Welcome in everybody,
it's the Craft Beer Republic.
Thanks for drinkin',
thanks for joinin'.
I'm Greg and I'm being joined by the biggest firework in all of Milwaukee,
and that is Flex.
What's up big fella?
I'm not even that big!
But baby,
you're a firework.
Aw,
that's so sweet of you.
Yeah,
just like Katy Perry,
oh he says.
So hot.
Yeah.
This is not a Katy Perry show.
Not yet at least.
Give it time.
What do you think,
Katy Perry?
I think she's hot.
Oh yeah,
she's super hot.
I've had a couple friends like,
"No,
not into Katy Perry." I'm like,
"What is wrong with you?" That's,
yeah,
suspect.
Yeah,
very sus.
Anyways,
welcome in.
Like he said,
not a Katy Perry show.
Follow us on the socials @CraftBeerRepublic,
and of course @FlexMeABeer_.
In between,
find us on the webs,
all that good stuff.
So much to get to today.
First of all,
if you haven't listened to last week's show,
Vanessa jumped on the pod while Flex was busy working.
Yeah,
holla at your girl,
as they say.
And hung out with Coley and myself for a bit.
So go listen to that.
And yeah,
we have a lot to get into.
So before we do that,
I must say,
happy birthday,
Flex!
Aw,
shucks.
By the time this airs,
it'll be like a week and a half after your birthday.
But you know,
as we record- It's just how things happen.
Yeah,
the schedule.
But as we record,
it's Flex's birthday.
So everyone send him free beer.
He loves receiving free beer.
Please don't do that.
Please.
Pretty please.
Oh,
it's my favorite.
All right,
before we get into any things,
let's find out what the birthday boy is drinking over there.
In a world where craft beer is king,
a world where muscles are bigger than growlers,
only one tongue can guide us.
One man,
one tongue.
One Tongue Jobber.
In this world,
we must find out,
what is Flex drinking?
All right,
well,
shout out to Mama Flex on this one.
Oh yeah,
I haven't seen her in at least a week or so.
Tell her I said hi.
Yeah,
will do.
So my mother went up to La Crosse for the weekend,
which if you're not from Wisconsin,
you don't know what La Crosse is,
just know it's across the Mississippi from Minneapolis.
Is it La Crosse,
the Mississippi?
Oh,
fucking nailed it.
I just set you up.
But La Crosse does have the world's largest six-pack.
If you look that up,
it's actually a really neat,
I don't know,
monument or- It's like a tourist trap kind of thing?
Yeah,
a claim to fame.
Roadside attraction.
Yeah,
something like that.
But yeah,
it's a nice place.
So she went up there and she said,
"Hey,
since your birthday is coming up,
I'm going to look for some beer for you," which my mother never does.
My family really doesn't do,
we're not like Jehovah's Witnesses or anything like that,
but like birthday gifts.
That's exactly what I was thinking,
was Jehovah's Witnesses.
I know you are.
which is in La Crosse,
L-A space,
C-R-O-S-S-E.
Makes no sense,
but you know.
And yeah,
so she went to Pearl Street Brewery and she brought me back Linalool.
It is a classic IPA and it is brewed with,
I don't even know what this is,
Northern Discovery Hops?
Sounds made up.
I don't know what that is.
I'll read the can.
Wink,
wink.
It says,
"Linalool IPA,
the only beer brewed with Northern Discovery Hops grown exclusively in Central Wisconsin." So there,
I guess it makes sense now.
"Featuring a crisp golden color." Check on the golden color.
What do you think?
Pretty golden copper.
Yeah,
I would say coppery.
Copper hint of amber.
Yeah,
maybe kind of golden in the light.
"And a unique aroma of lilac," which grossed me out as I read the can,
because I'm not huge on florally notes.
Oh,
sure.
And then it says,
"Pear and bruised apple.
This beer also imparts a pleasant bitterness.
Unlike other hoppy beers,
the aromatics will develop over time,
becoming more pungent and changing form.
You'll be wild about it." So that's what the can reads.
Untapped reads the same thing.
It says 6.8% ABV.
Low on the totem pole,
a 367 for a cumulative 8,000 ratings.
Let's dive in.
Let's dive into this birthday beer.
Definitely getting the floral notes right away,
but it's not like Bath & Body Works,
like gross.
Yankee Candle,
like really boring.
Yeah.
Yeah,
like super artificial.
I guess it's kind of enjoyable.
Somewhat.
And without further ado,
happy birthday to the tongue jabber.
Nerd.
Something like that.
Floral notes,
follow suit.
They're subtle.
Slight bitterness to this guy.
I was expecting a little more from the can.
Maybe a little bit of that pear apple on the back end.
Maybe it's going to change over time as I drink it.
The flavors aren't mind-blowing,
but what's mind-blowing to me is it's a real easy drinker.
Okay.
And that's not something you'd expect from a West Coast,
heavy bitterness,
heavy pine.
But this just runs right down the gullet.
Carbonation is low.
The beer has great head.
You can see the lacing already starting to form on top of the glass.
You can see,
listeners can't,
sorry listeners.
Losers.
But to boot,
I love that phrase,
the canner,
it's pretty gnarly.
