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• Bill & Rick • Season 7 • Episode 5

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Two beers, two moods, and one very honest split. We crack a Masthead Midwest Red IPA expecting a hint of caramel, only to be met with a grapefruit surge and a stubborn bitter finish that divides our panel. One of us gets a sharp, almost chemical edge and heavy carbonation; the other appreciates the hop punch and rides with it. If you’ve ever argued over an IPA at the table, you’ll feel seen here, especially when we unpack how “red” sets malt expectations that “IPA” promptly bulldozes.

Then we reset with a Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Toasted Stout that eases in hot and settles into something rich and balanced. Oak, vanilla, a touch of marshmallow, and that warm bourbon finish deliver the kind of slow-sipper that makes sense on a cold night. We both land at 8 and talk through why “toasted” reads smoother than some barrel-aged bruisers. It’s bold at 10% ABV without turning into syrup, and it pairs perfectly with stories about winter commutes, snow berms at the end of the driveway, and the simple victory of getting home for a well-earned pour.

Between tastes, we veer into real life: salt shortages near a giant lake salt mine, whiteout clippers that follow you on Route 6, and a Queen tribute in a velvet-seat theater where you can actually sit, snack, and sing. That’s the bigger theme—context flavors everything. Stress can make a bitter IPA feel harsher; a warm stout can feel like a blanket. Come for the tasting notes, stay for the banter, and leave with a short list of what to buy for your next storm night.

If you enjoy candid beer reviews, subscribe on YouTube, follow along on your favorite podcast app, and drop your own scores. What’s your pick: grapefruit bite or bourbon warmth?

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SPEAKER_00:

Welcome to another reason to drink. This is your hostess, the most us. Yeah, we're on. Okay, cool. We're live. Hey guys, what's going on? I'm Princess, and I'm here with Rick. And we're here. Rick, too. Rick. Doctor. Doctor, he's gonna give you a shot. I gave you a shot. I gave you a shot. Shot of penicillin. Is that what you need? Peniculin. There's a song out there. Love injection. Yeah, you don't remember that? It was uh damn, I can't remember the band now. It's gonna kill me. Love Saigon Kick. No, not Saigon Kick. Damn, I can't. Yeah, it's actually a song. Love Injection. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01:

Like a barbecue song. Just injection meat. Injecting meat. You know what I mean? Just injecting meat. That's what he wants. Inject meat.

SPEAKER_00:

Just inject meat. I can't remember the name of the group. No, it's gonna bother me. Anyways, that's right.

SPEAKER_01:

Somebody else will tell us.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Right? Someone knows. I used to be a band I used to like uh all the time. Bang tango. Bang tango. Bang tango. No, it's band tango. Bandango. Or Lol. Oh, yeah. Bang tango. Yeah, bang tango. Love song. Yeah. See? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I don't remember.

SPEAKER_00:

Love injection. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01:

No, I don't know what you mean. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about right now. It's a good song. No, it's not. I guarantee you it's not.

SPEAKER_00:

No, it is a good song. But it it goes back. The band was very popular, probably in the uh 80s. It was a long hair band. So what yeah. They were very good. Their one album was very good. I only really liked the one album.

SPEAKER_01:

1988. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Yeah. I used to listen all the time, just go to sleep.

unknown:

Shh.

SPEAKER_01:

Dreaming of getting love injected.

SPEAKER_00:

Love injection. Yeah. Now singing as some chick.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. As you're sleeping alone.

SPEAKER_00:

All the time. That's the that's the album I like. I think Princess. Um Beer Winch brought it up. Oh, you might have to mute that. Uh oh.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, we can't play that.

SPEAKER_00:

No, because it has a video on it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it has a video. Well, we can't. I mean, we don't want to copyright laws. Copyright laws. We're trying to figure out this whole new thing. You know what?

SPEAKER_00:

That thing would be it's going to be bleeped out anyways because they'll make me remove it. I know. So what we're going to do tonight is MassHead Brewing Company. We're going to do a Midwest Red IPA.

SPEAKER_01:

And we're not sure if we've done this before. And you guys gotta understand that. Like we are we struggle to find new beers. There's only so many places we can go to find new local beers, or not even local beers, but just beer period. Uh to find a new beer. And we've done so many. It's kind of hard to say what we've done and what we haven't done. So if we've done it, sorry. We're gonna do it again tonight.

SPEAKER_00:

You get to listen to twice. Mastads, anyways. This is 60 IBUs, 60 IBUs with 7.1 alcohol, but you could see that it's won different awards over the years. It won 2018 to gold, silver in 2021, and uh bronze in 2017. So hey, we'll give it a shot. Yeah, this is the first part. The second part we're gonna do.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh we're I ended up finding a uh Kentucky bourbon barrel. Oh, yeah, that's right. Toasted stout, which is the first time I've ever seen the toasted stout. I know we've done Kentucky Bourbon Barrel, but it's been a minute. We didn't even do the peppermint during Christmas.

SPEAKER_00:

No, we didn't do it this year. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I I actually I don't even know if I seen it.

SPEAKER_00:

I didn't I don't recall seeing it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, so which that's one of my favorite Christmas sales.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh but yeah, we didn't even do that this year. Well, I I've I figured we haven't done a stout in a while. Or a Kentucky bourbon barrel, anyhow, in a while. That yeah, that that kind, that brand. So I figured I see them toasted stout, I was like, uh that's only 10%.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, only 10, not 15. And I don't have to work, so I don't give a shit. Wait till you get this. What's that noise? I think that was a chainsaw. Oh, yeah. You guys might not hear that, but I heard a noise. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I think it was it's either a chainsaw or a really big mosquito.

