All right. Should we do the damn things we can get?
Sleeping Beauty after Betty. Bye.
Let's get sleepy, Daddy.
So we be sleepy then.
And then for good.
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So much to get to today.
We have a voicemail from listener Mike.
We have a Ludacris libation line.
Some booze news.
The price of beer at every NFL stadium.
Don't worry, I won't read every single one.
No one wants to hear that.
But we'll pick a few out.
And if there's time, maybe we'll talk about the 12 lowest
calorie alcoholic drinks.
Oh, I can't wait for that one.
Yeah, in case you're not wanting to get soft, then we'll.
Have time for that. One.
Sorry, I ran out of time.
Good night, everybody.
I'm just begging for time.
You need to know.
I mean, you got to stay in your.
Your Buffet's in this shape, so it's important.
But then she will be happy, too, because then it'll be a longer show.
Because we'll read these 12.
Right. Low calorie per.
I know he wants these shows to your beard to be an hour and a half, but I think we
found the one and only person that wants these shows to be an hour and a half. So
until the votes
come in for them, you know, from all the other listeners.
He's not ready to keep them.
We're selling ourselves short.
You're right.
To our show coming in hot.
You look like, uh. Oh, fuck.
What is their name? The scuba kids.
That's a good one.
No, I was. I was thinking much more. Eighties.
It'll come to me anyways.
I am drinking over here a beer.
I was very excited to see that got released.
It is a. Collab.
Between Firestone, Walker and Humble Sea Brewing.
Son of. A bitch.
You see this one?
I did see it.
And I was really, really jealous. Good news.
I got it.
This guy, lucky dog.
Yeah, it's called Sea Haze.
It is a hazy IPA 6.8% as a 32.
Not important i b use and has a very low.
386 an untapped.
But it's only as of record and it only has 21 reviews.
So hopefully some intelligent people start checking it.
It says a collaboration with Humble C, combining our favorite hops
from our flagship IPAs to create an extra dense,
foggy IPA with huge hop flavors of passionfruit sirup, fresh
peaches, mango and orange pulp.
In the hops they use are Idaho seven Chinook Simcoe
Eldorado, Cashmere, Centennial and Calista.
And as you can see from the canopy, it is very humble C.
S careful. Possess.
With the cannot there.
And as you can see, I'm showing flecks.
I don't know why I keep saying, as you can see,
it's very foggy.
You find these foggy on a scale of 1 to 10,
I would say it's pretty foggy.
I like. It.
It's like a seven.
Like it's like it's it's it's foggy out of a one through ten.
Okay. Yeah, I.
I feel you.
On the schnoz.
I'm picking up some tropical fruits and a little bit of,
I don't know, like, maybe a little bit of bitterness, like some happiness
coming through on the old tongue jabber.
Yeah.
I am definitely getting the peaches and the mango.
Tons of peaches. Tons of mango flavor.
The finish is very oranges, citrusy, little bit of dank on the end.
And I can prove that because I let my wife try it and she's like, not my favorite.
So, you know, there's some hot bitterness
that's cleaning things up at the end there.
That's how you know.
Hey, Shannon. Yeah.
That's how you know, a hazy has a little bit of bitterness at the end
sugar it's fine not my favorites like oh, too bitter for you got it.
Because she will not drink a West Coast.
So anyways, really, really great collaboration.
I was lucky that I was able to pick this up.
In fact, this leads me into what I was doing over the weekend.
We did our last unfortunately,
I think last wakeboarding trip of the season.
And so we went to Paso Robles where we always go wakeboarding and
is also where the flagship of Firestone is located.
And I got the email while we were on that trip saying
we just released our collab with Humble C, and I was like.
Well, I'll be damn.
We're going to go to Firestone.
So on our way out of town, we head at Firestone.
And lo and behold, they were out.
No, with yeah.
So bought a crawler or something in the wife
but some merch from the sale rack because we're cheap and as we're leaving
she called the other location, the barrel work's
location, which we would be passing on our way home as well.
And, and they had it and so we stopped in and boy, it was a good thing we did.
They only had two, four packs left.
So wow, we stopped in and I grabbed a four pack and.
Can can I just say you weren't raised to.
Right. If you don't shop the sale rack.
Oh yeah.
I was like, I respect the hell out of that.
Yeah, me too.
As the guy front in the cash for this, I respect the hell out of.
Yeah, I love it.
In fact, we were up there with my sister and her boyfriend
and we walked in and myself and her boyfriend went over
to the little bar area where you can sample beers before you buy them.
And my sister found the sale rack was like, Hey, here's the sale rack over here.
Everything is like a, you know, 25% plus off.
And I was like, Hey, Shane, go check out the sale.
It's like a fucking stampede then. Yeah.
