Memorial Day Special

June 01, 2026

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On this Memorial Day special the hosts Adam, Paul, and Jerry honor fallen heroes while tasting an array of bourbons — spotlighting the Evan Williams 250th single barrel — and pairing it with United Cigars’ Gold Star release that benefits veterans.

Expect laid-back conversation on whiskey notes, cigar construction and charities, plus shop talk on humidor care, bottle hunting, and the community moments that make a good pour and smoke worth sharing.

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WEBVTT 00:00:11.406 --> 00:00:14.346 You're listening to bourbon beards and 00:00:14.346 --> 00:00:17.806 velveteers the podcast where whiskey cigars 00:00:17.806 --> 00:00:23.586 and beard products aren't just a hobby they're a lifestyle hosted by adam paul 00:00:23.586 --> 00:00:29.446 and jerry three guys with real experience full beards and even fuller glasses 00:00:29.446 --> 00:00:34.446 each episode serves up thoughtful tastings laid-back cigar talk, 00:00:34.586 --> 00:00:38.046 and honest takes on beard gear and beyond. 00:00:38.546 --> 00:00:43.686 From top-shelf pours to everyday essentials, this is the place where conversations 00:00:43.686 --> 00:00:46.046 flow as smooth as the whiskey. 00:00:46.366 --> 00:00:50.766 So, pour a glass, light one up, and enjoy the ride. 00:00:50.926 --> 00:01:04.726 This is Bourbon Beards and Belvederes. We'll be right back. 00:01:07.946 --> 00:01:10.966 Welcome to Bourbon Beards and Belvederes, I'm Adam, and I'm Paul, 00:01:11.166 --> 00:01:15.526 and I'm Jerry, and this is our Memorial Day special. 00:01:15.906 --> 00:01:19.626 We're recording this a little bit before Memorial Day, but you know, 00:01:19.846 --> 00:01:21.506 it'll be out around Memorial Day. 00:01:22.166 --> 00:01:28.006 We just want to celebrate those who gave their lives for this country. 00:01:28.006 --> 00:01:33.806 We really appreciate their sacrifice and everything that they did and it'd be 00:01:33.806 --> 00:01:39.066 nice to say that nobody else is going to ever have to do that you know but even 00:01:39.066 --> 00:01:43.146 if that's the case we've still got this holiday to honor our fallen heroes from 00:01:43.146 --> 00:01:45.366 the past we do have a little bit of a, 00:01:45.966 --> 00:01:51.626 Memorial Day theme going on here with the smokes and the whiskey and we'll get 00:01:51.626 --> 00:01:55.186 to that in a minute but just like always we're starting with our palate warmer 00:01:55.186 --> 00:01:58.106 I'm going to go to Jerry What are you drinking? 00:01:58.586 --> 00:02:03.666 I went with the 10th Mountain bourbon. The 92 proof two-year. 00:02:04.946 --> 00:02:06.286 They're high corn. 00:02:07.817 --> 00:02:11.417 Pretty good right on well i 00:02:11.417 --> 00:02:14.377 grabbed the flak jacket the america 00:02:14.377 --> 00:02:17.777 first whiskey we had this on a while ago the trump 00:02:17.777 --> 00:02:20.757 special that's right mgp juice 00:02:20.757 --> 00:02:23.457 the cork i grabbed it out of the back 00:02:23.457 --> 00:02:28.937 of the cabinet i haven't touched it in a while the cork is extremely loose so 00:02:28.937 --> 00:02:33.997 i was nervous that it was going to be you know oxygenated or whatever and kind 00:02:33.997 --> 00:02:38.737 of tastes funky tastes sweeter than i remember but i haven't had it in a while 00:02:38.737 --> 00:02:41.657 so i don't know if some of that alcohol kind of, 00:02:42.517 --> 00:02:46.617 vaporized out of there and it's just sweeter now but either way it's it's good 00:02:46.617 --> 00:02:50.277 i remember being good when we had it what a year ago or a year and a half ago 00:02:50.277 --> 00:02:51.997 on the show but it's been poor, 00:02:52.617 --> 00:02:59.217 has it been that long since we had that on here i think it came out in around 00:02:59.217 --> 00:03:03.577 the i thought it came out around the election right 2024 you might be right 00:03:03.577 --> 00:03:05.677 you might be right shit that's, 00:03:06.677 --> 00:03:11.757 that's crazy okay well time's getting away from me i guess the older i get not 00:03:11.757 --> 00:03:18.737 only does it move faster but i forget faster as well so but you know might be 00:03:18.737 --> 00:03:22.057 good for my enemies maybe i'll forget why we're enemies or maybe i'll forget 00:03:22.057 --> 00:03:23.097 who they are all together. 00:03:24.291 --> 00:03:27.811 Anyway, I went with some Blantons. 00:03:28.351 --> 00:03:34.271 I had to pick a bottle up the other day. Not something I typically really hunt if I see it. 00:03:34.651 --> 00:03:38.211 And I don't see anything else in the store that I want. And I can get it for 00:03:38.211 --> 00:03:40.291 a reasonable price. I'll go ahead and grab it. 00:03:41.431 --> 00:03:45.451 You know, I hunted it for a while like everybody else for the cork stave. 00:03:46.031 --> 00:03:50.251 And that's, I've had mine for a few years now. So it's not something I typically 00:03:50.251 --> 00:03:56.791 pick up. But it is kind of one of those quintessential bottles that people typically 00:03:56.791 --> 00:03:58.991 have in a bourbon collection. 00:03:59.551 --> 00:04:03.471 And I had been without a bottle of Blantons for a number of years. 00:04:03.631 --> 00:04:07.151 So I figured why not go ahead and grab one, stick it up there on that shelf 00:04:07.151 --> 00:04:08.411 and hardly ever touch it. 00:04:08.471 --> 00:04:12.431 And then I don't have to worry about picking them up again for a while. I mean, it's bourbon. 00:04:13.431 --> 00:04:18.271 That's nothing special. You know, people hunt them for the staves and the bottle 00:04:18.271 --> 00:04:20.771 and think a little bit of the perception. 00:04:21.851 --> 00:04:26.531 You know, that comes along with having one or two in your collection. 00:04:27.191 --> 00:04:32.111 I do enjoy it when I drink it, but it doesn't blow my socks off or anything like that. 00:04:32.531 --> 00:04:35.891 But it's got all those notes you're looking for. It's nice and, 00:04:36.071 --> 00:04:38.111 you know, there's some sweetness. 00:04:38.191 --> 00:04:40.991 There's some leather. There's some oak. 00:04:41.271 --> 00:04:46.051 It's pleasant on the palate. So always pleased, but never excited. 00:04:46.731 --> 00:04:51.871 Now, if I get my hands on some straight from the barrel, that might be a different 00:04:51.871 --> 00:04:53.891 situation. I've never had the opportunity to try that. 00:04:55.671 --> 00:05:02.731 And this being as good as it is, I would imagine barrel-proof Blanton's would 00:05:02.731 --> 00:05:05.771 probably be pretty freaking tasty. 00:05:06.411 --> 00:05:08.471 Have you guys ever had the opportunity to try that? 00:05:09.231 --> 00:05:11.411 It's definitely better. Yeah. 00:05:13.308 --> 00:05:20.488 I hadn't found a bottle that was a reasonable price, but I had a sample size to me. 00:05:21.288 --> 00:05:25.128 I remember thinking when I was drinking the sample, like, oh, 00:05:25.188 --> 00:05:28.868 this actually might be worth close to that secondary price. 00:05:29.188 --> 00:05:34.648 And then, you know, it's just tough to pay secondary, especially anymore when 00:05:34.648 --> 00:05:37.668 a lot of things are, as we were talking about before we started recording, 00:05:37.968 --> 00:05:41.888 a lot of things are coming back out of allocation and things like that. 00:05:41.888 --> 00:05:47.488 It's just going to be some special bottles, I think, that are going to stay in the secondary world. 00:05:47.788 --> 00:05:52.688 But a lot of the stuff over the last four or five years that we've seen sell 00:05:52.688 --> 00:06:00.548 for, you know, three to 10 X of MSRP are now thrown out on the shelves at some 00:06:00.548 --> 00:06:02.588 of the big box stores as unallegated. 00:06:02.808 --> 00:06:06.668 So the ship is finally writing itself. Yeah. 00:06:08.168 --> 00:06:11.228 Kind of kind of backtracking a little bit on what you were saying there, 00:06:11.328 --> 00:06:14.048 Paul. You know, you got a sample. You haven't found a bottle. 