Tasting Jeżynówka and Detroit City Distillery Jezy Finished Bourbon

The fastest way to understand a city’s culture is to taste what it drinks, and Detroit has a few bottles that instantly tell a story. We’re pouring Detroit City Distillery tonight, starting with a freezer-cold Jeżynówka-style blackberry brandy that a lot of people know from Hamtramck bars, deer blinds, and Punchki Day traditions. From the first sip we get into real tasting notes, how temperature changes the experience, and why blackberry brandy can feel both nostalgic and surprisingly refined.

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From there we line things up the only way that makes sense: side-by-side. A young bourbon can be a reality check when you revisit it, especially next to something as bold as fruit brandy, and we talk honestly about what feels missing and what a finish can fix. The highlight is a blackberry brandy finished bourbon that lands “Jeżynówka adjacent” with a fruit-forward nose and a smoother back end, which turns into a bigger conversation about craft distilling in Detroit, barrel finishing, and what makes a bottle worth the price.

Because it’s Man Cave Happy Hour, the drinks open the door to everything else: local distillers helping each other out, a Shark Tank detour with behind-the-scenes rules you don’t hear about, and a nerd corner where we argue our way through Marvel, Daredevil, Spider-Man, and the Dune release calendar. We also hit the real-world stuff like doing ballgames solo, fraternal clubs as the cheat code for cheap drinks, and the “high holy holidays” of Detroit party season from St. Patrick’s Day to the Nain Rouge Parade to Opening Day.

If you like whiskey tasting, spirits storytelling, Detroit craft distilleries, and the kind of conversation that only happens after the first good pour, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave us a review. What’s the one bottle that always starts the best stories for you?

Recorded 3-9-26

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Transcript

Happy Hour Kickoff And Intros

August Gitshlag 0:00

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Matt Fox 0:19

We're gonna drink a fine whiskey and smoke a really fine cigar.

Jamie Flanagan 0:27

It is time for Happy Hour. It is the Man Cave Happy Hour Whiskey Cigar Spirits, the stories that go along with it. I am sitting across from the sexiest man on the planet and the star of the show, August Kitchleg.

SPEAKER_03 0:42

I was I just thought you were talking about me. I'm next to you. Well, yeah, I didn't know I got top billing all of a sudden.

August Gitshlag 0:48

Uh I, you know, a couple little clips, so you had a thousand people looking at you, and suddenly, you know, you someone tells you you're important. That's crazy. That's it. That's crazy talk. Well, right next to me is wonderful Matt Fox. Good to see you. Thank you, star of the show.

Matt Fox 1:00

Well, you know, you should be honored that I introduced you. And way across from me is David Wright, the motor city hypnotist. Yes, sir. Double duty tonight, huh? Yeah, a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 1:12

Yeah, a little bit. Do a podcast now, have a couple drinks, and then do my podcast. Yeah, see, that's what happens. All good.

August Gitshlag 1:17

So who's next to you?

SPEAKER_03 1:19

Oh, next to me is the creator and founder of Man Cave Happy Hour. And well, maybe that's the only one of us here who's ever been paid to talk.

Matt Fox 1:30

I'm just here for what's inside the box.

SPEAKER_03 1:32

And the and the the architect of podcast Your Voice Studios here in the palatial Southfield Studios.

August Gitshlag 1:39

Yes, Jamie Flanagan.

SPEAKER_03 1:40

Hey, sorry, forgot the name. There you go.

August Gitshlag 1:42

I'm just gonna give you a just he's a one-man show on his show. He's not used to having to introduce people. I'm David Wright, everyone else can fuck off. That's it. Sometimes Matt's over there in the corner hitting buttons. That's all right. Back to it.

Matt Fox 1:56

So back to it. That's it.

Jamie Flanagan 1:59

Yeah. But uh so but I August and Just I said that, but thank you to everybody who's watching. And then uh we threw I've been throwing up some shorts. I'm trying to get a little better, yeah. Uh at the tick and the tack and the the the socials and that, and and people have responded so or are annoyed with it and have left. Uh one of the two. Uh, but for whatever reason, the AI loves your face and it always grabs you.

August Gitshlag 2:21

I think it's I gotta shave so it looks thinner.

Jamie Flanagan 2:23

I think it, I think it grabs the snark. Yeah, it does. Well, that's my only job here. It's the only time I'm here. So you you popped up on on more of the you know, as the lead on many of the little shorts, and and you you were like, you messaged me, you're like, What the hell?

Matt Fox 2:37

Why am I? Yeah, I mean my head is huge, but dang, we look, we it sounds good.

August Gitshlag 2:42

All you guys are doing are making it bigger. That's all you're doing. You're making it bigger. So anyway, but thanks everybody.

Matt Fox 2:47

Like, subscribe, leave it. All the podcast things in all the podcast places. Yeah, bum that.

August Gitshlag 2:53

I brought in a fresh box of uh Swedish or uh Sour Patch kits today, so everyone's gauching away on on diabetes candies here.

Matt Fox 3:00

Saving mine we're all gonna have a sugar buzz.

August Gitshlag 3:02

I needed a little something, something. So that's it. I just realized I wore another man's podcast on top. You did, you did. I want to get ML in here. I do. I I'm gonna be doing a show with him on St. Patrick's Day.

Matt Fox 3:11

It's all right, cross contamination center.

August Gitshlag 3:12

Yeah, I'll bring I'll get him here eventually. He's he said he's gonna come in once. Fell Howard said he's gonna come in. I think my space is better than where he is, but well visually. I don't know. He likes being part of the Red Shovel network. Yeah, I can't. I'm not gonna cross that's a thing.

Jamie Flanagan 3:27

Yeah, that's a whole that's his whole thing.

August Gitshlag 3:28

Yeah, that is with Drew, and you know, his whole thing.

Crutch Words And Speaking Habits

Jamie Flanagan 3:31

Yep, yep. Red Shovel, is that because you have to shovel your own walkway basically from your to get to the studio, yeah, when it snows. He's like, I live here, I don't have to shovel the snow.

Matt Fox 3:41

So I want to share with you gentlemen what happened today. I had to give a speech and it was called Show Us Your Stuff. That was what it was called. So I entitled my So you dropped trial. I entitled my I entitled my speech, Behold, my stuff. If you're a Marvel fan, you'll get it, right? But during the speech, someone is always marking your crutch words.

August Gitshlag 4:05

Yeah, I work on that kind of thing. I'm horrible, I'm horrible on this. I work on that, it's something that I'm very conscious of.

Matt Fox 4:11

And my crutch word today was all right. I must have said all right, all right, all right a few times. That's funny. Cracked me up when he uh he said, Yeah, your crutch word today was all right. I'm like, all right. Oh, you said it said it a few times. I said it a few times, yeah. All right, what was it count? I was like four or five times. Oh, yeah, yeah. And and with within five to seven minutes. Okay, all right.

August Gitshlag 4:36

We all used to always count how many times Father Ray said okay, okay, during his sermons at St. Jude. Okay, every every sentence ended with okay, and then blah blah blah, and Jesus this and that, and the good shepherd, okay.

Jamie Flanagan 4:50

No, there was I I took a class up in Michigan State over the summer with photography and the and never stop learning. Never never and the and the instructor ended every sentence and stuff, every every sentence and stuff, every single it was so distracting. I started taking a tally, I learned nothing because I was tallying times the whole time. How many times did he get to? No, I mean it was like 70. I mean, it just like I mean, just like every single sentence. I mean, uh you know, yeah, it's just a lot. That's crazy. A lot, a lot, uh, yeah. I mean, to the point of distraction where I couldn't even listen to him because it was like, Are you freaking me out? Stop saying that. And I'm like, oh, I'm gonna tally it. I don't know. So yeah, but all right.

