1 00:00:15,230 --> 00:00:19,010 Welcome in everybody and Happy New Year and shit. 2 00:00:19,010 --> 00:00:21,830 It's the craft beer republic. Thanks for drinking. 3 00:00:21,830 --> 00:00:25,310 Thanks for joining. I am Greg and being joined by 4 00:00:25,310 --> 00:00:30,110 the freshest of the coasters and that's flex. What's up big fella? 5 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:32,750 Happy new year. Happy New Year to you. 6 00:00:32,780 --> 00:00:36,110 Another year gone and another one just beginning or something. 7 00:00:36,110 --> 00:00:41,120 You're so, I don't know, optimistic, philosophical. Glass half full. 8 00:00:41,150 --> 00:00:44,750 Some shit I don't know sometimes. Yeah. 9 00:00:44,780 --> 00:00:49,670 And we roped her into another week. And that's Mel Mel. What's happening? 10 00:00:49,700 --> 00:00:56,030 I am just excited for 2025 and all the fun stuff to come this year, 11 00:00:56,060 --> 00:00:58,550 guys. I couldn't imagine starting the 12 00:00:58,550 --> 00:01:01,910 year any better than doing this. You're telling me? Yeah. 13 00:01:01,940 --> 00:01:07,160 What's 25, 20, 25 slogan can be like 2025 can't get worse than 2024. 14 00:01:07,190 --> 00:01:11,090 I mean, have we not been saying this for five years? That's true. 15 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:16,400 It just keeps getting worse. Oh, yeah. New year, new me. 16 00:01:16,580 --> 00:01:19,310 Absolutely not. 2019. You know, that was. 17 00:01:19,310 --> 00:01:24,290 Oh, what a time to be alive. The good. Old days. You know. 18 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:25,970 Funny. Hold on. Let me get some business out of 19 00:01:25,970 --> 00:01:27,290 the way. I'm gonna talk about that, uh, 20 00:01:27,470 --> 00:01:29,690 crappy republic at Flexy. Rate Beer underscores in between 21 00:01:29,690 --> 00:01:32,810 and at Beer Girl. Underscore Mel give us all follows 22 00:01:32,810 --> 00:01:37,880 and all that good shit and shout out to. Ooh, bear with me here. 23 00:01:38,780 --> 00:01:43,580 Cuyahoga falls, Ohio. Yeah, that's so right. Okay. 24 00:01:43,610 --> 00:01:46,130 That's how you know I'm not making it up. Don't you watch Tommy Boy? 25 00:01:46,250 --> 00:01:49,580 I was gonna say, is that where Tommy Boy was from? Is it? Yeah. 26 00:01:49,610 --> 00:01:53,270 No. So they were in Sandusky. Sandusky, Ohio. But there was a. 27 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,650 Girl he liked. Her brother lived in Cuyahoga Falls 28 00:01:57,650 --> 00:02:02,300 or something. I did not realize that. Yeah. How funny. Yeah. 29 00:02:02,630 --> 00:02:05,990 I remember that. I love Tommy Boy. I almost thought, though, 30 00:02:05,990 --> 00:02:08,570 it was Tia Carrera, though, from, like, Wayne's World. 31 00:02:08,570 --> 00:02:10,550 That was from Cuyahoga Falls. Definitely not. 32 00:02:10,580 --> 00:02:17,240 Okay, so I'm wrong, guys. Cause she's from, uh. God damn it. 33 00:02:17,990 --> 00:02:21,920 She's from Hong Kong. Zhang I know, but whatever. 34 00:02:22,370 --> 00:02:26,150 Vanessa, look it up for us once again, please. Like, Vanessa. 35 00:02:26,150 --> 00:02:29,570 Has become our de facto fact checker. Vanessa knows everything. 36 00:02:29,570 --> 00:02:34,160 She literally, actually really does. Kowloon Bay is what it was. 37 00:02:34,190 --> 00:02:38,210 Oh, shit. That sounds familiar. Oh, it was the love interest 38 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,480 from Tommy Boy. The girl. From. You actually saw. 39 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,400 And you're like, you're from Kowloon Bay. 40 00:02:43,820 --> 00:02:47,000 And she said, I was born in Kowloon Bay. 41 00:02:48,650 --> 00:02:51,890 I probably shouldn't use the accent, but no, probably not. Yeah, not. 42 00:02:51,890 --> 00:02:54,260 Not anymore. It was. Courting. It was. I was courting. It was. 43 00:02:54,470 --> 00:02:57,410 Right. Yes. The love interest lady from Tommy 44 00:02:57,410 --> 00:03:01,180 Boy was from Cuyahoga Falls. No, no, her brother was her brother. 45 00:03:01,330 --> 00:03:05,320 Mom lives in Cuyahoga Falls. That's what it was. Gosh darn it. 46 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,960 Now I gotta watch the movie. He was like a cop or a detective. 47 00:03:07,990 --> 00:03:11,710 Because Tommy was like, remember when me and your brother used to go and 48 00:03:11,710 --> 00:03:15,670 steal bear claws and eat them two at a time or something like that? 49 00:03:15,790 --> 00:03:20,410 And they would get lodged right in this region here. Right here. 50 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:25,690 And he said, oh, yeah, he's a cop now. In Cuyahoga Falls, right? Yeah. 51 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:31,420 Your fucking movie memory is ridiculous. It's like 90s comedies. 52 00:03:31,540 --> 00:03:33,850 Yeah. That's like peak. You could still remember things 53 00:03:33,850 --> 00:03:36,160 cause you weren't drinking yet. Years, right? Yeah. 54 00:03:36,190 --> 00:03:40,870 I had a lot of brain cells. Yeah, I am I revealing too much flex 55 00:03:40,870 --> 00:03:44,560 if I, like, tell people that we get sick at the same time and we're, 56 00:03:44,590 --> 00:03:46,840 like, laid out at the same time and we're like, oh, we've. 57 00:03:46,870 --> 00:03:49,450 Talked about this. Yeah. I'm like, hey, what are you watching? 58 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,360 Like, let's watch something together and then we'll watch old movies. 59 00:03:52,390 --> 00:03:55,000 You know, I've actually thought about that because I want to watch, uh, 60 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:00,380 Empire Strikes Back. Yes. I'm so in. I want to do, like, a watch it 61 00:04:00,410 --> 00:04:06,110 with somebody that's not with me. If that sounds. So. So me. Weird. 62 00:04:06,650 --> 00:04:10,070 I don't, I don't know. Is that weird? We're doing it now. Okay. 63 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:11,960 I don't know if we've talked about this, but one time, 64 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,290 Mel and I were sick. Right. And we watched. Did not have. 65 00:04:15,290 --> 00:04:18,740 Covid. Master of the universe. At least one of you didn't. 66 00:04:18,770 --> 00:04:21,170 I don't maybe I have vertigo. I can't remember. 67 00:04:21,230 --> 00:04:24,650 It definitely wasn't Covid. Vertigo. I get it. 68 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:26,660 But yeah, we watched Masters of the universe. 69 00:04:26,660 --> 00:04:30,470 We watched dodgeball. So good. And we would be like, all right. 70 00:04:30,470 --> 00:04:32,390 Starting it. And we, like, count down like three, 71 00:04:32,390 --> 00:04:35,720 two, one and then start it so that we could catch all the same parts. 72 00:04:35,930 --> 00:04:40,220 We were like, literally watching it together, but like on our deathbeds. 73 00:04:40,250 --> 00:04:43,430 You guys are so romantic. It was fun. But we're like, just brother and 74 00:04:43,430 --> 00:04:46,850 sister though, so we're really not. It's never like a relationship. 75 00:04:46,850 --> 00:04:50,000 We're just not like that at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like. 76 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,180 Like who else watches Masters of the universe with you? 77 00:04:53,210 --> 00:04:56,530 Like, what girl is going to watch Masters of the universe. 78 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:58,870 That's pretty accurate. Nobody that might potentially 79 00:04:58,870 --> 00:05:01,240 have sex with him, that's for sure. Definitely not. 80 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,450 You know, definitely never gotten laid before. Masters of the universe. 81 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:12,640 Masters of the universe. I mean. You're kind of cute with all. 82 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:20,140 Your muscles out, but. Jeez, man. Nice hoverboard. Oh, shit. 83 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,660 All right, before we get into any more Mel, you want to kick 84 00:05:22,690 --> 00:05:25,870 us off with some beverages? Yeah, if I can get an assist 85 00:05:25,870 --> 00:05:34,390 from you, Greg, I'd love to. Let's fucking do it. Ah! My dear. 86 00:05:34,450 --> 00:05:48,040 Oh, I love my beer. I love my day. I love my beer. I love my. 87 00:05:48,250 --> 00:05:51,400 So I'm keeping it true to state. And I'm staying in New York. 88 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,100 And today I have Southern Tier Brewing Company. 89 00:05:54,100 --> 00:05:56,570 I'm sure most of you guys know Southern Tier. 90 00:05:56,570 --> 00:05:59,600 They've gotten pretty widespread over the years, 91 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:05,540 and today I have their Chestnut Praline Imperial Ale. It's 8.6%. 92 00:06:05,540 --> 00:06:08,840 And because it's still that weird holiday week where we're 93 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:12,890 just eating cheese and drinking beer and eating candies, 94 00:06:12,890 --> 00:06:16,610 that or fudge or whatever that people are handing to us, I figured. 