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listening. I hope you enjoyed last week's pizza episodes. That was a ton
of fun doing. I had a mic and recording issues when I made a
pie with pro vel cheese that was sent over from Brian at three to one
pour. I made another pie last weekend. I'll have the clip up this
week. It's also over on YouTube if you want to check that out.
I chatted with Jay and Kay from the Fuck My Work Life podcast and we
reviewed Jay's favorite beer, Coors Light. That and all the usual segments will
be coming up soon. If you haven't checked out the YouTube and TikTok channels,
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all Right, Welcome back to the show. I'm gonna have two of my
favorite people and my mother's favorite podcast name. I'm happy to have on.
Jay and Kay from the great Fuck My Work Life podcast. How are you
guys doing today? Hey Dame, Hey Dave, how are you? I'm
so glad your mom likes YEA. My mom sent me a text this morning,
Oh, I because she listened to last week's show when I had the
beer that you sent on. She's like, oh, I love that name.
I said, Well, it's actually a podcast and I'm going to talk
to them today. Make sure to tell them I love the name. So,
Mom, when you listen to their podcast, give them five stars.
Don't give them one star like you give me. Give their show five stars,
mom, Oh Mom, five stars too. Yeah. Now the show
you guys have been out since what March of twenty one? Ye? Yeah,
just hit our two year mark and totally forgot about it, blew right
past it. What made you decide that, you know, we want to
do a podcast together? I think so they for a very short time where
we work, shut us down everybody, you know, because of the pandemic,
and we were sitting at home and it was just like I think we
were listening to a podcast. Well, we I mean, we shut down
for a couple months, but then when we went back to work, we
were very used to day drinking, you know, for a couple of months
that we had off and we'd come home from work and kind of be frustrated
that we were at work and a lot of the country was still shut down,
and we'd drink and then we'd just start bitching. And you know,
in one of the drunking bitching sessions, Jay's like, we should we should
totally start a podcast where we're bitching about work, and yeah, and you
know, we didn't really want it to be us just bitching about our work
because that wouldn't be relatable to everybody, so we wanted to make it so
we originally thought it would be more of like people just kind of anonymously ranting,
like things they just wanted to tell their boss forever and can't. But
then it just turned into more send us there a weird story about what happened
to you at work, which I think works better anyway, Yeah, it
works better. You guys have some great merch. I need to pick up
the Namas day Fucker's yoga math. Do have some high quality merch available.
Thanks, I've pared it down a lot. I went nuts when we first
opened our merch shop and started using Canva, and I had all kinds of
stuff and I was like, I need to pare this down, make it
a little bit easier for people to get through. But I had to keep
that yoga mat. Yeah, oh that's fantastic. I'm like, I need
to grab this. I need to get myself one too. Yeah, me
too. Yeah. Yeah. For all the yoga that you for all the
yoga that I do. How did you both meet at work? Is there
like a good work part to this relationship? Kind of kind of um?
I was, so I used to travel quite a bit from my work for
for my work, and I was going overseas, like basically the only place
I went to Israel was to Israel. But I would go come home,
go come home, go come home. And there was one year where it
was like ten months out of that year I was in Israel because I would
go for three months at a time. And one of the times that I
came back, one of our work friends was having a was it was it
Labor Day barbecue? I think it was Labor Day barbecue, and she invited
both of us with the you know, with the uh intent. Yeah,
sorry, that course lights getting to you. Yeah, well it's Corona right
now. But yeah, she had the intent of like hooking us up,
and you know, he was like, I'm you know this good thing girls
always do. I'm not looking for anyone. That's exactly what I sounded like.
And then I courted her for a couple months like a gentleman, and
you know, and then the rest is history. Yeah. So we gray
hairs. Yeah, yeah, a lot of gray hairs. Yeah, we
work. We work at the same company. But it wasn't like, oh,
we were friends at work and then we started It was really I because
I, oh, I'm gonna try to keep it sure. But I worked
at this company a long time ago, which is where I knew our mutual
friend from. And then I left for ten years and when I came back,
she still worked there and she was friends with Jay and she was like,
oh, I want to set you guys up. Like no, and
he had been gone, he'd been traveling, so I had never actually met
him at work until I met him at her barbecue. So yes, we
met at work, but not not really. Yes, it's not like you
were one cube over over from each other, right, yeah? Yeah,
did you both work at the same place? Do like people at your company
know about this podcast if you had any like blowback from management or whatever.
