Dropping Logs and Drinking Beers

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Thanks for joining. I am Greg, and over there with his siren song that is Flexy. What's up , big fella? Just trying to seduce the masses. Well, it's working over here, let me tell you . I don't know about the masses, but it's massive. Anyways, not a Pwner show. Never is. Never will be. I don't know. We keep trying real hard to turn into one. Anyways, find us on the socials, if you will, if you're still there. @CraftBeerRepublic and @FlexMeABeer_ is in

between. So much show to get to tonight. We are going to indulge in my favorite holiday tradition. Is that really happening already? Oh, it's time, my friend. Christmas is next week. There's not a better time to do it. We've got a ludicrous libation law. Words are already fantastic. Some booze news to get through. But before we get to all that, top listening city of last week. Shout out to Riverside, California. What's up, Riverside? Ish. They

're out east. They make all the money. California's California. How dare you? It's a Midwest perspective. Yeah. California should be like five different states, both in size and diversity. All right. Same thing when people say Wisconsin's basically Canada. It's not. And you're an asshole. I always think Minnesota's basically Canada. That's what I say. Yeah. Their accent's basically the same. It's so much worse than a Wisconsin accent. Especially like a Southern, like I'm

Southeastern Wisconsin, like the Southeast corner. So yeah. Like Minnesota,

they got the A and you know, they sound very Canadian. They play duck, duck, gray duck. Like it's fucking weird. Is that a real thing? Duck, duck, gray duck. Yeah. And it's only in Minnesota. I've never fucking heard of that before. Everybody else around the country that 's normal plays duck, duck, goose. Not in Canada. They are in Minnesota. They play duck, duck, gray duck or both. Yeah. That's fucking hilarious. I've never heard that. That's so good.

It's funny when I meet people or talk to people that live in Minnesota, I always work that into the conversation and they're always like the look of shock and embarrassment on their face. Yeah. It's like, you found us out. It's like, no, it's a big fucking state. It 's pretty fucking weird. Like y'all are fucking weird. It's a weird fucking game you guys play. Biggest ball of twine is in Minnesota. That just says it all. That sounds like something you would

stop at though. I would only like the roadside attractions, but here's, okay, this is a little thing for me. It's a weird Al Yankovic song. Biggest ball of twine in Minnesota . And ever since I heard the song, it's just really well done. He's great songwriter, very great singer and how his lyrics are funny as hell. I would stop at it only because of his song. I would never stop at it just to stop at it. Did you see his movie a couple of years ago? No, no.

With Daniel Radcliffe. Yeah. It was like the, the fake biopic. Yeah. It came out on some streaming service that I didn't have. Oh, I watched it on the flight to Portugal a couple of months ago and you know, I wish I was drunk or stoned when I watched it because it's silly. If you go in thinking like this is going to be dumb as fuck, I think you're good. I didn't realize how fake it was. I thought it was his story with some embellishments and I was

very not at all correct. Yeah. Yeah. It was completely, there's like a scene where he's supposed to have sex with Madonna. Oh, they date for a while in the movie. Oh, okay. So there you have it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, not to give anything away, but like Madonna basically ruins his life. That's hilarious. Yeah. It's pretty good. So anyways, enough about Madonna,

not a Madonna show, but it is not a weird show. Well, maybe one of these days, but for now it's still a beer show. So let's find out what beer flex is drinking over there in a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than grow

lers. Only one tongue can guide us. One man, one tongue, one tongue jobber. In this world, find out what is flex drinking. It's even better because like you bumped your camera and start shaking while you're eating out the air. Damn. I'm pretty good. It's a little fun story here. I don't know how many people do this. If it's a normal thing, if it's not a normal thing. Uh, I bring my kids

to the liquor store with me. This is my favorite is frown upon it. I don't care what I love that you do this because I know they're picking at your beer a hundred percent based on not only do they love to pick it out. My youngest, she's eight. She loves carrying it around because it makes her feel strong. You know, four pack of beer, you know, a few pounds to it. Yeah. Just a couple. But, uh, she was walking around the store the other day with

two of them and she said, man, look how strong I am. And I just said, yep. Yeah , you are just beat into it. So, um, I, I was only going to get two, four packs the other day. Classic cheapskate flex. And then my kids found this beer. It is called croc couture and we're not talking like croc, like a crocodile. We're talking to shoes or talking cro

