Craig, are you ready? Nailed it. Welcome in everybody to the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I

am Greg and holy fuck, could I use a beer right about now. Being joined by the sexiest of all the Midwest-iest and that's the Flex-iest. What's up buddy? Not that much, man. I had a pretty good super slam or a summer slam weekend. That's what it was. Summer slam.

Oh my God. What a horrible wrestling fan I am. I totally forgot. You're not good anymore. I'm not, unless it's AEW. That's all I watch. Yeah, fair enough. Sorry everyone that's still paying attention to our podcast. And then joining us from the tap room podcast, we've

got the man himself, Mikey. What's up, bud? What's going on, guys? Hey, welcome, Mike. Hanging out. Yeah. So you're not a WWE fan now, Greg? You know, I sort of stopped watching when AEW came around. I thought the product was better and I've heard that the Bloodline

story is really good. I've just not been on it and I don't have enough time. I hardly watch any AEW even, so. Oh, okay. I'll tell you what, there's so many vignettes now in

any episode you watch, you don't have to watch the last four years. You're already caught up with how much they show. Well, that's how WWE has always been. It's like three hours show is really about 14 minutes of wrestling and the rest is all vignettes and a couple

of promos. Yeah, nailed it. Yeah, exactly. But all right. Excited to have you here, Mike. I got some total microphone envy. That thing looks fucking sweet. Oh, this sucker? Yeah.

It's all lit up red and this old thing. I just pulled it out of my closet. Oh, you noticed? Yeah. I got this one just a couple of weeks ago. I've been wanting to get a new mic and

finally pulled the trigger. That's awesome. That thing is sweet looking. Prime Day. Smart. I didn't even know mics could look that cool. They have this one and I'm not, this isn't a plug for HyperX,

but they have this one which is like all black and red and they have one that goes like multi-color. Oh shit. Well, next time Prime Day rolls around, I might need an upgrade because that thing looks sweet. We don't even have a new video here. We've got like a whole year to wait for that,

right? Yeah. Meanwhile, I have like the world's most expensive microphone, but I didn't pay for it. It was free. There you go. That's what makes it okay. All right. A lot to get to today. We're going to talk to Mike about his podcast and a couple of few. We have

a voicemail from everybody's homie, including Mikey's. Chew your beer. Some booze news to get to, some beers to talk about, and so much more. Real quick, before I get into the first review

here, a note for all you podcast listeners. If you're one of the people, and there's a surprising amount, that listen to us on Stitcher. Stitcher is getting rid of their app on August 29th. So,

if you're listening to us right now on Stitcher, go find a new app. I don't know why. Hey, would you say that Mike has big mic energy? Is that what we would call this? Yeah. Well, see, that's the thing. I didn't really know you guys are WWE fans. I would

have worn my winged eagle title to this thing. Oh, fuck. That's amazing. I automatically feel like a small person that I don't have a replica belt. I don't either. I have a toy one somewhere. Funny story. We were in high school. My buddy

and I used to go around to garage sales to see if anybody had any weird, cool shit, and somebody was selling their toy WWE belt. And we're like, how much? He goes, I'll give it to you if you wrestle him for it. Little did he know that we used to backyard

wrestle. Yeah, he used to be a backyard wrestler. Yeah. Yeah. So, straight up suplexed him in the front yard and pinned him. Bingo. The guy was like, oh my God, here you go. I didn't think you were going to do that. That's awesome. My older brother bought one a few years

ago, probably five or six years ago. And now it's a Royal Rumble tradition where everybody draws numbers out of a hat. So, every year, whoever picks a winning entrant, you get the belt for

the year. So, it's kind of like that. Oh, I like that. Yeah, it's kind of a neat thing. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. That is pretty neat. I like that. It's one of the few pay-per-views I'd actually still like to watch. Royal Rumble and WrestleMania. And it's funny because the amount of bragging rights you get just for the whole year. It's

one event, one lucky draw, and you get a belt for an entire year. It's fucking hilarious. You should at least have to throw somebody out the front door or something. It's Royal Rumble after all. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe. All right.

We'll put it in the notes. There you go. Yeah, mull it over. All right, let me get to this real quick. I am fucking thirsty. It looks like a rave in here. I love it. Your microphone is totally adding to the rave vibe.

This is low-key such a good song. Sure it is. If I go to EDC, I want to hear this fucking song. It's catchy as hell. Yeah. All right. I am drinking. Compliment to my buddy Ian.

He looked it up for my birthday. I'm drinking All Green Lights from everywhere brewing down in Orange County. It's a New England hazy IPA. I think Flex definitely passes the hazy test.

It looks hazy to me. It's got some good lacing too. I like that color on it, that pale yellow like. Oh, daddy. It's pretty. 7.2% has a 404 on untapped. Very respectful. And they say All Green Lights is a

hazy India pale ale brewed with premium Pilsner malt and rolled oats and double dry hopped with Motueka, New Zealand Cascade and Citra. Nice and to the point. Nice.

Tons of juice, tons of, I'm thinking of like some pineapple, maybe some mango on the schnoz. Tongue jobber approved. Let's go. The taste follows soup. It's light. It does not drink

like it's over 7%. It's a little dangerous in that avenue. And pillowy soft, just like Flexy Likey. That is my favorite. I don't even know how that happens. It's so good. This is probably like

my second or third beer I've had from everywhere. And I've just been super impressed with these guys. I haven't had a bad one yet. They're down in Orange County. I think I told the story last week or the week before that I made the mistake of passing them up and went to a different brewery

instead. And if you guys are down in Orange County or if you just see some cans somewhere, I highly recommend it. This is fucking delicious. So thanks, Ian, for hooking up the tasties. Green means go. That's right. And this is all green lights right here. So very good.

No, I was just going to say I love when that mango pops on those hazies. Oh, so good. That is such an early note. As Scott would say, it's got tropicals? Yeah. Yeah. No, hop sure has.

The trops. It's got tropicals and hops. Trops. Which is what I say. Trops got the court. Trops and hops. Oh, that'd be a good shirt. Trops and hops. There you go. Yeah, me and Chew, we went there because we hung out. We went to Unsung, went to

Monkish. And then we all went up and took them down to everywhere. And we had a few beers over there. And I heard he went to Villain's and was not a fan of it. Were you part of that? He went there before I was able to get to Unsung. Yeah. But I've heard some stuff about it.

Interesting. I was so excited. From multiple people now. Oh, I haven't been yet. I was so excited for those guys. Good people coming into it. I thought it might be good, but who knows? We'll see. But yeah, but speaking of you hanging out

with Chew, you guys did a podcast. And for those that don't know, Mike is the host of the Tap Room podcast. And I keep calling you Mike, Mikey. Sorry. Yeah, either way. There's so many Mikes in my life, like everybody I know.

