June 11, 2025 • 48 mins
Welcome in, beer lovers! This week, Greg returns from his Florida “vacation” with tales of heat-induced hallucinations, a surprise parking ticket sting operation, and chain restaurant dining nightmares. Meanwhile, Flex endures a major letdown from one of his most hyped beers, and Greg thankfully redeems the week with a dreamy Colorado hazy. We’re also diving into some ludicrous libation laws and a Florida-fueled Booze News lineup that includes public urination (of course), karaoke belts, and Hulk Hogan’s potential empire expansion. It’s sweaty, it’s silly, and it’s exactly the escape you need. Join the Republic!!
Beer Reviews
- Flex is drinking Voltron: Defender of the Universe Vol. 8 by 4 Hands Brewing x Three Sheeps Brewing — Anticipation turns into bitterness, and not the good kind.
- Greg is sipping Sunrise Dreams from Outer Range Brewing — Nelson & Citra juice bomb; crushable citrus delight.
Flex kicks things off with high hopes and a glorious pour, only to be betrayed by the mighty Voltron. What starts as fresh pineapple nose bliss ends in disappointment and a borderline drain pour (but hey, at least the can art slaps). Greg takes us through his humid, sweat-soaked Florida trip, complete with passing-out grandparents, a "pay for your own" graduation lunch, and a surprise parking ticket at the hands of a lurking enforcer.
Despite the chain restaurant circuit and weather described as "living in a mouth," Greg finds a few worthy brewery stops in Tampa—finally landing a winner at Ology Brewing. He also somehow manages to survive a karaoke-belt-worthy bar owned by Hulk Hogan (yep, that’s real). Along the way, Flex and Greg uncover some very scientific coffee ratio grievances and debate the merits of chain dining while dehydrated.
Booze News
- Craft Beer Giants Keep Shrinking: 6 of the top 10 lose volume in 2024.
- Boston Beer’s Big Belly Flop: 320k barrels down, ouch.
- Hulk Hogan Wants to Buy Hooters… Turns out Pastamania wasn’t enough.
- Florida Man Bingo: Drunk driver hits pedestrian, urinates in cop car, and says racist stuff—all in one night
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Episode Transcript
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(00:15):
Welcome in, everybody.It's the craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking.Thanks for joining.
I am Greg and I am being joined bythe juiciest, most dry hopped buff
guy on the Midwest. And that's flex.What's up big fella? I am juicy, are.
Very juicy with notes of tropical.Ooh, I like the sound of that.
(00:37):
Sounds like I need a vacation.Oh, dude, you're telling me I
need to go somewhere?Not Florida for vacation. Oh, boy.
Get to that in a couple of you.It's already starting. Oh, fuck.
Florida. Uh, follow me on this.Follow me. Follow us on the socials.
@CraftBeerRepublic @flex_me_a_beerunderscore in between and of course,
800 553 beer. 2337.Shout out to our top listening city
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last week, and that is Trenton, newJersey. What up. What up, new Jay?
That's what they call it now.Is that what they call it? Yeah.
Don't ask more questions, but.Absolutely. Okay. I'm convinced.
Yeah.We got some booze news to get to.
Ludacris. Libation law.And what Flex is most excited
for my trip to Florida.I can't wait. I'm so excited.
(01:22):
You literally didn't tell meanything. I really haven't.
Usually we talk things out.I just I've told you almost
nothing about my trip to Florida.So very excited about this.
We'll get right into it.Uh, before we do, Flex is waiting to
drink his beer until he reviews it.Because he's so excited for it.
Well, it's not that I'm excited.It's that it smells really.
(01:44):
Amazing and it's gorgeous.And I'm just.
I just don't want it to, like,I don't know, I'm nervous.
So I was gonna go first becauseI need the beer before I talk
about Florida.But I don't want you to sit
there and not drink your beer.So let's find out what Flex is
drinking.In a world where craft beer is king.
A world where muscles are biggerthan growlers.
(02:05):
Only one tongue can guide us.One man, one tongue.
One Tongue-jobber.In this world, we must find out
what is Flex drinking?All right, so we've had multiple
versions of this beer on the show.It's a series. Long running series.
(02:28):
I thought it was gonna end at five.Apparently they are on eight.
Episodes on.Flex is drinking Voltron Defender of
the Universe volume eight from 4Hands Brewing out of Saint Louis,
Missouri, which I had thepleasure of visiting last summer.
(02:48):
Oh, and this is always acollaboration beer.
And this time they collaboratedwith a in-state fella, three sheeps
brewing up in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.Not to be confused with Sheboygan,
Wisconsin. Yes. Very different.So I would say relatively new beer.
Uh, 674 ratings on tap.That's 674 and a collective 3.99.
(03:14):
So now my hopes are, you know,they're getting a.
Little, little bit up there.Um,
I don't know why I talked like that.Uh, this is a hazy IPA, uh, in IPA,
and it says it has sultana strataand mosaic hops, and I believe
sultana are the, uh, artistsformerly known as Denali hops. Oh.
(03:38):
You can fact check me on that.I didn't even look it up.
I just made it up.The old Untappd crew here says
the eighth release in a seriesof collaborations with breweries
from around the country to bringthe mighty Voltron to life.
Voltron volume eight is a juicy,hazy IPA brewed with Three Sheeps
Brewing in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.Topped with a blend of sultana strata
(04:02):
and mosaic hops, this tropical juicebomb boasts bold notes of pineapple,
hello passionfruit,citrus and blueberry that soar from a
malt base composed of pale malt,white wheat and flaked oats.
So, I mean, I was big on thepineapple because I was telling Greg,
(04:24):
my co-host here, uh, hey. It's me.Hey, Greg, uh, I poured,
I cracked this beer,and I poured it before the show,
and it smelled so good.It smelled like fresh,
ripe pineapple.Like you just cut it up and took
a big whiff of the bowl,and it was just.
It got my hopes so high that I wasactually afraid to drink the beer.
(04:47):
Um, so I said that I wasn'tgonna drink the beer until the
show started. So here we are.Um, we will start with a little
bit of the nose buds.Um, see what's dancing on those
fellas. Hashtag nose buds.And you're right, by the way,
Sultana.Formerly known as Denali or
Experimental hop 06277.I didn't know that one, but,
(05:08):
you know, look at me.Look at me go. I know those things.
So it's a nice looking beer.Great looking. Definitely.
Still is. A little bit ahead.Uh, it's been poured for about,
I don't know, ten,ten or so minutes. Sure.
Uh, so on the, on the nose buds,it's definitely still heaps of
that fresh pineapple.Uh, now that it's warmed up a
little bit, you get a little bitof the malt base coming through.
(05:30):
Uh, fingers crossed that that's notgoing to come through on the palate.
Um.But without further ado,
warm up the old Tongue-jobber.Batch 367, 406 and 456.
For the other times we drink Voltron.Okay. Um. Ooh. That face. Oh, no.
(05:55):
I wish you guys could see this.Oh, that was, um.
We're gonna try this one more time.One more gallon. Uh. It's not. Okay.
Where are you gonna try this now?Again. Take two and go. It's a beer.
Oh, no. So much excitement.Oh, that is so. Much. Build.
(06:21):
Huge bummer. Oh, no. Yeah.Uh, yeah. Uh. Let's see.
They said bold notes of pineapple.No. Passion fruit? No, I said citrus.
I didn't get none of that blueberry.No, I didn't get that. Um.
(06:47):
It's really bitter.And it, like, hits you late. Oh, no.
It's on my tongue, and I kind ofwant to pour it down the drain.
Wow. Yeah. This is.I'd say that's the last Voltron
that you'll be having. I can't.I couldn't it just be a single can?
That's funny. It's a bummer.I mean, granted, this is only this is
(07:09):
only like 1249 for the four pack,so, like, how bad? Complain.
Oh, time to plug and chug.But this is just not.
It's not what I wanted.No, daddy. Yeah.
And I've had really good offeringsfrom both of these breweries.
So this is maybe is a bad canquestion mark. Yeah.
(07:30):
Maybe one of the other threewill be not a drain pour.
Yeah, maybe I'll just give em away.Haven't decided yet.
Some unsuspecting,unsuspecting fool. Yeah.
Maybe they'll think it's okay,I don't know. Maybe.
But, hey, at least the cans.Cool. There's that sweet can art.
(07:50):
All right, well.I wonder if I can scrape this off
my tongue before I go to bed. Oof!I'll see if I can move on from
that gracefully. Yeah.How do we segue from this?
I don't know, man, that sounds awful.Oh, Florida. Florida.
Hey, speaking of awful. There we go.Let's talk about Florida.
(08:11):
So I think I've talked aboutleading up to this a couple
times on the show.Had to go out for a stupid high
school graduation.One of the wife's family, nephews,
people, and first of all,to me and like I were flying across
country for a high school graduation.That's crazy that you told me this.
(08:33):
Yeah.And I thought that was astounding.
Is it isn't finishing highschool just a legal requirement?
Yeah, like maybe not Florida,I don't know.
You almost like you have to,like, not try to do it. Right.
Because I did pretty good at nottrying and still graduated high
school. Exactly.Not with flying colors, but, uh,
(08:54):
still graduated. You do it. I did it.So you had to do that. We, uh.
We took a red eye Wednesday night,and the graduation was Thursday
morning at 11 a.m..We landed Thursday morning at,
like, 730. Rough.I such a bad sleeper on planes.
(09:15):
And this was no exception.In fact, this was one of the worst
red eyes for me that I've ever taken.I got about 30 minutes of sleep.
So we land, we get the car,we go to a.
We found this actually reallycool breakfast spot.
Um, ate some breakfast, had like 900cups of coffee while I was there.
The guy he brought the coffeeafter the first one was gone in
(09:36):
about 48 seconds.He was real southern and great.
He was funny, but he was like,oh my God, I'm not doing my job.
And like comes over with more coffee.And I said, but if you just want to
leave that there, like, I wouldn'tbe mad. I can pour it myself.
He's like, no, no, I'm supposed to.I was like, then you're gonna be
getting your steps in today becauseI'm gonna be needing some coffee.
Can I ask you a question quick?I don't want to interrupt too much.
Please. No.How do you feel about them
(09:59):
refilling your half cup of coffee?Oh, it throws off my cream ratio.
I hate it, yeah.Let me finish my cup before you
bring it over to refill. Mhm.Because otherwise you are
screwing everything up man. Yeah.If I see him coming with it I'll
pound it. Interesting.Like if it's half or less than
half you know. Yeah. Yeah yeah.And then I'll pound it so I can
(10:20):
start over with, with the ratio.Um so did that uh, went and then went
to graduation after that, after welanded. Got car, I got breakfast.
It's time for graduation.Went to graduation.
It was 90 fucking degrees outand 95% humidity. Gross.
We were at this, like,amphitheater thing that luckily had,
um, like, like sales.Like shade sales. You know, it.
(10:44):
Was a nice. Yeah, it wasn't a hard.But when it's 95% humidity and
the air is not fucking moving,it was just like living in a mouth,
right? Things are getting sticky.Oh, sticky and sweaty and, like,
legitimate.At least three people were carried
on a stretcher by the end of it.Come on. Yeah. Due to the heat.
