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I'm gonna tell you about famous crimes on October the 10th over the years.

On this day back in 1934, the infamous Depression-era gangster, Lester Gillis, better known as Baby Face Nelson, and his partner in crime, John Paul Chase, rejoined forces near Minden, Nevada, and resumed a major crime spree that eventually led to a fatal shootout with the feds a month later.

And yeah, the feds won.

[air whooshing] It's time for Worldwide Crime.

Um, and part of the healthcare issue is our prescription drugs.

I was talking to a young lady in Minden, Nevada, up in northern Nevada, a, you know, rural part of town, and she gave me the story, a true story, of her at a grocery store buying a, a basket full of groceries, and it was, you know, filled, and she went over to the pharmacy section to pick up her prescription.

She looked at the price of that prescription, and she left those groceries right in the middle of the aisle-

Mm-hmm

And so I have undertaken both of those seriously.

I've had two statewide tours.

The first time I heard data centers mentioned in this context was my first statewide tour, prob- I think it was in Minden, actually.

Okay.

Hi, and welcome to the Bourbon Obsessed Podcast.

On today's episode, we are visiting Minden Mill Distillery in Minden, Nevada.

Minden Mill is very cool because they essentially are two separate distilleries in one, with one distillery to make American single malts and the other to make their rye and bourbon as well as other spirits.

In addition to that, they have climate-controlled rickhouses.

One which matches the climate of Bardstown, Kentucky and the other which matches Scotland and each is used to age the bourbon and rye and American single malts respectively.

but you'll see a wide, circus tents shaped silo.

That's where the pump is.

Now, I, I, I've only seen this pump once because it is locked up by the town of Minten.

[upbeat music] From Seattle, Washington, I'm Zach Geballe, and this is a special episode of the Vine Pair Podcast.

Today, I'm joined by Joe O'Sullivan, who's the master distiller for Minden Mill.

Joe, thank you for taking the time.

Oh, I'm so glad to be here.

[laughs]

Uh, so Joe, tell me a little bit about your background.

Um, obviously Minden Mill isn't the first place you've worked as a distiller.

Kind of how did you, uh, come into this industry, and, and what have you done so far?

It addresses these with very real, um, um, suggestions an- and real, uh, tangible ways that we're going to, for example, bring down the cost of prescription drugs.

I was talking to a young lady in rural Nevada, in Minden.

She said to me she was grocery shopping, had a basket full of groceries, went over to the pharmacy to get her prescription, looked at the price of that prescription.

It was so expensive that she left those groceries in the aisle 'cause she couldn't afford both, right? Joe Lombardo could've done something about that.

I knew.

So, yeah, the quick story there is when I lived in Nevada for a few years in high school, my buddy's mom was one of the franchise managers of a couple of the stores in the very small town of Gardnerville, Nevada, Minden and Gardnerville.

But it was in Minden.

And Dave Thomas did a visit to the Minden store.

I didn't know you used to live

near James.

Healthcare, we're gonna limit certain amounts of drugs to the p- to, to the Medicare negotiated price.

Um, I talked to a lady in Minden, Minden, Nevada, which is a rural part of town, who was buying groceries, had a basket full, went over to the pharmacy section to pick up her prescription, looked at that price, and left those groceries in the aisle 'cause she couldn't afford both.

See, Joe Lombardo could have signed a bill, number one, that would've did what I said about housing.

He could've, could've signed a bill that would've limited her drug prices.

Live from the Loop Studios in Minden, Nevada, it's the Gen X Talks podcast.

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I said, welcome to the Gen X Talks podcast.

A few minutes after 10 o'clock Los Angeles time.

Broadcasting from the Loop Studios in Minden, Nevada.

And my beautiful current wife is sitting across the studio from me.

And here we go.