Welcome in, everybody. It's the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drinking.

Thanks for

joining. I am Greg, and over there with his siren song that is Flexy. What's up

, big fella?

Just trying to seduce the masses. Well, it's working over here, let me tell you

. I don't

know about the masses, but it's massive. Anyways, not a Pwner show. Never is.

Never will be.

I don't know. We keep trying real hard to turn into one. Anyways, find us on

the socials,

if you will, if you're still there. @CraftBeerRepublic and @FlexMeABeer_ is in

between. So much show

to get to tonight. We are going to indulge in my favorite holiday tradition. Is

that

really happening already? Oh, it's time, my friend. Christmas is next week.

There's not

a better time to do it. We've got a ludicrous libation law. Words are already

fantastic.

Some booze news to get through. But before we get to all that, top listening

city of

last week. Shout out to Riverside, California. What's up, Riverside? Ish. They

're out east.

They make all the money. California's California. How dare you? It's a Midwest

perspective.

Yeah. California should be like five different states, both in size and

diversity. All right.

Same thing when people say Wisconsin's basically Canada. It's not. And you're

an asshole. I

always think Minnesota's basically Canada. That's what I say. Yeah. Their

accent's basically

the same. It's so much worse than a Wisconsin accent. Especially like a

Southern, like I'm

Southeastern Wisconsin, like the Southeast corner. So yeah. Like Minnesota,

they got

the A and you know, they sound very Canadian. They play duck, duck, gray duck.

Like it's

fucking weird. Is that a real thing? Duck, duck, gray duck. Yeah. And it's only

in Minnesota.

I've never fucking heard of that before. Everybody else around the country that

's normal plays

duck, duck, goose. Not in Canada. They are in Minnesota. They play duck, duck,

gray duck

or both. Yeah. That's fucking hilarious. I've never heard that. That's so good.

It's funny

when I meet people or talk to people that live in Minnesota, I always work that

into

the conversation and they're always like the look of shock and embarrassment on

their face.

Yeah. It's like, you found us out. It's like, no, it's a big fucking state. It

's pretty

fucking weird. Like y'all are fucking weird. It's a weird fucking game you guys

play. Biggest

ball of twine is in Minnesota. That just says it all. That sounds like

something you would

stop at though. I would only like the roadside attractions, but here's, okay,

this is a little

thing for me. It's a weird Al Yankovic song. Biggest ball of twine in Minnesota

. And ever

since I heard the song, it's just really well done. He's great songwriter, very

great singer

and how his lyrics are funny as hell. I would stop at it only because of his

song. I would

never stop at it just to stop at it. Did you see his movie a couple of years

ago? No, no.

With Daniel Radcliffe. Yeah. It was like the, the fake biopic. Yeah. It came

out on some

streaming service that I didn't have. Oh, I watched it on the flight to

Portugal a couple

of months ago and you know, I wish I was drunk or stoned when I watched it

because it's silly.

If you go in thinking like this is going to be dumb as fuck, I think you're

good. I didn't

realize how fake it was. I thought it was his story with some embellishments

and I was

very not at all correct. Yeah. Yeah. It was completely, there's like a scene

where he's

supposed to have sex with Madonna. Oh, they date for a while in the movie. Oh,

okay. So

there you have it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, not to give anything away, but like

Madonna basically

ruins his life. That's hilarious. Yeah. It's pretty good. So anyways, enough

about Madonna,

not a Madonna show, but it is not a weird show. Well, maybe one of these days,

but for

now it's still a beer show. So let's find out what beer flex is drinking over

there

in a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than grow

lers. Only

one tongue can guide us. One man, one tongue, one tongue jobber. In this world,

find out what is flex drinking.

