April 28, 2024 • 46 mins
Cracking a cold one while the crack of the bat echoes in the stadium, that's where you'll find Andy Beckstrom and me, Shawn Field, your hosts for a journey through laughs, hops, and home runs. As we sip on Off Color Brewing's Beer for Ball Games, a creamy concoction perfect for nine innings, we invite you to experience the peculiar charm of a brewery that doesn't shy away from the offbeat. Our banter goes beyond the brew, as we tackle everything from the connection between beer, baseball, and being a Minnesota sports fan, to the allure of running over objects with a tank for sheer catharsis.
Imagine sitting with friends, the air filled with anticipation just before a bench-clearing brawl unfolds on the diamond; this episode traverses those baseball moments that teeter between humor and tension. We're sharing a mixture of personal anecdotes and wider sports musings, including an amusing Terry Mulholland encounter and what it truly means to be a teammate. We also don't skirt around the topic of fighting in sports, comparing the baseball field to the hockey rink, and how each handles their unique brand of conflict.
Then there's the tale of Ed Gamble, a comedian whose harmless hot dog became the center of a health-conscious controversy across the pond, leading us to reflect on the quirks of food regulations and the unadulterated joy of ballpark franks. There's something about the snap of a natural casing that resonates with our collective nostalgia for the game and its culinary sidekicks. So whether you're here for the baseball banter, a lesson in obscure brews, or just a good laugh about life's absurdities, this episode has your bases covered.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
and welcome in everybody.
Uh, once again back here to thetwo guys in beer podcast studio
andy beckstrom, sean field herefor yet another episode of just
talking about beer and enjoyingit whatever, whatever else.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
And these episodes just keep on coming, maybe not
to the viewers' or listeners'delight, but to our delight
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
They just keep on coming Exactly so I want to
thank everybody that's joined usnow on the YouTube video
portion of the stream as wellBeen doing that here for the
last handful of episodes.
We enjoy some of the feedbackthat we've been able to get a
little bit, and even some of thetexts or some of the messages
that we get.
You know some of the harassmentand the teasing.
I'm not wearing the pajamapants again today, Like I got
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jeans on.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Looking pretty good over there.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, I got the face for radio.
That's my background, so youknow I'm not quite ready for the
on camera.
I actually made that commentearlier tonight.
I grabbed a sweatshirt.
I'm like do you think thislooks okay on camera?
Do you think this will be okay?
I'm like why am I talking likethis now all of a sudden?
But you know, you got to try todo what you can.
I think as long as I'm notwearing green, I think I'll be
all right.
(01:22):
Right, we don't want to thankthe construction done by our
tech guy.
It's a great company, it does agreat job, it's fantastic, top
notch, love it.
So yet again, back here we arein the studio and Sean back for
more brew, more brew Anotherbeer.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You can't go wrong with another beer.
Off Color Brewing.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
This is what you got for us this time.
So Off Color Brewing is out ofChicago.
We'll get a little deeper intoall of the details with that.
The beer that we have today isBeer for Ball Games.
A couple of mice on thereplaying baseball, but that's
kind of their bit.
Everything has got kind of aliteral name for it.
So we'll talk a little bit moreabout some of those names and
(02:06):
what all that means.
But the one that we have rightnow is the Beer for Ball Games.
It's an American-style creamale, 4.2 alcohol by volume.
So not the heaviest that we'vehad.
Still going to be pretty good.
Snow Dragon's milk Yep,absolutely.
It doesn't quite got that samelevel of steam, but that's
(02:28):
totally fine.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
But this is a good choice that you picked out beer
for ball games because baseballhas just started, so what a
better beer to crack open andtry out on the podcast for the
baseball season to start.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Absolutely, it's a fantastic thing.
So we'll dive into that andwe'll talk, maybe when we even
talk a little bit of baseballlater on today we'll see what
happens.
If we don't today, we'll, I'msure we will in the future.
You know it's, it's on ourminds, that's for sure.
Well, sort of until the twinskeep losing again.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, we don't even have enough to do one podcast on
that.
It would be several podcasts.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Exactly.
That would be quite the longseries of information and maybe
you need some.
What do they call it?
The wreck-it rooms, the destroyrooms, or whatever?
You just swing baseball bats atTVs or something.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
We need one of those for every Minnesota sport.
In fact, you know what weshould do.
In southern Minnesota you canactually drive a tank, and when
you're driving a tank to thiscourse, if you want to pony up
an extra $500, they'll put a carout there for you.
You can crush.
We could write all our sportsnames on this car and just take
the tank right over.
That might be a live episode.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I was going to say that could be quite entertaining
.
That almost makes me kind ofthink I was actually looking at
some of our online content theother day or whatever, and
reminded me of one of the reelsthat we had, where you could not
buy the vehicle but pay to haveyour ex's name on a vehicle
that's going to the crusher, getit crushed, and something like
that.
So it seemed kind of bit, youknow.
I mean, $500 might be worth itto be able to do it.
(04:00):
I mean if you're paying to beable to drive a tank around, why
not?
You know, that sounds kind offun.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Two guys and beer drive tank.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You know, I love it, I like where this is headed.
You know it's all the.
You know, not all the bestideas come out before or after
the beer.
Sometimes they are before aswell.
Usually the best ideas areafter, but Well, the best
(04:27):
stories are not told over water,this is true.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
So I was having this really good salad the other day
and wash it down with some Evianoh, let me tell you this
Absolutely Just phenomenal timesand great stories, of course.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh.
So let's get to the good stuff.
Yeah, get to the good stuffhere.
As I mentioned before, it is aAmerican-style cream ale the
4.2-row malt, caramel, malt,dextrin malt, flaked corn and
flaked barley.
The hops are nugget, willametteand cascade, so a couple of
(04:58):
different options that are onthere.
It does say on the label it iskind of almost like a session,
but it's an American style creamale, so maybe kind of an
interesting flavor with that.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I like the can.
I like the can.
It's just white.
Yeah, I don't understand themice playing baseball on the can
.
Well, the beer for ball gamesbut, I do like how it's done.
It looks like I drew it on theback of my math notebook in high
school, which is pretty nicestyle art.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
We'll get a little into the mice actually kind of
tie in.
It's kind of a mascot in a wayfor them.
So before we get too deep intoit we better crack it open.
Best part of the episode.
All right, whoop, almostdropped off of it there.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Got to make sure I open it right.
Oh, there we go.
That's the good stuff.
We're going to use uh pintglasses this time, so even an
extra sound effect I did aterrible job pouring that I I
know better than that.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
What do you do, though?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
yeah, well, you know I'm not perfect you gotta have a
little bit of a former bar.
Yeah, you need to have a littlebit ahead on'm not a former
Barker.
Yeah, you need to have a littlebit of head on that kind of on
the top.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well, there's a lot of head on this one.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, yours is aggressive, a little too much
head.
Oh, my goodness, we may have toedit that one for content
Keynote right here.
Tech guy, I don't know how wewould do that, but I'm sure we
could get something in here.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Cut it out right exactly all right.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
All right, so first couple days it is smooth.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It is smooth, it's pretty tasty too.
It took me like four gulps toget through the head on here,
dude, oh I to get the actualbeer.
I do like it.
It's a pretty nice taste, it'salmost.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I do kind of taste a little bit of the caramel and a
little bit of that dextrin.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, it's a little sweet.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, definitely get some of that out of there.
So it's, you know, aptlydescribed.
But you know, I mean that'skind of how you come up with a
description, is actually doingit right.
So, yeah, it's pretty goodstuff, a little sweetness.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But it's quite solid, it's a cream, ale it seems like
it's a lighter cream, ale not aheavy dark cream.
Ale it's got like a littlesweet type flavor to it caramel,
a little caramel in there.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
This would on the old lawnmower rating.
This would be definitely abefore, during and maybe one
after while admiring the work.
It sure would not quite a CoorsLight, but uh, it's.
You know it's got some goodflavor to it but it's, it's not
gonna blow you away.
You know, at a 4.2 you couldhave a six pack.
You could slam some and be justfine, absolutely so it'd be
(07:37):
pretty good.
So let's kind of dive in herewith uh, what we know about off
color brewery, so that's whatthe brewery is.
It's off color brewery.
Some of the in here with uh,what we know about off color
brewery, so that's what thebrewery is.
It's off color brewery.
Some of the basics here.
Off color brewery is a americancraft brewery.
It's in the logan squareneighborhood of chicago, kind of
by the lincoln park area beganin early 2013 with a partnership
(08:00):
between john laffler and daveblankner.
John Laffner, formerly of GooseIsland Brewing, which is
obviously a massive, bigdistributorship.
That's kind of a major thing.
So two guys, long history ofbeing involved in a lot of
high-end type of stuff.
It actually even says on theirwebsite, the About Us.
(08:23):
I got a couple of differentresearch notes here, but John
and Dave, at some point, johnand Dave were born.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Well, that's key, that is key.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
They did other stuff for a while, and then they
figured out they were better atmaking beer than the other stuff
, so that's what they do now.
They both met while theystudied at the oldest and most
respective brewing school of thetwo and by the breweries that
went on to the one In the US.
The Seibel Institute is what itis Okay, so it's quite the
(08:54):
description that they have inthere, I love their description
there.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Absolutely, we did stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We thought well, we're good at brewing, so we did
that instead.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
A brewery was envisioned while they both
interned at metropolitan brewing.
Uh, most of off colors businessplan is based off of doug and
tracy at metro knowing whatthey're doing, so go buy some of
their beer too.
That's what it says.
After cutting their teeth at alarger brewery, the two somehow
convinced otherwise very smartpeople to invest enough money
(09:24):
for them to make their own beer.
So that's what they do now.
So I love it.
It's quite the interestingthing.
So I think it's quite fun theway they have their thing
described here.
If you go on to their websiteyou can look at the beers the
current, the seasonal, the FODRE, aged, f-o-e-d-r-e aged beers,
(09:50):
also in some bourbon barrels.
They got different categoriesthat talk about the wholesale,
where they distribute and thingslike that.
Their tap room does show abunch of information about their
particular facility.
It is they do not have food,but they are open for all sorts
of different beer and whatnot.
They have 16 brews and theyhave, I believe, four of those
(10:12):
taps are guest beers, sopotentially you could go in
there and get a Goose Island ora Metropolitan or something like
that.
Sure.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
That's kind of neat.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
A lot of kind of interesting things, lot of uh
kind of uh interesting thingsthat they can be able to do.
That 150 seats and it's kind oftucked away uh south of
sheffield and north avenues.
I'm not familiar with chicago,but those of you that are sounds
like a great place I've been tochicago a lot, but not this
area, I don't believe.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I pretty much stay on michigan avenue half a dozen
times I've been there.
