Ep. 10. We Love A Good FAFO

Welcome to A Trip to the Beer Store, the podcast where bad decisions get analyzed like true crime evidence and every episode proves that some people were simply born to fafo.

We crack open questionable IPAs, draft our favorite sandwiches like our lives depend on it, and spiral into the kind of conversations that usually start with “watch this” right before someone ends up banned from a gas station. From chaotic stories of people testing the limits of human intelligence to deep debates about whether which sandwich could absolutely body the others. Nothing is safe here.

It’s equal parts dark humor, beer fueled philosophy, and late night parking lot energy with friends who absolutely should not be handed microphones. So pull up a chair, grab a cold one, and remember the golden rule: the universe always collects payment from people who ignore warning labels.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:13

Trip to the pistol. On the trip to the pistol. And a revelation. Trip to the pistol.

SPEAKER_03 0:32

Then we're live. So guys, you know, on the podcast previously, we've had some conversations about how social media and the current society has separated running your mouth and facing consequences. Um this past week, there has been a definite uh what are the what what's the term? Fi FIFO? Yeah. Fo fi, however, whatever the FIFO, baby. Yeah, FAFO. There has been an amazing, in my opinion, um example of this happening. Um a gentleman by the title Chud the Builder um has recently been arrested um for rage baiting some people in public to the point where there was a physical altercation and he produced a firearm in the process, shot himself, and also shot another individual. Oh god.

SPEAKER_05 1:45

So I'm familiar with Bob the Builder. You know, I think we're all familiar with him. But like who is Chud the Builder?

SPEAKER_03 1:51

Uh Chud the Builder. Chud the Builder is a 28-year-old gentleman by the name of Dalton Etherley, is uh how I'm gonna choose to pronounce that last name. Um he is somewhat of a social media influencer, content creator, whatever term we're gonna use, um, who has made his platform on rage baiting people.

SPEAKER_04 2:21

So yeah, he's he's uh very very racist. Yeah. And he just makes videos of going around trying to get people to um get angry and get angry and and yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:34

Basically just is he one of those like real life live streamer guys?

SPEAKER_03 2:39

Yes, yes. He is one of those people that you would imagine like walking around Walmart with their phone held like a foot above their head in front facing camera, like or the selfie stick. Yeah, yeah. Super annoying, super annoying. But he's he went viral, I want to say a couple of months ago in a Walmart or I wanna I think it was Walmart, but basically making some very, very racist remarks and trying to incite a reaction. Um and allegedly he was he was very effective.

SPEAKER_04 3:18

I've seen some of the videos after all that, and he just he'll he'll walk up to a biracial couple and just start talking to the chick and just trying to get her heated up, you know, like is this guy bothering you? Just random, you know what I'm saying? Rage baiting, trying to rage bait. And unfortunately, someone jacked that jaw for him and then wound up shot.

SPEAKER_05 3:38

But like, yeah, overall, is this what we've resulted to as a society?

SPEAKER_03 3:42

Well, you know, just for trying to be inflammatory. Well, I think it's one of those things where free speech is generally a good thing, but you know, you can say some stuff that people aren't cool about.

SPEAKER_05 3:56

You have freedom of speech. You also don't have freedom of consequences because I'm gonna give you some.

SPEAKER_03 4:03

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 4:04

And I think that's I think he just learned that lesson. Say he didn't shoot himself. Is he really gonna say self-defense when he walks up and starts it with him?

SPEAKER_03 4:14

No, apparently there was a physical altercation that I took a lot of defense pistol classes and all that, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:21

And none of it, you know what I'm saying, has anything to do with starting anything.

SPEAKER_03 4:26

Well, I would be interested to see what a jury would decide if if me and you they're gonna watch his videos and you know what they're gonna decide. Yeah, but if me and you got into it, but you started the altercation, but the reason you started the physical altercation is because I get to talking about your wife.

SPEAKER_04 4:47

Right. Like I would be interested to see but but the thing is is it's freedom of speech, but it what it is is harassment. Yeah. When the guy harassed the guy in the mall that was super scared of him and he kept walking up to him with a phone and doing all that, he shot him in the stomach because he was point blank harassing him. Yeah, and that guy walked away, he went to jail, but all charges were dropped for self-defense. Yeah, he was being harassed.

SPEAKER_03 5:14

Well, so there are not charges currently against the individual who he was harassing, or the individual he shot. He currently is sitting with a 1.25 million dollar cash bond in Tennessee.

SPEAKER_05 5:35

Um could you imagine being the victim in this scenario here? Getting shot and then them trying to put charges on you? That'd be absolutely ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03 5:46

So he he is being held on an a Oh, my my article just messed up. He is being held on an attempted murder charge as well as other felonies tied to the shooting. Um, it does not list which other charges, but I will say in the article, the shooting is stated to have taken place in a courthouse like courtyard, and there were several other people present. So I wonder if there will be extra charges for like discharging a firearm in a crowd of people or whatever.

SPEAKER_04 6:24

It would be really hard to say that I well, I wouldn't start in anything with him, I just videoed him, whatever. Yeah, because I've watched his videos. He's very inflammatory, and he just he goes out of his way to start mess with people.

SPEAKER_05 6:37

I mean, that would be the first thing that came up though. Like if if you know they tried to bring charges against the other guy, the all the defense attorney has to do is just play the videos of him doing the other things. Like this is his guy's track record. Like, what was he expecting was gonna happen?

SPEAKER_04 6:52

But not only like how big is um hate crimes in this day and age right now. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:57

Yeah, I mean, hate speech, hate crimes, you got all that going on. Also, I'm I'm assuming this guy is what, like a Gen Alpha kid?

SPEAKER_03 7:04

Like he's 28. Oh my goodness, he's older than you, he should know better. Yeah. So the there this article is like 10 miles long, but um allegedly earlier um this year, May 11th, he was charged in another county with theft of services, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest.

SPEAKER_04 7:31

The theft of services, I seen that after all this had come out. Um, he went into a place, ordered food.

SPEAKER_03 7:38

Um Yeah, that's what this article's saying.

SPEAKER_04 7:41

He did it wasn't like good reviews, and he said some things, and they were like, Hey, you need to get out, and he wouldn't pay.

SPEAKER_03 7:47

Yeah. So apparently he ordered a lot of food totaling 370 bucks. Was it okay um and then refused to pay and resisted arrest? So um that case is still pending. He was out on bond for it. Yeah. Um, so the the prosecuting attorney requested no bond. Um, the judge said he wouldn't do that, but since it was well, I'll read you verbatim. Based upon the fact of how many people were here in the courtyard or at the courthouse in the seriousness of these felonies. Um, that's why the such a high bond. But the the charges he's facing are attempted murder, employing a firearm during a dangerous felony, aggravated assault, and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon.

SPEAKER_04 8:45

So I get if he wasn't raging the guy like to think to pull a gun, but you're literally just saying all these racial remarks, get trying to get this guy to hit you. And then when he does, you pull a gun.

SPEAKER_05 8:57

I mean, I would argue that that's premeditation. Yeah, like because like from a from a realistic perspective, like it's what he does for a living.

SPEAKER_04 9:05

He's going out there, he knows he's planning to spike somebody's temper in hopes that they'll do something. And then what's he he's just gonna shoot them?

SPEAKER_05 9:14

And then the thing, and then the guy pulls up and you know, does the whole Plaxico Burr situation shoot himself?

SPEAKER_03 9:19

Like, yeah, it's it's crazy. What what's uh what's the guy from Eight Mile, Jim Bob? All his street cred just like none. Yeah, but I mean that's another issue as well. Like uh I can tell you a lot of a lot of guys in my generation, um, you know, my generation is the social media powerhouse, and I can't tell you how many videos I've seen of dudes like flashing guns and stuff. Um, I think we're all I'm I'm very pro-gun. Um I don't know about you guys, but oh you know I am. Um so it's just funny, you know, just because you carry a gun doesn't mean you know how to use it.

SPEAKER_05 9:55

So obviously, guys I can tell you with a great amount of certainty if you ever see my gun, it'll be the last one you see. Exactly. There you go.

SPEAKER_03 10:03

Exactly. But I mean it's important, man. If you're if you're carrying one, you should you should train with it, you should know how to use it.

SPEAKER_04 10:09

That way you don't shoot yourself before you uh shoot your attack when you're fixing to murder somebody in cold blood.

SPEAKER_03 10:15

That's crazy though, man. And and we've talked about it on the show before, but it it's it's something that I really dislike is this that guy's worth millions. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:25

He's got like millions for sure. Being an influencer or whatever, and now the guy he shot will have millions.