95 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:20,750 Why not? And drinking beer. That sounds like a fun time. 96 00:06:21,020 --> 00:06:27,110 Um, I decided I decided to keep with it, and I'm sticking with 97 00:06:27,110 --> 00:06:33,290 my malty caramel kind of beer. But, y'all, this one's a treat. 98 00:06:33,380 --> 00:06:40,040 It is exactly what they say it is. You get a lot of praline, a lot of 99 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:47,660 caramel on the nose tasting it. I love my beer. This is dessert. 100 00:06:48,110 --> 00:06:53,180 This is like a pecan. You say pecan? Yeah. 101 00:06:53,210 --> 00:06:55,390 Even though it's praline, I don't know what the difference is. 102 00:06:55,420 --> 00:07:00,280 I say butter butter pecan. Butter pecan. Butter pecan. Pie. 103 00:07:00,460 --> 00:07:05,230 Um, it tastes like a pecan pie. Like one of those rich, sugary. 104 00:07:05,260 --> 00:07:09,640 Like pecan like crusted. They do like a little brulee on top. 105 00:07:09,670 --> 00:07:13,420 That's a little tart. Okay. Yeah, it's fucking delicious. 106 00:07:13,450 --> 00:07:19,270 I have no specs on it whatsoever. I have some it's, uh, 8.6%, like you 107 00:07:19,270 --> 00:07:23,710 said, 12 IBUs, 3.79 an untapped. And they say it's the holidays 108 00:07:23,710 --> 00:07:26,890 draw near and excitement grows for the first snowfall. 109 00:07:26,890 --> 00:07:30,610 Gather together with chestnut praline imperial ale. 110 00:07:30,610 --> 00:07:34,240 With each sip, the warm, buttery flavor of toasted chestnuts 111 00:07:34,270 --> 00:07:38,290 glazed with sweet caramel will transform any wintry day into a 112 00:07:38,290 --> 00:07:41,830 cozy celebration of the season. From our Southern Tier family to 113 00:07:41,830 --> 00:07:45,700 yours, we wish you nothing but joy and sweetness this holiday season. 114 00:07:45,700 --> 00:07:49,000 That's very accurate, especially the buttery part. 115 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,000 But is that what a chestnut tastes like? Does anybody ever roast know. 116 00:07:53,030 --> 00:07:56,870 Chestnuts. Chestnuts. For real? We only eat bacon wrapped chestnuts 117 00:07:56,870 --> 00:08:00,590 here. Mhm. Oh, you eat them though? Like I've never had a chestnut 118 00:08:00,590 --> 00:08:05,480 in my life. Same. Yeah. Like a. Water chestnut. No. Water chestnut. 119 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,240 Yeah. I mean, that's like what I eat. Like bacon wrapped water chestnut. 120 00:08:08,780 --> 00:08:11,060 It's not real. That's not the same thing, 121 00:08:11,090 --> 00:08:14,840 right? No water. It's like a water crust. Yeah. 122 00:08:14,870 --> 00:08:17,900 The things in, like, Chinese food. Crust is different. 123 00:08:18,530 --> 00:08:20,750 What's a water chestnut? I don't know. 124 00:08:20,870 --> 00:08:24,590 The water crust is like the thing in the Chinese food that's crunchy. 125 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,930 No, that's a water chestnut. What do you call it? 126 00:08:27,110 --> 00:08:31,550 Watercress is like a super green. What? Yeah, 100%. 127 00:08:31,580 --> 00:08:35,210 Someone with a phone look it up. I'm googling as we speak. 128 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,750 Either way, this is. Similar, but they differ in flavor. 129 00:08:38,810 --> 00:08:44,000 Mm. Uh, yeah, they are different. Either way, this is delicious. 130 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,230 And it's holiday. And it makes me want to go out 131 00:08:48,230 --> 00:08:51,920 in this one degree weather. Negative one. Actually I lied. 132 00:08:51,940 --> 00:08:57,160 Oof! The fuck is wrong? Uh, you know, be cozy outside. 133 00:08:57,190 --> 00:09:02,650 Negative one with a praline beer. Water chestnuts and chestnuts. 134 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:05,380 This is word for word. What Google says are completely 135 00:09:05,380 --> 00:09:08,920 different things. Well, you know, potato. Potato. 136 00:09:08,950 --> 00:09:13,360 Yeah. Exactly. Uh, unlike sweet chestnuts, 137 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,300 which are the fruit of a tree. Water chestnuts are part of the root 138 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:20,620 structure of a grass like plant that grows underwater in marshes. 139 00:09:20,620 --> 00:09:23,050 So, Mel, I think we were thinking of the same 140 00:09:23,050 --> 00:09:26,170 thing when he said water chestnut. Uh, and it's very different than 141 00:09:26,170 --> 00:09:31,420 a chestnut. Chestnut. But but like who roast chestnuts 142 00:09:31,420 --> 00:09:36,430 on an open fire? Please leave us a comment or call in. 143 00:09:36,460 --> 00:09:39,160 Right. Yeah. Only the guy who wrote that song. 144 00:09:39,370 --> 00:09:42,070 No one else. 805. Beer. Whatever. Five. Five. Three. 145 00:09:42,100 --> 00:09:44,260 Eight. Beer. Yeah. There we go. I don't think I've ever actually 146 00:09:44,260 --> 00:09:47,710 seen a real chestnut before. I don't think I have either. Me? 147 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:52,250 Same. Yeah, but. I like the taste of this is what 148 00:09:52,250 --> 00:09:54,800 they taste like. Like, is it like a walnut or 149 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,850 something? Oh, is it like walnut? That's like walnuts. 150 00:09:59,570 --> 00:10:04,520 It's really like. Yeah. Like pecan or like a a more higher 151 00:10:04,550 --> 00:10:08,960 fat content nut, I would say so, yeah, I, I could see it being a 152 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:13,670 walnut and candied walnut. Yeah. Well the walnuts I'm allergic. 153 00:10:13,670 --> 00:10:17,630 So it's always a fun time. How's your life insurance policy? 154 00:10:17,660 --> 00:10:20,120 Greg. Oh, see, I'm not deathly allergic. 155 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,300 I just my tongue swells up and hurts really bad. 156 00:10:23,510 --> 00:10:28,010 And then I talk like this until it finally goes back down. Yeah, yeah. 157 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:31,820 Coconut does it to me sometimes, too. Walnuts. Coconuts. Yeah. 158 00:10:31,820 --> 00:10:35,540 I can always tell when the coconut in a stout is real or fake. 159 00:10:36,590 --> 00:10:41,000 Hey, is this real coconut? Yeah, it sure is. Yeah. 160 00:10:41,030 --> 00:10:44,330 This is definitely real, guys. Yeah. It's fun. 161 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:48,050 In fact, one time on the show, way back when, Scott brought a 162 00:10:48,050 --> 00:10:51,220 coconut stout over and it was like, hey, I brought a beer for the show. 163 00:10:51,220 --> 00:10:53,890 And I was like, all right, sweet. I guess we'll find out how real 164 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,350 it is. And like, you could sort of hear it. 165 00:10:56,350 --> 00:10:58,720 As the show went on, it was like, hey, I'm Norma. 166 00:10:58,750 --> 00:11:03,880 Hey, I'm a little less normal. I think. Yeah. That's terrible. 167 00:11:05,140 --> 00:11:11,230 AFSCME Beer chorus. Anyway, I have to say, 168 00:11:11,350 --> 00:11:14,350 I feel like an idiot. Um, I used to work in produce. 169 00:11:14,350 --> 00:11:16,510 I've seen plenty of chestnuts in my day. 170 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:19,330 We used to get them in every year. Every Christmas. 171 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,340 You ever roast them over an open fire? 172 00:11:21,370 --> 00:11:24,310 No, but we would just throw them out because nobody would buy them. 173 00:11:25,150 --> 00:11:28,330 Because no one's ever actually had one. Right, right. 174 00:11:30,310 --> 00:11:33,430 Then they have to stay refrigerated. Oh. Do they? 175 00:11:33,460 --> 00:11:37,000 And even when they do, they just mold up really good. Yeah. 176 00:11:37,030 --> 00:11:39,460 That's one of those things that, like, someone wrote a song about it 177 00:11:39,460 --> 00:11:42,400 and it had it not been for the song, chestnuts would have died out 178 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,890 a million years ago and no one would have ever eaten one. 179 00:11:45,070 --> 00:11:47,590 Yeah, Vons would have never carried them. 180 00:11:48,100 --> 00:11:52,160 Now, you mentioned roasting over an open fire. The God. 181 00:11:52,580 --> 00:11:56,030 My memory is so poor. The city I live in like the 182 00:11:56,030 --> 00:12:00,020 little village square. They don't have a big Christmas, 183 00:12:00,140 --> 00:12:03,080 uh, celebration every year. It's called Dickens Day. 184 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:09,950 And there was a restaurant in the village that would have chestnuts 185 00:12:09,950 --> 00:12:15,650 roasting on an open fire. Did you ever partake? No. 186 00:12:15,650 --> 00:12:19,400 Because who does that? You know, like. People that like. 187 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:25,310 Charles Dickens do? Yes. Dickens day. Maybe Charles Dickens liked nuts. 188 00:12:25,340 --> 00:12:27,590 Who knows? Maybe they just like a good Dickens. 