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Today we've got a mushroom double drinking and skiing.

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The man is taxing the drinkers. And why are the Russians stealing

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all of our beer? Let's go.

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Welcome in everybody. This is the craft beer Republic.

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Thank you for drinking. Thank you for joining.

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I am Flex and not pregnant, but drinking for two. It is Greg.

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No, but I do look a little pregnant these days.

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Don't beat yourself up like that. That is not fair.

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I'll get a sonogram later to make sure. Okay. Fair enough.

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But I think you look lovely. You're a doll. Yeah.

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What else is lovely is our top listening city of last week. MM.

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We back to Sin City, Greg. Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Drinking capital of the Nevada. Yeah. There you go.

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So thank you, Have everybody in Vegas again.

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It's like a couple of weeks now. I feel like this year Vegas is

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honing in on us. Yeah, at least 2 or 3 times.

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I don't know why, but I'm here for it. Yeah, let's do it.

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Maybe it's like a little West Coast action.

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They're not West Coast, but they're west west ish.

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They apparently haven't heard all this shit.

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I talked about beer zombies, so. Well, yeah.

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We we we you know, everything I've had. Not great.

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But, uh, speaking of not great beers. Oh. Are you a fortune teller?

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Well, I mean, you know, you're looking a little thirsty,

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and I'm just. I'm kind of curious to see

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what's going on here. Let's see what happens.

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I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer.

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Well, I'm drinking Beachwood. Brewing. Electric.

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Electric limbs. Hazy. IPA electric limbs is a hazy IPA

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for the future. Its energetic aroma is powered

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by Beachwood select Mosaic and Citra hops. It is 6.7%.

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Let me flip over here. It has a 3.87 on untapped.

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And I'm going to be real honest with you cannot played a big

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role in the purchase. I would have bought that in a

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heartbeat. It is like 80s throwback electric.

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And I'm a sucker for anything. Lightning bolts. I don't know why.

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I just love lightning bolts. I was walking through once again

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craft beer, uh, thrift shop, and this one stuck out to me.

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It was only available in a four pack, but it was canned just a couple

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months ago and I thought, that's pretty fresh.

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That's really, that is really rummage fresh.

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But I have low hopes as you can see. Flex I poured this about 30s ago.

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Head is completely gone and there are just these weird big bubbles

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left over. Yeah, it looks gross. It looks disgusting.

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It looks like a morning pee after drinking all night.

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That's exactly what it looks like. I was trying to think.

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I was like, what? How do I describe this?

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You fucking nailed it. It looks like a morning piss when

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you're hungover as fuck. Yeah, it. Does not look delectable.

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I'm on the nose buds. There's, like, almost nothing.

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Like I get, like, a little pineapple, maybe.

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It's super, super light on the nose buds. Tongue-jobber. Wish me luck.

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It doesn't want to come out. Keeps clinging to my teeth.

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It's weird. Is one of the best faces I've ever

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seen. Like so it's not good or bad. It's weird. Um, clearly the way they.

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Here's the thing. Beachwood is a highly respected

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brewery out here. This is not something I.

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That's why I dove in balls deep with the four pack.

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I thought, no problem, it's Beachwood. This will be just fine.

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Uh, I was sorely mistaken. So it's weirdly over carbonated,

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and I think some of that has to do with the weird head lack

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thereof retention happening. Like it's not escaping.

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It's like a it's carbonation wise. It's like drinking a seltzer.

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It's it's like bubbly, like hard, very. Zippy. Very zippy.

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And it's supposed to be hazy. You can see that it's not the

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world's haziest hazy, neither. Juicier than it is hazy. Yeah.

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I mean, it's not like clear, but it's also not hazy. I'm having a hard.

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The flavors are just like a little this,

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a little that and some carbonation. There's nothing really that

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distinctive. Like maybe some of that

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pineapple that I was smelling. But it's beer. Yeah. Who can I.

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And you got. You got a four pack. I got two and a half.

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Oh, three and a half more of these things that I got to somehow.

