March 17, 2024 • 50 mins
Embark on a malty adventure as Andy, and I take you through the rich flavors of Millstream Brewing Company's Shenanigans Irish Red Ale. With a backdrop of Amana, Iowa's quaint charm, we weave tales of brewing beginnings sparked by beers like Killian's Irish Red, while dissecting what makes Shenanigans a stand-out in the red ale category. As our taste buds relish this malty brew, you'll find yourself swept into a world where beer isn't just a drink; it's a pivotal character in our life stories.
Pour yourself a hearty glass and prepare to chuckle as we mix suds with humor, taking cues from Bill Engvall's beer straw antics. Can you imagine pairing your favorite brew with savory smoked meats? We do just that, contemplating a smokehouse-brewery fusion and reminiscing about the evolution of American craft beer culture. Hear heartwarming stories of local breweries like Millstream that are pouring more than just beer into their communities and discover how the humble taproom has become a cornerstone of camaraderie and innovation.
Finally, we don the green and raise a toast to St. Patrick's Day, delving into its American parade origins and the curious case of corned beef's place in Irish festivities. We'll color your perceptions as brightly as the Chicago River on the big day while discussing everything from the phenomenon of Guinness to the shortest St. Patrick's parade you could possibly imagine. So, grab your favorite pint, settle in, and let's celebrate the spirit of St. Paddy's together with some good cheer and even better beer.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
And welcome in everybody.
Back to the two guys in beerpodcast.
Here in the the beautifulstudio we got our beers ready to
go.
Andy and Sean set to review oneanother beer and another
brewery.
Today we're going to be talkingabout Millstream Brewing
Company out of Amana, Iowa.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know this is one we should probably we can
probably go to this one too.
It's close enough.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You know we we've made that, those comments a
couple of times and so we'regonna have to.
Maybe that'll be the summertimeit'll be the two guys in beer
summer tour.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh no, that's an idea .
There we go.
I like the way you're thinking.
Well, we've been to some ofthese breweries before you know.
I made it up to the one inMichigan, we could make it to
the one in Iowa and we just gotto do it.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
There we go.
We'll just make it happen.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
That's what we do here two guys in beer, we just
make shit happen.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Some like that at least.
I would think that some peoplewould say we make bullshit
happen.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We do that too.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
A lot of that happening, but you know that's,
that's how you end up in thissituation in the first place.
So but yeah, we're talkingabout Millstream, we're talking
about shenanigans, andshenanigans Irish ale, so kind
of astute for the time of yearis a timing wise like this
should be coming out rightaround the time of us in
Patrick's day, if you'rechecking in and listening.
(01:33):
Well, after the fact, maybeyou're just you haven't set your
clock back and so it's going tobe St Patrick's day or
something, but I don't know,it'll be fun anyway, you know.
And who doesn't like someshenanigans?
We all like some shenanigans.
So Millstream Brewing Companyis out of Amana, iowa, which, if
you look at it on the map, it'slet's see here where is it's
(01:55):
going to be?
A little bit southwest of CedarRapids, situated right in
between East Amana and MiddleAmana, which is also just past
West Amana and north of SouthAmana.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It's looking at the map and there's a manna all over
the place.
I don't know if they just arelike I, whatever, just call it
East, west, south, amana.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Maybe that's why they named it shenanigans, because
it's shenanigans to figure outwhere it is.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
That probably could be true.
I don't see a north Amana,though there is a Norway Iowa
that appears to be a handful ofmiles north of that, but no
north Amana.
So maybe we'll go down there,we'll make our stamp on Iowa and
we'll pick a randomintersection that'll be north
Amana.
We'll be the founders.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Start our own little township.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Okay.
So the Ox Yoke Inn, millstreamBrew House or Brow House
B-R-A-U-H-A-U-S is how theyspell it but it's right on a
little river, a little creekthat kind of goes through town.
It's the Mill Race River, butit's kind of by the Mill Stream
(03:02):
is what they call it on theirwebsite.
So it kind of a interestinglocation, you know, but they're
kind of taking the name fromnearby things is kind of where
they're coming up with the name.
So, sure, you got to kind ofstay local when you can.
So but yeah, shenanigans, isthe beer today, irish Red Ale.
It is a 7.0 alcohol by volume.
(03:25):
What else we got on here?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It was brought to you by Amanda.
We got a call out of Amanda.
She's the one that suggestedthis one.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, she found it, she found it.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
The ferocious listener to the two guys and
beer podcast.
So thank you, amanda.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And if you have any recommendations, definitely
reach out, comment on thedifferent social media platforms
, wherever it may be YouTube,anything like that and there's
something you want to hear, letus know.
We'll try to be able to getyour beer on there.
And, better yet, if you want tosend it to us, I mean we can
let us know we can.
We'll go give you an addressyou can send us a beer.
(04:00):
So, yeah, got to give herappreciation, for sure, for
giving that recommendation.
And, like I said before, whodoesn't like some shenanigans?
So they all do.
So as long as we're at it,let's go ahead and get some
shenanigans going.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Such a great sound.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It's the best part of the podcast.
I think I say that every time,but it's totally true.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's probably when people swipe off after they hear
it.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Right, yeah, but that's right.
That's why we don't do thattill like a couple minutes.
We had the algorithm goingwe're.
You know it's totally fine.
So it's pretty tasty.
It's definitely a Irish red ale.
It's what?
Am I getting almost more maltyof a red ale than I've seen.
(04:47):
This actually kind of, in a way, we're going to end up going
deep on this one a little bit.
But the red ale almost kind ofbrings me back to like what
initially got me into brewing,and we've talked about this a
little bit before Killians, yep,killians, irish red part of the
you know, the Tony Coledrinking tree.
He showed up.
He showed up at a party that Ihad in Princeton and I was still
(05:09):
kind of trying to figure outwhat I even liked at that time
and you know some mixed drinksand you know, like Mike's hard
lemonade and wasn't really intobeer, but it was kind of like a
well, I'll force some Mickgolden down or something just to
kind of have whatever, becauseit was cheaper than anything
else.
And you know he showed up withthat and I had one of those and
from that point forward it wasevery time I went into a liquor
(05:32):
store was well, I've never heardof that.
I'm getting some of those and Ipassed that along to my friend
Joe and then that's been passedalong and you know it's just
it's we're passing it allforward.
You know, of course this was2000 early, it was a long time
ago.
Probably a old one, ish, old twoish, you know, kind of forever
ago, living in Princeton andhaving having good times over
(05:56):
there You're dating us a littlebit now.
Well, you know that we'vetalked about that too.
That that's why we're doing thepodcast instead of playing
sports.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It makes you wonder, like when you think back, like
things that are 20 years ago,what you did with your life the
past 20 years.
Did you really do anythingmeaningful that you wanted to?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
do.
Well, it went by fast, that'sfor sure.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, it sure did.
I mean, if you think about it,hell, if we have 30, 35 more
years left to live, man, that'sgoing to be a good run.
If you want to think of itnegatively, you're like dang man
.
I got that 40 years old, 41, 30more years, 70, 35, 75.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
That's going to be the name of the episode.
Today is going to beshenanigans got dark.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well that's what the red ale does to me.
I guess I can't quite put ataste on my palate with this.
I'm having a hard time with thetaste of it, like I don't
dislike it.
Yeah, it is a little malty, Ithink, like you said, but it's
not, I don't know.
I have a hard time trying tocome up with something to tell
our listeners and, well now,some of our viewers, what this,
like the palate that it has.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, I mean it's good, it's smooth, but it's
definitely kind of that red aletype of feel.
How is it, eric, the red ale, Ithink was the name of it.
That was actually the firstbeer that I brewed.
It was a homebrew starter kit.
Oh, that's what it was.
So that was not when I drilledthe hole.
That was that was when I didthe second one.
(07:23):
The first one, I just stoodthere and I stirred and stirred
and stirred and stirred and likesteam burnt my hand the entire
time.
But the second one is when Idrilled the hole in the oven.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You still have to find that photo so we can show
everybody the photo of that Ifyou dig out somewhere.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I do have to get that out there.
I know it exists, I know it, Iknow it's there, but just got to
find it and get it out there.
Yeah, so kind of talking alittle bit more about mill
stream brewing.
It's out of, as we mentionedbefore, a manna Iowa started in
1985 with a dream and a smallbatch of German Pilsner.
As per their website,millstream brewingcom, under the
(08:03):
about us tab, is where a lot ofthis information is going to
come from.
Today they have definitelyexpanded.
Their tap room features 20rotating beers on tap and some
of the best live music in theMidwest.
That does not look like thelargest of towns.
It's kind of like some of thetowns that are right near us
right now.
About that so not a massive town, but at the same time they got
(08:27):
some good music and some goodbeers going on.
I'm in, I'm on my way.
They also have the meat shopand smokehouse, so what gets
better than that freaking meatand beer?
And about a block and a halfway as hotel mill, right in a
manna, and that's actuallyappears to be just on the other
side of the block from millstream brewery, so we don't even
have to try to come back thatnight.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Oh, perfect, that's great.
You ever watch the blue collarcomedy tour A little bit.
You're talking about meat andsmoke houses and beer.
Who is the here's your sign guy?
I can't think of his name rightnow.
He's a here's your sign, billEngvall.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Bill Engvall I don't want to say Jeff Fox, but that
was.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
you might be a redneck, so I like Bill Engvall.
He's a pretty funny guy.
You're talking about meat,smoke houses and beer.
One of his favorite snacks hedid this on one of the bits on
one of his programs was SlimJim's.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
His idea with the Slim Jim.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, his idea with the Slim Jim on one of his
episodes or specials one hourspecials he's like you know I
called Slim Jim, you know,because they give you the number
on the package.
Like I gave him a call to givehim an idea or the thing or two.
His idea was why don't you guysdrill a hole in the center of a
Slim Jim?
You want like a straw, yeah, youput my Slim Jim in my beer,
(09:42):
suck my beer up and snap off apiece of Slim Jim at the end of
the beer and eat that down.
I'm like that is a genius idea.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Here you go, you get.
You probably be able to getsome nice saltiness in there.
I like it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
They should do that down here.
If there's a smoke house rightnext to this, I'm sure they have
beef sticks.
Yeah, a freaking bore hole inthe middle of like a real like
Slim Jim's are kind of fake andgross like.
I want a real Meat stick fromfrom a meat place I like it
smoke house.
You see those meat sticks arebigger than the Slim Jim.
You could easily run a holethrough the center there, suck
up your beer, snap off a pieceof meat oh, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It sounds.
It sounds awfully delightful, Ilike.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It sounds like a great idea to me, yeah, and we
haven't even had a full beer yet, and the good ideas are coming.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But oh, it's gonna be a brilliant night tonight.
Folks, did you make sure youstrap in and get ready to go?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Technically I was a billing ball idea, but I can
steal it, right yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Why we're supporting, we're moving it forward.
Right, so that that's what itis, we're moving it forward.
Let's see here what else we got.
So, like I mentioned the 20rotating taps that they have and
their best live music in theMidwest, it's quite the most.
But I'm willing to go find out.
