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There we go.

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Welcome in, everybody to the Craft
Beer Republic. Thanks for drinking.

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Thanks for joining.
I'm Greg, I'm being joined by

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someone who will never participate
in Dry January. And that is Flex.

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What's up, big fella?
You know, I will support people who

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do it, but I will never support it.
I'm gonna cut that right out of

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the show. I dare you.
And, uh, keeping it.

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I'm trying to make this not
sound sexual.

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As not dry as it can be in January.
That's Erica. Damn it. That is.

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Really hard to follow the. Show.
Now that's all we need. Yeah.

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Sorry, I was I was trying to.
I almost said what I was like.

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That sounds really bad.
I didn't I didn't know what direction

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to take against the dry January.
It's kind of nice because I'm usually

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salty. That's pretty dry. So okay.
That's true. Sloppy for January.

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Let's do it. Yeah.
I wonder if we should redo this.

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Uh. I'm sorry. Sorry, McDreamy.
You're listening. Wet show.

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Oh, gosh. Uh, let's move on quickly.
@CraftBeerRepublic

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@flex_me_a_beer underscores in
between and @Neck_nosh_llc, LLC.

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For all your saltiness and anti
dry January goods. Here we go.

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That doesn't. Sound any. Better.
Anti-Drug.

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I think it sounds a little bit
better. Anti dry January goods.

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I don't know, I'm gonna steer
this car right off a cliff.

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Uh, thank you to Miami.
Miami for being our top listing

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city of last week. Hello.
I wonder if that's, uh,

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Vanessa and, uh, the hubs over
there listening or something.

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Hi, Vanessa. Hey, Vanessa. Vanessa.
Right at the top of the show.

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Call me Mid-yawn.
Yeah, I like when you open your

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mouth. Never mind. Uh, anyways, I'm.
I'm sorry if if the show took a

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sexual turn, I surprisingly did
not intend it to this time.

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Uh, usually I do.
So anyways, let's get on to things.

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I've, uh. I fucked this up royally.
She deserves it.

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Let's find out what Eric is drinking.

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Out of my beer. Oh, I love my beer.
I love my friends.

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Well, this is going to be really
exciting because I think we're all

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going to think the same thing.
So my beer is from Alaska. Mhm.

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All right.
So are you having a beer in Alaska.

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I totally think of Deb and Flex
and y'all, when, um,

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when I think of Alaska.
So, um, my friend Jacob went to

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Alaska and brought this back for me,
and this is the first time I've

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had it. It's.
And it's so obscure that it's

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not on untapped unless I.
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I could not find it on untapped.
So this is Alaskan moonshine.

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That sounds like the most Alaska
thing I've ever heard.

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Right off the grid.
Totally off the grid.

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So this is straight from
someone's bathtub in Alaska.

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It's from actually Broken Tooth
Brewing, and it's called Rock, paper,

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citrus. And y'all know I like.
What a cool name. It's very.

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I thought the same damn thing.
Greg. Did you. Yeah.

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And it's got, like,
the hands kind of doing the rock,

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paper, scissors kind of thing.
And I'm here for it.

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That's a great name. Great can.
Yeah. So it's super cool.

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Um, and it's a 12 ouncer.
And like last week I had like a

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quadruple, I think an 8% or whatever,
you know, something like that.

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It's a quadruple.
So I'm just keeping it just mellow

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in a 12 or 12 ounce or 6.2%.
It is a what kind of.

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It's a pale ale, right? So.
So this is an American pale ale.

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I found it.
It is a single hop American pale ale.

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Must be Citra.
The perfect blend of crisp citrus

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and flavorful hops is rich.
Smooth malt creates a clean and

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everlasting flavor,
ideal for any adventure ahead.

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I'm gonna go fight some bears with
this one. It has a 372 on Untappd.

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Oh, so you found it?
Yeah, I just found it too.

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Okay, good.
I couldn't find thousand ratings.

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Thousand 86. Ratings 372. Yeah.
Okay. Let's see if it.

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Its color is kind of tangerine
and its aroma is very tangerine.

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Mhm. Which I love.
But let's see if it lives up to

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like a good or kind of like a
fake tangerine. We'll see.

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It's delicious. Yeah.
It follows through just with like a

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little hint of a tangerine flavor.
Kind of citrusy. See.

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Nice body to it.
A little bit of bitter hoppiness.

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Yeah, it's a great crushable beer,
I love it. Nice. Good job. Alaska.

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Yeah, I could get drunk in
Alaska with this beer for sure.

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Yeah. If you're.
What is your allotment, like,

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36oz a day or some shit? Is that it?
Something like that. Yeah, it's.

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It's like they can cut you off.
Or if you're out in a bar,

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you can only drink that much.
Yeah. You're in public.

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Drinking limit is like 36oz a day.
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supposed to carry with you from
establishment to establishment.

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But what if they got a, like,
a system?

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They stamp your hand 12 ounce,
12 ounce. They chip every.

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Everyone's got a chip.
There you go. Yeah.

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And Broken Tooth is kind of a funny
name. I like that for the brewery.

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And. Yeah. Delicious.
It's worth hauling it back.

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So, um, get to check out Alaska this
year with my, um, my side of the

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family, so I'm excited for that.
Like a cruise or just to just to go.

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It's gonna be a cruise,
which is not my ideal.

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I'd rather actually kind of get
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He's not super mobile,
and they sold their my childhood

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home and wanted to contribute
toward a cruise for everyone is

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kind of their like, celebration.
You burned down all your memories.

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So instead we'll send you on a
cruise. Right? Let's go. On.

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Let's go to Alaska. So, um.
Yeah, it'll be kind of fun to

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check that out.
We're going to need, like, videos

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while you're there drunk, just like,
hey everybody, I am definitely

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not drunk on crutches in Alaska.
There goes the cruise ship.

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They will not let me back on.
I have broken every Alaskan drinking

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law. Yeah, that'd be great.
Well, nice shout out to Jacob.

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You know, it's it's the perfect
finding a beer that's like,

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sort of off the grid is perfect for
him because he's very off the grid.

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Super off the grid. Yeah.
He's got like 80 acres out in, like,

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mountain lion country, and I could
see him drinking some broken tooth.

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It's perfect. Very nice.
But he finds a lot of broken teeth.

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If he's in,
he might mountain lion territory.

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I was gonna say that my neighborhood
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so you know.
You know, I live out in the wild.

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Right. So we have a community post.
Is the wilderness.

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There is a mountain lion just
chilling in Loomis. One.

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Just one, because they they have a,
you know, I don't think they hang

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out in packs like coyotes. Oh.
Took down a horse the other day

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a mile away from my house.
Oh, no big deal. 7:00 in the morning.

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Yeah. That's insane.
So now you're really gonna want

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to come hang out near me?
Can't wait. Yeah.

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So we're a little bit kind of the,
um, the great wilderness in our

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own way as well.
So, anyways, what were you gonna say?

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Greg just saying I don't.
I don't know about taking down.

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Coyotes and horses and mountain
lions and I don't know, Flexy.

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You guys have any creatures running
around Milwaukee? Oh, boy. Uh, some.

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Cool for. Me. To walk around.
Uh, no. No cougars here.

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We've had a couple, uh,
rogue bears in the last couple

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years that come down from up north.
Uh, Canadian. Bears. Yeah.

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One got hit on the freeway by a semi,
though, so that was kind of lame.

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Um, they were like, the news was
like following it around.

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They were like. Oh.
So the bear showed up here today,

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and then the next day,
the bear showed up, and, you know,

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this neighbor's driveway today,
and it was on the freeway, and the.

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Bear showed up on the front of a
mack truck today.

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As an ornament hood. Ornament.
Yeah, we just got regular stuff like

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deer, coyotes, fox, regular stuff.
Yeah, we have a ton of coyote like,

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we have coyotes in our front yard
that I'll chase. Oh, that's gross.

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Really? Oh, I'll chase your shit.
Like I will.

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One time I was a little drunk,
and I chased him.

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Cause I don't want him to feel
welcome in my front yard where Marty

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comes out to pee and stuff, right?
Because he's like a little snack

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for them. And I was a little.
And I've done this many times,

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but this time I was a little tipsy.
I walked out there, saw a coyote.

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It was literally the biggest one
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I handed the wife the leash,
and I just took off running after it.

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And I got to the corner and this
car drives up and they roll down

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the window like, hey,
are you chasing that coyote?

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I was like, I don't know, are you?
Yeah. We're looking for him too.

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I was like, yeah, me too.
Then I was waiting for like, Peter

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to jump out and be like, you know,
don't chase coyotes and Dallas

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me with red paint or something.
Um, so then I chased him back into,

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like, the back corner of our complex
where, you know, probably really dumb

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because I basically cornered him.
Right, right. So you were him? Yeah.

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And then, uh, he snuck past me,
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he's way faster than a fat drunk guy.
Did you bring any weaponry with you?

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Any sort of, like, pocket knife?
Like, were you just kind of running

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in your cargo shorts? Size 16 shoes.
Those are weapons. You know.

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Stick that thing right up. His ass.
Yeah, I gotta register those

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with the state police. Yeah.
So, yeah, I'm an idiot.

