1 00:00:00,233 --> 00:00:02,068 You don't know me well enough. 2 00:00:02,068 --> 00:00:04,104 Step brother, you do not know me well enough. 3 00:00:04,204 --> 00:00:06,573 All right. Mel's bad ass. 4 00:00:06,573 --> 00:00:08,041 Step brothers. 5 00:00:08,041 --> 00:00:10,377 Oh, you stuck to. 6 00:00:10,377 --> 00:00:11,878 Well, it's the East Coast. 7 00:00:11,878 --> 00:00:21,421 Let's get some Coke going and have a show. 8 00:00:24,457 --> 00:00:25,125 Welcome in, 9 00:00:25,125 --> 00:00:28,261 everybody, to the Craft Beer Republic. 10 00:00:28,495 --> 00:00:30,997 Thanks for drink. Well, thanks for drinking. 11 00:00:30,997 --> 00:00:32,632 Thanks for joining. 12 00:00:32,632 --> 00:00:35,168 Thanks for thinking things doing 13 00:00:37,037 --> 00:00:38,204 suffering succotash. 14 00:00:38,204 --> 00:00:40,073 I am gray. 15 00:00:40,073 --> 00:00:43,109 Clearly, English is always, always easy for me. 16 00:00:43,143 --> 00:00:46,379 I'm being joined by the bravest guy 17 00:00:46,379 --> 00:00:49,149 and I'll beer and that is flex. 18 00:00:49,416 --> 00:00:51,284 Yeah, I came, I came in a little early on that. 19 00:00:51,284 --> 00:00:55,622 Well, I've heard that complaint before but I won't hold it against you. 20 00:00:56,289 --> 00:00:56,956 Deal. 21 00:00:56,956 --> 00:01:01,728 And then joining us all the way from the East Coast, where apparently 22 00:01:01,728 --> 00:01:06,332 it's nice and crisp outside, unlike here, where the fuck and devil's balls. 23 00:01:06,332 --> 00:01:08,501 Zach Beer girl. Melissa What's happenin? 24 00:01:08,735 --> 00:01:11,905 It would seem that my Darth Vader Vader 25 00:01:11,905 --> 00:01:14,040 breathing has got you a little bit worried. 26 00:01:14,074 --> 00:01:15,842 Han Solo back. 27 00:01:15,842 --> 00:01:17,510 It's got to be about the cub, that's for sure. 28 00:01:17,510 --> 00:01:19,746 About breathing, everybody. Oh. 29 00:01:19,746 --> 00:01:22,449 I'm glad it's hard for you as it is for me. 30 00:01:22,449 --> 00:01:25,552 So I'll just be holding my breath in between takes. 31 00:01:27,253 --> 00:01:29,189 It's always hard. 32 00:01:29,189 --> 00:01:31,691 There's no standing up on the West Coast, let me tell you. 33 00:01:32,625 --> 00:01:34,694 So sorry, everybody. Thanks for listening. 34 00:01:34,694 --> 00:01:36,429 Thanks for doing all that good stuff. All right. 35 00:01:36,429 --> 00:01:40,333 Find us on the Socials Craft Beer Republic flex me beer underscores in between 36 00:01:40,667 --> 00:01:45,572 and of course beer girl Melissa underscore between girl and Melissa. 37 00:01:45,872 --> 00:01:46,806 That's right. 38 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,476 Because you fuckers love underscores. 39 00:01:49,943 --> 00:01:51,778 The only way to separate it out. 40 00:01:51,778 --> 00:01:53,313 Well, no, I guess so. 41 00:01:53,313 --> 00:01:55,615 Yeah, it makes it look better than like, you know, I. 42 00:01:55,615 --> 00:01:58,284 Thought I had it easy with Erika and Neck Page. 43 00:01:58,318 --> 00:02:01,087 And then like a month ago she went and changed her shit to NEC. 44 00:02:01,087 --> 00:02:06,126 Underscore Nash, underscore LLC and got ice cold beer with underscores. 45 00:02:06,126 --> 00:02:08,294 And I'm the only one that underscores. 46 00:02:08,294 --> 00:02:09,696 I mean, they're the coolest one in the room 47 00:02:09,696 --> 00:02:11,131 or the least coolest one on the. 48 00:02:11,131 --> 00:02:14,400 Yeah you need to jump on the underscore train ASAP everybody. 49 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:15,502 Welcome to Kurt. 50 00:02:15,502 --> 00:02:17,770 Underscore Underscore Rip. 51 00:02:17,937 --> 00:02:19,506 Yeah, I don't know. 52 00:02:19,506 --> 00:02:21,774 Uh, that's too far. 53 00:02:21,774 --> 00:02:24,077 We'll call that a point and just get the fuck out of there. 54 00:02:25,011 --> 00:02:27,514 So much to do tonight. 55 00:02:27,514 --> 00:02:32,552 October Fest is just a couple of days away, and we're drinking for the occasion. 56 00:02:32,852 --> 00:02:36,556 We got a Ludacris libation straight out of Germany. 57 00:02:36,923 --> 00:02:39,159 We got some booze news to talk about. 58 00:02:39,159 --> 00:02:44,831 And hey, if there's time, we're going to run down some October fest fun facts. 59 00:02:44,831 --> 00:02:47,534 Wooten Hey, I like the sound. Of that one. Facts. 60 00:02:47,534 --> 00:02:49,169 Yeah, I. Love. 61 00:02:49,169 --> 00:02:50,236 I love some fun. 62 00:02:50,236 --> 00:02:54,374 It turns out that, like, Flex and I are very into, like, games. 63 00:02:54,374 --> 00:02:56,509 So every morning we play a couple. 64 00:02:56,943 --> 00:03:00,146 That yeah that sounds a little weird when you say that. 65 00:03:00,313 --> 00:03:01,514 Flex. 66 00:03:01,714 --> 00:03:02,081 Don't tell. 67 00:03:02,081 --> 00:03:05,585 Them about those games but tell me about the brain games that we play every month. 68 00:03:05,618 --> 00:03:07,787 Oh brain the brain games. 69 00:03:07,787 --> 00:03:09,556 Yeah we got head. 70 00:03:09,556 --> 00:03:13,526 They got me hooked on the word while I'm on where the hurdle I'm. 71 00:03:13,526 --> 00:03:14,494 On hurdle. Two. 72 00:03:14,494 --> 00:03:16,796 Yeah, yeah, yeah sure word. 73 00:03:16,796 --> 00:03:18,765 All hurdles get on. 74 00:03:18,765 --> 00:03:23,303 I'm totally down for that now and sometimes we'll do the world. 75 00:03:23,536 --> 00:03:25,038 And I don't do that. 76 00:03:25,038 --> 00:03:25,772 I don't do that either 77 00:03:25,772 --> 00:03:29,909 and the global talking about and now we just discovered a new one. 78 00:03:30,677 --> 00:03:32,679 Which makes no sense. Where's the alley. 79 00:03:32,679 --> 00:03:35,915 Where they show they show still shots from movies 80 00:03:35,915 --> 00:03:40,553 and you have six guesses to guess the correct movie from the still shots. 81 00:03:41,054 --> 00:03:43,223 I feel like Flex is good at that one. 82 00:03:43,223 --> 00:03:44,791 The first time I tried it was today 83 00:03:44,791 --> 00:03:46,826 and I didn't even see the movie and I guess it right. 84 00:03:47,460 --> 00:03:47,827 Yeah. 85 00:03:47,827 --> 00:03:49,696 So I'm saying you're you're a weird movie guy. 86 00:03:49,696 --> 00:03:51,831 Like you get all the quotes that no one remembers. 87 00:03:51,998 --> 00:03:53,733 You're lot like, uh, our friend Dan. 88 00:03:53,733 --> 00:03:57,870 Like, Dan just pulls those movie quotes, like, just straight out of his ass. 89 00:03:57,870 --> 00:03:59,539 Like, where the fuck did that come from? 90 00:03:59,539 --> 00:04:01,874 Yeah, I think page 86 on that script. 91 00:04:01,874 --> 00:04:02,208 Yeah. 92 00:04:02,208 --> 00:04:05,111 But I mean, it's like the small moments that you really got a 93 00:04:06,079 --> 00:04:07,380 real in in the movies. 94 00:04:07,380 --> 00:04:10,917 It's like those small quotes that you'll never forget, 95 00:04:10,917 --> 00:04:13,219 but nobody else on the planet will remember. 96 00:04:13,219 --> 00:04:14,721 But it's always funny to you. 97 00:04:14,721 --> 00:04:17,123 Yeah, you know, so you can, like, say it in your everyday 98 00:04:17,123 --> 00:04:19,859 life and laugh to yourself because you're a fucking idiot 99 00:04:20,860 --> 00:04:24,330 and nobody else will ever know. 100 00:04:24,330 --> 00:04:26,366 Oh, speaking of fucking idiot. 101 00:04:26,366 --> 00:04:28,001 Intro, Mel did it. 102 00:04:28,001 --> 00:04:31,137 Oh, here I am. Because I finally made it. 103 00:04:31,170 --> 00:04:31,904 No, it's. 104 00:04:31,904 --> 00:04:33,806 No working on my side of this. 105 00:04:33,806 --> 00:04:35,041 Fucking idiot. 106 00:04:35,041 --> 00:04:36,242 Oh, my God. 107 00:04:36,242 --> 00:04:36,542 Yeah. 108 00:04:36,542 --> 00:04:40,380 Mel was supposed to be on last week, and I guess our kids, like, chewed on 109 00:04:40,380 --> 00:04:41,080 the USB cable. 110 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,317 Yeah, you know, they just kind of jam things in. 111 00:04:44,317 --> 00:04:47,754 It's like a square peg in a round hole. 112 00:04:47,754 --> 00:04:49,689 That doesn't quibble. Either. 113 00:04:49,689 --> 00:04:52,058 Because you can't jelly things in. 114 00:04:53,092 --> 00:04:54,661 You know? 115 00:04:54,661 --> 00:04:56,529 And then they have people that aren't. 116 00:04:56,529 --> 00:04:58,665 They're like they're like under the table. Like, he did it. 117 00:04:59,232 --> 00:05:01,301 She did it like up there in the corner. 118 00:05:01,301 --> 00:05:03,169 Like, I'm like, there's nothing there. 119 00:05:03,169 --> 00:05:04,304 They know there's someone there. 120 00:05:04,304 --> 00:05:06,105 They're the ones that did it. I didn't do it. 121 00:05:06,105 --> 00:05:07,140 Wasn't me. 122 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,509 Oh, so your house is haunted. Surely my. 123 00:05:09,542 --> 00:05:13,513 My daughter actually did tell our little cousins that came to visit for the weekend 124 00:05:13,513 --> 00:05:17,450 that today that we have ghosts and now they're never coming back. 125 00:05:17,450 --> 00:05:18,985 So thank you, Juliana. 126 00:05:18,985 --> 00:05:23,489 You executed it perfectly because little kids are really hard to deal with. 127 00:05:24,757 --> 00:05:26,726 They're scared of that as perfectly. 128 00:05:26,726 --> 00:05:29,996 Whenever there's people over that, you just are done with, send her out. 129 00:05:29,996 --> 00:05:32,398 I mean, I love them so much. I love my family. 130 00:05:32,398 --> 00:05:35,668 I'm just not used to like small children anymore 131 00:05:35,668 --> 00:05:38,938 that cry all the time and wear diapers. 132 00:05:38,938 --> 00:05:41,808 Yeah, that's tough to deal with. Yeah, that's. 133 00:05:41,908 --> 00:05:44,644 That's a lot crying. Oh, thanks. 134 00:05:44,644 --> 00:05:47,313 Greg's doing it. Right enough at night. 