Ep.11 The Metal Knight, Memphis Brews & Divorced Dad Rock Therapy Sessions

This week on A Trip to the Beer Store the chaos is flowing smoother than cheap draft beer at a county fair. The guys dive headfirst into the absolutely unhinged and legendary life of Christopher Lee, actor, metal vocalist, war hero, certified vampire king, and somehow cooler than literally everyone alive today. Honestly, the man lived like someone kept stacking side quests on top of side quests just to see if humanity could keep up.

They also crack open and rate a fresh beer straight out of Memphis, because bad decisions taste better with carbonation and questionable confidence. Then things spiral beautifully into a full ranking of the Top 15 Divorced Dad Rock Songs of All Time, the kind of playlist that smells faintly like cigarette smoke, leather car seats, and emotional suppression. Expect strong opinions, wounded masculinity, accidental therapy, and at least one song that makes you want to stare silently into a garage fridge at 11 PM.

There’s also the usual random nonsense, side quests, and conversations that somehow begin with beer and end in existential damage. So grab a cold one, get comfy, and embrace the disaster.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:13

Trip to the pistol. Gotta have a situation on trip to the pistol. I had a revelation. Trip to the pistol.

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Up in the knee on side. Leaving all my worries behind.

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And we're lying. Alright, so this is something I've been thinking about for a while.

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Tell me about it.

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We talk a lot about beer. We talk a lot about commercials, advertisement, things of that nature. And you know, Dose Keys has the most interesting man in the world.

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He is the most interesting man in the world.

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And so I've been debating doing a segment, maybe a mini one that we do every now and then, but I want to open it with a big one. And I want to call it the most interesting man in the beer store.

SPEAKER_06 1:10

Gotcha. The most interesting man in the beer store.

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So there's a lot of options for that, right? Like there's some people that lived extraordinary lives today. Yeah. Or, you know, in today's age. So who do you guys think we're going to talk about today?

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Surprise us. Who who are we guessing who you think is the most interesting man in the beer store?

SPEAKER_05 1:32

Oh no. I I've got my character pick for today that who we're going to be talking about.

SPEAKER_04 1:36

Oh, and we're guessing who we think should be the most interesting man in the beer store. Bob Saggett. Bob Saggett?

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That's not a bad option.

SPEAKER_04 1:47

Um man, I don't know. That's such a complex question. Um let's see, coolest dude in the beer store. Andy Dick. Um Jim Carrey.

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Yeah. Which it would be, definitely.

SPEAKER_04 2:03

I just watched uh a new-ish movie with this guy, so he's just on my mind, but I'm gonna I'm gonna say Johnny Depp.

SPEAKER_06 2:10

Oh, that's a good one, too.

SPEAKER_05 2:11

That's gonna be very interesting guy. Yeah, interesting guy. So the guy we're gonna talk about today is, in my opinion, more interesting than all of these people put together.

SPEAKER_04 2:23

Okay. He must be a cool dude.

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Today we're gonna talk about the incredible life of one Mr. Christopher Lee.

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Christopher Lee.

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Christopher Lee. So do you guys know anything about Christopher Lee before we get started?

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Um, I enjoyed the Lord of the Rings.

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Yes, he was in Lord of the Rings.

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I don't know that I like I don't know that I know anything that's like a fun fact. So I'm I'm assuming that you're gonna educate us on Mr. Christopher Lee.

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I've got a whole timeline of events that we're gonna break down about the incredible life of one Mr. Lee.

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Let's do it.

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Alright, so he was born May 27th, 1922. Wow, 22. Yeah. And so he was born to both noble and military bloodlines. His father was um a highly decorated World War I lieutenant colonel. And his mom was the Italian Contessa whose lineage can be traced all the way back to Charlemagne. So we got a great military family, we got a great noble family going all the way back. Did you know that Christopher Lee actually met the guys that assassinated Grigory Respiudin? You guys know who Rasputin is, right? Yeah. The Russian mystic, the Bony M song, you know. Yeah. Is Bony M considered a one-hit wonder? I think so. Do they have any other songs besides Respiudin?

SPEAKER_04 3:50

I don't know of it, therefore it's a one-hit wonder to me.

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Yeah, so as a young child, his mother introduced him to both Prince Felix Yusupov and the Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich. The actual men who killed the infamous Russian mystic Grigory Respiudin.

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He is the most interesting man in the world.

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Like, I mean, already at this point he's the coolest guy I know. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. So now we're gonna fast forward to 1939. And he was in France and witnessed the last public guillotine execution.

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And this is a dude who was alive during our lifetime, which is kind of crazy.

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Yeah. Yeah. What what year was what year was the last? June of 1939. So he was 17.

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Less than 100 years ago.

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Wow.

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That's crazy.

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And so if you thought that all of that made him cool.

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We're not we haven't even thought he was cool because he was in the Lord of the Rings.

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Well, we we haven't even warmed up yet. So in 1939, he volunteers to join the Finnish Army.

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Okay. Finnish dude.