cs like the shoes. Oh yeah. And then it's these sparkly silver, some shiny crocs crocs on this hairy ass man's leg. Um, but they got to like love their crocs. It's even got like a little croc charm on this croc. And, uh, the, the hand, the handle, the heels in the, in the back, it's up. So they're built for speed right here. Duh. Um, aren't all crocs, but you got the, the little thing that lifts up in the back, right? You can either push it for a

little strappy thing. Yeah. The strappy thing. That's what I was good at. So this one is on the heel. So this man or woman, they're, they're built for speed. They were moving. They're moving on this can. Uh, and my kids, they, they love their crocs. I don 't understand. I don't own a pair. Never have. They probably never will. I also hear they're comfortable. We will probably hit an age where we're like, you know what we need? It's fucking crocs.

I'm going to disagree strongly, but you know, they, they always say, never say never. Uh, but this one's out of never heard of them. Little house. Sorry. I never have a little house brewing company. And again, much like last week, apparently I just love Connecticut beer. Oh, where the hell I found it. I found back to the CT. Yeah. The fuck did it say? Doesn't matter. They're from Connecticut somewhere. North Haven. There you go. One of two cities.

Yeah. I'm pretty sure that is only their city. Was it new Haven in Bristol? We decided. Yes. That is exactly what it was. Uh, so I'm untapped here again. Must be a relatively new beer. I don't know how they get these recent drops from all these places or new breweries or what's going on. 314 seconds. That's it. Uh, three and five. It's a, it says it 's a new England, hazy IPA, 6%. Um, it's, I'll read the can. It's a little more on the can. It

says crocs, crocs, crocs. We just love crocs. We're crazy about them. Who isn't this one's for all the croc lovers out there. A go-to IPA made with dependable hops to match everyone's super reliable, always in season footwear friend crocs. And then a little, uh, art part hand on the on tap does tell me that it's Citra mosaic Simcoe and Centennial. I was going to say old faithful hops or whatever they called it. You know, it's gonna be a

bunch of C hops, right? And I figured it was just like, uh, kind of like a flagship. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. I don't know. But we'll get, uh, pour it a little out here. Take a little sniff or some out for the homies. It's definitely a little hoppy. There 's like hints of like small hints of like malt pine and then like some citrus coming through. Hmm. Sounds a little old school, but it's got some old school hops, right? That's what I'm thinking.

So, uh, on the old tongue jobber now, there we go. So it does have a bit of a malt backbone and then you get a little sweetness after that. And then, um, man, what is that flavor right there? Pine. No, it's not. It's like a, it's definitely like a fruity flavor. I just can't figure out what it is. One second. Like a, a subtle sweetness after the malt, no bitterness. And it really is just like subtle malt character. Not my favorite in

hazies, but it's not bad. I was going to say, would you consider it a hazy or an unfiltered? So look at it. Cause I could kind of see it in the background there. Yeah. The beer itself is, is very hazy. Um, but it's got more of that old school coloring to it. Well , it is darker, like, like a golden rod, a little bit, almost that, uh, Amber color. It 's, it's not bad. It's not great. I can drink it. I don't think I would get it again, but I'm

happy. My kids, you know, are into, you know, picking out what they want me to drink. I think that's like a fun. I love it so much. When you have kids as a dad, as a guy, husband, whatever male dude, you know, you always like people are like, Oh, do you want a boy? Do you want a boy? Well, it doesn't matter if you have a boy or a girl, because if you raise your kids, right, you, your interests will eventually rub off on your children, right?

Whether it's sports superheroes, you know, if you're, whatever you're into being a drunk, exactly. It'll eventually, you know, something will rub off onto them and they will take some kind of interest, whether it's full or partial. And I don't know, I just think it's kind of like a, that they have fun with it. Wait till she's 12. She'll be like pumping iron and slamming IPAs. If my kids do that at 12, she'll be president. You've done something

right at that point. Yeah. Well, except the drunk part. Probably not good idea. Is it 12 late for Wisconsin? I mean, don't they start a little early there? Yeah. I think my father-in-law and my dad both started at 10. We're talking, we're talking drinking and cigs. So, and uh, that's old school. I got pretty nuts here. Yeah. Well,

