Ep 6. 2nd Times A Charm

This week on A Trip to the Beer Store Podcast, nothing goes according to plan, and honestly, that’s exactly how we like it. After scrapping the entire episode and starting from scratch (because chaos demands sacrifice), we spiral straight into the story of a man who sold his house for season tickets..yeah, you read that right, absolute devotion or absolute insanity… you decide.

From there, we somehow regain just enough structure to break down our Top 16 of March Madness, until that also derails into questionable logic, strong opinions, and zero accountability.

Of course, we’re trying new beers along the way, because bad decisions pair best with cold ones.

And the rest? Pure, unfiltered, unhinged energy. The kind you can’t script and probably shouldn’t defend.

If you’re looking for polished and put-together… this ain’t it.
If you want real, chaotic, “what the hell did I just listen to?” energy…

Welcome home.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:13

Trip to the pistol on the trip to the pistol. Gotta have a situation on trip to the pistol.

SPEAKER_02 0:25

I had a revelation.

SPEAKER_06 0:27

Trip to the pistol, up in the knee onstead, leaving no So what do you do when you start recording a podcast and you do really good and you get halfway through, then you start drinking beer and it literally is burnt.

SPEAKER_04 0:48

I remember the first time I recorded a podcast.

SPEAKER_03 0:52

Ladies and gentlemen, we started a podcast about 30 minutes ago. Um had a whole subject, um, tried a whole beer, the beer was out of date. We paused things for a second just to accidentally delete the progress we had made. So here we are.

SPEAKER_06 1:15

Back into it.

SPEAKER_03 1:16

Back into it. Back in block if you back into it, and Lane went to save the podcast, got a new beer for us to try.

SPEAKER_06 1:24

Yep, yep, yep. So, um yeah, let's do a little recap. Yeah, so previously, not to you guys, this is the first time you're hearing about it, but I informed these guys about a 70-year-old man who is now living in Thailand. He's an Englishman who is selling his home in England in order to finance his trip to North America to watch the entire World Cup to support England. Um, and the reason I brought this up is because we live in Alabama, real dud. And people here live and die by Alabama football.

SPEAKER_03 2:04

Live and die. And we talked about earlier. We do know some Alabama fans and Auburn fans that would that would probably get close to making these kind of decisions. I don't know if they would sell their $450,000 home, which is what his was going for in American dollars, right? Correct. And that's he either has lost his mind or he has actually got it figured out.

SPEAKER_06 2:32

Well, he's living in Thailand too, so you know he's it's his second home. Um so it's kind of like selling a vacation home. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:40

I'm still trying to buy my first home.

SPEAKER_06 2:42

You and me both, brother.

SPEAKER_03 2:44

He's got it uh he knows what he's doing. Well, and he's like, I do this every couple of years. I don't know why it's big news now.

SPEAKER_04 2:50

Well, not to mention there's also the simple fact that probably most of those people that would sell a kidney to go watch Alabama play probably don't have a passport either.

SPEAKER_03 2:59

So this is possible. But you did make a good point where he was gonna be traveling in multiple countries, and and I mean, yeah, it may be completely worth it. I think I made the joke that the trip was gonna be funded with $449,000 on his $450,000 home.

SPEAKER_04 3:17

I mean, I even not go into the World Cup itself, but to go to where all the and Braden, look up where all the stadiums are gonna be for the World Cup.

SPEAKER_06 3:26

Yeah, I know it's in several different places.

SPEAKER_04 3:28

But I mean, just to get to go to all those places, I think that in itself would arguably be worth the trip to me.

SPEAKER_03 3:35

Yeah, and and I really do doubt that he was spending the whole lump sum on this trip, right?

SPEAKER_04 3:42

Yeah, and not to mention like no, I would.

SPEAKER_03 3:45

You might spend $450,000 on that trip.

SPEAKER_06 3:48

I'd make it a trip, man. The trip. Well, if it's your second home.

SPEAKER_03 3:52

Yeah, but you're you know, ball out that put some of that up. Ball out.

SPEAKER_04 3:56

I mean this man very clearly is already very well off.

SPEAKER_03 4:01

Yeah. 450 is nothing to him.

SPEAKER_04 4:04

Most of he sold a $450,000 house that he was not living in.

SPEAKER_06 4:10

So in the the tournament will take place across all three countries in North America. In the U.S., there will be an event in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City. Shout out our boy Eric. LA, Miami, New York, Philly, San Francisco, and Seattle. In Mexico, it will be in Guadalajara, Mexico City, and Monterey. In Canada, it will take place in Toronto and Vancouver.

SPEAKER_03 4:42

So I mean Yeah, that's gonna cost $450,000.

SPEAKER_06 4:45

Yeah. But I wonder, he's an so he's an Englishman, his team is England. Naturally. So I wonder if what if they get put out? You know? I mean, he's already playing the trip. Do you imagine he would stay for the finals?

SPEAKER_04 4:59

Uh so he put himself in a really unique position because if he's already got tickets all the way through, right? He's either going to be able to go and see those teams play, or he's gonna be able to turn a massive profit on what he paid for those tickets.

SPEAKER_06 5:16

Oh, that's a good point.

SPEAKER_04 5:17

I hadn't considered that. Because I had some I've got some friends of mine that live out in Dallas, and they all put in on the they had to raffle, or it was a yeah, it was a raffle for the opportunity to buy tickets.

SPEAKER_06 5:29

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:30

Just to like an opening round game. And so those tickets are gonna be super expensive. Yeah, and they're gonna be a lot more expensive.

SPEAKER_03 5:38

He's like, I'll make my house money back for the final tickets.

SPEAKER_06 5:42

Heck yeah. You know, I um he is older. I I want to say in the article, he wasn't quite 70. I think he's uh 67. Um I'm kicking you both off the podcast.

SPEAKER_02 5:55

Um 6'7, 6'7.

SPEAKER_06 5:59

Lord, it's terrible. Um, we're not a brain rot podcast, guys, please. We're not.

SPEAKER_03 6:03

No, we're a house clinical podcast.

SPEAKER_06 6:05

But I do, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:06

But I do have a 12-year-old daughter, you know.

SPEAKER_06 6:08

This is true. This is true.

SPEAKER_04 6:09

Um Kaylin has a 12-year-old daughter.

SPEAKER_06 6:11

Yeah, and she is and two 20-year-old sons.

SPEAKER_03 6:15

I don't want to say it too loud. I think the 6'7's coming down. Oh, praise the Lord.

SPEAKER_06 6:19

Yeah, the brain rot. It'll be something new next week.

SPEAKER_03 6:24

No, it's not.

SPEAKER_06 6:25

Yeah, it'll be something new next week, man.

SPEAKER_03 6:27

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 6:28

Um just got a smile and wave. The one thing I will say, man, is you know, as someone who has um my my grandparents are retired, my lovely wife's grandparents are retired, and both of them on complete opposite ends of the spectrum, the day they retired was like, I know what I want to do. This is what I'm doing, and they're unbothered by it.

SPEAKER_04 6:50

So see, and it's the exact opposite for my parents. Because my parents are both of retirement age, my mom hasn't retired yet. She's, you know, milking that company insurance for another year while she can.

SPEAKER_06 7:03

There you go. But got to.

SPEAKER_04 7:05

And she only like she works from home two days, two days a week or three days a week, depending on which week it is. Then she has to drive to Birmingham the other two. But my dad retired like two or three years ago. And he goes to work like four days a week. Like he said, Well, stop. I'm just taking a lot week this week, you know. He literally retired and like went back to work at the same company doing the same job the next week.

SPEAKER_06 7:34

I had a high school teacher who did that. Um, he had taught in Tennessee, retired in Tennessee, and then his sons or or some relation was going to Alabama and he just wanted to move down here. So him and his wife moved down here and he started uh teaching in Alabama. So he was collecting Tennessee retirement. I think I would imagine he was collecting Social Security because he was old enough to retire.