135 00:05:47,313 --> 00:05:47,647 Yeah, 136 00:05:48,648 --> 00:05:51,484 I. So all right, anyways, the whole fucking India thing. 137 00:05:51,484 --> 00:06:18,745 Let's, let's find out that fucking idiot's drinking over there. 138 00:06:18,745 --> 00:06:19,979 What is he. Drinking? 139 00:06:19,979 --> 00:06:24,283 Well, in celebration of Octoberfest, starting in Munich. 140 00:06:24,283 --> 00:06:26,252 In, what, like three days, like. 141 00:06:26,252 --> 00:06:28,054 Yeah, September 17th. 142 00:06:28,054 --> 00:06:28,721 It's great. 143 00:06:28,821 --> 00:06:29,789 That is correct. 144 00:06:29,789 --> 00:06:33,593 I am drinking from a boys phase three brewing 145 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:37,530 because they're fucking phenomenal and especially all the lager 146 00:06:37,530 --> 00:06:38,431 that they throw out there. 147 00:06:38,431 --> 00:06:44,604 So I'm drinking their Octoberfest German style lager on the all untapped. 148 00:06:44,604 --> 00:06:50,176 It has a 3.86, which I think is a pretty incredible score for an Octoberfest beer. 149 00:06:50,543 --> 00:06:51,077 I guess. 150 00:06:51,077 --> 00:06:53,813 But why can't Oktoberfest it for. Well. 151 00:06:54,447 --> 00:06:58,651 And that's why I'm thinking 3.86 is basically a four on this pitch, right? 152 00:06:58,951 --> 00:07:01,387 Yeah. I mean, I think it's based off of style. 153 00:07:01,387 --> 00:07:04,056 I think there is some kind of like standard deviation. 154 00:07:04,056 --> 00:07:08,060 But like, can we all agree that untapped is bullshit and it's also American beer. 155 00:07:08,161 --> 00:07:11,931 So like I think most Americans in the craft community, 156 00:07:11,931 --> 00:07:16,903 these days are looking more for like American style IPAs. 157 00:07:16,903 --> 00:07:18,571 Hazy Yeah. 158 00:07:18,571 --> 00:07:19,172 And triples. 159 00:07:19,172 --> 00:07:22,341 And anyway, we get back to the roots. 160 00:07:22,341 --> 00:07:26,612 The Germans fucking are amazing at brewing beer and they're the ones 161 00:07:26,612 --> 00:07:30,016 that like practically, I almost started it, so. 162 00:07:30,917 --> 00:07:33,019 Yeah. Yeah, right. Guten tag fuckers. 163 00:07:33,019 --> 00:07:33,586 Yeah. 164 00:07:33,586 --> 00:07:38,191 Untapped here says rich malt character with balanced hops, 165 00:07:38,257 --> 00:07:40,993 toasted bread and subtle earthy hop aroma. 166 00:07:41,294 --> 00:07:42,161 Look at this color. 167 00:07:42,161 --> 00:07:44,330 I mean, that is just gnarly. 168 00:07:44,330 --> 00:07:47,233 Caramel textbook. Holy shit. Perfect. 169 00:07:47,834 --> 00:07:49,502 When you pointed this out to it that. 170 00:07:49,502 --> 00:07:50,736 You put that on tap. I know. 171 00:07:50,736 --> 00:07:53,206 Holy shit. Perfect. 172 00:07:53,206 --> 00:07:55,741 I always write stupid stuff when it comes to phase three 173 00:07:55,741 --> 00:07:57,009 because they just get me in love. 174 00:07:57,009 --> 00:07:58,945 Phase three, thanks to you. 175 00:07:58,945 --> 00:08:00,146 They're just phenomenal. 176 00:08:00,146 --> 00:08:02,582 In fact, you sent me this one last year there. 177 00:08:02,582 --> 00:08:04,417 October. Did I really? Yeah. 178 00:08:05,418 --> 00:08:07,053 Yeah, I don't remember that. 179 00:08:07,053 --> 00:08:09,956 But anyway, you did on the old schnoz, 180 00:08:10,356 --> 00:08:12,825 tons of that toasted bread on the nose, man. 181 00:08:12,825 --> 00:08:14,160 It is just. 182 00:08:14,327 --> 00:08:16,963 Just fresh, Daddy. 183 00:08:16,963 --> 00:08:19,899 Like. Oh, Daddy. 184 00:08:20,433 --> 00:08:23,870 Son, I already warmed up the tongue jabber, and we're gonna. 185 00:08:23,870 --> 00:08:25,404 We're going to dove in here for that. 186 00:08:25,404 --> 00:08:28,040 Yeah. You saw it. Yeah. Yeah, you did. 187 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,110 The one time I wish this was a video podcast so people could see you. 188 00:08:31,110 --> 00:08:33,746 This is warm. This is what I do is video. 189 00:08:33,746 --> 00:08:38,084 So that's why I'm like, it's weird that it's only audio when I hear my voice. 190 00:08:38,651 --> 00:08:41,053 But you can see. What I hear yours. So yeah. 191 00:08:41,420 --> 00:08:42,321 Let me so. 192 00:08:42,321 --> 00:08:47,426 Big malt presence you know that's natural on October 1st yet 193 00:08:47,493 --> 00:08:51,864 a little bit of the caramel notes the toasty breathiness. 194 00:08:51,864 --> 00:08:54,934 There's a good amount of carbonation up in this bitch. And 195 00:08:56,202 --> 00:08:59,372 man, I could just drink these all day 100%. 196 00:08:59,372 --> 00:09:00,406 Could drink these all day. 197 00:09:00,406 --> 00:09:02,909 I love it. I just. I could just stare at it, too. 198 00:09:02,942 --> 00:09:05,444 That color is just phenomenal. The beer. 199 00:09:05,778 --> 00:09:08,881 I just want to let everybody know that I looked up the translation 200 00:09:08,881 --> 00:09:12,652 for Daddy into German because I feel like this is important for today's episode. 201 00:09:12,718 --> 00:09:14,086 The Forger. 202 00:09:14,820 --> 00:09:16,622 Well, that's. Fun. Oh, no, that. 203 00:09:16,622 --> 00:09:18,124 That's Dutch. It's. 204 00:09:18,124 --> 00:09:18,991 Yeah. Oh, yeah. 205 00:09:18,991 --> 00:09:22,929 But Daddy specifically not dad fathering like daddy which I'm surprised 206 00:09:22,929 --> 00:09:25,831 they had a translation for is der 207 00:09:25,965 --> 00:09:28,734 Vaart de Vaitai devout devotee. 208 00:09:29,302 --> 00:09:30,336 Yeah. Derivative. 209 00:09:30,336 --> 00:09:33,339 Derivative like 210 00:09:35,007 --> 00:09:38,210 now that we've creeped out any German that may be listening to. 211 00:09:38,244 --> 00:09:39,245 You know what I'm thinking? 212 00:09:39,245 --> 00:09:41,414 We're going to start charting in Germany after the show. 213 00:09:42,114 --> 00:09:43,382 I would say. 214 00:09:43,382 --> 00:09:44,016 You're going to 215 00:09:44,083 --> 00:09:47,353 we're going to start not taking over the entire continent of Europe. 216 00:09:48,154 --> 00:09:50,256 The good yeah, we really got Finland. 217 00:09:50,289 --> 00:09:52,024 It's almost like it's happening. 218 00:09:52,024 --> 00:09:52,725 It's happening. 219 00:09:52,725 --> 00:09:54,827 You've got the UK now like. Yeah. 220 00:09:55,261 --> 00:09:56,128 Look out Germany. 221 00:09:57,229 --> 00:09:58,664 Uh, guten tag. 222 00:09:58,664 --> 00:09:59,432 We're coming from. 223 00:09:59,432 --> 00:10:01,467 Havarti is coming for you. 224 00:10:01,467 --> 00:10:02,768 We got from. 225 00:10:02,768 --> 00:10:04,337 Mobil 226 00:10:04,570 --> 00:10:08,908 that that it's actually Germany's pretty close to that area so. 227 00:10:08,975 --> 00:10:11,577 That's true. Yeah maps are helpful. 228 00:10:12,211 --> 00:10:14,347 All right, very good. We're all drinking. 229 00:10:14,347 --> 00:10:16,616 Uh, October 1st. Names, beers. So we'll. 230 00:10:16,649 --> 00:10:18,117 We'll find out what the rest of us are drinking. 231 00:10:18,117 --> 00:10:18,751 A couple of you. 232 00:10:18,751 --> 00:10:21,287 First of all, a couple of things to talk about. 233 00:10:21,587 --> 00:10:24,056 I headed towards it last week. 234 00:10:24,056 --> 00:10:26,492 Mel was definitely part of that show last 235 00:10:26,492 --> 00:10:31,330 week. 236 00:10:31,330 --> 00:10:34,100 Let's talk about I briefly mentioned that we took a trip and blah, blah, blah. 237 00:10:34,166 --> 00:10:35,368 Have you guys ever gone on a trip 238 00:10:35,368 --> 00:10:39,939 that you like pulled the record on and went home early on purpose? 239 00:10:39,939 --> 00:10:41,374 Oh, you know what? 240 00:10:41,374 --> 00:10:43,843 I think I've never done that. 241 00:10:43,943 --> 00:10:47,813 I mean, I have technically we did like a one night stay. 242 00:10:47,847 --> 00:10:49,715 We were going to do a one night stay somewhere 243 00:10:49,715 --> 00:10:52,351 and then we pulled back because somebody wasn't feeling well. 244 00:10:53,352 --> 00:10:54,553 I don't think that counts. 245 00:10:54,553 --> 00:10:58,724 I think you have to be like in full swing of the vacation and be like, 246 00:10:58,724 --> 00:11:01,127 That's it, I'm fucking done and I'm out of here. Yeah. 247 00:11:01,661 --> 00:11:04,096 No, I can't. I can't say that I've ever done that. 248 00:11:04,096 --> 00:11:06,165 I think I just stick it through even though it's shitty. 249 00:11:06,165 --> 00:11:07,366 And then I'll come home and be like. 250 00:11:07,366 --> 00:11:09,869 Worship, ever. That was never going back. 251 00:11:10,403 --> 00:11:11,437 And this is why. 252 00:11:11,437 --> 00:11:13,272 La la la la la la la la la la la la la la. 253 00:11:13,272 --> 00:11:15,975 I never was, like, not listening anymore. I'm like. 254 00:11:15,975 --> 00:11:18,811 Little, you know, we lost two and a half hour ago. 255 00:11:19,912 --> 00:11:21,180 Exactly. 256 00:11:21,414 --> 00:11:24,617 Well, we we had that trip that we actually this is the first time I've ever pulled 257 00:11:24,617 --> 00:11:25,051 that record. 258 00:11:25,051 --> 00:11:27,787 Like we it was, you know, a nice long week. 259 00:11:27,787 --> 00:11:29,955 And we're like, you know what? We're going to go up to the mountains. 260 00:11:29,955 --> 00:11:33,426 We found this little, little town in the middle of the mountains 261 00:11:33,426 --> 00:11:35,761 and we thought, we're going to go. The wife really wanted to go. 262 00:11:35,761 --> 00:11:37,763 She found it the last time we took a trip. 263 00:11:37,763 --> 00:11:39,598 We ended up not going somewhere else. 264 00:11:39,598 --> 00:11:42,568 She really wanted to go to unplug and I'm like, Hey, I'm on a forum plug in. 265 00:11:42,568 --> 00:11:43,803 Like, That sounds great. 266 00:11:43,803 --> 00:11:47,306 So we booked it and we got out to the house. 