Ducks Unlimited 2023 Event 101

00:00John: Smoking Underground.

00:01John: We're going to talk about the Ducks Unlimited 2023

00:04John: Scotch and Cigar Event at Good People Brewing

00:07John: the 20-acre farm, Robusto, by Drew Estates.

00:10John: We'll give you a little bit of feedback on that.

00:12John: Pairing tequilas and vodkas with your cigar.

00:14John: Gary.

00:16Gary: What's better than smoking underground?

00:24Gary: Ducks Unlimited.

00:27Gary: Episode, Ducks on 20-acre Farm.

00:34Gary: Whack, whack, got a light.

00:38Gary: Hello and welcome once again to Smoking Underground.

00:48Gary: Today we will be smoking the Drew Estates 20-acre farm.

00:57Gary: Oh, yeah.

00:58Gary: This bad boy.

01:00Gary: Yeah.

01:01Gary: I'm taking a sniff of it right now.

01:03Gary: And I got to say, I have been impressed with just the smell.

01:07Gary: I haven't lit it up yet.

01:08Gary: Yeah.

01:09Devin: What do you think there, Mr. Gary, about it so far?

01:12Devin: Oh, I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it.

01:16Devin: That one right there, I will buy again.

01:19Devin: I will buy that one again.

01:22Devin: That one right there, of course, you know, but man, I'm telling you, that was good right

01:26Devin: there.

01:27Devin: Drew Estate Master Blend Willie Herrera constructed on a 20-acre farm.

01:32Devin: Man, golden Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper.

01:35Devin: Man, sungrown Honduran Bono, Nicaraguan, Esteli and jalapa all mixed into one.

01:44Devin: My God, it's good, dude.

01:47Gary: Lord have mercy, it's tasty.

01:49Gary: I've got a caveat to your description there.

01:51Gary: Oh, I'm ready.

01:53Gary: You said sungrown.

01:55Devin: I did.

01:57Devin: I am going to add to that because of the way this thing smells.

02:03Devin: Golden sungrown.

02:05Devin: Golden sungrown.

02:06Devin: Okay.

02:07Gary: Because there's like sungrown and this makes me think a little bit of the Alfonzo.

02:12Gary: That particular smell that I'm getting, it's a very rich smell.

02:16Gary: I'm going to start reclassifying.

02:17Devin: If I smell that on a cigar and it's labeled sungrown, I'm going to say golden sungrown.

02:22Devin: Golden sungrown.

02:23Devin: Okay.

02:24Devin: So it's going to be a, it's going to be a, what do you call it?

02:27Devin: A Devon.

02:28Devin: Devonism.

02:29Devin: Devonism.

02:30Devin: That's it right there.

02:31Devin: It's going to be a Devonism.

02:32Devin: And we can always use Devonisms.

02:33Devin: We can always use that.

02:35Devin: But yeah, man, that, that one you'll be, you'll be pleasantly surprised.

02:39Devin: And I'll tell you what that one reminds me of.

02:42Devin: That one right there reminds me, it reminds me a lot of the Camacho Connecticut, the My

02:46Devin: Father Connecticut.

02:49Devin: And that's what it sort of reminds me of in some sense.

02:54Devin: In this particular case, it's got a little bit more of an undertone of sweetness to it.

03:00Devin: Yes, it does.

03:01Devin: A little bit more of an undertone of sweetness to it.

03:04Devin: And that's what appealed to me, you know, so I was very enlightened to it.

03:10Devin: And you know, of course it's got that cedar rap on the outside where you can literally

03:15Devin: take the cedar rap off if you wanted to.

03:17Devin: Careful with the tape, but I mean, if you can remove the tape of it, whatever else,

03:22Devin: then you can like the cedar rap to light your cigar with.

03:25Devin: And that actually on this particular blend, being in Ecuador and Connecticut, you would,

03:30Devin: I think you would thoroughly enjoy it better that way myself.

03:34Devin: Yeah.

03:35Devin: So just FYI in that right there.

03:38Devin: It's my two cents.

03:41Gary: So cash it.

03:42Gary: A quick technical note to the tape and stuff that they put on this, a little insider's

03:47Gary: trading is the best way to handle it, especially if you've got tape going all the way down

03:51Gary: the spine of the cedar.

03:54Gary: Instead of trying to peel the tape off, which you're never going to do successfully, just

03:58Gary: grab the top where the tape's at and then just pull it down, like unzip it and it'll

04:01Gary: come right off.

04:02Gary: And it'll separate the cedar into two pieces.

04:04Gary: Very good.

04:05Devin: I highly recommend that.

04:06Devin: Awesome.

04:07Gary: Thank you for that insight, Mr. Dave.

04:09Gary: Split it into two pieces.

04:11Gary: Use the first one to light it.

04:12Gary: And then when you got to do a purge about midway through, use it again.

04:16Devin: And you're going to get it all the way through.

04:18Devin: Are you going to light it with it?

04:19Devin: You are, aren't you?

04:20Devin: Oh, look at you.

04:21Devin: Oh boy.

04:22Devin: Look at you.

04:23Devin: Sweet.

04:24Devin: What do you think?

04:25Devin: Off the top.

04:26Devin: What do you think?

04:27Devin: Off the top.

04:28Devin: What do you think?

04:29Gary: Oh my God.

04:30Gary: It has this nice, this nice caramely, vanilla-y kind of smooth, creamy flavor to it.

04:37Gary: Like with the cedar, because it complements it.

04:39Gary: Like, in my opinion, when you get a cigar that has a cedar wrap on it, it's designed

04:46Gary: specifically for that, for the flavor combo, for the light and the purge relight.

04:52Gary: I like that.

04:54Gary: Cause you're getting the nice, you're getting the nice smells of white and the cedar in

04:57Gary: general.

04:58Gary: Then you're getting the pulls of it inside the tube.

05:01Gary: That is the cigar.

05:03Gary: And I tell you, if they have this cigar in the Ducks Unlimited pack that we'll be talking

05:09Gary: about here shortly, that would be well worth its money.

05:12Gary: I don't know what's going to be in there, but man, would it be great if it was in there?

05:16Devin: I'd come there just for that.

05:18Devin: I will say something here though.

05:20Devin: I am very pleased.

05:21Devin: I used to not be, and I'm going to sound like a snob, but I don't care.

05:26Devin: I used to be a very hard anti-drill estate fan.

05:31Devin: Same.

05:32Devin: Yeah, right.

05:33Devin: So, you know, they concentrated on just the flavored stuff, just the acid, so on and so

05:39Devin: on and so on.

05:41Devin: And I was like, ah, and then they come out with, you know, Steve Saka showed up and said,

05:45Devin: hey, listen, you know, I don't know, I don't know how that relationship with him and Jonathan

05:50Devin: went, but they have come a long, long way with what they have.

