh thatthat exact one comes from.
So let me get this straight.
Yes, crown maple syrup makesmaple syrup in a barrel.
Then Widow Jane or whatever,what is it called?
Widow Jane?
Widow Jane decides we're goingto take that barrel from the
maple syrup, we're going to pourour whiskey in it, we're going
(09:59):
to finish it in that, finish it,yeah.
Then Crown goes well, fine.
Well.
Then Kron goes well, fine.
Well, we're going to take ourbarrel back then and put more
maple syrup in that, yeah.
And then we're going to bottlethat up and we're going to sell
it as bourbon barrel aged maplesyrup and also maple syrup.
Bourbon barrel aged maple syrupRight, but why doesn't Widow
(10:19):
Jane go?
You can play at this game.
We're going to take our barrelback from the barrel that you
barreled and barreled that webarreled, and we're going to
barrel it in that barrel.
Yeah, well, I'm pretty surethey do.
So they do, but they can't callit bourbon because it has to be
new.
They finish it in those.
So they start by brand newbarrel so they can keep
(10:41):
finishing it.
They start with a brand newbarrel and then that brand new
barrel is now not able to beused for anything except for
other things, finishing, no.
So what they do is then theytake that barrel that just had
the Widow Jane in it, theregular whiskey, and they say,
well, let's put some maple syrupin there.
So once they pull that maplesyrup out and they bottle that
(11:04):
up as bourbon barrel aged maplesyrup, then they throw the
whiskey into that barrel again,and that's where they age yes,
and that's where this comes fromis it's finished in those maple
syrup barrels?
Now, those maple syrup, themaple syrup, where is it?
A friend?
I, a friend, gave me a bottle,not this friend, no, a different
(11:27):
Matt.
Actually, really, hi, matt,different friend.
We should probably have him onBrother.
Brother, he could be my brother.
He's not Just because he'snamed Matt.
That's not usually how it works, though, because you don't name
the same kid, two kids, thesame name.
I mean, there's Maybe my name'sdaryl, my brother daryl.
Anyway, anyways, he gave youthe syrup, he gave me the syrup,
(11:51):
and I might have alreadyfinished the bottle.
You drank the whole thing inone sitting, didn't you?
No, oh no, you bought multiple,multiple mornings I've been
putting in my coffee.
Oh yeah, that is good.
It is so tasty.
It is so tasty.
I know what we're talking about.
This episode is just going to becalled decadence, okay, and
(12:14):
we're just going to talk aboutdecadent things.
Okay, like so then, so theother thing that we're going to
try at some point we'll have to,we'll have to kind of uh huh.
I was going to say reprise thisrole again, but I said reprise,
I think in the last episode andI feel like maybe I said it
earlier.
I think you said refries, likerefry it.
(12:36):
Have you ever fried fries?
It's interesting.
No, continue.
But we're going to have toreprise this one and bring it
back and do the Widow's what isit called this one?
And bring it back and do theWidows Jane, old Fashioned.
Oh, with maple syrup, with theirmaple syrup.
It's the decadence, and themaple syrup a little bit of
bitters.
What they should do, theyshould take those bitters and
(12:59):
they should put it in a maplesyrup burl Burl.
Is that maple syrup burl?
Maple syrup burl Is that asyrup barrel?
Maple syrup barrel Is that abarrel?
Is that a barrel that has beenalready like?
Is it a bourbon barrel?
No, it's the maple syrupbourbon barrel.
So it's been mapled andbourboned.
(13:19):
You know what they should do,what?
They should put cherries inthere?
Ooh, age the cherries, age thecherries.
Then make the bitters.
What if they drop the cherriesin there?
Oh, age the cherries, age thecherries.
Then make the bitters.
What if they drop the cherriesin the maple syrup?
Maple syrup, cherries I'm down,let's go for it.
And then put that into thebarrel.
We should get pancakes afterthis, we should.
I mean it kind of.
So I'll tell you one thing.
(13:40):
Tell me one thing that I'vebeen into lately, if you can't
tell, oh, pancakes, maple syrup,yeah, yeah.
Well, the last couple oldfashions we've done.
I've heard maple syrup hassugar in it.
Does it have sugar in it?
Yes, and I love it.
Then I love it.
I have gotten, I've reallygotten into, uh, whiskeys that
are finished in other barrelsyes, I know this.
(14:02):
Um and burp, and bourbons aswell.
I mean bourbons, finish it.
But I've kind of been into someof those different flavor
profiles.
So maybe that's going to be thetheme of our first few episodes
.
Oh, the finishes, because I'vegot some.
No, I'm saying it weird, Iagree.
Okay, like prickly pear, whatFinish in a prickly pear barrel?
(14:25):
Finishing the prickly pear?
No, barrel rum barrels.
Right, maple honey.
Do you want more?
I'm just learning that they'rebarreling a lot of stuff.
I didn't realize thateverything was barreled like.
Why don't you barrel water?
Do they barrel water?
They probably do.
Yes, really.
Oh.
Yeah, I mean not to age it, but, yeah, how do you think they
(14:46):
move it around?
Well, you can't age water.
I mean I guess you can.
Could could you age water?
Disgusting, that's gross.
There's dirty water.
Huh, dirty, dirty water.
Yeah, yeah, I like that idea.
No, this is fantastic, it'sreally good.
Yeah, I think I'm getting moreof the, the mate, like I'm
getting more of that syrup as Igo, like what's lingering after
(15:10):
and even that the mouth feel ofit is kind of reminds me of like
a thin syrup, because I've had,like, um, at these different
like not a farmer's market, butuh, indianapolis state fair,
they have this um pioneervillage, yeah, and they make
maple syrup there and they havemaple.
Do they make the maple syrup ordo they just tap no tree?
