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Bourbon and Bravery: A Tribute to Veterans and Their Legacy · The Scotchy Bourbon Boys

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• 3:01
  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to another podcast of the Scotchy Bourbon Boys.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: Tonight we've got a special podcast here.
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  Speaker 1: We are doing a special Veterans Day podcast.
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: We've got Super Nash here, one of our favorite veterans we were just talking.
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  Speaker 1: Today.
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: I have a new microphone system that I'm recording, okay, and I've been trying to set this up.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: You could just tell there's not as bulky, it's just this little microphone right here and I just wanted to test it out and I this was this special do a special monday podcast.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: We're still going to be going tuesday and thursday live at 8 30, but this monday we're doing a quick podcast.
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: We're going to pay tribute to all the veterans out there.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: Uh, we thank them for the service we thank I always thank you for your service.
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: You know, and we can supernash.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get into in a little bit, while we taste some of this, how whiskey and bourbon fits into the military and the veterans of the United States and also the veterans around the world, how it fits in, and we'll be tasting these.
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: We're not going to be analyzing them, but we'll be talking about them.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: But while we're doing that, we'll kind of give a little bit of information about them.
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: But also then also, I would like you know, we want to know, we'd like to know some of your personal experiences of you know of what Veterans Day means to you and you know what it meant when you were much younger means to you and you know what it meant when you were much younger.
• 4:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because that's when I was in the Army.
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: And just to give everybody a little bit of background about me, I come from a military family.
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: My dad was a career serviceman.
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: My dad was a career serviceman.
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  Speaker 3: He had 23 years active duty and it was split up over all four branches of the service.
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  Speaker 3: He had 10 kids with my mother and we were born all over the world because he was stationed all over the world.
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  Speaker 3: I was born in Germany, a brother born in France, some in Colorado, a sister born in Portland, amy.
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: While he was in the Seabees, most of his time was spent in the Army.
• 5:34
  Speaker 3: He did two tours in Vietnam.
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  Speaker 3: He was in the Marines and it was a pretty traumatic time for him.
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  Speaker 3: I was real young at the time.
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  Speaker 3: I was born in 65.
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  Speaker 3: So I really don't remember anything about that that era of his life.
• 5:57
  Speaker 3: He retired in 1972 in Fort Carson, colorado.
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: He had five boys, five girls, and I was next to the last in line and I was the only one out of all the 10 kids to go in the service.
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  Speaker 3: I was sort of like my dad's son.
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  Speaker 3: I hung around him more than anything, and so I went in the Army and I went in the Army for three years and it just so happened that I got stationed at Fort Carson, colorado, right where he retired from and I was trained back then in 1983 when I went in as an infantry mortarman and back then it was pretty serious stuff, you know, because everything back then was all pretty much handheld and armored tanks and stuff like that.
• 7:15
  Speaker 3: Now you have all these computer-guided missiles and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: You know that they work.
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  Speaker 3: But I took basic training down in Fort Benning, which was pretty much like we had World War II barracks that we stayed in.
• 7:25
  Speaker 3: So the training was pretty rough and all.
• 7:28
  Speaker 3: And I just want to say, like I say, my dad being a veteran, he did the two terms in Vietnam and he also was stationed in the Philippines for a term and he was an alcoholic and it was pretty rough on him All the combat that he saw.
• 7:51
  Speaker 3: He came close to losing his life, but the second term that he was over in Vietnam he had part of his ear cut off.
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  Speaker 3: So that's something in relation to Trump, so.
• 8:04
  Speaker 3: But he often told me about some of the stuff and the people that he saw killed and some of the things that he did which was pretty traumatic and I guess that's what made him, you know, turn to alcohol and stuff like that.
• 8:27
  Speaker 3: You know he had a pretty rough over there and as a lot of the veterans that I've talked to and that's why I have so much appreciation for the veterans of today.
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: I've talked to so many of them and they have come back from Afghanistan and other parts of the world that we've had battles in and they have really seen some stuff and did some stuff and killed for our country and killed for our country, and you just don't, you know, go to sleep at night knowing that the things that you've done or the things that you saw when you've seen your best friend, you know, get blowed up right beside you.
