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and the culture that flows with it. Pears Beer Guru James Simpson and Beer
Logics Chad Pilbeam. Okay, here we go, d three. You know
we got jukebox here and What's on top Radio Studios on the West side of
Town Studio Asset fun Fact, Hey dude, I didn't know if you know,
this is just a random fun fact. Grand Rapids, Michigan, home
of one of the largest manufacturers of jukeboxes in the world. Really true story,
a little fun fact. I didn't know where removed our I didn't know
where removed our fun fact from the second segment in the first seven I like
you no, no, no, no, that though, this has just
added value, just a little more about my hometown here in Grand Rapids,
West Michigan. Uh, not just Beer City, USA, home to a
lot of great beer, the Great Lakes, great beer, Great Lakes,
but also jukeboxes. Interesting see learn it's something new this week. All right,
already kicking it off, Welcome to the show. That's Chad. I'm
James, and for the next two hours we're kinda gonna just chill out a
little bit. You know, it's a holiday season. You know, we're
not gonna get all doom and gloom. We're gonna kind of lighten things up
this week. And I'm not not to find the beers were were drinking because
some of the beers we're gonna be drinking gonna be really big. But some
of the stories we're gonna be talking about gonna be a lighter on the lighter
side. But before we get underway, let's thank our advertisers, the ones
who stand by us and you know, have faith that we're not gonna you
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they trust us that, like, hey, look, just don't mess it
up, all right, right, that's it. I know, I feel
like I feel like we're one bad ten minute segment away from this whole house
of cards coming down. I felt that for the past ten years. But
you know, hold on, we're gonna just hey, we're gonna take it
easy. We're gonna rock steady. You and I we were in the production
meeting today and you and I remember what you told me. You said,
Chad, I don't want to do anything real heavy this week. I want
to just kind of take it easy. Let's rock. Let's just take it
easy, nice and steady. And I was like, I'm thinking to myself,
how many bear stories do you have? I mean, we have been
taking it easy. Oh do I have another Bear Story on No, you
don't, dude. Our listeners, we have the best listeners. Our listeners
go to What's on Tap Radio at gmail dot com and they send us bear
stories. And I feel like I have to I have to call Bobian,
our imaging director. Oh there's our name drop and get him to make some
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official rots the table. It's brought to the official Hey wait, we're gonna
just take it easy. Brought to the table brought to you by a friends
at the Backyard Grill on the northwest side of Houston, who right now are
sitting there and they're like, hey, look, we've got one hundred different
beers and we're drinking. Why haven't you guys cracked open a beer yet?
So this is the part of the show where James and I each bring a
beer to the and if we bring the exact same beer, well this is
the final episode. Don't see that happening this week. That's definitely not gonna
happen this week. Nope, nope, no, So James, who do
you want to go first. Why don't you go first? All right,
I'm gonna go ahead and lead off. Yeah, we go first. I'm
gonna take a little line out of First of all, I'm gonna take a
little line out of Abbott in Costello. Okay, So I want a beer.
Well, what brewery do you want? Well? Beer? No,
I know you want a beer, but what brewery? Beer? I know
you want a beer, but what's the brewery? Beer's the brewery? No,
beer's the beer? What brewery? It's actually the beer brewery? And
James, what time of year is it? Uh? I guess it's Springbok
season exactly, Octoberfest season. So I have from beer brewery in Indiana.
Taste the awesomeness there, mars and German style amber lagger. Yes, because
I want to keep the party going, you know what. I'm kind of
like James. I want to as long as there's an october Fest beer in
my friend and it's not January, I think it's okay to drink. I
think it's safe. You know. It's interesting that all during the Octoberfest season,
I was bringing all these Octoberfest marsins, and Chad would follow it up
by bringing a triple ipa, know what, And now all of a sudden
and I am now he's the one bringing the October Fest. That's right,
I'm not bringing a triple ipa to the table. This is beer Brewery again,
a five point what is it? Five point three percent mars and German
style l from somewhere in Indiana. That my sister picked this up for me
and she says, thought of you, basically, you know, thanks for
helping out with the kids, you know, my niece and nephews, and
also thanks for helping out with her dog. So here we go. This
is a little sample. Let's see what this is all about. Here we
go. No, that's what beer glass is drinking, you know, Samuel
as Boston loger. Yeah, well I would say that is fantastic if you're
looking for a classic German style amber lagger. Clean multi not too bready,
touch of sweetness, very clean fermentation, a bright, bright golden copper color,
yummy, tasty. We'll talk more about that. But James is thirsty.
So my first beer brought to the table Beer Brewery, Marsin style beer
from somewhere in Indiana. Well, I like to introduce my I do have
a stunt beer liver in the studio. Mister Brian Holsen is joining me long
time front of the show. Like having him in the studio because that means
I get to bring the big guns out whenever I have somebody in the studio,
because it's just sad when I have the bree guns out, it's just
me by myself. But so a few weeks ago, Brian and I went
out to No Label. They had an event for a Murky Myers event,
which we'll talk about here in a little bit. But one of the breweries
that Bruda Murkey Myers is a brewery that's up and coming Talyard, which is
going to be opening up in sugar Land. And this is the oatmeal stout.
Go ahead and crack that, Brian. This is the oatmeal stout.
Now this brewery isn't open yet, but the brewer Sean was nice enough to
give us this crowler and yeah, then a little bit of a mess,
go and pour that in. I've noticed that with crawlers when you open those,
if it's a thirty two ouncer, they always seem to make a mess.
And so this is an oatmeal stout, and I think it's at like
it's a lower ABV five percent. Brian as the can right now, but
as soon as he's done with okay, yeah, here it does. And
Brian, we got a show to do. Hand the beer over five point
seven percent alcohol by volume, oatmeal stout brewed with selected specialty malts and oats,
condition on toasted oak. So good toasted oak. Okay, all right,
I see the glass you're drinking out of as well, the Sam Adams
Boston Logger glass. That's why I made a note of him. But heightened
beer drinking experience, a little smokiness from the toasted oak. And again,
this is the oatmeal stout. I'm not sure if it has a name yet,
but it's oatmeal stout five point seven percent alcohol by volume. And that's
what I brought from tal Yard Brewing, which is gonna be opening up next
year out in Sugarland, Texas. And then Chad kicked it off with the
the beer brewery b I E. R. So this is the beer brewery.
I got it. Oh, and James and you had the tall Yard.
I had the beer brewery, and I got a trespasser. Oh stunt
beer liver just showed up. All right, Well, we'll hang on.
We'll introduce the bill here in a second. But on Tap this week,
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d Backyard Grill dot com. That's the Backyard Grill dot com. It's that
tim of year. It is when we all get together. Welcome back to
the show. We want What's on Top Radio? That is first segment brought
to the table, sponsored by our friends by the Backyard Girl. Jack kicked
it off with the Octoberfest because it's that time of season. That's right,
it is, I know. And what brewery is it? It's the beer
Brewery. Yeah, I know, but it's the one that makes beer.
I know. But it's actually called the Beer Brewery b I. E.
R. And it is from Indianapolis, Indiana. So yeah, a little
small little town they're in Indiana. Yeah, that's sure. If you guys
have ever heard of it, stop by. It's a lovely place. Lovely
place. I heard it is heard. It's nice this time of year,
it's really nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this time of year.
It is to that's my check out. Picaka to Peka is nice. So
I brought the oatmell stout from the tai Yard. Now they're not open yet.
I think they projected what they say twenty twenty four. Sometime. I
think June to reset that too real quick. Because for those who don't know
where Tallliard is, Okay, so in Sugarland, Texas, which is on
the southwest side of Houston, where I grew up. Fun fact, there's
a baseball field for the Castllation Field, home of the Space Cowboys, which
is a Triple A affiliate for the Houston Astros. And right down the street
from this beautiful stadium is going to be this beautiful state of the art brewery
in building in construction right now. And we've gotten to know the owners of
it and the brewer and we've been happening to hang out over No Label last
week with they were doing a Murkey Myers kind of all, a couple of
breweries around town brewed to Murkey Myers, which is the what kind of IPA
is it? I guess it's a hazy IPA for Yeah, No Brewing Company.
