Bourbon Legends

Justin Maxey, Jeff Renn, Kevin Waddy
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Every week(ish), Justin, Jeff, and Kevin crack open a new bottle of bourbon and then crack open something even more dangerous...the truth. Or at least, a version of it. Bourbon Legends is the podcast where we pour something worth sipping, then spend the rest of the episode debating whether the moon landing was staged, if Bigfoot has a real estate portfolio, and whatever else the internet has cooked up this week. We're not saying we believe all of it. We're just saying it gets more convincing after the second glass. Whether you're a bourbon enthusiast, a conspiracy junkie, or just someone who enjoys watching three guys argue over the fate of the world one pour at a time...pull up a chair. New episodes every week. For collabs or to send us some Bourbon, email: thebourbonlegendspod@gmail.com

Episodes

  1. 3d ago

    Are World Leaders Shape-Shifting Reptilians? The Conspiracy Debated Over Willett Pot Still Bourbon

    Welcome back to Bourbon Legends - where we pour something worth drinking and then ask the questions polite society would rather we didn’t.   This week, Justin and Jeff crack open Willett Pot Still Reserve — poured from one of the most iconic bottle shapes in bourbon, a replica of Willett’s own copper pot still — and go deep on one of the most enduring and elaborate conspiracy theories in the world: the Reptilian Elite.   Are the world’s most powerful leaders shape-shifting reptilian beings from the Alpha Draconis star system, secretly controlling humanity for thousands of years? David Icke says yes, and he’s named names: the British Royal Family, the Bushes, the Clintons, Henry Kissinger, and more. Justin and Jeff dig into the full theory — the Anunnaki connection, the Moon Matrix, the ancient serpent symbolism that shows up independently in every major civilisation on Earth, and why a former BBC sports presenter became the world’s most prominent lizard people theorist. Also: Kevin is back. He was off camera. We have questions.   (Kevin made it back this week — technically. He was off camera the entire time. We’re not saying that’s suspicious, but we’re not not saying it either.)   BOURBON OF THE EPISODE Willett Pot Still Reserve | Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey | Willett Distillery, Bardstown, KY One of the most recognisable bottles in bourbon — an exact replica of the patented Willett copper pot still built by Vendome Copper and Brass. A wheated bourbon built for approachability and balance. Mash Bill: 65% corn, 20% wheat, 15% malted barley | Proof: 94 (47% ABV) | Entry Proof: 115 Nose: Honey, vanilla, light toasted oak, and a gentle floral sweetness. Palate: Soft caramel, butterscotch, baking spice, and dried fruit with a smooth, round mouthfeel typical of wheated bourbons. Finish: Medium length, warm and sweet with a touch of oak and lingering vanilla. Learn more: kentuckybourbonwhiskey.com   WHAT WE COVER Who David Icke is — BBC sports presenter to Son of God-Head to the world’s most famous lizard people theoristThe full Reptilian Elite theory: Alpha Draconis, hybrid bloodlines, the Babylonian Brotherhood, and the fear harvestThe Moon Matrix: why Icke believes our Moon is an artificial reptilian broadcast antennaSerpent symbolism across every major ancient civilisation — Sumer, Egypt, Mesoamerica, India, China, and GreeceThe Anunnaki connection: Sumerian cuneiform tablets and what they actually sayHow widespread belief in this actually is — including a sitting Dutch MP who went on recordWillett Pot Still Reserve: first pour, mash bill breakdown, and tasting notes  SUBSCRIBE New episodes every week. New bourbon. New legend. Hit subscribe so you never miss a pour.   #BourbonLegends #ReptilianElite #LizardPeople #DavidIcke #ConspiracyTheory #Anunnaki #WillettBourbon #WillettPotStill #BourbonPodcast #NewWorldOrder

  2. Jul 19

    Barrell Foundation & Is the Government Planning a Fake Alien Invasion? Project Blue Beam Explained

