You guys get the coolest breweries out there with the best names.
That's right.
Really?
Yeah.
I don't know.
I feel like you guys get some cool stuff.
I don't know.
Let's be honest.
Monkish is a really stupid name.
It's terrible.
Welcome in everybody.
It's the craft beer Republic.
Thanks for drinking.
Thanks for joining.
I am Greg over there in the Midwest is Flexi.
Hey,
we got a big show today.
Dude,
we got a big sausage fest today and in this room,
we'll get to that in a second for like the first time in four years is Scott.
What's up everybody?
And Dan.
That's right.
Or as Nick knows him,
the yellow M&M.
Oh,
that's right.
He's also steroided up jackass,
I guess.
All of that.
So guys,
it's a big fucking episode.
It's 400.
I figured we needed to have a sausage party in honor of that.
So the new crew is here.
The old crew is here.
Hopefully there won't be a tear in the space time continuum and it's going to happen in the podcast multiverse.
It's inevitable.
Something will happen.
I have a feeling one of us will get drunk.
It is inevitable.
I almost couldn't say that.
Big words.
Yeah.
Coming out firing on all cylinders.
So all right.
Lots to get to today.
We're drinking an old school beer for an old school show.
We've got some news to get to.
St.
Paddy's day was just a couple of days ago.
So we'll recap my amateur hour and see what everyone ends up to.
So before we get into anything else,
let's get into some hydration over here.
*Music*
So provocative.
I need my glow sticks.
It's just so hard not to dance to that.
It's so hard.
It has to be hard.
Yeah.
One of us here actually did a little research.
And it was Scott.
Imagine that.
Wow.
It took me four years,
but I got it.
Senior technicological difficulty here.
Yeah.
We booted up his Windows 95 and hit Alta Vista.
And he searched for the most popular craft beer in 2016.
And that's what we're drinking today.
We're drinking Sierra Nevada Brewing's Pale Ale.
Right on.
I got a headache.
It's a pretty solid beer.
Yeah.
I mean,
you can't go wrong.
You just can't.
No.
362 and untapped because people are ruthless assholes.
5.6%,
38 IBUs.
I can read it.
I'm fine.
Our most popular beer,
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale,
is a delightful interpretation of a classic style.
It has a deep amber color,
an exceptional full body,
complex character,
generous quantities of premium cascade hops.
Give the Pale Ale its fragrant bouquet and spicy flavor.
Excuse me.
Bouquet.
What did you say?
A 362 that has?
It says 362.
That's obnoxious.
Yeah.
It's like the beer that started it all for other beers.
Member of the 36 Mafia,
I believe.
Yeah.
Sipping on some scissor.
Well,
it's exactly what I remember it as.
Yeah.
It tastes like a fucking pale ale.
Sure does.
Yeah.
Man,
Maurice.
It's the consistent Sierra Nevada.
I mean,
I don't know if I've ever drank a bad one.
And they all taste the same.
And they're all good.
They're all good.
No complaints.
They're all good.
Fantastic and great.
They're just right there.
Man,
they're consistent.
Enjoying the fantastic voyage.
There you go.
Slippery slide.
Quite some years ago,
I got a mixed IPA pack or pale ale pack from Sierra Nevada.
And they had the Torpedo.
They had the Tropic something or another.
They had the pale ale and then some other IPA in there.
The pale ale ousted them all.
Yeah.
It was just the best.
Yeah.
I mean,
it's a classic.
It started basically the craft beer movement back in the '80s.
And here we are,
drunk as ever.
Yeah.
I used to be a big fan of the Torpedo.
Yeah.
That was sort of the inspiration for Broken Skull IPA.
Yeah.
Don't call it Broken Skull.
Oh,
no kidding.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
What?
Definitely.
I have another beer.
Shot of whiskey.
What?
Shot of tequila.
What?
One of the best promos ever.
What?
It can always carry on too long.
Yeah.
This episode will be three hours,
I swear.
Yeah.
These are the four worst people to have on one pod if you don't want to talk about wrestling.
That's so true.
I've been trying to bite my tongue.
You guys have been saying for weeks,
"This is not a wrestling show.
That might change tonight." Yeah.
I'm trying to supplement the wrestling talk by just watching wrestling while we record this.
Perfect.
Oh,
wow.
Yeah.
Quite a solution.
Yeah.
Before we move on any further,
a big shout out to our top listening city of last week.
This is a new one.
Cumberland,
Maryland.
