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Before we start the show, Smitty, I've big news.

I've big news.

Ben Mintz, when you get here.

I have big news.

We're now a sponsored, not sponsored podcast. Well, we are a sponsored podcast. podcast.

Well, we are a sponsored podcast.

We have a presenting sponsor of the podcast,

which means Whistle Pig Whiskey.

We talked about them last week about how I wasn't really a whiskey drinker and then Uncle Chaps hit me

upside the head and he's like that's because you're drinking the bad shit start

drinking whistle pig I've been drinking that for a while now and it just so happens they

have now slapped their name on our dumb little poker

podcast that could the podcast that Dave Portnoy said nobody cares about nobody cares about

poker whistle pig whiskey it's a top tier whiskey. They have put their name on our

podcast on crackingaces and we are now crackingaces presented by

Whistle Pig and what's cool about what they're doing is if say you're like me and you can't go to a bar and order a glass of whiskey like neat. I wish I was an adult like that. I wish I could just drink it straight up, but I don't have, I just don't have that in me yet. I don't think I'm like at that point as an adult quite yet. But they have whiskey and cans now. They have fresh ginger ginger lime blackberry lemon fiz and

citrus mint and they're still 8% they're not seltzers they are whiskey and

they're mixed and I can just sit on my couch I can drink three or four of these cans you feel warm inside they call them refreshing bold and balanced I just call them delicious you you get a good buzz it's still straight up whiskey but it's for you know it say you're you're trying to get away from beer because there's too many carbs and you don't want to get fat because you have a New Year's resolution like I do to get in better shape these are perfect for you. They're still 8%. You still, you know, feel great after drinking a couple of them, but without all the calories, without all the carbs. They're made 100% estate-grown rye from the whistle pig whiskey farm. The fruit is barrel aged in the whiskey barrels, so you get those nice whiskey notes.

Smitty, I know that you use straight up whiskey at home all the time to, what do you make old fashions I make the old fashions for a little

whistle pig in it I also drink her on the rocks it's delicious it's wonderful do you do you have one of those smoke things where you go, I do not, but there's a place in Hoboken, I used to live.

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