Cracking a cold one while the crack of the bat echoes in the stadium, that's where you'll find Andy Beckstrom and me, Shawn Field, your hosts for a journey through laughs, hops, and home runs. As we sip on Off Color Brewing's Beer for Ball Games, a creamy concoction perfect for nine innings, we invite you to experience the peculiar charm of a brewery that doesn't shy away from the offbeat. Our banter goes beyond the brew, as we tackle everything from the connection between beer, baseball, and being a Minnesota sports fan, to the allure of running over objects with a tank for sheer catharsis.
Imagine sitting with friends, the air filled with anticipation just before a bench-clearing brawl unfolds on the diamond; this episode traverses those baseball moments that teeter between humor and tension. We're sharing a mixture of personal anecdotes and wider sports musings, including an amusing Terry Mulholland encounter and what it truly means to be a teammate. We also don't skirt around the topic of fighting in sports, comparing the baseball field to the hockey rink, and how each handles their unique brand of conflict.
Then there's the tale of Ed Gamble, a comedian whose harmless hot dog became the center of a health-conscious controversy across the pond, leading us to reflect on the quirks of food regulations and the unadulterated joy of ballpark franks. There's something about the snap of a natural casing that resonates with our collective nostalgia for the game and its culinary sidekicks. So whether you're here for the baseball banter, a lesson in obscure brews, or just a good laugh about life's absurdities, this episode has your bases covered.
Cracking a cold one while the crack of the bat echoes in the stadium, that's where you'll find Andy Beckstrom and me, Shawn Field, your hosts for a journey through laughs, hops, and home runs. As we sip on Off Color Brewing's Beer for Ball Games, a creamy concoction perfect for nine innings, we invite you to experience the peculiar charm of a brewery that doesn't shy away from the offbeat. Our banter goes beyond the brew, as we tackle everything from the connection between beer, baseball, and being a Minnesota sports fan, to the allure of running over objects with a tank for sheer catharsis.
Imagine sitting with friends, the air filled with anticipation just before a bench-clearing brawl unfolds on the diamond; this episode traverses those baseball moments that teeter between humor and tension. We're sharing a mixture of personal anecdotes and wider sports musings, including an amusing Terry Mulholland encounter and what it truly means to be a teammate. We also don't skirt around the topic of fighting in sports, comparing the baseball field to the hockey rink, and how each handles their unique brand of conflict.
Then there's the tale of Ed Gamble, a comedian whose harmless hot dog became the center of a health-conscious controversy across the pond, leading us to reflect on the quirks of food regulations and the unadulterated joy of ballpark franks. There's something about the snap of a natural casing that resonates with our collective nostalgia for the game and its culinary sidekicks. So whether you're here for the baseball banter, a lesson in obscure brews, or just a good laugh about life's absurdities, this episode has your bases covered.
and welcome in everybody. Uh, once again back here to the two guys in beer podcast studio andy beckstrom, sean field here for yet another episode of just talking about beer and enjoying it whatever, whatever else.
Speaker 2:And these episodes just keep on coming, maybe not to the viewers' or listeners' delight, but to our delight Absolutely.
Speaker 1:They just keep on coming Exactly so I want to thank everybody that's joined us now on the YouTube video portion of the stream as well Been doing that here for the last handful of episodes. We enjoy some of the feedback that we've been able to get a little bit, and even some of the texts or some of the messages that we get. You know some of the harassment and the teasing. I'm not wearing the pajama pants again today, Like I got jeans on.
Speaker 2:Looking pretty good over there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got the face for radio. That's my background, so you know I'm not quite ready for the on camera. I actually made that comment earlier tonight. I grabbed a sweatshirt. I'm like do you think this looks okay on camera? Do you think this will be okay? I'm like why am I talking like this now all of a sudden? But you know, you got to try to do what you can. I think as long as I'm not wearing green, I think I'll be all right.
Speaker 1:Right, we don't want to thank the construction done by our tech guy. It's a great company, it does a great job, it's fantastic, top notch, love it. So yet again, back here we are in the studio and Sean back for more brew, more brew Another beer.
Speaker 2:You can't go wrong with another beer. Off Color Brewing.
Speaker 1:This is what you got for us this time. So Off Color Brewing is out of Chicago. We'll get a little deeper into all of the details with that. The beer that we have today is Beer for Ball Games. A couple of mice on there playing baseball, but that's kind of their bit. Everything has got kind of a literal name for it. So we'll talk a little bit more about some of those names and what all that means. But the one that we have right now is the Beer for Ball Games. It's an American-style cream ale, 4.2 alcohol by volume. So not the heaviest that we've had. Still going to be pretty good. Snow Dragon's milk Yep, absolutely. It doesn't quite got that same level of steam, but that's totally fine.
Speaker 2:But this is a good choice that you picked out beer for ball games because baseball has just started, so what a better beer to crack open and try out on the podcast for the baseball season to start.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, it's a fantastic thing. So we'll dive into that and we'll talk, maybe when we even talk a little bit of baseball later on today we'll see what happens. If we don't today, we'll, I'm sure we will in the future. You know it's, it's on our minds, that's for sure. Well, sort of until the twins keep losing again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we don't even have enough to do one podcast on that. It would be several podcasts.
Speaker 1:Exactly. That would be quite the long series of information and maybe you need some. What do they call it? The wreck-it rooms, the destroy rooms, or whatever? You just swing baseball bats at TVs or something.
