Episode 1: Saint‘s Alley Bourbon, Austin Trip Recap & Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 Update
May 26, 2026
In this first episode of the Bourbon Bytes Podcast, I'll be recapping my trip to Austin, Texas for the Bastard's Ball and LaQuinta Meetup. I'll be tasting Saint's Alley "The Herald" Bourbon finished in Armagnac Casks while also discussing the Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 update coming November 5th. Find Bourbon Bytes across the web: http://BourbonBytes.com
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Hello and welcome to the very first episode of the Bourbon Bites podcast. I'm your host Clifton
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You may know me from WhiskeyTube. I've been making whiskey reviews with a gaming twist
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for about three and a half years now on YouTube, but I suddenly had the idea
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why not create a podcast? I feel like I've been looking for a platform to talk more news
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whether it's whiskey or video games, and just have, I guess, a free flow of conversation with
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myself as opposed to the live streams over on YouTube. So thank you for tuning in. Hopefully
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you enjoyed this first episode. If you've not met me, hi, like I said, I'm Clifton. I am based out
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of Los Angeles, California. I live here with my husband. We're originally from South Carolina
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but moved out here in 2018. I work in TV production, mostly behind the scenes, of course
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doing a bit of editing as my day job. But like I said, I've been reviewing whiskey for about three
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a little over three years on YouTube now, but I wanted to try something new. So thank you for
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coming along for the ride. This episode is probably going to only be on Podbean at the moment. Of
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course, I think you have to have at least one episode produced and published to the world
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before you're on other platforms. So look for me in the future on Apple and Spotify and iHeartRadio
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and things like that. But yes, like I said, I am from the world of WhiskeyTube. So I'm used to
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doing hour long live streams. I do them on Thursday evenings at 7pm Pacific 10pm Eastern
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If you're not yet subscribed on YouTube, that's right now my baby. That's like where I'm at almost
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most of my time. But yeah, this podcast is kind of more of an experiment. We'll see how it goes
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I'm really looking forward to today's episode, because this is the week that I have returned
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from Austin, Texas. Yes, I was in town when everyone was there for the s Ball
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except I didn't go to the s Ball because I didn't have tickets this year. But I had a ton
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of fun hanging out with other channels, meeting some viewers. And really, I thought this would be
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a fun opportunity to kind of recap some of my favorite memories from that trip. But we're also
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going to throw in the gaming twist because, of course, this isn't just a whiskey podcast
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although it's mostly whiskey the new animal crossing new horizons 2.0 update was announced
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earlier this week or i guess over the weekend my husband was watching it on the flight to
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texas so we're going to recap a little bit of those new updates coming in november 5th but first
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i gotta get something in my glass so one thing that i learned that happened at the bachelors ball
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is there was a sort of crowd favorite. And that was one by a brand that I was not familiar with
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It's called Saints Alley. And what that actually is, is a collaboration between Iron Root and Chris the Liquor Hound
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who's another whiskey tube channel over on YouTube. Definitely check out his stuff
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But yeah, they have a release called The Herald. Like I said, it's Saints Alley bourbon
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So this is batch number one. It's a blend of straight bourbon whiskey finished in Armagnette cask
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So they have a few different releases. I actually picked up the one called The Heretic, which is finished in rum cask
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But I wanted to just, you know, keep it simple with this first podcast. I'm just going to try this first one
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And then maybe for a future stream, I'll do some comparison. But yeah, I was really excited
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I did have a chance to try this. Someone brought back a sample bottle from the actual ball
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And I do got to say, I was in love with it. So if you haven't heard of this brand, I think it's brand new
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It just came out end of last year. Like I said, Iron Root, they are they're using Iron Roots stock as well as MGP
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So it's a nice blend, of course, curated by Chris over at Liquor Hound
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But yeah, I want to get some of that in my glass. This is actually a fresh cork pop on my way home from work
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I stopped at Total Wine and grabbed this bottle. So yeah, let's go ahead and get that popped for you
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And let's go get in our glass. Not sure how well that came through
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We'll find out in editing. by the way um sorry if there are any audio issues or anything like that in this first recording
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it's first time doing this i know the mic seems a little hot so i really apologize if it does peak
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a little i will work on that in future episodes work on those settings but for now like i said
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this is kind of just a test run seeing how things go so i'm gonna pour that into my glass
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all right let's go and give that a nose before we dive into uh talking about austin oh yeah on
