Another Reason to Drink
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Another Reason to Drink
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That moment when mortality math hits you in the face – after turning 50, the average person has just 176 Sundays left. This sobering realization formed the unexpected emotional core of our conversation with special guest Greg, who's contemplating a major life transition from the familiar warmth of North Carolina to the uncharted winters of Northeast Ohio.
Between sips of Country Boy Brewing's misleadingly named Hillbilly Hustle (it's blackberry, not blueberry!) and Southern Tier's perfect-scoring Citra Fog, we navigated the strange territory of middle age. Greg shared his anxieties about experiencing his first true winter at age 50, while we all confronted the cognitive dissonance of feeling 25 in minds housed in bodies that occasionally remind us otherwise.
The episode weaves between thoughtful reflections on time's acceleration and lighter moments discussing everything from the proper definition of "catfishing" to the curious abundance of fishing-related terms in certain contexts. We explore how our beer preferences evolve with age, with Greg noting his shift from higher ABV IPAs to more moderate options – a small but telling adjustment that comes with aging wisdom.
What resonated most was our shared realization about work-life balance. "I've been a hamster on a wheel for almost 50 years," Greg confessed, sparking a conversation about how many of us spend decades prioritizing work over experiences, only to question those choices when we start calculating how much time remains. Whether you're contemplating your own major life change or simply enjoying craft beer culture, this episode will leave you both laughing and reflecting on how to make your remaining Sundays count.
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Speaker 1:Welcome, welcome, welcome. The hostess with the mostest, it's Ricky's in the house tonight, oh yeah, and but I do have a special guest. Billy is away for the night so, and we were gone for a week, so it's going to be kind of a little off a little bit, but just deal with it.
Speaker 2:It's going to be better have a deer.
Speaker 1:Have a deer or a beer, whatever. So here's Greg. We got a special guest here sitting with us. Greg is up for the weekend and here for a special wedding occasion in a whole week oh yeah, all week long. Huh, yeah, good times you need in the dream you got to pull that down a little bit, just so I can see you there, you go, yeah, yeah, that's why?
Speaker 2:that's why I like it so, so, greg, how you been buddy. Oh you know, just another day, another dollar.
Speaker 1:Another dollar. Yeah, that's it, and hopefully we're going to make all kinds of dollars because you're here tonight.
Speaker 2:Absolutely Enjoying the cool weather up here in Ohio.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I bet you Is it brutal down there.
Speaker 2:It just started. It just started and we left.
Speaker 1:I was like sweet, see you. Yep, okay, but before we get any further, we're going to do two beers tonight. We're doing country boy brewing, uh, hillbilly hustle, it is a blueberry lemon lager and it is 4.5 percent. And then we are also doing a southern tier, which we haven't done a southern tier for a while, so which I don't know why I'm telling you that, but we haven't done one for a while. It's, uh, what's that called?
Speaker 1:citra fog citra hops obviously yeah, citra hops, so it's a hazy ipa with a little bit of uh, orange hops, whatever, and it is a six percent, so we'll see how we do on them. It's a little bit of orange hops, whatever, and it is a 6%, so we'll see how we do on them.
Speaker 2:It's a little hop in the pants A little hop in the pants, there you go.
Speaker 1:So now, what is your like down in North Carolina, right? Yep, North Carolina, so close to Charleston-ish.
Speaker 2:That would be in South Carolina. I guess, relatively to here. We're much closer to Charleston.
Speaker 1:Okay, so where are you at in North Carolina?
Speaker 2:Just outside of Charlotte.
Speaker 1:Charlotte, I always get them too confused.
Speaker 2:Charlotte and Charleston. Yeah, there's no order.
Speaker 1:I don't. Honestly, my geography sucks Deep. Throw that. Please, Don't let it die down. All right, so you want to open up our first beer here and give it a little whirl? I smell the lemon. That's about all I smell. Oh man, yeah, you do Straight up.
Speaker 2:It smells like cleaner Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:I get the lemon. Oh God, I get the lemon. It's a little rough. I get the lemon. Where's the blueberry?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I haven't tasted any blueberry.
Speaker 1:I don't know where the blueberry is.
Speaker 2:Ooh, all right yeah. I don't know where the blueberry is. All right, yeah, I don't get the blueberry. I'm going to go in a little bit deeper, go a little deeper.
Speaker 1:It's a lemon shanty.
Speaker 2:Oh God, that's rough, that's a lemon shanty.
Speaker 1:It's literally a legit lemon shanty.
Speaker 2:I think well, you know blueberries.
Speaker 1:I don't think they grow blueberries in Kentucky, so I think that's the problem, oh yeah, Well, maybe some old mom and pop shop, but I don't. Smooth could be a little more heavy on the see On the blackberries.
Speaker 2:On the blackberries Is this blackberry or blueberry?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I can't see it, I don't know. Hold Blackberry or blueberry.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I can't see it, I don't know. Hold on, let me put on this.
Speaker 1:I thought it said blueberry, but it could be blackberry you know what's crappy.
Speaker 2:You hit that certain age and then, like all of a sudden, you can't read stuff without glasses. It's terrible, it's amazing.
Speaker 1:Dude, like it just literally Just crazy, just out of nowhere so right here, underneath that hillbilly hustle, it's real small.