It's even better because like you bumped your camera and start shaking while

you're eating

out the air. Damn. I'm pretty good. It's a little fun story here. I don't know

how many

people do this. If it's a normal thing, if it's not a normal thing. Uh, I bring

my kids

to the liquor store with me. This is my favorite is frown upon it. I don't care

what I love

that you do this because I know they're picking at your beer a hundred percent

based on not

only do they love to pick it out. My youngest, she's eight. She loves carrying

it around

because it makes her feel strong. You know, four pack of beer, you know, a few

pounds

to it. Yeah. Just a couple. But, uh, she was walking around the store the other

day with

two of them and she said, man, look how strong I am. And I just said, yep. Yeah

, you are

just beat into it. So, um, I, I was only going to get two, four packs the other

day. Classic

cheapskate flex. And then my kids found this beer. It is called croc couture

and we're

not talking like croc, like a crocodile. We're talking to shoes or talking cro

cs like the

shoes. Oh yeah. And then it's these sparkly silver, some shiny crocs crocs on

this hairy

ass man's leg. Um, but they got to like love their crocs. It's even got like a

little croc

charm on this croc. And, uh, the, the hand, the handle, the heels in the, in

the back,

it's up. So they're built for speed right here. Duh. Um, aren't all crocs, but

you got

the, the little thing that lifts up in the back, right? You can either push it

for a

little strappy thing. Yeah. The strappy thing. That's what I was good at. So

this one is

on the heel. So this man or woman, they're, they're built for speed. They were

moving.

They're moving on this can. Uh, and my kids, they, they love their crocs. I don

't understand.

I don't own a pair. Never have. They probably never will. I also hear they're

comfortable.

We will probably hit an age where we're like, you know what we need? It's

fucking crocs.

I'm going to disagree strongly, but you know, they, they always say, never say

never. Uh,

but this one's out of never heard of them. Little house. Sorry. I never have a

little

house brewing company. And again, much like last week, apparently I just love

Connecticut

beer. Oh, where the hell I found it. I found back to the CT. Yeah. The fuck did

it say?

Doesn't matter. They're from Connecticut somewhere. North Haven. There you go.

One of two cities.

Yeah. I'm pretty sure that is only their city. Was it new Haven in Bristol? We

decided. Yes.

That is exactly what it was. Uh, so I'm untapped here again. Must be a

relatively new beer.

I don't know how they get these recent drops from all these places or new

breweries or

what's going on. 314 seconds. That's it. Uh, three and five. It's a, it says it

's a new

England, hazy IPA, 6%. Um, it's, I'll read the can. It's a little more on the

can. It

says crocs, crocs, crocs. We just love crocs. We're crazy about them. Who isn't

this one's

for all the croc lovers out there. A go-to IPA made with dependable hops to

match everyone's

super reliable, always in season footwear friend crocs. And then a little, uh,

art part

hand on the on tap does tell me that it's Citra mosaic Simcoe and Centennial. I

was

going to say old faithful hops or whatever they called it. You know, it's gonna

be a

bunch of C hops, right? And I figured it was just like, uh, kind of like a

flagship. Maybe

it is. Maybe it isn't. I don't know. But we'll get, uh, pour it a little out

here. Take a

little sniff or some out for the homies. It's definitely a little hoppy. There

's like hints

of like small hints of like malt pine and then like some citrus coming through.

Hmm.

Sounds a little old school, but it's got some old school hops, right? That's

what I'm thinking.

So, uh, on the old tongue jobber now, there we go. So it does have a bit of a

malt backbone

and then you get a little sweetness after that. And then, um, man, what is that

flavor

right there? Pine. No, it's not. It's like a, it's definitely like a fruity

flavor. I

just can't figure out what it is. One second. Like a, a subtle sweetness after

the malt,

no bitterness. And it really is just like subtle malt character. Not my

favorite in

hazies, but it's not bad. I was going to say, would you consider it a hazy or

an unfiltered?

So look at it. Cause I could kind of see it in the background there. Yeah. The

beer itself

is, is very hazy. Um, but it's got more of that old school coloring to it. Well

, it is

darker, like, like a golden rod, a little bit, almost that, uh, Amber color. It

's, it's

not bad. It's not great. I can drink it. I don't think I would get it again,

but I'm

happy. My kids, you know, are into, you know, picking out what they want me to

drink. I

think that's like a fun. I love it so much. When you have kids as a dad, as a

guy, husband,

whatever male dude, you know, you always like people are like, Oh, do you want

a boy? Do

you want a boy? Well, it doesn't matter if you have a boy or a girl, because if

you raise

your kids, right, you, your interests will eventually rub off on your children,

right?

