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of We Are the World. Yeah, there was a couple of interesting stories.
I watched the documentary on it this past week and was the greatest night
in pop music and my favorite, well my favorite. One of the things
that just shocked me was al Jirou when they got when he just kept saying
bring another bottle, Bring another bottle, and people are like, wait,
what's going on. He had to sing a solo and they recorded him trying
to record a soul. He was hammered. Interesting. See all things are
gonna learn on this week's epist of What's on Tap Radio. Welcome to the
show. I am Biergo, James Simpson, that's mister bier Logic himself,
mister Chad Hillbeam. We're really not going to be talking about the making of
We Are the World for the next two hours. However, what we can
do with pepper fun facts about We Are the World because you know, it's
the anniversary just happened, and yeah, it was a huge hit when in
the eighties when we were you know, lads, and so I figured it
would be fun, it'd be fun, but I was gonna dy came out
and like you said, the anniversary and uh, that's some fun facts and
maybe there'll be something beer related. I was gonna start. I was gonna
start with it, but it starts very slow and you need energy when you
start to show. So anyway, so we heat a certain call, this
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I don't know if I am. This is the first time, this is
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don't know if I'm ready for a beer. Chad Dry, January is over,
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you want to go first? Or I'll go first. So I'm gonna do
this, okay, because I'm not sure I want to do this. Okay,
I'm gonna go first. Now, I had gone the entire month of
January dry, no alcohol for the entire month of January, just because I
wanted to give my body a detox. I wanted to see if I could
do it, challenge myself, and I succeeded. I completely went alcohol free
the entire month of January. So I had all these n A beers that
I bought, you know, sampling them, and I'm gonna post which ones
I liked them, which ones I didn't. But I still have a few
left in the fridge and I'm not gonna drink these anytime but on the show.
So I figured, you know what, I had two left, and
so I'm just going to continue dry January into favor just so I could drink
these beers in my fridge. So I can start off, you know,
next week with some beers that I brought last month no in Smber. So
I'm gonna bring another NA beer just so I can finish them, because I'm
not gonna drink them, you know, while I'm hanging out watching you know,
the Super Bowl or anything. So I'm just gonna gohead and get rid
of them. So the beer I'm gonna be kicking off this show with is
from Sierra Nevada. They're non alcoholic Trail Pass India Palal. All right,
So yeah, this is the last of this is the last of the NA
beers. Chad and now Studios. I had so many different ways, and
so I'm gonna go ahead and pour this into my What's on Tap radio cast
writing glass also known as a water glass. WoT R. Oh yep,
mosic citra all the way. It's uh mm hmm yep. There they nailed
it. These are A beers these days are very very very tasty, very
hoppy citrus zero percent alcohol by volume, ninety five calories. Oh wow,
ninety five calories. Watching that waistline, Oh I am you know, I
I've slimmed down, I've lost a pound and so I have, uh,
you know, from not drinking. And in case you don't know, that's
like it's like ten percent for James, if you lost the time, I
am about a butt oh five soaking wet. But yeah, this is the
non alcoholic Sierra Nevada Trail Pass India pale ale As zero percent alcohol by volume
and uh yeah, very citrusy, balanced, hoppy and uh yeah. Like
like I said, these breweries these days have really nailed the beers. We're
in a blind taste test. I would think people would have a hard time,
you know, deciding which one's the n A beer, which ones not
the inn A beer. But yeah, that's what I'm bringing the table.
Thank you, backyard all right, James, Well, I got a decision
to make here. I'm not sure I really want to drink beer today because
I, oh, Chad doing dried February no d well. I detox as
well, but not I had the talks first, and I got food poisoning.
I don't know if you're gonna bring that up. Yeah, I'm gonna
bring that up, and so I may not be able to drink. I'm
gonna so I've got two pints in my hand in one hand. I thought
it's a perfect beer that I brought to the show before from wax Wings Brewery.
And eight and a half percent IP A double IP A collaboration with Baryl
Theory called you sure about that? Like you really want to have a beer
just after getting food poisoning? Are you sure about that? And then in
my other hand, I have the Kirkland signature purified water from Yeah, this
is from Osco. So this is I'm gonna I'm gonna try the Are you
sure about that? I'm gonna crack that open. I thought you're gonna go
pedia light well light, Yeah, yeah, I got pretty messed up on
food poisoning. But uh, it is a hazy double I p a.
I'm getting a little sniff, very tropical orange rindes. I'm gonna take a
sip, all right? That iron I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna
go for it, dude, I'm gonna take a sip. Here we go,
that iron stomach of his. Will he keep it down? Is the
question? Well? I thing I love about it. It's bitter, it's
not just tropical. All right, that's we'll talk more about this. We'll
break these beers down. But I brought the are you sure about that?
From wax Wingsbury Kalamazoo, Michigan as long as well as the Kirkland signature purified
water in case I can't do it, And James, you brought the Sierra
Nevada non Alcoholic Trail Pass India pale Ale and this has been brought to you
by our friends over at the back of Our Girl. We'll talk more about
these beers coming up on tap this week. We're gonna talk about beer ball.
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much in the news, So let's take a break, come back with the
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I told you on this episode we're gonna drop we are the world fun facts
before we get into the official fund. In fact, you know Harry Belafonte
started it all. At least it was his idea to do something about the
hunger in Africa, but they did it based on the band Aid charity single
do they Know It's Christmas from the UK, which came out first. So
there's your fun. There's your fun little first uh fun fact about we are
the World. Not exactly sure why. At our production meeting we were supposed
to be talking about the show and what we're gonna be talking about on the
show, but we didn't do any of that. We just sit there and
talked about the documentary that just came out. I don't even yeah, I
don't even have one sheet. I don't know what we're gonna talk about.
I mean I have some stuff in the news. But we didn't go over
in the production meeting like hey, well Chad takes this story, I'll take
this story. I'll do color on the story. You do color on this
story. No, it was none of that. It was just more or
less like, hey, we are the world, all right? Yeah?
I think there were Yeah, we did talk about we are the world.
We are the world, and we are the world, but there are three
things that we know are going to happen. Absolutely the official What's on Tap
Radio fun fact the week coming up momentarily, hold my beer and watch this
brought to you by Ringold the ten take an insurance group. And yes,
due to I mean, we've got thousands of messages about this. We will
be talking about a certain Houston brewery that the doors were closed on. Yeah,
we will talk. We had a long partnership with this brewery. Yes
we will. We'll discuss it. We will spend significant time talking about it.
So if you've been wondering why we've been quiet, we wanted to wait
till all the facts came out, or at least enough to be able to
talk about it objectively. So I was waiting to get on the damn radio
to talk about it. I can sit there and talk about on social media,
but I have a platform. So I was waiting to get on the
radio to talk about it. But we'll talk about that later on in this
episode. But before we do any of that, what we're going to discuss
is, let's recap the beers that we brought the table thanks to our friends
over at the backyard group. I kicked it off with the cir Nevada Alcoholic
Trail Pass I PA. Now I did the entire drive January no alcohol for
the entire month, but I still have some beers left over, and I
thought to myself, you know, I'm not gonna sit back and drink these
because I'm gonna I got other beers I gonna drink. So I'd rather just
drink them on the show talk a little bit about it, because there are
people out there that you know that they drink no alcohol beer all the time.
