What happens if you replace Popeye’s spinach with a beer??

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Speaker 3 (00:55):
This is What's on Tap Radio beer and the truly
it flows with it. Here's beer Guru Jeames Simpson and
beer logics Chad Pillbeam.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Here we are.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
We are one hundred percent fully prepared for today's episode.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
I love it. Start off the episode by violating the
FCC with false advertising.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
All right, I'm gonna be honest with you.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I was running really really late today, so Chad and
Bill have been sitting there, you know, getting the show ready,
while I'm just like, hey, guys, what's what's on the
one sheet?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
And they're like, I don't know. I thought you were
doing the one sheet.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Anyways, Hey, welcome to the show. We'll figure that out
one segment at a time. I'm James Simpson, joined by
bid Logy, Chad Pilbeam, and back from ice fishing hard
Black Bill.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Hope you caught us some dinner, Bill, I.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Did not, Okay, Well, go back out the.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Time.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
Well, well, especially since it was like ten degrees and
forty mile an hour wind blizzard.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well, I would think that's what I would know, the
difference under the ice, dude, and that what ice fishing
is all about.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I would could be concerned if feels ninety five degrees.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
Yeah, we had plenty of keep you warm juice.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Right, all right, Well, James, you know you were right
you said you were run behind, were out here waiting.
Things got so desperate, you know, people were driving down
the road are like, what's going on in there? Looks
like a party, and uh yeah, we picked up another
extra stunt beer liver so that we had somebody else
sitting in the corner. We may talk to him later on,
but he brought beer.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh okay, that's good.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Stunt beer liver, Mike, he shows up, he doesn't have
to sit on the floor.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
So I'm still going through background checks. Maybe in the
next few weeks I'll have a stunt beer liver here
in studio. But you know, still background checks, security checkpoints
and stuff.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
You know, I heard, I heard, our good buddy, here's
our first name drop of the show. Brian Holsen was
coming over. But then again he's like, yeah, I'm on
my way. Oh wait, no, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I got his son's getting married this week, so congratulations. Yeah, yeah,
right Sarasota, Florida, So congratulate.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
He's going to be stopping by heuse in California.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Now he's in Florida's busy. You know, he's going to
be bringing back a haul of beer for you to share.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
I can't wait. I'm good for you for it.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
So all right, speaking of beer, let's do something good.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Drinks some beer before we get underway.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
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Cast Brandingcast brand name dot com. All Right, I need
a beer because it's been a week. It's been a week.
It's been a week.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Wait, it's been a week since you've had a beer?
Pretty much, it's spent a week as in, it's been a.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Difficult no, no, no, no, it's been about a week since I've
had a beer.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I've been I'm in tournament baseball season right now and
been busy, busy, busy, busy.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
So I know, what position do you play?

Speaker 2 (03:50):
The PA the broadcast, so you talk for a living.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Just like this, okay, podcast, you don't have to abstain.
It's not like you're an athlete. All right, why don't
you go first? Brought to the table, brought to you
by our friends at the Backyard Grill located on the
northwest side of Houston. Get out there, check out the
crawfish game. Wash down with one of the over one
hundred beers and James, I think we need to let

(04:14):
you go first.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
I am gonna go because it's.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
Been a week. And do you have a mystery beer?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
I do so.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Speaking of the north side of Houston, Lone Pine Brewing
Company out of Magnolia.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Coming out with new styles.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
You know, obviously they're famous for their yellow rose and
they're double yellow rows. But hey, they're expanding their horizons.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
And I got a test batch and.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
It's in a tall Boy says they're right there, tall Boy.
But it doesn't say what beard is on the dang label.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
It does not say tall Boy.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
It says tall Boy.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
B Oh. I hate that, b O I b O I.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
But anyways, that's not what's important. What's important what's in
the can. I'm gonna crack this and I have no idea,
no idea what's in here. I'm hoping it's black, because
if it is, I think I have an idea.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
What it is. Yeah, if it's black, it is, Oh
from the nose.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
I already know what it is from the nose, Thank goodness. Okay,
this is what I was hoping the beer was gonna be.
Like I said, I had no idea, but it is
black as midnight.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
But it smells hoppy.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Oh it's got an SRM of fifty there James Nerd.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Yeah, but the iv U is way up there.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
This my friend, this my friend is a black India
pale ale.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
I knew you, son of us.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
You suck.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
I hate you right now.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
So I told Chad and Bill I had no idea
what I was bringing the table because, like I said,
there's no labeling on the can what it is. And
so I was like, I have a feeling I know
what it is, but I feel it was like a pillsner.
I was like, oh, I'm screwed, but it's.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
A black I PA. But however, I don't know the
name of it.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
But I'm gonna do some research after Chadd and Bill
tell us what they brought to the table.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
But this is amazing, amazing.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
I was really hoping to see since that beer can
had no label on it, I wanted to hear you
just I had that beer flawlessly with the hop editions
I will but.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
I gotta let it bread for a second. I always
do that in the second segment.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Shut up, Okay, here we go.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
I gotta do it about what's on tap radio.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
It's like a podcast glass compliments of Harbor Light Brewing.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
And man, that is nice. All right.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
I am going to set that aside and toss it
to Bill and Chad for them to enlighten. That's what
they brought to the table. And then coming back from break,
I will break the beer down.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
All right, So here we go. As I mentioned last week,
I went to Templan Family Brewers in Salt Lake City, Utah.
And the reason I'm so upset with James right now
is because he has access to one of the greatest
beer styles ever made, the Black ipa, also known as
the Cascadian Dark Ale. And and I'm stuck here drinking
one of my least favorite beer styles, a hazy ipa.

(06:50):
But I had to bring this one back to the show.
Last year, after I went to Salt Lake City, I
noticed that they had a hazy ipa called Squirrel, and yeah,
the Squirrel gold medal winning World Beer Cup Hazy Ipa
twenty twenty three. Now you may be thinking, why did

(07:11):
I bring this beer back again after I brought it
last time, right after they won the World Beer Cup
for the you know, the gold in the Hazy Ipa category.
Well they did it again. They won the gold in
the Hazy Ipa category the World Beer Cup two years
in a row. That is an impressive feat. So Templan

(07:33):
Family Brewers, whenever I say that they make damn good beer,
they make damn good beer, even if it's a style
I don't like. Bill, give James a quick tasting note
on it, because I don't want to describe it.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
Yeah, it's really really good. A lot of fruit, a
lot of.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
You're doing great, but it's really really good. He worked
all night on those lines, folks.

Speaker 5 (07:53):
Although it is advertised as a juicy India pal Al,
not sure.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
If it's a hazy all right, well guess hey, we'll
get more on that. Templan Family Brewers. The Squirrel, the
award winning squirrel in James has the mystery beer resolved
or solved, the Black I PA from Long Point Brewery.
But James tell everybody what we got on tapis.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
We're gonna talk about the inaugural class of the American
Craft Beer Hall of Fame. We're gonna talk about an
Atlanta brewery that's suing Wilson Coors, telling what's going on there,
and hey, did you know that beer is actually doing
great for the economy. We'll discuss this all. This is
so much more, including and coming right after this break
Official What's on Tap right, your fun Factor of the week.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
We will be right back.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
After reading about the evils of drinking. We made up
our mind. We're gonna stop reading. What's on Tap Radio
continues with James Simpson and Chad Pilbeam.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
So if you miss the first segment. Also, and I
was running late. A lot going on. We're in baseball
season already, and Jad just told me something great during
this break.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
I'm very happy about this. Did you say you have
a rip from Reddit?

Speaker 4 (09:10):
We do?

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Oh man, it's music to my ears.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
It's all right. I opened up the internet and you
know they have read it on the internet. Now real,
it's crazy. Oh yeah, tell me more.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
What's on this internet thing you speak of?

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Well, the thing is after I put in the disc
for my fifteen free bonus minutes from AOL, I dialed up.
I was able to get on there and some guy,
a Nigerian prince, he wanted my social Security number, and
after I gave it to him, he introduced me to
this thing called Reddit, and boom, next thing, you know,
I got a notification from my bank something about my
account and I was like, I don't have time for that.

