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Friday Night Live: Cocktail Capers and Vinyl Vibes with Kathryn's Mixology Magic
As the sun dips below the horizon, signaling the end of another workweek, the airwaves come alive with the clinking of ice and the laughter that only a Friday night can bring. Kathryn, our mixologist maestro, joins me, Ben Maynard, to stir up some serious fun with her cocktail shaker, infusing our conversations with the vibrant hues of her Tropical Breeze and Coco Loco concoctions. Simultaneously, I'm sipping on a rich barrel-aged stout, sharing stories of luncheon mix-ups and the kind of high-spirited high jinks that keep our live studio audience—and you—coming back for more.
It's not just about the spirits in our glasses, though; it’s about the spirit of the music that moves us. We're spinning tales from the vinyl era, reminiscing about Kiss album art, and the unmistakable crackle that comes with dropping the needle on a record. The nostalgia is palpable as we summon the past through treasured memorabilia and the soulful sounds of a long-lost Christian rock band. Our trip down memory lane is a reminder of the timeless connections between music, memories, and the bond they forge amongst friends old and new.
Wrap up your week with us as we blend the best of storytelling, laughter, and libations into a show that’s as refreshing as a summer cocktail. Kathryn's bartending wizardry and our shared love for good tunes set the stage for an evening that's a little bit unpredictable, a little bit nostalgic, and entirely unforgettable. So tune in, pour yourself a drink, and be part of a community where every call, comment, and clink of a glass contributes to the rich mosaic of our Friday night live shenanigans. Cheers to that!#tellyourstory #familymatters #thebenmaynardprogram #classicrock #lemondropmartini #tropicalbreezemartini #cocolocomartini
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Hey there, everyone, welcome into the Ben Maynard program. Thanks for being here. It's Friday night and you know what that means. We are live. Yes, we are. So thanks for being here. Yes, it's great to have you. It is Friday night, live, and we have a special show and the phone's ringing already. Can you believe that I haven't even gotten through the opening? Yeah Well, I'm on the air, I know. Yeah well, I know it is Tess. Nobody can. Yeah, we just started, I know, but it is Tess, but nobody can.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we just started, I know, but can I get my opening done? Let me do my opening, okay, thank you. Can you believe that? How professional is this? Huh, you know? Okay, so yes, it's Friday, we're live and thanks for being here, everyone, I greatly appreciate it. You can see we have Miss Catherine in studio with us. We got some special stuff going on. As you know, we'll take care of some housekeeping first.
Speaker 1:This podcast is available on multiple podcast platforms like Apple Podcasts, amazon Music and Spotify, or if you just search the Ben Maynard program, choose your option. But you know, I want to steer everybody towards Buzzsprout, because that's where my website is. However, if you're watching live on YouTube and you just can't resist all of this goodness right here, then please subscribe to the channel, give me a thumbs up and leave a comment, All right, and I think you have to like hit that notification bell also. I don't know, but if it's there, just hit it Okay, and you'll get notifications on all the new episodes as they come up. So, last but not least, follow me on Instagram. Ben Maynard Program all one word and with that, plenty of ways to take in this show for your dancing and listening pleasure. With that, it is Friday night, we are live and Tess is on the phone to get things started. Hold on, what's going on, tess. Hold that, oh wait people.
Speaker 2:We're all rotting right now. Together, we got Lauren from Seattle and Maddie back from Arizona. All right, Maddie Hi, Maddie Hi Lauren.
Speaker 1:Did you?
Speaker 2:guys party a little bit too much. Last night we had, honestly we did not Well we had a great night.
Speaker 1:We didn't, but Maddie did right. Okay, now, just to bring everybody hold on. Just to bring everybody in on this, okay, no, just to bring everyone in. As you know, that's Tess. She's with her girlfriends, maddie and Lauren, and Lauren, as she said, is in from Seattle this weekend. She's here for a few days. I guess the girls have been out painting the town red or something like that. I'm not sure. What are you girls doing?
Speaker 2:Sitting on the couch. We're resting and recuperating went to Santa Monica today. You're resting before the night. Did you want to hear the three?
Speaker 1:cocktails. No, no, no, I haven't even gotten to that. We haven't even gotten into the show yet. This is so I wanted to make sure I was the first caller. Yeah, well, this is so. You'll probably be the only caller tonight. But this is so unprofessional. I didn't even get through my opening and Tess is calling. Couldn't believe that you know what you should do. Instead of calling in Tess, you should turn on your television or your computer and get on YouTube. You can watch this show live, as it happens. Then you can get on the comments and you can drop in some comments as well. Do you have a new keyboard? Do I have a new keyboard?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's like a new keyboard, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Where you can see it. Let me see.
Speaker 2:I see, no, the keyboard in front of him.
Speaker 1:Oh, she's not, she's.
Speaker 1:Oh because I was like you can't see it. Yeah, so I just so. So people out there who are watching this show, I just posted the. I just put the phone number to call in and the comments are up as well. So feel free to comment and give me a call and to call into the show. You dial 909-268-5135. And, just like Tess did, we'll take your call. She's got a direct line to the studio. Can you believe that? So what else is going on? Tess? Maddie's pulling up the YouTube right now. Oh great, and we might actually have a viewer tonight, so okay. So anyway, yeah, I got it. I got a show to do. Can I do the show? Please? No hold on. Can you believe this? You know it was up in the attic. He just brought it down. You know we're live right.
Speaker 2:You know we're live on the air right.
Speaker 1:You know that right, you know we're live on the air right you know that?
Speaker 2:oh, thank you. What is this? Is this like friday night lady social?
Speaker 1:do you like the shirt? I just got it. People, people, people, no, no, no, listen, listen. We got a show to do, right, no?
Speaker 1:yes I can't believe I'm losing control of my own podcast. No, look, we got a show to do. All right, I got to go. 've got to be participating within the show and I haven't even given the rundown of what we're doing. Okay, all right. Oh gosh, okay. So everybody who's watching on YouTube, everybody who's able to watch this, and sorry, listeners, because it is a visual yeah, superman is now in the studio. Okay, I brought him down from the attic. I was in the attic earlier this week and I brought Superman in, and so he's now, you know, he's hanging out in the studio with us. So, listen, all right, look, girls, I gotta go. We got a show to do and maybe, if you wanna call back later on, once we're into this show, then that'd be awesome, so funny. Wait, I got to hold this up to the, to the camera See Tessa Tessa's on FaceTime right now. Yeah, so I not what. I took it. I couldn't even see. I took it down. I not what.
