I haven't had a drink in at least like 16 hours. Yeah, same.

Welcome in, everybody, to the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for listening, thanks for drinking, and most importantly, thanks for joining. I am Greg.

I am being joined by Fleximus Maximus. What's going on, buddy? It feels like it's been 100 years since I've heard this music. Dude, I was saying the same thing today.

I was like, I'm so fucking glad to be back on the mic. It just livened me up like so much right now. Yeah, I don't know about you, definitely hard over here. Yeah, let's get it.

Yeah, but don't make me stand up. Wow, at least we got a willing third party here. Yeah, willing, able, and ready to go.

Joining us all the way from the Midwest, which is more East than Flex. I don't get it. Anyways, Midwest to East.

Turd Ferguson himself, Zach OG Beer Dude. What's going on, buddy? What's happening? That is a hell of a segue, boys. Only the sexiest, yeah.

What's happening in Stinky Gary, Indiana? No, you know, still stinking, still stinking, but we got vans now. We're corporate sponsored.

Corporate sponsored, very nice. Look out. Oh man, so much to get to, so much to catch up with Zach. Before we get into any of that,

top listening city of last week, shout out to Council Bluffs, Iowa. That's not even a real place. It's not, it's absolutely fake.

So thanks to all you fake listeners. Ladies and gentlemen, we just make up the top listening cities. Clearly. Did you think about it? You found us out. If I was making it up, like I do a better job at making it up.

Like, I don't know, give us a cool sounding place. Maybe you just AI it like you do everything else. Maybe, but I think every week it'd be like Dildo Canada. Yeah.

Yeah, that would be cool though, like just once for real. Yeah, it's true. But if it was made up, every week it'd be like, and for the eighth week in a row,

the top listening city, Dildo Bay, Canada. Maybe they would send us beer. I'm still hoping they send us a big hard package of beer from Dildo Canada. That needs to happen.

Anyway. Would you say like a horse-sized package? Yeah. Too far? Not yet. Smaller the better. Nevermind.

Anyway, so thanks, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Find us all on the socials, thatcraftyrepublic, at flexmeabeer, underscores in between, of course, at og underscore beer dude.

Give us a follow and follow along with Zach's beer and van adventures over there. Before we get into anything,

I just need to review my beer because it is so goddamn fresh.

That is right. All right. Fresh as fuck. I'm drinking Sierra Nevada's Celebration 2023. Oh. Fresh from the IPA.

It's fresh from the fields. Didn't even hit a fermenter. Okay, maybe it did. 6.8%, 65 IBUs has a 4.14 untapped already.

They say freshly picked hops rushed from farm to brewery fill Celebration IPA with powerful citrus and pine flavors. When you're on the slopes with friends

or building a backyard campfire for the fam, you need a beer as fresh as fallen snow. Pure hops balanced with rich caramel malt make this celebration,

make this a celebration in every sip. And hops used this year are Cascade, Centennial, and Chinook. I usually don't get this so early.

Usually it's later November when I finally get my hands on this and it kind of rings in the holiday season for me. Let me make everything very loud and clear.

It is not the holiday season before Thanksgiving, you fucks. Take your Christmas lights down. Uh-oh, controversial.

Should we wait to have this conversation until you're done with the beer? Yeah, let's do that. Let me finish the beer, then we'll make fun of you. Anyway, so it is not the holiday season yet,

even though I am drinking Celebration Ale. But because I've drank it, we are now okay to usher in the holiday season in a week or so when Thanksgiving happens. In a week or so.

I think that 65 IBUs, I think they meant to put 265 IBUs. I feel like that's a bitter boy. That would be a bitter boy.

There's a local brewery out here that used to make one that was like 170 or something like that. The tongue can't perceive anything over like 120, so it doesn't even matter. One sec here.

So on the Schnauzer Rooney Dooney, mostly pine, light malt, mostly pine, tongue jobber follows. It is one of the more balanced, like a lot of times,

these are real like teeth stripping bitter. This one's a little more balanced, a little more subdued. And I like it. I find it as a good thing

and not such a fucking nod to stone stripping the enamel off your teeth in the 90s. And this is an every year purchase for you? Yeah, it's just, they change it every year.

It's fresh hops every year. It's just fun. One of those things to try, kind of means it's almost the whole thing. It's not quite. Yeah, I just like to see what they do with it every year.

So I very much enjoy these. If you need a good West Coast, I mean, who's going to do it better than Sierra Nevada with the fresh hop IPA? So there you go.

But also feeling like the holidays in California, that's a pretty big thing. Because me and Zach in the Midwest, we actually get cold. We actually get snow to where it feels

like that time of year. And it doesn't really get like that by you. No, it's going to be cold tonight though. The low is 52 as we record. Fuck off.

I think that was our high today. The high was 75. 75 was our high and our low is 52. So yeah, it's not feeling very wintry out here. It is supposed to rain this week.

So you can expect all Californians to lose their shit. There you go. And not know how to drive. So Flex, are you a pre Thanksgiving light putter upper?

Okay, so usually we are like in-house decorations. It's been getting earlier and earlier every single year.

So this year, my wife actually started taking down the Halloween decor on Halloween. And then she started decorating in the house

for Christmas on November 1st. Wow, and so how long until the divorce papers come out? Oh no, I'm all for it. Really? Oh dude, Christmas decorations make me so happy.

