Please Drink Responsibly
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Please Drink Responsibly
Ep. 132 | Gloria Ferrer 2011
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Ever wondered what makes a $40 sparkling wine from Los Carneros worth every penny? Spoiler alert: it's all about the nutty, creamy texture and those oxidized properties we can’t stop raving about. Join us on this episode of "You Got Male" as we kick things off with some bubbly fun, diving into the world of AVAs and the illustrious 2012 Comte de Champagne from Taittinger. We’ll guide you through the taste profiles and unique features of these wines, all while delivering our signature blend of humor and insight.
Blast from the past! We’re taking a nostalgic trip down memory lane, reminiscing about our days at Nora's and those legendary post-shift gatherings at Jackson's. Tune in as we dissect the evolution of Jackson's vibe, contrasting it with local favorites like Parkway Tavern and 595 Craft Beer House. Plus, we share our beer-tracking adventures on Untappd and debate the best snacks for a 4th of July party—spoiler: French onion dip with regular ruffles is a party staple!
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Welcome to you. Got Mail, the manliest podcast on the internet. You're fucking drinking something delicious With the boys. I think I'm just going to keep making that intro worse and worse until I just don't say anything at all. Yeah, you're killing it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you. You're a dude for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I brought the Bev today, gentlemen. Yeah, so I brought the Bev. Today, gentlemen, we're drinking some sparkling wine from Los Carneros. What'd you call me, los Carneros?
Speaker 1:Say that shit again, bro. See what happens. I don't like that, which is.
Speaker 2:You're triggering my white. It's the only.
Speaker 1:New wallpaper nice.
Speaker 2:Which is a shared AVA with Napa Valley and Sonoma.
Speaker 1:What's AVA?
Speaker 2:It's basically how they designate growing areas for wine and stuff so. Napa Valley is a AVA. Yeah, and Sonoma AVA.
Speaker 1:What does that stand for? Ava?
Speaker 2:Fuck, I can't remember the specific, I can't. I got it, I got it but it's basically a growing area in the United States. Tell you right now, brother, I'm gonna need a little bit more wine buff boy have.
Speaker 1:I had a day would you like a little more. Where was that bad? An AVA is an American viticultural area Interesting. It's a specific type of appellation of origin used on wine labels. An AVA is a I mean delimited, but what does that mean, don't know.
Speaker 2:A what A?
Speaker 1:delimited. Finish the rest of the sentence. A delimited grape growing region with specific geographic or climatic features that distinguish it from the surrounding regions and affect how the grapes grow. Maybe specific is delimited like a very specific grape growing region.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't really expect this to be good. To be honest with you, having fixed boundaries or limits.
Speaker 1:So yeah, they're designated growing areas, basically A small region.
Speaker 2:So I don't actually expect this to be very good, it's Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
Speaker 1:I'm a big Pinot Noir guy. I like Chardonnay and Pinot.
Speaker 2:Noir. Yeah, fuck, yeah, the producer is Gloria Ferrer Don't know who that is and it's an anniversary cuvee 2010 vintage, and the reason why I went with a 2010 vintage is because I love oxidized properties and white wines. So, yep, that's it. It was 40 bucks, so I really don't expect it to be great, but that's it.
Speaker 1:It was 40 bucks, so I really don't expect it to be great, but when do you get this? What Did you buy?
Speaker 2:this today, no 2012. Yeah, I bought it today. Oh hey, man, wine doesn't have to be expensive to be good, that is true. Kind of smells like pee pee a little bit, though, huh yeah, not bad Subtle.
Speaker 1:You do get a little bit of that oxidized quality which is yeah, it's okay, that's what I was looking for, it's okay.
Speaker 2:It's very bubbly. It's like extra bubbly. Yeah, it is brute style. You could see it's started to darken up here, which is nice. Brings that nice like sort of nutty quality to it, makes it creamier and nuttier, which is, uh, my favorite shit. Yeah, it also makes it nuttier when I put my penis in the bottle. True story. So, yep, yeah, not bad. No, I like it, though Not bad for $40.
Speaker 1:That's an easy drink.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah, I will easily drink this. Yeah, Traditional method. Yeah, through the mouth.
Speaker 1:Yes, what's your favorite bubbling wine? Zach.
Speaker 2:Hmm, hmm, probably our Prestige Cuvee that we're pouring by the glass right now. It's so fucking good Cuvee. How much is a glass of that?
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:How much is a glass of that? It's a hundred dollars a glass. Uh, about four 50 for a bottle. It's the 2012 comp de champagne. Um comp de is the Ted de cuvee from uh, tat and jay. So that was all a different language.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what does all of that mean? What's tet de cuvee?
Speaker 2:that's a type of tet de cuvee is basically. It means like tet is head cuvee, like house, so like the head of the house, um, or wait, cuvee. Actually sorry, that does not mean house. It means like head blend, um, but uh, basically it's a 100 blonde, blonde grain crew, chardonnay, um, and uh, tat and j is the producer. I'm sure you, you guys, know tat and j maybe if I saw a label.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how do you spell it?
Speaker 2:T-A-I-T-T-N-J, t-a-i-t-t-n-j Champagne. But yeah, it's so good, dude, that top one it ends with an R.
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think you'd be surprised at how little I know about French.
Speaker 1:It looks vaguely familiar, but nothing really stands out about the bottle. So I mean, I've probably seen them before, because it looks like Every other label. It looks like a lot of other champagne labels. Yeah that's fair.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but Comte Champagne 2012 vintage.
Speaker 1:Is it dry? Is it yeah, yeah?
Speaker 2:it's dry style. It's uh here. Do you want my spiel on it?
Speaker 1:because I do it yeah, dude, run 40 times a night. Run through it I say.
Speaker 2:This evening we offer one prestige cuvee, which is the tête de cuvee from 10j comte champagne 2012. Vintage ripe orchard fruit profile toasted white bread. Tones on the finish due to the high aging, a rich, creamy texture well rounded out by bright acidity and minerality. Overall, it's very well refined and surprisingly complex. We offer this for $100 a glass this evening, with the rest ranging from $35 to $45. Boring Shots, shots, shots, and that's how your tables respond.
Speaker 1:Do you ever get tables coming through like ripping shots or not? Really no not really. I mean, it does happen yeah, every once in a while.
Speaker 2:But not very often yeah, we don't either we don't get a lot of tables that are like shots, shots like how many shots?
Speaker 1:yeah, we don't really pour shooters that much yeah, and we're not even.
Speaker 2:We're not even classy.
Speaker 1:No, Like we'll give out shooters to our friends who come in, but people aren't really ordering them, and even then we're giving out cocktail shots, yeah, mixed drinks that we turn like a green tea.
Speaker 2:Unless you're in the industry and you're sitting at the bar. Then I'll give you a shot of Fernette.
Speaker 1:Fernette, fernette, yeah, that's probably the most.
Speaker 2:I pour, shots is when it's like for net or something or if I'm making a joke with someone and they're like shots, and I'm like yeah for net. And they're like what's that? And I'm like you're about to learn yeah, that's.
Speaker 1:My favorite is when people don't know what for net is and I'm like let me ruin uh, about to find out you ever had jaeger?
Speaker 2:I can't tell you if it's worse or better, but I like for net way better than jaeger.
Speaker 1:Jaeger meisters fucking, not it for me.
Speaker 2:I haven't had jaeger as like a, as a professional adult you know what I'm saying like as somebody who now knows what maybe had it like a year ago and I was just like it's just not it.
Speaker 1:Did you sip it or shoot it? No, I think I shot it. Yeah, I think I went somewhere where they had like chilled jaeger shots and someone ordered them jackson's where they have the Jaeger dispenser no.