Whether it's sports superheroes, you know, if you're, whatever you're into

being a drunk,

exactly. It'll eventually, you know, something will rub off onto them and they

will take

some kind of interest, whether it's full or partial. And I don't know, I just

think it's

kind of like a, that they have fun with it. Wait till she's 12. She'll be like

pumping

iron and slamming IPAs. If my kids do that at 12, she'll be president. You've

done something

right at that point. Yeah. Well, except the drunk part. Probably not good idea.

Is it

12 late for Wisconsin? I mean, don't they start a little early there? Yeah. I

think

my father-in-law and my dad both started at 10. We're talking, we're talking

drinking

and cigs. So, and uh, that's old school. I got pretty nuts here. Yeah. Well,

very nice.

I love when your kids pick out your beer. Cause it's, it's basically like a

Russian

roulette and because they find like the prettiest or funniest or whatever cans

they can find,

right. It says absolutely nothing about the beer and I can't hear nothing about

the brewery.

Yeah. Zero fucks. I love it. I can't wait until you try it. So when you said

that you're

kids picked out of your beer, I was like, yes, here we go. Yeah. And I

purposely planned

on having it after they bought it. I was like, Greg's gonna love this. And did

you get the

whole four pack of it? I did. You got three more of those bad boys, huh? This

one, I don't

think this one was bad. It was like maybe $13.99. Goddamn your beer is cheap.

You know,

but you know that quad I had last week, I mean, I was even kind of impressed

with this.

This is only $19.99 for a evil twin quad. It's pretty good. Especially with the

algorithm

being such a high ABV and all that stuff. Right. I would say that was probably

like

a one to one to one ratio if I was to guess. That beer was really good. But

this one, it's

okay. It's drinkable. I can finish the four pack. I just, I just really don't

think I'd

buy it again. Yeah, that's fair. Not a dream pour. I am curious on what these

guys, what

else these guys have to offer here in a little house. Yeah. Cause I've never

heard of them.

Right. Yeah. I don't know if you have, I know I have not, this is the first

time. Thanks

to your daughters for introducing me to a new brewery. They'll say you're

welcome. Yeah.

On their behalf. You know, sometimes the closest I get, you know, no kids and

Marty's not great

at picking out beer. He just likes to drink mine. The wife and I will sometimes

, you know,

like if, if I finish a beer and she's getting up to go to the kitchen, like,

Hey, can you

get me a beer? And she'll go, what do you want? I was surprised me. So she'll

pour it

in a glass and then bring it to me and make me guess what it is. Always. If

that's fun,

we'll do that to each other. Like, guess what kind of style it is or what beer

exactly it

is all the above. So it'd be like, oh, this is, you know, clearly if it's a ha

zy, it's

duh, it's a hazy. Um, you can see it out the bat, but you know, like, Oh, this

is, it could

be juicy. Greg. Well, you wouldn't see that though. You bite your tongue. Oh

yeah. Um,

you know, and then it's like, okay, based on what you know about the beer that

's in

the fridge, you know, what beer do you think this is? And, um, you know, pretty

decent

track record because I know what beer is in the fridge. That's what my favorite

beer tender

will do. Sometimes I'll tell him to just, he said, ah, what do you want? Just

give me

some kind of IPA and he'll pour me an IPA and then I will guess off of what's

on the

menu. Yeah. What he gave me. That's all. I like that. Yeah. It's fun to guess.

It's

good times. Uh, all right. Any, um, besides, you know, hanging out with your

kids, any,

any research lately? I, I, I don't know about you. I've been, um, work. I'm

still on the

road. I'm in a hotel again this week and just said, done a ton of work with the

holidays.

