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Dial The Wild
LLCC #3 - Whiskey, Wrestling, and Wild Karaoke
Ever wondered how cigars and whiskey can elevate your experiences? Join us for a reunion at the Legendary Luke Cigar Club, where we unearth the art of fresh-rolled cigars and their aging journey. From reminiscing over iconic smokes to savoring the complex flavors of Sherried Scotches, our deep dive into Glenfiddich, Abalores, and Tamdew will leave your taste buds tingling. We wrap up with an exhilarating note on the rare Dalmore Cigar Malt and our reflections on the recent D6 Wrestling event that had everyone buzzing.
Step into the electric world of indie wrestling with us as we recount the high-energy atmosphere of local shows like D6. Feel the intimacy of the ring as we celebrate standout performances from wrestlers Mickey Midas, Diego, and the reigning D6 female champ. Alongside the thrills, we indulge in some post-match Glenfiddich tastings, blending action-packed discussions with refined sips. Expect post-show reflections filled with camaraderie, making this chapter a perfect blend for wrestling and whiskey aficionados.
Switching gears, get ready to laugh as we share our wild karaoke tales and anticipation for upcoming music gigs. From humorous anecdotes about metal renditions of children's songs to the excitement of catching bands like Twist the Blade and Phantom Threat, this musical segment is nothing short of vibrant. We even spotlight the quirky Pit Lord, known for their metal songs about barbecuing, complete with their unique merchandise. Wrap up your listen with our light-hearted reflections and a toast to future musical adventures!
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so. So here we are, legendary lutes cigar club. It's been too damn long. Fellas like a mixture of running businesses and t-ball welcome back thank Been too damn long. So no Got done with T-Ball and I was just like guys I got to get back down there.
Speaker 2:Well, you always want to hang out with your bestie.
Speaker 1:That's fair, and we're back down here with Luke. Of course, this is his legendary Luke Cigar Club. How are we today, mr Luke Doing? All right Doing all right. He's chomping at the bit to talk about these cigars.
Speaker 3:I am not Now. I won't talk about the cigar at all.
Speaker 1:And since Caleb's an asshole, he has not formally introduced us. So I'm Jim, You're Jim?
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, all right, it's not Caleb's, that was probably more my fault.
Speaker 1:It's all good. It it's all good. So he's both our friend. We got a lot to go through today, it looks like, but we're going to start with our what's our? Cigar to start. We're smoking Fresh.
Speaker 3:Rolls Fresh Rolls Cigar International. What I started to explain was that these cigars, when you buy them, they have not been aged Okay, and so the trick to it is you take all the cellophanes off them, which causes them to age quicker, and then in the humidor as they rest.
Speaker 3:they're getting better and better and better, and at some point I like that. At some point they're really inexpensive, but at some point they reach their maturation and then you have to go after them like a kid in the candy store, because you're at the top of the curve. And after that, you know, I mean it's just, it's not going to get any better.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:It's not going to get per se worse, but I mean there's a point where, yeah, they definitely are going to get weaker.
Speaker 1:When you get to the top of that roller coaster, you're going to have to go down at some point.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, anything that goes up must come down, right, right.
Speaker 1:And so when they hit that apex, that's when you call over your buddy Caleb, and he just runs through them like a locomotive.
Speaker 4:This by far isn't the biggest cigar.
Speaker 3:I've seen them smoke. You missed the 990.
Speaker 1:Uh, a bomb, the a bomb was. Was that the one thing? The first time I was here? Yeah, probably. Yeah, I turned. I've got a picture of you with that.
Speaker 2:No that wasn't the a bomb, that wasn't the no, you're there. That was probably the when we smoked the a bomb.
Speaker 3:I smoked the a bomb and you smoked the egg and no no, I know that, but I think he got a picture of you with it because we took it out, oh baby yeah yeah, yeah, that was pretty, yeah, we smoked.
Speaker 3:We smoked rare and unique cigars one night. So I had a drew estate egg which I'd never smoked. You ever seen the egg? So the egg starts out like the size of a corona and ends the size of a corona but in the middle ends up like a 90 ring gauge. Well, it looks like like an egg in an anaconda like the. Yeah, okay but then he smoked the uh argyle a bomb, which is a 9 by 90 cigar yeah, it's a big huge all right, what are we starting with with?
Speaker 1:uh, all right, so this is a this is a scotch, a whiskey. What are we doing? What are we?
Speaker 3:doing we are going to do Sherried Scotches. Most of these Sherried Scotches are from the Speyside region of Scotland, which is a subdivision of the Highland region.
Speaker 1:Is that not what we did the first time I was here? No, we did Smoky, smoky.
Speaker 3:Scotches. Okay, so these are going to be lighter, lighter, a little funky, funky kind of sweet I think you'll enjoy. This is the classic, like if you're gonna get started drinking scotch, this is probably where everybody gets started. One of the glens and this is glenfiddich. 12 year, remember little boys?
Speaker 1:it's not bad. Yeah, it's really not bad. I think I prefer the smoky side of things, but really, but uh, that's, that's still decent so good stuff.
Speaker 3:This is. To me, this is like uh. I mean, as far as scotch is concerned, this is probably like the uh, the equivalent of buying like woodford reserve bourbon. Okay, okay, this is like not bottom of the barrel at all your middle shelf stuff yeah, there's like the middle shelf, gotcha, but this is like the bottom of the middle shelf, all right. And then we got a glenfiddich 15, which is a solara cask reserve, which I'll explain later gotcha.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, we got some.
Speaker 3:We got some stuff to get through here and then uh, abalores, which are my personal favorite, right, you're a big fan of those. And then we got some stuff to get through here, and then Abalors, which are my personal favorite Right.
Speaker 3:You're a big fan of those. And then we got some Tamdew, and this is Tamdew Cask I think it's Cask 4. And then I have the Glen Farkless 105, which has a neat story behind it, and if you make it to the end, we're going to do a pour of the Dalmore Cigar Malt which, as I understand, they stopped producing. It was about $175 or $160, some odd dollar bottle we're getting down. So we're kind of, we don't share that as much.
Speaker 1:no, I don't blame you, but Caleb, let's get into D6 Wrestling. Was that not the coolest shit?
Speaker 2:that was a blast, that was a great time you got the.
Speaker 1:You finally got the permits and everything figured out you finally got it all figured out to where we could sit down, drink a beer and watch a good night of wrestling entertainment.
Speaker 2:It was like it was so much fun, the crowd was into it. The wrestlers did a great job, the, the football team, the wyu football team made the night that much better.
Speaker 1:They had so much fun. They heckled every wrestler.
Speaker 2:It was great and the wrestlers, uh, they even went a little crazy and jumped off the balcony and uh, yeah, it was good times, there were some good matches and good stuff going on and cc's got a grade, a establishment.
Speaker 2:It really is it's like is it wwe? No, but it's in a lot of ways it's really is. It's like is it WWE? No, but it's. In a lot of ways it's a lot more fun because you're way closer to the action, way more involved, right, and the wrestlers do a great job trying to get everybody.
Speaker 1:Interacting with the crowd?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it was spectacular. It's been the third show I've been to now and I was working for part of it, and it's been a blast every single time yeah, I just the setup in there is really cool.