And so I've decided, you know what, this week, I'm gonna
drink the n A beers for one last show. Well, the Flagship February
never really took off. It did take off, but then it kind of
just fizzled out. Yeah, well, yeah, it was cool for one
year and then it kind of died. And so if Flagship February is not
going to be a thing, then might as well do an extension of Dry
January, just at least on the show. To get rid of your supplyes
just getting rid of my supply. So that's what I kicked it off.
The trail pass ninety six calidaries, no ninety five calori excuse me, and
very trop mosaic citrus hops, a little pintiness to it, which I like.
And yeah, like I said, they've dialed it in. They have
got it dialed in on these n A beers. And then Chad, who's
got food poisoning. I can't believe he's drinking a beer. That's amazing to
me. I thought he was just the pounding pedialytes. Well, I know
it's food poisoning is just an awful thing. I mean, you're just your
guts wretching, and yeah, you're heaving and heaving, and it's bad.
I was in bad, bad shape. Yeah, James went on dry January
lost one pound. I think I lost. I think I lost about twelve
in about a twenty four hour period because I was just even. So I
wasn't sure if I was gonna go ahead and do it. But but I
found in my fridge, and I didn't want the beer to go bad.
But I found a can of wax Wings double ipa, a collaboration beer with
the Barrel Theory Brewery, and it's called are you sure about that? From
wax wings Bury Kalmazoo Michigan Frickin Delicious Beer wax Wings We got a listener,
Larry, there's our first name drop of the show, because al Jaude and
what's the other guy? You just mentioned from We Are the World, Harry.
They don't know us, so we gotta go. We gotta give Larry
the name drop. But uh, he says, that's the best brewery in
Michigan. That's his words, not mine. I I go in there and
I find things I love, and I go in there I find things that
not my style. But this one it wasn't my favorite beers when we went
there. Yeah, this one though. I gotta tell you, this particular
beer scratches right where I itch because it's a hazy I p A that has
It's not overly tropical. It's got great balance, but it still tastes like
an I p A. You get bitterness and some dryness from it. It
doesn't. It's not sticky and cloying and uh, really nice refreshing beer for
a double I p A. That's hazy. So what's the be honest?
Hey, I was just gonna say the old eight and a half percent.
Now, now I gotta know something, James, Are you going to buy
any more non alcoholic beers? And do you have plans to buy more n
A beers this year? No? No, okay? Are you gonna do
dry January next year? I don't know yet. I don't know yet.
We'll see. Okay, I got my physical coming up. We'll see what
the doctor says. He if the doc gives you a clean bill of hell,
hey, you know what, maybe maybe thirty days is enough to keep
those insurance premiums down. All right now the official What's on Tap Radio fun
Fact of the Week, brought to you by Who's Ever Checked Clear? This
week. I can't really lie to my doctor because it's easy to you know,
call me out because I have a radio show about beer, so she
can easily just tune in and be like, hey, didn't you tell me
that you weren't drinking, because I definitely heard the show the other day and
you said you were, so I have to be honest. Yeah you do,
all right? All right? Well well yeah. One of the other
things I discovered. I was thinking about doing fun fact about this since I
had food poisoning. There are studies that suggest that drinking alcohol with your meal
will reduce your chances of getting food poisoning. I did not know this because
I know so here I am, I'm coming out of food poisoning. I
wanted to look up. I wanted to, you know, take care of
my body just say, hey, is it a good idea? Is it
a bad idea? Or does it not matter? You know? Should I
be having a beer? You know, I'm thinking about getting one, And
that's why I said, are you sure about that? That's what I'm drinking
from wax Wings. And I wasn't sure about that, so I asked,
and I wanted to find out. And turns out that beer after you've got
food poisoning no good, no good at all. It does not help you
feel better. It will not make it go away faster. Sorry, But
so if I start feeling bad, I'm switching over to the Kirkland signature purified
water. But studies suggests that drinking alcohol with your meal will reduce your chances
of getting food poisoning. All right, anyway, that's your fun fact week
n I got another fun fact for you here, no way. So,
in all my travels over the years, I've had the privilege of visiting some
of the finest cities. By the way, USA today just recently came out
with another list of the top beer cities in the country. If you're wondering
what that list looks like, it looks just like the one from last year
and the year before that and the year before that. So we decided to
cut that one. We did take that one, and we took scissors to
that and it's on the cutting room floor. We are not going to talk
about that on today's show. However. One city that is on there is
Fort Collins, Colorado. Great absolutely great city, beer city. I've been
there many times. It's about an hour hour and a half north of Denver,
Colorado, and they are known for having just an explosive and fantastic beer
scene, most notably New Belgium Brews Company. Oh yeah, the makers of
Fat Tire. And yeah, Kim Jordan, yep, she knows us.
There's a name drop right there, even though I don't. I don't know
if she owns it anymore. She sold it to a foreign entity, but
no longer a craft Bury according to the Brewers Association, but still friends.
But they're in Fort Collins. They have twenty four breweries in this town.
It's not a huge booming town, but twenty four breweries. That's that's a
nice little concentration college college town. Yeah, oh it is, that's true.
That's true. Well, there is there's an area, or there are
areas all over the country in these fine cities that have brewery districts, and
they will name the streets after beers. In the brewery districts, however,
there is a Fort Collins neighborhood, a residential neighborhood that has beer themed streets.
So you're official What's on tap radio fun fact of the week is that
Fort Collins, unlike other major beer cities which have brewery districts and breweries near
them, which names streets after beers, has a residential neighborhood with beer themed
streets including Lagger Street, Stout Street, Lambic Street, Box Street, Duncle
Street, Trappess Street, Sayson Street, Pilsner Street, pale Ale Street,
Shandy Street, and Pint Street. And that is your official What's on tap
Radio fun fact of the week. That's interesting. I did not know that.
All right, we gotta take a break, but still to come is
beer the men's version of wine. We're gonna discuss that all this so much
more. We'll be right back. The only thing we throw back on Thursday,
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this is a fun song. You can't see you, but I was doing
jazz hands. Keep the vibe, keep the bye. Oh you're Another fun
fact about the making we are the world? Well, okay, I'll tell
you. You know, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie they avoided any dated expressions
when they wrote the song, you know, like saying like right on or
yo dog. They wanted to make sure the lyrics were timeless. Also,
there was a moment whenever, according to the documentary, where Lionel Richie was
at Michael Jackson's house and it turned into like wild Kingdom because he was sitting
there and trying to come up with the lines and the lyrics and how they're
going to do it. And Michael says the Lionel Richie says, you know
what you need to do. You need to go see Bobo. She's like
what. He's like, that's my chimp and he's like you need to cuddle
with the chimp, like what you need to cuddle with the chimp to come
up with lyrics in the melody for the song. And then while he was
there, I guess he had a talking exotic bird that got into a fight
with a dog, and then a bunch of records got knocked over by a
bull constrictor or python. Python, So I know he was just freaked out.
He's like, man, I gotta get out of this house. The
chimpanzees and talking birds, barking dogs and snakes. But it worked because he
had a great verse. He kicked it off. He kicked the whole song
off. Did Yeah, he did. He got the whole thing started.
Speaking of kicking things off, we kicked things off to start the show,
James decided he was going to continue with liquidating his non alcoholic beer. And
I just want to point this out now. I'm not you be the judge.