Yeah. Not a ton of time for research for me. Same. I'm, I'm on the same page

there. So,

um, all right. I won't talk about my research thing cause I don't, I don't

really have anything

to talk about. Sorry, everybody. Yeah. But it is the holiday season and there's

one of

the season as someone said, yes. And there's something that I must do every

year. And once

again, I will give everyone a little backstory for all the new listeners. I

grew up listening

to Mark and Brian radio show in here in LA and it was a morning show. Mark and

Brian

were hilarious. Um, sort of my, um, my radio gods. If you, Mark always called

himself a

radio God. Anyways, they, I think it was Mark that found this, maybe it was

Brian, a sociopath,

right? Narcissist. Um, he found at like a goodwill, this old, old, old Disney

record

that had like, uh, Christmas songs and stories and you know, just got a

Christmas record

of sorts from Disney from way back when. And on it was this track I'm about to

play you

and I fucking love it. I crack up every time I laughed as a kid when they first

started

playing this and every year it's still my favorite. So because they're no

longer on

the air ever since I started podcasting, which was the year they went off the

air, I've played

this on all the shows I've been a part of because it's just my fucking favorite

and

without this, it's not Christmas time. So everybody, please enjoy the dropping

of the

Yule log. Christmas Eve is probably the most exciting

night of the year for children everywhere. At our house, the ritual is always

the same.

Mom hurries dinner out of the way so that the festivities can begin. First, I

lay a

fire in the fireplace. I pride myself on the way I lay a fire. To begin, I cr

inkle newspaper

to put under the grate. Then I put in the kindling, breaking the sticks into

the proper

lengths. Then I bring in the Yule log and put it in the grate. That's the

biggest log

we've ever had, Dad. Yeah, and the heaviest too. If that doesn't sound like

someone taking

a shit, I don't know what does. The grunting, the dropping, just all of it.

Also, so first

off, let me say, I look forward to Christmas every year and this is one of the

reasons

I love it. Number two and then number three. Thank you. We we've all started

fires before.

Sure, whether you have a fire pit. How big are the logs that you like? This guy

sounds

like he is in an entire tree. Also, just one log. Usually it's like a couple. I

don't know.

Because you need to, but it's the Yule log. So that's wild. Yeah, I love it. I

clearly

the dude's taking a shit and the newspaper crinkling sounds like the ocean and

some Foley

artists got paid way too much money for that. And they're like, I got to earn

my keep more

sound effects. It's brilliant. Yeah. I don't know whose idea that was, but that

was, yeah.

I love when the sticks are breaking. It sounds like those little poppers. It

just sounds

like whips over that. Yeah. I always reminds me the little poppers that you

throw at the

ground. Little white popper things. Yeah, yeah. Everybody down. So anyways,

everybody,

you may now celebrate the holiday season. You're welcome. It's official. It's

official.

You cannot celebrate until we have the dropping of the Yule log. Log has been

dropped. Go

forth and celebrate. All right. Before I talk about my beverage, still ludic

rous libation

law, going to California for this one. California prohibits alcohol producers

from listing the

names of retailers or restaurants that sell their products. That also includes

advertising

and newsletters. Damn, which I thought was interesting because like I know a

lot of breweries

and the one I could thought of the most was stone has a beer finder thing on

their website.

Find our beer, type in your zip code and we'll show you where we sell our beer

around there.

So I wonder if like the Internet is like a loophole for that. Yeah, I don't

know. Because

believe it or not, Greg, WWW stands for World Wide Web. I don't know if you do

this. It's

like a 90s thing. I thought it was World Wide Wrestling. One would hope so. So

maybe it's

like a loophole. Like it's technically not considered local because it's vast.

Yeah.

Or maybe it's like it's not advertisements or whatever, because you have to do

the searching.

They just give you the result. I don't know. It's weird. It's very California.

California.

