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a Saint Patrick's Day hangover. Hi, and thanks for listening. Loud.
Sorry, Bud, for warn me next time. Yeah, I was off the cuff,
as they say, off the cuff. Uh, I'm Greg and the guy who
can't hear me anymore. That's Flex. You know this music?
Uh, I know we always joke with the Ford commercial. Yeah. Ford. Tough.
I think, like 90s wrestler. Oh, yeah. I think it is very 90s generic
jobber. Right? You know, like. It's like a Bob Holly coming to
the ring. Yeah,
or like Rick Daniels or something. Like just some super jobber name.
Yeah. Or who's the guy that, uh,
lost to skip or no beat? Skip. Who's skip? Uh, Chris. Candido.
You know what I'm talking about, though. I don't. He was a total okay.
Not a wrestling show. Not a. Wrestling. Show.
For those of you who are not wrestling fans, a jobber is
someone whose job it is to lose. In wrestling.
They don't really use jobbers like they did in the 80s and 90s.
Um, but anyways, there was a jobber whose name I
think he started with a D. I want to say Dean. It's not Dean.
Um. Oh, was it Barry Horowitz? Oh, man. Oh, my God.
Did I just pull that out of my. Ass? What a name drop.
And he got his first and only WWF TV win against Chris Candido.
Because, like, Chris Candido had pissed somebody off or something.
I know what you're talking about now. Yeah. 100.
Somebody fact check this for me. I think I'm mostly right.
At least, like 68% right? I just can't even believe.
Where did that name come from? Oh, my God, I can't believe I
pulled that out of my ass. I hope that was the right name. Um.
Wow. Sorry. Chest of wrestling names. Sorry, everyone who's not a
wrestling fan. We will move on. Uh, thanks for drinking.
Thanks for joining us on the socials. Grabbed Republic Flex me beer
underscores in between all of that good stuff, I went out.
He kicked out. One two area that made me cough.
Yeah. Get that out. Yeah. Good little daddy. Yeah. Wow.
That's gone. Um, anyways, okay. Lots to get to tonight.
Got some booze news. I did a little traveling.
I alluded to it last week. Took a trip.
Beer was involved, not even on purpose. Lots of beer was involved.
Not even on purpose. Not on purpose. I can't wait to hear this.
I mean, obviously there's going to be some beer involved, but the amount of
beer involved was not on purpose. Um, and all that good stuff.
So if you don't mind, I'm going to crack right into it and have a
little beverage. Out of my mouth. Oh, out of my beer. Out of my way.
Out of my beer. I'm loving my beer. Sorry. Uh, today I am drinking.
And this has to do with the story I'm about to tell, but I am drinking San
Francisco Brewing Company, which I didn't even know existed a couple
of weeks ago. Fog City hazy IPA. It's got a pretty sweet can of
like a cloud or, I guess, fog over the Golden Gate Bridge.
I like his. Baseball. References. And a hat. Anyways, 6.7%.
45 IBUs has a 3.82 and untapped. And they say Carl is our Fog City
hazy IPA New England style made with malted barley, wheat and oats.
Dry hopped with a blend of Vic Secret, Citra, mosaic, and Simcoe
hops with a foggy and cloudy body, this unfiltered IPA will give you a
big mouthfeel without the bitter bite, and Flex will attest to this.
When I was trying to fucking pour it before the show started.
Every little pour. I don't know how much carbonation
they got in this bitch, but it started exploding.
I have a mess to clean up. My pants are wet and I didn't pee
them. It's, uh, it's a whole thing. But anyways, on the schnoz,
the surprising amount of dank on the nose for being a hazy IPA.
But they do mission well. Wow. They do mention some bitterness
and whatnot. As you can see, it's properly hazy.
It is very hazy. And a little citrus. I think going along that let me
stick in the old Tongue-jobber that likes to run away. Yeah, warm it up.
I mean, the tongue really follows suit with citrus orange bitterness.
There is a fair bit of carbonation for hazy.
You know, it's not that pillowy softness. I'm not mad. About.
Spritzy. Yeah. Which is surprising. And hazy. I'm not angry about it.
It could use a little less carbonation, I think. Um.
Let's see. 382 and untapped. I think that's fair.
It's a good beer. I'm not against paying for one
and would drink again. Right on. Yeah, it seems reasonable.
Sometimes that spritzing of a IPA, it's a fun little different. Yeah, I.
Think it needs it because of the amount of bitterness that this
holds for being a hazy and spritzy ness I think helps out.
