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Matt and Friends Drink the Universe
Welcome to "Matt and Friends Drink the Universe," the podcast where comedy and information collide as host Matt leads a rotating cast of friends on an epic journey to explore unique beers, wines, spirits, and cocktails. There is plenty of room for everyone onboard the Bottle Rocket as we blast off on an odyssey of boozy possibilities!
With discussions on the history and science behind our beverages, as well as trivia, games, hilarious anecdotes and personal stories, "Matt and Friends Drink the Universe" provides an entertaining and enlightening experience for all.
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Matt and Friends Drink the Universe
How Did We Get Beer? - "Bee Stings and Lithuanian Things"
Andy, Chris, and Siobhan join Matt for some drink tasking and story telling, Matt and Friends Drink the Universe style. Imagine standing on the edge of a 70-foot cliff on the island of Lanai, feeling the adrenaline and the Hawaiian sun on your skin, just before plunging into the crystal waters below. That's the spirit behind the Gold Cliff IPA from Kona Brewing, and the spark for our storytelling adventure. In this episode, Chris takes us back to his 10th wedding anniversary in Hawaii, where he and Siobhan renewed their vows amidst the breathtaking landscapes of Kauai.
Next Siobhan shares with us a harrowing tail of an encounter with bees. She loves to trauma dump for these episodes! This inevitably leads to all of us sharing tales of winged devils and the various times we have been terrorized by all manner of things with stingers.
Matt then takes us to the Cayman Islands, where the iconic mudslide recipe stirred up sweet honeymoon memories and humorous tales of driving challenges.
Our storytelling then takes a cultural turn with Andy as he shares a taste of Lithuanian spirits, comparing the robust flavors of fermented rye mash to familiar whiskeys, and recalling a personal visit to Lithuania that was as warming as the spirits themselves. In the end, we promise not just laughter and nostalgia but a chance to connect over the universal language of good drinks and great adventures.
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10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. We have liftoff. Welcome to Matt and Friends. Drink the Universe. Drink the Universe. All right, everybody. Welcome back to Matt and Friends Drink the Universe. This is the format where everybody brought a drink that has a story attached to it. We're going to go around the table, we're going to hear those stories. And also, if you remember, episode one, season one, matt flagrantly disregarded the rules. It does not have to actually be beer.
Andy:That's good.
Chris:I didn't bring beer.
Matt:There you go.
Siobhan:I'm not alone. I followed the rules, yeah, right.
Matt:Spoiler alert I did not bring beer either. Let's go around the table and introduce ourselves.
Siobhan:Oh hey, it's Siobhan.
Matt:I'm Andy and Chris and I'm Matt and Chris. You're going first for this one. Yes, All right. Last time you brought a beer that was either going to kill us or taste really good and we landed on.
Siobhan:It tasted really great. Yeah, that was a good one, Burton Batten right.
Matt:It's just fun to say Burton Batten, Burton Batten, Burton Batten.
Siobhan:Oh, that was good, Matt.
Chris:This time, I've brought another beer that just so happened to still be in my fridge, which was very advantageous for myself as I was planning for this podcast episode, because it's from Kona Brewing, which, if you don't know is from Hawaii.
Chris:They make a lot of really good beer. This one that I brought today is their Gold Cliff IPA Very, very nice beer, and so I pulled up their website, which talks about kind of the origin story of this beer, and they talk about the origin story being about Diver's Paradise, which is at the southern tip of Lanai. If you don't know, lanai is a whole separate island in the chain of Hawaiian islands that not a lot of people go to, and we actually haven't been to Lanai at this point.
Siobhan:I don't even know if you can only get there by boat, correct, you can only get there by boat.
Chris:There's no airport or anything like that and there's just a lot of really natural stuff there. It's not like a tourist spot. So there is this kind of cliff that people used to way, way, way, way back in the day. There's a 70 foot jump that. Hawaiians used to jump off of to prove their courage.
Siobhan:That checks out, yeah exactly, I would not be good at that.
Andy:I'm not afraid of heights, but I don't know about that.
Chris:Yeah it's also not just jumping off a 70 foot cliff, you're jumping through a keyhole what into the water I'm afraid of broken legs there's a video of this, so it sounds absolutely crazy. Um, and you can still see like it still is there today.
Siobhan:There's still this area where you can still see, like it still is there today.
Chris:There's still this area where you can see people like fearlessly dive off a cliff, which is absolutely crazy. So anyway, that's all to link to what recently this past summer Siobhan and I celebrated our 10th anniversary and so we Congratulations.
Matt:Andy was there, I was Andy did come on our honeymoon, twist my arm into going into Hawaii.
Chris:That's right On our honeymoon, siobhan and I did a awesome two-week honeymoon in Hawaii and while we were sipping drinks in Hawaii that honeymoon we decided you know, in 10 years, no matter what, come hell or high water, we're coming back here and we made it happen, and not only did we get to make it happen. We got to do it with a bunch of friends and family.
Chris:So I brought this beer today to kind of harken back to that awesome summer we just had and tell a little story about it. But before I tell that story, let me crack this sucker open.
Matt:So and you renewed your wedding vows. Is that spoiler alert or no? This sucker open so and you renewed your wedding vows. Is that spoiler alert or no? Well, that's what we did. No, it already happened. It's not spoiling, so you agreed to do it again so you know they say like the biggest thing when purchasing a product or getting involved with something is would you do it again?
Siobhan:you did, so there's chris's five-star yelp review yeah, he gets five stars. It was good he wrote his. We wrote our own vows for the vow renewal because we did not get to do that at our actual wedding, because we had a Catholic wedding where, notoriously, you are not able to write your own vows at those. You typically just pick some and you have them as part of the mass. But yeah, I was determined that we write our own vows and he wrote them that morning, after returning from a hefty hike that I was hopeful that he would come back to the ceremony from hangover style.
Andy:I almost forgot about that. We well, that's why we got up early in the morning yep, hiked up, this massive hike, yep, which was great, amazing. And we got up to the top and we were literally in the clouds. We couldn't see a fucking thing.
Chris:Yeah, so we got up really early because, again, this is on the day of the vow renewal.
Siobhan:Right.
Chris:That we're doing which was.
Siobhan:You know, had a little gathering the night before Everybody come over to the cool place we had rented, had a good amount of drinks Yep, definitely drank in.
Chris:So in the first place we woke up.
Siobhan:I mean, at least I woke up a little hungover Like nothing crazy, I didn't, I was fine, it was good, we had planned this ahead of time.
