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Episode 29 - Curbside & Delivery (feat. Kevin & Deb)
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On this episode we're joined by "After The Final Pour" theme creators Kevin and Deb Goggin. We discuss curbside pickup and beer delivery during the pandemic. We also discuss some home brews Tony shared and discover Deb is a Cinnamon Toast aficionado.
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Podcast Introduction
00:00:04
Speaker
What's the haps on the hops? Got yeast, that's peace. This the molten hour where we talk about our drink and tell you what we think every other week. And if we get drunk, well, we might slur our speech.
00:00:14
Speaker
Got the gift of gab, the friends you wish you had. Join us for a drink. Join us for a laugh. Time is never wasted. When you're getting wasted? The molten hour here, people, people taking places.
00:00:33
Speaker
Welcome to the Melting Hour. I am Tony Golick and joined always with my good friend, very best friend, Brandon Hi, Brandon.
00:00:44
Speaker
Hey, Tony. How you? I'm doing okay, man. How are you doing? I'm all right. You know, dealing with the quarantine, you know, but it's been all right. had the son's first birthday yesterday, so.
00:00:55
Speaker
Which was awesome. We got to do it via Zoom. Yay! Shut up, guests. You're not supposed to talk yet. Oh, okay. God it. Start over. There's no guests tonight. Yeah, that was cool. The whole Zoom thing with the the guests were... a guest The whole Zoom thing um for the birthday was a a lot of fun. That was cool to see. Yeah, it worked out pretty good.
00:01:17
Speaker
Did ah you guys give him my drum set yet? Oh, we did. Awesome. He started playing with it earlier. Shut up, guests. God. I'm looking forward to watching you guys jam together where you play guitar and he's on the drums.
00:01:32
Speaker
Yeah, I told – he was playing with it earlier, and I was telling Becca to try to get video of it. And then he lost interest right after I mentioned that.
Guest Introductions and Episode Focus
00:01:39
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it was like me when I was in a band. Yep. but and but Anyway, i today we're we're doing this via video chat, but we are joined by two guests, if you don't know that already. This this episode is all about curbside pickup and beer delivery, since we're all dealing with all this staying-at-home COVID nonsense. And I'm calling it nonsense because it sucks, not because...
00:02:08
Speaker
It's not real. it's very It's very real. yeah We are joined by Kevin and Deb. Back at it again, baby. What's up? Kevin and Deb in the house.
00:02:21
Speaker
right Everyone, thanks for joining us. yeah Thanks for having us. Just me and Brandon for the rest of the night. Quickest podcast ever. Well, some of you might know that ah Kev and Deb created the After the Final Four song for us. and this They did. for us Which was two episodes ago. And if you went back and listened to episode, you would think that the song had been written for many years, Brandon and I sang it about 90 times out of each clip I had to edit.
00:02:50
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I also said that we were singing on it, which we weren't. So, spoiler alert, we didn't sing it.
Curbside Pickup Experiences
00:02:55
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um So, yeah, we asked you guys to come on because, well, we know, you I know, at least you guys have participated in this curbside pickup and and and beer delivery as well. And Brandon, you have done so as well. And I have done so as well.
00:03:10
Speaker
So i thought maybe we thought maybe it'd be cool to talk about... what we've all experienced through this. So, uh, Brandon, why don't, why don't, why don't you throw it out there? what but What did you start with? What did, what did you, or why don't you start?
00:03:22
Speaker
So I guess the first thing I did close to like a curbside pickup was just a pickup order at Benny's was the first thing I did. Um, you know, nothing crazy, but you know, and you still had to go into the store and, but they had the order ready. Just go there, grab it run right out. So, you know, minimal contact with people, which was nice.
00:03:40
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um what you remember what got? um Yes, it was. think I got some Lagunitas. think the little something. I know I got Frambois because what Becca wanted.
00:03:53
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and some they had these eight ounce cans of cider. i think oo um it might I think it was Vandermill. I'd have to check. But it was like a rose cider, know, because, you know, just something for the wife.
00:04:08
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ah So we did that. And then my way i think that was pretty much it for that order.
00:04:15
Speaker
Oh, I did Brickstone. I got it some Brickstone APA as well. So that was cool. um Yeah, that was my the the first thing I did. And then we've been doing the Lake Effect deliveries.
00:04:27
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um um I think we're all familiar. We all did that, I think, at this point, right? Yeah. yeah yeah It's like almost every other week, I think we've been doing that. Something comes and we're like, oh, um i almost did it this week because they brought the French duck pie back. yeah. oh Yeah. yeah And I was like, yeah, screw keto, right? Let's just have pie. Well, and it's funny because, and I can't find the receipt from my last order, but we had done an order of the brownie ah with the stout. I did that.
00:04:54
Speaker
And then I swear I just threw on the pie, like the blueberry pie, because they had it. and I was like, I would just get a blueberry pie. But I got the beer, too. And i for the life of me, I can't find that receipt, so they like just gave me the beer, and I was like, oh, that's nice.
00:05:07
Speaker
Thanks, Clint. Probably a screw-up, but... um but So that was cool. And then I did the, I picked up actually a keg of beer from Revolution. so Yeah, which I was ah ah fortunate enough to get a growler of. I haven't cracked it. I'm actually going crack it open for Mother's Day. So when everyone's listening to this, I've probably already drank 64 ounces of Freedom of Speech.
00:05:28
Speaker
Freedom Speech. but Which one did you get, Brandon? Freedom of Speech. That's what I did. So I did that. He filled up a growler for me from his keg. Yeah, I see. yeah Part of my beer delivery story. sir Yeah, well, it's five gallons of beer, so as quickly as I can get through it, that means I can get another one.
00:05:44
Speaker
um And it was and it it kind of worked out, too, because... So the kegerator that I have, I had converted it to do, like, our homebrew kegs, and... I didn't want to have to keep switching back and forth between, you know, basically taking the lines off and putting in the sinky connection for like commercial kegs.
00:06:04
Speaker
And they actually, i found a homebrew website that actually does, ah sold the, like a coupler that goes on to those. And it's just really two pieces. It was 20 bucks. They snap right on, and like it's not a problem. So i switched you know I can easily switch between that, and then Tony dropped off a growler of his um the Cinnamon Toast Crunch Churro Beer.