Like all the buffalo going so far.
Yeah, Dad? Yeah?
I killed my father yesterday. What can I. Say?
Sorry. Sorry.
Simba, you know, your dad will be missed,
but. Yeah, so a little sell rack merch
followed by a stop at the second Firestone location to pick this bad boy up.
And glad I did. It's really good.
I mean Firestone humble see to fantastical breweries.
It can't be bad.
I had seen the post, I'd gotten the email.
Then the only thing I thought was, Wow, I really, really
hope Greg gets this son of a bitch.
And I did.
And then to add on to that, not only do we stop at two separate fire
Firestone locations, but we also stopped in to there does not exist.
And I did see that as well.
Oh, very jealous again. And.
Love me some too many.
We stop being so. Again please.
Love me some tea any that I get. It yeah.
That was phenomenal.
At a couple of beers had one of their hazes
I think it was called Spore and it had a double.
Hayes You are there.
I mean, just the sister's boyfriend is like, Oh, I've never been here before.
We recommend.
And I was like, look, if you're into Hayes's, this is the place for Hayes.
These it's what they do the best.
Like all their beers are great, but like, they really make amazing.
Hayes uses like said don't miss out.
So he promptly ordered a West Coast. I mean.
It's like, all right, thanks, Dick.
But then his next one was amazing.
But yeah, yeah, they're God damn, I cannot get enough of them.
I wish they'd destroy destroyed a little further because it's not always.
Do they clean your beer?
They do.
They do can.
Yeah, but their distro is kind of here and there.
It's usually this far south of them.
It's like specialty bottle shops and that kind of thing.
So I'm assuming it's like small production.
Yeah, a.
Lot of I mean they have a few cause like their cultures are core.
I think they're hell. This is one of their cause.
Like they have, they have a few of them.
But overall, like the canning stuff, it's small runs.
I imagine they're doing like mobile canning lines and stuff.
Just I don't
I mean, maybe they have a candy line that would be sweet if they do make more.
Easy down here.
Because when I want a hazy, I want either TD any got it again
and they'll appear like it when it comes to California Macy's, TD
and E pure O and of course. Hmm.
We'll see what the fog is. They're making the best.
So they'll we will see how the hazy
Tirana site is coming up in a few days.
That that's still super exciting.
I probably will get a taste of it, but I'm very,
very excited for Nick and for working hands over there.
I'm excited for my tongue anyway.
Yeah, I.
Yeah, my tongue, my tongue, jobbers getting it stung.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Start flapping your wings coming out for the big inversion.
Oh, flap.
Oh, wait.
Flap wings.
Not two.
Wings. Wings, just lap. Whatever it takes.
That was pretty much all for the beer on that trip.
Got some pretty decent wakeboarding.
Here's the great thing about going wakeboarding in October.
Yes, it's cold as balls, but man, nobody is on the water.
And we.
Got some smooth fucking water to wakeboard on this week and it was so nice
and nothing says I'm old, like going wakeboarding
because every time I hurt so goddamn bad afterwards.
I feel like that's doing anything active when you're like mid-thirties.
Yeah. We'll go with mid thirties now.
So even going to a concert you get home
and it's like my feet are you don't, you don't even have to get home.
You're just in the car driving home from the venue and you're like,
fuck, my feet hurt, my legs are tired.
I got a black.
Tired one that was once, Come on, let's.
Stop. Throwing it out there.
I'm going to another concern about it in a roughly a month.
Okay.
I'm looking for not a black guy thinking I might die, though.
We'll see. Stay tuned.
I mean, from black guy to death, that's a real escalation.
It's a little bit rougher of a show.
Should we check in with Erica?
May make sure she made it out of the aftershock. Okay.
Yeah, she.
Can you yell like a telegraph or something?
Yeah.
Or maybe she needs a neighbor.
Like, find my phone so I can keep an eye on her.
You to make beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
Since we're all too old for concerts. Apparently.
Jesus. So?
So. Yeah.
So some good beer research.
Done a lot of wine tasting to Paso.
I don't. Yeah.
Why not do the wine?
No, not at all. I can't.
I mean I'll, I'll drink it, but you know, so I have my,
my brother in law, he likes nice things and.
Every already.
Get together or holiday or whatever, my mother or my in-laws house,
I should say,
he likes to bring like a really nice bottle of wine, be it a red or a white.
And they always ask me, Hey, do you want some wine with dinner?
Well, I'm not going to turn on alcohol.
Right, because I may or may not have a problem slash hobby.
Yeah, you're you're an enthusiast.
It's a lifestyle.
And, you know, I'll I'll gladly take some and they'll always ask me
what I think of it.
And I just think it tastes like wine,
like I, you know, and I saw like an asshole for saying that.