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: And I mean, these stories have came straight from veterans and so that's why, every time Veterans Day comes around, I think about all these veterans that come back, and not all of them have seen the strict combat that some of these that I've talked to have, but they still.
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: They go over there and no telling when they could have seen or had anything happen to them.
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  Speaker 3: You know, at any time, and that's what it means whenever you go into the service and you sign up for it and you sign that dotted line, you're basically giving the United States of America, you're writing a blank check for your life because you don't know when and where you might be sent in any time of war to defend our country, of all the armed forces of the United States.
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: Because of what they faced and what they agree to do, not knowing ever and, like I say, a lot of them didn't make it back.
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: And then there's a lot to have, and so that's sort of what Veterans Day means to me, and it just gives me a chance to show my appreciation to them and each and every one that I'm able to talk to on this day, and especially now that I'm able to do this podcast, where it reaches out to all these people that I've never been able to talk to that are veterans, and I just want them to know how thankful that I am being a veteran myself and what they've done, and I know what it's like and what it's for.
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: And once again, just thank you from the bottom of my heart and my family for what you've done and for what you're doing, and then the active duty military right now.
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: thank you yes, thank you.
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: Um, we also have, uh, walker cyrus.
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: He's active duty.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: Uh, I don't know if he's going to be on tonight, but if he is, thank you to walker all he does.
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  Speaker 1: But also, both my grandpas served in the military and my one grandpa actually served in the Calvary when he was 18 years old and he served four years in the Calvary.
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: And my other grandpa served in World War II and he served as part of a tank, of a tank.
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: You know he had what would you call it a tank.
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: You know he had a team and his commander it's.
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  Speaker 1: The movie Fury was pretty much described the situation that he described to me, even as a young boy he had weapons that he had picked off of dead German soldiers.
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: He still had three or four of those weapons.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: He still had his handgun, where his handgun actually had the pictures of my mom as a two-year-old and you know he kept that on the handle.
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: You know the pictures.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: And then he also described what it was, what happened and he, his commanding officer in the tank was.
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: They were approaching a building and he went up to check it and he got shot between the eyes and dropped back down into the tank.
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: And he describes that moment when they all then turned and destroyed the building and the sniper that picked them off and everything.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: And so watching the movie fury, that's pretty much what happens at one point in the movie and it really brought that home to me.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: But I've always, for whatever reason, I've always known and understood what it would be like, and I don't know if enough people do understand that when you see active duty and you see active combat and you're there and it's your life or their life, those people are fighting.
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: Similar to the same.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: It's like what you know.
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  Speaker 1: There's some wars, but are those people you know?
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  Speaker 1: Even in World War II, the Germans?
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  Speaker 1: Those people weren't signed up for it, they were you, they were forced to be in the military.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: It wasn't something they had a choice to do.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: And so when you're dealing with that, all those things, but then what you see?
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: And then you come back to the United States and it is a very, very, what would you say?
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: Friendly society to life, probably one of the best societies that there ever was on the planet as far as how we can live our lives and our comforts and everything that we do.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: And then you see some of the conflicts, of what we're arguing and bickering about.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: But then they've been to, whether it's Afghanistan, or into the Middle East, into some of those areas where the people, every day they're worried about whether they're going to live or whether they're going to eat.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: It's not even close to how we live and it's very hard to adapt back into the society.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: So I always am so thankful to veterans that, especially those who saw combat and had to come back, because you could tell it's not an easy adjustment back and usually the only way back is to have a really good support of their family.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Like you said, those families mean so much because otherwise you might never get them back.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: And you know part of the homeless problem that we have with the veterans.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: There shouldn't ever be veterans that are homeless but at the same time, the reason why is because they're having so much trouble adapting and fitting back into society.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: They mentally can't do society so they end up homeless and it's just, you know, so tragic on this day.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: So I always am so grateful for all the sacrifices, because the sacrifices have been heavy and it's not, like you know, mankind's done and peaceful anymore that there'll be more sacrifices and you can't, you know, and when someone doesn't come back, it's the ultimate sacrifice and their name's just the name on a tombstone in a list in Washington DC, and there's been so many people that have done that for us and to get to where we are now, which is such a wonderful existence, you know, and that's why this day means so much to me.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: So all right, go ahead.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: We actually had live fire training where they were shooting tracer bullets three to five feet above our head as we're doing low crawl through mud under barbed wire and stuff like that back then was on purpose to weed out the guys that were going to freak out or were not make it, you know, in a combat situation.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: I'm sure now they have a lot more More vetted ways of finding that out drugs and doing it like like they did back then.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just amazing, even when people don't realize, but even when men are getting ready to go into combat, there's actually a drug that they can take, or they do take, before they go into combat.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: That keeps them calm and, you know, it doesn't affect their wits but it also.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: But it keeps that anxiety down and my, you know, but that drug isn't easy on the body either, mentally.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: When you're done, you know you're taking that, you know.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: So Anyways, all right, so we've got.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: One of the things we wanted to do on this podcast is, quickly, um, first, do you have the knowledge of hand barrel?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, do you?