05:56Devin: And they have, they've literally stepped up and done some really good stuff, man.

06:02Devin: I mean, really good stuff.

06:05Devin: And they're not stopping, man.

06:06Devin: They're not stopping.

06:07Devin: They just keep on keeping on, man.

06:10Gary: They hit hit or miss with me sometimes when you get to that, some of their lower end,

06:14Gary: you're just like, meh, okay.

06:15Gary: But when they, when they really decide to step up and do something, they do it as you

06:19Gary: would expect from professionals like them.

06:21Gary: Right.

06:22Gary: I have no complaints with this.

06:23Gary: And today I am enjoying this with a nice Kirkland Signature Silver Tequila.

06:29Gary: Really?

06:30Gary: Cool.

06:31Gary: Yeah.

06:32Gary: You see, you see that announcement of the libation had a nice little ring to it as I

06:36Devin: was doing it.

06:37Devin: Yes.

06:38Gary: That's how it goes.

06:39John: That's the sound effects, the top quality sound effects we have here today.

06:42John: Hey, I was doing stuff over here to do to do.

06:46John: Yeah.

06:48John: So most people wouldn't.

06:49John: I've had other sound effects.

06:52Gary: And just so you know, get it, John.

06:55Gary: Most people really wouldn't think that tequila kind of goes with cigars.

07:01Gary: But when you have a good tequila, which I highly recommend this one, you get it at Costco,

07:07Gary: it will it'll change your it'll change the way you look at stuff.

07:11Gary: Because in my opinion, tequila has two two avenues and the same tequila can have both

07:18Gary: avenues.

07:19Gary: Most do.

07:20Gary: You have that shot worthy, get you drunk, nice kind of buzz, blah, blah, blah.

07:24Devin: Then you got you got this, which I'm using it as a refreshing, nice weather out, cool.

07:32Devin: It's wonderful and it fits perfectly.

07:35Devin: That's one thing that I did not know that you really cared about was tequila.

07:40Devin: I love tequila.

07:42Devin: Really?

07:44Devin: That's that's one thing that I had no clue about.

07:48Devin: So because I've always heard you talk about either whiskey or bourbon or scotch or something

07:55Devin: like that.

07:56Devin: But now, OK, so now and you've probably already done this.

08:01Devin: Chances are you probably already have.

08:03Gary: Have you? You've done a vodka with it, right?

08:06Gary: Oh, yeah. Yeah.

08:07Gary: Yeah. And vodka is a little harsher.

08:08Gary: I'll be honest with you.

08:09Gary: Is it in the sense that you have good vodka?

08:13Gary: Don't get me wrong.

08:14Gary: You do it. You do a sit down taste test.

08:16Gary: You've got good straight up vodka.

08:18Gary: Sure. But for the most part, I haven't really found a vodka that just straight up.

08:25Gary: No, no rocks on it.

08:26Gary: Just straight up.

08:27Gary: You're like, I want to drink this vodka with a cigar.

08:30Gary: I've never found that to be the case.

08:32Gary: Now, Moscow Mule, different story, but I'm not talking to mixed drinks.

08:36Gary: I'm talking just straight.

08:37Gary: Now, tequila, on the other hand, has such a botanical flavor to it that it kind of

08:44Gary: goes well with medium to light cigars.

08:48Devin: So medium to light, some mild to medium.

08:51Devin: They are OK.

08:52Devin: Yeah. All right.

08:53Devin: Well, that's that's interesting.

08:55Devin: I wouldn't have known that.

08:56Devin: So that's pretty neat.

08:58Devin: So would it would it be fair to say that that's pretty much all of the vodkas?

09:05Devin: Would you say are some of them more harsh than others?

09:08Gary: There are some vodkas that are way more harsh than than others that are just

09:12Gary: they'll be honest with you, they're garbage drinks, but got you down to tequila.

09:18Gary: You've got good tequila.

09:19Gary: You got bad tequila's.

09:21Gary: But for the most part, the stuff you buy is going to be fine.

09:24Gary: And I highly recommend the Kirkland one.

09:26Gary: And it really goes well with this 20 acres.

09:30Gary: And you can't beat it.

09:31Gary: I mean, you got a price point of like about 12, 13 dollars.

09:34Gary: Right. It's perfect.

09:36Gary: I'll be honest.

09:36Gary: I mean, you can have a whiskey with it.

09:38Gary: But I think what I'm talking about here is the pairing aspect of

09:42Gary: is it too harsh?

09:43Gary: Is your whiskey too harsh?

09:45Gary: Do you want a hardcore whiskey that's got a nice bite to it?

09:48Gary: Yeah. And then you got this nice, smooth cigar.

09:51Gary: Do you like the counterbalance, the yin and the yang?

09:54Devin: Me personally, I don't. I like smooth on smooth.

09:56Devin: OK. OK. Really?

09:59Devin: OK. Well, that's one for our listeners there.

10:02Devin: I think that's very intriguing.

10:04Devin: OK. Yeah.

10:06Devin: So that's that's pretty neat.

10:07Devin: So that actually works out well, would you now in doing about?

10:11Gary: Well, let me ask you this, first of all, what do you think about the band?

10:16Gary: So the band on this 20 acres is simple.

10:18Gary: The background is all like solid white.

10:20Gary: It's not really an eggshell white. It's a plain white.

10:23Gary: And then it's got some nice, normal, some red, some red top reds.

10:27Gary: And then it's got kind of a finished gold, not a gloss gold,

10:31Gary: but around it, it says the Florida Sungrown

10:36Gary: by Drew Estates in the gold.

10:38Gary: And it says Acres 20 Farms, so 20 Acre Farms.

10:42Gary: And it's simple. It looks like a classic cigar band.

10:46Gary: It does, doesn't it?

10:47Gary: Yeah, that's what I like about it.

10:49Gary: And the one thing I really like that Drew Estates does is like a seal on a letter.

10:53Gary: They have their Drew Estates circle, you know, the bridge, the archway.

10:58Gary: They have that at the end of the band.

11:00Gary: So when they wrap the band up, you know, around the whole cigar,

11:04Gary: it looks almost like, bam, sealed with the Drew Estates symbol.

11:09Gary: And it's also in gold.

11:10Gary: I mean, it's simple.

11:12Gary: Don't get me wrong. I like a row of bands and I like CLE bands

11:15Gary: and really complex, crazy detailed stuff.

11:18Devin: But sometimes you just want a classic simple is better.

11:23Devin: Exactly right. Yeah, man. Yeah.

11:25Devin: Kind of like John simple is better.

11:27Devin: That's what I'm saying.

11:28Devin: Dad, go on simple and perfect.

