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Drekker Brewing's Super Mega Lager and a Toast to Timeless Tales
Ever found yourself chuckling over the confusion between Fargo and Minnesota, or the idea of a pigeon doubling as a spy? That's the kind of quirky, side-splitting banter Andy Beckstrom and I, Shawn Field, bring to the table while we imbibe in Drekker Brewing Company's Super Mega Lager. From personal revelations about family and the passing of time to a lively discussion on the beer's crisp uniqueness and the brewing company's storied 1880s building, we cover it all. We even tease the taste buds with talk of their Juicelor double IPA for a future episode, so keep those glasses at the ready.
It's not just the beer that bubbles with character; Drekker's Brew Hall and its neighboring hotel, housed within a rejuvenated piece of history, are the heart of today's conversation. Imagine a space where oysters, ice cream, and craft beer converge in an eclectic atmosphere that tells the story of its own brews. We journey through this revived 1880s building, and also give a nod to Minneapolis' Graze, drawing parallels between these cultural hubs that blend dining, shopping, and shared experiences in one vibrant location.
Wrapping up with some off-the-wall news stories, we delve into the lighter side of life's surprises—like a woman's unexpected ride in a garbage truck, and a novel British car scrapping service that lets you crush away memories of your ex. Between parenting challenges and smartphone history nostalgia, we end on a high note, sharing dreams of the Stanley Cup and sending out a huge thank you to you, our listeners, for joining us on this frothy adventure. Stay tuned for the chance that we might just bring you an interview from the day with the Cup—because in our world, anything's possible. Cheers, until next time!
And welcome in everybody here once again to the two guys at beer podcast studios, andy Beckstrom and Sean Field, here Once again to talk about yet another Bruce G, as they say. I don't know who says that. I don't know really anybody says that, but somebody somewhere has said that.
Speaker 2:I think old people say that well, like the baby boomer generation says Bruce G, I think right.
Speaker 1:I'm getting to be kind of old people every so often to get a little you know in my my beard, my mustache, I find a little gray hair yeah, we're getting there.
Speaker 2:I'm getting a little gray going in the beard too. I attribute that to being married and living with four females. That's probably unlikely yeah. I do love my wife, though no one's gonna get mad. But don't get mad.
Speaker 1:Also, don't listen to the podcast where we talked about driving and everything with that. No, yeah, don't do that so once again, one another episode as we rejoin you once again here from the podcast studios. Today we're going north. We're going to Fargo, north Dakota. Director is the name of the brewery director brewing company. So I've had some other stuff in the past. I've always kind of enjoyed some other stuff. I haven't done a whole lot, but at some point I'm gonna like to go up there. So you're ever in for a road trip.
Speaker 2:Fargo is good and just so all you listeners know. You know I've traveled around the country a lot. You've talked about that before. I always get asked about that movie Fargo and the Minnesota accent.
Speaker 1:Fargo is not in Minnesota people, not Minnesota, yet it is in North Dakota.
Speaker 2:So when you see me traveling, don't ask me about that movie. So Fargo or the city, because I don't know, I don't go to North Dakota.
Speaker 1:So those that may be wondering, from what was the city in Texas that we had the listeners from? I'm trying to remember now.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, there's a few of them so I don't remember exactly.
Speaker 1:But if those listeners are wondering no, fargo is not in Minnesota. If you're ever looking for kind of a little Minnesotan kind of thing. Look up the ESPN Sports Center commercial with Joe Maurer. It kind of goes over all sorts of stuff. It's kind of funny. He cracks a lot of misnomers with Scott Van. Pelt and it's kind of fun time, anyway. So, yeah, we're going back to the beer. Yeah, back to the beer. We haven't even cracked this thing and that's the best part of the podcast.
Speaker 1:Yes, Dracker Fargo, north Dakota. What we're doing today, a super mega lager. Classy and crisp is the description, so I guess we'll find out here as we go.
Speaker 2:This isn't just a lager, it's a super mega lager.
Speaker 1:And it is a 16 ounce, so it is a pounder, so it is, I guess, to a certain extent that I suppose that could be the super mega part, maybe.
Speaker 2:so it's a pounder, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I'll go with that. Yeah, it's a four and a half alcohol by volume and yeah, I don't know it should be interesting, it should be good.
Speaker 2:Let's crack it open and give it a shot.
Speaker 1:There we go Best part of the podcast pretty much every time. Then we start talking and ruin it after that. Well, you can definitely get kind of that lager taste to it, that kind of lighter feel to it. It's a different brewing process, I guess you could say, so you can kind of get a little bit of that through there. Yeah, it's a pretty solid pretty light. It is a lager for sure?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is very easy drinking. It is definitely lighter. It does have a bit of a flavor to it, though. You can taste that, can't you? There's like a slight flavor to it. So it's not like your basic lager, like a Budweiser or a Kors or a Myclobe, like there's something with it to make it taste better than just a Myclobe or Kors or a Miller Genio.
Speaker 1:There's a little bit more flavor to it for sure. The website describes it's super, it's mega. It's a new lager, super mega lager. It's a classy, mega crispy lager that's all kinds of light and crushable and we can't wait to raise a bunch of glasses with you all to this. We can't wait to raise a bunch of glasses of this with all of you wonderful weirdos. There we go, reading and speaking is. It just doesn't work for me.
Speaker 2:It's just not something I'm not really good at, so it doesn't really taste like a light though it does, it tastes more like a normal lager, not a light lager to me, with that little bit of flavor in there too.
Speaker 1:It is pretty crisp. So the classy and crisp is pretty astute, I guess, if you want to describe it in a way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you could probably drink some of these after mowing the lawn for six hours. I think this would definitely rate well on that scale of pounding a few of these down on like a craft beer or an IPA or a stout.
Speaker 1:I think I would probably have to agree with you on that one for sure. So, yeah, I'd recommend it. We actually got, I actually got two of them. We have this one and then we also have a Juicelor double IPA. But we may or may not get to that one or not, but we'll work on this one here first.
Speaker 2:So what do we got about Drekker? Any good information about the brewery? So some pretty solid information.