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Let's see I mean, because this is from walker, this hand barrel he got all of us and it's a, you know and you have, you have the information on this.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: I have not tried it, I've got a little bit right here.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect, I'll open mine up.
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  Speaker 3: I've often browsed past when I see them on the shelves.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: They're fairly new to the bourbon scene, having started up sometime in 2021 or 2022, if I've got my facts right.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Although technically their own company, they may as well be an extension of Bardstown Bourbon Company.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: After all, bbc contract distills their liquid, barrels it and ages it in their warehouse, after which it gets bottled on the BBC line.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: All Hand Barrel had to do was provide the mash fill they wanted to use in the bottles themselves.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: By their own admission, the founders of Hand Barrel came up with the bottle idea first, and actual bourbon second.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: To be fair, it is a noticeably unique bottle looking just like a whiskey barrel.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: This bottle is camouflaged to denote the partnership with the SOWF mentioned above, which is Special Operations Warrior Foundation, and that's why this bottle is looking like it is.
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  Speaker 3: It is, and it was a limited edition which has a focus around special operations, veterans and their families.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Beyond this bottle, hand Barrel has three other variations on the shelf small batch bottle, single barrel and double oak, which I have the double oak tier Also too.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: This bottle me and Walker were talking about it.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: We call it like the hand grenade bottle, because that's almost like what it's like to yeah On this one.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: The blend is mash bill of 64% corn, 24% rye, 12% malted barley.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, if it's Bardstown Bourbon Company, I mean I don't see how you know they don't produce bad distillate.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: It's 105 fruit aged two years and about $60 a bottle.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have not ever had this bottle, I've never tasted it.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Hand barrel.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: You haven't opened this up yet.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: No, that just was the fresh crack.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: All right, I opened mine up a couple of months ago.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I opened mine up a couple of months ago.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: So you know it's definitely.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: You know, when you were talking about the grenade, I was thinking you were talking about the grenades from the grenade barrels from Heaven Hill at first, but then I realized you were talking about the hand barrel and I've been wanting to open it up.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: But it's just like I figured it would be a special time.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: So me and you are drinking this together on veterans day and cheers to you, mr super nash, another reason why you're super well, and two also.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: This is like I say.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: I say it was a special edition for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation for veterans.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: That's another good thing about it.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Right, right, how can that be bad?
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: You're supporting military while you're drinking bourbon, and that's one of the things.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Can that be bad?
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: You're supporting military while you're drinking bourbon, and that's one of the things.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: No matter where you go in the bourbon industry, for instance, every single time I'm booking something, if I'm booking the bus tour for the Scotchy Bourbon Boys there's veteran discounts.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, we apply the veteran discount across to everybody because we just divide the total up equally, but every single distillery there is a veteran discount.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Some distilleries allow the veterans to come in and do the tour for free, if I'm not mistaken, correct?
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, they do.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: And so if there are advantages, if you've served your country and you are going through, there's a lot of respect out there between amongst businesses.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I find, especially in the bourbon industry, they are so thankful for their service.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: And there's a lot of distilleries and we're going to get into the next distillery, um once we finish tasting this um that are veteran owned or um.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of distilleries that hire veterans, preferably right.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: And then maybe talk about what you did as a veteran at Stolen Wolf this year that I came down to record because that was very honorable and amazing event and that you know you did it but it's still going because you can tell everybody about that.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: And then how?
