Yeah. So the, the website is mini play dot com. M I N IP L A Y and it's got a ton of games. Most of them look like knockoffs. So like this, this plants versus zombies here is, it says fan made on it. So it's like, oh, we just copied the code and did our own thing, but it's totally not licensing infringement anyway. You wouldn't even know no way, shape or form, no way, shape or form. Not at all. All right, let's start the show. Welcome to the Bottle of Brown Podcast.
I am your host, Danny Paul. Joining me in the Bob Media Studios is our vice host, the Baron of Bourbon, the Shah of Santa Margarita, the Lord of loathes Leon Coventry, ladies and gentlemen, Danny, I'm super psyched. How long has it been? It feels like forever. Couple of weeks, a couple of weeks we, we want to fire off the year and then you know, stuff. Life vacations. Yeah. You know, life. It, it's a pain in the ass. Shit is what it is. Yeah, it is what it is. It's great to be here.
Great to be here. Indeed because this is season three people. Season three of the Bottle of Brown Podcast. And I'm happy to note, uh, Leon that we have a new segment tonight. And so the regular line up that you all the Bobs out there might remember from season two, we're gonna mix it up. We're gonna keep all your favorites, but we're gonna shuffle them because we're gonna add some new favorites. And tonight we're doing a new segment on Space and Technology. So that's our science segment.
I call it S T S Space Technology. Science. What else have we got on the docket here? We're gonna go brown news. We got our top story. We've got uh crank file. We've got what we're gonna affectionately refer to as hero of the week. Although it is technically a Florida man. And then we've got another top story that we're bringing to a close out which I think we've called like a Happy Times or we'll figure out what we want to call it.
But the idea is similar to bottom of the bottle rather than a random fact to it. We're actually going to end it on a high note. So let's like we like to make fun of people from Florida and we're gonna branch beyond Florida to find, you know, the hero of the week.
Uh But Happy Times is designed to end the show on a high note where we go, all right, faith in humanity restored because they think uh we were having a little bit too much fun at other people's expense and we wanna, we wanna bring the spirits up a little bit. But, um, we're not gonna go with a loath tonight. We're gonna bring a loath back on a future episode. But, uh, Mr Jones has expressed an interest in loathing himself so we might do a point counterpoint. I don't know. I don't know.
Season three, we're mixing it up. We're, we're not keeping it fresh. We're not keeping it excited. We're not doing the right thing. I think we need, we need to make sure that everybody out there understands that. Uh hey, we're gonna evolve with the times. This is, this is not a static show and I applaud all your efforts, Danny content. People, speaking of content, what I went with uh something a little more rare and fancy tonight. I'm going with uh how you met Bar Year.
Yeah, it's uh this one's a Yeah. Yeah. This was the March 2006 barrel date. So, and it's uh delicious, not, not overly crazy. It's only 96.2 proof, but it uh it is smooth and delicious. And uh if you can find it, get it, get it and get it. What about you, Danny? So if you remember from last episode, I'm kind of on a weeded bourbon kick because you can't find green Label Weller, you know, unless you know somebody and I saw the meme, I saw that there was supposed to be some Costco in Tucson.
That's got a whole rack of brown label. Well, I call lies. I don't wanna uh I don't want to polish off my bottle of Weller because you know that's a unicorn. Once you ride the unicorn, it turns into fairy dust and disappears. So I've been trying to find other heated bourbons. Uh Last episode I got a bottle of Redemption Weed Bourbon, which is absolutely amazingly delicious. I drank all of it. I had to get another bottle today. Tonight's drink is also a heated bourbon and this is LARS too.
And I know you're familiar with larceny. So this is small batch 92 proof bourbon mash bill. And I got a good Yeah, it's good. I like it. I like it. I don't like it as much as redemption, but I do like it. Have you crossed over? Are you on my dark side now? No, but I am curious that um so I was in the water today. I am bourbon. Curious. I'm a bourbon enthusiast. I'm a guy who likes to bourbon. Well, the price points better, that's for sure for real.
Except I was in the Total Wines today and I went by the glass case because I've tried Mr jones' thing of CV S and Safeway and there's actually one more safe way I can try in my area. But it's tough to find a good spot because I don't have any honest to God, liquor stores. Right. Like there's no high times, there's no, what's the place that Triple B goes to?