It's got this wolf howling.
It's like trippy,
like 60s,
70s ish.
And all these holographic blue hops in the purple background.
I don't know.
It's pretty neat.
I think my mom did a pretty decent job on this one.
Kind of reminds me of a black light poster.
Yeah,
that's exactly what it reminds you of.
Except like not a lot of black on the background like a black light poster.
Like those colors that they would put on a black light poster.
Right.
Very trippy-ass.
Yeah.
Yeah,
I'll take it.
Yeah.
Yeah,
it was a really nice thought.
Yeah.
And now she brought me back a pretty decent beer,
so.
Yeah,
pretty good.
Hey,
my mom,
are you listening?
I'll let her know,
Greg.
Yeah.
Would you?
Next time you see her.
Well done.
Shout out to Moravia.
Moravia?
I don't know.
Mel can fix that for me.
New York.
For being our top listening city of last week.
Yay!
Hooray!
We spanning.
We in the hood.
I don't know.
I had to look it up.
It's near like Buffalo and stuff,
so.
Okay.
I do like wings.
Oh,
my favorite.
Love me some wingies.
They gotta be done right,
though.
Oh,
for sure.
The wings aren't crispy.
They're not good.
No,
you know,
I had some wings last week.
I won't mention where.
Like,
they were cooked okay as far as like the inside goes,
but the outside was kind of like rubbery.
Yeah,
not big.
It was just like,
no,
man.
You need that crispy outside.
That happened to me a couple of weeks ago.
It was like 50/50 on like the outside crispiness to rubberiness.
Yeah.
And I was like,
eh.
But the wings itself,
the sauces were good.
Yeah.
It's one of those things where it's like,
is there anything wrong with the wing?
I guess not because the insides cooked fine.
The sauce was good,
but just that not so appealing skin texture.
Yeah.
And some people like that,
which again,
blows my mind.
I mean,
the world needs sociopaths to balance things out.
Sociopaths are psychopaths.
The same thing.
One and the same.
Especially when it comes to that.
Not anopath show,
though.
Not a therapy sesh or something.
So like I mentioned,
Vanessa's on the show last week.
We had quite the adventure when her and her husband were out here.
Mr.
Vixen,
as it is.
We went to so many.
They,
on their West Coast trip,
not all with us,
went to 70 fucking breweries.
Holy shit.
Yeah.
With us alone,
we went to Naughty Pine,
Petals and Pints,
Topa Topa,
VCBC,
Bellringer,
Made West,
Transmission,
Casa Agria,
Tarantula Hill.
Where do we go the next day?
Institution,
Enneagrin.
And then the day after that,
we went to Malibu Brewing and Lawless.
I did not write that down.
That was off the top of my head.
Holy balls.
Yeah.
I did a lot of research while they were out here.
They like to get like a flight.
A lot of times they share it and then they move on.
There's not like a,
hey,
let's have three beers and on to the next place.
So they were fairly sober at the end of the night,
even though we went to so many places.
So yeah,
a lot of research,
had a lot of fun with those guys.
One of the days we spent half the day in the pool after doing some research and barbecue.
That's nice.
Yeah.
Hung out.
Yeah.
They had a couple of their friends session.
Yeah.
They had a couple other friends come out that they knew from the Graham,
hung out with them,
Jenny and Ingrid and just,
it was a good time,
man.
Just,
it's always fun bringing people together from the Graham,
the good side of the beer Graham.
Right.
The good people.
Yeah.
A lot of times it can be annoying,
but sometimes it's really nice.
This is one of those nice times.
Well,
that's awesome,
man.
I'm awesome.
Awesome to hear you had such a good time.
Little Flex had a great time.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Little Flex got to do a little research with us.
Yeah.
Little Flex looks like he has a skin disease at this point.
Cause he got spilt on at GABF and You know,
I think,
I think Chu actually messaged me and said that you guys need to get a new one of those.
Cause it's starting to look a little beat up.
Yeah.
Little Flex really is doing some research.
He's putting in the hard work.
He's everywhere.
I love the wear and tear.
I'm not going to lie.
It's like real hard put away wet.
It's like a metaphor,
right?
For a living.
It's true.
We all have a little scarring and you know,
both physical and mental and Little Flex has just showed his,
his wear.
Still gets up and he goes to the next brewery.
That's right.
Honestly,
I'm surprised that he's lasted this long.
I mean,
he went to GABF with us.
He's gotten to a ton of breweries out here.
I think he even went up north with us at one point.
It's not laminated,
right?
Not in the slightest.
That makes it even more amazing.
It is a piece of it.
We printed your picture out on a piece of paper,
cut it out,
glued it to a piece of cardboard and then cut the cardboard out to match.
Okay.
That's why it stands so well.
Yeah.
It stands up cause the cardboard,
but there is not a lick of plastic or lamination or anything,
a condom.
There's no protection on Little Flex.
He is.
He's barebacking.
Oh,
raw dog and Little Flex.
What a bastard.
He goes hard.
Oh,
but yeah,
lots of research was had and it was,
it was fun times and didn't get too fucked up.
The Saturday night where we did like all that stuff,
we ended at T Hill.