00:06:26
Speaker
one-gallon keg. Yeah, so it's a little one-gallon keg. counts as a growler. Almost. So just switch over to that easily, you know took take a couple pours off that, switch back to the other keg. So yeah, it's really nice.
00:06:40
Speaker
Sorry. Right on. What about ah you guys, Kevin, Debra? What have you guys done?
Beer Delivery and Sharing Stories
00:06:48
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we I think the first one we did was the Fanny's one. we did that We did the French silk pie with the ooh-la-la stout.
00:06:55
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And then we ordered again. We did the blueberry. So I think those are those are the first two we did. we've We've mostly been just going to the liquor store for the most part. One night, though, we wanted, i was really wanting a stout, and all we had was just some, like, old styles or something in the fridge, and Deb wanted some, which one did you want? Some German beers. Some some sort of German beers, and we we couldn't find those at our local, so we're like, oh, let's check out Drizzly. Let's see what Drizzly has. So,
00:07:24
Speaker
We signed up for Drizzly for the first time ever using that. It felt weird, I want to say, but we got... It ended up working out. i mean, it wasn't too expensive.
00:07:35
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It's like maybe like a $5 charge. You're still supporting the local store. You could pick which store you want them to deliver from. And i found out i found out because they didn't have one of the things in stock.
00:07:48
Speaker
They called and they were able to switch it out. it's the The actual store does the delivery. So they just do it through the Drizzly service, I guess. Yeah, I'm really sure how it works. But it was fast and easy. and Yeah, we have luckily Cardinal is like right across the street from us. So we'll walk over there on occasion.
00:08:10
Speaker
um And Leo's Liquors in Mayfair by my folks house. They do delivery. Actually, when I was last there picking up this Maplewood, they said they do delivery for a three mile radius. So we could even call them and they have lots of really good stuff there, too.
00:08:24
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And they're always nice and have awesome selection. So. Yeah, we we have not struggled finding alcohol
00:08:34
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at We tried to do curbside from
00:08:40
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Alarmist over on Peterson. We were riding bikes over there. We were riding bikes. But they were just closed. It was like Monday or Tuesday. It was one of the days that they were closed. So he failed on that. So yeah, i think Fanny's, or Lake Effect, um Drizzly, and that's that's pretty much it. We went to Binnie's. We didn't do Curbside, though. I didn't know they did that, actually. We we actually went in.
00:09:02
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I don't really feel so bad about going into Benny's though, because they're always like airplane hanger sized and you can very easily stay away from other people. So, yeah. You know, everybody that I've interacted with it at Benny's has been pretty much like they've got a mask on and they yeah like they want to go through and come, come, like, you know, come and go. And that's it. They're they're there to grab something and not really hanging out exactly like I normally would.
00:09:25
Speaker
Right. Right. um Let's see, so what have I done? I've done a couple things. I've gone to the liquor store, which has been Vinny's. um I did the Fanny's brownie and espresso gone stout delivery.
00:09:41
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um The other random beer things I've done is given Brandon the keg. I've given you guys beer. i got it I got a growler from Brandon.
00:09:53
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And I actually just opened up a beer from a neighbor who had a beer. She started listening to the podcast. And she said, hey, I got this. Yeah, we got a new listener. And she gave me this beer.
00:10:05
Speaker
Hey, Kevin, I showed this to you recently, but I'm going to you guys. It's called the Brown the brown Note. Oh, Lord, why? It's very, yeah, that's... It's really great can.
00:10:16
Speaker
And it is from, um'm I'm going to drink it now with you guys. It's from Against the Grain in Kentucky. So, um yeah, I'm pretty excited about that. So that was another way that I was able to do the beer thing. I haven't gone to a brewery yet to actually pick up beer. Although, did give... we tried to go to Old Irving that one time, too. Oh, yeah, Old Irving.
00:10:37
Speaker
Sorry. No, that's look okay. They were also out of what I wanted. so I think that was the night we got Drizzly because I really wanted a stout there. That that is you're right. What are you trying to get from Old Irving that they were out of?
00:10:49
Speaker
Oh, I was trying to get, what is it called? It's the really dark breakfast stout that they had. What is it called? can't remember. We had to look at it. Oh, yeah, I remember. I wanted to get, I think you and I sent each other messages about that beer.
00:11:01
Speaker
And I didn't end up going to get it either. But that is that is something I do want to do soon. Get directly from the the breweries and and pick up. I was actually looking at that today. Yeah.
00:11:16
Speaker
I had to go run some errands to go see my dad and everything. And I almost thought about driving out to Microphone because they have crawlers of Imperial Smells Like Bean Spirit. And then I thought to myself, do I need 32 ounces of an Imperial Stout with maple syrup? The answer is yes, Tony.
00:11:34
Speaker
Obviously. Correct. But my stomach would disagree the next day. It would be very upset with me. um A couple other breweries that I was looking at also was Beguile, Dovetail, um who else oh and Half Acre, and of course Revolution.
00:11:51
Speaker
ah so I think um as the next couple weeks or so, as we're still you know through May, I'm definitely going to make the attempt. I did buy Lake of Effect beer from Lake Effect, but I was also working for them that day. Yeah.
00:12:04
Speaker
Does that count? Does that count? That counts. yeah I'll allow it. I'll allow it. Objection. One for two. Overruled. Damn it. ah The old Irving was ancient magic. It's the peanut butter s'mores. Oh, yeah.
00:12:17
Speaker
Yeah. I remember that. By the way, the The brown note that I'm drinking right now is fucking delicious. It's really good. yeah I could do without the the can of the guy shitting himself, um for sure.
00:12:32
Speaker
It's funny. I laughed. I chuckled when I got it and I said that was great. But the beer is really good. I would i want to make a brownie. eye I like this. there a description on it? No.
00:12:44
Speaker
Let's see, it's dark over here at the bar. ah Yes, this is a brown ale to end all brown ales. Enjoy it, because there's no longer any reason to drink another brown ale. You've reached the pinnacle, the disco bump, the brown note.