Speaker 2:We need one of those for every Minnesota sport. In fact, you know what we should do. In southern Minnesota you can actually drive a tank, and when you're driving a tank to this course, if you want to pony up an extra $500, they'll put a car out there for you. You can crush. We could write all our sports names on this car and just take the tank right over. That might be a live episode.
Speaker 1:I was going to say that could be quite entertaining. That almost makes me kind of think I was actually looking at some of our online content the other day or whatever, and reminded me of one of the reels that we had, where you could not buy the vehicle but pay to have your ex's name on a vehicle that's going to the crusher, get it crushed, and something like that. So it seemed kind of bit, you know. I mean, $500 might be worth it to be able to do it.
Speaker 1:I mean if you're paying to be able to drive a tank around, why not? You know, that sounds kind of fun.
Speaker 2:Two guys and beer drive tank.
Speaker 1:You know, I love it, I like where this is headed. You know it's all the. You know, not all the best ideas come out before or after the beer. Sometimes they are before as well. Usually the best ideas are after, but Well, the best stories are not told over water, this is true.
Speaker 2:So I was having this really good salad the other day and wash it down with some Evian oh, let me tell you this Absolutely Just phenomenal times and great stories, of course.
Speaker 1:Oh. So let's get to the good stuff. Yeah, get to the good stuff here. As I mentioned before, it is a American-style cream ale the 4.2-row malt, caramel, malt, dextrin malt, flaked corn and flaked barley. The hops are nugget, willamette and cascade, so a couple of different options that are on there. It does say on the label it is kind of almost like a session, but it's an American style cream ale, so maybe kind of an interesting flavor with that.
Speaker 2:I like the can. I like the can. It's just white. Yeah, I don't understand the mice playing baseball on the can. Well, the beer for ball games but, I do like how it's done. It looks like I drew it on the back of my math notebook in high school, which is pretty nice style art.
Speaker 1:We'll get a little into the mice actually kind of tie in. It's kind of a mascot in a way for them. So before we get too deep into it we better crack it open. Best part of the episode. All right, whoop, almost dropped off of it there.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:Got to make sure I open it right. Oh, there we go. That's the good stuff. We're going to use uh pint glasses this time, so even an extra sound effect I did a terrible job pouring that I I know better than that.
Speaker 2:What do you do, though?
Speaker 1:yeah, well, you know I'm not perfect you gotta have a little bit of a former bar. Yeah, you need to have a little bit ahead on'm not a former Barker. Yeah, you need to have a little bit of head on that kind of on the top.
Speaker 2:Well, there's a lot of head on this one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yours is aggressive, a little too much head. Oh, my goodness, we may have to edit that one for content Keynote right here. Tech guy, I don't know how we would do that, but I'm sure we could get something in here.
Speaker 2:Cut it out right exactly all right.
Speaker 1:All right, so first couple days it is smooth.
Speaker 2:It is smooth, it's pretty tasty too. It took me like four gulps to get through the head on here, dude, oh I to get the actual beer. I do like it. It's a pretty nice taste, it's almost.
Speaker 1:I do kind of taste a little bit of the caramel and a little bit of that dextrin.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a little sweet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely get some of that out of there. So it's, you know, aptly described. But you know, I mean that's kind of how you come up with a description, is actually doing it right. So, yeah, it's pretty good stuff, a little sweetness.
Speaker 2:But it's quite solid, it's a cream, ale it seems like it's a lighter cream, ale not a heavy dark cream. Ale it's got like a little sweet type flavor to it caramel, a little caramel in there.
Speaker 1:This would on the old lawnmower rating. This would be definitely a before, during and maybe one after while admiring the work. It sure would not quite a Coors Light, but uh, it's. You know it's got some good flavor to it but it's, it's not gonna blow you away. You know, at a 4.2 you could have a six pack. You could slam some and be just fine, absolutely so it'd be pretty good.
Speaker 1:So let's kind of dive in here with uh, what we know about off color brewery, so that's what the brewery is. It's off color brewery. Some of the in here with uh, what we know about off color brewery, so that's what the brewery is. It's off color brewery. Some of the basics here. Off color brewery is a american craft brewery. It's in the logan square neighborhood of chicago, kind of by the lincoln park area began in early 2013 with a partnership between john laffler and dave blankner. John Laffner, formerly of Goose Island Brewing, which is obviously a massive, big distributorship. That's kind of a major thing. So two guys, long history of being involved in a lot of high-end type of stuff. It actually even says on their website, the About Us. I got a couple of different research notes here, but John and Dave, at some point, john and Dave were born.
Speaker 2:Well, that's key, that is key.
Speaker 1:They did other stuff for a while, and then they figured out they were better at making beer than the other stuff, so that's what they do now. They both met while they studied at the oldest and most respective brewing school of the two and by the breweries that went on to the one In the US. The Seibel Institute is what it is Okay, so it's quite the description that they have in there, I love their description there.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, we did stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We thought well, we're good at brewing, so we did that instead.
Speaker 1:A brewery was envisioned while they both interned at metropolitan brewing. Uh, most of off colors business plan is based off of doug and tracy at metro knowing what they're doing, so go buy some of their beer too. That's what it says. After cutting their teeth at a larger brewery, the two somehow convinced otherwise very smart people to invest enough money for them to make their own beer. So that's what they do now. So I love it. It's quite the interesting thing. So I think it's quite fun the way they have their thing described here.
Speaker 1:If you go on to their website you can look at the beers the current, the seasonal, the FODRE, aged, f-o-e-d-r-e aged beers, also in some bourbon barrels. They got different categories that talk about the wholesale, where they distribute and things like that. Their tap room does show a bunch of information about their particular facility. It is they do not have food, but they are open for all sorts of different beer and whatnot. They have 16 brews and they have, I believe, four of those taps are guest beers, so potentially you could go in there and get a Goose Island or a Metropolitan or something like that. Sure.
