on the next episode of Soap Suds and smokes on today's chats episode. I'm chatting with a good old boy Justin and with main man brand while we are drinking today and we'll be chatting about you know these beverages kind of as we go along we've pulled some rather interesting things out of our vast collections. I have not told them in advance when I'm drinking and I definitely want to see everyone's raw reaction to this. So what are you drinking Brent? I am drinking some mixtures 10 Rai 2017.
I want to drink the whiskey but I want to smell it even more. Do. That's part of it. That's part of the enjoyment. I'm telling you I can smell this you know probably for three or four hours not even take a sip of it Justin, what are you drinking? I'm drinking a will at five year single barrel wow, how about that? We'll be right back after this break, brought to you almost live from the dude in the basement studios. Why? Because that's where the good stuff is.
It sips suds and smokes with your smoke and host the good old boys. Get ready to learn everything you ever wanted to know and a whole lot that you didn't, it's time for a chat episode. Hey welcome to this chat episode where everything good in life is worth discussing. I am one of your co hosts here today, this is good old boy mike and joining me today, our main man Brent, where are we here again? You know I thought the check would have cashed by now.
Okay, do I need to put up new pictures, you know, in front of you just to bring it home again? Yeah, Made man Brent. So also joining me here today, that doesn't have the same reward system as good old boy Justin. Hey, good afternoon.
Well our chat segments are all about people behind the products or the services that we talked about here on soapsuds and smokes in today's episode celebrates our co hosts on the 10th season of sips suds and smokes and if we have time, we're actually going to discuss the camel beauty contests as our topic worth discussing or as Brent likes to say, what are we talking about? Camels?
I thought we were talking about cigarettes for a second, you know, I mean you got to have a good Campbell story, you know, every now and then. So yeah, well our co hosts on this episode are Made man Brent and good old boy Justin. So you know, the first question I have is, do you guys remember how we met? Yes, I definitely do. I was over in Sarasota at the, the whiskey festival, they call the whiskey fest over their whiskey obsession, whiskey obsession.
And I was walking around in my bourbon mafia shirt and along with bob and you tracked us down and said, hey, how would you guys like to uh you know, be part of a radio show podcast and I said no and bob started dragging me said yes, yes, yes, Well, so the interesting backstory about that was so uh one of the members of the mafia had chimed in on, you know, one of the episodes and provided some comments and stuff and you know, it said, you know, I'm from the bourbon mafia, if you've not heard,
you know, our whiskey group, and I'm like, wow, that sounds interesting with bourbon mafia, I'm like, so it's like kind of a cool kind of group because this was really early on, I mean there weren't really that many, you know, whiskey groups around, I didn't even know I might have been brian um you know that, that reached out and but I didn't remember exactly who that was.
And so when I saw that logo, you know that bob was walking around within you, on your shirts, I was like, oh cool, I'll get, you know, like to get to know these guys, you know, just a little more so A small group, we only have like 42 members. So it was a very small group, very chance encounter. So Justin you got invited to the party a little bit later. Yes, I did.
I met bob at uh tasting at Crown and he told me about the Fort Lauderdale whiskey society, you buy a glass and you drink for free forever. It's the most insane thing, so I'm like, yeah, and then I met Brent and then joined Brent on bourbon Mondays that he runs in his house where we have some fun drink, some bourbon, talk some stuff. And then after being in the show about a year I met mike at the airport and we hung out for a few days, I had a good time. Cool!
Um So how many episodes did you think you'd be on when you first started? One, 2? I thought after, I did one, they'd be like, yeah, thanks. Not a professional. Right In his first episode, he did have all but three words. So I mean really, really, how many episodes was that while set the expectations, You know where they should be right from the get go.
Well we are drinking today and we'll be chatting about, you know these beverages kind of as we go along, we pulled some rather interesting things out of our vast collections. So um I'll tell you what I'm drinking here first because I have not told them in advance when I'm drinking and I definitely want to see Everyone's raw reaction to this. So this is what I'm drinking today is the 2014 limited edition for roses. And so this is one of my favorite of the limited editions. This is back.