00:12:59
Speaker
Drink this beer or shit yourself trying.
00:13:04
Speaker
I'm not going to disagree. This is delicious. Hey, I have a question to That's what they had. God damn it. have a question for both of it's pretty easy, as we're describing right now, to get beer.
00:13:20
Speaker
It has been a problem. But I know you guys both have like a deep bench of stuff that you have stocked. Have you been digging into that at all? Yes. no Bullshit, Brandon. Yeah, and it's funny. So, like, I mean, because a lot of the stuff I have, I have, like, bombers of things.
00:13:40
Speaker
um And a lot of it, like, I have a hard time. Not that I don't, you know, not that I couldn't drink a bomber by myself, but, like, I would hate myself. Do it, do it, it, it. it's along the lines of, like, it's stuff that, like, you know, I, for so long, I didn't drink any of that beer. Like, I've got beer that goes, like, back to, like, 2012. Yeah.
00:14:01
Speaker
yeah What was the oldest beer that you and I drank? 2009. You got it in 2011. yeah so Tony and I drank a 2009 old stock ale. It was so good. and I have stuff you know like original pipework stuff from like when they first started producing. Awesome.
00:14:15
Speaker
um So as much as I'm like, yeah, I want to drink this stuff, it's also like, you know, the point is to like share it with people. So I've very seldomly kind of gone in there to to grab stuff. Hence kind of like why I got the keg it kind of keeps me from doing that.
00:14:31
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um Although like as much as I like the freedom of speech, it's, you know, when I want a stout, it's like, I don't have any stouts around here. So, like, the other day I i opened up Bourbon County ah Cafe de Ola.
00:14:47
Speaker
but Oh, you son of a bitch. So I had two of them, and I was like, well, I could do one. So actually, so I cracked it, I poured, you know, half of the bottle, and I recapped it, you know, and I'll drink it within the next couple days or whatever. so Because I didn't, you know, I don't need to drink a 14-ounce bottle.
00:15:06
Speaker
beer like in one sitting especially when i'm like you want i can stop by and you can like pour it in a glass for me and i'll stand out front yeah like it's when i think i just got brushed off yeah so when um i mean it's different like if i'm sitting there like you know if we're playing xbox or something like that which i think my xbox is now dead um oh no Yeah, it kept, like, it shut off. Well, it froze yesterday when we were playing Grand Theft Auto, and then I got super annoyed. GTA?
00:15:35
Speaker
So I did a ah full reset on it, and then, like, logged back in. And then it just started lagging, like, really slow. And I think actually part of that is something's going on with our internet here. So actually we have coming out on Monday to upgrade our internet. Get that fiber wire.
00:15:49
Speaker
No, goddamn fiber is not available in our neighborhood. Like, it's literally across the street. Like, i'll be yeah, you tell me a meal has it. And like, he's like three or four blocks away. And like, they keep telling me, oh, it's coming soon. Real soon. I'm like, I've been here for three years.
00:16:05
Speaker
It's not coming soon. um Like when I moved in, you guys were sending me ads about getting fiber. And then every time I call you guys, they're like, no. So I have 50 megabytes for $10 more. We're upgrading to 70 megabytes. There you go. That'd be good.
00:16:21
Speaker
No, 75 megabytes. um So they're coming on Monday just to bring a new router for us. So Brandon, i don't I don't know if it's a coincidence or not, but it was probably a week after we became friends on Xbox and now your Xbox is broken. Hmm.
00:16:35
Speaker
Yeah. interesting I don't know. I haven't tried it. Xbox is broken with quotes. Yeah. Not wanting to talk to Kevin. and Yeah. Well, I haven't tried it today. And last night i it was just going so slow. Like I thought something was wrong. So I just turned it off.
00:16:49
Speaker
And i was like, fuck this. I'm going to bed. You know what sucks is that I finally have Red Dead revolver a red dead Redemption 2. Was that a cat I just heard? I think it's my chair. I thought I heard a Oh, Chirpy. Oh, there's our cat. I knew it. Chirpy. Chirpy's in the house.
00:17:03
Speaker
um In Shitbox Studios, where you guys were broadcasting live from.
Social Distanced Beer Trades
00:17:08
Speaker
Of course, you know I get Red Dead Redemption 2, and now your Xbox do Have you played like the online stuff yet, or no?
00:17:14
Speaker
Not yet. No, no. I'm looking forward to that. Yeah. There was something else beer-related. Oh, yes, I remembered. um oh excuse me. Sorry. Fan favorite of the show, Clark Fetridge. He and I have talked about um possibly – so I've done beer trades like that as well where Clark has got a couple cans of beer, and like I'll see him checking in on untapped, and I'll say something about it.
00:17:42
Speaker
And he said, hey, I've got an extra one if you want to try it. you know If you want to pick it up, I'll leave it outside. Great. So when we did that, i ended up bringing two beers by him. He gave me two beers. Actually, he gave me three beers. Because the Goose Island delivery truck, someone from Goose Island lives in his neighborhood.
00:17:58
Speaker
Not going to say names, who it is. But that truck came and gave that a whole neighborhood beer, which was pretty awesome. Wow. He got the White Sox. Yeah, he got the, well, not the whole neighborhood, but a lot of neighbors got it, which is super cool of them to do that.
00:18:09
Speaker
But I did get the White Sox Golden Ale, which, by the way, even if you're not a Sox fan, that beer is delicious. But anyways, so I went there and he and I. Drain pour it. Drain pour it. Drain pour it. Smash the can. uh we we i stood on the other side of his fence um he put the bag on one side i put my bag on the other side we grabbed our beers and that was it and we actually talked about he grabbed some beer in michigan recently that he wanted to share with me and he said you know he's he's got a pretty decent size yard um that he and i were talking about maybe getting together where he sits in like
00:18:46
Speaker
a long way away, maybe even like, you know, 12 feet. Um, and he pours himself some and I have my cup there. I'm going to bring my own cup and he's going pour it in there. and we're to sit about 12 feet away in his yard on a nice day and just drink the beer together and talk. Yeah.