189 00:12:28,610 --> 00:12:30,680 Amen, brother. Yeah, but you know what? 190 00:12:30,710 --> 00:12:33,530 Not a Dickens show. Took the words right. 191 00:12:33,530 --> 00:12:36,440 Out of that. Like the Dickens. Also like a chestnut. 192 00:12:36,470 --> 00:12:39,050 You know who doesn't? It's only gonna get worse from here. 193 00:12:39,050 --> 00:12:44,600 Let me move us along. Because I have so many more bad jokes 194 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,150 to make. I thought that was so good. And nobody. No, no, no. 195 00:12:47,150 --> 00:12:49,420 Here's the problem. The problem was it was good and 196 00:12:49,420 --> 00:12:51,250 appreciated. It was good and I wanted to add 197 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,400 on to it, but I figured it would only get worse if I did. 198 00:12:54,700 --> 00:13:00,010 So we'll let you be the killer of that, and we'll move on and keep our 199 00:13:00,010 --> 00:13:03,520 respect. Our self respect. Easy. Easy segue. Yeah. Fair enough. 200 00:13:03,550 --> 00:13:07,390 Very not awkward at all. We started to mention this 201 00:13:07,390 --> 00:13:09,850 before we got into Mel's beer. We were talking about like, hey, 202 00:13:09,850 --> 00:13:13,180 if it'll only be pre-COVID, it could be 2019 all over again. 203 00:13:13,180 --> 00:13:17,110 Back in the good old days. Mhm. We were having this discussion. 204 00:13:17,230 --> 00:13:21,610 It was Brian and somebody else and myself were having this 205 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:26,590 discussion recently. When was the peak of craft beer. 206 00:13:26,590 --> 00:13:31,180 And I said 2016 Brian said 15. What do you guys say. 207 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:37,570 I would say too many were new in 2015, 2016. 208 00:13:37,660 --> 00:13:44,560 And I would say the peak, which is sad, was like 2019, 209 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:48,770 I don't. And then Covid hit. Yeah, I mean, definitely change 210 00:13:48,770 --> 00:13:52,070 things. And then it changed things. It changed things. 211 00:13:52,070 --> 00:13:55,100 But then I think we had like a real resurgence. 212 00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:58,520 So I think like 2015, 2016 is not the peak. 213 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:02,900 I think that's when it really got started and started to take off. 214 00:14:03,260 --> 00:14:07,460 2019 was getting to the peak, but I do think there was a 215 00:14:07,460 --> 00:14:10,850 resurgence in 2021. Yeah, but then it kind of went back 216 00:14:10,850 --> 00:14:15,440 down again. Now it's. Way like. What. 21 was like, we're free. 217 00:14:15,470 --> 00:14:18,020 We can be outside, let's get fucked up. 218 00:14:18,260 --> 00:14:21,050 And 2020 like because it was an essential business. 219 00:14:21,050 --> 00:14:24,740 So people were like, what can we do aside like only go to breweries but. 220 00:14:24,770 --> 00:14:26,720 But like think about the innovation and stuff like 221 00:14:26,750 --> 00:14:31,580 nothing's happened since. Cold IPAs. Right. Like nothing. 222 00:14:31,610 --> 00:14:35,660 Nothing's really new since, like the big things in 19 were 223 00:14:35,900 --> 00:14:41,210 hazy IPAs. 19, 20. 2020 was like the over fruited sour. 224 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,930 You're right. Yeah. You know what happened to 450 North? 225 00:14:44,930 --> 00:14:48,580 Are they still kicking or. Oh, I got a TiVo ad for them the 226 00:14:48,580 --> 00:14:50,050 other day. And I was like, nah, I'm good. 227 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:52,600 Yeah, I'll take my fruit in other ways. Pass on them. 228 00:14:52,930 --> 00:14:56,350 Um, but yeah, I mean, there's really. What else can you do in beer? 229 00:14:56,380 --> 00:15:03,190 Right now it's so expensive. And honestly, like, the Gen Z is not 230 00:15:03,190 --> 00:15:07,990 drinking beer like they're too health conscious. Beer is dying with us. 231 00:15:08,020 --> 00:15:12,340 Mhm. Or at least craft. Well, I'll go to my grave with it. 232 00:15:12,370 --> 00:15:16,780 I mean let's hope not. But yeah it's definitely has a lull. 233 00:15:16,780 --> 00:15:20,860 But I think again that has a lot to do with the economy right now. 234 00:15:20,860 --> 00:15:24,850 And like the product is so expensive. So you don't really have the 235 00:15:24,850 --> 00:15:29,080 option to experiment as much as you might want. True. 236 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,280 But I will say the beer I'm drinking tonight, which I'll get to shortly. 237 00:15:33,310 --> 00:15:39,340 Four pack, only $15. Whoa. Not bad for California. 238 00:15:39,370 --> 00:15:41,410 I say, where'd you buy that? Here. Yeah. 239 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:45,440 No, I went to my favorite bottle shop. Trader Joe's? Hell, yeah. 240 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,860 Got myself a deal. You know what we're talking about it. 241 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:53,360 Check that date. Oh, I. Will. Well, let's call the pen. Here we go. 242 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:02,540 He calls to the bullpen for. Beer. I know it's fresh because it's a 243 00:16:02,540 --> 00:16:07,220 collab. Uh, it was canned on 12, six, 20, 24. 244 00:16:07,670 --> 00:16:12,080 So as I drink it, it's only, uh, it's less than 20 days old. 245 00:16:12,110 --> 00:16:16,730 Less than a month? Absolutely. So I am drinking made West's 246 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,700 collaboration. It's a whole collaboration series. 247 00:16:19,730 --> 00:16:22,730 It's called Short Lived. This one is with Highland Park 248 00:16:22,730 --> 00:16:27,470 Brewing. And sometimes it's a hazy. Sometimes it's a West Coast. 249 00:16:27,500 --> 00:16:29,060 It depends who they're collabing with. 250 00:16:29,090 --> 00:16:34,250 This one happens to be a hazy 7%, has a 408 on Untappd. 251 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,820 Very highly rated, they say hazy IPA jam packed 252 00:16:37,820 --> 00:16:41,390 with El Dorado and citrus hops. The short lived gem has a 253 00:16:41,390 --> 00:16:46,030 tropical profile with pineapple, citrus Undertones and a smooth, 254 00:16:46,060 --> 00:16:49,180 silky mouthfeel, and the hops they use are El Dorado, 255 00:16:49,180 --> 00:16:56,740 Citra and Citra. Creo. Mm the schnoz. Glad they didn't. Jelly pack it. 256 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:03,850 Yeah. Because there is a difference. The schnoz is straight up like juicy 257 00:17:03,850 --> 00:17:07,720 fruit. Tropical goodness. Mhm. And when I say juicy fruit I 258 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,510 mean the gum like it's it's everything you think of man. 259 00:17:10,510 --> 00:17:14,170 It's been a minute since I had that. Mhm. Do people still say that. 260 00:17:14,170 --> 00:17:18,070 It's been a minute. I do. I mean we're old so. Yeah we're old. 261 00:17:18,070 --> 00:17:21,100 Yeah. It's an old thing to say. I'm sure the cool kids don't say it. 262 00:17:21,100 --> 00:17:24,910 But we're. We're old. Do they still make juicy fruit? 263 00:17:25,180 --> 00:17:30,070 I have no idea. I know fruit Stripe got, uh. 264 00:17:30,070 --> 00:17:31,540 It's dumb. Fruit stripe was the best, 265 00:17:31,540 --> 00:17:35,110 except the flavor lasted for about 3.5 seconds. Oh, so good. 266 00:17:35,140 --> 00:17:37,150 But it was good. While it lasted. Juicy fruit was the same. 267 00:17:37,150 --> 00:17:41,080 It reminds me of Pee-Wee Herman. Juicy fruit when. He was like. Mhm. 268 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:45,290 Like, there was like a dye in it. He gives it to the one nemesis. 269 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:47,360 Oh, yeah. It looks like it's like. A dye coming out. 270 00:17:47,390 --> 00:17:50,450 He's like, yeah, really good. Right? And he's like, is it so good, 271 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:52,670 pee wee? And then it's like, all blue, 272 00:17:52,700 --> 00:17:56,390 like dripping. He gives it to his. Chubby, fat. Annoying neighbor. 273 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,960 Oh, that's so funny. The taste follows the. 274 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:05,030 The nose is tropical. It's juicy. It is very light on the tongue. 275 00:18:05,030 --> 00:18:08,510 Perfect amount of carbonation. Not over, not under. 276 00:18:08,510 --> 00:18:12,350 Just sits there and then goes away as soon as you swallow. Heyo! 277 00:18:12,380 --> 00:18:16,400 Uh. The cannot is like what? What doesn't say Southern California 278 00:18:16,430 --> 00:18:21,050 about. Right? It's perfect. It's gorgeous. SoCal or Florida? 