Detroit Lions Marketing Madness and a Blue Cocktail

Raise your glasses to another round of spirited conversation on the Man Cave Happy Hour! This week, Jamie Flanagan, August Kitchen, Matt Fox, and special guest David Wright (the Motor City Hypnotist) dive into a blue-hued adventure celebrating Detroit's football fever.

Fresh off the successful Magnum 12 fundraiser, the crew shares behind-the-scenes stories that had us laughing out loud - from Matt's sole-destroying dance moves to a mysteriously disappearing phone that found its way home through an unlikely guardian. The fundraiser's success highlights the incredible community spirit that makes Detroit special, raising thousands for charity through raffle tickets, beard-shaving challenges, and generous donations.

The Lions' impressive season start has unleashed a tidal wave of themed merchandise across the city, and we're putting one particular product to the test: Grit City Vodka. Our impromptu taste test reveals what you're really paying for (spoiler: it's the bottle, not the booze), as we craft blue cocktails worthy of gameday celebrations. The resulting concoctions might not win mixology awards, but they perfectly capture the spirit of Lions fandom - colorful, enthusiastic, and occasionally questionable.

Between sips, we tackle season predictions, road game challenges, and that jaw-dropping catch by rookie Jameson Williams that had everyone talking. The conversation takes an unexpected detour into the world of aging rock stars, comparing notes on Stevie Nicks, the B-52s, and other legends still performing well into their seventies.

Whether you're planning your next Lions watch party, searching for the perfect blue cocktail, or just enjoying the camaraderie of friends sharing drinks and stories, this episode delivers the perfect blend of sports talk, spirits sampling, and genuine Detroit heart. Pour yourself something blue and join us for the ride!

Chapters

• 0:00 Man Cave Happy Hour Introduction
• 2:12 Magnum 12 Fundraiser Success
• 14:57 Lions Football Excitement
• 19:15 Merchandise Madness
• 30:53 Grit City Vodka Taste Test
• 42:50 Lions Season Predictions
• 48:27 Concert Talk and Aging Rockers

Transcript

Matt Fox: 0:00

There once was a man from Manly.

Theme Song: 0:02

I said, hey, hey, welcome to the man Cave Happy Hour.

Theme song: 0:10

I said, hey, hey, welcome to the man Cave Happy Hour. We're gonna drink a fine whiskey and smoke a really fine cigar.

Jamie Flanagan: 0:25

It is time for Happy Hour. It is the man Cave Happy Hour Whiskey, cigars, spirits, the stories that go along with it. I'm Jamie Flanagan.

August Gitschlag: 0:36

This over here to my left is the amazing August Kitchen.

Matt Fox: 0:38

If you had seen the dance moves on handsome, sexy Matt Fox on Saturday night I tore it up man, I've seen it.

August Gitschlag: 0:43

I don't know how his shoes had any soles left. He warmed out. He smelled like burnt rubber on that dance floor.

Matt Fox: 0:51

I was wearing flip-flops too. You were. I left the place wearing straps. I burned the soles off.

August Gitschlag: 0:59

And here from the jump tonight. Yeah, from the jump.

Matt Fox: 1:02

I'm here right at the beginning, David.

David Wright: 1:04

David Wright, the Motor From the jump. I'm here, right here, right at the beginning. David, david, right.

Matt Fox: 1:05

The motor city hypnotist I, I invoke. I said the word hypnotist, I invoke you when you walked in, I manifested like winning.

Jamie Flanagan: 1:11

Hello, beetlejuiced it. So coming up on the show tonight, we're going to have a blue cocktail. We're going to, not our, first no, not our first Not our first and we're going to look at some crazy marketing madness merchandising going kooky, and so we're going to try some Grit City Vodka.

August Gitschlag: 1:33

Fresh out of.

Jamie Flanagan: 1:35

Yeah, yeah, yeah, fresh out of King of Prussia, pennsylvania, is that actually? You look it up.

August Gitschlag: 1:41

It's one of the largest shopping malls in suburban.

Jamie Flanagan: 1:51

There you go, road trip nothing says gritty city lions like philadelphia right, but well gary graff.

Jamie Flanagan: 1:55

Gary graff's from over there, so we'll take it. We'll take it. He's earned it. Yeah, all right, but so, yeah, so we're gonna that, we're doing all that and, uh, looking at the merchandising, we're gonna try that if I can make the drink. But before we do that, like you were saying, matthew, the dancing fool was dancing at Magnum 12, which was an amazing fundraiser we talked a lot about last episode. Yeah, the Magnum 12 happened and it sounded like it was a roaring success. I was at a wedding.

August Gitschlag: 2:20

It was a roaring success. I had a seven hour wedding.

Matt Fox: 2:23

Oh what.

August Gitschlag: 2:24

Wow.

Jamie Flanagan: 2:24

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was like. The hall is like. Usually they have a five hour package. They bought two hours of overtime because I'm that freaking good.

August Gitschlag: 2:32

So did they rise. Then why couldn't you have bought us better booze if you got two hours of overtime? Gritty City, Prussia Vodka.

Matt Fox: 2:39

He's a working man, August, yeah, so but yeah so it was.

Jamie Flanagan: 2:43

I'm sorry I missed it. I was at a wedding. It's okay Turn it up, but I saw some of the images. So how did it go? How did Magnum Club go?

August Gitschlag: 2:50

First time at Eastern Palace Club.

Jamie Flanagan: 2:51

Yeah, we love those guys.

August Gitschlag: 2:53

They're wonderful, and Dustin was out of town, but Adam and Mike Pierce were there and they've had a full. All hands were All hands on deck All hands on deck, had his beard shaved. Deck, deck, deck. You said deck, deck, deck, okay. Second deck Okay.

Jamie Flanagan: 3:08

All hands are on deck. Our other defense All their staff was there.

August Gitschlag: 3:11

All right, fair play. The venue's great. They did some custom drinks for us. They added a dollar to every drink that they sold and that extra dollar is going to Nice. The Disco Caballero guys, john and Frank, are old friends of mine. They did a good job. They did a great job. We had a good crowd, had me dancing. We raised the preliminary without the check from the bar, because we always don't know how that's going to come in, or the bill.

August Gitschlag: 3:37

Yeah, Well, no we paid our bill. I go at the end of the night Mike looks at my bill. He prints out this big long thing. I go how about you do something about some of that Yeji? He's like you're right, the Yeji's starting to go away. So I did okay. But Mikey had like $1,500 in the Venmo and then another like $3,000 in cash. And that on $1 and $5 raffle tickets is fantastic. Then we did raise some money to shave a couple guys beards. We had 400 bucks on that.

August Gitschlag: 4:02

So that came from the bar, so that's an addition to it beards, and honestly that's that's just all we can ask. We we have some. We have some really items we didn't kind of came in late. We had like an autographed kate cunningham basketball oh, yeah, yeah.

Jamie Flanagan: 4:15

Yeah, I saw that there was like a whole array of pistons. Yeah, a whole bunch of pistons stuff came in through a contact that we never had until this year that came through so so we're going to follow up on that.

August Gitschlag: 4:23

There were some stories Matt being the dance. Every time I look, there's Matt dancing, Just dancing with the girl it's out there. Oh look, there's some good ladies. I'm going to go dance with the ladies.

Matt Fox: 4:30

I was out there enjoying the music You're dancing by yourself too. It was kind of weird, it was awkward.

August Gitschlag: 4:34

So everything's going great At the back of the truck, knowing where to come back the next morning anyway, right. So after just hours, an hour, it's like everyone's trying to leave. They're trying to lock the doors. My cat. There's nothing else we can do now. She's a flight attendant.

Matt Fox: 4:53

She's got to fly today she needs her phone, so she needs her phone by this morning, sure?

August Gitschlag: 4:57

so saturday, sunday was kind of a panic, did you ping? It it was well we. According to the google, it was right there at the Eastern Palace Club, but also it was dead. So next I finally convinced her we got to go home. No big deal, I mean, she's wired, she's fired up, adrenaline's flowing.

Matt Fox: 5:14

Get home.

August Gitschlag: 5:14

She can't really sleep. She's all worried. I'm like all we can do is go back tomorrow morning.

August Gitschlag: 5:18

That's all we can do, it's in my purse, in my purse, so we get up in the morning. Now it's actually weirder than that. Get up in the morning and she's like you know, can can you google dead iphone? Can you find it? I'm like sure, so I do. It says look, there's a reserve battery just for finding your phone. It's like this little icloud thing. Yeah, I go, so go on your apple id and your on your computer. So, oh, wow, okay, so she does it and it shows up and she can't find it. But it puts in a phone number that'll pop up on the screen saying I lost this phone call. This number pops up on the screen of the phone, whether it's dead or not because it was originally on, okay so she puts it in.

August Gitschlag: 5:54

I go we'll see what happens, otherwise hopefully she didn't put in her own number.