SPEAKER_03 5:32

Little little callback to one of the worst public speaking things I've ever seen. Do you guys remember Ricky Henderson's Hall of Fame speech? It was bad. I remember that.

August Gitshlag 5:42

Brutal, it's right up there, like trying to listen to uh what's his name? Carl Lewis sing the national anthem. Same kind of cringe worthy stuff.

SPEAKER_03 5:49

It was it was just yeah, Rick Ricky ain't bright.

August Gitshlag 5:51

Ricky could just run like hell, he could get on bass and run. He's a hell of a ball player, is not known for his IQ. Public speaking.

SPEAKER_03 5:59

Well, he does say he learned a lot from his mom because he said, Mom, do know best.

Matt Fox 6:04

That's it, you know. Yeah, so I be you be he be she be.

Jamie Flanagan 6:09

Speaking of whatever they be talking about speaking, speaking of all right, all right, all right. Matthew McConaughey does some great speaking. He was he did a commencement speech uh a handful of years ago. He's just great all around. And it's yeah, it's just I want to play Nick and Bond goes on the bleach beach with him, you know.

August Gitshlag 6:25

I'm like he was just like another actor, like a Brad Pitt. I really didn't care anything about him sure for a long time until I saw that clip of Drew Breeze throwing him the beer across Bourbon Street. Oh when they saw each other across the balconies and like, hey, and then everyone down below figured it out. Yeah, and they're like blah blah blah. And he's like, they do the whole thing, like you beer goes, yeah. Drew Brees throws the beer. This is before AI, so it's real. Yeah, he chucks a beer across Bourbon Street, he cracks it and spreads all over the place and he starts drinking it. Everyone goes batshit crazy. I'm like, I like this guy, I'm gonna hang with him. Yeah, and then his his bio came out, his book, and he started doing those rounds on the sports radio shows, and he was really good on the sports radio shows. He's insightful and I started to really enjoy his him you know listening to him do things.

Matt Fox 7:06

So well, his his Oscar acceptance speech was spot on, so good. You've been like, Yeah, that was inspirational.

August Gitshlag 7:12

Yeah, yeah. He has an Oscar, yeah. For which one? Dallas Liars Club or something like that. Something like that. Yeah, that might have been it. I think that might have been it, yeah. Or was that Jared Leto who won it for that one? I forget. I can't remember, but his he he did get an Oscar.

What We Are Drinking Tonight

Jamie Flanagan 7:26

If there was only a device that we had in our hands, look up every single piece of information known to man, but we're having a show, we're not on our phones, which is a good thing. Yes, so that's okay. Now you have me on my phone. So that is, and we didn't even tease what we were doing. You know who does a really good podcast? Who does that? Uh the motor, the motor city hypnotist. Oh boy, has uh he's got a formula and a pattern. He does he does a great thing because he opens up his show and lets you know what's coming, yeah, what you're gonna learn. He sets the objectives for the day, sure, and he's uh he taunts you with some free stuff. We do none of that, yeah. We do we do nothing we just come on here and say, look at me. I'm talking. I'm supposed to be this professional. We do not a darn thing right because we never even promoted Detroit City Distillery. The Yegy finished Urban, yes, Detroit City Yegy, Detroit City Yeshi.

August Gitshlag 8:18

Uh, when they came out with this, I didn't even know. And look, we've we've gone to there and we've had their products. Um we've had mixed reviews of some of their, especially their earlier products, right? It was young. The idea that that can't see the bottom, I forgot how long fabulous. It's sad. Oh, yeah, they make a make a great cocktail there. How long they're tasting the barrel. So for those of you that don't know, Yajnivka is the it's LaRue Blackberry Brandy, but there's a version that's in a yellow label that's called Made to the Polish Taste, has a little crest on it. That's Yeji. We call it Yajinovka. We call it Yaji and Ham Tramic. We go through that shit like smarters on Halloween down there. Um not wrong. So about yeah, this is specifically released on Punchky Day. It does not say how long it was aged. How long it was.

Jamie Flanagan 9:04

There's the Yajinovka.

August Gitshlag 9:05

There's the Yezhi. That's McGurl. You keep that in the freezer and it just makes you very happy.

Matt Fox 9:10

So did you pull that out of the fridge, Jamie?

August Gitshlag 9:12

I did. Out of our new freezer. Yeah. Now that we have uh we're full service here. Yeah, besides we have everything but running water. That's correct. That's running water is right down the way. Yeah, we don't have a wet bar, we just have a bar. Yep. So the idea was let's grab the regular Detroit City distillery juice. Then we got the Yezhnovka, and we got this in between it. Now you can see this is not exactly a fresh crack. No, yeah. Why is that, August? Well, I'll tell you, the day I took delivery of this, I had a friend go down. This is the day they released this the day of the punchkey run. Yeah. And and I was not gonna make it down there to get it. So I sent a mule down to go get it for me, a buddy of mine, and he grabbed it for me, and I picked it up from his house. And that night, Kat and I were going to dinner at that Romanian place in Hazel Park. Okay. Uh bar Boggy Boggy or Poggy, I forget what it's called. It was amazing. No one just came out, talking about amazing food. But knowing we were going there, I knew damn well we're gonna end up at Eastern Palace Club. So I brought this just as a thank you to Mike Pierce and the guys all there because they always treat us like kings. So I figured we'd open it with them. And it was the first night of their new restaurant taking over in there, the new kitchen. Oh wow. Because the the the smoke the barbecue guys are out and these new guys are in. So the full ownership group was there. I'm like, perfect. Cracked it open, everybody tried it, and it was a lovely night. So that's why I brought it along, knowing I'd be there. So that's who tried it first.

Matt Fox 10:34

All right.

Yezhnovka Origins And How To Drink

August Gitshlag 10:35

But I want to try it next to the regular, and especially for you, you looked at it and went, oh no, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 10:40

Well, I when whenever I see something I've never seen before, I always say, Oh, are you familiar with the Yezji Novka? No, okay, no, I've never had that.

August Gitshlag 10:48

How cold is it? Oh, it's it's chilly, it's chilled. I think you should whip it first right now. It's not like doing Melore, but I think we should open with a Yaji. Yes, because the whiskey will take over the your your palate from there pretty easy.

Matt Fox 11:02

Well, we'll take these over here. Yep. Yeah, this is uh something that uh I experienced, David, when I went to whiskey in the jar for the first time. There is August and Mikey behind the bar, and it was my first time there. They knew it, and they pulled this out and they said, You need to do this. It was your welcome cocktail.

SPEAKER_03 11:24

So, so let me ask this is is this a is a brandy. How how do you drink this? Is it shooting a sipping thing or a shot?

August Gitshlag 11:31

My mom will drink it over the rocks like it's a brandy. People drink it out over it over together.

SPEAKER_03 11:37

Because some people warm up brandy.

August Gitshlag 11:38

Yeah, this is not a warm-up, this is a cool-off. This is uh the colder the better on this one. And we we take it out of the fridge or the freezer, and you just do it as a shot.

Matt Fox 11:46

Feel like I'm sitting that whiskey in the jar again.

August Gitshlag 11:48

Stil and angels dancing on your tongue, gentlemen. Nastrovia, I've used that line a million times. Cheers. No, it could be colder, but that is Yaji. Oh, okay. Definitely blackberry. Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah. A lot of times people say, Oh, yeah, I've had that. I take it like well. Well, no, they say they say it's no, they say Robotus. And I go, No, it's cherry tri minic at worst. But everybody, everybody tries it in a deer blind. They're always like, Oh, I always took blackberry brandy. Grandpa took it to me as my first shot before I killed my first book. I was drinking Yezhnovka with my gun. I was like, Yeah, I know, I know. Everyone drinks brandy while they're shooting shit.