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Try and give. Them. Try and give the half away, I dare

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you. Please go downstairs. My wife. You want to try a really good beer.

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That'll be poured down the drain after, uh, after divorce. Yeah.

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God, I wonder. I wish all my beer friends weren't so

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educated. Like, hey, I got a beer. You should try.

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Yeah, or didn't listen to the show. Oh, hey, I know, I just got this.

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I didn't even try it. Yeah. Oh. Three pack. Special edition. Fuck.

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Uh, if any of my friends who are listening would like to try this

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ever so delicious beer. I will save one for you. Lucky you.

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Yeah. Send one to Flex too. Oh. Please don't. Well, you know what?

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You could do it, I wouldn't care. Oh, I feel like I should drink.

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I mean, I'm drinking for two, and this is what I came up with. Oh.

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It does look like there's a little heart in the glass, though.

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It does look like a little heart shape in the bubbles.

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So it's not just me? No, no. Yeah. If you turn around,

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it looks like a ball sack. Oh. Yeah. Like, why is there zero head on

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this thing? Like, what the fuck? And it's not like it's not

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carbonated. It's over carbonated, I'd say.

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Like, how are the bubbles not. It's so weird. So weird. Bizarre.

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And the great words of some Spanish philosopher. No. Me.

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Gusto. Well spoken. Yeah. So I love this, by the way.

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Long live poop. Beergate. We thought it was 2025. It's forever.

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Yeah, just like, uh, you know, the breweries combining.

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You know, it lives on from 2025 to 2026, as does Poop Beer Gate.

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So we had a listener send in here and he writes, aw, I'm sorry.

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They write, hey team, I wasn't going to send this,

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but after hearing the poop beer and Brian call in with his story, I

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figured this one finally had a home. About a year ago,

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I picked up a bottle of a foraged mushroom double from this ultra

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hipster brewery in upstate New York. It came in one of those wax tipped

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bottles and had tasting notes like Omarm forward, woodsy funk,

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and my personal favorite culinary mystery. HMM. The first sip.

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I don't I don't even think you can go to a restaurant and have something

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labeled Culinary Mystery. Um. The cafeteria meat. Cafeteria beer.

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The first sip was straight dirt and fermented soy sauce.

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The second was like licking the inside of a compost bin after a

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rainstorm. I gave it one more try,

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just to be sure. Because, you know, third time's a

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charm. There's nothing immediately. Thorough.

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And then immediately dumped the rest. Even the sink seemed offended.

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I took a picture of the label and put it in a group chat with the caption,

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I've made a huge mistake. Still get roasted for it anyway.

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Love the show. Thanks for giving me a place to

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finally unburden myself. Cheers. Lex in Albany. Well, sexy Lexi, I.

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First of all, I'm glad you had a place to get that off your chest.

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I'm glad we could be that poop beer outlet for you.

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But, uh, I this is on you. Culinary mystery.

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Yeah, that's not a great tasting note on a beer. I mean, umami forward.

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That scares me a little. Woodsy funk. I'm usually out because that

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sounds like a farmhouse or. Saison, and we know how I feel

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about that. But culinary mystery. Read the room, man.

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I'm just thinking he kind of missed like a mushroom pun here,

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and he could have said, I've made a huge mistake.

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Like a mushroom. That's. That's the only place where I'm

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going with that one. Yeah, like, Holy shiitake.

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This is gross. I don't know. Yes. See, that's why I have you here.

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That's why we pay Greg the big bucks. Uh, well, yeah.

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Lex, please, if you have any more of these stories.

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Glad you were able to get it off your chest. Anybody?

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I love this, this running theme here, this poop beer gate.

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Uh, hashtag poop beer. Send us all the gross, nasty tasting,

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uh, descriptions you got there. Yeah. In fact, dear Greg and Flex,

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the other day I was at the craft beer thrift shop, and I bought something

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because I had a sweet ass can. I won't call the brewery out,

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but I'll say it was called Electric Limbs.

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It had great promise. Was relatively fresh for being

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at Total Wine, so I thought, what could go wrong?