Speaker 2:I took it, I couldn't even see.
Speaker 1:I took it down you could see it that close. No, yes, okay, oh, we got a show to do girls. All right, we're out of here. All right, bye.
Speaker 2:What? Watch the show with the drinks.
Speaker 1:Bye, bye, bye, bye, goodbye.
Speaker 2:Okay, go on.
Speaker 1:Holy Toledo. Okay, all right. So, anyway, what do you know? So it's Memorial Day weekend, which, of course, memorial Day is the unofficial, or Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to summer. Right, it is, and for us that's not going to mean too much this weekend, because we've had horrible weather the last two weeks. As a matter of fact, it was even sprinkling here in Southern California today. That's pretty nuts, isn't it? So, anyway, whatever, but it's Memorial Day weekend and we're going to enjoy some summertime cocktails with this beautiful woman right here, catherine. She's going to get you all geared up for Memorial Day. She's going to show you how to make some of her famous libations and her famous libations, and, um, yeah, we're going to have a good time right?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so now can I. Well, we'll get in. Well, we'll get into that. I'm setting this, okay, see. See, here's the thing. Because Catherine doesn't take part in the show very often, she doesn't know that. I got to run down everything that's going on, you know, and then we'll get into it.
Speaker 2:Well, we can always make a cocktail first and then we'll get into it.
Speaker 1:We'll get it All right. So we'll continue with the rundown. Now listen, no Malort challenge tonight, because we've got cocktails over here. Okay so, no malort challenge, summertime cocktails. However, if you do call into the program, I still have bean boozled on the table, so I'll eat a bean. How's that? Does that work for you? I'll do that. We'll still play Stump the Trump. If you call in with your music trivia and you stump me, we will do that. I'll eat a bean or do something.
Speaker 1:And yeah, so just the usual stuff going on. And yeah, how's everybody's weeks going, Everybody having a good week. It's the end of the week. It's been a long week. I've been working nights, as I told you last week. It's still going on. But I want to share something with you before we really get into this. Yeah, so last Saturday we had a couple of my high school does an alumni luncheon once a month at a former classmate's business. So we all hang out people from school, different classes, and we go and we have lunch and we chit, chat and take pictures and all this good stuff. And uh, so Catherine and I we go, you know, we attend and we order up some food. So Catherine says oh yeah, uh, I want some steak fries, and that's what it says on the menu steak fries.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I ordered up whatever it was. I think I ordered up a couple of chicken kebabs and some other stuff. So we sit down, we end up getting our food five, 10 minutes later, whatever it is, and Catherine's just sitting around and she's kind of looking around and she looks at the food and she says, well, where's my steak fries? And I pointed at them, I said they're right there. She says where's the steak? And I said no, no, it's steak fries, not fries with steak. She thinks it says steak fries, so she gets steak and we all know that there are French fries that are called steak fries.
Speaker 2:But you never see them on a menu. What do you mean? You never see them you never see steak fries on a menu at a fast food place.
Speaker 1:So even though with the new camera and the lights in the studio my hair is not all that blonde, it doesn't look like it anyway, but it is Catherine's really the blonde one in this relationship here.
Speaker 2:Okay, now can we make a cocktail.
Speaker 1:Well, I'll tell you what. We'll get started with the first cocktail.
Speaker 2:Okay, good.
Speaker 1:Okay, so let me set it up Okay.
Speaker 2:She's going to make a cocktail.
Speaker 1:So, catherine, she's going to tell you what she's making first and while she's making it, if she's just too busy going going to town mixing everything, then I've got. I've got some other stuff to to present to you while she's doing so. All right, so take it away, catherine, give us your first summertime cocktail.
Speaker 2:Well, everyone has a choice. Well, the girls do anyways. Tropical Breeze with Empress Gin, or the famous, my famous Lemon Martini or the Coco Loco. So write in the chat which one you want me to make first.
Speaker 1:Well, I know my personal opinion. I think everybody loves your lemon drop, so I think you should save that one for last okay everybody, that's like, that's like your signature cocktail okay, so I'll do the tropical breeze martini. Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, and then share your uh, as you're as you're doing it. Kind of share your recipe, you know, or your your whatever, as you're as you're doing it. Kind of share your recipe, you know, or your your, whatever it is you're putting into it. By the way, we have a live studio audience this evening.
Speaker 2:And he needs a drink in him.
Speaker 1:And and I, I haven't had any um of our barrel aged stout since we did our stout tasting before I went to Portland. So I opened one up. This one's called Mother Floater. It's from the brewery here in Placentia and I've got it going. I've opened it up and I am going to try this. Never tried this one before, so I'm going to give this one a shot and I'll read it to you once I pour it. Would you like a taste of this? By the way, brother Jim is in studio. He just didn't want to be on camera, but he couldn't say no. He couldn't say no to Catherine's cocktails, he couldn't say no to a barrel-aged stout. So there you go. So let me, let me.
Speaker 2:Oh, go ahead, Catherine, go ahead. Yeah, no, go ahead. I'm going to do some ice in the shaper A little bit sticky right there. Yeah, okay, you want it nice and cold. You don't want a hot cocktail here. Let's move the microphone a little bit, can you? Thank you Well.
Speaker 1:I just want to. If you're going to stand up, you've got to talk to the microphone, Okay.
Speaker 2:Then this is Empress Gin. Everyone could see that that's the. It's called Elderflower Rose Gin.
Speaker 1:Okay, so that's like the pink one, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you put an ounce, and this is like if you were going to make one drink. So of course we're going to make several, so I'm going to pour a little bit more than usual, okay, and then the next thing is the coconut syrup.
Speaker 1:How much coconut syrup?
Speaker 2:Amount one ounce. Oh, okay, Okay. And then the next is lime juice, and you have to get good lime juice.