Like if it wasn't so bitter and it was spritz, you'd be like,
oh, this is weird. It's like a fucking, you know,
orange spritzer on my tongue or something, right?
But I think this actually helps it out a little bit.
It just could be a smidge less. But overall, like I said,
definitely would drink again. Would even pay for it if I had to.
I got this free. So, uh, here's here's my my story,
first of all, went to San Francisco last weekend, a little trip.
First thing I did was we hit the Burbank airport and hit the bar
because we had a little time to kill. Okay.
And we're looking at the beer choices because, you know,
airport. I don't drink wine. Airport beer. They're not great.
Yeah. And they were not. It was all things owned by Budweiser.
But as I'm looking through, I went, oh, they have a beer hug on Tapped
on Tap. I've never had one. Flex talked about it being the only
good beer on his trip to Saint Louis. Not the only good, but the best.
Okay. The best. so I got even worse. I'm sorry.
I was like, all right, well, then I got to try one only because of Flex.
And he's a genius, so I did, I ordered it,
I did not know what I ordered was like the Imperial version.
Um, the guy didn't know either. So I think they call it,
like the tropical Bearhug or something. Yep. That's it. Yeah.
And so I ordered that the wife orders a lager,
she gets a Kona longboard, which is, I think it's a lager, not a blonde.
Yeah, I don't, I don't enjoy it. Yeah.
Anyways, hers is like 4.5% Kona. Big wave. Big waves.
No, no, she got the longboard. Get it right. Oh I'm sorry.
Big wave is the blue one. In fact. Funny story, they brought her a big
wave and it was the wrong color. This. I love my wife.
She could tell by the color that it was the wrong beer.
And she goes, oh, is this a longboard? He goes, oh shit.
No, it's a big wave. Hold on. And like, took it back.
That's amazing. I was like, oh, so hot just by
the color. Anyways. Go on. So he brings this over,
brings her beer over, and I'm sipping it like it's, you know,
it's fine for all the beer options that I have here at this shit bar.
Like, I probably could have done much worse. And the guy comes over.
He goes, what do you think of that? And I said, yeah, it's fine.
Nothing wrong with it. It's it's all right.
You know, I know it's Goose Island and, you know, whatever.
And he goes, yeah, we just got it in. He goes, look at this.
And he pulls up the keg ring and he shows me the ABV.
I didn't say this on the menu. I had no idea I was ordering the
Imperial 9.9%. So I'm drinking this 10%.
Daddy, over here. As we're about to get on the plane,
the wife's drinking 4.5% lager, and my beer was only like $0.70
more than hers. And I was like, I fucking won.
I don't even care how it tastes. Yeah, that's an undefeated
season right there. Yeah. Uh,
undefeated and won the Super Bowl. Didn't blow it at the end there.
So yeah, it was it was not bad. It was fine.
It wouldn't be my first choice if I had better choices.
But, um, it was fine and at 10% and only $0.70 more than a lager,
I was I was all about hell yeah. So, uh, not bad.
Anyways, went to San Francisco. One thing we did not know about
San Francisco until about two days before we left was we were going
up for San Francisco Beer Week. No kidding? No kidding.
Had no fucking idea we'd planned this trip a couple of months ago,
and, well, I say planned. We planned the dates we had done
zero planning for the trip, and the wife starts looking into it.
She goes, um, did you know we're going up for San Francisco Beer Week?
And then I had to. I felt like I had to defend myself.
I was like, I swear I didn't do this on purpose because, you know,
sounds like something I would do. And we started looking at the events
and, um, a lot of the events looked kind of lame, if we're being honest.
I'm like, oh, beer Week, but these are not Beer Week type events.
Except for one caught our eye. It was a bay cruise with San
Francisco Brewing Company, who I'm drinking right now. Okay.
And $75 gets you the cruise. Plus all you can drink,
plus a bunch of snacks. Yeah. You had. You had me at all.
You could drink. Yeah. So she wanted to meet up with a
couple of her friends that live up there, and we did.
They they came out and we said like, hey, here's what we're doing
Saturday night. Do you want to, you know,
join the fun? They're like, we are getting a
babysitter immediately. Hell yeah. Yeah. How do you pass that up? Yeah.
They threw the kids at some homeless guy that came on out and.
Got out there. Yeah. You know what? Side note San Francisco has
really cleaned their act up. Like, I when I used to go down there
for work, it used to be just littered with homeless people everywhere.
I don't I hesitate, hesitate to ask what they're doing with them,
but they're like way less homeless people than there used to be.