Speaker 1:They got a fair amount of things on their website. Drekkerbrewingcom is where you can find most of the information there. The building itself came to life in the 1880s, in the earliest days of Fargo, nine years before North Dakota would even be a state. Wow, nice. I don't know if that was part of I guess that's where I don't my geography failings.
Speaker 1:Mr Soderstrom would probably be judging me right now because I don't know like the iteration of you know what territory that was probably part of the Louisiana Purchase or something Probably. I didn't see a thing the other day or whatever, like the evolution of Virginia, which started as almost like the entire Louisiana Purchase was Virginia and then it went to like the Rum River or another river, the Mississippi River, all the way across and then down to like Virginia, both Virginias and like another like Ohio or something like that, and then ultimately just out of Virginia. So a little bit of a difference there, you know. Anyway, yeah, so nine years before North Dakota would become a state, and of course you never really know what the boundaries are at that point in time, so they're just kind of existing out there. It was built by Northern Pacific as a locomotive repair building and foundry, nice, you know that's common about a lot of these micro breweries and craft breweries.
Speaker 2:You know they use those old buildings from the 1800s, early 1900s, re-purpose them. A lot of cool history about those those buildings and stuff. Absolutely. I've been to a decent number of breweries. You've been to a lot and you know the really fun breweries to kind of keep that feel when you're in there. So I wonder if we went there, if the inside would be kind of train themed maybe or the history of you know that type of industry or anything. Yeah, I don't know that they.
Speaker 1:I mean, I see some of the pictures. There's not a ton of pictures, but most of it just looks like a big building kind of with the wood structure you know. I mean metal on the outside or brick on the outside, but like the inside is kind of that old timbers that's holding the roof up. So it's got that kind of that kind of feel to it, at least with the way that it appears on the pictures. But yeah so, built in the 1880s and it's the last standing piece of what was a large railroad facility that included a 28 car roundhouse and many other buildings. So a lot of that has been repurposed, redeveloped, redone, torn down and whatever, but this building has remained. It's one of the only ones there.
Speaker 1:Building went through many uses and many owners over the year and fell into disrepair after sitting empty for several decades, but still the sole and character were undeniable. They first dreamed of starting a brewery and through dumb luck, hard work and some amazing friends, they eventually had the opportunity to resurrect the building. So they took it over at the some point and kind of built it out, you know, and worked on the entire thing to be able to make it into what it is today. So let's see here they opened in 2014, so I would assume probably a year or two before. That is probably when they bought the building. So you think that I guess, I don't know, I say a year or two, but it could have taken five years, depending on, like, how much they had to do with that building.
Speaker 1:The building from the 1880s. It's been in disrepair for decades.
Speaker 2:It probably needs a lot of work in there.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, 2014 is when they first opened up. Go back to this other thing here. They worked on so many things and they have this whole brew hall. So they have this brew hall. That is 1666 1st Avenue North is where it is, but they also have this thing called brew hall, which is kind of a food entertainment hall. It's not just like the brew hall, it's a whole other thing, and it almost looks kind of like a little shopping area that will eventually have, like maybe some tap rooms, like kind of like a big area that you could just kind of walk around like an old, like a market inside a building in a way.
Speaker 2:That's cool.
Speaker 1:And that is kind of right next to it, 1666 1st Avenue and this place is at 1702 1st Avenue North. So they have that built out as well. Brew Hall is the home of Drecker as a whole. The tap room is going to be at the 1666. Brew Hall is going to be on the other part. They are building out the expansion that brings together the most amazing experiences that they could conjure up. Brew Hall has the food market with some of the best and creative restaurants, shops and little makers, and then in the event center to throw killer parties and hotel also built in there as well. So kind of an all inclusive experience there, with the brew hall which has all sorts of stuff Oysters, ice cream plants, pizza, coffee, night eats. They open early. They open seven days a week, 10 to 8, but early coffee starts at 7 am.
Speaker 2:You need early coffee.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. And then late night some parts of it are open until 9, 10 pm and then on the weekends for Drecker is open until midnight, so they stay open a little bit later on certain days. So lots of stuff going on there. To be able to check that out. The hotel looks like it's actually quite. It's kind of crazy. So, like a lot of the hotel rooms have a lot of like this artwork that's on like the double IPA. It's not just a plain Jane Cookie Cutter hotel. Like it has a lot of the artwork there and a lot of things to go with that all individually themed around a certain beer.
Speaker 2:Hmm, interesting, that'd be kind of need to go check out for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely be a lot of fun to be able to see that.
Speaker 2:So it almost sounds like that. Brew Hala Facility is like a mall Picture and you walk in there and there's different shops, different vendors or you know different Breweries at like 20 feet apart type thing. You know what I mean. Like when you walk through all vendors and yeah, in a way it's kind of.
Speaker 1:It is kind of like that, almost like a mall, but it's all kind of open air. It's not Just gonna be, you know, like the. You know you walk through, like maybe wood mall or Rosedale or whatever, like the, you know like the hallway and they got the different shops or whatever. It's a lot more like. This is a little hall and then they each have like a little booth, if you will like a right, a little table that they have there. There is something like that. That is down in st Paul. See, if I can get to the, the name of it, it was kind of. I went there a couple years ago before going on vacation and it was so much fun. It's just kind of a cool hall. They had a brewery that was kind of attached with it. But obviously I can't remember what it is, because why would I be able to remember something?
Speaker 2:like that. Why do we remember anything exactly?
Speaker 1:I wonder, you always remember?
Speaker 2:it when you don't want to remember it. It just like pops into your brain. You're like, oh okay, perfect, perfect timing to remember that. Why couldn't I remember it three days ago when I was thinking about it or trying to talk about it? Right, that is too true, my friend. The brain works in mysterious ways.
Speaker 1:Let's see here I want to say that it is nope, it's not that one Trying to be able to find this. This is going to be the struggle in my life is not being able to remember things off the top of my head, just be able to and have it right there. But the place is Graze is the name of the place. It's down in minneapolis. It's going to be kind of by Fulton brewery, inbound and number 12, it's what. A couple blocks away, two blocks away from the target field, hmm. So okay, kind of right down there in the heart of minneapolis it kind of backs up on the back side up against modest brewing, but they have same kind of thing where it's just kind of a hall to be able to walk through and they have a bunch of candle vendor and Soaps and things like that or whatever.