Well, they have, like, it'slike all made there, so they do
(15:33):
it.
And at the market, yeah, likethey bring a tree.
Yes, there's like, and they tapthe tree, they bring the tree,
they replant the tree.
They've tapped some tree tree.
What tree does maple syrup comefrom?
I'm pretty sure it's oak.
I think it's a fig tree,because, you know, fig has sugar
in it.
(15:53):
Oh, my goodness, can I tell yousomething?
Tell me something.
I'm going to tell you somethingelse.
I said one thing earlier.
I'm going to tell you anotherthing now.
I tried a whiskey the other day.
Did we try this whiskey here onthe show?
(16:14):
It's the fig with the fig.
Yeah, it's the.
We did field rye.
We did the field rye on theshow.
Yes, it's right over there.
Oh, yeah, I know, but, likeeveryone, makes my eczema
breakout.
Oh, really, yeah, it's so sure.
I'll take it off your hand.
Okay, you can actually have it.
I will gift it to you short.
I'll take it off your hand.
Okay, you can actually have it.
I will gift it to you.
I will take it off your handbecause the other one fell off
from the leprosy.
Poor leprosies, just lepers.
(16:35):
Oh, you don't call themleprosies.
No, okay, I call them lepers,lepers, those are the little
animals that like right, yeah,running with the spots.
Yeah, yep, um, what were wegoing to talk about?
Decadence?
Oh, self-indulgent, what isyour?
Okay?
Here's, if I'm going toself-indulge on, I'm thinking
(16:56):
just food, food.
Really, are you hungry?
Yeah, I am.
I think I'm hungry.
I had, you know, uh, theleftovers of the corn beef and
all that.
Oh, that sounds so good.
I mean, corn beef is good, it'snot.
You know, the leftovers of thecorned beef and all that, oh,
that sounds so good.
I mean, corned beef is good,it's not.
You know, I wouldn't just go belike, hey, I want some corned
beef Now, pastrami yes, I willbe there for pastrami, isn't
that corned beef?
(17:16):
I think so.
I don't actually know.
I actually asked this question.
I was like, what's thedifference between corn people?
Who did you ask?
Madison?
I was like she didn't know.
Well, if I didn't go tosomebody that knows well, I
thought, you know she has irishheritage, so I thought she might
know.
Yeah, but pastrami is thejewish heritage.
Yeah, uh, chat gpt would havehelped you.
Well, that's true, yeah, Idon't really talk to anybody
(17:39):
else other than chat gpt.
Well, and your wife who doesn'tknow the difference?
No, no, just talk to Chachapiti.
But so, if I'm going to indulge,you know it's rich, it's like
cheesecake, or really, to meit's key lime pie.
Okay, yeah, key lime pie.
And I don't know what's yourlike indulging.
(18:00):
Well, okay, no, that's notindulging.
Well, like decadence, solikeadence.
So like to me, like cremebrulee, good love it.
That is a decadent dessert tome.
Okay, what's your, what's yourdecadent dessert?
We're gonna hit some themes.
We're gonna talk about food,we're gonna talk about clothes,
(18:20):
we're gonna talk aboutentertainment.
Decadent in in all areas oflife.
We might as well.
All right, well, yeah, allright, okay, this is good, okay,
uh, where do I?
What are my indulgences?
What is, um, when it comes tofood, what is the most indulging
or decadent thing that youenjoy?
Oh, man, uh, it's really like atoss up there because, like you
(18:44):
know, I mean it's probablysteak.
Right, steak to me, I thinkit's like a really is steak
decadent.
I don't know what would you?
When I hear the word decadent,I just almost see like a fairy
skipping through the clouds.
Is that not what decadence is?
No, I guess decadence does havea sweet, a classiness, a sweet
(19:10):
connotation to it, doesn't it?
Maybe I don't know, but itcould be steak.
We should ask your wife, whowon't know.
We could ask Chad GPT.
I could call my wife and see ifshe has any idea.
She'll be like what are youtalking about, decadence.
So I would say we're going to.
It's not rooted in the realdefinition.
If we go with like a decadentdessert, then it's probably like
(19:35):
a.
It's probably in the chocolaterange.
I mean I would imagine thatlike a chocolate cake.
For sure Decadent would be inthat place.
That place, I mean, like I'mreally thinking about gorging
myself, like it's probably, it'sactually probably.
Um, there is a, there is a cakepie, ice cream combination
(19:59):
called um, it's called themacadamia nut pie and it's ice
cream what.
And it's like Gibson's and it'sgot macadamia nuts and caramel
chocolate ice cream.
It is incredibly Decadent,decadent.
(20:19):
It's very, very good.
That sounds-, which is weird,because I would have said the
bone-in ribeye from Gibson'swould have been decadent.
Sounds decadent, right?
Yeah, so when I indulge, that'swhere I go Like, hey, we really
want to indulge, yeah, it's.
Let's go to Gibson's and get asteak, a nice steak, get a
couple glasses of whiskey, right, and the macadamia nut turtle
(20:43):
pie maybe, oh, turtle, themacadamia nut turtle pie, maybe
a turtle, anything, I think it'sturtle pie, which has nothing
to do with turtles.
No, somebody squeezed a turtleand like brown goo came out or
something, and they're like oh,this reminds me of that caramel
I had, but like I don't.
Yeah, no, I don't, I don't know.
So those are, those are thethings.
Okay, yeah, what about decadent?
If you're gonna say clothing,like if you were to dress
(21:05):
decadently, for me that feelslike comfort, comfort, like I
would want like a reallycomfortable fit, I don't know,
like you're at a spa, no, notreally Because there's a spa,
I'm just taking all of it off.
Well, what kind of spa are yougoing to Remind me never to go
to the spa with you?