Speaker 2:I don't go to Jackson's.
Speaker 1:No, me, neither I do miss the people that work there, though the people that work there are super cool.
Speaker 2:I miss, just don't go in there anymore. I miss when we all worked at Nora's together and, like Justin and Ramon and everybody, and we'd all go to Jackson's after and we'd till like 2 am those were the cool times though it was fun, you know, and there was no drama and everybody just got off shift, you went to do? You're just the homies, because that's what you did and you.
Speaker 2:You hung out for a bit and then you went home and you probably did it again the next night yeah that was always fun, but then then people stopped working at nora's yeah, a lot of people left and then jackson's just kind of you realize it's just a depressing place for depressed people. Oh man, I went there once. Uh, I went there once by myself after a particularly tough day, and I just had a shot in a beer and I was sitting at the bar and the bartender came up to me and she was just like hey, are you okay? Like, yeah why are you here, you?
Speaker 1:know, the only reason I would go there is just if, like there was a night, a couple people wanted to go and I knew I could see like tommy or uh tia, yeah, someone.
Speaker 2:I don't think tia works there anymore now she works in like uh dotties or I don't know if billy works there anymore either.
Speaker 1:Really, yeah, that's why I heard from marla, I think, but there there are a lot of cool people that work there and that made it worth going for sure yeah um, but uh no, it's just, I don't even know, it's just jade and tommy, I think so go ahead and leave a comment.
Speaker 2:What's the name of your shitty bar that you go?
Speaker 1:to yeah, every everyone has one in their town, for sure before jackson's. It was like bubby's university or parkway tavern that was when you, we were like 21 and partying though straight up 21 but like loki, parkway isn't even a bad bar.
Speaker 1:Like parkway is actually like a nice bar I like every other parkway other than the one on flamingo I just don't like the one on flamingo because I, if I go there, I will run into somebody yeah, there's just always too many people there, I will run into somebody that I didn't like from high school or my past, or just something.
Speaker 2:Like that's where the people I don't like go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a parkway right by our job and that one's nice, but the bar itself.
Speaker 2:You know, remove the people I don't want to see. If I was an out-of-towner and I was coming in and went to Parkway, I'd have a good time there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you were from out of town and your friend lived in Vegas and he was like, oh, I'll take you somewhere where it's popping, then that'd be a cool place.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if I had friends from out of town that were like I want to go to a bar that's popping, I'd probably take them to the Sand Dollar.
Speaker 1:Yeah, see, that's my thing too. It's like now, if't want to go to like a pts or uh or a jackson's, I want to go to like 595, yeah, which is a craft beer house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah and they sell four delays. But honestly, parkway also fantastic beer selection. They yeah, they have like a ridiculous amount of beer, dumb amount of beers, and they have an app that helps you log them all and that's pretty cool, but you're never going to out drink. Whoever the guy at the top was, he's been there forever I was on one of those apps, my homie donald.
Speaker 1:He told me about um. He told me about the untapped app which some places use to like you use it to see their beer list. Like when you scan the qr code, it pulls up the this this app yeah, um, but uh, it's super cool because you can.
Speaker 1:You can log in when you get to a place. Uh, you can select which beer you tried at the place and then you can leave a rating for it. You can be like, oh, there's three out of five stars, I like this about it, didn't like this about it, and and then your friends can follow you on the app. So, like interesting, I had a couple friends followed and they even do it for like like canned products too.
Speaker 1:So if you go to the store and you buy like a craft beer in a can, oh, you can, like, you can find the brewery that makes it, and then you can leave a review for it and post it so all your friends can see it and be like okay, that's, maybe I'll check that out or maybe I won't but't, but I haven't used that in a long time.
Speaker 2:It's a cool app. I'll be honest, if I'm leaving a review for a place, then it's probably a dog shit review where I'm going to slam everything about that business, or excellent, but not really in between.
Speaker 1:I usually only leave a review if I get fantastic service.
Speaker 2:Okay, but what if they actually neglect you? You, they actually are just like they neglect you the whole time. It's a shitty service.
Speaker 1:I just don't care enough. No, no, Then I'm just like I'm just going to leave and then you just won't ever see me again.
Speaker 2:I'm just not going to pay dude Cause. If you're ignoring me and that's how bad your service is you won't even notice I'm gone yeah, thanks, yeah, or you didn't want me there anyway. So well, that's. You know. I don't ever want anybody at work, but I put on a face for all of you. So if you're a regular and you're watching this, I love you and I look forward to your next visit. So, boys that's, I'm a boy what do you think about this sparkling wine?
Speaker 1:I'll drink. I'll drink it. Yeah, it's fine. It's not my favorite. I'm not mad at it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm I'm not mad at it. It does make me happy, I suppose.
Speaker 1:So I would say it's, it's good, um enough for me, yeah I feel like I do taste a bit a bit chardonnay qualities in it. I'm not a huge chardonnay qualities in it. I'm not a huge Chardonnay guy. I do get a lot of Chardonnay qualities though it feels a little buttery and oaky. I don't mind how it finishes, though. The finish is nice. Bows are nice, but I've just never I mean anytime I get chardonnay. I'm just always like man.
Speaker 2:you know what I just feel me, I'm gonna bring you that comte de champagne, the 2012 vintage, and you're gonna fucking adore it. I would like this on a french 75 yeah, that could be good, definitely. You got gin, uh, lemon juice and simple syrup, uh, yeah, no, damn, no, I don't. Oh, well, that's okay. Guess I'll just enjoy it the regular way then. Yeah, oh. So there's the 4th of July coming. God bless the troops, all of them both sides.
Speaker 1:4th of July is coming and so am I. Atta boy, oh yeah brother.
Speaker 2:But I'm involuntarily hosting the party at my house this year and I was thinking, maybe I should batch a cocktail, or should I I don't know just buy a bunch of beer. I have a really big dispenser. So I was thinking about batching a cocktail.
Speaker 1:Just fill the dispenser full of Fernet.
Speaker 2:I was thinking about doing a giant paper plane, but that might be too aggressive.
Speaker 1:Honestly, yeah, honestly, dude, I feel like you're. I won't even batch a cocktail, just have people bring beer yeah, exactly, everybody's gonna end up bringing alcohol anyway.
Speaker 2:If I've learned anything from hosting a party, it's that you end up with more alcohol than you even began with, regardless of if you made a cocktail or not.
Speaker 1:You know yeah so I'd just let people bring their own you know, and that's one of those things where, if you like batch the cocktail like, are you gonna want to bring it outside and leave it by the pool?
Speaker 2:probably not I'd probably leave it inside yeah, and then?
Speaker 1:are people gonna come inside to drink it?
Speaker 2:probably not that often well, I would keep it. So here's the idea. Right, I'd keep it like by the bar cart and and then we would just take, because my apartment has a direct poolside view and so if I'm on my patio I could just pour you the cocktail and hand it to you while you're at the pool. So hot Kind of deal, and I don't really.
Speaker 1:I feel like most people will just probably grab a can of something.
Speaker 2:What's the most important part of hosting brother Dip? Having a solid answer? Yeah, it's about having good snacks. You're going to have a French onion dude.
Speaker 1:Do you want French onion? Fuck yeah, dude With regular ruffles.
Speaker 2:Great, it's a potluck. Bring French onion Dang. No, I'm not, no.
Speaker 1:Dude, you just got shlurped. I already told everyone what I was bringing. You're bringing ice or cups?
Speaker 2:No gun, oh right, a gun. You're bringing that shlurp, baby.
