Speaker 1: From Blanchard Family Wines. He is James Blanchard. Because it's
Speaker 1: about time again for a little stroll through the dairy
Speaker 1: block in the coolest alley in Denver.
Speaker 2: Thank you many it is. Have you seen the weather outside?
Speaker 2: It is almost opening day, it's festival season, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: We're gonna turn on us this weekend for a little bit,
Speaker 1: but it'll be back. Dave Fraser said it was. It
Speaker 1: will probably be really nice on opening day, like mid sixties,
Speaker 1: which for me, that's glorious, right, And I always tell
Speaker 1: people if you're coming down for that, just kind of
Speaker 1: caddy corner from McGregor Square is the dairy block and
Speaker 1: within the dairy block there is an alleyway. And it
Speaker 1: sounds so stupid to say it's the coolest alleyway in
Speaker 1: Denver and you should go visit it, but it's the
Speaker 1: coolest alleyway in Denver, and you should go visit it.
Speaker 1: What else is in there besides you guys.
Speaker 2: We've got breweries, wineries and distilleries, so Deviation Distillian.
Speaker 3: Westbound and down. They've got a tap room down.
Speaker 2: There, the milk market, a pocolola, seven Grand Loto bakery.
Speaker 3: They're doing a remodel right now.
Speaker 2: I gonna have a little cofee shopping there as well,
Speaker 2: little spot right there.
Speaker 1: It is so cool and on opening day there's always
Speaker 1: good traffic and stuff like that. But we're not here
Speaker 1: to talk about opening day. We're here to talk about
Speaker 1: the next Colorado Wine Walk. Let's talk about that. What
Speaker 1: are you guys doing now?
Speaker 2: We'll call it opening day for wine first festivals of
Speaker 2: the season. April thirteenth, Colorado Winewalk. We're doing our seventh
Speaker 2: wine walk down there in the Dairy Block alleyway.
Speaker 1: No, how did this? Obviously you're a winery and we've
Speaker 1: talked to you before about how you and your brother
Speaker 1: sort of joined forces after you both became interested in
Speaker 1: wine separately after military careers to create Blanchard Family Wines.
Speaker 1: How is your we've talked about you guys started in California.
Speaker 1: Now you are really focusing like a laser on those
Speaker 1: Colorado wines that are being made here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: When we came here, we were at California Winery and
Speaker 2: that's what we drink, that's what we sold, that's what
Speaker 2: we made. But once we learned about the Colorado wine
Speaker 2: industry and opened our eyes to what's going on here
Speaker 2: in the state. That was really became our new mission
Speaker 2: and that part of the purpose of the Colorado Wine
Speaker 2: Walk is to really promote the top end the best
Speaker 2: winery is the best wines that the state has to
Speaker 2: offer and showcase them off to the front range.
Speaker 1: Now, how many wineries are going to be at the
Speaker 1: Wine Walk on April thirteenth.
Speaker 3: We have twelve wineries.
Speaker 2: We keep it small one because the dairy Block Alleyway
Speaker 2: is a confined space, is an intimate fun environment where
Speaker 2: we get to really engage with the guests. We also
Speaker 2: want to keep it at the top level of Colorado wineries.
Speaker 2: We want wineries of the year, Wines of the year,
Speaker 2: those wineries that are really pushing the frontier quality in
Speaker 2: our state.
Speaker 1: And there are some incredible wines in the wine Yogi
Speaker 1: comes on and we talk about a lot of these wines.
Speaker 1: Can people come down and actually buy wines in addition
Speaker 1: to doing the Wine.
Speaker 2: Walk, Yes, that's a big factor of this is a
Speaker 2: purchasing event. So come down, get your ticket, drink all
Speaker 2: the wines, talk to the winemakers. But the best way
Speaker 2: to support your small, family owned wineries in the state
Speaker 2: and the entire local industry is to buy those products.
Speaker 1: And some of these products don't have distribution on the
Speaker 1: front range. That is always a problem because Crystal travels
Speaker 1: all over the state and brings them back and sometimes
Speaker 1: you can't even buy them on the front range. Do
Speaker 1: you have some of those purveyors coming?