(21:26):
Well, I mean, I'm not going tobe wearing a bunch of clothes.
I might be in a robe, adecadent robe, would you say.
But I'm saying, if it's clothes, I'd like a really comfortable
sweatshirt and, you know, comfypants.
I don't know.
You're describing every overlyexerted stay-at-home mom, okay,
(21:52):
which we've now lost as alistener.
Oh, come on, matt, like we everhad one.
Oh, that's true.
Yeah, that's true.
Come on, my wife doesn't evenlisten to this.
Yeah, I don't know, clothes areweird, okay, I don't know
clothes.
Yeah, clothes are weird.
Okay, I don't know that I woulddecadent.
Clothing to me would be.
I would say like it would haveto still be comfortable, yeah,
(22:14):
but like, look really fancy.
Well, that's kind of what I wassaying.
Yeah, I don't know, like, I'mnot saying silky, flowy, okay,
but I guess silk like a puffyshirt, I don't know.
I'm not saying I'm not thinkinglike ross and his leather pants
from friends, like I'm.
I'm saying like and, but I'mnot thinking like juan pierre
either.
You know, like with his flowywhite shirt on his you know
(22:39):
black stallion coming across thebeach here.
Yeah, it's this guy that I hate.
Wasn't't he a baseball player?
I think he was, but it's nothim, it's just any man in any
foreign country.
That was a potential threat inmy days of feeling insecure.
Okay, so they were called JuanPierre, I think.
(23:02):
For me it would be being able todress like James Bond, oh, yeah
, oh yeah, see, that's it, butlike a comfortable suit.
But not just the suit, it'salso like I think of Christina
Royale.
Yeah, royale, that's how yousay the word.
Yeah, that's what I said, yousaid Royale.
I just said it fast.
(23:22):
Sorry, dang it.
I'm so mean sometimes when itcomes to enunciation of words, I
can get real nasty.
Yeah, it's nasty.
I apologize.
That's good, that's good.
Well, in Casino Royale, is it aroyale with cheese?
(23:44):
Yeah, okay, is it a royale withcheese?
Yeah, okay, he dresses downreally well, which is
interesting.
Like he's dressed down, but hestill looks like James Bond.
He's still decadent and that,to me, that might be the
ultimate there.
What is the most decadentactivity?
(24:06):
Hmm, wow, that's a really goodquestion.
Do you have one in mind?
Well, okay, maybe I'm thinkingspecifically when I hear the
word decadence immediately Idon't know why it just reminds
me of golf.
Why?
Why?
(24:31):
Probably because you have thisinflated sense of golf being, um
, like an impossible sport thatyou have to have like an immense
amount of skill and and then,typically after hole nine, you
have to be able to composeyourself still and keep going
upset and throw the clubs at abird.
Okay, yes, all right, yeah, andby bird I mean the caddy that
will no longer be with us, right, right, I think you know, in a
lot of people's minds, golf issort of an elitist type of sport
(24:54):
and it like but it is, it is,it can be decadent.
I mean, you're sitting there,it is, but would you say it's
more decadent than fencing?
I wouldn't say fencing isdecadent.
I would say fencing is forpeople that are like what about
polo?
Oh, polo is decadent for sure.
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Yeah, that's definitely adecadent sport.
See, golf is attainable.
Golf might not be at decadentlevel.
It might be quite well, itmight be quite delightful.
It might be delightful.
I think golf is delightful.
Is what that is?
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Yes, okay, golf is delightful.
Decadent would be.
I played golf with you.
It was not at all delightful.
You would not be able toconvince me that you thought
golf was delightful.
No, this is golf.
Anybody you ask hey, did you gogolfing today?
Yeah, how was it?
It was good.
That's golf.
Yeah, and you know it was good.
Yeah, when your voice goes uplike that, you're like I had a
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good time.
No, it sucked.
Why?
Because every ball I hit Idon't know where it is.
That's why and there are lessbirds now in the greater McHenry
County area, because of mycrappy golf season.
I can't wait for golf season tokick back off.
Let's go.
No, you're not invited.
This is not Dang it.
We need to get you some lessons.
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I wonder how much money you'vespent on me, on golf, on me.
Probably not a lot.
Probably not a lot.
All right, no, let's step it up.
Come on, see, like the decadencepart of it, like, yes, if
you're talking about countryclubs and all that kind of stuff
.
But but that's not the golfthat that I play, or that we
play, or certainly not, or thatI'm allowed at.
You're not allowed there.
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No, absolutely not.
I do have a country club shirtthat I got at the thrift store.
It just says Country Club.
No, it's just for all countryclubs.
No, it's the Crystal LakeCountry Club and I'm pretty sure
I'm going to go in and just tryto walk in and see what happens
.
Oh, they're going to see yourbald head and shaved face and
they'll know this guy obviouslycouldn't even afford hair plugs,
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so he doesn't belong here.
Look at his nevis, look at hisnevis.
Show even he can't even get hisnevis all the way down.
You gotta scrape it off, likeif fred took my nevis off last
week.
Frederick, how is frederickanyway?
Uh, decadent, decadence, that'swell, you know.
I don't know if I have adecadent activity, necessarily.
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I mean probably Jacuzzi.
You know what With a champagne?
No, I don't do champagne.
The spa, I would say, would bedecadent, though I think you're
right.
Yeah, I think there could besome decadence.
A spa, I think indulgence isprobably a little bit easier to
understand than decadence.
I don't really know whatdecadence means.
Decadence who really knows whatdecadence means?
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I mean, the word decade is init and then it's just nce.
Ooh, that's a good point.
So is there some sort oftimelessness to it?
It's a decadence, decadence.
Yes, the Widow Jane decadence,it's decadence.
Maybe we've been saying thatDecadence.
Well, speaking of Widows, thisis really good.
