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You are welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg and I am being joined by the softest, buff guy you'll ever meet. And that's flex. What's up fella? I'm a big softy. You're like a big teddy bear. Yeah, I think. We figured that out. Yeah, yeah, that's no surprise. No, I'm proud of it. Yeah. Oh, no. No it wasn't, it wasn't a diss or anything. That was. Oh I didn't take it that way. Yeah. Yeah. Just letting the people know.

Yeah. You're a big old softy. Big old teddy bear. Yeah. If I was, uh, you know, uh, Tin Man, you know, and I needed a heart. Oh, I think you need some lube, but. Okay. Damn it. He didn't need lube. Just try to say, I got a big heart over here. That's all you. Yeah, you definitely got a big heart on over there. Uh, anyway, you can find. A heart on show. Oh, oh, heart. Got a heart with a t hit. That t, uh, you can follow this big teddy bear at flex me bear underscores in between.

And, of course, we are at Craft Beer Republic. So much to get to this week. A shout out to our top listening city of last week. And that was Los Angeles. What's up?

Almost hometown of Los Angeles. City of the angels. See, as they say in Espanol, that's about as good as it gets. Uh, anyways, thanks for listening. All that good shit. Like I said, lots to get to today, but, um, I'm gonna get to my beverage right quick because I went on a trip and I want to drink what I picked up. And I want to hear about. It. Oh, I love my beer. Out of my head, out of my beer. Judging by my beer. I'm sure flex is gonna know where I was. But I am drinking.

There does not exist. Spore. Oh, it is a 6.8% hazy IPA 408 an

untapped. Okay. And they say spore is a hazy IPA constructed of bass malts, plus copious amounts of wheat and oats to create cumulonimbus like mouthfeel and body popped heavily across the board, including two dry hops with mosaic, Nelson and Sabra spores. Hops are explosive on the palate and in the aroma mosaic, and Nelson lay down Fruity Pebbles, nectarine and guava aromatics layered in with coconut from the Sabro.

The final product feels like drinking a tropical drink on an island, but you're probably just chilling on chilling on your couch, man. It's a chair, but. Okay. It's a great glass, by the way. Still drinking out of it. Fantastic. Damn it, sister glass. It's hard to take me seriously, isn't it? I'm trying to avoid looking at the screen. Every time I see myself in the screen, drink out of the glass, I laugh. It's not just you. You're not alone. As Michael Jackson would say, you are not alone.

Um, definitely tropical on the schnoz. I am really picking up the coconut on the schnoz as well. I love that, by the way. Yeah, that sobro coming in. Yes. I love when the sobro hits with the coconut tongue. Jobber is not far behind. Uh, extremely soft mouthfeel. Lots of I would. I'm not getting tons of Fruity Pebbles. I am getting the nectarine. I am getting the guava. And of course, I'm still getting that guava. Earth. And of course, I'm still getting the coconut from the sabra.

This is delicious. We all know how I feel about there does not exist. And especially there hazes. No one's doing it quite like them. Delicious. Which is crazy because they're not huge, right? No, I mean, I don't really find them for distro, even though, you know, as the as the crow drives, they're about, uh, two hours from me. Okay. Terribly far. You know, wine country. Is this getting in there? Yeah, almost. Okay. They're in San Luis Obispo, SLO, as we call it. Uh, obviously,

I did a little wine tasting. That's why I was able to stop it. There does not exist. It was sort of my, uh. My, you know, you were a good boy. I did wine tasting with the wife, and so she let me stop at that. There does not exist on the way home. We went up to Paso, saw my sister. Do you know my sister got

married and is pregnant? I am finding out about this right now in real time. Yes. Did you. Did you know you're drinking a glass with her face on it. It's so good. It's gotta be like a seriously senior picture, right? Yeah. It seems. Yeah, it looks very yearbook ish. Oh. That's awesome. Yeah. It's, um. It's great. I wish you could see the inside of the glass because, like, the pictures. Even better on the inside, right? Yeah, because. It's frosted on the outside.

