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I got a got a beer sitting in my hand. And you know the
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favorite time this we get started. Welcome to the show. I'm James.
Hi say Hi Chad, Hi, Hi Chad. And by the way,
James is very particular about that rule about never cracking a beer before the mics
get hot. But I can tell you over at least a dozen times in
the in the years that we've done the show together. He breaks a lot
of other rules. Well, I have, you know, some rules I
have to live by, and then some of them might just kind of he
knows the guy who has the beat button, Yeah, you're not supposed to
say those words beat. He hits that one, okay, and then the
other one is the other one forget to turn his phone off? What No,
I'm I've gotten better over the years. About that, you've gotten better,
but you have broke that rule more than anybody. Well, welcome to
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It's been a it's been a week. It's been a week since we've
joined you last and so we're happy to tell you what's going on in the
world. But well I'm not gonna do that without a beer in my hand.
Thanks to our friends over at the Backyard Grill, which I knew that
though they were out there for the Houston Livestock Showing rodeo, Cookoff, Wow
Cooker, Half Ass Cooker. I am so sad again this year. I
could not make the trip. They may kick me off the team, but
you know what, they are still in my heart. It's been two years
I have not been there. Oh, great time there and support the team,
all right, I did. I actually went on my phone when they
were at the cookoff and I just played around on the Backyard Grill app.
Download the app for your phone, just so I felt like I was part
of the team. But anyway, this is brought to the table. Thank
you Backyard Grill on the northwest side of Houston. James, you've got a
beer in your hand. I know you're ready to crack it open. I
have a beer in my hand. I'm ready to crack it open. But
you've got first. Mike, who's going first? Why don't you take the
lead? Chad done? The lead? Done. Saw a post on social
media, I'm beer tasting Houston where somebody said, I know this brewery is
ab owned now, but I still like clowning around and that would be none
other than the double ipa rodeo clown from Carbox Brewing Company. And of course
it got lots of cheers and jeers. Some people love it, some people
hate it. Well, I went to one of my favorite beer stores here
in West Michigan and I saw the six pack sitting on the shelf and I
said, wait a minute, did they brew this beer again? And they
said no, it's just been here for two years and nobody's picked it up
yet. And I said, wait a minute, was that pre Sapporo or
post Sapporo? And they're like, it's post Sapporo. So it's a supporo
beer from Stone Brewing Company. Two year old, plain old, ordinary Imperial
stout. So he took the feather, you took the feather duster and bought
it. Huh yeah, but it's no adjuncts. It's a ten point five
percent beer. It is straight up Imperial stout. I know, Fire Marshall.
Matt right now is love and it's like he started the show without an
ipa. What is next? The solar eclipse. We're gonna talk about that
maybe on the show today. That's a little tease, but wow, rich,
roasty chocolate nose, but is balanced with a bitterness. I'm not sure
if that's a hot bitterness or a coffee bitterness or just a well, it's
not real coffee. That is that? Where's your knife and fork for that
thing? I was gonna say, I think I can float the bottle cap
a bottle cap on the head of this. Let take a quick sip.
I think it's midnight midnight black, two years old and still drinks amazing.
So the beer that I have, there's a big, long story here on
the side. I'll put my readers on and tell you about it after James
gets into his beer because he's thirsty. Two. But I brought the stone
Imperial stout ten point five percent? Uh, just straight up American Imperial stout.
What's the AVV on? It was alcohol by volume ten five oh ten
five ten five ten five. All right, James is so busy going through
the checklist he forgot I said it. I know I've heard about that.
Hold on, watch us, hold on, I'll say the way James does.
Uh. And this comes in at ten point five percent ABV Okay,
Chad, what do you got there, Bud? So I'm getting out the
wheelhouse. I'm getting out of my comfort zone. I'm gonna do something totally
awesome this this this week, totally awesome, awesome. I'm gonna drink a
beer called awesome sauce cherry coconuts sour Seltzer. Is it even beer? No,
it's seltzer. Okay, yeah, can you guess the sauce Martin House
it is. That was a total guess, but I had to be right
because it's cherry coconut Seltzer. Who else makes that? That thing looks like
it's a wine cooler? Oh god, oh boy, here we go see
grooms golden wine cooler. Oh wow, well that is very strong on the
cherry. James is not like Okay, we can't show you his face,
but that's brought to the table. We will talk more about these beers and
whatever it is or this beer and whatever it is James is drinking. We
come back, but I brought the Stone Imperial Stout and James has the awesome
sauce sour Seltzer cherry coconut from Martin House Brewing out a Fort Worth, Texas,
which I'll talk about here coming up before we do the official What's on
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I'll just tell Chad off the air that the beer I brought to table,
Thanks Dore friends over the backyard grill, the awesome sauce sour Seltzer five
percent alcohol cherry coconut from Martin House Brewing and you own it. Reminds me
of a moxacilin when you were a kid. You know, you sit maxacillin,
a cherry flavored mox of cilin when you had like a sore throat or
you had strupped throat or something. I was just gonna be not funny and
say something you don't want to drink, something you want to pour down the
dream. Yeah. What does Chad always say? Chad always says, never
judge a beers first. You gotta wait three SIPs. Now Here's the thing
I've also learned. Every once in a while we get a really really good
Martin House beer. Oh they make beer. It's not very often we get
our hands on one. But they do make some really good beer and when
we get it, we praise it. You know my favorite beer they do,
the Imperial Texan that double Yes, yes, the Red yep, the
double Red. Yeah, yep. Great beer, great beer. But see
then then they make stuff like this and squitting beer and menthol and crazy.
Like I just saw it. I was like, you know what, this
is something I normally wouldn't drink, and I want to know you wouldn't.
And ten years I've abways kind of been bringing IPAs and stuff, but I
was like, let me get out of my comfort zone and let me try
something new. So last week I brought a sour and that's how I was
pretty good. But this one, on the other hand, is like I
said, never judge a beer after its first sip. Sip to the moral
of the story, folks, is don't waste your four dollars. Just go
with your gut. You're not changing cherry, cherry on the front end,
coconut on the finish. It's like a mullet go you got you got cherry
on the front and coconut in the back. I'm not sure. Yeah,
but which one is the party? You're saying coconuts the party. Yeah,
Oh, the coconut is definitely the party. The coconuts. Like, hey,
now the headliner's on on stage. Okay, all right, that's cool.
But again, I can appreciate it for what it is, but it's
not anything I would ever want to drink. And here I'm gonna go ahead
and say this. If you're listening in your fans of Martin House or you
work at Martin House, and we always say, you know, if you
want to sponsor the show, we understand why you don't call I do,
but you know what I mean. I go out to the Texas Craft Brewers
Guild annual conferences and Austin and the July we're gonna be in Fort Worth and
Martin House's Neck of the Woods, and I always yeah, I talk to
those guys all the time, like, man, you guys make some killer
beer. And then sometimes those beers I'm just like yeah, and you know
what said the brewer said, Yeah, I feel that way too, But
they sell, but they sell, but they sell. That's exactly right.
That's exactly right. People line up. And by the way, I have
said this since day one that I've been on this show. I don't care
if I think your idea is stupid. I don't care if I hate it
and it's taste like trash. If you can make money at it, people
are lining up hand over fistful of dollars, you are a winner in my
book. I hope you make a million dollars with that idea. Chadd out
of my mouth, exactly right. I hope we make a million dollars.