Oh, it's, uh, well, there's O C bottle shop and then there's, um, Cyprus, Cyprus, Cyprus based on, based on her descriptions and your descriptions. I don't have anything like that. Um, so the best I can do is the big stores, but there's a gigantic one coming down here in surprise off three oh three. That's supposed to be umpteen million square feet of total wine. Anyway, to the point. Barrel. Barrel barrel, do you know this brand Barrel? E A R R E L L rather plain bottle.
They're like the simple shoes of whiskey. There, there's not much to it. It's, it's, it's, it's smooth class. It's pretty, it's a very good looking bottle, but it's got very smooth lines to it. And I looked at the case and I was like, what the fuck? It's 304 106 108 100 they're all blends. So they're rocking a $600 glass in total wine of blends. And I said, all right. Well, where's the cheap stuff?
And I walked over to the regular aisle, you know where the, where the thieves hang out and it was 100 and 2099 80 70. And so the cheapest barrel bourbon was 70 and it's a blend. Mhm. Yeah, I don't know the world's coming to. Yeah, I don't, I can't we, we have a couple of those and, and they're good. I have a, I can't say that they're worth the price. I don't think that they are a value but if you got money to throw around and you want to buy good bourbon, it's, you're not gonna mess with them.
It, it tastes delicious. But I don't think, uh I think you can get a lot more for less money, not the price point. That's right. What you're saying is it's this great, ain't me? That's right. Hey, if you get it for your birthday or for Christmas, it's a, it's a win but uh I wouldn't go out and buy it yourself. All right. I like it. Well, now that we talked about Brown, talk about Brown. How you doing? Whiskey and whiskey? This is the darkest brown you got.
Yeah. Say homes uh where they hide in the skies. What about um Brown? That's code for bourbon. Great stuff. This bourbon comes from a land called Kentucky. Talk about Brown. There's a special run in hell. Is that for people who waste good Scotch? Oh, yes, I think so. Can I have one more of these with some booze in it, please? So fun. Fact that last clip in our Brown news intro, do you know that movie is from uh is that it's Groundhog Day? Groundhog Day? Ok. You know, I knew the actor.
It is Groundhog Day. We are recording on Groundhog Day. I was gonna say he also likes to play in the, uh, Pro Am, which is up in the Pebble Beach program. And that's started today as well. So, this was, I think the first reality. So this was the end of the first day. And that's when he said I'd like some more of these, some boos in it, please. And I ran across a very interesting article about Groundhog Day. He lived something like 35 years and 350 days.
If you presume that all of the high skilled stuff that he learns like piano and ice sculpting and all that shit. If you assume it takes him 10,000 hours to get that proficient and then all the ways that he says he died off screen that we never see if somebody did the math. It was, he spent 35 years living the same day. It just goes to prove that people have way too much time on their hands to go.
Yeah, I know for real, uh, you know that Mr Jones and I went to Gobblers Knob, the actual Gobblers knob on this, on this day. The, not the one that looks like Chicago, the actual one in punk. You didn't go on the Groundhog Day, did you? Yes, we did. Absolutely. We were there. That's why we celebrate every year by saying happy, happy Groundhog Day to each other.
So that, uh, you know, my, my life, I've already told you my life goal is to hit all the places in the locations on the dates where it's the biggest day we've talked about this. I want to be in Times Square on New Year's. I want, I've been in New Orleans on Mardi Gras. I've been in Chicago on Saint Patty's Day. I've been in punk Saami on this fine February 2nd. These are things I, I have to check off my list. You do, you do? So you know what you gotta do next?
What you gotta figure out the day in July of 1969 and you gotta go to the moon, no excuses, which is up there. Uh Actually just need to be a movie set apparently somewhere in Hollywood. I'm Rogan. Let's keep this going. Tonight's Brown news comes to us from inside hook dot com. This is the first bourbon aged in space in space after a convention. Mystic Galactic Bourbon. Good name, huh? Mystic Galactic bourbon will spend a year in low earth orbit or Leo for you space nerds.
If everything goes right, the article begins, we've had bourbons aged at sea Jefferson Ocean. Tried it in the show and Rise aged while traveling route 66. Don't know that one. I'll have to add that to the list, but we've never had a whiskey aged in space which may happen sooner than later. Thanks to an ambitious new bottle announced called Mystic Galactic. A heavily heated. Oh, I gotta try it.
