Brews N' Reviews - First Takes of Fallout; Tiny Bomb

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We ride together, we die together and we bear voice for life.

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Get busy living or get busy dying Gang first last, are you not?

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Entertained.

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Are you not entertained?

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Are you not entertained?

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Welcome to Brews and Reviews with Mick and Pat.

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I'm Mick.

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And I'm Pat, and each week we sit down with you, degenerates to pretend we're certified Cicerones and Cinephiles.

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That is right.

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So grab a cold one and join us as we review Wiseacre Brewings Tiny Bomb and give our first takes of Fallout.

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And if you've been with us before, you know what time it is.

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Release the Kraken.

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Alrighty, that smells good.

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Well, I think.

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To me.

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I mean it kind of does.

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But I think that's because I'm just trained.

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Just trained Because I also like my brain's, also like mm beer, but then it says mm dog food, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

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What is what's?

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Did we check the date on the can this week?

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No, I don't think there is a date on the can no because if you joined us for our last Brews and Reviews, the beer we had, the beer that will not be named, why not?

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I mean, yes, we should.

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It's the Strawberry Moon by Launchpad.

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We freaking roast Hooch Booch.

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That's true.

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This is the new.

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The Strawberry Launchpad and the Hooch Boo boot should get together and have a baby.

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The strawberry launch pad was honestly worse than the hooch boot, I think oh yeah, you know what I mean.

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Hands down.

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And so this week we are after something different.

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This week we're after the American Pilsner by Wiseacre Brewery.

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And on this can here.

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I like it.

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It's bright, this feels summery.

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This is kind of one of the first warm weeks of summer we've had, you know.

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Yeah.

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It's kind of that shift from spring to summer is happening and Pilsners for me are always a good summery beer and it's got this summer vibes on here.

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But in the background of this summer Vibes is A bomb With the fuse lit about to go off, and A tiny bomb it is.

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It is a tiny bomb right back there in the corner and we got 4.5 Alcohol by volume.

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Not much else written on this besides that it's brewed by the good folks At Wiseacre Brewing Company In Memphis, Tennessee.

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Else written on this besides that it's a brewed by the good folks at wise acre brewing company in memphis, tennessee, which here's the thing I've realized I definitely start, I've definitely started stepping out on local colorado breweries, because my theory is, if a brewery gosh there, it is, here it goes, just can't even speak straight.

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If a brewery hey, will you just say it for me If a brewery from independent brewers is out of state and can, you know, make it to Colorado with the type of competition that is here, then I kind of think that it might be better than 50% of the you know independent brewers that are in Colorado.

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You know, that's kind of some of my logic there, because they've had to fight their way in.

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Yeah, so I don't know.

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I don't know, but I definitely think there might be something to it.

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What I do like about the head of your beer right now is that that looks like pee.

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It does that looks like pee.

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That looks like a.

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It's like the soapy bubbly, yeah, a later it's like a 49-year-old male.

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What the hell?

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That's my pee.

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That was my pee this morning.

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I'm a 29 year old male.

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He maybe had a Partook the night before Of the night time things.

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And that's what your beer looks like, just a fresh morning pee.

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But I'm not going to judge it based off that.

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I'm going to judge it based off of it's flavor, off of it's taste.

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But before we get into the taste of this beer, let's see who's brewing it.

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I'm not going to judge it based off that.

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I'm going to judge it based off of its flavor, off of its taste.

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But before we get into the taste of this beer, let's see who's brewing it.

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And we got two brothers, davin or Davin.

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Davin and Kellen.

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Bartosz Wow, some like them.

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Some Davin I don't dude, yeah.

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When I just hear Davin I'm like that is a white kid born after 1995.

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Davin and Kellen.

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Hey, you can't blame their parents.

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You got to blame their parents for it, and I love it.

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At the top of the page it says teamwork makes the dream work.

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Classic, love it.

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I bet those guys came up with that line.

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That's awesome.

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But on here it says Our Journey and I actually like their Our Journey, our Story page.

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They actually have a map of starting in 1997, leading up to 2013.

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These brothers kind of adventures and the adventure starts off with 1997.

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Steal parents' rental car and drive to Sam Adams Brewery while in high school.

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So that's how these two kicked it off together Little Grand Theft Auto, underage drinking at Sam Adams Brewery.

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Fast forwarding through the years, how did they do that?

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I mean, I don't know.

