Drinks Draft
Bonus · published 2024-07-14 · archive #255

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[0:00:12] Andrew: Hello and welcome to another draft. We have to start with an egg, of course, first. This draft is non-alcoholic beverages. I'm excited to see how everyone goes with this direction. You could go so many ways, so many drinks. Where did this idea come from? I'm a big drink guy. I really like drinks, and we're getting into the summer season, and part of the summer season for me is enjoying a nice, cold beverage. Non-alcoholic for me.
[0:00:42] Gavin: Are you really a big drinks guy? Because I would guess that you've had less than 1% of all drinks.
[0:00:48] Andrew: I bet you've had way more drinks than you've had. We're going to line up the drinks?
[0:00:53] Geoff: Ooh. Well, now, hold on. Hold on. Because Gavin is an alcoholic drink guy, which opens him up to a whole other world of drinks. It does. It's a great point. An alcoholic drink guy? Well, I mean, you drink alcohol on occasion. You have consumed alcohol, and Andrew said earlier he doesn't drink alcohol.
[0:01:11] Gavin: Not like an alcohol guy who drinks. No, no, no. An alcoholic guy.
[0:01:15] Geoff: You're open to alcohol is what he's saying, so there's a wider range. If nobody's saying you're an alcoholic, we're saying you're just not restricted in what you drink in a way that Andrew is. Yeah, I just heard alcoholic drink guy, and I was like, oh, maybe I've got a problem. Well, I got news for you, buddy. If you're afraid you have a problem, you have a problem.
[0:01:35] Andrew: I hate to bring it to you. This is the blind side. Oh, no. This is your intervention.
[0:01:42] Geoff: Galax love you very much.
[0:01:45] Gavin: I haven't had a drink in four months.
[0:01:48] Geoff: Really?
[0:01:48] Gavin: You must be thirsty.
[0:01:50] Geoff: Yeah, get him, Jeff.
[0:01:52] Eric: Get him. You guys are talking, just before we start, you guys are talking about how your drinks guys, how many drinks you've had or whatever. This is the hardest draft list I have ever had to put together. I am not a drinks guy at all. You strike me as a drinks guy. I guess non-alcoholic drinks guy? Yeah, I'm not a drinks guy. Are you an alcoholic? Really? Like, even alcoholic drinks? You strike me as a drinks guy. Oh, I'll drink. Oh, I drink booze. Like, that's fine. But, like, as far as, like, just getting a drink for, like, pleasure is so, like, not...
[0:02:25] Gavin: You have, like, pleasure drink equipment. Yeah.
[0:02:29] Eric: Right. And so that's one thing on my list. And then trying to round out the next is... That is, like, I'm going, like, uh, do I like this drink? It's so bad. I feel like my draft list is gonna be rough. I'm excited to see it.
[0:02:46] Geoff: Completely understand where Eric is coming from. When I sat down, and... Because I thought, like, oh, cool, this would be fun for me because I don't drink alcohol anymore. And I'm having soda summer, you know? And so I've been trying... I brought so many sodas over to Gavin's house last weekend. Meg thanks you, by the way. She's tearing through those. Oh, good, good. That's what they're there for. I want you guys to experience soda summer, learn about new flavors, find new favorite drinks. Is there soda summer this weekend? That's what it's all about. We can have soda summer this weekend. However, when I sat down to write my list, I realized I don't really give a shit about any of it. I really... It's whatever. It's fine. Every... This is the problem. This is a problem that may be specific to me. As an alcoholic. But every... Every single drink that I thought of was an alcoholic drink. All of my favorite drinks on earth are alcoholic. To this day, seven years sober, I'm still like, oh, well. You start going through gins, and you're like, stop, stop. So, I'm similarly struggled like Eric, I think.
[0:03:48] Eric: Yeah. The same thing. Where it was just like, I like tequila soda. Well, that's... Okay. Well, fuck. Margarita, goddamn. Like, it's just like a lot of that.
[0:03:57] Nick: Did you also do the thing where you're like, best non-alcoholic drinks, and they're like, here's the best non-alcoholic cocktail that you could have?
[0:04:04] Eric: Oh, yeah. It was mostly just cocktails that they wanted me to make, and then I just went, well, this... I was going to do a bit. We had such a few experiences. I was going to do a bit where I was going to go like, virgin painkiller, virgin daiquiri, virgin margarita. But then I went, no, I'm going to try. I'm going to give it a shot and see how it goes.
[0:04:23] Andrew: You guys are like, ah, I got to try to put something together. Meanwhile, I am nervously sweating looking at my draft board trying to determine what Mountain Dew is the third best. Like, it is... We've had completely different experiences.
[0:04:36] Gavin: So, everyone is saying that they're not really a drinks guy. I only drink water.
[0:04:47] Geoff: I got news for you, buddy. Water's on my list, too. Mine, too, baby.
[0:04:57] Nick: It's not on mine. Some would say the best.
[0:05:02] Gavin: The first time I had a Coke was in the Gerpula Chug.
[0:05:08] Eric: Oh, man. Okay. Well, we have an egg lined up, but how many times do we randomize? Is it 49? Because it's Jeff's birthday! Eric said it, not me.
[0:05:19] Gavin: 49, it is. Most drinks have water. That's H2O. 2O is 20. Oh, how about two?
[0:05:25] Geoff: How about two? But hold on. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H. H is the eighth letter. So, how many times will eight go into 20 two times? Well, let's see. Two goes into eight. 12 for two, Nick.
[0:05:37] Andrew: I want you to know I'm on the next side here.
[0:05:39] Geoff: Thank you. H minus 20 is 12. Okay. How many times are we randomizing? Two. I think we're doing 12. H minus 20 is 12. Um, I'm going, I'm voting two.
[0:05:54] Gavin: It's got to be more than two.