(09:46):
I just discovered Reddit. And then there was this story
that I am definitely bringing on air tonight, and yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
That's exciting because I haven't literally ventured onto this internet thing.
I'm still collecting my nine CDs for a penny.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh nice promotion.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah yeah, well, you know I gave up on that.
I wait, I'm waiting until I win the publisher's clearing
how sweepstakes before I signed back up for that. By
the way, every single twenty something year old right now
listening to the show is like, who are these old
people and what are they talking about? Oh, don't worry,
ed McMahon here to explain it to you.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, what I'm talking about is you're all right, sir.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
What I brought to the table here from Lone Pint
Brewing Company out of Magnolia, Texas. They have a limited
release called the It's a black I PA It's called
the Brewer Select and I let it breathe for a second.
So I'm gonna go ahead and take another swig of
this out of my what's on tap radio. It's like
a podcast Glass compliments over at Harbor Light Brewing. Hmm roasty, hoppy,

(10:47):
masterpiece chad.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Mmm. I wouldn't say it's about seven percent alcohol.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Oh nice, but uh I see. And for that not
to be written on the can like that, for you
to pick that up as you had amazing palette facts,
you can back that up.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
It has not written anything on the can. The only
thing that says on the can is the sixteen ounce
tall boy boy.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
They misspelled boy boys their hipsters and they wear they
wear a trucker's hat with a flat brim and and
they probably still have a no fear shirt that they wear.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
It's a billabong, Chad bill bong or no, it's yoga.
It's yoga anyways. Yeah, Dark Malls, Bright Hops, Bright Balance,
and I have it. I have some bad news to report.
Once it's gone, it's gone. Once it's gone, it's gone.
So that's if you can, if you can make your
way to the brewery, or you know, follow the truck,

(11:34):
the distribute truck. Maybe it falls off the back of
the truck and into your car, you know, get your
hands on it. Like I said, the limited release black,
I p a.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Just encourage somebody to steal beers.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
I didn't say that, truck, No, I didn't.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
We're short on material for for hold my beer and
watch this and spotlighting drunk criminals, so you could be next.
All right. So that's the beer you brought, and I
tell you, the way you described that beer beautifully kind
of reminds me of the beer that we have here.
The Squirrel Juicy India Palao from Templan Family Brewers, Salt
Lake City, Utah, the two time gold medal winner out
there at the World Beer Cup, which Harby light Bill

(12:09):
described as good, good, and nice job Bill.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
It's more citrus and topical, though.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
It's more citrus than tropical. I don't know if I
call it a hazy, but it's definitely juicy because it
says so on the can. Oh Man, speaking of it's
meeking a beer cans. You know what, James, I'm gonna
go ahead and talk a little bit about a beer can,
but I'm also gonna talk about an icon that goes

(12:37):
back to your childhood here, and we're gonna tie it
in with beer and make it all fun and fact base.
I'm putting the raiders on. Hit that button. Let's make
a memory.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Now, the official What's on Tap Radio fun fact of
the week, brought to you by Who's ever checked clear
this week?

Speaker 2 (12:54):
All right, Professor Pilbeam, take it away.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
Yeah, I checked the mailbox and I was looking for
those checks. So all right, that's seene.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah, let me know when they get there.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
I like, yeah, yes, me too. Yeah, I know the
creditors are calling. All right, we've been doing the show
eleven years, and that means you're not been around for
a minute and doing beer Radio. You've been on a
little bit longer than me, because you are the founder
of this program. I don't know if you ever remember
hearing this story about Popeye's Chicken doing beer canned chicken.

(13:26):
Do you remember the story anything about it?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
I don't, but I have a really funny Popeyes Chicken story.
But no, I don't know if I've heard this story.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
All right, Well, Popeye's, the chicken chain, announced all the
way back in twenty fourteen that they were serving beer
canned chicken made without beer cans. Turns out that their
version of beer caned chicken. Not only did it not
have beer cans, but it didn't have any beer in
it at all. In fact, there was no beer up
the chicken's butt. There was no beer in the butt.
And it was deep fried. In fact, it was strips

(13:54):
of chicken battered in deep fried. It was chicken tenders.
But they called it beer canned chicken, and somehow it
had this mysterious beer flavor to it, which no one
ever really could say that it did. But hey, for
three ninety nine, you got it with fries and a biscuit,
and that still wasn't enough to make it a hit.
But by the way, bonus fun fact. You know what

(14:15):
city has the most Popeyees Chicken franchise locations? Lafayette, Louisiana exactly, Houston, Texas.
Nice job, you nailed it, well done, Houston, Texas. I
know you think of Louisiana whenever you think of Popeye's Chicken,
but it's Houston, Texas, all right. Costing a little bit
more than three ninety nine. If you go on the internet, yep,

(14:35):
that's that thing that they have on computers now, you
can find yourself a limited edition vintage wind up Popeye.
Speaking of Popeye toy And if you're wondering what this
limited edition nineteen sixties wind up Popeye toy. When you
wind it up, he has a beer glass in his
hand and he starts drinking beer. Yeah, toys were just
cooler back then. It's one hundred and seventy eight dollars

(14:58):
and ships from Sweden, and there's only one left. So
if you're thinking of some last minute shopping ideas for yours,
truly the Beer Logic Guy, feel free to go online.
It's available on Etsy, by the way, and from Sweden
one hundred and seventy eight dollars. You can get this
one of a kind Popeye toy, but one seventy eight
is out of your price range. Stream ninety nine, you
can't get the beer chicken anymore. Celebrating the ninety fifth

(15:20):
anniversary of Popeye and the trademark, which by the way,
just expired, the Latin American beery Bode Brown made history
with the first ever beer collaboration with a cartoon character.
They partnered with Popeye the Sailorman from King Feature Cartoons,

(15:42):
making Popeye Progressive Lagger a four point nine percent German
lagger with German hops, Bavarian yeese, and you guessed it.
Take a guess what else? Spinach with fresh spinach. That's right,
fresh spinach. And of course Martin House disappointed. They're like,
damn it, we could have made that. Yeah, they couldn't. No,
So for fifteen ninety nine, you can get yourself a

(16:03):
four pack and you can get your hands on that,
but Popeye's Beer Chicken can't get it. Vintage Popeye toys
too expensive. Maybe you're gonna look for that four pack.
But none of that is your official What's on Tap
Radio Fun Fact of the week. Because all of this
discovery on Popeye, I had to know where did Popeye
come from? What is the history of him? And this

(16:23):
is your official What's on Tap Radio Fun Fact of
the Week. Turns out that Popeye the Sailorman, he was
not just a figment of somebody's imagination. He was a
real person and he lived in Chester, Illinois, and was
created by Elsie Kreisler Segar. Now Segar grew up in Chester,
and he based the character on a real sailor. Frank

(16:46):
Rocky Feigel born in Poland in eighteen sixty eight and
emigrated to the United States, where he joined the Navy
in eighteen eighty seven. Now, why is it any of
this significant to you? What's on tap radio listeners? I
thought this was a beer show. I didn't know we
were enlisting into the armed forces. Well, Frank Rocky Figel
was none other than a bouncer at the Why Bush

(17:09):
Tavern in Chester, Illinois, and he regularly got into fights
with drunk patrons. He was hired to keep the peace.
The real Popeye the Sailorman was a bouncer in a bar,
and the comic was inspired after meeting Rocky at the
tavern where Seger lived, and after meeting him and seeing
his unique physical features, he demanded to know what happened

(17:32):
because it turns out that the real Popeye had a
deformed eye from a broken orbital and talked out of
the side of his mouth. Why because he got beat
up in too many bar fights. So your official What's
on TEP radio fun fact of the week is that
Popeye the Sailorman is a real person and his name
was Frank Rocky Figel, who looks exactly like the cartoon character,

(17:56):
and he has a busted eye, a speech impediment, and
they all came from bar fights. Bonus fun fact he
had a really tall, skinny wife who inspired the character
Olive Oil. And that is your official What's on Tap
Radio fun fact of the week.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Wow, that's good. That's a good one. All right, Chad,
you get a plus on that.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
Get another week. You're gonna keep me around, all right.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
See we learned something. All right, let's take a break.
Come back. Chadd and Bill went out to the Michigan
winter Fest beer fest. We're gonna talk about that.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Hey, beer's actually helping the economy despite all the bad
news about Brewer's closing, it's helping the economy. And Monday
Night Brewing we're gonna talk about them. In the inaugural
American Craft Beer Hall of Fame class, we'll talk about that.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
All this is so much more.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Hang with us, we'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
On average, humans walk nine hundred miles per year, entering
twenty two gallons of beer, which means the average human
gets forty one miles per gallon. Not Ben, What's on
Tap Radio continues.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
I just googled.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
The the original Popeye and I'm not exactly sure if
this is the real Popeye that Chad was talking about
or an AI generated Popeye.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
But yeah, the guy looks just like the cartoon.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
Oh, he looks exactly like him. That's the real deal,
is it?

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Because you know, nowadays everything's ai generator. You can't tell
what's real and what's fake. But what's a real story
is I was reminded of Chad was talking about Popeyes
and so forth, and back in two thousand and five,
Herricue Katrina swept through Louisiana and pretty much flooded all
of New Orleans and then a lot of residents from

(19:47):
New Orleans came to Houston. They found refuge in the
Astrodome temporary displacement.

Speaker 4 (19:54):
Special guest for What's on Tap Radio today?

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Oh, look at that. Look at I got a special
guest in the studio. I got a special guest in studio.
Hey take a seat. Hey, get this guy Glass, get
this guy.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
No he's not there, Yes, no, he's not there.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Another I do have a special guest in studio, and
I know he's probably on borrowed time. So anyways, real
quick about this, uh this story about Popeyes? Right, So,
you know they were interviewing people at the Astrodome about
you know, getting acclimated with the city because they were
you know, they're away from home.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
And so they're interviewing this this.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
This lady and they were talking about, you know, how
they like Houston and I, Hey, how do you.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Like the schools? And she's talking about the schools.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
And then they asked the reporter asked, well, how do
you like the churches here? And the lady kid you not,
looks at the report and.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Goes churches churches.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
We got a Popeyes.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
I died, I died good died.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Okay, So yeah, that's that's my Popeye story.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Now, Chad, why don't you crack a beer and then
let's talk about this Michigan Winter Beer Festival.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah, we got a few things we need to clear
up because something just happened in your studio. I'm not
about that.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Second.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yeah we will, we will. But hanging out here at
the Beer Logic World Headquarters and Drinking Emporium on third
Mike Harbor light Bill. He's getting ready to pour a
beer and we have another stunt beer liver Mike in
the corner. Who he you know, we checked his references.
He brought beer to the show. And not only that,
but you know, we did a background check. Everything everything

(21:38):
checks out. So he's hanging out with us, and we're
gonna see what beer he brought later on. But right now,
this is one from Harbor Light Bill and we will
talk about the Michigan Winter Beer Fest. But Bill, tell
everybody what we're drinking.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yeah, but called Maggie's Frog. It's a key we lime,
sour ale, very light, nice, Chris and uh, from the
expression of Chad's face, fright sour.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
It's a little tart. Wait, it's good. It's hot tart. Wow.