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It doesn't say it just says they did A little bit of shade to Sam Adams Brewery for letting these underage minors get in there.

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But you know, then it has some of their stuff, you know, being college freshmen going to Oktoberfest getting their first jobs as beer distributors and these sorts of things, and it goes through the years and then one of the guys, kellen, became a level two certified Cicerone and but that idiot paid for it too.

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Yeah, exactly, we didn't pay for any of our certifications.

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Exactly, and as a fake Cicerone I will say I didn't even I didn't know there were levels to it.

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You're a fake Cicerone.

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We pretend I just downloaded someone else's certification.

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I just like Photoshopped my name onto it.

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Get like a badge.

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That'd actually be a good idea when you walk into breweries.

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If there was like an official Cicerone badge, then you could make a fake.

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I bet everyone would be like oh my God, it's this guy.

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Yeah, but then they'd be like, oh, try our beer, get getting the free drinks.

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I don't know if they would do.

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I bet I feel like cisterns and small liais are like detested by small, like craft breweries and wineries.

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It could be true.

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Think about it.

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Do you want the atf showing up to your like gun booth?

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no, no, I don't, oh man.

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So these guys out of memphis brewing beer for a while now.

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And well, what's the deal?

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The american pilsner?

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I feel like I've had a lot of pillagers I like, but not a lot that I can name.

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I just know, in general, when it says pilsner, I usually kind of like it.

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Yeah you know and you know you know you're drinking something that's kind of liquid food like.

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It's gonna kind of taste like a meal, you know what I mean, and it's gonna be filling, but not like too filling that's right, and I'm trying to remember when's the last time we.

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I really feel like pilsners are kind of like the most burpable beer.

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Yeah, you know what I mean.

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Yep, they are bubbly foamy, as we saw when you poured it.

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But the last Pilsner we did was on our Brews and Reviews of the Bear, season 2.

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And it was the Pilsner.

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The Pilsner, yeah, from oh Adams, something I can't remember the name of it.

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It's the folks who have the beer on the can.

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Yeah, yeah, they have the beer on there, it's not?

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Adams, it's something Valley.

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Yeah, anderson Valley, anderson Valley.

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Yeah, anderson Valley, and they've got that language.

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But anyways, so next Pilsner up is the tiny bomb language, but anyways, so next pilsner up is the tiny bomb and I think it's time for push it through your teeth test.

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Thank you for calling it the right test.

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All right, folks, again, as always, you're going to take a tablespoon amount of the beer into your gullet and you're going to let it roll over the back of your tongue, down the sides of your tongue, and you're going to let it get underneath your tongue and then start swishing it side to side between your molars you know the good old.

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And then you're going to put your tongue against the root of your mouth and push the beer through your front teeth, just like that.

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And yeah, it should bring out all the flavors of the beer.

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And yeah, while I do it, do it, pat.

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Tell us what are you getting out of this?

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What notes?

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that tastes like a beer.

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I'm trying to grab any.

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I don't have any.

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Uh, I have to do a secondary, a secondary one on that one, because it's just um, it just tastes like, like like a beer.

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What do you get?

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Because I need to know too.

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You know, like not as bitter as the pilsner from vanderson valley definitely not as bitter or like sharp, still crispy, but maybe not as crispy as I think I'm used to Pilsner's tasting it almost honestly.

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You know what really comes out.

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I know this is going to sound weird, but if you take a spoon you just lay the Concave side down On your tongue.

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You just let that spoon cover your whole tongue.

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That's what it tastes like.

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It does.

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Dude, tell me I'm, I'm good with these.

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No, I like it.

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It's just around, bro.

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That's what I got.

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The degree, for I agree, did you catch the spiked local wildflower honey in?

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there?

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I did.

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Yeah, that was in there.

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No, I didn't.

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I didn't taste any honey.

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Wasn't there?

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No, I didn't, I didn't taste any honey.

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Um, but one thing I've noticed is that honey flavor and actual like fermented honey tastes nothing alike.

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Yeah, like, and I've just learned that after trying more meads as well as just trying a lot of honey lately.

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Oh yeah, I was really sick, so I was having honey in every cup of tea and stuff right, and I I just think that, uh, I don't know, I don't think we would taste, you wouldn't know what you're like.

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That that's spiked fermented honey, right, that's within it, whatever, I feel like I learned it like when I was 21 and I'd see something that said honey on it and I'd get it Because I was thinking it would be honey-ish, but then it just tastes like a beer.