I hope they're finding them shelters and places to stay, and not just
kicking them out to the street. Chucking them off the bridge or that.
Yeah. Too soon. They haven't done that since the 80s.
Come on. But, um. Anyway, so we did this.
This cruise legit. Not only was it all you can drink,
they just brought a bunch of tall boys on the boat so this can.
I'm drinking out of this 16 ouncer. This is one of the boat beers.
No way. Yeah. And so, as we're heading back
towards the dock, I was like, you guys, not only are they only
serving cans except for one beer. The pilsner, which was pretty good,
was in a keg. Everything else. Cans, not serving cans,
but like, they're not open. You go to a baseball game,
they open it as they hand it to you. So you can't. Do anything with it.
They're not opening these cans. So I said, now's our chance.
So we were still very much drinking beers, and I just went up there.
I was like, hey, can I get a this and a that, you know, and came back
and put it in the wife's purse. And then she went up there and was
like, hey, can I get out of this? Oh my gosh, that's brilliant.
And as we're hitting the dock and the guy was cool, he worked
for the brewery, not the boat. And I went up there and I was like,
hey, man, is it too late to get another beer.
Knowing full well it was way too late. We're about to hit the dock.
We're like, you know, 30s from docking. I wait, easy now.
Uh, not a docking show. No. Him and I were a minute from docking.
The boat was 30s from docking. I love your thought process on this,
by the way. I just have to let you know that.
Thank you. I they don't call me a genius
for nothing. And so I said to him,
I was like, hey, you know, innocently has it too late.
And he goes, yeah, it's way too late, but it's not
too late if you have pockets. Oh my God, that's amazing, my man.
So we walked off with 4 or 5 beers in the in the wife's.
She had a little backpack on. I was like,
just stuff in your backpack for now. We'll redistribute later.
Figure it all out. Don't make her carry it all.
Right, exactly. Just carry out the boat.
Get off the boat. We'll figure it out later.
And so we did. And, uh. Look, I had never had.
Actually, that's not true. I'd had this one.
The beer I'm having tonight, I had had at a bar once, but beyond that,
I had never had any of the other San Francisco brewing beers.
I'd only recently heard about them on a recent, uh,
on a work trip up there. I was at a restaurant,
and it was like a bunch of beers that I didn't want.
And then San Francisco Brewing, and it was this one, the Fog City.
And I was like, oh, I'll give Fog City a try. Not not bad.
So look, it was fun. We went out. We go out around the bay and around
the Golden Gate Bridge and around Alcatraz Island and all the,
you know, the Bay things. It was like a two hour cruise.
Um, we took a picture of the graveyard
of cans that we went through. I'll have to post that on the,
on the gram. Um, just the whole windowsill
was was filled with cans. It did start raining, so we kind of
kept it inside for the most part. But, um, yeah, we we did a little
damage and it was we definitely got our 75 bucks worth, I'll tell
you that. Well, that's good times. Especially like California. 75 bucks.
Especially San Francisco. 75 bucks. Yeah, that's. Like a beer and a half.
I was gonna say two beers and you paid for it. Yeah.
San Francisco is crazy expensive. But yeah, 75 bucks, you get the
cruise and all you can drink. And it wasn't just snacks.
Like, here's some chips and a cookie. It was a. Nacho. Bar.
People talk when they give you chips and a cookie. Yeah.
If you never had somebody give you chips and cookies. Chips and cookies.
Suddenly the church lady is handing you chips and cookies.
Oh, isn't that swell? Isn't that special? Special? Um.
But, yeah, they had a nacho bar. They had charcuterie. It was.
Holy shit. That's way better than snacks.
Yeah, and it wasn't, like, shitty movie theater. Nacho cheese.
Like it was legit cheese sauce. It was. Dude, it was good. It was.
We got our 75 bucks worth both in the alcohol and the nacho bar.
Hell, yeah. I'm proud of you. Thank you. What a trip.
It was good times. You know,
we hit a couple other breweries. Um, there was one we hit called
Otherwise Brewing. It's like a gluten reduced. Look.
It was. I won't be returning. It was fine. Fine at best.
Cool spot, cool brewery, nice bartender.
Beer was just we each I had a hazy. She had a sour.
And then we closed out and went somewhere else.
That was the end of it. Went to Black Hammer, which I've
had on the show before. Right. I was hoping you would stop there.
Yeah, the wife had never been, so we had to stop by.
She very much enjoyed it. A lot of wine on that trip too.