Speaker 2: We do, certainly we have some of the big guys
Speaker 2: as well that the carboys and col terraces that do
Speaker 2: distribute that you can find in your local liquor stores
Speaker 2: and grocery stores. But a lot of these wineries, the
Speaker 2: New Dubois, asp and Pete, those type of things, they're small. Again,
Speaker 2: they're all family owned and they don't distribute, and you
Speaker 2: got to get to get to their taste room out
Speaker 2: in Palisade, cedar Ridge, Montrose, you know, out off the
Speaker 2: beaten path, or come to the wine Walk.
Speaker 1: And I know that most of them have wine clubs.
Speaker 1: Now you guys have a wine club, don't you?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Well, what is that? Tell me what the wine club
Speaker 1: is and how those work.
Speaker 2: Wine clubs are great because if you find a producer
Speaker 2: you really love and you want to keep trying the like,
Speaker 2: keep drinking their products. But again, you can't travel there
Speaker 2: as frequently they're not in the grocery stores. Joining the
Speaker 2: club is a great way to get those wines at
Speaker 2: discounted prices. Different clubs could be monthly, quarterly, semi annually,
Speaker 2: just kind of depends on how their structured ours is quarterly,
Speaker 2: so you can always find a level that works for
Speaker 2: you and get those wines delivered orship to you or
Speaker 2: pick them up at your local wineries.
Speaker 1: Do people have the time to stand and talk to
Speaker 1: the winemakers or the wine makers, the actual ones pouring.
Speaker 2: Yes, and that's important to us a lot of the
Speaker 2: big festivals. It's great to go to a festival with
Speaker 2: four or five six thousand people at it, but when
Speaker 2: you got one hundred people in line, yeah, you don't
Speaker 2: really get to talk fust So we've looked at our
Speaker 2: numbers and we try to keep the guest to winery
Speaker 2: ratio at a pretty reasonable number, about thirty five to
Speaker 2: one or so, so you can get in those lines,
Speaker 2: you're not waiting thirty minutes to try the wines, and
Speaker 2: you get to talk to the winemakers, the owners and
Speaker 2: those kinds of things.
Speaker 1: So the tickets are fifty bucks, and I only say
Speaker 1: that because the VIP tickets I looked at were sold
Speaker 1: out from where gone is of today yees. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: and we try to get James in early enough that
Speaker 1: there are still tickets left. But this will sell out.
Speaker 1: They sell out every.
Speaker 3: Time it will.
Speaker 2: It's been fantastic, you know, those first few years we
Speaker 2: put on the festival. We're always nervous if people are
Speaker 2: going to like our product. But we have a waiting
Speaker 2: list of wineries to get in. We have a waiting
Speaker 2: list of people to get in. Our seminar, our wine
Speaker 2: and chocolate pairing Seminar in the Middle is already sold out,
Speaker 2: and our VIP tickets for a morning and afternoon are
Speaker 2: sold out.
Speaker 1: I was doing the chocolate pairing because I love that the.
Speaker 2: Chocolate therapist in little to providing the chocolate. Say, Juliet's fantastic,
Speaker 2: we love They're working with her for years. But I
Speaker 2: will be the one actually leading the seminar.
Speaker 1: Oh very nice, because I've done her wine tasting that
Speaker 1: she does in the shop there at the Chocolate Therapist.
Speaker 1: She's the best advocate for chocolate that I've ever met
Speaker 1: my entire life, and just dynamite woman to boot. So
Speaker 1: what do you get with that fifty dollars ticket because
Speaker 1: that's all that's left.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is all the general mission tickets. We have
Speaker 2: two sessions. One will be at eleven am to two
Speaker 2: pm and then a second session from three to six.
Speaker 2: We split it up that way give our wineries a
Speaker 2: break as well. Is that way we can get more
Speaker 2: people in. You'll get your glass, get to wander around
Speaker 2: the alleyway, try all the different wines from the twelve wineries.