Speaker 2:That's kind of neat.
Speaker 1:A lot of kind of interesting things, lot of uh kind of uh interesting things that they can be able to do. That 150 seats and it's kind of tucked away uh south of sheffield and north avenues. I'm not familiar with chicago, but those of you that are sounds like a great place I've been to chicago a lot, but not this area, I don't believe.
Speaker 2:I pretty much stay on michigan avenue half a dozen times I've been there. And then we went to the White Sox.
Speaker 1:I was going to say that was the one time we kind of came blitzing in on 94, went to a game blitzed out on 94 to like Indiana or something, to be able to stay, and then back to the stadium and then back home, yeah.
Speaker 1:That was a quick trip, 36 hours or something like that. I don't know. They do not serve food, but they do have a good relationship with the pizzeria that's around the corner Thin crust specialists, good food, that's right there. You can bring in your own food. I want to go try that place.
Speaker 2:Lots of crust. I like thin crust pizza. That's my favorite, 100%. That's a perfect thing to have right next to a brewery, oh my God, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1:Off-color founder John Laffler has also brought on Ben Fassman's, or Fassman, and they do in-house cocktails as well. So it's not just beer, they do also in-house craft cocktails and wine by the glass.
Speaker 2:So Ben is the cocktail guy.
Speaker 1:Ben is the cocktail guy, all right.
Speaker 2:Yep, does he do the wine too? Is that what that says?
Speaker 1:It just says a wine by the glass.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:That might be, you know, just kind of something you can get separately. So the mouse that you have on there if you look at the pictures they have online, the mouse is prevalent pretty much everywhere and their tap room is called the Mousetrap Gotcha. The Grain Mouse is the tap room's mascot and customers will see references all around the space in their location. So kind of a cool thing that they have there. They got a nice big tap room, as I mentioned, 150 seats, kind of an industrial feel. A lot of brick, plenty of tables, plenty of places to be able to sit and be able to hang out Bars way in the back, be able to get some stuff Again. You can bring in your own food. A lot of really cool stuff that they got going on there. I think it'd be a lot of fun to be able to be a part of that and be able to kind of check it out, talking a little bit more about some of the things that they have bring up.
Speaker 1:Go back to their other situation here and their current beers. We talked a little bit about what it's called. Some of the beers is the Apex Predator that's a farm wholesale. The April Rain Beer for golf, beer for lounging, beer for golf Beer for lounging Beer for tacos Beer. Crispy beer for pizza.
Speaker 2:That's a nice theme.
Speaker 1:Beer for the top shelf, which has got a little mouse with a goalie thing. That one is a Vienna-style lager with maple syrup added All right, I'm liking all of this.
Speaker 2:I'm not opposed.
Speaker 1:So they got. You know, the mouse is kind of in a lot of different things with that or whatever. So I think it's kind of a fun little place to be able to go and check out and be able to see some of that. So one more thing. So with the brewery itself. So the Modest Operande is what they worded here itself. So the modus operandi is what they worded here. But basically the gist of what they do is they began operation to focus on brewing forgotten styles of beer. Okay, so some of it, a lot of it is going to be kind of like german style beers, because that's more of where a lot of the history of beer kind of comes from and not originated but know kind of in that era. But that's where a lot of different styles of beer were forgotten after the. I'm not going to be able to pronounce this, but I'm going to give it my best shot. The R-E-I-N-H-E-I-T-S-G-E-B-O-T. German word Rheinisch Gbot Probably butchered that, but you know I do my best here.
Speaker 1:It was the Bavarian purity law.
Speaker 2:Bavaria.
Speaker 1:That's where we're going. And it was proclaimed in the late 15th century, effectively condemning a myriad of different styles of beer that were not made solely with barley water and hops so they were trying to purify the thing. And hops, so they were trying to purify the thing. So kind of a literally the pronunciation of the word, the literal translation is purity order. That's what it means and that's what it was. It limited the ingredients to just those things and it states the former Holy Roman Empire had a lot to do with that and it was adopted by Bavaria in 1516, kind of similar regulations all throughout the area. So it kind of got rid of a lot of variety. I guess to a certain extent, you know, trying to be able to just finely tune that which you know. I get the idea of that, you know, not getting too far out on the hangar edges but at the same time like let people let the market kind of dictate some of that. But it's 15, 16. So you know what are you?
Speaker 2:going to do? What are you going to do it back then? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:So that definitely had a massive change. So you know a little bit of history less than there. It's a kind of a going in the way back machine. 15, 16. It really changed a lot of what the variety and diversity was in beer in the germany area and kind of through that whole region. So these guys are trying to bring back as many of those beers as possible well, this is definitely a good one to bring back absolutely. This is a really solid beer. I like this a lot yeah, this is pretty good.
Speaker 2:If this is one from germany, you know they're bringing it back. It does say american style cream ale on the can. I don't know if that's a german beer they're bringing back, since it's american style cream ale, but no, this beer is really solid. It's really good if anybody is close to a liquor store and you're looking for something. If you can find this beer, buy it and try it, definitely for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we got it at a place that I've frequented multiple times, the Dabbler Depot. It's kind of on West 7th down in St Paul, just off of 35. So not far off of 35, where it kind of cuts through by that. Well, what used to be a Burger King.
