Ep 7. Granny Needed Beer Money

A Trip to the Beer Store is back and somehow less supervised than ever. This episode dives into the chaos of an old lady robbing a bank, wraps up the madness of March Madness, cracks open a brand new beer for an honest taste test, and spirals into the kind of unhinged conversations that make absolutely no sense… until they do. Sports, crime, cold drinks, and pure nonsense, just the way it should be.

Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:10

Change my life trip to the pistol. On the trip to the pistol. Gotta have a situation on trip to the pistol.

SPEAKER_06 0:25

I had a revelation. Trip to the pistol. Leaving no money behind.

SPEAKER_04 0:34

Alright, guys. So I want you to pretend for a minute that you're a bank teller. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 0:40

A minute.

SPEAKER_04 0:41

You got somebody that walks in and hands you a note. What does that note have to say for you to be willing to hand over all the money in your till?

SPEAKER_02 0:50

I hate corporate America, so they'll all they have to do is ask.

SPEAKER_03 0:56

Um, I mean, I've got your kids. Like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:01

Oh no, me and Kate Oliver opposite ends of the spectrum.

SPEAKER_04 1:04

I'm just like, yeah, cool, that's fine, whatever. I mean, Braden's willing to give up his kids just because he hates corporate America. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:11

It's for the greater good.

SPEAKER_02 1:13

It is what it is. I'm probably gonna tell you where the ink packs are. You know what I mean? Like, yeah. Don't open this back. Yeah, yeah. Actually, I'm just not even gonna give them to you. I'm gonna throw those on the floor. You don't want these.

SPEAKER_03 1:25

I could have sworn they were in the back.

SPEAKER_02 1:26

Yeah, sorry, guys.

SPEAKER_04 1:28

So this 72-year-old woman walks into a bank in Gardannell and she hands the teller at the bank a note, and we don't know what that note says, but more or less it's going to imply give me all your money. And the teller just hands over all the money in her till to a 72-year-old woman.

SPEAKER_02 1:49

As she should, man.

SPEAKER_03 1:51

A fly on the wall.

SPEAKER_02 1:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:53

Give me your money.

SPEAKER_04 1:56

Because I mean, like, what's the thing behind that, right? Like, you know, typically they have a gun or they say they've got a gun. There's going to be something that's going to motivate you to be willing to hand over that amount of cash, right?

SPEAKER_02 2:07

No, I I don't think there isn't any motivation because why why would you not? It's like uh, you know, I've worked in some retail stores and they tell you if somebody's just do it. Yeah, just give them a few. Yeah, if somebody does something, you just you just give it to them.

unknown 2:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:21

But Grandy just came in. Please tell me she had a walker or something. I was fixing to just say Grandy just came in, and she might even have a walker, and she's just like, this thing's got dual rocket launchers.

SPEAKER_02 2:33

She put it in her little basket on the front of her walker. She said, Set the money in the basket.

SPEAKER_03 2:37

At 9 03 a.m. on April 10th, she walks in, hands a note, and gets paid, and then walks out the door, gets into her car, drives straight to the police station, and says, Look what I just did.

SPEAKER_04 2:51

Yeah, so there I have so many questions about this. Oh, yeah. It's like, you know, first of all, what did the nodes say?

SPEAKER_03 2:59

I need yeah, I don't know why they wouldn't release that immediately.

SPEAKER_04 3:02

And like, where's the in-house security? I mean, every bank should have like in-house security.

SPEAKER_03 3:08

It's just Margaret.

SPEAKER_02 3:09

Yeah, but it's like the perfect disguise. Like, who thinks a 70-year-old woman's robbing the bank?

SPEAKER_03 3:13

She does is woman.

SPEAKER_04 3:14

That lady did successfully, just BT dubs.

SPEAKER_02 3:17

I wonder, I wonder if it'll come out that she has like dementia or something.

SPEAKER_04 3:21

And and I'm and that's what I'm fearful of because while it's it's funny on the front end, like this little old lady walked in and literally robbed a bank. It's um, you know, a far uh far less funny that she probably has dementia.

SPEAKER_07 3:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:36

I feel like it's a little old lady. Would they press charges the same? I mean, I know they're supposed to, but well, you know what I'm saying? Like the bank's like, you know, we've known her for years. She it was her bank. She'd done it a few times. And they're like, you know what? Realistically, we love her, you know.

SPEAKER_04 3:54

And maybe that was just a new teller because maybe she just hands that note over every single time. As like a joke. Miss Martha, how many times have I told you about making that?

SPEAKER_03 4:05

Well, no, I mean, but then she would just stop there, right? She got in, she took the money, she got in the car, she drove to the police station, was like, I just robbed this bank.

SPEAKER_04 4:15

And so what are we gonna do?

SPEAKER_02 4:17

You know, she was speed running a cavity search, is all she was doing.

SPEAKER_04 4:21

And I looked it up a little bit, and so they reached out to her caregiver. Apparently, she's got even at least full-time or part-time caregiver. Um, but they said that charges were pending against this lady, and on top of that, the um this is one of the few cases that the FBI does not have to be invited in anytime it involves uh federal uh federal uh violation, federal breaking of federal law. Yeah. So the FBI is actually involved on this too. And so I'm you know, while you know, Martha probably shouldn't have robbed the bank, it's gonna be kind of bad. She's facing 50 in federal pen for it.

SPEAKER_03 5:06

Y'all hear like you you hear a beer opening.

SPEAKER_04 5:08

All I hear is that's solely for Cantley Letter.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

Yeah. Um I don't know. It's one of those things where, you know, there's so much going on in the world right now, and it and and outside of the world, just in the US, there's so much things going on. Is that the best use of resources?

SPEAKER_03 5:32

Like pressing charges.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

If you you said that her caregivers, so obviously she's having some type of issues. Maybe just pat Martha on the back and say, Yeah. Hey, you know, it may be messed up.

SPEAKER_03 5:45

Well, she's out of her mind. Yeah, you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_04 5:47

And it may be one of those things where they, you know, call the if she if she has children, right? They may call and say, Hey, we need you to come in and talk to us. And we're like, listen, the the caregiver's not doing a good enough job, you know.

SPEAKER_03 6:00

She either give her drove her down there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:03

You know, but like maybe it's like, hey, you know, caregiver can't keep up. You're either gonna have to put her in a home or she's gonna have to face charges. Yeah. Well, so maybe they put her in a home and it's what's the best case scenario for everybody.

SPEAKER_02 6:17

I wonder if it's one of those things where you know, and I'm not up to date, so I I'm not certain, but you know, there used to be like um state funded homes for like maybe people who didn't have family or like couldn't take care of themselves anymore, and it was like state funded, like a community home or something like that. I wonder if that's still a thing.

SPEAKER_04 6:40

I mean, uh I'm I'm sure that within within reason, but like one of the unfortunate side effects that we learned about when it came to my grandmother before she passed away, my my dad's mom, was that if you don't have a even for like in a state funded institution, if you have property, if you don't have enough in retirement or savings or a way to pay, they will literally go in and seize property to pay for that funding. So I I would hate to see something like that happen.

SPEAKER_03 7:16

And the the problem tried to do that to my uncle.