So one of the things they did with limited editions back in this period of time. And when they first started doing the limited editions, they were actually not batches, they were single barrels. Um that of a common recipe is the way they did this.
So this is a Oh yes, f they usually they put the uh they put the recipe on the side and this is an 11 year and this is one of one of my favorites and you know, I've had a lot of osf over the years, but there was just something about this particular one and I ended up actually getting a second bottle of this. It's not the exact same barrel, it's the sister barrel that was actually right next to it. So, and they're both really awesome. So what are you drinking Brent?
I am drinking some mixtures, 10 rai 2017. It's a nice little uh it's the nose on, this is just, it just doesn't stop. I mean, this is one of the reasons why why I like this one here is uh just the nose is so beautiful and it's really interesting.
I know you guys can't, you know, see obviously what we're doing here on the radio, but I think we should keep track of the number of times we actually end up nosing our glass because I've caught myself picking up my glass and putting it down and I'm probably around number 18, you know, doing that now. And it's, it's just, it's such a natural thing now. It's like, I want to drink the whiskey, but I want to smell it even more than you do. That's part of it.
That's part of the enjoyment, I'm telling you, I could smell this, you know, probably for three or four hours, not even take a sip of it Justin, what are you drinking? I'm drinking a will at five year single barrel, wow. How about that interesting choice. All good choices, you know, kind of across the board. Well, um, you know, we talked about a lot of things, you know, on this show and I know that you probably have some of your memorable moments.
So Justin what was one of your most memorable, you know, episodes? I would definitely say the first episode was the most memorable. So Justin's first episode was called The Wheel of Misfortune and it was actually featuring some really young skill from florida and I love Brett's reaction to that when I told him he was like, oh man, that was a tough show, we could do it today and it'll still be a tough show. Yeah, so here's a clip for that show featuring Justin.
Oh, I think that it's very important that we nurture, especially as Floridians, the new whiskey industry and I think it'll be interesting to have it as part Of a age vertical. We have the newer stuff, it's like 16 months like this expression And I want to see it in about three years and I think three years in North Florida is gonna age like 12 years in Kentucky because you've got these hot summers pushing the whiskey right into the wood, it's not pulling it out much.
I think it's going to age fast and if they do the blend right, if they achieve balance, it's going to be exceptional given two sips today though, you know, that could not have been more wrong. Yeah, Notre ademas. I'm not Nostradamus. None of those donuts is what you're saying is that there are no bottles of ST Augustine or frankly any of those florida whiskeys in your vast collection. Okay, I have I have a bottle or two but they're not open. Ok there just there observing light.
It's like we're in florida. Here's the florida whiskey that I'm not going to drink. There you go. Well, Brent, what's one of your favorite moments from the show? Well, there's a lot of good moments, but one of the best ones is we did a blind tasting of four roses of all the recipes and we did it initially and nothing recorded. So we had to drink them and do it all again. Well, here's a clip from that show which is called I'm blinded with four roses.
This is pretty late into the episode when Brent finally gets a chance to speak up brant. What do you think about number 70. B. S. O. The fun spirit store pick well the first thing I noticed right off the bat was it had the best nose when you're nosing this. It really came through.
It was, it was, you know, right off you just got a lot of those, you got a lot of spices right off the bat and then you know, you've got your cloves, your peppers, your vanilla, like caramel and then after you taste it, you just had that long, nice long finish. It was very good. I, I really enjoyed it. Um, you know, as for the ship's rating, I'm gonna give it 44 and bob your tasting notes on, not bad. That's a pretty spot on, you know, and a very interesting uh production day.
So I'm listening to this now and I'm hearing all the coughing, which we pretty much have eliminated now, you know, through our post production editing process. So, um, and what a tough room.
We were in recording in the whiskey house at whiskey house, one's location and it was just that room was so lively and there were a lot of people and we had a lot of table noise and it was just when I was listening to it, I was like, oh my God, can we go back and record this the third time, You know, just so bad. Well I have some of my most memorable moments for the two of you as well.