Cause I know people who drink wine say the same thing about beer.
People who drink bourbon
say the same thing about wine and be, you know, this whole vicious cycle.
But I just I don't get the wine thing.
Do you have a preference between, like, red and white?
I prefer red. Okay.
I only drink.
I can't do white aside from, like champagne.
White wine to me is is 99% of the time just and headache inducing.
Okay.
But give me a nice big cab or a tasty zin.
I'm all for it. I'm into the wine.
You and I just.
Maybe I'm. I just need to get cultured.
There you go. Coming out. We'll go wine tasting.
We've got a few memberships and be good.
So, yeah.
You really, really trying to pull my arm in?
Yeah. Start flapping. Come on. 11 something.
Next week.
Craft Wine Republic.
Everybody sit.
Stay tuned for that.
All right, so that was my drunk as trip.
What about you? What's going on over there?
Oh, so.
Actually, some pretty big news over here.
So we got a brewery up in Neenah, Wisconsin, which means nothing to anybody.
But if I say near Green Bay.
Okay, we'll kind of get an idea. Sure.
They're rolling out a location real
soon in a suburb around me, Wauwatosa.
And I got invited to their media day.
So I get to go check out their brewery,
check out all the specs on the the production and what they got going on.
They just bought a new two buildings.
It was about a year ago, and they connected
both of them somehow constructed a little
underground tunnel.
Yeah.
So I get to check that out and just mineshaft,
everything they've done with the place and try a bunch of their beers and,
you know, trying to promote their new location.
So that's going to be real, real exciting.
So I can talk about that. Yeah.
Does that make you an influencer?
Oh, I
he that's right.
I know. Some friends.
I have some friends who constantly call me an influencer.
You're such an influencer.
I don't like it.
I'm just like I'm a guy who likes craft beer who just started
putting it on a social media platform, who may or may.
Is that too is that too much?
It's definitely not too much, no.
Right. So that's influencer.
Yeah.
I'm just a guy in short green shorts asking beer to love me.
Yeah, exactly. Right. Yeah.
And then if you like beer too, let's drink it together.
Exactly. How about that?
You know, it's that reminds me, this weekend
on our trip, we're at one of our wineries and our like, we fucking own it.
One of the wineries. We visited.
And we're getting out of the car and we're starting to walk up.
And this tour like they had like the fancy tour bus and everything,
this tour of, of drunk wine, people are walking out. And.
One of the guys comes running from the winery.
Everyone else is like almost at the bus.
He was oui, oui, oui, oui, oui. Oui, oui.
You guys, you guys like, why? Like, did.
Everybody get their content?
Wow. Content. Yeah.
Not like, did you guys enjoy the wine or did you like it?
Did everybody get their content?
I was like, okay, fuck off and die.
We've hit that.
You know, what do you ever do?
You ever find yourself out and you're like, you have this brewery
trip planned or you're going to hit up a couple of breweries
or just go somewhere and you're like, Oh yeah, I'm going to.
This would be a great time to take some pics or some content, whatever.
And then you leave and you get home.
You're like, Wow, I didn't pull out my phone once and.
I had a really nice time and. I had a great time.
And sometimes for me, like I shouldn't say sometimes because a lot of time
that happens and I'm just like, I'm really glad I did that.
And I had, you
know, talked to some really nice people, made some really nice connections.
And I just didn't care about my phone
or social media or anything at all.
Yeah, sometimes.
Oh, it's a nice feeling to go home too.
Yeah.
So that will be like, you know, brewery or whatever and I'll go take a drink.
My wife would be like, wait, did you want to a picture that first and
and bless her she is trying to help me out and sometimes I'm just like,
you know what? No, I fucking don't. I don't.
I just want to drink it and not look at my phone right now, okay?
WOMAN Yeah, she's good.
Well, that sounds like an awesome night. Influencer
Can't wait to
hear the full report of your influence in night.
Stay tuned.
Yeah. Any good research lately?
Anything going.
On? So I've been meaning to make it out to a couple of places.
I haven't really gone out and got too much research.
I've actually cut back on my beer spending. Mm.
We're going to Nashville.
Oh, and now I'm a millionaire.
We're going to Nashville.
We made, like, a shotgun trip to Nashville.
So I will be going at the end of October.
So if anything, Nashville RECs for breweries or
whatever, we are going as a family.
So keep that in mind. But uh.
Oh yeah. Strip clubs got it.
No strip clubs.
And we are.
But yeah, I've been meaning to make it out to explore your
local brewpub by me.
Yeah, that's one of them.
All right, that. Is the mall one.
Wow. I love you. Great memory.
So. So they released the new hazy
in their series of the lost in the sauce.
Oh yeah. He's one of those. Yeah.
They're very good beers.
