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Sean Shamrock joins the show! · Day Drinking With Dog

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  name. Welcome Back Day Drinking with Dog. And there you have e.
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  Connor McGregor is in studio in Spirit if you can see it on YouTube has
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  cut out. But more importantly, I have Sean Garfier right. Yeah,
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  we're going with Sean sham I'm sham Rock easier, Sean Shamrocks in the house.
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  You are the United States Ambassador Brand Ambassador of Proper number twelve. Yeah,
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  the actual title is Lifestyle. I'm the Lifestyle brand Ambassador for the US.
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  Nice. Yeah. So we got connected through Ray, who couldn't be
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  here today. Of course something came up with him, but he was going
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  to do this whole intro of you and I just wanted to an intro and
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  leave is what he was telling me. Oh yeah, yeah, just pulled
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  out Mike a little bit closer to you. Yea. And so Proper twelve
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  has been around since eighteen eighteen. If you have his September October officially launched,
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  I want to say September of twenty eighteen is when did it officially launched?
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  So is this Connor McGregor's he's the owner, So he was, he's
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  the founder. Last year he did sell a majority share to Proximo, but
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  he's still very involved, very very involved in the brand. Nice night.
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  I remember I was before he came on. I was watching some videos of
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  him, like looking for that little clip in the beginning, and I saw
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  it when he brought the proper he was fighting, uh cup, Yeah,
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  that's when it came out that. Yeah, he's trying to get him a
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  shot. He's like, I don't drink. I don't drink. Yeah,
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  yeah, he's an I'm sure you've met him before, right, Yeah.
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  I'd met him a few times actually before even getting involved with the company,
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  and then I've got to spend some time with him since and then we're in
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  contact pretty often now. So that's cool. Yeah, yeah, he's he's
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  amazing. He's super, super supportive, and I say he's super hands on
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  with the brand. Like you'll see, he would post stuff from people all
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  over the world all the time. If if you tag you're out in a
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  bar and you're having a fucking Proper twelve, if you put it on Instagram
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  you tag Connor. Obviously he doesn't. You know, he's got forty eight
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  million Followers's not gonna see everything, but he you do it enough. I
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  like to tell bartenders like, yo, you'll get on the bartenders, you'll
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  get on the page if you'el like constantly, Like you know, Proper will
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  share you, Connor will share you. If I see you, I'll share
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  you, which will get you even more into the Connor and Proper's view as
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  well. So you know, for people who are into done, everyone's in
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  social media, but those who are you know, if you're a bartender,
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  you're gonna get a cool cocktail. Let's get it out to the world,
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  you know, right, So obviously this Irish whisky. You have the Apple
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  as well, which is more of a newer product. Yeah, yeah,
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  we all launched the Irish Apple in March of this year or it was probably
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  late February, but it was the goal was to have it out from March
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  for Saint Patrick's Day, and it's been on fire. It's it's my drink
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  of choice right now. That's the proper Irish apple. What's uh, what
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  am I looking for here? Like that? What's what's behind the name proper
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  like proper twelve? Well, proper is just you know, it's kind of
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  something they might say over They're like, oh, let's go over there,
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  We're gonna have a proper night out, or just like a you know,
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  a proper steak. It's a there's a very Irish term. Yeah, it's
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  just it's just a it's just an Irish term. But it's also it's fitting.
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  You know. I try not to mention any other brands of my name,
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  but you know, there's certain other big Irish brands that are actually made
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  by English or Scottish people or whatever. You know, like you're you're you're
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  double j person. He's not he's not Irish, you know, No,
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  No, he's not. No shit, Yeah, so I don't know that.
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  No, nope. So the English believe it was Scottish Scottish, Yeah,
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  but he could have been English. But he's not Irish. I forget.
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  Connor actually told me the whole story one day, but I just also
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  a few brothers deep. But yeah, look it up that that that JJ
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  person is not an Irish. What's it like fucking having fucking whiskey with fucking
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  Connor h school. Yeah, so he's very responsible. I haven't I've never
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  like tied one on with Connor, but you know, but yeah, it's
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  all the stories that he can tie them out for sure, who can't.
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  But it's kind of surreal, just like we did. We did a TV
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  show, right, a little guest appearance on the show, and like I
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  was, I was the bartender on the show, and you know, we
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  had drinks and it's just cool, like little toasted, Like it's it's surreal
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  where it's I was a fan for a long time and I had gotten to
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  know him a little bit just through some mutual friends and whatever, and then
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  for this opportunity to came up and uh, you know, and now it's
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  just like I have his number. But like a social media all time,
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  it's be like, oh the picture's dope, or even sometimes it'll be like
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  a hey, that one could have been a little bit clearer. Or something,
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  you know, like I have, but you know, it's, it's,
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  it's, it's. It's so it's strange that it's not a big deal
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  to open my phone and be like a bunch of messages from Connor. That's
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  pretty cool just right there. That's awesome. Uh so, just I just
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  had a sip of it. It's I've had it before obviously, but uh
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  it's very good. Kind of brings back some memories of last night at the
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  casino. Yeah, uh sure I didn't make Shrine late night, but uh
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  yeah I had. I had a table with a bottle of proper Apple if
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  you wish she did come in. I was there actually with the crew from
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  you know, Mezzo in Middletown. Yeah, so Joey Aito yep, Yeah,
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  yeah, it was Joey and the manager there, Steve is really solid,
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  dude, we do it. They're they're a big big proper account,
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  big big, big proper account, and they had a table and they're like,
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  yeah, I'll come through, and I wanted to contribute, so you
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  know, I made sure to have a bottle of proper Apple. And because
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  Shrine is also another big proper account. So you said, that's the only
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  Irish whiskey there, right, Yeah, yeah, you kicked out with J
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  Jack. Yeah, JJ's kicking around, but it's not it's not their go
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  to uh you know, they're they're they're very big night entertainment groups. Very
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  good to me, you know I can say that. So Connor now is
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  the like is he like the president of the company or just kind of so
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  I didn't tell you. I mean he's the founder, right, so like
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  I couldn't tell you, like after the buy out what his actual title is,
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  you know, but he's still uh, like I say, he's still
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  very involved in the direction of the brand and as being the face of the
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  brand. But like it's more than it's not just advertising. We're like,
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  oh, he's just advertising brand, Like he's the direction in the field and
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  the vibe is is he's involved with which is why he's in contact with me,
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  because like I'm the lifestyle brand ambassador for the country, and what that
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  really is is like I know the product, but my job isn't like you
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  know, the the grains and barleys have been distilled like this is like no,
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  Like, we're a fun brand. We like to throw parties, we
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  like to go to the fights, we like to wile out like this is
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  this is what we are. We like to take care of US responders,
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  like I'm the vibe of the brand and which is what Connor is and I
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  are in contact for because that's that's really his direction is like he wants the
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  brand to be involved with certain things, to look a certain way, and
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  to do certain things right. That's That's one thing that was going to touch
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  on is is a lot of the proceeds go to first responders. How does
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  that work? Is that kind of uh? Is it all just for like
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  in Ireland or is it no, it's all it's on the US, the
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  US. Yeah, yep, yep. I'll be honest. I can't speak
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  to what they do internationally because I just don't. I don't know if this
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  is some than that they do worldwide. I can tell you in the U.
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  Anything in the US that's sold year, we give a donation from every
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  case to first responders, well over four million dollars since the brand came into
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  fruition at the end of twenty eighteen. A lot of it goes to an
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  organization called Tunnels to Towers. So that's was founded by a gentleman whose brother
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  was a firefighter who died in nine to eleven, and they're just they help
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  out with a lot of stuff, right, They help out with firefighters,
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  they help out with like military events when they come home and they need help
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  with housing or whatever, or the families of people who have died in the
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  line of duty. Like there's just a super super cool organization. But we
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  also do just different individual fire department. So for example, that's part of
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  my job. I went down to Savannah, Georgia, which I didn't know
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  until I started working with the company, and they had the second best,
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  second biggest Saint Patricks they prayed in the country. I have heard that.
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  Yeah, I did not know that. So it's a market that we're really
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  Chicago, New York. It's I think it's I think it's Boston, and
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  I think I think like Boston and New York were actually like one A,
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  one B. They're like about because ours in Milford is like top ten?
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  Is it? Really? I've never been pretty cool? But yeah, So
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  I gave a one hundred grand to the fire department in Savannah, I gave
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  for thirty thousand to a fire department in New Orleans, and then just cutting
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  checks, just cutting awesome. Yeah, and then so I live in New
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  London, Connecticut, and you know, I reached out to the brand manager
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  and I was like, hey, you know, is there anything I can
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  do with my hometown sauce I'm here, people are seeing me do this stuff,
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  and I think said I would be like cool, and she's like,
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  yeah, let me see we can get done. So I told the fire
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  department, I'm like, hey, you know, I'll be buying with something
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  and you know, we'll see what we can get done. I'm thinking five
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  hundred bucks, you know, right, brand manager, Nicole, because back
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  all right us, so the checks coming, I just need to get the
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  blah bla blah blah, And no amount was talked about, and then I
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  was like, hey, just just curious when we end up with. I
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  got ten thousand dollars and I was like, whoa. So my fire department
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  was said it was life changing money for them. New London, Connecticut.
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  It's a small city and they're like, this is literally the biggest donation we've
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  ever got and it was life changing money. So it's it's really it's really
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  gnarly, man. I'm going up to Chicago next month to do the same
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  kind of thing, and it's it's it's really cool to meet these guys.
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  Usually, like the people who I bring give checks to have like been involved
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  in some kind of crazy fire experience or whatever. But they're very grateful for
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  the response, and you know, we're grateful for them. Ye. Now,
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  your job sounds fantastic, and you have a story behind how you got
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  this job, and I think that's even more remarkable. Yeah, So the
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  job came up. It was actually a like a contest. I was like
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  online contest online content us on Instagram, and uh, they were hiring for
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  this United States Ambassador position, and and and that the job itself actually could
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  have been a lot of different things. Like they tailored this just kind of
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  to my style and my background as the lifestylebassador, but it had been someone
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  who was like balls deep in like the history of whiskey, I think it
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  could have been a whole different thing. You know, they were just willing
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  to tailor, but they just wanted somebody to be kind of Connor's eyes and
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  ears in the country and go to events and help the brand grow into new
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  markets because it had been extremely strong in liquor stores and you know, off
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  premise we call the package stores up here, I don't. I don't know
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  where they're packies. Yeah, so I don't know how far he reaches.
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  I don't. I actually bought a mass so I don't think they even fucking
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  call them around and around here. Really they say liquor store around here.
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  Yeah, I say it's a it's a packing but yeah. So last year,
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  Proper twelve actually finished as the number three Irish whiskey in America. Obviously
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  the goals to be number one, but I want it's a big jump,
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  but we will absolutely be number two this year, where we're well on page
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  three, number two. So they're hiring for this position, and it was
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  like, hey, submit a video saying why you should be the guy basically
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  you know what I mean. So my approach was, so I'd run.
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  I had the number one Proper twelve bar in Connecticut, a place that I
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  was the managing partner of for for a long time and for twenty nineteen and
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  twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, where the number one Proper twelve account.
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  So I was just like, you know, I could tell you like what
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  I could do, but I'd rather just show you. And then I already
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  had hundreds of clips of me doing stuff with Proper twelve, whether it was
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  videos, picture like all the like, like I like, I already do
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  this job, and I'm doing it for free because I love the brand,
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  you know, Like I'm like, you know, you want to hire somebody
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  like I am the brand, So you know, I did that, and
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  then I started There was a hashtag get a proper job, so like I
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  was like following. I'd always click on the hashtag, can see like what
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  other people are doing, and I'm like wow, and these people suck.
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  Dude. You wouldn't believe how many people would just like fill a glass of
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  whiskey. And I'm like, yo, they don't want someone you didn't give
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  you their credit cards or I was just like yo, I'm a big Connor
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  McGregor fan, you know, like and I'm just yeah, and I'm just
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  like watching it, like and I'm like, huh, this this could me.
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  I was like, let me do. Let me sweet in the pot
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  a little bit. So I got a friend that owns a bar. There's
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  a lot of Proper twelves called forty Thieves and gritting really cool Irish bar and
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  I was like, yeah, let me take over your bar for the night.
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  So I threw a party. I hired a fire makes me, hired
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  a videographer for the night, and I threw a proper twelve party there and
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  I was like, yo, let me show you. I'm gonna do the
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  job for the night. Dude. It was a college it was a college
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  night, and we just had all the kids going wild. The video came
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  out sick, and then you know, they told me. The guy who
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  shows the videos told me. He was like, yo, I got halfway
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  through, I found your video, and I was like, this is our
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  fucking guy, you know, so, which was it was a cool feeling.
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  But yeah, so I ended up coming out of the contest to like,
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  you know, it was like the kept coming down, cut it down,
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  and then now that was just the one initial video that you sent in
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  or then you did the second, but then I did the second video.