Speaker 2:Oh, yep, yep it's, oh, it is shit, it is blackberry. Is it blackberry it's supposed to be?
Speaker 1:blackberry. Yeah, so I had two different people tell me it was blueberry yeah, well, that's why we don't taste any fucking blueberry exactly, but I do taste a little berry, like when you first sip it. If you take a first little sip, but then a lemon just overpowers it all.
Speaker 2:Maybe some twig and berries, I don't know. Yeah, I'd give Princess a proof, definitely, but not for me, do you think? Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I could see it being a lemon shanty.
Speaker 2:I see it being a lemon shanty, Okay so the positive thing is, on the 4th of July, when it's 95 degrees, you're out on a boat.
Speaker 1:Sitting by the pool in a kayak.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it would be baller.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I could see that you got to shut your air conditioner off and then sit here and sweat. Yeah, that'd be, good, that'd be all good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's probably not bad.
Speaker 1:I do taste a little bit of the black, but it's on the front and it's real quick.
Speaker 2:It's getting better as.
Speaker 1:I get into the can. We were drinking those all just to warm up. Yep, exactly.
Speaker 2:It's warming up to me now. It was a culture shock right there.
Speaker 1:It's not bad. It really isn't. Was a culture shock right there. It's not bad. It really isn't. It's not that bad.
Speaker 2:It wouldn't be in my fridge, but it's not bad.
Speaker 1:It would be in mine. I think I would keep this Honestly on a hot summer day.
Speaker 2:A Jason Creeper keeper, it could possibly be.
Speaker 1:I think the ladies would like it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I could have it for the ladies.
Speaker 1:You could have it for the ladies. I think it would end up being in there. I think so.
Speaker 2:Do we have to finish it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you have to finish it. That is a rule of the table. I think we've only dumped one beer. We've always gotten through them and we just make you struggle.
Speaker 2:I'll get through it. I'll get through it. I'm going to take this koozie off. Maybe it'll get better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's why I don't even put them on.
Speaker 2:I heard that about you.
Speaker 1:Dude, I don't know. I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2:You're old enough now that you don't have to wear your koozie.
Speaker 1:No, you're old enough now that you don't have to wear your koozie. No, well, I probably should, but I haven't had the snip yet. Just my pull-out game has gotten a lot better. I hear you.
Speaker 2:I can't imagine that that's true, though no it is.
Speaker 1:It's gotten a lot better Well.
Speaker 2:I found out too. If you make them swallow, it don't matter. Billy probably knows how good your game is. He does, he does.
Speaker 1:Because he swallows it. I haven't hit him in the eye.
Speaker 2:yet You've got to protect the eyes. You know you got it yeah.
Speaker 1:You got to protect the eyes. They're getting worse.
Speaker 2:That's why he's got that silky smooth skin.
Speaker 1:So what have you been up to, brother? A whole lot of anything like just work big plans going on. I know you're looking at houses up here, maybe possibly moving into the old Northeast Ohio, huh.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, I've never. You know, winter makes me nervous. Winter should make you nervous 50 years of being in North.
Speaker 1:Carolina and possibly moving up.
Speaker 2:I've never even experienced a winter, not one.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you might want to get four-wheel drive. The first year I did, I guess I went to the school in the mountains, yeah, but might want to get four-wheel drive.
Speaker 2:The first year I did, I guess I went to the school in the mountains.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it was still down there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was kind of the pansy mountains.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, so it wasn't horrible.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we were in the valley.
Speaker 1:It never snowed there, yeah so now, yeah, you might want to stick with your. You still got your Jeep so you might want to stick with that for at least the first year. Well, I saw all the rust buckets around here and I'm like god, I don't want that to happen to my jeep.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you ain't good luck. Good luck, I'm gonna have to have a garage.
Speaker 1:I think have a garage and uh, make sure you you got undercoated I know about the beaters, so I'm gonna, you know, I'll have to invest in a beater and you got on a undercoat vehicle, it's the salt Due to the fucking you know everybody had. That's the epitome of everybody's sticker salt life up in Northeast Ohio. When you see that, that doesn't mean the ocean, that's the roads, because I drive down the main route going into Chardon, ohio, whatever and like literally a fog of salt goes through.
Speaker 2:The other thing that scares me is like right now I'm two hours from the beach, two hours from the mountains, you know and there's the outdoor stuff here is amazing.
Speaker 1:Right, but it's not the same. No, it's a completely different. Yeah, absolutely, but now I got to tell you you're an hour from the beach and an hour and a half from the mountains.
Speaker 2:I did see something that they call mountains up here.
Speaker 1:Yes, so you have the Appalachians. A little tail end of it In PA. You can make it there in two hours. Okay, and then the beach is Lake Erie. No, so you could go up there and we have whales. I mean they're mostly on land, but I mean you still roll them into the water you know when they beach I will tell you about my first uh beach trip to ohio.
Speaker 2:So okay, and I was sitting here saying, uh, you guys don't have a beach, but she's like yeah yeah, absolutely there's a beach we have beaches, took me to um, what's the? Uh, what's the big party town just up the street, geneva on the lake?
Speaker 1:Oh, geneva on the lake yeah.
Speaker 2:So we went to Geneva on the lake, rented a cabin at the beach, right right, and I was totally shocked. The only thing that made me happy no sharks, no sharks. Actually no jellyfish, no jellyfish, nothing that could kill you, but there was potential water that stained my suit.
