1 00:00:15,890 --> 00:00:19,490 Welcome in, everybody! It's the Craft Beer Republic! 2 00:00:19,490 --> 00:00:23,250 Thanks for drinking! Most importantly, thanks for joining. 3 00:00:23,250 --> 00:00:28,210 I am Greg, and I am being joined by the crispiest fella on the freshest coast, 4 00:00:28,210 --> 00:00:30,369 and that is Flex. What's happening, big fella? 5 00:00:30,369 --> 00:00:33,010 Nothing much. Excited to drink today. 6 00:00:33,010 --> 00:00:34,530 Oh, dude, you're telling me. 7 00:00:34,530 --> 00:00:35,730 Very excited. 8 00:00:35,730 --> 00:00:37,810 I haven't had a beer in a hot minute, 9 00:00:37,810 --> 00:00:41,730 and, you know, I've been doing some classy wine tasting, that kind of shit. 10 00:00:41,730 --> 00:00:43,250 You're so fucking classy. 11 00:00:43,250 --> 00:00:46,450 I needed some hops in my life, and you gave me the perfect excuse. 12 00:00:46,450 --> 00:00:48,850 We'll talk about that in just a second. 13 00:00:48,850 --> 00:00:51,810 But before we get into that, follow us on the socials, @CraftBeerRepublic 14 00:00:51,810 --> 00:00:54,210 and @FlexMeABeer, underscores in between. 15 00:00:54,210 --> 00:00:57,649 It's just the two of us today, we're making things sexy. 16 00:00:57,649 --> 00:00:59,649 Very intimate. 17 00:00:59,649 --> 00:01:00,689 Very, very intimate. 18 00:01:00,689 --> 00:01:02,130 Got some candles lit over here. 19 00:01:02,130 --> 00:01:03,009 Yeah. 20 00:01:03,009 --> 00:01:05,490 Some Kenny G blasting. 21 00:01:05,490 --> 00:01:09,090 How about some sexy sax? 22 00:01:09,090 --> 00:01:12,289 What was that, Careless Whisper? 23 00:01:12,289 --> 00:01:14,450 Yeah, best song ever. 24 00:01:14,450 --> 00:01:15,090 Best song. 25 00:01:15,090 --> 00:01:18,689 Shout out to our top listening city of last week, 26 00:01:18,689 --> 00:01:20,450 and hopefully they like some sexy sax. 27 00:01:20,450 --> 00:01:22,370 And that's Medford, New Jersey. 28 00:01:22,370 --> 00:01:24,450 Back, I think they were around like two weeks ago. 29 00:01:24,450 --> 00:01:25,569 Yeah, let's get it. 30 00:01:25,569 --> 00:01:26,769 Yeah, get it, New Jersey. 31 00:01:26,769 --> 00:01:31,730 Thanks for listening, and thanks for not being shitty like your beer laws. 32 00:01:31,730 --> 00:01:32,530 How about that? 33 00:01:32,530 --> 00:01:35,250 I did see a funny post on Instagram the other day, 34 00:01:35,250 --> 00:01:39,010 and it said the top five most complaining states. 35 00:01:40,129 --> 00:01:43,329 And it was the four states all around New Jersey, 36 00:01:43,329 --> 00:01:44,849 because they're right next to New Jersey. 37 00:01:44,849 --> 00:01:49,010 And then the last one, I don't know if it was supposed to be funny, 38 00:01:49,010 --> 00:01:50,129 but it said Mississippi. 39 00:01:50,129 --> 00:01:54,930 I don't know, maybe I lost what the whole post was about, 40 00:01:54,930 --> 00:01:57,170 but the New Jersey thing was funny as hell. 41 00:01:57,170 --> 00:01:57,890 I do like that. 42 00:01:57,890 --> 00:01:58,530 That's pretty good. 43 00:01:58,530 --> 00:02:01,730 All right, let's not waste any time. 44 00:02:01,730 --> 00:02:05,250 We are drinking the same beer, and I'm very excited for this. 45 00:02:05,250 --> 00:02:09,810 Let's take a trip to California with our beverage of choice today. 46 00:02:09,810 --> 00:02:28,780 Oh, here we go. 47 00:02:28,780 --> 00:02:30,300 Flex told me... 48 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:31,740 I'm really excited for this one. 49 00:02:31,740 --> 00:02:33,259 He hasn't been taking a sip yet. 50 00:02:33,259 --> 00:02:34,060 No, I haven't. 51 00:02:34,060 --> 00:02:37,099 I just wanted to wait for the show to happen. 52 00:02:37,099 --> 00:02:37,659 I love it. 53 00:02:37,659 --> 00:02:41,979 Flex told me the other day that he got this beer by way of his pilot friend 54 00:02:41,979 --> 00:02:43,099 and said, "Can you get one?" 55 00:02:43,099 --> 00:02:44,379 And I said, "Can I get one?" 56 00:02:44,379 --> 00:02:47,580 And so I rushed out to the store, and I did get one. 57 00:02:47,580 --> 00:02:49,259 In fact, I found a whole pile of them, 58 00:02:49,259 --> 00:02:52,960 and I sent a picture of how easy it is to get in California to Flex just to be 59 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:53,180 a dick. 60 00:02:53,180 --> 00:02:54,460 I did think that was hilarious. 61 00:02:54,460 --> 00:03:02,060 But because of all this, we are drinking Russian River Brewing's Pliny the 62 00:03:02,060 --> 00:03:02,699 Elder. 63 00:03:02,699 --> 00:03:04,460 Thanks, Pilot Tom. 64 00:03:04,460 --> 00:03:08,539 Pilot Tom to ground control. 65 00:03:08,539 --> 00:03:11,020 Nailed it. 66 00:03:11,020 --> 00:03:12,780 There we go. 67 00:03:12,780 --> 00:03:13,979 That's fucking good. 68 00:03:13,979 --> 00:03:14,939 We need a song for that. 69 00:03:15,900 --> 00:03:21,659 Anyways, this is your first time dipping into a wine, right? 70 00:03:21,659 --> 00:03:22,539 It is. 71 00:03:22,539 --> 00:03:28,060 So first off, it's like a classic double IPA, right? 72 00:03:28,060 --> 00:03:33,419 So pouring this, the color astounded me the most. 73 00:03:33,419 --> 00:03:38,539 That it wasn't like that West Coast, copper, you know? 74 00:03:38,539 --> 00:03:42,699 We'll talk about my glass in a second. 75 00:03:42,699 --> 00:03:43,419 Yeah, I can't. 76 00:03:43,419 --> 00:03:44,379 I just can't with that. 77 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:48,620 But you know, it's like a nice golden yellow color. 78 00:03:48,620 --> 00:03:51,659 You know, very clean, very see-through, like you'd expect from a 79 00:03:51,659 --> 00:03:54,539 classic kind of West Coast. 80 00:03:54,539 --> 00:03:55,979 But the color really shocked me. 81 00:03:55,979 --> 00:03:58,539 Yeah, that real light straw color. 82 00:03:58,539 --> 00:03:59,740 Very clear. 83 00:03:59,740 --> 00:04:04,060 It doesn't, you know, doubles tend to be a little darker and carmelier, 84 00:04:04,060 --> 00:04:05,979 in my opinion, visually. 85 00:04:05,979 --> 00:04:06,939 And this one is not that. 86 00:04:06,939 --> 00:04:08,060 It's very crisp looking. 87 00:04:08,060 --> 00:04:11,580 I'm gonna get a picture of the beer and the glass together for everybody 88 00:04:11,580 --> 00:04:12,620 because this is fantastic. 89 00:04:12,620 --> 00:04:17,419 But quick stats on the beer. 90 00:04:17,419 --> 00:04:19,340 Here, I should get Flex in the background of this. 91 00:04:19,340 --> 00:04:21,500 Fantastic. 92 00:04:21,500 --> 00:04:24,139 Quick stats on the beer. 93 00:04:24,139 --> 00:04:30,620 Pliny the Elder, if you haven't had it, Russian River, 8%, 100 old school IBUs, 94 00:04:30,620 --> 00:04:38,220 has a 4.49 ununtapped out of over 294,000 ratings. 95 00:04:38,220 --> 00:04:39,660 That's something to brag about. 96 00:04:39,660 --> 00:04:40,160 Yeah. 97 00:04:40,620 --> 00:04:43,660 On the bottle, it says Pliny the Elder was a Roman naturalist, 98 00:04:43,660 --> 00:04:45,579 scholar, historian, and author. 99 00:04:45,579 --> 00:04:51,420 In his writings, he refers to lupus selectarius, meaning wolf among scrubs, 100 00:04:51,420 --> 00:04:55,500 likely an early reference to hop vines growing wild among willows. 101 00:04:55,500 --> 00:05:00,800 Pliny the Elder died in 79 AD while saving people during the eruption of Mount 102 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:01,740 Vesuvius. 103 00:05:01,740 --> 00:05:06,139 He was immortalized by his nephew and adopted son, Pliny the Younger. 104 00:05:06,139 --> 00:05:10,620 Pliny the Elder, the beer, is a full-bodied, hot-forward double IPA. 105 00:05:10,620 --> 00:05:14,810 Keep refrigerated and consume fresh to best enjoy this beer's intense hop 106 00:05:14,810 --> 00:05:15,660 character. 107 00:05:15,660 --> 00:05:18,060 And I think they all have bottled on dates. 108 00:05:18,060 --> 00:05:22,459 Mine was January 3rd of this year. 109 00:05:22,459 --> 00:05:23,740 See, so I was shocked at this one. 110 00:05:23,740 --> 00:05:29,339 So I got this, it was almost a week and a half ago now, and I saved it for the 111 00:05:29,339 --> 00:05:29,579 show. 112 00:05:29,579 --> 00:05:31,420 I really, I didn't want to crack it open before then. 113 00:05:31,420 --> 00:05:35,939 And I did get two bottles, so I could have, but I wanted to pop the cherry here 114 00:05:36,220 --> 00:05:36,779 What a champ. 115 00:05:36,779 --> 00:05:38,860 Mine was 1219. 116 00:05:38,860 --> 00:05:43,579 So you're looking at a week and a half ago today, and pretty damn fresh. 117 00:05:43,579 --> 00:05:46,620 Yeah, still what, at three weeks at that point, I think? 118 00:05:46,620 --> 00:05:48,060 Yeah, so it's pretty impressive. 119 00:05:48,060 --> 00:05:50,540 It's just over a day, over a month old right now. 120 00:05:50,540 --> 00:05:51,740 Yeah, as we drink. 121 00:05:51,740 --> 00:05:55,740 And it's been kept as refrigerated as possible. 122 00:05:55,740 --> 00:05:56,620 That's fantastic. 123 00:05:56,620 --> 00:05:58,779 Yeah, I mean, I've talked about this. 124 00:05:58,779 --> 00:06:01,100 Pliny is a great solid beer. 125 00:06:01,100 --> 00:06:05,420 The one thing I always say is I like Blind Pig just a little bit better. 126 00:06:05,420 --> 00:06:07,819 It's their single IPA, where this is the double. 127 00:06:07,819 --> 00:06:08,459 Okay. 128 00:06:08,459 --> 00:06:11,420 But for being a double, I mean, Pliny is so crisp. 129 00:06:11,420 --> 00:06:16,379 It's, once again, for a double, very light, especially in the mouth feel. 130 00:06:16,379 --> 00:06:17,500 It doesn't stick. 131 00:06:17,500 --> 00:06:19,339 It's not super caramelly. 132 00:06:19,339 --> 00:06:25,420 It's not a malt bomb like some of those stone IPA type of beverages. 133 00:06:25,420 --> 00:06:30,060 It is just really crushable for an 8%er. 134 00:06:30,060 --> 00:06:31,019 Well, I'm excited. 135 00:06:31,019 --> 00:06:33,660 I mean, the aroma here, it's super dank. 136 00:06:33,660 --> 00:06:38,540 And you really get that orange, like orange peel smell to it. 137 00:06:38,540 --> 00:06:38,860 Yeah. 138 00:06:38,860 --> 00:06:42,699 You know, it's not like orange juice or like, you know, juicy orange. 139 00:06:42,699 --> 00:06:45,019 It's like the actual skin of the fruit. 140 00:06:45,019 --> 00:06:49,420 So very, very nice smell on the old schnoz. 141 00:06:49,420 --> 00:06:52,060 And without further ado. 142 00:06:52,060 --> 00:06:54,860 We've wasted enough people's time. 143 00:06:54,860 --> 00:06:55,500 Warm it up. 144 00:06:55,500 --> 00:06:58,439 And here we go. 145 00:06:58,439 --> 00:07:00,759 Should make this a video podcast. 146 00:07:00,759 --> 00:07:02,680 That's pretty darn good. 147 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,079 Yeah, this is fresh. 148 00:07:05,079 --> 00:07:09,399 That aroma follows 100% to the palate. 149 00:07:09,399 --> 00:07:12,920 Everything you smell is what you get on the tongue. 150 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:17,319 That is, this is a super solid beer for a sip. 151 00:07:17,319 --> 00:07:19,000 We'll dive right in quick. 152 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,759 Take another one because it's a big bottle. 