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Well, he's he's he's uh English, but he volunteered to join the Finnish Army.

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Wants to do it.

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Winds up joining the Royal Air Force, survives being blown up, beat malaria six times during the war, and climbed an active volcano.

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So he's just completing all the side quests.

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All the side quests in the war.

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Yeah, forget Lord of the Rings. We made the wrong movie.

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Yeah.

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And so six times with malaria is crazy.

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And climbed a volcano. God's like he won't be able to get the volume. So was he?

SPEAKER_04 5:32

I guess he was in he had to have been in combat.

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I believe so.

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So that's crazy.

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And he won, he spread malaria.

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Like crazy. And so while it doesn't specifically state it, pretty sure he actually became an English spy. Because he spoke, I think he spoke three languages and understood five languages.

SPEAKER_06 5:56

The real James Bond. Yeah, I know he spoke. We'll actually get around to that in a minute.

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I know he spoke several, several languages.

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There's more. Billy Mays here.

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So after all of that, you know, after seeing all the cool things he's done, he's like, you know what? I'm gonna be an actor.

SPEAKER_06 6:13

Yeah, I why not? So I mean at this point, why not?

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At 25, he attempts to become an actor, but all the casting directors turn him down because he's too tall. Lead men weren't six foot five as Christopher Lee was. That's a big dude. And so he finally got his break in 1948 in the movie Corridor of Mirrors.

SPEAKER_06 6:36

Corridor of Mirrors. I don't know that I've heard of that. Me either. It is an old film. Me either.

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So if you thought this guy couldn't get any cooler, we've made reference several times to Lord of the Rings, right? Yes. Christopher Lee was the only cast member in all of Lord of the Rings to actually meet J.R.R. Tolkien.

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Huh.

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So he's got a direct tie back. That's cool.

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Yeah, he said uh he was a massive fan of the books, and Christopher Lee just was like in the pub drinking one night and ran into J.R.R. Tolkien at an Oxford pub. How are you, sir? Hey bud, let me buy you a beer. So next we're gonna bump forward a little bit to 1955, and he's you know moving forward greatly in his acting career. And so while he was filming the Dark Avengers, a drunken Errol Flynn accidentally sliced Lee's hand, nearly severing off his finger. Not the fiendie.

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Wouldn't it have been wouldn't it have been crazy if that's what killed him? He just bleeds to death from a finger.

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His finger's gone.

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And so in order to get revenge, Lee later exacted revenge by cleanly cutting Flynn's wig off mid-duel. And so from there, if he's not cool enough, he goes into a little bit of acting with his buddy Peter Cushing, who was a famous director at the time. Okay. And he got a big break with them doing Frankenstein's Monster in 57.

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Okay.

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But then the movie that kind of cast him into that huge stardom role was he played Dracula in the horror of Dracula in 1958. Which is a cult classic. Yeah, absolutely. I watched it last Halloween. Heck yeah. Gotta do my 30 and 30 every October. There you go. But um, yeah, that started a put a partnership with Cushing. They did 22 films together.

SPEAKER_04 8:44

Wow. That's some movies right there.

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So after that, we're gonna go back on a side quest.

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Another side quest. Another side quest.

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Wow. So in the late 50s, he gets permission from the king of Sweden to marry his daughter.

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He said, Hey, I'm a superstar.

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I don't know if you know that I'm the most interesting man in the world.

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But I am.

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Yeah.

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But I am. And so if you thought that that wasn't badass enough, he doesn't marry her. He calls off the wedding.

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Dog gonna be a dog.

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Player gonna play. And so in 61, do you know who he does decide to marry? Who? Danish model. Birgit Giddy Cronky.

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He said, actually. I got this fine one over here on my head up if you don't mind.

SPEAKER_05 9:44

So you mentioned James Bond earlier. James Bond. Do you know who wrote James Bond?

SPEAKER_06 9:50

I'm guessing at this point he did.

SPEAKER_05 9:52

Not quite. I don't know. So it was written by a man named Ian Fleming, who is stepcousins of Christopher Lee.

SPEAKER_04 10:02

This is like the uh what is the seven degrees of Kevin Bankins? Hey, we're gonna get there in a minute. You just wait. Oh no.

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Oh God.

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Yeah, so uh Ian Fleming wanted Christopher Lee to be Dr. No in 1962, but the casting department, you know, went a different way. But in 1974, he got to play Scaramonga um in The Man with the Golden Gun.

SPEAKER_04 10:31

So he so basically he's James Bond. Wow.

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And so he does some pretty cool stuff, and like, but it's kind of not a big deal from like 74 to the early 2000s. Yeah. But from there, we move on to his what we would call uh, I guess uh acting renaissance, you know, a revival of his career, taking on the role of Saruman in Lord of the Rings.

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It's so crazy that he's done all this up to that the point of playing Saruman, because I don't ever remember seeing his huge balls in that show.

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That's why that's why he had to wear the robes the whole time.

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They wanted him to wear skinny jeans. He was like, buddy, do you know what I've done in my life?