00:19:01
Speaker
So that'll be, that's, that's, that's about as risky as I'm getting. Yeah. You know, we, about it we had the same thing with my sister and brother-in-law who live a couple of blocks from us and we were going to hang out on their porch, their back porch on this, one of these days that was really nice. And then we're like,
00:19:14
Speaker
Yeah, it kind of sucks. They have big porch. and we We could have done it, but it's just like sure we want to wear our masks and then just having to take off your mask to drink, it just seems really cumbersome. and but Using the bathroom, like, what do you do? I don't want to go into their house. you know I'm peeing in his yard, that's for sure. Adult depends.
00:19:33
Speaker
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, I don't think yeah we're going to... I mean, i don't know. I'll let you guys know how that turns out. I don't mind pulling the mask down to take ah a sip It's a stout. It's a big stout from what I remember seeing in the picture. So we'll be there for it. Well, and again, was going to say is you have to remember the thing about the masks is like the masks are typical are required when you can't maintain a six foot distance.
00:19:57
Speaker
So if you're literally sitting 12 feet away and you guys are just in the yard. the mask isn't really necessary. I think, yeah, that's true I think everyone's just so panicked because we're always hearing conflicting, like conflicting details about everything. And I don't know, we just, we all want to hang out and be together, but we don't want to put anyone at risk. So yeah, right. Exactly. Like I'm going to, I think what you're doing is fine. I mean, you're outside and you're going to be completely far away. So I think that's more than fair. So you could sit on his garage roof and then make sure there's no like wind coming your way. Like, you know, No cross-freezed. Well, the other thing is that i'm i I don't have any intention of coming in contact with his kids or his wife.
00:20:39
Speaker
So it's just going to be he and i sharing that beer, and that's it. So let you know how that – not cool, Kevin. And you guys have your appendage advantage, whereas myself, you know, it's a little bit more difficult to – Yes, to use them to to go to the bathroom. Correct. I knew we were going with that.
00:21:00
Speaker
Talking about wieners and vaginas. Talking about wieners. Weans and vagines. weans of Welcome to the wiener hour.
00:21:10
Speaker
This is a kids show. i don't know if I told you guys that. This episode is actually just for kids. Oh, cool. Zoom just told me my internet connection is unstable. Uh-oh. Fiber.
00:21:21
Speaker
I don't know. what that means. don't know what that means. I don't know. I was on a call for work and like somebody was complaining about their internet. So I just sit there and froze and stared at the camera a couple of seconds. They're like, Oh, you're frozen. And I was like, you was scream like Oh I will say this while we've done this, uh, you guys have frozen at least three times while you were talking.
00:21:44
Speaker
Um, so, but everything seems to catch up. So I don't know how that works. Yeah. We haven't had a problem. No,
00:21:52
Speaker
Everybody else is at home in my house streaming a whole bunch of shit, probably. Yeah. yeah Cool. Let me turn off everyone's devices. Yeah, I can do that, actually.
00:22:07
Speaker
Turn the off. Speaking of a dropping off beer, I dropped off the same beer to both of you. yeah the My cinnamon churro cream ale experiment. Yep.
00:22:21
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for people not following me on social media, which I don't know why you wouldn't be, Ace of Elves, Chicago on Instagram, find me there, baby. You, what I did was take my cream ale recipe and added cinnamon toast crunch churros to the secondary, hoping that it would impart some cinnamon flavor. This was following the,
00:22:41
Speaker
guidelines that I learned from the basic brewing podcast episode about how they added cereal to the secondary to into a stout that used count chocolate cereal to get the chocolate in there. And they said they could taste the difference.
00:22:55
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um So I tried it. And what did you guys think? I have my own opinions. I already know what's going on with what going to do next. But I'd like to know what you guys think of the beers. Or as Brandon, I know Becca has tried some as well.
00:23:11
Speaker
So, Brandon, the floor is yours. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So my it was funny. a I gave some to my wife. was like, try this Tell me what you think. She took a sip and she goes, tastes like Natty Ice.
00:23:24
Speaker
And she goes, don't tell Tony. Yeah, he told me right in front of it right front of her. So she's not, I mean, she's not a huge beer drinker, but she does it. She she likes stouts.
00:23:36
Speaker
She likes sours and like fruit beers and stuff like that. um But I wouldn't have said it tastes like Natty Ice, but what I thought when I tried it, I was like, it's just, it almost tasted just like a Pilsner or something like that. It was just very, it was, you know, I got kind of the cremal aspect of it, but the cinnamon was just so faint in the back end. Like if I didn't know that was in there, would thought have been something in my beer line, been like, oh man, it's probably from the other beer that was just in there, like giving it a funny flavor.
00:24:07
Speaker
But knowing it was cinnamon, then like I caught it right away. But yeah, I mean, just knowing how you did it and like following those guidelines, it's kind of shocking that it wasn't more prominent.
00:24:18
Speaker
um I mean, that was my it's still I mean, it's an easy drinking beer. Like it's not like overly carbonated. And like I had a glass of it and I'm like, oh, that went down really quick.
00:24:29
Speaker
um But yeah, like as far as it being like a a cinnamon toast crunch beer, like I, you know, I wouldn't have known. Yeah. Kevin, Deb. deb Yeah, Deb had some as well.
00:24:41
Speaker
She's more of a Cinnamon Toast Crunch aficionado. I'm like a huge Cinnamon Toast Crunch freak. Wow. What about the churro? Like, I haven't had the churro one yet. What you know about that churro, girl? um I thought it tasted like a wheat ale.
00:24:56
Speaker
I didn't really catch any of the cinnamon at all. it was so It was smooth, um but i for me, it just kind of like rang like a wheat ale. right All right. KG? batch Tony peed in.
00:25:09
Speaker
That's what it was. I'm sorry. Did you say wheat or weed? I have known that one for sure. Well, when I first cracked it, I gave it a little sniff, and it smelled kind of bitter to me.
00:25:22
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um Almost like, yeah, just like like bitter water. and And I'm like, okay, well I'll taste it. And I tasted it. I'm like, okay, it is it's kind of bitter. It does taste kind of bitter. It tastes like a bitter, yeah, like almost like a Pilsner or a Lagner.