Chris:Rob and his wife Dorothy, and Andy and his wife Rachel All came in the night before they like just arrived Because they were doing their own kind of tour of Hawaii.
Andy:Yeah, we had already spent a couple days on the Big Island.
Chris:Big Island yeah, we were on.
Siobhan:Kauai. To be fair, I don't know if we mentioned that.
Chris:Oh yeah, yeah. This is all taking place on Kauai, yeah.
Andy:We had spent a couple days on the Big Island because we really wanted to hit Volcanoes. National Park there which was amazing, absolutely amazing so we had already done a lot of hiking yeah.
Chris:So they came in the night before. I've been loafing it around. We were there for a day so far, I think, doing a beach thing.
Chris:Actually, no, it was that day we arrived in kawaii, the day that we had the gathering party, and then the next day was the renewal right, and next morning we decided we're gonna go on a hike, so we got up real early and had to make like about an hour's drive was like a 45 minute drive all the way up to the trailhead. And this is in waimea canyon, or just just north of of waimea canyon, which is the grand canyon of hawaii, and it is gorgeous, pretty gorgeous yeah absolutely, and they're gorgeous which indeed it has a bunch of different places.
Chris:You can see it from, just like the grand canyon, obviously, but which makes it really nice, you know. And then if you keep going up the the road, which is this windy road, and there's like giant potholes that will swallow your car if you hit them the wrong way, which was really fun in a rental car eventually you end up at the pahia trailhead, which is the trail we did the the hike on.
Chris:And what's really cool is you kind of park in this parking lot and then you kind of climb up. Uh, not climb up, but like you go up a pathway. That's a pretty steep pathway steep but pretty easy. Yeah, it was still paved at that point right with the railing and everything and you get to a lookout where you're supposed to be able to look out over this crazy open the part of the nepali coast.
Chris:You know, look at the nepali coast. But because it's so early, it's just clouds. We are walking through clouds so we can barely see anything. So we're like, all right, don't bother about the look, let's just start hiking. So we hike down and up and in and out it was it was it was more than any of us really expected it to be through mud. There were parts of the trail that were completely foot deep mud that you couldn't walk through, so we had to, like, climb along tree roots and up and down.
Andy:Super fun it was fun.
Chris:I wiped out at least three times damn yep, we, we were all muddy by the end yeah and the end of the trail we got to.
Chris:It was still a little bit cloudy, but we could kind of see into the nepali coast, which is really cool. We have some great photos. And then, as we started to hike back, that's when the sun started to come out and burn off the clouds and as we were getting all the way to the back to the beginning, we finally were able to start looking out through some of the really great views.
Andy:Beautiful view of this one little bay.
Chris:It's gorgeous.
Andy:Rachel's actually making a painting of it.
Chris:I can't wait for that.
Andy:It was supposed to be my Christmas present, but yeah, she's working on a painting of it.
Chris:And so, to wrap up the story, which it was such a fun day, I was absolutely wiped. Siobhan was mad at me.
Siobhan:Oh, I don't think I was mad.
Chris:You were mad at me. It's fine. Not like pissed at me or anything, no, I just felt slightly irked.
Siobhan:Maybe I was a little. I don't know if I was mad, though I think I was just bummed Cause I was like, well, we're supposed to have a party now and like I don't want you to feel like you're yeah, like I don't want you to feel like you were like dead to the world at this party, so I got back and I took a nap for like an hour or two or whatever, and then we were staying at this really cool resort that was like right on a beach it wasn't like what you would think of as a normal beach, but it was just our own cottages.
Chris:Shout out yeah, coolest place, our own little beach area, and so I took a chair and I kind of drug it out into the middle of nowhere and I put my headphones on and so for like a half an hour I just sat there with this gorgeous view of the ocean and wrote my vows, my renewal vows, there. So it was just such a really peaceful day for me, even though I was like dead tired from this hike but what a cool experience gave me like a really fun clarity to be able to write those vows.
Chris:So it was really really special day for me with an amazing experience. Yeah, yeah, absolutely so. This beer super tropically.
Andy:It's got pineapple. It's good stuff, very good.
Chris:Super light and brought it to share with everyone.
Andy:We did go to Kona Brewing while we were down there, jealous.
Chris:We got to do that our first time we didn't do this this past time.
Matt:I remember you talking about that.
Chris:I'm like.
Matt:I love Kona like the big wave.
Siobhan:Yeah, and the other one's like they're just so good, the Coco Brown best beer hands down.
Matt:It is like my number one beer.
Chris:It's just so good I could drink it any time of the year. Rich coconut, chocolate, wonderful beer. So shout out to Kona. Thank you so much for great, great experiences.
Andy:We had such a great time down there. You know, we kind of did island hopping because we really wanted to hit the national parks and stuff like that and we ended up our last day down there. We were on maui and like literally the next day the fire started right, like we literally flew out of maui, and the next day I'm getting text messages of like um, are you still?
Siobhan:down there when we left too, and we were getting texts too while we were flying, and people were like is everything crazy? It is crazy, and like?
Andy:I don't think so. Like on the news around here people talked about like people were jumping into the ocean to get away from the fires and stuff and like we think of that as like the atlantic ocean by jersey, which it's just like right, it's a beach.
Siobhan:You walk out like half a mile and you're still, you know, only in six feet of water.
Andy:But like in Maui, it is surf that breaks by the road, like people surf literally up to the highway. It's insane, so like jumping into the water there, like that's a whole different world than what we think about. But it was a great experience.
Siobhan:Would absolutely go back again yeah, yeah, we did, and I will do it again 10 more years, 10 more years, yep, all right we're your vows for it siobhan who should we talk to?
Andy:I'm a little out of breath. No, who should we talk to to book that?
Siobhan:oh yeah, who should we trip down to hawaii in 10 years?
Matt:poppin's travel would be happy to book your trip to Hawaii for you. Reach out, there are links just down below the podcast description. Click on that, visit their website, schedule an appointment with one of their qualified travel experts and they will get you wherever you want to go on the planet. And, knowing John as soon as he can figure out trips to Mars, he'll do that as well. Good stuff.
Siobhan:Yeah, good segue.
Chris:All right.
Siobhan:Are we, he'll do that as well.
Matt:Good stuff, yeah, good segue all right, are we moving over? Yes, we are staying in the beer world. Are you gonna tell us about some place in hawaii? You almost drowned again this time no, we're not gonna talk.