SPEAKER_00:

It could be one of them things that flies around. What is it? A drone? A drone, yeah. Someone could be flying a drone around.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, one of our fans finally hunted us down trying to they're trying to drop off beers. Ricky Dicky.

SPEAKER_00:

It's love injection.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, they heard the love injection. They're like, hey, that must be the house right there.

SPEAKER_00:

Let me zoom in. It sounded like it was in your right on the side of these windows.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I'm thinking it's a chainsaw. My wonderful neighbor.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, cutting some wood.

SPEAKER_01:

But yeah, I mean it's cold out. It's cold out. That's one thing. I think I would have done it when it was somewhat light out and not when it was dark.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. But needless to say, though, cold weather, everybody's getting hit. We talked about it last week about the storm coming through. I it hit here, but it wasn't crazy, crazy.

SPEAKER_01:

No, no, it was just non-stop. I still had to go to work. Very light, it was a very light, fluffy snow, but it was nonstop. I mean, I want to say we probably ended up with a good foot. Yeah. You had to go to work? Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I had to go to work. Actually, it was funny. The day Monday when that storm came through, that wasn't as bad as Tuesday when I went to work.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, Tuesday had that little and then uh and it was colder Tuesday on the way home, they had that clipper come through. Yeah. Did you did you get caught in that? Yeah, I was like an instant whiteout. And I I actually beat it out of my work city. And uh I I got home and I was watching the news, and I'm like, oh, there's my truck, and here's this fucking thing coming. Like, I was just beating it. Like, I was like, hell yeah. They actually had my little taco tacoma fucking going down route six. They're like, look at that guy run. Like, it was awesome. I was like, hell yeah, here I go.

SPEAKER_00:

What do you think of this so far? Just the first impression. So far, dude, yeah, I'm good with it. It's funny though, because when they said red, you don't really it's got a slight red color to it, but I don't get a caramel flavor anymore. I don't get the well, because it's the IPA. It overpowers it, right? But it's pretty good. It's really uh got a pungent grapefruit flavor.

SPEAKER_01:

And there's something else, though, that I can't put my finger on. Almost like so my first sip almost tastes like there's a plastic lining in it.

SPEAKER_00:

In the in the thing. I get that. I get that. I see where you're getting that from.

SPEAKER_01:

You know what I mean? It's all like I'm almost getting a chemical taste. Slight right, yeah, a slight chemical taste right now.

SPEAKER_00:

Now it's stuck in my head.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. And it's very gassy. Yes. Yeah. Because I've already felt myself like bloating up. And I've only had two sips. Trust me, I gotta I'm very fit, but this camera doesn't it's just the two sips of this ass head that blows me up. It's like uh putting an air pump on them.

SPEAKER_00:

Nah, nah, it's good. It's these chairs, they make me look bigger than I remember. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

It's it's the chairs.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I'm trying to blend in here.

SPEAKER_01:

Makes his nuts look big, makes everything look big. The meat and potatoes. Meat and potatoes. So anyways, but yeah, I don't I don't know yet. I don't know. I it's definitely a strong IPA. If you're into IPA, this might be right up your alley. Especially if you like a strong IPA pungent one. Yeah, yeah. Like I I mean, we I enjoy my IPAs, but this one might be a little stronger. A little stronger than I enjoy, especially because it's very uh it's bitter on the back end of the tongue.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and I think as we get down more into it, yeah, it's getting I mean, I love Masthead's jalapeno IPA.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, absolutely like I will drink that. That's one of your favorite every day.

SPEAKER_00:

So it's funny. I was telling Rick earlier before the show started how I got these. Was um my wife's aunt came over and she wanted to try something different, so she said, Oh, I'll get this. And she was more focused on the red part. You know, when you focus on the red part, you're thinking it's gonna be caramely, like whatever. Yeah, she was looking for something different, but then when she got into it, she was like, Oh, just took one or two sips. She's like, I don't really care for this. And the reason why is like, well, she uh first of all, she doesn't like grapefruit. So if you're not a fruit f- So if you're not a grapefruit fan, you're not I'm making her aware that IPAs are gonna be, you know, grapefruit flavor or fruit flavor, and by any means, because we've had a couple IPAs that have been really, like, really mild and pleasant.

SPEAKER_01:

It's been a lot of the double yeah, or hazy or hazy's, yeah, double hazy is filtered or whatever. They're yeah, they're definitely much much more calmer on that. I don't mind grapefruit, so like I'm like, okay, yeah, whatever. I don't either. I like I like it. Uh but I do enjoy the double hazies or whatever a little better than just a regular IPA.

SPEAKER_00:

I agree. You know, it's funny though, because when I was growing up, you remember they would say if you eat a grapefruit a day in the morning that it was healthy for you and you could lose weight and stuff. I'm thinking, man, this might be the way to go. I'm losing weight. When I drink this, I think I'm losing weight.

SPEAKER_01:

Fuck no, my refrigerator's gonna be stocked full of fucking IPAs. I'm just gonna be walking around work. Like, no, dude, I'm on a weight loss program.

SPEAKER_00:

Hey, is not grapefruit good for you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then someone says, but that's not grapefruit. Here, have a sip. Yeah, taste this. Tell me it's not grapefruit. And then taste this. Tell me that's not a sausage. Tell me you can't taste the grapefruit through the sausage. That cream filled.

SPEAKER_01:

Tell me it doesn't taste like pineapple at the end. And this taste all the fruits.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, grapefruit. Mighty get a little flavor of a uh a grape in there. I drank some wine.