00:25:38
Speaker
But um the secondary, like you could really taste the cinnamon after. At least I did. And it tasted very buttery to me, the aftertaste of it. And I really like the aftertaste, not so much the initial taste.
00:25:51
Speaker
That's what I thought of it. Got you. um I had only a little bit that day, that first day that you gave it to me. And then it was sitting in our fridge. And when Tony and I were talking on the phone the other day, recording a podcast, I had the rest of Teen Line. You're done. you Teen Line.
00:26:08
Speaker
It's called Teen Line. you guys want to check it out. It's Bandcamp. Teen Line. Teen Line. I didn't want to do that. You went there. L-I-N-E dot Bandcamp dot com. Anyway, I had the rest of it. We got five episodes up right now.
00:26:20
Speaker
Brandon is just laugh to get in of Okay, welcome to Teen Line. I'm your co-host, Tony Kulik. Joined by Deb Goggin. He actually sounded just like me.
00:26:34
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No, but I very much enjoyed it the second time around in a pint glass. Yeah, he killed off the rest of the bottle. I don't know why. i'm not I'm not sure what it was. Were you drinking out of a mop bucket beforehand? Yeah, that's probably what it was the first time. specified pint glass, so I thought maybe a mop bucket.
00:26:52
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You and I talked about it, and and I did already know from Brandon what what everybody thought about it. My impressions of it...
Brewing Experiments and Feedback
00:27:00
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were that it just tasted like beer.
00:27:03
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It was a cream ale. When I first started drinking it, I got the cinnamon like right away. Actually, I tasted it, and i was like, wow, this is really good. and I was excited. then I poured another glass, and I did not get the cinnamon. And i like you said, I did not like that first sip.
00:27:20
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It was kind of like, man, I can't wait to edit that burp up. It was just kind of like, The first sip was kind of weird, and and normally when I pour from my kegerator, I do pour out a little bit first into a letter glass because the lines are long and it's warm, so I want to get some of that shit out. Oh, it's not for your not for your dead homies?
00:27:44
Speaker
No, it's not. I don't know why I thought that was so funny. ah But it was, and I laughed. I... yeah i'm just It just tastes like a cream ale now. So I ended up doing, actually, is sanitized a cinnamon stick and plopped that shit into the keg, hoping that it's going up the cinnamon. So I think the next round, what I'm going to do, because I do like the idea of a cinnamon cream ale.
00:28:09
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is maybe do this cream ale recipe and add a little bit of lactose so you get that sweet, milky-type feeling um and a taste-not-feeling.
00:28:22
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You can feel lactose, I guess. going to do... and i'm going to do a cinnamon stick in the fermenter and transfer it into the keg. So round two will be coming back.
00:28:33
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But I also, uh, the reason why I brought that up is that, uh, both of you, uh, well, all three of you, not both of you, sorry, both of you because of the screens. Um, I am going to give you guys the hazy pale ale that I did on a national, our big brew, big brew day, um, the American homebrew association, big brew day.
00:28:49
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Um, I ended up doing two beers. I did a pale ale based off of my New England IPA. It's just lower alcohol and it's not as that is sweet.
00:29:01
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It's definitely hoppy and it drinks kind of more like an IPA. Thumbs up. It drinks kind of like an IPA, ah but it is very fruity and and and tropical.
00:29:14
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Wow, Brandon, with the Zoom emojis. I love this. How do I make them go away? They will. They'll they'll just disappear. They'll disappear. ah So i'll I'll be dropping those off to you guys this week. Yay. That's awesome. So that's the thing.
00:29:27
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The thing is that I think that's. What's
Impact of Quarantine on Beer Consumption
00:29:30
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the thing, Kevin? i Tell me what the thing is. The reason I thought it was so bitter is because, you know, you think Churro Toast Crunch.
00:29:39
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You just think this massive sugar bomb of like yeah diabetes. And then it's just not that. And I think that's why we're the disconnect is, you know. I think maybe for the next batch, I don't name it that. I'll just call it like a cinnamon cream ale. Yeah.
00:29:57
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to And then, of course, it's going to be fucking sweet with the lactose in there, and everyone's going to be like, this tastes like cinnamon toast. This is interesting. um Before we move on, we're going to take a quick break. And we're back!
00:30:12
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Yay!
00:30:14
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And we are back. And there's Brandon, and there's me, and there's Kevin, and there's Dave. Hello. Yeah. We're talking about beers, curbside pickup, beer delivery, and all things related to getting schnockered while having to stay at home. Now...
00:30:30
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yeah You three, are all you guys all have to work from home. So I don't know what that's like. and That doesn't sound fun, I've got to be honest. Deb, you're working from home? I'm not working.
00:30:43
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I've been unemployed since the end of March. Right. So so i so we're covering all things right now. And I haven't been... I just remembered your job. You can't work from home.
00:30:54
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I cannot. Well, i just there's no work in my field right now, so it's really a matter of... Just waiting for some sort of normalcy to resume. But yeah, I've been cooking a lot and baking a lot and cleaning a lot. So... Kevin is reaping a lot of benefits of me being a stay-at-home wife, more or less. But...
00:31:17
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who yeah I'm also reaping those benefits with Laura working from home. She's been quite, my wife Laura has been quite great at maintaining the home and doing her full-time job. So it's been pretty cool. Although when I come home sometimes there's plants all over the counter. so normal eighty That would happen anyway. You don't need a quarantine to have plants all over your counter. It normally happens on Saturday mornings only. and Now it's Wednesday at five o'clock.
00:31:47
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So, yeah, so the whole working from home thing or or having to be at home, do you guys find yourselves drinking more? Yes. just the same? No.
00:31:58
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More, for sure.
00:32:01
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Go ahead. ahead go ahead Sorry. I was going to say, in the beginning, i found myself... drinking more just because I was like, this sucks. Yeah. and And I'm not a person who drinks when they're upset or angry.
00:32:12
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Uh, I like drinking in times like this when we're all hanging out and and talking, it's much more fun. I, if I get, if I get upset, like if I have, if it's a Friday night and I get home from work and something pisses, like something bad happens, I am not going to drink at all. It's not because it's going to do anything, but I have no interest in in drinking at that point. I like drinking to have fun with my friends. Yeah.