Speaker 1:You're going to go buy a gun for this? No, I'm stealing Zach's, so that way I can't get in trouble.
Speaker 2:Where do I keep my gun? I know I already found it.
Speaker 1:Where is it? I'm not going to put your address in the description.
Speaker 2:No, you're not going to do that. Yeah, norm's editing this week. No, I'm not. Zach is editing this week, so Zach's editing this week, checkmate. So, zach, put your address in the description.
Speaker 1:You act like I can't go on YouTube and put your address in the description. Fair enough Is that a threat?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I should get blasted away, motherfucker.
Speaker 1:Unless I tell him exactly You're threatening our audience, unless I tell you where the gun is.
Speaker 2:I'm not threatening nobody, but I'm just saying if you come a-knocking, I'm going to come a-glocking baby.
Speaker 1:Oh, I like that. That's right, you come knocking.
Speaker 2:I come glocking.
Speaker 1:And I'm going to come cocking Straight up, straight up. So when you know where that was going. You think if a robber broke into your house and you approached him naked, he would leave Depends on the robber?
Speaker 2:Yeah right, dude, You're going to get fucked.
Speaker 1:You're going to get fucked, buddy. You ain't leaving. Not the same, at least, especially if you were bricked up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bro, yeah, is that a crime?
Speaker 1:Who gets in trouble for your house? Yeah, but you raped him. Oh, you're saying if you fuck him, I thought just right if you were naked.
Speaker 2:No, no, if you fuck him, you go. You definitely agree. What about him? Is he still? You both would get charged.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're both getting dribbled interesting you were probably in jail a lot longer than he is, though. Why? Because I think rapes way worse of a crime than breaking and entering. Don't break in, especially if he doesn't steal anything. You're taking on the race just like breaking in I'll put diamonds in his hand what? What? I don't think that has.
Speaker 2:I don't think that'll fly well then, it looks like he's stealing something and then where does the rape come in?
Speaker 1:after I had to defend my home, your honor, with my cock with my pain.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think my penis.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think that's working. I don't think that's working.
Speaker 2:That's probably not a very viable defense in court. Well, if you're a lawyer, I want you to tell me who's in trouble there and who's in more trouble.
Speaker 1:Definitely the raper.
Speaker 2:You can't say definitely You're not practicing law?
Speaker 1:Leave us a comment down below. Who do you think is going to get more in trouble?
Speaker 2:Let's put a poll up. Yeah, I'm not going to edit that in.
Speaker 1:A stripper, poll Sure.
Speaker 2:Sick dude. I'm going to have a stripper poll at my 4th of July party. No, you're not bro. Dudes only can use it though you aren't ready to see this fucking thunderclap brother.
Speaker 1:Are you going to wear your velvet tiger shorts on the 4th of July party?
Speaker 2:Only if you pay me $150. That's not very much, yeah, but Grab my wallet.
Speaker 1:That's a friends and family discount, just to be clear. Grab my wallet.
Speaker 2:My regular going rate is $1,500. Yeah, you strip for your family. Well, if they need it For $150?, weather permitting?
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, my dad had a real rough Wednesday last week. Fuck dude, A little pocket money never hurt, all right.
Speaker 2:Don't act like you're too good for $150.
Speaker 1:Teddy was not feeling it, dude.
Speaker 2:I didn't have enough money for a Father's Day gift this year, so so here you go. Pops Babe, hit, play, she's my, my cherry pie. That's my strip song, by the way that's a good.
Speaker 1:What would my stripper song be? I'll do like it's got to be something related to redheads, right no, um, I think I do pop bottles by lil wayne and gucci mane. No, that's not gucci made birdman, sorry, it's gucci man Mane.
Speaker 2:Can you give me a little bit what Of Poppin' Bottles, just so I have it playing in my head.
Speaker 1:With the straight shots and them pop bottles Shut up, bitch Swallow Pour it on the models.
Speaker 2:Alright.
Speaker 1:Pretty good.
Speaker 2:I can imagine you getting a little ratchet to that. Zach, what's your stripper song?
Speaker 1:Genuine Pony Classic it's got to be that Classic Nothing wrong with that I feel like that is.
Speaker 2:It's either Cherry Pie or that song. I need a double, I think pop bottles.
Speaker 1:I could shake my. I could like get naked to yeah.
Speaker 2:Technically, you could get naked to any song.
Speaker 1:Have you heard this?
Speaker 2:Can you skip to the part where I'd be taking my dick out? Yeah, like, yeah, I'm stroking it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can get off to that for sure.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm not getting off, not for another $150 at least.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pop bottle swap.
Speaker 2:That used to be my ringtone in middle school my alarm for the longest time was uh, chop suey by system of a down dude, I also had that as a ringtone, I think, at one point. So every, every morning for like three years, I'd wake up, to just wake up, and I'll tell you nothing gets you out of bed like telling somebody yelling at you to wake up like the lead singer system of a down yelling at you to wake up, correct, yeah, and then you're gonna go check on the dogs yeah she pooped on the carpet.
Speaker 2:What?
Speaker 1:I'll be right back. She took a huge shit.
Speaker 2:Before I brought her over, dude the, the biggest, fattest shit, and I watched her and I was like damn, that's a big one, that'll be good enough for a while. She be eating Not more than I feed her.
Speaker 1:She be eating you like my shirt. I don't know. Krista got it for me from Disney.
Speaker 2:What's it say?
Speaker 1:Star Wars. I mean it does, though I know. I mean it does, though I know, and it says move along, move along, because this is when he's tricking the, the, the clone.
Speaker 2:I think he's not, I'll be honest, I don't like the art style I like the art style it kind of reminds me of like, um, like a political cartoon from my.
Speaker 1:It reminds me of. Did you watch Visions? No, there's a couple animated shorts in Visions that kind of look like this yeah, that is felt.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did want that. So I like everything. I just don't like the art style.
Speaker 1:And then look the little patch in the bottom. It's a long time ago in the galaxy far, far away.
Speaker 2:I like the material, I like the patch.
Speaker 1:I like the sleeves. It's got this little border Like a thermal border. I love the quality of the shirt.
Speaker 2:I even like most of the graphic.
Speaker 1:I just don't like the people. I can kind of see that, though Something about it, but it's a cool shirt.
Speaker 2:Is there anything on the back?
Speaker 1:No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2:A couple wrinkles but I don't think that's part of it.
Speaker 1:No, dude our golf like the nicest golf course maybe I've ever played at today.
Speaker 2:How much did that cost you $145.
Speaker 1:Is that normal? That's like a fair price for a nice course. There's some courses I think there's some courses even here in Vegas that get up to like 500 bucks. Yikes, what the fuck. That's like the wind course, though, or that's like have you golfed that before? No, they're taking it out too.
Speaker 2:Well, they're taking out half of it.
Speaker 1:I think they're removing all the golf.
Speaker 2:Are they? Yeah, I heard they're taking out.
Speaker 1:I think you won't be able to golf there anymore.
Speaker 2:Oh, maybe they already took out the first half for Resorts World? I'm not. Yeah, they're turning it.
Speaker 1:Well, they're turning it, yeah, into like a, Into a beach, right, man-made yeah, like a pond thing, whatever, yeah, yeah, it's going to be more, but yeah, that's considered one of the nicest courses, like in Vegas, if not the nicest, and redonkulous though. Yeah.
Speaker 2:But the win is also the place for Rich Snooty, yeah, but like most nice courses hover anywhere from like 150 to 250.
Speaker 1:Probably if you're playing in private Nice course.
Speaker 2:That's crazy.
