A Bar in Every Park

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Hi, Vineland. What's up? Very glad to be back with Flex. Peek behind the curtain. It's been. I think it's been four weeks now, right? Yeah it. Has. Four at a time last time. And we recorded every other week. And yeah. I actually had the short poor song running through my head today. Uh, this one. Short, poor, short, poor, just a little more Craft Beer Republic short for that ending. That very one.

So good. We actually got a lot. You know what? I'm gonna. I want to find out about your beer first, but I want to say we got a lot of feedback about short poor. So let's let's find out what you're pouring and then we'll talk about short, poor and all kinds of good shit. Okay. In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than growlers. Only one. Tonkin. Guinness. One man, one tongue. One. Tongue-jobber. In this world, we must find out. What is Flex drinking?

Well, well, well. It has been a bit. I did some homework today. I went out and got myself some beers. And this one, based off of the cannot and the fact that I haven't had this brewery in a while. It is Hop Butcher for the world. Mhm. Um, dese dem and dose. Oh, I was waiting for deez nuts. No, it's, uh, you know, super Midwestern jargon. You know, we we you put the D in front in place of like the th. Sure. You know, duh. Bears.

What's up with them? Yeah. See, we're gonna get those. But yeah, so the cans it's cool. It's got like the I hate Chicago. Uh, the passion like sports teams, but it's got the Chicago colors, the blue, the white and the red. And just think about CM punk. That's what it made me think of actually, when I saw this. It's a IPA. So there's a funny story about this. It says got Simcoe, Motooka and Belma hopped 6.7% ABV.

I don't have my phone right now. It's charging because I don't charge my phone anymore. Uh, so I don't have the Untappd ratings or any of that deets, but I anytime I've ever gotten a Hop Butcher beer, it's always been a hazy, right? Anytime it says IPA, it's always a hazy. So I poured it. Not so hazy. It was a lovely West Coast color. It was very clear, very crisp. Lots of head on it. Uh, on the the nose buds here. So I should start with this to the can of the Hop Butcher.

I love it because it has the tasting notes of the beer. Mhm. So this one here, it says, uh, fresh berries from the Belmont. I'm assuming sweet pine from the Simcoe, I'm assuming. And then citrus pith. Probably from all of them is. They most likely all have citrus note features. Mhm. So on the nose buds. Also, that says more than the Untappd description. There's. Does it really. Yeah. All it says is the hops used. Oh. What's the rating. Three. Nine two. Okay, I like it. I like it on the nose buds.

You really do get the sweet berries. And it mixes with like the citrus pith. So it's kind of this weird, not off put smell, but having those two aromas together in in a west coast is kind of wild. So we'll we gotta change the oil on this warm up. The old Tongue-jobber here. It's a little cold. I know what I'm doing here.

Just being ridiculous. Sounds like it's been in the garage for a while. Just taste this goddamn beer. Just put it on your tongue already. How many times have I said that? So I hate to spoil it. I'm almost done with this beer already? Yeah. You must hate it. Very fantastic beer. Low end carbonation on this low end bitterness. The berries and the citrus are on the forefront. Very lovely. You do get a little bit of that pine towards the end with that bitterness and the. All these flavors which you don't

think would go well together. All seemingly go very, very well. And it is a very pleasant drink. And you said it was what, a 3.92 on Untappd. I would say that's right around there. Probably a 3.9395. And uh, yeah, just a really nice. Surprising to me a west coast and wasn't in the mood for one. And I quickly changed my mind. Nice. Yeah, it's always a little jarring when you're like, I'm gonna enjoy this great hazy.

And then you dig in, you're like, oh, God, oh, God, pine tree. And as I picked up the, you know, I look, they always stack the Hop Butcher on the floor, like in cases because people just seem to buy it so fast that they don't even put it on the shelf. So standing, staring at the shelf and all the cans, I'm like, I know other half and oh, I had equilibrium a couple times and there's a few other breweries I just turned around. I'm like, I've missed a good hazy from Hop Butcher. Yeah. So then to come home and pour this out, I was almost almost defeated.