11:30Devin: So, yeah, you're something like that.

11:34Devin: Yeah, you go.

11:35Devin: John's humbleness. Oh, my goodness.

11:39Gary: And now to step a little bit more into the cigar smoking.

11:44Gary: And the reason for the episode is we're going to have a good conversation

11:48Gary: with Mr. David, and he is going to be able to like lay out

11:52Gary: the Ducks Unlimited event at Good People.

11:54Gary: And what's great about this event is

11:58Gary: everything, I'll be honest, everything is great about it.

12:00Gary: But there's an aspect to you if you want to get a little bit practical.

12:03Gary: If you don't care like the wetlands, you have no opinion about it whatsoever.

12:09Gary: It doesn't matter. They do help with it.

12:11Gary: And you're you're doing a good event.

12:14Gary: You know, $60 tickets online, $70 at the door.

12:18Gary: You can go to smoking underground dot com slash ducks.

12:22John: It's much easier than their website.

12:24John: Their website is ducks dot org forward slash Alabama forward slash events.

12:29Devin: And you've got to scroll around a little bit.

12:31Devin: Yeah, it's a little more complex, but we'll have it in the description below.

12:35Devin: Why can you for the podcast?

12:37Devin: Yeah. And I see here that they got free valet parking.

12:43Gary: I got to take advantage of it this year.

12:45Gary: I'm not having what happened last year.

12:46Gary: You'll find out.

12:47Gary: So here's here's the discussion.

12:49Gary: Without further ado, here's the discussion with Mr.

12:51Gary: David Patton on Ducks Unlimited and my embarrassment with parking.

12:57Gary: Oh, and look what we have today.

12:59Gary: We got something special.

13:01Gary: There is an unlimited ducks.

13:02Gary: I mean, a ducks unlimited here.

13:04Gary: We got an event coming up.

13:05Gary: It comes up every year.

13:07Gary: And we just happen to have the main man himself, Mr.

13:10David: David Patton. What's up, David?

13:12David: Good afternoon.

13:14David: Thank you so much for having me and our group come on to this podcast

13:18David: and get a chance to talk about our event on the 24th.

13:21David: Am I correct?

13:22David: It's going to be a good people, is that right?

13:24David: That's right. So this is the Scotch and Cigar event

13:29David: for Ducks Unlimited here in Birmingham.

13:32David: And it'll be held at the Good People Brewery on the 24th of April,

13:36David: starting at about 530.

13:37David: And then we'll have everything wrapped up probably around eight.

13:41Gary: So really looking forward to have everyone there.

13:44Gary: Excellent. Now, one thing I want to make sure to stress to everybody

13:47Gary: listening is watch where you park

13:50Gary: and make sure you park in the right spot, because I got towed last year.

13:54Gary: Did you really?

13:55Gary: Did you? Oh, my God.

13:56Gary: In one spot in the wrong spot and left.

13:58David: Oh, no. I had no clue.

14:01David: To that end, Devon, I want to I want to emphasize to your audience,

14:05David: we do have free valet parking.

14:07David: So that's something that I want to make sure that you know.

14:11David: And the rest of your audience knows that you pull up to in front of good people.

14:15David: We've got free valet parking.

14:17David: That's part of the deal, along with all the other accoutrements

14:21David: that come with the with the ticket price.

14:24David: I know that parking here at Good People can be a challenge.

14:27David: And so we've tried to take that challenge out of it.

14:30Gary: Definitely won't be making that mistake again.

14:33Gary: And so what I'm seeing is it's $60 in advance, $70 at the door.

14:37Gary: And what exactly like does that get you in the pack

14:40David: that they're going to hand you at the door?

14:42David: Yeah. So great question.

14:44David: And what we're really trying to do is provide, you know,

14:47David: your audience just a great value.

14:49David: So for that $60 in advance, you get access to the event.

14:53David: You'll get to two beer tickets, so you'll get two drinks there at Good People.

14:58David: So whatever it is that you want from the bar.

15:01David: We've got Porky's Pride.

15:02David: That's going to be the food truck.

15:04David: And so you'll be able to get a meal with that.

15:07David: As I mentioned before, you also get free valet parking.

15:10David: And then thanks to cigars and more, we couldn't do this without them.

15:16David: Everyone is part of the ticket package will get a sampler of cigars.

15:22David: If you think about that, two to three hours worth of entertainment on a Monday,

15:28David: two beers, dinner, parking, you know, and three or four cigars.

15:33Gary: I don't think you can find a better deal.

15:35Gary: Sounds like it. I mean, I've had a great time every time I've been.

15:38Gary: The people are wonderful.

15:40Gary: I remember the first year I went, we got rained out hardcore.

15:43Gary: Oh, yeah. We still were all there.

15:45Gary: We all huddled under the thing.

15:46Gary: It's it doesn't stop it from happening.

15:48David: Rain or shine, be there.

15:50David: Yeah, rain or shine.

15:51David: We do it outside.

15:52David: So we in the loading dock, the old loading dock for good people.

15:56David: So it's outside.

15:57David: So if you guys want to light up, you know, we're we do this event so you can.

16:03David: Can't you buy more raffle tickets while you're there?

16:05David: Is that right? Yes.

16:06David: So that ticket price gets you into the door.

16:09David: The way we operate, we've got one set of live auction items.

16:13David: So we'll be doing that in a traditional live auction format.

16:17David: And then we've got several raffle opportunities for for everybody.

16:21David: Packages will vary at the low end.

16:24David: We'll have what we call a card raffle.

16:27David: So or a banner, a banner raffle.

16:29David: And that will be twenty dollars for a ticket.

16:32David: And basically, we go through a deck of cards and then we give away a prize.

16:36David: And once we finish that deck, we we roll up another one.

16:39David: So 20 bucks, it's a value,

16:42David: you know, a value for people that don't want to spend a whole lot.

16:45David: And for the raffle tables, we've got two packages available.

16:48David: One is one hundred fifty dollars, which will give you tickets

16:53David: to apply to our raffle tables, which are also I think we've got a pretty good

16:57David: spread for the raffle tables.

17:00David: The three hundred dollar package, we're only selling 30 of them.

17:04David: Wow. With that package, you will get a ticket for a one and thirty chance

17:09David: at a special gun.

17:11David: And let me let me pull that up just to.

17:14David: Oh, you've got I've got the the list here.

17:16David: So you can. Wow.

17:18David: I'll be I'll be a little bit more specific than I was able to be last year.

17:23David: Come on, come on.

17:25David: For that, for that one and thirty chance, that's going to be at

17:28David: for a Benelli super black eagle.

17:31David: We want to gauge all three hundred dollars

17:35David: will give you a lot of raffle tickets for all the tables.

17:39David: And we've got some really good tables, plus a one and thirty chance at that

17:44David: at that gun.

