Hey folks, and welcome to Drinking Alone with Friends, a podcast where three friends drink
alone together.
My name's Chris.
What up?
It's Todd.
And I'm Obert.
And I'm still alive, guys, if you listened to the last episode.
Still here.
There was a question, even while I was editing it, editing out all the coughs and sneezes
and hacking.
I was like, I don't know, this might be our last episode.
Chris might not make it.
It was touch and go there for a second, for more than a second, for like a whole week
it was touch and go.
But for all you Chris fans out there, which is everybody, I'm still here.
I'm still standing.
You know how that song goes?
Yeah, you have that just sounded exactly like Ellen John.
Yeah. I mean, I'm doing great.
You even turned on all your lights in the room today.
I did. I did.
You're 100 percent awake.
I can tell. I can see both of your eyes.
I'm doing I'm doing I'm doing I'm doing OK.
I'm doing OK. I'm not going to lie, even though my friendly my friendly neighborhood
podcast doctor, Todd, was trying to convince me I am on medicine.
So I will not be partaking in the beverage today.
But listen, we looked this up.
It's OK. The NHS says it's OK.
I thought it was like Britain or something.
Listen, alcohol is the same on whatever side of the pond you're on.
No, it's not. It's different.
Well, I mean, you had a perfect excuse to get rid of one of those amber ales
we were talking about last episode before your taste comes back fully.
But yeah, nothing says you have to drink the whole beer.
I don't want to. I don't want to.
I don't want to waste waste a perfectly good beer.
You know, I can taste fine taste and smell.
They're back, baby. Oh, they're back.
They're back. OK. Oh, they're back.
I have no excuse.
The NHS says you're good.
The other thing that said you weren't good was the Mayo Clinic.
And what do they know?
They just said it could be risky.
And Chris is one thing I know.
It's he's a risk taker.
I normally am. I normally am.
Normally I roll the dice.
But the dice shall not be drilled, at least about this right now.
Who knows what the rest of the podcast is?
I have to ask, though, did you end up with that superhuman
untapped taste ability?
I have not. I don't know.
I don't know yet. OK. I haven't.
We're still holding out hope.
Yeah, I mean, maybe maybe maybe next episode we'll find out because,
yeah, I have not.
I've not had I've not had a drop of alcohol in all of February.
Well, just stay away from Papias, just in case.
Yeah. Mm hmm.
So you're doing sobriety without even trying to do sobriety.
Yeah, I mean, shoot, at this point, it's only nine more days.
Might as well keep going.
So keep pressing on.
You kind of silently cheering my my my sober February.
You can't be down nine going into the half.
This might be this might be an ugly second half.
Well, Chris already spoiled how early we're recording this next episode.
So you can you can let all the listeners in on the old sports news
if you really want. They didn't.
The mystique is ruined.
They called that a foul.
They're still down twenty nine to forty three a half.
Well, I got to ask, do you want to drink first, Todd,
or do you want me to drink first?
I will drink in one point two seconds.
OK. And OK, what are you drinking?
All right.
So my beer this week is the beer that I teased last week,
which is the beer brewed by both Barreled Souls and Abomination.
I like that alliteration you have there.
Is it a banana bread beer brewed at Barreled Souls?
It is a banana bread beer brewed at Barreled Souls
by Barreled Souls and Abomination.
As you can see, the logo is two pieces of banana bread
with one of them having the Abomination logo
and one of them having the Barreled Souls logo on it.
Oh, this this is called an ode to the the awesome YouTube video
or I think it's actually an Instagram reel is banana bread at work, dude,
which I'm assuming you guys have both seen this, right?
I have not.
This is a meme that I am unfamiliar with.
Really? A phenomenon that I am unfamiliar with.
Yeah, Chris, I mean, it doesn't shock me that Obert doesn't know this one.
As someone who lives in a state where TikTok is banned.
Yeah. But the fact that you don't know that is is kind of shocking.
I mean, just think of it as like a really short movie
and then it's not shocking anymore.
You know what?
That that does actually surprisingly make it less shocking.
Yeah, I'm going to send it to you guys right now.
So we know what the hell we're talking about.
So this beer is a barley wine with Tahitian dried banana,
vanilla beans, walnuts and banana bread spices.
Sounds very fancy.
It does. It sounds.
I mean, it sounds good.
It weighs in hefty 12.2 percent.
Nice. It was bottled on December 20th, 2022.
Bottle number 209 out of one thousand and eighty.
So back when the meme was a little bit more timely.
This is correct.
Let's let's try banana bread at work, dude.
I feel like you should let me go, because to me, it sounds like a beer
you need to let warm up.
All right, then go first.
No, I guess that was my way of saying, like, how cold is this beer?
Surprisingly, not that cold.
It's a little cold, I guess.
Oh, I forgot we have the thermometer.
We need to get the exact decimal fraction of a degree Fahrenheit
to really understand how we're drinking this barley wine.
All right. It is forty seven and a half degrees in the glass.
Sounds perfect.
Banana bread, barley wine temperature, if you ask me.