Jamie Flanagan 12:27

I found out that if you have enough yeshinofka, any room can be a rage room. Okay, all right. Just thought I'd share that.

August Gitshlag 12:35

All right, but um bum. All right, all right. So now do we want to go to the straight city's distillery and then do the in-between, which is our aged there's there's two, yeah.

Jamie Flanagan 12:46

There's two doesn't really tell us which straight bourbon is probably the butcher's cut, yeah. It's probably that's the four-grain.

Matt Fox 12:53

Yeah, it's gonna be that butcher's was like their first or second offering that they came out with.

Jamie Flanagan 12:58

Yeah, and this is an old bottle.

August Gitshlag 12:59

This is oh, so it's aged, it's it aged even more than the label says.

Jamie Flanagan 13:03

This was aged two years. I don't know. There's not a date on this. Batch 73. All right, okay. So it's a young bottle. Does it say batch anything on there?

August Gitshlag 13:12

It's probably this is a one-off, and they sold every bottle that day. Is there something up at the it says bottle number 48 batch one?

Jamie Flanagan 13:18

Okay, batch one of that.

August Gitshlag 13:20

Yeah, so I was completely wrong as I turned around and saw there's a one and a 48 on it. So hopefully there's a two, and they do it. It sounds like they're that's the plan.

Jamie Flanagan 13:27

Well, they did that with the uh Punchkey vodka, which we I don't know if it's on the shelf here. I have a bottle at home.

August Gitshlag 13:34

It's great for being on the shelf, it's a love smells, it's it smells the nose is perfect, yeah. Yes, it's a it they know it's a novelty, and we you know we we make shots of it on Punchkey Day, and we all do a little bit of it, and it's fine.

Jamie Flanagan 13:46

They started clearly selling it, it's available at the the like the grocery stores and stuff.

August Gitshlag 13:50

It's a great crazy. It it is the nose is perfect, they got it nailed. Yeah, you know, it smells like dough and raspberries. It's great.

Jamie Flanagan 13:57

Yeah, yep.

Butcher’s Cut Tasting Reality Check

Matt Fox 13:58

All right. We're going there first.

Jamie Flanagan 14:01

Uh little butcher's cut.

August Gitshlag 14:06

I think it's to see you guys twice in a in a week. Yeah, you saw us last Wednesday. Yeah.

Matt Fox 14:12

How was your uh what'd you guys do over the weekend?

August Gitshlag 14:16

I beat Darren McCarty at Fooling. Did you now? Yeah, so someone to the as a fundraiser for the Detroit Detroit sports media, and I don't think it's called Association anymore. Okay, but it's all the you know the sports people that do like the anchors and the writers and the producers and everyone that does sports media interviews and stuff. And they have a little you know, a little fraternity that they put together and they do a scholarship fund, and uh nice, and so to get send kids to broadcast school. And I read Chris Chris Hutt from the Fulling Warehouse is on the board, and because you know, fulling is a sport, sure, and so they they they brought him in and he hosts the fundraiser. So he put something on Facebook, goes, Hey, 30 bucks goes to the kids, buy some raffle tickets, see some people. So I showed up and they're like, Cool, yeah, and then they do a little tournament, and then I'm like, Well, Chris, I don't really know anyone here. He goes, All right, I guess you and I are partners. That's not fair, yeah. And uh we kind of and we kind of tore it through the competition, one of them watched which being uh Darren McCarty and his partner Randy, who was this lovely retired female wrestling manager who was so cool, and her husband or her husband, they were they were really cool, but yeah, there's some people there, and uh, you know, I've made some leads for the show, so we're gonna have some more you're gonna have some pipe competition. Some other people with voices are gonna come in soon. Okay, yeah, there you go. So uh I chatted with them and yeah, so it was a good day. That was a good uh and then the ham channel blowout was this weekend, and I got to sit in a chair. I didn't bar. No, no, no, you door man. I door man, I sat in a chair and hugged people for a bar tab and uh 20 bucks cash.

Matt Fox 15:34

And and Mikey bartended for the first time at Whiskey in the Jar. No, no, no, no. Mikey wasn't there, not Mikey, Mikey, the other Mikey. Mickey, Mickey, Mickey Lions, Mickey Lions, yes, her one-off.

August Gitshlag 15:43

Yeah, she was the backup bartender on Saturday. So I saw some really cool bands, and I saw one of the worst bands I've ever seen in my life. Like it literally emptied the place out. And the next band was uh was like a actus woman. She was like, she looked like she fell out of the matrix. She had the black leather and the haircut. You could just see her watching this band and this like Amazon box robot made out of HVAC materials and talking, and it was just so horrible. And she's just getting angrier and angrier because she knows everyone's just it's just hemorrhaging people. Oh, the bar is just emptying out, and she's next to the last, she's the closer. It's like you can just see it in their in their eyes. She's just so ticked. But all right, so Shane. Hi Shane, thanks for popping in. We had a surprise visit from the Detroit Party Marching Band popped in. Oh they're always fun. That's good. When you're already full and they they pile that, you know, 25 deep into the bar. That's always fun. Yeah. So Friday night had a had an interesting act. The girl looked like she was 15 years old, dressed all gothy, you know, all black, all black makeup, 1971 bank teller hair, just DJ'd straight up Bell Isle Ghetto Tech. Oh, what's going on?

Matt Fox 16:50

So I am not recollecting this butcher's cut like I thought I did.

SPEAKER_03 16:57

Well, I'm I'm I'm not, I'm not it's a it's an old old bum.

August Gitshlag 17:02

This is this is the early, this is early stuff. This is early stuff, and this is why we talked about it like this.

Matt Fox 17:06

Yeah, it's a little yeah, it's not it's not hitting like I thought it was going to, from what my memory serves. Yeah, there's not much there. Nope. I need to do something with that.

SPEAKER_03 17:15

All right. I'll stop talking. I'm not even gonna go back back to it.

Jamie Flanagan 17:19

Wow, okay. All right, but so let's do the Yeshu get some water.

Comedy Night And Weekend Recaps

August Gitshlag 17:23

We can yeah, let's get the water here. Let's get ourselves rinse it out. Do do do do dead air, dead air. No, no, no, no, yeah, but it sounds small.

Matt Fox 17:33

Do do do do so uh we uh went and saw a stand-up comic on Saturday night. Oh we saw a young lady by the name of Caroline Ray, who was uh you may remember from you may remember her from Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Oh she was one of the the moms, the adults in the show, and uh she does stand-up. That's been she's always done stand-up, she's just done TV on the side, and she's a Canadian, you know. Is she?

August Gitshlag 18:00

Yeah, she's from Quebec, from from Quebec. So she was kind of pissed about the hockey, I'm sure. Sure, but she she was funny. She we had a good time with her. Yesterday was the first time I saw Tom T since the gold medal game that morning. Oh, yeah, and I go, yeah, you I go, you he had his first drink since January 1st, by the way. He hadn't been drinking. He he uh he broke the fast with me yesterday afternoon. And I'm like, yeah, I go, uh, for someone who wasn't drinking, you ghosted me pretty fast after that game ended. He's like, I'm Canadian, dude.

Blackberry Finished Bourbon Tasting Notes

Jamie Flanagan 18:27

I want to be there. That's uh that wasn't a lot of fun. All right, so now this is your nose in there because you're gonna catch it right away. Oh, yeah, you catch it right away.

Matt Fox 18:36

Oh, fantastic, yeah.

Jamie Flanagan 18:37

That's got the nose on it. Yeah, it's there, but it's not straight up Yeiji. No, no, it's uh it's uh uh a Yeezy adjacent. Okay, adjacent's the way to put it. Yeah, yeah, I like it. It's uh Yagyi laced, ladies and gentlemen.