267 00:11:47,306 --> 00:11:49,108 Was fine. Is Airbnb the house was fine. 268 00:11:49,108 --> 00:11:52,912 Nothing around the house is exactly as described in the posting, so no little 269 00:11:53,045 --> 00:11:54,847 hate there. It was little 270 00:11:55,881 --> 00:11:57,416 and it had no air conditioning. 271 00:11:57,416 --> 00:11:59,585 And we're in the middle of a fucking heat wave. 272 00:11:59,585 --> 00:12:02,188 And when we booked it, it was supposed to be 273 00:12:02,188 --> 00:12:07,293 like at max low to mid eighties and by the time we actually got up there, 274 00:12:07,293 --> 00:12:11,197 it was nineties to 100 really hot, no. 275 00:12:11,197 --> 00:12:14,600 AC We brought extra fans to like try and make it better. 276 00:12:15,634 --> 00:12:20,005 The beds were super uncomfortable, outside was gross, 277 00:12:20,005 --> 00:12:23,275 it was like hot and it was like, you know, it was be fine. 278 00:12:23,275 --> 00:12:24,577 We'll, we'll sit on the loo. 279 00:12:24,577 --> 00:12:27,480 They had a nice old deck that overlooked like a nice little forest area. 280 00:12:27,780 --> 00:12:30,182 We'll sit out there, we'll get drunk. It'll be a great view. Whatever. 281 00:12:30,449 --> 00:12:32,184 The bugs were insane. 282 00:12:32,184 --> 00:12:35,221 We were just getting fucking attacked the entire time. 283 00:12:35,221 --> 00:12:38,224 We were spraying bug spray and had like the candles and everything. 284 00:12:38,357 --> 00:12:40,259 We're still getting attacked. 285 00:12:40,259 --> 00:12:41,861 It was miserable. 286 00:12:41,861 --> 00:12:45,364 Like we couldn't sleep because we're just sweating so much. 287 00:12:45,364 --> 00:12:47,566 So we're. We're supposed to leave Monday. 288 00:12:47,767 --> 00:12:48,667 Saturday night. 289 00:12:48,667 --> 00:12:51,904 We were a little hammered, and I just I floated the idea. 290 00:12:51,904 --> 00:12:54,140 I was like, you know, we could just go home. 291 00:12:54,140 --> 00:12:56,776 And the wife was like, Well, but we've already paid for it. 292 00:12:57,376 --> 00:12:59,378 I was like, Yeah, I know. 293 00:12:59,378 --> 00:13:02,481 And like, look, I'm not I'm not all about just throwing money down the drain, 294 00:13:02,481 --> 00:13:06,719 but at the same time, like, I'm also not about sweating through the night. 295 00:13:06,752 --> 00:13:07,987 I mean, it was so hot. 296 00:13:07,987 --> 00:13:10,022 All we were doing was watching TV on the couch. 297 00:13:10,389 --> 00:13:11,557 I was like, You know where we could do that? 298 00:13:11,557 --> 00:13:15,461 We could do it at home with our bigger TV in our air conditioning. 299 00:13:15,995 --> 00:13:16,762 Boy, that's all. 300 00:13:16,762 --> 00:13:19,064 That sounds nice. Right? 301 00:13:19,265 --> 00:13:21,567 And we could sleep in a bed that's comfortable. 302 00:13:21,567 --> 00:13:23,702 And so we left it there. 303 00:13:23,702 --> 00:13:24,570 We pulled that ripcord. 304 00:13:24,570 --> 00:13:26,672 We let you drain port your vacation. 305 00:13:27,373 --> 00:13:28,340 I love it. 306 00:13:30,176 --> 00:13:31,243 My vacation was a 307 00:13:31,243 --> 00:13:34,613 fucking habanero sculpt, and I. 308 00:13:34,613 --> 00:13:34,947 Yeah. 309 00:13:36,382 --> 00:13:39,285 I mean, it sounds better than my vacation this summer, 310 00:13:39,285 --> 00:13:43,222 which was having COVID and closing my blackout curtains in my room. 311 00:13:43,222 --> 00:13:45,391 So that was that was my wife's other vacation. 312 00:13:45,391 --> 00:13:48,294 We were supposed to go wakeboarding and then she got COVID and yes. 313 00:13:48,327 --> 00:13:48,961 Dead. 314 00:13:48,961 --> 00:13:50,896 We couldn't escape it, apparently. 315 00:13:50,896 --> 00:13:52,565 Yeah, it was the worst. 316 00:13:52,565 --> 00:13:53,966 So yeah. 317 00:13:53,966 --> 00:13:57,236 But anyways, the best part of the trip was, was we left early 318 00:13:57,603 --> 00:14:00,272 and we drove through a town called Santa Clarita 319 00:14:00,272 --> 00:14:04,210 out here in California and we stopped at Pocock Brewing. 320 00:14:04,210 --> 00:14:08,814 And I say, Well, Pope, I said, Big cock brewing. 321 00:14:10,182 --> 00:14:12,484 I've had a couple of their beers before a long time ago 322 00:14:12,785 --> 00:14:14,353 and I'll tell you, I was not impressed. 323 00:14:14,353 --> 00:14:15,554 It was at a festival 324 00:14:15,554 --> 00:14:18,090 and so we decided to stop in because it's the only brewery in the area 325 00:14:18,090 --> 00:14:19,692 that had food we thought will give them another shot. 326 00:14:19,692 --> 00:14:21,093 It's been few years. 327 00:14:21,093 --> 00:14:24,463 We stopped in, we had a flight, plus a couple of pints and some food. 328 00:14:24,797 --> 00:14:25,698 It was actually pretty good. 329 00:14:25,698 --> 00:14:28,000 Most of the beers we had, we actually really enjoyed. 330 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:32,371 Which leads me to this topic please. 331 00:14:32,872 --> 00:14:34,940 Breweries of any size or age 332 00:14:35,407 --> 00:14:40,412 do not bring your garbage leftover beers that you're trying to dump to a festival. 333 00:14:40,779 --> 00:14:42,815 I know you're thinking I'm doing this for free. 334 00:14:42,815 --> 00:14:45,918 It's a donation to the fucking Kiwanis Club or whatever. 335 00:14:46,452 --> 00:14:50,222 But I didn't drink your beer for like five years because I thought you were shit 336 00:14:50,222 --> 00:14:53,626 because you'd brought your leftover kegs to a beer festival. 337 00:14:53,626 --> 00:14:55,828 Yeah, I'm the good word. 338 00:14:56,395 --> 00:14:58,264 I want that fresh, fresh beer. 339 00:14:58,264 --> 00:15:01,033 I want the beer that nobody's going to be able to get at the brewery. 340 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:06,338 I'm going to stand in line patiently and I want the good stuff. 341 00:15:06,472 --> 00:15:08,173 I'm with you hugely. 342 00:15:08,173 --> 00:15:12,177 So I'm not saying you got to bring your most fruited fruited sour, 343 00:15:12,211 --> 00:15:16,682 your biggest hoppy is hoppy triple IPA, but just bring something 344 00:15:16,682 --> 00:15:18,450 fresh and good because legit. 345 00:15:18,450 --> 00:15:21,287 I had your beer at a festival. It was garbage. 346 00:15:21,287 --> 00:15:23,289 I didn't go back for years. 347 00:15:23,289 --> 00:15:24,790 Just spring your good stuff. 348 00:15:24,790 --> 00:15:27,026 I know. Yeah, that does happen. 349 00:15:27,359 --> 00:15:31,297 You have a bad experience with a brewery or beer, like from a brewery. 350 00:15:31,297 --> 00:15:34,433 It's kind of hard to give them a second chance 351 00:15:34,433 --> 00:15:36,936 if it's really that garbage and you're like, This is trash. 352 00:15:37,036 --> 00:15:39,371 I'm 100% on their level. 353 00:15:39,371 --> 00:15:41,040 Well, it was it was like, really, there's. 354 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:43,609 So much beer out there. There's just no reason. 355 00:15:43,609 --> 00:15:45,744 Yeah, it was. It was bad, and. 356 00:15:45,911 --> 00:15:48,747 But this experience is good, so clearly they make some good beers. 357 00:15:49,114 --> 00:15:50,249 I don't know if brewers 358 00:15:50,249 --> 00:15:54,053 have changed over the years or anything else has changed over the years, 359 00:15:54,053 --> 00:15:57,423 or if they just brought their old ass trash beer that they were trying to dump 360 00:15:57,423 --> 00:16:00,092 because it was an event where they were donating beer, I. 361 00:16:00,092 --> 00:16:03,295 Think that's probably the rationale. 362 00:16:03,295 --> 00:16:04,930 Like it's cost effective. 363 00:16:04,930 --> 00:16:06,665 Yes, get rid of it anyway. 364 00:16:06,665 --> 00:16:10,436 So and I get. It because a lot of yeah, a lot of those events where it's not like 365 00:16:10,936 --> 00:16:15,908 a big known beer festival, people just come to get trashed. 366 00:16:16,308 --> 00:16:17,142 Like, I know like, 367 00:16:17,142 --> 00:16:19,611 you know, fires don't Walker Invitational like yes we got trashed 368 00:16:19,611 --> 00:16:21,513 but also we were there to trial the really. 369 00:16:21,513 --> 00:16:22,748 All the good beers and. 370 00:16:22,748 --> 00:16:27,119 Guided by a Firestone to be there that's that's like a beer nerds festival 371 00:16:27,119 --> 00:16:30,155 like I get it people come to those like, you know, donation 372 00:16:30,155 --> 00:16:34,059 charity ones to get cheered because it's $35 and all you can drink. 373 00:16:34,059 --> 00:16:37,663 But also it caused me not to go your brewery for like five years. 374 00:16:38,464 --> 00:16:38,697 Just. 375 00:16:38,964 --> 00:16:43,369 Yeah, and that's a lot of money like an especially if you're you feel that way 376 00:16:43,369 --> 00:16:45,371 how many other people feel that way as well? 377 00:16:45,371 --> 00:16:46,472 You know, and Amy. 378 00:16:46,472 --> 00:16:50,876 Just kind of reminds me, I had a situation it's like putting good 379 00:16:50,876 --> 00:16:55,080 brewery beers and dove bars and letting them sit because, 380 00:16:55,514 --> 00:16:59,918 you know, nobody in Dove Bars wants the new hazy IPA on tap. 381 00:16:59,918 --> 00:17:04,456 They just want the Miller Lite and the Bud Light and, you know, so then 382 00:17:05,190 --> 00:17:09,328 somebody like me comes into said Dove Bar for a fantasy football 383 00:17:09,328 --> 00:17:13,732 draft, sees, Hey, wow, you have this local craft beer on tap. 384 00:17:13,732 --> 00:17:15,768 That's amazing. I'll take it. 385 00:17:15,768 --> 00:17:20,039 And they pour it to you and it looks like a like a heavy poison. 386 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:22,408 And you go. 387 00:17:22,408 --> 00:17:24,309 Oh, hey, what beer is this? 388 00:17:24,309 --> 00:17:27,980 And they go, Oh, it's, it's, they're building, it's this, it's the double. 