153 00:07:20,759 --> 00:07:23,319 It is a big bottle. 154 00:07:23,319 --> 00:07:25,079 What is the ounces on this bad boy? 155 00:07:25,079 --> 00:07:27,560 17 and a quarter, I believe. 156 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:28,120 Okay. 157 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:28,839 That seems right. 158 00:07:28,839 --> 00:07:30,759 It's 501 milliliters. 159 00:07:30,759 --> 00:07:32,439 Yeah, it's kind of a weird total. 160 00:07:32,439 --> 00:07:33,160 Yeah. 161 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,079 You can definitely taste the 100 IBUs. 162 00:07:35,079 --> 00:07:36,279 Yes. 163 00:07:36,279 --> 00:07:42,850 But like you said, it is not that lingering, that sticky, that teeth shattering 164 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,000 It just, it works really well. 165 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:47,319 Yeah. 166 00:07:47,319 --> 00:07:48,279 It's pretty balanced. 167 00:07:48,279 --> 00:07:50,920 I would say extremely balanced. 168 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:51,160 Yeah. 169 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,600 For being that 100 IBU. 170 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:56,759 You know, I always make fun of Brian, intern Brian, lovingly, because this is 171 00:07:56,759 --> 00:07:57,079 one of his 172 00:07:57,079 --> 00:07:57,480 favorites. 173 00:07:57,480 --> 00:07:59,160 And he'd be like, "Hey, I got a Pliny today." 174 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:00,920 And I'm like, "Yeah, everybody gets a Pliny nowadays, man. 175 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:01,959 Like, no big deal. 176 00:08:01,959 --> 00:08:03,800 We know where to get them." 177 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:05,000 That's awesome. 178 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,720 And I'll be like, "Hey, you know, blind pig is so much." 179 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:13,319 And one thing I will definitely stand by is Russian River's Sour program is so 180 00:08:13,319 --> 00:08:13,720 fucking 181 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:14,600 fantastic. 182 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:14,759 Yeah. 183 00:08:14,759 --> 00:08:16,600 I know you talk a lot about that. 184 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,620 I almost grabbed one for the show because underneath the stack of Pliny's was a 185 00:08:20,620 --> 00:08:20,920 couple, 186 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,199 there was like a sanctification and a supplication, something else. 187 00:08:24,199 --> 00:08:26,040 I was like, "Maybe I should grab a Sour." 188 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:27,959 I was like, "Eh, I'll stick with the Pliny. 189 00:08:27,959 --> 00:08:29,000 We'll keep it a hot forward show." 190 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,759 But one of these days, I'll do another one. 191 00:08:30,759 --> 00:08:34,200 But yeah, this is a classic for a reason. 192 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:35,559 It's a great beer. 193 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:39,960 But if you haven't, do yourself a favor and have some of their other offerings 194 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:40,600 as well. 195 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:40,759 Yeah. 196 00:08:40,759 --> 00:08:43,399 I just want to give another quick shout out to Pilot Tom. 197 00:08:43,399 --> 00:08:45,240 He sent me a text. 198 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:46,440 From Ground Control. 199 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:50,279 Said he was going to be out in Fresno or something like that. 200 00:08:50,279 --> 00:08:51,399 I can't remember where he said. 201 00:08:51,399 --> 00:08:53,320 As we call it out here, Fresno. 202 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,480 Yeah. 203 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:55,960 Who knows? 204 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:56,279 I don't know. 205 00:08:56,279 --> 00:08:57,480 I can't remember where it was. 206 00:08:57,480 --> 00:08:58,440 San Jose? 207 00:08:58,440 --> 00:08:58,840 Shit. 208 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:00,039 Maybe it was San Jose. 209 00:09:00,039 --> 00:09:00,600 Better than Fresno. 210 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:04,519 And he said, "Yeah, I'll look for some Pliny for you." 211 00:09:04,519 --> 00:09:04,759 You know? 212 00:09:04,759 --> 00:09:05,960 And I said, "Hey, no big deal. 213 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:07,960 Like that's totally fine." 214 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,159 And shoots me a text like a couple hours later. 215 00:09:11,159 --> 00:09:15,320 Said him and his buddy walked to a shop like a mile away from their hotel. 216 00:09:15,879 --> 00:09:19,000 And the guy had cases of it in his cooler. 217 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,480 So they bought an entire case of it and split the case. 218 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:22,279 Nice. 219 00:09:22,279 --> 00:09:25,320 And he did hook me up with a couple of the STS pills. 220 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:26,840 Oh, that's a great one. 221 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,960 So I was able to have, I did treat myself to that one already. 222 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,279 And very enjoyable. 223 00:09:32,279 --> 00:09:33,639 Super solid offering. 224 00:09:33,639 --> 00:09:34,200 Super solid. 225 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:34,840 Super crisp. 226 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:36,120 A little hoppy on that. 227 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:37,159 Yeah. 228 00:09:37,159 --> 00:09:38,840 On the back end, it's a little bit hoppy. 229 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:40,120 A little lingering bitterness. 230 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,399 Which I didn't expect, but it was very enjoyable. 231 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:46,279 Yeah, I really liked the STS pills. 232 00:09:46,279 --> 00:09:49,799 And if you ever get your hands on the Happy Hops, that's a great one too. 233 00:09:49,799 --> 00:09:51,480 You sent me that one once. 234 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:51,799 Did I? 235 00:09:51,799 --> 00:09:52,840 Okay, good. 236 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:53,080 Yes. 237 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:53,480 Good, good. 238 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:55,159 That's a great one. 239 00:09:55,159 --> 00:09:55,960 That one was good. 240 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:57,240 I enjoyed that thoroughly. 241 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:01,259 There was a brief moment in time where, they must've been pushing Happy Hops 242 00:10:01,259 --> 00:10:02,120 really hard. 243 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,759 It was the easiest beer from Russian River to find. 244 00:10:04,759 --> 00:10:06,440 Like it was everywhere. 245 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:11,000 No Pliny, no Blind Pig, but just piles of Happy Hops were showing up at stores. 246 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,679 And it's such a good beer. 247 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:13,960 I think it's so underrated. 248 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:17,240 People always go for the Pliny, but Happy Hops is a great beer. 249 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:21,000 Well, I forgot I actually had that one. 250 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,440 So thank you for reminding me. 251 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:23,639 You are more than welcome. 252 00:10:23,639 --> 00:10:26,039 Now next up, I guess I'm going to have to find the Blind Pig. 253 00:10:26,039 --> 00:10:29,879 Yeah, find some Blind Pig. 254 00:10:29,879 --> 00:10:32,840 The one thing I won't find you, because I can't even find it, is the Younger. 255 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:36,279 Yeah, I hear that's the hardest one to get. 256 00:10:36,279 --> 00:10:37,960 Yeah, I've had a couple of versions. 257 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:39,000 Most recently was... 258 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,360 Is that the triple? 259 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:41,080 Yeah. 260 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:41,639 Okay. 261 00:10:41,639 --> 00:10:44,200 Honestly, I don't love it, not because it's not well made. 262 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,200 Here we go. 263 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:47,159 Here comes the hate mail. 264 00:10:47,159 --> 00:10:48,360 I don't love Pliny the Younger. 265 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,080 It's great for what it is. 266 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,000 It's a great triple IPA. 267 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,399 It's just as balanced as this is, but a triple. 268 00:10:55,399 --> 00:10:59,080 I just don't like the bigger, heavier beers as much. 269 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:00,360 It's just not my jam, that's all. 270 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:01,960 Oh, there's nothing wrong with that. 271 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,159 Yeah, but the last time I had it was actually Deb's birthday. 272 00:11:05,159 --> 00:11:08,600 And I think this was 2020, right before COVID started. 273 00:11:09,159 --> 00:11:11,639 We were brunching at one of our favorite brunch spots. 274 00:11:11,639 --> 00:11:15,080 And Brian got a text or something from our friend, was like, 275 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,159 "Hey, Younger is over at this other spot." 276 00:11:17,159 --> 00:11:20,039 We legit got up mid-brunch. 277 00:11:20,039 --> 00:11:21,320 No way. 278 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:21,799 And left. 279 00:11:21,799 --> 00:11:25,100 Yeah, we just left and we went to this other spot and started pounding Younger 280 00:11:25,100 --> 00:11:25,320 's. 281 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:26,379 Wow. 282 00:11:26,379 --> 00:11:27,740 Yeah. 283 00:11:27,740 --> 00:11:30,840 I think like 12% or some shit like that, so. 284 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:31,879 That sounds about right. 285 00:11:31,879 --> 00:11:33,080 Yeah, it's good times. 