So some of their friend breweries kind of came out with their own version
of it. It was really cool. And happened to catch our buddy Sean
over there, who's gonna be the brewmaster for Talliard, and he handed me
this omell stout. He said, a man, I love for you guys
to try this beer. Let me know what you guys think. They actually
did open it at the event and we liked it. I just don't know
a lot about oatmeal stouts other than the fact that they're lower ABV, especially
this one, and it has like a kind of like a smoky taste and
it's got a little bit of a little bit of chocolate, and I just
the roasted flavor is that's my favorite party and it's a thinner body goes down
remooth. So I know Bill's hanging out in the studio Harbor Light Bill and
so oh yeah, he shut up a little late because he had to find
a parking spot. Well, it is kind of hard to park there.
Well, you know, they got to pay to park and then you want
a valet. It's weird. But oatmeal stouts, what's the what's the profile
of a omeal stout? Bill? Well, I like to brew oatmeal stouts
and use the oatmeal for a couple of different reasons. It gives you a
better mouth feel, little creamy or taste. That oatmeal also has a tendency
to uh subdue the bitterness and a lot of the strigencies that you get from
the real dark malts. Yeah, that's exactly what it tastes. Yep,
Bill, I feel like we just went down to the fifty yard line for
an analysis on that last play man. That was great job there, Bill.
We'll check in with you later in the game. Back to you guys
in the studio. Now, But is that five? And uh yeah,
I'm a I'm a big fan. I like the lower ABV stouts if you
like the lower ABV oatmeal stouts. As a matter of fact, I think
I have one in the fridge and now I got a stunt beer liver,
I may have to crack another one open. I mean, you know,
we want to keep the party going, but wait, we want to just
rock steady. There you go? All right, Uh, we got we
gotta do this, Chad, hang on now the official What's on Tap Radio
fun fact of the week, brought to you by Who's ever checked clear?
This week? And then when Chad's done with this, I do have a
story about I wanting a beer? Oh okay, well I was once upon
a time I wanted a beer and I got one. Oh wow, just
just wanted one. I just want a beer. All right? Well this,
uh, this official what's on TEP radio fun Fact of the Week scratches
right where I itch and we're gonna just take a die. Know there's appointments
for that Chad, Yeah, yeah. Or I just turn on some yacht
rock music. That's what I do. That's what I do. It's it's
my genre, that's what I like. And uh, I was it was
interesting. I was scrolling through just looking at non beer stuff and somebody says,
check it out. The new Steely Dan hit just dropped, and I
was like, what, dude, they can't do that. There's no way
that there's there's no way. I'm sorry, they didn't just release new new
music. So what I wanted to tackle really quickly with this is I said,
wait a minute, I'm curious to know since the drink of yacht it
tends to be more champagne, I tend to realize that. I'm like,
beer kind of gets overlooked in the world of yachts and yacht rock music and
southern California. I don't understand what's going on there, but I could yacht
rock music and beer be related. Well, it turns out that at the
height of their popularity, Steely Dan was absolutely part of the yacht or rather
part of the beer landscape, and they did a little jingle four Schlitz beer.
But I thought about this, It's like, why did I never hear
this? Where did this never surfaced? I don't remember seeing this commercial or
hearing it whatsoever. And I'm like, wait a minute, And I started
looking all over for it, couldn't find it, couldn't find it, and
couldn't find it. Let's pause out on this story for just one second.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you have children around you, you may want to
cover their ears ear muffs. Steely Dan gets its name from a certain apparatus
that a lonely female may use to massage tense muscles. Yes, that's what
Steely Dan is named after. Believe it or not. Turns out somebody made
a beer bottle version of that for men, and yes, it looks exactly
like a beer bottle. Ah huh, what does that have to do with
anything? Well, when Steely Dan was approached by Schlitz Beer to write a
jingle. It included a Spanish translation for to grab a beer, and it
just so happens that the word in Spanish for to grab is Latin American vulgar
slang for well, let's just say relations, intimate relations, and therefore,
as a result, the ad never aired. However, we hear what's on
Tap Radio, we do the deep dive and we do the research and James,
if you'll play cut eight, you will find mind the never released Steely
Dan Schlitzbeer ad once and there you have it, the brand new release from
Steely Dan. Actually it's not a brand new release, it's the never released
jingle for the Schlitz Beer ad. So your official ONTs on Tap Radio.
Fun fact of the week is that Steely Dan was approached by Schlitzbear to write
a jingle, but it included a Latin American vulgar slang word in one of
the translations, and therefore never aired. And if you ever look up what
Steely Dan was named after, well it turns out that it's a well,
we'll just leave it alone. You just remember incognito search whenever you're using that
Google Now that's your official ones on TEP Radio Fun Fact of the Week.
Next time, I'm gonna run this now, usually you would run this before
the fun Fact. The following feature has been rated PG by the Motion Picture
Association of America. Parental guidance is suggested we should run that before the fun
fact. But sorry about this in case you know, but well, I
do remember seeing that Slit's add but this is not on TV. This was
on YouTube because I love watching old beer commercials, whether it's Hams, they
had really good commercials back in the seventies, Schlitz, who else had some
good ones? Well, Olympia, Yeah, Olympia had Olympia had some good
ones too. Hey, Mabel black Label and then Peels Beer. Peel's Beer
was another one with black and white cartoons. Yeah, so I'm sorry we
had to get a little vulgar on this one, but I thought it was
interesting because of how Steely Dan was named. And yes, it just crosses
the line on all of these areas of vulgar relations. There you go.
Every now and then we got to, you know, skate the line a
little bit. That's been official. What's on tap of your Fun Factor week?
All right, we gotta take a break. But when we come back,
we've got a lot to discuss, including the reviews are coming in on
the Tesla beer. We'll discuss those, and we're gonna talk about naming your
pets. All this is so much more be right back. Did you know
that six beers a day can reduce your risk of giving a rat ass?
I feel like this is a I hear Casey Casem coming in American Top forty
time, out of mind, stilly Dan. I just want to schlitz now
all of a sudden. Yeah, during the break, we were talking about
some of our favorite beer commercials from the seventies and hell we went sixties,
and here comes Bill chimes in. I'm like Bill, damn it, No,
No Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, tell everybody what was your
favorite commercial? My favorite commercial for any beer was the old Rainier beer,
and the best one was a motorcycle. He's driving around Mount Rainier and the
throttle of the bike sounded like tade it away. It was just the best
commercial. I don't remember that one, but I will definitely look that one
up. No, Rainier did have some good beer commercials. That was another
one that was really good. So I want to piggyback off your story real
quick, Chad about a wedding of beer. So yeah, So I was
twenty about to be twenty one. I was in Europe and I was skateboarding
and I was stopped at this train station. I was going to catch the
train to the next town, and it was the last train out for that
evening, and I was about forty five minutes before the train came, and
I was really hot from skating from where I was to the train station.
So there was this little brewery. I don't know if it was like a
brew pub, but it was right outside the train station that had this huge
Hamburger signed with a nice beer ad. And I was like, you know
what, I'll go for a beer. But I didn't really know a lot
about beer. So when I walked in, there was this old man sitting
at the end of the bar just reading a newspaper, and there was a
big bartender. This guy's massive, and I I was like, yeah,
I want a beer because I didn't really know how to order a beer.
And he's like, oh, you want a beer. He's like, yeah,
I want a beer. He's like you want a beer. He's like,
yeah, I want a beer. He's like, you want a beer.