And, uh, like a phoenix rises from the ashes. So did this beer. And went and totally redeemed itself. So, uh, dees dem and dose nice, very, very lovely beer. Well, like I said, it's been like four weeks. Do anything fun? I've been. we've we've hardly talked. I, I sent you a fantastic picture from my vacation of some asshole in a West Virginia shirt. Yeah, that was very comical. I did laugh pretty hard at that. Let's see. My memory is awful.

Uh. That's fine. I went to a Breuer game. Okay, nice. Uh, I had a buddy who had a work event. He was like, hey, my wife has zero interest. Would you like to come with me? Like, I'll be your wife. And of course, I said, absolutely. So in, you know, doing so have him having the free tickets. I drove and I paid for parking as a gentleman would. And yeah. Um, his tickets were like in a VIP section. So it was all you could eat. And we got two free drink tokens and really, really cool. Uh, brewers ended up winning

like 13 to 9. It was sick. It drank some Topo Chico that night. The mango. Okay. Which I never had before. And I would have probably 20 times over again. I think I've had the mangoes. I thought they were extremely delicious. Yeah. From what I if I'm remembering correctly, I think I've put down a lot of mangoes. Yeah, as I would believe you would, because they were delicious. Yeah. Other than that, I think I, you know, I went to Eagle Park a couple times.

You know, now the kids are back in school. So yeah, finally able to meet up with the old Eagle Park crew for a little bit. And, uh, yeah, really? Just staying busy with family. Shit, man. I feel you. Yeah. Kids and families that. Boy, are they a lot. Who needs them? And cutting the fucking grass. I'd say the worst thing about living in the Midwest in the spring and the fall is how much it rains and how fast the grass grows. Oh, sure.

You could be cutting your grass, like, twice a week. It is. Oh, I hate it. That's the most dad complaint ever. Yeah. Which I feel like dads usually love cutting the grass. And don't get me wrong, I love some crisp lines in my Milan. You know, like after it's all said and done, I can stand back and, you know, really look at what I've done and the masterpiece I've created. I'm picturing Al Bundy right now. A little bit. Yeah, a little better shape, but much better.

But yeah, man, just the thought of it's like working while not working, you know, because we don't have a rider. I got the pusher, almost got an acre yard. So it's yeah, it's it's brutal. Nice little workout. I like those beers. Yeah. It's a, I just like to think of it as an extra workout and it makes it feel a little bit better. Nice dead life. Hashtag. Hashtag dead life. Uh, we got a lot of feedback from the short pause, especially the second one, which was like reminiscing of all the things we miss about craft beer. Okay.

You know, the trades, the specific styles. Sure, sure. A lot of messages. I'm not going to go through them all. I just I wanted to thank everybody. I always enjoy the feedback. It's nice to know people are listening and enjoying. And it was funny. I was kind of like, ah, no one's gonna listen to these little shows or care about them or whatever, you know, whatever they were ten minutes. No, a lot of people are passionate about missing beer trades and black IPAs and growlers. I'm like, yeah, you missed. That's the one thing I don't miss is the Growlers. We actually went to a restaurant today that still had a list of

like five beers that they would fill in growlers. Oh man, there is no worse vessel for your beer. I mean, shy of just putting it in a glass and putting foil over it and bringing it home, but. Right. Uh, growlers are the fucking worst. But they were all we had for a long time. I mean, I was a big deal. I brought some growlers home from, uh, Russian River. They're still in the kitchen. Like, up on a shelf, like, sure. Yeah, like like a collectible. Yeah, yeah, I try. You know what's funny? I tried to maybe not get get rid of them. I tried to take them down from

display about a year or two ago. And the wife's like, what are you doing? I was like, I think we've moved on from displaying the Russian River Growlers, where, you know, we're adults now. We're we're approaching 40. She's like, no, leave him up there. I'm a man. I'm 40. I was like, all right, we'll do. Yes, ma'am. So that's cute. That's adorable of her. Shannon's the best. She is. So got some Russian rivers and some some mammoth. What were growlers, like 60oz? Uh, it's a half a gallon. What is that? 64 isn't a gallon. 121. 28 yeah. So 64. Yeah, half a gallon.

So yeah, we brought a gallon back from Russian River and some, some half gallons back from mammoth, that kind of stuff. And a few years ago, yeah, it was post Covid. It's probably like 22, 23. Somewhere in there, I purged all the growlers of breweries that don't exist anymore. Oh. You know, I had, I had quite a few at least five. So R.I.P to those ones. I think we had one and it didn't last very long because I think we got it filled up twice. And then we were just kind of like, oh, like, everybody got ten ounces of beer. And then that was it.

