Today we've got a mushroom double drinking and skiing.
Speaker:The man is taxing the drinkers. And why are the Russians stealing
Speaker:all of our beer? Let's go.
Speaker:Welcome in everybody. This is the craft beer Republic.
Speaker:Thank you for drinking. Thank you for joining.
Speaker:I am Flex and not pregnant, but drinking for two. It is Greg.
Speaker:No, but I do look a little pregnant these days.
Speaker:Don't beat yourself up like that. That is not fair.
Speaker:I'll get a sonogram later to make sure. Okay. Fair enough.
Speaker:But I think you look lovely. You're a doll. Yeah.
Speaker:What else is lovely is our top listening city of last week. MM.
Speaker:We back to Sin City, Greg. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Speaker:Drinking capital of the Nevada. Yeah. There you go.
Speaker:So thank you, Have everybody in Vegas again.
Speaker:It's like a couple of weeks now. I feel like this year Vegas is
Speaker:honing in on us. Yeah, at least 2 or 3 times.
Speaker:I don't know why, but I'm here for it. Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker:Maybe it's like a little West Coast action.
Speaker:They're not West Coast, but they're west west ish.
Speaker:They apparently haven't heard all this shit.
Speaker:I talked about beer zombies, so. Well, yeah.
Speaker:We we we you know, everything I've had. Not great.
Speaker:But, uh, speaking of not great beers. Oh. Are you a fortune teller?
Speaker:Well, I mean, you know, you're looking a little thirsty,
Speaker:and I'm just. I'm kind of curious to see
Speaker:what's going on here. Let's see what happens.
Speaker:I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer.
Speaker:Well, I'm drinking Beachwood. Brewing. Electric.
Speaker:Electric limbs. Hazy. IPA electric limbs is a hazy IPA
Speaker:for the future. Its energetic aroma is powered
Speaker:by Beachwood select Mosaic and Citra hops. It is 6.7%.
Speaker:Let me flip over here. It has a 3.87 on untapped.
Speaker:And I'm going to be real honest with you cannot played a big
Speaker:role in the purchase. I would have bought that in a
Speaker:heartbeat. It is like 80s throwback electric.
Speaker:And I'm a sucker for anything. Lightning bolts. I don't know why.
Speaker:I just love lightning bolts. I was walking through once again
Speaker:craft beer, uh, thrift shop, and this one stuck out to me.
Speaker:It was only available in a four pack, but it was canned just a couple
Speaker:months ago and I thought, that's pretty fresh.
Speaker:That's really, that is really rummage fresh.
Speaker:But I have low hopes as you can see. Flex I poured this about 30s ago.
Speaker:Head is completely gone and there are just these weird big bubbles
Speaker:left over. Yeah, it looks gross. It looks disgusting.
Speaker:It looks like a morning pee after drinking all night.
Speaker:That's exactly what it looks like. I was trying to think.
Speaker:I was like, what? How do I describe this?
Speaker:You fucking nailed it. It looks like a morning piss when
Speaker:you're hungover as fuck. Yeah, it. Does not look delectable.
Speaker:I'm on the nose buds. There's, like, almost nothing.
Speaker:Like I get, like, a little pineapple, maybe.
Speaker:It's super, super light on the nose buds. Tongue-jobber. Wish me luck.
Speaker:It doesn't want to come out. Keeps clinging to my teeth.
Speaker:It's weird. Is one of the best faces I've ever
Speaker:seen. Like so it's not good or bad. It's weird. Um, clearly the way they.
Speaker:Here's the thing. Beachwood is a highly respected
Speaker:brewery out here. This is not something I.
Speaker:That's why I dove in balls deep with the four pack.
Speaker:I thought, no problem, it's Beachwood. This will be just fine.
Speaker:Uh, I was sorely mistaken. So it's weirdly over carbonated,
Speaker:and I think some of that has to do with the weird head lack
Speaker:thereof retention happening. Like it's not escaping.
Speaker:It's like a it's carbonation wise. It's like drinking a seltzer.
Speaker:It's it's like bubbly, like hard, very. Zippy. Very zippy.