August Gitschlag: 5:58

She put my number in at 11 o'clock. We're going to the eastern palace club. That's when they're going to open the doors and let us you know search the place again. We'll going to the Eastern Palace Club that's when they're going to open the doors, and let us search the place again. We'll look in the bathrooms. We'll just give it a once over, without all the margarita in our brain. As we're getting ready to leave, my phone rings. It says Catherine Audette's calling me. Hello, hey man, I got your phone here. I don't need it. I don't want it. I don't remember. It's fuzzy, but I'm like okay. So how do I get it from you? That's a great question. 431 north main street or south main and royal oak. Yeah, I go. I'm like okay, and I didn't ask who it was, didn't recognize the voice, don't know who it is, and I didn't say this I'm like all right, well, we're gonna be all 15, 20 minutes away, so we'll just knock on the door.

August Gitschlag: 6:39

He's like, yeah, I'm All right, I'll see you then. Okay. So we're in the car and Kat's like so who is it? I'm like I don't know. He goes bullshit. There's no way you don't know who it is. There weren't people that we didn't know? I'm like, absolutely, there was people there we didn't know. Yeah.

Matt Fox: 6:53

We promoted the hell out of it.

August Gitschlag: 7:10

And it was a on main street over by the movie theater and I knock on the door and this guy comes up looking like a jonas brother haired here you know this shorter guy, birkenstocks shirt. He's like, yeah, man, you know, one minute, I'm at this, one minute, I'm at this mag. I'm at this tom selick party, not even know how I got there, and everyone's like dressed like tom selick and I'm like trying to say yeah, that was my party, but I'd already shaved the mustache off.

August Gitschlag: 7:21

So it didn didn't make sense and he goes and Kat's like standing over the side like who is it? But I saw the phone and I picked it up like I was going to protect it. I got to save this phone and protect it and by protecting it I kind of just took it home.

Matt Fox: 7:36

And.

August Gitschlag: 7:36

I'm really sorry. I'm like well, I'm glad this worked.

Jamie Flanagan: 7:41

You didn't, didn't throw in the fires of Mordor.

August Gitschlag: 7:43

I'm taking it back to the mountain.

Jamie Flanagan: 7:46

I must get the phone back to Mordor.

August Gitschlag: 7:48

I plugged it in for you, so it's got a little charge. I'm like, oh, that's cool. And then Kat had bet me she goes, I'm going to bet you breakfast, I'll buy breakfast, if you don't know this person.

Matt Fox: 7:57

There we go. How was your breakfast when?

August Gitschlag: 8:02

Boozies, across the street from the Eastern Palace Club.

Matt Fox: 8:05

You had mentioned that they have a really good brunch.

August Gitschlag: 8:07

Someone told us at the Elks that they had a really good brunch, so we went in there. They unlocked the doors for us and we walked into this totally Caledonian nightclub looking joint and had a fantastic Bloody Mary and breakfast.

David Wright: 8:19

Nice, it was really good. So, kat, didn't see you giving your friend the you don't know me no no I didn't know, I didn't know I had no idea who this guy was I went back over to eastern palisade packed up our stuff.

August Gitschlag: 8:29

Mike was in a haze, he goes. My staff was all so hammered they all had too much fun, so I feel bad for who has to work here today. I have to be here till midnight.

Matt Fox: 8:37

This is 10 in the morning 11 in the morning, I got a 12-hour day. So, mike, that actually.

August Gitschlag: 8:41

Yeah, he had it, yeah, he goes and I got this mustache and it's like you can see. He shaved it all drunk. It's all scraggly shave with clippers, like a patch here, a patch here. It's like you know, like he tried to do it with a rock, like he was on a desert island or something, trying to shave with a rock. It was fun, but everything went really well.

Jamie Flanagan: 9:08

Everyone left. Happy channel two showed up.

Matt Fox: 9:09

We don't know if they used any of the footage but we've interviewed and they use it'll be on. It'll be on kimmel tonight, right, right, great, it's gonna. So when you, when your camera guy was there, he was paying in the dance floor, because that's where I was, and stephanie, she was selling the shirts and you know, raising funds, and I got I'm like give me the shirt. I grabbed the shirt from her and I go walking up to the camera, put you know, holding the shirt in front of the camera.

August Gitschlag: 9:22

That's cool, I'll take it and the camera guy laughed his butt off. He's like yeah that's good footage, I'll use that I just got a text from my friend, dana, dana Boyette. You guys know Dana, and he's like he kept insisting at the end of the night. While we're looking for the phone, he goes the phone's at Centerfold. Just get in the car, the phone's at. Centerfold.

Jamie Flanagan: 9:40

Go.

August Gitschlag: 9:41

Cat, you'll be happy if you just get in the car and go to Centerfolds with us. We'll find your phone there.

Jamie Flanagan: 9:45

Oh, my God, good God. Almighty for a minute. Did you find?

August Gitschlag: 9:48

Cat's phone. It wasn't at Centerfolds, he just texted me.

Jamie Flanagan: 9:53

Yeah, no, not at Centerfolds.

August Gitschlag: 9:56

But yeah, that went well, thank you guys for being there, thank you guys for helping promote it and talk about it. And this weekend we have the Folling for Food, which you might have heard one of my ads that I do Folling for Food this Saturday at Folling Warehouse, raising funds, funds, funds.

Matt Fox: 10:08

Raising funds Rewinds.

August Gitschlag: 10:09

Let's take that part out Raising funds for the Hero Foundation, not the Hero Foundation.

Jamie Flanagan: 10:18

That was the Magnum Party for the French House, got here a friend of mine you might have met him, pat johnson. He's, uh, does the irish music cafe internet radio show really connected to the irish community worldwide? I mean, he like tears it up in detroit, he's like the king of detroit irish. Uh, there's a few king of detroit irish, but it's for sure he's, uh, it's, it's, it's pretty cool. So we were there.

August Gitschlag: 10:40

He was doing a fundraiser for his radio show okay so I was there, hi, bernie and hall isn't that usually called advertising a fundraiser for a radio show?

Jamie Flanagan: 10:49

you know it was they. They did the show live and they had baskets and okay and it's a radio thon, you know you paid to get in. There were two bands playing. Okay, he did the show live and then two bands were things you do to keep irish radio alive right, you know it was good but good, but it was good.

Jamie Flanagan: 11:03

It was like I was surprised there was like a hundred people there. I'm like, wow, all right, pat rocking it out Sorry, I got to leave, right, so the radio show ended, so I was there for that. So Irish music cafe if you like Irish music, go check him out.

August Gitschlag: 11:17

So yeah, so you got tracks that will be in the spring. We're working out the details with john rutherford and the fellows over at kaju cafe because we literally have to sit down with them and their booking agent because they book up so much acts on the axe now every weekend there's live music there.

Jamie Flanagan: 11:32

Mitch rider was there last yesterday, oh yeah, really tino tino gross, yeah, and whatever his thing.

Matt Fox: 11:39

He was the devil with the blue dress.

Jamie Flanagan: 11:40

Blue dress on yeah so and mitch rider was there singing with tino, and mccarty showed up. Darren mccarty was there and saying I want to be your dog, with tino in his outfit you know, I did not see it on the phone you pay extra for mitch rider and you get your money back for mccarty. Yeah, I like darren. He hasn't been on the show yet.

Jamie Flanagan: 12:00

I've done like five podcasts with darren I know, I know I want him on here, I want him in here desperately. I know if he sees this space he'll be like oh dude, I'm gonna party here you know, bring it doesn't party as much like he used to yeah, yeah, but I mean like I want to record I know, but he's got his wrestling school.

August Gitschlag: 12:15

Let's do a podcast from the wrestling school we go to grind time wrestling academy, yeah he's got so many hustles yeah that's what he's, my buddy truth. Runs that school. What he's a hustle Everybody trues runs that school too. He's a hustle king man.

Jamie Flanagan: 12:24

Yeah, all right. So, but we'll keep an eye out for when tracksuit happens, because that'll be cool. Let's start drinking so how about All? Right, how about them lines?

August Gitschlag: 12:33

And here somebody tell Tesla that he's allowed to use both hands, yeah.

Matt Fox: 12:40

You, can you can.

Jamie Flanagan: 12:41

You can use both hands bro. You can use both hands bro.

Matt Fox: 12:44

He's a walking highlight reel. Come on, my God, it's like good on that boy.

Jamie Flanagan: 12:50

How old is he? He's like 21 or something.

August Gitschlag: 12:53

He's a kid.

David Wright: 12:57

He can finger bang a football, got it in, he's a pure rookie man.

Jamie Flanagan: 13:00

Pure rook Baby, and he's just two in a row, first two catches of the NFL and they're both highlight gems.

Matt Fox: 13:08

Oh my God, yeah. So I'm so happy for that boy.