Yeah. If you're born between like 80 and 89, you're probably a Mike of some sort. But yeah, so Tap Room podcast. Tell us about the podcast. It started out as Taps and Tailgates way back when with my brother and my buddies. And then

in the podcast game, some people get busy and they fall out of flow with certain things. So that sort of happened. And then I was like, well, okay, is it okay if I curse on here?

Oh, you fucking better. Okay. I was just making sure. Well, I was just like, well, fuck, I want to keep this thing going. I don't want to... I truly love doing it, like being able to... And so I was like, well, I need

to change the format a little bit since it's just me. I don't want to have to talk about myself for an hour every week. So I... It's hard. Yeah, it's tough. So I reached out to some breweries and they kind of got back. But then

I was kind of had the idea was like, well, I'll do like Instagram spotlight episodes or I'll call them that where I can reach out to different, I guess you call it like beer fluencers or just people that love craft beer to me. So being able to talk to them and be able to have conversations,

but it's also a travel thing too where if somebody is going to that state or going to that city in a certain state, they might be able to listen to an episode like, hey, well, this is where not all the tourists go. These are the craft beers places I should hit and stuff like that.

So it's just kind of grown now and it's continuing to grow, but I just... It's like therapy for me, man. And I'm sure it is for you guys. I'm sure you guys just get to talk with your buddies or

just may have a genuine conversation over a few beers. Well, I was going to say that it's funny you said that, how it's something you do and it's like you don't realize how enjoyable it actually is until you start doing it. And I've had to miss

a few weeks here and there because I may or may not have gotten some lingus that went around. But certainly not COVID, right? Definitely not COVID. I never, ever had COVID.

Did you have... Did you get mono? I don't know. I got that kissing disease. I'm just kidding. People may or may not said it was COVID, but I never had COVID. Yeah. But it's crazy how much you actually miss it and then realize how much you enjoy doing it

because it's just hanging out with your buddy, talking about shit you love. There's nothing better than that. Yeah. And drinking beer. And drinking beer. Yeah. Thanks to COVID, I've definitely faked my way through a couple of beer reviews

because I couldn't taste anything for a while. So it's like, I better drink when I've already had before. But good times. Yeah. And I saw you around the gram and stuff and then I saw

the homie Chew Your Beer was on there. I was like, oh yeah, I got to listen. So started listening when I saw that. And yeah, it's fun. You guys just... You fucking shoot the shit and talk about beer and there's nothing wrong. It's like a couple, as Chew would say, a couple of vatos

going to the brewery and having a couple of beers and hanging out. A couple of vatos. Exactly. And that's what I love about it because you can... I'm a social butterfly and it's so

weird because I was so shy as a kid. All I did was watch wrestling and eat cheese and crackers and fruit roll-ups. Cheese and crackers, man. Now you're speaking my language. So then, but as I grew up, yeah, I became more of that social butterfly. And then obviously,

like alcohol is a social lubricant as it is anyway. And being able to do that sort of thing and yeah, just like I said, just having a... Going to a brewery or going to a bar and sitting

across from somebody like, oh, we got to order the same beer. What's going on? Stuff like that. Always easier with a little bit of lube. That's what I would say. Exactly. So I was talking. KY to the... Is it KY to the... Oh, I just lost my train of thought.

It's KY to shyness. There we go. Something like that. KY saves the day. Every time. Not a KY plug. Yeah. 66% of the time, it works every time.

Also, flex. KY plug. A little too on the nose there, bud. That's the name of this episode. KY plug. KY. Bingo. Yeah. If you guys haven't checked out the Tap Room Podcast, find them on the socials at the

Tap Room Podcast. And links are all on the Instagram bios and all the bios and all that stuff. Or search for it on your favorite podcast app that's not Stitcher. Don't do Stitcher anymore.

Yeah. Which I was kind of surprised, not to get nerdy about podcasts, but we get a fair bit of listeners from Stitcher. Like now they're just going to get rid of their app. Okay. I'm not going to lie, Greg. No idea what Stitcher was.

I never used it, but I could see on our stats that people were using it. Never even heard of it. Yeah. Oh, speaking of using it and listening, a top listing city of last week was Los Angeles. So shout out local LA, even a local.

The city of Angeles. That's right. We all know it's not going to be anywhere in Arkansas because we talk way too much shit. Alabama, Greg. Oh, Alabama. Sorry.

There you go. You forgot about them. That's even worse. Here's the thing. It's basically the same. Well, it is. Are you not so subtly saying you're an Alabama fan, Greg? I'm neither fan. Yeah.

I'm anti-fan. I don't know. Roll Tide. Yeah, but my brother's a big Tide fan. Roll Tide. Hey, I still love SE, but I kind of veered... I mean, I still watch them cheer. They're my

number one team, but I also cheer for the Badgers. I like this guy. I love this guy. Sorry. I went to college without any real sports. So I was like, yeah, fuck it. Watch the pros. There you go.

But... Oh, yeah. That'll do it, I guess. Yeah. A man after Flex is hard over here. Packers fan. It's like... What, are you a Bucs fan too? We got the perfect host. No, it's weird. It's like my... So my dad always told me, he's like,

cheer for your own teams. You don't have to pick the teams that... Most times when you grow up, you like the teams your dad likes. So I kind of just went everywhere. I grew up... I saw Brett Favre in 95 or 94, 95. I was like, I want to... That guy's awesome. So I became a Packer fan.

The Braves, it was Chipper Jones. The Bulls, it was Jordan. But I've stuck with him ever since. I'm a loyal son of a bitch, so... At least you're not like a bandwagon follower. Oh, yeah. I can't do that. Early on, when I was like eight years old, I was a big,

big time bandwagon fan. But I've stuck it out with them all the rest of the way. I would never bandwagon, but I loved expansion teams. So whenever there was a new team that came into any league, I'll be like, hey, I'll hop on them, even though I know they're going

to be shitty, but they always had the coolest new logo, the coolest new uniforms. It was just the best. And for whatever reason, especially in the NBA, they're always brightly colored

when they first come in. Oh, yeah. I guess. Yeah. A lot of like fucking turquoise and bright greens and shit like that. Yeah. Bring it on. Yeah. Bring it on. Let's go expansions. Right. I mean, I'm a 49er fan because the Rams and the Raiders fucking left me as a kid. So I was

like, fuck you guys. Go Niners. At the time Joe Montana was playing, how could you not be a 49er? Yeah. Especially growing up in the California area, it's almost impossible. Yeah. It makes for a better marriage too, since I married someone from Northern California.

No. There you go. She's a Niner fan. Luckily, she's not a Giants fan because I'm a Dodgers fan. She's an A's fan. I'll never have to worry about anything because she's an A's fan. How does she feel about the move?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. She hates it. Absolutely. She didn't care about the Raiders because A, she's not a Raiders fan and B, they've left 900 times before. But yeah, she is not happy about the A's moving, but understands it because Oakland's a piece of shit and will not rebuild the stadium.