Speaker:And it's supposed to be hazy. You can see that it's not the
Speaker:world's haziest hazy, neither. Juicier than it is hazy. Yeah.
Speaker:I mean, it's not like clear, but it's also not hazy. I'm having a hard.
Speaker:The flavors are just like a little this,
Speaker:a little that and some carbonation. There's nothing really that
Speaker:distinctive. Like maybe some of that
Speaker:pineapple that I was smelling. But it's beer. Yeah. Who can I.
Speaker:And you got. You got a four pack. I got two and a half.
Speaker:Oh, three and a half more of these things that I got to somehow.
Speaker:Try and give. Them. Try and give the half away, I dare
Speaker:you. Please go downstairs. My wife. You want to try a really good beer.
Speaker:That'll be poured down the drain after, uh, after divorce. Yeah.
Speaker:God, I wonder. I wish all my beer friends weren't so
Speaker:educated. Like, hey, I got a beer. You should try.
Speaker:Yeah, or didn't listen to the show. Oh, hey, I know, I just got this.
Speaker:I didn't even try it. Yeah. Oh. Three pack. Special edition. Fuck.
Speaker:Uh, if any of my friends who are listening would like to try this
Speaker:ever so delicious beer. I will save one for you. Lucky you.
Speaker:Yeah. Send one to Flex too. Oh. Please don't. Well, you know what?
Speaker:You could do it, I wouldn't care. Oh, I feel like I should drink.
Speaker:I mean, I'm drinking for two, and this is what I came up with. Oh.
Speaker:It does look like there's a little heart in the glass, though.
Speaker:It does look like a little heart shape in the bubbles.
Speaker:So it's not just me? No, no. Yeah. If you turn around,
Speaker:it looks like a ball sack. Oh. Yeah. Like, why is there zero head on
Speaker:this thing? Like, what the fuck? And it's not like it's not
Speaker:carbonated. It's over carbonated, I'd say.
Speaker:Like, how are the bubbles not. It's so weird. So weird. Bizarre.
Speaker:And the great words of some Spanish philosopher. No. Me.
Speaker:Gusto. Well spoken. Yeah. So I love this, by the way.
Speaker:Long live poop. Beergate. We thought it was 2025. It's forever.
Speaker:Yeah, just like, uh, you know, the breweries combining.
Speaker:You know, it lives on from 2025 to 2026, as does Poop Beer Gate.
Speaker:So we had a listener send in here and he writes, aw, I'm sorry.
Speaker:They write, hey team, I wasn't going to send this,
Speaker:but after hearing the poop beer and Brian call in with his story, I
Speaker:figured this one finally had a home. About a year ago,
Speaker:I picked up a bottle of a foraged mushroom double from this ultra
Speaker:hipster brewery in upstate New York. It came in one of those wax tipped
Speaker:bottles and had tasting notes like Omarm forward, woodsy funk,
Speaker:and my personal favorite culinary mystery. HMM. The first sip.
Speaker:I don't I don't even think you can go to a restaurant and have something
Speaker:labeled Culinary Mystery. Um. The cafeteria meat. Cafeteria beer.
Speaker:The first sip was straight dirt and fermented soy sauce.
Speaker:The second was like licking the inside of a compost bin after a
Speaker:rainstorm. I gave it one more try,
Speaker:just to be sure. Because, you know, third time's a
Speaker:charm. There's nothing immediately. Thorough.
Speaker:And then immediately dumped the rest. Even the sink seemed offended.
Speaker:I took a picture of the label and put it in a group chat with the caption,
Speaker:I've made a huge mistake. Still get roasted for it anyway.
Speaker:Love the show. Thanks for giving me a place to
Speaker:finally unburden myself. Cheers. Lex in Albany. Well, sexy Lexi, I.
Speaker:First of all, I'm glad you had a place to get that off your chest.
Speaker:I'm glad we could be that poop beer outlet for you.
Speaker:But, uh, I this is on you. Culinary mystery.
Speaker:Yeah, that's not a great tasting note on a beer. I mean, umami forward.