286 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:33,559 That was good. 287 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:35,240 That was the last time I had it, so. 288 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:36,440 Those were the good old days. 289 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:37,240 The good old days. 290 00:11:38,919 --> 00:11:41,399 Back when COVID was sort of a thing, but we didn't care yet. 291 00:11:41,399 --> 00:11:43,799 Oh, yeah. 292 00:11:43,799 --> 00:11:45,399 I guess depending on the month. 293 00:11:45,399 --> 00:11:47,240 Yes, it was like, her birthday's in February. 294 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:48,919 So it was February 2020. 295 00:11:48,919 --> 00:11:50,679 And that was right before, yeah. 296 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:51,240 Yeah, it was right before. 297 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,039 That was the last time I like was really out, out too. 298 00:11:54,039 --> 00:11:55,480 Yeah. 299 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:56,840 Was February. 300 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:57,639 Yeah, that same month. 301 00:11:57,639 --> 00:11:59,159 Boy, did I tie one on good. 302 00:11:59,159 --> 00:12:00,440 Yeah, we did. 303 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:01,240 You know, it's funny. 304 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,840 That same month, we went to a Kings game, LA Kings. 305 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:10,279 And, you know, got kind of ham skied down in downtown LA with Nick and Nicole. 306 00:12:10,279 --> 00:12:14,659 And that is, I'm pretty sure where we all picked up COVID because Nick got sick 307 00:12:14,659 --> 00:12:15,240 first. 308 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,279 We were walking through the Kobe Bryant Memorial. 309 00:12:18,279 --> 00:12:20,919 And there's just literally tens of thousands of people were walking through. 310 00:12:20,919 --> 00:12:24,279 And Staples Center was ground zero for COVID in the US. 311 00:12:24,279 --> 00:12:26,840 And so I'm pretty sure. 312 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:27,159 Really? 313 00:12:27,159 --> 00:12:28,360 I didn't know that. 314 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:28,600 Yeah. 315 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:30,759 I read this thing afterwards. 316 00:12:30,759 --> 00:12:34,840 That's where in the middle of COVID that said one of the first known cases was 317 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:35,240 from 318 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:39,710 one of the people working at the like food vendor or whatever inside Staples 319 00:12:39,710 --> 00:12:40,440 Center. 320 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:41,480 Oh, yeah. 321 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:43,000 Damn you LA. 322 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,279 Right. 323 00:12:44,279 --> 00:12:48,279 So I'm sure we picked because then we got COVID at a Super Bowl party at their 324 00:12:48,279 --> 00:12:48,519 house 325 00:12:48,519 --> 00:12:49,320 a couple of days later. 326 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:53,879 So pretty sure we all got it from being down there in that whole mess, either 327 00:12:53,879 --> 00:12:54,360 at the game 328 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,360 or at the Kobe Memorial or who knows. 329 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:57,559 But good times. 330 00:12:57,559 --> 00:12:59,159 The best. 331 00:12:59,159 --> 00:13:02,120 Not a COVID show. 332 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:05,860 Yeah, well, it's maybe a little bit. 333 00:13:05,860 --> 00:13:07,059 Yeah. 334 00:13:07,059 --> 00:13:11,860 And you speaking of LA, man, it's been quite the fucking couple of weeks. 335 00:13:11,860 --> 00:13:12,740 Yeah. 336 00:13:12,740 --> 00:13:15,220 You're OK out there. 337 00:13:15,220 --> 00:13:16,419 We're good for you. 338 00:13:16,419 --> 00:13:16,659 Yeah. 339 00:13:16,659 --> 00:13:21,860 We lost power for a few days, which meant we lost some fridge items. 340 00:13:21,860 --> 00:13:23,460 And it was a pain in the ass to work. 341 00:13:23,460 --> 00:13:25,460 You were legit out of power for days. 342 00:13:25,460 --> 00:13:26,259 Multiple days. 343 00:13:26,259 --> 00:13:26,500 Yeah. 344 00:13:26,500 --> 00:13:26,980 Wow. 345 00:13:26,980 --> 00:13:30,179 And we are not nearly as bad as both Deb and Brian and Nick and Nicole. 346 00:13:30,179 --> 00:13:33,460 They lost theirs when we did. 347 00:13:33,460 --> 00:13:36,500 But Deb and Brian took multiple days longer to get it back. 348 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:38,899 And then the following week, the wind pack picked up again. 349 00:13:38,899 --> 00:13:42,100 And for some reason, they did not shut off ours, but they shut off theirs. 350 00:13:42,100 --> 00:13:44,179 It's been a shit show. 351 00:13:44,179 --> 00:13:48,820 Whenever a mouse farts, they shut off Deb and Brian's power immediately. 352 00:13:48,820 --> 00:13:52,580 And then whenever a mouse farts twice, they shut off ours. 353 00:13:52,580 --> 00:13:53,620 We're right behind them. 354 00:13:53,620 --> 00:13:56,019 But they're always first to go and last to come back on. 355 00:13:56,019 --> 00:13:57,220 It's it's so silly. 356 00:13:57,220 --> 00:13:58,899 They were nowhere near the fires. 357 00:13:58,899 --> 00:14:01,860 We were more in the line of fire than they were in the sense that 358 00:14:01,860 --> 00:14:04,340 one of the ones that popped up was I think it's called the Franklin fire. 359 00:14:04,340 --> 00:14:09,220 If it had kept going, it would have followed the same path as the Woolsey fire 360 00:14:09,220 --> 00:14:10,019 from 2018 361 00:14:10,019 --> 00:14:12,259 that we were evacuated from and all that stuff. 362 00:14:12,259 --> 00:14:12,980 So. 363 00:14:12,980 --> 00:14:15,139 Wow, that's so fucking scary. 364 00:14:15,139 --> 00:14:17,539 Yeah, they snuffed it out pretty quickly. 365 00:14:17,539 --> 00:14:21,139 But by that night, they had once the winds calmed down, right? 366 00:14:21,139 --> 00:14:22,580 That was a big problem. 367 00:14:22,580 --> 00:14:23,460 Well, that was a big problem. 368 00:14:23,460 --> 00:14:26,500 The winds were still going at that point, but they just they kind of got to the 369 00:14:26,500 --> 00:14:26,740 point where 370 00:14:26,740 --> 00:14:28,259 like we've already lost the Palisades. 371 00:14:28,259 --> 00:14:29,620 We can't lose anything else. 372 00:14:29,620 --> 00:14:33,779 So if anything pops up, we got to fucking pounce and just hammer it down. 373 00:14:33,779 --> 00:14:36,580 And even that means we're taking resources from other spots. 374 00:14:36,580 --> 00:14:37,080 Got it. 375 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,620 Yeah, it's it's been insane. 376 00:14:39,620 --> 00:14:43,940 So I don't know anybody personally that have lost houses or lives. 377 00:14:43,940 --> 00:14:46,100 I have friends of friends who have. 378 00:14:46,100 --> 00:14:47,700 And it's fucking insane out here. 379 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:51,379 Seen all the all the devastation and the pictures and all that shit. 380 00:14:51,379 --> 00:14:54,340 And people are doing like drone footage. 381 00:14:54,340 --> 00:14:57,059 By the way, don't fly your drone in the middle of a fucking fire. 382 00:14:57,059 --> 00:14:58,100 You asshats. 383 00:14:58,100 --> 00:15:01,220 Did you see that one of the planes got damaged by a drone? 384 00:15:01,220 --> 00:15:01,940 No, I didn't. 385 00:15:01,940 --> 00:15:06,659 You know, Canada sent down a couple of water dropping planes and one of them, a 386 00:15:06,659 --> 00:15:07,299 drone ran 387 00:15:07,299 --> 00:15:08,580 into and damaged it. 388 00:15:08,580 --> 00:15:09,860 So they had to ground it. 389 00:15:09,860 --> 00:15:11,059 It's like you fucking idiot. 390 00:15:11,059 --> 00:15:11,779 So stupid. 391 00:15:11,779 --> 00:15:14,870 But anyway, they've seen some drone footage of like PCH, you know, the highway 392 00:15:14,870 --> 00:15:15,539 along the 393 00:15:15,539 --> 00:15:15,940 coast. 394 00:15:15,940 --> 00:15:19,620 And for my entire life, it's like, look at all these houses on PCH. 395 00:15:19,620 --> 00:15:21,940 And they're just showing it's just rubble along the beach. 396 00:15:21,940 --> 00:15:22,899 It's insane. 397 00:15:22,899 --> 00:15:24,019 So horrible. 398 00:15:24,019 --> 00:15:24,580 Yeah. 399 00:15:24,580 --> 00:15:29,570 So it's been it's been a crazy couple of weeks and having to work wherever I 400 00:15:29,570 --> 00:15:30,179 can work when 401 00:15:30,179 --> 00:15:33,059 I don't have power, which obviously it's the least of worries. 402 00:15:33,059 --> 00:15:33,299 Yeah. 403 00:15:33,299 --> 00:15:34,580 How does that work for you? 404 00:15:34,580 --> 00:15:37,789 And, you know, like I spent a few days in my mom's house, brought my computer 405 00:15:37,789 --> 00:15:38,179 down and 406 00:15:38,179 --> 00:15:42,340 all that stuff and, you know, worked from here with her crappy Internet. 407 00:15:42,340 --> 00:15:44,340 Yeah. 408 00:15:44,340 --> 00:15:45,700 We don't have an office like my wife. 409 00:15:45,700 --> 00:15:46,500 At least they have an office. 410 00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:51,299 So she went into the office and and worked there and we slept at home and we 411 00:15:51,299 --> 00:15:52,259 had lanterns 412 00:15:52,259 --> 00:15:54,259 like the eighteen hundreds. 413 00:15:54,259 --> 00:15:57,220 Yeah. 414 00:15:57,220 --> 00:15:59,539 Just walk around my house. 415 00:15:59,539 --> 00:16:00,740 There's gold. 416 00:16:00,740 --> 00:16:02,899 Gus chickens. 417 00:16:02,899 --> 00:16:06,259 Oh, so good. 418 00:16:06,259 --> 00:16:10,259 So but I do want to mention the fact that Common Space Brewery has launched a 419 00:16:10,259 --> 00:16:10,899 we love 420 00:16:10,899 --> 00:16:18,000 L.A. fire relief beer, just like Tierra Nevada did a few years ago with the Wol 421 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:18,259 ves or not 422 00:16:18,259 --> 00:16:18,740 with the Wolves. 423 00:16:18,740 --> 00:16:22,980 That was the I think the Paradise Fire where they raised money by everyone 424 00:16:22,980 --> 00:16:23,460 brewing the 425 00:16:23,460 --> 00:16:27,009 same essential recipe, basically the same recipe, different hops, whatever they 426 00:16:27,009 --> 00:16:28,019 're donating. 427 00:16:28,019 --> 00:16:31,299 Common Space has started a similar thing. 428 00:16:31,299 --> 00:16:34,100 There's over 100 breweries that have signed on at this point. 429 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:36,100 Obviously, a lot out here. 430 00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:39,139 Naughty Pine being one of the locals that have signed on already to do it. 431 00:16:39,139 --> 00:16:40,899 So it's fantastic that it's all about it. 432 00:16:40,899 --> 00:16:45,440 If you go to their their grams, Common Space's gram, they've got lists and 433 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:45,700 lists. 