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  Yeah, but then it got down to the final five and there was like
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  maybe one dude who I was like a little bit worried about. But other
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  than that, I was like, dude, there's no like, there's there's
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  no way. And I tried backdooring this like every way, but it's actually
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  the contest was held by an independent like an ad agency, so like even
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  Connor, Like I reached out to Connor. I'm like, yo, man,
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  I would kill this job. He's like, yeah, I know you
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  would, and I'll throw your name out there, but it's not out to
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  him. There was a woman who was the brand manager at the time,
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  and like Ray was like reaching out to her. She's like, Yo,
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  I don't even want to know this guy's name because I don't want it to
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  even reek of any impropriety. But we're not doing it. It was a
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  totally an outside, outside agency. But I tried, dude. I tried
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  it everything, every little backdoor that I quote, Man, I'm messaging people,
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  texting people DM and people like just like what can I do to get
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  this done? Just because I knew that I could crush it. But yeah,
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  and then I get to the final five and then both I got the
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  you know, the interview. So I didn't really win the job in the
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  contest, but I won the interview in the contest an interview, I'll get
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  an interview with you, and then they're like, hey, you know,
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  worship and offering you the job. We moved to New York and like,
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  I really like where I live. I really like living in Connecticut. You
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  know, my family and friends are here, and that's really the most important
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  thing. I moved to California once and I was just so so homesick the
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  whole time. So yeah, but I was like, fuck, dude,
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  this is Florida. Once I was back in a year. Yeah, the
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  same year I did a year in Cali. My lease was up and I'm
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  back. Yeah. But I was like, all right, yeah, I'll
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  moved to New York, even though I really didn't want to. But I
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  was like, I'm not gonna say no to anything. Let's get to the
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  end and we'll figure this out. And then they came back and like,
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  actually have at Homeboken, New Jersey. And then I'm like all right,
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  you know, and like sham, I'm fucking Homeboken, New Jersey. All
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  right, cool, cool, we'll do it. And then been to Hoboken.
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  I never have Oh it's a fucking party city. Yeah. Well that's
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  why it was like a big target for them, you know. So then
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  I finally I was all but yea, yeah. I was like, listen,
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  if you can let me stay home, do it, I will own
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  New England. Like there. Their thought was that that Irish whiskey even was
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  not a summer drink, And I'm like, no, my bar was a
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  summer bar. We were the number one proper account right in the state.
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  I said, you know, proper twelve, but frozen lemonade, dude,
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  is a banger. Like probably whiskey elemonade to me go together perfectly. They
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  offset each other. But like if you do a frozen lemonade with Proper twelve
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  in it, it's a banger, like getting the green teas. Like,
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  there's lots and lots of summer drinks. Mules, Irish mules are called a
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  Dublin donkey. Like, there's lots of ways to attack summer, and we
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  did. We just owned summer throughout the coastline and Connecticut and Rhode Island this
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  year and all the beach bars and stuff like that, and uh yeah,
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  it's been awesome. So I do have two different job titles on the US
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  brand. I'm the US Lifestyle Brand Ambassador and then I'm also the brand Activation
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  Manager for Connecticut and Rhode Island. So when I'm not traveling, I work
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  with like key accounts, big accounts to do like major business and you know,
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  just try to help them with whether it's cocktails or print work or getting
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  them shirts or barware, or like hosting parties, like oh, actually I
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  got a bar this Saturday. It's called New York Pizza Companies in Daniels in
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  Connecticut. It kind of bell nowhere, but like Dave Portnoy and he reviewed
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  them, so it's like a known spot. And they're doing a Connor McGregor
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  looked like contest that I'm judging. So like I just do like kind of
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  like wild random stuff, you know. So no, that's I mean,
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  it sounds awesome. How often do you travel travel but once a month about
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  a month, so like I was supposed to go to Chicago last month and
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  they postponed it. That's coming in October. But I actually just got a
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  call this morning that I'm going to Atlanta this month as in October as well.
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  So nice. Yeah, Well, one thing I got out of all
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  that is we need you in Stonebridge for next summer. I would love that.
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  You know all those summer cocktails you just said, been there twice and
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  had great experience. It's just so far from me that I just I don't
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  know the place. I know you guys because you guys do my place.
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  We did Lobster BOMs. You guys do lobster moms there, right, Yeah,
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  yeah, Well what's your place? It's called Sunsets and Waterfork. Okay.
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  We actually stole the idea from somewhere in Mystic Yeah I do too.
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  Yeah. The name of that place its Forts yea, yeah I did.
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  I called it a lobster blast dude. Yeah, listen, I'm not.
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  I'm not involved with a little you know, I was in high school.
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  You know, they're like, hey, she was born in sixteen seventy nine,
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  saying your old words. Yeah, in sixteen seventy she was born.
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  You know, I got no problem. You're doing something good, dude,
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  I'll steal it. We it's it's amazing. We you know, we we
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  blast that out on Instagram. You guys are so much for We're like right
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  down the road from that place, I'm sure, and we get food.
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  It's it's stupid, and we sell them for you know, fifty nine dollars
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  yea. And we ran out of him on Father's Day at like six o'clock.
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  That's all that's a good problem to, you know, like holy shit.
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  But yeah, the two times that I was at air place, I
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  had the flaming on h Philly steak and cheese, and it was like just
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  to die. Yeah, that went to a good sandwich. That went a
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  good sandwich. We got a lot of we got a pretty solid food.
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  You know, I give it. I give our food definitely an A minus.
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  Some of it's an A plus. Yeah, I'm not a big lobster.
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  I should say I'm a lobster guy. I love lobster. I was
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  at David Burke's last last Monday and they had like a lobster special night pisc
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  and uh, I think I got the comp pole lobster or something. It
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  was like a dip. I don't know. It was good, but the
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  lobster bombs too much for me too. It's very rich. Yeah, it's
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  it's a lot. It's a lot, a lot. And then when you
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  finish the lobster, you're like, well, I gotta eat their bread and
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  then you're just like, oh, I need a nap. Nap. Yeah,
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  it's dude, it's more. It's something for Instagram. It's more than
• 19:30
  anything. It's it's something for Instagram for the like, if you have a
• 19:34
  bar and you're not like doing stuff to make other people advertised for you,
• 19:38
  you're missing the ball, Like so many. I'd say most bars are of
• 19:42
  awful social media, you know. And I try to tell places like it's
• 19:47
  it's the difference between you guys like crushing it and nine. It's like,
• 19:51
  you have to do something. It's free. It's free, it's free.
• 19:53
  Make other people advertise for you, right. Uh. In the women's bathroom
• 19:57
  of my bar, Sunsets, I had you know, Stony Creek beer of
• 20:02
  course, ye, their logo with the wings. Dude. I had this
• 20:06
  bathroom stall that had just been keyed tagged to ship and I had them come
• 20:11
  in and they put a sticker over it with the wings, and it's seven
• 20:14
  million pictures of girls and the brown posting with their wings, you know what
• 20:17
  I mean. And then all the other girls want to come and do that
• 20:18
  because they see it, and it became a thing like the like the biggest
• 20:22
  downfall in my place. The bar in the bathroom was gross, and then
• 20:25
  all of a sudden it became our hard light. Everyone wanted a picture in
• 20:27
  front of the stupid fucking wings. Dude. You know, I mean,
• 20:30
  I find you know, I obviously use you know, Instagram, Facebook and
• 20:33
  all that for the podcast, but yeah, I find me personally like you
• 20:37
  know, I'm almost fifty years old. Like it's just hard. I mean
• 20:41
  I don't have the money to hire somebody to do it. Well, no,
• 20:42
  but it's but it's it is, it's funsual, it's work, it's
• 20:45
  it will work, but you will get a return on it, you know
• 20:48
  what I mean. Like if if you're a bar manager, like see like
• 20:52
  a lot of bars too, they'll they'll subcontract out. And I think it's
• 20:55
  a big, big mistake. I think you need to have your your social
• 20:56
  media in house, I believe, because you need to be show was like
• 21:00
  something awesome can happen like and boom. You want that on your like a
• 21:03
  congo line randomly breaks out in your bar. So they're just fun. You
• 21:07
  want you want people see that, and you can't worry that your person isn't
• 21:10
  there, dude, you know, like you need to have a seventeen year
• 21:12
  old food runner who's gonna know how? Like I don't know shit about TikTok
• 21:17
  or Snapchat, Like I still can't figure out TikTok. Yeah, it's so
• 21:21
  so I'm so convoluted. I've deleted it off my phone like five times.
• 21:23
  Yeah, so I curarently don't have I'm back on it now and I'm just
• 21:26
  like, you know, i'll get a follow or i'll see someone I'm like,
• 21:30
  like, I don't like I've used it, dude, Like it's what
• 21:32
  reels are. Basically, I found like clips of stuff that like I like,
• 21:36
  and I'll watch it. But as far as like creating content like,
• 21:37
  it's it's just not it's not my thing. It's because I'm fucking forty two.
• 21:41
  It's right, it's not. It's not meant to be. But if
• 21:44
  I own a bar right now, I would have an eighteen year old fucking
• 21:45
  food runner who has paid another hundred dollars a week to make TikTok videos,
• 21:49
  and an eighteen year old kid. You tell them, hey, I'll give
• 21:52
  you a hundred bucks week to make TikTok videos. They're gonna think that you
• 21:53
  fucking give them the keys of the kingdom, you know what I mean.
• 21:56
  Like, it's like our GM is, oh my god, even probably might
• 22:00
  be almost forty. He's the owner's son, and he does you know,
• 22:04
  all through Instagram mostly, you know, but you know, it's connected to
• 22:07
  Facebook, so it kind of works both ways. And he's pretty good with
• 22:11
  it. He's always you know, he posted to like Connecticut foodies and stuff
• 22:15
  like that. I think our night life page could use a little I mean,
• 22:18
  not that we're hurting, but you know, it never hurts to have,
• 22:22
  right, So like we have we get Sacred Heart right on Saturday nights.
• 22:26
  So like lat like when when I guess it was two summers ago and
• 22:29
  finally everything was lifted. Yeah, we had a line to get in down
• 22:33
  to the railroad tracks and we still get lines like that sometimes. But like
• 22:37
  all these Sacred Heart kids were posting the line on like TikTok, and it
• 22:41
  just got you know, we didn't do anything right. You know, they're
• 22:44
  like you said, some people can do it for you and they don't even
• 22:45
  know. Right, Just give them something that I did, right, he'll
• 22:48
  do it for you. Right. So like even with so like the place
• 22:52
  I had, Song says, we were like a restaurant by day Friday,
• 22:55
  Saturday night five hundred people through the door and night club two two floors,
• 22:57
  two DJs. We then like Sunday we did live music all week though,
• 23:02
  so it would be like live music six to ten, then DJ ten ten
• 23:04
  to two or whatever. But the Sundays we were it would be crazy.
• 23:07
  So Saturday night it's loaded with barely legal college kids. They're all legal though,
• 23:12
  college kids puking on each other, just wild madness comes Sunday. We
• 23:17
  have a band and it's like all sixty year old guys on their Harley as
• 23:21
  a ship. So it was like a change over. Ye yeah, so
• 23:23
  that's what I was told. That's because I like different look of reps.
• 23:26
  And she told the same thing. But the point is, like the college
• 23:30
  the DJs, the cocktails, the college kids, that ship went on Instagram,
• 23:33
  never touched Facebook because my food and my bands went on the Facebook where
• 23:37
  the older people are, and I don't like them singing, oh this is
• 23:40
  a place for college kids. We never want those two and the Instagram and
• 23:45
  the colle kids don't give a fuck about bands or salads. Dude, you
• 23:48
  know that Stas ship was never going on inst like the lobster bomb or like
• 23:52
  something trendy might go on Instagram, but like as far as pushing food and
• 23:56
  pushing live music, that was Facebook. You know, like you, there're
• 23:59
  two very different things because I have two very different crowds. How did these
• 24:03
  kids? How do these kids afford to go out? Is it just all
• 24:06
  parents money? I guess what's up? Did you go to college, dropped
• 24:10
  out twice. I went to Universe, New Haven, Okay, And my
• 24:18
  first experience on tipping was I went with a bunch of guys. We went
• 24:22
  to Toad's place and that Toads. Sorry, uh, Demi's remember them now.
• 24:26
  It's like it's right, But we used to be right by Toads on
• 24:30
  the corner there, and this is we're going nineteen ninety three, I was
• 24:34
  underage and it was fifty cent Corona Knights, and like, you know,
• 24:40
  so one of my buddies would could buy a corona hand a dollar or take
• 24:42
  the fifty cents back, and then when anyone next to him bought a corona
• 24:47
  left the fifty cents, he would take the bottle and slide the fifty cents
• 24:51
  over to him. So I'm like, are you fucking giving me? Dudes
• 24:53
  are busting their ass back here. And but I always had a job,
• 24:56
  so I always had a little bit of money on me, ye, So
• 25:00
  I was like, I just kind of learned. I'm like, then I
• 25:02
  realized, you know, these these bar times aren't stupid. They see it
• 25:04
  doing it, and you do it again, you're gonna get fucking throttled by
• 25:07
  a Southern Connecticut football player. That's work at security, you know, or
• 25:11
  just not get served or not getting served at all. So I kind of
• 25:12
  learned at a young age, like all right, we gotta because you know,
• 25:15
  I see his kids, like you know, stone, which is not
• 25:18
  cheap, and we charge a cover and you know, a tall proper twelve
• 25:22
  and you know ginger ale or something, it's twelve bucks, you know,
• 25:26
  and they were shot a proper on the side. Now you're at twenty without
• 25:30
  tip, plus you paid fifteen to get in, Like whoa. I would
• 25:33
  make forty dollars run for a weekend back in the day, same, you
• 25:37
  know. But I think it's also because it's debit cards, so the money
• 25:41
  doesn't seem real till the next day. You know, mommy's got to recharge
• 25:44
  it. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Like we we were a little
• 25:49
  bit cheaper even though we were on the water and stuff, like just because
• 25:52
  we knew our college kids, we did. We had a cover as well,
• 25:55
  and uh, you know, we tried to keep the thing like drinks
• 25:57
  around like eight bucks, ten bucks top shelf. But yeah, I mean,
• 26:02
  I mean kids just buy We mentioned this before, you know, it
• 26:04
  wouldn't be a shot for me and somebody be like, you'll give me fifty
• 26:07
  green tea shots, I'm gonna buy them for the for everybody or whatever the
• 26:11
  fuck you know what I mean. They the money is in the college kids.