Yeah. That's bizarre to me. And what? They haven't won anything since the 70s, other than maybe an Academy Award for Moneyball or something like that. No. What was it? 2003? The Miguel Tejada years?

Oh, yeah. They had some solid teams back then when they won the 21, 20. Was it 21 in a row? Yeah. They put together some good teams and then go nowhere with them and then get rid of them all once they want money. So yeah. Whatever.

There was a sad part. Yeah. Well, how does it feel to be a small market team in a big market? It's so weird up there. That market, just as someone who works in TV, that market up there

is so fucking weird. Yeah. I don't get it. It's bizarre. Yeah. Crazy. Whatever. But the Giants have a sweet stadium. I've been there. I got to go behind the scenes

once. That was cool. But anyways, fuck the Giants. Go Dodgers. Vipper. I'm going to get jumped in the parking lot. What is going on? Oh, you guys, I did some fucking fantastic beer research that I just got to share.

No, you didn't. I did. I promise. Oh, man. Last week, did a birthday trip down to Irvine, California, which- Okay. Nothing special in Irvine, except that's where the concert was. But on the way down,

stopped at Radiant Brewing, did some research on Radiant. Tight. Delicious. Picked up some cans, of course. At the festival itself, had a real shitty beer selection. We were drinking Kona's for a while,

because that was the best they had. That's not enjoyable, but- I'm really not a huge fan. I'm not either, and it's only gotten worse. But I'm walking around, I went,

my wife's like, what? I was like, this one bar right here and nowhere else has 805. So we did a lot of damage with 805 that night. Oh, yeah. That's when you said you were buying $18 805s or something?

Yeah. I mean, at least there were Tallboy cans, but yeah, it was $18 Tallboy 805. That eats at my heart. Ate at my wallet, dude. I was a little cross-faded that night. The next morning,

I looked at how much beer we bought. It was all in my credit card thing. I was like, fuck. So much beer. Those liquid calories on the credit card, they'll get you sometime. Oh, man. Will they ever. Had me singing like a fucking crazy person too.

Good for you. Yeah. It was the sad summer fest. It was a bunch of emo bands. Most I'd never even heard of, but I went for Andrew McMahon. And then the headliner was Taking Back Sunday. Oh, Taking Back. Classic.

I got to say, they were not fantastic live. Really? Oh, really? Yeah. Maybe they're just old. Maybe. The lead singer guy, he wasn't on it. I don't know what you'd call them,

the second singer? Yeah. They have a primary and a secondary. Yeah. The secondary guy who's a little higher pitched and kind of screamy at times and also plays guitar. He was fucking on it. He was great.

The music was great. The band sounded amazing. But the lead singer was like, dude, are you drunk or something? I'm assuming he was probably drunk or something. I hope so. The thing was, we don't know them super well, but we didn't recognize

any of the songs until the very last song. I was like, I think I know this one. This sounds familiar, but it just didn't sound right. It was weird. Interesting. Who else was there? Was it Hawthorne Heights or any of those guys? Nobody I'd heard of. I'd have to look at the list. The last few bands before

Endric Man came on, really good. The Maine, I think, was one of them. The Maine is really good. I hope the Maine, the genre. I'd never heard them before. They were really good. I love the Maine. I've seen them once. Yeah. Yeah. They were good. I cannot remember the others. There's an all-girl band that was really

good. I'll have to look at the list because there were some really good bands that did not headline the show that I would definitely see again or listen to or whatever. So I'll

and stopped at Topa Topa, went to Made West, went to VCBC, Ventura Coast Brewing Company, and then ended the day at Transmission. Hey, doesn't Made West have a really good pale? Best pale on the West Coast? Mikey, you've had Made West, right?

Yeah. Have you had the pale ale? Yeah. Fan or not a fan? There's no wrong answer. I mean, there is a wrong answer, but- No. I mean- So here's the thing. There's a long running joke on this show that I, and I think I sent it to you, right, Flex, the pale?

I don't know if you ever did. Maybe you did. Shit. I'll have to send it then. I love their pale. I think as far as a core beer goes in the area, it's a really good pale ale, non-hazy. It's a Westie. And I really like it.

And a lot of my friends really like it. And Wiley over at the Booze League fucking hates it and talks about it being the most garbage pale ale of all time. Okay. So anyways, there's this ongoing inside joke of it being the best slash worst pale ale.

Yeah. See, I don't think it's bad. I just don't think it's the... I don't know. Because I feel like if it's a core, it's got to be pretty decent. Yeah. But I mean, if I were to rank it, I'd give it a six probably. Respectable.

Out of 20? Yeah. Six out of 10, very respectable. Yeah. I'll drink the shit of it all day long. I love it. I know it's slightly on the maltier side,

and I think that's why some people don't like it. But to me, it's clean, good drinking, drink it all day long. And yeah. But anyways, yeah. Wiley. Oh, and Sandro over at the Booze League think it's complete trash. But have you ever had a Dark and Stormy from Firestone?

You know what? I got to be honest. I'm not the biggest fan of Firestone. Okay. I was going to say worst beer I've ever put in my mouth, but those two love it. So I can't take them seriously anymore. Yeah. With Firestone, I mean, I've had it a few times, but it's just not for me.

Yeah. Their whole cocktail series is a little not my jam. Yeah. If I want a cocktail, I have a fucking cocktail. I don't need your fake beer version. I'm not a fan of that.

Yeah. We signed up the first year for their Brewmasters collection thing, where it was an insane amount of money, and you got a couple of beers every month. And we thought we're going to get all these barrel-aged and new beers and whatever. We were their fucking guinea pigs. All

we got was a shit ton of their cocktail series. And some of them were fine, but I wouldn't go buy those from the store. That's not what I'm looking for. That's what nobody's looking for. So I talked to a Firestone rep once and was like, were we guinea pigs that first year? What the

fuck? And he was like, you absolutely were. We were just trying out beers. And I was like, God damn it. It was so much money. I canceled afterward. They were dumb enough to send me a survey. What did you think about the first year? I was like, bullshit.

No, you done fucked up. Yeah. So anyways, I digress. All right. We got a lot to get to. Like I said, Chew left a voicemail. We got to talk a little booze news. Some big news dropped on Monday about

Budweiser. I like big news. I heard about that. Big news. We'll get to that in a second. First, let's make a call to Penn and find out what Mikey's drinking over there. He calls to the bullpen for beer.

What you sipping on? Today, I got to what's called All About the Brick. It's a LEGO inspired, well, at least the Cantleworks LEGO inspired in the name out of 8-Bit Brewing in Marietta. It's a double dry hop,

a double hazy IPA coming at 8.9. So closing in on a triple there. I had one of their triples yesterday. So what you're saying is it was not actually brewed with LEGOs?

