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our broadcast today possible live from the Buskers Bar here
in Dublin. But now we welcome in Brendan me Hanny
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is the director of the air Lingus College Football Classic.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Here.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Brendan cannot thank you enough. What a setup, man. I mean,
you're the man. You're the man who made the sienion is.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't know if I'm the man.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I'm the man of my own home anyway, at home
with my wife and my cage.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
But I'm certainly not. I don't think I'm the man around.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Town more than me.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But yeah, this doesn't happen without you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well, I'm part of a team that it doesn't happen without. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
So I'm part of the organizers or the game promoters.
So we have entered into a five games series. First
game last year, second game this year, third game next year,
and we're We're eager that the first game of the
US college football season has played in Dublin, Arna forevermore.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And then how did this come about? Where was the
brain Chad?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Were you sitting around having it and You're like, you
know what, what we what do we gotta do to
get Brady Quinn out to Dublin, Ireland.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Wait, a part of it was like, what do we
got to do? How did this come about?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah, well, I'd love to take a huge amount of
credit for this, but unfortunately I can't. It was the
brainshyld of John Anthony and pork Cocaine. John Anthony of
Anthony travel fame in the US, pork Cocaine here in Ireland.
They have been involved in American football for the last
couple of years and various guys is bringing it to
Ireland in modern times. We had a game in twelve
fourteen sixteen, and there was a bit of break after
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sixteen and the momentum kind of waned this small bit
and they got together, you know, with us in Ireland,
with the team in the States. We said, we have
to make this happen, whatever it takes, whatever it does,
we got to make sure that this continues. It can't
just fall apart. Someone else is going to grab it.
This is going to start happening in London or Tokyo
or somewhere. We've got to keep it in Dublin. So
we are essentially a public private partnership. We couldn't do
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without the sponsor the help of our title sponsor, air Lingus,
but also the Irish government. So we sit within the
Department of Tourism and Sports. We are more of a
tourism proposition than a sporting proposition and we are aided
by Tourism Ireland, Faults Ireland and Dublin City Council. So
we are a really good example of a public private
partnership that works. And we're you know, we're extremely proud
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and all our stakeholders are extremely proud that of you know,
what's this, what is what it has become and what
it is becoming. And you know, having this, having the
likes of you guys in town and your colleagues from
the Dan Patrick Show, it just it increases in the
US what it is we're trying to do, and especially
when we're trying to target future universities and future schools
to come over and play here.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
This all helps big shout out to the Lord mayor
die he was on with a certain Yeah, I assume
they played a role in all of that. Talk to
me a little bit about just how you go about
selecting which teams fan bases that you think would be
a good fit. It feels rather obvious that Notre Dame
makes a lot of sense, But like next year's Georgia Tech,
Florida State talked to me through the process of selecting
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maybe schools or teams.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, so Brady went out giving too many trade secrets
these things.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
As you know, we'll come back to commercials.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
So our model is based on essentially buying out the
smaller teams university games. So when we talk about the
smaller teams, we talk traditionally about the likes of a
Navy or a Northwestern or the University of Illinois or
Georgia Tech. So you're talking there people maybe with twenty
five thirty forty thousand fan base. But to make it
work from a tourism proposition, they have to be playing
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your Florida States or you're please God, someday oh Ohio
State or Michigan.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
This year's obviously slightly different. So this year we started obviously.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
In twenty twenty it was a Navy home game and
that fell apart, and we were devastated in COVID hit
and it hit.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Ireland hard as it hit the whole world hard.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
And we started negotiating this game with Notre Dame, with
the athletic director there.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
As far back as twenty twenty to make this happen.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
And when we looked at the schedule, and again this
is all done through John Anson and his team in
the US, when they looked at the schedule, there's no
obvious Navy home game against Notre Dame coming for a while.