And I'm sure they're doing quite well. But I am just not the clientele
for this. I am not the demo for the awesome sauce sour seltzer cherry
coconut at five percent alcohol. That is just on me. But Chad,
you actually brought a two year old stout Stone Brewing Company. How's it treating?
Yes, well, I say it's two years old. Technically it is
a year and a half, but that's we're semantics here at this point.
It is a fantastic beer. It's it is Stone's Imperial style, and it's
part of the fan base series you vote we brew type thing, and they
did that recently with Ruination Beer and brought Ruination back. By the way,
I want to take a guess what I'm bringing to the table. Next week.
Oh, I hope it is Ruination because that beer is amazing. But
it even says right here, you voted we brewed. Ask any hardcore Stone
enthusiasts about our most legendary and you're bound to hear the mention of this one.
It's jet black, fluffy hot charcoal assume me fluffy hot, chocolate colored
head, and it's an obsidian wonder. Held up to the sky, it
could block out the sun. Oh, like an eclipse. Anyway, you
can age it for years, but you don't need to drink it fresh.
Or if you walk into the beer store and you see a six pack and
it's a year and a half old, go ahead and buy it. In
fact, I even asked the guy. He was so cool, I wanna
go ahead and just say it. I was at d Shoolers in Wyoming,
Michigan, and the guy was so honest with me. I said, did
they just brew this again? Is this the last six pack? And he
could have said yeah and sold it to me. He didn't. He said,
no, it's actually my last one. It's almost two years old.
And I bought it anyway, and he said, I'll make you right.
Speaking of making you right, we're gonna make you right in the head right
now. Now the official What's on Tap Radio fun Fact of the week brought
to you by Who's ever check Clear this week. But I do want to
thank the Backyard Girl for sponsoring. They brought to the table segments A men,
thank you so much. Now I have a fun fact that comes to
us from a former sponsor. I say former, like, didn't he like
sponsoring your show anymore? No, he retired. Let's get that name drop
out for good, our good buddy, Kip, Happy birthday. Kip's birthday
was last week. Dude, Kipper Galaxy Jewelers. Who what was he like?
Forty years in business in Houston or something ridiculous, but yeah, long
time, long time in the jewelry business. I had a fun fact all
lined up and he sent this to me, and I was like, well,
this is going to the front of the line, baby. This is
a good one. And it starts off with me mentioning a tradition that kind
of goes I don't want to say, to the gangbanger scene or I'm not
even sure exactly where it comes from. Maybe I had to make this a
fun fact, But where did the origin of pouring one out for your homies
come from where you you know, you're you know, like your your buddy
gets killed and you're getting ready to lay him to rest into the ground,
and so you take your beer and you pour it on the ground like you're
pouring it for him, hoping that you know, the beer in the ground
gets to him because you want to buy him one more beer, like boys
in the Hood or something, right, right, pour some out for your
homies. Right? Well, I got a story from New Zealand, an
official What's on Tap Radio fun fact of the week where you don't pour one
out for your homie. And this story takes us back to World War Two
and an eighty four year old bottle of beer. There is a pub in
New Zealand where patrons can come by and they can see this unopened bottle of
balance x x x x four x beer that has been on display for over
eighty years, and it is known as Ted's bottle. And what happened was
is this particular bottle of beer. There was a guy named Ted. I'm
gonna try and pronounce his last name, but it's like French, Norwegian,
Slovakian, Hungarian, Jewish, I don't know what is devungarie, devange avag
whatever. I should have said it with confidence and you would have believed me.
But he was born on February twenty first, nineteen oh six, and
he was a farmer. But he realized that he needed to be involved when
he saw the World War One going on. He needed to be involved,
so he enlisted as a kind of a reservist. And he sat as an
army reservist for thirteen years. But then in thirty nine, nineteen thirty nine,
when Germany invaded Poland, he said, I didn't play soldier for thirteen
years to not get involved when the real thing happened. And when New Zealand
went to war against Germany, he enlisted and he got involved. He was
the twenty seventh machine gun but part of the twenty seventh machine Gun Battalion,
and he went to fight in the war. He departed in January nineteen forty.
But before he left, he went to the pub and he sat down
and he had a beer with all of his friends and they all toasted and
he says, yeah, I'm gonna have another one. I'm gonna have another
one. And I was like, all right, guys, that's it.
I've had enough, and they said I have one more, and he says
I will, and he ordered it, and he says it for me,
I'll have it when I get back. Like, whoa, that's awesome.
Everyone's like, all right, So they save that bottle of beer. Ted's
beer sat there. So Ted goes off to World War Two nineteen forty January
nineteen forty serve for eighteen months. Unfortunately, at the age of thirty five,
he was tragically killed in action in nineteen forty one. Damn it.
He never came home. But the bar now had Ted's beer and it became
a permanent fixture in the bar. Naturally, a lot of us might think,
well, let's take it and pour it out for our dead homie,
but they did not. They had a farewell party. They got together,
they celebrated, and today, to this day, Balance xxxx, a eighty
five year old, unopened bottle of beer, is on display to celebrate the
man who went to war for his country to fight against the Nazis from New
Zealand, but never made it home. So you're official. What's on tap
radio? Fun fact of the week is that Ted's beer is on display at
a bar in New Zealand. It's an eighty five year old, unopened bottle
of beer that sat there the moment he went off to war in nineteen forty
and said I'll drink it when I get back. But he never made it
back. And that again is your official was on Tap Radio fun fact of
the week. Man. That's a crazy story. Wow, I know,
thank you very much Kip for sending that to me. That's like a feel
good story, you know. And his name's gonna live on an infamy.
All right, that's a good fun fact. Let's keep the momentum going on
tap this week. Remember we talked about the inaugural Florida Man Games. Well
they had they had the games. Howd it go? We got an update.
All this is so much more. Hang with us. We'll bring it
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I don't think I can do it. I don't think I can do it.
Train poor, Yeah, it's gonna be a train poor. Welcome back
to What's on Tapado. If you're just joining us in the first segment,
brought to the table before we did the official What's on Taprido fun fact a
week I kicked it off, well, chat actually kicked it off, and
then I just followed up with the awesome sauce sour Seltzer cherry coconut from Martin
House Brewing, and I might like sip four or five and I thought maybe
it'll grow on me. It's not. Yeah, I like it. So
this is a show about beer and the culture that flows with it. I
started the show with beer. James started the show with the culture that flows
with it pretty much, and now it's gonna flow down in the tree.
So yeah, I'm gonna have to go down and pull another beer from the
fridge here at studios. But uh, I'm gonna stay with my beer for
a little while because I don't know if you've noticed listen to Hey in studio
with me is yeah, exactly, no one. I have no stunt beer
livers. This week Bill's assignment still Bill's back. He went to the Michigan
Winter Beer Fest in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and he called me up after
that and he says, Chad, I'm not feeling the best. And I
said, all right. He says, I'm gonna stay home and take take
I'm gonna take like a week off and just not do anything. So he's
just he's been laying low and recovering, and I can appreciate that. I
can respect that as well. Yeah, so that's why he's not here this
week. And actually, uh, Johnny klunder ringed all the ten Hacen Insurance
group coming up in the next hour, hold my beer and watch this.
He was supposed to be in here tonight. He got called away. So
I'm I'm drinking alone. I want people to know that Dry January ended on
January thirty first, So people, you can come hang out with me now
if you just if you don't know, my reference is the fact that nobody
I'm drinking beer again, come back. Nobody called me in the month of
January to come have a beer with me while I was doing the show,
because I was doing Dry January. So hey, I'm letting you guys know.