• 26:15
  Dude, I don't like people. People. Some some people in this
• 26:18
  in this business will be like, oh world, kids, they don't have
• 26:21
  no money. Adults they have money, you have. Adults have bills.
• 26:23
  Man, Like, you know, this kid might make thirty grand a year,
• 26:26
  but that's also his fucking drinking budget. Thirty grand a year. But
• 26:30
  you got this guy's disposable. This guy makes one hundred grand a year.
• 26:33
  His drinking budget, it's ten grand a year. It's not it's it's not
• 26:37
  the same. I think burden turn shots is the way to go, you
• 26:41
  know, and those shots should always be made with proper number twelve Irish whiskey.
• 26:45
  It will be now Stone Bag Restaurant. Know it's Connecticut, smooth is
• 26:48
  fast, and our apples smooth to the core. So what are some of
• 26:51
  your and we mentioned a couple of summer ones. What's a couple of good
• 26:55
  winners coming up? Unfortunately, unfortunately, what it's some nice you know,
• 27:00
  wrap your arms around an ice warm proper twelve drink. So to me it's
• 27:06
  the most quintessential whiskey cocktail to ever be crafted. Is the Irish coffee.
• 27:14
  Okay, I love an Irish coffee. I will judge an Irish coffee.
• 27:18
  I think it's every place should do them because everyone likes them, whether they
• 27:22
  know it or not. I think an Irish coffee done with proper number twelve.
• 27:29
  Do a little simple syrup or you know, you can make your own,
• 27:32
  like there's a recipe online for a syrup actually uses like some stout and
• 27:37
  some sugar, some you know, dehydrate oranges. It makes it like this
• 27:41
  a little just melted down. Yeah, it's a little syrup that go,
• 27:44
  you know, a little dash of that whiskey and then whip whipped cream.
• 27:48
  It's gotta be I do bai least, right, you can add Bailey.
• 27:51
  But everyone it's like everyone thinks that's an Irish coffee. It's not. It's
• 27:53
  not. The Irish coffee is just the whiskey, whiskey, simple syrup and
• 27:56
  coffee. I really recommend taking a little extra time and doing the real heavy
• 28:02
  whip cream. If you get like just like a like a protein shaker with
• 28:07
  like the ball in it, dude, and you put the heavy cream in
• 28:07
  it. You can pour it in a layers so nice as opposed to this,
• 28:12
  we actually make our own. Yeah, but it's not good for drinks
• 28:17
  because like it's it's it's better than like a ready whip. But at the
• 28:21
  same time, it just doesn't form in a glass nice if you threw it
• 28:25
  in a shaker, you know what're talking about, like a protein shaker.
• 28:26
  Yeah, with a little little the spiral ball in it. Yeah. Yeah,
• 28:30
  shake it up, dude, and that'll layer it just so nicely.
• 28:33
  And a little dash and nutmeg is is the move. And I think that
• 28:36
  the Irish coffee and then you can play with it, dude. You can
• 28:40
  add different syrups to it if you want to do like a caramel like whatever
• 28:42
  coffee you get at Starbucks. You can make an Irish coffee into like that
• 28:47
  version of it, you know. But you can also like during the summer,
• 28:49
  I do an iced to Irish coffee, you know what I mean?
• 28:52
  And that one I put the bailies and like a little sweeter or in Irish
• 28:55
  cream or even on vanilla vadka. This is something to offset it a little
• 28:57
  bit. But like you shake it up, you know, frozen Irish coffee
• 29:02
  or like or a nice Irish coffee, the same way you get in a
• 29:03
  nice coffee, yet dunking in the drive through. You know, we just
• 29:07
  we're just add the proper whiskey to it, put like green cream the Minton
• 29:08
  as a garner. Sure, now I have him. That sounds amazing.
• 29:11
  Though. My first ever gig was at the Trumble Marriott and that's how we
• 29:15
  made it. I got a girl at this bar in Providence, Ryland called
• 29:18
  Lale. It's a really cool bar, and she makes an espresso martini with
• 29:21
  proper apple and I was like, that's ridiculous and it's amazing. I gotta
• 29:25
  try that. Yeah, have you seen it? The Instagram reels of the
• 29:27
  dude making and espresso martini and topping it with fresh shape partisan No, I
• 29:33
  haven't seen these. No, So like this dude and he's like they're everyone's
• 29:37
  raving about it, right. So then like another Instagram guy said, is
• 29:41
  this a hack or is this? You know? Is this real? So
• 29:44
  he did it and he's like, holy fuck, it's really good. I
• 29:45
  haven't tried it yet, but like I guess, it just adds a different
• 29:49
  texture to your lips when you when you hit the parmisan like fresh part.
• 29:52
  I'm not fucking great at listen. I won't. I won't discount it because
• 29:56
  I've So there's a guy, I'm a big sushi guy, and as place
• 30:00
  I go to and they do a banana tempora role. But it's like a
• 30:02
  spicy tuna roll with banana in it and like banana into it. I'm like,
• 30:04
  no, it's fucking little sex in your mouth. Bro, It's awesome.
• 30:10
  Oh man, I'm getting thirsty. I think, oh my glass is
• 30:12
  empty. Act over there we go, there, we go proper before we
• 30:17
  got the big boy, the one seven five in the house. Oh yeah,
• 30:21
  but we don't have the apple. Unfortunate right kind of yeah, right,
• 30:25
  kind of the kind of let us down today, right down. It's
• 30:27
  all right, it's all right. We'll go out. Well, you'll have
• 30:30
  to have me back and we'll do a full apple special. There will be
• 30:33
  basic bitches in here. Just do it. We'll have some cider donuts and
• 30:37
  some fucking apple whiskey. We'll have a good time. What are some of
• 30:41
  the better cocktails you like with the apple? So for me, I go
• 30:45
  strictly, like not strictly, but like I like just the apple and ginger.
• 30:49
  Like, to me, that's a win. It's easy. I don't
• 30:52
  like ginger beer. Everyone loves the apple mule. I it's just not for
• 30:56
  me. People do the spicy it's just it's just I don't like to taste
• 31:00
  of it. It's but people do the Irish apple with ginger beer and cranberry
• 31:03
  juice. It's like, I have a ton of accounts that that do that.
• 31:07
  I have a lot of accounts that do a mimosa with the apple and
• 31:11
  then a floater of like various sometimes pineapple juice, sometimes apple juice, sometimes
• 31:14
  with cranberry like whatever. But like they'll do like the prosecco with the Irish
• 31:18
  apple and fruit juice. So I've been trying to get apple juice in a
• 31:22
  restaurant for a while. I think it's it's hard to carry, yeah,
• 31:26
  because it just I mean, and it's from it goes bad, right,
• 31:29
  but it goes bad. But if you get it into a cocktail, that
• 31:30
  flies. See what about like a cider? So that's what I'm waiting to
• 31:33
  see. I have a lot of places who are talking about doing cider,
• 31:37
  whether it's a cocktail or like a hot cider with a proper apple or like
• 31:41
  a bomb. I don't know. I personally, I just don't know.
• 31:45
  If the apple on apple is apple overkill. It might be all cold.
• 31:48
  I don't know. So I'm waiting to try to get this fall when it
• 31:51
  becomes like a thing, because I have a lot of bars we're gonna go.
• 31:52
  I'm thinking more of like you know, like proper apple with like ginger
• 32:00
  ale or even ginger beer if you like it a little spicier with just like
• 32:02
  a splash of like the cider. Yeah, yeah, that could work out.
• 32:06
  A little cinnamon on top. I have a lot of people doing like
• 32:07
  a candy apple, which they'll do usually like seven up or sprite with proper
• 32:12
  apple and then like grenadine. It's it's very it's very sweet. We can
• 32:15
  do cranberry, but something that turns it red. They called it candy.
• 32:17
  Yeah, yeah, it's great. And a hot toddy. I love it
• 32:21
  in a hot or just like a team never had a hot toddy to na
• 32:24
  oh man, I feel like I need to be sick to have one.
• 32:28
  No, So I mean it's what I'm making for people. Yeah, I
• 32:30
  got a little cough got I thought, have you ever done wine Fest at
• 32:34
  mohigans on every year. Yeah, So wasn't it the best? Two years
• 32:37
  ago I started to interrupted when it fucking was a blizzard and no one showed
• 32:38
  up, so I didn't go to go to Oh my god, it was
• 32:42
  the best year ever. Because here's the thing. I'm okay with driving in
• 32:46
  the snow, yeah, and okay with drinking and driving a little bit.
• 32:50
  Yeah, but I hold you both. So I didn't have a room.
• 32:52
  So I was like, I'm not going to win wine fest and I'm not
• 32:55
  doing both of these horrible activities. You know, the country's lead ambassador for
• 33:02
  you couldn't get a room. Yeah, you know, I know, right
• 33:06
  right right? Didn't take care of me on that. I don't know.
• 33:07
  So we actually drove up, me and my girlfriend go every year. We
• 33:10
  drove up Friday nights. We saw the storm coming in. Yeah, and
• 33:14
  we stayed at that little microtel around the corner for like a hundred bucks.
• 33:16
  Woke up and we still I mean it was it still took us from there
• 33:20
  to the casino twenty five minutes to get there, but we were in.
• 33:22
  We were good. We had a room. We're like, but like no
• 33:24
  one was there and all the celebrity chefs were getting fucking bombed. It was
• 33:28
  fucking so much fun. Oh no, I see, I wish I went.
• 33:30
  I thought I thought the wine Fest took a big hit when they moved
• 33:34
  to that convention center downstairs. Like Mineken had like a nightclub rule, like
• 33:42
  I think it's now. It's just it's just like it's well, it's like
• 33:45
  yesterday at that event at the casino. It's like I actually asked why they
• 33:51
  aren't in uh, you know, a bigger venue there at Foxwoods, but
• 33:55
  I guess they have to spend money with big night with the Bowling Alley and
• 34:00
  yeah, it's big, big night entertainment. They have ye shrine, yeah,
• 34:07
  rollers. So it's just I mean, it was fine yesterday. It's
• 34:09
  just it's just so tight. It's so tight actually shrine. It's like Trine's
• 34:15
  designed to be tight. Yeah yeah, but I'm sorry, so I interrupt
• 34:19
  your wine. So that's just that's where I had a hot Toddy, the
• 34:22
  girl from Fisher's Island who just sold it. But she is really dope,
• 34:24
  Braunya. She always had hot Toddy. That was like one thing I would
• 34:28
  look forward to it wine when a wife is not hot toddies, you know.
• 34:30
  So, yeah, the apple goes great and I in a hot toddy.
• 34:34
  It's really versatile because you can steer into like the app because it's not
• 34:39
  it's it's a whiskey still, like it was very important to maintain being an
• 34:45
  Irish whiskey, not just like an apple liqueur. Like if you compare us
• 34:47
  to some other apple whiskies, I think that they're a lot more syrupier than
• 34:51
  we are. We're still like true to being a whiskey. So you could
• 34:53
  steer like into the whiskey side of it like I placed to do, like
• 34:55
  smoked old fashions and ship like an old fashioned with the apple goes really well,
• 35:00
  especially people love smoke drinks. You buy the little fucking thing you put
• 35:02
  it on top. Yeah, it makes for cool presentation. A smoked apple
• 35:07
  with like a cranberry bitters or an orange bitters or even a chocolate bitters with
• 35:12
  the apple and you know, a little you know, cedar would smoke chocolate
• 35:15
  bitters can go along with chocolate. It was just bitters, like the flavors
• 35:17
  and britters. Like back in the day, it was that was it.
• 35:22
  You know. Now the cocktail making is fun, man, and like anyone
• 35:24
  can do. Just think of things that you like and try that together,
• 35:28
  Like if you like It's like if you're cooking a kitchen and you want to
• 35:30
  try something different, you'll find some stuff. Man and presentation just goes.
• 35:34
  People will drink a drink that sucks if you send it to them with like
• 35:37
  fucking h ice. What do you call it? Dry ice in it?
• 35:40
  Like drs like my tastes like shit, but look at it's so cool.
• 35:50
  Everyone turned their head. Even if you say you're not going to right,
• 35:53
  you're going to but yeah, so you can do the whiskey side of it
• 35:57
  with like an old fashioned right people really like, like it's funny how I
• 36:00
  hate to be like stereotypical, right, but just how things will kind of
• 36:04
  land, Like a lot of times guys will be like, oh, I
• 36:06
  don't like a flavored whiskey, and then I'll be like, try this apple
• 36:08
  old fashion in the land, or ladies be like, no, I don't
• 36:12
  like whiskey, and I'll be like, no, try my apple whiskey.
• 36:14
  You'll like it, you know, and it works. And there's ways to
• 36:16
  do both. Like I said, you can steer into it. When they
• 36:19
  were flavored vodkers. Back in the day, people were hesitant. Yeah.