Speaker 1:I don't like how the top balcony sticks out so far that you can't see, but there's nothing they can do about that, right, and it's still. It's still the kind of place you can get up and walk over and look and see what's going on. No one's going to yell at you about what seat you're supposed to be sitting in yeah it's very open, very welcoming atmosphere. It's really a good time it is.
Speaker 2:I never know what to expect when I go to indie shows and they do such a good job with everything there and it's just a great time. So why is it called?
Speaker 1:t6, they have a six-sided ring. Uh, yep, yep, so it is, and you know I've been to a handful of indie wrestling events. It was, it was great. Hey, it was top notch. I was, I was very impressed with it. What's your favorite wrestler of the night or match? We'll start with wrestler.
Speaker 4:He thinks that's a tough one, I think.
Speaker 2:I think one of the the guy that, not the guy that almost got the belt Mickey Midas, diego, diego's fun man. He was really good. They had some really good athleticism there and I liked him and making my this is always real good. Um, it was just really good.
Speaker 3:That match was probably the best I love how everybody hates dante everybody do these wrestlers like wear costumes and stuff oh yeah, yeah, they've got their.
Speaker 1:You know, never break cave a bro, but yeah, they've got their personas and and they, you know they don't get paid much to wrestle, but they you go there and you buy their shirts and stuff and that's where they make a lot of their money and travel around. And because some of these wrestlers, like kaya mckenna and dante and some of them that I saw at d6, came down or also wrestle over at SCW up in Iowa, so they get around, they do their thing and some of them have had affiliations with AEW, which is kind of a step down from WWE and you know, if you don't watch it on I don't watch it on TV, maybe Wrestlemania that's about it.
Speaker 1:But if you don't watch it on TV, maybe WrestleMania that's about it. But if you don't watch it on TV, go to an indie wrestling show. You will have a freaking blast.
Speaker 3:They're almost like bands the way they travel.
Speaker 4:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Very similar In different places. So what do you think of your Glenfiddich there, buddy?
Speaker 1:Glenfiddich's not bad, not bad, not bad. I prefer a darker, smokier taste. Not bad, not bad. I. I prefer a darker, smokier taste, but that is not. I would prefer that to like. Uh, like a vodka or uh any other.
Speaker 3:Clear, we're gonna liquor slowly ramp it up and at some point you're not really getting it.
Speaker 1:Then you call an audible and we just switch direction oh, no, no, no, no, no, like that's the whole point of this is no, no, no, here's trying something different If you don't like it, let's not keep going down that road. Then I got you. No, it's not that I don't like it, it's just different. What was your favorite match of the night?
Speaker 2:The three-way girls match was good and the four-way X match at the end X match was great yeah.
Speaker 1:That was great. I like how they had them all on their shoulders and they were like punching each other and they're like wait a minute and then they look down and they start punching the guy that they're sitting on. I loved it.
Speaker 2:The girls I thought did a real good job too. The girls were great. I am impressed with the D6 female champ. I'm impressed with the D6 female champ. She's really athletic and able to sell things real well. When she goes it looks very fluid for her. Very good yeah.
Speaker 1:She's very, and she's a heel too, Yep. So she's out there like holding up the belt and everybody's booing her. It's like that's pretty entertaining when you could be the guy that's hated.
Speaker 2:I don't think I'd seen her wrestle yet and I'm like I didn't like that very well. I hadn't seen her wrestle yet and so I wasn't sure what to expect. And she is much more athletic than I thought she would be and just really able to sell things spectacularly, Like I was impressed sell things spectacularly like I was impressed, you know and um, was it?
Speaker 1:gabby was the girl within the pink. Yeah, I liked her. Yeah, she was very good, very athletic. And then kaya, I mean she's. She's a very attractive female, but she's very, very good at what she does as well.
Speaker 2:She doesn't just go out there, and so I like the gabby, the girl I liked her.
Speaker 1:They were all very, very good, yeah. And then the matches. Leading up the first match, dude won the belt and then had his kid out there, which was kind of special.
Speaker 2:I really liked that yeah.
Speaker 1:Midwest Express belt is what it was. That's what it was.
Speaker 2:Yep and, like some of the wrestlers, came over and grabbed a beer afterwards and were talking to me and they were just Cool as hell yeah. Every time I talked to any of the wrestlers there. They are freaking fantastic.
Speaker 1:Great people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they are awesome. They just want to make sure people are having fun and they want to have fun and they want to be friendly with people. It's awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fun experience and, like I said, I was glad that you were able to get the inner workings done so that and I at no point did I ever feel like the drinkers were not making it a family atmosphere absolutely it was they were.
Speaker 2:They were enjoying their beer, and very responsibly, and it wasn't negating the family atmosphere at all. Not at all.
Speaker 1:I had a friend that I grew up with that was at that show and he's in the front row with his daughter because she's gotten really into it. He's just over there grabbing a Budweiser every once in a while and she's really into the show and every time a wrestler comes out you know they're standing up, they're high fiving or they're booing them and yelling in their face.
Speaker 2:It's fiving or they're booing them and yelling in their face. It's great. I'd like to get like a. I'd like to get like a quasi stone cold moment with the beers. Though toss a wrestler, a beer, oh that would be awesome.
Speaker 1:Hand me a steve weiser I love it.
Speaker 2:I would love it that'd be great.
Speaker 1:Then again, I like the idea of a uh wrestling match, slash metal show uh no, that sounds.
Speaker 3:That would be kind of cool like I'm not really in a metal.
Speaker 2:But if you put the two together, do away with the vip section for one night and set up the band there. Yeah, oh man, so you have the rest, like all the people that take some planning then you have the wrestling match, and right behind them is the metal band, so you watch them play. Oh, that would be awesome, that would be awesome.
Speaker 1:Probably, to start, we'd have to just because the wrestling got done about eight o'clock, so you can get done with wrestling, walk a block away over to the Ritz and catch a metal show by 8, 39 o'clock. I'd love it, dude. That'd be perfect. You'd be working your ass off all night I like when that happens. Yeah, it works out well. What happened last night, that's what happens more. What else is going on, still working your life away?
Speaker 3:Actually, I'm off for the summer.
Speaker 1:Nice.
Speaker 3:Wish I had a job like that Just take the summer right, nice, wish I had a job like that and just take the summer off, chill. So for the first, oh, five or six years that I worked for this place, I took every summer off. I uh, because I worked, uh, the in-session routes. So driving a go west bus for the university, um, and only driving the university routes. There's drivers that drive city routes where they'll drive you around, sure, um. But then I got a dispatcher position where I worked year round, and now I've stepped off in the dispatcher position to return to being an in-session route driver, so I'll get all the time that school isn't in session off it works out really nice what we wiu alumni lovingly refer to as the drunk bus I liked driving the drunk bus.
Speaker 1:It wasn't blessed they have security now on drunk buses for a reason, yeah they did then too, though well, they didn't initially.
Speaker 3:Actually, there's a driver that we all drove with for a while there. Yeah, not going to mention his name, but if you're associated with Go West, you probably know who he is. He drove the drunk bus before there was security and he's got stories about like fights starting in the middle of the bus and him having to basically almost fight his way to the fight. To break up the fight, oh man.
Speaker 1:Overly drunk people.
Speaker 2:You get to see that on a nightly basis. Never dealt with that, yeah.