17:45David: The there's one other raffle that I want to mention, and that is

17:51David: we call the bottle raffle.

17:52David: So we've got some special bourbon bottles

17:55David: that are going to be etched with our logo on it.

17:59David: And there's only to ask about that one.

18:00David: It's only going to be 10 bottles.

18:03David: So what that bottle does, and it'll be three hundred fifty dollars for that.

18:07David: That'll give you a one in ten chance at a Christensen Mesa

18:12David: honey rifle. I think that's in six point five Creedmoor.

18:15David: It's a really nice gun.

18:17David: It also includes a loophole scope on it.

18:21David: It's it's really nice.

18:22David: So that'll be a one in ten chance at being able to get that firearm.

18:27David: I don't think that our prices are unreasonable.

18:29David: And what you get for it is going to be pretty nice.

18:33Gary: We talk about raffle and the whole event and everything like that.

18:35Gary: And it being reasonable.

18:38Gary: What are the funds going to not maybe not exactly, but specifically

18:42Gary: so they can know exactly where these raffle money gets applied to?

18:49David: Thank you so much for that question, because this is a Ducks Unlimited event.

18:53David: And the money raised by Ducks Unlimited goes into

18:57David: habitat conservation for waterfowl, specifically

19:02David: into the wetlands here in all of North America.

19:06David: The way Ducks Unlimited operates is we go out and try to influence

19:12David: the preservation, conservation and use of America's wetlands

19:16David: along the along the waterfowl flyways.

19:20David: I've got some statistics here, but last year in Alabama,

19:24David: we raised almost seven hundred thousand dollars, of which you and your

19:29David: viewers that came to the event helped to contribute to last year.

19:33David: This year, it's been a great year.

19:35David: I think we're up over a million dollars for this fiscal year.

19:40David: This event will really this event will contribute to that.

19:43David: Now, one of the things that you'll also need to know that Ducks

19:47David: Unlimited does a really good job with the fundraising.

19:50David: Over 88 percent of the funds raised by, you know,

19:55David: by volunteers like myself and my team go back into the ground

19:59David: or into programs to help preserve the wetlands.

20:04David: A real high efficiency there.

20:06David: On top of that, we work really well with state

20:10David: and federal agencies, both in the United States and in Canada

20:14David: and also Mexico, to help match those dollars.

20:18David: The dollars that we raise on that Monday night on the 24th,

20:23David: really, you can multiply that almost by four to know what the true impact

20:28David: of that that money is going to be.

20:29David: And it will be applied both here in the state of Alabama,

20:33David: as well as where our ducks and waterfowl come from.

20:37David: Right now, they're in their breeding season up in a lot of the ducks

20:40David: that we end up seeing here in Alabama from Ontario.

20:44David: So that's where the money goes to help make sure that those areas are concerned.

20:49David: It's a good cause.

20:50David: It helps out the waterfowl.

20:52David: But in addition to that, the wetlands are Mother Nature's kidneys.

20:56David: So if you like, you know, clean water, you know, this has a lot of impacts

21:01David: across a lot of things, not just waterfowl.

21:04David: So appreciate your all support.

21:07Gary: Very, very much appreciated from you as well, sir.

21:10Devin: The other question is not going to buy it.

21:12Devin: He's not going to buy it. Don't worry. He's OK.

21:15Gary: The other question I had was kind of the counter question of that,

21:18Gary: because obviously this this was set up to help.

21:22Gary: Hypothetically, if it hadn't have come around and you guys

21:24Gary: aren't doing what you're doing,

21:26David: where what do you think the state of all that would be right now?

21:29David: That's a really good question.

21:32David: And probably, you know, when you think about the development

21:35David: that's happened in America's wetlands, a lot of them, you know, would be disappearing.

21:40David: If it if it weren't for volunteers to step in

21:44David: and to make sure that, you know, the habitat remains around for for the waterfowl,

21:50David: but not just for the waterfowl, but for everything.

21:53David: And Ducks Unlimited, it's not

21:56David: it's a conservation organization, not a preservation organization.

22:00David: So we work with businesses, farmers, agriculture

22:06David: so that we're using the land in a good way,

22:08David: but in a way that is going to provide habitat for the wildlife so they don't disappear.

22:14Gary: You're talking long term.

22:15Gary: This is long term planning and you couldn't ask for anything better.

22:19Gary: I'll be honest with you.

22:20Gary: You're it does good and we get to have a good event.

22:23David: I mean, there's that's a win win.

22:25David: Well, yeah.

22:26David: So, I mean, that's the name of the game is obviously as an organizer,

22:31David: I want to raise a lot of money.

22:33David: But we also want to make this a great experience for the people that show up.

22:38David: We understand that this group may not be duck hunters.

22:44David: May not be waterfowlers.

22:45David: And that's fine. It's you come on out.

22:48David: We've got stuff for everybody.

22:50David: As I've told some people, we might be better called be called the ATF

22:54David: chapter because we're going to provide, you know, alcohol, tobacco and firearms.

22:59David: You know, if you like one or any combination of three,

23:01David: you are going to find something that you'll enjoy at this event,

23:06David: as well as, you know, we've got stuff for the significant other or

23:11David: and one of our most popular tables is tailgating table.

23:13David: So, yeah, that's a winner.

23:16David: Take all we're going to give you a tent, a couple of chairs, cooler stove.

23:20David: I'm working on getting a TV for the event.

23:24David: That's winner take all.

23:25Gary: And you get to get to take that home.

23:28Gary: Gotcha. Yeah, that's a buddy of mine.

23:31Gary: He was there last year and he did the banner one for 20 bucks.

23:34Gary: He took home a pellet grill.

23:35Gary: Oh, yeah. But yeah. Yep.

23:39Gary: OK. How about that?

23:41Gary: Well, I think that hits a lot of notes there.

23:44Gary: I think we're looking good so far.

23:45Gary: What are some of the other major sponsors that help out with this

23:48David: besides good people and yourself?

23:50David: Yeah. So good people, they give us the event, the space to use.

23:55David: And they've been a great partner.

23:57David: Cigars and more.

23:58David: We could not do this event without without them,

24:02David: because they do provide the cigars, the samplers that

24:07David: everyone's going to get a chance to chance to enjoy.

24:10David: Watts Realty is who provides us the the valet parking.

24:15David: So, again, that's one of those things we couldn't do it do it without them.

24:19David: And then we're getting donations from from Nichols, from Bass Pro,

24:25David: Precision Tactical, as well as Hoover Tactical.

24:28David: And I just heard you like this kind of late breaking news for

24:32David: I'm not going to probably have this for everybody,

24:36David: but for a lot of the folks who come in early, they're going to be able to get a

24:40David: a one day free pass to to Hoover Tactical.