Cumberland,
Maryland.
Wow.
Yes.
There we have it.
Not the going-land I care about.
It's the Cumberland.
Trying to show off over there.
Benedict Cumberland.
I thought it was pretty good.
There you go.
It's better than what I came up with.
That's right.
Yeah.
Like I said,
St.
Paddy's ...
Well,
more important than St.
Paddy's Day,
Saturday was Stone Cold Day,
3/16.
It really was.
It was.
A full day you can flip off everyone and it's all right.
Get drunk,
give birds.
I celebrated.
I actually kind of cut a Stone Cold promo.
He's like,
"Shot of tequila,
have a beer,
another beer." He had every drink he could have.
That day I had brunch,
so I had some champagne.
What?
Then I had some margaritas.
What?
I had another margarita.
I went home,
had a couple beers.
What?
Had a seltzer.
What?
Had another beer.
What?
Went to bed and passed out.
What?
Yeah.
That was good.
That was good stuff.
Did you plan on doing all of that or it just ...
Not really.
Kind of fucking happened.
Two o'clock rolled around and I was like,
"We haven't eaten yet.
Let's have some brunch or something." You haven't eaten at two o'clock?
It was a busy morning,
so we made brunch at two with some mimosas and shit.
There you go.
Yeah,
it was good stuff.
Yeah,
the spirit of Stone Cold was within you.
Yeah.
Yeah,
Stone Cold's ...
His spirit was flowing through.
That's a long time to go without eating though.
I got to co-sign with Flex over there.
That's a lot to take in,
man.
Come on.
I don't always eat breakfast.
We still start the day with a yogurt or something.
I'll co-sign that a little bit too.
I don't normally ...
No,
I actually do.
I eat breakfast every day.
It's the most important meal.
You sound like my teacher in grade school.
Make sure you eat before this test.
It's the most important meal of the day.
I like how Flex noticed.
I was like,
"You know,
I don't really ...
Actually,
I eat it every day." I was like,
"Where's he going with this?" Actually,
I'm lying.
I don't always eat meals,
but I make sure that my alcohol's right on schedule.
Yeah,
exactly.
There you go.
I was super psyched because Dan co-signed with me.
That's right.
That's very signature and I'm fanboying right now.
Then to almost go back on it,
I was like,
"Whoa,
whoa,
whoa." He saved himself.
Yeah.
Dan does eat breakfast every day in case anybody wondered.
I do.
I was worried,
but now I know.
It's the most important meal of the day.
Apparently so.
It's what everyone's telling me.
Anybody celebrate Stone Cold Day or did you save it for St.
Patty's Day?
Yeah,
I think I celebrated Stone Cold Day more than St.
Patty's Day.
To me,
it's a more important holiday.
I think so.
Especially on a Saturday.
I was about to say that shit.
I also did really hydrate for St.
Patty's Day.
We talked about this,
I don't know,
a couple weeks ago.
You guys have this problem where when you decide to Uber somewhere,
it's like,
"Well,
I've Ubered.
I got to get my Uber's money." You might as well get fucked up,
right?
Yeah.
We're just going to strap it on because otherwise I could have driven.
It happens.
It's a real thing where it's like ...
You know what I mean?
I think that's probably the worst feeling where you strand yourself and you're sober.
It's like,
"Man,
I could have just fucking drove from here,
dude.
I could have gotten here for free." Yeah,
I got to get plastered right now to make this worthwhile.
Right,
because then you're spending more money on ways to and from than you even did out.
Right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
What a waste of money.
That shit is expensive,
man.
It is pricey,
especially on the ...
Inflation is moving everything up right now.
The real son of a bitch.
You know?
Scott needs to get back out there on the road.
Oh,
yeah,
I do.
Help us out.
If you can remember the ride home,
you haven't drank enough.
I don't.
So Sunday for ...
Question,
I'm sorry.
I'm going to interlude here.
Let's do it.
Please.
You do like to Uber Eat shit,
right?
Could you Uber Eat yourself?
That sounds dirty.
God knows I have.
You hear me out.
It's like,
I don't know.
You get those lonely weeks,
I follow.
Buy your own food and then you drive and get it on your company's time and then you deliver it back to your house on company time.
Do you get paid any more for that?
I don't think so.
I also think I'd lose money because like some of the money goes to Uber,
doesn't go to the driver.
Oh,
I didn't know if they paid you on top of the order.
Like,
Hey,
you're doing this for the company.
And so loophole.