Not yet A lot of people know about it. A lot of our co
workers know about it. I don't really know how they found out. We
don't. We've never said where we work, what we do, or used
our real names on the podcast, but somehow people started finding out, and
we haven't heard anything from HR or management. Yeah. I don't think.
I don't think they can because their big thing is like, like when we
bitch about work, it's very uh, what's the word, It's very vague.
Yeah. Yeah, So so we don't use people's names that work there.
We don't, you know, we don't use the company names. People
don't even know what we actually do for a job. And so it if
HR was to approach us about it, what could they really say? Yeah,
like what what what could they really do? You know? There's they
would have. First of all, they would have no actual proof, like
solid proof that it's us. And let's say, go to our Instagram and
look at our pictures. Well, don't give them, We're just promoting that.
We're just promoting there our friends. Yeah, we've tried to give them
no reason to shut us down if if they do find out. So yeah,
but a lot of our coworkers know about it. Yeah I don't know
how. Yeah, well that's because the show is good and it's popular and
people listen. Yeah, like our biggest our biggest city in our stats is
is our city, which is cool. Oh yeah, I didn't know that.
Yeah, look at that. I mean, so we're basically like locally
famous. Yeah, okay, so on that, Um, we have a
fee to come on other people's podcasts since we're famous. Yeah, and that
fee is beer. Okay and you paid? Yeah, yeah, there we
go. Or since the topic of this show is beer, I still have
like five more of these left that I could mail out. Uh that's well.
Yeah, I mean, look, I ain't never gonna turn down a
Coors Light, but I don't. I don't want to put you out man.
Yeah. Well, the beer that we're gonna have now is Coors Light.
This is what I haven't had on the show. Coors Light is a
big part of the Fuck My Work Life show. It's Jay's favorite. So
I'm like, well, I have to do Coors Light sooner or later,
I might as well talk to j n K about it. So, Jay,
you're the fan. Why do you love Coors Light? So? I
because it's it's light. Uh, it's crisp. And also so I think
the po the popularity or the notoriety that I've given, like cores Light on
our podcast. Like the notoriety to me is because when we would record,
if I was drinking IPA's or like the Craft Beers, there's times where I
go through like nine beers in the the in a sitting of recording a podcast,
and if I was drinking that, I would be completely unintelligible. I'd
probably puke. I'd be on the floor. And so a big part of
me liking it is I can I can drink it at leisure and it doesn't
just wreck me. Yeah. And it's only one four four and a half
percent, so it's not I think it's a point four point two. Yeah,
it's it's pretty low. So you know, I can go through them
and it doesn't. You know, I'm not completely hammered. Sometimes I still
get completely hammered, but that's like a twelve pack in you know. But
I do like other beers. Like we go to breweries and I drink you
know, like the Kraft beers, and I enjoy them. I just can't
drink too many of them. Yeah, I can't drink too many of them.
Well, I'm gonna crack open. The core is light. My mountain
is blue, so that's good. Perfect, I got my blue mountains to
you. I'm gonna crack one open too. All right, there we go.
It was weird. I ain't a hard time finding this in his six
pack. Every place that I looked through, they were like a ton of
twelve packs. And I didn't know if I had that kind of commitment issue
in me. They had twelve of them, So I'm like, let me
find a six pack of it. Yeah, same here too. If you
go to the like the liquor stores, I think it's easier to find a
six pack. But the grocery stores, it's all the thirty thirty pack of
cans or the twelve pack of bottles. Yeah, I mean our our little
local liquor store right across the street. I'm I'm friends with the with the
I think he's like part owner of it, but he's always there. He's
the one who runs it and works it, and he used to only have
the eighteen pack of Hans and the twelve pack of Hans and the twelve pack
of bottles. And I was like, dude, you gotta get six packs,
because I get a twelve pack and I just blow through it. And
it's like, you know, if you if you carried six packs, I'd
get those, you know, I'd get those more and I wouldn't drink as
much. And I still do. But all right, well, I'm gonna
have the Coors Light here. Smells like just a regular old school Macro beer.
Yep, it's not bad. I mean, I can't remember the last
time I had a Coors Light, but it's not a bad beer at all.
No, it doesn't have a very strong flavor at all, which you
know I've had, you know, kind of the not alternative. What's the
word I'm like for like a Bud Light, I don't think taste as good
as a Coors Light. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's easy to drink.
