What is that, sir?

Yeah, so I had to go to the Linda section to pull this one out.

So you can blame it on her.

So one product that turned you into a snob.

So if you can think about something that maybe you were like, gosh, I just can't do the generic of this.

It's got to be the brand of this, whatever it might

Stuff's fabulous.

You got to have the Kerrygold butter.

Check them out online at neelyfamilydistillery.com. Now, onto the show.

Let's drink! [upbeat music]

Okay

... on, on the technophile piece.

Uh, so I used to do every year, like every year the Apple phone came out, and I would do it, and then the last couple times we've waited a little bit, and, uh, and s- kind of did that.

But I'll tell you what, this little iPhone Duo that came out-

How about you, Matt?

I was going to ask, do pull tabs count? Sure.

So, you know, when we used to go to a Catholic grade school and, you know, they would always have the big parish picnic and my parents would go and they'd give us, you know, buy us the armbands to go do the rides and stuff.

But I just remember always sitting at a table while mom and dad were drinking and talking to friends and pulling a bunch of pull tabs for them and Even though I wasn't supposed to because I wasn't 16 or whatever.

You could win some bourbon.

Yeah, I wonder if you can, you know, if you can combine it with some of the stuff you've done at the shop where you, you know, you have the artisans and set up tents and different kinds of things.

I mean, there's already the farmer's market there, like you said, you know, maybe coordinated with a farmer's market and say like, hey, you know, all the farmer's market folks come in and just add on to to the bourbon sections.

I think there's also a bunch of you know, there's a bunch of really really popular bourbon groups and affinity groups and different kinds of things around town too, that I'm sure would sponsor or do auctions or different kinds of things.

Okay.

Yeah, I'm in.

So here in St. Louis, it's called the Lemp Mansion.

It used to be the Lemp Brewery and the mansion of the former owners and – uh people that established that brewery and it's known to be incredibly haunted supposedly and all that kind of stuff and so we've uh we've been several times they have they actually have a brunch a sunday brunch there and they've turned it into like a you know murder mysteries and different kinds of things that they do there but uh one time we were there for brunch and linda and i were walking around and they let you kind of walk through the through the mansion if there's nobody staying there because it's also a bed and breakfast kind of thing Um, and so we went up to the attic or the, like the top floor of the building.

And it was this old room that just had a bunch of storage stuff in it and everything.

And we opened the door and there was this guy looked like Colonel Sanders.

Um, yep.

So are you have you verified he's human? Or was this potentially a ghost?

Tell me if you think I'm wrong, that you may see a lot more RBs threes in the flex than we've seen in the beginning of the summer.

I mean, I don't think you're wrong, but I, I think all this, like, people panicking now about, like, even, like, David Montgomery.

Look, Woody Marks is looking good in the preseason.

They're playing him.

He's playing against, you know...

Every defense is just a basic defense.

A lot of the starters don't play, as we mentioned already.

Speaking of Amon-Ra, what do you think of team six, Matt?

Yeah.

So I think you have to take stands on players and, you know, make some commitments here.

As far as builds go, it's gonna depend where I am picking.

Uh, just like for instance, if I'm picking three to five in the FFPC where you have to start three wide receivers, for me, most likely, unless somebody fell that, you know, was, uh, that I didn't expect, I'm going four, uh, four wide receivers.

And I, I, I think that's advantageous 'cause the way the board is giving you that running back in the fifth, that could be your RB1 And in the early six you can get an upshot RB2 guy.

You know, maybe there's question marks and stuff, but there's talent there, you know.

But, you know, sometimes if you're picking, like, say, five, and you start out with a JSN or an Amon-Ra, if a Hampton fell, you know, he was never falling there until Mike McDaniel made that comment, which I think was, was...

Okay

Yeah.

So I think you have to take stands on players and, you know, make some commitments here.

As far as builds go- It's gonna depend where I am picking.

Uh, just like for instance, if I'm picking three to five in the NFFC where you have to start three wide receivers, for me, most likely, unless somebody fell that, you know, was, uh, that I didn't expect, I'm going four, uh, four wide receivers.