Yeah.
I don't,
I don't think it would work out in my favor.
Cut that all out then.
All right.
At a point,
which means I'll never take that.
Well,
can I piggyback on that?
Because I thought he was talking about like ordering food and then,
Hey,
while you're on the way to my house,
can you come pick me up?
I'm drunk.
Oh,
that's okay.
That's genius.
Uber has been trying to get me to start driving,
like picking up people right.
Cause I'm just doing the eats and every time they're like,
Hey,
you know,
you could make more money if you pick people up.
I'm like,
yeah.
And I don't want those fuckers in my car.
Oh,
shit.
Now I see you're eating it up.
Yeah.
Wow.
Chip off the old block.
No people in my car.
Just food.
Oh,
okay.
Yeah.
I don't think I want people in my car anymore.
Yeah.
Oh,
okay.
But have you ever like stole a fry out of somebody's bag?
Not while Uber,
I have done that.
I was,
uh,
I was working with some guys.
They were down,
we were doing a system install at my main job.
And I went and picked them,
uh,
picked up lunch for everybody.
And I was really pissed at them.
Specify your main job.
So I was like,
on the Uber eats,
like they sticker everything.
So you can't really like,
it'd be pretty obvious if I did.
Oh,
if you rip the seal.
Okay.
Yeah,
exactly.
Uh,
but,
but that time I definitely,
I was a little pissed at them cause they were moving real slow and their fry smelt real good.
And all I had was a salad.
I was like,
you know,
I'm having a couple of fucking fries.
Fuck these guys.
Really?
Oh man.
Fuck these guys.
So can you see like when we tip you before?
Yeah.
Okay,
good.
So that counts.
Okay.
Like if I give like a four or five like dollar tip on like,
uh,
well as a driver,
it's easy to know if someone's tipped you,
it doesn't say like,
here's your main fair and here's your tip until way after,
but most main fairs are less than like $4 unless it's just super,
super long trip.
Oh,
okay.
So if I get something that's like,
Hey,
it's a $4,
you know,
delivery.
It's like,
well,
fuck that guy.
He's not tipping.
But if it's a $12 delivery,
most likely eight bucks of that is tip.
Right.
So then I'm like,
that guy's cool.
I'm going to bring him some food.
Really?
Probably stoned.
Oh,
okay.
Right on.
So now I got to tell the guy,
hang on.
I got to count my fries.
You should.
Yeah.
Make sure they're all there.
Yeah.
Why is this sticker?
There's two missing here.
What's going on?
Yeah.
Put that on a note to the restaurant.
Like I want exactly 25.
Yeah,
that's right.
And I'm going to count them.
No kidding.
Dinner,
24 fries.
Hell will be paid.
I like that.
You open up your bag and you take a sniff and you go,
this smells like balls.
You put the balls on my fries.
Oh,
wait,
no,
it's just Arby's.
It's the horsey sauce.
It's fresh.
They definitely got the meats.
Well,
we got the VO guy here.
I'm doing reams.
Yeah.
It sounds like it works for me.
Uh,
we're,
oh,
say Patty's there.
So anyways,
amateur hour again,
I think this is two weeks in a row where I'm coming in with like Uber amateur hour,
uh,
big Dick,
Nick and Coley came over.
We went and had some brunch,
which meant a shit ton of mimosas.
Yeah.
You know,
they're included.
Got to get your money's worth.
That's right.
Then we Ubered over to naughty pine,
had a few beers there.
Brit was releasing her new,
uh,
well she does it every year,
but the black IPA,
which is delicious.
Hell yeah.
And then we Ubered,
actually,
that's not true.
We got a ride from a Wiley over to pedals and pints tried Monica's,
uh,
anniversary release from last week.
I don't think we're allowed to call him that anymore.
I don't know what is sorry.
Had a few beers there.
And that's about all I remember.
We,
we came back at some point and uh,
really,
yeah,
I sort of remember like making some food and by making some food,
I just went to town on some ice cream at some point.
Oh man.
Total,
total drug munchies.
Punk snack.
Ice cream was a bad choice.
That's where we draw the line.
Yeah.
This is where I've offended everybody.
Yep.
That's it.
Yeah.
Now I'm almost curious what the flavor was like.
That could really make or break it.
One of them was mint chip.
Oh,
I was going to say it better be that.
I forget what the,
the other one was.
Um,
some sort of chocolatey something like white,
you know,
vanilla ice cream with some chocolate swirls or some shit like a bunch of swirls or something.