Wasn't wasn't meant to be. A beer trip just happened that way.
Did a little fancy dinner. I don't know if you know who Tyler
Florence is from the Food Network. He's the host of the great food
truck race. No, I have no idea. He's got a restaurant there,
the Wayfare Tavern. We went there. Our waiter was from LA,
so we just spent the whole night talking about LA. So. Yeah.
How do you like it up here? Classic LA thing to do in San
Francisco. God dang it. Basically just talked about how
much he likes living up there now as opposed to LA and all that
and traffic in LA and very LA conversation for most of the night.
He's a nice guy. Dodgers, huh? Yeah. The Dodgers.
Oh, fucking contract extension for their shit manager.
Not a Dodger show. That's what you're bummed out about.
Dave Roberts contract extension. Unreal. Absolutely.
Oh, I can't even talk. Abso fucking lutely.
Am I bummed out about his? Lutely. Absolutely.
Am I bummed out about his contract extension? You're dumb.
The Dodgers win in spite of him, not because of him.
I don't believe that. I do. They do so poorly in the postseason.
You could say that would convince me that that's accurate.
They do so poorly in the postseason compared to the regular season.
Why do they. Win series in the last five years?
I don't care. What about the other years when we're
winning, you know more games than any other team. Can't win. Out in.
The first round because you play in the fucking NL West. I don't buy.
It. Great division can suck it. It's a great division.
No, I was being sarcastic. Oh, it's a great division. Yeah.
It used to be a great division. Like four years ago. You have.
There was a time. Dodgers who are always on top. Yeah.
Then you have the Padres, who always think they can do something.
And then you have the Diamondbacks that are like, hey, we're still
going to win like 89 games, right? But there was a time when
Diamondbacks were good, the Giants were good,
and the Padres were coming up. Now, like the Giants have sucked for
a couple of years and Diamondbacks are kind of taking it back.
Now it's just the Dodgers and the Padres, basically. Yeah.
And again, it's the Padres scraping by till
the all star break. And then but. You know we're winning over 100
games. You know we're winning. What is it like 110 games a season
or whatever get knocked out in the first round of the playoffs? Payroll?
I'd hope you'd be winning that many. Right.
I'm just saying his decisions in the playoffs are questionable at best.
Not a good pitching coach. Well, he's not a pitching coach.
He's a yeah, he should not make any of those decisions anyways.
Not a baseball show. Listening to a Dodgers fan
complain about the Dodgers is like listening to a rich guy complain
that his house isn't big enough. Or his mortgage is too high.
Yes, this is. Ellen. This is absurd. Yeah, I don't know.
I, I'm not a fan of Dave Roberts. I don't I don't think he's that
great of a manager. I think they,
they win because they're good not because they're well managed.
I think he's a player's manager. That's what he is. All right.
And he has more World Series rings than you do. Yes. Three more. Yes.
You know he knows what he's doing. Not a Dodger show. Not a Dodger show.
How those brewers doing. Uh, third lowest payroll in the
league. Not as bad as the Cardinals. Early power rankings.
We were number 19 and, uh, picked third third in the division,
so. All right. Yeah. But we were also picked fourth
and fifth all last year in all the preseason rankings.
And we took the central and then we lost.
Still did better than you were supposed to.
So maybe we'll do better this year. Yeah. Fingers crossed, I'm hoping.
Yeah. Anyways, not a baseball show. It's not.
I could talk about it for days. Yeah. Um, so San Francisco. Yeah, it was.
Great and expensive and, uh. Yeah, the last day, the last thing
I'll say, the last day we were there, uh, we were flying out at, like,
I don't remember, 3 or 4:00 or something like that.
We had some time to kill. We had to check out at 11.
Luckily, they held our bags for us. We found this little tiny,
just absolute shack right along the water, not too far from the
baseball stadium. and it was great. We went in there.
We got like a normal person's breakfast, you know, like eggs,
bacon, hash browns kind of thing. Toast, sourdough, of course,
San Francisco. And even though it was a Monday
morning, the bar was open. So we sat out on the water like
legit on the water, had our tasty, simple breakfast,
had a few mimosas and just enjoyed the fucking view. It's great.
It's what life's all about man. Oh, there was this old man that was
in one of those not wheelchairs, but like old people. Scooters. Okay.
Yeah, like little three Wheeler things. Yeah.
And clearly he, you know, he was probably in his 80s,
looked looked pretty old, definitely retired.
And I would hope he came. Yeah. He came in, ordered his breakfast.