And I, I, I think that's advantageous 'cause the way the board is giving you that running back in the fifth, that could be your RB1, and in the early sixth you can get an upshot RB2 guy.

You know, maybe there's question marks and stuff, but there's talent there, you know.

But, you know, sometimes if you're picking like say five, and you start out with a JSN or an Amon-Ra, if a Hampton fell, you know, he was never falling there until Mike McDaniel made that comment, which I think was, was...

Okay

Okay

... 'cause I want that upside shot on one of these two guys.

I have 20, I have over 20 shares of each, and I watched that preseason game.

Their offensive line was trash.

I know they're missing a couple of guys, and to me- My whole bet on Brooks is, look, he's, he was very talented.

He didn't really even play that much at Texas.

He got that year after Bijan and he shined, but it's his pass-catching ability.

Uh, thank you guys so much for watching, and we'll see you guys next time.

Uh-huh.

And so that's, you know, I think, I, I, I know his perspective for me was I'm the one that is going to probably hear both sides of the story and figure it out and help us all move forward with something.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Right? And so, and on this, and, and I, I never translated this.

I should have translated it, but in Italian and Sicilian, he put, uh, "Non essere dolce sino tu mancia- manciannu.

Non essere amaru sinu tu futannu," which translated means, "Do not be sweet lest you be eaten.

Do not be too sour lest you be shunned."

Yeah, I mean, you know, Stevenson doesn't have-

All I heard was that Trevion Henderson only had three good games against three shit teams, and then I looked at Stevenson who only did well against like three shit teams.

The Jets, the Dolphins, and, uh, I forget who else.

But you know, I, I don't know.

I'm, I'm gonna take the bet on the...

I don't think Stevenson's a bad pick, but I'm [laughs] gonna take the bet on the home run pick in, in his second year

the narrative

I mean, w- what are they supposed to do, not, not give Rodriguez snaps right now? It's the beginning of camp.

Matt, how about you? You asked the question.

Well, I've had...

Two run-ins with geese.

Um, one was, uh, one was at, uh, a park here in the, in St. Louis.

And, um, it was, I think it was with Linda and I think Anthony.

Anthony was really young at the time.

I'm going to say three or four years old, maybe.

Yeah.

yeah mine isn't even about like the money for the new sunglasses it's just like those work so why waste resources on getting another pair and time going to find sunglasses that you like that that is my philosophy and maybe it just doesn't work well but

Well, mine is mine, ironically, is sunglasses, too.

So I've got I used to buy expensive sunglasses, but then I lose them all the time or break them or something.

And so probably at this point, it's probably been three or four years ago.

I bought these cheap sunglasses from Walmart and they're still they're barely held together and they stay on the boat at the lake.

And just this weekend, I was looking at them.

I was like, yeah, you know what? those nose cushions are not cushions anymore they're just nose planks of plastic and stuff and i'm like i guess i need to get a new one and i still just keep it it's just it's just silly so it's that and underwear which i know is tmi but like um you know linda has to throw away holy underwear sometimes

right? So they're trying to figure out,

Right, so yeah.

Yeah, that, that was fun to dig through that, and I know a fraction-

Yeah, so she-

Yeah, Li- Linda was so excited.

She was like, "You need to look at the Facebook post." [laughs] She's like, "Go, go look.

Go look for your face."

Yeah,

you know, I'm a planner.

I would say Linda's more of the planner than I am.

Okay.

It's weird, like work-wise, I find that the more I delegate and ask people to make decisions, the better the results are.

So kind of like your nails, Katie.

It's like, you know, you can be surprised sometimes of like, oh my God.

absolutely, yeah.

Matt, how about you? I

would say, not in general, but where I work... parking is horrible it's in the central west end downtown okay it's always off street parking it's always you know during the during business hours it's the stupid meters and they have the meter made people that go around and they're pretty relentless

it's a money maker so yeah

it's just it's just more of an annoyance thing where i'll just end up door dashing we're going to get a lot of really good restaurants and everything around yeah it's just the pain in the butt to you know

Okay

...

it says, uh, you know, uh, there's actually historical precedent.