The mint helps.
Mint was delicious.
I like that.
They're sell the stomach.
Everything was good.
It was like a beer float.
Beer float.
Yeah.
No,
I don't really remember,
but if my wife was smart,
she cut me off.
Like there's no way I should have been drinking after all the drinking we did.
Yeah.
I don't remember coming home.
I was,
it was one of those,
like I was so drunk that I checked the ring camera to see what time we got home.
It was like 5 30 in the afternoon.
That's telling that hammered that early.
Wow.
Yeah.
Well,
well note to self the next time I drink so much that my stomach aches,
uh,
I'm going to get some mint chip ice cream.
Yeah.
That down.
Yeah.
That worked out well.
I was,
it was delicious and,
uh,
served a purpose.
Day drinking is rough.
Yeah.
I mean,
can we just kind of segue into that?
Once you hit your late thirties and above,
you know,
day drinking is not what it used to be.
It's my favorite kind of drinking actually.
Is it really?
I can't,
I love it while it's happening.
I can't do the night drinking.
So flex and see you enjoy going out at like five or six with a hangover already.
Well,
no,
cause like there's enough time in between being drunk.
Oh,
you can keep getting drunk.
Well,
no,
it's like by the time you go to bed,
you're like waking up at the end of your hangover.
Oh,
as opposed to like drinking late at night,
going to bed,
you know,
and we've had this conversation before where you wake up before you're hungover cause you're still drunk.
And then actually living the hangover is probably the worst thing drinking wise.
It really is,
you know,
cause you wake up and you're like,
Holy shit,
I feel great.
And then about two hours later,
you're like,
fuck,
I shouldn't have had a donut.
No man.
Usually hits you about the time you get to work.
Yep.
And then it's like,
Oh,
what have I done?
The headache comes on and the stomach starts gurgling.
You're like,
fuck,
fuck.
I don't know,
man.
Yeah.
I was in Vegas,
uh,
for a Raider game that too.
I guess,
you know,
the season's over,
but,
um,
yeah,
I started drinking.
Like I was like,
well,
we're here.
It's nine o'clock.
In the morning better start.
And so it was just Jack and Coke's.
Ooh.
Yeah.
So then,
uh,
I,
you know,
I started like kind of teetering off.
I was like,
if I don't slow this down,
I'm going to fall asleep before the game.
And then,
so I did and I just like,
okay,
I'll have some beers.
And then around the game start,
I started getting a headache.
I'm like,
Oh my God,
I'm getting hung over.
Like,
so I have to like,
yeah,
it's got to keep a struggle.
It is a struggle and I'd prefer to do without it.
Yeah.
It's a,
it's rough as we get older and find it to be a bigger and bigger problem.
I love day drinking.
I love mimosas and getting a nice buzz on before noon and that kind of thing.
But,
but the end of the day,
I just can't remember it.
Right.
That's like two weeks in a row.
That's the struggle.
I may have a problem.
That's the struggle.
Anybody else,
anything fun for St.
Patty's day and remember it?
Nope.
I just stayed home.
Yeah.
Flex anything?
That,
you know,
I worked,
we did the classic annual corn beef at the in-laws home.
Wow.
Phenomenal.
I ate probably about six pounds worth of food.
Had a couple beers,
had the,
annual Tullamore do shot,
you know,
like the little cheers to St.
Patrick's day.
But,
uh,
yeah,
I,
I never go crazy for St.
Patrick's day.
Yeah.
You got kids and shit.
Yeah.
It's like my Monday afternoons is when I go crazy.
Anybody have a Guinness?
Nope.
Why would I do that?
Fantastic.
Right answer.
I saw a thing on Facebook today.
It was like the proper way to drink a Guinness.
Pour it down the drain.
Yeah.
Amen.
Yeah.
Shots fired.
Yeah.
Are you,
you're not a Guinness fan,
are you?
No,
but you're not a hater.
No.
Just in the middle.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
How do we feel about green beer?
I am anti green beer.
I guess my rule on it is if you can blindfold me and it's still,
I can't tell it's green.
I don't really care.
Yeah.
I mean,
it tastes the same.
It just silly.
Yeah.
Does it change the color of your piss though?
I've never known.
I'm usually too drunk to know.
It's like,
it's blue.
What the fuck?
If you drink enough of it,
maybe.
All right,
now we need some green beer.
Actually,
it wouldn't come out blue.
Right?
That doesn't,
that's primary yellow.