Twenty six was kind of the first year the potentially
could make this happen, and the opportunity emerged, why don't
we potentially bring a Notre Dame game here?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Now this goes against the model.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
I've just described to you, right, because for us to
compensate Notre Dame for moving a game out of South Bend,
we essentially have to pay the check to Notre Dame
that they would have got for playing that game in
South Bend.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
So obviously, with eighty thousand people against Navy, that you know,
but the Irish government came to the table Erlingcas came
to the table, all the stakeholders came to the table,
and we said, you know, this is happening in twenty three.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
We're just coming out of COVID. We have to make
this happen, and thank god we did.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That's awesome. We're thankful that you did.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
H Hell yes, Brending me him the director of the
air Lingis College Football Classic, joining us here on two
pros and a cup of Joe here on Fox Sports
Radio live from Buskers Bar in Dublin. So I got
to ask you about the reach of football, which we
look at America, American football, American football. So I got
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to ask you about the reach out here. When did
you notice, damn even people out here love this stuff
like this is something that we got to figure out
a way to get out here and present to the fans,
because obviously, you know the NFL college football it's growing leaps.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And bounds seemingly every single year.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But when did you first notice here in Ireland that
there was a reach and a grasp here that would
make this something that you would guys want to be
interested in putting on.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Yeah, I'm supposed to have been growing over here for
a while and over the last kind of five or
ten years it's really kicked off. Like the NFL has
always been big here and the availability of Sky Sports
and what they do just enhances that coverage and things
like the red zone, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
It's a sport that's growing hugely over here.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
When I started got involved in this first I found
out by surprise that we actually have an American Football
league in Ireland. We have over around three thousand players
now and that's growing. The American Football Ireland or the
governing body of American Football in Ireland.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
So as you say, it is a growing sport.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
It's still obviously a smaller sport in Ireland, but it
is a growing sport and we have now teams playing
throughout the country, throughout the island of Ireland every weekend
during football season. And you know, one of our big
jobs is certainly my big jobs hanging out to talk
to people. Is college sport in Ireland is not big,
it's not huge, and I would have played it and
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I would have won what, you know, the soccer equivalent
of the biggest competition, the Collein would cut back in
nineteen ninety nine, a long long time ago, and there
might have been a couple of thousand people and that
was the biggest college of soccer and that hasn't you know,
So for us to explain to the Irish domestic markets
what is college football, it's just a different scale. Like
you know, you guys understand it, you've obviously played it.
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But for for us to explain to people that these
guys are playing a week in, week out in front
of eighty thousand people, you know, this is blown people's
mind the way this is bigger than the NBA, it's
bigger than the.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
MLB, stuff like that, and so that's a huge part.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
But people are beginning to grasp that now they're understanding
is ten years ago they might have gone to college
football games see potentially future NFL fans. Now they're going
to college football game, see college football, and that's huge
for us.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
That's awesome, that's awesome.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
You know, as we get ready to tops the game
is gonna kick your start off Saturday, what keeps.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
You up at night?
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Like at this point in time, like I think both
teams will probably either here or almost here. They're probably
traveling right now. What are the things that concern you
the most? Where you're trying to sit back enjoy nice guinness,
whether your drink of choices, maybe it's a tealing whiskey.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
But whatever the case.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Is, Brady Hoping, I don't know answer that question at
this stage. It's nearly too near to worry. But like
we organized, like our tagline is much more than a game.
So while the college football is the main thing, the
game on Saturday, we have over fifty events organized in
Dublin throw game week.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
This's been one of them, Dan Patrick Show. But we
have medical summits.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
We have religious we have masses, we have taygating, we
have pep rallies, educational seminars, business and everything in between.
So when I'm what keeps me up at night now
is making sure that there are no major faux pause
out there. That we have the you know, the politicians,
the dignitaries, the VIPs. They've all got their tickets, they
downloaded their tickets, they're on their phone, the likes of yours,
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like yeah, well, the US Embassy and the Department of
Pair and Affairs ringing and saying can you get tickets
for some senators coming in and we're going like this
two days before but you.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Know, you know, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Happened?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
We've we've someone from the House of Representative saying, who
are these guys?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
You know?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
So we just want to make sure there are they're
no major fue pause. It's gonna be like as I
was discussed with the lawmar outside. We're like a duck
on the on the on the front, we look as
if everything's under control, but we are badly madly underneath.
But it's gonna be cool.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
So that how long is once this over?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And Notre Dame wins that game on Saturday by more
than by more than twenty and a half.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
They win by more than twenty and a half?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Is that the best?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I mean, it's just whatever's a random number. But we're lying.