Speaker:That scares me a little. Woodsy funk. I'm usually out because that
Speaker:sounds like a farmhouse or. Saison, and we know how I feel
Speaker:about that. But culinary mystery. Read the room, man.
Speaker:I'm just thinking he kind of missed like a mushroom pun here,
Speaker:and he could have said, I've made a huge mistake.
Speaker:Like a mushroom. That's. That's the only place where I'm
Speaker:going with that one. Yeah, like, Holy shiitake.
Speaker:This is gross. I don't know. Yes. See, that's why I have you here.
Speaker:That's why we pay Greg the big bucks. Uh, well, yeah.
Speaker:Lex, please, if you have any more of these stories.
Speaker:Glad you were able to get it off your chest. Anybody?
Speaker:I love this, this running theme here, this poop beer gate.
Speaker:Uh, hashtag poop beer. Send us all the gross, nasty tasting,
Speaker:uh, descriptions you got there. Yeah. In fact, dear Greg and Flex,
Speaker:the other day I was at the craft beer thrift shop, and I bought something
Speaker:because I had a sweet ass can. I won't call the brewery out,
Speaker:but I'll say it was called Electric Limbs.
Speaker:It had great promise. Was relatively fresh for being
Speaker:at Total Wine, so I thought, what could go wrong?
Speaker:It was hazy, cool to look at and I thought,
Speaker:this. This will be the beer for me. Little did I know.
Speaker:Try to look up the descriptor so I can use some words in it.
Speaker:Little did I know that its energetic aroma was not so much powered by
Speaker:select Mosaic and Citra hops, but in fact powered by over
Speaker:carbonation in zero head and lack of flavor. Well, yours truly.
Speaker:The electric limbs did not pay their energy bill. Yeah.
Speaker:Oh, honestly, this might be the worst beer I've
Speaker:had on the show in like six months, if not longer. That's crazy.
Speaker:Yeah, this is really legitimately just like what? Weirdly, not.
Speaker:Two weeks ago was probably the worst one I had had in a very long time.
Speaker:Oh, what about that one that looked like throw up like a month ago?
Speaker:Oh. Yeah. That would. No, that was months ago. Yeah.
Speaker:Or you know what's funny? I texted you when I saw that at Total
Speaker:Wine because they were selling it in four packs, but I think they
Speaker:were selling it for like 30 bucks. Yeah, it was something like that.
Speaker:Yeah. I was like, oh, I should get it and
Speaker:have it on the show because it'd be so funny because Flex had it and it
Speaker:was gross. I was like, you know what? I'm not spending $30 on a joke.
Speaker:It would now know. And now they have singles,
Speaker:but the singles are 9.99. I'm like, I'm still not paying
Speaker:$10 for a joke. That is stupid. That is that's awful to actually
Speaker:do that to somebody, make them pay $10 for that shit ass beer.
Speaker:I'm sure that like, people are returning it or like throwing it
Speaker:against the wall, and that's why they have singles now. Yeah.
Speaker:I mean, to just even pour that out. If you don't know what you're
Speaker:getting into, you're probably like, what the fuck? Why is this brown?
Speaker:Why is it lumpy? Why does it look like soapy poop?
Speaker:I mean, it legitimately looked like throw up.
Speaker:Like not just kind of like actual throw up that came out of a person.
Speaker:And I wouldn't recommend it. No. And not like, not like super hot
Speaker:chick gave me the baby bird throw up. It looks like actual throw up.
Speaker:Oh, you should have put the picture of the beer on the when
Speaker:you put it on the old IG there, just to really give people the idea.
Speaker:Oh, I posted it after you had. Oh you did. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah.
Speaker:Oh thank goodness. Decker brewing and raw watermelon
Speaker:lemonade slushie sour collab. That was batch 490.
Speaker:So ten episodes ago, 12 episodes ago, if you haven't heard it,
Speaker:that was from December 10th. Uh, they're still trying to fucking
Speaker:peddle that shill over a total one for 30 bucks a four pack.
Speaker:It was an abomination. Yeah. Go fuck yourself. Total wine.
Speaker:Oh, well, to piggyback on Lexi's, uh, kind of funky farmy beer, uh,
Speaker:or obscure beer? Term of the week. Oh. Brought to you.