434 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:48,100 There's even a couple of international breweries that are jumping on. 435 00:16:48,100 --> 00:16:51,139 So super, super cool to see that support and all that good stuff. 436 00:16:51,139 --> 00:16:52,740 Heck yeah, man. 437 00:16:52,740 --> 00:16:53,059 Yeah. 438 00:16:53,059 --> 00:16:57,539 And if anybody needs help promoting or wants to collab on a beer that goes to 439 00:16:57,539 --> 00:16:58,179 that sort 440 00:16:58,179 --> 00:17:00,100 of charity, hit us up. 441 00:17:00,100 --> 00:17:04,259 Happy to promote those beers and collab on those beers or anything like that. 442 00:17:04,259 --> 00:17:08,900 So anything we can do to help out, because it's it's really, really shitty. 443 00:17:08,900 --> 00:17:13,339 And at this point, they're pretty much out of needing like, you know, items 444 00:17:13,339 --> 00:17:13,940 donated and 445 00:17:13,940 --> 00:17:17,200 they just need money donated to these charities so they can get things 446 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:18,019 distributed to where 447 00:17:18,019 --> 00:17:18,579 they need to be. 448 00:17:18,579 --> 00:17:19,460 So right. 449 00:17:19,460 --> 00:17:21,779 That's the sad part of the show. 450 00:17:21,779 --> 00:17:25,299 Let's let's go back to beer shit. 451 00:17:25,299 --> 00:17:25,460 Yeah. 452 00:17:25,460 --> 00:17:27,460 How do you how do you bring that up from there? 453 00:17:27,460 --> 00:17:28,660 I have no fucking clue. 454 00:17:28,660 --> 00:17:34,500 So awkward transition got hit up by a listener on the gram the other day. 455 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:35,140 Okay. 456 00:17:35,140 --> 00:17:39,940 Listener Jay said, Hey, CBR, you've referenced a local spot with an interesting 457 00:17:39,940 --> 00:17:40,740 beer selection 458 00:17:40,740 --> 00:17:43,619 at least twice now without giving us the name location. 459 00:17:43,619 --> 00:17:45,539 Where is it? 460 00:17:45,539 --> 00:17:48,509 He goes on to say, also, if you're ever passing through Moorpark, which is on 461 00:17:48,509 --> 00:17:49,299 our hood, that's 462 00:17:49,299 --> 00:17:55,109 where Integra is, check out the beer cave at the Handy Mart on Princeton and 463 00:17:55,109 --> 00:17:55,539 Campus 464 00:17:55,539 --> 00:17:55,779 Park. 465 00:17:55,779 --> 00:17:56,420 Haven't been there. 466 00:17:56,420 --> 00:17:57,619 I'll have to check it out. 467 00:17:57,619 --> 00:18:00,660 I did not know which establishment he was asking me about. 468 00:18:00,660 --> 00:18:02,740 So I was like, are we talking bottle shop, a brewery? 469 00:18:02,740 --> 00:18:04,019 What are we talking here? 470 00:18:04,019 --> 00:18:08,200 And he gave me a couple of clues and eventually said it's where Brian got that 471 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:09,940 keg for free 472 00:18:09,940 --> 00:18:12,740 or 100 bucks, depending on if it was good or not. 473 00:18:12,740 --> 00:18:13,059 Yeah. 474 00:18:13,059 --> 00:18:16,819 So once he said that, I was like, Oh, I know exactly what we're talking about. 475 00:18:16,819 --> 00:18:21,170 That's that stagecoach liquors are in Newbury Park, and it's where I always 476 00:18:21,170 --> 00:18:21,779 used to get 477 00:18:21,779 --> 00:18:25,539 Pliny and Russian River beers back before they were quite so easy to find. 478 00:18:25,539 --> 00:18:28,579 So if you're okay, if you need some rare beers, they got some rare beers. 479 00:18:28,579 --> 00:18:32,180 You can walk into the fridge, like the stuff they have facing the outside. 480 00:18:32,180 --> 00:18:33,539 It's, you know, your basic ship. 481 00:18:33,539 --> 00:18:35,779 You walk into the walk in. 482 00:18:35,779 --> 00:18:36,980 That's a secret, man. 483 00:18:36,980 --> 00:18:40,480 A lot of places you walk, if they have a cooler like that, you walk into the 484 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:41,299 cooler and that's 485 00:18:41,299 --> 00:18:42,660 where they keep all the good stuff. 486 00:18:42,660 --> 00:18:44,180 Yeah, exactly. 487 00:18:44,180 --> 00:18:47,700 Even this one today, the Pliny, I went to Total Wine to get it. 488 00:18:47,700 --> 00:18:49,460 Like the thought of it's so funny. 489 00:18:49,460 --> 00:18:50,579 I'm such an old school beer drinker. 490 00:18:50,579 --> 00:18:54,420 The thought of walking into Total Wine and getting a Pliny is like, wait, what? 491 00:18:55,059 --> 00:18:56,420 They never had that kind of shit. 492 00:18:56,420 --> 00:18:59,940 But I haven't been in a Total Wine in probably over a year. 493 00:18:59,940 --> 00:19:01,539 I usually avoid them. 494 00:19:01,539 --> 00:19:07,119 There is one cheap champagne that we really like if we're making mimosas, and 495 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:07,700 we can only 496 00:19:07,700 --> 00:19:08,660 find it at Total Wine. 497 00:19:08,660 --> 00:19:10,579 So we'll usually go get that champagne. 498 00:19:10,579 --> 00:19:14,619 But for beer, I never go into Total Wine, but I was in the same parking lot and 499 00:19:14,619 --> 00:19:14,819 was 500 00:19:14,819 --> 00:19:15,859 like, I need this Pliny. 501 00:19:15,859 --> 00:19:16,660 Let's see if they got it. 502 00:19:16,660 --> 00:19:18,740 And sure enough, they had that whole pile of it. 503 00:19:18,740 --> 00:19:22,579 That's gnarly fresh for you too. 504 00:19:23,460 --> 00:19:27,089 Yeah, the Pliny that was there, which I don't know how Total Wine is by you 505 00:19:27,089 --> 00:19:27,619 guys. 506 00:19:27,619 --> 00:19:31,140 But by me, it's like a fucking church rummage sale. 507 00:19:31,140 --> 00:19:34,500 Yeah, it's like a Tavor basement. 508 00:19:34,500 --> 00:19:35,700 Right. 509 00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:38,980 It's like sometimes you'll find beers that are like two years old, you know? 510 00:19:38,980 --> 00:19:45,420 And how do you not have this on the shitty, not even sale clearance rack that's 511 00:19:45,420 --> 00:19:45,700 not even 512 00:19:45,700 --> 00:19:46,259 a real sale? 513 00:19:46,259 --> 00:19:50,660 It's like $2 off this four pack because it's a year and a half old. 514 00:19:50,660 --> 00:19:51,700 Nobody's going to buy that. 515 00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:55,460 Enjoy our new stone, Notorious P.O.G. 516 00:19:55,460 --> 00:19:57,059 Yeah, yeah. 517 00:19:57,059 --> 00:19:58,420 It's been around for years. 518 00:19:58,420 --> 00:20:01,859 I remember I had a gift card that was burning a hole in my wallet. 519 00:20:01,859 --> 00:20:05,779 It was like, I don't know, like 25, 30 bucks. 520 00:20:05,779 --> 00:20:07,859 I'm like, all right, let's try and get some bang for my buck. 521 00:20:07,859 --> 00:20:11,059 And I walked out with three, four packs. 522 00:20:11,059 --> 00:20:13,700 Two of them weren't even good. 523 00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:19,460 But I think I got them all within like three months of the can on date. 524 00:20:19,460 --> 00:20:21,940 And I was pretty psyched about that. 525 00:20:21,940 --> 00:20:23,380 Yeah, that's pretty good for a total. 526 00:20:23,380 --> 00:20:24,740 That's what I was aiming for. 527 00:20:24,740 --> 00:20:26,579 But they were all local stuff. 528 00:20:26,579 --> 00:20:29,779 None of them were, you know, out of state. 529 00:20:29,779 --> 00:20:30,420 Sure, sure. 530 00:20:30,420 --> 00:20:31,059 Distribution. 531 00:20:31,059 --> 00:20:34,180 I will say, you know, I went in for the plenty. 532 00:20:34,180 --> 00:20:35,059 I didn't need anything else. 533 00:20:35,059 --> 00:20:38,980 But I did start just walking down the beer aisle just to see what they had. 534 00:20:38,980 --> 00:20:43,140 And I wonder if they're making an effort now because they had some good. 535 00:20:43,140 --> 00:20:45,700 First of all, they had a bunch of freshies from Malibu brewing. 536 00:20:45,700 --> 00:20:48,339 I was super stoked to see Malibu on the shelves. 537 00:20:48,339 --> 00:20:49,619 And that is awesome for them. 538 00:20:49,619 --> 00:20:50,180 Yeah. 539 00:20:50,180 --> 00:20:53,779 The fact they were fresh, they had some pretty new looking releases. 540 00:20:53,779 --> 00:20:56,900 I just checked a couple of random candidates and, you know, they're within a 541 00:20:56,900 --> 00:20:57,220 month. 542 00:20:57,220 --> 00:20:58,660 And I was like, well, that's that's pretty good. 543 00:20:58,660 --> 00:21:00,099 So maybe that is pretty good. 544 00:21:00,099 --> 00:21:00,339 Yeah. 545 00:21:00,339 --> 00:21:02,420 Maybe they're trying to turn things around. 546 00:21:02,420 --> 00:21:02,660 Yeah. 547 00:21:02,660 --> 00:21:06,259 But I will not buy anything there that doesn't have a date on the can. 548 00:21:06,259 --> 00:21:08,099 Yeah, that's smart. 549 00:21:08,099 --> 00:21:09,460 Yeah. 550 00:21:09,460 --> 00:21:11,940 That's like my one rule at Total Wine. 551 00:21:11,940 --> 00:21:14,259 Don't you legally have to put the date on? 552 00:21:15,539 --> 00:21:19,700 You know, some like just like some soda companies usually do it. 553 00:21:19,700 --> 00:21:26,109 A couple of other food brand companies, they just they put like these weird 554 00:21:26,109 --> 00:21:26,660 codes on it. 555 00:21:26,660 --> 00:21:32,819 It's not actually like a best by date or like a born on date. 556 00:21:32,819 --> 00:21:35,700 You have to like look up the code to know what it meant. 557 00:21:35,700 --> 00:21:36,180 Right. 558 00:21:36,180 --> 00:21:39,940 And then even some can like some four packs, they just don't have shit on the 559 00:21:39,940 --> 00:21:40,259 bottom of 560 00:21:40,259 --> 00:21:41,380 the cans at all. 561 00:21:41,380 --> 00:21:43,779 So I don't understand what laws. 562 00:21:43,779 --> 00:21:47,619 Because there's also some beers, I forgot which ones they are. 563 00:21:47,619 --> 00:21:48,500 Some of them are local. 564 00:21:48,500 --> 00:21:53,059 I know a lot of Spotted Cow stuff or New Glarus. 565 00:21:53,059 --> 00:21:57,460 They don't have the ABVs listed on their bottles. 566 00:21:57,460 --> 00:21:57,700 Oh. 567 00:21:57,700 --> 00:22:00,819 Which I thought that was a law as well. 568 00:22:00,819 --> 00:22:01,700 Yeah. 569 00:22:01,700 --> 00:22:05,700 But I've definitely seen that with like some local places where they don't pop 570 00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:06,339 that on. 571 00:22:06,339 --> 00:22:11,819 I wonder if certain laws or I mean, excuse me, certain states don't have that 572 00:22:11,819 --> 00:22:12,099 laws. 573 00:22:12,099 --> 00:22:12,980 They get away with it. 574 00:22:13,940 --> 00:22:16,579 Well, I'm wondering if Wisconsin is one of them. 575 00:22:16,579 --> 00:22:17,299 Right. 576 00:22:17,299 --> 00:22:20,500 Because Eagle Park, this was a few weeks back. 577 00:22:20,500 --> 00:22:25,299 They dropped a slush beer that they hadn't come out with in three years. 578 00:22:25,299 --> 00:22:26,740 So I was like, you know what? 579 00:22:26,740 --> 00:22:29,059 Last time they dropped it, it was fucking delicious. 