So Notre Dame takes care of business on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
When does it start for next year or is it
now to where you guys have got sort of a
foundation in place, and then you know, you can relax
a little bit and then come say March, you start
to look ahead towards the fall.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Oh, jonas I wish we are out in Georgia Tech
on Thursday week their play, Yeah, they're playing at home
and you're gonna I can't even remember they're playing. And
then we're out in on the seventh of October, we
know the Florida State are playing Virginia Tech and a
nighttime game, so we're out at us and again it's just.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Oh, so you start right away?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, we've started.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
So tickets are on sales through hospitality and through travel
for the twenty four game already. So our job at
the moment is to you know, promote advertisement market with
the help of the likes of Tourism Ireland too, you know,
in in Tallahassee and in Atlantic to the Georgia Tech
and the Florida State alumni. We've already started organizing other events.
Last night, I think Two Pros and a Cup of
(11:12):
Joe and the Dan Patrick Show both promised to us
that they'd be back next year.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah. Now I think the minutes showed out.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Can I say this, though, I'm not apologizing advance for
the Florida State fan base.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
I live in South Florida.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Currently they are time top five of them more insufferable
at least compared to the Notre Dame fan base.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
So once you get this much better than at.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Least how the Florida State fans are going to conduct
themselves next year, I promise.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, we've heard, but we're that's a big groups.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yeah yeah, and we've had we've had the ad over
and we've had we've met some of them, and we're
ready for them, and we're hoping that they travel in
their troves. And obviously they're hugely confident about their chances
this season. So all of a sudden, for a guy
who used to work in the bank ten years ago,
I think on Friday Week I'm going to be glued
to FSU against LSU, and.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
It's the better they do, the better we.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I mean, now, are you a little bit because look,
I was expecting, you know, a Notre Dame crowd.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I mean, what are we looking at? Was it one
in the afternoon, one fifteen in the afternoon? I was
expecting a little be a little bit more noisy? Are you?
Are you disappointed with just how how quiet?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah? Who?
Speaker 5 (12:21):
This man?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Who? This man? A lot of seconds? Hold on, did
Brian Kelly just walk by?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
What?
Speaker 9 (12:31):
What?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
What? What's what the booing about?
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Another reason? The root for Florida state here coming up?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, oh that's true, that's true.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Now, I mean, what do you make of just the
the outpouring of support from Notre Dame, because, like we
talked about it early in the show, this Notre Dame
fan base runs deep and they have shown out here
in Dublin.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So what do you make of just this outpouring.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I'm not just saying because I'm sitting in front of
you so that the figures in the fact speak. So
our model is built on twenty five to twenty eight
thousand Americans coming to any one of our games. So
last year, obviously Northwestern we're absolutely fantastic. I think Jacob Smith,
the director of football Operations, is listening. Nebraska were brilliant,
but we were marketing and we were advertising Nebraska and
Illinois during COVID. Next year we'll get twenty five to
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twenty eight thousand fans from Georgia Tech and from Florida
State University, and we will get that number as long
as we get your Tennessee's, your Michigans, your Ohio states.
We have forty thousand Americans in town this week.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And that's sounded well.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Navy are brilliant partners of ours, but that is down
to the Notre Dame fan base. You can all see
and not alone that, but we are hearing and that
he alluded to it earlier on you know, Killarney, Westport, Galway.
The golf courses all over this country are thirty two
counties in the North as well. They're all benefiting from it.
With the interlocking nds there, people are seeing it.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
We can't thank you enough. It's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Thank you. And I just said this.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
You know, it's so appropriate because I think that he
mentioned this earlier. Forty thousand the most Americans coming over Dublin,
I believe, since said World War Two. Now, if you
know the history of Notre Dame playing Navy, it really
started out where Navy used Notre Dame's campus as a
really a training base and helped bail out the school
at a really.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Difficult financial time.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Yeah, so it's so appropriate that you kind of hear
those numbers and it brings back to me, like the
reason why these two teams play every single year is
for that arrangement, that agreement way back when, back during
World War Two. So it's pretty incredible what you've put together,
obviously and bringing these two teams together here in Dublin.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
We're so appreciative you bring us out.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yeah, and it's so cool, Brady, that story.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
We've told that story many a time, and like the
respect that Navy have for Notre Dame and that Notre
Dame have for Navy. You know, the fight songs after
the games on Saturday, and it's it's huge to us.