279 00:18:21,050 --> 00:18:25,190 One of the two. Hey, how dare you! It's not Florida. I take offense to. 280 00:18:25,190 --> 00:18:28,670 They all have palm trees. I don't know, but how dare you? 281 00:18:29,630 --> 00:18:34,700 I am offended. Sorry. Uh, hey, I know flex has dabbled 282 00:18:34,700 --> 00:18:39,680 with, uh, weed seltzers before, right? Right. Have you Mel. 283 00:18:39,710 --> 00:18:43,360 Have you done any dabbling? Yeah. So I, like, took a break from beer 284 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:46,930 for a while and then of course, you know, like, I didn't, like, 285 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,290 totally want to be sober. That sounds awful. So. Yeah. 286 00:18:50,620 --> 00:18:55,210 But I did, I did, I tried I actually really liked the cycling frogs 287 00:18:55,210 --> 00:18:59,170 and they were that's the brand. And they were like a, um, 288 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:03,790 a CBD and a THC combo, but it was like five and five, 289 00:19:03,790 --> 00:19:06,970 so it was a lighter one. Okay. But I could have one and just be 290 00:19:06,970 --> 00:19:10,420 like, fucked up and just be like, I'm high as shit and was like, 291 00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:13,210 are you okay? And I'm like, yeah, I. Don't know, am. I? 292 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:14,980 I'm like, yeah, I'm fine. He's like, well, you haven't 293 00:19:14,980 --> 00:19:17,110 said a word in like three hours. I'm like, no. 294 00:19:17,140 --> 00:19:18,940 He's like, you're like staring at it like. 295 00:19:19,330 --> 00:19:21,010 Like you're staring at the wall. And like you're like, 296 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:24,460 are you mad? That's crazy. Yeah. It was just like, we're. 297 00:19:24,550 --> 00:19:27,520 I don't know. What to say to people. He'd be like, we went to, like, 298 00:19:27,550 --> 00:19:29,590 a wedding. Like. And I was like, adamant. 299 00:19:29,620 --> 00:19:33,910 Like I was like, I am not drinking for this whole month. 300 00:19:33,910 --> 00:19:36,700 And then I drank. And then he gave me, like, 301 00:19:36,730 --> 00:19:39,610 a higher proof one. I don't know how you call it like 302 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,100 when there's more THC in it. So I was. It's called higher dose. 303 00:19:43,130 --> 00:19:47,300 It had like a warning on it and it was like drink a quarter of this. 304 00:19:47,390 --> 00:19:52,040 Warning if your name is Mel. Yeah. Drink slowly. Anyone drink a quarter. 305 00:19:52,070 --> 00:19:55,910 Wait 45 minutes if you don't. Feel the five is not enough. 306 00:19:56,090 --> 00:19:59,990 Yeah, so I drank one of those cycling frogs on the way down 307 00:19:59,990 --> 00:20:02,870 because it was like an hour and a half from where we live. 308 00:20:02,870 --> 00:20:04,670 And then I was like, I feel pretty good. 309 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:06,410 Like I got to get through this wedding. 310 00:20:06,410 --> 00:20:09,770 I drank a quarter of the other one, and I was like, stuck in my seat 311 00:20:09,770 --> 00:20:12,800 at a table and everybody's like, why are you dancing? 312 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,680 And I was like, I'm good. I like, don't feel good. 313 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,220 And I was like, get me the fuck out of here, I gotta go. 314 00:20:19,340 --> 00:20:25,070 Were you, were you like, paranoid or what? I just felt like I didn't. 315 00:20:25,100 --> 00:20:27,650 Yeah. Yeah. Like I couldn't be like my 316 00:20:27,650 --> 00:20:31,100 social self. And this. Was like a. Huge wedding. 317 00:20:31,100 --> 00:20:34,760 And I was just like, yeah, no. And it wasn't like a fun table 318 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:35,540 either. So, like, 319 00:20:35,570 --> 00:20:38,660 everybody was sitting there. So that was a. Problem, I think. 320 00:20:38,660 --> 00:20:41,200 I think if I was like around fun people, I probably would have 321 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,960 gotten up, but since they weren't and I was like, I'm fine with it. 322 00:20:43,990 --> 00:20:46,420 Like, I'm not the leader of the pack today. And I was like. 323 00:20:46,450 --> 00:20:48,160 Get me out of here as fast as you can. 324 00:20:48,190 --> 00:20:49,420 I never want to see these people again. 325 00:20:49,450 --> 00:20:52,210 They're my family, by the way, so I had to see them. But. 326 00:20:52,990 --> 00:20:55,930 Mel, if you ever want to get Stoney, let me know. We'll have a good time. 327 00:20:56,890 --> 00:20:59,710 So much fun. Well, I mean, I knew the gummies 328 00:20:59,710 --> 00:21:02,290 and all that stuff. It's funny you say Cycling frog, 329 00:21:02,290 --> 00:21:06,250 because I got an ad. I swear this is not sponsored. 330 00:21:06,250 --> 00:21:09,430 I got an ad from untapped, and it was like, hey, 331 00:21:09,430 --> 00:21:14,350 do you want to try this THC seltzer? It's free if you pay for shipping. 332 00:21:14,380 --> 00:21:17,680 Yeah. Fuck it. So it was cycling frog. I like those. 333 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:21,610 Ones, though. Yeah, and it was there. Yeah, it was there. Black currant. 334 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:23,920 Yeah. The taste, the taste was fine. Like it's good. 335 00:21:23,950 --> 00:21:26,380 I've had other weed drinks. Not a seltzer, but I've had, like a 336 00:21:26,380 --> 00:21:29,320 weed. Beer and like a weed soda. Someone gave me this. 337 00:21:29,350 --> 00:21:33,760 Snoop Dogg has a weed. Soda tastes. Fucking awful. It was so bad. 338 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,150 But this was actually pretty delightful in the taste. 339 00:21:37,150 --> 00:21:39,780 The wife and I split. It is five milligrams THC. 340 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:44,310 So we didn't get real high, but. No, but. It's like a level kind of. 341 00:21:44,550 --> 00:21:47,730 You're feeling good. You're cool. Like, that's why I was, like. 342 00:21:47,730 --> 00:21:51,210 I could chill like this all day. But the other one, which was like, 343 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:55,740 maybe 20mg. Oh, God. 20. That's a lot. 20. 20 is a. Lot. 344 00:21:55,770 --> 00:22:00,570 Yeah, I only. Drank a quarter of. It. Like I. Had I had two sixes before. 345 00:22:01,170 --> 00:22:04,020 I drank. That's right. I drank one six and I was like, 346 00:22:04,050 --> 00:22:06,810 waited like 45 minutes to an hour. Not long enough. Yeah. 347 00:22:06,900 --> 00:22:09,180 And I also would be. Feeling something by now. 348 00:22:09,180 --> 00:22:14,250 So I cracked the second one. Oh, man, I was fucking high as shit. 349 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,190 I even messaged Greg the next day. That's right. Yeah. 350 00:22:17,220 --> 00:22:20,760 I said, man, I didn't know what was going on. I don't smoke weed. 351 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,280 Smoke weed every day. Smoke weed every day. 352 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,800 I did when I was way younger, but like I haven't. 353 00:22:25,830 --> 00:22:28,440 And I've been a nurse for almost 20 years, so, like, 354 00:22:28,470 --> 00:22:32,400 we get drug tested. I don't oh yeah. I don't do any other drugs. 355 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,600 So, you know, I just cocaine. But yeah. 356 00:22:36,660 --> 00:22:39,680 I mean, that's like three days in your system. Right? Right. Yeah. 357 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:42,350 Do it on vacation at the beginning. It's done. 358 00:22:43,250 --> 00:22:49,010 So I've heard, so I've heard. But that's why I'm. Like, a drinker. 359 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,890 You know what I mean? Like 12 hours and it's gone. 360 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,200 Right. I like to. Feel a little nice for the night, 361 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:59,150 and. But I'm not opposed to them. Like, I think people need to unwind. 362 00:22:59,150 --> 00:23:02,810 And however you need to do it, just pay attention to what it says. 363 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:06,800 And if it warns you to drink a quarter, maybe drink less than a 364 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,230 quarter, maybe drink an eighth of it. And then and my. 365 00:23:09,230 --> 00:23:11,930 Warning is, is not 45 minutes. I've always told people, if you're 366 00:23:11,930 --> 00:23:15,350 doing edibles hour and a half, you give yourself an hour. 367 00:23:15,380 --> 00:23:18,770 You should start to feel it. But if if you don't like, 368 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:22,160 legitimately, wait an hour and a half and then if you really don't feel it, 369 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,520 then okay, go for the rest of it. But like that's when it really starts 370 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,420 to have I told you guys the whale story. I don't think about this. 371 00:23:29,450 --> 00:23:33,290 I don't think. So. So we we dabble. We dabble with the gummies. 