580 00:22:29,059 --> 00:22:30,819 So I went and picked up a four pack. 581 00:22:30,819 --> 00:22:37,390 But, you know, the whole thing with 450 and the ABV gate and, you know, they're 582 00:22:37,390 --> 00:22:38,019 saying 583 00:22:42,980 --> 00:22:43,220 Right. 584 00:22:43,220 --> 00:22:48,509 So I know Eagle Park stopped putting the ABVs on their slush beers because they 585 00:22:48,509 --> 00:22:49,140 couldn't 586 00:22:49,140 --> 00:22:55,299 have like an accurate calculation of how much alcohol was inside can. 587 00:22:55,299 --> 00:22:57,460 So they don't pop the ABV on those anymore. 588 00:22:57,460 --> 00:22:59,619 That seems like it's got to be. 589 00:22:59,619 --> 00:23:00,259 Who knows? 590 00:23:00,259 --> 00:23:01,779 It must vary by state. 591 00:23:01,779 --> 00:23:05,940 But you'd think like, you know, if, say, California requires you to have it on 592 00:23:05,940 --> 00:23:06,500 there, 593 00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:10,039 even if it was from a different state that doesn't in order to import it into 594 00:23:10,039 --> 00:23:10,740 the state, 595 00:23:10,740 --> 00:23:12,420 you'd have to sell it in the state. 596 00:23:12,420 --> 00:23:13,539 It would have to have it on there. 597 00:23:13,539 --> 00:23:14,099 Who knows? 598 00:23:14,099 --> 00:23:15,859 Somebody that knows more about this shit. 599 00:23:15,859 --> 00:23:16,980 Like the drinking lawyer. 600 00:23:16,980 --> 00:23:19,220 Somebody let us know like how this how this works. 601 00:23:19,220 --> 00:23:21,059 We need some help over here. 602 00:23:21,059 --> 00:23:21,940 That would be wonderful. 603 00:23:21,940 --> 00:23:22,740 Yeah. 604 00:23:22,740 --> 00:23:25,630 One other thing I'll say about Total Wine before we completely get off the 605 00:23:25,630 --> 00:23:26,660 subject is 606 00:23:26,660 --> 00:23:27,700 I was pleasantly surprised. 607 00:23:27,700 --> 00:23:29,700 I'm walking through the beer aisle just looking to see what's there. 608 00:23:29,700 --> 00:23:38,450 And I was like, oh, there was a surprisingly attractive female by herself just 609 00:23:38,450 --> 00:23:38,980 cruising 610 00:23:38,980 --> 00:23:45,059 the beer cans, looking at some really tasty, not basic shit, checking dates. 611 00:23:45,059 --> 00:23:47,140 I was like, hmm. 612 00:23:47,140 --> 00:23:50,019 And you said, Shannon, what are you doing here? 613 00:23:50,019 --> 00:23:51,380 That's exactly what I said. 614 00:23:51,380 --> 00:23:56,470 Certainly didn't question life choices from earlier in life. 615 00:24:00,009 --> 00:24:02,089 We call those life ruiners. 616 00:24:02,089 --> 00:24:07,279 Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised. 617 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:10,799 So keep checking those dates, ladies and guys. 618 00:24:10,799 --> 00:24:11,839 Let's not be racist here. 619 00:24:11,839 --> 00:24:16,960 All right, let's let's move on before I get myself in more and more trouble. 620 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:21,119 You know, before we get OK, one last story. 621 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:28,390 Before I went to Total Wine, I was at the car wash and had it was just me and 622 00:24:28,390 --> 00:24:28,960 the dog 623 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:30,559 waiting for the car to get clean. 624 00:24:30,559 --> 00:24:32,319 And some lady walks up. 625 00:24:32,319 --> 00:24:35,680 This is so not beer related, but I had to tell somebody. 626 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,480 He walks in like, oh, can I can I say hi? 627 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:39,440 And I was like, yeah, sure. 628 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:43,279 You know, no one's more friendly than Marty, but also no one gives less shits 629 00:24:43,279 --> 00:24:43,759 about people 630 00:24:43,759 --> 00:24:44,720 with the Marty. 631 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:45,359 Okay. 632 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:45,519 Yeah. 633 00:24:45,519 --> 00:24:46,160 You want to pet me? 634 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:46,640 That's fine. 635 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,079 But also like I don't care. 636 00:24:48,079 --> 00:24:51,039 He mainly only cares about like his people. 637 00:24:51,599 --> 00:24:55,759 Okay, it's like us and she loves Nicole to no end. 638 00:24:55,759 --> 00:24:59,859 But outside of that, he's like, yeah, whatever I don't know you, but you can 639 00:24:59,859 --> 00:25:00,640 touch me and 640 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:01,279 she walks up. 641 00:25:01,279 --> 00:25:04,569 She's so she kind of like half pet some does like the whole smell my hand thing 642 00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:09,920 Then she starts talking as him to me. 643 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:15,279 Whoa yeah, at first it was little like, oh, do you smell my doggies on me? 644 00:25:15,279 --> 00:25:19,039 Yeah, I've got doggies and then it goes into like as him. 645 00:25:20,079 --> 00:25:24,039 Oh yeah, I smell your dog and I think she thought he was a girl or something is 646 00:25:24,039 --> 00:25:24,480 super 647 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:24,960 high pitch. 648 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,359 Oh yeah, I smell your doggies. 649 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:32,269 You must have a big dog because I smell a big dog on you and I wish you had do 650 00:25:32,269 --> 00:25:32,799 ggies 651 00:25:32,799 --> 00:25:34,240 with you so I could play with them. 652 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:35,039 I was like, what? 653 00:25:35,039 --> 00:25:36,960 Oh my gosh. 654 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:40,400 And then she just keeps looking up at me like waiting for me to say something. 655 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,960 I was like, I got nothing to say other than you're fucking crazy. 656 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,559 So you don't want me to say anything. 657 00:25:44,559 --> 00:25:46,000 It was so weird. 658 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000 I would say that's weird. 659 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,920 You're sitting in your car waiting to get the car wash. 660 00:25:50,319 --> 00:25:50,880 No, no, no. 661 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:51,680 We were out of the car. 662 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,519 The car was going through. 663 00:25:53,519 --> 00:25:55,920 We're waiting for our cars. 664 00:25:55,920 --> 00:26:00,910 But yeah, this went on for like a solid two minutes of just her talking as my 665 00:26:00,910 --> 00:26:01,519 dog. 666 00:26:01,519 --> 00:26:04,640 Who's I guess a girl now all of a sudden. 667 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:09,359 And how do you like stop that without being so awkward? 668 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:09,839 I don't know. 669 00:26:09,839 --> 00:26:11,359 I mean, we're already in Awkwardsville. 670 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:12,559 There's no getting out of that. 671 00:26:12,559 --> 00:26:15,119 But like she kept looking up at me waiting for me to respond. 672 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,119 And I was just like, yeah, uh-huh. 673 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,079 Wait, we want me to join in your fucking weirdness over here. 674 00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:22,400 Like it was the weirdest. 675 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,000 It's like the Sloppy Joe lady. 676 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,400 Hey, lady, you're scaring us. 677 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,079 Oh, yeah. 678 00:26:30,079 --> 00:26:32,720 Please get away from me and my dog. 679 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,880 Yeah, so fucking weird. 680 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:40,150 And at one point, Marty even had enough and like walked away from her and just 681 00:26:40,150 --> 00:26:40,799 sat next to me. 682 00:26:40,799 --> 00:26:44,720 Well, that's like when we like when we had young like our kids were babies. 683 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,279 And you just take them to the grocery store. 684 00:26:47,279 --> 00:26:53,119 It's astounding how many old people think it's OK to just touch your children. 685 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:58,559 Yeah, you know, and newsflash that that's not OK. 686 00:26:58,559 --> 00:26:59,680 It's kind of fucking weird. 687 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:00,960 It's super fucking weird. 688 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:01,839 I don't even have kids. 689 00:27:01,839 --> 00:27:06,799 Yeah, so I could only imagine you in the situation. 690 00:27:06,799 --> 00:27:08,799 I mean, with a dog. 691 00:27:08,799 --> 00:27:14,240 And the voice thing was it was too much like we can't talk. 692 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,240 We can't. 693 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:17,680 I don't want to have a beer with you. 694 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:18,559 No, never. 695 00:27:18,559 --> 00:27:19,759 I'll go sober. 696 00:27:19,759 --> 00:27:20,319 It's funny. 697 00:27:20,319 --> 00:27:22,000 That's how I judge people, by the way. 698 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,299 It's like, oh, after we have a beer with them from like 30 seconds to two 699 00:27:25,299 --> 00:27:25,920 minutes and you 700 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,640 could decide whether or not you would have a beer with this person. 701 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,480 Yeah, you're hot or you're cool or you have fun stories to tell or the list 702 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:33,119 goes on. 703 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,559 Or, you know, or, you know, the complete opposite, like negative ways where it 704 00:27:36,559 --> 00:27:37,519 's like, OK, like 705 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:45,359 you introduce yourself, do she or like you come off as, you know, self-absorbed 706 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:46,240 or just 707 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:46,960 anything like that. 708 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,720 It's like, you know, or you talk as my dog in a weird voice or you talk as 709 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:51,200 somebody's 710 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:52,319 dog in a weird voice. 711 00:27:52,319 --> 00:27:54,720 Yes, no beer for you. 712 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:55,759 Yeah, no. 713 00:27:55,759 --> 00:27:57,839 Oh, God, I don't want to see her drunk. 