Yeah. Great cannot too.
Great start super experimental series.
And then they came out with another rendition of their I'll Trade
Ya, which is their peanut butter and jelly sour beer, which is best,
you know, that came out, it was like a hero about a year, year
and a half ago, a lot of breweries started coming out
with their peanut butter and jelly beers, raspberry and peanut butter.
Grape and peanut butter. Blame it on COVID.
Yeah, blame everything on COVID.
But this this brewpub, this brewery, they do the best
peanut butter and jelly beer I've ever had in my life.
And I mean, that goes up against Director and Southern Grist and yeah,
you know, a lot of big breweries, a lot of sour down breweries. So
but I mean, to make it up there, Eagle
Park had a new over fruited slush that released
it was a dragonfruit mango guava and that's going to be super dope.
So I can't wait to make it up there two nights.
Stay tuned.
A lot of research in the future.
Got lots of plans and in influxes life.
Including trips so slide into his dms at flex may be orange growers in between
if you got in Nashville recommendations we should hit up
it's hoppy choose Nashville like a year ago or something
telling us it was pretty awesome out there so. Oh, nice.
Yeah. Anybody else let us know.
Yeah will be staying at the old the Opryland Hotel.
Is that near the Grand Ole Opry? Yes.
Is it connected to the Grand Ole Opry?
I don't think it's connected, but I know it's real.
Nearby, we went we actually went to Nashville for my 30th birthday
four years ago, and we toured the Grand Ole Opry.
And we walked we you know, a you can walk through the hotel
a little bit like, you know, any Vegas hotel room.
And it was kind of gnarly.
So excited to stay there.
I don't think will tour the Grand Ole Opry again,
but I don't ah, you, I don't listen to country music but it was.
It was that was going to ask you.
Yeah. No I don't mean either.
And fucking standing.
Here.
Here's this country's I get no not Taylor Swift the Eagles.
You'd. Call the country.
I know but that's as country as I get
I'd say they have some heavy country influences.
Okay.
Especially like the Glenn Frey song, you know, take it easy, that kind of stuff.
Okay.
I can pretty country ask, you know, Tequila Sunrise.
But anything beyond that, I just want a redneck scene about trucks and dogs.
I can't do it.
Yeah.
You just alienated half the audience.
Yeah, no.
Well, no, Alabama doesn't listen to us anymore.
That's right.
Because they.
Can't figure out how.
Uh. Sorry.
Love it. Sorry. Yeah.
All right, before we find our folks to bring in one quick question.
This one's for the listeners.
This has been brought over the past few weeks.
How long is our show, that sort of thing?
And then I was reading on this podcast research on how long the perfect podcast
is. So I wanted to put I actually did and they said, is 37 minutes.
That's the perfect podcast machine. Out of here.
This one study. Yeah.
So I wanted to ask everyone, including you, who made it very clear
last week that 90 minutes would be his preferred listening time.
But to everyone listening, slide into our DMS mail us
mail at crappy republic dot com text us 805538b or whatever it is.
Let us know what you think the perfect length of a podcast should be.
We're just informal poll. That's all.
Can I tell you what I think? My.
My fit, my perfect podcast time is 86 minutes.
Oh, 80. Give me an hour and 20 minutes.
Why is it an hour and 20?
I don't know.
I feel like when when you're listening to something
and you really get into it or you're really enjoying it and maybe
like before you start the podcast, you already look at the runtime,
it's like 56 minutes and you're like, okay, like,
you know, I guess I can kill an hour and then you start listening to it
and you get really into it and you're laughing a lot,
and then you're like, Oh my God, it's it's over.
Like, if I just had 20 more minutes of the show,
you know, to keep me going through this drive
or this work workday or whatever, and have you
sometimes at 20 extra minutes, it, you know, it really does a lot for you.
Yeah. All right. So 80 minutes for you.
I think the very weird number, I think it's 40 to 42 minutes, your.
42 minute podcast. It's a
it's a weird, weird, very exact number 40.
So here's a for our listeners, anytime you see a 42 minute podcast,
just know that I'm extremely excited about it.
Like way. Too. Excited.
Should it be that excited?
Oh, dear.
All right.
I think it's time we ask the important questions around these parts.
In a world where craft beer is kind of on
hold, where muscles are bigger than ground, there's
only one tongue in guide us one man, one talent,
one tongue jobber.
In this world, we must find out
what is flax drinking.
Your people's eyebrow is better than mine.
Yeah, it goes free But can you do it?
Both eyes are just one.
No, just the one. Yeah. I feel like I have to think.
Like. A double eyebrow.
It's just look excited.
Mind fucking blow.
New beer name double people's eyebrow.
So do it, please.
It's good that collab goes on those breweries in New Jersey.