[0:05:55] Eric: Okay, hang on. Wait. So, we have two votes for two and two votes for 12?
[0:05:59] Gavin: Eric, replace all the names with the numbers 1 to 10, and we'll figure out how many times. Wait, wait, wait.
[0:06:03] Eric: So, no, because we have to take a vote. We have to take a vote. So, there's two votes for two and two votes for 12. And now, Eric has all the power. Ah, we love the way this swung, and that's why we're doing it 12 times. All right.
[0:06:19] Nick: You can edit the video.
[0:06:23] Eric: I did not expect that to go my way. Hell yeah. I will, I'll make this smaller.
[0:06:29] Gavin: Eric, it's never on our side. Hang on.
[0:06:30] Eric: What good is this going to do? Because now, when we randomize, this is always in the same spot. Oh, okay. You can just throw a black bar. Oh, God. I'm going to use a VPN. First, first of 12. Gavin, Jeff, Eric, Andrew, Nick. Why have we done this for every fucking draft? What are we doing? Oh, I can't even see it. That's why. We're iterating. We're learning. Gavin, Jeff, Andrew, Nick, Eric. What the fuck? Gavin, what the fuck? Get out of here, Gavin. Andrew, Nick, Jeff, Eric. Number four. Nick, Jeff, Gavin, Eric, Andrew. Five. Oh, number one. I want one so bad.
[0:07:13] Andrew: It's the most I've ever wanted one. Here's six at Jeff at the top. I need one.
[0:07:18] Nick: I need it.
[0:07:18] Eric: Seven, Nick at the top.
[0:07:20] Nick: I need to beat Eric.
[0:07:21] Eric: Eight, Eric at the top. Uh-oh. Nine, Nick at the top. Ten, Jeff at the top. Eleven is Andrew, Gavin, Nick, Jeff, Eric. And now, number 12. Hold. Come on. Gavin.
[0:07:42] Geoff: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. God. Damn, I'm going to lose two of my picks in the first one.
[0:07:52] Eric: Oh, man. Fellas, we randomized 12 times, and now it's time for the best non-alcoholic drink draft to begin. Gavin, first pick here.
[0:08:06] Andrew: How about for the prize of this, winner gets whatever their first pick is. Whatever their first round pick is. Ooh. Interesting. Love it.
[0:08:15] Gavin: On the house. On the company.
[0:08:17] Andrew: On the company. Okay. Okay.
[0:08:19] Gavin: I would also like to say I'm willing to sell my slot in this draft for 25 bucks.
[0:08:26] Geoff: Jeff? I don't want to pay $25. Wait, what, what, what? Hold on. What number is he in the slot? He's number one? Yeah.
[0:08:35] Gavin: So, you know, Apple pay cash, and it's, it's all yours.
[0:08:40] Nick: Don't do it, Jeff. It's your birthday.
[0:08:43] Gavin: Do you have Venmo?
[0:08:44] Nick: Jeff, don't do it.
[0:08:45] Geoff: Got Venmo?
[0:08:47] Nick: No.
[0:08:47] Geoff: No, no, no, no.
[0:08:52] Gavin: Wow. My first pick. It's a, a very nice liquid. That's fucked. You're fucked. You have nothing for two through four. This is a very nice liquid that I'd never tried until I met a Jeffrey Ramsey. And that liquid is coffee. Oh, fuck. Yep.
[0:09:13] Geoff: Oh, I should have. Hey, shit, Eric. Eric, we suck. Well, we're bugging you. I could have got coffee.
[0:09:19] Unidentified: God.
[0:09:20] Andrew: I really wanted coffee. I thought you were going to go water. I thought it would be so funny if I picked coffee. Oh, man. Fuck you. That really threw me.
[0:09:29] Gavin: Have it every morning. Thanks to Eric. I'm trying it in the afternoons as well. Oh, how's that been going for you? Pretty good. Not keeping me up.
[0:09:36] Eric: Yeah, right? It's a nice little pick me up. It's not doing too much. You can also just add a little bit of water, like make it a little weaker, have a little water, half can, you're good.
[0:09:42] Gavin: And if I make my morning coffee late enough, I just have to dregs of that in the afternoon.
[0:09:47] Eric: Oh, that sounds awful. It's not great. Yum. Andrew, your first pick.
[0:09:56] Andrew: I'm going to go with the number one soda in the world. I'm going Coca-Cola is classic. Love it as a summer drink. Love it as a Slurpee. You go sorts of ways with Coke. Number one brand leader. I think hands down. Best drink. Okay.
[0:10:13] Nick: Very good pick. Nick. All right. So this is as close you can get to drip coffee and still consider it to be that. It's an Americano, which is basically like a shot of espresso, but filled with water to make up the difference. So it's... I feel like that's coffee.
[0:10:29] Unidentified: No.
[0:10:30] Nick: I was going to...
[0:10:31] Geoff: I'll let you guys argue about it. Go ahead. After the hash brown thing?
[0:10:34] Nick: Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. I'm cute. You're shredded. No, I'm shredded. You're cute. Hold on. It doesn't matter.
[0:10:41] Andrew: I was going to say that I feel like it's coffee, but I don't know anything about coffee.
[0:10:45] Gavin: So would Diet Coke be acceptable as Eric's pick if Anders picked Coke? Yeah. It's not the same thing. I would think so. I would be okay with Diet Coke. Yeah. They're different products entirely.
[0:10:54] Geoff: Different flavor. They're different flavor. They're different products entirely.
[0:10:57] Nick: They're completely different, but close, but different.
[0:11:00] Geoff: It's going to kill you in a totally different way. Yeah, exactly. So Americano.
[0:11:05] Eric: Americano. Well, Gavin already knew what my pick was. Diet Coke it is. I feel like...
[0:11:15] Gavin: What? What do you mean? We got coffee. We got coffee, Coke, coffee, and Coke.