389 00:17:27,980 --> 00:17:29,815 It's a hazy IPA. 390 00:17:29,815 --> 00:17:32,484 And I look at them with the biggest grin and I go. 391 00:17:33,152 --> 00:17:36,121 Oh, okay, 392 00:17:36,121 --> 00:17:38,824 I'll take a Bud Light and then I walk to it. 393 00:17:38,824 --> 00:17:41,660 It's not the yeast strain that's just sitting in your line, sir. 394 00:17:41,794 --> 00:17:43,796 Yeah, I know what that looks like. 395 00:17:43,796 --> 00:17:45,531 Yeah. Thank you. So. 396 00:17:45,531 --> 00:17:47,132 Like, sir, have you cleaned your line? 397 00:17:47,132 --> 00:17:48,400 How about what now? 398 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:49,001 They don't know. 399 00:17:49,001 --> 00:17:50,402 Nobody knows how to clean their lines, 400 00:17:50,402 --> 00:17:52,304 first of all, unless they're, like, trained. 401 00:17:52,304 --> 00:17:54,540 Like, if you're going to a dove bar, just forget it. 402 00:17:54,540 --> 00:17:57,910 Like, do yourself a favor, go the Bud Light route. 403 00:17:58,110 --> 00:17:58,944 And you know what I. 404 00:17:58,944 --> 00:18:00,846 I wasn't even going to drink. 405 00:18:00,846 --> 00:18:02,881 I wasn't even got a drink there. 406 00:18:02,881 --> 00:18:06,251 And then I had seen that they had a local brewery on tap. 407 00:18:06,251 --> 00:18:09,154 And I said, You know what, I'll have one. 408 00:18:09,154 --> 00:18:10,355 He go, he'll go to one. 409 00:18:11,523 --> 00:18:14,193 And I regretted every second of it. 410 00:18:14,927 --> 00:18:17,396 But then if somebody actually goes in there and they get that beer 411 00:18:17,863 --> 00:18:20,833 like expecting it to be like, Hey, I've heard of these guys. 412 00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:22,034 And then they're like. 413 00:18:22,034 --> 00:18:23,001 Is this right here? 414 00:18:23,001 --> 00:18:24,036 This is bad. 415 00:18:24,036 --> 00:18:28,340 And then it gives that brewery bad rap because people don't know 416 00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:29,975 what the fuck they're doing. 417 00:18:29,975 --> 00:18:33,846 Yeah, true is like a few months ago I was talking about we were at a dinner 418 00:18:33,979 --> 00:18:37,583 and the wife ordered a beer from 14 canons that we are very familiar with 419 00:18:37,583 --> 00:18:39,551 and she got it. And it was trash. 420 00:18:39,551 --> 00:18:43,589 Not because 14 cans produce a trash beer, but because the thing was probably over 421 00:18:43,589 --> 00:18:46,258 a year old incense and dirty laundry. Yeah. 422 00:18:46,258 --> 00:18:46,792 Yeah. 423 00:18:46,792 --> 00:18:47,426 It's not a 424 00:18:47,426 --> 00:18:48,894 and we know what it's supposed to taste like, 425 00:18:48,894 --> 00:18:50,762 so it's not going to hold it against the brewery. 426 00:18:50,762 --> 00:18:51,363 But it's like 427 00:18:51,363 --> 00:18:54,299 if somebody had never had that beer before and that's their first experience, 428 00:18:54,333 --> 00:18:56,635 they're not going to go. Yeah, that's rough. That's rough. 429 00:18:57,603 --> 00:18:58,070 Yeah. 430 00:18:58,070 --> 00:19:00,672 Anyways, the rough world out there. 431 00:19:00,973 --> 00:19:04,443 Luckily for me, I live in the craft beer epicenter of New York. 432 00:19:04,443 --> 00:19:09,248 So like most places that serve craft beer, like if it's a restaurant, like 433 00:19:09,882 --> 00:19:15,254 they're very, very adamant about keeping the craft beer exactly what it should be. 434 00:19:15,254 --> 00:19:17,523 So I have never had that experience. 435 00:19:17,523 --> 00:19:21,593 And I think if I was at a place that I was kind of unsure of, 436 00:19:21,593 --> 00:19:25,731 I would probably just get like a Tito's in soda with a lime. 437 00:19:26,298 --> 00:19:27,599 I don't think you can go wrong with that. 438 00:19:27,599 --> 00:19:29,201 Can't go wrong with that. 439 00:19:29,201 --> 00:19:30,002 Let me tell. 440 00:19:30,002 --> 00:19:33,372 You, I kid that can't do the vodka but can make some. 441 00:19:33,372 --> 00:19:34,940 Oh yeah. It puts you up. 442 00:19:34,940 --> 00:19:35,340 Yeah. 443 00:19:35,340 --> 00:19:37,009 For could but I would just. 444 00:19:37,009 --> 00:19:39,311 Safer for me than craft beer is to be honest. 445 00:19:39,344 --> 00:19:41,180 Oh really. Yeah. Yeah. 446 00:19:41,180 --> 00:19:45,951 Oh if I'm going liquor I'm going to whiskey or bourbon. I'll 447 00:19:46,985 --> 00:19:48,220 die. Let me just. 448 00:19:48,220 --> 00:19:50,489 Let me just say. That with you. 449 00:19:50,489 --> 00:19:52,424 Everything fucks me up. 450 00:19:52,424 --> 00:19:54,860 Yeah, it's basically flex. 451 00:19:54,860 --> 00:19:57,196 Basically when you have muscles like that. 452 00:19:57,196 --> 00:19:58,964 Yeah. Everything's in effect. Yep. 453 00:19:58,964 --> 00:19:59,398 Yeah. 454 00:19:59,398 --> 00:20:00,332 Go straight to the gun. 455 00:20:00,332 --> 00:20:03,302 It doesn't metabolize like it should. No. 456 00:20:03,602 --> 00:20:04,937 And as you get into your later 457 00:20:04,937 --> 00:20:08,574 thirties, it's really starts to slow down the metabolism and. 458 00:20:09,074 --> 00:20:12,911 Just you way, big fella it just you wait for thanks. 459 00:20:12,911 --> 00:20:13,679 For calling me big. 460 00:20:13,679 --> 00:20:16,682 Fella. Big daddy. 461 00:20:17,216 --> 00:20:18,350 We will. 462 00:20:18,483 --> 00:20:19,885 Delivery. 463 00:20:19,885 --> 00:20:21,386 Delivery. 464 00:20:22,187 --> 00:20:24,156 Just you wait delivery anyways. 465 00:20:24,156 --> 00:20:25,958 Right everybody. 466 00:20:26,158 --> 00:20:27,492 Picked it. 467 00:20:27,593 --> 00:20:30,062 You're not going to like a big in German. 468 00:20:30,062 --> 00:20:34,566 Before we get any further, let us find out what Octoberfest beer. 469 00:20:34,566 --> 00:20:48,981 Mel is drinking over there. 470 00:20:48,981 --> 00:21:02,261 Just sorry 471 00:21:02,261 --> 00:21:08,433 I had to. 472 00:21:08,433 --> 00:21:09,968 It was perfect for me, actually. 473 00:21:09,968 --> 00:21:12,804 This is that is exactly my intro music. 474 00:21:12,904 --> 00:21:16,108 Can I just say real quick, you touched on how I, I always remember 475 00:21:16,108 --> 00:21:19,344 those stupid quotes or movies. 476 00:21:19,344 --> 00:21:22,381 I say, well, let's get bombed 477 00:21:22,381 --> 00:21:24,883 whenever I go out drinking. 478 00:21:25,584 --> 00:21:28,287 And it's always because of that fucking movie. 479 00:21:28,287 --> 00:21:30,355 I've seen it over 100 times. 480 00:21:30,355 --> 00:21:33,325 I haven't seen it in so long, but I was like, I need to pull that clip for this. 481 00:21:33,325 --> 00:21:35,093 Thank you for that. So good. Yeah. 482 00:21:36,528 --> 00:21:37,529 Anyways, Mel, 483 00:21:37,529 --> 00:21:41,700 so today I am drinking Vampire Brewing Company. 484 00:21:41,933 --> 00:21:46,004 October 1st it is Amazon 5.9% 485 00:21:46,271 --> 00:21:49,174 lager brewed with Munich, Maas and Noble Hops. 486 00:21:49,174 --> 00:21:52,544 I was fortunate enough to have them send this to me so 487 00:21:53,011 --> 00:21:55,647 you know brewing 488 00:21:55,647 --> 00:21:58,450 they if you don't know like wake whomp hop 489 00:21:58,450 --> 00:22:02,220 hack is in Pennsylvania but it's not far from where I live. 490 00:22:02,220 --> 00:22:04,356 It's maybe 25 minutes 491 00:22:04,356 --> 00:22:07,726 and it's kind of like an ocean lake, like that's how big it is. 492 00:22:08,427 --> 00:22:11,330 Okay, you take your boat out there, you can really have a good time. 493 00:22:11,330 --> 00:22:13,265 And it kind of feels like you're on the ocean. 494 00:22:13,265 --> 00:22:17,369 Like waves are, like, serious, so. 495 00:22:17,436 --> 00:22:20,572 So if you're drunk, you like going to get really fucked up out there. 496 00:22:20,572 --> 00:22:23,775 Well, my my boats docked on a really small lake, 497 00:22:23,775 --> 00:22:25,310 and there's just a lot of boat traffic 498 00:22:25,310 --> 00:22:27,546 and it's annoying, but this is like wide spread. 499 00:22:27,546 --> 00:22:30,048 So you can just be on your own. 500 00:22:30,048 --> 00:22:33,452 But like, yeah, the natural currant or whatever makes 501 00:22:34,586 --> 00:22:37,322 the waves happen, I guess like pretty wild. 502 00:22:37,322 --> 00:22:40,025 But this is a garside compared. 503 00:22:40,292 --> 00:22:40,592 I know. 504 00:22:40,592 --> 00:22:43,095 I'm like, stop talking, start drinking. 505 00:22:44,296 --> 00:22:45,897 This. Yeah, that is really cool. 506 00:22:45,897 --> 00:22:47,132 There's really dark. 507 00:22:47,132 --> 00:22:48,900 I was kind of surprised when I poured it. 508 00:22:48,900 --> 00:22:51,470 I wasn't expecting it to be as dark as it is. 509 00:22:52,604 --> 00:22:55,540 Still like nice clarity to it. 510 00:22:55,540 --> 00:22:58,510 Latimer on the nose, huge amount of malt. 511 00:22:58,710 --> 00:23:01,346 We'll give it a little sip. As it should be. 512 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,484 It does have that really nice sweetness that you would expect when you have 513 00:23:05,484 --> 00:23:07,152 that much more in a beer. 514 00:23:07,152 --> 00:23:08,754 It's good, it's not bad. 515 00:23:08,754 --> 00:23:10,489 It it's very drinkable. 516 00:23:10,489 --> 00:23:13,992 And I probably could have two or three of these and be satisfied with that. 517 00:23:13,992 --> 00:23:16,261 Well, pros. That's kind of saying a lot. 518 00:23:16,561 --> 00:23:17,796 But you can have two or three. 519 00:23:17,796 --> 00:23:20,699 Me being able to drink three beers would probably be good, so 520 00:23:21,233 --> 00:23:22,401 I can't read it though. 521 00:23:22,401 --> 00:23:23,969 I don't like rating beer lightweight. 