1 00:00:00,629 --> 00:00:04,274 Do you guys talk all day every day? 2 00:00:04,274 --> 00:00:06,176 It's usually just a series of nudes. 3 00:00:06,176 --> 00:00:09,741 Sometimes we go to like a day without talking. 4 00:00:09,741 --> 00:00:10,763 No words exchanged. 5 00:00:23,008 --> 00:00:39,086 Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer Republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg being joined by, uh, by now a professional meat beater and that's flex still learning, still learning, but you're getting not how to beat my own. 6 00:00:39,086 --> 00:00:43,230 Y ou know what? Nevermind. It's you're beating other people's meat. I'm beating other people's meat. Got it. 7 00:00:43,230 --> 00:00:50,835 Nailed it. All right. On to the next, as promised, back for another week. It's everyone's favorite New Yorker. That's beer girl Mel. 8 00:00:50,835 --> 00:00:54,736 What's happening? I am everybody's favorite meat eater. 9 00:00:54,736 --> 00:01:00,619 Can you believe we roped her back into this? I can't. 10 00:01:00,619 --> 00:01:06,270 I can't believe she just gave us that glorious drop, by the way. You know, everyone's favorite meat eater. 11 00:01:06,270 --> 00:01:17,846 Watch out, boy. All right. No, seriously, I'm so glad to be back. Let's see if we can make this podcast as good as last week's. 12 00:01:18,385 --> 00:01:55,168 Well, fingers crossed, but no promises here. Find us all on the socials, at craftbeerrepublic, at flexmeabeer underscores in between, and at beergirl underscore mel. That's twice in a row I've gotten it right. Look at me go. I am proud of myself. Pats on the back. All of those things. All right. Lots to get to today. We're all drinking some tasty beer. Well, I just sampled mine. We're all drinking some beers. Saw your face, man. Oh my God. This is not what I was expecting. Jesus Christ. I think this is my first experience with this. I almost hesitate to even review it. We'll get to that in a second. 13 00:01:55,426 --> 00:01:57,487 Do you have another fridge beer? Quick. 14 00:01:57,487 --> 00:02:13,572 Yeah. Text the wife. Bring me anything. Ludicrous libation law. We've got some booze news and so much. You know what? I'm just going to get into this. Let's knock the negative stuff right out of the way. All right. Let's talk about this thing. I'm drinking. 15 00:02:13,572 --> 00:02:13,992 Oh, gosh. 16 00:02:21,647 --> 00:02:22,788 I don't love my beer. 17 00:02:22,788 --> 00:02:27,251 I hate my beer. 18 00:02:27,251 --> 00:02:46,364 I hate my beer. Oh, my God, I just looked up the reviews. Clearly, I'm I'm in the fucking minority here. Oh, so today I'm drinking. Apologies, brewery. Gnarly Barley Brewing's Castle Made of Clouds. What a cool brewery. 19 00:02:46,364 --> 00:02:49,726 Gnarly Barley Brewing. Where are they based out of? 20 00:02:49,726 --> 00:04:14,546 That one place. Don't you know, as I buy myself time to click on stuff, Louisiana and the Castle Hammond, Louisiana, a barley based beer. I don't know. We'll find out. They actually have a description. My beer last week did not. Eight and a half percent for one three on untapped out of over a thousand ratings. Wow. They say, this hazy, juicy double IPA was brewed with oats and lact... Oh, there we go. Lactose to provide the foundation for silky texture that is compounded by the tropical flavors that gush off the New Zealand Pacific sunrise hops used. Starts with citrus up front and cleans up with a punch of pineapple that rounds out with stone fruit and dare we say, a tiny hint of coconut. A paradise, a luxury, a castle made of clouds. Um, all right, I'm gonna snozz. I just keep getting stale beer smell. Maybe it's a bad can. I mean, it's got over four with over a thousand ratings. I'm looking for a date on the can. I can't find it. This did come from Tayvor. Maybe it sat somewhere in a warehouse too long. The schnauz, it's just kind of stale smelling. 21 00:04:14,546 --> 00:04:26,133 The description reminded me of my childhood, like a Quaker oats packet of like strawberries and cream oatmeal, you know, like, and that is a positive thing. So I'm disappointed. 22 00:04:26,433 --> 00:04:38,450 It doesn't taste that way. I get maybe some fermented fruit on the nose. I get that hot burn smell, if that makes any sense. Not in a good way. 23 00:04:38,450 --> 00:04:43,057 You like hot burn, I was gonna say. Yeah, but it shouldn't for the description that you just read to us. 24 00:04:43,366 --> 00:05:26,391 So I don't get any of the lactosey sweetness, which honestly is probably a good thing. I just, I'm having a hard time pinpointing the flavor. It tastes old and stale and not in a beer snobby. Not in a beer snobby way, are you? Beer snobby, like this can is at least three weeks old. It's stale. That is true. I don't mean it like that. I mean, this thing tastes like it came from 1987. I'm going to chalk it up to bad can, I hope. Because with that sort of rating on tapped where people are fucking brutal, it just doesn't taste good. And I know generally I'm not a huge fan of lactose in beer, but this is not that. This is just not good. 25 00:05:26,391 --> 00:05:35,634 Oh, darn. I want to blame the can. Lactose kind of masks anything bad, too. Yeah, just add a little sweetness to it. 26 00:05:35,634 --> 00:05:52,271 It takes over. Yeah. I'm scrolling down the reviews on untapped one person gave it a three and a half and said, man, it's fine. Oh, OK, which is more than I would give it. But yeah, all right. Well, I don't know if I'm going to finish this. 27 00:05:52,271 --> 00:05:56,195 Is it is it a drainpour? That's what I was going to ask. I'm like, is this a drainpour? 28 00:05:57,048 --> 00:06:08,011 I guess we'll find out if I finish it or not. Oh my god. We'll see if I end up texting my wife and asking for another beer. I feel like you should. We're just starting the podcast. Yeah. 29 00:06:08,011 --> 00:06:15,794 Yeah. Just do it. Yeah. Gnarly Barley, if you're out there, send a good can of it so you can re-review it. 30 00:06:15,794 --> 00:06:34,603 I really hate saying negative things about breweries, especially breweries I don't know that well. But man, this can't be what they intended. I'll say that. This can't be what they intended for it. So maybe, uh, you know, got really hot on that shipment over to table or something rough. Okay. 31 00:06:34,603 --> 00:06:38,907 That's a lot to unpack in the beginning of the podcast. 32 00:06:38,907 --> 00:07:23,534 Let's move on. So much to get to today. Uh, you know, something we've followed for the last few years is like the ebbs and flows of ballast point and how they went from, uh, you know, craft darling of San Diego to sell out to the world. I think the only sellout brewery to increase their prices after selling out. Boy, did nobody want to buy Sculpin after that. But yeah, anyways, so I'm sure you guys all know Kings and Convicts bought them a few years ago. It was weird as fuck when they did. And it was a super cheap, like pennies on the dollar price compared to what they were bought out at. And has anybody actually been to Kings and Convicts? 