One of them was really recent with Justin and the thing that I love about Justin is his, his tasting uh adjectives in terms are just so innovative and so my favorite episode is actually from um, the episode called, guess my age was a blind tasting of three american whiskeys and three scotch to try and figure out which one was the oldest, the youngest and the relative age,
you know of each of these whiskies And here was Justin chiming in with his tasting notes around one of the 1st Scotch products 18 years old and it was sweet but the glue note and this one is definitely late semester blue. It's not the first week of middle school century me and yeah, hey we'll be right back, hey, welcome back to sip suds and smokes on today's chats episode.
I'm chatting with a good old boy Justin and with main man Brent and we were talking about some of our favorite moments on the show and so I wanted to play this clip again and my favorite is is of Justin actually using the term of glue again 18 years old and it was sweet but the glue note in this one is definitely late semester blue?
Yeah, it's not the first week of middle school century me and yeah, now in your wildest dreams, do you, did you ever like think that you would be using glue as a tasting term? I mean you know and what's funny about it is that you kept on using it through the whole episode which was even more hilarious the whole time. You're like, well actually this is like you know, 4th, 4th grade mid semester kind of glue.
Like you know, do you have like a glue, a glue, you know, maturity scale that you're actually going through. You not oxidized through the semester changes. So you know, it's like if you've been on that ride then you know, well it's funny because he's following the, you know, one of the coaching tips that I always, you know have for our coast which is use terms that are very simple that everybody can understand.
Like when you're talking about how something sweet use candies that you know, people probably have had that candy at some point in time. I never thought that you would choose to use glue which everybody on the planet has sniffed Elmer's glue or some kind as a tasting note. But so all I know is you just follow the instructions and it's my fault.
So at the end of the day, well here's one of my favorite moments with Brent on this show and I love this because it steps into your northern heritage and I love just the banter between you and um good old boy Harmeet here, this is from the episode called please Enunciate peanuts. What do you think? I have to agree with a lot of that. I get I get peanuts with it though, you know this is a honey colored because I didn't you know, I didn't want to hear that peanuts, peanuts, charlie brown, great.
Um you know with, with the nose, I get some, you know vanilla and oak. The on the palate, I definitely get peanuts and clove spice, peanut, yes, a little bit of vanilla. But actually this is still for me though, you know, it's got a nice little mouth feel to it. This is one of the, you know, we're working our way up and this is you know, much nicer than what we've already had and but it still has a short finish to me. I wish I had a little bit longer finish.
I know you said it was a medium finish but it's still still a little bit short finished. I'm just gonna give it a three sips, enjoyed it. All right, maury. Yeah. So my coaching tip is never used the word peanuts and mouth feel in the same two minutes structure of anything you're talking about it. And what's funny about it is is that what it actually made? The name of the episode was just this two minute clip so that I was like, oh that is too funny.
You know between Armenian and print going on here and so you know, I stole it has the name of the episode. But the other thing is that it's just one consistent thing is like, you know, Justin and tasting notes, you did it with, you did it with peanuts, you did it with pecans. So you were like and you an army fighting about pecans. No, no, no, it's a pecan and you're like, no, no, a candy european is called a pecan. You don't call them pecans and pecan.
And, and, and then you have another moment where you were arguing about how to say probably or Praeli, it's still, it's just this north south conversation constantly going on, you know, and I just, I love it. It's so funny. What do you say? Probably or probably pretty lean probably. Oh my gosh. You know how much sweet tea do you consume? I don't think we're gonna have to cut you off man. Well, I'd love to hear about your day jobs.
I know both of you have some very interesting things you do during the day Justin will start with you. What's your day job? I do uh criminal law, traffic and personal injury. He has all the really, really good stories. I hope we get to a couple today Brent how many day jobs do you have on top of being retired? I don't even know. I just keep myself busy is the main thing.
So I do a lot of selling on Ebay with collectibles, mostly drinking glasses and I do a lot of volunteer work with with different organizations where I pick up day old bread day old food and deliver it. I also take deliver food to kids once a week for that. They take home on the nights and weekends. Um, I run some charity poker tournaments for different different charity organizations and a little bit of you bring when I never had a chance.