Jamie Flanagan: 13:11

I don't care how they did. They did wonderfully. Comparatively it was amazing. But I just don't care. I'm so happy for that.

Matt Fox: 13:19

So the question becomes when he made that catch, did he go out of bounds?

David Wright: 13:24

No.

Matt Fox: 13:24

Because he was.

August Gitschlag: 13:26

No his knee wasn't his knee. Look, this has already been decided.

David Wright: 13:28

okay, Let it go. It's done. Let it go Run the next play. Snap the ball.

August Gitschlag: 13:30

Snap the ball, snap the ball Snap it, snap it.

Jamie Flanagan: 13:33

I didn't see any of it. I was at the Renaissance Festival.

Matt Fox: 13:46

You nerd. We were men in tights. Oh my god, there was a. I was actually at my kilts. I had my kilts. I saw the pictures. You were wearing a dress.

Jamie Flanagan: 13:50

I did, I had a dress, a band dress yes and but uh one of these days I'll have to go back this guy head to toe in this like a green peter pan, he kind of, so he had green tights on and then like the p, like just the bad peter pan, you know, and just a bad peter pan hat, and he's like potatoes, I'm like tights I'm like, yeah, and I'm looking, I'm like I'm like, oh, dude.

Jamie Flanagan: 14:11

But then I saw he had his hand, and his hand he's walking his little girl right, so his little girl. So I'm thinking that maybe she was like dad, you have to dress up. And then she's like can I pick what you're gonna wear? But then I saw like a step later she rolled up the wife and I'm like, oh, I know what happened. We're going to the right. Of the wife is like we're going to the renaissance festival. You got to dress up, what are you going to wear? He's like I don't give a crap, you pick something out all right non-participation boy here, you go, you're gonna break your daughter's heart.

Jamie Flanagan: 14:42

Are you gonna wear to wear this? Here's your felt vest your felt hat, was it incredibly dusty. Oh, yeah, yeah.

August Gitschlag: 14:50

Yeah, I bought it and smelly and hot.

Jamie Flanagan: 14:52

I bought a new pair, and yesterday was a warm one too. I bought a new pair of boots, because I made that mistake before I wore like bought a pair of like throwaway boots to to to trounce around in the, in the, in the mud.

August Gitschlag: 15:07

I know so many people. It's the highlight of their year and I'm so glad that they're happy. Yeah, and their relationships and they're in cell and everything else is you know that they have both, both options, are there? Sure, yeah, I just I can't, I can't, yeah, and I'm a costume dress up dork. Oh, yeah, I do that stuff.

Jamie Flanagan: 15:23

Oh yeah, this is so far. I will challenge you to dress up as a wench. I'm into the Celtic music though.

August Gitschlag: 15:33

There's nothing Celtic about the Middle Ages.

Jamie Flanagan: 15:37

It was Shamrocks and Shenanigans Weekend.

August Gitschlag: 15:40

Renaissance Shamrocks. They mix everything together.

Jamie Flanagan: 15:42

I know, the music that they play is generally a little bit more Celtic.

August Gitschlag: 15:46

So Pauly Brady again. Pauly was there with their band, probably just jamming out Celtic punk rock. And then the shows are entertaining.

David Wright: 15:56

The Renaissance Festival, though, people go dressed up as whatever they show up, dressed as Star Trek characters, there's always a Doctor who guy who shows up dressed as Star Trek characters.

August Gitschlag: 16:05

There's always a Doctor who guy who shows up and the Star Trek, people wander around with a trooper. There's all kinds of weirdness.

David Wright: 16:11

Sidebar geek.

August Gitschlag: 16:11

I don't know if you guys watch Star.

David Wright: 16:12

Trek in the new Strange New Worlds, episode 1,. They're scanning the space. There's the TARDIS.

Jamie Flanagan: 16:21

It was like a five second sweep.

August Gitschlag: 16:26

We can't say that anymore, David. It has to be special needs booth. It's no longer a TARDIS.

David Wright: 16:32

It's a TARDIS. That's what it's called. Now, if you got rid of it, I could not figure that out.

Jamie Flanagan: 16:41

It took me a second what the Wow.

David Wright: 16:45

But if you got rid of it and brought it back, you wouldn't have to say it's a re, yes, right.

August Gitschlag: 16:50

Well, that's why it's a special needs Tardis booth or whatever it is.

Jamie Flanagan: 16:54

Don't call it a comeback. You broke Matt.

David Wright: 16:59

You broke Matt.

Jamie Flanagan: 17:00

Fox, that's good. Well played, sir. Well played. That wasn't even your joke, you just spiked that one back over the net.

David Wright: 17:07

Yeah, I served it up.

Jamie Flanagan: 17:08

He spiked it, it was good teamwork, August. Thank you All right, so the Lions, so good game. You watched the game August, of course, yeah, I watched the first half on the couch.

August Gitschlag: 17:20

Second half we were getting too many text messages. We realized how many jello shots we were missing out on because we weren't at the at the elk lodge oh, yeah, no jello shop, every line's touchdown.

August Gitschlag: 17:29

So we're like, after the first four jello shots went by, we're like you want to go? Oh, I don't know if I want to go. Well, you know it's cheap there, but like, okay, let's go, yeah. So we went there and we had our couple drinks and it was just great. We had the energy was there. You know, one of them walked over to imperial, walked over to danny's I love her day.

Matt Fox: 17:45

I love that, I love the I was a little farting around the house watching the game you know here now between commercials, little farting around, and then I actually sat down the second half and I'm like I need to watch this game yeah and it was I'm glad I did.

Jamie Flanagan: 17:58

They had a chip. They had a chip on their shoulders a little bit, I just hope the momentum continues. Yeah, we have a tough schedule. The the Lions have a first-place schedule. I mean we've got Baltimore next week.

Matt Fox: 18:07

Yeah, we've got a bunch of really good teams on the road.

August Gitschlag: 18:10

And the Packers look legit. We ran into their energy buzz that first game on the road.

Jamie Flanagan: 18:16

But we've got to play them again, but the city is excited about the Lions. Yes, as if you walk into nearly any supermarket, grocery store and party store, you're going to find just crap, tons of football madness, merchandise, lions, merchant, lions, merchant. It's just nuts Lurch. We're going to try this, matt. I'm going to have you pour, if I may impose on you pour shots, so we can taste this delicious premium American vodka made from corn before we try it as a cocktail. Non-chilled. Yeah, so we got, that's why we got the ice, but so, but there's so much stuff on the shelves. Crown Royal, so that was out last year. It's out there.

Jamie Flanagan: 19:03

The Crown Royal, if you're watching watching on facebook or youtube you can see the images as we talk about them, always worth the trip over to the video version of the podcast as well. Oh, that crown royal is worth it, just for the bag, to be honest yes, I bought one. Yeah, I bought one. This is sitting in the house, but I bought it for the bag. I was going to put the bottle here for people to drink at the podcast, your voice studio, but yeah, so the crown royal Lion's got the lion's bag.

August Gitschlag: 19:25

It's no special blend, it's not a special blend. It's just your standard.

Matt Fox: 19:29

Your good Crown Royal, which is fine.

Jamie Flanagan: 19:31

And then there is, like so, the 1800 vodka, there's the oh, the 1800 tequila, you mean, yeah, I'm sorry. The 1800 tequila. There's like some scented candles.

David Wright: 19:42

Do they smell like Jack?

Jamie Flanagan: 19:43

Strachs.

August Gitschlag: 19:44

Yeah, they smell like jock straps.

David Wright: 19:46

They smell like used football equipment and this is a whole display.

August Gitschlag: 19:50

Turn on, that chick from Porky's Kim Cattrall is going to get all excited if that candle smells like jock straps. Oh, wait up a second. I just know that joke.

Jamie Flanagan: 19:59

So there's a Casamigos tequila with a zipper up bag for the Detroit Tigers. There's like a black wine bottle, and that's yeah, I saw that.

August Gitschlag: 20:08

That looked awful.

Jamie Flanagan: 20:09

Yeah, so there's that fella, and then there's more.

August Gitschlag: 20:12

Is it a?

Jamie Flanagan: 20:12

lion's buzz ball back there? No, it's, it's just a buzz ball, buzz ball, but they're the. They're one of the preferred drinks of the lions. Are they available?

August Gitschlag: 20:20

They, they were the sponsor of the canoe races this year. We were throwing giant inflatable buzz balls at each other. Oh nice, and ham tram canoe race.

Jamie Flanagan: 20:25

All right, but these this is like this is sparkling, or no? No, this is carbonated wine. What, oh? That's champagne? Carbon is carbonated wine. Well, the label says it's carbonated wine. That's not from the champagne region of southeast michigan, so they're very, very shinal yeah very, very shiny silver chrome bottles with the lions the vintage lions logo on it, like how much are they paying to use the?