Speaker 1:But they have an area that's just like set up for like food court and bars and and whatnot, so kind of its own little thing there. So that's kind of a cool little deal to be able to have something like that. But those are, those are always kind of fun deals to be able to have, you know, in the cities.
Speaker 2:Sure yeah, I have never been down there. I want to go check that out and be kind of fun.
Speaker 1:I want to say there's one on west 7th too, though, in st Paul. But this is the point during the broadcast that I say things like this and my wife is yelling through the speaker or texting me as she's listening to this when it comes out where she's like oh it's this one, yadda, dar, it's. You know, that's where it is keg in case. There we go keg in case, market, that's what the other one is. That one, okay, that one's on west 7th, right by the schmitt brewery, the old schmitt brewery, but yeah, it's the same kind of deal, you know, a whole market area, little arcade that's in there, but they have all sorts of different stuff you can be able to do.
Speaker 1:That was the one that I went to before going on a cruise. So okay, but uh, yeah it's, it's a fun place, you know. So I guess the director brew holla sounds like it would be an absolute blast. It looks a lot like some of the other ones that they've been to and those are always super fun to be able to go to and it's a lot of a lot of fun. And if you get there on a day where there's a lot of people Like, it has kind of a vibe to it, you know I mean it's not quite like a state fair or anything like that where it's too packed or too crowded. But if you get enough people there, like people are, they're having a good time and looking for some crafts and looking for a craft beer, and sure you know like you don't really run into a whole lot of people that are I'm a craft beer person and I'm a jerk maybe they get a little.
Speaker 1:Into themselves a little bit, take things a little too seriously, but at the same time, like there's not a lot of people that I've met around craft beer that are like I'm gonna have 12 beers and then getting a fight in the parking lot. That's just not the vibe around it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not the vibe, not the way it goes. You know the name brew holla is kind of nice. You know the their logo on the can. You know it's got a Viking on it and I was singing. Brew holla sounds like something you would watch On the Vikings sitcom or something you know. They came out Whoever many years ago, you know, when Vikings was popular on Netflix or whatever it was on. Oh right, yeah, like you'd call it a brew holla, we're gonna go to the brew holla. You know something from back then. I'm sure that was probably something kind of on the lines of what they were thinking, right, but it's kind of a cool name brew holla.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is kind of a cool little deal there with that. Listen here some of the events that they do not only the brew holla, but they also do they actually. We just missed it. Within the last couple of days they had a hot dish festival there as they hosted for fardos. So Watch out for that one on their website in the future, folks, make sure you check that one.
Speaker 2:Well, that's an actual Minnesota thing. Hot dish, that's true. Not many people or goulash goulash a lot of people Like there we go. Here in Minnesota we call it hot dish. You throw whatever you find in the crackpot with some noodles and heat it up and away you go. It's kind of like a fruitcake in a way Just with noodles. Fruitcake is so disgusting.
Speaker 1:I don't know that in my life that I've ever had fruitcake. I try that once. It's not worth trying. It's exactly what you expect. It is not worth trying.
Speaker 2:Yes, fair enough. Hot dish gonna be okay, you know, depending on what's in it. Right right, it's a poor man's dinner. I love it. Mm-hmm, I love it's so good comfort food.
Speaker 1:So this is gonna be something you know, depending on when the episode comes out. This is gonna be april 6th, so Not saying, but we got a little bit of time to talk about it. It's a saturday. They are having the director brewing presents foolers ball, a festival of weird beers. Sounds like a good time.
Speaker 1:So they have a bunch of their friends, bunch of people that they know, a bunch of different breweries they come in, they they try to pair it with the april fool's day and so they try to be able to get the most random, bizarre, crazy beers that are out there anywhere and so that's what they try to be able to bring to the table for that. So april 6th is when that's coming up, so kind of a fun little event that they got going on. But otherwise, yeah, anything else, just go to a director brewing dot com Be able to find out more what's there. They have section that has their beers, a lot of details with that. The vault is something that they have because they've made a lot of beers All the course of the years. This is like 110 different brews that they got like in bottles that are there that At least they've made in the past. So a lot of different variety. The bee is gonna be. There's one of the things At one point in time I remember who I was talking to about this, but you know we were talking about the different kinds of beers and they didn't know anything about craft beer, so it was kind of a new experience for them and they said I don't remember who is specifically we were talking about, but it was something like castle danger or something like that.
Speaker 1:They're like oh, I don't like castle danger. Oh, which one did you have? Why had the castle danger like, okay, what's bearded you have? They didn't understand that. It's not like Coors light.
Speaker 1:Where Coors light is the thing part of Coors, but it Coors light is the one thing, but they had had. I don't know if they had like a double IPA or something like that. I'm like, well, do you want to try the cream ale? Like this is gonna be a little smoother for you, you know they tried it. They're like who is this from? Like well, this is from castle danger. It's like no, no, no, it's different beer.
Speaker 1:And I'm like okay, so when you go to hardies, you don't just get hardies right, the burger or the frisco, or whatever it may be, you know like so let me explain this to you how this works. So kind of being funny conversation with that. But yeah, that's, that's something they have. They brewed a whole bunch. They said that they've done a lot of beers and then their vault they have well over 100 beers that are available.
Speaker 2:So did you say they're all bottled in the vault, or is it just the recipes in the vault?
Speaker 1:It just shows the vault as a tab. We're trying to add them all, so some of them might not necessarily be available, but it's uh brews that they have Done.
Speaker 2:Is it a real vault?
Speaker 1:I hope so. Like a bank robber vault is probably a walk-in cooler that has a very professional looking padlock on the outside or something.
Speaker 2:That would be pretty cool.
Speaker 1:That would be pretty fantastic.
Speaker 2:Or is it an sd card with all the recipes on an sd card?
Speaker 1:Oh, that's probably you can push the little lock thing on the side of those sd cards and if you break in then all of a sudden, like the air escapes out of there, you know, then you're left unconscious on the floor or something. You could make this into a action movie. You sure go like a mission impossible kind of thing. We got some green screen, we could be able to do that. We got a we got to get on making this, uh, stealing the recipes. That would be great.