00:06:14.568 --> 00:06:19.588 While you're here on that Saturday night, after the tours are done, 00:06:20.248 --> 00:06:22.608 I'm going to take you to Jake's cigar bar. 00:06:22.848 --> 00:06:26.768 Jerry and I went there when he came in the last time. 00:06:27.448 --> 00:06:31.608 And you'll get to see, I mean, you'll get to see what we've been talking about, 00:06:31.608 --> 00:06:35.088 at least. It's really nice. They've got a massive walk-in humidor. 00:06:35.848 --> 00:06:40.528 Again, bottle shelves that go up so high, They've got a library ladder that 00:06:40.528 --> 00:06:45.108 zooms across and they've got a bunch of shit. I got it. And it's really nice in there. 00:06:45.468 --> 00:06:49.528 Um, they take good care of it, you know, so we'll go check that out. 00:06:49.648 --> 00:06:52.528 I'm sure there's some stuff in there that we can find to, to try, 00:06:52.868 --> 00:06:54.968 you know, but so that'd be a good time. 00:06:55.068 --> 00:06:59.428 But yeah, I would, I would definitely like to, I definitely hope to find a bottle 00:06:59.428 --> 00:07:02.488 of the straight from the barrel at some point, but if I don't, I don't. 00:07:05.141 --> 00:07:11.101 All right, so this sample, I'm very excited about. 00:07:11.801 --> 00:07:18.781 Despite its bottom shelf image, not necessarily this, but the namesake at least, 00:07:19.561 --> 00:07:21.461 it remains one of my favorite whiskeys. 00:07:21.801 --> 00:07:26.561 The whole line, pretty much, from the true bottom shelf or all the way through 00:07:26.561 --> 00:07:27.821 some of the more expensive versions. 00:07:29.261 --> 00:07:33.661 I really, really like this, but I've not had this one. So, Paul, tell us what it is. 00:07:34.641 --> 00:07:38.521 It is this, the Evan Williams 250th single barrel. 00:07:39.581 --> 00:07:48.121 Heaven Hill put out these 250th labels on 1793, the original single barrel, 00:07:48.301 --> 00:07:52.421 which is what, like 86.9 or 86.6 proof? 00:07:52.701 --> 00:07:55.281 Which is now their regular single barrel. 00:07:55.901 --> 00:07:58.701 And then this kind of special release. 00:08:01.561 --> 00:08:08.981 $117.76. It's kind of a play to $17.76 for $250. It's got a nice blue wax all the way down the neck. 00:08:09.561 --> 00:08:16.581 They are donating $75,000 from this release, which, by the way, 00:08:16.641 --> 00:08:19.001 there's only a 250-barrel release for this single barrel. 00:08:19.361 --> 00:08:25.281 So if you see it, grab it, because it's not expensive. It was like $40, $45, I think. 00:08:25.921 --> 00:08:33.281 But they are earning $75,000 for Folds of Honor, which provides educational 00:08:33.281 --> 00:08:36.001 scholarships to the family members of fallen or disabled U.S. 00:08:36.081 --> 00:08:37.561 Service members that are first responders. 00:08:38.561 --> 00:08:44.341 Nice. So giving a little bit back to some good charities, and that's what we'd like to see. 00:08:44.721 --> 00:08:51.501 But, yeah, so this is 58.88% alcohol, 7 to 9 years, unblended. 00:08:51.501 --> 00:08:56.261 It says, individually numbered, making it selectable, and premium expression. 00:08:56.701 --> 00:09:06.281 This one was barreled on December 17th of 2018 and bottled on February 19th of 2026. 00:09:06.801 --> 00:09:11.541 And it says, barrel number six, seven. Ugh. 00:09:13.174 --> 00:09:18.394 Yeah, I got it. It's just gross. I got a 10-year-old. I hear it all too much. 00:09:18.954 --> 00:09:22.374 Yeah, I banned that shit in my house, and I banned it in my dojo. 00:09:22.574 --> 00:09:24.654 I won't let those kids say it either. 00:09:27.394 --> 00:09:30.754 Doom have, as I said, there's three releases to commemorate 250. 00:09:31.154 --> 00:09:35.074 It's the black label, which is just their bottom shelf, or an 86 proof. 00:09:35.814 --> 00:09:38.474 The 175s of that are at the normal price of $25. 00:09:39.694 --> 00:09:43.094 The juice inside is still the same. It's just got the cool red, white, and blue label. 00:09:43.914 --> 00:09:49.554 That would be the regular single barrel that Adam's holding up that is 90 proof 00:09:49.554 --> 00:09:51.474 I thought it was like 86, oh no no sorry, 00:09:52.074 --> 00:09:57.534 it's 86.6 yeah but I was wrong it's not, they don't have the red white and blue 00:09:57.534 --> 00:10:01.034 on that one they have it on the 70.83 which is the 90 proof, 00:10:01.948 --> 00:10:09.188 And those MSRP for $24 for a bottle were $38 for $175. And the $175s in both 00:10:09.188 --> 00:10:14.228 the 1783 and the black label, they look really cool because it's a big bottle 00:10:14.228 --> 00:10:15.248 with this new color scheme. 00:10:15.728 --> 00:10:19.288 But they don't have the wax dip. Only the single barrel at $117, 00:10:19.288 --> 00:10:21.928 $176 has the cool blue wax. 00:10:22.368 --> 00:10:27.228 And it's one of the higher proofs that it is the highest proof that Heaven Hill 00:10:27.228 --> 00:10:31.448 puts out as, call it standard release, even though this is a commemorative release, but. 00:10:31.948 --> 00:10:35.048 Most of their stuff doesn't get up that high until you start getting into some 00:10:35.048 --> 00:10:37.688 of the premium stuff. I don't think Evan Williams, anything, 00:10:37.708 --> 00:10:38.968 gets up that high, to be honest. 00:10:39.588 --> 00:10:45.848 So it's nice to taste this line at a higher proof, unfiltered. 00:10:46.868 --> 00:10:49.728 Yeah, I had a four when I got it. 00:10:50.088 --> 00:10:56.108 Just see if I like it because I'm not Evan Williams hater, but sort of Evan 00:10:56.108 --> 00:10:58.028 Hill hater. I love Evan Williams. 00:10:58.828 --> 00:11:04.508 Fondant that's one of my go-to you know like 100 cheap old-fashioned poor type of deal, 00:11:05.048 --> 00:11:10.188 good whiskey but i don't tend to you know gravitate towards a lot of the heaven 00:11:10.188 --> 00:11:14.128 hell stuff like something to do so pick this up i tried it i thought it was 00:11:14.128 --> 00:11:18.568 pretty damn good so sampling it out to you guys haven't had it since i bought 00:11:18.568 --> 00:11:21.788 it i don't know when we started talking about doing this episode because we 00:11:21.788 --> 00:11:24.868 needed something the theme this is the first thing that popped in my head, 00:11:24.888 --> 00:11:28.128 so I know I saw it on the shelf previously and didn't buy it, 00:11:28.208 --> 00:11:30.948 so went out and bought it, and I'm glad I did, 00:11:31.088 --> 00:11:35.528 because it's pretty damn good, and I think people are just walking right by 00:11:35.528 --> 00:11:40.928 it, normal liquor store goers, and I assume they're probably just thinking, 00:11:41.108 --> 00:11:43.748 oh, they just put red, white, and blue labels on it, but they don't realize 00:11:43.748 --> 00:11:47.048 that it's commemorative, and it's got a different group and that kind of thing, 00:11:47.128 --> 00:11:51.808 so it's sitting on shelves around me, so I'll probably pick up another one. 00:11:53.162 --> 00:11:59.942 I can't get it anywhere within 60 miles of the total wine that I shot. 00:12:00.542 --> 00:12:04.442 So if you wouldn't mind to grab one for me, I would very much appreciate that. 00:12:04.942 --> 00:12:06.902 Yeah. Taste it first. You might hate it. 00:12:07.662 --> 00:12:11.462 Oh, I guarantee I won't. I've never had an Edward Williams that I didn't like. 00:12:11.582 --> 00:12:13.582 And I can already tell by the nose. 00:12:14.962 --> 00:12:19.922 I'm getting that savory note that I like so much. A little bit of sweet in there. It's dark, too. 00:12:20.182 --> 00:12:26.022 I mean, it's much darker. like almost like an amber color than uh that most 00:12:26.022 --> 00:12:27.642 of the mollum stuff you see so, 00:12:28.302 --> 00:12:32.362 oh god that is good wow 00:12:32.362 --> 00:12:36.002 that's a brown sugar bomb brown 00:12:36.002 --> 00:12:41.822 sugar still some fruitiness in there that i get i like i pick up off of the 00:12:41.822 --> 00:12:48.242 white label a lot there's that hint of hint of cherry that you get off of you 00:12:48.242 --> 00:12:51.522 know at least the white label stuff i don't i can't recall when i've had a green 00:12:51.522 --> 00:12:52.842 label or a black label, to be honest, 00:12:53.002 --> 00:12:57.782 so it might be in there, too, in a lower proof, but the white label is in some 00:12:57.782 --> 00:13:00.542 kind of regular rotation in my house, so, 00:13:01.902 --> 00:13:04.482 if you like the white label, you're going to think this is fantastic. 