SPEAKER_04 7:19

Well, they they try to do it to my grand my uh grandmother, but between her three kids, you know, my dad being one of them, they they could take care of that, but they'll go back like five years worth. And so, like, if you haven't transitioned that property over at least five years in advance, they can go back and try to get access to all of that. And so that's a little on the dirty side.

SPEAKER_02 7:45

Dirty, slimy, slimy, just take care of these people, you know. Man, it's crazy though. Like, I I think it's really insane that uh what this is this will be episode number seven. I think every single episode we've talked about some kind of crazy thing happening, some of them good, some of them bad. Um it's just crazy, man.

SPEAKER_04 8:05

But you know what we didn't consider at all? Martha used to be a bank robber.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

This is this is secretly James Clinton. No, this is uh this is Bonnie. She wasn't really killed. Her uh her her death was faked.

SPEAKER_04 8:20

You know, it would be one of those wild things you like come to find out that she had a dementia break and forgot that she was 70. It was like 45 is time to go rob that bank again.

SPEAKER_03 8:31

You know, the caretaker could have been like, Martha, take this note in there and just hand it to them and they will give you what they need.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

Yeah. It would be really funny if it's like an old a big misunderstanding. Like if she's a regular, you know, she goes in there. If if she's older, you know, a lot of older people still pay bills with checks and cash. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:49

Um my dad still to this day.

SPEAKER_03 8:52

So she does hands the notes because she can't talk well or something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:56

Well, like what if her regular what if she goes in there a few times a week and her regular teller, like this is a joke.

SPEAKER_03 9:03

She's like, Am I being robbed?

SPEAKER_02 9:04

Yeah. And this is a new teller who didn't understand.

SPEAKER_03 9:08

She's like 76. Yeah. I didn't know if there was a g in the purse, you know what I'm saying? The walker could have been a yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_02 9:15

Betty, Betty had the detective special in the back, you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_04 9:19

You know, we talked a little bit about um Alzheimer's dementia potentially there, you know, with this young lady. And so I kind of want to tie this into a talking point that's going to be a complete surprise to you guys, but I looked it up earlier. I like surprises. So if you had a chance to win a Picasso, what would you be willing to pay for a raffle ticket?

SPEAKER_03 9:48

Man, well, how many, I mean, how many raffles are going out? Like we're talking a ton.

SPEAKER_04 9:53

I mean, open-ended. Like, you know, what would what would be your pipe price to pay on open-ended if they sell five million tickets, they sell five million tickets.

SPEAKER_03 10:04

God, I just don't know. I don't really play games like that. I mean or so or to so to speak, I don't really gamble like that because I've I've put in for so many raffles, never won one.

SPEAKER_04 10:16

But you got a chance to win a Picasso. What would you pay on a ticket?

SPEAKER_02 10:22

I wouldn't pay that much because it's a it's a uh it's a numbers game, right? If they're putting out five million tickets, it doesn't matter because there's gonna be some rich asshole that goes and buys a million tickets, you know what I mean? Sure.

SPEAKER_04 10:35

Uh I still want a number. I want to know how much would you pay? Okay.

SPEAKER_02 10:39

Um I I think number one, my my wife is the big art person. Um five million tickets. The it would be that was a completely Yeah, no, but that would be if you won, which I'm like K-Dog, I have the worst luck ever. Like if there is a way to lose, I'm gonna lose. Um that's just my luck, man. I'm the same way.

SPEAKER_03 11:04

I put in front of Rain and Vijay J's get hit with a Willie.

SPEAKER_02 11:08

Every time, brother. I've never I've never won like a little scratch off or nothing like that. My sister is the opposite.

SPEAKER_07 11:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:14

I can buy 10 of them and they make me give them $10 more dollars. Like, that's my prize. She will she'll scratch off and win the top prize on every last one of them. Like, she's the most lucky kid I've ever met in my life.

SPEAKER_03 11:25

Justin Littlefoot won each at the at the raffle the other day. The friend group literally, he won a hat. She won an oil change. I'm pissed.

SPEAKER_04 11:36

Yeah, I'm gonna steal this bike. But how much are you paying for the ticket?

SPEAKER_02 11:39

I think I I would I would pay a grand for one ticket for the opportunity to win it.

SPEAKER_04 11:43

A grand? Okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:44

I wouldn't. I wouldn't, man, I would probably if it wasn't just a million people buying tickets, I'd probably pay 500 bucks.

SPEAKER_04 11:54

500 bucks? Yeah. All right. So there was an art enthusiast in Paris, France. There's a lot of things. It makes sense. We. Um for the cost of $117. Was the cost of his the individual raffle tickets? He won a 1941 Picasso.

SPEAKER_02 12:23

What was it valued at?

SPEAKER_04 12:25

Uh well, first of all, the name of the piece was The Head of a Woman.

SPEAKER_02 12:30

The Head of a Woman.

SPEAKER_04 12:32

It was valued at over a million dollars.

SPEAKER_02 12:35

It's pretty good ROI on that one.

SPEAKER_04 12:38

And all of the money that was raised on those raffle tickets went to benefit Alzheimer's research.

SPEAKER_02 12:45

Cool.

SPEAKER_03 12:46

Yeah, that's that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 12:47

So here's the here's the dilemma I have, and I get caught up in this every single time. If there is like a raffle, like I said, I've never won one, but like what we end up, we're not talking about Harley's, but just the biker community is really close knit. Um if somebody goes down or if somebody has lost, you know, I think generally speaking, we try to get together and like try to help them out every single time I go to one of those things. It's like, hey, you know, let's put in for this 50-50 or a raffle or whatever. And I've never won one, but without fail, I'm like, wow, let me see how much cash I got in my wallet.

SPEAKER_03 13:22

But the thing is always like put a 20 in for the cause, really. It has nothing to do with the ticket, but we've never won. No, ever.

SPEAKER_04 13:28

And that's my thing as well, right? Like, I know that I'm never going to win. I don't win. My parents have much better luck than I do. But, you know, my sister's a volunteer firefighter with Boldo.

SPEAKER_02 13:40

Shout out Boldo Fire Department.

SPEAKER_04 13:42

Yeah. Shout out the Boldo volunteers. Um, but she also is in charge of their fundraising. Or one of the people that's in charge of fundraising. I won't say she's the boss hall, she has a hand in it. She has a hand in it.

SPEAKER_03 13:56

Are they the ones that just did the golf thing not too long ago? Uh no. They came in par. I think it was Baldwin.

SPEAKER_04 14:02

Well, yeah, yeah, I mean, but that was a long time ago. But I'm talking about um most recently they offer or uh raffled off a shotgun. They did a 22-long rifle not too long ago as well. My parents actually won the 22-long rifle. Oh, that's cool. It sounds like collusion to me because I didn't win the shotgun. But, you know, as an issue. Um, you know, I don't I don't buy a ticket to a raffle or a 50-50 or a fundraiser or whatever for a chance to win something. I don't buy it because I think I'm gonna win. I buy it because I want to provide support.

SPEAKER_02 14:40

Yeah, yeah, 100%. It is. It isn't being nice to win. Yeah, it wouldn't hurt my feelings to win.

SPEAKER_04 14:46

Yeah, it wouldn't hurt my feelings if you know my sister was in charge of the drawing and her brother won.