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: The distillery?
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Just, I mean, it was actually the Pennsylvania Veterans Historic Society Right which supported the veterans right.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: It was a Veterans Historical Trades Seminar and it was put on at Stolen Wolf Distillery in Leiditz, pennsylvania, put on at Stolen Wolf Distillery in Leidens, pennsylvania, and basically we learned everything from how they distilled whiskey on the ships coming over seas and then started aging it and everything from flour barrels to you know basically anything that they could, you know, store it.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: And it wasn't a matter of aging it, it was a matter of storing it on that ship.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: But they were actually distilling because it was months at a time that they were floating across that sea, you know, yep, so that's why the distilling was going on.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: But then, whenever they got over here, like I said, we learned that early years, even way back to George Washington, how he distilled up there.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, steve Beshore was there, who is the master distiller of the way down.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: You know below ground and then completely rebuilt it just like it was back in his day and it's a completely operational distillery now and they're actually using like yeast in the mash fields that George Washington was having his slaves distill for him, which is another thing that the military they were actually you know George Washington was distilling it, but it was also part of the rations for the soldiers, you know that.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: And hard cider a pint of whiskey and then a hard cider.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: So it was pretty cool.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: So we'll talk about I was actually to go a little further.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I was.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I was one of 50 veterans from across the nation that was picked and able to go up there and be a part of this.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Well, I was so honored because, alan Bishop, you also had Amanda Bryant from Moonshiner, alan Bishop, former master distiller at Spirit of French Lick and now the master distiller at Old Homestead, and then also JJ jackson from moonshiners, and they were all there.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Um, everybody was showing their home distilling talents and then how they would do it, you know, in the old days.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: But also you also were through stolen wolf.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Uh, they were doing a distilling run, if I'm not mistaken, and you guys all were part of it, where you filled a barrel and one of the unique things of the 50 distillers that were there I don't think there was, I don't think all 50 were there, but there was a decent amount.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: They were all veterans and there was old veterans, people who had been distilling.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: There were, you know, young ones who had just served recently and had come back and we're dealing with, and a lot of them were you were doing some home distilling and learning about distilling as therapy for what they were doing, and so you got to talk to all the veterans there and it was really a special event.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: But talk, talk about what that barrel you guys filled and signed.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: This barrel.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: We started early that morning and all the proceeds from that barrel when it comes of age, when it comes of age are going to be donated to veterans groups and homeless veterans groups to help finance them and also to veterans that have PTSD and other things going on with them that need financial help.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: So that was the coolest thing and I believe there was about a total of 39 veterans that were actually able to make it there that weekend.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: So the whole total of 50 weren't able to make it there, but about 39 of us made it up there to do that and we all signed the barrel along with the distillers of Stolen Wolf there that day.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Excellent, so all right.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: So the next one we're going to do, we did the hand barrel.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: That one is really that.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: One is like that military tie and buying that I would suggest.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I mean it was done at it's the Mashville, it was distilled at Bardstown Age.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I mean it's good quality bourbon.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: That barrel is going to be released, if I'm not mistaken, in 2026.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Right, which is the 200-year anniversary of the independence of America.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so that's what's happening at Stolen Wolf, and when that happens, we'll push it, because that's going to be for America's birthday.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: That's a special thing.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I'm going to want to get a bottle of it.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you're going to get a bunch of them, so, and it should be pretty cool.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Um, jesus, we're getting, we're getting hacked to ignore this.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Jay bergen, I mean, I, I'll have to block him at one point.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Let's see if I can do it right now.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: All right, block.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just gonna try, because he's like totally spamming every one of us in here yep, there it goes blocked.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Confirm no more for you, jay blows.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: All right, go back to um uh right, I'm gonna go back to the yep.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: There we are All right, he's done.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Everybody ignore that.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going all right, drew.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, damn bots as he says Pretty good, A lot of corn.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I like it.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like some fresh baked bread.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: It's sweet.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: So the next one is a newer distillery.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: They changed their name.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Greg Keeley is the owner and his wife.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: They changed the name.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Lawrenceburg to.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Larkin, larkin, and they are veteran owned.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Both of both of them served uh, he actually served in the australian uh, whatever you call it the australian military and then then came, met his wife and then served in the US military and they both are veterans and this is a veteran-owned distillery that is very proud of its heritage in the United States and Australia.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Larakin it's a great bottle top.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: It's got a kangaroo boxing.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: It's pretty good.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Initially it was called Larakin, but this Larakin, they're right next to Wild Turkey.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: It's pretty good.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Initially it was called Larkin, but this Larkin, they're right next to Wild Turkey.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: It's a must-stop.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Great, great gift shop and tasting room.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I think it's lit One of the best.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: We've done podcasts with Greg.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: A couple times We've had him on and this year we introduced his Bottled and Bond.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Tonight we're going to sip on his American maple.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: It looks like you are, too, one of the first, because this is another good thing.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of veterans that like to smoke cigars along with their whiskey, right Yep?