So, like, the more beer I drink, the more like evil eyes I'm getting from my sister. I know, I get it. My wife got me a glass like that for, like, a Father's Day with pictures of the kids. Mhm. And you just see it so much more clearly on the inside. Yeah. It doesn't make sense. Yeah. No it's weird, it's creepy. And I feel like I'm being judged as I drink more beer. But yeah we went up to. You knew I was married Greg. You know I'm pregnant. Greg. To who? What?

Uh, but, yeah, we went up to Paso, did some wine tasting, saw the family up there, and then on the way home. Stuff that there does not exist. Good shit. Love me some TDA. I always tell you my my strategy when I walk into there does not exist. It's I look at the can list. To see what's. Yes, I look at the tap list. I'm like, if it's in cans and it's in tap, I get it on tap. Try it. I don't know why I'm trying it anymore because it's gonna be delicious. But, you know, it's gonna be good.

Yeah, it always is. So. But I like your mindset there. That is wonderful. Yeah, it's a smart way to go. I think. Especially with a small brewery, you know, and you're they're not guaranteed to can everything. Right. And they only had like five different beers in cans at the time. So you know I had to choose wisely. Yeah I'm sure I'm sure they're all good anyway. Yeah I've not had a bad beer from them, that's for sure. So, um, speaking of beers and bad

beers or good beers, I don't know. I was talking with, uh, Boris, who was on the show a couple months ago and is now the head brewer of Petals and Pines. Petals and Pines. Was talking the other day. We were talking about, well, the other day, I don't know, a couple weeks ago. We're talking about, uh, fly Jack. Firestone's fly Jack, which was their low cal, low carb session IPA.

I think it was somewhere around 4.5%, but was it was hazy and it was surprisingly tasty. And I was telling I was like, I miss fly Jack. Like it was. They shouldn't have called it an IPA. They should called it a paleo because that's how I drink. I drink like a pale and it was just a solid, low carb, low cal offering. You could drink it all day. Not to not feel too shitty about yourself and all this, and we were kind of looking up like what ingredients they use and trying to figure it out

because some of them were secret. So we, uh, involved ChatGPT into some of it, but, uh, we're trying to find out how they made it and how they made it lower and all those stats, but still made it flavorful. And we came to some conclusions. But a couple days ago, Dogfish Head announced that they're releasing 30 minute Lite IPA. It's going to be 4% and 95 calories. Huh? So I'm looking forward to it. The world needs more of these, like, all day football Sunday beers.

I'm getting to the point where I can't disagree with you. Um, the heavy beers be hitting me lately. And, uh, takes me a while to drink them. Yeah.

Feel a little bloated afterwards. Yeah, I had a triple. Two nights ago, I think it was. And I think it took me about an hour and 40 minutes just to sip down the triple. And after the one beer, I was already feeling it. Yeah. I mean, as we get closer to 40, the more that stuff, uh, hits us. Yeah. I'm not looking for. I'm not looking forward to the future, you know? No. The future is bleak. So it's a rough one. Yeah. I'm excited for this. Uh, what did they say? Uh, Dogfish head says satisfying

hop character. Just 95 calories. That can't be possible. Oh, but it is. After years of research and development and tweaking the recipe to incorporate continual hopping, 30 minute light IPAs officially hear this true indie craft beer has all the character of a world class IPA, but only 95 calories, 3.6g of carbs, one gram of protein, and zero grams of fat per 12 ounce serving. Um, I'm all for it. I'm excited. So, um. Boris, now it's your turn. Petals and pints needs a low carb, low carb IPA.

So if a craft brewery could figure that out, that would be fun. Like, make it that tasty. Yeah, that'd be wonderful. Yeah. So I'm hoping this trend comes back. I, I really liked it. In fact, one of the years, way back on the old show, when we used to do our, um, March Madness bracket one year, we did a healthy in quotes healthy beer bracket where it was all these low cal, low carb IPAs. There was enough to fill out an entire bracket, which I think was like eight beers.