You're serious? Yeah. Yeah.No, seriously.
(11:05):
Old people were getting carried onstretchers. I saw at least three.
In fact, the wife's mom was gettingreally bad at one point, and she.
She's like, go run up ahead and startthe car and get the AC running.
So like I did, I ran up.Cut the cut the car going.
And we had bought a case of water.And you said but honey the knees.
Yeah.At least I didn't have to get up
(11:25):
off the ground.Oh, that was an off air conversation.
Um, and so I got some bottles ofwater for everybody.
It got a little dicey, but, um.Yeah, so that was awful.
It was hot as balls, just fuckingdripping. Then afterwards.
So this is a weird one for meafterwards. Give me your opinion.
(11:45):
We went to lunch.She was like, hey, graduation lunch
at this restaurant. Okay, great.Huge chain restaurant in that area.
I was like, oh, super fun.We're going on vacation.
Vacation quotes. It's not a vacation.We're going on a trip and we eat
out all these chain restaurants.Um, we get there, we order,
we're eating, and at one point,the waiter went up to the father
(12:06):
of the graduate and saidsomething we didn't.
We didn't know what it was a bigtable.
And then the waiter comes overto everybody and starts asking
how we want to split the bill.Okay, whatever I can,
I can pay for my own meal.I'm not mad that I have to pay
for my own meal.I did think it was weird that
you've asked me to come to thisgraduation lunch, and you're not
(12:28):
covering it. Is that me? That.No. That's kind of weird, right?
It's not like I asked,can we go to graduation?
Especially because it's not like youflew halfway across the country.
You flew the entire way acrossthe country? Yeah, all the way.
California to Florida.I do think that's a bit bizarre.
(12:48):
I just like when I graduated.And you were invited to the lunch.
It's not like, hey, we're gonna goto this. Come with. Exactly. Yeah.
It wasn't like a whoever wantsto feel free. It was.
This is what we're doing afterthe graduation ceremony.
We have reservations.Be there by this time, so on and so
forth. So I thought that was weird.Like at my graduation,
(13:08):
I can't remember high school,but definitely college graduation.
It was like, you know, it was paidfor by my parents because. Right.
That's what you do anyways. Whatever.Um, so that was Thursday. Friday.
I mean, every day we were therewas hot as balls, humid as balls.
We went to a couple places for, youknow, to eat. We were with family.
It was the wife's family.So I just kind of had to turn off
(13:32):
my caring about where we weregoing because, like, we kept
going to these chain restaurants.Nobody wanted to be minutely
adventurous with their food.and I'm like, in a new area.
Let's try some local cuisine.Right. How often are you there?
Hopefully never again. Damn it.So, uh, you know, the food was just
(13:56):
mediocre and there was nothing todo because all they have to do
is either like outdoorsy thingswhere you sweat your balls off.
Now, where were you,exactly in Florida?
We were in Saint Pete for themost part. Okay.
Sapient floor,which is outside of Tampa.
And, uh, the old people were too oldto be walking around in the heat.
They were fucking passing out,and we didn't want to do,
(14:18):
you know, museum after museum.And we even told them, like,
hey, you guys go do a museum.You want to do a museum?
No, we want to do whatever youwant to do.
I'm like, bitch,I want to get hammered.
Forget that. I'm in Florida.Do you not know who I am? Right?
So it was a lot of like, arguingabout where we were going, sweating
our balls off the first night there.So Thursday night we go out to dinner
(14:40):
and, uh, we go to pay for parking.It's one of those things like, hey,
get your license plate and go payfor your parking at the machine.
We're paying for parking the machine,and we see the guy coming around
giving tickets to people likehe's on it.
And we go, and we have dinner,and we come back, and we came back.
There was a parking ticket on ourrental car, and I looked at the time,
the time on the parking ticketticket was 823.
(15:03):
The park, the the time on my receiptfrom the parking thing was 824.
This motherfucker gave me aticket while I was filling out
the parking machine. Come on.So then we had to next day go to
the fucking.Here's how often they do this.
They have an office off of theircity hall just for parking tickets.
(15:24):
Not the police station,not a general city hall office.
It is specifically for parkingtickets.
And so we went into this and Ijust I said, the lady, I was like,
hey, I got a parking ticketwhile I was paying for parking,
trying to do the right thing here.I said, you can look at my receipt,
you know. 823. 824. She goes.Let me have a look.
To her credit, extremely friendlyand was like, no problem,
(15:46):
we're gonna avoid this out.I was like,
is the rental company gonna know?She's like, they'll never find out.
My wife wanted to get a couplewords in she goes.
And we saw him doing this and we werepaying and maybe he needs to blah,
blah, blah.And she goes,
I'm gonna avoid your ticket.And I was like,
just let her avoid the ticket.We'll never come back here. Yeah.
Like she I look normally I'mtotally with her.
(16:06):
Like, let's fucking bitch and letthem know that fuck you Florida
because fuck you Florida.But I was like, let's just let's
just not have to pay for the ticket.And they do that thing where, like,
the parking ticket was only like $25,where it's one of those things
where it's like, oh, just it's lowenough to where I'll just pay it
so I don't have to waste my time.Yeah, but it was a matter of
principle at this point. Fuck you.I'm a big fan of principle.
(16:28):
Yeah, not principles, but principle.Yeah. Yes. What? What you said.
So anyways, got that voided.Went on with our day of just
eating too much food.And the one family member who lives
there was impossible for suggestions.It was like, hey, you know,
what do you think we should doif we want to do x, Y, and Z?
And she's like, oh, I don't know.So at one point we go to this area
called Gulf Gulfport, which my wifehad done a little research on.
(16:51):
It's like an out, I say outdoorsy,everything's outdoorsy,
but it's like a beachy communitywhere they have like shops along the
beach and it's like old houses turninto shops and that kind of stuff,
like, all right, that sounds cool.You know, we'll eat lunch and
cruise around these shops.Well, she kind of forgot that.
That's an area that got fuckingdestroyed by the hurricane six
months ago.And so almost everything along
the beach was closed. Oh, no.You had to go like a block in,
(17:13):
and it just wasn't what it wassold to be. I will say one of.
No, not one of the best breweryin Saint Pete that we went to
was Gulfport Brewery.Went there for lunch because
it's the only place we couldfind that had enough indoor
seating for all of us, becausewe needed the air conditioning,
and their beer was pretty not gross.That sounds like a stellar place
(17:38):
in Florida. Yeah, exactly. So, um.Then Saturday it was raining,
like, woke up to it pouring,but luckily it mostly stopped by
about noon. Saturday was decent.So we on Friday evening, uh, the
old people went back to take a nap.And we went to Three Daughters
Brewing, which I had heard of.I've had a bunch of three
(17:58):
daughters stuff at Disney. Okay.Yeah, I'd heard of them.
I think Nicole, when they wentout there, they had had them.
And so I was like, all right,right down the street, let's go.
Let's go fit in a couple of beers atThree Daughters and got a flight,
plus a couple beers.And it was just okay.
It's very okay stuff. Yeah, yeah.Like we had a couple.
Yeah, we had a couple that were good.We had a couple that were
fucking disgusting.And we had one that was like
(18:20):
fine right in the middle.Yeah, that sounds. About. Right.
Yeah, exactly.Even I posted a picture on the
gram and Vanessa, you know,responded to it. Hi, Vanessa.
And, uh, was like, oh,three daughters. What did you think?
And I was like, we had two that weregood. We had two that were bad.
And she goes, yep.Sounds about right. Yeah. So every.
Everything I've ever had. Yeah.Yeah, it was just fine.
(18:41):
Um, so Gulfport and three daughters,um, Gulfport was the better
brewery descent. So. Okay.So Saturday woke up,
had breakfast, and then, becausethe old people had left, the wife
let me have some beers that day.And so we went to Dissent Brewing,
which is also in Saint Pete.It was fine.
Uh, better than three daughters,you know.
Got a couple flight or got aflight and a beer.
(19:02):
And, um, it was better than not,you know. Pretty good.
Okay, here's what I will sayabout three daughters.
They did have a coffee blonde ale.And it was fucking phenomenal.
Phenomenal, phenomenal.Like, would purchase,
but they didn't have cans. Oh. Yeah.Um, so yeah. So descent was fine.
And then we made our way to Tampa,and this is where the beer
(19:22):
finally started to get.Tampa's got a Zac goes to Tampa
for Tampa Beer Week, right?Which I totally forgot.
And I should have asked him now.I got great suggestions from Vanessa
and her husband and I totally forgot.Zach's always down there,
and he even hit me up after Iposted a couple of pictures,
like, are you in Tampa?And I was like, fuck,
I should have asked Zach.Yeah, Zach knows all about that.
(19:43):
Yeah. So I started at Ology Brewing.Fantastic beer. Yep. So good.
In fact, I will say it now.Ology Brewing had the best beer
I had on the entire trip.Big words. Yes. Really good.
Wish we could have just stayedthere all day.
They didn't have food at thelocation we were at and it was
our first Tampa brewery,so of course we were gonna move on.
(20:03):
Um, then we went to Angry Chair,and Vanessa was really pushing that.
We go to Angry Chair,and I was like, all right.
And so the wife was like,you know, girl power or whatever.
Vanessa says, angry chair.We go to anger Chair.
Plus we were hungry and they hadfood. Uh, beer was fine.
Same kind of thing.Or like, big stouts.
I've never heard of anythingelse by them.
Yeah, and she said that she goes,hey, they have really good stouts.
(20:23):
And I said, look,we're not drinking stouts.
It's 90 degrees and way too muchhumidity.
Last thing I want is fuckingstout with my balls sweating.
And she goes, no, no, no, theystill have good beer. It was fine.
Didn't have any stouts, though.Then we went to deviant. What?
Oh, I was I thought you saidthey didn't have any stouts.
You said you didn't have any.We did not. We they did.
(20:44):
We did not drink them.Then we went to Deviant Brewing,
who I guess was known for theirsours, and they had a couple sours in
our flight that were really good.Got their hazy, pale because,
you know, I'm a whore.It tasted like liquid bandaid.
There were so many off flavorsin that thing.
It was the worst beer I had onthe entire trip. Oh, what a.
(21:05):
That says a lot too.It was bad, but the couple of
sours were pretty decent, so,you know, whatever.
Um, would would buy this ours again.And then we ended the night at
Cigar City.I know Cigar City is, like,
sort of craft.Not really, but, um, they have a
big kitchen and it's like,you know, going to what is yours?
Lakefront brewing. Lakefront. Yeah.You know what you're gonna get?
(21:28):
You know, you're gonna get somedecent beers no matter what.
Yeah,it's not going to be mind blowing,
but you're gonna drink and say,yeah, this is a beer. Yeah, exactly.
So I went to Cigar City, had dinner.First of all,
food was really good. They had.They called them Chicharrones.
What do you think of chicharronis what do you think of when you
hear chicharrones?I actually have no idea.
Is it like a, like a pork rind orsomething? Exactly. It's a pork rind.
