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Still on the road and in the barstools, KMac and Yek switch it up this episode covering more of the cellared c’s with ciders and cryptids. Listen as we fine apple drink ourselves through the great offerings at the Capitol Cider House in Washington, DC and go hunting for all the weird, scary creatures in the Capitol region that don’t dwell in the big domed building on the east of the National Mall (Wink, Wink, know what we mean). Yek-ulder and Dr. KMac-ully break down the truth and fantasy behind those grainy critter videos and photos. The high-test apple brandy in no way influences our scientific scrutiny. Do you Beliv—rink?

Thanks to the core crew at Capitol Cider House for hosting us!

Cryptids: 

·         Snallygaster: Flying bird with a giant glowing eye with tentacle iron claws that sounds like a locomotive. Best call in Teddy Roosevelt to shoot that sh*t! (KMac: Partial real; Yek: 100% legit monster!)

·         Dewayo (Hexenwolf): F’ you, Snally! Stop eating my chickens and harassing my Amish homies. Now you gone and made us archnemesises. (KMac: Big dogs or wolves; Yek: 100% legit monster!)

·         Chessie, The Chesapeake Bay Monster: Thank you 1980s grainy camcorder technology of something popping up and down in the bay. Now we get to go crabbin’ and Chessin’ every summer. (KMac: Probably a manatee; Yek: 100% legit monster)

·         Monogy (Devil Dogs/Hellbender): Nothing scarier to limey Red Coast than a half-man, half-fish-zard. I swam on down from West Va! (KMac: Obviously, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis; Yek:  Ain’t no such thing as Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)

Ciders:

The Year-Round Hits:

·         Capitol Cuvee, Dry Cider, 6.9%. Good.

·         Capitol Rosé, Dry Rosé Cider, 6.9%. Bonne Good. 

·         Life’s a Peach, Dry Peach Cider, 6.9%. Fruity Good.

 The Special Hits:

·         The Gobbler, Dry Festive Cider, 6.9%. Turkey Good.

·         Pippin, 6.5%. Cidery Good.

·         Concord, 6.2%. Welch’s Good.

 Hard Hittin’ Hits:

·         North Columbia GoldRush, Bourbon barrel-aged Pommeau, 16.9%.  Yek good!

·         North Columbia Pink Lady, Rye whiskey barrel-aged Pommeau, 16.3%. KMac good!

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Ep. 27

Beer Run! – DC Monuments in DC Comics with DC Beers - Live at 3 Stars Brewing 

In our inaugural Beer Run episode, KMac & Yek hit the road to hit up 3 Stars Brewing Company in Washington, DC! As your hosts slosh their way through some savory suds, we verbally stroll through DC hitting up all the DC Comics monuments in this politician pork laden town. Also, there’s nothing more annoying than walking around the National Mall and constantly being told by some boy scout to watch your left. Star-spangled Ass-enger more like it!

Thanks to all the fine people at 3 Stars for hosting us!

DC DC Comic Monuments:

·         The Hall of Justice – All the rooms – The Kitchen, The Lost and Found, uhhhm the Break Room (Why does this place smell like fish leftovers? Looking at you Aquaman!) Thank god this building has a solid foundation of super powered dead bodies!

·         Holiday College – Etta Candy leads the finest of lady crime fighting marching bands! Careful she’ll give you the Hitler Cure as you rush Beeta Lamda sorority. 

·         Wonder Woman Museum – Wow, the Smithsonian really let this museum go to the Amazons. 

Beers:

The Year-Round Hits:

·         Diamonds Are Forever, NE IPA 4.5%

·         Ghost, White IPA 5.9%

·         Peppercorn Saison, 6.5%

·         Southern Belle, Imperial Brown Ale, 8.7%

The Goodnight Moon Collection:

·         Illuminati Release #5 (2019), Schwarzbier, 10%

·         Illuminati Release #4 (2020), Stout - Imperial / Double 12%

·         Illuminati Release #1 (2020), Stout - Imperial / Double Milk 10%

·         Velvet Zombie, Porter - Imperial / Double 9.6%

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This episode, things continue to go bump in the dark! Those things primarily being booze-ombies, KMac and Yek,after drinking frighteningly high ABV beers. Join us as we talk about the ghastly appearances of Marvel’s Legion of Monsters! Listen in and be prepared to clutch your Bloodstone choker as the beer swigging gallows humor frightens all! Even we needed two beers to drink away the shakes and then drink them back again. 

Comics covered:

Legion of Monsters (Sep 1975): Frankenstein, Manphiban, Dracula

• Hello, I’m Todd Pole, the murky Manphiban!

Marvel Premiere  #27 (Dec 1975): Satana

• Chris Claremont sure has a thing for booby, black leather wearing red heads!

Marvel Premiere #28 (Sep 1976): Ghost Rider, Morbius, Werewolf by Night, Man-Thing

• Monsters always monstering themselves out of getting better. 

Bloodstone #1-#4 (Oct 2001-Feb 2001): Elsa Bloodstone, Adam (Frankenstein), Dracula, Living Mummy

• First time we’ve read about a tight costume tomb raiding, monster hunter! Oh look, vampire Hitler!