33 00:07:23,534 --> 00:08:18,741 Okay. So here's a funny story about this. Okay. So, we had a little local beer crew over here, like the southeastern Wisconsin area, and my friend, his handle is Brewery Travels, a little underscore in between, and he sent this message out the other day. He said, do you guys remember that small brewery that bought Ballast Point? Well, I'm here and it's one of the strangest brewery tap rooms I've ever been to. So he proceeded to send us a few pictures of the brewery and it is like a completely empty warehouse. There is this strange It's got a golf simulator, believe it or not. It's empty with a golf simulator, lawn furniture. Like lawn chairs, and just like old wooden tables. 34 00:08:18,741 --> 00:08:20,042 Like the plastic lawn chairs? 35 00:08:20,042 --> 00:08:36,698 Like plastic lawn chairs, and they serve, they have no glassware, and they serve all their beer in red solo cups. Oh, it's the worst. Yeah, and they have like, like, city, they have like city trash bins as their garbage cans, like inside too. 36 00:08:36,698 --> 00:08:37,699 Yeah. 37 00:08:37,699 --> 00:08:43,244 It's just, it's super fucking bizarre. So weird. 38 00:08:43,244 --> 00:08:58,276 It's gotta be a front for something, right? I mean, clearly. I mean, here's the thing. No one had ever heard of Kings and Convicts until they bought Ballast Point. And I think at this point, still no one's heard of Kings and Convicts. But yeah, they gotta be like laundering money through Ballast Point, right? 39 00:08:58,276 --> 00:09:08,544 It's gotta be something. It has to be. Has to be. I mean, who just serves beer? If you're making craft beer, you're serving it to people in red Solo cups. 40 00:09:08,544 --> 00:09:22,577 I hate plastic cups. Here's where I am a beer snob. I want it in a glass. I don't want plastic. It's just bizarre. Yeah. I don't know. Am I alone in the glass thing here? No, I mean, I like a good glass. 41 00:09:22,577 --> 00:09:23,638 I do not like, yeah. 42 00:09:24,238 --> 00:09:34,447 I'm not so crazy to be like the style of glass, like this glass is for this or whatever, but I do like a nice clean glass. 43 00:09:34,447 --> 00:09:38,210 Even if it's just like your typical pint glass. Yeah, for sure. 44 00:09:38,210 --> 00:09:43,134 Just please a glass. Unless I'm tailgating where I need to dispose of. 45 00:09:43,134 --> 00:09:46,316 Different story. Then I just drink cans. 46 00:09:46,316 --> 00:09:49,259 I'm not a total savage. It's probably not a good beer anyway. 47 00:09:50,017 --> 00:09:57,126 Right. I'm just wondering if they're like just venturing in from like homebrewing to now they have acquired this. 48 00:09:57,126 --> 00:09:59,790 But how do you get all that money to buy Bale's Point? 49 00:10:00,028 --> 00:10:15,503 What do they call them? Nepo babies? Nepo, right? Like a Nepo baby, like the celebrities that have kids that are, they're born into money. So, and then they just do whatever they want. Like they come up with like a sock line. A sock line? 50 00:10:15,503 --> 00:10:16,484 Oh, sock. 51 00:10:16,484 --> 00:10:37,799 Okay. Sock, like Rob Kardashian, not dropping names, but you know, like things like that where it doesn't even make sense. Like, Or like a pillow company where their parents are like, you need to do something. Check out my pillow. And he's like, well, I'm really good at like flip cup and like partying in college. Like buy me this brewery. And here we are. 52 00:10:37,799 --> 00:11:00,592 You know, maybe. It's fucking weird. So weird. It is bizarre. That is weird. Yeah, I you would think like whoever bought about even though the pennies on the dollar is still like 50 million dollars You'd think maybe your your home base would be a little upgraded. Oh, yeah That's super weird. I'm so glad who's your friend that sent that over was the gram? 53 00:11:00,592 --> 00:11:04,214 brewery travels with the underscore in between 54 00:11:04,545 --> 00:11:11,022 Go give him a follow. I'm glad he sent that over. I had no idea. That's so fucking bizarre. Yeah, it's uh... How bizarre? 55 00:11:11,022 --> 00:11:31,976 It was cra- I had no idea it even looked like that. I don't think anybody does no one's actually ever been there before he's the first, but I guess it's funny I mean the golf simulator in there is like huge too. It looks like an industrial guard like a industrial big fucking like garbage bin dumpster Why not I guess? 56 00:11:31,976 --> 00:11:36,340 So they're Italians then so you're right. They are funnily money never mind 57 00:11:37,307 --> 00:11:39,589 Do the Italians love golf simulators? Is that what this is? 58 00:11:39,589 --> 00:11:47,276 No, garbage. Oh, garbage. Yeah. That's the whole front. The sanitation business. Come on now. 59 00:11:47,276 --> 00:11:50,319 Are you allowed to talk about this in public? 60 00:11:50,319 --> 00:11:56,044 I'm not on that side of the... I'm not on that side. Oh. So yeah, I can. 61 00:11:56,044 --> 00:11:56,885 You're okay. 62 00:11:56,885 --> 00:12:01,309 It's legit. I mean, even if you watch like the Sopranos or any of them. Yes. 63 00:12:01,309 --> 00:12:01,930 It's well known. 64 00:12:02,345 --> 00:12:11,249 Yeah. Yeah. That's an Italian out there and they easily would just not care about pushing some money one way for one of their kids to take over. 65 00:12:11,249 --> 00:12:12,429 I guess it kind of makes sense. 66 00:12:12,429 --> 00:12:21,233 Yeah. Next podcast, Mel's disappeared wearing cement boots and campaign hound. 67 00:12:21,233 --> 00:12:30,557 Our guest tonight is Mel. Hey Mel, how's it going? Sorry, Mel's a little tied up right now. Not even funny. 68 00:12:30,557 --> 00:12:31,878 She's a rat. 69 00:12:32,771 --> 00:12:36,772 Yeah, niches get stitches. Mel, do you speak Italian? 70 00:12:37,482 --> 00:12:39,003 No, not at all. 71 00:12:39,003 --> 00:12:39,864 Oh, damn. 72 00:12:39,864 --> 00:12:50,291 No, that was part of the immigration in the 1950s, when everybody came over, was to become Americanized as fast as possible. 73 00:12:50,291 --> 00:12:50,872 Oh. 74 00:12:50,872 --> 00:13:00,018 We were really not looked well at, you know, like Italians and Irish. Right. Our immigration, if you ever read a history book. 75 00:13:00,018 --> 00:13:02,700 Well, yeah, it's Irish and the Gold Rush. People didn't like us. Yeah. 76 00:13:02,700 --> 00:13:10,024 People did not like the Italians, and they were like, Just very quick to try to become American. And also, that was the goal. 77 00:13:10,024 --> 00:13:12,985 I feel like that was most immigrants, right? 