It's like that worked out well. If you had some like barrel aged stout or something. Right, right. But it was just kind of like, oh, what are we gonna do with a growler? Right? I remember many a time, like back on the old show, and it was Scott and Dan with me in person. And like, somebody would bring a growler in to share. And so we each get a pint and then you got like this weird amount left. It's like, all right, well, who's gonna get the rest of this now? So, but yeah, so anyways, thanks for everyone who's sharing what you missed and the shares,

the trades, the Greg, even the growlers. Black IPA. I heard a couple of times which me too man. I did pass on a double hopped, double dry hopped black IPA today. Oh, how come. I just wasn't feeling the black IPA today? They're usually pretty bitter. And yeah, like I said, I wasn't expecting a West Coast today either. So true. Yeah. You know, I was in a mood. I was in the mood. I can tell. Uh, anyways, all right, before I talk about my beer. I guess I should give a little backstory to my beer. Um, correct me if I'm wrong. Last time we really talked pre

pre short pause. I was I was getting ready for a Hawaii trip. Is that correct? That uh, couldn't be more accurate. Okay, good. Things changed. Uh, if anyone heard about Hurricane Lowell. Hurricane Lowell fucked up my vacation, and we were supposed to go to Kauai. And if you're watching the news or most of social media, the hotel that everyone was reporting from, with the water up to the reception desk and the two restaurants on the ground floor absolutely destroyed,

and the mud filling the pool and the sidewalks torn up and no power or water. That was the hotel we were to stay at. That's brutal. This is yeah, this is, uh, ten days, I think, before we were to leave is when it started to come in. So, you know, we're really watching the weather, what's going to happen. But, you know, it's a it's an island. How bad could it be? They're used to wet things. I should say. I don't want any of this story to sound like woe is me. When people had real hardships after an actual hurricane, we were okay. It was booked through Costco. We canceled everything.

We got all of our monies back. We're fine. But, uh, people actually had damage and we did not. But if I could be a whiny little bitch, that was our hotel. And so. You were allowed to be a whiny little bitch. Every now and then. Okay? And so we gave it a couple days. We weren't hearing hearing anything from Costco. The hotel wasn't released. Anything. Finally, the wife called, got some very nice person on the phone, and that very nice person was like, yeah, we're not taking any bookings. We're canceling everything to at least October 1st.

Like, all right, well, now we know we need to cancel. And then subsequently it since now I think it's November 1st before they're taking any new bookings. But we'll see how that goes. So we had some decisions to make. We're about ten days out and we're thinking like, all right, well I well, I guess we could switch to Maui. Maui didn't get very much of it. So we're thinking about Maui wasn't really what we wanted. We were really looking forward to Kauai first world problems. And, uh, we're watching the weather and we're really there's three tropical storms incoming towards the Hawaiian Islands, like,

you know, so I've got these daily alerts set up and all this shit. And finally it's looking like one of them's probably gonna touch ground at some point during our trip. And so at this point, we're like, what are we gonna do? So we start looking at other locations. We look at some islands in the Caribbean. Uh, I think was it Aruba, maybe Antigua? It was one of the a islands Antigua, Aruba somewhere down there. And we're like, I mean, it looks nice. It's mostly like you go to the

resort. There's not a lot to do on the island. It's not. Tropical. Yeah. Not a lot to do. It's it's a relaxing beach getaway. Yeah. And it's not tropical like Hawaii. It's very deserty. And then your your resort is on the beach, so you get the beach part of it. But like inland is not green like Hawaii. It's like a desert on an island. And so like, ah, you know, our biggest deal was it was 12 hour flights and we were really looking to Hawaii because it's like, all right, five, four and a half, five hours for us. No big deal, much less commitment and like 12 hours.

So finally, after a lot of hemming and Han like, you know what? We're gonna fly 12 hours. We're going back to Portugal. That's wild. So we did. We went back to Portugal on about a week's worth of planning. And look, no one is better at last minute planning than we are. Um, if you use our wedding as an example, we did all of our wedding planning in about three months. We are a procrastinators. In fact, we just don't do well without deadlines. So we. And plus we'd been. So like we.