• 36:22
  Yeah, you can steer into the into either way. Like I'm talking about
• 36:24
  that candy apple. You can go really sweet with it or you can go
• 36:27
  to the whiskey side also goes great. The apple and the green tea green
• 36:32
  tea apple shots are oh yeah, yeah, they're fun. So the promised
• 36:37
  stormages, we're so busy. Yeah, yeah, we don't like we have
• 36:39
  a drink menu, but we don't get too like we don't do the smoke,
• 36:42
  like we're just we just have a time for it. Right, No,
• 36:44
  No, remember that bar at the casino called that Mohan calls days,
• 36:49
  right, So I went there once on a Tuesday afternoon. It was like
• 36:52
  five of us and it's nice, beautiful bartender behind the bar and no one's
• 36:58
  in there, and we order five drinks and it took her about twenty six
• 37:02
  minutes to finish all five drinks. And I'm like, what do you guys
• 37:06
  do on a busy nights? Are we just sell about light anymore? But
• 37:12
  yeah, that's funny. But yeah, for sure, like you have to
• 37:15
  know your venue and you have to like that stuff is not to be done
• 37:21
  at volume per se, But you know, you know your own venue and
• 37:25
  what you can get away with what you can't. Like, a lot of
• 37:28
  places have drink menus and those things go out the door Friday about four o'clock.
• 37:30
  You know, they don't come back to Monday, you know. Yeah,
• 37:32
  yeah, I mean they'll come in with the table tents. Yeah,
• 37:37
  and right when they leave. I'm yeah, just fucking hate them. They
• 37:42
  they never weln't they work unless it's like, oh we have a you know,
• 37:45
  dollar proper twelves tonight, you know, like, oh shit, let's
• 37:49
  get ten top proper twelve shots. You know. Yeah, I guess it
• 37:51
  depends on the clientele whatever. Like see, I don't see price Point as
• 37:53
  being a big attractor to people. Well, I mean, I know you're
• 37:58
  from up the shoreline, but I feel the shoreline is pretty similar up and
• 38:01
  down as far as you know, median income and stuff like that. Yeah.
• 38:07
  Like, I don't think anyone outside the college kids that come in like
• 38:08
  we do five dollar bush lights and they love it, you know. Other
• 38:12
  than that, you know, we're premium pricing and fucking no one blinks an
• 38:15
  eye. Well, I see a lot of places that like they don't do
• 38:17
  anything, but they'll have a DJ, and they'll be like five dollars costom
• 38:22
  egos or something, you know what I mean, And I'm like, and
• 38:23
  then they wonder why they're not busy, like because your five dollar drinks are
• 38:27
  not right. I think there was a time where like, like I mean,
• 38:30
  if you had like quarter drafts and like fifty cent wings, there's there's
• 38:35
  some but in gentlemen, your your venue needs to be straight, your cocktails
• 38:38
  need to be straight, your service needs to be straight. You're you're you're
• 38:42
  just cutting your own money. Because people, if you have cool ship,
• 38:44
  if you have cool people behind the bar, if you have a cool DJ
• 38:47
  like you like, if you have these things, you don't need to discount.
• 38:51
  So then when I see it, like all this place is giving the
• 38:52
  place away, I must suck, you know what I mean right, like
• 38:54
  they're begging for for Yeah, I don't. I don't think, you know,
• 38:59
  And I think a lot of people I think it did work at a
• 39:00
  time, and like the nineties and stuff, you know where that was happy
• 39:04
  hours. It's kind of a dying breath. Yeah. I think I think
• 39:07
  that that that people want a different experience, and I think that the people
• 39:13
  who are so caught up in you know, just trying to sell a price
• 39:16
  point. They're just missing the boat to people who spent the money to build
• 39:21
  a statue that people can now take pictures, you know, Like we did
• 39:23
  a Tito special this year, just Fridays from like three to six or seven
• 39:29
  seven dollars, and I was not not love you, Phil, but I
• 39:32
  just thought it was a bad idea because people are gonna buy I have they
• 39:37
  all drink Tito's a happy hour. They're already paying fucking right, So that's
• 39:40
  that not now now even just taking money away from the business. They wouldn't
• 39:45
  even know. I probably you know what's funny, is I probably because they
• 39:49
  were gonna drink the tea drink. Like, if you're gonna do it a
• 39:51
  special like that, you gotta do it with something that like you're sitting on
• 39:53
  that's not gonna move like, or something that you you're invested, like just
• 39:59
  doing doing a bud Light special when you all your sell is bud Light all
• 40:02
  the time. Anyway, for what, dude, you're you're just taking You're
• 40:05
  just giving a discount to people wh would have been there spending money anyway.
• 40:07
  You know, I don't, I just don't. I don't think price point
• 40:13
  is. You know, there's obviously exceptions to every rule. I know college
• 40:15
  kids do tend to kind of more have a budget. But also everyone likes
• 40:19
  to look rich, dude. Everyone likes to look like a ball or on
• 40:21
  Instagram. People live way the fuck above their means. When more than when
• 40:24
  it was cash dude, when you and I were going out, You're right,
• 40:28
  You're like, why doesn't want to buy a whole round for money?
• 40:31
  Right? Right right, I'm hitting the hitting the ATM for or credit card
• 40:35
  or whatever you bucks, whatever it was. Man, I'm having the cash
• 40:37
  and that's what I got. But like people with the debit cards, it
• 40:40
  is like almost as don't seem real. And you know you're out and there's
• 40:44
  girls you want to impress them as opposed to like like you see one,
• 40:46
  like the way like you see one girl you like you try to buy you
• 40:50
  a drink. You're like, all right, you know you and your friends
• 40:52
  will come buy you guys shots now because this is just a piece of plastic.
• 40:53
  You'll deal with it later, you know. I just I don't think
• 40:57
  that the price point is. I've been rambling about price played for ten minutes,
• 41:00
  but I just I just feel really, I just feel really strong about
• 41:02
  it. Any well, I think it was. I think you're right.
• 41:05
  It's think of the nineties, is you know, it's it's a thing of
• 41:07
  the past. I had a kid. I had a kid in the other
• 41:08
  night, and I know, so the un H football team came in New
• 41:14
  Haven and I guess they won their game that day. It's like the second
• 41:19
  weekend they've been on Saturday nights after their game. And there's one kid that
• 41:22
  I when I met him last weekend, I obviously it's where I went.
• 41:27
  I knew, I knew, I knew him just by his face. I'm
• 41:29
  like, is your father Joe Davis? And he's like, yeah, how
• 41:30
  the fuck do you know that? I go, you just look just like
• 41:34
  him. Did you guys win today? You know? So then they come
• 41:36
  in this past Saturday night and they're all feeling good, and like I said,
• 41:39
  he's ordering twenty five shots at the time, and you know, just
• 41:44
  for the football team, you know, they're all fucking there. So orders
• 41:47
  twenty five orders in the twenty five. Then he comes around on me and
• 41:52
  he orders thirty I said, bro, like, just you know, you're
• 41:55
  spending two hundred dollars a clip here on fucking green tee shots that sorry,
• 42:01
  not made with proper twelve, made with stuff worse than that, just like
• 42:06
  you're wasting your money. Dude's I know this is our last round. We're
• 42:08
  heading back to New Haven. I said, all right, whatever, So
• 42:13
  he does it. He goes can I stay on the bar and to a
• 42:15
  human age chant, I said, fucking absolutely not. No, we are
• 42:20
  not that. He's not fucking the old Eddie's Cafe down the street. So
• 42:23
  that was Saturday. So Sunday I'm out and about watching football and I go
• 42:28
  to Dive bar and West Daven actually with him. West David Milford line,
• 42:30
  cool little ball, you should check out you haven't been. And he's there.
• 42:36
  I'm like, he's looking a little rough shot, you know. And
• 42:38
  then I turned over I see his father. So his father comes up to
• 42:42
  me. He goes, hey, the kid's names Tanner. He goes,
• 42:45
  hey, that was Tanner last night. I say he's fine. He goes
• 42:49
  you sure, yeah, I mean whatever. I got him like nothing's gonna
• 42:53
  happen to him, Like he's just he was having a good time, but
• 42:55
  his credit card got declined on the last round, so he'd pull out,
• 42:59
  Like two other credit cards to cover it. I go, what do you?
• 43:01
  I go, is he using your card? He goes, because this
• 43:04
  guy owns like an insurance company. He's like, he's like, yeah,
• 43:07
  it's my corporate card. He goes. You know what he said them in
• 43:08
  this morning. He's like, Dad, you can just write this ship off.
• 43:10
  He goes, you want me to write off a hundred shots? Cruel
• 43:15
  tea. So the dude gave me his card and like, we haven't seen
• 43:19
  a guy in forever. And we swapped cards and whatever, and I go
• 43:22
  to sit down and the waitress comes over and she hands me a Viva and
• 43:27
  a shot of Proper twelve and she's like, yeah, Joe Davis says he
• 43:30
  has your tap for the rest of the night for looking out for his kid.
• 43:34
  And I said, he's a good kid. He's a college kid,
• 43:36
  right, you know, he's a little different, but it was it was
• 43:39
  funny. I was like, like, he said, it's to your point,
• 43:43
  like these kids they don't care. Yeah, yeah, I really I've
• 43:45
  ever in my life ordered thirty shots. Yeah, for sure, for sure.
• 43:49
  Never not until I got my corporate card. Oh yeah, you're in
• 43:52
  a different spot now. Job for sure, dude. But like yeah,
• 43:54
  I just think that the money is just as the image is just so important
• 44:00
  to social media. You know, it's like just so fake, but like
• 44:02
  everybody does it. But it's like, uh, I think that's not a
• 44:07
  thing. But you know, if you're gonna go buy thirty shots, make
• 44:12
  sure they're made a proper number twelve next time. I actually have to fucking
• 44:15
  shake him and straight him though. There's a lot of work. I'm just
• 44:20
  messing with you. So I'm sorry that you had to go through that.
• 44:22
  Now you're a big MMA guy or yeah, were you before this? Oh?
• 44:27
  Yeah, yeah, it's something I never I mean I do follow it.
• 44:30
  I follow the big fights I heard. Is he coming back? Is
• 44:34
  he signed a contract that comes and signed a contract December? Is possible,
• 44:38
  but it's it's not looking likely. But you know, is he now?
• 44:42
  I mean he's he even he's a thirty ste he's on the back end,
• 44:45
  yeah for sure. Yeah, but you know he's still have a big star
• 44:49
  you know. Oh, he's a draw. Yeah, you know, I
• 44:52
  think one or two more, you know, And it depends what he wants
• 44:53
  to do. He depends on how much he wants it. You know,
• 44:57
  it's it's hard to you know, it's like a famous saying. You know,
• 45:00
  it's hard to wake up and run six miles when you sleep on silk
• 45:02
  sheets, you know what I mean. Like it's right right, the richer
• 45:05
  fighter becomes that everyone like, yeah, what am I doing? This is
• 45:08
  my body for it? This is what I wanted in life? I got
• 45:12
  it? You got it right, you know. So now it's like you
• 45:14
  go out, you know, you know, all of them, whether it's
• 45:15
  Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali Anderson. So they all ended up getting knocked out
• 45:21
  by the next young kid coming up who just really wants it just a little
• 45:24
  bit more, needs it a little bit more. It has to a little
• 45:28
  bit more. You could actually watch the Rocky Arc, yeah, of all
• 45:31
  the movies, and it's almost like exactly what you described. Yeah, I
• 45:36
  mean he was hungry, he was young, and then he had all the
• 45:37
  money, and then yeah, he only fought the Russian through because he killed
• 45:40
  his buddy, you know, you know, he didn't be right. And
• 45:43
  then the Tommy Wars and the Tommy it was like, honestly like the most
• 45:45
  realistic storyline where like, you know, you train the guy and then he
• 45:49
  goes to a bigger promoter like that happens all the time. And he's the
• 45:52
  next younger guy who just you know, a father time is undefeated, but
• 45:57
  like even more just the desire for it. Just don't want to I can
• 46:00
  say. It's just Connor is like probably the most motivated person I've ever heard
• 46:04
  of ever existing, you know. So, I mean he was the first
• 46:07
  guy to ever have belts at two times in two way classes at the same
• 46:10
  time, starts the whiskey, sells his majority stale for six hundred million dollars.
• 46:16
  Is number one paid athlete in Forbes over Lebron, over Bron, not
• 46:22
  Lebron in the show just see it. No, I would just all so
• 46:27
  just to be heard, I'm a shot guy, So I love I'm a
• 46:30
  shot guy. Of course they had all those Lebron cards up there, but
• 46:32
  I thought those twenty years ago, I have like ten thousand, ten thousand
• 46:37
  Shock cards all different. Yeah, I just all, I got thirty eight
• 46:40
  pairs of Shock reboxed different all it's no big shock groupy from from from like
• 46:46
  day one day pick Yeah. Yeah, I'll tell you funny story about that
• 46:51
  a minute. But let's say so he's got the Black Forge his bar in
• 46:53
  Ireland. Yeah, you know it's opened three years ago. This year was
• 46:57
  just named the number one bar in Dublin. Like, he does not walk
• 47:00
  around like that he does. It's like it's not when you go there,
• 47:02
  it's not giving. I mean it's very like decked out like like this would
• 47:06
  be like in Connor. But it's not like Planet Hollywood bullshit food. It's
• 47:09
  like top top class food and top class service. It's dude, he doesn't
• 47:15
  play. He's got the stout out now, and the stout is just crushing
• 47:19
  in Ireland, which is crazy. It's called it's called a forged dire stout.