Speaker 3: They'll be live music throughout the day.
Speaker 2: We'll have Shirt Kitchen doing some amazing catering as well,
Speaker 2: so I have a lot of great food options and
Speaker 2: then of course you're purchasing options as well.
Speaker 1: So there's no dinner this year. Someone of the text
Speaker 1: line asks no dinner It was that just too much.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad they're asking, which means they remembered from
Speaker 2: last year. Yes, every year it is a little bit
Speaker 2: different and we have to look at the bandwidth of
Speaker 2: myself and my staff additionally, and what we can pull off.
Speaker 3: And the wine dinner is fantastic. We love doing it.
Speaker 3: Last couple of years, it's a lot of work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we chose this year to go no dinner,
Speaker 2: but use the wine and chocolate seminar.
Speaker 1: Instead, and I trust me. First of all, you want
Speaker 1: you want the chocolate therapist chocolate, and that's the chocolate
Speaker 1: that I drive from my home all the way across
Speaker 1: to Littleton just to buy Julie's chocolate because it's my favorite.
Speaker 1: I want to ask about the wines you brought in,
Speaker 1: because you brought two of Blanchard family wines in for
Speaker 1: the spring. So you said this is like the kickoff
Speaker 1: for the wine season as well. Explain that a little bit.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: I think we're one of the first wine festivals of
Speaker 2: the season. As we get into you know, May, June, July, August,
Speaker 2: that's one of most of the festivals are. We run
Speaker 2: our festival in April and September. We want to kind
Speaker 2: of bracket the main festival season. You know, we love
Speaker 2: doing those festivals in July when it's one hundred degrees
Speaker 2: out and you're in the middle of the field somewhere
Speaker 2: and you're you're drinking red wine and it's so hot.
Speaker 2: But for us, you know, the April and September a
Speaker 2: great dates for us. You can bracket that hot weather.
Speaker 2: And so this being the first one of the season,
Speaker 2: we've got some sweet rose We've got our Reasling's Chardonay's,
Speaker 2: will be a lot of those brighter fresh roses and
Speaker 2: whites to kind of kick off the.
Speaker 1: Season because rose is the wine of summer.
Speaker 3: Well, it's rose all day, any day, all the time.
Speaker 1: You've been reading T shirts at Target, haven't you, Jane?
Speaker 2: As the weather's it's the season for it.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know one thing I would say, and
Speaker 1: somebody just texted in love the Dairy Block. We've stayed
Speaker 1: at the Maven there. It's awesome. This is one of
Speaker 1: those little kind of self contained places in Denver, and
Speaker 1: I love telling people to go down there after before
Speaker 1: a baseball game because it's so close. But you're still,
Speaker 1: you know, in an area that you don't necessarily have
Speaker 1: to deal with urban outdoorsmen or other such inconveniences.
Speaker 2: I agree, and I we're well aware that there's a
Speaker 2: lot of you know, bad publicity, a bad feeling about
Speaker 2: downtown as the sixteenth Street mall is reopening and we'll
Speaker 2: see what that does for Loto. But as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: it's an alleyway and that sounds negative, but it's not fantastic.
Speaker 2: And the great thing about the Dairy Block is once
Speaker 2: you're inside the four walls of that environment.
Speaker 3: There, it feels like you're in another world.
Speaker 2: It feels like you're transported to some European city where
Speaker 2: all the businesses open the alleyway, there's music, there's art.
Speaker 2: We have twenty four hour security out there. It's very safe.
Speaker 2: We have parking garage on site, so you never even
Speaker 2: have to leave the dairy block from parking through your
Speaker 2: experience all the way out.
Speaker 3: It's a great say.