All right, I. Have another question, by the way.
I will we'll get to it. After this beer. Okay.
So anyway, so today I'm drinking Oliphant Brewing
Beer up in Somerset, Wisconsin, which is not close to me at all.
It's like a five hour drive.
But you know what that's like in California, because you guys are like
16 hours from the bottom of the state to the top of the state.
Well, a five hour drive out here is about 17 miles.
Yeah, see? That's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy.
So does it doesn't translate well.
Yeah.
So come on out.
So I'm.
Drinking Classic Flex, a hazy IPA called Lube
it's got some super gnarly cannot as I already showed Greg.
Yeah, great.
Mike Judge.
ESQ It's like a mike.
Judge meets Ghostbusters. Yeah.
Teenage Mutant Ninja. Turtles meets.
A little bit of acid. It's like a sewer.
I don't know. It's super weird.
So it is a is a can reads a hazy India pale
ale double dare I hopped with Citra hops so
and the the old schnoz which we dig in.
As one does.
As we all do you get a little
malt presence, little stone, fruity and citrusy,
kind of shocking.
And then as we warm up the old tongue, our.
Oh my favorite part.
Every time I do it for the crowd.
Yeah, we'll dig right in here.
So it's thick, it's hazy, it's got quite a malt backbone to it.
Interesting.
Mild citrus presence, but it goes down relatively smooth.
There's no bitterness.
Little, little lingering malty.
Like I'm saying, the malty backbone, too.
This is kind of heavy.
Surprising for a hazy.
Yeah.
Not something you'd usually find on a hazy.
I don't know if that's on purpose.
It's accidental, but, you know, it's a good beer.
It's.
It's palatable.
But it's not like a super juice bar.
I'm hazy. Sure. So, you know, I.
Probably give it like a three, three, seven fight.
Right?
You know, it's it's it's solid.
It has a397 overall.
So I don't think that's far off the.
Can out brings it up a couple of points.
Yeah, it does. It does.
I would say it's like a two thirds on the algorithm at a 6.5 abv.
Okay.
You know, it reminds me of it.
It just hit me. Real monsters.
Yeah, it does.
Because of the. Eyes.
Yeah, right. Because the eyes.
And. The eyes it does. Yeah.
Like Mike Judge meets.
They're real monsters.
Yeah. Like Nickelodeon.
Mike Judge.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I could see that.
Yeah. Well, very nice.
Yeah, the it's.
It's delectable enough. Okay.
You said you had a question for me. Oh.
So we had Nick a little worried.
We had Nick on the show last week. Right.
Good times.
And Nick says, CoLab, huh?
But I say collab.
Oh so you know, because it's a collaborate
when you say the word collaboration, it's sure vibration you don't there's.
No like Hado. Yeah. Well you see the whole.
Until I'm done, keep.
Your heart to yourself.
Yeah.
You know, so is a collab or collab.
It's a good question I have to admit.
I say collab with the HADO. And OC.
Because of Nick, because that's how he's always said it.
And I heard it early on, I was like, oh, collab.
But like I will also
sometimes do soft dough with an emphasis on the air.
So it's like, hey, they're collab.
Yeah. Okay, I can respect that one.
Yeah, I'm a collab person.
Like, Oh, they collab like.
Yeah.
So I guess it depends on the tense like, oh, I'm drinking this new collab,
but those two brewery's collab, collab.
Okay.
I never thought about that. Wow.
Stop reading my mind.
Making my noodle work over here.
Oh, good question.
Now we have to put up to a poll.
Apricot, apricot, cole, which is.
It's apricot.
Apricot with a hearty because we were descendants of Britain.
Before we get to Mike's voicemail, Ludacris Libation Law,
this comes out of Louisiana
where they say the law prohibits bars or restaurants from displaying
any alcohol brand name if it can be seen from outside the establishment.
So like no neon signs.
Right then I guess you. Could. That's what I'm getting at.
Yeah, you could have one inside if you can't see it outside.
But like if you have the blinds open and you can see it.
No, that's what.
If you can read it backwards from the outside.
So it's an outlet actually saying, you know,
you can't read the the name of what's sure said company.
No in politicians that would still not be cool.
They're so stupid.
The worst the worst.
Though the. Worst.
And honestly, it's a little surprising for a state that has fucking drive
thru liquor stores.
You can't see a Bud Light sign hanging in the window.
Well, unless you see like a.
Gill tub.
You know, bud light backwards, right? Oh.
I wish it ended there.
Goodnight, everybody.
I was like, The fuck is stuck.
Uh, you'd catch on.
No, I'm stupid. No.
So that was a good joke.
I'll give that one to you.
All right.
What a suck, Louisiana.
As I mentioned, last week,
90 Pine had their first anniversary.
Brett threw one hell of a party on her.
