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27/01/2025

Look what John got for Christmas from Friend of the Show Matt P.!

30/12/2024

To celebrate the coming New Year, we present our Thanksgiving episode!
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Episode 97 begins with the usual mayhem and we discuss raking leaves. A mercifully minimal amount of post-election blather. Thanksgiving and other updates. We watched the movie, ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor! and discussed our scant history with this iconic place. The episode wraps up with our report from s...

18/11/2024

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13/11/2024

Get your kicks with episode 96!

Episode 96 shambles along with the following topics: We talk briefly about Dean Phillips and his family’s booze company. We remember the late Kris Kristofferson. John talks about pot stilling and a potential bust in the whiskey market after reading this article. It’s election season… We both w...

23/10/2024

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21/10/2024

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22/09/2024

We got the 95!

We open with a slightly higher than usual amount of what passes for banter. Phil has a kombucha and graduates to some Wild Turkey 101 bourbon. John has a dram of Minneapolis-made, Brother Justus American Single Malt. Phil and John visited this distillery recently and have some observations. The 1992...

26/07/2024

Uh yeah, so we could make some excuses about our slow production schedule (?) but you can blame it on the rain.

Today, we’re joined by returning Special Guest, Shawn Cassity! (not Shaun Cassidy, but if you know him, we’ll have him on too) Shawn is having a Keeper’s Heart, Phil a Tusker Lager and John is drinking Dewar's 15 year scotch. After we get the usual junk out of the way, we have a brief chat abo...

23/05/2024

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Today is sponsored by the letter “Green”. John is drinking a Johnnie Walker Island Green and describes how it’s made, travel retail and the differences between it and Johnnie Walker Green. Phil starts with green tea, then moves over to Old Forester. Airport security Phil’s trip to New Mexico...

12/04/2024

Hey Kids, we made another one!

We open episode 92 with another round of booze where we talk a bit about Old Grand Dad bourbon and the Bottled in Bond thing. Phil went to a whiskey tasting. John also does a taste comparison between two different High West ryes. A mercifully brief post-Super Tuesday chat. Celebrity crushes. Phil ha...

04/04/2024

New family-sized Potato Olés®, coming April 31st😁🤣

09/03/2024

Season 9 Song Demos are UP!

11 track album

06/03/2024

We're back!

We open Episode 91 with just your two hosts; a simpler time. Phil and John took several weeks off of booze and sure, why not talk about it? John went on another cruise. Fortunately for all of you, he doesn’t spend too much time talking about it. After our beverage choices (Phil has FUYU Japanese W...

22/02/2024

While you wait for our next episode to, "drop", here is a "Pro" tip for you Costco shoppers.

The bottle on the right is Costco's house brand 12 year blended Scotch which is similar in quality, perhaps even "smoother", to Chivas Regal 12 or Johnnie Walker Black but of course, cheaper!

The Problem (without Jon Stewart) with this is that it comes in a cartoonishly-large 1.75 liter bottle that is awkward to pour from and hard to fit on your average Ikea shelf.

SO, I just decant (whisky snob voice) this into an empty Black Label 1.75 "handle" (it even has a HANDLE!) and it's now there for my pouring convenience. Bonus Feature: if any guests were to have a pour from this, they'd likely not guess they were drinking the cheap stuff.

Yes, that is what we're doing instead of releasing another episode, for those who are curious. Apologies for all the quotation marks.

17/02/2024

Ohai. Episode 91 has been recorded and may even be edited soon!

03/01/2024

This one got pushed into 2024 but at least it wasn't an already-out-of-date holiday show!

Episode 90 is a free-wheelin’ doozy of a season finale of Season 9, for those following along at home. With Special Guest Mr. King! Monsieur King (Monsieur is French for Mister) is a friend of Phil, friend of the show and the friendly creator of the World-Famous podcast, Sleep Baseball! King is dr...