SPEAKER_03 10:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:34

Oh, yeah, no doubt.

SPEAKER_03 10:35

You you have to wonder, so this is an interesting point as well. The people who watch content like that, do you think that they're gonna enjoy his content more now? Because if you're watching that kind of content, you're looking for that reaction, right? Like that's the that's the fun part of the video, is that you get a reaction. So I wonder has he lost all of his support, or there are like people in his comments now being like, Oh, this guy's a hero.

SPEAKER_04 11:07

I'm sure it'll spike both ways.

SPEAKER_05 11:10

I don't know if we'll see I'm a hero.

SPEAKER_04 11:13

Yeah, but there is a certain he will at least have so many more views just because of the clickbait of it, right? And they're like, Oh, I gotta just check what was see what's going on, and then he'll get all this hate, and then what's gonna happen is when he's in prison for 15, 20 years, he'll just fall off like the next game.

SPEAKER_03 11:32

Yeah, yeah, this is true. This is true. But it's uh it's I it's very unfortunate that he was shot by himself and that he shot the other gentleman.

SPEAKER_04 11:44

Uh you know, I think it's more unfortunate that he shot the other gentleman, yeah, just to be honest with you. Because I mean, live your life how you want to live, but you're out there for sure this guy standing in a courtyard or just whatever's going on, and somebody approaches him to jack up his day, you know what I'm saying? Just because I mean, just because the color of his skin.

SPEAKER_05 12:07

I mean, let's put the shoe on the other foot, man. Like, like, what would you do if like you experienced the same situation though?

SPEAKER_04 12:13

Like, I wouldn't have hit nobody, I'd have probably just shot him.

SPEAKER_05 12:15

Yeah, yeah. No.

SPEAKER_04 12:16

It's like, all right, now the bad guy was shot. Well, and you you also have to solve.

SPEAKER_03 12:21

You have to consider as well, you know, in some of his videos, like you said, there's like a couple, and how I respond to aggression if it's just me or if it's the three of us out somewhere drinking or whatever we're doing, how I spot respond to that aggression is going to be very different than if I'm walking and my wife is next to me.

SPEAKER_04 12:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:43

It's an entirely different response. So again, I don't know the details of that situation. I don't know if it was just one individual, if he was attacking a group of people, or what the situation was, but I think this is a great lesson for my generation that um, yes, we have free speech. You can you can say what you want to, but there are there are still definitely consequences. Somebody's not gonna put up with it, man.

SPEAKER_05 13:06

I mean, we literally talk, I mean, uh at what point does it get home? Like at what point does it hit home for like the Gen Alpha people? Because last week we talked about all the people that are facing all the, or last episode we talked about all the consequences that these people are facing for the dumb shit they're doing on DoorDash. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And here we are again this week. Now we're talking about this very prominent influencer guy that does stuff and makes money that we can't even ever imagine to make for doing what exactly besides contributing to the problem that already exists in this country.

SPEAKER_04 13:41

Believe what you want to believe, live how you want to live, but out there starting mess with people just not doing anything is gonna get somebody killed and may get innocent people hurt. So yeah. Well, you have to think about it. I'm not a fan of that regardless of the situation. And and it goes both ways. Oh, 100%. There's there's racism on all sides. Every one of them. I've seen it, lived it. Yeah. But 100% leave society out of this. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_03 14:09

Agreed. Um, it is it is one of those things where um I think I think one thing in in court hearings that you hear about is this is what happened. Just imagine what could have happened. Because you know, you go to a parole hearing and they're like, well, if we let him out, imagine he did this bad stuff, imagine what more bad stuff he could do. You know the potential for it.

SPEAKER_06 14:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:34

You're talking about um he he was so ill prepared with his firearm that he shot himself before shooting another individual.

SPEAKER_04 14:44

And that's the thing is you're you're in a fight, you're in a tussle, you know, in the moment. Uh, we were just watching this uh this investigation show Britt's been on, and um these two people got into it on Bourbon Street. Yeah, this chick pulls a gun and fires off a couple of rounds, misses her target 15 feet in front of her, yeah, kills an innocent guy down the road. Yeah, exactly. Struck him in the head. Now imagine there's kids out there or anything like that, and you're just you're automatically for the views or starting this drama.

SPEAKER_03 15:18

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 15:18

And then boom, you're in a tussle, you pull that firearm. He's lucky he only shot himself and the guy.

SPEAKER_03 15:25

Well, you know what happens if you're you pull it out and you try to shoot the dude, you're a terrible shot, you miss him, you hit a kid, or you That's what I'm saying. You hit anybody.

SPEAKER_04 15:34

That's what I'm saying. Anybody innocent just living living their day. Yeah. Yeah. No, if if I were if I were the judge, I'd throw the book at him.

SPEAKER_03 15:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:43

And I'd never let him out.

SPEAKER_03 15:45

Yeah. Hopefully that's what happened. I mean it's a it's a good sign that the judge was like let him grow up.

SPEAKER_04 15:50

Yeah. Let him grow up. At 28, he should be. You know, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_05 15:54

But you know, there's a lot to, you know, there's a there's a lot to break down inside of that, right? Like hopefully he was standing in the grass outside the courthouse, you know, and maybe he's uh on federal grounds. See, yeah, because on federal grounds, possession of a firearm on, you know, that's what I'm saying. Like, I mean, I want him to go away for everything. But at the same time, you've got to think about the kind of issues.

SPEAKER_04 16:17

All I can think of is my family. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_05 16:19

100%. Well, so yeah, I I agree with that 100%. But the problem that I'm coming up with inside my head as we're sitting here and we're talking about this, is all of the POS people that are now gonna start following this guy. Like, I mean, look at it through history, you know, think about Eric Robert Rudolph, think about uh Ted Kazinski.

SPEAKER_04 16:42

The wrong people are gonna make him a martyr.

SPEAKER_05 16:44

Yeah, he is going to become a martyr. And why? Like this man has done too much evidence that he's in the wrong you know, politicians are pushing this and pushing that or doing whatever, and then there's guys like this on the street that are pushing us back 200 years every day, and there's gonna be a hundred thousand people that run and support this guy. Yeah, and so how are we moving forward as a society if we can't, you know, move past that?

SPEAKER_03 17:13

Well, that's what I was saying earlier. It's like, yes, anybody with a brain is gonna be like, this guy's a dumbass and disregard it. But out of every hundred people, there's gonna be one that goes, Oh, this dude's a patriot. He's like, he's fighting for it. And like I use the word hero in the sense of that's what it's gonna be in their minds, terribly misguided. Exactly, exactly. But the thing is, is we we live in a country where heroes don't put families and children in the house. 100%. But if we live in a society where you like I said, free speech, I think generally speaking is a good thing, but you know, you you end up with voices like that sometimes. Um he went out there with the sole purpose to be a bully. A hundred percent.

SPEAKER_04 18:02

Yeah, a hundred percent and that's all there is to it.

SPEAKER_03 18:04

And I'm glad that the dude who had the confrontation with him stood up. I'm glad that he's okay. Um, in the article it says attempted murder, so I'm it's safe to assume he hasn't passed away. Yeah, but I mean there's no telling. What if he what if he's paralyzed now or what if he has a terrible shot twice? Yeah. What if what if he has lifelong issues because of this altercation? Yeah, it's a positive thing that this dude's gonna be locked up and be gone out of society now. But like this gentleman's life is permanently affected, potentially.

SPEAKER_04 18:38

Right.

SPEAKER_03 18:39

It could have been through and through and not hit anything, and he's be he's okay.

SPEAKER_04 18:43

But now I'm I'm assuming this entire thing off watching other of his videos after all this happened. Um I'm assuming that he w was the aggressor and that's what his brand built off of any of his videos where he wasn't.

SPEAKER_03 18:58

Yeah, a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_05 18:59

You know, and I think we can come to an agreement as a trip to the beer store and say that we're welcome to all followers. Yeah, 100%. Except for racist, fear mongers, pieces of shit.

SPEAKER_03 19:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 19:14

Um bullies.

SPEAKER_03 19:16

If you like that guy, we probably aren't gonna agree on much.

SPEAKER_05 19:19

You know, it's like we we can we can accept a lot and we're open to a lot of things, but we're not gonna be open to you treating another human being like they're less than.

SPEAKER_03 19:26

Yeah, agreed wholeheartedly. I'm on that, I'm on that book. Or if you drink Keystone Lot, sorry. Speaking of Keystone Lot, um, Uncle Lane, you have been out on the road.