[0:11:23] Andrew: What an excellent first round. Well, no. Listen, you're not a beverages guy. There's a wild difference. I love Coca-Cola. I spit in the face of Diet Coke. I don't like it. Oh, yeah. I'm with you.
[0:11:33] Geoff: Get it out of here.
[0:11:34] Eric: I don't like Diet Coke at all.
[0:11:36] Geoff: And I would never drink a Coke to save my life. I'd much better have a Diet Coke.
[0:11:39] Eric: Oh, yeah. I think Diet Coke sucks. I don't like it at all. Did you do that to spite Jeff? What are you doing? I'm trying to make the best, the strongest list in the world, bud.
[0:11:49] Andrew: He's here to win the Super Bowl. He doesn't necessarily have to like the pick. He's trying to build a winning team. Here's... Yeah, so it's my turn.
[0:11:57] Geoff: Yeah. And here's where I was gonna go with it, and now I'm not. I was gonna try to get coffee, iced coffee, cold brew, and iced turbo, because I consider them all four to be different things. But since that's blown, and we're already doing the Americano stuff, I'm gonna leave coffee alone. Okay. I'm gonna go with my current favorite Sodi in the world, which is Diet Starry. Wow, dude. That's your favorite one right now? That's delicious. I like Starry right now. I like the little lemon-lime dudes. I like how the lemon guy wears a lime costume, and the lime guy wears a lemon costume. It's fun. It fucks my head a little bit. Yeah. And I love the story behind it, if you don't know about Starry, and, you know, they just showed up one day, uh, advertising in NBA games. A brand came out of nowhere. What happened is they had, is Pepsi, PepsiCo, they had Sierra Mist, and then there was some fucking influencer lady named Sierra Mist, and they tried to sue her to have her stop using the name, but she had the name first.
[0:12:59] Geoff: And they lost access to their own name, and so they had the reason to Starry.
[0:13:03] Nick: Oh, that's what happened?
[0:13:04] Geoff: That's why Starry exists. It's just Sierra Mist with a different name. I had no idea.
[0:13:09] Andrew: Wow. I had no idea about that either. I wondered if it was a different recipe, and I feel like you answered that. It is the exact same, it sounds like.
[0:13:16] Geoff: Yeah. I think it's the exact same.
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[0:14:00] Geoff: And now I'm going to pick something that nobody is going to pick. I'm going to put a picture of it, so I get to go back to back. This is a weird one. I promise you I'm not being a dickhead. This is something that I genuinely liked. Vimto.
[0:14:14] Gavin: What is that? What is this? Oh, it just ravaged my list. I didn't expect for a second to lose Vimto. What is your shit, man?
[0:14:26] Geoff: Are you serious? Yeah. I love Vimto, man. It's like a fruit juice I used to drink in Kuwait all the time. They would always give it to us as a gift. God damn it. That's throwing me. I've never heard of Vimto. One time I dropped a bottle of Vimto in front of my door at the barracks in Kuwait, and I just left it, and they sent the MPs because they thought it was a blood trail.
[0:14:50] Eric: Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I had to explain some shit.
[0:14:55] Geoff: Yeah.
[0:14:56] Eric: Vimto is a British mixed fruit soft drink containing the juice of grapes, raspberries, and black currants, flavored with herbs and spices. What does it taste like?
[0:15:07] Gavin: It says here on Google it's over 100 years old and has an indescribable flavor.
[0:15:11] Geoff: Yeah, indescribable. It's like a syrupy dark fruit juice. I don't know how to describe it. It's not like in the same world as grape juice, but very different. Huh. Interesting.
[0:15:23] Eric: Vimto, I like that you fucked up Gavin. That's funny.
[0:15:25] Geoff: I really didn't mean to. I didn't think anybody would have heard of it, to be honest.
[0:15:30] Eric: That's what I thought. Okay, my second pick, my first pick, Diet Coke. What a delicious soda. My second pick, I drink black coffee. That is the only really form of coffee that I'll have, of iced coffee, but usually it's just black, except one time of year where I am a slut for a pumpkin spice latte. I love a pumpkin spice latte. I fucking love it. I love it. And it's so good and different from regular coffee.
[0:16:07] Gavin: This is the shittiest drop we've ever done. Why?
[0:16:10] Eric: What's wrong? I took coffee. That's not coffee. You took Vimto. You took coffee and then my thing's different. It doesn't say coffee anywhere on there. That's a pumpkin spice latte. If I went up to Starbucks and I said, give me a coffee and they handed me a pumpkin spice latte, it's different things, bud.
[0:16:25] Andrew: The problem, Gavin, is that I don't know enough about coffee to be on your side. I don't know what a latte is. I have no clue.
[0:16:31] Gavin: Made with freaking coffee beans.
[0:16:33] Andrew: I think I'm on your side, but I just don't know.
[0:16:36] Geoff: Jeff, thoughts? I think a pumpkin spice latte is not as offensive as a choice as Americano was. I agree. I think it's less controversial.
[0:16:48] Gavin: See, what I've done by picking coffee, though, compared to everyone else, is now I can't put like a cappuccino because I've already put coffee.
[0:16:55] Eric: Yeah, you can put cappuccino if you want. They're different. They're different.
[0:16:58] Gavin: I'm sorry, Gavin.
[0:16:59] Eric: You just said it's a different name. You said I can't put cappuccino, but you did. Right, but I've wasted.
[0:17:03] Gavin: I could have put that instead of coffee. I mean, you could have, but you didn't. I mean, I guess you should have done that. Yeah, you should have thought about that.
[0:17:08] Eric: It just seemed weird that you picked coffee when you could just- Yeah, weird.
[0:17:10] Gavin: I didn't think other people would also be picking coffee. Weird. Hmm. Weird.
[0:17:13] Eric: Well, we didn't.