(21:50):
And they, they called them porkbelly. Chicharrones.
Well,they weren't chicharrones at all.
It was legit chunks of pork belly.Like, it was like pork belly nuggets.
And they were giant.They were delicious.
First of all, did not expect it to bethis giant plate of pork belly that
was just gonna be chicharrones, uh,fucking delicious, but way too much.
And then also got, like, a saladwith that. And, um, food was good.
(22:12):
I had, they had a, um, hazy, paleon tap, which was not part of the
core lineup, and it was delicious.I ordered two,
that's how good it was.Um, so they may not be super crafty,
but it was fucking delicious.And I ran a train on those choo choo.
Yeah.Then we, uh, then we went back to the
(22:32):
hotel because we had to wake up atfour in the morning to catch our
flight back home. Oh, man. Yeah.Uh, dude, the first day there,
when we got there,the day of the graduation.
So fucking tired because obviouslydid not really sleep on the plane.
And I want to do is go back andtake a nap.
And I was like, no, come todinner or lunch and pay for your
own lunch and, and then do this.And finally, at one point,
(22:53):
I told the wife I was like,I need to go take a nap because
I'm getting a little angry.And nobody, nobody wants to see
Angry Greg. Exactly.And she was on board too, but she
just needed a little prodding.So she's like, all right, we're gonna
go back to hotel and take a nap.And, you know, don't call us for
three hours or whatever.So I took a nap, and then I just.
I was tired the whole trip becausethat totally threw me off and then
(23:15):
landed on Sunday was just super,even though it was Sunday and we
had the whole day like super tired.The only direct flight back was at
seven in the morning Florida time.And so what did you arrive like
4 a.m. California time?So no, no, you go the other way.
So I land.Well, not the other way, but yeah,
it went up like two hours.We landed like just before
9 a.m. California time. Okay.Because it would have been 12
(23:37):
Florida time because like afive hour almost. Right?
Right, right. Yeah. Okay. Okay.So had the whole day to
ourselves Sunday to recover.But, you know, took a nap and was
tired and still tired the next dayand just just trying to recover.
So anyways, um.And traveling just takes it out
of you. It does. That too.You don't really do anything, but
it just takes it out of you. Yeah.There's gotta be some science
(23:58):
behind that.Probably slept so little on this
trip. I'm still recovering.So, um, did not get a gator nor
a grenade when I stepped footonto Florida land. Really?
Sound like you actually went toFlorida then? Yeah. Yeah, maybe.
I say maybe Tampa, not Florida,but Tampa is very Florida.
Like it's there was some Floridapeople there for sure. Uh oh.
(24:21):
Here's here's Florida for you atthe graduation.
Besides all the old peoplepassing out from the heat, uh,
there was a fight in the parking lotafterwards. That's amazing. Yeah.
Anybody we've told that story to,they're like, oh, well, welcome to
Florida. Stop it. I swear to God.It's like that's a normal occurrence.
I guess they're just like,oh yeah, welcome to Florida.
It's like, all right. Fantastic.So what's what's next? Yeah.
(24:44):
So like, you know, did anythinghorrible happened? I guess not.
It was just not first of all,it was not a vacation.
Like when I got back Monday morning,the boss was like, hey,
how was your trip?I was like, uh,
not not a vacation, not relaxing.You know, zero out of ten would
not recommend. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.No, thanks. Weather fucking suck.
Hey, worst dick weather. Yeah. Ever.So you texted me that,
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and I was astounded. So bad.I've been to Orlando quite a few
times. I know, I know.We've talked about.
Orlando a little discrepancy.You know, in Tampa and Orlando.
Orlando's great dick weather. Yeah.Like you would have feel real good
about yourself. Go to Orlando. Yeah.Go swinging in Orlando. Oh, yeah.
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Now, I've only been to Orlandoin either January or February,
so obviously not hot.I've been in January once.
It was still pretty nice. Yeah.Still nice.
Now, the first time I went was thecoldest January they'd ever had on
record. That's not good, right?I mean, you know, it's Florida,
so that meant like 50s.Well, it's still not great weather.
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Yeah. Not great weather.No, that's for sure.
But all the other times,great dick weather in Orlando.
Um, Miami had pretty good weathertoo, from what I remember.
It wasn't that humid. Okay.And we were chilling at the beach
the whole time getting drunk.So the the the dick was swinging.
Super good dick weather there.Yeah, but, uh,
Saint Pete slash Tampa area.That thing is looking for a hole
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to hide in. That's crazy. Yeah.It was it was just so bad.
It's so hot and muggy.And like I said, it was like
living in a fucking mouth. Gross.I don't want to live in a mouth.
Exactly. Nobody does.That's like, actually, like a
really gross way to put it. Yeah.I mean, it was kind of Vegas
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kind of does this a little bit.Not humid. Vegas is not humid at all.
But Vegas, you know,if it's 110in the day,
you'd be walking around at 3 a.m.and it's still like 98 degrees out.
You know, it doesn't get itdoesn't cool down that much.
This was the same like it'd be90 in the day and humid as fuck.
And then we'd be walking around atmidnight and it was still like 88
humid as fuck. It's like no reprieve.Just getting the AC.
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It's all we could do.And then her sister, the one who
lives there, just wanted to,like, roll down windows in the
car and sit outside at bars.I'm like, what the fuck is wrong?
What is wrong with you?And she's not from there.
She's from the San Francisco areawhere it's cold all the time.
I was like, I don't care howlong you've lived here,
this is not okay. No.Rolling your windows down in 98
degree weather. Not cool.There was nothing enjoyable
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about that. So bad.Yeah, like, let's roll our
windows down to turn the heat on.You know? Like who? No.
It's your air conditioner. Broken.Like what is happening? Grow up.
Oh. So gross. So, um. Yeah.Hey, don't don't go to fucking Tampa,
I guess. Or just Florida in general.I have no need to ever go back.
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I said something about never comingback to Florida. The wife's like.
But I want to go to Disneylandwith you someday.
I was like, we can do that.I hope you corrected her and said,
you mean Disney World? Oh.You know what? I bet she said, world.
This is. This is me.I've been drinking. Yeah. Uh.
So, um. Yeah. Florida sucks.Sorry, Vanessa. Yeah. You know what?
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I really enjoy Disney becauseDisney's not really Florida, right?
It's a little slice of heaveninside of Florida.
It's a melting pot of heaven.And then, um, what else we got?
Uh, I really, really like Fort Myers.I don't know if you've ever been
another super touristy town,but. Okay.
Um, kind of demolished with the,uh, hurricane last year, so. Oh.
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I don't know if it's up andrunning if it's not.
But that was always a really coolplace and it's real close to the
airport. Okay. Over there.So, uh, any kind of trip from the
hotel or the airport to the hotel,just super nice.
Okay, I'm looking it up now.All right, so that's pretty south.
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I mean, that's almost as low asMiami just on the other coast.
Okay, I didn't realize.I didn't realize it was that low.
Yeah, like I'm looking now.Like Naples is exactly the same level
as. Yeah, it's near Naples. Yeah.Naples is exactly the same as
Fort Lauderdale,which is just above Miami.
And Fort Myers is a little bitabove Naples. So it's down there.
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It's right on Palm Beach. So, um.Yeah, I wonder if the weather's
just nicer the south or you go orsomething maybe. I don't know.
Because, like, we're we're in SaintPete and Tampa. It's on the water.
It's not like there was no waterto be seen.
It's just fucking hot as balls.Interesting. It's awful.
Never again. Hashtag never again.American. Damn it! So, um.
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Yeah, that's. That was Florida.I never need to go back to Saint
Pete. Tampa. What a trip. Yeah.Can't wait to never do it again.
I feel like my dad.My dad hates traveling.
I just hate Florida.Yeah, I like traveling.
Yeah, I do too.I like it a lot, actually.
I don't do it enough.But, man, when I get out to
somewhere new, I'm looking for allthe cool places to go and anywhere
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that's not a chain. And. Right.I don't ask people to pay for
their own lunch.Like I said, totally fine paying
for it. It just was weird.It's like, hey, come to this
thing that I have organized,but also pay for your own lunch.
Okay, I didn't know that's how itworked, man. It's Florida tradition.
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Maybe. Oh, Flex his face.He just took another sip.
I'm trying to finish it. Right.All right.
Before it went on way too long.I'm sorry. That was just a big, long.
Too long. Didn't read version.Florida sucks.
Uh, before I talk about my beer.Let's talk, uh, ludicrous libation.
It's been a while.Yeah, it really has.
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Take a trip up to your hood.Minnesota. Well, you know.
Next to your hood.Don't confuse people.
Hood adjacent. Hood adjacent.I like that. What a term.
Yeah, apparently, public intoxicationis specifically not a crime.
That's fucking awesome.Yeah, a lot of places.
If you're just drunk in public,that's a crime.
(30:54):
You can't be drunk in public.Uh, it goes on to say, while merely
being intoxicated in public is not acrime under state law, the behavior
associated with intoxication canlead to criminal charges such as
disorderly conduct, offensive,obscene, or noisy behavior.
I mean, that's everywhere.The fact that you can be drunk
in public is amazing.Just handle your your shit and
(31:15):
keep your shit together. Right.Because here,
it's definitely not okay. Right?Yeah. Here is super not okay.
I had a buddy come over, uh,one summer for, you know,
a couple cans and have a good time.And he rode his bike,
and it was probably like a twomile bike ride from his house.
And the topic of conversation cameup, and it was like, hey, like, even
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if you get caught drunk on your bike,like, that's still a ticket, right?
You know, so like,it shouldn't be. But yes. Right.
It shouldn't because you're not only.Endangering yourself. Right.
You're not endangering others.Um, but yeah, still a legit citation.
And, you know, so it's like what?You know, I guess the lesser of
(31:59):
two evils if you want to put it,you know. Yeah.
A lot of places, the punishment for,like riding your bike while drunk
is the same as driving a car.Which is mind blowing.
That's bullshit, I am,I'm totally against you.
Should be encouraged to not getbehind a vehicle. Yeah.
Whatever. Walk. Ride your bike.Yeah. Just. Yeah, exactly.
(32:20):
So who cares? All right.After all that Florida bitching,
I need a beer.
He calls to the bullpen for beer.I am drinking out of Colorado Outer
Range brewing sunrise dreams.This is a gorgeous hazy IPA six
(32:46):
point. Very nice.Yeah,
the right color on the last week.6.7% has A413 untapped out of
646 ratings.And it says nothing but hops.
Nelson and Citra, ABV 6.7.That's the description. Amazing hops.
Great hops. That's all it says.Let's see on the nose buds.
(33:08):
Fairly light. Picking up some citrus?Yeah, just real light.
Uh,citrusy orangey ness on the schnoz.
Let's dig in with the oldTongue-jobber. Oh. Mhm.
Much better than your beer.I'm not jealous at all. Yeah.
This is the best way possible.Is like orange juice.
The Nelson and Citra are shining.It's orangey and citrusy.
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It is not coating the tongue.It's just finishing dry.
This is. This is a good daddy.I drink this again.
I'd buy this again. Damn.I'd buy a whole four pack.
