Let's Get Pants Drunk

Welcome in everybody! It's the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drinkin', thanks for joinin'. Over here on the West Coast, I am Greg. And on the Middle Coast, that is Flex. What's up buddy? It me, it me! We call it the Fresh Coast here. The Fresh Coast? Yeah. Where does that come from? Lake Michigan, fresh water. Oh! God, I've never heard that before. Yeah, it's kinda neat. I wonder if Dan knows that.

He knows that he's going to the Fresh Coast every time he goes to see his minor league hockey team. Well, and if he didn't, now he does. Yeah. And we're gonna hang out on the Fresh Coast. Oh, I forgot to run this by you last week. So, I was texting with Dan about some minor league hockey team that wears Mick Foley's jersey every now and then, like as a one-off. Yeah, I've seen that before, yeah.

Well, we were jokin' about that, and I said, "You should go out there, blah blah blah," and he goes, "No, I only go out for Fish Fry Fridays for the Admirals." That's awesome. Is that a thing?

Like, the Admirals do Fish Fry Fridays? Well, I mean, like, Fish Fry Fridays is just a thing in Wisconsin. Like, every Friday is Fish Fry Friday. Oh, okay. Yeah, and he said it so matter-of-fact, I was like, "I 100% believe him." Yeah. Yeah, it's not that the Admirals do it, it's just that Friday Fish Fry, it's a thing. It's a thing. Got it.

And if anybody doesn't know what the fuck we're talking about, Batch 401, we learned that Dan has a huge love for minor-league hockey, especially the- It's like a fetish. Yeah, you're right, it's a fetish. Borderline criminal, one might say. But yeah, he's been out to Milwaukee multiple times to see some Admiral games, and was even rockin' an Admiral hat. Yeah, that was wild. I loved it. Yeah, I didn't even care.

I didn't know what the fuck it was, and you're like, "What's up with the Admirals hat?" And I was like, "Yeah, what is an Admirals hat?" Who are Admirals? Right. So anyways, 401, if you don't know what the fuck we're talking about, go catch yourself up. All right, so much to get to. We've got some booze news. I've got some algorithm stories to tell that Flex will appreciate, and ludicrous libation law. Also, don't forget to follow us @CraftBeerRepublic, and of course, @FlexMeABeer_.

In between, top listing cities. Shout out to Las Vegas.

Whoa. Yeah, I don't think I've seen that pop up before, so what up, Las Vegas? Did you accidentally click on our link? Best accident you've ever had. Yeah. At least the best one that I know about. Thanks for tuning in, Sin City. All right, before we get any further, it's quite apparent that I need some hydration in my life. Oh, yeah. I am drinking Great Notion Brewing in collaboration with Equilibrium Brewing.

Juice equals juice. Ooh. I'm not going to lie, I bought this because of the can art, because it had science-y things on it. It is very science-y looking. Yeah. It's the first thing I thought of, is you probably love the can. I was like, "It's perfect for beer science." So here we are, doing science. In fact... I'm a bottle from a can. Why don't people understand my...

You should've hit that to begin with. Yeah, I was going to say, it made me wonder why you had the other song running. Yeah, what an idiot I am. So continuing from where I was, like an idiot. Juice equals juice. Great Notion and Equilibrium. We went back to the virtual lab with our friends at Equilibrium Brewery to create this hazy double IPA. Combining Citra and Galaxy Hops has a 4.2 in untapped and weighs in at a very nice 8%. Ooh, daddy.

On the schnoz, I'm picking up a lot of Citra... I mean, there's Citra in here, so no surprise there, but a lot of citrus-y, like pithy smells. Okay. Maybe some grop fruit. Mm, the old... Damn it, I used to know how to say that in French. Oh, grapefruit in French? Yeah. Oh, it's grapefruit in French. I don't know, it's like pomelo or something? Yeah, something like that. I don't know. I'm a liar. You fucking liar. Real soft mouthfeel. The taste, it's weird.