Right on the banks of theAmanda Mill stream, which I had
(10:57):
said before, is the Mill RaceRiver.
That comes kind of Again.
It goes through the Lily pond.
That's kind of right in thatarea.
That's just off of the IowaRiver, which kind of goes
through most of the middle partof Iowa, iowija, iowa, iowa.
(11:19):
Um, yeah, that's kind of wherethey're situated.
That's what's going on there.
Team Mill stream is proud topartner with us several
charities that we've talkednumerous times about that.
How many brewers like to try togive it back as much as they
possibly can?
That's just awesome.
It's stellar to be able to seestuff like that.
And so they work with thechildren's cancer connection and
(11:40):
Willis Dady, hops for housing,because you got to get hops in
there somewhere.
Yep, and then the stead STA, std, steed, stead.
Final answer stead stead family, children's hospital, just some
of the Places they benefit forthat.
(12:02):
They also Because you got to dosomething with the spent grains
.
What are you gonna do with it?
Cows, oh.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I know that's on the doesn't eat the steak.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
It doesn't sound like you would do to have much
availability for that, but inIowa they do have some farms
with cows.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I've never heard of such a thing.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I that's probably why they have some pretty happy
cows, I'm guessing.
So they're giving a lot backand I'm trying to be able to do
that some kind of a cool thing.
They've grown over the courseof the years and I remember I've
not had shenanigans but I'vehad milstream before, but I'm
trying to remember it was like afarmhouse red ale, so I may
have had a similar ale years ago.
(12:42):
Actually, at the bar we did atasting one and I had a couple
of different milstream ones.
It doesn't aren't aware.
I had a bar for a couple years,went okay, then it didn't, and
so I don't have that.
But we did a tasting and Ithink that that was Looking back
on it.
It was probably before its timebecause the community probably
wasn't real jazzed about a lotof like craft beer.
(13:03):
And so I bring in this likebuffet table with like 20
different craft beers andeverything laid out there on ice
and Like five people showed up,yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I forget, when your bar was open, craft beer Wasn't
really quite a thing yet.
I mean, it was kind of in itsinfancy, you know, because the
laws got relaxed in a lot ofplaces in order to brew craft
beer and smaller littlebreweries, but yeah, it really
wasn't quite there when you hadthere's a couple I had not like
it is today.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I had a tap system that it had 12 taps and I really
wanted that.
When I first met with vendors,I really wanted to make sure
that I had 12 taps because Iknew I was gonna be Required to
have the Coors light, millerlight, make golden light, things
like that or whatever to beable to have on there.
But I knew at that time that Ireally like craft beer and it's
(13:54):
growing every year and that'skind of the trend and I wanted
to make sure I'm not gonna beable to make a decision with
whatever and they're like well,you're gonna have more inventory
and I'm like I don't care, Iwant to have additional beers.
So I had more taps than Almostany of the bars in a Santa
County.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Oh for sure, I remember when you had 12.
I was like what 12?
I'm like hell.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah, I want to say sweet.
The other one that was in townI think had three, and the one
north the town I think had maybefive, but they was like three
on one spot and then like alittle kegurator thing in the
back.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I want to say there's a place in Cambridge that had,
like I think sidelines had maybemore, but it was like it wasn't
craft beer, though, yeah, well,because it would have.
We have 20 taps, but they have10 here and 10 there and they're
the same.
Right, you know what I mean.
So yeah, you have 10 tap handor 20 tap handles, but you have
10 beers.
Really is what you have.
So like there were some thingslike that or whatever.
(14:48):
So like I think I had a betteron tap variety, but again,
before my time I was just, I wasso far out.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
They may tell you you're a visionary.
I'm gonna have to tell them.
Make sure Amanda's very awareof that next time I see her you
should probably really that toher handy is such a visionary.
You married such an amazing man.
Yeah, you just don't know whatyou have.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Absolutely.
I think that she's sought thatmany times, usually probably
while rolling her eyes.
I think she's kind of well,he's got a vision, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
It for drinking some beer some good craft beer.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It is kind of funny though, like anytime, like if I
have an idea, because I you knowI'd be when you're a visionary,
you have ideas and they rollaround and you got to throw them
all there to somebody.
Right, I have to, and usuallyit's so.
I was thinking.
You have to set them free andeven, as soon as they get to
that point, the responses ohgeez, that's usually what
(15:50):
happens, so here, we go again.
That's likely the type ofresponse that I'll likely get
and that's probably what I'llhear.
You know, after the thevisionary comments will get more
eye-rolling and she'll Laughand heckle me and whatever, but
that's fine.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It's okay, amanda, andy is not too wild.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's true I'm not super calm.
He's pretty tame, yep, yep.
So mill stream, back to back towhat, back to the brewery we're
talking about here.
So mill stream, as I mentioned,1985 started with a small batch
of German Pilsner.
They make a little bit morethan that now.
They Last year.
(16:28):
It just is today I'm assumingthat's probably last year's
numbers 8,000 barrels.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Well, that's what they had for you.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So we've talked a little bit about barrels and
quantity and everything withthat before, and so how many
gallons per barrel for theaverage barrel yeah and so they
you know that, and that alsocounts beer and sodas.
They also make some of their ownsodas as well.
So they definitely turn out alot of different, a lot of
different options and a lot ofdifferent things out there.
(16:56):
So kind of fun to be able tosee a lot of that.
I'm gonna see if I can't findthe shenanigans on their website
here to see if there's anySpecific you know, I mean some
details of some stuff on here,but now we wait.
I Should have just clicked onit before and then not had to
worry about it loading right,which is probably just my fault
(17:19):
because it's my, my phone it'strying to do it, but that's fine
, it's her, I'm fine, I can'tFact the same Patrick's Day,
since this is kind of a samePatrick's Day episode.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
There we are.
So the real, same Patrick, ofcourse, which St Patrick's Day
is named after.
You know, he was born in 385,80.
Oh, it was a long time.
It was like the 16 17th centurysomewhere in there, don't?
Worry because I don't know.
I'm just throwing shit outthere because I like it.
We create bullshit.
And he died in 461.
Oh wow, and he also is not anative of Ireland or from
Ireland or was born there.
(17:51):
Anything Did you know?
St Patrick was born in Britain.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Oh, I mean, I guess it's part of the Expanded United
Kingdom.
I guess, if you will, was partof that, but huh interesting.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Hey, he's born in Britain near the end of what the
fourth century.
At age 16 he was kidnapped byIrish raiders and sold as a
slave to a Celtic priest.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
So there's the Celtic side coming in Right.
Yeah, Not in a positive way.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
No, he was crazy to think that.
Of course I never knew thatprior.
I had looked this stuff up onmy notes and stuff.
But yeah, he was sold as aslave to a Celtic priest in the
area that's now known asNorthern Ireland.
So they forced him to be ashepherd for about six years and
he escaped back to Britain.
But he eventually actuallyreturned to Ireland as a
(18:43):
Christian missionary.
Huh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I mean, I get it, I understand, and I'm sure there's
probably limited what you cando, because I'm sure room and
board and just eat and all thebasic necessities of life, life,
life.
We'll go with life, the barenecessities, as Baloo would
probably sing if he were to behere too, but things like that.
But it's kind of odd that theyforced him to be a shepherd for
(19:09):
six years, which is that was himbeing a slave, yeah Go out into
this wide open field wherenobody can see you for acres,
and we'll see you later tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Right, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not saying that it was goodand glorious or anything like
that, but it just seems likekind of one of those like over
here where nobody's looking thisway.
Okay yeah, I'll be back later,guys, there you go.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, but that's amazing.
I thought that was interesting.
He was swiped up by Irishraiders.
I don't know the Irish raidedpeople I think of like the
Vikings and the Northmen andthings like that raided and
pillaged and things, not Irishpeople.
Apparently the Irish hadraiders and they raided St
Patrick and stole and Oaklandand now Vegas Right, but now the
(19:59):
Irish Los Angeles Right exactlythe Dublin raiders.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, how about that Cool.
So I did find some tastingnotes here.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Eventually, you know you stalled long enough for me
to be able to actually get there.
What's it loaded?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Let's see here 7% ABV .
We talked about that before 25IBU, so not tremendously bitter,
which is not terribly bitter.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
It's not bitter at all.
It tastes well.
Like I do enjoy this beer, Ijust can't.
I still can't articulate theflavor on my tongue.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So what Millstream articulates?
What do they articulate?
They say that they're tastingnotes.
Don't let the hazy, amberappearance of this ale fool you.
Charming multi notes in thesmooth body Make it easy to get
in some real shenanigans.
So that's kind of what they do.
Flavor profile a full, smooth,sweet, multi creamy mellow.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Well, you called them out the creamy, I can taste the
creamy.
What else we got in there?
Full, smooth, sweet, multimellow.
It is smooth and mellow, huh, Isuppose.
So yeah, I suppose that's agood articulation.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, cause it's not like it's not.
Bam in your face.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
No, it's not.
It's smooth the lawnmowerrating.
What's your lawnmower rating?
One to five lawnmowers.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
You know, I probably drink some on a lawnmower, but I
don't think I'm having fivewith a one of lawnmowers.
I would agree with that.
Yeah, probably a couple of them, for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Maybe one on the lawnmower and one off the
lawnmower.
Yep, yep, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
But I'm not, I'm not having, I'm not just going after
it all night long.
They have, oh, they have athing even on their website here
.
It is perfect for spring,summer, autumn, winter, camping,
hiking, grilling, tailgating,sporting events, parties, pool
days, game night and concertsPerfect.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Perfect.
So if you're doing something,this is perfect for it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
It's just perfect for it.
So yeah, that's the other kindof the breakdown of shenanigans
there on a on their website, soPerfect.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
All right, that's awesome.
You know, leprechauns arelikely based on Celtic fairies.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
They are not part of the Raiders, are they?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
They might raid.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
They do have powers.
I could.
I suppose that could be the AirForce version of have you ever
met a leprechaun?
I have not.
Have you ever?
No, no, I nope, apparently yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
They, they think the leprechauns, the whole thing,
with the hat and the clothes andthe this and the that kind of
all came from their belief inCeltic fairies.
They kind of like took that andit kind of transformed over the
years into leprechauns whichyou now see everywhere for St
Patrick's Day.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Fair enough.
Yeah, I have a, so the localbrewery does trivia every other
Sunday.
Oh yeah, I think we've talkedabout that before or whatever,
so it's coming up.
They're having St Patty's Daytrivia.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Oh, oh, I'm got you loaded now, hey, anybody ready
to go?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I got you loaded right here, there we go.
So we're going to be all overit.
We're going to be.
We're basically in trainingmode.
Is what we're doing, is what'shappening.
We're studying, is what's goingon.
But so I have, like now, thebig green hat with the beard,
and even came with double-sidedtape.
Eyebrows very light brown,almost reddish.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
So you're going to send me a photo of this so we
can post it on our social mediafor all our viewers and
listeners.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I'll just send you a picture of Amanda, because she's
already taken the picture, soit's fine, that'd be cool.
Our team name is generally herefor the beer, but we're going
to do here for the shenanigans.
Perfect for that one.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
So that's awesome shenanigans.