very nice. I love when your kids pick out your beer. Cause it's, it's basically like a Russian roulette and because they find like the prettiest or funniest or whatever cans they can find, right. It says absolutely nothing about the beer and I can't hear nothing about the brewery. Yeah. Zero fucks. I love it. I can't wait until you try it. So when you said that you're kids picked out of your beer, I was like, yes, here we go. Yeah. And I purposely planned

on having it after they bought it. I was like, Greg's gonna love this. And did you get the whole four pack of it? I did. You got three more of those bad boys, huh? This one, I don't think this one was bad. It was like maybe $13.99. Goddamn your beer is cheap. You know, but you know that quad I had last week, I mean, I was even kind of impressed with this. This is only $19.99 for a evil twin quad. It's pretty good. Especially with the algorithm

being such a high ABV and all that stuff. Right. I would say that was probably like a one to one to one ratio if I was to guess. That beer was really good. But this one, it's okay. It's drinkable. I can finish the four pack. I just, I just really don't think I'd buy it again. Yeah, that's fair. Not a dream pour. I am curious on what these guys, what else these guys have to offer here in a little house. Yeah. Cause I've never heard of them.

Right. Yeah. I don't know if you have, I know I have not, this is the first time. Thanks to your daughters for introducing me to a new brewery. They'll say you're welcome. Yeah. On their behalf. You know, sometimes the closest I get, you know, no kids and Marty's not great at picking out beer. He just likes to drink mine. The wife and I will sometimes , you know, like if, if I finish a beer and she's getting up to go to the kitchen, like, Hey, can you

get me a beer? And she'll go, what do you want? I was surprised me. So she'll pour it in a glass and then bring it to me and make me guess what it is. Always. If that's fun, we'll do that to each other. Like, guess what kind of style it is or what beer exactly it is all the above. So it'd be like, oh, this is, you know, clearly if it's a ha zy, it's duh, it's a hazy. Um, you can see it out the bat, but you know, like, Oh, this is, it could

be juicy. Greg. Well, you wouldn't see that though. You bite your tongue. Oh yeah. Um, you know, and then it's like, okay, based on what you know about the beer that 's in the fridge, you know, what beer do you think this is? And, um, you know, pretty decent track record because I know what beer is in the fridge. That's what my favorite beer tender

will do. Sometimes I'll tell him to just, he said, ah, what do you want? Just give me some kind of IPA and he'll pour me an IPA and then I will guess off of what's on the menu. Yeah. What he gave me. That's all. I like that. Yeah. It's fun to guess. It's good times. Uh, all right. Any, um, besides, you know, hanging out with your kids, any, any research lately? I, I, I don't know about you. I've been, um, work. I'm still on the

road. I'm in a hotel again this week and just said, done a ton of work with the

holidays. Yeah. Not a ton of time for research for me. Same. I'm, I'm on the same page there. So, um, all right. I won't talk about my research thing cause I don't, I don't really have anything to talk about. Sorry, everybody. Yeah. But it is the holiday season and there's one of the season as someone said, yes. And there's something that I must do every year. And once again, I will give everyone a little backstory for all the new listeners. I grew up listening

to Mark and Brian radio show in here in LA and it was a morning show. Mark and Brian were hilarious. Um, sort of my, um, my radio gods. If you, Mark always called himself a radio God. Anyways, they, I think it was Mark that found this, maybe it was Brian, a sociopath, right? Narcissist. Um, he found at like a goodwill, this old, old, old Disney record that had like, uh, Christmas songs and stories and you know, just got a

Christmas record of sorts from Disney from way back when. And on it was this track I'm about to play you and I fucking love it. I crack up every time I laughed as a kid when they first started playing this and every year it's still my favorite. So because they're no longer on the air ever since I started podcasting, which was the year they went off the air, I've played this on all the shows I've been a part of because it's just my fucking favorite and

without this, it's not Christmas time. So everybody, please enjoy the dropping of the Yule log. Christmas Eve is probably the most exciting

night of the year for children everywhere. At our house, the ritual is always the same. Mom hurries dinner out of the way so that the festivities can begin. First, I lay a fire in the fireplace. I pride myself on the way I lay a fire. To begin, I cr inkle newspaper to put under the grate. Then I put in the kindling, breaking the sticks into the proper lengths. Then I bring in the Yule log and put it in the grate. That's the biggest log