24:44David: So that's that's another thing that we're going to try to try to provide folks.

24:49David: So got a lot of a lot of good support from local local vendors

24:53David: around here that are being able to provide some really quality stuff.

24:58David: Yeah. OK. And we're not and we're not done yet.

25:01David: So there's probably going to be some some stuff that we're going to get

25:04Gary: in the next couple of weeks that'll add to it.

25:07Gary: Right. So this is just the tip of a proverbial iceberg.

25:11Gary: That's right. Things that are going to happen.

25:14Gary: Well, we appreciate you stopping out telling us all about this.

25:17David: Do we have any more to add there, Mr. John?

25:19David: And the interview is yours.

25:20David: OK. OK. Dave, how long

25:24David: ducks and limit been around?

25:25David: OK. Another good question.

25:26David: So the organization started in 1937.

25:30David: Really? A group of duck hunters.

25:32David: This is during the Dust Bowl era.

25:34David: And also, there was a lot of market hunting that was going on.

25:37David: It was just wiping out the ducks during that era.

25:41David: This group of duck hunters came together and just said, we got to change.

25:45David: We got to change the tone here.

25:47David: We got to do something.

25:48David: Otherwise, we're going to lose this great natural resource.

25:50David: And so that's where it started a long time ago.

25:53Devin: OK. Yeah, I spent a while.

25:54Devin: Now, are you guys associated also with the clothing line?

25:57David: That's Ducks Unlimited Clothing Line.

25:59David: Yeah. So the logo, the trademark logo stuff.

26:02David: Yep. And we've got some.

26:04David: And we're going to have some branded merchandise

26:06David: that will be given away at this event, too.

26:09David: So we'll have a we'll have a mix of stuff.

26:13David: And to your point over the since 1937, I think this year

26:19David: Ducks Unlimited will cap over six billion dollars raised

26:23David: and volunteer fund raising over over those years.

26:28David: A lot of great support from a lot of great people doing

26:30Devin: doing some really good stuff.

26:33Devin: And you guys have grown exponentially over that particular time.

26:37Devin: Right. And the awareness, I think that every that comes out of each year

26:41Devin: that you guys do this right here, man, it's it's especially when the

26:47Devin: when the raffles go crazy, man, oh, man, you know, that stuff right there.

26:52Devin: People start talking. Well, you hear Devin, you know, and of course, I myself,

26:56Devin: I was at the very first annual event of the of the event when

27:01Devin: when when you guys were at the one out on 280.

27:04Devin: Right. Over there.

27:05Devin: And Superior Grill, I believe it was.

27:08Devin: Yeah, Superior Grill. Right. Wow.

27:10Devin: Yeah, that was a ball right there.

27:12Devin: And that got a lot of publicity.

27:14Devin: Man, that got a ton of publicity.

27:16Devin: I will just say something right quick like here, Dave.

27:19Devin: I actually found one of the clothing lines here that you guys

27:24Devin: this very appealing in some sense here.

27:26Devin: And it's it's actually one of the camouflage clothing lines right here

27:31Devin: by the Ducks, do you I got to say it's it's quite

27:36Devin: it's quite revealing there.

27:37Devin: I just didn't know whether or not that was going to be at the event or not.

27:42Devin: I wasn't sure.

27:43Gary: I wouldn't quite count on that.

27:45Gary: But OK, all right. OK.

27:47Gary: Well, the audio listeners are loving not having any idea

27:51Gary: what we're talking about right now. This is wonderful.

27:53Devin: I was looking I was looking up your clothing line there

27:58Devin: and I was like, oh, that's pretty.

27:59Gary: And then that run across and I said, OK, all right.

28:02Gary: Well, you should come dress like that there, Gary. Yeah.

28:05Devin: Yeah. And just burn retinas from here to the sun.

28:09Devin: Yeah, that will do it right there.

28:11Devin: Dave, thank you.

28:11Devin: I appreciate everything what you have you guys done.

28:16Devin: I've got some dear, dear good friends

28:18Devin: in that particular organization for the other companies over there.

28:22Devin: They're actually working for the per se enemy, if you will.

28:25Devin: But nevertheless, Jeff Alverson, Bob Sollentroff,

28:31Devin: all those guys, we go back a long ways.

28:34Devin: Ralph Welch and we go back a long ways for for for what you guys do.

28:40Devin: And they have pushed the fool out of this thing each and every year.

28:45Devin: So that's a good group to be associated with right there.

28:48John: It is. And I don't think there's anything wrong

28:51John: with saying the name of that other company because they are an official sponsor

28:55John: and they're on the flyer along with us.

28:56David: Is that Bellicoso? Bellicoso.

28:58David: Cigars. So yes, sir.

29:00David: Well, and I'll tell you, Bob, since you mentioned his name,

29:04David: just like, you know, he's not just a member of this chapter,

29:07David: but he's now the state chairman for Ducks Unlimited within within Alabama.

29:12David: So why? It's great.

29:14David: It's great having him as as part of this.

29:18David: And and this is getting some visibility across the state.

29:22Devin: Good. Great. You picked a you picked a good one.

29:25Devin: I'm telling you, you picked a good one.

29:27Devin: So that's great.

29:28Devin: He's going to make leaps and bounds in the organization from time to come.

29:33David: Yeah, very good.

29:34David: Well, I'd love to have you and your entire audience come out

29:37David: to see us on on the 24th and have a great time.

29:42David: Spend it. Spend a little money.

29:43David: Hopefully get something out of it and then have a good time.

29:48Devin: You know, you'll see the five of us there. You'll see it.

29:52Devin: Well, we appreciate your time today.

29:54Devin: Very much so. And I know the sacrifice is on your end,

29:58Devin: but we really do.

29:59Devin: We appreciate your time and efforts in doing this right here.

30:02Devin: And if you can, again, my name is Gary.

30:04Devin: And if you see those guys over there, just tell them I said hello.

30:07David: We'll see them during the event.

30:09David: I sure will.

30:11David: I'm getting ready to step into a planning meeting right now.

30:14John: All right. Well, thank you, Mr. David.

30:16John: All right. Well, you guys have a great afternoon.

30:20John: You too. Thank you.

30:22John: Thanks a lot, David. I'll be in touch.

30:24John: All right. Thanks. Take care, Dave.

30:27John: I really want to thank David for joining us and doing that interview.

30:30John: I know I kind of stayed quiet through all of it as allowing Devon's

30:34John: superior interview skills to take hold there.

30:37John: I thought I did pretty well.

30:39John: I'm going to give me a minute while I take my boots off now.

30:42John: It's taking place at Good People and Good People has been around since like

30:45John: 08 and it's a great brewery.