So then today, we actually set up all the outside shit, put the lights up. So still have a few more things to do,

but yeah, it's like, yeah, we're well on our way. Merry Christmas. And a Happy New Year.

Zach, are you a pre Thanksgiving guy? Generally, yeah. Generally we strip the Halloween stuff down, Christmas up. This year, we are going to wait until

Saturday after Thanksgiving. But I'm making a decent amount of the decorations for the first year, so. You're making them?

Yeah, I'm not a TikTok-y, five minute craft bullshit guy, just I don't like, I think it's all trash to be honest. Or now.

But yeah, but I got sent these, the multicolored little green lights that we all grew up with. You make a giant version, you use these like full noodles and two liter bottles.

I'm like, ah, that's kind of cute. Made it, and I'm like, kind of dig it. So now we're doing like a little candy land. Nice. Okay, right on. Yeah, yeah, I dig it. Yeah, back when I was a kid,

like the weekend after Thanksgiving was when stuff went up, trees and all that stuff. And now as a grumpy adult with no children, I'm like, eh, do we have to put shit up?

It just means we have to put it away in a few weeks. Yeah, it is different having the kids, because they really enjoy that aspect as well.

But yeah, truth be told, I fucking like, Christmas is like the happiest time of year for me. That's fantastic. Same. Absolutely love it. Yeah. To me. I mean, that's the kicker though,

you just leave all the decorations up till like June. Oh, my wife would if I let her. I'm like, hey, New Year's happened, it's not Christmas anymore, let's get that shit in the closet.

Does Shannon enjoy that? Oh, so much more than I do. I rain on her parade so fucking hard. If it were up to me, I'd be like,

yeah, hang a stocking and call it a day. Like, this is bullshit. I don't want to have to put this away on January 2nd, I'd rather just disappear. I don't want to deal with it.

And like I said, I don't have kids, and my dog sure doesn't like or give a fuck. Yeah, Marty could care less. No, in fact, he hates it, because we've got to move some of his shit around.

He's like, why'd you move my bed, assholes? You can put the tree somewhere else. It's not even a real tree, you fucking weirdos. We get pre-lit trees so we can get them up so early.

Yeah, there you go. Same, same, so. All right, well, there's my rant on Christmas. Fuck decorations. I will say, pre-pandemic especially,

it wasn't Christmas for me until I went to Disneyland. Disneyland Christmas is, that's my happy place, like Disneyland at Christmas time. Everything's decorated, it snows at night,

and you know, in SoCal, we don't know what snow looks like. We haven't been there for Christmas yet. Oh, it's so good. We let our passes go right before the pandemic. It was just by chance, and then.

Yeah, I remember you said that. Yeah, we haven't renewed, and we haven't been back since. Might be time to visit this year. Yeah, there you go. It's my wife's goal to get there during the Christmas season.

It is pretty great, pretty great. That seems like a nightmare. I'm just gonna be, I'll be that guy. It just seems like an absolute nightmare to me. Yeah, don't go on a Saturday. It's a fucking nightmare.

But like, if you could get yourself a weekday, like hit it up on a Wednesday or Thursday type thing. Okay. It's fantastic. Okay. Before the kids are out of school, like kids are still at school,

it's not Christmas break yet, because they put the Christmas decorations up in November. So you got like a month, a month and a half or whatever. All right, that's pretty cool. Yeah, it's like a,

isn't it like almost immediately after Halloween? Like they get in, and they take all the Halloween shit down almost immediately? Yeah, and I don't know if it's the Christmas stuff that goes up.

Like they start putting fall stuff up after fall slash winter, and then I don't know if the Christmas stuff is fully up until like Thanksgiving. I think they kind of start little by little. Okay.

By Thanksgiving or the week before Thanksgiving or something like that. It's fully erect, if you will. So- Daddy.

And then I think, then they let it go like another week after New Year's. So you have some time. Okay. And then it goes flaccid. Yeah, exactly. And then they clean it up and put it away for next year.

And we've come full circle. Yeah. Yep, there you go. There goes any chance of ever having Disney as a sponsor. Okay. Because they totally wanted us.

Fantastic. You know, a lot of times you get on with somebody and you go, hey, what's up? And then that person goes, eh, nothing, same old shit. Not the case with Zach.

Zach's been doing lots of things, moving and shaking. Zach, what the fuck is going on, bud? Yeah, it's been quite exciting. I'll try to do a condensed version.

I'm still kind of bathing in the realness, I guess. So Revolution of Chicago, which it's a larger company for sure,

offered me the dream job, brought me on as their state rep for now, and then moving up into a managerial position by the end of next year.

It's a long-term move within the company, still independently owned, which is super crazy. And then Flex probably knows, like Deedstar.

It's the big barrel program. It's one of the best. Even before I worked for them, I would say the same thing. And we were having a beer with Josh Deeth,

the creator and person who started Revolution at the brewery and it was like this very overwhelming moment. I got a little teary-eyed.

Holy smokes, man. Yeah, it was pretty cool. And yeah, they just welcomed me with open arms and it's been super cool, very exciting.

Yeah, before we got on air, you said you got it with the new gig and I didn't know it was that.