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Can't do it. I can't do it. So Lee won the role of Saruman in Lord of the Rings on set. He used his classified World War II Special Operations Experience spy um to correctly instruct director Peter Jackson on the quiet gasp a person actually makes when they're stabbed in the back.

SPEAKER_04 11:39

I think I've heard that before. Like that fun fact, I believe. That sounds familiar.

SPEAKER_05 11:46

So, I mean, okay. And then we're gonna move on, you know, from Lord of the Rings and join arguably the second biggest franchise of all time being where he is Count Dooku. Star Wars, and he is Count Dooku.

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Who is a I'm a huge Star Wars nerd, if y'all didn't know that. I am too. Uh Count Dooku is is one of the most interesting characters uh in the entire lore of Star Wars. Super, super interesting lore.

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Uh Darth Tyrannus. Yep, yep. Do you know how old he was when he was in Star Wars?

SPEAKER_04 12:27

Well, if he was born. So the Star Wars movies are younger than I am, I believe. Yes. And he was born. Well, in the second trilogy, is he was born in 22, so I mean he had to be in his late 70s.

SPEAKER_06 12:43

He was 80. Yeah. I knew he was like really old.

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He was 80 as Count Duku.

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It's it's crazy. No wonder how old he was, because I always thought he was pretty hands-off.

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So after all of this, October 2009, in recognition of his massive lifelong contributions to drama and charity, Christopher Lee was officially knighted by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace, formally becoming Sir Christopher Lee. Sir Christopher Lee. It just gets better. It just keeps getting cooler and cooler and cooler. So you might think that this is where you might think this is where the story ends, right? Oh there's no way. So from 2010 to 2013, late 80s, Christopher Lee decided that he wanted to launch a heavy metal career. And he released an album, Charlemagne by the Blood in the Cross, at the age of 88. I love him. Followed by a second metal album at 91 in a viral heavy metal Christmas jingle. He uh did finally hold or he held the curtain for like the oldest musician to have a top uh 20 Billboard album. Wow. So June 7th, my sister's birthday, 2015, Sir Christopher Lee passed away in Chelsea in Westminster Hospital at 93 years old after respiratory failure.

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He may be the most interesting man to ever live.

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I mean, he's done a thing.

SPEAKER_04 14:27

It's uh too. He has a strong case. He has a strong case. Man.

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So we would think with somebody as cool as Christopher Lee, he probably holds a couple of records, right? I bet he does. Would you like to hear some of the records he holds? Please. I would love to hear them. And this is according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Some of them may be out of date now, but at the time he held the record. Most screen deaths in a movie career. He died in the move in a movie 61 separate times. That's a lot.

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Just got good at it, you know what I'm saying?

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In 2007, Guinness awarded him the record for the most film and television credits, standing at 244. By the time he passed away in 2015, he had 275 screen credits.

SPEAKER_04 15:26

That's a crazy pace, if you think what you said his first film was like in the early 40s. Yeah, 46. That's crazy. That's a lot, a lot, a lot of films and a lot of work.

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Yeah. He holds the record for the most films featuring a sword fight with 17. He is the tallest actor in a leading role, standing six feet five inches or one point nine six meters. And once again, on a side quest, he holds the record for the oldest video game voice actor at 91.

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He did have a cool voice, too. Yeah.

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Very deep. And so now we're going to cap all of that off with You Thought the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon was a big deal? Christopher Lee? It says Guinness verified that Lee could be linked to virtually any actor on earth in an average of just 2.59 steps.

SPEAKER_04 16:28

That's crazy. Wow. Any actor on earth in in under three. Jeez. Kevin Bacon needs what seven? Six. Six.

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So let me ask you, fellas, is he the most interesting man in the beer store? By far. I think he's gotta be, man. By far.

SPEAKER_04 16:51

I think he's gotta be. The fact that uh the fact that he was Count Dooku, I feel like gives him a lot of points for me.

SPEAKER_05 16:58

Oh, yeah, no doubt. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 17:00

You've seen my Star Wars wallets. Still in the making, but I'm a huge Star Wars fan. Yeah. I used to have Star Wars vans, and they were cool as crap. I don't know if you remember when those came out. Uh-uh. I don't think I've seen one. 2017, 18. And I had the Yodas. The Yodas. And they were so cool.

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I was much more of a dog chewed them up. Oh no. I was much more of a dog's no Lord of the Rings guy. You're what? I'm much more of a Lord of the Rings guy.

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Um I like the Lord of the Rings, but I'm much more into Star Wars.

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Like I just ordered this gorgeous sprayed edge version of the uh Silmarillion.

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One of the first movies I remember my mom buying us was Empire Strikes Back. Yeah. And I was hooked. Me and my brother watched that movie over and over. And uh I loved it. So that was kind of one of those, you know, that was the the intro. As a kid, you're the space fighting and all you're like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 18:03

Yeah, Attack of the Clones is seared into my brain.

SPEAKER_05 18:06

Yeah. I just can't get over the simple fact that the man was forced to ask for permission to marry this princess. And he's like, actually, nah, I got this little model over here I've had on the side.