Again, here we go.
All right, well, we'll go oversome more facts.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah, what else you got here?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
We got to get this trivia training to get you ready
to go here.
The shamrock was considered asacred plant.
Did you know that it was sacred?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I mean it sounds right because I know that even
having clover fields out themovie, the actual fields growing
out, growing up on a farm, likefinding that four leaf clover
was kind of a thing Right.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
So the shamrock is a three leaf clover is what you
really want, but of course thefour leaf ones are the lucky
ones, right?
Yeah, so the three leaf clover.
It's been associated withIreland for centuries.
It was called something I can'tpronounce because I can't read
this right now for some reason.
We'll keep on moving, all right.
It was considered a sacredplant that symbolized the
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arrival of spring.
According to legend, st Patrickused the plant as a visual
guide for explaining the holytrinity it's the St Patrick
which St Patrick's Day is namedafter when those bloomed and
stuff.
That's when he knew it was timeto talk about the holy trinity
and used it as a visual guidefor explaining that by the 17th
century, the shamrock had becomea symbol of emerging Irish
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nationalism.
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Facts, facts, facts.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Smarter, smarter, there we go.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Be more smarter.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Keep this in mind for next time, so the very first St
Patrick's Day parade.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Very first.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Very first, very first.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I'm interested even like how it went from the guy
just came back as a missionaryto becoming the actual St
Patrick.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I don't have all those details, but they call him
a patron, I think.
If I remember right, they, likethe Catholic Church, makes you
patrons, or something.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah, patron saint of something.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
He was never actually ordained as a patron because
that didn't.
That whole service or ceremonyto make people a patron didn't
even happen until a couplehundred years after he died.
So he's like an official patronwithout being an official
patron.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
He's a posthumous patron.
He's a posthumously patron.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah, right, I like it.
So that's about the best I cantell you from that anyways, and
from when I was reading anybodycould correct me if I'm wrong in
the comments but there's onlylike three or four patrons of
Ireland that went through thewhole ceremony and there one
female, like three or four malesor something.
That's just what I, briefly,was reading.
I was reading about St Patrick'sDay.
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But the female one?
I know she has her own holiday.
I recall that, but if I'm wrong, please correct me Again.
We just do a bunch of bullshiton the show, so that's what we
do.
So the first St Patrick's Dayparade, believe it or not, was
held here in America.
Can you believe that?
Isn't that goofy?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Well, I have heard that it is kind of an American
thing.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
but Kind of the parade anyways.
So the people in Ireland hadcelebrated St Patrick's since
the 1600s.
The tradition of the StPatrick's Day parade, the parade
, though, began in America, andit actually predates the
founding of the United States.
So they're already havingparades on St Patrick's Day in
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America before we were in the USor the United States.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
The Eastern territories or, I suppose,
western, for that the Westernterritories of England.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Pretty much.
Pretty much, and actually it'seven before that, I suppose,
because records show that a StPatrick's Day parade was held on
the first one that they havedocumentation of.
It was held on March 17th, 1601.
Wow, and that was a Spanishcolony.
You know, I remember theSpanish pretty much dominated
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the southern part of the nowUnited States, which now it's
called St Augustine, of course,which is in Florida.
So in 1601, the firstdocumented St Patrick's Day
parade happened in what's justpresent day St Augustine,
florida.
The parade in St Patrick's Daycelebration a year earlier was
organized by a Spanish colonyand that's when it happened.
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More than a century later, irishsoldiers that were serving in
the English military bringing upthe English over here in the
United States were homesick, sothey decided to hold their own
St Patrick's Day parade in 1737in Boston.
So that was the next one.
There we are.
I like Boston, I like Americanhistory a lot, I know a lot
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about that, but I didn't knowanything about the St Patrick's
Day parade.
But then it also did in NewYork City on March 17th and of
course it only grew from thereand the parade just kept on,
going and going.
And of course the world rightnow there's over 600 St
Patrick's Day parades in theUnited States throughout
everything.
Yeah, so that's kind of neat.
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And of course you know a lot ofpeople associate the Irish With
St Patrick's Day and becausethat's where he was in St
Patrick's Day and stuff.
But of course you know theIrish were slaves in the United
States at one point in time andthey were scorned upon and Look
down upon as these, these crazypeople.
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And why that happened was theyweren't really celebrated by
Americas or in America, becausethe reason they came here was in
1845.
If you remember We've all heardabout this in the history books
and stuff at one point in timeyou know the the potato famine
over in Ireland and Millions ofpeople starved and died over.
There were over three millionIrish immigrated to the United
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States and the present people.
Of course the United Statesdidn't like that because they
didn't have anything they were.
They were on clothes that were30 and 40 years old.
They looked graded, they lookedat it.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
And, of course, the little welfare systems that
existed back then.
Whether your pro welfare or not, the Irish, regardless at that
time probably recipients of itand of course back then, of
course, people weren't asreceptive to welfare benefits as
they are today, so that theywere Looked down upon, they're
receiving those type of welfarebenefits and everything back
then.
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So that's kind of the wholeIrish, the brief Irish thing For
that.
Another fact.
You ready for your trivia?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
I'm ready for trivia.
I'm I should say I'm moreprepared for the trivia.
I won't say that I'm fullyready for it, because you're
never fully ready.
Always keep improving.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, that's what you do, Going back to say, from
when the Irish actually came theUnited States.
Over one quarter of the Irishpopulation to put in perspective
came to United States duringthat whole Quarter.
So that's pretty crazy.
I thought that was pretty crazyand of course you know they
were on skilled labor comparedto what we had going on here in
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the drain on the welfare system,which they were looked upon
pretty poorly and of course,which is just seen about that.
Of course you know you havethis big movement today about
Slavery and this and that andwhatever you get into with that.
Everybody always forgets aboutthe Irish that were slaves to
right.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You know there's Everybody was a segment to that
population Should be talkedabout more.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
So now you're ready to go for that trivia thing.
You like corned beef, I likecorned beef.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Corned beef is amazing food you know, to be
perfectly honest, I'm not even100% sure that I've ever had
corned beef, mostly because Ithink the mind in my mind it
sounds like it wouldn't be goodand so I don't know that I've
had it.
Hmm, I know I throw throw thejudgment and cast it aside.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
to me, I love corned beef.
It's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I'm sure I probably have at one point, but now that
I can remember, of course youknow that's Associated with st
Patrick's a corned beef andcabbage.
Cabbage I'm not a huge fan of.
I've tried and I really I likethe idea of it Like a you know
like always want to get like anegg roll or you know things like
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that, I'm sure.
And then I'm kind of like it'sfine, but it's not something
like.
I don't get wild about cabbageat all, like sauerkraut is just
I'm gonna walk, I just can't dothat.
But some people just love it.
Can't get enough.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I like raw cabbage.
You just crack a leaf off thehead and put a little salt on
and eat it like cooked is okay,Like I like it cooked with the
corned beef.
But sauerkraut and stuff I'mnot a fan.
Do you know?
Corned beef is an English dishand not an Irish dish.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
It's kind of funny how it turns up on right, st
Patrick's day exactly in thatIrish, but of course that it
became a st Patrick's day stapleacross the country.
Corned beef and cabbage it.
Actually, even when you put thetwo together, it was an
American innovation.
So, again, we started thepre-ades, we started the corn.
We're the Irish, do it?
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What do you guys?
Where are you guys at?
You're supposed to be startingthis stuff, right.
Why are we starting in here inAmerica?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
We were honoring them .
That's maybe that's what it.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I don't think so.
We suck at that stuff.
I know, yeah, we're not verygood at any, but the original
dish over in Ireland is it's ham, ham and cabbage Interest.
That's the original dish and itchanged to corned beef in
America because corned beef ischeaper for the Irish immigrants
they came over here than hamwas at the time.
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Now it's the other way around.
Corned beef costs more than ham, but it's back then corned beef
was cheaper, so that's whatthey had here in America.
That's the corned beef.
Wow, I have it.
Just is how it came about.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah, another fact done nailed it.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
See, now I'm.
You know, it's just I'm gonnabe Whatever categories they have
next week, it's just gonna beright to the top.
You know it's probably at thetop of the leaderboard, don't
even question.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
You're.
I can't wait.
I'm gonna have to come observe.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
There you go.
You can cheer me on.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I'll put little clips on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
You're gonna sit back there and you're just gonna
judge me and be like we talkedabout this.
You don't remember?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Andy and the two guys in here.
St Patrick's Day has beenobserved by the Irish as a
religious holiday for more thana thousand years.
Wow, that's a long time.
That's a religious holiday.
It's a great time.
I just like the food.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I should get that worked into my contract for work
.
For it to be a day off.
Actually, I want the next day.
I don't care about that daycome home at 5 pm.
Then worry about the nextexactly, yeah, can I have it be
an observed holiday?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
So of course green is a synonymous with st Patrick's
Day, but the original color ofst Patrick's Day was not green,
it was blue.
Hmm, and of course the blue wasfeatured both in the royal
court and on ancient Irish flags, and 1798 the color green
became officially associatedwith the day.
I don't know why green is asick.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Is the Irish flag, isn't it green, white and orange
?
I?
Speaker 2 (34:38):
believe so.
That's the Ireland flag, yeahthree stripes.
Yep, yeah.
So I don't know why they changeit from blue to green, but
apparently Back in the 1700s andprior it was blue was the color
for st Patrick's Day.
Interesting, of course, stPatrick's days parades are held
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all across United States that wealready talked about.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Over 600 over 600.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Almost 12% of all Americans claim Irish ancestry,
which is funny because morepeople of Irish ancestry live in
the United States that thenactually live in Ireland.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Math checks on on that.
I suppose it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Ireland's huge right but it's just kind of
interesting how more Irishpeople, or they, claim they're
Irish.
Right a lot of people claimthey're I Irish on same back.
Exactly yeah, when did theytake that?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
at March 17th.
It's exactly like all of asudden there's 80% Irish in in
the the states.
I claim no Irish background atall.
I guess I've never.
I've never done the cheek swabDNA test thing, not for crime
stuff, for the History.
I've never done anything likethat at all.
But yeah, I don't think that Ihave any.
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There's no Irish at all in myhead, it's all just Swedish and
Norwegian, and it's most.
Swedish will tell you thatSweden own Norway at the time.
So you're 100% Swedish is whatthey told me at one point.
That's what all I got, I think,as far as my background.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
But yeah, I don't have any Irish.
I've never done the ancestrycalm thing.
But right my family is likeNorwegian, swedish, dutch,
german, pretty much most of theScandinavian countries.
In part of our state is most ofthem.
You know, in 1762 we alreadytalked about, you know, new York
City parade started with peoplein the military that were
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Homesticks.
They started their own stPatrick's Day parades here in
the country.
The first one took place in1762 With over a hundred and
fifty thousand people.
Oh wow, in 1762.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I couldn't buy that that many people in that time
frame.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Right in that setting doing those things.
I can't imagine there's muchfor plumbing probably, in fact,
the first toilet was put inSeattle.
Actually, I learned that when Iwas in Seattle.
Since you brought up plumbingand whatever.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
So not in New York in now.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Okay, John Crapper there.