I'm not saying cause and effect, but you be the judge. Thesis
in Rochester, Minnesota, been open for five years. Great name for a
brewery. Yeah, Thesis, it's actually the Thesis Beer Project. Okay,
I like that. That's good. Yeah, Yeah, solid brewery, cool,
cool little place. I checked it out. And at their current pace,
they're struggling like a lot of breweries are. We're gonna be talking about
that one brewery. Don't worry, We'll get to it eventually. But Thesis
announced that January twenty twenty four was their worst month ever for beer sales in
the company's five years or five year history. James, this was dry January.
I know where you're going. You are killing brewer. Okay, sorry,
you be the judge, folks. Is James killing breweries? Is dry
January killing breweries? His Thesis beer projects the worst beer month ever, the
byproduct of people not drinking outcohol for dry January. Well, I'm gonna say
no, and I'll tell you why. Because the beers I brought to this
show throughout the month of January pretty much all craft breweries. He had Sierra
Nevada, I had Samuel Adams, I had Athletic, I had Shiner.
What are they all have in common, Chad? Yeah, it all came
from breweries. They're all craft breweries. Yeah. Now, but hold on,
let me ask this. This is a real question. I don't know.
I'm not on the non alcoholic kick. If you are going to have
a session where you're drinking with your friends. Not we're talking regular full strength
beer. You're gonna sit down, You're gonna have two, three, maybe
four whatever. You know, be responsible, don't do things stupid. But
are you gonna sit down and drink three or four non alcoholic beers or even
two? When I was smoking, I was smoking some ribs. Yeah,
and I was watching football. Yeah, I had a couple of A beers
as I was smoking the the ribs. But would you Are you drinking less
n A beers fewer A beers than you would normally drink? Yes, And
I'll tell you why, because I don't have as many. Oh okay,
all right, moving on. But if I had as many, then uh
then maybe. But I you know, I only had so much, and
I had like maybe a six pack or so, and I'm not going to
drink all six you know, in one sitting. I'll drink you know.
Maybe I think I had my three. But the only I think, the
only non craft brewery in Aber I had was he Heinekan, which was really
really good. I was like one of my actually my favorites. But hey,
speaking of dry January, I want to piggyback off this real quick.
Uh, I want to ask how peoples dried January went. Good news is
it's over, but chances are you probably already started drinking again. A lot
of people don't go the entire month. They go, you know what,
I screw it. But just because you know we're in a new month doesn't
mean that you can't drink with a healthier options. And so a dietician had
come out and broke down choosing a healthier beverage and looking at things with lower
sugar and higher healthy ingredients. And it came out of the list of some
healthy alcoholic beverages. So if you continue, you know, trying to keep
that body slim, here's some options from this dietitian, says Hard Seltzer.
So most are just sparkling water with clear liquor like tequila or vodka. Just
look for the ones who know added sugar. They said red wine. It's
chock full of antioxidants which reduced to inflammation and help prevent cancer and heart disease.
Number three on the list Bloody Marry's tomato juice typically doesn't have a lot
of sugar. Plus what other alcoholic beverages comes with celery Of course, chad
gets very sick. If he drinks bloody marries, allergic tomato tomatoes, or
the Hot Toddies. It's just hot water, fresh limon juice, honey and
whiskey. It's about as healthy as it gets. But notice on this list,
beer did not make the cut. No way, I don't understand it
said right there on the bottom of the article. Beer did not make the
cut. So if you're looking for some healthy options, you know this early
in the year, try hard Seltzer's red wine, Bloody Mary's, or Hot
Toddies. According to a dice somebody who this is a hip piece on beer,
that's all it is. They're trying to kill the beer industry, just
like you guys who were doing dry Janu. All right, maybe not.
I'm telling you I had if more craft breweries did it in a option,
which I feel they should. I know it's more expensive, but they could
get a new demo. But is that demo big enough? I don't know.
I'm not saying. I guess it wouldn't be their target audience. But
they'll get you know, some new customers, new consumers, yep, I
know, I know, all right, lots of business they need. I'll
tell you where they need in a beer Vietnam. Yeah, and a beer
in Vietnam might actually save some of the businesses. But then again, who
knows, maybe people will just stay away. But right now, zero point
zero is killing businesses in Vietnam, but not the way you're thinking, because
as you're thinking, non alcoholic beer is killing businesses. But as James just
said, they need non alcoholic beer. No, we're not talking zero point
zero ABV. But Vietnam, which is a community that is known for having
a blustering nightlife and lots of activity, the food scene, the bar scene,
dancing, crowded streets. Oh yes, good ammen, ammen, all
that it's come to a screeching halt. And the reason zero point zero.
And as I said, not non alcoholic beer, but the country's hard crackdown
on drunk driving. They now have imposed well a law that says zero point
zero if you're going to operate a vehicle. Now most people in Vietnam operate
motorcycles and scooters. There are some cars as well. But if you're operating
a motor vehicle and you have even a trace of alcohol on your breath,
you will be cited with a dui. Now, this is a law that
went into place in twenty nineteen, but they really haven't cracked down and enforced
it until just recently. You might be thinking there was a huge uptick in
deaths or injuries. Well there wasn't. They just decided to start enforcing it.
In the last two months of twenty twenty three, Vietnam put in its
most strict crack down on the anti drunk driving campaign. So there are several
people who spoke with reporters and we got some quotes, but some of the
quotes are kind of funny, but they did not want to go on record.
They wanted to do it anonymously. I'm not sure why that is,
but they said that they think the law is too strict because you can go
out and have two beers and most of the beer, bijoi beer comes in
at right around three and a half to four percent, and you can have
a couple of those beers and be just fine. You're not drunk, And
they don't think that that's a good indication of impaired driving. So what they're
asking police to do is do away with the breathalyzer and make them do some
sort of a zig zag formation or dance or obstacle course they're actually coming up
with any kind of agility or some sort of physical challenge to prove that you
have the ability to operate a motor vehicle. But they said that this is
the zero point zero is too strict. Now, how is this affecting businesses?
Because the cops are setting up checkpoints right outside the bestros and restaurants and
bars, so the second you walk out, you are checked. And this
is causing people to stay home. So now all the clubs, all the
bars, all the rest restaurants, nobody's going out now. No word whether
or not they're going to continue this crackdown like they did the last two months
of twenty twenty three. But if they do, breweries are going to suffer
because the Hanoi ton Hl Beer Company their fourth quarter sales went down eleven percent
and the Saigang Hanoi Beer Company their profits dropped twenty five percent. So what
do you think, James, I think they should use it. I think
Uber should really be doing well over there, or lift one of those right
share companies. Taxis something I mean they can't did they not? They insist
on driving I don't understand that. What about a rickshaw? I mean something
anything, all right. I guess they don't have right shares over there in
Vietnam. I don't know. Hey, we gotta take your break still to
come. We're gonna talk about the wol Free beer. Remember we talked about
that. How's it doing? And uh also Miller LTEs they're getting ready for
Super Bowl. What their plans are. We'll discuss all this so much more.