We split our trip up. We went to the Algarve, which is the south. It's very beachy. And so we thought, oh, we'll spend half our time there and that'll kind of recreate some of what we wanted from Hawaii. Water is not nearly as warm, but it's gorgeous. And then we'll spend the other half in Lisbon and we've been to Lisbon. We have lists and things in Lisbon. That'll be easy to do because we've been there. We know it. Plus, we got the list. So that's what we did. We went to the Algarve. We got this resort, which still cheaper than our Hawaii hotel, had ocean views.

And not just like, oh, there's the ocean over off to the left, the entire view out the window, out the slider. We had a little deck was ocean. It was a cliff and then ocean. It was gorgeous. Wow. It was amazing. And we had, you know, the pool was fine. It was a little boring. It was a pool, but it had a bar. So, you know, we drank at the pool and that kind of stuff. That was like the relaxing side where we were supposed to not do much, which I don't do well with. I'm a mover. I'm not a sitter. My favorite part of vacation is relaxing time. I love it.

I wish I was better at it. So like we did some pool time, then a few hours, I was like, all right, done. Now what do we do? So like, we'd go into town and just walk around and see the sights and grab a drink. And that's one thing about Portugal. Um, if there's an opportunity to put a bar there, they fucking will. And I love them for it. That is brilliant. It's like the Wisconsin of Europe. It really is. Like, hey, you want to go to this castle? There's a bar at the top. Hey, this park, every goddamn park has at least one bar.

And it looks like a little like information kiosk, especially in Lisbon. Like they look like these little information kiosks. They're like circular. And you go like, oh, maybe I go get like a map of the park, which by the way, these are not big parks. These are tiny little like neighborhood parks. And no, no, no, it's not an information kiosk. It's a little cafe. You get a coffee, you get a snack, you get a beer, you get a glass of wine, you get whatever you want. I fucking love the Portuguese. If they can put a bar there, they will. They're the best. It's brilliant. Yeah. There's these outlooks in Lisbon

where it's like you go up, you climb up this hill and then you outlook over the city. Of course they got bars at the top. You need a beer after you hiked all the way to the top, you gotta fucking reload. Nothing better than a beer and a view. Exactly. So we did the Algarve. We relaxed. It was nice. I think I was in the beach water for a total of two hours. It was not the warmest, uh, warmer than here in California, but not not Hawaii. Warm, gorgeous. It was a little touristy. Like the restaurants weren't like super authentic Portuguese food, that kind of stuff. A little touristy, but beyond that,

it was nice, but it was too slow. So I was looking forward to getting back to Lisbon. Absolutely loved Lisbon once again. Ate the fucking city to death. Drank it. Like the best part about having beer or bars in general, wherever you go is like you could just walk to a park, grab a beer, and then you walk to your next thing like, oh, I'll have another beer. And their beer there is called Super Bock. That's like their, I'll call it their Budweiser, but that's an insult. Um, it's everywhere. And the next most popular one is called Sawgrass. But Super Bock is everywhere. It's super light, easy to drink. It's like 4 or 4.5%,

something like that. And you can just drink it and be on your way. And the beer is colder than the water. Like they're one of those European countries where like, things are not super cold, but their beer is. So we'd just be walking around like, man, I'm hot, let's grab a beer. Nice. What was the temperature like there? Oh, it was like pushing 90 most days. Oh, damn. Yeah. It was, it was hot. It was hot. When it like one day was like 80. I was like, this is gorgeous. Um, so had so much fun. Um, eight tons and tons of food. Did touristy things,

did anything weird. Anything like out of the ordinary? No, we did more of that last, you know, we kind of got our weird shit out of the way last time. This time we we dialed in what we like. It's like, no, weird like octopus. I, you know, I don't do octopus and some of that kind of stuff. Okay. Um, like my seafood is real, real light. You know, like they have bacalao, which is, um, cod in like shoestring potatoes kind of put together. That is good, I like that. I'll get me some bacalao when I'm there, but like, I don't do the,

the other stuff like octopus and that kind of thing. Um, yeah, I don't think we got too weird on the food. We did do like this. What was it called like Brazos. It was just a bunch of. It's a fucking meat fiesta, just like all these different meats they brought out. It was great, but none of them are weird. Um, yeah. I don't think we did anything too too weird this time. Okay. Trying to think. Just curious. Yeah. Last time, we had a few weird things, like blood sausage and, uh, octopus and that kind of thing. People listening are like, that's not that weird, dude. I'm like, yeah, get over it. But anyways, all that to say,