I'm like, oh my god, I'm scared. Just give me something,
man, And I guess you heard my accent, and he just gave
me the thickest ten W thirty I've ever seen in a glass. But I
remember it being the most delicious thing I ever tasted. And I remember from
that point on, I was like, are there more beers out there like
this? I must go in a quest and fight them. And I drank
one and it was a half liter. And I drank one, and I
got up and I paid and I stumbled on out of there. Meanwhile I
stumbled, oh yeah, did I ever? And meanwhile the old guy sitting
at the end of the bar probably had about ten of them, you know,
finished up his newspaper, finished his beer, paid and just walked out
casually, got on his bike and rode off. But like I said that
you're trying and brought it up that I want a beer, I just didn't
know how to order one. So you just said I want a beer,
and the guys like, you want a beer, and it's like, yes,
I didn't. I didn't see what was wrong with your answer. And
that's why I guess he was like, well, we have Carlsburg, we
have Tuborg, we have you know, Foxy, we have all these.
I just told him I wanted a beer, and so he was like,
oh, I mean we have you know, eight different beers on tap,
but you want a beer, Like, can you give me more? And
I was like no, I just want a beer. And he's like,
you want a beer. I'm like yes, So finally got angry. I
just want a beer. Just give me a what I don't know what I'm
doing. I don't know what kind of beer it was, but if I
want to tell you a guest, I would have said, it was kind
of a maybe a dunkle, but I remember it being sweet, but it
was really dark and just so good, so full of flavor. But that
kind of that kind of interested me in this beer culture. Yeah. And
then then you said, after your last sip and you paid your bill,
I'm gonna go start a radio show. Exactly what I said. I called
my mom. I was a mom. I need to come home from Europe
because I know what I'm destined to do. I can't talk now. I'll
talk more about it. I won' want to get home, but book that
next flight. I tell you what I'm destined to do. I'm destined to
open up another bottle because I got stunt beer Liver Bill from Harvard light Bury
in studio with me, and I want to keep the theme going because what
time of year is it springbok right? Exactly? Octoberfest season, right,
And so I wanted to have another traditional German style Octoberfest beer. As we
know, not all Octoberfest beers are Marsans, some are Imperial pumpkin nails.
And this one with Karen from Southern Tier Brewing Company. Right now, somebody's
yelling at their radio a cern Tear Brewing Company the eight point six percent caramel
pumpkin. By the way, it is pronounced caramel. If you say it's
caramel, you're just wrong. Okay, it is caramel. We don't get
the eight point six percent very color. I mean, pumpkin beer doesn't have
to be dark. In fact, I'd say probably most pumpkin nails are.
I got a little bit lighter in color. But wow, oh well,
Bill just jerked his head back. Oh man, great, now I gotta
file a insurance claim because he's liability claim. He's got whiplash. Here we
go, man, how's that? Taste. It tastes like liquid caramel,
but a little bit of pumpkin, A lot of caramel, a little bit
of pumpy. Yeah. I was gonna say, it's like pumpkin spice been
kissed and drizzled and drenched and baptized and everything else in caramel. That is.
That's a cavity in a glass, is what that is. Okay,
we si it's a Southern tier in this part of the country. But I
don't think we do anymore, do we? Brian? Look at this artwork,
though, I like, I kind of like this there. It's got
the it's like the angry pumpkin the mid wearing a chef's hat, and he's
got like all the put a pumpkin batter all over his apron and he's got
put up large muscles. Put it up again. Look at it. He's
kind of a beast. He's got a little overalls on. Yeah. Well
no, he's got an apron on and he's got that batter from like making
pumpkin pie. And then but I mean it's got caramels just sticky all over
the place. This thing is I'm not going to be able to finish this
whole thing. I don't think nice chef's hat too. Yeah that's true.
Yeah, so all right, So from Southern Tier Brewing Company the Caramel Pumpkin
Imperial pump Pumpkin Ale inspired by the Brian heisb Bavarian Purity last fifteen sixteen,
which was part of the original October Fest. And right now everybody is ready
to tune out. Okay, by the way, none of that is true.
I made up all of it, except for the fact that that's what
we're drinking. That's at chefs if you hold this show. All right,
So I hate Brian. I think it's time to for us to crack another
beer. What we're gonna go with? Special beer? I told Brian pick
any beer out of the old cooler here at or the fridge here at studios.
Nothing's off limits, nothing's off one. That's except for that that the
third road. Did you get in the crisper drawer? That's where good beer
goes to die? Oh crap, I forgot we put beer in the crisper
drawer. It's sat in there for a year. All right, what are
we going to crack here? Dogfish one? Shut up? So going yeah,
yeah, we're gonna do it big. You know it's the holidays.
Well, geez man, nothing like coming out swinging. Well, Brian gave
me this beer, like what a couple of months ago. Yeah, it's
been sitting in my fridge here at studios. It's one of the only I
pas that you can actually age a little bit. See you check that out
one twenty dogfish head. It's not even really an I p A. It's
more of a barley barley wine. It's a barley wine. But you know
they they call it one twenty because they, you know, soak those Hopkins
hop it for one hundred and twenty minutes, so for two hours you just
see hops just going shaking in there. Oh that's so good, sweet sweet
barley wine. Yeah it's barley wine. Yeah, it's probably one exactly what
it is. M hmm. But this, yeah, dogfish one twenty,
and this comes to you at well, I don't know nd lot seventeen percent
or something. It doesn't even eighteen I don't even think. I don't even
think they put it on the label because if they put it on the label,
I don't think they're allowed to sell it in certain states. All it
says is age as well. Yeah, yeah, a lot of that's yeah,
it's so stupid laws, stupid government. Yeah, government, We've we've
done dogfish Head one twenty on the show multiple times. But yeah, just
been a minute. It's been a minute since we've done it. But I
wanted to bring it back. Like I said, I told Brian, pick
any beer out of that fridge, and out of eight beers, I said,
no, no, no, no, that's the one you got.
All right, Hey, just kidding, Hey, I want to pick you
back real quick off your fun fact. I came across a fun fact about
Winston Churchill. Did you know he had a doctor's note to drink unlimited alcohol
during the Prohibition? No? Yeah, so apparently after getting hit by a
car when he was trying to cross the street, he had a doctor write
at prescription so he can drink unlimited amount of alcohol during prohibition. It's said,
and I quote this post accident caused aveillance of Winston Churchill. Necessities the
use of alcoholic spirits, especially meal times. The quantity is naturally indefinite,
but the minimum requirements would be two hundred and fifty cubic centimeters that's roughly two
hundred and fifty milli liters or eight point five ounces. So he actually had
a doctor write him a note so he can drink unlimited alcohol during prohibition because
yeah, he got hit by a car. I thought was interesting fun fact.
Uh, well, that's yeah. I don't even know how to top
that. I mean, that's I want this. I want to meet that
doctor. I want to, I really do. But uh, Brian,
Hey, Brian showed me the clocking in at fifteen to twenty percent ABV the
right. They don't give you the exact on that. I'm gonna guess this
is probably somewhere around eight, No, probably seventeen percent, because I think
it feels that age is more. He gets the ABV jumps up there.
Yeah, probably something like that. But I don't know. What do you
think? Brian so good? Yeah, that's all he does. That's all
he says. Yeah, and if he drinks that bottle by himself, it's
gonna be so good. But we have another beer on the on deck circle
that's a little lower ABV. But you know, I figured that we have
some helping studio that we might as well, So let's go ahead and reset
here. So hanging out in Studio S on the West side of Houston with
James is Brian Holzen, our good buddy from KPRC, and then hanging out
to TV Yes CTV and at the Beer Logic World headquarters and drinking emporium in
Alligan, Michigan. I've got Bill from Harbor Light helping us keep the lights
on. And uh so we're hanging out here and James and I just you
know we're gonna be able to sample some more beers on this episode. Here
and now you've also got bonus fun facts because James, he's just crossed the
streams throwing in a Winston Churchill reference. Well, I figure we don't have
that doctor, but I want him. I figure we do this well.