Yeah, so just the same kind of thing, beer rep, but from the supplier side, but it's more of a in-tune, in-depth kind of position

for right now and then getting more within the company over the next few years. I mean, they've tossed out five, 10-year plans,

which was kind of mind-boggling, but exciting. So very, very, very much looking forward to the future. Outstanding. Yeah. Look at you two. That's super awesome.

You two with your new jobs, moving and shaking. Wait, what's yours? Oh, you didn't hear about Flex? Yeah, I'm at a butcher shop now.

Get the fuck out of here. He professionally beats meat. That's fantastic. Yeah, I'm getting pretty good at it too. It's super, finally. So efficient right now.

He's down to less than a minute. I can beat so much meat in such little time. God, that makes so much sense to me. It's all adding up, right?

Well, that's awesome, man. Congrats on the fucking dream job. Thank you. Thank you very much. Now, when can we expect them to come out to California? I don't know. It would be pretty dope actually.

I mean, here they're a large company, but we never see it out your way, which is still, it's weird. So I'll have to ship you some beer. Maybe get some of the guys on the show too.

Yeah, that would be dope actually. Spreading the word. Greg would really like the pale. Oh, I love a good pale. It's like that, can't remember what the hell it was called.

I had it at a resort. Greg's Pale. But- Yeah, Greg's Pale. It's one of those classic malt-based, like malt-backed pale ales. And it's a crusher.

Nice, I dig it. Make some solid stuff, man. Yeah. Well, and then you've also been making some car moves. Yeah, so-

Let me backstory this real quick. He sent, Zach sends a picture of what he's about to talk about, and I'm so fucking lame, I was like, I don't get it.

What does it stand for? So, yeah, my close friends are gonna hear this

and they know, I have a very deep love for old vans. Not creepy panel vans. Everyone's hearing this. Down by the river.

Old conversion vans. This has got the VCRs, the TVs. It takes you back to when we were kids, you would do these road trips, and they're really not that easy to find anymore. And when you see them, you just,

you turn into a kid again. Well, your parents were not that cool, by the way. We didn't have cool vans for road trips. We had a cool van. Oh, fuck all y'all. We had a cool van.

We were nuts on our nuts to buy some road trips. We get a message from a very dear friend of ours,

Biz in Kokomo, and she had a friend that was selling a van. 9096 GMC conversion van, the long, huge bastards.

Everything still works. The inside looks like it's never been touched. 3,500 bucks cash. And so license plates are very, really important to me.

Get the van back home, and I'm getting it registered, and I'm thinking, all right, do we do Wilder, except the van, so it's Van Wilder. Do we go kind of nerdy and put Go, so it's Van Go.

And we go to the BMV, and we sit there, and I go, you know what, fuck it. We're gonna try to apply for VILF, V-I-L-F, which, of course, is-

And I was like, I don't get it. And yeah, I don't think Indiana got it either, because they fucking approved the plate, which, if you do a screen grab,

you can see me holding the actual plate and register. Oh, I got it. I gotta screen grab this. Here we go. Flex smile, hey. Got it. And there's your thumbnail.

Oh, it's so good. And yeah, so we apply for it. The lady just basically looks at me, and she's just like, nah, it's not gonna get approved. And sure as shit, a week and a half later, and even my wife was just like,

I can't fucking believe they approved this. That's so awesome. That's insane. And for all the idiots like me, what does VILF stand for? Oh, it's a van I'd like to fuck.

Right in the tailpipe, man. Where else would you put it? I told him, I said, I had a couple of people message me when he tagged us in that story, and I shared it.

And they're like, what is that supposed to mean? And I said, I'm pretty sure it's just van I'd like to fuck. Like, that's classic Zach. Yeah. Like, in a nutshell, that's Zach right there.

Well, also, Zach's not gonna own a van he doesn't wanna fuck, let's be honest. That's also true. Yeah, so it only makes sense. Yeah, and I mean, the bed in the back still operates,

it folds down, you know, you gotta do it. So you gotta do it. So in California, when you're going for vanity plates,

not only do you have to apply for whatever the plate says and then see if it's available on top of that, cause you do it online, you have to say like the reason for it

or the explanation behind it, you know, whatever it says. So if you were to do VILF in California,

you'd have to say like, it stands for van interlaced, you know, fingerlings or something like that, that is nothing at all like, man, I'd like to fuck.

Do they require, makes sense. It's a potato delivery van. Exactly, yeah. Hot spots coming in. Do you have to- Interlaced with what?

Well, IL, interlaced. Fingerling, but they're laced. With fingerlings. Do you have to explain it to the people at the DMV there? No, it's always super weird.

We've applied for quite a few. We've gotten most of them. Quite a few have also been turned down. We just got a letter. I wish it was a little more derogatory. I wish the letters were a little more blunt. Like, you're an idiot.

We're never approving this, but you just get a nice little letter. It's like, yeah, you're not getting this plate. Like a standard template. Yeah, pretty much.

Thank you for applying for this plate. You're an idiot. We regret to inform you that it is not that. We regret to inform you. Yeah, yeah. Flex went a little Alaska there.

Thank you for applying for this plate. I didn't know where I was going with it. That was the wheels turning. Well, in California, we have one, I think they call it the vintage plate

or the 60s plate or something like that. It's based on a plate that California issued in the 1960s. And my favorite is when you go on there, it says in order to use the number 69,

you have to have a car that was made in 1969. Apparently they get a lot of 69 requests in California. That's so good.