I'm drinking Super Bock tonight. You got one home? Uh, no, I considered it, and I thought, you know what? I bet we can get this stateside, and we can. And I found out they brew it and import it. So I thought, okay, it's not like one of those things where they brew it stateside and it's fake super bock. So here I'll hit a little music. He calls to the bullpen for beer. Uh, so here we are drinking Super Bock Untappd says it's 5.8%. I can't read the I don't know,

is it on here? The Kansas 5.2. I swore it was like 4.6 when we were there, so I don't know if it's different. It's definitely not 5.8, though. That's a that's a misnomer. Um, they gave it a 299 on Untappd. It's pretty shitty. I almost want to say it's like their Budweiser. But like I said, that's a bit of a. How many total ratings. Insult. It only has 1400 ratings basically. Oh okay. So maybe there's a different posting for it.

Or maybe the real one's not coming up because I'm not in Portugal or something. But it's I mean, look at this thing. It's as clear as can be. Clear as day. It's a lager. It's clean. Um, it's got some more malt profile and flavors to it than like a Budweiser would like. It's got a little more distinct flavor, less watery, I guess you. Would say beechwood, I'm assuming. Yeah. Not so much beechwood in it. Hint of bitterness. And I'm not talking like big IBUs, but like a hint of bitterness. Like they use some hops in here,

but overall, extremely crushable. So fucking good on a hot day. The wife who is not into beer like I, you know, she more wine drinker these days. She's just crushing these when we were in Lisbon because it was so hot. So love me some super bock. That's that's so funny that you actually found it. Before we left. I searched for it to make sure we had it like it was possible to get. And it was. And I was like, great. These are one of those things like, you just want to make this thing as cold as possible and just pound it.

It is so drinkable. I love it. It goes well with like anything because it just it's easy to drink. So do you think now that you can find it regularly, do you think you will be buying it more frequently? It's funny, I had that thought earlier because I was like, oh, so we have it here. Probably like if I just need a lager in the fridge, there's absolutely no reason not to get this one. The only thing I hate about it is, you know, in Portugal I was paying €2 for a pint. My four pack here was 12 bucks.

So, you know, a little, little cheaper when you're getting it from the source. Okay. Fair enough. Yeah. But beyond that, it's it's really good. It's it's super Krush. I got three more in the fridge. So glad I had to buy a four pack to get this. I will be even the wife was like, I'm definitely having one of these. I was like, and you should. Hell yeah. Delicious. Get some. Yeah, I was afraid it was gonna be, like, brewed in the United States, like using the same recipe and not taste the same because, you know, a lot of imports will do that. Sure. Yeah. It makes sense. Yeah. Not the case. So delicious. Um, but yeah, man,

good fucking times in Portugal. Oh, I did come back with a little extra souvenir. Uh, was feeling a little sick last couple days of the trip and got back in the day after we got back, I had a doctor's appointment, and before I left to go to the doctor's, I was like, maybe I should test for Covid if we have one in the house. And we had a test and I tested and, uh, very positive, extremely like. Super. Right? It's like, give it 15 minutes. And usually like in the past when I've tested positive, like five, six, seven minutes starts to show that extra line.

And this thing was like within two minutes, it was like being your positive as fuck, like, oh, all right. So, um, I've been getting there you go. I've been getting over that for the last few days. And first time he scoffed all night, everybody. I can't believe it took this long. So anyways. All right, enough about me. The trip. It was great. Beers. Great. And we'll definitely be going back, but probably not two years. We're just there exactly two years ago, I think in two years, maybe we'll try and go maybe to Hawaii again or you know, not Portugal.