Now a heavily heated 100 proof bourbon from North Carolina's Mystic Farm and Distillery galactic will be aged three years on the ground and then one year in space, well, low earth orbit, a ground control version will use the same mash bill but will age conventionally only on earth. Overall, the distillery expects to get about 1000 bottles out of the experiment. How likely is this to happen?
While high consumption reports, The company's vague promise to work with companies like SpaceX Rocket Lab and Bank of America. It seems the potential customers are going to have a lot of faith.
The good news is that Mystic promises that if they're unable to deliver, the bourbon buyers will receive a refund of their deposit unless any event, admissions and app access charges incurred up to that point still, it's a steep bett $75,000 which gets you a 750 mil bottle in a specially designed flight kit, 50 mil tasting sample part of the barrel that was in space access to two ultra luxury events,
the launch and the recovery and an app where you can follow the aging process and get other information while the bottle is in orbit. There's also an N F T which not only give us pause but here, it simply seems to be a way to authenticate bottle ownership. You also have to pick up the bottle in person. I think that it's really cool idea and also, I really, I mean, nobody knows what it's gonna be like.
So I, I feel like it's gonna be like all those poor San Francisco fans who spent $4,000 on a ticket to watch their quarterback get injured in the first quarter. Yeah, that's what I think it's gonna be, I think it's gonna taste like snot. That's exactly why I went with it. That'll be a pretty bottle, won't it? It will be a pretty bottle. I think you can talk about it for years and years. But at the end of the day it's, it's gonna suck.
Yeah. The physics of a barrel in orbit and on reentry present interesting questions of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, orbital mechanics and virtually every aspect of aerospace engineering it costs about $10,000 was a pound to go into space, Leon. So, what are we looking at for a barrel here? But listen, we've already understood what makes a barrel good? Why do they age it longer and why do we say? Ok, that's what makes it good, you know, 20 year, 18 year, what makes it good?
It's that it goes through this. We talked about this over and over. It goes through the seasons and the barrel expands and contracts. What was interesting about like Jefferson's Ocean? Is it accelerates the process a little bit because it's sitting on a barge swishing around, right? So it's kind of like maybe it's more contact with the barrel and maybe it's absorbing some of the barrels. Lots of humidity. Yeah. But when you go up into space there's, it's weightless.
So, why would it in any way, shape or form, go in and out of that barrel? And I think it'll just sit in the barrel and it's climbing. Yeah, there's nothing that, exactly. Right. So, what about that? Makes it a better barrel. That's, that's, that's what I have to say about it. Uh It's, it's a gimmick. It's interesting. It's very interesting. It's, it's the uh equivalent to abstract art. I look at it. I don't understand it. I would not spend thousands and thousands but there's morons out there.
That would, yeah, you're effectively looking at $100 a milliliter. So serious shit. Hey, I'd love to know the science behind why they think that would make it taste any, any better than just moonshine barrel. You got me. But one whole barrel gonna go up in space, you know, Elon might do it. He's, he's interested in gimmicks like that. Uh Anyway, this isn't the first booze in space. A beg conducted a very small experiment with some whiskey vials on the International Space Station in 2011.
And an experiment on the International Space Station for bottles of space aged wine happened more recently. But we can't think of another instance where barrels are going into orbit, especially because barrels are freaking heavy cause the show for a sick how much does a barrel of whiskey weigh £550. Ok. At $10,000 a pound ready for that. Yeah, maybe the 2 $5.5 million. So it's $5.5 million to send a barrel into space and they want to get 75 grand a bottle.
How many bottles do you think you get in a barrel? What is 100 and well, I think on average it's 100 and 1220. I wanna say 100 and 20 bottles times 75,000 gets them nine million. All right. So they're gonna double their money if they pull this off. All right. All right. I like the math. I'm proud of them. Well done. Yeah, because it hasn't been aged that long. The, the angels have not had their cut space angels, space angels. I would watch that show coming on Netflix. Good name for a band too.
I can't find out what to watch. Watch Space Angels on Netflix. All right. All right. That wraps up talking about brown. Let's get to our top story news team. A let's get down, let's get down to business and I got news for you. Nice. Top story comes to us from fast company. Break dancing will soon be an Olympic sport. These guys designed a system to score it breaking. Electric breaking will debut at the Summer Olympics in Paris next year, it's time to start learning how to watch it.