    Welcome back to Bourbon Legends - where we open something exceptional and then go somewhere we probably shouldn’t.   This week, Justin and Jeff pour Barrell Foundation — a critically acclaimed blend of Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, and Maryland bourbons that Robb Report scored a 93 and the World Whiskies Awards named Best American Blended Bourbon — and then dig into one of the most elaborate conspiracy theories ever committed to paper: Project Blue Beam.   First published in 1994 by Canadian journalist Serge Monast, Project Blue Beam claims that NASA and the United Nations have a four-stage plan to establish a totalitarian one-world government. Stage one: fake archaeological discoveries to destroy global religion. Stage two: a global holographic sky show projecting religious figures that eventually merge into a single Antichrist. Stage three: satellite-beamed ELF wave messages sent directly into people’s minds. Stage four: the arrival of the world leader. Justin and Jeff break down every stage — and ask whether drone light shows at the Olympics, UAP congressional testimony, and the New Jersey drone incident of 2024 are making this less far-fetched by the year.   (Kevin’s still out — but we’re told he’ll be back soonish. We’re choosing to believe that.)   BOURBON OF THE EPISODE Barrell Foundation | Kentucky Straight Bourbon | Barrell Craft Spirits Barrell's first non-cask strength release and their entry into a new chapter. A meticulous blend of bourbons from Kentucky (8yr), Indiana (5, 6, and 9yr), Tennessee (8yr), and Maryland (5 and 6yr), unified at 100 proof — 23% rye mash bill giving richness and complexity throughout. Nose: Honey, candied strawberry, dark cherry, grilled cantaloupe, lavender, fennel, cocoa, brown butter, and cardamom. Palate: Maple pecans, dark chocolate, cinnamon, tiramisu, cardamom cake, fennel, and lemongrass with a creamy full-bodied mouthfeel. Finish: Creamy and sweet — cinnamon, toffee, and vanilla pudding. Awards: Double Gold — San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2024 | Best American Blended Bourbon — World Whiskies Awards 2024 | Platinum — LA Spirits Awards 2024 | Platinum — ASCOT Awards 2024 | 93 points — Robb Report | 92 points — Wine Enthusiast | 91 points — Whisky Advocate Learn more: barrellbourbon.com/foundation   WHAT WE COVER Who Serge Monast was — and why he died right after publishing the theoryAll four stages of Project Blue Beam: the archaeological deception, the global sky show, ELF mind control, and the arrival of the AntichristHAARP, hologram technology, and why 2024’s drone light shows made believers louder than everDavid Grusch’s 2023 congressional testimony about non-human craft — under oathOperation Northwoods, MKUltra, and the Gulf of Tonkin: what governments have actually doneBarrell Foundation: first pour, blend breakdown, and tasting notes  SUBSCRIBE New episodes every week. New bourbon. New legend. Hit subscribe so you never miss a pour.   #BourbonLegends #ProjectBlueBeam #BlueBeam #ConspiracyTheory #NASAConspiracy #NewWorldOrder #BarrellBourbon #BarrellFoundation #BourbonPodcast #UFO

  3. Jul 12

    Do The Simpsons Know the Future? 35 Years of Predictions Debated Over Hand Barrel Bourbon