Yeah, it was his name.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I think I remember that I did have heard that
before.
I didn't know the Seattle part,but I think I have heard that
name.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
It was in Seattle.
Yeah, so the st Patrick's Dayparade.
It is the oldest, the world'soldest civilian parade, that
original one in New York City,and it's the largest in the
United States.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Wow, that is it.
I mean it's not terriblysurprising that they'd have the
largest one, but you know it's athat is pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Currently, more than 3 million people line the parade
route as of today to take partin the St Patrick's Day Parade,
and the route to the parade isone and a half miles long and it
takes more than five hours forthe parade to come to an end.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
So this one, this next one?
We all know this happens.
I was curious about this.
The Chicago River, of course weall know that gets dyed green.
It looks green as hell man.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
It looks like fungus.
I mean, it looks kind of greenoften, but that's not a positive
way.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Yeah, so the whole system.
They've been dyeing that rivergreen on St Patrick's Day since
1962.
When the first year they everdyed the river, they used over
100 pounds of dye to dye theriver.
That kept the river green foralmost a week.
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Today they don't use quite thatmuch.
They only use 40 pounds ofgreen dye color to dye the river
, but still enough.
Yeah, because look how green itlooks when you see that on TV
and when they post it all oversocial media and stuff.
But they do that forenvironmental reasons, of course
, but you think you'd use moredye and more things like that
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when you're dyeing that much ofa river, that many gallons of
water.
They only use 40 pounds of dyeand it lasts for about five
hours.
It's about how long it lasts.
And, of course, guinness let'stalk about Guinness.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
This is two guys from Guinness.
Oh yeah, of course we're goingto talk about Guinness.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
And of course, guinness is an Irish beer.
It's a dark beer.
Now I haven't had it for a longtime.
I'll have to try it again on myolder palette.
My younger palette didn't likeGuinness so much.
Right, You'll have to do a showon that baby.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
It's kind of crazy how people will say there's
certain things that are in aquiet taste.
But isn't it kind of funny howyou'll have not only the
acquired taste but you'll havethe?
I've acquired this taste, butnow this tastes different.
The developed taste, I guess,is what I'd call it.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
I like that.
I do like that a lot.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
More of that forward thinking.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
It's a year on Visionary stuff.
Amanda pay attention to this.
Pay attention to this.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Yep, yep, this is high level stuff we're talking
about.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
So Guinness, of course.
The St Patrick's Day alone theydouble their sales.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
What that's not surprising at all.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Compared to regular days they sell according to
their numbers.
5.5 million pints of Guinnessis sold on St Patrick's Day.
You count that right.
No, where it's all sold, Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Right.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
The world or.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Ireland, that's still a lot.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
That's still a lot.
5 million pints of Guinness,that's a lot of pints.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
And you got to prepare for that too, because
you got to start making thatweeks ahead of time.
Make sure it's bottled andready and settled and ready for
distribution.
Shake it up a little bit, yeah,whatever you got to do, put the
little ball bearing or whatever.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Get it going.
I was just thinking of that?
Speaker 2 (40:40):
actually it's like marble.
I remember that shaking it up.
I think the first time I everhad one was at your house in
Cambridge when you were rentingthat house behind.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
SAA, probably could be.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
I think it was Tanner that busted it out.
Actually, I was going to say Idon't remember that I ever
bought that.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
He probably got that because he thought it was cool
with the ball bearing or marbleor whatever it was Right, that's
what it was.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
And then he was laughing at me because I was
like I don't know about this,which did.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Back then.
He does not exactly have thegreatest beer pallets of all
time.
We were like 22 at the time,right, I?
Don't think any of us had apretty good beer pallet at the
time.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
No, no, not at all.
I mean, I was drinking MillerHigh Life.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
That was true, but that's a good choice, though it
wasn't too.
Especially you get like a nicewarm summer day.
It's good stuff.
A lot of cream belt, a lot ofcream belt premium A lot of
liquor back then.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
I drank a lot more liquor when I was younger.
Now I'm not so keen on theliquor as much.
But yeah, so we talked aboutthe longest St Patrick's Day
parade, let's talk about theshortest.
Oh, here we go.
This is going to put you overthe top.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
This is going to be.
This is next level type ofstuff.
This is elite level.
Arkansas, arkansas, yeah, ourKansas.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
They have the shortest parade.
How short is the shortestparade?
98 feet.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
I feel like the lineup would be longer than the
actual parade.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
That's a disrespect to Irish people in the St.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Patrick 98 feet.
That's like just slightly morethan running from first base to
second base in baseball.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Like by eight feet.
Yeah, it's 90 feet.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
It's, that's a how about that?
That's 98 feet.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
It reserve your spot.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Now I was going to say that you probably got.
You still probably got the oldladies that are like setting out
their lawn chair three daysahead of time, making sure they
got their parade spot, you knowsecured.
Put their chair down.
Public works is coming outthere kicking it off to the side
.
Get out of here, ethel.
You got to know, you got towait.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Yeah, I don't know, that was pretty crazy.
I'm like 98 feet.
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (42:51):
at 98 feet, right, you're just trying to set a
record.
At that point in time, you'reprobably running it to at 98
feet long.
I bet you that was probably amatter of there was like a float
, that was that long.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
It's surprising that's just I'm guessing but
that's less than two semitrailers.
Yeah, 53 foot semi trailer.
Mm, hmm, ��주인재에, wow, yeah,that's possible, yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Huh, that's 98 feet.
That is something else Crazy.
Huh, what else we got ChurchesMore trivia.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
How many churches do you?
Speaker 1 (43:27):
know in our name, st Patrick, I'm guessing there's
probably a handful.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
There's about 450 of them, give or take.
Give or take, yep.
And you know, of course, stPatrick's Cathedral over in New
York, the big popular one, yep,and I was in.
About 5.5 million touristsevery year.
That's a lot, it sure is.
Hmm, and I'm out of facts.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
Yeah, out of facts, out of facts.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
No cool stories.
A lot of cool facts.
Eddie's going to win sometrivia.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
It's a lot of yeah, I'm going to win trivia.
You're going to have to makesure you keep tuned to the
podcast to get the resultsmoving forward, because you got
to be able to know what they'redoing here.
So while you were kind oftalking about that a little bit,
I kind of a little bit wentdown.
So I think I said before that Ihad kind of an idea of
something I was going to talkabout.
We're going to go ahead andscrap that.
I'm going to crumple that up,I'm going to toss it, because I
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kind of went down the old Amanarabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
Oh, he went down the Amana, amana, amana.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Amana, amana, amana.
How do you pronounce that?
Amana Amana?
Speaker 2 (44:30):
It's probably Amana.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
I'm hoping to say, that's what I'm going for E at
the end.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Just the E at the end makes the A go A, otherwise
it's A or something.
You remember that?
That's what I remember.
I'm kind of guessing at thispoint, Don't mind me.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Again, we're going to have to go there on the summer
tour to the Amana colonies.
Is what it is, perfect, it isactually so.
There is a manna that we talkedabout that where Millstream is,
but it is a colony that isseven villages on 26,000 acres,
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which is about the size of atownship for Minnesota.
Just for comparison wise, ifyou're not familiar, google what
your local jurisdiction is.
I guess I don't really know.
It's about the same size as,like some of the townships in
our area.
At least Roughly speaking,that's kind of what you're
looking at In Iowa, east CentralIowa, with a handful of
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different locations.
What happened was is it wasGerman state government.
Villages were built and settledby German radical peatists, I
believe, that were persecuted bytheir homeland German state
government and Lutheran churchand kicked them right out of
there.
So they settled at one point inthat area.
They survived basicallyself-sufficient with a local
(45:51):
economy, just self-sufficientfor 80 years, living kind of a
communal life until about 1932.
So they kind of moved into thatarea about 1856 and until about
1932, they kind of got hit hardwith the Great Depression.
They ended up creating anonprofit organization that kind
of helped with that a littlebit, called the Imana Society,
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which included the ImanaCorporation.
I'm not sure if that's theImana brand appliances.
I don't think so, but that'swhat the Imana Corporation is.
Yeah, that is the ImanaCorporation, an American brand
of household appliances, foundedin 1934 by George Forstner, the
electrical equipment company inMiddle Imana, iowa, to
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manufacture commercial walk-incoolers.
Wow, so this is that Imana,that is that Imana.
We have now learned a littlebit about that.
The seven villages are a touristattraction for their
restaurants and craft shops.
They are also a nationalhistoric landmark as of 1965.
The organizations in the area,or the cities, if you will, or
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villages, I guess you could callthem, is what they list them on
here Middle Imana, imana orMain Imana.
Population 442, 442.
Wow, but that's pretty goodsize brewery for that area, I'm
kidding.
South Imana, homestead, westImana, high Imana and East Imana
.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
What kind of Imanas?
Speaker 1 (47:24):
It's Imana Middle, imana South, imana West, imana
High, imana East, Imana andHomestead.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
Perfect.
What's the total population ofall that?
Speaker 1 (47:32):
It's going to be probably about 1,500.
Wow, imana is the biggest at581.
Imana at 442.
South Imana is third at 159.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
I know what they're doing on a Friday night they're
going to the brewery.
They're going to the brewery.
They're having some of thatmeat sticks from the place.
Next, door.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
Absolutely, they're going to go have some
shenanigans and they're going tolisten to the best live music
in the Midwest Perfect, that'swhat they're going to be doing.
So if you're from the Imanaarea, reach out.
We're going to come hang outwith you.
That sounds like a great time.
Absolutely, we want to comecheck that out.
So that should be part of thesummer tour.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly.
Why would?
Speaker 1 (48:13):
we, because shenanigans, shenanigans that's
what we're really all about.
That's kind of what I live mylife with, but it's fine, don't
worry about it.
That's what I like to be, ableto do.
All right, I concur.
What else you got today, sean?
Any more trivia?
Speaker 2 (48:31):
I have no trivia, except for facts.
There.
No theories, no facts.
I've fact it out.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
We kind of went down the rabbit hole of St Patrick
and his details and the Imanabrand colony.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
There's a lot more into St Patrick, of course, if
you look up in New Mart.
It's quite interesting how hewas kind of like stolen and
comes back and he turns into apatron.
But he's not technically apatron, but he's a patron and
all that stuff.
It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
There's some good facts that you might know
verified or not, maybe ifthey're not, and that might
actually make it more fun.
But if you put that, maybe, inthe comments to the video,
whether it be on YouTube,facebook, whatever it may be
that you are consuming ourpodcast, well, we are consuming
shenanigans.
Go ahead, get back to us.
(49:18):
Definitely, give us somefeedback.
But if you have some facts,some random facts, we'd like to
be able to hear some stuff, sothrow it out there.
We'd like to be able to seewhat's going on and, to a
certain extent, it's good to beable to have a true fact, but
it's also kind of fun to let'ssee, like, what's the most off
the wall thing that we can comeup with.
On that one Letter rep, I havefaith in our listeners to be
able to come up with somethingreally good.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
They're pretty smart.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
They're smarter than we are.
Well, I mean, obviously that'sjust a given thing.