In case you're curious, the bottled jug jug jug jug.
The bottle is forty forty seven point nine degrees.
So like I said, it wasn't as cool.
Surprisingly, coming out of my kegerator where everything is cold.
This is not this was not as cold.
As you can see, it's a brown beer, standard barley wine color.
You know, you can see lights through the through the beer, but, you know,
nothing's that you're going to be safe from a T-Rex in here,
unless the T-Rex can see shadows and then maybe you're screwed.
But if you don't move, they still can't see you.
So, yeah, you'd be OK on the nose.
You do get a lot of that banana smell
that's like typical with like barley wines in general.
And then kind of, you know, amplified a little bit by, I guess,
some of the additional bananas that are tossed in here
and the banana bread spices.
Banana bread.
I don't know what the hell a banana bread spice is.
Is that like nutmeg and cinnamon?
You know, that would be that one of us said it,
because I was thinking the same thing.
Yeah, it's yeah, that's that's what comes to mind
when I think of banana bread spices.
I mean, Chris, you're the baker here.
What what is what is your bakery God say to you?
I mean, that's what I would put in banana bread.
Like like there's nothing else really would put into it.
Just trying to like make it sound fancy.
Yeah. Well, that's a barrel soul, soul's fashion.
Fancy, fancy, fancy.
Let's see if I can taste the vanilla bean and or the walnuts.
I don't walnuts.
I actually couldn't tell you what a walnut tastes like.
One of you had the walnut, the Polish walnut beer
from Fox Farm on the podcast.
Do you remember that the Fox Farm Walnut beer?
I don't think it was that time.
That was it was not me.
That was a green.
That was a witch meadow.
But that wasn't a walnut, was it?
That was a different nut.
Oh, yeah, that's right. It was the witch meadow.
It was a green walnut aged like some weird liqueur
that they have in Poland or was it a walnut or was it a pistachio?
It was not a pistachio.
Oh, all right.
I'll I'll I'll look while you describe and I'll get back to you.
All right. Let's let's dive in here.
Enough dilly dallying. Let's drink.
It's beer 30 and I'm
thirsty. I've been working like a dog all week long.
So maybe something cold won't hurt me because it's beer 30.
And it's time to party.
Yeah, baby.
So it does taste like banana bread, like 100 percent banana.
It tastes like a liquid banana bread is what I'm drinking.
I don't taste the booze. There's no booze burn.
I don't taste walnuts.
Do they put walnuts in banana bread?
I guess that's what sometimes.
Yeah, sometimes you don't have to make it with banana bread,
but some people like it.
It's delicious.
It's it is really, really, really delicious.
Generally not a big barley wine fan.
I think I've grown to like barley wines over the years,
but this is definitely one of my more favorite ones.
Left Hand Path by Labyrinth is another one of my my favorites.
But yeah, that's a beautiful one.
This tastes like straight up banana bread.
It's like if they took banana bread, threw it in a blender with water
and blend it up and pour it in a cup and said, here you go.
I don't even know if there's 12.2 percent ABV in this beer.
OK, so you're not getting not getting a lot of bite.
Nothing. I get nothing.
Which is strange because I generally don't like as a rule of thumb,
like I think abomination is a better IPA maker than they are a stout maker.
Oh, I think their stouts can tend to be a little too sweet and a little too odd.
But they're still good stouts, but they're just not my cup.
They're too sweet. Yeah.
This so I was that was that evil twin.
Was that who we're talking about?
Yeah. That has the same problem.
Exactly. So this I was a little worried about,
but there was no reason to fear because Barreled Souls is here
and they solved the problem.
So this is delicious.
Oh, that's it.
I don't think I've ever had a beer that tastes.
I love banana beer beers.
I don't think I've ever had one that tasted like banana bread as much as this does.
Beautiful, bodacious, full bodied banana bread, brown barley wine.
I mean, it's perfectly balanced.
There's awesome vanilla.
I still don't taste any walnuts.
Maybe I'll taste some walnuts later.
But don't know.
I did look up that witch medal, by the way, and it was no.
No, Sino is the looker that I guess I think was Italian.
It definitely was Italian.
It's from aromatic green walnuts, which are unripe black walnuts.
Oh, so this is the second walnut beer I've had in the past like six months.
I will say in this beer's defense, it is the third ingredient on the list.
So perhaps there's not as much walnuts in here.
And we're not even sure how if banana bread spice is even a real thing.
That is true.
So it could technically be the last edition in here.
But no, this is an excellent barley wine.
I'm going to give this it's I mean, it's incredible.
I'm going to give it a four and a half.
It's it's fantastic.
Well, maybe even higher, maybe force.
You know what? Four, seven, five.
We're going four, seven, five.
It is like, damn, it tastes like it's liquid banana bread.
I mean, I know you've been talking this beer up,
but at the same time, it's been in such an understated way that I'm shocked.
You give us a four, seven, five.
But that's awesome. Four, seven, five. Barley wine.
Yeah, that's got to be a first for Ted.
I bet you it might be.
