Hello and welcome to Is This Good, the show are we boldly, conclusively, and scientifically decide what things in this big wide world are good.

I'm at Austin, and with me, as always, is production powerhouse Jason Doyle.

Hello.

Hi, J.D.

And today's guests makes drinks so sweet and snazzy.

The iced tea, the kamikaze, the orgasm, the death spasm, the Singapore sling, the dingling.

He's a bartender to the stars, a magazine writer, and the creator and host of two amazing

music podcasts that reveal the truth behind some of rock music's wildest untold stories.

If you thought Tom Cruise was the last barman poet, then you haven't met this guy.

It's Daniel Ralston. Daniel, welcome to Is This Good.

Hey, Matt. How are you? I do a lot of poetry at the bar. Yeah, a lot of poetry.

And people seem to enjoy that?

Yes, yes, especially when I just list drinks.

It's the best kind of poetry.

I was thinking when I wanted to include that great Tom Cruise cocktail poem in this.

And I remembered he said Singapore sling, but then I was like, what does he rhyme that with?

So I had to look it up.

The dingling?

Is that a cocktail you're familiar with?

No.

And it kind of touches on something that comes up in my life a lot as a bartender, which

is that people will just name a drink they had at some other bar and expect me to know how

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