Speaker 1:Talk about last night we had the. The fact is shit, Dude the Ritz. We happened to have a National Guard armory here in town and they were on their two-week AT and got back last night.
Speaker 2:It was awesome and apparently they filled the Ritz.
Speaker 1:They probably packed every bar in town actually at one point or another.
Speaker 2:No, they stayed with me pretty much all night. So then we had Parker. His birthday was last night, so then he had brought the beat-ups. Throughout the WIU bowling team reunion was there for happy hour and some of our regulars that we built up over the summer local regulars were in for happy hour.
Speaker 4:You were in for happy hour. I saw it.
Speaker 2:It was just busy, start to finish, real busy. And then a lot of karaoke, a lot of really good singers, a few not so good singers.
Speaker 1:That's the beauty of karaoke. It doesn't matter if you're good or not, just have a good time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, except some of them would rather they went and didn't have a good time at the microphone. Fair enough.
Speaker 1:But they're buying drinks, right. So what do you do?
Speaker 2:No, some of them Not the ones I'm thinking of Okay, they're just not that great as singers.
Speaker 1:I would love to make it up there for some of those. Are you going to sing for us? I would sing for you. What do you want to hear? Shania Twain Baby Shark, baby Shark.
Speaker 4:I'll tell you what I'll make it up there for one of them and I'll let you.
Speaker 1:We will discuss. I won't say I'll let you pick.
Speaker 2:You've lost that loving feeling.
Speaker 3:Oh, there you go, that's. Good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I could probably do that one.
Speaker 3:A metal variation, I want a metal version of Baby Shark and a metal version of Row, Row, Row your Boat.
Speaker 1:Actually there is metal versions of Baby Shark on YouTube. My kids love them. But, yeah, I, you do it. But uh, yeah, I couldn't make it last night because we actually had practice. We are I'm talking about twist the blade, who is going to be playing in the quad cities on august 27th with hardcore, like ogs from sacramento, a band called hoods, and we are freaking stoked because we get to play.
Speaker 1:We had wyvern at the ritz for they were awesome dtw throwdown and they're also playing at galesburg at the dtw show at the patio that'll be a blast, they're also playing at that hood show. And what is dtw what is?
Speaker 3:podcast oh, this unit.
Speaker 1:Sorry, the acronym for yeah yeah, we, I've been putting on shows and we had. I thought you were talking about something band specific. I apologize. Oh no, no, no, no, I was. We've had. Uh, we got that show coming up on the 17th at the patio in galesburg, which is a lot of fun. We got reserve um artisan ales behind that one, which is a brewery in galesburg, and we're gonna have liberty streets coming back. They haven't played in like nine years, so I get to play bass with those guys and they're mostly improv, improv metal.
Speaker 3:That should be it will be interesting. I'm not a big metal fan, but I think I'd like to see this so be playing with liberty street.
Speaker 1:and then we'll be having, uh, wyvern, like I said, and then phantom threat, who also play we're awesome, phantom threat's. And then Phantom Threat who also play they were awesome, phantom Threat's amazing. And then the 27th of August we'll be at the Skylark in Rock Island playing with Wyvern, playing with Blaster, which is kind of an old-school punk hardcore type band in the Quad Cities I might really like that.
Speaker 1:And of course, hoods, which, like I said, they were a hardcore type. I won't even call it punk. Punk eventually became kind of hardcore to an extent and they were kind of at the mid to late 90s, early 2000s, forefront of that. So it's a real privilege to even be in the same room with some of them guys.
Speaker 3:No. I think it would be really neat. Everybody's seen a Battle of the Bands at some point in their life. I'd like to see a Battle of the Bass, same room with some of them guys. So no, I think it'd be really neat. You've, you've. Everybody's seen a battle of the bands at some point in their life. I'd like to see a battle of the base battles of the base.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's one guy in this midwest area that would own and completely destroy that, and that's uh lyndon from. He's in pit lord and he's also in obsidian hammer. But pit lord is just a two-man band. They have all recorded drum tracks. It's just a guitar and a bass player and all of their metal songs are about barbecuing.
Speaker 3:When do they play where? It's all I need to. Yeah, I'm trying to get them in the cone. I need a recording of this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're all over the place on YouTube and stuff. But you know, like the old Seasons of the Abyss album and stuff like that, they have like seasonings of the abyss, are those called Pit Lord? They're called Pit Lord.
Speaker 3:I have to check this out and like in their merch, it's a barbecue pit. Right Like a barbecue pit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I get, and so they sell like aprons that say Pit Lord on them in their merch and and they've got the little that's cool. You know the little napkins and shit you get from b-dubs. You know the little moist towelettes they have like pit lord, moist towelettes, it's it's so well played.
Speaker 3:It is very like I need to get my wife like a whole pit lord package yeah, I've got like the least metal person I know, but I bought a.
Speaker 1:I bought a tank top of theirs and they handed me like a handful of these here, Take these. So now I got a, a console full of pit Lord wipes. It's crazy, but all right. What's next on the list? I know you're chomping to get to the next.
Speaker 4:I'm not chomping. Yeah, I'm sipping.
Speaker 3:God. So this is Glenn Fiddick, our Solara 15. What's neat about the Solara is that they basically take different mash tons, different wooden drums full of whiskey Okay, and they take a portion of it out and bottle it. Okay, and they take a portion of the cask before that and put it in the one they just emptied. Then they take a portion of the cask before that and put it in the one they just emptied. Then they take a portion of the cask before that and put in the one they just emptied. So the scotch is mixing together and continuously working its way towards ending up being bottled. This is a 15 year, which means the youngest in here can only be 15, but because it was salara reserve, there could be scotches in here that could be 30 or 40 years old. Now you told that I've been continuously aging them.
Speaker 1:Okay, as they got transferred now you're, you tell me this story and all I can picture in my head is like a room full of drunk people. It's like, well, what if we put that in that barrel? What if we put that in that barrel? And they try it like 10 years later, like that turned out pretty good. So the thing is I think.
Speaker 3:I think you're very close, but I don't think they're drunk because they're Scottish. I have a sneaky suspicion that they can probably imbibe a lot of this on a working day and still remain sober enough to keep working and keep their head straight, whereas most people on the planet would probably be like totally fit-shaced and sitting on their hands somewhere well, that's the thing.
Speaker 1:When I was in ireland you could sit down for lunch and have a glass of guinness with, I mean, you know, your guinness stew or your or your uh, fish and chips or whatever nobody bats an eye yeah. But if you're in the states and you decide to sit down and have a beer with your lunch, like you're labeled an alcoholic, yeah you know.
Speaker 3:Well, I'll tell you. One of my friends was traveling in europe and they were on a bus and the bus stops at a restaurant and everybody goes in to eat and the the driver sits down at the bar and he's eating his lunch, just a normal fare, but he's having a a glass of beer with his lunch and then goes out and drives the bus and nobody thought anything of it. It was just completely normal. So that should be a little sweeter. That's a little more sherried yeah, that's.
Speaker 1:That's got more of a sherry whiskey touch to it I like that.
Speaker 3:Okay, good, then we're headed in the right direction.
