Third time's the charm. Come have a seat and join us as we once again take a carefree plunge into the unpredictable and sometimes surprising world of porch beer (apparently didn't learn our lesson the first two times.) This week, we discuss our New Year's resolutions, children's birthday parties, plumbing woes, wife karma, local brewpubs, old men at the gym, road rage, visiting parents, cheese, Nerf guns, pink, naked neighbors, blaxploitation films and much, much more. The featured beers are Ses...
Jan 08, 2015•1 hr 44 min
It’s time to inject your brain with our particular brand of holiday cheer. Come listen to us spew wildly on a wide variety of topics like penile selfies, crackers and cheese, Doritos, crappy salsa, larping, SCA naughtiness, gambling on Christmas, racial tension at Burger King and Popeyes, sci-fi movies and more. All that and a whole lot of other surprises are waiting under the podcast tree, along with some splendid beer from Wander Brewing. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal ...
Dec 27, 2014•1 hr 35 min
It's time to stumble down to Maggie's Pub in Ferndale with your favorite semi-tanked-albeit-still-inexplicably-lovable podcast and enjoy some space dust memories. This time around, Mike and Jeff talk about douchey driving, quiet rage, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, D&D, consoles vs. PC gaming, Wetlands, the Sony hack and so much more. The featured beers are Skagit River Brewery's Trumpeter and Elysian Brewing Company's Space Dust IPA. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zam...
Dec 18, 2014•1 hr 18 min
Do you ever feel, you know, not so fresh? Well, then it's time to cleanse those mental passages with your favorite cruelty-free, eco-friendly, free range, non-animal-exploiting podcast. So spread your brain wide and get ready as we flush your cerebellum out with refreshing topics like Facebook birthdays, Sandra Oh, roundabouts, traffic in Mexico, the streets of Eugene, dentists, Prefontaine, stoner food, Denny's, what to do in Eastern Washington and so much more. The featured beers are Bellingha...
Nov 26, 2014•2 hr 3 min
It’s time to blunder recklessly through Podcast Land with your favorite well-oiled podcast. On this episode, we discuss mariachi bands, Pepsi and Coke, Bimbo, big companies taking over small breweries, first person shooters, Elysian, Ninkasi, gamergate, catcalling, the Duggars, lazy parenting and more. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson. Got something to say to us? Send it to beerplus3@gmail.com or find us on Facebook.
Nov 18, 2014•2 hr 8 min
It's time to celebrate Halloween with your favorite blathering drunk podcast, and this year you get both a trick and a treat. Grab your costume and come party with us and our lovely wives as we discuss stealing things from Rick's house, margaritas, Texas, douching, vaginosis, all-day dick and whatever else claws it way of our zombified brains. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson. Got something to say to us? Send it to beerplus3@gmail.com or find us on ...
Nov 12, 2014•1 hr 15 min
It’s time to go trick-or-drinking with your favorite slightly tipsy podcast, so throw on your costume, give us some candy and join us as we discuss our Halloween plans, Chuckanut Brewery, buckets of beer, saggy nuts, Mormons, gun laws, cocoa butter, South Park, toilet habits, picky eaters, young love and whatever else is rolling around in our terrifying psyches. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson. Got something to say to us? Send it to beerplus3@gmail...
Nov 05, 2014•2 hr 17 min
We're asking that timeless question that has vexed philosophers since the beginning of time: where's the beef? This week, your favorite stumbling, bumbling, semi-sober podcast sets out on an epic adventure to find the best sloppy dive joint burger on the planet. Along the way, they discuss legalized marijuana, accidental porn, Internet entrapment, weight gain, comedians, Comcast, sex in the car and Febreze. All that served up with a giant side of onion rings. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jef...
Oct 29, 2014•2 hr 5 min
Jeff has returned, and it’s time to frolic in a carefree albeit slightly inebriated manner through a beautiful fields of topics with your favorite possibly-too-drunk-to-drive podcast. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson. Got something to say to us? Send it to beerplus3@gmail.com or find us on Facebook.