Speaker 5 (22:07):
Yeah, comes in just over five percent and super light,
nice and clean.

Speaker 4 (22:13):
Finish is good.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
A little bit.

Speaker 5 (22:14):
Dry, but it's hard to tell with the bottom the
low pH in that.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
I think this is a thirst quencher, which is perfect
for those you know, eighteen degree Michigan winners. This is perfect.
I love it. Actually, it reminds me of being on
vacation in a warmer place. Thank you, it took me somewhere. Hey,
thanks for taking me on vacation. I'm gonna it took
my palette there. Wow, I'm not gonna lie. This is

(22:40):
very aggressive, but I love it. It's I'm not sure
I could say it's balanced in anything, but man, it's good.
It is delicious, So yeah, pucker up. Buttercup. What is
this Maggie's frog.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
Maggie's frog.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
All right, that's what we're drinking. So James, what you
want to talk What do you want to talk about?
What happened in your studio there just a minutely?

Speaker 1 (23:03):
No, No, I'm going to talk about that in a second.
But I do want to talk about the you Wanner
beer fest. But in the first segment we're talking about
you know, I'm gonna get stump beer livers in studio.
But we got to clear waivers and background checks and
there's a lot of security detail that goes on and
getting somebody in studios. And I have somebody that just

(23:23):
cleared the background checks and my wife escorted them in
and uh say hello, hello everybody that my friend is
one neighbor Chris in studio.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
Neighbor Chris is back, Chris, oh man, Yeah, I haven't
seen that cat in a long time.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Haven't either. I haven't either.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
And all of a sudden, you know, I hear we
are talking about Popeyes, and here comes neighbor Chris is like,
you have a blacky pa. I heard you guys talking
about on the radio, and so he ran right over here,
and uh, what do you think about the black I
p a, yeah, hey, but he's not, you know, I

(24:05):
was giving.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
He described it about as well as Bill describes his
own beers. It's good, it's better than good.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Oh man, this is a limited release.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
And this doesn't even see Chris, it doesn't you have
anything written on it.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
So I didn't even know what it was.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
And when I cracked it, and then I when I
opened it, all of a sudden you get these aromas
of happiness and it's roastiness. So anyways, uh, you and
Bill went out to the Winter Beer Festival beer Lovers Events,
that is the beer lovers event in Michigan during the winter.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
I like this event way better than any summer beer fest.
And I'm gonna tell you why. It's because everybody is
bundled up. Fashion is not that is not anything that
you need to worry about. It is about staying warm
and drinking good beer. And that's it. If you guys
bundle up and you're walking around, as long as you
don't get hypothermia and you have beer in your glass,

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life is good. And you see people dressed.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
In yeah, although there was quite a few very nice outfits.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
Oh yeah, there are people there was one dude. He
had winter boots that were made out of crocs, and
I mean these were like knee high winter boots made
out of crocs. And dude was walking with other guys
walking around with like a full bear suit on, and
you know, drinking through the mouth of a bear. You know,
just it was crazy. It was It was nuts. But
the Winter Beer Fest out there, there were ninety three

(25:34):
breweries out there at LMCU. I'm not going to tell
you who that is because you know, they don't sponsor
the show. I checked, but it's the ballpark where the
West Michigan white Caps play, and over five thousand people
decided to show up eighty three different beer styles, four
hundred and ninety nine someone counted. Somebody went and they're like,

(25:55):
do we got five hundred beers? Nope, four ninety nine.
All right, well we're stuck at four ninety nine different
beers to try. And Bill invited you know, super fan
number one, Christine, my wife out there. Go out there
and enjoy it, take in the sights. We even poured
some beer, talked to some fine customers, and promoted the
Michigan craft Beer Industry Harbor Light. Bill out there, you

(26:17):
were there. You were there before, I was after I was.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
Yeah. I like heading out to those places early because
the Michigan Brewers Guild does a real good job of
providing the Bloody Mary Bar first thing in the morning.
So yeah, that's always nice. If you're listening, you think
you're gonna hit that next year. No, you've got to
be a brewer to get that. So that's Bill rubbing
it in your face. That's at Harbor lighte. Bill, go
ahead and send that to him. So I get there early,

(26:41):
set up, and then it gives you a lot of
time to walk around, talk to your friends, talk to
new people, used to meet, try some new beers. All
in all, it's a great day. Got out of there
around probably nine to thirty at night, got there at
eight o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
Twelve Hours Festival, yeah, twelve thirteen. Oh yeah, it's a
good one. And being out, you know, after a while,
you know, you get windburn and everything just feels numb
and you don't care and you're just talking to your
friends and they've got fire pits out there. But I
want to say the coolest uh literally beer coolest tent. Yeah, literally,
the literally the coolest was the Shorts Beer Tent from

(27:18):
bel Air, Michigan, and they had an ice block beer
or not beer ice block bar.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
I saw the video. I saw the video, right.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
I think the best thing actually was the ice mug though.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
Yeah, they had a yeah, so they were They had
these mugs that you could get and and it was
it was carved out of ice. And then they pour
the beer in there and you walk around and drink.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
How do your lips not get stuck to it? Like
it's a scene from the Christmas Story.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
I don't know. Listen, I don't understand the physics of it.
You know. I left my PhD at home, so I
wasn't thinking that day to ask the question or solve
the solve the equation. I just was there to drink
and have fun, and we drank responsibly. We had a
lot of fun. We met a lot of people speaking
to me, meeting a lot of people. I want to
thank Mike and Nancy from the Hop Associate or the

(28:06):
Hop Associations Guild.

Speaker 5 (28:09):
No, the oh, hunting Bird farms.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
Thank you, Huntingbird that's sorry, Huntingbird farms Hops. They hooked
us up with some beer and we're gonna be talking
a little bit more about the Michigan Brewers Guild a
little bit later when we crack that open, as long
as we don't forget to take it out of the freezer,
because it's sitting in there right now. Very important. Speaking
of a great turnout.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Speaking of beer festivals, that you didn't get a chance
to make it out to the Winter beer Fest out
in Michigan. Put this on your calendar if you are
in my area, Texas markets, the Wild West Breufest. We're
gonna be talking to those folks coming up next week.
They have marked this on your calendar, March twenty seventh,
twenty eighth, twenty ninth. That's a Thursday, Friday and Saturday

(28:51):
Thursday kicking off of the Throwdown k Town Throwdown Fine
Lunch Party, which is my favorite event, and of course
the Saturday Night or the Saturday beer itself and tickets
available at Wyldwestbrewfest dot com, Wilesbreefest dot com. And we'll
be talking about that coming up the next few weeks.
But I understand we're gonna get a special appearance.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
From I was gonna go ahead and break that news.
We're gonna break that news right now. Harbord light Bill
making a trip to Texas. He is going to be
at the Katie why West Brewfest and this just in
breaking news. Yeah, I booked my flight. I'm coming guys,
so right, I will be there.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, we're gonna have the band's getting back together.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
That's right, it's a reunion. But that Bill and I
were doing the beer fest Bill, that's right? What is it?
Bill and Chad's excellent adventure to meet you?

Speaker 1 (29:38):
To meet Bill and Chad and get photos with them,
dude at the wyl West Brewfest. And like I said,
we'll talk more about that next week. But hey, we
gotta take a break still to come a lot to
talk about the inaugural American Crap Beer Hall of Fame.
We'll talk about that, and then we got to talk
about this lawsuit with Monday night.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Bring all, this is so much more. Hang with us.
We'll bright back.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Beer has hops, hops or plants. Plants make salad, so
beer is solid. Yeah, what's on Tempardio, James and Chad
talking about beer?