Speaker 1:It's just a building that looks like a Burger King is all it really is, but yeah, so we found it there. It's actually one of our favorite places to be able to go because they have such a variety of different things that they sell there. We're able to find all sorts of unique, different types of beers. They have bourbons, they have all sorts of different cocktails and stuff like that, and they let you try basically anything. So it's a fantastic place to be able to go. That's even better. I highly recommend being able to go there.
Speaker 1:And actually this beer and a beer that we have for a future podcast was recommended by a gentleman that was working there, that also is a part owner in one of the breweries that we're going to be doing at some point in time. Perfect. So it's that community. They're all together, they are all together. So it's kind of a fun kind of thing to be able to check out all sorts of different varieties and a really nice place to be able to go. They got all sorts of different variety of stuff there and you can get it by the can. You can get four packs, you can get bigger packs, you can taste stuff. You know it's a pretty cool place.
Speaker 1:I highly recommend it. We're not even getting sponsored by them. If they would like to check us out on our fan page, I'd love to be able to have something like that. It'd be fantastic. If nothing else, maybe a discount on the beer that we buy. That would be nice. You know, there we go, we can get it at a cost or something, maybe a hat or something Selling at cost. Yeah, that'd be perfect. So kind of the background. A little bit. A little bit more on this particular beer Again beer for ball games, the tasting notes and secret techniques. This is where you start getting into the information about the specific beer and what they did, even though it is the American style as one of the first styles of beer actually conceived in the United States. Our cream ale is designed to make America's pastime proud by only using American-produced malt and corn with classical American hops. We even use the best American water. And they with classical American hops. We even use the best American water. And they apologize to Fiji.
Speaker 2:The best American water. I wonder where that water comes from, right?
Speaker 1:Exactly, it's definitely not in Flint Michigan.
Speaker 2:No, definitely not no. No For sure.
Speaker 1:So that's kind of what we got here. It's a light bodied but flavorful brew. Watching nine innings from the bleacher section. American Style Cream features a light malt character with the flavors of cornflake cereal, which I can kind of get.
Speaker 2:You can taste that a little bit, for sure.
Speaker 1:A light hop aroma contributes to nuanced floral pepper and grapefruit rind notes. Bread notes from the yeast left in the beer rounds out the mouthfeel.
Speaker 2:So it sounds good in the mouth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly. So it says you know what we got here.
Speaker 2:They definitely hit the nail on the head with the name, though Beer for Ball Games.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:This would be great to drink watching a ball game, whether it be the Twins unfortunately, the Yankees or the Bram Snappers.
Speaker 1:There we go. You want to?
Speaker 2:watch Andy try to get on base.
Speaker 1:Exactly, it happens once or twice a year.
Speaker 2:That's about it.
Speaker 1:Don't be asking too much for me here.
Speaker 2:This is definitely a beer you would drink watching a ball game. It's light-bodied, absolutely Not going to blow your hair back.
Speaker 1:You can have a few of them there. Oh man, yeah, this is a good beer. As you mentioned, the ABV at a 4.2. So it's good, good flavor, but it's not going to knock, you know, knock you away after two of them. Ibus are 18, which isn't surprising. It's not real bitter, it's not overly hoppy, it's, you know, just a nice, smooth, smooth, solid beer. So I don't know. So I like it a lot and I think it's quite fantastic, super good. Yeah, that's kind of what we got for that. But yeah, definitely go check them out.
Speaker 1:They do have their website, offcolorbrewingcom. All sorts of information that they have on there. They go over the types of beer that they have, information about their tap room hours, location, the general type of stuff. But yeah, they get a lot of different articles that were out there to be able to kind of research through, and Wikipedia even has a thing on them too. Oh sure, so you know they do have quite a bit of information out there. So a lot of good information. It's kind of a cool place. Wikipedia puts them at 11 employees is what that puts them at. So they do have some pretty good sized fermenters and everything that they got in there, which is kind of cool to be able to see some of the pictures that they got.
Speaker 2:So you can definitely tell the owners that started this their background and beer in at other places. You can definitely tell this is a super high quality beer when you drink this.
Speaker 1:Yep, yep, it's not, it's not, they didn't just, it's fine, they actually they put some effort into what this is.
Speaker 2:It's definitely good beer. Again, I've already said it six times If you can get this, go buy it and try it. You'll thank us later.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:You can thank us by buying a hat. There we go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we do have. If you follow us on any of your social media, we do have the hat out there for sale. We've got some options there. Try to be able to get maybe some other swag out there at some point in time. But if you're looking for anything, definitely reach out to us. You can check us out on all the social media platforms. We've got something on TikTok and Instagram and.
Speaker 2:Twitter, facebook, twitx, whatever. Oh, that, that's right x yeah, I still don't call it x, but right, exactly, whatever yeah, facebook, uh yeah, you got it just seven.
Speaker 1:Or if you're watching on youtube, go ahead and just drop us a line. You do, you know, right there like share, subscribe, like all of the things right now. But uh, yeah, definitely tell everybody about it and pass the information along. But I do highly recommend going and checking this brewery out if you're in that area or if you're headed to that area or if you're not in that area. It's one of the things to kind of look out for. It's a nice white can, so kind of easy to be able to find. Look for the little mice that's going to be your key to be able to find a brewery that has this type of stuff for it. So, yeah, I highly recommend it. Off Color Brewing out of Chicago, illinois.
Speaker 2:Perfect. Yeah, definitely get some more of this 100%.
Speaker 1:Well, that's about most of what I got here for the brewery. We'll keep working on this, Sean. What do you got for some information for us this time?
