#1602 - Justin Wren

Joe Rogan (0:16)

What's up, buddy? You got a whole book of stuff to talk about.

Justin Wren (0:19)

Yeah, am I?

Joe Rogan (0:20)

You're prepared.

Justin Wren (0:20)

I'm prepared a little bit.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

You're like a professional.

Justin Wren (0:23)

There's something special, and we're gonna kick this off with a bang.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

Uh-oh.

Justin Wren (0:26)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

Something I don't know about?

Justin Wren (0:28)

Something you don't know about.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

Uh-oh.

Justin Wren (0:30)

But we'll get into it.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

Okay.

Justin Wren (0:31)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Special.

Justin Wren (0:32)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Tell me.

Justin Wren (0:34)

You gonna do it now?

Awesome. Let's do it.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

What's happening?

Justin Wren (0:38)

Well, you and your team, you picked Fight for the Forgotten, my nonprofit, as charity of choice with Buffalo Trace.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

Yes.

Justin Wren (0:48)

And we're gonna do something really special for all your fans.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

Oh.

Justin Wren (0:52)

But first, I wanted to do something. I talked with Bo Beckman, his great-grandfather's great-grandfather. I think his name's like TH. I don't know, Eckert or something like that.

He started basically the modern-day bourbon in America. So anyways, I asked him, I was talking with Bo, and said, can we do something special for Joe? And he was like, yeah, what are you thinking? And so I talked with my buddy Ryan, who's the vice president of our board, and we thought about it and we were like, what if we could get a barrel from Buffalo Trace and we could give it to Joe?

And so we thought we'd do a sample tasting for you and you get to pick a single barrel select. Basically, I guess, I'm not a whiskey connoisseur, but basically you're about to be able to do a wine, or not wine, but whiskey tasting. And you're gonna be able to pick out your own Buffalo Trace barrel that doesn't taste like any of the rest. What I didn't know about barrels of whiskey is that, what is it, they come from like 70 to 90 year old trees, and then each one of them starts off as kind of like this moonshine looking, it's clear, when they put it in the barrels. But then the taste of whiskey comes from like, 67% of the taste comes from the barrel itself.

Joe Rogan (2:05)

Really?

Justin Wren (2:05)

Really, yeah, but the trees are all different trees, right?

So those things, I think they call them staves or something, it's like 28 to 35 of those things that make the barrel, but they come from all these different trees. The wood slats. Yeah, the wood slats.

And so they all taste different every barrel, whenever it's a single select barrel. So I guess like what they do at Buffalo Trace is they take a bunch of those barrels and they put them all in there together so it has one consistent taste. But whenever you just take one barrel, it's always a unique flavor. Okay, so we got a few of them for you to try.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

Goddamn whiskey nerds.

Justin Wren (2:38)

I'm not a whiskey nerd, but here we go.

Here's gonna be sample one. I need you to put that maybe to the left or right.

Joe Rogan (2:46)

Try to test these? Yeah.

Justin Wren (2:48)

Well, here's the idea.

Joe Rogan (2:49)

It looks like I'm gonna get hammered again. Need glasses?

Justin Wren (2:53)

We got them right here.

Joe Rogan (2:55)

I figured.

Justin Wren (2:55)

I got them right here. I talked to Beau, Beau helped us out.

So, do you like yours with water in it or no?

Joe Rogan (3:01)

No. What am I, girl?

Justin Wren (3:04)

Well, this is the idea. Or this is how we wanted to say thank you.

Joe Rogan (3:08)

Is you have to pick your own thing.

Justin Wren (3:11)

Yep, here's a glass.

Joe Rogan (3:12)

Oh, this is hilarious.

Justin Wren (3:14)

But this is why we're doing it. It's nerdy, sure.

Joe Rogan (3:16)

I like some nerdy things. Don't worry, it's not a negative.

Justin Wren (3:21)

Yeah, here's why we're doing it. Is we wanted to say thank you from Fight for the Forgotten and Buffalo Trace, because we're about to do this big raffle for Fight for the Forgotten.

But you'll get 220 bottles yourself from whatever whiskey you choose.

Joe Rogan (3:35)

220 bottles of whiskey?

Justin Wren (3:37)

Yeah, but what we're gonna do-

Joe Rogan (3:38)

Jesus Christ, are you trying to kill me?

Justin Wren (3:40)