Yeah, wid.
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Speaking of widows, this isreally good.
Yeah, widow Jane, widow Jane,wait, it is Widow Jane.
It is Widow Jane.
Widow Jane, decadence.
It is aged to perfection.
If you're looking for a whiskeystamp of approval, this one's
got it At $90,.
If you can find it, I woulddefinitely pick it up.
And if you find the CrownBourbon Barrel, agbon barrel
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aged maple syrup, go ahead andpick that one up as well.
25, put it in your cart andpurchase it.
25, I've seen it at costco.
I've even seen it on amazon.
Don't bring amazon on this.
I've even seen it at costco.
Okay, um.
And and there may be onlineretailers that you could order
through and get it in two days.
Yeah, get it.
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Potentially Free shipping.
I love it.
If you're a member, I'm a member, what's up?
Oh, I see what you did there.
If you're like in your prime,and you can order it.
Perhaps maybe you've been tothe jungle like in the Amazon.
Well, this was really good,matt, thank you.
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Thank you, what did you thinkof me before I didn't do
anything?
No, I appreciate you.
Well, I appreciate you, phil.
Okay, all right, bye-bye, seeyou Next time on Whiskey Bits.
That was good, that was good.
You did it, phil.
You did a good intro, thank you.
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So, are you ready?
Yeah, but you know, are youready?
We're doing this right, like,we just need to say officially
we are doing a full, anotheryear of episodes.
We're ready to go.
Yeah, we're hitting the.
Let's do it the ground running,let's do it.
Let's do it.
Okay To another year, toanother year, okay, okay, let's
do it the ground running, let'sdo it.
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Let's do it Okay To anotheryear, to another year.
Okay, okay, ready for somesmell?
I don't even know what we'redoing.
Okay, let's switch it up alittle bit.
Oh, what do you smell?
Okay, hey, thanks for tuning into Whiskey Bits.
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listen to.
So, phil, yeah, I feel like last episode we just
talked a ton about me.
Is that what we normally do?
Yeah, oh gosh.
No, I don't know if we do ornot, but I think we can talk
about you again.
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You don't want to talk aboutyou.
What my uncle used to say usedto say, like I am tired of
hearing myself talk what do youthink of me?
Oh, what do I think of you?
Is that a joke?
Did I miss a joke?
Again?
As always, roll the intro, ohgosh.
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Welcome to whiskey bits withmatt and phil, where we sip on
everyday whiskeys and find thefunny in our everyday lives.
What did you bring today?
So today we've got the WidowJane Decadence.
Oh, it sounds so fancy.
It is so fancy.
Age to perfection.
This is a blend of straightbourbon whiskeys finished in
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maple syrup barrels.
This is the Widow Jane.
Come on, this is batch 29,bottle 588.
That makes perfect sense.
Has a date of 2024.
This is date 2024.
That's just the whole year.
45 and a half percent.
So this is a 91 proof 91.
Wow, so it's really low proof91.
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Wow, so it's really low proof91.
Yeah, yeah, I mean the lowestyou can get and still be bourbon
, it's 80.
Oh, you're right.
Yeah, so this is 90.
One One.
Hey, nice shirt.
Can I tell you something?
Yep, there is no other word todescribe this Decadence.
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We took some of our legendarybarrels and finished them.
Sorry, let me read that again.
Wait, hold on, you're readingthat.
That's what they said.
There's no other word, widowJane.
Decadence Okay, there's noother word to describe this.
We took some of our legendarybourbons and finished them in
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barrels that held New York'sfinest artisanal.
Why is artisanal so funny?
I don't know.
It's good Artisanal maple syrupfrom Crown Maple.
The result is a rich, creamy,smooth and slightly sweet
mouthful of whiskey flavor.
That is way beyond good.
Way beyond good.
It's decadent.
Hey, I like it.
Like you know, I I will say,but it's also aged to perfection
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.
It is.
How did they get that?
How did they age it toperfection?
Well, wait till you try it, allright.
So this again, we're, you know,season two.
We're starting off with maybe alittle bit harder to find
whiskeys, break some rules thatare still out there and like,
hey, we're going to try itbecause we found it.
And if you are wondering,should I drop $80 on that bottle
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of whiskey?
I want to be able to tell youwhether or not you should, right
.
So that's what we're going todo here.
We're going to try some thatare a little bit harder to find,
but you do see these on theshelf.
They do pop up every once in awhile.
That's a good point.
Uh, I like that.
That's a good theme.
You like that?
I do, I like that.
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey easy,whoa, hey, hey, easy bud, wow,
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whoa.
You know, I just treating themicrophone equipment like it's
1995.
Not, I don't know, I don't knowwhat you're saying.
That doesn't mean, but let'ssniff it.
Sniff it, not the microphone.
I guess you could.
Okay, you know what this smellslike to me Apple Decadence.
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I should have known, because tome it smells like perfection.
I bet you say that to all theboys.
So what's really cool?
So they age this in those crownmaple syrup barrels.
First of all, they put maplesyrup in barrels.
I didn't know that.
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They just put everything inbarrels.
So they age this in maple.
They, I didn't know that.
Yeah, yeah, just put everythingin barrels.
Okay, yeah, so they age this inmaple.
They finish it in maple syrupbarrels.
Does it say how long they keepit in there for.
It does not say how long itstays in there for, but I mean,
you can smell it's sweet, likeyou can smell the caramelly.
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It's sweet.
I'm not getting the maple smellbut, like I would imagine,
you're not getting a.
You don't smell syrup.
I don't smell like the maplesyrup.
I don't go around, phil, in thegrocery stores.
I mean, get your nose in there.
I don't go open up bottles ofsyrup and smell them.
You will.
Now I will actually, if I tellmyself it's, I'm getting.