It was dry bricked. I didn't want to say the color of it. I mean, it might've been these yellow LEGOs. It could've been. I'm just kidding. But it was brewed with Citra, Common, and Cascade coming at 8.9%.

And I love that on every can of 8-Bit, they always put a little note on the bottom, and this says, Building Legacy. I don't know if you guys could see that. Oh, yeah. I can see that. Yep. There we go.

Pretty clear. Yeah, and it was 7-12-23 can on date. So that's pretty fresh. Yeah, pretty fresh. And I may have drank it. All already?

But I already had my score. I'm going to go ABV. I'm going to go 8.9. Okay. Hey, that's pretty solid. That was what you did there. Yeah. Honestly, 8-Bit, they doesn't disappoint. This isn't a plug for 8-Bit,

even though I probably sound like an 8-Bit plug on my show. You cheap whore. Exactly. I'm a dirty son of a bitch. I haven't had them in a minute, but anything I've ever had from them has been delicious.

Anything I've ever heard of them has sounded delicious. My 8-Bit hookup stopped talking to me, so I haven't had it in a while. Well, what a motherfucker. How dare she?

But nice. I like that. I'm jealous. I need to get some 8-Bit in my life. Yeah. And that's how you do on the show, right? You kind of give it like a one through 10? Okay. Yeah. I do one through 10 on that one when I'm doing that. When I'm actually at the brewery,

when I'm talking to everybody or talking to either the brewer or whoever I'm talking to, that's the rep from there, I'll tell them whether I like it or not. But also, if I don't like it, I'm not going to talk shit about it.

Hey, man. Hey, I like my beer. Well, it's garbage. Yeah. But I mean, honestly, one thing I will say, I've been pretty lucky, knock on wood, that the breweries that I have, or like the brewers that I've talked to or anybody

when I've gone to the brewery, they've all actually been pretty good. Yeah. Because I'll rank it in my head, but I won't say it out loud. Sometimes I will if it just like blows my socks off or something like that. But for the most part, there was one with stereo

brewing, they had a mint chip stout. It was like a 13. It was so good. Oh, it was good. All right. Wasn't overly boozy. And it was 13% too. So I gave it a big fat 13.

Nice. Yeah. I've never had a problem really where interviewing a brewer, their beer was gross. I mean, there might have been like one that just wasn't my jam, but it was well done. I have had

the issue, and I peek behind the curtain, everybody, I will not interview breweries anymore that don't have an open, like don't have beer to try or won't send me beer. Not that I'm

like, hey, send me a free beer. Because I had two breweries on the show before they opened, and then they opened and their beer was a no bueno. And I had multiple people reaching out

being like, I can't believe you gave the stamp of approval and blah, blah, blah. I'm like, I don't know, man. Had their home brew and it was delicious. Yeah. Didn't know they couldn't do math. Sorry.

Yeah. Was that meth or math? Yes. Maybe they needed a little meth. Stay up later working on those fucking recipes. So the only brewery semi-recently that I've allowed to come on without trying their beer was,

we had Radiant on the show before they opened. And I was like, all right, they got quite the pedigree. I'm going to go ahead and take the risk on this one. So worked out well. I love Radiant's can artwork. And honestly, their beers are really good. Their hazies are great.

But just like that, it's all colorful. I mean, it's one of those ones where if you're in a bottle shop or something like that, you walk in, you see that, and it just draws you in.

Yeah. The original marketing person, Cambria, who's no longer at the brewery, she's moved on, but she was so smart with everything she did to set them up and the logo and the color and bringing, what was it? Sending out light and all their stuff. They did a fucking fantastic job over

there. I feel like that's what helps Drecker out so much with their sales too. I mean, their beer, their product is also very good. But when you walk in and you're looking on the shelves

and you see that comic book type graffiti, it's a really good mix of that. Man, it's amazing. And it catches your eye. And it's like, hey, that's what I want to buy because I want to drink

something that looks bad fucking ass. Have you seen Institution cans around, Mikey? Not that I've seen, no. They're local up here. They're in Camarillo.

Okay. Around here, they're in Trader Joe's and all that stuff. I don't know how far they distribute, but their can art, if you've never had them, you'll pick it up just because the can's so fucking awesome. Awesome.

Yeah. It's pretty sweet. I don't know who their artist is. I should figure that out. But sweet, sweet cans. Nice cans. Nice cans. He doesn't like good cans. Everyone loves a nice can. Exactly. Cans or can, either way.

Yeah. All right. Before we find out what Flex is drinking, let's check in with the homie, Chew Your Beer. Hello. No one is available to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone. Hey, yo, what's your friendly neighborhood, Cholo? Chew Your Beer here. What's up,

vatos? How you guys doing? Hey, great. I got a boner pick with you, homie. Why you got to call out my boy Flex like that, ese? Tecate. Tecate's a good beer, homie, especially if it's imported. It's from Mexico. It's fucking hot outside. Put some lemon and some salt homes. That's a banger,

homes. All day, every day. It is a banger. Talking about lime and salt and Mexican beer and being by the beach and all that shit. What is this? Surf and Suds is this weekend in Carpinteria. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be

there. Greg, I don't know if you're going or not. I got my goddaughter's birthday, homie, and her padrino has to pull up, homes. I'm like the padrino of beer, homes, so I got to pull up with the good shit. So unfortunately, it's on the same day as Surf and Suds. So while you're out

there, tell everybody I miss them. Chew wanted to be there, but Chew's got to do adult stuff, homie. Adulting, ese. That's what we call it now, right? I'll be at the Dodger game this Friday

for the Fernando Valenzuela retirement of his number, taking my pops, getting them drunk, and I'm going to drink some fucking tecate just to make you pissed off, ese. So Flex,

I'll be posting the tecate. Keep an eye out for that on Friday. And Saturday, I'll be up in Riverside hanging out with the family, with the familia, and then Sunday, I don't know,

probably chilling. Maybe go watch Ninja Turtles. That movie looks pretty dope. It was all right. This is Chew Your Beer, your friendly herd cholo, and keep it classy, and keep it crispy, and drink those fucking beers, ese. I have to watch. Peace out, ese.

All right, so quick backstory. Did he take a breath? No, not at all. No, he doesn't breathe. No. Get this man a paper bag. Flex posted on the gram that he was drinking tecate,

and I made a little crack at him for it. Chew, here's why I was making a crack at it. You nailed the reason why I don't drink tecate, because you got to add lime and salt to that shit. I like my beer to taste like beer. Oh, no. 100%. I feel the same way. Sorry, Chew.

