#192: SURPRISE PARTY - SHOCKITOMI PLAZA
Join your festive friends of the APDC along with special guest Alphamagnus as they ring in the Holiday Special Episode with a review of possibly the worst episode of the original run, “Surprise Party,” from season 3 of the 1986 classic animated series, The Transformers!
Welcome!!! Alpha Magnus returns!!! Love Actually Babies!! East Cleveland!! Christmas party at Shockatomi Plaza!!! Daniel the Cybertron Strangler!! Earth delegates!! Wheelie: Dumber than usual!!! Storage asteroid!! Hentai dildos!!! The Notobots!! Bright lights and squiggly lines!! GOTIM: Haunting limos, bros!! Auto DESTRUT!! Targettt!! Spiced meats!! Foolish child you’ll destroy us all!!!
COCKTAIL – 21:14 SHOUTS OUT – 26:29 CHRISTMAS GIFTS – 35:54 REVIEW – 43:27 REAL WORLD – 2:10:31 SCRIPT DEVIATIONS – 2:16:18 ICONIC MOMENT – 2:20:36
SMOKING BISHOP
There are lots of recipes for this, as it is a century’s old punch. Charles Dickens calls it out by name in “A Christmas Carol.” At the end of the story when Scrooge is telling Bob Cratchet about the latter’s raise and the former’s change of heart, he says,
“A merrier Christmas Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I’ll raise your salary, and endeavor to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob.”
This is a fantastic alcoholic punch for your holiday parties. It may seem like a lot of steps and ingredients, but I assure you, this comes together easily and can be made ahead. In fact, I find it really benefits from sitting covered, overnight, for the flavors to meld and then slowly reheated for serving.
INGREDIENTS
· 3 oranges & 1 lemon
o Seville oranges and Meyer lemon if you can find them, if not, I urge you to go organic
· 1 cup water
· 1 bottle (750 ml) Bordeaux wine
· 1 bottle Ruby port
· ¼ tsp each of
o Fresh nutmeg
o Ground all-spice
o Ground cloves
· 1 inch of fresh ginger, cut into slices
· 2 cinnamon sticks
· ½ cup (100g) brown sugar
· 15-20 whole cloves
PRODUCTION
· Make slits in the citrus rind and stud them with the whole cloves
o Bake the citrus whole at 350F (175 C) for 60-90 mins
o Remove and set aside to cool
· Add the water and remaining spices to a saucepan
o Bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer for about 30 minutes, or until the water is reduced by half
· Once the water and spices are reduced, strain and return to saucepan
· Add the wine, port, and sugar, and bring to a simmer to dissolve sugar for just a minute or two and remove from heat
o We don’t want to burn off the alcohol
· Juice the baked oranges and lemon and add to punch
· Serve in a punch bowl with slices of orange and lemon
Both HTD and Max Miller Tasting History have excellent Smoking Bishop episodes, and I will link to those on our webpage.
We have a NYE style cocktail for our next episode which will come ON NYE, but I assure you, after that, we will have 3 Buy Us a Drink cocktails in a row. And by announcing that, I have basically guaranteed that some schedule snafu will transpire against me.
Caleb’s Xmas gift to Ryan. You can bet there will be entries from this in the Cocktail component of the show.
Get ‘em, Charlie.
I love how there’s just one feed that seems focused on the Autobots, and the others appear to be courtrooms. The upper left one is just a shot of the floor.
NO! Not the AUTO DESTRUT!