Speaker 1:Most public courses are like anywhere from like 45 to 85 bucks. I don't know how you do that multiple times every week, dude, it's so fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah but like 150 bucks, like twice, two, three times a week.
Speaker 1:No, so when I'm playing, this is the first time I paid 150 bucks. Since I've been golfing, I'm paying like anywhere from like 40 to 70 bucks.
Speaker 2:Okay, like twice a week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's reasonable, so I'm'm spending like 140 for the whole week, usually all right. Today I just spent 145 because I got the opportunity to play well, dragon ridge, which is fucking dude. It's so pretty up there, it's like up in henderson. Uh, like past stephanie, you just kind of keep going, and then you I had some friends I used to work well.
Speaker 2:Actually they're enemies. I had some enemies I used to work up at that, golf course, really yeah yeah, it's super.
Speaker 1:The clubhouse is like crazy nice um, the course is in great condition. You you on like half of the holes. You just have an entire view of the strip, like you can see everything. It's super pretty nice I don't know. Did you see the photo I posted?
Speaker 2:probably not. What'd you?
Speaker 1:golf. I played really bad because once again I'm trying to. I'm basically like relearning how to golf now, after my fitting session with that guy.
Speaker 2:I hope Zach's beating my dog.
Speaker 1:I hope he's not, because he changed a lot of things with my game. So, like I'm, I changed, like my backswing and my grip and my club, so it's like everything's new to me.
Speaker 2:So I'm in the process of sucking yeah, that is actually beautiful everything and yeah, you're just hitting balls up there I always thought golf courses were hella beautiful, also so fucking wasteful, just like all the all the grass, and like water used to maintain in in a desert. Yeah, low-key, but yet I can't have a grass front yard. Yeah, you know?
Speaker 1:yeah, which is bullshit and you can only water it once a week. Rich people like grass. I like grass. I like grass too. I get it.
Speaker 2:That's why I think golf courses are beautiful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and yeah, yeah but they, yeah, they kept the course in really good condition. It was a lot of fun to play. I shot like a 103, which is like really bad, but once again, when I like hit the, when everything connects, now it like feels better than it ever has when I've been golfing Right. So when I hit a good shot, I had a drive go like 155, or sorry, not one like 255, 260. Today I was going to say 155 didn't sound very far.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not far.
Speaker 1:I hit a drive like 255, 260 right down the middle of the fairway. Perfect shot, perfect lie. Did you beat her? You?
Speaker 2:should have. Um, don't worry, I'll do it later and she won't know why yeah, and if you know it just feels good.
Speaker 1:It just feels good when I hit it, so talking about my dog yeah, yeah, it does. Yeah, from the back, especially what? Um yeah, but once I start getting consistent, bro, I think I can really get dialed in. Hopefully I can start like keeping track of my handicap and stuff and then I would love to enter like fun scramble tournaments or something. If they ever do it. It's his left hand, isn't he a lefty? Are you lefty, zach? I forgot, fuck man, dude, I don't even drink things with my right hand anymore.
Speaker 2:I can't even tell you the last time, not even at home.
Speaker 1:At home, it's like I don't even think about it now, I just grab whatever. I'm drinking with my left hand, yeah.
Speaker 2:Accident. Oh, by the way, you know Eddie. He's playing Eddie. Is Eddie the Buster? How old is Eddie? 21, like next week, or yeah, that's what I thought. Very soon, that guy's fucked.
Speaker 1:We should make eddie a bar back that'd be even though he'll leave, but like he'll come back, yeah, and then it'd be nice to have another bar back yeah and it'd be sick if it was eddie. It would be great if it was eddie dude. I love that kid, literally.
Speaker 2:I'm sure you guys could just talk to joe and tell him that and I'm sure he'd probably give dude, he's such a hard worker and he's such a cool kid and like he would get it. When I, eddie, was actually the last kid that I trained before I stopped busing. Do you know? He's worked there for like four years now. That sounds about right. That's crazy, though I haven't even thought about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but now he's going to school somewhere. Do you know where he's going to school, reno?
Speaker 2:But I don't know if I got Eddie into anime, but I kind of got Eddie into anime.
Speaker 1:So he had already been watching some anime. Yeah, he like started, but then he just came around and asked for a bunch of recommendations and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then he got One Piece and then he went nuts. Yeah, and I do take credit for giving him One Piece for sure. Yeah, that kid watched One Piece. I thought I watched One Piece quick. It took me probably like five or six months to watch all of One Piece, and that was back when it was 700 episodes deep, 600 maybe. I think it was around Dressrosa, probably around where Norm is at currently. Yeah, and Eddie did it in like three months and add 1,000 episodes.
Speaker 1:I don't even know if it was three months. I don't even know.
Speaker 2:Three months is like being generous. It could have been quicker than that. That kid just no-lifed it and got it done real quick Bro.
Speaker 1:Anytime I tell him about an anime, literally the next day at work he goes like oh, I'm on episode six already and I'm like dude, you're fucking crazy. Oh yeah, I'm already on the third season. Yeah, I got him to start watching Fullmetal Alchemist and he's like, oh dude, it's so fucking good and I was like sick, he's probably done by now. Yeah, he's probably because I saw him last week when you told me about it and he said he was like 12 episodes in or something.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he's done.
Speaker 1:He's done with it. He's watched it three times. By now all the homunculuses are like oh he's watching and I'm like dude, just wait until the final fights, dude.
Speaker 2:Enough of sucking cyber Eddie's cyber dick. You know that kid's fucking sick dude. Cool kid, though Shout out, eddie. I didn't have anything to transition into, unfortunately, like I kind of just said that, and didn't have a backup plan of where we were going to go from here. So I guess I'm just going to keep talking until somebody else has something, a plan of where we were going to go from here. So I guess I'm just going to keep talking until somebody else has something that they could bring up or say I already talked about golf. Yeah, norm already talked about golf.
Speaker 1:That's all I can do. That's like all I think about now. I think I have a problem.
Speaker 2:No, you're just excited because you got new clubs and so it's like the new fun.
Speaker 1:I'm just having so much fun golfing now.
Speaker 2:You just go through these phases where you're like hyper obsessed with a thing. You know it was Pokemon cards before that and comic books before.
Speaker 1:Still is Pokemon cards. Nothing has come out that I've been obsessed with Right.
Speaker 2:And I'm sure golf will die down a little bit after you like, get your swing and get everything where you're happy at, and then you'll still love golf, but there'll probably be a new hyper fixation.
Speaker 1:I mean golf will probably die down when snowboarding season starts.
Speaker 2:Or you'll start snowboarding again. I can't wait. Look back around to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I assume for the foreseeable future. I just think I'm going to be golfing in the summer and snowboarding during the winter, and that'll be my. I'll go back and forth.
Speaker 2:You're fixed, bro, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, golfing and snowboarding very similar in how you approach it money-wise I don't.
Speaker 2:They're both.
Speaker 1:Take all of it, they're both like you, but you invest once, you're good for like a decade and then you just pay every time you go that's kind of how pc gaming is too, I suppose.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a little bit. Although I've already had my pc like four years and it still has not had any problems. I've been able to run every game fine. There's no reason for me to upgrade, I just want to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bro, I actually need it.
Speaker 2:Norm sent me that RuneScape, fucking PC.
Speaker 1:Oh right, Well, Ryan sent it to me and he was like send this to Zach right now. I was like, okay, it was so funny because he actually DM'd me on.
Speaker 2:Discord today, and he was like dude, did you buy that PC that I sent you? And I was like no.
Speaker 1:Dude, that shit was sick dude. It is very cool, what?
Speaker 2:RuneScape PC.