[0:17:14] Gavin: Okay.
[0:17:15] Eric: Yeah, we picked pumpkin spice latte.
[0:17:16] Gavin: Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to watch you make an Americano and a pumpkin spice latte without using coffee. Let's see how that goes.
[0:17:22] Geoff: Well, I'm going to watch you make any drink without water, asshole. You have a big tour. That's fair. That's fair.
[0:17:31] Nick: Nick, second pick. I'm so pissed at you. I was going to say I'm a basic bitch my way through all of October with the pumpkin spice latte. I was saving that for this. But you know what? Just to keep rolling.
[0:17:44] Unidentified: Huh?
[0:17:45] Nick: I'm going to go with a wonderful, it's a variation of an Earl Grey tea, spiced with vanilla and honey. It's called a London Fog. I like to get it with a shot of espresso. Wait, what? You get a London Fog with espresso?
[0:17:59] Gavin: Yeah. You're buzzing after that. Yeah.
[0:18:07] Eric: You just fucking flying or what?
[0:18:10] Gavin: No, London Fog doesn't have that much.
[0:18:12] Unidentified: Yeah.
[0:18:13] Gavin: It's good. Tune in for my next pick, an Arnold Palmer with coffee.
[0:18:21] Eric: In this bullshit draft.
[0:18:26] Andrew: I'm so sorry, Gavin.
[0:18:28] Eric: Oh, man. Well, that might be refreshing, actually. Yeah.
[0:18:35] Andrew: Hey, Andrew, you have your second pick. I mean, what's the worst that could happen when you're having a draft? Going with Dr. Pepper. Oh, the new number two soda. Yeah. It took over Pepsi recently. I like it. The thing about Dr. Pepper, which is nice, unlike coffee, there isn't really a number two. There isn't like a close second. It is its own flavor. Hard to duplicate. There are other brands that try, but I feel like there is a large gap. You like a pib? Yeah. I think there's a large quality gap between a pib to a Dr. Pepper. I'm going Dr. Pepper.
[0:19:16] Geoff: You think Dr. Pepper's better than Mr. Pib?
[0:19:18] Andrew: Way better.
[0:19:20] Geoff: Completely different league better. Interesting.
[0:19:23] Eric: So if I wanted to, could I pick Mr. Pib? You could. Absolutely. Okay. I'm just checking.
[0:19:28] Geoff: I'm just seeing where I'm just checking. It's a totally different drink. Oh. Like coffee and pumpkin spice latte.
[0:19:33] Eric: Gavin, your second pick.
[0:19:35] Gavin: Yeah. Other good liquids. I like liquids that are hot, and I like them with essence of meat. It's Bovril. No!
[0:19:46] Andrew: Hot Bovril. What a drink. It's one of the worst drinks I've ever had. Hands down.
[0:19:53] Geoff: I had a feeling that it would rear its ugly, beefy head. And it was.
[0:19:58] Eric: Human sandwich guy picking beef juice. I'm not shocked. Well, Gavin, after your gross Bovril pick, you actually get another pick in this snake draft. So what's after Bovril?
[0:20:13] Andrew: I would have actually accepted Bovril as best breakfast foods as well.
[0:20:16] Gavin: I would have been okay with that one. Let's see. That's the great thing about Bovril. I'll pitch on my next one. Okay. Lovely. This is maybe one of... This might have been the first fizzy drink I ever tried, which probably put me off them for the rest of my life. It's a nice can of lilt.
[0:20:36] Andrew: What is lilt? What is lilt? Pineapple and grapefruit lilt.
[0:20:40] Gavin: Get a bit of lilt down here.
[0:20:42] Eric: Totally destroyed. I don't like when you... You got more British when you said it. Like, it was like a lot. So you didn't like the lilt?
[0:20:50] Gavin: Is that what you're saying? As a kid, I didn't like anything fizzy. But I think the flavor was fine. I think I found like a stale, still can of lilt pretty good. But I think they got rid of it eventually.
[0:21:06] Andrew: What a trajectory your life has been of hating anything fizzy to becoming a soda stream guy. Oh, wow.
[0:21:15] Geoff: You're adding fizz now. Oh, yeah. It says right here that lilt was discontinued in the early 2000s because it caused extreme stupidity in British boys.
[0:21:27] Gavin: Yeah. Lilt fizzy drink scrapped by Coca-Cola after 50 years. 1974 to 2023. Man, rip lilt. Good run. Had some great adverts. Rip lilt's a cool name.
[0:21:40] Eric: I'm with you, though. When I was a kid, I did not like fizzy drinks at all. I didn't drink soda at all. None of it. Just not for me. Yeah. Interesting. Yep. But, Andrew, you get your third pick. So far, you have Coca-Cola and Dr. Pepper. What do you have as your third pick on the list?
[0:22:00] Andrew: This has completely thrown me. I did not expect lilt to be on the board in the third round. How do I want to pick? You say that like you just like Gavin stole your lilt. No, I just it's I I didn't. This board is crazy compared to what I had. I'm just processing. I'm looking at my own field. Has any board ever gone the way you thought it would? Never. Yeah. The TV, the TV one. I had a lot of picks taken in that one. Um, I'm going to go with, I don't think there's necessarily a wrong answer to this, but classic Mountain Dew flavor Mountain Dew Code Red.
[0:22:39] Eric: Oh, I think that's probably the best.
[0:22:42] Andrew: I love a Code Red.
[0:22:43] Geoff: It's the only acceptable Mountain Dew. I agree.
[0:22:46] Andrew: Really? Yeah. I can't. Yeah.
[0:22:48] Geoff: Yeah.
[0:22:49] Andrew: I like a Baja Blast. I like. Oh, Baja Blast. Okay. I like quite a few of them, but I had to go with Code Red. It was a tough decision. I think there's a lot of good choices for Mountain Dew. I wish I had a fun fact about it. I don't believe Coke killed. It is my fun fact. I'm like Lilt.