Uh You know, why not breaking? Would you rather watch figure skating or break dancing? Doesn't know how the skaters are fair enough? He must work out, I would say. All right. So another side, I was listening to the radio on a family trip out to a restaurant and the stroke came on from Billy Squire and the stroke was the routine that Will Ferrell goes out in the beginning of Blades of Glory. And if you listen to it, it's a horrible song for having Children in the car.
And all I saw was that moment where Will Ferrell skates right by the judges and he jumps and does the splits and he points right at the judges. And he says, you, have you ever noticed your Children actually listen to every word of the song? Bill calls it out all the time, all the time. Like I had no idea. That's what the song was about. You got me. I had, I've, I've heard this song 40,000 times in my life and I don't know how to explain what I just heard, but you're right.
That's what it's about and you smell like you're in luck. All right, the article begins if you haven't thought much about break dancing since break and two electric boal hit multiplexes in 1884 or are too young to know what that even is.
It may come as a surprise to learn that a competitive head spin to head spin dance sport version of the form has been steadily growing in global popularity ever over the last few decades and is now set to become the newest Olympic event, the sport which will be go by breaking when it makes its debut at the 2024 summer Games in Paris as part of the International Olympic Committee's efforts in recent years to attract younger viewers with globally popular subculture based events like skateboarding,
BMX and rock climbing in breaking competitions. Pairs of dancers face off in quote battles unquote, adapting their moves in response to music selected, mixed and scratched by a DJ. One dancer will have a performance and then the other one will try to outdo them in some way. Viewers will see dancers facing off against each other doing rounds against each other. Says veteran UK based DJ and break dancing.
Judge Kevin Renegade Goy who coined the scoring system called Trivium that will be used in the Olympics, unlike a lot of other sports where each person does their performance independently and then is scored. Our sport is scored comparatively. This is no less ridiculous than synchronized swimming. A little, a little less. You think it's ridiculous? Yeah. Could be, could be good.
So I'm I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna throw some truth at you when we're done talking on this on this because the the whole origin of break dancing is pretty interesting in the trivium system. Officials compare each battle's dancers moves and style to their opponents with special scrutiny paid to categories called body, physical move, mind, creativity and response to the music and the opponents moves and soul interpretive flair and style. Because each battle is judged comparatively strategic.
Competitors will study their opponents strengths and weaknesses in order to capitalize on them on the dance floor. If I know that your weakness is footwork, for instance, I'd do some footwork because I'd know you wouldn't be able to respond. Says Neils Storm Rabii, the Berlin German based dancer and judge who co created the scoring system. Can you do that in a German accent, please? There is. Oh uh yes.
If comes up later in the article uh for a taste of the modern competitive format, check out the boys and girls finals from the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Argentina, which included break dancing as a way of testing the sport's viability for the main Olympic Games. The experiment was a major success with the Washington post reporting that breaking turned in bigger social media numbers than any other sport in Buenos Aires. But how did break dancing?
Which achieved its first wave of mass appeal when it burst out of the outer boroughs of New York alongside other forms of urban b boy culture, like rapping and graffiti regained such broad international popularity that it's now coming to the Olympics after the massive explosion of hip hop worldwide in 1982 and 83 the fad was over and the flame was going out by 86 says Renegade Renegade Renegade, who's Renegade Renegades the brit.
But in Europe and the UK, we continued to hold competition and we began networking with dancers and a loose federation of other leagues around the world diehards in Germany, UK, us, Scandinavia, Japan and beyond nurture the flame with events growing in size and stature until the biggest cops began getting sponsored by brands like Red Bull and Monster Energy, dedicated breaking websites and later viral youtube videos gave the scene a massive boost with dancers from all corners of the globe,
inspired to invent new moves and outdo each other says Storm, you'll have a kid in the middle of nowhere in Russia who has nothing to do all day except dances as attention gathers. The longtime underground culture is changing, rapidly practice facilities and gyms are opening up. Certain athletes get nutritionists something we never had back in the day.