We'll be right back. After reading about the evils of drinking. We
made up our mind. We're gonna stop reading. What's on Tap Radio continues
with James Simpson and Chad Pilbeam a lot of interesting fun facts in front of
us about the making of We Are the World. Yeah, I know,
we just watched the documentary on it, and well, Stevie Wonder. They
really wanted to get Stevie Wonder into this all along, and they kept calling
and calling. This is before social media and everything else. You had to
go through assistance and try and get him and leave messages and hope he calls
you back. And he never called back. He just showed up and he
walks in and he thought they were gonna write the song and he was like,
no, we're actually recording. Time to go and then right in the
middle of it, no joke, he starts singing we Are the World in
Swahili, and he says, we need some Swahili in here. And when
Waylon Jennings heard that, he walked out the door. Waylon Jenning's just a
good old boy. Yep, he says, ain't been no good old boy
singing Swahili. He ain't gonna start now. And he walked out and he
was just he came out. He was on the back riser and uh he
uh walked down the risers, went to the door and walked out. Didn't
say goodbye, kiss my butt, nothing. He was gone, just left
all because Stevie Wonder was singing we Are the World in Swahili and he was
trying to get inserted into the song. Speaking of Stevie Wonder, at this
time, Eddie Murphy missed a chance to be there because Eddie was at Stevie
Wonder studio recording as single Remember Party All the Time, which we kicked the
show off with. So Stevie asked Eddie Murphy to come over, but Eddie
declined. When he realized what he passed up, Eddie Murphy felt like an
idiot. History Meanwhile, dan Ackroyd's going ha ha because he took part by
accidents. He just happened to be talking to talent manager that day and the
guy invited into the recording session. Hey, what's come on over dan Ackroyd?
That musical sensation. Wait, he's not a musician. Nope, he's
not a singer either. No, how did he get invited We Are the
World? And the thing is is they listed the uh, the participants in
alphabetical order by last name, so when you look at it, dan Ackroyd's
is the first name you see on the list. So he's not buried in
there all because the talent manager invited him and he came over, and you
know he took the invite. Hey uh, speaking of artists that if they
redid We Are the World, possibly could be a part of it. Jelly
Roll very popular artist. Now for those who don't know who jelly Roll is,
I like jelly Roll fan. I like his story, his story,
I like his personality. I'm not the biggest fan of his music. I'm
not either, but I like him as a person. He came up poor
and you know, now he's a very successful singer. He went for he
had a lot of bad things. He ended up in prison, right,
But he went in front of Congress not too long ago talking about the fetanol
addictions and so forth, and how they need to have tougher laws on fetanyl.
But this interview just resurfaced. Now. This is I don't know,
I'm not sure when this interview took place, but uh, maybe a few
years ago. But I want to know, is he Jelly Roll knows how
to get clicks and Yeah, all you have to do is question the manhood
of beer drinkers and you'll get all kind of hot takes. So I just
came we came across this interview a few months ago where Jelly Roll made a
very bold claim that's sure to ruffle some feathers. So here's what he said.
Jelly said, I've always looked at beer as a man's version of wine.
It's kind of like something you know, girls would do. I don't
know about you, but them are fighting words. He went on to say,
when a dude's like, oh, I drink ten beers, I'm like,
oh, you could have drank three shots like a real man. What's
funny about this? Later in the interview, his wife Bunny threw him under
the bus and said he couldn't drink beer because it makes his tummy hurt.
So apparently jelly rolls he has a gluten analogy and never had beer, and
he admitted very few things are more embarrassing than his wife saying publicly about his
tummy hurting. So jelly roll calls beer men's version of wine. Now let's
say you do you agree with this, and you can go to our social
media at What's on Tap Radio, Facebook, x, Instagram, and TikTok,
or reach out to us at What's on Tap Radio at gmail dot com.
But interesting words there, So what is I'm trying to understand his point?
Is he saying that everyone should just be drinking hard liquor? Pretty much?
Okay, if you're sitting around drinking beer like women drink wine, why
don't you be a man and take shots? Says the guy who was addicted
to drugs and ended up in prison. And now he's got who has by
the way, who has more tattoos him? Or post malone? You know,
he's so funny when you before you even finish that sentence, I thought
you were gonna say, he's gotta say post molon. It's gotta say post
alone. There you go post alone. I don't know. It's a good
question. They both have a lot of facial tattoos. But uh yeah,
he's come through, he's battled his addictions and he's very successful. And uh
yeah, he came out. I'm not, like I said, I'm not
sure when this interview aired or you don't know where it was, but uh
yeah, I was just doing some digging and came across. I was like,
wait a minute, that's interesting. But maybe there's people out there that
agree with him. I don't know. I don't know. Well, the
thing about him is he's kind of the common man man's but yet correct me
if I'm wrong. I mean, I don't don't think he drinks at all.
I don't think he does. I think he's he's free and clear,
Bible Jay sober as a judge, as they used to say. But I
like to think that Jelly Roll, who's he's a big boy. He's a
large statuted individual, and you know he he he stands out. It looks
like the kind of guy that knows how to throw down and knows how to
party. And I like to think, could you ever see a golf club
in that guy's hands out there on the course with maybe some like Stuart Payne,
Stewart Nickers and a little cute cap and golfing. It's very odd because
when you think of golf, that's the last thing you think about partian.
But somehow in the last I don't know how long because I don't really watch
golf, but now partying is associated with golf. Well it's we've talked about
this before the Waste Management Phoenix opened, and it's coming back. It's it's
gonna happen, and uh, this is pretty odd awesome. It is known
for really three things. It's got a party like atmosphere, drunk fans egging
on their favorite pros, and beer balls. Now I know what you're thinking.
What is a beer ball? Like? Maybe you're old enough to remember
the party ball that you could get from bud Light. The bud Light party
ball had like five gallons of beer in it and you can buy that from
the party store. Oh yeah, those are good times. But these are
different because they're at the Waste Management Phoenix open where, by the way,
when you hit an amazing shot, just expect to see beer cups go flying
and people just cheering and hollering, and you may even look over and see
Jelly roll because that's his kind of party. I'm sure he'd fit right in
there. Your typical pressed shirt and proper etiquette golf clap atmosphere that you would
expect to see at a golf event, At a professional golf event, not
the waste management Phoenix open. No, no, no, no, this
is a party. So what are these beer balls, ladies and gentlemen.
These are golf balls wrapped in cash, and then they are distributed to spectators.
Now you might be wondering, how is this done? Well, Golfer
Ryan Palmer already prepping up his golf balls or his beer balls. He's taking
his golf balls, autographing them and putting the slogan on cheers, and he's
wrapping a ten dollars bill around it with a rubber band. And when he
gets to the sixteenth hole, he's gonna start throwing him into the stands for
people to go buy more beer. That's my new favorite golfer right there,
unless somebody else is doing it on a different hole than that would be my
favorite golfer. But the forty seven year old he is all ready to go
for the waste management, Phoenix open, and he's gonna make a few new
friends. I'm sure this right of passage here began in twenty fifteen, when
Palmer started to throw bills into the stands. Oh, I love this guy.
I love this He threw him in the stands on the par three sixteenth,
and well the word got out. He is he keeps the spirit of
this thing going, saying again with cheers. He writes cheers on it.
And the money he knows he's going to be used to buy beer. This
is fun here, it says. The Colosseum stands if they can handle it.
We're gonna find out soon enough, because the place gets really rowdy.
I mean it gets rambunctious, it gets rowdy, it gets nuts, and
this guy is gonna help fuel the fire. I like this guy. I
don't know a lot about him, but I'm a fan. I'm actually thinking
about getting a picture of him with his beer balls. And that sounds really
weird. That did not come out the way I intended that to sound.