714 00:27:57,839 --> 00:27:59,440 I can only get worse. 715 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,079 Well, maybe actually, you know what? 716 00:28:02,079 --> 00:28:02,799 You got a point. 717 00:28:02,799 --> 00:28:05,039 You got a point. 718 00:28:05,039 --> 00:28:09,700 Reminds me of we were hiking once and I had Marty on a leash and some dog comes 719 00:28:09,700 --> 00:28:10,160 running 720 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,440 up off leash and it seemed OK. 721 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:14,400 I remember the story. 722 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,240 Yeah, but I was like, I'm not taking the chance. 723 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,319 So I got in between the dogs immediately. 724 00:28:18,319 --> 00:28:20,160 And then from way down the trail here. 725 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:21,519 Oh, he's friendly. 726 00:28:21,519 --> 00:28:25,920 And then I yell back, I'm not Jesus. 727 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,799 My dog's friendly. 728 00:28:28,799 --> 00:28:29,599 His owner's not. 729 00:28:29,599 --> 00:28:31,759 Well, you know, you're protective. 730 00:28:31,759 --> 00:28:32,319 It's your dog. 731 00:28:32,319 --> 00:28:33,200 It's your boy. 732 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:34,400 Put your fucking dog in a leash. 733 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,440 Hey, you know what? 734 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,910 Or if you're going to have him off a leash, you train him good enough that they 735 00:28:40,910 --> 00:28:41,279 stay by 736 00:28:41,279 --> 00:28:42,079 your side. 737 00:28:42,079 --> 00:28:42,400 Right. 738 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,000 I have Marty off leash outside all the time, like when he's peeing and stuff in 739 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:46,319 on the 740 00:28:46,319 --> 00:28:47,119 front. 741 00:28:47,119 --> 00:28:51,119 But the moment he starts to take a step in the wrong direction, I just go, hey, 742 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:51,680 comes back. 743 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,400 Yeah, that's my dad was the best with that. 744 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,960 Like he was like a dog whisperer. 745 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:02,240 And any dog we've ever had was an off leash dog. 746 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:03,039 Mm hmm. 747 00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:05,440 And they would have the goal, right? 748 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:06,480 Right, right. 749 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:10,079 So they would always be big on chasing squirrels and, you know, any kind of 750 00:29:10,079 --> 00:29:10,720 animal. 751 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:15,200 And we lived in like a Creekway Creekway, you know, wooded area. 752 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,000 And, you know, he's take the dog down the path. 753 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,460 And any time a dog came by or anything happened, he'd just give out that 754 00:29:22,460 --> 00:29:23,920 fucking whistle like 755 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:28,160 that loud, no finger in the mouth, like whistle. 756 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:33,730 And that dog in a split second would just trot right back to my dad and stay by 757 00:29:33,730 --> 00:29:34,000 his 758 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,839 side and not fuck with anybody. 759 00:29:35,839 --> 00:29:36,160 Nice. 760 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,240 So if you can train your dog like that. 761 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:39,119 Yeah. 762 00:29:39,119 --> 00:29:41,200 No leashes allowed. 763 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:42,079 Yeah. 764 00:29:42,079 --> 00:29:44,480 The hardest part is training to not give a fuck. 765 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:44,720 Right. 766 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,319 That is absolutely true. 767 00:29:46,319 --> 00:29:47,200 Yeah. 768 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,839 One time Marty got out, we were at Nick and Nicole's house. 769 00:29:49,839 --> 00:29:50,559 He got out. 770 00:29:50,559 --> 00:29:51,759 We didn't know it. 771 00:29:51,759 --> 00:29:55,119 And he is so not one of those runaway from home dogs. 772 00:29:55,119 --> 00:29:57,039 He knows who feeds them. 773 00:29:57,039 --> 00:29:59,039 He loves food way too much to run away. 774 00:29:59,039 --> 00:30:03,349 He's just a good boy, but he got out and he just, he followed his nose and we 775 00:30:03,349 --> 00:30:03,839 found him 776 00:30:03,839 --> 00:30:07,660 just at the neighbor's house, just sniffing flowers and checking the things out 777 00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:09,200 That's adorable. 778 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:13,119 It was, you wanted to be mad because it's like, hey, get the fuck back here. 779 00:30:13,119 --> 00:30:15,200 But also it was kind of, kind of cute. 780 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:16,319 We had one dog. 781 00:30:16,319 --> 00:30:17,279 He didn't go far. 782 00:30:17,279 --> 00:30:17,680 Didn't cross the street. 783 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,720 We had one dog that slipped out of between the fence in our backyard when I was 784 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:22,220 a kid. 785 00:30:23,119 --> 00:30:27,519 And we went around for like an hour and a half looking for our fucking dog. 786 00:30:27,519 --> 00:30:28,640 We get home. 787 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:33,920 She is sitting on the step at the front door waiting to get back in the house. 788 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,039 That was Shannon's old dog. 789 00:30:35,039 --> 00:30:35,680 Same thing. 790 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:36,160 All the time. 791 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,240 He'd get out all the time and just go sit on the front porch. 792 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:39,359 Yeah. 793 00:30:39,359 --> 00:30:40,640 Like she fucking knew. 794 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,039 Like she knew where the food comes from. 795 00:30:43,039 --> 00:30:45,599 Hey, you got a good here, homie. 796 00:30:45,599 --> 00:30:46,480 Hell yeah. 797 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:47,119 You don't need to run. 798 00:30:47,119 --> 00:30:50,000 But alas, not a dog. 799 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,039 Not a dog show. 800 00:30:51,039 --> 00:30:52,240 No, not, not yet. 801 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:53,920 At least get me drunk enough. 802 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,000 And I'll just talk about Marty nonstop. 803 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,279 All right. 804 00:30:57,279 --> 00:30:59,279 Let's do a little news before we get up out of here. 805 00:30:59,279 --> 00:31:05,839 New Belgium is making a party sports drink, a beer. 806 00:31:05,839 --> 00:31:09,200 It's like Gatorade with booze in it. 807 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,559 They say whether it's music festivals, outdoor adventures, or a night out, 808 00:31:12,559 --> 00:31:17,680 light strike makes partying a sport, which I'm surprised they were allowed to 809 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:18,559 put on that bottle. 810 00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:22,319 Light strike senior brand manager, Andrew Emberton. 811 00:31:22,319 --> 00:31:24,160 Oh, I saw this at Meijer today. 812 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:25,200 Did you? 813 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:26,240 Yeah. 814 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,000 Do you guys, I don't, do you even know what a Meijer is? 815 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:28,319 I don't know. 816 00:31:28,319 --> 00:31:28,799 No, I know. 817 00:31:28,799 --> 00:31:30,079 I just figured it's a store of some sort. 818 00:31:30,079 --> 00:31:31,039 It's like a Walmart. 819 00:31:31,039 --> 00:31:31,920 Um, oh, okay. 820 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:32,960 Yeah. 821 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:37,970 I, and they were in like fucking, you know, how like Gatorade and not even G 822 00:31:37,970 --> 00:31:38,319 atorade, 823 00:31:38,319 --> 00:31:42,160 it's Powerades or fucking what's that other stupid Logan Paul one. 824 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:43,920 The, uh, prime. 825 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:44,720 Yeah. 826 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,839 How they'll come in like plastic wrapped eight packs. 827 00:31:47,839 --> 00:31:49,839 That's how this shit comes. 828 00:31:49,839 --> 00:31:50,240 Yes. 829 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:51,279 Yeah. 830 00:31:51,279 --> 00:31:52,640 It looks like one of those. 831 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,039 And I didn't even bother to look at it cause I thought it was just some off 832 00:31:56,039 --> 00:31:57,279 brand sports drink. 833 00:31:57,279 --> 00:32:00,559 So I'm like, no, I'm not even going to look into this shit. 834 00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:05,440 I haven't seen it yet, but, but now, yeah, now you're going to have to look 835 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:06,240 into it because, 836 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,440 uh, apparently it's coming in hot. 837 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,670 They say it's the, uh, it's 5% ABV non-carbonated beverage that will be 838 00:32:13,670 --> 00:32:14,640 packaged 839 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:19,119 in resealable 16.9 ounce sports drink bottles available in single flavor, four 840 00:32:19,119 --> 00:32:19,920 packs, 841 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,720 lemon, lime, and orange mango. 842 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,039 Which do you know why it's 16.9 ounces? 843 00:32:25,039 --> 00:32:27,119 Cause it's the same as a bottle of water. 844 00:32:27,119 --> 00:32:27,920 Yeah. 845 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:28,319 Well, yeah. 846 00:32:28,319 --> 00:32:30,319 But do you know the significance of that? 847 00:32:30,319 --> 00:32:30,799 I do not. 848 00:32:30,799 --> 00:32:32,319 It's half a liter. 