SPEAKER_05 19:41

Yeah, so I want to start with giving a little bit of an apology to our listeners. I know we got some feedback last week about us not putting out an episode, and that's 100% my fault. Um sorry, guys. I started a new job and I'm on the road through the week, and it just gets a little bit harder for us to record. So this past week I was in the huge city of Olive Olive Branch, Mississippi, which is about 30 minutes south of Memphis.

SPEAKER_03 20:10

It sounds very peaceful.

SPEAKER_05 20:12

And while I was up there, I uh, you know, I decided that I wanted to bring us back a little something lovely, if you will.

SPEAKER_03 20:18

And I love lovely things.

SPEAKER_05 20:20

And so for our 10th episode, I wanted Number 10. I wanted to bring us something that um we all personally hate so we can all punish each other together. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 20:33

Thank you. Thank you, Uncle Wayne.

SPEAKER_05 20:35

So this week on a trip to the beer store, we will be reviewing at least it's cold. It's very cold for the first time in IPA. Old IPA. We know that a lot of our listeners love IPAs, have been begging us to review IPAs, and I get it. Some of you like to drink bark and chew on pine needles. We understand that.

SPEAKER_04 21:01

There's a tree on the front of it. Oh God, I have I do not have high hopes.

SPEAKER_05 21:07

So this week we are drinking just bark this week. We're drinking zippin' pippin' by Ghost River Brewing.

SPEAKER_03 21:20

Any relation to Scotty?

SPEAKER_05 21:21

Hopefully, gotta be out of Memphis, Tennessee. Now, while I was up there, I can say that I did have Ghost River's golden ale.

SPEAKER_04 21:33

Love them.

SPEAKER_05 21:34

And it was absolutely phenomenal.

SPEAKER_04 21:36

Is that a 6.9 or an 8.9?

SPEAKER_05 21:39

I really hope that's a that's a six.

SPEAKER_04 21:43

I hope so.

SPEAKER_05 21:44

I mean, don't get me wrong. I've been drinking since like 12 30, but you know, it's you don't want to not. Yeah, yeah. Are we uh we diving in? Yeah, let's try it. I think it's time for the first time in two weeks.

SPEAKER_03 22:00

I can tell just by the smell, I'm gonna be unhappy.

SPEAKER_05 22:04

Oh, it smells like an IPA.

SPEAKER_03 22:08

So just everywhere. What's y'all's opinion? Okay, to me, IPAs got really trendy a few years ago. And I've I can firmly say I've always been an IPA hater.

unknown 22:22

God.

SPEAKER_03 22:23

But I don't get is it to me, IPAs are the same thing as like a 19-year-old coal miner who says, I've always drank my coffee black since I was three. Cream has never touched my coffee.

SPEAKER_05 22:39

Let me ask you an important question. A 19-year-old coal miner. Yeah. Braden? K Dog? Yes, sir. How much flannel do you guys own?

SPEAKER_04 22:48

I used to wear quite a bit of flannel. I own my wife set me on fire in my favorite flannel shirt, and I haven't bought one flannel.

SPEAKER_03 22:54

I said I never went back. Um, I own a couple of Dixon flannels. Shout out Dixon flannel.

SPEAKER_04 23:02

Yeah, I need to get some Dixon flannels.

SPEAKER_03 23:04

Purely because I owned a diner for several years. Um shout out Dixon flannel. They make great flannel.

SPEAKER_05 23:10

I mean, I just feel like the the reason I've got to ask though, right, is like, you know, you have a certain mindset that comes into your head oh, you start thinking about the guy who drinks exclusively IPAs. Oh, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 23:26

You can smell the bitter.

SPEAKER_05 23:28

Yeah. So guys, underwater it's like we are we're 100% gonna be unbiased, even though none of us are huge IPA guys. Trying. We are gonna best shot. We are gonna review the beer for what it is, not our personal taste on the matter.

SPEAKER_04 23:46

Does it comp well? I thought it's always our personal taste. It's always my personal taste. So do is it not more of a compliment if we score an IPA really low than an IPA lovers like know that it's gonna be a 10 for them?

SPEAKER_03 23:59

They're like, I love IPAs. That one they gave a negative three is gonna be awesome. It's gonna be my favorite.

SPEAKER_05 24:04

But you know, it's you know, at the same time though, I I don't want to do Ghost River dirty because, like I said, I've had their gold nail, and their gold nail is phenomenal.

SPEAKER_03 24:11

No, I like I like Ghost River a lot, they make some fantastic beers.

SPEAKER_04 24:15

Terrible IPAs, so we'll see.

SPEAKER_03 24:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 24:17

I mean, I usually can drink one, so let's try it. I usually can drink none. It's just not my thing, man.

SPEAKER_04 24:26

I have some thoughts on this, though. That is not the worst IPA I've ever drank.

SPEAKER_05 24:31

I was fixing to say this actually ranks up there amongst IPAs. Like, I wouldn't say that it's not as bitter as it smells.

SPEAKER_04 24:39

I'll say that. I mean, they do have a tagline on this, don't you? There's a hard peel in it. You can taste a hard peel in it, though.

SPEAKER_03 24:46

I feel like I'm drinking grapefruit piss. Like if that if a grapefruit took a piss, that's what I'm doing. And look, that might be the flavor profile they're going for. And if they're not grapefruit piss, this might be fine. If that is the flavor profile that you love, you're gonna love it.

SPEAKER_04 25:06

Um, expecting it to be way more it's not that bad.

SPEAKER_03 25:09

I've had I've had way, way worse IPAs. It is just not my thing.

SPEAKER_04 25:15

I would like y'all to know that this is my second beer of the day.

SPEAKER_03 25:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:19

And I'm drunk right now.

SPEAKER_05 25:20

Yeah. It's a it's stout, it's stout. I mean, I would say this probably ranks amongst my favorite IPAs. Like, I don't think it's as good as uh Gile.

SPEAKER_04 25:33

There's the better.

SPEAKER_03 25:34

So sets in late. Here's the and and this this might reveal some things about me. My type of beer consumption is oftentimes while I'm doing something. Um I don't want to have to ponder on what I'm drinking. So, you know, um myself and K Dog worked on a bike earlier this week, my bike to be specific. And uh what were we drinking on? We were drinking some beers, but I don't remember what we were drinking. Natty lights or bushlights or something. Yingling.

SPEAKER_05 26:13

You're taking away all of our credibility.

SPEAKER_03 26:16

Um hey, um I drink a lot of natty lights. It goes bush. Bush, yeah. We're drinking bushlights, but one thing I will say is um that's typically how I consume beer. Now, with that being said, there are a lot of times where we go and sit at a restaurant and I just order whatever they have on time. And in this scenario, like if I'm just sitting there waiting on my food or we're sitting watching a game, sitting at a bar, I would definitely I could see myself having one of these, you know, in that situation.

SPEAKER_04 26:53

It's uh I can drink it. I'm more impressed. Yeah, absolutely. I'm more impressed with this than I am. The smell of it smelled like every IPA. Yeah, every one of them. But it's not quite as bitter. It does have a strong peel taste. Um pill is in an orange pill.

SPEAKER_03 27:13

The little white shit that stays on the orange after you peep it.

SPEAKER_04 27:15

Not the little white pills with specs.

SPEAKER_03 27:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:17

Pith.

SPEAKER_03 27:18

Pith is the is the word you're looking for.

SPEAKER_04 27:21

Um but yeah, so I'm I guess I really for an IPA, I don't think I hate it. No. Because um the IPAs we had before at Parr, the worst thing. And people people loved them, and I was like, yeah, and I guess it was the hoppy thing that I couldn't get on board with the real strong bitter hoppy taste. Um, but this is not crazy hoppy, so really IPA lovers may not even like it that much.

SPEAKER_05 27:51

Yeah, that's fixing to say, like, this is kind of almost a sweet spot between your guys who like the more bitter beers without hitting that IPA level.

SPEAKER_04 28:02

The the name does make sense in this because it does have that little twang to it. That little sharp twang.

SPEAKER_03 28:11

Um, so even though I said it, it sounds like grapefruit piss, uh, smells like, tastes like all the senses. All the senses.

SPEAKER_04 28:19

Is this a piece of tree bark in one?

SPEAKER_03 28:21

Yeah, probably. Um, I'm gonna rate it on a scale of IPAs that I've had.

SPEAKER_04 28:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 28:27

That's kind of where I'm so generally speaking, an IPA for me can't be above a three just because I don't like them.

SPEAKER_05 28:36

But we do have the rule. Yeah, anything below a 2.5 we don't recommend for human consumption.