James, Yes, I want a picture of this man and his beer balls
hanging on my wall. It's not what it sounds like. Chad's twenty twenty
four and we don't judge unless it's a Hold my beer and wash this which
is coming up next hour. All this and so much more. Hang with
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I want to put a disclaimer on this. What's the disclaimer this song
or song title? Maybe you make qualify for the lamest song type in the
history of song kitess why's that? Yeah, because that's what every kid imagines
growing up. Yeah. Hey, it's hip to be square, man,
it is. I mean, it's better than being a rectangle, no,
or triangle. It it's cool. Just I'm sorry, man, I just
I was I was in I was in elementary school or middle school. I
think I was middle school when this song came out. Yeah, because this
was after the Sports album and uh yeah, I was in middle school and
this thing came out. It was like, what kid ever said, Yeah,
it's so hip to be a square. No, nobody ever said that.
But I'll tell you what it is. Hip is whenever Prince is supposed
to show up for We Are the World, because we're sprinkling in we Are
the World fun facts. Not sure how we got into it. Our whole
production meeting was about some documentary and so here we are we we decided to
sprinkle or pepper in some fun facts about we Are the World, and so
Huey lo chat, what are we learning? He had a he had a
solo on on the on the song on the record, but that was not
the original plan. They were trying to get prints there and they had a
solo lined up for Prince and nobody knew if he was coming. Nobody knew
if he was coming, and finally Sheila E said He's not coming, and
they were like, well, we need somebody to sing. Who's who's going
to sing it? And Huey Lewis got the nod. Huey Lewis ended up
singing a solo on We Are the World because Prince didn't show up. You
want to know where Prince was while this is all going down. He was
at a Mexican food restaurant. Yeah, he was at a Mexican food restaurant.
And people believe that because of his rivalry with Michael jack that's why he
was a no show. There's a lot of theories of why he wasn't there.
That was brought up in the documentary too, because for best record,
it was down to when Doves Cry and Michael Jackson's Thriller, and when Doves
Cry won, Prince won. So you think, all right, he won,
might as well show up. They still wanted him there. I don't
think Michael would have minded. I don't know, But like I said,
we're just bringing this show is not about We Are the World, the making
of Wheel of the World. It's about step It's about like stuff like this,
hold my beer and watch this brought to you by the ring meld of
ten Hacen Insurance Group, where they'll cover you for just about everything except this,
although we will continue peppering these in throughout the show. But uh oh,
I want to People may have noticed that Bill is not hanging out in
the studio with Chad this week we sit Bill out on assignments and maybe he'll
be back next week. That and also is that Chad's been on a diet,
not voluntarily, No, just in case it wasn't food poisoning and it
was some sort of a stomach bug. I didn't want anybody around me,
so I just like, you know what, I'm gonna empty out the studio,
and I was just gonna mention, I'm still sipping on this beer and
I'm doing pretty good. I don't know if I'm gonna crack a second one.
Yeah, Chad's been taking it really liked this week. Usually around this
time, he's probably on beer number five or six. No, I'm not.
Usually Bill and I are on our third or fourth, but I'm on
my second usually and I haven't even drank half of this, so that's okay.
I'm taking it. I'm drinking a little slow over here. I am
continuing to consume my Sirra Nevada non Alcoholic Trail pass India pale Ale. You
know some people they shouldn't be drinking. They shouldn't be drinking, maybe sticking
to non alcoholic beverages like you know this trail pass ipa is what this subject
should have done. This almost sounds like a setup to a joke, Chad,
but it's pretty real. So a naked woman walks into a convenience store
armed with a potato peeler on Sunday. And this happened in Take your guest,
Chad, Florida. Damn right it did. And it wasn't Idaho.
No, this was not in Nebraska. This was in Florida. And yes,
she was very, very intoxicated. She was thirty five years old.
Her name is Celia Barrett and she walks into a store in Saint Petersburg one
Sunday evening and started yelling about getting kicked out of the same store the day
earlier. Apparently she didn't get the message that hey, we don't want you
to coming back. But you know, she got kicked out the store,
went home, thought about it, got that rage built up. She's like,
you know what, I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna show them and
I'm gonna do this naked. Well, she threatened two workers with the peeler,
and she says she was going to kill one of them whoa with the
peeler. If that's been possible to be killed with a potato peeler. Yeah,
I don't know if that's ever been Has anybody ever been murdered by a
potato peeler? Was that ever? Was that ever? In clue? Oh?
He was killed in the uh, in the convenience store with a potato
peeler and in the lobby with the potato peeler. Colonel Mustard did it in
the lobby of the Comea's store or in the lobby of the store with a
potato with a potato pillar. Well, she also while in the process of
all this going down, she toppled a display of red bulls and tore open
a carton of cigarettes, spilling them all over the floor. And a ploye
called the cops, and she was still fully naked when they arrived. And
uh, kids, ear muffs, give you a second, Okay, I
got the ear muffs on. Okay. Uh, she's began to pleasure herself
in front of the officers, WHOA yeah, hopefully not with the peeler.
Though hopefully not with the peeler. She told them that she had about six
shots of liquor that day, and she didn't know how many beers, but
she had a few beers. And she's facing charges of aggravated assault, disorally
intoxication, trespassing, criminal mischief, and in decent exposure. So you hold
my beer and watch this. This week, a naked woman walks into a
convenience store armed with a potato peeler, And yes, that does sound like
a setup of a joke, but no, this really happened in Saint Petersburg,
Florida. And that has been your my beer and watched this brought to
you by Renaldo Tenek and Insurance Group, where they're probably shaking their head with
yeah, I know. I'm like, I gotta talk to my buddy Clonder.
Listen. I can't. I don't know what's going on in Florida.
I we don't. I can't make we don't have this stuff. It just
exists. By the way, I just did a little research here. Yeah,
potato, It says right here potato peelers can be fatal. And then
there's a story here out of the UK man who murdered flatmate with a potato
peeler. Well, there you go, so it is a deadly weapon,
and so there you go. Maybe she saw that story and it's like,
you know what, I don't have a gun or a knife, but I
do have this potato peeler. I'm gonna go tell them I'm aggravated about them
kicking me out the day earlier. But that is your home. My parent
watched this. I said, folks, we can't make this stuff up.
All right, we have got to take a break. Oh my gosh,
We've got still so much to get to. Joe Biden's in the news.
We gotta talk about Joe Biden and Miller lte they're getting in with the super
Bowl. We'll talk about with what they have going on, and liking Googles
in the news. We'll talk about that. All this is so much more.
We'll be right back. And the teacher said, no, Bobby,
there's no such time as bureau clock. Fire that teacher. This is what's
on Taperdio always liked this song, Linel Richie, welcome back to We Are
the World the Inside to Scoop on Top Radio. By the way, you
know what we should have done, though we did screw this up. Well
that's basically every show we somehow screw up something. Well, somebody may have
wanted to watch the documentary and we never once said spoiler. Well, we're
kind of giving you previews of what to expect when you watch the documentary.
We're giving you all the show. We're literally giving you the whole thing.