SPEAKER_02 14:53

So let let me tell y'all, I've told my wife this, and she tells me this makes me a horrible person. So y'all tell me what y'all think. But have y'all ever been somewhere and there's like a 50-50, right? And it's for whatever cause, be it fundraising for a school or for somebody who's injured or whatever the case is. I don't think I've ever been to one where it's like they do the 50-50, and you know, they announce the winner, and they're like, hey, we raised six grand. Whoever wins this gets three grand. The person wins it, and they're like, Y'all just keep it. There's a little part inside of me that's like I've seen them do that a lot.

SPEAKER_03 15:33

Uh yeah, I'm like, there's a little part inside of me that's like well, there was one guy at the pie factory, um, I think it was for um boomers.

SPEAKER_02 15:46

Yeah, boomers old lady.

SPEAKER_03 15:47

Yeah, it was for boomers old lady, and he won the cash, and I think all he kept was a hundred and then gave all the rest back.

SPEAKER_02 15:53

He like kept what he put in something like that.

SPEAKER_03 15:55

Well, that's reasonable. I think it was really just to pay for his wife and his their bill.

SPEAKER_04 16:00

Yeah, I mean that's reasonable. Within reason, you know, if I paid 10 bucks and I happen to to win something and I'm sitting at the bar and my bar tab's a hundred dollars, yeah. Hey, y'all keep all the rest of it except for my bar tab for the night. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:16

In a benefit situation, I've thought about that before. If I send or if I give twenty dollars and I win for five hundred dollars, I would just give it all back to the cause. It cost me 20 bucks. I was gonna do it regardless. Um, the prizes besides the money is where it's at. Yeah. The cool hats, the shirts, and all that stuff now.

SPEAKER_04 16:37

You know, give me a shirt, give me a hat. I'm here to support Nan. We're looking at the biggest.

SPEAKER_03 16:41

Yeah, I would give the cash back for the for the donation.

SPEAKER_04 16:44

But um, you know, we talk about this this kind of stuff about winning stuff like that, winning cash prizes, winning you know, a gun or a hat or a shirt or stuff, you know, and we're recording this uh Tuesday, April 14th. You know what tomorrow is, don't you? Tomorrow's tax day.

SPEAKER_02 17:05

Y'all pay taxes?

SPEAKER_04 17:07

But have you have you ever like have you ever paid attention when you're doing your taxes, whether you have somebody do it or you're looking at turbo tax or whatever, and you look at it and you see there's a specific segment where it asks about unlawful gains. Oh, yeah. Like, you know, oh, I'm gonna report that I won this $3,000 raffle, right? Like, do you expect me to report that? Really?

SPEAKER_03 17:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:36

We can't talk about taxes. My blood, my blood pressure is elevated.

SPEAKER_03 17:41

It's rising. Yeah, I was turning red.

SPEAKER_02 17:44

Yeah, I need another beer.

SPEAKER_03 17:46

Just a blood shot. Speaking of beer, we have a nice little something, something we got a shout out, right?

SPEAKER_04 17:53

So more complicated than I would like for it to be. But we are gonna shout out Justin and Littlefoot again.

SPEAKER_02 18:01

Oh Littlefoot.

SPEAKER_03 18:03

So that's the second shout out on the podcast today. He's a good dude. I like old Justin.

SPEAKER_04 18:08

Um Littlefoot's mother owns the establishment that we have acquired some beer from recently. Gotcha. Now she owns the establishment, she rents it out. And I was asked very specifically not to shout out the establishment itself. They don't necessarily get along. But I was informed that they would make it right from our mishap last week where we acquired beer there and it was less than satisfactory. Cool. So I went and acquired some beverages today.

unknown 18:50

Cool.

SPEAKER_04 18:50

And they were 100% free of charge.

SPEAKER_03 18:53

Free beer, shout out.

SPEAKER_02 18:54

Hey, that's my favorite kind of beer right there.

SPEAKER_03 18:57

Favorite kind of beer? I love a my favorite kind of beer. Well, what do we have here? Tell us what we got. A brown L.

SPEAKER_04 19:06

So when I was looking at these, I was trying to find something. They don't have a very I need a cigar now. They don't have a very large selection of, you know, your traditional craft beers. But as I was looking through them, I saw it and I saw Cigar City Brewing, right? That's who we're drinking today. And they're famous for their IPA. Okay. It's called a Giali.

SPEAKER_02 19:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 19:31

Um, we, however, are not drinking that because K Dog literally, when I was on the phone with him earlier today, said, please don't bring an IPA. Otherwise, I would have brought one.

SPEAKER_03 19:40

Well, I've tried three IPAs from Saturday to Sunday. Every one of them were terrible.

SPEAKER_02 19:47

Oh, yeah, you had that one that Rooster brought. Oh my god. That was ass so bad. So are you an IPA guy lane? Do you like IPAs?

SPEAKER_04 19:54

I can drink like if I I can drink one. Yeah. I want, I want to drink one.

SPEAKER_02 20:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 20:02

But then there's just so much hops and bitterness and things like that that are associated with it that I can I can't really go beyond that.

SPEAKER_02 20:09

All right. I'm with you.

SPEAKER_04 20:11

But I can, like I said, I love a GI. Okay. My favorite IPA is a stone IPA.

SPEAKER_02 20:21

Stone IPA.

SPEAKER_04 20:22

Stone brewing. I don't think I've had that. I I had it down in mobile, and like if I if I see it, I'll have one. But you know, you've got two hearts and a lot of IPAs like that.

SPEAKER_03 20:33

I'm digging this can. Yeah. Well that's wonderful. I'll quit rambling. No, it's my fault.

SPEAKER_04 20:39

It's my fault. Brewed with flaked oats. Yep. So we today I got oatmeal in there.

SPEAKER_03 20:46

Cheryl.

SPEAKER_04 20:47

Today we're drinking Maduro Brown Ale by Cigar City Brewing out of the great city of Tampa, Florida. A 5.5% alcohol. And it is a 20 IBU beverage.

SPEAKER_02 21:06

Heck yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:07

5.5.

SPEAKER_02 21:08

Shout out the Tampa Bay Lightning. One of my favorite Bay Buccaneers. One of my favorite hockey teams. They're doing well this year.

SPEAKER_04 21:15

Tampa Bay Rays. I can't actually pull for them because they beat my cubbies in 03, but or 08, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:24

I'm a White Sox family, always suck.

SPEAKER_03 21:31

Let's dig in.

SPEAKER_04 21:35

Well, I drink a lot of that.

SPEAKER_03 21:37

That is um You you feel like it's about to have a better taste and then then it doesn't.

SPEAKER_04 21:44

No, it like really ramps up a flavor, and you're like, here's the bitter kind of thing.

SPEAKER_03 21:49

I was expecting it and then it just softened.

SPEAKER_04 21:52

It does not happen.

SPEAKER_03 21:53

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 21:54

It doesn't go great with a wildberry velo, so I'm gonna try it again. It got it had a weird taste. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:00

Now if you had uh man nicotine pouches, it'd be better.

SPEAKER_03 22:04

I could see where this would go really good with a cigar.

SPEAKER_04 22:07

Yeah. I I think their entire line is designed to be drank while you smoke a cigar.

SPEAKER_02 22:13

Yeah. It's much better without the wild berry.

SPEAKER_04 22:18

Um I like this better than a Newcastle, I'll tell you that right now.