It's awesome. Delicious.
But I love banana beers.
I love bananas. Bananas are one of my favorite fruits.
Bananas. So are you like an avid banana breader?
That's what we call them.
I'm not. Yeah, that's what the community says.
I honestly am not an avid baker.
I can't bake. I don't know how to bake.
And my wife doesn't like bananas or banana bread.
So no. Hmm.
Very interesting.
Now, I have a quiz for Chris.
Are bananas tropical or citrus?
That's a great question.
It's false. It's impossible.
It's impossible to tell.
I think that's the only we'll never know.
Honestly, honestly, we'll never know.
They're they're they're in the they're in the.
No, I think they're a is what's
a what's another type of fruit that I can make it funny of?
Berries. They're berries.
But don't we're not going there.
We're not going there.
We're not talking about berries in this podcast.
And we have to define berries now.
No, no, moving on.
It's moving on. It's been brought up.
So you gave it a four, seven, five.
We learned that berries before.
What do you think out of the two hundred and fifty eight
two hundred and fifty eight check ins on this beer?
Well, first, let's say that bananas are invented by the government.
They're a figment of imagination.
They're conspiracy.
Bananas are berries, by the way.
But that's all I'm going to say. We're moving on.
Oh, see, look, I was right.
Bananas are berries.
Stop hiding in the shadows. Bananas.
They are tropical. Bananas are definitely tropical.
Tropical berries.
Listen, the more this is going to go on, the more I'm going to Google.
Is a banana a berry?
So Todd refuses to give a score until he learns
if bananas are berries.
I do think next, if we have bananas are actually berries.
Holy shit. I know. I know.
I shouldn't have even brought it up.
I don't know why I do this to myself.
What the fuck?
The world is a lie. Who killed JFK?
Some kind of berry.
Oh, no.
So how many check ins were there? Two hundred and fifty eight.
I have no idea.
All right. Over your turn.
High. Easy week for me.
It's going to be high four point three four.
Good guess. You were right.
It is very high.
Not quite that high. Oh, shit.
No, four point two eight.
So point oh six off.
That's still stout.
No, I mean, it's still barley wine.
Yeah, that's that's not bad.
I just I guess it is a barley wine.
I didn't think about that.
I mean, but like it's a barreled souls.
There's only a thousand of them, like you said, and only two.
There's only two hundred check ins.
So it's like the people that are drinking it are very beer at that.
Yeah. That's what you should put in there.
Be like, the smell of berries is overwhelming.
This tropical berry smell. Yeah.
You know, citrus, you kind of losing fifty four to thirty three.
I think the more you tell us the score, the worse they're going to do, to be honest.
I haven't paid attention to a single game this season, and they're doing great.
Seems the less attention I give you come, the better they do.
So I'm going to go back to ignoring them.
So last week, I told I had on that amazing beer from Great Notion.
Right. And I said I had I had another one from Great Notion.
I was excited to bring on next week.
Was able to save stave off from drinking it to save it for the show.
Oh, yeah.
And actually, it's funny because the little you know, sometimes breweries
print funny little messages next to like the date on the cans.
Yeah. This one says always money in the banana can.
Twelve, twenty nine.
That's good. This is, I guess, continuing with the theme.
It's called Luminous Pie, and it is a smoothie beer.
It is a tart ale with banana, key lime, cinnamon
and natural and artificial flavors. Oh, OK.
Sounds like a lot of berries. Maybe at least one, at least one.
And we have tropical and citrus.
So really, the whole smorgasbord, it's a big eyeball
with little mathematical pies written all over it.
The eyeballs also floating in a suit without a head.
It's weird. Let's crack the sucker open. Let's see.
Doesn't really smell like bananas.
Not as much as I'm sure yours does.
Yeah, mine just I mean, like I said, it smells it smells like straight bananas.
Oh, it's a thick boy, though.
Mm hmm. Several C's on this thickness.
So I think that the mixture of bananas and limes, you said, right?
Yeah, I think it's like a key lime pie with bananas.
What they're going with, maybe.
Tart ale with banana, key lime, cinnamon and natural and artificial flavors.
Can't forget the artificial ones.
People are all about the natural flavors.
Artificial ones are pretty good, too.
Are those artificial berries? Maybe super, super cloudy.
These I didn't do a good job of like rolling this thing around
or shaking it up or doing whatever you're supposed to do.
It's been so long since I've had a smoothie beer.
Have you guys do you feel like the smoothie trend
has kind of died down a little bit near you?
I think it depends.
I definitely do see them still, but probably not as much as I used to.
I think that at the breweries that are not smoothie breweries, yes.
But like Skygazer is still a thing and they still do.
That's like that's half the gimmick, right?
The big thing, which is Skygazer, too.
They also do smoothie beers all the time.
You're saying if it's your thing, they're sticking with it.
But if you dabbled in it, you've kind of moved on.
Yeah, it's also February. Yeah.
Smoothie time. Yeah, it's it's February.
So it's not like I bet you they come back in the summer a little bit.
See this personal preference, I guess.