You can see it's super hazy and juicy visually. Yes. A little bit of lacy. Yeah, some really good lacing on there, but real bitter, like real westy on the finish. The front is soft and pillowy like a juice bomb. A little bit of tropical, a lot of citrus fruits, that pith is really coming through, and then boom, old school pine tree on the end. It backs it up with some bitterness. Like actual pine flavor on the back end? Not pine flavor. Or just the bitterness.

But the bitterness of those dank old school West Coast. It's got that level of bitterness to it, and some of it, I don't think it's all hot bitterness. Some of it, I think, is the burn. There's a little alcohol burn from the 8%. There's a little bit of hot burn too, which I know you're a fan of. I'm a big fan. And it really brings the bitterness full circle when you finish her off. So do you think juice actually equals juice, or do you think juice equals West Coast hazy?

That's what it sounds like. Yeah, it feels like the West and the East got together and starts off Easty and finishes off Westy. Could be worse. I'm not saying it's bad. Very, very drinkable, especially at 8%. So we'll see how I can read in the next few minutes. That's my favorite. Me trying to read? Yes. Nobody else's favorite. Words, dude. Words. They're hard. Anyways, shout out to Great Notion and EQ. I think this came from the old Tayvor. I think our code still works.

You guys haven't tried Tayvor or used code unfiltered. I didn't even know Tayvor was still around. You know what? I got a gift card to Tayvor for Christmas. I just made an order. I got my shipment last week. Nice. Yeah. So still around, apparently. I wonder if my code still works. So if you're using it for the first time, try the code unfiltered. I think it gets you like 10 bucks off your first order. I remember it's been like two years since we were promoting that.

You know what they say, 10 bucks is better than no bucks. Nailed it. That's like a free beer from Tayvor. Oh, yeah. From T.S. Yeah. So, all right. Flex sent me something great, which I felt like we had to talk about on the show. I sent you stuff? You did. Oh, I always forget I do that. Straight out of Finland. Our biggest fans. Is this ringing a bell? Yes, now it is. Yeah. I had never heard of this before.

Apparently, there's a thing called pants drunk. And according to Wikipedia, it's a form of drinking culture originating in Finland, in which the drinker consumes alcohol drinks at home, dressed in very little clothing, usually underwear, with no intention of going out. To a large extent, it is still considered a way of life in Finland. And apparently, it really grew in popularity over COVID. I think it's brilliant. Yeah. Who doesn't want to get pants drunk? Right.

Just hanging out in your fucking dungarees, those shorts. But your underoos and tying one on. Oh, man. The sky's the limit. Yeah, man. Get a little pants drunk. You're like, maybe the wife's out of town or the husband's out of town. You got nothing to do. She's doing the dog. Let's get pants drunk. Got some WrestleMania going on. Right. Totally did not do that over the weekend. Oh, boy. I want to start working that into our vernacular. Pants drunk is fantastic.

I'm going to start working on actively getting pants drunk. Pictures, please. Like, maybe put the kids to bed and then say, "Hey, you know what? It's time to get pants drunk." I feel like you've gotten pants drunk a couple of times on the show. Oh, yeah. It's usually in the summer. Yeah. Like, there's been many a time where Flex is down here in his little shorty shorts, which are basically underoos. Basically. And it gets a little warm because it's the basement. And, oh, there goes the shirts.

And we just got the little shorty shorts. Yeah. I've done a number of episodes, just a minor. Yeah. No one's mad about it. Well, you know. Except for the people that can't see. Yeah. Or maybe they're pretty psyched. I don't know. Coming this summer, Crappy Republic is an all video show. Oh, there'd be a lot of pressure. Yeah. Find us on OnlyFans. Maybe we can make a little money on the side.