And then within a couple of years, like by the time Covid hit, they were like, buh bye, no more of this. So now that we're talking about, I was trying to think I had a really good one once, and it was, uh, phase three. They made, uh, they had a flagship hazy called pixel density. And this one was called Pixel Light. And it was like it was like 4.5 ABV, and it poured exactly like a fucking hazy. But it had a touch watered down flavor of said beer. Yeah. And, uh, for 4.5%, like, there's

not much more you could ask for. Yeah, that's kind of how the fly jack was. The Firestone was like, it tastes like maybe they added just a smidge of water to a hazy IPA, which obviously that's not how they made it, but just slightly watered down IPA. Hazy IPA. But if you just if they would have called it a pale ale because, I mean, at 4.5%, why wouldn't you call it a pale ale, right? I think it would have. Which makes me wonder why they marketed it as like a session IPA if

there's like a technicality in the brewing process or something. Maybe. Maybe someone smarter than us would know this answer. But it was. It was not bad at all. Like I enjoyed for like a I brought

it to a Super Bowl party once and I just hammered through those. And you keep drinking, you don't get fucked up. You don't feel bloated afterwards. It was the best, right? Bring it back. It's like the same stats as the seltzer, but it actually tastes decent. Lakefront brewery here used to have a session IPA. It was called Extended Play and I remember finding it. We went up to Minneapolis, actually for Saint Paul for a wedding up in Minnesota, and had a liquor store right

across the street from the hotel. Went there, found some local Lifesaver Wisconsin stuff and saw that session IPA. Man, what a hotel drinking beer that is. Yeah. You know, just like a nice 4% tasty IPA and oh boy, nothing. Wrong with that. No complaints. Yeah. So anyways, bring it back, people. And, uh. Yeah. No. No real transition from that king of awkward transitions. I do have a question to ask.

So every year when I'm playing, every year, Jesus Christ, every week when I'm putting the shows together, news story after news story, especially these days last year or so has been beer sales down, craft beer sales down, blah, blah, blah. All these numbers are down for craft beer especially. So my question I have two questions. It's really a two part. It's one to the industry people. And this could be brewers or distributors really. And then one to the drinkers. You know it's kind of us.

My question to the industry people is other than just the obvious of like, hey, go buy more beer. What would you like us, the beer drinkers to do? Do you want us to buy more six packs from the store? You want us to come into the brewery more often? And I know not all breweries distribute, so that's sort of a gray area, I guess. But it's like what? Ideally. What is it that we could do besides just, hey, drink more beer that could help turn things around a little bit.

And this is this is actually crossed my mind before. Okay. Because there are certain breweries in the area that I can go to and buy from, but they also distribute to my local shop. Exactly. So sometimes I feel guilty when I pick it up for my local shop, and not that from the direct supplier. And I'm wondering if that's hurting or if it's helping or if it's kind of even keel. Right? I mean, I'm sure the goal of getting in a big grocery store is

just to get your name out there. More than anything, if you're a craft brewery, probably not making as much money if they came into the brewery and bought a four pack. Right. But usually if you get into a big name grocery store, you're going through a company like a distributing company. Right, exactly. Um, so at that point, you have a contract with said company and you're already making money? Yeah. The one that comes to mind for us is, um, local to me is Tarantula Hill Brewing.

And one of their flagships is liquid Candy, and it's a great hazy IPA and my wife loves it. And we'll see it at the local grocery. You know, we'll see it at Vons. And we'll also see at the at the brewery. So like, you know, my question for Treasure Hill was like, should I be picking it up from Vons assuming it's fresh, or should I be coming down to the brewery and picking up a four pack because I hate hanging out at your brewery? I hate it the worst.

People have turned it into a fucking daycare center and I fucking hate it. Oh, in that sense, that's terrible. Yes. But I do like liquid candy. I think somebody sent me a can of that once. Might have been me. Might have been, might have been, I don't know. Did Deb send you beer or Nicole? Devin. Brian sent me beer once because he put me in the World Cup.

Yeah, we like some liquid candy. So the flip side to that question is to the citizens of the Craft Beer Republic, the beer drinkers, where do you want to buy the beer, and what do you want to see from breweries that would get you to buy a couple extra beers a month. Are you wanting more innovation? Are you wanting more canning? Are you wanting more gozos? Yes, please. You're the. Ghost. Please. I was literally what was on my mind was more gozos. Please. Right, exactly. So?