August Gitshlag 18:53

None of us here lace cocktails, just you know it reminds me of the stuff that we got Shankers. It's just uh uh uh like a wine barrel aged or one of those pork barrel.

Matt Fox 19:05

The Madeira ones that Madeira reminds me of those, it's just has that kind of smoothness if they were done early amp tramac, yes. Yeah, yeah, it's very reminiscent.

August Gitshlag 19:13

Yeah, yeah. This was the hints of uh uh French made Polish uh brandy, yes, yeah.

Matt Fox 19:18

And that Yazi that Yazi comes back out on the back end, too. It just sits back there, that's really nice.

August Gitshlag 19:25

Yeah, I'm happy. It is a$75 bottle after taxes. All right, it's$25 more than I would pay, but how can I not have this?

Jamie Flanagan 19:33

Yeah, I mean it's got the Polish Eagle on it, it's got so many I can give a crap about that. I just wanted to have Yezhi brought. I'm I'm that's got me.

August Gitshlag 19:41

You're the Polish boy with the My Irish radio, and okay.

Jamie Flanagan 19:44

Yeah, I was talking Polish to one of my kids today, and I was like, we it was a big pep assembly, and we got back five five minutes in class before everybody left, and none of the other kids came back, it was just me and him, and I'm like, and I'm like, dude, Hutch did almost uh, you know, and he's like, What you speak Polish?

August Gitshlag 20:00

Yeah, what yeah, I was like, How long have I known you not known? I was like, speak Polish.

Jamie Flanagan 20:05

Hutch did almost botch. And he's like, he was like, because he's he's like Polish. He's like, he's he was born there. Oh boy, and he was like, I go, we gotta go home, go to bed. This is I booped. And he's like, You know Polish? And I'm like, Yeah, freaking I only know a phrase or two.

August Gitshlag 20:19

Um, what do you mean? Like, yeah, I did you know only a phrase or two?

Matt Fox 20:22

I've only heard a few phrases, but I don't know if he's fluent. No, no, just a phrase or two.

August Gitshlag 20:27

Oh, okay.

Jamie Flanagan 20:27

You maybe go home like you know, go home, go to bed, but uh yeah, all right, and that's a good one for the bars. That I that I believe.

August Gitshlag 20:36

Okay, that's my dupa, you know.

Jamie Flanagan 20:38

Yeah, kind of dami bougie, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:44

I mean, I can say a couple German phrases, but it has to be German.

Jamie Flanagan 20:48

So, but this has got that Polish hint to it as well.

August Gitshlag 20:51

It is, it is nice.

Jamie Flanagan 20:52

I think this is probably my grandfather would enjoy that.

August Gitshlag 20:56

I have a bottle of a barrel pick of their rye that I got as a member of the Whiskey Society, which is nice, and I enjoy that as an old as my old-fashioned base right now. But this is the best thing I've had from them.

Matt Fox 21:06

I think it's a DCD, yeah, yeah. Detroit City Distillery, DCD.

Local Distillers Helping Each Other

Jamie Flanagan 21:11

Yeah, yep, yep. Mike Forsyth, and apparently Mike is uh helping out the guys at Shankar. He was working with that because his name came up. Did it come up on the podcast?

August Gitshlag 21:18

No, it came up afterwards. Those guys all know each other, yeah. You know, because I had Andrew, Andrew, they call him Seth Weissman from Weiss Distilling, right? Right, yeah. Uh Andrew was sitting with me, he worked the door with me on Saturday. He just kind of hung out because he didn't want to check out some bands, and none of his friends wanted to come down, so he came down by himself.

SPEAKER_05 21:32

Yeah, yeah.

August Gitshlag 21:33

And he's like, Yeah, uh Kylosh, he goes, he reached out to me on LinkedIn, said, Hey, we're a distillery in town, we should all know each other.

Jamie Flanagan 21:38

Oh, wow.

August Gitshlag 21:39

In case we're in a pinch and we need something or we want to talk about something, yeah. Let's all ride, let's all make the boat go, you know. It takes a village, it really does. And he, I'm like, that is really cool. He goes, That is amazing. Kylosh is everything I want to be. He has a motorcycle, uh, plays in a band. Yeah, he looks like a character on a on a reality game show. Yeah. Yeah, he was a cool dude. He was, I really enjoyed talking to him. He's like, he's great. It was just at his birthday party.

Matt Fox 22:05

Let's let's revisit Shankar real quick. Yeah.

August Gitshlag 22:07

The day after now they're not here and we can talk about them. Well, yeah, yeah.

Matt Fox 22:10

But the day after we recorded with them, did you see what you you sent it to us? Vargas, the owner, he actually did a pitch. Thank you. He pitched Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank.

Jamie Flanagan 22:23

Was that old, or was that just come out?

August Gitshlag 22:26

Was old? That was old. I just yeah, I thought that's what happened because I just added them, and so suddenly their stuff hit my feed, and I think I shared it. And it's so I think it was. I was like, Oh, that's interesting. Because he he told us about trying to do his his now. Now I see all his like uh now he's crowdsourced by yeah, crowdsourcing, that's the word, that's the phrase, yes.

Shark Tank Stories And Safeguards

Matt Fox 22:44

All right, so I thought that was happening like that that day that we that you shared it with us, yeah, for some reason or another. Because well, you didn't realize we were on Shark Tank when you showed up late. Yeah, you missed that whole part.

August Gitshlag 22:56

Sharks were on the other side of the camera, yeah. They're on the other side, you know.

Matt Fox 22:58

Mark Cuban was total dick. Yeah, but Varkus, he he he had said, you know, we have something big coming up, and what look out for tomorrow. Yeah, and that's what I thought said, anyways.

August Gitshlag 23:09

I think I think that was older. Okay, but if it wasn't, that means I just wasn't paying attention. Yeah, but and I thought it was I just assumed it was.

Jamie Flanagan 23:16

But but he's in he's in talks with the sharks, yeah. Yeah, I thought that was really neat because it didn't look like it got resolved.

August Gitshlag 23:23

Well, I've told my shark tank story here before, right? No, about the certain young lady I used to date that was on shark tank.

Jamie Flanagan 23:30

You know, fell in a shark tank.

August Gitshlag 23:31

No, a certain young lady I used to date was on shark tank. Is she a shark? No, she was uh she pitched a company, uh a really interesting company. It was pet supply stuff, you know, and she pitched it. And what was most fascinating were the rules. This is I'm not gonna talk about the pitch or anything. She didn't end up not getting it, but the rules are you have to be brought there by a family member. No friend has to be a family member, has to bring you, and they put you immediately afterwards into a room with a shrink. Oh, yeah, to make sure that you don't go ballistic.

Jamie Flanagan 24:00

Somebody off themselves, didn't they?

August Gitshlag 24:01

It must have that something must have happened. Somebody off themselves that their dream fell through, and so they just I'm any so they make sure that you are fit to leave, and then you're released to a family member. I found that incredibly responsible, yeah, which means something incredibly irresponsible must have happened in the past, right? But something something awful happened. There weren't no Jenny Jones producers on that one. Oh boy. Jenny Jones fell back.

Jamie Flanagan 24:23

Whoa, whoa, I know.

August Gitshlag 24:24

Whenever you get her, I love you, man. I've been in love with you all too long. Secret crush episode, Dave. But do you do you we're getting to his territory now?

SPEAKER_03 24:34

Well, I'm just saying, when whenever you have any type of reality show, it's a numbers game, you're gonna get people with issues. Yeah, it's going to happen.

August Gitshlag 24:42

Yes, it's it's it uh you can't you can't some would say you have to have issues to even get on those damn shows, right?

SPEAKER_03 24:47

But that's kind of the thing.

August Gitshlag 24:48

I mean, a lot, you know, a lot of they want television, they want to have stuff is embellished and they made it to a certain level on real world, and when they did not have a childhood trauma, they said, Okay, never mind, you're no longer interesting, right?