August Gitschlag: 20:54

yeah, this bottle is about 35 bucks that, so 25 of that is the branding, licensing and the rest of it's 10 dollars with a bottle and shit inside, I would guess most people buy this just for the packaging.

David Wright: 21:08

They want it on their bar.

August Gitschlag: 21:09

It's sitting in their man cave that one day we'll start visiting, once we get some proper gifts.

Jamie Flanagan: 21:15

Fireball went ass crazy with their labeling too. So you got the mini bottles of Fireball, you got the fifths of Fireball, that got the lines and the mini bottles don't even have it on the bottles just on the packaging, just on the cart, the wrap, straight up attention, oh my god, yeah, just a money grab.

Matt Fox: 21:31

What is it that you?

Jamie Flanagan: 21:32

got in your hand there, jamie, and then I bought the jack daniels, you need to take the picture at least you get a glass out of the deal.

August Gitschlag: 21:37

Two, there's two, two.

Jamie Flanagan: 21:38

I might not, I might not have done that if there weren't a pair of glasses in here, but I did. I was like, well, there's a pair of glasses, there's a pair of rocks glasses in the Jack.

Matt Fox: 21:48

Daniels package. They have the lions on there.

David Wright: 21:52

Is that worth it, just for the glasses?

Jamie Flanagan: 21:54

The price is just the price of a regular fit. It's not amped up.

Matt Fox: 22:00

August as you call it, cowboy blood that's right. Number seven.

Jamie Flanagan: 22:05

It's just the regular Jack which I'll put on the shelf here and the glasses they'll stay on the shelf here, because if I bring more glasses home, colleen will kill me.

August Gitschlag: 22:13

Colleen will be mad. I'm not allowed to bring any pint glasses home anymore.

Jamie Flanagan: 22:17

Yeah, I got so many pint glasses. I have so many Guinness pint glasses.

August Gitschlag: 22:20

I have a stash of glassware. My parents don't even know about.

Matt Fox: 22:23

And they're Jack Daniels. Jack Daniels, that's a nice class.

August Gitschlag: 22:28

That's a decent class, a little short for me. I pour a little bit more whiskey than that. Well, I have the big round voluminous, don't?

Jamie Flanagan: 22:39

Official partner of the Lions. I wonder how many cities they do this with. Are they doing it with all? Every single city where there are any good?

August Gitschlag: 22:47

It's probably all Montreal Canadians whiskey in Montreal right, single city where they're any good. Yeah, it's probably all montreal canadians whiskey, and in montreal right because right.

Jamie Flanagan: 22:52

And then in green bay everything's packers well, you know, I'm just curious because I mean, until this, send in your pictures. Folks from around the country in this year did I have more? I think I have. Did I have any more pictures? Oh, and then the beers right miller light in their packaging. So miller, so Miller.

August Gitschlag: 23:08

Lite, that's always been there. I've always remembered beer going somewhat packaging Red Wings first.

Jamie Flanagan: 23:14

Yeah.

August Gitschlag: 23:15

The Bats Red Wings were most probably the Bats Red Wings years ago. Yeah, and then Tiger's Cans. As a kid I remember that some people would rebrand because that stuff's locally bottled and they can get away with that.

Jamie Flanagan: 23:23

And then you got Bud Light. Got bud light, yeah, yeah, they've always done that, but they got the black seat.

Matt Fox: 23:27

They got the black cans yeah which is updated for this year.

Jamie Flanagan: 23:31

So lots and lots of marketing. Thursday night football black alternate uniforms yeah, color rush. Yes, all right, but we had while I was going through those. So there's a lot. There's more too. There's uh, there's other things I didn't get there's no shortage.

August Gitschlag: 23:45

Oh, there was a orte the Ortego taco shells.

Jamie Flanagan: 23:49

So there's, blue blue, there's blue and so, but the packaging is lions on it, but they're blue.

August Gitschlag: 23:54

That's going to give you some serious green poop at Red. Dye no 5. I thought FDR banned those blue chips. Oh Jesus Mary and. Joseph, yeah, it's like eating a box of Crunch.

Jamie Flanagan: 24:02

Berries man. So there's a lot out there. So if you want to support your lions and have some fun stuff for you know, there's not nearly as much tiger stuff now.

August Gitschlag: 24:11

They're all going lions. Oh yeah, the Casamigos was. Did I put that out there? It was like two, three years ago. Remember when the lions were terrible and the tigers were making their run. Everything was tigers, tigers, hats and all kinds of stuff.

Jamie Flanagan: 24:31

So, yeah, we're drinking Grit City vodka, vodka, but there's a grit city whiskey and that's like 38 and I'm like is this made in the same prussia, pennsylvania, I'm.

David Wright: 24:35

I didn't look the label looks pretty similar.

August Gitschlag: 24:36

Yeah it's, yeah, no, it has to be somebody's contracting that out and they're not stupid?

Jamie Flanagan: 24:40

and then the casamigos has, just like a koozie, a zipper up koozie, that goes over their bottle, that looks like a baseball and it's got the Detroit.

August Gitschlag: 24:49

No, no, no, it's so. Where it's made is one thing. It says it's crafted by B O T L D bottled. So we've got to find out who bottled is, that's, who made this.

Jamie Flanagan: 24:57

Oh yeah.

August Gitschlag: 25:00

Crafted by bottles.

Jamie Flanagan: 25:01

So it's a. It's your standard vodka. It's 80 proof.

August Gitschlag: 25:03

It's. It's a liquor store in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

Matt Fox: 25:07

There you go.

August Gitschlag: 25:09

Bottled distillery.

Matt Fox: 25:11

I've got a deal just for you.

Jamie Flanagan: 25:14

So, yeah, it's probably like you know, drop ship kind of oh yeah, how many do you want? We can do that, sure, oh wow, they, they are.

August Gitschlag: 25:21

they make a whole bunch of stuff. So bottle makes booze for a contract distiller. Someone just bought BOTLD. They do TGI Friday's custom liquor. No, it's Rita's Bird Gang Vodka. What else they got here? Bird Gang Tequila? They got a lot. We work directly with innovative distillers around our great country and the world to offer Pennsylvania a wider, deeper, more adventurous selection of spirits. Good for them, mmm.

Jamie Flanagan: 25:52

Yeah, alright, so giving this vodka a little sippy-doo. Straight up, it's vodka Tastes like vodka.

August Gitschlag: 26:00

That's not a fine vodka.

Jamie Flanagan: 26:01

You shot the whole. Thing.

August Gitschlag: 26:03

Yeah, unless, the only way I get the whole awful gritty experience.

David Wright: 26:06

I wanted the taste.

August Gitschlag: 26:07

I wanted the grit oh and you know what.

Jamie Flanagan: 26:08

You know what it tastes like Hot vodka, hot vodka, hot vodka. If no one uses the word, grit again for the next, I'm over.

August Gitschlag: 26:18

It's a new season, Shouldn't we come up with a new freaking word? But no, everybody everything's grit. You're not the gritty tigers.

Jamie Flanagan: 26:29

Everybody, now the Gritty Tigers, everybody is.

David Wright: 26:30

Grit.

August Gitschlag: 26:30

Grit, grit, are you over?

David Wright: 26:31

Grit. These things come and go over the years.

August Gitschlag: 26:33

This is way too Harbor Break sandpaper for me.

David Wright: 26:39

What is that? 10 years old now, I don't even know.

August Gitschlag: 26:44

I'm just not saying my least favorite of all those.

Jamie Flanagan: 26:47

I love the Bad Boys, my least favorite was the Team of Destiny.

August Gitschlag: 26:51

Oh, remember when everyone was wearing Team of Destiny shirts when the Tigers got good. All of a sudden, I'm like what are you doing? Verlander's a rookie. Why are you wearing a Team?

Jamie Flanagan: 26:57

of Destiny shirt. We're not going to win, yeah.

August Gitschlag: 26:59

Yeah, but anyway.

Matt Fox: 27:02

It reminds me of the.

August Gitschlag: 27:05

PBR whiskey.

Jamie Flanagan: 27:08

You know, yeah, mid-grade, not super awful If I'm going to mix it with the Kool-Aid.

August Gitschlag: 27:14

We'd probably have something here. What we got? Kool-aid too. I think we've got Kool-Aid since all this town is doing.

Jamie Flanagan: 27:19

That's what people do around here Sucking it down, drink that Kool-Aid. It's lion season Time to drink the Kool-Aid.

August Gitschlag: 27:27

That kind of makes it look like it's purple. I'm absolutely pooping green tomorrow.

Jamie Flanagan: 27:32

So this is it's blueberry, it's blue raspberry, but the labeling on that is purple. So I don't know if this is going to come out purple, if we're going to have, like some Prince drinks here or if we'll have actually some Lion's drinks. I don't know.

August Gitschlag: 27:46

I'm okay with Prince drinks I was gonna test it at home thousand, but I bought this on the way here, so I didn't get a chance to test the elevator tries to take you, jack, should doodle.