Speaker 1:We're headed in the right direction. I for the kegs and eggs that you do, caleb. Do guys come in and have a beer after their third shift, or is it just?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, the third shifters comes in, come in every friday morning for breakfast. Uh, we're open from six in the morning till about noon every friday morning, unless it's a holiday. Then we'll either move it up a day or like sometimes it just doesn't work out because they're not working that week, sure, but anytime they're working that week, the last day of work for the week, we will be open from 6 in the morning until noon and mom makes Mrs Gravy eggs, bacon, ham, hash brown casserole, all sorts of stuff, and third shifters come in and they have a blast, they drink.
Speaker 2:They're great customers. They play pool, shoot darts, drink wine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know anybody that opens up for the third shifters in the area anymore, Just us. It used to be uh, it used to be a thing.
Speaker 2:Folks would open up between eight and 10 o'clock and the third shift. Mom loves having them come in. It's it's her favorite time.
Speaker 1:That's. That's her baby, isn't it At the bar?
Speaker 2:is making a podcast, my ex actually started it when she worked at Bowers and my mom helped start. Well, it was a great idea. I really took over and built it into something bigger, so and it's it's bigger with my mom there than if I work here you know more people there than me.
Speaker 2:I'll say this much about you, caleb you are uh always great about giving credit where credit is due yes I am not an idea guy um, I am a guy that can help make a little more functional or work a little better, but the main idea generally has to come from somebody else. I can tweak it and make it better. I can see what needs to be done to execute it a lot of times, but I don't come up with the idea as well. So when somebody else brings me an idea and we're able to tweak it and make it go, I'm always going to give them credit.
Speaker 1:If you can see it work, you run with it too, like you support it. It's not like an establishment. I've worked with a handful of establishments, you know, doing stuff over the years where it's like, oh yeah, we'll support you, just uh, there's the stage and um here's a check yeah, you know, stay out of the way.
Speaker 2:Stay out of the way uh advertise my ass off'm going to talk to everybody about it for weeks in advance to try to get everybody there.
Speaker 3:We should do a podcast at this Friday morning breakfast. That would be fun.
Speaker 1:That would be fun. You'd have to get off work for it. Yeah, I'd have to get off work for it. Maybe a holiday weekend or something, yeah.
Speaker 4:Take a personal day, take a personal day.
Speaker 1:Take a personal day, I only get seven of those. Well, you know.
Speaker 2:But you only have one personality, so one should be enough. Yeah, you don't need the other six, you just need one of those.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was just one of those weeks of work too where, like we're doing great and we're sending stuff down the road and we're making a bunch of money and all the stupid little things you can think of are starting to creep up. So but that's just life, Like always, ups and downs. You got to learn how to ebb and flow with it. You know, even keel.
Speaker 2:Last night was we were, we were packed and it was just a bunch of stupid things, like somebody wanted to spread rumors that we were closed because there was an incident in the bar, which none of that happened. None of that was true. And then one of the drill guys.
Speaker 1:Before he left, he hit on the slots, which means he was playing a gambling machine in one big I'm glad you clarified that, because for a second I was Really dirty stuff.
Speaker 2:Give it.
Speaker 2:Caleb, but he tried to cash in his ticket and the the the ticket redemption froze and so I couldn't get the guy, the mechanics, out there to fix it that night. So he had to leave for training for two weeks. He got back last night and his ticket wouldn't redeem last night because his plane did. It already been redeemed but it hadn't right, and so now he's gotta go. But that was just one of the little things that tried to derail the night that he's right, but you're gonna do everything in your power to make sure this dude gets his money.
Speaker 1:You're not just gonna be like here's a phone number, go figure it out no, I called so.
Speaker 2:Now it's the point like I've taken it as far as I can on your on your end he has to fill out a form with the company that I go through. But as soon as he fills out the form, I'm calling my rep and I'm I'm like you're going to get this taken you will get this take care of, or there will be a new line of machines in my bar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the, I'm not the dude's one, a great guy. He comes in every all the time to see me. He's super fun and I'm not. I'm, he's like, he wasn't even like. No, you fill out that form so I can get this done for you, like I'm not letting it go.
Speaker 1:Well, in the first time that he would be like and I'm not saying this is what the dude would do, but just an example of life the first time that he'd be like, hey, fill out this form, he'd be like, nah, this form. He'd be like, nah, man, no big deal, I'm not gonna worry about it. And then the next day he'd be like well, I want all this money, but you know, nobody there is helping me, and that's just he would.
Speaker 2:No, I don't think I talked to him about three or four. I really hope he fills out the form and I'm gonna check on him with him next week, because he's back next week for drill, isn't that?
Speaker 1:crazy. They went to two week 18. They gotta turn around, go to drill next weekend.
Speaker 2:That's brutal, it's great though I get to see him again. Honestly, from a business perspective, it's like these guys are just so much fun right they are. They come in, they drink, they have fun. We have. We have awesome convos like I know every single one of them now. Every time I see them, fist, bump them, handshake, ugh, whatever, like they're all freaking awesome dudes, like if I could have 200 of them in my bar it would be record-setting night oh yeah and and zero problems, because they don't ever cause problems well, does servicemen like to drink a little bit?
Speaker 1:yeah, I don't know if you've noticed, I, I, I'm aware they're fun, they play great right and they police each other. They do pretty well, because their ranking people are in that room too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so if they pull some shit like it's not gonna end well for them they party well if they mess up in the community where the guard post is right they party, they behave well and they make sure they all get home safe because they have they have sober people in the group that are there.
Speaker 1:They probably got formation at 0700 the next morning, back when I was driving.
Speaker 3:They're great, I love those guys and we'd had a very large gathering for some reason. I think the guard might've had like a visiting unit or something with them. One of the young men comes up and gets on my bus and he says I know that there's no bus that goes out to the armory. He says but I'll walk if I have to, but is there some way you all can get me back to the armory, because I am too drunk to drive and I will not drive drunk. And I says you know what you said? The magic word Sit down. It's almost the end of the night. At this point, right, I said sit down, it's almost the end of the night.
Speaker 1:At this point right.
Speaker 3:I said sit down, I got a few rounds left to run and then I'm going to run you out there, and I don't have big to do because the dispatcher was not cool about me going out there, even though this was something that at the time, like the person in charge of was my immediate supervisor, was absolutely wonderful about serving our customer base, taking care of, and so when the dispatcher started in on me about it, I said you know why don't you take it up with our retired army boss and get back to me about it?
Speaker 3:and instead he took it up with my supervisor, and my supervisor I'm not going to mention any names but she told him not only did he do the right thing, but he did what I expected he should do, and if he didn't I would have a problem with him for not getting it done Right. And so I took this bus as soon as my route was over and I drove way, way out to the other end of town Off route when I say way, this is because we don't run out to that end of town at all at night and took this kid home. And when I got back, the dispatcher's like I'm like man, I drive this bus all over this town. We have a bus route that goes by there. It just doesn't go by there at night on the weekend because most of our primary service is focused around the campus and preventing the college kids from being out driving under the influence, right.
Speaker 3:But I and this is what I told the dispatch that man can go, put his toes on the line to protect my freedom. My butt is not waiting to be called into action and the next conflict. His is right. If he can look out for me in the service of our country, I'll be damned if I'm gonna let him get a dui. And he was smart enough to come and tell me like I can't drive because I'm too drunk.
Speaker 3:right, he was smart enough to not try tell me like I can't drive because I'm too drunk. Right, he was smart enough to not try it.