Speaker 2:That would be great. The Italian job and get away in a little mini Cooper.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely Heck yeah be used mini Cooper's from 70s or something I don't know, though we're racing trains to be able to get out of there.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:So what, director, you would mention the other kind of the Norse theme, the Viking logo that's on the front of the can there. So, director was an old Norse word for Viking dragon ships used in battle. Dreck mean to drink and, according to the brewers co-founder and president, mark Bjornstad Drecker, he says is a slang Icelandic word for drinking and congregating with friends. So you know if you're gonna pick a word from another language. That's a good word to pick.
Speaker 2:It's a good. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1:It's healthy. So absolutely 100, 100%. So yeah, that's a you know, and, like I said, go to dracker brewing, calm the other. A lot of information that they have on there are they do tours once a week, free tours on Saturdays to be able to kind of walk around. They do ask for a free will donation because they not only do the free tour but one of the other things is, since they've opened, they've also made it a point to help their community, because a lot of breweries try to give back Some of them in different ways, what theirs is. They select a different local nonprofit for charitable efforts for the month and then they look for a Donation of a dollar through every beer sold and it goes to their program they called unpillage All right, what are they?
Speaker 1:on pillaging so it's kind of like the pillage and plunder, but it's unpillage. So they donated over a hundred thousand dollars to local nonprofits and they try to give back as much as they can. Oh, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:That's a common theme with all these breweries that we drink beer of or go check out. They always have some sort of absolutely involvement program, whether they're trying to be more sustainable which is cool, you know or they're just simply giving back to the community through various nonprofit charities throughout the community or city or wherever they're at.
Speaker 1:Which is good to be able to see. You know, I mean, if you're gonna be part of the community like which is so weird because even now a local town that I'm aware of was going through the process of there's somebody that bought a building that I I drive by this building fairly often I'm like that would be a perfect spot, for it's one of those kind of it's an old construction building, is what it is, but it's a brick building brick and mortar, high vaulted ceilings. Looks like it should be what a brewery is now, you know, I mean a really cool brew hall, not a very big building. So it's not gonna be like. I feel like Grecker is a pretty good-sized building. You know an old rail yard, that's gonna be pretty good size building. It's not gonna be something like that. You know, something in a little bit smaller town Thought it was absolutely perfect, but the problem was that, because of the way that the city had been built out, the city was zoned by blocks and so if your block is zoned residential, you can't have, like, a brick-and-mortar business right there, because that's a commercial building.
Speaker 1:So this building is on a block that over time, has become all Residential, except for this building on the corner. Well, now they can't sell the building because who's gonna buy this building for commercial purposes? But to live there we don't give a rock kind of a cool building, but it's not exactly. You know, it'd be kind of a weird loss. I guess is kind of what it'd be. So somebody did buy this and they were gonna put a brewery in there and they were trying to go through to be able to get zoning changed or at least kind of a blended zoning where they can be able to do something with that. And they worked and I listened into a couple of meetings and read online, meeting after meeting that they would have with the city and residents around there and people would Push back and be upset that you're like, oh, we don't need another bar in here and people are gonna be racing up and down the road and people are gonna be parking and stumbling around drunk outside of there and Then do a brewery.
Speaker 1:I don't what breweries are you going to like that? That's not at all like. Usually they're really good for communities. I think it's a nice thing for people to be able to go and it's. It's a family atmosphere which is odd to think of as a place that serves alcohol, but typically, yeah, at the same time, like they usually have like a whole stack full of like board games and stuff in the corner and People go in there with their kids all the time. You know 320 and Pine City, your club and more. I like some of those places that I go to fairly often. There's almost always kids in there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't give them the beer, like that's Doesn't have to be a whole big thing right because it's not a bar that's not what it is at all so ultimately they ended up turning it down and this person now has this building that I don't know what's they're gonna do with it.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's a bummer.
Speaker 1:Now it just sits there. I think they ultimately they think they sold it to some guy that's doing like auto repair out of there. I don't know how that's working with the commercial side of things or if they just approved it for that, but they wouldn't approve it for the brewery. But I Was kind of sad because I thought it would be great to be able to have that in town. But, like you said, it's usually a positive thing for a community?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not like you said. It's not a bar. Breweries are about Drinking a couple craft beers and enjoying the flavor and the taste of beer. Not, you're not typically going to a brewery to get hammered out of your mind and party and Raise hell and dance to techno music and whatever. You're there just to relax, right. Eat a meal, drink a couple craft beers, bs with your buddies or your wife or whatever and, like you said, play games. And then you get out of there. Yeah, eat your von Hansen's pretzels juice.
Speaker 1:You know you had to bring it up.
Speaker 2:I Saw the twinkle in your eye. You were thinking about oh.
Speaker 1:My goodness, amanda thinks that they're gonna eventually hear this and they're gonna like send me like a box full of pretzels Again. I don't hate von Hansen's pretzels, it just makes me think every time gourmet pretzels I think of, like the Belgian soft pretzels you know, like a big one, center size of your head and that's not at all what they ever are, and I get it and I'm like oh, okay.
Speaker 1:If I knew that's what I was going for, you know they'd be fine. It's like when you try to take a sip of sort of pop when you go to some place or whatever and you think Dr Pepper, but it ends up being root beer, you know? I mean, like what you think may or may not be good, but what your mind is expecting. If that's not it, then it's just disappointing because that's what you're hoping. It may be better than what you were gonna get, but it just mentally you're like, well, I'm not there now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I definitely know the feeling for sure when you're mentally prepared for something good and you get a little tub of dried pretzels yeah right, perfect, right. Yeah, it's not great, not great. Well, at least they have multiple flavors, though. You know, there you can choose from, oh, absolutely, variety of flavors, and they von Hansen's, if you're listening. You need a sponsor. We'll sponsor you.
Speaker 1:I'm happy to bring it up every single podcast.
Speaker 2:The podcast. Right, we'll put a label right down there on the bottom.