Yeah. I have to admit, last week for April Fool's, I almost did this, but I hadn't ran it by you in his very last minute. And I didn't feel like going through all that. I was like, it would be funny if I got a picture of Flex flexing with his shirt off and did a whole post about him starting his old OnlyFans. Oh, man. That would be hilarious. For April Fool's. But I was like, I should run it by him first. And I don't have time for all that.

You know, you easily could have done that without running it by me. And I would have been very okay with it. Good to know. Yeah. Some people are cooler about that than others. I like to pride myself on how cool I am. You're very cool. Oh, I'm the coolest. Yeah. What is it George Carlin always said about being cool? You ain't cool, you chili. You ain't never been cool. Oh, geez. I don't know. I'm too young for that. Yeah, me too. Did a little beer.

I'm only bringing this up because I think you'll appreciate this. Did a little beer research last weekend. Went out to one of our local favorites,

Casa Agria. All right. Good beer. Great beer. Coley and Big Dick Nick were with us. And the main reason we went out there is because, and I had this on the show, I don't know, four or five weeks ago. They had four packs of Oxnard Hazy Pale Ale on sale for $10. That's crazy. $10 of four pack in California. First thing that crossed my mind was in California. Yeah. And they also had their other Pale Ale, which is not hazy, Plain Tiger on sale for $10 as well. So got me some four packs.

Coley and Nick got like two cases. Good for them. They really fucking stacked up. The wife was like, you cannot get that much beer. We have nowhere to put it. She was right. She was right. I keep getting like all my peer subscriptions and not drinking them all. Get on that, man. I know. You know what? When it's cold out, we drink less beer at home. We drink more wine. It blows my mind. When you say cold though, it still blows my mind. Oh yeah. It's freezing here. It's like 72 degrees.

Fifties, like when it's in the fifties. It's chilly. So anyways. But yeah, I was going to drink one of the Oxnards on the show in honor of it being a, uh, you know, very much in the flex algorithm, but bad news. I finished them. Well, that's good. Cause you didn't have any room for them. That's true. I'm just trying to help out my wife by finishing more beer. And she thanks you. Yeah. You're welcome, honey. You are so welcome. Earned me a little. Nevermind. Um, so there, there's that.

What about you? Any, uh, any good beer research going on? Oh my God. Um, well, I'm actually enjoying this fine, uh, Berliner currently. Um, I love me a Berliner. Fun story. I mean, I,

you know, I always go to Eagle park. Everybody knows that. And I always drink them and everybody knows that. But yeah, so this is a, I actually got this bottle. It was like late last summer. Oh, and uh, it was one of their, uh, oak footer fermented Berliners. And this was a fermented, fermented on peaches and a cherry on top. I actually got the last bottle that they had to sell. So, Oh, that's the best. Um, so yeah, I figured I'd let it hang out for a little bit and now I'm enjoying it.

And, um, it is sour as shit. Nice. Yes. It is very enjoyable. A lot of times those Berliners not super sour. No, this one is very tart, very sour. And, uh, I think it only clocks in at like 3.2% or something. Wow. I mean, those Berliners can be pretty low. Yeah. Right, right, right. So, uh, yeah, that's about the research. I actually did do some beer research, like some actual research too. So, um, I'm very known to put beer on pedestals, right?

You get like this big beer and it's like, maybe you're going to do something with it or you want like the best Instagram post ever.

Yeah. Or you bought two of them and you're going to drink one now. And then you're like, Oh, I'm going to save one for later story of my life. So 1840 brewing in here in Milwaukee, they do some of the best beer. They got the fancy little bottles or the fancy little bottles, right? So they usually come out with this sour every year or every couple of years called seafoam. Then it's this pineapple sour. And the fun thing about it is they turn it green.

And I, four years ago, Greg, four years ago, four, two bottles. Well, I drank the one pretty quick. And about a week ago, I finally decided to take the other one out of my fridge and say, let's do some, let's do some science. And I cracked it open and it didn't explode,

which was great. Good start. Pouring it out was funny because originally, I mean, I don't know if you can see how green my microphone cord is. I can. And I know how green it is because I sent it to you. Okay. So green when the beer was fresh, it was like that bright, not Kelly green, but just like a bright, bright green. Yeah. Like a seafoam, like a dark seafoam. Like, I mean, that's what the beer is called, right?