78 00:13:12,985 --> 00:13:31,552 I think so, yeah. Yeah, coming over for... But if you see old immigrants versus new immigrants, the new immigrants are definitely keeping a hold of their traditions, their language, their culture, which I love. But yeah, no, we're kind of lost. So, unfortunately, no. 79 00:13:31,552 --> 00:13:32,993 Do you speak about it as much as Peter Griffin? 80 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:35,021 I know, like, the bad words. 81 00:13:35,021 --> 00:13:41,365 Oh, that's important. Bibbidi-bobbidi. Yeah. Bibbidi-bobbidi-bobbidi. That's all I know. All right. 82 00:13:41,365 --> 00:13:45,047 Now, sugo means sauce. 83 00:13:45,047 --> 00:13:47,809 Oh. You even said sauce right. Sauce. Yeah. 84 00:13:47,809 --> 00:13:48,750 I like saying it like that. 85 00:13:49,415 --> 00:14:17,192 Alright, we'll stop offending immigrants now. We'll move on to more beer things. Before we find out what Mel's drinking over there, ludicrous libation law. This one comes from Connecticut. Apparently, druggists, which I didn't even know was a thing. It's a real word. Yeah. Why don't they just call them pharmacists? But druggists in the state must pay $400 each year for a special license. That is, if they want to use alcohol in compounding prescriptions. Okay. 86 00:14:17,192 --> 00:14:29,155 Now I'm curious because Tim, my Monday buddy, he's a pharmacist. Now I need to know if this is a druggist thing is real, real word. 87 00:14:29,155 --> 00:14:33,816 I'm guessing it's a pharmacist who also does compounds like mixes their own shit. 88 00:14:33,816 --> 00:14:36,937 Pharmacists are allowed to do that all across the board. 89 00:14:36,937 --> 00:14:42,878 So in Connecticut, if you want to use alcohol in your things that you're compounding, you have to have a special license. 90 00:14:42,878 --> 00:14:46,539 I wonder why they would put alcohol into the compound. 91 00:14:46,939 --> 00:14:47,980 I don't know, maybe it does something. 92 00:14:47,980 --> 00:14:50,761 All right, now I have to do research for the next podcast. 93 00:14:50,761 --> 00:14:53,843 See you next week. Yeah, you would be super interested in that. 94 00:14:53,843 --> 00:15:03,829 Yeah, yeah, I would, because that's also like intravenous, so it could be dangerous, but... Oh, yeah. I mean, imagine you could just get your alcohol through an IV. That'd be a new cliche bar. 95 00:15:03,829 --> 00:15:07,732 It'd be very convenient. They have like that in Vegas, right? The IV bars? 96 00:15:08,450 --> 00:15:15,356 Yeah, but it's not alcohol. It's usually like vitamins. It's like so you- It's to recover from alcohol. Yeah, to not be hungover. 97 00:15:15,356 --> 00:15:16,376 Yeah, I knew that. 98 00:15:16,376 --> 00:15:22,461 I was just gonna assume that. I guess you could put anything in it really, but now I'm curious. Oh, I'm curious. 99 00:15:22,461 --> 00:15:34,811 Flex, you ever butt funnel some beer? I know what that is. Notice how he didn't actually answer the question. So we'll move on to find out what Mel is drinking over there as we call to the pen. 100 00:15:39,955 --> 00:15:45,598 He calls to the bullpen for beer. 101 00:15:45,598 --> 00:16:37,072 So, of course, I am going to shamelessly plug Aspire Brewing again, but I am really excited to share this beer with you guys because it's one of my favorites. It's the Helles Lager. It's called dextrous. It is a light beer. It's a game day beer. So it was perfect to be called to the pen or from the pen because it's 5.3%. It is all malt, Pilsner and Cara Munich. Enjoy lightly sweet malt flavors in this crisp and very drinkable helles lager. Dextrous, adjective. Having mental adroitness, I'm saying that wrong, or skill, also clever. Fun fact, I am ambidextrous, which means that I do things with both of my hands. 102 00:16:37,072 --> 00:16:38,333 Jerk off with both hands. 103 00:16:39,290 --> 00:17:00,444 You never know. I write with my left, I do a lot of things with my right. This beer is phenomenal. You guys, I did send you a picture of it so you can see clarity. Nice and clear. It's got beautiful bubbles, very effervescent. My nose job is not really working so well. 104 00:17:00,444 --> 00:17:01,525 I'm trying to sniff. 105 00:17:02,285 --> 00:17:14,593 It's been fired, but you know what I can I can smell them all through that I can smell I couldn't identify it I couldn't tell you which one it is, but it's got that really bready smell and when I give it a little taste 106 00:17:15,575 --> 00:17:16,856 This is the tongue job. 107 00:17:16,856 --> 00:18:20,876 This is just a really clean. Yeah. Oh gosh. I love this beer so much. It's, it's almost like drinking a pretzel minus the salt. You know what I mean? It's got that really nice, enjoyable malt where it's like a little sweet, but definitely not caramel. Definitely not malt bomb, like bready. lights, like I want to drink this all the time. I could have probably like five or six of these and never be satisfied. I would want another one. It's just really well executed. It's one of my favorites, hands down. And, um, I've noticed like over like probably the last like year and a half, I've, I've been kind of migrating towards more of those like crispy boys, as you call them, you know, like Morehouse Lagers, a Kolsch, I love a good Kolsch, straight Pilsner, you know, just something a little bit lighter, a little bit cleaner that like could really pair well with anything that you're eating or doing, any game day activity, it's a lawnmower beer, oh gosh, it's just gorgeous. 108 00:18:21,687 --> 00:18:36,831 I contend that Hellas and Kolsch are the two styles that you can judge a brewery on. If they can knock those out, there's nothing to hide behind a Hellas or a Kolsch. If they knock those out and they're great, then- This is phenomenal. 109 00:18:36,831 --> 00:19:08,164 I'm going to have to send you guys some care packages of the beer so you can agree with me. The canner is fun. I did send it to them, but they can't see it. It's like this kind of I can't tell if it's a nature-y hand or if it's a zombie hand, but it's holding malt in it and it's facing upward. The palm is facing upward with the malt in between the thumb and the pointer finger. Yes, you're doing it, Flex. Just close that pointer finger and the thumb. 