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We'll edit this, so whatever.

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Anything goes.

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Fair enough, we can swear.

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Good.

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Welcome, everybody,
to the very first edition

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of Mixing It Up with Filmland Spirits,

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where Filmland consumers teach members
of our award-winning blending team

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how to make their favorite
Filmland cocktail.

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My name is Troy Bolotnick.

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I'm the founder and CEO
of Filmland Spirits,

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and I am a member of that
award-winning blending team.

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I'm joined today by one of
my partners, Steve Canepa,

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who is also a member
of that blending team.

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How you doing, Steve?

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Great, good to be here.

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And we're also joined, all the way
from New Jersey, by Chris McManus,

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a Filmland customer, and Mark Jacobowski,
both a Filmland customer

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and a very popular influencer
on Instagram and YouTube.

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Thank you guys for being
here, appreciate it.

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Great to be here.

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And thanks for having us.

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Absolutely.

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So what we're going to...
we're going to jump right in.

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What are we making today?

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What are you going to
teach us to make today?

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Well, Mark has got the bottle.

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Grab it from behind him.

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That cherry vanilla oak that it has,
I think, goes really well with this.

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And I think this is like the
perfect end-of-summer drink.

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Yeah, Moonlight Mayhem! is our 94-proof,
double gold medal winning bourbon.

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It won that at San Francisco
World Spirits Competition.

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It's sort of our flagship bourbon.

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So I'm not a cocktail guy,
I'm going to be honest with you guys.

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I'm more of a drink-'em-neat kind
of guy and share them with friends.

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It's really hot, I'm drinking lemonade.

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What would whiskey taste like in there?

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Okay, I've got some fruit.

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Can I put fruit in this?

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Does this work?

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You're gonna take at least four
strawberries if they're relatively small.

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If they're like medium size,
you know, you can do about three.

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And you're just gonna crush them up.

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If you're Mark and you
happen to have a muddler,

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I would say having a muddler is
cheating, but each to his own.

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I'm older than you, Chris.

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I need the extra help.

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Well, Chris, the beauty of
talking to two guys in California

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is our summer starts around
April and goes to about December.

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So this drink works for a
large part of the year for us.

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I've got a wooden, you know,
spoon, and, you know, a bowl,

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and we're just crushing away, and...

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Just gonna take a small handful,
maybe like eight to ten blueberries,

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and you're just gonna add
them in with the strawberries,

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and you're gonna muddle
that up in there too.

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Like a fruit salad.

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Yeah, pretty much.

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The next step, which is
going to be the fun part,

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you're going to add the
two ounces of whiskey.

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If you have a cocktail shaker, great.

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If not, you're going to
add it into your bowl.

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Now I think we should
all compare our muddles.

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Yes, fair enough.

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We do here.

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Yeah, I'm still in the muddling stage.

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Mine is quite juicy.

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Okay, while you're doing that, I'm
going to get my cocktail shaker and ice.

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I need to muddle a little bit more
on the blueberry so it's perfect.

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I'm going to build mine in the glass.

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I like it all built in the same glass,
so I'm not going to shake mine.

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So I personally would
have muddled in the glass,

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but wooden spoon doesn't fit.

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All right, so I'll wait until Troy
comes back so we can all combine stuff.

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The movie poster that Troy writes the
original script for becomes our label,

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and we go in depth on the movie.

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The other part of the label is
for people who want to know a

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lot about the whiskey,
so we disclose everything we possibly can.

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Put it in your cocktail shaker,
add a couple cubes of ice in there,

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and you're gonna add
two ounces of whiskey.

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When you say few, is that arbitrary?

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Can I put six, or is it only two?

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Yeah, I mean, it's all a matter of
where you've got to be tomorrow.

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I accidentally did two and a half.

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You're not gonna be mad at me, are you?

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I happen to have a heavy pour, so that
number, one and a half, two and a half,

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does not apply to me.

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I will often make an
Old Fashioned with four ounces,

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and it's just an all-day
old-fashioned sipper.

