Short Pour
A comedy podcast with two brothers where we happen to drink beer. Each episode we explore a random topic that is somehow related to the beer. Sometimes we learn some history, debate hypothetical tournaments and rankings, and reminisce on various stories and highlights from our childhood.
Short Pour
New Year, New Theme
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What do Chris and Branden have in common besides a love for beer? Well, they either already have or are expecting a baby! Join us as we share some big personal news and how it's leading to exciting changes on Short Pour. We’re moving to a biweekly schedule to fit our new roles as dads, but don't worry—our blend of humor, beer appreciation, and engaging topics remains unchanged. Plus, we're shaking things up for 2025 with a broader yearly theme, allowing for more spontaneity in our beer and topic choices. Grab a Corona Extra, our beverage of choice this episode, and get ready for a refreshingly fun update on what's ahead for your favorite beer podcast.
Ever had a free beer turn into a saga of sibling rivalry? We tackle a quirky family drama that’s as amusing as it is frustrating. When a brother-in-law makes a fuss over a complimentary brew, we couldn’t help but question his common sense. Should he have just returned the beer? Probably! Unpacking this entertaining yet baffling scenario, we share our disbelief and highlight how this behavior lands him in our hall of fame for the worst. Tune in for laughs, groans, and all-around good times. Keep the conversation going by following us on Instagram or dropping us an email with your thoughts and suggestions!
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Stay present, embrace.
Branden:Okay, I'm going to ask for a six-word catchphrase.
Chris:Okay, spread kindness. Who's kindness? Yeah, yeah, welcome back to Short Pour. We are your hosts. I'm Chris.
Branden:And I'm Branden. And this episode is going to end up being drastically different from literally every other episode we've done in almost every way in almost every way so you can already hear one yeah, hopefully, hopefully we sound much better I already know we do yeah,
Chris:Your voice is good for this man. My voice is so high
Branden:I didn't think I had a low voice.
Chris:Well, it's lower than mine, I guess. Yeah, I mean, Although I have had a few people tell me Maybe it's a nice way of telling me that my voice is weird. But they have said, Well, you have a unique voice, Like I can tell it's you. So I don't know if that's good or bad, but at least it's unique. It's unique, so we are sipping on the corona extra I don't know what I was gonna say.
Branden:I was gonna say like I thought you were gonna read your cup and I was gonna say mine's in binary, so I don't know what I'm even saying we're sucking on the mr right.
Chris:Yeah, no, we are. We're so sucking on. Oh god, stop saying that. I think I said sipping on it first no, you did not change it to sucking on. We are sipping on the corona extra with a refreshing, smooth taste balanced between heavier european imports and lighter domestic beer. Corona Extra is an even-keeled cerveza made for the beach, the backyard or whatever you're feeling, and it comes in at a 4.6% ABV and I assume we have already had many of these before You've had many yes. Yep, that's a Corona.
Branden:Tastes, just like them.
Chris:Yep, you put a lot of lime in that. I did, you know we are doing so. That's one change that's going to be coming to the show that most people won't even matter to, but we are doing actual short pours now yeah so we have split one beer and I think where I went wrong was I put the normal amount of lime in each of ours, but it's only half of the beer yes, yep very lime forward we should have a lot less, uh, sloppy episodes.
Chris:Yeah, hopefully, yeah by the end yeah, I know that by the end of some of the episodes you can definitely tell like oh yeah like the end of the beware of darkness, episode. Oh God, yep, that was bad.
Branden:We're actually just going to be going through what we plan on using as a theme for next year, and this is pretty open-ended.
Chris:So, first off, we chose the Corona Extra because this is a bonus episode. This is just something that's going to be different from our normal format. Just something small. It might be shorter than normal. Also Just something to throw out there in the feeds to start the year off, because this next year we are going to be going through some changes with the show and in our own lives. One thing that's happened is, in this past April, my wife and I welcomed our first baby into the world.
Branden:And is in this past april, my wife and I welcomed our first baby into the world.
Chris:And another change is we got a soundboard. That's the one you should have played for, baby. That.
Branden:That's the one for how you got the baby, yeah, so I'm also going to be welcoming a baby next year.
Chris:Oh, you are.
Branden:Yeah.
Chris:Not your wife.
Branden:Well, both of us.
Chris:Just you. I made it a point to include the mother, but just you, yeah so, but we are Well, but we are well. I felt like we saying we like me and you we're having a baby, short, poor baby, my wife and I are also welcoming a baby so because of that I can say with confidence that both of us will have greatly diminished time yes to not only record but edit.
Branden:It's the editing, yeah, the editing takes a long time.