we've ever had, Dad. Yeah, and the heaviest too. If that doesn't sound like someone taking a shit, I don't know what does. The grunting, the dropping, just all of it. Also, so first off, let me say, I look forward to Christmas every year and this is one of the reasons I love it. Number two and then number three. Thank you. We we've all started fires before. Sure, whether you have a fire pit. How big are the logs that you like? This guy sounds

like he is in an entire tree. Also, just one log. Usually it's like a couple. I don't know. Because you need to, but it's the Yule log. So that's wild. Yeah, I love it. I clearly the dude's taking a shit and the newspaper crinkling sounds like the ocean and some Foley artists got paid way too much money for that. And they're like, I got to earn my keep more sound effects. It's brilliant. Yeah. I don't know whose idea that was, but that was, yeah.

I love when the sticks are breaking. It sounds like those little poppers. It just sounds like whips over that. Yeah. I always reminds me the little poppers that you throw at the ground. Little white popper things. Yeah, yeah. Everybody down. So anyways, everybody, you may now celebrate the holiday season. You're welcome. It's official. It's official.

You cannot celebrate until we have the dropping of the Yule log. Log has been dropped. Go forth and celebrate. All right. Before I talk about my beverage, still ludic rous libation law, going to California for this one. California prohibits alcohol producers

from listing the names of retailers or restaurants that sell their products. That also includes advertising and newsletters. Damn, which I thought was interesting because like I know a lot of breweries and the one I could thought of the most was stone has a beer finder thing on their website. Find our beer, type in your zip code and we'll show you where we sell our beer around there. So I wonder if like the Internet is like a loophole for that. Yeah, I don't know. Because

believe it or not, Greg, WWW stands for World Wide Web. I don't know if you do this. It's like a 90s thing. I thought it was World Wide Wrestling. One would hope so. So maybe it's like a loophole. Like it's technically not considered local because it's vast. Yeah. Or maybe it's like it's not advertisements or whatever, because you have to do the searching. They just give you the result. I don't know. It's weird. It's very California. California.

It's so funny. Has some really cool alcohol laws and then has some really weird alcohol laws like we are one of the few states that solidified after COVID the whole like booze to go thing. Right. But then we have this weird shit where it's like you can't tell people where to find your beer. Oh, all right. The alcohol to go thing is still pretty weird because you can't do that anywhere here. Oh, I would think Wisconsin of all places would

be right. You would think so. DTF. Yeah. Like I'm pretty certain all the restaurants and stuff that we're doing to go stuff just kind of killed it after everything. Once it expired. Right. Yeah. Not here. There's nothing like ordering from the local Mexican restaurant and getting like three margaritas to go. Yeah. And nem shits was some shit. Let

me tell you. There's a local chain. They're just, I think just in Southern California, it's a barbecue place. It's called Wood Ranch. During COVID you could order an old fashioned or I mean you can order multiple cocktails, but the one we would order is the old fashioned. And for what was basically like 18 bucks, you'd get like four drinks worth of old fashioned and they just fill up one of those soup containers. Fucking fantastic. And they were not light

on the booze. They were great. That's what you want. Oh, it's absolutely. It was great during that time. You couldn't ask for anything better. No, we needed the booze during that time. Let me tell you. I don't know how people made it without honest to goodness. Like I know I didn't. I know I put on some weight in 2020 cause I did a little extra drinking that year. A lot of, a lot of people did. Yeah. Still carrying it around too. Um, all

right, let's uh, let's make a call of the pen if you don't mind. You know, tis

the season, the giving season and uh, intern Brian was very giving. He hooked me up with a couple of beers. Uh, but one of them is this Trillium Fort point pale ale. Yeah. Yeah.