But this beer is way too thick for me to want to drink.
I'm like a hundred degree day.
This is the opposite of a lawn mowing beer, if you ask me.
But it did pour like like a smoothie.
You could see
velociraptor proof beer for sure.
Just the bubbles are slowly working their way up through the super thick beer.
Like it's a fancy wall display in a McDonald's in the year 1998.
Very, very sweet on the nose.
I get a lot more banana.
It was all at the bottom of the can.
I didn't realize that as I was pouring it.
But yeah, it's legit like banana gunk.
It was at the bottom of the can and is now all on the top of the beer.
You got to roll those things.
That's half the battle with the smoothie one.
I know. I didn't quite realize until I was reading it.
That's what I was in for.
I just knew it was a fun one from Green Ocean.
So I don't know, but let's see how it is.
Cheers, guys. Cheers.
Das Boot, indeed.
First reactions, way more tart than I was expecting, which, again,
the description, literally the first two words in the description are tart ale.
So clearly reading comprehension is not my forte tonight.
But I was expecting a mouthful of like banana smoothie
and I got key lime tartness for sure.
How does the banana fit in? Where does it fit in?
I think banana is mostly the creamy
mouthfeel you get with the smoothiness and like the tart key lime
sharpness hits the front of your mouth right when you first take that sip.
And then the banana coats it with those cinnamon
and natural and artificial flavors to finish through.
It gets a little bit marshmallow in a way, you know, where it's got that
lactose taste.
Is it artificial banana?
Well, I think that they use real banana, but I wouldn't be surprised
if they use like banana ruts flavor as well.
Do we talk about this on the show that that bananas used to taste
like banana ruts and then those bananas went extinct?
But I heard about it on another podcast, Planet Money.
The candy still tastes like it. OK.
So, yeah, maybe it's that that's where it is, the artificial banana.
Banana runs are gross, though.
I like I guess good.
You're glad those bananas are dead.
Yeah. Screw those bananas.
The tartness helps the drinkability.
I think if it wasn't so tart, it would really fatigue the palate
and be too banana syrupy.
It kind of overwhelm you with that.
The the key lime tartness helps reset every sip.
I think this is definitely a beer I would want to split with you guys.
It's just I can never have a full 16 ounce smoothie and be like,
I'm ready for number two.
You know, right.
There are one and done kind of a beer, but it's good.
Not as good as the ripe I had last week.
That's for sure.
That one, I gave a solid four and a half.
This one, it's tasty.
It's it's February.
So, you know, it's March by the time you're listening to this.
Is it St. Patrick's Day?
Is this our St. Patrick's Day episode?
So happy St. Patrick's Day.
But go kiss a leprechaun.
Go kiss a leprechaun.
Give him a banana smoothie.
I've talked myself into believing now that I get more and more of that
banana runs flavor as it warms up, as I've drank through that like
thick layer of banana sludge that was on top.
I get more of the artificial sweeter banana underneath this one.
Good. Nothing.
Not the first great notion beer I would ever have.
But I think literally the only smoothie beer I could probably find
in Whitefish right now.
So that's saying something.
That's because it's the middle of the winter.
Maybe. So it's going to get a four for me.
Still good.
So 4.0 territory, which is, you know, which is something.
Yeah, that's that sounds pretty good.
So I don't know if I had an aneurysm, but I just realized
it's a banana centric episode this week.
Yeah. Very banana.
Welcome to the episode.
Just a bunch of monkeys this week, I guess.
We talked about that already at the beginning of Obert's review.
Maybe you should just instead of reviewing a beer,
just get a pint of banana in your house and review it.
I do have bananas downstairs. Yeah.
So you should go grab a banana.
We are now a beer slash Barry review podcast.
Barry review podcast.
Only berries. We're going to slowly figure this out.
Just a barrel of monkeys up in here.
No big deal.
Every week, we're going to play a new game where I give you two fruits
and you have to tell me which one is the berry without Googling it.
They're all berries.
Based on the article I was just reading,
I was shocked to learn that strawberries aren't berries.
We we can't go there.
Guys, we cannot go there.
We can't do this.
I we can't have this conversation again.
I just can't. I cannot.
It's a 4.0.
How many check ins are there?
Good thing. I don't know that.
I don't remember the name. Luminous pie pie is in three point one four.
OK, P.I.
There are two hundred and eighty seven check ins.
Well, that's like Beryl Sol's.
Well, I was not expecting that.
Not a lot of banana fans out there.
That cream, by the way, is coconut cream.
Oh, a little pina colada action going on.
So in case so that makes sense.
Let me just let me just read the description to you.
That way you can know it's a sour key lime smoothie style beer
with banana key lime puree, cinnamon graham cracker, vanilla and coconut cream.
Ram cracker. OK, yeah.
The cinnamon, the vanilla. Sure.
And that key lime puree might also be the shit you're drinking, too.
Right, right.
So I'm assuming with that few check ins, this beer was canned on twelve twenty nine.
For whatever reason, great notion decided to release this beer in the winter.