Yeah.
So it'd be like Mountain Dew.
Yeah.
Limish.
Yeah.
Color.
I don't know.
Got green beer.
I drank it and just,
it's just beer.
Correct.
Change colors on.
Doesn't,
doesn't do anything.
I'm not like,
Ooh,
I'm going to that bar because they have green.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I'm getting excited over it.
I also feel like that fat is like fading out.
Like it was cool.
Like 10 to 12 years ago.
Right.
It was cool in our like twenties.
Right.
It sort of feels like one of those things that you're into while you're still drinking shitty beer.
It's like,
Oh,
you want to fuck up my bud light.
Who cares?
Like,
yeah,
Megan green.
It's not going to taste worse.
Food coloring into that.
Yeah.
I'll chug it.
A little better.
At least it'll look like what it tastes like.
I'm sorry.
So,
yeah.
All right.
Well,
good times.
Yeah.
No green beer for me.
There was one that you remember.
True.
No.
I know.
I mean,
all the breweries were at this weekend.
No green beer on tap.
The only brewery in the area to be douchey enough to put green in their beer was 14 cannons.
And they actually sponsored ads on Instagram,
like come for the green beer.
Yeah.
Just cracking.
That's 14 shots fired.
Yeah.
So good times.
All right.
I wanted to mention,
I wanted to get like sappy for a second.
Let's do it.
You know,
figured have the,
all the fellows back for,
for episode 400 and,
you know,
all that stuff.
What I didn't realize until today before we were like,
I'm working,
thinking about what we're going to talk about tonight.
I was like,
Oh,
not only is this episode 400,
this is the first time like we've all been in the same room together in four,
like exactly four years.
Yeah.
COVID happened.
We went remote.
Then Dan dumped water on his computer.
Scott took an extended vacation.
Not enough rice in the world was going to save me that day.
Flex bought a computer.
Moved him up to the top at that point.
So yeah,
it was just,
it was kind of fun.
I was like,
Oh shit.
I didn't realize it's been exactly because it was like March 15th when the world shut down or whatever,
or something like that.
That's a trip to really like think about.
Cause I,
we're trying to find out,
is it on the exact day?
Maybe not.
Oh no,
it would be close.
Cause like St.
Patrick's day that year was like the last day people were like out.
Yeah.
I remember,
I think it was like a couple of days later after the,
at least in California for the shutdown,
but like all the local brewers like,
Hey,
come out for St.
Patty's day celebration.
Like why you still can't.
So,
uh,
yeah,
it was something.
Yeah.
Evil,
evil leprechaun.
It was batch one 95.
I looked it up.
That was the last time we were all in the room together,
but recorded that,
you know,
cause of our schedule,
like a week before that actually came out.
It was towards the end of the March where we're the last time we were in the same room together.
What a trip.
Yeah.
The last time we did the,
uh,
the,
uh,
March madness tournament.
Oh yeah.
That's right.
Those were fun.
Yes.
Blind beer tasting.
That's right.
Yeah.
So,
uh,
so good times.
Good times.
Indeed.
Uh,
all right.
Before we get any further,
let's ask the most important question of the night.
In a world where craft beer is...
GOT 'EM!
In a world where muscles are bigger than groundless...
Goddamn!
Only one Tom can guide us.
One time.
(engines roaring)
One Tongue Jobber!
In this world,
we must find out...
Is it clobbering time?
When is it over?
That's what she said.
What is Flax drinking?
Is it done?
Yeah.
Okay,
it's done.
Uh,
so today Flex is drinking Amorphic beer.
Uh,
this is my serious face.
It is a double New England IPA.
Hazy,
of course,
because that's me.
It is hopped with Mosaic,
Mosaic Cryo and Mo...
M- *sigh* Beer Girl Mel hit me with this one.
Mo-Tuca?
I think that's what she said it is.
I thought it was Mo-Tueca.
It's not,
it's Mo-Tuca,
I believe she said.
So that's what it's hopped with.
Um,
Untapped has it at a 4.08.
Not a lot of ratings,
but still respectable.
Um,
and that's basically what the,
uh,
description says to Mosaic,
Mosaic Cryo.
Mo-Tuca hops bring an intense hop flavor and aroma of dank blueberry without the bitterness.
Creamy daddy mouthfeel from a hefty dose of oats and wheat.
well it's hazy.
I mean,
we see that.
Mm-hmm.
Great head.
Perfect glass.
Just insane.