Speaker 2 (30:23):
All right? This is exciting.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Ye, American Craft Beer Hall of Fame. The inaugural class
announced one day, one day, I'll know somebody personally. Oh,
actually I do, actually do yeah, I do know a
few folks on there. Okay corrected, corrected.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Yeah, yeah, and maybe someday we'll win. A North American
beer writer just killed the word a kid.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Maybe I'm just gonna reading, okay, commercials. So, the American
Craft Beer Hall of Fame not yet in a brick
and mortars right now, just resides online. But they have
come out with their inaugural class of inductees and a
board of over one hundred electors made up as many

(31:16):
as craft beer's most respected and notable analysts, commentators, advocates
came to the consensus of the following twelve inductees for
this year's Hall of Fame.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
Now you said, this is not a brick and mortar location.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
They don't have. It's like no Cooperstown.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
There's a twenty one year old who's listening to the
show right now, Like, what's a brick and mortar? I
don't know what that means.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, that's a store that you go into that.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
What's a store is that? Like on the internet, I
just got to pop ups.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
I got to pop ups.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
No, I don't want to pop up. Pop up, you
know pop up that's a different kind of store. But yeah,
brick and mortar location. So you're saying that this thing
is on the internet. Yeah, I want to go to
the Craft Beer Hall of Fame, I can go online.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, but yeah, I'm even leave.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
In my house. I can stay in my underwear and
still go.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
You can, all right, you want to take a look
at this year's inaugural class of inductees.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
Now I'll let you do it.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Okay, fair enough.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
So now a lot of our listeners might not know
who these folks are, but I will tell you that
I had a huge impact on the industry. Some we've
had on the show, some we have not. For example,
Fred Eckhart, he's a He was a Portland based craft
beer advocate and writer. I've we referenced many of his
stories on this show in the eleven years that we've
done this.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
And I was gonna say, if you if you're not
familiar with him and why that's important in Portland, if
you don't, unless we forget that Portland was known as
beer Vona at one point in time, had the most
breweries per capita of any city. It was sort of
the mecca of the West Coast craft beer movement in

(33:00):
the late eighties. Actually I'd say even the early eighties
all the way through the early two thousands.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
You know, it's interesting.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Not only is Portland, organ like a craft beer mecca,
but Portland, Maine also another craft beer mecca, which is
pretty interesting if you don't know, if you've gotten out there, Yeah,
they have a big craft beer I've.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
Been to Portland, Maine. I have not been to Portland,
organ So thank you for giving Portland Maine the same credentials,
because I can say I have been all right.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
So next on the list we have Charles and Roseanne Finkel,
founders of Pike Brewing.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Founders of Pike Brewing.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
The thing I liked about Charles Finkel is he was
always a guest beer judge and a lot of the
beer publications and his reviews of beers was just spectacular,
all right, again, a really good palette and a really
good writer.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Talking about the inaugural class of the American Craft Beer
Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Next on the list we have Bert Grant.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
He's a beer advocate who opened first modern brewpub in
US and also was, I'm if I remember correctly off
the top of my head, one of the founder of
Yakamo Hops.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
You maybe, yeah, Yep, he was Burt Grant. Correct me
if I'm wrong, but the first brewpub was in Washington State. Okay,
leave all right, next, Yeah that was him, Burt Grant.
Next on the list a What's on tab Radio?

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Alum.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
We interviewed him over at Saint Arnold Brewing Company and
he actually signed a few bottles for us. Ken Grossman,
founder of Sierra Vonner.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Brewing never heard of it.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, but yeah, we actually got a chance to sit
down with him, and he gave us.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Probably about an hour.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
Oh yeah he did.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
He We caught him over he was doing the rounds
and we got wind of it that he was gonna
be over at Saint Arnold, and Saint Arnold Brewing Company
actually set up the interview. They put us in one
of their offices and we got a chance to interview
him with a great interview. That was a few years ago.
One of my all time favorite writers. I've read many
of his books, Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson, legendary English writer

(34:54):
and beer journalists. Not that Michael Jackson. And one of
my favorite stories that has ever been told on this
show is that when Michael Jackson was here in Houston
doing a cast tapping over at the ginger Man downtown. Yeah,
and then they he had to get to Austin, and
I think it was it was Scott Birdwell it's got

(35:16):
Blackwood made. Yeah, there's a name driving Chris Black and yeah,
they know he had to catch a flight.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
That's what it was.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
Yeah, it was it was it was Chris Black and
it was uh Bev black Wood that took him and
uh and they said, yeah, no problem, we'll get to
the airport.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
He asked for a rider's airport. He said, hey, do
you mind give me a ride of the airport and
like yeah, no problem, you know, no big deal. He
failed to mention that the airport was in Austin.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
It was like three hours away. They're like, wait, you
gotta go man. He's like, now, it'll be fine, I'll
make it. And he's signing autographs and everything. It's like,
you need to go now.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
If you ever go on YouTube and google Michael Jackson
and Conan O'Brien, he used to go on Conan O'Brien
all the time and in early years of Conan Brian
and the interviews are so funny.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
All right.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Next on the list, another alum of What's on Tap Radio.
Jim Cook, founder of Boston Beer company Heilme and his
Dockers and his denim shirt got elected into the inaugural
class of.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
The I wonder if it's gonna be like the like
like the hard rock cafe where they're gonna, you know,
where they hang up, like the different wardrobes of the
of the artist. If when when Jim Cook passes, like
some bar or some maybe the brick and mortar location
of the Craft Beer Hall of Fame is gonna get
a pair of his dockers in a denim shirt.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Like the Baseball Hall of Fame, They'll get like the
cleats of the player, the batting gloves. Yeah, that's what
the American Craft Beer Hall of Fame can do. They
can get his dockers and his denim shirt. Nice, love you, Jim,
all right. Next on the list Fritz Maytag, longtime owner
of Anchor Brewing, which Anchor Brewing has obviously been in
the news a lot lately with the the changing up

(36:54):
the ownership and the brewery closing and then coming back
to life and so forth.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
Yeah, that was a small seas brewery that was going
going out of business where he liked to frequent. When
he found out that it was like, hey, just get
your last pint because we're closed in next week. He
of the Maytag Appliance Empire decided to go in there
with his check book and say, all right, what's going
to cost to keep you guys making beer for me?
And I'll I'll be your boss. And he bought it,

(37:18):
and he ran it for a very long time until
selling it off to Supporo Industries of Japan.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
That's right, all right.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Now.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Next on the list of the inaugural class of the
American Craft Beer Hall of Fame, we have a Jack
mccauliffe and Jane Zimmerman and Susie Stern knew I'll be
in brewing.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
Since nineteen seventy six, credited as the first micro brewery
post prohibitions. So uh first, before before they called him
craft breweries, they called him micro brewers.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Oh yeah, remember Saint Arnold Brewering Company was like the
first micro brewery in Texas where they changed it.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
All right, this is.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
A name I'm not familiar with. Maybe you can help
me out with this one. Charlie Pepaisian, Does that.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Ring a bell?

Speaker 4 (38:00):
I've never heard of him.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Charlie PEPSI.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
I'm you know, it's kind of funny because I'm looking
over here at my Sierra Nevada autographed bottle by what
was that guy's name again? Yeah, yeah, Charlie Gross with
I got a Popaisian signed pint glass. The founder of
the American home Brewers Association and the Brewers Association, President
of that group for a very long time, over thirty years. Author,

(38:23):
author of many different books. But the reason we have
the Brewers Association there Boulder, Colorado, is because that man
would loved homebrew beer and wrote a lot of books
helping people out and created the American home Brewers Association,
which led to the Brewers Association and the Great American
Beer Festival.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
The founder of the Great American Beer Festival. I'm not
sure if you heard that. It's a little festal it's
going to catch on eventually, but yeah, the Great American
Beer Festival out in Denver, Colorado. But did you know
that he was an American nuclear engineer, you're.

Speaker 4 (38:54):
Kidding, an engineer who turned homebrewer.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
American engineer.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
Never heard that story.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
So again, these induxies from several faucets of the industry.
Brewery owners, brewery ryders, educators.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Each contributed greatly to the growth and development of the
craft beer in their own way.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
So congratulations there.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
Anybody that you think is missing from that that didn't
get mentioned as well?

Speaker 1 (39:13):
I mean, obviously there's so much, but you can only
bring in so many on the first class. But yeah,
obviously I can think of probably a dozen that first
round eligibility.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
You can only let some money in. But it'll be interesting.
Now if you, if you like in baseball, if you
miss a certain number of times, don't you aren't you
like excluded?

Speaker 5 (39:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (39:30):
He says right here, you only have three chances, and
it's per the writers of the craft beer industry.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
That's it. So all right, Larry Bell up next, Larry
Bell on deck.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
If you're tied to any steroids or any cheating scandals,
you may not be getting into the America.

Speaker 4 (39:47):
Sorry, James, what? All right? Never whoa sorry st fired.
I'm just kidding. I'm kidding.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
That's at Chad Bilbing by the way. All right, he's got.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
Enough scandals that he doesn't need me to make him up.
Our number ones in the books coming up next, our James.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Hold my beer and watch this.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
We're gonna talk about how beer industry is actually making
money for the global economy.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
All this is so much more hanging out now we're
number two. Hang with us. We'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
If you encounter wine snobs, just take a full class
of wine and put it to your ear. Mindes will
be blown. This is What's on Tap Radio?

Speaker 1 (40:36):
All right, welcome to our number two What's on Tap Radio,
which is pretty funny. In the first hour, in the
first segment brought to the table, I was talking about,
how you know, there's background checks, there's a lot of
security measurements that goes into being a stunt beer liver
here in studio ass and I was talking about how

(40:57):
you know, Brian Holzen was gonna come in and bring
us some beer that he brought back from California. But
then his son's getting married and in Florida, say I
get ready for that, And all of a sudden, like
here I am doing the show talking about Popeye's Chicken
after Chad's amazing fun Factor. If you missed that, by
the way, go check out our podcasts. Thanks to our
friends of our cast branding. But incomes neighbor Chris and
we shared the long pint brewing Black ipa limited edition,

(41:22):
but it's all gone now all gone. And so since
I have a stunt beer liver in studio, I'm gonna
step it up like Bill and Chad do, and I'm
gonna go barreled age.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
And I had one of these I brought to the table.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
Look who's flexing. Now I got a stunt beer liver.
Let's go barrel aging.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
I had one of these. I had two of these.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
I had one that I brought to the table a
few months back. But now that I have you in studio,
this is the I'm bringing back to the show.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Speaking of ser.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Nevada in camb the Narwall Imperial Stouts, I'm going crack.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Speaking of Ken Grossman, sharing about a brewing that's a
beautiful beer.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
It is beautiful and I'm gonna go and pour a
little bit of this. And this is another beer that's
just black as Midnights, just like the black IYPA was there.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
You go, Chris, help yourself there. And it's new jackets.
I gifted him a jackets and it looks really nice
on them.