Now, Renegade says top breaking an athletes are fielding endorsement requests from Nike Adidas and others are seen as very special young dancers, athletes with something to say with interesting lifestyles. There's massive potential for those companies to benefit from what we do. Pretty neat. You ever seen one of these competitions? I've never seen the competitions, but certainly I've seen the street performers next time I see one, I'll send it to you because I get one occasionally on Instagram.
Yeah. It's interesting. I think the only thing I'm not a fan of, of this whole thing is, I don't know that I, I'm psyched about the battle format. I think more people than less people would be psyched about the battle format. One on one and who be two.
But I think if it was more like the gymnastics, like floor exercise where it was like, hey, everyone gets a chance to like, we're gonna, I'm gonna show you some shit, I'm gonna, we're gonna do some shit and we're gonna blow your mind and that would be cool because then you get to see everybody's strengths and then you get to compare it. So I understand it.
I obviously don't know enough about the sport, quote unquote, uh, to, to make a comment like that just personally as a viewer, I'd be more interested in seeing everybody at their best instead of trying to do things that they do a little bit better than the other person to see if they can catch them off guard. So it's a dance sport. Uh, and some of these guys are legitimate gymnasts like the shit that they can do, you know, just whipping around.
I mean, I bet you it's a version of, uh, the men's floor exercise. It's pretty much what it is because you've got windmills and you've got heads spas and you've got all kinds of fun stuff. Uh, fun fact. I remember, I remember taking an African American studies class in college. And they brought in one of the guys that I think eventually went on to found the Jabba Walkies, which is the big group that wears the, the white masks and they do a Vegas thing.
And he was talking about Brooklyn and, and Staten Island and Queens and all the boroughs of where of where breakdancing came from. And he taught me that the moonwalk is not the moonwalk, It's the backslide. The moonwalk was actually this thing where you spin around. And so Michael Jackson took the backslide and rec coined at the moonwalk. And everybody thinks it's the moonwalk but it's not, it's the backslide.
And the other thing he says is you got to think about how breaking was done in the sixties and seventies because there weren't guns back then. It was just knife fights. You think about West side story? He said, so what these guys would do from rival gangs is they'd go into the club and they didn't want to start trouble in the club because you stab somebody and the whole club empties and the night's over.
So what they would do is they would have dance battles and the moves came from all of the ways in which they would fight him out on the street. So they would make motions like stabbing, choking, punching. He said, and that was the way kids in the sixties and the seventies did it before they started having guns in the eighties. And what happened was that became associated with gang culture, which is kind of what pushed it out of the club and into the street.
And that's why in the eighties you got kids busting around on uh you know, cardboard and shit like flash dance and then breaking came along and, and Breaking Two and uh Fresh Groove and you know, all those, all those movies. So I was always fascinated with the idea of this stems from decades ago, gang culture and now it's become kind of this households quirky little thing that makes his way to the Olympics. So, Cedric the entertainer just nailed it.
And kings of comedy when he does that whole peace song. Yeah. Yeah. I break dancers and that's what break dancers want to do is they talk about how I'm gonna do something to you, but they do it on the dance floor and they do it so that the party keeps going well. I respect the concept. I don't know, I don't, I just, the battle just doesn't make sense to me. I understand that's the history of it. So, so be it. Great. Awesome. I can't wait to see it. I think it's, it's on par.
It's incredibly athletic and uh requires a lot of practice and a lot of athleticism and training. And I think when you watch somebody do it live, it's, it's hard to believe it. Yeah. You know, when they know what they're doing. So I, I can't wait. Let's see the best in the world. Yeah, that wraps up our top story. We'll be right back and we're back. So. Bourbon and Space, which brings us to our new segment. It's called Science Technology Space For One. Science isn't about why it's about why not.
So, technology. Thanks. Yeah. Science Technology Bags. What do you think, Leon? I'm jazzed about it. News. I wanna know more about science, science. All right. So today's uh our first opening segment from Science Daily and this is a legitimate scientific paper that was published in November. The source is the cell press and the summary is you want to fire up the dance floor, you gotta play low frequency bass. That's right. Not to be confused with this low frequency base.
It was a different kind of bass altogether to find out how different aspects of music influence the body. Researchers turned a live electronic music concert into a lab study by introducing levels of bass over the speakers that were too low to hear and monitoring the crowd's movements. Scientists found that people dance 11.8% more when the very low frequency bass was present to find out how different aspects of music influence the body.