And are we clear on like where the emphasis is on the title of the beer?
Like this is my serious face.
I think it would be like,
this is my serious face.
Okay.
Any,
any other takers?
This is my serious face.
*laughter* You'll have to look it up.
Yeah.
I don't know.
You know,
have fun with it,
I guess.
I don't know.
This is my serious face!
Face.
[LAUGHTER]
I like that one the best.
It's very sweet on the old schnauzer.
Like,
uh,
not florally,
but like sweet green,
like,
I don't know.
Almost like sweetness.
Yeah.
Like hop sweets.
Like,
I don't know.
Delicious.
So,
and then,
uh,
without further ado.
That was a bong rip.
It sounded like one.
He's dabbling.
Okay.
Um,
it is very dank.
I hate when,
you know,
beers put berries on their description because you never really know.
It's very hoppy.
It's very dank.
You get a little,
that sweetness,
you know,
coming through in the midst and,
uh,
you know,
like they said,
no bitterness.
So this is great beer.
It's a 8% ABV.
So it's like right in my wheelhouse.
I love that.
Uh,
drink that all day.
Perfect flex beer.
And this is actually,
I've only had like another beer from a Morphic.
So,
um,
you know,
this is where all their stuff is like,
uh,
we'll dabble a little bit more.
A little more dabbling is in order.
A little more tongue jabbing.
Dabble in those beer berries.
The beer berries tastes like beer berries.
Uh,
all right.
Let's do a little news while we're here.
Sure.
Alaska airlines and Fremont brewing create cloud cruiser IPA.
You can now fly the friendly skies drunk out of your ass.
Fremont's pretty good.
I guess.
I like me some Fremont.
They're out of,
uh,
Seattle.
I believe.
I don't know.
Washington.
Something like that.
Crowd cruiser cloud cloud.
It's with the airline companies.
I got it.
Genius.
Who came up with that one?
I can't wait for flexes reaction here.
New Belgium's voodoo Ranger has created a new IPA in partnership with tombstone pizza.
Tombstone.
What do you want on your tombstone?
Holy shit.
Is it pepperoni and cheese?
Is it ketchup flavored?
Ketchup and cardboard?
Yeah.
Their sauce was terrible on tombstone.
Um,
just the sauce.
The crust got too crumpled.
I don't know.
Everything was terrible.
No,
it's the Jordan.
I'll get the fuck out of here.
The crust.
Other than that,
it's not too bad.
Yeah.
I'll take any day of the week,
man.
Oh,
I don't know what that is.
I do.
Neither do I.
Like a local.
No,
it's from fucking Nestle.
They do the jack.
Really?
They do the tombstone and they do the Jordan.
there must be a regional thing.
Like it's all the same pizza company.
Oh,
do you come to Milwaukee often?
Oh,
we don't,
we don't get it.
I guess the fun fact too is Wisconsin is the number one frozen pizza sales.
We have talked about that.
Oh,
there you go.
There you go.
Maybe that's why we have way more followed closely behind by Scott's apartment.
Uh,
well here's where it gets good.
Now the beer delivers the flavors of a pizza with a finishing pepperoni kick of heat.
I'm in on this.
Just you wait.
Cause this four pack is priced at 49 99.
Not in on that.
Wow.
What the fuck?
Four pack of voodoo ranger pizza beer.
Yeah.
50 bucks for a four pack.
Oh,
I was thinking as well.
Another variety of after work beer.
I know.
Not so much.
Yeah.
I know.
When you said they were teaming up with someone,
I assume because of,
you know,
I thought it was Jolly Rancher.
Yeah.
I was like,
all right,
here we go.
The juices loose baby.
Uh,
this comes from the voodoo ranger website.
This 7% so the voodoo ranger is going to kill its wife.
How much are they going to sell that for a four pack?
Which is going to come for you on next dude.
Yeah.
this comes from the voodoo ranger website.
This 7% ABV slice of heaven delivers the flavors of tombstones,
crispy crust,
tangy tomato sauce and savory herbs and spices into an ice cold beer.
This finishing pepperoni kick of heat though,
and make you reach for another slice or another pint.
And before anybody corrects me,
juices,
loses starburst,
not Jolly Rancher.
I just thought about that.
Oh,
you can,
you can stand down Twitter.
Yes.
Self-corrected.
So back off to your beer.
I got it.
Sorry.
Apologies.
And his weirdo cousin chew your root.