SPEAKER_04 8:01

Well, you and they move those ages, right? So all the time. Um he probably wasn't old enough to get full retirement because I think it's like 67 now to do that.

SPEAKER_06 8:11

No, I thought I think he was in like his 70s when he taught me.

SPEAKER_04 8:14

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 8:14

Yeah. It was uh Coach Sasser. He would have been there when you were at the high school.

SPEAKER_04 8:18

Yeah, I I don't think I ever I don't think he was coaching at the time.

SPEAKER_06 8:23

He wasn't a coach.

SPEAKER_04 8:24

I didn't really have interactions with him like that.

SPEAKER_06 8:26

He he was phenomenal. And I I want to say somebody told me that he had he had passed away. Uh I don't know if that's true or not, um, but I think I'd heard that through the grapevine. But yeah, he was he was very like he uh he he told us one day about it. He was like, Yeah, you know, I retired in Tennessee and I didn't work for a few years and spent some time with my wife, and like, you know, we had a good time, and then uh it kind of got to where we weren't really doing anything. And so I just kind of decided, well, I'll just go back and teach. And he taught uh anatomy, and there was only like two or three classes of that during the day or whatever. So I mean, I know that he would leave, you know, like so I think for him it was just kind of staying active, and obviously he had a passion for it.

SPEAKER_04 9:12

Yeah, and that's what I'm concerned about when my parents retire because mom says she's gonna retire next year. Um but when they get bored, they like to do small projects, and they have a whole house to do small projects at. Yeah. But they want to come to my house and do small projects.

SPEAKER_03 9:30

That's why I'd lane got into the woodworking.

SPEAKER_04 9:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:33

And so it's like I'll wake up Oh Lainey, can you get me a flower pot over there?

SPEAKER_04 9:38

I don't know why your mom's Irish. We are Irish on mom's side.

SPEAKER_03 9:43

I just feel these things.

SPEAKER_04 9:45

Um but no, like I'll be over there and they'll be out like trimming my shrubs, or they'll dad'll be out with like a can of poison spraying the weeds. But I think they're not gonna kill themselves, son.

SPEAKER_06 9:57

You know, I can I can only speak from for my grandparents. I think they're at a time now where like I think they get just as much joy just doing it for you, like knowing knowing that you don't have to do it, or um, because every time I talk to my grandmother, all she tells me, you're so busy. You're just so busy all the time. You're all the time going. Well, I'm sure when you were in your 20s, you were doing the same thing. I'm 25. Yeah, it's just I'm not really that busy, it's just I'm doing stuff.

SPEAKER_04 10:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 10:26

Um, so yeah, I think it's just them. They feel like they have a lot of free time, they want to help you out.

SPEAKER_04 10:31

Yeah, and I don't get me wrong, I'm exceptionally grateful for it. But it's like I'll hear dad over there with like the weed eater or something at like 7 a.m.

SPEAKER_03 10:39

on a Saturday, and I'm like, You're waking up from being here all night.

SPEAKER_04 10:44

Yeah, yeah, left here at two. Dad's got the weed eater out at seven on the side like on the like trimming the side of the house that's outside my window.

SPEAKER_03 10:55

He's been trimming it for 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_06 10:57

Yeah. This is uh this is his tactic to keep you from drinking so much. Yeah. It's like you can drink. I'm over, boy. I'm gonna wake you up at 6 a.m.

SPEAKER_04 11:05

My parents think I'm an angel.

SPEAKER_06 11:07

You are an angel.

SPEAKER_03 11:08

Oh too bad they don't know.

SPEAKER_06 11:13

No, Uncle Daddy's a is a he's a sweetheart.

SPEAKER_03 11:16

He is a sweetheart.

SPEAKER_06 11:16

He's a sweetheart. And single.

SPEAKER_03 11:18

Yeah, ladies take note. The only thing wrong with Lane is his big problem.

SPEAKER_04 11:23

It's the diarrhea.

SPEAKER_06 11:24

Well, um, you know, Lane, I brought us some terribly ruined, disgusting, awful beers who we won't name because we're gonna give them a second shot.

SPEAKER_04 11:32

Yeah, we'll I really like the name and I really like that canned design. Yeah. So I want to try them again.

SPEAKER_03 11:38

But the gas station we got it from was nomed.

SPEAKER_06 11:40

Yeah, we won't name drop anybody. But if it happens again, we will.

SPEAKER_04 11:44

Same place as episode five if you listen to that podcast.

SPEAKER_06 11:48

Lane's dropping clues. Um, Lane, what beer did you make an emergency run to get so we didn't have to drink ruined beer?

SPEAKER_04 11:55

Yeah, so I made an emergency run down to the, you know, package town, as Skyler likes to call it.

SPEAKER_06 12:01

Old package town.

SPEAKER_04 12:03

And I didn't realize this till like I was walking out, but I uh I found a brewery that's from an area real near and dear to my heart. I lived there for 10 years. Oh. Um, and so today we're gonna be drinking Braided River Brewing Company's Cerveza del Golfo Light.

SPEAKER_03 12:21

I'm enjoying how cold this is.

SPEAKER_04 12:23

Yeah, we don't really drink cold beer on this podcast.

SPEAKER_03 12:26

Because by the time we get around to it, yeah, it's already room for it.

SPEAKER_04 12:29

We either have, you know, friends stop by to say hey, or you know. All right, let's dive in. Let's do it. Oh, I like that. I already opened my can to make sure it wasn't spoiled. I like that.

SPEAKER_03 12:46

That's uh it's got a little bitterness to it. But it's not it's not like overwhelming.

SPEAKER_04 12:53

No, I mean it is your your light Mexican lager. Yeah, that's what it is. Where's your wife when you need some beer salt? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 13:00

You have to drink it as it is. Yeah, I know. Yeah, we drink everything as is around here. Then we'll change it.

SPEAKER_04 13:06

Yep. Uh Braided River Brewing is from Mobile, Alabama. Mobile, Alabama. Um, and show note to add in real quick. Last week we did review Telluride Brewing Company's Tangerine Blonde. And Telluride Brewing Company is in fact from Colorado. They have some sort of brewing arrangement with good people to distribute it out of Birmingham. But, anyways, we're talking about Braided River this week. Yeah. So, Braden, what do you got for me here?

SPEAKER_06 13:40

Um, I like it. I think I have I am on uh record saying that Mexican style augers are not my preferred beer. Um but as far as that type of beer goes, this is really good. Um you know, I know we talk a lot about situations where like, oh, I'd love to have this beer at this time. Um I imagine that at some point over the next few months we will be sitting around a body of water. And uh Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_04 14:10

Domingos is around his pool right now. Oh, this is true.

SPEAKER_06 14:14

Outdoor podcast. Um if a six-pack of these was in the vicinity of me and then I'm sitting in the sun around a bottle of a body of water, um their lives are in danger. Um so I I'm a I'm a fan of it. I like it. Um I'm gonna give it one more sip before I give it a number.

SPEAKER_03 14:37

I think I have a number in mind.

SPEAKER_04 14:41

I've got a number in mind. I'll wait my turn.

SPEAKER_06 14:46

I'm gonna go. I'm gonna give it a four-one.

SPEAKER_03 14:51

Okay, that's not a score we've got.

SPEAKER_06 14:53

Yeah, I'm gonna give it a four-one. I don't want to just give it a four because I'm trying to think back of all the other fours I've given.

SPEAKER_04 15:00

It'll make it real hard when we have to do math for the t-shirt later.

SPEAKER_06 15:03

Sorry, guys. It is what it is.

SPEAKER_03 15:05

I'm trying terribly to figure out what this tastes like. This tastes like another Mexican lager I've had.