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Yeah, you know, yeah, which I like dude, I like mead a lot.

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It's good.

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Yeah, I mean, it's good beer that I've actually had in a long time.

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Because I didn't.

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I could not finish that lodge pad brewery beer, that what was it?

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Red moon, blood moon, not blood moon, strawberry moon, strawberry moon.

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I just could not finish it.

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I got maybe like a quarter through the can before.

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I was like dude, I can't do this.

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So I'm gonna say this I'm gonna drink this whole beer.

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I think it tastes good and I, uh, I think it tastes like an american pilsner.

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I think it honestly is actually a pretty good one.

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Like I'm going through my head and I'm like I don't know the last time I felt like I had a pilsner this balanced and not too bitter.

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It's honestly like I want to chew the beer.

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Like the flavor is so good in my opinion that I want to like kind of chew on it.

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Really, yeah, and it's like I don't know man, maybe it is just that dog food weediness that make.

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Maybe it reminds me of like dry cereal a little bit.

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That just is dog food, I guess.

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Yeah, I guess I'm just describing dog food.

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Um, I guess everyone just realized I eat dog mix it.

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I'm just like, I'm just I don't even have a dog.

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No, um, I guess I don't know.

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I think it's good, tell me, what do you?

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think, I think, I think it's good.

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I also think I'm giving it a no thumbs Because I feel like I think we gave the Pilsner a no thumbs.

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Or maybe one thumb.

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One thumb, and I guess maybe it's hard for Pilsners to rise to this wowing factor, but I feel like I could get any, you know, domestic, like I could go into, like you really think so.

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You think any domestic is going to be this balanced not any, but like any is, any is very strong, you know.

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But what I'm saying is I feel like I could be just as happy with like a coors or a rainier, as I am with this in my hand, which I know that's going to make people upset, but that's just how I feel and it, you know, that's, that's where I'm at.

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No Thummer for me, all right, but not a thumb down just like a, just a beer to me yeah, I'll be honest.

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I mean, I don't think it's like knocking my socks off, but and that's what I'm asking too.

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It's like can a pilsner knock your socks?

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off.

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I don't know, I guess I've yet to have one that does Right.

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But I'll say this I think it's good, mm-hmm.

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I think it's good, mm-hmm.

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I think it's better than Yingling however, you say that beer.

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Mm-hmm, and I do like Yingling.

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I think it's better than Coors Mm-hmm.

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I don't know if it's better than Coors Banquet Mm-hmm.

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Yeah.

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And honestly, it does taste like Coors Banquet, yeah.

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So yeah, I'm going to give no thumbs.

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You know what, though?

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You're at the Mickey Pat Show on Brewers and Reviews?

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That's a good rating because, in case you forgot, the scale goes all the way down to four thumbs down and all the way up to four thumbs up.

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So a no thumbs is in the middle.

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Baby no thumbs is going to college.

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You're getting a liberal arts degree, yeah, and afterwards still having a very successful career in telemarketing, yes.

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So nothing to be ashamed of.

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You put bread on the table, baby Mm-hmm, and your parents are proud, and you got kids that are going to college, and they're hopefully not going to get a liberal arts degree.

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All that said, it's good Mm-hmm and no thumbs up is still a good rating here.

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So, hey, wiseacre, wiseacre, wiseacre Also.

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Just not the name, not a memorable name for a brewery.

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You know what I mean.

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Like it's, especially since there's no space.

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It makes me think it's like Whissaker.

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That's what I was having trouble.

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I'm thinking it's German.

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Yeah, maybe it's not.

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Wiseacre.

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Yeah, maybe it is.

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Maybe I'm saying it wrong, but thought those tennessee boys might be just saying wiseacre.

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Yeah, anyways, all I said good beer, viceacre, wiseacre.

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Uh, I'm happy we picked it up originally.

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Unfortunately, uh, there was a beer called apocalypse ipa made by 10 barrel I believe they're called 10 barrel brewery and I was gonna get that, but they couldn't find it at the liquor store, um, and I thought that one was gonna go really well.

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But, but tiny bombs goes well with our show fallout, because the opening few minutes you realize what's called fallout, the fallout radiation baby.

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Um, excuse me, but anyways, uh, getting into the show fallout, um, and you know, as always, if you haven't been with us before, this is your warning of spoilers, for at least you know the first episode, because this is a first takes, um, and if we think the show's good enough for it, we'll do a full season review of the show, uh, but in our first takes we essentially just give our first opinions, kind of brief them to the point of the uh, debut episode, the pilot, right, and uh, with that, there's no real way to do that without giving some spoilers of you know the first episode.