110 00:19:08,164 --> 00:19:09,505 I thought it was a robot hand. 111 00:19:10,363 --> 00:19:26,747 It does kind of look robotic, but as I look at it, the joint kind of looks, it's hard to tell. They kind of look like they could be mushrooms or swap thing. I don't know. I'm such a fan. I'm such a fan of this beer. 112 00:19:26,747 --> 00:19:31,968 I love how passionate you are about a lager, by the way. 113 00:19:31,968 --> 00:19:32,668 You know what? 114 00:19:32,668 --> 00:19:45,901 True beer nerd. I'm huge on lagers and I think that's... Not huge knowing anything about them, just huge on really enjoying a game. Yeah, like I feel your passion so much. 115 00:19:45,901 --> 00:20:04,006 This is like your everyday beer Like I would make this my Bud Light but like I'm classier than Bud Light, you know what I mean? Who is it? It's not even comparable to Bud Light like it's so much better But it's just it's one of those beers you want to have it in your fridge You have a couple people over you're watching the game like this is what I'm drinking. 116 00:20:04,006 --> 00:20:09,947 It's a people pleaser beer like it's one of those party beers where you know you put it out and Anybody who's a beer drinker won't be mad about it 117 00:20:10,353 --> 00:20:12,455 No, they'll have it and they'll want more of it. 118 00:20:12,455 --> 00:20:24,004 It's like out here. It's like 805. If you're going to, if you need to have one beer at a party, it's 805. No one's going to hate it. It's just, it's on tap. There you go. Heck yeah. Nice and light. 119 00:20:24,004 --> 00:20:25,305 Get it. Not offensive to anybody. 120 00:20:25,305 --> 00:20:27,507 I hope I'm doing it justice because it really is that good though. 121 00:20:27,667 --> 00:20:28,527 Yeah, it's perfect. 122 00:20:28,527 --> 00:20:32,429 Perfect Sunday beer. I think you've plastered it all over the wall, actually. 123 00:20:32,429 --> 00:20:33,810 Yeah. 124 00:20:33,810 --> 00:20:41,273 You've painted a mural of it in town. That's what you did to this beer. That is absolutely what happened, yeah. 125 00:20:41,273 --> 00:20:44,715 I think you did a great job. Well, good. Well done. 126 00:20:44,715 --> 00:20:45,755 Thank you. 127 00:20:45,755 --> 00:20:46,876 They owe you money now. 128 00:20:46,876 --> 00:20:52,578 I would hope so. I do get to drink for free mostly, so. I guess that works out. 129 00:20:54,087 --> 00:21:35,221 That automatically adds like two points to the beer, whatever. It's a seven. Oh, it's free? That's a nine. Yeah, this is delicious. Yeah. Nighter. Oh, free beer is delicious. All right, let's move on to a little bit of booze news before we find out what Flex is drinking over there. Conor McGregor, his forged Irish stout is now available in the U.S. and by U.S. they just mean Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and very specifically New York City. New York City. He says, it's time the world gets to experience a true Irish stout that is 100% Irish compared to the competition. Is that a shot at Guinness? 130 00:21:35,221 --> 00:21:36,543 I was going to say, yeah. 131 00:21:36,871 --> 00:22:24,036 My team and I have worked extremely hard to produce the world's creamiest stout here in my brewery in Dublin. And it's breaking all records in Ireland and the UK. So now it's time to take over the U.S. I guess so. I have no idea. Who knew? And now it's in Mel's hood. Getting it. Research. Yeah. I bet he's contract brewing. I mean, I guess I could have done some research. Well, no, nobody gets you for that. You're not wrong. Uh, the average price of a 12 ounce beer at us bars and restaurants increased 10.2% over the last year, uh, ending August 12th. So, uh, beer's just getting more and more expense. Well, you know, inflation. Yeah. Thanks. 132 00:22:27,368 --> 00:22:28,489 Thanks, government. 133 00:22:28,489 --> 00:22:49,163 Thanks, government. In a turn of, wow, did we not need this, Coop Aleworks has partnered with Welch's, you know, like Welch's grape juice? Grape juice and jelly, not jam, there's a difference. They are going to put out a 7.5% spirits-based beverage. Ew. 134 00:22:56,987 --> 00:22:59,509 What are we doing here? 135 00:22:59,509 --> 00:23:01,831 It sounds like diabetes. 136 00:23:01,831 --> 00:23:09,997 I feel like it's going to be some weird peanut butter and jelly malt beverage, and it's just not going to be good. 137 00:23:09,997 --> 00:23:23,287 I can't wait for, like, the Knott's Berry Farm Boysenberry 7.5% seltzer. That's a California joke, everybody. But yeah, at what point does this thing jump the shark and we're done turning everything into a fucking seltzer? 138 00:23:24,291 --> 00:23:31,584 Um, it's not going to stop until we stop it. We have to stop the machine because everybody's just trying to make money. It's on us. 139 00:23:33,015 --> 00:23:34,296 Yeah, it's definitely the consumer's fault. 140 00:23:34,296 --> 00:23:38,397 We should have stopped it at Bud Light Flannels. What were we thinking? 141 00:23:38,397 --> 00:23:45,600 Those cans were cool, though. The Yankee Candle Edition. You know, this is like absolute shit, buddy. 142 00:23:45,600 --> 00:24:04,653 Those would have faded. The saving grace for the Bud Light ones was when Mel sent them to Flex. Yeah. And he posted them, and they got a huge spike in sales because Flex is so hot. Totally reverse the course, it's Mel's fault for making Flex drink them. 143 00:24:04,653 --> 00:24:07,316 You dared me, you dared me. It's your fault. 144 00:24:07,316 --> 00:24:14,644 Why would you actually send Bud Light seltzers through the mail? That's my question. Why would anybody do that? 145 00:24:14,644 --> 00:24:31,767 Because Craig dared me to. I did. I did. Yeah. You were the one that said I could be on the show if I sent them and then we could review them. And I was like, that's my end. So I don't, by the way, I also like kind of put a lot of really good beer in with that. 146 00:24:31,767 --> 00:24:32,367 You did. 147 00:24:32,367 --> 00:24:37,950 I think there was like 15 cans in a medium. Yeah. Like a medium box. 148 00:24:37,950 --> 00:24:42,994 Like $100 in shipping. Don't even mess with me. Yeah. 149 00:24:42,994 --> 00:24:52,222 I don't care. Did you get the good beer besides the shitty seltzers? Yes, I did. Okay, so shut up. Drink the damn seltzer. 150 00:24:52,222 --> 00:24:57,807 Now, here's the question. I drank them all. Did you send them one of each flavor or did you send them the whole box? 151 00:24:58,639 --> 00:25:06,405 No, I sent one of each flavor because I felt it wasn't fair for him to do it alone. So I tried them all and they were awful. 152 00:25:06,405 --> 00:25:14,671 What was it? It was the marshmallow, the pumpkin, the apple, and there was a pear. 153 00:25:14,671 --> 00:25:23,415 The pear was probably the best one. The worst was the apple because it tasted like a Yankee candle. Like I bit into a Yankee candle. 154 00:25:23,415 --> 00:25:29,037 Drinking wax. The apple was bad. The marshmallows smelled like it was going to be good, and then that was bad. 155 00:25:29,037 --> 00:25:37,100 They all smelled like they were going to be exactly what was on the label. They're just so bad. But when you tasted them, something went awry. 156 00:25:37,944 --> 00:25:43,485 It's so weird that something from Bud Light tasted bad. Who'd have seen that coming? 