And people say, oh, is it a huge rivalry? And
I suppose we kind of describe it as maybe a
friendly rivalry as opposed to anything else, you know, So
it's you know, us Navy are. They brought their home
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games here before, so we wouldn't have a Notre Dame
here before without them. They partners of ours, and then
this year to have a Notre Dame home game, it's
it just elevates it to a whole different level.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
It's awesome. Brendan me in. I've got a president of
the Air. You got a present?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Yeah, yeah, how about this?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
So my inside, my insider Jay told me Jonas, you're
a medium.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Oh that's right, Brady, your extra medium. Yes, yeah, I
like it painted on You're extra Lars, Brady.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Thank you, thank you?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
All right there.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
The Travis Matthew Arning is college football classic.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah, you can wear around town.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yes, yeah, all of it is because of this guy,
Brendan Mehan, director of the AIRLINGUS College Football Classic. Round
of applause here you guys, live from Buskers Bar in Dublin, Ireland.
It is two Pros and a Cup of Joe here
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a gripe. They got a gripe. They want a possession
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So let's talk about your guy, Reggie Bush. So apparently
he wants his Heisman trophy back. He's suing the NCAA
for defamation of character. He wants Now. I could have
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made this real easy on him, all right. If Reggie
Bush would have pulled me aside and said, hey, I'd
like my Heisman trophy back, or I'd like to not
get rid of my heismand trophy.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
What do you recommend? It's real easy.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You get a replica made, and you give away the
fake and then you hold onto the real one, and
all this could have been solved.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Hey, I just got I just got my Fantasy football trophy.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Engraved. It looks fantastic, like they do great work nowadays.
He also could have just given back the money.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
That he took.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I mean, listen, he used to datea Kardashian. They don't
know a thing or two about getting getting a replica done.
You know, like there's options out here. Stuff that's fake
you mean, yeah, that stuff too. Yeah, there's there's options
out there. If he really needed a solution to all
this fake t keep the real one.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's just that simple. But now he'd like the real
trophy back.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
I think the problem with that is is twofold.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Okay, and by the way, the whole so the defamation
lawsuit against the NCAA, it's a little different than what
I think he's hoping to get for with getting his
heisman back, right, the heisman trust ultimately is the one
that's gonna help with that.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Now.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
What he did back in the day obviously broke NCAA rules.
I know the rules have changed since then, but even
back then, he wasn't doing things like they are allowed
today in the nil world. So that's a bit of
the issue now is like people nowadays are like, well
now it's okay, It's like, well, no, not the way
he did it, or at least allegedly or was proven
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to to some degree to have done it. So that's
the first issue with it. But if he had just
stroked him a check, he would have gotten his heisman back.
He's chosen not to for reasons that obviously he can explain. Look,
he won the heisman that year. Everyone saw it, person
he went up against and witnessed it. I remember calling
him trying to recruit him to come to Notre Dame
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because it was between Notre Dame and SC Obviously, the
offer that I was making on the phone was not
the same that se I.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
I had to have a bag man with.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Oh geez, But that being said, geez, he was the
best college football player that I had played against, had
seen during that period of time, and he was worthy
of winning it.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
I still view him as the guy who won it.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
And I think the interesting thing about him wanting to
get it back, and I said this yesterday talking to
Dan Patrick's show, is it's allowed him to remain in
the conversation relevant, which so it's it's I'm not saying
that he doesn't deserve to get it back, but once
he gets it back, that it's like conversation kind of
goes away. I mean, and especially when he was a
part of Big Newton Kickoff. We'd go to places where
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he could walk around in his bar. No one would
know who he was. It was until they introduced him.
Then people would be like, hey, he needs to get
his heisman back. And it was like the craziest thing.
Because a lot of the kids are in college now,
they weren't old enough to really watch us play, so
they might see some highlights different things. They'll be like,
what about that Fristo State game, because it's like playing
on a loop. It's like a highlight reeled on loop
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on social media. But the reality is it, you know
what he did back then, even though it's allowed in
a different way and today he would have been compensated.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Extremely well, is legal. It wasn't back then.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
And that's I think the difficult spot for the Heisman
Trust and even the NCAA with how they kind of
had handled it now. As far as a defamation lawsuit,
I'm not an attorney. I don't know how that's all
gonna play out, but there are two different things that
play him wanting his hids back is separate from a
defamation lawsuit against the NCAA that I think he thinks
if that wasn't the case, he would get it back
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in lieu of that.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
There does it does give him a little bit of
just kind of like, oh, it's that guy who doesn't
have his heisman. There is something to it there. It
allows you to still be like, hey, he's that guy.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Who should maybe you know, should but doesn't.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
And it keeps you still relevant at least in college
foot news and a part.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Of it I got news for you, Pete Rose.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And listen, I'm not I'm not comparing the two, all right, Yeah, hey,
who does not Pete Rose?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
But it keeps them like Pete Rose, But I'm less
likely to walk by Pete Rose at the Forum shops
in Vegas and ask for autograph. But the fact that
I know that guy was a degenerate gambler, that's my
cup of tea.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
That's probably your icebreaker.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Hey, Pete, me too, Yes too, yes, And that's what
you would say, of course.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
So it does add a little bit something to it,
so you listen.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Look, the reality is, who knows how the NCAA is
going to even oversee college football within the next three
to five years like that. That landscape is changing drastically,
so we have no idea what it's going to look like.
