About this episode

The episode features Adam and Dave discussing their experiences with fatherhood while tasting a unique whiskey.

Adam's on the front porch watching one of those Oklahoma sunsets that make you forgive the state for everything else. Dave pulls up. Walks toward the house, chest out, confident, ready to record. Adam asks the only question that matters: did you bring the equipment? He did not. New baby syndrome. Joshua got his first bath that night, Lady Pamela's still on the mend and bending over a tub isn't on the menu yet, and somewhere between bathing the kids and getting out the door, the recording gear stayed home. So Dave logged a solid hour of windshield time driving back and forth across town to fetch it. The baby's worth it. Six days old and already back to birth weight, sleeping three hours at a stretch, an almost unfairly easy kid for a man who's had colicky ones before. The pour is a curveball: Saltire , a 14-year independent bottling distilled at Tomar, a first-fill Oloroso sherry cask. It's a Speyside, but nobody at the table would've guessed it. It drinks salty, like saltwater taffy, like it grew up near the ocean. The notes promise polished leather, dried cherries, tobacco, and, if you add water, burnt sugar, hazelnut, and "speckled chocolate milk," a phrase that derailed the…

People in this episode

Host: Adam

Guest: Dave

Topics covered

• Nativity of St. John the Baptist
• fatherhood
• whiskey tasting
• Christian feasts
• Oklahoma sunsets

Keywords

• Nativity
• St. John the Baptist
• whiskey
• fatherhood
• Christianity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tomar

Products: Saltire

Books & works: Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs

Places: Oklahoma, Speyside

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