SPEAKER_04 15:13

Um it's a little hoppy. It almost kind of like someone opened an IPA can next to it, I think.

SPEAKER_03 15:24

I don't I get the a little bit of the bitterness, but I don't get the hoppy IPA taste.

SPEAKER_04 15:30

Well, that your your your bitterness is gonna be from your hops. Um we should really start looking up like what kind of hops that they're using in these. So like we could actually shout out the the hops.

SPEAKER_06 15:43

Telluride posts theirs on their can.

SPEAKER_04 15:45

Yeah, and so we should probably look a little bit more into that, give them some a little more credit.

SPEAKER_06 15:49

I do like the can on these. Yeah, it is a cool looking can.

SPEAKER_03 15:54

I'm gonna give this. I'm gonna give this a four. I think it is good for what it is. It's not like my regular drinking beer.

SPEAKER_06 16:03

Um would you would you drink it before a corona?

SPEAKER_03 16:08

I would definitely drink a corona first. But this is not far behind it. Yeah, that's fair. Um it it just tastes a little heavy to be. It is a light. Um I think it has a good taste, and it's not overwhelmingly bitter. Uh, you do get that that uh Mexican taste to it, but it's a little heavy. Um yeah, I'm gonna go with solid four.

SPEAKER_04 16:34

Yeah, um, it's a little more bitter than what I like to um would like for in just like a Mexican lager. Like I'm not getting like a toccade from it or you know, a modello. Um, I'm also not even getting like a muchacho or something like that.

SPEAKER_06 16:50

Um muchachos are dangerous. I like them a lot.

SPEAKER_04 16:53

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03 16:54

Yeah, muchachos seems lighter though.

SPEAKER_04 16:56

That yeah, and that's what I'm saying. And so for this to be a light beer and to feel as heavy as it does right now, probably gonna go with the 375 for my review. Yeah, and that's what I thought. That's strong.

SPEAKER_03 17:11

Yeah, I mean, you know, liking these numbers y'all throwing out here. We we have mixing it up.

SPEAKER_04 17:16

Well, we have a we have a standing you know, grading scale. Anything above a 2-5, we recommend for public consumption.

SPEAKER_06 17:24

Yeah. And I, you know, it I think it's important for us to remember like this is very subjective. So if you try this beer and you're like, these guys are insane, that that's true. Um but also everybody has their thing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:38

And I mean, realistically speaking, if we compare it to what we drank earlier, this is like a 10-5.

SPEAKER_03 17:44

Which I would say, even with a bad date, I scored higher than y'all. I guess I just like my stuff a little more aged. Yeah, it was weren't.

SPEAKER_04 17:54

It was weren't.

SPEAKER_03 17:55

I didn't, I mean, you know, I don't even remember what I what did I give it? A three. You gave it a three, yeah. And you were the highest rating. I was like, yeah, I was like, it's not terrible, and y'all are throwing up all over the table. It was terrible.

SPEAKER_04 18:08

I was like, I was like, I'm gonna finish this, but I ain't gonna enjoy it. I love it. Mama didn't raise no quitter. Couldn't do it.

SPEAKER_06 18:16

Couldn't do it, man. Couldn't do it.

SPEAKER_03 18:17

Well nanny, don't you ever quit?

SPEAKER_06 18:20

This uh this weekend was interesting for me. I uh I didn't drink that many beers this weekend. I was more on the on the whiskey drinks this weekend.

SPEAKER_03 18:27

Is that my fault?

SPEAKER_06 18:29

I don't know that it was your fault. I think it was uh my stomach was a little, you know, I have stomach problems just generally speaking, and I was feeling a little bloated this weekend. Just kind of because you were poisoned by my wife. That is true. She did try to poison me and my wife.

SPEAKER_03 18:45

On the same day.

SPEAKER_06 18:46

Yeah, back to back.

SPEAKER_03 18:47

Back to back. Um, I mean, but she said I forgot about the pineapple.

SPEAKER_04 18:53

Should probably preface that with he didn't drink any less beers than he normally does, you know. It wasn't that many, but it wasn't any less.

SPEAKER_02 19:01

I forgot about the pineapple.

SPEAKER_06 19:03

Yeah, fair enough. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_03 19:05

Um and then straight hand you a Bloody Mary's just a nasty, nasty bloody Mary. It's like, okay, uh, I'm gonna need you to put this shot in my arm immediately.

SPEAKER_06 19:19

Yeah, I think the most shocking thing was, you know, I expected it to be like a a whiskey coke or something. So I hit like three big gulps of it, and then I was working on something, like my hands were full. She fed it to me, right? And so I take the three big sips or whatever, swallow it, and then immediately I'm like, Brit, what was that? She looks at me and goes, It was a bloody marriage. I've that's my favorite, it was a bloody married, and I'm like, Oh, thanks. Can I have a better drill?

SPEAKER_03 19:56

Who is the Will Farrell character that did that voice? Where he was like a scientist or like a y'all remember that? I think it was Saturday Night Live.

SPEAKER_04 20:06

You know, feel free to hate me, but I'm not a big Will Farrell guy.

SPEAKER_03 20:11

You don't like dumb comedy, do you?

SPEAKER_04 20:13

No, I don't, and I don't like cringe humor either. Oh man, it's my favorite. Yeah, I like Will Farrell.

SPEAKER_03 20:19

I love Will Farrell, like um, you know, Brianna. Cody's wife, Brianna, does not like Will Farrell or Jim Carrey.

SPEAKER_04 20:27

And that's weird because I do like Jim Carrey. You gotta like Jim Carrey.

SPEAKER_03 20:31

She said um she gets the secondhand embarrassment of that gentleman.

SPEAKER_04 20:37

That's how I feel watching like The Office. Like when I watch I am secondhand embarrassed for them the entire time I'm trying to watch it.

SPEAKER_03 20:46

Yeah, but it's meant to be like that. You know, that's definitely what it's like to look like they're and there is an audience for that.

SPEAKER_04 20:55

It just not Uncle Baddie. And with that being said, I've got seen almost all of it.

SPEAKER_03 21:01

I asked you better than I love.

SPEAKER_06 21:03

I don't know that I've ever sat down and watched a full episode of The Office. I've seen so many clips, but like I don't know that I've ever sat down and watched an episode.

SPEAKER_04 21:10

You know, since we brought Nan up, I do think we should uh pose a question though. When we get around to doing some t-shirt design, should we wait to 50 to do our first like you know, beer review shirt, or should we do that at like 10?

SPEAKER_05 21:25

Um I don't know. I don't know. That's a good question.

SPEAKER_04 21:29

I've gotten really good feedback, and people are like, that is an amazing idea for a shirt. You need to do that. You know, just logo on the front, and then on the back, it's all the brews we've tried with the bottle cap ratings average between the three of us.

SPEAKER_03 21:43

Yeah. We can do those like periodically, right? So we're not trying to fit too much on one shirt. We have like uh, you know, we did uh one through five, six, seven, whatever, or one through ten, maybe.

SPEAKER_04 21:56

Yeah, you know, then you just got five and start another one, yeah. And you know, whether it's that or maybe we'll do a maybe we'll do a first ten, then by the time we get to like forty or so, do a top ten, then do like a bunch of little bitty ones and do it. You know, do first fifty or something.

SPEAKER_03 22:12

Hey, I'm down for all of it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 22:15

As someone who likes t-shirts, I'm cool with whatever.

SPEAKER_03 22:18

As someone who seems to never have enough t-shirts. Miranda's gonna be like, thanks a lot, guys. Thanks.

SPEAKER_04 22:25

Well, we're still waiting on our inaugural shirts.