Speaker 1:Some company made like a RuneScape PC that you can buy from them. It's like a pre-built but it's like the panels on it. Literally they took it like straight out of RuneScape.
Speaker 2:It looks crazy. They took like the RuneScape loading screen and made like decals for it and put it on like the side of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, ryan texted it to me and he was like send this to Zach please.
Speaker 2:I was like, okay, so it'll cost like $3,500 to play a game that you can run on your iPhone?
Speaker 1:Well no, the PC can run any game.
Speaker 2:Oh what, it's not just for.
Speaker 1:RuneScape no, this is how you said it, though.
Speaker 2:yeah, no, I know, but like that's kind of the idea. Yeah, it's like, yeah, the idea is hey, you play a lot of it looks sick as fuck though, dude, yeah, that is pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Sick as fuck it's fucking tight with all the custom paneling and shit. Yeah, I love watching. Uh, what's her name? There's a, there's a gal on youtube and she does a bunch of custom. Uh, she'll like take your pc case and then uh take a bunch of foam and like turn it into the minds of moria or seen a couple of those. I forget what the page is called, but it's super popular and she does a great job every time and I just love watching those time lapse have you?
Speaker 1:seen that, like I think jacob sent it to all of us you saw that, like godzilla pc build where, like the actual pc itself wasn't like it looked like a broken down warehouse. But I'm like godzilla pc build where, like the actual pc itself wasn't like it looked like a broken down warehouse, but I'm like godzilla was standing outside. It was almost like half of a desk size. No, it sounds. It was a big model, basically, and it was like godzilla fighting, but the pc was in the desk and it was like the fans were lit up in it or in like yeah, this, like prop building. It was fucking cool, dude, interesting, cool. Yeah, then maybe you send it to me on tiktok me. That's why you didn't see it if I were to buy a new pc.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I would build a new one, though, or if I would, uh, just buy a pre-built. I don't know where I'm at. I don't know where, because when I built one, it was during covid, and that's when pre-builts were pretty much impossible to get, and a lot of the parts were really hard to get, so it was just easier to build a pc piece by piece, yeah, than it was to buy a whole thing at once, and I had a lot of fun doing it, uh, but I don't necessarily want to do it again, you know yeah I kind of do, but I kind of don't, you know, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I just don't know if I'd buy a whole new tower, if I'd build it again I just don't wanna.
Speaker 1:I like my. I like everything about my pc, except I want a new graphics card. I hate my case. I want a new graphics card. I want more ram. I like my case I hate my case.
Speaker 2:It doesn't fit my. My graphics card is too big now, so I have to do an open face kind of style and, uh, I'm just not about it although the only thing I don't like about my case is that it is like Allen wrench screws when I dude.
Speaker 1:I see so many cages now that are just like latches and stuff.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Where you can just unlatch and like it folds down and then you can clean it real quick. But, like dude, when I go to clean my PC I'm like fuck. Well, now I got to go find an Allen wrench. Now I got to take out all four screws, make sure I set them somewhere, take off the glass, set it down on something soft, clean my old PC, screw everything back in. It's just annoying. Yeah, we're like. Yeah, I'm just like I want something more accessible, but I like how my case looks.
Speaker 2:I like the visual. There haven't been any games that I've been excited about lately.
Speaker 1:I am not going to lie. I'm going to play the fuck out of Black Ops 6, dude, I'm about to go in on that, oh well, that's going to be free on the Game Pass.
Speaker 2:I'm so excited.
Speaker 1:I'm going to play it for sure. I'm so excited Round Base Zombies. That's all I'm excited for. Like gumballs are back in that shit too.
Speaker 2:Oh, gumballs are back in zombies. Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, I love the gumballs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the gumballs were cool. The multiplayer looks pretty solid.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go crazy for Black Ops. Yeah, you're going to go crazy for Black Ops.
Speaker 1:I just want to make sure I heard that correctly. I did, I tried to sneak it in there.
Speaker 2:You didn, I caught you Fuck. No, that'll be fun. I always like the Black.
Speaker 1:Ops games better than the Modern Warfare games. Yeah, I'm more of a Black Ops guy. I'll stand by that. No, I'm more of a I think Black Ops.
Speaker 2:And the zombies has always just been so Like Black Ops 2 zombies was Black Ops 1 through 3 was my favorite run of Call of Duties, maybe ever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, black O or 3. Did they make a 4 and 5? They made a 4 and then they made Cold.
Speaker 2:War.
Speaker 1:Yeah, one of those is also considered a Black Ops.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's why this one's 6. They made Black Ops 1, 2, 3, 4. It's called Black Ops something.
Speaker 2:They made a Call of Duty based off of the Cold War. You know that war that wasn't really a war. Where nobody actually fought and died for the war. That shit's hilarious to me. It must have been the most.
Speaker 1:And nobody said anything about it. Cold War is the fifth Black Ops.
Speaker 2:Cold War Black Ops dude. Cold War Call of Duty was literally just you sitting in a lobby talking shit like someone and then the game never loads. So about the russians?
Speaker 1:someone made a video called call of duty black ops six. Why isn't it five?
Speaker 2:why isn't it? Well, I mean, at least they didn't do what modern warfare did.
Speaker 1:And just recall it, black ops one again yeah, it's kind of I wish they just like, maybe just rebrand the word modern. They should have called it something else. Just do like current warfare, I don't care.
Speaker 2:I don't care, Market it. No one cares about the name.
Speaker 1:but now the fact that, like you have to specify what year of Modern Warfare Modern Warfare 2, and Modern Warfare 3 you're talking about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, modern warfare, modern warfare 2 and modern warfare 3 you're talking about. Yeah, like, yeah, like, fuck dude, why'd you do that literally like oh, dude I love modern warfare 2.
Speaker 1:Which one first one or the second yeah, dude, that's so dumb the first one or the second?
Speaker 2:one, the original modern warfare 2 or the second modern warfare 2, and it was like anybody, always the first one anybody who doesn't know like that that's a thing is gonna be like what, although the second one was really good, it was great yeah, I actually had fun with the game.
Speaker 2:Yeah, uh, I wasn't dog shit at it, but, like you know, I don't know, but it didn't. You know that call of duty was like the first time I've enjoyed a call of duty genuinely like in the long game, like it was. Like I always oh my gosh, excuse me I always enjoy like a new Call of Duty the first, like week that I play it, and then after that I'm like I hate this game actually, like because it's like at first you're so like excited about it being new and fresh, yeah, and then it all fades away once, like you know, it really sinks in. But like this time, like I got excited about it and like it wasn't just, you know, like a temporary excitement, like I did enjoy it for a couple of months of playing. You know, um, it was fun to sort of like get back into that mindset of like you know, hey, look, we got a full squad. Let's fucking go boys yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 1:Right when it came out, we had like six people on like every night.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, we did, yeah, we did, and I assume it'll probably be the same for this new black ops.
Speaker 1:But but yeah, black ops is gonna go crazy, for sure as of yesterday.
Speaker 2:Uh, not, not us three, although I think this would be a really fun thing for, like, are you got mail stream or whatever? Is uh chained together? Yeah, that game looks like aids, it is but it's the good, it's the magic, johnson aids it's the good kind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that doesn't actually kill you you can survive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that aren't really real. Probably, uh, but uh, I forgot where I was going. Oh yeah, chained together, I was playing with uh, it was me jacob jacob and stone, and I'm sure you can imagine stone text me one night and he goes.
Speaker 1:I found a new game that everyone's gonna hate me for and it was that one and I said, is it that game where you're all chained together and it's like only up? And he was like, yeah, that's the one, I'm gonna make jacob have an aneurysm? I was like, dude, that's fucking hilarious yep and jacob.