Maybe that's why they haven't called me because I'm not going to James the
studio and trying to feed me sours awesome sauce sour seltzer. Look, hey,
all respect, all respect to Martin House Brewing Company, but this one
I really like Martin House and the beers that are good that I'd like,
like the beer beers, the beer they make really good beer. But then
they just I don't know, they just they throw caution into the wind and
just say, you know, whatever we have in the drawer, throw it
into this and let's just see if it sells and it sounds chat I just
go speaking of Martin House brewing real quick. I know we're gonn get into
this story about the teenagers. This just came across my desk. There are
people who are gonna get excited about fast food chains announcing new healthy offer.
I've never met any of them. I've never met any of them, but
I imagine they find it enjoy and enjoying their lives. But for everybody else,
they have this in my email, just got into my box. KFC
is rolling out a new menu item called Chiesa Chiesa it's the name of a
mashup we have chicken and pizza. It's pronounced chiza, so it rhymes with
pizza. It's not fried chicken or on a pizza, it's pizza on fried
chicken. So the fried chicken filets are the crust with marinair sauce, mozzarella,
cheese, pepperoni on top, and it sounds like one of those are
actually pretty much on the toppings now. But the Chiesa will be available on
most KFC locations nationwide starting next week. It's a limited time thing. It's
unclear how limited. It's gonna cost nine to ninety nine on its own,
but you can make it a combo for twelve ninety nine. And the reason
why I'm bringing this up, Chad, because at any day now, at
any day now, Martin Housburning will announce their new release, the Chiesa Red
Ale. Oh yeah, So if you like pizza and fried chicken, Kanc's
rolling out the Chiza. It's a pizza made from fried chicken. I don't
know if you want pizza and beer. I mean, just check out our
buddy Joe Cruz over at Cases. I mean, he's that guy there.
He's got the job of lifetime. And if you don't believe me, you
can go listen to our podcast brought to that Cask Branding. We interviewed him
last week, and that guy, he's got the job of lifetime. What's
what's your job? Drink beer, pair it with pizza for who Casey's.
Casey's one of the largest pizza retailers in the world. Right, that's pretty
awesome. Would you would you eat a Chiza chad fried chicken pizza. I'll
try anything twice, Okay, Well the second Martin the second that Martin House
comes out with their Chieza red Ale. Oh yeah, I'll let you know.
I mean, I'll try it. But by the way, speaking of
red Ale, I gotta throw this out there. I'm sorry. We this
is not on the one sheet and we just went down a rabbit hole.
We don't normally do this. We're produced radio. But you know what beer
that I haven't heard and forever mentioned? Velvet Hammer, Oh, Pettical's Brewing
Company, thank you, Yeah, out of Dallas, Texas. That's an
award winning beer. Uh yeah, it's a Scottishale. Right, I don't
think it is a Scottis shoe. I think it's an Imperial red Ale.
Okay, I can't remember. It's been so long since. I think it's
an Imperial red Ale. That's why I brought it up, because it's won
so many awards and it's such a coveted beer, and yet it just it
just goes to show you how cluttered the market can be, and that's why
breweries need to find ways to stand out, and breweries that need to stand
out. They're getting more and more creative with their marketing and they're labeling and
they're doing everything they can. Now, if you remember a while back,
you got to go back in the getting the DeLorean, go back in the
time machine. Got to go back to like twenty seventeen when the Brewers Association
and the federal government and everybody says, look, we're gonna have some integrity
with this labeling. No more sexist labels, no more cartoons, no more
funny business. Relaxed on those You think, yeah, I think they did?
You think I remember there was a Belgian beer that came out of Antwerp,
and there's a statue in Antwerp where this giant had his hand cut off
and they put that on the label and they said they couldn't use that,
it couldn't sell it in the US or parts of the US because it promoted
violence. And I was like, are you kidding me? They took the
baby off of Founder's Breakfast Out because it promoted children drinking beer, and everybody
said, we need to put the we need to drop the hammer on this.
We need to clean up, We need clean us up. Well,
they kind of turned the other you know, it's like, eh, what
did it really produce? Well, in New Hampshire, there are some teenagers
who have had enough. Yes, you heard me correctly, teenagers, high
school kids, oh boy, middle school kids. Oh, please tell me
why they're so mad. Oh they're so angry. I can't get them to
turn their homework on on time, but they're mad about something. Yes,
The do Over Youth to Youth took a field trip to the state House in
Concord, New Hampshire, and they arrived armed with empty beer cans to tell
lawmakers we've had enough. Look at these beer cans. It's terrible. They
are designed like kids animated movies, like Finding Nemo. Said Megan Merrigan,
who's twelve years old. I'm trying to keep a straight face and say this.
There's a twelve year old with an empty beer can yelling at the state
legislature saying you need to change the law because there's a Finding Nemo like artwork
on this can and it might entice some child to drink That state senators were
that has a parent, that has parent behind that written all over it.
Oh dude, oh this is yeah. I mean, yeah, what what's
it? Greta Thurnberg, Yeah yeah, yeah, Oh dare you? State
senators were handed cans of all of these illustrated beers that resembled Disney movie posters,
and she went on with her teenage peers to contend that alcohol makers are
using imagery on their labels, whether intentional or not, to appeal to minors.
Has anybody looked at the price of beer and craft beer on these things
lately? This is probably like a twenty four dollars four pack of six percent
azipa and it's called finding Nipa, which is a good name, don't get
me wrong. And I get it. People said they were going to crack
down on this, We're not gonna allow this anymore. But I tell you
Danny Sumner fourteen, she got in there. She says, kids go for
something that's enticing to the eye. They're not gonna go for the boring beer
like they're not gonna go for it. I'm sorry if you this is editorial
now. If they drop the hammer on this and pass this, you will
not see teenage drinking decline. Teenage kids are not drinking twenty four dollars four
packs of fine nea hazy ipa. It's not happening, Nor are they in
the places that sell that. No, they're not. No, they're not
even allowed to go in because they're not of age. But this new legislation
which is being proposed will ban the use of cartoons, toys and other fictional
characters and prohibit them from being used to entice people to buy alcohol. However,
they say that administering this law will be complicated because under current new Hampshire
law they block a lot of these things with miners being able to drink.
But then you have to ask this question because right now there's a sunny d
seltzer, there is an ego seltzer. So now the question is is that
targeting children or is it targeting nostalgic adults. One brewer even said, I
took a photograph of my dog's face with his tongue sticking out and flipped it
upside down, and it was banned for being too cartoonish. I don't know
what was cartoonish about my dog having his tongue out and being photographed upside down,
but they banned that label. So no word out now on whether or
not they're going to do it. We talked a little bit earlier about how
the band of the trademark A Mickey Mouse was lifted and a Michigan were repicked
up on that and made a Mickey Mouse beer. Oh yeah, teenage drinking
in Michigan and youth drinking Michigan through the roof Mickey Mouse beer killing kids.
Okay, I made that part up. Some teatoller got some kids to go,
Hey, I need you to go in front of the Congress and get
mad and say that you're mad about this label. It's the kids are just
puppets, you know. Kids care about dare you. Kids care about their
stupid phone and Wi Fi. That's why it's not going to curb any youth
drinking. But nevertheless, New Hampshire, you're you're spearheading all right. When
we come back, we got more stuff to talk about, right James.