For example, for example, Chad, did you know that my Madonna was
not invited? Apparently some of the organizers felt that she wasn't good enough,
she was not a good enough singer, so they went with Cindy Lapper instead,
and sources said it broke Madonna's heart and Cindy Lapper almost backed out because
it was recorded right after the American Music Awards and Cindy Lauper performed on stage
and then went backstage and says, I don't think I'm gonna go. My
boyfriend doesn't think it's gonna be a hit O. And Lionel's like, you
need to think about this and be very careful about what you decide. Yeah,
I wonder how that relationship ended. Yeah, I don't know that he's
a seacher anymore. We're just giving you a little, you know, teasers
of what the documentary is about. So anyways, let's talk about let's talk
about some beer I want. Yeah, I was so old. Did you
say you were gonna crack open? Are you crack open a beer? My
last day beer from the fridge here at Studio S Broadcasting on the west side
of town. Whole month of January, I was doing the Dry January and
I have some beers left over, and I decided, since I'm not gonna
drink these hanging out with you know, Brian Holsen or neighbor Vic or neighbor
Chris or some name drops right there, I decided, you know what,
I'll just go ahead and consume him on the show since we have some listeners
out there that do consume and a beer's on a regular basis. So my
last brew I'm bringing, uh maybe for maybe not for the last time this
year. I may bring it later on this year, but just for the
time being, I'm gonna go with the original athletic brewing Company, Run Wild
IPA my last n a beer, the run Wild India pale Al Athletic Brewing
Company, which is on track to be probably the most successful. If they
are not yet in a craft brewer, they are by far the most successful.
Oh, and non alcoholic craft brew smells bad. Oh oh, James
James is making faces. No, he really is. He's not faking this,
this is real. He's do you get is it old? Yeah?
Ta's old. Oh is there a data on the can? Good question.
Check it out, James. We're doing some investigating. Sixty five calories,
zero percent, and I'll call it by volume. Oh, yep, there
is packaged March ninth, twenty twenty three. Yeah, there it is.
And I bought this at a local retailer. That's the beginning of dry January.
Hold on as a mixer sixer. I bought it as a mixer sixer,
and yeah, this is skunky. This is a public service announcement for
you, your friends at What's on Tap Radio, learn from James mistake,
especially when you're buying the single cans from the shelf. Always always, always,
always check the dates, especially on IPA's Yeah, no bitterness whatsoever.
Oh yeah, oh, I guess you're gonna be dumping that. Uh yeah
that Wow. That's not a good way to end my dry January for February.
Yeah, okay, it's normally pretty sold IPA, but in this case
they took the old feather dester and dusted it off in here. I was,
yeah, in a hurry, because I was in a hurry, and
I just picked random six I gets. But I won't buy an IPA unless
I'm positive it's fresh or I can read the date. If I can't read
the date, it's pretty much a no go. But I mean, like
if celebration al came out from Sierra Nevada. By the way, those have
dates on them. But a celebrationale from Sierra Nevada came out and I know
it's seasonal and I'm and I'm in season I'm gonna buy it. But any
other I PA that's year round. If I can't, if there's no date
on it, forget it, not doing it. We've talked about this.
I am really upset right now. Crimes against beer right there, folks,
that's one of the crimes. We talked about it. Go check out our
podcast brought to you by Cast Branding last week. We did talk about that.
Speaking of crimes against beer, I want to bring this up here.
I know you're all been following the organ beer scene very very closely because the
task force out there now, which has been launched, a twenty person panel.
They want to raise taxes on beer and organ so I can watch what's
going on in the organ or organ beer tax laws. Yeah, well,
this one's kind of interesting. But an organ task force has many members on
there again, it's twenty person task force wanting to raise money through increased taxes
on beer, wine and spirits to repair the insufficient This is their words,
they're very poor addiction support and treatment programs. In other words, they're saying
that the residents of Oregon have a higher than normal addiction rate to alcohol and
a very high cost associate for the state, a five billion dollar price tag
alcohol costs them. And that's alcohol related illness, car crashes, and loss
of productivity. And so they formed the Alcohol Pricing and Addiction Services Task Force
or APAASTF. We're very familiar with them. Right, do you apply for
that job? Do you fill out an application? How does one become a
task force agent? The Alcohol Pricing and Addiction Service Task Force? How does
one become one of those agents? I don't know. I'm not sure.
You probably got to be deep into politics and not care about business because brewers
and sighteries and wineries are saying you could not be sending a tax hike on
us. At a worse time, beer consumption is down overall five percent nationally.
And check this out. I did not know this. Beer is the
third largest revenue generator for the state of Oregon. I did not know that,
and for the first time, and I don't know how long, last
year twenty twenty three, more breweries closed in Oregon than opened. That's very
telling for a state that was known as having vana, the perfect beer centric
Portland organ the place to go for craft beer. But more breweries closed than
open an organ last year. And the last attempt to try and pass the
tax would have raised the tax on barrels of beer in Oregon from two dollars
and sixty cents to seventy dollars for a barrel of beer. So, needless
to say, brewers very upset. Basically, in case you're wondering what that
does, it basically says, for every keg of beer that goes out,
the full sized keg, it's a dollar thirty and they wanted to raise it
to forty five dollars. So anyway, we'll be watching that scene. But
if you're listening in orgon knock it off. If you're wondering why you're spinning
eleven ninety nine for a six pack of beer these days, well there's her
answer. Yeah, beer price is going up stuff like that. So let's
switch gears for a second. I'll never understand why people like Chad do this,
but why in God's name do people wear or insist on wearing shorts during
the winter. Never understood that because it's comfortable, but it's you know,
five degrees outside and you're walking around with shorts on. But apparently Line of
Google's jumping on this trend because the Wisconsin based brewery Line of Google hopes it's
new heated shorts will optimize the quirky practice once described as and I quote both
ridiculous and rebellious, crackpot and courageous, kind of a middle finger at both
the men and winter. So on sale soon. They're going for fifty dollars
a pair, and they are a limited edition Lenny's shorts or Laney Shorts,
I guess. And they have a heating elements powered by a rechargeable battery in
the legs, an external bottle holster, and a cheerful lemon print to celebrate
the return of the brewers seasonal citrus spiked summer shandy inspired by those who bear
their calves in the winter, lining Google's hopes, and they want to ensure
that the hardy foe could keep this summer vibe going year round with it a
warm bods and cold beers. So Line of Google is selling heated shorts with
a beer holster to encourage a pants free winter. So again this comes from
Line and Google, who's owned by Miller, which means this product doesn't exist.
Just putting that out there. So you're like, hey, I want
some heated shorts. Well you can try to log onto dot com and so
you get yourself a pair of but chances are probably not. I just thought
I'll throw that out there. Okay, let's take a break, Chad,
let's come back in talk about some brewery closures. All this is so much
more hanging with us. We'll be right back. On average, humans walk
nine hundred miles per year, entering twenty two gallons of beer, which means
the average human gets forty one miles per gallon. Not Ben, What's on
tap Radio continues, Right, We've got more fun facts here about the making
of We Are the World. We want to thank our friends over at Superior
Pest Control for sending the next story I'm about to talk about. Before we
get into that, have you ever wondered how they are able to get all
these huge stars together at once? Have you ever wondered about that, like,
how were they able to get all these massive pop stars together all in
one place? Like what were they all doing on that night where they could
coordinate and get everybody there at the same time. Well, how they were
able to do that? As they recorded it after the nineteen eighty five American
Music Awards, So after the awards ceremony they were able to get all the
huge stars together to perform. So there you go, a little extra fun
fact for you on this episode of We're making of We Are the World.