Apparently like I was a little drunk.
It really hit me at T Hill,
which was our last spot.
And like we Ubered home and sometime on the Uber ride home,
which is only like four minutes is when my recorder stopped working in my brain.
And like the rest of the night is gone.
Apparently when we got home,
I,
I was like,
Hey,
let's have one more beer,
which is never a good idea.
Never.
And the wife's like,
Oh,
I don't know if we need it.
What are you thinking?
And I guess I tried to pull out a Wootstout,
which is like 13%.
Oh,
wow.
Yeah.
She's like,
absolutely not.
Get your ass to bed.
Just for the best.
Did they have a favorite on the trip?
You know,
I asked them top five at one point,
I was like,
you don't have to pick your one,
but like what's your top five?
And they named a couple of them,
one from Sacramento,
a couple from like up in Seattle.
And they actually said Naughty Pine was one of them.
And I forget the other one that I think made West,
I think Naughty Pine and Made West were their favorites from down here.
If I remember correctly.
So obviously Vanessa and Mr.
Vixen,
let me know if I'm wrong,
but yeah,
it was good times.
So did they get to meet Spencer or was he not there?
Well,
he was not at,
you know,
it was the other Made West.
It was the one that they don't brew at.
So yeah.
So no,
they did not get to meet Spencer,
but you got to meet Brit when we were at Naughty Pine and hung out,
took some pictures and met Monica from pedals.
She was actually over at Integrin when we hit Integrin.
So got to meet her there.
And you know,
a couple of brewers along the way,
we got to introduce them to,
so it was fun.
Very awesome.
And I'm glad it was an awesome time.
Yeah.
And then that was like way more fun than our fourth,
our fourth.
And we just like woke up early,
went swimming to cool off the fellas.
If you catch my drift,
it's been hot as balls out here and got home early,
turned on like nine fans in the house,
turn on some action movies.
In fact,
we did a national treasure like marathon.
We watched the two national treasure.
I liked those movies.
I'd never seen them.
They were fun.
Big fan.
They're,
they're fun.
It was fun.
So we put those on super loud just so the dog wouldn't hear the fire.
We're actually very successful.
He heard very little fireworks that night.
It worked out well.
And so our,
our more fun was leading up to the 4th of July with them in town.
So yeah.
How was your fourth?
You guys,
I know you said you were probably going to do a little birthday celebration,
a little fireworks.
The birthday celebration is put off for like,
uh,
till the 14th.
Oh,
so that's when everyone had decided to get together for the,
you know,
we got three birthdays in the family for the month.
So,
um,
it was actually really nice to just be able to fucking relax.
We went over to the in-laws or so we did the parade,
woke up,
did the parade.
Kids love that shit.
Yeah.
Went to the in-laws after stayed in the pool for like an hour.
So it was kind of drizzly sunny.
It was,
it was really weird,
weird weather on the fourth,
uh,
grilled out burgers,
dogs,
chicken sausages.
We had huge bowl of pasta salad.
Like it was an awesome lunch and then hit up another party for a little bit afterwards.
Uh,
had a couple more beers there,
played a little,
some bags,
some cornhole or whatever you want to call it.
And then just being out in the sun,
like it was that like,
um,
the dangerous sun,
right?
Where it's like hazy outside.
Oh,
so you don't see,
yeah,
right.
So you don't feel like you're getting a lot of that sun.
So by the time I got home from,
uh,
the guy from work's house,
it was like four 30.
The kids were sunk in their spots in the living room.
My wife had her eyes closed sitting on the couch.
So I just read the room and I said,
fuck this.
I'm closing my eyes too.
So next thing you know,
everyone's waking up,
it's like six o'clock and it's like,
Oh,
what are we doing for dinner?
We never had dinner plans.
Whoops.
So our 4th of July dinner,
uh,
was a frozen pizza.
Nice.
Just a super relaxing.
Yeah.
Little DiGiorno on the 4th of July.
Yeah.
But I picked up,
uh,
I picked up Eagle Park's rocket pop seltzer for the day.
And,
uh,
one of their IPAs called goon juice.
So that was drink the seltzers in the pool,
save the beers for the fireworks show at night,
which,
uh,
we always sit at,
uh,
I shouldn't say we always last couple of years we've been posting up shop on the,
uh,
yard lawn grass area of our old high school.
Oh yeah.
We're talking about that and how weird it is to drink it,
how weird it is to drink on school property.
Yeah.
Not to mention this year,
the spot we had,
cause our original spot was taken.
We got there a little late.
Just a cop car just sitting in the parking lot.
Just listen to the show.
Just right behind us.
You know,
just,
just hanging out.
But it's the 4th of July.
It's like different laws.
It doesn't count.
Yeah.
America doesn't count.
Right.
But I'm pretty sure all they were waiting for was the fireworks to be done because this,
they were the first car out because they had to get the lights on and direct everything and like do the real shitty traffic,
which mine,
I got it.
I don't know if you,
you don't go out for fireworks.
Do you know?
I mean,
back in the day.
Yeah.
So here in town,
I live in a little village called Greendale.
Uh,
thank you.
FDR,
RIP.
Okay.
Um,
it was part of like the post great depression movement.