It's so funny. Has some really cool alcohol laws and then has some really weird

alcohol

laws like we are one of the few states that solidified after COVID the whole

like booze

to go thing. Right. But then we have this weird shit where it's like you can't

tell

people where to find your beer. Oh, all right. The alcohol to go thing is still

pretty weird

because you can't do that anywhere here. Oh, I would think Wisconsin of all

places would

be right. You would think so. DTF. Yeah. Like I'm pretty certain all the

restaurants and

stuff that we're doing to go stuff just kind of killed it after everything.

Once it expired.

Right. Yeah. Not here. There's nothing like ordering from the local Mexican

restaurant

and getting like three margaritas to go. Yeah. And nem shits was some shit. Let

me tell you.

There's a local chain. They're just, I think just in Southern California, it's

a barbecue

place. It's called Wood Ranch. During COVID you could order an old fashioned or

I mean

you can order multiple cocktails, but the one we would order is the old

fashioned. And

for what was basically like 18 bucks, you'd get like four drinks worth of old

fashioned

and they just fill up one of those soup containers. Fucking fantastic. And they

were not light

on the booze. They were great. That's what you want. Oh, it's absolutely. It

was great

during that time. You couldn't ask for anything better. No, we needed the booze

during that

time. Let me tell you. I don't know how people made it without honest to

goodness. Like I

know I didn't. I know I put on some weight in 2020 cause I did a little extra

drinking

that year. A lot of, a lot of people did. Yeah. Still carrying it around too.

Um, all

right, let's uh, let's make a call of the pen if you don't mind. You know, tis

the season,

the giving season and uh, intern Brian was very giving. He hooked me up with a

couple

of beers. Uh, but one of them is this Trillium Fort point pale ale. Yeah. Yeah.

Another pale

two weeks in a row cause you know, I don't care what season it is. I want some

fucking

pales and I wanted to be hazy cause I'm a Hayes bitch. Uh, it's 6.6% which to

me really

inching into that IPA territory, but whatever that is pretty heavy for a pale.

I feel like

anything over 6.5 or even over six weeks. Yeah, I think six is heavy, but 6.5

and above

to me, we're talking IPA territory, but either way I'll take it. Uh, so 6.6%

has a four to

one on untapped and they say our signature American pale ale balances light,

crisp malt

character with an abundance of hop derived aromatics and flavors from the use

of Citra

and Columbus. The fragrant nose is fresh citrus, tropical fruit and peach, bold

flavors of

pineapple and mango mixed with dank notes of zesty citrus and fresh pine

needles with

the smooth mouthfeel, gentle bitterness and dry finish. Fort point is our

standard daily

drinker on the Old Schnauz. I'll tell you while you're sniffing that very

curious. Um,

if Brian got this here in California or on boss Massachusetts, I know the

answer. I don't

want to talk about this. So you got it in California. Okay. There's a shop near

his

house where the owner is a big beer fan and like brings in, he gets some

specialty beers

and like back in the day when Russian river was hard to find, like the only

place locally

we could find Russian river. Um, so not surprising they had some trillion, but

on that note,

you want to guess how much this four pack was? So it is, it is a pale to pale 6

.6 percent.

I could tell you how much that beer costs here. Okay. And I believe it was 24

99. Oh,

so he didn't get taken too hard here. I believe what he told me it was a 28

bucks. The four

pack sounds about right. Yeah. All right. I thought you were going to say like

it's

$17. Anytime trillium, which I would say in the last year has been fairly

frequent, like

once a month ish, we'll get a trillium drop. Um, but the prices are so dumb to

me, like,

like a regular IPA, like a seven and a half, 8% IPA. Yeah. Is the 28 bucks that

you just

got the pale ale for. So, yeah, I don't care. You can, people could tell me how

good trillium

is. I will refuse to pay that fucking price. Well, he was not, he got two

different four

packs from trim. He gave me one from each. I think one was 28 and one was 30.

So very

nice of, of intern Brian to hook it up. Um, what a fucking stud. Can we get him

back on?

We need, we know what we need. We sort of, I have talked about when we were

drunk the

other night, he was at that same wine party I was talking about last week and,

uh, at

a friend's house. And, um, yeah, we're like, he's like, when are you going to

have interim

Brian bag? I was like, we should have interim Brian bag. I'm like, we

absolutely should.

