Bourbon and Badges the Podcast
Four retired police officers chat about current events and joke around while sampling and rating bourbon. Like their bourbon, they are uncut and unfiltered.
Murder and Killer Whisky
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Where oh where can the Rodinator be? He got the hell out of Gaston County; that’s where he be. He moved on down to the free state of Florida, where he joined the other three misfits, spinning out thin blue line lyrics of all things popo-related. On this episode, our boys in blue cover the events of murder, old and new, all while drinking killer whisky. So if you have time to kill, kick back and Enjoy the Ride.
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Please find us on Face...Fire on the Mountain Whisky in the Sky
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As the Rodinator is on a road trip, the other three delinquents of the airways spin yarns of intellectual spew. Sometimes I wonder if free speech is really a good thing. Our brothers in blue share stories of fire on the mountain. Sundrop’s the king. Look who’s knocking, and other cop stuff. We all like cop stuff. Hang around long enough, and you will find out what makes Hound Dog drink. As if he ever needed a reason. Put your big boy britches on for this one. Sneak your favorite pour...
Great Big Beautiful Podcast and Whisky
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Just like the Great Big Beautiful Bill, this Great Big Beautiful Podcast comes to you from across the USA. Tuning in, we find our dreadful Dreaded Dregs bringing us the super shit show of the airways, discussing such topics as: What's in your infinity bottle. When things go wrong, they go wrong for certain Shieffs. ABC laws can get a guy in trouble, and more. It's an hour-long show, so you know, there's more. More talk. More drinking. More laughs and more of more stuff. Speaking of stuff, stuff your ass in...
Guns, Violence, and Whisky
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It’s that time again, my brothers and sisters, where we find our lawmen of the south debating such topics as: YouTube jail, fleones are fair game, you can’t drink all day if you don’t start early, where’s my gun, and are cops violent? Answers you want: maybe, of course, correct, who knows, and you’re darn skippy. Details you want? Well, then, if you have two ears and one butt, find a seat and listen in as you Enjoy the Ride.
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Please f...Lieutenant Brown and Brown Whisky
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During this episode, Hound Dog works behind the scenes, producing the podcast and calling the shots, as Lieutenant Matt Brown (AKA Hillbilly) fills in as a guest on the show. Hillbilly started his career in the military as an MP. Later joining the Illinois Department of Corrections, retiring in 2020. After a lot of booze and sweet talk, our boys in blue convinced Hillbilly to lower his standards and hang out for a while. Listen in as Hillbilly shares stories from behind the walls and bars of the Illinois prison system. You will...
Pender County 911 Call and Bourbon
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The boys are back this week, examining a 911 call from Pender County, North Carolina. During this 911 call, a man on the verge of panicking reports a monster in the bed of his truck. Our gang brought in a big gun for this one. Jerry Milwood, a cryptozoologist and a member of North Carolina Investigates, lends his professional opinion and helps navigate these uncharted waters. Listening in, you will notice the Rodinator missing in action. Hiding under his bed, most likely. You may want to leave the light on for this one...
Old Cases and Old Whisky
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Doby Dawg is on the lam for this episode, leaving our boys to fend for themselves. I think the three amigos can manage for one show as they drive deep into the cold case of Kurt Cobain. Have you ever heard of this guy? Me neither, but that doesn't stop the crazy antics of the airway voices that vibrate the hairs in your inner ear as you listen in . Enjoy old cases, old talk, old whisky, and yes, Enjoy the Ride.
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Please find us on...Mexico, Gas Cans and Whisky
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Our podcast quadruplets have been reduced to triplets this episode, due to the Houd Dog being on hiatus. Where is Hound Dog, you ask? Only HD knows for sure, but I’m willing to bet he is enjoying some biscuits and gravy with a side order of livermush purhaps. In between sips, the boys in blue cover such topics as Mexico is burning and Don’t bring a gas can to a gunfight. They also dabble in the Nancy Guthrie case. Find your favorite spot in the house, pour yourself a tall glass...
The Nancy Guthrie Case and Booze
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During this episode, our heroic cape crusaders of the airways take an unusual path and discuss several topics, including the Nancy Guthrie case and Florida’s Halo law. All while boozing it up and Enjoying the Ride.
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Please find us on Facebook @ Bourbon Badges On x On Instagram @ bourbon and badges, the podcast As always, Enjoy the Ride
Drink responsibly. Never drink and drive.
FAFO and of course Whiskey
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Our boys are always drinking whiskey. What's new! Video, I say, that’s what. Wow, has the gang finally caught up with the times? Coming into the twenty-first century, we witness a life-altering, head-turning deep dive into the world of not getting shot by the police. FAFO is not just an acronym, but a way of life. The champions of the airwaves cover the antics of the stupid, lead-paint-licking, drooling psychopaths of Minnesota and the consequences for their actions. Like the pudgy pile of pooh that picked up the flashbang, Enjoy the Rid...