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So no season-wide spoilers here, but definitely like just to be aware if you're, and with that, there's no real way to do that without giving some spoilers of the first episode.

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So no season wide spoilers here, but definitely like just to be aware.

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If you're hoping that we don't spoil the show, don't listen.

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But in that Fallout, which is based on this awesome video game series the plot you know from IMDb is in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, brought about by nuclear decimation.

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Citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants and bandits.

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It's based on the massively successful RPG video game series where players of the game must survive the bizarre and deadly wasteland of a post-war booms America.

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Post-war booms if you're not familiar with that terminology, that's just like the term for the post-1950s, into 1960s, pre-70s revolution, right, the kind of like whole, like baby boomer one job, you work at the same company forever, it pays you enough money to buy a house and send your kids to college, buy a car and it's, you know, it's like that classic, very like patriotic commercial, um or vibe, I think.

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I think a bit like a really good show or movie that everyone has seen it pretty much that encapsulates that feeling, uh, or maybe like coming to the end of that kind of Cold War, post-war boom feeling is the Iron Giant.

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If you watch the Iron Giant, it's like it feels like it's right before the hippies of the 70s take off.

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You have this like avant-garde sculpture artist who just owns a junkyard and then you got like the military in small town, america, maine, looking for this robot right and like that.

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Just the whole culture of that movie feels very post-war boom.

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Yeah, and that's the world of Fallout 2, which is great because you're going to watch the show and you're going to get great classics from you know Dean Martin and who else.

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Who else was some I'm trying to think of some other ones who were like some big old, they threw some johnny cash oh yeah, johnny cash for sure, you know um, the highway men made up of johnny cash and those other like you know, kind of big country singers back in the day.

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Also, um, frank is in in like he does a lot of those songs Sinatra, frank Sinatra but anyways, music like that, the bopping music of the 50s, is often played to the scenes of visceral, maybe over the top, violence, and that's kind of the show in a nutshell.

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If anyone is going in and thinking like, oh, this is going to be a seriously dark, serious-toned show of apocalypse in America with cultural commentary, I don't think it will be, because that's not what the games are.

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The games are like there's the wasteland after the most ideal, idyllic and like picture perfect america and they can't come back to it.

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Yep, the Wasteland post.

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Any other time in the world is going to be worse.

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Right, exactly Because, yeah, the thing about this one is it's time has stopped, you know, and that's kind of why they're playing old music throughout and like, even like in the vaults, like their culture, their civilization is like still very, like hit, like very post-war boom.

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That post-war boom, um, patriotic, do what you can.

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Exactly, you know you, you serve the vault, uh, and it's a pride thing.

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It's not a, it's not an indoctrination thing and like, while there is futuristic technologies that exist, really everything else is just time stopped, like that's why there is no new music, because there was no more music, that's made.

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They got going down there, yeah, and so the uh and the, the, the, the way they're contrasting that throughout, yeah, with this, just you know, barren wasteland, because I mean in the opening scene there la got hit by, like it showed like seven nukes.

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Oh yeah, I mean I think they could have spaced them out a little more.

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Well, all I'm saying here's, here's the thing too is like it's a really confusing like.

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As someone who's played the games, I know a lot of people get kind of confused of like wait, when is this supposed to take place?

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Because in the flashbacks you will see like future tech, like yeah, at home, robots floating around on jets.

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So is it like more like the jetsons?

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So like it was 1950s, 60s, but we were in the future world kind of makes sense yeah, so it's.

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It's essentially the war.

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The bombs fall on 20 in 2066 um.

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I believe it was 2066, it might have been 2077, 2077 yeah yeah, um, but then, uh, essentially, the reason 2077 looks like 1950s america is because the whole philosophy is that after the like nuclear bombs of world war ii, we're like and we've figured out nuclear, like, you know, atomic technology, necessarily, um, there was a, an actual real world, culture, class and science of like, do we pursue um electronics through, uh, a like a, necessarily like um computing world, or do we fall the nuclear energy world and like, because there was a lot of people trying to be like, hey, we can use nuclear energy einstein one of them of like, this can be a fuel and this can be something that, like, with proper research and stuff, we could have, you know, nuclear fusion engines in cars and we could have the entire world running off of nuclear power.