I know we generally have chicks on the show and, you know, try to break up the

sausage

fest, but we need some interim Brian in our lives. But I also need to be at

home and not

in a hotel for that to happen. That's true. You are in a hotel. Yeah. So in you

, uh, on

the schnoz quickly here, uh, it's a light light on the schnoz. Do you get like

a little

bit of the, the peach I'm picking up, but overall pretty light. That tastes

though,

much bigger. I get the citrus, I get the mango. I'm not getting so much peach

as I did on

the nose. Uh, it's got a fair bit of malt. That's a little old school in that

way. I'm

getting some malt. I mean, you can see it's very hazy. It's definitely in the

hazy territory.

All right. I feel like we're having an issue with that today. Yeah, it's weird.

It's got

all that old school malt to it, but otherwise, uh, you know, very good, nice,

great, easy

drinker. Um, doesn't taste like it was worth $28 a four pack. Oh, I don't want

to offend

intern Brian, but, um, it's not offending him. It's a, I found this really cool

brewery

that's very hyped and I would like to give you a little, uh, spill of it. Yeah.

I'm glad

I got to try it. And had I not had Trillium ever with the name that they had

and I was

out in the wild and I saw one for the first time, I would probably spend $28 at

least

just to try one. But overall, no, and it's probably not worth the $28. In fact,

not overall.

Definitely no. I mean, no beers were $28 cause I know how much it costs them to

make it.

And it was not $28 for four of these, but that brings up a good point. Does the

name

of a brewery Trillium had tree house a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to not

murder John, that

kind of name. Does that automatically add like eight bucks to the four pack? I

would

say so. Seems like it. I mean, other than like maybe getting at the source, but

I feel

like those hype breweries can sort of charge whatever they want. I, I was

starting to think

those days were coming to an end, but maybe there's a few scragglers out there.

Um, like

see, see in Drekker prices after seeing like, you know, Trillium drops, like

even when Paris

drops here, super hype brewery out of Louisiana, right. Known for the machine

goes to the machine

and then all the ghost variants, which I've never had, but are supposed to be

really good.

I've had one or two parish comes here and it's anywhere from like 1299 to 1499

a four

pack. No shit. Yeah. That's it. That's a steal. Like I even got a, they sent a

triple IP up

here one, one weekend, uh, he was 1499. I got it for, that's pretty good. There

's something

sexy about not knowing how hot you are. It's like sexy indifference. They're

just like,

Hey, 15 bucks for a pack. No big deal. Or you're just, yeah. That's the, what a

way

to put it. I don't, I don't even know what to say after that. Fine. Fucking

period. Let's

move on. I just, there's something, uh, you know, drives me to you that you're,

that you're

willing to do that. So not, not follow it. You know what it is? It's not

falling into

your own hype. Yeah. It's, I don't know. Just, yeah. It almost seems like

people doing what

they love and respecting the people who love it. Right. The people are spending

, you know,

and just not, yeah. It's just like, you don't want to overcharge. You just want

to be like,

you want to be like the guy. Yeah. Buy my, buy my fucking beer. You can afford

it. I

don't know. Right. Because you know, nowadays, you know, inflation, you know,

prices, not an economic show, but I do like when good beer is very, very, what

the fuck

is the word? Uh, affordable. That's probably the word. Not douche. Reasonable.

Reasonable

is the word. A stone cold would say swig a beer for the working man. What?

Thank you.

All right. Let's, let's do a little news before we get out of here. The TTB,

you down with

TTB? You know me? Yeah. Uh, has announced formula exemptions. I didn't know

this was

a thing. So the alcohol and tobacco tax and trade bureau TTTB is exempt. The

alcohol and

I stuck in your mom last night bureau, uh, the alcohol and tobacco tax and

trade bureau.