Speaker 1:Fresh is the best. Yeah, definitely agree. Fresh lemon juice or fresh lime juice, not, not from concentrate, that's just not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's no good and when you make cocktails, if you make everything equal parts, like say, if it all falls for one ounce, you're making several. You can up the recipe to like three ounces everything three ounces, so you're not making one at a time okay, just that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but when you talk and I know you're looking at the- and you're doing everything, but just talk loud enough. Oh okay, yeah, cause you're gonna sound like you're off mic.
Speaker 2:Okay, so now this one. The next one is Malibu rum. Everyone loves this. So same thing, same amount, the easy recipe to follow, and I just came up with this just making it. It was just kind of.
Speaker 1:Kind of all trial and error.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it was in the kitchen. I was like, what could I make? What would be a nice cocktail.
Speaker 1:And what was funny is you used to post. You used to post. You would make a cocktail, then you would post it on Facebook while you were sitting on the deck of the pool. While I'm at work, slaving away, catherine's sitting poolside with a cocktail in her hand.
Speaker 2:The next thing you want to do is get mango chunks, put them in a cup like this, and then you're going to mash them. You want to mash them? Okay?
Speaker 1:Mm.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you want to mash them? Okay so you're going to Do you like that one. They're trying stout right now.
Speaker 1:We are.
Speaker 2:And then you pour this in here, and then you're going to shake it up with all the mango, the mango chunks, but you're not going to drink it because you're going to go through a.
Speaker 1:It smells good. Okay, it smells really good. It has an interesting flavor. I think it's the apple brandy.
Speaker 2:So let's shake it up.
Speaker 1:Okay, Shake it up girl. And it's about like 30 seconds Because we want it nice and cold, with the ice, and then.
Speaker 2:I usually serve it in a nice martini glass, but we're just using these cups right now. Shake it, baby, shake it. Shake it, baby, shake it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Get some viewers If I had a bikini top. But or Tess, you should be on the show. Your last show did fabulous, fabulous, okay, so that should be good, okay, and then we're gonna put it through the sieve oh, so you don't.
Speaker 1:So yeah, you'll strain all the mango right.
Speaker 2:I don't know if you could see this on the camera not really oh okay, yes, we're just going to strain. And then you want.
Speaker 1:You want to keep some of the ice cubes yeah, the one thing about the new camera and the new the position of the camera we don't, we don't pick up the uh, the tabletop right now yeah, and then you just want to pour some ice in the glass.
Speaker 2:This is a summertime drink, so you want to be able to have a large cup. I was forgetting the lid, yeah.
Speaker 1:I know, but you're spilling stuff all over the table.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm not used to working like this. Where's my top? Oh, there it is. This is what I was looking for, this is great. I was like I think something was not going right. Okay, so you just pour it in the cup, like this.
Speaker 1:Yay, all right.
Speaker 2:And then you top with an orange and a lime slice, because you put lime in there. Then you just top like that with the lime and here you go, oh Okay, and then you just top like that with the lime.
Speaker 1:And here you go. Oh Okay, all right, okay, yummy.
Speaker 2:And now I'll make another one.
Speaker 1:Okay, oh, I thought you already had one up there.
Speaker 2:No, I know, but we're going to make you three, because you're going to have one too. Oh, I am Aren't're going to have one too.
Speaker 1:Oh, I am.
Speaker 2:Aren't you going to have one? I don't know, yeah. Dude, we need to have one, is it yummy?
Speaker 1:No, this is an informative show. This isn't a drunk show, it's not a drinking show, it's just informative.
Speaker 2:Okay, and here's your line. How long did that take?
Speaker 1:And you would have to spend like like 15 for this probably in a bar.
Speaker 2:Oh, most definitely okay, and there you go. All right, I'll try it out. So let's all say cheers to our first drink, okay cheers, cheers to cheers to summertime cocktails.
Speaker 1:Um yeah, and catherine she is. She's the mixologist of the family whenever we have family gatherings. This, this is gin.
Speaker 2:This is the Empress 1908.
Speaker 1:Whenever we have family, get togethers, parties, whatever, everybody turns to Catherine to make them a cocktail. It's good, huh? Let me see, dude, you should like hang this and just put it in your bag, that's delicious, that is. It's very good. That's delicious, yeah, that is, it's very good. It's delicious and it's, yes, it's very refreshing. Ergo, summertime cocktail people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when you girls, come over on Sunday, I'll be making some of these if you'd like.
Speaker 1:Well, right now we're not just talking to Tess and Maddie and Lauren, we're talking to the other million or so listeners and viewers that we have, so yeah, there you go I think this might have just bumped out the lemon drop. That's good, that's good, okay. So before you get into the next one, catherine, what I opened up here was I told you it's called Mother Floater the paper towel, stick into it.
Speaker 1:And let me put my glasses back on and then I'll read you what it is. As I said, it's from the brewery. It's an apple brandy barrel aged Imperial Stout. So there's no apple brandy, but it's aged in an apple brandy barrel with root beer, natural flavor, vanilla and spices. And the thing is, I believe you can, I believe you can, pick up some of the apple. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you pick up a little bit of it.
Speaker 2:I was asking you to kind of swirl it because I was getting like hard layers and all of a sudden I got the apple.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's actually pretty good, though I don't taste a lot of root beer float. I don't either, but yeah, we'll see. Okay, so listen, before we get into Catherine's next drink, I should put my glasses back on. We're still waiting for phone calls. We're waiting for your comments. I got family texting me here Instead of texting me, just leave a comment. That's it. Just leave a comment, folks it's all good, I don't know I can't read right now we're doing a show okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:So everyone out there, you know what. Before we get to the next, before we get to the next cocktail, can, can you go over that recipe one more time with everyone? So so grab a pen, and paper and write this down okay.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I could print it and put it um on the chat. That would be easier what chat? We don't have a chat on the yes, I can make a comment and put the chat uh okay, I'll put it on the chat.
Speaker 1:Can we just read it?
Speaker 2:Yes, just read it Tropical Breeze Martini. Okay, so it's one ounce Empress 1908 Elderflower. Well, I don't have to show you again, but well, this gin right here it comes in like a lavender, purple color, and then the clear now, but this one is Elderflower, okay, elderflower rose gin.
Speaker 1:Doesn't it come in a gold one too?
Speaker 2:It does. That was their original. But now they have a new white one.
Speaker 1:I don't get any gin juniper at all yeah. Okay, so you start with the gin, right? Yeah?