It's definitely not offensive. I don't think like anyone could drink this and
find something that's offensive about it. It goes down pretty good. People do
though. People do like people They're like, oh course, look piss water,
and it's like, look, you you're throwing all this shade at Cores
Light. But go to any bar or any like dive bar. You know,
as long as it's you're not going to like the Ritz Carlton bar,
You're gonna find Cores Light, either in a bottle or on tap. And
it's been that way for who knows how many decades, you know, So
it can't be as shitty as people want to say it is, because if
it was, it would be in none of those bars. It would be
in none of those restaurants. It wouldn't be on the shelves at every single
store that sells beer. Yeah, you know, it just wouldn't be there.
All all your fruity you know, grapefruit this and that. You know,
those beers would be there. They should make a grapefruit Cores Light.
No, they should that, don't you. Don't you talk that mess.
You can actually just wheeze of fresh grapefruit into this and it would probably be
delicious. You know, I think we're on something. Yea, all the
ways you can. Yeah, now I had one of these last night,
and actually, you know, their whole thing is drinking ice cold. The
blue mountains. All this is it warmed up. To me, it tasted
better, So I think it's better when it's not freezing cold. I think
for me, I had more, a little bit more of the malt taste
to it. I thought it tasted better, you know, above freezing.
Yeah, yeah, I think. I think it's people's palates. You know,
people's palates are different, you know, like I used to enjoy drinking
a Newcastle that was lukewarm. Yeah, you know, I don't really drink
Newcastle anymore. But and I don't like like a warm, coarse light.
But if the mountains are just a little light blue, I'm okay with drinking
it. You know, it doesn't it's not like it has a horrible taste.
It's I do like it ice cold. I do prefer it ice cold
because you know, mountains are blue. You know it's true. Baby.
Well, I'm sorry, Kay. Did you get the cores light nail polish
when it came out and change colors when like, I guess your hands were
cold. I'm not gonna lie. I tried. Hey, they would release
like a little bit of it every Tuesday, and every Tuesday I check sold
out, sold out. I tried for a few weeks and I couldn't get
it. I really wanted to try it. What beers, kay? Do
you what's like your favorite beer that's out there? Um? I mean,
I do enjoy cores light, and that's usually the thing I drink most because
it's available in our house almost at all times. But I definitely I enjoy
Probably my favorite is from local breweries like Oh, I really enjoy their Mexican
Lagger. I also really enjoy their Vienna Lagger, which is kind of a
dark it's like a dark brownish color, but it's not it doesn't taste like
a dark poor yeah, but it's it's delicious, So I don't. I
don't enjoy hoppy beers. UM like more of the the Lugger multi wheat type
beers. I had a I don't know my favorite us to a favorite beer.
So there's a brewery in central California called Slow Brewery and they have a
pink lemonade lagger that is so good. Yeah, that's probably my favorite.
I don't even know if they still make it. It was seasonal, but
I ordered like a not a palette, but a case of it wants to
be delivered and it's a it's delicious. It tastes like a delicious pink lemonade
beer. And the and the pumpkin beers. She she loves the pumpkin beers
like Halloween time comes around and she stalks up. I think we still have
some in the yip and the pantry. We do just in case. It's
aged now right exactly? Yeah, is it warms up? I think that's
getting a little bit better. Like I prefer it not thirty three degrees,
maybe like forty five. I think you get more out of that. I
think the best way to drink Coors Light is from tap. Yeah, in
a frozen mug where you get the little icebergs forming at the top. That's
my favorite. I do prefer Cores Light from a tap in like a frosty
mug. Like we have a we have a restaurant islands here. I think
they're I think they're a nationationwide right islands and they have like the Cores Light
and a frosty mug on tap, and it's so good. It's so it's
crisp and refreshing, especially on a hot summer day. I think most beers
are better on tap than they are out of a bottle, Like you know,
I was talk I've talked on my show a million times about Sam Adams,
which was the first craft beer I had, and sam Adams on tap
is a thousand times better than what you just get in a bottle somewhere.
Yeah, so you have to wind up going to you know, I mean
sam Adams. You could find it almost every bar usually that's one. If
I'm at a Chili's or a Friday's or at a place like that, I
know, I could just get a Sam Adams and it'll be good. Yeah.
Now, in addition to the podcast that comes out weekly, you also
have TikTok. You're on Instagram. You guys are all over. I enjoyed
your TikTok videos around the holidays when you were drinking the holiday beers. Yes,
that's a fun thing. We've been doing it for a couple of years.