I guess this is a summer style of you if you insist, but not in Portland.
Huh. Now I'm trying to like weigh the seasonalness of like
other people going to be down on it because they drank it in January.
I think they're going to like it.
I think they're going to give it a four point one eight.
You are closer than me. Four point one six.
Oh, very close. OK.
So the people, the people were, you know, in agreement with you.
That's pretty good beer.
It's pretty good.
Cheer your winter blues with this pina colada style key lime
smoothie sour thing.
But you can also save it and drink it in the summer.
I don't think this is a beer.
You know how we do every 50 episodes, you drink the oldest beer in your fridge.
If this was the oldest beer in your fridge, I would tell you to
don't risk your life by drinking it.
You'll be fine.
It even says on the can the whole keep cold or re fermentation may occur.
I'll see. As long as it was cold, you'd be fine.
You're not getting any reforms.
I've had a I've had a beer explored explode because of that.
Yeah, we've all been there.
What are these smoothie things?
Great for a 90 degree day.
Yeah.
OK, so so congratulations.
Thank you.
Honk honk honk for myself.
Man of the people on the board, back undisputed second place.
Damn it.
Silver medal. Thanks, COVID.
Yeah, you know, I think we did try to convince you to drink tonight.
That's true.
That just shows how how good I am at standing up to peer pressure.
My iron, my iron will, if anybody knows anything about me.
He's not susceptible to peer pressure whatsoever.
No, never, never has been peer pressured before.
Never. I think if you're so commendable, it's worth a point.
Yeah, no, I agree.
No, but I do think, you know, to even the playing field,
I have some local rum that I've been saving.
So next week when we're all drinking and I get lit up between Chris and Todd,
I'll have to have the local rum in and review that.
So and to make it even the next time we record,
I will take a break from drinking and I'll be Chris.
Oh, OK.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
I think we should do that for like, hold on, what's the score?
Like next nine episodes.
Yeah, drinking alone with friends, then in parentheses, while Todd watches,
I think is a good new name for the podcast.
There we go. So I did win.
And as many of the people this week, I'm declaring we're doing a game,
a thumb war, a virtual thumb war.
But instead of thumbs, we're going to use our brains.
And instead of trying to do a weird handshake,
we're going to try and guess what a survey of 100 people also said
were their answers in a family feud, drinking alone with friends.
But twist this week, I will be Steve Harvey.
I will kiss all of your wives on the lips and you two will will be my contestants.
I can see you over doing the eye thing.
Look at me. I'm the husband now.
I am your host, Stephen Harvey.
So for those of you who were around before you were in for a treat,
we're doing the family feud fast money where one at a time
our contestants will get 30 seconds.
Is that what we said? 30 seconds.
Yeah, I think that's I think it's 30 than 45, technically.
But I think we always went, you know, we finished, you know, 30 seconds ish to.
I'm going to ask questions like, I don't know, we pick one out at random here.
Name something in a bakery.
A baker might call his wife cashier.
And then our contestants will have to answer as quickly as possible
what they think the highest number of people in the survey said.
If that confused you, pause this podcast.
Go watch some family feud. Yes.
That would you understand the concept? Come back.
But OK, let me so you two have to decide who's going to go first.
I was going to say I was like, OK, so I'm new to the game.
Todd grizzled vet grizzled vet, right?
That is true. Yeah.
So I don't I don't know.
I mean, Todd, I feel like I feel like you should.
You should make the decision right now.
Like, do you want to be the anchor or or should you go first?
And then me try and save the day.
We've done this both times and I've lost both times.
Which one have you done?
Have you gone second both times?
No, I went first the second
first the first time, second the second time.
I remember overset you up really nice, such a real pretty.
Yeah, I think we might be better off if I go first
and then you try to fix my mess.
OK, all right.
I kind of I kind of like that because then I can listen to what your answers were
like as the as the podcast releases.
You're like, why are you saying that?
All right. I mean, OK, sounds good.
Makes sense to me. That's good.
I will give you the anchor spot.
You know, I think you haven't had any alcohol, so your brain's a little fresher.
No, I don't know about that.
I'm still working the cough medicine out of it.
So, OK, we are ready.
So, Chris, yes, if you would please leave the room,
I will text you when it is time to come back. OK.
Ted, good luck.
All right. So the timer will start as soon as I'm done reading the first question.
Are you ready? Yes.
OK. Name a place where if her husband took her there for her anniversary,
a wife would be mad.
A car show.
Name an occupation that begins with the letter J.
Journalist.
Name something that might be full of holes.
Cheese. Name something a squirrel might get in a fight with
if it tried to take his nuts.
Another squirrel.
Name something that you might make you suspect your new house is haunted.
Three seconds.
Pictures falling off the wall.
All right. Good job. Good job.
OK, that's stressful.
I think I did better this time.
However, however, I know it wasn't as good as like I probably could be.
Like, I don't know what a squirrel would fight against another squirrel.
OK, I'm back.
Welcome. Welcome back, Chris. Thank you.
So some mixed news here.