Speaker 1:You know devil's advocate is. You know he went out, he didn't have a plan for getting home, but he did the right thing at the end of the night by knowing he wasn't going to be able to do it. So that's a lot better than the alternative Someone getting hurt or him ending up in jail that night.
Speaker 3:Well, you say devil's advocate. I see what you're saying, but no, I'm not just one of the things that I've all that I one of the things that I think we as the bus service here in this town pride ourself on is that we will do whatever we can to help somebody within our means yep, that's how it should be and we even as, as our uh budget has decreased and the ability to find drivers has decreased and we have many things making it difficult for us to operate our service, we have still continued to deliver bus routes and transportation to every corner of this community.
Speaker 3:The routes are complex. It is sometimes difficult to even understand how the system works Right, until you've done it a few times. There are people under service that could tell you like, hey, all you can do is take this bus to this bus, to this bus, and I'm like how I drive these, how did you know? You could shortcut it like that? Yeah, but you can get anywhere in this community on a bus.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, and that's you know.
Speaker 1:that's amazing for the little old lady who can't drive anymore or you know someone that just wants to go out for lunch or something and you know, for one reason or another, can't drive. And, like you said, the student community is a huge part of it. Because I was shocked when I worked up here at the Armory I was doing funeral honor details and we would have, you know, a of chicago kids that are part of our program or chicago I say chicago but I mean the metro yeah, the suburb area somewhere up the city north of i-8 the greater chicago area.
Speaker 1:The greater chicago yes, I like how you put that. So, but they would come down here to school. That's why we don't have nice things. They would come down here to go to school, they would work for our program, but they wouldn't have driver's licenses, because they grew up with public transit and there's not a whole lot of need for them to ever have a license. They'd be 18, 19, 20 years old and not have a driver's license.
Speaker 1:And to me living up and growing up down here, that just seems crazy, but you know, it's a reality for them that live.
Speaker 4:I'm going to tell you we took driver's ed in school, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:As a lot of our demographic has changed here at Western.
Speaker 4:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:I've continuously asked a lot of these kids why did you pick Western? Because I'm an alumni of Western. I want to know like what is still keeping my school going, and you would believe how many of them have told me this bus. They came here because for a school our size to have not only a bus system, but a bus system that doesn't charge you a fare.
Speaker 1:You're a fare-free service. You don't need a pass, you don't have to drop a dollar in the bucket and id anything.
Speaker 3:It's open to the whole community. Anybody wants to get on the bus. They come here because they can get around, not just around the campus but around this town, and there's no, there's nothing hanging them up from being able to have a normal life even though they don't have a driver's license and we were talking about the security side of things too.
Speaker 1:It's very secure. If there's issues, you guys take care of it, so there's no reason to really fear for yourself on public transportation, maybe, like you would in other communities oh yeah, it's an interesting interesting concept. I know that. I know that uh caleb, with his bar, appreciates the bus system. Yes, yes, eight years now I've been workingates the bus system.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, Eight years now I've been working for the bus system. I think I can only actually other than on the late night service where we might have somebody intoxicated. I think I can only remember one incident in which a police officer has actually been called to a bus during the day.
Speaker 2:I had a call.
Speaker 4:I mean, I had a guy that was drunk and asleep during the day. It was the end of shift and I was like, uh, it's the end of day, man, I got it. I got to take this bus back. Come on, man, we got to go.
Speaker 1:So you work for the bus system too, Jim. Yeah, awesome, I'm sorry system too, jim, oh, yeah, yeah, awesome. I'm sorry I have not bothered to ask other guys, so you work for the same bus system. Yeah, okay, how long you?
Speaker 4:been there. Jim and I know each other. Yeah, uh, I've been there since uh, 10 years now, right, yeah, over 10 years now nice, jim's played.
Speaker 3:It starts lately before me at barn.
Speaker 2:Yeah no, I think we had enough mutual friends. We bet like through, like facebook gaming or something first.
Speaker 4:Gaming first. Yeah well, I don't know. I do a lot of gaming, so do I.
Speaker 3:Jim's an OG gamer.
Speaker 1:When you say gaming, that's a very broad spectrum. What are we talking?
Speaker 3:about All of it. Well, that's the thing about McComb.
Speaker 1:Are we talking a lot of people? Are we talking D&D? What are we talking?
Speaker 3:D&D. Yeah, a lot of people in Macomb don't understand how deep the D&D and magic thing is here, I get it.
Speaker 2:I hardly know anybody that doesn't D&D or magic. Have we only known each other 10 years? I feel like I've known you a lot longer than that.
Speaker 1:It feels like a lot longer. Well, think about it, Kate. We've only known each other. What a year or so, A year or so, and we're besties.
Speaker 3:So Well, that's Caleb.
Speaker 1:He is For somebody who constantly is saying he doesn't call anybody else best.
Speaker 3:Constantly running around with the Dennis Leary chant. I'm an asshole.
Speaker 1:I'm an asshole, but he's actually like the nicest person I know. Just don't let nobody know that he used to call somebody else bestie, but not anymore.
Speaker 2:She doesn't hang out with us anymore, oh man.
Speaker 3:You give what you get and you don't throw a fit. But she doesn't. She could come. She's more than welcome to come, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:But she won't.
Speaker 3:I would happily Play in her garden.
Speaker 4:Play in her garden.
Speaker 3:I love how you make it seem playing in her garden they have basically a homestead. She would be snapping right at it.
Speaker 1:Do you understand. I spend eight hours a day in that freaking garden.
Speaker 2:That's why I said it Okay.
Speaker 1:I just heard it.
Speaker 3:It came out like word vomit, the two of them together, like they practically have a homestead. I mean it's impressive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, they do.
Speaker 3:They do a great job, Like if there's an apocalypse, we're all going to go to hell and they are freaking fabulous people.
Speaker 2:Don't let me giving her a hard time. She's my sister. I can talk as much as I want, but I have to make sure I say that she is a wonderful person. I love her very much.
Speaker 1:She is a great friend she's just not your bestie, she's picked them out a little bit because I met the better sibling though well, oh man, oh, you know, she got.
Speaker 3:I think she probably she probably got the looks I think you're gonna have to come to one of these events just to make amends, because you know she's not let up on your show last time oh, that's, that's, that's low you know it's an event.
Speaker 2:It's an event at my bar that you're putting on and she still didn't go well, car life happens problems what? Yeah, no, it's all right.
Speaker 1:We just gotta give her a hard time so that that galesburg show is a day after her birthday and the rock island show is a day after my birthday what day of the week is that galesburg show? Uh, that's a saturday. Saturday, what day is it? The 17th of august, august?
Speaker 2:oh, I won't no, you got a bird to run, there's an official.
Speaker 1:I have a mud run to run you were. Yeah, you try to talk me into that yeah uh, but maybe it's gonna run six to ten because galesburg shuts you off with music at 10 o'clock outside might be able to pull that off in the downtown area no, the patio actually. It's like if you go over to viaduct, like by the bump yard, okay, and you're headed into town and you take that first, right at the light, just a couple blocks and it's on, oh, you mean it's out there on.
Speaker 3:Uh, what is that road? But I know what you want to tell me yeah, I can make, I'll buy where the old harley dealership was so I can be back by 11 no, that's that's awesome I don't remember where the old one was, but where maytag used to be.
Speaker 1:Okay, you to. You pull up, you go across the viaduct, you go. Oh no, I okay.