00:13:05.182 --> 00:13:09.882 Jerry and I can both vouch for the fact that the notes in here are in the red 00:13:09.882 --> 00:13:14.822 label, you know, the 12-year, the 100-proof, because we both picked up a bottle 00:13:14.822 --> 00:13:18.642 of that when we were at the... But there's another one, the Distiller's Choice. 00:13:20.102 --> 00:13:24.282 Really good. It's really good. There's some of the notes that I'm getting in 00:13:24.282 --> 00:13:26.082 this one that I don't get in that one. 00:13:27.382 --> 00:13:33.042 But I think that one's distillery exclusive and very much worth going to get 00:13:33.042 --> 00:13:39.282 one because the Emma Williams experience is fucking awesome. I've been twice. 00:13:40.962 --> 00:13:44.222 And you get to taste everything. You don't get to taste this, 00:13:44.302 --> 00:13:47.042 but you get to taste all the rest of it. You might if you go now. 00:13:47.562 --> 00:13:51.962 This just came out, I want to say, within the last 10 days or something like that. 00:13:54.027 --> 00:13:58.467 But, yeah, no, it's pretty damn good. And I don't have MSRP. 00:13:58.527 --> 00:14:00.147 I can't remember, but I think it's like $40. 00:14:01.007 --> 00:14:06.187 Yeah, somewhere around there. So you can't go wrong with that. No kidding. Yeah. 00:14:06.907 --> 00:14:11.527 And like I said, I mean, it's that cool blue color, you know, 00:14:11.567 --> 00:14:14.867 that kind of grayish dull blue. 00:14:15.167 --> 00:14:17.907 Just looks cool on the bottle. When that first hit the shelf, 00:14:18.027 --> 00:14:20.167 how many people do you think thought it was the 23-year? 00:14:21.747 --> 00:14:27.487 Probably and saw the $39.99 and was like ah it's just a red white label for the $250, 00:14:28.227 --> 00:14:32.927 didn't read that that is actually something pretty special in that bottle so 00:14:32.927 --> 00:14:37.507 I'm not going to tell anybody around here I'm just going to keep buying myself 00:14:37.507 --> 00:14:38.987 and I'll get you a bottle out of it. 00:14:39.047 --> 00:14:42.847 You picked up a bottle Jerry or you said you have it around you though right? 00:14:43.067 --> 00:14:49.107 Yeah I can get it around me I'm impressed I like this one you said I'll definitely 00:14:49.107 --> 00:14:50.627 be getting it Another one. 00:14:51.347 --> 00:14:53.107 Yeah, this is great. 00:14:54.087 --> 00:14:59.807 The nose is fantastic, but the palate is just, like I said, brown sugar. There's oak. 00:14:59.987 --> 00:15:02.347 There's some fruitiness in there. 00:15:02.647 --> 00:15:05.927 The only place that I get that's savory is on the nose. 00:15:06.027 --> 00:15:09.067 I don't get it on the palate at all, but this is, 00:15:09.307 --> 00:15:15.307 I wish that they would release it at at least, you know, a similar proof if 00:15:15.307 --> 00:15:22.687 they're not going to do the, you know, 117 or whatever the hell it was as 117.6, right? 00:15:24.229 --> 00:15:30.049 76. 76. 117.76. So it's like 117.76. Yeah. 00:15:30.629 --> 00:15:33.629 They're not going to release you with that proof all the time. 00:15:34.129 --> 00:15:39.509 You know, 115, something like that. Seems like a nice round number to me. 00:15:40.249 --> 00:15:43.029 115 proof. Adam Williams single barrel. 00:15:44.669 --> 00:15:47.949 That seems doable for a giant distillery. 00:15:48.549 --> 00:15:52.509 Especially when we're kind of, the bubble's kind of bursting as we were talking 00:15:52.509 --> 00:15:57.449 about and things are tending to sit on shelves, maybe keep the water out of 00:15:57.449 --> 00:16:00.449 some of these expressions and let us have a little bit of higher proof. 00:16:01.129 --> 00:16:08.649 Hell, we're only seven years away from Heaven Hills and Heaven Williams' 250th anniversary. 00:16:09.549 --> 00:16:15.449 Their first licensed distiller in Kentucky in 1783, hence the bottle that we 00:16:15.449 --> 00:16:17.529 were just talking about is Heaven Williams' 1783. 00:16:17.809 --> 00:16:21.369 So the seven years, and they'll be having their own little special release, 00:16:21.369 --> 00:16:25.789 hopefully for their company's 250th, which is crazy to think about. 00:16:26.129 --> 00:16:31.029 That is oddly my least favorite of their lineup is a 1783. 00:16:31.689 --> 00:16:37.629 Don't know why. I think it's just right there same price point as the bottom 00:16:37.629 --> 00:16:41.729 bond and you get 10 more proof points and I don't get that. 00:16:43.305 --> 00:16:46.765 Hint of cherry that I get out of the bottom bond so it's, 00:16:47.405 --> 00:16:52.425 it's it's you know 10 points lower for the same price I'm going to grab the 00:16:52.425 --> 00:16:59.005 bottom bond every time the Evan Williams bottom bond 175 is in my mind one of 00:16:59.005 --> 00:17:04.585 the best values on the market I mean that it's you know it's incredible, 00:17:05.585 --> 00:17:12.525 urban at 100 proof you know big ass 175 and you can get it for I get it for 00:17:12.525 --> 00:17:18.245 26 bucks yeah it's like 30 around me but it's yeah and still it's like. 00:17:19.285 --> 00:17:22.425 It's it's two two bottles plus 00:17:22.425 --> 00:17:25.305 a couple extra pours in a 175 think about 00:17:25.305 --> 00:17:28.205 it that way you're getting it for 30 bucks you're paying 00:17:28.205 --> 00:17:31.505 less than 15 dollars a bottle that's right and 00:17:31.505 --> 00:17:34.345 yeah and it gets on the fridge door for 00:17:34.345 --> 00:17:37.285 me a lot of times for old fashions you know 00:17:37.285 --> 00:17:39.945 you keep it cold and that ice doesn't dilute it 00:17:39.945 --> 00:17:44.065 100 proofs pretty that's probably as low as i'll go to make it an old-fashioned 00:17:44.065 --> 00:17:48.605 is under proof as long as the whiskey's cold first so that ice doesn't start 00:17:48.605 --> 00:17:54.765 diluting it too quickly but yeah this one is a little step up above that i think 00:17:54.765 --> 00:17:59.025 oh shit this is on a different staircase we talking about, 00:17:59.525 --> 00:18:06.745 this is amazing jerry you've been largely quiet over there probably because 00:18:06.745 --> 00:18:09.445 of my long-winded ass so I'm going to shut up. 00:18:10.005 --> 00:18:16.065 No, it's that vanilla, brown sugar. Get a little bit of that cherry in there, 00:18:16.205 --> 00:18:18.985 maybe some leather or tobacco in there. 00:18:19.305 --> 00:18:21.885 And the palate, or the nose just carries over on the palate. 00:18:23.842 --> 00:18:28.282 And it's going great with this cigar, too. So, full disclosure, 00:18:28.282 --> 00:18:33.042 before you tell us about the cigar, I got a little bit confused on my days because 00:18:33.042 --> 00:18:36.662 you guys recorded on Sunday without me. Again, my apologies. 00:18:37.242 --> 00:18:42.502 The comedian ran over whatever. Anyway, I smoked. 00:18:42.702 --> 00:18:46.882 I didn't realize until I went to look for the damn thing, but I smoked it because 00:18:46.882 --> 00:18:51.342 I thought that's what you guys were smoking on Sunday. I got my shit all confused. 00:18:52.322 --> 00:18:58.822 So anyway, go ahead and tell her, I'll go last and tell everybody what I thought about it. 00:18:59.082 --> 00:19:08.922 So this is United Cigars Gold Star, but it's their limited edition from 2000 or what, 2024? 00:19:10.822 --> 00:19:17.122 It's a 6x54 Toro, Ecuadorian Habano wrapper, Sumatra binder, 00:19:17.842 --> 00:19:20.802 Connecticut broadleaf and Dominican fillers. 00:19:21.342 --> 00:19:25.182 There was 210 boxes of 20 produced. 00:19:25.662 --> 00:19:31.102 25 of those were set aside so they could be signed by active and retired Navy SEALs. 00:19:31.422 --> 00:19:35.742 Those boxes were then sold at auction to raise money for Navy SEAL Museum, 00:19:36.082 --> 00:19:38.722 Trident House Charities, and Swim With Emission. 00:19:39.942 --> 00:19:44.562 United Cigars put this out at, not this exact one, but they put a Gold Star 00:19:44.562 --> 00:19:51.682 out as a core release right about the same time this came out. So you can get them. 00:19:51.822 --> 00:19:54.742 It's just not going to be with the charity backing with them. 00:19:55.202 --> 00:19:59.262 I mean, I want to say these were about 20 bucks each. 00:20:00.022 --> 00:20:03.602 At least that's what they said SRP was. I don't remember what I picked it up. 00:20:03.782 --> 00:20:08.982 I picked these up last year before this episode, and they came in like a week 00:20:08.982 --> 00:20:13.222 after we recorded a Memorial Day episode. So I sat on them for a year. 00:20:14.982 --> 00:20:17.022 It's smoking great. A lot of smoke. 