Speaker 1:Possibly and maybe a syringe here and there, Maybe some herpes? I don't know it could, yeah, possibly be, but I mean, come on, I'm only less than a mile from a beach. That is true. That is true, we have beaches, it's just not the beaches you want. Now, are you a big ocean swimmer, though?
Speaker 2:No, I don't like sharks.
Speaker 1:I don't like swimming in the ocean. I will not swim in the ocean.
Speaker 2:But I like bikinis.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, and well, we have some of them, but some of them shouldn't be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the spot we stayed in had shag carpet on the walls. On the walls, oh and uh, it looked like like a serial killer den and I was like, wow, oh well, and ohio is famous for serial killers, it is and so you know what that's for is a sound control, oh sense, and you pull that off from bloodstains and replace it oh it's amazing, yeah, you guys think of everything, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's the consideration too. Like man you know, like you know it's you don't ever hear about, I don't want to be like, oh, who's the guy that? Mickelson? No, not Mickelson. The.
Speaker 1:Shining, the Shining, the Shining, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't want to turn into the Shining dad.
Speaker 1:It depends as long as you get out of your house, Because I've had people stay in their house all winter long and it literally does drive them fucking crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, daddy's home.
Speaker 1:No, you literally have to get out of your house and just adventure out and still do it. Dude, a pair of snowshoes. You will. You personally, because I know you're a big hiker yeah, you would fucking love a pair of snowshoes. Or cross country skiing All that sounds about to be, you know what I mean. Like you would enjoy, I know you would.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just I'm a little concerned because I'm of a certain age now where I'm like, can I still do that type of fun stuff?
Speaker 1:that I should have been doing 20 years ago. If you, if you don't do it now, you definitely won't be doing it at all. I got her a pair of snowshoes. I have a pair hanging up that are old as shit. I don't know if I would use them. I need to get me a pair, but the last couple of years we were lucky. Now, this past year, we probably would have been able to use them.
Speaker 2:I do like that there's no. You guys at least don't know about it. There's no wild animals that'll kill you in Ohio. Absolutely not, not this side.
Speaker 1:I always said that the reason I live here is because there's no animals that can kill me the weather. Honestly, you deal with what? Five months of snow, if that, if that, but at least you're not. But how many months? Yeah, you're, you're probably well. Okay, you're probably four months.
Speaker 2:Okay, so we're going from zero months to four?
Speaker 1:yes, but but off and on, off and on, you're going to have that nice day Off and on four months of snow Tornadoes very rarely.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You don't get hurricanes. Yeah, sounds boring. Yeah, it is kind of boring, but it's kind of nice.
Speaker 2:No animals that kill you, no hurricanes.
Speaker 1:And you got corn fed. I mean, you got.
Speaker 2:Flooding, you got flooding.
Speaker 1:No, no flooding, Unless you live right on a river or something. There's nothing here.
Speaker 2:It's kind of a nice safe area and you still have your hiking you still have your whatever, what was the name of that movie that Mel Gibson did when he was in the Revolutionary War? Do you remember that movie that, uh, mel gibson did when he was in the revolutionary war? You remember the patriot, the patriot, yes, so so that's it. Do you remember, uh, the bad guy, the one that ran the? Uh, the dragon ears or the? Uh, I can't remember what he called those dragoons dragoons, yeah, yeah, that guy. He wanted to live in ohio. You remember that?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, because there was nothing here. There's nothing here. I mean, you go southern, oh, you might have a couple rattlesnakes here and there, but up here you don't have rattlesnakes. You go an hour and a half away from here in the PA, you will have rattlesnakes.
Speaker 2:Well, we went to that little mini Grand Canyon down towards Cleveland.
Speaker 1:Oh, Peninsula.
Speaker 2:Is that Peninsula? Is it Cuyahoga? Yeah, the.
Speaker 1:Cuyahoga National Park. Yeah, it's Peninsula. Yeah, they said they had rattlesnakes there oh really, oh yeah, so they're moving in, they're probably migrating or whatever, and I just heard you guys have coyotes, yes, but they're not going to kill you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got to watch your dog. I heard you guys have coyotes, yes, but they're not going to kill you.
Speaker 1:You've got to watch your dog. If you have a little wimpy dog, either that. No, there is coyotes, we've got turkey, we've got deer. You have the wildlife.
Speaker 2:I like all that.
Speaker 1:Are you a big hunter? Do you want to start hunting? No, I'll take pictures of animals I'm not killing.
Speaker 2:I remember I don't even eat meat.
Speaker 1:Well you live. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right. You just became a vegan-ish.
Speaker 2:Yeah, vegan-ish.
Speaker 1:I eat cheese.
Speaker 2:I can't come up to Ohio and not eat cheese. You guys have that.
Speaker 1:That's for certain. Well, we got Middle it trying. Sorry, uh, beer wench, my computer's taking a shit for some reason not taking a shit, but I'm having issues. Uh, it keeps shutting off on us whatever. So we're not really getting on the beer tap. So how are you gonna rate this beer, greg?
Speaker 2:um, what's the scale again?
Speaker 1:one to ten, ten being the best, one being the worst I hate this beer you hate this beer, really. You, really you don't like it that much, huh yeah, it's a, it's a.