It would be wild if you would actually have to like bake this
beer in the oven before like preheat the oven for 25 for 11 to
14 minutes and then enjoy pop in your freezer or something.
Yeah.
DeVros,
uh,
beer numbers are in for super bowl and Valentine's day and on premise super bowl and Valentine's day performance was down compared to last year.
So that begs the question,
did no one get laid on Valentine's day?
No,
no one's getting drunk.
That's the only way it happens,
right?
If you're not drunk,
I don't think it happens.
Right.
I think this might've been the first Valentine's day in like 10 years that I got some,
I think you have to get her drunk.
Yeah.
That's not me.
It just never falls on a good day.
So is it just beer sales or is it alcohol?
This was beer sales.
It was on on premise beer.
So I would say more of a whiny holiday,
like a wine,
a spirit,
like there you go.
Don't think romantic.
Yes.
Involving a cork,
possibly Probably some beads.
I was gonna ask where the cork belonged but...
Oh,
you got it.
Yeah.
Cigar City is laying off a bunch of people.
Parent company Monster is laying off 12 folks at the brewery as they shift the brewery to a cross-category innovation center.
Oh,
gross.
Yeah.
Original Cigar City brewmaster Wayne Wambles was also late.
What a name.
Wayne Wambles?
I was like,
"Wayne Wambles?" Is this from Barbara Wawa?
Gentlemen,
Wayne Wambles.
Oh,
man.
Yeah,
so...
Wayne Wambles on and on and on.
He's quite the Wambler.
That's right.
I was born a Wambling Man.
So was Wayne.
That's insane.
Oh,
man.
Oh,
good times.
Where do you think he would hail from?
The Wambler?
I'm going with Florida.
Wambler.
You know,
the brewery's originally from Florida.
A name like that,
it's got to be Florida.
Fort Wayne.
Wayne Wambler.
Boca Waton.
Yeah.
Nicely done.
Scott's just Googling cities.
Yeah,
wait a second.
Cities that start with R that I can fuck up.
I can't Google that fast.
Windows 95 is still booting.
Oh,
damn.
You can't look that stuff up on a Razer.
You can play Snake,
though.
Play Snake with the best of them.
It's a good game.
It is true.
Classic.
What else?
Oh,
the states in America,
obviously,
that drink the most beer.
There's 50 of them.
Yeah.
Okay.
That drink the most beer per capita.
I can name all 50,
but I feel like we'd be here all day.
So let's do the top ten.
I bet you can.
Here we go,
David Letterman.
Let's do it.
I'll start throwing my cards at the window.
Yeah.
Number ten.
Tennessee.
Iowa.
I'm just going to keep guessing.
Okay.
Number nine.
Florida.
Not Tennessee.
Tennessee's top five.
They're not.
Oh.
Number nine is Hawaii.
Oh.
I'm going to stop guessing.
People are just going to get confused.
Yeah.
Number eight,
South Dakota.
Well,
there's nothing more to do in South Dakota than just drink.
Where's the Mount Rushmore?
Is that south or north?
That's south.
It is,
right?
Yeah.
Which means there's way less to do in number seven,
North Dakota.
Yeah.
Number seven,
Nevada.
Number six,
Maine.
Ooh.
Top five,
Pennsylvania.
Number four,
North Dakota.
Where's Massachusetts?
See,
I told you.
Number three,
Vermont.
Number two,
Montana.
Ooh.
And number one,
New Hampshire.
See,
it's boring states,
man.
Really?
Super boring.
What else are you going to do?
I mean,
Nevada makes a little sense because you've got Vegas.
I don't know what else you can happen there.
I feel like Montana's like old woodland.
I mean,
is this per capita?
It is per capita.
Yes,
yes,
yes.
Wisconsin was 13.
Colorado was 17.
California,
24.
We need to get our lives together.
Where's Wisconsin?
13.
Oh,
okay.
In the United States.
Kind of north,
a little to the right.
Oh,
yeah.
Thank you.
Florida was 28.
That's wild.
Yeah.
The last place was obvious.
Utah.
Yeah.
So,
followed by Maryland,
Idaho,
Connecticut.
Anywho,
there's that.
What a shitty list.
I know.
Sorry.
Did I make you mad?
It's an interesting one.
Yeah,
I'm steaming right now.
He looks angry.
He looks pissed.
Yeah,
push those numbers up,
Flex.
Yeah.
Do your part.
We'll do ours.
That's right.
We'll end it on this one.
How a man ended up on the hood of a car at a St.
