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Speaker 1: This is Beer in Front, part of the Odd Pods

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Speaker 1: Media Network and the Beer Media Group. Sometimes the Beer

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Speaker 1: stories all about beer. That's Beer in Front, and it's

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Speaker 1: coming up now. Welcome to episode two hundred and nineteen

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Speaker 1: of Beer in Front. I'm your host, Dave's alatoris and

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Speaker 1: Beer in Front is a proud odd Pods Media Network

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Speaker 1: member and charter member of the Beer Media Group. I'm

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Speaker 1: back to work. I'm back. Who would have funk it?

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Speaker 1: I'm finally back. So that's why there wasn't a show

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Speaker 1: last week. Everything is allegedly settled for now. So I

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Speaker 1: return to work from my back injury on Monday. So

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Speaker 1: been in training. I got some more training to do

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Speaker 1: because I've been gone so long, and we'll see what happened.

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Speaker 1: My back is still not good. It's the same as

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Speaker 1: it's been. But one Jimoke says you're clear for full duty.

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Speaker 1: The other doctor says, let's have another MRI. So I'm

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Speaker 1: getting the MRI on my own on Tuesday. So the

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Speaker 1: day after this episode drops, I'm gonna have another MRI

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Speaker 1: and have that doctor go over it and see because

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Speaker 1: it's still not right. Was it Thursday, I'm taking it.

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Speaker 1: I take public transportation to work, so I'm on the

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Speaker 1: train and the train was this dude was flooring and

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Speaker 1: this was like a roller coaster. So I was banging around.

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Speaker 1: That did not feel good, and my back was shot

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Speaker 1: all day Thursday. So we'll see. Something tells me they're

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Speaker 1: going to say no, you need more work done on it.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see. Everything is still up in the air.

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Speaker 1: we'll keep our fingers crossed that this could be fixed.

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Speaker 1: Quick show this week. Got a couple good beers I'm

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Speaker 1: and Beverage News, Cigar City they've updated the look of

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Speaker 1: their classic Highlight ipa. Although, and I'll get into this

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Speaker 1: really good. Now, speaking of revamps that I didn't like,

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Speaker 1: Laganitas they're gonna update the look again on a Little

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Speaker 1: They're doing that with Little Something Something as well. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know you guys gonna hired me. I could

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Speaker 1: have just told you a couple of years ago, no,

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Speaker 1: All Right, I'm gonna try something a little different. I

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Speaker 1: saw this at World Market. This is a Chinese beer,

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Speaker 1: up Nanjing black beer because it's good. That aftertaste is

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Speaker 1: have to say I'd mean to start drinking more. Sound Growler.

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Speaker 1: Next week, I'll be talking to someone from the Brewers

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Speaker 1: of beer, so that'll be out next week. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: just remember sometimes the beer in front of you is

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