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This is later with Lee Matthews the
Lee Matthews Podcast more of what you here

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weekday afternoons on the Drive. The
father and son duo of John and Johnny

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Ronde have a broad and loyal audience
referred to as authentic and refreshing, and

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they share all of this in their
podcast, the Johnny Drinks Podcast, and

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they're joining us now, guys.
Good to have you along, Hey to

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help us morning. Lee, How
are you very well, sir? Let's

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start with you, Johnny? When
how did this all start? For you?

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Too? Also very interesting? You
address me or him Johnny. We're

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not sure who Johnny is, right, John? I believe I believed in

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the optics of our brand that I'm
Johnny. However I call him Johnny,

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right, So then then we kind
of separated from there, you know,

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john senior and junior, although we're
not a real senior and junior. But

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I'll take the question as you address
it. So our short story, and

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you know what we continually put in
I guess into context, is that this

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came to us. We started with
one cocktail, one TikTok that wed viral

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had over eight million views. From
there, we just did it again and

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the test of what we really found
is a relationship right authenticity and then a

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true sincerity with what we're bringing to
our audience through TikTok. Were some just

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fun videos and so where we are
today with regards to the podcast is a

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longer form gives us time to explain
to people differently than the one minute videos

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that disencapsulates a fun moment. H
John and Johnny Roddie the Johnny Drinks podcasts

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what they host? M John,
Let's you know what did one or both

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of you ever work as a bartender? Now we have zero years of bunching

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experience combined that more over than anything
lead, more over than anything. Um,

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there's no professional experience, there's only
real world experience. And I say

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this over and over again. You
know I'm fifty six years old. Actually

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I think of fifty seven consume.
Um, I gotta do the math.

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So, you know, as a
host, as someone who has people over

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their home or likes to go out
and pay attention to the finer things that

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other professionals afford, I just watch
and I learned. And so now when

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you come over my house before TikTok
gets celebrated it, I would do things

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that I know I enjoy it when
I went out, and I would share

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that with my friends and family.
So so this is just an extension of

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it. And to the point of
the first cocktail that we made, I

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was making it for myself and my
family at the time before we were going

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out to dinner. Johnny still happens
to just catch it on his first TikTok

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and then that's the video that went
viral. So I made a smoked Manhattan

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when I literally took a cedar board, burned it, put the glass over

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it, made my Manhattan, poured
it, and he put music to it

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Frank Sinatra, and it eight millions, Okay, So that was not from

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the professional experience of someone telling me
or showing me how to make it.

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It's just for me watching and learning
and knowing on what kind of spirits I

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like and how I like to make
my man Well. I'm very interested too

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in the ebb and flow of cocktails
throughout throughout the beginning of when cocktails came

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to be, how people and tastes
seem to change. When when the Martini

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came out, I think palettes weren't
into the sweet as much as they were

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into the bitter. And maybe the
less fruities. But but now you can't

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go anywhere without some type of vodka
or other liqueur that's infused with some sort

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of fruit. Yeah. Well,
that's the fun part about this mixology,

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right. There's things that you will
at one time in your life find to

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be appropriate, and then as you
get older or you get tired of it,

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or you want to change, like
anything else, you'll just experiment um.

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And it's a balancing act. It's
chemistry, it's you know, it's

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it's thinking through the flavor profiles of
whatever it is you want to put in

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your glass and then put over your
lips to enjoy. But to your point,

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yeah, you know, there was
a time where the brown spirits of

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whiskey, bourbon and rye. You
know, they were considered the old old

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man, old old person drink,
and that had gone way by itself through

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the seventies when when you introduced the
martini ere and the cocktail spirit era.

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And so now today we're seeing a
comeback full servile where people young people,

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you know Johnny Gage twenty seven,
thirty years old, are appreciating the brown

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spirits and the time it takes for
them the mature and the way in which

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you might even enjoy them from a
neat type of a poor which is without

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who's just right out of the bottle
of neat, or with some ice cube

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in it or a little water in
it. So it's just the evolution of

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many things. And so this is
a popular place that I think even you

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know, COVID had intend to fight
because we were all locked down, had

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nothing to do, and so it
was a perfect store from that respect for

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us. John and Johnny Rondey the
Johnny Drinks podcast, that's just what they

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host. And you mentioned Rye.
I don't know that anybody has Rye and

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their liquor cabinet anymore, do they? I do, come on over.

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Y uh yeah, I enjoy Rye. Actually, my favorite way of making

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my Manhattan was and still is with
Rye. Wow, I've not had one

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like that, so I'll have to
give it a try. Yep, yep,

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you gotta you gotta check out.
You're gonna watch one of our videos

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that I smoke the glass too.
That's the real the real key to this

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is, uh, bringing some presentation
to your cock Kelly and anyone can pour

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the liquor into the glass with an
ice cube and you know, or mix

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some things and stirred up. You
want to, I think even for your

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own poor you know, create something
that slows you down to appreciate it.

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So we have a smoking kid that
actually we're we're putting out there and we

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have to put out there. That's
been very popular because that's one of the

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things that we do really well.
We smoke our cocktails. So just try

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it. Just check it out and
you'll see a lot of fun. And

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your friends have as much, if
not more fun, watching you prepare the

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cocktail for them. The Johnny Drinks
podcasts and we're talking to John and Johnny

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Ronde is there. Have you ever
come across a cottail at the end of

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making it, you say to yourself, yeah, that's too much trouble.

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We pour it a lot of cocktails
down the drains. They worn't good.

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So they may look good, some
of them look better than they taste,

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but you know, yeah, there's
a there's an end of the user that

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is going to ultimately say whether it's
good or that. But for our own

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palette, we we know some of
them just starbage. You try it and

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it didn't work, throw it down
the drain. You go back and start

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over John and Johnny Ronde the Johnny
Drinks podcasts. It is available everywhere you

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get podcasts, including the Eye Art
Radio app. And cheers to you both

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and thanks for joining us, Thank
you here, thank man, I'm a

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great day. Thanks for listening to
Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews

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