Speaker 2:And then coconut syrup, one ounce, one ounce lime juice, which is well, lime juice. I don't have to show you that Malibu rum.
Speaker 1:So that's this here, the coconut rum.
Speaker 2:The coconut rum.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then so you put the chunks that you want to mash up the mango chunks and that's this here and you mash that up and then you shake it all together so you get a flavor of the mango. You're not going to have the chunks in the drink, Right? And then you pour it out.
Speaker 1:Cool.
Speaker 2:And then you put a lime on top and just with the straw.
Speaker 1:All right, all right, cool. Like I said, I think that's bumped out. Well, we're still waiting for our first comment and our first call. But while we're doing that and Catherine's kind of straightening up what she's got going on before she gets to her next cocktail, I just want to share something with you, because you all know that this is obviously. We tell our stories here, but we also talk a lot about music, and I got to bring up music in every episode. I just have to. So I'm going to reach down here really quick. I want to share some vinyl with you, all right, and so I've got a few selections. I'm going to share each one with you and talk a little bit about it, and then we'll get to the next cocktail. How's that? So all right. So first one. So all right. So first one. Oh, there we go Back on camera.
Speaker 1:If you remember, I think I shared this when I was like 18 years old I sold all of my vinyl albums my Beatles albums, all my Kiss albums, all my Beach Boys albums, I can't even just about everything that I had, everything that I had. I sold it all so I could get some money so that I could travel back to Missouri and be with my high school girlfriend. Yes, so I have, just for the kick of it, I suppose, the last several years. Every once in a while I'll pick up a few, one or two albums and I thought KISS always does a good job with their packaging. So I went and I picked this one up. There's our camera right there KISS Dynasty. This was the return of KISS. This was 1979. Actually, this album celebrated its 45th anniversary yesterday, yesterday, and that's not why I picked it up. But I just realized that Yesterday was 45 years for this album.
Speaker 1:This is the one that is considered Kiss's disco album, even though it really isn't. It's got one disco song. Yes, it does. It's a little pop leaning, a little polished, but there's some rockers on there. But what I dig about it, kiss always does a good job with their stuff. They always do, and with the packaging and all that, and so I just wanted to break this out and show you.
Speaker 1:You know there's the, there's the inner sleeve and I know folks, if you're listening, if you're listening to this, you can't see it. But there's the inside sleeve. Got all the Kiss colors the red, the blue, the purple and the green. One color for each member of the band Got the logo right across, so it's nice and bright, looks good. But this is the really cool part. This is the really cool part. I'm going to open this up, see if I can get it on here as much as I can. And for you, kiss fans, you already know what I'm going to show you. But for those who may not be KISS fans, it came, the album, came with this, and I'm blocking myself and that's okay, you want me to hold it.
Speaker 2:No, I got it Okay. You can't even see it in the frame. What do you mean? You can't see it, I can see the whole thing.
Speaker 1:There we go. How's that?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Pretty cool huh.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Can I finish? Can I finish my presentation? Thank you, still my show. I just want to finish what I'm doing, but that was the cool thing about what Kiss did. That's a really cool poster and, as a matter of fact, during the photo session for this album, there was a shot and there's a few shots that were out there. I don't think there were any posters manufactured of kiss in straight jackets, so that was pretty cool. Anyway, so that's, uh, that's the first one I'm going to. I'm going to show to you tonight, and now Catherine is going to tonight, and now Catherine is going to give us her next summertime cocktail.
Speaker 2:Okay, so my next cocktail is called Coco Loco.
Speaker 1:Awesome, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Coco Loco. So it's four ounces of pineapple juice, two ounces of rum.
Speaker 1:How many? Four ounces, two ounces of rum, so I'll Four ounces, two ounces of rum.
Speaker 2:So I'll just say all that first.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, malibu rum. So again, I already added the pineapple juice to the container here, and so now I'm going to add the rum, and if you want them stronger, you pour a little bit more, if not, pour a little less, and I'm making a double batch. So A double batch Well a lot.
Speaker 1:Did you okay, before you wait, wait before you finish. That did we?
Speaker 2:uh, do we like finish off the well, I mean, I mean, the batch that she made Really Well, listen, I didn't make that much Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Cream of coconut. I forgot. I opened it already.
Speaker 1:Okay, I have a feeling we should have done a dry run of all this before we went live.
Speaker 2:Well, okay, and then milk. I know some of you are lactose intolerant, but it does call for milk, so you could probably put coconut milk or almond milk.
Speaker 1:Okay, and for guys, go ahead and put that soy milk if you want to grow some boobs.
Speaker 2:How many ounces? One ounce, one ounce, yeah, and now you do a half ounce of Amaretto.
Speaker 1:Oh, half ounce of Amaretto.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:All right, all right, try to stay on camera a little bit.
Speaker 2:All right here, there you go. Okay, that's better. What was that, jim? I'm just looking at what you're doing.
Speaker 1:The recipe calls for one ounce, but you're doubling it up. She's trying to get everyone tanked no, no, no, no, no, I'm done. Oh yeah, okay, she's going to make a double pack.
Speaker 2:I was making. The last one was too little.
Speaker 1:I got you.
Speaker 2:Okay, and then?
Speaker 1:Wait a little. I gotcha Okay, and then, oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. The last one was too little, we finished it. How could it be too?
Speaker 2:little oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, she's trying to get us hammered. No, this isn't a drinking show.
Speaker 2:Okay, and this is just a little bit of the grenadine, and this is just a little bit of the grenadine.
Speaker 1:So it's just going to be one teaspoon.
Speaker 2:This is probably just for color, uh-oh, and you don't soak that or anything. Huh, no, okay, why don't?
Speaker 1:you just throw the muddler in the tray. I don't think you're going to use it anymore.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not. Yeah, you can always do that?
Speaker 1:Was that two?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I'm doubling it, oh gotcha, gotcha Okay. Okay, so that is two teaspoons, because I was doubling the recipe.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, and now just shake it with ice cubes, and then I'll show you what's next.
Speaker 1:Okay, right on.
Speaker 2:And where's my little, I don't know. Oh, there you go. Okay, now we're going to. Okay, and Jim is rotating Right on.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, looking forward to this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is a good summertime one. Who doesn't like coconut in the summertime? You want to pick it up? Really, really good. Nice and chilled. Nice and cold. Am I still on camera?