SPEAKER_06 18:20

I think you're dishonest. You're talking to my boy all wrong. It's a wrong stone. Yeah. He's like, Do you know what I've been through? You want me to ask?

SPEAKER_05 18:31

And it's like, I mean, and then you throw in things like he became a cult comedy icon with like gremlins too. Oh, yeah. So I mean, he has done just so much stuff.

SPEAKER_04 18:41

And I've I've listened to some of his music, and it's actually pretty good.

SPEAKER_05 18:46

Well, there you go. We may have to find that jingle and throw it up for our audience later. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 18:51

Drink burrs.

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Yeah, we should.

SPEAKER_06 18:53

So uh maybe he was a terrible artist. I don't know. It's not it's not bad.

SPEAKER_04 18:57

Yeah, but yeah, as far as a 90-year-old writing metal music goes, I mean it's it's it's not bad, man. It's not bad. It's better than the last 17 Metallica albums, I promise you.

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Cracking it open cans and we're letting it free with the olives in the heart with the American wake.

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SPEAKER_05 22:30

Sissippi. You know, I thought I'd go ahead while I was there and go ahead and pick us up two local crafts from the Memphis area.

SPEAKER_06 22:41

Memphis. Memphis. I need to go to Memphis.

SPEAKER_05 22:44

The weirdest part about when I was trying to find like local beers to that area, everywhere I stopped, it was all Alabama breweries.

SPEAKER_04 22:55

Like it's probably because you're up close or not closer, but closer to Huntsville and I mean I was less UNA. What is UNA? Florence.

SPEAKER_05 23:05

But yeah, but I was much closer to um I was much closer to Memphis than I was to either of those. Memphis. Yeah, that's less than 30 minutes. We would like I said, we went up to Memphis. I don't know if I said last week, but rode to the top of the tenth tallest pyramid in the world. In the world. Tallest one in the United States.

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It's a cool place, man.

SPEAKER_05 23:25

Somebody put a Bass Pro Shops in it, but you know, they did put through, but I haven't really got to enjoy it.

SPEAKER_04 23:32

You should go, it's cool. Isn't that where the naked man was like last year? It wouldn't surprise me. That like jumped in the fish tank. You don't remember this?

SPEAKER_05 23:40

Well uh there's naked men jumping in fish tanks all the time.

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There was a naked man that jumped in the Leeds fish tank.

SPEAKER_04 23:46

Oh, is it Leeds?

SPEAKER_06 23:47

At uh Bass Pro.

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Maybe it was Leeds. I don't remember.

SPEAKER_06 23:51

But um yeah, there's a bar at the top.

SPEAKER_05 23:54

Yeah.

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He said, I'm gonna get to that bar.

SPEAKER_05 23:57

Got to. I was a little nervous at first because they were like, oh, it's eight bucks just to take the elevator. And I was like, what day? And so my buddy paid for us.

SPEAKER_06 24:08

You said the tenth tallest. Just keep changing.

SPEAKER_05 24:14

And so we go up to the top of it, and they've got this beautiful, like, couple of lookout spots you can do and that kind of thing. It looks over some river, I don't know, whichever one it was. You look over a big river. You know, the river. Look over water. Probably Mississippi if I had gas. Maybe. Buy some body water up there. We get up to the top and I look over at my boss and I'm like, man, I know we're still technically working, quote unquote. But how often you get a chance to have a beer at the top of the tenth tallest?

SPEAKER_06 24:51

How well do you know your world? How well do you know your work, buddy? He hasn't won too many. He's like, I'm gonna jump. I hate my life.

SPEAKER_05 25:01

But yeah, I I did I found some uh last week we had the uh zippin' pippin' by Ghost River, which was pretty good for an IPA. It's one of the beers I have consumed.

SPEAKER_06 25:13

It was definitely uh 3.5 of an IPA.

SPEAKER_05 25:17

Yeah. So this week we're gonna try Tiny Bomb by Wiseacre Brewing out of Memphis, Tennessee. Tiny Bomb.

SPEAKER_06 25:25

I'll tell you what, man, they're they're getting very interesting with these cans. I think say I love this can. But this looks like spaghetti and meatballs on the can. Does it? Does it? I mean, look. You're not seeing a cartoon version. Never mind.

SPEAKER_04 25:40

No, it's kind of spaghetti. You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of like Rapunzel hair.

SPEAKER_05 25:45

Yeah. Yeah. I almost talked about a crazy Rapunzel story that happened recently.

SPEAKER_04 25:51

A Rapunzel story? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:52

This says it's the bomb. A tiny bomb. So this is an American Pilsner. 4.5% alcohol by volume. And uh I think it's time we get into this, boys.

SPEAKER_06 26:04

I'm awful thirsty.

SPEAKER_04 26:05

This this may be my favorite can that we've had on the podcast. I actually do. I really, really like the can.

SPEAKER_05 26:11

No. The oh goodness, what was the one we drank? The Hey Girl Hey.