SPEAKER_01:

Grape nuts. Grape nuts.

SPEAKER_00:

Anyways, what's going on in Ricky's world today?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, not a whole lot, man. Just trying to stay warm. Literally. I mean, storm after all. No, it was just a struggle at work.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Well, that's right, because you work in more of the environment, you know.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, I mean, no, but yes. Yeah, just in and out of trailers, being in trailers, whatever. You know, because they're gonna heat cold. Oh, fuck no, they're a fucking refrigerator. Yeah, you know, it's a freezer. That's real cold. So, yeah, I've gone through all my long jobs this week. Like, so I'm kind of glad I'm not working tomorrow. Like, because I need to use some laundry.

SPEAKER_00:

No, other people are happy you're not working tomorrow because he'll be reusing.

SPEAKER_01:

I'd be reusing something. I'd be like, Yeah, sorry.

SPEAKER_00:

Hey, you turn them inside out, they're good.

SPEAKER_01:

That's when you turn to that guy that you just all of a sudden fucking has heavy clone on. Yeah. I mean, like, why are you fucking so clone colored now? Did you get the axe spray or something? What's going on here? You just turned them inside out. Turn them inside out. It don't matter. Then the ass is just closer to the side. Then it's just closer to the outside.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Oh man, that's terrible.

SPEAKER_01:

No, yeah. So the cold way. It wasn't really the bottom hat. Like, I'm running out of shirt. I gotta go get a couple extra shirt long johns. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00:

So build up more. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they got so many new products out here these days that yeah, but dude, they're so fucking expensive. They are, yeah, really.

SPEAKER_01:

Like, I mean, especially right now, they're like, oh, sub-zero, we can jack this up another 20 years. Let's make a hundred dollars. Like, dude, this.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, it just reminded me of jacking something up. I was uh I went to eat the other day. I was driving up through town, and this old man's walking across in front of me, and here it is, Douglas. So I was gonna hit the horn, but then I thought, nah, that'd be mean. I might scare the life out of him. So I waited for him to get around the corner and I say, Hey, hey Doug, you need to get back to work. And he looked at me and I he said, Hey, I'm going to Muggs, you want to eat? And I was like, Oh, I'll meet you. So we ate lunch. But he was telling me a story that, you know, because of the storm coming through, that his son went to get his propane tank filled, right? And he waited two and a half hours to get it filled.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, he's down in Greenville. He's down in North. Yeah, he's down in North. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And he asked a guy how much propane he had. He said, I got about three hours. If you're beyond that, I'm done, you know. Because you know them tanks they use to fill the propane. They only hold so much.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. It's not like it's a line fucking coming out of the ground.

SPEAKER_00:

But I was surprised how long. Yeah. So it was like, wow, yeah. But he he's doing good. Douglas's doing good, if anybody wants to know. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's doing good. It was nice to see him because we both work in the same town and we kind of eat lunch and we kind of hang out. But it's just funny. I didn't take almost I don't normally take excuse me, that way to go to eat, but um, the roads were so bad. I said, Well, let me go this way. And then it was funny. I seen him walking.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, uh no, it's cool that you're able to do that too. Yeah, you know what I mean? Uh yeah, yeah, you got you get a hang out with someone hang out with some yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

So if you know Douglas or you don't know Douglas, Douglas is a nice guy. He's a great guy. Yeah, anyways. Uh, but I thought that was interesting about that whole story about weight. I mean, the honestly think to sit there and actually wait that long for a 20-pound propane tank or a couple, whatever, yeah, whatever. The risk of not having heat, or especially down there, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I mean, because you don't know it could be gaze, bounce back up, yeah, but it's gonna bounce back up.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

You know what I mean? Fairly quick, a lot, a hell of a lot quicker than it does up here.

SPEAKER_00:

But the thing up there, they don't have a way to remove it. People don't go out.

SPEAKER_01:

You can't, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, so it was interesting, you know.

SPEAKER_01:

That and which I you know, I thought about this the other day. Is that and it got brought up to me. Like they're saying we have a salt shortage around. Oh, yeah. I heard that. I heard that, yeah. But I don't understand that. Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

I I let me explain.

SPEAKER_01:

You're gonna explain it? No, you explain. Oh, okay. Yeah, I don't understand it because like we have the largest salt mine underneath our fucking lake right here.

SPEAKER_00:

I see what you're saying.

SPEAKER_01:

Like, how come how do us in this area?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Because up north they have Morton salt and everything, right? Yeah, it's right here.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh yeah, I mean it's right here in Ohio. Yeah. You know, the only thing I can think of salt mine right under Lake Erie.

SPEAKER_00:

They're sending it to everywhere.

SPEAKER_01:

That's what I'm thinking. Like, okay, so wouldn't you hold back and be like, you know, let me help the local get hit pretty fucking hard every winter. Well, if you they gotta make their money, I get it, whatever.

SPEAKER_00:

But if you could if you look at the past years, we probably used what we used in the past few years. Because last year I didn't even break out a shovel or uh snowblower. Yeah, barely. Right. The year before, a little bit more, but if you think about the last few years, it hasn't been really that bad. So they're like year after year sitting on salt. But now I go up there, they're salting constantly. Salt.

SPEAKER_01:

You got no choice. Yeah. Even though it's kind of too cold, it doesn't do a lot, but it definitely does help. I mean, dude, today was my first day this week that it didn't take me an hour to get home.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, because of the weather.

SPEAKER_01:

Because well, weather are people. Yeah, right. I mean, that it, you know, I mean, that's kind of the mix. The mix of you have weather and you get people. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I mean, I actually I passed yesterday on my way home. I was so pissed off, dude.