Yeah, 69 King coming at you. That's gotta be like a rule in most states. Yeah, I just, I don't think most states plastered on their website.

You know, it's like, no 69 you creeps. Unless of course you have a 69, which makes me want to go buy a car.

Just tell them you're a huge Bill and Ted fans. Yeah, there you go. Or you just like 69ing. Yeah, also true. That's very true. It would be good,

because like one of my dream cars is a 69 Camaro SS. I would love to get that car and then have the license plate be like 69ing

or 69 King or something just to, ha ha, I have a 69 fuckers, you can't stop me. 69 King. Now you have to do it. Oh, I'll do it. Do it. Do it.

Daddies. I'm doing it, all right. All the daddies. So much daddy. So much daddy. Oh, so good. Well, that's fucking awesome.

I'm glad you got your dream car with your dream plates. Love it. Yeah, you can watch all your 80s porno tapes in the back and all the-

You know how hard it is to fucking find VHS tapes nowadays? I would hope so. Actually, that made me curious the second you were about to say that,

thinking how hard is it to find VHS porn tapes now? Yeah, it's, I mean, it's the porn tapes, they're just, they stick together. It's just weird and creepy.

It's like finding some Disney clamshells is fine, but the adult ones, it's, they're tough. They're collectors. Yeah, what was it with those white puffy cases?

The Disney ones? Oh, yeah. The Nickelodeon ones are the best. The orange ones? Oh, ridiculous. We went to this Airbnb, I think it was like two years ago now,

and it was out in the middle of nowhere. It was like a little, when I say outhouse, I don't mean like toilet, but I mean like an outhouse, you know, a detached building on a farm.

And it was like a one bedroom house with a little like kitchen and living room. And there was no cell phone reception. This sounds like the makings of it, like a scary movie. No cell phone reception, no cable, no internet.

The only internet was at the main house, which was too far away to get the wifi. So like you had to go drive up the driveway to the main house, connect to their wifi, get directions to anywhere you wanted to go,

download it to your phone, and then go there. Like it was fucking insane. But in the little house, all they had was VHS tapes, no DVDs, no cable, nothing.

And so like we started watching VHS, at least one of the Toy Story sequels was there. We watched Doc Holiday. You guys ever heard of Doc Holiday?

Oh yeah. I mean, I know who Doc Holiday is. I think I've seen the movie once. It's Michael J. Fox, and he's like a big town doctor, and he goes to a small town. I forget the name of the town.

Maybe it's Holiday. I don't know. I was hoping it's Holiday. Oh no, no, sorry, Doc Hollywood. Doc Hollywood. I was gonna say, Doc Holiday is like Wyatt Earp. Yeah, sorry.

Hollywood, Doc Hollywood, because he's from LA and he's like big time, you know, plastic surgeon or whatever. That I've definitely never seen. No one's ever seen it. And the best part is it apparently came out right after Back to the Future,

because the back of the thing, the whole description of the movie is fresh off the great success of Back to the Future as Marty McFly, he's a doctor. You know, like it was all about like,

back to the future, back to the future, back to the future, and this movie. So watch it because you like Back to the Future. Anyways, it was one of those movies that was like so stupid,

but I'm also glad I've seen it now. It made my life complete. But that was a- Now I gotta find it on VHS now. Well, I think it's only on VHS. They never spent the time or money to put it on DVD or streaming.

Why would they? Yeah, so Doc Hollywood, if you guys need a cheesy 80s movie starring Michael J. Fox, good time. I'm good, I'm good. Yeah, it's worth a watch.

It's, you know, quality shit there. That's like saying Breast Men with David Schwimmer is a good watch. Oh, God. I've never seen it.

No, Zach knows what it is. No, I've never, no, I don't. Oh, you don't. I don't. Oh, it was like the movie of like the first,

the guys who did like the first breast implants. Oh. And it was called Breast Men. I'm googling this right now. Yeah, 1997. Breast Men.

Yeah, you see on like HBO and like Showtime all the time. Starring David Schwimmer and Chris Cooper. Oh my good God, I've never heard of this. Wow, that's hilarious.

It has three stars on IMDb. Oh, it's not great. I mean, IMDb also gives Biodome like a 4.1.

I mean, really, you can't trust IMDb. That's true, yeah. It's like trusting untapped or something. Yeah, so anyway.

Pauly Shore is like raiding a lager. Oh God, there's a movie.

This lager is wheezing, sorry. Oh God, that's too good. All right, I'll stop my horrible impression. Let's make a call to Penn.

Let's find out what Zach's drinking over there. He calls to the bullpen for beer.

Fuck yeah, he does. Bring in the raiders. What's that vilf driving son of a bitch drinking? Well, so this is gonna be a fun one because just so the people that are listening,

this was not intentional. I had no idea you were drinking what you were drinking. So I've got a 100 IBU, Uncessionable Imperial IPA from Rev.

Six hot varieties, Centennial, Cascade, Galaxy, Chinook, Amarillo Citra. 10%, 100 IBUs, just a big old West malt bomb.

Super tasty. Nose, not really a whole lot, weirdly enough. It's just way too easy to drink for 10%, which is why it's a one and done for me.