SPEAKER_03 22:23

That's not bad.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

It's really, really similar to something. And I'm it's right on the tip of my tongue, but I can't think of what it's called.

SPEAKER_03 22:32

Newcastle. Something we had at par. It reminds me of.

SPEAKER_02 22:37

I swear it's answer's still Newcastle.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

We didn't have did we have Newcastle?

SPEAKER_02 22:41

I know exactly what it is. Do y'all know the the bourbon barrel stout?

SPEAKER_04 22:46

Which one?

SPEAKER_02 22:48

There's one that's just called Bourbon Barrel Stout.

SPEAKER_04 22:51

Like I said, which one?

SPEAKER_02 22:54

I don't remember who it's made by. We had it on draft for a long time. But that's what it reminds me of.

SPEAKER_03 23:00

It reminds me of something besides Newcastle. But it's really I'm trying to place it, but I cannot for the life of me.

SPEAKER_02 23:07

So this to me falls under the same category where this is like Guinness to me. It's a dark beer that I could drink more than a couple of.

SPEAKER_03 23:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:18

You know, a lot of the times you have a dark beer and it's okay, I can have one of those and now I'm gonna switch to something else. I feel like I could have several of these.

SPEAKER_04 23:28

I want to pose a question.

SPEAKER_02 23:30

I'm ready.

SPEAKER_04 23:31

Should we start an untapped account for a trip to the beer store? Hmm.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

This is a this is an idea.

SPEAKER_04 23:40

Like, I mean, we're reviewing craft beers in and out every single week.

SPEAKER_02 23:46

This is true.

SPEAKER_04 23:48

So like I said, the popular there is a large chunk of our listener base that listens to the show to hear the beer reviews.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

Oh, yeah. It is a it's a big deal. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:01

And so I think that maybe we start an untapped account and we start, you know, giving rankings to these beers so that you know our our populace has another avenue to follow us because I was sitting down at uh the pie factory this weekend.

SPEAKER_02 24:19

The pie factory.

SPEAKER_04 24:20

And I got to talk to him. Love some pie factory. And I was talking to the guy sitting next to me, I didn't know him. And he was like, I don't do any social media of any kind. But, you know, apparently he likes untapped.

SPEAKER_02 24:37

So, you know, we're all for whatever median, medium, and if nothing else, that would be an interesting way for us to kind of track it because you know, we've talked about putting a t-shirt out with our rankings on it, and we need to have some sort of system to where people can go back and see. We need a catalog.

SPEAKER_04 24:57

Yeah, absolutely. And I think, and I mean, we will absolutely keep a running tracker, whether that's through um Excel or whatever, but we'll keep a running tracker.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Big spreadsheet guy over here. Big spreadsheet.

SPEAKER_04 25:10

I'm a data analytics guy at my big spreadsheet guy over here. But we'll create something so that people can can keep a tracking list.

SPEAKER_03 25:19

Can we mention that we are now international?

SPEAKER_04 25:22

We have been international for two weeks, and that is phenomenal.

SPEAKER_03 25:26

How about that, Pat Rbax?

SPEAKER_02 25:29

Take that, Joe Rogan.

SPEAKER_04 25:31

Now we are international, but I do have to say it is slightly concerning that the majority of our international listeners come from countries with terroristic backgrounds.

SPEAKER_03 25:46

I I too was noticing that.

SPEAKER_02 25:48

That doesn't concern me. I'm cool with that.

SPEAKER_03 25:50

Uh so uh it's the it's the Pakistan for me. It's the Columbia for me.

SPEAKER_02 25:57

Well, the you know, I happen to know some great Colombians and great Pakistanis. I don't I don't have a problem with any of those guys.

SPEAKER_04 26:04

Oh, we joke, but we are exceptionally thankful for all of our listeners, whether you know you're local or national.

SPEAKER_02 26:12

I don't know if y'all have experienced this, but it's been um I had experience before with music, like um, and I'm sure you're the same way, K Dog. You like play a show, and I don't know if you've you've definitely experienced this to a greater extent than I have because you've toured. But like somebody comes and sees a show, but maybe they're in the back, or like you've got to get out of there quick, or or something, and you don't really get to talk to them. Maybe you don't see them. Well, then you see them like a few days later or whatever, and they're like, hey man, saw your show on Friday night. It was really awesome. You're like, Oh, cool, man. I didn't even know you were there. There is um it's very nice, like um hearing that people are enjoying what you're doing. Yeah, I appreciate the support, you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_03 26:55

We had a uh we met a guy in Tennessee who had followed us from the beach. Oh, that's cool. And did not know he never he never come up and said anything, never, you know, anything like that. Um we're playing Uptown in uh Knoxville, and he he finally came up as we were loading out and he was like, hey man, uh culture set in Pensacola, and then uh just wanted to come see caught your set at in um the blue iguana down in Prattville. Yeah, and then culture set in Birmingham, and then like it just went. I was like, Hell yeah, oh yeah. I was like, dude, that's awesome. Gave him a shirt and stuff. I was like, man, appreciate the support. For sure. He's like, Oh yeah, I'll be back. And so I that was the last time I talked to him.

SPEAKER_04 27:39

But you know, something that I do want to say is that I want to hear from our followers. Oh, yeah. I enjoy it, I like the engagement. We have listeners, I guess, now effectively across the world. But I was looking at our listeners from this week. We have three listeners in Ashburn, Virginia. I don't know who you are. Could you please reach out to us? Yeah, we want to hear from you. A trip to the beer store at gmail.com. Who are you? Who are you? How did you find us?

SPEAKER_02 28:12

Wait, I've got unrelated. I have a crazy ex that lives in Virginia. I wonder if it's her. But there's there's three when my husband listens to this podcast, my lovely, lovely husband. Um Ray, I have not talked to them in forever. But just because you said that, I was like, I'm pretty sure she moved to Virginia when we were in high school.

SPEAKER_04 28:37

But you know, I look she's just being supportive. And and I want our listeners to know that I I the the app that we use to upload our podcast, I go in and I look and I see where you're from. I can't I don't know who you are, but I can see where you're from. He doesn't know who you are, just your social. And your address.

SPEAKER_02 28:55

Yeah, it's not a big deal at all. Just your IP address, your social, what kind of webcam you use.

SPEAKER_04 29:01

But we have listen negative. You know, we have listeners in Ashburn, Virginia every week. Yeah. This week up until today, we had as many listeners in Virginia as we had in the city from which we broadcast this.

SPEAKER_02 29:21

Heck yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:22

I like that. You know, Montgomery, Alabama. I don't know, I don't know anybody in Montgomery. Offhand. I'm sure I know some people there. But there's several listeners, like more than just that.

SPEAKER_03 29:35

I think my sister's father lives in Montgomery.

SPEAKER_04 29:38

And so it's like we have all of these listeners that are like from around the country. I think at this point we have 50 or 60 different cities that register listeners.

SPEAKER_03 29:52

Well why?

SPEAKER_04 29:53

And that's that's big for us. But we also at the same time, we want to know who you are. We want you to follow the Facebook page, we want you to reach out to us, send us a message, send us an email. Say hello.

SPEAKER_02 30:05

You know, in my mind, this podcast releases on Monday morning.