Matt Fox: 27:55

Can we get ice in the?

Jamie Flanagan: 27:57

uh in the, in the plastic rocks glasses while we do this. Uh, all right, we already opened the, the, the vodka and then yes, full full, full, full ice.

August Gitschlag: 28:09

During mixing. I have a question for the two of you. So after Magnum, we were sitting around the next morning and we were talking about what goes well, what goes wrong. You know a little after conversation. It's a new location and everything. I should do it in the morning and we noticed that by about 1030, the entire patio outside was filled and people weren't necessarily inside dancing anymore, and some of it was because they hit table capacity. Some of it was because it was a nice night outside.

August Gitschlag: 28:39

It was nice and we thought well shit why don't we maybe start this party at 4 o'clock next year and do it all outside? Have a couple jockey boxes of Blake's cider outside you can still go inside and out with your drinks. Do the raffle at like 9.30, 10 o'clock and let everybody get home at a decent hour. But we still get the same crowd. Still get some dancing around 8 o'clock, theories, dj outside, make it like a festival. No, wow, I figured you old guys would like this idea, you know.

David Wright: 29:10

Not to drive at night anymore. I do like going to bed early but yeah, you like to boogie you like to disco around.

Matt Fox: 29:18

Yeah.

August Gitschlag: 29:20

Starting it earlier, though in general, Do you have there should?

Matt Fox: 29:24

be two shifts. Two shifts of folks that are fundraising you start it earlier. Two shifts of folks that are fundraising. You started earlier for the folks that want to come out, but then you continue the party and you have that well, we can, we'll always take your money.

August Gitschlag: 29:36

It's all about how people are going to stick around. Well, as always, we always tell people special put your phone number on the gift cards and come back and pick up your baskets the next day. And we texted them all that night and again the next morning. So oh, that's a heavy, that's a heavy hand for that vodka buddy oh, it's a four count it's not a four. You can't count unless you have a top on it one, two, that's a topless count.

Jamie Flanagan: 29:59

Oh my god they're killing me small.

Matt Fox: 30:04

What are you?

August Gitschlag: 30:04

doing the bottle's empty. This is why you're not allowed to pour drinks, Fox. Why the hell did you let that happen?

Matt Fox: 30:11

Because I finger banged the ice instead.

August Gitschlag: 30:13

Yeah right, go get the goddamn mixer.

Jamie Flanagan: 30:15

His finger is still numb. Do we need the shaker?

August Gitschlag: 30:19

Yes, look at that. There's polar bears diving in there Looking for seals. That's a little much buddy.

David Wright: 30:28

Just put a drop in for color's, that's fine I mean I'm sweating looking at it. There's a sweat, there's a lot of ice, it's.

Jamie Flanagan: 30:36

I'm not like I was trying to save the vodka no, but you're not trying to save us either.

August Gitschlag: 30:41

There you go. Time to dump that shit, all right, oh boy all right matt two now re-bang All right, oh boy All right Matt. Two Now re-finger, bang the ice. Three oh shit, and you filled up the whole shaker with vodka. The whole shaker's full. That's a full four count. It's a four count when the stream comes out super tiny, like you're pissed because you got a topper on it, not because you're chugging away.

Jamie Flanagan: 31:09

Glug, glug, glug, glug. Four. Maybe that's why I get so hammered at home. Maybe it's only a four. Count honey, no figure in those cups. You need the ice in those cups, nothing but ice in there?

August Gitschlag: 31:19

Oh my gosh. This is why I was originally brought in. I was originally brought in to regulate your alcohol consumption. Should I put some of the blue juice in here? I think we're gonna pour and then juice. Yeah, there's no room in the shaker. Oh, there's barely any, because you could use a half a fifth of vodka. I like how you're just so careful to give us just a little half an ounce of taste I really, oh my god, I can't believe you finished the whole thing.

August Gitschlag: 31:42

I really I finished a quarter ounce of vodka I really I poured it up, didn't I? I'm like fired up, I'm mad. Now this Red Bull kicked in. I was sleeping all day.

Jamie Flanagan: 31:52

You get to dole out the vodka, okay, you dole out the vodka. Matt, there's the juice. Here's some scissors to cut the corner off of it. I know, I just you know You're having a good time. I I'm gonna be over here with my welcome. I was at an irish party doing shots and drinking the irish mafia, yeah I was. I was partying it up with the irish mafia before I got here now.

August Gitschlag: 32:21

This is all watered down now, because you had to shake it, so what I'm doing is not what you were doing, okay this is not abuse this is so different process here. Okay, all what you were doing, okay, this is not abuse.

Matt Fox: 32:31

This is so different process here.

Jamie Flanagan: 32:32

Okay, all right, you were going to cut this. Yeah, I was just going to do the corner, just the corner, just the corner.

August Gitschlag: 32:35

There you go. There you go On an angle. Oh, be careful. Oh, you picked it up without squirting it, oh it is blue. That's fantastic. I'm happy this will work. It reminds me when you get up at 1230 at night to pee.

Jamie Flanagan: 32:54

I just kind of trickled out.

Matt Fox: 32:55

I have some problems.

Jamie Flanagan: 32:58

We'll see how this tastes with the Kool-Aid raspberry, blueberry raspberry.

Matt Fox: 33:02

I know teenagers at home. I know how to squeeze these things.

August Gitschlag: 33:05

I don't know. That can be taken all the wrong ways. I don't know how to squeeze these things. That can be taken all the wrong ways. Blue raspberry. Why do your teenagers still have Kool-Aid jammies? Blue raspberry.

Matt Fox: 33:14

They take these to lunch at school.

August Gitschlag: 33:19

I buy them for my high school I buy them.

Jamie Flanagan: 33:21

When I have a meeting with my journalism kids, I'll buy juice boxes, oh yeah, or juice patches, juice boxes for journalism kids.

August Gitschlag: 33:29

So they're writing about their Pokemon cards, right.

Jamie Flanagan: 33:32

No, they write about very serious topics. Yes, some of them are actually Pokemon.

August Gitschlag: 33:39

Sports card. People are getting out of sports cards and they're now investing in Pokemon cards because they're worth thousands and thousands of dollars. Yep.

Jamie Flanagan: 33:46

Follow the money. Follow the money.

David Wright: 33:48

Alright, here we go.

August Gitschlag: 33:49

MLB pitcher retired to deal with Pokemon cards.

Jamie Flanagan: 33:52

So yeah, if you look, it's nice. It's a nice blue, the Kool-Aid blue, raspberry and vodka. Cheers, gentlemen.

Matt Fox: 33:58

Cheers.

August Gitschlag: 34:01

Oh, it's still flammable, it's still highly flammable. Oh yeah, it is that Kool-Aid had nothing to it.

David Wright: 34:07

No, that Kool-Aid just didn't give it. There's nothing there. It took like a fraction of an edge off.

Jamie Flanagan: 34:13

It's the no sugar.

August Gitschlag: 34:13

Kool-Aid my mom used to make the colored water.

David Wright: 34:16

Yeah.

Jamie Flanagan: 34:16

Yeah, 75% less sugar than sodas Well.

David Wright: 34:21

I can taste that.

August Gitschlag: 34:22

Excellent source of vitamin C. Yeah, I, oh, no, oh no. Is that agave syrup Pour that in there?

Jamie Flanagan: 34:30

Yeah, I wonder if there's more of the blue and less of the vodka.

August Gitschlag: 34:34

I mean, this is good for coloring, but it needs some simple.

Jamie Flanagan: 34:39

Or just some simple syrup. I don't know, the Tito's would taste good.

August Gitschlag: 34:42

in this You'd taste nothing but the vodka. Yeah.

Jamie Flanagan: 34:48

Do you ever drink vodka straight? Do we have any Tito's in there that we can do a little Tito's next?

August Gitschlag: 34:54

to this Do we want to side by side this stuff or do we want to not be that brutal on it?

Jamie Flanagan: 35:00

It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great.

August Gitschlag: 35:03

I'm of a college age where we would run crappy vodka through a Brita. Did you guys ever do that stuff? No, Just like Sky, it's like In college age we would run crappy vodka through a Brita.

Jamie Flanagan: 35:07

Did you guys ever do that stuff? Oh my God, no, we used to do that, no, yeah.

August Gitschlag: 35:10

Just like Sky. It's like charcoal filtered. You'd run like pop off through a Brita and then pour it, thinking we were smart. Did it taste better? I don't know, I don't think so.

David Wright: 35:18

It doesn't matter.

August Gitschlag: 35:29

Send it in your comments, folks, if you're still yeah. Who just is filtering through your sweatsop? There's no sweetness to this Kool-Aid at all.

Jamie Flanagan: 35:34

Maybe Matt from the other room. There are no Tito's up in here. There's Sky.