Absolutely, we're going to talk about getting it on with your beer. I
know it's a real thing. I'm not making it up. We'll explain this
is what's on taprio. Hang with us. We'll right back. When someone
says, hold my beer. You know, a trip to the er is
in your future. So hold your own beer, buddy and just listen to
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Chad, that's Chad the beer logic Guy. Here you go, okay,
Chad the beer logic guy. You're like, who had the beer logic guy?
The beer logic guy got an email Chad from Joe in Cut and Shoot
Texas. Oh now, hold on, hold on a second. You don't
get to say cut and Shoot without me telling the Cut and Shoot story.
Super fan number one Christine and I we were visiting some breweries and we were
coming back from up north and north east Texas, and we were we were
traveling through and traffic was really bad on I forty five heading south into Houston
back when we lived there, and we look for a sideway to get home.
Cut off, boom, I am not making this up. There was
a science said cut and Shoot, right, that can't be a real city.
Yeah, it is, it is. And we went through and I
am not making this up. We saw a bunch of houses that were painted
ridiculous. It looked like a carnival. And I joked and I said,
it's like the dang circus. The next thing you know, we're gonna see
an elephant or something. No joke. There was an elephant right there.
And Cut and Shoot. I am not making this up. So there you
go. I don't think I've ever been to Cut and Shoot, Texas,
but hey, somebody has unless it's an accident. Shout out to all our
friends out and Cut and Shoot Texas, especially you Joe who sent us an
email and he said, pullman, Michigan. Where where Rusty Rocket is?
There's only two two things to do in Rusty rock in pullman, drink it
Rusty Rocket, and find the body. Okay. So I'm not gonna okay,
he's got a great email address. I'm not gonna read it on the
air, but it's a great email address. But it says Joe. His
name is Joe. I'm not good at sending emails, but I'm gonna do
the best I can. He spelled some of the words, it's all right,
it's all right, it's okay, it's okay. Maybe his computer doesn't
have auto corrector or spell check, but he said his wife sent him this
video and he wanted to share with us. And so actually, I sent
this video to Chad and I'm not look Joe, I love you, man,
I appreciate you listening. But I think Chad, when he watched it,
says, I wish I could get that what ten minutes back over your
life? Oh my gosh. Yes. So in this video it's called Redneck
Dad, and I'm not gonna be I'm just gonna break it down for you
because this guy, Joe is so excited about this video that he wanted to
share it with us, And so we watched by the way. If you're
sharing videos with us, we love you. I will buy you a beer.
Yeah, I don't care how good the content is or how bad.
I will. I love you Joe. If I'm around cutting shoot man,
I'm looking you up, my man. But yeah, he sent this video.
I'm to Michigan. I'll buy you a beer, and it's called Redneck
Dad. He demonstrates twelve easy ways of twelve easy beer can life hacks,
and yeah, beer can life hack. That's the one I like. It's
like, wait a minute, my life can get better with a beer can.
You're gonna give me twelve ways to do it. I'm man, let's
go. I would like to thank Redneck Dad for the following gems and thank
you Joe for sending us our way. And like I said, I try.
The video is kind of hard to watch. So what I'm gonna do
instead of watching a video, I'm just gonna break it down for you.
Okay, it's a six minute video where he's got ten snips and he's showing
you how to cut a candle. So if you don't have dryer sheets left,
if you don't have dryer sheets left, like you're out of the bounty
dryer sheets, No problem, just toss an empty beer cannon in the dryer.
It gets rid of this. Tomorrow, I'm gonna see if it works.
It gets all the static electricity. According to red Nick, Dad,
that was pretty awesome. Okay, how about a beer can lantern? So
basically what this is what Chad took. He was talking about the sneers.
So basically he cut two wings into the can, so there's room inside it
for a candle, for a little like a little what do you call those
candles that the lantern candles? A little tiny one, Yeah, those little
white cup, the little cup. You know, the light bounces off the
reflection of the sides. Plus it's shielded from the wind on the back,
so extra points. It's also a little romantic, you know, no it's
not. It's romantic, very blue jean wedding. Look, baby, I
got I got the candle that ditter going. Hey, honey, how about
these flowers off a grave? Using a can opener, remove the top of
the beer can and the edges should be smooth. Now you have yourself a
beautiful vase or a toothbrush holder. That was the one that got me,
the toothbrush holder, because I'm always sitting around. I'm like, huh,
damn, I got this toothbrush. I just brushed my teeth with. Where
will I put it? Hey, I gotta go drink a beer and cut
the top off because now I have a place I hate when I put my
toothbrush down. I'm like, damn, I just wish I'd had a place
to put my toothbrush. It's just I'm putting it on this dirty counter.
If only I had a place to put my toothbrush. You know what you
definitely cannot do. You can't drink the beer with the open where you put
the opener and definitely put you cannot put your toothbrush in that hole. No,
no, you have no You're gonna have to cut the top off.
You gotta use a can opener. And here's the one I need you to
check. Dad again, we're talking about beer can hacks. According to Redneck
Dad, our listener out there and cut and shoot texes, judge shoot tixaes.
He says, did you know you can cut a padlock with a beer
hand? No? This one? No, pick the lock. Oh yeah,
yeah, well we broke it. Yeah he broke into a padlock.
Okay, so basically him. He didn't cut it, he picked it,
so red neck Dad, he made it look pretty easy. All you have
to do is cut a thin piece of the can. Yeah, you can
shimmey down the padlock and then you just turn it a bit and then the
lock will pop right open. That's all he did. Yeah, he picked
the lock with a beer can. I'm like, all right, So,
I mean, if I'm coveting my neighbor's possessions, I know what I'm doing.
I'm drinking a beer first. I'm going to tell you right now if
you do any of these hacks. Oh yeah, this is not what's on
taperto. This is not James, it's not this is redneck Dad. I
don't even know where redneck Dad is run into. Disclaimer quick, we are
not We are absolutely not. These views are not expressed and shared by any
of our affiliates, our sponsors, producers, or what anyone like nothing.
But if you're out of those tied dryer sheets or those only dryer sheets,
and you want to if a beer can ruins your dryer, don't call me.
See boo boo boo boo boom boom, boom boo boom. You hear
that that's all that static electricity to getting out of my jeans. My clothes
are torn to shreds. But man, there's no or. You want to
make a nice romantic evening by the trailer park, you just make yourself.
You can't later. Look, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I love you,
Joe. I love making. I appreciate it. Now people be like,
man, hell no, I ain't send them any stories. I'm gonna
sit there. That's right now. He's all mad. Listen, I just
told you you come to Michigan, I am buying you beer. You show
up where James is in his neck of the woods. Hell, he will
buy you a beer. Next time. I'm going out that way. I'm
with Rodney Campbell and Rodney we gotta make a pit stop and cut and shoot.
I gotta find Joe and I gotta buy him a beer. When you're
talking about Rodney will stop there. He probably knows like five people. The
dude. It's like my cousin lives there. I know Rodney knows everybody.
Okay, all right, so there you go. Beer can hacks thirr can
in the dryer. Just get some static electricity, every gene as you can
make a lantern. You can also make a too brushoulder or a lock.
Yeah. Lock. Basically you can use a beer can find yourself in jail.
All right. Yeah, that's like breaking an innery. All right.
I want to talk about this brewery outside of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania. This
is the I'm gonna try and say it correctly. It's the Necromancer. Yeah,
Necromancer, Necromancer brewery game over doors are closing. Sorry, folks,
we can't do it anymore. It's a funeral for the brewery. Oh,
going to that business going out of business sale, right, so everything must
go. That's right, everything must go. Fifty sixty seventy percent off.