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the nose there's definitely some mgp in here i think that's i'm a big fan of well blended mgp
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i think a lot of people are um but there is a little bit of extra oak in there and i think
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that's probably coming from the iron root um so i'm gonna let that sit in the glass for a little
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bit um and i'll introduce you to i guess our trip so we flew in on friday um that was friday the
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15th i believe of october so we got in around 1 p.m uh everyone was staying at the same la quinta
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that's kind of earned its reputation in the whiskey world. It's called the La Quinta. I guess
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Whiskey Fest is what we dubbed it this year. So we all stayed at the same hotel. I got there around
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one. Our good friends, Tammy and Brian Brinke also got there around the same time. So once we've all
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settled in for a bit, we decided, hey, let's just go to Fang and Feather, which is the bar at
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Crowded Barrel. So like I said, I wasn't going to the ball. Tammy and Brian were, but I wanted a
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chance to see the actual, I guess a little bit of the distillery, but also the tasting room
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So we pulled up at the crowded barrel and I think I just got starstruck
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I didn't realize that all of the whiskey tubers had decided to meet up there as well
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So we walked up the stairs and all of a sudden I hear Cliffy coming from everywhere. And I was so surprised
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I was a little stunned, but I saw all of my whiskey tube friends
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Of course, Rot Gut Review, Whiskey Crusaders, Eric Waite was doing a stream
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Daniel from the Whiskey Tribe was there. There were so many people there
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John from Co-op Whiskey, Michelle Davilar, Women of Whiskies was there. So many amazing, amazing channels
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Hopefully I'll eventually have some of them as guests on the podcast. Maybe we'll see. But man, what an awesome time and what an awesome greeting
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Of course, we went in to get a flight because I had actually only tried Eleanor once
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which is the Crowded Barrels, their whiskey, their first release to the public
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I did a flight. I think my favorite, they had a Isla cask finish
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That was really, really good. It wasn't peated, but it was like a really nice, interesting finish on that whiskey
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So definitely recommend checking out Fang and Feather, which is, again, their bar. They're open to the public
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But man, what an awesome time. What an awesome welcome into Austin
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So we hung out there for a bit until time for dinner with our good friends, Chad and
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Sarah from It's Burbanite. If you're not familiar with their channel, definitely check it out
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It was the inspiration behind my channel. I talk about that a lot on YouTube
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Maybe we'll get into my origin story. on a future episode of this podcast. But they are just so great people
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We went to this really cool Italian restaurant. I had a dish that was new to me
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but it was a like a seafood pasta kind of thing. And I'm not really an Italian food person
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That dish changed my mind. It was absolutely delicious. Of course Tammy and Brian joined us Had a wonderful time Had a lot of wine and Old Fashions It was like I said a good time But that was pretty much Friday We went back to the La Quinta There were a few people gathering there
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So I got a little bit of one-on-one time with some of the people that I had saw previously
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But yeah, that was Friday. But Saturday, Saturday was the big day
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So I'm going to go into this whiskey before I get into Saturday. Like I said, this is the Saints Alley
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This is the Armagnac finish. Let's go ahead and give it a try. Cheers, guys. And thanks for making it this far in the podcast
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there's a lot more of the iron root on the palate I see why this was a favorite among a lot of the
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channels this weekend it's really rich it's really dark but that Armagnac adds a ah man I don't have
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the most experience with Armagnac I've had basically one I know Fred who's a friend of the
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channel said he may be sending me a flight in the future so check out YouTube for that whenever that
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comes out uh but yeah so it's it's a flavor i'm not super familiar with it has a bit of like a
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sour note but not like an off-putting it it's kind of like a nice interesting twist the end
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of the finish it's it's up front with all of that oak and all that richness from the probably the
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iron root the texas whiskey um but the mgp gives it a nice balanced mid palette but the the armagnac
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finish just does something really really cool with that finish especially the fact that it gets a
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little bit tart but tart in like an apple kind of way oh man this is a great buy now I just picked
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this up at Total Wine thank you to Sarah from It's Berber Night who let me know that it was
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available nationwide in limited quantities my Total Wine website said you know C store
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basically we can't guarantee it's in stock so I did go pick it up today and I was surprised to see
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it like I said they also had their rum one there's one more in their their three whiskey lineup so