August Gitschlag: 35:37

There's.

Jamie Flanagan: 35:37

Sky. I could have swore I had some Tito's that first sip was brutal.

August Gitschlag: 35:41

That's all right. I guess it's all right.

Jamie Flanagan: 35:46

You know what?

August Gitschlag: 35:46

was better. In a blue cocktail it was the Duke and Dame. The Duke and Dame with the blue cocktail was better.

Jamie Flanagan: 35:51

Remember that Lion's Gritty cocktail we made with them.

David Wright: 35:53

Yeah, you're probably here for that one. I was there for that one.

August Gitschlag: 35:56

Yeah, that was a better blue cocktail. It was Tailgate cocktail. Yes, yeah.

Jamie Flanagan: 36:00

I like those guys, I like that stuff. But I'm glad this came out blue, something. Blue Mix, a vodka Besides Christmas, a vodka of your choosing. You're doing a Lions party, you're trying to do a theme-y thing, so the Kool-Aid, the pouches, it mixed well. Do we want to try that? Remember when Sky was?

August Gitschlag: 36:17

Ultra Premium Club Vodka in 2001?.

Jamie Flanagan: 36:21

Yeah, oh yeah, ultra Premium.

August Gitschlag: 36:24

Sky Vodka. Why? Because we can. So you're just going to go at it with sky vodka. Okay.

David Wright: 36:34

You go ahead, give it a test.

Jamie Flanagan: 36:37

I'm saving the vodka for something.

August Gitschlag: 36:39

I mean, we haven't hit 45 minutes yet, so we're good, keep going.

Jamie Flanagan: 36:46

All right, there's not a whole lot in there. There, I'll probably finish the bottle off on with your four pour yeah, one, yeah maybe we should invest in some poor tops from gordon foods here and now.

August Gitschlag: 36:59

Look at you just micro peening it. That's as much as you put in that little shot for us earlier that was me.

Jamie Flanagan: 37:08

I should have. I should have used this shot.

August Gitschlag: 37:09

Normally I beat up on Matt, but I'm having fun beating you up tonight, jamie, it's a measure.

Jamie Flanagan: 37:13

I'm just trying, just trying how sugary are these?

August Gitschlag: 37:18

Yeah, they're not sugary at all.

Jamie Flanagan: 37:20

Yeah, when you get them. All right, so there's your contrast and compare. It gets very blue, there we go.

August Gitschlag: 37:28

Yeah, because the other one was watered down.

Jamie Flanagan: 37:31

Yeah.

August Gitschlag: 37:32

Because heavy hand Flanagan, much blue. Heavy hand again Flanagan.

David Wright: 37:35

I mean the glass versus the plastic could have something to do with it.

August Gitschlag: 37:38

I like that theory. It's like science.

Jamie Flanagan: 37:41

This is full of light.

Matt Fox: 37:45

And you got more blue juice, way more blue juice. So how's your blue juice? How's that BJ?

Jamie Flanagan: 37:56

Yeah, you know Any different.

August Gitschlag: 37:57

I'll share it, guys. Covid's over.

Jamie Flanagan: 37:59

Doing it for friends, for a joke.

Matt Fox: 38:03

You know, it's like meh, it's more blue raspberry.

August Gitschlag: 38:06

It is much more blue raspberry Now. There's a little flavor to that one, but yeah.

Jamie Flanagan: 38:10

I don't know, I'd almost get a headache. Let me see that pouch.

David Wright: 38:15

See that if I had to drink something, I could drink that.

August Gitschlag: 38:18

So the move here is to get the gritty vodka, dump it into the vat, the thing with the little spigot on it full of ice, all of this blue Kool-Aid, and you gotta sweeten it up with something a little bit Dumped a bunch of agave, I'm all in on the agave syrup stuff for sweetening now and then mix it up and make that be your little batch cocktail for your tailgate. But if you just put those bottles on display, it'll look fine.

Jamie Flanagan: 38:48

Yeah, and that's the excitement, that's it.

August Gitschlag: 38:51

Put the bottles on display. Everyone wants that behind their bar, on their bar. I'm glad I have it. It's like oh my God, you got Grid City. Oh my God, how did you get that? How did you get?

Jamie Flanagan: 39:01

that Lost a bet. I'm glad. Right, we're trying to build a pub in my garage. Oh, I'll have a.

August Gitschlag: 39:10

Why'd you look at me? Because you need some supplies. I was reminiscing you need some supplies.

Matt Fox: 39:15

He is doing that, isn't he?

August Gitschlag: 39:16

Yeah, so we need to get you some pub stuff.

Jamie Flanagan: 39:18

Okay, yeah, so I'm going to build a little Irish pub in my garage.

David Wright: 39:21

So I'll have some fun stuff. Are you building a bar? Are you going to build a bar in?

Matt Fox: 39:28

there, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

August Gitschlag: 39:30

I bought a cast iron stove. That's how I told you. I know about the cast iron stove you bought.

Jamie Flanagan: 39:33

Yes, Sneaking in the house, one piece at a time.

August Gitschlag: 39:36

Don't put it in the dishwasher. Okay, it's cast iron.

Jamie Flanagan: 39:39

Whatever you do, yeah, yeah, okay, it's a little big for that.

Matt Fox: 39:48

So what are your? I'm going to ask what are your predictions for the season that we're about to?

August Gitschlag: 39:57

see Live, through Live through.

Matt Fox: 39:58

What are your predictions?

August Gitschlag: 40:00

I am I'm a Debbie Downer on the Lions season this year. I just think the schedule is too tough. Okay, I don't think they win the division. I think they maybe squeak into a wild card. I think they're going to lose a lot of road games. They're going to lose a lot of road games.

David Wright: 40:14

I'm conservatively going 11-6.

August Gitschlag: 40:17

And this time they're going to lose their shit if they lose six games, because we lost two last year.

August Gitschlag: 40:21

I think that we're supposed to win the Super Bowl. The better team was a team that we should have gone to the Super Bowl with the freak bounce off the 49er dude's helmet and landed in his arms. That team was better. But I don't. I think. I'm just. I'm worried. I've seen Super Bowl teams win Super Bowls with six, seven losses. Wildcard teams win Super Bowls. It's all about being hot at the right time. If these coordinators had their shit together and were healthy at the end of the season. We can make moves.

Matt Fox: 40:47

What they went through last year, with all of the injuries, and they still did what they did. If they stay healthy. It could be a game changer and I can agree with you.

David Wright: 40:58

I'm going to make a different take than usual. Yes, injuries were a lot, but does that indicate there's a problem with this coaching staff and conditioning to have that?

August Gitschlag: 41:07

many injuries. No, there's no Dan Campbell conditioning problem. This stuff's random. I worry about conditioning when it's the non-contact injuries.

David Wright: 41:19

Right Like pulled hamstrings. Yeah, I was on cellulite yesterday. That was pretty funny, did.

Jamie Flanagan: 41:24

Aminra, punk him with a fake fumble or something.

August Gitschlag: 41:27

No, he jumped on his hamstring. Every single fantasy football guy in the world would lose their shit.

David Wright: 41:33

I think he got the touchdown in the end zone and he got up and started running and then grabbed his thigh and went down.

Jamie Flanagan: 41:43

Oh, I thought it was from like they did that one fake fumble.

David Wright: 41:48

The stumble bomb I thought he was from. Like they did that one fake fumble, the stumble bum.

Jamie Flanagan: 41:52

I thought he was punking.

August Gitschlag: 41:53

Look at these road games right. We're at Ravens, at Bengals, and I don't know if Joe.

David Wright: 41:58

Burrow will be back. No, burrow's got. He needs surgery.

August Gitschlag: 42:01

Well, he's only out for three weeks. No, three to four. They said three months. Oh, three months. Okay, three months, right, it was a three. So at Ravens, at Bengals, at Chiefs Chiefs, at.

Matt Fox: 42:14

Commanders at Eagles the next week.

August Gitschlag: 42:15

They've got a tough At Rams.

Matt Fox: 42:16

They've got a tough schedule. At Vikings, at Bears, so I mean they're on the road with the Rams.

August Gitschlag: 42:21

On the road, eagles On the road, commanders On the road. Those are tough, tough places to play. We got to see how we are. I mean the home games. Or the Browns they have a good defense. There's no. They have 17 quarterbacks and no defense. Right, the Bucs do not sleep on the Buccaneers. Baker.

Matt Fox: 42:38

Mayfield fan.

August Gitschlag: 42:39

I always, Always root for the guy Walk on at Oklahoma wins the Heisman Trophy. I've always rooted for him. I got a raw deal in Cleveland, which is why I never root for Cleveland. I hate the.

David Wright: 42:48

Cleveland Browns. I just hate Cleveland in general. I hate the Cleveland.

August Gitschlag: 42:50

Browns Giants have a better defense than we think. Packers got to come in, cowboys come in.