00:20:19.900 --> 00:20:23.560 Ton of smoke it started off for me just one 00:20:23.560 --> 00:20:27.340 note kind of i was kind of not looking 00:20:27.340 --> 00:20:30.380 forward to going past the first couple puffs but 00:20:30.380 --> 00:20:33.180 once you get into that first third it starts 00:20:33.180 --> 00:20:36.860 to open up a lot more you get like earthy you 00:20:36.860 --> 00:20:42.980 know it's medium i would say yeah i wouldn't say mild medium or medium plus 00:20:42.980 --> 00:20:47.900 it's like right there center of the mark medium i think some earthy notes definitely 00:20:47.900 --> 00:20:52.260 at first I was just getting like tobacco I was just like this is just one note 00:20:52.260 --> 00:20:56.620 playing but after I got through the first half venture so it definitely, 00:20:57.140 --> 00:21:02.980 was more enjoyable it was like wood note in there like an oaky note but it's 00:21:02.980 --> 00:21:07.140 definitely earthy tobacco there's a little spice to it too I was saying the 00:21:07.140 --> 00:21:09.000 spice kicks up definitely after that, 00:21:09.540 --> 00:21:14.360 so I'm enjoying it now and it helps having a nice pour going with it too. 00:21:15.360 --> 00:21:18.300 They're carrying pretty nicely together as well it kind 00:21:18.300 --> 00:21:21.820 of dries has a drying effect on the 00:21:21.820 --> 00:21:24.680 whiskey for me but it's good I do it 00:21:24.680 --> 00:21:34.600 cool band too yeah I agree the band is really really cool I when I smoked it 00:21:34.600 --> 00:21:40.920 had it with not a big pour but a little bit of this new riff that we had on 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:44.180 a couple episodes ago because, 00:21:45.060 --> 00:21:49.620 this is fucking incredible and it worked really well with that. 00:21:49.780 --> 00:21:53.900 It actually helped improve the sweetness of the whiskey a little bit, 00:21:53.900 --> 00:21:59.820 but the spice kind of from the cigar, it added a nice juxtaposition to that. Yeah. 00:22:01.445 --> 00:22:08.325 Take forever i mean it's what'd you say the measurements were six by sixty six by 54 okay 00:22:08.765 --> 00:22:14.465 yeah i mean a six inch cigar i mean depending on how it smokes and how much 00:22:14.465 --> 00:22:18.705 attention you pay to it it can take a while or it can you know not take all 00:22:18.705 --> 00:22:22.785 that long and that one it didn't require a whole lot of attention i didn't have 00:22:22.785 --> 00:22:25.525 to fuck with it and do a whole lot of maintenance and it 00:22:25.805 --> 00:22:28.565 smoked evenly pretty much the 00:22:28.565 --> 00:22:31.945 whole way through nice nice i don't 00:22:31.945 --> 00:22:35.185 know what the word i'm looking for not you know i guess even burn 00:22:35.185 --> 00:22:37.965 well when you say even burn generally you're talking about 00:22:37.965 --> 00:22:41.945 the burn line but what i mean is it it didn't smoke way too fast it didn't take 00:22:41.945 --> 00:22:46.105 way too fucking long it was right in that sweet spot in between where it was 00:22:46.105 --> 00:22:52.945 just smoking great the whole way through it never took away from the whiskey 00:22:52.945 --> 00:22:56.545 this is this is what i started out with And I took my time with the whiskey. 00:22:56.685 --> 00:22:59.525 So I got through two thirds of the cigar with this. 00:23:00.185 --> 00:23:03.465 And then I switched it up to some OGD 114. 00:23:04.285 --> 00:23:07.265 And it didn't really ever take away from any of the whiskeys. 00:23:07.425 --> 00:23:10.525 And none of the, neither of the whiskeys took away from the cigar, 00:23:10.785 --> 00:23:12.925 which is pretty much what you want. 00:23:13.625 --> 00:23:20.245 Excuse me. And then, you know, great backstory for the thing and all that good stuff. 00:23:20.245 --> 00:23:26.325 And I'll agree that it was right in that medium-ish area. There were times when 00:23:26.325 --> 00:23:30.385 I thought maybe it was a little on the lighter side and times when I felt like 00:23:30.385 --> 00:23:32.025 maybe it was a little on the darker side. 00:23:32.205 --> 00:23:37.225 But it always stayed right there in that middle point right there. 00:23:37.425 --> 00:23:39.725 So overall, it was a great cigar for me. 00:23:40.465 --> 00:23:45.885 And, you know, I'd love to get my hands on another one or the 2025 edition or 00:23:45.885 --> 00:23:49.065 whatever the hell and see how they compare. 00:23:49.065 --> 00:23:59.365 I believe I don't know where is it there it is you can still get some on twoguyscigars.com 00:23:59.365 --> 00:24:02.445 okay yeah like I said 20 bucks. 00:24:04.930 --> 00:24:08.330 Good one it's it's definitely a medium typically like 00:24:08.330 --> 00:24:11.150 a little bit a little bit more but at smoking 00:24:11.150 --> 00:24:14.070 great it's a nice earthy a little 00:24:14.070 --> 00:24:16.870 bit of spiciness it brings a lot of spice out of the evan williams for 00:24:16.870 --> 00:24:19.490 me yeah once you 00:24:19.490 --> 00:24:22.630 get into the second third that spice picks up a lot 00:24:22.630 --> 00:24:25.450 makes it much more enjoyable the first third is more 00:24:25.450 --> 00:24:28.410 lighter medium light but once you 00:24:28.410 --> 00:24:31.550 get past that first half inch or 00:24:31.550 --> 00:24:34.950 so it definitely smokes it brings 00:24:34.950 --> 00:24:41.110 out some more flavors and it's great burn line ton of smoke yeah if I didn't 00:24:41.110 --> 00:24:45.750 have my exhaust fan pulling and my spot cooler blowing AC all around the shed 00:24:45.750 --> 00:24:49.330 that I'm sitting in it would just I mean I'm sure that you would have seen it 00:24:49.330 --> 00:24:53.890 it's a ton of smoke great draw and yeah it's enjoyable, 00:24:54.750 --> 00:24:58.330 what was that website again Jerry two guys, 00:24:59.250 --> 00:25:05.650 and then And ironically, as I was setting up, I just set up to record this and 00:25:05.650 --> 00:25:08.310 went on to Instagram to kind of look at the notifications. 00:25:09.090 --> 00:25:13.530 And United Cigars was live on Instagram, so I sat there and watched it for a minute. 00:25:14.110 --> 00:25:19.430 They have a new release coming out soon called The Firecracker, I believe. 00:25:19.770 --> 00:25:22.210 And it comes in 12 count tens. 00:25:23.190 --> 00:25:27.650 And on one side it says Home of the Brave and on the other side Upside Down. 00:25:27.990 --> 00:25:29.870 Actually, they're both Upside Down. 00:25:30.390 --> 00:25:33.650 Says land of the free. That's because when you take the cigars out, 00:25:33.690 --> 00:25:38.190 flip it upside down, you put notches in the tin, and it's an ashtray. 00:25:38.790 --> 00:25:42.230 Oh, nice. So, let's see if I get... 00:25:42.750 --> 00:25:47.630 And then they're little like small little cigars with... There you go. 00:25:55.409 --> 00:25:58.369 That's badass that's it flipped upside 00:25:58.369 --> 00:26:01.129 down so you have a little ashtray and on the other side it says 00:26:01.129 --> 00:26:05.669 home of the the brave that's yeah that's definitely cool i'm gonna have to get 00:26:05.669 --> 00:26:09.349 one of those just for the tin and then i don't know how much that's coming through 00:26:09.349 --> 00:26:15.429 but you got your little fuse on the uh that's awesome yeah so and it's cool 00:26:15.429 --> 00:26:20.229 little little band uh yeah looks like fireworks Yep. 00:26:21.029 --> 00:26:23.849 So, yeah, those are going to be 3.5x50. 00:26:25.289 --> 00:26:31.509 A Bono wrapper grown in Mexico covering a Dominican binder and Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers. 00:26:31.849 --> 00:26:36.869 Each cigar has an SRP of $9 and is packaged in a 12-count tin, 00:26:36.869 --> 00:26:41.169 but they don't say how much the tin is. Probably... 00:26:43.765 --> 00:26:48.965 There's a picture of the tin normal. Yeah. So it's pretty sweet. 