372 00:23:33,290 --> 00:23:36,350 The wife and I. And we were down in San Diego 373 00:23:36,380 --> 00:23:38,360 one time. This is like their first trip after 374 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:42,440 Covid and we usually do five at a time. Like take five, go to bed. 375 00:23:42,470 --> 00:23:44,630 It's the perfect amount. You get a little high, you get a 376 00:23:44,660 --> 00:23:49,040 lot of sleepy. It's fantastic. We had a whole day of, uh, beer 377 00:23:49,070 --> 00:23:52,430 research. We had the dog with us. We found this hotel that is in 378 00:23:52,430 --> 00:23:54,560 the bay. We had a balcony that overlooked 379 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,650 the water. It was fantastic. And we had a gummy, 380 00:23:57,650 --> 00:24:01,100 and we had a five each. And after about, I don't know, 381 00:24:01,130 --> 00:24:04,370 an hour, maybe two hours. We had a couple beverages with us. 382 00:24:04,370 --> 00:24:06,830 She goes, hey, you want another gummy? 383 00:24:06,860 --> 00:24:09,980 And I was like, yeah, let's, let's, let's do it. 384 00:24:09,980 --> 00:24:13,700 So now we're hitting ten milligrams, which for us is like real stoney, 385 00:24:13,700 --> 00:24:17,210 but not like, you know, incoherent. Yeah, exactly. 386 00:24:17,210 --> 00:24:20,510 We can still function, but, like, we're real. Stoney, I think. 387 00:24:20,540 --> 00:24:24,020 Ten is the perfect level. Ten. Like, if you want to get high, 388 00:24:24,020 --> 00:24:26,840 high? To me, ten is perfect. If you just want to, like, 389 00:24:26,870 --> 00:24:30,290 have a nice low grade buzz and go to bed. Five is perfect. 390 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,350 That's that's for. Me. And and the other thing I'm going to 391 00:24:33,410 --> 00:24:36,850 add to that is just like if you're bringing that to the party too. 392 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,100 Like if you bring a nerds rope or something. 393 00:24:39,130 --> 00:24:42,190 Like, please don't just leave it on the table, right? 394 00:24:42,190 --> 00:24:45,970 Please tell people what it is. Yeah. Because that that happened at a party 395 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,770 and. Like, come on. Not for me. No. Who actually just came and brought, 396 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:55,630 like, some, like, seltzer cans down and, um, he's a candy whore. 397 00:24:55,660 --> 00:24:59,440 Like, he loves sugary candy. So if he. Sees his whole. 398 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,430 Food horror. Just. Everything. Yeah, but, like, specifically candy. 399 00:25:03,460 --> 00:25:06,910 Like sugar. Sugar. So if he sees, like, 400 00:25:06,910 --> 00:25:09,460 nerds or something like that, he's going at it. 401 00:25:09,460 --> 00:25:16,660 So he's into this thing and then, you know, like, nobody saw him doing 402 00:25:16,660 --> 00:25:19,390 it. He's just eating it, eating it. And he's like, 403 00:25:19,420 --> 00:25:22,930 did some real good candy in there. And they're like, what candy do they. 404 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,730 He was like, it was like a nerds rope. And they were like. 405 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:28,660 How much did you eat? And he had eaten like a good half 406 00:25:28,660 --> 00:25:34,540 of it. And he was like a statue. That's so good for. The entire night. 407 00:25:34,540 --> 00:25:38,030 And this one girl that's in our social circle is a talker. 408 00:25:38,030 --> 00:25:40,760 And he was like, I could hear everything. 409 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,920 He's like, but I couldn't do anything. 410 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:47,780 And I just, like, laid next to her. I sat on this couch, 411 00:25:47,810 --> 00:25:51,530 listened to her the entire time, and I couldn't say a word. 412 00:25:51,530 --> 00:25:55,190 He's like, I took it all in. I have it here. She was like, yeah. 413 00:25:55,490 --> 00:26:00,650 It it it lasted a really long time. Like I was like, we gotta go, babe. 414 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,710 I'm like, he's like, I can't drive. And I was like, I can't drive. 415 00:26:03,710 --> 00:26:05,330 I'm drunk as hell. So I was like, 416 00:26:05,330 --> 00:26:08,150 I guess we're just sitting here. That night, I drank the two sixes. 417 00:26:08,150 --> 00:26:11,360 I woke up at two in the morning and I was still wobbly to the bathroom. 418 00:26:11,930 --> 00:26:13,790 Oh, yeah. That's the worst. When you're, like, stoned as 419 00:26:13,790 --> 00:26:16,790 fuck and you wake up at like, 230 and you're like, oh, yeah. 420 00:26:16,820 --> 00:26:20,450 Yeah, it's it sticks with. You. He had no idea though. 421 00:26:20,450 --> 00:26:22,310 So that's why I was like, that's so unfair. 422 00:26:22,340 --> 00:26:24,410 Like he wasn't planning on drinking or any, you. 423 00:26:24,410 --> 00:26:27,110 Know, like. That's funny. Yeah. What a bad first impression. 424 00:26:27,140 --> 00:26:31,250 Unless he did it before. I mean, he's. Definitely. 425 00:26:31,430 --> 00:26:33,620 Smoked a ton of fucking weed and, like, 426 00:26:33,650 --> 00:26:38,260 done probably everything that I. But you know, when you're going as 427 00:26:38,260 --> 00:26:41,620 the DD to a party and then like you think you have some candy 428 00:26:41,620 --> 00:26:45,610 and it's just like laid out with like all the desserts, right? 429 00:26:45,790 --> 00:26:50,680 Like maybe cut it up to, like. Pieces and then people might know. 430 00:26:50,710 --> 00:26:54,340 You know, then people might know. But it was kind of funny. 431 00:26:54,340 --> 00:26:57,340 But it was also kind of like scary, a little bit like I was like, 432 00:26:57,370 --> 00:26:59,620 are you okay? Because especially if you're not. 433 00:26:59,620 --> 00:27:01,750 Expecting it, I'm. Sure other. People ate it too. 434 00:27:01,780 --> 00:27:04,900 But people were like, landing like face down in the grass, 435 00:27:04,930 --> 00:27:07,720 like unable to move. I was like, what the fuck kind 436 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,380 of weed is this? That's fancy. Weed. Nobody could move weed. 437 00:27:11,530 --> 00:27:15,550 Yeah, well, so the. New kind of weed. Right? 438 00:27:15,580 --> 00:27:18,220 So anyways, we're in San Diego, we're on this balcony. 439 00:27:18,250 --> 00:27:21,250 We have the second gummy, it kicks in, and just as it kicks in, 440 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,020 we're feeling really stony. All of a sudden, 441 00:27:23,020 --> 00:27:26,530 I hear it's like noise. I was like, what the fuck is it? 442 00:27:26,530 --> 00:27:31,150 Sounds. Are there whales in the bay? And so, like, we start looking out 443 00:27:31,150 --> 00:27:34,940 and there's a pod of whales going in through the bay, and it was the 444 00:27:34,940 --> 00:27:39,500 most glorious thing we've ever seen. And I'm sure it was like 80 times 445 00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:42,710 more glorious than it would have been because of how stoned we were. 446 00:27:42,710 --> 00:27:43,850 And it was to the point where I was like, 447 00:27:43,850 --> 00:27:46,790 we are seeing the same thing, right? Like there are actually whales 448 00:27:46,790 --> 00:27:50,750 coming through. It was amazing. And I'm sure if we were so sober, 449 00:27:50,780 --> 00:27:52,460 we'd be like, hey, that's cool. There's whales. 450 00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:55,430 But yeah, it's a lot of people are like, you 451 00:27:55,430 --> 00:27:57,020 didn't really see whales, did you? Like, I don't know, 452 00:27:57,020 --> 00:28:00,380 I don't care. It was fantastic. I'm pretty sure either way, you. 453 00:28:00,380 --> 00:28:03,170 Have a great story. Yeah, it's a great story. It's fun. 454 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,660 We were stoned out of our minds. Hell, yeah. 455 00:28:05,690 --> 00:28:08,210 Unless anybody's listening, that's, like, related to her. 456 00:28:08,510 --> 00:28:11,960 She doesn't do that stuff. Only me. Because I'm a bad person. 457 00:28:11,990 --> 00:28:16,730 Sounds like a great way to ring in the new year to 2025 with, like, 458 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,450 whales puffing, like spouting and breathing next to you and saying. 459 00:28:20,780 --> 00:28:25,100 Whales, I love you. Can I pet the whales? 460 00:28:25,130 --> 00:28:29,780 Whales are fascinating. They smell. Berries, taste. Like snozberries. 461 00:28:29,810 --> 00:28:32,650 I love that movie. I know. You do. Yeah. Loitering Littering. 462 00:28:32,650 --> 00:28:36,820 And, uh, since this is like, technically the New Year's episode, 463 00:28:36,820 --> 00:28:40,330 I was going to ask you guys, do you have any New Year's 464 00:28:40,330 --> 00:28:47,770 predictions for the beer world? Ooh. This one goes to come back to me. 465 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:53,170 You know what? Yes. Like, please. That's my wish. Every fucking year. 466 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,350 Monica and I at pedals were gonna make another one. 467 00:28:56,350 --> 00:29:00,190 And then now she's no longer at pedals, so it's like. Oh, really? 