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It was hazy, cool to look at and I thought,

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this. This will be the beer for me. Little did I know.

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Try to look up the descriptor so I can use some words in it.

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Little did I know that its energetic aroma was not so much powered by

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select Mosaic and Citra hops, but in fact powered by over

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carbonation in zero head and lack of flavor. Well, yours truly.

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The electric limbs did not pay their energy bill. Yeah.

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Oh, honestly, this might be the worst beer I've

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had on the show in like six months, if not longer. That's crazy.

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Yeah, this is really legitimately just like what? Weirdly, not.

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Two weeks ago was probably the worst one I had had in a very long time.

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Oh, what about that one that looked like throw up like a month ago?

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Oh. Yeah. That would. No, that was months ago. Yeah.

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Or you know what's funny? I texted you when I saw that at Total

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Wine because they were selling it in four packs, but I think they

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were selling it for like 30 bucks. Yeah, it was something like that.

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Yeah. I was like, oh, I should get it and

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have it on the show because it'd be so funny because Flex had it and it

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was gross. I was like, you know what? I'm not spending $30 on a joke.

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It would now know. And now they have singles,

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but the singles are 9.99. I'm like, I'm still not paying

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$10 for a joke. That is stupid. That is that's awful to actually

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do that to somebody, make them pay $10 for that shit ass beer.

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I'm sure that like, people are returning it or like throwing it

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against the wall, and that's why they have singles now. Yeah.

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I mean, to just even pour that out. If you don't know what you're

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getting into, you're probably like, what the fuck? Why is this brown?

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Why is it lumpy? Why does it look like soapy poop?

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I mean, it legitimately looked like throw up.

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Like not just kind of like actual throw up that came out of a person.

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And I wouldn't recommend it. No. And not like, not like super hot

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chick gave me the baby bird throw up. It looks like actual throw up.

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Oh, you should have put the picture of the beer on the when

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you put it on the old IG there, just to really give people the idea.

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Oh, I posted it after you had. Oh you did. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah.

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Oh thank goodness. Decker brewing and raw watermelon

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lemonade slushie sour collab. That was batch 490.

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So ten episodes ago, 12 episodes ago, if you haven't heard it,

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that was from December 10th. Uh, they're still trying to fucking

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peddle that shill over a total one for 30 bucks a four pack.

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It was an abomination. Yeah. Go fuck yourself. Total wine.

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Oh, well, to piggyback on Lexi's, uh, kind of funky farmy beer, uh,

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or obscure beer? Term of the week. Oh. Brought to you.

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By us doing obscure beer terms. And the letter O.

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Oh, yeah, I like that. Or how about the letter H?

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Uh, horse blanket. Allegedly a common descriptor for

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earthy, musty aroma found in wild fermented beers like lambics.

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MM. I guess that makes sense. It makes sense.

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But I just like picture one hipster to the next being like,

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oh man, I just had this super horse blankety beer. No way man.

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It's like had, like two horse blankets in it.

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It was so horse blankety. Like, I can taste the horse mane.

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It's so horse blankety. They just walk around like.

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Oh yeah, just neighing like crazy. Yeah. Is that how they procreate?

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They just neigh a bunch and then get into bed? Hipsters, I think so.

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I think it's required. Yeah, yeah, I actually think

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it's in a documentary.

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We found two hipsters in the wild. Crikey,

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look at them neigh at each other. This is what happens right before

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they take each other to bed. Part of their mating ritual is

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they drink these garbage ass beers and pretend they're delicious.

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Look at the. Look at the expression on his face

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as he tries to choke it down. They refer to these as horse

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blankets.

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Oh, this deserves a spin off. Oh, but Jesus. Just, uh.

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Just us with bad accents again. I know we have a tendency.

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Hey, you know what's funny? A couple of weeks ago, on 500.

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You brought up the Van Duzer episode. Yes. That episode.

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It never, never, never. The episode that never was.

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I can't find it. I went looking for the files.