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I just don't want him to feel
welcome in our front. Yeah, right.

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You know, I gotta go to that green
space and eat some bunnies. You do?

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We live in a parkway, and I've only
ever seen a coyote here in, like,

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the five years we've been here.
Twice. Mhm. They're around.

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They're just not that much. Huh?
Apparently I almost hit.

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Him with my car a couple of times.
We drive and it's not a unbusy street

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like, it's a pretty busy street.
We're driving down the street at

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night and all of a sudden coyote,
it's like, whoa, do not hurt my car.

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Wow. Yeah, not your car. Not my car.
Chu would wail on that coyote if

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it hurt your car.
Yeah, he's got my back.

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So, anyways, uh, not a coyote show.
How about that? All right, you guys.

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Anybody do any good research lately?
I'll be honest, I have not.

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Like, as far as breweries go,
uh, a local brewery closed.

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Eureka had their second location
right down the street from us,

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and they did the old Irish goodbye.
Like they legit pulled all the

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furniture out and didn't say
anything.

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We've had like four breweries
close here.

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But usually they make an
announcement like, hey, thanks

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the community for blah blah blah.
They were all made announcements, but

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it was just like one after the other
just fell like dominoes. Oh, sad.

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Yeah. It's weird. Irish goodbye.
And somebody posted about it I,

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I tagged I restored it last week
and then I tagged them like hey,

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what happened?
And I can see that they saw my story

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and then they never responded,
which makes it more mysterious.

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Ooh, weird. The beer wasn't bad.
Like we enjoyed going.

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They had a really good, um,
Indian food place next door,

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so we'd go over, we'd order some
Indian food, take it over to the

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brewery, have some beers. Yum.
Delicious. That's a dream. Yeah.

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So it's one of our favorite
Indian food places.

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That has really good food.
Never had. Never once. No.

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Oh, dude, do you guys not have Indian
food out there? No. I mean, we do.

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It's. Oh, yeah. Get on it. Just.
I don't know, it just doesn't,

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uh, fascinate me.
Oh, they got some good stuff,

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man. I do. It's my favorite.
You know what gets.

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You ever seen along came Polly?
Yeah. That's right.

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And they go to the Indian restaurant.
Ben Stiller was, like, sweating.

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That's all I think about.
So I'm. I'm, like, tarnished.

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That was one of my really good
friends. He he's now married.

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But his first date with his wife,
they went to Ethiopian food.

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And I was like, how was it?
He goes, oh, dude.

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He goes about halfway through it
hit me.

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He goes, and I could not wait to
get out of there.

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I was like, what'd you do?
Like, I hope he didn't,

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you know, try and take her home
or anything like that.

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He goes, I didn't know what to do.
Like it's hitting me.

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I'm not gonna do what I needed
to do at the restaurant.

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So then, like, we go to leave,
and I'm taking her back to her place,

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and the whole drive back, I'm,
like, squirming in my seat.

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Just clenching my cheeks. Yeah.
He's like.

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You know, every time we were outside,
I'd, you know, try and release

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as much as possible. Oh, jeez.
No Ethiopian food on first date.

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Oh, man, that just reminds me of
the stories of, uh,

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when I first started seeing my wife.
And last thing you want to do

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when you first start seeing a
girl is fart in front of her.

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So for, like, the first three months
we were together, um, I would just

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hold it in the entire time that.
I gotta go to the bathroom.

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And, like, my stomach would, like,
gurgle, you know, while she's like,

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you know, we're cuddling or she's
laying in my lap and. Oh, and.

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Then she pulls the oh, are you okay?
And she goes, yeah, I'm just fine.

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And you're like, oh yeah,
I'm good. Like, whatever.

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Don't you worry about me.
I'm still over here just looking

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at like the clock and you're like,
oh, like midnight.

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I'm out here at midnight.
Like,

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could it just be midnight already?
So you do the hug and the little

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makeout.
And the second I would get into

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my car, it would just be like,
whomp! Windows are popping up.

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He cut it off. After, like.
Two kisses. Oh, it was just like he.

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Didn't try anything. Or no joke.
It was like two minute farts at

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a time, cause it was just.
It was the worst. I can see it now.

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Like, hey, you know,
little 20 something year old Flex,

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you want to come back to my bedroom?
And you're like, uh, I.

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Respect you too much. I respect you.
As a person and my potential

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future wife.
And I don't want to mess anything up.

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I better go home now.
Oh, and shit, my pants.

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Sounds exactly like me.
I think I think I know I've told

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the story on the show, but like,
I was with my now wife for about

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three ish months,
I was saying it was one of the

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first times I stayed at her house.
Probably wasn't three a couple

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of months.
One of the first times I stayed at

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her house and, uh, we're in bed.
She had just fallen like she was.

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That light just had fallen asleep,
closed her eyes, kind of sleep.

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And I was laying there.
I hadn't quite fallen asleep.

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Uh, okay. I remember. This one.
I let. Out.

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Actually let out a little squeaker,
and she goes, uh oh.

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I think he just got a text message.
So then. Then I had to go with.

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I was like, you goddamn right I did.
So I was like, reaching for my phone.

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I'm checking my phone as if I
had a text message like,

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is it okay? Is it important?
I was like, no,

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it's just a ESPN update.
We're all good. Back to sleep.

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I'm gonna now very loudly put my
phone down to show you that I took

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my phone in my hand because it's
definitely my phone that made

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noise and not my butt cheeks.
Oh, yeah. So bad.

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Have you cross-checked that with
her to see if she was just kind

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of saving face for you or.
No, we've we've since talked

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about it, and she had no idea.
Oh, wow. Yeah, she she's awesome.

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She's a delight. Yeah.
She had no idea.

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She goes and I told her she
here's the thing.

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Like, because I'm the one under
pressure in more ways than one.

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To me it was like, oh no,
I have completely fucked.

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She didn't remember it at all
because to her it was it was a

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notification from my phone.
My phone buzzed. She was half asleep.

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There was nothing to think about
me over here.

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I'm like, oh God, like sweating.
It'll eat you alive for the rest

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of your life. Oh yeah.
I'm like, oh no, my phone's fine,

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but maybe I should go to the
bathroom now, you know? So yeah.

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Good times. That's hilarious. Yeah.
I remember a couple once or

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twice we were at her house and,
like, had dinner or whatnot,

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and then I was like, hey, I need
to run to my car for something.

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And she's like, oh,
what are you getting in your car?

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I was like, I just gotta go.
To my car. Some things.

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I'm an AV guy.
There's something in there.

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Maybe I forgot my computer I
didn't bring, I don't know. Oh.

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Us guys. Oh, wow.
I have to rethink a lot of

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circumstances right now.
My wife always talks about not a

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wife show.
But, uh, when we would go out to

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dinner, she was always like.
I never understood why.

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I just kept going on more dates with
you. Because the way I would eat.

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Just one day, we went to a burger
joint, and I got, you know,

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it was like a hangover burger.
It had the fried egg on it.

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Oh, yeah. Well, it was over easy.
So I'm sitting there scarfing on

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this burger, and I have yolk
running down my arms to my elbows,

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and I'm trying to get all these
extra napkins from the waitress,

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and it's just. I'm sorry.
Can I ask her a bath, please?

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And then a couple weeks later,
we went to the new Mexican restaurant

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in town, and, um, I had, you know,
only have ever known, like,

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Qdoba for Mexican food, right?
Oh, we've talked about Qdoba.

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Hand-held burritos, right? Yeah.
So we go to this Mexican restaurant,

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and I order a burrito, and it comes
with, uh, covered in cheese and,

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like, like a red sauce on it. Like.
What do they call it, like,

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wet burrito or whatever? Yeah, yeah.
Well, I never eaten a burrito.

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Not with my hands before.
You did not pick it up?

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I picked it up. You did not.
And I am just trying to mow other

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thing I got covered in Red Sox.
Red Sox running all over me.

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And I refuse to put it down
because once you.

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Once you pick it up, man, it's all
over. You can't go back. No no no no.

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It was, uh. Take a minute.
Kind of an embarrassing moment

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when you have to get.
Halfway through just to be able to

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hold it with one hand so you can grab
your beer. And write. Beer napkin?

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Yeah, in my case, napkins.
Uh, yeah. 13 napkins. Yeah.

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Oh, that's good shit. Fun stuff.
Just fun stuff. Oh, man.

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So research, huh? Research. Wow.
Uh, we, um.

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I don't know if I talked about
last week, we went to the only,

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um, brewery in the entire UAE,
like Abu Dhabi. Dubai? There's one.

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So our friends were like, hey,
we got reservations somewhere.

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You're going to be excited.
We were so excited when we found

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out what it was because we had had,
like, Coronas on the beach and.

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You actually had to make a
reservation. Yeah.

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Um, because, yeah, there's plenty of
people because there's. A lot of one.

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Brewery. The one. Right.
And there's only like 12% people.

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There are actual like nationals,
right, that are from there.

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And there's so many of them all
over the world. Right.

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So there's a lot of people that
do drink beer,

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but it's just not as welcome.
Um, so anyways, it was really cool.

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There was great.
Like it was a great hazy IPA.