• 47:22
  Okay, that'll be hitting the Yeah, yeah, they'll be hit in
• 47:27
  the US soon. But it's it's that under the proper a whole other thing.
• 47:34
  Yeah yeah. But I've been trying to wheezle my way into that too,
• 47:37
  because I just have all my accounts are already asking me about People aren't
• 47:38
  like the MMA places especially, are asking me about it. But yeah,
• 47:42
  I'm a big fight guy. Well but I got a shock r sixth grade.
• 47:45
  I still remember clearly my history teacher, and I don't remember like he
• 47:49
  was like in the days where teachers would just be meaning the kids or whatever
• 47:52
  and He was like, yeah, that's the kind of they gotta they gotta
• 47:57
  be careful now. Yeah. So I was like a big karate kids.
• 48:00
  Was in the karate when I was a kid, right like Van Damn movies
• 48:01
  and ship damn guy. Yeah, and I didn't if I didn't watch sport.
• 48:05
  Yeah, it's to this day holds up to me. But I didn't
• 48:09
  watch any ball sports, much to my dad's dismay. We tried to get
• 48:13
  me into it and I just it just wasn't for me. I was like
• 48:15
  a karate guy and I just wanted to getting fights all the time to be
• 48:19
  a degenerate. But my teacher, history teacher was like, I bet the
• 48:22
  girls in here think that the shack is a building out behind the house.
• 48:27
  And then this kid, his name is Keith Kane. He turned to me
• 48:29
  and he's like, showan, do you know what the shack is? Then
• 48:30
  no idea. So then there's this kid in the next door to me,
• 48:34
  Bobby Edwards, and he was like the cool of kid. He was two
• 48:37
  years older than me. You know, he was in eighth grade and I
• 48:38
  was in sixth grade. And I told him what happened, and he had
• 48:40
  a videotape but shacks with the year and none. He broke the backboard.
• 48:45
  It's the coolesting I've ever seen. And then I just became like balls deep
• 48:47
  and changed the rules. Yeah, but we're changing the design of the backboard.
• 48:51
  Yeah, and the zone defense like but yes. And then from sixth
• 48:55
  grade on, man, I was just obsessed with obsessed with shack and like
• 49:00
  I had a couple pairs of sneakers, but you know, my parents didn't
• 49:02
  have money like that, so they were always like the year behind. I
• 49:05
  was always the year behind. But I wanted the shacks. But where they
• 49:07
  were. The shack three was out. I had the shack two, the
• 49:08
  shack for three was five was out. I had the shack six. Whatever.
• 49:12
  But then as became my thing. It's like, no, now I
• 49:14
  can't. So now I just said, I scour the internet and I've dropped
• 49:16
  Geno and I got thirty eight different pairs on the box, all side of
• 49:20
  thirteen. Like you have like a little shoe display at home. Don't have
• 49:22
  a cool display, man, I just have like a wire like a shelf,
• 49:27
  dude, and they're just stacked up on that. But my first I
• 49:30
  don't have a shack. Experienced guy, when I was first introduced. He
• 49:32
  played LSU, played Yukon tournament YEA his final year. I think he was
• 49:37
  a junior. Then he left right and I was like, I just remember
• 49:40
  washing. I was in my buddies basement, were watching the game, and
• 49:43
  I'm like, this, dude's gonna dominate, dominate, And I mean,
• 49:47
  it's crazy that he really couldn't win until he got, you know, paired
• 49:52
  up with Kobe. But uh, I think I'm more to do with Phil
• 49:54
  Jackson. Well, yeah, that too, yeah, because in those times,
• 49:58
  right, Phil just was so good at managing. Yeah, because if
• 50:02
  you go back to Kobe, wasn't Kobe then? Like so I was still
• 50:07
  maintain that at that time when they were winning the titles, that there was
• 50:10
  no one you could trade Shack four and get the same results. Maybe Tim
• 50:14
  Duncan maybe, but his game is very different. I think that if you
• 50:17
  had traded Shack for Paul Pierce, for Tracy McGrady, for Vince car I'm
• 50:21
  excuse me, Kobe for Paul Pierce, Tracy McGrady, Vince Carter. I
• 50:24
  think there was five or six guys he went to Miami and got a title.
• 50:29
  I think that that that that Kobe was very replaceable in those days.
• 50:32
  I think after Shack left, all of that grew Kobe to who he became,
• 50:37
  and he would become, I think, probably the greatest player every He's
• 50:39
  it's one, A, one B, it's I have, it's what's your
• 50:43
  top five? It's hard to say, because I'll say I think Shack.
• 50:45
  I think I'll take a big guy. I think that's one as one.
• 50:49
  I think if you're gonna give me seven games to win a series, I'll
• 50:51
  take the big guy. In today's game, Well, today's games garbage.
• 50:55
  I don't want. I don't even watch NBA. I can't watch. Just
• 50:58
  like, watch any fucking wreck week, Dude, I can't watch. It's
• 51:00
  like, what's who were you a fan of now? Like Steph Curry?
• 51:04
  I guess no, No, I mean who was your like? Who is
• 51:06
  your team? Growing up? I went with Shad was an Orlando guy,
• 51:08
  and then I was in LA. Yeah, but then I was an LA
• 51:12
  guy. You know I kind of defaulted, honestly, you could tell him
• 51:15
  all Boston. Yeah, I've kind of defaulted back to LA until Lebron sign
• 51:19
  there because I had to spise him so much. We now I can't even
• 51:21
  like the Lakers. Anymore. Paul, I've had two really bad experiences with
• 51:24
  Silver Lebron again. Sorry, no, no, that's what I'm saying.
• 51:30
  You're saying JJ, just say lj JJ fuck off, fuck off. I
• 51:37
  wanted to be a Celtics fan, being an Irish kid from the Northeast,
• 51:39
  but I had two really bad experiences with Paul Pierson who ruined it for me.
• 51:43
  Really yeah, like personal personal, no ship, like trying to get
• 51:45
  an autograph or first time it was my senior year in high school, I
• 51:50
  think my senior junior or whatever. We used to go to Fox was just
• 51:52
  like walk around at night. It was just like what we did was kids
• 51:53
  me to walk around and see if we could sneak onto the floor. And
• 51:57
  you know, at that time it was really hard to do that. The
• 51:59
  senior everywhere and then they realized it cost him a lot of them money whatever,
• 52:02
  but there was it must have been like the Hall of Fame night like
• 52:08
  because now that's a fame mohegan every year where all the players come after the
• 52:12
  Hall of Fame ceremony. When he saw it, everybody's there, but it
• 52:15
  was always NBA players. But it was like four in the morning and there
• 52:17
  was nobody there, and I'm meeting all these guys and there's Paul Pierce talking
• 52:21
  to some hot girl and I copped him and I have like a calendar that
• 52:24
  I ripped off the walls, having all these guys sign and I'm like,
• 52:27
  yo, pause, like can I get your autograph? Like I'm a huge,
• 52:30
  huge, huge NBA fan. He's coming out of Kansas. I'm excited.
• 52:31
  He's like, do you even know who I am? Or you're just
• 52:34
  talking to me because that girl was and he wouldn't sign the paper. Really
• 52:38
  fast forward like five years, I'm at Ultra eighty eight was the night club
• 52:44
  now avalone. Paul Pierce is there with Walter McCarty and I'm there with my
• 52:50
  girlfriend and some of her friends. I love Walter, So Walter takes one
• 52:53
  of my girlfriend's friends up in the hotel. I'm walking around with my friends
• 52:58
  in the club or whatever. Gruffles back to me like a Paul Piers just
• 53:00
  told me a horre because I wouldn't go to the to the hotel room with
• 53:04
  him. Oh god, yeah, well that's how we got fired from ESPN.
• 53:07
  Yeah. It was like all the strippers of the glad raven Zeno sliced
• 53:10
  them up to I was just gonna say, well, you're the guy that
• 53:14
  stabbed them. I ordered the hit that is off the record. So yeah,
• 53:21
  so I would. I remember, so remember when the Celtics used to
• 53:23
  play preseason games at the Vegan. So it was the year they played the
• 53:29
  Bullets or the Wizards when Jordan was there, so like one of Jordan's last
• 53:32
  year. So they happened to play that night. I didn't realize it.
• 53:37
  And I'm spending the night and we're walking around and I'm just going down.
• 53:42
  Back then, I used to be a fucking degenerate and I would only play
• 53:45
  blackjack in one hundred dollars section the pit because one it's usually what I bet,
• 53:52
  and no one's coming in, you know, like it's just fuck head
• 53:55
  to head, let's go, let's get this fucking spend thirty minutes, I
• 53:59
  win or lose them out. So I walked down and this guy stops me.
• 54:01
  He's like, oh, you can't come down here? Why not?
• 54:04
  It goes Jordan's down there, and I look over and I don't see Jordan.
• 54:07
  I see Antoine Walker and Paul Pierce, and I said, where's Jordan.
• 54:10
  He's like, oh, He's in between because you know Walker's well,
• 54:13
  they're all big dudes, but Walker is a big dude. And I said,
• 54:15
  oh, I said, no ship. And so I'm like, now
• 54:17
  I'm like a little fanboy, you know, walking around the other side just
• 54:21
  to get a glimpse of them. And it's yeah, it's literally those two.
• 54:23
  Jordan's in the middle, has a couple other nbas there. I can't
• 54:28
  remember who it was. Whatever. So we go and play. So the
• 54:31
  rumor is that Jordan's down three hundred and fifty grand, Like what's that?
• 54:37
  That's you and me game on ten dollars. So I'm like, oh,
• 54:40
  damn whatever. So we go spend the night check out. The next morning
• 54:45
  driving home, remember one oh four one, the radio station that sucks now
• 54:49
  and it was fucking turning the hip hop for a while. We're driving home
• 54:52
  and there's like a report of the radio like, oh, Michael Jordan was
• 54:55
  at Mohegan Sun last night and I guess he walked They reported he walked out
• 55:00
  up two million. So he was down like like his chips were ten thousand
• 55:05
  dollars chips in front of him. Yeah, Like next week I'm there and
• 55:09
  Wanda Sykes is there, you know who that is. I'm gambling with Wanda
• 55:13
  Sykes at a blackjack table. She's betting five dollars a hand. Yeah,
• 55:17
  I go Wanda five dollars because I don't really like the gamble. I love
• 55:22
  her from Curb Your Enthusiasm. I'm a big yeah. Yeah, yeah,
• 55:24
  yeah yeah. I had a lot of interactions with Antoine Walker. He was
• 55:29
  always fucking cool. Ass fuck dude. He was always so cool. Every
• 55:31
  time I met Antoine Walker, he was I tried to get into the shippy
• 55:35
  for me though, and he wouldn't do it, but fucking shimmy. Yeah.
• 55:37
  But other than that, Antoine Walker was always fucking cool. I met
• 55:39
  Jordan Ultrady at one night. He shook hands. He was cool. I
• 55:43
  know a lot of people have bad experience with him. He's he doesn't He
• 55:45
  doesn't typically take restaurant dude like the Jordan's. He won't tip like he's at
• 55:50
  Jordan's. Even at Jordan's, he doesn't tip. Why he's a dude,
• 55:53
  He's known he's not. He doesn't tip. Charles Barkley makes one of him
• 55:55
  for at all time. He won't tip. Same thing, no tipping,
• 55:58
  pipping, Neither any of those guys tip. Ye, so you want a
• 56:02
  tip story? So I worked Foxwoods Security the year after I graduated high school
• 56:08
  and I was worked grave shift. I spent two days with Ben Affleck,
• 56:13
  who was the fucking man. Okay, like Ben Affleck, I love Ben,
• 56:16
  I love I love I love Matt Damon, I love Ben. Yeah
• 56:21
  him, yeah, like here, there's there. It would be physically impossible
• 56:23
  for him to be cool. I was dating in a Cockton, which at
• 56:25
  the time, every time she came over five hundred five. I mean,
• 56:28
  just like greatest dude. The second day I was there, I did two
• 56:31
  full days with him. J Lo shows up. He puts a five hundred
• 56:36
  dollars tip on the table, so he gets up, she goes back and
• 56:37
  takes it. Come on, yeah, got mine, true story. That's
• 56:45
  something my father would do. I love you Dad, me and that.
• 56:45
  But Jesus Christy, Ben Affleck's playing poker, low limit poker, just letting
• 56:52
  guys come for him, dude, and like, you know, everyone wanted
• 56:53
  to take him. You know, it was just really fucking cool. He
• 56:57
  was just one of the fucking guys. I was playing, like to no
• 57:00
  limit do I mean, because this is what I love about, Like the
• 57:02
  Boston. Yeah, there's guys, dude, right, they're just Mark Wahlberg
• 57:07
  fucking like yeah, I mean these guys screw up in the fucking not slums,
• 57:10
  but they grew up in that. We're working class. Yeah. So
• 57:13
  which I'll circle back to Connor dude. So Connor is just a guy.
• 57:16
  Dude, He's just a dude. Like he's got all the toys and stuff,
• 57:20
  but he's just like the realest dude who came from a hard work place.