SPEAKER_03 28:42

Yeah, I think on the list of IPAs I've had, this is this is a decent one. It's not bad. Um I am gonna go. I'm gonna go three. I'll go three on it. I think that's fair. Solid IPA. Um, it's a good beer, and like Lane said, I don't think I would have a problem. Like I said, if we go to dinner, we're sitting at a bar, they've got it on draft, it's the special one, what having one while I'm waiting on my food. Yeah, I could have one and then and then switch over to something else.

SPEAKER_05 29:17

Not to mention just how fucking cool the can is.

SPEAKER_03 29:19

It's a cool fucking can.

SPEAKER_05 29:21

It definitely has a willow tree on it.

SPEAKER_04 29:23

That's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 29:25

Dick. That's kind of what it looks like.

SPEAKER_04 29:28

Yeah, I'm pretty positive that's a willow tree.

SPEAKER_05 29:30

No, it absolutely is.

SPEAKER_03 29:33

What you think, K Dong?

SPEAKER_04 29:35

Um, so I will have to say that this is probably the best IPA I've ever tasted.

SPEAKER_03 29:42

Wow, that's high praise, though.

SPEAKER_04 29:44

Yeah, I I've had some really hard, bitter stuff. This has got a little bit of the bitterness, but it's not it's not overwhelming to where I'm sitting here like trying to get it off my stomach.

SPEAKER_03 29:56

Not like licking a lawnmower blade or anything.

SPEAKER_04 29:59

Man, right. Um, and I will say, good people IPA, and for people that love IPA, I'm sorry, but that was one of the worst things I've ever tried to do. Not a fan of it. And we've reviewed some good people. And they loved it. So that, but that just gives you kind of a where my taste buds are.

SPEAKER_05 30:18

No, the people that love it love it, and there's no hatred for them on any of our listeners.

SPEAKER_04 30:22

We is for that, for the IPA lovers out there, I'm gonna give this a 3-5. That's that's high praise, man. Yeah. Well, I just don't want to misguide anybody as far as IPAs go. Um, this is a less bitter IPA, but it is an IPA.

SPEAKER_03 30:40

My my father-in-law, friend of the show, Randy Quillen, um loves an IPA. And I he has given me some beers that are very similar to this. So I bet he would he would enjoy it. And he's an avid IPA enjoyer.

SPEAKER_04 30:55

So if we have an extra, take him one. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:58

No, I'll take I'll take him a brew.

SPEAKER_05 31:01

You know, and probably coming across as the most tolerant of beer drinkers. You know, I like a little bit of everything in my life. Yeah. Because there's a few IPAs I do like. I like Stone's IPA, I like Gielai by Cigar City. Um you're more of a crafty beer guy than I. I love crap. I love craft beer. Um, but when it comes to this beer, you don't get that super bitter flavor. Yeah. And I appreciate that. And so it ruins it.

SPEAKER_04 31:30

Like there's a good taste to it, and too much of the bitterness, you're just trying to put something else in there that you want to cover it up with, you're like, oh, this is awful.

SPEAKER_05 31:42

There's an entire group of people who've really enjoy that. And so it's like you can't segment your population, right? If you're trying to be a successful brewery, and so I think for them, they have, I mean, at least the one that I've tried, and then now this one, they're putting out a pretty good line of beers. So why would you completely remove yourself from a corner of the market like the IPA that's as large as it is? Yeah, yeah. Because realistically, a lot of times when I go in and I see the craft section, like the craft section is primarily IPAs at this point.

SPEAKER_04 32:18

Yeah. Yeah. No, that's that's a valid point. College kids don't have money, so they just buy a six pack and they're hammered off of it. That's why they like it so much.

SPEAKER_05 32:27

But I think that in this situation, I'll have to go with K Dog. I will give this a 3.5 for my overall rating. Not bad at all. Once again, it's like, you know, we're just not huge IPA guys, but this was a pleasant surprise, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_03 32:44

Yeah. No, very, very decent beer. I'm very surprised by that. Speaking, speaking of decent beer and great drinks and good atmosphere. Um, being that you've been on the road, we um we haven't really been able to hang out much with Lane changing jobs, which has been it's been an adjustment for sure. Um and today we were actually all kind of able to go and have lunch together. Uh which was fabulous. Yeah, kind of hang out and have a couple of few drinkies and I'm trying to act miserable. Dude, I'm so full. It was so good. But we went to good friend of the show, Jake's on fourth. Jake's on fourth. Jake's on fourth. All had a couple of drinks and uh a couple of little snackies.

SPEAKER_05 33:32

Um man, that baloney I think what I appreciate the most about it is well, with Sterling was there with us before. Great friend of the show, Stir Dog, and we'll talk about him more later.

SPEAKER_04 33:44

Which was ironic that we went down to have lunch. Stir dog called me. My phone was on silent. He called me to ask if I wanted to go to Jake's and have lunch, and then he walks into Jake's and we were already there. He was already hanging out. I was just texting you back. I didn't even know you called me.

SPEAKER_05 34:02

Yeah. But I think it's also pretty cool that we all ordered something different for lunch today. We did, we did, man. So, Braden, what'd you have for lunch today?

SPEAKER_03 34:13

What was the first beer I had? The Telluride, right?

SPEAKER_05 34:16

Yeah, we had Telluride Blonde, the Tangerine Blonde, which we have reviewed on the show previously. Go back, check that episode out.

SPEAKER_04 34:22

I bet you guys can't guess what my beer was.

SPEAKER_05 34:26

It was the winner of the April madness for a trip to the beer store 2026.

SPEAKER_04 34:32

See, I I have to limit myself. I have to start easy. Yeah. Because if I go, if I go out there and just start drinking, I've got to continue. You know what I'm saying? Once the snowball's rolling down the hill. You can have a light beer and not drink till later or whatever, but I cannot do the same with liquor or anything like that. No, you can't. I just can't.

SPEAKER_03 34:56

Um, I had one of the specials, um, which I would like to to preface this with I also had Jake's for dinner last night. Um, it was me and my lovely wife's anniversary. We've been together. We're paying your bills, Jake. Yeah, Jake. We support you, brother. Yeah. Um, but I mean it's hard not to that. The food's great, it's it's pretty decently priced, and yeah. And they're drinks are good.

SPEAKER_05 35:20

And then they're fair, and you get good service and what do they call it?

SPEAKER_04 35:24

The the baloney chub.

SPEAKER_05 35:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:27

A smoke bolog. A smoke smoke baloney chub with the um pimento cheese and fries. House made pimento cheese. $13.

SPEAKER_03 35:37

Yeah. Can't be mad about it. Yeah. You can't go to McDonald's for that, man.

SPEAKER_04 35:40

Yeah. No. By the time you're done super sizing, it's $15.

SPEAKER_03 35:44

But I had uh I had the ravioli as an appetizer last night, and then the drunken pasta, which if you if you happen to go by there and that's one of the specials, you should get it.

SPEAKER_05 35:54

I had it a few weeks ago when you bailed on us. It was some of the best pasta slash seafood combo I've put in my mouth in a long time.

SPEAKER_03 36:04

Yeah. Um, so I had that last night, and then today we walked in, and on the specials, there was uh scallop Alfredo.

SPEAKER_04 36:13

Oh, it just sounds so good. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 36:15

Dude, it was stupid. It was insane.

SPEAKER_04 36:19

Yeah, I gotta try that.

SPEAKER_03 36:20

So I had that and then uh a couple, few 17 more drinkies, and now we're here.

SPEAKER_05 36:30

You know, it was a whole ride though, because like when we talk about our you know, if we're just talking about the drink side, you know, started off with a nice tell you ride blonde. Yeah, that tangerine blonde, absolutely phenomenal. Great beer.

SPEAKER_04 36:42

And then you put that back in your pants. Sorry.

SPEAKER_05 36:46

We're all at the table here. I can't help it, it's running out the bottom of my shorts. He said it's like blonde. I'd like the telluride blonde. But you know, then you and I had a nice little round of uh Elijah Craig's single barrel.

SPEAKER_04 37:08

That was uh He did me a favor by not giving me a shot. I tried to give him my shot. No, I didn't, I couldn't. It was good. Can't do it that way.

SPEAKER_03 37:16

It was uh what what is this cycle will begin? What do they call that? An ap apertif. Aperitif. Apertif.

SPEAKER_05 37:22

It's like uh you're too you're too fancy for me now.

SPEAKER_03 37:25

Aperitif, however you say it, y'all know what I'm talking about. But it's uh like a drink after dinner. Brandy. Yeah, the brandy. Yeah, the bottle of Evan I drink every night.

SPEAKER_04 37:39

Um yeah, but my brother's a huge brandy guy. I don't know that I've ever like does the brandy in the Arizona tea. And I've tried this with him, it's very good.