So it's a twofold question. Uh, where do you want us to buy your beer? What do you want us to do to help you out? Besides just the generic buy more beer and then, like. Yeah, to the beer drinkers. Uh, what do you what do you want? What would help you buy more beer? That's my question. You know. 1840 here about three years ago, came out with this watermelon goza for the summer. Um, and it was fucking obnoxious how good it was. Oh. Sounds good.

Like sweet, fresh watermelon juice. And you get that sour note, you know, towards the middle back end. And it was just clean and crisp and salty. And that's where it's at. Fucking amazing. Now that New Belgium is a healthy beer, you're fucking sports drink beer. How about something with electrolytes in it, like salt and sugar? Lightning strike. So dumb, I don't know. So anyway. Hydrate you and get you drunk. And it's. I love how the biggest selling

point was. It's resealable. You can put a lid back on it. It's brilliant. Well, that's just gonna make people think they can, like, drink it and then put it in their car and go somewhere. I think it's dangerous, but. Oh. Oh, you know what it sounds like? It sounds like a good Vegas drink. It does? Okay. Yes. You're absolutely right there. I will be in Vegas this coming weekend. Are you? Yes. That's exciting. Going to see my best friend. We are avoiding the strip all together.

But I might need some of these sports drink drinks. Because we do not go easy when we're hanging out. Yeah. Just go to your, uh. I don't know, probably find him at a in a Walgreens there? At this point in Vegas. You probably find him just sitting on the side of the corner. Who knows? Yeah. So anyways, uh, anyways, let us know. Answer our questions for small craft beer. Craft beer. Com or I could set up a poll or something. Let us know how I should do that. So you answer our shit.

Uh, before we find out what flex is drinking. Ludacris libation law.

This one comes from Minnesota. They say that farm wineries must source over 50% of their grapes from within the state. Huh. Makes me wonder how many farm wineries are. That's a good. I guess I could have looked that up. It sounds like kind of a rare. Yeah. You know, uh. You know what I don't know Minnesota for? I don't know them for their their wine. Oh. Yeah, their land of 10,000 lakes. But, uh, believe it or not, Wisconsin has more lakes than

Minnesota. So do they. Yeah, it's like a it's like a real statistic. Oh, shit. Yeah. Minnesota. Biting off Wisconsin. Yeah. Home of the Lakers, though. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I know where the name comes from. The Lakers, all the lakes. Yeah, just like the Clippers from San Diego because that's a type of sailing ship. I did not know that. Yeah. And I never knew what a clipper was. Yeah. It's a ship. There you have it. Like a schooner? Sure. I don't know what size it is. Hey.

Nice dinghy. Yeah. Who knows? Anyways, there you have it. Hey, Sam, let us know about your wineries up in Minnesota. Yes, please. If there's a lot of farm wineries. Or just any wineries for that matter, we want to know. How many grapes do you think Minnesota produces per capita? 10,000 grapes. God damn it! One per lake. I don't know. Minneapolis grapes. Um, sounds, uh, delicious. Great vintage. I'm sure you're thinking of wine terms. Yeah. All right,

let's pull this back around to beer. Let's unclass this a little bit and find out what flex is drinking. 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 tongue. In this world, we must find out. What is flex drinking? All right, so I'm drinking. Kind of a fun little history beer here. It is a no longer in production beer. Oh, but, uh, lakefront brewing here this past winter, I would say still currently winter. They came out with a throwback. Throwback. Throwback. Man, that was good.

Throwback to a 12 pack variety of, uh, beers that they stopped producing, which is kind of neat because one of the beers in there I absolutely fucking loved drank all of those right away. It was, uh, American Red IPA. Just phenomenal. Great flavor. Not a malt bomb. Uh, which is what I don't like in a red IPA is when they're just nothing but a can of malt. Yeah, a loaf of bread. Right? It's just not what I aim for. Uh, but this one is called Cream City Pale Ale. Um, it is a 5.6%.

