Well, happy New Year, Johnny.
Happy New Year.
Is it too late to say happy New Year?
I don't think so.
What did they say in Seinfeld?
I know, what's the cutoff?
I'm talking about this every year.
They had to cut off in March,
or he got happy New Year in March.
Is it March?
It's something like that, so.
Yeah, it's been a long time.
Is it the Jennifer Aniston movie with Vince Vaughan
and the breakup?
Oh, yeah.
Have you seen that one?
It's been a long time.
It's been a long time.
The art assistant, he answers the phone.
Happy holidays.
Like Wednesday, June 23rd.
Well, he's, every day is happy holidays.
You know, there's Christmas in July.
Right.
Oh, yeah.
It's like at Grims in Watoma,
they used to keep their tree up.
And I accidentally called it a Christmas tree one time.
And Aaron said, it's a holiday tree.
A holiday tree.
And it was up in August.
So it stays up.
And lit.
And lit.
But that's like the Christmas lights.
It's the up all your own.
That's true.
What are we having today?
You could be like my father-in-law.
Mrs. Workers Brownale.
So they were taking down, we have their house.
The next day, they were going to be taking down
the Christmas decorations in the house, right?
Yeah.
But it was cold, so he's like, I'm not taking out
the outside stuff.
I'm not worried about it.
But I am turning it off.
Yeah, I did the same thing.
I did the same thing.
And then last Sunday during the Packer game,
which the unfortunate loss, of course.
Or lack thereof.
The lack thereof Packer game.
It took five hours to take down our Christmas decorations
outside, and we didn't even have the village up.
You must put up a lot there.
I think it's called Holly and Hobby Lobby.
And when I work late, she sneaks stuff in the house.
That Hobby Lobby's a problem.
It is.
I got the same problem with Marie.
Marie and Hobby Lobby's no good.
But you know, it's good deals, and it's nice stuff.
Well, it's on sale, David.
You're saving.
That's right.
And they had the...
They think I'm a holy saved.
They have the sales for Christmas stuff before Christmas.
Right.
Yeah.
So I bought a...
You be foolish not to.
Right.
I don't know how many giant wooden figures
and those ladders that say joy and stuff
that I have stacked in the basement right now.
I love it.
Do you decorate the brewery at all?
We do.
Yeah, we just got it down on Tuesday, actually.
We got...
Or Wednesday.
The Christmas tree down.
Mr. John Healy came over,
because he and I do that together,
a few electric.
So we took down the Christmas tree,
the decoration.
How tall one do you have there?
I was pushed in 14 feet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you have what are your ceilings there?
They're about 14 feet.
They are.
Yeah.
Is there enough room on the tap for the angel?
Yeah.
Of course.
Well, full.
A lot of sap.
Yeah.
Have you got no ice fishing at all,
or any outdoor activities?
No, so we were up at the cottage,
and the bay wasn't frozen over yet.
Really?
Yeah.
There was some ice out there,
but I haven't been out around here.
Have you been out?
I went out not ice fishing,
but just like you said in the...
Well, yours wasn't frozen,
but our bay is on when a bay go
or they get about eight to 10 inches of ice.
Okay.
You get a little bit of snow.
It's enough just to bomb around on the sleds.
Perfect.
There's a lot of people on four wheelers
out there fishing right now,
but I didn't go out past the crack yet.
I'm going to wait, you know,
the best trail is to follow someone else's stuff.
Correct.
I don't want to place my own path on the ice.
That's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Big Packers Bears game tomorrow night.
Big Packers Bears game.
You're going to be open again.
We'll have it open.
Yeah.
If you...
If you wear your Packers gear,
you get your first pint free.
If you wear your Bears gear,
you pay double.
That's right.
Well, we'll give you two free afterwards.
So...
I'm a little nervous on this game.
Yeah.
I...
Well, I...
I don't know how...
There's different theories
and I'm not an expert by any means.
I'm not a huge fan of the whole resting everybody for two, you know?
Like...
I don't know.
I feel like it's not a light switch.
You can just turn it on and off.
I have a worker's brown ale.
Get back there.
Yeah.
Maybe that's what we should...
Should we do that Taylor?
Should we send a case up a worker's brown ale to the Packers and...
Get in here.
See how it heals them up?
I feel a lot better.
Yeah.
I mean, I've been saying for years,
Blyblon is the cure all.
That's right.
You know?
Send a couple guys in the van down there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you're...
You live in...