Exactly. So I poured this beer out four years later and it was like olive pukey green. Baby diarrhea. Very, uh, unappetizing and just disgusting looking, but yeah, it smelled okay. All right. And the flavor of pineapple on it was extraordinary. Oh, I would have thought that died down or something. No, it was, it almost like enhanced it. I don't know. It was bizarre. It was almost like unripe pineapple. So it was like still a real sourish beer.

But man, I was really impressed, which makes me think that beer just never dies. That's true. I mean, it was a few weeks ago I had to issue that apology to,

to there does not exist for leaving there. It was a hazy pale in my fridge for over a year and still good. Not as good as it was, but still good. Right. Well then that's the thing. Yeah. Maybe it wasn't as good as it, you know, was when it came out fresh. But man, to drink something almost four years later, I think it would have been a mid April. Hmm. I think that would have, would have been exactly four years and uh, yeah, it just fucking blows my mind.

You know, there's a beer in my fridge right now that I try to remember the year. I think it's 2018 that I got it. It's a, so here's the thing. It's a stout. It's from renegade brewing in Denver.

It's like a pancake stout, I think. So it's got like maple and that kind of shit in there. And I got it when I interviewed Brian, the, the owner and head brewer of renegade, I, we smuggled it back along with many others. And it's one of those beers where like, you don't want it all the time because it's a thick stout, right? And it just kind of made its way to the back of the fridge. And every now and then I find it and I kind of move it back up, but then I don't want any stouts at that time.

So it just keeps making its, I mean, it's gotta be five or six years old at this point. I think the jig is up, Greg. I should have it on the show sometime just to see. I remember liking it. I don't remember quite what it tasted like other than a maple east out, but now we, we could have coordinated old beer science, son of a bitch. Yeah. The dino episode. Yeah. That's what Mel and I call beers in the back of the fridge. They're gross. I like that. Yeah. So, uh, let's do it.

Let's find some old beer sometime.

I actually have another one. Another old beer. Yeah. Oh, we should remember this, which we won't. And uh, yeah, hopefully when I edit the show, I'll listen again and go, Oh yeah. Take notes. Jackass. We're going to drink gross old beer. You don't take notes. How dare you? Just for fun, I'm going to take notes. Please take notes. Yeah. Just like, did you ever clap? I don't know. Did I for this episode? I know I did last week. Yeah. Here you go. Everybody doesn't mean no good in the middle.

Nurture. Uh, I mean it does if I remember where I clapped it, but you won't ever make it clap. Uh, anyways, insert awkward transition here. Uh, before we move on to some news ludicrous libation law, this comes out of North Carolina where apparently is that a thing?

P Pablo. Oh, I was like, is that like a college thing? I don't get Pablo. Gotcha. Discounting alcoholic beverage prices is illegal in the state. Therefore happy hours are illegal. I guarantee people still do them. That's a good question. Who we know it's in North Carolina. Wendy's in South Carolina. Yeah, but I bet she travels the North. Yeah, she should. Yeah. Just on right above her. So Wendy, let us know anybody in North Carolina.

That's like, I remember when you did, uh, you did a, one of the first ludicrous libation laws was, uh, Wisconsin. It was like illegal to host like ladies nights. Uh, huh. Yeah. A lot of States have that. And places still do it. Cause this is ladies night. Sorry. Feels right. Oh, this is ladies night. Oh, what a night. Oh, anywhere. Yeah. So all you North Carolinians let us know if that's true. Carolinians. I don't know. Well, what would that be?