Speaker 1: You have so many different options within the dairy block
Speaker 1: where you can eat. You can get a little bite,
Speaker 1: you could have a real meal. You could just have
Speaker 1: a glass of wine and some popcorn because James has
Speaker 1: popcorn that pairs very well with the wines at Blantert
Speaker 1: Family Wines. Is one of the things that I love
Speaker 1: about it. James, what has changed for Blanchard Family Wines
Speaker 1: in terms of your vision since you started this? And
Speaker 1: I want to ask you this as a businessman, right,
Speaker 1: I want to ask you, like, what you thought this
Speaker 1: was going to be, what it has turned out to be,
Speaker 1: and what you want it to be now? Has that changed?
Speaker 3: That's a good question. I haven't been asked that one,
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: Ever, we're still we still make California wine out in
Speaker 2: the Heelsburg, California. It's no mom My brother Mark still
Speaker 2: Bruns at operation, so that still is in our mind
Speaker 2: of California and the quality that comes along with that.
Speaker 2: But our Colorado focus and exposing the Front Range, particularly
Speaker 2: to the wines of Colorado is really important to us.
Speaker 2: So not only through the Colorado Wine Walk, which we
Speaker 2: do both in the Dairy Block we did in Fort
Speaker 2: Collins last year until we close out location hopefully take
Speaker 2: it to Grand Junction next year as well, but we're
Speaker 2: also doing a Colorado Wine Walk at home and a
Speaker 2: Colorado Wine Walk on tour. We're going to start doing
Speaker 2: tours out to the Western Slope.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic.
Speaker 2: So many people that come down to the Dairy Block,
Speaker 2: whether it be for the festival or just come down
Speaker 2: to our taste room and say, oh, I know you
Speaker 2: have a wine country, but I've never been there. It's
Speaker 2: too far away. I don't know where to go. I
Speaker 2: don't know how to make that trip. Well, we're going
Speaker 2: to create a little tour company to help take people
Speaker 2: out to the Western Slope and show them the best
Speaker 2: wineries and do wine dinners and tastings and all these activities,
Speaker 2: So we're really expanding that aspect of the business of
Speaker 2: exposing Colorado to Colorado wine through experience.
Speaker 1: Wine tourism is huge. It is massive in California. I
Speaker 1: would venture a guess that without the wine tourism that
Speaker 1: has been developed over the many years in California, a
Speaker 1: lot of small wineries there would never make it. They
Speaker 1: would never make it if there weren't bus loads of
Speaker 1: bridesmaids coming and doing wine tastings and buying a case
Speaker 1: whatever they just tasted. I think it's incredibly undervalued in Colorado.
Speaker 1: And as someone who loves to travel, and I do
Speaker 1: when I go place other places, I do these kind
Speaker 1: of tours. Right I'm getting on somebody else's bus. I've
Speaker 1: talked to friends about this very thing, about the opportunity
Speaker 1: that exists there to tap into a culture that's already established,
Speaker 1: but just bring that culture to Colorado. And I think
Speaker 1: it would be huge for Palisades and the Western Slope
Speaker 1: and areas that could use more, you know, economic development.
Speaker 1: And this is a great idea. So when do you
Speaker 1: think you're going to launch that.
Speaker 2: We're hoping to do our first one near the end
Speaker 2: of May. So I'll let you know so you can
Speaker 2: get you get you on the bus tour and gets
Speaker 2: you out to Palisa with you.
Speaker 1: Generally speaking, I don't do bus tours anymore because you know,
Speaker 1: people know me and I'm just kidding. I'm totally kidding. No,
Speaker 1: I think that's fantastic. Good for you. So, James Blanchard
Speaker 1: is my guest from Blanchard Family Wine. So the Colorado
Speaker 1: Winewalk is coming up on April thirteenth. Two sessions, one
Speaker 1: at eleven am, one at two pm, and then we
Speaker 1: also have the three pm to six pm, so they're
Speaker 1: about three hours.
Speaker 2: Correct, eleven o'clock and three o'clock the two start times.
Speaker 2: Tickets are at coloradowinewalk dot com.
Speaker 1: Okay, Colorado Wine, one more question for you, and I
Speaker 1: asked you this. You're talking about expanding into doing things
Speaker 1: that are almost non they're wine adjacent, but not wine
Speaker 1: directly related. What other opportunities do you see in Colorado
Speaker 1: that you're not tapping into because you're focused on your
Speaker 1: mission when it comes to being wine adjacent.