Speaker 2:So I come across some articles because I read stuff all the time, whether or not that's a good thing or a bad thing some articles because I read stuff all the time, whether or not that's a good thing or a bad thing, I don't know. I just come across funny stuff. So there's a. This is kind of ridiculous, this is kind of government overreach. This isn't going to be a political talk because we're going to talk about the uk in london, but when I you hear what I gotta say it's kind of crazy and I'll see get your reaction to this, like I think all the viewers out there or listeners would how ridiculous this is. There's a comedian over there. His name is Ed Gamble. Never heard of him, he's a stand-up comedian so.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure if he's just a European comedian and touring over there, but nonetheless, ed Gamble, the stand-up comedian, is currently touring over in the UK and over in the UK he's got his poster. He's promoting his tour. You know, bands do and acts do so they got your poster plastered throughout the city.
Speaker 1:Gotta have advertising With the dates on there, we're gonna start putting those up for the two guys, two guys and beer too. Qr codes all over the place. That's all it's gonna be.
Speaker 2:Well, we have some slapped in Central Park and over in the subway in New York. There we go If they're still there?
Speaker 1:I sure hope so. We should probably go check that out. They are slapped up.
Speaker 2:So this guy, Ed Gamble, Stan McMeany, he's on tour over there. He's calling his tour Hot Diggity Dog. Hot Diggity Dog so that's the name of his comedy tour over there. I like it In the UK and London, so specifically in the subway. They have some of his posters there on the walls promoting his hot diggity dog tour. However, the interesting part about that is the transit authority over there doesn't like that.
Speaker 1:Oh man, not the transit authority.
Speaker 2:If you want to call it over in the Bakerloo line platform. There's an underground subway station over there. In london, they have this policy that they come up with in 2019, where they can't advertise fatty foods and sugar and non-healthy eating and things like that is this kind of like minneapolis passing a thing, where you can't build a new building that has a drive-thru. Something similar to that.
Speaker 1:Some ridiculousness.
Speaker 2:Supposedly to make people healthy or something. So in 2019, over in London on the subway, their transit authority, whatever their agency is, they won't advertise any of that stuff. Sugary foods, fatty foods, this and that. So the hot diggity dog tour. On his poster it's Mr Gamble there. He's got ketchup and mustard plastered all over his face, you know, running down his shirt, and he's standing next to a hot dog. Oh, there you go, of course, hot diggity dog, hot diggity dog. So his hot dog is half-eaten hot dog on this plate on this poster. Who doesn't like hot dogs? Hot?
Speaker 1:dogs are good.
Speaker 2:They're so good I don't care if they're good for me. Absolutely A real natural casing hot dog. It just snaps and juice flies under your face when you snap it. Absolutely. Oh, it's so good, old-fashioned style, chicago style, while you're drinking. Beer for ballgame beer, get yourself a. Chicago style hot dog. Maybe Mr Gamble has them at his shows, maybe as part of the entree.
Speaker 2:You might not ever know it, though, because Because you won't get to see it on their subways or their buses. You know the whole bus authority. They can't have that. So he was forced to take them down and they weren't allowed to put them up. So he replaced the hot dog and then they allowed this poster.
Speaker 1:Then it's okay. Then it's okay, all right, fair enough.
Speaker 2:Like how ridiculous is that? Like seriously, don't you think that's a bit of an overreach?
Speaker 1:It's a little, it's really, it's silliness, is really what it is. I mean, I know that to a certain extent if you're going to have a policy, you got to draw a line somewhere. But when you make it kind of like vague in a way, you kind of allow like some person somewhere to kind of go a little outside of what the spirit of whatever you're trying to do is. That didn't really think of like the consequences of really. Is this really like I get, if you don't want to have like all right, you know, kids eating cotton candy and got crap all over the place, you know, probably not the best for them or whatever. It may be sugary cereals or something like that, I don't really know it's just hot dogs are good, I don't.
Speaker 1:Maybe they're not good for you, I guess I don't really know, but I can't believe that. Uh, like a old-fashioned good snap gotta be pretty good for you I would think you would think all natural.
Speaker 2:You know, I mean, that's what they promote in europe. You know, I mean, they ban food over there that we can apparently eat here.
Speaker 1:You know right well, I think some of the food that we eat here I don't know, we don't even eat food here.
Speaker 2:All we eat is chemical and whatever they slap into the boxes you know processed, uh, slapped together, yeah. But I just thought that was crazy and absolutely ridiculous. I just had to talk about that. I'm like, seriously, you're banning a photo of a hot dog in your subway because you don't want to promote unhealthy food and fattening food and salty food. Like really, I don't think people riding the subway or riding the city bus in london are going to look at a poster of hot diggity dog comedy tour and think, dang, I need to get me some hot dogs.
Speaker 1:I really could go for. Yeah, I could really go for a hot dog. I mean it probably might, though I mean it does kind of make sense because now that you're talking about it, I kind of want a hot dog. I kind of want a hot dog right now too. Go on a quick trip or something. Get a roller dog.
Speaker 2:Especially with this beer. Absolutely natural cased, real hot dog. It was super good with beer before ball games here beer absolutely.
Speaker 1:Can you imagine? Like a?
Speaker 2:natural and some hot peppers on there.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh you're sitting out at late july and, uh, from chicago so maybe we're out at wrigley or something like that, because you know white socks stadium kind of sucks, yeah. But uh, you know, you get yourself kind of out in some bleachers where there's not a whole lot of people and you get kind of like spread out to a couple of different chairs, feet over the front side, this beer and a hot dog in the other hand. That would be perfect like describe a better situation for me, because I'm not coming up with a lot right now from your standpoint.
