#197: THE QUINTESSON JOURNAL - SWORD SWALLOWING SALVAGE
Join your journaling gents of the APDC as they review the season 3 episode, “The Quintesson Journal,” from the 1986 classic animated series The Transformers!
Beeping Beacons!!! Toilet-related investments!! Sword swallowing!! Five Faces of F’ed Up!!! AKOM doesn’t care about scale!! Rodimus and Spike: negotiations aren’t going well!! Cyclonus is a cool dude! Outback is wonky!! They hate trees!! Warp gates!! Quintessons: it’s a profit deal!! Through the Kool-Aid hole!! In the Real World!! Iconic moment!! Script Deviations!! Now you’re on the trolley!!!
COCKTAIL – 8:36 SHOUT OUTS – 19:56 REVIEW – 22:20 REAL WORLD – 1:23:10 SCRIPT DEVIATIONS – 1:40:14 ICONIC MOMENT – 1:45:05
I partially slotted this cocktail here because, peek behind the curtain, it’s our second episode in this recording session and I wanted something lower ABV after our last drink. This drink is probably better know these days as a Gin Rickey, which appeared as early as 1903, but today we’re having it in the original recipe, because the story is amusing and interesting.
JOE RICKEY
· 2 oz. (60 ml) bourbon
· Sparkling mineral water
· ½ lime
o Squeeze the lime into a Collins glass and drop in the spent citrus
o Add a large lump of ice and the bourbon
o Fill with sparkling mineral water
o Garnish with a lime wedge
Colonel Joe Rickey of Missouri was said to have invented the Joe Rickey in 1883 when he asked a bartender at Shoomaker’s in Washington, D.C. to Joe’s “mornin’ morning,” which was a daily dose of bourbon over ice with mineral water. Joe was a “gentleman’s gambler, and some stories even put the exact day as a Monday after Col. Joe Rickey won a wager over the ascension of John G. Carlisle to Speaker of the House.
Col. Rickey didn’t seem too thrilled that he was most well known in life as the inventor of the drink. He said, “Only a few years ago I was Col. Rickey of Missouri, friend of senators, judges, and statesmen, and something of an authority on political matters and political movements…But am I ever spoken of for those reasons? I fear not. No, I am known to fame as the author of the “Rickey,” and I have to be satisfied with that…The present popularity of the Scotch highball may possibly lose me my reputation and restore me to my former fame.”
That was not to be, as the bulk of the report of his death in 1906 in The St. Louis Republic consisted of the story of the drink.