Jamie Flanagan 25:00

Yeah, you know, but that's I that's I would never be on real world just because I was I'd sit there and go, All right, my childhood was awesome. Shut up. I'm watching TV, you know. It's like tell me what I'm gonna watch TV in the other room now. All right, you know, I'm not good TV.

August Gitshlag 25:14

You guys are aware that I'm I'm wired okay, not wrong, but not right, but okay.

Matt Fox 25:20

Yeah, so you guys are aware that we have had a guest on our show via Mrs. Vino that actually went on Shark Tank and turned their offer down. Yeah, that was Little Saints. That was Little Saints, yep, yep.

Jamie Flanagan 25:32

Right.

Matt Fox 25:33

So, you know, with that's we but there's a lot of and uh we had the animal talk.

Jamie Flanagan 25:37

We had the fairy mushroom come again now.

August Gitshlag 25:39

Yeah, yeah. That's why I brought it up.

Jamie Flanagan 25:41

It was Little Saints. All right, and uh Animal Talk. We had a lady, she had she's from Blooming Bloomfield or Birmingham or something, and uh Bloomingham? Uh yeah, something and North Bloomingham Township. She had a a collar that would tell you what your dog was saying. Oh my gosh, I remember that.

SPEAKER_03 25:59

Oh, I remember that too.

Jamie Flanagan 26:01

Yeah, oh boy. So and they she sold it to them, you know. She got it, they she got them to invest, and I think she might have told us a story about the the the the degrees of of of people responsibility responsibility, yes, because some prior to her off themselves. Yeah, and so I didn't see that coming.

Day Games And Doing Things Solo

Matt Fox 26:21

Yeah, we just we we we we have so many products, so many juices come across our table. You know, we're very fortunate to be able to talk to some of these folks.

August Gitshlag 26:30

Yeah, absolutely.

Matt Fox 26:32

Why do you think I come back every Monday?

Jamie Flanagan 26:34

Right, it is a pleasure.

August Gitshlag 26:35

It is, it is mostly to talk to you folks. This really is you know the only man cave I have, since I'm I'm not a member of you know the Knights of Columbus, like Catholics without basements. I'm not a member of that group. You know, I am a member of Post Six, James put his hand up.

Matt Fox 26:49

He has a basement too.

August Gitshlag 26:51

I I I do I am a member of fraternal organizations, right? Isn't that a great name? We're both elks. We are both elks, yes.

Jamie Flanagan 26:58

We gotta we gotta get Matt some horns. Yeah, you do, yeah. We do, especially the football season.

August Gitshlag 27:03

And now that we have one more season in uh ham track for uh DCFC, yeah. Let's get you guys down to some games and then and the post six. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The most comfortable bar in ham track. I've been I've been rolling leather seats on the room. Yeah, we're gonna we went in there for a baseball game. Yes, we did. Yeah, yes, we will. So I got my first day game tickets for April 16th.

Matt Fox 27:20

Yeah, we're gonna talk about that. You did too, didn't you?

Jamie Flanagan 27:23

I know.

August Gitshlag 27:23

Oh just you. Well, they were handed to me. Oh, somebody else on the uh gentleman came up to me and said, who I know and said, uh, hey, I have a season ticket package. I have great seats in the 116, the terrace with the table. And he goes, but I can't go to any day games this year. If you'll go to them, they're all yours. Well, how much you want? He goes, just use them. Wow. So I got handed a ticket to all 12 day games this year.

Jamie Flanagan 27:45

I really hope your girls flying on those days, no offense.

August Gitshlag 27:48

Well, I only got one ticket. Oh, he only gave you one. So he only has one. It's for him. He's got a season ticket. He has eight season tickets. What do you say?

Jamie Flanagan 27:55

He has the a season ticket. He had a season ticket. Really? Yes. So he goes to games by himself and just watches the game. He loves the base of the balls that much.

August Gitshlag 28:04

He's kind of got he's kind of got a keep score, you know? Yeah. Sit there and do the book and wow.

SPEAKER_03 28:08

Yeah, Javer you're a base of the balls guy. Oh, I've I've do how many games I've gone to by myself. I go to by myself.

August Gitshlag 28:14

I used to all the time.

SPEAKER_03 28:15

I I the in fact that the year tiger stadium closed, I went to the last home game, sat in right field, almost, almost had a home run, hit hit a couple rows in front of me. But I I go by myself all I go to movies by myself.

August Gitshlag 28:30

I do too. Oh man, that's my favorite in the summertime. Oh, I call it masturbating when you just go out by yourself and treat yourself.

SPEAKER_03 28:37

Treat yourself. I go to I go to dinner by myself. I do a lot of stuff like that.

Jamie Flanagan 28:41

You can see sit where you want without a is this okay? Can we sit here? Uh, can I can do can I put butter on the pot?

August Gitshlag 28:47

I'm not doing not doing it because someone's gonna stop me or complain. Love you, honey.

SPEAKER_05 28:52

I'm I just do it.

August Gitshlag 28:53

I used to do it when either well, I was living by myself and I was single, and I'm like, I'm just gonna go to a ball game today. Yeah, and I used to put in the earbud and just walk and get my steps and walk around Camerica Park on a Sunday afternoon and do 20 laps and see 15 people I know and get hugs, collect hugs. It's a little ego day, you know.

Jamie Flanagan 29:10

Treat yourself, treat yourself. That's it. Uh, this is a treat, though. This is Detroit City Distillery, nice blackberry brandy finished. I finished mine. It was tasty. I'm I'm I'm uh I'm babying it because uh I poured myself a little more because I it's mine.

August Gitshlag 29:26

I was gonna have another little sip.

Matt Fox 29:27

So I'm afraid of that butcher's cut. That's it. I gotta go back to the uh Yegy.

Marvel And Dune Nerd Corner

August Gitshlag 29:32

All right. Well, there's other stuff in the cabinet, you know. I know. Damn, drink all my damn Yegy stuff. I didn't what? Drinking all my damn Yegy stuff. What? I just I sounded like Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder. I'm just a dude acting like a dude, dressed like a dude, pretending to be another dude.

Matt Fox 29:54

So you guys know that uh trying to get up that hill. Doom Doomsday is coming out on a Friday. Yeah, in December. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what else happens on that same Friday in that December? Tono. Dune part three. Oh, really? So Timothy Chalome and You're a big Dune guy. I am, I am. So, yeah, Timothy Chalome and Robert Downey Jr. They came together.

August Gitshlag 30:14

Did I take you to Dune? I'm gonna tell you, Dune gone, Dune gonna lose.

Matt Fox 30:19

Yeah, well, it it's going to, but they're the two of them came together. Like, we need to now call this Dune's Day. I I don't think Marvel let him do that. I believe that one. It's just a fun thing to do for the two. I understand when they're doing Dunes Day. So yeah, I'll probably be taking that job. I will be going to a movie probably by myself. We have a we have the Daredevil Drop.

Jamie Flanagan 30:41

If you're going to see Dune, you'll definitely be by yourself. You have a whole theater to yourself. Everybody be over at the Marvel one.

Matt Fox 30:46

That's right.

August Gitshlag 30:47

In the nerd portion of the podcast, because we weren't nerdy enough about everything else. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I do believe Daredevil drops the next couple weeks. Yes, it does. And then we get a early April before Doomsday, I think we get a Spider-Man movie, don't we? Yes, yes, Spider Noir.

Jamie Flanagan 31:01

A contractual two-year Spider-Man coming up.

August Gitshlag 31:03

Well, that's a reason because Sony owns it, and if they don't come out with one every X amount of time, then they lose it, which is why they put out that terrible Madame Web or whatever. And those I have not watched the Venom movies, and I feel bad because I'm a nerd and I haven't watched those.