I guess let me ask, how many points were you hoping that that Ted was going to get?
OK, so I mean, ideally, he gets 100, right?
Like, that's the that's the whole premise.
But I was hoping for 80.
I think if we get like 80, I think we could salvage it.
Well, I think you're in a good shape because we have 87 points.
Oh, that's that's pretty good. OK.
Look, look at me go.
Todd, Todd has didn't get a single zero this time.
Wow. No cashiers.
OK, no cashier. No cashiers.
OK, so we'll see.
We'll see how now I feel the pressures on Chris can do.
What do we have to get to win?
Two hundred, two hundred.
Oh, Jesus. Yeah, it's a hard game.
Yeah, it's a hard game.
It is. I apologize, because when you hear some of these, you're going to go,
what the fuck?
Well, I don't know. Maybe we're on the same wavelength.
I mean, geez. Well, you don't want to be on the same way.
My answer is I'm saying I'm saying the questions that Obert asks.
You're going to say, what the fuck? Oh, OK. OK. Banana.
Name a berry that's yellow and long.
Nailed it. Cut it in one.
OK. All right.
So, Todd, do you want it?
You want to stick around here or no, you go away?
No, I stick. I listen. I just don't say anything.
OK. Right. All right.
Yeah, I mean, you can you can take it blind if you want.
But yeah, no, you stick around for this one.
The time will start when I'm done reading the first question.
OK. Are you ready, Chris? I'm ready.
Name a place where if her husband took her there for her anniversary,
a wife would be mad.
Walmart. Name an occupation that begins with the letter J.
Jailer. Name something that might be full of holes.
Socks. Name something
a squirrel might get in a fight with if it tried to take his nuts.
Dog. Name something that might make you suspect
your new house is haunted in three seconds.
Ghost. OK, good job.
I don't I don't know if that's I don't know if any of those were good.
You got through them all, which is good.
That's true. I got questions, right?
The one that starts with J, that's a that's a toughie.
That's that was a toughie. Yeah.
OK, well, that's me.
So we had 87 points going into need 113.
That's a that's a tough that's a tough ask.
OK, a place where if her husband took her there for a wife would be mad.
This was a good one either.
Walmart, not on the list.
Yeah, that was McDonald's number.
Number one answer is Taki Restaurant, which I would have given McDonald's.
I wouldn't let that one go.
Todd was on the board with Car Show for two answers.
OK, OK. Strip Club had 19.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
I'm going to go. That would have been a good one.
So not a good start.
Patient, an occupation that begins with the letter J.
I'm tempted to give you judge, but I don't think so.
Oh, yeah. That makes more sense.
Number one answer.
Janitor 62. That's not about that one.
Todd on the board with the journalist for four.
Damn. OK. Wow.
So you must have cleaned up at the end of this
because you only have six or two questions.
That's six more points than you.
No, no, I'm saying like he cleaned up.
OK, something I love you follow up holes.
Todd, number one answer, Swiss cheese.
Oh, I thought about it after I said it.
Net also would have been full of holes.
But clothes, socks, number two answer 16.
I'll take it. I'll take it.
An alibi or story with 14 net nine after that.
Yeah, something a squirrel might get in a fight with
if you try to take his nuts.
Number one answer, bird slash crow.
Number two answer, another squirrel.
That was 23. Let's go.
Dog had five. Hey, I'll take it.
Twenty one. Hopefully I get like a hundred on this next one.
Yeah. OK.
He 92 on this last one.
I can't nail the ghost and haunted house.
You got to tell me. Tell me 92, baby.
It's like that might make you suspect your new house is haunted.
I saw the ghost, but I might be wrong, guys.
It might not be haunted.
Strong suspicion.
It could have been just passing through, you know.
I'll just wait to his other house.
Commuting ghost.
Todd had moving objects for 18.
I think he's had a picture falling off of his off of the wall.
OK, with surprisingly only six respondents.
Ghosts comes in second to last.
Yeah, with noise.
Number one answer, noises slash voices.
Damn. Well, OK.
See, there you go.
I'm officially the worst at this game now.
See, it's not easy, right?
No, no. I mean, listen, I'll kiss I'll kiss wives all day long.
I will. I'll admit that the host job is not that easy either.
It is tough. Like, how do you like you have to write it down?
Because we're not fancy.
You know, we ain't got the guy that do it up on the board.
Not in the budget this year.
Well, if you were shouting janitor at your phone
while we couldn't come up with an occupation that began with the letter J,
please leave a five star review really fast.
Please leave a five star review and just put the word janitor in there.
So, yes, there you go.
You want your voice will be heard.
You know, it's kind of fun.
We should do we should do more of those.
I kind of want I want a redemption.
Yeah, I know. I hear you.
It's like the once you do the first one,
like, I need to I want to do I want to do that again.
But OK, as previously honked, it's time for the frosty mug of wisdom.
It's a wisdomy place and they say it gets wisdom here.
We take a frosty mug out of the freezer.
We fill it with literal wisdom.
Stuff we think you should know about to get there.
