#233: DARK DESIGNS - MACHO MANDELA

Join your shadowy, saucy schmucks of the APDC plus special guest Alpha Magnus as they review S1 Ep13, “Dark Designs,” from the 1996 classic animated series, Beast Wars: Transformers!

I just want boring times!! Alpha Magnus: The King of Machomashups!! Beasties!!! Death in the Afternoon!! The classic absinthe drip!!! Shakey-cam!! Rhinox turned into a Predophile!! Riding the coattails of no coattails!! Wonko the Sane!! Terrorsaur... he’s a smirker!! Casual Maximal racism!! In the Real World! Script Deviations!! Iconic Moment!! Goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus!!!!

SHOUT OUTS – 24:30

COCKTAIL – 25:30

REVIEW – 36:30

REAL WORLD – 1:15:50

SCRIPT DEVIATIONS – 1:33:50

RATE THE SCHEME – 1:35:45

ICONIC MOMENT – 1:40:10

I pulled an audible on this one and substituted this cocktail because the one I had planned I really wanted Aaron to be here to experience. But this one should still be fun for you and me, Caleb. It’s appropriately called: 

DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON

Because we started recording later than usual today, so let’s go die together. This is the second cocktail we’ve featured on the show that originates with author and notorious drunk Ernest Hemingway, Papa himself. It is named after his 1932 book of the same title. Hemingway created this cocktail during his time in France where he found a fondness for absinthe. He also contributed the very simple recipe to “So Red the Nose, or Breath in the Afternoon,” a cocktail book published in 1935 featuring drinks from 30 famous authors. The book says, 

Pour one jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass.

Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness.

Drink three to five of these slowly.

If you want some specific measurements you’ll need:

1 ½ oz. (45 ml) absinthe

4 oz. (120 ml) chilled Champagne

Pour the absinthe into a large coupe

Top up with champagne

Unfortunately I don’t have a coupe large enough for this cocktail, because the point is to get that change in the color of the absinthe from clear to opalescent white, which happens because the compounds in absinthe that are soluble-stable in alcohol drop out of solution and crowd together in water. Maybe someday I’ll rig us up the classic Absinthe Drip, where ice cold water drips into absinthe through a sugar cube. But that is more for show than practicality.