What, what, what are you from the Carolina Carolinian? This doesn't sound right. Carolina, Carolina. I don't know. It's blowing my mind. It's hurting. Somebody help us out. We're stupid. Uh, all right. I'll do some news. Former dark horse owner must pay back,

uh, must pay back staff to avoid prison sentence. Wow. So we talked about the beginning of this story years. I mean, this is back in 2020 everyone like the naughty list came out and all that stuff. Yep. Well, this is dating all the way back to that. The guy wasn't paying his employees and blah, blah, blah.

Uh, so the former owner of Marshall, Michigan based dark horse has pled guilty to one count of conducting a criminal enterprise and has been ordered to make full restitution to former employees in order to avoid a 20 year prison sentence. Good Lord. Yeah. Aaron Morse, who has not owned dark horse since 2020 intentionally and illegally withheld employee retirement contributions and healthcare premiums for his own purposes.

Uh, the office wrote Morse was charged in 22 with passing $20,972 and 82 cents in bad checks to employees. Further investigation revealed he mishandled employee benefit withholdings resulting in the failure to remit more than $36,000 in retirement contributions, $29,000 in employer matched retirement funds and $24,000 in health insurance policy premiums, which eventually led to more than $50,000 in unpaid health claims to employees. Oh yeah.

Three dozen employees were enrolled in dark horses, retirement or healthcare plans. A victim restitution. Something is being calculated, which Morris will have to pay by the time he completes a court ordered drug addiction course of at least 18 months. If he fails to make the payment, he will be sentenced to jail time in addition to conducting a criminal enterprise, which to me sounds like the mafia, like not like some dude who stole some money from employees. Right?

Yeah. Not that I'm saying that was a, not a light offense, but um, so in addition to that, he was charged with five counts of larceny by conversion, five counts of receiving and concealing stolen property and five counts of larceny by false pretense. What a stupid guy. Sounds like a class act. What's wild is a dark horse did like a, I would say probably back in like 2019 a pale ale called scary rockstar Jesus. And uh, it was delicious.

It was one of those like a, you know, when I got started getting back into craft, that beer really hit for me. It's a great name. Yeah. And then that's mostly what it was, was the name and the can't like the bottle art because it was still bottles. I don't know if they still do bottles, but way back in the day. Um, but yeah, that's what a crazy son of a bitch. Palsy. That's one way to put it. Yeah. There, here's what I'm thinking.

There is no fucking way that in 18 months he's going to come with that, come up with that money. He's going to jail. Yeah. He's totally going to jail. 20 years. Well, what a drug addiction class. That's that? Yeah. 18 month drug addiction class. Oh man. Guys got some issues. Clearly. Uh, what else? Oh, this one's for Deb Sazerac to acquire buzz balls.

Deb loves buzz balls. Yep. It's like her favorite thing. Spirits giant Sazerac announced last week plans to acquire Southern champions RTD portfolio, including buzz balls, the spherical wine, spirit and malt based cocktail brand. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal is pending. Customary closing conditions. Buzz ball founder merrily kick on a name. We'll continue to guide the brand as CEO. Once the deal closes, merrily kick merrily, merrily.

Yeah. When, uh, how to buzz ball when, uh, Erica came down this way to do a little research with us, Deb was like, should I go to the store and get buzz balls for everybody? And I think she actually did. I think they were in her purse and that she just didn't hand them out or something. I don't think I've ever actually seen a buzz ball. Oh really? We haven't had total wine. Like every total wine has buzz balls in them. I guess I haven't, I mean, I haven't been to a total wine in a long time.

I hate, I hate having to rummage through there. Yeah. Wine selection is not bad, but the beer selection is usually old. The spirits are fine. The wine's fine. Right. You're right. The beer is where it gets bad. Yeah. It should be. I mean, it's called total wine and more. It should be called a total wine and more and old beer. Right? Like it's like the goodwill of the craft beer, except you don't get it at a cheaper price. Yeah. And I don't get a tax write off if I donate.

