November 21, 2025 • 42 mins
Aztec Link Vodka is in studio to share their story and their message of supporting SDSU Athletics with every sale of their excellent vodka.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank God Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's been a long week and the fellies our first
stop just got.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Stopped in Aired Goes Down, Down and be my bats.
Time moves into the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Probably I drink too much, way too much. I got
my doctor, you specially, it was an all of it.
Now let's for some drinks. You damn right, it's a
barkard Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Here are one one five k g b go get
you some as tech Link Vodka at any of the
ten locations of Keg and Bottle around San Diego. We
got Tony kanja In, owner operator of Keg and Bottle Azois,
joining us live on a Barquard Friday Nickel and Ray
from Aztec Link Vodka. Good morning, gentlemen, thank you for
(00:50):
being here. Thank you Nikel for some of the drinks
that you made for us during the show. Those were incredible.
Good to see you man, good to meet you.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Good morning and pleasures all mine. This is an amazing Friday,
great way to start the day.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Ray, you have been playing like a dozen roles here
in studio.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
You've been helping fill.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Us in on the backstory of the vodka you've been
talking about sort of like the whole operation. You've also
been playing bar back sending drinks across to Tony, and
Tony has been what I mean, like we have now
I think we've had a total.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Of four drinks over the course of a single hour.
Right right, we are? Are you all right?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
TD? Yeah, we're gonna get TD. So drug when I say,
I said, it was right, Oh no, no, everything's fine,
everything's very very good. You sneezed, I said, right, yeah,
So thank you, Ray, It's good to meet you.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Absolutely my pleasure. Can't be held responsible for the chunks
for your drink waiting.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
That's true, that that was my fault.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So we enjoyed a creamsickle vodka drink on air on
Bigger tdum Fletch that was absolutely delicious and it was
provided by the AI bartender, the mixologist on the Aztec
Link website. Again, throw out that website, Nickel, what is
that again? It's an Aztec Link vodka vodka.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Got it all right?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So before we dive into trying the vodka on this
Bark our Friday on YouTube here subscribe to Big rich
tdum Fletch. We do this every Friday and we will
keep these posts up and this is this is what
we do. This is how we celebrate a Friday, and
no better people to celebrate with this ac link. But
(02:42):
before we taste us this Nickel and Ray, why don't
you bring us through the journey that got us here.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, I would love to. Well, thank you for the
time and opportunity. Guys. First off, this is an amazing opportunity.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Astec Link Vodka is here to support San Diego San
Diego State student athletes.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
That's really the purpose behind it.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
The founder and myself we went to San Diego years
and years ago. We used to run party buses and
keep things pretty local and fun as far as events
and things around here. He came from three decades of
Napa Valley wine well and yeah, yeah, some good family
experiences as far as that. Didn't really know myself, but
you can actually make vodka from grapes, so yeah, voting
(03:25):
free from the source and all this vodka is from
Napa Valley grapes and we made sure to price ourselves
at a very incredible price point. Around twenty dollars, and
every bottle three dollars goes right to the student athletes
at San Diego State.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
What twenty bucks a bottle is crazy because this does
not taste like twenty dollars vodka.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
No, now, this is this is beautiful.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We've really had a lot of folks come through here
over the years, and you try a whole bunch of
different things, and look, we understand every single thing we've
drank on a bark our Friday is somebody's passion. Like
they are excited about it. They are thrilled to have
you try it. And look, we don't need to name
any names, but like there are times where some of them,
(04:10):
you know, you sip it and you're like, oh boy,
this is gonna.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Be a long Frida.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I'm telling you, Nikkel and Ray, I mean, truly and honestly,
this is one of the best spirits we've had come
through the doors. It's smooth, it feels like it's I
hate to say this to you because I love the price,
but it's it's way under what it should be a
price like twenty dollars a bottle vodka. Like these days,
(04:40):
you kind of think like man, what shelf do they
put that on?
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Is?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I mean basically you're thrown out the door with people
as they leave. I mean, I'm not saying twenty bucks
is nothing, but that that is good.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Stuff for that price point. Yeah, I mean, and that's
really the goal.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Right. We could have been priced at the Gray Goose,
that's rock, the ultra premium price point, because that's what
the product no stands by. But to donate as much
money to the school is really the goal. And to
do that we need to be priced aggressively and better
than our competitors. And we all know those names, but
those who shall not be talking.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
About, but they're pretty neto.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, some of those other brands school.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
I mean, the other brands that all have become famous
because there weren't a lot of gluten free vodkas until
a few years ago. So people with Celiac's disease or
people who are just gluten free by choice were never
able to drink vodka until other brands came out that
were great based. So it's pretty cool that that market
is expanding.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
And this checks all the boxes, right, So it's made
in the USA, it's gluten free, and it's an ultra
premium product price that a great point price point and
donates to the school, which is the most mood part.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So that's the voice of Nickel with with as tickling
vodka you can. You can see he has brought in
a bunch of bottles with him. He and right, ray,
how did you get roped into this whole thing?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, I've been working with nikel for a great many years.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
I've worked on a lot of projects with him, and
when he came to me with this passion project, I
couldn't help but get myself involved. It's a wonderful cause,
taking care of the student students at STSU, donating to
the school, making sure the football team gets everything they need,
making sure the sports teams in general get everything they
need it. It's wonderful. I couldn't help but jump on board,
and it's been great. TH's far well.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I thank you from a personal standpoint because as a
former athlete, a collegiate athlete, one of the things that
people don't realize is the thought process is Okay, if
you know what NIL is, it's name, image and likeness money, right,
So these NIL funds finally players after decades and decades
of playing for only their tuition in certain cases if
(06:50):
they get a full scholarship. Other cases, they're walking on,
they're paying their own tuition, they're playing football or another
sport for their school. Well, in profit generating sports like
football and men's basketball, you have these players who are
making tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
For some of these universities. They don't get a single dollar.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Okay, they may get this two hundred thousand dollars tuition,
and people say, well, these greedy athletes, how could they
complain about that. Well, meanwhile, you got coaches who are
making millions of dollars in some of these universities, where
you say to yourself, well, in the NFL, for example,
every single star player outpaces a coach's salary, and there's
(07:32):
a good reason why, because they're taking all the risk.
They're the reason why people show up in the stands.
Nobody's wearing a coach's jersey on their back, right.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
But at the collegiate level, they look at these players
and they say they're greedy because they want to be
paid for their efforts.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It's labor they should be paid.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
So finally they are now having said that I know,
I sound like I'm pontificating, but this is the deal.
There's still some of that stigma around paying these athletes,
like why do we need to give them a dollar?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Well, I'm telling you from my own circumstance.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I was raised in a household who didn't have enough
money to send me to college. I was going to
join the military if I didn't get a scholarship to
Penn State.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Went to Penn State, and I was bootstrapping it a
little bit. You know.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I had my tuition paid for, and that's great, but
I didn't have much else, and I was getting by
by borrowing scratch money from my friends.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And they understood.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
You know, some of these guys came from situations where
their parents would throw some money in their bank account.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I didn't have that situation, and so if it was
my turn to.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Buy toilet paper, I was gonna have to find a
way to get my hands on enough money to help
out our apartment, you know. And and that's just what
it was. If I was getting some funding, it would
have gone a long way for me, because my parents
couldn't even afford to fill up my lunch card when
it ran out of money on the scholarship.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
And we know you like to eat I too, cat Yeah,
and then I look at the size of its feed
the beast absolutely.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
So I'm telling you these aren't greedy as These aren't
guys who are are you know, driving around in Mercedes Benz.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
These are some guys who you know.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
With the money that they're getting through these name, image
and likeness deals, they're sending it back to their families
where they came from to help support them, because they
help them chance the dream that they get to go
down to San Diego State and live out. So when
I tell you, if you buy a bottle of Assecling vodka,
you are doing a service to your community.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You are actually helping somebody who could potentially be in need.
It is not a lie. You are doing something great
for something that you're passionate about already.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
And we're trying to raise three million dollars, which we
need to sell a million dollars of Aspecting podcast and
you can pick that out at any cake and bottle location.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And just to go on that note, like you nailed it.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Like before, students were literally only getting scholarships right, But
a lot of these families and students they couldn't spend
the time to finish college, right, Like, they need to
go make money, they need to for their families.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So they're not finishing college.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
They were leaving their exiting joining the NBA draft during
the NFL draft prematurely before they even get their education
to provide for their fans.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Exactly correct. And now you're.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Able to see your students are staying in college there,
they're graduating. They're for your athletes, you know, and they're
able to complete their collegiate student athletes as they should
be and get paid, take care of their families, and
then join the professional sports when they're ready.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
To actually perform. Yeah, and that's not going to be
the route for most guys.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Most guys will eventually be you know, selling insurance or
they're going to be going and working you know at
Hurts rental car. Like, not everybody makes it to the league.