[0:23:10] Geoff: Mountain Dew fun facts. 11 energizing facts about Mountain Dew. Did you know that the Great Depression made Mountain Dew possible?
[0:23:20] Andrew: Hell yeah. Code Red. That's what they refer to it as.
[0:23:25] Geoff: They wanted to be, they originally, the dudes that made it wanted to be orange soda moguls, but they were part of a group that began bottling Orange Crush in 1926. But then the Depression hit them particularly hard, so they went bankrupt and had to pivot. Interesting.
[0:23:41] Eric: Huh. Isn't Mountain Dew made to be like, put with like whiskey? Was that what it was for?
[0:23:48] Geoff: I think it was made for, it was like fucking like hillbilly syrup, right? Yes.
[0:23:53] Andrew: Yeah. I was going to say, yesterday I was in my orange factory. Today I'm making dew in the fucking mountains. Life's terrible.
[0:24:01] Geoff: Well, Pepsi eventually retired the hillbilly. They were the mascots.
[0:24:09] Eric: Awesome. Why'd they do that? R.I.P. Hillbilly.
[0:24:12] Andrew: Can we do like a soda graveyard of Lilted, the hillbilly from Mountain Dew?
[0:24:17] Gavin: Like canceled fruit drinks? I mean, soda?
[0:24:20] Geoff: Just canceled soda people. Should we create a soda cemetery? I like this idea. Anyway, I had an idea, I was telling Andrew earlier today, I had an idea for a graveyard game. Like we play cemetery bingo. And maybe we could, maybe we should start making virtual cemeteries for stuff like this. It'd be fun.
[0:24:40] Eric: Good idea. Not a bad one. Nick, you have the third pick.
[0:24:46] Nick: Oh, well, it is the summer and there are certain drinks that stick out to us, I think, when you're hot and you come in from like, let's say, mowing your lawn.
[0:24:59] Andrew: This motherfucker's about to pick a nice coffee. No, no. Definitely.
[0:25:03] Nick: I want to live, Andrew. I'm not picking a nice coffee in this instance. So you come in and you pour yourself a nice glass of lemonade. Or, you know, you're driving on the street and you see some kids at a stand and you're like, you know what? I have $2 cash. Here you go, kids. I'll take some of that. Is that a real thing? Yeah.
[0:25:21] Geoff: Little lemonade stands? Yeah. Do they not exist in England?
[0:25:25] Gavin: I don't know. I've never seen one.
[0:25:26] Geoff: I would go so far as to say almost, almost every kid in America has had a lemonade stand at one point in their life. Absolutely. I've had multiple as a kid.
[0:25:37] Nick: Me too.
[0:25:38] Geoff: We should all go out and see who can make the most money. We should just have a lemonade stand, all of us together, and see how it goes. That'd be a great supplemental. That'd be a bunch of fun. A bunch of a top man is insane. What a fantastic idea for a supplemental. I think we should do it. Try to like push kids off the block. Regulation lemonade.
[0:25:58] Andrew: Oh, that's amazing. Yeah, that's perfect. It's like the wire. This is my corner.
[0:26:03] Nick: Regular lemonade. Guys, there's always money in the lemonade stand. That's true. Oh, my God.
[0:26:08] Eric: I really want this now. That would be hilarious. I've got the next pick here. After Diet Coke and Pumpkin Spice Latte, I'm going to cool down. I don't know if you guys know this. I'm from Southern California. Um, and my drink of choice at the taco shop, the horchata. Ooh.
[0:26:26] Gavin: What's a horchata? It's probably too white for Jeff.
[0:26:30] Eric: It's like a rice milk with like a cinnamon, uh, cinnamon sweet kind of flavor to it. It is so good. It's so fucking good. I love a horchata. Like an ice cold horchata. When you get like a burrito, when you're done skateboarding with your dumb ass friends and you all split money for a burrito and then everyone gets a horchata, it rocks. It is such a good drink. Love it. I recommend it. I recommend it. You should find it. Try it, Andrew. I think you'd like it. It looks visually very appealing. Mm-hmm. It looks like it's, it's not, it's not like milk milk. It's not like, it's like rice milk. So it just looks sort of opaque, but it's very.
[0:27:08] Andrew: You're not a fan of this, Jeff, because it's white, I'm assuming.
[0:27:10] Geoff: Yeah, I've tried. I've had, uh, horchata's not my thing. Mm-hmm. But I understand. It's very, it's very popular around here. People love it. Okay. It's just, it's not for me.
[0:27:19] Eric: Uh, but Jeff, you get your last two picks here after your diet story and Vimto.
[0:27:24] Geoff: Oh, boy. Let's see. What am I going to pick? Let's go to the master list. Okay, for my third pick, I'm going to pick, this is specific. I'm going to pick a Root 44 diet cherry limeade from Sonic. Got some rule outside. Gavin, I watched Gavin throw one one time across his yard.
[0:27:48] Eric: What? What?
[0:27:51] Geoff: We covered this on the show. Yeah, we covered it on f*** face. We took him to get Root 44 diet cherry limeades, and then when he got out of his car, he f***ing chunked it across the house, and I was laughing at him. I was holding it by the lid.
[0:28:01] Gavin: It got away from me.
[0:28:03] Nick: That'll happen.
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[0:28:58] Geoff: And then, just because I can't... Oh, f***. You know what? F*** it. I'm from Alabama. Sweet tea. Oh! What I thought you were going for with that. Yeah. I was probably... I was thinking about picking grapefruit juice, but I'm going to go with sweet tea. I'm just going to go with sweet tea. I sweet tea. I thought you were maybe considering Big Red. Nah, I forgot all about Big Red. Big Red is a great drink once every two years. Yeah.