He got a breakfast burrito, went to the bar,
got his fucking PBR and just went out there and enjoyed it like we did.
And I was like, this guy has the fucking In life.
And I bet he lived a good one too. I bet he did. He's retired.
He knows what he wants. He wants his breakfast burrito
and his PBR, and he wants to have it on the water.
And I was like, this is the dream right here. You're not wrong.
Yeah, I was very jealous. I don't even get that. I'm 36. Right?
Like, man, I should start having breakfast on
water with with a PBR or something. Right. You're doing it wrong, man.
You gotta rethink my inks. Get. Get to one of the Great Lakes and
get a breakfast burrito and a PBR. You're doing it wrong. What?
Great lake is next to you? Michigan. That one. Get to Michigan.
Get to the big water thing. It's only about, I don't know,
seven miles for me. Something like that, I don't know.
Oh, what a deal. All right. Hey, once upon a time,
this is a beer show. Let's find out what Flex is
drinking over there. In a world where craft beer is king.
A world where muscles are bigger than growlers. Only one tank in Guinness.
One man, one ton, one Tongue-jobber. In this world.
We must find out what is Flex drinking?
Well, I'm drinking a beer from Young Blood Beer company.
What's in Madison? So nothing to do with Sheboygan
except the beer name is called The King of Sheboygan.
And it's got this sheep, and it's got a crown on it.
And it's in all this royal garb. Oh, yeah. Very fancy.
And it's just a really fun can. And there's a brewery up there
that I've had on this show before. Three sheeps. Mhm.
And they're in Sheboygan and I, I had to Google tonight.
What the fuck is so significant about sheep and Sheboygan.
Because apparently it's everywhere. Well,
Google tells me that they're sheep. Sheep are important in velvet
sheep farms in Sheboygan. So Velvet Sheep Farms,
which raises sheep for fiber, clothing and experiences. It says so.
I don't know what kind of experiences,
but I guess there's a really prestigious sheep farm up there.
Oh. All right. Cool. Fun story. Uh, so anyway, back to the beer.
And not about the sheep. Uh, this is an 8.5% double New
England IPA. It contains Citra, Motueka,
and Eureka hops. Eureka! Sorry. They say, um, this can holds,
uh, Sheboygan. Shivaji's the coastal progeny of the
Laurentide Ice Sheet and lovingly dubbed the Malibu of the Midwest.
Not a joke. Home to Terry Andre State Park,
an inordinate amount of sinks, toilets and bathtubs to the King
Citra Motueka dance, and a delightfully tropical
chassis that would put Gangnam Style to home before giving the
floor to Eureka in all of its blackcurrant and pine needle vibes.
Um, it's. Quite the description. I love these descriptions.
Uh, these guys, they always have really fun. Uh, ridiculous.
Over the top unnecessary descriptions.
Uh, untapped has this at a 402 459 check ins. It must be relatively new.
I don't know, I didn't check again. I said it's an eight and a half
percenter. And let's dive in. Here he goes.
So it says, what does it say here? Tropical chassis,
blackcurrant pine needle vibes. There is some kind of tropical
fruit on the nose. Are you picking up on the chassis?
My guess is like papaya or guava, but it. I'm thinking more papaya. Okay.
You would know of all people. Yeah. I don't like papaya, so I think
that's why I think that's what it is. Mhm. But it's super duper tropically.
Now without further ado. Ooh. The old Tongue-jobber.
As it runs away. So whatever I'm smelling on the nose,
I'm gonna say papaya. It is coming out in droves on my
palate. I don't hate it. So here's a fun fact about a lot of
fruits. I don't like eating them. I love the flavors of them.
Oh, damn. Mangoes don't like them. Love all the flavor.
I love a mango smoothie. I don't want to eat a mango.
Yeah, they're gross. Right? Yeah. They're terrible.
So papaya can't fucking stand it. Love when the notes pop up 100%.
Um, there's zero bitterness to this beer. The carbonation?
Super low. It is very soft. Mouthfeel, has a wonderful lacing.
That's great lacing. The color again,
it's like this golden yellow. Almost getting to that amber look.
Yeah. It's a little on the dark side. Right.
So you'd think it might be a little malty. It's not. Surprising.
Um, very surprising, but you'd know because I fucking hate that.
And I would tell you all about it, and I didn't.
So, uh, another fantastic beer. I love when I get these two for two.
Knock it out of the park on the shows. Uh Young Blood.
