Enough Nips To Fill A Swimming Pool

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stunning figures as far as enough five milli leader nip
bottles were sold in Connecticut over the last six months
to fill a swimming pool. What does that say about
all of you? But you know, our elected officials they
want to make sure we can get booze all day,
every day, twenty four to seven, seven days a week.

(00:24):
But there was something that I said, like new Haven
in particular, was was like leading the charge as far
as the purchasing of nip bottles, which if you're ever
out and about in New Haven, I mean they're everywhere.

(00:44):
They're just people just throw them on the ground. I mean,
why dispose of them properly? And can't you even get
the get a couple of pennies on those? Don't you
have five cents you get to? Do you not for nips?
The deposit I have not? Well, then why are you
shaking your head? No? Why are you indicating that I
am not onto something when you actually don't know because

(01:06):
they're all over the ground.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
I thought if they were like five ten cents, they'd.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Be people be gathering them up. I would agree. But nonetheless,
they say every six months, Wine and Spirit Wholesalers of
Connecticut cuts checks to every town where nips are sold.
Each tiny bottle's worth five cents. I'm reading this era
and the ten wholesalers distributing nips in Connecticut give five

(01:31):
cents per bottle to the advocacy organization, which in turn
remits that to the towns where they're sold. It's called
the nickel per nip environmental fee. Now, over the last
six months, fit okay, I won't round up forty eight
point nine million nips were sold in Connecticut because we

(01:56):
are a state full of losers. Is that insane? It's
it's standing.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's a staggering number, thirteen thousand gallons, Jim, and then
it says enough to fill a standard backyard in ground
swimming pool.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
I'm trying to think that I was never really one
of those. I felt like a loser with the see.
But like I said, a lot of that stuff is
has changed. The only time I would have come across
those would have truly been youth, would have been a
kid out of hockey game or and even then it
just I felt like you would have to hide that
from the girls that you liked, or you came across

(02:34):
as like a loser with a you know, I was
gonna say, with a nip of Yaeger on you, but
sad tragically, I'm so old. I'm bj before Jaeger. I
remember when Jaeger came around, so back then it was
what like, I can't even remember what I would get

(02:54):
in there, schnops, probably a schnapps. Yeah, there you go.
I liked I liked southern Southern comfort, although I could
never do that now. But even then, you know, you
just had the bottles that were a little bit, a
little bit bigger and went a little bit longer. I
don't see the purpose of those. Uh And to me,

(03:16):
that's that's an extraordinary statement. There was something about new
Haven lead. I believe new Haven leads the whole state.
As far as the executive director and general counsel of
this wine and spirit wholesalers, he says there's a lot
of people that buy them because, believe it or not,
it's more economical. He says, seven hundred and fifty milli

(03:39):
leaders is the average standard bottle size. There's fifteen nips
that go into a bottle, fifteen nips per bottle. Trying
to break that down. A bottle of Smirnoff costs twenty
bucks smearingoff awful, but just oof. Nothing says this is

(04:00):
a trashy afternoon answer. Nothing says I have no intentions
of making you my actual girlfriend more than a bottle
of swear enough, my man, My man pulls out some
great goose. He pulls out tinos. There could be a
ring around it. Don't open that bottle to if it's

(04:21):
smear enough. You're trash here and you're in a trashy situation.
But smeared off is my crash course? Uh? Probably in vodka?
Was he that? Or majorska? Remember that one yow rough stuff.
Let's grab a quick phone call on this. We're at
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Speaker 3 (04:42):
Any Vinnie, it's Dally girl. I just wanted I know
you're talking about this sniff charge and stuff. Yeah, I
wasn't sure if you addressed too. Do you know they
charged that there's a state charge for the THHD drinks too,
like a dollar extra perk can the liquor stores hoped
to pay to the distributors as.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Well for the what drinks? The THHC drinks? What do
you what do you mean by that?

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah? Those the liquor drinks now that are out in
every liquor store that have the you know, the TCCBD.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
I mean not to sound lame, but that might be
the first I'm actually hearing of those. So it's like
a weed tinged booze.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Oh really, Oh yeah, they're everywhere. Yeah, and it's big charges.
They come in like twenty four packs.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
State charges an extra dollar per can that gets remitted
to the state for like this PhD uh state tax charge.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah. I mean I can't believe that. I can't believe
I became the guy saying something like this. Never mind
is somebody who gleefully calls in and says, vin, it's
it's the love, valley girl. Uh. But I believe that
this state just wants us all wasted. They want to profit.
They know we need crutches, and they want to make

(05:59):
sure the are there, and they tax them. They get
remittancees on them. They know we're weak and they prey
upon that weakness. I believe that, yes, they do, for sure.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
But it's interesting anyway.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Have a good day, you two, Valley girl.