SPEAKER_04 26:16

Oh, it had a super cool can.

SPEAKER_06 26:18

I like the I was the midnight. Let's do this.

SPEAKER_05 26:26

Oh, it smells good. It does smell good. It smells like a beer.

SPEAKER_06 26:32

I had a beer. For the people listening that needed to hear us drinking that very crisp first drink. They're driving to work right now and they're like God.

SPEAKER_04 26:56

So hear me out. I don't know what it is. I've been drinking baples um since we started recording. So maybe it's the Baple on the palate. It has like a weird root beer thing. Is that just my palate being messed up? Like on the end. You did just drink a baple. It doesn't have like a weird like root beer taste on the back side.

SPEAKER_05 27:24

No.

SPEAKER_04 27:24

Not to me.

SPEAKER_05 27:25

It tastes like a pilsner.

SPEAKER_04 27:27

Maybe it's the Baple. One second.

SPEAKER_05 27:29

Let me let me have some more of this to clear my pocket. I mean, it's a little bitter, but I don't get any like that that smart beer flavor, though.

SPEAKER_06 27:39

Um it does taste like it was brewed by some good folks.

SPEAKER_04 27:46

Oh, absolutely. You don't maybe it is the Baple, but to me it's it has like a like a pleasant. I like I like root beer a lot. But it has like a it's the kind of the same finish as like a really nice, like really cold root beer.

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Hmm.

SPEAKER_06 28:03

You know, and I just don't I don't get the root beer thing. Well, you guys I wish I did. I'm a little jealous.

SPEAKER_05 28:08

Give me a sip of that Baple but you guys are working at your scores in your head. You know, we did say that um at episode 10 we're gonna start working on some shirts. Yeah. Yes. So we're you for our listeners, we are currently working on that. We will be launching a pre-order here in the near future.

SPEAKER_04 28:25

Very, very soon.

SPEAKER_05 28:26

The front of it's gonna have the neon sign, a trip to the beer store podcast logo on the front of it. Back of it, we're gonna put the first 10 beers that we reviewed on it with the brewery and the name of the beer, as well as the bottle cap rating. So if you're interested in getting one of those shirts, please reach out to us via Facebook, cell phone, um, a triptothebeer store at gmail.com, and we'll make sure that uh we've got one for you. Yeah. I did stop by and see Miss Tammy today. Oh, how's Miss Tammy doing? Oh, she was so happy to see us. She's switched out. Shout out, Miss Tammy. And you know, I've I had my had my shirt on when I walked in, and she goes, I need one of them. And I was like, Well, these are these were kind of special order done. Yeah. But we are about to do this pre-sale, and she says, I want to. Yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_06 29:20

Why Miss Tammy doesn't talk?

SPEAKER_05 29:23

I want to. So you you didn't know the amount of vigor behind her, but you said she wanted that yarn. Really wanted that yarn. She goes, I need one for me and one for my husband, because he'll just steal mine.

SPEAKER_06 29:35

I might talk like this when I want something.

SPEAKER_05 29:38

And I was like, Miss Tammy, we got you. Don't you worry about it. Yeah. Sometimes you just say yes, ma'am, and keep it moving.

SPEAKER_06 29:44

Shout out, Miss Tammy.

SPEAKER_05 29:45

Oh, I do like Miss Tammy. She's a wonderful lady and she's so sweet.

SPEAKER_04 29:48

Yeah. Good folks down there. Go check them out. Buy some beer. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_05 29:52

Linches of beer. Actually, go buy a bottle of whiskey from her. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:56

Yeah, do that too.

SPEAKER_05 29:58

Do that too. They got some, they got some nice bottles down there.

SPEAKER_06 30:01

No balls if you don't buy beer and whiskey. You got to sometimes.

SPEAKER_05 30:06

All right. So, Brade, what are we doing?

SPEAKER_04 30:08

Uh, I really like it. It's got a great can. Um, I'm sorry that y'all aren't getting the root beer thing. Maybe that's just a little bit more. I wish I was. Maybe that's just my palate. But you've been drinking Bapbles too, so you should. You don't get a root beer?

SPEAKER_05 30:20

No.

SPEAKER_04 30:21

I don't know. Just on the end of it. I think you're having a stroke. It kind of smells like burnt toast. It's root beer and burnt toast is what I'm getting. Um, no, I really like it. Um, I think on the name alone, like tiny bomb is a great name. Um I really enjoy this. This is a beer I can drink a case of, no problem. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go 4'6. 4'6.

SPEAKER_06 30:51

That's a that's a nice little high number there.

SPEAKER_05 30:53

Yeah, I like it. The good news is we got nine more of these bad boys we can drink.

SPEAKER_06 31:01

I I like it, I enjoy it. Um, it's not my style, I guess, because you know I'm such a basic white girl. Um, but it's got a hair of bitterness for me, but I'm gonna give it a solid 4-2. 4-2 is not bad.