And then we went to the WhiteSox.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I was going to say that was the one time we kind of
came blitzing in on 94, went toa game blitzed out on 94 to
like Indiana or something, to beable to stay, and then back to
the stadium and then back home,yeah.
That was a quick trip, 36 hoursor something like that.
I don't know.
They do not serve food, butthey do have a good relationship
with the pizzeria that's aroundthe corner Thin crust
(11:06):
specialists, good food, that'sright there.
You can bring in your own food.
I want to go try that place.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Lots of crust.
I like thin crust pizza.
That's my favorite, 100%.
That's a perfect thing to haveright next to a brewery, oh my
God, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Off-color founder John Laffler has also brought on
Ben Fassman's, or Fassman, andthey do in-house cocktails as
well.
So it's not just beer, they doalso in-house craft cocktails
and wine by the glass.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So Ben is the cocktail guy.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Ben is the cocktail guy, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yep, does he do the wine too?
Is that what that says?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It just says a wine by the glass.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I know.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
That might be, you know, just kind of something you
can get separately.
So the mouse that you have onthere if you look at the
pictures they have online, themouse is prevalent pretty much
everywhere and their tap room iscalled the Mousetrap Gotcha.
The Grain Mouse is the taproom's mascot and customers will
see references all around thespace in their location.
So kind of a cool thing thatthey have there.
(12:04):
They got a nice big tap room,as I mentioned, 150 seats, kind
of an industrial feel.
A lot of brick, plenty oftables, plenty of places to be
able to sit and be able to hangout Bars way in the back, be
able to get some stuff Again.
You can bring in your own food.
A lot of really cool stuff thatthey got going on there.
I think it'd be a lot of fun tobe able to be a part of that
(12:24):
and be able to kind of check itout, talking a little bit more
about some of the things thatthey have bring up.
Go back to their other situationhere and their current beers.
We talked a little bit aboutwhat it's called.
Some of the beers is the ApexPredator that's a farm wholesale
.
The April Rain Beer for golf,beer for lounging, beer for golf
(12:45):
Beer for lounging Beer fortacos Beer.
Crispy beer for pizza.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
That's a nice theme.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Beer for the top shelf, which has got a little
mouse with a goalie thing.
That one is a Vienna-stylelager with maple syrup added All
right, I'm liking all of this.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I'm not opposed.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So they got.
You know, the mouse is kind ofin a lot of different things
with that or whatever.
So I think it's kind of a funlittle place to be able to go
and check out and be able to seesome of that.
So one more thing.
So with the brewery itself.
So the Modest Operande is whatthey worded here itself.
So the modus operandi is whatthey worded here.
(13:27):
But basically the gist of whatthey do is they began operation
to focus on brewing forgottenstyles of beer.
Okay, so some of it, a lot ofit is going to be kind of like
german style beers, becausethat's more of where a lot of
the history of beer kind ofcomes from and not originated
but know kind of in that era.
But that's where a lot ofdifferent styles of beer were
forgotten after the.
(13:48):
I'm not going to be able topronounce this, but I'm going to
give it my best shot.
The R-E-I-N-H-E-I-T-S-G-E-B-O-T.
German word Rheinisch GbotProbably butchered that, but you
know I do my best here.
It was the Bavarian purity law.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Bavaria.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's where we're going.
And it was proclaimed in thelate 15th century, effectively
condemning a myriad of differentstyles of beer that were not
made solely with barley waterand hops so they were trying to
purify the thing.
And hops, so they were tryingto purify the thing.
(14:30):
So kind of a literally thepronunciation of the word, the
literal translation is purityorder.
That's what it means and that'swhat it was.
It limited the ingredients tojust those things and it states
the former Holy Roman Empire hada lot to do with that and it
was adopted by Bavaria in 1516,kind of similar regulations all
throughout the area.
So it kind of got rid of a lotof variety.
(14:54):
I guess to a certain extent,you know, trying to be able to
just finely tune that which youknow.
I get the idea of that, youknow, not getting too far out on
the hangar edges but at thesame time like let people let
the market kind of dictate someof that.
But it's 15, 16.
So you know what are you?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
going to do?
What are you going to do itback then?
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
So that definitely had a massive change.
So you know a little bit ofhistory less than there.
It's a kind of a going in theway back machine.
15, 16.
It really changed a lot of whatthe variety and diversity was
in beer in the germany area andkind of through that whole
region.
So these guys are trying tobring back as many of those
(15:32):
beers as possible well, this isdefinitely a good one to bring
back absolutely.
This is a really solid beer.
I like this a lot yeah, this ispretty good.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
If this is one from germany, you know they're
bringing it back.
It does say american stylecream ale on the can.
I don't know if that's a germanbeer they're bringing back,
since it's american style creamale, but no, this beer is really
solid.
It's really good if anybody isclose to a liquor store and
you're looking for something.
If you can find this beer, buyit and try it, definitely for
(16:00):
sure.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, we got it at a place that I've frequented
multiple times, the DabblerDepot.
It's kind of on West 7th downin St Paul, just off of 35.
So not far off of 35, where itkind of cuts through by that.
Well, what used to be a BurgerKing.
It's just a building that lookslike a Burger King is all it
really is, but yeah, so we foundit there.
(16:22):
It's actually one of ourfavorite places to be able to go
because they have such avariety of different things that
they sell there.
We're able to find all sorts ofunique, different types of
beers.
They have bourbons, they haveall sorts of different cocktails
and stuff like that, and theylet you try basically anything.
So it's a fantastic place to beable to go.
That's even better.
I highly recommend being ableto go there.
And actually this beer and abeer that we have for a future
(16:44):
podcast was recommended by agentleman that was working there
, that also is a part owner inone of the breweries that we're
going to be doing at some pointin time.
Perfect.
So it's that community.
They're all together, they areall together.
So it's kind of a fun kind ofthing to be able to check out
all sorts of different varietiesand a really nice place to be
able to go.
They got all sorts of differentvariety of stuff there and you
(17:06):
can get it by the can.
You can get four packs, you canget bigger packs, you can taste
stuff.
You know it's a pretty coolplace.
I highly recommend it.
We're not even gettingsponsored by them.
If they would like to check usout on our fan page, I'd love to
be able to have something likethat.
It'd be fantastic.
If nothing else, maybe adiscount on the beer that we buy
.
That would be nice.
You know, there we go, we canget it at a cost or something,
maybe a hat or something Sellingat cost.
(17:28):
Yeah, that'd be perfect.
So kind of the background.
A little bit.
A little bit more on thisparticular beer Again beer for
ball games, the tasting notesand secret techniques.
This is where you start gettinginto the information about the
specific beer and what they did,even though it is the American
style as one of the first stylesof beer actually conceived in
the United States.
(17:48):
Our cream ale is designed tomake America's pastime proud by
only using American-producedmalt and corn with classical
American hops.
We even use the best Americanwater.
And they with classicalAmerican hops.
We even use the best Americanwater.
And they apologize to Fiji.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
The best American water.
I wonder where that water comesfrom, right?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Exactly, it's definitely not in Flint Michigan
.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
No, definitely not no .
No For sure.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So that's kind of what we got here.
It's a light bodied butflavorful brew.
Watching nine innings from thebleacher section.
American Style Cream features alight malt character with the
flavors of cornflake cereal,which I can kind of get.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
You can taste that a little bit, for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
A light hop aroma contributes to nuanced floral
pepper and grapefruit rind notes.
Bread notes from the yeast leftin the beer rounds out the
mouthfeel.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So it sounds good in the mouth.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, exactly.
So it says you know what we gothere.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
They definitely hit the nail on the head with the
name, though Beer for Ball Games.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
This would be great to drink watching a ball game,
whether it be the Twinsunfortunately, the Yankees or
the Bram Snappers.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
There we go.
You want to?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
watch Andy try to get on base.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Exactly, it happens once or twice a year.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That's about it.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Don't be asking too much for me here.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
This is definitely a beer you would drink watching a
ball game.
It's light-bodied, absolutelyNot going to blow your hair back
.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You can have a few of them there.
Oh man, yeah, this is a goodbeer.
As you mentioned, the ABV at a4.2.
So it's good, good flavor, butit's not going to knock, you
know, knock you away after twoof them.
Ibus are 18, which isn'tsurprising.
It's not real bitter, it's notoverly hoppy, it's, you know,
just a nice, smooth, smooth,solid beer.
So I don't know.
So I like it a lot and I thinkit's quite fantastic, super good
.
Yeah, that's kind of what wegot for that.
But yeah, definitely go checkthem out.
(19:50):
They do have their website,offcolorbrewingcom.
All sorts of information thatthey have on there.
They go over the types of beerthat they have, information
about their tap room hours,location, the general type of
stuff.
But yeah, they get a lot ofdifferent articles that were out
there to be able to kind ofresearch through, and Wikipedia
even has a thing on them too.
Oh sure, so you know they dohave quite a bit of information
out there.
So a lot of good information.
(20:11):
It's kind of a cool place.
Wikipedia puts them at 11employees is what that puts them
at.
So they do have some prettygood sized fermenters and
everything that they got inthere, which is kind of cool to
be able to see some of thepictures that they got.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
So you can definitely tell the owners that started
this their background and beerin at other places.
You can definitely tell this isa super high quality beer when
you drink this.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yep, yep, it's not, it's not, they didn't just, it's
fine, they actually they putsome effort into what this is.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
It's definitely good beer.
Again, I've already said it sixtimes If you can get this, go
buy it and try it.
You'll thank us later.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You can thank us by buying a hat.
There we go.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, we do have.
If you follow us on any of yoursocial media, we do have the
hat out there for sale.
We've got some options there.
Try to be able to get maybesome other swag out there at
some point in time.
But if you're looking foranything, definitely reach out
to us.
You can check us out on all thesocial media platforms.
(21:13):
We've got something on TikTokand Instagram and.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Twitter, facebook, twitx, whatever.
Oh, that, that's right x yeah,I still don't call it x, but
right, exactly, whatever yeah,facebook, uh yeah, you got it
just seven.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Or if you're watching on youtube, go ahead and just
drop us a line.
You do, you know, right therelike share, subscribe, like all
of the things right now.
But uh, yeah, definitely telleverybody about it and pass the
information along.
But I do highly recommend goingand checking this brewery out
if you're in that area or ifyou're headed to that area or if
you're not in that area.
It's one of the things to kindof look out for.
It's a nice white can, so kindof easy to be able to find.
(21:48):
Look for the little mice that'sgoing to be your key to be able
to find a brewery that has thistype of stuff for it.
So, yeah, I highly recommend it.
Off Color Brewing out ofChicago, illinois.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Perfect.
Yeah, definitely get some moreof this 100%.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Well, that's about most of what I got here for the
brewery.