• 57:22
  So that's the other part you have, right, right, you asked
• 57:24
  me where they name proper comes from? Right? But the twelve So Dublin
• 57:28
  is broken up into different sections, right, So like Dublin twelve districts almost
• 57:31
  right, Yeah, that's like twenty five or I forget how many there are,
• 57:34
  right, So, like, but like Dublin one is like fucking the
• 57:37
  touristy, like really nice area. Dublin twelve Crumble, where Connor cromes from
• 57:42
  is not. So that's where the twelve comes from. So are some people.
• 57:45
  No, that's more of the country man. But like girl, so
• 57:50
  like she told me all this shit about like what goes on over it,
• 57:52
  but you know, aside from me, and like proper like, you know,
• 57:55
  we have a proper right now, he's a proper fucking you know,
• 57:58
  he's a good guy. Say over there, the twelve is the district is
• 58:01
  crumblin. You know, some people, some people get confused. I think
• 58:04
  it's a twelve year which you know, we're not trying to masquerade that at
• 58:07
  all. It's just being really true to where he comes from. This is
• 58:10
  an entry level whiskey. It's a it's a drinking man's whiskey. It's a
• 58:15
  whiskey for anybody, but a whiskey for the guy who just got out of
• 58:16
  work, who had a bad day. Like fucking you can be whoever you
• 58:22
  want to be. You know, Connor McGregor was a you know, the
• 58:24
  story is famous man. He was a plumber working on apprentice site and he
• 58:28
  was like, fuck this, dude, I'm quitting. I'm going to be
• 58:31
  a millionaire, I'm going to be a fighter. And his parents, you
• 58:34
  know, we're laughed at him, and everyone laughed at him because no one
• 58:37
  from Ireland is tiny, no one had ever done it. There's no one
• 58:40
  who had ever done that before. So there's not like there was not like,
• 58:44
  oh I'm gonna be like this guy, because there was no this guy
• 58:46
  and now and now there's tons of guys that Connor, you know what I
• 58:51
  mean. So like he's just such an amazing and motivating person and you know,
• 58:55
  like I said, for me to work for him, and he was
• 58:58
  just like showing all that, Dude, I love that aption or pull.
• 59:00
  That was a really cool shot and like always sharing my stuff, sending me
• 59:02
  a little bit like dude, it makes me just want to crush it for
• 59:06
  him, you know what I mean. And the company takes such good they
• 59:08
  do. They spared no expenses and I go when I travel ding, I'm
• 59:12
  not in Microtel's dude, I mean like some swaggy little trendy hotel, very
• 59:15
  instagramable whatever like that. They you know, they let me you know,
• 59:19
  they're not putting me in a first class, but they got no problem with
• 59:21
  me booking the exit row aisle seat upgrading, so my fat asking stretched out.
• 59:27
  They take very very good care of me, man. And it all
• 59:30
  like comes from the vibe that this guy puts out. Man. This guy
• 59:32
  is like, you know, there's so much that he does. It doesn't
• 59:35
  even get publicized. The amount of money he gave the hospitals during COVID.
• 59:37
  It's what has nothing to do with proper or anything. He didn't do it
• 59:40
  for a publicity. He's really, like really believed that it's a must to
• 59:45
  give back and and it travels down and it makes me so happy when I
• 59:47
  get to travel and give a fire department check check. When I gave my
• 59:52
  hometown for no reason, you know, ten thousand dollars though, you know,
• 59:57
  the mayor shows up and it's funny that, you know, the barrow
• 59:59
  is like, you know who I was, so he like blew. I
• 1:00:00
  was like, oh, hey, how's it going? Guy blew me off?
• 1:00:01
  And then he found out I was giving the check and he's like,
• 1:00:04
  oh, yeah, do you live in New London? You know, I'm
• 1:00:07
  like Bisarro on the Marina London, Like yeah, that's yeah. But he's
• 1:00:13
  like Paul Pierce. Yeah. But you know, the brand is really an
• 1:00:17
  extension of Connor that there's nothing that I can say more about the brand than
• 1:00:22
  that it's authentic. You know, there's a lot of celebrities out there who
• 1:00:25
  have celebrity Like was George Clooney's collection to tequila? Nothing? Nothing, No,
• 1:00:32
  he fooked up with another guy and they put his name on it.
• 1:00:35
  And they sold it for a billion dollars less right, right, I'm not
• 1:00:37
  Ryan Reynolds was like Aviator Gin or something. Yeah, like what's this like
• 1:00:42
  like they both done great, but I'm not shooting on those brands at all.
• 1:00:45
  And no, no, no, no, all the world but this
• 1:00:51
  is no one knows that George Clooney sold it really. Yeah, they sees
• 1:00:52
  his name still on the label. That's for there's a purpose behind that.
• 1:00:55
  You want his name a but this is real, man, this is like
• 1:01:00
  it's Connor's even on the label. Yeah, he's got his singature down to
• 1:01:04
  bottom. But you know it's it's just it's genuine from him and sort of
• 1:01:07
  from who he is, you know, and it's from his culture, you
• 1:01:09
  know what I mean. It's like it's it's it's a really important thing to
• 1:01:15
  him that the quality comes out that the black forge man at his restaurant.
• 1:01:17
  It's really important to him that the you know, the new stout. He's
• 1:01:21
  important that it's it's creamy. Like he's very hands on. He's got this
• 1:01:24
  this fucking brain that just doesn't stop. It's so inspirational to even distantly be
• 1:01:30
  connected to it and just to see what he's doing because it just, dude,
• 1:01:32
  I don't want Connor to think I suck. So that's why I'm the
• 1:01:35
  fucking best dude, they know. That's why. That's why a proximate is
• 1:01:37
  coming to me and like yo, our other reps, dude need to learn
• 1:01:39
  from you because you're fucking crushing it. Because I don't want to let Connor
• 1:01:43
  now man because he if he can fucking balance all these things with all his
• 1:01:46
  ship, dude, fucking what like this is an opportunity of a lifetime for
• 1:01:49
  me. You know, I literally love this brand, so I appreciate you
• 1:01:52
  have me talk. I always say it wrong. When I was in Ireland,
• 1:01:57
  I always say Cilantro, just don't order a car. I'll do a
• 1:02:01
  little more, a little more. But as we wrap up the show,
• 1:02:07
  back to the MMA a little bit. Ye. One thing I give Connor
• 1:02:09
  so much credit for was the May Letter fight and a lot of the reason
• 1:02:15
  is this has I could be wrong, but has there been a boxer that's
• 1:02:21
  crossed over to MMA or is it just trictly the MMA guys are crossed over
• 1:02:23
  the box not at any high level, well maybe lower level, yeah,
• 1:02:27
  yeah, nobody knows. Well. He had female and she lost Clarissa Shields
• 1:02:34
  is one of the best female boxers, and she went and got beat by
• 1:02:37
  some nobody, you know, Like it's like I almost felt that deal should
• 1:02:39
  have been all right, Connor's like, all right, come to me.
• 1:02:43
  I'll go to you a box You know, you're kind of probably gonna lose,
• 1:02:46
  only because Mayweather so technical, he doesn't really knock people out. He's
• 1:02:52
  gonna win in rounds. You know, he's gonna win the scorecard. But
• 1:02:55
  all right, well, now you trained for I'll give you a year.
• 1:02:58
  You trained for a year and come in the octagon octagone with me, you
• 1:03:01
  know like what I'll tell you. Like they just got a huge money behind
• 1:03:05
  it. They didn't have a kind of like a handshake deal on that.
• 1:03:07
  But there was no way, Like there's there's no amount of time that Floyd
• 1:03:12
  could train to ever fight Connor and MMA. There's no there's not if you
• 1:03:16
  could freeze Connor to stop him from getting older and not age Floyd, but
• 1:03:21
  Floyd train twenty years like right, It's it's uh, it's such a different
• 1:03:25
  thing. So like I just fought in June I, but I could be
• 1:03:29
  in boxing by training MMA. But I could be in Bove saying you and
• 1:03:30
  Nick Noah's place the other day. No, but I do I know who
• 1:03:34
  that my friend Brendan Wore is. Like my best friend is a big,
• 1:03:37
  big time fighter. So like I've been through tonys of the camps, I've
• 1:03:38
  been like all of that helped me into this, like this like different spots
• 1:03:43
  is traveling my friend Brendan, but like the ground, like a guy who's
• 1:03:47
  been wrestling since sixth grade who weighs one hundred and fifty pounds will raged on
• 1:03:53
  me. There's nothing. I mean, it sounds crazy, but dude,
• 1:03:55
  that scrap of wrestlers before I get annihilated, Yeah, they're just gonna get
• 1:04:00
  In fact, they're gonna dip their their hands a grip or so fucking strong.
• 1:04:02
  Even if I just outfat them for a second and I end up on
• 1:04:05
  top, they're gonna run me the fuck grat Connor's been grappling forever. He
• 1:04:11
  would There's nothing there's Floyd could never the minute he would get him to the
• 1:04:15
  ground, right, but even just the kicks, dude, I would get
• 1:04:18
  punched in the face one hundred times before eating a hard Like a leg kick
• 1:04:20
  is the worst fucking thing ever, Dude, it's like a baseball bat company,
• 1:04:25
  Yeah, dude, and you know it's the boxer is never ever going
• 1:04:29
  to survive in the MMA world ever, ever, ever, you know.
• 1:04:31
  But I feel it's just like I mean, maybe I don't know, it's
• 1:04:34
  like you see it, and then I just hate when people talk shit like,
• 1:04:38
  oh, Connor didn't beat fucking weather Well, like duh, but he
• 1:04:43
  rounds with the right like he wondring it knocked out and he one round.
• 1:04:46
  He like it'll never go the other like you just said, like you make
• 1:04:50
  a great point, like it'll never go the other way. You'll you'll never
• 1:04:54
  see Canelo Alvarez go fight. I don't even know what Cannello fights at one
• 1:04:58
  hundred and sixty eight pounds or whatever. You're not gonna go see him fight
• 1:05:00
  the fucking the champion in the UFC. I welked away whoever. It never
• 1:05:04
  You'll never ever see these top top guys like that. Flight just made sense
• 1:05:09
  because Floyd was a little bit older and a little bit retired. Connor happened
• 1:05:13
  to be his hands wearing kind of his strength in MMA, so it was
• 1:05:15
  it was it was enough to make it interesting. But like you know,
• 1:05:20
  Floyd talking about fighting could be in a boxing match because people can't bock you
• 1:05:24
  like it would be it would literally be embarrassing, but but could be but
• 1:05:28
  kill you. You'd have sense with Floyd if you want to say, there'd
• 1:05:30
  be nothing that Floyd could do about right, you know what I mean,
• 1:05:32
  Like it's it's it's just they're just two. There's such different things. I
• 1:05:38
  have zero inches. I have zero interesting crossover fights. Like I was into
• 1:05:41
  that one because it was Connor and because it was and you weren't even involved,
• 1:05:45
  right, and because it was Floyd. Right, that's actually where the
• 1:05:46
  whisky got launched. But they called at that time it was Notorious Whiskey,
• 1:05:49
  but somebody else owned that name and it became a thing. Like it didn't
• 1:05:53
  actually launch, but at the press conference had a bottle. It's like,
• 1:05:55
  you know, this is Notorious Whiskey and I was coming out its coming soon,
• 1:05:58
  and that was the early digression of it. But uh, you know,
• 1:06:02
  I'm in a different way. But now I don't, but I don't.
• 1:06:04
  I really don't want to see boxers go to MMA. I don't.
• 1:06:06
  I have no interest in seeing the crossover fight because it's just it's like I
• 1:06:11
  just do one, just to end it. Yeah, you know what one
• 1:06:16
  like one just just the opposite. Why this is not gonna work? Like
• 1:06:23
  David White can set that up right well. Also like so for example that
• 1:06:28
  you know, uh, Tyson Fiery is gonna fight Frances and Gonner do you
• 1:06:30
  know about that? You know? Then and he's gonna annihilate Frances Go,
• 1:06:34
  He's gonna absolutely annihling. But then he's talking about fighting John Jones and the
• 1:06:38
  UFC, and John Jones will take his bunch of money every day of the
• 1:06:42
  week. Like well, actually, you know, you know what I mean,
• 1:06:44
  he was way past it. But James Tony went to the UFC and
• 1:06:47
  he and he fought Randy Gutor in Boston. But I mean James, like
• 1:06:54
  James Tony was like so he fought a heavyweight and he was you know,
• 1:06:57
  he's fifty pounds upon it. I mean, he was like the piece of
• 1:07:00
  it. And but he's got picked off his leg in five seconds and beat
• 1:07:02
  and choked out. Yeah that's what happened every single That's what you're like two
• 1:07:06
  guys in their prime. Yeah, that's what John Jones would do to Tyson
• 1:07:10
  Fury. He would kick his leg, he would pick him up scoop his
• 1:07:13
  legs out and show him out. But I think guys like like Fury though,
• 1:07:15
  are probably just like you know, they have that one punch capability.
• 1:07:18
  You mean, no what I'm saying. It's like in their head, they're
• 1:07:21
  like, you know, it's enough to sell it, it's enough to sell
• 1:07:25
  it, right, but you won't get you won't get close. He wouldn't
• 1:07:27
  get close enough to John John Jones would kick the ship out of his leg
• 1:07:30
  and then just dive under his punch and take him off the ground. Yeah,
• 1:07:31
  John, Like, if John Jones did something stupid and tried to stand
• 1:07:35
  and trade punches with him, he could he could lose the fight. But
• 1:07:38
  if he did what he's supposed to do, he's never gonna lose the fight.