Speaker:By us doing obscure beer terms. And the letter O.
Speaker:Oh, yeah, I like that. Or how about the letter H?
Speaker:Uh, horse blanket. Allegedly a common descriptor for
Speaker:earthy, musty aroma found in wild fermented beers like lambics.
Speaker:MM. I guess that makes sense. It makes sense.
Speaker:But I just like picture one hipster to the next being like,
Speaker:oh man, I just had this super horse blankety beer. No way man.
Speaker:It's like had, like two horse blankets in it.
Speaker:It was so horse blankety. Like, I can taste the horse mane.
Speaker:It's so horse blankety. They just walk around like.
Speaker:Oh yeah, just neighing like crazy. Yeah. Is that how they procreate?
Speaker:They just neigh a bunch and then get into bed? Hipsters, I think so.
Speaker:I think it's required. Yeah, yeah, I actually think
Speaker:it's in a documentary.
Speaker:We found two hipsters in the wild. Crikey,
Speaker:look at them neigh at each other. This is what happens right before
Speaker:they take each other to bed. Part of their mating ritual is
Speaker:they drink these garbage ass beers and pretend they're delicious.
Speaker:Look at the. Look at the expression on his face
Speaker:as he tries to choke it down. They refer to these as horse
Speaker:blankets.
Speaker:Oh, this deserves a spin off. Oh, but Jesus. Just, uh.
Speaker:Just us with bad accents again. I know we have a tendency.
Speaker:Hey, you know what's funny? A couple of weeks ago, on 500.
Speaker:You brought up the Van Duzer episode. Yes. That episode.
Speaker:It never, never, never. The episode that never was.
Speaker:I can't find it. I went looking for the files.
Speaker:Phew. I think my computer. I think like after so long, it it
Speaker:sort of just like deletes super old, like project files on its own.
Speaker:And since that was probably like 3 or 4 years ago, it's like,
Speaker:fuck you, you're not going to want this thing.
Speaker:And I mean, honestly, it's probably right. It is for the better.
Speaker:I was kind of hoping it was there. I at least play a clip of it because,
Speaker:you know, it's a fucking Van Dusen. Yeah. yeah, the van is here.
Speaker:Um, you know what, though? Don't reel it in. Reel it in.
Speaker:It's, uh, get into a little bit of news here. All right. All right, all.
Speaker:Right. Um, is Dry January drying up? Let's find out.
Speaker:Uh, growth in non-alcoholic beer slowed during this year's dry
Speaker:January period. According to new data from an IQ
Speaker:analyzed by bump Williams Consulting and Abeers,
Speaker:dollar share in grocery stores increased just 0.1% year over year,
Speaker:uh, in January, reaching 4.3%, which is a much smaller gain compared
Speaker:to the 1.1% increase last year. Um, so I would say that's a
Speaker:pretty big win. Yes. Down within a beer. Yeah.
Speaker:And you know, the numbers aren't out yet. So, uh. You know.
Speaker:You can't say anything about that, but, uh, well, the category continues
Speaker:to grow overall, uh, bump Williams Consulting noted that the pace
Speaker:growth has slowed as share expands. President Dave Williams pointed
Speaker:to signs of saturation, saying the magnitude of growth this
Speaker:January was notably diminished compared to the previous year.
Speaker:Well, that's good news. Yeah,
Speaker:I would say that's good news because. Well, it's something we complain
Speaker:about all the time. It's like, look, if you're not going
Speaker:to drink beer, just don't drink beer. No one's saying you have to drink it.
Speaker:Like you've been doing this weird ass thing for a couple of weeks now.
Speaker:How many Na beers have you had? I've had zero na beers.
Speaker:Okay, you've had a lot of weird ass sodas, but zero na beers.
Speaker:Don't dis the dirty soda gonna make the animal come out.
Speaker:There's been a spike in sales in French vanilla coffee creamer,
Speaker:but Na beers have not been touched. You know, now I just hope somebody
Speaker:tries it and writes in about the dirty soda. Like, you know what?