Yeah, that's kind of what wegot today, Perfect.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Yeah, I don't really have anything else.
Thanks a lot for listening,watching all this stuff.
Let us know we appreciate allthe support.
Again, this is just fun for us.
We're having a great time doingit.
It's growing, thanks toeverybody watching, paying
attention.
We really appreciate it.
Get yourself some shenanigansif it's available in your area.
Thanks a lot.
Everybody appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
And we'll wrap things up.
I do have to pass along.
I apologize for not wearing thepajama pants today, but trying
something a little bit different.
Today's episode, but maybe nexttime, who knows?
We'll see what happens.
But until then, cheerseverybody.
And welcome in everybody.
Back to the two guys in beerpodcast.
Here in the the beautifulstudio we got our beers ready to
go.
Andy and Sean set to review oneanother beer and another
brewery.
Today we're going to be talkingabout Millstream Brewing
Company out of Amana, Iowa.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know this is one we should probably we can
probably go to this one too.
It's close enough.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You know we we've made that, those comments a
couple of times and so we'regonna have to.
Maybe that'll be the summertimeit'll be the two guys in beer
summer tour.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh no, that's an idea .
There we go.
I like the way you're thinking.
Well, we've been to some ofthese breweries before you know.
I made it up to the one inMichigan, we could make it to
the one in Iowa and we just gotto do it.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
There we go.
We'll just make it happen.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
That's what we do here two guys in beer, we just
make shit happen.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Some like that at least.
I would think that some peoplewould say we make bullshit
happen.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We do that too.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
A lot of that happening, but you know that's,
that's how you end up in thissituation in the first place.
So but yeah, we're talkingabout Millstream, we're talking
about shenanigans, andshenanigans Irish ale, so kind
of astute for the time of yearis a timing wise like this
should be coming out rightaround the time of us in
Patrick's day, if you'rechecking in and listening.
(01:33):
Well, after the fact, maybeyou're just you haven't set your
clock back and so it's going tobe St Patrick's day or
something, but I don't know,it'll be fun anyway, you know.
And who doesn't like someshenanigans?
We all like some shenanigans.
So Millstream Brewing Companyis out of Amana, iowa, which, if
you look at it on the map, it'slet's see here where is it's
(01:55):
going to be?
A little bit southwest of CedarRapids, situated right in
between East Amana and MiddleAmana, which is also just past
West Amana and north of SouthAmana.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It's looking at the map and there's a manna all over
the place.
I don't know if they just arelike I, whatever, just call it
East, west, south, amana.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Maybe that's why they named it shenanigans, because
it's shenanigans to figure outwhere it is.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
That probably could be true.
I don't see a north Amana,though there is a Norway Iowa
that appears to be a handful ofmiles north of that, but no
north Amana.
So maybe we'll go down there,we'll make our stamp on Iowa and
we'll pick a randomintersection that'll be north
Amana.
We'll be the founders.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Start our own little township.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Okay.
So the Ox Yoke Inn, millstreamBrew House or Brow House
B-R-A-U-H-A-U-S is how theyspell it but it's right on a
little river, a little creekthat kind of goes through town.
It's the Mill Race River, butit's kind of by the Mill Stream
(03:02):
is what they call it on theirwebsite.
So it kind of a interestinglocation, you know, but they're
kind of taking the name fromnearby things is kind of where
they're coming up with the name.
So, sure, you got to kind ofstay local when you can.
So but yeah, shenanigans, isthe beer today, irish Red Ale.
It is a 7.0 alcohol by volume.
(03:25):
What else we got on here?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It was brought to you by Amanda.
We got a call out of Amanda.
She's the one that suggestedthis one.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, she found it, she found it.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
The ferocious listener to the two guys and
beer podcast.
So thank you, amanda.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And if you have any recommendations, definitely
reach out, comment on thedifferent social media platforms
, wherever it may be YouTube,anything like that and there's
something you want to hear, letus know.
We'll try to be able to getyour beer on there.
And, better yet, if you want tosend it to us, I mean we can
let us know we can.
We'll go give you an addressyou can send us a beer.
(04:00):
So, yeah, got to give herappreciation, for sure, for
giving that recommendation.
And, like I said before, whodoesn't like some shenanigans?
So they all do.
So as long as we're at it,let's go ahead and get some
shenanigans going.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Such a great sound.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It's the best part of the podcast.
I think I say that every time,but it's totally true.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's probably when people swipe off after they hear
it.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Right, yeah, but that's right.
That's why we don't do thattill like a couple minutes.
We had the algorithm goingwe're.
You know it's totally fine.
So it's pretty tasty.
It's definitely a Irish red ale.
It's what?
Am I getting almost more maltyof a red ale than I've seen.
(04:47):
This actually kind of, in a way, we're going to end up going
deep on this one a little bit.
But the red ale almost kind ofbrings me back to like what
initially got me into brewing,and we've talked about this a
little bit before Killians, yep,killians, irish red part of the
you know, the Tony Coledrinking tree.
He showed up.
He showed up at a party that Ihad in Princeton and I was still
(05:09):
kind of trying to figure outwhat I even liked at that time
and you know some mixed drinksand you know, like Mike's hard
lemonade and wasn't really intobeer, but it was kind of like a
well, I'll force some Mickgolden down or something just to
kind of have whatever, becauseit was cheaper than anything
else.
And you know he showed up withthat and I had one of those and
from that point forward it wasevery time I went into a liquor
(05:32):
store was well, I've never heardof that.
I'm getting some of those and Ipassed that along to my friend
Joe and then that's been passedalong and you know it's just
it's we're passing it allforward.
You know, of course this was2000 early, it was a long time
ago.
Probably a old one, ish, old twoish, you know, kind of forever
ago, living in Princeton andhaving having good times over
(05:56):
there You're dating us a littlebit now.
Well, you know that we'vetalked about that too.
That that's why we're doing thepodcast instead of playing
sports.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
It makes you wonder, like when you think back, like
things that are 20 years ago,what you did with your life the
past 20 years.
Did you really do anythingmeaningful that you wanted to?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
do.
Well, it went by fast, that'sfor sure.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, it sure did.
I mean, if you think about it,hell, if we have 30, 35 more
years left to live, man, that'sgoing to be a good run.
If you want to think of itnegatively, you're like dang man
.
I got that 40 years old, 41, 30more years, 70, 35, 75.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
That's going to be the name of the episode.
Today is going to beshenanigans got dark.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well that's what the red ale does to me.
I guess I can't quite put ataste on my palate with this.
I'm having a hard time with thetaste of it, like I don't
dislike it.
Yeah, it is a little malty, Ithink, like you said, but it's
not, I don't know.
I have a hard time trying tocome up with something to tell
our listeners and, well now,some of our viewers, what this,
like the palate that it has.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, I mean it's good, it's smooth, but it's
definitely kind of that red aletype of feel.
How is it, eric, the red ale, Ithink was the name of it.
That was actually the firstbeer that I brewed.
It was a homebrew starter kit.
Oh, that's what it was.
So that was not when I drilledthe hole.
That was that was when I didthe second one.
(07:23):
The first one, I just stoodthere and I stirred and stirred
and stirred and stirred and likesteam burnt my hand the entire
time.
But the second one is when Idrilled the hole in the oven.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You still have to find that photo so we can show
everybody the photo of that Ifyou dig out somewhere.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I do have to get that out there.
I know it exists, I know it, Iknow it's there, but just got to
find it and get it out there.
Yeah, so kind of talking alittle bit more about mill
stream brewing.
It's out of, as we mentionedbefore, a manna Iowa started in
1985 with a dream and a smallbatch of German Pilsner.
As per their website,millstream brewingcom, under the
(08:03):
about us tab, is where a lot ofthis information is going to
come from.
Today they have definitelyexpanded.
Their tap room features 20rotating beers on tap and some
of the best live music in theMidwest.
That does not look like thelargest of towns.
It's kind of like some of thetowns that are right near us
right now.
About that so not a massive town, but at the same time they got
(08:27):
some good music and some goodbeers going on.
I'm in, I'm on my way.
They also have the meat shopand smokehouse, so what gets
better than that freaking meatand beer?
And about a block and a halfway as hotel mill, right in a
manna, and that's actuallyappears to be just on the other
side of the block from millstream brewery, so we don't even
have to try to come back thatnight.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Oh, perfect, that's great.
You ever watch the blue collarcomedy tour A little bit.
You're talking about meat andsmoke houses and beer.
Who is the here's your sign guy?
I can't think of his name rightnow.
He's a here's your sign, billEngvall.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Bill Engvall I don't want to say Jeff Fox, but that
was.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
you might be a redneck, so I like Bill Engvall.
He's a pretty funny guy.
You're talking about meat,smoke houses and beer.
One of his favorite snacks hedid this on one of the bits on
one of his programs was SlimJim's.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
His idea with the Slim Jim.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, his idea with the Slim Jim on one of his
episodes or specials one hourspecials he's like you know I
called Slim Jim, you know,because they give you the number
on the package.
Like I gave him a call to givehim an idea or the thing or two.
His idea was why don't you guysdrill a hole in the center of a
Slim Jim?
You want like a straw, yeah, youput my Slim Jim in my beer,
(09:42):
suck my beer up and snap off apiece of Slim Jim at the end of
the beer and eat that down.
I'm like that is a genius idea.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Here you go, you get.
You probably be able to getsome nice saltiness in there.
I like it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
They should do that down here.
If there's a smoke house rightnext to this, I'm sure they have
beef sticks.
Yeah, a freaking bore hole inthe middle of like a real like
Slim Jim's are kind of fake andgross like.
I want a real Meat stick fromfrom a meat place I like it
smoke house.
You see those meat sticks arebigger than the Slim Jim.
You could easily run a holethrough the center there, suck
up your beer, snap off a pieceof meat oh, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It sounds.
It sounds awfully delightful, Ilike.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It sounds like a great idea to me, yeah, and we
haven't even had a full beer yet, and the good ideas are coming.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But oh, it's gonna be a brilliant night tonight.
Folks, did you make sure youstrap in and get ready to go?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Technically I was a billing ball idea, but I can
steal it, right yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Why we're supporting, we're moving it forward.
Right, so that that's what itis, we're moving it forward.
Let's see here what else we got.
So, like I mentioned the 20rotating taps that they have and
their best live music in theMidwest, it's quite the most.
But I'm willing to go find out.
Right on the banks of theAmanda Mill stream, which I had
(10:57):
said before, is the Mill RaceRiver.
That comes kind of Again.
It goes through the Lily pond.
That's kind of right in thatarea.
That's just off of the IowaRiver, which kind of goes
through most of the middle partof Iowa, iowija, iowa, iowa.
(11:19):
Um, yeah, that's kind of wherethey're situated.
That's what's going on there.
Team Mill stream is proud topartner with us several
charities that we've talkednumerous times about that.
How many brewers like to try togive it back as much as they
possibly can?
That's just awesome.
It's stellar to be able to seestuff like that.
And so they work with thechildren's cancer connection and
(11:40):
Willis Dady, hops for housing,because you got to get hops in
there somewhere.
Yep, and then the stead STA, std, steed, stead.