And so if you are a fan of seeing young
people get a little bit of a leg up in.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Society to have some success to.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Chase dreams, I'm telling you you're not putting money.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Into the pockets of greedy athletes.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
You're putting money into pockets of the future of this country.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And this community. It's a beautiful thing to do, and
getting a fantastic bottle team this year is sick.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
And on that note, I mean, guys, most let's just
and I don't mind saying names. So Tito's is the
number one selling product and typically you know, twenty to
thirty bucks depending where you buy it. Yeah, right, so
you're getting it for the same price, if not less, right,
and three bucks is going there.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So I'm kudos to you guys for not.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Going higher because if you would have higer, you had
to put more pockets and more money in your pocket.
I know you're not making a lot of money when
you're getting three dollars back. Right, We make a little profit,
you guys make a little profit, but three dollars, I
think more. Three dollars is more profit than either one
of us is making on the bottle. It's going back
to the students. That's awesome. And so to your point
of selling three million dollars.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Yeah, right, million bottles, Yet.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Three million dollars, it's very doable because they didn't price it.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
No matter what vodka you're buying, You're like, hey, so
literally every.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Student that comes in, every person that has any tied
stsu is picking up a bottle, so doing well, you
guys should pick it up too. And if you're not
San Diego, but you have a tie, we'll ship it
right here.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
Well, now that you brought up the word Tito's, Tito's
supports a college, doesn't it. So anything you got going
into Tito's is going to a different college when you
could buy Aztec Lincoln support the aestechs.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Oh, that money's going to Texas.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Like thee didn't the owner did the owner of Tito's
go to Texas till you go to ut.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I don't know if he went to Utube, but he
loves them. But they're donating, they're in white labor.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
They're doing everything they can to support university University of Texas,
and what that means is more money for them to
steal our San Diego.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And don't think that's not okay.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So there's a kid right now who's playing at Ohio State.
His name's Julian saying, guess where he came from? San Diego,
Carlsbad High. Okay, they're about to win a national championship
this year. They're undefeated this season. So we want to
keep the homegrown town here in San Diego.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Absolutely the best way you do that is buying asset,
like right, as if they made a Sean mcvaigh jersey,
I bet my wife would buy one.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, he said, nobody buys coaches jerseys except for coaches
wives and Sarah Dale. Are we gonna Are we gonna
sip this neat here some vodka?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, sip it, guys, uh huh uh huh.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh yeah, it's good. There's not many vodkas you can
just sip. No, no, and this you could we did.
We chose to just drink it all right, right, we
sipped it nine o five. That is okay.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
So I know you said it's made with grapes, and
maybe this is the power of suggestion, but even just
just shooting that right there, you do taste something a
little bit sweeter, maybe a little bit fruit you're on
the palate.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Is that true? Or am I just making it up?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
You get a lot of the fruity grape tones that
you would get from you know, it being produced from
wine from grapes.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Okay, But what is vodka normally made from? Oh well,
so there's wheat.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Okay, that's for the longest time, that's why a lot
of people who are gluten and tolerant could not have buds,
right because it was produced from wheat. But now you
can get potato, you can get corn, but grape is
by far the most premium of all.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
All right, a couple of YouTube comments coming in, I
believe our friend Jessica Rabbit said that's my kind of sip.
Well done, and then our buddy Paris said, what's up,
my guys. I got my white Monster and cigar in hand,
that we should probably light up some cigs.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Right, Yeah, that's how I said, That's how I said.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Oh no, no, cat freaked out again today as we
tried to light up a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
You can't.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
You can't put it. You cannot light a cigarette in
the studio. Well, no smoking inside, there is no law.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I lit a cigarette two fridays ago, and guess what happened,
Johnny law didn't comfort And actually the smell went away immediately.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Because I had to use life wipes all over the streets.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
The air it just takes. I saw wipe oxygen. That's right,
that's right, it's a good point. Yeah, she just stood
there and she was waving it around. Those are class
A cigarettes. Tony it says on the box.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
I was honestly thinking that we spared no budget in
getting these crowns.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Crown crowds. Yeah, that's right, that's right, Tony. The finest
of the Halloween costume.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Dollar crowns back of grounds and usually paid with crumpled
one dollar bills and some coin.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
No crowns existed. Trying to go buy cigarettes. Do you
sell cigarettes at Cake and Bottle? We do well most locations,
not not everyone.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
People I'm in with a with grumbled up ones for
the crowns.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Or these specifically? Do you sell crowds? Oh? Yeah, these a.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Crowd that's because you don't buy like them.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I don't buy cigarettes ever.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I went to go buy cigarettes and I was like,
I don't know. I just did some cigarettes and they
said what kind? And there's you know, two thousand of
them behind them, and I went, how about the Marlboroughs
And they went on, those are seventeen dollars yeah, and
I went, whoa. I'm like, that's how much a pack
of cigarettes.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
By the way, these are probably the cheapest one. They
still cost you eight bucks.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
No, those were over ten, and I'm like ten dollars.
Kick them off. Man and anything you could you could.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Pay with cash, credit, you could use laundry coins then
no big deal. You could use chuck e cheese tokens,
you could use snap it's all take nicols. Yeah, I'll
tell you. It's a part of my diet. Now I
have a shot it every day with crown.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
But no more pennies because now they're outlawed.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Yeah, you know, what is it weird that now I'm
just saying pennies collector's item?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
What I feel like?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
I feel like somebody's gonna want this twenty nineteen penny.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
In your defense of the kids have like a collection
of coins because anytime I drive through someplace, I'm always like,
here you go guys, you know, and they're psyched about it.
So they have like bins and tins and piggy banks
filled with coins. And I've started doing that too much.
Hey you boys, got any pennies in there? They're like
those are the worst ones of like suckers. Yeah, some
(17:29):
days these are gonna be worth.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Just slightly over a penny.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I think the reason the outlawed It costs four cents
to make a penny.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Right right right? Yeah, But if you look at a Nickel.
It's like eleventh cents to make a nickel, So don't
look at that.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, we got baby steps, were taking
baby step.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Okay, so right off the bat, we started our show
when Nickel and and Ray came in with some Red
Bull vodkas. If you guys want to redo that for
the folks watching on YouTube, we are game.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
We need more Red Bulls.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I think I think it was that was just a
side that was just a side drink. Yeah, hang on
a stand.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Well then for the folks who are watching on YouTube,
So this right here, I'm gonna hold it up to
the camera.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
This is this is Thaie red Bull.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
So, Nikel, you told us the story about how the
founder of Red Bull, he went to Thailand.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
He was selling toothpaste.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He woke up hungover in a hotel room, tried something
that when he drank it, it felt like it cured
his hangover. And then that's the etymology. That's the origin
story of Red Bull.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
So Dietrich Matterstitch, an Austrian toothpaste salesman, was as selling
toothpaste just like one would and I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Everybody does need toothpaste.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
I don't know that I've ever needed had somebody to
sell it to me, though, I like my door.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
To door toothpaste, So you're buying it the wrong way,
right right, right?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I say, he comes to first, the state guy comes,
and then the toothpaste guy.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I mean, I just didn't think that Asia would need
Austrian toothpaste. But you know, apparently apparently it was the need.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
That's where you're.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Wrong, right, right, clearly, or maybe what just wasn't going well?
So he was drinking heavily with the hangover, woke up.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
With a mad hangover, found this beautiful little coughser glass
vial and took a drink and was like, this is
life changing, and who needs toothpaste?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Essentially right? And they went.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Found, they found the family, and he westernized the deal,
built the eight point four ounce can and westernized it.
Now in anywhere in Europe America is all that you
get red bull in the can traditionally like you do, right,
But in Asia it still comes in the glass vile.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Did Fletcher just bring that in a sugar free that
was all one in the vending machine?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
You know, I'd never go sugar sugar free? Red bull
is better than normal red bull. That's wrong alt.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I mean, I'm sorry, t is gonna have to pass.