Speaker 2: This is something that probably isn't well, this isn't public yet,
Speaker 2: so I don't know what we're talking about.
Speaker 3: What we can't talk about.
Speaker 2: But the centennial celebration is coming up for here in
Speaker 2: Colorado and the state is really helping to push the
Speaker 2: agricultural industry in our states. So we are creating a wine.
Speaker 2: The Colorado Association of Avitic Culture and Analogy is creating
Speaker 2: a wine to represent the state for the centennial celebration
Speaker 2: and then to move on forward. So we've been spending
Speaker 2: a lot of time as an organization determining the varietals,
Speaker 2: the blends, how we want to judge this. But we're
Speaker 2: going to create again a wine that's going to represent
Speaker 2: the state both for the centennial celebration as into the future.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of fun things the way we
Speaker 2: can kind of promote our industry.
Speaker 1: He just gave me a vision of a bunch of
Speaker 1: wine nerds, like sitting around with wine glasses in their hands,
Speaker 1: yelling at each other about varietals. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure it's more more civilized than that.
Speaker 3: It's not. It's taking us almost a year just come
Speaker 3: up with a name of the product.
Speaker 1: Well, let me throw one more out at you. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've got that going for us, but it just my
Speaker 1: last question just went right out of my head. But
Speaker 1: that's okay, James, when you got into this, and I'm
Speaker 1: asking this because I'm trying to pick the brains of
Speaker 1: people who are in interesting businesses, right, and you're in
Speaker 1: an interesting business. So when you look at the landscape
Speaker 1: now and you see a lot of people, and we
Speaker 1: were kind of talking about this off the air, we
Speaker 1: have a lot of people who are kind of doing
Speaker 1: these little strip mall wineries where they're buying grapes and
Speaker 1: they're making wine. Some of it's very very bad, some
Speaker 1: of it's good. You know, how do you feel about
Speaker 1: that part? Are we going to reach peak wine making
Speaker 1: like we reached peak craft brewing? Because I do believe
Speaker 1: we have passed peak craft brewing in Colorado.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I think not only in brewing, but in
Speaker 2: distilling and wine making as well. Across the board, for
Speaker 2: better or worse, alcohol sales are down.
Speaker 3: Across this country.
Speaker 1: I blame the youth.
Speaker 3: Well it is why I'm not blaming the youth, but
Speaker 3: it is the youth.
Speaker 2: They are more health conscious, they are more focused on
Speaker 2: sober activities, and they're drinking less. So from our perspective,
Speaker 2: you counter that by creating better.
Speaker 3: Products and better experiences.
Speaker 2: If you are going to drink less, less frequently, less volume,
Speaker 2: then you should be drinking better quality and having better
Speaker 2: experiences when you are drinking.
Speaker 3: So as opposed to going binge drinking at the bar.
Speaker 2: On a Saturday night, come to a wine education class
Speaker 2: or a wine and food pairing in class, or again
Speaker 2: beer education, spirit education, learn more about your products, educate
Speaker 2: yourself on what you're drinking, and again, more better experiences
Speaker 2: and better quality as opposed to more volume.
Speaker 1: Well, I do think that there's a positive there.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, are you going to go out and
Speaker 1: do your shots of school vodka or are you going
Speaker 1: to go out and have a lovely cocktail, Which just
Speaker 1: backs up what I've been saying since I was in
Speaker 1: my twenties. Life's too short for cheap alcohol, right. It
Speaker 1: really is having a really nice cocktail with your dinner.
Speaker 1: It can be a great experience. Having a great class
Speaker 1: of wine with your dinner can be a great experience.
Speaker 1: And I hope the young people understand that it's not
Speaker 1: drinking to get black out drunk. It's to enhance whatever
Speaker 1: other experience you're having as well.
Speaker 3: Agree, but I would twist that a little bit.