Speaker 2:I'll go three, five.
Speaker 1:So now I had worse. Just for a little back story though, you're an ipa guy, or?
Speaker 2:my buds have changed as I've aged. I've gone into sours the side which I have to but I've also uh, I'm not a lager guy, but like this is just weird.
Speaker 1:This is weird, so I like it. I actually kind of do like this which is and which is each their own. This is why I like having a new player on the court, yeah, and, but I would say I, I would give it an eight myself holy.
Speaker 2:I would just say that if I'm out, if this was in a cooler and I was out, like I said, 95, 95 degrees and it was hot.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And I had to choose between that and an Ultra. I would drink this. You would drink this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 100%. So I would have to say you've got to go up to a 5.
Speaker 2:I mean okay. Okay so where is Ultra ranked in the grand scheme of things?
Speaker 1:I don't think we've actually done an ultra yet. Oh, okay, because I just switched to this. I used to drink Bud Light. Everybody knows I was training fluid.
Speaker 2:Where was the Bud Light then?
Speaker 1:Bud Light for me was a 10 all day long, but Are you out of your mind? Well, no, Just because that was my daily drinker. Okay, no, it would probably be Nowadays, it would probably be at nowadays. It would probably be back down to like a yeah five. It would just be like kill for the course. You know what I mean. Just my yeah, that's my daily drinker, whatever All right Not to pigeonhole you, but okay.
Speaker 2:So uh, it's summertime, you had to put three beers in a cooler and that's all you could drink all summer. What would the three beers be?
Speaker 1:Ooh, I would probably go Founders All Day IPA.
Speaker 2:Ooh, good choice.
Speaker 1:I would probably take that that would definitely be one of them in there. I would probably take that that would definitely be one of them in there. The next would be as long as I kept it cold Smithwicks.
Speaker 2:I do love Smithwicks, by the way.
Speaker 1:Smithwicks, whatever. Okay, I would keep that red because I'm a huge red fan.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my third one would probably be honestly, if I, it would be unicorn, unicorn farts.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't know if I had that. Who does that one?
Speaker 2:that's a sour oh with gold fleck.
Speaker 1:Gold flakes in it shit and that is from do you remember who that is? Pure lunch is not shit. It might even be a sticker up there, but I'm not sure and my computer's down right now. But it wasn't Southern Tear. I don't know where that one was from, but that was a sour. That was fucking delicious. It was really good.
Speaker 2:And so we did. Down south, we have a milkshake sour called the unicorn tears, which is amazing so I wonder if that's the same I don't know. This one's pretty small, it's out of union county, it's in monroe, okay, and they only produce it there once a year. Yeah they don't, they don't, it's not spread out.
Speaker 1:You know, we haven't found that unicorn unicorn farts, yeah, since then. But that that was a sour though, wasn't it? Yeah, it was a sour smoothie yeah, this was a milkshake.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a milkshake smoothie. Yeah, sounds like a similar beer. It is very good it was very good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that would probably be my three that I would keep in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean that's, I'd have to throw in a light beer in there somewhere, you know, because the calories man, like nowadays I have to look at calories.
Speaker 1:Well, see, no, I'm like you said. What would be in my, that would be on my wheelhouse. I would keep the ride, I like I.
Speaker 2:Oh the Smithics is oh yeah, yeah, got. Oh the smithics is oh yeah, yeah, I. I got to keep my rides like I love my rides. Yeah, we've come up to go to the dublin, uh, irish festival a few times.
Speaker 1:And oh man, yeah the smith, I'd love to go there. I'd love to go there. I have never been there freaking blast.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that would be a good time and uh, yeah, you get the smithics and it's like a thousand degrees out there because the sun's just beating on you, because it's in a field, and that's the problem, though, because once they get warm, they ain't that good. You don't want to get warm. That's why it's so good.
Speaker 1:You're just slamming them.
Speaker 2:You're slamming them back and you're good to go, yeah.
Speaker 1:I get that. What was the first one?
Speaker 2:again the all-day IPA.
Speaker 1:A lot of people don't like that. It's a little stronger. I know we've had some good hazies like I'm a huge hazy IPA guy well, it's not strong, because that's why they call it all day and then they have the backpacker one.
Speaker 2:Have you had the backpacker? I don't think I have. That might not be from founders, but it's a similar beer from another one. It's called the backpacker, or day hiker. I've seen or day hiker, it's something day hiker.
Speaker 1:I've seen that day hiker. Yeah, I've seen that day hiker. It's similar.
Speaker 2:You get all the flavor of a nice strong strong IPA only like a three five, so like you can do it and still not get lost on the trail.
Speaker 1:Right, exactly or if it's 95 degrees.
Speaker 2:like you don't go into a pass. Yeah, you're going to pass out. You piss your pants. You know nobody wants to do that. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good Three beers.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, yeah, I want yours.
Speaker 2:So, uh, unfortunately, I think nowadays, I think I would throw ultra in as a one Okay, and it wouldn't be my go-, but I'd have it because you know I'm trying to watch my calories.
Speaker 1:For the end of the night. Yeah, like basically get rid of all their others.
Speaker 2:Okay, man, you brought Smithics in there. Man, that's like it's hard for me not to how, not to I like it. That's a good beer.