SPEAKER_05 37:50

He's making his own Arnold Palmer's over there, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:53

He does yeah, I think it was the Arizona honey tea. Uh and then like, I don't know, we were at the lake one time and he's like, try this. And I was like, I'd like to try that again.

SPEAKER_03 38:06

So is this is he's older than you, correct? Yeah, Uncle Dave's older than you. So is this a situation where like eventually you grow out of the Evan and Dr. Peppers and you move to the Arizona teasing brandy?

SPEAKER_04 38:17

I don't know. I hope not. Probably not. That's just that's one of those side treats, you know. Yeah, I got you. I got you. It's like shout out Uncle Dave.

SPEAKER_05 38:27

It's like I won't turn one down, but I'm not gonna move away from what I know.

SPEAKER_03 38:31

Fair enough.

SPEAKER_05 38:32

What did you what did you end up having, Uncle Lane? Man, I had the all-American chili cheese dog with mac and cheese on the side. He looked us in our eyes when he ate it.

SPEAKER_03 38:43

Yeah, it looked very tasty, to be honest.

SPEAKER_05 38:46

And honestly, it was pretty impressive because you guys were sitting on each side of me. So, like, I you know, I had to have the old blue eyes.

SPEAKER_04 38:51

When Caitlin said that way, one blue that way.

SPEAKER_03 38:54

Yeah, he he looked at us simultaneously. Um, yeah, but it was uh it was a great lunch, man. Absolutely. I know we talk about Jakes a lot, man, but every experience I've had there's been awesome. You know, it's hard not to like it.

SPEAKER_05 39:09

And here's my thing, Jasper, Alabama. If you want us to eat at your restaurant, put a product on the table that's as good as what I can get on a lunch special at Jakes.

SPEAKER_03 39:22

That's a good point, man.

SPEAKER_05 39:24

Like, I will gladly come and eat at your restaurant when you can put something on the table that is that good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:30

Yeah, for that price.

SPEAKER_05 39:32

I paid ten dollars for that hot dog and mac and cheese today. Hot dog. And I probably would have gladly paid double that.

SPEAKER_03 39:42

Yeah. It looked awesome, man. I after I finished my food and was sitting there hurting because I was so full, I got to thinking to myself and I was looking down the line, and I was like, ah, that hot dog looked good. Oh, that baloney sandwich looked good. Um Ster Dog had a baloney sandwich as well. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:59

So Stir Dog said that the baloney sandwich there is his top sandwich in all the menus all over town. Oh wow. He said that's his number one. Number one. He did shout that out a little bit.

SPEAKER_05 40:12

If I could make one critique to Jake's baloney sandwich, it's this very simple thing. If you order a lunch um bologna sandwich, you don't get the bacon jam. But if you order the dinner bologna sandwich, you get that bacon jam on it. And if he would just go ahead and put that bacon jam on the bacon jam should be a fixture. Like just just keep it uniform. Like, that's the only thing that I could say could make that any better. Shame.

unknown 40:51

Shame.

SPEAKER_03 40:52

As someone who likes bacon jam. Jake, I fear him. I agree with Lane.

SPEAKER_04 40:57

Why you holding, why you holding was the was the bacon jam not on it? No. For the lunch menu?

SPEAKER_05 41:02

On the lunch menu, you don't get it. You get I think it's mayonnaise and just the pimento, the cows made pimento cheese, just by the way.

SPEAKER_04 41:11

That's weird because I don't know that I noticed a difference.

SPEAKER_05 41:14

Well, you will next time you have one. How do you know?

SPEAKER_03 41:18

How do you know? It's uh Schrdinger's bacon jam.

SPEAKER_04 41:21

Oh, well, maybe I was just so happy.

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SPEAKER_01 42:42

Never left behind on a trip to the beer store.

SPEAKER_03 42:47

Speaking, speaking of uh Stardog saying that that was the best sandwich, um, I have a little game for us to play, boys. And I really think that this is gonna teach us about each other. And I think it's gonna teach our audience about each other. So what we're going to do is we each have to draft three sandwiches. Okay? And if Lane takes it, it's gone for us. Okay? But we're trying to build the best top three sandwich rosters. And when you listen to this podcast, what you're gonna do is you're gonna listen to the podcast, open up Facebook, and you're gonna go to our page and like it. You're gonna like our page, number one. Are you not following our page on the radio?

SPEAKER_04 43:45

Are you not following our page?

SPEAKER_03 43:47

That's crazy, guys. Do better. But once you like and follow, if you're not, and share it with all your friends and get our logo tattooed on you somewhere.

SPEAKER_05 43:57

Yeah, we're still grounded by Facebook, by the way. Your lower back. So explain this to me and I don't understand this. So we were removed from suggested pages on Facebook, and it never explained to us why. I think it was the name of the podcast ultimately is like advertising to children or some BS that's not even remotely.

SPEAKER_03 44:22

Oh, because it's beer store.

SPEAKER_05 44:23

Yeah. And so even this name on Instagram.

SPEAKER_03 44:28

Even because Zuck likes IPAs.

SPEAKER_05 44:31

But we appealed and we won. We won the appeal. And it actively said you shall be returned to normal. But every time I get on the page, it still says that we're restricted from suggested pages. So what we need is our lovely followers to please help us get the word out because we can't organically grow as much as we used to.

SPEAKER_03 44:52

This is terrible. But once you do that, there will be a poll posted on the page, and you're gonna say between myself, Uncle Lane, and K-Dog who had the best three sandwiches. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 45:04

Yeah. So now are we doing best three local sandwiches?

SPEAKER_03 45:08

No, no, just a sandwich. Just sandwich.

SPEAKER_04 45:12

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 45:12

So like if you take cheeseburger number one overall pick, that wipes out every cheeseburger on it.

SPEAKER_04 45:19

So it can't be a specific cheeseburger from a place.

SPEAKER_03 45:23

No, just sandwich time. If you want to say cheeseburger, specifics in my mind. And that's fine.

SPEAKER_05 45:29

Yeah, it's like, don't get me wrong, like I want the ham and cheese from Lacey's or the pizza bar. Like, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04 45:35

But now I think we should mention that also for our viewers to go out and try. Yeah, I think you're like, oh, he rated it number one. I gotta go try that.

SPEAKER_03 45:43

Yeah, I think you should specify why it is you feel that way.

SPEAKER_04 45:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:47

But just because you say cheeseburger from McDonald's doesn't mean, well, I can say, well, mine's cheeseburger, but from Burger King. Gotcha. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_05 45:56

Yep. So it comes off the tape. It's half.

SPEAKER_03 45:59

So Lane, I'm gonna give you first pick. So you get first pick in the first round of the 2026 trip to the beer store sandwich draft.

SPEAKER_05 46:12

I wish I had known that I was drafting number one overall. Do you have the by any chance, K-Dog, on the bar? Do you have the this draft pick as in for the NFL? You know?

SPEAKER_03 46:24

We need to edit that in if we have it. So I think going number one overall in the 2026 trip to the beer store sandwich draft. Number one overall pick taken by team Uncle Lane.

SPEAKER_05 46:40

You guys call me bougie all the time, ever since my beer list in episode one. It's bougie. But it's not about to change now. Gotcha. And I am going to take the Monte Cristo sandwich.

SPEAKER_03 46:53

That's your number one overall? Have you ever had a Monte Cristo? I've had many of them. That is a crazy number one.

SPEAKER_05 47:01

You're telling me that it you can beat ham, turkey, Swiss, fried, covered with a powdered sugar, served with a jelly or jam of your choice on the side. You think you can beat that?

SPEAKER_03 47:21

I think it is a delightful sandwich. I think it could have gone third round.

SPEAKER_05 47:26

I think you're an idiot.

SPEAKER_03 47:27

Well, and that's why we're great co-hosts. Um second overall in round one of the draft. K-dog, what do you got?

SPEAKER_04 47:38

Going second. Out of the gate. Um I'm gonna have to say, and I'm gonna keep this local because it's on my mind. I'm going bologna chub sandwich. Wow. It's just too good. It's delicious. It's one thing that I can have all the time, and I don't see myself getting old or getting tired of it.

SPEAKER_03 48:06

That's high praise, man.

SPEAKER_04 48:07

I'm going for it. Shout out to them. They do they do a great job. They do an excellent job. Smoked and perfect and awesome.

SPEAKER_05 48:18

They even take the red ring off for you.

SPEAKER_04 48:20

That's right. He even takes the red ring. Which I usually eat.

SPEAKER_03 48:25

Yeah, you know. You might as well. Yeah, might as well. Um I can't believe it's made it this far because I figured Lane was going to take it first. I'm taking the Philly cheesesteak.

SPEAKER_05 48:39

Oh, that was my number two draft pick.