Speaker 1:You know, like watching the old br snappers or whatever. Like head out to a Brennan field at Hinkley. They had a really nice ballpark there, get a nice hot dog and they sell beer there too. Maybe I'll try to get them to have this there. Sit back there and watch something oh my God, the league playoffs. Up there, you know, be able to just sit back and relax and have a beer and a hot dog and heckle guys that are your same age playing baseball still.
Speaker 2:We might have to get a hold of these guys. We could be distributors for beer for ball games, you know, advertise it at the branch, staffers and stuff Absolutely.
Speaker 1:That'd be fantastic If you still play beer league softball this year.
Speaker 2:you can bring some of this here. Boys, there we go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it'd go over pretty good, although a lot of them are drinking like seltzers and stuff now, because you know you gotta be athletic when you're playing league softball.
Speaker 2:What the hell Gotta be athletic there.
Speaker 1:I know, I don't know it's a little bit different, but whatever, I don't know, I've been had to come have a couple of them recently, or whatever, and I woke up with less of a hangover.
Speaker 2:I can't do something.
Speaker 1:I flavor and taste if I wanted to drink bubbly water, I would go buy a bubbly. That's something that is. It isn't much more preferable type of deal?
Speaker 2:uh for sure, but uh so, yeah, so back to this in 2019. They enacted this stuff. They also, apparently, they banned uh any advertisements that promote unhealthy and unrealistic body shapes, too, to go along with their fat and sugar food ban I can think of at least like four or five different bbc tv shows that promote unhealthy I and not normal body types I think sports illustrator promotes that.
Speaker 1:We've seen that in recent years.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, yeah oh it's just crazy. But anyways, the london transit authority, whatever you want to call them. You guys are crazy man Like. That's just absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Right, that is just. That's some silliness. That's beyond. Yeah, control, that's overreach. I do love the response, though, for him to like come out with a cucumber Put a cucumber on there. Yeah, so we might have to check out Ed.
Speaker 2:Gamble. He we might have to check out Ed Gamble. He's got a Netflix special or something, he seems like he's got some good stuff going on.
Speaker 1:If he's got that type of humor like to be able to roll with those proverbial punches, that's for sure.
Speaker 2:That would be great. So one other story. I'll get to it here real quick. So I was reading about this too and I thought this was kind of funny. It'd be fun to share with people. So there was a couple that were in their bedroom in their husband. The husband and wife are in a bedroom and the husband had told, uh, told his wife a joke. And of course the joke was obviously funny because the husband told the joke right. Anytime a husband tells a joke, wives out there.
Speaker 1:It's just funny. Yeah, yeah guys, guys are hilarious. We're always.
Speaker 2:We got the, we got the best, uh, best humor but so when the husband was telling this joke, interestingly enough, apparently there was a burglar in their house Burglaring, burglaring. Oh man Up in the roof, he was burgling inside the roof, apparently crawling around in the eaves, or the attic.
Speaker 1:It's no good getting burgled.
Speaker 2:Well, this joke was so good that this burglar apparently heard the joke and busted out Laffy?
Speaker 1:Of course he did, naturally. Why wouldn't you?
Speaker 2:So the husband and wife are like what the hell is going on? They hear somebody laughing up in their attic. That would probably be kind of strange.
Speaker 1:Wait what? What's going on?
Speaker 2:They call the cops. Of course the cops come and arrest him. No harm, no foul. He didn't steal anything, he didn't break anything. But of course I'd assume he got in trouble because he broke into their house with them in there, Right, but that's how they got him.
Speaker 1:I want to know what the joke is now. Can you imagine like that? Okay, sir, describe for me exactly what happened here. So I'm telling this joke, right, and I hear the guy laughing in the attic. Sir, what was the joke?
Speaker 2:Some of the article I read. Everybody wanted to know what the joke was.
Speaker 1:Absolutely Nobody had a clue. Sad thing is it probably was like this much buildup. It's probably just going to be like a dumb knock-knock joke or something, some ridiculousness or whatever. But I kind of want to know what the joke was.
Speaker 2:I do too. Everybody wanted to know. But no fear, I came prepared with a dad joke for you?
Speaker 1:Oh, here we go, yes.
Speaker 2:It's very well, could have been the joke.
Speaker 1:You ready for this?
Speaker 2:I'm ready, dad jokes 101 on Two Guys and Beer podcast.
Speaker 1:There we go.
Speaker 2:First joke ever. So what do you call a paper airplane that can't fly? A problem Stationary oh.
Speaker 1:It took a second before that one really keyed in. It takes you, I like that. That is a good one.
Speaker 2:Tiki and beer jokes. Here we go Get the two guys beer joke book.
Speaker 1:That one. Yeah, it took a second to be able to hit, but I always love that moment where it's like, oh, you can see in their face.
Speaker 2:When I read it too, it took me a minute and I'm like that is fricking. I laugh so hard in the kitchen. My daughter came home. I had to rush upstairs to tell her right away I got a dad joke for you and I told her she's like what? I get it stationary. She's like, oh my gosh, like dad jokes.
Speaker 1:It's kind of a slow burner. But you know, I mean Not too slow. Maybe I'm just, maybe I'm slow, that's probably what it is, I don't know, but that's a good one.
Speaker 2:I like that. You can't blame it on the beer For ball games, beer X, it's only 4.2.
Speaker 1:No, I'm likely going to tell that joke Tomorrow at work, you know.
Speaker 2:Yes, 100%. I'm going to tell her. I don't have anything to show her.