Yeah. I don't want to say this out loud because Deb might listen and then challenge me, but I've never actually had a buzz ball. I've just seen them. Really? Yeah. Well, I hope she hears this and I hope you get challenged. I mean, listen, it's a wine spirit and malt based cocktail. What about that? Doesn't scream hangover. That sounds horrible. Sounds horrendous. Sounds like a horrible next day. Sounds like one ball will get you drunk. That's what I tell all my girls. Just one ball, baby.

Oh man. Just one ball. They call me solo Cyclops. Oh dear. Moving on quickly. An appellate court,

excuse me, appellate court judges uphold jury decision to side with constellation brands in the hard seltzer lawsuit. I'm not going to read all the legal mumbo jumbo, but AB was suing constellation because constellation has the U S rights to sell and produce Modelo and assuming nominal Corona. They produced a Corona hard seltzer. AB says they don't have the rights to do that. Constellation says, yes we do. And then AB sued them for it and lost.

And then the appellate court judges upheld the loss. Oh, look at that. Yeah. They're basically fighting over definitions of beer. AB is saying like, Oh, these seltzers aren't beer. And constellation is like, uh, the fuck you say, like everyone else puts in the same category so we can sell it. Yeah. So there you go. Yeah. Try and make a new law AB. Yeah. I mean they basically said all the current laws right after prohibition. So fuck you AB. Yeah. Serves them right. It does. And also gross.

Who cares? Super gross. It doesn't. I had one of the Corona seltzers. Someone handed it to me and I couldn't finish it. It was just nothing but diabetes.

It was so sugary. I don't even know if I've ever seen one. That's not a bad thing. The only seltzers I've ever, I haven't seen a seltzer in a long time. Um, but those Topo Chico's have you ever had, I think we've talked about that. I wasn't a fan. Oh, you weren't a fan. I was not. At least the flavors I tried, I was not a fan. I didn't mind the margarita pack. Oh, if I'm going seltzer, I'll go truly. Uh, I'll go Kirkland. The Costco brand seltzers taste just like the trulys.

I've heard they're okay. Yeah. They're, they're pretty not bad and they're like less than a dollar a can. So, uh, that's an algorithm. Yeah. I think it's like 15 bucks for a 24 pack or something like that. You can't go wrong. Um, I'll do those too. Like I had a white claw once it was absolute garbage. Um, yeah, I think truly in Kirkland are like the only two where I'm like, eh, it's not bad. Okay. So far I'm willing to try people. I'm willing to, but Topo Chico, I wasn't a fan.

Uh, the prickly pear margarita was top notch in my opinion. Definitely didn't have that. It was like there, we got like one of each flavor. Cause somebody had told us how much they liked the Topo Chico and okay. And so they had like a single cans or something at a store and we got one of each flavor that they had. And I think it was just their base flavors and single cans of Topo Chico. Yeah. How stupid did we look? We'd like to purchase for Topo Chico's please.

And thank you. Hipster. Yeah. They go, they go almost Dr. Evil. I would like to take four Topo Chico's please. It has the mineral water with the alcohol. I like the bubbles. Uh, a Delta pilot gets 10 months in jail for showing up to flight drunk with a half empty bottle of Jaeger.

I mean, those things basically fly themselves nowadays. That's what his argument was. We actually talked about this. This happened last June, June of 23. Uh, Lawrence Russell Jr. pled guilty to reporting for duty as a pilot while exceeding the prescribed blood alcohol limit. According to a sentencing statement, Russell, an American citizen from Georgia was scheduled to fly a Boeing seven six seven aircraft from Edinburgh international airport to New York's JFK. Ah, here's the problem.

You can't be that drunk and figure out how to keep the doors on. Oh, that must be what it was. Uh, he arrived at the airport at 9 15 am local time and about 90 minutes before his flight was scheduled to depart. When Russell 63 sent his bag through an x-ray screener, it was rejected because there were too many liquids inside. When the bag was manually searched, searched, it was found to contain two bottles of Jaeger Meister. One bottle was open and just under half full.