522 00:23:23,969 --> 00:23:26,204 I don't read. It's fine. 523 00:23:26,204 --> 00:23:27,973 I don't I don't rate. 524 00:23:27,973 --> 00:23:28,306 All right. 525 00:23:28,306 --> 00:23:31,443 I've got a marzen to get to here in a couple of few. 526 00:23:31,443 --> 00:23:34,179 But first, ludicrous libation law. 527 00:23:34,212 --> 00:23:36,214 This one coming from Germany. 528 00:23:36,848 --> 00:23:41,186 It's illegal to ride your bicycle while you know, overly hydrated. 529 00:23:41,620 --> 00:23:45,357 Not only will you lose your license, you will also be ordered to undergo 530 00:23:45,357 --> 00:23:49,694 an mpx or a medical physiological assessment 531 00:23:50,996 --> 00:23:53,298 like they don't fuck around with your drinking. 532 00:23:53,298 --> 00:23:54,199 Well, while biking. 533 00:23:54,199 --> 00:23:57,569 Yeah, that sounds like a pretty serious hazard. 534 00:23:57,569 --> 00:24:02,140 So, like, you lose your driver's license or your biking license, your. 535 00:24:02,140 --> 00:24:02,507 Driver. 536 00:24:02,507 --> 00:24:07,212 Driver's license, voting while intoxicated is a thing here in the States as well. 537 00:24:07,212 --> 00:24:08,380 So, no. They said. 538 00:24:08,380 --> 00:24:10,482 You're driving. Biking, right? Not boating. 539 00:24:11,116 --> 00:24:11,583 No, I know. 540 00:24:11,583 --> 00:24:13,618 But I'm saying like you were. Oh. 541 00:24:14,386 --> 00:24:16,788 Oh we did just talk about. Yeah. 542 00:24:16,822 --> 00:24:20,826 So like, you'll lose your driver's license if you're, like, operating a boat. 543 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,396 Like, I know there's a lot of different things 544 00:24:24,396 --> 00:24:27,365 that you can lose your license for when operating 545 00:24:28,567 --> 00:24:30,802 even mechanical machinery. 546 00:24:30,802 --> 00:24:33,872 Wheels doesn't have to have an. 547 00:24:33,872 --> 00:24:34,206 You just. 548 00:24:34,206 --> 00:24:37,342 Need to like it's show lack of brain usage. 549 00:24:37,742 --> 00:24:40,879 Yeah I mean you can get a DUI on a bike or whatever. 550 00:24:40,879 --> 00:24:43,415 Yeah. It's kind of shitty. It's like, hey, you know what I'm not doing? 551 00:24:43,415 --> 00:24:44,516 I'm not killing other people. 552 00:24:44,516 --> 00:24:47,419 Like, let me kill myself on my bike, on my way home. But yeah. 553 00:24:48,420 --> 00:24:49,087 I would say it's 554 00:24:49,087 --> 00:24:52,858 a safer route, but still, you know, to lose your driver's license from that. 555 00:24:53,258 --> 00:24:55,160 That's crazy. 556 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:55,727 Yeah. 557 00:24:55,727 --> 00:24:59,764 I mean, I don't know where like, if it's a it's the whole country. 558 00:25:00,899 --> 00:25:02,801 Apparently, from what I read. 559 00:25:02,801 --> 00:25:06,371 Because if you think about it, like bikers in New York City 560 00:25:06,371 --> 00:25:10,041 are insane, I always wonder how people can, like, operate their bike. 561 00:25:10,041 --> 00:25:15,347 I recently did New York City triathlon and I had to ride my gear. 562 00:25:15,347 --> 00:25:17,883 Yeah, yeah. You know, no big deal. 563 00:25:17,883 --> 00:25:20,352 Swam on the Hudson, so I'm 564 00:25:20,752 --> 00:25:23,121 bioactive where I am. So. 565 00:25:23,588 --> 00:25:24,689 But when I. 566 00:25:24,689 --> 00:25:27,859 When we were riding through traffic, I was like, oh, my gosh. 567 00:25:27,859 --> 00:25:28,560 Like, I always thought, 568 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,731 these people are crazy because they weave in and out of the cars like psychos. 569 00:25:32,731 --> 00:25:33,098 And I'm like, 570 00:25:34,199 --> 00:25:37,602 this is really could be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. 571 00:25:37,602 --> 00:25:43,275 So I guess maybe I can kind of see a parallel because I'm sure like certain, 572 00:25:43,942 --> 00:25:49,080 like cities in Germany are probably very heavily populated with a lot of traffic. 573 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,316 And you know, I get it. 574 00:25:51,650 --> 00:25:53,451 You got to get like some trouble. 575 00:25:53,451 --> 00:25:54,786 But I don't know. 576 00:25:54,786 --> 00:25:57,188 It still seems a little off. 577 00:25:57,188 --> 00:25:59,357 Yeah, well, and back to your whole boating thing, like, that's 578 00:25:59,591 --> 00:26:01,126 that's the one time I don't fuck around. 579 00:26:01,126 --> 00:26:03,762 Like, when I'm out on the boat, like I'm not getting drunk. 580 00:26:03,762 --> 00:26:06,431 Like, people get drunk on boats and do stupid. 581 00:26:06,431 --> 00:26:08,133 Stupid. Oh, yeah, totally. 582 00:26:08,133 --> 00:26:10,268 That's the whole premise of boating. 583 00:26:10,268 --> 00:26:13,605 You just got to have one sober person and everybody has to take a turn. 584 00:26:14,406 --> 00:26:15,540 Like, I'm. Always that guy. 585 00:26:15,540 --> 00:26:17,442 I'm always the sober one. I'm always the driver. 586 00:26:17,442 --> 00:26:20,011 I'm always so yeah, it's it's not worth it on a boat. 587 00:26:20,011 --> 00:26:21,413 You die so fucking quick. 588 00:26:21,413 --> 00:26:25,317 No. And honestly, like the lake that we are docked on, 589 00:26:25,317 --> 00:26:28,553 like there's been a lot of traffic, like from people from New York City 590 00:26:28,553 --> 00:26:31,723 and we've had some drownings in the past couple of weeks. 591 00:26:31,723 --> 00:26:34,192 So yeah, yeah. People don't know what they're doing. 592 00:26:34,626 --> 00:26:37,228 Wear a life jacket, people. Yes, seriously. 593 00:26:37,662 --> 00:26:39,831 And don't be super hammered out there. 594 00:26:39,831 --> 00:26:41,533 I like I do anyways. 595 00:26:41,533 --> 00:26:44,002 Not to bring the mood down. Bring it up a little bit. Change it. 596 00:26:45,670 --> 00:26:46,204 Let's change. 597 00:26:46,204 --> 00:26:48,506 Let's talk about Flex's Hood over there. 598 00:26:48,873 --> 00:26:52,277 Milwaukee Brewing Company is going to be purchased 599 00:26:52,277 --> 00:26:56,581 by Chicago's Chicago's Pilot Brewing Company. 600 00:26:56,581 --> 00:26:59,250 Apparently, they're going to like foster new breweries 601 00:26:59,250 --> 00:27:02,721 and like startups and help people learn to be a brewery. 602 00:27:02,754 --> 00:27:03,521 Okay. 603 00:27:04,356 --> 00:27:06,091 Well, that's a fan of Milwaukee Brewing. 604 00:27:06,091 --> 00:27:09,461 I mean, they had one of like my O.G. 605 00:27:09,461 --> 00:27:13,898 beers, like when I first got into Craft that was a big fan of Amber Ales. 606 00:27:14,432 --> 00:27:20,271 And they had Louie's demise, which was a fucking mega malt bomb. 607 00:27:20,271 --> 00:27:21,473 You name. It. 608 00:27:21,473 --> 00:27:25,176 Oh, yeah, it was great name, great beer, great label 609 00:27:26,611 --> 00:27:29,581 that they did a few other beers that I liked. 610 00:27:29,581 --> 00:27:31,983 I didn't love anything else from them, but they 611 00:27:32,017 --> 00:27:35,120 I mean, they came out good product, they had great beer tours. 612 00:27:36,087 --> 00:27:38,189 I, that emo concert I 613 00:27:38,189 --> 00:27:40,859 went to or I got the black guy, I was crushing a bunch. 614 00:27:41,993 --> 00:27:43,762 There was a great Soad, by the way. 615 00:27:43,762 --> 00:27:45,664 Yeah. Yeah. 616 00:27:45,664 --> 00:27:48,633 They had some double IPAs at the venue 617 00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:52,370 from them, so me and my buddies were crushing those all night. 618 00:27:52,370 --> 00:27:53,271 Sprite. 619 00:27:53,371 --> 00:27:55,240 I was probably why I didn't feel. 620 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:56,675 They had no idea what a black. 621 00:27:56,675 --> 00:27:57,776 Punch of that whole. 622 00:27:57,776 --> 00:27:59,744 Well, whatever happened, who knows? 623 00:27:59,744 --> 00:28:01,346 But. Oh, no, it's neither. 624 00:28:01,346 --> 00:28:01,913 Here, the. 625 00:28:01,913 --> 00:28:04,182 Mojo man off the top rope over there, right? 626 00:28:05,183 --> 00:28:06,351 Yeah, right. I wish. 627 00:28:06,351 --> 00:28:09,421 You boom. 628 00:28:09,421 --> 00:28:10,588 Well know, we're all. 629 00:28:10,588 --> 00:28:13,224 They're all they're whatever breweries they'll be. 630 00:28:13,692 --> 00:28:13,992 Well, yeah. 631 00:28:13,992 --> 00:28:19,297 My big question is they were they're up for what, $150 million? 632 00:28:19,297 --> 00:28:19,964 Was that what it was? 633 00:28:19,964 --> 00:28:23,301 It was either 150 or 250 that they were starting at. 634 00:28:23,802 --> 00:28:26,271 Yeah. I don't know the final sell price. 635 00:28:26,304 --> 00:28:26,571 Yeah. 636 00:28:26,571 --> 00:28:30,675 So that just makes me really curious that pilot brewing was able to. 637 00:28:31,676 --> 00:28:32,277 It's a big. 638 00:28:32,277 --> 00:28:34,713 Space for Glen Nagle that. 639 00:28:35,013 --> 00:28:36,147 Yeah. 640 00:28:36,214 --> 00:28:39,551 They, they apparently know people in the right place 641 00:28:39,551 --> 00:28:40,351 this. 642 00:28:40,452 --> 00:28:41,953 Can I interrupt really quick please? 643 00:28:41,953 --> 00:28:45,924 But did you know that there was like 35 counties out of the 50 644 00:28:45,924 --> 00:28:49,494 counties, like the drunkest counties in the United States? 645 00:28:49,961 --> 00:28:51,096 Yeah, well, in Wisconsin. 646 00:28:51,096 --> 00:28:53,732 Yeah, that's that's every. Year it's like one of the top ten. 647 00:28:53,732 --> 00:28:54,466 I hear it's in 648 00:28:54,466 --> 00:28:57,569 every I'm just getting it on now with like 35 or like creative. 649 00:28:57,569 --> 00:29:00,138 Houses in. Wisconsin. 650 00:29:00,138 --> 00:29:01,239 Yeah, that's a real thing. 