468 00:29:00,220 --> 00:29:04,690 Oh, that was my chance for goes. Shit. Um. 469 00:29:05,020 --> 00:29:10,060 Also, maybe, uh, stop labeling hazy IPAs that aren't hazy and 470 00:29:10,060 --> 00:29:13,480 just call them juicy. Oh, please. Maybe that can be a new thing 471 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,810 for 2025. Accurately labeling your fucking 472 00:29:16,810 --> 00:29:20,620 beers. Right. Um, how about let's. Just get the camaraderie back and 473 00:29:20,620 --> 00:29:23,830 everybody post just a touch more? Because I don't want to see ads 474 00:29:23,830 --> 00:29:25,720 anymore. I know I'm not posting and I 475 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,380 should be. I'm so bad at posting. I've just been so busy with 476 00:29:29,380 --> 00:29:33,200 school and kids and. Life, like. But I want to. Start posting. 477 00:29:33,260 --> 00:29:37,610 Lazy. Yeah, I get really lazy. Flexy is the worst dude. 478 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:42,860 But like maybe we should all try to post like. Every two weeks. 479 00:29:42,890 --> 00:29:45,080 Yeah. What if we posted. Once every two weeks? 480 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,710 So we've been trying. Yeah. Like I've been trying to do like 481 00:29:48,740 --> 00:29:52,070 a picture of beer in between the show post because I'm like, people 482 00:29:52,070 --> 00:29:54,650 don't care about the show posts. I just do it because I feel like 483 00:29:54,650 --> 00:29:56,930 I should. But it's like, I think people would 484 00:29:56,930 --> 00:30:00,290 probably rather see the beer posts or the hanging out posts or whatever. 485 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:04,340 Yeah, let's get back together. Craft beer community. 486 00:30:04,370 --> 00:30:09,620 So much content in the last year and I just get too lazy to just fucking. 487 00:30:09,650 --> 00:30:13,520 And I haven't, like, zero like. Sunscreen buttons. You know. 488 00:30:13,550 --> 00:30:16,970 Flex only posts if he's at Disney World. I like it. 489 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,640 I don't like how like I love Disney's Tired. 490 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,090 I do the same thing every time. This is boring. Blah. 491 00:30:24,050 --> 00:30:28,370 So let's let's try to do that. Everybody commit to like one post 492 00:30:28,370 --> 00:30:31,420 every two weeks and then like let's try to get it together. 493 00:30:31,450 --> 00:30:34,990 Like maybe once this year. That's what I would. 494 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,960 I like that. Let's work on that. I think. It's doable. 495 00:30:39,100 --> 00:30:42,100 And in honor of flex, can we call 2025 the year of the Gosa? 496 00:30:42,130 --> 00:30:46,660 Can we? Oh, yeah. Just bring. It back. Bring it back, bring it. 497 00:30:46,660 --> 00:30:52,300 Back, bring it. Back. It's so good. It's so fucking good. Uh. Anyways. 498 00:30:52,330 --> 00:30:55,690 All right, before we get to some news, let's find out what flex 499 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,630 is drinking over there with some important questions. 500 00:30:58,660 --> 00:31:03,940 In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger 501 00:31:03,940 --> 00:31:07,480 than growlers, only one tongue can guide us. 502 00:31:07,510 --> 00:31:12,850 One man, one tongue, one tongue jabber. 503 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:21,940 In this world we must find out what is flex drinking. Will, will, will. 504 00:31:21,970 --> 00:31:28,210 I wish people could see us. I know. Well, today, in honor of Greg. 505 00:31:28,690 --> 00:31:33,420 He just loves, loves that. Wisconsin has called this, uh, 506 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,810 I'm drinking a beer called the Fresh Coast. 507 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,380 Ah, they're gonna say cheesehead. No. Uh, fresh coast from Three 508 00:31:40,380 --> 00:31:42,780 Sheeps Brewing Company. They're up in Sheboygan, which is 509 00:31:42,780 --> 00:31:47,400 about an hour and 15 ish minutes north of me. And that's Wisconsin. 510 00:31:47,430 --> 00:31:49,560 Hour and 15 minutes north, not California. 511 00:31:49,590 --> 00:31:53,190 Hour and 15 minutes north. Oh, so it's an actual hour and 512 00:31:53,190 --> 00:31:54,810 15 minutes. Yeah, that would be like four 513 00:31:54,810 --> 00:31:57,090 blocks in California. I was gonna say a mile and a half, 514 00:31:57,090 --> 00:32:00,420 but. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Let's say four bucks. Yeah. Um. 515 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,650 Not, you know, not a it's a respectable Untappd rating. 516 00:32:04,650 --> 00:32:09,300 It's, uh, 3.74 over 21,000 ratings. Wow. That's a lot of ratings. 517 00:32:09,330 --> 00:32:13,290 It's a flagship from them. It says Juicy Pale Ale, brewed with 518 00:32:13,290 --> 00:32:17,940 Citra, mosaic, and Amarillo hops. One of our most popular beers. 519 00:32:18,090 --> 00:32:23,250 It's only 4.8%. It's very, very crushable on the 520 00:32:23,340 --> 00:32:28,080 nose. There's not much. It's a little bit hoppy. It's about. 521 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:29,770 It's a little bit hoppy. You don't really get too many 522 00:32:29,770 --> 00:32:32,170 flavor notes out of there. So then we warm up the old tongue 523 00:32:32,170 --> 00:32:39,460 jobber here, get few citrus notes up in there. Very light bodied. 524 00:32:39,490 --> 00:32:48,550 Light on the notes. No bitterness? No. Just a fantastic crushable light. 525 00:32:48,550 --> 00:32:51,580 Flagship beer. Um. Something you can drink all 526 00:32:51,580 --> 00:32:55,840 summer long? All year long. Really? Fantastic color to it. 527 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,170 It's a little see through. There's a few tidbits in there. 528 00:32:59,170 --> 00:33:04,000 Like it's almost unfiltered. Really, really wonderfully well done. 529 00:33:04,030 --> 00:33:07,630 It's not overly hoppy to where you're getting that, you know, 530 00:33:07,660 --> 00:33:12,220 filth on your tongue that we talked about before. Like the cigar. 531 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,660 Yeah. Skunky hot breath. Right? Yeah. Just really well done. 532 00:33:16,690 --> 00:33:21,010 It's just a super duper crushable beer. Yes. And I love the name of it. 533 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,880 Yeah, I do too. Lake Michigan is the Fresh Coast. 534 00:33:24,910 --> 00:33:28,370 Which I'd never heard until Flexy. Yeah, let's get it. 535 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,800 It's totally a made up thing that doesn't exist. It's. 536 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,040 It's pretty real. I guess I didn't know it either. 537 00:33:34,070 --> 00:33:37,250 It's really. You. Plus the camera. I gotta show you this. 538 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,040 I mean, the can's cool. It's like the three different 539 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,920 shades of blue, you know? It's like you're looking out at 540 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,320 the water. Like the water. Like how it gets. 541 00:33:45,350 --> 00:33:50,600 Deeper, deeper and darker. Here is like the Wisconsin coast. 542 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,560 And then it's the water. And I. Like it. Oh, yeah. It's a fun. 543 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:58,100 It's a fun cam. You know, I actually was in Florida 544 00:33:58,130 --> 00:34:03,650 last week. Just. No I know. Well, I chose to go there on purpose. 545 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:08,780 Yeah. But I went to a brewing company, 546 00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:12,800 but they weren't brewed there, so it was a little bit odd. 547 00:34:13,370 --> 00:34:19,040 But the like, the way they presented the brewing 548 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,530 space was freaking awesome. They, like, 549 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,710 would take these old doors and, like, whatever the beers were, 550 00:34:24,710 --> 00:34:30,160 they would paint the can art cannot on the door, and so they would lay 551 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:36,070 them out like upright full door. Um, and so like that's how you 552 00:34:36,070 --> 00:34:39,460 order you like do 123, four, five, six, seven. Oh like door. 553 00:34:39,490 --> 00:34:43,510 Number three, door. Number three. That's kind of neat. It was really. 