Don't say that when you're drunk is exempting 24 brewing ingredients from its

formula submission

and approval requirements. What does this mean? You ask, going forward using

the ingredients

that I'm about to tell you will no longer trigger the need to submit and

receive TTB

approval of the formula for the beer in question. Brewers should recognize, um,

that the exemption

of a particular ingredient does not exempt the flavoring. So if you get like an

extract

or something, but if you use these specific ingredients, you no longer need TTB

approval.

And I didn't know this was a pro. So I brought this up cause I didn't know this

is a whole

thing that you had to get like TTB approval to use certain ingredients. So the

new 24

ingredients, I'll just blow through them real quick. Almonds, bananas, beets,

cantaloupe,

carrots, cucumbers, dandelion leaves slash greens, dill, dragon fruit, elder

berries.

This one surprised me. Guava, hazelnuts, lavender, lychee fruit, papaya,

peanuts, pecans, pecans,

pecans, pistachios, prickly pear, rhubarb, rosehip, spruce, tea, and walnuts.

So you

don't need approval if you use those now? Right. So you don't need to submit

your recipe

to the TTB for approval based on using one of these ingredients. They're now on

the AOK

list. I'm surprised that any of the nuts made it because, uh, algae stuff. Well

, no, I don't

think so. Well, I'll shut up then. I'm allergic to walnuts. So just walnuts and

to a lesser

extent coconuts. What about these? No, I love those. Oh, okay. Great amount of

salt. Making

sure. Yeah, no, no. Don't you worry. Don't need you going to anaphylactic now.

I'll go

somewhere else. Do you think if you're allergic to bananas, you go into a

banana phylactic?

We should just end the show there. I hate myself for that. Good night everybody

. I hope

I get to use that someday. Oh fuck. I really think less of myself. I really do.

I doubt

you're the only one, but that was fantastic. It's fun to say just, it is fun to

say, yeah,

it's like banana Rama, right? Avanti, which is like a train provider in Europe

has launched

a new low alcohol beer safety thirst, not first for the festive holiday season

campaign.

Basically they're tired of people getting shmammered on trains. And so they

came up

with their own non-alcoholic beer. What else are you supposed to do on trains?

That's what

I was thinking. But here's the worst part. They made a song introducing this

awful non-alcoholic

beer. Oh, safety first, safety first, a new low alcohol beer. Keeps you steady,

light

and ready for the festive cheer. Hey, safety first, safety first, a limited

edition brew.

Yeah. Whoever their marketing person is should be shot in the face. Yeah. See,

how do I say

I agree? Yeah. I don't know. Close enough. Somebody out there who speaks

Spanish is yelling

out their stereo. I took Spanish for three years in high school. You think I

know a little

bit more? I took it for six years between middle school and high school. God

damn. And

I know how to, all I remember how to say is bulldozer. Wait, what is bulldozer?

Excavadora.

I didn't even know that. Si, si. Me gusto, excavadora. Yeah. I know enough to

like go

order tacos at like the hole in the wall joint with the best tacos and that's

all I need.

You don't need anything more than that. No, you just tip. If you're coming to

California,

if they speak English, the tacos aren't that good. I guess I'll try and find

that out taking

out. All right, go patch brewing. I bring this up because I've actually been

there at

a Colorado Springs is going to acquire Pike speak brewing. Go patches is cool.

It'll spot

in an old school. In fact, it's my cousin's old school. So we went there to

have a couple

of beers. He's like, it's so weird drinking here. Cause like the principal's

office is

down the hall and he, we can go in the gym in the gym. It's like this kid's

playground

area and he's showing me around his old school, which is now a brewery and like

a couple of

the classrooms are different businesses and it's cool and weird all at the same

time.

There's a couple of those in Colorado Springs. Interesting. Huh? There's also a

brewery in

a church. That was pretty cool. Yeah. Only time you give me a go to church. So

hopefully a holy good thing for Pike's peak brewing. Uh, Sazerac is going to

acquire Svedka

vodka from constellation. Yeah. Uh, Sazerac has been just buying up all the

liquor that's

cheap lately. They are really bolstering their portfolio. I think they have

like 300 brands

right now. It's fucking insane. Uh, the sale, which is expected to close in the

coming months

is part of constellations plan to premium eyes. It's wine and spirits business,

which

has not kept pace with the gains, um, that it's beer portfolio of Mexican

imports has

delivered. So I know all about the gains. Yes, you do. A drunk driver says he

had nothing

to drink, but his mother tells officers he's too drunk to walk ratted on by his

mommy.