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I'm going to hold off until I have all three to do a comparison maybe on my channel maybe invite
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Chris the Liquor Hound on to do a stream with me. We'll see. But yeah, I just wanted to review this
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one because this was a lot of people's highlights of the weekend. And I got and I got to say, I see
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why it's just it's about $80 here in Southern California. It's at 107 proof. But it's it's it's
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a really for 107 proof. This drinks just as deep and rich as a cast strength whiskey. So I see why
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a lot of people love this one. So moving on to Saturday, which I think for me was the big day
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Most people's big day was Sunday because that was the actual ball itself. But for me, Saturday was the day that I got to hang with everyone officially
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So we actually started the day at Still Austin, which is a distillery that I have not featured on the channel at the time of recording
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However, I'm putting this episode out on Friday. If it goes well, if I even release this at all, I might just delete all this at the end
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We'll see if you're listening now. It made the cut. so technically for you if you're listening on Friday that stream with their founder Chris Seals
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comes out came out yesterday so check the replay over on YouTube youtube.com slash bourbon bites
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I actually hadn't met him prior I planned to do a still Austin stream they actually sent me all
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the bottles to do it their west coast reps were unavailable during my stream time so I was like
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no worries I'll you know I'll do my own thing I'll do my research and talk about it so I was
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like I'll wait till after the the weekend in Austin that way if I want to capture some b-roll
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which I did, I could use that for the stream. Little did I know that I was going to be meeting
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the CEO and co-founder of the company. And not just that, but actually vibing with him. Like we
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seriously, we actually wanted to hang out after, like he wanted to, he actually, he and his
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boyfriend were like wanting to, you know, meet up and, you know, go to bars and checks things out
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I think it was really, really nice to see that because I mean, you know, we're in Texas. I don't
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know how you know open most of texas i think austin is actually one of the most progressive
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parts of texas so i think he wanted to make us feel comfortable especially show us some of you
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know the top gay places which he did give us some suggestions thank you we went to this really cool
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uh gay bar we were there too early before the actual party started but they were going to have
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a musician later that night i think it's called cheer up charlie's um so if you're ever in austin
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check it out it had a really cool chill vibe um and they had some really good um cocktails there
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was one with rose water and vodka it was actually really really good i was very surprised and
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watermelon i forget what it was called but definitely try that one while you're there uh but so unfortunately i did not get to hang out with him he was tired as hell after the ball which
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is understandable uh so but he found out i was doing the stream on thursday and he was like
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oh wow can i come on i'm like can you come on like are you kidding me like absolutely you can
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come on this is crazy uh so uh like i said i'm that's actually tomorrow so if you if you're
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listening to this you've already heard it hopefully it goes well fingers crossed for me good karma um but yeah no he's a great guy and it was so great meeting him and hanging with him
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um and all the other whiskey tubers that were in still austin we got to try not only their core
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lineup but their ride that's coming out next year um and talked a little bit about some of their
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other limited releases so they have some really cool stuff coming up keep an eye on them because
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for a craft distillery they are blowing up in popularity so definitely get it it's making its
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slowly across the country the cast strength actually just got a nationwide release it's
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taken in a minute but i believe it's supposed to be nationwide now it could be i could be a little
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wrong check out the stream from yesterday um he may clarify that fact for me but i believe their
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bourbon is going to be a widespread release um their gin is great too so tons of fun at still
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austin doing that tour um but then after that we went to nickel city which is a bar in austin
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And that's where Chad and Sarah were having their official meetup for its bourbonite. My biggest takeaway from there was the fact that they had Stagg Jr. for $6 an ounce
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So I don't remember. I think they said it was batch 14. Chad actually bought me my first round
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And I was like, Chad, Stagg Jr., like that's expensive. Like you don't have to buy that. Don't worry, I'll buy it
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And then I found out $6. I'm like, oh my God. Okay, well, first of all, not to discredit his kindness
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I absolutely love that he bought me a pour of it. Chad, you're amazing. but yeah there were several more Stagg Juniors to be had that night but that was part of the
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highlight my second highlight was also thanks to Chad and our good friend Brian Brenneke I had the
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opportunity to try E.H. Taylor Warehouse C which is you know a lot of people's unicorns it's one of