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Phew. I think my computer. I think like after so long, it it

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sort of just like deletes super old, like project files on its own.

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And since that was probably like 3 or 4 years ago, it's like,

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fuck you, you're not going to want this thing.

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And I mean, honestly, it's probably right. It is for the better.

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I was kind of hoping it was there. I at least play a clip of it because,

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you know, it's a fucking Van Dusen. Yeah. yeah, the van is here.

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Um, you know what, though? Don't reel it in. Reel it in.

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It's, uh, get into a little bit of news here. All right. All right, all.

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Right. Um, is Dry January drying up? Let's find out.

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Uh, growth in non-alcoholic beer slowed during this year's dry

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January period. According to new data from an IQ

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analyzed by bump Williams Consulting and Abeers,

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dollar share in grocery stores increased just 0.1% year over year,

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uh, in January, reaching 4.3%, which is a much smaller gain compared

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to the 1.1% increase last year. Um, so I would say that's a

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pretty big win. Yes. Down within a beer. Yeah.

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And you know, the numbers aren't out yet. So, uh. You know.

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You can't say anything about that, but, uh, well, the category continues

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to grow overall, uh, bump Williams Consulting noted that the pace

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growth has slowed as share expands. President Dave Williams pointed

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to signs of saturation, saying the magnitude of growth this

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January was notably diminished compared to the previous year.

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Well, that's good news. Yeah,

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I would say that's good news because. Well, it's something we complain

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about all the time. It's like, look, if you're not going

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to drink beer, just don't drink beer. No one's saying you have to drink it.

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Like you've been doing this weird ass thing for a couple of weeks now.

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How many Na beers have you had? I've had zero na beers.

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Okay, you've had a lot of weird ass sodas, but zero na beers.

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Don't dis the dirty soda gonna make the animal come out.

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There's been a spike in sales in French vanilla coffee creamer,

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but Na beers have not been touched. You know, now I just hope somebody

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tries it and writes in about the dirty soda. Like, you know what?

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I still drink beer, but I had to try what Flex was talking about,

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and it's fucking delicious. I mean, I've got heavy cream

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downstairs and some Coke zeros. I don't know if I would do that.

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The French vanilla just really vanillas it up. Just a hint.

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See, I don't like French vanilla in my coffee.

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I don't I don't like sugar. I just I just want a little

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splash of cream and. There's really not much sugar in

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coffee creamer. But I don't want the flavor.

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You know? You know who would try? It would probably be like dab or

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Erica. They're like. 100% try. Yeah, they would totally try it.

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They're like the Schnog Weirdo's and Erica. Absolutely would hurt her.

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Schnog. Yeah. Hey, Erica. Deb, you wanna you wanna you

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wanna try something? Yeah,

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just just do just do the dirty soda. And if you don't know what I'm

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talking about, just go back to batch 501. Listen to the dirty soda.

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Just do it. And give it a shot. Give it a shot. Um, all right. Here.

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Uh, Hawaii legislators propose Bev tax based on ABV.

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Very interesting here. Uh, Hawaii lawmakers are

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considering a bill that would charge a liquor tax based on ABV

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rather than Bev Elk category. Uh, the house bill 19999199

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would amend excise tax rates to the following $1 per gallon on

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all beverages between 0.5 ABV and 10% ABV, $2.75 per gallon on

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beverages above ten up to 15. I don't know how they get this number

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$11.89 per gallon on beverages above $15, up to 40%, and then an even $13

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per gallon on beverages above 40%. The legislators argument for the

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changes that Hawaii's beverage tax rates have remained the same

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since 1998. So here's the thing. I scream at people when they talk

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about percentages remaining the same. Like, you know, we still tip 20%

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on our meals and they go, that hasn't changed in a million years.

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And I scream from the rooftops, you're correct.

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The percentage hasn't changed, but the amount has gone up

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because the bill has gone up, 20% of 100 is a lot more than

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20% of 50. You fucking idiots. Um, that being said,

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it's an interesting tax structure. And I just googled while you

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were reading that I googled how much alcohol is in mouthwash.