Light, we'll lighten up our stories since we'll go heavy on the beers,
the ying and yang effect of what's on Tap Radio this week. But on
Tap this we've got plenty more to get to. We're gonna talk about naming
your pets, and the reviews are in on the Tesla beer. Are they
loving it or they hating it? We'll let you know. And how about
drinking beer inside of an old air traffic control tower. We're gonna talk about
that this week. All this so much more, we'll be right back we
have to talk about it. We are, Yeah, we have to talk
about this week. The more you weigh, the harder you are to kidnap,
stay safe, drink more beers, you've got what's on tap radio?
Come fly with me, Let's fly, Let's fly away. Basically how I
feel right now after enjoying this dogfish with my buddy Brian Hols in here in
studio s on the west side of town. Let's fly away. But we're
not We're not going as fast as Chad and Bill. Well, there's a
reason. I mean, what we drank was not I'm not gonna lie that
that caramel. Bill, did you like that beer? A little too sweet?
That's no, that's a solid no. He's trying to be nice,
yes, kind of. But but as a brewer and brewery owner, I
never like to, you know, dog anybody else's beer because they make it
for a reason. You can you can say you don't like it without dogging
it the way you do it. Just a little too sweet for me,
too sweet for him the way you do. Look, I know there's I
can appreciate it. I know there's a demo out there for it, but
it's just not me, right, that's not our demographic. It's too much
for us. And now I got to schedule a dentists appointment because I gotta
get that cavity fill. All right, it was a little too sweet.
By a little, he means a lot. So we're gonna go ahead and
crack open another beer. Holidays, Holidays. I don't even it is,
you know, we're just I don't even know what it is. Let it
open. Yeah, well, this is this comes from a brewery called,
let me check here, Harbor Light Brewery, South Haven. Oh wait,
that's that's Bill. Bill made this, all right, Bill, tell everybody
what we're drinking. Well, it's a double ip, a double dry hot
bourbon barrel aged I made all about a year and a half ago. What
barrels, bourbon barrels. It's guys, I don't care what he says.
It is. It's freaking barley wine and it is heaven. Wow. Chad's
in a good place speaking the third person. Now, Oh, I like
how wow, Lion's pulling up his sleeves that. Oh you want to do
that? Okay, Okay, I got something, all right, I start
just one up in each other. They're on the show. I thought we
were gonna rock steady and just take it easy. We are stories. We're
taking easy on the stories, but we're still got some good stories to get
to. However, the beers, on the other hand, you know,
we have to balance the show out, gotta balance it out a bit.
Well, Hey, I like how you did that, So James, So
those of you who can't see, because this is a radio program in a
podcast, James just put his hands up like a couple of wings. For
the last few i'm gonna say months, we have been saying we are gonna
get to this story. It's kind of like Jimmy Kimmel when he ran out
of time for Matt Damon. And we'll get Matt Damon on next week.
And we'll get Matt Damon On next week. But believe it or not,
we have stories. It's what we call Evergreen, and we have a folder
called Evergreen, and these are stories that one day we'll get to. They
have no shelf life, they're not time stamped, they're not dated, so
we can get to them at any time, talk about whenever we want exactly.
And I've been trying to get to this story for like, I don't
know, three weeks now, but we have these little little behind the scenes
journalism here inverted pyramid here on What's on Tap Radio where we have all this
stories ABC. Those are our top stories. And then at the very bottom
of the pyramid is stories like enjoying a beer in this air traffic control tower.
Well, no, see that's the thing right there. And see I
didn't find this that interesting in that I thought, wait a minute, what
are two things you never want to hear. Let's see, drinking beer and
air traffic controllers? Like, wait a minute, Well it got me thinking.
It got me thinking. We've been to a lot of brewery amongst the
four of us, all right, and it's very expensive for a brewery to
build from the ground up. I'm now t tell yard, which we've been
talking about. They're building from the ground up. But a lot of times
they'll just take over a space and do some renovations and make it into a
brewery. And so Chad has drummed up a list of some Yeah, he's
made out a list of breweries, interesting breweries that have I've renovated a space
and what it used to be. We have a few lists, a few
on the list. But so we can finally get this on the show.
I'm not gonna I'm gonna start with the place that we've been talking about for
over two months. We're gonna start here. Ladies and gentlemen, if you
want to drink beer at a brewery in an unusual location, I take you
too, just outside of Denver, Colorado. Where you can go and you've
never hang out Denver International Airport. Well, no, well, there are
breweries at Denver International Airport, But what originally opened in nineteen twenty nine as
the Denver Municipal Airport in Stapleton and serve the Mile High City until nineteen ninety
five. You can now go and drink beer in an air traffic control tower
and that's sorry. You can go up there and pretend you're landing planes and
do whatever you want. You can tour the place for ten bucks. But
there is a Denver based brewery opening its doors and a now retired air traffic
controls. Now, you're not gonna by the way, You're not gonna be
in the way of somebody going, Yeah, your scheduled land that's a right,
runway nine, runway eight. No, you're you're clear. Now you
can pretend all you want. It's gonna cost you ten bucks to go up
there in the tower and pretend but it's the flight company spelled fl yte Co
Brewery started occupying the space back in twenty twenty two. It's an aviation theme
bring company previously only occupied on the first three floors, but now offers an
entire tour of the tower space and you can go up there, you can
drink beer, you can hang out, pretend you're an air traffic controller.
If you're twenty one years and older, and anyone under age, you got
to be accompanied. But there you go out there. You can now enjoy
beer inside of an old traffic air traffic control tower. And this led to
a discussion. Well, when you said an air traffic controller and you said
Denver, have you ever been to Denver International Airport? If you've been that
that airport, you can need a beer or two. Oh my gosh,
yeah, that airport is out of control. There are two airports that are
that that caused me to have an elevated level of stress. I can name,
I've been checking name. Don't let me guess Denver. Denver's one.
But there's there's a lot of good beer there. There's a lot of rock
Bottom Brewery there. But also if you've ever flown through Atlanta, oh my
god, brew that place. Absolutely screw that place. If you have a
choice of flying through Hell or Atlanta, choose Hell. I'm telling you Atlanta.
If you're listening right now, fix it. It is the worst airport
in the country. Oh I hate it. I hate that place, all
right. So, James, we were talking about. Here's a list of
some other places, and I just want to know how you feel about this.
It in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You can drink at the church Brewworks,
which is a former Lutheran church. Also the Phlossmore station in just outside of
Chicago, and the filling station just outside of or actually in Traverse City,
Michigan, former train stations. Jailhouse Brewery in Georgia. Take a while,
guess what it was a museum so no, actually no, it was a
place where senior citizens went to knit. No, it was a jailhouse.
Yes, it was a jailhouse burger so yeah, that was the case.
Let's see Brewery Vivant in Grand Rapids. This one's fun It was an old
funeral parlor. It was a church dedicated to funerals. I don't know,
I feel about that. I don't know either, but that that takes me
back to the first time I went to the Great American Beer Festival and Schmaltz
Brewery, which was a contract brewery they got rid of there they actually built
a brewery. Smalt's no longer in business, but at the Great American Beer
Festival they had a coffin there and you could go drink a beer in a
coffin. I don't know, and I know I did it. I did.