Another pale two weeks in a row cause you know, I don't care what season it is. I want some fucking pales and I wanted to be hazy cause I'm a Hayes bitch. Uh, it's 6.6% which to me really inching into that IPA territory, but whatever that is pretty heavy for a pale. I feel like anything over 6.5 or even over six weeks. Yeah, I think six is heavy, but 6.5 and above

to me, we're talking IPA territory, but either way I'll take it. Uh, so 6.6% has a four to one on untapped and they say our signature American pale ale balances light, crisp malt character with an abundance of hop derived aromatics and flavors from the use of Citra and Columbus. The fragrant nose is fresh citrus, tropical fruit and peach, bold flavors of pineapple and mango mixed with dank notes of zesty citrus and fresh pine needles with

the smooth mouthfeel, gentle bitterness and dry finish. Fort point is our standard daily drinker on the Old Schnauz. I'll tell you while you're sniffing that very curious. Um, if Brian got this here in California or on boss Massachusetts, I know the answer. I don't

want to talk about this. So you got it in California. Okay. There's a shop near his house where the owner is a big beer fan and like brings in, he gets some specialty beers and like back in the day when Russian river was hard to find, like the only place locally we could find Russian river. Um, so not surprising they had some trillion, but on that note, you want to guess how much this four pack was? So it is, it is a pale to pale 6 .6 percent.

I could tell you how much that beer costs here. Okay. And I believe it was 24 99. Oh, so he didn't get taken too hard here. I believe what he told me it was a 28 bucks. The four pack sounds about right. Yeah. All right. I thought you were going to say like it's $17. Anytime trillium, which I would say in the last year has been fairly frequent, like once a month ish, we'll get a trillium drop. Um, but the prices are so dumb to me, like,

like a regular IPA, like a seven and a half, 8% IPA. Yeah. Is the 28 bucks that you just got the pale ale for. So, yeah, I don't care. You can, people could tell me how good trillium is. I will refuse to pay that fucking price. Well, he was not, he got two different four packs from trim. He gave me one from each. I think one was 28 and one was 30. So very nice of, of intern Brian to hook it up. Um, what a fucking stud. Can we get him back on?

We need, we know what we need. We sort of, I have talked about when we were drunk the other night, he was at that same wine party I was talking about last week and, uh, at a friend's house. And, um, yeah, we're like, he's like, when are you going to have interim Brian bag? I was like, we should have interim Brian bag. I'm like, we absolutely should. I know we generally have chicks on the show and, you know, try to break up the sausage

fest, but we need some interim Brian in our lives. But I also need to be at home and not in a hotel for that to happen. That's true. You are in a hotel. Yeah. So in you , uh, on the schnoz quickly here, uh, it's a light light on the schnoz. Do you get like a little bit of the, the peach I'm picking up, but overall pretty light. That tastes though, much bigger. I get the citrus, I get the mango. I'm not getting so much peach as I did on

the nose. Uh, it's got a fair bit of malt. That's a little old school in that way. I'm getting some malt. I mean, you can see it's very hazy. It's definitely in the hazy territory. All right. I feel like we're having an issue with that today. Yeah, it's weird. It's got all that old school malt to it, but otherwise, uh, you know, very good, nice, great, easy drinker. Um, doesn't taste like it was worth $28 a four pack. Oh, I don't want to offend

intern Brian, but, um, it's not offending him. It's a, I found this really cool brewery that's very hyped and I would like to give you a little, uh, spill of it. Yeah. I'm glad I got to try it. And had I not had Trillium ever with the name that they had and I was out in the wild and I saw one for the first time, I would probably spend $28 at least just to try one. But overall, no, and it's probably not worth the $28. In fact, not overall.

Definitely no. I mean, no beers were $28 cause I know how much it costs them to make it. And it was not $28 for four of these, but that brings up a good point. Does the name of a brewery Trillium had tree house a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to not murder John, that kind of name. Does that automatically add like eight bucks to the four pack? I would say so. Seems like it. I mean, other than like maybe getting at the source, but I feel

like those hype breweries can sort of charge whatever they want. I, I was starting to think those days were coming to an end, but maybe there's a few scragglers out there. Um, like see, see in Drekker prices after seeing like, you know, Trillium drops, like even when Paris drops here, super hype brewery out of Louisiana, right. Known for the machine goes to the machine and then all the ghost variants, which I've never had, but are supposed to be really good.