Researchers turned a live electronic music concert into a lab study. The study appears November 7th in the current in the journal, current Biology. I'm trained as a drummer and most of my research career. Has been focused on the rhythmic aspects of music and how they make us move. Says first author Daniel Cameron, a neuroscientist from mcmaster University music is a biological curiosity doesn't reproduce us, doesn't feed us, doesn't shelter us.
So why do humans like it and why do they like to move to it? Cameron conducts research at the mcmaster Live Lab which connects science with live performance in a unique research theater. It's equipped with 0D motion capture a Myer sound system that can replicate various concert environments and enhanced speakers that can produce extremely low frequencies so low, they're undetectable to the human ear.
For the current biology study, Cameron and colleagues recruited participants at attending a live lab concert for electronic music duo Oryx. The concertgoers were equipped with motion sensing headbands to monitor their dance moves. Additionally, they were asked to fill out survey forms before and after the event. Uh Nothing about X yet, these forms were used to ensure the sound is undetectable measure, concert enjoyment and examine how the music felt physically throughout the 45 minute concert.
The researchers manipulated the very low bass playing speakers, turning them off and on every two minutes, they found the amount of movement was 12% greater. When the speakers were on, the musicians were enthusiastic to participate because of their interest in this idea that bass can change how the music is experienced in a way that impacts movement. The study had high ecological validity.
And this was a real musical and dance experience for people at a real life show the feeling of vibration through touch and the interactions between the inner ear and the brain have close links to the motor system. The researchers speculate these physical processes are at work in the neurological connection between music and movement. This anatomy can pick up on low frequencies and can affect the perception of groove, spontaneous movement and rhythm perception.
Very low frequencies may also affect vestibular sensitivity. Adding to people's experience of movement, nailing down the brain mechanisms involved that require looking the effects of low frequencies on the vestibular tactile and auditory pathways. Ain't that some shit. I think nerds just overanalyze something that was really cool dude. I mean, obviously people dance more with bass base is vibration base is the beat. Right.
Right. But AC CD frequency, a specific frequency of bass casts a spell on people because they can't hear it. You know what I'd do? I would, I would plan on this. I want to find out what the frequency is. You want this? Well, this we would have done this in college. We throw a party, we throw a dance party, we put some music on, we get everybody out on the floor.
If the ratio is too many dudes, then you put on the, I can't stand this frequency and you get them to leave and then you put on the, I gotta move frequency and then you get out there and you yell house cup and you go, hey, how you doing? It's my house. But they need to figure that out. They need to figure out how do they make the ratio closer to 50 50 or at least higher on the female population? Because that brings everybody follow up study. Does the frequency affect gender?
Because then boom, every fraternity in the world is gonna want to research and find yourself at a party. You're not gonna have to worry about some drunk guy at the microphone with his dumb shitty bands, all poles and no holes. Get some girls up to the front. I'll never forget what, what was that bar? Was it Sharky? In Santa Barbara? Our, our, our buddy uh our buddy Q loves this story.
So I'm gonna tell it anyway because it's so mortifying to me and everybody loves mortifying stories when I was, it was, it was a dance club like good music going. Everyone's dancing. I'm feeling good. I'm dressed up, everyone's having a good time. I go up to the bar, good looking girl at the bar. You know, music's pumping and it's that one song if you're sexy and you'd know it clap your hands.
So of course I clap my hands to that and I get this look of disdain as I clap my hands and I, I just looked right at her and said what, I'm sexy but she walked away Oh, he loves that story. I, I'm sexy on the inside. You just got to have enough self confidence to say that. And she was not pleased with my response. Nor am I clapping of that song? Oh Fuck her. No. Oh No. Yeah, that's how you, you'd be sexy.
So, every time I hear that song Q is always looking right at me and I, you better believe I still clap. That's right. All right. So that's our new segment. Look forward to more Science technology space as the season continues and we'll bring you lots of nice weird uh Neil Degrasse Tyson iss and, and anything that we run into that, uh that taps the uh taps the science nerve. Weird Leon. It's time for the crank file. I could look for something in the crank file, crank file, whatever.
