Brian and Scott kick off with cocktails, then spend most of the episode swapping vacation stories, comparing family travel logistics, and revisiting a soundtrack tie-in album that turned out to be more Green Day than expected. They also set up next week’s listening assignment, which is shaping up to be a song-of-the-summer bracket.

In this episode:

• Brian and Scott open with a whiskey-and-cocktail check-in, including the “perfect” old fashioned debate and an orange Manhattan variation
• Scott shares a vacation old fashioned method he found online, including the sugar-first, bitters-second approach and a firm bitters count
• Brian explains the orange Manhattan ingredients, including Russell’s Reserve single barrel, orange liqueur, coffee liqueur, sweet vermouth, and chocolate bitters
• They discus ...