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Interesting. What is it? Something like 10%. More. Actually.

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So mouthwash with alcohol based mouthwash typically contains

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between 14 and 27% alcohol. No kidding. By volume.

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So are they going to tax mouthwash as well? You would think they have to.

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I think they won't because I'm sure you know like big crest out

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there is going to lobby against it. But uh, I think if look I'm not

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against taxing things that need to be taxed, but, uh,

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if you're going to tax beer and wine and spirits, why not text tax?

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Other things that have alcohol, like mouthwash. What about extracts?

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Like doesn't like vanilla extract. Have o percentage of alcohol.

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I mean, it's distilled vanilla. Let's see how much alcohol in

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vanilla. People are so glad I'm saying

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this out loud. You know,

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it's funny you mention that. I was listening to our local one

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of our radio shows the other morning at work, and they were

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doing the exact same thing. They were talking as they were

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googling something. So we're professionals.

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We're not alone. All right. Good. How much would you guess is in

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pure vanilla extract? All right. Again, I'm gonna say something

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like 11%. Okay. I would have guessed in the teens,

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somewhere in the teens. And we were wrong.

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It is 70 proof that motherfucker is 35%. Oh, okay. Right.

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I was not expecting that. So, yeah, that'll raise some

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eyebrows, man. Than in Hawaii. So are you gonna attack?

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I mean, now they're calling it a bev elk tax.

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Obviously vanilla, not a bev. True. I mean. Is mouthwash, Bev?

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Not directly. But you do. You know, put it in your mouth.

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Hey, yo. Um. It's like glorified peppermint

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schnapps. You're not supposed to swallow.

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I'm just saying, if you're gonna tax alcohol tax across the board.

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I 100% agree with you. Hawaii. Yeah. Take that. Hawaii.

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Uh, the Brewers Association 2025 annual report in revenue comes in.

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Mhm. So the Brewers Association reported

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another operating loss in 2025, despite cutting expenses across

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nearly every line item, according to its annual report.

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Total revenue fell 24.6% year over year to 16.8 million,

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while the expenses dropped 22.4% to 18.9 million.

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That left the trade group with a negative net of just over $2 million,

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marking the second straight year in the red.

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Brewers Association spokesperson said the cuts are intended to

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keep the organization, quote unquote, responsive,

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efficient and focused on what matters most to today's craft brewers.

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Adding that the group believes the changes will position it to

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emerge stronger. Events remain the BA's largest

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revenue source at 10 million, though the figure was down more

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than 23% from the previous year. This must be why they're doing

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gabf outside this year. Yeah. Uh, yeah. We can't rent this hall.

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Yeah, yeah, that, uh, that's not good stuff.

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Nothing like outdoor gabf in October in Colorado. You got two options.

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It's either going to be 90 degrees or 30 degrees C.

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Maybe it, uh, maybe they get lucky the first year. Who knows? Yeah.

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And also, I have a feeling that so much of what the g a, b,

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gabf what the Brewers Association provides is sort of ChatGPT able

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at this point. Oh, really? Yeah. In fact, I've seen that the Brewers

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Association has replaced their community forums where brewers

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can go on and ask questions of professionals with an AI chatbot.

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It's like, well, why would I give you a bunch of money when I could

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just pay 20 bucks a month to ChatGPT and look all this up myself? Oh.

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And the world's different now. It is. I'm just saying, if you're gonna,

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you know, continue to charge member fees and all that shit,

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you got to provide something for it that you can't get elsewhere.

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Agreed. Yeah, maybe. Maybe have small brewers on the board

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that are offering things that I don't know you can't get elsewhere.

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Just saying. Think about it. This sounds like it would be a

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Florida story, but it is not a Washington representative.

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Apologizes for being drunk during committee meeting. Why apologize?

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Well, you know, apparently you're not supposed to do it. Lame.

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The Washington State House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon, cool name,

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has apologised after admitting he was visibly drunk during a House

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Appropriations Committee meeting in Olympia after a dinner break.