SPEAKER_04 30:08

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 30:09

Um, I like to think that the way people enjoy this podcast. And I'm not encouraging you to enjoy this podcast this way, but for me, about the time this podcast releases, I'm getting up, taking a shower, going to work at like five o'clock on Monday morning. Um I like to think that when you listen to this podcast, you're cracking a beer open and you're listening to it with us.

SPEAKER_03 30:34

Now we tried we tried that with the Friday night.

SPEAKER_02 30:36

If you're doing that at five o'clock on Monday morning, you might not have the same work schedule as me. Or yeah, or you might.

SPEAKER_03 30:44

We're trying to motivate your week to think about the weekend. Yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_04 30:47

I'm not gonna lie, and I hate to shout out my buddy Chris again, but he deserves all the shout-outs in the world. Him and David and Ryan and Demos and Big supporters, all my all my friends from college that I've met over the years. Set for that one. But Chris Chris texted me the other day and he said, Man, I was listening to your podcast and he listens every week. Um, he was like, Man, I was listening to your podcast. And it and I don't I don't remember which one of us said it, but one of us said, if you're listening to the podcast, you should be cracking a beer open and enjoying one with us. No, and he was like, It's 2 30 on a Wednesday, but I had to crack one open. Got to.

SPEAKER_03 31:28

Now I've been fired from my job.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

You don't want us, you don't want us to drink alone when you're listening to the trip to the beer store. Yeah. Good beer this week. Good beer this week. You did a good job, Line.

SPEAKER_04 31:41

Yeah, I'm liking that. Follow us on Facebook. That was fine. Follow us on follow us on TikTok. Send us an email at a trip to the beer store. We want to hear your story. We want to hear how you found us.

SPEAKER_03 31:54

Give us some suggestions of things to talk about, games to play, anything.

SPEAKER_04 31:58

Yeah, you know, um, what beers did you try that we've had? What did you rate them? I'm begging for your feedback.

SPEAKER_03 32:08

We're still looking for some that have been requested, but it's a they're hard beers to find.

SPEAKER_02 32:12

But as the summer ramps up, I think we'll be able to find some. Little brother, I ain't forgot about you.

SPEAKER_03 32:16

Yeah, we haven't forgot about you soon.

SPEAKER_04 32:18

And as that always plays in, yeah, you know, reach out to us and uh we can send you our address and we'll take a shipment and you ship it to us and we'll try it on the show.

SPEAKER_01 32:29

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Drink responsibly, we're all 21.

SPEAKER_04 32:32

You know, respectfully, of course, Alabama State law says you can't ship any sort of beer, wine, or spirits into the state. Yeah, so don't ship it. But definitely you can ship cans, though, right? Nope. But it is doesn't matter what's in the can, they're just shipping the can, not the liquid. You know, naturally, you are shipping us a nice bottle of uh olive oil. Fabuloso.

SPEAKER_03 32:55

Blink twice if you've ever been shipped alcohol or narcotics.

SPEAKER_04 32:59

Um, anyways, we should uh, you know, before we go any farther, we should review these beers because they've been waiting like 10 minutes of us plugging people. We should review the beers. We just get to rambling sometimes.

SPEAKER_06 33:11

I think much.

SPEAKER_02 33:12

People forget that we are just three friends.

SPEAKER_03 33:15

So like and that's the that's the biggest thing about it. Though the reason this whole podcast came on is because we get into so many different conversations, and we will just ramble on, and that's part of named it the rambling man. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:29

Um, I'll start. I really, really like this. Uh I think it's really good. And I know we say this every week. It's your fourth one. Uh we say this every week. Lane got here over an hour and a half ago. These have not touched the inside of a refrigerator. Um they're still crispy cold. But um I really, really enjoy them. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go four five. I really like it.

SPEAKER_03 34:01

That's a solid, solid score.

SPEAKER_02 34:02

Yeah, I'm I'm really happy with it.

SPEAKER_03 34:04

I like it a lot. Um, it does remind me of a bourbon type beer. And for that, it will be getting a four-three from me. I'm gonna give it a four-three.

SPEAKER_04 34:19

Um making it real damn hard for me to have to do math later.

SPEAKER_02 34:23

You said you were a spreadsheet guy. I would XL will do the math for you.

SPEAKER_04 34:27

You're right. So, first of all, I would like to say that this is phenomenal.

SPEAKER_01 34:34

Great beer.

SPEAKER_04 34:35

Second of all, Cigar City Brewing out of Tampa, Florida, if you're listening, could you please send us some cigar recommendations that you would pair with your Maduro Brown Alex?

SPEAKER_03 34:50

He's just smart.

SPEAKER_04 34:52

And I'll wrap it up with I give this a 475.

SPEAKER_02 34:57

Wow. Big score.

SPEAKER_04 34:59

This is the highest rating that I've personally given a beer aside from a porch.

SPEAKER_02 35:03

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 35:05

So this is coming in at the same level as a porch beer for me.

SPEAKER_02 35:08

I really enjoy it. It's it's a great beer. It's a great beer. Um, so Lane, because I know K Dog is not going to relate to this whatsoever because he his favorite sport team is Alabama and they always do fantastic. Um, regardless of what he will say, they lost three games. Depends on who you ask. Yeah, they lost three games to the worst team in the league. Um as someone who I know as someone who I know is a deep Cubs fan, and someone who also is aware that the Cubs were terrible for a very long time. And I some Cubs fans would say that the reason they were terrible for a very long time uh was Billy Goat Tavern getting cursed. Um, I have eaten some burgers there, they're delicious. I'm sorry that he put some bad juju on you, but it is what it is. As someone who loves a sports team who historically has not been amazing, they've had some great years, but is not the best. How do you feel when your team has just an on-season and they're doing great? And the reason I bring this up is because my hockey team, which I've spoken about on the podcast before, the Buffalo Sabres, are in the playoffs, the number one seed in their division for the first time in 14 years.

SPEAKER_04 36:39

It's a wild thing, right?

SPEAKER_02 36:41

And I'm overjoyed.

SPEAKER_04 36:42

And so I have oh my goodness, I'm so sorry we gotta whoop your ass tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 36:47

Ooh. Glad you brought this up, which the game will be over by the time this podcast comes out.

SPEAKER_04 36:55

Yeah, yeah. You know, uh it's it's it's one of those things, right? Um, and it's hard because you know, we live in the state of Alabama and we have no true professional sports teams. The closest thing that we have is the Birmingham Stallions.

SPEAKER_03 37:13

And I or so excited about this year's Birmingham Stallions. McCarran, right? AJ McCarron.

SPEAKER_02 37:19

AJ McCarrin.

SPEAKER_04 37:20

AJ's the head coach. Awesome. The you know, I have some questions about him dropping out of his political aspirations to be the head coach of the stallions. But you can either change your change the world or make a lot of money, you know. You know. Um Pay's probably about the same, if we're being honest. Yeah. Um, but you know, then we also have the Birmingham Bulls hockey team. Um, but you know, we get to pick and choose which teams we pull for from around the country. Oh, yeah. As a strict result of that. And so like I've been a Cubs fan since '98. Yeah. Which was about the time that I was old enough to start making decisions for myself. Oh, yeah. Um, but you know, I also pull for the Ravens when it comes to football. But we won a Super Bowl with the worst quarterback in Super Bowl history.

