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Harry is joined by Jenn Litz and Jordan Driggers
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00:00 Intro - Harry irritated with people who stable checks to invoices.
01:30 Biscuit watches new Nick Cage movie, Pig, and is traumatized.
03:20 International Beer Day.
04:10 Harry speaks with Nuno Teles of Diageo Beer Co., which is growing at twice the industry in beer and FMBs.
04:40 Smirnoff Ice at 20 years old is still a hit among Gen Z, and "icing" is still a thing, says Jordan.
04:55 Guinness still doing well.
05:20 Yes Harry, Guinness has a nitro coffee.
07:10 Grokking Biden's Executive Order looking at anticompetitive practices in the bev-alc industry.
08:00 The comment period is only 3 weeks in August -- not a great time, says NABI's chief Robert Tobiassen in blog post.
08:30 TTB takes on CBMA tax act, hints it may be anticompetitive.
09:00 Jenn says retailers don't think they are consolidated despite amazon.
10:00 Harry says fed licensing much easier now than when he applied 25 years ago.
10:30 This weekend in fun.
11:30 Jordan says Harry's office has a lot of "crap in it" like a yodeling pickle.
12:10 Harry is motivated to spring clean his office.
12:35 Millicent update.
13:25 No sign of Barstool's Dave Portnoy in Saratoga.
14:20 Harry won't let the stapled checks thing go, calls out subscription service Prenax as a habitual offender.
18:40 People that staple checks to invoices are the same people that ask for hugs at parties.
20:00 Harry dislikes party huggers.
20:35 Jenn is mistaken as her children's nanny.
20:50 Jenn also looks very young for her age.
21:20 With delta variant, Fall travel is in limbo.
24:50 Waxing prolific on vaxxing.
(Intermission)
25:30 Harry returns alone to fill in some gaps on his grokking of Biden's Executive Order.
27:00 He thinks the feds are looking beyond simply cleaning up TTB regs and enforcement. Perhaps into distrib concentration?
---About---
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