I don't add anything to it. I just drink it right out of the can. Because you're a real man. Damn it. I like Pacifico. Yeah, I was about to say, if I'm going Mexican beer like that, I'm going Pacifico, maybe like a Modelo, but definitely a Pacifico.

So the backstory on this, Mikey, is we were off air a couple shows ago, and I told Greg and Monica, I think it was, that I was at my local liquor store-

Monica. And I saw, wasn't that Monica, right? Probably. Yeah, I think so. I think so. And I saw a 12 pack of tecate light on the shelf for like $7.99. I'm like,

that is a dumb fucking price. And I remember how much I liked drinking them on vacation in Mexico, so I was like, I'm going to get it. And I went home and I cracked it, and I was like,

this is a fucking banger. It's like only 3.9%, but it is like the most easy drinking, just like crispy summer banger.

Oh my God, it's so bad. Yeah. So good. No lime, no salt needed. Just give me tecate in a can. Oh God. Yeah, I'm good. No thanks.

Yeah, same. I mean, I always say to everybody, to each his own, but- Yeah. Yeah, my old neighbor would drink it all the time, and he would just, I'd walk outside just

to walk out to go throw stuff in the trash. And I didn't even know he was out there, he would just chuck me a can. That's badass. That's like some Stone Cold shit right there.

Yeah, I didn't even know. It's pretty fucking cool. Yeah. That's amazing. I'm like, oh man, I don't want to drink this. It's freaking like a 95 degrees. I mean, at that point, I probably should have just done it, but-

Yeah, just hammer that down. Yeah. Yeah, that's- It would have cooled me down. That's funny. Shoes got my back. That's all that matters right now. Yeah, you're way back. And then Serpentsays notes you, I will not be at Serpentsays this year,

I'll be at a concert. So apologies. Man, you're just concerting away. I'm making up for lost time, man. Dude, that's like the thing I missed most during COVID was concerts. Yeah, I love concerts.

So good. I shed a little tear. Zero on the docket, and I don't know what to do with myself. Well, I'll be at the Foo Fighters this weekend, so. There you go. Yes. Yeah. Can't wait. Dude, I'm not going to lie, I think tears will be shed.

I was just going to ask if you were going to cry. I am so fucked. Dude, I cried at Andrew McMahon last week. What? Like, a little tear came out because I was just so happy to be at a fucking concert. Okay. But I'm going to see the Foo Fighters post-Taylor passing away.

Oh, yeah. There's no way that when they sing My Hero, I don't shed a fucking tear at some point. Oh, that's a banger. Yeah, I'm already getting choked up. So, yeah. Call me what you will.

No, no, no. I cry at almost every movie I fucking watch. I get it. I get it. I always love when we're watching stupid shit, like reality shows or whatever, and I look over and my wife's crying. I'm like, are you crying again? That I don't do.

Oh, during Guardians this past Friday, my girlfriend, she cried three times during that. Yeah. I didn't cry. Really? No, I didn't cry. It was sad, but I didn't cry.

Oh, man. If Rudy's on TV, I'm going to ask this coming from a USC fan. If Rudy's on TV, I'm fucking bawling my eyes out. You cry minimally three times in that movie. It's a given.

Oh, for sure. I've never seen it. You've never seen Rudy? I'm the worst movie watcher ever. Oh, my gosh, man. Oh, really? Yeah. I went to film school and I hate watching movies. What the fuck happened there? Oh, fuck. Yeah. I only want to watch comedies and some action movies. I like watching Marvel movies

where shit blows up and stuff, but I don't know. I don't need to watch dramas. I got- Oh, Rudy's so good. Oh, it's just so good. And I watch him and I enjoy them when I do, but when you're like,

hey, you want to go watch a movie? Can we laugh? Can we go watch a comedy and just laugh about shit? Yeah, I do prefer that. I feel you. Yeah. I've never seen The Godfather. I've never seen so many movies. Me neither. I've never seen that either. Scarface?

I've never seen it. Nope, never. First two were great. Third one's dog shit. I got so much shit in film school for not seeing any movie I was supposed to see. Yeah. Sports movies are what does it for me though.

Mighty Ducks. Come on. Quack, quack. Oh, yeah. Wayne R. Marshall, like 10 minutes in that movie, I'm bawling like a baby. Never saw that one. Quack, quack, Mr. Ducksworth. Remember the Titans when he goes, I'll go to the papers?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that movie. Never saw it. I could watch it all day. Your Hall of Fame in my book. Yeah. Your Hall of Fame in my book. I'm telling you, I'm the worst movie watcher ever. That's all right. Worst.

We'll get you there. Whatever. Yeah, you will. Daddy. Daddy. Sorry. All right. Before we move on to a little bit of news, let's check in with Flex and answer some important questions. In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than growlers,

only one tongue can guide us. One man. One tongue. One Tongue Jobber. In this world, we must find out what is Flex drinking?

Well, well, well. Today. I don't know why that's so funny. Goddamn. I don't know either. Well, well, well. It's very serious sounding the first time. Well, I'm always serious, Greg.

True. So today I'm drinking a collab, because I don't like saying collab, between Modest Brewing Company and Dangerous Man. It's called, I'm probably going to say it wrong.

Apiary drip. Is it apiary? Apiary? I don't know. Whatever. But classic me, it's a double dry hop honey cream IPA, double IPA. And the can, there's nothing really on this, because even the untapped says it's no longer

in production, even though it was brewed less than a month ago. Less than a month ago, yeah. Yeah, canned less than a month ago. So it's a honey cream double IPA with local honey, milk sugar, hopped and double dry hopped

with Strata, Simcoe and Sabro. So fun thing with Modest is anytime I see them in the wild, they're out of Minneapolis, by the way, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

And anytime I see them in the wild, I try and pick them up because they were the first ever brewing company to ever reach out to me and send me some shit when they were launching in Wisconsin.

So they always kind of hold like a little special place in my heart. Plus everything that they release is usually kind of a banger. So you are an influencer. I'm not an influencer.

I'm like a... Totally an influencer. I don't know. Mikey said it when he was talking about his podcast. He just likes to find people that are, I don't know, just really into, not really into craft beer, but you know, there's like it, right?

Totally. You're an influencer. You banger you. Yeah, fine. So anyway, so yeah, so I picked this up. Plus it's a double dry hop, double, and that's right up my alley.

It's 8.4%. So that's like super wheelhouse for me. I'm anywhere from like the seven and a half to the 10 and a half. So it really fits on the nose.

This is like, it's sweet, which I'm actually a big fan of. I know a lot of people aren't fans of like their doubles or triples sweet, but that's super up my alley, down my alley.

I don't know. There you go. So anyway. Depends how much you've had to drink. We'll get the old tongue jobber warmed up. Jump on in, water's fine. Best part of the show right there. It's amazing how light that drinks for being what it is.