Oh,
uh,
that's how it was.
East,
uh,
established any weasels.
So real small village town and they get all these little kid police officers and training to direct traffic.
Oh sure.
They don't know what the hell they're fucking doing.
And it is the absolute pits.
So this parking lot,
right?
I just got to get this off my chest.
Yeah,
please just really grind your gears.
There's like an East lot that's like a lower level and there's a West lot that's a higher level connected to the backlot of the high school.
Okay.
So last year we made the decision,
which was wrong to park more towards the East lot,
which they sent everybody then East,
right?
Right turns only right turns only out of the lot.
So then everybody on the upper level got to go West,
take left turns.
We,
we live that way.
So we were kind of bummed out,
got to take the whole long way around town.
So we're like,
Oh,
we'll park on the upper level on the West side.
We'll fucking get out.
Like you split this little tiny little wannabe cop kid held his hand up at these cars in the lot.
I would say he wasn't even watching.
He's just ran him over hand up,
looking at all the other cars that the kids down at the other lot are just letting go both fucking ways.
So we sat for like 15 minutes with this guy just holding his hand up at the line while all of these other cars just keep zooming by and zooming by and zooming by.
And it was terrible.
Do you murder anybody?
You just got it.
I didn't.
My wife actually,
I was,
she rolled her window down and she started shouting at the kid.
And uh,
right after she did that,
he,
he started waving people out of our line.
She's like,
he's like,
Oh yeah.
About that.
Yeah.
She was,
she wasn't having it.
It was a long day for everyone,
but yeah,
it sounds like it.
Yeah.
Well we finally made it out.
So that was good.
But yeah,
just get up,
get a plan in place.
Yeah.
Something a little training or whatever.
Yeah.
I mean just a little bit of training and I'm sure they got walkies or something.
Fucking something.
Well I know they have cell phones.
Everybody's got a fucking phone,
right?
Hey,
you hold your line.
I'm going to send these people.
Okay.
All right.
Now you hold your line.
I'm going to send these people,
right?
Not that fucking hard.
Right.
If they can handle it at Disneyland,
they can handle it at a fireworks thing.
These kids suck.
Sounds like it.
All right.
Well that was my 4th of July.
It was pretty solid.
It was relaxing.
It was nice.
Other than the parking situation.
Sounds like other than,
yeah.
And then we went home,
lit off some fireworks.
Kids love that shit.
Oh yeah.
When I was a kid,
that was my favorite thing.
Oh yeah.
And they weren't even like great fireworks.
Some of them were better than we thought.
But yeah,
my wife just went to Walmart,
cleaned off the shelf because apparently they can sell fireworks at certain Walmarts here.
Okay,
sure.
Why not?
Not here.
Oh my God.
Some counties are less restrictive,
I guess.
But yeah,
it was nice.
Yeah.
Good times.
Well,
congrats on having a relaxing birthday to go with it.
Hey,
thanks man.
Yeah.
Uh,
before we get too far into things,
I wanted to remind everybody about Magic Mind.
See,
I've been taking my Magic Mind,
so I remembered.
Coffee alone.
It's like a coffee booster.
Coffee alone wasn't doing it for me.
And I was having to go into that like three to four cup range per day.
Started popping those Magic Minds between my first and my second.
Capping at two.
Two is my max,
which is really good because it is so hot here that like that third cup of coffee around 11am,
I was just sweating bullets the entire time.
It was awful.
That's the worst drinking coffee in hot weather.
Oh,
it's so bad.
But I needed the coffee.
So,
uh,
by now I've been doing it,
man,
it's been like a week and a half straight,
I think.
So now I'm starting to experiment like,
"Oh,
I hope I don't do it every day.
Do I feel any different?" Blah,
blah,
blah.
And it's like I said,
it improves coffee and makes it last longer.
It's not jittery.
You don't get all like Red Bull rush after it.
And the one thing I've been stressing,
I think Flex is on board with this,
is that it tastes pretty decent.
The taste is there.
Like it really is.
Some of the reviews when we were talking about Magic Mind a few months ago,
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"Oh,
I hope this isn't disgusting." It's really not.
I enjoy it.
I don't mind it at all.
See,
what I love the most about it is the,
uh,
the focus.
Yeah.
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knowing,
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where should I start?
I got this,
I got that." Like trying to prioritize,
trying to figure out what...
And then,
honest to goodness,
been shooting this thing about two weeks now,
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And it just brings like a sense of calming to the mind.
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You're like,
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I'm just going to bang this out.
Then I'm going to bang that out.
Get this done.
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I've been thoroughly enjoying it.
Yeah.
You know what?
It helps me remember like my to-dos.
Like I'm not having to write down as much shit,
which maybe I should write down more things,
but it's helping me not need to write down like,
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I need to do these three things today at work." So that's been nice too.
Yep.
100% agree to that.
Yeah.
It's been great.
I love it.
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Speaking of MagicMind and remembering stuff,
a couple of weeks back you told me that you set somebody's foot on fire.
Oh,
I did.
We were like going off the air and you cut me off.
You played the music right.
So in lieu of post fourth of July,
yeah.
What the hell happened?