Speaker 1:So that's our a director story. That's kind of what I have for a director. I mean there's different reviews that they have out there from different places, but that's kind of the background of a director that that we're aware of and kind of our take on this super mega logger Classy increase.
Speaker 2:Nice. Yeah, it's a good beer. I'd recommend trying it if you haven't tried it. If you like loggers out there, go ahead and give it a try. It seems like a cool brewery, a good place to go. We should probably go check it out. Probably should and I like their, their theme. They're kind of like their Viking Icelandic Type theme. You know, with their logo and grew Hala, how they they call it that.
Speaker 1:They do have a on their website. Under the beers column there is a beer finder so you can be able to find out where they distribute to. They do have a pretty decent distributorship, but they have try to zoom in on it a little bit. A lot of it is going to be kind of Minnesota, north Dakota ish, so it's not like it's a massive distributorship. But even on their website, where they show some of the locations, they actually distributed a fair amount. More than that, because this shows it doesn't even make it same cloud, let alone Minneapolis, st Paul, but I typically have gotten this in Minneapolis or St Paul that's actually where I got this from was at the Dabbler depot on West 7th in St Paul so Was down there and I found that there.
Speaker 1:So it's Definitely something that you can be able to Find. Let's, let's try something else here search radius of a hundred miles from there. Oh, yeah, yeah, you put it. Yeah, there we go. Now I got a lot more locations. Even in Malacca there's some locations Princeton Foley, the old brick, whatever it's called old log liquor on 169. That's in the middle of nowhere, right? So, yeah, they distribute pretty wide so you can get it, not everywhere, but deal with just about anywhere. Most liquor stores be able to have that and you be able to get it there. So I definitely recommend getting it now.
Speaker 1:You're giving it a shot. I said pretty solid stuff and good. Good things, definitely, and good people. Let's see here. I thought I had a fun trivia fact for a second, but now I'm not able to Find what it was. I was trying to find the the weight of the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1:I don't know what made me think of it, but the website that I went to, whatever it just talks about how it's the only one that's not reproduced every year, because he's the same cup. They just take a ring off the bottom when it's full, because they put the entire team's roster on there right, and so they just take the ring off the bottom whenever you know. They get a Whenever they fill one of the rings, essentially. So where does the ring go? They do save it, and that's what I was trying to find, because the first team to have engraved was the 1906 1907 Montreal wanderers and the 1914 15 Vancouver millionaires also engraved nine names inside the bowl. So, oh, here we go. It is a 35 and a quarter inches tall and weighs 34 and a half pounds.
Speaker 2:That's a hefty weight for that thing.
Speaker 1:It is definitely a good-sized deal. So it's not fake, that's for sure. No, definitely not. Typically, when somebody wins it, everybody on the team is given one 24-hour day with the cup and it's kind of funny to see what people do with it. Some people will use it for like a popcorn bowl, some people will try to drink out of it.
Speaker 1:You know some people just Around town and try to be able to do some of that stuff. So kind of interesting to see if nothing else like it's. So many times, you see, like super, all the little party trophy is like All right, well, now we give it to the owner and nobody gets to touch it for the rest of eternity and it just sits in a case. It's in a case, yeah, but the Stanley Cup, but even though it's handled by a guy with white gloves, it's definitely like a. Well, you get it today and you get to do whatever you want to do every want with it for a day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's pretty cool how the NHL does that with the people that win the Stanley Cup with all of the rings.
Speaker 1:How would it be 100? No, 100 inches doesn't seem right Now. I'm never gonna find it in that time. But yeah, they keep taking the rings off, because otherwise it'd be something like 12 feet tall. If it were to be doing that, that would be great.
Speaker 2:They must keep the rings in, like the Hall of Fame or something. I'm sure they've got them stored somewhere.
Speaker 1:Let's see here three and a half feet, but that's, I think, just part of the bands there. So yeah, it's a pretty good size cup. It's a three-foot cup right now, but if you would add that it'd be another three feet over the top of that, so it'd be a pretty big cup. So it's a pretty big cup. So that's my random fact for the day.
Speaker 2:Perfect, I'll go back to drinking my beer, which is a good beer Super Mega Lager from Drecker, and it's good stuff. All right, you ready for some stupid news Bring?
Speaker 1:it.
Speaker 2:Stupid crazy news.
Speaker 1:Bring it on All right.
Speaker 2:so I came across this stuff over the weekend so I thought it might be kind of fun to talk about Florida man does yeah.
Speaker 2:So this is I don't know, I'm assuming from India. So, like the headline of the article is pigeon suspected of being a Chinese spy cleared by Indian police. So this is a New Delhi, india. The Indian police cleared a suspected Chinese spy pigeon after eight months detention and released into the wild. Tuesday News agency, press trust of India reported Apparently we got a spy pigeon Like I get that back in the day, maybe you know, but today we're using pigeons as spies. The pigeons are due to begin in May. When it was captured near a port in Mumbai with two rings tied to its legs, carrying words that looks, chinese Police suspected it was involved in espionage and took it in later, sending it to Mumbai's Hospital for Animals.
Speaker 1:So what's remarkable to me, in a way, is that they didn't kill this bird. Right if it's like don't get me wrong, like I'm fine that they didn't, but at the same time you'd think it's a pigeon. How long does the pigeon gonna last for in the first place? And you get rings on the feet. So clearly it's been into some stuff Anything.
Speaker 1:You don't just like, you don't just like doing espionage, yeah you don't just take out like a gun and just put a couple in them and you know like all right now we're gonna put it in a box and send it to the CIA of India.
Speaker 2:Just be done with it already. So eventually it turned out that the pigeon was an open water racing bird from Taiwan that escaped and made its way to India With police permission. The bird was transferred to some animal doctor society and they released it on Tuesday. The Mumbai police cannot be reached for comment.
Speaker 1:I feel like this should be a movie. It just is mind boggling to me. I have so many questions.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's kind of crazy. And that's not the first time it's happened over there in India either. Apparently, several other occasions these birds have come under suspicion of espionage and spy rings. What are you clear that?
Speaker 1:Like do you get the light shining?
Speaker 2:Where did you come from? Where did you come from Waterboarding the pigeon?