This is one of my winter go-to beers as well. That shit'll keep you warm at 10%. Yeah, that's really, 100 IBUs, oh ouch. Yeah, brush your teeth after that one.

Yeah. Filmy. Wow. Wow. What, what? Just so unexpected, that's what. It was, yeah.

It was really, I don't know. What, I talk about it all the time with those heavy West Coast, you know, it's like smoking a cigar the morning after when you wake up and you still have all that

Yeah. Cigar, Oh yeah. Smoky, yeah. All that ass is still coating your teeth. Yeah, it's filmy. Yeah, exactly.

Nice, well, I don't know about you guys. I don't know about you guys. Most 10%s for me, too much, like it gets a little too warm with the alcohol.

So if you can find someone who's doing a good job who balances that shit out, I'm all for it. It's a good one. The one you're drinking too is one of my favorites. Love that beer. Oh, Celebration? Yeah, it's good stuff, man.

Yeah, it's so good. Good stuff. I just love anything 10%. He's a whore. Got me. You got him, daddy. There's nothing wrong with that. Yeah.

All right, before we move on to some news, one thing I forgot to mention, last week on the show, I think it was last week, I was talking about my final wakeboard trip of the season.

Yeah, I forgot. And you found the way to get speed, right? Oh, I always got speed, baby. Yeah, I figured out a new form.

Actually, that was the last trip where I figured out a new form that I like that after 10 years of wakeboarding, it would've been nice to figure that out before. But anyways, one thing I forgot to mention, not really wakeboard related,

other than the fact that this is fresh off the heels of us talking about icing Erica at GABF,

and I was up there with my sister and her fiance, Stout Jack, and boy, were they- Wait, she's getting married? Have you heard? Your sister's getting married?

That's crazy. I did not know that. Yeah, she never puts it on social media. It's weird. She's got a fiance? Yeah, I'll have to show you his profile someday. I'll have to introduce you. Wow. Yeah, who knew? Who knew?

Never post about it. I'm gonna hear about this. Anyways, Stout Jack was very enthused

from my ice session at GABF with Erica, and we went to the store one night to get some dinner shit, and he goes, hey, I need to make a stop on the alcohol aisle.

Gets a six pack of ices, and this fool proceeded to ice my sister at like seven in the morning before we went wakeboarding.

Nice. Well, he goes, do you think I should do it? I was like, you're creating enemies real early in the morning, bud. Like, I don't know. You woke up and chose violence.

Like, I don't. She's a nice lady, right? She's nice. So we did it. He fucking iced her. We got back, and he iced her. He put it in a bag full of the stuff from the grocery store.

He's like, hey, can you put this away and hands it to her? So she reaches in the bag, and it was nice. Like a champ at like seven in the morning, she fucking puts it down. Like a Jones would.

Yeah, Jones is always putting it down. I know them Joneses. There's one thing we do good. That's Jones. Yeah, we spread our name everywhere.

So then revenge was on the mind for her, and we consulted on how to get him back, and I was like, I got this.

So we're on the boat, and I said, look, purposely. You're playing like devil's advocate for like both sides. Well, I tried to talk him out of icing her. It was way too early in the morning.

So if I got iced at seven in the morning, I've been pissed too. And so he is getting ready to wakeboard. He's out on the back swim step of the boat,

putting his board on. Well, put my board on. Get your own board, loser. He's putting my board on.

And I said, hey, I said, bring the rope in so he has to ask for it. And so we brought the rope back in the boat. So he gets all ready. He goes, hey, can I get the rope?

And I handed her the ice, put it in his hand, and she puts the ice in his hand as he's reaching for the rope. So then, of course, he had to chug an ice before wakeboarding.

That's pretty genius. Yeah. That's good. So then he tried to get me later on, and I knew it. It's like, uh-uh. Well, yeah, you had to have been like seeing this coming. Oh, yeah. Ever since now.

Ever since the sister that's getting married, what? And then the fiance, what? I know, you haven't heard any of this. That's crazy.

I'm sure now by saying this out loud, he's gonna try extra hard to get me next time we're in the same room. But I caught him sort of putting an ice in,

I have a boat bag with all of our boat stuff, in the boat bag, which is where my phone was at the time. And I was like, oh, crap, now I can't get my phone and wallet out. We were washing the boat when he did it.

After like an hour, I guess he finally went in and took it out and put it somewhere else. But that night he goes, you know, I totally had an ice in the boat bag. I was like, yeah, no shit, man.

Everybody knew it. That's why I didn't pull my phone out. So anyways, I had to mention that ice in's occurred while at the lake. What a rookie. Yeah. The easiest thing would probably be like,

well, no, cause your rule is like you have to touch it, right? Pretty much. First of all, like unknowingly touch it. Yeah, first of all, it's always my rule, you gotta touch it.

You put it in like a takeout food container and. See, I don't like the way he. He's gonna be like, hey, I'm bringing food over. Well, he plays the one where like, if you see it, you drink it.

Yeah, that's how we do it here. But I mean, he's talking like you put it on the kitchen table and if you walk into the kitchen, you gotta fucking drink the ice. And I'm like, no, that's way too easy. Otherwise I'd just put an ice all over the house for your dumb ass.