Officers came upon a two car crash at 3 48 AM and learned that a sedan had

struck a box

truck when it ran a red light at the intersection with South Bellevue or Boule

vard, whatever

while officers were speaking with the driver of the box truck, the motorist in

the sedan

began to drive away. Officers followed the sedan and conducted a traffic stop.

I love

that he drove away and then stopped for the cops. The driver said he thought it

was only

a minor fender bender. Officers immediately detected an odor of alcohol. The 20

year old

South Euclid man claiming to have had nothing to drink subsequently failed sob

riety tests

and was arrested, arrested for OVI at the police station. He walked into a

glass window

next to the jail sale, uh, that officers had yet to open for him to enter. His

mother picked

him up from jail and said he was so drunk he could barely walk. She had not

seen him

since he left their home around midnight that night to pick up some snacks.

Love it. Unreal.

There's Uber now. Uber eats, you know, like just fucking order something. In

fact, last

week I was talking about having a mimosas at Thanksgiving and I forgot to tell

this

part when I opened the champagne that I got, it exploded. And when the

champagne exploded,

like half of it, I mean it hit the fucking ceiling. Half of it emptied the, I

've never

had it that bad before. And so my sister Uber eats more champagne and it was

fantastic.

So all this to say, yeah, so all this to say, you fucking idiot, uh, what are

you doing

driving around for snacks when there's Uber eats and apparently you live with

your mom.

Tell your mom to go get you some fucking Taco Bell. What's wrong with you, mom?

She's making

a meatloaf. She can go get you some hooch. Exactly. Come on. Uh, we'll end on

this one.

Superhero arrested for drunk driving and fleeing police. This is out of England

. Did he fly

away? Well, no, the superhero is not much of a flyer. This comes from England.

Uh, Wiltshire

police said that 25 year old Lewis Blondridge crashed his car into a telephone

pole on November

19th. He quickly exited the vehicle and ran away from the crash with local

residents chasing

him. Really? Residents? Residents. Interesting. Yeah. It took multiple police

teams, including

police dogs to find bondage. When he finally was apprehended, he failed a breat

halyzer

test and a blood test proved that his BAC was over twice the legal limit. Cur

iously

and without explanation, Blondridge was found wearing a Batman costume. Out

standing. It

was great. And there's photos. Maybe I should Graham it or something because

the photo of

him is great. Maybe grab it at crappy Republic. They have his face blurred, but

yeah, he's

in full on Batman costume. I must feel like there's no better way to get

arrested than

like that, right? If you're going to do it, go, go fucking hardcore. Could you

imagine

getting a, uh, movie replica like teenage mutant turtles costume and then just

fucking

around and getting arrested in that? And I'm trying to handcuff your big fat

spongy wrists

that are right behind my shell and then, and then getting stuffed into a back

of a squad

car. Sir, I can't fit my shells too big. There's none chucks up my ass. Hold on

please. That's

so good. Yeah. So good times. Way to, way to do it up. Right. That you just

sent me

the picture. I just sent Flexy the picture. Yeah. It's there's a whole video

too. There's

body cam footage. I was watching it and it's the cop like reading him. His

rights reading

Batman. His rights is, it was great. Good times. Amazing. Yeah. So, uh, all

right, let's

get out of here before my internet completely crashes. I'm going to say a hello

to Vanessa.

Hi Vanessa. Hi Vanessa. I'm going to hit some music. Find us on the socials at

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and at flex me a beer underscores in between 805-538-beer-2337. That is the

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Leave us a voicemail, a meal at crappy Republic.com. I think that's all the

things. Hope everyone

is staying very well hydrated. And on that note, good night everybody.

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