Medicine was delicious.
If somebody knows how to brew medicine, it's Brett.
She came from the.
The background of integration where, you know, lagers are kind of their thing.
I loved it because it was not sweet.
It was. It was fairly dry.
And that's how I like
my Oktoberfest beers, you know, a little more dry than sweet.
When they get too sweet, they get kind of sticky.
And honestly, it was a hot day.
I was a little afraid to try it, and I waited till nighttime to dry.
And once I did, I was like, Oh, I could've been drinking this one all day.
Oh, you son of a gun.
What a stupid mistake I made. Jump.
Yeah. So it was delicious.
Good party. It was a good time.
Love me some nutty pine.
And anyways, we ran into Mike, one of our friends Slash listeners,
and he decided he should leave a voicemail
after consuming many Americans.
Here's Mike.
Hello.
No one is available to take your call.
Please leave a message after the tone.
Right. Craft Beer Republic.
I am.
Sitting right next to you right this very minute and just reminding.
You of the time.
That you offended the fucking world.
They held up their bootleg
by telling them you didn't recognize them without a dick in his mouth.
But anyway.
You said they'll be important.
More of your I stop right now.
Well, yeah.
No, let you go buy me a beer right now.
So you're president of the bar.
Thank you, sir. But
I. I had totally.
Forgotten that story.
And then we started talking about it before he called the voicemail line.
805538 beer 2337a few years pre-COVID.
A few years back we were at integrin and we had a booth
I can't reveal is October faster feelings fest but we had a booth
and Mike was hanging out with us and Wylie, the poodle, he walked by
and I knew that he didn't know who Mike was, but Mike knew who he was.
And I said, you should walk up to him and say, Oh, it's weird.
I didn't recognize you with a dick in your mouth.
And well, Mike was fairly hydrated at that time as well, and he absolutely did it.
Oh, my. Goodness.
Oh, yeah.
I think Wylie handled it
well and kind of like looked at him funny and laughed it off a little bit.
But I don't think he'd. Actually do it.
Uh, Mike sounds like a stand up guy.
Class act all the way.
That is for sure.
Oh, it's good time.
So the thanks to Mike for calling the line as I was sitting right next to him
at Knotty Pine.
Thanks, Mike.
Uh, good times.
A little bit of news before we ride off into the sunset.
The World Cup, which I couldn't be paid.
I'm so excited about it. You're fired.
Oh, come on.
Are you really a soccer fan?
So I'm not a soccer fan, but I'm a World Cup fan.
Mm hmm.
It's like nobody.
It's like gymnastics in the Olympics.
Nobody has gymnastics. It's Olympics.
Yeah, I was just going to say, like, put it this way, like,
nobody watches, like, yearly downhill skiing.
But when the Olympics take place, you're like, holy shit, let me check this.
The skiing.
Nobody pays attention to your, you know,
synchronized swimming leagues.
And then once the Olympics happen, you're like, Holy shit.
USA, USA, USA.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Well, I still can be paid to care.
But, yeah, the same goes for soccer. All right, well.
You'll be happy to know that it's going to be in Qatar.
And they were going they're going to have drunk tents
so that drunk soccer fans have a place to sober up
and not receive or not be jailed because you can't be drunk in public.
And guitar, you know, is the first World Cup in a muslim country.
Yeah.
There is a thing about if they're even going to allow beer sales.
Yeah. So they are and they'll have the drunk tents.
If you're found to be too intoxicated, they'll, they'll bring you in there
and they won't let you go until you're sober enough to leave though.
Is that like an observation thing or are they actually going to like
breathalyzed you or something?
Yeah, I don't really know.
Honestly, it's kind of weird. I don't I don't know how they.
It seemed like an observation thing and the story I read, but who knows?
I tell you what, if I was at the World Cup, I would be in this tent.
I would. Yeah.
I would, too, because in order for me to watch soccer, I have to be real shattered.
And I mean.
The whole World Cup, though, man. Yeah.
Yeah, no.
Still not worth it.
Thinks the World Cup.
There's nothing I hate more in this world than a fucking vuvuzela.
So I think. It is that South Africa.
I don't know or care. Yeah, I think it was.
Sure. Ireland six will go with it.
Oh yes I am.
Great notion brewing has announced
finally and I had heard about this, but I wasn't allowed to say anything.
But now it's official.
They are opening a taproom
in Berkeley here in North Cal in the former
torpedo room, which is Sierra Nevadas torpedo room.
We talked about that a few months ago,
how they were closing down and mainly pandemic cited reasons.
Well great notion is opening up their taproom.
They're very excited. Well, that's nice.
Yeah, that'll be sweet.