    Welcome back to Bourbon Legends — where we pour something worth sipping and then ask questions nobody asked us to ask.   This week, Justin and Jeff pour Hand Barrel Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon — the high-rye, non-chill filtered original from the Hand Barrel lineup — and go deep on one of the internet’s most enduring debates: how has a cartoon that’s been on the air since 1989 managed to accurately predict Donald Trump’s presidency, the Disney-Fox merger, the Higgs boson, a US Olympic curling gold, Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl entrance, and a Nobel Prize winner by name?   Justin and Jeff work through the biggest hits — the 2000 episode that named Trump as president 16 years early, the 1998 background joke that showed Disney owning Fox 21 years before it happened, the Higgs boson equation a physicist confirmed was actually accurate, and the ones that sound convincing but don’t hold up under scrutiny. Is it prophecy, pattern recognition, or just what happens when 800 episodes of sharp satire meets confirmation bias? They don’t agree.   (Kevin’s still out. Our current working theory: Project Blue Beam got him. We’re taking this very seriously.)   BOURBON OF THE EPISODE Hand Barrel Small Batch | Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (White Marble) The flagship Hand Barrel expression. Same high-rye mash bill and non-chill filtered 105-proof build as their Double Oak, but aged in a single Char #4 American white oak barrel rather than a second cask — letting the grain character come through more directly. Mash Bill: 64% corn, 24% rye, 12% malted barley | Cask: Char #4 American white oak | Non-chill filtered | 105 proof Nose: Toffee, caramel, buttered corn, cinnamon pepper spice. Palate: Waves of oaky caramel and butter with bursts of pepper, honeyed sweetness, baked apple, and cinnamon — round and viscous. Finish: Vibrant pepper-cinnamon-mint burn with light tannin. Learn more: handbarrel.com   WHAT WE COVER Trump by name in 2000 — 16 years before the electionDisney buying Fox: a background joke from 1998 that came true in 2019The Higgs boson equation: a physics master’s degree in the writers’ room pays offLady Gaga’s Super Bowl wire entrance, the US curling gold, and the FIFA scandalThe Osaka Flu pandemic episode — and why it’s not quite what people thinkThe strongest skeptical case: volume, satire, and confirmation biasHand Barrel Small Batch: first pour and full tasting notes  SUBSCRIBE New episodes every week. New bourbon. New legend. Hit subscribe so you never miss a pour.   #BourbonLegends #SimpsonsPredict #SimpsonsDidItAgain #SimpsonsConspiracy #TheSimpsons #HandBarrelBourbon #BourbonPodcast #ConspiracyTheory #BourbonReview #SimpsonsPredictor

  4. Jul 5

    If It Flies, It Spies: Debating Birds Aren't Real Over Yellowstone Bourbon

    Welcome back to Bourbon Legends — the show where we pour something worth sipping and then question things that probably shouldn’t be questioned.   This week, Justin and Jeff crack open Yellowstone Rum Cask Kentucky Straight Bourbon — a rum cask-finished bourbon and debate one of the most absurd, most committed, and somehow most entertaining conspiracy movements of the last decade: Birds Aren’t Real.   Are birds government surveillance drones deployed to spy on the American public? Did the federal government exterminate 12 billion birds between 1959 and 1971 and replace them with robotic lookalikes? Why do birds sit on power lines? Why does nobody ever see a baby pigeon? And why did the real FBI get involved - again - in a conspiracy involving a fake creature? Justin and Jeff get into all of it.   (Kevin missed another one. At this point we’re fairly convinced he’s a drone.)   BOURBON OF THE EPISODE Yellowstone Rum Cask | Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey | Special Finishes Collection Part of Yellowstone’s ever-growing Special Finishes Collection. Their 4-year Kentucky Straight Bourbon finished for nine weeks in rum cask barrels, adding a distinctive tropical sweetness to the classic Yellowstone profile. Nose: Gingerbread, poached pear, and fresh-cut hay. Palate: Toasted marshmallow, crème brûlée, toffee, and toasted oak. Finish: Tobacco, clove, and cocoa-seasoned oak with a long honey finish. Proof: 100 / 50% ABV Awards: Double Platinum — 2025 ASCOT Awards | Gold Medal — 2025 San Francisco World Spirits Competition | Platinum — 2024 ASCOT Awards Learn more: yellowstonebourbon.com   WHAT WE COVER The origin story: how a 20-year-old college student with a poster started a national movementThe official Birds Aren’t Real lore: 12 billion birds exterminated, replaced with government dronesThe “evidence”: power line charging, bird poop as tracking fluid, and the baby pigeon mysteryThe real rallies, the fake nonfiction book, and the TED Talk nobody saw comingChina’s actual bird-shaped surveillance drones — and what that means for the jokeYellowstone Rum Cask: first pour, tasting notes, and mid-debate refills  SUBSCRIBE New episodes every week. New bourbon. New legend. Hit subscribe so you never miss a pour.   #BourbonLegends #BirdsArentReal #BirdsArentRealMovement #ConspiracyTheory #YellowstoneBourbon #RumCask #BourbonPodcast #UrbanLegends #GovernmentDrones #BourbonReview