Oct 22, 2014•2 hr
It’s time to stumble carelessly into downtown Discussionville with your favorite mildly incapacitated podcast. The featured film is the last in the Trois Coleurs trilogy, Red. The featured beers are Laurelwood Brewing Company’s Pumpkin Ale and Southern Tier’s Pumking Imperial Ale. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson. Got something to say to us? Send it to beerplus3@gmail.com or find us on Facebook.
Oct 08, 2014•1 hr 48 min
It’s time to fondle your 12-sided die with your favorite not-entirely-sober-but-reasonably-coherent podcast. This week, we talk about the death of the iPod, bucket lists, the Eiffel Tower (sort of), world travel, college, Salvador Dali, medication, American eating habits and whatever else comes to our warped minds. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson. Got something to say to us? Send it to beerplus3@gmail.com or find us on Facebook.
Sep 16, 2014•1 hr 24 min
It’s time to go balls deep with your favorite stumbling drunk podcast. This week, we’re podcasting live from The Copper Hog in downtown Bellingham where we talk about last week’s PAX experiences, arcades, Windows 7, cars, speeding, teenagers, being dominated and whatever else comes to our twisted minds. The film discussed is Blue, the first film in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors trilogy. The featured beers are 7 Seas Brewing Ballz Deep Imperial IPA, Ten Barrels Brewing Bellingham Beer Week ...
Sep 10, 2014•1 hr 29 min
Beer Plus 3 is back and this time we’re not playing games… or maybe we are. This time around, your favorite semi-sober chatfest talks about all things gaming in honor of this year’s PAX Prime convention. It’s just Rick and Jeff this time, but Mike phones in from Seattle with his impressions of the first day. The featured film is The Smoking Tire’s All Cars Go To Heaven. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson. Got something to say to us? Send it to beerplu...
Sep 03, 2014•1 hr 40 min
It’s time to rub another one out with your favorite stumbling drunk podcast. Come listen to us ejaculate wildly on a wide variety of topics like sexy texting, the evils of Crayola, the ALS ice bucket challenge, dog owners, rule-happy Bellingham, feminine hygiene products, legal suicide and whatever else tumbles out of the holes on the front of our faces. The featured film is Upstream Color. The featured beers are Twelve Bar Brews Wicked Riff IPA, Skookum Brewery Daily Rind and Aslan Brewing Comp...
Aug 27, 2014•2 hr 8 min
Do you remember your first time? Well, come share your most intimate memories with your favorite sloppy drunk podcast as we ramble on about Star Wars, our first time, 9/11, HBO, children making food, Robin Williams, football, small town racists, true romance and whatever else falls out of our warped brains. The featured film is Cheap Thrills and the featured beers are Scuttlebutt Brewing Jalapeno Trippel Ale and Wander Brewing's On the Spot #2 and Together Belgian Dubbel. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast...
Aug 17, 2014•2 hr 10 min
Get down on it with your favorite drunken podcast as we talk about snakes, Mike’s new car, space engines, Jeff’s first taste of wine, dead people and anything else that crosses our warped little brains. The featured film is Dirty Girl. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson. Got something to say to us? Send it to beerplus3@gmail.com or find us on Facebook.
Aug 13, 2014•2 hr 1 min
We're back! And it's time to get your nastiest fetishes on with your favorite semi-coherent, semi-sober podcast. This week we talk about bad customer service, sex in public, kinks, 50 Shades of Gray, Jeff's surgery, Oregon, sleep habits and whatever else comes to our twisted little minds. The featured film is Sleepwalk With Me starring comedian Mike Birbiglia. The featured beers are by Deschutes Brewing. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson. Got somethi...
Aug 04, 2014•1 hr 21 min
Mike has fled this week to the land of beer and honey but filling in for him is our buddy, Jeff Miller, who brings along some fantastic beer from Skookum Brewery. (Note: The first half of this episode contains some unfortunate audio glitches that cause an echo on some of the participants mics. The problem goes away halfway through the episode. Hopefully this doesn’t diminish your enjoyment of the show.) The film is Django Unchained. The featured beers are Fremont Brewing Imperial Stout from Bell...