00:26:49.045 --> 00:26:51.445 Pretty sweet little setup he's got going there. 00:26:52.185 --> 00:26:54.965 So yeah, definitely be keeping an eye out for those and seeing. 00:26:55.365 --> 00:26:58.585 I'll grab some of those. Yeah, it's a good one. 00:27:00.405 --> 00:27:03.325 Good cigar and a good... Yeah, celebrate Memorial Day. 00:27:04.185 --> 00:27:11.105 Yeah, I mean, cheers to those that gave for us, right? Yeah. 00:27:11.285 --> 00:27:12.565 That's what it's all about. 00:27:13.765 --> 00:27:17.985 It's not about whiskey, it's not about cigars, it's about, it's about those 00:27:17.985 --> 00:27:22.385 that gave their lives so that we can live free in the greatest country on the planet. 00:27:23.545 --> 00:27:28.345 Absolutely. And I really got to give them a, ooh, I really got to give them 00:27:28.345 --> 00:27:32.725 a thanks because this is, this is a great way to, to, to live right here. 00:27:32.905 --> 00:27:38.565 But I picked up a nice citrus note in there that time that I hadn't gotten first. 00:27:38.565 --> 00:27:41.225 It just kind of slid in on the backside. 00:27:42.865 --> 00:27:46.105 That's that's nice that's they i 00:27:46.105 --> 00:27:48.925 mean they they could have something there they could sell that 00:27:48.925 --> 00:27:52.105 bottle like a tater bottle it's it's 00:27:52.105 --> 00:27:58.385 that good i think yeah i had this at a we do that we do weekly bottle share 00:27:58.385 --> 00:28:03.745 here and someone brought it was it last weekend weekend before so i tried it 00:28:03.745 --> 00:28:09.065 thought it was really good i don't know which barrel or anything but definitely 00:28:09.065 --> 00:28:10.185 thought it It was a lot better, well, 00:28:10.525 --> 00:28:12.925 it was better than the Bottle and Bond. 00:28:13.825 --> 00:28:18.425 I could see that. I mean, it's a different animal than the Bottle and Bond. Yeah. 00:28:18.925 --> 00:28:25.425 Because it's, you know, 17 plus proof points higher, and it's a single barrel. 00:28:27.065 --> 00:28:30.745 But, I mean, I think Heaven Hill's got it down pat enough now, 00:28:30.885 --> 00:28:33.045 at this point in their existence, 00:28:33.785 --> 00:28:37.885 that they can pretty much send out as many single barrels as they want, 00:28:37.885 --> 00:28:41.345 and they're going to taste fairly similar to the other single barrels that they 00:28:41.345 --> 00:28:43.305 sent down. It's going to matter, Doug. 00:28:47.655 --> 00:28:52.875 Because it's on a regular basis for Tinkerbell. I just want to be a product to put on that too. 00:28:54.035 --> 00:28:58.235 Plenty of ways to make people happy if they want to pivot and do something different 00:28:58.235 --> 00:29:02.475 that they haven't been doing as a regular offering. 00:29:03.115 --> 00:29:07.755 And I wish they would because this is shit. I wish they would release this at 00:29:07.755 --> 00:29:11.075 a similar proof point at the same price. 00:29:12.175 --> 00:29:18.775 And I'd buy that before I'd buy a whole lot of the higher proof burdens that are out there. So. 00:29:21.242 --> 00:29:27.502 The 80, then 90, the 100. Let's get a 115 out there tomorrow. Why not? Why not? 00:29:29.082 --> 00:29:33.442 Come on, Heaven Hill. You know the game. What color's left? The blue label's 00:29:33.442 --> 00:29:35.022 taken, the red label's taken. 00:29:35.522 --> 00:29:38.102 Green label. Black. Black label's taken. 00:29:40.182 --> 00:29:45.582 So, let's see. Orange, purple. Yellow. Yeah, yellow label. 00:29:46.042 --> 00:29:47.942 Well, probably shouldn't do yellow. 00:29:48.102 --> 00:29:50.942 Yellow usually is an indication that there's honey involved, right? 00:29:52.202 --> 00:29:57.142 Hey, do a red, white, and blue label. There you go. There you go. All year. 00:29:57.842 --> 00:30:03.602 Yeah. Shelfer. That's right. It's Evan Williams for crying out loud. 00:30:03.782 --> 00:30:08.162 He's one of the most recognizable names in American whiskey. 00:30:08.322 --> 00:30:10.202 Why not do a red, white, and blue label? 00:30:12.282 --> 00:30:17.922 I mean, produce it. Put it at 115 proof and put it out at that. 00:30:17.922 --> 00:30:20.682 And you know every year if you want to do the 00:30:20.682 --> 00:30:24.862 single barrel at at 117.76 proof 00:30:24.862 --> 00:30:28.242 to continue this situation that's 00:30:28.242 --> 00:30:31.442 fine with me too just make it more widely developed i should be able to go buy 00:30:31.442 --> 00:30:37.822 that shit yeah steal the old forester the the years of the old forester barrels 00:30:37.822 --> 00:30:43.482 you got the 1793 now this is the evan williams 1776 at 115 proof all year round 00:30:43.482 --> 00:30:48.042 40 bucks a bottle there you go they did do a red wax, 00:30:48.302 --> 00:30:50.322 a orange wax, and a purple wax. 00:30:51.162 --> 00:30:56.242 Okay. Well, that's gross. Ah! 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:04.660 Yeah, I get that red wax for Adam. The red wax and the orange wax, 00:31:04.800 --> 00:31:07.220 fuck them both. That's Florida and Alabama. 00:31:08.280 --> 00:31:13.440 And Cox and Syracuse. Yeah, well, I'm not worried about it. We don't play Syracuse 00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:15.700 ever unless it's in a bowl game. 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:18.920 And the Gamecocks are generally shit. 00:31:19.040 --> 00:31:25.200 I'm not really all that worried about it. And we beat Florida last year here at home. 00:31:25.860 --> 00:31:29.760 And next year, our very first game of the year is against Alabama. 00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:35.380 But the way our team is shaping up, I'm really excited to see what's going to happen. 00:31:35.520 --> 00:31:38.420 Our new coach is extremely offensively minded. 00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:44.620 He was the former offensive coordinator that took Bo Nix from a mediocre, 00:31:44.620 --> 00:31:52.980 at best, quarterback at Auburn to a kick-ass quarterback at Oregon and then sent him on to the NFL. 00:31:52.980 --> 00:31:57.780 And our offensive coordinator is the offensive coordinator that produced Jaden Daniels. 00:31:58.040 --> 00:32:04.640 So we got some cool shit going on here at Kentucky, and Alabama is not Nick 00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:06.360 Saban's Alabama any longer. 00:32:06.740 --> 00:32:14.120 So, you know, and, you know, that's no knock to Nick Saban at all or even to 00:32:14.120 --> 00:32:17.780 Alabama because that's some big shoes to fill right there. 00:32:17.780 --> 00:32:22.980 That's arguably the greatest college football coach in history. 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:28.860 I'm just glad that he decided to retire so that maybe some people have other teams have a chance. 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:35.540 But fuck all those waxes. They should have done one for Kentucky too, goddammit. 00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:39.160 They exist in Kentucky. That is the Kentucky distillery. 00:32:40.280 --> 00:32:43.060 But it is what it is. It is what it is. 00:32:45.036 --> 00:32:50.556 This is great, though. The cigar. I wish that I'd not fucked up my days and 00:32:50.556 --> 00:32:53.936 had the cigar to enjoy with you guys right now because I really enjoyed it the other day. 00:32:54.096 --> 00:32:58.336 And I'd like to see how you guys are experiencing the cigar with this whiskey. 00:32:59.076 --> 00:33:02.156 But I enjoy the cigar very much. I enjoy this whiskey very much. 00:33:02.716 --> 00:33:07.536 We don't have a beer product to talk about today. And we're not going to do it. This pours on me. 00:33:07.756 --> 00:33:11.836 It's late while we're recording this. So I think that brings us to the end of 00:33:11.836 --> 00:33:16.756 another episode of Bourbon Beards and Belvedere's. 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Yeah, 00:34:14.676 --> 00:34:16.756 I would have never found that based on the name of the cigar, 00:34:16.856 --> 00:34:18.016 so I'm glad that you had that. 00:34:18.236 --> 00:34:22.096 That looks like a $13 cigar. I mean, that's, fuck yeah. 00:34:22.956 --> 00:34:28.756 Yeah, all day. You can get a box of these bastards for $203.99. 