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Fitzgibbon delivered remarks while slurring his words and later

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acknowledged he had been drinking. It's a hard lesson for me to learn.

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It impacted my work, it impacted my colleagues,

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it impacted my constituents. My family know that just doesn't

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sound right. He forgot the and. Yeah, I this guy, he was drunk. Yeah.

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He he said, it is a hard lesson, something I'm not going to repeat.

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Fitzgibbon said he walked home that night and did not drive.

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He plans to finish the legislative session without alcohol,

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though some Republican lawmakers have called for his resignation.

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Dude admitted he had a couple drinks. Yeah, I hear it happens a lot in

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Congress. And yeah. Judging by some of the shit that's

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going on. I think they're all drunk. But you're not wrong.

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One of my favorite drunken in public times was in Washington. In Seattle.

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Hop, skip and a jump away. Yeah. What did you do?

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Have I told you about the the growler in Seattle?

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I heard, uh, some balcony stories I've heard. No, this was not that.

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Okay. Uh, this was. Man, I was probably 24 ish.

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You know, like early 20s. And my buddy and his girlfriend,

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now wife, moved up to Seattle for a job, just temporarily.

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It was meant to be temporary, you know, like a year or two.

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And while they're up, they're like, hey, come visit us in Seattle.

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I was like, fuck yeah, you know? That was back in those days when

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like, you're like couch to sleep on. Hell yeah. Oh, yeah.

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You didn't need anything else. You didn't need, like, I'd fly in.

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I'd have, you know, I'd walk to their house if I had

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to and then sleep on the couch. Now it's like I will rent a car

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and get my own hotel. Thank you. But at the time.

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So I slept on the couch whenever we went out one night.

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And, you know Widmer back in the day. I don't know if they're still

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there or not. Had one of their taprooms in

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Seattle and we were there. We were eating and they had this

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special on growlers. And at the time I had never

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heard of a growler. And I was like,

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what is this growler like? Oh, it's a half gallon of beer.

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I was like, come again? Yeah. And ah, I forget what it was,

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but it was stupid cheap. It was like, yeah, we'll fill it

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up for eight bucks or something. Like you will. So I'm 24.

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That sounds great. Yeah. And it's not even Bud Light.

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So sure enough, we got a growler of Hefe and we took to the town

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like we'd had a few beers there, obviously,

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and dinner and took to the town. And, uh, the girlfriend now wife,

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luckily had a very large purse. And so we'd keep it in her purse

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and we'd pull it out. We'd all take a little swig of

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the old growler, put it back in the purse.

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Obviously it got very warm, very shaken up by the end of the night?

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But you know, when you're used to drinking like Bud Light, it's like,

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ah, who cares? Who cares? Yeah. Good times in Seattle, man.

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Just trying to imagine how big that purse was. Oh, it was large.

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It was very large purse. Because a growler, you know, 64oz.

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Yeah. Not small and made of glass. So pretty heavy as well. Yeah.

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So honestly, you know what? She's a fucking champ for carrying

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that thing around for sure. True. Yeah. Yeah. So that was a good night.

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Like we walked around all the stadiums down like we were downtown.

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So like the stadium and the Seahawks stadium, we're just walking around

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and taking pictures and drinking out of growlers and it was a good time.

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Sounds like I've never been to Seattle.

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I have you know, I do want to go eventually. I recommend it.

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Um, yeah, a couple things. Uh, check out there and definitely

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want to hit up a Mariners game too. I, Seattle and the Milwaukee kind of

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have like the thing that. Oh yeah. You know, because they were the

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Seattle pilots for one year. Oh, I didn't know that.

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Oh, you didn't know that? No. Oh, yeah.

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They were the Seattle pilots from like, I was like 69 to 70 or

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70 to 71. What a stupid fucking name. The hats were really cool because

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the brim, like the brim of the hat had like the captain's wings.

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Oh, I pictured, you know, the little cap with the spinny thing on top.