651 00:29:01,239 --> 00:29:05,076 Like every year it's like the drunkest cities are counties all. 652 00:29:05,143 --> 00:29:06,277 What else are you going to do? 653 00:29:06,277 --> 00:29:08,012 Yeah, yeah. 654 00:29:08,012 --> 00:29:11,416 It snows most of the year and. 655 00:29:11,416 --> 00:29:13,051 We just drink a lot 656 00:29:13,051 --> 00:29:15,887 and we have like a lot of bars per 657 00:29:16,921 --> 00:29:17,355 what is it? 658 00:29:17,355 --> 00:29:19,190 We have like three bars, right? 659 00:29:19,190 --> 00:29:19,758 Like you wait. 660 00:29:19,758 --> 00:29:21,392 You get off work. Yeah. 661 00:29:21,392 --> 00:29:22,794 And then you. Have. 662 00:29:22,794 --> 00:29:24,129 And it's all Midwest. 663 00:29:24,129 --> 00:29:26,397 All 50 of them. We're in the Midwest. 664 00:29:26,397 --> 00:29:26,698 Yeah. 665 00:29:26,698 --> 00:29:28,133 My guys. My county in. 666 00:29:28,133 --> 00:29:30,468 Like your county. 667 00:29:30,802 --> 00:29:32,370 Yeah, not in the Midwest. 668 00:29:32,370 --> 00:29:33,638 No, exactly. 669 00:29:33,638 --> 00:29:35,740 But there is a lot of drunks here. 670 00:29:35,740 --> 00:29:37,776 Just assumed. Especially that house. 671 00:29:38,042 --> 00:29:42,180 So in Wisconsin we do have bars that open up at 7 a.m.. 672 00:29:42,881 --> 00:29:43,081 Yeah. 673 00:29:43,281 --> 00:29:44,582 Like when you get off that, 674 00:29:44,582 --> 00:29:48,787 that third shift, you know, whatever you're 11 to 7 a.m. 675 00:29:48,787 --> 00:29:50,188 or 10 p.m. 676 00:29:50,188 --> 00:29:53,925 to 6 a.m., You're, you know, you all your cops at work, 677 00:29:53,925 --> 00:29:56,861 the overnight shift, they get to of work 678 00:29:57,228 --> 00:29:59,330 and they get to go get hydrated right away. 679 00:30:00,632 --> 00:30:03,001 So so pretty normal thing here. 680 00:30:03,001 --> 00:30:07,372 Is there a lot of industry there I guess like are there a lot of factories still in 681 00:30:07,372 --> 00:30:11,643 like Wisconsin where there would be like a lot of third shift workers, if you will? 682 00:30:12,443 --> 00:30:16,014 There's some areas of Milwaukee actually. 683 00:30:17,382 --> 00:30:18,716 There's this big, 684 00:30:18,716 --> 00:30:21,753 big foundry that does parts 685 00:30:21,753 --> 00:30:24,422 for NASA and space shuttles 686 00:30:25,356 --> 00:30:28,193 that is located in Milwaukee County. 687 00:30:28,827 --> 00:30:32,130 And that's that's a big, you know, third shifters realm 688 00:30:32,130 --> 00:30:36,467 and lots of lots of bars down that main street. 689 00:30:37,335 --> 00:30:39,170 So get hammered with the nerds from NASA's. 690 00:30:39,170 --> 00:30:39,537 Yeah. 691 00:30:39,537 --> 00:30:42,640 Well, so what you're saying is that's why they can't get the launch completed 692 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,243 because they're getting trash. 693 00:30:46,344 --> 00:30:48,613 Out on the let's go get can't figure. It out. 694 00:30:48,613 --> 00:30:50,448 You know what I still blame Massa. 695 00:30:50,448 --> 00:30:53,418 And let me tell you, Shania Twain was right. 696 00:30:53,618 --> 00:30:55,854 You think you're a rocket scientist? 697 00:30:55,854 --> 00:31:00,091 That don't impress me much. 698 00:31:00,091 --> 00:31:02,093 Boom. Wow. 699 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,562 Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, I think. 700 00:31:04,562 --> 00:31:07,832 Well, we'll use that as a as just a tool to move. 701 00:31:07,832 --> 00:31:09,300 Right. The fuck on. 702 00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:11,002 Yeah. Wow. Learn from this. 703 00:31:11,002 --> 00:31:12,971 How do you even move from that? 704 00:31:12,971 --> 00:31:13,972 I don't know that. 705 00:31:13,972 --> 00:31:16,007 That was good, right? That was good. 706 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:16,741 Hey, Mel. 707 00:31:16,741 --> 00:31:19,777 Mel, do you feel like a woman? 708 00:31:19,777 --> 00:31:21,346 I always feel like a woman. 709 00:31:22,447 --> 00:31:24,549 I feel like a man is when 710 00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:27,785 I rip my callus off of my hand lifting. 711 00:31:29,487 --> 00:31:31,522 Other than that, everything I am. 712 00:31:31,522 --> 00:31:33,658 I am a woman, honey. Through in there. 713 00:31:33,658 --> 00:31:37,028 I don't know any other way to say I don't know any other Schneider Twain songs. 714 00:31:37,028 --> 00:31:39,464 Otherwise, I drop another reference where. 715 00:31:39,464 --> 00:31:43,334 I just read that that was my my library right there. 716 00:31:43,334 --> 00:31:45,703 This one I pulled for Flex. 717 00:31:45,904 --> 00:31:49,440 A new study shows that young people purchase alcohol 718 00:31:49,774 --> 00:31:53,778 solely on package appeal. 719 00:31:53,778 --> 00:31:55,446 I agree. 720 00:31:55,446 --> 00:31:56,614 My. When. 721 00:31:56,614 --> 00:31:59,517 I'm not young anymore I mean. Yeah yeah. 722 00:31:59,517 --> 00:32:00,318 I but the other. 723 00:32:00,318 --> 00:32:02,620 Thing but the algorithm. Yes. 724 00:32:02,620 --> 00:32:04,789 The algorithm is, you know. It all makes sense. 725 00:32:05,423 --> 00:32:08,293 It's a staple now for I think most people that listen 726 00:32:08,293 --> 00:32:12,163 to the Craft Beer Republic, we listen and we're like, okay, like does it there. 727 00:32:12,163 --> 00:32:14,699 Should be a fucking tattoo on his arm. 728 00:32:14,699 --> 00:32:17,268 But I'll tell you, like, if the packaging doesn't draw 729 00:32:17,268 --> 00:32:19,904 you in, like, how are you going to notice it? Yeah. 730 00:32:20,038 --> 00:32:22,206 And then he never had the beer before. 731 00:32:22,206 --> 00:32:25,944 And because most like millennials and younger people now are like, 732 00:32:26,311 --> 00:32:29,881 this has got to look good for the gram or like TAC or what I'm doing. 733 00:32:29,881 --> 00:32:31,849 I can wear, I can match my outfit. 734 00:32:31,849 --> 00:32:35,653 I mean, look at what we do in the beer community like we are the jet 735 00:32:36,321 --> 00:32:39,023 matching, whatever the can shows us. 736 00:32:39,023 --> 00:32:40,591 Yeah, we're label, we're idiots. 737 00:32:40,591 --> 00:32:43,828 Sometimes we're so stupid, but like, some of us. 738 00:32:43,828 --> 00:32:45,630 Made a whole duck hunt video. 739 00:32:45,630 --> 00:32:47,198 That was so good. 740 00:32:48,299 --> 00:32:50,034 That's awesome. 741 00:32:50,034 --> 00:32:51,903 I love that. It was really. 742 00:32:51,903 --> 00:32:56,074 I think I think like always, you know, it's like when people say like, 743 00:32:56,441 --> 00:32:59,744 oh, you know, like don't read a book by its cover. 744 00:32:59,911 --> 00:33:02,413 No, the first thing you see is the cover. 745 00:33:02,580 --> 00:33:04,082 Of course, that's going to draw you in. 746 00:33:04,082 --> 00:33:05,683 So I agree. 747 00:33:05,683 --> 00:33:07,685 I just hope that they're. Yeah, yeah. 748 00:33:07,685 --> 00:33:10,855 I just hope they start to like research a little more 749 00:33:10,888 --> 00:33:13,791 like look more into the beer once they start getting into and be like, 750 00:33:14,058 --> 00:33:16,527 All right, let's find a cool can 751 00:33:16,828 --> 00:33:19,831 and good beer inside of the. 752 00:33:19,931 --> 00:33:21,499 Yes, that's what I would like. 753 00:33:21,499 --> 00:33:23,868 The one to punch, if you will. 754 00:33:23,968 --> 00:33:26,137 Yeah, it's necessary. 755 00:33:26,137 --> 00:33:28,706 You learn that in your thirties. Yeah. 756 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,209 But then also make sure the ABV is worth the money. 757 00:33:31,376 --> 00:33:32,543 You know, it's right. 758 00:33:32,543 --> 00:33:34,412 It's a one, two, three punch. 759 00:33:34,412 --> 00:33:34,946 Right? Yeah. 760 00:33:34,946 --> 00:33:37,215 You get your thirties and you start doing this Bud Light next. 761 00:33:37,215 --> 00:33:40,318 I mean, what can I say? 10:00 goes down. 762 00:33:41,586 --> 00:33:41,886 All right. 763 00:33:41,886 --> 00:33:45,056 Before we get too far into the news, let me talk a little bit about what 764 00:33:45,056 --> 00:33:52,630 I'm drinking over here. 765 00:33:52,630 --> 00:33:57,468 It's so German, I am drinking 766 00:33:58,836 --> 00:34:01,539 heater Allen, which I've never had before. 767 00:34:01,539 --> 00:34:03,775 Heater Allen Brewing's Marzen 768 00:34:04,842 --> 00:34:07,412 5% as 23 abv 769 00:34:07,412 --> 00:34:11,516 use a 3.8 to an untapped and an 88 on beer. 770 00:34:11,516 --> 00:34:13,184 Advocate right on. 771 00:34:13,451 --> 00:34:16,120 Ice. They say this is a lighter, lower 772 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,323 alcohol version of our popular fall seasonal. 773 00:34:19,357 --> 00:34:23,461 Bob Tober Fess I love that name crisp and malty. 774 00:34:23,461 --> 00:34:26,431 This beer is delicious and incredibly food friendly. 775 00:34:26,431 --> 00:34:29,934 I will say I got this from table to table. 776 00:34:29,967 --> 00:34:31,135 Are you love? 777 00:34:31,135 --> 00:34:31,803 You guys can see. 778 00:34:31,803 --> 00:34:34,539 It looks a lot like flex's beer in color. 779 00:34:34,772 --> 00:34:37,442 It's at the Carmel. It's gorgeous. 780 00:34:37,442 --> 00:34:40,478 I have to be perfectly honest on the schnoz. 781 00:34:41,212 --> 00:34:42,680 Not the best smell in the world. 782 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,450 You got the sweetness that you expect out of a marzen. 783 00:34:45,450 --> 00:34:50,254 But there's like this tinny smell that came along with maybe it's luckily. 784 00:34:50,254 --> 00:34:52,290 That didn't I would say maybe it's an old camp. 785 00:34:52,990 --> 00:34:56,561 Could be luckily that is there can be date I've not seen one. 786 00:34:57,128 --> 00:34:59,397 Luckily that maybe you'll never find a date. 787 00:34:59,931 --> 00:35:01,666 Yeah, I do a lot of times. 