Yeah. There needs to be something behind it, some challenge behind it. See, that's where you gotta get creative. Like find somewhere that has a crawler machine,

friends at a brewery, dump like three of those in a crawler, crawler it. That's good. Hand you, and then you have no idea. Now you gotta chug fucking three of them. Yeah, exactly. Like when we iced Erica,

like she reached in the bag, grabbed it and she knew the rules and she had to drink it at that point. That's it. Yeah, once you took, like the last time my wife got me, we were at an Oktoberfest party and I was playing pool

and I ran out and she goes, hey, do you want me to get you a beer? And I was like, yes, please. And that bitch conspired with some of my friends and she goes, here's your beer. And I wasn't looking

and she handed me an ice. What a bitch. Right? Why I married her. I'm not commenting on any of this at all. I mean, I say mean things like that,

but it's why I married her. Let's be honest. Well, it was so hard. First off, Shannon doesn't listen. No. Second of all, if she does, I love you, Shannon. Me too. Really not a bitch.

Shannon, I have no idea who you are. I did not participate in any of this at all. Not a bitch, but a bitch move. Let me make it clear here. She's great. Yeah, great singer. Really great singer. New rules.

You grab the bottle, you gotta butt chug it. That's it. Lube it up, ladies. Here we go. Wait, you guys do it another way?

I guess we're the rookies as shit, Greg. Sometimes nasally, but yeah. Usually butt chug. That's what straws are for. Exactly.

But yeah, my thing is like you gotta touch it. You gotta be, you gotta touch it. You gotta be a little creative about it. Just seeing it to me is too easy. It's just too easy.

I love flex your pizza box and your toilet seat thing. Yeah, the pizza box is my all-time favorite. If you do this toilet seat one and someone lifts the toilet seat

with it taped under the toilet seat, to me, that's as good as touching it. Yeah, I mean, it's like- Because that's fucking genius. Elements of surprise are, you know,

there's levels of that, right? So it's like if somebody puts it on a kitchen table and the kitchen's empty and then the first person to walk in,

I would probably say, yeah, you drink it. Is it fun? Is it creative? No. It's too easy for me. It's too easy. But is it unexpected?

Like that's what you have to think. It's unexpected. I mean, like, is my mom expecting it? No. But is somebody- Your mom's always expecting.

We're talking about ice, not flex. Oh my good God. Oh, oh, oh, yeah, no, yeah, no, not ice. Yeah, don't get it twisted here. Yeah, just to me, that's too easy. But, you know, if you put it in a bag

or they reach for something or like my friend got me once, she goes, oh shit, I need something out of my car. Can you grab my keys out of my purse? And without looking, I just reached in the purse

and there was an ice and I had a drink. That's pretty good. Yeah, that kind of thing. I like the creativity behind it. Otherwise, it's just like, drink this ice. It was easy. Put it in somebody's shoe. They got to put their shoe on

in the morning at six o'clock in the morning, boom. You got to fucking drink it. What do you wear, clown shoes? I mean, I do. Oh, you know my shoe collection at this point. Come on. I mean, I literally wear clown shoes, so.

Zach actually has a collection of clown shoes. I might, I might. Zach, what size are your shoes? Size 13 foot, tiny penis.

Not with the right angles, not with the right angles. That's true. That's why the lighting is so dark in here. Yeah. It's all about the angle. It's that Rembrandt lighting. Perspective. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, I mean, you could fit like three bottles in my, my shoes are 16s. Big shoes, big socks. What did you say? 16s over here. Your foot is a size 16?

16. Get the fuck out of here. Yeah, it's not easy to find shoes, but it's easy to put your smeared off ice in them. Let me tell you. See, there you go. Probably fit three.

Yeah, so now anybody listening, they're just going to start slipping them in your shoe. I want royalties. Oh dear. All right, let's, let's knock out a couple of news stories

here and find out what Flex is drinking. Some breaking news last week, Oscar Blues Austin Brewery closed their tap room unexpectedly.

Oh no. Monster bought Canarchy, which is the parent company of Oscar Blues earlier in the year.

And now they're starting to clean house a little bit. So they say after more than seven years of producing and serving our beers from the Oscar Blues Brewery and tap room in Austin,

we've made the very difficult decision to wind down operations facility. Austin's current production will be shifted over to other Canarchy facilities and our products will remain available

for sale in retail on this day. They went on. It was kind of weird and also kind of shitty. They no noticed fired everybody that worked there. That shit. That's terrible.

Yeah, it wasn't a good day. So fuck you monster. I don't know. Yeah, yeah. Terrible energy drinks. Yeah. I wouldn't even touch them.

Me neither. I don't drink them. Yeah. I thought there was something else to that. You guys were just like, I don't drink them either. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

I don't know. I honestly, I think they're terrible. We ran out of jokes. I do. Yeah. The only time I ever drank them

was when they were free at Warped Tours. There you go. And when you're sweaty and dehydrated because it's 110 degrees

and you're just dancing and moshing, it's like let's put 200 grams of sugar per can in our body. That's smart. Thanks monster.

A little diabetes and caffeine. Let's do this. Will for Brimley. Yeah, diabetes. Nothing like dehydrating the already dehydrated. Do they still make Rockstar energy drinks?

Yeah. Oh yeah. That's PepsiCo right there. Okay. I drank those. That was probably the last energy drink that I drank was a Rockstar and that was like 15 years ago. But I'm old. They're all terrible.