Ghost stories and Dread River Bourbon
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Ghost Stories and Dread River Bourbon.
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Drink responsibly. Never drink and drive.
Blast from the Past, Season Two. Shooter's Express
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Blast from the past from Season Two, never-released podcast. Stories from Shooter Express, the premier firearms dealer and shooting range located in Gaston County, North Carolina. Special thanks to Dillon Reynolds for the great intro. This release is dedicated to Terry “Buck” Buchanan, co-founder of Bourbon and Badges, the Podcast.
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Drink responsibly. Never drink and drive.
Doby Dawg No. Whiskey Yes.
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Okay, time for some simple mathematics. What is four minus one? No Doby Dawg, that’s what. With Double D taking the night off, the guys couldn’t help themselves, poking fun at the old retiree. On a serious note, turn the dial up and follow along as the three amigos take you on a journey down the back roads to see what’s hanging. Once a cop always a cop and put some ICE on it. ICE seems to be a quick fix for all things stupid. Stupid is not you, my fri...
Whiskey Talk and Whiskey
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Tuning in, we find our doggedly dogs boiling over with supersonic waves of brain matter dripping intelligent spew all over the airwaves. How can one's ears receive so much informative information during a single setting? Because you are a living specimen of badassery, that’s how. Just like Hound Dog. Is his bad back back or is his back back from being bad? Continue this week’s journey to find the answers to Hound Dog’s dilemma, as well as whether whiskey is better than beer. How tariffs are affecting the whiskey indust...
Cheap Whisky and Cheap Talk
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Technical difficulty! With the host site for this fantastic, super informative, over-the-top show that we all have come to love, affectionately known as Bourbon and Badges, the podcast. Yeah, once again, Slo releases the controls to no one other than the Rodintor. As usual, the Rodintor takes the ball and runs for the uprights. Tuning in, we find the cape crusaders sampling the cheapest whiskey they could find. Which one of our boys will win the bottom shelf challenge? Who knows. I do know if you listen long enough, you will discover H...
Special Guest Gary Johnson and Special Pours.
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Another week, another episode. How do the guys keep pulling these things off? Retired Sergeant Gary Johnson of the Gastonia Police Department is a special guest on the show. The Rodinator is missing in action. We’re guesting a bigger name on the other line, or maybe Rod sobered up enough to realize who he has been hanging out with. Either way, the Rodintor will return to the airwaves next week, bringing with him all the high-speed, top-shelf intellect he is known for. Until then, we find our old dogs in blue div...
The Boys are back for another season. With Whiskey of Course.
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The boys are back from hibernating and brainstorming all the gorgeous badassery coming your way in season eight. This season promises to be everything your bourbon-soaked, overworked, underpaid, podcast-obsessed, and smurf-loving self can stand. Coming your way will be a double-barreled, full-patterned spew of facts, opinions, special guests, and overall tomfoolery that only our cape crusaders, boys in blue, can bring. So tighten your seatbelt, get a firm grip on the steering wheel we call life, and yes, my friend, you guessed it. Enjoy the Ride.
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Long live Season Seven and Whisky
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Here we are, the end of season seven. We find our babbling, blushing buddies bringing the season to an end. Listening in, we know this episode is not your everyday bottom-self pour, with topics such as Where is the Rodinator, What’s up with Vinny, a stripper has rights, and is Hound Dog now the Red Ride. Yes, our beloved followers, there is more. There is always more when our retired cops from the south get together, drinking whisky like a fat kid eating ice cream and spewing out bourbon-splattered tales of th...
Live Action and Quinney’s pour
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It’s all in the narrative, any great podcaster would say. With that in mind, narratively speaking, we find Doby Dawg missing in action, or out of action, depending on which one of our boys in blue you ask. Three out of four superheroes aren’t bad, not for one podcast anyway, because Double D would be surprised to hear that Hound Dog has the clap from just pushing buttons. Tuning into this week's episode, I’m sure Turtle Man would agree it’s all about the live action. Our booze battered brothers...
A Duck, A Rooster, and Four Drunks
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This week, we find King Trump’s four knights in shining armor dazzling the world with knowledge beyond belief. That’s right, my loyal followers, step right up to the self-serving dispenser of all things great. You know our boys like guns and ammo, so here are a few bullet…points on the topics covered during this week’s show.
· A toast to our fallen officers from Charlotte, NC.
· Time to start killing the killers.
· It’s all in the name.