SPEAKER_00:

I was like, Do we want to relive it?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, well, we're gonna relive it just to get it off my chest because other people have to share.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh yeah, I mean, other people have to experience it.

SPEAKER_01:

People are going through it. Yes, yes, you know what I mean, and like I get it. Like, I got people that pass me in the morning. Yeah, I do too. I'm doing 55 miles an hour. Yeah. If that's not fast enough for you, hey, do you go for it? Yeah, like I don't care. I'll even slow down and let you get around.

SPEAKER_00:

And I move over a little bit. I'm curious.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, you know what I mean? But we were on our way home, the roads were not bad, dude. Not at all. Not yeah, and it was just, and I feel bad. It was a little old lady, I get it. Yeah, but there was eight of us behind her. Oh man. And none of them would pass her.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, that's now you're passing seven other people.

SPEAKER_01:

Exactly. Yeah, you know what I mean? And like I'm down to 20 miles an hour for five miles.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01:

And finally, I seen my opening. I'm like, people, if nobody else is going to do it. I I passed them all at 40 miles an hour. Now, did other people follow you?

SPEAKER_00:

No, no, sometimes people have followed me.

SPEAKER_01:

I was just like, I just didn't understand. Like, I didn't literally I got by them all at 40 miles. I passed the last car and I looked down and I'm at like 43.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm like, like, uh hey, you guys got a hell of a lot more patience than I do, but I did also just work 11 hours. I want to get the fuck home and have a beer. You don't want to make a 12 and a half. She was making another reason to drink. Every minute that clicked by, I'm like, no, another reason. I wish another reason to drink. Oh my God. Rick's jumping to the end of the show already. I was gonna leave my shit. And then I was fucking, I finally got by and I'm like, uh, okay, I feel bad at a little lady, okay. I get it. But why didn't anybody else go around her? Yeah, like that's what I like at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_00:

They probably didn't want to take the risk.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, everybody's just riding each other's ass. Like, I don't ride people's ass. No, I stay way back. You can't because someone stops. But they were all literally just almost touching bumpers and hitting brakes. And yeah, I'm like, what are we doing here? Just go around her. Like, I didn't understand. Whatever.

SPEAKER_00:

And then you know what happens when you go around, all of a sudden you just see how far their lights start to dip.

SPEAKER_01:

I never, never seen lights again. Yeah. I'm just like, it would have taken me like three and a half hours to get home if I would have stayed there. So that lady went all the way to Andover.

SPEAKER_00:

You know what I seen is people that didn't shovel the bottom of their driveway. So then this one guy he was coming up, and I see him, he pulls in, he gets stuck right there.

SPEAKER_01:

Right there, and then just fucked.

SPEAKER_00:

Half his vehicle is on the road, right? Half the vehicle is in the uh driveway because you know when the plows come by, they you know, they build that up. Right. Well, they don't clean it and they're not going fast enough to pop through or have a four-wheel drive.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

It was a minivan and it went boop and just stopped right there. And then everybody else is trying to stop real quick. As a matter of fact, one guy tried to go around real quick because he knew that he couldn't stop because of the fact that if he stopped, uh he would probably slide into him in the head or somebody else would slide in the head. But we all kind of slowed down and he kind of whipped around, but the rest of them had to wait. And then you could, I was just looking in my rearview mirror. I could see the guy trying to back up. Back, he he couldn't go nowhere, he was stuck.

SPEAKER_01:

See, now I wasn't about to shovel my whole fucking driveway.

SPEAKER_00:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

But you got the I did clear out the end of it. Yeah, like I was out there for an hour just doing that. You know what I mean? Yeah, because that's that's where it built up the most. Too fucking long to sit here for me. And like it. Oh, it is that long. It's not that long. I bet you paid somebody.

SPEAKER_00:

No, I did it myself. No, you didn't. I did, I swear to God.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, but you have a snowblower. I do have a snowblower.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, anyways, what do you think of this? We gotta rate this.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh. Uh for an IPA, like we said earlier. If you are a diehard IPA guy, this might be right up your alley. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Especially a stronger one.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. It is definitely a strong IPA.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Um it's not bad, but I still And I'm not trying to take anything away from MassEd. Like I said, I love Mass Ed's jalapeno IPA. Yeah. I absolutely love it. For some reason I do get like like a plastic chemical chemical chemical taste to it. I don't know if it's if if it's a lime can. I guess we can cut it open and let you know. Uh and see if it's an actual line can. Because they were doing that for a while. Oh wow. Yeah. I don't know if Mass Heads was, but no, but Coca-Cola.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

They were doing that line plastic, whatever. I I'm gonna go split the difference. What do you say? Like five. Oh, you're going all the way that look? Dude, I there is there is a taste to this that I don't care for. Oh, it's not even so much the bitterness that lingers on the back end. There's just a taste to the front end of it that I really do not care for.

SPEAKER_00:

So this is one this is weird because I'm more of a seven on this. Okay. Yeah. I mean well, that's a weird thing that we're so far off.

SPEAKER_01:

Because usually me and you are kind of pretty close.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't mind it. I maybe yours is bad. I maybe. Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01:

But no, I wouldn't Did your mother-in-law fill this up for me? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Special juice.

SPEAKER_01:

Special.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Anyways, uh, I wouldn't Jason keeper creep it. No. And I wouldn't say princess just due to the fact that it is a very strong.

SPEAKER_01:

There is definitely a weird. To me, there's a very weird front taste to it.