00:32:37
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uh brandon what about you well i was gonna i said well what i was going to say is i work from home anyway so that that change i mean there really has been no big change in regards to that um i i have a co-worker now so like my wife works from home um and then i have a one-year-old to chase around too so that's been like our biggest thing is navigating that so you got two co-workers yeah pretty much Um, and one is really real pain in the ass. Yeah. Um, yeah. So it's, I mean, that's really been the only like change.
00:33:09
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And then I guess like the thing too is like every once in a while, like I would leave the house and go work from Fanny's or like, you know, Weston's, something like that just to get out of the house to do something. And now it's like, you know, I, I didn't think about it as much. it didn't do it that often. And now that I can't do it, it's like God, I'd really just love to go and work somewhere like not here, you know?
00:33:30
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Yeah. So and then like when this is all over, you know or when it starts the restrictions start loosening, who knows if we'll even have that option. Like, you know, you you know, dine in may still be very limited. sure. Yeah.
00:33:43
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You know, I think slowly but surely all that stuff will come back around. And I know more yeah people are going to decide, you know, make their own choices of when they feel like it's comfortable for them to go.
00:33:54
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back and and and and sit in a restaurant or some cafe to to do work. But I know there's a lot of people out there, too, that are going to the first people out there. Yeah.
00:34:06
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The first thing I want to do is just hang out with all my my friends. yeah I don't necessarily want to go and do like ah a big public thing. I'm not dying to go to a restaurant. I'm not dying to go to a bar.
00:34:17
Speaker
I'd like to go to a brewery, um, but, uh, brew pub, but, uh, more so like have all my friends over, uh, or go to their house and and hang out. I'd like to get a haircut.
00:34:28
Speaker
Oh my god. I don't know you guys well, the listeners don't know this, but I'm constantly wearing a hat now because my hair is ridiculous. And i don't want to shave my head again. i just just don't. So I'm letting it grow.
00:34:42
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me and my dad looking like twins. There you go. Yeah. Duel Rodgers.
00:34:50
Speaker
Definitely not doodle Chinese. Yeah. um Well, you guys were talking before about ah stouts, and the reason why i wanted to bring that up was that I found myself, for some reason, craving stouts more now during this, just because, like, barrel-aged stouts, imperial stouts are, like, when you're hanging out with your friends or it's, like, a treat for yourself.
00:35:09
Speaker
And now it's like, that's the one thing I've been treating myself to is if I go the liquor store or order something, it's like, I'm going to get a big stout. Like I just bought probably for the third time this year, four pack of Sierra Nevada's Narwhal.
00:35:25
Speaker
Nice. Barely aged stout. There was a couple other ones I was going to get. Like I grabbed something from Oddside, the Hipster Brunch stout once. I drank my... Last VSOD from Revolution.
00:35:37
Speaker
i still have some props that I can drink, but I gotta to wait for my good friend Brandon, because he brought me last year. And I swear to God, if Prop Day doesn't happen this year, be pissed.
00:35:50
Speaker
I don't know, man. I don't know. November! We got time! Who knows? We're a cool prop day. Maybe a curbside pickup prop day. I'd like to win tickets for that. They canceled Oktoberfest. That was the worst news ever.
00:36:03
Speaker
but That's right. For me, it was Pitchfork. I was very upset when Pitchfork finally got canceled. This was the one year that I wanted to go for one day and pay $75 and watch like six bands that I really wanted to see.
00:36:16
Speaker
that's i mean, that's worth it to see six bands. There's concerts you can go to to pay $75 see one band.
00:36:24
Speaker
Or three bands, but you're only going for one. Sorry, openers. I don't know how much it... well so i For our anniversary, I hadd bought Becca tickets for the Lady Gaga show at Wrigley, and that's probably not going to happen.
00:36:37
Speaker
Yeah, probably not. I got friends who are worried about the NFL season. Honestly, as much as I love football, oh, wow. Yeah. Why did you see like when they like the Bears release their schedule and it says like all of this, you know, subject to change. Like if a game is is canceled and not you know rescheduled or if the game is played in conditions where people cannot attend, you know, like the refund options. I'm like, and so they're actually considering playing just games without.
COVID's Impact on Sports Events
00:37:08
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people Yeah, i actually saw I was actually watching Korean baseball because they've been having that on yeah ESPN really late at night or really early in the morning. And they had a they had a survey, an ESPN survey. And like it was something like 85 percent of people would rather just see it happen without fans.
00:37:26
Speaker
Yeah, they just want to see something. And the Korean Baseball League is actually very entertaining. Yeah. well and and i mean Maybe I'll start watching. Yeah. It sucks for me, though. This is my first year as Cubs season ticket holder. Dude, i thought I thought about that. I thought about that when this all happened, and i was like, of course.
00:37:43
Speaker
The year that Brandon finally gets season tickets, yeah he can't go. And I know dan this is dan's ah Dan Blythe's second year of our friend Dan, his second year of having season tickets. and I normally tag along, so I'm kind of bummed about that. Yeah.
00:37:57
Speaker
Yeah, so luckily, like, they offered us, we basically, we got refunded for all the games that haven't been played and everything up until the end of May. um So that refund should be coming at some point.
00:38:09
Speaker
And then they're going to go month by month just to decide how it happens. But the upside to that is, like, I'm locked in as a season ticket holder now. Yeah, I was going to ask that, like yeah.
00:38:20
Speaker
Next year I can just either rebuy the same seats or go get better seats, whatever. um But, yeah, we're we're locked in now, so that's nice. That's good. Yeah, I was going to ask that if you you had the option, or you're now that you are a season ticket holder, you're able to re-up every year regardless unless you opt out, right? Yep.
00:38:37
Speaker
yeah That's good. Well, at least you got that going for you. So hopefully we've got sports next year. Yay, sports! for um Brandon, you cracked open something else. Is that still carbonated? Yeah.