We traverse through the song sung to us by a friend of the show.
Jordan, Jordan, take it away.
Yes, you can.
Yes, you can.
Mug of wisdom.
Great.
Mug of wisdom.
Mug of wisdom.
Finish off the motto.
Chris.
Tud.
Overt.
Popcorn and other animals.
Mug of wisdom.
All right.
Thank you, Jordan.
I win.
So, Chris, I'm going to I'm taking I'm taking the frosty mug.
I'm starting this week.
I have a candle for some listeners, Chris being one of them.
Todd, probably not.
But OK, it is the latest product I've ever seen.
It is the latest product I bought to keep my dogs entertained.
And also, it's a treat.
And I have a silicone Lick Mat.
It's basically made from silicone.
It has all these little nooks and crannies.
And I spread like peanut butter or in this episode, mushed up banana in the little cracks and crevices.
I have one that's like all puzzle pieces.
Another one's like honeycomb shaped.
And the dogs just sit there and lick it for like an hour.
And it's great if you have a nervous dog or if you just like want to give your dog a treat and keep them occupied for a long time.
And you could feed them whatever you want.
Like you could use canned dog food if you prefer that.
If you want healthy stuff, whatever.
I know Chris has a high energy dog like I do.
So silicone Lick Mat, I bought one and is total game changer.
I used it around the New Year's holiday for the fireworks.
And it was great at keeping them not worried about the fireworks and just licking away.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah, yeah, it definitely is hard.
And like, you know, Mac Mac turns a year old in three days.
So happy almost birthday Mac.
And yeah, I know it's crazy.
They grow up so fast.
Seven, you know, in dog years.
Yeah, I know.
He's technically older than CJ.
But like he is just he he's all the energy and he just especially since it's cold out, there's like nothing we can do to like help him burn it more efficiently.
So like anything we'll take anything, you know, so because it's too cold for him to go outside.
He's just not like you're not a fan.
I mean, I'm not a fan.
I don't want to go out there.
It's cold out.
I know.
Preaching to the choir by cold.
How cold is cold?
I don't know.
It's all relative.
Yeah.
Weather's different in different places.
It's what we say on the show.
It's basically what we're what we're built on at this point.
It's almost should be like the catchphrase under the frosty mug logo.
I think I still want to know how cold is cold, though, because I want to I just want to make fun of you.
I'm like 40 something.
That's not cold.
Cold.
That's short.
That shorts weather in Connecticut.
No, it's cold.
Chris disagrees.
Mm hmm.
But anyway, that's my handle.
Todd, I choose you.
You choose me.
I'm like a I'm like Pikachu.
I have a game that I was playing on my plane flight this week that I'm going to share.
I guess it's an older game, but I guess I had never played it.
And then I was sitting bored on my plane.
I was like, well, what out of like these hundred and one games that I have installed on my my Steam Deck should I play?
Well, yes, that's always a good option.
Vampire survivors tends to turn into one that I play a lot.
But I saw this game called Rustler that was installed.
I don't know why I installed it.
I don't know when I installed it.
The game came out February 18th, 2021.
So it is three years old at this point.
The the game is called Rustler and it basically is Grand Theft Auto if it was taken place in medieval times.
Interesting.
Like the top down Grand like Grand Theft Auto one and two style.
Like, you know, you see your character from above and you you run around, you steal horses, you complete missions.
There are people on the map that give you missions.
It's actually called when you click on Steam, it's called Rustler.
And then in parentheses, it says Grand Theft Horses.
And the description is become a medieval thug in a crazy open world action game full of pop culture references,
complete insane quests, kill heroes, steal horses, fight guards, rob peasants and listen to some bard music and much more.
All packed in old school gameplay style.
It's funny. It's fun.
And it is very reminiscent of old school Grand Theft Auto games, except for instead of stealing cars, you're stealing horses.
Now, question about this game.
If I had this game and like, for example, let's say I was sitting next to a stranger, I don't know, like on a plane.
And would I be embarrassed with what's on my screen for someone like the seat next to me to see what's what the hell is going on on my device?
No, no.
It looks like you're wandering through like a like a medieval village from a top down view.
In all honesty, I started playing Persona 4 because I've always heard that was a really good game.
And within the first like 30 seconds of that game, it's like anime, like big boobed women.
And the guy next to you was like calling you a nerd and shoving your head in the locker.
Yeah, I felt embarrassed at that point to continue playing Persona 4 on a plane.
So I stopped that game and started Rustler.
So I was also sitting next to my wife and I figured that if she looked over and saw big anime boobed women on my screen deck, I'd be in a lot of trouble.
Be like, oh, that Tud up to his normal big boob anime antics.
No, I recommend it.
Pretty good.
It was entertaining.
I'm going to continue to play it.
It was interesting.
Grand Theft Auto style swords.
I got a bow within like 30 seconds.
So I was walking around shooting people with a bow.
Kind of fun.
Recommend it.
Check it out.
Rustler, Grand Theft horse.
I'll look it up.
And to close us out, Chris, what do you have for us this week?