These guys really never disappoint. I don't think I've ever had an
actual bad beer from them. You've had them on the show before,
right? I love drinking them. I've had them on the show multiple
times. Yeah, big, big fan of them. Uh, so cheers to them again for
another delicious, uh, delicious brew. So. Yeah.
Send send us more beer. Young Blood. Yeah. We love you. Send us beer.
Young Blood. Are you listening? A Christmas song?
Well, yeah, that's what it was. It was. Oh, okay.
Oh, I didn't have any more made up lyrics, though, so I stopped.
Fair enough. I ruined it for you. Uh. All right.
A little news before we get out of here.
Oh, by the way, end of the show. I got a list for you. Oh, daddy.
Yeah. Keep it. Down. Daddy loves lists. Keep it down.
Pitching a tent. Well, your table's moving. Uh.
All right. Georgia. We talked a couple of weeks ago
about, uh, Georgia trying to pass new laws for distribution,
small breweries being able to distribute their own share, blah,
blah, blah. Just let them do it. This will surprise you.
Georgia distributors oppose the self-distribution laws. That's crazy.
Yeah, I could read the whole thing, but there's no point.
They say a bill like SB 122 would undermine carefully crafted laws
by Budweiser and lead to unintended consequences that
would negatively impact other businesses and the industry.
Consequences that small craft brewery advocates aren't seeing.
Oh, you mean like brewers would make money and you guys would be stuck
because your job shouldn't exist? Is that what. You're talking about?
Right, right right right right right right.
Yeah. Anyways, uh, blah blah blah. Suck at distributors.
My favorite thing about Self-distribution.
First of all, it's when you're a little brewery
and it's the only thing you can do. Um, it helps get you out there,
but also because they're doing it, it keeps the price of the beer down
in the stores. Yeah. Which is great. And isn't it cool when, you know,
it's a very small brewery and you see them on a shelf somewhere?
It's like, oh, that's so fucking sweet. They, you know, they put some.
Or you even see their cars driving around somewhere or parked
somewhere or stopped somewhere. You're like, man, that is the
fucking. That's it right there. Yeah, they have a dream and that
they're coming to fruition like they're trying to make it.
That's awesome. And green decorated their truck to
look like it was wearing lederhosen. That's brilliant. It's pretty fancy.
You can't miss it. You can't. Miss it.
It's so on brand for them, too. Yeah. It's so good.
So if you ever see the lederhosen truck driving around,
uh, Southern California, that's most likely in green.
Is there a lot of self distro in California? Um, yes and no.
So integrin actually has partnered with Stone for their distribution.
Okay. As has Tarantula Hill. So there's a lot of like we
partner with Stone. Like it seems like the first
step to a small brewery becoming like a little bit bigger. Yep.
Is partnering with Stone integrin. Did it? Tarantula Hill did it.
Um. Midwest did it? It seems like stone and stone
distribution is completely separate now of stone brewing.
Sapporo does not own the distribution arm, so it just they,
they sort of pick and choose who they want to bring on to their
distribution. And, um, yeah. So it's its own separate entity,
I like that. Yeah. It was separate before,
but same owners. And after the sale, you know,
they didn't they didn't buy the distribution side.
So, uh, I guess it's still craft. I don't know, man. Jesus. I give up.
What is anything anymore? Yeah. This is just now the Beer Republic.
Um, I figured I'd bring this up because I was just in Austin.
A move to ban THC in Texas is going on. So Texas is weird.
When we were in Austin, we smelled dank and dank weed
smell often and which I like. I am not against the smell of weed.
I think it's a nice smell. But it was weird because I know
in Texas it's not legal. So did some research.
Asked a couple people over there. So apparently in Austin specifically,
they've decriminalized. It's like what they did in
Madison for a while. Yeah. Yeah, it's not legal,
but it's decriminalized. Also, marijuana is not legal in
Texas, but hemp is and you can. And what they've done is they've
made strains of hemp that are more THC intensive than others.
And so the reason they didn't supposedly outlaw hemp originally
was because, you know, clothes and paper and other hemp products.
Well, they found all the loopholes, bred it for THC,
and now you can get pretty high on some hemp in Texas. Damn.
So it's like sort of legal, but not. And Austin doesn't give a shit
because Austin's just fucking cool. It's just like the Delta variants
and shit here that when they come out with like a THC seltzer,
or you go to your gas station and there's just jars of the shit.
Jars of THC. Yeah, 100%. Really? Yeah. There's a liquor store.
I don't know, a 300ft from our fucking shop that I work at.