Jul 22, 2014•2 hr 2 min
It’s time to play gay chicken with your favorite podcast drinking buddies (and believe us when we say we’re not backing off.) In this episode, we cross swords over public nudity, fapping, soccer-playing robots, road rage, near beer and the notorious Penis Boy. The featured beers are Hi-Fi Thai Fi and Deschutes’ Not the Stoic and the movie chat centers on Dealin’ With Idiots. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson. Got something to say to us? Send it to be...
Jul 14, 2014•1 hr 50 min
The fireworks are flying and the brew is flowing in this special Fourth of July episode. Come celebrate freedom and the beer nation with your favorite raving and drooling podcast as we discuss everything and anything including the 2013 film Joe. The featured beers are Russian River Brewing Damnation Golden Ale and Fort George Brewery Spruce Budd Ale. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson. Got something to say to us? Send it to beerplus3@gmail.com.
Jul 08, 2014•1 hr 35 min
Finally, we're doing it in public! And Caleb is joining in on the fun too. This episode of Beer Plus 3 comes to you live from Maggie's Pub in Ferndale, Washington where the beer and talk never stop flowing. Note to our listeners: because this is our first time recording in a public location, there are some "issues" with the audio that start about midway through. Hopefully this doesn't diminish your enjoyment of this episode. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick ...
Jul 02, 2014•1 hr 56 min
In this week's episode, we confront our egos, hernias, sex talk with kids, beer in cans, OK Cupid profiles, Soundgarden, hippies, hipsters, unrest in Iraq and other earth-shatteringly important topics. And for the first time ever, we're broadcasting from beautiful Bellingham, Washington. The featured movie is the Canadian film Last Night from 1998. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson.
Jun 15, 2014•1 hr 55 min
For big bad Episode #7, Rick couldn't make it. Some bullshit about loving his family more than us. Caleb however likes us well enough that he was willing to take the empty seat. We start this early AM podcast with a lovely morning beer and discuss the films of Wes Anderson. Once the IPAs get involved, it doesn't take long before we get deep down and dirty inside Caleb. Wonder if he'll ever come on again. This episode of Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Caleb Sanders....
Jun 10, 2014•59 min
A trio of cranky old men discuss love and war and art and video games. What more could you ask for? This episode features reviews of Northfork Brewery and Thai Me Up's Melvin IPA. We go deep with Blue Ruin. BP3 LOVES HOV! The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson.
Jun 03, 2014•1 hr 52 min
Episode 1 of the Porch Beer Trilogy. On this episode of the Beer Plus 3 Podcast we finally discuss our wives. Features beers are Skookum Brewing's Mammoth and a three pack from Wander Brewing in Bellingham. A lengthy discussion of our aging parents ends before getting there when our ego gets in the way and we dissolve into a discussion about our rapidly deteriorating bodies. Also we toss off with Don Jon. Yet another movie we all can't seem to agree on but that's how we like it. Anyhow that's my...
May 26, 2014•1 hr 56 min
This podcast is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the products of the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Or not. Who knows? The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson.
May 14, 2014•2 hr 6 min
Live from downtown Portland, Oregon, the drunken trio and their gaggle of lovable friends embark on a night of brewery-hopping hoping to return sober enough to record a part two (spoiler: it doesn't happen.) The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson.
May 07, 2014•37 min
Now that we have some direction in mind, we're charging forward with no thoughts given to the consequences. Watch out, Podlandia... here we come. The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson.
Apr 29, 2014•2 hr 6 min
In this, our first podcast, we attempt to get our crap together by discussing what our podcast should be. Very meta, no? The Beer Plus 3 Podcast features Jeff Swatman, Micheal Zamora and Rick Anderson.
Apr 17, 2014•1 hr 47 min