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Drinking Questions for April 4th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: So normally we would have Jimmy here for another segment,
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  Speaker 1: but his voice was bad.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and people people are sending us liquor questions. You know,
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  Speaker 2: let's see, well you know your bourbons. This is a question.
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  Speaker 2: I'm new to spirits. What would be a few good
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  Speaker 2: bourbons to start with?
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  Speaker 1: I you know, I'm a fan of and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how I've discovered it. I used to drink Elijah
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  Speaker 1: Craig bourbon and that's still that's good. That's a good,
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  Speaker 1: very nice bourbon. But I've become a big fan of
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  Speaker 1: an Old Forester. And when I say that to people
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  Speaker 1: who know liquor, they go, what why? But it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a hundred proof, and I've decided I will not mess
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  Speaker 1: with anything that's under one hundred proof.
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  Speaker 3: You need something with a little kick.
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  Speaker 1: You need to ask why.
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  Speaker 4: I prefer a wild turkey one on one myself.
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  Speaker 1: Now, that was my go to for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Wild turkey one know one, and it's it's good. I
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  Speaker 1: like Old Forester because it's just sort of it's sweet.
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  Speaker 1: There's a sweet side, do it. I went.
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  Speaker 4: I went to Wild Turkey because it was Hunter Thompson's favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's and that's exactly where I found it too
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  Speaker 1: years ago.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting that you'd be new to spirits but wanting
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  Speaker 2: to start with bourbon.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's all your way up.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Well, if you're new to spirits, where would
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  Speaker 1: you start?
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  Speaker 2: But if you I'd start with, uh, let's see, probably
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  Speaker 2: some vodkas.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I've always said that vodka, and I've always said
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  Speaker 1: that vodka is for people who don't really like the
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  Speaker 1: taste of alcohol because you always mix it with stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of like a little taste, even if it's
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  Speaker 3: a bad one.
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  Speaker 5: I prefer that as compared to the vodka taste straightforward.
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  Speaker 5: Because when I started drinking, I started drinking jack and
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  Speaker 5: coke was my first.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of ghost You almost can't you can't taste.
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  Speaker 5: The Yeah, no, I don't know. I mixed so much
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  Speaker 5: jack into the coke. My friends called it gasoline because
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  Speaker 5: it I just I'll.
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  Speaker 2: Take a vodka on the rocks with a squeeze of
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  Speaker 2: lemon in there.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect. Yeah. If I'm gonna, if I'm gonna drink vodka,
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  Speaker 1: that's I'll drink it neat or you know, with ice.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, have you been to the New State liquor
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  Speaker 2: store that just opened up on Foothill.
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  Speaker 5: I've seen it plenty of times. Nick lives next door
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  Speaker 5: to it or something close to it. Let's not let's
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  Speaker 5: not dox me, Bill, but I live close to it.
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  Speaker 1: Is it nearby? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's open, it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Have you been in?
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  Speaker 3: I have not been in yet.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen pictures of it and it looks very very
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  Speaker 1: swing by on the way home. Yeah, it looks great.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see. Uh, Jimmy's voice is making my throat hurt.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we send him away.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, my wife was texting me, going send him home
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  Speaker 4: for God's sake.
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  Speaker 1: Any other drinking questions, that's pretty much it.
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  Speaker 4: I think everybody heard that Jimmy was leaving and they went, so.
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  Speaker 1: Are you a carry of the bourbon? Now? I know
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  Speaker 1: you used to be a Maker's Mark. Yeah, I still
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  Speaker 1: have some you because I never cared for that very much.
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  Speaker 1: But I've got a friend of mine who's an ambassador
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  Speaker 1: for makers Mark. Really.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's literally the one liquor I've sworn off. I
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  Speaker 5: had one bad night.
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  Speaker 2: Specifically, I got a makers Marks bottle he gave me
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  Speaker 2: for my birthday that has my name on it.
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  Speaker 3: Really.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the bottles are nice, thank you, Robert.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know that people love tequila, and I've
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  Speaker 1: never been a big tequila.