Siobhan:It is gonna be a traumatic experience for siobhan, which seems to be a theme the theme for sharing stories, which I know everyone's like, great so do you?
Matt:have happy times. Welcome to therapy corner with matt. With Matt and Friends Drank the Universe. Feel free to get your catharsis.
Siobhan:Indeed.
Matt:It's a can of catharsis.
Siobhan:I will first tell you about the beer that I brought, which is from Tired Hands, which is a somewhat local brewery.
Andy:Is it Where's?
Siobhan:that.
Matt:Ardmore Philly, oh, okay.
Siobhan:Philly-ish.
Matt:Not Lehigh Valley, not lehigh valley, but like local in that.
Siobhan:You know, yes, it's not kona from hawaii, which could not be farther maybe from where we are. It is called hive mind, which it's a double ipa which chris and I are on the ipa train we're bringing them here um, double ip with honey and there's a big old bee on the front love it and he's looking a little scary by the way he's like.
Matt:He is like creepy devil slash the hp lovecraft yeah yeah, exactly that guy once crawled down a marching band uniform I had on and stung me under the suspender.
Siobhan:Well, that's what we're all here for today is to hear about all the bee sting stories that I have dealt with in my life of which I have three and they are not that long, I hate it I hate all of you.
Matt:As.
Chris:Siobhan's pouring the spirit and tell you, siobhan, that the other day driving home there was a yellow jacket in the Prius.
Andy:Oh no.
Siobhan:My whole face just fell.
Chris:As I'm driving from Lowe's to rehearsal. I look over at the passenger window and there's just a yellow jacket there.
Siobhan:And I was like nope, no, no.
Matt:I literally drive your car into a ditch and get out of it. There's no way, you guys.
Chris:We have insurance.
Siobhan:Especially yellow jackets.
Chris:I took my sunglasses case, which is like a hard glasses case. I deleted that.
Siobhan:I'm so glad it was a giant puddle of nothingness we should just all tell b stories and I've got one.
Matt:Oh my god, I got one too this is my wait.
Siobhan:First of all, this is peak siobhan, because I come with stories and then I tell other people to tell stories, because I am a connector in that way but, I
Chris:am so afraid of bees, and before oh, this smells so good, by the way, sorry, before all the bee activists come for me, okay, because I don't know who they are.
Siobhan:But like yes, you're right, it is rachel, I do not have an issue with especially pollinators, good bees honeybees.
Siobhan:Yeah, it does I like the smell, but it tastes good bees that are here to help our gardens grow and the ecology and ecosystems thrive. Right, I'm here for that. Get the fuck out of my face okay, and a wasp burn it down. Kill all of their families, their lineage, fuck them, okay. Holy shit, shame on all of your family. I hate it. Okay, so I've been stung. This is the funny part, because I'm not allergic that I know, of which now I'm convinced that I am she's not.
Siobhan:No, I'm convinced that I am as an adult, because I have not been stung in at least 20 years.
Andy:Fun fact, fun fact. I just learned this you get stung by a bee and you taste banana. You're allergic. That's a sign of an allergic reaction about to happen.
Chris:Well, now I'm going to be stung All of a sudden like bee facts.
Matt:Weird. Hashtag bee facts Also if you get stung and stop breathing. That's also right.
Siobhan:I mean, it's a bad sign if you need an epi pen, you might be allergic to bees. Yeah, right, so I have been stung three times that I can recall, which I'm assuming is only three times, because I would probably recall them all instead of trauma dumping them because I might assume that I would do that, but who knows?
Siobhan:so the three that I remember, two of them happened in a different state and another country, and the other one was in Connecticut where I grew up. So I'll go in order of horrific traumatic experiences and then others can tell bee stories. Third of the three stepped on a bee when I was at my aunt's house, stepped on a bee, had a bee sting on my foot.
Siobhan:That sucked. Right, that sucks because you don't know you're going to do it. It stinks. I will also say all of these I was like a young child, like I was probably, I know, the first one. I was only six, but so I was always young. So it was always very dramatic, right Cause, when you're younger, even now, I mean, let's be real about how it would be now if I got stung by a bee. It would end my life. So second, in colorado, visiting family friends in colorado had a hornet that got stuck in my hair.
Siobhan:Um, that sounds terrible just you know, around this table I'm telling a hair story that no one can identify with, but that's okay.
Andy:I used to have hair. Yeah, me too.
Siobhan:Hornets, so like when they sting you. That's the other thing about bees. For those who don't know which is probably nobody but that's fine Bees who are honeybees. Obviously, if they sting you, it is because they are trying to protect their hive and they will potentially lose their life from stinging you, which does make me feel mildly sad.
Matt:Horn lose their life from stinging you, which does make me feel mildly sad.
Siobhan:Hornets and wasps they don't give a fuck, they will sting you forever. I got stung three times in my head from that hornet getting stuck in my hair Horrific, okay. And then the worst one, which is just because of the way that it happened.
Andy:I love watching your hands.
Siobhan:I know I'm so uncomfortable, even telling I've chosen to tell these stories, but it is such so when I was in Ireland as a six-year-old. Okay, and you're like, are there bees in Ireland? There are.
Andy:St Patrick didn't take care of those two? He sure didn't.
Matt:Just the snakes, and I never saw a snake snake, so he did pretty well, but he couldn't do the bees so I remember this.
Siobhan:I remember we had a rental car. It was my parents and my aunt who came on this trip to ireland with me in august of 1989 when I was six years old and I remember being in the backseat of the car and I remember being like restless because I'm six and I'm moving around, and I remember sitting back down in the car on a b and I got stung in the ass.
Siobhan:Cheek in the back of the car son of me and I literally was like ah, like I started screaming, my mother's like oh, and of course they're driving, so they're like freaking out. Sure what's happening, and I'm like I got stung by a bee. I sat on a bee. My mom's like just you're fine and I'm like I'm not fine. I sat on a bee and we had to go to like the chemist in Ireland, which is basically a pharmacy, to get cream because I, thankfully, was not allergic, didn't taste the banana, but I needed the butt cream for the sting that I got from the freaking bee.
Chris:Well, thank God you survived. I know.
Matt:Was your aunt's name Beatrice. It was not sadly. It was Evelyn, which has nothing to do with bees, but still just bee stories, bee stories, we all have them.