SPEAKER_03 48:40

As number one draft pick. I, in my opinion, a good Philly cheesesteak with Cooper Sharp, not cheese whiz.

SPEAKER_05 48:50

Well, now you've told me everything I need to know, and I know that you've not eaten actual Philly cheesesteak, so you know just take that back over there in your corner.

SPEAKER_03 48:58

I'm going Cooper Sharp over Cheese Wiz every time. I think is the most perfect sandwich that exists on the earth. That's who I'm taking from.

SPEAKER_05 49:08

First of all, I don't know if I've had it like that. Ask anybody from Philadelphia how to have a cheesesteak.

SPEAKER_03 49:14

They're gonna say whiz, but they're wrong.

SPEAKER_05 49:16

No, you're wrong. It's a what what kind of what kind of cheesesteak sandwich is it? A Philly. So who do you think is more qualified?

SPEAKER_03 49:26

I don't trust those people from Philly. I don't like the Eagles and I hate the Flyers, so I don't care. So round number two.

SPEAKER_05 49:37

Yeah, I was actually planning to take the Philly cheesesteak in round three if it was still on the board.

SPEAKER_03 49:42

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_05 49:44

So I think for round two, my pick will be insert NFL tone here. I'm gonna take the swarma.

SPEAKER_03 49:54

Wow. That again, what is the deal with you're taking third round picks?

SPEAKER_04 49:58

Swarma.

SPEAKER_03 50:00

Oh bougie.

SPEAKER_05 50:01

I ain't never had no, I've had them, and I love them. I love them. I'm talking about like when I was in Paris, I'm walking the streets and like there's street vendors everywhere, and they got these huge, you know, just slabs of meat, whether it be chicken, uh beef or lamb, like whatever it is, and they're just thinly slicing that down, it's going in there, and then you're serving it with the uh tahine sauce, the zini sauce. I mean, no, like you're you're it's a third-round pick. I'm like, no, that's like round one, baby.

SPEAKER_03 50:37

Aswarma's great, and I like them a lot. I like them a lot. Yeah, so what's a shawarma? You have a pita with my favorite way to have them is with lamb.

SPEAKER_05 50:50

Yes, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 50:52

With lamb, like shaved lamb. Like it's kind of like a rotisserie.

SPEAKER_04 50:56

Okay. And then oh, is this the Tzeki's? Yes. Yes. I didn't realize what it was called.

SPEAKER_05 51:03

The most mediocre version you can get is a Tazeekis, but that's the only one I've ever had.

SPEAKER_03 51:08

Yeah. But Schwarma's great. I think Schwarm's a strong pick. I don't think it should have gone second round. There's a lot of great players left on the table.

SPEAKER_05 51:17

I mean, this man's over here gonna take the fried green tomato sandwich at number two overall.

SPEAKER_03 51:22

Lane, Lane, why would I not take the fried green tomato sandwich?

SPEAKER_05 51:26

What do you have against that?

SPEAKER_03 51:28

Why would I not take it? Absolutely nothing.

SPEAKER_05 51:30

It's just not as good as a swarma.

SPEAKER_03 51:32

There's a personal reason I wouldn't take it, Lane. And as my close friend, you should understand why I wouldn't take a tomato sandwich. Oh, I'm fully aware. So, second round pick. K Dog, what you got?

SPEAKER_04 51:46

Second round pick. I've got to go with some of these restaurants do this. Uh, one of our local places do. Uh, I don't know that theirs is my favorite, but it's definitely up there. But these restaurants that really throw together like a triple club sandwich. I like a club, man. I like a club. Some people go all out. Oh, yeah. And it is delicioso. The right Texas toast and all that. Yeah, I gotta throw that out there. Good old fashioned club.

SPEAKER_03 52:20

So I'm in a toss-up because I really I shout out the barn.

SPEAKER_04 52:26

Yeah, shout out the barn. Delicious club sandwich, if you've never eaten it, and a wonderful ham and cheese. But yeah.

SPEAKER_03 52:33

So I'm in a toss up because I feel both of these should go round number two. I feel like I have three first round picks. Um I'm scared if I don't take this one, it's not gonna make it back around to me in the third round. So I am gonna take as my second round pick a ham and cheese. Because they're it's so simple.

SPEAKER_04 52:57

And it can be done so correctly.

SPEAKER_03 52:59

It's straightforward.

SPEAKER_05 53:00

It is so hard to beat a hot shredded ham and cheese.

SPEAKER_03 53:06

Especially when the bread like the so to me, the barn and Lacey's specifically, because we're we're Walker County people, right? The thing that makes those sandwiches so good has nothing to do with the ham and the cheese. It's the fact that it's so cohesive and the bread is just when it falls apart, it's like buttery and salty and it's just toasted.

SPEAKER_04 53:33

Oh god, it's but it's not too toasted. Like it's not a bread still.

SPEAKER_03 53:38

Oh, it's so good. So yeah, I'm taking second round shredded ham and cheese sandwich. Not to be confused with just a slab of ham.

SPEAKER_04 53:48

I was close to doing the ham and cheese and then it's just a good sandwich, man. I've had some clubs in my time where I'm just like, man, they did they really spend all this money on this club, this one club.

SPEAKER_03 54:01

Yeah, I think like the opposite of you taking the swarma, I think is why the ham and cheese is so good to me, is because it is just simple. It just is what it is.

SPEAKER_05 54:12

It is a southern comfort staple.

SPEAKER_03 54:16

God, it's so good, man. It's so good. Shout out the barn, shout out Lacey's keeping it alive.

SPEAKER_05 54:23

Well, the the you know, unfortunately, Lacey, you know, Lacey died a long time ago, but you know, but that family now owns well it's not his family. They it was purchased, and no hatred towards them at all, but it's it's the pizza bar in Carbon Hill, and I think Winfield is in Winfield. Yeah, yeah, and so go support those guys. They serve really good food. It's not the same, it's still really good. Please go support those guys. They're they're local and they care.

SPEAKER_03 54:50

Yeah, they have good pizza as well. If you're if you're looking for some pizza that's not uh Domino's or Papa John's or whatever.

SPEAKER_05 54:55

Yeah, it's kind of wild, you know, the pizza bar, and we're talking about hot ham and cheese. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 54:59

Uh great sandwich. Which which at the same time, we're y'all already mentioned the Philly steak sandwich and the the ham and cheese. If you've never eaten a place called Mojo's Pizza in Cordova, they have awesome steak sandwiches and ham and cheese, pizza subs, stuff like that. It's killer. And not to mention their pizza is absolutely amazing. Check that out.

SPEAKER_05 55:23

Shout out too. Yeah, we take a little field trip. I'm off next week. All the mojos. You know, and then it's definitely worth it. It's also kind of hard not to shout out old Mr. Subs if you're uh Walker County native. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 55:36

I I like Mr. Subs. I've only eaten there maybe a couple of few times, once or twice.

SPEAKER_05 55:41

I'm still convinced it's absolutely a money laundering thing. And so if I'm if I'm gone, like if you guys want to see me anymore, like they found those guys.

SPEAKER_04 55:52

They're like they're on to us, they closed right now.

SPEAKER_03 55:55

Round number three.

SPEAKER_04 55:57

Yeah, what's your uh what's that bouginess gonna go? The sandwich draft.

SPEAKER_05 56:02

Round number three. Taking me back to my you know family roots, if you will. I'm going to take the Ruben.

SPEAKER_03 56:15

The Rubin. That see to me, I feel like that should be above the Schwarma and above the Monte Cristo. I think you just have a poor palate. I think I would have taken Ruben number one overall. I am not a sauerkraut guy.

SPEAKER_04 56:30

I am a hundred percent. Um, now I lived growing up on Kraut and Weenies and stuff like that, and maybe that's part probably some of the reason I'm not huge on sauerkraut. But as far as the Rubens go, I didn't like them that much until I come across uh Danny and I went to a restaurant that's just off um 65 going toward Montgomery. Um Alabaster, I think. There is a restaurant off what they call the exit with all the tanks. Gotcha. Is that Pelon? No, it's the Pellin exit, yeah. Yep, yep. And there's a restaurant right across the bridge over there where all those shopping centers are. And um I'm not sure there's like a whole bunch of they they just specialize in sandwiches like that. And I had a Ruben there. Greatest Ruben I've ever had. I will take y'all one day because it was amazing. I was like, I'll try the Ruben. I'm I'm not a real big fan of them. Change changed my mind when it's completely fresh. They cut everything there, they I mean all of it. It was very good. I can't remember the name of it though.