Speaker:I still drink beer, but I had to try what Flex was talking about,
Speaker:and it's fucking delicious. I mean, I've got heavy cream
Speaker:downstairs and some Coke zeros. I don't know if I would do that.
Speaker:The French vanilla just really vanillas it up. Just a hint.
Speaker:See, I don't like French vanilla in my coffee.
Speaker:I don't I don't like sugar. I just I just want a little
Speaker:splash of cream and. There's really not much sugar in
Speaker:coffee creamer. But I don't want the flavor.
Speaker:You know? You know who would try? It would probably be like dab or
Speaker:Erica. They're like. 100% try. Yeah, they would totally try it.
Speaker:They're like the Schnog Weirdo's and Erica. Absolutely would hurt her.
Speaker:Schnog. Yeah. Hey, Erica. Deb, you wanna you wanna you
Speaker:wanna try something? Yeah,
Speaker:just just do just do the dirty soda. And if you don't know what I'm
Speaker:talking about, just go back to batch 501. Listen to the dirty soda.
Speaker:Just do it. And give it a shot. Give it a shot. Um, all right. Here.
Speaker:Uh, Hawaii legislators propose Bev tax based on ABV.
Speaker:Very interesting here. Uh, Hawaii lawmakers are
Speaker:considering a bill that would charge a liquor tax based on ABV
Speaker:rather than Bev Elk category. Uh, the house bill 19999199
Speaker:would amend excise tax rates to the following $1 per gallon on
Speaker:all beverages between 0.5 ABV and 10% ABV, $2.75 per gallon on
Speaker:beverages above ten up to 15. I don't know how they get this number
Speaker:$11.89 per gallon on beverages above $15, up to 40%, and then an even $13
Speaker:per gallon on beverages above 40%. The legislators argument for the
Speaker:changes that Hawaii's beverage tax rates have remained the same
Speaker:since 1998. So here's the thing. I scream at people when they talk
Speaker:about percentages remaining the same. Like, you know, we still tip 20%
Speaker:on our meals and they go, that hasn't changed in a million years.
Speaker:And I scream from the rooftops, you're correct.
Speaker:The percentage hasn't changed, but the amount has gone up
Speaker:because the bill has gone up, 20% of 100 is a lot more than
Speaker:20% of 50. You fucking idiots. Um, that being said,
Speaker:it's an interesting tax structure. And I just googled while you
Speaker:were reading that I googled how much alcohol is in mouthwash.
Speaker:Interesting. What is it? Something like 10%. More. Actually.
Speaker:So mouthwash with alcohol based mouthwash typically contains
Speaker:between 14 and 27% alcohol. No kidding. By volume.
Speaker:So are they going to tax mouthwash as well? You would think they have to.
Speaker:I think they won't because I'm sure you know like big crest out
Speaker:there is going to lobby against it. But uh, I think if look I'm not
Speaker:against taxing things that need to be taxed, but, uh,
Speaker:if you're going to tax beer and wine and spirits, why not text tax?
Speaker:Other things that have alcohol, like mouthwash. What about extracts?
Speaker:Like doesn't like vanilla extract. Have o percentage of alcohol.
Speaker:I mean, it's distilled vanilla. Let's see how much alcohol in
Speaker:vanilla. People are so glad I'm saying
Speaker:this out loud. You know,
Speaker:it's funny you mention that. I was listening to our local one
Speaker:of our radio shows the other morning at work, and they were
Speaker:doing the exact same thing. They were talking as they were
Speaker:googling something. So we're professionals.
Speaker:We're not alone. All right. Good. How much would you guess is in
Speaker:pure vanilla extract? All right. Again, I'm gonna say something
Speaker:like 11%. Okay. I would have guessed in the teens,
Speaker:somewhere in the teens. And we were wrong.
Speaker:It is 70 proof that motherfucker is 35%. Oh, okay. Right.
Speaker:I was not expecting that. So, yeah, that'll raise some
Speaker:eyebrows, man. Than in Hawaii. So are you gonna attack?
Speaker:I mean, now they're calling it a bev elk tax.