No idea when they stopped producing it, but I think it was pre when I started drinking. So. Yeah. So let's say pre 2009 like it's been gone for a while. Uh untapped real shitty rating. It's got it at a three for two. It is a classic pale ale uh named after the cream colored bricks used to build Milwaukee. This amber pale ale is tasty year round. Pours a light amber with frothy, stable white head.

The light citrus grapefruit nose comes from American hop varieties, while caramel malts lend a backbone to their crisp, balanced bitterness. Finishes smooth with mild hop flavor. Mhm. Um, so the color on this super caramelly super classic pale ale. Um, a little bit of remaining head there. I don't know if I call it frothy on the schnoz, I would say malty citrus, like biscuity malt, like, it's, uh, it's caramelly it's it's kind of nice, actually. Classic. Um, so then we'll warm up the

old tongue jobby. Here we go. So it's pretty low carbonation. It's caramelly. It's sweet. It's a little bit citrusy. It's a little bit piney. Real light bodied at A56. Uh, I could see where a three, four, two comes into here, because, uh, if you're looking for something to blow your mind, It's not going to blow your mind. Sure, if you're if you're looking for a great rendition of a classic beer style 100%, this is what you're looking for. Keeping it classic, right?

It is classic 100%. I was never able to drink this, like I said when it was originally in production, so this was kind of a cool nod. I actually say I used to work with a guy who, uh, he would actually talk about this beer all the time, and he said, every time lakefront put it out, he would always just buy it all up and, you know, drink it. And, uh, it's just kind of a nice nod to my buddy who I used to work with, Steve, and I'm just glad I'm finally able to try this beer.

Yeah. Shout out. Steve. Yeah. Hope he's doing okay. Yeah. Hope he's drinking one of these, too. Amen. Very nice. That's kind of a smart idea, I think, for a brewery like, hey, here's a mixed pack of all these beers that you can't find anymore. Yeah, it was. Uh, what do they have in there? They had, uh, like I said, the American Red IPA, they had a strong beer, which isn't a style you normally see. Yeah. Around anymore. Then it had this one and that,

uh, session IPA I brought up a little earlier. Oh, yeah. Yeah, just kind of neat. That's cool. Uh, all right, a little news before we get up out of here with all this I mentioned earlier, all this talk about beer brands losing money and this and that.

Any guesses as to which beer brand is still raking in the dough? Uh, not Budweiser. Not Budweiser, not. Not MillerCoors. Not. I mean, they're still making money, but the one that keeps seeing growth is not your pants. It's Constellation. Brands. Okay. And that's mainly thanks to modelo, Corona, Pacifico and Victoria. I thought they were Budweiser. Not in the US. Please do not make me explain this because I can't. You know what? Just leave it at that.

Yeah, but, uh, thanks to Pacifico at 20 plus 20%, uh, modelo at plus 4%. Modelo especial plus 3%. I mean, we're just talking about all kinds of pluses here for constellation. So they're still doing pretty good. I think ever since the whole Bud Light debacle. Constellation has been cashing in on their, their, uh, import brands. I guess. Good for them. Yeah, I guess so. Uh, the price to get drunk is going up. The average case price for the beer

category items in 2024 increased $0.63 to $30.57, average per case. This includes everything shit beer, great beer, all the above. Anything that comes in a case. That makes sense. Yeah, which I believe it's 12. Um, also, Seltzers were up $0.84 per case. Here's the breakdown. Imports were up $0.54 to 3713 a case domestic premium up $0.41 to 24. 84 A case domestic sub premium. Also, would you love to. Hey, where do you work? I work at a sub premium brewery. They're at $0.42 to 1965.

That's gotta be like your pbrs and shit, right? I mean, what else would it be? Sub premium, I guess. Yeah. Fermented malt beverages fabs they're up $0.56 to 4058. Kraft is up $0.66 to 4330. Domestic super premium is up $0.02 to 3031 a case. Hard cider is up $0.62 to 4851. Uh, and I love this one. The only thing to decrease in price is the cases of Na beers. Oh, gross. Yeah. Athletic brewing declined $1.18 per case. Down to 42. 89. Could you imagine paying 42 bucks to not get drunk?