Speaker 1:Tell me now.
Speaker 2:Grip on a feather Lie detector test. Apparently, in 2020, a police in Indian-controlled cashmere released a pigeon belonging to a Pakistani fisherman after a probe found that the bird, which had flown across heavily and militarized border between the nuclear invasions, was not a spy.
Speaker 1:Thank God.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because a pigeon that can manage to fly across the border between two nuclear armed nations, that's a apparently. That's quite an achievement and thank God it's not a spy.
Speaker 1:I mean I can't fly, so I guess it's got that on me.
Speaker 2:And apparently in 2016, another pigeon was taken into custody after it was found with a note that had threatened the Indian prime minister at the time, which I can't pronounce his name, so I won't even try. This is all India. This is all India. They've got a. Really they're concerned about pigeons, Not that maybe pigeons couldn't be concerned about, because I suppose you can train them to do things.
Speaker 1:It's not maybe out of the ordinary, but they keep this up, the aviary community is going to cry foul.
Speaker 2:To literally, To literally cry a foul, Then detain a pigeon for eight months because you're suspected of espionage is completely hilarious in this tech, modern world, the 2024. Do you think you'd be more concerned if you're concerned about a Chinese pigeon? Wouldn't you be concerned about TikTok that the CCP controls?
Speaker 1:Well, you know, even so, this pigeon's got to be like the worst spy ever. If it's like, blatantly, if you get somebody that's a spy, let's say we're going to go ahead and we're going to send Jason Bourne, a super spy, over to the Ukraine or wherever that we're going to send them, but we make them wear a Team USA jacket while they go over there. Like this pigeon had the symbols on his legs, it's like you think he would just not have anything.
Speaker 2:Like what is this pigeon?
Speaker 1:going to do Like? Is it going to come back and be like swack rock, swack, swack, swack, swack, swack, swack? Oh, that's where they're moving the army. I don't understand. Like what is this pigeon? Did the camera mount it on its head? It was at the giveaway.
Speaker 2:It must have been. Apparently it's better than a drone in satellite imagery. Apparently that they're concerned.
Speaker 1:This pigeon is trained in as a sketch artist.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I couldn't believe that when I read that, I'm like, yeah, I'm going to capture that and maybe we can throw it on the podcast and talk about this crazy spy pigeon.
Speaker 1:I feel like on this podcast we've come up with about three different movie ideas that we're going to have to recreate.
Speaker 2:Maybe we should write a movie start writing a script. All right, here's another crazy story. I don't know this. Maybe isn't quite as funny, but maybe it is. I know this happened in Manchester, new Hampshire, apparently so, not India.
Speaker 1:Not India.
Speaker 2:We're in the United States now and how this happens is beyond me. I don't quite understand this, but I thought it was fairly comical. So in Manchester, new Hampshire, a woman fell into a dumpster wall throwing out her garbage and was later rescued from a trash truck that had compacted the contents while she was inside. So if you're throwing away garbage, how do you, did you fall into the dumpster and then the garbage truck picked it up and dumped it in the top and set it, and now you're inside the dumpster or inside the garbage truck. How quickly did all of this happen?
Speaker 1:And how big was this dumpster?
Speaker 2:Like it doesn't really say but luckily neighbors heard her screams and the trash compartment was equipped with a camera that the driver spotted her inside the back of his truck After he already compacted the trash four times you know the garbage trucks.
Speaker 2:Okay, had a hydraulic thing that pushes the trash for her. Hmm, who would throw this away? So how do you get inside of a garbage truck? You don't throw your own trash into the garbage truck, no, you usually put it into container. You pull it to the end of the driveway or if you live in an apartment or something, you throw your bag into a big dumpster, like did it knock her out or something.
Speaker 1:Because I've seen the trash can that I have and not that I'm exactly like Manute Bull or anything like that, but you think that if you fall into a trash container of the size that I have, at least you know how you resolve this problem.
Speaker 2:You stand up Like even if you're in a dumpster. Right Like how do you not get out of a dumpster?
Speaker 1:I don't understand. I mean thankfully. Clearly the garbage truck must have been pretty empty, so it didn't really squish very much.
Speaker 2:No, the article goes on to say that she didn't appear to have any injuries. They had to use a basket ladder to reach the top of the truck to lift her out. But by then she was standing talking, yelling, yelling, because you have to yell, you know?
Speaker 1:I mean, if I got, crushed four times, I'd probably be a little frustrated. Yeah, I'm gonna want like free trash service for like a month and a half or something.
Speaker 2:You would think so, but apparently, according to the news release that released this article, she wasn't alert enough to answer questions, so apparently something must have happened to her.
Speaker 1:Was she not alert enough? Or was she still swearing so badly that they didn't have any usable audio Like oh yeah, she sorry, we couldn't. Meanwhile, you see, is her with just a bunch of like foul language on her cover, in her mouth.
Speaker 2:And a peel on her head. I don't know what the heaven.
Speaker 1:Hymer blah blah blah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just don't get it. I just don't understand how that happens. I just thought that was hilarious. They wanted to share that. How does that happen?
Speaker 1:That is remarkable.
Speaker 2:Like I thought about it for a couple of days, like how do you get into a trash receptacle not be able to get yourself out, knowing how big a container is, that you pulled in a driveway or a commercial sized dumpster, and then you get end up inside a garbage truck somehow?
Speaker 1:I need more answers. This is there's details missing here.
Speaker 2:Well, you'll get your more answers after you drink another beer, because the best answers always come after you have a couple beers, you're not wrong, especially from a record.
Speaker 1:These are the facts of life.
Speaker 2:One more crazy thing to talk about. It's kind of interesting. The Valentine's Day, of course, will have happened a few days ago by the time you hear this, but apparently there's a car scrapping company in Britain, because now we're going across the pond, there we go.
Speaker 1:Now we're in.
Speaker 2:Britain and they're in. This car company is offering you a chance to send your former lover to the junk heap for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1:Oh, and then?
Speaker 2:smash that guy, smash that shit, get in there.