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the hardest to find bottles of E.H. Taylor maybe not quite as hard as Tornado Survivor but up there
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so um chad and brian bought pours of that to share and i gotta say i was pretty impressed with it it
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wasn't it didn't blow me away to me it tasted like a really good single barrel pick of eh taylor so
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it's still the hundred proof you know the same as the regular release but it was really really
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delicious and it had a really great mouthfeel however i mean it was 40 i think uh per ounce
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at this bar. But you know, it's secondary. That thing, you know, goes for thousands. So
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I don't recommend chasing it. If you have the chance to try it at a bar, yeah, sure. Spend $40
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on a port. Just give it a try. I think it was worth it for the experience and share it with
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so many amazing other people. So thank you, Chad and Brian so much for that. But that was their
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meetup. Now I'm debating whether I'm going to talk about this or not in the podcast. So this
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part might be cut out Future note for Clivvy If you hearing it it was left in But after Chad and Sarah meetup I decided to kind of show up at Crowded Barrel So let me explain They they doing a whiskey tuber uh access to the
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vault, which all of the channels that were invited to come out with them, um, had access to go into
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the vault, um, have pours of whatever they wanted given to them. So a couple of people, not to name
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names, a couple of people suggested like, Hey, you should just, you know, show up and, you know, see if you can get in. So we did. And no one said anything. So we got to go in the vault
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which was crazy. I mean, the selection there was ridiculous. I feel like I if I hadn't been so I
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wasn't drunk at that point. But I feel like I kind of blew my palate with all the Stagg Jr. earlier at Chad and Sarah's meetup. I would have tried a lot more. But I did try a lot of
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interesting things. I tried Traverse Cities port finish, which was really, really good
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I had a few scotches that I was I forget the names of the ones that I had it I'll say this
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the weekend was a blur it got a little crazy especially at the La Quinta which is the next
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part of the story so we show up at the La Quinta the party has already started there are at least
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50 people in the lobby bottles all over the tables everywhere it was just it was everything
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I imagined it to be when I walked in of course same thing everyone greeted me I saw some new
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faces some people that are patrons uh shout out to nick the greek he was there i also saw um um
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several several other people a bourbon battalion was there uh again i said michelle david william
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and michelle davilar so many if i forget to name you i'm sorry i'm so glad to have met you um it was
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a bit again overwhelming but it was so great to see so many people that's actually where i tried
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the saints alley for the first time um which encouraged me to go buy these bottles that i'm
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drinking from right now. So it's such an experience to be able to just share bottles with other people
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I mean, as much as I love drinking new things, I love sharing new things. So I brought a older
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Knob Creek, one of the almost 15 year picks. I brought the new compass box, which I just recently
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reviewed on my YouTube channel, the Orchard House. So it was so fun to share those and also try some
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new things. So cheers to the La Quinta and cheers to that amazing party experience, just meeting
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everyone hanging with everyone. I love every second of that. I even got to smoke cigars with
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Sean from bourbon junkies, which was another cool experience. So if you have been curious about the
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s ball in Austin, definitely check it out. If you can get tickets, um, it will probably not
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go back next year unless we're invited. Uh, because it was, there was a couple of little
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awkward moments, you know, not being officially supposed to be there. Um, but other than that
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we had an absolute blast. Um, so yeah, that was pretty much the summary of my weekend in Austin
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And Sunday, since we didn't go to the ball, we had a chance to explore a bit of the city. We actually got some birria tacos for the first time
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I'd always been hearing about them, but I'd never tried them. So we went to a place called Sabor Tapatio, which is like a food truck style place
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But oh, my God, they were delicious. I'm so glad I finally tried them
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They're basically barbacoa tacos that you dip into like a like a soup
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But man, they are delicious. And we actually found this cool like cidery that was also an arcade
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It was called Cidercade. um so they had a bunch of 80s like arcade machines like original ones like things like
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paddle or whatever i forget the name of the game it was we talked about it on my hangout the other
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night it was like the one where you're like you're paddling down a river they also had a really cool
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game that i actually never heard of it was called thief but so it's basically like a pac-man clone
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but it was like there you had the tv announcer being like there's a the criminal is going down