Ah, there it is. Yep.I'll be in Colorado next month.
Maybe I could find me some morejuice.
I'm one jealous daddy over here.Let me tell you. Jealous daddy? Um.
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This is good. Outer Range brewing.I feel like I've had something
from them before, but I have.I must have, right?
I've definitely had a beer ortwo from these guys before.
Okay, I guess I could looked it upbefore we did this, but I think
I've seen them on the table before.And this is another one of those
Tavour beers.And if this is good coming from
Tavour, imagine how good it is.You know, not coming from Tavour.
(34:19):
Let me search for it real quick.Nothing's popping up on the show
archive.I haven't had any Outer Range on
the show.I think I've had Outer Range. Gotcha.
That's what I'm saying. I see.All right, a little news before
we get out of here.First, don't forget this week.
June 14th is Topa Topa 10thanniversary.
If you're out in our hood, stop by onSaturday. Come say hi and be there.
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Be square, you idiot.Yeah, don't be square.
Be circle. Uh. All right.Six of the ten largest craft
brewers shed volume in 2024.According to the Brewers Association.
Latest update in the new Brewermagazine, six of the top ten craft
breweries actually lost volumein 2020 for craft beer overall,
dropped 4% last year,down to 23.1 million barrels.
(35:03):
Now, that's not entirely unexpected,but here's what stings the big
regional players.Those pumping out over 15,000 barrels
a year were actually down just 3%.Which which suggests the smaller
guys are doing all right.It's the big names dragging the
averages.So some of those names are Yingling,
which I did have in Florida.I was like.
It's just whatever though.It's just whatever.
(35:24):
But I saw it at a bar and I was like,you know what, I'm in Florida.
I gotta have a Yuengling.I had it at the old time diner at
fucking Hollywood Studios. Oh, yeah.It was just like, man, why do
people talk so much about this?Yeah, but I had I had to do it.
But I that that's why I had it.Because I had to do it.
I had one in close to a decade,probably.
(35:46):
Uh, Yuengling still sitting onthe throne at number one, did see
an 8% dip, which is over 230,000fewer barrels than the year before.
Boston Beer took the hardest hitof them all.
They lost more than 320,000barrels in volume.
Which they claim they have thenumber one light beer in America.
I don't know if you've ever seen thecommercials. Which one is that? Uh.
(36:07):
It's like Sam Adams light orsomething.
Yeah, but it's got, like,a catchier name than Sam Adams Lite.
Oh. Wish I could remember.I saw a commercial for it right
before we did the show,but now I don't care about it.
So is it. Is it Van Duzer lite?Attention, van. Duzer.
(36:31):
Uh, but Sierra Nevada, on the otherhand, is up 2% year over year.
Not a huge jump,but at least they're not losing
barrels like the other companies.Uh, Tilray dropped 13%,
which is about 114,000 less barrels.Uh, Athletic Brewing
unfortunately keeps growing.They're up 55%,
adding over 140,000 barrels. 55%.Yeah. Stop drinking na beer.
(36:55):
You guys, it's just wasted calories.By the way, the Sam Adams one is
just called American Lite.Oh, yes, I've heard of that one.
There we go.May have even had it at some point.
So anyways, uh, there you have it.Nerdy numbers for you.
Speaking of American, real Americanbeer. Hulk Hogan's beer brand.
Trying to buy Hooters.Jesus is king about it.
(37:19):
Is there a better white trash matchin heaven? It just makes sense.
Like if the shoe fits, right? Right.If the boot fits. Drop it. Damn it!
Uh, just weeks after Hooters ofAmerica filed for chapter 11
bankruptcy. Hooters of America.Hooters of America.
(37:40):
Apparently, that's the name.Uh, Hogan's Beer company.
Real American Beer is planning abid for the Hooters name.
According to America.According to a report from
Business Insider, the bid wouldfocus solely on acquiring the
brand's intellectual property,not the restaurants themselves.
If successful, the deal would giveReal American beer the rights to
create Hooters branded products.Of America.
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Of America, including beverages,food items and merchandise.
Those products would be distributedat Hooters restaurants,
retail stores, entertainment venues,and other locations nationwide.
A person familiar with the company'splans told Business Insider that
Hooters has always been a big part ofHogan's life. I bet it has. Geez.
Why? Cause he likes wings. Uh.Both Hogan and Hooters got their
(38:23):
start in Clearwater, Florida,and Hogan still lives in the area.
Of course, he's from Florida,by the way.
The plan would involve licensing theHooters name back to the restaurants,
allowing them to continueoperating independently, while the
brand itself would be used morebroadly for product distribution.
The bid is expected to be an allcash offer, though the total
amount has not been disclosed.While Hogan isn't looking to operate
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restaurants, he does have experiencein the hospitality industry.
He currently runs Hogan's Hangout,a bar near the beach in Clearwater,
which I have heard of.I have not heard of this one though.
In the 90s, he briefly opened a pastathemed restaurant called Pastamania
in Minnesota. That's brilliant.I did not know this.
(39:05):
I think that is brilliant.How did that not last? Right.
Uh, at this point, the deal is stillin flux and other buyers could
emerge. But this moves forward.The partnership could give the
Hooters brand a new lease on life,this time with a side of real
American beer.So what was the place called?
Pasta water? No. In Clearwater.Oh, uh, Hogan's. Hogan's hangout.
(39:28):
So I my wife's cousin,coworker of mine, his girlfriend's
grandfather, lives in Clearwater,and they go there, like, once a
year to vacation and help him out.Um, and he sent me a picture.
There's, like, Hulk Hogan statuesall over the boardwalk, and he
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actually hosts a karaoke night.I don't know if I said this on
the show before, but he hosts akaraoke night at his bar,
and the champion of the karaokenight gets a belt. Oh, nice.
And I think that's just kind ofbrilliant. That is pretty good.
Uh, but, yeah,he's a big deal down there. Uh, yeah.
(40:12):
They must like racist assholes downthere. It is Florida after all.
It makes sense.Yeah, I just googled Pastamania,
and I found a picture of an old menu.One of the items on the menu is
Hulk's Power pasta,which is penne pasta, chicken,
veggies, and your choice of sauce.Sounds pretty powerful, brother.
That's the only like.There's no pun on any of the
pasta names.Well, that's what I was hoping for.
(40:34):
I thought you were gonna give mesomething real good. Oh, except.
Okay. This is good for the little.The kids menu is called for the
little pasta maniacs. Damn it.They have Hulk shows, which must
be like SpaghettiOs. SpaghettiOs?Yeah, yeah, this sounds awful.
Cheeseburger pasta.And my favorite Hulk aroni and
(40:55):
cheese. Damn it. That's so good.So dumb.
Should have been like Hulk andMeatballs or something like that.
You know, like. Pythons and pasta.Chicken, Hulk, Fredo, or just
(41:16):
everything with Hulk in front of it.Yeah. Oh, that's Hulk lasagna.
Uh, I don't know.I don't know how you top Hulk
aroni and cheese, though.That's pretty good. Yeah.
Oh, and here's a flyer from theirgrand opening where you got a free
beverage with any purchase of pasta.Oh, this is so good.
Ringside dishes. Pasta sauce.Salad. Good times. I'm gonna stop.
(41:38):
I'm gonna close this page now,uh, here's here's a Florida
story for you.Drunk driver urinates in a cop car
after hitting a bystander with avehicle outside of a strip club.
I feel like the headline aloneis enough. That is so on brand.
I couldn't come up with a betterheadline myself. Um.
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A Lakeland man was arrested forhitting a vehicle and a bystander
while fleeing from a deputy afterdrinking at a strip club, a deputy
spotted spotted a large crowd,later found to include 49 year old
Terrence Christopher Phillips.Come on, Terrance and Phillip in
the same name in the parking lotof club 27 cabaret.
The deputy pulled into themedian of the highway and saw
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multiple people who appeared tobe in a verbal altercation.
At that point, he informed dispatchof the situation and approached
the crowd in his patrol vehiclewith emergency lights on.
A female witness approached him andstated a man, later identified as
Phillips, struck her vehicle andwas trying to leave the property.
The deputy observed Phillips ina black Toyota SUV trying to
flee the parking lot.He approached the passenger side
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of the vehicle and tried to openthe door.
As Phillips continued to drive away,Phillips put the vehicle in
reverse and forward,directing the vehicle toward a man
who was standing in the parking lot.Phillips then struck the man and
continued to flee.He drove behind the strip club and
headed south on the grass towardsthe high grove. Grove. Excuse me.
Towards the High Grove Highgrovesubdivision.
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The deputy chased toward the vehicleas it continued to flee from him.
Phillips drove behind theestablishment towards the deputy,
who drew a firearm and told himto stop. He did not listen.
Instead making a right turn ontoUS highway 27 and heading
towards Polk County.The deputy gave dispatch a
description of the vehicle, which hadmultiple stickers on the back and
possibly purple headlights in thefront. What do you mean possibly?
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Were they purple or were theynot purple? Geez.
As the deputy returned to theincident location,
he saw Phillips vehicle passingthe establishment again,
heading towards the US highway 27.He notified other responding
deputies who found the vehicleand administered a felony stop
at a Wendy's.They then detained Phillips,
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according to the report.The first deputy subsequently
met with the man who was struckby Phillips.
He had abrasions on his nose andface and his thumb bled profusely.
Come on.The Lake County Fire Department
and Lake County EMS responded tothat scene to treat his injuries.
Took him to the celebration hospital.The deputy moved on to speak
with a male witness,who advised that his girlfriend,
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the female witness, told himPhillips struck her vehicle while
trying to leave the parking lot.He intervened by taking Phillips
keys, preventing him from leaving.He gave them back.
Per the establishment manager'srequest, the strip club was like,
give him back his fucking keys.Phillips became hostile and used
arbitrary racial languagetowards the male witness and
other people in the parking lot.He got into his vehicle and
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tried to leave while the deputydemanded he step out.
The male witness saw him driveforward, hitting the victim and
then leaving the scene.Phillips was then arrested.
While in route, he used derogatoryand racial language towards
African Americans, Mexicans andPuerto Ricans. Oh why not?
He also maneuvered his hands to thefront and took out his penis to
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urinate on the floor of the deputy'spatrol vehicle. That does that.
Maybe should have cuffed him alittle better. Yeah, yeah.
Uh, real winners out there. Yeah.He later gave two breath samples
of surprisingly low. Like one for.Not that low 0.178. Okay.
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That's that's just a little overdouble. That's.
He's whipping out his dick in acop car.
The New York native was charged withaggravated battery with a deadly
weapon without intent to kill,resisting arrest without violence
and DUI. Second offense. Yeah.I just I've been really drunk before,
(45:37):
you know, like. Super drunk.Really drunk.
I guarantee I've been a lotdrunker than 0.178.
And like, we do a lot of stories,right? A lot of stories.
Never once when I was ever asdrunk as I've ever been,
have I ever thought to do any ofthese things right.
(45:59):
Maybe people are just crazy,I don't know. Yeah.
I mean, look, I've gotten drunkand I've fallen off a balcony.