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There's a little bit of thatsweetness that I'm smelling that
could have that maple-y.
Yeah, alright, I'm really hopingit's very good.
It's not just very good, it'svery good, it's just very good.
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It's very good.
It's decadent, it's perfectionin regards to ageness.
In all seriousness, is it notjust profoundly deep?
Is this isn't a wine podcast,phil?
Like there is so much the tasteon the tip of my tongue.
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There's so much body in this.
Oh, all right, yes, yes, thereis a slight syrupy.
Is yeah to it.
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It's not as it doesn't attackyou, it's not as up front, but
it is there.
It's almost like on the underside of the tongue.
Yeah, in a weird way of sayinglike if you, if you had syrup
and let it sit in your mouth yes, I see what you're saying, you
know, like that's kind of yeah,because maple syrup tends to
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have, like yes, it's very sweet,pure sugar.
Sorry, I didn't think I wasgoing to get out of that S sound
Sugar I think I had.
I don't know what happenedthere.
I lost consciousness for aminute.
You kind of sounded likeProfessor Frank.
Do you know Professor Frankfrom the Simpsons?
Oh, I don't know, I don't know,I don't know.
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That was like Arnold.
Well, that's a little, yeah, alittle.
Arnold.
Arnold Fink yeah, a little bit.
No, professor Frank, that'sfunny.
No, that's funny.
You were saying about thedecadence.
I was saying that it has alittle bit of a there's almost
to me, there's almost a littlebit of an alcohol type of flavor
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to some maple syrups.
Yeah, you know what I'm sayingMm-hmm, and so this carries that
, obviously, because, becauseit's actually alcohol, but it
has a little bit of that.
We were drinking alcohol.
Oh, I can't have that, justkidding.
Oh, are we going to talk aboutother weird things that people
say, yeah, okay, um, really bad.
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Is that one of our topics?
Apparently it is.
Might be the topic today whatwe're talking about.
We'll see.
We'll see how this goes.
So then I gotta tell you astory.
Okay, I learned.
So these, I, I had never foundthis bottle before and I was
talked into it.
And so I, this turned into acelebratory bottle because
somebody talked me into it,somebody talked you into a
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celebration, try this thing.
And I was like you know what?
It's 90?
My rule is, if it's over 60, Igot to try it first before I
spend.
Yeah, an additional 30.
No, no, no, if it's over 60.
So you're worried about $30 ofcash, is what you're saying.
No, okay, I'm worried about allof it.
Oh, just any amount.
What if it's 61?
Then 60, and if it's 90, I haveto try it before.
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That is a hard boundary.
I am not good at boundaries.
I just I say 60 just to kind ofkeep myself level.
Now, if it's a bourbon I know,or a brand I know, or something
that I've, you've tried, veryfamiliar with, or if I've tried
it, I will, I'll pull thetrigger.
But since I hadn't had this one, well, you don't have to shoot
anything.
You just buy it.
You don't have to shoot it.
That's just, that's violentphil.
No, pulling the trigger is notjust you can pull the trigger on
(08:30):
a water nozzle, you could pullthe trigger on any sort of
nozzle, sort of really everynozzle.
Wherever a nozzle is, itprobably has somewhat of a
trigger.
This is kind of like a trigger.
Okay, yeah, all right here,good point.
Yeah, thank you, funny man.
So so this one is sitting therelike 80 or $90 and I'm like I
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don't know that I can do it, butI had just like gotten a new
job and there was like somereally good stuff happening and
I was like you know what I'mgonna treat myself, I deserve
this.
I went back in and I bought thebottle.
You bought not only that, butyou bought the.
You were in a real like I'mgonna treat myself mood.
You were like treat yourself,treat yourself to decadence and
perfection.
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Yes, because that's what youbought, because that's what I
bought.
So then I, then I I try it andI'm like, oh, this is really,
this is fantastic.
And then I learn about the CrownMaple Syrup.
Sorry, how did I Get this?
Okay, I'm getting it.
Crown Maple Syrup.
They have a variant of theirmaple syrup that's aged in the
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whiskey barrels that this comesfrom.
What?
Yes, wait a second Uh-huh thatthat exact one comes from.
So let me get this straight.
Yes, crown maple syrup makesmaple syrup in a barrel.
Then Widow Jane or whatever,what is it called?
Widow Jane?
Widow Jane decides we're goingto take that barrel from the
maple syrup, we're going to pourour whiskey in it, we're going
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to finish it in that, finish it,yeah.
Then Crown goes well, fine.
Well.
Then Kron goes well, fine.
Well, we're going to take ourbarrel back then and put more
maple syrup in that, yeah.
And then we're going to bottlethat up and we're going to sell
it as bourbon barrel aged maplesyrup and also maple syrup.
Bourbon barrel aged maple syrupRight, but why doesn't Widow
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Jane go?
You can play at this game.
We're going to take our barrelback from the barrel that you
barreled and barreled that webarreled, and we're going to
barrel it in that barrel.
Yeah, well, I'm pretty surethey do.
So they do, but they can't callit bourbon because it has to be
new.
They finish it in those.
So they start by brand newbarrel so they can keep
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finishing it.
They start with a brand newbarrel and then that brand new
barrel is now not able to beused for anything except for
other things, finishing, no.
So what they do is then theytake that barrel that just had
the Widow Jane in it, theregular whiskey, and they say,
well, let's put some maple syrupin there.
So once they pull that maplesyrup out and they bottle that
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up as bourbon barrel aged maplesyrup, then they throw the
whiskey into that barrel again,and that's where they age yes,
and that's where this comes fromis it's finished in those maple
syrup barrels?
Now, those maple syrup, themaple syrup, where is it?
A friend?
I, a friend, gave me a bottle,not this friend, no, a different
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Matt.