Speaker 1:You're on camera.
Speaker 2:yes, Okay, and see the pretty color.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, kind of looks like the color on it. Kind of looks like guava juice it does. Kind of has that color to it. Okay, now we want to pour it.
Speaker 2:color to it. Okay, now we want to pour it in a glass.
Speaker 1:Okay, there you go, Benjamin.
Speaker 2:Not me, Well, I mean no Okay and then you put a little cherry oh, start sharing the cherry, yeah. And then you put some pineapple.
Speaker 1:Oh, you just put a pineapple chunk in there, or something.
Speaker 2:A little bit of pineapple in there, okay, and you can put it like on the side you want.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay. What do you think, superman?
Speaker 2:Another cherry. Yeah, just to get it in there, all right, okay, so everyone could see that. Well, everyone who's watching in there.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:Okay, so everyone could see that. Well, everyone who's watching on YouTube can see it, everyone who's listening, they just have to pay attention to your recipe and then try it out at home themselves. Yeah, oh yum, and you can probably put mango in there, anything you want. Fresh fruit alright let me give and his drink. There you go.
Speaker 1:What Too much Well.
Speaker 2:I'm sure we'll finish it. One of us will finish it. See, look at them. That's three drinks that I made Almost.
Speaker 1:That's actually really tasty. Just so you know everyone, I don't drink Catherine's cocktails. That's just not my thing. I don't drink vodka. I don't drink Catherine's cocktails. That's just not my thing. I don't drink vodka. I don't drink gin, all that kind of stuff, so I don't have Catherine's cocktails. When she makes them during the party, I'm usually drinking water or water.
Speaker 2:And you can't see all this, but there's a lot here.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, you've got a whole bar set up over there, off screen, off camera there. Yeah, no, that's actually really good stuff. That's good stuff, my love.
Speaker 2:Do you like it? Good yeah, you like it, jim.
Speaker 1:Really tasty, okay, so hold on really quick.
Speaker 2:Let's see, oh, can I say something real quick?
Speaker 1:Yes, you can say something really quick.
Speaker 2:So the color of my hair? I know it looks dark.
Speaker 1:Why are you bringing up the color of your hair?
Speaker 2:Because it looks so dark here. It looks black.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:The lighting in the room and also my husband bought me the wrong hair color so I didn't want. I didn't want to have gray roots, so I was like, okay, I'll just use it.
Speaker 1:So it's my fault and it was dark yeah, it washes out.
Speaker 2:I'm not worried about it, but that's why my hair is so dark, anita.
Speaker 1:Blame the new camera and the lighting in the studio. So the next album I want to show everyone is also from Kiss. This one is probably as far as the album cover, and Kiss is known for their album covers for the most part, especially in the 70s. They had some really really good album covers for the most part, especially in the 70s, they had some really really good album covers. And so the next one I want to show you is probably my favorite album cover and that's Unmasked, and I bought this one for the same reason that I bought the Dynasty album and yeah, so in Kiss fashion, I think there's. Let me look in here.
Speaker 2:You know as a kid yeah there it is.
Speaker 1:As a kid you'd get a Kiss album and you'd bring it home and you'd take it out of the plastic and then you would turn it sideways like so and just watch everything fall out of it. So it comes with this order form for Kiss memorabilia, kiss merchandise. Yes, I know I'm blocking my face, but that's okay. You probably would rather look at this than the order form, but yeah, so it's got all kinds of cool stuff on here. Obviously, like I said, my favorite, it really is my favorite cover. It's not a great album, it's one of my least favorite albums from the band, but it's a great album cover and I dig it Just, I guess maybe because of all the color, but this is what's really cool, but this is what's really cool. Yeah, this is what's really cool.
Speaker 2:A viewer just asked why they can't leave a comment when they're watching it on TV. Is that the way it usually is?
Speaker 1:I don't think when you're on television.
Speaker 2:You can't leave a comment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think that YouTube on TV doesn't have a spot to leave comments, so it has to be on a computer or your phone or whatever. Yeah, so this is really cool here, so I'm going to get it opened up. Yeah, what do you think of that? That is really cool. Yeah, that's a really cool poster, and so when I bought it, I knew that it had the poster and I knew that it had the order form, so I knew it had everything in it. So that, of course, that's why I bought it, and I just, and and when I, when I buy vinyl, I try to get the same, get the same label that I had with Kiss. They were on Casablanca throughout the 70s and with the Unmasked album, which is in 1980. They were on Casablanca until Casablanca pretty much nearly went bankrupt and sold to Polygram.
Speaker 1:Well, there were different colored labels on the album. Some were purple and some were tan, and if I had the purple one, I just, I know I guess it's for nostalgic reasons, I don't know but I always try to buy the same, the same, same album, same label and all that stuff that I had when I was a kid. Don't ask me why, maybe it's I'm OCD or something like that. Anyway, so that was album number two. You ready for your next? No, not yet. Oh, not yet, oh good, so I get to show another one. Oh good, oh, I get to talk on my own show.
Speaker 2:Did you see Kiss? They modeled some of their albums after Uriah.
Speaker 1:Heep. The Kiss Alive album. Yeah, it was modeled. They took the Uriah Heep Live 73 album and that was like their template for what they did on Kiss Alot. Okay, yeah, speaking of Uriah Heep, I don't even think Jim knew this because I had all my albums here hidden. But here we go Uriah Heep, demons and Wizards. Okay, and this is probably I'm going to have to do my ranking on the Uriah Heep albums. I did my top 20. I'm going to have to rank these, so maybe I won't tell you that this is going to be number one.
Speaker 1:Roger Dean is the artist, by the way. Yeah, roger Dean, he did this album cover. He did Magician's Birthday and he was known for several of the yes album covers. This one's got a gatefold, which is really cool. It's got some photographs of the band in studio Really really cool. Some liner notes here Wrong side Liner notes over here as you can see my ring finger yeah. And then what's cool is you flip that open and, bam, you got song lyrics.