788 00:35:01,666 --> 00:35:05,670 But luckily that that smell did not translate into the flavor 789 00:35:05,670 --> 00:35:07,705 because that would have been really, really disgusting. 790 00:35:07,705 --> 00:35:09,373 Look, this is your typical marzen. 791 00:35:09,373 --> 00:35:11,909 It's sweet, it's malty, it's lower. 792 00:35:11,909 --> 00:35:13,845 Maybe you could crush them all day. It's. 793 00:35:13,845 --> 00:35:15,580 There's not a lot to say about it. 794 00:35:15,580 --> 00:35:16,714 There it is. 795 00:35:16,948 --> 00:35:17,281 Love it. 796 00:35:17,281 --> 00:35:20,118 I mean, we all did just have marzen straight. 797 00:35:20,151 --> 00:35:21,252 Nobody had a beer. 798 00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:24,622 I mean, Gazans are Oktoberfest beer. 799 00:35:24,622 --> 00:35:27,125 Yeah, it's like a. Fast beer is as well though. 800 00:35:27,425 --> 00:35:29,727 Like they're 24 miles. No. 801 00:35:29,727 --> 00:35:30,194 Yeah, they are. 802 00:35:30,194 --> 00:35:33,598 But when people say like, I'm going to have the Oktoberfest, it's a marzen. 803 00:35:33,865 --> 00:35:34,699 Right? 804 00:35:34,699 --> 00:35:38,503 But, but I think it's based on like the area right. 805 00:35:38,503 --> 00:35:41,772 Is at this specific location in Germany like that, it's brewed 806 00:35:41,772 --> 00:35:43,541 that it can be called the master fest. 807 00:35:43,541 --> 00:35:44,976 Or is it how it's brewed? 808 00:35:44,976 --> 00:35:46,477 I don't know the answer to you. 809 00:35:46,477 --> 00:35:49,547 We got to we got to ask our beer. Koski. 810 00:35:49,547 --> 00:35:51,482 She's the scientist. 811 00:35:51,482 --> 00:35:54,218 Oh, we definitely know 100%. 812 00:35:54,218 --> 00:35:55,119 Yeah. 813 00:35:55,119 --> 00:35:56,888 Nerds, please call in 85. 814 00:35:56,888 --> 00:35:58,589 Yeah, let us know. 815 00:35:58,589 --> 00:35:59,223 You really tell us. 816 00:35:59,223 --> 00:36:02,693 How stupid we are. Please. 817 00:36:02,693 --> 00:36:04,762 All right. Back to the news. 818 00:36:04,762 --> 00:36:08,699 Drinking in another state collab is a beer collaboration. 819 00:36:08,699 --> 00:36:10,801 Not unlike black. It's beautiful. 820 00:36:10,801 --> 00:36:14,639 And those type of beer collabs that is raising funds for beverage 821 00:36:14,639 --> 00:36:15,773 and alcohol workers 822 00:36:15,773 --> 00:36:20,077 who must travel to other states to access abortion care anyways. 823 00:36:20,511 --> 00:36:25,583 Over 40 breweries have already jumped on, unlike the Black is beautiful collab, 824 00:36:25,583 --> 00:36:31,022 they are encouraging you to come up with your own recipes and donate to the cause. 825 00:36:31,022 --> 00:36:32,490 Interesting. Yeah. 826 00:36:32,490 --> 00:36:35,059 So it's not like one beer at every brewery. 827 00:36:35,226 --> 00:36:37,795 You can basically do whatever you want as long as you know 828 00:36:37,828 --> 00:36:39,730 you donate to the cause when you brew it. 829 00:36:40,831 --> 00:36:41,065 Yeah. 830 00:36:41,065 --> 00:36:42,099 Anyways, I just thought it was cool. 831 00:36:42,099 --> 00:36:45,870 I hadn't heard about this year and already 40 breweries across the country 832 00:36:45,870 --> 00:36:46,437 have jumped on. 833 00:36:46,437 --> 00:36:48,706 So good on you with the concept. 834 00:36:49,340 --> 00:36:50,007 Greg. 835 00:36:50,241 --> 00:36:51,976 Who came up with the concept? 836 00:36:51,976 --> 00:36:53,344 You know, somebody 837 00:36:53,344 --> 00:36:56,581 who's a better journalist would have found that answer for you. 838 00:36:56,714 --> 00:36:59,250 Oh. Greg, you always have the answer. 839 00:36:59,250 --> 00:37:00,418 I'm kind of yours. 840 00:37:00,418 --> 00:37:03,588 Stuck with me. 841 00:37:03,588 --> 00:37:06,724 Tune into next week. When Greg asked 842 00:37:06,724 --> 00:37:08,793 where it came from, I actually think. 843 00:37:08,793 --> 00:37:10,928 Greg will forget about no. I love where. Find. 844 00:37:10,995 --> 00:37:14,298 Breweries get together for causes like this and especially 845 00:37:14,298 --> 00:37:16,601 something as large as what this is. 846 00:37:17,368 --> 00:37:20,438 It's nice to see the Bureau doing doing some good. 847 00:37:21,272 --> 00:37:22,173 So important. 848 00:37:22,173 --> 00:37:24,775 Doesn't just get you drunk. Right. 849 00:37:25,276 --> 00:37:26,544 But it should. 850 00:37:26,911 --> 00:37:29,046 And then you make an added bonus. 851 00:37:29,046 --> 00:37:30,982 Yeah, it's an added bonus, though. 852 00:37:30,982 --> 00:37:33,184 All right. Two quick ones before we wrap things up here. 853 00:37:33,184 --> 00:37:37,088 First of all, untapped chickens have revealed in the last couple of years 854 00:37:37,088 --> 00:37:41,192 consumers are drinking earlier in the day than they were before. 855 00:37:41,192 --> 00:37:43,928 Well, do you think that's accurate? 856 00:37:44,161 --> 00:37:46,664 Because sometimes I'll check in beers 857 00:37:47,865 --> 00:37:50,501 and it's like, oh, I forgot to check that in last night. 858 00:37:51,035 --> 00:37:53,871 So then you'll go on your untappd in the morning 859 00:37:54,372 --> 00:37:57,575 and then check in whatever you drink the night before. 860 00:37:57,742 --> 00:38:00,578 So then it maybe just appears that way. 861 00:38:01,345 --> 00:38:01,979 Now, here's the thing. 862 00:38:01,979 --> 00:38:06,851 You could be correct, but also this started to turn into 2020. 863 00:38:07,318 --> 00:38:08,486 So I'm wondering how. 864 00:38:08,486 --> 00:38:11,756 Yeah, during lockdown, people just like it. 865 00:38:12,123 --> 00:38:14,659 Here I am. Lunch break 866 00:38:14,659 --> 00:38:15,960 working from home that. 867 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,397 People are still working from home where they're like, oh, 2:00. 868 00:38:19,397 --> 00:38:20,898 I can crack a beer. 869 00:38:20,898 --> 00:38:23,601 Yeah, two to hour. Meeting at work. 870 00:38:23,601 --> 00:38:27,538 Obviously I'm a nurse, but I know like on my days off, like, for sure, 871 00:38:27,538 --> 00:38:33,144 like that's kind of gotten engraved in me a little bit is that I can drink earlier. 872 00:38:33,711 --> 00:38:36,414 Go to the local bar or wait for. 873 00:38:36,414 --> 00:38:37,281 Lolly in the morning. 874 00:38:38,249 --> 00:38:39,083 Have a beer. 875 00:38:39,083 --> 00:38:41,919 Yeah. My lunch dates. Yeah. 876 00:38:41,919 --> 00:38:45,723 I mean, Flex takes himself to lunch, gets burger fries and a beer every Monday. 877 00:38:45,723 --> 00:38:47,925 Every Monday I. Do the same thing. 878 00:38:47,925 --> 00:38:49,393 I love it. 879 00:38:49,393 --> 00:38:50,895 If I'm on Monday 880 00:38:50,895 --> 00:38:56,534 mornings, like data like a day, whether. It's do you day, you know. 881 00:38:56,534 --> 00:38:57,301 Like yeah. 882 00:38:57,301 --> 00:39:00,271 Do you bill do you want to Monday. Just. 883 00:39:00,871 --> 00:39:03,541 Or do you want to. 884 00:39:03,908 --> 00:39:05,509 Okay, tell me more. 885 00:39:05,509 --> 00:39:05,710 Greg. 886 00:39:05,710 --> 00:39:09,113 It's like I work 9 to 5 Monday through Friday. 887 00:39:09,513 --> 00:39:11,449 You don't get to do that kind of stuff. 888 00:39:11,449 --> 00:39:13,451 But there you go. I work 9 to 530. 889 00:39:14,552 --> 00:39:18,723 Oh, yeah, you son of a bitch. 890 00:39:19,256 --> 00:39:22,460 You work for the man 891 00:39:22,460 --> 00:39:24,662 when they with this some fun facts 892 00:39:25,730 --> 00:39:30,201 about October fest it just seemed fitting to their very first October 893 00:39:30,201 --> 00:39:32,636 fest was held on October 12th, 894 00:39:33,337 --> 00:39:37,074 1810 at SIC Munich, Germany. Yes. 895 00:39:37,942 --> 00:39:42,813 Over the past 209 years, October Fest has been canceled only 24 times. 896 00:39:42,813 --> 00:39:45,483 And I must clarify, this article is written in 2019. 897 00:39:45,683 --> 00:39:46,751 Does not include COVID. 898 00:39:46,751 --> 00:39:48,853 So 24 or 25 times. 899 00:39:49,286 --> 00:39:49,620 Yeah. 900 00:39:49,620 --> 00:39:52,790 And for reasons like cholera outbreaks or war, 901 00:39:52,823 --> 00:39:54,458 they say, yeah, I think they canceled. Wait, you. 902 00:39:54,458 --> 00:39:57,361 Saying 28 cholera outbreak. Yeah, 2021. 903 00:39:57,361 --> 00:39:58,429 It was canceled, man. 904 00:39:58,429 --> 00:40:01,832 That's so Oregon Trail. It is. 905 00:40:03,734 --> 00:40:07,605 Brittany died of dysentery. 906 00:40:07,605 --> 00:40:14,011 The festival makes the city of Munich $1.43 billion in tourism money every year. 907 00:40:14,011 --> 00:40:15,679 Completely believe that. 908 00:40:15,679 --> 00:40:16,781 Yeah. 909 00:40:16,781 --> 00:40:21,352 6.3 million people attended October Fest in 2018, but the most attended 910 00:40:21,352 --> 00:40:26,257 festival was in 1985, when 7.1 million people showed up. 911 00:40:26,257 --> 00:40:28,626 Is that because the Bears won the Super Bowl? 912 00:40:30,294 --> 00:40:32,229 Maybe so, yeah. 913 00:40:32,229 --> 00:40:34,064 Clearly they were there. 914 00:40:34,064 --> 00:40:35,966 They were rapping on the 915 00:40:36,133 --> 00:40:37,435 shuffle in October. 916 00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:39,904 But yeah, 917 00:40:39,904 --> 00:40:42,139 there are 38 different beer tents 918 00:40:42,139 --> 00:40:45,376 and some can fit as many as 11,000 people. 919 00:40:46,010 --> 00:40:47,611 Into one beer tent. 920 00:40:47,611 --> 00:40:49,313 That's a big ass beer tent. 921 00:40:49,313 --> 00:40:50,581 Holy crap. 922 00:40:50,581 --> 00:40:52,716 Yeah, it's a huge festival here. 923 00:40:53,117 --> 00:40:54,185 You're right. 924 00:40:54,452 --> 00:41:00,224 1.98 million gallons of beer are consumed during the 16 day festival. 