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It was called Side Hustle,
which seems like a really common

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name for a brewery.
There's actually one 45 minutes from

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where I live called Side Hustle.
Oh really?

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Yeah, and it originated this one,
though, originated in PA, uh,

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so in Pennsylvania.
So I was going to ask shred

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about that actually, because.
Maybe I bet one of them like is

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Side Hustle brewing.
The other one is side hustle.

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Right. Beer Co. Brewing Company.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah.

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So somehow it's connected to
Pennsylvania but they actually brew

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their stuff there in Abu Dhabi.
And it was it was delicious and

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it probably was shit.
But compared to what I had been

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drinking. But when it. Hits the lips.
Yeah. No, it actually it was good.

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It was good stuff and it was
really enjoyable.

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And the great barbecue food and
the environment was cool.

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So that was such a treat.
Just like, oh man, we take for

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granted what we have here. Hell yeah.
Oh yeah we do. Yeah. Brewery closing.

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We're like, yeah, that brewery
sucked. Glad it closed, right?

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They got their own brewery.
It's funny running to Eureka Brewing,

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right? Like, ah, I love it.
Here's the thing I didn't dislike

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Eureka Brewing. But yeah, it's okay.
It's funny you say that.

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My mom, uh, just texted me the
other day because we had a couple

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breweries close by us, and she said,
check in to. Make sure you're okay.

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She said, okay, buddy.
She said, mob craft closed question

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mark and I just replied, yep. Yeah.
And then she said, oh,

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I read this article that this other
brewery closed. And I said, yep.

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She said,
is that normal for craft beer now?

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I said, I said, it is when you suck.
I mean, you're not.

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Wrong, because that's kind of what's
happening now is we've talked about

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it a couple times on the show that,
you know, it's not like the boom

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in craft beer anymore.
It's no, you can't just exist and

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make money. It's yeah, you have to.
Put out good product and be

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personable and, you know,
food and et cetera. ET cetera.

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Otherwise,
you're not sticking around. Yeah.

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In fact, I haven't talked about
this on the show.

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This is a few weeks ago. Um, I'm.
I'm gonna leave the name of the

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brewery out of it because I did like
them a lot. We went to a brewery.

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We met up with some friends,
Semi-local ish brewery, and we went.

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We had food. We had beer.
We have not been to this

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establishment in at least six
plus months.

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And we each got a couple beers.
We ordered some food.

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Everything was bad And being.
Even the food, even the food was bad.

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Even the food was bad.
And before we'd had the food, we

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liked the food. We enjoyed the beer.
The beer was so bad that it was

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off colored, like got the hazy.
It looked like dishwater,

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like it was so off the rails bad.
And so then we were all kind of

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talking amongst ourselves how bad
it was. Yeah. What went down?

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The owner walks in and sits at
the table next to us and I know

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the owner.
And so I was like, hey guys,

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how about we shut the fuck up now?
You know,

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it was one of those kind of things.
And, uh, you know, he came up,

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hey, how's it going?
And we talked for a minute and

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thank God he didn't ask how
things were going because, like,

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it was, it wasn't just not great.
You wouldn't be able to hide.

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Yeah. No.
At this point there this specific

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brewery is the only brewery in a,
you know, stone's throw.

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And I think I don't know what's
happened, but I think at this point

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they're surviving off of being the
only brewery in the neighborhood.

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And if another brewery decides to
open up in said area, this brewery,

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which I thought I really liked, is
fucked unless they turn shit around.

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I mean, I don't know what's going on.
Maybe their sales are down so they

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haven't brewed in four months
and their beers just sitting

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there getting old or something,
but it was just all around.

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Look, their staff are super
friendly and they were friendly

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this time and that's great.
But when your product is horrendous,

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it's we've heard of this brewery
before. Yes, you definitely have.

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I have some ideas. Oh, okay.
I'll I'll answer questions off

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air okay.
Because I, I hope here's the thing.

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I do hope they turn things around.
I hope something was going on.

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I hope the draft system had a
leak of antifreeze or something

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in it or whatever.
I don't want to call them out yet.

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I'll definitely give them another
chance because I do like them.

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But um, it was it went from
pretty good to really bad.

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Oh, yeah. No bueno. Sucks. Yeah.
I'll move on from that.

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Womp womp. Yeah.
Um, before, you know,

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I was gonna say, speaking of
really bad, here's a new story.

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But before I do that,
let me let me tell you guys what

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I'm drinking over here. Okay.
Hopefully. It's really good.

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We need a pick me up. Greg.
You're telling me. Yeah.

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To the bullpen for beer.
Well, Mel and I have our whole, uh,

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dino situation. Dino the dinosaur.
When we accidentally forget about

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beers in the back of the fridge,
we call them Dino's.

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Or do you know the last dinosaur?
Uh, and this is fitting because

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Mel sent me this beer.
I didn't even know I had it in the

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fridge until literally tonight
when we go in to record my.

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My beer fridge right now is purposely
low. I have been not buying beer.

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My pure subscription.
They ended their their hotbox.

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I haven't had that in a few months.
And I was like, I need to purge the

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beers before I start buying new ones.
So it's purposely low.

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But the last couple of recordings,
like I went to my local bottle shop,

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Trader Joe's, and picked up some
beers for the recordings.

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So we're good.
Well, I ran out of time and I was

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like, oh shit, what's in the fridge?
And I saw this beer.

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It's from a great brewery, Collabing,
with another great brewery.

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And Mel sent it to me and I
totally somehow lost in the back.

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The food might be a rough one,
and I was.

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Excited at the time and I'm still
excited. We'll see how this goes.

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Mel. I'm sorry, I love you.
Uh, this was canned on one 2523.

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So there's there's your.
I know it's not the worst I've

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ever done, but it's certainly
not the best. Got two years.

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This is 25. 23. Three. Yeah.
23, two years ago. Oof! We shall see.

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So this is Other Half Brewing Company
in collaboration with Burial Beer.

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It's called number three.
It's one of their ninth

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anniversary collaborations.
It's a West Coast IPA, 6.8% has a

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collective 402 and untapped with
over 1200 ratings, they say.

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Let's see if we can bring that down.
Yeah, we're about to give the two

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stars. I will grade on a curve.
This is my fault.

412
00:25:45,780 --> 00:25:48,300
We spent more time with our
friends at burial than we would

413
00:25:48,300 --> 00:25:50,700
care to admit.
We first met up about seven

414
00:25:50,700 --> 00:25:53,460
years ago.
Now it's like nine years ago when we

415
00:25:53,460 --> 00:25:59,740
randomly stumbled, stumbled, stumbled
into their collier location in

416
00:25:59,740 --> 00:26:03,820
Asheville around 10 p.m. one night,
which I've been to. Great spot.

417
00:26:03,820 --> 00:26:07,700
And here we are again, celebrating
another anniversary with our best,

418
00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:12,780
worst friends by making a Westie
with Simcoe, Amarillo, Centennial,

419
00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:19,020
and Cascade on the schnoz.
Whatever fruity floral ness this

420
00:26:19,020 --> 00:26:22,260
probably is supposed to have.
Very nice now.

421
00:26:22,900 --> 00:26:28,620
Yeah, it's now straight up dank.
All I can smell now is the pine.

422
00:26:29,580 --> 00:26:32,600
You hit the pine.
So while you drink,

423
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:37,120
I'm gonna ask you, um,
so burial is. Is that the one?

424
00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:40,640
I think I've seen a lot of photos on
the gram where it has, like, um.

425
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,920
I think it's sloth from The Goonies.
That's.

426
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,240
You know, I'm a Goonies girl,
born in Goonies town.

427
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,920
That would make sense.
That seems like something they

428
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:50,200
would do.
They have a great spot if you

429
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,240
are ever in Asheville.
No, n no ankle breaking.

430
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,040
Because this is Asheville,
not Nashville. Oh. Oh, okay.

431
00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,240
So you're saying there's a chance?
Yeah. Go to burial.

432
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,560
I loved me some burial.
We hung out for a while there.

433
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,440
Um, yeah. On the tongue jobber.
It's probably not at all what

434
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,880
it's supposed to taste like.
Um, a lot of the sweetness is

435
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,000
coming through.
Some floral, you know,

436
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:20,240
like bouquet floweriness is coming
through and finishes up fairly dank.

437
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:25,120
I appreciate the light body.
You know, it's not super malty.

438
00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:27,960
It's not some fucking loaf of
liquid bread.

439
00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:32,980
I can't stand that in the IPAs
these days. So. Same, bro. Same.

440
00:27:33,020 --> 00:27:38,100
Yeah. It's not 1999.
Flex started on that note, right?

441
00:27:38,940 --> 00:27:42,060
Uh, so I bet this was great.
Now it's just drinkable.

442
00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:46,300
I'm so sorry to not only other
half and burial. Burial.

443
00:27:46,300 --> 00:27:48,900
I love you so much.
I'm also sorry to Mel.

444
00:27:48,940 --> 00:27:52,660
Mel, I love you so much, too.
Uh, I did not mean to let this

445
00:27:52,980 --> 00:27:57,780
age like a fine wine, so, um.
Apologies. Shit happens.