849 00:32:32,319 --> 00:32:35,359 Oh, okay. 850 00:32:35,359 --> 00:32:36,640 Just a little fun fact. 851 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:37,119 Yeah. 852 00:32:37,119 --> 00:32:38,079 No, I didn't know that. 853 00:32:38,079 --> 00:32:41,680 Like I always think people look at water bottles and they're like 16.9 ounces. 854 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:42,559 That's kind of fucking weird. 855 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,720 I just thought it was their way of getting 69 on a bottle. 856 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:46,960 Yeah. 857 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,319 No, you just never think about it. 858 00:32:48,319 --> 00:32:52,160 Cause a liter is 33.8 ounces and not a lot of people know that either. 859 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,480 Bingo, bingo numbers. 860 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,440 Can I get a liter of cola? 861 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,480 I don't know what that is. 862 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,960 Liter of cola. 863 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:04,720 Do we have liter of cola? 864 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:05,680 Brilliant. 865 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:06,079 Fuck it. 866 00:33:06,079 --> 00:33:07,200 I'll take a large Farva. 867 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,839 Um, what else? 868 00:33:09,839 --> 00:33:11,039 Oh, up in your hood. 869 00:33:11,039 --> 00:33:14,960 Leinenkugel's the Leinenkugel's as in the family, not the brewery. 870 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:15,759 I read about this. 871 00:33:15,759 --> 00:33:16,720 Yeah. 872 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,160 Trying to buy back their brewery. 873 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,200 Yeah. 874 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:19,920 I saw this. 875 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,680 And so far there has been no response, I believe. 876 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:24,480 Yeah. 877 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,480 They said they submitted a formal proposal to Molson Corp is asking the company 878 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:28,960 to engage 879 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:33,440 in a non-disclosure agreement to kick off discussions about acquiring the 880 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:34,000 brewery with 881 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,480 the goal of maintaining its operations under Leinenkugel family leadership. 882 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:42,400 Oh, it goes on to say the family sold the brewery in 1988 to Miller Brewing 883 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:42,640 Company. 884 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,000 I didn't realize it was that long ago. 885 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:44,960 1988. 886 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:45,200 Yeah. 887 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:52,000 That request was declined on January 6th from somebody who stated the company 888 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:52,559 reigns fully 889 00:33:52,559 --> 00:33:54,160 committed to the Leinenkugel's brand. 890 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:59,680 A follow-up request on January 8th was left unanswered as of January 15th. 891 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,359 The Leinenkugel's wrote that they remain optimistic that Molson Corp's 892 00:34:03,359 --> 00:34:03,759 leadership 893 00:34:03,759 --> 00:34:07,039 will reconsider our proposal and engage in meaningful discussions about 894 00:34:07,039 --> 00:34:07,599 safeguarding 895 00:34:07,599 --> 00:34:09,199 this important part of our heritage. 896 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:14,860 They also put a huge post on LinkedIn, which I don't think anybody wants to 897 00:34:14,860 --> 00:34:15,599 hear me read 898 00:34:15,599 --> 00:34:21,039 out loud, but they are asking for Molson Corp's to sell them their shit back 899 00:34:21,039 --> 00:34:21,440 because they don't 900 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,369 want people to lose their jobs because they shuttered the brewery as of a 901 00:34:24,369 --> 00:34:25,039 couple of days 902 00:34:25,039 --> 00:34:26,000 ago, I believe. 903 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:26,239 Right. 904 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,960 Something also I didn't know. 905 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:33,440 I didn't realize Summer Shandy was as recent as 2007. 906 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,119 Oh, really? 907 00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:35,619 Yeah. 908 00:34:36,559 --> 00:34:38,559 That kind of blew my mind as I was reading that article. 909 00:34:38,559 --> 00:34:43,360 But you probably became of drinking age in what, like '09-ish? 910 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:44,320 Correct. 911 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:44,719 All right. 912 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:48,639 So to you, your entire drinking career, it's existed. 913 00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:48,880 Yeah. 914 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:53,639 But it's like when you start drinking beer, you just assume that the beer you 915 00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:54,159 're drinking 916 00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:55,119 has been around for... 917 00:34:55,119 --> 00:34:56,800 It's true. 918 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,719 You know, for whenever. 919 00:34:58,719 --> 00:34:59,039 Yeah. 920 00:34:59,039 --> 00:35:00,480 Yeah, you're not wrong. 921 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,639 Thought that was kind of a fun fact. 922 00:35:02,639 --> 00:35:03,599 Yeah. 923 00:35:03,599 --> 00:35:06,480 I mean, I even, I was like, if you told me Summer Shandy, like, I don't know, 924 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:06,960 '90s? 925 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:07,920 Right. 926 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:08,880 Who fucking knows? 927 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:09,679 Who knows? 928 00:35:09,679 --> 00:35:10,400 Yeah. 929 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:11,360 Now you know. 930 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:11,920 Now you know. 931 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,199 I pulled this story because I just thought it was funny. 932 00:35:15,199 --> 00:35:18,320 Jim Cock of Boston Beer Company. 933 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:19,440 Sam Adams guy, yeah. 934 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:20,800 Yeah, Sam Adams guy. 935 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,639 Says that Hard Mountain Dew will be the most successful crossover brand from 936 00:35:24,639 --> 00:35:25,599 non-alcoholic 937 00:35:25,599 --> 00:35:26,159 beverages. 938 00:35:26,159 --> 00:35:28,880 I don't think so because they got lightning strike. 939 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:33,599 And all they've been doing is losing money ever since they started this in '22. 940 00:35:34,559 --> 00:35:38,719 Boston Beer Company founder and chairman Jim Cock said of the flavored malt 941 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:39,519 beverage brand, 942 00:35:39,519 --> 00:35:44,320 looking into his 2030 crystal ball Monday during day two of Beer Business Daily 943 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:44,960 's Beer, 944 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:50,719 Wine, and Spirit Summit in Palm Beach, Florida, emphasized that it takes time 945 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:51,440 to build these 946 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:56,070 things so he doesn't worry himself over year over year quarterly comps, 947 00:35:56,070 --> 00:35:56,880 something he acknowledged 948 00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:00,849 that he has the luxury to mostly ignore as he owns all voting shares of the 949 00:36:00,849 --> 00:36:01,599 company. 950 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,079 He says, "What I'm worried about is how I make the company more valuable in 951 00:36:06,079 --> 00:36:06,800 five years. 952 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,320 That I worry about a lot." 953 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:13,679 The Boston Beer Co. and PepsiCo launched Hard Mountain Dew in early '22 with 954 00:36:13,679 --> 00:36:14,480 PepsiCo initially 955 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,519 handling distribution, blah, blah, blah. 956 00:36:17,519 --> 00:36:19,519 But yeah, I love that. 957 00:36:19,519 --> 00:36:22,880 It's going to be the best or the most successful crossover brand. 958 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,239 I don't want regular Mountain Dew. 959 00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,239 What makes you think I want Hard Mountain Dew? 960 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:26,480 Right. 961 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:27,119 I'll tell you what. 962 00:36:27,119 --> 00:36:27,760 I did have... 963 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,360 So I couldn't tell you the last time I had a regular Mountain Dew. 964 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:31,860 Same. 965 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,639 So about two weeks ago, I said, "You know what? 966 00:36:34,639 --> 00:36:35,440 It's been a while." 967 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,079 Damn it. 968 00:36:38,079 --> 00:36:40,079 It really hit. 969 00:36:40,079 --> 00:36:41,599 Did it? 970 00:36:41,599 --> 00:36:44,639 But it was like a one and done thing. 971 00:36:44,639 --> 00:36:46,559 Oh, you were left needing more. 972 00:36:46,559 --> 00:36:49,039 Because then I had one a couple of days later because I was like, "Man, that 973 00:36:49,039 --> 00:36:49,360 was really 974 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:50,079 good the other day." 975 00:36:50,079 --> 00:36:53,409 I had the second one a couple of days later and I said, "Yeah, this is all 976 00:36:53,409 --> 00:36:54,000 right." 977 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:59,420 So I think the key to Mountain Dew is just not drinking it for a long time and 978 00:36:59,420 --> 00:36:59,760 then just 979 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:00,320 having one. 980 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:00,800 Once a decade? 