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Right, and no, no telephone poles, no waste, right.

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And then there was also the pull of like, yeah, but look at this thing, that is a computer and we can focus on like, making it more advanced and faster, and like it can do the job of a whole room of, you know, analysts, right, and it, you know, at the time we had full rooms of people just counting shit.

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Yeah, Like like the computer was like I could do that Um and so, um, all I said we, we went down the route of like not pursuing nuclear fusion and energy, and the whole idea followed is like no, they actually went that direction.

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So that's why, like you'll see, like it's 2077, but there's still black and white tube screen tvs right, it's 1977, but uh, there is still I mean, sorry, it's 2077 there's still like vintage big gas guzzling cars because they don't actually use gas.

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They're all running off of a small nuclear power cell.

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A big one that I really love and I'll talk about, you know, later as a plot point is, like you see a lot of like Cold War and World War II guns in the games.

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There's also giant plasma Tesla, coil weapons, right, that are like like okay, that wasn't in world war ii yeah you know, and so like, um, there's just stuff like that.

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That's pretty sweet.

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The power armor that we see the brotherhood of steel uses, that's nuclear fusion powered off a little power cell, and so it's just.

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That's kind of the idea there.

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But it's also why you like don't see like a very high-tech heads-up display in those helmets.

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That's why the helicopters look, you know, like a fairly rudimentary, yeah, 1970s version of a.

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Uh, what's that?

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What's the?

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What are those twin engine uh, rotating?

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All I can think of is that in the games they're called vertebrates yeah, in real life.

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They're called ospreys, um, so all I said that's kind of the reason for the aesthetic and the theme um, and it's, and it's a world where, like america never effed up in vietnam, never effed up in like and like, never like it, just america stayed on top and patriotic stayed in that white picket fence 2.5 kids and a dog yep um, and so all that said.

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Uh, that's kind of the the setting of the show.

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In the game and like pat was talking about, you know, we we follow three different characters.

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One of them is um gosh I can't remember her name off the top of my head played by lucy.

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Yeah, lucy, she's played by ella purnell, who I've never seen her acting live in other stuff, but I really enjoyed her as a voice actor in the League of Legends show I can't remember what it was called.

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She played a character named Jinx in there and she just was phenomenal and incredibly well voice acted.

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Um, uh, but anyways, um, her character is a young lady who's about to uh, get married to another vault dweller from a different vault, because they can't have too much interbreeding because then they destroy their gene pool before they go back up to the surface.

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Yeah, it's like.

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It's like already, like I feel like it's kind of probably weird for some people who didn't play the games and aren't anticipating like how weird this game is and like how legit like tongue-in-cheek joking and kind of silly it can be.

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Because in the game you go to vaults, well, after they've opened and you and like you find out that only one in five vaults were controlled equal even population of men and women and normal.

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Then you find vaults where it's like surprise, surprise, when people ran to the vault during the bombs fell, they only accepted 100 women and one man Right.

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And then another vault was 100 men and one woman Right, right.

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And then another vault was 100 men and one women right.

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Another vault was a pre-recorded transcript saying they have to sacrifice someone every month, otherwise the vault would blow up right, and like all these different micro cultures.

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Yeah, exactly formed and so, like seeing lucy, she's in vault 33 and you kind of know there's going to be something goofy about it and it's like, okay, so to keep from you know, too much interbreeding or whatever.

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They have these three vaults connected underground and they allow them every three years to like trade someone for crops or whatever, to get a fresh like mix into the gene pool, um, and it turns out vault 32, uh, or was it?

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She's in Vault 33.

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Yeah, she's in Vault 33, yeah.

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Yeah, vault 32's been taken over by raiders who are posing as vault dwellers, and so she finds out on her wedding night that her beau is not another vault dweller but is in fact a raider.

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She finds out just as soon as the attack begins and everyone kind of betrays and you get this cool, great scene of you know, was it Johnny Cash?

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Someone?

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was playing in the background.

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It was just like a 1950s, like.

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It was someone yeah.

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But it's just playing in the background while slow motion vault dwellers are getting you know a reawakening to what the surface is like.

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And anyways, that's one character 's pretty cool.

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I like her.

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I really thought the set pieces were excellent.

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The vault suits looked just as good as they do like in the game, and like they didn't seem to me like cheap knockoffs, right, they seemed to me like, oh yeah, that's like something you could wear every day and you know, all you do is change your underwear underneath and right you wash the one of the three you have, yep, um, I loved that.