But I actually stopped it since the whole covid thing, I just haven't gone back. But you're retired, right? Yes, I'm retired from the military coast guard 20 years. Well that is some list for somebody that's retired, you know, I've never asked you what was your rank at retirement? I was uh electrician, first class electrician, wow, okay. I learned something new today.
Well, first you know, I thank you for your service and I know that you actually, you served up on the northern part of the U. S. Right station and you kept all those Canadians to check for us, correct? Well he had to go over to the Canadians and check them out. And so did I ever tell you about the young kid that worked for me? That was fresh out of the Coast Guard? No, you did not. So I'm not going to tell the whole story, we just don't have enough time.
Uh but so I heard this kid, he was right out of the Coast Guard. He was still probably in his late twenties and he came right off the Great Lakes, which is I believe you were stationed on the Great Lakes as well. And you know, so I when I was asking about, you know, what did he do? You know in the Coast Guard? He was like water ski, I was like, wait, what? And he was like, well, yeah, I mean that's the one thing that we do like all the time.
We usually water ski for like 3 to 4 hours a day, like okay, alright, you know awesome. So when do you start, do you say thank you for your service or you know what kind of song? Of course do you guys have? I mean where do you, where do you go from there? You know, it's like, but my favorite story was actually his, one of his initial assignments.
Um so it was, it was kind of this, you know, rite of passage that they have was actually to be able to learn to bail out a boat, you know, that's sinking. So there was a boat that was thinking they pull up beside it and they're like, well you're up, you know, and you have to, you know, take the pump on board and start it up and actually, you know, get all the water, you know, out of the vessels so that, you know, we can tow it in.
So he gets out, he gets, you know, boards the boat, they hand him the pump and they pull away, you know, from the boat and stuff. And so he's sitting there, he's, he's work on, you know, trying to start to pump and they're like, he's, he has no idea, he's been to training in like 200 hours so I don't know how to run this pump, you know? And he can't get it started and the boat is sinking.
So he's like, he's like yelling for help and stuff and so they're like, no, no, no, you have to figure it out so that the fall of sudden the boat takes on so much water, it starts to list and he's going down and he bails out of the boat. The boat sank to the ground. So they, they end up calling the pump back out of the water, they go and retrieve the pump and put it back on the boat and they find out that they didn't put any fuel in it. So that's the reason why the pump never worked. Oh my gosh.
So they couldn't blame it on the electrician. It wasn't your fault. It was the guy who was supposed to fuel the pump. It was his fault that day. But I just love that. I was like, well, you know, it's just, you wonder where, what kind of stories, I know you've got some wild stories worth noting from those days as well.
Yeah, there's, I mean we've actually had to sink a boat before because it was on fire and, and it's, you try not to sink it, but it's, you know, you're putting so much water on it that you put the fire out, but you're sinking the boat at the same time? Pure victory victory. So yes, the fire is gone and so is your boat, the operation was a success, unfortunately the patient did not make it.
So we've had things like that, you know, we did a lot of victory like before it goes down or right after it goes on under the water, you know what? You're high fiving everybody. Yes, we put out the fire, you know, we mission accomplished. There you go. Yeah, well I think of probably all the wild adventures you had.
You know, it's actually the passion you have for poker that I hear about the most and yet we have no you and I have never played, which is so crazy because I used to play, you know quite often both online and in cash games all the time and I had to get out of it because it just it stopped being fun. So I mean how do you balance all of those things that you do all the time and just stay busy. That's all you're in a room full of whiskey. It's a good start.
That's exactly it, you know, plus when I'm doing the poker, we're actually playing for a cause um you know, for a charity of of some kind and so it makes it where you're not playing for cash, you're playing more for fun, you know, and maybe you can win, maybe you can win a little bit of money, but for the most part you're playing for fun and It's okay, I have to call the cursing for a cause jar. So somebody curses at the table, they put money in it.