I have. What else have I done?All kinds of stupid shit.
But I've never tried to hit peoplewith my car or even get into my car.
Uh, piss in the back of a cop car.Yeah, I don't get it. Like these.
(46:21):
These people cannot be of soundmind already.
There's some underlying shit,for sure.
And then they get inebriated andit just fucking right.
Skyrockets when you add booze toFlorida. That's what you get.
You get Florida. You get it.You get extra Florida. Yeah.
(46:41):
Would you like Florida or extraFlorida? Extra crispy.
Florida crispy. Daddy. Daddy.All right.
I think that's where we end it.We've talked enough about Florida.
Thanks for letting me bitch aboutmy trip. Yeah. You're welcome.
It felt good to get it off the oldchest. It felt nice. To listen to.
Yeah, I've been holding it inbecause, like, you know,
there's only so much I want to bitchto the wife because, you know,
(47:03):
I still want to remain married.Yeah, I feel that. Yeah.
You know, it's her family,so I can only say so much.
So, uh, hopefully her or herfamily listens to the show.
They probably don't.All right, uh, I'll have a little
music. I'll tell you all to find us.@CraftBeerRepublic
@CraftBeerRepublic on the socials.@Flex_me_a_beer underscores in
between 805538. Beer. That's it.I hope everyone is staying very
(47:29):
well hydrated. And on that note.And a good night, everybody.
Welcome in, everybody.It's the craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking.Thanks for joining.
I am Greg and I am being joined bythe juiciest, most dry hopped buff
guy on the Midwest. And that's flex.What's up big fella? I am juicy, are.
Very juicy with notes of tropical.Ooh, I like the sound of that.
(00:37):
Sounds like I need a vacation.Oh, dude, you're telling me I
need to go somewhere?Not Florida for vacation. Oh, boy.
Get to that in a couple of you.It's already starting. Oh, fuck.
Florida. Uh, follow me on this.Follow me. Follow us on the socials.
@CraftBeerRepublic @flex_me_a_beerunderscore in between and of course,
800 553 beer. 2337.Shout out to our top listening city
(00:59):
last week, and that is Trenton, newJersey. What up. What up, new Jay?
That's what they call it now.Is that what they call it? Yeah.
Don't ask more questions, but.Absolutely. Okay. I'm convinced.
Yeah.We got some booze news to get to.
Ludacris. Libation law.And what Flex is most excited
for my trip to Florida.I can't wait. I'm so excited.
(01:22):
You literally didn't tell meanything. I really haven't.
Usually we talk things out.I just I've told you almost
nothing about my trip to Florida.So very excited about this.
We'll get right into it.Uh, before we do, Flex is waiting to
drink his beer until he reviews it.Because he's so excited for it.
Well, it's not that I'm excited.It's that it smells really.
(01:44):
Amazing and it's gorgeous.And I'm just.
I just don't want it to, like,I don't know, I'm nervous.
So I was gonna go first becauseI need the beer before I talk
about Florida.But I don't want you to sit
there and not drink your beer.So let's find out what Flex is
drinking.In a world where craft beer is king.
A world where muscles are biggerthan growlers.
(02:05):
Only one tongue can guide us.One man, one tongue.
One Tongue-jobber.In this world, we must find out
what is Flex drinking?All right, so we've had multiple
versions of this beer on the show.It's a series. Long running series.
(02:28):
I thought it was gonna end at five.Apparently they are on eight.
Episodes on.Flex is drinking Voltron Defender of
the Universe volume eight from 4Hands Brewing out of Saint Louis,
Missouri, which I had thepleasure of visiting last summer.
(02:48):
Oh, and this is always acollaboration beer.
And this time they collaboratedwith a in-state fella, three sheeps
brewing up in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.Not to be confused with Sheboygan,
Wisconsin. Yes. Very different.So I would say relatively new beer.
Uh, 674 ratings on tap.That's 674 and a collective 3.99.
(03:14):
So now my hopes are, you know,they're getting a.
Little, little bit up there.Um,
I don't know why I talked like that.Uh, this is a hazy IPA, uh, in IPA,
and it says it has sultana strataand mosaic hops, and I believe
sultana are the, uh, artistsformerly known as Denali hops. Oh.
(03:38):
You can fact check me on that.I didn't even look it up.
I just made it up.The old Untappd crew here says
the eighth release in a seriesof collaborations with breweries
from around the country to bringthe mighty Voltron to life.
Voltron volume eight is a juicy,hazy IPA brewed with Three Sheeps
Brewing in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.Topped with a blend of sultana strata
(04:02):
and mosaic hops, this tropical juicebomb boasts bold notes of pineapple,
hello passionfruit,citrus and blueberry that soar from a
malt base composed of pale malt,white wheat and flaked oats.
So, I mean, I was big on thepineapple because I was telling Greg,
(04:24):
my co-host here, uh, hey. It's me.Hey, Greg, uh, I poured,
I cracked this beer,and I poured it before the show,
and it smelled so good.It smelled like fresh,
ripe pineapple.Like you just cut it up and took
a big whiff of the bowl,and it was just.
It got my hopes so high that I wasactually afraid to drink the beer.
(04:47):
Um, so I said that I wasn'tgonna drink the beer until the
show started. So here we are.Um, we will start with a little
bit of the nose buds.Um, see what's dancing on those
fellas. Hashtag nose buds.And you're right, by the way,
Sultana.Formerly known as Denali or
Experimental hop 06277.I didn't know that one, but,
(05:08):
you know, look at me.Look at me go. I know those things.
So it's a nice looking beer.Great looking. Definitely.
Still is. A little bit ahead.Uh, it's been poured for about,
I don't know, ten,ten or so minutes. Sure.
Uh, so on the, on the nose buds,it's definitely still heaps of
that fresh pineapple.Uh, now that it's warmed up a
little bit, you get a little bitof the malt base coming through.
(05:30):
Uh, fingers crossed that that's notgoing to come through on the palate.
Um.But without further ado,
warm up the old Tongue-jobber.Batch 367, 406 and 456.
For the other times we drink Voltron.Okay. Um. Ooh. That face. Oh, no.
(05:55):
I wish you guys could see this.Oh, that was, um.
We're gonna try this one more time.One more gallon. Uh. It's not. Okay.
Where are you gonna try this now?Again. Take two and go. It's a beer.
Oh, no. So much excitement.Oh, that is so. Much. Build.
(06:21):
Huge bummer. Oh, no. Yeah.Uh, yeah. Uh. Let's see.
They said bold notes of pineapple.No. Passion fruit? No, I said citrus.
I didn't get none of that blueberry.No, I didn't get that. Um.
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It's really bitter.And it, like, hits you late. Oh, no.
It's on my tongue, and I kind ofwant to pour it down the drain.
Wow. Yeah. This is.I'd say that's the last Voltron
that you'll be having. I can't.I couldn't it just be a single can?
That's funny. It's a bummer.I mean, granted, this is only this is
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only like 1249 for the four pack,so, like, how bad? Complain.
Oh, time to plug and chug.But this is just not.
It's not what I wanted.No, daddy. Yeah.
And I've had really good offeringsfrom both of these breweries.
So this is maybe is a bad canquestion mark. Yeah.
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Maybe one of the other threewill be not a drain pour.
Yeah, maybe I'll just give em away.Haven't decided yet.
Some unsuspecting,unsuspecting fool. Yeah.
Maybe they'll think it's okay,I don't know. Maybe.
But, hey, at least the cans.Cool. There's that sweet can art.
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All right, well.I wonder if I can scrape this off
my tongue before I go to bed. Oof!I'll see if I can move on from
that gracefully. Yeah.How do we segue from this?
I don't know, man, that sounds awful.Oh, Florida. Florida.
Hey, speaking of awful. There we go.Let's talk about Florida.
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So I think I've talked aboutleading up to this a couple
times on the show.Had to go out for a stupid high
school graduation.One of the wife's family, nephews,
people, and first of all,to me and like I were flying across
country for a high school graduation.That's crazy that you told me this.
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Yeah.And I thought that was astounding.
Is it isn't finishing highschool just a legal requirement?
Yeah, like maybe not Florida,I don't know.
You almost like you have to,like, not try to do it. Right.
Because I did pretty good at nottrying and still graduated high
school. Exactly.Not with flying colors, but, uh,
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still graduated. You do it. I did it.So you had to do that. We, uh.
We took a red eye Wednesday night,and the graduation was Thursday
morning at 11 a.m..We landed Thursday morning at,
like, 730. Rough.I such a bad sleeper on planes.
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And this was no exception.In fact, this was one of the worst
red eyes for me that I've ever taken.I got about 30 minutes of sleep.
So we land, we get the car,we go to a.
We found this actually reallycool breakfast spot.
Um, ate some breakfast, had like 900cups of coffee while I was there.
The guy he brought the coffeeafter the first one was gone in
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about 48 seconds.He was real southern and great.
He was funny, but he was like,oh my God, I'm not doing my job.
And like comes over with more coffee.And I said, but if you just want to
leave that there, like, I wouldn'tbe mad. I can pour it myself.
He's like, no, no, I'm supposed to.I was like, then you're gonna be
getting your steps in today becauseI'm gonna be needing some coffee.
Can I ask you a question quick?I don't want to interrupt too much.
Please. No.How do you feel about them
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refilling your half cup of coffee?Oh, it throws off my cream ratio.
I hate it, yeah.Let me finish my cup before you
bring it over to refill. Mhm.Because otherwise you are
screwing everything up man. Yeah.If I see him coming with it I'll
pound it. Interesting.Like if it's half or less than
half you know. Yeah. Yeah yeah.And then I'll pound it so I can
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start over with, with the ratio.Um so did that uh, went and then went
to graduation after that, after welanded. Got car, I got breakfast.
It's time for graduation.Went to graduation.
It was 90 fucking degrees outand 95% humidity. Gross.
We were at this, like,amphitheater thing that luckily had,
um, like, like sales.Like shade sales. You know, it.
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Was a nice. Yeah, it wasn't a hard.But when it's 95% humidity and
the air is not fucking moving,it was just like living in a mouth,
right? Things are getting sticky.Oh, sticky and sweaty and, like,
legitimate.At least three people were carried
on a stretcher by the end of it.Come on. Yeah. Due to the heat.
You're serious? Yeah. Yeah.No, seriously.
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Old people were getting carried onstretchers. I saw at least three.
In fact, the wife's mom was gettingreally bad at one point, and she.
She's like, go run up ahead and startthe car and get the AC running.
So like I did, I ran up.Cut the cut the car going.
And we had bought a case of water.And you said but honey the knees.
Yeah.At least I didn't have to get up
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off the ground.Oh, that was an off air conversation.
Um, and so I got some bottles ofwater for everybody.
It got a little dicey, but, um.Yeah, so that was awful.
It was hot as balls, just fuckingdripping. Then afterwards.
So this is a weird one for meafterwards. Give me your opinion.
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We went to lunch.She was like, hey, graduation lunch
at this restaurant. Okay, great.Huge chain restaurant in that area.
I was like, oh, super fun.We're going on vacation.