446
00:27:57,940 --> 00:28:02,220
It happens. It's okay. Be.
Go easy on yourself. It's a new year.

447
00:28:02,340 --> 00:28:05,340
New new you. You know what I did?
I got, uh,

448
00:28:05,340 --> 00:28:09,820
I got a bunch of gift cards for
tavau for Christmas because the

449
00:28:09,820 --> 00:28:14,820
in-laws have no idea what to get me.
And I keep telling my wife,

450
00:28:14,820 --> 00:28:17,100
just tell him not to get me anything.
We're all adults.

451
00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:21,100
Let's stop exchanging Christmas
gifts. Well, that's not acceptable.

452
00:28:21,380 --> 00:28:25,540
So I got some tavau gift cards,
and I.

453
00:28:25,540 --> 00:28:28,230
This is not a plug for tavau at all,
because they don't sponsor us

454
00:28:28,230 --> 00:28:30,390
anymore.
But I did put in some orders,

455
00:28:30,830 --> 00:28:34,550
so maybe by the next show I'll
have some, some some good fresh.

456
00:28:34,830 --> 00:28:37,190
Yeah. There we go.
Not quite as fresh, but yeah,

457
00:28:37,230 --> 00:28:39,230
some something different.
That's good. Yeah.

458
00:28:39,230 --> 00:28:41,910
I'll have some, uh,
fresh ish overpriced beers that.

459
00:28:41,910 --> 00:28:47,190
I have to pay for. Yeah, yeah.
That gift, that adult gifting thing.

460
00:28:47,230 --> 00:28:51,590
Like, what's your guys's opinion
on that? I'm over it. I.

461
00:28:52,070 --> 00:28:55,990
I have no problem with it.
I here's my problem with it.

462
00:28:55,990 --> 00:28:59,830
So like my I hate Christmas.
Well, I hate Christmas. Yeah.

463
00:28:59,950 --> 00:29:04,470
Hey. Fuck you Christmas.
But B so we're adults.

464
00:29:04,670 --> 00:29:08,510
And if there's something I want
that any of us can afford,

465
00:29:08,510 --> 00:29:11,910
I've already purchased it for myself.
And there's something that I

466
00:29:11,910 --> 00:29:14,670
want that we can't afford.
You're not going to go out and buy me

467
00:29:14,670 --> 00:29:18,910
a new computer or iPad or whatever
really expensive thing that I want.

468
00:29:19,670 --> 00:29:23,270
And maybe you would buy me a gift
card towards that, you know,

469
00:29:23,270 --> 00:29:26,430
like, oh, you want an iPad?
So here's an Apple gift card or

470
00:29:26,490 --> 00:29:28,770
similar.
Isn't there like a really cool

471
00:29:28,810 --> 00:29:31,970
like belt that you're trying to,
like, get hold of? No.

472
00:29:32,770 --> 00:29:36,730
Oh, well, maybe the, uh,
the cooler belt? Yes. Okay. Okay.

473
00:29:36,730 --> 00:29:39,570
But overall, though, like,
there's there's not a lot that I

474
00:29:39,650 --> 00:29:44,810
want in life that, uh, you know,
the random $25 gift from the step

475
00:29:44,810 --> 00:29:49,050
sibling is going to achieve.
And to me, I would rather that

476
00:29:49,050 --> 00:29:53,250
person save $25, go out, have a
couple of beers, enjoy themselves.

477
00:29:53,610 --> 00:29:56,610
I'm all about experiences.
The wife and I don't exchange gifts.

478
00:29:56,610 --> 00:30:00,770
We're we go out or we do experiences.
We don't do birthday gifts.

479
00:30:00,770 --> 00:30:03,370
We just we do things.
That's that's the thing.

480
00:30:03,370 --> 00:30:06,490
And I'm all about it.
I'm all about memories over shit.

481
00:30:07,050 --> 00:30:10,090
And my rule has always been,
if you're going to give gifts

482
00:30:10,090 --> 00:30:14,370
where adults, let's give booze.
But that burnt me because like,

483
00:30:14,370 --> 00:30:23,530
this year, the step sister got me
this clearly gifted, uh, rum gift

484
00:30:23,570 --> 00:30:30,550
set. Uh, I don't drink rum at all.
Like, not my least favorite spirit,

485
00:30:30,550 --> 00:30:32,670
but definitely.
It might be my least favorite.

486
00:30:32,670 --> 00:30:34,550
Spirit.
Bottom three like I would rather

487
00:30:34,550 --> 00:30:38,110
drink rum than tequila, I think.
Undecided.

488
00:30:38,110 --> 00:30:40,750
I guess I could crack it open and
find out, but now we have this.

489
00:30:40,790 --> 00:30:42,630
That's a toughie.
That's super random.

490
00:30:42,630 --> 00:30:46,230
I've never heard of a rum gift set.
I don't take tequila over rum.

491
00:30:46,270 --> 00:30:48,790
Yeah, so here's the thing.
I looked it up on the Total Wine

492
00:30:48,830 --> 00:30:50,270
app because they have the little
scanny thing.

493
00:30:50,270 --> 00:30:53,270
You can scan the barcode,
and I found it on the Total Wine app.

494
00:30:53,270 --> 00:30:57,950
I think it was like $33, but,
uh, it's discontinued.

495
00:30:57,950 --> 00:31:02,950
And the last review was from 11
years ago, so. Come on, maybe.

496
00:31:02,950 --> 00:31:04,830
It's vintage.
Maybe I could sell it on eBay

497
00:31:04,830 --> 00:31:09,150
for something weird.
So that's my my over winded take

498
00:31:09,150 --> 00:31:12,150
on gifts, I don't know.
Yeah, I know Flex likes Christmas.

499
00:31:12,510 --> 00:31:15,950
Yeah, I don't know.
I think there's enough little things,

500
00:31:16,670 --> 00:31:21,070
you know, because we do, uh, well,
with my family, we don't exchange

501
00:31:21,070 --> 00:31:24,560
with my wife's family anymore.
We used to do dinner with her

502
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,720
siblings, like,
go out to like a nice dinner and

503
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,480
hang out and go somewhere after.
And now that's kind of even done,

504
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,960
which I don't hate.
Yeah, I'm with you.

505
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,960
Uh, we still do gift exchange
with my family, and it's like,

506
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:42,120
you know, like 40, $50 range,
and you still get some decent things,

507
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:46,640
and, um, it's worthwhile.
And I'm more so, like, just like

508
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:51,320
getting gifts for everybody else.
Other. You enjoy picking them out?

509
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,720
Because I like that.
I know that they're gonna like them

510
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,440
and I it's hard for me when I buy
them to not want to give them to

511
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:02,440
them right away. Oh, see, I like.
When I bought my brother the belt

512
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,160
cooler. Right. Now that's cool.
By the way,

513
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,640
I hate buying people gifts because
I really don't want to give them

514
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:14,200
something like a rum and glass
gift set that they'll never use.

515
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,080
Well, that's give them something
that they'll they'll like.

516
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:17,800
It's super lazy.
And look, I don't know my

517
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,680
stepsister at all. Like, it's fine.
We we got them a Dave and Buster's

518
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,860
gift card, which I think is way
cooler than a rum gift set, but

519
00:32:24,860 --> 00:32:30,860
whatever. Uh, hey, can we trade back?
Um, but, like,

520
00:32:30,860 --> 00:32:34,780
I want to give you something that
you'll use or enjoy or something.

521
00:32:34,780 --> 00:32:38,300
And honestly, I'd rather us all like,
hey, just let's agree.

522
00:32:38,300 --> 00:32:40,860
Everyone's gonna spend whatever
it is. 40 bucks on a gift.

523
00:32:40,860 --> 00:32:44,300
Let's put 40 bucks in a pile
from everybody and go have a

524
00:32:44,340 --> 00:32:47,020
kick ass dinner or some really
nice drinks somewhere.

525
00:32:47,060 --> 00:32:50,180
Absolutely. I agree with. That.
I just, I want to have a good time

526
00:32:50,180 --> 00:32:52,420
with people. That's that's my thing.
Yeah, I can agree with.

527
00:32:52,420 --> 00:32:54,020
That a good time.
That's what like,

528
00:32:54,060 --> 00:32:56,500
our family used to do,
a white elephant. That was hilarious.

529
00:32:56,500 --> 00:32:59,540
It was like it had to be some
trashy shit from your house.

530
00:32:59,620 --> 00:33:02,140
That was just funny.
Like, not anything.

531
00:33:02,180 --> 00:33:04,300
Something you already. Owned.
Yeah, you already owned.

532
00:33:04,300 --> 00:33:05,900
Like,
that's how we did White Elephant.

533
00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:08,900
It wasn't like anything of value
and it was just hilarious.

534
00:33:08,940 --> 00:33:10,500
We have so many hilarious
stories from.

535
00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:14,100
That roll of toilet paper. Just.
Yeah, like, there's this dress I

536
00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:17,820
bought in a thrift store in
Hawaii that was like, ridiculous

537
00:33:17,820 --> 00:33:22,390
traditional Hawaiian poofy.
I came down a like a banister wearing

538
00:33:22,390 --> 00:33:24,670
it one time, and then like it,
and then it ends up in the white

539
00:33:24,670 --> 00:33:28,310
elephant, like stuff like that.
That's hilarious. But yeah. Gifts.