Funny enough, you brought that up. We went to a little Mexican restaurant tonight. Uh, kids had dance. Drop them off for two hours. And the wife and I caught some tacos. And I got a margarita. But I was looking at the beer list. The most expensive bottle or can on the menu was n a athletic brewing. Mhm. No alcohol. Pay the most. It was only $7. You know it's this can bottle list you know. It wasn't great. You know, it was all domestics and whatnot.

Uh, but the fact that that topped the list at the most expensive beer on the menu. Blew my mind. Yeah. Because for like, two bucks, you could have gotten, like, a Coke or something. Right. So, what are you doing? Right? That's insane to me. You need it that much? What are you doing? Yeah. You need to pay $7 for not beer. For not beer, but just the taste of it, I don't know. Yeah. No, thanks. Hard pass. Yeah. Uh, I pulled this story because I found it interesting. Can you guess?

And I doubt it, because I bet you've never heard of this city.

But can you guess where the DUI capital of California is? DUI capital. Oh, man. Is it a major city? No. Then I can't. It was sort of on an MTV show. The idyllic city of Laguna Beach. Oh, is the DUI capital of California? Well, that. Makes sense, I think. Yeah. Shocking stats have revealed that there have been more than 269 DUI arrests in Laguna Beach in 2021 alone. Additionally, there were 55 alcohol

related crashes in just 2022 alone. Um, the executive zip code has a perfect storm of factors contributing to the high crime stats. For one, the city is positioned between two party towns and the more than 130 drinking establishments that call Laguna Beach home. The famous ocean views drawing in tourists have also created what officials are calling ground zero for drunk driving.

A staggering 6.5 million visitors annually to a town of just 22,000 residents, with tourists flocking to art galleries and upscale boutiques. Anyways, Laguna Beach don't drink and drive. Yeah, I mean a lot. A lot of money out there. Tons of money out there. A lot of snot nose, pretentious teenagers. And adults. It all sounds about right. Yeah. It's a recipe for disaster. All right, we'll end it with this one. Police are looking for a man who allegedly drove from his home naked

and drunk after fighting with his wife. Have you ever drove naked? No, I can't say that I have. Have you? Yeah. Me either. No. Yeah. No. Well, that was the first thing that made me think of is whoever thinks to drive naked. Yeah. I mean, I've had things happen to me while driving, but I wasn't fully naked. Yeah, you catch my drift? Sounds about right. Drift caught. Yeah. Drifts got. Uh, police are looking for a 31 year old man accused of domestic violence early Saturday morning after the man

left his house in his Ford pickup. Uh, that tracks naked and drunk after a fight with his 40 year old wife. Police Sergeant Jeremiah Wagner said the couple was entertaining a 39 year old man, along with a woman who wasn't identified in the police report at their house on Friday night. The 31 year old had been drinking and started puking and defecating in his room. Oh come on. With his wife. That makes me think of the the show of the League with Rafi.

Uh, he's. A famous line. He says sometimes when I puke, I shit. Raffi was great. Uh, when his wife went into the room to talk to him, the man grabbed her and put her in a headlock. The 39 year old man came into the room to de-escalate the argument, and the 31 year old punched two 55 inch flat screen TVs along with a fish tank, and threw a PlayStation. The 39 year old put the 31 year old in a bear hug to try to calm him down, but the 31 year old escaped. Before a bear hug is not on the list. No,

I think he's gonna make things worse. It's gonna escalate the situation. Yeah, quite a bit. Uh, the 39 year old tried to get the man back into the house to get out of the cold. The 31 year old evaded him and got into a 2013 Ford truck. It wasn't clear from the police press report when the man had gotten naked, but he was naked by the time he had gotten into the truck.