Speaker 5 (42:19):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
I love it. Hey, hey, James, you care what I'm wearing?

Speaker 1 (42:26):
I mean you well, when you come visit me in studios,
you leave with gifts, So I'm just saying that you.

Speaker 4 (42:32):
Might not get a jacket and also leave there. Like
I just visited a Yankee candle store because James, how
many candles does he have?

Speaker 5 (42:40):
Lit?

Speaker 4 (42:40):
Right now? Chris, how many candles?

Speaker 2 (42:43):
I don't have any candles?

Speaker 4 (42:45):
None?

Speaker 2 (42:45):
No, I don't have any candles. No, I don't.

Speaker 5 (42:48):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
I know only because I have to go back to
White Barn and pick them up. Not a sponsor, whish
they were all right? So we got the nar wallace
here Nevada at eleven point nine percent ABV. It's not
as boozy as I remember it. Like I said, I
brought a few months ago, but I don't remember as
being as boozy.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
But yeah, it's not as boozy, excuse me.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
And it's been sitting for about a year here in studios.
I've been aging it. What do you think he's gonna
try it? He's trying it.

Speaker 4 (43:18):
Wait, wait, let's see what he says. Wait, taste as
good as okay, Wow, it tastes as good as the
can looks.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
I don't know. If you can't see it, I'll post
a picture of it to ourselves.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
We're a radio show. So I don't know for those
of you who are wondering, if you're you know, exit now, honey,
I gotta find one.

Speaker 5 (43:36):
I gonna suit.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
This thing looks like.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Hang on, let's scratch that from the record.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
Yeah, I don't know what happened there anyway, All right,
what happened?

Speaker 2 (43:46):
And watch this?

Speaker 4 (43:47):
Oh my no, this is what happens whenever you start
barrel aging. Hey, real quick, hey, listen.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
To dump that. I'm messing the board up. Okay they
dumped it, Okay, thank you.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
Yeah, okay, good, all right, here we go from War
Pigs Brewing Company, the foggy Geezer. Hazy, I p a.
This is what's called an insurance beer. Just make sure
that our stunt beer, liver Mike does not have to
sit on the floor.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
Right.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
And I looked. I took one look at this, just
real quick. By the way, smells taste just like orange juice.
But I looked at from Munster, Indiana. I'm thinking to myself,
this looks exactly like a three Floyds can It turns
out there's some weird collaboration between mckeller from Denmark and
Three Floyds, and they created War Pigs. I don't know
the whole history, but I'm gonna dig into that. But
right now, you know what we need to do. We

(44:33):
do need a spotlight a criminal.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Okay, let's see, I've been to that brewery, Mckeller Brewing
in Denmark.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
I've been to that brewery.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
All right, flexing again, I am flexing. I can't flex
a lot, but when I can, I'm gonna do it.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
Drinking barrel aged beers. And I've been to that brewery
and doesn't mark.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Well, that's why I drop names. I want people to know.
I know famous people.

Speaker 4 (44:52):
All I bet you, I bet you're gonna make a
criminal famous.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Right now, here's what happens.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
So a man's charged with breaking and entering, assault and
public intoxication after mistaking a Wednesday Bible study for a
human trafficking operation.

Speaker 5 (45:07):
How do you.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
So, here's what happened.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
There's a man who's been identified as forty eight year
old David Campbell of Stafford, Virginia. Now I'm just did Stafford, Virgina.
But I was gonna go there this week. I do
a bit where I mispronounced names of states and cities
and stuff.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
But I wasn't gonna go there this week. But yeah, Stafford, Virginia.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
It's a it's a bit because that's how you turn
a D plus in geography into funny radio.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Tricks of the trade. Chad, don't give all the secrets away.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
But according to authorities, Campbell took it upon himself to
forcibly investigate a Wednesday night Bible study that was mistaken
as a human trafficking operation. So this happened earlier this month,
at approximately seven thirty five, deputies responded to a disturbance
that quickly escalated.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
It's like one of those teams Akerman like that escalated quickly.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
The caller stated that he was upset that his neighbors
were double part.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
I hate that, you know, they park in front of
your house.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
They double park where they just park right in the
middle of the road.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
He went't having it, so authority say, the caller confronted
his neighbors and the residents and observed multiple people. Campbell
assumed the gathering was a human traffing operation, but no,
you know, I guess the Bibles didn't give it away
and wanted deputies to investigate it. While reporting the incident,
dispatchers could hear him taunting and cursing at the neighbors,

(46:32):
and deputies quickly arrived to Campbell's residence, where they made
contact with him.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
And he was in the middle of the roadway.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
Campbell complained about the parking situation demanded deputies identify everyone.
Everyone within the residence is going all full Karen on them. So,
according to the neighbors, Campbell forced his way into the
residents to confront them and nearly struck an ordained minister
and threatened to punch another man again.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
The Bible. Man, the Bible.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
I'm sure there are Bibles every were right. The incident
captured on surveillance. I looked all over, TikTok, can't find this.
I'm gonna find it. If it's out there, I'm gonna
find it. But he's He was arrested and being held
in jail without bond.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
So you're hold my beer and watch this this week?
How does this even happen?

Speaker 1 (47:19):
A man is charged with breaking, entering, assault, and public
intoxication after mistaking a Wednesday Bible study for a human
trafficking operation.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
Wow, I'm trying to. I'm trying to.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
There's lots of times I can think, Okay, I could
see that. How that happens, but in this case not
so much.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
No, I'm like, what takes you from that car's double part? Yeah?
There there are people being held against their will, probably
having their organs taken and sold on the black market.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
I meanwhile, they break in.

Speaker 4 (47:52):
I mean, who else would double park like that?

Speaker 1 (47:55):
I'm telling you, man, dangerous folks that live in out there.
But there you go, hold my beer and watch this
this week where a man mistakes a Bible study for
a human trafficking operation.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
How does that even happen? Who knows? That's why?

Speaker 4 (48:08):
Yeah, don't drink and watch the movie Hostel.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
All right, we're gonna take a break. Coming up.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
Speaking of courts and all that, let's talk about this
Atlanta brewery that's found themselves in a lawsuit.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
All this is so much more. Hang with us. We'll
be right back.

Speaker 4 (48:21):
Beer.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
It's like pouring smiles on your brain. What's on tap?
Radio continues.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
All Right, it's been a while since I've had someone
hanging out in studio with me. Neighbor Chris, longtime neighbor
of mine, stop buy just surprise. He cleared all the
background checks and now hanging out and his new I

(49:03):
gave him a jacket, by the way, it's.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
Very nice looking. Yeah uh.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
And I decided to do since I have a stunt
Beier liver and studio, I get to do my best
impression of Chat and Bill and crack open barrel aged beers.

Speaker 4 (49:21):
You go the whole month of Dry January, drinking by yourself,
drinking non alcoholic beers. He drinking by himself.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
I did do the Dry January, and.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
Nobody wants to sit around drink non alcoholic beer with James.
I mean, I mean, he's fairly interesting even when he
doesn't drink. But I gotta tell you a non alcoholic
beer if you if you're not into that, and maybe
you don't want to hang out, and you're just like, now,
I'll wait till February. And then people forgot and now
it's like, all right, it's you March. Now I guess

(49:53):
we can go ahead.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
And I got this story said to me from a
listener because I did the Dry January, and they're like,
this is the worst in a beer according to beer experts.
And I was like, all right, let me see what
it is. And all right, there wasn't much of the story.
It was just like it was Budweiser zero. Okay, there's
really nothing I can do with that.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
I like, there seems like every week somebody's saying, these
are the five best NA beers, non alcoholic beers that
you should be trying right now. And I want to
admit to all of you who can't have alcohol, you've
had non alcoholic beers and you say this is the
good stuff. You know, this is good for you, it's healthier,
it's it fits my lifestyle. I had three non alcoholic

(50:37):
beers from Athletic Brewing Company at a grocery store chain.
Tried them all and every one of them was delicious. Yeah,
not saying that just to make up make amends for
the fact that I have said nothing very flattering about
non alcoholic beer. It's just not for me. It's not
not what I'm interested in. But also I still stand

(50:57):
by my prediction that next beer bubble to pop, the
end of non alcoholic beer. I'm not saying it's gonna
go away completely, that bubbles gonna James is shaking his head.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Saying no way.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
Well, speaking of all right, we have non non alcoholic
beer here at the Beer Logic World headquarters and drinking
and poeum. For those of you who failed English class,
that's called a double negative a non non alcoholic beer,
which means that we have beer with alcohol in it.
And this one we picked up at the Winter Beer
Fest in Grand Rapids, Michigan. And this one here, Uh, Bill,

(51:31):
go ahead and tell everybody what we're drinking here. Because
I found this beer and somebody was porn I said,
I would love to get that. Well, uh we got
the hook up. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (51:40):
It's from Kickstan Brewing Company out of Commerce, Michigan near Pontiac,
little northwest of Detroit. Birch Bark Porter made with like
seven different specialty malls, very rich coffee, chocolate eas.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
That's what I liked about is it was just like
with such a coffee beer. And I want to thank
Diana Stampler. She knows us and she's listening right now.
So there's your name, drop Diana. Thank you very much.
She is the promoter at the Michigan Brewers Guild and
she's the reason we are drinking this on air right now.
So the Kickstan Porter, Kickstan, Kickstan Brewing.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
Yes, that's an interesting name for a brewing company.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
It is. So again, thank you, thank you for the
Michigan Brewers Guild and Diana Stampler.