Matt Fox: 42:59

They got a kicker. Who's got a? You know that 64-yarder, he On my birthday.

August Gitschlag: 43:03

Aaron Rodgers comes to town in the Steelers. So now with that transfer portal.

Jamie Flanagan: 43:08

It's all a different game.

August Gitschlag: 43:09

Which one of these is oh, that's on, we're at the Vikings on Christmas.

David Wright: 43:12

Day.

August Gitschlag: 43:14

And JJ McCarthy should be dead by then.

David Wright: 43:16

Yeah, he's already hurt. Yeah, he's already almost out.

August Gitschlag: 43:19

Most overrated mother yeah.

Jamie Flanagan: 43:21

All right, I have not talked about wardrobe choices yet. Is this a new hat?

August Gitschlag: 43:28

Oh, this is this year's Crucial Catch charity hat. Yeah this is this year's hat. You usually get rave reviews on your hats. I do all my sports gambling on the Fanatic Sportsbook, so your rewards are always gear. So if any of you want to start a gambling addiction, please let me know. We each get $80 in free swag.

David Wright: 43:47

I don't get shit from DraftKings.

August Gitschlag: 43:49

No, I don't get shit from.

David Wright: 43:50

DraftKings either, if you want.

August Gitschlag: 43:51

Fanatics, I'll send you the code. I'd be spent $20. We both get $80 to $100 in free shit.

Jamie Flanagan: 44:00

Perfect, which is where I got set.

August Gitschlag: 44:01

So this is what buy that hat off my head at the Elks Lodge. That plaid one it was great and all the previous ones were ugly as sin that they started with Crucial Catch.

Jamie Flanagan: 44:10

Well, it's got the rainbow-y colors on it.

August Gitschlag: 44:12

The idea is it's you know. Let's say it's the Crucial Catch, intercept Cancer. And so they use every different cancer's color, without trying to make it look like it's a rainbow and piss off all the certain peoples. It's just all the different cancer theme colors.

Jamie Flanagan: 44:28

That's the whole idea of it.

August Gitschlag: 44:30

The petrol of the prostate cancer the breast cancer, all the different tones, that's the cancer charities and their colors.

Jamie Flanagan: 44:37

I got punched at the Renaissance Festival yesterday.

Matt Fox: 44:42

Okay.

August Gitschlag: 44:43

For your beliefs, for your beliefs in feudalism versus I got punched at the Renaissance Festival yesterday. Oh yeah, Okay, so we're walking down For your beliefs? Huh, for your beliefs. And feudalism versus, you know, feudalism versus freedom, or for wearing a kilt, or for wearing a kilt and then pulling it up.

Jamie Flanagan: 44:55

Yeah, oh yeah. What do you got underneath your?

August Gitschlag: 44:57

kilt, you spoke ill of King John.

Jamie Flanagan: 45:00

So there's a group of people coming this, so there's a group of people coming. This woman is just walking out in the middle of the thing breastfeeding, right, just walking through the middle of the thing, tits out I love it.

August Gitschlag: 45:07

Breastfeeding Instagram right live.

Jamie Flanagan: 45:09

She walks past and I turn to Colleen and the people we're with and I'm like I'll have what he's having.

August Gitschlag: 45:17

And you got punched for that, hopefully, by the woman who was breastfeeding.

Jamie Flanagan: 45:20

No, they were past that. I didn't say it to her. I said it about her. And well more about the child.

David Wright: 45:29

Who punched you, colleen?

Jamie Flanagan: 45:30

gave me a little smack for that one. That's good comedy, though, I think. That's saying I know comedy that's good comedy.

August Gitschlag: 45:39

Right up there with retardus.

David Wright: 45:41

I'm like nope, yes, exactly.

Matt Fox: 45:43

You can't say that it's an emotional support box.

August Gitschlag: 45:46

That's right Emotional support box or a special needs box.

Jamie Flanagan: 45:50

I don't care.

August Gitschlag: 45:51

You're a special needs box.

David Wright: 45:52

It's a developmentally disabled box. It's a special needs box.

Jamie Flanagan: 45:55

Hey, you know what, After this was sitting, we added a little more juice to it. Either it's mellow.

David Wright: 46:00

Maybe the raspberry is kicking in. No raspberry is kicking in, no it was just the extra juice.

Jamie Flanagan: 46:04

It was the extra juice, I ate a bunch of Fritos.

August Gitschlag: 46:07

Here's the thing If I'm going to make this cocktail for my Lions watching party which I've had Lions watch parties you do it for the playoffs. I'm not going to put Gritty City in it, I'm going to put Sobieski in it. This is just a display thing, Folks. It's your average vodka.

Jamie Flanagan: 46:22

It's very average. It's well vodka.

August Gitschlag: 46:23

It's a step beyond it's basically a neutral spirit as far as I'm concerned.

David Wright: 46:31

That's fine. If you're mixing it with flavorful things, it'll be, fine, it's under $40.

Jamie Flanagan: 46:37

Yeah, I mean for what?

August Gitschlag: 46:39

shit costs nowadays yeah.

David Wright: 46:42

And again you're getting the bottle.

August Gitschlag: 46:44

That's the additional appeal to this, and then you can fill it up with like a, put a highlighter in there and use your black light. Whoa yeah, and we thought that was cool Once too, matt.

Jamie Flanagan: 46:58

I think, you're out of the room when he was filtering his vodka through his Brita. No the.

August Gitschlag: 47:03

Keurig didn't exist when I was in college.

Jamie Flanagan: 47:05

Brita.

August Gitschlag: 47:06

Yeah, a water filter.

Jamie Flanagan: 47:08

When you said that I had a coffee maker in my head.

August Gitschlag: 47:12

No a Brita water filter.

Matt Fox: 47:15

What does that even do? You had soup plates in college, Jamie. I don't know.

August Gitschlag: 47:19

I don't know. Yeah, but we did it. Okay, fair play. Oh, I think I have one final really cool announcement. I got like third row tickets for Steve Nicks.

David Wright: 47:33

they were gifted to me are you going to dress up like a witch?

August Gitschlag: 47:39

duh. I'm going to borrow I'm going to borrow, hopefully I have enough twirl room.

Jamie Flanagan: 47:43

Room to twirl, I'm going to borrow Renaissance.

August Gitschlag: 47:44

Festival stuff. I'm just going to hopefully have enough twirl room.

Jamie Flanagan: 47:48

That's a twirling.

August Gitschlag: 47:50

I'm just in it for Stanback.

Matt Fox: 47:52

Where's she playing? Is she playing LCA?

Jamie Flanagan: 47:55

I got Devo and B-52s at Pine Up. Who's?

August Gitschlag: 47:59

older B-52s or Stevie Fleetwood, mac Fleetwood.

Matt Fox: 48:03

Nicks, I'm going to say B-52s, stevie Nicks.

August Gitschlag: 48:04

Stevie Fleetwood Nicks.

David Wright: 48:05

Fleetwood Mac yeah, fleetwood Nicks, I'm going to say the B-52s, yeah, probably.

August Gitschlag: 48:09

I don't know if Kate Pearson or oh, I'm having Nancy Wilson recalled. No, that's wrong, no, younger. I'm going to say younger, though, because I love me some heart, yeah, heart.

Jamie Flanagan: 48:21

I love heart. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, love heart.

August Gitschlag: 48:27

Don't talk bad about it. Hey, how can I get you alone, Jimmy Flanagan?

David Wright: 48:30

Cut it out, barracuda. Oh, oh, I had it right there the magic man.

August Gitschlag: 48:40

Dave, you're the magic man. All right, we're gone. The.

Matt Fox: 48:43

B-52s they formed in 1976.

Jamie Flanagan: 48:46

Yeah, how old are they?

August Gitschlag: 48:47

Yeah, but Fleetwood Macs is an older band. They were like 71 or 70. I'm finding out right now. Yeah, my phone. Well, is that what the internet's for? If only we had these things in our pockets it should have.

David Wright: 48:56

Yeah, it's crazy. We only have seven minutes left before we hit our hour. When were the b-52s formed uh.

Jamie Flanagan: 49:01

Fleetwood mac was in 1967 yeah, okay, all right.

August Gitschlag: 49:07

Well, how old were that's not what I'm talking about. How old they? How old are they?

David Wright: 49:11

oh well are we talking about an aggregate of ages? Are we talking about stevie nicks versus the women in part?

Jamie Flanagan: 49:18

there's a monster in my pants and he does a happy dance.

Matt Fox: 49:23

Monster Woo.

Jamie Flanagan: 49:25

Monster Woo, I play Halloween parties.

August Gitschlag: 49:32

Kate Pearson is 77. Kate's 77. Who's the other? Stevie Nicks.

David Wright: 49:42

The other.

August Gitschlag: 49:46

Let's go with Kate. She's 77?. Stevie Nicks, no, no, no oh the other, the other lady.