His wife was told that the man had gone to a house in the area of Georgia Circle, wherever that is. But police said that they went to the home and no one would answer. The investigation continues. Wow. I'm thinking, no, don't get me wrong. If I was puking and shitting in my room, go on and I need to drive away somewhere. Probably taking off my shit filled pants. I'm just saying. Um. But wouldn't you maybe replace them with non shit filled pants? What's, uh, what's my back like? Uh, okay,

so here's a legit question. At what? Back do you not think to put on a replacement pair of pants? That is a great question. I wish they had found this guy so he knew what his back was. I'm probably thinking, like in the. 30s. Right?

That's what I would think. Yeah. It's where you take your pants off, and then you forgot that you took your pants off. Right. Because like, 0.24 is three times, I'm thinking that's not enough. I'm puking by then, though, for sure. Right. But you're not running outside and driving with no pants. Yeah, it's pretty accurate. I think maybe you are. What do I know? I know when I get. Uh, fun fact about me. Oh, go. On.

When I get, uh, crazy drunk, I can't move. Oh. So, like, the last thing I'm going to do is drive. I probably wouldn't be able to take my own pants off if I'm being honest. Yeah, I get pretty, like, vegged out. Oh, I'm the opposite. I'm not a driver. I've knock on wood. I've never once attempted to, you know, drive when I'm that hammered like it's time to drive. You know, there's never been anything like that. Like I'm pretty. Which makes you wonder what people think. Yeah.

Like, I feel like I'm pretty knowledgeable about how hammered I am. Yes, but here's my one. Problem is I am very functional until I'm not. Until you're not. Right. And so people don't know how drunk I'm getting until I'm so fucking hammered that it's it's gone. And then also. Like, yeah. It's like, oh, we didn't know Greg was that drunk. Like, oh, Greg was very much that drunk. He just didn't know. Yes. It just kind of like hits you. Yeah, it really does just kind of clicks

and all of a sudden it's like, ooh. But yeah, I've never been like, hey, you know, it sounds fun right now. A joy ride. Right? Or like, hey, let's go here, even though I'm in zero condition to do so. Yeah. Thank God. I hope that continues. Yeah, I. Guess that's kind of where, uh, I'm very thankful for my vomiting, you know, because, uh, yeah, it kind of keeps me, you know, in one spot.

How bad can you be if you're if you're. How bad can you do if you're vomiting? Right, right. There's not there's not much you can do other than just eventually pass out. Right. Or keep vomiting. Or. Right. I mean yeah, yeah. Which has been. Just countless times. So we've. All been. So many buckets in my day. Oh, all the buckets. That'll be the name of this episode. All the buckets. All the. Buckets. But which makes me, you know, lastly, it makes me thankful for

all my great friends that I've had throughout the years who have treated me kindly when I've been overly inebriated and have set me up on couches with blankets and buckets and trash cans and water. Whatever you have it, those are the real MVP's out there. You're not. Wrong. I remember one of my one of my really good friends. I've known him since, like fourth grade. Uh, one night we went out and we got drunk, and he was he was the put this in quotes. He was the designated driver that night.

He was the one sober enough to, you know, drive by Braille. We were young, dumb and drunk. Um, anyways, we we get to my house, and I was, you know. Hey. Thanks, man. As soon as I stepped out of the totally unexpected. Didn't feel coming the moment I stepped out of the car. Like, all over the grass. He's like, all right, dude, let's get you inside. Oh, yeah. Good times. Yeah. My 21st birthday, I was just had my head out the window puking the entire time. Mhm. Yeah. All while screaming this is the

best night ever. Next day, probably less great. I'm telling you, I had the have the best friends not had. I have the best friends. Yeah. Miss you Frank. You gotta. Frank moved away. He didn't die the way I said missed. You made it sound like he's dead or something. Come back, Frank. Come back. Anyways, uh. All right. I think that's enough out of us. We're gonna hit some music and say hi to Vanessa. Hey, Vanessa. Hey, Vanessa. And I know my sister. Thanks for letting me use your cup.

Do you think she knew she got married and that she's pregnant? I don't know, but she's listening. She just figured it out. Well, I hope it's not too late. That's so meta. Damn. Good luck figuring that one out. Anyways, uh, follow us on the show shows at craft beer and of course, at Flex Media.

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