I was there. I got a picture of myself going a beer in
the coffin and because they had a black I PA called death of a contract
Brewer. It was a great beer. Also, sticking with the Grand Rapids
them City Built Brewery is in the old Brass Works building, which is where
founders actually started out, and that's a furniture city. So Brass Works they
did all the brass fittings for furniture. If you're just tuning in, we're
talking about breweries that have taken over space and what this buildings used to be
used for. Now I want built build described the Minton Brewery in downtown Grand
Rapids, fantastic space, the old firehouse from Grand Rapids Fire Department does built,
does have the pole nic Yes it does? Uh and built around eighteen
seventy Yes, I believe. Yep, there you go. And so that
Britain, Colorado Springs. Bristol Brewery is an old elementary school, which I
think is awesome. Two guys Brewery and Grand Rapids was an old seven to
eleven And I can't help fetch brewery where you and I went that summer,
James. That was an old bank. It has a vault. All that
kishop is that was cool and one of the coolest places Backpuwbe Brewing and Porter
Texas, which had was an old church and when they cleaned the place out,
they found all the seven Deadly sins painted on the wall, which they
walked the kids by, like, don't do this, don't forget our friends
at Platypus used to be an urban night nightclub, Yeah, nightclub, and
they found some very interesting things when they were doing some renovation. So that
thought that was pretty interesting. So drinking beer in an old traffic control tower
in Colorado interesting? All right? Coming up next hour, we're talking about
naming your pets. The reviews on the Tesla beer hold my beer and watch
this all this is so much more. Hang with us. We'll be right
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I am the complaint department. All right, you won't be the first
or last to send a complaint. All right. Uh, it's not for
us to crack another beer. I'm still nursing the one twenty, so I'm
gonna let that kind of sit over. Oh you got you have a second
glass, a stunt glass. Yeah, of course we do. We're pro
secondary. Yeah, we just turned pro last week. So oh I'm nice.
That's sorry. You've been you came out of the relegated league. You're
no longer in the Division one, You're up in the Premier League. Yeah,
we got pulled up to the dance. I like it, all right,
Brian. Brian's actually gonna pull something out of his little cooler here.
Oh you know, Okay, I'm just gonna tell you right now, Brian,
I'm gonna tell you this guy always brings his A game when he shows
up in studio. He doesn't go and say, well, let's here's some
trash I want to unload. He always says, let's see if I could
drop one and on Pillbeam or on Simpson there where they go wow. And
he does except for that mitchelbe Ultra that he brought. Oh he did bring
a michelot. But you know what he did though, when he brought the
Michelo Ultra, we all went wow and we couldn't believe it, Like,
what the heck? It made for good radio? What do we got?
Right? So this week we've got a big country from Martin House Brewing up
in Fort Worth, and it's a smoked pecan and vanilla stout. Okay,
so there's no weird like not enough pizza sauce in there, where's the where's
the squid ink and the menthol Come on, man, it's Martin House.
There better be some carrots, I'm telling you if there's not a shoelace in
there, and come on, there's gotta be more to that beer. It's
Martin House by the way, if you're not, if you're new to the
show, Martin House Brewery out of Fort Worth, Texas. They make really
good beer and then then they make other stuff dark that looks that looks great,
great too? Yeah, what do we get on that? Dang?
Look at that? Bill wants to get a look at this. Oh yeah,
there you go, Bill, there there, Yeah, look at that
thing. It looks like a dark boil change. What's abv on. We're
not messing around. Yeah, this is you know what. I kind of
feel like we've turned this into a competition. We were gonna take it easy
on the story stories. We have not taken it easy on the beer.
Well. I told you we had to balance the show out, So that's
how we're doing it. We got the lighter stories, but the heavier beers.
Do we have a bear story in here? So I got a bear
story. Hold my beer and watch this brought to you by the ring Melds
of ten Hacen Insurance Group, where they'll cover you for just about everything except
this. Try to figure out where this took place. Let's just say Florida
for the second story, but probably not. I was just gonna say,
dude, I mean, don't you love our show prep? Okay, so
let's just how easy are we going to take it on the stories this week?
Not even going to show prep. We're not even going to look and
see where this one took place? All right? So it's an employee at
a Chili's in Port Charlotte. I'm on it, okay, contacted authorities after
her wallet was stolen and a card was used in four unauthorized transactions. The
card was used at a wind Dixie, a Public's, a Shell gas station,
at Dollar General in the span of several hours. On October twenty ninth,
deputies visited the stores where transactions were made and reviewed the surveillance footage,
which showed a man in a black shirt, black pants, and a Chili's
baseball hat. The deputies contacted the management at Chili's, who I d the
man in the footage as Edward Atwood? Does he know us? Does not?
Maybe he does? I don't know. Oh maybe maybe I'm not dropping
name for him. Okay, I won't drop a name. It was revealed
that Atwood was working at that said Chili's on the same day her wallet was
stolen. That's right, a coworker criminal. On Halloween, deputies arrived at
Atwood's home and spoke to the homeowner, who said aw Would had purchased a
brand new pumpkin on their front porch. It was very nice to jack o'
lantern alongside with a case of beer. When I saw pumpkin, I saw
beers like, oh, he purchased pumpkin beer. No, no, no,
he purchased a pumpkin and a case of beer. Does it say what
kind of beer? Does not say what kind of beer? Journalism damn it
Ow had arrived at home shortly after, and he was arrested. Deputies found
his coworker's wallet on his person, along with all of her ideas and cards.
Deputies also reviewed other footage which showed Atwood leaving the house wearing the same
outfit he was seen at the store surveillance and removing the purchase beer and pumpkin
from his car. That was released from the Charlotte County Jail after posting a
twenty three thousand dollars bond. So, yeah, we have Edward Attwood,
who was charged with four counts of fraud, impersonation, possession of a stolen
credit card, and first degree pitt a theft after the incident was unfolded on
October twenty ninth, Oh Florida, Florida. I say, I was just
gonna say, there's a reason we didn't bother looking it up, because we
already knew where it happened. Yeah, Florida man impersonates Florida man steals wallet
from Chili's coworker to buy a pumpkin and beer a case of beer at publics
now I'm going to say, I'm gonna just go out on a limb here,
and I'm just gonna say this right now. I would never steal somebody's
wallet, purse, anything of the sort. But hypothetically if I did,
the first thing I'm doing is I'm like, where can I get me a
pumpkin and a case of beer? I'm in right there, I mean because
that, I mean, so this guy, you know, logically, he
bought the two essentials that you need a pumpkin. And I have to say,
because the police department posted a picture on their Twitter or ex whatever it's
called, it's a very nice whatever. It was a nice handcrafted jack a
lantern. So he did some of his his jack landern skills were pretty good.
I guess, surprise he didn't buy a knife too curve that thing.
But no, it does not say what kind of beer it was. But
yeah, Florida man wallet from Chili's co worker buys a pumpkin and beer from
a publix and that it's been your hold my beer and watched. It is
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but sure enough, there it is writing the story Florida man, that's
been your hold my beer and watched this all right, Still to get to
we have got to talk about this Tesla beer. The reviews are in.
Also, we got to talk about naming your pets. I know, what
does that have to do with anything? We'll make sense of it all.
All this so much more coming right up. We'll be right back. Beer.
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This is gonna sound funny if you listen to the podcast, which is brought
to you by cast Brandy. If you listen to podcasts in like ten years,
but pretty soon hitting the roads or the Tesla trucks. The Tesla trucks
are gonna be hitting the roads here and before you know it, you're gonna
start seeing them all over the place. But coming up, the reviews on
the new Tesla beer are out, and I I'm not I'm surprised. I'm
surprised. I'm surprised with the reviews. You know what surprises me more than
a review on the Tesla beer. I did a beer logic show in Atlanta.
Was I in Atlanta when I ran it? Yes, I was in
Atlanta and a guy came up to me and he said, Hey, I
heard you guys talking about the Tesla beer and I want to try it.
But he said, I want to try it with you, So I'm willing
to buy it and send it to you, but you got to tell me
how to get it. So we're going to try and get our hands on
some. But I have somebody who's going to buy this beer for me.
That's nice of them. Well, it's one hundred and fifty dollars for two
bottles. It's seventy five dollars for an eleven ounce bottle. And I'm like,
I'm not spending that No, what Yeah, I know Bill was over
here. He's like, yeah, I'm in the wrong. I'm making the
wrong kind of it. It's a Hellis lagger. It's only five and a
half percent Hellas lager, like with t notes and such. And you know
what the problem is, Bill, It cost I'm about forty nine cents to
make that bottle. No, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no. You didn't call it cyber beer. See that.