Matt Fox: 49:49

Well, let's go with Kate, she's 77. And then Stevie Nicks is Right, wow, 77 and still out there doing it, yeah, still rocking it.

August Gitschlag: 49:54

and rolling it. Well, that's because they buy teenagers and do blood transfusions.

Jamie Flanagan: 49:58

Oh yeah, they eat children.

Matt Fox: 50:00

Yeah, they eat infants. Is that why we're?

David Wright: 50:03

dressing up as witches. They go to a pizzeria somewhere, I don't know where it is.

August Gitschlag: 50:08

Just give me your age, damn it. Alright, so we know that. Kate's 77. How old is Stevie Nicks? Is she older, younger or same Same, Younger, Same same. They're both 77.

David Wright: 50:23

Really. That's why I had to add same

Matt Fox: 50:26

you should have caught that weak ass motherfuckers don't get all the hints I'm giving you.

August Gitschlag: 50:33

I mean, stevie Nicks has got like two of my dad wow, good for them.

Matt Fox: 50:41

Give me that Al Stevie out there rocking and rolling.

David Wright: 50:42

Well, you know what I have seen a few bands in the last few years where they're ancient the Stones I saw.

August Gitschlag: 50:50

Cindy Wilson is a member of the B-52s, but you said the different Wilson first name. She is a Wilson yeah okay. Yeah, she's a Wilson.

Jamie Flanagan: 50:56

Cindy Wilson. Cindy, I said Nancy.

August Gitschlag: 50:58

Yeah, you said, nancy Cindy Wilson's only 68.

Jamie Flanagan: 51:01

Okay, ah, since only 68. Okay, ah, younger, it's just a kid in that band. There you go back in the 80s. I was gonna say mitch rider was doing a show at the kaju cafe last night. Our friends over the kaju. He was with tino and darren mccarty and I don't know if he showed up or not, but he was scheduled to perform and but last time, last couple times he's played in the city. He's performing. He's just sitting down. You know doing that old phil collins, yeah, sitting Sitting in the chair.

August Gitschlag: 51:24

Phil Collins in that chair was one of the 10 of 10 concerts I've ever been to in my life, right on.

David Wright: 51:29

Okay.

August Gitschlag: 51:30

Because he wasn't dancing, he was actually singing. Yeah, he just sat there and just used his voice. Yeah, and I thought it was great.

Matt Fox: 51:38

But he didn't get up and walk while he was doing Air in the Night. No, you're thinking of I can't dance because that's a, it's a genesis song. No, no, no, I'm talking phil collins. He only walked in that walk around singing in the air tonight, and then he'd walk up behind the drum set and then do the biggest breakdown. He did it from the drum set, yeah, but he would walk around and do it, but he didn't do it this time the only genesis song he did was invisible touch oh well, that that was the only one.

August Gitschlag: 52:04

That was the only Genesis song I remember him doing. He might have done another one.

David Wright: 52:10

Land of Confusion.

Matt Fox: 52:11

I don't know if he did that live.

August Gitschlag: 52:12

I'll check the set list.

Matt Fox: 52:14

At the show I was at.

August Gitschlag: 52:15

I remember Invisible Touch coming out and me just being so excited. 14-year-old August just jumped right out of that chair. I was like, oh my god.

David Wright: 52:23

I only see old bands, I mean ELO. I saw.

August Gitschlag: 52:26

I saw them.

David Wright: 52:27

Jeff Lynn.

August Gitschlag: 52:28

He's so funny because he's not the front man. No, the other guy's the front man. No, the other guy. The only thing, jeff Lynn could do is do this. He never said a word. He sang but the other guy.

David Wright: 52:43

He was singing, but the other guy was dominating the volume and the other guy also did all the interruption, the crowd work. Yeah, jeff Lynne did nothing, we were actually in DC.

Jamie Flanagan: 52:55

He's 80. Wilburys man. He did some Wilburys.

August Gitschlag: 52:59

Jeff Lynne's an alien.

Matt Fox: 53:01

He's some kind of weirdo.

August Gitschlag: 53:03

Jeff Lynne, 77 years old, there we go. Same age as everybody else. We're just talking about.

Matt Fox: 53:07

Honestly, he looked older, we were visiting, I don't know he looked older.

August Gitschlag: 53:11

He looked exactly the same. He's just for men with those eyeglasses.

David Wright: 53:14

But he stood up the whole time. No, he did. He stood there playing the acoustic guitar. He did.

August Gitschlag: 53:26

Gentlemen, who are you?

Matt Fox: 53:27

talking to Everybody. Gentlemen, gentleman, gentleman, gentleman, why do you ignore Jamie and I? Anyways, we were in DC visiting my parents. We actually went to a place in the Virginia area and we saw the best tribute band for Fleetwood Mac. They're called Tusk T-U-S-K. If you ever get the chance that they are coming to town, they are spot the F on Fleetwood Mac and Stevie and the whole shebang. It was an amazing concert.

Jamie Flanagan: 53:49

It really, really roaming goats. I will put it in my book. Please do tusk.

David Wright: 53:53

Here we go.

Jamie Flanagan: 53:55

I want to call them roaming goats.

Matt Fox: 53:56

All right.

Jamie Flanagan: 53:57

So, uh, our uh lions vodka is uh meh, maybe it's a serviceable Vodka.

August Gitschlag: 54:07

We've learned that you're a heavy hand. It's a serviceable Vodka.

Jamie Flanagan: 54:10

Don't let Jamie try to do anything.

David Wright: 54:11

Don't let.

Jamie Flanagan: 54:11

Jamie, count to four Three pints of whiskey.

August Gitschlag: 54:15

Let me thank you guys for your support of the fundraiser we're doing. Thank you very much for that. Thank you to the guys at Blake's, thank you to. So this year was a little bit challenging because as we get older, we want to keep less and less shit in our houses, so we don't have stuff for the baskets. So our friends at Firebird Tavern stepped up, our friends at Thomas McGee stepped up Give me boxes. Jen Cherry was a goddess.

Jamie Flanagan: 54:39

Yes, the amount of stuff she— Don't if-er her, oh Never again.

David Wright: 54:44

Never.

August Gitschlag: 54:47

I'll never jennifer no, never. If jen cherry was a goddess and I was working, so she met cat at at wtf at whiskey taco, they, they did.

Jamie Flanagan: 54:53

That was. I saw the array of things she was sending, I was like I want to.

August Gitschlag: 54:55

I want to bid on some of these baskets, oh man, there's, there's actually a basket that was has, uh, we didn't know just brought a phone number with no name and it was the pink whitney. Oh, and that's what I mean. It's got all that stuff. Those guys stepped up with the swag that we were short on.

August Gitschlag: 55:12

We had big ticket items for days, everybody was like, but the, the thank you, but yeah, but thank you to like everyone kicked in gift cards. You're so generous and but having the stuff to go around the gift cards is what we were lacking, because we're not allowed. I'm like I don't want this box of t-shirts here anymore. I'm like I get it Everyone. Those guys stepped up, specifically Jen and Eric Olson at McGee's and.

August Gitschlag: 55:31

Tony over at Firebird. They stepped up with swag and trinkets and trash. We literally walked around the third floor of Firebird just picking up trash that was laying around like trays and things just to dump in the baskets. And people love that stuff yeah, yeah, they love it.

Jamie Flanagan: 55:49

Yeah right, oh yeah, so thank you they saved us, they saved us all right, so like subscribe. Leave a comment all those podcasts absolutely in all the podcast places that there is the motor city hypnotist that there is jamie flanagan, the guy with no soles on his shoes from dancing.

August Gitschlag: 56:04

So much is Mr Matt.

David Wright: 56:05

Fox, the guy across from me is August Gitchlash. I fumbled it. I get it right most of the time I do.

August Gitschlag: 56:15

August is fine.

Jamie Flanagan: 56:17

There's only a couple of us. We have so much fun with the AI and doing the transcript.

David Wright: 56:24

Oh yeah, it's fun with the Gitchlag on the.

Jamie Flanagan: 56:25

AI and doing the transcript. Oh yeah, it's fun with it's like on the AI transcriptions. I'm always in there. I'll do the top one and by the time I get to the bottom, I'm last.

August Gitschlag: 56:36

Just let it default to Captain Hamtramck.

Jamie Flanagan: 56:38

Every time they hear it.

August Gitschlag: 56:39

They try to go get your Captain Hamtramck.

Jamie Flanagan: 56:41

That last voice you heard was Captain Hamtramck. All right. We'll do it all again very very soon.

August Gitschlag: 56:48

Thanks for being with us. Cheers, cheers, everyone Go.

Jamie Flanagan: 56:51

Lions Go Blue.

August Gitschlag: 56:54

Go Green, go White, fire up chips.

Jamie Flanagan: 57:00

Someone say chips.