Speaker 3:So yeah, you go right, right there at the light when you're talking about now I think me and my old man went, went there once and had some drinks, hey, so I'm just gonna give you a heads up. You're about to get lapped here, all right all right, I've had.
Speaker 4:I've had the abalone. All right, what's the abalone 12?
Speaker 3:you're onto the abalone 12, I'm moving on to thebola kesk and I'm you.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't I don't run marathons with olympic runners, so why would I try to keep up with you? Drink I'm not a.
Speaker 3:You make it sound like I'm all right, you're just seasoned.
Speaker 1:All right, what we get into here, luke?
Speaker 3:Okay, so this is you're having the Avalor 12. All right, Basically, of all the sherryed whiskeys, in my opinion Avalor is definitely one of the sherryed.
Speaker 1:We still don't have nice things All besides. Caleb dropped something at this point.
Speaker 3:I love that you're looking for a cigar cutter when there's a gigantic one on the desk, maybe he likes that cut box with the handle looks like a slot machine.
Speaker 1:That one back there. It's got the different grooves in it.
Speaker 3:It's a tabletop cutter that cuts like four different ways. Okay, go on about the Avalor, All right, so yeah, go on about the Borafil, avalor, borafil.
Speaker 3:I particularly like Avalor. This is one of my most favorite scotches. Very, I particularly like this is one of my most favorite scotches. Very, very sherry, I really like that. Yeah, see, you thought you liked smoky, but as we get further and further down the rabbit hole, I think what you're going to discover is that you, my friend, like scotch no, and I admitted that after the first time we tried this experiment.
Speaker 1:I love it when you go to somebody who actually knows something about it and then someone says something stupid like I don't really like scotch and then their eyes get this big, like baseball sizes. Oh, you don't.
Speaker 3:Eh, we will fix that problem, let me show you some scotches that are going to rock your world. Hell, yeah, so.
Speaker 3:Avalor they've got the standard 12. I think they might have a 15. They have an 18, uh, but beyond, like the 12, I never went for the 15s or the 18s or any of those, because I found the cast nmu and uh abunar, which we'll talk about in a minute. Sure, but abalor uh gets insanely expensive beyond the 12th. It was like maybe 40 or 60, okay, but once you get beyond that, like, it gets very unaffordable because they're they're very great sky, yeah, I can tell it's good stuff.
Speaker 3:I do appreciate you, uh, letting us come down here and just try it, you know you know, the thing is, I tell people I don't have a collection, I have a selection, and to me, my goal was to be the librarian, the librarian.
Speaker 1:The librarian, I am the librarian, I'm the drunk librarian.
Speaker 3:I just want to see your library card. Once I see your library card, we're going to punch this for as many books as we can get you to read.
Speaker 1:Jim Whiskey or cigar.
Speaker 4:There you go, Jim what I am now the safety coordinator oh.
Speaker 1:God, exactly so. How much stress are you under each day?
Speaker 4:I am under a lot of stress lately. My wife has recently left me, so that has complicated things immensely.
Speaker 1:Well, I was going to leave that out of it, but you might be a little emotionally.
Speaker 3:A sexy man is available.
Speaker 1:Yes, Definitely check your Facebook status back to seeing as his shirt says.
Speaker 3:Oh no, this is going to be a rocket over porta potty.
Speaker 2:I'm just reading his shirt. All right, I won't read his shirt.
Speaker 4:Let's just say I wore it to my colonoscopy for a reason. Ok, so what we'll?
Speaker 1:do. What we'll do is on if you listen to this, but we will take a picture. And if you listen to this podcast and you message one of us, we will send you the picture. Perfect, fair challenge. Perfect, fair challenge.
Speaker 4:So what all is entailed to be the safety coordinator for a community bus system uh well, let's see, I've had to uh get HIPAA certified because I've got to look at medical records yeah, that'll get you walked out the door pretty quick.
Speaker 1:You mess up on that yep, and I've got a.
Speaker 4:I had to take, uh, what's called the DER certification designated employee representative, because I've got to be the one that schedules the drug tests.
Speaker 1:Ah, I got you.
Speaker 4:You got to be a drug expert Because you know, no matter, it might be legal in Illinois but federal it's still illegal to smoke the weed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah and everybody with a CDL is suspect to a random drug test at any given time, absolutely, even not working the summer, because I'm still considered on the rolls of the company At any given time. They could pull me for a random and they call me and they say you got 24 hours. You have to turn up at the drug testing facility.
Speaker 3:And that's everybody 24 hours a day, days a week, probably 364 days a year, because you might not get it on christmas, but any other time they you could get random usually it's usually it's like when you're right, when you're going to work.
Speaker 4:I remember the first time I, I, I, I went into work and my first thing when going into work was to hit the restroom because I didn't want to have to go when I was out on the route as much little as possible. And then, and the dispatcher went hope you didn't use the restroom. I went, I just did. She's like you got a report for a random drug test.
Speaker 3:It's funny that he says that, because to me I, you know, I just recently had kind of ended up in the administrative end of things, and before that I was just a driver, all right. And so to me, when I walk into work, if there's anybody of any level of authority standing by the bathroom door, instantly I'm just like, oh, I'm going for a random, because they're there to let you know. Like hey, save that, we have a cup for it.
Speaker 1:So when I was back in the unit like I was talking about earlier, we'd get, you know, random drug tests about every drill. Well, I went about, that's not random. Then, well, some people get pulled randomly in each drill. Yeah, for about like five years before we got deployed never once got drug tested, never once got pulled. I go a year overseas and then I come back to finish my last year and I got pulled every freaking month and I'm starting to think I watched some of my buddies get popped hot with something and get the boot out the door.
Speaker 1:And when that happens, they have to pay. And when that happens, they have to pay back their bonus. They have to pay back their student loan repayment and the money. Illinois is getting a lot of money back when these guys mess up somehow so it just seems like you know that last year that you're in just chill out for a lot of number, your number. Talk about Illinois, your number.
Speaker 3:It's probably the best for veterans benefits. I'm not going to argue that I said earlier I grew up the son of a sailor and my dad looked all over at different places to move to. Texas and Illinois are two of the best states for veteran benefits and that's why we stayed Right, and I'm just saying that's a lot.
Speaker 1:but one hit of something could mess up.
Speaker 3:could mess up your entire life and there's got and I know a lot of them they've.
Speaker 1:A lot of them have rebounded. They figured it out. You know. There's like. You know what I never should have signed up for the service to begin with, but when you're 18 years old and someone's flashing a twenty thousand dollar bonus in front of your face, you're stupid maybe that's why you kept getting picked, because they knew you would pass.
Speaker 2:You say you randomly got picked because they knew you'd pass.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, I mean, maybe you say that, but or they'd be like, let's roll the dice that this guy gets a payback I don't know 60 grand worth of education there's a lot of people I knew from high school that were like hard partying teenagers, right, and then I bumped into them as adults at different locations in life, right, and they'd been through the service and it cleaned their shit up? Absolutely yeah, it has its place In my high school that was renowned for having been busted while driving high and drunk, ran into a pizzeria, climbed up into the ceiling and hit above the bathroom.