I don't even remember what brought this up,
but yeah,
we were going off the air and I was like,
oh yeah,
I set someone's foot on fire.
And I was like,
all right,
good night everybody.
Um,
yeah,
this was a,
I don't know.
I think this is like 2021.
It was kind of like COVID ish,
not full COVID I think.
Terrible year.
Yeah.
And uh,
I said that was the year you joined the show.
Okay.
Not the worst year.
The worst year.
I think that was 21,
right?
It's been three years,
three.
Yeah.
Wow.
Look at that.
Anyways,
we're over at a big Dick Nick and Coley's house and we're having a little barbecue and swim sesh and they have a little fire pit in the corner of their backyard and there's some other people over as well.
It wasn't just the four of us.
And at one point,
Nick,
Nick has a tendency to pass the fuck out.
He works such crazy hour.
It's not just the alcohol.
It's actually a lot of how fucking tired he is all the time.
The alcohol doesn't hurt though.
And uh,
we wanted to do a little fire and he comes out and he kind of like half starts it.
And I was like,
well,
this is never going to pick up.
We need like the fire to actually start.
It was like going out over and over again.
I was trying to like get it going.
It wasn't going.
Had I had a few beverages?
Yes.
Was I super drunk?
I don't think so.
Little buzz.
And so the way Nick,
this is going to get dumber and dumber as I tell the story.
The way Nick starts fires is he has a can of,
uh,
93 octane gasoline for his dirt bikes.
Yeah,
that's genius.
Yeah.
So he will squirt a little hail on the fire pit full of wood.
And then of course take the gas can very far away and light the fire.
And he didn't put enough on to get it really started.
And so I noticed that like only one little corner of the fire pit had a fire going in and I thought,
well,
here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to pour just a little bit over in this empty corner where there's no fire and then I'll get one.
I'll take the can away,
get a piece of wood that's on fire and bring it to that corner.
And you know,
well,
we're gonna have a good fire.
Well,
as I was pouring,
uh,
the fire got attracted to itself and came over and started lighting the gas can on fire.
My God,
Greg.
So I mean to my credit,
I was a quick thinker,
but what I did was I jerked the can away from the fire as quickly as possible,
and then I put my hand over top of the nozzle,
even though it's still on fire,
right?
Oh,
it's actively on the nozzle of the gas cans on fire,
but I know that this is not nearly as bad as it's going to be.
If it travels down into the container,
then we're going to die.
So as soon as I rip it away from the fire,
put my hand on the nozzle and the fire goes out,
it was very quick.
I handled it very quickly.
Genius to think of that.
I'm well,
I'm glad I wasn't hammered.
Otherwise I wouldn't have thought of it,
but really weren't that drunk.
That's what I'm saying,
but in the process of ripping the can away from the fire before I was able to put my hand on it,
that jerking motion,
Heyo,
I squirted a little gas out and it landed on one of the girls feet.
Her name is Francesca and I didn't even realize it until she's like who and she's over here like smacking her foot out.
I was like what happened?
You set me on fire and I felt really bad,
but the funny story on top of that,
nobody feels good about setting another human on fire.
Well,
unless they meant to and I did not mean to let me tell you,
I don't even think they feel.
No,
that's awful.
I'm joking,
but the funny thing is so a couple weeks later,
she started working as the social media person for 14 cannons back when they weren't a bad word,
R.I.P.
and I was talking to Nick over there and he goes,
yeah,
we just hired a new social media girl and I was like,
Oh,
who'd you get?
He goes,
Oh,
her name is Francesca.
I said,
Oh,
I just set her foot on fire last week.
He's like the fuck.
So of course I had to tell the whole story.
So yeah,
so that was story.
I forget how that got brought up last or two weeks ago,
but yes,
I did accidentally set Francesca's foot on fire.
I've never done that.
Yeah,
I don't think there's anything permanent,
but you can let me know if I'm wrong.
Oh,
I've branded somebody before like on purpose.
Yeah,
we used to.
Yeah,
we never drank in high school.
I was like a real,
uh,
goody two shoes.
I had two brothers,
one older,
one younger,
who are very,
uh,
indulgy.
Okay.
And all the bad stuff for you in everything.
Right.
So my friends and I,
uh,
like we just,
we're like jackass,
right?
Like we would just do dumb shit.
We used to like emulate jackass and like completely,
completely sober.
Uh,
so we used to have bonfires and always would pull all nighters.
So you'd get a little bit delirious.
So one night we just talked my best friend into,
uh,
if we just held the end of a stick in a fire and got it like fucking like red burning hot,
sure.
That he,
we would brand his ass with the stick and he pulled his pants down willingly.
And,
uh,
it took about half a second for him to just shoot across the yard.
I bet.
Oh yeah.
It was,
it was pretty instantaneous as you would think.
Do you still have a scar?
He's still got a scar.
Yeah.
We did some of that stuff too.
We'd film it like,
like we were doing jackass.
Like what a horrible,
what a bunch of idiots.
One of our friends,
um,
you know,
if you get like Zippo lighter fluid,
you can butane is a butane.
Does it the lighter stuff?
It might be.
It's,
it's fun to fuck with cause like you can put it on your hand,
light your hand on fire and then smack it out and it won't burn.