We'll keep working on this,Sean.
What do you got for someinformation for us this time?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
So I come across some articles because I read stuff
all the time, whether or notthat's a good thing or a bad
thing some articles because Iread stuff all the time, whether
or not that's a good thing or abad thing, I don't know.
I just come across funny stuff.
So there's a.
This is kind of ridiculous,this is kind of government
overreach.
This isn't going to be apolitical talk because we're
going to talk about the uk inlondon, but when I you hear what
I gotta say it's kind of crazyand I'll see get your reaction
to this, like I think all theviewers out there or listeners
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would how ridiculous this is.
There's a comedian over there.
His name is Ed Gamble.
Never heard of him, he's astand-up comedian so.
I'm not sure if he's just aEuropean comedian and touring
over there, but nonetheless, edGamble, the stand-up comedian,
is currently touring over in theUK and over in the UK he's got
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his poster.
He's promoting his tour.
You know, bands do and acts doso they got your poster
plastered throughout the city.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Gotta have advertising With the dates on
there, we're gonna start puttingthose up for the two guys, two
guys and beer too.
Qr codes all over the place.
That's all it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Well, we have some slapped in Central Park and over
in the subway in New York.
There we go If they're stillthere?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I sure hope so.
We should probably go checkthat out.
They are slapped up.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
So this guy, Ed Gamble, Stan McMeany, he's on
tour over there.
He's calling his tour HotDiggity Dog.
Hot Diggity Dog so that's thename of his comedy tour over
there.
I like it In the UK and London,so specifically in the subway.
They have some of his postersthere on the walls promoting his
hot diggity dog tour.
However, the interesting partabout that is the transit
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authority over there doesn'tlike that.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Oh man, not the transit authority.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
If you want to call it over in the Bakerloo line
platform.
There's an underground subwaystation over there.
In london, they have thispolicy that they come up with in
2019, where they can'tadvertise fatty foods and sugar
and non-healthy eating andthings like that is this kind of
like minneapolis passing athing, where you can't build a
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new building that has adrive-thru.
Something similar to that.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Some ridiculousness.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Supposedly to make people healthy or something.
So in 2019, over in London onthe subway, their transit
authority, whatever their agencyis, they won't advertise any of
that stuff.
Sugary foods, fatty foods, thisand that.
So the hot diggity dog tour.
On his poster it's Mr Gamblethere.
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He's got ketchup and mustardplastered all over his face, you
know, running down his shirt,and he's standing next to a hot
dog.
Oh, there you go, of course,hot diggity dog, hot diggity dog
.
So his hot dog is half-eatenhot dog on this plate on this
poster.
Who doesn't like hot dogs?
Hot?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
dogs are good.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
They're so good I don't care if they're good for
me.
Absolutely A real naturalcasing hot dog.
It just snaps and juice fliesunder your face when you snap it
.
Absolutely.
Oh, it's so good, old-fashionedstyle, chicago style, while
you're drinking.
Beer for ballgame beer, getyourself a.
Chicago style hot dog.
Maybe Mr Gamble has them at hisshows, maybe as part of the
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entree.
You might not ever know it,though, because Because you
won't get to see it on theirsubways or their buses.
You know the whole busauthority.
They can't have that.
So he was forced to take themdown and they weren't allowed to
put them up.
So he replaced the hot dog andthen they allowed this poster.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Then it's okay.
Then it's okay, all right, fairenough.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Like how ridiculous is that?
Like seriously, don't you thinkthat's a bit of an overreach?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
It's a little, it's really, it's silliness, is
really what it is.
I mean, I know that to acertain extent if you're going
to have a policy, you got todraw a line somewhere.
But when you make it kind oflike vague in a way, you kind of
allow like some personsomewhere to kind of go a little
outside of what the spirit ofwhatever you're trying to do is.
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That didn't really think oflike the consequences of really.
Is this really like I get, ifyou don't want to have like all
right, you know, kids eatingcotton candy and got crap all
over the place, you know,probably not the best for them
or whatever.
It may be sugary cereals orsomething like that, I don't
really know it's just hot dogsare good, I don't.
Maybe they're not good for you,I guess I don't really know, but
I can't believe that.
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Uh, like a old-fashioned goodsnap gotta be pretty good for
you I would think you wouldthink all natural.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
You know, I mean, that's what they promote in
europe.
You know, I mean, they ban foodover there that we can
apparently eat here.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
You know right well, I think some of the food that we
eat here I don't know, we don'teven eat food here.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
All we eat is chemical and whatever they slap
into the boxes you knowprocessed, uh, slapped together,
yeah.
But I just thought that wascrazy and absolutely ridiculous.
I just had to talk about that.
I'm like, seriously, you'rebanning a photo of a hot dog in
your subway because you don'twant to promote unhealthy food
and fattening food and saltyfood.
Like really, I don't thinkpeople riding the subway or
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riding the city bus in londonare going to look at a poster of
hot diggity dog comedy tour andthink, dang, I need to get me
some hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I really could go for .
Yeah, I could really go for ahot dog.
I mean it probably might,though I mean it does kind of
make sense because now thatyou're talking about it, I kind
of want a hot dog.
I kind of want a hot dog rightnow too.
Go on a quick trip or something.
Get a roller dog.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Especially with this beer.
Absolutely natural cased, realhot dog.
It was super good with beerbefore ball games here beer
absolutely.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Can you imagine?
Like a?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
natural and some hot peppers on there.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Oh my gosh you're sitting out at late july and, uh
, from chicago so maybe we'reout at wrigley or something like
that, because you know whitesocks stadium kind of sucks,
yeah.
But uh, you know, you getyourself kind of out in some
bleachers where there's not awhole lot of people and you get
kind of like spread out to acouple of different chairs, feet
over the front side, this beerand a hot dog in the other hand.
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That would be perfect likedescribe a better situation for
me, because I'm not coming upwith a lot right now from your
standpoint.
You know, like watching the oldbr snappers or whatever.
Like head out to a Brennanfield at Hinkley.
They had a really nice ballparkthere, get a nice hot dog and
they sell beer there too.
Maybe I'll try to get them tohave this there.
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Sit back there and watchsomething oh my God, the league
playoffs.
Up there, you know, be able tojust sit back and relax and have
a beer and a hot dog and heckleguys that are your same age
playing baseball still.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
We might have to get a hold of these guys.
We could be distributors forbeer for ball games, you know,
advertise it at the branch,staffers and stuff Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
That'd be fantastic If you still play beer league
softball this year.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
you can bring some of this here.
Boys, there we go.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah, I think it'd go over pretty good, although a
lot of them are drinking likeseltzers and stuff now, because
you know you gotta be athleticwhen you're playing league
softball.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
What the hell Gotta be athletic there.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I know, I don't know it's a little bit different, but
whatever, I don't know, I'vebeen had to come have a couple
of them recently, or whatever,and I woke up with less of a
hangover.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I can't do something.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I flavor and taste if I wanted to drink bubbly water,
I would go buy a bubbly.
That's something that is.
It isn't much more preferabletype of deal?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
uh for sure, but uh so, yeah, so back to this in
2019.
They enacted this stuff.
They also, apparently, theybanned uh any advertisements
that promote unhealthy andunrealistic body shapes, too, to
go along with their fat andsugar food ban I can think of at
least like four or fivedifferent bbc tv shows that
promote unhealthy I and notnormal body types I think sports
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illustrator promotes that.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
We've seen that in recent years.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Absolutely, yeah oh it's just crazy.
But anyways, the london transitauthority, whatever you want to
call them.
You guys are crazy man Like.
That's just absolutelyridiculous.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Right, that is just.
That's some silliness.
That's beyond.
Yeah, control, that's overreach.
I do love the response, though,for him to like come out with a
cucumber Put a cucumber onthere.
Yeah, so we might have to checkout Ed.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Gamble.
He we might have to check outEd Gamble.
He's got a Netflix special orsomething, he seems like he's
got some good stuff going on.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
If he's got that type of humor like to be able to
roll with those proverbialpunches, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
That would be great.
So one other story.
I'll get to it here real quick.
So I was reading about this tooand I thought this was kind of
funny.
It'd be fun to share withpeople.
So there was a couple that werein their bedroom in their
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husband.
The husband and wife are in abedroom and the husband had told
, uh, told his wife a joke.
And of course the joke wasobviously funny because the
husband told the joke right.
Anytime a husband tells a joke,wives out there.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
It's just funny.
Yeah, yeah guys, guys arehilarious.
We're always.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
We got the, we got the best, uh, best humor but so
when the husband was tellingthis joke, interestingly enough,
apparently there was a burglarin their house Burglaring,
burglaring.
Oh man Up in the roof, he wasburgling inside the roof,
apparently crawling around inthe eaves, or the attic.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
It's no good getting burgled.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Well, this joke was so good that this burglar
apparently heard the joke andbusted out Laffy?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Of course he did, naturally.
Why wouldn't you?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
So the husband and wife are like what the hell is
going on?
They hear somebody laughing upin their attic.
That would probably be kind ofstrange.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Wait what?
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (31:45):
They call the cops.
Of course the cops come andarrest him.
No harm, no foul.
He didn't steal anything, hedidn't break anything.
But of course I'd assume he gotin trouble because he broke
into their house with them inthere, Right, but that's how
they got him.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I want to know what the joke is now.
Can you imagine like that?
Okay, sir, describe for meexactly what happened here.
So I'm telling this joke, right, and I hear the guy laughing in
the attic.
Sir, what was the joke?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Some of the article I read.
Everybody wanted to know whatthe joke was.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Absolutely Nobody had a clue.
Sad thing is it probably waslike this much buildup.
It's probably just going to belike a dumb knock-knock joke or
something, some ridiculousnessor whatever.
But I kind of want to know whatthe joke was.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I do too.
Everybody wanted to know.
But no fear, I came preparedwith a dad joke for you?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Oh, here we go, yes.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
It's very well, could have been the joke.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
You ready for this?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I'm ready, dad jokes 101 on Two Guys and Beer podcast
.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
First joke ever.
So what do you call a paperairplane that can't fly?
A problem Stationary oh.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
It took a second before that one really keyed in.
It takes you, I like that.
That is a good one.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Tiki and beer jokes.
Here we go Get the two guysbeer joke book.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
That one.
Yeah, it took a second to beable to hit, but I always love
that moment where it's like, oh,you can see in their face.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
When I read it too, it took me a minute and I'm like
that is fricking.
I laugh so hard in the kitchen.
My daughter came home.
I had to rush upstairs to tellher right away I got a dad joke
for you and I told her she'slike what?
I get it stationary.
She's like, oh my gosh, likedad jokes.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
It's kind of a slow burner.
But you know, I mean Not tooslow.