I drink nothing but Ghost. Really? That energy drink? Yeah. Yeah. Transparent company, transparent labels. They tell you what's in it and that's what's in it.

I do love their labeling. And their flavors are top notch. I drink ZipFizz. Sour Patch Kids. ZipFizz, you're a ZipFizz guy? Yeah. There you go. Mix it with a little water.

You know, a bunch of vitamins, a little bit of caffeine. Good shit. I think I picked you guys as like pre-workout boys just like getting jacked on pre-workout Sure, why not?

Go to Disneyland. We're gonna walk five miles today at Disneyland. Clawing his face off, just ugh.

I do pre-workout in like the real bad winter months here. Okay. Because like when you wake up and it's cold as shit because my house is like a cement refrigerator.

Are all houses in Wisconsin? Yeah. So you don't want to get out of like the blankets early in the morning. So the only way to do it is to just get like super jacked and itchy.

Oh God, the itchiness. The beta-alani. Yes. Whatever I think of like pre-workout stuff, I just think of Cartman when he's trying to bulk up. It's like, I'm bulking up guys.

What are you trying to bulk up to? Fat ass, mega fat ass? That's all I could think about. That'd be me if I was doing pre-workout. I was like, what are you bulking up to?

That's classic South Park right there. That's the good old days of South Park. Like early years, yeah. Best years. It's back everybody. Whoever wants to drop way too much money on a beer,

$240 a bottle at 28%. Sam Adams. Sam Adams Utopias is returning for the 13th year. It's an odd number year, which means Boston Beer,

Sam Adams Utopias return is upon us. At 28%, they are uncarbonated $240 bottle.

2023 releases a blend of several batches of Boston Beer's extreme beers that were barrel aged in American bourbon, scotch, peated whiskey,

and French aperitif pinot de cher and barrels. Oui, oui. Yeah, Francois. Yep.

Beer is brewed and fermented at Boston Beer's Cincinnati Brewery. Sounds like poo poo. I think it turned Ferguson's French too.

And then transferred back to the cask room for aging at the company's Pennsylvania brewery that then blended with vintage Utopias and sampled at the Boston facility

and bottled at the Dogfish Head facility in Delaware. A lot of traveling for this beer. So much traveling. Yeah, due to labor, or labor laws,

due to alcohol laws, beer is not sold in- It's like the conversion van of beer. You know it. It's not sold in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,

Idaho, Missouri. Alabama, man! Roll tide. Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina,

Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, or West Virginia, the worst of the Virginias.

Yeah, that's like maybe the third worst state in the entire country. Behind. I was gonna ask the same thing. Alabama is number one. Okay, roll tide.

Roll tide. Number two. Number two's tough. Utah? Okay. Utah's pretty trash. I'd say it's up there. Yeah, I thought you might go Florida, honestly,

but at least, I guess they have the beach. No, you know, they got the beach, the ocean. And they got the Florida man. Florida man games. Oh, February, coming up. Shark attacks. Right? Vanessa.

Yeah, that's true. Hi, Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. It works out. Touche. Yeah, then like, you know, West Virginia, it's like all the hill people. Right, that's. Hills have eyes.

Yeah. Yeah, fuck that shit. West Virginia has a few eyes, for sure. They're all related. They eat like nothing but squirrel. West Virginia, we love you, by the way. Sure.

Top listing city next week, West Virginia. See how many times you can say West Virginia. Hey, Greg, that's not a city. It basically is, it's the same thing.

Oh, dear. All right, before we shit on West Virginia anymore, let's find out what Flex is drinking over there. In a world where craft beer is king,

a world where muscles are bigger than growlers, only one tongue can guide us.

One man, one tongue, one drinker.

In this world, we must find out what is Flex drinking? What is he drinking?

Today, I bought my beer solely based on the canner. That tracks. Yeah, you pigeonholed me.

So I'm drinking Rocket Rodeo from Dream State Brewing, and they are located in, I read it earlier, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Oh, speaking of Florida. So first off, before we get into anything about this beer, it is an astronaut riding this barrel rocket with this wicked looking, it was like a Mario.

It looks like a Mario bad guy thing. Yeah, and then they're going towards Earth. It's just, it's a wicked label.

8%, so that then sold me as well. 18.99 for the four pack. You know, California standards, it's pretty all right.

My standards, it was a little steep. I did nothing, sometimes before I buy beers, I will check untapped just to see what the hell's going on,

what people think about it. You know, you don't want to buy it if it's got a one star. Exactly. So I didn't even look it up until I got here.

On the show, Rocket Rodeo, collective 3.69. Oh, that's nice, dude.

But only 102 check-ins, so I don't know if Dream State is small, if people just don't check in for them.

I don't know what's going on here. But Untappd reads, it's a New England double IPA at 8%, hopped with mosaic and strata blend,

has a straw yellow hazy color, which as you see, it does. Accurate. With a mix of citrus fruits on the nose, reserved bitterness with a mild sweetness

to reinforce the juicy fruit flavors. Tons of pineapple funk with a berry finish. Okay.

So it says citrus fruits on the nose. It just smells like really hopped up, like almost like hop burn.

I don't get much fruitiness out of the aroma or aromatics, if you will, at all.

It just smells like a really hopped up beer. And then we warm up the old tongue jobber. Gotta start practicing that. So 69 King.