925 00:41:00,224 --> 00:41:01,158 That's hot. 926 00:41:01,392 --> 00:41:04,762 Yeah, over 101,000 beer mugs 927 00:41:04,762 --> 00:41:09,099 were confiscated from patrons trying to sneak them out in 2018. 928 00:41:09,099 --> 00:41:11,035 Oh, so you can't do that. 929 00:41:11,035 --> 00:41:11,669 I guess now. 930 00:41:11,669 --> 00:41:14,472 I guess you got to buy official ones or something. 931 00:41:14,472 --> 00:41:15,506 Bullshit. 932 00:41:15,573 --> 00:41:15,906 Yeah. 933 00:41:15,906 --> 00:41:18,275 You can take them home even after you buy them. 934 00:41:18,275 --> 00:41:19,276 I don't know about that. 935 00:41:19,276 --> 00:41:19,643 I just. 936 00:41:19,643 --> 00:41:21,779 I think you're discouraged from stealing them. 937 00:41:22,413 --> 00:41:27,284 Yeah, over 510,000 whole roast chickens and over 938 00:41:27,284 --> 00:41:30,888 60,000 sausages are eaten at October Fest. 939 00:41:31,722 --> 00:41:36,660 A lot of the sausage in 2018, 840 passports, 940 00:41:36,994 --> 00:41:39,864 460 wallets, 350 phones 941 00:41:39,864 --> 00:41:43,300 and 300 keys turned up at the lost and found. Wow. 942 00:41:43,300 --> 00:41:45,736 You guys keep your shit together. 943 00:41:45,736 --> 00:41:47,404 You know, fanny pack. 944 00:41:47,404 --> 00:41:48,706 Right? 945 00:41:48,939 --> 00:41:51,041 But don't look that. Bad when rule. 946 00:41:51,041 --> 00:41:53,878 Lederhosen, you might think it's a bunch of tourists, 947 00:41:53,878 --> 00:41:57,548 but 70% of attendees are actually from Bavaria, Germany. 948 00:41:58,048 --> 00:41:59,850 I would go if I live there. Right. 949 00:41:59,850 --> 00:42:01,051 What did you? 950 00:42:01,185 --> 00:42:03,721 Of course would assume so. Yeah. 951 00:42:03,921 --> 00:42:07,091 So unless you were over it, you're like, I'm over this. 952 00:42:07,091 --> 00:42:08,192 Or I guess yeah, 953 00:42:09,793 --> 00:42:11,729 it these fucking Americans keep running our. 954 00:42:11,729 --> 00:42:13,531 Yeah, stop coming here. 955 00:42:13,531 --> 00:42:15,566 We don't want you. Yeah. 956 00:42:15,566 --> 00:42:19,036 And then finally for Americans, it's not so cheap. 957 00:42:19,169 --> 00:42:23,340 The estimated cost for an American to get to October 1st is $5,000. 958 00:42:23,941 --> 00:42:26,010 Yeah, that's a lot of money. 959 00:42:26,010 --> 00:42:29,013 I mean, I think if you're staying, like, you probably 960 00:42:29,013 --> 00:42:32,850 stay for 7 to 10 days back to. 961 00:42:32,850 --> 00:42:38,222 So it's like that's cheaper than your Disney vacation. 962 00:42:38,222 --> 00:42:39,123 What are you talking about? 963 00:42:39,123 --> 00:42:40,157 I've been to Germany. 964 00:42:40,157 --> 00:42:42,893 That is. Cheaper than. Let's go to Germany. 965 00:42:42,893 --> 00:42:45,062 Leave the. Kids behind. We're leaving. 966 00:42:45,062 --> 00:42:46,163 Let's go. 967 00:42:46,163 --> 00:42:46,830 Three of us. 968 00:42:46,830 --> 00:42:47,932 No, we should do. 969 00:42:47,932 --> 00:42:50,200 Let's go to Finland in the UK. Yeah. 970 00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,202 Stop off at October. That's pretty legit. 971 00:42:52,736 --> 00:42:53,804 I'm into it. 972 00:42:53,804 --> 00:42:55,706 I very than that gas up. 973 00:42:55,706 --> 00:42:57,274 That's still your number one fan girl. 974 00:42:57,274 --> 00:42:59,176 Always and forever. 975 00:42:59,176 --> 00:43:02,112 Let's gas it up let's go Will sneak in some suitcases. 976 00:43:03,113 --> 00:43:04,415 I'm very small. 977 00:43:04,415 --> 00:43:05,549 I can't do it. 978 00:43:05,549 --> 00:43:06,183 She's tiny. 979 00:43:06,183 --> 00:43:08,953 You're flexible in there now. 980 00:43:09,219 --> 00:43:11,155 Let's leave it 981 00:43:12,289 --> 00:43:12,723 all here. 982 00:43:12,723 --> 00:43:13,557 Give me an air hole. 983 00:43:13,557 --> 00:43:15,926 Just give me an air hole so I can breathe. 984 00:43:15,926 --> 00:43:17,528 Well, it's like a straw through the zipper. 985 00:43:17,528 --> 00:43:20,798 Probably be better than lip reading on this podcast from this. 986 00:43:22,132 --> 00:43:23,701 Microphone. 987 00:43:23,701 --> 00:43:25,302 Will be less. 988 00:43:25,302 --> 00:43:25,669 Like. 989 00:43:25,869 --> 00:43:27,538 Breathing out of everything. 990 00:43:27,538 --> 00:43:29,373 That's what made Greg laugh tonight. 991 00:43:29,373 --> 00:43:30,708 Unbelievable. 992 00:43:30,708 --> 00:43:32,910 I know Greg is like, I'm very unimpressed. 993 00:43:32,943 --> 00:43:34,511 You're very boring. 994 00:43:34,511 --> 00:43:36,747 You're snoring. 995 00:43:36,814 --> 00:43:38,983 I do have to tell you, guys have really quick story 996 00:43:38,983 --> 00:43:41,018 that has nothing to do with anything we're talking about. 997 00:43:42,052 --> 00:43:44,655 Speaking of air holes and breathing, 998 00:43:44,655 --> 00:43:47,024 we talked. 999 00:43:47,024 --> 00:43:50,995 I know I just brought up a story, but I came. 1000 00:43:51,061 --> 00:43:51,962 I talked about the boat. 1001 00:43:51,962 --> 00:43:54,732 So one day I am laying on the dock. 1002 00:43:54,999 --> 00:43:57,534 It's three kids. I'm reading a book. 1003 00:43:57,935 --> 00:43:59,970 To the big dog. And then all of a sudden 1004 00:44:01,372 --> 00:44:03,273 I feel like someone's watching me. 1005 00:44:03,273 --> 00:44:06,877 And I kind of hear breathing like I look around. 1006 00:44:07,011 --> 00:44:07,845 I don't see anything. 1007 00:44:07,845 --> 00:44:10,180 I'm like, Okay, you're crazy. 1008 00:44:10,547 --> 00:44:11,782 Go back to your thriller book. 1009 00:44:11,782 --> 00:44:14,451 I start reading again and sure enough, I'm like, 1010 00:44:15,386 --> 00:44:17,621 I definitely hear breathing and I look around again. 1011 00:44:17,621 --> 00:44:18,288 I'm like, 1012 00:44:19,390 --> 00:44:21,659 Why am I hearing breathing? 1013 00:44:21,659 --> 00:44:24,795 Third time down, back to my book, all of a sudden 1014 00:44:25,262 --> 00:44:30,267 it was like a hundred year old snapping turtle head in my face. 1015 00:44:30,601 --> 00:44:34,104 She was coming up for air and just like 1016 00:44:34,104 --> 00:44:36,840 breathing. 1017 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:40,110 I was like, Holy shit, that girl was was 1018 00:44:40,110 --> 00:44:44,281 £175 snapping turtle that I had to call Lou. 1019 00:44:44,281 --> 00:44:46,083 And I was like, Please help me. 1020 00:44:46,083 --> 00:44:46,950 I don't know what to do. 1021 00:44:46,950 --> 00:44:48,819 This dinosaur is going to chop my head off. 1022 00:44:50,421 --> 00:44:51,055 So just 1023 00:44:51,055 --> 00:44:55,159 also, if you are on those lakes, you know, and your boating, 1024 00:44:55,159 --> 00:44:58,262 be careful to those turtles because they last a long time 1025 00:44:58,429 --> 00:45:00,931 and they breathe really heavily in your face. 1026 00:45:01,231 --> 00:45:03,367 Well, at least you can hear them coming. 1027 00:45:03,367 --> 00:45:04,435 It was really scary. 1028 00:45:04,435 --> 00:45:05,569 I was like, Why? 1029 00:45:05,569 --> 00:45:07,604 That's exactly how I sounded. 1030 00:45:07,604 --> 00:45:10,207 This whole background is how she sounds in my ear. 1031 00:45:10,541 --> 00:45:11,909 Yes, it sounds like Mel on the show. 1032 00:45:11,909 --> 00:45:13,677 I think we should name the turtle. 1033 00:45:13,677 --> 00:45:17,614 Mel. Basically, yeah. Wow. 1034 00:45:17,614 --> 00:45:20,918 You 170, £375 turtle. 1035 00:45:20,918 --> 00:45:22,086 That's crazy. 1036 00:45:22,086 --> 00:45:22,820 As you just 1037 00:45:22,820 --> 00:45:24,788 he had to get like he had to get help 1038 00:45:24,788 --> 00:45:27,458 to get her out of there and he released her somewhere else 1039 00:45:27,458 --> 00:45:29,827 and she ended up like on the other side of Lake. 1040 00:45:30,094 --> 00:45:32,229 She ended up coming back and just making her bed again. 1041 00:45:32,229 --> 00:45:34,998 I was like, Well, this is. My sleep. 1042 00:45:36,033 --> 00:45:38,068 Who am I to say for something? 1043 00:45:38,836 --> 00:45:39,970 Oh, dear. 1044 00:45:40,471 --> 00:45:41,271 Well, 1045 00:45:42,573 --> 00:45:43,440 with that. 1046 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:45,375 Story and then. 1047 00:45:45,375 --> 00:45:47,144 Hit some music and wrap things up. 1048 00:45:47,144 --> 00:45:48,579 Yeah, right here. 1049 00:45:48,579 --> 00:45:50,781 We will say hi to Vanessa over at. ESA. 1050 00:45:51,381 --> 00:45:53,050 Haven, ESA. 1051 00:45:53,083 --> 00:45:55,352 And we'll say thanks to Mel for hanging out with us 1052 00:45:55,352 --> 00:45:57,287 and for making her computer work. Yes. 1053 00:45:57,287 --> 00:46:00,390 And for all the technical difficulties. 1054 00:46:02,025 --> 00:46:03,660 Exactly right. 1055 00:46:03,660 --> 00:46:05,763 I'm a country girl in a big. 1056 00:46:05,829 --> 00:46:08,065 Living in a lonely world. 1057 00:46:08,065 --> 00:46:09,633 Oh, wrong song. 1058 00:46:09,633 --> 00:46:10,801 Thanks for hanging out with us, Mel. 1059 00:46:10,801 --> 00:46:14,671 Please come back more often with less technological problems. 1060 00:46:15,139 --> 00:46:17,541 I'm going to buy myself my own. Mike said. 1061 00:46:17,908 --> 00:46:18,709 Let's do this. 1062 00:46:18,709 --> 00:46:19,510 Let's make it happen. 1063 00:46:19,510 --> 00:46:21,712 Let's crowdfund Mel's microphone. 1064 00:46:22,246 --> 00:46:23,614 That will be hard. 1065 00:46:23,947 --> 00:46:28,085 Follow her on the grams at beer girl Melissa underscore after beer girl 1066 00:46:28,085 --> 00:46:31,755 follow flex at flex me a beer underscores in between 1067 00:46:32,022 --> 00:46:37,060 of course craft beer republic and craft beer Popcom Don't forget to call 0553 beer 1068 00:46:37,694 --> 00:46:40,430 and I hope everyone is staying very well hydrated. 1069 00:46:40,931 --> 00:46:43,100 And on that note. Goodnight, everybody. 1070 00:46:43,100 --> 00:46:51,742 And beer, girls out.