SPEAKER_00:

I get more of that that dryness that you would get typically with the IPA on the other hand.

SPEAKER_01:

And maybe it's just a real hoppy.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it is very happy.

SPEAKER_01:

Maybe it's a very hoppy taste I'm getting out of the front end of it. Yeah, that's probably what I'm not used to.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, that's probably what you're getting.

SPEAKER_01:

You know what I mean? Yeah. Not that I mean I we haven't done 3,000. Oh, there's a little bit of that plastic. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

That was a tooth. That's a tooth.

SPEAKER_01:

Melted away.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01:

So yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, so we hit. I'll go back to my menu. He got a five. He got a five. I give it a seven. So that's the first time that we had the biggest difference in that.

SPEAKER_01:

That's probably in history.

SPEAKER_00:

In the show.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Another reason to drink history right there. Yeah. Fireworks. Fireworks going everywhere. Anyways. Just breaking records around here.

SPEAKER_00:

You better watch the show. It's on fire. Anyways, I mean, not that I won't drink. Yeah. You finish it. I'll finish it. It wasn't as bad as last week's bourbon or that was Imperial style. That was I had trouble getting through that. That was wrong. I think we dumped half of yes out, didn't we? It was very expensive. Anyways, uh, we're going to take a quick break and get another ice cold one. So if you want to go and jump and get yours, we'll be right back. Reason to drink.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, we're back again?

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. Oh, we're we are on another show. Wait, is it? Oh, there it just went red. Welcome back. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

The thing is on air sign just came on. There it is.

SPEAKER_00:

It has a delay.

SPEAKER_01:

It does. So then you just get that's what I'm already finished.

SPEAKER_00:

They normally like that a little bit.

SPEAKER_01:

They like you to delay just a little bit. Delay. So they get off. Just a tiny bit. Get off real quick. I know it's coming. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, anyways. Hey, this is that one that Rick was talking about. The Kentucky bourbon barrow toasted stout.

SPEAKER_01:

Toasted stout. I haven't seen this one. Me either. And we actually you actually have to either know how to open it with a lighter or have a beer bottle opener.

SPEAKER_00:

We're a professional show, so we got a Gulch opener. Yeah, it is. And I do like Gulch. Yeah. One day it'll come up missing. You mean Kolsch? Kolsch. It'll come up missing because this is actually my one of my favorite beers to drink. Yeah. Yeah, that's nice. It's got a nice weight to it.

SPEAKER_01:

It's got a weight to it. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Let me smell right there. Ooh, I smell the toast in this. I was looking at the part one of this show, and my puffy pocket makes me look bigger, guys. Don't don't worry. He's a kangaroo. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

He actually has a Marsupa.

SPEAKER_00:

If I could put my foot up for the whole show like Rick does, I would just make me look fame.

SPEAKER_02:

I can't do it. I'm like, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I go down like this and I go, ugh. And I go like this and I'm like, ugh. I'm on. He said. I can't go. Anyways. So. Alright. Ooh. Dude, I ha.

SPEAKER_00:

Got a little bite. A little bit of bite. Gotta give it a minute. It's not bad though.

SPEAKER_01:

It's kind of damn. It definitely has a toastiness to it. Definitely has a toastiness to it.

SPEAKER_00:

It does have a toastiness.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, that's what it says. A toasted bourbon barrel. 10%er. 10%er, yes.

SPEAKER_00:

It's one put me in the hospital.

SPEAKER_01:

Toasted.

SPEAKER_00:

Beer wench is over there laughing too much.

SPEAKER_01:

She's losing her shit. Yeah. She just because I went down and went like this. I don't know. I don't know what happened. It's my hit a wrong button and probably went straight to porn. Billy's. It went to porn. So if we got a lot of errors.

SPEAKER_00:

If we got a lot of errors in the show, it's because uh the keyboard over there, this board. Anyways.

SPEAKER_01:

So you got anybody at your work named Tony?

SPEAKER_00:

Actually, surprisingly, I can't recall one.

SPEAKER_01:

So, dude, I got this guy, Tony. Tony. Yeah. Working with me.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And he was like, I was like, dude, I'm gonna spell your name backwards. T N. And he was like, he was like, no, don't you do it. I was like, why not?

SPEAKER_00:

Why?

SPEAKER_01:

That's pretty good. Why not? Why not? Hey, why not? Come over here and help me.

SPEAKER_00:

I wish I hope I find a Tony at my work. I am gonna go.

SPEAKER_01:

I can't. And you know, why not? Come here.

SPEAKER_00:

And you know the thing is, is when I find that person, I'm gonna be laughing and smiling already.

SPEAKER_01:

I'll be looking at them like I'm hiring you just because your name is. Yeah. I am. I mean, what'd you name again, Tony?

SPEAKER_00:

Why not? Why not? Let's do it. Come on, man. Come on. What you want? Five eyes?

SPEAKER_01:

I thought that was funny.

SPEAKER_00:

That was a good joke. I don't have any jokes.

SPEAKER_01:

No, I had another one, but nobody else will appreciate it but me.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Most of the time, yeah. But we do have, I mean, we do have some of Ricky's bad choices. They're actually called bad choices. Look at these.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, we're just we can never hear the music anymore. It doesn't seem the same.

SPEAKER_01:

No. I'm thinking we still gotta go back to the headphones. So like wear this fancy hair. Like we used to have headphones and look professional. Not that we don't look professional. Oh yeah, yeah. We used to have big dicks. Yeah. But oh, is that gonna get us kicked off? No. Okay. All right, good. Not yet. I'm trying. Not yet. He's trying.