• 1:07:41
  Like zero times in a punchet he ever loses the fight if he does
• 1:07:44
  what he's supposed to. What do you think there's more coaching in MMA or
• 1:07:49
  Yeah, I mean it's like the way I would compare compare it is like
• 1:07:56
  I bet you that in bowls practice fucking if you were gonna play horse,
• 1:08:00
  I'll take Steve Kerr. Dude, I'll take Steve Kerr, But the gonna
• 1:08:03
  play one on one give me Jordan, you know what I mean, Like,
• 1:08:06
  it's the pure shooter is the boxer. He's the guy who's really really
• 1:08:12
  good at doing one thing, right, whereas you have somebody else who's great
• 1:08:15
  at doing a lot of different things. So Steve Kerry, Steve Kerr,
• 1:08:20
  John Packson free throw line competition against Jordan. I bet the Curry. Yeah,
• 1:08:26
  I mean, Kurry can kind of. Curry is almost an MA fighter.
• 1:08:29
  He getting Kerry into a lot. I don't know. I don't watch
• 1:08:30
  enough of them to tell you how he has differend But how is he like
• 1:08:34
  defensively And I don't know what I'm say to the right, right. But
• 1:08:42
  then you take a guy who can do everything, who can defend the ball,
• 1:08:44
  who can shot block, who you know, like, who can take
• 1:08:45
  it to the rat, who can three like like, it's just you're taking
• 1:08:49
  a specialist against the jack of all trades. It's it's just the jack of
• 1:08:54
  all trades is never gonna be as good as a specialist, and the specialist
• 1:08:57
  is never gonna have the capacity of the jack. So there's so many nuances
• 1:09:00
  to MMA like you in so many ways to win and not you know,
• 1:09:05
  wrestling rules, right, Wrestling literally rules like if anytime you can decide where
• 1:09:12
  the fight stand, whether you're like, hey, I don't like where I'm
• 1:09:15
  ASTs, so I'm gonna take this guy to the ground or the other guy
• 1:09:16
  feels that way, but your wrestling's better, like nope, we're staying here
• 1:09:19
  most you know, right right right, and never get to watch it.
• 1:09:23
  I always work Saturday nights, so I never really get to watch the pay
• 1:09:26
  per views or any stuff like that. But I've been to a few.
• 1:09:29
  I was the one in Boston they did. It was actually on fox YEP.
• 1:09:32
  Uh, we're going back seven years probably, and uh, we're at
• 1:09:36
  Fanuel Hall and we're drinking at uh, what's the big Irish barther Ned Divines.
• 1:09:43
  We're drinking at Ned Divines downstairs like they're little. It was a Sunday.
• 1:09:46
  It was like there little like lobby bar before you go upstairs, and
• 1:09:50
  me and two other buddies and we're just tying one on the fights that night.
• 1:09:56
  And my buddies, my two buddies are fun, die hard MMA guys,
• 1:10:00
  so I'm staying. We were like, we pay our tab, We're
• 1:10:01
  gonna go back to the hotel, freshen up, and head over to the
• 1:10:03
  fucking TV garden and we're walking out and my buddy's like, taps, man,
• 1:10:09
  the shows you that's fucking Dana White behind us. That's funny. I
• 1:10:12
  met Dana Wait at the same time. Must be at the same time I
• 1:10:14
  met Dana White and at that same bar. Yeah. Yeah. So we
• 1:10:15
  turned around. There's Dana White and he's got like this really huge bodyguard and
• 1:10:19
  two hot chicks with him, and he's wearing this old school Patriots jacket.
• 1:10:25
  Yes, yeah, I have a picture. It's somewhere. Yeah, you
• 1:10:28
  tell your story. Yeah. So I'm like sitting there and he was the
• 1:10:32
  nicest guy in the world and he's like, hey, you guys going to
• 1:10:35
  the fight tonight and we're like yeah. He goes, well, how good
• 1:10:38
  are your tickets? I have really good tickets for you. Yes, yes,
• 1:10:41
  I have the same figure. Yeah. Yeah, that's funny. That's
• 1:10:43
  a terrible where's the camera? Where's the camera? Yeah yeah yeah, I
• 1:10:46
  got a find mine on Facebook though I got an older phone and uh so
• 1:10:50
  I'm like I'm like, we're just chilling and he's like, he's like,
• 1:10:54
  where are your tickets? I said, well, we actually had like floor
• 1:10:56
  seats seventh row. Yeah, I'm like, can you beat that? He's
• 1:10:59
  like, you know what, I can't? Not like, don't worries,
• 1:11:01
  man, We're going I have a great time tonight. And we were like
• 1:11:04
  right where all the fighters came out ye and left. Like it's almost like,
• 1:11:09
  you know, you feel you're a wretch wrestling match, you know,
• 1:11:11
  w W match or something, but it was, it was It was so
• 1:11:14
  much fun. I honestly think like sometimes it's better watching on TV though if
• 1:11:18
  you don't have it, so the experience is live is cool and the actual
• 1:11:23
  view of it and the commentators bring a lot to the table too, man,
• 1:11:28
  which is like wrestling like I went to I went to WrestleMania New York,
• 1:11:30
  yeah, or New Jersey. Yeah. We had terrible seat. It
• 1:11:33
  was like why are we even here? Yeah? But I love at the
• 1:11:36
  UFC. I don't remember when they go from the televised portion to the pay
• 1:11:43
  per view portion, there's a teenage waste land plays and it's this montage and
• 1:11:46
  it's the fucking coolest thing. I love it, dude, Like I like
• 1:11:49
  the crowd when it erupts when something cool happens. But as far as actually
• 1:11:54
  watching the action, it's a little bit tough. Yeah, I mean it's
• 1:11:57
  it's it is. It is fun though, I mean especially being there,
• 1:12:00
  like we were like pump, you know, hitting their shoulders as they walked
• 1:12:03
  by, or if they won, they were fist pumping on us on the
• 1:12:05
  way by. Of course you're fucking were bombed out of our asses. But
• 1:12:10
  but yeah, it was. I mean like he didn't have to say hello,
• 1:12:12
  he didn't stop into it anything. Yeah. No, And obviously he's
• 1:12:14
  a Boston guy and born and raised. Yeah. Yeah, he's great.
• 1:12:16
  Man, he's great. I've had a few experiences with him. He's fucking
• 1:12:19
  great for sure. Yeah. I love that. You watch that slap No
• 1:12:23
  I will no, No, come on, that's not for me, dude.
• 1:12:27
  It's hilarious. No, that's not for your boy. Man. No,
• 1:12:30
  I don't like it. I didn't think I was gonna like it.
• 1:12:31
  I watched it. I'm like, you know, they make a story behind
• 1:12:34
  it too. Yeah, you know, and I've literally never watched it.
• 1:12:36
  I know I've seen the highlights, but I just I don't. I don't
• 1:12:42
  like it, all right, It's not for me. It's fucking pretty funny.
• 1:12:47
  It's something that like if I'm scrolling through the internet on reels and I
• 1:12:51
  see it. I see a quick one. That's as much of that as
• 1:12:56
  as I as I need. Yeah, I will see. I remember seeing
• 1:12:59
  the ship like years a yeah, like in Russia, right right, right,
• 1:13:01
  and it started being like a hillbilly thing. Right they see some big
• 1:13:05
  fat dude and like camouflage dude doing it. And I was like, I
• 1:13:10
  just don't, dude, I don't like just seeing people get hit in the
• 1:13:13
  face on defense. Like I just don't like seeing. It's just it's not
• 1:13:15
  for me to see the guy at Foxboro did. Yeah. So I read
• 1:13:19
  today actually that they think he had a heart attack. But he wouldn't have
• 1:13:23
  had a heart attack. He wasn't right, it was involving that ship.
• 1:13:25
  He wouldn't have a heart attack. My best friend, my my, my
• 1:13:30
  best friend got murdered leaving mohegan Son. He got into a He got into
• 1:13:34
  a beef with a guy in the casino. Fucking hab stance habit. They
• 1:13:39
  followed. They ended up in the same parking garage. The guy followed him
• 1:13:42
  out, pulled him next to him at a red light, shot him dude,
• 1:13:44
  like come the fuck, yeah, dude, like I've been I've been
• 1:13:47
  fighting in gyms for over a decade, Like, dude, I'm not fighting
• 1:13:51
  in a ball like unless you actually attack me to the point like me in
• 1:13:57
  the spot where like I absolutely have to dude, right, dud, I'm
• 1:14:00
  not getting stabbed, I getting shot, Dude, I'm not like get hit
• 1:14:03
  with it. Like, dude, no one out there should be fighting,
• 1:14:05
  like you should not be fucking fighting. And I say that as someone who
• 1:14:10
  was a degenerate who fought every fucking weekend in high school in my early twenties
• 1:14:13
  like a fucking asshole. But I'm just lucky that no one was. Like,
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  fucking we had an incident work the other night. The kid got sucker
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  punched. Yeah, those those broken full of spots or over the bone broken
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  and they were friends. Yeah, it's just like home people, dude.
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  But like, if that could turn his head, I'll show you the video
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  out there. If you could turned his head, it would have been straight
• 1:14:32
  up in here and probably meant killed. Yeah yeah, I mean though you
• 1:14:36
  were win so many lives, right your your whole life could change, like
• 1:14:41
  being the person who wins or loses. Like it's just like, yo,
• 1:14:45
  you want to over ego. You think that you're tough and you really want
• 1:14:49
  to fight, go down to a fight gym and you'll see whether you are
• 1:14:53
  or not. And maybe you are, but you're probably not, you know
• 1:14:55
  what I mean. Like even even like as me as someone who's been twelve
• 1:14:59
  years in the gym, when someone like my friend Brennan, he's like,
• 1:15:02
  hey, we're gonna smart tomorrow. Fuck, here's the butterflies. Dude,
• 1:15:05
  how can I get out of this? You know we're doing this, we're
• 1:15:10
  doing this. You know obviously you're safe in a combined spot. No,
• 1:15:13
  I mean, you can't get hurt, right, No, but it's still
• 1:15:15
  somebody punching you in the face, you know. But it's it's it's it's
• 1:15:18
  different than there's no emotion attached to it. So it's not you know,
• 1:15:23
  it's not I gotta kill this guy, right, but you know, like
• 1:15:28
  at a bar where you have that you have that rush of a dryin,
• 1:15:30
  throw that alcohol into it. It's you make a decision to change your life,
• 1:15:33
  or dude, you run into someone who's just a bad motherfucker and you
• 1:15:38
  have no idea. There's little scrawny fucking kids in my gym that will twist
• 1:15:44
  your head off your body, and you would have no idea like just don't
• 1:15:46
  don't fight, dude, talk to girls. We had it. We had
• 1:15:48
  a guy still over a years ago. Who it was. It wasn't at
• 1:15:55
  my bar because we had like five bars there. It wasn't. It didn't
• 1:15:57
  start at my bar, but it was, you know, this guy who
• 1:16:00
  was just probably in his probably my age right, unassuming, smaller than me.
• 1:16:05
  I don't know if he was like inappropriately hitting on a girl or something,
• 1:16:09
  but you know, he's told to stop, and security came over and
• 1:16:13
  he punched security gardener face and all the bartenders jumped over the bar and they
• 1:16:16
  literally had to fucking drag this guy out of there. They get him out
• 1:16:19
  of the street. Long story short, he breaks our security guard's jaw in
• 1:16:26
  the street, sent two cops to a hospital, and took about six guys
• 1:16:32
  and taser guns to get him subdued in the back of the cruiser to Milford
• 1:16:36
  Police Department. Come to find out, he's like what they call Golden Gloves
• 1:16:42
  boxer from Long Island. Fucking just tells how to fight. And you can't
• 1:16:46
  size anyone up like that. You don't know what you're dealing with, dude,
• 1:16:49
  right, so just don't do it, right go talk to girls.
• 1:16:53
  Trust me, they want to talk to you, like, well, that's
• 1:16:56
  the problem. You talk to a girl and the other guy, and I
• 1:16:58
  mean, it's just it's a don't your football. I'm not a football guy
• 1:17:03
  at all. Come on, I have men. I think it's the worst,
• 1:17:06
  most boring, fucking sport that's ever existed. I can't watch it.
• 1:17:11
  I really liked you to write about man, I'll die on that hill.
• 1:17:15
  I've never watched hockey, but I would watch hockey first. Well, I'm
• 1:17:17
  all sports. My dad would like. My dad's trying to tell me I
• 1:17:21
  gotta watch hockey live. He went to the Olympics of Canada when he was
• 1:17:24
  like a teenager, and so it was the coolest thing he's ever seen.
• 1:17:26
  His hockey. So if I had to rank my favorite sports, like the
• 1:17:30
  four majors, it'd probably be football currently, football, basketball, baseball.
• 1:17:35
  Actually, I don't know, it's hard for me to rank because but in
• 1:17:40
  that order, and they're all really close. However, live it's hockey one.
• 1:17:45
  Yeah, football too, baseball basketball close. Baseball was kind of boring.
• 1:17:51
  But but but the big games, the playoff games at Fenway are fucking
• 1:17:56
  fantastic. So I was always more of like a player person and the team
• 1:18:00
  person. Like so I was a die hard shat guy. So like whatever
• 1:18:03
  Shock did. And once he retired watching right, I watched him a little.