Speaker 3:He was renowned for this. I bumped into him at Western Like my senior year. I was at a party and here's this kid. I'm like dude, what are you doing? How's it going? Man? He was a Marine, Right, All he ever talked about in high school was wanting to be a marine. I was like you want to do what? But you were known to be like the highest cat on the sidewalk right and you want to be a marine. Totally changed him. Yeah, absolutely totally changed him. He was like his shit was squared away well it's.
Speaker 1:It's such a good thing for a lot of people, but it's not for everybody, you know, and that's the thing, and a lot of guys don't realize it's not for them until it's too late this guy went into the marine corps thinking he wanted to be, uh uh, some kind of a combat position directly, sure, and he ended up a helicopter when he came.
Speaker 3:That's, that's dope as hell. But the thing is he come from a high school like. The high school I went to was east peoria community high school.
Speaker 3:Okay, east peoria community high school at the time was like the, the uh, the stepchild of caterpillar yes, we had cat like banners hanging in our in our industrial arts wing, and so a lot of us that have been in the industrial arts program had been given the gift of being involved with far better education and far better equipment than most people would in high school. Sure you know we're talking like all kinds of uh mills and lathes and stuff. But beyond that, like I was in a cat program to become an industrial maintenance mechanic. This kid was in a program just metal working and engines and stuff. He'd found his calling. He was actually really brilliant once he stopped smoking weed and he wasn't just a helicopter mechanic. He'd gone off to schools for like non-destructive metal inquiry and stuff things that, like you really had to have some brains to pass, and this kid was on the track to basically ending up. When he left. He very easily could have got himself a job as an aircraft mechanic in the civilian industry because of all the trainings he got in the military.
Speaker 1:That's why I never messed with the stuff in college, because I saw some of the most, you know, brightest, intelligent people just fail out because they just get hired, not go to class. Yeah, you know, I saw some of the most athletic people with gifted abilities and stupid strength fail out just because they didn't want to go to practice.
Speaker 3:They just want to sit around and smoke? What years did?
Speaker 1:you go to Western. I went there for grad school, so I was there 10 through 12. Okay, 2010 through 12. We got no, I take that back 11 through 13. We got back in 11.
Speaker 3:I graduated in 03 for my undergrad. Caleb, what year did you graduate?
Speaker 2:Undergrad was 02. Grad school was 05.
Speaker 3:I graduated high school in 05. Caleb and I were there for our undergrad.
Speaker 2:Why you got to be putting that up, because you're old.
Speaker 3:That was a top 10 party school. That was like Festy. It was not uncalled up.
Speaker 1:You could do it too when.
Speaker 3:It was not uncalled of. You could do it too. When you walked in as a freshman, they weren't there as a scene Right. A lot of people just drank their way right out of college.
Speaker 1:By the way, do you have like a tube sock somewhere and some salt and pepper shakers, just in case?
Speaker 3:Bars of soap, bars of soap. I'm just saying, if he comes after me, you're not busting up my salt and pepper shaker.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's fair, but I'll give you some. It didn't work well for the last guy. It's not gonna work well for you if you don't know what we're referring. To go back to legendary, luke's episode was a two it was the second one, I think.
Speaker 3:I think so. Or full metal jacket was that the one where they give the guy the uh, the blanket?
Speaker 1:party, yeah, the blanket party. Bars of soap.
Speaker 2:Apparently they're not supposed to bruise you hit anybody with anything hard enough, it's gonna move I've hit people with lots of things.
Speaker 3:Oh god, once again, one of the friendliest people you'll ever meet.
Speaker 4:I'm really old. A slight touch and I get bruised.
Speaker 2:Until you do something that Warrants me to not be.
Speaker 1:Right, and I don't know that I've ever heard about you having to be. I'm sure it's happened.
Speaker 2:You were in law enforcement, so Well, yeah, and I've worked security all over the country, bars and stuff.
Speaker 3:I have been in way too many locations we were just joking about this on thursday, me and him and dr andy. Uh, it's like, uh, the quote from maddox uh, be polite, be professional, but have a plan on how to kill absolutely every person you meet. Like that's caleb, he's shaking your hand and he's thinking how many different ways can I beat you if I, if I have to kill absolutely every person you meet? Like that's Caleb, he's shaking your hand and he's thinking how many different ways can I beat you?
Speaker 1:if I have to, if I have to kill you, I?
Speaker 2:can I like to cover my bases?
Speaker 1:Well, that's why you said you don't drink, you don't smoke, anything that alters your perception.
Speaker 2:I've had too many things happen where bad things could happen to me, in scenarios that shouldn't even be that way, and so I just used to be the best possibly prepared. I came to be in all situations.
Speaker 1:That's fair enough. We also got football season coming up.
Speaker 2:Go Bucs baby, go Bucs baby Go.
Speaker 1:Bucs I love Baker.
Speaker 2:I really love who Baker is as a leader. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like he is. Took it on the chin, went somewhere else, proved himself.
Speaker 2:And leads by example and by word. Like everybody in the locker room loves him. He's very supportive of everybody but also holds them accountable. And he goes out there and he's going to get everything. He's got on every play it. I what last year? What I saw? Was he the best quarterback in the league? No, but he's easily one of the best three or four leaders.
Speaker 1:Okay, I heard this. I heard this stat listening to fantasy football stuff last year. I can't tell you the reference, but here it goes. They were talking about him going to Tampa and the effect it would have on Mike Evans and thinking you know, in the past Baker hasn't been able to get it done. Blah, blah, blah. They look back at stats over the last 10 years. The most receptions thrown to a receiver of 30 yards or more Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can see that he's a good quarterback and, I think, this year, good game manager. I don't think that's accurate. I think that's where he's had to be at, because he just hasn't been somewhere long enough.
Speaker 1:He's on some rough Cleveland teams.
Speaker 2:And then he was in St Louis and then Carolina, then St Louis and then St. Louis, they still have a football team.
Speaker 3:Sorry, hello, and coming around, turn four is Luke lapping, alright round five officially.
Speaker 2:But he I think that him being a second year as the full time starter in Tampa, he might get back to that big play form, that consistency he had early on because his shoulders healed. He's had time to the system's not changing that consistency he had early on because his shoulders healed. He's had time to the system's not changing too much for him this year.
Speaker 1:Dude can use his legs too. I mean, it's all.
Speaker 2:And just tough as can be. Like I like a lot of things, Do I wish he was a little better.
Speaker 1:Like every team, hopes their quarterback's a little bit, but I think he could be better this year.
Speaker 2:I think he's definitely deserves to be a starter and I think he was very good about taking a team-friendly deal, um I think he could.
Speaker 1:There's something to be said for not having to switch programs and learn a whole new system and not learn new players.
Speaker 2:I think he could be pro bowl level this year if things go right.
Speaker 1:Mike Evans I think he is a Pro Bowler, but I think that he's going to have an exclamation mark Mike Evans is first ballot Hall of Fame. Yeah, so I'm thinking that's good, go Bills, that's where I'm at.
Speaker 2:And we picked up Sterling.
Speaker 1:Sterling Shepard.
Speaker 4:Yes, okay, who played with who played with Something about football.
Speaker 2:He played with Baker in college. So there's that rapport and one of our new rookies is supposed to be real good too.
Speaker 1:Oh God the Bears.
Speaker 4:All we're going to hear about is Caleb Williams Caleb, he's the next something or other.
Speaker 3:We'll see Justin.