554 00:34:43,540 --> 00:34:46,810 Yeah, it was really cool. I was like a little unimpressed 555 00:34:46,810 --> 00:34:51,220 that the beer wasn't brewed there, but I guess they are brewed in 556 00:34:51,220 --> 00:34:55,210 Pennsylvania. But they had one that was called 557 00:34:55,240 --> 00:34:57,670 oh God, what was it called? It was like an Ecto cooler, 558 00:34:57,670 --> 00:35:01,180 basically, but I don't remember what it, what it was actually called, 559 00:35:01,180 --> 00:35:04,390 but it came out number six. It was door number six. 560 00:35:04,420 --> 00:35:08,980 You're not lying about that. Really? Yeah. What a good. 561 00:35:08,980 --> 00:35:14,800 Guess. Voodoo brewing. Craft brewing if you're out there. 562 00:35:14,830 --> 00:35:18,160 Have you heard of. Have you heard of it? Voodoo. 563 00:35:18,190 --> 00:35:21,790 I was in Fort Myers. Voodoo? She wasn't with me. I don't. 564 00:35:21,940 --> 00:35:26,450 Voodoo me. I haven't heard of them. Pretty big Brewery over on the 565 00:35:26,450 --> 00:35:30,230 East coast. Where are they? They're not in New York. 566 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:32,780 Never heard of them. I've heard of them. 567 00:35:32,810 --> 00:35:35,450 I don't think I've had anything. I mean, 568 00:35:35,450 --> 00:35:40,250 it was very ecto-cooler tasting. And like, they they did a good job, 569 00:35:40,250 --> 00:35:43,130 but like, the the art. I was so impressed. 570 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,830 Whoever is painting the doors, if you're listening, 571 00:35:45,830 --> 00:35:50,000 you did a great job. Nice. Anyway, you cannot reminded me 572 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:55,250 of that because they had, like, a few different scenarios. Cool. 573 00:35:55,460 --> 00:35:59,630 Okay, good. Cool story. Mel. Good chat. Way to go. 574 00:35:59,660 --> 00:36:01,010 Apparently there's a. Couple voodoo breweries. 575 00:36:01,010 --> 00:36:03,170 There's one in Las Vegas. There's one in Pennsylvania. 576 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,510 Yeah, that's what I mean. I've had one of their like. 577 00:36:05,540 --> 00:36:09,830 So it wasn't that exciting that it. Was in Florida. I was there. Oh, man. 578 00:36:09,860 --> 00:36:14,150 It was like an Imperial Lager or something. Oh. It was all right. 579 00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:19,040 Yeah. Great. The beer was all right. It wasn't like. But the art was cool. 580 00:36:19,070 --> 00:36:22,640 The the the doors were very cool. I was impressed by them. 581 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,930 They didn't have a sticker placed. Gotta love a good door, you know? 582 00:36:26,470 --> 00:36:28,810 That's what I always say. Hey, you know what? 583 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:33,400 Not a door show. That's a good. Door. You did your job. 584 00:36:33,490 --> 00:36:39,580 Lord, you opened. And you closed. Oh, what else could you ask for? 585 00:36:39,610 --> 00:36:43,390 Easy there. Don't do too much, kid. Yeah, it's got some real Monsters 586 00:36:43,390 --> 00:36:47,830 Inc vibes. The doors. It did. Yeah, yeah. Uh. All right. 587 00:36:47,860 --> 00:36:49,270 A little news before we get up out of here. 588 00:36:49,300 --> 00:36:53,200 Brewers Association in their 2024 recap. 589 00:36:53,530 --> 00:36:57,040 Um, did not fail to mention the fact that for the first time, 590 00:36:57,220 --> 00:37:02,470 closing closures, craft brewery closures outpaced openings. 591 00:37:02,650 --> 00:37:10,210 In 2024, 399 breweries closed, while only 335 new breweries opened. 592 00:37:11,020 --> 00:37:15,550 Well, sounds like they have 399 problems, but a bitch ain't one. 593 00:37:18,130 --> 00:37:21,400 Touche. Come on. I was trying to think of a beer that, 594 00:37:21,430 --> 00:37:27,230 like, name that sounded close to bitch. I was like, but a Belgian one. 595 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:32,000 Not funny. Three dogs, raging bitch. There you. Go. 596 00:37:32,810 --> 00:37:37,640 Uh, last year, 495 breweries opened and 418 closed. 597 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,360 This is the first year that closures outpaced openings. 598 00:37:41,690 --> 00:37:44,870 We'll see how that trend continues. And look, we've talked about this 599 00:37:44,900 --> 00:37:50,210 a bajillion times on the show. Closures aren't always a bad thing. 600 00:37:50,210 --> 00:37:53,540 For so long, I think so many breweries were getting by on the fact 601 00:37:53,540 --> 00:37:57,260 that they were the only brewery in the area that was producing alcohol, 602 00:37:57,260 --> 00:37:59,480 and it was like, look, you want to get drunk, come down to the brewery, 603 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,600 and now it's like, yeah, now it's like, you got to make good beer. 604 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,900 You just have to make good beer or people aren't going to come, 605 00:38:05,930 --> 00:38:08,450 right? Plain and simple. Uh, 606 00:38:08,450 --> 00:38:13,010 Castle Island has acquired Cambridge Brewing's intellectual property. 607 00:38:13,580 --> 00:38:16,940 Norwood, Massachusetts based Castle Island Brewing Company has acquired 608 00:38:16,940 --> 00:38:21,230 the IP of Cambridge Brewing Company. The deal closed last Tuesday, 609 00:38:21,260 --> 00:38:25,520 three days before CBC was set to cease operations. 610 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,890 Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. 611 00:38:27,890 --> 00:38:32,660 Carved out of the deal is CBC's Kendall Square Pub, which will close 612 00:38:32,660 --> 00:38:36,800 well December 20th, which has already happened even as we record this. 613 00:38:36,830 --> 00:38:44,540 In August, CBC founder Phil. Bannatyne announced plans to wind 614 00:38:44,540 --> 00:38:47,900 down operations after 35 years, permanently closed the brew pub 615 00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:52,760 and retire Castle Island. Founder and CEO Adam Romano told 616 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:57,590 Brewbound that talks with Bannatyne, please stop using his last name began 617 00:38:57,620 --> 00:39:01,160 shortly after the announcement. He said beyond the emotional 618 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,040 components, which I don't need to explain to anybody in the industry, I 619 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,430 think the brand's got a lot of legs. They make a phenomenal beers that 620 00:39:07,430 --> 00:39:10,490 should not just be put into a filing drawer for the rest of eternity. 621 00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:14,750 The Cambridge name has some provenance and some equity and can 622 00:39:14,750 --> 00:39:19,280 travel, which is not something we intend to immediately tend to do 623 00:39:19,310 --> 00:39:22,190 immediately, but hopefully down the road if there's demand for it. 624 00:39:22,190 --> 00:39:25,250 More than anything, we just didn't want to see it get shuttered. 625 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:29,390 So, you know, keeping a good thing going. Shuttered. Shuttered. 626 00:39:29,810 --> 00:39:36,470 Uh, Diageo reportedly exploring selling the formerly P Diddy backed 627 00:39:36,470 --> 00:39:40,760 Ciroc vodka. Oh, boy. Oh, I. Could read the story, 628 00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,060 but I think it's pretty obvious. Uh, if it's P Diddy vodka, 629 00:39:44,060 --> 00:39:48,170 who the fuck wants it done? Yeah, here's real slippery. 630 00:39:48,410 --> 00:39:52,850 I mean, how much key do you need? Uh, well. Apparently. 631 00:39:53,660 --> 00:39:56,450 He just asked Diddy. My my favorite part. You need. 632 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,900 Baby oil? Actually, yeah. My favorite part about the whole 633 00:39:59,900 --> 00:40:03,350 baby oil thing is he claimed he got it from Costco and Costco, 634 00:40:03,350 --> 00:40:06,110 put out a statement and was like, we don't even sell that, right? 635 00:40:06,470 --> 00:40:11,930 I did enjoy that part. It's so good. Not only did he not get it from us, 636 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,470 we don't even sell that shit. We are not associated with Diddy. 637 00:40:16,190 --> 00:40:19,790 Oh. So good. Uh, we'll end it on this one. 638 00:40:19,790 --> 00:40:23,440 And this actually relates pretty good. Back to Mel. 639 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:27,250 A woman ran the New York City Marathon while drunk. 640 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,970 Yes, we saw that this year. I actually saw her. 641 00:40:30,970 --> 00:40:35,140 And so did Lou. Oh, really? Yeah. I had not heard about this. 642 00:40:35,140 --> 00:40:38,170 I came across this by accident. The story was from almost a month 643 00:40:38,170 --> 00:40:40,750 ago, and I was like, oh my God, this is an amazing story. 644 00:40:41,140 --> 00:40:44,500 Um, Justine Wang, 26, took an unconventional approach 645 00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:46,840 to the New York City Marathon by consuming alcohol throughout the 646 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:51,610 26.2 mile course documenting documenting her experience on TikTok. 