And that money goes every month to a different charity. So they makes a lot of money. Let's just say that. But a lot of people are just about to say I'm going to have to be donating in advance even before I show up. That's what some people do is they just throw $10 and say I got I got $10 worth already here. You know, they throw it in there and they'll just they'll just say say it just to give money to the charity, which is a fun thing to do to.
Well, I think you have one very hidden talent which is misjudging a vessel in its capacity. Kind of like the boat you think, you know, let's say like a 2006 Mercedes Benz sl 501 167 bottles of whiskey. All right. Look, this is a much longer story. But this one time Brent asked me to pick up some in quotes some whiskey for him in Louisville and haul it back to Nashville will. Some end quote was about 100 and 67 bottles that did not naturally fit in my two seater.
But we figured out, you know the entire thing. The Jenga puzzle to make it all fit. All right. But listen, I've seen you put this talent to great use. So, how many loaves of bread can you put in your minivan? And what's that?
All about 1207 wow, I don't know, I don't know how many loaves that it was, the loaves of bread and stuff was picking bread up day old bread from Publix and Costco and then taking it to uh, a retirement, like a, like a retirement kind of village area, low income retirement area, so that they all got extra food for the week, you know, they weren't gonna starve. That's really great Brent. And I think it's uh, it's, you know, I don't think you juggle all those things.
I think you do all of them, you know, exceptionally well. And so, you know, my hat's off to you because that's really amazing, you know, for sure. Well I also know that you're the pied piper of many things and so what brought you to the bourbon mafia? You know, originally, Well I'm one of the founders of the Bourbon Mafia, there was original 12 of us, that's, that started it.
And I was not the one that started it, but I've been going up to Kentucky to up to Louisville for many events, there'd be different events and I would go up there to him and, and back then with the small groups and things, there was, you know, I got noticed because I was there all the time. It was because you said I'm from Louisville? Yeah, exactly, exactly. But, but the like a prayer line with that?
No, But I'd go up there, I'd go up there and they would, uh, they noticed that there was a lot of different maker's mark events and some charity events that I got involved with. And so I got invited to be one of the 1st 12 and it was quite an honor and we still continue to today. That's pretty cool. We do a lot of charity work for, for organizations. Yeah. And it was such a great model.
It was very easy, you know, for me to step in and do something very similar with the different organization and um, you know, a lot of, a lot of people don't even know we're behind, you know, a lot of these groups and I mean, we literally, you know, probably put $5 million across the board, you know, to charities, um, through the power of whiskey, you know, all the time. So it's very, very cool. Alright, so we uh, we have time for a topic worthy of discussion Today.
I'll try to run through some of this. It's about a camel beauty contest that was rocked by a Botox scandal. Now this year, authorities discovered dozens of breeders had injected camels, heads and lips with Botox to make them bigger. Now, first off you say dozens, that's, I mean, so it sounds like a common practice, Right? That was, that was the whole thing. So Saudi authorities have conducted the biggest ever crackdown on camel beauty contests. I wonder how you put that on your resume.
I'm the guy that inspects camel beauty contest that received Botox injections and other artificial touch ups. The state run Saudi press agency reported Wednesday with over 40 Campbell's disqualified for their annual pageant. Now, Saudis popular king Of the festival, which kicked off earlier this month, invites the breeders of the most beautiful camels to compete for $66 million dollars in prize money.
Okay, Botox injections, facelifts and other cosmetic alterations to make the camels more attractive are strictly prohibited and jurors decide the winner based on the shape of the camel's head. Next humps, dress and posture. That's the posture of a camel. Why would you put a dress on the camel, striding kamel? Gonna put a dress on a camel? I don't understand that either.
While the judges at the monthlong festival in the desert northeast of the Saudi city, Riyadh are escalating their clampdown on artificially enhanced camels. The official new agency reported using specialized in advanced technology for detecting tampering this year, authorities discovered dozens of breeders had stretched out the lips and noses of the camels used hormones to boost the beast muscles and injected camels, heads and lips with Botox to make them bigger.