Speaker 2: As opposed to saying life too short for drinking cheap alcohol,
Speaker 2: just say bad alcohol. Okay, we're all aware of the
Speaker 2: economy today. We can't always drink expensive alcohol, but you
Speaker 2: can have good product that doesn't have to break the bank.
Speaker 3: So it is life's too short for bad alcohol.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you a little story, a little bit
Speaker 1: about myself and my husband. When we got married, we
Speaker 1: were doing it on the cheap. We were just like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna spend as little money as possible. And I
Speaker 1: walked into a mass wine store, just a giant wine store,
Speaker 1: and a man walked up to me and he said,
Speaker 1: can I help you find wine from any particular region.
Speaker 1: I said, I would like to have wine from the
Speaker 1: five to ten dollar region, and I'm going to have
Speaker 1: to buy a lot of it for my wedding, so
Speaker 1: I need a red and a white. Hook me up.
Speaker 1: He did a wine tasting for us of bottles that
Speaker 1: started from three ninety nine. The most expensive one was
Speaker 1: eight ninety nine, so that was a high dollar and
Speaker 1: we actually found two inexpensive wines that our wine snop
Speaker 1: friends were like, great wine. Of course, we didn't show
Speaker 1: them the bottle, right, we just burn the wine. So
Speaker 1: to your point, they definitely have.
Speaker 2: Some options, a lot of great wines at different price points.
Speaker 2: I think the key is to find out what those
Speaker 2: ingredients are that we don't want added colors and flavors
Speaker 2: and all these chemicals that some of the mass produced
Speaker 2: wineries add. You know, stay local, stay small, stay craft.
Speaker 2: Are you guys organic? Somebody just asked on the text lines.
Speaker 3: Great question.
Speaker 2: All the vineyards and Sonoma and most of all the
Speaker 2: vineyards in Colorado are grown organically, so they are farmed
Speaker 2: organic once you hit the winery. It's really hard to
Speaker 2: stay organic without adding soul fights or any preservative. So
Speaker 2: we as a production company are not organic, but as
Speaker 2: a grower of co brins we purchase are organic.
Speaker 1: It's also do you know if the if the growing
Speaker 1: operations are certified organic, because that process is a freaking nightmare.
Speaker 2: It is, and some of them are, particularly in California.
Speaker 2: For all the vineyards out there, it's about ninety nine
Speaker 2: percent certified organic and Sonoma right now, and Colorado is
Speaker 2: well on its way.
Speaker 1: It takes years to get like a certification that you
Speaker 1: are in organic form. It's it's a very very long process.
Speaker 1: James do you want to stick around and play our
Speaker 1: dumb game of the day.
Speaker 3: I always lose this game, but let's do it.
Speaker 1: That's okay because I expect everyone to lose except me,
Speaker 1: and even then I still lose. On occasion. Grant has
Speaker 1: become a rod because a rod turned into a pumpkin.
Speaker 1: So Grant, what wait a minute, we try this, and
Speaker 1: now it's time for my most exciting segment all the
Speaker 1: radio of it's kind? Is it Grant in the world
Speaker 1: of that day?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: What is our dad joke of the day?
Speaker 4: Dad joke of the day. If you don't like it,
Speaker 4: play a rod? I asked my wife if I'm the
Speaker 4: only one she has ever been with. She said yes,
Speaker 4: all the others were nines and tens.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's funny. I heard that one before. All right,
Speaker 1: what is our word of today, please, Grant. Word of
Speaker 1: the day today?
Speaker 3: It is escape.
Speaker 1: It's a noun escape, I n scape n sc a.
Speaker 1: So if escape is to break out of something, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say escape is to break into.
Speaker 4: Something good guess, but not quite. But it does involve
Speaker 4: the inner of something. Okay, James, you want to take
Speaker 4: a shot.
Speaker 3: I like your gate, your guests, but to.
Speaker 2: How about to to fall inside your own mind? Oh?
Speaker 4: Oh, to go in the deep things philosophical here, No,
Speaker 4: it is the unique essence or inner nature of a thing.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, the escape of.