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Well, Greg has got the first walk-in humidor inside his distillery at Lark and Bourbon Company, so if you get a chance, go by there and check that out guys.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: So Walker said it was Australian.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: He was in Australian Navy too.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: That's where he was and thank you, walker, for your current service.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: We talked to you, we did your kind and generous donation.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: We've already tasted hand barrel.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I opened mine, fantastic, on this Veterans Day.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Veterans Day, I like to say Veterans Day, I don't even pronounce it right, but we're on Alaric, as you said, and with Greg, and they are veterans, veterans, and it's wonderful.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: This maple.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: They do some fantastic whiskey there.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Um, it's a combination of stuff that he's distilled from other.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: He's got barrels of a lifetime, of barrels that he's had through other distilling endeavors.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Plus, he purchases barrels and puts them out and they're in the process of building a little pot still there that they're going to do.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: But what they do there is some damn good Kentucky bourbon.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Their palates are fantastic, yep.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: And don't forget about the rye whiskey too.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Like this 10-year rye whiskey that he does, it is fabulous.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I have a bottle here.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Let's see what it is.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I have the high wheat rye whiskey.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: What year is that?
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: I mean?
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: How many years?
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Five years?
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Nope, this is a seven year.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: It's squinting.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Where's your glasses at it's seven year?
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Look, I don't know if you noticed, I got prescription readers.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Hey, look at that.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Can you see the seven?
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: See, I got prescription readers.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Hey, look at that.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Can you see the seven?
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: See, I got prescription readers, but I can't read that with my readers on.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: It's a high wheat rye whiskey which makes so it's rye wheat and barley, and I've got that one.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Is that Lawrenceburg?
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, did I get a bottle of that?
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: I can't remember if I did or not.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: And then I have this Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey from One Barrel and this is a four-year, but this is that one barrel that won all those prestigious awards that he put out the first year.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: So I've got that bottle.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this one here that he put out the first year.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: So I've got that bottle.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Yes, we do.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: So I've got a couple more.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: I've got a couple in there, I've got no room on my shelves.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: So you know they do some really creative stuff.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: I wanted to break this out.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Big shout out to the 39th Parallel Whiskey.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: There you go, I have.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: There was another one called.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: oh, I forget, they were on it was distilled in Indiana, bottled by Bluegrass Bottling, stanford, kentucky.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: We know who that is.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Who Bluegrass Bottling?
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we do In Indiana.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: In where, indiana.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: There's no such thing as Bluegrass Bottling in Indiana there is Distling in Indiana.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: There is Distilled in Indiana.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Bottled at bluegrass.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I know where bluegrass is because I went there.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, distilled in Indiana.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Everything that's distilled in Indiana is Ross and Squibb 30-dime parallel.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: This was the line that separated our country during one of the greatest conflicts called the Civil War.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: This maple that he has.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Did you take a little sip of that maple on the larrikin?
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, I did.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this bottle was given to me by a friend that lives up in New York.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: This friend is the one that does this bottling.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: So I was reading about Zachary, which president was last named?
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Zachary, are you good?
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Anyways?