What I find most interesting, what kind of irks me
the most, because even Notre Dame dealt with this and
Michigan is dealing with this a little bit right now,
is the punishment that the NCAA puts down on teams.
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It's always reactive, and I understand it. There's not a
perfect formula for it because you're catching people after the act.
But in Reggie's case, I think about how Southern cow
was impacted for a decade after that, loss of scholarships
and everything else that came from that.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
You know, Michigan with what was a four.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Game suspension, now there's a three game that the university
side is now instituting, which is a whole other can
of worms because Jim Harbaugh and the AD may not
get along right now.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I mean, listen, he made he made a cheese burger joke, okay,
and he pissed off the NCAA.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Guy can't make a cheese burger joke.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Yeah, Well, again, there's there's more to that story with Ford.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Manuel does have fatigue with Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Right, and I think that's where that's more bored at it.
But that being said, again, you're you're talking about schools
that are then obviously retroactively being punished for things.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
So it really hurts the current players, the current coaches.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
People who may not have had anything to do with
what was going on back then.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Now in the case, if you will see, obviously I.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Think Peter Carroll was kind of where what was going on,
and he took a flight up to the Seattle and
never care.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Coincidence, Peter, coincidence, You're to Seahawks job. That's pure coincidence,
all right, uh and and so good for Pete Carroll.
It is two pros and a cup of joe here
on Fox Sports Radio live from Busker's.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Bar in Dublin, Ireland.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
All right, so let's welcome in somebody who we need
to pick.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
His brain in a big way.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
All right, Robert Caldwell of Tealing Whiskey.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
The bottle looks to listen. I mean, we do that thing.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You walk around town, you see tealing whiskey all over
the place. I mean you see just the bottle, the presentation.
We're gonna learn a thing of that, islas sir, because
I know a lot of people who profess to be
whiskey heads and they know everything about whiskey. We've got
an actual expert and an insider here who's gonna teach
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us about whiskey here.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Thanks for having me, good, Oh, thank you for being
a part of this. Now.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You probably run into a lot of frauds, all right,
A lot of people who are listen, I know what
no which these are, and they try and smell it and.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
Hold on, hold on, I love how did you pour
them all out and flask that one's a little bit right?
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Your worry.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
I've got yours for the game too. I mean, you
personal this.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
This is fantastic that we just got a flask to
take the game. This is fair.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Sorry, yeah, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Well, you're gonna need some whiskey to professionals, all right,
So so talk to me about just if you had
to describe teeling whiskey and the differences between you and
some other whiskey brands that are out there, what would
you say that.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
For us, it's looking at every aspect of the productional
process and trying to challenge not only ourselves but but
whiskey and what whiskey can be so rather than being
I guess, defined by a flavor DNA, it's looking at everything.