They inflated body parts with rubber bands and used fillers to really relax their faces. The club is keen to all hold all acts of tampering and deception in the beautification of camels. The S. P. A report said according to and adding organizers were imposing strict penalties on manipulators. The camel beauty contest is at the heart of the massive carnival, which also features camel races, sales and other festivities typically showcasing thousands of drama dories.
The extravaganza seeks to preserve the camel's role in the kingdom, the Bedouin tradition and heritage. Each even as the oil rich country plows ahead with modernizing megaprojects. The camel breeding is a multimillion dollar industry and similar events take place across the region. All right. So I actually think that this technique could be used with online dating in North Dakota. I think it's already being used in online dating in north Dakota. You need more lips babe.
The Canadians are not going to venture across the border with those kind of lips. All right. You know, I like my women from north Dakota to be have like full lips, you know, back here in Alberta. You know, if they don't have big cheeks, I like big lips. I like big lips and I cannot lie. You know, it's the person that thought of this first that I actually wanted. Who's the true innovator? He was like, you know, we should use Botox on the Campbell guy. I want to meet.
Right, well you're giving away 60 some million dollars. Of course you're going to do something to, you know, if you're not trying to cheat, you're not taking advantage of the situation. If you're going to go down, go down with all the other cheaters, right? You've got to be right on the edge, where do you put camel breeder on your Tinder profile?
I mean, I'm seeing lots of swipe right action with this unique talent, you know, let's see here, Martha, this guy says he's a camel breeder, I think you should swipe right, You know, it ain't gonna happen. So Justin do you think you could be a good halfway house for the occupants occupation for these felons?
Could you, you know, these people, you could help run this, you know, for all these people that are, you know, targeted and the, in this sweeping, you know, change in the camel breeding industry, you know, you'll just have to, I could see it now, hey, judge, do you mind sending my client to my halfway house so I can double dip, It would be great. We'll start each day going, I will not put both Botox and camels and we'll be right back in just one minute.
Hey, welcome back to sip suds and smokes on today's chats episode. I'm chatting with made man Brent and with good old boy Justin and the, the horrendous, you know, problem of, of camels and, you know, breeding and Botox, I mean we have to start a campaign to bring this to America, you know, it has, it has to start somewhere, who knows? You go to all these fairs, maybe there's sheeps and goats already being uh Botox, you know, I agree.
You know, if you can't do it with camels, do it with the one you love, it's definitely going to be the next frontline episode, no doubt. Well I always love talking shop with Justin you know, we're both, you know lawyers but we don't we don't do a lot of the same things but the thing is is that you get all the good stories man, mine are all boring, you know, So uh what's your favorite client's story?
So one of one of my good friends bail bonds woman Who actually was a swinger as well and she calls me on a Friday night at like 11 at night and I'm like what? And she said they want me on people's court like For what?
Well my daughter took our pet monkey to the mall and as monkeys do let itself out of the cage and he jumped on this girl's back and the girl, I can't believe she did this swatted at the monkey that jumped on her back from out of nowhere and the monkey bit her so she's blaming the girl something is hilarious. And then she's like can you can you can you go on the show with me, I want my lawyer there and I go yeah it doesn't work like that.
I said you're gonna go on the show, you're gonna lose because you're reliable as heck for this and then you you know the show is going to write a check to her and make her sign a release and she can never see you again. So and that's exactly what happened now. The best part of the story is she flew her monkey to California and the monkey was deemed too dangerous to be put on the air. So they put in a stunt monkey for the show.
I never got to see the show but I've heard from other people that have that. It's hilarious. Yeah so I actually went looking for the episode, I was dying to pay play a clip from this and I honestly could not find it. You know I mean I I searched for a monkey, I searched for you know woman at mall, I searched for you know swinger that was a rather interesting you know set of results that came back you know so you could find the episode talked about but you can't find the video, right?
Yeah. So uh I found I saw some news releases you know about the actual incident and uh yeah it was pretty funny. I was like wow, you know so you know I mean one of the big questions, I was like how do you walk up and just you know introduce yourself? Do you say you're a bail bondsman or a swinger first? I mean which one of these, you know adjectives do you use first in the equation depends on whether you're walking into a club or a courthouse. I see. Yeah you make your way over to the other one.