SPEAKER_06 22:28

So the inaugural. Yep, yep. So um now that we've drank some beers that aren't gonna kill us, um. You know, I I was coming up with a game for this week, and the only thing I could think about was the people who listen to this show tune in for two reasons. They want to hear us talk and be stupid. And they want to hear what we're talking about and being stupid about. No doubt. So I couldn't think of a better game than to think of some common polarizing hot takes and let the people know where we stood on them.

SPEAKER_04 23:12

Yeah. Well, you know, we talked a lot about toilet paper around the last episode. We did. You gotta give the people what they want. You know, and I was talking to my buddy today, Chris, who listens religiously. So crap shout out to Chris. Shout out, Chris. Shout out Chris, big city of Rowlet, Texas. Um, you know, and he's like, I just installed a bidet at my house. Oh he's like, I wouldn't change it for the world.

SPEAKER_03 23:36

Hold on. Now, after the episode he installed it, or I don't think he's listening.

SPEAKER_04 23:42

Well, the we're recording on a Tuesday. The episode came out.

SPEAKER_03 23:45

Do we need to shoot for a sponsorship? We're I mean, we're just trying to clean holes, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04 23:49

Yeah. I mean, realistically speaking, in more ways than one. Um, yeah. You know, there they're you know, there's some bidet sponsorships out there. I've seen a few of them. We're looking at you right now. Yeah. Uh so what hot takes you guys for us?

SPEAKER_06 24:05

Dirty Hole clean it up. So I have five hot takes. Um I think four of them are very controversial. People are gonna have a lot of opinions on it. One I threw in because it's it's very true about me, and you made fun of me on Saturday for this.

SPEAKER_04 24:26

They make fun of you all the time.

SPEAKER_06 24:28

Yeah, this one specific situation he made fun of me, and I thought it was funny, so I put it in the podcast. So the first hot take, all you have to say is I agree or I disagree. All right, and then explain your reasoning a little bit. Okay. Okay. The first hot take is boneless chicken wings are chicken wings.

SPEAKER_04 24:49

You're a moron. That's just a hot take.

SPEAKER_06 24:52

Just a hot take. I haven't said whether I agree or disagree.

SPEAKER_04 24:55

You know, um, I 100% disagree with that. You're eating a breaded and fried chicken nugget. Okay. That's all it is. If listen, if you want to call yourself an adult and have your, you know, chicken nuggets bathed in barbecue sauce, you know, do what you gotta do. But no.

SPEAKER_06 25:18

But you don't think a boneless wing is a chicken wing.

SPEAKER_04 25:21

No, it's a chicken nugget. It is a diced up chicken breast that's been breaded and fried.

SPEAKER_05 25:26

Alright.

SPEAKER_03 25:27

I've often thought about this. Because used to back in the day, before I knew better, I just ordered boneless wings.

SPEAKER_06 25:34

It's less work.

SPEAKER_03 25:35

Until I become a man.

SPEAKER_06 25:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:38

I mean, um, I think it is considered a wing. But it's not supposed to be. Just because I grew up calling them wings and you know, boneless wings.

SPEAKER_04 25:51

The chicken's wing.

SPEAKER_03 25:52

Absolutely not, and I know that a hundred percent. But I'm gonna I'm gonna lean on the outs and just say, sure. You if you got a bony wing, you gotta have a boneless wing.

SPEAKER_06 26:05

So you don't want to alienate anybody. You're just gonna say, if you want to eat your chicken nuggets and call it wings, sure. I'm gonna let you do it.

SPEAKER_03 26:12

Yeah, the whole K can eat it too.

SPEAKER_06 26:14

Fair enough. Fair enough. I um agree with Lane. Um, I think that it's a chicken nugget. Now, one thing I will say is there's only one thing that I hate more than someone who gets boneless wings and calls them wings. Hey man, let's go get some wings, and they get chicken nuggets. It is people who get bone-and wings and then ask for rubber gloves to eat them with.

SPEAKER_04 26:45

I didn't even know that was a thing. No, I've never heard of that.

SPEAKER_06 26:48

One of the toughest dudes I've ever met in my life, bad dude. No. We go to Buffalo Wild Wings, and dude orders like 24 bone-and wings. And he put me on tater tots with salt and vinegar on them, which I don't know if y'all know you can do that.

SPEAKER_04 27:03

I mean, I'm down for that.

SPEAKER_06 27:04

It's it's phenomenal. Best thing at Buffalo Wild Wings.

SPEAKER_04 27:06

My favorite kind of potato mix with my favorite flavor of chip, I'm in.

SPEAKER_03 27:12

To me, it doesn't matter what the situation is and what you're eating. If you're putting on gloves to eat when you're just gonna wash your hands or I mean lick it off, whatever you do, I'm making fun of you. Yeah. 100%.

SPEAKER_06 27:30

They bring out like a platter of wings. And he goes, Hey, uh, can I get another beer? And uh can I get some gloves?

SPEAKER_04 27:40

She looked at him like, gloves. Now I have a question. Is he eating lemon pepper wings? Or is he eating the atomic fireball whole burner wings?

SPEAKER_06 27:53

No, it was not due to being spicy because I asked him about it. I was like, hey, brother. He was trying to keep his hands clean. Why are you putting gloves on? I just don't like when my hands get dirty like that.

SPEAKER_03 28:04

I was like, well, I mean, it could be an OCD thing.

SPEAKER_04 28:06

Like you could have some other stuff.

SPEAKER_06 28:08

Grow up.

unknown 28:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:10

Because I've interacted with some like hot sauces over the time and I'm like, you know, if you're doing those like 200,000, 300,000 scovil unit.

SPEAKER_06 28:21

If you're gonna burn the brown eye, I'm okay with you protecting it. But no, just to eat some garlic parm wings, no, get out of here.

SPEAKER_03 28:30

No, you can't do that. I say garlic parm because they're my favorite.

SPEAKER_06 28:33

Oh, I love a garlic parm wing. Love a garlic parm wing. Okay, second hot take. Gas station food is worth the atrocities you commit on the toilet afterwards.

SPEAKER_03 28:47

I've had some good gas station food. So I I would say absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 28:54

It's worth it.

SPEAKER_03 28:55

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 28:55

If it tears your guts up, it's worth it.

SPEAKER_03 28:57

It's convenient. At the time, you're so far away from stopping to get something or make going home making something. It's so worth it.

SPEAKER_04 29:08

I mean, we live in the south, and you know, for our northern listeners, which apparently there are a few, which is wild to me, but um we have some actual restaurants that operate out of gas stations.

SPEAKER_06 29:22

But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about like 7-Eleven loves truck stop.

SPEAKER_03 29:28

So you're talking about the chevron over here that makes the chicken fingers or the wings.

SPEAKER_06 29:33

Brother, I'm talking about roller dogs. I'm talking about 7-Eleven gas stations.

SPEAKER_04 29:39

Because I speak to say, when I was in college, I worked at the Chevron in Satsuma. And that place right there was like voted best restaurant in Satsuma.

SPEAKER_06 29:49

Yeah. I'm talking about Hunt Brothers Pizza. I'm talking about roller dogs.

SPEAKER_03 29:53

Hunt's Brothers Pizza all the way, all the time.

SPEAKER_04 29:56

They have the best marketing strategy in the world, or they used to at least.

SPEAKER_03 30:00

Can't beat the price either.

SPEAKER_04 30:02

Well, not only that, but they used to put targets on their pizzas. Like or on the uh cardboard box. Oh, so after you ate the pizza, you could go and get a Hunts Brothers pizza for like eight dollars when I was in like middle school, high school. And then when you were done, you've got a target.

SPEAKER_03 30:20

I've eaten Hunts Brothers my whole life. I never remember a target.

SPEAKER_04 30:24

Yeah, I remember there being some targets on them. But think about it though, like how much does a like how much does a target cost?

SPEAKER_03 30:33

Uh paper target five bucks.