Matt:I empathize greatly. I, at my parents' house in Palmer, when they still lived there, I stepped on if you remember that it was one of those kind of older style carpets where the colors kind of ran together. It was like a brown with like black speckles and like that kind of thing which does not help the color blind. Nope, I stepped on a wasp and he got me like two or three times in the foot. I fell over. Now he also suffered Matt to the head, so he was kind of limping and I just.
Chris:The last thing he saw was my angry fist come down on him and I was like I don't care if he stings my head, he's going to die.
Matt:And then I laid around with peanut butter on my foot because the stinger was stuck in there, so peanut butter on my foot because the stinger was stuck in there, so yeah, that was the thing like peanut butter helped get the stinger out peeing on your foot when you get a jellyfish. I've never heard that before. Neither have I, stepmother robin. She wanted me to put peanut butter on the foot, so I had.
Chris:Maybe she was just doing that to screw with me. I don't know what.
Andy:That'd be hilarious or it was like the like oh, you're fine here, just if you put peanut butter on your foot, it's the peter griffin thing where she just looks around the room and if you put a peanut butter on your foot, it's worth mentioning, I was college age at that point, it wasn't like I was 10 years old.
Siobhan:So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well that that makes me think of the time that chris had to kill a wasp in our old house, because how many times?
Chris:oh, I mean 42 times sure
Siobhan:but the one that I remember because it was in our bedroom and we had blinds like mini blinds in our bedroom and it had gotten into our room and I literally walked in the room and I heard like from the blind and I went nope and I closed the door. Well, I got the cat. I got the cat because I was so scared. The cat would like go after it and I'm like no.
Siobhan:So I grabbed the cat and then I I literally slammed the door. Nobody else is in the room. I slammed the door and I go down and I tell Chris, you got to go take care of this this is your problem now if you want this room again, was that? The time you broke the lamp on the fan.
Chris:We have so many bee stories. It's hilarious. They follow my ass around, let me tell you.
Siobhan:But he had to hit that wasp. That wasp was like made of body armor. No, no, no.
Chris:That's the bee we trapped in the window. I got him to crawl out the window and so slam the window on him, and then he lived for four or five days in the window, in the window like between the screen and the window, we spray him with something at one.
Siobhan:No, no, no, I just let him suffer my god good to death you wouldn't think like they're so tiny.
Andy:You would think and they like they don't have to eat that long.
Siobhan:But that's the thing the speed of the wings, like you would think, and they like the speed.
Andy:But that's the thing the speed of the wings.
Chris:Like you would think, that would require them to eat more often, and then the other one is yes, in my office, so we had a oh, that's a fan in the office with a single light and we were playing games together like I probably heroes of the storm or something in the office. There's a callback, she freaks out because she sees a bee in the room runs like her hair's on fire.
Siobhan:Which it basically is.
Chris:And then I see there's a bee flying around the room, so I'm like trying to get it to land on something, to kill it. It finally lands on the light, on the fan, and I took a flip flop peace out. We can buy you light not only deleted the beat, but deleted that light shattered literally shattered and I remember being like.
Siobhan:I don't think that was my goal that was not, you should not have broken property but here we are.
Chris:I will delete your beats.
Matt:So we used to have and I just just popped in my head.
Andy:We used to have the cicada killers here in my backyard those things are horrifying, part of the reason they'll leave you alone, but they're freaking, scary, terrifying.
Matt:So we had a queen and when she would fly by if you were out back it was like a low flying 747 past your head, so loud. That is part of the reason I have that concrete patio. My solution to that was I'm going to drop 20 tons of concrete on your nest and we're just going to get rid of it. I watched Jen kill one of those with an electrified bug racket. She literally held it against the side. It was the most evil look I've ever seen in my wife held it against the side, as it was the most evil look I've ever seen in my wife like she just held it up there and let it go for 30 seconds while that thing died.
Matt:My god, I was like I'm never screwing with this woman, ever again it was absolutely hilarious.
Siobhan:So killing bees favorite pastime oh my god, no, it was wasps my story.
Andy:so, as we're going to talk about in a bit, I'm in the army band and I'm one of the army bands and I was doing a ceremony and I was playing trombone at the time. So I'm standing there. This is an outdoor ceremony, so we're standing. You're at attention pretty much the whole time, and it's time for us to play. And I bring my trombone up.
Matt:Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh yes, this is going exactly where you think it is I hate it.
Andy:I feel something against my lips. A bee had landed in my mouthpiece or some kind of flying insect, but so as I brought it up to buzz, it's flapping its wings literally against my face. So obviously like I flinch away and pull the mouthpiece away and I guess it flew off okay. But like I, know, I thought I was gonna be stung on the damn lips before I was about to not only play, but march across the field yeah, life flash before your eyes.
Chris:If I have a, can of something.
Siobhan:I shake it all the time to see if I'm gonna hear a buzz before I drink it every summer.
Andy:No, I can't imagine what my reaction would have been if that thing would have actually stung you, that would have been terrible.
Siobhan:See, that's what I'm saying.
Chris:One last very quick story.
Siobhan:Brings us all together. Weed whacking trimming Never a good start to a story.
Chris:This is the hive in the ground that we've had, so I just cut the grass and so finishing up with a good old wee whacking, and we have what's called the dog run in our yard, so it's basically just a small pen area that you would be able to put a dog in, and so I'm trimming this and, unbeknownst to me, a colony of wasps decided to live under that and I hit that area. They were not happy about that. And a wasp the size of Mothra.
Andy:Sure.
Siobhan:I couldn't think of anything better Almost a caterpillar size.
Chris:Latched onto my leg, bit me. I had to pull it off of my leg no, no with it a chunk of my flesh went oh my god, I had to run I? I just, yeah, like I yeeted the weed whacker and then slapped at my leg, which did not help. So then I had to pull it off and run for the house Full unlatched yeah. Wow.
Siobhan:I'm lightheaded.
Chris:I had a crater in my leg of flesh.
Matt:I remember that that it ripped off One of those cicada killers. I also had a weed whacker when it flew by. I didn't eat the weed whacker?
Chris:No, I went Tusken Raider, that's what I remember.
Siobhan:Yeah, it doesn't help but it makes you feel better in the moment. We called the exterminator right after that happened.
Chris:B Mageddon.
Siobhan:Yeah, and the guy had to put a bee suit on and come and do the whole thing and he had to put powder in it. I didn't leave the house for three days to go out in the backyard because we have a video of them leaving the nest. And when I tell you there are tens upon twenties of wasps going in and out of that nest in the ground, horrifying. And then they came back the next summer and we did it again.