  5. Jun 28

    The Mandela Effect: Are We Living in the Wrong Timeline? ft. Wilderness Trail

    Welcome back to Bourbon Legends — where we pour something worth sipping and then question everything we thought we knew.   This week, Justin and Jeff crack open Wilderness Trail Kentucky Straight Wheated Bourbon and go deep on one of the internet’s most debated phenomena: the Mandela Effect. Why do millions of unconnected strangers share the same vivid, specific memories of things that never happened? Is it just bad memory — or did something go very wrong when CERN fired up the Large Hadron Collider?   We cover the original Mandela Effect (what people actually misremember about Nelson Mandela), the most famous examples — Berenstain vs Berenstein, the Monopoly Man’s monocle, Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates, Sinbad’s genie movie, and more — plus the theory that CERN’s experiments cracked open a dimensional rift and merged two parallel realities into one, leaving us with contradictory memories of both.   (Kevin’s out again. We’re genuinely starting to wonder if he’s in a different timeline.)   BOURBON OF THE EPISODE Wilderness Trail Kentucky Straight Wheated Bourbon | Wilderness Trail Distillery, Danville, KY Their flagship whiskey — and a piece of bourbon history. When it launched, it was the first bottled-in-bond wheated sweet mash bourbon released since Prohibition. Crafted with less corn and a higher percentage of “middle grains” to showcase subtle grain flavour. Nose: Sweet vanilla and charred oak. Taste: Caramel and vanilla leading to oak, cinnamon, and blood orange with a palate-coating mouthfeel. Finish: Long and sweet, with oak spices, toffee, and dark fruits. Awards: Double Gold — New York International Spirits Competition (2023) | Gold — San Francisco World Spirits Competition (2023) | Platinum — Ascot Awards (2023) | Gold — Beverage Testing Institute (2023) Learn more: wildernesstraildistillery.com   WHAT WE COVER •       What the Mandela Effect actually is and where the name comes from •       The biggest shared false memories: Berenstain Bears, Monopoly Man, Forrest Gump, Snow White, Sinbad’s genie movie, and more •       The CERN / Large Hadron Collider theory: did activating it at record energy merge two timelines? •       The mainstream psychology explanation vs. the parallel universe theory •       Wilderness Trail Wheated Bourbon: first pour, tasting notes, and mid-debate refills   SUBSCRIBE New episodes every week. New bourbon. New legend. Hit subscribe so you never miss a pour. #BourbonLegends #MandelaEffect #MandelaEffectExamples #CERN #ParallelUniverse #WildernessBourbon #WildernessTrail #BourbonPodcast #ConspiracyTheory #BerenstainBears

  6. Jun 22

    Was Bat Boy Real? Sipping Blanton's Bourbon & Debating the Tabloid Legend

    Welcome back to Bourbon Legends — the show where we pour something special and talk about the legends nobody can quite explain.   This week, Justin and Jeff are sipping Blanton's Original Single Barrel — one of the most iconic bourbons in the world — while digging into the bizarre true story behind Bat Boy, the half-human, half-bat tabloid sensation that terrified and delighted supermarket checkout lines throughout the '90s.   Born in the pages of Weekly World News in 1992, Bat Boy escaped, got recaptured, was “killed by the government,” came back from the dead, led police on a multi-state chase, and somehow even got the real FBI to call the newsroom. We dig into how a Photoshopped baby photo became a pop culture icon — musical and all — and Justin makes his case for why there might be more to the story.   (Kevin's out again. We're starting a tally.)   BOURBON OF THE EPISODE Blanton's Original Single Barrel | Kentucky Straight Bourbon Taken from the center-cut of the legendary Warehouse H, Blanton's Original was the world's first single barrel bourbon when it launched in 1984. Sweet on the palate with notes of citrus and oak, a creamy vanilla nose teased with caramel and butterscotch, and baking spices like clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Bottled at 46.5% ABV (93 proof). Best served neat or on the rocks. Learn more: blantonsbourbon.com   WHAT WE COVER •       How Bat Boy was created — and the Photoshop trick behind the original photo •       The wild, multi-year “saga” Weekly World News ran for over a decade •       The real FBI phone call asking the tabloid to retract the story •       Bat Boy's surprising pop culture legacy, musical included •       Blanton's Original Single Barrel: first impressions and tasting notes   SUBSCRIBE New episodes every week. New bourbon. New legend. Hit subscribe so you never miss a pour.   #BourbonLegends #BatBoy #WeeklyWorldNews #TabloidLegends #BlantonsBourbon #BourbonPodcast #ConspiracyTheory #BourbonReview #UrbanLegends #Bourbon