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: So when we were talking about that last week, when we were doing the election podcast, his dad was 70 years old when he was the last child born, and then he was 75 years old, zachary Taylor.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Zachary Taylor was 70.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: He was 70 years old, thank you, when his last child was born.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: So his son that was born when he was 70 lived to be 75 and at 75, fathered another son.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: So right now the grandson of Zachary Taylor is alive as of March of 2024.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: He's the because they had children so late and they were the last ones.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Each one.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: He is still alive.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: He's the oldest living, you know, grand, in just two generations away, of any president, of anybody well, so that's kind of cool, but let's get into this bottle right here.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: So evan williams I'm wearing my evan williams hat here because evan williams does a really nice thing every year.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: They're american owned, american made american proud, but they do this american heroes bottle.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Evan Williams does a really nice thing every year.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: They're American-owned, american-made, american-proud, but they do this American Heroes bottle and you pick it up, it's regular Evan Williams, which is, in my opinion, damn good anyways.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Well, I need the readers, not the prescription readers, but I need them.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Prescription readers, but I need them.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: But this american hero bottle honors american people who served and they were heroes.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: So this one was jonathan hiltz.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: He was a corporal in the us marine corps.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Jonathan served as a nuclear, by biological and chemical defense specialists in Iraq.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Today he serves other veterans as a peer support specialist.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: He established two non-profits the Arise Veteran Foundation and Love Goes to Help.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Love goes to help alleviate poverty and support the homeless of the veterans.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: So fantastic person.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: They honor him at Evan Williams.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: And that's another thing that on this day, this is a day I've had this bottle for a couple years because I you know, and I'll be buying another Heroes one coming up soon when we go.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: You've got half a bottle left.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: Wow, that's unusual.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Unusual.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: It's like all my bottles, and you know why they're half, because they were only three quarters and they've evaporated.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: But I will have that poor and cheer he even uses readers now below a certain font who Walker?
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: He doesn't know what's going to happen.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: It gets to a crazy level, but anyways.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Just like the girl that was sitting there giving me my eye test and all that and fitting me for these readers.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: Sherry was sitting there getting her new glasses and all that and I was like I just need readers.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: I said I don't need anything else and they just laughed he just don't know what's coming, does he?
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: I said I'm at least 10 years away and they just both busted out laughing.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I will say, though somebody just made a comment, alcoholism and diabetes in one video to, and I I just don't like when people they just don't understand.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Um, majority of the people who drink, and the respect you have for the spirit, the spirit is an american spirit.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: America doesn't exist without this spirit.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Uh, basically, during the Civil War, even though, leading up to it, the temperance movement was starting to gain a foothold.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: But during the war, abraham Lincoln, who didn't even drink, wanted to find out what Ulysses S Grant, what whiskey he wanted, which was Old Crow.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: And he wanted to send a barrel of that to all the other generals because they all fought under Grant.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: They all fought so well.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: He wanted everybody to be drinking the same whiskey.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Whiskey was medicine, it was, you know, it was being used to get through the hardships of watching people die and everything it was.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: But I mean, it was such an integral part of what we are as a country.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: It's been there from the start, still was brought over on when the pilgrims came over, and it's just been every bit.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Apart of what?