And, uh, that you walk in there and they have just fucking jars
all labeled as different shit. Wow. Wow. Yeah. And it smells.
It smells just like you would think something like that would smell.
Well, it's funny, someone was just talking about.
I can't remember where it might have been. Minnesota somewhere.
Not Wisconsin, but not far from Wisconsin about how it's not legal.
But they have THC drinks. And I said, oh, my buddy Flex.
Same thing. Like weed's not legal in Wisconsin,
but you know, he's found his way in some THC
drinks before and enjoys them. Yeah. And you go to any liquor store
and they have at least like a four foot shelf section of top to
bottom all THC shit. That's insane. And in California, you will never
find that in a liquor store. You can only get THC beverages in
a weed shop. Interesting. Yeah. So anyways, Texas is trying to
ban all that shit because they're boring and they're rednecks and
they're Texas. Yeah. That's weird. Why would you do that if it's
just going to make money? That's the thing. Just tax it.
Make some money. Yeah. Help! Help us get out of this
$32 trillion debt and growing. Not a political show.
Um, speaking of Minnesota in the Midwest, a Minnesota funeral director
was accused of DWI after allegedly arriving drunk to pick up a body.
You know, that's actually probably the best thing you could say
after saying a funeral director. Dot dot dot. Douche.
Uh, according to court documents, law enforcement responded to a report of
a dispute around 9:38 p.m. on Sunday. I love how they say around and
then they give you exact timing around 938.
Sunday, February 23rd at a residence on First Street Northwest in Crosby.
Crosby police officers reportedly responded to the scene and spoke with
residents at the home, who indicated a family member passed away.
Zilmer responded to their residence to pick up the body of the deceased
on behalf of the Coop Funeral Home. He reportedly appeared to be
intoxicated. Officers reportedly spoke with the
defendant outside the residence and observed he had bloodshot eyes
and watery eyes, was unstable on his feet and had an odor of
alcohol coming from his mouth. Zilmer admitted to driving to
the residence, according to court documents.
A field sobriety test showed clues of impairment.
He submitted to a preliminary breath test with a blood alcohol content of.
What I'm going to say 0.16. Oh my God, you almost nailed it.
0.17. Dang it! Now here's where Grace is, right?
Here's where it gets even better, though.
He was transported to the police department, where a second breath
test yielded a BAC of 0.19. He got worse.
That means it kicked in. Yeah, that means, like,
as he walked to the door, he was doing shots. That's insane. Yeah.
So I just hope his argument was. Dude, they're already dead.
I'm dealing with dead. I'm not gonna kill anybody cause
they're already dead. Just. Just give me the body.
Just give me the body, man. I'm not gonna dead them anymore.
They're fucking dead. They've already been dead.
I swear to God, I've seen a lot of dead guys in my life.
That's like the deadest fucking guy I've ever seen. Yeah.
Spoiler alert I can't kill him on the drive back.
Yeah, well, that's my argument. Yeah. He's not gonna fucking die.
He's fucking dead. So you guys are. Just give me it. Give me.
Give him to me. You guys are good. Give it to me, I got it. Fun story.
My younger brother used to work for the Milwaukee County coroner.
No shit. Yeah, so he would actually go
around and pick up dead bodies. Wow. Did he enjoy that job?
Uh, he's pretty numb, you know? So not a lot of shit gets to him.
So, yeah, he's. He's had to do some weird shit. Okay.
Like, uh, train suicide. Oh, yeah. I was on a train when someone
committed a train suicide. Come on. That's no shit. Yeah.
How do you sleep at night? I didn't watch it happen.
Well, I didn't know which way. Which way you were facing.
Yeah, I was facing the other way. I didn't see. It.
We Wee wee had left the station. It's like, hey, honey, it's a hand.
That a foot down there and slammed on the brakes and no one
was telling us anything. So I started tweeting the LA
Fire department. Yeah. I was like, hey, what the fuck's
going on with the train? Blah, blah blah.
And they're like, oh, suicide by train. I was like. Oh.
Fuck, no wonder that was a whole. It took hours. We were late anyways.
Well, it took my brother hours because he had to walk around and
look for the body parts. Oh yeah. Isn't that something like.
Ooh, I wonder if they tell you that in the job description.
Must hunt down body parts. Yeah. Uh, if, uh, said person explodes
in train incident, it is. It is your job to treasure hunt
the body parts that fly off. I did have a waiter once.
No shit. That was like. I forget how it got brought up.