Nope, free beer. Just show up and pick it up. Their closing
in, their in, their expansion plans all canceled. They're disappointed to have
to do this. It's a very sad day, but the time has come.
Citing the current economic conditions as well as the current beer market, they
don't see a pathway to success, and they are stepping out of the race.
Oh was that an election reference? It was, But they are done.
When they're hanging it up. Sorry to be closing down, because you
know what, it's been a great place to been an institution. It's been
there, and great atmosphere, great beer. However, this is the part
that pisses me off. They said, anybody want to come in right now
pick up a free case of beer. You can come in and pick up
a free case of beer. We all we ask is that you make a
tip donation to our staff in the tip jar. Well, they have a
virtual tip jar. I don't know anything about the virtual but then maybe they
did. But they just said, please, you're getting a free case of
beer. Make a love offering. Regulars have said, this is the busiest
I've ever seen it. I've never seen this brewery this packed ladies and gentlemen.
Don't support your local brewery when they're giving you free beer. Support them
to avoid having to give you free beer because they're going out of business.
And plus, these people are lighting up in the rain. Do you see
that. It's like a line, a line in the rain in the list.
Support them when it's inconvenient, because they're open when it's inconvenient. Support
your local brewery. Don't just show up when they're giving away free crap.
Yeah, there's some mores to live by, all right. We gotta take
a break. We'll be right back beer. It's why we wake up every
afternoon. Wakey, wakey. What's on text? What's on tap? This
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to get this. Some people don't remember what that means. We're trying to
get this. Guest On had a hard time. I think there's a problem
with his cell signal. He's in Willis, Texas, and he told me
when I talked to him earlier today, I said, dude, wherever you
are the signals great? You sound crystal Clear, says really, I've been
having problems all day. We'll stay right where you are. See what move
he moved? He moved, Yeah, it is okay. Well, we're
trying. We're trying. We're efforting. That's a big time broadcast word.
We're efforting. That's not a real word. No, no, listen and
broadcast in broadcast terms. We're efforting to get him on. That's like googling.
You can't. That's that's like what the kids are saying, now,
this is the one that pisses me off. And I mean this one really
pisses me off. James. You you call games for baseball for high school?
I do. This is when the kids say, right here, this
is enough to make you drink. By the way, drinking not a solution.
Well technically it is, according chemistry. But listen to this, James.
Uh, you had a game with what two schools playing? Can you
say what schools? Are you willing to say? Or just or you give
the mascots we had I don't even know. We had the Rams and the
bulldogs. Rams are the bulldogs? Okay? Cool? The kids today will
say the Rams are versing the Bulldogs. I'm like, no, they are
not. Versing is not a verb, you know, No, it is
the Rams versus the bulldogs. But you are not versing anything anyway. Sorry
before chat yell at cloud rant. Yeah, we were efforting to get this
guest on. Hopefully we'll get them on if you're the same kids that need
to remember this. Okay, remember this, drink responsibly, which we always
promote and fun fact, I learned this this week. Read for this,
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facts after the fun fact, all to celebrate that. I'm gonna open a
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for just about everything except this. Hey, Florida, you've been busy the
last couple of weeks. Go ahead and sit down on the bench. All
right, I'm taking I'm taking to the Florida. I'm gonna bench you guys
this week, all right. Instead, we're gonna go to New Jersey.
Going to New Jersey. And this guy's not named David. It's day wid
day wid wor Janowski. Yeah, Wordzanowski is his name. He's thirty nine
years old from Alpha, New Jersey, and he's charged with this orly person's
shoplifting second degree, to eluding police, drunk and driving, having an open
container of alcohol in the vehicle, and multiple traffic offenses. According to a
statement by the Pattacong Township Police, ever been in that area Poddocong. He
it's really nice this time of year. Cherry Hill is my only area of
New Jersey I've been to Okay well, police said. The incident unfolded shortly
after about ten fifteen pm, when officers were called for a shoplifting in progress
at a Walmart supercenter. Oh boy. The Walmart investigators were met by a
store employee who pointed out the car in the parking lot with Wargzanowski allegedly inside.
Worganowski stole less than fifty dollars worth of ice cream containers and oven mits
from the store before leaving without paying. Ice creaming oven miss weird combination,
right, Well, you never know when you're gonna need an other and met
and well ice cream there's always room for it. Go ahead, apparently so
so yeah. An officer drove towards Wurgzanowski an attempted to stop them, but
Wartzanowski backed the vehicle out of the parking spot and began to drive away.
The officer followed the car, activating the sirens in the emergency lights the whoop
woop woop woop, but Warzanowski continued driving erratically. The vehicle eventually ended up
in a front yard of somebody's home along the boulevard. This guy's wasted Organowski
was arrested and removed from the vehicle by offs. Investigators reported finding open containers
of beer and the goods allegedly stolen from the Walmart inside the car. Police
said that Warzanowski submitted an alcohol breath test, which showed his blood alcohol content
point two one. That's a way over. It's over. That's over.
That's way over the limit in New Jersey, which is point oh eight.
He was were everywhere. He was released, pitting court dates coming up next
month. So David war Zanowski, thirty nine years old. Oh, I
forgot to tell you what he does for a living. No wait, wait,
wait, wait, hold on, let me get comfortable. I have
no beer in my mouth. I got a feel like this is ladies and
gentlemen. This is what's called rising action climax. It's coming three two yeah.
David Warzanowski thirty nine a Roman Catholic priest at the same Catholic church in
Alpha. Yeah. He's a Catholic priest at the Saint Mary Catholic Church in
Alpha. Yeah. Spokesperson and chancellor for the diocese said the diocese was aware
of the incident and confirmed that he would be stepping aside as pastor of the
church and a quote. It is clear father Dayvid has a very serious problem
with alcohol. Spokesperson and chancellor for the diocese said in a statement, he
has accepted this fact and this is his first step to recovery. He will
be stepping aside. He will step aside from the role as pastor at Saint
Mary Catholic Church in Alpha to provide him necessary time to seek impatient treatment out
of state. Father is extremely remorseful for his conduct. He's aware of the
danger he posted to the others in himself and he's resolved to seek the necessary
treatment to ensure that he never engages in such behavior again. And another identified
priest has been temporarily assigned to the parish to give this the opportunity to assign
a temporary administrator. So you're a hold my beer and watched this. A
Roman Catholic priest who was accused of shoplifting from the Walmart supercenter in Puttacong Township
before allegedly leading the officers on a pursuit to avoid arrest, is stepping away
from his role as passer as the Saint Mary Catholic Church in Alpha. Does
he get to go and confess his sins and just go back to work?
You know, I read a joke on next I'm not gonna repeat it,
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whole I wonder if they're gonna still ensure the church. I don't know.
I'm sure it's a weird world out there. But anyway, I want to
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All right, there you go, All right, we gotta take a break.
Still trying to get this guest on. Also, we got to get
an update on the inaugural Florida Man game. Speaking of hold my beer and
watch this all. This is so much more. We got a lot to
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Good news, good news. We're efforting to get this guest. And now
I've just got a confirmation that we have a guest coming up next segments.
His name's Ray Allen. He's riding his bike around the country visiting breweries.