He's allergic to sugar free go down to FA.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Did this guy ever come up with a Red Bull
flavored toothpaste? Because I feel like, oh hey, all of
a sudden, imagine over brushing your teeth and red Bull.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
I can use some wings getting ready in the morning.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah, this this this so if you're joining us, just
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Speaker 5 (20:44):
Shares the Big One, actually send this to your friend
Jessica Rabbit not in on Red Bull toothpaste.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
You know, Jessica. Not for everyone. Yeah, I want my
teeth that wing.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Get fire up the the the Aztigling Vaka that is
in studio right now.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
We are turning the corner on drinking number five.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I mean this has gone really fast, which which is
a testament to the stuff. The look a lot of
people sell, you know, the hype or the label and
then the juice is no good Inside this bottle is
some of the best vodka that we've enjoyed here in
studio where we've tried a lot, and this is good stuff.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
So it's a good point, Rich because everyone has the
college experience where you drink vodka and you drink it
out of bad vodka and you end up pugging your
guts out and then you push it away forever. Yeah,
this is what could open the door back up.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, bring you back in. That sounds like a problem.
You're welcome. That sounds like an issue.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
But really, what as TechLink Vodka is looking forward to
doing is is finding a meeting ground.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Oh my gosh, so yeah, your bomb just Scott sat
down in front of me. Thank you, ray A Lord.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
But uh, but but what they're trying to do is
get something that the alumni can gather around. So if
you are an STSU alumni, an Aztec for life, and
you've enjoyed tailgating, or you have your favorite memories from
your fraternity or sorority days, like this is a great opportunity,
even if you live in a different state, to contribute
(22:22):
back to the school, back to the football program. You
could go to keg the letter Nbottle dot com, Keganbottle
dot com. You can even order it on the website
and that same the pricing is still just as fair,
right Tony.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Yeah, it's nineteen ninety nine one on the website, shipped
right to your door, and uh, I think you should
get a case of them, maybe have them engraved.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
Yeah, yeah, but little Christmas gifts and especially if you've
got a if you've got a corporation, your boss man, right,
you want to send you want to get gifts to
all the all the employees.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
You're an STSU alum and your success school. You've got
a water or yeah, you're successful s c SU alum.
This is one way to give and it's twenty bucks
a person.
Speaker 9 (23:01):
It's also great if you have like a friend who
goes to Boise State or something, send them.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
This to pillow. There we go. There. We're supporting the program.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Now you're figuring it out and you're making Boise State
people upset.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Program director Mary has just walked in, Mary Ayala. We're
going to ply her with alcohol bomb.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
So yeah, I'm getting pulled away.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
No corporate meeting, my god, don't worry about a corporate meeting.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
No, it's fine. You marry a shot.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah, right right, we can light up some crowns.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Brown.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Let her out out. We're gonna light up, Thank God, God,
thank you. Mary.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Mary on her way out is just taking a shot.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
She's got to make it through this meeting. Yeah, before we.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Say, she really come in to take cat away shot
and that was the last time we saw cat Fisher.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
We can we talk about Ray real quick?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Ray, did you just step off a plane from New
York City?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I mean, golly, buddy, I did not? I mean yes, sure, yes, yes, okay, okay,
it's drip. I can't help it's Ryan Gosling. Would wearing
a rom cor would a handsome would.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
You say it's gwopped up right now?
Speaker 9 (24:36):
Tony question from our our friend Jessica says, do you
ship to office buildings.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Very discreet, very discrete boxes around paper bags?
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Well, the brown boxes with no markings, and uh yeah,
absolutely we learned. We learned the hard way when we
should like try to put merchant like logos and everything.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
The ups drivers would the temporary ups, yeah, which would
be like that would be a good want to take
lost in transit? We don't know.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
So now it's just brown and marked. We've shipped to
some pretty cool places.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
That's cool. Just unbiasedly.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
We've had clients and people order and via Keg and
Bottle and they didn't know it was coming from Keg
Bottle and they said it was the best shipment possible.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Wow. And this is all the way to Florida and
that's just shipped. So our break review. Tell her our breakage.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
I'll tell you our breakage rate is less than half
of one percent.
Speaker 11 (25:29):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
And shrink wrap everything. What does that mean? Bubble wrap everything.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
We take a lot of time and effort and expense,
like literally breakage. Like the bottles break well, you guys,
remember they were going through conveyor belts. They're dropping fishing.
Sometimes drivers are throwing them onto a porch because.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
They got to make it onto the next They don't break.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
And the nearest competitor's breakage rate is nearly one hundred percent.
You do not want to go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah yeah, you don't want to go with anybody other
than keging bottle, otherwise gonna have a wet box bombs well, all.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Of a sudden, Jessica Rabbit, listen, look at the competitors.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I want to let you know everybody I work watching this.
This has worked for us. I believe this is what
we get paid.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
This is where we got We're pouring in their plastic shots.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
We do have to pour.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I poured part of it on
my computer. Sorry, god starts Rookie plastic or not.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Okay, So that's the second Yager bomb in the morning.
That's funny and it's good.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
So so prior to today, I was like rich and
I hadn't done Yaga bomb in twenty years. But last
night I was at a fifty year old birthday party
for my sister in law. Yeah, and one of my
buddies that we hung out with in college was there
and we used to always hit peeb and We're like,
when's the last time you had a year?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
We had them the last night at this party.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Literally there was like ten of them lined up and
I'm like, oh my god, what he's in twenty years?
I feel your painte Yeah, how do you feel this morning?
And then back to back that's insane.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
No, it's the best way to celebrate a Friday, especially
a bar card Friday.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Right here on Bigger at TD and Fledg.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
That voice is Tony Kanja, who joins us every single
Friday owner operator of Keg and Bottle. And of course
we got Ray and we got nkel in from Azteklink
Vodka and I'm going to double back to what we
were just talking about right, you are the best dressed
person who's ever walked.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I mean it's incredible, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Okay, so not not since we did the first day
of Fall and uh, what was it white Woman's Instagram?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, we all dressed up. He is not
calling you a white woman. I'm just we dressed up.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
And by the way, now the compliment, if it comes
with heat seats, I'm all about it.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
That was That was a part of the video. That
was the video.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
We were all holding koffee mugs with two hands and
saying things like meet too home.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
We had Simon farmhouse signs everywhere. It was a great day.
We've made charcooterie boards, lovely knitted scarves. But this is
this is the dedication that you're showing right now.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
So the studio is not cool, but it's also not
not not cold, and you are wearing a sweater layered
with a pea coat layered with a scarf, and I
know if I was wearing that, I would be one
thousand degrees underneath.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
To be fair, to be fair, I lived in Arizona
for about six years. Okay, okay, blood is very thin.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, an a Z.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
When I was playing for the Cardinals for one year,
and I remember early September it was reaching like one
oh eight on the practice field and I'm.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Like, I'm this is the end. I was really I
looked like Arizona. I looked like a lizard like you
were playing though. While they were playing at Sun Devil Stadium.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Well, we practiced there occasionally. They had an well no,
this was before the indoor bubble, so we had practice
fields outside. And I mean the the stadium was great.
It was up in Glendale at the time. It was
University of Phoenix Stadium. I think it's like Gilla River
Casino Stadium now whatever the new branding. But it's an
indoor stadium stadium with a retractable roof. It's in Glendale, right, Yeah,
(29:29):
they never opened the roof because it's always one hundred
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
It was worth it because the Cardinals were so good
when you were there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
As a matter of fact, they fired the entire staff
after that one season.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
We have four wins. We got five.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
To be fair, weren't you one of the most lopside
of victories in NFL history?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Well, I was on the wrong side of it, That's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Yeah, we got beat by still to the because of that.
If you look it up, it's true, Uh, fifty eight nothing.
The Seattle Seahawks beat us in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
When I was with the Cardinals. This is a twenty
twelve regular season.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
It is still I think in third place in terms
of the most wow the biggest.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Shutout victory of all time.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
December ninth, twenty twelve. Marshawn Lynch had three rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 9 (30:23):
Seattle Seahawks set a franchise record with fifty eight points.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It was a fifty eight to nothing.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Knowing the Seahawks, they probably have a flag there at
the stadium.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Memory that was in division game.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
They scored fifty eight points and Russell Wilson only had
one hundred and forty eight passing yards.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Buddy, this was one of the worst games ever played
by a football team ever.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
We've had a lot of turnovers. Oh yeah, who was
your quarterback? Who was the Skelton? John Skelton started the games.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
He had four picks and then six, and then they
sent in Ryan and they basically said, who's by the way,
asked for life. Ryan Linley currently working with the tight
ends at San Diego State.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
He's a coach here and we need you to send
him three dollars. But what's crazy about is they set him.
Speaker 12 (31:14):
In the game and they went, listen, listen, we're losing
this football game. The only thing we want you to
concentrate on is getting the football to Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Here's the reason why he had an unbroken streak. He
caught the football in like it had to be like
a hundred games in a row. He never got injured.