Just kidding. Yeah, no, I don't know. Our production meeting,
we were supposed to be talking about what was on the one sheet, but
we decided to take the meeting and discuss the documentary that just came out,
very good documentary, and so uh, well we'll springland one more fun fact
coming up. But Chad, who had got food poisoning. I thought he's
gonna be drinking pedia light throughout the entire show. He's on number was gonna
make it. But here he is on beer number two. I I I,
yeah, I took my time, and I actually feel great. And
I saw what you did. You're cleaning out your fridge. I went to
get another beer, and I saw I had one of these left, and
I said, yep, we're gonna take it down in the spirit of James
Simpson, who had one non alcoholic beer left, which turned out to be
a dream. Poor Yeah, I know, uh, just one thought.
I had one Christmas aale left from Bells Brewery as Scotch ail. I'm like,
Okay, that's gonna hold up. That'll be fine. We'll drink it
before it You know, it's a year because the beer I'm drinking is brewed
packaged well over a year ago. Did not know that when I bought it.
I love it. Yeah, seven and a half percent Scotch ale from
Bells Brewery. The Christmas ale, which, by the way, I find
that interesting about Bells in their Christmas aales. I know we're not really supposed
to be talking about that now because it is February. We're supposed to be
talking about summer pills. But right the summer season is already coming out,
that's right. And by the way, next week pumpkin ales in Octoberfest.
But yeah, Christmas ale. Most Christmas ales are spice beers. Not so
with Bells. They did the Scotch aale. You can't get I'm not mad
at that, No, not at all. It's delicious. Mahogany color,
very deep, deep ruby red, almost brown, multi nose, a little
sweetness. It tastes old, No, tastes amazing. It's amazing. Chad's
able to hold it down. He hasn't thrown up once. I am,
you know, I'm just pumping the brakes, taking it easy, getting my
stomach back. Food poisoning is very serious, man. I don't screw around
with that. But then again, I don't have a choice. Oh when
it gets you, man, it gets you hard. It's awful, all
right. I want to plug our social that's at what's on tap radio on
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and uh, we got a good one this week. We got a
new SoundBite. I'm always looking for new sound bites. Love a good SoundBite
to put it on the board. Here. This this, this actually did
come up in the production meeting because we kept saying it reminded us of the
saying, Hey, if you put that on the radio, people will listen
to that on the radio. It will so. Grandpa Biden gave a speech
at earth Writer Brewery It's a Superior Wisconsin, where he toued out his economic
record, ak Biden nomics and the success of his bipartisan infrastructure legislation, and
a bid to short up as support for his twenty twenty four re election bid.
However, online onlookers were distracted from the economic talking points by an extended
gaff Biden made about the brewery and it's beer. So part way through his
remarks he appeared to mumble, here we go, cut five beer brood here
it is used to make the brew beard. In his final ooh, earth
writer, thanks for the great lakes. I wonder what the hell did he
just say? Well, it's a good thing. I have a trans his
transcribe here the beer brood here is used to make the brew beard. Here.
While most of the sentence was unintelligible, he seemed to add, oh,
earth Writer, thanks for the great lakes. I wonder why the beer
here it is used to make the prove beard his fine Ooh earth Rider,
thanks for the great Lakes. I wonder so yeah, he trailed off as
the audience laughter drowned him out through It seemed unclear what exactly they were laughing
at, but X users didn't get the joke. Conservative influencer Coln Rogue posted,
just in, President Biden sounds like he's speaking a different language while giving
a speech at the earth Writer Brewery and Superior, Wisconsin. Don't worry.
The media has assured us that he is sharper than ever. And then he
provided his own trans and then he provided his own translation of the speech,
adding the beer brood here is used to make the brood beer. During his
defined oh earth Rider, thanks for the Great Lakes, Biden said, according
to his speech transcriber, so yeah, all right, Well, I like
a good sound bite, and we got a good one that I'll be playing
throughout the years. All right, Well, speaking of soundbites, I'm gonna
go ahead and just tell you this right now. This one's We've been sitting
on this for a while, but you've asked for it, and we're going
to talk about it. We've got some information and we got the black blew
up yep, here we go, folks. A recent announcement from CEO William
McLucas of Buffalo by You Brewing Company says our best years are before us or
yet to come. Rather is what he said, and why would he be
saying that? Well. Buffalo by You Brewing Company in Houston, touted as
Houston's most creative brewery, has been locked out of its facility in Sawyer Yards
for non payment of rent. The Sawyer Yards owner John Deal served Buffalo by
You CEO William McLucas with notice of default and locked them out. He said
he did. It was not a step he wanted to take, but he
had no other choice. Now. Buffalo by You has been in the media
in Houston with many other struggles and particularly on social media, and it's been
documented on several different outlets, particular with regard to defaulting on payments for their
investors using the Next Sea crowdfunding, as well as they're being sued by shareholders
alleging that mclucless committed fraud when acquiring the business. And there's also another lawsuit
from a financial services company that alleges that they are owed ninety four thousand dollars
for work performed between twenty twenty one and twenty and twenty two. Now buff
brew doors are closed, but the CEO says, don't worry, this is
temporary. We'll be back. Social media had a heyday with this and we
have been getting hit up now. Just for those of you who don't know
Buffalo Byue Brewing Company, they were one of the oldest breweries in Houston and
partnered with What's on Tapp Radio for a long time out seven years and seven
seven years. Yeah, we were partners with film YEP. They helped bring
this show to life each and every week, help us make sure that we
could broadcast, and certainly grateful for that. But James, how do you
I mean, you've been getting more emails than I have, Well, not
email, I mean people just text me and text me because you know,
they reached out to me going, hey, you must know the inside scoop.
You and Chad longtime partnership with the Buffalo Byry Brewing Company. You guys
must know the inside scoop. And I'll be honest with you, I don't
know any more than what you know. We hadn't had a partnership with the
Buffalo BYU and probably about a year and a half, maybe two years.
Everybody that we had partnership with over at Buffalo BYU has since moved on.
Every single person, every single Yep. I don't know. I don't think
I know a single person that works at Buffalo Balue Brewing Company anymore. And
so people were hitting me up and I'll be honest with you, I don't
know, and they're like, oh, you're lying. But the truth of
this, I haven't even been to the brewery in about a year, probably
since I think we did our last show there, which probably well over a
year and a half, almost two years ago. It was actually right before
I moved. Yeah, And so when everybody you know went their separate ways,
we went our separate way. And that's how it was. And so
when we got the news of them closing, I learned when you guys learned,
So stop texting me because I don't know any more than you do.
So here's what I'm going to go ahead and add to this. And this
is editorial. So pleased I am, I am, I am stating my
viewpoint on this. Okay. When the brewery opened, it was supposed to
be according to one source inside the brewery who I was close to At the
time, it was supposed to be a I believe it was supposed to be
an eighteen million dollar venture. It ended up being a twenty one million dollar
venture. They found creative ways to get financing and investors, and they had
very aggressive growth plans. I am not going to say that the market has
dictated what has happened, but certainly COVID didn't help. But I know that
they receive some assistance from the PPP program through COVID. That's the to help
pay their employees. So there was a lot of pay that the PPP Payroll
Protection Program. A lot of that happened. But I have no idea,
Like James says, I don't have the inside scoop on this, but I
can tell you right now, when you go into a venture that big,
with that much capital and that much expense, that's a tough ship to keep
afloat in a down economy. But if any news does develop, we will
bring it to you. But I'm saying I'm learning just as fast as you
guys are. Okay, so send us your comments. We'll we'll try and
respond. But other than that, we do not have the scoop. No,
we just know what you know. So all right, coming up to
the last segment, we got to talk about Middle Light and their Super Bowl
plans. All this is so much more. Hang with us for one more.