As much as I love it, I feel like those 12 hour flights, man, I tell you, they are hard on the body. I've never been on one, but it sounds brutal. Brutal. And I know it's like total first world problem. On the way back, we upgraded our seats. It wasn't first class, but we had the seat next to us, to ourselves, all right? And we had window seats. So she was in front of me and she had the two seats to herself, and I had the two seats to myself. That made it better because I could just stretch out and all

that good stuff. But still, like by the time you get off a 12 hour flight and we're delayed an hour. So it's really a 13 hour flight because we're sitting on the tarmac, um, like my ankles were all swollen and they, they hurt and it, it's too much. We're thinking like, next time we do that, we might do a layover on the East Coast or some shit. It was a lot, but what a whiner. First world problems. Um. All right, little news before we wrap things up. I'm sure you guys are tired of hearing about Portugal. Bottle Logic Brewing, the brewery and offshoot Beer Co

form the brewery group. Three Oak based craft breweries are linking up under the brewery Group banner. Anaheim based Bottle Logic Brewing is partnering with the brewery and their sibling brand offshoot Beer Co to form the newly created shared services platform brewery CEO Barry Holmes. What's up? Holmes told Brew Bound. The three brands allow us to scale a sales organization in ways neither of us could achieve in the past. Nope. The three brands allow us to scale a sales organization in

ways neither of us could achieve in the post Covid world. It's another one of those, uh, groupings. Everyone's doing it. Everyone's either closing or grouping these days. We've actually been getting, uh, some bottle distro. Um. My way. Have you had any yet? I have not, I have not, uh, decided to pull the trigger on it, but. Okay. I, I looked at it today and I just, I looked and I don't know, are they good? I don't know, are they good?

I'll be honest, I haven't had biologic in quite some time. They've been around since, you know, the early earlier days of crafts like the, the tens and whatnot. And they were one of those to jump out to, to fame early on. I remember the last time I have it, it being real kind of old school, you know, I think stone, but I will, but it's been a lot. I probably haven't had any since Covid, so that's not a fair assessment. Okay. Well, maybe I will.

Who knows, next time I, I buy beer for the shows. Maybe we'll try it out. Yeah, maybe. Maybe we should both grab a Bottle Logic Brewing see how it goes. Ooh, I like that. Yeah. Let me know what you find. I'll see if I can find the same thing. Will do. Uh, 40 years of Alaskan brewing. The Juneau, Alaska based craft brewery is commemorating those four decades and celebrating its home state with a limited edition variety 40 pack featuring ten signature beers. Cool. I didn't realize they'd been around that long. I remember when we were like 18 and we'd go to my buddy's house,

you know, his parents house, and his dad would always have Alaska beer. Mhm. Or whatever. Alaskan. And yeah, it was always just kind of like never even thought about that. It was, you know. Holy fuck. Far as fuck away, right? Like. Oh, cool. He's drinking Alaskan beer, right. Is this really from Alaska or is somebody who likes Alaska? Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah. I think they have a pumpkin beer. Right. That's over my head. Yeah.

Here's where I'm going with this. I think one of the sickest I've ever been was way before my craft days. We had some people over. This is like an ex-girlfriend. And they brought some Alaskan pumpkin beer. And it was, as you would expect. Delicious. Nope. Like I said, one of the sickest I'd ever been. Anyways, it may not have been Alaskan, so don't hold it against him, but, uh, uh, we talked about, uh, now a couple weeks ago,

it's been a few weeks at least. Rogue and them auctioning off their intellectual property. Yeah, the IP and everything. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, $2.82 million winning bid comes from a fitness company. A fitness company appears to be the winner of the auction for Rogue Ales and spirits intellectual property, including the rogue.com domain and proprietary Pac-Man yeast strain and trademarks for Rogue and Dead Guy. Uh.

Colter Ventures, LLC, the parent company of Columbus, Ohio based Rogue Fitness. Okay, that's what crossed my mind when he started saying the rogue.com. Yeah. Placed the winning bid of $2.82 million, according to a trustee's report filed Tuesday with the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon. They beat out Swickard c p LLC. Franco, I'm not gonna name all these and some other companies.