SPEAKER_02 38:12

Yeah, it happens like that sometimes.

SPEAKER_04 38:14

Like Trent Dilford. But what I'm saying is like look at the disgraced coach of the UAB Blazers.

SPEAKER_03 38:21

Look at y'all's quarterback. Look at, I mean, look how good y'all's team has been to it. Something always happens in the end.

SPEAKER_02 38:29

This this last season, they would have been awesome if they the whole team didn't get injured in the first three games.

SPEAKER_04 38:34

And it really put us in a well, it wasn't even a lot of the things.

SPEAKER_03 38:36

Well, Lamar's took a lot of energy or uh injuries as well.

SPEAKER_04 38:39

And I and I feel at the end of the day, I feel real bad for uh John Harbaugh because the first six weeks of the season, like his top offensive and defensive playmakers were injured. Oh, yeah. So it's like, how do you do that? And then after being at a team for like 18 years or however long he was there.

SPEAKER_03 39:03

What is the natural years a running back really has a career in the NFL?

SPEAKER_04 39:09

Because isn't Henry just exceeding Do you want the you know Lane Keaton as an athletic trainer and is privy to this information? Yeah, I mean, just whatever. A true running back in the NFL has approximately three to four years of their best production years. Um and that's why you usually see running backs more than any other position will get bigger loaded front-end contracts. Yeah. Because after their first three to four years in the league, they're either gonna be so banged up they can't produce anymore. They take a lot of abuse, or they're going to be a shadow of the what they once were. Of course, there are huge, you know, outliers, like a Derrick Henry, right? Yeah. Like, I mean, the man's been running for 10 plus years in the NFL.

SPEAKER_03 40:08

I was watching his training method. Oh my god. He's got a certain heel, man, and he just wears it out with weights and God, he's still such an animal. He's a terrifying human being. He was like, you watch him play football, and you're just like, there should be no reason a diesel truck's out here with a bunch of Hondas.

SPEAKER_04 40:28

But you know, he almost wasn't. And that's one of the things that a lot of people don't know about Derrick Henry. Was when it came to when he started receiving offers, D1 offers to play football, Alabama was one of the only schools that offered him a D1 running back position. There were a lot of schools out there that said, Hey, we want you, even though he was a running back, he was strictly a running back in high school. We want you to come and play defensive end for us, we want you to come play linebacker for us, we want you to come play these other positions.

SPEAKER_03 41:07

Like he wasn't he was coached but not trained well.

SPEAKER_02 41:11

He's just a big dude who just ran through people.

SPEAKER_03 41:14

Yeah, like when it came down to like actual plays and stuff like that, he's like I I think he said in in one interview, he told Coach Saban, he's like, they just handed me the ball and told me to run.

SPEAKER_04 41:26

But you have those generational talents that slide into a position that could have probably been as good, if not exceed that position in a different position. Like think of Tim Tebow, for example. You know, and regardless of what your opinion on Tebow is.

SPEAKER_03 41:47

I thought Tebow was a great quarterback, dude. I I know that like whatever he believed in took a lot of toll in whoever wanted to coach him, but man, he was a great quarterback. I mean, look at the things he did.

SPEAKER_04 42:01

But how much longer would his career have been if he had been a tight end?

SPEAKER_03 42:07

Well, we did get to see him as a well he came back, I think it was for the retirement insurance or something along the way. Well, I mean, that's what Phillip Rivers did. Yeah, and that's fine. But he played enough. What was the position he played when he came back? He played tight end. Played tight end. That didn't go well. He the the reading off the end, all that stuff. I mean, he just botched the entire thing immediately.

SPEAKER_04 42:35

But the the man had the build to play the position. Oh shit. And if he had played that for his entire career, he would have had yeah, he would have been better at it. You know, he would have been the same conversation as when we talk about Antonio Gates, when we talk about um oh god, who was the guy in Atlanta? He was at Kansas City before, uh, the phenomenal tight end. Well, regardless. But I will tell you this, and this is a Lane Keaton hot take. You asked for hot takes earlier, and we somehow just segued into one. I and I'm gonna make the statement, and I want you guys to tell me what you think about it. Tim Tebow left the NFL for the same reason that Colin Kaepernick is no longer in the NFL.

SPEAKER_02 43:22

You think so? It's true. I want your hot take. I mean, I don't think that that's a hot take. I think that that's really reasonable. I think they were very passionate about different things in a lot of ways and similar things in a lot of ways. Um, but I don't think either of them left because they couldn't play the game anymore.

SPEAKER_04 43:46

Oh, that I I did not say it wasn't because they couldn't play the game.

SPEAKER_02 43:50

No, that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_04 43:51

I said they left the sport because of Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:54

I think the thing about the thing with being a professional athlete. In a lot of ways, is your you see a lot of professional athletes who I forget what the stat is, but it's like most NFL and NBA players are broke like five years.

SPEAKER_04 44:11

Three to four years. That's all it is.

SPEAKER_02 44:14

A lot of these players don't do a fantastic job of branding themselves, and it's not their fault, but you know, uh some of these players do an excellent job, and they have an identity beyond the game.

SPEAKER_03 44:27

It's crazy though, that way it works. Because look at Deshaun Watson. No, that's a everything that he's gone through and been accused of, and and then you wouldn't let Michael Vick back in the NFL.

SPEAKER_04 44:39

Well, and then beyond that, right? Like, um, this this is a little bit more impactful to me personally as a huge Ravens fans, the allegations that were made against Justin Tucker. Yeah. Justin Tucker was arguably, and in my opinion, is arguably the best kicker in NFL history. And he had some sexual assault allegations, which I you know, I that's that's wrong. Should never happen, should never be a conversation. But, you know, I think we get away from that original hot take in this.

SPEAKER_02 45:13

No, I agree with you. I I I think I agree. My point was being that I think a lot of these players, once they have an identity outside of the game, one one person who I think has done an excellent job of this is Pat McAfee.

SPEAKER_03 45:27

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 45:28

Pat. I love Pat. Me too. Me too.

SPEAKER_03 45:31

And he did Shout out Pat if you ever hear our podcast.

SPEAKER_02 45:34

He did an excellent job of playing the game and playing the game really well. Yep. But the whole time he's doing that, he's trying to build a brand. He's trying to build a brand. And now I would say arguably, Pat McAfee is far more famous for his podcast and for his media than he is for ever being a kicker.

SPEAKER_04 45:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:55

That was his foot to get in the door.

SPEAKER_04 45:57

Would you like to hear a hilarious story about a retirement? You know what I'm saying? Would you like to hear a hilarious story about Pat McAfee? I would love to hear Pat McAfee's story. So, you know, he's the he's the punter for, or he used to be the punter for the Colts. Yes. But there was a point in time where their starting quarterback had gone down. Their backup quarterback had gone down. And so for any of our listeners that don't know, the only time that the third string quarterback dresses out in an in the NFL is when the first or second quarterback goes down. Third string quarterback does not dress on a weekly basis. And so it just so happened that after all of these things aligned, he was the backup to the backup quarterback.

SPEAKER_03 46:51

Why do I love that?

SPEAKER_04 46:54

So he was the backup to the third string quarterback or whatever when it happened. And so all week he had been taking like backup quarterback snaps in practice. I love it. Just absolutely dying on the inside, terrified that he was gonna have to go in and play quarterback.