You would've gave me this beer and told me it was 8%. I'd call you a fucking liar. Goddamn liar. It is super thin.

It is like a touch spritzy, like with the carbonation, but it drinks like a pail. And it's really amazing in that sense.

It does have that pineapple, they say pineapple funk. It really just tastes like really, really ripe pineapple.

Don't get much of this berry finish because the pineapple flavor is so strong. I don't understand how anybody could not like this beer,

and have it a collective rating at three, six, nine. I mean, even with the canner.

The canner alone is a five out of five. Yeah, it's nuts. So might have to look into these guys a little bit more. Pretty decent stuff.

Nice. All right, a little bit of news before we hit on it. A little bit more news before we hit on it. Great Divide out of Denver has formed

a strategic partnership with Dry Dock Brewing. I could get into all the details, but the short of it is Dry Dock will be brewing at Great Divide for the most part.

You're gonna dock, don't you need a little bit of lube? A bit. Well. Too far, too far. I mean, yeah, try it. That's why it's Dry Dock, not Wet Dock.

Dry Dock, that's right. Yeah, so interesting to see what happens there. I see a lot of- New brewery name idea. You can't follow it up with inching into it either.

Oh dear. It seems like a lot of breweries, smaller breweries are starting to pick up partnerships

like this as the world changes, the beer world changes. Well, it's strategic. Exactly, it's a strategic partnership.

Potential bad news for AB InBev. The Teamsters have ceased their negotiations. International Brotherhood of Teamsters

has frozen national negotiations with AB due to the world's largest beer manufacturer refusing to improve healthcare benefits for workers and retirees.

They're refusing to negotiate with AB until the removal of a two-tier health benefit system is brought to the bargaining table. So basically, deliveries could be

pretty fucked up in a few months here. So there's gonna be a strike for- Could be. Yeah, the contract expires February 29th of 24.

Good, because people deserve good healthcare. That's true. And you're such a large company and make so much money that, I mean, I don't care if you work for a brewery that's shitty,

just, it's a job. Take care of your people. Yeah, healthcare's healthcare. Take care of your people. Yeah, exactly. That's one of those things that everyone should get. Healthcare. Golly gee, gosh darn it. Yeah, right?

What, the Mormon's getting mad now? What was that? Shit on you, Tyler. Trying to pass that AI grade test. I think we failed.

Miserably. I don't think AI knows what 69 is. It'll look like it. God, I hope, I'm going to chat GPD right now.

What is 69 and how do you do it? Is that how that works? Can you 69 backwards?

Oh, God, where's that gonna go? Wait, one way to find out. Exactly. Let's get backwards, everyone.

We'll end it on this one. Boy, should we end it. Yeah, we gotta end it. 25 year old Poughkeepsie man accused of driving drunk and striking two teens on Halloween.

I know what you're thinking, this sounds really bad. 25 year old Poughkeepsie man. I was gonna say, not a good story for this show, Grant. That's exactly what I thought. He was arrested on Halloween

after allegedly drunk driving on an electric scooter and striking two teenage trick or treaters. There we go. That's legit.

If he killed two teenagers, I would not have read the story. Nakim McLean was taken into custody on October 31st

following an incident on Sterling Drive. The teenager sustained only minor injuries, no shit, it was a scooter, and when treated at the scene,

he was charged with operation of an electric scooter while under the influence of alcohol. Try telling that to a future hiring person. Try, oh, God. Yeah, how do you do that?

Oh, I see you have a DUI. Dude, it was a fucking scooter. I was on a bird, man. It was a Razor, bro.

Yeah, how fucking embarrassing. But also a pretty solid fucking story. Especially those teens, hey man, how'd you get injured? Yeah, exactly.

Got swiped by some drunk douche on a bird. Could be worse. I mean, you're not wrong, it definitely could be worse. I think last week or the week before,

this guy got a DUI for riding a horse and drunk and now it's riding a horse. Well, you sold a scissor lift, didn't you? I got a DUI, yeah, a guy got a DUI

on a two-story scissor lift just cruising on the highway, sitting on a 12th back of beer, went to get beers for his crew back at the construction site, cop pulled him over.

Yeah, yeah. I think I missed this one. I'm gonna look it up, I'll send it to you. That is fantastic. I mean, that is horrible. Cut that out and save it for the next show.

If Zach finds it, we'll talk about it next week for sure, because that is too good. I'm on it. All right, I think that's everything in the Hill of Music.

Follow us on all the socials, Crap Beer Republic, of course, Flex Me Beer, underscores in between, and OG Beer Dude, underscores in between as well.

805-53-BEER is the number to call. And if you're driving down the highway, look out for that vilfe, everybody. Yeah. Yeah. It'll get ya.

It'll get ya. Don't say that, good God. That's true, especially not about a van. Do you have the bumper sticker that says-

I applied for a free candy license plate. No, come on. So we're gonna, okay. That was off air, that was off air. Not anymore, it's not. Tear, boys.

Do you have a bumper sticker that says if this van's a rockin', don't come a knockin'? No, but I swear to God, if there's a listener who wants to send it to me, let's make this happen.

There might be a co-host that wants to send it to you, so let's- Oh, please make this happen. Let's get this going. All right, I think that's everything. The AI grader's gonna love this show.

I hope everyone out there is staying very well hydrated. And on that note, good night, everybody.