According to the sentencing statement, police were called because Russell was wearing a pilot's uniform, including a lanyard and crew pass. Identifying him as a Delta airlines employee, Russell told police he was a captain with Delta and said that he had not been drinking recently. Russell told police that the bottles were from the previous evening. He was asked to give a breath sample and failed.

The sentencing statement said, uh, Russell's breath test showed levels twice the legal limit for pilots. The alcohol legal limit for pilots is point oh four point zero zero zero. Yes, but they basically fly themselves. I get it.

I get it. Pilots may also not have consumed alcohol within eight hours of flying under FAA rules. So there you go. Those are some fucked up rules. Yeah. Like if you think about it. Well, yeah. Cause what if you, let's say you party hard last night and you were drinking until two in the morning, you know, drinking apparently some Jaeger. How young are we here? 63 drink something your own age.

But, uh, you know, he takes a little dozer after drinking too much, wakes up, go showers, goes to work thinking he's feeling all right. Turns out he's an, he's an oh wait still from last night when the limit is oh four. Oh man. Yeah. Should have peed a couple more times. That's crazy that they actually have a limit of oh four. I mean, I'm glad that they have a limit. I'm just shocked that it is even a limit. Really?

Yeah. You know, but I guess I wonder, you got to think how many pilots are out there like a, having a beer at the bar and in the airport before getting on their flight. Right. I don't know. Hopefully zero to none are. Well, you would think, but if it gives them that oh four limit, then geez, who knows what they're doing? Yeah. I mean, I guess you go to the airport bar and put down, you know, a couple of macro beers and hit that oh four pretty easily. I would imagine. Right.

Yeah. Flying the friendly skies. Well, I'm not going Delta down anytime soon. Plus you gotta pay for checked baggage. Southwest all the way. All the way. Oh, every time. Let's go to Florida for this one. Drunk man. When don't we? I know. Never ending well of greatness. Drunk man molested a manatee statue and threw gator nuggets in Florida restaurant.

First of all, where else would you get gator nuggets? Manatee statue. Touche. Anthony Michael Lessa, 23 was arrested Friday night on the charge of disorderly intoxication. According to an arrest report, officials said the incident began when deputies received a call from Rick's reef bar on St. Pete beach about an intoxicated person causing a disturbance. Lessa of Pittsburgh reportedly became upset when he was told he'd already paid his bill and was asked to leave the restaurant.

Once he was outside the restaurant, he quote molested a plastic manatee that was in the restaurant's parking lot and was again asked to leave. Lessa became physically aggressive with the employee who asked him to leave and started throwing gator nuggets in the restaurant's dining area before fleeing the scene. A short time later, Lessa was reportedly yelling obscenities at employees at the nearby postcard in. He was asked to leave but refused, prompting a call to the sheriff's office.

Lessa was taken into custody and while deputies were patting him down, they discovered more gator nuggets. He'd pocketed more gator nuggets. It's just like a story out of Napoleon Dynamite, right? I have some thoughts. I'm just picturing him chucking tots at somebody and then just like running away. "Eat your nuggets." "Uh, what is that?" "Oh, that's the crap you were throwing at the restaurant," a deputy said to Lessa. "Nuggets?" "Yeah, gator nuggets. Shark bites," Lessa responds.

"I thought it was like cork," the deputy said to another deputy. I was like, "Why does he have cork in his pocket?" Which begs a very different question. He was booked to jail and later released. Why would you think somebody had cork? Is that a cork in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Maybe he's a cork soaker. Is that a thing? I don't know. What is that slang for? It was a Saturday Night Live skit. Recently?

I can't remember if they went to Italy or France and they visited the cork soakers and some of the guys liked soaking the big corks or soaking the big corks and some liked soaking the small corks and some could soak two corks at once.