So I got the forest gump of bicycles and beer drinking, except he is
a smart man. Yeah, And the thing is, we're having a hard
time get a hold of him because he's riding his bike and he's in parts
of the country where they're not getting the best cell service, and so we
just happened to have him to catch him where he's actually in a good spot.
And so we told him, don't move, don't freak out freaking move.
And this is guy I met on Ragbry last summer. And when I
met him, he was one hundred breweries into his tour and he's he's still
going come in, you come in, just speak what Yeah, So he's
coming up next segment. So in the first segment of What's on tab Radio,
I brought the table thanks store friends over at the backyard grill. I
opened up a beer from Martinhause Brewing Company, the Awesome Sauce Hearts Heart Seltzer
Sour Seltzer Cherry Coconut. Couldn't do it. I took four or five STIPs.
Could not do it. So what I'm doing now, Chad, is
I am playing beer Roulette? Oh? Now, hold on, I love
this game. This is a fun game. This is a This is a
game that actually used to be played at the No No Ginger Man downtown Houston
when they had a fire sale that they just reach in and grab any beer
and pull it out, and it wasna be two dollars whatever it was.
It was two dollars. You may get bush light, you may get stone
Ipa. Okay. So I have my son in studio and I told him
to go out to the fridge in the garage where I have some of the
beer i'd have. I didn't really want pulling a beer from studio, I
said my son. All right, yeah, hang on, did you not
hear the story about kids in New Hand? You're being angry about so,
uh, I don't want to grab a beer from the fridge I have here
in studio. As I just told my son, I was like, hey,
go out to the fridge in the garage where I have some of the
other beers, but not to give a beer from the crisper drawer. So
that's where beer you did? To get this from the chrisper drawer. Okay.
Oh, he says he can't even open the crisper drawer. So all
right, so now, yeah, I don't know what beer's gonna give me.
So he's headed into me what beers is? Oh, that's not bad,
that's not bad. Okay. You're good. You can go go play
a Fortnite. Uh kid, get out of here. Carbock Brewing Company,
Uh spec y'all Mexican stock. I want to go ahead and make a comment
really quick before you open that. You sent your underage son to go get
you a beer. I did. Yeah. Was he attracted to all the
colorful finding Nemo cartoon labels? Now? No, he was bitching about how
long it took me to get the beer. He's like, because you've I
meant a Pauses game to go give me a beer, and you got,
and he got. He brought you back a very basic label. Yeah.
I just told I was like, just grab me any beer, it doesn't
matter which beer. Bet. Do not pull a beer from the crisper drawer.
And this He was not attracted to cartoons or cartoon logos or labels,
which I know you have in your fridge. Although I think you dropped it
though, because there's lots of dents in the can. All right, hey,
open it, open it, do it, hold it away from the
microphone. You don't ever open all right. Car Block Brewing Company, the
Servesa especial Mexican style lagger. Take a sip of this. I love the
fact that you're sent your underage son to get you a beer and he was
not attracted to the cartoon label beers that you have in your fridge, proving
that New Hampshire kids are wrong. You just want to go play video games.
He's mad that I took him away from playing Fortnite for five men.
I'm gonna grab the first beer I can find, dad. That's what I
basically told me, was just go grab a beer, just don't grab it
from the crisper drawer. So what's the story on this beer? What do
you it's there Vienna style lagger. Uh, you know it's got straw notes
to it. Mm hmmm when this comes to you at four point five percent
alcoaloid by volume, light years better than the awesome sauce I had earlier.
So just for the record, James Light opened up a Seltzer which he poured
down the drain and switched over some time later to a four percent beer.
I started the show with no stunt liver, which is why I am drinking
very carefully, Always drink responsibly. The Stone Imperial stout at ten point five
percent, which I finally got through, and I switched over to the Syriana
had a hot Bullet Magnum addition Imperial IPA good beer, a very it's so
good, but it's also nine and a half percent. So I'm going to
coast into the sunset when I'm going to ride out the rest of the show
on this beer. Why because I don't have a stunt beer liver and I
would like to drink responsibly. So that's what I brought. And then uh
yes, miscan style of logger from Carbuck Brewing Company. All right, we
got to get an update, update, update time so much ago that news
breaking news he wants ago. We talked about how they were having the inaugural
Florida Man Game, speaking a whole of my beer and watched this actually gave
Florida the week off, went to New Jersey and we talked about a Roman
Catholic priest who decided to get themselves a little trouble stealing from the old Walmart
and driving drunk. But the Florida Man Games in Saint Augustine, Florida organizers
that are saying a huge, huge, huge success. If you haven't heard
of it, it's basically the Olympic for Florida crazies. Events include the mullet
contest, the mud duel with pool noodles, and even invading arrest obstacle course
were actual cops chase people have video of it. If you don't believe me,
now I can post video. I got video of it. Check it
out. It's not clear how many fans ultimately showed up, but tickets cost
around fifty dollars and they were expecting about five thousand people. And I'm looking
at a picture and there it is quite the crowd there chat. I'm not
exactly sure if five thousand would show pay fifty dollars to watch that, in
a second, I would. I wouldn't even hesitate take my money. There
is a quote from a guy named James Gordon, who won the Barbecue,
Pork and Sausage speed eating contest, and he says, quote, I love
this. I lived in Florida my whole life. That are calling these events,
but I'm calling this a freaking Tuesday afternoon. This is just a Tuesday
afternoon. We're having a gathering this Sunday. And by the way, this
is an annual event. He's like, no, it's not. It's like
my Tuesday. This is Tuesday afternoon. I mean We're so crazy about this.
I don't get it. Yeah, why I want to pay fifty dollars?
I do this every week. One of the judges at the games was
a lady named Lourie Frederick who played ice on American Gladiators, remember that show
from the nineties. She suggested that they add an actual events for the ladies
next year and hold a separate the Florida Woman Games. Well, I agree,
why not I look for I would look I look for that. So
the annual Inaugural Florida Man Games. And here's a couple of participants in the
organizer, Pete Millef at the inaugural FORDA Man Games. I think it's cut
for drinking beer, having fun with our friends, and then jousting somebody wild,
messy and hilarious. Alligators, nudity and drugs. We couldn't get nudity,
and we couldn't get drugs, but we definitely got alligators out there,
for sure. Man. Honestly, because I love God and I love America,
and I'm here to be a Florida Man. I'm here to Florida Man,
huge success sod and I love America. That's why I'm here. I'm
a Florida Man. Oh but hey, congratulations are the organizers of the inaugural
Forida Man Games and they look look for next year the Florida Woman Games.
I'll be exciting. We got we have gotten. Oh my gosh. We've
got an interview coming up and we're going to talk about ragbry And I'm gonna
just tell you this right now. I've seen some crazy things on Ragbriy.
Not sure I've seen drugs. Not gonna say yes or no to the nudity,
but some crazy things have happened. All right, speaking of crazy,
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna play this real quick. Hang on.
The following feature has been rated PG Motion Picture Association of America. Parental
guidance is suggested PG thirteen borderline rated R. Yeah you have some kids,
brace yourself. Cover the kid's ears right now. Do not let your children
listen there. Okay, if you're a true beer lover, prove it.
Because there's a company. There's a company called Blush, and they're selling a
beer can sex toy for men. It looks like a sixteen ounce can,
but inside is designed to love your units. Some people call those sixteen ounce
cans pounders, which seems to be relevant. The label labels a take on
the old Schlitz logo, and the brand name is Shags and they got three
different versions depending on whether what do you prefer. Loggers care stolets lawyers are
calling. They retail about forty dollars and it looks like they'll be available for
a little while. At dot com we are not giving that website no,
but they got a big write up on it. And yeah, there's actually
a sex toy that looks like a beer can. So crazy thing, James.