00:34:29.796 --> 00:34:35.676 You know, nice cedar box with, you know, the standard amount of $20. 00:34:36.256 --> 00:34:39.276 You can get a box of Gordos for just an extra $34. 00:34:39.916 --> 00:34:43.716 That's not going to be as many in that box, but it's a bigger cigar. 00:34:44.056 --> 00:34:47.456 You can get the Toros for $220.99. 00:34:47.996 --> 00:34:53.296 Free shipping on those as well. So that's a hell of a deal right there, 00:34:53.896 --> 00:34:57.416 especially if you're somebody that likes to have them buy the box. 00:34:57.656 --> 00:35:01.896 Generally, I do, but I haven't bought a box in a long time because my humidor 00:35:01.896 --> 00:35:08.276 is huge and full. Paul, did you pull your fucking humidor out of the box yet? 00:35:11.496 --> 00:35:15.836 I'll show you. It's in my shed, but it's my bottle shelf. 00:35:22.166 --> 00:35:26.426 On my to-do list for the last year, 00:35:28.226 --> 00:35:34.026 yeah yeah I mean it's not real expensive but it's a fairly expensive piece of 00:35:34.026 --> 00:35:36.366 equipment to still just be sitting in the fucking box, 00:35:37.326 --> 00:35:41.706 just sitting there holding up a bunch of whiskey well you know at least it's 00:35:41.706 --> 00:35:47.426 getting some use whatever that use may be I would I'd say just, 00:35:48.386 --> 00:35:51.206 run an extension cord bury that 00:35:51.206 --> 00:35:54.526 motherfucker and plug it up in your shed right there i 00:35:54.526 --> 00:35:57.406 mean you're already out that's where you're gonna be to smoke them anyway right 00:35:57.406 --> 00:36:00.186 i thought about it but the fluctuations in this damn 00:36:00.186 --> 00:36:02.946 shed with temperature especially in the summer i don't 00:36:02.946 --> 00:36:05.706 think it'll you know work right so i just 00:36:05.706 --> 00:36:08.426 i just need to find a spot in the house for it 00:36:08.426 --> 00:36:11.826 i can actually say that the temperature fluctuations 00:36:11.826 --> 00:36:15.526 well between your shed and my garage are gonna 00:36:15.526 --> 00:36:21.346 vary yes because my garage is somewhat it climate control i say somewhat because 00:36:21.346 --> 00:36:27.926 that vent right there is my climate control in this garage so that and insulation 00:36:27.926 --> 00:36:33.326 so but it does get very warm in here in the summer because. 00:36:34.089 --> 00:36:37.369 That door's open and it gets very, very cold in here in the winter. 00:36:37.989 --> 00:36:42.629 And that motherfucker shit, there were times in the winter when the humidity 00:36:42.629 --> 00:36:44.889 got a little bit too high in there. 00:36:45.009 --> 00:36:48.949 And I had to take a couple of cigars that were molded out and toss them in the 00:36:48.949 --> 00:36:51.449 trash because it was doing its job so well. 00:36:52.109 --> 00:36:55.009 So basically what you're going to find when you open that box, 00:36:55.129 --> 00:36:57.389 because you bought the same one that I did, I think, right with them. 00:36:57.649 --> 00:37:00.589 Yeah. So it's got a little tray that comes with 00:37:00.589 --> 00:37:03.269 it and you put distilled water in that tray and then 00:37:03.269 --> 00:37:07.049 you set it in there you you've got some controls with 00:37:07.049 --> 00:37:10.169 the digital readout up the top and you set the humidity what 00:37:10.169 --> 00:37:12.949 you want and then you put that water in there 00:37:12.949 --> 00:37:15.609 and let it do its job but if you 00:37:15.609 --> 00:37:19.509 don't open it every now and again the humidity is going to build up in there 00:37:19.509 --> 00:37:22.989 and be higher than what you set it for so you're going to have to get into it 00:37:22.989 --> 00:37:26.489 every now and again but as long as you do and you put water in there it's good 00:37:26.489 --> 00:37:30.289 to go maybe i'll do that i'll try i I didn't think it would function properly 00:37:30.289 --> 00:37:34.289 out in this heat in the summertime and extreme cold in the winter. 00:37:34.429 --> 00:37:37.769 But like you said, it's just holding up whiskey now. What's it going to hurt? 00:37:38.029 --> 00:37:41.189 Worst case, I lose a few cigars. But I do have that, what's it called? 00:37:41.309 --> 00:37:45.049 The Govi, I think it's called, where it's that little puff that's in my humidor 00:37:45.049 --> 00:37:49.749 inside right now that'll send me alerts if I go with it outside of certain ranges 00:37:49.749 --> 00:37:52.009 that I set. So I can always put that in here. 00:37:52.429 --> 00:37:55.489 If you're going up too high, I'll come out here and fit. 00:37:57.602 --> 00:38:00.962 And what I do, whenever mine gets a little too high, I just pull that tray out 00:38:00.962 --> 00:38:02.282 and leave it out for a day or two. 00:38:02.882 --> 00:38:07.842 And just let them, you know, exist inside there with the setting as it is. 00:38:08.042 --> 00:38:11.542 And then that's it. It's a badass little thing. 00:38:12.202 --> 00:38:17.142 It sounds like a project for me for next weekend. This weekend I'll be coming to you in Kentucky. 00:38:17.562 --> 00:38:22.362 That's right. This weekend I'll clean the shelf off here in this packed shed 00:38:22.362 --> 00:38:24.342 of tools and get that hooked up. 00:38:24.702 --> 00:38:27.942 But this is where I do want it. This is where I smoke cigars. 00:38:28.242 --> 00:38:31.842 I have a spot cooler right next to me and a heater right behind me. 00:38:31.962 --> 00:38:34.122 So I control the temperature while I'm in here. 00:38:34.322 --> 00:38:38.822 So this is where I enjoy my cigars. So I would prefer to be out here right next 00:38:38.822 --> 00:38:40.262 to me. So yeah, I'm going to have to give that a shot. 00:38:40.802 --> 00:38:46.242 Well, we'll be enjoying cigars and whiskey right here at this bar this weekend. 00:38:46.462 --> 00:38:52.742 We deeply wish that Jerry could join us, but just not possible for Jerry to make it up. 00:38:52.822 --> 00:38:57.822 And that really sucks. However, if you guys go live on IG, then I could join you guys. 00:38:59.350 --> 00:39:03.170 Happen one of those nights. I am positive of that. I'm sure we can make that 00:39:03.170 --> 00:39:08.290 happen Friday night or Saturday night. It'll be like the third episode of Spirits 00:39:08.290 --> 00:39:09.930 of Secrets. It will. It will. 00:39:13.650 --> 00:39:17.270 Which probably doesn't make much sense, but we'll get on. 00:39:17.610 --> 00:39:21.890 Talking about that, if you guys joined in to the Real Smoke podcast, 00:39:21.890 --> 00:39:24.990 their last episode last week, they did a conspiracy episode. 00:39:25.510 --> 00:39:29.750 There's one or two guys from there that I think we need to get on here They're 00:39:29.750 --> 00:39:38.170 cigar brand owners that basically do like a BBB slash Spirits and Secrets collab episode or something. 00:39:38.590 --> 00:39:41.570 Do some conspiracies. 00:39:42.070 --> 00:39:46.410 Definitely down to them. I watched at least a good half an hour 45 minutes that 00:39:46.410 --> 00:39:49.030 before something else that I had to jump off. 00:39:49.230 --> 00:39:56.130 I definitely blame those guys for our technical difficulties on Saturday with 00:39:56.130 --> 00:39:57.510 Chris from Elegant Sasquatch. 00:39:57.970 --> 00:40:00.870 Adam, that was a go to live 00:40:00.870 --> 00:40:03.590 and people watching are like we don't 00:40:03.590 --> 00:40:06.370 hear nothing so i was all right so i start it's like 00:40:06.370 --> 00:40:09.350 i haven't changed any settings nothing so i 00:40:09.350 --> 00:40:12.270 closed out of the program opened it back up and it 00:40:12.270 --> 00:40:16.270 was working yeah back on 00:40:16.270 --> 00:40:19.050 that's that's most things get fixed but uh it was 00:40:19.050 --> 00:40:21.930 very weird like people could see us fine and they 00:40:21.930 --> 00:40:24.930 were like we can't hear you and then at one point it was like we can hear 00:40:24.930 --> 00:40:28.090 everyone but not jerry it's like 00:40:28.090 --> 00:40:31.770 what the hell i can hear everybody and then i grab my phone and i go to it and 00:40:31.770 --> 00:40:35.690 yep can't hear jerry but now i can hear myself and and our guests but it was 00:40:35.690 --> 00:40:41.510 like what the hell's going on and the thing is is on the program i you got the 00:40:41.510 --> 00:40:46.070 audio graphs or whatever and all all the names are bouncing when we're talking 00:40:46.070 --> 00:40:47.050 it just wasn't going through. 