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: What america, how america has paid for all of its wars, how america uses the taxes it's so important to our economy and all I, as we say every time when drank responsibly and you don't drink and drive and you drink responsibly and you basically know that if you abuse it, that there will be health concerns, but it's something that people can keep under control, which is like 98% of our population, 88% of our population.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: It's just the 2%.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: That is the evil part of what happens to people, the people who can't control themselves.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: But sometimes I contend that it's very rare that there's not a lot of people who start off, that they're not addictive personalities and they eventually become addictive.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: It's more like you have an addictive personality and if it wasn't going to be alcohol, it's going to be some drug.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: You know there's a reason why people do so much and there's not much we can do except promote the drinking of the spirit responsibly, but it's they support our veterans so much through the foundations and everything that everybody does.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: So you know, it's just like when people are just so closed-minded.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: I understand some people have to be closed-minded because they might be one of those people that if they just have a few, they're, they're, they can control themselves.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Everybody has to deal with this in their own way, but I want to just raise my glass tonight to you, super Nash, to Whiskey, to all the veterans out here who have served, it's just.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: This day is important.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: All the military days are important because, just as whiskey has been important and bourbon has been important to our society as far as financially paying for every war we've ever been in, but it's also the people who fight those wars and support our military and our inner military day in and day out and support our military and our inner military day in and day out.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: They are sacrificing something that other people don't sacrifice and we here at the Scotchie Bourbon Boys very, very much appreciate that Absolutely.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: Cheers to everyone out there, cheers to everyone and all the veterans and all the heroes.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: And all the heroes and I don't know if you've noticed, but I support all veterans from all the Special Forces of the United.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: States.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: But me being Army, I lit up my auto collection in Army green and wearing my army green tonight.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: So go army hey, I'm wearing my evan williams camouflage for all the heroes that they represent, um, but I just completely, you know you got it.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: I just respect every aspect of the military and you know the people and what they've done.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: So this is a day to be humble and realize that that is how important what people have done for us.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: You know all the people who have come before us.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: And the sacrifices, like I said, all the veterans have made.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: I just can't tell you how thankful and appreciative I am and my family is.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: Cheers once again.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Cheers, all right.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: So we said it was going to be brief and it's.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: We're going to stay with that, so right at the mark that I usually shoot for and usually then double.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: So, everybody, thanks for coming on tonight, listening to us, watching us.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: We very much appreciate it.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: This is a very important night.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Remember wwwscotchiebourbonboyscom for all things Scotchie Bourbon Boys.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: We've got Glen Cairns, we've got t-shirts.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: There's going to be some bourbon balls.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Uh, I think there's gonna be some bourbon balls in the future with this maple.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: But, um, remember, um, we're on facebook, instagram, youtube and x.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: We've been pushing all of those lately.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: We're doing our best.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Uh, we love I.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: I'm really happy with what's been going on with x.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: And then also remember that we are on all the podcast formats.
• 48:07
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• 48:23
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• 48:24
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• 48:35
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• 48:40
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• 48:42
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• 48:50
  Speaker 1: And then also, once again, we do this for a reason because we love the people, uh, that we've met and all the people in the industry.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: The the whiskey and bourbon industry is so fantastic, even from every part of it.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, we know andemic from ohlq uh, we've know Greg Schneider and Alan Bishop, master distillers.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: We know Sandy Ngo, you know the mom of Freddie Ngo and you know, we know so many different people Stacey it's Stacey Pritchard who one of the main people at Kentucky Bourbon Festival, but then Sarah Evans and Shannon Hood, helpers, but they're going to be coming up to the Christmas party and I'll throw out that we got the Christmas party coming up.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: It is December 27th, friday, december 27th, at Gervasi Winery and Distillery.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: How?
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: cool is this.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to come up, because we've Super Nash is working on what he's going to be doing for giveaways.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Uh, we're, we're expecting.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: We're expecting now that, uh, andrew's not there, we're, I'm, we need to.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: I might have to pitch in too, and we need to do a couple, couple giveaways that people are going to be shocked at.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: So, uh, make sure you stop, stop in, let us know, check it out on Facebook and let us know you're coming and you know we're going to be down December 13th with Four Roses and Bren Elliott and it's going to be just a great, great season coming up.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: So look for where we're at, find us, um, and the holiday season's just starting.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: So this has been great.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: So, remember, let's do this together.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Good bourbon equals good friends and good times, remember drink responsibly, don't drink and drive and live your life uncut and unfiltered, and little Steve-O's gonna take us out.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: Drew and Jamie.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, show me the way to the next whiskey bar.
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, don't ask why.
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: Oh don't ask why.
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: Show me the way to.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Damn, let's do that again.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Why that shut it off?
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: It was our pleasure God bless you too.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Show me the way to the next whiskey bar.
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, don't ask why.
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: Oh don't ask why.
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: Show me the way to the next whiskey bar.
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: Oh don't ask why.
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: Oh, don't ask why.
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: For if we don't find the next whiskey bar, I tell you we must die.
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: I tell you we must die.
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must die.
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: I tell you we must die.
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must die.