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No, that would be so stupid. I mean, the name is so stupid,

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so you can't follow me there. Hey, you, uh, take that back

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because Pilot Time listens to this. He probably thinks it was.

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He probably thinks it was the coolest team name ever.

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That's a pretty sweet team name. Sorry. Yeah.

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We really know how you feel. Uh, well, I guess we'll end it

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on this one. Ooh. Woman arrested at Oakland County

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ski resort for o w I c. Margaret. Top of the mountain in Margaret

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Valley. She was arraigned Thursday in a

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52 two District court. Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna leave.

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Uh, Margaret Feeley, uh, arraigned Thursday in a district

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court in Clarkston. According to records,

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the 58 year old is charged with operating a vehicle while impaired

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her third offense, the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office had said. Uh.

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Authorities allege that the defendant drove her vehicle at the bottom of

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the ski slopes at Alpine Valley Ski Area in White Lake Township

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last Tuesday, near skiers and snowboarders, including children,

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and had to be the children. Right. Uh, police said. If it's adults.

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Police said witnesses told them they saw Feli Smoking marijuana

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before the incident. Oh, no. Yes. They also told officers she was

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wearing ski boots while driving. That is probably the most unsafe

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thing that we have read so far. That's way worse than whatever

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substance she was on. Absolutely. After the police conducted a

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traffic stop, officers administered sobriety tests and Feli exhibited

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poor balance and slurred speech. According to the authorities.

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Oh, yeah. Let's do it to you. Officials also said she was hostile,

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even referring to one officer as Nazi dude. Yeah, bro. Yeah.

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She's angry. 58 year old woman. This defendant endangered children

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with her irresponsible actions, Karen McDonald, Oakland County

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prosecutor, said in a statement. There is no excuse to drive

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impaired even once. If you've had too much to drink or

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are under the influence of marijuana or other drugs, call a friend,

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call an Uber. Just don't drive. If you do, we will prosecute to

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the fullest extent of the law. As they should.

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Uh, I wish they said why she would even do that.

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Like, why are you driving your. Well, your truck at the bottom of the

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ski hill? Because I can only pick. Up her kids. Maybe. Brilliant.

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Jump in those parking lots. Got to be pretty far away,

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right? You get to. All the ski resorts, I think.

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You know, mammoth, if you for those have been to Mammoth

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Canyon Lodge at the. If you didn't. In fact, I saw someone once not

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stop at the bottom and they fell into the parking lot.

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But in order to drive onto the snow, you have to go up a very large

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embankment. So. Yeah. Yeah. Just. Hey, how how drunk were you?

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What the hell were you thinking? Yeah.

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I mean, I don't know about you, but marijuana makes me want to run

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over kids at a ski slope, too. Yeah,

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something about it just screams that. Yeah, that's why I do it so much.

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Yeah, yeah. That doesn't relax me at all.

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It makes me want to murder children. We just had to talk about this today,

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too. About the feeling of it,

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where it's like, you just don't want to do much. Oh, when you're high?

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Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, absolutely. The actual feeling just.

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Yeah, I will say not a weed show, but I recently found a gummy

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that's like super uplifting. And while, you know,

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it's not like you did lines of coke, like it doesn't make me tired.

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It just kind of takes the edge off a little bit. Okay.

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It's really nice when you have to go do like important adult stuff.

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Yeah. And you just don't get baked. Yeah, it's it's real light dose.

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So you don't get high. You just I'd call it a weed buzz.

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Okay. That's good to know. Yeah. If anybody wants to know any more,

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you know, just send Greg a DM here. Slide into my stoner DMs.

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Yeah, maybe it'll be Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. Oh. Hi, Vanessa.

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What weeds are you smoking? I don't know.

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Just figured I'd try and segue into that real quick. And.

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Oh, that was very smooth. I think we hit some music and

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we'll say thank you all for listening out there. Mhm.

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Boy, off the top of my head. I think that is it.

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I think you're. Right. I think I nailed it there, and, uh,

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we hope you all out there staying very well hydrated. And on that note.

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Good night, everybody.