00:40:47.670 --> 00:40:50.930 It's well are you running windows on your laptop yeah. 00:40:52.256 --> 00:40:57.016 Going to win those. I'm still going to blame it on the government listening 00:40:57.016 --> 00:40:59.556 to Conspiracy. You definitely should. 00:41:00.456 --> 00:41:03.356 I have stuff that could have put some guys on some lists. 00:41:03.896 --> 00:41:09.376 Well, I have in the past in a past life when I was 22. 00:41:11.776 --> 00:41:17.236 Let's see. Yeah, 22, 23, 24 all the way up until I was about 25 or so. 00:41:17.696 --> 00:41:20.916 I ran a conspiracy website and I 00:41:20.916 --> 00:41:28.116 was the chair of the oh shit I don't know what it's called now Luke Rudowski 00:41:28.116 --> 00:41:34.276 was the founder of the organization and anyway regardless when you have a website 00:41:34.276 --> 00:41:38.456 you can trace IPs that view your website back to their, 00:41:39.616 --> 00:41:43.956 destination right and I know that there was somebody in Langley, 00:41:44.096 --> 00:41:46.996 Virginia I don't know where but I know they were in Langley, 00:41:47.076 --> 00:41:53.936 Virginia watching my website and you know The CIA is famously headquartered in Langley, Virginia. 00:41:54.236 --> 00:41:57.616 Now, they're not supposed to be spying on American citizens, 00:41:57.676 --> 00:41:59.436 but it sure seems like that. 00:41:59.596 --> 00:42:05.336 And this was after the passing of the Patriot Act, which initially nullified, 00:42:05.336 --> 00:42:10.696 you know, supposed to's and legalities and whatever the fuck else when it came 00:42:10.696 --> 00:42:13.016 to domestic terrorists. 00:42:13.176 --> 00:42:16.476 And I guess they were watching me to see if I was one of those. Of course, I'm not. 00:42:16.476 --> 00:42:22.696 I love this country very much, but I'm very much of the belief that they're, 00:42:22.916 --> 00:42:26.516 and I think most Americans are now, at that time they were not. 00:42:26.516 --> 00:42:29.856 I was looked at as a crazy person for talking about this shit, but... 00:42:31.695 --> 00:42:35.115 A lot of bad actors within the american 00:42:35.115 --> 00:42:38.155 government and and it's it's crazy to me 00:42:38.155 --> 00:42:41.275 you know that was fucking see i 00:42:41.275 --> 00:42:44.215 was like i said 20 that was 20 years ago and i 00:42:44.215 --> 00:42:47.815 was screaming and yelling pulling my hair out as you can see back 00:42:47.815 --> 00:42:50.575 then for anybody to fucking listen to me 00:42:50.575 --> 00:42:54.155 anybody to hear what i had to say and that's 00:42:54.155 --> 00:42:56.935 it's probably an episode that we need to have on spirit the 00:42:56.935 --> 00:43:00.515 secrets ball where i just weren't you know i talk about that but but 00:43:00.515 --> 00:43:03.335 it was you know nobody everybody talked everybody acted 00:43:03.335 --> 00:43:06.215 like i was fucking crazy and here we are 20 years 00:43:06.215 --> 00:43:09.315 later and now it's just blatant it's out in everybody's fucking face 00:43:09.315 --> 00:43:12.035 and everybody's got so brazen about it just like 00:43:12.035 --> 00:43:15.295 i'm gonna do whatever the fuck i'm gonna do and fuck you and who cares 00:43:15.295 --> 00:43:18.015 whatever they don't even try to lie whenever they 00:43:18.015 --> 00:43:20.915 run for office anymore they just throw shit out 00:43:20.915 --> 00:43:23.675 there that's clearly and obviously a lot like you 00:43:23.675 --> 00:43:27.015 you know this politician will say well i'm running on 00:43:27.015 --> 00:43:29.895 this platform this is the issues that i believe in you've 00:43:29.895 --> 00:43:33.755 never given a shit about that in your history and all of a sudden this is the 00:43:33.755 --> 00:43:37.015 thing that you want and then you get elected and just like well fuck it i'm 00:43:37.015 --> 00:43:40.875 not you know i mean donald trump did the same shit when he ran for president 00:43:40.875 --> 00:43:45.295 the second time and i'm just you know we're i'm still waiting on some things 00:43:45.295 --> 00:43:48.215 here you know joe biden ran on the fucking. 00:43:49.415 --> 00:43:54.135 Student loans and all this shit and you know I'll give it to his administration 00:43:54.135 --> 00:43:59.275 they genuinely tried to do something about that even though the man was clearly 00:43:59.275 --> 00:44:03.535 mentally incapacitated and shouldn't held that office that was elder abuse let's 00:44:03.535 --> 00:44:06.455 not lie let's call spade spade but. 00:44:08.056 --> 00:44:17.076 It seems like we live in the upside down politically, and that is a fucking problem for me. 00:44:17.376 --> 00:44:23.456 And would I vote for Donald Trump the third time, if I could go back and do 00:44:23.456 --> 00:44:24.636 it over again? I don't know. 00:44:24.776 --> 00:44:29.516 I was not happy about the bombing in Iran the first time that it happened. 00:44:29.936 --> 00:44:35.776 The second time, I'm still not real happy about it, but I am glad that the Ayatollahs 00:44:35.776 --> 00:44:39.916 did because he's just a, the piece of human shit. 00:44:40.556 --> 00:44:44.896 But I think there's another way to make that happen. I don't know. I don't know. 00:44:45.276 --> 00:44:48.476 Just the whole situation is, is fucked up. And, uh, I don't, 00:44:48.476 --> 00:44:50.216 I really don't know where to go with it anymore. 00:44:51.816 --> 00:44:55.816 But again, I've been talking about this shit for 20 fucking years and nobody 00:44:55.816 --> 00:44:57.936 would listen. And now it's just right in their fucking faces. 00:44:58.676 --> 00:45:04.136 And I see people posting these, you know, these, these memes all the time about, 00:45:04.136 --> 00:45:09.536 you know, it's, it's, it'll say like, you know, people finding out the conspiracies, 00:45:09.756 --> 00:45:11.596 you know, this conspiracy is real or whatever. 00:45:11.676 --> 00:45:15.016 There's people running around screaming at the top of their lungs and it says 00:45:15.016 --> 00:45:18.296 me 20 years ago and there's a dude standing there just drinking out of the straw 00:45:18.296 --> 00:45:21.716 looking at people like, you know, that's how I feel. 00:45:22.476 --> 00:45:28.236 And it's, it's cool to see, you know, Paul and I got talking about this shit years ago. 00:45:30.129 --> 00:45:37.089 The blue collar hangouts and whatnot, and we'd stay on for hours. 00:45:37.549 --> 00:45:41.389 And that's, that's really where my idea about podcasting came from. 00:45:41.509 --> 00:45:45.349 Cause Paul and I would sit here and talk about conspiracies and how we could 00:45:45.349 --> 00:45:47.469 do a podcast about it and all this stuff. 00:45:47.729 --> 00:45:55.129 And somehow I, we ended up Jerry and I doing poor man's poor before we ended up starting this one. 00:45:55.629 --> 00:45:59.029 And then I was like, hold on a minute, Paul, 00:45:59.749 --> 00:46:02.669 jerry y'all want to do a conspiracy podcast and jerry's 00:46:02.669 --> 00:46:06.149 like i can't commit time to that and 00:46:06.149 --> 00:46:09.329 paul's like yes and so 00:46:09.329 --> 00:46:13.449 and paul we haven't done one the last one that was uploaded was in november 00:46:13.449 --> 00:46:20.829 so we're just yeah we're just going to start a whole new season but we we need 00:46:20.829 --> 00:46:26.249 to get those guys on and sit and talk with them and maybe we'll make tinfoil 00:46:26.249 --> 00:46:28.629 hats too like they did but. 00:46:29.609 --> 00:46:32.929 There's so much going on right now you know 00:46:32.929 --> 00:46:37.729 that uh i saw something the other day from a or no i saw it today as a matter 00:46:37.729 --> 00:46:45.469 of fact and it was a video of jesse waters on on fox news talking about the 00:46:45.469 --> 00:46:50.449 reptilians and the Nords and the whatever. 00:46:50.889 --> 00:46:54.089 It's supposed to look like a giant praying mantis, and I can't remember what 00:46:54.089 --> 00:46:55.989 it's called, and then the greys. 