So it was like, if you get him one reception,
we will be eternally grateful, right right, right, So guess
so he's I mean he's pumping the football. Yeah, I
(31:47):
mean like literally Mike, Yeah, Mike r oc is on
the headside. He's like, all right, it's a sixty four
x two nine or go throw it to.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
One catch for two yards.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Yess, screen eleven targets in the game.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
So he finally won for flow. So he gets a catch.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
He gets a catch, and I kid you not, Ryan,
I'd be I know, I'm telling your story, so I
may mess things up. But Ryan told me that Mike
over the head sid goes mission accomplished.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
So Kain was a w.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
No, listen, we have one shot of getting a clip
on Sports Center.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, Larry fit Jerry.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Gotta get them. We gotta keep the streak alive. That
was unbelievable. It's a bark our Friday here on Bigger
It's TD and Fletch. We're having too much fun. Azteclink
vodka in with us. We got Ray, the best dressed
man in San Diego. To promise you, you need to
get over to YouTube, subscribe to Biggert, TD and Fletcher
and see this, I mean, and then.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Of course the Kel, who's missing up on you. Oh
my goodness, Friday, guys. Yeah, it's Friday. It's Friday. It's
somewhere thirty. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
By the way, the Kel you also working with some drip.
I mean, I'm looking pretty gangster yourself here.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Whatever sounded less cool in their lives. I cried so hard.
I'm pretty cool, guys, and everybody talks about it.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Everybody actually brought two jackets. This is my rain jacket jacket.
What's the nicer jackets in the car? It was against
game time decision.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
What's the second jacket? Is a pea coat.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
It's nice, it's nice, but it couldn't get wet.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah, get wet, but you go. You nice jacket and
the ball cap. Oh yeah, that's where I keep.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
I mean, I can't run that ball cap. What's on
your ball Palm Tree Crew? Oh yeah, that's the festival.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Yeah yeah, it's a festival and hospitality company. My brother
is actually the president of the company.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
And I'm glad I didn't make fun of it. Are
you a fellow bald? Is that why you get the
heck go up? Ironically, it's gonna be fun thing. I
shaved my head all of my youth. Yeah, everyone thought
I was bald. I couldn't grow hair, but.
Speaker 11 (34:30):
Uh, this is a nice The question is, are wasted
on guys like TD and guys like you to kill
because you have luscious heads of hair?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
It's for.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
You.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Got a good set of letters here, let's get to
see it anymore.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
For us, we're walking marketing material, right, Like, we're like,
how can we support other brands and build people up?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
You guys are just billboard space and nineteen years old
starting to go bald.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
This is a lot more billboard than you. That way,
he's losing some mirror and it bothers him. I'll give
him a phone number for the support group we go
to when you guys want to. So this week is
the last month.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
So Palm Tree actually just took over the club where
MGM What Republic was in MGM Vegas. So anytime you
guys want to come out to Vegas, we can take
care of your funny story.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Both my boys are going to Vegas today today.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Wait, is there a UFC fight.
Speaker 7 (35:35):
No, there's a little something called F one formula one
which complete.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
I'm sorry, I don't understand I call it.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
I'm sorry. And when I drank my espresso the pinky my.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
My nephew when I don't know he was three years old.
The way he spoke, he sounded like that, and he
would say.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Things he.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Talked and I was like, I'm like, oh my god,
you have to call me Ricky Bobby out. And so
literally we're driving in the car and he was in
a car seat in between us where we're watching him
for the weekend.
Speaker 9 (36:15):
He was like, Ricky, baby, that's a French bs. It's
technique American made. Am I right, American American man. He's
ten years old. He still calls me Ricky Bobby.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Dude. That's actually awesome. I do want to point out
on the back of.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
These bottles, this is one of the So we were
talking about Tito's earlier, which the reason why I started
drinking Tito's at all was because, I mean, did I
love the taste of the vodka And probably not, to
be perfectly honest with you, I didn't have a discerning
palette back then.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
But it was because of that.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
You see on the back of every acycling bottle and
American flag, this is a product of the United States.
So if you want to support Americans in the workforce, which,
by the way, by ground cigarettes, there's a classic so
(37:07):
called the Americana Farragona in the US of America. No
as tickling vodka. It's made here Napa grapes. Where's that
Northern California. I mean, we don't know, Napa Grapes. Maybe Canada.
I know it's not here.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Canada.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Canada is just America's hats, and we've determined we like hats.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
We to.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
You should see the head of Arab America is covering
up with Canada.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Jesus, this is as Americans. This is American made. Napa
Valley Grapes. Bottling is in California, and we support American
student athletes.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
And and as Techling Vodka smokes crowns.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
I'm still shocked that Marlboro's cost seventy ninety.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
I don't it's insane.
Speaker 7 (38:03):
That's in California, though, I don't know how you're making
any money to get dollars.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Were listen beyond the day, we're not making money? Money
are this is fun?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
It's like I'm buying those these clothing of Poshmaria.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
This goes back to why Tony is so important.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Tony and Keken Bottle has led the pathway of making
this possible. Right Because this we can come up with
a concept, we can make a price point, but we
need partners like Tony who understand the mission to make
this actually come to fruition.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Right.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
So on that note, I remember when these guys were negotiating,
They're like, look, we're not making money.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
We want you to make no money. You met, I
need to make some dollars. We need you to take
in thirty pounds. So, honestly, to that point, you're right,
I know that they're not.
Speaker 7 (38:55):
Again, think about this, if they're making California, they're they're
they're growing the grapes in California. So all the rules
and everything that goes intoto doing stuff like this, I
know you're not making money be able to sell a
quality product this good, and and I know on our
side we shaved our margins completely because both my wife
and I are stsu alum.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
So that was my way to give back.
Speaker 7 (39:14):
And so if we can do that and get it
to everybody and get three bucks into into some cool athletes,
you know.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
What was really exciting.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
And again Tony is the reason that we were able
to get this going.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Uh you know, we were able to donate twenty five
thousand dollars to San Diego State after one month.
Speaker 7 (39:30):
Oh my god, honestly, that's real money.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
It's twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
If you if you go to our instagram aec Astec
Premium Spirits right now, you can see we donated the check.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
We have Coach Lewis in it. People from the school.
Was it a big giant check?
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Oh yeah, that's the real dat.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
I've seen it in his office.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Well he still.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Cash.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
I said, you you need to bring that to a
giant bank. Ye, giants at that can take it. He
seems so nervous, and I was like here, smoke a crown,
will work it out. This will calm me down.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
Yeah, there's a lot of nutrients, instigarettes.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
I heard, I heard, I heard on the news. Lie
so some of the talky box. He was, honestly, And
he has a bottle.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
You know.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
I feel like I'm tipping my hand and play giving
out trade secrets. But Sean Lewis has a bottle of
Assecling vodka on his desk in his office. I tape
the coaches show there every single Thursday throughout the course
of the se SU football season.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
He's game planning. Hammered well, I have a feeling.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
He's not cracking until whatever he's doing, what he's doing,
it's working.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Feeling he's saving it. It's not opened yet.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
I have a feeling he's saving, saving it for the
end of the season when they win the Mountain West.
I mean, I'll tell you what and when he does,
I hope, I hope he shares it with me because
it's good stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
And at twenty dollars, I guess I shouldn't be like, oh,
share your bottle of vodka with me. Maybe I'll buy
my own. I guess so.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Ring that that Tony has and a few special things
that coach List did for us. He signed the first
hundred bottles that ever ever was created, those.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Keg and bottle, so they're hidden that keg and bottle.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
So the idea was we're going to give them out
randomly to people to order online. Order online and you
may just randomly get a signed bottle like code.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
You got to go to Keg the Letter, N Bottle
dot com, Keganbottle dot com.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
That's where you go to order these, Okay, so check
it out.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Every single bottle purchased of Aztickling Vodka, three dollars goes
back to the.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Student athletes at s G s U.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Huge thanks as always to my buddy sitting right to
my left.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
We're about to light up a crown. Tony Kanja, owner
operator of Keg and Bottle, how much love to given crown.
He's gonna be sponsored.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
And then of course nikel Ray from Aztegling Vodka. You
guys are wonderful. You make a wonderful product. And everybody
who's an st SU alum or everyone who knows an
s C s U lum get to Keg the Letter
n Bottle dot com.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Pick you up a bottle.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Be shipped to you wherever you are in the United States,
or go to one of the ten locations of keg
get In Bottle around San Diego.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
So you know what you gotta do, get you some Yeah,
you cats, I'm talking about reading this ship
Thank God Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's been a long week and the fellies our first
stop just got.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Stopped in Aired Goes Down, Down and be my bats.