My browser is never gonna look the same. I went to look to
see if I could buy one, and I could, Unlike anything I've ever
tried to buy from Miller Lite, I don't understand. I'm like, no,
empty cart, empty cart, empty cart. I don't want it.
All right, We've got an interview coming up next segment. We're gonna talk
to a guy who's been riding his bike around the country checking out breweries,
and we're gonna find out why he is doing it. Is it for world
peace? Is it for women's rights? We'll talk to when we come back.
The more you weigh, the harder you are to kidnap, stay safe,
drink more beers. You've got what's on Tap Radio? I want to
rad Man, welcome back to Hackey Radio. I'm uh James, that's chess
Rag Bright time already. What's on Tab Radio? Got a special guest on
the line. Thank god we've paid our phone bill this week. I know
Willis, Texas. Willis, Texas not too far from where I'm broadcasting.
But he's not from Willis. Know that's that's just where he is right now.
And I want to bring in thanks to modern technology and this phone line
thing we got going on, Ray Allen, who's doing something that I look,
I'm like, he's crazy, he's crazy. I think he's insane.
I know, but I met him and he's actually a really sane guy.
Uh So real quick, Ray Allen, before we bring him in here and
tell you who he is. We mentioned him on the show earlier, probably
a couple of months ago. I came back from Ragbriy and I met this
guy and he was riding his bicycle across the country visiting breweries and he just
jumped in Ragbriy and there he was, and like, wait a minute,
who the heck is this guy? I like this guy. This guy has
stories for days, and he was the highlight of our beer table. I
don't even remember what city we were in, but Ray Allen, welcome to
What's on Tap Radio? Bud, Hey there, good to be there.
It was Sioux City, was where Raby started, right But remember the Something
Brewers, Yes it was. That was my one hundredth brewery, Jackson Street
Brewery, And that was your one hundredth brewery on this tour. Yes,
all right, so it ladies and gentlemen, I want Ray to go ahead
and tell you. First of all, Ray, tell everybody where you're from.
Yeah, tell him? And when when you and when you got on
a bike and just decided. I mean it was like it's you. You
kind of remind me of Forrest Gump a little bit, only you're definitely smarter.
I mean, I've talked to you. You're you are a highly intelligent
guy. You got on a bike? What day and where? What happened?
Well? I left Homa, Louisiana, about an hour south and west
of New Orleans on February twenty eighth last year, and I rode around the
country. Instead of across at north or southeast to west, I rode up
to Dallas, Fort Worth. I've got a daughter there, and down to
Houston, Willis got a daughter there. Towards Austin, Fredericksburg, Roswell,
New Mexico, Phoenix, Arizona, Rancho Cucamonga, Southern California. Was what
was the inspiration behind it? Why just go right around the world? Peace?
Take a car or something. Yeah, you try to roll peace like
world world peace. Yeah, world peace. I had. I had a
lot of the right. A lot of people asked if I was if I
was riding for a cause, and I was. I was just riding the
cause I can. I just felt like I was just bike. That's pretty
much. I've always ridden my bike. I love me a beer, you
know, and so I just put them both together. Ray was your card
in the shop, you know. Fortunately, my car was stolen about five
weeks before I started my tripads, so yeah, and you know, it
was a it was a little cheap Econo car, and insurance said they totaled
it. And if I had seen the car on the street, i'd given
somebody two thousand for it. But they told it and gave me a check
for ten thousand. So what that pretty much paid for any any hotels or
motels I stayed in for the trip. So, Ray, you're riding your
bike across the country, and have you run into any kind of dangerous situations?
Not seriously, I ran off the road semi or anything. One actually
actually that was the one. There was one semi that tried to kill me
in Arizona and I made it past that. But other than that, people
just they they really don't want to hit you. No, you know,
everybody says they're scared to ride on the road because the drivers are going to
kill you, and they won't. It would be so inconvenient if they if
they hit you, you know, it would scratch your car. You know,
they'd lose a day of work. I'll you know, you'd be dead.
But they you know, their card be scratched, So they don't want
to hit you. You want to deal with a scratch car and losing the
day at work. Gas ride his bikero on the country. Now, how
do you set this up? Do you set up I'm going to ride eighty
miles to this hotel or do you just get on your bike and ride and
see where it takes you. That is that's pretty much yet the whole brilliance
of my plan is I had no plan, so there was no way for
me to sail. You know. I rode as far as conditions and weather
and my body felt like it. I never planned more than two or three
days ahead where I was going. I would, you know, hit camp
at night and look at the map for the next day. I probably averaged
fifty miles a day, and so I look at the map and there might
be three cities, you know, in the general direction I'm headed in forty
six mile range. And then I do a real quick Google search of brewery
near me, and whatever time had a brewery or the most breweries was where
I went that next day. Now, do you have a wife or a
girlfriend who's like, well, just let me know when you're coming home.
How does that work? I mean, yeah, you know, I hope
you don't have a dog that you're just leaving behind or anything like that.
I mean, you said you lost your car, but is there rent or
a house or any like what did you leave behind to go on this year
line. I had been downsizing quite a bit over the years. Besides what
I had on my with me on my bike, my bike, I pulled
a trailer with camping gear and clothes and stuff. But between that, I
had a five x ten storage unit in hom and that's really all I had
on the planet. I had a house. I have a trailer and I
pulled behind my bike and a storage unit. No no home. I was.
I was renting, So I was actually I was actually making money while
I was on the road. I did not have a car payment. I
didn't have an insurance pay. I didn't pay rent. I didn't have a
electricity bill. You know, I had my cell phone bill. And then
whatever I spent on the on the road for hotels or beers or you know,
food along the way. We're talking about road actually cheaper to cruise on
the bike. Talking to Ray Allen riding his bike across the country and visiting
brewer and visiting when I saw you, you met you were at brewery number
one hundred, and that was during Ragbriy last summer. And if you don't
know about Ragbriy, that is the Register's annual great bike ride across Iowa.
I do that with the Backyard Grill guys. And we met up with you
at a brewery and you told us about this. But how many breweries have
you hit since and do you have a favorite experience. I I've finished up
the actual map circle of the ride January thirtieth. I made it back to
Homa January thirtieth. The calendar I've got till tomorrow. I've got one more
day to rack up a couple more miles and another brewery for sure. So
tomorrow I will have visited three hundred and ninety one breweries in the year.
Ray And typically I typically I'll have a flight or two because I know I'm
not going to be back, so I want to try all the beers.
But I would I would say probably probably reasonable that I tried two thousand different
beers last year. Are you checking these out on untapped or anything or documenting
them anywhere? Now? I've never been able to make untapped work. Yeah,
nobody does either. Every single time I have to, I have to
log in and they don't like my password, and I feel I'm on the
sat. Ray Allen's our guest. Ray. Are you are you running on
the interstate? Are you taking farm roads? What's your route? Interstates?
You can't ride a bike on the interstate, but highways, railroads. I
was on gravel roads. Google maps was not friendly to me. Sometimes.