Vacation quotes. It's not a vacation.We're going on a trip and we eat
out all these chain restaurants.Um, we get there, we order,
we're eating, and at one point,the waiter went up to the father
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of the graduate and saidsomething we didn't.
We didn't know what it was a bigtable.
And then the waiter comes overto everybody and starts asking
how we want to split the bill.Okay, whatever I can,
I can pay for my own meal.I'm not mad that I have to pay
for my own meal.I did think it was weird that
you've asked me to come to thisgraduation lunch, and you're not
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covering it. Is that me? That.No. That's kind of weird, right?
It's not like I asked,can we go to graduation?
Especially because it's not like youflew halfway across the country.
You flew the entire way acrossthe country? Yeah, all the way.
California to Florida.I do think that's a bit bizarre.
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I just like when I graduated.And you were invited to the lunch.
It's not like, hey, we're gonna goto this. Come with. Exactly. Yeah.
It wasn't like a whoever wantsto feel free. It was.
This is what we're doing afterthe graduation ceremony.
We have reservations.Be there by this time, so on and so
forth. So I thought that was weird.Like at my graduation,
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I can't remember high school,but definitely college graduation.
It was like, you know, it was paidfor by my parents because. Right.
That's what you do anyways. Whatever.Um, so that was Thursday. Friday.
I mean, every day we were therewas hot as balls, humid as balls.
We went to a couple places for, youknow, to eat. We were with family.
It was the wife's family.So I just kind of had to turn off
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my caring about where we weregoing because, like, we kept
going to these chain restaurants.Nobody wanted to be minutely
adventurous with their food.and I'm like, in a new area.
Let's try some local cuisine.Right. How often are you there?
Hopefully never again. Damn it.So, uh, you know, the food was just
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mediocre and there was nothing todo because all they have to do
is either like outdoorsy thingswhere you sweat your balls off.
Now, where were you,exactly in Florida?
We were in Saint Pete for themost part. Okay.
Sapient floor,which is outside of Tampa.
And, uh, the old people were too oldto be walking around in the heat.
They were fucking passing out,and we didn't want to do,
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you know, museum after museum.And we even told them, like,
hey, you guys go do a museum.You want to do a museum?
No, we want to do whatever youwant to do.
I'm like, bitch,I want to get hammered.
Forget that. I'm in Florida.Do you not know who I am? Right?
So it was a lot of like, arguingabout where we were going, sweating
our balls off the first night there.So Thursday night we go out to dinner
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and, uh, we go to pay for parking.It's one of those things like, hey,
get your license plate and go payfor your parking at the machine.
We're paying for parking the machine,and we see the guy coming around
giving tickets to people likehe's on it.
And we go, and we have dinner,and we come back, and we came back.
There was a parking ticket on ourrental car, and I looked at the time,
the time on the parking ticketticket was 823.
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The park, the the time on my receiptfrom the parking thing was 824.
This motherfucker gave me aticket while I was filling out
the parking machine. Come on.So then we had to next day go to
the fucking.Here's how often they do this.
They have an office off of theircity hall just for parking tickets.
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Not the police station,not a general city hall office.
It is specifically for parkingtickets.
And so we went into this and Ijust I said, the lady, I was like,
hey, I got a parking ticketwhile I was paying for parking,
trying to do the right thing here.I said, you can look at my receipt,
you know. 823. 824. She goes.Let me have a look.
To her credit, extremely friendlyand was like, no problem,
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we're gonna avoid this out.I was like,
is the rental company gonna know?She's like, they'll never find out.
My wife wanted to get a couplewords in she goes.
And we saw him doing this and we werepaying and maybe he needs to blah,
blah, blah.And she goes,
I'm gonna avoid your ticket.And I was like,
just let her avoid the ticket.We'll never come back here. Yeah.
Like she I look normally I'mtotally with her.
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Like, let's fucking bitch and letthem know that fuck you Florida
because fuck you Florida.But I was like, let's just let's
just not have to pay for the ticket.And they do that thing where, like,
the parking ticket was only like $25,where it's one of those things
where it's like, oh, just it's lowenough to where I'll just pay it
so I don't have to waste my time.Yeah, but it was a matter of
principle at this point. Fuck you.I'm a big fan of principle.
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Yeah, not principles, but principle.Yeah. Yes. What? What you said.
So anyways, got that voided.Went on with our day of just
eating too much food.And the one family member who lives
there was impossible for suggestions.It was like, hey, you know,
what do you think we should doif we want to do x, Y, and Z?
And she's like, oh, I don't know.So at one point we go to this area
called Gulf Gulfport, which my wifehad done a little research on.
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It's like an out, I say outdoorsy,everything's outdoorsy,
but it's like a beachy communitywhere they have like shops along the
beach and it's like old houses turninto shops and that kind of stuff,
like, all right, that sounds cool.You know, we'll eat lunch and
cruise around these shops.Well, she kind of forgot that.
That's an area that got fuckingdestroyed by the hurricane six
months ago.And so almost everything along
the beach was closed. Oh, no.You had to go like a block in,
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and it just wasn't what it wassold to be. I will say one of.
No, not one of the best breweryin Saint Pete that we went to
was Gulfport Brewery.Went there for lunch because
it's the only place we couldfind that had enough indoor
seating for all of us, becausewe needed the air conditioning,
and their beer was pretty not gross.That sounds like a stellar place
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in Florida. Yeah, exactly. So, um.Then Saturday it was raining,
like, woke up to it pouring,but luckily it mostly stopped by
about noon. Saturday was decent.So we on Friday evening, uh, the
old people went back to take a nap.And we went to Three Daughters
Brewing, which I had heard of.I've had a bunch of three
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daughters stuff at Disney. Okay.Yeah, I'd heard of them.
I think Nicole, when they wentout there, they had had them.
And so I was like, all right,right down the street, let's go.
Let's go fit in a couple of beers atThree Daughters and got a flight,
plus a couple beers.And it was just okay.
It's very okay stuff. Yeah, yeah.Like we had a couple.
Yeah, we had a couple that were good.We had a couple that were
fucking disgusting.And we had one that was like
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fine right in the middle.Yeah, that sounds. About. Right.
Yeah, exactly.Even I posted a picture on the
gram and Vanessa, you know,responded to it. Hi, Vanessa.
And, uh, was like, oh,three daughters. What did you think?
And I was like, we had two that weregood. We had two that were bad.
And she goes, yep.Sounds about right. Yeah. So every.
Everything I've ever had. Yeah.Yeah, it was just fine.
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Um, so Gulfport and three daughters,um, Gulfport was the better
brewery descent. So. Okay.So Saturday woke up,
had breakfast, and then, becausethe old people had left, the wife
let me have some beers that day.And so we went to Dissent Brewing,
which is also in Saint Pete.It was fine.
Uh, better than three daughters,you know.
Got a couple flight or got aflight and a beer.
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And, um, it was better than not,you know. Pretty good.
Okay, here's what I will sayabout three daughters.
They did have a coffee blonde ale.And it was fucking phenomenal.
Phenomenal, phenomenal.Like, would purchase,
but they didn't have cans. Oh. Yeah.Um, so yeah. So descent was fine.
And then we made our way to Tampa,and this is where the beer
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finally started to get.Tampa's got a Zac goes to Tampa
for Tampa Beer Week, right?Which I totally forgot.
And I should have asked him now.I got great suggestions from Vanessa
and her husband and I totally forgot.Zach's always down there,
and he even hit me up after Iposted a couple of pictures,
like, are you in Tampa?And I was like, fuck,
I should have asked Zach.Yeah, Zach knows all about that.
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Yeah. So I started at Ology Brewing.Fantastic beer. Yep. So good.
In fact, I will say it now.Ology Brewing had the best beer
I had on the entire trip.Big words. Yes. Really good.
Wish we could have just stayedthere all day.
They didn't have food at thelocation we were at and it was
our first Tampa brewery,so of course we were gonna move on.
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Um, then we went to Angry Chair,and Vanessa was really pushing that.
We go to Angry Chair,and I was like, all right.
And so the wife was like,you know, girl power or whatever.
Vanessa says, angry chair.We go to anger Chair.
Plus we were hungry and they hadfood. Uh, beer was fine.
Same kind of thing.Or like, big stouts.
I've never heard of anythingelse by them.
Yeah, and she said that she goes,hey, they have really good stouts.
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And I said, look,we're not drinking stouts.
It's 90 degrees and way too muchhumidity.
Last thing I want is fuckingstout with my balls sweating.
And she goes, no, no, no, theystill have good beer. It was fine.
Didn't have any stouts, though.Then we went to deviant. What?
Oh, I was I thought you saidthey didn't have any stouts.
You said you didn't have any.We did not. We they did.
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We did not drink them.Then we went to Deviant Brewing,
who I guess was known for theirsours, and they had a couple sours in
our flight that were really good.Got their hazy, pale because,
you know, I'm a whore.It tasted like liquid bandaid.
There were so many off flavorsin that thing.
It was the worst beer I had onthe entire trip. Oh, what a.
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That says a lot too.It was bad, but the couple of
sours were pretty decent, so,you know, whatever.
Um, would would buy this ours again.And then we ended the night at
Cigar City.I know Cigar City is, like,
sort of craft.Not really, but, um, they have a
big kitchen and it's like,you know, going to what is yours?
Lakefront brewing. Lakefront. Yeah.You know what you're gonna get?
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You know, you're gonna get somedecent beers no matter what.
Yeah,it's not going to be mind blowing,
but you're gonna drink and say,yeah, this is a beer. Yeah, exactly.
So I went to Cigar City, had dinner.First of all,
food was really good. They had.They called them Chicharrones.
What do you think of chicharronis what do you think of when you
hear chicharrones?I actually have no idea.
Is it like a, like a pork rind orsomething? Exactly. It's a pork rind.
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And they, they called them porkbelly. Chicharrones.
Well,they weren't chicharrones at all.
It was legit chunks of pork belly.Like, it was like pork belly nuggets.
And they were giant.They were delicious.
First of all, did not expect it to bethis giant plate of pork belly that
was just gonna be chicharrones, uh,fucking delicious, but way too much.
And then also got, like, a saladwith that. And, um, food was good.
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I had, they had a, um, hazy, paleon tap, which was not part of the
core lineup, and it was delicious.I ordered two,
that's how good it was.Um, so they may not be super crafty,
but it was fucking delicious.And I ran a train on those choo choo.
Yeah.Then we, uh, then we went back to the
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hotel because we had to wake up atfour in the morning to catch our
flight back home. Oh, man. Yeah.Uh, dude, the first day there,
when we got there,the day of the graduation.
So fucking tired because obviouslydid not really sleep on the plane.
And I want to do is go back andtake a nap.
And I was like, no, come todinner or lunch and pay for your
own lunch and, and then do this.And finally, at one point,
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I told the wife I was like,I need to go take a nap because
I'm getting a little angry.And nobody, nobody wants to see
Angry Greg. Exactly.And she was on board too, but she
just needed a little prodding.So she's like, all right, we're gonna
go back to hotel and take a nap.And, you know, don't call us for
three hours or whatever.So I took a nap, and then I just.