Chris:And now we have yet to see. I filled in the hole the second year. We think we're good now because I think and now we were, we have yet to see.
Siobhan:I feel, yeah, I filled in the hole the second year we think we're good now, because I think last year we were fine.
Matt:It's been two years, I can recommend dropping 20 tons of concrete on top of the effective solution. See, I knew we had I knew we had the right exterminator when the guy showed up and one of those big ass cicada killers flew by and he goes big and he pumped his thing a couple times. He goes. They die too okay, there you go I was like, all right, we got the right guy here man. Well, I'm glad I could bring us all together with some bee wasp stories bonding over our hatred of connects his mind drop your worst bee story in the comments.
Andy:Yeah, really, yeah, right, I'm sure there's a lot to hear your trauma.
Siobhan:Don't tell us that you're killing good pollinators, because I will stand up for that. Bees are obviously helpful for all of our ecologists.
Chris:I'm obsessed with the Instagram and TikTok Videos of like Bee rescue people. They're pretty sick Heroes.
Siobhan:I will say, as someone who is not a fan of bees, I still love the activism Behind it and, like I will watch some of those, I don't want to gloss over it. This beer is very good.
Matt:It is.
Andy:I already killed mine.
Matt:It is beautiful.
Siobhan:It is beautiful.
Chris:Oh my god, is there any more?
Matt:You guys like the Bee Rescue. I like to watch the one. I can't remember the dude's name, but he likes to get stung and bit by different stuff, just to tell you how much it hurts.
Andy:I know you're talking about that.
Siobhan:What the?
Andy:shit is that.
Matt:He got stung by one of those murder hornets. He got bit by a bullet.
Chris:ant the murder hornets don't really actually sting that bad?
Siobhan:I thought they don't even sting. They do, but that's not actually an actual thing for for them to use For whatever horrifying thing they do.
Andy:It was the bullet ant one. Yeah, this dude will like taunt scorpions and shit. No, bro, I've seen that stuff. Get out of here, do bullet ants? There's got to be a better way to make it. No, thank you.
Chris:I've heard that's the worst thing ever. So when I was in basic training Talk to Steve-O when I was in basic training as we we were doing our final march field experience.
Andy:We, every once, while they would shout out amber, which meant get down, get into a fighting position, right, so we're marching along this road, they would shout out amber, you toss your pack down, you get down behind it in a fighting position, and the dude, literally like two guys, down for me, ow, ow, what the ow? Well, it's south carolina, he laid down in a fire ant oh no, no, and he was swarming with fire ants so like, literally, we ripped his clothes off of him.
Andy:We're all pouring our canteens of water over him to get him off and like he just had freaking welts all over yeah I know you're not supposed to leave a man behind, but in that particular scenario, Later. No, we took care of him.
Matt:We took care of him.
Andy:All right, well, I'm out of BBR here, so who's next? Matt is it you or is it me?
Matt:You want me to go next? I feel like you should close the show here. Oh, that's a lot of pressure, but ahead, matt, what you got all right. So what I brought today is a mudslide, but it is a mudslide recipe that is very special to me. We talked about tropical islands earlier and nuptials and things like that, so this recipe is very special to me. This is the mudslide recipe from rum point in the cayman islands, and when jen and I got married, we had our honeymoon in the cayman islands and we were there for a solid week and it was a wonderful experience overall. We stayed at a place called Moritz. They actually had a barracuda off the end of the bar. So at the end of the night, when you got done eating or whatever, they kind of just chucked your food in the water.
Matt:You see, like six or seven barracuda come up and just completely devour Yikes yeah it was really cool, but the original mudslide came from Rum Point in the Cayman Islands, and the mudslide that some of you might be used to will have ice cream in it, it will have heavy cream in it, it will have a lot of different things. The original recipe does not have any of that. It is vodka, kahlua, bailey's Irish cream over a crap ton of ice with a little cinnamon on the top, and in the straw is a floater of Kahlua. So that first sip you take is going to be pretty much. I didn't do a full straw you're supposed to but you will get a shot of Kahlua and then you'll get the rest of the taste All right, all righty.
Matt:Cheers to that Cheers.
Andy:I'll say I don't think I've ever had a mudslide before. This is delicious, just what.
Siobhan:I expected. Did I get any cinnamon?
Chris:I don't want to admit that I like this Yep Stellar sin.
Siobhan:I will say I might taste banana. So I wonder if I'm allergic to bees? I'm not gonna.
Chris:This is exactly what I would want If I'm sitting on a beach. Oh yeah, hot day on a beach, right yeah, and it's this cold, it's got to be this cold.
Andy:This cold hot day on a beach, You're going to get this at the next cruise?
Matt:Yeah, the story that I wanted to tell was that the Cayman Islands is a left-hand drive country which people might not know, and in my infinite wisdom now most of you here know my yeah know my automotive history.
Matt:Infinite of zero, not a whole lot those of you that knew me as a teenager through, let's say, age 25, when my car insurance rates were very high. I did not have, let let's say, a very safe driving history up until about 25 and I decided to rent this car and drive in a left-hand drive country, which was a bit of an adventure, and the way that the grand cayman is shaped is rather interesting, because it's kind of a u-shape and you can't go between the top portions of the, so if you need to go to one side of the island to the other, you have to drive all. To the other, you have to go all.
Siobhan:It's about 45 minute drive like it's not that far, isn't it like a big atoll? Or like it's all water like in that middle of that? You? We were just in the cayman islands.
Matt:So everybody that has a really nice house lives on the right side of the? U and there are like boat taxis and things like that that go back and forth. But if you're a tourist and you want to go, say, to the very cool turtle farm to hold the little baby sea turtles, stingray, and which is what we did so we did, uh, the sea turtle farm in the morning, and I think that was the day after we'd done swimming with dolphins, which is up on the wall.
Matt:That's where that one picture is from. But the baby sea turtles were. That was the coolest thing little flippers in the hand and like, and then they had the fully grown ones that you could look down on. You're like okay, you're going to get a lot bigger when you're older.
Siobhan:It was super cool.
Matt:But drove. So our hotel was on the right side, drove the? U up to the Sea Turtle, drove back, drove back past the hotel and then we had dinner later that night up at the other end of the? U. So I went across back and forth across the island like one and a half times, two times that day and I was I did a really good job driving left hand where my brain kicked in and, like the american showed, as soon as I got into a parking lot the brain was like default settings.