Maybe I'm just, maybe I'm slow,that's probably what it is, I
don't know, but that's a goodone.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I like that.
You can't blame it on the beerFor ball games, beer X, it's
only 4.2.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
No, I'm likely going to tell that joke Tomorrow at
work, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yes, 100%.
I'm going to tell her.
I don't have anything to showher.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
but Well, you know, I'm going to tell her there you
go.
So we got the beer forballgames?
Yes, we do.
So now that I see this and Ihad a moment here and my brain
is you- know, wandering off yeah.
I got to not really vent aboutsomething, but like come on,
what are we doing here Can wejust talk for a minute about?
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In reference to baseball, I'veseen this now a handful of times
.
It happens every year.
You know, there's somethinghappens.
This guy, like pimp, walked outof the box after he hit a bomb,
or this guy was eyeball on thesecond basement or like whatever
dumb thing it is you know,which, whatever it is, it is I
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don't know, it's not my kind ofthing, but whatever you do you,
you know what I mean.
It goes back to the when kengriffey jr like, oh my god, he's
wearing his hat backwards right.
I mean, you know, like I Idon't whatever, that's fine,
like there's.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
There's stuff like that, that happens that in the
home run derby was it mcguire ordante bichette turned his
batting helmet around and turnedit backwards.
Who was pitching, was it?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Randy Johnson.
Randy Johnson did it in theAll-Star game.
It was Lance Walker is who itwas.
And that was because I think itwas because the year before
John Kruk had one of those98-mile-an-hour heaters that
didn't slide and came wingingright past his noggin, and
Johnson the next year jokinglythrew one up around that area
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again, and so then he put hishelmet on backwards, john Crooks
.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I love that guy.
We need more John Crooks inbaseball.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
That guy seems like a good beer drinking guy.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Like a John Daly.
Yes, oh, absolutely, 100%.
Yeah, so you got the situationBack to your thoughts.
Sorry, I was taking us out ofthe rails there.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
That's kind of what happens during the Two Guys and
Beer podcast.
You just kind of wanderwherever the conversation takes
us, so that's not so much thatbothers me.
But then you get the reactionof well, now my job is to drill
this guy with a pitch and reallyshow him, which is another part
of baseball.
I get it, it's totally fine.
You got to make sure that youdon't get around the head.
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You know what I mean.
Let's not injure people, let'snot do that.
But if you want to put one inthe small of their back,
whatever, I don't have a problemwith that, let it rip, do it,
you know.
But the overreaction thathappens after that, not so much
the fighting, whatever, I caneye roll about that all I want.
But why in the world doeseverybody that's wearing a
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uniform need to trot their happyass out there to be able to
like stand there, moral supportLike the backup bullpen catcher
from 400 feet away on the secondlevel, who's probably out there
with the comedian getting a hotdog Right?
(36:53):
He sees he's now got to try.
Nope, sorry, I got to go andhe's got it.
Like trot out there with hisgear on and like the slow walk
all the way in there and likewhy do we need to have that?
Like and I, I, there wassomething that happened.
Was that like last year, twoyears ago, that there was a guy
that got hit and of course,everybody cleared the benches
and there was one guy that, like, sat on the bench.
She's like no, this is dumb,I'm not going out there.
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This is stupid.
He shouldn't kick off the teambecause he refused to run out
there.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
What?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
is he going to do?
What's going to happen is theguy's going to go out there and
he's going to try to fight.
Maybe you're going to get twoor three people that actually
start throwing punches.
Sometimes you get a little bitbigger than that, but usually
only a couple of people, andthen everybody's just holding
each other is all they're doing.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
It's not much.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
It's like they're grappling and like jumping on
top, holding each other, kind oflike a Well, I don't really
want to fight.
Do you want to fight?
I don't really want to fight.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Let's just kind of watch those guys and nobody
makes a move until somebodycomes from behind them and holds
them.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Then they're all like oh yeah, then they've got to
try to get you and then all of asudden there's two or three
people.
That's not part of the thing.
So I hate the idea that like,oh, that's a bad teammate.
It's like, no, he wanted tostay in the game and you're
being stupid, like why can'tthat be a good teammate, saying
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no, you don't Right.
And even if it is the benchesthat got to clear, whatever.
But can we stop getting likethe relief pitcher coming in,
like I said, from like 400 feetaway?
By the time he gets there,they've already like carted
three people off and there'snothing happening and now you
got to wait for everybody tocome walking back and head out
there or whatever.
Although I will say this typeof situation did create one of
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the best stories that I was nota part of, but I'm retelling it
as Nick's story.
Nick Cole, credit goes to you.
This isn't my story, but it's agreat story Nonetheless.
Something happened in Twinsgate.
This is old Metrodome type ofthing and I hope that some of
our listeners know the name thisis kind of an older name I'm
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going to toss out at you, but itwas at the end of his career
and this guy's like 45 years old, big old gray beard.
You know, whatever Somethinghappens, everybody's got to go
running out there and everybodystarts trotting back.
After the brouhaha calms down,everybody's trotting back there,
whatever, walking back to theirrespective bullpens.
You know, like the the bullcrap bull bullpen that they had
in the metrodome, that was moreof just like out in the middle
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of the field and you got this inthe plane.
You got this poor bat boy that'strying to stand behind the
catcher and hope he doesn't getdrilled from behind and you're
going to take rockets right athim off the third baseline.
So they're, they're trottingback or whatever, and terry
mulholland is a part of thisgroup that's trotting back there
.
And so you know nick or one ofthe buddies, you know a couple
of them, they're out in the, theold third baseline seats, the
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left field seats and fallterritory, terry, we, you, and
he turns around and goes hey.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
So I mean it kind of does create the opportunity for
like things like that wherethey're kind of like, not in
their normal dialed-in thingRight, a little bit of
interaction, but I do think it'sjust ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
every time, like I mean whatever, I'm also kind of
like a oh, if they want to fightin hockey, then fight.
You know what I mean.
Like give them the penalties,but I don't have a problem with
that.
I think that there is a placeto a certain extent of like
trying to protect star players.
I don't think that they do itquite as much anymore, but I
kind of get the bit.
I get why it happens and I can.
I'm fine accepting if theydon't want to do anymore.
That's not a problem.
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I'm not saying it has to happen, but I get it.
I don't have a problem withthat or whatever.
But the baseball thing, like ifyou're coming in at a half trot
galloping in, it's not likeyou're coming like I got your
back, bro, I'm right here foryou, like the wieners that are
running around in the hot dograces.
Exactly.
(40:46):
Yeah, like this is not.
They're running slower than thewomen of Baywatch, that kind of
thing, like they're not tryingto get there.
This is not kind of like well,you can tell even by the way
they're just walking.
They're like I don't reallywant to be a part of this, but I
got to go and I got to.
You know, I got your back andwhatever.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Well, maybe they're stretching their legs because
they don't get out in the fieldmuch it's their opportunity to
get onto the field.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Get a little bit of blood flowing.
I suppose that probably couldhappen, but I don't know.
That's just kind of my eye rollthing for the day.
I happened to see it onSportsCenter or something the
other day and I'm like, okay,have your little fight, have
your little thing, but why dothey got to come from Lakeway?
Just leave them out there.
It gotta come from like, wait,just leave them out there.
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It's fine, we're not going tojudge you for coming, because
really I don't want you comingout there.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
You're going to end up using your million dollar
right hand and breaking a fingerright, you don't want that
months.
Maybe we just in baseball, wedecide to let them fight like
they do in hockey.
Just stand there and watch themfor a few minutes and see if
they actually hit each other.
If they just pile on the groundand lay on each other.
I did.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Did see a good one the other day and I think it was
a highlight from a couple ofyears ago that something
happened and the pitcher had toretribute and it looked like
from the mannerisms from thepitcher he didn't really want to
hit the guy because he kind ofwas like oh, dang it, but the
guy obviously got pissed, threwthe bat down, comes running out
towards the pitcher Pitcherhappens to catch him right
before he gets there, but withthe camera coming from center
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field you don't see thelinebacker first baseman come
across and just destroy this.
Jamal Just smoke.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
I saw it.
It was hilarious.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Oh well, that's done, so that was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Was that that wasn't this year, Cause I thought it
was this year.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Maybe it was this year.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
I was trying to figure out who it was, and I
couldn't figure out who it was.
It was great.
Yeah, I was like that isfricking sweet.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
It was.
Yeah, that was, that washilarious.
But yeah, I think that you know, like I, like I said, I don't
have a problem with the fight,whatever I playing baseball.
It's kind of like when thebasketball I was complaining in
a previous episode, one of ourfirst episodes about basketball
players like, oh, I'm reallytough, now we're going to get in
a fight.
I'm like, no, you're playingbasketball.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
They clear their benches too, and come out and
just kind of stand around.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
It's so ridiculous.
Everybody's got such anattitude problem with like oh,
I'm a bigger poser than you areYou're.
You are like you're doing theexact same thing.
Don't get pissed off at himbecause you're losing, right,
like that's just dumb.
But yeah, the baseball thing,whatever, have the fight, I
agree with you.
Maybe we do it hockey style.
Nobody can leave benches ornobody can leave whatever
they're doing.
Just let the two or whateverhash it out.
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Or if the first baseman wantsto come and murder some guy,
whatever, at least two minutes,give us a two minute round.
well, the as hockey.
As soon as somebody has a clearadvantage, like they go to the
ground, we blow the whistle, wetear them off there, but we just
don't need the guys trotting infrom center field or somewhere
up the street, the guys over atQuick Trip you know, like I
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don't know, it's just silly tome.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
More than anything but.
There could be a new parlay bet.
You bet on baseball games whichtwo players are going to fight
today.
Oh there you go?
Speaker 1 (44:01):
That could be, that could be interesting Hmm.
That's quite the parlay betthough it doesn't happen too
often.
Yeah, you don't see it.
Yeah, they'd.
Yeah, they'd probably be prettygood odds yeah you'd make some
good money.
That'd be pretty heavy odds onthat one, but you never know.
People are always in forsomething.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
They are especially the betting kind 100%.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
So what else you got, Sean?
Anything else at all.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
No, that's about all I got.
I did come across one otherthing, though, that you might
like Ooh it already sounds likeI'm going to like it.
You are already sounds like I'mgonna like it.
You are a firefighter, you andyour wife are firefighters.
So the first idea not just themustache, no, actually went
through the training and did thewhole thing.
It serves a purpose.
So the first idea of a fireescape I ran right in front of
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this a couple weeks ago when Iwas patenting on fire escapes.
You know, obviously areimportant, were important to
Annie 1766.
1766.
Was the first patent idea for afire escape.
Basically, it just consisted ofa wicker basket attached to a
pulley and a chain.
That was the fire escape.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
I mean it could work.