I was tired the whole trip becausethat totally threw me off and then
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landed on Sunday was just super,even though it was Sunday and we
had the whole day like super tired.The only direct flight back was at
seven in the morning Florida time.And so what did you arrive like
4 a.m. California time?So no, no, you go the other way.
So I land.Well, not the other way, but yeah,
it went up like two hours.We landed like just before
9 a.m. California time. Okay.Because it would have been 12
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Florida time because like afive hour almost. Right?
Right, right. Yeah. Okay. Okay.So had the whole day to
ourselves Sunday to recover.But, you know, took a nap and was
tired and still tired the next dayand just just trying to recover.
So anyways, um.And traveling just takes it out
of you. It does. That too.You don't really do anything, but
it just takes it out of you. Yeah.There's gotta be some science
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behind that.Probably slept so little on this
trip. I'm still recovering.So, um, did not get a gator nor
a grenade when I stepped footonto Florida land. Really?
Sound like you actually went toFlorida then? Yeah. Yeah, maybe.
I say maybe Tampa, not Florida,but Tampa is very Florida.
Like it's there was some Floridapeople there for sure. Uh oh.
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Here's here's Florida for you atthe graduation.
Besides all the old peoplepassing out from the heat, uh,
there was a fight in the parking lotafterwards. That's amazing. Yeah.
Anybody we've told that story to,they're like, oh, well, welcome to
Florida. Stop it. I swear to God.It's like that's a normal occurrence.
I guess they're just like,oh yeah, welcome to Florida.
It's like, all right. Fantastic.So what's what's next? Yeah.
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So like, you know, did anythinghorrible happened? I guess not.
It was just not first of all,it was not a vacation.
Like when I got back Monday morning,the boss was like, hey,
how was your trip?I was like, uh,
not not a vacation, not relaxing.You know, zero out of ten would
not recommend. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.No, thanks. Weather fucking suck.
Hey, worst dick weather. Yeah. Ever.So you texted me that,
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and I was astounded. So bad.I've been to Orlando quite a few
times. I know, I know.We've talked about.
Orlando a little discrepancy.You know, in Tampa and Orlando.
Orlando's great dick weather. Yeah.Like you would have feel real good
about yourself. Go to Orlando. Yeah.Go swinging in Orlando. Oh, yeah.
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Now, I've only been to Orlandoin either January or February,
so obviously not hot.I've been in January once.
It was still pretty nice. Yeah.Still nice.
Now, the first time I went was thecoldest January they'd ever had on
record. That's not good, right?I mean, you know, it's Florida,
so that meant like 50s.Well, it's still not great weather.
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Yeah. Not great weather.No, that's for sure.
But all the other times,great dick weather in Orlando.
Um, Miami had pretty good weathertoo, from what I remember.
It wasn't that humid. Okay.And we were chilling at the beach
the whole time getting drunk.So the the the dick was swinging.
Super good dick weather there.Yeah, but, uh,
Saint Pete slash Tampa area.That thing is looking for a hole
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to hide in. That's crazy. Yeah.It was it was just so bad.
It's so hot and muggy.And like I said, it was like
living in a fucking mouth. Gross.I don't want to live in a mouth.
Exactly. Nobody does.That's like, actually, like a
really gross way to put it. Yeah.I mean, it was kind of Vegas
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kind of does this a little bit.Not humid. Vegas is not humid at all.
But Vegas, you know,if it's 110in the day,
you'd be walking around at 3 a.m.and it's still like 98 degrees out.
You know, it doesn't get itdoesn't cool down that much.
This was the same like it'd be90 in the day and humid as fuck.
And then we'd be walking around atmidnight and it was still like 88
humid as fuck. It's like no reprieve.Just getting the AC.
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It's all we could do.And then her sister, the one who
lives there, just wanted to,like, roll down windows in the
car and sit outside at bars.I'm like, what the fuck is wrong?
What is wrong with you?And she's not from there.
She's from the San Francisco areawhere it's cold all the time.
I was like, I don't care howlong you've lived here,
this is not okay. No.Rolling your windows down in 98
degree weather. Not cool.There was nothing enjoyable
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about that. So bad.Yeah, like, let's roll our
windows down to turn the heat on.You know? Like who? No.
It's your air conditioner. Broken.Like what is happening? Grow up.
Oh. So gross. So, um. Yeah.Hey, don't don't go to fucking Tampa,
I guess. Or just Florida in general.I have no need to ever go back.
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I said something about never comingback to Florida. The wife's like.
But I want to go to Disneylandwith you someday.
I was like, we can do that.I hope you corrected her and said,
you mean Disney World? Oh.You know what? I bet she said, world.
This is. This is me.I've been drinking. Yeah. Uh.
So, um. Yeah. Florida sucks.Sorry, Vanessa. Yeah. You know what?
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I really enjoy Disney becauseDisney's not really Florida, right?
It's a little slice of heaveninside of Florida.
It's a melting pot of heaven.And then, um, what else we got?
Uh, I really, really like Fort Myers.I don't know if you've ever been
another super touristy town,but. Okay.
Um, kind of demolished with the,uh, hurricane last year, so. Oh.
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I don't know if it's up andrunning if it's not.
But that was always a really coolplace and it's real close to the
airport. Okay. Over there.So, uh, any kind of trip from the
hotel or the airport to the hotel,just super nice.
Okay, I'm looking it up now.All right, so that's pretty south.
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I mean, that's almost as low asMiami just on the other coast.
Okay, I didn't realize.I didn't realize it was that low.
Yeah, like I'm looking now.Like Naples is exactly the same level
as. Yeah, it's near Naples. Yeah.Naples is exactly the same as
Fort Lauderdale,which is just above Miami.
And Fort Myers is a little bitabove Naples. So it's down there.
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It's right on Palm Beach. So, um.Yeah, I wonder if the weather's
just nicer the south or you go orsomething maybe. I don't know.
Because, like, we're we're in SaintPete and Tampa. It's on the water.
It's not like there was no waterto be seen.
It's just fucking hot as balls.Interesting. It's awful.
Never again. Hashtag never again.American. Damn it! So, um.
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Yeah, that's. That was Florida.I never need to go back to Saint
Pete. Tampa. What a trip. Yeah.Can't wait to never do it again.
I feel like my dad.My dad hates traveling.
I just hate Florida.Yeah, I like traveling.
Yeah, I do too.I like it a lot, actually.
I don't do it enough.But, man, when I get out to
somewhere new, I'm looking for allthe cool places to go and anywhere
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that's not a chain. And. Right.I don't ask people to pay for
their own lunch.Like I said, totally fine paying
for it. It just was weird.It's like, hey, come to this
thing that I have organized,but also pay for your own lunch.
Okay, I didn't know that's how itworked, man. It's Florida tradition.
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Maybe. Oh, Flex his face.He just took another sip.
I'm trying to finish it. Right.All right.
Before it went on way too long.I'm sorry. That was just a big, long.
Too long. Didn't read version.Florida sucks.
Uh, before I talk about my beer.Let's talk, uh, ludicrous libation.
It's been a while.Yeah, it really has.
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Take a trip up to your hood.Minnesota. Well, you know.
Next to your hood.Don't confuse people.
Hood adjacent. Hood adjacent.I like that. What a term.
Yeah, apparently, public intoxicationis specifically not a crime.
That's fucking awesome.Yeah, a lot of places.
If you're just drunk in public,that's a crime.
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You can't be drunk in public.Uh, it goes on to say, while merely
being intoxicated in public is not acrime under state law, the behavior
associated with intoxication canlead to criminal charges such as
disorderly conduct, offensive,obscene, or noisy behavior.
I mean, that's everywhere.The fact that you can be drunk
in public is amazing.Just handle your your shit and
(31:15):
keep your shit together. Right.Because here,
it's definitely not okay. Right?Yeah. Here is super not okay.
I had a buddy come over, uh,one summer for, you know,
a couple cans and have a good time.And he rode his bike,
and it was probably like a twomile bike ride from his house.
And the topic of conversation cameup, and it was like, hey, like, even
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if you get caught drunk on your bike,like, that's still a ticket, right?
You know, so like,it shouldn't be. But yes. Right.
It shouldn't because you're not only.Endangering yourself. Right.
You're not endangering others.Um, but yeah, still a legit citation.
And, you know, so it's like what?You know, I guess the lesser of
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two evils if you want to put it,you know. Yeah.
A lot of places, the punishment for,like riding your bike while drunk
is the same as driving a car.Which is mind blowing.
That's bullshit, I am,I'm totally against you.
Should be encouraged to not getbehind a vehicle. Yeah.
Whatever. Walk. Ride your bike.Yeah. Just. Yeah, exactly.
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So who cares? All right.After all that Florida bitching,
I need a beer.
He calls to the bullpen for beer.I am drinking out of Colorado Outer
Range brewing sunrise dreams.This is a gorgeous hazy IPA six
(32:46):
point. Very nice.Yeah,
the right color on the last week.6.7% has A413 untapped out of
646 ratings.And it says nothing but hops.
Nelson and Citra, ABV 6.7.That's the description. Amazing hops.
Great hops. That's all it says.Let's see on the nose buds.
(33:08):
Fairly light. Picking up some citrus?Yeah, just real light.
Uh,citrusy orangey ness on the schnoz.
Let's dig in with the oldTongue-jobber. Oh. Mhm.
Much better than your beer.I'm not jealous at all. Yeah.
This is the best way possible.Is like orange juice.
The Nelson and Citra are shining.It's orangey and citrusy.
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It is not coating the tongue.It's just finishing dry.
This is. This is a good daddy.I drink this again.
I'd buy this again. Damn.I'd buy a whole four pack.
Ah, there it is. Yep.I'll be in Colorado next month.
Maybe I could find me some morejuice.
I'm one jealous daddy over here.Let me tell you. Jealous daddy? Um.
(33:57):
This is good. Outer Range brewing.I feel like I've had something
from them before, but I have.I must have, right?
I've definitely had a beer ortwo from these guys before.
Okay, I guess I could looked it upbefore we did this, but I think
I've seen them on the table before.And this is another one of those
Tavour beers.And if this is good coming from
Tavour, imagine how good it is.You know, not coming from Tavour.
(34:19):
Let me search for it real quick.Nothing's popping up on the show
archive.I haven't had any Outer Range on
the show.I think I've had Outer Range. Gotcha.
That's what I'm saying. I see.All right, a little news before
we get out of here.First, don't forget this week.
June 14th is Topa Topa 10thanniversary.
If you're out in our hood, stop by onSaturday. Come say hi and be there.
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Be square, you idiot.Yeah, don't be square.
Be circle. Uh. All right.Six of the ten largest craft
brewers shed volume in 2024.According to the Brewers Association.
Latest update in the new Brewermagazine, six of the top ten craft
breweries actually lost volumein 2020 for craft beer overall,
dropped 4% last year,down to 23.1 million barrels.
(35:03):
Now, that's not entirely unexpected,but here's what stings the big
regional players.Those pumping out over 15,000 barrels
a year were actually down just 3%.Which which suggests the smaller
guys are doing all right.It's the big names dragging the
averages.So some of those names are Yingling,
which I did have in Florida.I was like.