647 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:55,750 Yeah, she responded. Wow. She reported drinking several 648 00:40:55,750 --> 00:40:59,770 shots of liquor and a few beers, all while maintaining hydration 649 00:40:59,770 --> 00:41:02,620 at every water station. She completed the marathon in 650 00:41:02,620 --> 00:41:06,190 five hours and 36 minutes, expressing no regrets and 651 00:41:06,190 --> 00:41:09,910 emphasizing the joy of spending time with friends and spectators, 652 00:41:09,910 --> 00:41:13,180 she explained to the news outlet that she decided to take a much 653 00:41:13,180 --> 00:41:18,220 more relaxed approach to her, to her NYC experience, after finding 654 00:41:18,220 --> 00:41:21,830 out she had also been accepted to run in the Chicago Marathon, which took 655 00:41:21,830 --> 00:41:26,300 place three weeks earlier. Exactly. And just so you guys all know, 656 00:41:26,300 --> 00:41:29,300 to get, like, an idea of what New York is like, 657 00:41:29,330 --> 00:41:34,220 it is all five boroughs. And in every borough there are so 658 00:41:34,220 --> 00:41:38,150 many spectators that are there to party like they're the ones watching 659 00:41:38,150 --> 00:41:42,080 and they're like, we got beers, we got this, we got they have 660 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,030 everything for the runners. So like, 661 00:41:44,270 --> 00:41:47,540 there's a lot of opportunity to drink because people are. Was that. 662 00:41:47,540 --> 00:41:51,320 When I ran the Disneyland. Marathon? Not in Disneyland afterwards at 663 00:41:51,350 --> 00:41:54,740 like 4 a.m. when you finish, they give you a you can buy a 664 00:41:54,740 --> 00:41:58,490 beer for like 30 bucks, right? But like in New York, like constantly 665 00:41:58,490 --> 00:42:02,420 there people are trying to. And this year Lou took his 666 00:42:02,420 --> 00:42:06,740 foodie approach and he. Actually likes he. Did his pizza. 667 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,410 Yeah he did. Kidding me. No, he did. Not undersell this. 668 00:42:09,410 --> 00:42:13,430 The videos were fantastic. He did it. He got like White. Castle. 669 00:42:13,610 --> 00:42:17,660 In one borough. He got pizza. I had like pickle juice for him. 670 00:42:17,690 --> 00:42:18,590 Like. Yeah, 671 00:42:18,610 --> 00:42:23,050 He just did not train whatsoever. Still did better than I would 672 00:42:23,050 --> 00:42:25,360 normally do training. So kudos to him. 673 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:29,200 But like he did and like every store he went, he even like looked 674 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,750 for like a phone charger for me because I was like, fuck my 675 00:42:31,750 --> 00:42:34,690 phone while running. Yeah, yeah. He's like, 676 00:42:34,690 --> 00:42:36,760 I'm going into a couple stories. He's like, got nothing for you. 677 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,700 I'm like, shit. Um, but like, he was like, 678 00:42:39,730 --> 00:42:41,920 he would jump in and they'd be like, are you running? 679 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:43,510 And he's like, yeah, I'm like, I want some pizza. 680 00:42:43,510 --> 00:42:47,260 And they're like, got you free. Oh, it was hooking it up. Yeah. 681 00:42:47,260 --> 00:42:50,650 He loves he. Was in heaven. He had a. Blast, a blast. 682 00:42:50,950 --> 00:42:54,730 He probably got some meat on a stick at the end, but. I think. 683 00:42:54,730 --> 00:42:57,370 There was a video of him eating a gyro at one. Point. 684 00:42:57,370 --> 00:43:00,970 Yeah, I always send it to you. I will continue to do so. 685 00:43:00,970 --> 00:43:03,340 But like, well, there's the gyro. There's definitely I think there 686 00:43:03,340 --> 00:43:06,070 was multiple pizza videos. Yeah, I think there were like 687 00:43:06,100 --> 00:43:09,070 4 or 5 videos in total. At a hotdog cart on the side of 688 00:43:09,070 --> 00:43:11,830 the street. Two, like he pulled over in the car. 689 00:43:11,860 --> 00:43:15,550 That was a different time. But yes. Yeah, that was a different race. 690 00:43:15,550 --> 00:43:19,340 But yeah, we we did. And he was like, just like beckoning 691 00:43:19,370 --> 00:43:22,640 to the person to come over and bring us the hot dogs while we 692 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:26,450 were in traffic. And they did. He's like two this, that, 693 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:30,050 whatever, ten bucks. And they're like 12 and he's 694 00:43:30,050 --> 00:43:32,000 like ten, motherfucker. And they gave it to him and they're 695 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:38,750 like, fine, fuck you. Really? Yeah. But you know, like, I think that 696 00:43:38,750 --> 00:43:44,720 if you can do something like that and just enjoy the five hours that 697 00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:48,110 you're out there. Yeah. Fuck it. You know, like, why should anybody 698 00:43:48,140 --> 00:43:51,380 be mad at her for, like, drinking? Good for. You. Oh, yeah. Do it. 699 00:43:51,380 --> 00:43:52,910 I don't know what's more impressive, though. 700 00:43:52,940 --> 00:43:57,650 Lou's ability to run marathons or his ability to eat while running 701 00:43:57,650 --> 00:43:59,930 marathons and not throw up. It's a weird thing. 702 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:03,020 It's it's a it's a it's. A both it's a combination. 703 00:44:03,020 --> 00:44:05,840 It's a real. Yeah. One two punch. It's a. Combination. 704 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:09,290 I'm always like very impressed with what he does. Yeah. 705 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:14,690 And how fast he can do it too. Like oh yeah I did two half marathons 706 00:44:14,690 --> 00:44:17,380 and after both of them I was like, you know what I don't want to do 707 00:44:17,410 --> 00:44:21,100 right now? Eat. Oh, yeah. Or anything. Else? No. 708 00:44:21,430 --> 00:44:24,310 I don't even. Want to walk. Yeah, I remember after the first one, 709 00:44:24,310 --> 00:44:26,080 they're like, everyone have an orange slice. 710 00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,540 I was like, go fuck yourself, give me some water and leave me alone. 711 00:44:28,570 --> 00:44:32,530 Like, I don't want an orange slice. What is this? Youth soccer. 712 00:44:32,740 --> 00:44:37,780 Orange slices. Bananas. Yeah. Where's my apple slices? 713 00:44:37,810 --> 00:44:41,350 That was always halftime at, uh, during high school football games. 714 00:44:41,350 --> 00:44:45,910 They would just have boxes of oranges and bananas, and they'd just be 715 00:44:45,910 --> 00:44:50,020 throwing them around the locker room. Jeez. Yeah. No, thanks. 716 00:44:50,050 --> 00:44:54,370 Gotta get them electrolytes, I guess. So it's a potassium. Uh. 717 00:44:54,370 --> 00:44:57,130 All right, I think that's that's pretty much everything. 718 00:44:57,130 --> 00:45:00,190 Let's, uh, let's hit some music. Let's head on up out of here. Mel. 719 00:45:00,580 --> 00:45:04,810 Thank you. For two weeks in a row. Yeah. So happy you guys had me. 720 00:45:05,050 --> 00:45:07,360 I love you guys so much. Thanks for having me while I was 721 00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,600 on school. Break. One more year, and then maybe it'll 722 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,360 make me a regular. Who knows? Time. Timing worked out perfectly. 723 00:45:13,390 --> 00:45:16,010 You were drinking a little bit, and, uh, The. 724 00:45:16,100 --> 00:45:19,250 Let us know when you're when you're drinking again. Oh, yeah. 725 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,520 Good question. Yeah. That'll be what. Like 19 weeks from now? Yeah. 726 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,920 Let's schedule some drinking time with. Somewhere around there. 727 00:45:24,980 --> 00:45:28,010 Yeah, because we need it. It's been a blast. 728 00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,320 We've we've missed hanging out with people, but more importantly, 729 00:45:30,350 --> 00:45:33,050 we've missed hanging out with you. Agreed. I love you, boys. 730 00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,930 Yeah, we love you. Uh, follow her on the socials at 731 00:45:35,930 --> 00:45:39,020 Beer Girl. Underscore Mel. Follow us at Craft Beer Republic. 732 00:45:39,020 --> 00:45:44,090 And of course, flex me at beer underscores in between 805538. 733 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,910 Beer is the number. Mel at craft beer Republic. Com. 734 00:45:47,180 --> 00:45:50,120 Uh, I think that's just about everything. 735 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,750 I hope everyone's staying very well hydrated. And on that note. 736 00:45:53,900 --> 00:45:58,220 Good night everybody. Bye, Vanessa. Oh. Bye, Vanessa. 737 00:45:58,250 --> 00:46:00,200 Hi, assholes. We are. Five.