00:46:56.129 --> 00:47:00.869 So that's four different styles of alien that Jesse Waters is openly talking 00:47:00.869 --> 00:47:03.029 about on Fox News, for fuck's sake. 00:47:03.609 --> 00:47:08.989 Like, I don't know of another time in history. 00:47:10.595 --> 00:47:13.615 Or parents of children or anybody 00:47:13.615 --> 00:47:17.395 has ever eased somebody into something like 00:47:17.395 --> 00:47:20.735 they're easing us into aliens being a reality like 00:47:20.735 --> 00:47:23.975 there it was it was no it's that's not 00:47:23.975 --> 00:47:28.655 a thing and then it was okay well we're gonna let hollywood drive this into 00:47:28.655 --> 00:47:32.355 your heads yeah what do you think all those alien movies were all about exactly 00:47:32.355 --> 00:47:37.615 and then it was oh well now we're gonna kind of admit it and then we're gonna 00:47:37.615 --> 00:47:40.575 kind of admit a little more and then we're gonna release some files And now 00:47:40.575 --> 00:47:43.855 we're going to openly talk about it on the fucking news. 00:47:44.135 --> 00:47:50.275 Like, I don't know how much more. Did you see the post Trump made of him walking 00:47:50.275 --> 00:47:51.775 with the Secret Service and then the alien? 00:47:52.315 --> 00:47:56.595 Yeah, I don't. I think that was I mean, that's an A.I. picture clearly, 00:47:56.815 --> 00:47:59.995 but it's still I mean, he put it out there. 00:48:00.255 --> 00:48:06.275 Of course, you know, I'm not sure that Donald Trump is completely within his 00:48:06.275 --> 00:48:11.155 mental capacities as he should be, And I do think he's a very intelligent person. 00:48:11.815 --> 00:48:17.495 But I think that he's kind of lost it in the last couple of years. 00:48:17.735 --> 00:48:24.275 Because he'll say some off-the-rail, unhinged shit, like even for him, that's a problem. 00:48:24.455 --> 00:48:29.095 He went from just saying whatever the fuck, just diarrhea of the mouth, 00:48:29.175 --> 00:48:33.835 which I loved, to now there's some chunks in his diarrhea. 00:48:34.175 --> 00:48:37.475 And there's some weird shit. I don't know. 00:48:37.475 --> 00:48:41.435 Maybe he's on drugs, maybe he's lost his mind, or maybe he's just like, 00:48:41.515 --> 00:48:45.775 fuck it, I'm going to say everything that I've never said before and just give 00:48:45.775 --> 00:48:49.235 the full truth because I'm tired of this bullshit. But I did see that picture. 00:48:49.875 --> 00:48:55.195 But it's, you know, and then now it's even weirder because I get a lot of religious 00:48:55.195 --> 00:48:57.975 videos in my Facebook reels. 00:48:57.975 --> 00:49:04.495 I am a Christian, and I do subscribe to a couple of individuals on Facebook, 00:49:04.495 --> 00:49:08.575 and the one in particular that I'm talking about, his name is Josh Howerton. 00:49:10.415 --> 00:49:14.015 He's he's from Kentucky he built 00:49:14.015 --> 00:49:16.815 a church down in Nashville and then he moved to Texas and he's 00:49:16.815 --> 00:49:19.715 got a really big church there and he 00:49:19.715 --> 00:49:23.275 explains the Bible in very real 00:49:23.275 --> 00:49:29.095 and understandable ways he's he's he's really really good and lately he's been 00:49:29.095 --> 00:49:34.235 putting out videos where he's talking about the fact that aliens are demons 00:49:34.235 --> 00:49:40.175 now I don't think that that's necessarily impossible but I go back to my human 00:49:40.175 --> 00:49:42.575 way of thinking, of course, because I am human. 00:49:42.975 --> 00:49:48.375 And I just have a hard time understanding why God, in his infinite wisdom, 00:49:48.555 --> 00:49:54.075 would create the entire universe, which has ends that cannot be seen by even 00:49:54.075 --> 00:49:55.555 our most powerful telescopes, 00:49:56.415 --> 00:50:01.095 if we are to be his favorite and only creations with the entire universe, 00:50:01.315 --> 00:50:05.215 just us and the angels. Demons are just fallen angels. 00:50:05.855 --> 00:50:11.275 And I do understand that I have a tiny human mind And I'm not meant to understand 00:50:11.275 --> 00:50:14.355 everything that God does. But... 00:50:15.618 --> 00:50:21.678 It doesn't make sense to me that he would have created the entire universe just 00:50:21.678 --> 00:50:23.258 for us, the angels and the demons. 00:50:23.438 --> 00:50:26.078 We're not meant to understand everything God does. Therefore, 00:50:26.358 --> 00:50:32.978 we can't necessarily think up ways for God to use up all this space. 00:50:33.418 --> 00:50:38.018 You know what I'm saying? And it also talks about it was Enoch. 00:50:38.438 --> 00:50:42.578 He was taken up into the third heaven. You know, he saw the first heaven was 00:50:42.578 --> 00:50:45.778 the skies, the second heaven was space, the third heaven was beyond, 00:50:46.118 --> 00:50:49.158 which is where God and the angels exist. 00:50:49.818 --> 00:50:55.418 And so if God and the angels exist in the third heaven and the second heaven was space, 00:50:55.718 --> 00:50:58.338 and space is what we're talking about here where the aliens come from, 00:50:58.458 --> 00:51:02.798 there's absolutely no reason for anybody to say that they are angels nor demons 00:51:02.798 --> 00:51:07.898 because they come from way out there, parts that we can't access because we're 00:51:07.898 --> 00:51:09.558 not technologically advanced enough. 00:51:09.558 --> 00:51:13.718 So I, I, I personally believe that there are other races out there. 00:51:13.858 --> 00:51:19.138 I believe that God created other races for whatever reason, and they're out there. 00:51:19.398 --> 00:51:23.078 And it's, it's, I think they're here. I do think they're here. 00:51:23.538 --> 00:51:28.338 So, but that's, I'm getting off on a, I got real deep into a tangent there that 00:51:28.338 --> 00:51:29.958 has nothing to do with this show. 00:51:30.478 --> 00:51:36.818 Jerry, you sent me down this rabbit hole, but anyway, yeah. 00:51:38.223 --> 00:51:43.543 Products. These are all great products and all very much worth your attention. 00:51:43.863 --> 00:51:48.783 Thank you both for these samples and cigars, and it was great. 00:51:49.143 --> 00:51:54.743 As always, I want to encourage you to support veterans, local veterans, 00:51:54.943 --> 00:51:58.923 veterans of FAR, active duty military members, LEOs, firefighters, 00:51:59.503 --> 00:52:01.263 first responders, nurses, doctors. 00:52:01.603 --> 00:52:05.243 They're all out there making sure that we're free and alive, 00:52:05.243 --> 00:52:07.483 and they deserve our support. 00:52:08.263 --> 00:52:12.443 Make sure to support children in your community. Watch out for them. 00:52:13.003 --> 00:52:17.623 Help keep them safe. Like I always say, and will continue to say, 00:52:17.723 --> 00:52:20.283 every time I look at the news or Facebook or anything like that, 00:52:20.363 --> 00:52:25.563 there's something new and horrible that's happened to a child somewhere and 00:52:25.563 --> 00:52:30.283 the most vulnerable amongst us deserve our protection. So let's make sure that happens. 00:52:31.003 --> 00:52:37.863 And then make sure to say a prayer and have a pour in memory of those who gave 00:52:37.863 --> 00:52:40.943 their lives for this incredible country. 00:52:41.803 --> 00:52:47.983 Without them, you know, we might be living in an alternate timeline where the 00:52:47.983 --> 00:52:53.463 Germans and the Japanese took over America, like that TV show that I can't remember 00:52:53.463 --> 00:52:55.803 right now, which is a great TV show, by the way. 00:52:55.803 --> 00:53:02.963 But yeah definitely definitely remember them on this Memorial Day and until 00:53:02.963 --> 00:53:06.463 next week cheers cheers guys cheers. 00:53:57.101 --> 00:54:00.621 Belvedere is produced by Adam Bolden, Paul Rousseau, and Jerry Ullman. 00:54:00.881 --> 00:54:03.681 Edited by Jerry Ullman. Music by Ryan Johnson. 00:54:04.001 --> 00:54:07.681 You can find all of our links on our website at bourbonbeardsandbelvedere.com 00:54:07.681 --> 00:54:12.021 and at beacons.ai forward slash bourbonbeardsandbelvedere. 00:54:12.141 --> 00:54:15.621 As always, enjoy your bourbon and cigars responsibly. Cheers.

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