Speaker 2:Actually he didn't rage quit but like his wi-fi, went down, quote unquote and quit the game halfway after you guys like fell from up top, oh yeah yeah, yeah, dude, we got. So I don't know how high we got up. I'd say we probably got about the a third of the way up, though, and then and then he just fell all the way back down to the bottom and Jacob got off or his Wi-Fi crashed.
Speaker 1:Like only up was already fucking hard enough, but to add an element of Relying on people yeah, dude, relying on Stone. Fall off man. That guy can't even play Fall Guys.
Speaker 2:Dude, that guy Shout out Stone. He's so bad at most video games. He's great at Pokemon. He's insane at pokemon or like strategy turn-based. His knowledge of pokemon is nuts dude but when it comes to like, uh, mechanical gameplay bad, just bad. But it also is kind of like we're kind of like a crutch to him as well, because there were three of us and one of him, so if he were to fall off and the other three of us were like firmly planted, we, you can just pull them back up.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:Yeah, or there are some parts of the map where you like kind of have to fall and one of you has to be on either side, and it uses physics like wow, that's crazy, um so. So we would be able to help him a lot. But also, if you know, one of us caught bad footing and the rest of us weren't ready to to deal with that, then we would all just go back what happens if two you fall into your planet?
Speaker 1:uh, I think it depends. Can you still kind of get back up? Yeah, it kind of depends, but if it's like three in one, you're fucked right.
Speaker 2:It still kind of depends, okay so like if I'm on like a big flat platform and all three of them jump off like I'm waiting on an elevator, and three of them jump off. I can probably pull one of them up, okay, but if we're on like a narrow walkway and well, three people go off, then you're going to go with them because it's going to pull you a little bit and then you're fine.
Speaker 2:But if you have, you know, enough space for it to pull you a little bit and then you can just pull them back then, then it's okay okay so it is a kind of a forgiving game and much easier than only up in that way, like we made a lot more progress in that game than I probably ever made in only up.
Speaker 2:Okay, because that game was just rage inducing and kind of made to be that way the same way flappy bird was made to just be rage inducing and fun fact, both of those creators took their games off the market because they couldn't deal with the backlash from the community.
Speaker 1:So you can't buy only up anymore.
Speaker 2:The community, aka people fucking about to shoot themselves because they can't beat a fucking simple game. Just get good kid.
Speaker 1:That'd be my response.
Speaker 2:The games are hella simple but so hard. You know, in the same way, like Elden Ring, that game is not simple and complicated. But Flappy Bird, you get mad because you're like it's a cartoon bird. Why can't I fit it between these two fucking pipes? I've been waiting to say that I am so late to the Elden Ring party, but I just downloaded it four days ago and I've been loving it, bro, loving it. It's such a fun game, dude, I'm glad you don't hate it.
Speaker 2:It's right up my alley because I really love those MMORPGs sort of style. Even though this one isn't technically in all ways an MMORPG, it is still an RPG. I like games that you can build your character and customize the way that your character is going to end up, like what their strengths are going to be and stuff like that. You know, yeah, so uh, yeah, no, I've been loving it. It's plus, it's, it's fun. The whole style of combat is just more different than, like, what'm used to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, harder. Yeah, it's different than what I'm used to. The closest I've gotten to one of those games is playing Star Wars. Yeah, that game was actually really fun, but that game's not as that game. It's like Souls-like-ish, but it's not nearly as hard as any of the Souls games.
Speaker 2:I would call it a Souls-like. It's not as hard because, uh, cause you have force powers, but but that's the only thing that really makes it easier, to be honest, yeah.
Speaker 1:Uh, cause, like I'm too impatient though, did you play life of P at all, or was it lies of P? That's what it was. Lies of P? No, I didn't. I downloaded it, though, cause it was free on the game pass, I think. I just never Dude it's so fucking hard.
Speaker 2:And then we have a co-worker, braden fellow.
Speaker 1:He's hella good at those games, apparently. He's just. Yeah. He's good at all games, though Low key. He's just good at video games.
Speaker 2:Yeah, something activates there Would you guys say the same about me. Yeah, you're good at all games that you try.
Speaker 1:You're pretty good at games.
Speaker 2:Like you can pick up any game and you're immediately okay at it, but you can be good at any video game pretty quickly. Yeah, I feel the same about both of you boys. Just to be clear.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I feel like I'm more, like I can be good at first-person shooters.
Speaker 2:No, I think you can be good at any game, but the ones that you want to be good at are the first-person shooters.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like to shoot things.
Speaker 2:Or card games.
Speaker 1:Although I'm very excited for Gears. Yeah, yeah, even though that's third person, but still a shooter.
Speaker 2:I feel like I'm not. I feel like I'm okay at first-person shooters, but I'm never top leaderboard like killing it at first-person shooters?
Speaker 1:No, that's not true. You get a game every Every now and again. I get a game no, I'd say at least two to three times during a session. You're definitely the best player on the team.
Speaker 2:And I think you've gotten better over the years, but your mindset hasn't changed about it to where you're like I'm okay at FPSs, I'm just all right. I'm never really good at them. Whenever I hear you talk about them, you make it sound like you're stone at them, but you're not.
Speaker 1:Are we going sound like you're stone at them, but you're not like you're much. You're gonna start using that as a verb you're much.
Speaker 2:Yes, you're much better than you give yourself credit for at those kinds of games. You know what I mean. I've seen it on x defiant, on call of duty, like you had games where, like you popped off for sure. But I think there's a mental barrier there to where you're already telling yourself you're not great at them, so you don't allow yourself to be as good as you could be. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2:yeah I think when I started like uh, like you were saying a few years ago, I used to just say I'm bad at fps games now I say I'm okay at them, which is a step up in its own way.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it is kind of a mental blockade. So when I go into like games like x defiant, everybody was telling me, oh you're, you're going to hate this game. Keegan's specifically going to hate this game and I was like okay, so I reduced all my expectations to zero. And then I play the game and then I'm not terrible at it and I'm like, oh, I'm actually pretty good at this game, this is pretty fun. But then I get in my own head about that.
Speaker 1:And then yeah.
Speaker 2:FPS games are more of a mental game against myself than it is against the other players. No, because you're good, I've seen you. I've even seen you like I've spectated you and I'm like, you're not bad at this game, like you could beat, I'm sure an average player.
Speaker 1:Your aim is good. I just don't think you.
Speaker 2:Tactically, I like to run and gun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to say like a running gun. Yeah, I was gonna say like patient uh, you have decent aim. You're not always like optimizing movement yeah, that makes sense. But like, uh, whenever you get to shoot at someone, I'm like, oh, he's gonna kill right here.
Speaker 2:It also depends on the game. Like we're playing valorant, I'm not patient enough for valorant. Valorant's less movement, heavy and more like you just have to be you got to pick a corner and camp it, and well, not even.
Speaker 1:You just have to have, you have to, you have to have a dialed sensitivity and used to your sensitivity.
Speaker 2:Those those games, specifically those fps style games like counter-strike or valorant, are also very different than your average shooter because they have very strict recoil patterns. No, I'm okay. Uh, they have very strict recoil patterns that you sort of have to follow and like when you can pick up those recoil patterns. Those guys that like pick those recoil patterns up and stuff, those guys are fucking like insane you know what I mean, because two with valor and games like that are more technical yeah, they're more like actual mechanical ability, because you have to be able to both.