So we have hundreds of whiskeys available, so you might
probably respond to one more than others, and it's the
journey finding what worked for you and finding those flavors
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that work for you.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I think the.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
Beauty of Irish whiskey is we have so much freedom
in flavor and the discovery of flavor. So we're a
tealing very much challenging that and looking at that. For example,
your casks, you know, whiskey is integral, Sorry, carts are
integral to the maturation of whiskey tealing. We've used over
one hundred and fifty and each one brings its own
different flavor palette that we can accentuate and explore.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
I was just going to ask you about the process
in general. For some of us out there who are
new to whiskey, you don't know anything about the process
of making it. Tell me everything that goes into that bottle,
like from start to finish.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
No problem.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
So in Ireland we use grain, so essentially we're making
beer and then distilling that into a whiskey. So you've
got your grain, corn rye oats, your American whiskeys predominantly
in Ireland. We use molted barley, unmolted barley in this
we've got a little bit of corn as well as
with sweetness. Will we bring that one for you. Then
we've got the fermentation process, so essentially bacteria converts those
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sugars found in grains.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Into an alcohol.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
So at that point we make it exactly we're making beer,
and then the distillation process is extracting that that eight
to ten percent, so your beers, you can of beer
eight to ten percent ABV.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
We want to bring that out.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
So the way we do that in distillation is just
raise the temperature between the boiling point of alcohol and
the boiling point of water.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
So think of it like a giant.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Kettle press the battal and then the alcoholic vapors rise,
we capture them. We have a distillate in which we
store in a cask and then three years minimum.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
We've now got with three years.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Robert Caldwell with us here from Tealing Whiskey live from
Buskers Bar in Dublin.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
All right, So when when you see somebody.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Take a shot of whiskey, total rookie move is that?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Do you look at them? And gory that. I mean,
what is this?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I mean you're supposed to sip it and teaste it
and enjoy it, Like, how do you feel about that?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I tell you that.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
My honest opinion is, however you want to drink your
whiskey is the right way as long as it's Irish.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Oh ok that's fair, all right, that sense, But I
will say it's secree line.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
But I will say for shooting the whiskey, that's when
we start to get a little bit of that burn
and that reflux because your shock on the system.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Right, it's high proof spirit.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
It's very different to beer or wine, so it can
be a bit of a shock to the system. So
for any newcomer, I always recommend just hold it on
the palette for a moment, allow that shock to happen
on your tongue as opposed to in your esophagus.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
So you let it happen up here.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
There's a little bit of burn, your shock, your taste buds.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Are kind of gone, what have you just done to me?
And then a.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
Little bit of saliva builds up and you take that
down when you've acclimatized here rather than hereh.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Okay, So not on the rocks though, I mean, is
that okay?
Speaker 8 (28:34):
I mean, when you add water or rocks or anything
like that, you're going to nullify some of the stronger flavors,
but you are going to bring out some of the
hidden ones as well, Like you know, the great, greatest example,
you know, when it rains and you can smell freshly
cut grass. Yeah, so that that aroma, well, that taste
is only perceptible to the human palette when water molecules
are in the air.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
So the same goes for whiskey.
Speaker 8 (28:54):
So your biggest contributor of flavor is going to be
the alcoholic notes. When you're adding water or ice, you're
nullifying those. But there's three thousand flavor components in their
fighting for space, so you're bringing out some of the
hidden So.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
The difference between Irish whiskey and Tennessee whiskey or something
from back in the States that maybe people are listening
back home are interested in learning more about Irish whiskey,
what would you say it is?
Speaker 8 (29:18):
From that perspective, Irish whiskey tends to be a little
bit more like Scotch in that regard.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
But again with the looser classifications, we have.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Whiskeys available in Ireland that mirror more closely to Bourbon
and Scotch. Sorry, Bourbon and rye and things like that. So,
for example, our single grain has more structural similarity to
Bourbon than it does, say another Irish whiskey on the shelf.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Well, what's the difference between bourbon and whiskey and Scotch.
I feel like everyone seems to sometimes misconstrue is the
aging process, what they're made of, how they're just like,
how does that all worry?
Speaker 8 (29:50):
For the most part, it's the recipe of raw materials.
So in American whiskey, fifty one percent or more of
corn used in the recipe. That's bourbon, fifty one percent
or more of is rye, so essentially your prominent grain.
Here in Ireland, there's different categories based on what you're using.
So single molt is one hundred percent malted varley, single
grain is like American whiskey, any combination of those other ones.
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So yeah, I guess that's the education around single pot still,
which is the only uniquely Irish style whiskey, single grain,
single malt and things like that. But more often than not,
the biggest difference.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Is that recipe of raw materials and then start to finish.
When you guys are putting this together, and you're putting
a new batch together, how long is the process to
where it finally reaches the bottle, reaches our glass and.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
We're able to enjoy. How long is that process?
