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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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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