If you call it cyber beer, you can charge seventy five dollars a bottle.
Yeah, you can do whatever you want when you have a fancy name
on front of it. So before we get to that story, as I
was talking earlier, when I was going around Europe and then I stumbled across
a brew pub and I wanted a beer, and they had like eight different
beers on tap, but I didn't know how to order a beer because I
was want to beer beer beer. Anyways, Well, when you're over there
in Europe, some condiments they have here we don't. They didn't have over
it in Europe, but they do have conniments over there that You're just like,
all right, well I don't have this, so I guess I'll substitute
with this. Now. I will never substitute in a tela for peanut butter.
I will not do that one. No, no, no, no.
But will you put Manny's on your French price. It's kind of like
a it's not mayonnaise. It's it's like it's a it's aol. But yeah,
okay, yeah, delicious. I rather no, it's not. I
rather get some. But the HP sauce I can't get down with. I
cannot get down with HP sauce. I've not had this yet. Now.
HP sauce comes from the United Kingdom, right from England, and I've seen
on the shelf and I wanted to buy it, but I never pulled the
trigger. Now I want to. No, you're gonna buy it and try
it and you go, oh, I wasted. How much is the money
on it? It's like nine bucks, I guess for a bottle. But
you put it on I had it on the eggs. They put it on
brats and stuff, but you put it on every They put that on everything.
Frank's red hot only for the United Kingdom. They put there's a memory
in Europe or in UK Camden Town Brewery and I feel like we talked about
this free before, but they have teamed up with HP Sauce who launched a
full English inspired beer named Camden HP Brown Ale. Don't tell me that they
poured the sauce in the beer. Please tell me they didn't. Now that's
what I thought too, but oh my god, that would be terrible.
So instead of adding HP sauce directly into the beer, the brewing team used
ingredients and flavors of HP and added a lots of aromatic malt data pure mosaic
hops into the brew to create what it calls an unexpected taste on a British
classic. So why creating the beer? The brewing team also added some of
the sauce of signature spices so subtle pepperery and clove background and a hybrid fermentation
with a sour ale strain to give a beer a tangy note. Yeah it's
tangy, I think worcestersier sauce, but like tomato sauce, it's just I
just couldn't get down with it. And don't we find all the off flavors
in beer and put it into one delicious bottle. So what the Brits are
gonna love this apparently because they're like, hey, what BRIT's love They love
beer and sauce, according to the brewmaster here, and so the debates were
coming in whether or not what kind of style of beer to go with,
and they decided to go with a brown ale and the HbA marketing manager says
that they're excited to be working with the Camden Town Brewery and then it's a
brilliant partnership and they are going to be selling this rich flavor and one of
their favorite drinks beer and it's gonna be very delicious, and it's gonna be
hitting the stores across the UK. But they hope HP fans will love this
beer as much as they love their sauce. So a full English breakfast inspired
HP sauce beer now exists. So if you're into that kind of stuff,
which I am not. Look, I can respect it. I can respect
it all right. But if this is your thing, just know that they're
an HP beer out there. HP is I heard crying out of Fort Worth,
Texas somewhere around Martin House. Damn it, why didn't we think of
this? Oh man? All right, and I know that I know they're
gonna I'm gonna upset some people, going, man, that's the best sauce.
You don't know what you're talking about. No, no, no,
it's not good. It's not good. Well, well, so when we
tease this next story with in studio with me here in Algan, Michigan,
at the Beer Logic World headquarters and drinking Emporium, Bill from Hart were like,
when I told him what Tesla was charging for a Hellis Lagger, he
said, damn it. He couldn't get out of his head. He's like,
seriously, eleven ounce a bottle for seventy five dollars. I'm like,
no, it's two for one fifty, dude, you get a deal.
And then all of a sudden he's like, wait a minute, I'm trying
to do the math on that. By the way, I want to thank
our friends at Superior Pest Control of West Michigan, our research department, for
following up on this story, because when Tesla came out with this, Superior
Pest Control West Michigan said, uh, did you see what people are saying
about this beer? Like, well, let's go check it out. I
find it ironic. That people. Nobody's complaining about the cost of the automobile.
Although the James and I we have a friend. I'm not sure we
can say his name on the air, but he bought a Tesla and he
couldn't wait to get rid of it. Oh yeah, yeah, I don't
know if we want to mention his name or now. He's a good guy
and he's a big supporter what's on tap radio. But man, he had
a Tesla and he ripped it. He could has it. I don't know
if he still has no I think he got rid of it. He is
so oh he hated that thing. Well, turns out that Tesla super fans
aren't all too happy with the fifty dollars purchase cyber beer. Are you telling
me they're not happy with it? I'm upset. I don't feel like good
value. Shocking. But here's no, it's not that they didn't get a
good value. That's not the problem. The problem is they said Tesla cyber
beer. It's hot garbage. That's right, And I'm like, whoa,
that's a bold statement. Not cold garbage, hot garbage. That's basically,
it's trash beer. It's terrible. In fact, they're even posting pictures on
x aka Twitter, which is owned by I wouldn't do that. You can
get primarly banned, I bet for doing that. Right who also makes the
Tesla Yeah, of rusty bottle caps. This beer has not been out long
enough for the bottle caps to have rusted. And they say, not only
are the lids and the caps on these rusted, but the beer is nasty.
And one person even posted it says, why does the testless cyber beer
feel like something I'm going to get alcohol poisoning from out sh anyway? Since
I guess it's been since the beginning of October. Yeah, that that's what
it was released. We've been talking about it for a long time, but
it was released in October. Right, So, Tesla's been selling two of
their cyber beers, which are two eleven ounce bottles, and these very unique
bottles. They're so futuristic, and then you get two cybersteins. By the
way, Cybersteins cyber beers not Internet or Bluetooth compatible. I'm sorry, they're
just not. I mean, we tried, we heard, and but they're
selling the entire kit for one hundred and fifty dollars and it's a Hellie Lagger.
It's like a five and a half percent, but hey, you get
two Matt Lack ceramic steins designed the mimic the form of Tesla's cyber truck in
the long awaited Evy pickup truck. Now who cares? Now that even truck's
hitting the streets pretty soon? I get that, but here's everywhere. Yeah,
by the way, if you if if you work for an autoparts store
and you're worried about sponsoring what's on tap Ardos Like, I'm not sure I
want to be associated with auto and alcohol. Tesla made a beer. Okay,
so by the way, check us out, send us a message.
What's on tap radio gmail dot com. But uh, fans aren't happy about
this at all. But I have somebody who's offered to buy me this beer.
All I have to do is figure out how to do it. So
if it's available on the website and it's not like the Miller Lite or corps
Late gimmicks where sorry, we're all sold out, guess who's gonna get to
try this soon? This guy, well, you have to get you.
I'm not paying for it. Though I'm not paying for it, you have
to give your honest opinion of it. Okay, oh I will so anyway.
So the reviews are coming in, and I'm sure not the last review
we'll be bringing to the show, but yeah, if we can get our
hands on, I guess people just want to have it in their collection,
just maybe put it on their trophy wall or whatever. Of the of the
beer, maybe not to drink it. But you're the huge fans of Tesla,
so all right, when there's reviews come, we'll bring it all right,
still to come. Let's help you name your pets, all right,
and then smartphones can also detect how much alcohol you've consumed. Oh, it's
so much more. We'll be right back. When someone says, hold my
beer. You know a trip to the e R is in your future,
so hold your own beer, buddy, and just listen to more of what's
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thinking about it. Don't just say this don't do its job. Yeah you
do that, and you don't have any money to buy beer, so you're
you're you're kind of on the outs. Welcome back to What's on Tap Radio.