30:48John: There's a little bit of story that a couple of sorry, Auburn alumni

30:54John: on home brewers couldn't take it anymore.

30:56John: They created their own beer.

30:59John: Good People. It was a little bit stronger than the state's six percent cap.

31:04John: These guys did a lot to help change that.

31:06John: So the microbrewery explosion

31:11John: in Alabama can almost be traced back to Good People.

31:13John: I just wanted to throw that in. Is that right?

31:15Devin: Correct. Good job. Yes, sir.

31:17John: They were one of the originals.

31:19John: They've got a really long history that you really have to dig for.

31:22John: I think their story is fascinating and it should be on their website.

31:25John: What would I know about marketing and social media and publicizing things?

31:30Gary: Nothing. Nothing at all.

31:32John: Let's get them on here one day.

31:33John: Yeah, maybe maybe I can reach out to them.

31:36John: Maybe before the event, maybe we're going to end up doing a month.

31:39Gary: The April of Ducks Unlimited. Nice.

31:43Gary: I tell you what, I would like to record that podcast on site with beer in hand.

31:50Devin: I learned on my other podcast, don't drink on the podcast.

31:54Devin: Oh, wow.

31:56Devin: I'm going to counterculture to that because I'm drinking right now.

31:59Devin: Oh, there you are. Oh, my God.

32:01Devin: It ain't water.

32:02John: I imagine whiskey and friends enjoys a libation or two during the recording.

32:08Devin: That's right. That's right.

32:10Devin: I don't think do we have any distilled?

32:12Devin: We have do. Is there any distilleries here in Alabama?

32:15Devin: Yeah. Red Mountain or Redmont. Sorry.

32:17Devin: Is that right? No kidding.

32:19Gary: Red Mountain distillery. Red Redmont distillery. Yeah.

32:23Gary: Red. That's right next to Cahaba.

32:24John: Like it's we literally within walking distance, they use the same parking lot.

32:28John: Why?

32:29John: Cahaba uses their libation.

32:31John: A hundred years ago, everything in downtown Birmingham was within walking distance.

32:36Devin: It's true. True. Boy, I miss that.

32:39Gary: God, I miss that.

32:41Gary: He just said he was over.

32:42John: I was going to say, Gary, we know you're old, but I don't think we're quite that old.

32:47Devin: You don't know. I know. I don't know. But

32:54Devin: back then, they use my they use my posture as as part of the Vulcan up there.

33:01Devin: Back when you were fit and thin.

33:03Devin: Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

33:05Devin: Just the fingers, fingers on.

33:07Gary: That's what she said.

33:09Gary: So there we go.

33:10Gary: Be sure. Make sure to check out our website for the podcast,

33:14Gary: for for cigar gear, all that kind of stuff.

33:17Gary: And a special link for the the Ducks Unlimited event.

33:20Gary: You'll find all of this stuff in the podcast description below.

33:24Gary: I highly recommend you check that out.

33:26Gary: The event is coming up very soon.

33:29Gary: So be ready for that.

33:31John: I'm hoping we'll be able to get in there

33:34John: like we did last year, you know what I mean? Wink, wink.

33:37John: Yeah, we know what websites smoking underground dot com.

33:41John: Everything's there. Stuff to cover on the shows, all our back episodes,

33:44John: back videos, things like that, and all the subscriber follow links,

33:48John: depending how you do it with podcast.

33:51John: We're just about on every podcast host player, whether it be Spotify,

33:55John: your Apple choices, your Google choices, your Android choices.

33:58John: It's all there.

34:00John: And what we ask, we don't we ask that you subscribe.

34:03John: And then the other thing that we do ask for is that you tell a friend

34:06John: about the show. That's the best thing you can do for us.

34:09John: You don't have to give us money.

34:11John: You don't have to just tell a friend about the show.

34:14Devin: I mean, you can give us money if you want to, but we don't.

34:16Devin: We're not. Yeah, exactly.

34:18Devin: You buy us a cigar if you want to or drink if you want to.

34:20Gary: We don't mind. Hey, hey.

34:22Gary: Somebody emails in.

34:23Gary: I'd like to I'd like to take Devin out for a drink sometime

34:27Gary: to smoke cigars and stuff. Yeah, sure. Yeah, let's do it.

34:31Devin: You mean emails us a cigar is it smoking underground dot com?

34:36Devin: Yeah, exactly.

34:37Devin: See, easy is like it all rolls together in one giant cigar. Right.

34:43Devin: That's which, you know, and you got a brother forever after that,

34:46John: which in my mind, that cigar that it all gets rolled into is a Camacho Candela.

34:50John: I can't remind me.

34:50John: I wanted to order a new Candela and I forgot to a better double check

34:55Devin: and see if it's still available.

34:57Devin: I still have my hemp cigar available.

34:59John: I just thought what you know.

35:00John: Unfortunately, cigars and more does carry the cigars,

35:03John: but they did not jump on to the small release of Candela's by that manufacturer.

35:10John: And we do think cigars and more of I told a fine cigars

35:13John: for sponsoring this podcast, providing it, helping put it together, backing us.

35:19John: They're actually who provide us our cigars for every episode.

35:24John: That's right. That's right.

35:25John: He's wonderful.

35:27John: I've got no legal happenings for you guys this week.

35:30John: I'll apologize. Just no legal lights.

35:33John: No, we've got that episode coming up that

35:37John: I kind of go to town on legal legal stuff.

35:39John: So we'll give you a break from this one.

35:41Gary: That one will be rolling around the corner here in a week or two.

35:45Gary: That's all right. We'll get it next week.

35:47Gary: So what was the date on the Ducks Unlimited

35:49Gary: one more time before we get towards the end here?

35:51John: Well, the quick wrap up of the Ducks Unlimited Monday, April 24th, six 30 to nine.

35:57John: And they do a really good job of ending it at nine.

35:59John: I mean, if you want to stay later, you can. But

36:02Gary: five thirty to eight, isn't it?

36:04Gary: Yeah, it's already done.

36:05Gary: It looks like five thirty five thirty.

36:08Gary: Yeah, and they do. They they wrap up quick.

36:09Gary: Because I remember the other events.

36:11Gary: They're like, OK, we're done.

36:12John: They're packing up and like sixty dollars in advance for tickets.

36:16John: You're going to get cigars worth 60 bucks.

36:19John: I guarantee you that. That's what last year.

36:21John: Plus, you're going to get the food.

36:22John: You're going to get a couple of beers. Parking's handled for you.

36:26John: That's the worst thing about going downtown.

36:29John: I'm assuming there's no baseball game that night.

36:32John: So God, I hope not.

36:34John: Not not not really our problem, because we don't have to worry about parking.

36:39John: And then I can't remember Porky's.

36:41John: We were talking about pigs. Porky's Porky's food truck was there.