SPEAKER_05 31:16

That's good. That's a great score. Once again, I want to, you know, kind of remain uh consistent across all grading scales here. So I want to think back at some of the other beers that we've reviewed. And I do like this beer a lot. It's very good. But I don't think it stands up to where some of our previous reviewed beers are. Yeah. Okay. And so I'm gonna give it a 3-8.

SPEAKER_04 31:41

3-8? Still a good score.

SPEAKER_05 31:43

Still a good score. Still a still a recommended drinker. Yeah. But do you do you know what the name Tiny Bomb makes me think of? And maybe this is just my, you know, punk rock era coming back out. Okay. Makes me think of Time Bomb by Ransom. Time bomb. Wow. Do you guys listen to any Time Bomb? Or any Ransom? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:09

Very little. Very little.

SPEAKER_06 32:10

Yeah, not a lot, but definitely. They come on my punk rocker, man.

SPEAKER_04 32:16

They come on my rotation every once in a while.

SPEAKER_06 32:19

Back in the day. Mm-hmm slash punk. Punk. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 32:25

You know everybody. It wasn't just a face. It's still not a face. You can tell from my painted black nails and long hair.

SPEAKER_06 32:34

If I pull this hat off, hair goes over one eye.

SPEAKER_05 32:37

Just one. He's got it trade.

SPEAKER_06 32:40

It's cut that way. So we went to uh uh we went to the funeral yesterday. Um and uh uh rest in peace, my brother Gary. Um but we went to the funeral yesterday and we were getting ready, and I had my hair just down, and Kensley come inside the bathroom. She was like, You look like Justin Bieber.

SPEAKER_05 33:05

Oh no.

SPEAKER_04 33:08

So uh actually Kinsley's funeral is coming up here.

SPEAKER_06 33:12

I was like, yes, Justin's your brother.

SPEAKER_05 33:14

That's why there's no but you know, I think that little that that little tick in my brain, I think that's gonna feed us pretty well into get today's game. Oh yeah. So today we are going to be drafting our top five favorite divorce dad rock songs.

SPEAKER_04 33:37

Oh gosh. Can I just can I come out of the gate and take uh whatever the nickelback album with the sh the song horseshoe on it is? Just take the first five. Whatever that album is, I'm gonna just take the first five songs.

SPEAKER_05 33:52

The first five of them. Don't you be cheating and looking at my draft list. I'm not looking at yours. I have to look at my own.

SPEAKER_04 34:00

I listen to so much divorced dad rock, I don't even need a list, boys.

SPEAKER_06 34:05

I'm just I need a list because I love all 192 of my life. It's in my mind right now.

SPEAKER_05 34:12

It's like I have a top 192. How am I supposed to knock this down?

SPEAKER_06 34:16

Yeah, because I'm gonna forget so many good ones.

SPEAKER_05 34:19

If you've already got yours memorized, take notes so we can keep track of our list for later.

SPEAKER_04 34:23

Gotcha. Since I already know my list, do I get to take number one overall?

SPEAKER_05 34:27

Um, I drafted first overall in the sandwich draft, so you two can fight amongst yourselves or Rochambeau or whatever you guys want to do to make a decision on that. You want to take first overall, K Dom?

SPEAKER_06 34:37

Um, I'm gonna let you take first overall.

SPEAKER_04 34:40

Okay. First overall, just because it's a meme, and it's actually a decent song, somewhat, and shout out foothills. It has to be arms wide open by Creed. Has to be numbered.

SPEAKER_06 34:58

Number one overall.

SPEAKER_04 35:00

I'm taking that.

SPEAKER_06 35:02

Yeah, I'm taking that number one. Such a such a divorce dad banger. Oh, yeah. But I'm such a fan.

SPEAKER_04 35:11

Oh, dude, I'm such a fan, dude. Here's here's the thing, and I I express this to people all the time. If there is ever a meme about something or there's a joke about something, especially in music, that means that it was good enough to get attention, you know? And as funny as Scott Stapp sounds when he sings, and he's an Alabama fan. There is you know how much money they've made off of just with arms wide open? So make the jokes you want to make. They got they got bread from that song, you know. So, number one overall, I'm taking with arms wide open by Creed.

SPEAKER_06 35:54

I'll I'll take that all day and twice on Tuesday. Alright, kitty did dog. Um, I have got to go. I've got to go, lips of an angel. Oh my goodness. Oh, that's a good one. Absolutely. Just hear on those words, makes me. And it's so crazy to think that that has now made divorced dad rock. But it it's definitely there.

SPEAKER_05 36:23

Oh, it absolutely 100% is. Because you know, his girls in the next room. Yeah. So I'm going to go back to the well that you drafted out of. And I think I'm gonna go, Can you sing me high?

SPEAKER_06 36:45

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 36:46

Back to Creed.

SPEAKER_06 36:47

So this Creed's right out of the bat. There's a the whole album. Yeah, whole album.

SPEAKER_04 36:52

I think it's funny that we're doing a top five each, so it's 15 songs. Arguably, we could name 15 Creed songs, and it would be a strong list.