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hollywood boulevard it was so cool so definitely you know if you're in austin another amazing place
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for you to check out is the Cidercade. So like I said, that was our Sunday
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We explored town. We watered on the parks, but it was really great. I actually really enjoyed Austin
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I don't know what I had to expect from Texas. I'd never been to Texas before
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but it was really cool to see that there's a side to it that I would love to visit again
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Maybe live there eventually. We'll see. I think rent's pretty high there too, similar to LA
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but it was a lot of fun and I recommend checking out Austin for sure
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So let me go ahead and have another sip of this whiskey before we get talking about Animal Crossing
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which is the New Horizons 2.0 update that was just announced earlier this week
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coming out November 5th. So let me do another sip of this whiskey and see what else I can pull out of it
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Oh, yeah. The oak, actually, the fact that it's blended with MGP and Iron Root
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the oak is reminding me of a lot more mellow, almost like a Knob Creek. So it's a really rich oak, not the overpowering, some people call it Texas funk
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It doesn't really have that. It has a lot of really good flavor from the oak
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I think I would definitely buy another bottle of this for $80. I think it's, like I said
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the richness of a barrel proof, but only 107 proof. So I could drink on this a lot longer
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without passing out. That's my final word on that. So definitely check out Saints Alley. I do plan to
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have them on the channel comparing the different releases. But for first impression, a neck pour
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absolutely recommend this whiskey. So let's move on to Animal Crossing. Any Animal Crossing fans
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out there? I guess I'm so used to asking my questions during my live streams. I forgot you
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can't answer me but hopefully if you if you want to comment on how you enjoyed this stream any
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a little look, don't be too harsh. Because again, first time doing a podcast. So if you're not a
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fan, then yeah, just maybe just unsubscribe. Well, don't unsubscribe from YouTube, but maybe don't
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follow the podcast. So anyways, Animal Crossing. I was huge into Animal Crossing when it first came
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out early 2020. Like right when the pandemic hit, I played it daily. I was always, you know
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building up my town, meeting new villagers. But I really think in the past year or so, I not lost
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I guess, no, I'll be frank. I lost interest in it. I found other games that I wanted to play
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It kind of got a little repetitive after I had upgraded my house so much. I kind of got bored
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with it. So that's why I'm so excited to see update 2.0 come out. So if you haven't heard
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about it, this is a new release coming November 5th of this year. It's completely free. The first
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part of it. There is a paid part, which I'll talk about in just a second. But in terms of free
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content, there's new hairstyles, there's new items. You can add permanent ladders. You can
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have tons of new fences. There's storage sheds that you can now store your items in so you don't
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have to keep going to drop it off at your house. Gyroids are coming back, which is pretty cool
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But there's a lot of new items and home design features that are coming that are going to be
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completely free. But let's talk about a few new game features that I'm excited about that are also
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coming for free. I think one of the things that we're excited about is, of course, the Roost Cafe and Brewster
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They're going to have a new setup in the museum, so make sure to go check that out. You can invite other villagers to have coffee with you And you can also invite villagers from previous games based on if you have their amiibos or the amiibo cards you can actually scan them in and invite them to your coffee shop which is really cool I love that
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In terms of new characters, there's a few new ones coming to the game. I think it's about 16 new characters
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My favorite one that I saw in there is Petrie. It's a cute little mouse, and it's like a mad scientist kind of look
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I'm very excited to meet her. One of my favorite returning characters is one that I actually wasn't familiar with
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I didn't play much of the original Animal Crossing on GameCube. I think my first Animal Crossing game was Nintendo DS, but there's this character named Rio and she is an ostrich and I just love her colors
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I love her flair. So I would definitely hope to meet her at the coffee shop or hopefully have her join my town
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Another really big new feature that's coming to the game is farming and cooking
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Yes, so fans of Stardew Valley like myself are so excited. you can plant crops you can make DIY recipes should be a ton of fun a lot of new gameplay
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there and there's also like stretching exercises that you can do like yoga yeah that's not really
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something I'm that excited about I'm more excited for the the farming aspect of things one other cool feature that I love is there they have these town ordinances so let's say you work
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night shift or whatever you can only play you know late at night after work you can actually
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make your characters or your villagers come out of their houses later in the evening so you don't