36:45John: And they fell a little bit behind last year, but they got it handled and

36:50John: wasn't wasn't too bad.

36:52Gary: Barbecue. It's a great event with the beer.

36:55Gary: And I'll be honest with you.

36:56Gary: Oh, nice, man. Good. Good deal.

37:00Gary: And I highly encourage the event because like my buddy Garth, no joke,

37:04Gary: he put in one twenty dollar ticket and got it.

37:07John: And Devin didn't buy any tickets and got towed.

37:10John: That is accurate. That is accurate.

37:14John: That is accurate.

37:15John: I didn't know about that till tonight.

37:18John: I remember him telling me about this great parking spot he found, blah, blah, blah.

37:21John: And I'm wedged into this alley.

37:24Gary: And yep.

37:26Gary: Oh, no.

37:27Devin: One hundred and thirty five dollars.

37:31Devin: Oh, wow.

37:32Devin: And that could have been you could have won.

37:35Devin: You could have won the pellet grill.

37:36Gary: I tell you, if I had to want a rifle or something, I would have gone.

37:39Gary: I don't even care.

37:40Devin: I don't even care. Oh, man.

37:42Devin: Well, that was an over to spend money.

37:44John: Say, had I won a rifle, I wouldn't care.

37:48John: We can construe that a couple of different ways.

37:51John: They do not provide ammunition at the event.

37:53Gary: Remember? No, they do not.

37:56Gary: I'm saying if I had to want a big time item like that,

37:59Gary: I would have been like, yeah, hundred and thirty three dollars.

38:01John: I'm good. I'm coming out way on top tonight.

38:03John: Good. Yeah, right. Right.

38:05John: You should have submitted that to Harris.

38:08Gary: It's a podcast expense.

38:10Gary: Yeah, right.

38:12Gary: Oh, hey, it's not a bad idea.

38:15Gary: I didn't think about that.

38:15John: I was just like, I guarantee you, when I go to a car event for my car podcast,

38:21John: that all goes into the business business expenses.

38:24John: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Park there again this year, Dave.

38:27John: Yeah, I'm good. I'm good.

38:29John: What we think of the 20 acre farm, you know, I smoked it a week or two ago.

38:34John: By the way, I've taken to usually I have a long drive home on

38:38John: when I'm coming back from on the road and I've taken to smoking

38:41John: at least a cigar in the car.

38:44John: I bought a little 12 volt USB powered HEPA filter thing.

38:49John: Did you? I let it run all the time, even when I'm not smoking it.

38:53John: But while I'm driving, which I'm in the car five hours a day,

38:57John: so it's running all the time and I do the window cracking thing.

39:01John: The following day, you can kind of get a touch of cigar odor.

39:05John: But by the end of the day, it's pretty much eaten up.

39:07John: I'm happy with that.

39:09John: We'll have a link to that little HEPA filter.

39:11John: It's like I don't do any of that.

39:13John: It's like 20 bucks.

39:14John: We'll have a link to it on the shop on smoking underground.com.

39:18Gary: Yeah, I may have to actually try that out because I use

39:21Gary: we'll have a whole episode about how to smoke in your vehicle

39:24Gary: and other places like that, because I've been doing a lot of research on that.

39:27John: When I order that Candela, I'm ordering some of their odor absorbing gel.

39:32John: If you buy two, you get one free.

39:34John: So it's like 20 bucks for three of these things.

39:37John: And it works really well.

39:38John: Just in the summer, it turns to liquid really quick in a car in Alabama.

39:43Gary: OK, better.

39:45Gary: Well, you send me the link for that as well, because I'd love to be able

39:48Gary: to give it a hand hand review of that HEPA filter of all that kind of stuff.

39:51Gary: Because when we do an episode about filtration,

39:54Gary: I think it would be an excellent check on it, because like in my truck,

39:59Gary: I don't use any filter except for that.

40:01Gary: I forget the name of it, but it's a little puck that helps to do that with.

40:04Gary: And it's a it's a neat aspect to think that you could smoke in your vehicle

40:08Gary: and it still smelled just fine. Anybody can get it.

40:11John: Yeah, I learned today and I don't have a lot of details.

40:14John: Audi employs five people,

40:17John: and their job is to smell the interiors of every Audi produced

40:23John: to verify that the smells are correct.

40:28John: Wow. What?

40:31John: Because the different fabrics and stuff that they use for interiors,

40:35John: they want to make sure the leather smells leather.

40:39John: There's not an overpowering scent of glue or something.

40:43John: So there's five people on staff at Audi that their jobs.

40:47John: And I don't know if they do it to every single car that's produced,

40:50John: but they're steering wheel sniffers.

40:53Gary: Yeah, I think that's that.

40:54Gary: That's all they do.

40:56Gary: Like they get paid like sixty thousand dollars a year.

40:59Devin: And all they do is smell.

41:01Devin: I bet they get paid more than sixty thousand dollars a year.

41:05Devin: As engineers. Yeah, they get paid more than that.

41:09Devin: No, I bet that is all they do.

41:13Devin: Yeah, I tell you what I was impressed with, John,

41:15Devin: you saying that right there when I was down at Mercedes,

41:18Devin: walked into a particular area where the engineers did audio

41:23Devin: and they had this particular area right there where you can move speakers around

41:28Devin: and get these particular the the engineering of where the speakers would go

41:34Devin: in a particular, you know, automobile.

41:37Devin: In this particular case, we're in Alabama.

41:39Devin: So advanced, they did the M class down there.

41:42Devin: When I was there.

41:43Devin: Wow. So they they literally had the engineering where they could move stuff around.

41:47Devin: That was fascinating.

41:49Devin: That was very fascinating.

41:51John: And now with AI and the computer control stuff that's out,

41:54John: they can put the speakers anywhere in the car.

41:57John: And then they just position a couple of microphones like near the driver

42:00John: and near the passenger.

42:02John: And you it can optimize the sound by delaying the signal to the speakers.

42:08John: Wow. That's pretty cool.

42:10John: That's crazy. Yeah.

42:11John: We used to get a little bit into that years ago when I got it,

42:15John: it was in the car stereo or you'd put a capacitor or something

42:19John: to just slow a signal, get it to a certain speaker.

42:22John: And then when I was doing home theater in the mid 90s,

42:26John: you could set up two microsecond or three microsecond or millisecond

42:31John: delay for the rear speakers or the front speakers or the signal

42:36John: gets sent to the rear speakers just prior to the front speakers.

42:39John: So that the sound arrived at your sweet listening spot

42:43Devin: at the same point in time.

42:45Devin: Yeah. Yeah.

42:47Devin: Audio engineering is a very big deal.

42:50Devin: It's a huge, man. Huge.