SPEAKER_05 57:39

I had forgotten how much I loved a good Rubin until I was in Connecticut last week. And I stopped by this little place, it's called Top of the Morning.

SPEAKER_03 57:50

Top of the Morning.

SPEAKER_05 57:52

And um, oh my goodness, it's uh just south of Waterbury. I think it's south of Waterbury. Um, but it's this hole in the wall little Irish place in a town run by, you know, Italians. Heck yeah. And so we go in this little place, and it's a absolute hole in the wall. Like if you drove by it, you'd be like, that's not a place I want to be at.

SPEAKER_04 58:19

So the name of the place is Smiley Brothers Specialty Foods. Smiley. Smiley Brothers Specialty Foods. Sounds like a place I could eat. All their steak and everything is cut right there. Yeah, well, have to check that out. When I tell y'all, it's amazing.

SPEAKER_03 58:36

Always down to clown.

SPEAKER_05 58:37

But yeah, it's it's hard to be the good Ruben for me. So your list is gonna be Monte Cristo, the Monte Cristo, the Schwarma, and the Ruben. Yeah, I don't think that's a bad list. It's definitely a specialty list. Hey, I'm bougie.

SPEAKER_04 58:54

It's not I know what I like. If you like bougie, you need to go to Smiley Brothers. I'm telling you, it's it was the bougiest sandwich place I've ever been to.

SPEAKER_03 59:02

Yeah, we'll have to we'll have to go and have one. All right, round three, last pick.

SPEAKER_04 59:06

Round three, last pick. I'm going the all all-american, good old fashioned burger.

SPEAKER_03 59:14

Cheeseburger. I was surprised it made it that longer.

SPEAKER_04 59:17

I I was being a little indifferent, but when it comes down to it, just the flat out, all you can deck it out however you want it.

SPEAKER_03 59:27

I think it's simply a numbers game. What sandwich have you ate more of in your entire life than a cheeseburger?

SPEAKER_04 59:33

Yeah, I mean, that's true.

SPEAKER_03 59:35

I can't, it ain't close with me. I ate more cheeseburgers than anything.

SPEAKER_04 59:40

But but when you talk about like a gourmet cheeseburger, a good burger. A good, thick, well burger, home with a burger. Which also shout out Jake's, they make a killer burger. Great burger. Um, but JJ's. These, yeah, absolutely. JJ's is one of the one of the best burgers. Shout out JJ's. Their burger is so big, you can barely fit it in your hand. It's insane. I don't know if y'all seen their burger. Oh, I've had one before. They're they're wonderful. If you mess up and get a double cheeseburger, you're done. Your whole oh, yeah, you're done for the day. Yeah, don't even get chips. Yeah. It's just massive, man.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:20

I'd like to add this to my political campaign for 2028. Keaton 2028, by the way. I would like to propose that we make cheeseburgers wider, not taller. 100%. 100%.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:36

And and JJ's is on that train because, buddy, whenever you gotta have two hands. They make a big patty, big burger. Circumference.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:46

How big a patty we're talking about?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:49

A small dinner plate. Yeah, a small dinner plate for sure. Um, I was gonna take cheeseburger. Sorry, buddy. No, it's okay. I was coming for me at some point. Yeah, I figured it was gonna get taken earlier, actually. Because we try to make some good cheeseburgers ourselves.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:04

Yeah, we grill out a lot.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:05

Yeah, and I like a cheeseburger. Um, I think that this might be the steal of the draft, and I'm really glad that it made it this far. It wouldn't have made it this far if Cody Ward was sitting next to me. My third round as a complete steal. My fourth round pick. As a steal, I am taking the po boy.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:28

Yes, that was somebody doing it. Yeah, I'm taking the po boy. If we would have had a fourth, the po boy was definitely I was struggling with that one and the and the cheese curve. Oh, yeah. Because I had a po boy yesterday. Did you see a picture of the po boy?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:43

No, no one showed me a picture.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:45

In Birmingham, there's a place. Cajun food. Buddy. Did you go to Rougearoo? I did.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:53

Oh, that looks stupid.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:57

They dude, it's it's like an eight-inch sandwich, but they're so much packed full of stuff.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:05

So you're telling me it was an eight-inch sandwich? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:08

It was an eight-inch sandwich. It was fresh. Like, I can get down on a pow boy, man. Fries were seasoned great. But the they're they're a little pricey. They're it's it's 18 bucks for a were you mad about it? I wasn't mad. But I'm exactly but just throwing that out there so people know. Oh, I'm saying it's $18, but they give you a ton of shrimp.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:31

So there's enough shrimp on it to like snack on a few shrimps. You have to.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:34

You can't close it before you eat the sandwich of side shrimp. You dip it, and then when it gets to where you can fold it, you can now enjoy the sandwich.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:43

All right. So wrap us up here. Braden, what'd you take for your top three?

SPEAKER_03 1:02:49

Uh so starting at the bottom, I took the Poe Boy, I took the ham and cheese as round number two, and my number one overall pick was the Philly cheesesteak. Beautiful. I think it's a hard list to beat with.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:04

Do not get a cheesesteak in the Philadelphia airport. I stopped at Tony Luke's when I was flying back from Connecticut. Sucked ass, didn't it? And it literally was meat and cheese whiz. Yeah. And there was no flavor to the meat. There was no condiments on it of any type. I was rather disappointed.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:22

Now I've heard that overall cooking them on a shopping cart out bad.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:26

Yeah, pretty much. You know, nasty ass burgers, baby. Nasty ass cheesesteaks. But you know, I've heard that Tony Luke's overall is pretty good.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:33

But the I had it in the airport, it wasn't like to have a big name, and then you just have like certain people that work there that doesn't care, and they they start ruining it for people. You see that a lot.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:44

And it's like I should have known because like when I was waiting in line, um, there was a guy come up and he was yelling at the cashiers because hey, where's my sidewagin? No, well, yeah. But he ordered uh God, what are they, red hots or long hots or something like that? Yeah, you're talking about peppers, yeah. The peppers and what they gave him was not the long hots. Yeah, and like he's yelling, it's like this is not what this is.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:12

What do you mean what this is? Give me money back in the city.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:15

You know, it's like in the guy on the grills, like yelling at the cashier, and the guy on the you know, guy the guy's yelling at the gas. Everybody's yelling from Philly to Boston.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:24

From Philly to Boston, just yelling. They're just yelling, just screaming at each other. So it's like I'm walking in.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:32

I was disappointed with it overall. Like, I'm not saying it was bad, I'm just saying there was there was no substance to it.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:38

But no, Philly cheesesteak, absolutely phenomenal. So that was my top top three: the Philly, the ham and cheese, and the poe boy. Lane, what did you take?

SPEAKER_05 1:04:49

So in round number three, I took the classic getting back home to my Irish roots, Ruben.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:59

Strong pick, arguably the strongest pick of your entire draft.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:03

In the second round, I channeled my inner, you know, world traveler and smashed out that Schwarma.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:15

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:17

And with my first overall pick, I took from the country that you know runs away more than anybody else in the world, I took the Monte Cristo. Dig.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:33

Big time dig. All I can think of. Bantu with his coconuts.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:40

All right, so K Doc, what'd you take on your draft?

SPEAKER_04 1:05:44

Uh, so my third was um the burger, the all American cheeseburger. Um, my second round was um what did I choose? The club, the good old classic club. And In first first round overall went straight into the smoke baloney chuck. Shout out Jakes. Yeah. Shout out Jakes.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:11

Y'all get tired of hearing about it.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:13

But well, not until you try everything on the menu. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:17

Do you guys have any honorable mentions you want to throw out there?

SPEAKER_03 1:06:21

Um, I have a couple that I think probably should be included. Just not that they're my favorite, but if we're talking about pure volume of sandwiches consumed in the world, you've gotta you've gotta talk about like the BLT. Oh, I love a BLT. You gotta talk about some kind of chicken sandwich.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:46

Not Popeyes, though.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:49

I'm a Bojangles man myself, but whatever y'all y'all prefer. And really, there's two in my mind that people are not gonna think about until you say them. But if you're talking about pure volume of sandwiches eaten, you gotta talk about some kind of peanut butter or something. Peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter sandwich. Have you had the mugshots peanut butter?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:12

I had in fact had that burger. But you gotta talk about peanut butter than I ever thought it would be.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:17

And then you gotta talk about some kind of breakfast sandwich, bacon, egg, and cheese, sausage egg and cheese.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:23

Well, we're talking about number of sandwiches eaten. And we argued about it today to a degree, right? Like you tried to tell me that the croissant is the best breakfast? The croissant was the best bread on which to serve a breakfast sandwich. I really believe that. I believe you're still an idiot.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:47

Do they make like a bacon, egg and cheese on a McGriddle? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:52

So you're trying to tell me that a croissant cheese to me is the better.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:57

Oh, is this the better option? But you're telling me I can have a pancake injected with syrup already and the sausage, egg and cheese inside it, and you're trying to tell me that a croissant is better.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:12

A croissant? Yeah, I I I think I am. I think I am.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:18

Audience, please correct us, man. Have you never had uh a great chicken biscuit and then added egg and cheese? Yeah, yeah. So it's delicious.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:30

But we're talking about worldwide, so we're not talking about the best. How many shitty biscuits have you had?