Even we started it before we even had the podcast, just on Instagram,
doing like seasonal holiday beer reviews. So that was that's a lot of
fun. Yeah, it's fun. And then we have, of course had
to do a review of course, like fun of course where we knocked over
the and there was what what the one where you were sneaking the last Coors
Light out of the bridge. Yes, yeah, oh yeah, dumb ways
to die. Yeah, back to the podcast. Has anything surprised you hearing
stories from other people? I mean, is anything you're just like, holy
fuck, I can't believe this ship went down? Or you pretty much yeah
right, I could see that happening. Well you said the magic word shit.
Yeah, so many stories involving actual shit, Like, how like,
why are there so many? Yeah, it was, it was. It
was very surprising, like when we first started the podcast, how many people
have run into like human excrement in their work. You know. It's it's
like there was so many stories of you know, people going through a department
store and just drop and trow and taking a ship in the middle of you
know, it's like, holy shit. Literally. Yeah, I think that's
been the most surprising. We've had a lot. We've had such a variety
of stories, but those are the ones that always stand out because we just
laugh whenever we get another one. We're like, another another shit story,
another shit show. Yeah. I had one because I work at an airport
and this was years ago, and I'm walking to my next assignment and it's
the airports. A million people, so you're trying to dodge the slow walkers
to get around them, right into a pilot dog shit right on the concourse,
And I'm like, you're in a fucking airport. Why is there dog
shit? So I was the next gate down. I tell my coworker,
Dude, I'm going to have to go to the bathroom and wash my shoe
off because I think I just stepped in shit and he's busting up laughing.
So aim in the bathroom with my shoe off, trying to like, you
know, use the automated sink at the airport to try to get the ship
off my shoe, like wipe that up. Carry a bag with you,
Yeah, if you're especially if you're in a place where you know you're gonna
be indoors, I mean you should also clean it up outdoors, but like
where there are a ton of people walking. Yeah, if you're traveling on
encased capsule with a pet, yes, you should probably have bags. Yeah.
And even if you don't have bags, you're in an airport, there's
going to be someplace with napkins or paper towels. Use something to clean it
up so people can't walk in it. It's so rude, Like me,
yes, yeah, and you're of course you're at an airport. You're not
going to expect to step in dog shit walking down the concourse. Now I
look on the ground, but I'm walking just in case, even thirty years
later. All right, where do I have here? Yeah? Yeah,
Well, guys, I want to thank you for coming on talking about your
show, talking about or is Light. I'm gonna jump on their show in
a couple of minutes so you could hear us back to back. Tell everyone
where they could find the podcast, find you on socials, etc. Um,
we're on pretty much I think almost all the podcast platforms. You can
search f asterisk I'll just say star, F star, star, k my
work like I think if you search, if you spell out fuck my work
life, you still might find us. But all of our socials are at
FMWL pod and yeah, yep, anywhere you find your podcasts anywhere, we'll
be there. Yes, I listened to them every week. You should too.
I'll include the link in the show notes and Mom once again when you
listen to their show, Mom five stars, you gotta give them five stars.
All right, Jay and Kate, thank you so much. I will
talk to you in a couple of minutes. Yeah, thank you for having
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Head over to b F ytw and check their podcast out. In Beer
News this week, German monks have created a powdered beer. I know I'm
going to screw up this name, but Klauster Brewery, New Zell they've developed
a product where you just add water in a frothy beverage. Is the result
Kerr. Only a non alcoholic version is being tested, but they do want
to make and test some alcoholic version soon. So I guess beer will be
like Tang. You just put a scoop in the glass and pour water and
off you go. And I know I'm not skewing any younger by making a
Tang reference, but the astronauts drink it and I loved it. March thirty
first is ninety shilling day, Odell Brewing and Fort Collins, Colorado is celebrating
their iconic beer with events around the country. Head over to Odell Brewing dot
com for more info. Normally, I'm not a big Chilata person. However,
bud Light has a new one out in collaboration with Taheen. I love
me some Tahein on everything, so I'm going to have to try this one
out. Over on Brewbound, I saw that two craft beer distributors in Washington
State are closing next month after being bought out by their parent company, PepsiCo,
and this has already resulted in some layoffs at breweries in Washington and this
is probably going to affect them for quite a while, so it's kind of
shitty from PepsiCo. New Belgium is buying the old Ballist Point facility in Virginia
from Constellation Brands and we'll be pumping out a lot more Voodoo Ranger there.