This was years and years ago, and he's like, oh, yeah,
I'm actually training to be a pallbearer. Interesting.
I was like, all right, well, uh. Cool. That's kind of weird.
Hope you washed your hands. Yeah. We're not a pallbearer.
Pallbearer carries a cat. What do you call it? Um.
An undertaker. The guy who does the preparing of
the dead body? I think so, yeah. Whatever that is. I don't know.
Did you say. You know what? I thought I smelled formaldehyde.
It smells a little dead in here. Anyway. That's cold. Yeah.
Cold blooded. Um, let's end it on this.
Here's. Here's the list. In fact, it's two lists in one. Ooh.
That's like, uh, it's what I like to call a twofer.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is a twofer.
It's basically a three way for Flex. The five most drunk and sober
colleges in America. Ooh. That's interesting. Yeah.
Thanks to Scott for sending this over. Five most drunk and sober.
All right. Yeah, we'll start with the most
sober. Number five on the list. Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.
Mhm. Uh, you're not gonna get this one.
Is it in Montana? It is not. Damn it. You think sober people live in
Montana? I would think so. I know there's not a lot to do,
but I don't know. That's why they're hammered.
Uh, fifth most sober is the City University of New York, Hunter
College. What do they do there? Uh, not not a lot of drinking.
Not a lot of drinking. Yeah. Yeah. I would not think somewhere in New
York would be a sober college. True. Uh, number four, Spelman College,
which is in Atlanta. Again, not a place I would think
to be sober. Yeah. Uh, number three, I know another New
York City, University of New York. Brooklyn College. Yeah.
There's no fucking way. Yeah. A lot of a lot of New Yorkers
need to start drinking. Uh, number two, College of the
Ozarks. Is that Missouri? Missouri. Okay. Number one, most sober.
You probably know this one. I don't think I do.
I'm trying to think of, like, areas in the country that would
be super sober. All right, you're gonna hear this
and go, oh, no. Shit. Wait. Utah. Yeah. BYU. Nah. Gave it away.
Yeah, like. Like no shit. Of course. That makes sense.
You're right. Oh, yeah. All right, let's get into the real
ones, though. The most drunk. Number five, Providence College,
out of Rhode Island. That's shocking. Yeah, more than New York.
Like, what the fuck? I guess not a lot to do.
Such a small state, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Number four, West Virginia University. That's not surprising.
Yeah. We don't like them. Doom doom doom doom doom doom doom.
Hey, it's my brother. It's also my dad.
Yeah, and we fucked once. Uh, number. Sorry. My guess is going to be.
Miami's in the top three. Oh, well, you know what? I did not.
Look ahead. We'll find out together. Uh, number three is Colgate
University out of Hamilton, New York. Interesting.
Okay, so New York, sober and drunk. Yeah. At the same time.
Number two, I think you've heard of this one before.
It's not Miami. Is it? Johnson? University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Yeah, they get pretty nuts. So I've heard. I've heard number two.
And the number number one is not Miami. Damn.
Any guesses as to locale? Um, not what I expected.
It's not what you expected. Um. Nebraska? No, that.
That's very much not what I expected. Somewhere middle of the road of.
Not what I expected. Bucknell University out of Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania. Huh? Yeah, I guess I only ever think
of Bucknell in, uh, during, like, March Madness.
Well, well, now you can think about them in Drunk Madness.
Oh, so they're the drunkest university in the country,
apparently. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Don't know anybody that's gone there.
Do they give degrees for drinking there? Oh, then I could be a doctor.
That would be something. Doctor of Thuganomics.
That's not not how you end the show. No, I'm. Not even gonna let that.
Air. Oh, doctor of economics. Maybe. Hmm. Let's go whale watching.
I speak whale. All right. This has taken quite the turn.
I'm gonna hit some music.
This is why we can't be alone. We need people on the show.
I'm so sorry. Me too. I'm Vanessa. Damn it! Hello, Vanessa. Hello.
Uh, thanks for. If you've made it this far. Wow.
I'm so sorry. Yeah. I'm so sorry. Thank you so much. For what?
Honestly, the show could have been done about 20 minutes ago. At least.
Seeing you try to run that back through your head and you're like,
oh, man. It was like,
how long are we going? Yeah. At least 20 minutes. Yeah. Uh huh.
Uh, anyways, thank you for listening. Sorry for listening.
All that good stuff at Craft Beer Republic at Flexy.
Beer in between all that good shit. Thank you all for listening.
Hope you're staying very well hydrated. And on that note.
Good night everybody.