Actually, really, hi, matt,different friend.
We should probably have him onBrother.
Brother, he could be my brother.
He's not Just because he'snamed Matt.
That's not usually how it works, though, because you don't name
the same kid, two kids, thesame name.
I mean, there's Maybe my name'sdaryl, my brother daryl.
Anyway, anyways, he gave youthe syrup, he gave me the syrup,
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and I might have alreadyfinished the bottle.
You drank the whole thing inone sitting, didn't you?
No, oh no, you bought multiple,multiple mornings I've been
putting in my coffee.
Oh yeah, that is good.
It is so tasty.
It is so tasty.
I know what we're talking about.
This episode is just going to becalled decadence, okay, and
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we're just going to talk aboutdecadent things.
Okay, like so then, so theother thing that we're going to
try at some point we'll have to,we'll have to kind of uh huh.
I was going to say reprise thisrole again, but I said reprise,
I think in the last episode andI feel like maybe I said it
earlier.
I think you said refries, likerefry it.
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Have you ever fried fries?
It's interesting.
No, continue.
But we're going to have toreprise this one and bring it
back and do the Widow's what isit called this one?
And bring it back and do theWidows Jane, old Fashioned.
Oh, with maple syrup, with theirmaple syrup.
It's the decadence, and themaple syrup a little bit of
bitters.
What they should do, theyshould take those bitters and
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they should put it in a maplesyrup burl Burl.
Is that maple syrup burl?
Maple syrup burl Is that asyrup barrel?
Maple syrup barrel Is that abarrel?
Is that a barrel that has beenalready like?
Is it a bourbon barrel?
No, it's the maple syrupbourbon barrel.
So it's been mapled andbourboned.
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You know what they should do,what?
They should put cherries inthere?
Ooh, age the cherries, age thecherries.
Then make the bitters.
What if they drop the cherriesin there?
Oh, age the cherries, age thecherries.
Then make the bitters.
What if they drop the cherriesin the maple syrup?
Maple syrup, cherries I'm down,let's go for it.
And then put that into thebarrel.
We should get pancakes afterthis, we should.
I mean it kind of.
So I'll tell you one thing.
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Tell me one thing that I'vebeen into lately, if you can't
tell, oh, pancakes, maple syrup,yeah, yeah.
Well, the last couple oldfashions we've done.
I've heard maple syrup hassugar in it.
Does it have sugar in it?
Yes, and I love it.
Then I love it.
I have gotten, I've reallygotten into, uh, whiskeys that
are finished in other barrelsyes, I know this.
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Um and burp, and bourbons aswell.
I mean bourbons, finish it.
But I've kind of been into someof those different flavor
profiles.
So maybe that's going to be thetheme of our first few episodes
.
Oh, the finishes, because I'vegot some.
No, I'm saying it weird, Iagree.
Okay, like prickly pear, whatFinish in a prickly pear barrel?
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Finishing the prickly pear?
No, barrel rum barrels.
Right, maple honey.
Do you want more?
I'm just learning that they'rebarreling a lot of stuff.
I didn't realize thateverything was barreled like.
Why don't you barrel water?
Do they barrel water?
They probably do.
Yes, really.
Oh.
Yeah, I mean not to age it, but, yeah, how do you think they
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move it around?
Well, you can't age water.
I mean I guess you can.
Could could you age water?
Disgusting, that's gross.
There's dirty water.
Huh, dirty, dirty water.
Yeah, yeah, I like that idea.
No, this is fantastic, it'sreally good.
Yeah, I think I'm getting moreof the, the mate, like I'm
getting more of that syrup as Igo, like what's lingering after
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and even that the mouth feel ofit is kind of reminds me of like
a thin syrup, because I've had,like, um, at these different
like not a farmer's market, butuh, indianapolis state fair,
they have this um pioneervillage, yeah, and they make
maple syrup there and they havemaple.
Do they make the maple syrup ordo they just tap no tree?
Well, they have, like, it'slike all made there, so they do
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it.
And at the market, yeah, likethey bring a tree.
Yes, there's like, and they tapthe tree, they bring the tree,
they replant the tree.
They've tapped some tree tree.
What tree does maple syrup comefrom?
I'm pretty sure it's oak.
I think it's a fig tree,because, you know, fig has sugar
in it.
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Oh, my goodness, can I tell yousomething?
Tell me something.
I'm going to tell you somethingelse.
I said one thing earlier.
I'm going to tell you anotherthing now.
I tried a whiskey the other day.
Did we try this whiskey here onthe show?
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It's the fig with the fig.
Yeah, it's the.
We did field rye.
We did the field rye on theshow.
Yes, it's right over there.
Oh, yeah, I know, but, likeeveryone, makes my eczema
breakout.
Oh, really, yeah, it's so sure.
I'll take it off your hand.
Okay, you can actually have it.
I will gift it to you short.
I'll take it off your hand.
Okay, you can actually have it.
I will gift it to you.
I will take it off your handbecause the other one fell off
from the leprosy.
Poor leprosies, just lepers.
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Oh, you don't call themleprosies.
No, okay, I call them lepers,lepers, those are the little
animals that like right, yeah,running with the spots.
Yeah, yep, um, what were wegoing to talk about?
Decadence?
Oh, self-indulgent, what isyour?
Okay?
Here's, if I'm going toself-indulge on, I'm thinking
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just food, food.
Really, are you hungry?
Yeah, I am.
I think I'm hungry.
I had, you know, uh, theleftovers of the corn beef and
all that.
Oh, that sounds so good.
I mean, corn beef is good, it'snot.
You know, the leftovers of thecorned beef and all that, oh,
that sounds so good.
I mean, corned beef is good,it's not.