I mean, I'm not sure that Iwant to get into a wicker basket
when you know stuff's on fire,but I suppose there wasn't a
whole lot of brick and mortargoing on.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Probably not back in 1766.
It was probably all lumber, butI thought you'd think that's
interesting.
Since you're the firefighter,you know.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Interesting, that is a nice little trivia nugget
right there.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
That's really all I got.
I'm going to take some more ofthis beer before ball games.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
Here we go.
I like it.
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brewing and enjoy that.
I definitely highly recommendthis particular brew.
It is quite good, quite good.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
Yeah, beer for ballgames.
Go get yourself some if it'savailable in your area.
It's super good.
Appreciate everybody listening,cheers, cheers.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
And we'll talk to you again soon.
and welcome in everybody.
Uh, once again back here to thetwo guys in beer podcast studio
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
And these episodes just keep on coming, maybe not
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You know some of the harassmentand the teasing.
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Looking pretty good over there.
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Yeah, I got the face for radio.
That's my background, so youknow I'm not quite ready for the
on camera.
I actually made that commentearlier tonight.
I grabbed a sweatshirt.
I'm like do you think thislooks okay on camera?
Do you think this will be okay?
I'm like why am I talking likethis now all of a sudden?
But you know, you got to try todo what you can.
I think as long as I'm notwearing green, I think I'll be
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tech guy.
It's a great company, it does agreat job, it's fantastic, top
notch, love it.
So yet again, back here we arein the studio and Sean back for
more brew, more brew Anotherbeer.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You can't go wrong with another beer.
Off Color Brewing.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
This is what you got for us this time.
So Off Color Brewing is out ofChicago.
We'll get a little deeper intoall of the details with that.
The beer that we have today isBeer for Ball Games.
A couple of mice on thereplaying baseball, but that's
kind of their bit.
Everything has got kind of aliteral name for it.
So we'll talk a little bit moreabout some of those names and
(02:06):
what all that means.
But the one that we have rightnow is the Beer for Ball Games.
It's an American-style creamale, 4.2 alcohol by volume.
So not the heaviest that we'vehad.
Still going to be pretty good.
Snow Dragon's milk Yep,absolutely.
It doesn't quite got that samelevel of steam, but that's
(02:28):
totally fine.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
But this is a good choice that you picked out beer
for ball games because baseballhas just started, so what a
better beer to crack open andtry out on the podcast for the
baseball season to start.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Absolutely, it's a fantastic thing.
So we'll dive into that andwe'll talk, maybe when we even
talk a little bit of baseballlater on today we'll see what
happens.
If we don't today, we'll, I'msure we will in the future.
You know it's, it's on ourminds, that's for sure.
Well, sort of until the twinskeep losing again.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, we don't even have enough to do one podcast on
that.
It would be several podcasts.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Exactly.
That would be quite the longseries of information and maybe
you need some.
What do they call it?
The wreck-it rooms, the destroyrooms, or whatever?
You just swing baseball bats atTVs or something.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
We need one of those for every Minnesota sport.
In fact, you know what weshould do.
In southern Minnesota you canactually drive a tank, and when
you're driving a tank to thiscourse, if you want to pony up
an extra $500, they'll put a carout there for you.
You can crush.
We could write all our sportsnames on this car and just take
the tank right over.
That might be a live episode.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I was going to say that could be quite entertaining
.
That almost makes me kind ofthink I was actually looking at
some of our online content theother day or whatever, and
reminded me of one of the reelsthat we had, where you could not
buy the vehicle but pay to haveyour ex's name on a vehicle
that's going to the crusher, getit crushed, and something like
that.
So it seemed kind of bit, youknow.
I mean, $500 might be worth itto be able to do it.
(04:00):
I mean if you're paying to beable to drive a tank around, why
not?
You know, that sounds kind offun.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Two guys and beer drive tank.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You know, I love it, I like where this is headed.
You know it's all the.
You know, not all the bestideas come out before or after
the beer.
Sometimes they are before aswell.
Usually the best ideas areafter, but Well, the best
(04:27):
stories are not told over water,this is true.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
So I was having this really good salad the other day
and wash it down with some Evianoh, let me tell you this
Absolutely Just phenomenal timesand great stories, of course.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh.
So let's get to the good stuff.
Yeah, get to the good stuffhere.
As I mentioned before, it is aAmerican-style cream ale the
4.2-row malt, caramel, malt,dextrin malt, flaked corn and
flaked barley.
The hops are nugget, willametteand cascade, so a couple of
(04:58):
different options that are onthere.
It does say on the label it iskind of almost like a session,
but it's an American style creamale, so maybe kind of an
interesting flavor with that.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I like the can.
I like the can.
It's just white.
Yeah, I don't understand themice playing baseball on the can
.
Well, the beer for ball gamesbut, I do like how it's done.
It looks like I drew it on theback of my math notebook in high
school, which is pretty nicestyle art.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
We'll get a little into the mice actually kind of
tie in.
It's kind of a mascot in a wayfor them.
So before we get too deep intoit we better crack it open.
Best part of the episode.
All right, whoop, almostdropped off of it there.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Got to make sure I open it right.
Oh, there we go.
That's the good stuff.
We're going to use uh pintglasses this time, so even an
extra sound effect I did aterrible job pouring that I I
know better than that.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
What do you do, though?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
yeah, well, you know I'm not perfect you gotta have a
little bit of a former bar.
Yeah, you need to have a littlebit ahead on'm not a former
Barker.
Yeah, you need to have a littlebit of head on that kind of on
the top.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well, there's a lot of head on this one.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, yours is aggressive, a little too much
head.
Oh, my goodness, we may have toedit that one for content
Keynote right here.
Tech guy, I don't know how wewould do that, but I'm sure we
could get something in here.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Cut it out right exactly all right.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
All right, so first couple days it is smooth.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It is smooth, it's pretty tasty too.
It took me like four gulps toget through the head on here,
dude, oh I to get the actualbeer.
I do like it.
It's a pretty nice taste, it'salmost.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I do kind of taste a little bit of the caramel and a
little bit of that dextrin.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, it's a little sweet.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, definitely get some of that out of there.
So it's, you know, aptlydescribed.
But you know, I mean that'skind of how you come up with a
description, is actually doingit right.
So, yeah, it's pretty goodstuff, a little sweetness.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But it's quite solid, it's a cream, ale it seems like
it's a lighter cream, ale not aheavy dark cream.
Ale it's got like a littlesweet type flavor to it caramel,
a little caramel in there.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
This would on the old lawnmower rating.
This would be definitely abefore, during and maybe one
after while admiring the work.
It sure would not quite a CoorsLight, but uh, it's.
You know it's got some goodflavor to it but it's, it's not
gonna blow you away.
You know, at a 4.2 you couldhave a six pack.
You could slam some and be justfine, absolutely so it'd be
(07:37):
pretty good.
So let's kind of dive in herewith uh, what we know about off
color brewery, so that's whatthe brewery is.
It's off color brewery.
Some of the in here with uh,what we know about off color
brewery, so that's what thebrewery is.
It's off color brewery.
Some of the basics here.
Off color brewery is a americancraft brewery.
It's in the logan squareneighborhood of chicago, kind of
by the lincoln park area beganin early 2013 with a partnership
(08:00):
between john laffler and daveblankner.
John Laffner, formerly of GooseIsland Brewing, which is
obviously a massive, bigdistributorship.
That's kind of a major thing.
So two guys, long history ofbeing involved in a lot of
high-end type of stuff.
It actually even says on theirwebsite, the About Us.
(08:23):
I got a couple of differentresearch notes here, but John
and Dave, at some point, johnand Dave were born.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Well, that's key, that is key.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
They did other stuff for a while, and then they
figured out they were better atmaking beer than the other stuff
, so that's what they do now.
They both met while theystudied at the oldest and most
respective brewing school of thetwo and by the breweries that
went on to the one In the US.
The Seibel Institute is what itis Okay, so it's quite the
(08:54):
description that they have inthere, I love their description
there.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Absolutely, we did stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We thought well, we're good at brewing, so we did
that instead.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
A brewery was envisioned while they both
interned at metropolitan brewing.
Uh, most of off colors businessplan is based off of doug and
tracy at metro knowing whatthey're doing, so go buy some of
their beer too.
That's what it says.
After cutting their teeth at alarger brewery, the two somehow
convinced otherwise very smartpeople to invest enough money
(09:24):
for them to make their own beer.
So that's what they do now.
So I love it.
It's quite the interestingthing.
So I think it's quite fun theway they have their thing
described here.
If you go on to their websiteyou can look at the beers the
current, the seasonal, the FODRE, aged, f-o-e-d-r-e aged beers,
(09:50):
also in some bourbon barrels.
They got different categoriesthat talk about the wholesale,
where they distribute and thingslike that.
Their tap room does show abunch of information about their
particular facility.
It is they do not have food,but they are open for all sorts
of different beer and whatnot.
They have 16 brews and theyhave, I believe, four of those
(10:12):
taps are guest beers, sopotentially you could go in
there and get a Goose Island ora Metropolitan or something like
that.
Sure.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
That's kind of neat.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
A lot of kind of interesting things, lot of uh
kind of uh interesting thingsthat they can be able to do.
That 150 seats and it's kind oftucked away uh south of
sheffield and north avenues.
I'm not familiar with chicago,but those of you that are sounds
like a great place I've been tochicago a lot, but not this
area, I don't believe.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I pretty much stay on michigan avenue half a dozen
times I've been there.
And then we went to the WhiteSox.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I was going to say that was the one time we kind of
came blitzing in on 94, went toa game blitzed out on 94 to
like Indiana or something, to beable to stay, and then back to
the stadium and then back home,yeah.
That was a quick trip, 36 hoursor something like that.
I don't know.
They do not serve food, butthey do have a good relationship
with the pizzeria that's aroundthe corner Thin crust
(11:06):
specialists, good food, that'sright there.
You can bring in your own food.
I want to go try that place.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Lots of crust.
I like thin crust pizza.
That's my favorite, 100%.
That's a perfect thing to haveright next to a brewery, oh my
God, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Off-color founder John Laffler has also brought on
Ben Fassman's, or Fassman, andthey do in-house cocktails as
well.
So it's not just beer, they doalso in-house craft cocktails
and wine by the glass.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So Ben is the cocktail guy.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Ben is the cocktail guy, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yep, does he do the wine too?
Is that what that says?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It just says a wine by the glass.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I know.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
That might be, you know, just kind of something you
can get separately.
So the mouse that you have onthere if you look at the
pictures they have online, themouse is prevalent pretty much
everywhere and their tap room iscalled the Mousetrap Gotcha.
The Grain Mouse is the taproom's mascot and customers will
see references all around thespace in their location.