Locally, the huge Lagunitas tap room in Chicago is opening again on April thirteenth.
They shut down when the pandemic hit, so it's been three years,
so that was always a good time. Check out the new Lagunitas once it
reopens in April. This looks pretty cool. Revolution and Hope. Well,
now they're neighbors right there on the street in the Logan Square area. They're
coming out with the new beer called Logan Export. This is an export style
lager and according to them, the release it's lightly sweet and refreshingly dry.
Now proceeds and some of this are going to benefit Logan Boulevard Skate Park,
So look for that starting today March twenty ninth at the tap Room and Brewpub
and it's going to be distributed around the Midwest soon, so check out Logan
Export. And finally, Illinois Craft Beer Week is going to be from May
nineteenth through the twenty sixth, and the Beer under Glass is going to close
out the week at Union Station, so definitely check that out. Illinois Craft
Beer Week in Beer under Glass is always a phenomenal event, so be sure
to check that out. Welcome to another Vier in Front pizza review. Last
week, I made a Saint Louis style pizza with pro Vel cheese from Emos.
Brian Marjiatta over three sent it out to me. I made it,
I had it. I talked about it for the podcast on the Pizza episode,
and there was like a recording issue. I don't know if it was
my microphone or whatever, but it was a corrupt file. When I tried
to get the file back, it just sounded horrible. So I didn't have
enough time to get it into last week's show. But I wanted to make
a pizza again with the cheese and talk about it because Brian was so kind
to send it over. So I made it again and let's talk about it
now. I used a different crust for this than I did last time.
This is just a regular store bought crust from pasta Rette, which I like,
so let's give it a try. I think this is good. It's
got a slight little tang to it that I don't get from Mozzarella, very
little smokiness. Now. My wife Ruby had it last week and she thought
it was too smoky. I think the smoke is subtle on here. I
enjoy it. The only thing, and I noticed it last week as well,
is that this is a processed cheese food. It sticks to my dental
work. Nothing that brushing my teeth won't solve. But that's something from this
that I don't get from Mozzarella. If I was in Saint Louis, I
would order this hands down, no hesitation. After fifty five years of eating
mozzarella on pizza, that would probably still be what I would ask for if
I had to choose between the two. But I definitely don't pooh pooh this.
I don't hate this. I think it's pretty good. So Brian,
thank you. My apologies for not getting the clip out on last week's show.
But no, if you're in the Saint Louis area, find Brian over
a three to one pour for any pizza and beer recommendations. You can check
out Eat Most Pizza if you want a good traditional Saint Louis style pot.
Thank you. Cheers. All right, Well, the beer in front of
me. I talked about it a little bit with Jay and Kay, but
I wanted to have it. Well, I'm just here isolated, no distraction,
so I could focus purely on the beer. This is Coors Light and
my Mountain is blue. It looks nice. The color is good on this.
It's a macro logger. You're not expecting anything but just a crisp,
clean looking beer, which this covers all of those. I mean, your
roma is not bad. Your roma it smells like a macrologger. I mean
there's no other way to put it. I mean, it's not a bad
smell at all. I think you're almost pretty decent. It's not a bad
beer. Like I mentioned on the interview, there's nothing about this that's offensive.
You could drink this everywhere you go. You can find cores light.
It's not a defensive beer. Is it the best beer I've ever had?
Absolutely not. Is it the best beer I'm gonna have all day today?
No, But it's drinkable. It accomplishes what it sets to accomplish. It's
a lower calorie macro lagger. It sells a shit ton of beer. So
who am I to say that this is bad. It's not a bad beer
at all. Yeah, I do think it gets better as it warms up
a little bit. Now I have this, it's slightly above our average.
I scored this at five point four on a one to ten scale. So
I mean, if you see it, then you want something light and you
could find it anywhere. You can find it, probably at any gas station
you go to in the country or have a Cour's light. All right,
that's going to wrap things up for this week's episode of Beer in Front.
I thank you very much for listening. I want to thank again Jay and
k from Fuck My Work Life. Check out their podcast wherever you listen.
If you need to get a hold of me, you could email me day
that Beer Infront dot com. You could follow me on Instagram, TikTok,
YouTube, wherever. Just look for Beer in Front and you'll find my ugly
mug smiling at you in a blue sportcoat. Have a great week everyone.
I will see you next week when I talk to Trevor from the south Old
Brewing Company. And remember, sometimes the beer in front of you is the
best one yet. All right, take care, we'll talk to you next week.