Pete drive-thru.
Oh.
A St.
Petersburg man who grew frustrated with a vehicle in front of him at a drive-thru rammed it several times.
Then accelerated and struck a passenger who got out of the vehicle.
You never get out of the vehicle.
Never get out of the vehicle.
The incident occurred about 11 p.m.
on Monday.
That's actually how you wind up on the hood of a car.
That's what I always say.
If you're going to get out to fight,
make sure they're not fighting you with their car already.
Right.
Jesus Christ.
Arrest reports completed by St.
Petersburg police state that Shawn Michael Drake.
Whoa,
what a cool name.
That's a serial killer name if I've ever heard one.
I bet he's a sexy boy.
I was about to say,
he sounds like a wrestler.
Coming to the ring.
Coming in at 253 pounds.
They think I'm drunk.
I know I'm drunk.
A wrestler that does rap?
I know I'm angry.
I got the car.
The car that rams the people.
I'm not going to do the whole song.
Please do.
That's what I was waiting for.
I got the bumper.
It really moves them.
I send chills up and down their spine.
I'm just a drunky boy.
I'm not your sober toy.
I want a Big Mac.
(laughing)
We knew it was gonna happen.
If you're listening and you're angry,
you knew it was gonna happen.
Yeah.
I want some spicy nuggets.
Spicy nuggets!
Oh my god.
Not your rubbing tugs.
Too far.
All right.
John Michael Drake became frustrated with the vehicle's,
excuse me,
with the victim's vehicle in front of him and re-entered it several times.
When the passenger got out and walked towards the front of Drake's vehicle,
Drake accelerated,
striking the van.
I can only see Shawn Michaels doing it now.
His story's like ruined.
He lost his smile in that drive-thru.
Just picture like Shawn behind the wheel of the car and like Marty Gennetti gets out of the other car.
You think before he rammed him he was tapping his foot on the ground?
one,
two,
three.
Oh man.
All right.
You get frustrated.
The passenger got out and walked towards their friend and Drake's vehicle.
Drake,
etc.
Striking the man causing him to be thrown onto the hood of the defendant's vehicle.
As the defendant drove off with the victim still on the hood,
the victim fell off the vehicle just prior to the defendant entering a major thoroughfare.
Wow.
Is this like the equivalent of like a rail rumble or something in the window drive-through?
Yeah.
You hit him with the sweet bumper music.
Yeah.
Went over the top.
And then the big boss man had to come to town.
Arrest that ass.
He's doing hard time.
Hard time.
As long as he's not feeding anybody dogs.
No.
Come on.
Was that like one of the worst storylines ever?
Ordered that burger with extra pepper.
Oh,
that's a deep pull that no one outside of this podcast is going to get.
That's right.
Good times.
Eating Al Snow's dog.
It was Al Snow,
right?
It was.
Yeah.
He like had some stupid dog all of a sudden for no reason at all.
Pepper.
Oh,
that feels like a good note to end it on.
Oh,
you want to end the show already?
I mean,
feel like time has come.
Oh man.
At least something has.
Yeah.
I can't believe it's the end.
I'm crying.
I want that song now as our intro music.
I know,
right?
John Michael Drake.
You're going to chop it together with the instrumental in the background.
[laughs]
Oh,
dear.
All right.
Well,
hello to Vanessa.
Oh,
hi,
Vanessa.
I'm gonna hit some music.
There it is.
Thank you all for listening and for joining and all those things.
Putting up with all the nonsense.
Putting up with the sausage fest.
If you enjoyed the sausage fest,
come back next week.
We're going to do one more again.
Crappy Republic,
@flexme,
a beer.
Dan has given up social media.
Oh,
yeah,
I did.
Scott is @unfilteredscott on both Twatter and or X or the fuck it is,
right?
And the gram.
It's the X.
The gram,
I'm thirsty Scott.
Oh,
thirsty Scott.
That's right.
Thirsty Scott on the gram.
He's still yet to figure that one out.
Oh,
God.
805-538-beer.
And of course,
the mail at crappyrepublic.com.
Thank you all for hanging.
I hope everyone is staying very well hydrated.
And on that note,
happy 400 everybody.
Good night,
everybody.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Shawn Michaels!
They think I'm drunk,
I know I'm...
got the car that rams the people.
I got the bumper,
it really moves them.
I send chills up and down their spots.
I'm just a drunky boy.
I'm not your sober toy.
(rock music)
I want some spicy love.
Spicy love!