I would lead with this thing is walking up to the judge, you know, So she did when I met her. Yeah, definitely. Well you're tasting descriptions are just a riot and you know, my favorite was the one that we, the clip we played earlier, which was the smell and taste of glue, you know, part of me actually wants to get you some sensory training, you know, but that we would lose all this natural reaction, you know, as well.
And, and you just sound after you went through, you know, sensory training, you just sound as boring as bob does. So just say Mercurochrome and band aid and you know, and would all the time and you know, just repeat. So I mean, what do you think has been some of your most unique tasting descriptions other than the one for glue, I'd say. Other than that one. The various descriptions of wood, cedar or oak, you know, rotting pine, none of which are Used in the making of any whiskies at all.
Which, because it's, well, that's true. But the barrel has opened. It has a little bit of cedar in it. From where from Yugoslavia. There wasn't a cedar tree with 4000 miles of that barrel, you know, that would be an interesting project putting cedarwood into whiskey. I wonder if anybody's ever done that. I probably, I would like to try that. Yeah, I'll pass that was about to say. And Brent says wasn't that open stave?
So you know, a neighboring, a neighboring bourbon club around here picked a single barrel of that stuff that you, we have those inserts for you drop into the bottle and they picked a single barrel of that. I just shake my head and say, what were you thinking? Hay makers can do it. We can not, you know, Well Justin has one of my all time bottles of un obtaining um room, which is the Black Todd. It's the last consignment version.
And you know, it was a really nice story about how you got this bottle. I'd love for you to share it with our audience. So the story of the last consignment Or the last ration is for about three or 400 years. The British Navy had um you gotta ration of rum every day about a leader of rum Every day and after three or 400 years, they finally decided that drunkenness and boating might not go well together unless there was a coast guard. Yeah. Unless you're with the Coast Guard.
And then in uh 1971, they announced that this rash in the next week is gonna be the last one we ever do. And then obviously every sailor in the british navy all over the world was bummed at the same time. And they called that day black tot day and they took the rum from this and they just, there were, there were rations that weren't given out because they prepared more of this rum than they expected to keep doing more rations.
So there was an age for like 20 or 30 years in rum barrels And then about 2000 four Or 2003 they took all the room and they put it in steel canisters so it would stop aging, invented it, right? Yeah. And then, and then it got bottled and distributed and I got it from my girlfriend as a gift. Somehow. She, she was able to score it.
Things are going for ridiculous prices on the secondary market, a really great experience, you know, um I think just enjoying the room, but I think more importantly enjoying it with you. Um, and actually being able to drink it together at the same time and it just had so much molasses, you know, around, it was just such an indescribable experience. Um there was no glue involved. So that's true. There was no glue, but it's, it's been great.
You've actually joined us on some smokes episodes and I just love that innocent element that you always bring, you know, to the subject matter. Um, and I know you're kind of at the early stage your journey, you know with cigars, but has any particular brand or you know, anything kind of caught your undivided attention yet that my father brand bang for the buck Garcia and Garcia, yeah, best, best cigars out there for the money. Um I love a good Davidoff.
I love you know some Cuban sticks when they come my way every now and then. But if I'm gonna do a consistent daily stick it would be that. And then there's one called my father the judge. I just think the name is really funny but it tastes pretty good too.
We're gonna have a lot of really great, you know, cigars always to talk about on the show and you know, I'm looking forward to going through those with you And I again, I just I love that the balance that you always bring, you know, to a lot of the group discussions that we had. So maybe Brent will join us for like one or two of those, you know, I might are you just collecting cigars and not smoking them now. No, I'll smoke one every once in a while. I give most of the way that I get.
But you know, I used to back in the nineties, I used to smoke cigars a lot when I say a lot I'd be, you know every night probably I'd have a cigar, you know, so I mean it was a lot and uh because I, we could get, I was in the Coast Guard, we could easily get Cuban cigars at a really decent price. So we would get them and bring them back and we'd enjoy them and then my kids said isn't cigar smoking bad and my kids are, you know like like seven and nine or seven and seven, you know at the time.