And I imagine the accents were strong? Oh, very strong. Yeah. Got it. Yeah. It was pretty brilliant. I'd check it out if I were you. I'll have to look that up. After I'm done eating my gator nuggets that someone threw at me. Also, don't waste your nuggets, man. Yeah, right? What is better than a fucking nugget when you're drunk? A taco. All right. You're right. I want a taco. Fuck. Tacos are so good. Tacos sound good. So good. What's your favorite taco? Don't say pink.

Jesus. Not a pink taco show. Not yet. I'm pretty simple with mine. I just like a nice pork carnita with some cilantro. All right. But you're not like one of those fucking Taco Bell crunchy with lettuce and cheese bullshit, right? Oh, no. I mean, I will eat that, but my preferred favorite taco is like a pork taco with cilantro and onion and some lime juice. Yeah. Love it. Real tacos. Yeah. Yeah. Sam, I love me some al pastor. Drew, just onion, cilantro and some, some spicy sauce. Heck yeah.

Yeah. Al pastor is my favorite shit. Rock. Oh yeah. You're right now. I want tacos. You know, the first time, the first time I had like, like a pork carnita taco was on our honeymoon and they actually had like this taco spot on the corner of our resort, Rio, Mexico. Yeah. Oh. And uh, they had the, they would slice the meat right off the spit. That's the best right onto the tortillas. Fucking amazing. Come out to LA dude. We, we got some of that too. Yeah. Oh man.

Yeah. We got a lot of those, you know, they've got tacos on the street and we got a bunch of like hole in the wall taco shops and it's always fun bringing outsiders to my favorite taco shops because if you go somewhere where they speak English, it's not a good taco. It's not a good, yeah. Yeah. But there's a couple of places around here where I got a strap on my high school Spanish. Like those tacos por favor. E dose survey cells.

Gracias. And then they promptly spit in my food. Oh, so stupid. But it's good tasting. Oh, it's the best tasting spit you'll ever have. Yeah. We got some good tacos here in SoCal. My favorite is like when I go other places and people are like, Oh, you want to go get Mexican food? I'm like, no, no, I don't. We're in the middle of the fucking country. I don't want Mexican food here and I don't want sushi from here either. Oh, we, we had some decent sushi here.

I mean, I, I'm 20 minutes from the beach.

How decent is your sushi? Well, probably not as yours. Goddammit. Yeah. That's the thing. Like middle of the country, no sushi, no Mexican food. Let's, let's, let's do what you're good at. I don't know. We have a quite a large Hispanic community in a area over here and do well, like not by me, but oh, okay. Towards like downtown. Yeah. Yeah. There's like a huge Hispanic area and a lot of good shit out there. That's the best food, man.

I tell you, like there's one restaurant that's super well known because they serve everything on like paper plates and like they give you like paper towel instead of napkins. Right. Yeah. It's some of the best Mexican food like in the city. Yeah. When they're paper, when they're a napkins say bounty on them, that's, that's a good sign. Right? Like they tore it off and gave it to you. It's yeah. Give it a little like one folder. You're gonna need nine more of these. Trust me. Not even folded.

Yeah. Not even close. Oh, all right. Well, how this taco talk, I am now very hungry. Time for Dinden. It is time for Dinden. I have not eaten yet. So, uh, all right, let's hit some music. We'll say, Oh, I wonder how the tacos are in Florida. Like they're, they don't really get the Mexican food. I bet they get a lot of Cuban food, right? Yeah. I love a good Cubano sandwich. Oh, that's good too. I haven't had one. Oh really? Oh, you're missing out.

I don't think so, but they have good sushi out there, Miami. Nice and fresh. Anyways, that was all leading up to, hi Vanessa. Hello Vanessa. Uh, find us on the socials at craftbeerrepublic@flexmeabeer_ in between. Of course, 805-538-beer, 2337. Mail at craftbeerepublic.com and all that good shit. I think that's everything. So I hope everyone out there is staying very well hydrated. And on that note, good night everybody.