• 1:18:09
  I watched the MBA a little bit, and now now I don't really
• 1:18:11
  watch it. I was a huge Barry Bonds guy. Once Barry Bonds retired,
• 1:18:14
  I just stopped watching baseball. He was fun to watch. Dude,
• 1:18:16
  those that time, dude with him and Sosa and fucking McGuire, that was
• 1:18:21
  like saving baseball and they just shoved them out of the hall. It was
• 1:18:25
  amazing. They should be put in the Hall of Fame just for saving the
• 1:18:28
  sport. Yeah. But I was a Barry Bonds guy as nineteen eighty seven
• 1:18:30
  Pittsburgh Pirate, and that all came just from a baseball card. Like I
• 1:18:34
  was at a at a show, like a baseball card show was in North
• 1:18:38
  Stonington and I think in the high school with my dad, and I pulled
• 1:18:41
  the Barry Bonds rookie and everyone there was like on my dick. For every
• 1:18:43
  every everyone they I'll give you, you know as as offering ship. Yeah,
• 1:18:46
  I was like eight years old and I give you twenty dollars for that.
• 1:18:48
  Thirty dollars for that, and yeah, but so then I was just
• 1:18:53
  the Barry Bonds guy. After that, you know, I was a Barry
• 1:18:56
  Bonds Pittsburgh guy. And then I was a Giant San Francisco Giants guy,
• 1:18:59
  and then like even in nor which our local team became the San Francisco affiliate
• 1:19:01
  for a little bit, and I was like, oh and then they dude,
• 1:19:03
  I almost Bonds was supposed to go to the Yankees at one point I
• 1:19:06
  was looking forward to as we were talking about it. It would have been
• 1:19:09
  a Yankees fan. But I got to see him an interleague play, hit
• 1:19:11
  a home run at Fenway, which was fucking cool. Yeah. So but
• 1:19:15
  then I stopped watching baseball. Now I don't. I really don't watch any
• 1:19:17
  ball sports at all. Man. Yeah, just fights, just fights.
• 1:19:23
  I mean it's part of the job, I guess, right, yeah,
• 1:19:25
  but it's not really no, But it's just it's just what I like,
• 1:19:28
  dude. I just like basketball. The game has just changed so much,
• 1:19:31
  dude, and it's just I'm just the old I'm just the old guy,
• 1:19:35
  you know, I'm okay with that. Like kids, your music sucks and
• 1:19:39
  your sports, but it's just it's just me you know what I mean,
• 1:19:43
  the same thing my dad. It's like hoops. Now, It's like,
• 1:19:45
  this is why I always loved the Celtics. You know, grew up in
• 1:19:47
  the eighties with Bird and all that. You know, the nineties were a
• 1:19:50
  little dry for us, even in the early two thousands, but then you
• 1:19:54
  know, we wanted when we got Garnett and we won and then but now
• 1:19:59
  I feel like we have a team, and I know we haven't gotten the
• 1:20:02
  title yet, but like with just Brown and Tatum, I feel like,
• 1:20:06
  you know, I'm not saying this old school basketball, yeah, but there
• 1:20:11
  I almost feel like it's a Jordan Pippin kind of thing. So you know,
• 1:20:15
  dude, I'm not gonna I'm saying that's who they are, but there's
• 1:20:19
  a similarity there. So I had never even heard of Jayson Tatum. And
• 1:20:23
  two Christmas ago, I got my dad, take I think, let's go
• 1:20:25
  to a Celtics game. I got and I was gonna get floor seats for
• 1:20:28
  like nothing, for whatever reason, Like I didn't have a hook up or
• 1:20:30
  anything. They just they were just there. It was cheap and and and
• 1:20:32
  they we played the Sacramento Kings and they won by like fifty, but I
• 1:20:36
  saw, I was like, Wow, this kid is fucking good. So
• 1:20:40
  I'm kind of I'm a Jayson Tatum fan just from that. From that day,
• 1:20:43
  it was like just after Colvid, we had to wear masks of ship
• 1:20:45
  into the arena. But yeah, yeah, I was a nightmare. Yeah
• 1:20:48
  yeah, but but yeah, but we were behind the hoop three rows for
• 1:20:53
  a like one hundred bucks apiece or something. You know what I mean,
• 1:20:55
  Like like, that's my thing we've got in life is I always said that
• 1:20:58
  I was gonna buy courtside tickets to see Shack play. I wanted to see
• 1:21:00
  him play court side. You know those tickets go for what two five grand
• 1:21:05
  whatever team whatever you know they're playing. I mean, I wanted to see
• 1:21:09
  Shaq play if they're playing fucking Golden State. But and then I just never
• 1:21:14
  did. I wish. That's my big regret life is I wish I sat
• 1:21:15
  courtside to watch Shaq play. I had tickets to see Frank Sinatra a fucking
• 1:21:19
  Foxwoods, and I couldn't get the night off at work, and he died
• 1:21:23
  like fucking a year later. Not im Sinatra guy, But I was just
• 1:21:27
  like that was a bucket list. Yeah, that's that's kind of cool man
• 1:21:30
  fucking rat pack. Come on, so you don't like, you know,
• 1:21:33
  like any of this stuff. Huh. All right, so let me get
• 1:21:35
  it a quick football Pats fan. Obviously, we're owing two ye not looking
• 1:21:42
  good, but we had lost to two Super Bowl contenders by one score,
• 1:21:46
  so I'm not too worried. But if we lose the Jets this week,
• 1:21:50
  I would be very worried. But fantasy fantasy football, I like fucking oh
• 1:21:57
  god, six teams or something, and I was like up the six teams
• 1:22:01
  week one, I was like one in five one one team. But this
• 1:22:04
  week I won like four of the leagues. Because Nick Chubb is the running
• 1:22:10
  back for Cleveland and I was playing against them. I don't know if he
• 1:22:12
  saw the injury online, but he got like, it's just there's certain things
• 1:22:16
  a leg can't do, yeah, and his leg did it. Yeah,
• 1:22:19
  And it's gruesome to see. It's gruesome to see, and I hope the
• 1:22:25
  best for Nick Chubb. But this is the second one too, like the
• 1:22:29
  same exact injury he had in college, and uh, you know, they
• 1:22:31
  wouldn't even sure, they wouldn't even show the replay on TV because so yeah,
• 1:22:35
  it was so nasty like the Joe Eisman thing back in the day that
• 1:22:38
  they showed a million times. They don't show it now, but you know
• 1:22:42
  the curiosity people, Yeah, they want to see it. You want to
• 1:22:44
  see I want to see it. I want to go, oh what even
• 1:22:46
  The first thing I did was I heard a guy get killed the Patriots.
• 1:22:48
  Great. I want to saw the videos first. It was kind of hard
• 1:22:51
  to see, like there wasn't a good but but I looked. I looked
• 1:22:54
  for it, and I would tell you like, you know, no,
• 1:22:56
  I don't want to see a guy get beaten to death. But oh god,
• 1:23:00
  oh really, let me tell you my Patriots story. So it's probably
• 1:23:03
  two thousand and seven. Me and my friend Jimmy are at Fox was playing
• 1:23:06
  blackjack at this time. I was in Degeneral again one big time and there's
• 1:23:11
  Tom Brady. He's playing, so where you keep playing until Tom fucking gets
• 1:23:15
  up? Because my friend was a huge Patriots fan. I'm not, but
• 1:23:17
  I'll be a fucking meet Tom Brady, you know what I'm Yeah, So
• 1:23:21
  I go down to the Mare and spend like I don't know, twenty dollars
• 1:23:25
  on a code acts wools with camera because it's pretty smartphone days. You know,
• 1:23:28
  right right, right right, you still gotta take pictures, so I
• 1:23:30
  gotta wait, So I wait, wait we Tom gets up from the table.
• 1:23:32
  It's through like this is late, like three in the morning, like
• 1:23:34
  after after bar hours. Tommy boys up that late. Yeah, he's by
• 1:23:39
  himself, so he leaves. Really we meet him at the elevator, like,
• 1:23:43
  Tom, can we get a picture? No? It walks away.
• 1:23:46
  It just fucking just turned around. Take the self. It just dead no,
• 1:23:50
  like no, no, no, sorry, I got no. It
• 1:23:54
  turns away and he might just lost his ass. But like, that's my
• 1:23:58
  that's my Tom Brady's I don't really have an actual little Tom Brady in person's
• 1:24:00
  story, but his. So he's starting oh one, and he was dating
• 1:24:05
  a girl, uh that her brother worked at TGI Friday's an orange And this
• 1:24:14
  is kind of a dumb story, but uh, this kid's name was Dave
• 1:24:18
  and his sister he had met her Cush. I guess she moved out to
• 1:24:21
  San Francisco, where he's from, and they met out there. You know,
• 1:24:26
  he's a six round pick gets dropped by Patriots. He's behind drew bledsoe
• 1:24:30
  fucking kid's not gonna have a chance whatever, And uh whatever. The next
• 1:24:35
  year, obviously Bledsoe gets hurt and he goes on and the win the super
• 1:24:39
  Bowl, and Fridays used to be my spot, used to go there all
• 1:24:42
  the time. Now it's fucking awful. And uh, I'm sitting there and
• 1:24:45
  Dave comes around. I was like, oh, you think Brady's gonna win
• 1:24:47
  the super Bowl? I go, this is what I said, though,
• 1:24:49
  I go, if Brady wins the super Bowl, your girlfriend's fucking done.
• 1:24:58
  And sure enough that he dated Pritch morn to hand and add a Kate with
• 1:25:00
  her. Then it was just so for a long time. But yeah,
• 1:25:02
  I was like, yeah, this is not gonna work out. Sorry,
• 1:25:05
  but it's pretty cool story though, you know, like good good for your
• 1:25:09
  sister. That's a good call, you know. But all right, let's
• 1:25:12
  wrap it up proper. Twelve irish. I wish we had I'm wish we
• 1:25:16
  had an apple man. Next time, you'll have me back. We'll do
• 1:25:18
  a good way, have me back, We'll do. Oh no, you're
• 1:25:20
  coming back on for sure. I'll bring it to it. I just I
• 1:25:24
  just wasn't prepared. Sorry, but you only had fucking a month to know
• 1:25:27
  you're coming on. It's fine, I operated on Irish Time. So,
• 1:25:32
  yeah, I hear you. But of course you were a shrine last night
• 1:25:34
  while I was sleeping with a bottle of proper apple. Yeah, shrine.
• 1:25:39
  So if you go to shrine, you order that proper apple. That's right.
• 1:25:43
  Let's get you some drink. Drink, placement of stone Bridge, all
• 1:25:46
  that good stuff. I'll talk to Ray about that. Obviously, you've got
• 1:25:49
  enough ship on your plate. You have to worry about that. I'll take
• 1:25:51
  care of that at my end. And you know, when Connor's in town,
• 1:25:57
  give me a call. We'll have him on the show. I'll brand
• 1:25:59
  them for dude, he'd love it here. He'd love it here. I
• 1:26:04
  just condor rolled into a stone Bridge on a Saturday night. I think if
• 1:26:08
  he saw the traffic that I had to deal with they get here, that
• 1:26:10
  he would get out of the car and walk the other way. That's I
• 1:26:13
  almost did stop. Not a Saturday's Saturdays. Is clear. I wanted to
• 1:26:17
  kill myself coming here. Oh thank you, but I'm glad that I did.
• 1:26:21
  I did the same trip you did today. You just caught you caught
• 1:26:26
  New Haven a little later than I did. Yeah. I also I have
• 1:26:29
  this horrible road rage. This is the rotation in my car right, and
• 1:26:32
  I like my cup holder. I have a bottle of Clone, and in
• 1:26:35
  my door, I have an empty bott of Clone. Because I almost threw
• 1:26:39
  my phone at somebody one day in the You're not Italian, are you?
• 1:26:45
  So I almost throw my fucking cup holder of Cologne. That's such a fucking
• 1:26:47
  I gotta have it, but anything, but I keep the empty one to
• 1:26:50
  throw at somebody in traffic if I have to. Because I almost threw my
• 1:26:54
  phone once. I was so angry and I was like, oh, I
• 1:26:55
  can't do that. I don't throw a Gatoray bottle at me in traffic.
• 1:26:58
  Yes, that's why I could put no. But I was not in the
• 1:27:00
  wrong. He was like weaving it out of traffic. He just I actually
• 1:27:03
  told the story on this podcast about a year and a half ago. It
• 1:27:05
  was probably me. Yeah, nah, it was North Carolina plates shitty BMW
• 1:27:10
  and uh he just fucking launched the Gatoray. And I will give this guy
• 1:27:15
  credit at the end of the day. He fucking nailed my window and red
• 1:27:18
  gator it splashed all over North Carolina. It was fucking Larry Johnson bro Grandmama,
• 1:27:25
  Grandma drive him back, driving back pissed off. I never got a
• 1:27:28
  title. I had the Gatoray bottles. The point was I just get terrible
• 1:27:32
  road rage, right, Sean Shamrock, thanks so much. Instagram, Sewn
• 1:27:36
  Shamrock and Pour the Roar absolutely check it out on my Instagram as well.
• 1:27:41
  Facebook, uh, my website page Drinking with Dog dot com YouTube channel they
• 1:27:45
  Drinking with Dog. It's all there. You know where to find me.
• 1:27:47
  Sean, thanks so much for coming on. Appreciate it. Dealing fucking traffic,
• 1:27:53
  Luckily I was drinking and driving piece out of everybody later