Speaker:Obviously vanilla, not a bev. True. I mean. Is mouthwash, Bev?
Speaker:Not directly. But you do. You know, put it in your mouth.
Speaker:Hey, yo. Um. It's like glorified peppermint
Speaker:schnapps. You're not supposed to swallow.
Speaker:I'm just saying, if you're gonna tax alcohol tax across the board.
Speaker:I 100% agree with you. Hawaii. Yeah. Take that. Hawaii.
Speaker:Uh, the Brewers Association 2025 annual report in revenue comes in.
Speaker:Mhm. So the Brewers Association reported
Speaker:another operating loss in 2025, despite cutting expenses across
Speaker:nearly every line item, according to its annual report.
Speaker:Total revenue fell 24.6% year over year to 16.8 million,
Speaker:while the expenses dropped 22.4% to 18.9 million.
Speaker:That left the trade group with a negative net of just over $2 million,
Speaker:marking the second straight year in the red.
Speaker:Brewers Association spokesperson said the cuts are intended to
Speaker:keep the organization, quote unquote, responsive,
Speaker:efficient and focused on what matters most to today's craft brewers.
Speaker:Adding that the group believes the changes will position it to
Speaker:emerge stronger. Events remain the BA's largest
Speaker:revenue source at 10 million, though the figure was down more
Speaker:than 23% from the previous year. This must be why they're doing
Speaker:gabf outside this year. Yeah. Uh, yeah. We can't rent this hall.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, that, uh, that's not good stuff.
Speaker:Nothing like outdoor gabf in October in Colorado. You got two options.
Speaker:It's either going to be 90 degrees or 30 degrees C.
Speaker:Maybe it, uh, maybe they get lucky the first year. Who knows? Yeah.
Speaker:And also, I have a feeling that so much of what the g a, b,
Speaker:gabf what the Brewers Association provides is sort of ChatGPT able
Speaker:at this point. Oh, really? Yeah. In fact, I've seen that the Brewers
Speaker:Association has replaced their community forums where brewers
Speaker:can go on and ask questions of professionals with an AI chatbot.
Speaker:It's like, well, why would I give you a bunch of money when I could
Speaker:just pay 20 bucks a month to ChatGPT and look all this up myself? Oh.
Speaker:And the world's different now. It is. I'm just saying, if you're gonna,
Speaker:you know, continue to charge member fees and all that shit,
Speaker:you got to provide something for it that you can't get elsewhere.
Speaker:Agreed. Yeah, maybe. Maybe have small brewers on the board
Speaker:that are offering things that I don't know you can't get elsewhere.
Speaker:Just saying. Think about it. This sounds like it would be a
Speaker:Florida story, but it is not a Washington representative.
Speaker:Apologizes for being drunk during committee meeting. Why apologize?
Speaker:Well, you know, apparently you're not supposed to do it. Lame.
Speaker:The Washington State House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon, cool name,
Speaker:has apologised after admitting he was visibly drunk during a House
Speaker:Appropriations Committee meeting in Olympia after a dinner break.
Speaker:Fitzgibbon delivered remarks while slurring his words and later
Speaker:acknowledged he had been drinking. It's a hard lesson for me to learn.
Speaker:It impacted my work, it impacted my colleagues,
Speaker:it impacted my constituents. My family know that just doesn't
Speaker:sound right. He forgot the and. Yeah, I this guy, he was drunk. Yeah.
Speaker:He he said, it is a hard lesson, something I'm not going to repeat.
Speaker:Fitzgibbon said he walked home that night and did not drive.
Speaker:He plans to finish the legislative session without alcohol,
Speaker:though some Republican lawmakers have called for his resignation.
Speaker:Dude admitted he had a couple drinks. Yeah, I hear it happens a lot in
Speaker:Congress. And yeah. Judging by some of the shit that's
Speaker:going on. I think they're all drunk. But you're not wrong.
Speaker:One of my favorite drunken in public times was in Washington. In Seattle.
Speaker:Hop, skip and a jump away. Yeah. What did you do?
Speaker:Have I told you about the the growler in Seattle?
Speaker:I heard, uh, some balcony stories I've heard. No, this was not that.