[0:29:28] Andrew: I've had Big Red once in my life. It was when I visited Austin, and I got sick, and I didn't know I was sick. And I came back from RTX, and I had drank Big Red at lunch, and I vomited the reddest puke. Like, maybe the second reddest puke. Just Big Red everywhere. Projectile, like, horror movie, blood vomit. And it kind of killed Big Red for me.
[0:29:52] Gavin: Do you think we could be the first group of five to chunk the rainbow?
[0:29:59] Andrew: Whoa. Maybe, like, simultaneously? Yeah. Or, like, just... Oh, man.
[0:30:04] Eric: You do Big Red, orange juice, like, lemonade. Mmm. What would you do with the last two? Because it's got to be, like... You want, like, blue and green? Or do you want to get, like, a purple in there? Like, what are you feeling? Purple would be Grape Crush. Blue, there's a Mountain Dew. You could put Vimto. Vimto. You could have some Vimto.
[0:30:24] Gavin: Vimto would be great for purple. Some Ribena. Yeah, and then we just all vomit on a Leprechaun or something.
[0:30:33] Geoff: So we just eat green? What's a green drink? Green tea chai? Oh, Mountain Dew works. That's kind of...
[0:30:40] Andrew: Yeah. Is it green or is the bottle green? If you pour out a Mountain Dew, is it clear? I feel like it might be clear.
[0:30:47] Geoff: There's green... I don't think it's clear. There's green Hawaiian Punch. There's green Gatorade. I'm looking... Ugh. There's a lot of green. Ugh.
[0:30:55] Andrew: So why are we vomiting on a... a Leprechaun, Gavin? Why not into like a pot?
[0:30:59] Gavin: Oh, is it the pot at the end? Not the... Yeah. Yeah, it's the Leprechaun. We'll chunk onto a pot of gold.
[0:31:05] Geoff: Why do I throw... I want to throw up on a Leprechaun. I think that'd be way more fun.
[0:31:08] Nick: Yeah. And then the gold's not... You know, all messed up.
[0:31:11] Andrew: Whoever comes in last place has to be the Leprechaun. Of the five. Patreon vote.
[0:31:19] Geoff: Loser prize for F***ing Face Off Season 2. How did we go from starting a lemonade stand to having one of us get thrown up on by everybody else? It's the way it goes, man. It happened very quickly, too.
[0:31:29] Andrew: What do you mean because of me? It's because of you. You threw up some Big Red. Yeah, but you led it to puking on Leprechaun. You led it to puking, and I took it from there. Okay. I think you're more of the cause, but I see where you're coming from. I brought us to puke town. You parked us in Leprechaun Alley.
[0:31:49] Geoff: Well, why don't you take us home with your fourth pick?
[0:31:52] Eric: Well, if you insist, if we're talking about puking, here's a drink that probably would make Jeff puke. I don't know, but I assume eggnog is my number four.
[0:32:00] Geoff: Oh, God. I'd rather die. I love eggnog.
[0:32:05] Gavin: Are you actually trying to win?
[0:32:07] Nick: Yeah. These are my picks. Not anymore, I don't think.
[0:32:11] Geoff: What do you mean? These are great picks. He's going to win a lot of people over with Diet Coke and Pumpkin Spice Latte. That's fair.
[0:32:18] Eric: You guys don't like eggnog?
[0:32:19] Geoff: No.
[0:32:20] Eric: You're not noggin' over here?
[0:32:21] Andrew: I'm not noggin'. I'm not a fan of the nog. What? And it's really the egg's fault, once again. I don't fuck, the egg thing really throws me. I don't think there's any egg in eggnog, is there?
[0:32:33] Eric: Then why is egg there?
[0:32:34] Nick: I think so.
[0:32:37] Eric: I think you can make it without, I'm pretty sure you can make it. Yeah, see, what if we did an eggnog?
[0:32:43] Unidentified: Egg and...
[0:32:43] Andrew: I'm kind of on board now.
[0:32:45] Gavin: Eggnog. If we get Gracie back and hire someone, two people starting with N and O. Yeah. There's definitely eggs in it.
[0:32:51] Nick: Yeah, there's eggs, cream, sugar, milk. First ingredient, six large egg yolks.
[0:32:57] Eric: No, you can just do it without... You can just do it without the eggs. That's a lot of egg. You guys are so... That's nog. You guys are so hung up. I wonder why they don't serve this in the summer. Yeah. Why would you drink it in the summer? That's insane. This is a Christmas drink. You're wearing a sweater. You're drinking that. Ooh, it's good. Oh, that's good stuff right there, baby. But now, it's time for Nick's final pick.
[0:33:20] Andrew: I still want to know what the nog is. We know what the egg is.
[0:33:23] Geoff: Where does the nog come in? Dude, this is even worse. I'm reading Wikipedia, and this is how they describe it. This is so gross. Egg nog, historically also known as Milk Punch, or Egg Milk Punch. I see why they changed the name. Fucking Milk Punch? Fucking shoot me in the head. There you go. Jesus Christ. Milk Punch.
[0:33:46] Nick: That's just kryptonite. Well, again, another drink when you come in from the heat, and you want to take a break. Egg nog, yeah. But yeah, definitely an egg nog. You put it on extra. But if you want a little kick still of some caffeine. Frappuccino. Yeah, Frappuccino. No, you get yourself a nice lemonade with a sweet tea, and you make an Arnold Palmer. And I'm going with the Arnold Palmer, because it's the best of both worlds. You get the sweet, you get the cooling effect, and you get a little bit of that energy from the caffeine.
[0:34:19] Gavin: So you've got coffee, tea with coffee, lemonade, tea with lemonade. They're all different.
[0:34:32] Geoff: When you put it that way, Gavin.
[0:34:35] Andrew: When you put it that way. When Jeff has sweet tea, it's also... It makes it so much funnier.