540
00:33:28,790 --> 00:33:32,910
My daughter and my husband both
have December birthdays and all

541
00:33:32,910 --> 00:33:37,550
the Christmas presents like I,
I loathe. That's a tough situation.

542
00:33:37,590 --> 00:33:39,270
And I like I'm like a generous
person.

543
00:33:39,270 --> 00:33:42,910
I like gifting, I like giving people
things. But December just gets.

544
00:33:43,670 --> 00:33:47,270
Yeah, just gets at me with all
the gifting. It's just so much.

545
00:33:47,550 --> 00:33:49,390
Went through the year.
Like I might see something.

546
00:33:49,390 --> 00:33:51,270
Usually alcohol.
Oh,

547
00:33:51,590 --> 00:33:55,590
I think Coley would love this beer.
I'm gonna. I'm gonna buy it for her.

548
00:33:55,590 --> 00:34:00,270
I think, uh, you know, whatever.
Flex would love this sexual toy.

549
00:34:00,310 --> 00:34:02,030
I'm gonna give it to him.
He's gonna love it.

550
00:34:02,070 --> 00:34:04,950
He's gonna love it.
It's not quite big enough,

551
00:34:04,950 --> 00:34:07,670
but he'll he'll make do, uh,
you know, whatever it is.

552
00:34:07,830 --> 00:34:11,510
And I'd rather just, like,
surprise you with the thing in the

553
00:34:11,510 --> 00:34:15,190
middle of the year or something.
Yeah. I hate the pressure of.

554
00:34:15,190 --> 00:34:17,750
I need to buy you a gift,
and it needs to be right now,

555
00:34:18,230 --> 00:34:20,550
and I need that.
And part of the pressure is me,

556
00:34:20,550 --> 00:34:23,890
because I need I need them to
either a enjoy it or b use it.

557
00:34:23,890 --> 00:34:26,690
I don't want to give them crap
because I hate having crap in my

558
00:34:26,690 --> 00:34:31,690
house so. I can respect that, that's.
For sure.

559
00:34:32,370 --> 00:34:35,970
That's solid, solid reasoning,
I guess. And none of it's.

560
00:34:36,370 --> 00:34:40,210
Not wanting to be generous.
It's more of a just like, yeah.

561
00:34:40,250 --> 00:34:43,170
Other reasons being like,
want to be practical or want

562
00:34:43,170 --> 00:34:46,930
people to enjoy things or like,
yeah it's not. Yeah.

563
00:34:46,970 --> 00:34:49,610
And I don't know, do you guys do
the whole Amazon Wishlist thing?

564
00:34:49,890 --> 00:34:53,970
No I have, but no I haven't in a long
time. What am I, an OnlyFans girl?

565
00:34:56,650 --> 00:34:59,210
Only muscles send me these short
shorts.

566
00:34:59,210 --> 00:35:03,770
I have black, I have them in gray.
Please don't send me any short

567
00:35:03,770 --> 00:35:07,210
shorts. Yeah, send me blue.
Well, green's his color.

568
00:35:07,210 --> 00:35:11,130
We all know that. Yeah, I know green.
Really green really. Pops. Yeah.

569
00:35:11,330 --> 00:35:14,330
So we do the whole Amazon wish
list because the in-laws don't

570
00:35:14,370 --> 00:35:16,530
know us whatsoever.
Uh,

571
00:35:16,530 --> 00:35:19,610
her family doesn't know her or me.
And so it's like, oh,

572
00:35:19,650 --> 00:35:21,470
send us your Amazon wish list so
we know what to buy you.

573
00:35:21,470 --> 00:35:22,990
And I'm like,
what the fuck do I put on here?

574
00:35:23,030 --> 00:35:26,430
Like, all right, I need a couple.
I know, it's like, I need a couple

575
00:35:26,470 --> 00:35:32,110
microphone cables, like, you want
to buy me a microphone and I.

576
00:35:32,150 --> 00:35:35,470
So this is my favorite thing. I'm.
Here's how Grinchy an asshole I am.

577
00:35:35,790 --> 00:35:39,670
So her dad a few years ago.
A couple years ago,

578
00:35:39,670 --> 00:35:42,390
I don't know what it was decided.
I'm not buying gifts for my kids

579
00:35:42,390 --> 00:35:45,470
anymore because they all have too
many grandkids and it's getting

580
00:35:45,470 --> 00:35:51,070
expensive and I'm a cheap asshole.
So he decided that he would buy

581
00:35:51,110 --> 00:35:53,790
for all the grandkids,
which I am totally on board with.

582
00:35:53,790 --> 00:35:55,830
I call him and ask for it.
That is probably the least

583
00:35:55,870 --> 00:35:58,190
asshole thing he's done.
I'm totally on board by all the kids

584
00:35:58,190 --> 00:36:03,910
who still are, knowing that Santa is
definitely real. Uh, buy them gifts.

585
00:36:03,910 --> 00:36:07,150
Whatever. Don't buy us anything.
Let's not buy you anything.

586
00:36:07,150 --> 00:36:09,870
Let's just call it even.
Or come share a bottle of really

587
00:36:09,870 --> 00:36:11,990
nice wine with us.
Because we're classy and we drink

588
00:36:12,030 --> 00:36:15,590
wine. You are the classiest.
Well, instead, he decided we're

589
00:36:15,590 --> 00:36:20,120
all going to do a gift exchange.
And it's going to be great.

590
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,040
It was not great because every
single year we got the same.

591
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:29,440
I won't say who it was,
fucking person and vice versa.

592
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,800
We always got each other and it
was supposed to be like,

593
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:37,480
spend $50 and we'd spend $50 and that
person would spend $17. Come on.

594
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,600
It would be like the biggest pile
of garbage that we never wanted.

595
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:45,600
And so after two years of this,
I deleted the app that they were

596
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:49,720
using to do this,
and emails were sent like, hey,

597
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,760
I think this was last year,
last year, year before,

598
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,120
I think it was last year.
Hey, you know, Christmas is

599
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,440
coming and the exchange and this
and that and blah blah blah.

600
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,760
And I the wife goes like, hey,
did you get the email? I said, nope.

601
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,720
She goes, no, I said no,
I deleted it because you deleted

602
00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:04,920
the app. I said, yeah.
She goes, well,

603
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,640
you should have gotten the email.
That said, I also deleted my account.

604
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,160
I said, I will not be participating.
I'm sorry.

605
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:16,240
Whatever weirdness that puts you in,
I am fucking done. I'm so over it.

606
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:21,500
I don't need more crap from insert
family member here. I'm. I'm done.

607
00:37:21,500 --> 00:37:25,100
At least the other family members who
care care enough to give me more

608
00:37:25,140 --> 00:37:31,380
gift cards. This is not even that.
So, um. I started a revolution.

609
00:37:31,580 --> 00:37:35,500
There was a lot of drama,
and we don't do it anymore. Yay!

610
00:37:35,580 --> 00:37:39,540
Congratulations, Grinch.
Sometimes you just gotta hold strong.

611
00:37:39,940 --> 00:37:43,100
Yeah. Seriously?
So there's no joy at the party?

612
00:37:43,140 --> 00:37:47,220
Good. Glad you cut that off. Yeah.
And my my little dark heart grew

613
00:37:47,260 --> 00:37:53,180
five sizes or whatever he says.
I just I don't like crap for the

614
00:37:53,180 --> 00:37:54,580
crap's sake.
That's that's what it really

615
00:37:54,580 --> 00:37:57,340
comes down to. Yeah.
You want to buy someone something,

616
00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:00,580
buy them something and whatever.
And don't expect anything.

617
00:38:00,780 --> 00:38:02,900
I don't ever expect anything
from anybody.

618
00:38:02,900 --> 00:38:05,340
If I think, like, hey,
this person would like it.

619
00:38:05,460 --> 00:38:08,100
I'm just gonna buy it for them.
And that's the end of it. Right.

620
00:38:08,100 --> 00:38:10,740
There's. Yeah. You don't expect.
That's what ruins stuff like that

621
00:38:10,740 --> 00:38:15,140
though, is there's some really good
gift givers out there, just like the

622
00:38:15,140 --> 00:38:18,800
idea, the thought put behind it.
And then there's some really bad

623
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,520
gift givers.
Yes, and they're the ones that

624
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:25,920
ruin everything. 100%.
Like when I was, uh, man,

625
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:30,120
I was probably 11 years old.
And my mom's family,

626
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,520
we used to do a big exchange,
and we're talking like cousins,

627
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:37,720
uncles, aunts. Yeah. Like everybody.
It didn't matter who you got.

628
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:42,560
And my, uh, one of my uncles got
me one year, and he asked my mom

629
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:46,520
what I wanted or what I was into,
and I really liked Pokemon.

630
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:50,800
I was probably in, like, sixth
grade or something. Nerd. My son.

631
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,040
Do you know what he got me for
Christmas?