Speaker 3: Your mind you can escape to.
Speaker 1: You were closer technically, all right. Who is the Lay's
Speaker 1: brand of potato chips named for? I mean it's got
Speaker 1: to be whoever like Larry Larry Lay's Bob laise I
Speaker 1: have no idea. Well, yeah, company founder Herman W. La
Speaker 1: snack empire by selling chips out of the back of
Speaker 1: his car in the early nineteen thirty Get Herman exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember himself and his brother Harold. Yeah, hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: I got chips in the back of my copy. So
Speaker 1: it all got started right there. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about the Laze potato chips? What's your potato chip of choice?
Speaker 3: Middle chip of choice? Pringles?
Speaker 1: I like a kettle cooked. I like the kettle chips
Speaker 1: from Costco Big Bag. They are so good.
Speaker 4: We'll buy a you know, since you guys are talking wine,
Speaker 4: you'll buy a really nice bottle of wine and we'll
Speaker 4: pair it with Lay's original potato chips.
Speaker 1: You know what, perfectly all right? What's our Jeopardy category.
Speaker 4: Please, well, speaking of building empires, the company's animal mascot,
Speaker 4: I will describe the mascot. You tell me which company
Speaker 4: good or you know something related to that?
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: Introduced in nineteen sixty one, Charlie was this type of fish?
Speaker 1: What is chicken of the sea?
Speaker 3: And correct? Let me finish the question.
Speaker 4: Shoot fish, who bizarrely wanted to end up as product for.
Speaker 1: Starkist sang it? What is tune of James? Yes, you
Speaker 1: got the Yeah, James, say your name? And then what
Speaker 1: is he? Just jump?
Speaker 3: So that's good, it's your first time.
Speaker 1: We get to the point that next one.
Speaker 4: Wearing flip flops and sunglasses, This drum pounding mascot began
Speaker 4: going and going and going in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1: Nine, Manny, what is Chester Cheeto?
Speaker 3: Incorrect? Dang it.
Speaker 4: Anything?
Speaker 1: James, Oh many, You're so stupid. You are so stupid.
Speaker 1: I can't even believe I just did that. No, I
Speaker 1: know what it is. It's the energizer bunny.
Speaker 3: Correct but incorrect. You still wrong.
Speaker 4: At nineteen ninety seven New York Times headline about a
Speaker 4: mascot change, read, Joe, this a giant and tobacco marketing man.
Speaker 1: What is the jolly green giant in correct?
Speaker 3: Joe, This a giant.
Speaker 4: Tobacco marketing is dead at age twenty Thames, what is
Speaker 4: Joe the cammell?
Speaker 3: Correct?
Speaker 1: James. That's two for James, and I'm minus three. I'm
Speaker 1: birthlazing a trail and James, the sad part is I'm
Speaker 1: not even letting you win. I'm just bad at this today.
Speaker 4: Next to one last name of the tennis player, Oh,
Speaker 4: scene here, can't do that. The crocodile logo on his
Speaker 4: coat would become a fashion icon Mandy.
Speaker 3: What's izod Incorrect? James? What is lacasse Correct?
Speaker 1: It's the same company saying it, James, you won.
Speaker 3: If you can get to four minus four?
Speaker 1: Yeah, company's logo.
Speaker 4: Two bovines run directly at each other, perhaps energized by
Speaker 4: the product they represent.
Speaker 3: James. What is red Bull?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: Four to minus four? This is the worst butt kicking
Speaker 1: of my entire lifetime in this game. I've worked with
Speaker 1: you for a lot of year. It's an eight point swing.
Speaker 1: I already crumpled it up, James, because I never want
Speaker 1: to see.
Speaker 3: It kicked out.
Speaker 2: But last time I was here, so I'm glad he's
Speaker 2: not here.
Speaker 1: You're you're doing great anyway, James lanch Or Blancher Family Wines,
Speaker 1: Get your wife and walk tickets before they sell out.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in today, James.
Speaker 3: Thank you for