[0:34:40] Eric: What? This is Arnold Palmer. Gavin has coffee. Jeff has sweet tea. Nick has coffee and sweet tea.
[0:34:47] Andrew: Hey, all the juice is an option. There's so many drinks.
[0:34:54] Geoff: There's so many drinks. I also... Nobody picked a white monster, which surprised... But we're not day laborers, so I just assumed no one would pick that. Yeah, but it's probably what I drink more than anything else, when I think about it. Oh, God.
[0:35:12] Eric: Well, next up is Andrew, his final pick. How many... Andrew, before you give us your final pick... Andrew, before you give us your final pick... Yeah. How many things are not... Like, how many items do you have listed that you aren't going to be picking?
[0:35:32] Andrew: Oh, oh, let's see. Let me pull up my list. Uh, it... I have 21 drinks, and, uh...
[0:35:41] Eric: Oh, my God.
[0:35:42] Geoff: Yeah. I don't think I could name 21 drinks. Nope. Well, I could... Coffee, Americano, Pumpkin Spice Latte, Espresso... Arnold Palmer, Shirley Temple, a bunch of old other names. Should I run down really quickly? Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant... You don't have to give them all.
[0:35:58] Eric: I just wanted to know, because I felt like you came in way overprepared for... Against me, a guy who listed water first and then didn't pick. I'm going to be honest.
[0:36:08] Andrew: I could... I considered water, but I really didn't want to get fucked like Gavin to have somebody come in with sparkling water and get completely undercut. It just... It felt like a trap. Yeah, that's lame. Oh, man. What do I pick? I have so many things to choose from. I think I'll round out... I have a soda theme, so I think I'll stick with soda. I like a root beer, and I think the number one root beer is Barks root beer. So I'm going to close out my bubble. That's a great one. Barks root beer.
[0:36:38] Geoff: Nice. I almost picked root beer. I like an IBC myself, but Barks is very good too. IBC? Okay.
[0:36:43] Andrew: I don't know if I've had that one. IBC root beer.
[0:36:47] Nick: It's good.
[0:36:48] Andrew: Is it like a known wide brand in America, or is it like a...
[0:36:52] Unidentified: Yeah.
[0:36:53] Geoff: IBC? Yeah. Yeah. IBC, it's a big... I think so. Interesting. You can get it anywhere in America. Hold on a second. It comes in a bottle. Yeah.
[0:37:02] Andrew: Currently unavailable on Amazon.ca. Yeah. Let's see if I can get this somehow.
[0:37:07] Geoff: Oh, I'm sorry, dude. Interesting.
[0:37:10] Andrew: You know what? I should have picked if I really wanted Gavin's Heart as dad's root beer. I don't know if that's a thing that is just Canadian only, but everyone brings dad back into this.
[0:37:22] Geoff: They actually sell it in Austin. I saw something. Really?
[0:37:24] Andrew: Okay.
[0:37:25] Geoff: Yeah.
[0:37:25] Andrew: Dad's just a root beer bottle that says dad's felt Canadian to me for some reason. It probably is. Dad, it's everywhere.
[0:37:32] Eric: I used to get it at Costco.
[0:37:35] Geoff: Oh, really? I think I saw it at Big Lots.
[0:37:38] Eric: Yeah. Oh, yeah. I used to get it at Costco when Costco was Price Club.
[0:37:44] Geoff: Holy shit, dude. Yeah. I don't remember that at all. Oh, yeah. Is anybody drinking any... Is anybody actually drinking anything right now?
[0:37:52] Andrew: I am drinking something related to a draft that we're not going to end up recording today.
[0:38:01] Geoff: Because I just realized I'm drinking a Bang Purple Haze energy drink, which did not get mentioned at all.
[0:38:06] Eric: As soon as we're done here, I'm going to go make a cup of the very first pick on this whole draft, so. But nothing right now.
[0:38:14] Nick: I was thinking about going with the number three. See how they're different, Gavin? Yeah, they're different, Gavin.
[0:38:22] Gavin: No, totally different.
[0:38:29] Andrew: If Gavin were to put that up for a vote, Jeff, would you have voted against the Americana?
[0:38:36] Geoff: I would have voted no to it. So it just comes down to you. Yeah, I probably would have voted no. That is your fault, Gavin. That you didn't have a sheet of vote. That's too bad we waited. Oh, sorry. Because now that I think about it, I mean, materially, it's the same thing. You're not even really adding any different ingredients into it. It's just a preparation deal.
[0:38:58] Eric: Yeah, I don't think so. And honestly, hey, Gavin, apology accepted. Yeah, you know what?
[0:39:03] Geoff: Yeah, I think you gotta fight for yourself a little bit harder, Gav. I would have been in your corner now that I think about it. Yeah, Gav, I'm over it. Thanks, man. Hey, no worries.
[0:39:13] Gavin: Let's just move past it, yeah?
[0:39:15] Eric: Oh, we should move past it. It's the very last pick of this draft, Gavin. Go ahead.
[0:39:18] Gavin: Oh, we got Coca-Cola, Diet Coke. Mexican Coke.
[0:39:22] Eric: Mexican Coke was on my list. That's a good one.
[0:39:26] Geoff: So nobody picked water. That's so fucking funny to me.
[0:39:33] Gavin: What is Mexican Coke? It's just like sugar Coke. Yeah, yeah, they make it with sugar. With cane sugar, I think, instead of, uh, yeah. Served in a glass bottle.
[0:39:44] Andrew: What is this thing I picked? Yeah, pick a thing and then follow it with, what is it? What is it?
[0:39:49] Gavin: I'm adapting to the table.
[0:39:52] Eric: You're doing great. Yeah. You're doing great. That was definitely on my list.
[0:39:56] Geoff: Okay. And you consider Mexican Coke to be different than Coke?
