2:55:17 I feel you've got a better one to sing us out with. How about, no screw it how about your vodka lesson? Do the vodka lesson! All right, years ago when I went to...I don't know why this isn't something that everybody does it do because we kind of do it a lot at the various house in Washington. We have a whole cellar full of these things. Mimi does a lot of these which are infused vodkas and it's really great thing. You know, I didn't think much about it until...and then I don't want to brag about where I was but I was in Jakarta at some fancy nightclub on somebody else's tab And, you know, I wanted some...I don't know. We wanted some drink we're gonna go try this drink and the guy it was like involves Stoli pepper vodka and the bartender says, you know that Stoli pepper vodka is not really that good do want to try my pepper vodka? And I said sure and so he brought out a bottle of vodka that had a bunch of serranos in there like a bunch of them in there
2:56:16 and tried that and realized that this pepper vodka was like so much better than the commercial stuff, which probably uses some... There's no peppers in there. They'd probably just have some liquid they squeeze in there So I started doing my own pepper vodka and other vodkas, infused vodkas including the ones with bison grass which is really one of the best vodkas. It's called buffalo grass or bison grass and it's also called sweetgrass in this country and you take a little pile of it not too much and you put it into some vodka and it adds this outrageously delicious flavor. Now what kind of vodka do you need to use as your base?
2:56:53 Just any vodka, any plain vodka. The Stoli? If you want to... Stoli's fine it's not the best vodka. The best vodkas, they're actually do taste different from vodka to vodka if I was going to just recommend a vodka out of the blue I would recommend the Costco Kirkland Vodka that is made in France and because everybody and their sister and Costco will admit this knows that that's grey goose Ah, okay. That's interesting and it is much cheaper than Grey Goose obviously It is half the price of Grey Goose. Not even half, beyond half the price Wait a minute! A bottle of Grey Goose is what? 50 bucks or 40 bucks? No, at Costco I think it was 35 bucks What, the Grey Goose or the Costco stuff? The Grey Goose
2:57:38 14, 15, 16, $19 for a liter. 1.75 liters is a big giant bottle. So there's your tip right there everybody go buy this and then send the extra 14 bucks to The No Agenda Show. Exactly! This is a great tip. Kirkland also has a vodka made by I think it's Sazerac they have a couple of them but the one that you want says Made in France and Grey Goose is made in France and everybody knows its Grey Goose it tastes just like it So that you could use that or you could if you want to do really great infusions that really Infuse like crazy. You want a schmierin off 100 proof vodka? I have Jean sir, jean who is of course Russian texting me immediately Oh yeah gray goose's shit just so you know According to the lot of awards and it and if it didn't tell you at the price And I can beat it with anything right I've gone through all the Russia I was
2:58:33 I don't want to get into the tasting. Vodka does taste different enough from vodka to vodka that you can determine, you know, you can pick whatever you want. I liked Rain for a long time which is made by Sazerac but i think they've changed something because it's not as good as it once was and it's noticeable Russian vodkas. I mean, there's a lot of different ones that come out and there are some absolutely spectacular you've never seen in this country. Some people will bring them over and they're really dynamite Russian vodka is about 35 bucks a bottle compared to the 1.75 liter Kirkland which is like a lot of vodka but anyway the Smirnoff 100 proof is great for doing infusions because it sucks
2:59:12 Just that extra 20 points sucks whatever you got right out of it really fast. So I was at, uh, I was at my dry cleaners the small, the Cathy's cleaner is here down the street and run by Vietnamese and the owner old guy is like, Hey how are you doing? You smoke weed? Like what? Yeah come on. You're from Amsterdam. You smoke weed with a Vietnamese accent which I can't do. And I said yeah, well can you get a branch? What? Yeah, can you get a whole branch I don't know, I could ask around. Yeah because you infuse that with vodka? Do you have one little glass before you go to bed and do you sleep like a baby? I think it'd be an interesting idea! You gotta find somebody that grows it and then take a branch. It might work...I mean the infusions are very interesting. You have to be somewhat careful. I did an infusion of vodka with probably one too many Thai chilies
3:00:13 And that stuff, we still have it. It's so good we still have it! We said so good we still have it in other words...it's not like you give to somebody who thinks they like stuff thats hot to try this vodka right? It is searing hot and you just like going on the Texas giant roller coaster can do once you don't want to do twice in a row but people should experiment little bit with their vodka I did have one. Whether you like the Russian vodkas or not, I mean the real vodka is Wodka and it's made in Poland and it's spelled with a w. That's right so that's back at ya You forgot to remind me about Bono and I do want to play that before we leave this will help us out. Because they threw the little piece of paper away That's alright. You'll remember Bono of U2 was on Charlie Rose