157 00:25:43,485 --> 00:25:45,606 Do they still do these holiday packs? 158 00:25:45,606 --> 00:25:48,626 I wonder if that's... Do they even still do Bud Light Seltzer? 159 00:25:48,626 --> 00:25:53,027 Yeah, they have like that tie-dye edition. I saw that over the summer. 160 00:25:53,027 --> 00:25:54,548 What is that? Tastes like weed or something? 161 00:25:54,548 --> 00:25:56,548 I don't know. I didn't try them. 162 00:25:56,548 --> 00:26:04,190 Nah, come on. We need you to do that Bud Light Seltzer research. Our official Bud Light Seltzer correspondent, Beer Girl Mel. 163 00:26:05,616 --> 00:26:10,603 This just in, it tasted like shit. 164 00:26:10,603 --> 00:26:16,010 If you really want to hear you gotta drag out that I like tasted like shit. 165 00:26:16,010 --> 00:26:21,056 It's a bit nutty. 166 00:26:21,056 --> 00:26:38,906 Oh God, Austin. All right. What else is happening? Oktoberfest. Oh, here we go. Before we find out what Flex is doing. Oktoberfest 2023 had a record number of visitors. I think I heard about this. Me too. But they did not sell as much beer as they sold in the past. I didn't hear that. 167 00:26:39,833 --> 00:26:42,354 It was cannabis? Was it something about weed? 168 00:26:42,354 --> 00:26:56,942 Oh, it was not cannabis. No? So they had seven point... Oh, cocaine! There it is. Spoiler alert. They had 7.2 million visitors, but beer sales were lower than 2019. And that's because of cocaine. 169 00:26:56,942 --> 00:26:58,043 Yeah, I read this. 170 00:26:58,468 --> 00:27:18,895 There were 368 instances of drug use being reported. So, you know, tons more happened. Right. At the 2023 festivals, most party goers were caught with nothing more than weed, but 40% of people reprimanded were in possession of cocaine, an 80% increase compared to the previous year. 171 00:27:18,895 --> 00:27:22,836 40%? Yes. That's like half of the people, guys. 172 00:27:22,836 --> 00:27:26,657 That's a lot. Did they just discover it over there or what? 173 00:27:26,657 --> 00:27:27,778 Maybe they cracked down. 174 00:27:28,527 --> 00:27:32,488 Did you guys break up some chalk? What is this? Oh, cocaine. Oh, let's try it. 175 00:27:32,488 --> 00:27:37,190 I mean, you got to have when you're drinking all that beer, you got to have something to like wake you back up. 176 00:27:37,190 --> 00:27:41,591 You know, sober. Yeah. Or they're like still like 20 years behind. 177 00:27:41,591 --> 00:27:45,872 They're like Tony Montana, right? 178 00:27:45,872 --> 00:27:49,573 They're like 30 years. Well, whatever. Yeah. Lots of years. 179 00:27:49,573 --> 00:28:02,760 You know, like in Eurotrip, though, when they go to fucking Bratislava and the guy is like, where's the beef? I can't believe you remember anything from Eurotrip. Miami Vice, number one new show. 180 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:04,902 Were we not just talking about this recently? 181 00:28:04,902 --> 00:28:12,686 Yeah, you sent me the Scotty doesn't know thing. Scotty doesn't know. Scotty doesn't know. Dude, Eurotrip is the best, by the way. It really is. I haven't seen that in so long. 182 00:28:12,686 --> 00:28:52,355 I remember that entire movie. So here's a funny local story that's related to this. I'm not going to name names. I'm not going to name breweries. But somebody I know that works at a local brewery that had an Oktoberfest celebration said that it got a little out of hand and they actually found people in the, not even outside, in the brewery at a table doing cocaine. Like, in the open? In the open, not trying to hide it. And I jokingly said to this person, like, maybe that's how the Germans do it. And that was before I had found this story. Turns out that's how the Germans do it. They're into cocaine. 183 00:28:52,355 --> 00:28:54,778 Germans love the cocaine. 184 00:28:54,778 --> 00:28:58,523 Yeah, they're just trying to be authentic with their coke. That's crazy. 185 00:28:58,523 --> 00:29:04,430 Yeah, very like their festivals and the music and all that. So it kind of makes sense to me, though. 186 00:29:04,430 --> 00:29:07,514 I don't know. Accordions don't make me think cocaine. 187 00:29:07,765 --> 00:29:11,507 No, no, no, I mean like electronic festivals. There's a lot of them out there. 188 00:29:11,507 --> 00:29:17,209 I gotta fucking book off for a hundred straight hours. 189 00:29:17,209 --> 00:29:20,810 Give me the cocaine. 190 00:29:20,810 --> 00:29:22,771 Hands are getting tired. 191 00:29:22,771 --> 00:29:28,454 Gotta roll out the barrel. Roll out the barrel with the cocaine. 192 00:29:29,553 --> 00:29:33,336 That turned a little Cosby at the end. Did it? Yeah, a little bit. 193 00:29:33,336 --> 00:29:41,421 Yeah. Put some Earl in the cocaine. Put in the pops. 194 00:29:41,421 --> 00:29:45,264 Your Cosby is the equivalent of Peter Griffin's Italian. So bad. 195 00:29:45,264 --> 00:29:48,526 So good. 196 00:29:48,526 --> 00:29:49,487 So good. 197 00:29:49,487 --> 00:29:57,872 So bad, it's good. Exactly. You nailed it. All right, let's answer some important, and when I say important, I mean long, important questions. 198 00:30:00,380 --> 00:30:45,717 in a world where craft beer is king everybody take a nap in a world where muscles are bigger than growlers only one tongue can guide us In this world, we must find out... Come on! What is Flex drinking? Wake up! 199 00:30:46,717 --> 00:31:30,273 Yeah, everybody's still there. No, he didn't leave. All right. Um, I'm still here. So I, I have been drinking, uh, some microphone brewing beers lately. And this one caught my eye a couple of weeks ago. And it's ironic because I had just told somebody the other day I was, uh, I've not been into sours recently. Like I've stopped buying them altogether probably for like the past year, I would say. Yeah, like I just don't do it anymore. This one caught my eye. It is the key lime cheesecake incident. It is a key lime cheesecake inspired Berliner style of ice Berliner ale Berliner. Fuck you, man. I got called out for the Modelo thing again today. 200 00:31:31,553 --> 00:31:35,356 I only love it because I think the last time you said Berliner, Mel was on the show. 201 00:31:35,356 --> 00:31:49,106 Probably. Maybe. I don't know. I always read it as Berliner. You're cute as fuck. Oh my gosh. Thank you. So it's what I just said it was. With lactose, key limes, graham cracker, and cheesecake flavoring. 202 00:31:51,868 --> 00:31:54,529 By the way, this sounds like a dream beer for my wife. 203 00:31:54,529 --> 00:32:10,975 It sounds delicious. Like I want it to be the Burger King slice of pie. Oh, you guys remember those? Burger King pies, you get like a slice and they had the key lime one and it was in a little box that was triangle shaped because it was a slice of pie. Yeah. 204 00:32:12,110 --> 00:32:16,972 No, we only went to Burger King when they were, uh, Pokemon toys and the kids were there. 