00:38:52
Speaker
No, exactly it's good. All right, yeah, I gave, that the first. He's heartburn. Nice. That's the sour I like to make for people. so yeah I made a sour beer probably about a month ago now, and you guys were the first beer delivery that i made while i was while this has all been going on.
00:39:12
Speaker
So that kind of started a ah trend of dropping off beer. I did promise people in the brew club i was going bring them beer, and I have not done that yet. yeah, I remember that. That's me shrugging my shoulders, by the way
00:39:27
Speaker
going back to one day Going back to the stout thing. Why do you think that is? Why do you think we're all craving stouts right now? It's not winter. Is it because we're indoors like it is winter? amy Maybe, yeah. i Or like I was saying, like um I normally, especially barely aged stouts, I really do like treat those as kind of like a special occasion or like ah a treat, if you will, yeah for myself to have.
00:39:52
Speaker
And I like sharing those. But yeah, I don't know. I've just been craving them. And actually, I've been dying to... brew an imperial stout and i just can't pull the trigger because it's so expensive to do yeah sure but i feel like i thought about it the other day i thought about it the other day um that maybe i will do that for my next beer and since you have to wait long uh for it to just kind of mellow out and you don't have that like hot boozy flavor in those big stouts.
00:40:21
Speaker
um Unless you want it. Weird. I'm thinking about brewing one maybe next weekend and not touching it in the fermenter until...
00:40:32
Speaker
we can all see each other, like be in the same room with each other. So maybe it's like my ah ah coronavirus celebration beer.
00:40:44
Speaker
Yeah. Just a big stout. Just a big stout on a hot day, you know? I like that. No, I did the same thing. i bought a one of the Bourbon County. It was a called the Mon Cherie, the cherry one.
00:40:56
Speaker
And I had in Cough syrup. Yes. Well, see... kevin Kevin liked it. I liked it. It reminded me of Amaretto. It has a very Amaretto taste, like a cherry liqueur. this is why we don't talk to Kevin about beer. Hey, man, you invited me.
00:41:12
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We invited Deb.
00:41:17
Speaker
but no long So I had that in the fridge and I was going to save it for whatever. And then, yeah, I just popped it open. I think it was my birthday. I'm like, fuck it. I'm actually, i feel like I'm somewhat responsible for you drinking it because you're always like, I want to save it for when I'm with Tony. I'm like, just drink the fucking beer. You're never going to see him again. Fuck Tony. Oh my God.
00:41:38
Speaker
Sorry. I didn't mean it like literally. You're never go to see him again. But, you know, who knows when you we'll see him again is what I should have said. He's dead to us. No, never. But no, speaking to what Brandon was saying, it's like, you know, if I open this, I'm going to have to drink the whole thing. i don't want to put it away.
00:41:56
Speaker
And then it's like, you know, drinking one of those bourbon counties, like you want to share it with somebody, but... because it's It's very easy to share with somebody. You're like, oh, it's already gone. But once you're drinking it yourself, you're like, oh, yeah I like to drink in like small glasses and just like a little at a time. Then I'm like, holy shit, there's still fucking half this thing left.
00:42:13
Speaker
I have drank one regular bourbon county during this, the entire 16.9 ounce bottle because the jewel over there and over at Six Corners, the real Six Corners, everybody, Cicero, Irving, walking, they still have bottles of nice, Kevin's shown his Six Corners tattoo, sexy.
00:42:34
Speaker
That Juul still sells or still has just bottles of Bourbon County sitting out there. And the Binnie's has Bourbon County sitting out there. So every now and then when I see it, I'm like, hmm, should I get another one?
00:42:47
Speaker
But then I'm always like, then I'm going to drink it by myself and regret it. But I never actually regret it, to be honest. so I don't know why I thinking that. So getting back to the Moan Cherry thing, like I'd be interested in trying it again now, like after it's been in the bottles for a while, just to see how different it is. Because, you know, when you're saying you're getting like Amaretto out of it, I'd be curious to see if it's matured into that, because it was like a punch in the face of...
00:43:18
Speaker
fake boozy cherry like you know it it was like it was not good at prop day it was like cough syrup and again like maybe we would have been better served letting it warm up or something like that maybe that would have changed it a little bit um it was a little cold um so i mean i can't really say like normally something like that i would definitely just let it warm up because there's you know It's going to be totally different when it warms up a little bit. So, yeah, I'd be curious to... If I if i see it again, I'll probably grab a bottle and give it a shot. Yeah, stouts aren't my thing, and Kevin always has me sip just to try it. And I actually liked that one more than most of the other ones. And we did not... I didn't get that strong of of a cherry...
00:44:03
Speaker
like nasty cherry flavor at all. I thought it was really subtle and I liked it. So maybe, yeah, maybe you're right. Maybe it was just something that you have to wait longer or whatever. i think, I think you probably have to set it on fire because it's like a flaming mo.
00:44:18
Speaker
Yes. Which by the way, for those listening, the latest teen line is about the Simpsons. That's episode five teen line dot band camp dot com. Me and Kevin talking about the Simpsons.
00:44:31
Speaker
Yeah. Poor Brandon. Hey, I plugged the fucking malting hour on Teen Life. That's true. I think I've plugged the malting hour on Teen Life.
00:44:43
Speaker
Well, we're bringing Brandon. You gotta talk about the one that makes money, right? You gotta talk about the moneymaker. Neither one makes money yet. But we're gonna start our own podcast network. It's gonna be great.
00:44:55
Speaker
We're going to call it Nose Deer. Oh, do it. Do it. Do it. Oh, shit. Tony and I talked about doing this today. Oh, yeah? I know. You you talked about it. I think I've talked. Every time I've talked to you in the past like couple months, you've mentioned doing it.
00:45:13
Speaker
No one can see this, though, right? This isn't a video. I even prepared to have a glove here to hold like to touch the chip. Do you know about this thing, Deb? No, no, no.
Spicy Challenges and Episode Wrap-Up
00:45:22
Speaker
So it's the hot. Tell them what it is Yeah. Yeah.
00:45:25
Speaker
So there's a company called Pocky and they make, you know, like tortilla chips. um And one of their like best sellers was is like if you and they're hard to find. It's at like 7-Eleven and like other grocery stores. Target has it every once in a while.