Speaker 1:This album came out in 1972 and it came with song lyrics. That's awesome. That wasn't really a big thing, but this is, yeah, this album. Here is if you watch album rankings that people do on, I mean and there's a bazillion of them on YouTube on various bands, there's a few on your right heap and it seems like everybody pretty much picks Demons and Wizards as their number one album. But it was probably their biggest commercially successful album. But it was probably their biggest commercially successful album. It's the one that they have their one radio hit, easy Living, even though they have so many great songs. But, yeah, so good stuff.
Speaker 2:Was it hit here more than it was over in Europe, correct?
Speaker 1:I don't, I can't say that for certain, but it was their biggest hit in the United States. Yeah, definitely, but I'd have to look that up and see. All right, so I covered album number three. I have one more, and I did save it for last for a reason. So are you ready for your? You ready for your next summertime cocktail?
Speaker 2:All right, and it is my favorite.
Speaker 1:Oh, it is the one. It definitely is the one that put Catherine on the map.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah. As a man, I'm worldwide renowned for my limoncello Well your lemon, your lemon drop, martini, yes, so.
Speaker 1:So last a year ago, a year ago, our sister Judy, who lives in Michigan. She had come out for a visit and she's a bartender Not full-time, but she's a bartender. So Catherine made her up a lemon drop and Judy says it's the best lemon drop I've ever had, and I'm a bartender, so I thought that was a pretty good. I thought that was very complimentary to what you I thought that was, you know, very complimentary to what you do.
Speaker 2:I'm missing my lemon juice.
Speaker 1:You're missing your lemon juice you brought lime juice. Yeah, all right, thank you, jim.
Speaker 2:Either in the fridge or on the counter. I think it might be on the counter and it's.
Speaker 1:It's a lemon Live show here folks. Well, I have everything.
Speaker 2:So what's that? Yeah, so I'll start adding the ice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, start where you're going to start.
Speaker 2:And then I'll tell you like what's in it. So the thing that makes this one really good, the thing that I need like a little clip.
Speaker 1:Ah, maybe so the one I bought.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anyways, the thing that makes this really good is the limoncello. So most places, most restaurants and bars, they don't use that.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:If you go to an Italian restaurant they use limoncello and in some places you have to be particular and say I want a lemon, drop, martini or a shot. So it's two different things.
Speaker 1:Why is it, when you order that, why do they ask you if you want a shot or or a martini?
Speaker 2:um, well, a shot.
Speaker 1:It's just going to be basically the grey goose and some lemon juice that's it yeah so there's really like nothing to it it'll be this and some fresh squeezed hey, there's lemon juice right there. That's it, yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2:There's our 100's lemon juice right there. That's it. Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1:There's our 100% real lemon juice.
Speaker 2:Not from concentrate the martini. Okay, so we're going to put one ounce of limoncello. What are you laughing at?
Speaker 1:I'm just laughing at the.
Speaker 2:Comments.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, I'm laughing at the comments, the fact that we have none right now, no, I'm just laughing.
Speaker 2:Everyone's watching on TV, so but thank you, they're watching on television.
Speaker 1:They keep sending text messages instead of putting stuff in the comments.
Speaker 2:Cause they can't. They're watching on TV.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's, true, Nice, I am nice.
Speaker 2:Okay, Okay, so I'm going to double this. Jim's here, so he hears a lot. He hears more than you guys. Oh, and like again, if you want it stronger, you could add more. You know? What's funny is oh wait, I was going to say something else, oh go ahead, no go ahead. So you can also use well Grey Goose, but what I like is the Belvedere vodka.
Speaker 1:I didn't get Belvedere because you said Belvedere or Grey Goose. I know.
Speaker 2:What makes the Belvedere better? It just tastes a little bit. Yeah, just slightly. I'm not a vodka drinker, so to me it all counts, me neither. Can you open this please?
Speaker 1:Yes, I can open that please. Yes, I can open that, please. You know, what's funny is both the things spinning at the base of this cap. You got a shank, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I got a key. You can cut that tinfoil. Yeah, we got a. Yeah, something in the you got a knife. I got a key.
Speaker 1:All right, yeah, I can't even get a bottle of While that is opening I'm going to add the triple sec. Put my glasses on.
Speaker 2:And make sure you get a good triple sec. You don't want a cheap one. This one is a good brand, has a nice orange flavor to it.
Speaker 1:Oh, the DeKuyper, Mm-hmm, there we go, all right.
Speaker 2:Waiting on the vodka.
Speaker 1:There it is.
Speaker 2:Got it. Yes, is got it yes, I got it there. We go, all right, just pop that cork out of there and you're good to go. Woman, am I still in the camera?
Speaker 1:you are now okay, I could taste the difference between. I don't know. That would be interesting, but I started to tell everyone. It's funny, is I? Well, catherine probably gets mad at me 10 times to my one time that I get mad at her. Yeah, but we never fight, we just don't. We just don't fight.
Speaker 2:I don't think anything like we want to fight about.
Speaker 1:It's because of her that we don't fight. It really is Because I'm an idiot.
Speaker 2:Okay. And then the next thing is I was like why did I say pear juice there?
Speaker 1:Okay and then lemon juice there.
Speaker 2:What is that? Santa Cruz, what, okay, and then lemon juice there. So this will be.
Speaker 1:You got your lemon juice. What is?
Speaker 2:that Santa Cruz, what Santa Cruz organic lemon juice? Yeah, because I know it's sometimes you change it, and this one's always sold out.
Speaker 1:The lemon or lime juice, depending on the drink. You want something that's fresh, and this is fresh and not from concentrate.
Speaker 2:Okay, so that's the deal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because the stuff like from concentrate or like you know, like, even like when Catherine makes the margaritas for you and her, she uses fresh lime juice instead of using a margarita mix, because margarita mix has all that garbage in there that you know sugar and corn syrup and all that other stuff.
Speaker 2:So now agave. So you can use either simple syrup or agave, and this is going to be to your liking. If you want it to taste a little bit more, you know like a little bit stronger, then don't put so much agave in there. If you want it more, um, sweetened, then put more sweet. So yeah, so I know. Now, is that, is that a blue agave or what is that? I don't regular agave let me, is that?
Speaker 1:I don't know, just regular agave, let me see. Let me see if it actually says yeah, and if you put too much, agave then you could put more vodka in there. Always more vodka, right? Not more lemon juice, more vodka.