SPEAKER_00:

It was his goal to get on there just to get kicked off. He said, I bet you I could get kicked off in a week. This is good.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm trying.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. Ready, Rick? I'm gonna start off with this one. Oh, Jesus. Would you slap your mama in the face for$500? No. No, I wouldn't either. No, I would not. 5,000?

SPEAKER_01:

She just turned 79.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, really? She just turned 79. Would you do it for 5,000?

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely not. No.

SPEAKER_00:

Five mil?

SPEAKER_01:

No. Not in public. Like, Mom, I love you.

SPEAKER_00:

Mom, you want a mil?

SPEAKER_01:

But you'll never have to work again, but you're gonna have to get over a black.

SPEAKER_00:

I think your mom would appreciate the slap for five mil?

SPEAKER_01:

She probably would. And she would laugh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. She has a great laugh, by the way. Yeah. Oh, this is Rick all day. Have you I can't even say it. Have you ever masturbated with a pet in your room? With a pet in my room?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, like someone masturbated on a pet before.

SPEAKER_02:

Sorry, Bruno.

SPEAKER_01:

No, sorry, E.T. It was a kitten. It was a kitten. Like I just held it real close with the nails out the other way and went.

unknown:

No.

SPEAKER_01:

No. Yeah. The object is nails face away. That's why E.T.'s eyes. I mean, that was when I was a lot younger. That was when I was a lot younger.

SPEAKER_00:

We got E.T. violated in the backyard.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, don't worry about E.T. leave.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, he that's gonna, yeah. Rick is currently feeding some kitty cats outside. He's trying to get a new French feral.

SPEAKER_01:

I like them when they wiggle. I like them when they wiggle. When they fight back? No. Nails up. I learned that the hard way.

SPEAKER_00:

I have never mastered.

SPEAKER_01:

Well. No, I don't think so. I'm trying to think of my dog. You can't tell me that you and Kat haven't. Well, no, it would be mastered.

SPEAKER_00:

I I was gonna say yes.

SPEAKER_01:

Because we have dogs. You can't say that they went up and sniffed it and licked it a couple times.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm like, damn, God.

SPEAKER_01:

We've always had dogs the whole time. We've always had dogs. I guarantee you. We had cats too. Yeah. The nose smells like cat. Yeah. One of your dogs' nose smells like cat. I guarantee you. No, it smells like peanut butter.

SPEAKER_00:

That could be true. Yeah. Would you eat a handful of live wasps for 50,000? No. No.

SPEAKER_01:

I wouldn't even do that for I would not even let one of them touch me. Yeah, I don't. For a fucking.

SPEAKER_00:

And then you have to eat it. That's easy. That's easy now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I I've actually had that fucking.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I had one bit got me on the tongue. Me too. Yeah. I was drinking a surface.

SPEAKER_01:

Drinking a beer? Yeah, I was drinking a beer. Oh, it fucking got me.

SPEAKER_00:

Yep.

SPEAKER_01:

And it got me right in the fucking mouth. Oh, dude, that was the worst.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it it I was drinking a um a drink. I picked it up and it stung me on the tongue. Yeah. And then my tongue swelled up. I had to go and get Benadryl and everything. And everybody was watching me to make sure that I wasn't gonna see choke up.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, that's kind of what happened to me, but I was by a fire.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh.

SPEAKER_01:

And I grabbed my beer and took a sip. I'm like, and I felt something hit my tongue.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And like quickly fucking got away, but it just barely caught me, so I didn't swallow it. I didn't swallow too bad.

SPEAKER_00:

I did.

SPEAKER_01:

But now the white-faced wasp, you ever seen them fuckers?

SPEAKER_00:

No, I haven't. You've never even heard of it.

SPEAKER_01:

What? Oh no. No.

SPEAKER_00:

They're white.

SPEAKER_01:

White things hit like a fucking sledgehammer.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh really? They're white-faced wasp. Are they in the area?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh man, I didn't hear that.

SPEAKER_01:

So I was out push mowing the lawn one time, and I went underneath a pine tree, went through it once. No problem. No problem. Came back around, and these motherfuckers attacked me. And then I seen as the whole swarm of them? No, the uh hive.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh.

SPEAKER_01:

And my back hit it. Oh. And when I went through the second time, and they don't quit staying. They're not boom, boom, boom. No, they just keep stinging. Oh. Dude, my hands, I had to go to the hospital.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01:

And get shots and everything. How long ago was that?

SPEAKER_00:

A minute?

SPEAKER_01:

Uh, yeah, it was uh what five years ago? Wow. I probably, yeah, it was probably more like eight. Wow. Yeah, dude. White faced wasp.

SPEAKER_00:

I never even heard of it.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, dude, they hit like a sledgehammer. Wow. Put your dick on the fucking log and hit it with sledgehammer. That's literally how it felt. Like my hands, they attacked my mower.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh. Oh, because of the vibration.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, you know, because of the noise and everything else. Like I ran. Like I got after I got stung 12 times in my hands. You ran. I ran. And yeah, it was bad. It was? Yeah, it was bad. Man. Them things suck.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Fuck them. Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

I actually think wonder if like they were not originally from the area.

SPEAKER_01:

No, my my dad's always told me. He was like, stay away from white faced wasps. Wow. They're black with just a white face. Wow. I've never seen that. They look like uh uh what's that like a ghost looking?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, like the ghost uh or on where that guy has that mask and he's saying, yeah, I know what you're saying. But he's always like, you don't know who it is, he always has that voice, whatever. Yeah. Anyways, I would never eat them. Anyways, have you ever fantasized about one of your teachers?