While we were at break, we got a message, Uh, don't
forget about the breweries. We were talking earlier on in the show about breweries
and different locations. There are two breweries against the Green Brewery in Louisville or
Louisville, Kentucky and the Sandlot in Denver, which are in baseball stadiums oh
oh oh No. Earlier we were talking about breweries that are in building the
locations, buildings that used to be something else. Well, yeah, they
were something else, but they were saying, you know, hey, you
know you can still have a beer. Like putting. They put a like,
here's a baseball stadium, let's throw a brewery in it. It's like,
well, it's still a baseball stadium technically, but if you want to
drink beer in a brewer in a baseball stadium, you can do that.
Against the Grain in Louisville, which is a minor league club, been there
a few times, famous for their brown Note Brown Ale, which, by
the way, the can art. We took a picture of that. It
was one of the most like photos we ever had on Instagram because it's a
cartoon layout of a dude in his tidy whities and well it's the it's the
backside of him and brown note and you can figure out what the rest is.
Anyway, we kind of went a little dark on that. Speaking of
going dark, well, as I said, welcome back. We are hanging
out James on the west side of Houston. Me here Beer Logic World headquarters
and drinking emporium, and we've got Stunt Beer Livers with us, which allows
us to open new cans in Michigan. By the way, he didn't he
stayed over his location. I'm sorry. So I'm on the west side of
town, Katie and chats in Michigan, Katie, Texas Alligant Michigan. Yeah,
home of Tantrick Brewing Company. But I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna
crack this open. Uh. One of the I want to thank Mikey G
Radio kia CUK again. When we were out visiting, I got to go
over to Iowa and Uh, I stopped at the I don't know gas station.
No, I didn't. I stopped at the beer store. This Triptic
beer which t R I P T Y c H. I believe it's out
of Illinois and that's a neighboring state. This is a really cool name,
really really dank meme double I P A and hold on second, we're gonna
open it up. It's interesting, y'all going I p a heavy. We're
going stout heavy here. Yeah, I know I can smell it across the
room. Here. I'm gonna take a little swig here, and you're big
old bag of weed all right there? It is wow bitter. Actually I
thought I didn't. I thought it was gonna be a little more West Coast.
It's a lot more hazy and tropical than what I thought. Did not
say it was a hazy I p a but really dank it is. In
fact, it's really really k hence the name on there, and I like
the little description on it. It says a bigger, louder, and zestier
version of the beer that has become our flagship offering. So coming in at
eight something doesn't matter. It's over eight less than nine. That's what we're
walking into this segment with Taking her easy. But as a reminder, ladies
and gentlemen, if you tell your employer take this job and shove it,
you won't have a paycheck anymore. By the way, that song Johnny paycheck
coincidentally, and then that means you cannot buy beer. So have you ever
sat in your office at work and thought to yourself as you looked out the
window and daydreamed about having a fun job, like, I don't know,
driving a samboni on an ice rink. That would be fun, dude,
I want that job. Well, sorry to break it to you, but
no job is as fun as you think it is. Someone recently asked the
internet, which job is a lot less fun than most people expect? And
people from all walks of life came in and chimed in on everyone's dream job
parade. They rained on the dream job parade, and here's some of them.
Before we do that. I figured that since Chad and Bill have been
cracking some october Fest beers, that Brian and I will get in on this
train october Fest fake news, fake news, Oh you sun it October Saint
Arnold Octoberfest, which okay, it's a Scotch jail it is, but that's
not real october Fest. Like this Imperial Pumpkin caramel beer from uh oh wait,
never mind, I'll stop talking now. Isn't that a Christmas beer?
Something like that? Yeah? But so James is cracking open in the Saint
Arnold Octoberfest and I'm just gonna go ahead while he's pouring. It's a Scotch
jail. Okay, we get it. It's won all kinds of awards.
So fun fact, when I did the october Fest segment on Houston Life,
when I brought on TV, I didn't bring Saint Arnold Octoberfest because I knew
somebody out there would give me a beating about it. Yes, even though
it's a great beer and it looks good on camera. It looks great on
camera, by the way, that artwork. That's what's important about TV.
You got to remember what looks good on TV is what sells. Okay,
in october Fest, Saint Arnold looks great on TV. But anyways, bring
it. I didn't bring it because I knew someone who out there would do
that's test. Anyways, continue to my discussion about those dream jobs that you
think about when you're looking outside the window, going I hate my job so
much. I'd rather be driving at Zamboni on an ice drink. I hate
to break it to you, but the grass ain't greener on the other side.
For example, anything freelance. We all know that, very well known
James. We know this way too well. Yeah, hey, listen,
are you freelancer. Hey, listen, could you do this. The first
thing they're going to do is they're going to try and lowball you on the
cars. Yep, so for your time. And then what they don't realize
is because whenever you do that, then they want you to fill out a
ten ninety nine, which means you're gonna play, you're gonna pay thirty percent
in self employment tax. So finding work is a hassle. Getting paids a
hassle, and plus you're on your own for benefits and retirement. Yep.
All right. How about working in the film industry. It's a demanding job,
it's stressful, deadlines, and you're usually working to execute someone else's vision.
All right, No, that's not what I want to take it again,
Yeah, take it again. Oh the old video game testing. Yeah,
plenty of video games is fun. Playing video games is great, but
testing the same elements over and over and over for weeks at a time is
not. It's mindless. You're basically on an assembly line. You're on an
assembly line. Yep. How about a working for the FBI. That's you
know, you see it on TV. That looks fun, but basically one
writer who wrote you're a government slave, spending ninety nine percent of the time
working ridiculous hours in a cube disconnected from reality and human emotion, and one
percent of the time doing actual something cool. Have you actually ever been on
a steak out? There is no grill, there is no steak. You
sit there and stare at a building. How about FBI agents really just do
paperwork. There's very few field agents that do the fun stuff. Again,
we're talking about jobs that are not as fun as a seam How about a
tattoo artist or a body piercer. People are basically just have dumb and boring
ideas and don't shower enough. One person out, Yeah, that's a visual
I didn't need. How about a traveling salesperson. So some people, some
people think the constant travel is sexy, but in reality it's endless cycle of
airport, hotel, boardroom, hotel, airport, with no time to sight
see or explore. I have never ever ever thought like like when I first
started this, I was a traveling sales guy, and whenever I was traveling
on expense account, I thought, dude, filet mignon every night and it
was awesome. I never thought I would get sick of it, but I
got sick of eating steak every night. I was like, oh my gosh,
get me home and sleep in my bed. How about being a touringian
musician. It's boring. There's too much waiting time, and there's also the
travel grind in the unusual hours. Next on the list of jobs that are
a lot less fun than most people expect, how about bartending. There's a
lot of dealing with drunken idiots. In fact, one person compares to it
to babysitting toddlers while people are yelling at you. I know, hold on
a second. I can honestly say that I have never bartended in my life,
but I have witnessed a lot of bartenders dealing with this, and I've
wanted to intercede and just say, listen, just say the word. I
don't work here, but I'll throw this guy out. I will do it
in a second, because this toddler needs to go home to his ma,
all right. Coming up next on the list, working in tech. You
often work a lot hours, stressful hours. Yeah, I wouldn't want to
work at tech because you're always on call and uh. Rounding out this list,
how about being a beer brewer. It can be a lot of physical
work in very long hours. One person said, it's like working a wet
janitorial job where you get a beer at the end, thank you for cleaning
this toilet and that toilet in this toilet, but as that toilet. As
a beer brewer, you're not just a brewer. You're also a bar back,
you're a janitor. You're doing it all inventory control specialist, maintenance tech,
sanitation worker. So you remember that you're sitting looking outside your window and
your office singing. Man, if I can only be a zamboni driver,
which by the way, it's not as fun as because you flip levers and
start and just drive in a circle over. Oh you do is driving a
circle over? I thought that would be fun. But the thing is that
you can't be is see I see zamboni driver, and I think of it
as like mowing my lawn, and when I mow my lawn, I got
a beer. I've never once seen the zamboni driver with a beer, but
that would make a better job. It's very stressful when things break. So
those are some jobs that are a lot less fun than you expect, including
bartending and being a beer brewer. Hey, coming up in the last segment,
your smartphone can tell you whether or not you've had too much to drink.