632
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,240
Knockoff 99 cent store Pokemon.
I wish.

633
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:05,120
Oh, it was a card book that told
you the value of all of the cards.

634
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,080
Of the cards.
You had no interest in selling.

635
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:12,200
Right.
And that probably cost 7.95 in

636
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,890
Canada. Oh, is he Canadian?
You really care too?

637
00:39:15,930 --> 00:39:18,850
When you're 11, like, you really
want. Some good gifts. Right.

638
00:39:18,850 --> 00:39:21,770
So, uh, that was like,
the worst for me.

639
00:39:21,810 --> 00:39:24,850
He could have at least spent the ten
bucks and gotten you a pack of cards.

640
00:39:24,970 --> 00:39:27,650
No, it was just a card book.
That's crazy.

641
00:39:27,650 --> 00:39:29,090
That's funny that you were in a
Pokemon.

642
00:39:29,130 --> 00:39:31,930
My my husband,
my son competes in card tournaments.

643
00:39:31,930 --> 00:39:34,810
He was at regionals in Sacramento.
Oh, wow.

644
00:39:34,850 --> 00:39:38,330
Yeah, he's really into Pokemon and
that. How long has that been around?

645
00:39:38,490 --> 00:39:41,290
Oh, that was my generation.
It was like 20. It's. What is it?

646
00:39:41,290 --> 00:39:44,170
This year is like 26 years.
Yeah. That's crazy.

647
00:39:44,290 --> 00:39:47,210
Anyways, not a Christmas or a
Pokemon show, gentlemen,

648
00:39:47,210 --> 00:39:50,530
but I had to ask the question.
I opened up a big can of worms.

649
00:39:50,570 --> 00:39:53,970
Pandora's box right there.
I actually forgot what even happened.

650
00:39:54,010 --> 00:39:58,890
I know we. Went in a time warp.
Yeah, it was good.

651
00:39:59,210 --> 00:40:01,410
Well, we've made it on the other
side of Christmas. We're.

652
00:40:01,410 --> 00:40:05,370
We're safe now for a few more months.
Yeah, and then my birthday hits.

653
00:40:05,650 --> 00:40:09,330
Oh, I trained people.
I trained trained people that I

654
00:40:09,330 --> 00:40:12,970
don't want gifts on my birthday.
If you insist on buying me things,

655
00:40:12,970 --> 00:40:15,670
buy me a beer.
Like when we're out together.

656
00:40:16,070 --> 00:40:18,750
But I just want to hang out with
people. So come on over.

657
00:40:18,830 --> 00:40:22,270
We'll barbecue. We'll get drunk.
And the last couple of years,

658
00:40:22,270 --> 00:40:24,310
in fact, somebody was just asking me.
What did you do for your birthday?

659
00:40:24,350 --> 00:40:27,110
I was like, nothing.
Like, no, you just didn't invite me.

660
00:40:27,110 --> 00:40:31,190
I said, no, I totally didn't not
invite you. I didn't do a birthday.

661
00:40:31,350 --> 00:40:35,270
I went to a cabin in the woods.
You did some. Water? That's right.

662
00:40:35,630 --> 00:40:39,870
And that was glorious.
What a nice time. Yeah. So it was.

663
00:40:39,870 --> 00:40:42,830
It was one of my friends from
back in the day when we used to

664
00:40:42,830 --> 00:40:44,470
party all day.
She's like, you didn't invite me

665
00:40:44,470 --> 00:40:46,030
to your birthday this year.
I was like, I didn't have.

666
00:40:46,030 --> 00:40:47,550
I haven't had a birthday in like
three years.

667
00:40:47,590 --> 00:40:52,790
Like, I just I wanted to go stare at
some water, get drunk, call it a day.

668
00:40:52,830 --> 00:40:56,790
I hate birthday, I hate my birthday.
I, you know, I used to really

669
00:40:56,790 --> 00:40:59,390
enjoy my birthday and, like,
enjoy making people come hang out.

670
00:40:59,390 --> 00:41:00,390
It's all about the.
Like I said,

671
00:41:00,390 --> 00:41:02,390
it's all about the experience.
Come hang out. Let's barbecue.

672
00:41:02,430 --> 00:41:04,230
All barbecue, I don't care,
it's my birthday.

673
00:41:04,270 --> 00:41:06,230
I'll barbecue, we'll get drunk,
it'll be great.

674
00:41:06,230 --> 00:41:08,790
And now I'm just like, you know what?
I am so fucking stressed out

675
00:41:08,790 --> 00:41:10,590
every day.
I just want to go stare at water and

676
00:41:10,590 --> 00:41:15,530
get hammered. That sounds. Like.
The life. Not much better than that.

677
00:41:15,650 --> 00:41:18,090
No, it doesn't get any better.
And I did it.

678
00:41:18,090 --> 00:41:20,650
And it's one of my best
birthdays ever.

679
00:41:21,370 --> 00:41:26,650
Sorry, everybody else,
but I loved it, so don't expect

680
00:41:26,650 --> 00:41:32,170
any party invites anytime.
Soon, okay? Oh, hey, you know what?

681
00:41:32,170 --> 00:41:36,290
But not a Grinch slash asshole show.
So, uh, back to the.

682
00:41:36,530 --> 00:41:37,850
You know,
if you guys want to chime in,

683
00:41:37,850 --> 00:41:42,370
chime in with your fucking call us.
805538 beer. Tell us how you feel.

684
00:41:42,410 --> 00:41:46,050
Because I feel like I've hogged
enough time about how big of a

685
00:41:46,050 --> 00:41:49,410
dick I am.
Uh, a little news before we get

686
00:41:49,410 --> 00:41:52,850
about here, because this is
still somewhat structured.

687
00:41:53,490 --> 00:41:57,890
Uh, the US surgeon general wants
to put cancer warnings on alcohol.

688
00:41:58,450 --> 00:42:02,370
US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is
calling on Congress to require health

689
00:42:02,370 --> 00:42:05,610
warning labels that inform consumers
about the link between alcohol

690
00:42:05,610 --> 00:42:09,490
consumption and the risk of cancer.
He released a new advisory

691
00:42:09,490 --> 00:42:12,260
detailing how drinking alcohol
increases the increases the risk of

692
00:42:12,260 --> 00:42:17,940
developing seven types of cancer.
Those seven types are breast cancer,

693
00:42:19,060 --> 00:42:23,740
colorectal cancer,
esophagus cancer, liver cancer,

694
00:42:23,780 --> 00:42:27,540
mouth cancer, throat cancer.
And I thought this was the same

695
00:42:27,540 --> 00:42:33,180
as throat but voicebox cancer.
Oh, larynx.

696
00:42:33,180 --> 00:42:36,300
Apparently they're different
body parts. Yeah.

697
00:42:36,340 --> 00:42:41,820
The larynx bone's connected to the
throat bone. Oh, that sounds bad too.

698
00:42:41,860 --> 00:42:46,620
Um, here's the thing. You you go.
Ahead and put the throat bone.

699
00:42:46,660 --> 00:42:50,380
You're welcome.
Go ahead and put that warning on the

700
00:42:50,380 --> 00:42:54,980
old, uh, four pack there that Flex is
getting for $12 that we paid 20 for.

701
00:42:55,820 --> 00:43:00,260
Uh, is that stopping anybody from
drinking? No. It's probably not.

702
00:43:00,580 --> 00:43:03,580
Um, I don't think so.
I'm not against the warning because,

703
00:43:03,620 --> 00:43:07,140
like, I was thinking about this,
um, you know, like,

704
00:43:07,140 --> 00:43:11,560
you can't be selective about facts,
right? So they put it Cigarettes.

705
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:17,680
It's actually one of few proven
consumables that is proven to

706
00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:19,920
cause cancer.
That, and like smoked meats and

707
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:23,480
some different like processed
meats and things like.

708
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:27,120
So it's like, yeah, you know,
if it does prevent some outcomes

709
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:32,040
for people, I guess. Go ahead.
Um, I'm still going to drink alcohol.

710
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:36,000
Yeah. Let's go ahead and do it.
It's it's not going to stop me. Yeah.

711
00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:39,920
Maybe people. Said that about. Right.
And maybe people said that about

712
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,320
cigarettes too.
Maybe people said, oh yeah,

713
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,960
put the thing on there and people
are gonna keep smoking it.

714
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,280
And now, at least in California,
like if you smoke,

715
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,880
you looked at like you're, you.
Know for sure burning. Children.

716
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,760
Yeah. Um. Yeah. I don't know.
I just people are gonna keep

717
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,600
drinking. If they want to drink.
They're gonna keep drinking.

718
00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:01,160
They tried to prohibit alcohol and it
didn't work. No, it. Made it worse.

719
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:05,720
Yeah. So I, I don't know.
Maybe also voicebox cancer from.

720
00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:07,440
Drinking that.
I'm gonna ask McDreamy about

721
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,320
that because, you know,
he does esophagectomy,

722
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,330
which is one of the most
complicated surgeries in existence.

723
00:44:12,450 --> 00:44:14,930
Oh, and the outcomes are not great.
Not.

