Balthasar Speedboat MMXXIV: Horse-Flavoured Wine feat. Aidan Jones
No plot, just riffs, and it's friend of the show Aidan Jones joining Milo and Riley to discuss a number of things. But primarily Australian coffee and the natural wine fad that drives Riley up the wall, mostly because the wine tastes like a horse-barn by design? Or something?
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let sloop the dogs of war
Pretty sure one of the Burnout games would take a face cam picture when you crashed into someone as like a souvenir of other player's faces (or other appendages) at the time of impact.
Milo’s Red Dead Redemption voice just sounded like Jimmy Stewart
Horse sweat at night, hobo’s delight. Horse sweat at morning, hobos take warning.
I'm always forgetting which one is which. Now my horse can sweat in confidence.
so happy to hear the distinction drawn between a sloop of war and a sloop rig. By the way, a sllop of war was often square rigged, but it had a lieutenant or a commander as the skipper, not a captain. The sloop RIG, is also often called the bermuda rig, and consists of a gaff or Marconi mainsail, and a single jib without a jib boom or bowsprit. The sloop rig technically does employ a single square-rigged element, which is the boomed spinnaker. Almost every modern pleasure sailer that is single masted is either a sloop, or a cutter. A cutter is just a sloop that can employ two jibs simultaneously, as opposed to the sloop which only employs one. Cutters are extremely fast, and extremely quick to tack or gybe, which iis why they were so popular for customs patrols, because they could chase down and outmaneuver almost any other vessel in tight quarters and in dangerous waters. Sloops were developed in the new world, specifically in the Caribbean, and they are famous for seaworthyness in unpredicatbel winds, and for dealing well with cross seas in high winds, which are cavery dangerous feature of the sea before and after the passage of hurricanes and tropical storms. They are also easier for small crews to handle. Both cutters and sloops are lousy for carrying cargo, because the mast is awkwardly placed in the middle of where the hold has to go, and it lacks a boom appropriate for use as a crane for loading. Thats why ketches are a thing, being two masted boats with the main mast father forward, and the mizzen mast ideally placed for use as a crane in loading. schooners are also fore and aft rigged, but have the taller mast to the rear, and a shorter one in front. This means a good sixe uniterupted hold, but mainly their selling point is speed, they were incredibly fast ships usually fsater than anything but a clipper shup, and often faster than a clipper into the wind. they were used for time sensitive cargoes like fish, and especially for smuggling. and piracy.
I was hoping you were going to get in Cheval Blanc somewhere...
Don’t touch Riley’s breakfast grandma: it’s just fat and nitrates
A dear friend is Oromo (from Ethiopia) and her mom is a fucking terrifying partier. She doesn't drink alcohol or caffeine, and she's in her 60s, and is still regularly coming home from weddings around 3am the next day. The Oromo can PARTY.
Between the techno and the wine and the ham maze Riley is really gunning for “Most likely to be standing next to an Agent 47 victim”
Riley seems to have the same problem with natural wine that I had 8 years ago with IPAs, like it seems here that you took a perfectly good lager and then decided to dump a bunch of pinecones into it for no good reason. No it's not because "I haven't developed a taste for it yet" and do you have anything else on tap please and thank you
This episode gave me an eating disorder. Cheers.
Charcuterie Mezzanine is Riley's drag name
Porn at the Pub is def an album by one of the in-universe TF bands
re guys who sell stuff, I was once in the hospital over night and the man in the bed on the other side of the curtain divider from me was telling the nurse that someone needed to check on the contraband turtles he was selling out of the trunk of his car. To this day I wonder if the turtles were OK.
theme tune playing not reversed on a balthasar...
It's happening more and more. Says a lot about society.
Just thought I should let it be known that drinking while driving is fully legal in the land of the free that is New Zealand.
I’m shocked by this bc I had a pal down there in a dry town, or maybe county
The dulcet tones of Taco Jones kicking us off let’s fucking go
I got bad news Riley what you are describing about natural wine is happening in parts of NYC too. So, you can’t even escape it’s here especially in the Lower East Side.
The disgorgeous boys aren’t going to be happy about this one
I should probably cancel my membership when you're apparently regularly spending more than my weekly food budget on one meal. 🤡
Speaking of a coffee front just drink it like a Colombian and just have a tinto (pour over)
A libertarian, for profit, suicide hotline is such a cursed idea
Accidentally creating a very deranged version of findom
It sounds like Riley had a corked pet nat once and now I'm getting natural wine disinformation on my Patreon feed
It's very funny that the guy who earnestly uses reification as a disparaging term hates natural wine.
I love newtons laws of physical fucking whatever
I'm upset with how good the canadian accent was for the FIRST sentence (it immediately fell apart)
Come to the States & I'll help you make so much $ selling your system to make wine poured over the hosts horse! To the idiots who love the Triple Crown, this will cause jizz! From Lexington, KY: to NYC: to Baltimore & then onto Saratoga (my dad's home town)!
As a trans dude trying to put on some weight, good tip to eat a charcuterie board for breakfast everyday, thanks. Also this episode is no good for a workout.
The talk about natural wines reminds me of a lot of beer snobbery. Is my beer pallet really undeveloped, or is your smoked double oaked saiison extra strong beer just tastes like shit?
The period where all beer was happy IPAs was a dark time. The current sour beer phase is much better.
Jamón ibérico, the ham they are talking about, can cost around 600 dollars for a ten pound piece. Crazy stuff but it better be like heaven for that cost!
Haven't laughed that hard in awhile. I was in tears when Riley was talking about eating four pounds of shrimp and binging RDR2.
Jamón
Snobbery is something other people do. When I demand my salt granules be slightly larger it's clearly what Rodney Dangerfield would have done. Also an Americano is what you stir a bunch of sugar and milk into because you just wanted a normal cup of coffee like a normal person but for some reason the "coffee" shop can only make espresso drinks.