You know, I wouldn't just go belike, hey, I want some corned
beef Now, pastrami yes, I willbe there for pastrami, isn't
that corned beef?
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I think so.
I don't actually know.
I actually asked this question.
I was like, what's thedifference between corn people?
Who did you ask?
Madison?
I was like she didn't know.
Well, if I didn't go tosomebody that knows well, I
thought, you know she has irishheritage, so I thought she might
know.
Yeah, but pastrami is thejewish heritage.
Yeah, uh, chat gpt would havehelped you.
Well, that's true, yeah, Idon't really talk to anybody
(17:39):
else other than chat gpt.
Well, and your wife who doesn'tknow the difference?
No, no, just talk to Chachapiti.
But so, if I'm going to indulge,you know it's rich, it's like
cheesecake, or really, to meit's key lime pie.
Okay, yeah, key lime pie.
And I don't know what's yourlike indulging.
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Well, okay, no, that's notindulging.
Well, like decadence, solikeadence.
So like to me, like cremebrulee, good love it.
That is a decadent dessert tome.
Okay, what's your, what's yourdecadent dessert?
We're gonna hit some themes.
We're gonna talk about food,we're gonna talk about clothes,
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we're gonna talk aboutentertainment.
Decadent in in all areas oflife.
We might as well.
All right, well, yeah, allright, okay, this is good, okay,
uh, where do I?
What are my indulgences?
What is, um, when it comes tofood, what is the most indulging
or decadent thing that youenjoy?
Oh, man, uh, it's really like atoss up there because, like you
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know, I mean it's probablysteak.
Right, steak to me, I thinkit's like a really is steak
decadent.
I don't know what would you?
When I hear the word decadent,I just almost see like a fairy
skipping through the clouds.
Is that not what decadence is?
No, I guess decadence does havea sweet, a classiness, a sweet
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connotation to it, doesn't it?
Maybe I don't know, but itcould be steak.
We should ask your wife, whowon't know.
We could ask Chad GPT.
I could call my wife and see ifshe has any idea.
She'll be like what are youtalking about, decadence.
So I would say we're going to.
It's not rooted in the realdefinition.
If we go with like a decadentdessert, then it's probably like
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a.
It's probably in the chocolaterange.
I mean I would imagine thatlike a chocolate cake.
For sure Decadent would be inthat place.
That place, I mean, like I'mreally thinking about gorging
myself, like it's probably, it'sactually probably.
Um, there is a, there is a cakepie, ice cream combination
(19:59):
called um, it's called themacadamia nut pie and it's ice
cream what.
And it's like Gibson's and it'sgot macadamia nuts and caramel
chocolate ice cream.
It is incredibly Decadent,decadent.
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It's very, very good.
That sounds-, which is weird,because I would have said the
bone-in ribeye from Gibson'swould have been decadent.
Sounds decadent, right?
Yeah, so when I indulge, that'swhere I go Like, hey, we really
want to indulge, yeah, it's.
Let's go to Gibson's and get asteak, a nice steak, get a
couple glasses of whiskey, right, and the macadamia nut turtle
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pie maybe, oh, turtle, themacadamia nut turtle pie, maybe
a turtle, anything, I think it'sturtle pie, which has nothing
to do with turtles.
No, somebody squeezed a turtleand like brown goo came out or
something, and they're like oh,this reminds me of that caramel
I had, but like I don't.
Yeah, no, I don't, I don't know.
So those are, those are thethings.
Okay, yeah, what about decadent?
If you're gonna say clothing,like if you were to dress
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decadently, for me that feelslike comfort, comfort, like I
would want like a reallycomfortable fit, I don't know,
like you're at a spa, no, notreally Because there's a spa,
I'm just taking all of it off.
Well, what kind of spa are yougoing to Remind me never to go
to the spa with you?
(21:26):
Well, I mean, I'm not going tobe wearing a bunch of clothes.
I might be in a robe, adecadent robe, would you say.
But I'm saying, if it's clothes, I'd like a really comfortable
sweatshirt and, you know, comfypants.
I don't know.
You're describing every overlyexerted stay-at-home mom, okay,
(21:52):
which we've now lost as alistener.
Oh, come on, matt, like we everhad one.
Oh, that's true.
Yeah, that's true.
Come on, my wife doesn't evenlisten to this.
Yeah, I don't know, clothes areweird, okay, I don't know
clothes.
Yeah, clothes are weird.
Okay, I don't know that I woulddecadent.
Clothing to me would be.
I would say like it would haveto still be comfortable, yeah,
(22:14):
but like, look really fancy.
Well, that's kind of what I wassaying.
Yeah, I don't know, like, I'mnot saying silky, flowy, okay,
but I guess silk like a puffyshirt, I don't know.
I'm not saying I'm not thinkinglike ross and his leather pants
from friends, like I'm.
I'm saying like and, but I'mnot thinking like juan pierre
either.
You know, like with his flowywhite shirt on his you know
(22:39):
black stallion coming across thebeach here.
Yeah, it's this guy that I hate.
Wasn't't he a baseball player?
I think he was, but it's nothim, it's just any man in any
foreign country.
That was a potential threat inmy days of feeling insecure.
Okay, so they were called JuanPierre, I think.
(23:02):
For me it would be being able todress like James Bond, oh, yeah
, oh yeah, see, that's it, butlike a comfortable suit.
But not just the suit, it'salso like I think of Christina
Royale.
Yeah, royale, that's how yousay the word.
Yeah, that's what I said, yousaid Royale.
I just said it fast.
(23:22):
Sorry, dang it.
I'm so mean sometimes when itcomes to enunciation of words, I
can get real nasty.
Yeah, it's nasty.
I apologize.
That's good, that's good.
Well, in Casino Royale, is it aroyale with cheese?