Tonight's crank file comes to us from CBS News. This is dated January 4th Leon. So this is uh less than a month old. This happened recently. This current newspaper melted butter clogs historic canal and storm drains. After dairy plant fire in Wisconsin, a dairy plant caught fire in central Wisconsin on Monday night sending the melted contents of a storage room full of butter flowing through the building as it went up in flames.
Local authorities said the runoff seeped into surrounding storm drains as well as large canal adjacent to the business which ultimately clogged the waterway despite crew efforts to contain the spread. The blaze broke out at a dairy processing and packaging plant owned by associated milk producers of Portage Wisconsin small city located roughly 50 miles north of Madison. Around nine pm. Local time, Portage fire department wrote in a Facebook post.
Firefighters dispatched to the scene that night reported him heavy smoke fire visible on the roof of the multi story concrete structure when they arrived. Officials said response teams were initially unable to access the building as they were pushed back by the heat and smoke as well as the runoff melted butter. Officials determined that the fire began inside a room at the plant where butter was being stored and the runoff occurred as a result of increasing heat throughout the building.
The cause of the fire itself remains under investigation. The fire department said no injuries were reported in connection with the incident concrete building. Dude, I wanna talk about one gigantic oven. Listen to me. I'm gonna go full conspiracy theory on us here. It was almond people. The fuck is going on with our food production facilities that in no way, shape or form are flammable milk or, or dairy. We got chickens, eggs, meat.
I I heard him, I let me, I I pull up this article here by the spring of 2022. There's over 90 events of fire damaged meatpacking plants and other other plants. What the hell is going on? Are they all by the Great Lakes? No, these things are flammable. More, more chickens and dear. It's, it's, it's un, it just doesn't make any sense. These things don't burn naturally. After working to fight the fire for multiple hours. Here you go.
You can cut all that out if you want, but there's some fucking shit going down. That's unexplainable. Oh, the feed froze. So, I hope, I hope I could pick you up. Yeah, that's, that's because, you know, the illuminati is picking up what we're talking about. Right. Yeah, Zoom Nazis. After working to fight the fire for multiple hours, firefighters from multiple area departments were able to contain and extinguish the blaze before it could spread past the firewalls.
And throughout the building, emphasizing that the butter runoff and heavy smoke slowed access to the structure. A Hazmat team also responded to the blaze and attempted to contain the runoff flowing into the nearby storm sewers. In addition to the Portage canal, the canal once used for commerce is considered a historical landmark and plans for its restoration have been underway for years. They placed boom and other absorbents to control the runoff.
Said the fire department noting that the Department of Natural Resources would evaluate any damages to drains and waterways. You know, Sammy, they were uh they were considered a historical landmark and uh plans for its restoration have been underway for years. Looks like we're finally gonna start those restoration plants. All the plants are all gonna gain a lot of weight in in butter fat. You know what? You gotta do. All the popcorn, all the popcorn, all the corn, corn. Just go out to the river.
All I know is they cannot claim anything in Wisconsin is vegan anymore. It's, everything is covered in butter. Oh. Oh. Let her fed dress full circle. Yeah. That's, I don't know, man, that's just, it's just whack. I don't get it. I don't, I, I don't know. Not good, not good stuff that rubs with the crank file. Let's get the hero of the week of the week in our transition over to hero of the week, we actually do have one from Florida and this one is actually very tasty.
This one was January 18th 2023. This one comes to us from 97 X dot com, the classic rock authority in Miami headline. So you know it's true. The headline reads, Lord man attempts to rob a grocery store with a stapler. Why not image courtesy of Miami Dade County jail slash canvas slash Google maps. Let let you know that the graphic designer wasn't original.
Meanwhile, in Miami Dade County, a South Florida man who was previously arrested in a child abuse incident has been arrested once again this time for a poorly planned attempt at a robbery. Police say last Thursday, last Saturday, 31 year old Patrick Abbott faced a judge in some armed robbery charges. Last week, Patrick Abbott walked into a pub's grocery store and handed one of the employees a note he had written on a receipt, demanding money and saying he had a gun.
According to the police report, the note read, read carefully. I have a gun with me and put the money in the bag. After the victim read the note. Police said she went to help a coworker and called for help using the guise of being busy getting the money together. Patrick Abbott left the supermarket empty handed and was later arrested when officers caught up to him not far away where he was throwing the note in the garbage at the block of Northeast 50th street.