Time moves into the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Big Rich, TD and Fletch present bar Card Friday rocking
by Kegan Bottle with the best selection of bourbon, whiskey, tequila,
Private Section bottles and more.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Probably I drink too much, way too much. I got
my doctor, you specially, it was an all of it.
Now let's for some drinks. You damn right, it's a
barkard Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Here are one one five k g b go get
you some as tech Link Vodka at any of the
ten locations of Keg and Bottle around San Diego. We
got Tony kanja In, owner operator of Keg and Bottle Azois,
joining us live on a Barquard Friday Nickel and Ray
from Aztec Link Vodka. Good morning, gentlemen, thank you for
(00:50):
being here. Thank you Nikel for some of the drinks
that you made for us during the show. Those were incredible.
Good to see you man, good to meet you.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Good morning and pleasures all mine. This is an amazing Friday,
great way to start the day.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Ray, you have been playing like a dozen roles here
in studio.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
You've been helping fill.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Us in on the backstory of the vodka you've been
talking about sort of like the whole operation. You've also
been playing bar back sending drinks across to Tony, and
Tony has been what I mean, like we have now
I think we've had a total.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Of four drinks over the course of a single hour.
Right right, we are? Are you all right?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
TD? Yeah, we're gonna get TD. So drug when I say,
I said, it was right, Oh no, no, everything's fine,
everything's very very good. You sneezed, I said, right, yeah,
So thank you, Ray, It's good to meet you.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Absolutely my pleasure. Can't be held responsible for the chunks
for your drink waiting.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
That's true, that that was my fault.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So we enjoyed a creamsickle vodka drink on air on
Bigger tdum Fletch that was absolutely delicious and it was
provided by the AI bartender, the mixologist on the Aztec
Link website. Again, throw out that website, Nickel, what is
that again? It's an Aztec Link vodka vodka.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Got it all right?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So before we dive into trying the vodka on this
Bark our Friday on YouTube here subscribe to Big rich
tdum Fletch. We do this every Friday and we will
keep these posts up and this is this is what
we do. This is how we celebrate a Friday, and
no better people to celebrate with this ac link. But
(02:42):
before we taste us this Nickel and Ray, why don't
you bring us through the journey that got us here.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, I would love to. Well, thank you for the
time and opportunity. Guys. First off, this is an amazing opportunity.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Astec Link Vodka is here to support San Diego San
Diego State student athletes.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
That's really the purpose behind it.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
The founder and myself we went to San Diego years
and years ago. We used to run party buses and
keep things pretty local and fun as far as events
and things around here. He came from three decades of
Napa Valley wine well and yeah, yeah, some good family
experiences as far as that. Didn't really know myself, but
you can actually make vodka from grapes, so yeah, voting
(03:25):
free from the source and all this vodka is from
Napa Valley grapes and we made sure to price ourselves
at a very incredible price point. Around twenty dollars, and
every bottle three dollars goes right to the student athletes
at San Diego State.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
What twenty bucks a bottle is crazy because this does
not taste like twenty dollars vodka.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
No, now, this is this is beautiful.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We've really had a lot of folks come through here
over the years, and you try a whole bunch of
different things, and look, we understand every single thing we've
drank on a bark our Friday is somebody's passion. Like
they are excited about it. They are thrilled to have
you try it. And look, we don't need to name
any names, but like there are times where some of them,
(04:10):
you know, you sip it and you're like, oh boy,
this is gonna.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Be a long Frida.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I'm telling you, Nikkel and Ray, I mean, truly and honestly,
this is one of the best spirits we've had come
through the doors. It's smooth, it feels like it's I
hate to say this to you because I love the price,
but it's it's way under what it should be a
price like twenty dollars a bottle vodka. Like these days,
(04:40):
you kind of think like man, what shelf do they
put that on?
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Is?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I mean basically you're thrown out the door with people
as they leave. I mean, I'm not saying twenty bucks
is nothing, but that that is good.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Stuff for that price point. Yeah, I mean, and that's
really the goal.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Right. We could have been priced at the Gray Goose,
that's rock, the ultra premium price point, because that's what
the product no stands by. But to donate as much
money to the school is really the goal. And to
do that we need to be priced aggressively and better
than our competitors. And we all know those names, but
those who shall not be talking.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
About, but they're pretty neto.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, some of those other brands school.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
I mean, the other brands that all have become famous
because there weren't a lot of gluten free vodkas until
a few years ago. So people with Celiac's disease or
people who are just gluten free by choice were never
able to drink vodka until other brands came out that
were great based. So it's pretty cool that that market
is expanding.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
And this checks all the boxes, right, So it's made
in the USA, it's gluten free, and it's an ultra
premium product price that a great point price point and
donates to the school, which is the most mood part.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So that's the voice of Nickel with with as tickling
vodka you can. You can see he has brought in
a bunch of bottles with him. He and right, ray,
how did you get roped into this whole thing?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, I've been working with nikel for a great many years.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
I've worked on a lot of projects with him, and
when he came to me with this passion project, I
couldn't help but get myself involved. It's a wonderful cause,
taking care of the student students at STSU, donating to
the school, making sure the football team gets everything they need,
making sure the sports teams in general get everything they
need it. It's wonderful. I couldn't help but jump on board,
and it's been great. TH's far well.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I thank you from a personal standpoint because as a
former athlete, a collegiate athlete, one of the things that
people don't realize is the thought process is Okay, if
you know what NIL is, it's name, image and likeness money, right,
So these NIL funds finally players after decades and decades
of playing for only their tuition in certain cases if
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they get a full scholarship. Other cases, they're walking on,
they're paying their own tuition, they're playing football or another
sport for their school. Well, in profit generating sports like
football and men's basketball, you have these players who are
making tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
For some of these universities. They don't get a single dollar.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Okay, they may get this two hundred thousand dollars tuition,
and people say, well, these greedy athletes, how could they
complain about that. Well, meanwhile, you got coaches who are
making millions of dollars in some of these universities, where
you say to yourself, well, in the NFL, for example,
every single star player outpaces a coach's salary, and there's
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a good reason why, because they're taking all the risk.
They're the reason why people show up in the stands.
Nobody's wearing a coach's jersey on their back, right.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
But at the collegiate level, they look at these players
and they say they're greedy because they want to be
paid for their efforts.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It's labor they should be paid.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
So finally they are now having said that I know,
I sound like I'm pontificating, but this is the deal.
There's still some of that stigma around paying these athletes,
like why do we need to give them a dollar?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Well, I'm telling you from my own circumstance.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I was raised in a household who didn't have enough
money to send me to college. I was going to
join the military if I didn't get a scholarship to
Penn State.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Went to Penn State, and I was bootstrapping it a
little bit. You know.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I had my tuition paid for, and that's great, but
I didn't have much else, and I was getting by
by borrowing scratch money from my friends.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And they understood.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
You know, some of these guys came from situations where
their parents would throw some money in their bank account.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I didn't have that situation, and so if it was
my turn to.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Buy toilet paper, I was gonna have to find a
way to get my hands on enough money to help
out our apartment, you know. And and that's just what
it was. If I was getting some funding, it would
have gone a long way for me, because my parents
couldn't even afford to fill up my lunch card when
it ran out of money on the scholarship.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
And we know you like to eat I too, cat Yeah,
and then I look at the size of its feed
the beast absolutely.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
So I'm telling you these aren't greedy as These aren't
guys who are are you know, driving around in Mercedes Benz.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
These are some guys who you know.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
With the money that they're getting through these name, image
and likeness deals, they're sending it back to their families
where they came from to help support them, because they
help them chance the dream that they get to go
down to San Diego State and live out. So when
I tell you, if you buy a bottle of Assecling vodka,
you are doing a service to your community.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You are actually helping somebody who could potentially be in need.
It is not a lie. You are doing something great
for something that you're passionate about already.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
And we're trying to raise three million dollars, which we
need to sell a million dollars of Aspecting podcast and
you can pick that out at any cake and bottle location.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And just to go on that note, like you nailed it.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Like before, students were literally only getting scholarships right, But
a lot of these families and students they couldn't spend
the time to finish college, right, Like, they need to
go make money, they need to for their families.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So they're not finishing college.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
They were leaving their exiting joining the NBA draft during
the NFL draft prematurely before they even get their education
to provide for their fans.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Exactly correct. And now you're.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Able to see your students are staying in college there,
they're graduating. They're for your athletes, you know, and they're
able to complete their collegiate student athletes as they should
be and get paid, take care of their families, and
then join the professional sports when they're ready.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
To actually perform. Yeah, and that's not going to be
the route for most guys.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Most guys will eventually be you know, selling insurance or
they're going to be going and working you know at
Hurts rental car. Like, not everybody makes it to the league.