So I actually purchased a product that was recommended to me through someone in my in my discord.
And, you know, especially with me being sick, I don't know if you knew I was sick for like a couple of weeks.
Yeah, I know.
It's weird.
But it's it's a it's a it's something I never thought I would ever use.
But I used it.
And let me just say.
Amoxicillin amoxicillin.
Yes.
OK, with alcohol.
Doc.
Yes.
Allegedly.
I'm going to I'm going to continue using it.
And that is a I don't know if you've ever seen like the Navaj systems or like a neti pot.
It's it's like an automatic neti pot kind of thing where it's literally a machine that like pumps saline water up and through your sinuses to get all this gunk and crap out of it.
Yeah.
I'm telling you, it's gross.
But I used it for the first time on must have been Saturday or something like that or Sunday.
And I'm just imagining.
I'm sorry.
But I'm just imagining the like as seen on TV ad for this where it's like, have you want to use a neti pop?
I thought that's too much work.
And then it's just like this guy with like a robot on his face.
You know, you know, it is one of those things, though, where it's like, I, I don't know how I would ever use a neti pot.
Like, I don't know how it works like magic.
The only the only reference I have to neti pot usage is in the office when Dwight says that he's going to use it, use the pot as a neti.
So this does make it a lot easier than that, from my understanding.
And it does a really good job flushing out your sinuses.
If you suffer from allergies, if you are sick, you know, I I used it.
And even while still recovering, I felt better at this point, almost almost all the way better at this point, even while still recovering.
Number one, it is it removes a lot from your sinuses.
And number two, my nose has never worked so good.
So like in the thirty five years I've been alive, I never remember my nose working this good.
So it's I don't buy much stuff that makes good handles.
And I'm not saying this is a great handle, but it's better than Dawn Powerwash.
So anyways, which is saying something, which I know, honestly, I mean, I use Dawn Powerwash to this day.
But like if you suffer from allergies, if you if you're sick, if you're constantly fighting a stuffy nose, like you're someone who don't breathe no good.
If you don't do good, if you don't do good breathing, then try this because I'm going to use it again soon.
I definitely recommend it.
So for you, I'm assuming you have to have your own.
I mean, you can wash it. It is washable.
But I'm assuming you don't want to share this.
You could just pass it around like a joint around the bottom.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, like I would consider getting maybe like a second nose piece.
But like the rest of the stuff you just clean out and rinse out and stuff like that.
So is there a clean water side and a dirty water side?
Yes, yes. It doesn't just run mucus back and forth through your nose forever.
It just I don't know if I could do this. Just freak me out.
I thought the same thing. Honestly, I thought the same thing.
But like my and you guys know, but like my head was like under such immense pressure, I was like, I'll do fucking anything to make this go away.
So that's that's what that's where that's where the purchase came in.
I was like, I'm fucking I'm doing it.
And I mean, even right now, my nose, I don't know if you could hear that.
It's getting a little stuffed up on one side, but like it works pretty darn good.
So now I'm imagining you like Darth Vader in that scene from like I think it's Empire where he's like in his like recharging.
Yeah. And the helmet comes down.
Yeah. That's going to be you.
OK, that's a solid. Anyways, breathe better.
Yeah. Do the good breathe.
So with that, we'd like to thank you for listening. We'll thank the brewers who provided today's beers.
I will thank Barreled Souls and Abomination for their banana bread at work, dude, barley wine.
And I'm going to thank Great Notion for their luminous pie, which is banana, not bread, not at work, I guess.
Chris, do you want to thank anything?
I would like to thank Amoxicillin.
Amoxicillin and my digital neti pot.
Yep. There we go.
That's what I would like to thank.
Navaj? Is that how it's pronounced?
That's how I've been saying it.
So I hope so.
Navaj.
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Yeah, please leave a review with as many J professions as you can name.
Oh, there we go.
That's a good idea.
Whoever gets the most wins.
What did you say?
Jockey?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Was it on the list?
Oh, that's what you were asking.
No.
Yeah.
People are jockeys.
Yes.
People do that.
Four people said jockey.
Same as jailer.
They said jeweler.
Five people said jeweler.
Is that what you said?
That's what I said.
I got to reclaim this.
I got to do better.
I can't think of any other more J's.
OK.
Anyways, do that or you can also just tell your friends and family by word of mouth if
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That'd be gratefully.
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And with that, my name's Todd.
My name's Chris.
And I'm Obert.
And remember, if you're drinking alone, do it with friends.
Is jump roper a job?
No.
Nope.
That's how they get you.
But we should all take our wives to a sporting event slash bar slash bowling alley slash our
parents' house.
Not Walmart though.
Two people said the movies, which I think that's a pretty good anniversary date.
I don't know.
That's what you guys like.
Well, even like some of those like even the number one answer was a tacky restaurant.
What if you guys love that tacky restaurant?
Just love McDonald's.
Yeah, McDouble is how you met.
Well, like with chilies count as a tacky restaurant.
Oh, that's true.
Only if it makes your wife mad.