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have to miss out on things just based on your schedule i think it's a really cool feature i think it was from a previous game um so it's super cool to see that come back to the game
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um and of course there's a whole other aspect of the game we also got to talk about the paid dlc
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have y'all heard there's a new paid dlc coming to the game um and it's called happy home paradise
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it's based strongly on you know the happy home designer aspect of the the ds game uh but no this
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is a paid dlc also releasing on november 5th if you buy it on its own it's 25 dollars of an upgrade
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to the game but if you are buying the new nintendo switch online plus expansion pack which of course
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gets you access to games on the nintendo 64 and sega genesis that's 50 a year so you can actually
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it's bundled with that so you don't have to pay for both so i think that's probably the route
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we're going to go we're going to upgrade to the online plus expansion um and get the the dlc from
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animal crossing for free um and that's that's 50 individually for a single player or 79.99 for
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families so keep that in mind it's the better option to do that anyways it's worth trying it
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out at least if you're planning to buy the dlc there's also a few new amiibo cards coming out
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the same time as the update uh not sure if you guys collect those we have a few packs of them
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We got into collecting them early on. We'll see. Maybe I'll get back into it now that I can invite them to my coffee shop
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But let's talk about Happy Home Paradise because there's a lot going on with it
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There's what they call Paradise Planning. So Paradise Planning is what they call their resort and vacation home designer in this expansion
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So this lets you create vacation homes for your villagers and also other villagers
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So you have your own little business of designing vacation homes. I think it looks so nice
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It appeals to that inner Sims player of my that I grew up
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I was always a Sims 2, Sims 3 fanatic growing up. Loved designing houses
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So this plays into my love of that. I definitely am excited about that
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I love how, you know, I'm always so careful with my own villager's house
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I'm like, I don't want to add weird. Like, I want to make it me. I want to make it totally me
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However, yes, I might occasionally want a, you know, a theme, a jungle themed room or
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you know, a arcade themed room. But with it being my house, you're limited
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So the fact that you can build new vacation homes for other villagers is so, so cool
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You can get really, really creative with it. Not only do they have the new outside house features that you can also use in your village
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there's new interior design features like ceiling lights. There's partition walls so you can divide up rooms
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There's wallpaper. There's pillars. You can add countertops. And also, you can adjust the lighting and soundscapes of each of the locations
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So I think that's super cool. And then on the exterior, you can, of course, build their landscape around their town
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You can actually change the season and time of day and weather so you can make it the perfect paradise for your villager
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I'm so, so excited for that. Let me know what you guys think, of course, on Discord afterwards, if you guys are excited for this as well
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But basically, you're paid in what they call Poki, which is their money system on this new DLC, this new island
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So you can use that to buy rare furniture that you can take back to your own village
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and of course most importantly froggy chair is coming back hello like the most iconic item from
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an animal crossing game honestly that's all that i would upgrade just for that but i think that about
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does it for this first episode of the podcast let me know what you guys thought did you did you enjoy
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yourself um like i said let me know on discord or send me an email contact at bourbonbites.com
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Never had a sponsor before, but that'd be pretty cool. So as of right now, like I said, you can follow me on Podbean, but I do hope to come to other
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I guess I can say listeners now. That's pretty cool. And finally, make sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel if you're not yet
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It's youtube.com slash bourbonbites. I go live every Thursday night. Occasionally I'll do a Saturday night gaming stream
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and we'll do produced, you know, whiskey reviews as well. So that's where I'm going to be most of the time
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But if this podcast goes well and if you guys are enjoying it, you're going to see a bit more of me
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So I'm thinking weekly. Don't know exactly. I'm putting this out on Friday, but I'm not sure if I'll put out the other ones on a Monday
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That way it's for your commute. It's pretty short compared to other podcasts, I think, which hopefully if you have a shorter commute like me
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you appreciate that. If you guys want longer ones, let me know too. We'll find out. But until next time, this has been Bourbon Bites
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whiskey reviews with the gaming twist. I'm Clifton. Cheers. and I'll see or you'll hear me on
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oh man, I gotta get used to, you'll hear me on the next podcast. Cheers
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