Speaker 1:but Well, you know, I'm going to tell her there you go. So we got the beer for ballgames? Yes, we do. So now that I see this and I had a moment here and my brain is you- know, wandering off yeah.
Speaker 1:I got to not really vent about something, but like come on, what are we doing here Can we just talk for a minute about? In reference to baseball, I've seen this now a handful of times. It happens every year. You know, there's something happens. This guy, like pimp, walked out of the box after he hit a bomb, or this guy was eyeball on the second basement or like whatever dumb thing it is you know, which, whatever it is, it is I don't know, it's not my kind of thing, but whatever you do you, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:It goes back to the when ken griffey jr like, oh my god, he's wearing his hat backwards right. I mean, you know, like I I don't whatever, that's fine, like there's.
Speaker 2:There's stuff like that, that happens that in the home run derby was it mcguire or dante bichette turned his batting helmet around and turned it backwards. Who was pitching, was it?
Speaker 1:Randy Johnson. Randy Johnson did it in the All-Star game. It was Lance Walker is who it was. And that was because I think it was because the year before John Kruk had one of those 98-mile-an-hour heaters that didn't slide and came winging right past his noggin, and Johnson the next year jokingly threw one up around that area again, and so then he put his helmet on backwards, john Crooks.
Speaker 2:I love that guy. We need more John Crooks in baseball.
Speaker 1:That guy seems like a good beer drinking guy.
Speaker 2:Like a John Daly. Yes, oh, absolutely, 100%. Yeah, so you got the situation Back to your thoughts. Sorry, I was taking us out of the rails there.
Speaker 1:That's kind of what happens during the Two Guys and Beer podcast. You just kind of wander wherever the conversation takes us, so that's not so much that bothers me. But then you get the reaction of well, now my job is to drill this guy with a pitch and really show him, which is another part of baseball. I get it, it's totally fine. You got to make sure that you don't get around the head. You know what I mean. Let's not injure people, let's not do that. But if you want to put one in the small of their back, whatever, I don't have a problem with that, let it rip, do it, you know. But the overreaction that happens after that, not so much the fighting, whatever, I can eye roll about that all I want.
Speaker 1:But why in the world does everybody that's wearing a uniform need to trot their happy ass out there to be able to like stand there, moral support Like the backup bullpen catcher from 400 feet away on the second level, who's probably out there with the comedian getting a hot dog Right? He sees he's now got to try. Nope, sorry, I got to go and he's got it. Like trot out there with his gear on and like the slow walk all the way in there and like why do we need to have that? Like and I, I, there was something that happened. Was that like last year, two years ago, that there was a guy that got hit and of course, everybody cleared the benches and there was one guy that, like, sat on the bench. She's like no, this is dumb, I'm not going out there. This is stupid. He shouldn't kick off the team because he refused to run out there.
Speaker 2:What?
Speaker 1:is he going to do? What's going to happen is the guy's going to go out there and he's going to try to fight. Maybe you're going to get two or three people that actually start throwing punches. Sometimes you get a little bit bigger than that, but usually only a couple of people, and then everybody's just holding each other is all they're doing.
Speaker 2:It's not much.
Speaker 1:It's like they're grappling and like jumping on top, holding each other, kind of like a Well, I don't really want to fight. Do you want to fight? I don't really want to fight.
Speaker 2:Let's just kind of watch those guys and nobody makes a move until somebody comes from behind them and holds them.
Speaker 1:Then they're all like oh yeah, then they've got to try to get you and then all of a sudden there's two or three people. That's not part of the thing. So I hate the idea that like, oh, that's a bad teammate. It's like, no, he wanted to stay in the game and you're being stupid, like why can't that be a good teammate, saying no, you don't Right. And even if it is the benches that got to clear, whatever. But can we stop getting like the relief pitcher coming in, like I said, from like 400 feet away? By the time he gets there, they've already like carted three people off and there's nothing happening and now you got to wait for everybody to come walking back and head out there or whatever. Although I will say this type of situation did create one of the best stories that I was not a part of, but I'm retelling it as Nick's story. Nick Cole, credit goes to you. This isn't my story, but it's a great story Nonetheless. Something happened in Twinsgate.
Speaker 1:This is old Metrodome type of thing and I hope that some of our listeners know the name this is kind of an older name I'm going to toss out at you, but it was at the end of his career and this guy's like 45 years old, big old gray beard. You know, whatever Something happens, everybody's got to go running out there and everybody starts trotting back. After the brouhaha calms down, everybody's trotting back there, whatever, walking back to their respective bullpens. You know, like the the bull crap bull bullpen that they had in the metrodome, that was more of just like out in the middle of the field and you got this in the plane.
Speaker 1:You got this poor bat boy that's trying to stand behind the catcher and hope he doesn't get drilled from behind and you're going to take rockets right at him off the third baseline. So they're, they're trotting back or whatever, and terry mulholland is a part of this group that's trotting back there. And so you know nick or one of the buddies, you know a couple of them, they're out in the, the old third baseline seats, the left field seats and fall territory, terry, we, you, and he turns around and goes hey.
Speaker 2:So I mean it kind of does create the opportunity for like things like that where they're kind of like, not in their normal dialed-in thing Right, a little bit of interaction, but I do think it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1:every time, like I mean whatever, I'm also kind of like a oh, if they want to fight in hockey, then fight. You know what I mean. Like give them the penalties, but I don't have a problem with that. I think that there is a place to a certain extent of like trying to protect star players. I don't think that they do it quite as much anymore, but I kind of get the bit. I get why it happens and I can. I'm fine accepting if they don't want to do anymore. That's not a problem. I'm not saying it has to happen, but I get it. I don't have a problem with that or whatever. But the baseball thing, like if you're coming in at a half trot galloping in, it's not like you're coming like I got your back, bro, I'm right here for you, like the wieners that are running around in the hot dog races.