205 00:32:16,972 --> 00:32:22,195 Oh, I got to go there a lot because I was a latchkey kid and I was given like $5 a day to eat. 206 00:32:22,195 --> 00:32:28,218 Yeah, this is when we were kids, Flex. Well, Greg, you're like two years older than I am. 207 00:32:28,218 --> 00:32:31,900 You're right. I think three. So, uh, no wonder you don't remember. 208 00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:35,109 37, right? 37 it is. So this is 6% back to the beer. 209 00:32:35,109 --> 00:32:37,991 Untapped literally says everything I already said. 210 00:32:37,991 --> 00:33:29,371 And it's 1.2,000, 1.2,000 ratings, 1.2, 1,200 ratings. I don't know. Sounds weird. 1.2,000. I thought you were going to say 1.2 stars. I'm like, wow. It says 1.2 K reviews. It just sounds weird when you say 1.2 1,200 1,200. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Sure. We'll get there eventually. We're going to get there. Okay. Uh, 4.1 is the overall out of that. So, um, I think that's good. Super limey on the old schnauz. Um, like super limey, like think of limes. Well, key limes. I don't want to be a dick. There is a difference a very big there is yeah, you can definitely smell like the sweetness. 211 00:33:29,371 --> 00:33:34,856 Yeah of the lime It's it's wonderful, and it does look like lime juice. 212 00:33:34,856 --> 00:33:55,262 Oh, yeah, that's to like Lemonade almost looks like a margarita like a melted margarita. Yeah, absolutely oh Very, uh, it's a great, it's a inviting color, I think, to, to a sour style. Uh, and then, and then we get the old tongue jobber up in there. 213 00:33:57,833 --> 00:33:58,833 I wouldn't trail. 214 00:33:58,833 --> 00:34:01,894 I can't take him serious when he does that. 215 00:34:01,894 --> 00:34:04,695 I can't stand up when he does that. 216 00:34:04,695 --> 00:34:31,926 So this beer, it's like super effervescent. It is sour, but it's delicious because the lime and the graham cracker and the cheesecake, they all come together and nothing is overpowering. No flavor is overpowering in this beer and it is just really well executed. And I want more and more and more and even more of this. Ooh, I like that. It is very delightful. Big words. Yes. 217 00:34:31,926 --> 00:34:35,712 Yeah, I like when you're wanting and needing more from something, you know? 218 00:34:35,712 --> 00:34:39,297 Yes. More, please, sir. Or ma'am. 219 00:34:39,564 --> 00:34:44,146 What sticks out the most? Is it the lime? Is it the graham cracker sweet? 220 00:34:44,146 --> 00:34:59,172 It's certainly the lime. It's certainly the lime. And then you get the cheesecake flavoring. And it's not it's not a weird because it's not like a chunky, over-fruited type deal here. Yeah. So the cheesecake isn't what's the word? 221 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,043 Right. It's not like a chunk. Yeah. 222 00:35:02,043 --> 00:35:13,453 You know what I mean? So it's just like you get that slight flavoring, but it pairs so well with the lime. It's not a smoochie. And then you get a little bit of that graham crackery crumble. Oh, I'm telling you, it's so good. 223 00:35:13,453 --> 00:35:16,176 You're drinking dessert right now. For real. 224 00:35:16,176 --> 00:35:16,596 You're welcome. 225 00:35:16,596 --> 00:35:23,783 Greg, I wonder if we could appeal to Burger King to see if they could give us a pairing. Send us the slices of those. 226 00:35:24,435 --> 00:35:33,387 I was thinking while he was talking about that, after we talked about Burger King, like Burger King should do some sort of collab beer where they call it like triangle in a box or something like that. 227 00:35:33,387 --> 00:35:42,358 Like at least in California, like they should get on the Taco Bell train. Yeah. You know, like Taco Bell, you can get like alcohol, right? Out there by you guys. No. 228 00:35:42,999 --> 00:35:43,660 No, it's vegan. 229 00:35:43,660 --> 00:35:46,203 There are some Taco Bells where you can get alcohol. 230 00:35:46,203 --> 00:35:52,650 Oh, the cantinas. The cantinas. Are there any in California? There probably are. They're based in California. I thought that's where they were. 231 00:35:52,650 --> 00:35:55,093 New York is illegal, for sure. 232 00:35:55,532 --> 00:36:03,717 I've never come across one of the cantinas before. Okay. But I think it's legal because it's not a fast food joint. It's like a sit down restaurant. Is that what it is? Yeah. 233 00:36:03,717 --> 00:36:11,783 All right. Well, Burger King, if you're out there, I'm pitching you. Let's bring those slices back. I would eat fast food if they had those again. 234 00:36:11,783 --> 00:36:12,843 Was it that good or something? 235 00:36:12,843 --> 00:36:18,467 They had that Snickers one too. I love those little pies. I don't know why. I think it's nostalgia. 236 00:36:18,467 --> 00:36:22,129 So beyond the pies, Burger King, worst fast food or? 237 00:36:23,662 --> 00:36:40,797 Oh God. I haven't had fast food in like, I had like two bites of McDonald's last year in a very bad point of a day. My kids didn't want to eat it. And then I felt down. I was like, somebody better eat it. But I actually don't eat fast food and I haven't really eaten it in like 15 238 00:36:43,819 --> 00:36:55,844 The main fast-food restaurants that are like nationwide for everybody it's like McDonald's KFC I don't consider in the box. No, we don't have a box either. Oh, really Mel do you have Carl's or Hardee's? 239 00:37:03,628 --> 00:37:04,829 Neither. 240 00:37:04,829 --> 00:37:10,632 I think we have Jersey. I think we have one Hardee's in Muscat. Two Hardee's. We have two Hardee's. 241 00:37:10,632 --> 00:37:14,254 But no Carl's Jr.? No. No. I mean, it's the same fucking thing. Same thing. Yes. 242 00:37:14,254 --> 00:37:26,841 Right. I know that. I do know that about them. But Jersey is where they have those. So it's really like your big box brand fast food. Taco Bell, Donald's, Wendy's, Burger King. 243 00:37:26,841 --> 00:37:28,042 I would say Burger King is the worst. 244 00:37:28,042 --> 00:37:28,703 Popeye's, KFC. 245 00:37:29,523 --> 00:37:33,266 Popeyes is not that big out here. We only have a couple by me. 246 00:37:33,266 --> 00:37:36,710 It's making its way, I think. 247 00:37:36,710 --> 00:37:41,254 Raising canes is making its way. I've seen that a few times. 248 00:37:41,254 --> 00:37:43,416 Is it good? Oh, Chick-fil-A. 249 00:37:43,416 --> 00:37:45,958 Chick-fil-A is the best. A little hit and miss out here. 250 00:37:45,958 --> 00:38:04,310 Chick-fil-A, people are trying to get them to be a part of us, but it's hard because they're like very religious, like Christians. The people that own these franchises are usually not white Christians, so they just don't let them have franchises. 