A cocktail named the Sazerac was included in the 1910 version of Jack's Manual-

Interesting

... strong for the Z right in the middle, and English speakers often unconsciously spread that voicing backward to the initial consonant.

So the S becomes a Z.

I was like, well, you still kind of got married by Elvis.

Yeah.

I just got a fishy idea.

I was ordained because about just a week prior to a cat getting married, I married off my niece.

Okay.

And they had asked me to do it.

So it was interesting.

that wasn't even drinks because they drank too much on their wedding day and they were like we're not drinking today uh so so i didn't have to pay

So Matt, um, are there any players in the first couple rounds that you're pretty much full fading, or are you trying to stay relatively even?

Um, I mean, I'm probably gonna do a lot of these 350, so I don't think I'm gonna full fade anyone.

But the guys like...

CMC is basically a workload thing that I'm worried about.

You know, I know he's 30.

I'm not worried about that part, but I haven't really seen him do back-to-back years in some time.

[chuckles] And, you know, I mean, just the pass catching ability, he stays healthy.

Um, I, I think that's super, super important.

I do kind of wonder, how much 12 personnel are they going to be running? Is that going to change up things for the wide receivers? We've got BTJ and parker washington both in there but you know jacoby myers even though we we all wish he'd kind of go away for fantasy um he's going to be in there stealing some stuff and then you've got strange and uh you know possibly even uh travis hunter plus a couple running backs it's like i'm i'm in on jacksonville but man it's just it's hard to know you know it it feels a little bit more like a crapshoot you know what i mean

Well, I mean, Jacoby Myers is the one person who can really hurt me.

He can kind of wreck my season as of my early drafting has gone.

I have taken – I'm in on both BTJ and Parker.

I'm more so on Parker.

I'm a little heavier on him.

But I really like both of them.

So, Matt, are there any players in the first couple rounds that you're pretty much full fading or are you trying to stay relatively even?

Okay.

Like little flames shooting out of a volcano.

And, um, they just have all these really cool, just really cool things that they do along the way, which is kind of fun.

So, so I think that, and then the other piece, the other thing I was thinking was, like, a, like an airplane-themed bar-Of some sort, right? With-

Mm.

And, uh, different kinds of chairs and everything.

We were at Lux Row, um, for the, uh, for the Bardstown, um, uh, event that Steve hosted and everything, and they had these really cool armchairs that were, uh, made out of, looked like they were made out of wings that were kinda curved.

Um, and they were just like really deep-set chairs.

Uh, I got my, uh, eight year Leopold Brothers three chamber.

Oh, nice.

Okay.

That was bassy.

I think that's gonna take our lead.

No foul there, no foul.

I've got, uh, Old Grand-Dad 114 single barrel.

[laughs]

[laughs]

I think ...

I'm trying to think, what else? Um, I mean, I'm not, I can't think of any tricks per se that aren't, like, activity-related.

I had a friend who I used to kayak with who is a dancer, and he, we were bored sitting around waiting for our, you know, our shuttle to get done running, and I asked him if he could teach me how to do a head spin.

Yeah

... flavor profiles and the education associated with it.

So I think if somebody, if a smart distributor could do something like that, right? To start pulling in many, many single barrels or a variety of single barrels, and start to market it to smaller shops or to places, hell, even, you know, the places where all the Americans come to [laughs] come when they're visiting In- India, right?

So-

Interesting.

So I, I just did a quick Google search and it said, and I said, "What do fire ants taste like?" [laughs]

Okay

...

the formic acid, which they believe-Or sorry, which they use as a defense mechanism.

Many compare p- many people compare the flavor to lemons, lemongrass, or sour candy like Skittles.

I wanna know who's eating fire ants.

Matt, what would you get?

I think I'm reading the same AI article that Justine is.

Very similar.

This suggests put some food out in a consistent spot that's easy to get to, relatively flat.

And it also doubles down on the water as well.

So put like a bird bath, water bath, something.

Something like that.

Bookers or George T. Stagg for the win?

yes that's true so

yeah i guess if people i don't know like if people can carry around those stupid vape cartridges and look like idiots.

Right.

Those don't look cool.

Those don't look cool.

Matt, you're next.

All right.

I got a deer hammer single malt.