Speaker 1:Exactly. Yeah, like this is not. They're running slower than the women of Baywatch, that kind of thing, like they're not trying to get there. This is not kind of like well, you can tell even by the way they're just walking. They're like I don't really want to be a part of this, but I got to go and I got to. You know, I got your back and whatever.
Speaker 2:Well, maybe they're stretching their legs because they don't get out in the field much it's their opportunity to get onto the field.
Speaker 1:Get a little bit of blood flowing. I suppose that probably could happen, but I don't know. That's just kind of my eye roll thing for the day. I happened to see it on SportsCenter or something the other day and I'm like, okay, have your little fight, have your little thing, but why do they got to come from Lakeway? Just leave them out there. It gotta come from like, wait, just leave them out there. It's fine, we're not going to judge you for coming, because really I don't want you coming out there.
Speaker 2:You're going to end up using your million dollar right hand and breaking a finger right, you don't want that months. Maybe we just in baseball, we decide to let them fight like they do in hockey. Just stand there and watch them for a few minutes and see if they actually hit each other. If they just pile on the ground and lay on each other. I did.
Speaker 1:Did see a good one the other day and I think it was a highlight from a couple of years ago that something happened and the pitcher had to retribute and it looked like from the mannerisms from the pitcher he didn't really want to hit the guy because he kind of was like oh, dang it, but the guy obviously got pissed, threw the bat down, comes running out towards the pitcher Pitcher happens to catch him right before he gets there, but with the camera coming from center field you don't see the linebacker first baseman come across and just destroy this.
Speaker 1:Jamal Just smoke.
Speaker 2:I saw it. It was hilarious.
Speaker 1:Oh well, that's done, so that was pretty good.
Speaker 2:Was that that wasn't this year, Cause I thought it was this year.
Speaker 1:Maybe it was this year.
Speaker 2:I was trying to figure out who it was, and I couldn't figure out who it was. It was great. Yeah, I was like that is fricking sweet.
Speaker 1:It was. Yeah, that was, that was hilarious. But yeah, I think that you know, like I, like I said, I don't have a problem with the fight, whatever I playing baseball. It's kind of like when the basketball I was complaining in a previous episode, one of our first episodes about basketball players like, oh, I'm really tough, now we're going to get in a fight. I'm like, no, you're playing basketball.
Speaker 2:They clear their benches too, and come out and just kind of stand around.
Speaker 1:It's so ridiculous. Everybody's got such an attitude problem with like oh, I'm a bigger poser than you are You're. You are like you're doing the exact same thing. Don't get pissed off at him because you're losing, right, like that's just dumb. But yeah, the baseball thing, whatever, have the fight, I agree with you. Maybe we do it hockey style. Nobody can leave benches or nobody can leave whatever they're doing. Just let the two or whatever hash it out. Or if the first baseman wants to come and murder some guy, whatever, at least two minutes, give us a two minute round.
Speaker 1:well, the as hockey. As soon as somebody has a clear advantage, like they go to the ground, we blow the whistle, we tear them off there, but we just don't need the guys trotting in from center field or somewhere up the street, the guys over at Quick Trip you know, like I don't know, it's just silly to me.
Speaker 2:More than anything but. There could be a new parlay bet. You bet on baseball games which two players are going to fight today. Oh there you go?
Speaker 1:That could be, that could be interesting Hmm. That's quite the parlay bet though it doesn't happen too often. Yeah, you don't see it. Yeah, they'd. Yeah, they'd probably be pretty good odds yeah you'd make some good money. That'd be pretty heavy odds on that one, but you never know. People are always in for something.
Speaker 2:They are especially the betting kind 100%.
Speaker 1:So what else you got, Sean? Anything else at all.
Speaker 2:No, that's about all I got. I did come across one other thing, though, that you might like Ooh it already sounds like I'm going to like it.
Speaker 2:You are already sounds like I'm gonna like it. You are a firefighter, you and your wife are firefighters. So the first idea not just the mustache, no, actually went through the training and did the whole thing. It serves a purpose. So the first idea of a fire escape I ran right in front of this a couple weeks ago when I was patenting on fire escapes. You know, obviously are important, were important to Annie 1766. 1766. Was the first patent idea for a fire escape. Basically, it just consisted of a wicker basket attached to a pulley and a chain. That was the fire escape.
Speaker 1:I mean it could work. I mean, I'm not sure that I want to get into a wicker basket when you know stuff's on fire, but I suppose there wasn't a whole lot of brick and mortar going on.
Speaker 2:Probably not back in 1766. It was probably all lumber, but I thought you'd think that's interesting. Since you're the firefighter, you know.
Speaker 1:Interesting, that is a nice little trivia nugget right there.
Speaker 2:That's really all I got. I'm going to take some more of this beer before ball games.
Speaker 1:Here we go. I like it. Well, we hope you enjoyed the broadcast today and hope you enjoyed any of the episodes prior to this and maybe some of them upcoming. But like, share, subscribe, tell everybody that you can Buy a hat. Yep, buy a hat. Look at our merch that we have on the different social media platforms Facebook, twitter, x, instagram, rumble, youtube, all of the things, they're everywhere. We're, you know, as Ben Maller on Fox Sports Radio. We're in the air everywhere.
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