Speaker 1:Your hands have to be in sync at all time, because you can't really move and shoot at the same time. No, you also have to be able to control recoil with one hand while you're like either crouching or ship walking or using an ability yeah, or using an ability. Both those games are definitely like any valorant style.
Speaker 2:Shooter is definitely more mechanical skill based than it is anything else yeah, like, but you throw one of those kids in a call of duty lobby and they're going to be thrown off their game as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just because, like yeah, call of duty is.
Speaker 2:They're completely different you can move and shoot you can't do that in valor.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you move and shoot, you're just gonna miss, you're gonna miss everything.
Speaker 2:It's not even close how much?
Speaker 2:you're. It's also it's funny too, because not only do they have recoil patterns for every specific gun, they have recoil patterns for if you're standing, recoil patterns for if you are crouch walking, recoil patterns for if you're like regular walking recoil patterns for if you are crouch walking, recoil patterns for if you're like regular walking, recoil patterns for if you're running. And that's why I say like those sorts of style, like games, are so technically proficient, because these guys like don't even think about the fact that when they're running and turning a corner, they know their like third bullet is gonna be way off up to the top right you know they have to aim like your balls.
Speaker 1:So fucking hit your head.
Speaker 2:That's why I'm saying those sorts of shooter games, for like people that play those shooter games are nuts. Because to me I'm just like you. You have to like understand that games like sort of uh, like physics and like everything, like on a different level, like and it's just like the wildest thing, like cs go pros and like valorant pros, I've got nothing I've got.
Speaker 2:I've got nothing but respect nothing but respect for those guys, because they are fucking nuts dude. I took adderall once and it was just to do the podcast and some homework and I was like, damn, I wish I was playing video games right now, because I would have been locked in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah yeah, and these days I play video games to just kind of like as a as a distraction, yeah, as a wind down activity. I don't like being stressed while I'm playing. Chain together is different, but like you know what I'm saying, I don't want to be constantly thinking and stressed. I like to kick back, I like to relax while I just I don't want to be constantly thinking and stressed.
Speaker 1:I like to kick back. I like to relax. I love being competitive. That's why I play sports. I fucking play video games. I just like being competitive. I like close games. You might not think you're going to win. Can I just say, Norm, you're a great competitor, Thanks dude you are, I try to be, I like to win. You show up to play, norm, you're a great competitor.
Speaker 2:Thanks, dude. You are, I try to be, I like to win. You show up to play. Why don't you do cocktail competitions, things like that?
Speaker 1:I don't know if I'm creative enough for cocktail competitions.
Speaker 2:Because I think of stuff.
Speaker 1:When it comes to, I think I can make really good cocktails, but then when it comes to the extra shit, I'm not creative enough. Yeah, like when like people's presentations and shit, I'm like I'm not gonna think I can't think of that shit. Yeah, you can, but sometimes no, that's.
Speaker 2:I don't think titions are different sometimes the competitions are just like hey, can you bartend?
Speaker 1:and they'll give you recipes and you just gotta provide with what you got I think I could do that easy, but yeah, if it's a get what you get situation and yeah, I would fuck shit, bring in a million ingredients and try to blow me away because I don't think I could do that shit either.
Speaker 2:If they're like hey, free reign, just make the greatest cocktail, someone's gonna show up with fucking vermouth balls and like this crazy garnish yeah, I'm not, and that's the thing.
Speaker 1:I'm not about that. I just want to make a good drink.
Speaker 2:I just want to make a good a well-balanced, delicious cocktail, which is important, but that's why, if they made like a chopped, but for mixologists, I think? I could fuck that shit up. I would like to do cutthroat kitchen, but mixology yeah, like if they just showed up and they're like mystery ingredient they already have that. It's what is it, masters? That's yeah, it's that, no, like they don't do it like chop though now chopped is like.
Speaker 1:Specifically, they present you with a mystery ingredient and you have to use it in your drink.
Speaker 2:Drinkmasters was more like Top Chef, but for mixologists where it's like they give you everything you want.
Speaker 1:I see they maybe teach you a new technique and they're like hey, use this technique in your thing. But I'm just saying sheer, like, here's an ingredient, make a really good cocktail, deliver it. Um, I think I would be good at something like that, or like if presentation wasn't huge because, like even in my class when I took that spears class, there was like two, two or three, like literally like world-class bartenders in my class. For whatever reason, they just took it for fun and like their final cocktail was like a one guy made a beauty and the beast themed cocktail that he served inside of a glass dome that he smoked yeah, and he made it look like a rose and I was like no, I was like what?
Speaker 2:I just like I don't have that it's like a nick and nora glass and yeah, I mean yeah dude.
Speaker 1:I was like okay, I was like yeah. I was like yeah, fuck me right. I was like I just made a fucking spicy watermelon margarita.
Speaker 2:You make like a but my shit with fire, though, is a spicy watermelon margarita with uh ginger liqueur and fucking reposado tequila and a fucking gas dude when, uh when michelle made the spicy cucumber margarita for our menu or whatever it sold it still sells so much and I was upset because I was like this is the easiest fucking cocktail yeah, I was like there's nothing yeah and that's I'm like, I'm over.
Speaker 1:It kind of taught me I'm like I'm overthinking every step of the process when you can just make an easy yeah I've realized that the longer I bartender, where a lot of times like less is more, like adding the extra bitters or like something on top, you usually don't need that. Now.
Speaker 1:You need like three to four good ingredients, maybe an herb, maybe a bitter yeah maybe something like that on top, and then like you're set like even that fucking, that orchard, yeah, the compass box, thing we made, and then we yeah, and thing we made, and then we yeah, and then we put, and then you put bitter. Honestly, the bitter made it better but like well, that was like four ingredients, five ingredients. Most, most cocktail, well, not most and that shit was hella good dude.
Speaker 2:A lot of cocktail competitions.
Speaker 1:They have like weird with it. But then it's like I feel like you just take too much away from the spirit. Yeah, you're forgetting what you're doing. Yeah, and in any cocktail you want to taste even a lemon drop, like you want to be able to taste the citrus vodka somewhat.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You don't want to lose that.
Speaker 2:I like what we do with the flaming lemon at nora's. Like we'll we'll, we take a candied lemon that we make and we'll cover it in 151 and light it on fire and then let that caramelize for a little bit and then you dip it in the cocktail in front of the customer. It does nothing for the cocktail, really.
Speaker 1:It's minute it maybe makes it does something for the garnish, like you can eat the garnish afterwards and it tastes sweet. You can eat the garnish afterwards and it tastes sweet. You can eat the garnish before you can eat the garnish before too, which I do all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Dude, I'll just grab one and cut it up and then I have a fucking yeah A little snack. But like, yeah, it makes it sweeter when you caramelize it, though, but it's really just for show.
Speaker 2:That's cool, but that is, that's something I don't know, and you know, uh, but it's just extra enough that you're like, hey, this is doing something without doing too much, I think, and a lot of garnishes just be doing too much to do too much yeah but yeah, I did go to velveteen rabbit recently and try their new cocktails.
Speaker 2:Fire, uh, yes, what was your favorite? What did I get? I'm trying, I'm trying to think I got a shoot. Let me pull up their menu. You guys talk about something. I'll tell you which ones I got. There were some pretty good cocktails, though people don't people don't know alcohol as well as I like to think that they do, because one of mano's friends had a little test and it was like name three gins and she was like I struggled and I was like really, I was like really like you've been bartending for a while.
Speaker 1:She was like I just don't make a lot of gin drinks and so, like you know, I didn't know, and then it was definitely we're more educated than an average bartender, far more, which is crazy, because like I don't, I don't, I didn't know, and then it was, I mean definitely we're more educated than an average bartender, far more, which is crazy because like I don't, I don't, I don't think about it.