Speaker 2:There's never, you know, I've never heard of too much vodka.
Speaker 1:Although the Lemoncello does have alcohol in it too. Right it does, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:And so does the.
Speaker 1:Oh, the triple sec too.
Speaker 2:That's right, that's right, so that's why the agave is important in this drink. Okay, so shake, shake, shake and you can see. No, no, it's like shake, shake like this Wait, I don't.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know what we should have done? Do like the girls at Hot Dog on a Stick and just like bounce up and down.
Speaker 2:Yes, I will do that. She's not working for chips.
Speaker 1:And she's making a lemon drink too. They mix up lemonade. She's mixing up a lemon drop, martini.
Speaker 2:Yeah, keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming. Come on, okay, I don't know. Okay, no, let's see how this one tastes all right, let's see some more mother floater while we're waiting okay, so, and this on when you do it in a martini glass, you can put sugar around the room.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Ooh, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that's right, and you get the really super fine sugar right.
Speaker 2:Sometimes I get like a lemon one.
Speaker 1:Oh, the different flavored sugars, yeah.
Speaker 2:So you can get like a lemon sugar and then you just put the little A lemon sugar, Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's a yellow one. They have different colored ones and then they have some different flavored ones as well.
Speaker 2:yeah, I don't know if it's actually got the flavor in it.
Speaker 1:No, it'll yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, Okay. So if everyone could see it on camera.
Speaker 1:You're on camera.
Speaker 2:I'm going to get one from here.
Speaker 1:You're on camera.
Speaker 2:There, there you go.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, thank you. Got the lemon rind on it and everything.
Speaker 2:Cheers.
Speaker 1:Cheers to.
Speaker 2:Catherine's summertime cocktails. Yes, okay, let me clear this all out. And this is like summer is here, right, there's some vodka to that.
Speaker 1:There is some vodka that there is some vodka. Yeah, taste the vodka, but you know what, like I said for somebody who, like myself, that's not a cocktail drinker I like my tequila, I like my barrel-aged stouts, I don't drink vodka, I don't drink gin, I don't drink all that other stuff. This is actually quite good and really refreshing. No, no, no, I liked them all. No, I liked them all.
Speaker 1:Don't listen to him. I liked them all, so let me get into this one really quick. Okay, let me get into this one. Let me get into this one, let me get into my album and then and then. That'll give everyone an opportunity to grab a pen and paper if they don't have it already. How's that? Okay, time out. I got to get down here and grab this.
Speaker 2:And these are all sorry.
Speaker 1:Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2:No, they're all different flavors, so it depends. You can have this, you know, with dinner you can have that. The first one we made the tequila, not tequila the tropical yeah tropical sunrise that's so good by the pool. Okay, it's really light too. It's lightweight. It's like it's a typical gin. You know gin, gin and tonic.
Speaker 1:you can overdo it because so, um, I have a childhood friend whose his name is matt davis and he, um, uh, we've known each other, just like all my buddies. You know spaz and the rest of them. You guys know Spaz very well. He moved out of the area he was living close by and he moved away probably I don't know 10, 12 years ago, and we kind of just lost touch. He went to seminary and he became a pastor and all that and it was. I mean kudos to him. He always wanted to do that.
Speaker 1:So for some strange reason, I'm on Facebook. Last Sunday I believe it was, and it was right before I was I was sitting at the table, I was getting ready to go to church and I was checking Facebook and he, I don't know, knew I was on Facebook, sends me a message and in that message is a link for an eBay link for this album. Right here it's 441. It's a Christian rock band. I used to have this on cassette and my car was stolen, and for some of you longtime listeners and viewers, yeah, he probably knows the date it was stolen I do know the date it was stolen, because because you know that I apparently I have a history with stolen vehicles, but it was stolen on December 30th 1985.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:Big Blue was stolen on December 30th 2022.
Speaker 2:No 2021.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 2021.
Speaker 1:So same day. But I had this on cassette so obviously I lost it in my car when it was stolen and never was able to find this again. Again, the band is 441. This album came out in 1984. I don't know if they put out any other albums after this, but you can listen to this on YouTube. They do have it on YouTube, but it's not on any streaming services and I've looked for it on cassette, I've looked for it everywhere and of course I'm sure you're not going to find it on CD anywhere. But so he sends me this link and I was like, oh my gosh, within five minutes I had the album, I made the purchase and I just got it in the mail yesterday. And I'm so stoked about it Because they sound a lot like the Cars.
Speaker 1:Okay, Sound a lot like the cars. Okay, sound a lot like the cars Kind of that pop rock, alternative, new wave type sound Okay. And my favorite song on here is Fish on the Car and if you remember, back in the 80s it was real popular to have a fish on your cart, signified that you were a christian and all that and so. So I thought this was so cool. It came in and I opened it up and it's got a lyric sheet in it. Yes, wait, let me get you on camera there. Yeah, it's got a lyric sheet. Awesome, see, it's got a lyric sheet in it. Well, especially for, like, an independent band like this they don't want people singing their songs.
Speaker 1:Well, it's not that it's just it costs extra money to do it, but yeah, so it's really cool. So I just thought that I would share that with you. This is, you know, considered a music commentary podcast.
Speaker 2:Do you know all their, their songs?
Speaker 1:Well, like I said, I'm not sure if this is the only album that they put out or not. I'm not sure. Is that the one you had? This is, yes, that's the one that I had, but I had, like I said, I had it on cassette, so I just wanted to share that, and I made a couple more purchases on some vinyl this week. Oh did you? Yes, I did. They'll be coming in next week.
Speaker 2:Oh, I bought some more glasses.
Speaker 1:Can I finish, please, what I'm trying to talk here? I know, okay, I know, but they'll come in. I think they come in early next week and when they do, I'm going to share them on the program with you Because I'm stoked about them and they're super, super cool. Yeah, so everybody likes their summertime cocktails.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, cool Of course I do All right and I think our studio guest was pleased. Oh, of course I do All right I think our studio guest was pleased.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Our in-studio.
Speaker 2:The favorite one that he liked was the Tropical Breeze Martini. That is just. It can get you. It's scary.
Speaker 1:It's divine, it's so funny that we keep getting all these text messages no, they're coming up. That we keep getting all these text messages no, they're coming up here, right, they're text messages.
