Patrón

is.

I left the alcohol downstairs, that Patron.

All right.

Coffee Patron, to be clear, over some vanilla ice cream.

That's my jam.

Patron.

Yeah.

There's a lot of different things.

absolutely there were a couple of special pistols and that's what we're going to be uh focusing on today here for the drink but yeah red dead revolver it came out in 2004 um and it was the brainchild of uh capcom uh video game studio and the studio angel studios um who is actually the ones that were making the game now angel studios was founded by a gentleman by the name of diego on hell Uh, and he was a big fan of tequila.

Apparently Patron, uh, was the specialty there, but I guess on Fridays, you know, there's this small team of people working at this angel studios there and they would have what he called sippy whippy, uh, time, uh, Friday afternoon.

So, you know, it's, it's about time to clock out and go home for the weekend.

But instead of doing that, the boss breaks out the Patron, uh, what are you to do except for stay and drink and probably, uh, you know, keep working off the clock, but, uh, that's okay.

That's okay.

Cause, uh, That was one thing that he did.

So I thought today what we could do is we could make up a cocktail that, A, paid homage to Diego's love of tequila.

And also one of the themes in the game is that the father in the game, him and his buddy forged these two twin pistols, right? They each kept one as like a symbol of their friendship and their newfound wealth on this, I think, gold mine that they kind of struck.

And then he didn't call me for three weeks after this.

And John Palazzori, if you know, you know, Paul Mitchell Haircare, or if you know Patron Tequila, multi-billionaire, he was my partner as well in doing this.

So we're going to go make this.

I think he

sponsor,

it should be Patron Tequila.

That was good.

Shout out to him.

But yeah, there's a lot of different brands of tequila.

Probably everybody knows like the more popular ones like Don Julio, Jose Cuervo, Patron, things on those things.

But there's some that are super like... old and and things on those things which are like brands that might not get the same attention but they're more pure you know or higher quality

so so the best one i like i don't know the name of it but it's like a it has like it's like a tall blue bottle it's hard red bottle that's yeah that's that's my first like there was it has a bell on it

I'll get a Paloma or a Tequila Sunrise or something along those lines.

Or a Cantarito.

But I'll always ask for Don Julio, Patron.

I like Mil Ochocientos, the silver.

So I was just like, you know, kind of happy-go-lucky, nice to be asked kind of thing.

But what I did do in that interview when they asked me what I thought about the company, I think I spoke for a good 10 minutes about how excited I was that they just bought Patron.

Really? And you were?

I was, you know, I'm a, my love for tequila has been going for a very long time.

And then about a week later, they call me.

And they say, hey, we've given the job to someone else because we want to offer you another job.

We want to offer you the brand ambassador role for Patron Tequila.

And we might throw in Grey Goose as well.

He's an icon.

He co-founded two iconic American brands, the John Paul Mitchell Hair Systems and Patron Tequila.

And he was recently named one of the greatest self-made living Americans by Forbes alongside Oprah Winfrey.

Winfrey and so many other people, because he really, truly is self-made, born in L.A. Well, actually, he was raised by an immigrant mother in Los Angeles.

Well, the success unshared is failure.

The book's been out for about a month and a half right now, but it's one that not only takes you up my whole story, but at the same time shows you how to do what I did with no money to get money from my distributors to start Paul Mitchell.

How in 1989, I started Patron Tequila knowing absolutely nothing about the alcohol business.

How the heck do you do things like that, right? Why? Exactly.

But you know what? My favorite tequila is a little cheaper.

But for me it's my favorite, Patron.

The silver.

But I like Patron too.

Patron's good.

Patron's a little smoother, I felt.

Casamigos, I didn't find it to be that smooth.

Isn't it that smooth? It is good.

He's an icon.

He co-founded two iconic American brands, the John Paul Mitchell Hair Systems and Patron Tequila.

And he was recently named one of the greatest self-made living Americans by Forbes alongside Oprah Winfrey.

Winfrey and so many other people, because he really, truly is self-made, born in L.A. Well, actually, he was raised by an immigrant mother in Los Angeles.