981 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:01,300 Yes. 982 00:37:01,619 --> 00:37:05,940 But they're going to be so rich with your once a decade Mountain Dew drinking. 983 00:37:05,940 --> 00:37:06,179 Yeah. 984 00:37:06,179 --> 00:37:06,900 Maybe I'll try it. 985 00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:07,940 I probably won't. 986 00:37:07,940 --> 00:37:08,420 Maybe I will. 987 00:37:08,420 --> 00:37:13,300 I guess I'd try to fucking eggnog buzz ball. 988 00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:14,980 I guess I could try Hard Mountain Dew. 989 00:37:14,980 --> 00:37:16,179 Yeah, that's true. 990 00:37:16,179 --> 00:37:17,940 I have had the... 991 00:37:17,940 --> 00:37:23,059 There was like a Code Red seltzer that a company put out. 992 00:37:23,059 --> 00:37:23,940 Had it at a share. 993 00:37:23,940 --> 00:37:26,420 It wasn't great. 994 00:37:26,420 --> 00:37:28,260 It wasn't great. 995 00:37:28,260 --> 00:37:32,579 So I don't know how a Mountain Dew alcoholic beverage would be. 996 00:37:32,579 --> 00:37:34,179 Probably not great. 997 00:37:34,179 --> 00:37:35,300 Probably not. 998 00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:37,539 Sounds very sugary as well. 999 00:37:37,539 --> 00:37:41,780 I will say the first time I ever got drunk was not even Mountain Dew. 1000 00:37:41,780 --> 00:37:45,380 It was knockoff Mountain Dew, like the Albertsons brand. 1001 00:37:45,380 --> 00:37:47,380 Oh, I was hoping you were going to say MDX. 1002 00:37:47,380 --> 00:37:49,300 Oh, how do you know what that is? 1003 00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:50,500 Do you remember those? 1004 00:37:50,500 --> 00:37:51,059 No, no. 1005 00:37:51,059 --> 00:37:53,699 It was like the Mountain Dew energy drink. 1006 00:37:53,699 --> 00:37:55,219 Oh, no. 1007 00:37:55,219 --> 00:37:57,780 This was Mountain Dew, but knockoff brand. 1008 00:37:57,780 --> 00:38:01,139 So every store has like their own fake name. 1009 00:38:01,139 --> 00:38:05,460 So it was like Mountain Breeze and Mountain Mist. 1010 00:38:05,460 --> 00:38:06,659 Mountain Dripper. 1011 00:38:06,659 --> 00:38:07,699 Mountain Drizzle. 1012 00:38:07,699 --> 00:38:11,380 Mountain Facial. 1013 00:38:11,380 --> 00:38:16,710 Send us your best fake Mountain Dew names. 1014 00:38:16,710 --> 00:38:22,389 Mountain Butt Stuff. 1015 00:38:22,389 --> 00:38:25,750 But yeah, I would. 1016 00:38:25,750 --> 00:38:27,989 That sounds like some West Virginia shit right there. 1017 00:38:27,989 --> 00:38:28,710 It really does. 1018 00:38:28,710 --> 00:38:31,190 Mountain Cousin Butt Stuff. 1019 00:38:31,190 --> 00:38:33,989 West Virginia. 1020 00:38:33,989 --> 00:38:37,909 Anyways, we would drink half the can and then fill it back up with vodka. 1021 00:38:37,909 --> 00:38:39,429 And that was the first time I ever got drunk. 1022 00:38:39,429 --> 00:38:40,949 Oh, that sounds awful. 1023 00:38:40,949 --> 00:38:43,030 The next day was worse than you think. 1024 00:38:43,030 --> 00:38:44,550 No, I know how it was. 1025 00:38:44,550 --> 00:38:46,070 It was so bad. 1026 00:38:46,070 --> 00:38:46,710 Because we used to. 1027 00:38:46,710 --> 00:38:47,429 So fucking bad. 1028 00:38:47,429 --> 00:38:48,789 So we used to visit. 1029 00:38:48,789 --> 00:38:50,630 I had a buddy who went to Butler University. 1030 00:38:50,630 --> 00:38:53,030 And we used to visit him a couple of times each semester. 1031 00:38:53,030 --> 00:38:57,110 Because, you know, he went rushing into this frat. 1032 00:38:57,110 --> 00:38:58,070 And he got in this frat. 1033 00:38:58,070 --> 00:39:01,510 So it was always fun to go down there and hang out with all the guys. 1034 00:39:01,510 --> 00:39:04,469 Well, they would do this trip every year to Cabo. 1035 00:39:04,469 --> 00:39:08,550 And they discovered these drinks called Adios Motherfuckers. 1036 00:39:08,550 --> 00:39:09,429 Oh, AMFs. 1037 00:39:09,429 --> 00:39:09,909 Yeah. 1038 00:39:09,909 --> 00:39:10,469 Yeah. 1039 00:39:10,469 --> 00:39:13,510 And they brought them back to Butler. 1040 00:39:13,510 --> 00:39:17,670 But they would use MDX as the base. 1041 00:39:17,670 --> 00:39:18,869 Oh, Jesus. 1042 00:39:18,869 --> 00:39:19,269 Yeah. 1043 00:39:19,269 --> 00:39:23,590 And then it was like, you know, what, like tequila and rum. 1044 00:39:23,590 --> 00:39:25,110 And it was almost like a long. 1045 00:39:25,110 --> 00:39:25,909 It took everything. 1046 00:39:25,909 --> 00:39:26,550 Yeah. 1047 00:39:26,550 --> 00:39:27,989 And they're basically the same. 1048 00:39:27,989 --> 00:39:31,750 They would finish it off with green apple Smirnoff. 1049 00:39:31,750 --> 00:39:33,909 Oh, God damn it. 1050 00:39:33,909 --> 00:39:34,550 Why? 1051 00:39:34,550 --> 00:39:37,989 Oh, because that's really what makes you throw up. 1052 00:39:37,989 --> 00:39:38,309 Right. 1053 00:39:38,309 --> 00:39:40,949 You didn't feel bad enough already. 1054 00:39:40,949 --> 00:39:41,190 No. 1055 00:39:41,190 --> 00:39:43,829 Here's some sugary alcohol. 1056 00:39:43,829 --> 00:39:48,070 I remember being hung over for something like 18 hours. 1057 00:39:48,070 --> 00:39:48,710 Oof. 1058 00:39:48,710 --> 00:39:49,590 Went out to lunch. 1059 00:39:49,590 --> 00:39:53,989 I ate like three French fries, went to the bathroom, threw up the three French 1060 00:39:53,989 --> 00:39:54,469 fries. 1061 00:39:54,469 --> 00:39:55,110 I bet. 1062 00:39:55,110 --> 00:39:56,550 Took the rest of my food to go. 1063 00:39:56,550 --> 00:39:58,469 And that was my weekend. 1064 00:39:58,469 --> 00:40:00,070 That was before you discovered doughnuts. 1065 00:40:00,070 --> 00:40:01,510 It was. 1066 00:40:01,510 --> 00:40:05,110 I mean, doughnuts as a hangover cure, not doughnuts in general. 1067 00:40:05,110 --> 00:40:07,510 I really wasn't even eating doughnuts at that point. 1068 00:40:07,510 --> 00:40:09,750 Now you've learned. 1069 00:40:09,750 --> 00:40:09,989 Yeah. 1070 00:40:09,989 --> 00:40:11,829 Stupid young flex. 1071 00:40:11,829 --> 00:40:13,590 Idiot. 1072 00:40:13,590 --> 00:40:15,510 We'll end it with this one. 1073 00:40:15,510 --> 00:40:16,389 Scott, send me an article. 1074 00:40:16,389 --> 00:40:17,269 I'm not gonna read the whole thing. 1075 00:40:17,269 --> 00:40:22,469 But apparently in Philly, did you know most restaurants are BYOB? 1076 00:40:22,469 --> 00:40:25,110 No, I didn't even think that would be legal. 1077 00:40:25,110 --> 00:40:26,309 I wouldn't think so either. 1078 00:40:26,309 --> 00:40:29,909 But apparently most restaurants in Philly are BYOB. 1079 00:40:29,909 --> 00:40:31,829 Some have corkage feeds, some don't. 1080 00:40:31,829 --> 00:40:37,110 But instead of having to deal with their shitty alcohol selection, you can 1081 00:40:37,110 --> 00:40:38,949 bring your own. 1082 00:40:38,949 --> 00:40:42,230 I wonder how legit this is. 1083 00:40:42,230 --> 00:40:45,349 It comes from explore.com. 1084 00:40:45,349 --> 00:40:49,030 The article is the unexpected alcohol rule tourists need to know before dining 1085 00:40:49,030 --> 00:40:49,269 out in 1086 00:40:49,269 --> 00:40:49,989 Philadelphia. 1087 00:40:49,989 --> 00:40:53,429 So you could pack some wabs. 1088 00:40:53,429 --> 00:40:54,469 Yeah. 1089 00:40:54,469 --> 00:41:00,630 And it might be OK to just crack them open at a restaurant. 1090 00:41:00,630 --> 00:41:00,789 Yeah. 1091 00:41:00,789 --> 00:41:04,150 I mean, at the end, they give the usual like, hey, check with your restaurant 1092 00:41:04,150 --> 00:41:04,789 first to make 1093 00:41:04,789 --> 00:41:05,510 sure it's OK. 1094 00:41:05,510 --> 00:41:05,989 Bullshit. 1095 00:41:05,989 --> 00:41:11,989 But yeah, it makes you wonder if that law is elsewhere. 1096 00:41:11,989 --> 00:41:13,989 Yes, that is true. 1097 00:41:13,989 --> 00:41:15,030 You know what I'm saying? 1098 00:41:15,030 --> 00:41:18,070 Hey, Shred, can you confirm this for us? 1099 00:41:18,070 --> 00:41:20,469 Yeah, he's a little bit out of Philly. 1100 00:41:20,469 --> 00:41:23,829 No, but he's been to Philly more times than either of us have. 1101 00:41:23,829 --> 00:41:25,190 That's true. 1102 00:41:25,190 --> 00:41:25,989 Well, that's what I mean. 1103 00:41:25,989 --> 00:41:27,670 He's like a little bit out of Philly. 1104 00:41:27,670 --> 00:41:32,349 Like, oh, yeah, like an exact like a he's a little bit like, no, he's like a 1105 00:41:32,349 --> 00:41:32,469 couple 1106 00:41:32,469 --> 00:41:33,349 hours out of Philly. 1107 00:41:33,349 --> 00:41:33,590 Right. 1108 00:41:33,590 --> 00:41:34,070 Exactly. 1109 00:41:34,070 --> 00:41:37,909 So I wonder if he has this answer for us, because I was like, wait, what? 1110 00:41:37,909 --> 00:41:42,630 I would love to be BYOB everywhere I go, fucking walk into a Taco Bell. 1111 00:41:42,630 --> 00:41:43,909 But it's just Philadelphia? 1112 00:41:44,869 --> 00:41:46,550 That the article was Philadelphia. 1113 00:41:46,550 --> 00:41:48,630 Oh, my damn. 1114 00:41:48,630 --> 00:41:51,269 I want more information. 1115 00:41:51,269 --> 00:41:53,989 I also want a list of other cities I can do this in. 1116 00:41:53,989 --> 00:41:54,389 Right. 1117 00:41:54,389 --> 00:41:55,110 Feed me more. 1118 00:41:55,110 --> 00:41:57,349 All right, Ryback. 1119 00:41:57,349 --> 00:42:00,550 Not a wrestling show. 1120 00:42:00,550 --> 00:42:01,909 Not a wrestling show. 1121 00:42:01,909 --> 00:42:03,829 Definitely not a Ryback show. 1122 00:42:03,829 --> 00:42:05,590 That guy. 1123 00:42:05,590 --> 00:42:06,550 What a fucking joke. 1124 00:42:06,550 --> 00:42:09,829 In a bitch. 1125 00:42:09,829 --> 00:42:11,429 All right. 1126 00:42:11,429 --> 00:42:13,829 Well, let's let's pack things up over here. 1127 00:42:13,829 --> 00:42:17,030 I got some some more beers to drink and some things to get to. 1128 00:42:17,030 --> 00:42:19,190 But most importantly, hi, Vanessa. 1129 00:42:19,190 --> 00:42:21,429 Hello, Vanessa. 1130 00:42:21,429 --> 00:42:23,349 That was very. 1131 00:42:23,349 --> 00:42:26,309 I'm out to snow. 1132 00:42:26,309 --> 00:42:28,630 Oh, I thought it was Mrs. 1133 00:42:28,630 --> 00:42:29,909 Bowship. 1134 00:42:29,909 --> 00:42:31,429 They quickly become the same. 1135 00:42:31,429 --> 00:42:33,110 Yeah. 1136 00:42:33,110 --> 00:42:37,190 Anyway, I love that movie, by the way, forgetting Sir Marshall. 1137 00:42:37,190 --> 00:42:38,550 Both movies and Mrs. 1138 00:42:38,550 --> 00:42:39,110 Doubtfire. 1139 00:42:39,110 --> 00:42:41,030 So great. 1140 00:42:41,030 --> 00:42:45,190 Anyways, give us the old follow on the socials at Craft Beer Republic. 1141 00:42:45,190 --> 00:42:47,510 @FlexBeerBeer_ is in between. 1142 00:42:47,510 --> 00:42:49,190 Mail@CraftBeerRepublic.com. 1143 00:42:49,190 --> 00:42:51,110 805-538-Beer. 1144 00:42:51,110 --> 00:42:52,389 I think that's just about everything. 1145 00:42:52,389 --> 00:42:52,710 Yeah. 1146 00:42:52,710 --> 00:42:54,869 Take my eyes, but not the shirt. 1147 00:42:54,869 --> 00:42:57,750 So damn it. 1148 00:42:57,750 --> 00:42:59,269 Bowship, Bowship, Bowship. 1149 00:42:59,269 --> 00:43:03,909 I hope everyone out there is staying very well hydrated. 1150 00:43:03,909 --> 00:43:07,829 And on that note, good night, everybody.