251 00:38:04,310 --> 00:38:08,792 The Chick-fil-A beliefs have slowed down their growth in California. 252 00:38:08,792 --> 00:38:09,933 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Same here. 253 00:38:09,933 --> 00:38:20,197 I just love how they have a restaurant in Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Oh, do they? Yeah, where they have football games on Sundays and the restaurant remains closed. 254 00:38:23,459 --> 00:38:31,527 They do not open on Sunday, oh, that's hilarious Lou actually applied for like to become an owner like a franchise person. 255 00:38:31,527 --> 00:38:31,867 Oh, really? 256 00:38:31,867 --> 00:39:03,070 Yeah. Yeah, and he's not Catholic enough and he's not So they can see Lou being like you don't think I'm fucking Catholic Jane with the fucking gold chicken Yeah, he was like, what are these questions? He's like, they're asking me, do I save Nona or do I, you know, get this baby baptized? What does this have to do with chicken? And I'm like, I have no idea. I don't know, I'm gonna go with save the kid, save the kid. 257 00:39:03,070 --> 00:39:05,111 That is a brilliant applicant question. 258 00:39:05,111 --> 00:39:12,955 It is the weirdest thing ever. He heard it and he came out and he was like, he's looking at me and he was like, you have no idea. He's like, I'm traumatized over it. 259 00:39:14,357 --> 00:39:16,159 That's insane. Fucking weird. 260 00:39:16,159 --> 00:39:27,314 It made no sense. I'm like, I don't know. I'm like, how fast can you fry the chicken and then save both of them? Right. That's my answer. Who's hungry? So ridiculous. 261 00:39:27,314 --> 00:39:32,060 It's so stupid. So stupid. Uh, so fast food, huh? All right. 262 00:39:32,790 --> 00:39:33,471 Yeah. 263 00:39:33,471 --> 00:39:37,253 You guys, neither of you have In-N-Outs out there, right? No. 264 00:39:37,253 --> 00:39:39,235 No. I want to try one though. 265 00:39:39,235 --> 00:39:43,298 We have Culver's, which if you haven't had Culver's, you really need some. 266 00:39:43,298 --> 00:39:44,899 And we have Five Guys. 267 00:39:44,899 --> 00:39:48,341 See, we have Five Guys too, but Five Guys is a rip off. 268 00:39:48,341 --> 00:39:57,828 Oh, is it? Yeah. I'll go to In-N-Out over Five. So that was a big thing. When Five Guys first popped out over here, they're like, oh, Five Guys versus In-N-Out. I was like, In-N-Out in a heartbeat. 269 00:39:57,828 --> 00:40:00,830 What about Bear Burger? Do you have Bear Burger? Like B-A-R-E? 270 00:40:01,987 --> 00:40:05,611 No. No. Sounds plant-based. Yeah, it does. 271 00:40:05,611 --> 00:40:16,024 It's legit, but it's like very Whole30. Oh. You know, no like additives, like it's 100% beef and all that. Yeah, it's good. I like those burgers. 272 00:40:16,024 --> 00:40:21,248 Hey, so this is a beer show. We're just over here sounding like stoners, like, so I need a McDonald's. 273 00:40:21,248 --> 00:40:24,350 Right, oh, I could use a burger right now, man. I'm so hungry. 274 00:40:24,350 --> 00:40:26,091 Spicy chicken sandwich. 275 00:40:26,091 --> 00:41:26,373 Oh, goddamn. So good. Popeyes has some good spicy chicken nugs. Aye. Oh, I haven't been to Popeyes in, like, 30 years, but goddamn. They're not popular, are you? Oh, Flex, this is so good. Wisconsin Bar is getting rid of porn. This is so good. So good. So bizarre. There's a bar in Madison that shows porn on Saturday and Sunday mornings. It's called Bennett's Meadowood Country Club. I love that their name is Country Club, by the way. It's not a country club. It's a shitty dive bar. Oh. I looked it up. And they show porn Saturday and Sunday mornings. And they call it porn in the morn. Porn in the morn, yep. And so I looked them up on Yelp and like all their regulars, they call it smut and eggs, which is great. Oh, God. They have three and a half stars on Yelp. And, you know, if you're looking for a couple of chuckles, check out the Yelp comments. There's some funny stuff, but apparently they're getting rid of porn. Have you ever been there, Flex? 276 00:41:26,373 --> 00:42:04,171 No, I've never even heard of it, but I saw the posts and I had to send it to you. Mean we did we have a few bars out here that they play nothing, but like classic wrestling shit TV's all day and all night of that So that's a popular thing around like the Milwaukee area I've never never seen porn till now Third shifters probably like you know They get off at like 7 a.m. Errs. I I mean, that's that's when bars open here for them for like the third shift people. 277 00:42:04,171 --> 00:42:11,806 Yeah. Third shift. Hmm. That's so weird. And also it'd be uncomfortable to like be in public watching that and like eating and drinking. 278 00:42:12,104 --> 00:42:24,558 I don't know, I'm sure it was like, like classic porn, you know, like all the comments from the 80s. See, and that's like porn and borderline is you can almost consider it being like comedy movies. 279 00:42:24,558 --> 00:42:29,683 Yeah. Like a real question. Would you feel weird ordering sausage? No. 280 00:42:36,066 --> 00:42:38,928 Extra sausage, please. 281 00:42:38,928 --> 00:42:43,970 Hey, sir. How's your sausage? Delicious and large. 282 00:42:43,970 --> 00:42:48,193 Can we get some more porn out here? 283 00:42:48,193 --> 00:43:03,547 I'm right at low on porn. I can still stand up. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's, uh, that's middle of America at its finest. Yeah. Welcome to the Midwest. Yeah. Well, apparently they've been doing it for like 30 years. Why stop now? That's, that's my question. Why stop now? 284 00:43:03,547 --> 00:43:05,568 Maybe they finally discovered Yelp. I don't know. 285 00:43:05,568 --> 00:43:19,358 Like, Oh, people don't love the porn apparently. Like most of the reviews talked about how like, uh, you know, you better be ready for the porn. The food's not great. You're coming for the atmosphere and the comedy and that kind of thing. So, 286 00:43:20,087 --> 00:43:27,055 You know. See, so I guarantee you the porn is just like a funny, it's more, it's got to be more of a funny thing than like a serious thing. 287 00:43:27,055 --> 00:43:29,958 I'm sure. I totally, but you know, enjoy your sausage and your sausage. 288 00:43:30,978 --> 00:43:41,207 It just feels like to me, like a night that never ended. And then you wanted to keep going, but you needed to eat something also. And then it just ended up. I think you nailed it. 289 00:43:41,207 --> 00:43:49,735 Going very south. Very quickly. Oh, south. Definitely. There's a strip club in Milwaukee that does all you can eat breakfast that starts at 3 a.m. 290 00:43:52,527 --> 00:44:04,980 Which I appreciate because a lot of the strip clubs out here that also serve food, it's always like, get some chicken wings and stuff. It's like, you know where I don't want to order chicken from? A fucking strip club. That sounds dangerous. Hard pass. 291 00:44:05,667 --> 00:44:11,031 I mean, heated pan of scrambled eggs and bacon and... Ew, all of it. Some breakfast potatoes. 