Speaker 2:Fields was the next, mitch Trubisky was the next. I don't, until Chicago shows they can develop a quarterback, he's not the next anything Once Chicago shows they can do that, if Chicago can develop anything.
Speaker 1:I mean the Cubs yep doing their thing. The white socks suck.
Speaker 4:It's just that's why I said I can only run for so many chicago teams.
Speaker 1:So I go somewhere else for football all right, we're boring these guys. All right, what's what's next on the menu here, luke?
Speaker 3:and then I need to freshen up a little bit for you, friend it's Amalur Kess and a Newt and uh, this is a combination of three different casts of scotch. They like that.
Speaker 1:I like that one. I need a short, sweet cigar to lash with that. He's got it.
Speaker 3:You need what he's got Do you have the single, the double or the triple. It's a nub, but which one? So what he's smoking is a nub, but it's a coffee-infused nub.
Speaker 4:Okay, it looks like it's got a two on it.
Speaker 3:Okay, so the single, double and triple, and the deal is like the single's light, the triple's heavy, I got you and the nub is kind of right there in the middle and to me, of all of the infused cigars, the Nub is like it's the most aromatic.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:When somebody fires one of them up to me more than coffee. It reminds me of the smells of pipe tobacco. Okay, and that's why I stopped. Let's go with what. What is it called again?
Speaker 2:Nub, the Nub. The triple roast is fantastic. The.
Speaker 3:Nub is a shorter cigar made by Oliva.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Larger ring, a shorter cigar made by oliva.
Speaker 3:Okay, larger ring gauge, we're talking 60 ring gauge okay, but like I think it's four or four and a half inches, gotcha not real long, and they got nub was oliva nubs were the first ones to be in that format, if I'm correct. But now lots of manufacturers make a cigar that's sort of a short, stubby one. The thing about it is that with the nubs anyway, when you smoke a cigar, you hear people talk about the first third, the, the second third and the third, third. Cigars take a little time to develop. So when you first light it, that first third isn't really reminiscent of all the flavor and character you're going to get. But in the nub it's shorter and the blending has been made such that when you light it up you're already in your second, third. Hell yeah. So you're getting a very robust flavor almost from the get-go.
Speaker 1:All right, Somebody snag me one of them please. I think these are the last two. Okay, If not, thanks for sharing what it was, and we'll go with something. Let me check. It's like these are great, but, travis, go screw yourself. This here is the cast animal. Okay, let me do this so that I don't break something.
Speaker 4:Yeah, this so that I don't break something I might not be saying that right, because I'm not Scottish nor Gaelic, barely even Celtic.
Speaker 1:I don't speak it, but I drink it. There we go. I've learned, Luke. These are much smaller pours than last time.
Speaker 3:That's part of the reason why I hadn't got all the bottles out, because I wanted to show you the Everest I was laying out for you before you started to climb. You knew to stop at base camp for a moment.
Speaker 1:No, we've learned, we've organized, we've refreshed.
Speaker 3:Did you know that base camp for everest, the during the, the primary climbing season. Base camp for everest is one of the top 10 like craziest parties you can ever get to. Yeah, there's guys that actually go to climb and don't even actually end up making it on the climb because they they basically just knock their dick in the dirt party and their balls off. They say that like when they're done for the climbing season. There's all these empty oxygen bottles and stuff left all over the place and they're not from people on the climb, they're from people using oxygen to try and rehabilitate after they've gotten totally hammered, partying their ass off.
Speaker 1:I'm Travis Unfriendly Writers, Alright Ebelor.
Speaker 3:So this is Ebelor, Cassian and Amu. It is a combination of three casts Astro blended together. In my opinion, it's definitely richer than the regular 12, but not quite at the Abunar. The Abunar is a really decent.
Speaker 1:Got a drier aftertaste Drier, okay, a little drier aftertaste for me.
Speaker 3:The flavor's good so I aftertaste A little drier aftertaste. For me the flavor's good, so I believe in the Cassian and Mew there might be the combination of American oak, yes, matured and American cherry oak Cass, so American oak. We're talking basically like ex-Burbot Cass I gotcha, and I think that might be what lends to some of that ryer-like flavor.
Speaker 1:Speaking of cigars and whiskey, the second week of August I'm headed back over to Indianapolis to hang out with my buddy, Eric Jansen, who's also an aficionado of sorts. We go to this place called Final Third Cigar Bar. Okay, you never said thirds. See what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:Yeah, to this place called Final Third Cigar Bar. Okay, humidor, you never said thirds, see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's where I started thinking about this, because the size of your basement is the size of their humidor, wow. And they just got a wonderful cocktail bar and it's one of my favorite places on earth. This cigar is great, mm-hmm, but he's kind of a snob to where he doesn't. He doesn't want me smoking the infused stuff, so, like, my go-to is the acid, you know, and he don't like that. So the thing is. But you, you explained the whole bringing back cigars by doing that.
Speaker 3:But then the next step to me is and my buddy barzeem would say why do you hate fun? The bottom line is these are great Caleb's over there. Like I hate everything. We all become these purists where we're like I won't smoke an infused cigar. But I think after you've smoked enough non-infused cigars and you've led through that path of being a snob for a while, there comes a point where you're like why didn't I ever smoke one of these?
Speaker 1:Someone told me not to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I am hopefully going to have the opportunity tomorrow to smoke a new type of cigar that I've never had before. One of my friends says he has lime infused cigars.
Speaker 3:Was that a good growl or a bad growl? When I say infused, I really actually only buy cigars that are infused from one of two, but mostly one category. I like the ones that are coffee friendly the oliva nub coffee line, the um tobacco special, uh, even the isla uh isla del sol. Those are all coffee sort of flavored cigars. I like those which I love and then there's uh, herbally infused cigars that come from drew estate that I think are really phenomenal. I I will buy them when I get a good deal on them.
Speaker 2:They're not my first go-to, but they are well I'm excited to try it, because I've never tried one just the the line thing I think I'm having.
Speaker 4:I like line I think he's like one of those guys that never fruit your beer, never put the pineapple on the pizza guy, you know, oh, no, no no, I'm not that guy.
Speaker 3:Oh, you're not. Oh, okay, I don't care for. Lion Kool-Aid Summer Shandy. But I actually love fruitier beers, so like when you get like the Blue Moon with the orange.
Speaker 4:Oh, you better believe it.
Speaker 3:But when Blue Moon first came out, man, I was Blue Moon with an orange, everywhere I went.
Speaker 2:I'm going to try it and I'll let you know how it is. Talk shit on my cigar. I've never tried one before and my buddy says they're absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3:Yeah and see, I think if you find the right pairing, that might actually sort of light it up. So if you're not a drinker, but for me I would have to have a really good rum and then it would be like lime and rum or aged tequila, Then the two of these together. Now we're on point. I think I could do that, Especially if you actually get the smell or a mouth flavor of lime. I love lime in cocktails.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we're up over an hour here, so it's been a good legendary luke's session. It was much needed, I think, for everybody, especially me and jim yeah, it's been a. It's been a week, a month, in fact you're, you're gonna get through it and you're gonna like good things are gonna happen you gotta go through the valleys to get you know. So thanks again.
Speaker 4:Everybody appreciate your time it was a pleasure always fun conversate hopefully we can do it again we will do her again.
Speaker 1:So thanks again from Legendary Loops.