I've had one or two parish comes here and it's anywhere from like 1299 to 1499 a four pack. No shit. Yeah. That's it. That's a steal. Like I even got a, they sent a triple IP up here one, one weekend, uh, he was 1499. I got it for, that's pretty good. There 's something sexy about not knowing how hot you are. It's like sexy indifference. They're just like, Hey, 15 bucks for a pack. No big deal. Or you're just, yeah. That's the, what a way

to put it. I don't, I don't even know what to say after that. Fine. Fucking period. Let's move on. I just, there's something, uh, you know, drives me to you that you're, that you're willing to do that. So not, not follow it. You know what it is? It's not falling into your own hype. Yeah. It's, I don't know. Just, yeah. It almost seems like people doing what they love and respecting the people who love it. Right. The people are spending , you know,

and just not, yeah. It's just like, you don't want to overcharge. You just want to be like, you want to be like the guy. Yeah. Buy my, buy my fucking beer. You can afford it. I don't know. Right. Because you know, nowadays, you know, inflation, you know, prices, not an economic show, but I do like when good beer is very, very, what the fuck is the word? Uh, affordable. That's probably the word. Not douche. Reasonable. Reasonable

is the word. A stone cold would say swig a beer for the working man. What? Thank you. All right. Let's, let's do a little news before we get out of here. The TTB, you down with

TTB? You know me? Yeah. Uh, has announced formula exemptions. I didn't know this was a thing. So the alcohol and tobacco tax and trade bureau TTTB is exempt. The alcohol and I stuck in your mom last night bureau, uh, the alcohol and tobacco tax and trade bureau. Don't say that when you're drunk is exempting 24 brewing ingredients from its formula submission

and approval requirements. What does this mean? You ask, going forward using the ingredients that I'm about to tell you will no longer trigger the need to submit and receive TTB approval of the formula for the beer in question. Brewers should recognize, um, that the exemption of a particular ingredient does not exempt the flavoring. So if you get like an extract or something, but if you use these specific ingredients, you no longer need TTB approval.

And I didn't know this was a pro. So I brought this up cause I didn't know this is a whole thing that you had to get like TTB approval to use certain ingredients. So the new 24 ingredients, I'll just blow through them real quick. Almonds, bananas, beets, cantaloupe, carrots, cucumbers, dandelion leaves slash greens, dill, dragon fruit, elder berries.

This one surprised me. Guava, hazelnuts, lavender, lychee fruit, papaya, peanuts, pecans, pecans, pecans, pistachios, prickly pear, rhubarb, rosehip, spruce, tea, and walnuts. So you don't need approval if you use those now? Right. So you don't need to submit your recipe to the TTB for approval based on using one of these ingredients. They're now on the AOK list. I'm surprised that any of the nuts made it because, uh, algae stuff. Well , no, I don't

think so. Well, I'll shut up then. I'm allergic to walnuts. So just walnuts and to a lesser extent coconuts. What about these? No, I love those. Oh, okay. Great amount of salt. Making sure. Yeah, no, no. Don't you worry. Don't need you going to anaphylactic now. I'll go somewhere else. Do you think if you're allergic to bananas, you go into a banana phylactic? We should just end the show there. I hate myself for that. Good night everybody . I hope

I get to use that someday. Oh fuck. I really think less of myself. I really do. I doubt you're the only one, but that was fantastic. It's fun to say just, it is fun to say, yeah, it's like banana Rama, right? Avanti, which is like a train provider in Europe

has launched a new low alcohol beer safety thirst, not first for the festive holiday season campaign. Basically they're tired of people getting shmammered on trains. And so they came up with their own non-alcoholic beer. What else are you supposed to do on trains? That's what I was thinking. But here's the worst part. They made a song introducing this awful non-alcoholic beer. Oh, safety first, safety first, a new low alcohol beer. Keeps you steady, light

and ready for the festive cheer. Hey, safety first, safety first, a limited edition brew. Yeah. Whoever their marketing person is should be shot in the face. Yeah. See, how do I say I agree? Yeah. I don't know. Close enough. Somebody out there who speaks Spanish is yelling out their stereo. I took Spanish for three years in high school. You think I know a little bit more? I took it for six years between middle school and high school. God damn. And