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SPEAKER_04 48:24

What? We're on to the round of eight.

SPEAKER_03 48:28

Alright, let's play it off. Let's go.

SPEAKER_04 48:30

We've got the Mickey Ultras. The Guinness. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 48:41

Versus the Guinness.

SPEAKER_02 48:44

Oh my god. This was tough. I'm a Guinness dude. I love a Guinness. Um, I know Guinness is not making it through. It can't. But I wonder globally, I bet you globally Guinness wins.

SPEAKER_04 49:00

You really think so? Well, considering that 100% of our viewership is inside the United States, I understand if we had an external audience, the Guinness would probably win in terms of just statistics.

SPEAKER_03 49:15

I think it's ultra, man.

SPEAKER_02 49:17

I agree with you that it is ultra. Um, and I'll give it to you. It's ultra.

SPEAKER_03 49:23

Um he's fighting that inner me when I'm angry.

SPEAKER_02 49:29

No, it is ultra. Uh turning green right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Except from his shirt. Anytime I hammer six course lights, I turn green.

SPEAKER_03 49:38

You wouldn't like the big guy.

SPEAKER_02 49:40

Yeah, yeah. Um, no, it's it's ultra. I hate to see that. But we need to go ahead and accept the round of eight, the round of four, the round of two. There's not a we're gonna hurt feelings.

SPEAKER_03 49:53

And that is what it is. If I had a dollar for every time I hurt somebody's feelings, I could retire.

SPEAKER_02 49:58

Yeah. This is true. Yeah, it's ultra. It's ultra. I'm I'm sad that it is ultra, but it's ultra.

SPEAKER_04 50:05

And so the next matchup, though, is gonna hurt my feelings if it makes you feel any better.

SPEAKER_02 50:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 50:12

Next matchup we got. PBR versus the Corona Extra.

SPEAKER_02 50:19

It's PBR for me.

SPEAKER_03 50:22

I'm gonna have to say Corona Extra.

SPEAKER_01 50:26

And I know where it's going. PBR is hammering down.

SPEAKER_04 50:29

It's so hard because you guys have made me be the bad guy once again. Because realistically, in my soul, I know that Corona Extra is one of the top-selling beers in the entire world. But it ain't a PBR. But I don't like Corona.

SPEAKER_02 50:50

Hate it so much. You gotta move the PBRs, man.

SPEAKER_04 50:54

And so unfortunately, I do have to move a PBR. Yeah. God, I love a PBR. I'm sorry, K-Dog. It is what it is. And so the thing is, I need you to remember that I don't hate both of you. Like I mean, I've picked against both of you in terms of the flavor matchup. I hate you both real bad. So, if you guys had to choose between a Melo and a blue moon, where do you go?

SPEAKER_02 51:23

So your Corona's out. Your corona's out. So if you want a Mexican beer, that's all you got is Modello.

SPEAKER_03 51:31

Yeah, no, I'd absolutely choose Modello in this situation.

SPEAKER_02 51:36

That's tough. That's tough for me because I drink these beers in very specific situations.

SPEAKER_03 51:41

I think they're both just as equally accessible.

SPEAKER_02 51:43

Yeah. But and they're both good. I like them both. Yeah. Um I'm eliminating one. So in my mind, I have to tell myself I can never have the other one ever again. I I personally have to keep Blue Moon. You guys hate me. I'm sorry. It's only gonna get worse as we go.

SPEAKER_04 52:04

Well, thankfully, we've only got a few more selections to make. And I'm pretty sure the last two times I have sided with you.

SPEAKER_02 52:13

You're not gonna hurt my feelings. You can side with K Dog every time if you feel that that's the right choice.

SPEAKER_04 52:18

But I do have to give it to a Modello over a blue moon.

SPEAKER_02 52:23

And Modello's not a bad pick. I like Modello a lot. I'll drink a lot of them. Um I eat more chicken wings than I sit on the beach, and that was really what decided it for me. I eat a lot more chicken wings than I do a lot of other things in general. The next time you eat some chicken wings, have a blue moon. Tell me it's not the best beer to go with chicken wings. Just for you. Just for me.

SPEAKER_04 52:47

Alright, boys. The decision of the day. Oh no. It's probably gonna come right here. We've got the Coors Light versus the Colorado Kool-Aid. I don't know. Oh no.

SPEAKER_03 53:08

No, golly, man.

SPEAKER_04 53:10

I hate they both wound up on the same side of the bracket, but that's just how it worked.

SPEAKER_03 53:16

I think I think accessibility is gonna kill this one. Because I would I would like to choose banquet. But Coors Light's way easier to get. Oh man, that sucks. It's probably gonna be Coors Light. He didn't even have to say his choice.

SPEAKER_02 53:36

Y'all just heard my choice. That was a crisp, delicious Coors Light. And I love a banquet. I love a banquet, but I can't vote for a banquet with a Coors Light in my hand. Cheers, buddy. Sorry. Cheers, buddy.

SPEAKER_04 53:50

And whereas I don't even like a Coors Light. Really?

SPEAKER_02 53:53

Unfortunately, that they seem to be going down just fine.

SPEAKER_04 53:57

I've had 14 beers today.

SPEAKER_02 54:01

They seem to be going down just fine, you know what I mean? But um, no, I understand. I like a banquet, and I think it goes back to what you said. Um, I can drink more coors light than I can drink banquets.

SPEAKER_04 54:14

Yeah, and and that's honestly a very valid fact. Like you've just gotta drink the availability. Yeah. I'm gonna go light.

SPEAKER_02 54:25

I'm gonna go coors light, and I know that that upsets a lot of folks. I like banquets a lot, but it's coors light.

SPEAKER_04 54:32

Alright, boys. Yeah. The round of four. It's getting real in here. This is gonna be tough. And I think my feelings are gonna be hurt, but that's alright because I look at all of them. We've got the Michelob Ultra versus the PBR.

SPEAKER_02 54:56

I think from I think from here on out, the only perspective that I can take is that I have to pick one of these beers and I can never drink the other one again. Because I can't on which one I like more, there is no answer. I have probably consumed one-to-one as far as PBRs to ultras. It's probably very close to a one-to-one ratio. If we are talking strictly about I go to the store and I buy a 12-pack. Any store. Any store. All the stores.

SPEAKER_03 55:37

It's gonna have. Are they gonna have which one are they gonna have?

SPEAKER_02 55:40

They're gonna have, I feel personally, and we live in the south, so it's different. They're gonna have both.

SPEAKER_03 55:48

Are you are you gonna go into a store in Oklahoma and find probably?

SPEAKER_02 55:56

Probably both. I'm just wondering. For me personally, I I understand that we have to consider all factors in this game, but for me personally, it's gonna be a PBR.

SPEAKER_03 56:12

Alright. I'm gonna I'm gonna throw this one. Um it's gotta be ultra for me. So bad guy lane has got to be.

SPEAKER_02 56:22

And you put him in a terrible spot because this is his favorite beer.

SPEAKER_03 56:25

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 56:26

You you put me in a situation where make a determination between the that is a hard move for you.

SPEAKER_03 56:34

It is in multiple spots.