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They just kept everything very in the vault 1950s, 60s oriented, like the ovens and you know the just um accoutrement of like personal objects.

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Um, one thing I didn't like about the first episode, I guess, was that it seemed like everyone, even the raiders and the vault dwellers, just had sterling mark fours oh yeah and I was like I get it was probably an oversight of the armory department or someone, like that's like actually a pretty modern gun that that came out like after like the sterling mark 4 is a mark 4 iteration of it, right, and I was like they had an opportunity to have like some really cool looking world war 2, vietnam cold era guns that you know get sealed in the vault from the surface and then, like the raiders, come in with like pipe guns or like plasma guns or laser guns, things that have like, because you know you wouldn't have necessarily what they have on the surface so when they come down they're bringing shit that like yeah, because one developed on the surface if you haven't watched it, but you are listening is like you know the, the people in the vault.

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They've, like, really never gone outside, never they've stayed inside the whole time, yeah, and so almost like, and for generations that's been 200 something years and so it's like the I, I, from my perspective watching it because I didn't play the video games watching it I was like, oh, there's nobody outside yet, like everybody's about to come out of the vaults and then start, but like, and because the way that they present it is as if, like, they literally can't go on the surface yet.

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Yeah, and they said the radiation is still too high, but really the radiation is not too high, like I don't know that guy was really radiated.

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Yeah, like the raiders on the surface are literally walking atoms.

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But they've.

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People have been existing on the surface for the last 250 years, so you could make it happen.

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So they've been in this super tight small group and they could have let the vault people have grease guns and then the Raiders should have had a little more, probably a little more advanced weapons probably coming in.

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There's what you're saying, right, Because they came in there with like blades tied to sticks.

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Well, and I think that was fine.

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It was just like that they all had, everyone had a Sterling Mark IV and I was just like one of the cool things is like I remember in like the fourth game, right.

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One of the cool things is like you get to the surface and you find some fucking sorry, watching my profanity, you find some junkers, you know what I mean.

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Like you find some like plywood forend, like PVC pipe around a lead pipe and a bolt like release trigger spring to fire some .308.

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Yeah, and it's like this is kind of sick.

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Yeah, you know what I mean and that's what I kind of wanted.

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I wanted them to come down with stuff like that.

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More the Mad Maxian vibe.

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Yeah, yeah exactly.

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And there's other stuff too.

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They have their own Raider weapons.

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In the games there was one that was literally an AK-47, raider weapons where, like uh, in the games there was one that was like literally an ak-47, but the the stock, rather than like being your typical, like underfolding stock, is just the like wooden handle of a shovel so it's just like the the triangle top bit with the wood, yeah, and then that's just like bolted onto a folding mechanism and it's just like that's cool, that's got flavor.

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Yeah, it has that Because it didn't feel like the Raiders had been like surviving out there, as much Like what you're saying with this, like you know elbow grease, kind of make it happen, make it, you know, figure it out off of the apocalyptic landscape type stuff and you know, I'm sure, like the rest of this, episodes will have cool stuff like that and maybe it was just like, I don't know, it was just the pilot, right, but it's just like one of those things like missed opportunity for some cool showing off stuff.

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Um, uh, but anyways, um, the other two characters one is Maximus from the Brotherhood of Steel, which is Aaron Martin.

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Not sure of anything else he's been in, but I think he's fine.

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I immediately actually had a double take when his eyes up.

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I think he's like one-to-one spitting image of Denzel Washington.

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No, I did the same thing.

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You know what I'm talking about.

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No, I did the same thing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I was like, did they make Denzel look young?

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It was literally like a half second.

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I was like oh, denzel.

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I did the same thing.

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Oh wait, what.

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It really took my brain a good half second to recognize it.

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Oh, the bridge in the nose down isn't Denzel Right?

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So anyways, he seems fine.

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I think this is the hardest thing for me as a game like someone who played the games and really liked the lore really got into it, really played the game game several times.

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Is this depiction of the brotherhood of steel having anyone in it who couldn't like deal with, like a group of people beating up on him, um, as well as the brotherhood of steel having a, a transgender, non-binary, very scrawny, non-athletic person, um and uh, just for some context, not that like, that person doesn't belong in the show, they're.

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In the games there's plenty.

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Maybe not in that group exactly, though in the games there's plenty of times you find a raider that's cross-dressing as someone of the opposite sex or like, literally, I started taking chemicals and surgically altering themselves to be someone else, and you're like, okay, all right, cool, or you know stuff like that.