So kind of a cool thing thatthey have there.
(12:04):
They got a nice big tap room,as I mentioned, 150 seats, kind
of an industrial feel.
A lot of brick, plenty oftables, plenty of places to be
able to sit and be able to hangout Bars way in the back, be
able to get some stuff Again.
You can bring in your own food.
A lot of really cool stuff thatthey got going on there.
I think it'd be a lot of fun tobe able to be a part of that
(12:24):
and be able to kind of check itout, talking a little bit more
about some of the things thatthey have bring up.
Go back to their other situationhere and their current beers.
We talked a little bit aboutwhat it's called.
Some of the beers is the ApexPredator that's a farm wholesale
.
The April Rain Beer for golf,beer for lounging, beer for golf
(12:45):
Beer for lounging Beer fortacos Beer.
Crispy beer for pizza.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
That's a nice theme.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Beer for the top shelf, which has got a little
mouse with a goalie thing.
That one is a Vienna-stylelager with maple syrup added All
right, I'm liking all of this.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I'm not opposed.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So they got.
You know, the mouse is kind ofin a lot of different things
with that or whatever.
So I think it's kind of a funlittle place to be able to go
and check out and be able to seesome of that.
So one more thing.
So with the brewery itself.
So the Modest Operande is whatthey worded here itself.
So the modus operandi is whatthey worded here.
(13:27):
But basically the gist of whatthey do is they began operation
to focus on brewing forgottenstyles of beer.
Okay, so some of it, a lot ofit is going to be kind of like
german style beers, becausethat's more of where a lot of
the history of beer kind ofcomes from and not originated
but know kind of in that era.
But that's where a lot ofdifferent styles of beer were
forgotten after the.
(13:48):
I'm not going to be able topronounce this, but I'm going to
give it my best shot.
The R-E-I-N-H-E-I-T-S-G-E-B-O-T.
German word Rheinisch GbotProbably butchered that, but you
know I do my best here.
It was the Bavarian purity law.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Bavaria.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's where we're going.
And it was proclaimed in thelate 15th century, effectively
condemning a myriad of differentstyles of beer that were not
made solely with barley waterand hops so they were trying to
purify the thing.
And hops, so they were tryingto purify the thing.
(14:30):
So kind of a literally thepronunciation of the word, the
literal translation is purityorder.
That's what it means and that'swhat it was.
It limited the ingredients tojust those things and it states
the former Holy Roman Empire hada lot to do with that and it
was adopted by Bavaria in 1516,kind of similar regulations all
throughout the area.
So it kind of got rid of a lotof variety.
(14:54):
I guess to a certain extent,you know, trying to be able to
just finely tune that which youknow.
I get the idea of that, youknow, not getting too far out on
the hangar edges but at thesame time like let people let
the market kind of dictate someof that.
But it's 15, 16.
So you know what are you?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
going to do?
What are you going to do itback then?
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
So that definitely had a massive change.
So you know a little bit ofhistory less than there.
It's a kind of a going in theway back machine.
15, 16.
It really changed a lot of whatthe variety and diversity was
in beer in the germany area andkind of through that whole
region.
So these guys are trying tobring back as many of those
(15:32):
beers as possible well, this isdefinitely a good one to bring
back absolutely.
This is a really solid beer.
I like this a lot yeah, this ispretty good.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
If this is one from germany, you know they're
bringing it back.
It does say american stylecream ale on the can.
I don't know if that's a germanbeer they're bringing back,
since it's american style creamale, but no, this beer is really
solid.
It's really good if anybody isclose to a liquor store and
you're looking for something.
If you can find this beer, buyit and try it, definitely for
(16:00):
sure.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, we got it at a place that I've frequented
multiple times, the DabblerDepot.
It's kind of on West 7th downin St Paul, just off of 35.
So not far off of 35, where itkind of cuts through by that.
Well, what used to be a BurgerKing.
It's just a building that lookslike a Burger King is all it
really is, but yeah, so we foundit there.
(16:22):
It's actually one of ourfavorite places to be able to go
because they have such avariety of different things that
they sell there.
We're able to find all sorts ofunique, different types of
beers.
They have bourbons, they haveall sorts of different cocktails
and stuff like that, and theylet you try basically anything.
So it's a fantastic place to beable to go.
That's even better.
I highly recommend being ableto go there.
And actually this beer and abeer that we have for a future
(16:44):
podcast was recommended by agentleman that was working there
, that also is a part owner inone of the breweries that we're
going to be doing at some pointin time.
Perfect.
So it's that community.
They're all together, they areall together.
So it's kind of a fun kind ofthing to be able to check out
all sorts of different varietiesand a really nice place to be
able to go.
They got all sorts of differentvariety of stuff there and you
(17:06):
can get it by the can.
You can get four packs, you canget bigger packs, you can taste
stuff.
You know it's a pretty coolplace.
I highly recommend it.
We're not even gettingsponsored by them.
If they would like to check usout on our fan page, I'd love to
be able to have something likethat.
It'd be fantastic.
If nothing else, maybe adiscount on the beer that we buy
.
That would be nice.
You know, there we go, we canget it at a cost or something,
maybe a hat or something Sellingat cost.
(17:28):
Yeah, that'd be perfect.
So kind of the background.
A little bit.
A little bit more on thisparticular beer Again beer for
ball games, the tasting notesand secret techniques.
This is where you start gettinginto the information about the
specific beer and what they did,even though it is the American
style as one of the first stylesof beer actually conceived in
the United States.
(17:48):
Our cream ale is designed tomake America's pastime proud by
only using American-producedmalt and corn with classical
American hops.
We even use the best Americanwater.
And they with classicalAmerican hops.
We even use the best Americanwater.
And they apologize to Fiji.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
The best American water.
I wonder where that water comesfrom, right?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Exactly, it's definitely not in Flint Michigan
.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
No, definitely not no .
No For sure.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So that's kind of what we got here.
It's a light bodied butflavorful brew.
Watching nine innings from thebleacher section.
American Style Cream features alight malt character with the
flavors of cornflake cereal,which I can kind of get.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
You can taste that a little bit, for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
A light hop aroma contributes to nuanced floral
pepper and grapefruit rind notes.
Bread notes from the yeast leftin the beer rounds out the
mouthfeel.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So it sounds good in the mouth.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, exactly.
So it says you know what we gothere.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
They definitely hit the nail on the head with the
name, though Beer for Ball Games.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
This would be great to drink watching a ball game,
whether it be the Twinsunfortunately, the Yankees or
the Bram Snappers.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
There we go.
You want to?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
watch Andy try to get on base.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Exactly, it happens once or twice a year.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That's about it.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Don't be asking too much for me here.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
This is definitely a beer you would drink watching a
ball game.
It's light-bodied, absolutelyNot going to blow your hair back
.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You can have a few of them there.
Oh man, yeah, this is a goodbeer.
As you mentioned, the ABV at a4.2.
So it's good, good flavor, butit's not going to knock, you
know, knock you away after twoof them.
Ibus are 18, which isn'tsurprising.
It's not real bitter, it's notoverly hoppy, it's, you know,
just a nice, smooth, smooth,solid beer.
So I don't know.
So I like it a lot and I thinkit's quite fantastic, super good
.
Yeah, that's kind of what wegot for that.
But yeah, definitely go checkthem out.
(19:50):
They do have their website,offcolorbrewingcom.
All sorts of information thatthey have on there.
They go over the types of beerthat they have, information
about their tap room hours,location, the general type of
stuff.
But yeah, they get a lot ofdifferent articles that were out
there to be able to kind ofresearch through, and Wikipedia
even has a thing on them too.
Oh sure, so you know they dohave quite a bit of information
out there.
So a lot of good information.
(20:11):
It's kind of a cool place.
Wikipedia puts them at 11employees is what that puts them
at.
So they do have some prettygood sized fermenters and
everything that they got inthere, which is kind of cool to
be able to see some of thepictures that they got.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
So you can definitely tell the owners that started
this their background and beerin at other places.
You can definitely tell this isa super high quality beer when
you drink this.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yep, yep, it's not, it's not, they didn't just, it's
fine, they actually they putsome effort into what this is.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
It's definitely good beer.
Again, I've already said it sixtimes If you can get this, go
buy it and try it.
You'll thank us later.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You can thank us by buying a hat.
There we go.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, we do have.
If you follow us on any of yoursocial media, we do have the
hat out there for sale.
We've got some options there.
Try to be able to get maybesome other swag out there at
some point in time.
But if you're looking foranything, definitely reach out
to us.
You can check us out on all thesocial media platforms.
(21:13):
We've got something on TikTokand Instagram and.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Twitter, facebook, twitx, whatever.
Oh, that, that's right x yeah,I still don't call it x, but
right, exactly, whatever yeah,facebook, uh yeah, you got it
just seven.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Or if you're watching on youtube, go ahead and just
drop us a line.
You do, you know, right therelike share, subscribe, like all
of the things right now.
But uh, yeah, definitely telleverybody about it and pass the
information along.
But I do highly recommend goingand checking this brewery out
if you're in that area or ifyou're headed to that area or if
you're not in that area.
It's one of the things to kindof look out for.
It's a nice white can, so kindof easy to be able to find.
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Look for the little mice that'sgoing to be your key to be able
to find a brewery that has thistype of stuff for it.
So, yeah, I highly recommend it.
Off Color Brewing out ofChicago, illinois.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Perfect.
Yeah, definitely get some moreof this 100%.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Well, that's about most of what I got here for the
brewery.
We'll keep working on this,Sean.
What do you got for someinformation for us this time?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
So I come across some articles because I read stuff
all the time, whether or notthat's a good thing or a bad
thing some articles because Iread stuff all the time, whether
or not that's a good thing or abad thing, I don't know.
I just come across funny stuff.
So there's a.
This is kind of ridiculous,this is kind of government
overreach.
This isn't going to be apolitical talk because we're
going to talk about the uk inlondon, but when I you hear what
I gotta say it's kind of crazyand I'll see get your reaction
to this, like I think all theviewers out there or listeners
(22:35):
would how ridiculous this is.
There's a comedian over there.
His name is Ed Gamble.
Never heard of him, he's astand-up comedian so.
I'm not sure if he's just aEuropean comedian and touring
over there, but nonetheless, edGamble, the stand-up comedian,
is currently touring over in theUK and over in the UK he's got
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his poster.
He's promoting his tour.
You know, bands do and acts doso they got your poster
plastered throughout the city.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Gotta have advertising With the dates on
there, we're gonna start puttingthose up for the two guys, two
guys and beer too.
Qr codes all over the place.
That's all it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Well, we have some slapped in Central Park and over
in the subway in New York.
There we go If they're stillthere?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I sure hope so.
We should probably go checkthat out.