Real light bodied. That milk sugar brings this perfect amount of sweetness and you can actually taste the honey from the honey cream, which to me sometimes gets lost in honey IPAs, but this thing is

like top notch. Frickin love it. And I actually only picked it up like an hour ago. I was trying to search for beer for the show because I actually, shocking enough, didn't have much in my fridge and this one like really, really glad I picked it up.

Nice. Sounds delicious. Uh-oh. Happens to the best of us. It is. So cheers to modest. And did I say, did I say dangerous man? You did. Collab with, okay. Yeah.

Just wanted to throw that out there. I didn't know if they, yeah. Cheers. Yeah. Yeah. Cheers. Yeah. Anything I've ever had from, from modest has been fantastic. So yeah, they do great stuff.

I, I don't know. I feel like they need to come around more. Yeah. I used to get them on the table or pretty often, but, uh, the old table or table though. All right.

Let's break into a little bit of news. Anheuser-Busch has cut around 2% of their workforce. They've experienced a lot of downturn in sales since the whole.

I did hear about that. Bud Light thing. Yeah. Yeah. The little Bud Light thing. I was talking to a coworker about that too, right? Is, you know how, so Anheuser-Busch, oh, like own all those brands or distribute all the

brands that are still under Anheuser-Busch. So people stop drinking Bud Light, but it makes you wonder, does anybody know what other brands that they are? You know, you know, cause Modelo is now like their number one.

I love when you say Modelo. Whatever, Modelo, Modelo. Either way. I love saying eat my ass, Greg. Nah. But it's their number one selling beer now, right?

So it makes you wonder how many people don't know, like, hey, this is still under AB. It's not just Bud Light as one company. Yeah.

You know, don't. They're still the largest. Bush Light too, yeah. Yeah. They're still the largest manufacturer of beer in the world. Correct. And seller of. Which makes me wonder, like, if people have any idea of what they actually put out there.

The people who are against Bud Light, you know, whatever, whatever, idiots. But then they go ahead and drink something else that's still distributed from Anheuser-Busch.

You know, it's like they still stand for all the same shit. Yeah. You know. And to further prove that they're idiots, a lot of people switched over. A lot of people switch over to Coors, who has been doing, you know,

pride events since like the 70s. So good job. Coors is reaping in the cash right now. People are just fucking idiots, like straight up idiots. And people don't always do their research either.

Because I mean, like you said, with Colorado, like they're super liberal and all that stuff. Exactly. That's where Coors is from. But Ball, the can manufacturer Ball has actually taken a hit because Bud Light

sales have been down so hard. Yeah. Wow. They're taking a hit. They've reported a loss directly because of that. So that's interesting. I was going to say, as long as it doesn't affect my Colorado avalanche, I'm good with it.

You just, you got a team in like every state, it seems like. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. I never have an off season. That's true. That is true. Yeah.

I need to get a hockey team, damn it. Do you guys have one? No. Oh. Yeah, I didn't think so. I'm just not really into hockey. Yeah. I just wish I could get into it. But speaking of Budweiser and AB, so here's the big news of the day.

Monday they announced Anheuser-Busch is selling eight of their, in quotes, craft brands to Tilray. Tilray is the one that owns Sweetwater and Alpine and Green Flash.

So they are, and I was surprised a lot by two of these names that they are picking up from Budweiser. Shocktop, I was surprised about that one. That's a huge brand. Gross though.

Yeah. Gross, but huge. Breckenridge Brewery, Blue Point Brewing Company, Ten Barrel Brewing Company. I was surprised at Red Hook and then Widmer Brothers.

I think Red Hook and Widmer were somehow together before Budweiser picked them up. So I guess that part is not surprising. Square Mile Cider Company and Highball Energy. Which isn't good either.

I haven't heard of Widmer in a while. I said a wire, in a while. I've never had Highball. You've had it? Yeah, it's like caffeinated seltzer water. No. It's not very good.

Apparently they discontinued it in May, but Tilray bought the brand off of AB for some reason. Keep it discontinued. Might as well. So weird. No Maygusta. Yeah, Zee Mucho.

But I'm pretty sure Tilray is not craft, so still not craft. And either way, Shocktop is fucking disgusting. The only thing I've ever seen from Shocktop around is their Belgian white.

Isn't that all they have? They came out with some lemonade one year. I don't know if it was a Shandy or what. But God, I just can't do the Belgian wheats.

No. I mean like... Just drink shipyard or something like that at that point. Right. And that's kind of like my, I don't want to say gateway. Before I got into craft beers and IPAs, when I was like, hey, I'm kind of done with Bud

Light here. What am I going to go to next? And it was like, all right, Blue Moon and Shocktop are pretty much the same. I couldn't do it ever in my life, and I still cannot. Back then I could. Mine was Pyramid.

Yeah. Oh, I drink a lot of Heffs, man. Pyramid was delicious. Windmere Brothers. Like I was all about it. Now I can't drink that shit if my life depended on it. The Heffs are... They can't. I can't do it.

Even like the best made Heff by like the best brewery in the world. Just not my jam. Can't fucking do it. I can still do Heffs, but I can do like one. A decade. Yeah, one a year maybe.

Yeah. If somebody buys it for me. Right. Like six months into this show, I was like, you know what? Let's revive the Heff. And I tried to have one on the show. It was probably like episode like 30 or something like that.

And I was like, yeah, let's revive the Heff. And I was drinking. I was like, no, let's not revive the Heff. Let's let it go. Well, for me, when I turned 21, we had one bar in town.

Believe it or not, a city in Milwaukee had one bar in town. I call bullshit. Um, but aside from like all the domestic shit they had on tap, they had Franziskaner. And it came in like the big 22 ounce, like tulip shaped glass or whatever you will.

And, you know, you got this lemon wedge with it, which, you know, lemon and Franziskaner is fucking amazing. Uh, so I think that's what did it for me was just too many Franziskaners and then.

Yeah. No more, no more Heffs. I get it. Yeah. I don't, I don't know, Mikey, what about you? What'd you come up on like between your shit beer and your good beer? Was there like a, like a blue moon phase or.

You know, man, it was crazy. So I, it was pyramid, like pyramid was like what kind of started for me. But then I moved in with my buddies cause I moved out when I was 18. And I, well, when I moved in with my buddies, they were already old over 21.

They're like, oh, we're going to stone. We're going to go fucking get double bastards and all this other stuff. So I was like, oh, I'm fucking down. Let's try that. Sounds amazing. It's beer. Like, how could the beer be bad? And I tried the first, yeah, real crap beer I ever had was the double bastard.

And I was like, what the fuck is this? That is a dip into the deep end right there. Yeah. And eventually like I had the regular IPA. I was like, oh, okay. Like, all right, I can handle this stone IPA and that was fine.