Matt:You're on this side of the road now and all the locals are honking at me and I'm like swerving people and it was like that scene from euro trip, when they're in the bus and they're like yelling at you to get in the wrong, like that's exactly, uh, what it was. But it was a beautiful island, that was a huge, great adventure. Uh, for that, we did that. We swam with stingrays that week and, um, I really desperately want to. Jen and I are going to be married.
Siobhan:Uh, it's 13 years this year, for our 15th, do it yeah, it'll be for our 15th.
Matt:I would love to go back there. Or we got engaged in saint martin, which was the other story that Jen got her wires crossed and we were laughing. She goes. You remember what you did to me in St Martin? I'm like we went snorkeling and there were sea urchins underneath and we were swimming and I pinched her butt. She swung at me fist first, like fist first, with a snorkel mask on and I barely dodged it.
Siobhan:But I totally deserved it, just for screwing with her in the middle of the.
Chris:We weren't anywhere near land we were in open water and they were big.
Matt:They were very large, but I'm glad you all enjoyed the slide and if you ever get the chance, definitely have them in the Cayman Islands.
Matt:Rum Point is a really cool bar. Also, I believe it's called the Wreck is the bar at Rum Point no-transcript. It's crazy because you walk to the end of that dock and you can still see the bottom as clearly as you can when you're two feet. I mean mean it's that kind of beach. But that bar is where the mudslide originated. I guess the story is some guy walked up and said I want a mudslide, I want a white russian, and they were out of milk. And the guy said well, I'm just gonna throw some bailey's irish cream, put it over ice. We're gonna see what happens and the mudslide was born.
Chris:This is, yeah, that's really good, delicious, fun fact. You mentioned barracuda earlier. We learned when we were in the cayman islands because we did a uh stingray thing the guys on the ship that that were taking us out had just caught a barracuda and they're famously known for being poisonous. Uh, but, and I don't remember if there was an biological, ecological reason for why some barracuda are and some barracuda are not poisonous. I can't remember why, but the way they test for it is, they will scoop up a handful of ants and they will have the ants crawl over the barracuda, which they just naturally pick up all of the secretions from the barracuda, as they just naturally pick up all of the secretions, oils and everything from the barracuda as they're walking across it, and if the ants die, it's a poisonous barracuda.
Siobhan:If the ants survive, you can eat it and, if you like, what is it if you eat it? Interesting it's poisonous.
Chris:You lose all your teeth yeah, your teeth will fall out um like that's what there's, like methamphetamine, it will it will. It will erode your heart because your heart oh, we killed him, you killed him.
Siobhan:Oh no, oh, my god, you guys.
Andy:Yeah, there's the barracudas that are caught in florida.
Chris:Yeah, yes, yeah, the bath salt, methane feta fish, yeah yeah, apparently they will also like cause very severe heart conditions and it's something that you won't notice for like a few weeks, if not a month or two but the guy was saying like it. Like eats your heart from the inside. Yikes walter whitefish.
Matt:Yeah and so it's like doing this for a while.
Chris:Yeah, all of a sudden, like you'll have like a heart attack like symptom and die and people are like, okay, yeah, that guy, uh, that guy ate a. He's literally dying. Did you eat barracuda, andy?
Siobhan:it's okay do you taste banana? So I was thinking like combining stories.
Matt:The next time, andy, if you're with somebody and they happen to lay down on an anthill, you're just gonna grab the barracuda absolutely primary test right and then they're like well, it's poison.
Siobhan:and the guy's like that's cool, I'm still on the fire. Like, can I get up now?
Matt:None of this has helped anything going on. Nope, this has not helped anything.
Siobhan:Well, at least we now know that barracuda is not poisonous. That's awesome, Matt.
Chris:Thank you for this, did I get cinnamon.
Siobhan:I didn't get cinnamon. No, no, he poured four tablespoons on his own. He does have a lot, and then I told him not to kill the rest of us with the cinnamon challenge.
Matt:I can make you another one later if you would like.
Andy:I definitely did the cinnamon challenge. I didn't realize what it was. I was working at Dairy Queen. Oh no, and one other person I was working with At Dairy Queen goes hey, do you like cinnamon?
Siobhan:Of course, who doesn't?
Andy:Take a spoonful of cinnamon. And I did Sounds like a terrific idea and that's when we learned that when I throw up, Everybody throws up no. I throw up so hard that I break blood vessels in my face.
Chris:Oh no, In your yelling nose and eyes.
Andy:All over.
Chris:Like literally all over my entire face. Oh no, that sucks.
Andy:Blood vessels broke everywhere in my face, so I'm still in high school right.
Chris:They're like oh, we killed Andy, Okay Right. No, so they're like oh, we killed Andy, Okay Right.
Andy:No. So I go home and there's like I'm fine, Right, I look like shit, but I'm fine. But my mom is like what the hell happened?
Siobhan:What is wrong with you?
Andy:And of course I'm not going to say, like I did the cinnamon challenge, I forget what the hell I did, but I'm like I don't know. I think I had a reaction to something blah blah blah. That's a good excuse, she made me go to the doctor. Yeah, of course. So I go to the doctor's office, right, and the doctor's like all right. So it says here you had like some kind of weird reaction to something and I'm like all right, here's what happened.
Siobhan:I'm stupid.
Andy:Doctor starts cracking the hell up, yep, yep, and goes do you mind if I bring the interns in? Oh god, and I'm like absolutely right, because, like you know, I'm scared of my parents, so I'm not going to tell them what happened, but like other than that, like I don't care. So all these interns come in and the doctor's like all right. So this is a fascinating story. If you ever have this hat, see this. Like here's what actually happened. That's awesome. You know every last.
Matt:One of those interns is still telling that story to patients yeah I hope so the doctor thought it was the best thing.
Andy:So I have to ask the last, the very first.
Matt:Uh, how did we get beer? I brought the mezcal. Have I redeemed?
Siobhan:myself for sure.
Andy:I think you might have redeemed yourself from many things on this podcast with this drink there you go yeah I'm I'm gonna have to say well sir, when I come back, I'm expecting this yeah, 100 as soon as my brain freeze wears off that I currently have from sucking down half of those right now bunch of wusses especially as we get closer to summer, like you know oh yeah, this better be prepared when I get here now.
Chris:This just makes me want summer more you know it's, it's not warm outside right now.
Matt:I know and I just want we can get an earthquake we're gonna get an eclipse, but we can't get a day over 60 and that's all I want.