SPEAKER_02 56:37

You don't feel like there's equal distribution of PBR that there is of Ultra?

SPEAKER_03 56:41

No, I don't. I really don't think there is either.

SPEAKER_02 56:44

Just like from a logistics perspective.

SPEAKER_03 56:46

Ultra's a few.

SPEAKER_02 56:47

All the places I like to go to the water and hole at have PBR.

SPEAKER_03 56:51

The only thing that's gonna kill Ultra.

SPEAKER_02 56:53

There's six places to drink in Jasper. And they all got PBRs.

SPEAKER_03 57:00

The only thing that's gonna kill Ultra in this competition is when it comes down to the like. Because there's gonna be some things that are, you know, that are gonna be very close in every store. It's gonna come down to what would you rather drink right here, right now.

SPEAKER_04 57:16

And that's what makes it tough for me. Because from a logistical perspective, PBR and Michelobe are my two favorite beers in terms of ease of accessibility. And so while it hurts me greatly, I know that the correct overall decision to make is the ultra passing on to the finals.

SPEAKER_03 57:43

God. I I thought that would be I mean, I wouldn't say a no-brainer, but I thought as far as accessibility, I get PBRs almost everywhere, but realistically, Ultra is everywhere.

SPEAKER_04 57:58

And as much as I hate it, because I've said it probably ten times on this show since we started recording PBRs.

SPEAKER_03 58:04

I could absolutely drink either one. Um I lean toward Ultra on the enjoying it part, I guess, but just to be real, Ultra's everywhere, brother.

SPEAKER_04 58:14

Yep. Alright, boys, we got two decisions left to make. This is the Bring it.

SPEAKER_02 58:20

This is the championship.

SPEAKER_04 58:21

No, this is not yet.

SPEAKER_02 58:23

This is the last two in the round of the body.

SPEAKER_04 58:25

Yeah, this is the eastern side of the bracket.

SPEAKER_02 58:28

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_04 58:29

We have Modello versus the Coors Light.

SPEAKER_02 58:35

Coors Light. It's easy for me.

SPEAKER_03 58:38

I feel like that's pretty easy.

SPEAKER_02 58:39

Easy for me. It's Coors Light.

SPEAKER_04 58:41

Coors Light. Okay. I mean, yeah, people are kicking the radio, driving down the street just because I mean the thing is the thing is though, like a Coors Light realistically comes in at like a number eight or ten seed or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 58:57

See, I personally would pick a Coors Light over a Modello every day. I mean, I would personally do the same. And I hate to, I ain't trying to talk about the whole bracket as a whole. I'm picking a Coors Light over an Ultra every day.

SPEAKER_04 59:14

Well, that would be weird since the last matchup of the bracket is the Coors Light versus the Ultra.

SPEAKER_02 59:26

So we're in the final round. We have spent all this time working through this bracket. And we have come down.

SPEAKER_03 59:37

We've come down to a fist fight.

SPEAKER_02 59:40

To the Coors Light versus the Ultra. Oh man. Well and I I feel like in this specific situation, we can't just give our answer. There, there needs to be some explanation because this is important. Yeah. This is important. This is the beer.

SPEAKER_04 59:59

So before we make that determination, I would just like you guys to know that while it is none of our favorite beers, a Miller High Life is the top choice in 30 states in the United States.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:17

A Miller High Life in 30 in 30 states would have made it to the final round.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:23

And we let it go first round, didn't we?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:26

Oh the South. No, Alabama actually takes Miller. What?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:32

Yeah. I'm that bad. I've drank a lot of Miller.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:36

I've drank a lot of Miller Highlighter. You've got to remember though that a lot of, and you know, we mentioned it earlier in the in the when we were recording, we were talking about a inaccessibility of cores in this side of the Mississippi until much later. No. And so you only had cores in a very select area.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:02

The so here's the deal. Coors light versus ultra. For all the marbles, the correct answer, okay, is ultra. It is.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:14

If we're talking about purely volume sold, it is the number one overall C. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:21

Without question. But I firmly believe that a Coors Light is a more pleasurable beer to enjoy.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:30

I wish someone would pleasure me.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:32

And they might. They might.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:36

Over your decision right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:38

And I I don't think do you feel that my decision has been colored by the fact that we're drinking Coors Light right now?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:46

Well, I mean, I I feel like we're being as real as possible. Um Coors Light. Oh, and also you have to think about this. You know, we we ran a bar for two years. I seen the sales. You know what I mean? I I plugged in the kegs. I know what was I know what was going and what wasn't. Um that that being said, in my opinion, it is ultra.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:16

You're going first seed all the way home.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:19

I'm I'm saying ultra. In my opinion, I would almost situational, I would choose equally, I think, in some situations for Coors Light and Ultra. But just to be completely honest, it's gotta be Ultra. I can catch a lot of slack for this, and I'm going to, and that's fine. I hate you both hunters.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:46

I hate that PBR didn't make it, honestly.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:48

I um I mean I also hate that PBR didn't make it, but you guys have made me the bad guy. He's going ultra. The last one I gotta go ultra, man.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:59

I've seen I've seen the sales.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:01

Like the only one that I didn't have to pick was between Colorado Kool-Aid and a Coors Light. You guys have like worn my ass out.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:12

I I have to take a deep breath because we're drinking Coors Light right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:18

I hurt the feelings, man.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:19

And I love a Coors Light. I if I go to the gas station on my way, if I make a trip to the beer store on my way home from work, I would say probably seven times out of ten, it's a Coors Light.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:36

Um I like them a lot. I've drank a lot of them. Objectively, I have probably drank just as many ultras. Purely because it's the most popular.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:52

It is.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:52

I mean it's it's going it's going number one. It is the champion everything. Me and Caitlin agree. Lane doesn't have to be the bad guy.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:04

Um I like an ultra man. I I I will not argue with an ultra man.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:08

There's nothing wrong with an ultra. Um, and I will say ultra is the one beer that it does not matter the situation, does not matter the temperature outside, doesn't matter anything.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:21

If you toss somebody in a you can drink an ultra.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:24

Yeah, it doesn't matter. So wild. Like, how does how does Mikelobe Ultra unseat a Bud Light? And they're both Anheiser Busch.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:35

Yep. Yep. It uh it upsets me a little bit that that Ultra beat out a lot of um full flavored beers. Um but I mean it is what it is. Um there's a reason that they are the most popular in the US, you know what I mean? Um so I'm I'm a little disappointed in us that Ultra won, but it is what it is.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:01

You know, I think it's an excellent work.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:04

It it is a great um study, you know what I mean? Because even though there were a ton of beers that we personally all love, um Ultra beat it out because it's one of those things where you're like, ah I wouldn't mind having an Ultra.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:20

But if you called a PBR a PBR light, like I mean, and even not changing what it is, serving it as a full flavor, just slapping light on the cannon. Just calling it a light, like how big of a change does that make in the demographic that you're aiming for?

SPEAKER_02 1:05:43

You know, my guess personally was that PBR was gonna take the whole tournament. I would like for it to. That was my guess.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:53

And I think I could have guessed the other way. I think I could have guessed Ultrawood would have won popularity and just thinking about. Something that everybody's on the board. I didn't have one more.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:09

I don't think an ultra.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:17

You know, usually my first choice is the baby arm. We don't want PBR.