Right.
And you've got like a good,
you know,
like five Mississippi before it burns through that oil or gas or whatever it is.
And so one of my stupid friends in high school decided it'd be funny for the video to squirt that all over his crotch,
his pants and light his crotch on fire and then,
you know,
give it a good five Mississippi and of course put it out.
Well,
it was not the fire that got him.
It started to get a little hot.
So he went to smack the fire out.
But of course he smacked himself right in the dick.
That's so good.
Idiot.
Oh,
I didn't even think about that.
The fire didn't get him,
but his smack to his fellow sure did.
So yeah,
we did a lot of stupid shit in high school.
Good times.
All right.
Before I tell you about my beer,
we got an email from a listener.
I guess this is from a couple of weeks ago.
I apologize.
I usually forget what we talked about three minutes after we finished talking about it.
Uh,
so I appreciate I can attest to that.
Yeah.
I appreciate the listeners keeping us straight.
So we got an email.
This is from a guy named Brandon.
He says,
is weed legal in Idaho?
I guess we're talking about weed in Idaho and he says,
Hey flex and Greg love listening to you to make fools of yourselves every week.
Thanks.
That's what we do.
Yeah.
That's what we're here for.
At least we're not stomping our dicks out.
A couple of weeks back you were talking about hot production losses and the idea of marijuana growth was brought up as a possible reason.
I did bring that up.
I slightly remember that now.
Uh,
let me tell you,
marijuana is definitely not in all caps,
legal in Idaho,
not even medical.
Cheers.
Your friend in craft,
Brandon.
Oh,
there you have it.
They're just,
they're just going down.
Yeah.
I guess there's grown less ops,
not more weed.
Terrible.
Yeah.
Thanks Brandon.
Thanks for writing in a mail craft beer poke.com.
If anybody ever has an email for us,
feel free to email it.
Or of course 805-538-beer is that voicemail line.
Uh,
all right.
Before we get to ludicrous libation law,
I'm going to make a call to the pen over here cause I am damn thirsty.
One thing I left out about our beer research with Vanessa and Mr.
Bixum was John,
listener John who met up with me a few weeks ago and,
and was gracious enough not to murder me.
Ah,
yes.
The non-murderer John.
Yeah.
The non-murderer John.
I don't hang out with murder John anymore.
He's,
he's a different story.
anyways,
he found out we were going to be out in Ventura and he was passing through and he goes,
Hey,
do you mind if I stop and give you something?
And I thought,
well,
this is where he's going to end up murdering me.
That's where he turns into murder.
John.
It's like Clark Kent,
you know,
it goes into a phone booth and he comes out as murder John.
I thought,
all right,
well,
I got Nick here with me.
So maybe,
you know,
he'll have my back as well as Mr.
Vixen.
So hopefully,
hopefully I'm okay.
Uh,
no.
So he met us at transmission and,
um,
they,
they ate and they came up,
we were up in like the 21 and over so he can bring his kid,
but he came up afterwards and,
and he brought me a beer.
He actually brought me two beers.
And one of the beers you brought is what I'm drinking.
So first of all,
thank you,
John,
for bringing me those beers.
That was super nice of you.
Second off,
thanks for not murdering him.
Yeah.
Uh,
super nice of you not to murder me as well.
And he did make a guy.
He's like,
Hey,
I guess what?
I didn't murder you.
I was like,
yeah,
I know.
So here we go.
Anyway.
So I am,
thanks to John non-murder,
John,
I am drinking foggy window from Monkish Brewing Company.
He's bringing the goods.
He brought me some money.
That is good stuff.
Yeah.
Double hazy IPA.
It is 8.1% has 80 IPUs and out of over 19,000 ratings has a 4.41.
So a lot of ratings as a high rating,
high rating,
lottery.
And so,
you know,
those things are fucking banger.
They say Nelson galaxy and extra citra hops.
That's all they fucking say about it.
Good.
I tell you on the schnauz,
I get a little tropical,
but I'm really getting some stone fruit coming through high stone fruit and like a hint of like alcohol in something like just a little smells a little boozy.
If that makes sense on yield tongue jobber.
I mean,
it follows suit a lot of stone fruit,
some good dank.
I mean the 80 IBUs is actually showing up a little bit,
some good dankness on the finish for being such a,
and you can see this here being such a fucking it's gorgeous.
Yeah.
Such a foggy IPA.
Um,
it's gorgeous.
The mouth feel on this is pillow.
He's soft.
Like I could just take a little snoozer on this beer.
It is so memory foam.
Oh yeah.
Tempur-Pedic baby,
not the Amazon knockoff bullshit like full on tempur-Pedic memory foam.
It is pillowy soft.
That's odd.
Yeah.
The eight,
8.1%.
Uh,
you taste it.
It's not like boozy,
but you,
you know,
it's there.
It's not a little Bernie little hint,
just a hint.
I mean,
it's not like,
Ooh,
anything like that,
but you get it.
It'll hint to burn on the end there.
So all in all really good.
I understand why it's got that 4.4.
Uh,
delicious.
Haven't had myself a monkish in quite some time.