And so if you are a fan of seeing young
people get a little bit of a leg up in.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Society to have some success to.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Chase dreams, I'm telling you you're not putting money.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Into the pockets of greedy athletes.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
You're putting money into pockets of the future of this country.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And this community. It's a beautiful thing to do, and
getting a fantastic bottle team this year is sick.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
And on that note, I mean, guys, most let's just
and I don't mind saying names. So Tito's is the
number one selling product and typically you know, twenty to
thirty bucks depending where you buy it. Yeah, right, so
you're getting it for the same price, if not less, right,
and three bucks is going there.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So I'm kudos to you guys for not.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Going higher because if you would have higer, you had
to put more pockets and more money in your pocket.
I know you're not making a lot of money when
you're getting three dollars back. Right, We make a little profit,
you guys make a little profit, but three dollars, I
think more. Three dollars is more profit than either one
of us is making on the bottle. It's going back
to the students. That's awesome. And so to your point
of selling three million dollars.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Yeah, right, million bottles, Yet.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Three million dollars, it's very doable because they didn't price it.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
No matter what vodka you're buying, You're like, hey, so
literally every.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Student that comes in, every person that has any tied
stsu is picking up a bottle, so doing well, you
guys should pick it up too. And if you're not
San Diego, but you have a tie, we'll ship it
right here.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
Well, now that you brought up the word Tito's, Tito's
supports a college, doesn't it. So anything you got going
into Tito's is going to a different college when you
could buy Aztec Lincoln support the aestechs.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Oh, that money's going to Texas.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Like thee didn't the owner did the owner of Tito's
go to Texas till you go to ut.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I don't know if he went to Utube, but he
loves them. But they're donating, they're in white labor.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
They're doing everything they can to support university University of Texas,
and what that means is more money for them to
steal our San Diego.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And don't think that's not okay.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So there's a kid right now who's playing at Ohio State.
His name's Julian saying, guess where he came from? San Diego,
Carlsbad High. Okay, they're about to win a national championship
this year. They're undefeated this season. So we want to
keep the homegrown town here in San Diego.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Absolutely the best way you do that is buying asset,
like right, as if they made a Sean mcvaigh jersey,
I bet my wife would buy one.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, he said, nobody buys coaches jerseys except for coaches
wives and Sarah Dale. Are we gonna Are we gonna
sip this neat here some vodka?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, sip it, guys, uh huh uh huh.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh yeah, it's good. There's not many vodkas you can
just sip. No, no, and this you could we did.
We chose to just drink it all right, right, we
sipped it nine o five. That is okay.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
So I know you said it's made with grapes, and
maybe this is the power of suggestion, but even just
just shooting that right there, you do taste something a
little bit sweeter, maybe a little bit fruit you're on
the palate.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Is that true? Or am I just making it up?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
You get a lot of the fruity grape tones that
you would get from you know, it being produced from
wine from grapes.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Okay, But what is vodka normally made from? Oh well,
so there's wheat.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Okay, that's for the longest time, that's why a lot
of people who are gluten and tolerant could not have buds,
right because it was produced from wheat. But now you
can get potato, you can get corn, but grape is
by far the most premium of all.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
All right, a couple of YouTube comments coming in, I
believe our friend Jessica Rabbit said that's my kind of sip.
Well done, and then our buddy Paris said, what's up,
my guys. I got my white Monster and cigar in hand,
that we should probably light up some cigs.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Right, Yeah, that's how I said, That's how I said.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Oh no, no, cat freaked out again today as we
tried to light up a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
You can't.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
You can't put it. You cannot light a cigarette in
the studio. Well, no smoking inside, there is no law.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I lit a cigarette two fridays ago, and guess what happened,
Johnny law didn't comfort And actually the smell went away immediately.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Because I had to use life wipes all over the streets.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
The air it just takes. I saw wipe oxygen. That's right,
that's right, it's a good point. Yeah, she just stood
there and she was waving it around. Those are class
A cigarettes. Tony it says on the box.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
I was honestly thinking that we spared no budget in
getting these crowns.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Crown crowds. Yeah, that's right, that's right, Tony. The finest
of the Halloween costume.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Dollar crowns back of grounds and usually paid with crumpled
one dollar bills and some coin.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
No crowns existed. Trying to go buy cigarettes. Do you
sell cigarettes at Cake and Bottle? We do well most locations,
not not everyone.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
People I'm in with a with grumbled up ones for
the crowns.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Or these specifically? Do you sell crowds? Oh? Yeah, these a.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Crowd that's because you don't buy like them.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I don't buy cigarettes ever.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I went to go buy cigarettes and I was like,
I don't know. I just did some cigarettes and they
said what kind? And there's you know, two thousand of
them behind them, and I went, how about the Marlboroughs
And they went on, those are seventeen dollars yeah, and
I went, whoa. I'm like, that's how much a pack
of cigarettes.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
By the way, these are probably the cheapest one. They
still cost you eight bucks.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
No, those were over ten, and I'm like ten dollars.
Kick them off. Man and anything you could you could.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Pay with cash, credit, you could use laundry coins then
no big deal. You could use chuck e cheese tokens,
you could use snap it's all take nicols. Yeah, I'll
tell you. It's a part of my diet. Now I
have a shot it every day with crown.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
But no more pennies because now they're outlawed.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Yeah, you know, what is it weird that now I'm
just saying pennies collector's item?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
What I feel like?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
I feel like somebody's gonna want this twenty nineteen penny.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
In your defense of the kids have like a collection
of coins because anytime I drive through someplace, I'm always like,
here you go guys, you know, and they're psyched about it.
So they have like bins and tins and piggy banks
filled with coins. And I've started doing that too much.
Hey you boys, got any pennies in there? They're like
those are the worst ones of like suckers. Yeah, some
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days these are gonna be worth.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Just slightly over a penny.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I think the reason the outlawed It costs four cents
to make a penny.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Right right right? Yeah, But if you look at a Nickel.
It's like eleventh cents to make a nickel, So don't
look at that.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, we got baby steps, were taking
baby step.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Okay, so right off the bat, we started our show
when Nickel and and Ray came in with some Red
Bull vodkas. If you guys want to redo that for
the folks watching on YouTube, we are game.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
We need more Red Bulls.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I think I think it was that was just a
side that was just a side drink. Yeah, hang on
a stand.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Well then for the folks who are watching on YouTube,
So this right here, I'm gonna hold it up to
the camera.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
This is this is Thaie red Bull.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
So, Nikel, you told us the story about how the
founder of Red Bull, he went to Thailand.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
He was selling toothpaste.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He woke up hungover in a hotel room, tried something
that when he drank it, it felt like it cured
his hangover. And then that's the etymology. That's the origin
story of Red Bull.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
So Dietrich Matterstitch, an Austrian toothpaste salesman, was as selling
toothpaste just like one would and I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Everybody does need toothpaste.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
I don't know that I've ever needed had somebody to
sell it to me, though, I like my door.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
To door toothpaste, So you're buying it the wrong way,
right right, right?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I say, he comes to first, the state guy comes,
and then the toothpaste guy.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I mean, I just didn't think that Asia would need
Austrian toothpaste. But you know, apparently apparently it was the need.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
That's where you're.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Wrong, right, right, clearly, or maybe what just wasn't going well?
So he was drinking heavily with the hangover, woke up.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
With a mad hangover, found this beautiful little coughser glass
vial and took a drink and was like, this is
life changing, and who needs toothpaste?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Essentially right? And they went.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Found, they found the family, and he westernized the deal,
built the eight point four ounce can and westernized it.
Now in anywhere in Europe America is all that you
get red bull in the can traditionally like you do, right,
But in Asia it still comes in the glass vile.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Did Fletcher just bring that in a sugar free that
was all one in the vending machine?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
You know, I'd never go sugar sugar free? Red bull
is better than normal red bull. That's wrong alt.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I mean, I'm sorry, t is gonna have to pass.