Speaker 2:Whatever you want to do. There we are. So the company is named Scrap Car Comparison and they announced it's Scrap your X program. It will allow people to have cars named after their exes before being sent to the scrap heap in the crusher Crusher. So they say it's offering a unique form for anyone that has recently gone through a breakup. The Scrap your X scheme is open for a limited time to anyone worldwide who wants to trash the memories of a past relationship or even nominate a friend's ex that deserves to be junked, the company said in the news release. Anyone seeking to have their ex scrapped for Valentine's Day simply has to put their name into an online form and explain why their particular ex or lover deserves to end up in the dump.
Speaker 1:I would love to read some of these entries that would be fantastic what their deal is.
Speaker 2:I wonder how much it costs. I didn't go to the website to do any research on how much it costs. Like, if you guys want to, you guys can look it up in Britain, Do whatever you wanna do any listeners out there. But each car scrapped during the promotion will have a chosen ex name written on a chassis.
Speaker 1:The person who nominated their ex for scrapping will receive photographic evidence of the deed you know, what would be even better is if you had the ability to actually press the button to crush it. That'd be great. I had somebody actually one time I was trying to fix a car and the guy's like this just isn't gonna work, so you bring it here to crush it. I'll even let you press the button. And I was like, well, that sounds fun, but I would kinda like the car, like I wanted to fix the car, but that would be kind of fun, like if that's something you're wanting to do, whatever, like if I could press the button, I would absolutely get in on something like that and make it more fun.
Speaker 1:And it almost makes me sound like there where you have to send in like the description of why this person deserves to be on there. Is there somebody then that judges this, or do they just accept all entries you?
Speaker 2:know what I mean. That's some, and what are the reasons.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of criteria that's gotta go into this, a lot of thought too. Is this general hate or is this saltiness? Is this really actually their own fault? Is this like I'm curious, now that I have a vehicle, nor an ex of a vehicle that I'd want to crush with said program, or live in England, so none of the things work out for me?
Speaker 2:I don't think I really well. It's open worldwide, remember. So you can email it in and put your ex's name on the car.
Speaker 1:So I could ship a vehicle over there to be able to that sounds.
Speaker 2:You could or they probably have a bunch in the scrap yard that they just spray paint your name on. Oh.
Speaker 1:I suppose. So You're not actually giving a vehicle there, no, just crushing vehicles that are already gonna be crushed. They need to be crushed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they just put the name of said individual on the vehicle.
Speaker 1:This is the point where at some point with video the little light bulb ding like pops on the top of my head and then I'm like, oh, there we go.
Speaker 2:So go to scrap car comparison or Google search that you can probably find out how much it costs. If it costs anything for their five minutes of spray painting the name on there.
Speaker 1:What is the name of the website there?
Speaker 2:It's not necessarily a website, but look up scrap car comparison in the UK.
Speaker 1:Scrap car comparison.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that seems to be the name of the company anyway.
Speaker 1:Scrap car comparison. Let's see here the British company.
Speaker 2:See if anything comes up there on the Google.
Speaker 1:Stuff there. Scrap car comparison UK. Let's see, here they give you the best price for your car. I mean, at least that's what they say. Scrap car guaranteed prices. I'm not seeing anything on there, but that would be kind of interesting to be able to. I'm sure it's on here somewhere, maybe I'm just not done.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it would be called scrap your ex program.
Speaker 1:I'll may have to do a little bit more research on this one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll see if we can come up with anything on there by the next episode and see if we can recap a little bit.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, we'll have to bring that out in a future episode, possibly Invictus. Yeah, scrap your ex UPI. Oh, I think this is the article that you were just reading. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah actually it is.
Speaker 1:But I can click on the oh, here we go. Now I'm into the form to be able to get in here. Let's see here. Yeah, there's a car there that has Joe written on the side of it. They have to be.
Speaker 2:What a bastard.
Speaker 1:Entries have to be in by February 14th, which the math adds up on that one. Let's see here Name, email phone address, ex's name and would you like scrap your ex's name after your car? Or why? It just says that. So it's just a form.
Speaker 2:I don't think that there's any costs associated.
Speaker 1:This might be just a gratis opportunity. So if you're looking to be able to do something for free, who doesn't like something for free? Everybody likes free stuff. I like free stuff, so they'll send you a picture of it. They'll do the whole bit. So, yeah, I think this is gonna be a fantastic little deal. Yeah, we're gonna give it a shot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so go along with that. Are you ready for a couple of facts before I'm done here? Let's do it All right. So, since I asked to go with Valentine's Day, you know what happens on Valentine's Day? Yeah, lovey, you're expected to do things with your wife and your girlfriend. You know all the fun stuff that goes into Well, I'm gonna go play volleyball, being an adult. So I just happen to stumble across this For most babies born, because that's usually what happens at for Valentine's.
Speaker 2:Day maybe eight, nine months, right, so most babies born by one woman. Oh you got a guess of a number.
Speaker 1:Well, I know that there was the Octomarm at one point in time that was eight, but I feel like there was that was at one time. Yeah, I feel like there was another one that had 11 or something like that.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna say 11. All right, so this was a Russian woman.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And I don't know the years of the timeframe, but my God, probably no-. My God, Probably no.
Speaker 1:Men's just gave her a bottle of carcass and just popped the top and like all right, let's go.
Speaker 2:She needed a lot more than that Oof, so this lady had 69 kids 69 kids. They're in her lifetime, oh this is over the course of life.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there we go. Okay, gotcha, not at one time, not at one time there we go, there we go.
Speaker 1:Okay, that makes sense 69 kids Over the course of her life. So Even if you wait till you're 10 before you start which I know what I'm saying by saying do you wait till you're 10, but that's carry the one like you're well into your 70s, even if you're just going like bam, bam, bam, bam bam. I mean I guess you get a couple of twos or threes in there.
Speaker 2:So that's it. So that's how she got to 69. There was a lot of twos and threes in there. She gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quads, quadruplets, quadruplets.
Speaker 1:So she only gave birth like four times I'd said.