You know, the wife's family is from North Cal, so maybe I can go get fucked up at
great notions tap taproom before I have to go hang out with them.
That sounds like a plan. Yeah. Because I'll need it.
That is for sure.
So looking forward to some hydration up there.
Good news for us
Californians on September 29th of this year, Bill
AB 920 was signed into law allowing
California craft distilleries to resume shipping spirits within the state.
What we talked about this, I think is a couple of months ago,
basically during COVID, they, you know, suspended all the alcohol laws
and you could ship spirits within the state and beer and everything.
And then they were the COVID laws were expire in
and the distilleries were fighting to get this permanent.
Yeah. So yeah.
So now it's, now it's permit.
So there was a brief time in California
the last month or so that you could not ship spirits.
They can again. Yeah. It's exciting.
Yeah. Yeah. Hurray!
Why the fuck. Not?
I mean, come on. No, I agree. 100%. Yeah.
You know, it's like when it's
like when you go to the post office and you get a sign for shipping
your sirup or your cold brew or your energy drinks, snow globes,
and the little prompt comes up and it's like, go sign.
If you're not shipping perfumes or mercury or alcohol,
it's like really perfumes or alcohol fit in with mercury.
Right?
Can we.
Have this conversation here at. This desk?
At the desk here? Can we?
What the fuck is that about?
I mean, they're all laws from buck, from prohibition.
That's the problem.
There's so many prohibition laws still on the books.
It's so fucked up. It's still.
I've considered doing an entire episode dedicated to, like,
prohibition laws that are still around because it's so insane now.
I mean, you probably end up being like a whole ten part series or something, but oh
yeah. Yeah.
Maybe it's you and I. Will.
Do all the research and get this going.
So and then also in California,
empty wine and liquor bottles are going to be worth $0.10.
So we have like CRV
or if you buy a can or a plastic bottle or something, it's an extra $0.05.
And if you recycle it, you get that money back.
Well, the wine industry has somehow all these years skirted all these years.
It's because they have politicians that own wineries
but have skirted this rule that you have not had to pay CRV on wine bottles
and now you'll be paying $0.10 beer wine bottles, but you'll get it back
if you recycle. So be good to the planet.
Go green. Yeah, go green.
All right.
The story everyone's been waiting for the price of beer at every NFL stadium.
We'll start at the bottom.
How about we start with your least favorite team?
Oh, my least favorite.
We see that. Yes.
The Seattle Seahawks and they average this out 16 ounce beer.
So it'd be same for everybody.
So this is based on a 16 ounce beer
and the average in the league is 1956 per 16 ounce beer.
The Seattle Seahawks. Oh.
1050. That's. Not bad.
Who's your least favorite team.
Rivalry would be the Bears,
but really where Tom Brady is so the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
All right.
Oh, they're very close to each other.
The Bucs 863 and the Bears 880.
A beer I'll. Mm hmm.
Now, on the happy side of things, the 40 Niners.
1150 P
fifth highest.
And then the Green Bay Packers at number 14, 950.
A beer.
They're salvageable.
Yeah, the cheapest beer in the league
comes with what is probably the shittiest team in the league.
The New York Jets.
Tell me it is the New York Jets.
Yeah, sorry, Mel, but at least your beer's cheap. 625.
You know what?
Let me tell you, Mel has been trying to get us out to New York for Jets games
because the tickets are falling so fucking cheap.
Can imagine why.
I think she went like two or three weeks ago and there was like
like low level end zone tickets for $86 apiece.
Uh huh.
And a couple of weeks later, it was like $100 apiece at any other NFL stadium.
That's like a. Lot more than that.
That's like, I don't know.
That's probably at least eight years ago, the 70 Sixers basketball team,
70 Sixers were having trouble filling the stadium.
So they did this, like, cold dynamic pricing thing and one dude
bought an entire row of seats for, like, $17.
What? Yeah.
And he sat by himself and took a picture from in this $17 Rosie.
She is. Yeah.
The Jets are the cheapest.
The most expensive.
I'm surprised it wasn't one of the California teams.
Dallas.
No, this is not where I would have gone for most expensive beer in the league.
Philadelphia Eagles while those.
Sons of bitches Philly fans are brutal.
Man Yeah.
1467 a pint followed
closely behind by the Chargers slash Rams since they share a stadium.
1375 Number four.
How do you think, Philly? That's weird, right?
Like nothing adds up?
No. Maybe their tickets are dirt cheap.
It's like the 70 Sixers, so they make it up and beer sales.
It's Philly.
They're doing all right this year, so who knows? Yeah.
So far, don't. Don't bet on them, though
it seems Philly was number one.
Number two and three are chargers.
Rams same price number four.
The Raiders in number five, the niners California keeping things expensive
for everybody.