And uh is this smoking bad? And I said uh yeah, what are you going to say? So I kind of gave it up for many, many years and I just never really got back into it. Mm hmm. See that's that cigar smoke and that's what it will do to you. Sorry about that everybody. So I mean Justin what do you see, you know you're getting yourself hooked on next. I mean we've taken it all the way through whiskey. We're getting you into scars. I mean what do you think is gonna be the next interesting thing?
You're gonna capture your attention. Oh definitely. The resurgence of free base crack probably would definitely be the next thing. You know, I think it'll be rum. Do you do you have all new t shirts for that or do you just use the old ones, the old ones? You know if you don't go retro, just go home bridge, Jack City, you know, it goes on and on Brent. How about it for you?
Do you think there's like a new interesting, you know uh thing that you'll will capture your attention there going, oh man, I'm totally getting into this. I don't think so. I mean I've gone through so many different phases and I've had the tequila phase and I've had the, the vodka and the rum and all that and I just, this is what I enjoy the, enjoy the bourbon phase the most. So I'm just gonna stick with that at least you're not collecting loaves of bread. So there's that.
Well I have collected a lot of things as he's looking around the room and I'm going, wait what? No way, you're not keeping the loaves of bread. The bread 1938. So I need to come up with some ratings for the bread around you. Is that what you're saying? I just want a future episode, you know that we're going to go through. He's gonna enjoy the dusty's.
Well, I really love having you both on the show and you know, I love closing out, you know our chats episodes with uh these questions from James Lipton, I'm a huge fan of James and the actors studio, the late James Lipton and I always wished that I could have answered those clothes out questions so it actually is now your turn you know, to answer these questions. So I'm gonna alternate between the two of you. So I'm gonna start with Brent, what was your favorite word?
Oh definitely peanuts in your mouth. I just walked into that. Alright, Justin what's your least favorite word? My least favorite word is peanuts in your mouth bottles. Dry the bottle is dry. Okay, that's interesting. Alright Brent so what turns you on when women send me pictures just out of random, just like for no reason and they and they do. I'm not even gonna ask about the disposition of their clothing. I already know with you.
So Justin what turns you off when a woman smells like Elmer's glue? Which semester, you know, semester, semester glue is the worst, you know, I'm sorry babe. It's just not gonna happen. Your, your mid semester glue. It's just brand, what sound or noise do you love waterfalls? Okay. No, pretty much waterfalls. I mean rushing water is, is just uh it's just something that's nice about it. So uh so Justin what's the sound of noise that you hate?
Okay, sound or noise that I hate would be my alarm clock in the morning, wow. Okay. Well that would be that because he normally gets up at noon so if it's in the morning and that's why he hates it. Yeah, exactly. That's right. So brian, what's your favorite curse word, definitely peanuts. Justin, what's your favorite curse word? Sister's vagina. It's used by some french Arabic students that used to hang out with me in university Brent.
What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? Probably a chef? Everybody says why aren't you a chef? Why don't you, why don't you go and be a chef someplace and I do too much things as it is. I'm not going to do something else now. I think that's a lot tougher than you think a lot boring. A lot more boring than you think. Yeah, when you have to make the same thing every single day, right? It's not right.
When you can choose what you want to make and you can just make that on a daily basis, then it's a whole lot different than having to be like, okay, well here's our 20 items. We have to make these exactly the same all day long Justin what profession other than your own would you like to attempt porn star? Yeah, the most popular answer by the way. So I want to say that it was not original. I will tell you who said it before you but I'll give you one hint about that. It was not bob.
Really great stuff. Um really enjoyed having you both on this chats episode today. Uh so thank you, good boy Justin thank you and thank you made man Brent for so many things that you've done for the show. Well thanks. It's always been a pleasure and you know, the best about it is you don't have to wear pants. Wait, I need to include those on the, you know, instructions going forward for sure.
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