Chris:So, because of that, one of the changes coming up for this year is we are going to be moving to a two per month cycle. There might be some months where we do three, but I wouldn't expect. I wouldn't expect more than that.
Branden:Yeah, just like biweekly, yeah, every two weeks.
Chris:So that's going to be one change. The format of the episodes will be staying largely the same. We're going to be focusing more on the fact that, like, we're having a good time with learning things while we happen to be drinking beer, yep, and so that's kind of what we're going to be focusing on and moving forward with.
Branden:Yeah on and moving forward with yeah. So I think we're gonna be getting out of the like binding theme, you know, for like a short series of episodes.
Chris:Yeah, so we've been doing themes and stuff like that. Um, I think the themes are kind of fun. However, since we'll only be doing two episodes a month now, it seems like we won't really be able to sit in a theme anymore for too long, like it doesn't mean anything either we are gonna burn through it too quickly or we're gonna be stuck in it for like three months.
Chris:Yeah, true, it's like quarterly themes so instead, what we thought we would do in the premise of this episode is we're going to be choosing a an overall yearly theme. So for the whole of 2025, for this podcast, we will have a theme. We're going to just we we have not talked about this beyond just saying let's try that and then we immediately said, let's just record it yeah, yeah, this is content, so okay.
Chris:So let's first establish will this theme be binding us of like? Are all the beers going to connect to this theme, or all the topics, or is it just gonna say like, fuck, it's just there?
Branden:I say it's just there it's.
Chris:It's just something we have to mention yeah, somehow it comes up. Okay, I think that's the easiest thing okay, and are there any constraints to what the theme should be like? Should the theme be related to something surrounding beer, or should it just I?
Branden:almost think it'd be better if it's completely unrelated, like somehow we are going to tie this beer and whatever topic to whatever it ends up being so each episode will tie back to the theme or somehow we like, work in, like, maybe it's like a phrase that we have to phrase.
Chris:Somehow it ties we have to work it in. We have to work in this phrase every we say a phrase every episode I think that could be good okay, that could be good, so like so. So it's not a theme, it's more of a mantra yeah, I all right or a saying depending on people's.
Branden:You know ai feelings, but I feel like this would be a great thing to be like. Ask ai to give me like a six word sentence or like phrase or mantra and whatever that is like. We have to work that in off of AI yeah, I don't know how I would just come up with a random one right now off top of my head okay personally okay.
Chris:Well, do you have something to boot?
Branden:up. No, we're sitting in front of your computer, it's not on, oh, give me a six word well, how many words do you? Want mantra what would be a good amount of words well, I was thinking.
Chris:Do we want to do it? Like you know, the proof is in the pudding that's six words okay, fuck, maybe six is the perfect number. Yeah, maybe six is the perfect number.
Branden:It's just nice, short, and sweet yeah, see, I think that would be good, something like that of just like the proof is in the pudding a nonsensical and we can work it in as casually as we want without having to like draw it out or point it point any sort of you know just be a hidden phrase in each episode yeah, I think that'd be funny yeah, I think that's good.
Branden:I think that's good I'm just gonna ask and see what we get okay and if it's not better than the proof is in the pudding, I say we go with that okay, well, we can workshop it, we can all right, I'm gonna say, give me a six word mantra let's, let's try three.
Chris:Let's, let's give it, let's let it try three times oh, and then we and then, if we want to, we can choose one and then branch off from there. Okay, we can change it too. We are not AI, so we're not constrained to.
Branden:That's true. I'm just going to say give me a six-word mantra to live my life by.
Chris:To live my life by.
Branden:I'm not doing this.
Chris:What is it? What is it?
Branden:Stay present. Embrace growth, spread kindness. I'm not doing that. Embrace growth, spread kindness. I'm not doing that. Stay present embrace.
Chris:Okay, I'm gonna ask for a six word catchphrase. Okay, spread kindness who's kindness?
Branden:yeah it's doing the same thing challenge limits, create change, inspire change. Inspire growth.
Chris:No, yeah, that's not what we're looking for.
Branden:Yeah, last time it told me to embrace the growth. Now I have to inspire it.
Chris:Ooh, maybe that is the growth.
Branden:Yeah, yeah, I started.
Chris:I started embracing growth. Now I'm inspiring it. It will end.
Branden:It will yeah, dude, we've read up that fury quote twice I know?
Chris:okay, I'm just gonna ask for a random six word sentence that could go anywhere, yeah, I'm okay.
Branden:Clouds drift by while birds sing loudly what, what, clouds drift by while birds sing loudly.
Chris:I'm trying to think of.