724
00:44:15,130 --> 00:44:18,570
I'm not saying from him in general,
they're just not great because

725
00:44:18,570 --> 00:44:22,610
it is super extra bad.
But overall not great, right?

726
00:44:22,770 --> 00:44:27,330
No, for sure. For sure. Not the case.
But like he you have to take parts of

727
00:44:27,330 --> 00:44:30,690
his stomach and rebuild it in their
esophagus and like it's ridiculous.

728
00:44:30,690 --> 00:44:35,050
So I'm like ooh, okay, I don't
want that. But man I love my beer.

729
00:44:35,050 --> 00:44:38,050
So I don't know I don't know
moderation.

730
00:44:38,090 --> 00:44:40,130
Does that happen in that
specific cancer.

731
00:44:40,130 --> 00:44:43,170
Does it happen in people that talk
too much asking for a friend.

732
00:44:43,410 --> 00:44:46,050
Oh shoot I don't know okay.
Moving on.

733
00:44:46,810 --> 00:44:50,730
What know me because I okay
podcast I talk too.

734
00:44:50,730 --> 00:44:53,890
Much because you talk too. Much.
Yeah. Uh, not if you and I caught.

735
00:44:53,890 --> 00:44:56,810
The voice is. Smooth and buttery.
Oh, there we go.

736
00:44:56,850 --> 00:44:59,850
Hey, there you go, buddy.
No, it's just. Let's talk about.

737
00:44:59,850 --> 00:45:06,490
News. Harsh and raspy voices.
Yeah. In a world. Yeah.

738
00:45:06,530 --> 00:45:09,630
I've never heard of voice box cancer,
though. Like. Yeah, I mean.

739
00:45:09,670 --> 00:45:12,070
I know sounds made. Up.
It sounds like a smoking thing.

740
00:45:12,070 --> 00:45:14,390
Like the people who get the
little box that they have to

741
00:45:14,390 --> 00:45:17,270
hold to the cane thing. Yeah.
The cane. Thank you. Yeah.

742
00:45:17,310 --> 00:45:19,950
I knew Erica would not catch the
cane thing because it's a

743
00:45:19,950 --> 00:45:22,830
wrestling reference. Okay.
But but yes,

744
00:45:22,830 --> 00:45:28,830
I am a roody poo candy ass bat.
Okay. Okay. Yeah, it's a real thing.

745
00:45:28,990 --> 00:45:31,630
The for wrestling fans that
listen are cracking up right now.

746
00:45:31,670 --> 00:45:35,510
Oh, so that's why they. Have those.
Stalgia the two of them?

747
00:45:35,670 --> 00:45:38,590
Yeah, the two of them.
That's half our listener base.

748
00:45:38,790 --> 00:45:41,670
But that's like from having a
tracheostomy. Is that or whatever?

749
00:45:41,710 --> 00:45:44,990
Is that because of a voice box?
I have so much more to learn.

750
00:45:44,990 --> 00:45:47,390
I'm very curious.
Yeah, but you've got some questions

751
00:45:47,390 --> 00:45:49,990
to ask. I got some. Questions.
We're gonna need an update.

752
00:45:50,190 --> 00:45:53,990
I will totally update everyone.
Thanks, Deb. Yeah, yeah.

753
00:45:53,990 --> 00:45:55,670
Thanks, Deb,
for sending that over and asking.

754
00:45:56,030 --> 00:45:59,910
Making us ask more questions.
Um, Stone versus Molson Coors,

755
00:45:59,950 --> 00:46:02,350
you know, from like,
back when Stone was still Kraft,

756
00:46:02,870 --> 00:46:07,070
they sued Molson Coors because of
Keystone, and they were awarded a

757
00:46:07,070 --> 00:46:10,130
awarded a $56 million judgment,
which is not too far from what

758
00:46:10,130 --> 00:46:13,370
they were bought for.
Um, anyways,

759
00:46:13,370 --> 00:46:20,050
big appealing by Molson Coors.
A judge has just upheld the judgment.

760
00:46:20,290 --> 00:46:23,690
So Molson Coors will now have to
have to pay $56 million,

761
00:46:24,330 --> 00:46:27,810
but they will also have to pay
interest on the $56 million.

762
00:46:27,890 --> 00:46:29,770
I didn't know that was a thing.
I didn't know they would pay

763
00:46:29,770 --> 00:46:31,850
interest, too.
Why would that be a thing?

764
00:46:31,890 --> 00:46:35,450
Yeah, I guess because it's their
fault that they put it off.

765
00:46:35,810 --> 00:46:38,010
They could have been paying and
they're they're not.

766
00:46:38,170 --> 00:46:41,250
But it wouldn't have made it.
I don't know.

767
00:46:41,290 --> 00:46:46,650
I guess that's I mean. Wow. Yeah.
Not until the judgment upheld.

768
00:46:46,930 --> 00:46:50,730
Is it actually legitimate. Is it?
So then why would they have, like,

769
00:46:50,770 --> 00:46:54,890
interest. But okay, whatever.
I guess because they appealed it

770
00:46:54,890 --> 00:46:59,250
and they said you're you're.
I see. Appeal was bullshit. I see.

771
00:46:59,290 --> 00:47:01,450
So not only do you have to pay,
but you haven't been paying for the

772
00:47:01,450 --> 00:47:04,530
seven years. You should have been.
Like you wasted our time. So.

773
00:47:04,570 --> 00:47:08,380
Yeah. Interesting.
I think it's kind of great. Wow.

774
00:47:08,940 --> 00:47:11,100
But, uh. Fuck both of them now.
So there's that.

775
00:47:12,220 --> 00:47:17,140
Uh, this one's for Flex. Hi.
Your favorite mall brewery,

776
00:47:17,140 --> 00:47:21,700
the Emporium brew pub? Yes.
Is taking over Good City Brewing

777
00:47:21,700 --> 00:47:24,580
and all their locations. Yeah.
So they're gonna have, like,

778
00:47:24,580 --> 00:47:27,660
a total of five locations now.
Yeah. Six something.

779
00:47:27,660 --> 00:47:30,020
I didn't know there was such a
big brewery to be rocking that

780
00:47:30,020 --> 00:47:33,140
many locations.
I guess they're doing very well.

781
00:47:33,700 --> 00:47:37,620
Yeah, apparently.
I loved, I love, so I just had this

782
00:47:37,620 --> 00:47:41,540
conversation with my wife about
another brewery who is taking over a

783
00:47:41,540 --> 00:47:45,620
brewery spot and keeping some of
the old brewery's beers on tap.

784
00:47:45,620 --> 00:47:49,700
This is locally.
And this story came up and I was

785
00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:53,660
like, oh, this is great.
So the deal does not include the Good

786
00:47:53,700 --> 00:47:58,620
City brands, which the Exploreum
will license for a while, right?

787
00:47:58,860 --> 00:48:01,660
And then produce them and then
phase them out over time.

788
00:48:02,060 --> 00:48:06,920
Emporium co-owner Mike Doble
Doorbal told The News that the

789
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,880
beers will slowly be phased out.
The Good City beers,

790
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:14,080
uh founders Dan and David wanted to
retain ownership of their brand,

791
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:17,680
and I wasn't willing to pay for it.
And he went on to say, I have my own

792
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:21,280
brand, and I don't like to confuse
our brand with anybody else's.

793
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,640
I was like, I fucking like that.
Here's our beer.

794
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,800
You want our beer? Come drink it.
You don't go to their fucking

795
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,280
location.
Oh, that's right,

796
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:33,440
they couldn't stay open.
He's I love it. That's how he is.

797
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:37,000
He's a solid dude. I like that.
Thinking it's like, hey,

798
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,400
this is my beer brand.
I don't want to fuck it up with

799
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:43,520
your beer brand.
He's also great at remembering faces.

800
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:46,800
Not so much names,
but if he sees that you have ever

801
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:50,320
been in his establishment, he's.
He will see you anywhere else.

802
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:54,480
And he will come right up to you.
Sit down at your table. Oh, yeah.

803
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:59,040
He's he's a wonderful guy to talk to.
Hey, chief.

804
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:03,680
But he knows that he's seen you
and he remembers, you know, it's.

805
00:49:03,780 --> 00:49:06,860
I don't expect anybody to remember,
you know, how ever many people's

806
00:49:06,860 --> 00:49:10,380
names. Right, exactly. You know.
But my memory is. Short.

807
00:49:10,620 --> 00:49:14,180
So good for them, though. Yeah.
Doing big. Things. Yeah.

808
00:49:14,780 --> 00:49:17,060
You have to go to more than just
the mall to drink their beer now.

809
00:49:17,100 --> 00:49:23,140
No, it's so close.
Uh, harpoon and smutty noses.

810
00:49:23,140 --> 00:49:26,940
Parent companies.
That's real thing, uh,

811
00:49:26,940 --> 00:49:31,780
are merging to form the barrel.
One collective, uh,

812
00:49:31,780 --> 00:49:34,940
the parent companies of Harpoon
and Smuttynose, mass Bay Brewing

813
00:49:34,940 --> 00:49:38,860
Company and Finest Kind Brewing
have merged to form barrel one.

