The Ninth Fit - The Return of Beanie

Recorded 12 August, 2019

• Welcome back!
  • But it isn’t Goth Rock Season 2, sorry.
• We recap our summer
• Coco bought/paid off a car
  • Old Toyota ad campaigns… Oh, what a feeling!
  • Heart of a Honda.
• Leaving work and Syd finds… BEANIE!!!
  • An unattended beanie signals The Return of Beanie!
• Drinking a not that great beer
  • Last Call Brewery in Oakdale, Cali Blonde, #Disappointed
  • Beer flights come in 4, 5, or 20, right?
• Count of 10 taps and what selections you might get.
  • The IPA crowd, specifically the West Coast IPA crowd
• Dust Bowl Brewery, Turlock
  • Fruit Tramp Stamp, it was good
  • But not as good as the Bourbon Barrel Aged Porter!!!
    • Smelling the crematorium in Colma
  • Not a fan of Taco Truck Lager
• Blaker Brewery, Ceres
  • Haven’t been there yet
• We are beer snobs and will give bad reviews on our podcast if a brewery isn’t good!!!
• #AcrossThePond
  • The official podcast of Brexit? No.
• Tapped Apple cider house, Salida
• Don’t cater to hipsters, don’t open in downtown?
  • Syd read something about a brewery in Modesto because he was trying to get the news feed app straightened out
• The Market on 7^th Street in Modesto
• Contentment Brewery, Modesto
  • Near MJC
• New school year starts next week
• Charles wants to stand on Syd
• Syd hasn’t started to build the shed yet…
  • Because he lost his ATM card. Twice!
• Fall Sparge is coming up (So is Syd’s birthday)
• 60 is the new 40
  • And Syd thinks the phrase is silly
• Syd understands flannels
  • And wallet chains, which Syd made himself.
  • “Jenko Jeans are the new flannel”
• Coco is buying a foam padded cane.
  • Because Syd will get arthritis the morning of his 50^th
  • Tennis balls, dog balls, whatever…
• Nice weather reminds Syd of his youth.
• Coco makes up a nonsense world where there is no wine or scotch and only one mediocre beer.
  • Human-living bacteria/yeast make wine
  • Yeast poop out alcohol and burp out carbon dioxide
    • Syd tries to balance an equation to convert sugar to alcohol
  • Georgian wine, not the state, the country.
  • Johnnie Walker Blue Label
    • People know about it and it is expensive
    • Syd wants to try it
    • Also Oban 14, Lagavulin 16, Laphroaig Quarter Cask, Glenlivet 21 year(?), or at least 15 year French Oak, Balvenie, it’s all expensive
    • Wine, Lucca
  • ABBAcadabra
    • Clip 1
  • Talking about other clips…
  • Last podcast was Syd’s salty podcast, and he apologizes for his saltiness.
  • Bears are repeating
    • HIPPIE JAM BULLSHIT!
  • A t-shirt of that would be cool, but not awesome, apparently
    • It would be awesome with links for our podcast on it, though
  • What is MeWe’s logo?
  • ABBAcadabra
    • Clip 2 – a mini Peanut Butter and Beanie.
    • Which has a callback to Clip 1
  • Need another beer
    • Syd talks about his dog
  • BeerSMR
    • Accident in Hubbard’s Cave
    • The Illinois that belongs to Nile
    • “It’s like you’re putting tar on a hot roof.” Best quote from the pod!
  • Coco did not work for the marketing department of Nestle’s Quik back in the day
  • Cougar sounds
  • No cool names like “Cougar” for men
    • Silver Fox?
    • Sugar Daddy? Cause they got money! And they aren’t an animal
      • Coco is out
    • Syd is more rounded and less foxy
  • Is Syd a Bear? Even though he’s not gay…
    • He doesn’t have a lumberjack body
      • But he has the height…
    • Burgeoning Irish Pot Belly, AKA spare tire or middle-aged spread
    • Love Handles vs Muffin Tops
    • Otters (gay men, not the cute animals)
    • Hipsters, please stop
      • IPAs are only popular due to peer pressure and high ABV
      • Bitter beers are good, but not when they hang on your tongue for a week
    • Beer talk with Syd and Coco
    • Charlie smiles, or maybe growls, or snarls, or something.
      • Gonna get another dog…eventually
      • But it’s gotta be a smaller dog
      • And what will we name it?
    • Good dog names
      • Cricket
      • Roxanne? No.
        • Gender Pacific?
      • Hazel, kinda sounds like coffee or an old German woman
      • Stucco is on the wall, not on the wall
        • But not Vans or Michael Jackson
        • Unless it is a black and white dog
      • Not Rambo
      • Not Bruiser
      • Heathcliff?
      • John Cleese?
      • John Cleese Van Damme?
      • Portuguese Joao Quiejo?
        • No one can pronounce Joao, though.
      • Manny? No.
      • Maria? No.
      • Manuel? Manuel Frank?
    • Portuguese pronunciation
      • Vs Spanish, Vs French
      • And Italian…
        • Syd pretends to know about the history of the Italian peninsula
        • Also the Iberian peninsula
      • This has been geographical history
        • Languages and breverages!
      • Back to dog names
        • Step Ladder?
        • Smart animal names
          • Eugene and Fletcher
          • Happy Days call back
        • And we talk about Grease
          • “Let’s hear it for the toilet paper!”
          • Syd has seen Grease too much, and West Side Story not nearly enough
        • And then Shakespeare
          • Because Shakespeare liked to kill people
          • Like Titus Andronicus, which is brutal!
          • And there is very silly comedy
            • Like Taming of the Shrew
          • Recording for over an hour…
          • Wrap it up
            • Contact information again!
              • Discord, MeWe, Slack
            • We don’t do Facebook, Twitter, Instagram for the show
            • Podbean! That’s where you can find these notes (self-referencial)
            • Back catalog
          • Our cat is talking to us from inside the house
          • But accept no invitations!
          • We’re going to do Goth Rock Challenge!!!
          • And we’re out!!!
          • Except for ABBAcadabra Clip 3