SPEAKER_04 30:38

In high school, when we ate, you know, Hunts Brothers religiously. You got a baby gun target, brother.

SPEAKER_03 30:44

Well, we just like my uncle used to use um just little Caesar's pizzas, and he'd he would aim for between the eyes or like, you know, something like that, and then just a pizza box, you know, to shoot arrows at it.

SPEAKER_04 30:56

But I mean, that's doing the same thing with a Hunts Brothers pizza plane. I've never seen a Target. That's I think it's cool, but and so if I can pay three more dollars and get a target and a whole feedback.

SPEAKER_05 31:12

Done.

SPEAKER_03 31:13

Which target you're making me so at Quick Trip.

SPEAKER_04 31:16

Well, we're talking strictly, well, now you've made a problem because Quick Trick's different because they have a Quick Trip has a restaurant. Like you can order food directly from inside, and it's Quick Trip food. So, like, are you saying roller dogs station food, right?

SPEAKER_06 31:34

I'm talking about you walk in, there is food there, you buy it. It's ready to go. It's always in the little heaters. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:41

I mean, I still I'll I'll still take it. Like, even you know, I I deal with the consequences.

SPEAKER_03 31:47

You can't beat the convenience of a Hunts Brothers pizza sitting there.

SPEAKER_06 31:51

I hard agree. I'm with you. I mean I'll shit my guts out two, you know, two hours down the road.

SPEAKER_03 31:55

It is what it is, and you may get lucky.

SPEAKER_04 31:57

Yeah, yeah. And you know, you go to Quick Trip and they've got those like two for six dollars, you know, quarter pizzas that get in there.

SPEAKER_03 32:05

Uh tornadoes.

SPEAKER_04 32:07

I don't know. The Crespitos?

SPEAKER_03 32:09

Is that what they're called?

SPEAKER_04 32:10

I thought they were called tornados. Um they may have a sp they may have their own name for it.

SPEAKER_03 32:14

No, you got like the jalapeno cheddars, and then you get like the four cheese or the chicken, or yeah. Yeah, I'm messing that up. You're risking it on a quick little trip?

SPEAKER_06 32:25

Risking it.

SPEAKER_04 32:26

You know, I will preface that by saying I will like look at it and see like how long does how long does this look like it's been sitting here? Because if it's been there for like eight hours, I'll probably pass, but like anything less than that.

SPEAKER_03 32:39

I'll be down working on the property, getting ready for hunting season or something like that. And you think I'm not stopping by Chevron, you know what I'm saying? The st the Chevron's always got the Hunts Brothers pizza or the Tornadas, whatever you want to do. And I'm like, yeah, I'm jumping back on the highway and I gotta drive back home.

SPEAKER_06 32:56

To wear it out.

SPEAKER_03 32:57

I'm I'm starving.

SPEAKER_06 32:59

I'm with you. I'm with you. Okay, my next hot take, and I have to be very careful with how I word this, okay. No matter your musical preference, okay, whether you hate dubstep, whether you hate country music, no matter what your musical preference is, enjoying old country music is directly proportional to how much you've had to drink. So, regardless of whether you like it or not, if you drink enough beers and some Hank Williams comes on, you're having the time of your life.

SPEAKER_03 33:36

But what if you enjoy it before? Like just a normal day, you already enjoy that style.

SPEAKER_06 33:42

No, but I'm saying it's directly proportional. The more you drink, the more you like it.

SPEAKER_03 33:48

I for some reason, the more I drink, I do tend to remember the words a little bit.

SPEAKER_06 33:53

Hey, how many times have we been out together?

SPEAKER_03 33:57

You already know. Why do you drink?

SPEAKER_06 34:01

Oh, dinosaur. You get four or five beers in and dinosaur comes on.

SPEAKER_03 34:06

You know, I thought karaoke knight, you got that buddy that just oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 34:10

I thought you were doing some like old country, like, you know, in 1814 we took a little trip. Still, I guess. And that too. You know, because I can get down on that.

SPEAKER_06 34:20

If I get drunk enough, see some sea shanties will start coming out. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_04 34:24

I will listen to sea shanties sober. I love sea shanties.

SPEAKER_03 34:28

My brother writes sea shanties. I've got to show y'all some. Um we gotta have we gotta have David on the podcast. He would love it. I mentioned it. Um, there was one day he was in town when we were recording and he didn't get to come, but he was like, I would love to be a part of it.

SPEAKER_06 34:46

Yeah, big fan of the podcast is David.

SPEAKER_04 34:48

Why don't you go ahead and try to do it?

SPEAKER_03 34:49

Uh David wrote our song. You know, David wrote our intro song um and did a phenomenal job, I believe. But he writes songs like that all the time, guys. If y'all want some sort of music made or for something, hit up my brother David Brown. He will he is a writer, man. He is he will put some stuff together and even really do some research into it.

SPEAKER_06 35:12

Even though he looks like a fed. He does look like a fed.

SPEAKER_03 35:14

Well, he'll he'll dress like a fed now. He'll show up, he'll show up to the nines. He's got his blazer on, you know. Why don't you try to give on the show for next week? I would, yeah, let's try that. Let's try that.

SPEAKER_06 35:26

Done. Yeah. So what y'all's take? You agree with it?

SPEAKER_03 35:30

Um, I since you mentioned it that way, I have to agree with it because there's I do enjoy it before, but I really enjoy it after.

SPEAKER_06 35:41

Get you a few Evans and let Dixie Lynn the light come on.

SPEAKER_04 35:44

Oh, I don't need anything for Dixie Lynn. Dixie Lyon beer.

SPEAKER_03 35:48

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:49

Lane, what do you think? Oh, I'm I'm 100% on board with that because I've seen people that do not like country music even remotely.

SPEAKER_03 35:57

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:58

You know, about midnight after they got nice and toasty, they getting down on some old counters.

SPEAKER_03 36:05

It comes out.

SPEAKER_04 36:06

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:07

We used to have a lot of those those songs queued up for the set list, man, because after after the first set and everybody's good and buzzed, man, you could play it all. You would play all of that stuff. I love all of this song. Yeah. They sing every word. And then it never failed. We always threw some Shania Dwayne in.

SPEAKER_06 36:30

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 36:31

Do you know how many times I've sang on stage? Man, you feel like a woman. Man, I feel like a woman. I have. I'll own it all day long. Oh and it always went over and pays the bills 100%.

SPEAKER_04 36:45

You know, and as bad as my voice is, but when I get drunk, I'll get down on some Toby Keith. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 36:51

Oh yeah. So Toby Keith did a lot for this nation. Amen. Um fourth hot take, and this is this is the one that uh is about me. This is what K-Dog bullied me, bullied me about. Um number four, if I say, let me see what my schedule looks like, I'm 100% not coming.

SPEAKER_03 37:13

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 37:14

Okay. Yeah, that's that's a real one.

SPEAKER_03 37:19

Uh I'm 100% on board because I've also used the same thing.

SPEAKER_04 37:25

Let me get back to you.

SPEAKER_03 37:26

Yeah, let me see what I got going on this afternoon. In my defense, I do always slightly check the schedule. But how bad do you feel when someone's like, hey man, you want to go do this, you want to go do that? And you want to, but you've you've kind of you've already made like a family plan or like you got something else going on, and you just be like, hey, man, a hard no. Some people in this day and time just take it personally. And to not hurt anyone's feelings, you kind of hit them with that, I'll try. You know what I'm saying? And realistically, in a lot of situations, I do. Yeah. I actually, you know, I'll try to make it work. But then there's some times where my shoes are off, my comfy pants are on.

SPEAKER_06 38:14

It's over. Those are trademark, by the way.