Final answer stead stead family, children's hospital, just some
of the Places they benefit forthat.
(12:02):
They also Because you got to dosomething with the spent grains
.
What are you gonna do with it?
Cows, oh.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I know that's on the doesn't eat the steak.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
It doesn't sound like you would do to have much
availability for that, but inIowa they do have some farms
with cows.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I've never heard of such a thing.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I that's probably why they have some pretty happy
cows, I'm guessing.
So they're giving a lot backand I'm trying to be able to do
that some kind of a cool thing.
They've grown over the courseof the years and I remember I've
not had shenanigans but I'vehad milstream before, but I'm
trying to remember it was like afarmhouse red ale, so I may
have had a similar ale years ago.
(12:42):
Actually, at the bar we did atasting one and I had a couple
of different milstream ones.
It doesn't aren't aware.
I had a bar for a couple years,went okay, then it didn't, and
so I don't have that.
But we did a tasting and Ithink that that was Looking back
on it.
It was probably before its timebecause the community probably
wasn't real jazzed about a lotof like craft beer.
(13:03):
And so I bring in this likebuffet table with like 20
different craft beers andeverything laid out there on ice
and Like five people showed up,yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I forget, when your bar was open, craft beer Wasn't
really quite a thing yet.
I mean, it was kind of in itsinfancy, you know, because the
laws got relaxed in a lot ofplaces in order to brew craft
beer and smaller littlebreweries, but yeah, it really
wasn't quite there when you hadthere's a couple I had not like
it is today.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I had a tap system that it had 12 taps and I really
wanted that.
When I first met with vendors,I really wanted to make sure
that I had 12 taps because Iknew I was gonna be Required to
have the Coors light, millerlight, make golden light, things
like that or whatever to beable to have on there.
But I knew at that time that Ireally like craft beer and it's
(13:54):
growing every year and that'skind of the trend and I wanted
to make sure I'm not gonna beable to make a decision with
whatever and they're like well,you're gonna have more inventory
and I'm like I don't care, Iwant to have additional beers.
So I had more taps than Almostany of the bars in a Santa
County.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Oh for sure, I remember when you had 12.
I was like what 12?
I'm like hell.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah, I want to say sweet.
The other one that was in townI think had three, and the one
north the town I think had maybefive, but they was like three
on one spot and then like alittle kegurator thing in the
back.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I want to say there's a place in Cambridge that had,
like I think sidelines had maybemore, but it was like it wasn't
craft beer, though, yeah, well,because it would have.
We have 20 taps, but they have10 here and 10 there and they're
the same.
Right, you know what I mean.
So yeah, you have 10 tap handor 20 tap handles, but you have
10 beers.
Really is what you have.
So like there were some thingslike that or whatever.
(14:48):
So like I think I had a betteron tap variety, but again,
before my time I was just, I wasso far out.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
They may tell you you're a visionary.
I'm gonna have to tell them.
Make sure Amanda's very awareof that next time I see her you
should probably really that toher handy is such a visionary.
You married such an amazing man.
Yeah, you just don't know whatyou have.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Absolutely.
I think that she's sought thatmany times, usually probably
while rolling her eyes.
I think she's kind of well,he's got a vision, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
It for drinking some beer some good craft beer.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It is kind of funny though, like anytime, like if I
have an idea, because I you knowI'd be when you're a visionary,
you have ideas and they rollaround and you got to throw them
all there to somebody.
Right, I have to, and usuallyit's so.
I was thinking.
You have to set them free andeven, as soon as they get to
that point, the responses ohgeez, that's usually what
(15:50):
happens, so here, we go again.
That's likely the type ofresponse that I'll likely get
and that's probably what I'llhear.
You know, after the thevisionary comments will get more
eye-rolling and she'll Laughand heckle me and whatever, but
that's fine.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It's okay, amanda, andy is not too wild.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's true I'm not super calm.
He's pretty tame, yep, yep.
So mill stream, back to back towhat, back to the brewery we're
talking about here.
So mill stream, as I mentioned,1985 started with a small batch
of German Pilsner.
They make a little bit morethan that now.
They Last year.
(16:28):
It just is today I'm assumingthat's probably last year's
numbers 8,000 barrels.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Well, that's what they had for you.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So we've talked a little bit about barrels and
quantity and everything withthat before, and so how many
gallons per barrel for theaverage barrel yeah and so they
you know that, and that alsocounts beer and sodas.
They also make some of their ownsodas as well.
So they definitely turn out alot of different, a lot of
different options and a lot ofdifferent things out there.
(16:56):
So kind of fun to be able tosee a lot of that.
I'm gonna see if I can't findthe shenanigans on their website
here to see if there's anySpecific you know, I mean some
details of some stuff on here,but now we wait.
I Should have just clicked onit before and then not had to
worry about it loading right,which is probably just my fault
(17:19):
because it's my, my phone it'strying to do it, but that's fine
, it's her, I'm fine, I can'tFact the same Patrick's Day,
since this is kind of a samePatrick's Day episode.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
There we are.
So the real, same Patrick, ofcourse, which St Patrick's Day
is named after.
You know, he was born in 385,80.
Oh, it was a long time.
It was like the 16 17th centurysomewhere in there, don't?
Worry because I don't know.
I'm just throwing shit outthere because I like it.
We create bullshit.
And he died in 461.
Oh wow, and he also is not anative of Ireland or from
Ireland or was born there.
(17:51):
Anything Did you know?
St Patrick was born in Britain.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Oh, I mean, I guess it's part of the Expanded United
Kingdom.
I guess, if you will, was partof that, but huh interesting.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Hey, he's born in Britain near the end of what the
fourth century.
At age 16 he was kidnapped byIrish raiders and sold as a
slave to a Celtic priest.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
So there's the Celtic side coming in Right.
Yeah, Not in a positive way.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
No, he was crazy to think that.
Of course I never knew thatprior.
I had looked this stuff up onmy notes and stuff.
But yeah, he was sold as aslave to a Celtic priest in the
area that's now known asNorthern Ireland.
So they forced him to be ashepherd for about six years and
he escaped back to Britain.
But he eventually actuallyreturned to Ireland as a
(18:43):
Christian missionary.
Huh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I mean, I get it, I understand, and I'm sure there's
probably limited what you cando, because I'm sure room and
board and just eat and all thebasic necessities of life, life,
life.
We'll go with life, the barenecessities, as Baloo would
probably sing if he were to behere too, but things like that.
But it's kind of odd that theyforced him to be a shepherd for
(19:09):
six years, which is that was himbeing a slave, yeah Go out into
this wide open field wherenobody can see you for acres,
and we'll see you later tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Right, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not saying that it was goodand glorious or anything like
that, but it just seems likekind of one of those like over
here where nobody's looking thisway.
Okay yeah, I'll be back later,guys, there you go.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, but that's amazing.
I thought that was interesting.
He was swiped up by Irishraiders.
I don't know the Irish raidedpeople I think of like the
Vikings and the Northmen andthings like that raided and
pillaged and things, not Irishpeople.
Apparently the Irish hadraiders and they raided St
Patrick and stole and Oaklandand now Vegas Right, but now the
(19:59):
Irish Los Angeles Right exactlythe Dublin raiders.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, how about that Cool.
So I did find some tastingnotes here.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Eventually, you know you stalled long enough for me
to be able to actually get there.
What's it loaded?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Let's see here 7% ABV .
We talked about that before 25IBU, so not tremendously bitter,
which is not terribly bitter.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
It's not bitter at all.
It tastes well.
Like I do enjoy this beer, Ijust can't.
I still can't articulate theflavor on my tongue.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So what Millstream articulates?
What do they articulate?
They say that they're tastingnotes.
Don't let the hazy, amberappearance of this ale fool you.
Charming multi notes in thesmooth body Make it easy to get
in some real shenanigans.
So that's kind of what they do.
Flavor profile a full, smooth,sweet, multi creamy mellow.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Well, you called them out the creamy, I can taste the
creamy.
What else we got in there?
Full, smooth, sweet, multimellow.
It is smooth and mellow, huh, Isuppose.
So yeah, I suppose that's agood articulation.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, cause it's not like it's not.
Bam in your face.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
No, it's not.
It's smooth the lawnmowerrating.
What's your lawnmower rating?
One to five lawnmowers.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
You know, I probably drink some on a lawnmower, but I
don't think I'm having fivewith a one of lawnmowers.
I would agree with that.
Yeah, probably a couple of them, for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Maybe one on the lawnmower and one off the
lawnmower.
Yep, yep, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
But I'm not, I'm not having, I'm not just going after
it all night long.
They have, oh, they have athing even on their website here
.
It is perfect for spring,summer, autumn, winter, camping,
hiking, grilling, tailgating,sporting events, parties, pool
days, game night and concertsPerfect.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Perfect.
So if you're doing something,this is perfect for it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
It's just perfect for it.
So yeah, that's the other kindof the breakdown of shenanigans
there on a on their website, soPerfect.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
All right, that's awesome.
You know, leprechauns arelikely based on Celtic fairies.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
They are not part of the Raiders, are they?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
They might raid.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
They do have powers.
I could.
I suppose that could be the AirForce version of have you ever
met a leprechaun?
I have not.
Have you ever?
No, no, I nope, apparently yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
They, they think the leprechauns, the whole thing,
with the hat and the clothes andthe this and the that kind of
all came from their belief inCeltic fairies.
They kind of like took that andit kind of transformed over the
years into leprechauns whichyou now see everywhere for St
Patrick's Day.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Fair enough.
Yeah, I have a, so the localbrewery does trivia every other
Sunday.
Oh yeah, I think we've talkedabout that before or whatever,
so it's coming up.
They're having St Patty's Daytrivia.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Oh, oh, I'm got you loaded now, hey, anybody ready
to go?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I got you loaded right here, there we go.
So we're going to be all overit.
We're going to be.
We're basically in trainingmode.
Is what we're doing, is what'shappening.
We're studying, is what's goingon.
But so I have, like now, thebig green hat with the beard,
and even came with double-sidedtape.
Eyebrows very light brown,almost reddish.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
So you're going to send me a photo of this so we
can post it on our social mediafor all our viewers and
listeners.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I'll just send you a picture of Amanda, because she's
already taken the picture, soit's fine, that'd be cool.
Our team name is generally herefor the beer, but we're going
to do here for the shenanigans.
Perfect for that one.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
So that's awesome shenanigans.
Again, here we go.
All right, well, we'll go oversome more facts.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah, what else you got here?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
We got to get this trivia training to get you ready
to go here.
The shamrock was considered asacred plant.
Did you know that it was sacred?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I mean it sounds right because I know that even
having clover fields out themovie, the actual fields growing
out, growing up on a farm, likefinding that four leaf clover
was kind of a thing Right.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
So the shamrock is a three leaf clover is what you
really want, but of course thefour leaf ones are the lucky
ones, right?
Yeah, so the three leaf clover.
It's been associated withIreland for centuries.
It was called something I can'tpronounce because I can't read
this right now for some reason.
We'll keep on moving, all right.
It was considered a sacredplant that symbolized the
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arrival of spring.