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  Speaker 3: Really because that's my go to.
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  Speaker 5: I used to be whiskey, but tequila has since become
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  Speaker 5: my favorite liquor.
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  Speaker 4: Tequila's my sleepy time tea.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's yeah, it's not something that's ever.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, if it's around, I'll drink it.
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  Speaker 2: But Jimmy converted me from tequila to mescal.
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  Speaker 5: Though, you know, like just drinking straightforward. Is there a
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  Speaker 5: specific cocktailer?
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  Speaker 2: I like it on the rocks, Yeah, but it's just
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  Speaker 2: it's got a little smokiness to it.
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  Speaker 4: It's like tequila with a little smokiness.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: No, Messcal is great. I love Messcal. Question for you guys,
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  Speaker 5: you're at a bar, haven't been to ever? What is
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  Speaker 5: your go to.
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  Speaker 3: Cocktail that you know somebody can't screw up?
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  Speaker 2: If if it's one of those situations you always go
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  Speaker 2: vodka rocks with a twist a lemon.
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  Speaker 4: They can't screw that up.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty hard to screw up. If you say I'd
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  Speaker 1: like a gin martini and uh, make it dry quite dry,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not not very much formoth. Gotcha, just wave
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  Speaker 1: the take the vermouth cap and wave it over the drink.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, my go to drink is always a whisky sour.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care if it's traditional or not. The texture
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  Speaker 5: isn't necessarily.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what a whiskey sour is.
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  Speaker 3: I actually couldn't tell you what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Either look it up, yeah quick, and then look up
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  Speaker 2: Saint Germaine cocktail because I realized I have some St.
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  Speaker 2: Saint Germain in my liquor cabinet. Remember Sue used to
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  Speaker 2: love the Saint Germaine cocktails.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there are. Saint Germaine is made out of a flour.
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  Speaker 4: It's a it's very sweet and beautiful bottle love.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's there are several cocktails that use Saint Germaine.
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  Speaker 5: A whiskey sour is a mixed drink or shot containing whiskey,
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  Speaker 5: lemon juice, and sugar, and traditionally garnished with a cherry
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  Speaker 5: or sometimes a lemon wedge. Uh. And I know if
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  Speaker 5: you order it specifically traditional style, they will take an
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  Speaker 5: egg white and beat it into it to get like
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  Speaker 5: a frothy type of texture.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't really care.
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  Speaker 1: I don't for that. Yeah, I don't like the sweetness here.
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  Speaker 1: But here here's a drink that I like with that's
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  Speaker 1: bourbon bourbon cocktail as it is a Manhattan, which is
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  Speaker 1: bourbon and sweet vermouth and some bitters. And then you
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  Speaker 1: put a couple of cherries in there. But don't use
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  Speaker 1: those cheap ass Neon Maraschino cherries. You use Lizardo Lizarto
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  Speaker 1: Lizardo cherries, that's the l u x ar d O
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  Speaker 1: and it's they're they're pretty pricey. It's like twenty five
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  Speaker 1: dollars for a jar a jar of it.
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  Speaker 3: What's the difference is to.
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  Speaker 1: T As a matter of fact, I think Marischino cherries
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  Speaker 1: that we grew up with, I think that was they
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  Speaker 1: are a knockoff of the Lezardo is the original. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's they're Italian and they come in this syrup
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  Speaker 1: and you don't refrigerate them because the syrup will get
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  Speaker 1: all crystallized. You don't want to do that. And Lxardo
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  Speaker 1: cherries are the.
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  Speaker 4: Man I know you can get those at.
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  Speaker 1: Ivy has them and they are just the best.
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  Speaker 5: Has those go to cocktails for you guys always been
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  Speaker 5: your go to?
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  Speaker 3: Or is there something you started drinking.
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  Speaker 1: To my go to was my mother's elderberry wine that
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  Speaker 1: she made. Elderberry wine she had, she had a gallon
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  Speaker 1: jugs of it in the basement.