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That's a sip by the pool all day.

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So once you're all mixed in,
so yeah, shake it up.

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How much lemonade do we put in?

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The lemonade just gets
splashed into the rocks glass.

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Are we pouring it in or
are we straining it in?

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You're pouring it in.

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Yeah, and you're just gonna
pour it out over the ice,

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the idea of that fruit
residue on the bottom.

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So, cocktail shakers... It doesn't open.

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That's funny.

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Just gonna do a splash of
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Now define "splash" for
our viewers out there.

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Is this an ounce? Is it half an ounce?

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Is it...

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I would say about an ounce
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You know, leave yourself a little
space at the top, and then you're good.

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Okay, and there's no mixing?

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It's just a splash on top?

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Correct. Just a splash on top,
a quick stir around, and then take a sip.

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All right.

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And this is called a Summer Berry Mayhem.

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Yep, that's what we called it.

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Well, cheers!

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It's actually better with two...

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ounces in the... two ounces.

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Yeah, I'm sitting here right now with
about two and a half in mine as well.

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It's, it's really good.

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It's got a little bit of like a
whiskey sour kind of flavor to it,

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but all that fruit in there makes it...
I can see how sitting by the pool,

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this would be super, super refreshing.

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Yeah. Oh my God, so dangerous.

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My brain told me it was going
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and it's not a sugar bomb in any way.

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What's anything on the horizon for
some extra-aged things from Filmland,

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like 10, 11, 12, 13 years,
anything like that?

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Yes.

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Okay, fair enough.

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You can't talk about it.

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I got you.

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What is your pride-and-joy
product that you've done,

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whether it's still
available to buy or not?

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What is your baby that you've
really enjoyed creating?

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Troy and I give different answers
on this, and that's wonderful,

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because you'll hear both.

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But Moonlight Mayhem! Extended Cut
has always been my favorite.

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Troy and I, about four weeks ago,
did our next blend of that,

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and I will just say, when I drank that
whiskey, I looked at him, I'm like,

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"I'm gonna take all of these
samples home and bathe in them,"

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because this is the best thing
I've ever tasted in my life.

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Okay, Troy, what's your
answer on your favorite?

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So, so, so, I'm a very "what have I
done for me lately" kind of person,

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and so I tend to fall in love
with our latest and greatest

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and newest thing that we've done.

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So until very recently, it was
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has now become our most awarded,
highest-rated whiskey out of everything.

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Still an all-time favorite, but right now,

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The Malted Mummy is our newest thing.

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So when I'm looking for
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I will definitely choose The Malted Mummy
at this particular moment in time.

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But yes, thank you, Mark,
for your support on that.

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Oh yeah, and as I was telling you,
this is my second bottle already,

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and I have a third backup ready.

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That's how much I like it.

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And our mission statement from the
beginning is still on every bottle,

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which is bringing people together through

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captivating stories and
great-tasting spirits.

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The one thing I will share with you...

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My daughter's adopted, a couple years ago.

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My family and I, we got stranded
down in Atlanta, Georgia,

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while we learned that we weren't
going to be there for a couple

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days to adopt her.

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We ended up being there six weeks.

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Just those six weeks alone
ended up costing us seventy

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thousand dollars and just extra
expenses that we weren't planning.

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So between the whiskey community that,
you know, I was in at that... you know,

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that I'm still in, a group
of individuals decided to

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raffle off some bottles, help raise
some money to bring our family home.

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But it was because of the whiskey
community raffling bottles

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and giving us proceeds,
we were able to, you know,

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ride it at home the rest of the way.

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So I'm incredibly grateful
for our whiskey community.

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What a wonderful story.

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That's a great story.

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Thank you for sharing that.

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I have nothing to add.

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I want to end on that.

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Yeah, yeah, how do you
top that one, right?

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Yeah, yeah. All right,
well, guys, thank you.

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Here's to you guys for being our inaugural

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Mixing It Up with Filmland Spirits
participants.

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We're grateful for it, and hopefully
we get to see you again soon.

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Cheers!