Speaker 1:I love that yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'd do that. Yeah, because every time we go to the little Irish bar in town that's what I'm all about.
Speaker 1:Anytime I see it, I grab it.
Speaker 2:Imperial pint all day long.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:So okay, there's two. I'm going to have to have something else.
Speaker 1:A little heavier.
Speaker 2:I think, noda, I think I'd go to my old school, noda, brewing out of Charlotte. They make the Shoot. What's the name of it? Losing my mind, Let me think about it here. I can't think of it.
Speaker 1:So it's an IPA though. Yeah, it's an IPA.
Speaker 2:It's their famous IPA.
Speaker 1:Hazy or just a regular? It's a regular, just a regular, straight IPA.
Speaker 2:Hazy's.
Speaker 1:I used to be a big Hazy fan and now it's like hazies, I don't know what it is. They leave like a weird taste in my mouth and so I I'm getting more into the ipas, like you were a big guy or you were a big ipa guy at the time. So I don't know if I'm weaning myself into ipas with the hazies at the same time, kind of you know what I mean, but like I because I love mast head, like there's a mast heads jalapeno ipa I tried to find that right when I got in a doubt.
Speaker 1:Dude, that's fucking amazing, like I, I can't believe I haven't bought that actually this year. I usually used to keep one like as soon as I see it come out, like I'll grab them, just have them in my fridge because those are fucking good.
Speaker 2:I knew we were hanging out tonight. I was like I knew that's you and I. I was like oh man I sent tracy. We were down in the boardman and we're trying to send her out for that nobody could find it.
Speaker 1:You can't find it? Yeah, yeah, it's so. I don't know if they quit doing it for some reason, because brew dog does one too, and we couldn't find that either brew dog does a habanero.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the one. Yeah, it's just hard.
Speaker 1:You can't find them. It's just weird. Now we found a place down in Warren, Youngstown.
Speaker 2:It's a Harley place, Biker's Brewery they have a hot beer too, a hot blonde, that's not horrible. We were just down at Uppa Creek. Where is that?
Speaker 1:Warren maybe Okay.
Speaker 2:And they had all that biker's beer on tap.
Speaker 1:They didn't have that. The hot blonde is pretty good.
Speaker 2:That is pretty good you know what they had that, but they didn't specify that that's what it was.
Speaker 1:That's pretty good. You would have probably liked that.
Speaker 2:It and specified that that's what it was.
Speaker 1:Yeah nope, that's pretty good. You would have probably liked that it has. It does have a little bit of a bite to it, but not horrible, nothing stupid. But you, you like stupid. Yeah, exactly, yep. So okay, we're gonna take five and go refresh our beers. We're gonna come back with the southern tier citra frog and we'll go from there. I'm gonna work through this, yes, you are welcome back to another reason to drink.
Speaker 1:Here we are, guys. Uh, we got greg in the house with us. What up? So we're going to open up this. What is it? Citra Fog? It's a citrus fog. Southern Tears newest hazy IPA has a silky, luscious citrus and ripe, juicy Mandarin notes. It's a citrus fog. Sounds good to me.
Speaker 2:Let's Karma Sutra this thing and do it at the same time.
Speaker 1:It's a 6% ABV, 15 IBU, so that's not going to be too high. Damn, that's good. You know a lot of the Citra hops hit too hard with citrus.
Speaker 2:It's like you just bit a grapefruit.
Speaker 1:Exactly, yeah, hit too hard with citrus. It's like you just bit a grapefruit right. Exactly yeah, that's, and that's why I like the hazies a little more, but I still will take the ipa now see, I was wondering where this one was from, because I think southern tier is this is michigan first, and then this one's lakewood new york.
Speaker 2:Lakewood, new york, yeah and then we have one in charlotte, and then I was just well, we have one in downtown Cleveland. Yeah, I was just at the Cleveland one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so they're everywhere now, but I know there's one in Pittsburgh because I've been to that one. So they are everywhere.
Speaker 2:And they serve different beers in each one, by the way.
Speaker 1:I noticed that, yep See, yeah, we are definitely having uh technical discipline our problems tonight.
Speaker 2:So the av guy. The av guy doesn't know what he's doing now it the beer wench.
Speaker 1:She's new. She's still trying to figure it out, so no happens yeah, so.
Speaker 2:So now it's just me and you, greg, here we go so this beer is amazing, uh, compared to the previous beer, uh, it's a 10 yeah, you're already a 10, I'm already. You're already a 10 on this one southern tears there you go.
Speaker 1:Southern tears six percent. Uh, I will. Honestly I might follow you on that because it is really good. I like the citrus on it even the.
Speaker 2:The can matches the flavor I mean it's, it's artistic. You know, you got a, you get oranges on a lighthouse and it's kind of in 3d you know, it's kind of cool yeah yeah, so we got, we got cheers.
Speaker 1:that one cheers absolutely, cheers, absolutely Cheers absolutely.
Speaker 2:You know in general and I guess it's because I'm getting older now but I used to be a 7.2 IPA guy. That was always how I judged, and the beer that I couldn't think of hop, drop and roll out of Charlotte is 7.2. Percent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:And I know that the percent is not necessarily related to the flavor, but I find that it is because sometimes you get too much alcohol in it.