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PTSD, Batman, a Rooster, and Hound Dogs Cheap Ass Whisky
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What do you get when you put four retired law enforcement officers on the same podcast? One kick ass show filled with high testosterone, mind-bending, highly educated points of view that don’t answer to any administration, including YouTube, that’s what. Fill your whisky glass full as you ponder over tonight's topics. Does SLO really hear banjos? Why did HoundDog go cheap on his pour? These are a few of the questions answered, along with the fact that you've got to love Batman. Name that rooster and another mass shooting. On a se...
Mass Shootings and Gun-Free Zones
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Although we find Hound Dog hiding in his garage, all four of our scholars are back for this episode. Tune in to our 120 years of weather-beaten, high-anxiety, heavily caffeinated law enforcement aficionados as they pummel you with knowledge beyond belief. You got it. Everything on this show is beyond belief, including another mass shooting, which our boys in blue cover from a law enforcement perspective. You have to ask yourself, why is it okay to cut your weiner off, but not your finger? I’m guessing it depends on which one is th...
D B Cooper and Let’s Have a Pour
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Does YouTube have an I.A. Department? Must have, and our heroic nobleman of truth has stumbled into “Get your ass kicked off of YouTube forever jail.” Can we say Rumble? Yes, we can, and let’s say it again…”Rumble!” That's where the big boy podcast goes to live and prosper under the unity of free speech and truth. Moving on to the podcast, we find the Rodinator narrating the discussion of D.B. Cooper. The only hijacking to go unsolved. Dating back to November 24, 1971. Listen in while the boys of dastardly deeds d...
Loomis Fargo Robbery and Whiskey
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Digging deep into this week's episode, we find three of your four badge-carrying, ass- kicking, Geritol-taking, in bed by nine o'clock boys in blue discussing the Loomis Fargo Robbery from the 1990s. The local news coined the robbery as the Hillbilly Heist. Speaking of hillbillies, where is Hound Dog? Could he be out looking for the two plus million dollars that were never recovered, or maybe he was wearing his favorite pair of Speedos while chasing the squirrels around the backyard? Who knows what the Hound Dog does when no one is...
News According to Rodinator and a Little ICE with my Bourbon
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Hound Dog opens the show, and our boys find Doby Dawg missing in action. Well, we're not sure if Double D has seen any action in a while, so we will just say missing. Thanks to our host site, Riverside FM, Hound Dog plays hide and seek during the show as the Rodinator delivers the news like the old newspaper boy on his bike route, who stole the Red Rocket from Pee-wee Herman himself. Now that's fast, but you don't have to be. Slow your ass down, grab a nice pour. Kiss...
They got to go somewhere, and let’s drink about it
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Step up and grab your free ticket to this runaway train we call a podcast. Tuning in, you will find our canaries of the airwaves singing the sweet song of bourbon, with a little Old Smoky Moonshine thrown in. The stories flow as freely as the whisky, so put your big boy britches on and find a nice cool hiding place so the old lady doesn’t interrupt your me time. You will need a cool place because the stories are as hot as 120 proof rye whisky straight from the barrel. Well, wh...
Yogi Bear, Flexing Muscles and Drinking Bourdon
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Is this episode coming to you from Studio 77 or Camp Jellystone? You figure it out as Yogi Bear makes a guest appearance to open up this action-packed podcast. It seems that serial killers keep popping up, taking our gang down yet another rabbit hole of police related topics that only Yogi can grasp. We don’t know where Boo Boo is, but we have a Doby Dwag who flexes his proverbial idiom muscles, schooling our loyal listeners on beefing up and being the man of the house. Speaking of being men, our boy...
Where is Hound Dog and Whisky for the Guys
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During this episode, the bourbon flows as freely as the conversation. The only thing missing is Hound Dog, who ditched the guys for some good old down-home barbecue. Look at Hound Dog thinking with his belly as our boys in blue are left to stew in their thoughts of misconduct touched with just a flavor of misbehavior to guide them through the smothering waller of intellectual conversation. Tuning in, you will find that our worldly scholars don't care about your politics as they explore such topics as: never piss off a woman, C...
Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy and Bourbon
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Series four of four of the serial killers episodes. Our boys in blue wrap things up with John Wayne Gacy, the clown killer. No, he didn't kill clowns, although if he had, I would have referred him to the movie "IT." Steven King scares the shit out of me. With a body count of 33 young men, Gacy made it easy for the scholars of all things known to man to fill the one-hour episode with his crime spree. So be like Gacy on the day of his execution and Enjoy the Ride.<...
Serial Killer Gregory Green and Some Bourbon Pouring
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Tuning in this week, we find our thin-blue-line scholars on episode three of a four- part series about serial killers. The one and only Rodinator leads the way down the rabbit hole of all things Gregory Green, the Michigan killer. Talk about having a family to kill for, this beats the cake. Speaking of cake. Is there such a thing as a bourbon cake? If not, there should be. Either way, plant your butt in a chair as you face the door, cut yourself a big piece of cake, Pour that tall...