But then you kind of make your way to like the, you know, the, you know, the double bastards and just the regular arrogant bastard. I was like thrust into the, like you said, the deep end of the. Yeah. Double bastards, man.

Jesus Christ. It was rough. Yeah. I mean, my, my first real like foray into craft was, uh, stone Kelly, Belgium fucking love it. And then, uh, I talk about this all the time. Mammoth 395 IPA.

Those, those two were like, what got me into craft? I really mammoth. Like anything that mammoth puts out is not, maybe not anything. Cause I haven't had everything they put out, but a lot of their stuff I feel is severely

underrated. Yeah. And I know there's been reports of them not being as good in recent years, but, uh. Yeah. Man, that double nut Brown still fucking delicious. Yeah. They'll see.

And you guys aren't familiar with Lakefront brewery, but they're like, there was like the staple in Milwaukee and their, their Amber and their, I believe it was a red IPA that

they had. It was called fixed gear. Those were the two that fucking got me in fixed gear and river Weststein. Reds and Ambers used to give me all the malt and I would love it. Now I can't stand them all.

Yeah. Yeah. It's buddies mentioned the red though. Flex. Cause when I was a kid, I remember drinking like Killian's Irish red and thinking like, Oh, I'm 15, 16 years old walking around with the killings.

I'm like, I'm a fucking bad mother. Hot shit over here. What are you drinking Coors? I'm drinking Killian's Irish. Even though I didn't know that they owned it. Probably say maybe V2. Probably.

Yeah. Yeah. It's like, oh, you got 3.5. I got 3.8. Fucker. Yeah. So suck on that. Somebody's going to correct me.

Like, oh, Killian's was eight. What are you talking about? Yeah. You're. Yeah. I get it. I get it all the time. Yeah. That's funny. Anchor's union. So we talked about, you know, anchor, of course, closing. Then the union said that they wanted to buy back anchor from Sapporo, run it as a co-op.

There's nothing more San Francisco sounding than that. Anchor's union is claiming that Sapporo refuses to turn over the financial information in order to, you know, be able to proceed with the transaction.

It's weird. It's like they want to bury the brand or something like that. Oh, yeah. That's what it sounds like. Yeah. It doesn't make any sense at all. It doesn't make any sense. I mean, that sort of brand, I feel like even if Sapporo just kept it as a brand and closed

the brewery, that would make more business sense. It's such a history brand, but I don't know. When you put it in like everything in a perspective of like what that brand survived.

Right. For all those years, like take two world wars. Like, you know, obviously like, you know, the Vietnam or all these other things that happened in the world and for them to survive the way they did and then for it to just kind

of go down the way it was just really, honestly, it was just crazy. Yeah. It's weird. I don't get it, but we'll see how things turn. I hope, I would love if the union could bite out and anchor becomes craft again.

They bring back the Christmas Dale, all that good stuff. And stop making IPAs. Anchor, no one's coming to you for IPAs. Let's be honest here. All right. We'll end it with this one in a story of nobody wanted this to happen.

Harpoon and, you know, Harpoon has a deal with Duncan. Yeah. That's all I've ever seen. Yeah. Harpoon's Duncan's spiced iced tea and spiked ice coffee mix packs are coming to stores.

Hard pass. Yeah. No. Dang. Yeah. No, thanks. Didn't PBR try to do that a couple of years ago? Yeah. PBR has got some sort of like cold brew thing. They did the coffee one.

Yeah. Yeah. Are they still doing it? I wonder. I haven't seen it. I heard it wasn't terrible. I actually heard the same thing. Never tried it, but I heard like it wasn't the grossest thing you've ever put in your mouth. Yeah.

Yeah. There you go. Yeah. People still drink PBR. Also true. Yeah. Yeah. I can't do it. I just can't. No. Even before I was a snob, I didn't like the PBR.

I remember going to like some country night with my best friend and it was like $10. All you can drink PBR. And I thought, all right, here we go. I'm going to get shitter. It was like PBR and a half deep. And I was like, I need something different. One of the first times my buddy and I got my older brother to buy us beer.

Just so I can hang out. He bought us a 12 pack of PBR and a 12 pack of Budweiser. And I cracked a Budweiser because I'm like, yeah, I saw Stone Cold Steve Lawson drink

these things for years, right? They got to be fine. And I couldn't stand it. So I'm like, oh, well, try PBR, right? I'm like all the hipsters in Milwaukee like fucking PBR.

And I cracked that. Back to Budweiser. That tasted fucking horrible too. I'm like, what am I going to drink? Yeah, that's, oh, I just couldn't.

I couldn't do it. Yeah, it's bad. Thanks, Duncan, for ruining just about everything. Yeah, coffee, donuts, everything. Clearly we're not from Boston. Oh, before we guys, because I know you're talking about finishing up.

Before we do, can I ask you guys some questions? Sure. Because I was just curious because I know obviously you guys have been together for so many episodes. I was just kind of curious of how you guys came together. It was a match made in heaven.

Here you go. Twinkle, twinkle, baby. Well, so we were, you know, there's like engagement groups that run through on Instagram. And Greg, who ran the unfiltered page, was in the, you know, we just so happened to be

in like a group together. And then we just kind of built like a friendship like that. Yeah. And- I mean, look at those fucking quads. How could you not want to talk about that? Dan, who was the co-host, dropped his laptop in his pool.

COVID hit. We were all together in the room. It was three of us. And then COVID hit. So I sent everybody with microphones so we could do it like this, kind of remote. And yeah, Dan spilt, I think, a glass of water on his laptop.

Yeah. So that was sort of the end of Dan's ability to join. And yeah, so that was kind of the beginning of the change, I guess. Yeah. So Allie stepped in and then she stepped out.

And then I was just like, hey, if you need somebody, like, because I had done a show or two before. Yeah. You'd done one or two and it went well. Yeah. We had a good time.

And yeah. So I said, hey, if you need somebody, like I can buy a computer and we can do this. This motherfucker went and bought a computer. And then I went and bought a computer.

You know, I didn't buy anything fancy schmancy. Just went to- Went to the local Best Buy because apparently they still have those. And yeah, I'm looking through laptops and the guy's like, hey, how can I help you?

And I said, hey, I'm just looking for like a computer that will allow me to do a podcast. And he's trying to talk to me about memory and gigs.

I said, no, no, no, no, no. All I need is to hook up to the internet and to be able to like video and do a podcast. Well, if you want this kind of...

No, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Hold on. You heard me. Is this computer compatible? Will this just work? I don't care what the gigs are. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not buying this for any other reason than to just record this podcast.

And I'm basically hanging out week after week. We just became super weird and fun with each other. And disgusting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're gross. Getting it all dirty.