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And then the Brotherhood of Steel, though one of the best quests in the whole game is you find someone who's excommunicated from the Brotherhood of Steel because she's a lesbian and you help her on her quest, not necessarily like it's not in any way she'd perform would be like, hey, brotherhood of steel, you guys are minos for doing this.

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It's just like.

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She's like yeah, I got kicked out because you know I'm gay and so like they don't allow that there.

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And it's not even like the a put to death thing.

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They're just the brother, brotherhood of steel's like, religiously devoted to furthering mankind and like being strong and calling out weakness.

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And it's not even that they think someone who's gay is weak, it's just that they're like, hey, you can't reproduce and we live in a world where we can't do in vitro, so like you, you, you can't be here, you're just taking resources and we don't have room for that because humanity's on the edge of extinction.

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And so when I see the brotherhood of steel, you know, are there also known like in the games dude, if your strength's not high enough, you just can't join right.

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They're just like tough shit, dude, you're not strong enough, you're not, you're not, uh, you know, combative enough.

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And so when I seen the show that, uh, this actress, actor and hard to tell.

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And well, actually I just looked up because uh name is zelia mendez jones is male trans, which means was a female, was a female.

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I always get that, can't ever nail that trans man means I was a woman yeah, trans woman means I was a man, yeah who I, you know whatever.

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I'm trying to help you with it.

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No, but you just flipped it anyways, isn't it?

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trans man means you were a woman.

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Now you identify as a man.

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That is correct.

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Yeah, yeah, that's correct.

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And so they he was.

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Were we supposed to think that was a dude?

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Would that.

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I'm sorry.

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I wasn't like I almost said basic bitch mustache, but like, okay, dude, I had that mustache when I was like a 13 year old boy and I have, and I have that mustache right now.

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Yeah, that's okay, it's true, I guess actually to their point.

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Maybe, yeah, maybe it worked.

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No, I know, I don't think.

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I don't think anyone really bought it too.

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I was looking on the reddits and stuff and everyone was like I don't have a problem at all with like a, a trans person, being cast in a show, like it makes sense.

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There is plenty of places in the world they could have been like.

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But, dude, if I'm supposed to believe that this scrawny twig is like in the brotherhood of steel, that's really hard to believe.

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Just because it's, it's, you know it'd be like.

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Honestly, how believable would it be to see a active duty trans green beret?

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You believable would it be to see a active duty trans green beret?

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You wouldn't believe it, especially especially like this wasn't a softball player.

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This was.

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This is like 82 pounds you know what I mean, dude, if like yeah, anyways.

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So all I said, um, I think that I think the actor, actress is fine.

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Yeah, they just forced it in there off the gate it just felt, it definitely felt forced.

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Um, I do like, though, how they weren't like it didn't feel necessary.

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It was.

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It felt like a forced casting uh, for like diversity, but it didn't feel like a yeah, and this person's trans like like they didn't like the scribe interviewing uh.

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Maximus referred to dane as them, and maximus was like, yeah, they, right, but it wasn't like no one misgendered.

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And then maximus was like actually, they go by them right, you know I was like all right, cool, all right, I'm fine with it, it's whatever.

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I don't think you know that was.

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That was my only, my really only nitpick, um, and it doesn't even seem like that character is going to show up again, especially for not being a main role in the thing.

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Whatever, but the other character, maximus, is cool.

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He just seems a little weak, maybe weak-willed.

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He seems built and so I was kind of wondering.

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I was like this dude looks athletic.

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How are these people beating him up?

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And I couldn't tell during the scene where he's being interviewed whether or not he stuck the razor blade in the boot.

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Yeah, dude, he's crying and like emotional and then he just like, does this really serious?

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Like his voice drops a couple pitches and he gets like very serious.

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Is it wrong that I wanted it?

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Yeah, and then, like, like, by the end of it, he's like crying again and I was like I don't know what, um, I don't know if this was bad acting, or am I supposed to believe this guy's psycho?

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well, and here's one thing too because did he put the razor in the boot?

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I think we're supposed to believe that.

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Here's my insight from like just playing the games.

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Yeah, I think we're supposed to believe that all of them are psycho, all of them are sociopaths.

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Literally, lucy says okie, dokie and uh, deals with like just every like when she encounters difficult things.

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It's like she can just flip a switch.

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