SPEAKER_05 1:08:36

Hey, pit bull is not the best.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:39

Mr. World, Mr. World What? I'm just saying that there are a lot of really shitty biscuits. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:46

And to me, you never had one of those croissants that was like overcooked, overbaked, and it was just like rubber.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:55

Yeah, I've had a few, but I've had more like flaky, delicious croissants than I have had delicious biscuits. Really? Yeah, biscuits get dry and shitty quickly. Yeah. It's just my opinion. I think, and honestly, biscuits not even number two for me. Texas toast is number two. I'll take a croissant toast English muffin. English muffin, then a biscuit.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:25

Mo cat head biscuit.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:27

My brother in Christ. I actually like an English muffin. We're gonna have to.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:34

K Dog, is it too late to find a new third co-host?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:38

So, what's your what's your order? If you're taking like top five breads to make a breakfast sandwich on, what are you taking?

SPEAKER_05 1:09:46

Oh man, I'm taking the McGriddle number one overall. You cannot beat a pancake as a bun. It's terrible for you. I just didn't. I've been trying to die for 20 years at this point, and they won't kill me.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:00

Sir, your blood type is syrup. McGriddle syrup.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:05

Yeah. But like, you know, I've got to take that McGriddle number one overall because you just get that sweet in there. Sometimes I don't feel sweet for breakfast. I am always sweet.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:16

Lane is always sweet. This is true. Sweet. And single. And single, ladies.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:21

All except for that big problem. It's the diarrhea.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:24

It's now syrup blood. So you're taking McGriddle one.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:29

Well, not even a McGriddle. I'm taking a syrup injected pancake.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:36

Okay. Number one. How about a syrup injected biscuit?

SPEAKER_05 1:10:40

That just sounds awful. You know, but if I could get that, like I mean But hold on now.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:46

If you've ever had a fresh biscuit with honey and syrup mixed, no, I'm I'm gonna step you up. That's an old school thing.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:52

Now that's pretty good. Have you like so when I was growing up, you know, and we grew up kind of poor, but we would take biscuits, golden eagle syrup, and butter. And you'd mix up the golden eagle.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:06

And some sort of mix there, yeah. That's but that's pretty good. So what are you taking?

SPEAKER_03 1:11:11

What's your what's your order of the common ones?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:14

You know, I I would definitely say pancake number one. Okay, because you know, I'm fat for a reason, right? I get that. Then I would take a traditional biscuit number two. Like, I mean, uh like there's the there's that um oh god, the the marathon that's over there by my house. You know the one I'm talking about?

SPEAKER_03 1:11:32

I'm aware.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:34

Like if you stop by there for breakfast, like that man loads you up. Like I got it was like a I got the bacon, egg, and cheese, and it was like a nice, not like a super like flaky, like break apart type biscuit, but it was almost more of a roll, but a biscuit, if that makes sense. Gotcha. And it had like eight pieces of bacon on it, like two slices of cheese and egg on it. Like, how do you beat that? Yeah, but yeah, I'll take the classic biscuit.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:05

That's number two, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:07

Um, and then probably I'll probably go croissant number three.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:13

So you're taking croissant above toast.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:15

Yeah, because the only time I think about like eating like a toast sandwich breakfast related is when I go to Jack's and get the big breakfast sandwich or whatever it is. Yeah, and then probably round it out with an English muffin because it's just a little dry for me.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:30

I like it. It's very tooting muffin guy. So, what what's your order?

SPEAKER_05 1:12:36

That's what I'm saying. I was trying to figure out something else to put there.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:39

Yeah, so what are you taking breakfast sandwiches from? Biscuit number one. Biscuit. Biscuit number one. If you haven't had a good homemade cat head biscuit from your mother.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:49

No, not from her, she's dead.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:52

Well, I'm saying my mother, like because she was, you know, I've never had a biscuit from your mother either.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:59

Yeah, why hasn't your mother brought us biscuits? Don't tempt her.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:02

Breakfast at her house.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:04

Yes. Um, but yes, old fashioned biscuit. Um I also need, let's see, number two. I'm going number two. I'll do the the uh McGriddle cake. I'll do the McGriddle number two. It's not bad, it's awful, but it's as far as it's unhealthy.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:25

It's not awful.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:26

There's a vast difference. It's awful for you. Uh and then I would definitely do a croissant. A croissant. A croissant?

SPEAKER_03 1:13:33

Okay. Toast McMuffin or toast would be after.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:37

It's it's one of those if you don't have biscuit type deals, if you don't see something else.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:42

I actually like toast, especially if it's like grilled in butter and like kind of salty and crunchy.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:46

I'm a mood thing for me, but like I mean, but then you have like BLT.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:50

Love a BLT. Kill it. Minus the T. Minus the T.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:54

Minus the death. Oh, yeah. Minus the what uh what's your uh BLT uh over the prescription?

SPEAKER_03 1:14:05

BLTB. Bacon, lettuce, tomato benadrill. Um sprinkle it on the tomato. Yeah, so what cancel each other out. What's your go-to like breakfast sandwich? Are you bacon, egg, and cheese, sausage, egg, and cheese?

SPEAKER_05 1:14:16

Uh I would love to be a bacon, egg, and cheese, but like if you if you buy one at any fast food restaurant, the problem you're gonna run into is it's gonna have like two half strips of bacon on it. Yeah. Like they're and they're charging you more than you would for a sausage patty.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:36

Yeah. No, that's that's very fair.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:38

And so like if you they would stop trying to like, you know, price gouge just on a bacon, egg and cheese, absolutely bacon, egg, and cheese every day. Yeah. But just fast food-wise, gotta gotta be sausage just to get the value for what you're paying for.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:53

So you're not like a chicken biscuit person. You want egg and you want egg on your sandwich for sure, if it's a breakfast sandwich.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:59

I want egg on my burger most of the time.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:03

What about you, Paul?

SPEAKER_04 1:15:04

Yeah, I gotta um as far as the meat, it's that's a hard, that's a hard one. Cause I I always switch it up.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:16

So if I really had to choose, I would probably go, I'd probably go bacon. Yeah. Yeah, if I really, really had to choose, I would probably go bacon, but chicken would definitely be right.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:32

Oh, chicken's the number two, not sausage. For you, chicken's the number two. Yes. Awesome, nice. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:38

Not always an option, but you know, yeah, for sure. Definitely.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:41

Like if you if you go to like chick Chick-fil-A, it's like a chicken. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:45

Um, and if you're not getting the chicken minis there, you know, so no one said the Hawaiian roll, but you know, that's a valid point.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:52

That's a valid point.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:54

That's some secret Christian stuff we can talk about.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:56

Yeah, yeah. So I'm I'm very similar to Lane. Uh, if there is adequate bacon on the sandwich, I'm always a bacon, egg, and cheese guy. But there are certain situations where I will prefer sausage. If it's like a very thin, like, you know, crispy, like if you cook sausage and it's really thin and it kind of gets crispy on the edge. In that circumstance, if it's on a biscuit or if it's on an English muffin and it kind of fits it perfectly, I'm a sausage, sausage, egg, and cheese guy.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:29

I can agree with that as far as the bacon goes. I don't like overly crispy bacon. Yeah, me either. Can't stand it.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:35

Oh, I want to point it at you and it just kind of goes.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:40

The more you cook bacon, the longer you cook bacon, it gets so salty as it gets more crispy. That's a good point. I haven't considered that. So, and while the powers be are wide, but uh yeah, so if you ever have bacon in my house, it's not gonna be the crispiest bacon you've ever had. No, I prefer delicious.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:02

Yeah, no, I prefer it that way. So, yeah, I'm in the same, I'm in the same thing. Like, if it's a bacon, egg, and cheese, and there's like three whole pieces of bacon on it, I think that's a very reasonable amount of bacon. I don't want like three quarters of the sandwich just being bacon, but there needs to be like a very close to one to one to one ratio of egg, cheese, meat on whatever your preferred bread is.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:27

But um, it's it's kind of wild that like we get less meat during the area the era of the egg shortage than we do eggs and sandwiches.