It's just whatever though.It's just whatever.
(35:24):
But I saw it at a bar and I was like,you know what, I'm in Florida.
I gotta have a Yuengling.I had it at the old time diner at
fucking Hollywood Studios. Oh, yeah.It was just like, man, why do
people talk so much about this?Yeah, but I had I had to do it.
But I that that's why I had it.Because I had to do it.
I had one in close to a decade,probably.
(35:46):
Uh, Yuengling still sitting onthe throne at number one, did see
an 8% dip, which is over 230,000fewer barrels than the year before.
Boston Beer took the hardest hitof them all.
They lost more than 320,000barrels in volume.
Which they claim they have thenumber one light beer in America.
I don't know if you've ever seen thecommercials. Which one is that? Uh.
(36:07):
It's like Sam Adams light orsomething.
Yeah, but it's got, like,a catchier name than Sam Adams Lite.
Oh. Wish I could remember.I saw a commercial for it right
before we did the show,but now I don't care about it.
So is it. Is it Van Duzer lite?Attention, van. Duzer.
(36:31):
Uh, but Sierra Nevada, on the otherhand, is up 2% year over year.
Not a huge jump,but at least they're not losing
barrels like the other companies.Uh, Tilray dropped 13%,
which is about 114,000 less barrels.Uh, Athletic Brewing
unfortunately keeps growing.They're up 55%,
adding over 140,000 barrels. 55%.Yeah. Stop drinking na beer.
(36:55):
You guys, it's just wasted calories.By the way, the Sam Adams one is
just called American Lite.Oh, yes, I've heard of that one.
There we go.May have even had it at some point.
So anyways, uh, there you have it.Nerdy numbers for you.
Speaking of American, real Americanbeer. Hulk Hogan's beer brand.
Trying to buy Hooters.Jesus is king about it.
(37:19):
Is there a better white trash matchin heaven? It just makes sense.
Like if the shoe fits, right? Right.If the boot fits. Drop it. Damn it!
Uh, just weeks after Hooters ofAmerica filed for chapter 11
bankruptcy. Hooters of America.Hooters of America.
(37:40):
Apparently, that's the name.Uh, Hogan's Beer company.
Real American Beer is planning abid for the Hooters name.
According to America.According to a report from
Business Insider, the bid wouldfocus solely on acquiring the
brand's intellectual property,not the restaurants themselves.
If successful, the deal would giveReal American beer the rights to
create Hooters branded products.Of America.
(38:01):
Of America, including beverages,food items and merchandise.
Those products would be distributedat Hooters restaurants,
retail stores, entertainment venues,and other locations nationwide.
A person familiar with the company'splans told Business Insider that
Hooters has always been a big part ofHogan's life. I bet it has. Geez.
Why? Cause he likes wings. Uh.Both Hogan and Hooters got their
(38:23):
start in Clearwater, Florida,and Hogan still lives in the area.
Of course, he's from Florida,by the way.
The plan would involve licensing theHooters name back to the restaurants,
allowing them to continueoperating independently, while the
brand itself would be used morebroadly for product distribution.
The bid is expected to be an allcash offer, though the total
amount has not been disclosed.While Hogan isn't looking to operate
(38:44):
restaurants, he does have experiencein the hospitality industry.
He currently runs Hogan's Hangout,a bar near the beach in Clearwater,
which I have heard of.I have not heard of this one though.
In the 90s, he briefly opened a pastathemed restaurant called Pastamania
in Minnesota. That's brilliant.I did not know this.
(39:05):
I think that is brilliant.How did that not last? Right.
Uh, at this point, the deal is stillin flux and other buyers could
emerge. But this moves forward.The partnership could give the
Hooters brand a new lease on life,this time with a side of real
American beer.So what was the place called?
Pasta water? No. In Clearwater.Oh, uh, Hogan's. Hogan's hangout.
(39:28):
So I my wife's cousin,coworker of mine, his girlfriend's
grandfather, lives in Clearwater,and they go there, like, once a
year to vacation and help him out.Um, and he sent me a picture.
There's, like, Hulk Hogan statuesall over the boardwalk, and he
(39:50):
actually hosts a karaoke night.I don't know if I said this on
the show before, but he hosts akaraoke night at his bar,
and the champion of the karaokenight gets a belt. Oh, nice.
And I think that's just kind ofbrilliant. That is pretty good.
Uh, but, yeah,he's a big deal down there. Uh, yeah.
(40:12):
They must like racist assholes downthere. It is Florida after all.
It makes sense.Yeah, I just googled Pastamania,
and I found a picture of an old menu.One of the items on the menu is
Hulk's Power pasta,which is penne pasta, chicken,
veggies, and your choice of sauce.Sounds pretty powerful, brother.
That's the only like.There's no pun on any of the
pasta names.Well, that's what I was hoping for.
(40:34):
I thought you were gonna give mesomething real good. Oh, except.
Okay. This is good for the little.The kids menu is called for the
little pasta maniacs. Damn it.They have Hulk shows, which must
be like SpaghettiOs. SpaghettiOs?Yeah, yeah, this sounds awful.
Cheeseburger pasta.And my favorite Hulk aroni and
(40:55):
cheese. Damn it. That's so good.So dumb.
Should have been like Hulk andMeatballs or something like that.
You know, like. Pythons and pasta.Chicken, Hulk, Fredo, or just
(41:16):
everything with Hulk in front of it.Yeah. Oh, that's Hulk lasagna.
Uh, I don't know.I don't know how you top Hulk
aroni and cheese, though.That's pretty good. Yeah.
Oh, and here's a flyer from theirgrand opening where you got a free
beverage with any purchase of pasta.Oh, this is so good.
Ringside dishes. Pasta sauce.Salad. Good times. I'm gonna stop.
(41:38):
I'm gonna close this page now,uh, here's here's a Florida
story for you.Drunk driver urinates in a cop car
after hitting a bystander with avehicle outside of a strip club.
I feel like the headline aloneis enough. That is so on brand.
I couldn't come up with a betterheadline myself. Um.
(42:00):
A Lakeland man was arrested forhitting a vehicle and a bystander
while fleeing from a deputy afterdrinking at a strip club, a deputy
spotted spotted a large crowd,later found to include 49 year old
Terrence Christopher Phillips.Come on, Terrance and Phillip in
the same name in the parking lotof club 27 cabaret.
The deputy pulled into themedian of the highway and saw
(42:22):
multiple people who appeared tobe in a verbal altercation.
At that point, he informed dispatchof the situation and approached
the crowd in his patrol vehiclewith emergency lights on.
A female witness approached him andstated a man, later identified as
Phillips, struck her vehicle andwas trying to leave the property.
The deputy observed Phillips ina black Toyota SUV trying to
flee the parking lot.He approached the passenger side
(42:44):
of the vehicle and tried to openthe door.
As Phillips continued to drive away,Phillips put the vehicle in
reverse and forward,directing the vehicle toward a man
who was standing in the parking lot.Phillips then struck the man and
continued to flee.He drove behind the strip club and
headed south on the grass towardsthe high grove. Grove. Excuse me.
Towards the High Grove Highgrovesubdivision.
(43:06):
The deputy chased toward the vehicleas it continued to flee from him.
Phillips drove behind theestablishment towards the deputy,
who drew a firearm and told himto stop. He did not listen.
Instead making a right turn ontoUS highway 27 and heading
towards Polk County.The deputy gave dispatch a
description of the vehicle, which hadmultiple stickers on the back and
possibly purple headlights in thefront. What do you mean possibly?
(43:27):
Were they purple or were theynot purple? Geez.
As the deputy returned to theincident location,
he saw Phillips vehicle passingthe establishment again,
heading towards the US highway 27.He notified other responding
deputies who found the vehicleand administered a felony stop
at a Wendy's.They then detained Phillips,
(43:48):
according to the report.The first deputy subsequently
met with the man who was struckby Phillips.
He had abrasions on his nose andface and his thumb bled profusely.
Come on.The Lake County Fire Department
and Lake County EMS responded tothat scene to treat his injuries.
Took him to the celebration hospital.The deputy moved on to speak
with a male witness,who advised that his girlfriend,
(44:09):
the female witness, told himPhillips struck her vehicle while
trying to leave the parking lot.He intervened by taking Phillips
keys, preventing him from leaving.He gave them back.
Per the establishment manager'srequest, the strip club was like,
give him back his fucking keys.Phillips became hostile and used
arbitrary racial languagetowards the male witness and
other people in the parking lot.He got into his vehicle and
(44:31):
tried to leave while the deputydemanded he step out.
The male witness saw him driveforward, hitting the victim and
then leaving the scene.Phillips was then arrested.
While in route, he used derogatoryand racial language towards
African Americans, Mexicans andPuerto Ricans. Oh why not?
He also maneuvered his hands to thefront and took out his penis to
(44:51):
urinate on the floor of the deputy'spatrol vehicle. That does that.
Maybe should have cuffed him alittle better. Yeah, yeah.
Uh, real winners out there. Yeah.He later gave two breath samples
of surprisingly low. Like one for.Not that low 0.178. Okay.
(45:12):
That's that's just a little overdouble. That's.
He's whipping out his dick in acop car.
The New York native was charged withaggravated battery with a deadly
weapon without intent to kill,resisting arrest without violence
and DUI. Second offense. Yeah.I just I've been really drunk before,
(45:37):
you know, like. Super drunk.Really drunk.
I guarantee I've been a lotdrunker than 0.178.
And like, we do a lot of stories,right? A lot of stories.
Never once when I was ever asdrunk as I've ever been,
have I ever thought to do any ofthese things right.
(45:59):
Maybe people are just crazy,I don't know. Yeah.
I mean, look, I've gotten drunkand I've fallen off a balcony.
I have. What else have I done?All kinds of stupid shit.
But I've never tried to hit peoplewith my car or even get into my car.
Uh, piss in the back of a cop car.Yeah, I don't get it. Like these.
(46:21):
These people cannot be of soundmind already.
There's some underlying shit,for sure.
And then they get inebriated andit just fucking right.
Skyrockets when you add booze toFlorida. That's what you get.
You get Florida. You get it.You get extra Florida. Yeah.
(46:41):
Would you like Florida or extraFlorida? Extra crispy.
Florida crispy. Daddy. Daddy.All right.
I think that's where we end it.We've talked enough about Florida.
Thanks for letting me bitch aboutmy trip. Yeah. You're welcome.
It felt good to get it off the oldchest. It felt nice. To listen to.
Yeah, I've been holding it inbecause, like, you know,
there's only so much I want to bitchto the wife because, you know,
(47:03):
I still want to remain married.Yeah, I feel that. Yeah.
You know, it's her family,so I can only say so much.
So, uh, hopefully her or herfamily listens to the show.
They probably don't.All right, uh, I'll have a little
music. I'll tell you all to find us.@CraftBeerRepublic
@CraftBeerRepublic on the socials.@Flex_me_a_beer underscores in
between 805538. Beer. That's it.I hope everyone is staying very
(47:29):
well hydrated. And on that note.And a good night, everybody.
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