According to legend, st Patrickused the plant as a visual
guide for explaining the holytrinity it's the St Patrick
which St Patrick's Day is namedafter when those bloomed and
stuff.
That's when he knew it was timeto talk about the holy trinity
and used it as a visual guidefor explaining that by the 17th
century, the shamrock had becomea symbol of emerging Irish
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nationalism.
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Facts, facts, facts.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Smarter, smarter, there we go.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Be more smarter.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Keep this in mind for next time, so the very first St
Patrick's Day parade.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Very first.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Very first, very first.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I'm interested even like how it went from the guy
just came back as a missionaryto becoming the actual St
Patrick.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I don't have all those details, but they call him
a patron, I think.
If I remember right, they, likethe Catholic Church, makes you
patrons, or something.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah, patron saint of something.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
He was never actually ordained as a patron because
that didn't.
That whole service or ceremonyto make people a patron didn't
even happen until a couplehundred years after he died.
So he's like an official patronwithout being an official
patron.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
He's a posthumous patron.
He's a posthumously patron.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah, right, I like it.
So that's about the best I cantell you from that anyways, and
from when I was reading anybodycould correct me if I'm wrong in
the comments but there's onlylike three or four patrons of
Ireland that went through thewhole ceremony and there one
female, like three or four malesor something.
That's just what I, briefly,was reading.
I was reading about St Patrick'sDay.
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But the female one?
I know she has her own holiday.
I recall that, but if I'm wrong, please correct me Again.
We just do a bunch of bullshiton the show, so that's what we
do.
So the first St Patrick's Dayparade, believe it or not, was
held here in America.
Can you believe that?
Isn't that goofy?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Well, I have heard that it is kind of an American
thing.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
but Kind of the parade anyways.
So the people in Ireland hadcelebrated St Patrick's since
the 1600s.
The tradition of the StPatrick's Day parade, the parade
, though, began in America, andit actually predates the
founding of the United States.
So they're already havingparades on St Patrick's Day in
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America before we were in the USor the United States.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
The Eastern territories or, I suppose,
western, for that the Westernterritories of England.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Pretty much.
Pretty much, and actually it'seven before that, I suppose,
because records show that a StPatrick's Day parade was held on
the first one that they havedocumentation of.
It was held on March 17th, 1601.
Wow, and that was a Spanishcolony.
You know, I remember theSpanish pretty much dominated
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the southern part of the nowUnited States, which now it's
called St Augustine, of course,which is in Florida.
So in 1601, the firstdocumented St Patrick's Day
parade happened in what's justpresent day St Augustine,
florida.
The parade in St Patrick's Daycelebration a year earlier was
organized by a Spanish colonyand that's when it happened.
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More than a century later, irishsoldiers that were serving in
the English military bringing upthe English over here in the
United States were homesick, sothey decided to hold their own
St Patrick's Day parade in 1737in Boston.
So that was the next one.
There we are.
I like Boston, I like Americanhistory a lot, I know a lot
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about that, but I didn't knowanything about the St Patrick's
Day parade.
But then it also did in NewYork City on March 17th and of
course it only grew from thereand the parade just kept on,
going and going.
And of course the world rightnow there's over 600 St
Patrick's Day parades in theUnited States throughout
everything.
Yeah, so that's kind of neat.
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And of course you know a lot ofpeople associate the Irish With
St Patrick's Day and becausethat's where he was in St
Patrick's Day and stuff.
But of course you know theIrish were slaves in the United
States at one point in time andthey were scorned upon and Look
down upon as these, these crazypeople.
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And why that happened was theyweren't really celebrated by
Americas or in America, becausethe reason they came here was in
1845.
If you remember We've all heardabout this in the history books
and stuff at one point in timeyou know the the potato famine
over in Ireland and Millions ofpeople starved and died over.
There were over three millionIrish immigrated to the United
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States and the present people.
Of course the United Statesdidn't like that because they
didn't have anything they were.
They were on clothes that were30 and 40 years old.
They looked graded, they lookedat it.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
And, of course, the little welfare systems that
existed back then.
Whether your pro welfare or not, the Irish, regardless at that
time probably recipients of itand of course back then, of
course, people weren't asreceptive to welfare benefits as
they are today, so that theywere Looked down upon, they're
receiving those type of welfarebenefits and everything back
then.
(29:50):
So that's kind of the wholeIrish, the brief Irish thing For
that.
Another fact.
You ready for your trivia?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
I'm ready for trivia.
I'm I should say I'm moreprepared for the trivia.
I won't say that I'm fullyready for it, because you're
never fully ready.
Always keep improving.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, that's what you do, Going back to say, from
when the Irish actually came theUnited States.
Over one quarter of the Irishpopulation to put in perspective
came to United States duringthat whole Quarter.
So that's pretty crazy.
I thought that was pretty crazyand of course you know they
were on skilled labor comparedto what we had going on here in
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the drain on the welfare system,which they were looked upon
pretty poorly and of course,which is just seen about that.
Of course you know you havethis big movement today about
Slavery and this and that andwhatever you get into with that.
Everybody always forgets aboutthe Irish that were slaves to
right.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You know there's Everybody was a segment to that
population Should be talkedabout more.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
So now you're ready to go for that trivia thing.
You like corned beef, I likecorned beef.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Corned beef is amazing food you know, to be
perfectly honest, I'm not even100% sure that I've ever had
corned beef, mostly because Ithink the mind in my mind it
sounds like it wouldn't be goodand so I don't know that I've
had it.
Hmm, I know I throw throw thejudgment and cast it aside.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
to me, I love corned beef.
It's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I'm sure I probably have at one point, but now that
I can remember, of course youknow that's Associated with st
Patrick's a corned beef andcabbage.
Cabbage I'm not a huge fan of.
I've tried and I really I likethe idea of it Like a you know
like always want to get like anegg roll or you know things like
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that, I'm sure.
And then I'm kind of like it'sfine, but it's not something
like.
I don't get wild about cabbageat all, like sauerkraut is just
I'm gonna walk, I just can't dothat.
But some people just love it.
Can't get enough.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I like raw cabbage.
You just crack a leaf off thehead and put a little salt on
and eat it like cooked is okay,Like I like it cooked with the
corned beef.
But sauerkraut and stuff I'mnot a fan.
Do you know?
Corned beef is an English dishand not an Irish dish.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
It's kind of funny how it turns up on right, st
Patrick's day exactly in thatIrish, but of course that it
became a st Patrick's day stapleacross the country.
Corned beef and cabbage it.
Actually, even when you put thetwo together, it was an
American innovation.
So, again, we started thepre-ades, we started the corn.
We're the Irish, do it?
(32:36):
What do you guys?
Where are you guys at?
You're supposed to be startingthis stuff, right.
Why are we starting in here inAmerica?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
We were honoring them .
That's maybe that's what it.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I don't think so.
We suck at that stuff.
I know, yeah, we're not verygood at any, but the original
dish over in Ireland is it's ham, ham and cabbage Interest.
That's the original dish and itchanged to corned beef in
America because corned beef ischeaper for the Irish immigrants
they came over here than hamwas at the time.
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Now it's the other way around.
Corned beef costs more than ham, but it's back then corned beef
was cheaper, so that's whatthey had here in America.
That's the corned beef.
Wow, I have it.
Just is how it came about.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah, another fact done nailed it.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
See, now I'm.
You know, it's just I'm gonnabe Whatever categories they have
next week, it's just gonna beright to the top.
You know it's probably at thetop of the leaderboard, don't
even question.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
You're.
I can't wait.
I'm gonna have to come observe.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
There you go.
You can cheer me on.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I'll put little clips on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
You're gonna sit back there and you're just gonna
judge me and be like we talkedabout this.
You don't remember?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Andy and the two guys in here.
St Patrick's Day has beenobserved by the Irish as a
religious holiday for more thana thousand years.
Wow, that's a long time.
That's a religious holiday.
It's a great time.
I just like the food.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I should get that worked into my contract for work
.
For it to be a day off.
Actually, I want the next day.
I don't care about that daycome home at 5 pm.
Then worry about the nextexactly, yeah, can I have it be
an observed holiday?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
So of course green is a synonymous with st Patrick's
Day, but the original color ofst Patrick's Day was not green,
it was blue.
Hmm, and of course the blue wasfeatured both in the royal
court and on ancient Irish flags, and 1798 the color green
became officially associatedwith the day.
I don't know why green is asick.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Is the Irish flag, isn't it green, white and orange
?
I?
Speaker 2 (34:38):
believe so.
That's the Ireland flag, yeahthree stripes.
Yep, yeah.
So I don't know why they changeit from blue to green, but
apparently Back in the 1700s andprior it was blue was the color
for st Patrick's Day.
Interesting, of course, stPatrick's days parades are held
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all across United States that wealready talked about.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Over 600 over 600.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Almost 12% of all Americans claim Irish ancestry,
which is funny because morepeople of Irish ancestry live in
the United States that thenactually live in Ireland.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Math checks on on that.
I suppose it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Ireland's huge right but it's just kind of
interesting how more Irishpeople, or they, claim they're
Irish.
Right a lot of people claimthey're I Irish on same back.
Exactly yeah, when did theytake that?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
at March 17th.
It's exactly like all of asudden there's 80% Irish in in
the the states.
I claim no Irish background atall.
I guess I've never.
I've never done the cheek swabDNA test thing, not for crime
stuff, for the History.
I've never done anything likethat at all.
But yeah, I don't think that Ihave any.
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There's no Irish at all in myhead, it's all just Swedish and
Norwegian, and it's most.
Swedish will tell you thatSweden own Norway at the time.
So you're 100% Swedish is whatthey told me at one point.
That's what all I got, I think,as far as my background.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
But yeah, I don't have any Irish.
I've never done the ancestrycalm thing.
But right my family is likeNorwegian, swedish, dutch,
german, pretty much most of theScandinavian countries.
In part of our state is most ofthem.
You know, in 1762 we alreadytalked about, you know, new York
City parade started with peoplein the military that were
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Homesticks.
They started their own stPatrick's Day parades here in
the country.
The first one took place in1762 With over a hundred and
fifty thousand people.
Oh wow, in 1762.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I couldn't buy that that many people in that time
frame.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Right in that setting doing those things.
I can't imagine there's muchfor plumbing probably, in fact,
the first toilet was put inSeattle.
Actually, I learned that when Iwas in Seattle.
Since you brought up plumbingand whatever.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
So not in New York in now.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Okay, John Crapper there.
Yeah, it was his name.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I think I remember that I did have heard that
before.
I didn't know the Seattle part,but I think I have heard that
name.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
It was in Seattle.
Yeah, so the st Patrick's Dayparade.
It is the oldest, the world'soldest civilian parade, that
original one in New York City,and it's the largest in the
United States.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Wow, that is it.
I mean it's not terriblysurprising that they'd have the
largest one, but you know it's athat is pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Currently, more than 3 million people line the parade
route as of today to take partin the St Patrick's Day Parade,
and the route to the parade isone and a half miles long and it
takes more than five hours forthe parade to come to an end.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
So this one, this next one?
We all know this happens.
I was curious about this.