Speaker 2:Oh, because it goes to the computer too.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:So anyway. So let's move on to the next thing I wanted to.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's called my Summertime Cocktail, catherine's, catherine's Summertime Cocktail. Yeah, what did you call it?
Speaker 1:No, Catherine's Summertime Cocktails, oh my God.
Speaker 2:No, I mean it's kind of my show.
Speaker 1:Oh your show.
Speaker 2:Because it's my, it's your show, it's my cocktail show.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, okay, Well, maybe you get your own podcast called Catherine's Summertime Cocktails or Cocktails with Catherine. Oh yes, we already have the studio.
Speaker 2:I could keep. Yeah, I could Right, yeah, right, yeah, we've already got the studio.
Speaker 1:You just start your own podcast.
Speaker 2:I think I can get three people watching.
Speaker 1:Actually you probably get more than I get.
Speaker 2:No, I would invite girls with bikini tops on my show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, we already have an idea for a podcast with Catherine. I'm not going to let the cat out of the bag on that. It's not the fact that Catherine doesn't want to do it, it's the fact that the other half, the partner that she wants to do it with, she needs to get off the schneid. So it's funny. Well, I think it'll be great and I think if they decide they want to do it, they'll do it right here in this studio and I think it'll. I think it'll be bigger than this show and we know how big this one is. This one gets like half a million views to a million views every week.
Speaker 2:Thank you Right, a thousand views right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, please I wish.
Speaker 2:Well, you don't get a lot of views during the show, but afterwards.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, we get a fair amount. We get a fair amount once we post it on Buzzsprout and it goes out to all the podcast platforms and it goes out on YouTube recorded. So I don't want to. I'm not ending the show on this, but I did want to talk about this really quick because it's a sad thing. But I mentioned him earlier and you all know Spaz. He's been on this program four times. I think we've done four shows together. He's my buddy, he's my childhood friend and he texted me the other day and his dad was not doing very well and I said that I wanted to make sure I saw his dad today. I was going to see him this morning after I got off work.
Speaker 1:About two hours later he texted me and he said it's not going to happen. Dad just passed. So his dad passed away. He had had some health issues, but that doesn't make it any easier and his name was Benny. Benny was just a funny guy and for the old folks like me, he used to call me Jack Sigma. Jack Sigma was the center for the Seattle Supersonics back in the 70s and 80s and he had curly hair, almost kind of long, and you've all seen my photograph. I showed it to you a few weeks ago or a couple weeks ago, whenever it was. I showed it to you, and so he used to call me Jack Sigma all the time.
Speaker 1:To Spaz and his wife Nancy and their daughters Tony and Christina and Monique, and Spaz's brother George and his sister Melissa and their mother Mary, and just say that you know hearts and prayers definitely going out to you guys and yeah, yeah, it's not easy, but we love you and just want you to know that. Okay, and I hope I don't embarrass you too much, buddy, but you're my friend and I love you. So, yeah, okay, so you're done with cocktails, right.
Speaker 2:I can always make more.
Speaker 1:More of the same right.
Speaker 2:No, I can invent something.
Speaker 1:Oh, you can invent something. Yeah, look, you can. No, I can invent something.
Speaker 2:Oh, you can invent something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, look, you can't see everything that's there, oh no, Catherine's got a bar sitting right over here off to the side, and that's the thing.
Speaker 2:When you look at cocktails and mixes, you just like start inventing things Like what tastes? Oh, I like a little bit of rum, a little bit of this, and then that's how you end up with a drink, Right right?
Speaker 1:So before we get out of here, as we know, this is Memorial Day weekend. Monday is Memorial Day, and the real reason why we celebrate we should anyway we, as Americans, we seem to celebrate Memorial Day because it's a three-day weekend and we can have a barbecue and a pool party and all kinds of stuff like that, eat hamburgers and hot dogs and drink cocktails. But the real reason for Memorial Day is we we pay respect and give our thanks to the men and women who have served this country and given their lives for this country so that we can do the things that we do and be as free as we are in the greatest country in the world, right here in the United States. So I wanted to share something, if I could really quick. Let me see when is it. There it is, so I'm just going to go off of my iPad right here. There is no greater sacrifice than one can offer than their life. Memorial Day honors the men and women who have given all for their country and for freedom. This Memorial Day, we highlight the artifacts, images and stories in this collection of short stories that pay tribute to men and women of service. So I wanted to share a couple of just really quick things here.
Speaker 1:Private George Washington Private Washington was the first African-American to receive the Army's second highest award, the Distinguished Service Cross in World War II. In 1997, he was one of seven African-Americans awarded the Medal of Honor by President Bill Clinton. Then I want to pay tribute to Sergeant Roland Ehlers. Roland Ehlers and his brother Walter planned to meet on the beach at Normandy after the D-Day invasion. The two, who were inseparable as brothers, never saw each other again, saw each other again.
Speaker 1:Marine First Lieutenant Leonard Isaacs sustained fatal injuries on the beach at Iwo Jima in February 1945 when a mortar shell hit his foxhole. Isaacs, a New Orleans native, earned a posthumous Purple Heart Award for his bravery. He also left behind a wife and three kids, and I'm going to leave it there, but I wanted to pay tribute to those guys and thank them posthumously for their sacrifice and what they did for our country, Because really that's what, as I said, that's what Memorial Day is all about. So with that, let's just let's wrap it, because there's a whole bar full of alcohol over here and I'm sure Catherine is just dying to make up something right.
Speaker 2:No, it's a long weekend.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. Yes, so we're going to wrap it up right here, and I will remind you all that this podcast is available on multiple podcast platforms, like Apple Podcasts, amazon Music and Spotify, or just search the Ben Maynard Program. Choose your option Buzzsprout, of course, and if you're watching on YouTube, please subscribe to the channel, hit the notification bell, give me a thumbs up and leave a comment. You know I like comments. You know I always read them and I always reply to them. Last but not least, follow me on Instagram. All one word Ben Maynard Program. Okay, that's it. Thanks for being here, gang.
Speaker 2:Thank you for watching everyone. Thank you so much. Have a here gang. Thank you for watching everyone.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much. Have a great, memorable, memorable Memorial Day, Okay. This is the Ben Maynard Program. Tell a friend.