He's allergic to sugar free go down to FA.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Did this guy ever come up with a Red Bull
flavored toothpaste? Because I feel like, oh hey, all of
a sudden, imagine over brushing your teeth and red Bull.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
I can use some wings getting ready in the morning.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah, this this this so if you're joining us, just
now live on YouTube Big Rich TD and fledged subscribe
like comment if you.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Shares the Big One, actually send this to your friend
Jessica Rabbit not in on Red Bull toothpaste.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
You know, Jessica. Not for everyone. Yeah, I want my
teeth that wing.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Get fire up the the the Aztigling Vaka that is
in studio right now.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
We are turning the corner on drinking number five.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I mean this has gone really fast, which which is
a testament to the stuff. The look a lot of
people sell, you know, the hype or the label and
then the juice is no good Inside this bottle is
some of the best vodka that we've enjoyed here in
studio where we've tried a lot, and this is good stuff.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
So it's a good point, Rich because everyone has the
college experience where you drink vodka and you drink it
out of bad vodka and you end up pugging your
guts out and then you push it away forever. Yeah,
this is what could open the door back up.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, bring you back in. That sounds like a problem.
You're welcome. That sounds like an issue.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
But really, what as TechLink Vodka is looking forward to
doing is is finding a meeting ground.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Oh my gosh, so yeah, your bomb just Scott sat
down in front of me. Thank you, ray A Lord.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
But uh, but but what they're trying to do is
get something that the alumni can gather around. So if
you are an STSU alumni, an Aztec for life, and
you've enjoyed tailgating, or you have your favorite memories from
your fraternity or sorority days, like this is a great opportunity,
even if you live in a different state, to contribute
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back to the school, back to the football program. You
could go to keg the letter Nbottle dot com, Keganbottle
dot com. You can even order it on the website
and that same the pricing is still just as fair,
right Tony.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Yeah, it's nineteen ninety nine one on the website, shipped
right to your door, and uh, I think you should
get a case of them, maybe have them engraved.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
Yeah, yeah, but little Christmas gifts and especially if you've
got a if you've got a corporation, your boss man, right,
you want to send you want to get gifts to
all the all the employees.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
You're an STSU alum and your success school. You've got
a water or yeah, you're successful s c SU alum.
This is one way to give and it's twenty bucks
a person.
Speaker 9 (23:01):
It's also great if you have like a friend who
goes to Boise State or something, send them.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
This to pillow. There we go. There. We're supporting the program.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Now you're figuring it out and you're making Boise State
people upset.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Program director Mary has just walked in, Mary Ayala. We're
going to ply her with alcohol bomb.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
So yeah, I'm getting pulled away.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
No corporate meeting, my god, don't worry about a corporate meeting.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
No, it's fine. You marry a shot.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah, right right, we can light up some crowns.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Brown.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Let her out out. We're gonna light up, Thank God, God,
thank you. Mary.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Mary on her way out is just taking a shot.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
She's got to make it through this meeting. Yeah, before we.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Say, she really come in to take cat away shot
and that was the last time we saw cat Fisher.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
We can we talk about Ray real quick?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Ray, did you just step off a plane from New
York City?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I mean, golly, buddy, I did not? I mean yes, sure, yes, yes, okay, okay,
it's drip. I can't help it's Ryan Gosling. Would wearing
a rom cor would a handsome would.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
You say it's gwopped up right now?
Speaker 9 (24:36):
Tony question from our our friend Jessica says, do you
ship to office buildings.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Very discreet, very discrete boxes around paper bags?
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Well, the brown boxes with no markings, and uh yeah,
absolutely we learned. We learned the hard way when we
should like try to put merchant like logos and everything.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
The ups drivers would the temporary ups, yeah, which would
be like that would be a good want to take
lost in transit? We don't know.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
So now it's just brown and marked. We've shipped to
some pretty cool places.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
That's cool. Just unbiasedly.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
We've had clients and people order and via Keg and
Bottle and they didn't know it was coming from Keg
Bottle and they said it was the best shipment possible.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Wow. And this is all the way to Florida and
that's just shipped. So our break review. Tell her our breakage.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
I'll tell you our breakage rate is less than half
of one percent.
Speaker 11 (25:29):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
And shrink wrap everything. What does that mean? Bubble wrap everything.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
We take a lot of time and effort and expense,
like literally breakage. Like the bottles break well, you guys,
remember they were going through conveyor belts. They're dropping fishing.
Sometimes drivers are throwing them onto a porch because.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
They got to make it onto the next They don't break.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
And the nearest competitor's breakage rate is nearly one hundred percent.
You do not want to go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah yeah, you don't want to go with anybody other
than keging bottle, otherwise gonna have a wet box bombs well, all.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Of a sudden, Jessica Rabbit, listen, look at the competitors.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I want to let you know everybody I work watching this.
This has worked for us. I believe this is what
we get paid.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
This is where we got We're pouring in their plastic shots.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
We do have to pour.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I poured part of it on
my computer. Sorry, god starts Rookie plastic or not.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Okay, So that's the second Yager bomb in the morning.
That's funny and it's good.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
So so prior to today, I was like rich and
I hadn't done Yaga bomb in twenty years. But last
night I was at a fifty year old birthday party
for my sister in law. Yeah, and one of my
buddies that we hung out with in college was there
and we used to always hit peeb and We're like,
when's the last time you had a year?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
We had them the last night at this party.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Literally there was like ten of them lined up and
I'm like, oh my god, what he's in twenty years?
I feel your painte Yeah, how do you feel this morning?
And then back to back that's insane.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
No, it's the best way to celebrate a Friday, especially
a bar card Friday.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Right here on Bigger at TD and Fledg.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
That voice is Tony Kanja, who joins us every single
Friday owner operator of Keg and Bottle. And of course
we got Ray and we got nkel in from Azteklink
Vodka and I'm going to double back to what we
were just talking about right, you are the best dressed
person who's ever walked.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I mean it's incredible, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Okay, so not not since we did the first day
of Fall and uh, what was it white Woman's Instagram?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, we all dressed up. He is not
calling you a white woman. I'm just we dressed up.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
And by the way, now the compliment, if it comes
with heat seats, I'm all about it.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
That was That was a part of the video. That
was the video.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
We were all holding koffee mugs with two hands and
saying things like meet too home.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
We had Simon farmhouse signs everywhere. It was a great day.
We've made charcooterie boards, lovely knitted scarves. But this is
this is the dedication that you're showing right now.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
So the studio is not cool, but it's also not
not not cold, and you are wearing a sweater layered
with a pea coat layered with a scarf, and I
know if I was wearing that, I would be one
thousand degrees underneath.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
To be fair, to be fair, I lived in Arizona
for about six years. Okay, okay, blood is very thin.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, an a Z.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
When I was playing for the Cardinals for one year,
and I remember early September it was reaching like one
oh eight on the practice field and I'm.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Like, I'm this is the end. I was really I
looked like Arizona. I looked like a lizard like you
were playing though. While they were playing at Sun Devil Stadium.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Well, we practiced there occasionally. They had an well no,
this was before the indoor bubble, so we had practice
fields outside. And I mean the the stadium was great.
It was up in Glendale at the time. It was
University of Phoenix Stadium. I think it's like Gilla River
Casino Stadium now whatever the new branding. But it's an
indoor stadium stadium with a retractable roof. It's in Glendale, right, Yeah,
(29:29):
they never opened the roof because it's always one hundred
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
It was worth it because the Cardinals were so good
when you were there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
As a matter of fact, they fired the entire staff
after that one season.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
We have four wins. We got five.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
To be fair, weren't you one of the most lopside
of victories in NFL history?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Well, I was on the wrong side of it, That's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Yeah, we got beat by still to the because of that.
If you look it up, it's true, Uh, fifty eight nothing.
The Seattle Seahawks beat us in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
When I was with the Cardinals. This is a twenty
twelve regular season.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
It is still I think in third place in terms
of the most wow the biggest.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Shutout victory of all time.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
December ninth, twenty twelve. Marshawn Lynch had three rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 9 (30:23):
Seattle Seahawks set a franchise record with fifty eight points.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It was a fifty eight to nothing.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Knowing the Seahawks, they probably have a flag there at
the stadium.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Memory that was in division game.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
They scored fifty eight points and Russell Wilson only had
one hundred and forty eight passing yards.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Buddy, this was one of the worst games ever played
by a football team ever.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
We've had a lot of turnovers. Oh yeah, who was
your quarterback? Who was the Skelton? John Skelton started the games.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
He had four picks and then six, and then they
sent in Ryan and they basically said, who's by the way,
asked for life. Ryan Linley currently working with the tight
ends at San Diego State.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
He's a coach here and we need you to send
him three dollars. But what's crazy about is they set him.
Speaker 12 (31:14):
In the game and they went, listen, listen, we're losing
this football game. The only thing we want you to
concentrate on is getting the football to Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Here's the reason why he had an unbroken streak. He
caught the football in like it had to be like
a hundred games in a row. He never got injured.