SPEAKER_03 38:17

We're about to start watching whatever, you know, whatever Brit's got keyed up. Some baby Billy. Whatever Brit's got queued up. And I'm like, oh man, I'm probably not, probably not doing anything.

SPEAKER_04 38:30

Yeah, and it's tough because I'm the exact opposite. Because I will be like, I just don't want to do it. Like, let's be honest. Like if I don't want to do something, first of all, I'm not going to do it, but I also don't want to be a complete jerk in front of somebody. And so I'll be like, yeah, let me check the schedule. Uh, you know, this weekend's pretty backed for me right now. And really, it's just me and my pillow.

SPEAKER_06 38:52

But it reminds me of the Jim Jim Carrey Grinch. I just can't miss that.

SPEAKER_03 38:58

I love, I love the Jim Carrey Grinch.

SPEAKER_06 39:01

Oh, it's so good. It's a great Christmas movie.

SPEAKER_03 39:03

He's my spirit animal.

SPEAKER_06 39:04

Yeah. What is the uh Dinner with myself at six? I just can't miss that. I've done rescheduled that twice.

SPEAKER_03 39:11

Um while I'm in self-loaning. I love it.

SPEAKER_06 39:17

Yeah, it's a good one. And the last hot take. This one is kind of related, but I I thought it was different enough. Taking your shoes off and laying down for just a minute does not exist. Once the shoes come off and you are no longer vertical.

SPEAKER_03 39:40

And I hate it so bad because once you do it, once you commit and take a little midday nap or like something. Your day's over. I'm always miserable after. Your day's over. Yeah, it's done.

SPEAKER_04 39:53

It's like I know it's gonna still do it.

SPEAKER_03 39:57

Now, Brittany, buddy, she's got she's down bad with the shoes off. She will come in the door, we gotta stop for a minute, we gotta go somewhere else. She'll that heated blanket over there, you know what I'm saying? She'll throw her shoes off, she'll sit down and she'll look straight at me and go, Oh, I shouldn't have done this.

SPEAKER_06 40:18

I'm bad about it with my wife because we will uh it'll be like Sunday after church or something. We'll come home and I'll I'll cook lunch. Well, after we eat lunch, we're sitting on the couch or whatever. She's like, look over at me. Hey, what if we just take like a 15-minute nap? Just yeah. Just 15 minutes. This past Sunday, the weather was perfect, man. We opened up every single window in the house. There was like a nice breeze coming through.

SPEAKER_03 40:42

I know the exact feeling you're talking about.

SPEAKER_06 40:45

We were sitting on the couch, had like some just background movie playing. She looked up and said, Hey, can we just take like a little 30-minute nap? It's like, you know, one 1 30 in the afternoon. Do y'all ever warn each other? Oh, we're super aware. We're like, if we take a nap, it's over.

SPEAKER_03 41:02

You know our day's done, right?

SPEAKER_06 41:05

No, no, we're we're gonna do laundry. We'll clean afterwards.

SPEAKER_03 41:08

Just a little, just no, no, we can't do it.

SPEAKER_06 41:11

The worst part is when we both know that and we like encourage each other. You know, one of us fights a little bit, like, no, babe, let's do the laundry first.

SPEAKER_03 41:19

No, it's okay. What if we do the laundry tonight and then we yeah, oh, I know the exact conversation.

SPEAKER_06 41:27

It's over, it's over. So laying down for just a minute, that don't exist.

SPEAKER_03 41:31

Lane, do you have that? Oh man. Because I know a scenario where we hit up Lane after his shoes were off and he straight came out like a baller.

SPEAKER_06 41:43

He did, he said, Hey, I just ate dinner and put my comfy pants on. Give me a minute, I'll be there.

SPEAKER_03 41:47

I'll be there. And he showed up and showed out.

SPEAKER_04 41:50

So it's a real toss-up, like honestly, because there's times that I want to do something. If I'm like, I want to go and do XYZ thing, and maybe you guys just didn't ever get back in the group, and then all of a sudden it's like, oh hey, we're gonna do this, and I'm like, okay, I've been waiting.

SPEAKER_03 42:13

I'm the worst with the group because I will miss so much, and then 17 trillion messages in the group chat. And so, you know, I don't hit the little optimize and tell me all about it. I ask Brittany what's going on, and she summarizes everything. She's like, Oh, yeah, no, this and that, and this and that. But then sometimes I miss that conversation, and Britney never lets me know the plan until she walks in the door, she's like, Why are you not ready? Or like, what? Uh, yeah, no, we're all doing, yeah, it was in the group. I'm like, Well, I've missed that completely.

SPEAKER_04 42:46

You know, I think that segues really well into like we talked about my first two pet peeves last week. But my third pet peeve, and the probably the biggest one for me, is when we say we're going to do something like right now, and then it's like two hours later we do it. Like that drives me, like you can don't get married, brother. There is there is no way that you cannot see me visibly get ants.

SPEAKER_03 43:15

You mentioned that. I know that this is churning. This is churning in in Honeybun's head right now because every time we're fixing to go ride bikes, he's like waiting, engine running, Britt still putting on her helmet makeup, something, putting her hair up, getting her music right. I'm backing out, doing my thing. He's always just down there like just looking back, looking back.

SPEAKER_04 43:45

You know, it's like Saturday, right? You know, we're like, oh yeah, we'll go downtown, we'll do the bluegrass festival, and then we'll go have lunch at the barn. So to me, that means that we're gonna get to the bluegrass festival, and then we're gonna, you know, do our thing there, maybe be there for. For an hour or two, and then maybe like two o'clock, two thirty, we're going to have lunch. And uh I'm sitting there and I show up, or I think I drove by and I was like, There's nobody here. And I was like, Okay. So like I went downtown for a little while and I came back, and there's still nobody here. And we didn't even go to the bluegrass festival till like two o'clock. And I'm like, Yeah. No, I'm we're pissing mine off.

SPEAKER_06 44:28

Yeah, I'm super punctual, so it bothers me a lot as well. It bothers me a lot.

SPEAKER_04 44:32

It's one of those things. When I was in college, I almost failed a class because if I think that I'm gonna be one minute late, I won't go.

SPEAKER_03 44:45

Like if I think like if you how many how many times were you one minute late? So you almost failed.

SPEAKER_04 44:52

Um no, it had nothing to do with being late. It's if I if I if if I thought I was gonna be late, I wouldn't go. Just miss it. And so I had a class and I didn't realize this at the start of the semester, but apparently you got nine absences for the semester. And I got an email when I had said I was late to orientation. Yeah, it's like I I got an email when I had eight. That would be me. And he was like, if you miss this class again, you will fail. I was like, uh, I guess, and so like that was that was a huge thing for me.

SPEAKER_03 45:21

I'll be there early.

SPEAKER_04 45:22

Yeah, I do not believe in showing up to stuff late.

SPEAKER_06 45:25

Yeah, I'm the same way. If I know I have to be somewhere at 7 a.m., I'm there at 6 30, like sitting in the parking lot.

SPEAKER_03 45:31

Now, with my own plans, I'm on I'm on my wife's time. She does what she does, and I love her for it. Um, so we will fall behind on some plans real quick. Quick. Now, me, as far as as far as I go personally, I'm the same way. I was always a 30-minute before guy. Um Britt's like, it'll wait. It won't start till I get there.

SPEAKER_06 45:56

And in her defense, it's true most of the time.

SPEAKER_03 45:59

Your father for every holiday and for every get together always says it's one hour earlier than it actually is.

SPEAKER_06 46:06

I love that.

SPEAKER_04 46:07

Sometimes there's a necessity.

SPEAKER_03 46:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 46:09

Shout out Mr. Mike.

SPEAKER_03 46:10

There, there's probably a handful of times. Actually, I think there's two times we showed up way before anybody else. Don't know how it happened, but they're like, What are y'all doing here?