SPEAKER_05 37:04

Well, so uh what I think I want to do is once we wrap this up, I've got a couple of other music-related drafts I want to do. But like if this one does well, if they're like, yeah, give us some more divorced dad rocks listeners, um, let us know. But we'll do like a six through ten, you know, 10 through or 11 through 15, you know, that kind of thing, just uh, you know, keep the people happy.

SPEAKER_04 37:25

Gotcha. So second round. I'm gonna take oh I'm gonna take cold by crossfade.

SPEAKER_06 37:38

Oh, I love it. I love that. I love this. That whole album is great by Crossfade. Yeah. Alright, on mine, you cannot have divorced dad rock without thinking of nickelback. You can't do it. So we're gonna do far away. Faraway. Because that's just you in the fields, you know. Far away, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 38:06

I'm trying not to just dive straight into like, you know, even though we call it divorced dad rock, there's so much genre encompassing music inside of that. I want to not hit all that exact same style. So what if I go with I think I'm gonna take She Hates Me by Love Love Mug.

SPEAKER_06 38:30

That's the that should have been number one overall. Probably. See, you forget about so many, but Creed, Creed had to be because when you think divorced dad rock, if you turn it on any station or any divorced dad rock playlist, Creed's first, Creed is if not first, not coming in number four at least, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 38:54

That's a good point. So, like you said, there is a bunch of bands in this genre, so it's not just bands like Creed and Nickelback. When I think Divorce Dad Rock, one of the bands that immediately comes to my mind is corn.

SPEAKER_05 39:11

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 39:12

And so I'm gonna take blind by corn.

SPEAKER_06 39:17

Okay. I can see that. I'll take that. I do love corn, man. What a great live show.

SPEAKER_04 39:23

They were one of the first bands I ever saw live, and I got my ass whooped in the pit.

SPEAKER_05 39:30

I bet you did.

SPEAKER_06 39:32

Bad, dude. Bad. It's sad that this one has made made the uh divorced dad rock, but it definitely is Caesar and Amy Lee Broken.

SPEAKER_04 39:43

Oh, yeah. That's a good song, man. But it is it's divorced dad rock. For sure.

SPEAKER_05 39:50

I think I want to hit it a little heavy this round. Okay. I think I'm gonna take Headstrong by Trapped.

SPEAKER_06 39:58

Oh god. I love it. I seen Trapped at uh City Stages um in 2020, I think. Yeah. Shit. Um somewhere around there, 2008, 2007. And it was they were awesome. They did a great job. Um, yeah, it that's definitely one of them.

SPEAKER_04 40:22

Oh, yeah. As number four, I'm gonna take some limp biscuit, and I'm gonna go with break stuff.

SPEAKER_05 40:32

Yeah. Break stuff. That's that's there. You gotta be there. Because if you think about it, you listen to like divorced dad rock in phases, right? Oh, yeah. So you listen to divorced dad rock, and it's about you and your girl, and everything's going good. And then you moved on to divorce dad rock, and then all of a sudden you broke up. And then you go on and it's heavy, and I hate everything. And then it's acceptance of I'm the POS. Yeah. And then it's like, now I gotta get my girl back. That's like quintessentially divorced dad rock. Right.

SPEAKER_06 41:06

So this one um you may not think falls under divorce dad rock, and it's a little emo. Scotty doesn't know. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 41:17

That's for sure. So the lyrics of the song, I think, are not divorced dad rock.

SPEAKER_05 41:25

No, but a lot of these songs aren't.

SPEAKER_04 41:27

The vibe oh, definitely 100%.

SPEAKER_05 41:30

I was gonna save that one till the uh one hit wonders music draft. Oh, yeah. So alright. I think it's time to go into my melancholy era of the draft.

SPEAKER_04 41:46

That's my number five pick, is a sad one.

SPEAKER_05 41:49

And I think I'm gonna do It's Been a While by Stained.

SPEAKER_04 41:53

Oh, that's a great one.

SPEAKER_06 41:55

That is such a great song.

SPEAKER_04 41:56

Stained is a is a great band. Um phenomenal music. And number five, I'm surprised that has made it this far. It's one of my favorite songs of all time. But similar to Lane, I've got to take a real sad one. I'm gonna take some Alice in Chains nutshell as number five.

SPEAKER_05 42:20

Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 42:22

That's legit. That's a sad one, you know. My number five's not gonna be sad, sad. But my number five has got to go with Goo Goo Daw's iris. Oh, that's a good one. I'm surprised it's still out there.

SPEAKER_04 42:38

That's a strong number five. Him playing that shit in the rain. I will never forget that video as long as I live.

SPEAKER_06 42:44

No, you can't. I'm talking pouring. Oh, yeah. Fixing to be electrocuted. The the never played in the rain? Yeah, it sucks. Oh my god. Terribly. Oh my god. You're just like the my guitar is warped. Yeah. Kill me. It's yeah, it's all over right here.

SPEAKER_04 43:00

Yeah, it's terrible. You know, I'm surprised. Iris is not even in my top five Goo Goods songs. Really? Not top five. The Goo Goo dolls have great music, man.