Speaker 8 (30:41):
Anywhere from three to forty fifty years?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
So when would you guess? So this is so this
is tealing small batch.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
So this is our award winning flagship whiskey in eighty countries. Now,
so this one, you're roughly talking between four.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
To eight years. Wow.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
Yeah, So essentially we've got our grain whiskies aged the
next bourbon casks. Then we take those two separate whiskies
marry them in Central American rum. So when we taste
this lovely whiskey, we might be getting a little hints
of rum, raisin and vanilla and some dried fruits that associated.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
With that rum cask.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
You guys are patient.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
That's the romance of the whiskey industry, right.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Tell me about this the reborn in twenty twelve.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Yes, so our distillery five hundred meters down the road
is the first new distillery in Dublin.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
In one hundred and twenty five years whoa to Dublin.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
Nah, yeah, wow, Dublin used to be a rich distilling capital. Obviously,
a few things went wrong. Prohibition in the United States,
Irish War of Independence, a few other reasons led to
basically all Irish whiskey distilleries in Ireland moving elsewhere, all
closing altogether. But Tealing reopened in twenty twelve first new one.
To give you an example, the first whiskey we released
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from the Dublin Distillery broke the world record at the
time for the most ever spent on a new distilleries whiskey.
Speaker 10 (31:56):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
So not a brag on how great it was, although
it was pretty great.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
It's a it's a.
Speaker 8 (32:01):
Piece of history. It's the return to the form of
Dublin distilling.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Listen, Robert, we can't thank you enough. This looks fantastic.
I mean that's.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Mh solid. What's smooth? Yeah, that's so good.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I brought you.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I brought you a bott I'll keep you.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
You guys can keep this. I mean, this is great.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
But I brought you this bottle because by the official
whiskey sponsor of the Alingus Classic.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Yeah, how about that whiskey?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Everybody helmets on there and everything look at that. That's fantastic.
He is Robert Caldwell from Tealing Whiskey. Cannot thank you enough.
Just uh all the love and support and just thanks
for being a part of the show and coming out
and hanging out with us.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I probably thanks for having me again.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
I'm doing the tour tomorrow after the show.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
Oh perfect, I'll see you there.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Fantastic.
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if they're in at least or they're out?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
All right, Lee's lap?
Speaker 3 (36:19):
What do we got? Guys?
Speaker 12 (36:21):
Are you guys enter out on a double decker bus tours?
That's something I'm looking into these redw Hold on?
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Are you asking because we may be taking one after
this book one?
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Yeah, this is the Viking tour with the helvets and stuff.
Speaker 12 (36:32):
I hope you can drink out of the helmet.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
No, I'm out, Okay, I don't know. Yeah, I'm out
as well too. I will cancel those tickets.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
I just I have a problem with uh like boat
tours bus tours Ever.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
Since the Dave They're a boat and bust tour like
the amphibious ones like the Duck boat Tour type one
out listen.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Okay, So Dave Matthews tour bus emptied their crapper over
the Chicago River and people that were on some sort
of a tour ended up getting just defecated on.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
But at least it was Dave Matthews. There is that.
So it's the second I heard that.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
The second I heard that, I'm like, yeah, I don't
know if I can do that Viking helmet or not.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I just don't know if I can do it. Guys.
Speaker 12 (37:09):
I know we're not in the States, but it's a
National Burger Day. You guys know I love burger.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Oh I could do a burger right now.
Speaker 12 (37:15):
I'm looking at ingredients that the lovely Irish people put
on their burgers.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Have you ever heard of black pudding, black sausage. I'll
show you a picture as.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
I saw a picture that this morning at breakfast.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, it was next to.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
The big beans.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
People were eating black pudding, next with big beans.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Corned beef.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
You guys put corn beef. Corn beef is fantastic.
Speaker 12 (37:39):
Uh, tell you guys, tell me about this belly mo relish,
belly melow relish?
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Is that a thing here?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
The way everyone hears from the States, So how is
it going to?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Come?
Speaker 8 (37:50):
On?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Man, crowd man, spicy whiskey sauce.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Hey, only if it's dealing make them.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Let's get some.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
I got, I got your spicy whiskey saw Yeah, showing
us I have a drinking of alcohol, buddy.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
M hm hmm.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
That's tasty. I'm in on that Guinness.
Speaker 12 (38:08):
Caramelized onions, Yeah, come on, who's like caramelized onions?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Please?
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (38:13):
What else we got?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
We got dublin r cheese, tingy cheese.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
We gotta try some of that while we're here.
Speaker 12 (38:18):
Krispy rashers, we got potatoes, We got all we're gonna put.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
I'll tell you what we're in on.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Frida eggs, Buskers Bar makes you boys.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Thank you guys.