Serial Killer, Wayne Bertram Williams, and Whisky for the Guys
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Series two of four on the topic of serial killers. This week, we find our guys discussing Wayne Bertram Williams. Narrated by our beloved Doby Dawg, listen in as you are taken down the sad but true memory lane of one of the notorious killers. Do the other boys of blue chime in? Darn skipping they do. All of us have opinions on the who, what, where, when, and how such things happen among the fine people like you, our listeners of this prestigious podcast, where we all know you, Enjoy the...
Serial Killer H. H. Holmes and of Course, Bourbon
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Our guys in blue are killing it in this episode. H. H. Holmes is their first serial killer of four in this series. Listen in as Hound Dog narrates the written accounts of this first known killer that rocked the nation with his dastardly deeds. Say you don't like serial killers? The next time you visit your local grocery store, stay out of the cereal aisle, and you should be okay. Lock your doors, get out the old sawed-off, hide behind the wife, and Enjoy the Ride.
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Intro to Serial Killers and Bourbon Rye
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What a rarity! Tuning in, you will find the masters of the airways all drinking the same whisky: Knob Creek Bourbon Rye. Rye, you ask? Because they can, they did, and you know they rated it. Other than bourbon, what else are the boys known for? You guessed it, rabbit holes. Our whisky-pickled scholars crawl down a hole so deep, it's going to take at least four episodes to dig themselves out. Serial Killers, that's right, Serial Killers are the topic, so listen in as our four-member panel of all things known...
Bones, MS-13, Serial Killer and Killer Whisky
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Drink responsibly. Never drink and drive.
A Plethora of Topics and a Plethora of Whisky
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White cap or yellow cap, what is your choice? You don't know what the hell I'm talking about? Well, our bourbon burping boys do. Listening in, we find the quadruplets covering such topics as a handyman is not so handy. No due process for you. There goes the judge. The media needs to shut up and Phone Spineinitis. On a serious note, our gang raises their glasses and pays homage to our beloved fallen officers who paid the ultimate price so we all can live in safety and Enjoy the Ride.
The Podcast, a Flood and Old Crow Whisky
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That's right, boys and girls, it's the podcast, not a podcast. Listen in as our whisky-spewing, bourbon-soaked foursome dive deep into their ever-growing oversized brains to try and answer such questions as;
Does Buffalo Trace float?Is the bitch crazy? Does a good guy with a gun trump a bad guy with a gun?Was that dog used correctly?Jailer, is your paperwork filled out correctly?Should Old Crow and Double D be in the same room?W...Politics, Rabbit Holes and a Fresh Pour of Whiskey
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Another episode and a whisky pour or four brings us to this week's mischief that only our boys can get into. There's nowhere to hide for Hound Dog as he gets the pink slip from DOGE as the Ninja Turtles fly overhead. The Rodinator loads the gang up in his little red wagon and takes them down the road of politics that leads to a fountain of rabbit holes. So be like our song birds of the podcast world. Get yourself a snort of whisky, hold on tight, and Enjoy the Ride.
Dog Collar in the Attic with Full Proof
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Crazy Wild! Tuning in, we find our boys in blue covering a number of off-the-beaten-path topics this week. Where do they find this stuff? Surffing the internet? Dumpster diving? Paying some third-world underage sweatshop worker for the info? Who the hell knows? Maybe it's the foolproof bourbon our heroes are soaking their palates in this week, which led them down the road to the tomfoolery that causes people to lose their moral compass and their inability to function in society as normal human beings. Listening in, you might ask yourself; Does our g...
The Casar Rebel, Corn and Whisky
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Tuning in this week you will find a Special Edition of Bigfoot. Our boys have gone off the rails and down the rabbit hole of Sasquatch led by no other than Jerry Millwood, a cryptozoologist known as Casar Rebal. He is back by popular demand and shares stories, personal experiences, and investigations into the worldwide phenomena of this hairy bipedalism creature, particularly of the South Mountains of North Carolina. You might want to leave a light on for this one my brothers. So lock the doors, hide the wife, grab the sawed-off...
Police Talk, Whisky Drinking and Brotherhood
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How do they do it? Season Seven, Episode Nine. Our boys in blue keep cracking it out, week after week. The masterminds of the airwaves owe all to easy targets, or as Chief Sult would say, " low-hanging fruit ." Fill your whisky glass as you listen in while deep thoughts are pondered and spewed into the neverending universe of subtonic scales that tickle deep inside your ears as you find out about Robin in the house and Chicago crime statistics. Can someone lose federal funding over the larceny of catalytic converters? Probably not...