We'll be right back. Beer has hops hops or plants. Plants make
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What's on Tap Radio? High five last segment of What's on Tap Radio for
this week starts now dropping mad fun facts all episode out the making of We
Are the World. I got one more, but here's another unofficial fun fact.
This was my high school graduating class song. Tell us high School class
of nineteen ninety nine. This was our class song, party like it's ninety
nine nine, because you know I graduated ninety nine nine, so fits.
But this segment, I honestly thought you were saying that that we are the
World was your class No no, no, no no. I was like,
dude, that is such a no no party like this nineteen nine nine
Prince was my graduating class song from Dulles High School in nineteen ninety nine.
We've been, like I said, talking about fun facts about the making of
Wheel of the World since our production meeting got overtaken by fun facts. But
real quick, let's drop one more before we get into the last news of
the week. But Bob Dylan almost had a nervous breakdown. He got all
stressed out trying to figure out how to sing his part when all they wanted
was him to sound like Bob Dylan. That's all they wanted. That's all
they wanted. Now how did they get him to do it? Do you
know? Because I saw the documentary? So Chad, we have to stop
there because we have to give them a reason to watch the documentary. Oh
my gosh. Okay, So that's that's their little tea. So if you
find out you want to find out why, you gotta go watch the documentary.
All right, this segment brought to you wonder That's all I'm gonna say.
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in West Michigan. It's pretty cool. And uh, Denver, who's the
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Denver. I know Tantrick Brewing Company dot com. So some news to get
to before we get out of here. I got an update on the woke
free beer we've been talking about ultra conservative. Yes, it's about about nine
months since they've spring in action. The conservative criticism of Bud Light's trans marketing
campaign, while they came out with their own the Woke Free American Beer put
out by owner Seth Weathers, and he originally contracted with a brewery and Lawrenceville
now uses a larger one in Lakeland of Florida. But they're selling the beers
online. They're selling the beers online, so people been going to his websites
and ordering beers. However, nowadays these would be customers are heading to a
different website, the Better Business Bureau. They're filing complaints that they have paid
Weathers for the beer but has never arrived. You know, when you go
to the Better Business Bureau website, it's generally not to say I love these
guys, they're the best. I just wanted to drop a line saying how
they are doing a fantastic job. Yeah. The company currently has an F
rating with THEBBB out Yeah. One person quoted saying, I don't care what
the product or ideology you're doing. This is horrible customer service. Apparently one
of the customer's wife S has placed the order last September and a limited edition
Conservative Dad's Revenge six pack with Donald Trump's mugshot on the label. Four months
later, still no beer, and the only response they have received came with
a generic email offering refunds. But it's so damn frustrating that nobody responds to
you. This is supposed to be a business. Someone complained on x When
the news outlet reached out to Weathers about this, what's going on, he
said that, well, this is a four person company and they're overwhelmed with
orders and no one bothered to pay attention to the BBB complaints before they ordered.
Apparently it's been going on for a while. But since it's a four
man operation and the demand is more than the supply, but someone doesn't went
their beer at this time, they'll offer them a full refund. They're doing
the best they can to put the cans out there and get as fast as
they can. But the company you have scored an f with the BBB.
Customers are furious also because they've been ordering merch hoodies, shirts, hats all
that still haven't come in. So yeah, yeah, that happened with another
brewery and it was one it was by It was a bunch of brewers who
were trying to raise money for black colleges, that's right. Yeah, And
they put out hoodies and stuff like that too and never delivered. Yeah,
yep, yeah, they took the money. And I don't know if the
money ever made made it to the black colleges that they were trying to raise
money. I doubt it did. I don't think. So there's your update.
The Woke Free Beer venture in Georgia earns an f rating with the EBB.
So if you you know, I thought yourself, Hey, I want
to get my hands on this, this commemorative beer. Yeah, you might
want to check the BBB before you do so, so yeah, maybe,
yeah, before you hand it over it anyway, all right, super Bowl,
Big Game. I know I can't wait for the commercials my favorite part,
and I know it's seven million dollars for thirty second spot. Yeah a
lot. If you're looking for Heineken, you won't see it. And if
you're looking for Miller Light, you're not going to see. If you're allowed
for cores like oh they're bringing the train back, but you're not going to
see a Miller like commercial. No, no, forging a big game spot
in the Big Game that's gonna run you about seven million dollars thirty seconds A
lot of money at them. That's why we couldn't. That's why we couldn't
afford to put a spot in the super Bowl. That's right, What's on
Tap Radio the unofficial official beer radio show sponsor of the Big Game. We
were gonna put a spot out there, but we were about seven million dollars
short. We were. By the way, if you want to sponsor the
show, reach out to us. What's on Tapperradio gmail dot com. Anyway,
we were. There are a thousand people, though that they're counting on
is helping them promote their brand because nobody really yeah Miller Lite, Okay,
yeah, thousand people. I mean, if they can get a thousand people
to help them, I think it'll really help their sales take off. Because
Miller Light, nobody really knows who they are. They're kind of struggling.
That's not a really well known sarcasm, folks. Sarcasm. Yeah, that's
right. But I have a feeling this is just a hunch that the thousand
people who get this item may actually get it, unlike all the other Miller
Lite items which they advertise. But what they are doing is they are tasking
one thousand QR code wearing fans to embark on a beer run on the big
game day and help get some beer money. What now, how's this gonna
work? I'm not exactly sure, but this is kind of cool. So
Miller, like, instead of running a beer commercial, is going to have
a thousand football fans and they're going to wear this shirt that's got a QR
code on it. I believe that's how it is. They're going to go
on a run and there's a thousand people they're going to serve as the official
brand ambassador, and they're gonna go on this whole big marketing deep dive and
consumers that starting on February first, which will have been able to sign up
online to receive the Miller game time jersey, which was a couple of a
couple of days ago. See better hurry right right, yes, yeah,
yeah, it hasn't sold out already. And then you can wear this while
you're going out during the commercial breaks or you know, whenever, wherever,
whenever you decide to step out, go get more beer. I don't know
people that leave in the middle of the game and go get more beer,
but whatever. Yes, but if you do these jerseys, what you're gonna
be offered to a thousand customers can be scanned for a chance to win beer
money. I like that. That's kind of fun. That's fun, all
right. Yes, they've teamed up with the lead beer runner, who is
actor and comedian Rob Wriggle, and he's gonna be participating in it. This
is a different move for them, high stakes beer move. But Miller Lite
joining. As I said, Heineken, who will be foregoing their spots this
year, but be looking for that cors Light Train and a thousand beer advocates
out there. I teach marketing and journalism, and I feel like this is
a new way of marketing and we're gonna see a lot more of this in
the future. I feel like with the Core's light and Mirller Light, the
way they're doing marketing these days, you can start seeing more companies do that
in the future. So look out for that. All right. We have
got to say goodbye. But before we do, let's tank our sponsors,
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