Speaker 2:Obviously I just know the stuff you know but I don't think about how much more I really do know than the next guy yeah yeah, uh, and when experts come in and they talk to me about stuff, I'm like, oh yeah, I can, I can keep up in the conversation yeah, you know, I don't know everything, but I know enough to get me through whatever. I got this cocktail called the viper oil because it looked very interesting. It just sounds cool.
Speaker 2:Good name dragon fruit, tequila, coconut fat, washed campari, uh, grapefruit agave, that sounds good fire tincture, so it was spicy yeah, I drank it serrano foam and wasabi salt and it was actually that sounds crazy. It was, it was spicy. Yeah, I drank it serrano foam and wasabi salt and it was actually that sounds crazy, it was, it was crazy yeah, well, glass was the server nick, and nor glass okay with the, with the wasabi salt as green as I wanted it to be in my head.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, cool it's a dark atmosphere. Yeah, it is really dark in there, uh, but yeah, and then I got dude I'm hella jealous of campos. This one has a beet infused tequila that looked, and it says an orange peel sfumato. What is this?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:I looked it up. It says it's a painting technique where they use like a gradient and I was like how the fuck is that an alcohol and then mint air what?
Speaker 1:that's cool. Uh, I thought it was a flavor blaster, but it's not okay it's like the bubbles that they did with the aquarium filter or whatever I was gonna say so.
Speaker 1:canvos is going to mexico city soon when the the restaurant closes, um, and he's going to like two of the top 50 bars in the world while he's in mexico city because there's like a couple of them out there and I'm like super jealous I told him to please take pictures of the drinks he has and hopefully the menu with it, so I can see the ingredients.
Speaker 2:This is the other one I got and I actually really like this one Rum spiced turmeric and ginger sugar bowl spiced rum. Yeah that sounds good Cream, lemon and Irish flower. It was very baking spicy it.
Speaker 1:it was very baking spicy. Yeah, it was delicious I love turmeric and ginger uh wealth shots.
Speaker 2:So, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I not. It was more all spice and like spiced rum type flavors for sure, that's cool but that one was also delicious and I love dude, I fucking love velveteen.
Speaker 1:They always do the most velveteen's the shit dude. That's the best bar in Vegas. I'll say it until I die, probably.
Speaker 2:I went to Oak and Ivy again. Oak and Ivy's good bar, very good Good bar, very different than when I remember it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They had a menu first of all when I went the first couple times, I think.
Speaker 1:they usually do have a menu, but most of the time it depends on who's working.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:If the people working are just feeling good, they just won't give you a menu. They'll just ask you what you're feeling that's how I prefer my experience.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's what I love. A lot of bartenders, I think, hate it, but I love when a customer comes in. They're like, just make me something, and I just go. Are you allergic to anything? Is there anything you don't like? Great, I'm gonna make you something, you know I like that if I have time.
Speaker 1:If we're slammed, I'm like I can't be as creative as you want me to be, so I'm gonna make you a poker special actually, if, if we're slammed and somebody just says that to me, I default to your cocktail with the basil and the black. Yeah, because it's easy as fuck and it's good, and interchange a spirit. You know, dude, we I don't know why we don't put that on the menu, I just think, I just think it was the.
Speaker 2:I think it was the selling point. It was too ambiguous.
Speaker 1:I think that's what would sell it. People would be like, oh, I love tequila, let me get that. Or people would be like, oh, I love whiskey, let me get that. Or I love vodka, let me get that it's great with every spirit that we tried.
Speaker 2:It'd probably be good if you used oh, what are we gonna be using, like chartreuse? I mean it's a main spirit, probably probably.
Speaker 1:Yeah, blackberries, peach, basil, chartreuse yeah, that'd be probably.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the basil would be a great accent, but yeah, it'd still be good, uh, but yeah, there there's like a couple. I keep like five cocktails, one for each spirit, or premium spirit or main spirit, for the most part in my head.
Speaker 1:I made a Corpse Reviver no 2 the other day for one of our regulars. I thought we were missing something. No, we have all of it. It's just lemon juice.
Speaker 2:Well, it calls for.
Speaker 1:Cointreau, but I just use the orange liqueur we have, or maybe I'm thinking of a zombie. Gin, lemon juice, quantro and Lillet and then a dash of Absinthe.
Speaker 2:I've only been asked for one of those one time.
Speaker 1:They're fucking good, dude, since I've worked at it. They're astringent, they're a little dry, but they're fire.
Speaker 2:I literally was like no, we don't have that.
Speaker 1:I think you probably have all the ingredients. Do you carry Lele? Yeah, but we don't have absinthe. Oh, okay, you just put like a very small amount. You literally put a dash.
Speaker 2:I literally now. Anytime somebody asks for something with absinthe in it, I tell them the closest thing that we have to it is pastis, which is very like licorice and anise tasting. I don't know pastis is. Pastis is like a liqueur from france that like is horrible and tastes like uh, licorice and anise.
Speaker 1:Um, but I feel, when anyone asks me about sambuca, but it is, this shit sucks it's the closest thing that I could even compare to so like I'm like I tell them straight up.
Speaker 2:I'm like, hey, like we don't have absinthe, but if you want, I have something that's kind of comparable that could replace that ingredient. And I'm telling you right now I'm not sure if it's gonna taste the way you want it to, but if you want me to go for it, then I can. I give them the full discretion advised like thing, like okay, if that's what you want, okay, but just know it's not going to turn out exactly the way that you want it to. I like when people ask me to make a cocktail that I've never made before and I'm like do you know what goes in it? And I was like, okay, I'll make it.
Speaker 2:And, uh, I can't guarantee it comes out right, but you, you know what? If you don't like it, it's free. And then I'll go make a cocktail and I'm like I know they're going to like it Regardless, because I know enough about cocktails that if you give me the ingredients, I'll make it at least balanced with whatever you tell me. If you like it, that's on you. But I'm really just doing it to make a new cocktail because I like making new shit.
Speaker 1:It's fun for me, it's like doing a puzzle you know I'm still not a huge fan of the people who come in and they're like Can I get a fucking like a? Can I get a? Can I get the? Oh, whatever, what like Can?
Speaker 2:I get a zombie.
Speaker 1:Insert name of no. Insert name of a cocktail they had at the last restaurant they were at. Yeah, I'm like I've never heard of that.
Speaker 2:Could I get a Guatemalan sunrise? Yeah, right, so they say something like that and make a dance for me, bar boy.
Speaker 1:And I'm like can you tell me what's in it? And they're like no, but I had a Maggiano's and I'm like dude, that's not a cocktail we can do, that's not real.
Speaker 2:That's not a real cocktail.
Speaker 1:Tell me why. Fucking Brayden, this man, he made cocktail, it was like Sunday, I think. He made cocktails for this couple and this lady asked him like can I order this, can I order this right on time wherever I go? And Brayden was like hey, norman, can she order this anywhere? I was like hey, norman, can she order this anywhere? I was like brayden, no, I was like absolutely. I was like absolutely not. Do not go anywhere and ask for a ride on time, you'll look like a jackass.
Speaker 2:I was like, don't do it. Yeah, sometimes brayden, like you know, but he's such a smart kid I'm like dude, figure it out bro but, like some, sometimes there's like a common sense aspect yeah, I'm like dude.
Speaker 1:There's no way. You just asked. No, you can't.
Speaker 2:You can't order that anywhere all right, boys, it's time to wrap this fucking bitch up all right, wrapping this bitch up. Uh, thanks for watching, yep that's I don't know.
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