SPEAKER_06 46:22

Yes, Mike's over there grinning, sitting in his chair. Yeah. No, I I think it's it's a big deal. It bothers me. Um, but it's the same way, dude. I'm super, super punctual. My wife is like, we'll get there when we get there. She's just not concerned. She's also laid back. She's super out of touch with how long it takes to get places. Like the other day, we had we had to be in Birmingham at like 10 o'clock or something. And uh she woke me up at seven. She's like, hey, we need to start getting ready. Like, babe, I drive to Birmingham every day. It takes me 35 minutes from the time I walk out the door. Oh, I thought it was like an hour 15. Like, even if it was an hour 15, we have three hours. Why did you just wake me up? But she's just so out of touch. I I love her dearly. She has lived in Walker County her entire life. I feel confident that if we are sitting in your driveway and I told her to go to Sonic, she would not know where to go. Like that's really oh, she has a zero sense of direction.

SPEAKER_04 47:24

Well, after they redid all the medians, it's real challenging.

SPEAKER_06 47:28

I hate the medium, they're terrible, and they're all backwards.

SPEAKER_04 47:31

And that's something that drives me crazy is that people don't know how to use medians. But then they went in and forced these medians in Jasper, right? And then they're also, and you can't see oncoming traffic because there's vehicles there.

SPEAKER_03 47:45

They messed up on the city.

SPEAKER_02 48:03

Stop us in the colour, stop the ball, talking to the show, and the ladder is just going to be a little bit more.

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SPEAKER_04 49:38

Alright, boys and girls, welcome back and welcome to round two of the A Trip to the Beer Store April Madness. This will be the round of 16. We have Mikelob Ultra versus Yingling.

SPEAKER_06 49:58

This is tough for me. This is really, really tough for me. Yeah. Because at what point do we start considering popularity over our own personal choices?

SPEAKER_04 50:11

It's not a popularity. Yeah, there's not a popularity. It is your preference combined with accessibility.

SPEAKER_06 50:19

Oh, accessibility is yangling. I'm and if y'all disagree, that's totally fine.

SPEAKER_03 50:24

I would have to disagree because um, and we ran into this at par. We were the only people in this town that had yinling on tap.

unknown 50:36

I love a yingling.

SPEAKER_06 50:37

It's my wife's favorite beer.

SPEAKER_03 50:39

Every bar in town has ultra no matter what. Well, you have accessibility-wise and of my own choosing because I do love yingling and respect to yingling, but ultra. So we'll have to have a tiebreaker.

SPEAKER_06 50:56

I'm not upset that it's ultra. Ultra is probably objectively the right choice as far as what 99% of people are gonna say. Surely for me, I have spent so much money on drinking funded. Well, it's uh it's one of the only beers my wife will drink. Oh, yeah. Um, and I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 51:16

She was smashing that tell you right earlier. Well, that is true.

SPEAKER_06 51:19

She it's really funny because she's more of a craft beer person than I am. Um shout out to my wife, she's fantastic. Shout out, love you, fuzzy. Um so she's so cool.

SPEAKER_03 51:31

Yeah, she's she's like just cool, calm, collective the whole time.

SPEAKER_06 51:35

I would say we'd I'd love to have her on the podcast, but it would just be silence. She wouldn't say anything.

SPEAKER_03 51:40

As we're shouting out, I've never seen somebody get drunk like your wife on half of a because I cannot ever read it.

SPEAKER_05 51:52

You can't?

SPEAKER_03 51:53

I can't read it. You're like, she's just so cool and just chill, man. And you're like, she's tore out of the frame. Oh, yeah. But that's the thing. No, like, no, she's not. She's looking in a general direction.

SPEAKER_04 52:07

She's kind of here, you know what I mean. If you spend enough time with a person, though, like you'll learn the different kinds of drunk. And we can talk about the different types of drunk on episode.

SPEAKER_03 52:17

I gained her total respect the other day, and I feel legendary about it because we went out and rode motorcycles, and she doesn't like to ride with him because let's be honest, he's gotta see what the engine will do, you know. And I I play a little safer game, and we got back, she was like, You totally earned my trust. And I was like, boom, points.

SPEAKER_04 52:39

So I guess it comes to me to make the decision between an ultra and a yinling.

SPEAKER_06 52:46

And this may, if you go with me, this may be the biggest upset of the tournament.

SPEAKER_07 52:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 52:51

Well, I mean, considering that Michelobe is the number one volume selling beer in the city. And I I love a micelobe. I'm not saying that I don't love a micelobe.

SPEAKER_03 53:01

That falls under the accessibility.

SPEAKER_04 53:03

Yeah, I mean, in terms of volume, micelobe sells more. And it's hard, and it'll be hard for some of these beers as we get through this because Anheuser Busch is the arguably the most accessible distributor in the United States. This is true. So we're what are we doing? So no disrespect to you, Braden. I don't there's none taken. And to be honest, I think that Yingling is a better beer. But if Yingling Light, Yingling does have a light beer. Ying flight. Oh, my apologies. Flight. If it was on par, if it was Yingling Light versus a Michelobe light.

SPEAKER_03 53:50

You think that's more accessible?

SPEAKER_06 53:52

No. No, Micelobe or Yingling Flight is kind of hard to find sometimes. Yeah. But it's delicious. It is uh to me, it is almost the same flavor as a yingling. Just a little bit taken off, but for like half the calories, much, much lighter. Um phenomenal light beer though.

SPEAKER_04 54:10

And so that's what I'm saying. If it was a if it was a yingling flight versus a mi club, I would probably take the flight.

SPEAKER_03 54:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 54:20

But it was a yinling as a full-body beer, I have got to push on a mi-obe.

SPEAKER_06 54:27

You got to, and I understand that. I'm not upset.

SPEAKER_04 54:30

So, next matchup.

unknown 54:32

I'm upset.

SPEAKER_04 54:33

I'm sorry. Yingling flight. But in in this matchup, honestly, it's a little more fair. We've got Shinerbach versus Guinness.

SPEAKER_06 54:48

So this is really tough because I love both of these beers.

SPEAKER_03 54:51

You're not gonna like my decision.

SPEAKER_06 54:56

I love both of these beers. And if we are considering just the U.S., it's definitely Shiner. But if we're talking about our international crowd, accessibility is a factor.

SPEAKER_04 55:07

Yeah, I gotta think about that.

SPEAKER_06 55:09

It's Guinness. Guinness is like one of the top beers in the entire world.

SPEAKER_03 55:13

If it was more accessible, I would absolutely say Shiner, but it's not realistically, it's not as accessible as Guinness, so yeah, I wouldn't do Guinness.

SPEAKER_06 55:23

And I love a Guinness. I love a Shiner too. Ain't nothing finer.

unknown 55:26

So good.

SPEAKER_06 55:27

Guinness it is.

SPEAKER_04 55:28

Guinness is moving forward for the next matchup. Onward. We have the backbone of the United States. That's me. Versus That's me. The backbone of Mexico. Oh no. I'm not gonna give it to him.

SPEAKER_03 55:46

I'm not gonna give it to him.

SPEAKER_04 55:47

I'm just not we have arguably my two favorite beers facing off in PBR versus Tacate.

SPEAKER_06 55:59

God. I love a Tacate. I'm so sorry, though. I am terrible white trash.

SPEAKER_03 56:06

Well, I think you can get PBR, man, just anything.

SPEAKER_06 56:09

It's a PBR. PBR. I'm sorry. It's a PBR.

SPEAKER_03 56:13

Even if I love it.

SPEAKER_06 56:15

Also, PBR, shout out to PBR. They made some of the funniest April Fool's Facebook post that I've seen anywhere.

SPEAKER_04 56:22

Oh, did they?

SPEAKER_06 56:23

Dude, they made some really funny ones.