And we got another bear story in the news. All this is so
much more. Hang with us. We will be right back. And we
got name pets too. Craft beer. It's not alcoholism, it's a hobby.
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last segment and uh for this week and Brian's gonna crack our last beer of
this show. Brian, what are we cracking here? Looks like we got
a beer called Triply Thread. Oh it's Trip Threat from Tantric Brewing by I
love that beer. I love that beer so much. They're going crack this
and this is at what's the ABV on that one? High? Really high?
It's sixteen point five. It's a triple I p A. And I'm
not going to say that the label doesn't correctly reflect the the ABV. But
it's a really strong beer. There's a reason why we waited the last segment
to uh try this beer before we This beer is so good. I love
it. I love it. So you had one triple which is a triple
I p A. I'm gonna say this right now, Triple Threat Tantric brew
greater than one. Yeah, I'm going on. The mouthfeel is a lot
different. Yes, it is outstanding. Wow, that is outstanding. I
almost gonna some woody taste to it. Uh huh huh, yep, it's
and there's no wood in it. It's the malt would taste to it,
right, it's the malt characteristics that the mult profile that's using that. That
is one of my favorite beers that Patrick does at Tantric. I love that.
I feel like I need to take my shirt off though. Man,
it's like who it's got warmer in here, wooly mammoth brown hair. So
that's what Chad. Is it cold up there in Michigan yet? Because I'm
coming naked? All right? Tantrick Brewing Company, Double Mash, Triple India
pl al, this is what Chad was bringing these Triple I p as during
the october Fest season. But yes, well it is october Fest season still,
right, Yeah, I mean it is. Uh yeah, there's a
month with a rn it uh sixteen all right. Before we get out of
here, we got a lost stories get to you. I told you that
I'm gonna help you name your beer. Name your beer, name your dog,
your cat, your pet. Real So, rover dot com releases annual
list of the most popular dog and cat and once again everyone's naming their dogs
Charlie, Max, Luna, and Bella. Feeling guilty because we had a
dog named Charles rest in peace and they're naming their cats Luna, Milo,
Oliver, and Leo. But the more interesting thing about this whole story or
report and the unique names that people are choosing and twenty twenty three, names
inspired by foods and drinks are huge. For dogs, You're ready for this.
The name beer is up thirty percent three and thirty percent. Who's name
their dog beer? Hey? Beer? Get out here, boy deer?
Hey, where's beer? It's in the fridge. I had one of my
best friends dog in the fridge. One of my best friends in McKinney,
Texas had a dog name the Lager. I thought that was a good name
for dog Lagger. But other turning names include green bean, cheerios, schmore,
termasou, parsley ice cream, and baguettes. You name your dog Parsley?
I guarantee you you lost a fight on a playground. I'm sorry.
There's no way when you were a kid that you were like, all right,
let's fight. And for cat, one the most popular unique popular name
for a cat Prosecco up three percent. Prosecco, prosecco. I think it's
a type of wine. Yes, it's it's a wine. Prosecco. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. But other other names for you. How do you
say I'm pretentious without saying I'm pretentious? I name my cat prosecco. Other
names for a cat can include a chive, stuffy, Starbucks, Djon,
sausage, Seltzer cat sausage, Seltzer, we felveta. Oh. Also,
burger is a popular name for a cat, according to Rob dot Cosh.
And meanwhile, no, I'm not going to make the comment, but I'm
just gonna say some partan cultures that eat cat. Let's just leave it at
that. So so popular names for pets is beer for doll and prosecco for
cats. Also, if you want to name it your cat, green bean
or sausage. But there you go. So if you're like, man,
we got this new puppy so adorable, we just don't know what to name
it, Apparently beer is a very popular name. I'm gonna say this right
now. There's a form of child abuse out there whenever you name your kid
something really stupid, but we don't call it child abuse. But the kid
has to live with that name. Sue pet pets. He had like a
boy named Sue, exactly right. But your your your pets don't know any
better. They were like I don't care. You want to call me taco.
I don't care if I'm at chiuahua. You know, some people are
gonna be like, that's tasty, but I don't know. I don't get
that. But maybe your smartphone will help you with that. How do I
say that? And why do I say that? It's real simple because smartphones
and smart speakers are now starting to analyze your voice patterns and they may be
able to detect how intoxicated you are. Check the tape. Check the tape.
I think twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen. I think I said there's gonna
be a smartphone app that's gonna be able to detect this, and here we
are in twenty twenty three talking about it. Check the tape. Yeah,
and also check the tape. James said for five straight years that glitter beer
was gonna be the next hot sensation. Just gonna say say, look,
hey dude, you got one out of five. Dude, you did great.
Look not every prediction is gonna come out in fruition, but I did
this, Leo, way to go. I predict this one. I did
predict this one. There's gonna be an earthquake tomorrow. No, it didn't
happen. There's gonna be an earthquake tomorrow, No twelve, tomorrow, twenty
twelve. The world's gonna end. I dare I guarantee you. Let's put
out a movie. It says it, all right, Well, I didn't
mean twenty twelve. I met twenty twenty one. I'm dyslexic. And then
next thing you know, you're like, well that a zero. I don't
know about twenty twelve. We're all gonna die. I don't know. Min
encoulendar is the mind calendar, right, smartphone, smart speakers. They have
these sensors now that may help determine a person's level of intoxication. Because researchers
at Stanford Medicine and the University of Toronto have conducted a survey or a study
of eighteen to twenty one year olds. By the way, when you're in
Toronto eighteen, you're almost legal. But they went ahead and did the study
anyway, and they did weight based dosage of alcohol samples to random subjects,
and they assigned them a series of tongue twisters, and they checked them one
hour before drinking, and then they checked them every hour after drinking up to
seven hours and the participants were asked to read a series of tongue twisters allowed
to the smartphone, which was placed one to two feet away to record their
voices, and amazingly, the researchers were able to also measure their breadth,
their breath alcohol concentration, and they did so and predicted their alcohol intoxication level
with ninety eight percent accuracy. And if you don't think this works, ladies
and gentlemen, keep in mind, here you go, your phone is always
listening. Yeah, keep in mind we are. We're trying to keep you
safe. That's why they're listening, because they want to keep you safe from
drunk driving. And that's that's your creepy cybernet fun fact of the week.
No, but it's interesting that they sell these breathalyzers that you can get at
CVS, you can get it at Walgreens and all that and everyone about one
hundred bucks. But pretty soon on your smartphone, they'll just tell you,
Yeah, the little speaker drive the speaker that you talk into, I bet
you've been listening. Yeah, there's gonna be a little censor in it that
can smell your breath and detect whether you're Yeah, I've been your speech,
and I can smell your breath. That's right, it's gonna say. I've
been listening to you. I can smell your breath, and you should not
drive. Speaking of smelling, what happens if a bear smells tacos, it
comes to eat your food. So that's what happens. We're gonna close out
the show. Somebody ordered forty five dollars worth of door Dash and Florida,
and they weren't home yet, and at bear came out of nowhere. Our
bear that we've been talking about wondered outs. The three legged bear and eight
forty five dollars worth of door Dash, all caught on the ring camera.
Yeah, likes Taco Bell like the rest of us. Yep. So this
bear continues to just wreck havoc, this time eating forty five dollars worth of
Taco Bell door Dash. That uber eats left, so the bear's ain't going
away. But hey, we have to go, Chad. We're being told
we we close out the show. Put a bow on the show, put
him on the show. I want to thank Bill and Brian for hanging out
with us, but I also want to thank Tantric Brewing Superior Pest Control being
a logic conference and events ring Ateneg Insurance Group, The Back of a Girl,
and of course it's a bunch of our podcast cast branding. So for
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