SPEAKER_01:

Um, I'm not allowed to say her name right now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Brenda, Brenda, Brenda got a big old butt.

SPEAKER_01:

Back in the day, yeah. I I mean I would say yeah. I I think every guy and girl.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, you know what, you know, it's funny when you were growing up that seemed like they were always old. And then now you see these, you know, later it's these young hot chicks coming out, and it's like I yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

What happened to the old 23-year-old that yeah gets busted down in Florida for having sex with and she's sending fucking pictures. I mean, this is a good thing that we didn't have what we have today. What we have today. You know what I mean? Yeah. When we were growing up, this is why we made it so far. Yeah, like we have work ethics and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00:

Plus, we didn't have every moment recorded.

SPEAKER_01:

Like now, yeah. Yeah, like we're trying to do nothing. Yeah, like I can just see here. Look, episode 17, he's gonna try to violate me.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, we're not quite there. You're 17. Season 17, we got 10 more to go. Anyways, have you ever had sex with a random person while traveling? While traveling. I don't think traveling. When I was younger, random pitcher. I mean or a random random pitcher, random pitch. Well, and you've been around the world twice.

SPEAKER_01:

You know what I mean? Yeah, twice. So I was like I yeah, I don't know. I mean six times down the road to the bar, and yeah, I mean, I guess.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Or while I was traveling.

SPEAKER_00:

No, you had to say like traveling, like if you went to no Tennessee. No.

SPEAKER_01:

No, I can't say no. No, no, I can't say that I have. Beer Winch is like, yeah. Name one state. I'll tell you if I can in the state.

SPEAKER_00:

Hey. Oh, there's not one state you know that you didn't?

SPEAKER_01:

No, yeah, no, it's every state. I she's checked off every state. Yeah. So in a couple countries, yeah, and some are twice.

SPEAKER_00:

But, anyways, that's all the uh bad choices tonight. Anyways, this beer isn't that bad. Oops, dude, it kind of gets better as we go. The first sip was a little bit it was a little rough, yeah. But it starts to melt. Yeah. But were you about halfway?

SPEAKER_01:

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm just right at the label. Oh, snap. He's like down to here. Yeah, he's down about three quarters. Yeah. I know. The show is going so great. Yeah. Right downhill. Right downhill from this point on. Anyways, what would you rate that? I mean, you want to rate it now?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, we'll rate it. Like what uh untapped do? Uh fours. Yeah. Our Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Toasted Stout. Do you get the marshmallow? Uh a little bit. I I I get a little bit of sweetness. I get a little vanilla. Definitely get the oak.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, so can you back up for one second there, bitch? Beer wench. Uh a smooth and complex. It finishes with a worm.

SPEAKER_00:

Worm or worm? Worm? Worm.

SPEAKER_01:

Drink because I'm drinking.

SPEAKER_00:

That's what he's working with as a worm.

SPEAKER_01:

You never mess up on worm.

SPEAKER_00:

No, I'm perfect. What's that say? Warm bourbon character?

SPEAKER_01:

Warm bourbon character and a light of chart sweetness. Actually, I get it all.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Would you say Jason Keeper Creeper?

SPEAKER_01:

I would. Yeah, I would too. I would. I would definitely keep it. Like I could see uh Jason hitting this a little bit. You know, here.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, you know, we have some uh people that like bourbon.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

They would like this.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

I think the uh the the bourbon flavor definitely comes out. The toasted stout part is not very semi-sweet.

SPEAKER_01:

It's a Kentucky bourbon barrel. So if if you know your beers, a Kentucky bourbon barrel always has that bourbon barrel, very strong bourbon barrel. Yeah. But I think this kind of limit uh narrows it down. Tones it down a little bit. Tones it down a little bit. I yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

What would you what would you give this though? Because remember, this one was a bourbon barrel.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm gonna go an eight.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, actually, I'm with you. We're back on tune. Yeah because I was thinking eight in my head, too.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. I'm not gonna go high, but I would keep it.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm not saying princess because this is a little bit more strong. Yeah, it's strong.

SPEAKER_01:

It is strong.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Um it's a good 10%er, though. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

It's a great 10%.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm telling you, it's a drunky broom barrel.

SPEAKER_01:

Like, I like they did a good job on this. Yeah, I yeah, I would definitely say they did a good job.

SPEAKER_00:

Could you drink too? Like back to back? Ugh Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I'd be sleeping.

SPEAKER_00:

That's season 17.

SPEAKER_01:

That's when I get violated.

SPEAKER_00:

He drinks back to back.

SPEAKER_01:

Back to back.

SPEAKER_00:

Hey, if you've ever seen Rick sleep, he sleeps with his ass up in the air.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, that's I'm just used for he like sleeps on his belly with his ass up in there. Just waiting for bicycles to park there.

SPEAKER_00:

Hey, speaking about bicycle, oh, this makes me think of what I did this weekend. I forgot.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, you did you go bicycling?

SPEAKER_00:

I did kind of, but no, seriously. There is no bicycle. So they said, Hey, we got an extra ticket to this um oh man, I can't even think of the group now that sings bicycle, bicycle. Queen. Yeah, so it was queen. They're like, it was a queen, uh what do you think? Tribute band tribute band. Yeah, queen nation was the name of the thing. So I was like Queen Nation. So I said, Well, I'll I might as well, you know. So then I ended up being the chauffeur, taking these people, dropping them off, picking them up, but it was fine. So I go in there and I'm at the show, and you sit down, and I said, Oh, this is my kind of show. No one's standing. Well, there's some people standing, but they go off to the sides and stuff. You know, normally when you go to a concert, everybody's standing. Wait, everybody's standing, so you have to do what? Stand. Right? So I'm like, ah, I got popcorn, I'm drinking, oh, some licorice. I'm watching this band, and they're very entertaining. Queen Nation, and they come out, and I was like, This is pretty nice. So I listened to this Queen Nation band this weekend, and they they sang next song, Basicle, Basicle, I want to ride my bike.