I love it. Daddy. It's actually Dirty Greg. That's what we call him. Dirty Greg. Oh, yeah. I was Dirty Mike at one point on the old Taps and Tailgates. So there we go. Yeah.

Favorite breweries in your guys' area? Because obviously you being from Milwaukee. And I know you're out, you said you're in Camarillo, Greg. Yeah. Thousand Oaks. Close enough. Oh, Tarantula Hills up there. Yeah. I love that. Tee Hills.

Good. Love me some 14 Cannons. Naughty Pine. Looking for some loggers. Go to Integrand. And there's a lot of good stuff around here. And that's just right around me. We won't even get into the Ventura breweries.

Yeah. And for me, the big one here is Eagle Park. They just do... They do great French fries. Yes. The world's best French fries. Nice. Also the state's best beer when it comes to just quality, price point, the whole...

The complete package. 1840 probably does the best beer, I would say, in the Midwest. But everything they do is small batch and it's wicked expensive.

Okay. But yeah, we got some others like Lion Tail. Man, every time I get put on the spot, I forget about them. Well, then I'll ask you this one since you both like wrestling. It doesn't matter any time, any decade, anything, any favorite wrestler of all time.

John Michaels. Or he's the GOAT. That was easy. John's the GOAT. Yeah. Wasn't sure if you... Because there's the right answer, so you got it right. My favorite wrestler of all time was probably Sting.

I can't fight John. Wow. Yeah. I can't fight you on that. Sting was great. My only thing is if Sting was better on the mic, I felt like he would have been the total package. I think it was all his gimmick which took away from that.

Yeah. You know, like when he turned into the crow and shit like that. Yeah. I think that was the best thing that ever happened to him. I mean, obviously, because it made him huge, but also he wasn't great on the mic and it gave him an excuse to not talk.

Okay. Yeah. I just have two more. Is that okay? Sure. I don't want to keep you guys too long. Your hangover cure? If you guys have one. I can tell you.

Gregg's. Go for it. You guys do each other's? What is Gregg's? Diet Dr. Pepper and some al pastor tacos. Actually, some pozole.

Ah, pozole. Okay. Yeah. And Flex's is donuts. Yes. There you go. Donuts. No drink or anything like that to go along with it? I mean, I'll snag some Gatorade on the side, but...

H2O. It's all about that sugary donuts. Yeah. Wings, pizza, or burgers, if you're going to have... Like if they're saying that you go to a brewery, there's a kitchen, which would you order with

a beer? It's hard. I have specific places that have the best of those certain items. Assuming all things were equal and everything was absolutely amazing, I think I'd go Wings.

There's a brewery out here called Transmission Brewery. They're in Ventura. And they're attached to Topper's Pizza. We've talked about Topper's on here. But it's the only location of Topper's that has wings.

And their wings are fucking amazing. I would... I went there on my birthday just to go have wings and beer. This is such a hard question. I know. It's a loaded question, my bad. Hey, but you can throw curds in there if you want.

This is basically like a fuck, marry, kill or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. You can throw curds in there. I would honestly have to go with pizza. Okay. If I'm drinking a lot of beer, it's going to be pizza.

If I'm going for lunch, it's going to be burgers. And if there's a wing deal, I'm going to get wings. I love that answer. Yeah. It's just... Pizza is going to suck up the most booze and it's going to make my night the best.

So pizza. Love that. I'm going to toss up. I'm kind of in the same boat. I love a smash burger. But I mean, who doesn't love wings or pizza too? Yeah. That's like the worst question I've ever been asked. Can I piss off a lot of people real quick?

Yeah. Not a fan of a smash burger. Really? Yeah. Not a fan. You know what I want? I want a goddamn burger. I don't want your little flattened hockey puck. There you go. I just...

Look, I worked at McDonald's. The cheeseburgers at McDonald's, we call them 10 ones because it's 10 of those things to one pound. It's a 10 one. Oh, wow. Every fucking smash burger I get is smaller.

It's got to be like a 15 one or something like that. No way. They're tiny. There's like no meat. I want some fucking meat on my burger. All right. Well, if you're ever down in the area, I'll cook you mine.

Okay. What I do is I do... It's not a half pound, but at least a third pound meatball that I use. Some people only do like three ounce meatballs when they do their smash burger.

Oh, I swear I'm getting like one ounce shit. It's tiny. Oh, yeah. I'm a big boy. I need to eat something. Yeah. I'll do a third pound and I'll smash the shit out of those and get the... Was it the lattice things on the side?

I guess the crispy bits. Yeah. It's not that it tastes bad. I just... No one ever puts any fucking meat on those things. That's why I don't like them. Oh, yeah. And mine only come in doubles. Yeah. Double smash patty.

Yeah, that's... Challenge accepted. That's the way to go. Yeah. There we go. Last one I wanted to ask you, I'm sorry. I know I said that was the other one, but I just... Liar. I got to ask, Flex, because of the comic books. Who's your favorite comic book character of all time?

Oh, it's Captain America. Oh, you say Cap? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I got all this stuff and Cap. Definitely Cap. One of my favorite Captain Americas was with the Punisher when he became Capital Punishment

way back when. That was like 2007, but Swamp Thing is my favorite. Swamp Thing? Superman is my favorite, but Swamp Thing is my second favorite superhero. Black Widow, because she's fucking hot.

Bingo. Yeah, that's the right answer, Flex. The Swamp Thing movie when I was... Was it a show? I don't know, but that was one of the first onscreen adaptations, like a live action

hero, like The Incredible Hulk. You remember the Lou Ferrigno and shit? Yeah. That slapped. Oh, yeah. Any more questions for us?

No, that's good. I appreciate you guys having me. Yeah, man. Yeah, no problem. Thanks for coming on. Go check out the Tap Room Podcast at the Tap Room Podcast on the socials. Links are all up there.

You can find it. Go listen to Mike. Go listen to Mike and Chew hang out and shoot the shit. It sounded like Chew was recording from a park or something. You know what? That might've been me, because I usually keep my window closed.

All right. It might've been, because where my apartment complex is, there's... Within the complex, there's a little dog park. Oh, okay. I just kept hearing noises like, is Chew outside?

What the fuck's going on? I appreciate it, though, guys. I really do. Yeah, man. Thanks for hanging out with us. Definitely a good time. Yeah. At the Tap Room Podcast. Find us at CrappyRepublic, at FlexMeABeer, underscores in between.

Oh, we mustn't forget. Hi, Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. I was... I got shit last week. Yeah. See, everybody. I got shit last week from her husband. He was like, that was a weak ass. Hi, Vanessa.

So, hi, Vanessa. Oh, is that? Okay. So... Hi, Vanessa. Is that good? Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.

I'm just kidding. All right. Well, hopefully he's okay with those. Yeah. Hopefully so. We'll find... He'll be the first one to let me know if he's not. So, anyways. Hi, out there.

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