Siobhan:Well, we did. A month ago it was fall spring.
Matt:It was the spring. I hate that ground. I'm gonna kill that groundhog, okay, well, that that kill that groundhog. That is not. That is not an actual threat against Punxsutawney Phil. Okay, I just want to be very clear on this. Just had a baby.
Andy:Yeah, punxsutawney family just had a baby.
Chris:Or Phyllis, I don't know Phyllis, no judgment Officially pounded that mudslide.
Andy:I freaking killed it.
Siobhan:Alright, now I'm scared for Andy's. Alright, I'm very excited for this, so to be fair absolutely no idea what this is going to taste like Hell. Yeah, nope, so scared.
Andy:Alright. So what we're passing around the table here is a bottle of Starkey which is a Lithuanian Starkey Star. Sorry, kai Starkey it, which is a Lithuanian Star Kai, star Kai.
Siobhan:It's a foreign language.
Andy:I know this R is supposed to be slightly rolled, so Star Kai, I think, is the correct pronunciation. Now we've lost Siobhan.
Matt:Hold on, hold on, just laugh, laugh it out. You don't want to hold that in, it'll hurt later.
Siobhan:I'm going to start crying. Okay, we're fine, we're fine, I'm going to recommend.
Matt:I'm going to recommend a fresh cup. That was good, right.
Siobhan:Yeah so.
Andy:I did study Lithuanian. I'm going to recommend a fresh cup. I'm good. I'm going to recommend a fresh cup. I'm good, okay, well, that was like a magic trick. I'm not sure how I did that. All right, so this is a 43%, oh Lord. So I'm going to recommend, at least to start you go easy with this. I think this should be. You all right there? Yeah, I don't know, are you all right? That's not what I'm doing. I think this should be similar to a brandy.
Siobhan:Oh, so, if you go into it with that in mind, you drink it already, I might have with my nose it is a strong smell paint yeah, that's um I'm, that's what it makes me think of oh anyone have an injury.
Matt:We could absolutely cauterize your wound. I like the stork on the label. It's a great label, the stork.
Siobhan:Is that what it is?
Andy:Are we all going to sip this together?
Siobhan:Everybody smell it.
Chris:It smells like that peanut butter whiskey.
Siobhan:What? No, it doesn't.
Chris:No, you're right, it does, I agree. Screwball no, not that whiskey.
Siobhan:What? No, it doesn't. No, you're right, it does, I agree.
Chris:Screwball, we all know what you're talking about. No, not that. What's the super cheap stuff? Huh?
Matt:Is there a style of liquor that this is, I believe?
Andy:it's from a rye mash, so it should be similar to a brandy or a rye whiskey. You ready, it's a a rye mash.
Chris:So it should be similar to like a brandy or a rye whiskey, you ready Peanut butter Okay.
Andy:Hold on. It's a distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented rye mash.
Siobhan:Okay.
Andy:So it's aged in oak barrels. Okay so we'll find out.
Chris:Here we go.
Siobhan:One Cheers Is there a cheers, a Lithuanian cheers.
Andy:Oh, it's Fakata, Fakata.
Matt:It's Fakata, fakata, it's Fakata.
Andy:It's Fakata it's.
Siobhan:Fakata.
Andy:You're supposed to say it after you, cheers. Oh well shit, because it's, and now you, it's Fakata.
Siobhan:Oh, I like that, I love that. Cheers from America, because we do that before we drink. Lithuania's got a lot of weird traditions, and one of them you cannot have one drink. Okay, well, you must have at least I'm on board. Challenge accepted, because if you have one drink.
Andy:It's all going to go into one leg and you'll be out of balance and you'll fall over fair enough.
Siobhan:I love that for them.
Andy:All right, we're doing it here we go oh, it's not as strong as I was expecting. It's very warming. It is like that after like this is, this is almost like that bourbon hug okay hold that face, hold that face hold
Chris:the face it burns a little too much oh, I don't get the burn no, yeah I do, but it doesn't last that long.
Siobhan:I literally swished it around my tongue, which might have been a mistake.
Chris:So this is.
Andy:Isfakata, isfakata, isfakata, isfakata.
Siobhan:Isfakata, we fukakata, we're all fucked.
Matt:Is it?
Andy:fakata or fakata Isfakata. Is it Focatta or Focatta? It's Focatta.
Chris:Focatta it's.
Andy:Focatta.
Chris:This makes me think of black velvet toasted caramel whiskey. It's like $6 a bottle, which should tell you everything you need to know. But that's what this tastes like. It's like sweet, but whiskey at the same time.
Siobhan:I wasn't bad at all.
Matt:I like the sweet as an aperitif. This would be really nice. I whiskey at the same time. I wasn't bad at all. I like the sweet as an aperitif. This would be really nice. I just did the whole thing.
Chris:Just like you had a whole meal.
Andy:you've been drinking, and now this is afterwards You're having a heavy cake or something, and this is what you drink with it, so several people posted online that they use this for making fruitcakes.
Matt:Oh, I could see that in a reduction. Yeah, yeah, we should do that.
Siobhan:Um, not really, but like no, I could see I'm not doing that, but yeah but yeah, so, um, last summer I spent time in lithuania.
Andy:So again, I'm a military musician and we were over there for a military tattoo. Thank you for your service. It was a fantastic trip. I had an absolute blast. I learned a lot, but I decided, obviously, before coming back, I was going to grab at least one bottle. I grabbed two bottles of Lithuanian spirits. Over there, they like to drink what we would probably call tinctures. Right so, like an alcohol over some kind of herb, right, um, and like you know, drink this one for an upset stomach, drink this one for a headache or whatever drink this one for a shit day at work.
Andy:Right, drink this one to obliterate all memories my big story from lithuania with this is um, it wasn't specifically with this I have. I've literally never tasted this before. Right now I bought. I bought it because it was lithuanian spirit and brought it back with me. But while we were over there, at one point we had a party with some of the lithuanians. Okay, at a couple points we had parties with Lithuanians and at the one party I said to the one guy hey, I'd love to try some of your more local like what are your traditional drinks around here? And the big one is the Baltic Porters. Right, it's a Baltic state, so the Baltic Porters, Yep nice.