I know how to, all I remember how to say is bulldozer. Wait, what is bulldozer? Excavadora. I didn't even know that. Si, si. Me gusto, excavadora. Yeah. I know enough to like go order tacos at like the hole in the wall joint with the best tacos and that's all I need. You don't need anything more than that. No, you just tip. If you're coming to California, if they speak English, the tacos aren't that good. I guess I'll try and find that out taking

out. All right, go patch brewing. I bring this up because I've actually been

there at a Colorado Springs is going to acquire Pike speak brewing. Go patches is cool. It'll spot in an old school. In fact, it's my cousin's old school. So we went there to have a couple of beers. He's like, it's so weird drinking here. Cause like the principal's office is

down the hall and he, we can go in the gym in the gym. It's like this kid's playground area and he's showing me around his old school, which is now a brewery and like a couple of the classrooms are different businesses and it's cool and weird all at the same time. There's a couple of those in Colorado Springs. Interesting. Huh? There's also a brewery in a church. That was pretty cool. Yeah. Only time you give me a go to church. So

hopefully a holy good thing for Pike's peak brewing. Uh, Sazerac is going to

acquire Svedka vodka from constellation. Yeah. Uh, Sazerac has been just buying up all the liquor that's cheap lately. They are really bolstering their portfolio. I think they have like 300 brands right now. It's fucking insane. Uh, the sale, which is expected to close in the coming months is part of constellations plan to premium eyes. It's wine and spirits business, which has not kept pace with the gains, um, that it's beer portfolio of Mexican imports has

delivered. So I know all about the gains. Yes, you do. A drunk driver says he had nothing to drink, but his mother tells officers he's too drunk to walk ratted on by his mommy. Officers came upon a two car crash at 3 48 AM and learned that a sedan had

struck a box truck when it ran a red light at the intersection with South Bellevue or Boule vard, whatever while officers were speaking with the driver of the box truck, the motorist in the sedan began to drive away. Officers followed the sedan and conducted a traffic stop. I love that he drove away and then stopped for the cops. The driver said he thought it was only

a minor fender bender. Officers immediately detected an odor of alcohol. The 20 year old South Euclid man claiming to have had nothing to drink subsequently failed sob riety tests and was arrested, arrested for OVI at the police station. He walked into a glass window next to the jail sale, uh, that officers had yet to open for him to enter. His mother picked

him up from jail and said he was so drunk he could barely walk. She had not seen him since he left their home around midnight that night to pick up some snacks. Love it. Unreal. There's Uber now. Uber eats, you know, like just fucking order something. In fact, last week I was talking about having a mimosas at Thanksgiving and I forgot to tell

this part when I opened the champagne that I got, it exploded. And when the champagne exploded, like half of it, I mean it hit the fucking ceiling. Half of it emptied the, I 've never had it that bad before. And so my sister Uber eats more champagne and it was fantastic. So all this to say, yeah, so all this to say, you fucking idiot, uh, what are you doing driving around for snacks when there's Uber eats and apparently you live with your mom.

Tell your mom to go get you some fucking Taco Bell. What's wrong with you, mom? She's making a meatloaf. She can go get you some hooch. Exactly. Come on. Uh, we'll end on this one. Superhero arrested for drunk driving and fleeing police. This is out of England

. Did he fly away? Well, no, the superhero is not much of a flyer. This comes from England. Uh, Wiltshire police said that 25 year old Lewis Blondridge crashed his car into a telephone pole on November 19th. He quickly exited the vehicle and ran away from the crash with local residents chasing him. Really? Residents? Residents. Interesting. Yeah. It took multiple police teams, including police dogs to find bondage. When he finally was apprehended, he failed a breat halyzer

test and a blood test proved that his BAC was over twice the legal limit. Cur iously and without explanation, Blondridge was found wearing a Batman costume. Out standing. It was great. And there's photos. Maybe I should Graham it or something because the photo of him is great. Maybe grab it at crappy Republic. They have his face blurred, but yeah, he's in full on Batman costume. I must feel like there's no better way to get arrested than

like that, right? If you're going to do it, go, go fucking hardcore. Could you imagine getting a, uh, movie replica like teenage mutant turtles costume and then just fucking around and getting arrested in that? And I'm trying to handcuff your big fat spongy wrists that are right behind my shell and then, and then getting stuffed into a back of a squad car. Sir, I can't fit my shells too big. There's none chucks up my ass. Hold on

please. That's so good. Yeah. So good times. Way to, way to do it up. Right. That you just sent me the picture. I just sent Flexy the picture. Yeah. It's there's a whole video too. There's body cam footage. I was watching it and it's the cop like reading him. His rights reading Batman. His rights is, it was great. Good times. Amazing. Yeah. So, uh, all right, let's get out of here before my internet completely crashes. I'm going to say a hello to Vanessa.

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