Matt Fox 31:17

The Venoms weren't bad. I think Jamie's in the in the new Spider-Man Noir because it's Nicolas Cage.

August Gitshlag 31:24

Right, yeah. Mr.

Matt Fox 31:25

Cage is in the new one. Yeah, he he plays the Spider-Man in Spider-Man Noir.

August Gitshlag 31:30

I don't know what that is. Spider-Man Noir. He got hosed on Superman, so yeah, they gave him that. Yeah. I did think it was funny when they used to that great. But yeah, the Flash. The Flash was a fun movie. That was fun. And we're never going to see that actor again because he's a wackadoodle. Well, topadoodle, which is why he nailed that character so well. It's because he's crazy. But yes, he's literally out of his loop.

SPEAKER_05 31:51

Uh-huh.

August Gitshlag 31:51

And that's and I thought that movie was phenomenal. You took me to see that. Okay. And then I went and saw it when it came out with one of the first dates with my current partner, and it had a different ending.

SPEAKER_03 32:01

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

August Gitshlag 32:03

Which is cool. Yeah. Oh, the flash.

SPEAKER_03 32:05

I I will say though, I in disagree with me, but the thing that made it fine was Michael Keaton being back in it. Oh, I could, I could that was fine too. I could care less about the flash, his character.

August Gitshlag 32:15

Oh, I thought his character, I thought he just did it so well. You want to get nice, so let's get nice. But to be so neurotic, you have to be neurotic. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:25

Interesting enough.

August Gitshlag 32:26

I've always been curious about sex. I've never done anything with it, but I've always been curious about take the lasso off of him. Take the lasso of truth off of him.

SPEAKER_03 32:32

He also played a crazy guy in the newest stand, the stand miniseries. He played the trash can man. Michael Keaton did? No, no. Uh Ezra Miller. Oh, Ezra. Oh, you're talking about Ezra. Okay, yeah. And and again, he was great in the Harry Potter movies. But but he's just he's Ezra Miller was in the Harry Potter movies. He did these uh he did this like like these whining, screaming type things. I it was just um almost just unwatchable. This is our Oscar segment. That's what we're talking about.

Matt Fox 33:04

So we're talking movies right now. The next big Spider-Man is Tom Holland, you know, coming out with coming out. Is it coming out? Yeah, it's Dea in there and Sadie Sink from Stranger Things the Redhead. Oh, she's in the new Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland as well. So there's there's a lot going on this year with the Sony aka Marvel.

SPEAKER_03 33:23

Well, I will say going back to Daredevil, because I don't know if you guys are keeping up on that.

Matt Fox 33:27

Umfrio is an amazing um because the actor who plays Foggy is coming back.

SPEAKER_03 33:34

I don't know if that's flashbacks or it should be flashbacks, it has to be flashbacks because he's gone. He gone so the the guy who played Iron Fist is in there. Oh, that was also Jones. Jessica Jones. I thought she was cool.

Jamie Flanagan 33:47

I like the Jessica Jones series. Yeah, that was fine like a lot. Yeah, I don't know just because it was Defenders was cool, but I couldn't get through Iron Fist.

August Gitshlag 33:55

No, that's the most punchable character in the whole thing, you know.

SPEAKER_03 33:58

Well, Luke Cage was okay. Luke Cage was awesome.

August Gitshlag 34:02

Yeah, he was fine. Yeah, I haven't gotten through the new one. You haven't? I had Wonder Man, you haven't gotten it. I got it. I got I was so cringy in the middle of the scene of the first 10 minutes. I like couldn't get through it. In what? For what Wonder Man. It's the only Marvel series besides that the Miss Marvel that I haven't watched.

Matt Fox 34:16

It's the fifth time Ben Kingsley has played the same character. Wonder Man, Wonder Man, yes. Okay, Ben Kingsley's he he he brings back. Oh name's Trevor. Yes, exactly. Yes, right, right. I love Trevor.

SPEAKER_03 34:28

Yeah. Look that that's not the Mandarin, he just plays one.

August Gitshlag 34:32

And that was a really cool arch. And they arc arch arc arc arc arc. Yeah, using him and and Easter egg. Yeah. He's he's fun. And they do those little Easter eggs on on Disney Plus, too. Where you can watch this, the those characters. Yeah.

Matt Fox 34:46

So we got Easter eggs. We nerded out on that. There we go. Yeah. Coming out with Yes.

Jamie Flanagan 34:52

Maybe maybe we need to try to tie it together.

SPEAKER_03 34:54

Maybe we should start another podcast.

Jamie Flanagan 34:56

Yeah. Well, the movie, we get I get enough movie screenings. We got to do something with them. I went to see the bride. Did you? I got to see the bride. I heard it just gets pan. I liked it. I liked it better when it was Harry Met Sally. So it's like they said, people MM. I liked uh eight mile. I liked it better with Purple Rain. You know, it's like I liked I like the I like that with no, it's actually kind of Joker 2-ish. It's kind of Bonnie and Clyde-ish.

Cop Rock And Streaming Rights Weirdness

August Gitshlag 35:23

It's kind of it's supposed to be Bright of Frankenstein, right? I never watched Joker.

Matt Fox 35:32

Neither did I.

August Gitshlag 35:33

I never saw the second one.

Jamie Flanagan 35:34

The the the musical one?

SPEAKER_03 35:36

No, I only watched the first one. I never watched the second one.

August Gitshlag 35:38

It was painful. I heard it was it was like watching cop rock. Oh fuck.

unknown 35:42

Yeah.

Jamie Flanagan 35:42

I like make I make cop rock jokes like in my my kids.

August Gitshlag 35:46

Oh, they're not gonna know they weren't born.

Jamie Flanagan 35:48

I know. No, I mean, you know, I don't know. Matt, I don't know if Matt was born. You guys are the same age, but but um I'm older, but you know, but yeah, cop cop rock, it's never forget it. It's the worst thing ever, but it's so funny. And I'm like, you are under arrest, here are your rights, and my kids are like, What? I'm like, no, seriously, and they're like, shut up, and I'm like, fuck.

August Gitshlag 36:09

You're allowed to take out your phones and look up cop rock right now.

Matt Fox 36:12

All right, and this is why you're retiring this year.

Jamie Flanagan 36:14

Sure, all right, serious shit, man. It's like it's like there's a whole series that was stuff of Greece 2. Oh my god, it just it's it's it's delightful. They made a second one. Cop rock is delightful, terrible. It's a lot by cop rock is Michelle Pfeiffer's the hottie in it, though. It is so so so so so so so bad. It's Adrian's delight vehicle. It's delightful. Cop rock is so so so so so bad. It's delightful.

August Gitshlag 36:38

Is it on Tubi somewhere? It's gotta be oh yeah. Oh, I'm sure it's on YouTube, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:41

I'm sure you'll probably get full episodes on YouTube for free because it's so bad. Yeah, I'd like to go down the house. It's gonna claim copyright on that.

Jamie Flanagan 36:49

The the Pluto can you put a black bar over my face, please?

August Gitshlag 36:52

Yeah, the actors. Well, cop rock might not be out there because I bet you they don't have the rights to some of the music they used, yeah. And that's what happens. Like there's holes in there. I've put 902 and oh and like 30 rock when you watch it on Peacock, there's episodes that are missing strictly because of music rights that they don't have for some clip they had when they did the show. Oh wow, yeah, yeah. They got limited rights on it, yeah. So there's missing episodes and seasons. Interesting.

Matt Fox 37:17

So I will share with you, gentlemen, that uh recently I've been watching older movies, yeah. Okay, and older horror flicks at that. Well, Divine Older. Okay, are we talking 1930s? We're talking like 1980s. We're talking silent 1978. Yeah, I watched Creep Show Two this past week. There was two of them, there were three of them. Oh boy, oh boy, and it's just like nostalgia, like, yeah, I remember watching that when I shouldn't have been when I was 12.