[0:40:00] Eric: This is why I didn't pick it, Gavin.
[0:40:03] Geoff: Oh, you didn't pick it?
[0:40:05] Eric: Well, I didn't pick it because, yeah, it was on my list, but I didn't pick it because I didn't want to have this conversation about how it was different from Coca-Cola, Andrew's pick. No, it is different.
[0:40:14] Andrew: Yeah, it's different. It's different brands and like a Doritos Coke or a, I mean, if you want to go with Cola, you could have went with a Pepsi. Like there's all sorts of Colas you could pick.
[0:40:32] Geoff: You would have put it to a vote. Here's the thing. I will, the nice, the one thing I'll say in Americano's defense, it doesn't have the word coffee in it. Right. Mexican Coke still has the word Coke in it. My favorite Coke is Jeff's Kitchen Coke. It's pretty localized, but. Crisp Diet Coke. I like Crispy Diet Coke.
[0:40:56] Gavin: Yeah. Wow. What a list. What a solid list from everyone.
[0:41:01] Eric: Wow. Let's run them down. Let's run them down and we can talk about it. Gavin picked coffee bar for a little Mexican.
[0:41:09] Gavin: That's going to be the least complimentary set of drinks I've ever heard.
[0:41:13] Geoff: Is Lilt the only one on the list that's no longer commercially available? It is, right? Yeah, probably.
[0:41:20] Eric: I think so. Yeah. Andrew picked Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, Code Red, and Barks Root Beer. Jesus Christ. Nick picked Americano, London Fog with Espresso, Lemonade, Arnold Palmer. That's maybe the funniest list. That's maybe the funniest list on this whole thing. Eric picked Diet Coke, Pumpkin Spice Latte, Horchata, Eggnog, a.k.a. Milk Punch. And Jeff picked Diet Starry, Vimto, Root 44, Diet Cherry, Limeade from Sonic, and Sweet
[0:41:53] Geoff: Tea. I'm amazed at everybody's picks. Like, the fact that Nick just cannibalized from Nick over and over. And then I did not expect Andrew to go out of the gate. Four sodas for Andrew. Yep. I didn't expect you to go Vimto.
[0:42:10] Eric: Wow. Yeah, that was, whoa.
[0:42:12] Gavin: Nick Vimto out of nowhere. Nick's picks is like a family tree of drinks.
[0:42:17] Eric: It really, it's crazy. But they're all different. So it's okay.
[0:42:23] Unidentified: Right.
[0:42:24] Eric: Yeah, it would. Right. An Americano is different from a London Fog with Espresso because there's tea in one of them and the other one doesn't have tea in it, but it's exactly the same. You got it. They're different.
[0:42:36] Geoff: And an Arnold Palmer's totally different than lemonade.
[0:42:39] Eric: Yeah, it's half.
[0:42:43] Gavin: My last pick should have been Sweet Tea and Vimto.
[0:42:52] Eric: Oh, yeah, my last pick is a Gavin Free. It's a Sweet Tea with Vimto. Yeah.
[0:42:59] Andrew: One of the many joys of doing these is not at all expecting it to go the way that I think it could. In my head, it's a debate of like what brand, what version of Barks or Root Beer do you like the best? What version of this? I never could have predicted that Nick would essentially pick the same drink four times. I guess twice, twice.
[0:43:23] Geoff: I'm actually right there with you, Andrew. I'm a little flummoxed by Nick's pick. What?
[0:43:30] Gavin: I think Nick's on track to win this draft.
[0:43:33] Andrew: There's no way Nick wins. If Nick wins, it's on comedy value, which I mean, I guess.
[0:43:39] Gavin: If you're a coffee fan, if you're a coffee fan, you're voting with Nick. Even if I picked coffee.
[0:43:46] Eric: You also picked Bovril and Rilt. Yeah.
[0:43:52] Gavin: All right. I may have been going for comedy a little bit.
[0:43:55] Eric: Oh, I was going for spite. Jesus Christ. Well, guys, go vote on our Patreon. Whoever wins gets their first choice. I don't want a Diet Coke.
[0:44:07] Andrew: Yeah. Eric is going to either get a drink he doesn't want. Gavin is going to get just black coffee, I guess.
[0:44:14] Gavin: What would be whatever coffee I want.
[0:44:17] Eric: Yeah. And then Nick is going to get his first and second pick.
[0:44:27] Andrew: Jeff and I will be happy. We win. I'll take it.
[0:44:30] Geoff: Yeah, I'll take it. I have a varied list. None of my stuff. All my shit's unique and original. Not stolen from anybody else.
[0:44:38] Andrew: Oh, what a trap. It's the most I don't know how the pool is going to go. I have no clue.
[0:44:47] Eric: Yeah. That was one of our best. Definitely. Guys, go follow us on Patreon. Follow us on social. Go listen to the podcast. Check out regulation gameplay where we put all of our game plays up. This one was a crazy one. This one was punchy. What a draft. Yeah. Thank you so much. Guys, anything else before we take off?
[0:45:07] Andrew: Just Pepsi, Sprite, Mountain Dew Baja Blast, Canada Dry 7-Up, Mug Root Beer, Grape Crush, Orange Crush, Mountain Dew Melon, Cherry Barks, Cherry Coke, Orange Fresca, Doritos Pineapple, Doritos Cola, L&P, Hot Chocolate. This is real. Hot Chocolate.
[0:45:27] Gavin: I was trying to get Lucozade and Iron Brew on that, but they never came up.
[0:45:31] Geoff: Shout out to Orange Juice. I'm sorry I didn't pick you, but I still love you. Oh, man.
[0:45:39] Andrew: All right. Thank you for watching. Bye. Bye now. I draft Orange Juice with less pulp would be my pick if Jeff won Orange Juice. They're different. Dude, I'll take your point. They're different. Like my pick.
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