There was a day that I pushed my bike for two hours. I went
from a highway to a gravel road, to a logging road, down through
a pasture into somebody's backyard. All the while I was, you know,
dead on the GPS track and then back out to the highway. And you'd
never been chased by dogs or anything or coyotes. I had two dogs that
actually made an attempt to snap at me. Had a lot of them,
you know, would run out to the road and bark and fuss, but
really not never had a problem. All right, well, Ray Allen,
never had a log. I gotta tell you, I never had a problem
with dog and never had a problem with people. You like. People asked
and police asked, you know, are you are you packing? Are you
aren't you afraid? You know? Are you by yourself out here? You
know? And I said, yeah, no. I had a pepper spray
and a little air horn to fuss with the dogs, but otherwise I was
I was not worried. You are the only guy I know that's ever gotten
on a bicycle with can of pepper spray to go beer hunting across the country.
Ray Allen's been our guest here. Ray, I I wish you well.
I hope you make a million dollars with this idea. And I want
to thank you for going out there and supporting local breweries wherever local is for
you. Because you're on your bicycle byicycle riding around. Hey, Ray,
thanks for joining us. Be safe, buddy, Hey, we'll do Thanks.
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we're not done. Done, we'll be back. We'll be back next We'll
be a lot of the stories to get to. But what I want to
do now is I want to kind of end the show in a high note.
Uh, not that you know, we talked a lot of doom and
gloom, but it's been a while since we've ended with a nice, feel
good story. And so we have a couple here before we say goodbye for
this week, including a pig that was rescued. Do you want me to
go across the pond first? Yeah, but we're gonna go across the pond
first. But okay, we're gonna talk about a nice pig that was saved,
it was rescued. Yeah we will. And before we do, though,
Dublin, Ireland, home of some of the best Irish stouts in the
world, the home of the Irish stout for that matter. Well there's another
Dublin that says, you know what, we welcome you here, Dublin,
Ohio. Have you been there to attract visitors from Have you been in Dublin,
Ohio? I have. I bet she's nice about this time a year.
Oh, it's absolutely beautiful. But I've never been during their Irish festivals
when they're celebrating, you know, they share a name. Yeah, but
and they throw a big party. I've never been Dublin in Dublin, Ohio
though, to have Dublin Ireland beer. But Doublin, Ohio wants to welcome
people, and they're telling everyone who decides to make the three thousand, five
hundred and sixty six mile trek, or if you're in Dublin, Ireland,
you don't know what a mile is five thousand, seven hundred and thirty eight
kilometer trek, you come over here and we will buy you a pint of
beer. Now, this is where it gets a little interesting, because Dublin,
Ohio is home of the largest three day Irish festival in the world.
You heard me correctly, ladies and gentlemen, the world, not just the
US. Dublin, Ohio is home of the largest three day Irish festival in
the world. They celebrate Saint Patrick's Day and they are known as the Greenest,
Grandest day of the year to celebrate an Irish attitude, and they are
encouraging dublin ER's Dublin Ireland to come and celebrate Saint Patrick's Day with their parade
and their Celtic Cocktail trail and their Saint Patrick's Day pub crawl. And if
you do, you make the track, we will buy you a pint of
beer. Now this is where I'm a little confused. The press release,
the news from the CVB conventioned Visitors Bureau, and everybody else. They don't
say exactly how you can claim your free pint. They don't say how many
pints you get. I do know that a ticket from Dublin, Ireland to
Dublin, Ohio. By the way, there is a direct flight from Dublin,
Ireland to Cleveland, Ohio. Now, yes, all because of the
Dublin Ohio connection, so you can fly direct and get close. But I
don't understand how the translation of a free pint translates into what you paid for
a ticket less Dublin, Ohio wants to show off their Midwest hospitality, something
that we haven't necessarily been known for. However, I do know, believe
it or not, I'm a big Michigan guy. Ohio very friendly state,
believe it or not. I know they're not Iowa friendly. Iowa nice because
Iowa ice is nice. But they are now trying to entice people from Dublin,
Ioland to come and celebrate in the three day festival. I'm curious to
know how they're gonna collect on their pints. I'm not sure, but I'm
pretty sure if you show your passport, I bet you, I bet you,
they welcome them at the airport. Oh if you show up with a
Dublin Ireland passport and you say I'm here to go to Dublin, Ireland,
passport will be a Dublin Island passport. Well yeah, if you show Irish
passport, there you go and you're like, hey, I'm here to visit
visit Dublin, Ohio. They'll probably pick you up from the airport. They
may give you some beers, though exactly how that's done. It's kind of
funny because if you go buy something from Miller Lte on their website during one
of those promotions that don't actually exist, they tell you exactly how to do
it and claim it, but they don't exist. There's no word on how
to claim your free pint. But I actually believe you will get a free
pint. I bet you they will. I bet you they'll pick you up
the visitor center, will pick you up from the airport and drive you straight
to the nearest pub and double I know, And yeah, I'll be a
good on them. That's a good promotion right there. Amen. I think,
what if you don't live in Dublin. What if you don't live in
Dublin Island? What if you live in like right outside of Dublin? Does
that count? Wing it? Like? What if you live north High if
you were born there? But what if you're like thirty kilometers north of Dublin?
What's a kilometer? I don't know. I was born there, Okay,
I live here now, all right? All right, stupid Americans don't
know collect All right. We're gonna end on a high note. This is
a feel good story about a pig. Dave Ward would be proud, longtime
broadcaster here in the Houston market, always always ended his broadcast with a nice
story that made you feel nice and warm inside. And that's what I hope
to do this story, Because there is a pig in Parker County, and
he's safe and sound after nearly a dozen rescuers helped to free him from some
thorny bushes. Pojo, it's the name Pojo. He's a six month old
pot bellied pig. He found himself caught in a thorn bush and Springtown has
happened back in February. Pojo's owner. I love her name, Marie Lenda
Heidi Cooper. It's a good name for a pot belly pig. Yeah,
well that's the name of the owner. Yeah, and she's actually the CEO
of a fifty one to fifty farm and Rescue and she and another worker rushed
to the site to save the pig. After two hours of trying to free
old Pojo, he still refused to budge. Cooper said they put out a
call on social media and offered an incentive to anyone willing to help. And
she is a woman of her word. She said, if you can help
me catch this pig, I will give every body beer and everybody money.
In thirty minutes, people from Dublin, Ireland, Dublin, Ohio, We're
off. Everybody showed Everybody showed up. No, actually, truthfully, eleven
people showed up to help rescue Pojo, and after three hours, the volunteer
rescues finally managed to free the pig, and the rescues were rewarded handsomely for
their efforts. According to Cooper, Pojo may have a possible spinal injury,
but otherwise he's doing just fine. He's in good spirits. So everybody lived
happily ever after, So a Parker County pig rescued in exchange for a six
pack of beer. And for those they came out and rescued him, those
must be some really thorny bushes to get two hours of trying to get and
then once they got him out, he had spinal injuries. But once again,
this is what I'm talking to. There's a brewery that's gonna close and
it's never been busier than when they gave away free beer. I'm telling you,
he's a pig that's stuck. Nobody came to help until they offered free
beer. I get that beer is an incentive, but do the right thing.
Support your local brewery. And if you see, if you know about
a pig being trapped in thorns, doesn't matter whether there's beer involved. It's
a nice touch, but help the pig out. Yeah, she throws on
some pizza, might get kids, might help her move too. All right,
call our buddy Joe cruise over the Casey, Hey, what's the pairing
with pig rescuing a pig, pizza and beer? All right, that's been
this episode once on Taparado, James tell them who we want to think?
We want to thank Ray Allen for something by the show riding around the country.
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