Police said he was identified by the victim at the store and taken into custody, the gun that Abbott claimed to have in his pocket. A black stapler. Oh I was hoping it would be red. Well, we can't see if it's a Swingline stapler. This just looks like a generic clip art image of a stapler. This is actually less cool now that you're telling the story this way because when you first read the headline, I thought he was holding a stapler in his hand threatening people.
I'm sure he did the uh you know, the pocket of the jacket like I got a gun. Yeah, put the money in the bag in the big go ahead in the robbery was located at 48 70 Biscayne Boulevard in Miami Abbott was recently out on a felony bond for another incident last month where an off duty officer spotted him in a Walmart parking lot. He was witnessed repeatedly dropping a four month old baby onto the pavement. I mean, come on. Some people just need to be put on Alcatraz and left there.
I'm sorry, like we just have to. There's just, there's just no coming back. This person will never be a productive part of society. In that incident, Abbott was charged with child abuse, not just dropping a four month old repeatedly. Yeah, repeatedly is the key word there. So uh child abuse, armed robbery, stay put at the grocery store. Did he write the note in crayon? Because that would just, that would necessary details, omitted from the story.
What 97 X the authority in Classic Rock was there a staple in the note that would have, that would have been like the ultimate, that's like a bullet hole. He's kind of making a face like I'm gonna get that instead the back, right. You know, he doesn't look as crazy as his stories are about. He doesn't look as crazy as a guy that tries to rob a store with a stapler and drops a four year that makes you better. Yeah. Well, thank you. 97 X, the Classic Rock Authority. I appreciate everything.
All your, your hard news reporting that wraps up here of the week. All right, Liam, we're gonna end on another new segment that we're calling Happy Times. 20 that. All right. All right, good. We need this. This week's happy times comes to us from good news network dot org. Hero or nuts. He ran a marathon every day in 2022 then went to work at his job raising a million dollars for charity. A happy dude with a beer in his hand. Running for cancer support.
The article begins for many running a marathon as an accolade of life, a culturally fixed way of proving athletic ability and determination. But for Gary mckee, it's literally just another day in the office. Mckee ran a marathon every day of 2022 to raise money for cancer treatment and a simple multiplication problem of 26.2 times 3, 65 will reveal he ran 9500 miles during the year equivalent to crossing the United States three times.
I mean, the picture you look at, he is not a young buck, he doesn't inspire confidence, but apparently he's badass, unbelievable every day. That's hard to believe. He ran through 20 pairs of running shoes. And what's more his marathon was only a prelude to going to work in the morning at the Sellafield nuclear site. That's it. There you go.
Yeah. On New Year's Eve, he finished his final marathon to cheering crowds and fireworks near his Cumbrian home news came in that he had made his £1 million for donations to Macmillan cancer support and West Cumbria Hospice at home it's not the distance. It's because it's the last one, it'll be a special day. Cancer affects everybody. So it isn't just a West Cumbrian thing. It's a national thing for him. I just hope that people do get beyond us and we do raise that million pound.
If we don't, it won't be because I haven't run 365 marathons. Absolutely. After mckee is finished, he expressed his consent in laconic terms, telling the BBC the job. He celebrated with his, his supporters, a marathon man. IP A in his hands on. What was a cold and rainy yet intensely satisfying December Day? That's incredible. This guy is an absolute hero. Cheers to you, Gary mckee of West Cumbria, United Kingdom. Is that like a, that's gotta be a world record.
Like, how can anyone run a marathon every day? It's absolutely Forrest Gump. United States three times. Yeah. Absolutely. Forrest Gump. He doesn't have the beard though, but no beard. Yeah. No bear. But he's got a smile on his face. He's fit as you would imagine. He's fit as you would imagine. That's correct. Here in that beer, 9500 miles one marathon every day of 2022 in his final marathon, he celebrated with a beer and raised a million pounds. Sterling to fight cancer. That's amazing.
Good for him. Our happy time that we will take to close up the show. How are you feeling? Are you feeling better about humanity. I am. Thank you, Danny. This is the, this is the right decision. We need, we need to, we need to end on that upper. I like it. He's an upper. That's our show. You can email us at bottle of brown at gmail dot com or call us at 6025294562. Leave a message for Danny Leon or Mr Jones. Give us ideas for content or refute anything we say on the show.
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