They are slapped up.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
So this guy, Ed Gamble, Stan McMeany, he's on
tour over there.
He's calling his tour HotDiggity Dog.
Hot Diggity Dog so that's thename of his comedy tour over
there.
I like it In the UK and London,so specifically in the subway.
They have some of his postersthere on the walls promoting his
hot diggity dog tour.
However, the interesting partabout that is the transit
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authority over there doesn'tlike that.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Oh man, not the transit authority.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
If you want to call it over in the Bakerloo line
platform.
There's an underground subwaystation over there.
In london, they have thispolicy that they come up with in
2019, where they can'tadvertise fatty foods and sugar
and non-healthy eating andthings like that is this kind of
like minneapolis passing athing, where you can't build a
(24:15):
new building that has adrive-thru.
Something similar to that.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Some ridiculousness.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Supposedly to make people healthy or something.
So in 2019, over in London onthe subway, their transit
authority, whatever their agencyis, they won't advertise any of
that stuff.
Sugary foods, fatty foods, thisand that.
So the hot diggity dog tour.
On his poster it's Mr Gamblethere.
(24:42):
He's got ketchup and mustardplastered all over his face, you
know, running down his shirt,and he's standing next to a hot
dog.
Oh, there you go, of course,hot diggity dog, hot diggity dog
.
So his hot dog is half-eatenhot dog on this plate on this
poster.
Who doesn't like hot dogs?
Hot?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
dogs are good.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
They're so good I don't care if they're good for
me.
Absolutely A real naturalcasing hot dog.
It just snaps and juice fliesunder your face when you snap it
.
Absolutely.
Oh, it's so good, old-fashionedstyle, chicago style, while
you're drinking.
Beer for ballgame beer, getyourself a.
Chicago style hot dog.
Maybe Mr Gamble has them at hisshows, maybe as part of the
(25:23):
entree.
You might not ever know it,though, because Because you
won't get to see it on theirsubways or their buses.
You know the whole busauthority.
They can't have that.
So he was forced to take themdown and they weren't allowed to
put them up.
So he replaced the hot dog andthen they allowed this poster.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Then it's okay.
Then it's okay, all right, fairenough.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Like how ridiculous is that?
Like seriously, don't you thinkthat's a bit of an overreach?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
It's a little, it's really, it's silliness, is
really what it is.
I mean, I know that to acertain extent if you're going
to have a policy, you got todraw a line somewhere.
But when you make it kind oflike vague in a way, you kind of
allow like some personsomewhere to kind of go a little
outside of what the spirit ofwhatever you're trying to do is.
(26:16):
That didn't really think oflike the consequences of really.
Is this really like I get, ifyou don't want to have like all
right, you know, kids eatingcotton candy and got crap all
over the place, you know,probably not the best for them
or whatever.
It may be sugary cereals orsomething like that, I don't
really know it's just hot dogsare good, I don't.
Maybe they're not good for you,I guess I don't really know, but
I can't believe that.
(26:36):
Uh, like a old-fashioned goodsnap gotta be pretty good for
you I would think you wouldthink all natural.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
You know, I mean, that's what they promote in
europe.
You know, I mean, they ban foodover there that we can
apparently eat here.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
You know right well, I think some of the food that we
eat here I don't know, we don'teven eat food here.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
All we eat is chemical and whatever they slap
into the boxes you knowprocessed, uh, slapped together,
yeah.
But I just thought that wascrazy and absolutely ridiculous.
I just had to talk about that.
I'm like, seriously, you'rebanning a photo of a hot dog in
your subway because you don'twant to promote unhealthy food
and fattening food and saltyfood.
Like really, I don't thinkpeople riding the subway or
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riding the city bus in londonare going to look at a poster of
hot diggity dog comedy tour andthink, dang, I need to get me
some hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I really could go for .
Yeah, I could really go for ahot dog.
I mean it probably might,though I mean it does kind of
make sense because now thatyou're talking about it, I kind
of want a hot dog.
I kind of want a hot dog rightnow too.
Go on a quick trip or something.
Get a roller dog.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Especially with this beer.
Absolutely natural cased, realhot dog.
It was super good with beerbefore ball games here beer
absolutely.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Can you imagine?
Like a?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
natural and some hot peppers on there.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Oh my gosh you're sitting out at late july and, uh
, from chicago so maybe we'reout at wrigley or something like
that, because you know whitesocks stadium kind of sucks,
yeah.
But uh, you know, you getyourself kind of out in some
bleachers where there's not awhole lot of people and you get
kind of like spread out to acouple of different chairs, feet
over the front side, this beerand a hot dog in the other hand.
(28:13):
That would be perfect likedescribe a better situation for
me, because I'm not coming upwith a lot right now from your
standpoint.
You know, like watching the oldbr snappers or whatever.
Like head out to a Brennanfield at Hinkley.
They had a really nice ballparkthere, get a nice hot dog and
they sell beer there too.
Maybe I'll try to get them tohave this there.
(28:34):
Sit back there and watchsomething oh my God, the league
playoffs.
Up there, you know, be able tojust sit back and relax and have
a beer and a hot dog and heckleguys that are your same age
playing baseball still.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
We might have to get a hold of these guys.
We could be distributors forbeer for ball games, you know,
advertise it at the branch,staffers and stuff Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
That'd be fantastic If you still play beer league
softball this year.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
you can bring some of this here.
Boys, there we go.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah, I think it'd go over pretty good, although a
lot of them are drinking likeseltzers and stuff now, because
you know you gotta be athleticwhen you're playing league
softball.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
What the hell Gotta be athletic there.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I know, I don't know it's a little bit different, but
whatever, I don't know, I'vebeen had to come have a couple
of them recently, or whatever,and I woke up with less of a
hangover.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I can't do something.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I flavor and taste if I wanted to drink bubbly water,
I would go buy a bubbly.
That's something that is.
It isn't much more preferabletype of deal?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
uh for sure, but uh so, yeah, so back to this in
2019.
They enacted this stuff.
They also, apparently, theybanned uh any advertisements
that promote unhealthy andunrealistic body shapes, too, to
go along with their fat andsugar food ban I can think of at
least like four or fivedifferent bbc tv shows that
promote unhealthy I and notnormal body types I think sports
(29:55):
illustrator promotes that.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
We've seen that in recent years.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Absolutely, yeah oh it's just crazy.
But anyways, the london transitauthority, whatever you want to
call them.
You guys are crazy man Like.
That's just absolutelyridiculous.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Right, that is just.
That's some silliness.
That's beyond.
Yeah, control, that's overreach.
I do love the response, though,for him to like come out with a
cucumber Put a cucumber onthere.
Yeah, so we might have to checkout Ed.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Gamble.
He we might have to check outEd Gamble.
He's got a Netflix special orsomething, he seems like he's
got some good stuff going on.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
If he's got that type of humor like to be able to
roll with those proverbialpunches, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
That would be great.
So one other story.
I'll get to it here real quick.
So I was reading about this tooand I thought this was kind of
funny.
It'd be fun to share withpeople.
So there was a couple that werein their bedroom in their
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husband.
The husband and wife are in abedroom and the husband had told
, uh, told his wife a joke.
And of course the joke wasobviously funny because the
husband told the joke right.
Anytime a husband tells a joke,wives out there.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
It's just funny.
Yeah, yeah guys, guys arehilarious.
We're always.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
We got the, we got the best, uh, best humor but so
when the husband was tellingthis joke, interestingly enough,
apparently there was a burglarin their house Burglaring,
burglaring.
Oh man Up in the roof, he wasburgling inside the roof,
apparently crawling around inthe eaves, or the attic.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
It's no good getting burgled.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Well, this joke was so good that this burglar
apparently heard the joke andbusted out Laffy?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Of course he did, naturally.
Why wouldn't you?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
So the husband and wife are like what the hell is
going on?
They hear somebody laughing upin their attic.
That would probably be kind ofstrange.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Wait what?
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (31:45):
They call the cops.
Of course the cops come andarrest him.
No harm, no foul.
He didn't steal anything, hedidn't break anything.
But of course I'd assume he gotin trouble because he broke
into their house with them inthere, Right, but that's how
they got him.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I want to know what the joke is now.
Can you imagine like that?
Okay, sir, describe for meexactly what happened here.
So I'm telling this joke, right, and I hear the guy laughing in
the attic.
Sir, what was the joke?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Some of the article I read.
Everybody wanted to know whatthe joke was.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Absolutely Nobody had a clue.
Sad thing is it probably waslike this much buildup.
It's probably just going to belike a dumb knock-knock joke or
something, some ridiculousnessor whatever.
But I kind of want to know whatthe joke was.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I do too.
Everybody wanted to know.
But no fear, I came preparedwith a dad joke for you?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Oh, here we go, yes.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
It's very well, could have been the joke.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
You ready for this?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I'm ready, dad jokes 101 on Two Guys and Beer podcast
.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
First joke ever.
So what do you call a paperairplane that can't fly?
A problem Stationary oh.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
It took a second before that one really keyed in.
It takes you, I like that.
That is a good one.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Tiki and beer jokes.
Here we go Get the two guysbeer joke book.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
That one.
Yeah, it took a second to beable to hit, but I always love
that moment where it's like, oh,you can see in their face.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
When I read it too, it took me a minute and I'm like
that is fricking.
I laugh so hard in the kitchen.
My daughter came home.
I had to rush upstairs to tellher right away I got a dad joke
for you and I told her she'slike what?
I get it stationary.
She's like, oh my gosh, likedad jokes.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
It's kind of a slow burner.
But you know, I mean Not tooslow.
Maybe I'm just, maybe I'm slow,that's probably what it is, I
don't know, but that's a goodone.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I like that.
You can't blame it on the beerFor ball games, beer X, it's
only 4.2.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
No, I'm likely going to tell that joke Tomorrow at
work, you know.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yes, 100%.
I'm going to tell her.
I don't have anything to showher.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
but Well, you know, I'm going to tell her there you
go.
So we got the beer forballgames?
Yes, we do.
So now that I see this and Ihad a moment here and my brain
is you- know, wandering off yeah.
I got to not really vent aboutsomething, but like come on,
what are we doing here Can wejust talk for a minute about?
(34:27):
In reference to baseball, I'veseen this now a handful of times
.
It happens every year.
You know, there's somethinghappens.
This guy, like pimp, walked outof the box after he hit a bomb,
or this guy was eyeball on thesecond basement or like whatever
dumb thing it is you know,which, whatever it is, it is I
(34:47):
don't know, it's not my kind ofthing, but whatever you do you,
you know what I mean.
It goes back to the when kengriffey jr like, oh my god, he's
wearing his hat backwards right.
I mean, you know, like I Idon't whatever, that's fine,
like there's.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
There's stuff like that, that happens that in the
home run derby was it mcguire ordante bichette turned his
batting helmet around and turnedit backwards.