Where to go maybe go see it. Yeah.
Yeah way to oh wait that's me.
And then you tell me flex
shall we talk about the 12 lowest calorie alcoholic drinks?
You know. What? We go to bed.
I love sleeping.
You know, I got to wake up at 3 a.m..
Yeah, I know. But I fucking love. Lists.
You know?
I love lists. You're not. Wrong.
Do you know that?
You're out to get me all riled up and excited
and pissed off all at the same time?
All right, so this is the 12 lowest calorie alcoholic drinks.
Oh, I don't know.
According to nutritionists.
I'll start at the bottom.
Number 12, a mimosa. Okay.
Number 11.
Yeah. I mean, I drink them all. I mean, I have learned to.
That's another problem.
That never a number 11.
Paloma. Never had one.
I've seen a lot of drinks like designed after them, like beer sours.
But I've never had a Paloma.
I'm not a tequila fan. So.
Yeah, number ten mojito.
Sure. Yeah.
Number nine, just straight up.
Chimpanzee. Okay. Which, by the way, shrimp.
Yeah, dry champagne.
Very low in carbs. If you're a carb watcher.
I'm not.
Oh. Me either.
Number three.
Number eight, a vodka soda.
No surprise there. Classic and classic.
Number seven, light beer. Really?
Yeah. It's under of vodka.
Here's what I don't know.
I don't know.
Are they talking like your standard Bud Light,
or are they talking like Michelob Ultra because they say.
Bud Light next?
Yeah, because they say you're getting about 100 calories.
And I don't think a Bud Light is 100 calories.
No, I don't think so either.
So it's like a light light beer.
Number six, white wine.
Number five,
a rum and Diet Coke number for a martini.
Ooh, number three, any like.
Oh, you like a martini.
Oh, dirty, dirty gin martini, please.
Oh, that's right.
You like gin? I'm not a drink drinker.
You know, I'll be honest.
I've never had, like, a really well-made gin martini, and I'm open to the idea.
But number three, red wine.
I can get on board with that number to a gin and tonic.
Uh, Daddy.
Like.
Oh, daddy.
And the number one, a pared down margarita.
Oh, what?
Pared down margaritas is margarita is
can be calorie bombs thanks to lots of sugar and triple sec.
Yeah.
Premade mixers can also be an issue due
to high sugar content to get around that we recommend using
fresh lime juice, tequila and a dash of agave sirup on the rocks.
Okay, I can get.
I mean, that's how I make margaritas, tequila, fresh lime.
Yeah. And like, a little bit of simple sirup.
I mean, that's I mean, and when I say a little,
I mean, like a very little bit of simple sirup, that's.
That's the best way to make them.
I don't need your pre-mixed sugary bowls now.
That shit's delicious.
Yeah. Way to go.
It's like. You mean the fresh. Yeah.
Can I tell you
a quick, fun story about pleasing tonics and how this sort of drinking gin?
Does it make you stronger? No, not at all.
Oh, okay. 18 years old.
You mean 21?
No, I was 18. Okay. 21. It is.
This is a funny story.
And we would go to this karaoke bar.
His, me and my friend loved to karaoke and we didn't know what we were doing.
So I thought, how could I make myself appear to be
so or mature?
20 years. 21 ish.
Hey, I'm going to order a gin and tonic
and people order those.
So I did and I indulged.
I was like, Wow, this is fucking delicious.
And that is how I started drinking gin.
All right.
You know, it's funny. It's similar story.
I dated a girl at the end of high school and into college, but before I was 21,
who her grandfather loved, vodka and Sprite.
And so when trying to appear older, I was like, Well,
I must be a fucking old man drink.
So I do like, yeah, I'll get a vodka sprite, please.
That's.
I mean, that's not a bad idea at all. Yeah.
Just trying like an old man, too.
Yeah.
It was just like, how can I seem like I know what I'm talking about?
Gin, tonic, please. Like, who orders gin?
Yeah.
And most importantly, you have to be, like, pre-load.
You walk to the bar like, hey, what you want? You don't what?
Be like, mm.
Yeah, yeah.
You don't tonic. Yeah.
What kind of gin house.
Gin. I'm a g bastard.
Good thing the karaoke bar didn't ask.
I just because they had one.
Yeah. Not many places have more than one.
Yeah. Albertson's brand gin. All right, here we. Go
now. Than, like, some grocery store brand.
No, the New Amsterdam.
Oh, lots of hangovers from that stuff.
All right.
I think that's pretty much everything.
I'll hit some music.
I will also say hello.
And how do you do to Vanessa? Hi, Vanessa.
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Appear find us at craft me a beer on the socials craft me a crafty beer.
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Think that's it?
Hope everyone stays very well hydrated.
And on that note, good night, everybody.