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  Speaker 3: What what what does elderberry wine taste like?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's awful. It made me throw up every time
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  Speaker 1: I drank it.
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  Speaker 5: I've only heard of elderberry wine and like fantasy contact.
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  Speaker 4: And see why he kept drinking again, Yes, sure wine.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny because it was the sorority girls that taught
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  Speaker 2: me how to appreciate wine or to drink it. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: because I never liked it. And then the sorority girl said, well,
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  Speaker 2: what you do is you mix grape juice with it,
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  Speaker 2: of the white grape juice with chardonay, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you mix the two and then and then you start
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  Speaker 2: to lower the amount of white grape juice that's in
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  Speaker 2: the short day and to the point where you're just
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  Speaker 2: drinking straight shard nae.
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  Speaker 4: Right, I'll be damned at work.
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  Speaker 1: Ye I know. My sister in law says, of these wine,
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  Speaker 1: of the sionados, she says, all of that stuff that
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  Speaker 1: they say, that's all just nonsense. It all just tastes
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  Speaker 1: like crap. And you know, all those little Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: can taste the tobacco and a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: hand of leather and the and and'm telling you, she says,
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  Speaker 1: it's all just a scam.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm telling you right now. I used to think
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  Speaker 4: that too. I used to think and then you get
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  Speaker 4: into it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like anything, you start learning about it, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's it's for real.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's Somolier's brainwashing people. That's
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  Speaker 1: what we do.
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  Speaker 4: That's Oh, sure you say that. With Jimmy's not.
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  Speaker 1: Here, I'll say it to his face.
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  Speaker 5: Next. Is there a cocktail that you two won't drink or.
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  Speaker 1: I won't drink anything. I don't like to drink anything
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  Speaker 1: alcohol wise. That's sweet, Okay, I don't want anything sweet.
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  Speaker 2: I've stopped drinking a lot of sweet stuff just because
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  Speaker 2: it just makes it makes your head.
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  Speaker 1: Hurt, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Like there are all these great Star Wars cocktails in Disneyland.
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  Speaker 2: It's Star Wars Land and the canteena there, and all
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  Speaker 2: of them are like drinking drinking like hard candy, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and just just terrible.
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  Speaker 5: I used to like Mike's hard lemonade for a period
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  Speaker 5: of time, especially when I started drinking. But when you
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  Speaker 5: start what that syrupy taste almost gives me a worst
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  Speaker 5: hangover than the alcohol content within it.
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  Speaker 1: I think I got so I got the wild Turkey
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  Speaker 1: on one from the same place you did, from Hunter Thompson,
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  Speaker 1: And I think I got this from Hunter Thompson too.
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  Speaker 1: I went through a little period where I would drink
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  Speaker 1: rum on the rocks with a wedge of lime.
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  Speaker 4: That sounds like something, I think it seems to me.
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  Speaker 1: I got wider, dark, dark, dark, dark rum, and so
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  Speaker 1: I would drink that and then but eventually I went,
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  Speaker 1: this is awful.
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  Speaker 4: I can't drink dark rum. It makes me angry and.
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  Speaker 1: Hurt my head. And Jack Daniels is overrated.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 5: I've drank myself sick of Jack.
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  Speaker 1: I've been to the Jack Daniels distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've been there and which is and it was a
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  Speaker 1: fascinating tour. And I said, well, do we get some samples?
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  Speaker 1: And they said, no, no, Son, you don't get a
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  Speaker 1: sample at Jack Daniels here. This is a dry county.
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  Speaker 1: What I said, you make one of the biggest selling
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  Speaker 1: whiskeys in the world in a county where you can't drink.
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  Speaker 4: It's the think about Jack Daniels good looking.
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  Speaker 5: Label, but I knew about the label before I started drinking.
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  Speaker 5: That's why I picked it off. I was like, I
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  Speaker 5: know this guy. I guess I'll try this as my
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  Speaker 5: first purchase.