So thanks to John for a not killing me and be dropping this beer by very nice of you.
that's super rad.
Yeah.
Now he's got a cool nickname,
not murderer.
John,
not murder.
John.
Yeah.
you know what?
Let's,
let's hope he keeps that nickname.
Could you imagine introducing yourself to somebody?
Oh,
Hey,
this is my friend.
Uh,
not murderer.
John.
Oh,
so you're not going to murder me.
No,
that's,
that's not who I am.
Right.
Hey,
why do you call him that?
Well,
I'm still here.
Turns out he doesn't murder people and his name is John,
right?
Just in fitting.
It's kind of catchy.
It is.
Maybe we need like a song for non-murder John or something.
Doesn't murder people.
So bad.
We'll work on that.
Cut.
Yeah.
All right.
Ludacris libation law.
This one,
shout out to Zach and uh,
the homies in Indiana.
By the way,
Zach has a new podcast,
the spiritual advisors and uh,
or spirit advice.
Oh shit.
Now I'm getting it right.
Anyways,
it's all about spirits.
Um,
they do a really cool thing on their show.
Yeah.
Drinking spirits.
They're not super religious or anything like that.
Uh,
they do a really cool thing on their show where they bring,
they each bring like a beverage and they say like,
Oh,
this is a beer.
You all taste it and tell me what you think it is.
And tell me what you think the ABV is,
or this is a whiskey or this is,
or just a spirit,
you know,
drink it.
Tell me what you think it is,
what the AB,
what the price point is.
And then they bring in a wild card.
So it'd be like,
this is a,
you know,
fucking glass of Malort.
Tell me what you,
you know,
but they won't say that.
Tell me what you think.
Yeah.
So I actually like,
I think it's really fun concept.
If,
if you and I were in the same room together,
I'd,
I'd do some blind stuff like that with you.
I think that's really cool.
So anyways,
uh,
I think it's a spiritual advisors.
I'm so sorry if I'm fucking that up.
Um,
but it's only on Spotify for now.
So you gotta look for it there.
Anyways,
back to Ludacris libation law.
Indiana finally has reinstituted happy hour.
That's great.
Yes.
They didn't have happy hour for,
for so long.
And as of July 1st,
they now have happy hour again under the new laws,
bars can offer specials for hours under the new law.
See bars can offer specials,
four hours a day up to 15 hours a week,
except between 9:00 PM and 3:00 AM.
Also,
there are no two for one or bottomless drink specials.
Indiana restaurant and lodging association has been working closely with businesses to make sure owners know all the guidelines.
So this was as of July 1st.
So go get your happy hour.
You Indianans.
Yeah,
that's great.
Dollar off $2 off.
I'm sure.
Yeah.
Whatever it is.
Get it.
Yeah.
Get it.
Get any kind of deal on alcohol in a establishment.
Yes.
Sign me up.
That's why we do it.
Nobody wants to pay full price for booze.
Honestly,
nobody does.
Not one bit.
All right.
Little news before we get about here.
Tick tock.
I don't tick tock.
Do you tick tock?
Zero tick tocky.
I don't do the tick tocks.
They have opened up their ad platform to alcohol brands in the U S before you couldn't advertise alcohols.
And now you can.
Maybe we should tick tock because Instagram sucks for that.
Yeah.
They like to shadow ban alcohol things.
Yes.
All that shit.
But yeah,
maybe it is.
They're very much on that Instagram.
They're all,
yes.
All about promoting the titties,
right?
Yeah.
As long as you don't show nipple,
you can show like 98% of your tit areola and all,
but as soon as that nipple comes out,
you seen.
So the breastfeeding videos became a big thing.
Did you see this?
I did not.
So breastfeeding reels became like a huge thing.
And there's like some moms out there like posting re like,
you know,
like their kid.
Right.
Just breastfeeding feeding.
Yeah.
So then all of these,
uh,
only,
or let's call them content creators.
Okay.
We'll hold like baby dolls and allow it to try and fool the algorithm.
Yes.
Because they will not take it down because it is a discrimination or something like that.
So,
so the algorithm doesn't realize it's a fake kid.
Right.
So then it's just like,
Oh,
Hey,
here's my titty and a fake baby and a fake baby.
So weird.
Yeah.
So that's,
that's not going to do it for me.
Sorry.
Content creators.
So,
so many things have,
uh,
not done it for me.
And that is one of them.
Yes.
Towards the top that and feet.
Yeah.
That's a,
that'd be a no for me,
dog.
It's so funny.
Breastfeeding is so,
uh,
not sexy at all.
Well,
right.
And it's not meant to be obviously I,
but I love the whole thing where it's like,
Oh,
you can't press feed in public.
Are you getting a boner from this?
Like,
what is wrong with you?
Like who is like trying to sneak a peek?
Yeah.
Ooh,
look at that.
Yeah.
So no,
I'll take seconds.
Save some for me,
kid.
Oh,
guys are horrible.
Yeah.
It's uh,
yeah.
Anyways,
not a mom show except for flexes.
Well,
yeah,
not a breastfeeding show.
Uh,
Kieran has decided to move their us production of beer from Anheuser-Busch to new Belgium in 2025,
which makes sense cause they fucking own new Belgium.