Speaker 1:I get that. It inhibits the flavor and drinkability. Yeah right, I get that so it's 6.0.
Speaker 2:It sounds like that's might be my. Might be a new one, oh getting a little older.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you hit 50 this year, right?
Speaker 2:Not yet, but it's upcoming, it's coming. Yeah, you're getting there, it's approaching quickly.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I mean, yeah, we're the same age and yeah, it's yeah it does seem.
Speaker 2:It makes sense. That's why we would give it a 10. Yeah, I could pound a few of these easily.
Speaker 1:And do we no? We, how many do we know? We, how many do?
Speaker 2:we have six. So we have six, yeah, oh, so we got two left?
Speaker 1:yeah, absolutely, we got three left. But we get drink the beer wenches. She don't drink them, she drinks other things. Yeah, milk, man, milk. So you got any jokes?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:You got no jokes, no jokes, all right. So what does an apple pie and a vagina? Or wait, I'm sorry. What's the difference between an apple pie and a vagina? There's a lot of expense. With the vagina, you can eat the crust off the apple pie, ew.
Speaker 2:You guys are nasty.
Speaker 1:Okay, so, Okay. So it's good for me to say I did have one more, but we're Ooh oh, Greg's bad. Like I didn't know this was a game. You know this is an actual game, but yeah so okay. I picked out like four of them, five of them, and I don't believe some of them. I think some of them are stupid, but so we'll go real quick. Do you think you are the funniest person in the room?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:I don't believe that either. I try to play like I am sometimes. Well, no, I don't think you are either.
Speaker 2:No, that's kind of a yeah. It makes the beer wench. The funniest person, no.
Speaker 1:I don't think so.
Speaker 2:I don't know, though it's really a sad room is what it is.
Speaker 1:It okay, pretty much is. It's a very sad room. I can't even believe we see to do it, so I guess all right. Would you rather win 50 000 than have your best friend win 500 000?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let the buddy have it, let the buddy, have it yeah he can break me off a slice. I'm thinking, I'm thinking I might get a little more, absolutely yeah, like okay, so I'll get 100 grand right yeah, exactly, especially if I bought the ticket like you know, happy birthday, buy tickets or something like that and you win 500 grand, yeah000?. Yeah, yeah, all right. Have you ever been choked during sex? You got a big-ass fucking neck. I can't believe that some little bitch Like she's going to be putting her fucking elbow on your.
Speaker 2:I put my head in a ceiling fan once.
Speaker 1:It's kind of the same thing, kept going.
Speaker 2:That was good Truth, truth.
Speaker 1:So did you like purposely do it? Oh, no, just a tall bed.
Speaker 2:Tall bed and just went up a little high. Wasn't paying attention, tall guy, that thing was moving, there was definitely blood. You know he has put, put one hand on the spot and just keep on going.
Speaker 1:Keep on going. That's a good one. All right, okay, now this was I this. Have you ever done a cocaine?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Okay, and I, I, I didn't like the way it smelled, that's a good one. And then have you ever had sex in a hot tub? So?
Speaker 2:that was yeah, I mean, it's an easy one. Yeah, it's an easy one. Yeah, there are all kinds of Give me one more. I feel like here you grab it right from the front. Nope other way. Yeah, there are all kinds of Give me one more. I feel like this.
Speaker 1:Here you grab it right from the front. Nope other way, yep right there. Grab that one. You read it. I'll read it, okay.
Speaker 2:Would you catfish your grandma if you found out she was going to leave you out of her will? What's a catfish Tricker?
Speaker 1:Tricker, I guess Something like that. No, I don't think I would.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what kind of dick does that. I mean you just go after the cousin that took your mind, yeah.
Speaker 1:You're like okay, well, who's next in line?
Speaker 2:Exactly, yeah, this is the easy part.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, I don't know I don't know, I don't, I don't know, I don't, I don't know how you would. I mean loving your grandmother anyhow, if she's cutting you out she's cutting you out she's cutting you out for a reason yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Why the negative connotation about catfishing?
Speaker 1:I don't understand so there's like a whole show, like there's a whole MTV show that says it's called Catfish, right.
Speaker 2:For real, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. And what they do is.
Speaker 1:MTV is still around. Yeah, they don't play videos. It's all reality bullshit.
Speaker 2:Oh nice.
Speaker 1:Make believe reality. Shit. It's a guy. Intensive video girl yeah, yeah, it's, yeah, yeah. It's like they talk whatever. So you're catfishing them because you're saying that you're a hot 33 year old woman with great tits, whatever. And then you meet and it's a, it's you, it's basically you. Why would somebody do that? It doesn't make sense. Because it's a show.
Speaker 2:And people like to watch that.
Speaker 1:I guess there's a I'm sure that it's a certain genre that likes to watch things like that.
Speaker 2:Okay, oh, interesting.
Speaker 1:Do you want to try it another way?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's not a catfish, though I mean it's not a catfish, though I mean it's not an actual catfish. They just hold it up in front of your face you're a catfish.
Speaker 2:All through high school I went catfishing. I'm like what the fuck?
Speaker 1:you're not sticking your arm down in a lake and pulling one out.
Speaker 2:What do they call that?
Speaker 1:Noodling, noodling, noodling. We never noodled, you never noodled. No, I think you noodled once. You've got to go to Tennessee and Kentucky for that.