(23:44):
Yeah, okay, is it a royale withcheese?
Yeah, okay, he dresses downreally well, which is
interesting.
Like he's dressed down, but hestill looks like James Bond.
He's still decadent and that,to me, that might be the
ultimate there.
What is the most decadentactivity?
(24:06):
Hmm, wow, that's a really goodquestion.
Do you have one in mind?
Well, okay, maybe I'm thinkingspecifically when I hear the
word decadence immediately Idon't know why it just reminds
me of golf.
Why?
Why?
(24:31):
Probably because you have thisinflated sense of golf being, um
, like an impossible sport thatyou have to have like an immense
amount of skill and and then,typically after hole nine, you
have to be able to composeyourself still and keep going
upset and throw the clubs at abird.
Okay, yes, all right, yeah, andby bird I mean the caddy that
will no longer be with us, right, right, I think you know, in a
lot of people's minds, golf issort of an elitist type of sport
(24:54):
and it like but it is, it is,it can be decadent.
I mean, you're sitting there,it is, but would you say it's
more decadent than fencing?
I wouldn't say fencing isdecadent.
I would say fencing is forpeople that are like what about
polo?
Oh, polo is decadent for sure.
(25:16):
Yeah, that's definitely adecadent sport.
See, golf is attainable.
Golf might not be at decadentlevel.
It might be quite well, itmight be quite delightful.
It might be delightful.
I think golf is delightful.
Is what that is?
(25:36):
Yes, okay, golf is delightful.
Decadent would be.
I played golf with you.
It was not at all delightful.
You would not be able toconvince me that you thought
golf was delightful.
No, this is golf.
Anybody you ask hey, did you gogolfing today?
Yeah, how was it?
It was good.
That's golf.
Yeah, and you know it was good.
Yeah, when your voice goes uplike that, you're like I had a
(25:58):
good time.
No, it sucked.
Why?
Because every ball I hit Idon't know where it is.
That's why and there are lessbirds now in the greater McHenry
County area, because of mycrappy golf season.
I can't wait for golf season tokick back off.
Let's go.
No, you're not invited.
This is not Dang it.
We need to get you some lessons.
(26:20):
I wonder how much money you'vespent on me, on golf, on me.
Probably not a lot.
Probably not a lot.
All right, no, let's step it up.
Come on, see, like the decadencepart of it, like, yes, if
you're talking about countryclubs and all that kind of stuff
.
But but that's not the golfthat that I play, or that we
play, or certainly not, or thatI'm allowed at.
You're not allowed there.
(26:41):
No, absolutely not.
I do have a country club shirtthat I got at the thrift store.
It just says Country Club.
No, it's just for all countryclubs.
No, it's the Crystal LakeCountry Club and I'm pretty sure
I'm going to go in and just tryto walk in and see what happens
.
Oh, they're going to see yourbald head and shaved face and
they'll know this guy obviouslycouldn't even afford hair plugs,
(27:02):
so he doesn't belong here.
Look at his nevis, look at hisnevis.
Show even he can't even get hisnevis all the way down.
You gotta scrape it off, likeif fred took my nevis off last
week.
Frederick, how is frederickanyway?
Uh, decadent, decadence, that'swell, you know.
I don't know if I have adecadent activity, necessarily.
(27:24):
I mean probably Jacuzzi.
You know what With a champagne?
No, I don't do champagne.
The spa, I would say, would bedecadent, though I think you're
right.
Yeah, I think there could besome decadence.
A spa, I think indulgence isprobably a little bit easier to
understand than decadence.
I don't really know whatdecadence means.
Decadence who really knows whatdecadence means?
(27:45):
I mean, the word decade is init and then it's just nce.
Ooh, that's a good point.
So is there some sort oftimelessness to it?
It's a decadence, decadence.
Yes, the Widow Jane decadence,it's decadence.
Maybe we've been saying thatDecadence.
Well, speaking of Widows, thisis really good.
Yeah, wid.
(28:05):
Speaking of widows, this isreally good.
Yeah, widow Jane, widow Jane,wait, it is Widow Jane.
It is Widow Jane.
Widow Jane, decadence.
It is aged to perfection.
If you're looking for a whiskeystamp of approval, this one's
got it At $90,.
If you can find it, I woulddefinitely pick it up.
And if you find the CrownBourbon Barrel, agbon barrel
(28:25):
aged maple syrup, go ahead andpick that one up as well.
25, put it in your cart andpurchase it.
25, I've seen it at costco.
I've even seen it on amazon.
Don't bring amazon on this.
I've even seen it at costco.
Okay, um.
And and there may be onlineretailers that you could order
through and get it in two days.
Yeah, get it.
(28:46):
Potentially Free shipping.
I love it.
If you're a member, I'm a member, what's up?
Oh, I see what you did there.
If you're like in your prime,and you can order it.
Perhaps maybe you've been tothe jungle like in the Amazon.
Well, this was really good,matt, thank you.
(29:06):
Thank you, what did you thinkof me before I didn't do
anything?
No, I appreciate you.
Well, I appreciate you, phil.
Okay, all right, bye-bye, seeyou Next time on Whiskey Bits.
That was good, that was good.
You did it, phil.
You did a good intro, thank you.
(29:28):
So, are you ready?
Yeah, but you know, are youready?
We're doing this right, like,we just need to say officially
we are doing a full, anotheryear of episodes.
We're ready to go.
Yeah, we're hitting the.
Let's do it the ground running,let's do it.
Let's do it.
Okay To another year, toanother year, okay, okay, let's
do it the ground running, let'sdo it.
(29:48):
Let's do it Okay To anotheryear, to another year.
Okay, okay, ready for somesmell?
I don't even know what we'redoing.
Okay, let's switch it up alittle bit.
Oh, what do you smell?
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