SPEAKER_01:

So you were literally at like a theater, basically.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, a theater.

SPEAKER_01:

Yep. And just you sat there, and everybody else is just they're all over fucking jumping.

SPEAKER_00:

They but when they the people wouldn't really no, so I shouldn't say it's older band. So when it's older band, you have what older people? Older people, yeah. So they're not jumping up, but you have the young ones out there, and they're all jumping around, or they're up front, but you could still see the band. And the guy, he looks just like um Freddie Mercury. Freddy, yeah, running around with the hat on and everything, and his voice was pretty good.

SPEAKER_01:

And I was like, I remember a hat on Freddie.

SPEAKER_00:

He had the hat with the it was like a flat bill, like a police cap with the beads. They had like uh Shiny beads. Yeah. Yeah. He had the dark mustache, and he even had the uh short mic with the stick, you know what I mean? Anyways, yeah. Anyways, it was good. He played it very well. Anyways, it was it was pretty good. And I was sitting there, I was like, that wasn't too bad.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, and I don't I done went and seen it. I mean, for sure.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean and then the ladies were flipping to get beads.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm like, why you like the real Freddie Merky Mercury? He didn't like it. He wouldn't want to see that. He was like, hey, zip your pants down. Like, hey, Billy, put that like grocery.

SPEAKER_00:

You want some beads? No, but it it was it was actually kind of fun. And I was thinking of myself. So we went out there before the storm, but it was cold out, but the snow didn't move in. Um, we went out to eat and stuff, and yeah, it was a pretty good time. But uh, yeah, I I really enjoyed that show. I was like, I might have to come. I I don't want to say it out.

SPEAKER_01:

Now, where was that show at?

SPEAKER_00:

It was at uh record. No, it was at Robinson's Theater and Warren.

SPEAKER_01:

And that's I know like there's some pretty big shows coming down there.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. Well, this they play there, and they're very popular. They actually have a good following, unlike us. We don't have a following. Yeah, but they um so the the funny thing was is that the theater, the theater is beautiful. It was built in 1922 or 28 or something like that, and it the it's beautiful. They redid it all and everything, and um, it's very nice in there. It's like uh I didn't know what Adam style is, but that's what they say is I think Burke Chrysler's coming to Warren here pretty soon.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, yeah. And uh like they're that place gets paid hitting kind of small venue, yeah, venue. That's what I was asking.

SPEAKER_00:

That that'll hold a couple thousand people, right? But it's very nice. Seats are comfortable, like that velvet, like um plushness that yeah. I I actually enjoyed myself. I I would go back there, you know, alcohol beverages, but then they also have um non-alcohol beverages, snacks, and stuff like that. Licorice. Yeah, they have licorice. I have licorice and popcorn. I was eating licorice and popcorn. I'm like, I'm a fat kid over there.

SPEAKER_01:

Like, yeah, you want some popcorn? Hey, you want something to snack on? Hold on to this. Hey, put your hand in there.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, well, get it's like get that girl up there with the boobies.

SPEAKER_01:

So what were eights?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, eights.

SPEAKER_01:

Eights on this. Eights on the bourbon barrel, Kentucky bourbon barrel, toasted stout. Stout. Yeah, which it it was very good. It was good. I do have a hint of almost everything. A little bit of sweetness on the marshmallow. Yeah. I I do get that a bit of a little bit of a little bit of a vanilla. I mean, I I get a little bit of everything on what they said on tap.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Hey, make sure you join us and check us out on BuzzSpout.

SPEAKER_01:

And you can uh but now we got a whole new We got a Facebook, uh we got a Facebook, we got uh YouTube. Yes, subscribe on YouTube. Yeah, um what else?

SPEAKER_00:

We even have um I can't even think now. We have YouTube, we have Facebook. 10% Yeah, yeah, they get me. Uh now I'm gonna repeat it. But anyways, hey, we even have our own Facebook.

SPEAKER_01:

Here, I got an idea.

SPEAKER_00:

We all I mean not Facebook, we have our own website.

SPEAKER_01:

Another reason to drink anything that pops up is anything that pops up, we got Spotify, we got YouTube, we got uh OnlyFans, we have TikToks, we have uh feet fans, whatever you guys want, we're there for you. And if it's not there, and if you don't just send us the message, let us know. We'll we'll fucking add it.

SPEAKER_00:

And if you if you want to see Rick in 2017, then you go to our fan.

SPEAKER_01:

No, yes, yeah, and if you want to see me in 2026, go to another reason to drink.com. Grew at least 17 inches, my toenails grew at least 17 inches. I I I can show you them. And ain't even just poking through. Yeah, I that's I gotta have that's why I have Crocs on. They're sharp. It doesn't bend my toenails, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

So anyways, love you guys. Wait, no, wait. Oh which another reason to drink. You already said the weather, right? I already said it. Yeah, my other reason to drink is that uh I love doing this, I have a great time, it's fun. We love it. We learn all the time. We love you. We apologize already if we have lots of errors. Yeah, so anyways, whatever. Anyways, any last words?

SPEAKER_01:

Hey, don't drink and drive.

SPEAKER_00:

And God bless you. I will see you next week.