42:53John: Yeah. Sounds sound therapy.

42:55John: So what did you guys we got?

42:56John: Well, I got way distracted and I went way off topic.

42:59John: What did you guys think of that?

43:01John: The 20 acre farm or boost, so after you've now smoked it a little bit on the show

43:05John: and we retail it for 1269 cigars or more Vitole fine cigars.

43:11Gary: Well, it's definitely not an Alfonso, obviously.

43:14Gary: I would say that if you didn't want to pay the thirty five dollars

43:18Gary: for an Alfonso and you wanted something similar in a similar vein,

43:23Gary: you'd definitely hit the right mark on this.

43:25Gary: It's got all the great notes when it comes to the sun, the golden sun grown.

43:31Gary: It's got a nice lightweight flavor to it.

43:34Gary: The the ring gauge of this one is perfect.

43:36Gary: I'm using a wide mouth punch on mine.

43:39Gary: I got to say everything about this has been spectacular.

43:42Gary: I'm hoping I can get a few more of these.

43:44Gary: I think I'm going to add this to my repertoire of cigars.

43:48John: Now, I'm reading this little history on that cigar.

43:51John: Majestic Florida sun grown leaf, which is actually grown

43:55John: in central Florida in a town called Claremont

44:00John: on a 20 acre plot of land.

44:03John: That's pretty cool.

44:03Gary: I love the fact that it has a US grown leaf in it.

44:07Gary: I love that. I absolutely love that.

44:10Devin: The seed that they're using for Florida sungrowns a Sumatra. Right.

44:14Devin: I know that because I've got some.

44:16John: It's pretty neat.

44:18John: Rower, which I unfortunately I cannot pronounce his last name, Jeff Boyerski.

44:23John: Boyer is it wits.

44:25John: It's he created the Corona Cigar Company in 1996.

44:31John: Started growing tobacco on the small farm in 2013

44:36John: with hopes of reviving tobaccos from the Sunshine State, as it says,

44:41John: which has a legacy of growing cigar tobaccos that had ended in 1977.

44:46John: So it's something he's trying to revitalize 30, 40 years later.

44:51John: It's great.

44:53John: Good, good, good.

44:54John: He's doing a good job so far.

44:55John: If you haven't had it, it's pretty good.

44:57John: It's only been on the market for about four months right now.

45:00Gary: Yeah, it's very nice.

45:01Gary: And I'm telling you that that 1269 price point

45:05Gary: that you can get more.

45:07Gary: You could definitely charge more.

45:08John: Dead on me.

45:09John: Heck yeah. We probably will.

45:11John: Yeah.

45:12Devin: If it. Yeah, by all means.

45:15Devin: Yeah. If it was a beer, it would probably be a good logger.

45:18Gary: Yeah. You know. Yeah.

45:20Devin: I could see that. You know.

45:22Devin: Yeah. Well, that was a good.

45:23Devin: That's a good stick, though. Sure is.

45:25Gary: Well, a special thanks to Mr.

45:27Gary: David Patton at Ducks Unlimited.

45:29Gary: I thank you, Gary. Thank you, John.

45:31Gary: John, you do a lot of work.

45:32Gary: We really do appreciate it.

45:33Gary: Yes, you do. And God bless you.

45:35Gary: And make sure you guys subscribe to the podcast

45:39Gary: and all of your favorite podcast locations, whatever device.

45:42Gary: And like we said, tell a friend, you know, just tell them, hey,

45:45Gary: I got a good podcast here about some guys talking about cigars and events.

45:49Gary: And just just share it around.

45:51Gary: That's all you got to do.

45:52Gary: Just somebody somebody else, you know, who smokes don't have to have them.

45:55Gary: Anything. Just send them the link.

45:57Gary: Say, hey, you should take a listen to this.

45:59Gary: Now you got that's it.

46:00Gary: That's all it takes. That's it.

46:02Gary: It's like it's like John's face.

46:04Devin: That's it. That's all you get.

46:06Devin: You can't handle anymore.

46:08Devin: That's like the truth.

46:10Devin: You can't handle the truth.

46:12Devin: You can't handle the truth.

46:14Devin: It's like rich wagyu beef.

46:17Devin: You know, you can only handle so much, you know, but it's so good.

46:20John: So, you know, so it can only afford so much.

46:24John: Not not all of us make the money.

46:26Devin: Gary, that's right.

46:29Devin: God, where did that come from?

46:30Gary: That's what we ask all the time.

46:33Gary: Exactly. Oh, it comes in with gold chalices, you know, full of,

46:37Gary: you know, gold and slugger, you know, that's, you know,

46:40Gary: all this kind of fancy stuff.

46:41John: He's smoking a hundred dollar cigar.

46:43John: The reason Gary brought up the wagyu beef is that's what he will be serving

46:48John: and his next shift at Vitola on Saturday.

46:52Devin: No, I will.

46:53Devin: So you should be smoking up 300 pounds of it.

46:59Devin: Boy, I wished my hundred dollars a plate.

47:01John: The Chipotle lime glaze.

47:04John: Oh, stop it. I'm getting hungry.

47:07John: Don't pair your to go on the side.

47:09John: And I picked up some salad dressing this weekend in the mountains

47:13John: over in North Carolina.

47:14John: We were at the mountain house over the weekend.

47:15John: Bacon, maple, balsamic vinaigrette with something else in it.

47:21John: It's a little bit sweet, but it's damn, it's good.

47:24John: Oh, it was. Huh?

47:26John: That's the same place I get my chili jalapeno dip, which.

47:30John: I've compared it to fentanyl.

47:34John: What they must do is mix this up in a big vat and they throw some chilies in there

47:39John: because the last thing I got had just a light hint of chili.

47:44John: This one, I think I got all the chilies.

47:47John: It's hotter than hell.

47:50John: Wow. It's kind of like, you know, fentanyl.

47:52John: They mix it up in a bathtub.

47:53John: So your heroin gets some of it gets just a little bit.

47:56John: Other ones gets a big chunk.

47:58Gary: And that's where you owe the.

48:02Gary: So, OK.

48:03Gary: Thank you, everybody, for joining us today on our salad dressing episode

48:07Devin: of smoking underground.

48:10Devin: That's awesome. That's great.

48:12John: Stick around to the end. You'll never know what happens.

48:15Gary: You'll never know. I'm out of here, though, tonight, guys.

48:17Gary: Thanks a lot.

48:19Gary: All right, everybody.

48:20Gary: Thanks for joining us on Smoking Underground.

48:21Gary: Join us next time for the next exciting adventure of smoking underground.

48:24Gary: How many times can I say smoking underground in one sentence?

48:27Gary: All right. I'm a Vitola Saturday.

48:29Devin: Good night, everybody. Good night.