Speaker:Okay. Uh, this was. Man, I was probably 24 ish.
Speaker:You know, like early 20s. And my buddy and his girlfriend,
Speaker:now wife, moved up to Seattle for a job, just temporarily.
Speaker:It was meant to be temporary, you know, like a year or two.
Speaker:And while they're up, they're like, hey, come visit us in Seattle.
Speaker:I was like, fuck yeah, you know? That was back in those days when
Speaker:like, you're like couch to sleep on. Hell yeah. Oh, yeah.
Speaker:You didn't need anything else. You didn't need, like, I'd fly in.
Speaker:I'd have, you know, I'd walk to their house if I had
Speaker:to and then sleep on the couch. Now it's like I will rent a car
Speaker:and get my own hotel. Thank you. But at the time.
Speaker:So I slept on the couch whenever we went out one night.
Speaker:And, you know Widmer back in the day. I don't know if they're still
Speaker:there or not. Had one of their taprooms in
Speaker:Seattle and we were there. We were eating and they had this
Speaker:special on growlers. And at the time I had never
Speaker:heard of a growler. And I was like,
Speaker:what is this growler like? Oh, it's a half gallon of beer.
Speaker:I was like, come again? Yeah. And ah, I forget what it was,
Speaker:but it was stupid cheap. It was like, yeah, we'll fill it
Speaker:up for eight bucks or something. Like you will. So I'm 24.
Speaker:That sounds great. Yeah. And it's not even Bud Light.
Speaker:So sure enough, we got a growler of Hefe and we took to the town
Speaker:like we'd had a few beers there, obviously,
Speaker:and dinner and took to the town. And, uh, the girlfriend now wife,
Speaker:luckily had a very large purse. And so we'd keep it in her purse
Speaker:and we'd pull it out. We'd all take a little swig of
Speaker:the old growler, put it back in the purse.
Speaker:Obviously it got very warm, very shaken up by the end of the night?
Speaker:But you know, when you're used to drinking like Bud Light, it's like,
Speaker:ah, who cares? Who cares? Yeah. Good times in Seattle, man.
Speaker:Just trying to imagine how big that purse was. Oh, it was large.
Speaker:It was very large purse. Because a growler, you know, 64oz.
Speaker:Yeah. Not small and made of glass. So pretty heavy as well. Yeah.
Speaker:So honestly, you know what? She's a fucking champ for carrying
Speaker:that thing around for sure. True. Yeah. Yeah. So that was a good night.
Speaker:Like we walked around all the stadiums down like we were downtown.
Speaker:So like the stadium and the Seahawks stadium, we're just walking around
Speaker:and taking pictures and drinking out of growlers and it was a good time.
Speaker:Sounds like I've never been to Seattle.
Speaker:I have you know, I do want to go eventually. I recommend it.
Speaker:Um, yeah, a couple things. Uh, check out there and definitely
Speaker:want to hit up a Mariners game too. I, Seattle and the Milwaukee kind of
Speaker:have like the thing that. Oh yeah. You know, because they were the
Speaker:Seattle pilots for one year. Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker:Oh, you didn't know that? No. Oh, yeah.
Speaker:They were the Seattle pilots from like, I was like 69 to 70 or
Speaker:70 to 71. What a stupid fucking name. The hats were really cool because
Speaker:the brim, like the brim of the hat had like the captain's wings.
Speaker:Oh, I pictured, you know, the little cap with the spinny thing on top.
Speaker:No, that would be so stupid. I mean, the name is so stupid,
Speaker:so you can't follow me there. Hey, you, uh, take that back
Speaker:because Pilot Time listens to this. He probably thinks it was.
Speaker:He probably thinks it was the coolest team name ever.
Speaker:That's a pretty sweet team name. Sorry. Yeah.
Speaker:We really know how you feel. Uh, well, I guess we'll end it
Speaker:on this one. Ooh. Woman arrested at Oakland County
Speaker:ski resort for o w I c. Margaret. Top of the mountain in Margaret
Speaker:Valley. She was arraigned Thursday in a
Speaker:52 two District court. Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna leave.