In town.
You don't have to take your stuff to the dump, right?
No, I don't...
I don't have the pleasure of making the dump runs.
I...
I was at two different dumps this week.
Yeah.
Okay.
For the radio station.
Sure.
And on Wednesday,
I went to the red granite dump.
Really?
Yeah.
How was that experience?
It was busy.
They opened at noon,
and they are lined up like when you opened the doors at the brewery.
Yeah.
Morning, they were four or five cars.
Pretty friendly fellows at the dump.
They are.
But they accept air conditioners at the red granite one.
Of course, you have to have a property there.
Okay.
With a sticker.
Yeah.
They don't have the sticker on the old Jeep.
So I went at the correct time at 1205 when they were packed
and everyone was busy helping.
I just...
I just...
Right in.
And I left.
That's fantastic.
Now you're wondering why I was dealing with an air conditioner in January.
Yeah.
I had one in moderations, of course, the home bar.
Yeah.
And I took it out because I was just...
It didn't seal quite enough with this cold weather and stuff.
I made a really nice panel that fits in and stuff.
Instead of the old bathroom towel,
stuff's around it.
Yeah.
And the air conditioner was only two years old.
Yeah.
So I pulled in the sides, the plastic, you know, those louvered vents.
Oh, yeah.
And I'm walking it down the stairs and wouldn't...
You know, the gosh darn plastic broke.
And down she goes.
Went right through the basement door.
Ooh.
Yeah.
So that one had to...
It didn't survive.
I didn't want to plug it in after that.
Yeah.
I took it back up the steps and I threw it in the air in a fit of rage.
And it kind of kinetically disassembled in the back drive.
That's fantastic.
So that was my week.
That's a good week.
Yeah.
Did you have a good...
We haven't been on since Christmas.
Did you have a good Christmas?
Oh, yes.
Very good with both...
Kind of low-key.
Yeah.
A lot of family was actually out visiting outer lying families.
So Holly and I just kind of did our own thing.
And with friends it was a lot of fun.
Oh, yeah.
So sometimes more fun than when families just...
Yeah, yeah.
You know, what did they say?
You can't choose your relatives.
Or that's right.
You can pick your nose, but you can't pick your family.
Or is that the other thing?
Yeah.
So how was yours?
It was great.
Low-key as well.
Went fast this year, I feel.
It did.
But we had another wedding upstairs for New Year's Eve.
So I got to do the champagne toast with the bride and groom.
That was a lot of fun.
Nice.
And now, yeah, it's...
Now we're back.
We're in a goal for 26.
We've got a lot of events coming up.
We've got Polka Fest, of course, coming up next month.
That came up quick.
I know.
It's a copper box, again, and two-fist party band.
This year we're going to do it upstairs in the event space.
So plenty of room for dancing and drinking.
Fresh muddled old fashions up there.
Yeah.
We'll have some old fashions.
We're going to add the stone throwing with the free mason's
down in the brewery.
Again, like we did for October Fest.
As you can see, you got some nice windows up there.
Do you get down stairs?
Yep.
We're going to have a cribbage night coming up in just a couple weeks.
I think maybe either January 24th or January...
Oh, I'm sorry.
Cribbage night, I think, is going to be February 7th.
The Saturday Cribbage Tournament.
Oh, look at the date here.
Yeah.
It sounds right.
Yep, that first Saturday in February.
And then we're going to do a disc golf tournament in the brewery.
I think either January 24th or January 7th.
You have the room for it.
We have the room.
Yeah.
Next Saturday, we've got socks and sandals, a great local band.
Lexi and Sam, who are Lexi is the high school choir director
and Sam's the high school band director.
And they have a great band.
So they're going to be playing next Saturday, five to eight.
And then we're in the works.
We're planning a prohibition night for eight...
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
March, I think March 21st, I think.
Okay.
And then, yeah.
So that's...
Mark encounters for that.
We'll talk about that as we get there.
But there's going to be some fun with that one.
We have our Christmas party next Friday.
Yeah, you got it.
Yeah.
So anybody who is a proud supporter of the bug, come on over for you.
You're right.
Free drinks and beer.
I'm Johnny Ray.
We'll just throw out some company shirts.
Yeah, there you go.
Sit down, right?
Yeah.
All right.
Well, anything else this week?
So it's good to be back.
It's good to have a beer again.
It's good to have you back.
Happy New Year.
It's good to have Taylor back too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The film crew here.
Cheers.