00:45:40
Speaker
ah But they have like a ghost pepper tortilla chip. So ghost pepper Ghost Pepper used to be one of the hottest chips in the world. Or sorry, peppers in the world. And then now there's the Carolina Reaper. Oh, my God.
00:45:53
Speaker
they have a thing now called the One Chip Challenge, where it's literally one chip in a box that's shaped like a coffin. my God. And there's rules in here. So it's the whole thing is dusted in Carolina Reaper dust. Wow. um And like black charcoal. So the chip is actually black this year. Oh.
00:46:15
Speaker
And the challenge is you basically eat the chip, and there's like a five-minute afterburn that you wait five minutes, and then you can, you know, drink your milk, eat your, you know, Dairy Queen that you saved for this just in case you do it. Wow. Yeah.
00:46:32
Speaker
Do you see the excitement on my face? But so then, like, this is, so then, like, if you complete it you get the... Tony. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:46:45
Speaker
That's intense, dude. I've never heard of this before. It's funny. I've been so excited about doing this until the time has come to actually do it. Yeah. so And if you Google, like, One Chip Challenge. Yeah.
00:46:59
Speaker
You'll find a bunch of stuff. So it says on the box, what to expect. Mouth on fire, short-term loss of speech, impaired vision from tears, extreme profanity, extreme profanity and death.
00:47:10
Speaker
Death? Yeah. Well, the last thing on there is rest in peace. Wow. How to enter the one chip challenge if you dare. Try it. Eat the chip. See how long you can last without reaching for milk or ice cream. Don't say we didn't warn you.
00:47:24
Speaker
Prove it. Take a video of your attempt to survive the one chip challenge. The chip in the coffin must be in view. Tag Paki chips on Instagram feed or Twitter and include one chip challenge as a hashtag and sweeps to be added to the Paki wall of infamy at Paki.com.
00:47:38
Speaker
Your profile must be public. Wow. we're we're looking We're looking at a Google search and there's a screenshot from this guy who took it and he's just he's drooling and his shirt just says, fart.
00:47:52
Speaker
Yeah, there's videos of, like, I've watched this stuff all the time and, like, there's videos of the guys that are, like, they'll do, like, ten of these at a time. What the fuck? They'll, like, open them all up and they're just like, um my wow my and they just sit there and they're like, no it's nothing.
00:48:05
Speaker
And then I'm sure they go off air and, like, shit their brains out or throw up, yeah. Yeah. Wow. Nobody can see my face. Who's listening? Brandon, are we going to do this for real? i mean, it's up to you.
00:48:22
Speaker
yes we could kick we can kick Kevin Deb off and do it. Do it. I will sign Gladly. yeah so so okay There's a part of me that wants to do it tonight, but tomorrow is also Mother's Day and there was things I want to do tonight. i feel like this is going to hinder me. Like live?
00:48:40
Speaker
Yeah, I want to live. But what I'd like to do, actually, is maybe, and and this is not me punking out, but it is me punking out for tonight. Sorry, listeners.
00:48:52
Speaker
What if we did this um with you guys? If you guys want to come back, we can do it during this week. And we did this with a whole video thing on the interwebs, and people can watch me cry. Yeah.
00:49:10
Speaker
I would love it. could definitely do that. I would love to see it. I will ride my bike to your house to watch you do that. Brandon, are you free during the week to do this? to choose I can make some time.
00:49:22
Speaker
Great. great ah Sign me up. okay so Here it is. This episode is out on Monday after Mother's Day. Before this week is over and we will post it online when we're going to do it. Brandon and I are going to go live. We can it as an Instagram video. Brandon and are going go live and we are going to eat this chip and will call off work the next day.
00:49:50
Speaker
You heard it here first, folks. Tony's calling off work this week. i see ah Tony doesn't show to work. Oh, he must've had that chip.
00:50:02
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Yeah, I'm down.
00:50:04
Speaker
right. Awesome. Um, Hey guys, uh, I think that's going to do it, uh, for this episode. Uh, unless Brandon, you got something else. Thanks for trying to get me to eat that chip.
00:50:15
Speaker
No, I know. Didn't I give you two of them? Yeah, you did. yeah My dad was like, I'll eat it. And I'm like, no, I need you to stay alive. Yeah, definitely. You got enough issues. know to I can't.
00:50:30
Speaker
I can't. Yeah, exactly. I can't. Oh, here we go. This is a good picture. Ready? Everybody smile. Taking a picture for the episode. And away are. Hey, all right. Thanks, guys.
00:50:41
Speaker
Kevin, Deb, thanks again for coming on and talking about experience. Yeah, thanks for having us again. um This is probably the last time for you, Kevin. Deb, you're welcome to come back anytime. Aw, Tony. i talked to I talked to Kevin too much. Don't need him on my other show.
00:50:57
Speaker
Yeah, I talk to Kevin too much too. Brandon, if you want, you and but you and Kevin can start a separate podcast. Hi, Brandon. All right, the No Tony podcast. Yeah, No Tony Club.
00:51:10
Speaker
a lot of And then Deb and I will start one called Don't You Hate Brandon and Kevin? Yes. ah but Let's do this. We have to do this. listen to it. don't even listen to our podcast. I'd listen that. Yeah, I'd listen to it too. It'd good. I listen to the podcast when I edit it, and that's it.
00:51:28
Speaker
This one should be a cinch. But anyways, you guys, thanks a lot for coming on. Thank you. Yeah, thanks, man. Everybody stay safe and look out for each other. and Stay hydrated. Yeah, stay hydrated. Happy Mother's Day, moms. yeah We love you. Oh, yeah, happy Mother's Day.
00:51:44
Speaker
Yeah, happy Mother's Day all the moms. Hey, and can we play can we play ourselves off real quick? I guess. Thanks.
00:52:02
Speaker
We're going to get sued. The song during the break was was not copyrighted. All right. right This is how the show ends. Thanks a lot, everybody. Brandon, i love buddy.
00:52:17
Speaker
Love you too, man. I'm just going to stop the recording now. Bye. Bye.
00:52:39
Speaker
Give me the order, give me the order.