814
00:49:39,100 --> 00:49:43,140
The companies announced Tuesday.
Uh, barrel One collective is poised

815
00:49:43,140 --> 00:49:48,740
to become the largest maker of craft
beer in New England, and the 14th

816
00:49:48,740 --> 00:49:55,540
largest in the country. Wow. Yeah.
Mass Bay founder Dan Canary said in a

817
00:49:55,540 --> 00:49:58,260
release that the merger is about
much more than just the growth.

818
00:49:58,260 --> 00:50:01,660
It's about honoring our legacy while
writing an exciting chapter for

819
00:50:01,660 --> 00:50:05,310
our companies and the northeast
craft beer industry at large.

820
00:50:05,830 --> 00:50:09,750
Massbay and Finest Kind each bring a
wide portfolio of brands to the new

821
00:50:09,750 --> 00:50:16,430
roll up space include harpoon, UFO,
Long Trail, Clown Shoes, Otter Creek,

822
00:50:16,550 --> 00:50:21,950
The Shed, Catamount, Dunkin,
spiked, and Right Coast Spirits.

823
00:50:21,950 --> 00:50:27,230
While Finest Kind makes and
sells Wachusett five boroughs

824
00:50:27,390 --> 00:50:30,670
and Island District cocktails in
addition to Smuttynose.

825
00:50:31,030 --> 00:50:34,910
So all super average below
average stuff.

826
00:50:35,910 --> 00:50:38,950
I thought of the the Dunkin one
made me think of Deb.

827
00:50:38,990 --> 00:50:41,030
Yeah, because harpoon makes the
Dunkin. Yeah.

828
00:50:41,790 --> 00:50:45,150
Deb had us try one of the Dunkin
Spikes.

829
00:50:45,150 --> 00:50:49,950
I can't remember which one now.
It was so bad. What was it?

830
00:50:49,990 --> 00:50:53,110
Was it donut, though?
Like it did it? No no no.

831
00:50:53,110 --> 00:50:56,270
No, it was just bad. It was.
I just wish they would have came

832
00:50:56,270 --> 00:50:58,910
up with a better collab name.
You know, like Harpoon and

833
00:50:58,910 --> 00:51:02,450
Smuttynose could have been with,
like, Like a. Nose.

834
00:51:02,490 --> 00:51:04,370
Spear with balls or something
like that.

835
00:51:04,850 --> 00:51:09,210
We've got poon, you've got smut.
There's smut. Poon.

836
00:51:09,930 --> 00:51:14,610
Yeah, exactly. Poon. Smut. Yeah.
The options are endless.

837
00:51:14,730 --> 00:51:17,810
Yeah, really?
Instead, it's barrel one collective.

838
00:51:17,810 --> 00:51:20,770
Okay? Yeah. Not.
Not a lot of sense making there.

839
00:51:20,890 --> 00:51:22,810
Yeah.
Also not a barrel between those

840
00:51:22,810 --> 00:51:26,810
two companies.
Bunch of shitty cocktails and right.

841
00:51:27,210 --> 00:51:31,650
Clown shoes. Clown shoes? Yeah.
Blended on this one.

842
00:51:31,970 --> 00:51:37,890
13 prisoners escape jail after a
drunk detective opened cells and

843
00:51:37,890 --> 00:51:42,050
told inmates they were free to go.
The detective,

844
00:51:42,210 --> 00:51:47,610
in a state of intoxication,
forcibly seized cell keys from

845
00:51:47,610 --> 00:51:53,090
Constables Sara Banda and unlocked
both the male and female cells and

846
00:51:53,090 --> 00:51:57,050
instructed the suspects to leave,
stating they were free to cross over

847
00:51:57,090 --> 00:52:03,580
into the new year, according to a to
a statement by Zambia Police Service.

848
00:52:03,780 --> 00:52:07,900
How fucked up do you have to be
so fucked up. So bad?

849
00:52:08,300 --> 00:52:11,900
All but two of the 15 suspects
in the jail at the time escaped

850
00:52:12,020 --> 00:52:15,660
when the cells were opened on
the morning of December 31st.

851
00:52:15,860 --> 00:52:21,180
The suspects remained fugitives.
Police spokesman Ray oo munga

852
00:52:21,580 --> 00:52:25,500
told the News on Friday many of
the suspects face charges for

853
00:52:25,500 --> 00:52:28,740
serious crimes, including assault,
theft and burglary.

854
00:52:29,060 --> 00:52:31,900
Allowing them to remain at large
may pose a significant risk to

855
00:52:31,940 --> 00:52:35,220
public safety.
The detective fled the scene but

856
00:52:35,220 --> 00:52:40,900
was arrested soon afterwards.
The Zambia police. Zambia. Zambia.

857
00:52:40,940 --> 00:52:45,700
Zambia Police has intensified efforts
to locate and apprehend the escapees.

858
00:52:46,180 --> 00:52:49,860
We urge members of the public with
any information that may assist

859
00:52:49,860 --> 00:52:53,980
in locking the suspects to report
to the nearest police station.

860
00:52:54,340 --> 00:52:56,940
As of last Monday,
police had not provided any

861
00:52:56,940 --> 00:53:03,080
update on the escaped Inmates.
My goodness. Yeah. Wow. For free.

862
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:06,280
I mean, if you're like,
are you really, truly in trouble?

863
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:10,120
If you're told by your captor,
like, you're free, like,

864
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:12,960
and then you just go, right?
It's not like they cracked it

865
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:17,200
open themselves and ran. No.
The cop said you are free to go.

866
00:53:17,240 --> 00:53:20,280
They were let go. Yeah.
Unless he said, like,

867
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:25,680
come back in an hour.
They've already fled the country

868
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:29,600
or something. Yeah.
I love that that that's a that's a

869
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:33,760
special kind of drunk right there.
You have to be very intoxicated.

870
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:36,040
Yeah.
And he must have known he fucked

871
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:39,480
up because then he fled,
but was later apprehended. Right.

872
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:41,760
And, you know,
he's losing his job. Oh.

873
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:45,320
I don't know where Zambia is,
but I feel like he's more than

874
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,800
losing his job.
And how did he not lose his life?

875
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,520
Well, I mean, I guess,
like he let them free so they

876
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:54,000
were not going to attack him,
but, like, how do you choose?

877
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:58,460
Okay, I think I think I'm cool if I
just let these ones out Like this

878
00:53:58,460 --> 00:54:02,300
will go okay. Well, I think he left.
Everybody let everybody out.

879
00:54:02,300 --> 00:54:05,620
But the two of them just decided
we're not gonna get in trouble and.

880
00:54:05,620 --> 00:54:08,060
Stayed hanging. Back. That was.
At least that was my guess.

881
00:54:08,060 --> 00:54:12,100
Like we're gonna hang back because
this is totally not normal at all.

882
00:54:12,220 --> 00:54:20,500
Wow. Yeah. So, uh. Yeah. Okay.
Good for him. Yeah. And his.

883
00:54:21,180 --> 00:54:24,300
Whatever that was. But.
Yeah, he's got some homies for.

884
00:54:24,300 --> 00:54:27,540
Like, I was trying to.
I just googled Zambia's in Africa.

885
00:54:27,700 --> 00:54:31,940
Okay.
So, yeah, he's dude's dead for sure.

886
00:54:32,660 --> 00:54:37,060
For sure. There was no trial.
Oh, shit. Mhm. Yeah.

887
00:54:37,220 --> 00:54:39,300
I knew it wasn't here because it
was Constable.

888
00:54:39,860 --> 00:54:42,580
Well you said that too and that,
that sparked my mind.

889
00:54:42,580 --> 00:54:45,260
I'm like I don't think that's a
US story. Definitely not.

890
00:54:45,300 --> 00:54:48,380
Let's see where it goes.
I'm like yeah. Hello, Constable.

891
00:54:49,420 --> 00:54:53,220
Yeah.
He faced a shooting squad for sure.

892
00:54:53,420 --> 00:54:56,540
Yeah. Yeah. Line him up.
21 gun salute. Yep.

893
00:54:56,580 --> 00:54:58,630
Right at his face.
All right, let's, uh,

894
00:54:58,630 --> 00:55:02,750
let's end it on that happy note.
Happy New year to all.

895
00:55:03,350 --> 00:55:07,750
Uh, it's still January. Yep.
Don't participate in dry January.

896
00:55:07,910 --> 00:55:12,230
Be smart, be smart. Drink more.
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897
00:55:12,230 --> 00:55:14,790
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898
00:55:14,790 --> 00:55:18,310
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899
00:55:18,350 --> 00:55:21,430
Beer is the number to call.
And, uh, all that good stuff.

900
00:55:21,470 --> 00:55:24,150
Erica two weeks in a row.
Thanks for for hanging out with us.

901
00:55:24,230 --> 00:55:29,070
Yeah, guys, it's been great.
And thanks for having me. Yeah.

902
00:55:29,110 --> 00:55:33,950
Lovely. It was a crunchy time. Salty.
Crunchy. Salty. Crunchy time, indeed.

903
00:55:35,790 --> 00:55:40,830
I hope everyone is staying very well
hydrated out there. And on that note.

904
00:55:41,190 --> 00:55:42,150
Good night everybody.