Who was pitching, was it?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Randy Johnson.
Randy Johnson did it in theAll-Star game.
It was Lance Walker is who itwas.
And that was because I think itwas because the year before
John Kruk had one of those98-mile-an-hour heaters that
didn't slide and came wingingright past his noggin, and
Johnson the next year jokinglythrew one up around that area
(35:30):
again, and so then he put hishelmet on backwards, john Crooks
.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I love that guy.
We need more John Crooks inbaseball.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
That guy seems like a good beer drinking guy.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Like a John Daly.
Yes, oh, absolutely, 100%.
Yeah, so you got the situationBack to your thoughts.
Sorry, I was taking us out ofthe rails there.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
That's kind of what happens during the Two Guys and
Beer podcast.
You just kind of wanderwherever the conversation takes
us, so that's not so much thatbothers me.
But then you get the reactionof well, now my job is to drill
this guy with a pitch and reallyshow him, which is another part
of baseball.
I get it, it's totally fine.
You got to make sure that youdon't get around the head.
(36:12):
You know what I mean.
Let's not injure people, let'snot do that.
But if you want to put one inthe small of their back,
whatever, I don't have a problemwith that, let it rip, do it,
you know.
But the overreaction thathappens after that, not so much
the fighting, whatever, I caneye roll about that all I want.
But why in the world doeseverybody that's wearing a
(36:33):
uniform need to trot their happyass out there to be able to
like stand there, moral supportLike the backup bullpen catcher
from 400 feet away on the secondlevel, who's probably out there
with the comedian getting a hotdog Right?
(36:53):
He sees he's now got to try.
Nope, sorry, I got to go andhe's got it.
Like trot out there with hisgear on and like the slow walk
all the way in there and likewhy do we need to have that?
Like and I, I, there wassomething that happened.
Was that like last year, twoyears ago, that there was a guy
that got hit and of course,everybody cleared the benches
and there was one guy that, like, sat on the bench.
She's like no, this is dumb,I'm not going out there.
(37:16):
This is stupid.
He shouldn't kick off the teambecause he refused to run out
there.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
What?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
is he going to do?
What's going to happen is theguy's going to go out there and
he's going to try to fight.
Maybe you're going to get twoor three people that actually
start throwing punches.
Sometimes you get a little bitbigger than that, but usually
only a couple of people, andthen everybody's just holding
each other is all they're doing.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
It's not much.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
It's like they're grappling and like jumping on
top, holding each other, kind oflike a Well, I don't really
want to fight.
Do you want to fight?
I don't really want to fight.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Let's just kind of watch those guys and nobody
makes a move until somebodycomes from behind them and holds
them.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Then they're all like oh yeah, then they've got to
try to get you and then all of asudden there's two or three
people.
That's not part of the thing.
So I hate the idea that like,oh, that's a bad teammate.
It's like, no, he wanted tostay in the game and you're
being stupid, like why can'tthat be a good teammate, saying
(38:21):
no, you don't Right.
And even if it is the benchesthat got to clear, whatever.
But can we stop getting likethe relief pitcher coming in,
like I said, from like 400 feetaway?
By the time he gets there,they've already like carted
three people off and there'snothing happening and now you
got to wait for everybody tocome walking back and head out
there or whatever.
Although I will say this typeof situation did create one of
(38:43):
the best stories that I was nota part of, but I'm retelling it
as Nick's story.
Nick Cole, credit goes to you.
This isn't my story, but it's agreat story Nonetheless.
Something happened in Twinsgate.
This is old Metrodome type ofthing and I hope that some of
our listeners know the name thisis kind of an older name I'm
(39:04):
going to toss out at you, but itwas at the end of his career
and this guy's like 45 years old, big old gray beard.
You know, whatever Somethinghappens, everybody's got to go
running out there and everybodystarts trotting back.
After the brouhaha calms down,everybody's trotting back there,
whatever, walking back to theirrespective bullpens.
You know, like the the bullcrap bull bullpen that they had
in the metrodome, that was moreof just like out in the middle
(39:26):
of the field and you got this inthe plane.
You got this poor bat boy that'strying to stand behind the
catcher and hope he doesn't getdrilled from behind and you're
going to take rockets right athim off the third baseline.
So they're, they're trottingback or whatever, and terry
mulholland is a part of thisgroup that's trotting back there
.
And so you know nick or one ofthe buddies, you know a couple
of them, they're out in the, theold third baseline seats, the
(39:47):
left field seats and fallterritory, terry, we, you, and
he turns around and goes hey.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
So I mean it kind of does create the opportunity for
like things like that wherethey're kind of like, not in
their normal dialed-in thingRight, a little bit of
interaction, but I do think it'sjust ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
every time, like I mean whatever, I'm also kind of
like a oh, if they want to fightin hockey, then fight.
You know what I mean.
Like give them the penalties,but I don't have a problem with
that.
I think that there is a placeto a certain extent of like
trying to protect star players.
I don't think that they do itquite as much anymore, but I
kind of get the bit.
I get why it happens and I can.
I'm fine accepting if theydon't want to do anymore.
That's not a problem.
(40:26):
I'm not saying it has to happen, but I get it.
I don't have a problem withthat or whatever.
But the baseball thing, like ifyou're coming in at a half trot
galloping in, it's not likeyou're coming like I got your
back, bro, I'm right here foryou, like the wieners that are
running around in the hot dograces.
Exactly.
(40:46):
Yeah, like this is not.
They're running slower than thewomen of Baywatch, that kind of
thing, like they're not tryingto get there.
This is not kind of like well,you can tell even by the way
they're just walking.
They're like I don't reallywant to be a part of this, but I
got to go and I got to.
You know, I got your back andwhatever.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Well, maybe they're stretching their legs because
they don't get out in the fieldmuch it's their opportunity to
get onto the field.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Get a little bit of blood flowing.
I suppose that probably couldhappen, but I don't know.
That's just kind of my eye rollthing for the day.
I happened to see it onSportsCenter or something the
other day and I'm like, okay,have your little fight, have
your little thing, but why dothey got to come from Lakeway?
Just leave them out there.
It gotta come from like, wait,just leave them out there.
(41:37):
It's fine, we're not going tojudge you for coming, because
really I don't want you comingout there.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
You're going to end up using your million dollar
right hand and breaking a fingerright, you don't want that
months.
Maybe we just in baseball, wedecide to let them fight like
they do in hockey.
Just stand there and watch themfor a few minutes and see if
they actually hit each other.
If they just pile on the groundand lay on each other.
I did.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Did see a good one the other day and I think it was
a highlight from a couple ofyears ago that something
happened and the pitcher had toretribute and it looked like
from the mannerisms from thepitcher he didn't really want to
hit the guy because he kind ofwas like oh, dang it, but the
guy obviously got pissed, threwthe bat down, comes running out
towards the pitcher Pitcherhappens to catch him right
before he gets there, but withthe camera coming from center
(42:14):
field you don't see thelinebacker first baseman come
across and just destroy this.
Jamal Just smoke.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
I saw it.
It was hilarious.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Oh well, that's done, so that was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Was that that wasn't this year, Cause I thought it
was this year.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Maybe it was this year.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
I was trying to figure out who it was, and I
couldn't figure out who it was.
It was great.
Yeah, I was like that isfricking sweet.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
It was.
Yeah, that was, that washilarious.
But yeah, I think that you know, like I, like I said, I don't
have a problem with the fight,whatever I playing baseball.
It's kind of like when thebasketball I was complaining in
a previous episode, one of ourfirst episodes about basketball
players like, oh, I'm reallytough, now we're going to get in
a fight.
I'm like, no, you're playingbasketball.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
They clear their benches too, and come out and
just kind of stand around.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
It's so ridiculous.
Everybody's got such anattitude problem with like oh,
I'm a bigger poser than you areYou're.
You are like you're doing theexact same thing.
Don't get pissed off at himbecause you're losing, right,
like that's just dumb.
But yeah, the baseball thing,whatever, have the fight, I
agree with you.
Maybe we do it hockey style.
Nobody can leave benches ornobody can leave whatever
they're doing.
Just let the two or whateverhash it out.
(43:27):
Or if the first baseman wantsto come and murder some guy,
whatever, at least two minutes,give us a two minute round.
well, the as hockey.
As soon as somebody has a clearadvantage, like they go to the
ground, we blow the whistle, wetear them off there, but we just
don't need the guys trotting infrom center field or somewhere
up the street, the guys over atQuick Trip you know, like I
(43:52):
don't know, it's just silly tome.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
More than anything but.
There could be a new parlay bet.
You bet on baseball games whichtwo players are going to fight
today.
Oh there you go?
Speaker 1 (44:01):
That could be, that could be interesting Hmm.
That's quite the parlay betthough it doesn't happen too
often.
Yeah, you don't see it.
Yeah, they'd.
Yeah, they'd probably be prettygood odds yeah you'd make some
good money.
That'd be pretty heavy odds onthat one, but you never know.
People are always in forsomething.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
They are especially the betting kind 100%.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
So what else you got, Sean?
Anything else at all.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
No, that's about all I got.
I did come across one otherthing, though, that you might
like Ooh it already sounds likeI'm going to like it.
You are already sounds like I'mgonna like it.
You are a firefighter, you andyour wife are firefighters.
So the first idea not just themustache, no, actually went
through the training and did thewhole thing.
It serves a purpose.
So the first idea of a fireescape I ran right in front of
(44:46):
this a couple weeks ago when Iwas patenting on fire escapes.
You know, obviously areimportant, were important to
Annie 1766.
1766.
Was the first patent idea for afire escape.
Basically, it just consisted ofa wicker basket attached to a
pulley and a chain.
That was the fire escape.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
I mean it could work.
I mean, I'm not sure that Iwant to get into a wicker basket
when you know stuff's on fire,but I suppose there wasn't a
whole lot of brick and mortargoing on.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Probably not back in 1766.
It was probably all lumber, butI thought you'd think that's
interesting.
Since you're the firefighter,you know.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Interesting, that is a nice little trivia nugget
right there.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
That's really all I got.
I'm going to take some more ofthis beer before ball games.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
Here we go.
I like it.
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of the things, they'reeverywhere.
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It's actually kind of annoyingwhen he says that, but it's
neither here nor there.
We're way cooler than that.
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So definitely try to helpspread the word.
We appreciate all of that andgo get yourself some off-color
(46:19):
brewing and enjoy that.
I definitely highly recommendthis particular brew.
It is quite good, quite good.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
Yeah, beer for ballgames.
Go get yourself some if it'savailable in your area.
It's super good.
Appreciate everybody listening,cheers, cheers.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
And we'll talk to you again soon.
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