Speaker 5 (52:26):
This is nice and rich and it has a great mouthfeel.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
Oh it's all right, since I'm gonna get that one
complaint from the listeners.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Like, how come here we talk about the Norwill builders.
Do you get from the oak vanilla and coconut.

Speaker 4 (52:40):
It's good, Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
It's got dark chocolate and espresso, dark chocolate espresso.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
Hold on, James before you go off on that tangent
here for a second. Whenever I had the squirrel juicy
India pale ale from this is a what is it
tf brewing there in Salt Lake City, Templan Family Farms,
Templan Family Farms, Templan Filily brewer. Excuse me that beer.
I did not describe that beer at all. You know why?
I just said they won the gold at the World

(53:08):
Beer Cup two years in a row in the juicy
hazy IPA category. I don't think I need to describe it.

Speaker 5 (53:15):
That that says it.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
It just that's it. You won two years in a
winning at once tough two years in a row.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Wow, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
I felt that I was obligated to explain it to
that one listener who's gonna send a complaint at What's
on Taprido gmail dot com.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
All right, I want to talk to your manager.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
Speaking of that, we used to get some really good
barreled age beers for Monday night brewing out of Atlanta,
longtime friends of ours. We used to have a good
buddy who used to work over there, and he used
to take good.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Care of us. And now Monday night brewings and middle
of a lawsuits? What's going on there?

Speaker 4 (53:49):
Chad? Yeah, that's pretty interesting. So first of all, before
we start talking about Monday night brewing in the lawsuit,
you gotta be thinking, all right, well, who's going to
pick a fight with them?

Speaker 2 (53:57):
Well, with maybe somebody big Monday night.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
Yeah, oh yeah, somebody bigger, you know, because you know
they can win, right, they got more muscle. I'm kind
of reminded of the Popeyes, you know Popeye cartoon. It's like, well,
you know, here's Popeye walking around and you know, he's
got his he's got olive oil, and then here comes Brutus,
you know, or Blueto, So you know, sorry, yeah, Blueto,
Sorry not Brutus. Yeah, and he comes around and he's

(54:23):
a big guy, and you picking a fight on him. Well,
Bluto in this story just might be the Miller Cores company. Now.
First quarter results beating the analyst predictions.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Yay, we got more money.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Woo.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
And then they decide that they're gonna go ahead and
change focus on business practices by getting rid of their
DEI policies. They announced that back last September, we're focusing
on beer. All right, that's fine. I didn't know why
we had to announce that, but whatever they did. And
then they came out with a brand new commercial for
the Super Bowl and they they employed comedian Timothy Simmons,

(54:57):
best known for his role on the show Veep. And
they came out with a new advertisement, a case of
the Mondays.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
Was that Monday is that my beer retailer the other
day and I saw the case and the Mondays on
the shelf.

Speaker 4 (55:10):
Yeah, I need to get myself a Corse like can
just for my collection.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
That just says, you know, couldn't buy a single at
the mixer sixer, but you have to buy a whole
case of it.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
Well they're saying that twelve packs are available out there.
But yeah, relaunching Monday's Light instead of course like Monday's Light.
I thought oh all right, Well that's clever, and uh
well it got the attention of one brewery, and you
want to take a guess which brewery was. That'd be
Monday Night Brewing and Monday Night Brewing, as you said,

(55:41):
friends of ours, Atlanta, Georgia. And this reminds me of
the story whenever Miller Course or mosten Cores they had
which they owned Keystone Brewery, and they changed the cans
and and all you can see on the side of
the can was just big giant letters Stone, and it
was like, well morel Corse rebrands key Stone, and it

(56:03):
was just big bold letters and that's all you saw. Well,
the Monday Light looks an awful lot and sounds an
awful lot like Monday Night, which is a trademark of
Monday Night brewing. So the Super Bowl themed ad focused
on occase to the Mondays, which is a case of
beer play on words, clever, but they didn't check the

(56:25):
trademark on it. And so Molson Coorus now in a
battle in the courtroom with Atlanta based and very popular
Monday Night Brewing. By the way, key Stone lost that
battle to Stone Brewing and beer Jesus Greg Cook before
and that was I think that was the last thing
he did. He won that court case.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
And his horse in the sunset.

Speaker 4 (56:49):
Never I don't think he rode his horse. I think
he went out to the coast. He chopped down some
palm trees, lashed them together, and floated off into the
Pacific Ocean, never to be heard from again. He's like,
he's got his he's got his millions of dollars.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
Just floating out there in the Pacific with a volleyball.

Speaker 4 (57:05):
Yeah, he is talking to it and he's like, yeah,
I never need to talk about beer again because I'm
done with it. And he's out there just floating around.
And but he too sold Stone Brewery to uh Supporo.
Speaking of support and owned breweries, we talked about them
earlier in the show. Yeah, and he sold it off.

(57:28):
And and I mean, I mean, you know where he
is right now. He's he's hanging out with Mark Cleveland
of Yeah, if you if you missed that.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Story, it's very inside that this show.

Speaker 4 (57:39):
So Mark Cleveland was a beer rep who just disappeared
one day.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
And if I saw Mysteries was still a show, he
would definitely be on it.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
Mark Cleveland would be there and and and and all
evidence would point to the fact that he called Greg
Cook of Stone Brewing Company and said, Hey, I got out,
you want to join me? And he's like yeah, cool.
He's like, hey, bring the volleyball, and Neil said, but anyway,
Atlanta based brewery Monday Night Brewing hoping to win in

(58:08):
trademark lawsuit against Molson Coors for their Monday Nights or
Monday Lights beer.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
There you go, interesting lawsuit. All right, we gotta take
a break. We still got to talk about.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
Hey, we've talked a lot about how brewers are closing,
but hey, beer is still doing well. It's doing well
for the global economy. We'll talk about how much money
beer has generated. All this so much more.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
Hang with us. We'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (58:31):
Hered what's on tap radio. We know two types of people,
Those you drink with and those that make you drink. Oh,
your parents are coming for the weekend. Either way, we're
drinking all right.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
With all the doom and gloom.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
All these stories talk about how the brewies are closing
and the economy just thinks for beer, we got a
story like this, and I'm sure she's gonna insert his
two cents.

Speaker 4 (59:10):
I just love no I love this right before we
come back from break. It's like, hey, listen, if we
don't have if we don't have enough content here in
the story, he says, don't forget we got that, We
got that evergreen story we have been talking about. Hey, Chad,
you remember that doom and gloom story about people getting
laid off from their jobs. Why don't you take us
in that story. James comes back with all the doom
and gloom, We've got some good news. I'm like, thanks

(59:32):
for setting me up for the end of this segment.

Speaker 5 (59:37):
So but I'm not a bad note though.

Speaker 4 (59:40):
Well, don't worry.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
We got we gotta rip for Reddit coming up.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
And I'm very excited because we haven't had a good
rip from Reddit in a while.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
And uh, if you're not familiar, what rip from reddit?
And maybe you're new for the show, stick around, Stick around.

Speaker 4 (59:51):
Don't go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
The Internet is a wild place. It's a wild place,
especially Reddit redd It's it's its own wild West. You
you reached out to adit for some advice, just know
you're gonna get some advice.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
But you're also.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Gonna get a beating, and I mean a bad beating.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
It could be anything like you know what.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
My husband's really into beer, and I really don't know
what kind of beer to get him.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
Just die of cancer already.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
You're an idiot. He should leave you. You don't know
what kind of beer he likes to drink.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
He's already cheating on you.

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
He's the worst. He is the worst human being in
the world. She's like, why, because because if you were
married to him, you should know what kind of beer
he drinks. The fact that you don't, he doesn't open
up enough.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
That's why he's banging the secretary. What what? Anyways, that's
coming up next segments.

Speaker 4 (01:00:46):
Oh, Reddit is an evil place, but it's on the end,
so it is on the internet, and it's on the
internet has to be true.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
According to I did say.

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
There was some good news. James quick, bring this.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
Okay, get the lifeboat out this story said to us,
superior past control flooding our inbox with good stories, and uh,
here we go. Beer is not just a beverage that
we all love. It's a powerhouse for the global economy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
How about that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
According to a recent study, the beer industry contributes a
staggering eight hundred and seventy dollars annually, generating jobs and
tourism and government revenues worldwide.

Speaker 5 (01:01:23):
Wait, how much eight hundred and seventy eight dollars myself?

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, I got catch up from my hamburger.