So it was like, if you get him one reception,
we will be eternally grateful, right right, right, So guess
so he's I mean he's pumping the football. Yeah, I
(31:47):
mean like literally Mike, Yeah, Mike r oc is on
the headside. He's like, all right, it's a sixty four
x two nine or go throw it to.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
One catch for two yards.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Yess, screen eleven targets in the game.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
So he finally won for flow. So he gets a catch.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
He gets a catch, and I kid you not, Ryan,
I'd be I know, I'm telling your story, so I
may mess things up. But Ryan told me that Mike
over the head sid goes mission accomplished.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
So Kain was a w.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
No, listen, we have one shot of getting a clip
on Sports Center.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, Larry fit Jerry.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Gotta get them. We gotta keep the streak alive. That
was unbelievable. It's a bark our Friday here on Bigger
It's TD and Fletch. We're having too much fun. Azteclink
vodka in with us. We got Ray, the best dressed
man in San Diego. To promise you, you need to
get over to YouTube, subscribe to Biggert, TD and Fletcher
and see this, I mean, and then.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Of course the Kel, who's missing up on you. Oh
my goodness, Friday, guys. Yeah, it's Friday. It's Friday. It's
somewhere thirty. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
By the way, the Kel you also working with some drip.
I mean, I'm looking pretty gangster yourself here.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Whatever sounded less cool in their lives. I cried so hard.
I'm pretty cool, guys, and everybody talks about it.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Everybody actually brought two jackets. This is my rain jacket jacket.
What's the nicer jackets in the car? It was against
game time decision.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
What's the second jacket? Is a pea coat.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
It's nice, it's nice, but it couldn't get wet.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah, get wet, but you go. You nice jacket and
the ball cap. Oh yeah, that's where I keep.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
I mean, I can't run that ball cap. What's on
your ball Palm Tree Crew? Oh yeah, that's the festival.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Yeah yeah, it's a festival and hospitality company. My brother
is actually the president of the company.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
And I'm glad I didn't make fun of it. Are
you a fellow bald? Is that why you get the
heck go up? Ironically, it's gonna be fun thing. I
shaved my head all of my youth. Yeah, everyone thought
I was bald. I couldn't grow hair, but.
Speaker 11 (34:30):
Uh, this is a nice The question is, are wasted
on guys like TD and guys like you to kill
because you have luscious heads of hair?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
It's for.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
You.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Got a good set of letters here, let's get to
see it anymore.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
For us, we're walking marketing material, right, Like, we're like,
how can we support other brands and build people up?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
You guys are just billboard space and nineteen years old
starting to go bald.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
This is a lot more billboard than you. That way,
he's losing some mirror and it bothers him. I'll give
him a phone number for the support group we go
to when you guys want to. So this week is
the last month.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
So Palm Tree actually just took over the club where
MGM What Republic was in MGM Vegas. So anytime you
guys want to come out to Vegas, we can take
care of your funny story.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Both my boys are going to Vegas today today.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Wait, is there a UFC fight.
Speaker 7 (35:35):
No, there's a little something called F one formula one
which complete.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
I'm sorry, I don't understand I call it.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
I'm sorry. And when I drank my espresso the pinky my.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
My nephew when I don't know he was three years old.
The way he spoke, he sounded like that, and he
would say.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Things he.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Talked and I was like, I'm like, oh my god,
you have to call me Ricky Bobby out. And so
literally we're driving in the car and he was in
a car seat in between us where we're watching him
for the weekend.
Speaker 9 (36:15):
He was like, Ricky, baby, that's a French bs. It's
technique American made. Am I right, American American man. He's
ten years old. He still calls me Ricky Bobby.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Dude. That's actually awesome. I do want to point out
on the back of.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
These bottles, this is one of the So we were
talking about Tito's earlier, which the reason why I started
drinking Tito's at all was because, I mean, did I
love the taste of the vodka And probably not, to
be perfectly honest with you, I didn't have a discerning
palette back then.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
But it was because of that.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
You see on the back of every acycling bottle and
American flag, this is a product of the United States.
So if you want to support Americans in the workforce, which,
by the way, by ground cigarettes, there's a classic so
(37:07):
called the Americana Farragona in the US of America. No
as tickling vodka. It's made here Napa grapes. Where's that
Northern California. I mean, we don't know, Napa Grapes. Maybe Canada.
I know it's not here.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Canada.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Canada is just America's hats, and we've determined we like hats.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
We to.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
You should see the head of Arab America is covering
up with Canada.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Jesus, this is as Americans. This is American made. Napa
Valley Grapes. Bottling is in California, and we support American
student athletes.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
And and as Techling Vodka smokes crowns.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
I'm still shocked that Marlboro's cost seventy ninety.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
I don't it's insane.
Speaker 7 (38:03):
That's in California, though, I don't know how you're making
any money to get dollars.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Were listen beyond the day, we're not making money? Money
are this is fun?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
It's like I'm buying those these clothing of Poshmaria.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
This goes back to why Tony is so important.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Tony and Keken Bottle has led the pathway of making
this possible. Right Because this we can come up with
a concept, we can make a price point, but we
need partners like Tony who understand the mission to make
this actually come to fruition.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Right.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
So on that note, I remember when these guys were negotiating,
They're like, look, we're not making money.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
We want you to make no money. You met, I
need to make some dollars. We need you to take
in thirty pounds. So, honestly, to that point, you're right,
I know that they're not.
Speaker 7 (38:55):
Again, think about this, if they're making California, they're they're
they're growing the grapes in California. So all the rules
and everything that goes intoto doing stuff like this, I
know you're not making money be able to sell a
quality product this good, and and I know on our
side we shaved our margins completely because both my wife
and I are stsu alum.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
So that was my way to give back.
Speaker 7 (39:14):
And so if we can do that and get it
to everybody and get three bucks into into some cool athletes,
you know.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
What was really exciting.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
And again Tony is the reason that we were able
to get this going.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Uh you know, we were able to donate twenty five
thousand dollars to San Diego State after one month.
Speaker 7 (39:30):
Oh my god, honestly, that's real money.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
It's twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
If you if you go to our instagram aec Astec
Premium Spirits right now, you can see we donated the check.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
We have Coach Lewis in it. People from the school.
Was it a big giant check?
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Oh yeah, that's the real dat.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
I've seen it in his office.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Well he still.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Cash.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
I said, you you need to bring that to a
giant bank. Ye, giants at that can take it. He
seems so nervous, and I was like here, smoke a crown,
will work it out. This will calm me down.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
Yeah, there's a lot of nutrients, instigarettes.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
I heard, I heard, I heard on the news. Lie
so some of the talky box. He was, honestly, And
he has a bottle.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
You know.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
I feel like I'm tipping my hand and play giving
out trade secrets. But Sean Lewis has a bottle of
Assecling vodka on his desk in his office. I tape
the coaches show there every single Thursday throughout the course
of the se SU football season.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
He's game planning. Hammered well, I have a feeling.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
He's not cracking until whatever he's doing, what he's doing,
it's working.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Feeling he's saving it. It's not opened yet.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
I have a feeling he's saving, saving it for the
end of the season when they win the Mountain West.
I mean, I'll tell you what and when he does,
I hope, I hope he shares it with me because
it's good stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
And at twenty dollars, I guess I shouldn't be like, oh,
share your bottle of vodka with me. Maybe I'll buy
my own. I guess so.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Ring that that Tony has and a few special things
that coach List did for us. He signed the first
hundred bottles that ever ever was created, those.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Keg and bottle, so they're hidden that keg and bottle.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
So the idea was we're going to give them out
randomly to people to order online. Order online and you
may just randomly get a signed bottle like code.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
You got to go to Keg the Letter, N Bottle
dot com, Keganbottle dot com.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
That's where you go to order these, Okay, so check
it out.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Every single bottle purchased of Aztickling Vodka, three dollars goes
back to the.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Student athletes at s G s U.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Huge thanks as always to my buddy sitting right to
my left.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
We're about to light up a crown. Tony Kanja, owner
operator of Keg and Bottle, how much love to given crown.
He's gonna be sponsored.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
And then of course nikel Ray from Aztegling Vodka. You
guys are wonderful. You make a wonderful product. And everybody
who's an st SU alum or everyone who knows an
s C s U lum get to Keg the Letter
n Bottle dot com.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Pick you up a bottle.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Be shipped to you wherever you are in the United States,
or go to one of the ten locations of keg
get In Bottle around San Diego.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
So you know what you gotta do, get you some Yeah,
you cats, I'm talking about reading this ship
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