August Gitshlag 37:46

Right, right, right. I'm telling you, the the pushback that Wayans is getting on scary movie six is gonna make it a huge success. Yeah, because people, it's it's like there's there's so many gonna hate it. They're like, oh, you can't say that.

Matt Fox 38:00

Like, all these things are like, why do you think he wants to do that?

August Gitshlag 38:02

Because Gen Z is gonna want to offend everybody America needs that kick in the butt, man.

SPEAKER_03 38:10

Why do you think South Park and the Simpsons are still running after a hundred years?

Matt Fox 38:14

It's like because that's our generation.

SPEAKER_03 38:18

They slam everybody safe.

August Gitshlag 38:20

My finger is hovering over the button to buy the overlord cap of Satan to wear the Nane Rouge parade. But they want$49 for a baseball hat. Now I paid$39 for my Yukon Cornelius one, right? It's that same company, they're good quality hats. Yeah, but a Satan hat that I can't wear around mom. I don't know. I really, really want it. And considering Catherine's entire outfit for the Nain Rouge was bought on Timu for like$7.

Matt Fox 38:49

So how can I pay$50 for a that is the biggest oxymoron?

August Gitshlag 38:55

Yeah, I made her delete the app immediately. I'm like, they already got your knowledge, your all your information in there. Oh no, yeah, your lock.

Matt Fox 39:00

They have your dress size, your eye size, they got it all. It's my eye size.

Jamie Flanagan 39:04

That's it. They'll have an AI model of her soon.

Matt Fox 39:06

Yep, it'll be like Mariah AI.

August Gitshlag 39:08

I'd buy that for a dollar. Take the real thing and every version of it. I'm gonna buy it. Yeah, you can't buy it. I'm not gonna know. Who put up the the the princess Leia in the slave ship Leia sex doll saying, I'll see you guys in a month.

Jamie Flanagan 39:27

He's like a box, yeah. Well no, it might have been me.

Parade Season And Drunk Obligations

August Gitshlag 39:31

It might have been was that you no, it wasn't anybody of a certain age, every man of a certain age. Yeah, I think it was you. It might have been me. All right, well, that was an interesting conversation about everything but the juice we were drinking.

Matt Fox 39:44

But but but that's the whole point. The juice gets you talking, yeah. It does, it does, and that's why we enjoy doing that. That's why we enjoy doing this because that's right.

August Gitshlag 39:56

Am I gonna see you guys on the 29th at the uh the next whiskey tasting?

Matt Fox 40:00

It's a Sunday, yeah?

August Gitshlag 40:01

It's a Sunday, always. Yeah, whiskey taco box. So we are smack in the middle of the high holy holidays of drunken obligation. Jesus, Mary and Jesus. I've gotten the first two down. I've I've gotten punchy run, punchy day. So next is parade day, which is what day? Sunday. This coming Sunday. Oh, this coming Sunday. It's supposed to like rain and sleet. It's supposed to be like kind of gross weather, but they they never get that right this far out. Okay. Then if I believe the actual St. Patrick's Day, then Nain Rouge Parade, then opening day, I believe. Holy crap, man. Colleen said I can't go to opening day. All right. Well, I have two parties for us already.

Jamie Flanagan 40:39

I know.

August Gitshlag 40:40

So I forget. One fancy one where I'll be staffing it and working it with collared shirt, and then we'll go see uh our friends from our uh glassware sponsor at Firebird Tavern. Yeah, we'll go see that. Catherine is working that again. What is that? What's opening day? It's Good Friday. Okay.

Matt Fox 40:56

I will yeah, I'll be working that.

Jamie Flanagan 40:58

Oh, it's Good Friday. Yeah, we're down at Grotto listening to Mass for three hours in Latin, praying for people's souls in Latin. I'm gonna kill you, and you'll be one of the souls we're praying for if that's what you're actually doing. No, that's what we do. That's what I do on Good Friday. We go down to Grotto. So you're not coming to opening day. There's 40 altar boys. No, it's I'm a Catholic. We go to church. It's uh that is a high, high holy day. That's what that's the big one.

Matt Fox 41:24

They drink water. It's not the big one. There's still drinking Friday, there's still drinking. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:30

Shouldn't Easter be the bigger one? Uh from a Catholic.

Jamie Flanagan 41:35

I'm just saying, you know, you're gonna celebrate the Friday is a is is we're gonna celebrate death instead of resurrection. There is seriously telling me I will be in church.

August Gitshlag 41:44

You're choosing misery over happiness.

Matt Fox 41:47

I'll be in church.

August Gitshlag 41:48

Yeah, I'll be in church. So, Jamie, what did you give up?

Matt Fox 41:50

What did you give up for Lent then, bud?

August Gitshlag 41:51

Yeah, what'd you give up for Lent then, bud? Giving up shit.

Jamie Flanagan 41:56

I gave up cider.

August Gitshlag 41:57

F your Catholicism.

Jamie Flanagan 41:59

I gave up cider.

August Gitshlag 42:00

I was gonna give up cider.

Jamie Flanagan 42:02

Yeah, I drink I drink a lot of cider.

Matt Fox 42:06

Like like non-alcoholic cider or like Blake. Like like cider. Yeah, yeah.

August Gitshlag 42:11

I gave up hookers. Can you hypnotize him into being a normal human? Hypnotize him into enjoying his life instead of Catholic guilt. I'm done with Catholic guilt. I'm done with it. Look into my eyes.

Jamie Flanagan 42:24

If I wanted to go to opening day, I'd honey, I'm gonna go to opening day. I could I could do that. Could if I wanted to, but I I do enjoy going to the it's it's in Latin. There's 40 altar boys, it's insane.

August Gitshlag 42:35

Yeah, it's a petty. That sounds like a creepy reason for wanting to go because of 40 altar boys. It's just the the So the assumption grotto is now Epstein Island. Epstein Fire Island.

Jamie Flanagan 42:48

Oh my god, all right. No.

August Gitshlag 42:53

Being uh being there's our clip with my fat face for next time.

Matt Fox 42:58

I wonder what the AI is gonna grab. Right. Listen, as a Christian man who was raised Catholic, I appreciate the fact that you're gonna do that. However, go out after it's tradition, yeah.

Jamie Flanagan 43:11

As is tradition, but the the you know and you drink water, it's one year, you know.

August Gitshlag 43:16

All right, so you're out for opening day. I can miss a party once. You're out for opening day, so you're telling me officially right now on the podcast. And I'm out on the parade, yeah. And you're out on the parade day, so you're missing two uh two high holidays of drunken obligation.

Matt Fox 43:27

Yes, you drunk every other day of the week, anyway.

SPEAKER_03 43:30

So can I tell you? Okay, let me tell you my my my my exposure penance my exposure to Catholicism was when I met my wife. And 40 Altar voice No, I didn't step back in these days.

August Gitshlag 43:44

Exposure and Catholicism in the same sentence is always weary.

Catholic Traditions And Wedding Prep

SPEAKER_03 43:47

Yeah, when yeah, when we got when we got engaged, my my you know, my wife and her mother are super Catholic, so I'm like, I don't really subscribe to anything. So they said, Well, we have to get married Catholic, so we have to start. To church, I'm like, oh, really? We have to do this. She goes, Yeah, probably about a year before the wedding. You should probably start attending every week, and we're gonna have to go and meet with the priest or else they won't let you, they won't marry because I'm not Catholic.

August Gitshlag 44:13

At your mom's at your bride's chosen church.