Speaker 2:What's the gay noodling? That's c-noodling.
Speaker 1:Is it c-noodling that that's co-noodling, is that?
Speaker 2:co-noodling, that's what you two do.
Speaker 1:So what is that, though? I have no idea, because I've heard of noodling before, but it was a completely gay situation.
Speaker 2:Huh Interesting.
Speaker 1:I wasn't involved in it, but I was told.
Speaker 2:You were told afterwards.
Speaker 1:Afterwards that was noodling. I was like, well, that wasn't bad, I mean, I guess.
Speaker 2:But did you ever hear a docking? Docking as in reference to pulling a boat up to shore.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, so it's all fishing. So now that I'm thinking about this, how come is there a lot of gay references to fishing? I don't know. Because you're fishing, you're fishing if they they're gay. I mean, if billy was here, then you're, then you're noodling, then you're docking.
Speaker 2:Wow, wait a hell of a minute well, I'm starting to figure out semen yeah, oh, and then see From the Navy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there you go, wait a minute, like there could be a whole conspiracy of behind fishing, so all these country fishing men like I'm going fishing honey, I'm like no, oh see, there's a whole Dude, you have nailed it. I hope not, because I know a lot of fishermen. I'll probably get beat up over this one.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, you think about it. They have a really cool bar down in Charlotte called the Library, so you can tell somebody you're going to the library.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that? Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's the same thing you're talking about, oh well, so okay. Without all the gay sex.
Speaker 1:Catfishing catfishing.
Speaker 2:Right, you're going to library? Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, so, okay. So you're fishing for cat, yeah, all right, we're gonna go back to bad choices. Who's here?
Speaker 1:nobody's here. Yeah, not important nope.
Speaker 2:would you perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a homeless person in need? Oh shit, that's such a hard question, well you don't, you don't perform that anymore.
Speaker 1:I thought yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you actually dude, he's actually correct, because the Red Cross has now said all you're doing is pressing on the chest.
Speaker 1:You do press contrast. That's it I just did. I can save you.
Speaker 2:So we're out of this question.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we got to do the answer's no, by the way. No, I would not. I would feel real bad about it. Yeah, I would. I'd be like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have germ issues and just like being within three feet.
Speaker 1:So you're not going to come up here and be a nurse or an ambulance driver.
Speaker 2:Well, that's what happened. I worked for the Red Cross for about five, six years and one of the things you got to do is you got to read all this stuff about all the blood-borne pathogens.
Speaker 1:The bad things, all the bad things, yeah and it's like dude.
Speaker 2:I did not need to know this. Just give me the rubber gloves and the lab suit and let me go, give me the eye protection.
Speaker 1:I'll wear it.
Speaker 2:Just tell me, you need to wear it, I don't need to read the specifics of why I need to wear Right and you can't get that out of your head.
Speaker 1:That is true, I would. And yeah that, yeah, I wouldn't Dude. I'm glad for nurses and everything you know. Good, good.
Speaker 2:They don't get paid enough.
Speaker 1:They don't, they do not, yeah, when my the doctors actually should get paid less, yeah.
Speaker 2:The nurses saved both my parents multiple times in the hospital.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not, it's insane. Like. I had doctors telling me they're dead, you know like. Then the nurses came in and like, all of a sudden it's all good, like. And then these assholes are driving away in their Ferraris and they're cleaning up shit, you know like go All right. Bad choices, last one, last one. Do you think you have the best ass in the room?
Speaker 1:100%, 100%. We all can't say that. I mean no, I know Mine's flat.
Speaker 2:I got a flat ass. You guys have seen it, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1:It's not bad Beautiful.
Speaker 2:It's not bad. I am in seersucker shorts right now. It gives a little different perception of them. I used to mountain bike a lot.
Speaker 1:And you still hike. Yeah, I still hike. It's hard to beat that.
Speaker 2:And you're under 50. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we got the 50 saggy ass.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I got another whole month.
Speaker 1:We got the school bus saggy ass.
Speaker 2:Whole nother month.
Speaker 1:So all right, so we already rated this.
Speaker 2:I'm already almost done with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm done with it. Yeah, we did Keep it right. Yeah, we're keeping it all day long, all right, I think.
Speaker 2:Dude, I think you could even not a full princess approved, but no, it's he, he would he would, he absolutely would he would, because it was light enough and even a real princesses, like if this was the only thing in your cooler and some ladies were over.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think they would suffer through it, dude it wouldn't matter if it would probably be 8 o'clock in the morning and Kat would be dragging, grabbing one of these. She'd be like okay, yeah, fuck the Bloody Mary, it's so good, it's like one of the best beers I've had in a while. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't get surprised very often by beer.
Speaker 1:So another reason to drink. So another reason to drink is why you know the show.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean the anxiety about thinking about leaving the state that I've always been in and moving to a whole different state and, like you know, turning 50. You know this is, this is crazy and I hope you probably went through this. I was just doing the math and, like you don't really do the math, like I know, my body feels slightly different, but for me it's only my right knee. My right knee is like he's like 90. Like the rest of me, five. You were a football player too weren't you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, unfortunately, Like Greg's a big dude. Like I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2:Like Greg's a big dude, unfortunately, I did a lot of sports, so I did football, I did baseball, I did a track and field, uh, and soccer, uh, and I did it pretty hardcore the whole way.