The Chicago River, of course weall know that gets dyed green.
It looks green as hell man.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
It looks like fungus.
I mean, it looks kind of greenoften, but that's not a positive
way.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Yeah, so the whole system.
They've been dyeing that rivergreen on St Patrick's Day since
1962.
When the first year they everdyed the river, they used over
100 pounds of dye to dye theriver.
That kept the river green foralmost a week.
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Today they don't use quite thatmuch.
They only use 40 pounds ofgreen dye color to dye the river
, but still enough.
Yeah, because look how green itlooks when you see that on TV
and when they post it all oversocial media and stuff.
But they do that forenvironmental reasons, of course
, but you think you'd use moredye and more things like that
(38:54):
when you're dyeing that much ofa river, that many gallons of
water.
They only use 40 pounds of dyeand it lasts for about five
hours.
It's about how long it lasts.
And, of course, guinness let'stalk about Guinness.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
This is two guys from Guinness.
Oh yeah, of course we're goingto talk about Guinness.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
And of course, guinness is an Irish beer.
It's a dark beer.
Now I haven't had it for a longtime.
I'll have to try it again on myolder palette.
My younger palette didn't likeGuinness so much.
Right, You'll have to do a showon that baby.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
It's kind of crazy how people will say there's
certain things that are in aquiet taste.
But isn't it kind of funny howyou'll have not only the
acquired taste but you'll havethe?
I've acquired this taste, butnow this tastes different.
The developed taste, I guess,is what I'd call it.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
I like that.
I do like that a lot.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
More of that forward thinking.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
It's a year on Visionary stuff.
Amanda pay attention to this.
Pay attention to this.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Yep, yep, this is high level stuff we're talking
about.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
So Guinness, of course.
The St Patrick's Day alone theydouble their sales.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
What that's not surprising at all.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Compared to regular days they sell according to
their numbers.
5.5 million pints of Guinnessis sold on St Patrick's Day.
You count that right.
No, where it's all sold, Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Right.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
The world or.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Ireland, that's still a lot.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
That's still a lot.
5 million pints of Guinness,that's a lot of pints.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
And you got to prepare for that too, because
you got to start making thatweeks ahead of time.
Make sure it's bottled andready and settled and ready for
distribution.
Shake it up a little bit, yeah,whatever you got to do, put the
little ball bearing or whatever.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Get it going.
I was just thinking of that?
Speaker 2 (40:40):
actually it's like marble.
I remember that shaking it up.
I think the first time I everhad one was at your house in
Cambridge when you were rentingthat house behind.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
SAA, probably could be.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
I think it was Tanner that busted it out.
Actually, I was going to say Idon't remember that I ever
bought that.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
He probably got that because he thought it was cool
with the ball bearing or marbleor whatever it was Right, that's
what it was.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
And then he was laughing at me because I was
like I don't know about this,which did.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Back then.
He does not exactly have thegreatest beer pallets of all
time.
We were like 22 at the time,right, I?
Don't think any of us had apretty good beer pallet at the
time.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
No, no, not at all.
I mean, I was drinking MillerHigh Life.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
That was true, but that's a good choice, though it
wasn't too.
Especially you get like a nicewarm summer day.
It's good stuff.
A lot of cream belt, a lot ofcream belt premium A lot of
liquor back then.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
I drank a lot more liquor when I was younger.
Now I'm not so keen on theliquor as much.
But yeah, so we talked aboutthe longest St Patrick's Day
parade, let's talk about theshortest.
Oh, here we go.
This is going to put you overthe top.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
This is going to be.
This is next level type ofstuff.
This is elite level.
Arkansas, arkansas, yeah, ourKansas.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
They have the shortest parade.
How short is the shortestparade?
98 feet.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
I feel like the lineup would be longer than the
actual parade.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
That's a disrespect to Irish people in the St.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Patrick 98 feet.
That's like just slightly morethan running from first base to
second base in baseball.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Like by eight feet.
Yeah, it's 90 feet.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
It's, that's a how about that?
That's 98 feet.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
It reserve your spot.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Now I was going to say that you probably got.
You still probably got the oldladies that are like setting out
their lawn chair three daysahead of time, making sure they
got their parade spot, you knowsecured.
Put their chair down.
Public works is coming outthere kicking it off to the side
.
Get out of here, ethel.
You got to know, you got towait.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Yeah, I don't know, that was pretty crazy.
I'm like 98 feet.
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (42:51):
at 98 feet, right, you're just trying to set a
record.
At that point in time, you'reprobably running it to at 98
feet long.
I bet you that was probably amatter of there was like a float
, that was that long.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
It's surprising that's just I'm guessing but
that's less than two semitrailers.
Yeah, 53 foot semi trailer.
Mm, hmm, ��주인재에, wow, yeah,that's possible, yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Huh, that's 98 feet.
That is something else Crazy.
Huh, what else we got ChurchesMore trivia.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
How many churches do you?
Speaker 1 (43:27):
know in our name, st Patrick, I'm guessing there's
probably a handful.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
There's about 450 of them, give or take.
Give or take, yep.
And you know, of course, stPatrick's Cathedral over in New
York, the big popular one, yep,and I was in.
About 5.5 million touristsevery year.
That's a lot, it sure is.
Hmm, and I'm out of facts.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
Yeah, out of facts, out of facts.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
No cool stories.
A lot of cool facts.
Eddie's going to win sometrivia.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
It's a lot of yeah, I'm going to win trivia.
You're going to have to makesure you keep tuned to the
podcast to get the resultsmoving forward, because you got
to be able to know what they'redoing here.
So while you were kind oftalking about that a little bit,
I kind of a little bit wentdown.
So I think I said before that Ihad kind of an idea of
something I was going to talkabout.
We're going to go ahead andscrap that.
I'm going to crumple that up,I'm going to toss it, because I
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kind of went down the old Amanarabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
Oh, he went down the Amana, amana, amana.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Amana, amana, amana.
How do you pronounce that?
Amana Amana?
Speaker 2 (44:30):
It's probably Amana.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
I'm hoping to say, that's what I'm going for E at
the end.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Just the E at the end makes the A go A, otherwise
it's A or something.
You remember that?
That's what I remember.
I'm kind of guessing at thispoint, Don't mind me.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Again, we're going to have to go there on the summer
tour to the Amana colonies.
Is what it is, perfect, it isactually so.
There is a manna that we talkedabout that where Millstream is,
but it is a colony that isseven villages on 26,000 acres,
(45:07):
which is about the size of atownship for Minnesota.
Just for comparison wise, ifyou're not familiar, google what
your local jurisdiction is.
I guess I don't really know.
It's about the same size as,like some of the townships in
our area.
At least Roughly speaking,that's kind of what you're
looking at In Iowa, east CentralIowa, with a handful of
(45:28):
different locations.
What happened was is it wasGerman state government.
Villages were built and settledby German radical peatists, I
believe, that were persecuted bytheir homeland German state
government and Lutheran churchand kicked them right out of
there.
So they settled at one point inthat area.
They survived basicallyself-sufficient with a local
(45:51):
economy, just self-sufficientfor 80 years, living kind of a
communal life until about 1932.
So they kind of moved into thatarea about 1856 and until about
1932, they kind of got hit hardwith the Great Depression.
They ended up creating anonprofit organization that kind
of helped with that a littlebit, called the Imana Society,
(46:12):
which included the ImanaCorporation.
I'm not sure if that's theImana brand appliances.
I don't think so, but that'swhat the Imana Corporation is.
Yeah, that is the ImanaCorporation, an American brand
of household appliances, foundedin 1934 by George Forstner, the
electrical equipment company inMiddle Imana, iowa, to
(46:35):
manufacture commercial walk-incoolers.
Wow, so this is that Imana,that is that Imana.
We have now learned a littlebit about that.
The seven villages are a touristattraction for their
restaurants and craft shops.
They are also a nationalhistoric landmark as of 1965.
The organizations in the area,or the cities, if you will, or
(47:00):
villages, I guess you could callthem, is what they list them on
here Middle Imana, imana orMain Imana.
Population 442, 442.
Wow, but that's pretty goodsize brewery for that area, I'm
kidding.
South Imana, homestead, westImana, high Imana and East Imana
.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
What kind of Imanas?
Speaker 1 (47:24):
It's Imana Middle, imana South, imana West, imana
High, imana East, Imana andHomestead.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
Perfect.
What's the total population ofall that?
Speaker 1 (47:32):
It's going to be probably about 1,500.
Wow, imana is the biggest at581.
Imana at 442.
South Imana is third at 159.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
I know what they're doing on a Friday night they're
going to the brewery.
They're going to the brewery.
They're having some of thatmeat sticks from the place.
Next, door.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
Absolutely, they're going to go have some
shenanigans and they're going tolisten to the best live music
in the Midwest Perfect, that'swhat they're going to be doing.
So if you're from the Imanaarea, reach out.
We're going to come hang outwith you.
That sounds like a great time.
Absolutely, we want to comecheck that out.
So that should be part of thesummer tour.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly.
Why would?
Speaker 1 (48:13):
we, because shenanigans, shenanigans that's
what we're really all about.
That's kind of what I live mylife with, but it's fine, don't
worry about it.
That's what I like to be, ableto do.
All right, I concur.
What else you got today, sean?
Any more trivia?
Speaker 2 (48:31):
I have no trivia, except for facts.
There.
No theories, no facts.
I've fact it out.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
We kind of went down the rabbit hole of St Patrick
and his details and the Imanabrand colony.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
There's a lot more into St Patrick, of course, if
you look up in New Mart.
It's quite interesting how hewas kind of like stolen and
comes back and he turns into apatron.
But he's not technically apatron, but he's a patron and
all that stuff.
It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
There's some good facts that you might know
verified or not, maybe ifthey're not, and that might
actually make it more fun.
But if you put that, maybe, inthe comments to the video,
whether it be on YouTube,facebook, whatever it may be
that you are consuming ourpodcast, well, we are consuming
shenanigans.
Go ahead, get back to us.
(49:18):
Definitely, give us somefeedback.
But if you have some facts,some random facts, we'd like to
be able to hear some stuff, sothrow it out there.
We'd like to be able to seewhat's going on and, to a
certain extent, it's good to beable to have a true fact, but
it's also kind of fun to let'ssee, like, what's the most off
the wall thing that we can comeup with.
On that one Letter rep, I havefaith in our listeners to be
able to come up with somethingreally good.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
They're pretty smart.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
They're smarter than we are.
Well, I mean, obviously that'sjust a given thing.
Yeah, that's kind of what wegot today, Perfect.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Yeah, I don't really have anything else.
Thanks a lot for listening,watching all this stuff.
Let us know we appreciate allthe support.
Again, this is just fun for us.
We're having a great time doingit.
It's growing, thanks toeverybody watching, paying
attention.
We really appreciate it.
Get yourself some shenanigansif it's available in your area.
Thanks a lot.
Everybody appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
And we'll wrap things up.
I do have to pass along.
I apologize for not wearing thepajama pants today, but trying
something a little bit different.
Today's episode, but maybe nexttime, who knows?
We'll see what happens.
But until then, cheerseverybody.
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