292 00:44:11,031 --> 00:44:16,635 It's just grossing me out. No. But that's all stuff that one... It sounds like Mel just knocked over seven cans of beer. I did. 293 00:44:16,635 --> 00:44:21,058 I just knocked over a can. I was like trying to... She's got like her seven cans. 294 00:44:21,058 --> 00:44:24,081 Like her beer castle. 295 00:44:24,081 --> 00:44:25,482 Two, but yes. 296 00:44:25,482 --> 00:44:35,429 Seven, got it. Yeah, like breakfast foods, once they're cooked, they're cooked and they're not going to kill you. Chicken, on the other hand, that can be dicey. I don't need your strip club chicken wings. 297 00:44:35,848 --> 00:44:38,131 Yeah, just any of it. 298 00:44:38,131 --> 00:44:39,313 I can respect that. 299 00:44:39,313 --> 00:44:51,450 There is a strip club near us that is known for their steaks. They have a really great steak. Shut the fuck up. No, I swear to you. I swear. 300 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,044 Maybe that's how they get the deep pockets in there. 301 00:44:56,044 --> 00:45:06,174 It's called the mansion. It's called the mansion and they're known for their steaks, but it is a strip club. Like I don't know how it works if like they're full. 302 00:45:06,174 --> 00:45:11,539 You got to call it like a high class gentlemen's club or something like that. 303 00:45:11,539 --> 00:45:15,944 Yeah. Right. But in California you can't be fully nude and serve alcohol. 304 00:45:16,420 --> 00:45:21,424 That's usually the same in New York, but I've never been to this place. I've just heard it from people. 305 00:45:21,424 --> 00:45:21,904 You know what I mean? 306 00:45:21,904 --> 00:45:27,548 I've totally been there. Yeah. No, never been there. Just heard it, but the steaks were- Hey, Flex. 307 00:45:27,548 --> 00:45:35,794 Hi. Want to go to the mansion? I thought you'd never ask. Let's drag Mel and Lou out to the mansion. I love steaks. We're there. Yeah. 308 00:45:37,078 --> 00:45:39,199 Done and done. 309 00:45:39,199 --> 00:45:43,140 If we went out there, Mel would go. I would go without you. 310 00:45:43,140 --> 00:45:47,842 You would go without us. Then why haven't you gone? We need you to do some homework and report back. 311 00:45:47,842 --> 00:45:50,943 All right, I'm going to do it. I'm going to go. 312 00:45:50,943 --> 00:45:56,245 She's like, I'm training for a marathon. I don't have time to go to these steakhouse strip clubs. 313 00:45:56,245 --> 00:46:10,676 I am training for a marathon. We have to do this before January. I'm going back to school to be a nurse practitioner. There's a lot happening in life. I'm gonna sneak this trip into the mansion, and I'm gonna order a steak, and I will review both of them. 314 00:46:10,676 --> 00:46:12,298 There's always time for steak and boobs. 315 00:46:12,298 --> 00:46:22,910 See, that makes me wonder, is it like multiple cuts of steak? Or is it like, they only do this steak? Or is it like a full-on steakhouse menu? 316 00:46:23,763 --> 00:46:29,572 I've just laughed every time people told me that they ordered a steak while they were going there. Do I get a choice of a potato? 317 00:46:29,572 --> 00:46:30,814 It's both. 318 00:46:30,814 --> 00:46:34,980 You must. Do you think steak is code for something? No, no, no. 319 00:46:34,980 --> 00:46:38,305 It's a legit steak. Like a filet mignon. 320 00:46:38,715 --> 00:46:41,716 Maybe a peppercorn sauce? I do like peppercorn sauce. 321 00:46:41,716 --> 00:47:22,993 Oh, peppercorn sauce is good. Like peppercorn wine sauce. That's good stuff. When we were in Tahoe, we went on this god-awful cruise across the lake dinner thing. The wife really wanted to do it. And I was like, you know, the food's going to be bad. She's like, no, the reviews say the food's great. I'm like, mm, it's going to be horrible. Spoiler, food was awful. And we ordered our steaks. And I got mine medium rare, and she got hers medium. They looked exactly the same. Which I knew, I knew it happened, like it's worse than wedding food. Every time. Yeah. Yeah. And she's like, the food's not really good. I was like, of course it's not. It's a fucking boat. You're not paying for food, you're paying for the sunset views. 322 00:47:22,993 --> 00:47:26,916 Experience, yeah. You're paying for their gas money. Yeah, it was the worst. 323 00:47:27,657 --> 00:47:46,703 She's like, I can't believe it wasn't good. The reviews said it was good. I was like, the reviews are people from Nevada who come from Vegas. Anything's good. Sorry, Vegas. Not really. Yeah. Anyways. Stakes. Get a men's strip club. Yeah. Dick and titties, everybody. 324 00:47:46,703 --> 00:47:50,304 And on that note, good night, everybody. 325 00:47:50,304 --> 00:47:59,543 On that note, we're gonna hit some music. I was gonna say I feel awkward saying this but hi Vanessa. 326 00:47:59,543 --> 00:48:00,804 Weird segue. 327 00:48:00,804 --> 00:48:10,432 Very weird segue. Hello Vanessa. I said hello. Mel, thanks for putting up with us for two weeks in a row. 328 00:48:10,432 --> 00:48:14,134 I think you guys put up with me mostly and you couldn't even see me each time. 329 00:48:14,134 --> 00:48:16,556 You should get an award. 330 00:48:16,556 --> 00:48:17,617 Give me an award. 331 00:48:17,617 --> 00:48:19,739 Or you know what else you should get? You should also get a camera. 332 00:48:20,846 --> 00:48:24,449 I know. I'm working on that for next week. We'll get there. We'll get there. 333 00:48:24,449 --> 00:48:27,791 We're back again. Seven computers and not one of them has a camera. 334 00:48:27,791 --> 00:48:30,153 Yeah, but a yellow camera. 335 00:48:30,153 --> 00:48:55,230 Well, she does have seven cans of beer she just knocked over. Yeah, we'll get there. It's a low budget show. We'll get there eventually. Luckily, the listeners are like, you guys have cameras? We can't see you fucks. Follow us on the socials at Craft Beer Republic, at Flex Me A Beer, underscore is in between. And of course, at Beer Girl, underscore Mel. And she's dished up some sweet steaks over there. So go check her out in New York. 336 00:48:55,230 --> 00:48:56,691 Yep. 337 00:48:56,691 --> 00:49:01,552 I think that's everything. I hope everyone out there is staying very well hydrated as Flex yawns. 338 00:49:01,552 --> 00:49:03,473 I was like Flex falling asleep standing up. 339 00:49:03,929 --> 00:49:06,195 Alright, ready? Ready for it. Here we go. 340 00:49:06,195 --> 00:49:08,180 And on that note, goodnight everybody!