Speaker 1:And then I did mountain biking after that.
Speaker 2:So yeah, and then now I'm a disc golfer. All that stuff has caught up with me.
Speaker 1:So you went from legs, legs, legs, legs, legs to just basically beating off, throwing up yeah. I still like to go south ball and go to the stranger, and go to the stranger. Yeah, absolutely. Now do you?
Speaker 2:sit on it and get a little numb, absolutely so.
Speaker 1:I just turned 50. I didn't do, I didn't play sports, you know what I mean. But like I've been very active, just work-wise, like I'm a physical work-wise guy, whatever, so I didn't get I don't have the bad knees, but no, I know, yeah, I know I just got two big fingers, but I know, like I don't have the bad knees, but every once in a, no, I know, yeah, I know I just got two big fingers, but I know like I don't have the bad knees, but every once in a while I got the bad back. You know what I mean. Like it just it all depends on your lifestyle. Get a better mattress. Yeah, yeah, yeah For the back.
Speaker 2:I had that, I had that and yeah, yeah, I'm not going to name drop mattresses, but yeah, I changed my mattress.
Speaker 1:Well then, maybe they'll sponsor us.
Speaker 2:A Tempur-Pedic, oh a Tempur-Pedic, america's favorite mattress. Oh okay, I don't know commercial Well, but seriously like we had a really expensive mattress before and my back you'd go sleep on the couch, you know Right, and there would be days where I couldn't even put my socks on. You know, which is why I don't wear socks today? Because I just got into heaven, not?
Speaker 1:wearing socks. It's one way to get rid of it.
Speaker 2:So we, uh, I went to the Tempur-Pedic and I was able to start disc golfing again, mountain biking again.
Speaker 1:And that's a true story, you know it is. Yeah, it's just a deal, yeah. So yeah, I mean like I, I don't feel, I don't feel 50. How about mentally?
Speaker 2:no, yeah, me neither, like that's the scary thing that's that's the worst.
Speaker 1:Thing yeah, you know it's like I'm still in the 30s like I can do that. I was thinking 25 yeah I know I'm I'm gonna go 30s, but like that. But that's the scary thing. Yeah, because a 25, 30-year-old will do stupid things Like climb on roofs and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do stupid stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you know what I mean. And then we fall off and like, oh fuck, that's bad.
Speaker 2:I do have to think about it nowadays.
Speaker 1:That's it. That's what I'm saying, like you. Just you got to stop and think about it.
Speaker 2:I'm like I'm going to plan how stupid I can be.
Speaker 1:Can be You're right, but I'm still being stupid, still being stupid, but I could still do it. I think I can still manage that one.
Speaker 2:But the scary thing is like I was just doing math. You know I'm a math guy. So now that I'm 50, and you and I were discussing it, you know. So if you're a normal American, you've got to go 17 more years to retirement. To retirement, and then I'm like damn so, like by the time. I'm there like there's going to be so little left of my life.
Speaker 1:The same thing. Our phones listen to us and I have TikTok, so I know my feed right now. And right before I turned 50, because I was taught it my TikTok came up and it was like when you turn 50, you have 176 sundays left in average jesus it's terrible.
Speaker 1:You literally broke the whole fucking thing down, like by the time that tiktok was over. Like I was like, no, fuck it, I'm gonna make it day one fucking. Here we go, fuck, I'll kill myself right now. Like, like you literally just narrowed down my and that's if I don't get cancer or fucking whatever. Yeah, that's your average guy, the healthiest guy that made it to 80. Yep, yay, you just told me I have 176 sundays left. Dude, that's fucking crazy.
Speaker 2:It makes you think about what you did on those other years too, which was like. I was like man. I did a lot of stupid, wasteful shit A lot of stupid wasteful.
Speaker 1:I worked, yeah, oh yeah worked. I fucking worked and slept 90% of my life away.
Speaker 2:I think about all the things that I missed family-related or friends-related because I was working and like, and it's so much less important now because, like you can see, the rise.
Speaker 1:Now you see that, okay, yeah, I'm going to the motherland, yeah, whatever, one way or the other, one way or the other. But I mean it's like now you figure out like holy fuck, like that's why I mean you were talking earlier like you said, 17 years till you can retire. I'm like fucking. You know what I'm gonna sell this motherfucker yeah and I jump in a fucking camper and live in a camper yeah, I feel like I've been a hamster on a wheel for like yeah almost 50 years how many?
Speaker 2:yeah, since the day we were born.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm ready to jump off that wheel and I mean my mom, else dude, my mom was teaching me to work fucking day one, yeah, you know, because that's how she had to survive. She had to work every day, so we all followed her footsteps, kind of of just day in, day out having to fucking survive, whatever. Yeah, that's kind of, but whatever.
Speaker 2:I mean, I agree that's part of being an American, a good American. You know, that's what we're here to do work, work.
Speaker 1:That's why they all came here. They had jobs, we had jobs.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Yep, All right. And then there's another thing. Any last thoughts? That's what it was any last thoughts? Yeah, I mean, we've already gotten pretty deep in this show you're supposed to say god bless and I say don't drug and drive oh, I am, that's right.
Speaker 2:I am supposed to say that. God bless, don't drug and drive whoop.