Andy:Their Baltic Porters were delicious Strongly recommend, love it yeah. But he started bringing out some of these again. Delicious, strongly recommend, love it yeah. But he started bringing out some of these again what we would call a tincture. And we tried this one and we were like, oh my God, this is delicious. All of us were like this is like so smooth and so flavorful. And then finally we're like, can we see the bottle? Like we're going to have to import this. What is this Right? So he pulls out the bottle and on the bottle Like we're going to have to import this, what is this Right?
Siobhan:So he pulls out the bottle and on the bottle is this big old pot leaf. Hell yeah, Weed tincture.
Andy:It was a weed tincture. Guess what you don't have to import that.
Siobhan:We got it here.
Andy:Well, but as you probably know, military, we get random drug tests. So all of us who just took a couple drinks of this start to freaking panic of like when is the next time? We're probably going to get random tested. And we were all fine, yeah, right, but it wasn't enough in there to.
Matt:I'm sure the local Lithuanians who we were hanging out with gave us something. I'm really sorry. Might have gotten it done, at least Correct, yeah.
Andy:But no, it was a great time. The trip over to Lithuania was fantastic. My other story from Lithuania the trip over. No, the trip over was not great. Oh, yeah, right, I do not recommend flying on a military In Lithuania was great.
Matt:The time we spent there, did you fly on a uh c-130?
Andy:c-130.
Matt:Yeah, it was rough is it true that there are no bathrooms on a c-130 I?
Chris:mean there's a bucket there is a bathroom.
Andy:I do have a picture I could pull up.
Andy:But for the dudes, when you have to take a leak, there's like this canister that you take a leak into they just open that hatch strappy and say go yeah, I don't know, but if you have to drop a deuce or if you're a lady, there is a very shallow bottom toilet that is specifically marked for emergency use only. And how long was that flight it was? I want to say it was nine hours there, 10 hours coming back, because coming back you're against the jet stream, yep. So nine hours there. The floor of the plane was about 40 degrees. The ceiling of the plane was probably about 85, 90 degrees, so in the middle there you tried to get comfortable. So I was told yeah.
Andy:So I was told like I was told it was going to be cold. So I was prepared for cold. I had like under armor on and stuff like that. I was prepared for that. But I also had a blanket with me because I was prepared to put that over me. What I quickly realized? Because the floor was so cold, I actually needed that blanket under me and I needed my jacket off, so like I've got a blanket under me and I needed my jacket off.
Chris:So, like I'm, I've got a blanket under me to block the cold coming up. Yeah, but no top so wild, just like an undershirt on to keep you know I think it's called insulation yeah, the science part of your brain is like that. Totally makes sense. But at the same time, science. There you go. You don't anticipate that at all.
Siobhan:No, that's such a cool experience to hear about. I know it's a crazy one, but it's such a cool one.
Matt:Two things.
Siobhan:The first one make me another mudslide, I will.
Matt:I did not over-cinnamon this mudslide.
Chris:The cinnamon I put in here actually works really well. I'm now at the bottom and I'm cinnamon challenging myself and I'm enjoying it, oh it's great he's like my blood vessels are broken, but I feel great it's absolutely great.
Matt:The second thing I wanted to say is that I have immense amount of respect for the men and women of the armed services who fly on those planes on a consistent basis. The worst okay, the worst flying experience I ever had was frontier airlines when they ran out of snacks and alcohol. They're like we're not going to serve you at nine o'clock at night that to me was a world ending crisis.
Siobhan:I was ready to take like when I was like problems I want a beer.
Matt:I'm going on vacation like we don't have any beer on board.
Andy:It's six o'clock at night.
Matt:And I was like nope, nope, this is unacceptable.
Andy:So when we got back and we landed, a customs agent came on the plane and was like do you guys have anything to claim?
Siobhan:We're like, of course not Of course we all had bottles of booze. Yeah right, that's what you're taking back. Do you know who I am, sir, they do.
Andy:No. So I will say I was expecting this to have a lot more of a burn than it does.
Matt:It doesn't Well. My right leg feels boozy. It's got a tiny bit.
Chris:He's got to get the left one. He's got to get the left one.
Matt:Another one for the left leg.
Andy:My right leg is boozy now. Is it okay? Well, especially like my liver is numb, I can't feel my liver. So we hung out with the Lithuanians about six years ago.
Siobhan:I feel like we're all going to just hang out and tell all these stories.
Andy:Sure, why not? He can keep the good stories in and cut the bad ones out. That is what? How?
Matt:did we get beer is about.
Andy:I agree. So when we hung out with the Lithuanians the first time, like our higher ups specifically said like hey, Don't try, don't try and hang out with them. Their booze are higher proof than ours, don't try and hang with them. So obviously we did. But like the one time we were at the one hotel and I just had a bottle of bourbon I'm a bourbon drinker. I had a bottle of bourbon and all the Lithuanians Were like, oh, we don't fuck with bourbon.
Siobhan:They drink clearer stuff. I mean that's not clear for anyone that one can see that's listening. It's not clear.
Matt:He wants more. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. I want some more. That's listening. Can I have a little more of that? What's that he wants?
Siobhan:more. Yeah, sure, sure, sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. Please, sir, have some Starca. I want some more Starca.
Matt:It's got like a honey flavor to it.
Siobhan:It has a little bit of sweetness. It does have a little bit of sweetness. A little bit of sweetness, yeah, yeah, it's nice. I like it Aperitif, digestive, that's the thing that you would say Aperitif served for before and it had just a tiny bit of burn.
Chris:That's why I said earlier it burned just a little bit, but not bad. You don't feel it in your chest that much. It's not the Kentucky hug we've talked about.
Matt:Previously. No, you don't get that warm fuzzy feeling.
Andy:You get a little bit, but it doesn't linger too long. I still feel my palate a little bit.
Siobhan:This is a fancy store.
Chris:He's very dignified.
Matt:The label. He works at the Four Seasons.
Siobhan:He's a fancy guy.
Chris:All right, should we wrap this?
Siobhan:thing, up.
Matt:I think the train is, the steam's coming out, the train's rolling into the station.
Siobhan:So thank you all, like I said, for being on this journey with us.
Matt:Yeah, that's all right. You, you tried valiantly. No, but also thank all of you for bringing the the phenomenal drinks and sharing the stories I this is one of my favorite this is really one of my favorite formats that we do for sure.
Chris:It's just, yeah, so much good like conversation that we can have absolutely, absolutely so.
Matt:Thank you all, cheers I know you're all still here. Thank you all for listening whatever.
Siobhan:What's that? Lithuanian cheers again it's focata all right on to you guys on to you.
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