Speaker 4 (01:01:32):
Happens when you barrel age without training properly. It's like
I open one barrel age beer and people are spending
eight hundred and seventy dollars on beer worldwide. It's like,
wait a minute, eight hundred seventy dollars. Like Bill spent
that last weekend. Yeah, you know what he said about it.
He said it was good.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Yeah, the story right out of prohibition.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
Eight hundred and seventy billion dollars billion b B word.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
So here's the deal, here's the delio.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
The World Brewing Alliance, which represents the brewing industry on
the global stage, announced that the beer in stry delivered
a remarkable one hundred and seventy eight billion dollars to
the global GDP, a measure of the country's economic input
in twenty twenty three. The study, conducted by Oxford Economics,
It's very sophisticated, is.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
The largest eavy league.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
Yeah, the largest ever undertaking on the economy impact of
the brewing industry, including numbers from one hundred and eighty
five countries seventy six in detail in a study which
presented an expansive global overview of the brewings industry contribution
from raw materials to cold beer from the sector supports

(01:02:41):
thirty three million jobs and amazing one in every one
hundred jobs globally. So yeah, beer generates an amazing eight
hundred seventy eight billion dollars for the global economy. So
other significant contributions to the global GDP reports supporting public finances,
The beer sector contributed three hundred seventy six billions in
tenes through beer production, sales, and employment.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
In twenty twenty three.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
They got local economy at eighty six percent of brewers
supplier spending is in business in the same country as
the beer is produced.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
It's pretty nice.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
Emerging markets. The income in low and lower middle countries
have seen twenty seven percent boost in GDP contribution and
twenty four percent increase in jobs generated by the brewing industry.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
And I'm not gonna bory with all the numbers.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
Just know that eight hundred and seventy eight billion dollars
has been generated by beer for the global economy.

Speaker 5 (01:03:30):
So I told you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
Yeah, the way I told you, it's not all just
doom and gloom, like, oh, we're talking about this brewery
closed and this brewery closed, and yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:03:37):
Yeah, and I heard this story, by the way, by
the the San Antonio brewery that we talked about just
recently looked like they were going to close Alamo Beer.
This just in breaking news, breaking news. Looks like they
just announced on their social media we're back, baby, So yeah.
And I don't know if it's an angel investor. I
don't know if it was just you know, temporary insanity

(01:03:58):
or whatever it is. But they are back. So if
you are living in the San Antonio market and that's
your favorite watering hole, you feel like stop and buying
frequenting it again.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
It's a big for the last huge brewery. Have you
been to Malmo and San Antonio. Yeah, it's a pretty good.
It's a big size brewery.

Speaker 4 (01:04:15):
It's a it's a big and by the way, real quick,
because I know everybody's wondering, you said, the University of
Oxford did that study.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
Yes, you looked up the mascot.

Speaker 4 (01:04:23):
You're darn right, I did. Man, that's not my first
day on the air, that's right. They have various mascots
for Oxford depending on where you are. If it's the
Oxford Academy, it's Ice Spice, which replaced Paul the Patriot.
If it's Oxford United Football Club, it's Ali the ox
If it's the Oxford Preparatory Academy, it's Champ the Dragon.

(01:04:45):
But if it's the University of Oxford, we could be
talking about a shoe is not a shoe, it's a bear,
and the bear does not have a name. But if
you're talking about the University of Oxford, Saint John's Access Office,
which of course we all love near it's near and
dear to our heart, that's Agnes the Access Lamb. There

(01:05:08):
is our mascot.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
And fighting lambs.

Speaker 4 (01:05:12):
Right, it reminds me of Delta State University of Mississippi,
the fighting Okra, Like there we go, all right, slice
me up and fry me. Let's go all right. Speaking
of slicing me out and fry me, James did a
great job of you say, how great you know the
beer businesses like this brewery's going away, this one's going
away again. The beer industry contributes to the global economy

(01:05:34):
in a lot of different ways. We're talking about shipping, packaging, advertising,
marketing culture, digital marketing culture all but yes, beer bars.
I mean it has a huge profound impact. And we
went and did the math on that, and I don't
know if you said it, because you threw out a
lot of numbers there and I may have missed it,
but I did the math on it, and I married
a math teacher, and I looked at a calculator once,
and I believe that that number that you gave eight

(01:05:55):
hundred and seventy some billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
Excuse me, that's a lot of money, Chad.

Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
Yeah it is, but that represents something like that. That
net impact on the on the industry is just under
a right around eight percent of the global economy. So
big reach for alcohol, but speaking a big reach for
alcohol and getting us back to doom gloom in despair.
By the way, if you're checking my math on that,
send all messages to What's on tap Radio gmail dot com,

(01:06:22):
because yeah, if I did it wrong, we just remember
we're not a show about math, but we're.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
Still get an email. We will still get an email.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
I guarantee you will What's on Tabrio gmail dot com
or reach out to us on you know, Facebook, at you.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
Round it up when you were supposed to round down.
What kind of calculator would you use? All Right? Uh?
In Washington, d C. Right Proper Brewing Company is doing
something that I think. Okay, now it's gonna sound bad.
I'm gonna add my editorial, my op in here, my opinion.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:06:51):
They're doing something that a lot of brewers have done
in the past, and it's been considered admirable. I myself
have considered it a very nice, generous thing. But I
have a different take on it today. And it's not
just Right Proper Brewing Company that's done this before, but
other breweries as well. And this is what they're doing
given the layoffs and fir rings from DOGE, the Departments government. Yep,

(01:07:17):
Right Proper Brewery in Washington, DC is inviting patrons who
have a job to come in and spend eight dollars
on a beer for someone who was recently laid off.
Oh that's nice. There's only one problem. What you're doing
is is somebody who just lost their job who really
needs to tighten up their finances. You're inviting them in
for a beer, so they come in and drink a beer.

(01:07:39):
When was the last time you went to a brewery
and just drank one beer.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
So it's just like the laced potato chip thing, right,
You can't.

Speaker 4 (01:07:45):
You can't just have one. So basically what you're doing
is is you're inviting them in to have a beer,
and you know they're going to spend money that they
really can't afford to spend. So while it's a good
intention and I do understand it, I get it. I
love that the brewery care enough to reach out and
have this sentiment. And right now people are thinking, Chad,
what are you talking about. It's like if you've ever

(01:08:05):
been laid off from your job, you're like, oh man,
they got a beer for me, let's go. And then
you get there and you're like, I really wish I
could have one more. Ah, what the hell, I'm gonna
have another.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
One now, because when I got laid off, I got
laid off. I found myself at a watering hole and
I spent my U I spent a good while there.

Speaker 4 (01:08:20):
Oh really, you got laid off and you found yourself there? Okay, cool. Well,
it's nice to know that that EBT credit card there
that you got from the government.

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
It wasn't even that, it wasn't before it, before I
got unemployment.

Speaker 4 (01:08:30):
Oh okay, all right, well it's a great place to go.
It's a great place to pick up your spirits. And
I love the sentiment of it. But I'm asking, Am
I being too cynecal?

Speaker 5 (01:08:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
You are so. Anyways, go takes a lot, all right,
Go pay forward. Go to this brewery.

Speaker 1 (01:08:45):
It's been an additional eight dollars for someone who just
got laid off, so they can sit down and have
some themselves of beer and kind of reflect and you know,
take in the fact that, yes, I got laid off,
but hey, I still can work, and damn it, I'll
find myself another job.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
But right now I'm just enjoy this cold I PA.

Speaker 5 (01:09:03):
We have a pay it Forward board at Harbor Light
Brewed down there, and we got one guy that has
over one hundred pints paid for him. So if he
comes in, they stay as long as he wants.

Speaker 4 (01:09:14):
I guess so, but you're not Yeah, they're not targeting
the unemployed, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Adopted, Yeah, adopted an unemployed person. That's what happened with
Matt Damon and that bar in Boston. They're like, hey, look,
if Matt Damon ever comes in, you can't.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
Find himself a movie deal. We got to Betty.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
It was Betty White, That's what it was, not Matt Damon,
is Betty White. If Betty White ever came in, I
don't think she ever did. All right, we gotta take
a break dead now. We got to close out the
show with a riff and reddit a classic. Hang with
us for one more. You will not be disappointed. We'll
be right back.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
If you're by yourself drinking a beer and listening to
the show, you're not drinking alone, So be a pal
and put your pants back on. What's this is what's
on tap radio?

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
I told Chad. I asked Chad. I was like, this
is the last segment. He's like, dude, look at the clock.
I was just getting fired up, just getting fired up.

Speaker 4 (01:10:19):
This is what happens when you barrel age beer. Well,
you open a barrel age beer and alms sudden, like
we could do another hour.

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
I can't because there's a financial show that's gonna come
on after us, that's waiting already in the green room.

Speaker 4 (01:10:33):
And they're gonna tell you. They're gonna tell you this
is how you get ahead in the life. Go to
DC and spend your money on eight dollar beers for
somebody who can't buy an eight dollar beer.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
I just thought of something. So if you're ever feeling down,
you know, like you spend.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
Your last twenty dollars on beer and you're like, man,
maybe I should have spent that money on something more productive.
You're stimulating economy one hundred and seventy eight billion dollars. Man,
you're helping the economy by that last thirty dollars. You know,
you just got laid off, and Chad sitting there guilt
and you're like.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
Well, you know you shouldn't be spending that money at
the boar.

Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
No, they're contributing to the the economy, the global economy
with the eight under seventy eight billion dollars, Chad.

Speaker 4 (01:11:13):
And yeah, and when you spend that money on those
on those u uh breweries, you know what they can do.
They can invest in marketing and then they can get
the team back together and they can say, hey, you
know what we should have done. We should have come
up with a mascot for our brewery. That's what you
were talking about. Bill. Did you find a couple of
the mascots out?

Speaker 5 (01:11:31):
Yeah? I found a bunch. Remember Alex the Dog Alex
from Stros Alex Stro's dog.

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
Yeah, well you had Spuden McKenzie.

Speaker 5 (01:11:39):
Yeah, yeah, it's Bid mackenzie. A lot of people think
that the Budweiser Frog were mascots.

Speaker 4 (01:11:44):
I don't think they were. There was a gimmicks the
Hams Bear the frog. Actually the mascots really for Budweiser's
the Clydesdale's yeah, class maybe be more of a mass
are just gimmicks. But all right, but they have a
whole list of Schlitz themalt liquor, the Bull, yeah, the
switch bowl, the Hams Bear.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Yeah on a cigarette, but mascots a cigarette. But all right.

Speaker 5 (01:12:14):
About about the mascot. But the most interesting man in
the world was my favorite.

Speaker 4 (01:12:18):
That's a good mascot right there.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
He's not a mascot, it's a spokesperson.

Speaker 5 (01:12:22):
Well hey, but he's the only guy who com Parallel
Park of train.

Speaker 4 (01:12:28):
Facts. But and then he went to Mars. I think brewery.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
Should have mascots. That We're gonna do a bit, all.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
Right, I am going to We're gonna look up every
Houston brewery.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
We're gonna look up every Michigan brewery. Or let's go Green, No,
we'll go Grand Rapids.

Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
We'll go Grand Rapids, all right, and then we'll let's
go Des Moines, Iowa. Let's go to Moine, Iowa and
look at the and we're gonna we're gonna get mascot
names for him, and then we're gonna call him. Hey,
we're a radio show, and we come up with the
mascot and you right now, and then we'll voice for marketing.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:13:03):
From here on out. We got to remember this. I
hope we remember it next week. Every beer I crack open,
I'm going to tell you what brewery it is, and
I'm going to tell you what their mascot is. And
I don't know if it's real, but it's gonna. That's
we're going with it, and I'm gonna say it with confidence.
Speaking of saying it with confidence, I gotta say this, James,
it is uh this this you said with confidence that

(01:13:24):
you will not be disappointed in this week's rip from Reddit.
You have no idea what I'm going to talk about. No,
I don't all you're just selling it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
Well, go ahead and put out your social and your
your yeah, your social and your email so people can
send the complaints.

Speaker 4 (01:13:37):
If it's not that's not my social security number, folks,
because now I'm talking about it at Chad the Beer
Logic guy. If you want to go ahead and tell
me how much you hate this. But every week that
we get a rip from Reddit, it seems to deliver.
It's a fan favorite. And in case you don't know
what Reddit is, Reddit is an online social media profile,
or rather a website where you can go on there
and different people with their profiles, fake or otherwise will

(01:14:00):
give you life lessons, pearls of wisdom, insults, They will
make you feel terrible about yourself. And if you just
go there, you can find a topic for anything. It's
the wild West. Anything goes. Zuckerberg doesn't shut you down.
You can say pretty much whatever you want.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
Zickerberg has anything to do with it Reddit.

Speaker 4 (01:14:16):
But okay, yeah, I know, but he's got reach, you know,
you know, I think Elon Musk can't even shut you down.
All right, there, that's how big it is. It's bigger
than TikTok.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
All right, Well, don't bring me down. All right.

Speaker 4 (01:14:30):
Well, I'm gonna go bring this show full circle. We're
going back to the official What's on TEP Radio fun
Fact of the Week, talking about Popeye and somebody posted
on Reddit, if you swap the spinach for beer, then
any episode of Popeye becomes a bitter story of a
raging alcoholic, right down to the speech impediment and tendency
to fight people who who he believes is trying to

(01:14:50):
steal his girl.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
Okay, so you replace the spinach with a beer, Take
this spinach out of the mix, out of the equation,
and place it with the beer.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
Okay, I'm in.

Speaker 5 (01:15:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:15:05):
And of course the comments come in, and remember the
views expressed on Reddit are not those of James Simpson,
Chad Pilbrim, Harborlight Bill, any of our sponsors, or any
of our affiliate stations or other sponsors. So here we go.
The comments come in, and of course it's like, yeah,
well I always thought spinach was the symbol for beer,
because after all, he was a sailor, and well, we
know what we know about sailors. Stereotypes. Yeah, are there
are stereotypes for a reason. And somebody says, well, if

(01:15:27):
you swapped, if you swapped the spinach for heroin, we'd
understand why olive oil was so damn skinny. Oh my gosh,
Oh this is good, all right, And it says you know,
with a name like Popeye, he already sounds like a
guy looking for a fight, probably in MS. Six and

(01:15:50):
his beer is a forty ounce of Corona Extra in
a paper sack. That's profiling. Another guy said, I was
at a Primus concert once. I'm lucky, Yeah, Primus Yeah.
And in the background they were playing old Popeye cartoons,
and at random times, right in the middle of the songs,
whenever Popeye knocked Blueto out, the whole crowd went crazy.

(01:16:14):
That's because we were drinking spinach too. One guy says
this up, this makes so much sense because his speech
impediment and with the one eye clothes all the time,
I thought he had a stroke. Turns out he was
just pickled from all the beer drinking. In case you're
wondering where we are right now, this is ripped from Reddit,

(01:16:35):
where we found an online profile. Work guy says that
if you swap the spinach for beer and Popeye, it's
just a raging alcoholic trying to fight for his girl.
Put that up there. Uh, this one here, wouldn't it
be Blueto though, who was drinking the beer because he
was always the one starting the fight and he was
getting all grabby and making unwelcoming advances against olive oil

(01:16:55):
and then ends up getting his ass kicked by a
guy half the size. That would make a lot more sense.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
He's lucky this wasn't going under the me too moment.

Speaker 4 (01:17:02):
Right, Yeah, yeah, that's true. I remember episodes whenever he'd
have to actually take the spinach and get it in
his pipe, he'd have to like slurp it through a pipe.
If that's the case, well, if you switch spinach for beer,
his pipe's just a big beer bong, then this theory tracks.
If this is another one, this theory tracks here. I

(01:17:23):
ate spinach in high school and I got my ass kicked.
But once I got my fake ID and started buying
for parties, no one would fight me because I was
the guy who brought beer. Moral of the story spinach sucks.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
Sign m.

Speaker 4 (01:17:39):
All right, So this guy says, I hate questions like this.
People ask what if these are stupid things to post
on Reddit? What if the spinach was spin was swapped
for beer. By the way, what if e T and
mister T had a baby, would they be able to
get the gold chains around his head? I'm sorry, I

(01:18:02):
don't know, all right, somebody else says, this is an
unrealistic storyline. Nobody would buy this. I drink way more
beer than Popeye ever did, and my forearms are nowhere
near that big does Popeye. And then somebody talking about
the forearms thinks, well, doesn't Popeye just become Wolverine in
the end? I mean, after defeating Bluto for the final

(01:18:22):
time and he has no one left to fight, so
he just gets drunk all day in a bar and
then waits for somebody to come and ask him to
join the X Men.

Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
I mean, I can see that makes sense.

Speaker 4 (01:18:31):
All right, Well, we're talking about Popeye's forearms again. Ripped
from Reddit here. Swapping spinach for beer. If drinking beer
like Popeye did gives you forearms like that, what size
is his liver? That's a fair question, red question? Yeah,
all right, we got two more here. This explains uh

(01:18:52):
swapping spinach for beer. Well, this explains why he thought
olive oil was hot because she's no prize. This ends
the argument over whether or not beerles are real. And finally,
on the next brew Dogs, James and Martin brew of
spinach ipa while fighting a large fat man, and that
is ripped.

Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
Uh never disappointed. See I told you I wasn't gonna disappoint.
Nicely done, Chad Ripping read it, and we have got
to say goodbye. I'm starting here. The music come before
we get out of here. Thanks name for Chris for
hanging out man, what a nice surprise.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
Uh, I don't think.

Speaker 4 (01:19:24):
Here Over here at the Bologic World headquarters, we got
Mike who stopped by and brought a beer so we
didn't have to sit on the floor. Thanks for hanging
out stunt beer over Harbor Light Bill too, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
So we go.

Speaker 1 (01:19:32):
Thanks security of pest Control, Bill Logic conference events, the
backyard grill, keeping the last nights in Bright Harbor Light Brewing,
and of course sponsoring our podcast cast branding.

Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
So for mister Billatia chap Hill Beam, Harblite Bill.

Speaker 1 (01:19:44):
Hanging out through Mike, I'm your good James some saying
thanks for checking out What's on Tap Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:19:47):
We hope you enjoyed it and we hope that you
are joined it for another action packed radio show.

Speaker 1 (01:19:50):
Because I'll promise if you like this week, you're really
gonna like next week.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
One money back guaranteed. If you don't, we'll see you
next week. Folks, cheers,

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