Speaker:Uh, Margaret Feeley, uh, arraigned Thursday in a district
Speaker:court in Clarkston. According to records,
Speaker:the 58 year old is charged with operating a vehicle while impaired
Speaker:her third offense, the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office had said. Uh.
Speaker:Authorities allege that the defendant drove her vehicle at the bottom of
Speaker:the ski slopes at Alpine Valley Ski Area in White Lake Township
Speaker:last Tuesday, near skiers and snowboarders, including children,
Speaker:and had to be the children. Right. Uh, police said. If it's adults.
Speaker:Police said witnesses told them they saw Feli Smoking marijuana
Speaker:before the incident. Oh, no. Yes. They also told officers she was
Speaker:wearing ski boots while driving. That is probably the most unsafe
Speaker:thing that we have read so far. That's way worse than whatever
Speaker:substance she was on. Absolutely. After the police conducted a
Speaker:traffic stop, officers administered sobriety tests and Feli exhibited
Speaker:poor balance and slurred speech. According to the authorities.
Speaker:Oh, yeah. Let's do it to you. Officials also said she was hostile,
Speaker:even referring to one officer as Nazi dude. Yeah, bro. Yeah.
Speaker:She's angry. 58 year old woman. This defendant endangered children
Speaker:with her irresponsible actions, Karen McDonald, Oakland County
Speaker:prosecutor, said in a statement. There is no excuse to drive
Speaker:impaired even once. If you've had too much to drink or
Speaker:are under the influence of marijuana or other drugs, call a friend,
Speaker:call an Uber. Just don't drive. If you do, we will prosecute to
Speaker:the fullest extent of the law. As they should.
Speaker:Uh, I wish they said why she would even do that.
Speaker:Like, why are you driving your. Well, your truck at the bottom of the
Speaker:ski hill? Because I can only pick. Up her kids. Maybe. Brilliant.
Speaker:Jump in those parking lots. Got to be pretty far away,
Speaker:right? You get to. All the ski resorts, I think.
Speaker:You know, mammoth, if you for those have been to Mammoth
Speaker:Canyon Lodge at the. If you didn't. In fact, I saw someone once not
Speaker:stop at the bottom and they fell into the parking lot.
Speaker:But in order to drive onto the snow, you have to go up a very large
Speaker:embankment. So. Yeah. Yeah. Just. Hey, how how drunk were you?
Speaker:What the hell were you thinking? Yeah.
Speaker:I mean, I don't know about you, but marijuana makes me want to run
Speaker:over kids at a ski slope, too. Yeah,
Speaker:something about it just screams that. Yeah, that's why I do it so much.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah. That doesn't relax me at all.
Speaker:It makes me want to murder children. We just had to talk about this today,
Speaker:too. About the feeling of it,
Speaker:where it's like, you just don't want to do much. Oh, when you're high?
Speaker:Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, absolutely. The actual feeling just.
Speaker:Yeah, I will say not a weed show, but I recently found a gummy
Speaker:that's like super uplifting. And while, you know,
Speaker:it's not like you did lines of coke, like it doesn't make me tired.
Speaker:It just kind of takes the edge off a little bit. Okay.
Speaker:It's really nice when you have to go do like important adult stuff.
Speaker:Yeah. And you just don't get baked. Yeah, it's it's real light dose.
Speaker:So you don't get high. You just I'd call it a weed buzz.
Speaker:Okay. That's good to know. Yeah. If anybody wants to know any more,
Speaker:you know, just send Greg a DM here. Slide into my stoner DMs.
Speaker:Yeah, maybe it'll be Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. Oh. Hi, Vanessa.
Speaker:What weeds are you smoking? I don't know.
Speaker:Just figured I'd try and segue into that real quick. And.
Speaker:Oh, that was very smooth. I think we hit some music and
Speaker:we'll say thank you all for listening out there. Mhm.
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Speaker:Boy, off the top of my head. I think that is it.
Speaker:I think you're. Right. I think I nailed it there, and, uh,
Speaker:we hope you all out there staying very well hydrated. And on that note.
Speaker:Good night, everybody.