  7. Jun 15

    Tonight we are drinking True American bourbon and wondering, Did we really walk on the moon?

    The episode covers a tasting of a questionable bourbon and a debate on the authenticity of the moon landing. Jeff and Justin share their opposing views and explore various aspects of the moon landing conspiracy theory. Takeaways Bourbon tasting: The hosts try a bourbon with a questionable taste, rating it with 'Trump toupees'.Moon landing debate: The hosts discuss the moon landing, with one host expressing skepticism and the other defending its authenticity.

  8. Jun 15

    We tried Hand Barrel Double Oak & Debated the Mothman | Ep 0.5

    Welcome to Bourbon Legends — the show where we crack open a new bottle and then crack open something even more dangerous: the truth. This is Episode 0, and we're starting big. Justin and Jeff pour Hand Barrel Double Oak Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey — a high-rye, non-chill filtered, double-barrelled beast bottled at 105 proof — and then spend the episode going deep on one of America's most chilling urban legends: the Mothman. Point Pleasant, West Virginia. 1966. A winged, red-eyed creature begins appearing to locals. Then the Silver Bridge collapses and 46 people die. Coincidence? Harbinger? Government cover-up? Justin and Jeff weigh in — glass in hand. (Kevin was on vacation. He'll answer for that next week.) BOURBON OF THE EPISODE Hand Barrel Double Oak | Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Mash Bill: 64% corn, 24% rye, 12% malted barley Cask: Aged to maturation, then rebarrelled into a 2nd new American white oak (Char #4) Proof: 105 | Non-chill filtered Tasting notes: toffee, caramel, buttered corn, cinnamon-pepper spice, baked apple, honeyed sweetness, vibrant pepper-mint finish Find it here: handbarrel.com WHAT WE COVER • The original Mothman sightings in Point Pleasant (1966–1967) • The Silver Bridge collapse and the Mothman connection • John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, and the media legacy • Our verdict: harbinger, hoax, or something else entirely? • How Hand Barrel Double Oak holds up glass by glass SUBSCRIBE New episodes every week. New bourbon. New legend. Hit subscribe so you never miss a pour. For Business Inquiries or to send us something to taste: thebourbonlegendspod@gmail.com

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Every week(ish), Justin, Jeff, and Kevin crack open a new bottle of bourbon and then crack open something even more dangerous...the truth. Or at least, a version of it. Bourbon Legends is the podcast where we pour something worth sipping, then spend the rest of the episode debating whether the moon landing was staged, if Bigfoot has a real estate portfolio, and whatever else the internet has cooked up this week. We're not saying we believe all of it. We're just saying it gets more convincing after the second glass. Whether you're a bourbon enthusiast, a conspiracy junkie, or just someone who enjoys watching three guys argue over the fate of the world one pour at a time...pull up a chair. New episodes every week. For collabs or to send us some Bourbon, email: thebourbonlegendspod@gmail.com

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  • Creator
    Justin Maxey, Jeff Renn, Kevin Waddy
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    8
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Justin Maxey, Jeff Renn, Kevin Waddy
  • Show Website
    Bourbon Legends