Speaker 2:That is insane. Wow, you think after like a couple, you tell your husband we're done with that.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Like we're done.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, first, I don't know the time this happened. I couldn't find years or dates or anything. It was just one of those. Did you know, racks?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that I used to work with a guy that back to back within the span of like one of those 18 months kind of turnarounds, nine, and then all of a sudden pregnant right away in another nine months, kind of bit Triplets both times. So a year and a half went from zero to six kids all under the age of one.
Speaker 2:I couldn't do it. I'm like, how do?
Speaker 1:you not just oh, that is, it's a better, better person than nine?
Speaker 2:I can barely do it now. A three well, two 18 year olds and one 17 year old. I'm almost 17. I'm done Like I'm spent.
Speaker 1:So you do, you do the math. I mean not really the math, but like okay, so you got 69 kids, but you had you know how many different quads and a couple of triplets. There's a chance that you, you know, like you're saying, you got three teens. Let's say you have under your house in the 12, we'll say 13 ish, because then their teens 13 to 17. So maybe some of them got their license or something like that, but you got 23 kids at home. That's crazy.
Speaker 1:Like dad, I need the new pair of jibos because that's what the cool kids have at school and they need to be ripped. And you know, I need some nikes because I'm going to go out for the biafala honors.
Speaker 2:I don't know, some Velcro ever last shoes from Pimaida.
Speaker 1:This is how places like Pimaida stayed in business for so many years, and we'll go to the Shalom shop and we'll pick you out a nice pair of used wranglers 50 cents. We might just rob them. We're just gonna you know like everything's a dollar. I don't care, I'm taking this.
Speaker 2:This is crazy Wow that is a huh. That's aggressive 69 kids and at some point they're all gonna need a cell phone. Yeah, I'm gonna need a new one. That's, I got another fact about cell phones.
Speaker 1:That's why I'm trying to lead that into.
Speaker 2:So you're gonna need a cell phone with all those kids.
Speaker 1:I wonder if they have a group chat. They probably do or if they named them all George, like George for no, that would be a nightmare, wouldn't it?
Speaker 2:so I got a fact about cell phone too excited a new cell phone, so this kind of came across my computer this past week. Fact about cell phone you know, we all have the smartphones now I have the s21 ultra I think Samsung's coming out with with the s24 now here in the next month or something. But if you don't have a Samsung or an Android, you're ridiculous. Don't buy Apple. All you Apple lovers out there.
Speaker 1:This the amount of judgment that I get. It's so terrible from people that judge the fact that I have any Android. I'm like, okay, I get it and droids. You can be wrong or no, because I had, I had both at one point in time and it was just terrible and you know that's fine, you'll be you, I'll be me. Quit being so, judgy. Just have a beer and calm down.
Speaker 2:Anyway. So everybody in my house has an Apple except for me. I'm the only Android. And who are the only the people that complain about their phone all the time Not working or glitching or this or that? Not me.
Speaker 1:I don't have problems with my. My phone's great. I don't have any issues whatsoever.
Speaker 2:No, so IBM. You know, ibm sold smartphones. I was unaware they did. They had a smartphone with a touchscreen display, input. They could send emails and run third-party apps.
Speaker 1:In In 1994 I feel like I heard that at one point in time, I don't remember where or why, maybe it was for trivia or something like that. But that's on a real like I don't like to have like touchscreen, I mean run third-party apps. I mean what third-party apps are available?
Speaker 2:1994, right. It probably would have been like a business app or Something like that.
Speaker 1:I would assume right spreadsheet, maybe I remember snake in the the Probably early 90s, so maybe even around then. My aunt had a Old what was it? Buick regal or something, I think is what was, but it had, like the, the computer-ish looking screen. It was just like that kind of a brownish background.
Speaker 1:Whatever but the green green, you know. You know I'm talking about like every screen looked like that in that era, but it was push button, but it was touchscreen. No, I think it was only touchscreen in those spots, so I don't know if it was just that or if it was like true touchscreen, but that was. It was like one of the first iterations and I thought that was just amazing, right, the coolest thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think regals had those and View of graviere has had those two. I've seen those on those, those touch screens from back then. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:That was a super cool stuff. Slam my brother's thumb in a trunk of that thing. I'll go closing truck. I thought it'd be kind of funny to be able to like fake like that. Well, and it grabbed that it like.
Speaker 2:They really mean to do that. Apparently he wasn't paying attention.
Speaker 1:Well, he he had as he was messing around like throwing his hand in there.
Speaker 2:We were trying to get ready to go sledding or something like that.
Speaker 1:So I'm like, oh well, fine, I'll just shut it on there, and he's even know, you won't, we're sounds like Pete, a job he did exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know he's such a pain in the ass.
Speaker 1:He had to be in the last laugh, though, because he got all the treats that day.
Speaker 2:He was completely fine.
Speaker 1:No, but of course he's got to make it a big drama like oh my god, andy, so mean, I was always the mean mean brother. That's fine. Well, that's our I think that's our episode. Here a director on a Fargo super mega logger Check it out. Pretty good stuff. So yeah, find it just about anywhere and kind of like our podcast. You can find just about anywhere all the major platforms like share, subscribe, tell your friends, tell your cousins, tell your enemies, tell the pigeon it's gonna head back to.
Speaker 1:Tell your spy pigeon what's going on. Be able to get that information out there for us. But yeah, if you got any feedback at all, you know, definitely hit us up on the socials. You know, only Just give us a comment, suggest a beer or just a gives feedback on what you think of the episode or, well, some of the stuff that we talked about. You know, maybe you've been in the presence of the Stanley Cup, maybe you've touched the Stanley Cup, maybe we got a listener out there somewhere. That would be one the Stanley Cup. Because I swear to God, if we get that person on the broadcast for their one day with the cup, that would be cool. I would just I'd give up at that point because there would be nothing cooler. And to be able to happen at that point in time, so yeah, if we could make that happen, I don't think there's any world, but that'd be amazing.
Speaker 1:That would be absolutely so anybody out there that's trying to cancel our podcast, get that hooked up, and then That'll that'll make it happen. So well, yeah, I think that's pretty much all we got anything from you, sean.
Speaker 2:No, thanks a lot for listening everybody.
Speaker 1:We really appreciate it and God bless y'all and we'll talk to you next time here on two guys To be your podcast Cheers you.