SPEAKER_03 44:17

That's my wife said, Okay, the first the first Sunday we I come in. I'm like, okay, let's just go. I know I have to do this. So we sit down, she goes, Oh, he's a new priest, he's kind of young, he's super cool. You'll you'll enjoy it. He walks out and I'm like I'm like, holy shit, I went to I went to grad school.

SPEAKER_05 44:35

Ah no kidding.

SPEAKER_03 44:38

We hung out this guy down at Elvins. All right, just getting ripped. Hey, so afterwards he comes up and he hugs me, and my my wife and her mother are like, What is going on here? I'm like, Oh, we're we're friends from way back. Welcome to Catholicism, brother. Here we go. Yeah, so I'm gonna be able to do that.

August Gitshlag 44:58

My dad talked about converting over and over again, but only to join the Knights of Columbus. He always thought that was a cool thing.

Matt Fox 45:04

Because he doesn't have a basement. No, he already got those hats.

August Gitshlag 45:07

They got the fantastic. But they're they're they're on the east side, east, you know, east side of Detroit, and east side's always it's very Catholic on the east side. Oh yeah. And the west side was the was the Protestants. It's like kind of the historical Detroit thing, you know. You're that you didn't get a raise at the or a promotion at the plant unless you had a Mason's ring on the west side or a Mexico Columbus ring on the east side. That was the 30s and you know, 20s, 30s, and you know, that's how it was uh before the war, and then everyone kind of got mingled, then they kind of shook everything up during the war. Everyone comes back and they, hey, I know a Jewish guy. Yeah, a foxhole, whatever potholes on the mind. We're in Michigan. We're in Michigan, so basically they're as deep as pot every time. It's every type of battle, yeah. Yeah, and they look like you know, I I watch these uh scenes trench war. Well, I watched the scenes of bombing of Iran and I envy the quality of the ropes.

SPEAKER_05 45:52

Yeah, after the after they're being bombed, yeah.

August Gitshlag 45:56

I mean, geez, but that he was gonna do it just to be a member of Knights of Columbus.

Jamie Flanagan 46:01

Oh my gosh. I'm a 30-year member of the Knights. Do you guys have a secret? So guilty Catholic Irish. Yeah, yeah, it's like, yeah, so that's yeah, that's the Irish boy, yeah, for sure. Wow, so well no, that was what because I went to U of M and Dearborn, and there was the O'Kelly Council over there in Dearborn. And uh one of my fraternity brothers bartended there, and so we'd go there and drink, and he's like, Oh, you guys gotta kind of join if you want to keep coming here drinking. So it's like a bunch of us joined.

August Gitshlag 46:30

That's how I joined them. The elks, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jamie Flanagan 46:32

If you want to keep coming here and drinking, you probably should you probably join. That was the thing with the elks, too. It's like yeah, I was seeing get Randy, a guy I work with, he bartended there, he's one of the officers, and we go and see him, he's like, Oh, you if you want to keep coming, you probably should join. All right, what the hell, you know. And it's a ch I I look at it as a charitable charitable donation. Sure, it's an annual friend, and then the drinks are reasonable compared to like anywhere else. It's like I like my I like drinking in my social clubs.

August Gitshlag 46:58

There ain't anything cheaper than drinking at fraternal organizations.

Jamie Flanagan 47:04

There are lots that is the cheat code for enjoyment.

Fraternal Clubs Cheap Drinks And Wrap

August Gitshlag 47:07

Yeah, they say some of the best dive bars you can ever go to are Polish century clubs in most cities.

Jamie Flanagan 47:11

Oh my god, yeah, yeah. Man, that was fun. Oh, thank you for the Polish Detroit City Distillery, Yezhanovka. It's a nice sip, isn't it? Urban, it's a nice sip.

August Gitshlag 47:23

I wish I had to go.

Matt Fox 47:25

I'm sorry, take this away from me, August. This one's not staying here.

August Gitshlag 47:28

I left you the Legion. I'm not leaving this one here. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's nice. That's staying. That was going up on my up on my shelf next to my Weiss Distilling Collection, yeah. And my what? Weiss distilling Weiss. I th I thought you said something else. I have Weiss, and I had to have to like rearrange that little. I have that. You haven't been to my house yet, but I have a like an old wooden wine rack. It's supposed to be for wine, but I put booze up on it. Oh, nice. It fits all the Weiss selections just perfectly. Nice. But now I gotta put, you know, I gotta put it's his altar. Chakra stuff up there, uh, I gotta put everyone's stuff up there. So it's an altar, yeah. And the only thing he praise too much.

Jamie Flanagan 48:02

I got my altar, you got yours.

August Gitshlag 48:03

My yeah, and my altar is has a instead of a Jesus on the cross, like you have, I have an autograph picture of Pierce Brosnan. Oh, that hangs over quite serious. That hangs over my my bar. You got me, you got me, you got me with Rosman, with the untied bow tie and the tuxedo just with the gun up from the bond gear, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. We're talking golden eye special. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's brilliant. Yes, that's what hangs over my my bar. All right, so uh and the pope. I do have the Pope's top baseball card, though. Oh when he's doing this, that there's a topps baseball card of the Pope when he got you know, he's got a big thing. You sure you're not a Catholic? I am Catholic, I'm a recovering Catholic. Okay, which which Pope? The American one, the new one.

Jamie Flanagan 48:42

Oh, all right.

August Gitshlag 48:42

Pope Jim Bob.

Jamie Flanagan 48:44

All right, yeah, yeah.

August Gitshlag 48:45

You know, the guy from Chicago, yeah, Chicago.

Jamie Flanagan 48:47

All right, they gave him a baseball card. Yeah, I love it.

August Gitshlag 48:50

They came up with a tops now card and I I grabbed it right away.

Jamie Flanagan 48:52

I love that.

August Gitshlag 48:53

And I gave some out as gifts.

Jamie Flanagan 48:54

That's so that's so much fun. Yeah, all right. All the podcast things in all the podcast places, yeah.

August Gitshlag 48:59

If you want to hear this kind of random bullshit again, uh it's probably one of the best maybe maybe one of the best episodes.

Matt Fox 49:06

Yeah. I had a lot of fun doing it. I'll tell you that. You know what? Thank you for the uh thank you for the sip, August. Yeah, no problem.

August Gitshlag 49:13

I'm gonna go home with a Yedi.

Matt Fox 49:17

Yep, yep. Let's uh let's uh hit that Yeshi.

August Gitshlag 49:19

Hit me, Mick. Hit me. So over there's gonna be like hitting you.

Matt Fox 49:22

Oh over there while while you're pouring, that's Jamie Flanagan way over there.

Jamie Flanagan 49:26

Uh doing the pours across the corner from me, August Kitchlag.

August Gitshlag 49:30

Start of the show here. And across from me, we are always welcoming the wonderful, the smartest guy in the room. For sure. David Wright, hypnotist right there.

SPEAKER_03 49:40

Okay, good.

Matt Fox 49:41

Yeah, don't mess with that guy over there.

SPEAKER_03 49:42

And then over there, sitting across diagonal from me is Matt Fox.

Matt Fox 49:47

David, I'm gonna see you in about 10 minutes on Mr.

SPEAKER_03 49:50

Foxy, a hole in one guy.

August Gitshlag 49:52

Yeah, seriously, work on hypnotizing him out of that Catholic thing.

Jamie Flanagan 49:54

All right, uh, don't don't yeah, so uh stay close to the uh Facebooks and YouTube's and podcast your voice and my Irish radio and cheers, man.

SPEAKER_05 50:06

Oh, yeah, Irish Radio.

Matt Fox 50:10

We almost got it.

August Gitshlag 50:12

We almost made it whole podcast without finger banging and Irish radio.

SPEAKER_05 50:20

Fucking the Irish. There you go.

Jamie Flanagan 50:22

All right, till next time, gentlemen, cheers, cheers, cheers, guys.