SPEAKER_05 43:12

I'm not a big Goo Goo Dolls guy. That might be the only song I know by them.

SPEAKER_04 43:17

Oh, you know more. You just don't know the name.

SPEAKER_05 43:19

Um, is it alright if I do a little alt rock for my uh number five pick? I thought that's what all we were doing. And now here we are. So um, what if I take Father of Mine by Everclear? Oh, Everclear's got some great music too, man. All right. What do y'all say? We do uh one last honorable mention because we're having such a really good time with this.

SPEAKER_04 43:43

Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. One honorable mention. Let's see. What would I take? I don't want to pick a song that I like more than any of these. So number six. Oh, I got it. This this might Not be dad rock to you, but it is to me, and I'm sorry if this makes my father sitting to my left feel old. But I bring it. But I am going to take can you feel my heart by Bring Me the Horizon?

SPEAKER_06 44:18

Oh, so some emo.

SPEAKER_04 44:20

Oh, like big time. Me too, dude. I fucking love them.

SPEAKER_06 44:25

But that's some dad rock, man. I'm about to shoot a little. I'm about to shoot a little old dad rock out there, a little Christian dad rock. You can do life house. Dare you to move switchfoot? Oh, switchfoot's good though, man. But you're talking about in your feels.

SPEAKER_05 44:45

Oh yeah. It's so wild. Like how much like at that point in time, like how much of the music scene was actually Christian artists that like weren't really advertising that they were Christian?

SPEAKER_04 44:59

We had skill, like Skillet was huge when I was in like middle school.

SPEAKER_06 45:04

One of the best things I ever did was take Kinsley to Winter Jam. Oh, I love Kim to Winter Jam. Well, you had bands. I've taken her to Skillet twice. Yeah, Skillet's a great band, man. Loved Skillet. And what was huge was Ledger joining Skillet.

SPEAKER_04 45:18

Jen Ledger is one of the most talented people who ever walked.

SPEAKER_06 45:24

Um she, I mean, she would just listen when her EP was out, just back, back. So she got to get Ledger drumsticks at Skillet in Birmingham. Um, she don't remember, well, she does remember, but she was very young. I took her to uh In Fuego. Uh played in Fuego. Yeah. And man, she had a blast, and we had a picture of us both holding up our arms. I was holding her, and Britt took it from the back. I didn't know it. We years later redid that same photo at Skillet in Birmingham. Oh, that's awesome. And she was just nearly grown up, you know what I'm saying? Uh but no, she loves Skillet.

SPEAKER_05 46:06

Yeah, but there was, I mean, think about like Underoath. Um, you've got Showbread. You've got Skillet, you've got uh Switchfoot, you've got Disciple Reliant K.

SPEAKER_04 46:18

Uh Red.

SPEAKER_06 46:19

Red. Uh I've seen Red in Birmingham.

SPEAKER_04 46:22

Reds are they're heavy too.

SPEAKER_06 46:23

They could make Demon Hunter.

SPEAKER_05 46:26

I don't know that I've heard of them. Something along that lines. Yeah. But um Devil Where's Prada? Are they a Christian man? According to this video I was watching the other day. I didn't know that. Me either. So I think it's time for my honorable mention. Honorable mention from Uncle Lane. And this is kind of a almost a super group, but I want to take Hero by Chad Kroger and Josie Scott. Oh, you gotta do that.

SPEAKER_06 47:00

That is that's a classic dad rock.

SPEAKER_04 47:03

So I think while all of these songs are fantastic, I think there is enough dad rock that we could have, instead of drafting songs, we could have drafted groups.

SPEAKER_03 47:14

Oh, easily.

SPEAKER_04 47:15

You know what I mean? Because there are so many, like Chris Daughtry, his entire repertoire.

SPEAKER_06 47:23

I gotta I want a scholarship singing a Chris Daughtry song. Dude, Chris Daughtry has great music. A great, great music.

SPEAKER_05 47:30

It's absolutely insane that K-Dog here did a whole top five, top six, and didn't even take anybody from his favorite band. Didn't take his home by his favorite band.

SPEAKER_06 47:41

Well, um, I was not wanting to devastate any breaking Benjamin's. I didn't mention it. I I expected you to say some breaking Benjamin will never be divorced, Dad Rock. Leave me alone. It is 100% divorced Dad Rock. No, it's not.

SPEAKER_05 47:54

All right, so what do you guys think? Who had the best list, who had the worst list? What songs did we absolutely screw up by not putting on this list? What did we forget? Let us know. We'll put out some lists next week on Facebook for you guys to look at, review, yell at us about, tell us how bad we suck. Um, take some time, listen to us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon. Please go in and give us a review. Those things is huge because it helps push us out to new listeners who listen to similar style stuff. And uh we'll catch you next week on another trip to the beer store. Trip to the beer store.

unknown 48:28

Trip to the beer store.

SPEAKER_03 48:30

Shut up, big guy.