SPEAKER_04 56:28

I didn't see any of that.

SPEAKER_06 56:28

Do y'all not follow PBR on Facebook?

SPEAKER_04 56:31

No, I don't follow anybody on Facebook.

SPEAKER_06 56:33

You should follow PBR on Facebook. You know who you should follow on Facebook? A trip to the beer store.

SPEAKER_03 56:39

A trip to the beer store.

SPEAKER_04 56:41

Honestly, as our listeners are growing, I don't think that our fan base on Facebook and TikTok match that. So this does seem like a perfect time for a shameless plug to please make sure that you're following us on both Facebook and TikTok right now.

SPEAKER_06 56:56

On all platforms. On all platforms.

SPEAKER_04 56:59

We don't have an Instagram right now. Um we can work on that though. But Facebook and TikTok, please make sure you're following a trip to the beer store.

SPEAKER_06 57:08

I'm not an Instagram guy. Sorry, I'm old. This is my unk showing.

SPEAKER_04 57:14

Yeah. So we're gonna get nitty gritty, and K Dog's gonna have a hard time with this one.

SPEAKER_05 57:20

My poor Paul.

SPEAKER_04 57:21

We got the truck stop honey versus the Corona Extra.

SPEAKER_03 57:29

Well, while I do love both the same nearly, I do lean toward the Corona Extra as just a regular drinking beer. But honestly, one is a lot more accessible than the other. You can't argue with that. There's a Corona extra in every gas station there is, and there is not sometimes in a 40. But there is not a truck stop, honey, in every gas station, and that is the hard truth, my boy.

SPEAKER_06 58:00

Braden.

SPEAKER_04 58:01

That's tough, man.

SPEAKER_03 58:03

It is tough.

SPEAKER_06 58:04

Absolutely. I think in the same vein that Mikelob passed up Yingling, I think the corona has to pass up the truck stop. I love truck stop.

SPEAKER_03 58:18

Absolutely. Um it's just to think about the rules of the game, it's not that it's not accessible here. It's not hard to find.

SPEAKER_04 58:28

But here, if you were in California, yeah, you're not finding it. Could you find a truck stop, honey?

SPEAKER_03 58:34

It's not it's not a worldwide.

SPEAKER_04 58:36

And so that's that that's where it gets tough with the game, right? All right. So we're passing on the Corona Extra.

SPEAKER_03 58:44

I'm really looking forward to people's feedback on this because I get calls all the time from good buddies, and they're like, hey, I was right with you on that one, but I would have changed the last one, you know. And I like to hear that.

SPEAKER_04 58:54

So this will be another, you know, accessibility versus flavor matchup. We've got the versus the Montucky Cold Snack.

SPEAKER_03 59:11

We know the truth about this one, though. I think we know the hard truth about this one. I know Braden's gonna see, he's like, I don't care. I don't care about the hard truth.

SPEAKER_06 59:21

I I hate I hate to I hate to just completely make exactly what K Dog said. Um shout out, baby Billy. I I hate it. I really do. I hate it. Um because I know that my beer, our beer, our beer, gets put out this round.

SPEAKER_04 59:50

We know which beer is the better beer. And we know Montucky.

SPEAKER_06 59:55

I just want to tell you we're not if if y'all send me an email, I'll pull a gun on both of these guys and make Montucky pass in this round. Yeah. Um, and I just can't look, I know what you guys are gonna say, and I just can't do it. You know what I mean? Y'all are gonna have to do it for me. My vote is that Montucky passes through.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:16

It's gonna be Modello for the for the sake of the rules.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:20

As the unbiased mediator in the discussion, Modello has to pass through because based solely on accessibility. It's not on flavor, because I'll take a Montucky cold snack every single day over a Modello, but based on accessibility.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:44

So you're right. But one thing I would like to point out, okay? The reason that Montuckey isn't accessible is because people won't try it. So if more people were drinking Montuckey, they would be making more Montuckies and they would have a larger distribution hub, and then there would be still pretty new. And there would be more Montuckies, which means there would be more people drinking more Montuckies.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:05

We'll come back to this game in a few years. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:07

I mean, we can make this an annual thing because the thing is we can look and we can see as things update, and we can see that you know, this this product sold more than that product and things.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:19

Montucky, when you go public and I can buy stock, I'm buying it all.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:23

Oh man. I've never I've never given a Montucky to anyone that did not love it.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:28

I will just perfect. Like so I don't think there's anything that'd make a Montucky better. So I hate that it's out. I understand why it's out. Yeah, I'm upset. It is what it is.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:40

Yeah, I really feel why you're holding a gun.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:44

I really feel bad for the Northeast, if I'm being honest, because the Northeast is a weak bracket.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:49

Yeah, it's tough.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:50

So coming in at the next matchup, we've got the blue moon versus a Heineken.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:57

Oh, that's actually kind of tough.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:59

Yeah, I feel like both of them are equally on or off whether or wherever you walk in.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:05

They're very situational beers. Um, and that's kind of tough. Um I think this is this is where the bracket gets hard. Yeah. Because I would never say no to either of those beers. Yeah. Um, for me, it's gonna be a blue moon.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:23

I'm going to say Heineken.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:27

And you both bring fair arguments.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:30

But at the end of the day, you have to make him the bad guy.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:34

Yeah, too. I feel like I'm always the bad guy.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:37

Poor Lane.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:39

In terms of an argument versus accessibility and flavor, it's going to take the blue moon. Okay.

unknown 1:02:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:47

That's just where I said. I like a blue moon.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:50

There's something uh I think a blue moon is. Whenever you're ready, big boy. One thing I will say about Blue Moon, the only time I go out of my way to order a blue moon is when I'm eating chicken wings. I think Blue Moon is the perfect hot wing beer.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:07

Really? I might agree with you.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:11

I think like at a Buffalo Wild Wings or at a Hooters or whatever your preferred wing spot is, Twin Peaks, whatever. There's something about getting like a tall blue moon on draft with an orange in it for Twin Peaks is not my favorite place for wings.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:26

I've never eaten that. Britney, Britney, no, no, don't shoot him. She's got a gun. No, I was thinking about that joke for some reason.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:38

I was like, he's been practicing for six weeks.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:42

But there is something about like a chicken wing that I really like a blue moon with. Alright, boys. And I feel like the next round's a pretty easily decided matchup.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:53

He thinks that me and you are gonna fist.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:56

We've got the Andy Gator versus the Corsite.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:02

Yes, Corsite.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:04

Yeah, like I said, it was a T matchup.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:06

Sorry, Abida. Love y'all.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:08

Because the thing is, and we talked about it previously, Abita is just not as accessible nationwide as we would like it to be. And rounding out the last of 16.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:26

We've got the Curz Banquet.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:29

The Colorado Kool-Aid. Colorado Kool-Aid. Versus. The Bud Light. It's bankrupt.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:38

What is that? Virtus. Epic Right Bell of Rory. Oh, Epic. Virtus.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:45

Um it's the banquet.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:49

It is absolutely the banquet. Alright.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:52

Sorry, uh, sorry, Bud Light. No, there's a lot of people who love you. No, there's a lot of people that hate you now. Um doesn't matter. But yeah, banquet. I don't care about your political.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:01

Yeah, it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:02

Yeah, that has no effect on me. Uh, but but your banquet, banquet's far better. Yeah, court's banquet is hard to beat. Do you like it out of a can or a bottle better? Yes. Don't care. Out of a little stubby bottle, I love a banquet.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:17

I think I think out of a can is a great beer, but something about that cold little bottle. That little stubby.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:25

And it doesn't even qualify as a pony. No, because it's a full 12-ounce beer, but stallion.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:33

That was my nickname in high school. Was stallion your nickname in high school? He did weird things with horses.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:42

He's got a very long problem. It's a lady's problem.