I was going to say it's like a whole thing.
So yeah,
their contract to the AB expires at the end of the year.
So they're going to be moving everything over to new Belgium.
So come next year,
if you're at sushi,
drinking yourself some Kieran,
it'll be coming from Colorado.
I do Sapporo.
I,
what do I do?
I do Kieran.
Uh,
Kieran light is what I usually do.
Okay.
Uh,
Sephora's,
you know,
I'll,
I'll do that also.
But Kieran,
I like the big,
like 22 ounce bottles that Sapporo does.
Yeah.
um,
we get looks when we go to sushi cause we walk in or here to fuck shit up.
Now we walk in and as soon as we sit down,
we'll get a large Kieran light and a hot sake for the wife and I to share.
Okay.
But of course we're sharing a bombers.
We're going to get a second Kieran line.
We usually get a second hot sake too.
And they look at us like you raging.
Come on now.
Yeah,
it's crazy.
The sushi place we go to,
they advertise,
uh,
like beer specials and stuff.
Oh yeah.
They don't have,
I wish that beer specials and they have like boxes of sake stacked up by the like against the wall every single fucking day.
Yeah.
I mean,
look,
they're happy to sell it to us,
but a couple of the employees look at us like,
are you going to be able to drink all this?
I'm like,
Oh,
I think,
I think these people realize,
uh,
we're a business in Wisconsin.
It's all there is to do.
Right.
It's,
it's everybody does it.
Yeah.
Uh,
we'll end it with this one.
A drunk American airlines passenger reportedly exposes himself and forces an emergency landing.
Oh,
you know what?
What?
I just thought that,
uh,
Scott is out of the country.
Do you think this could be him on a flight somewhere?
God damn.
Keep it in your pants.
Scott.
Come on Scott.
Lightweight.
Uh,
here we go.
Neil McCarthy,
25 of Oregon.
Okay.
It's not Scott was arrested and charged with indecent exposure in relation to the incident aboard American Eagle flight three nine two one,
which was flying from Chicago to Manchester,
New Hampshire.
What does that like a 45 minute flight?
You couldn't keep it in your pants.
Uh,
but was forced to divert to Buffalo.
Another Buffalo reference according to American Airlines spokesperson,
according to the complaint,
McCarthy told police during questioning that he likes to drink Jack and Cokes and they had several before boarding his flight in Portland and then several more during his layover in Chicago.
I'd love to see the credit card statements on that.
It's like 17 Jack and Cokes,
right?
$800.
Yeah.
Cost of two mortgages.
McCarthy say that during the flight he got up to use the restroom and when he came back he was quote flicking the bean due to a,
due to a medical urination problem.
Where are you now?
First of all,
I thought that had a very different meaning.
There's a female usage.
That's what I thought.
Unless,
unless,
you know,
maybe just not packing.
Yeah.
To me,
that,
that says a lot about you,
bud.
Uh,
please say that when they boarded the plane,
they obtained a cell phone photo from a passenger in row two that showed McCarthy exposing himself and urinating on the plane.
Police obtained statements from staff,
including a flight attendant who initially pointed McCarthy out to law enforcement.
You snitch.
McCarthy was charged under title 49 us code section four,
six,
five Oh six with exposing his penis.
He faces a maximum penalty of six months in prison and a $5,000 fine.
Man.
So it was just out there for everyone to see.
It was out there for everyone to see as well as his peepees.
Could you imagine that story though?
Like you're just some innocent passenger on that plane.
Yeah.
What do you do?
You can tackle the guy.
He's got his dick out and he's pissing everywhere.
Imagine you're on the plane for work,
you know,
and you don't make it to your next stop to make the meeting and your boss calls you.
You're like,
boss,
you're never going to believe that.
Uh,
guy,
I was on this plane.
I swear to God,
drunk guy pulls his dick out.
I swear to God.
Starts pissing everywhere,
pulls his dick out.
They got to land in Buffalo.
Uh,
I'm getting some wings.
I'm sorry.
You got it at that point.
Yeah.
What an insane story.
Uh,
have you ever thought about taking your dick out on an airplane?
I mean,
I haven't,
I don't know if I should say,
I guess the statute of limitations has passed cause it's been like 15 years,
but I did have a girl once request a blanket from the flight attendant.
No.
And I think you can fill in the rest with your imagination.
Well,
so technically,
yes,
I have.
Okay.
Nevermind.
Actually it was done for me.
I should say that it was done for me.
I was not the culprit.
Plausible deniability.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well,
you know,
it's good flight.
It's going to go fuck myself.
I had someone to do it for me.
It was great.
Oh,
but you know what?
Not a whipping it out.
Show airplane show.
Yeah.
All those things.
I was like,
how do I say this?
Uh,
all right.
This feels like a great time.
It's a music and get out of here.
And I want to let you let everybody know the most secretive story of your life.
Oh no,
there's way,
there's way worse stories than that.
That was a good story.
Anyways,
thanks for listening.
Thanks for all that shit.
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I think that's everything.
I hope everyone is staying super duper hydrated out there.
Wait,
wait to change it up.
Sorry.
That's too weird.
You know,
on that note,
good night everybody.