So with it, they get the domain products, including all confidential information, trade secrets. And I can read that part. That's too long. So anyways, the real question is do they just want do they pay $2.82 million for a domain? Or are they going to do something with the beer? Yeah, so that's what I'm trying to figure out over here, or if they try to take the recipes and try to make it somehow in a affiliated because their fitness and I don't know, apparently really good,

you know, equipment. Oh, you know of them. Oh yeah. Rogue fitness is like top of the line shit. Oh, okay. Like when, uh, they do like, the Arnold classic and all, like the, the, they have, like, the big lifting competitions. Yeah. The rogue fitness is like the big sponsor and they use all the rogue plates and the rogue bars and. Okay. I have a rogue bar in my basement. I paid like $400 for it. Damn. Their bumpers and all their

plates are insanely expensive, so I don't buy those. But yeah, they're like a huge name in the fitness industry, like probably one of the biggest names in the fitness industry. Well, in that case, I've totally heard of them before. Yeah, it'd be real interesting to see what they do with this. Yeah, that will be interesting. Healthy beer coming your way. Uh, California's Lost Coast Brewery is sort of finally for sale. Lost Coast Brewing out of Eureka is officially for sale. Months after the founder, Barbara Groome, announced plans

to retire and sell the business. Bidding will open next week, October 14th, on an auction that includes Lost Coast's equipment and intellectual property, which is also available separately via private negotiation. The listings underscore a craft brewery with six times more capacity than it needs. The facility is capable of producing 300,000 barrels annually, according to the report. However, the IP listing cites Lost Coast distribution volume at 50,000 barrels. Hey, want to buy a brewery?

Yeah, I'm always down. I just, uh, need the money part. Yeah. If anybody wants to provide the money part so that we can. not have to use our money part. Uh, that'd be great. Investors. Possibly you. You know, that's our trivia team name. Yes. Yes. Prestige worldwide. So we actually. I left this out. I totally forgot. One of the nights I went to Eagle Park. I went with some old work buddies, and apparently they do trivia Monday

nights and we did not get a sheet. Oh, boo. But we answered. We were having fun answering the questions to each other. Dude, we may or may not have won if we actually would have participated. Oh shit. So we think we might head back in a couple Mondays and actually attempt to win. Nice. I want to come play with you guys. Yeah. Come play with us. I love trivia. They do up to eight people a team. I didn't know that's. A huge team. Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah.

We're just for mainly it's us and Deb and Brian. It was three. We were gonna be three guys, one sheet. I think I've seen that movie before. Yeah, yeah. So you Simcoe. We. Yeah, we we might do it. I'll, I'll keep you filled in on on that report back. Uh, we'll end it on this happy piece of stupid news. The White Sox beat the Astros handedly the other day, and, uh, Murakami, I think I'm saying that right. Yeah,

the the the Japanese player. Yes. I'm not gonna attempt his first name because I feel like it'll be offensive if I do, but, uh, he was in the locker room drinking with everyone else, and they were trying to get an interview with him. And and boy, boy, is he a lightweight. Here's some of the audio. I'm drunk. What are you feeling right now? 100. 100. Not a thousand this time. Yeah. 100 000. It's early in Japan. They're celebrating with you.

Anything you want to say to them? Same height. Same. Same same. Yeah. He's drunk, he's drunk. But he's drunk. Yeah. He told me you didn't need him. I'm drunk. He's talking about his translator. Maybe hungover, you know? Yeah. Tomorrow. Hungover? Yes. No, no. Yesterday. Tomorrow? Yeah. Sorry, I don't speak English. You don't need the translator. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Ah!

He's getting a bunch of beer and whatnot poured on him as he's screaming. Yes, but, uh, what a viral sensation that guy became. I love it. It's just. It's nothing but fun. Happy. Good times. It is pure joy, right? Pure joy. Pure drunken joy. And you got to think so. I, I saw some stats on the old, uh, Blanco socks, if you will, The last two seasons, they lost a total of 249 games. Jesus.

And two years ago they had set the record for most losses in MLB history. That's right. And they beat the Rockies. Yes. And this guy gets signed from Japan in his first season in Chicago. And they, you know, break their playoff drought. They haven't won a series in the playoffs since 2005. So this is it's a lot of fun if you are you don't even have to be a sports fan if you're a human being. Yeah. And you enjoy happiness and the small things in life.

I mean, this guy, this story is for you. Yeah. He's just pure joy, like he said. Now, is it Murakami or is it that they've been blessed by the Pope? You know. A little, a little bit. I'm not a religious fella. Sure. Same per se. But, you know, maybe maybe, you know, got a little something going for him. Yeah, A little papal love. Yeah. If you will. A little pep in your step. That's right. So. All right, let's end it there before we say weird shit.

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