Branden:I have never said those combinations of words in my life besides besides just now I'm trying to think of past episodes and how I'd work them in and I think I can do it for the checkered flag and I can do it for the bird migration yeah, yeah, those might be the only two obvious ones, let's let's try to take three and see if see what we get books open doors to endless possibilities oh, that okay that's a motion randy mosher books open doors to endless possibilities.
Chris:I'm gonna ask for one more beers open doors to endless possibilities coffee warms hands, ideas flow freely now it's like trying to get all artsy. It's getting too philosophical, it's learning.
Branden:Okay, I mean, we really only have like two. We've got the proof is in the pudding and books. Open doors, timeless possibilities. Well, hey you know what the proof is in the pudding would be a good theme, because we're improving the show Right. Like for ourselves, it applies and then we work it into each episode the proof is in the pudding.
Chris:What if we flip it? What if we say putting the proof in?
Branden:oh, I thought you said the pudding is in the proof no, we're putting the proof in what does that mean?
Chris:I don't know it sounds provocative though doesn't it.
Branden:Yeah, putting gets the people gone yeah, putting the proof in I don't know what that means. Yeah, putting gets the people gone. Yeah, putting the proof in. I don't know what that means?
Chris:I mean it's not any worse than the embracing growth we immediately moved beyond those you don't have any other sayings that you can just like think of to throw out you want, just like random idioms is getting is getting, I guess getting back in the saddle. Is there something about riding a bull? Is there a saying about riding a bull? Grab the bull by the horns yeah, grab the bull by the horns man, that would be a good one another six one, hey, all right, okay.
Branden:Okay, there is one that's something like you gotta get back in the saddle, or something like that I think it is just get back in the saddle yeah, I think the putty one would be easier to work in personally.
Chris:Yeah, I mean, I do think and that would be easier, okay, so then that's the guiding light of like we're saying we're going to do all these changes and we're going to keep going, and like we're saying we're going to do all these changes and we're going to keep going, and like we're obviously trying to improve the show. Well, you know and the proof that it's working yeah, yeah, this is us saying that we're going to do those things, but I guess you know, proof is in the pudding yeah, okay, we've already done it.
Chris:We're putting the proof in now. No, okay, I think I think that's a good one.
Branden:I think that's good okay, I think that's a good thing that was the very first one I came up.
Chris:That was supposed to just be the example it was a good example.
Branden:We didn't move beyond it yeah, we didn't need to, we didn't need anything else all right.
Chris:well, what's, what's the word on the street, what the streets say All?
Branden:right, so we did get one review for a Corona Extra. There's actually a lot of reviews. Most of them are not good. The worst stuff I have ever had in my life Considered giving up drinking after this. Oh, my God Took one sip and then took one more, to be sure, poured the rest out, removed remaining bottles from fridge, called brother-in-law and chastised him for bringing such sludge into my house. I then retired to bed, fearing that I would have nightmares.
Chris:Oh, my god, never again. Oh my god, this man was personally wronged by Corona Jesus. Could you imagine that phone call? Yeah, man, what the fuck? Yeah, what do you mean? What the fuck is? This beer that you brought me sludge he called it sludge? Yeah, you know there do. There does seem to be a theme in the beer community like this, though at least the people who leave reviews and, I guess, read them of leaving a lot of beer in other people's fridge. Yep, that is a common thing, I think.
Branden:Most of the time people are angry about it, they don't like it, and I think that might be because they weren't the ones that got it yeah wasn't their idea or it's like the inconvenience of well, now I have all your beer taking up space yeah, my real estate for the beer that I wanted to get yeah, or you know anything else that goes into a fridge, yeah, I guess yeah, yeah, the important stuff, alright.
Chris:Well, I don't know how else they're supposed to expand their horizons the people yeah, I don't know how else they're supposed to like. Why didn't they try it whenever they were at the initial party? Oh, the guy drinking the beer yeah, the people who are like, why, like it was a free beer man, it was a free beer to call your brother-in-law and chastise him. That can't be real. That can't be real.
Branden:That's that guy's the worst brother-in-law ever, dude, I'd also did that if I was the brother-in-law ever dude, I'd also did that. If I was the brother-in-law, I'd be pissed like why did? Okay, just give it back to me then, right, yeah, why did you get rid of them all? Yeah, that's true I'd be like, if you just give it to me, I'll drink them that's true.
Chris:Yeah, this guy's the worst man I don't like him yeah, I don't either. And you know what? Proof's in the pudding, yep.
Branden:Thanks for listening, as always. If you want to like or subscribe, please follow us on Instagram, at shortpourpodcast, or send us a suggestion through email at shortpourpod@ gmail. com.
Chris:And as always, whether you pour short or long, always finish.