Legion of Monsters 1-Shots (Apr 2007-Sep 2007): Werewolf by Night, Frankenstein, Man-Thing,  Zombie (Simon Garth), Satana, Living Mummy, Morbius, Dracula, Lilith – Dracula’s Daughter

• Argggh, monsters are serious and scary, just read Jonathan Hickman’s explanatory notes on ancient Egypt to know terror!

Punisher Vol 8 #11-#16 -Fraken-Castle Arc (Apr 2010-Sep 2010): Morbius, Living Mummy, Manphibian, Werewolf by Night, Man-Thing, Giganto

• Psych, like we would boogity ourselves this much in one episode.

Legion of Monster #1-#4 (Oct 2011-Jan 2012): Elsa Bloodstone, Morbius, Living Mummy, Manphibian, Werewolf by Night, Damion Hellstrom, Satannish

• Pandemics boogity! Monsters spooky! Monster pandemic not really scary. 

Beers:  

KMac:
Beer #1: Oktoberfest, Big Storm Brewing Co., Tampa Bay, FL.
Style: Marzen, 6% ABV, 22 IBUs
Rating: Like a Party Mash in Monster Metropolis!

Beer #2: Origin of Darkness, Collective Arts Brewing, Hamilton, ON /  Civil Society Brewing, Jupiter, FL 
Style: Rye Barrel Aged Stout, 11.6% ABV
Rating: Think as a Man-Thing!

Yek:
Beer #1: Spooky, Blue Mountain Brewery, Afton, VA
Style: Barrel Aged Pumpkin Ale, 8.2% ABV
Rating: Sneaks up on you like a Dimensional Man!

Beer #2: Schwarzbier, Ardent Craft Ales, Richmond, VA
Style: Schwarzbier, 5% ABV, 20 IBUs
Rating: Dark as Satana, a black magic woman

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On October 1 when that clock struck 12 AM, you know your boys, KMac and Yek, cracked open a coffin can of spoogity good beers to read along with twisted tales of fear. Our first foray this year into the night is actually well like really late at night, scarily called Gotham by Midnight. Listen along as we scare ourselves tipsy talking about philological fright in Slaughter Swamp, kicking Shadow people out of bed, and the Spectre going all Kaiju! Also is that a Batwing crashing back there? Who gives an S ‘cause demons be getting at us through out booze!

Issues: Gotham By Midnight #1-#5 (Jan. 2015-May2015)

Creators:

Writer: Ray Fawkes
Art: Ben Templesmith (If I had 30 Nights I might recognize his work)

Cast:

• Det. Jim Corrigan (Pssst, that’s the Spectre)
• Det. Lisa Drake (Banshee the thought)
• Lt. Weaver (Sucka Spectre going to get head capped!)
• Dr. Szandor Tarr (I’m a Poe reference)
• Sister Justine (Pure as JHC, MF’ers)
• Sgt. Rook (Sgt. Rock was already booked)
• Batman (This is Gotham, Damn it! I’m nobody’s background scenery!)
• 5 undead demons of Gotham’s asshole founding past, not sure if they are also pseudo Mormons or vampires?

Beers:  

KMac:Batsquatch, Rogue Ales, Newport, OR
Style: Hazy IPA, 6.7% ABV, 54 IBUs, Hops: Mosaic, El Dorado & Belma Hops
Rating: Undead demon Ikkt: Creepy F’in shadow monsters cannot take citrusy hopped beer. 

Yek: Double Two-Hearted, Bells Brewery, Kalamazoo, MI
Style: DIPA, 11% ABV, Hops: Centennial
Rating: Undead demon Ovovo: One down and you lose all language skills. 

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What If…KMac and Yek wanted a reason to drink beer and watch comic book TV shows. Well, no need to ponder that question any more when you can listen as we slams some good brews while doing a live riff watch of  What If... Thor Were an Only Child? (Which totally should’ve been “Thor Only Son”,  Hey Disney! DM us to get access to this kind of talent). Why doesn’t rotoscoped Natalie Portman look like Natalie Portman? Why is Volstagg so less Voluminous? Can you spot all the random Marvel refs as well as the inebriated double funking duo of KMac and Yek? Probably. But, we do have way more fun than trading a car for a dead deer head. And as always with live watches, stay tuned to compete in The Gauntlet!

Beers:  

KMac: Double Thunder Funk, Bent Water Brewing, Lynn, MA
Style: DIPA, 9.2% ABV
Rating: What If…T’Challa became Starlord? Well, this is interesting…Mmmm I like this…. And the fun time continues. 

 Yek: Festbier, Tucher Nuremberg and Fürth, Bavaria, Germany
Style: Festbier, 5.8% ABV
Rating: What If…Captain Carter were the first Avenger? It’ll entertain you for 30 minutes. 

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Fantasy Fantasy Draft: Legion of Doom

Banded together from across the sober-verse, 2 of the dumbest friends drink beer to fantasy fantasy draft the greatest of animated villains of all time: The Legion of Doom! Drag your blanket to the living room floor with your favorite cold sixer and listen to KMac and Yek bring back all the Saturday Morning Vibes! Also, lots and lots of Riddler hate. 

Rules: 

Only Legion of Doom Members from 1978 Challenge of the Superfriends

7 Members Each; 1 LoD Scheme  (But there are only 13 LoD members! Luthor says quiet you pitiful no fan)

Rounds: Skippy Snake

KMac won the Batman: Death in the Family TPB. (It always comes up tails for Jason Todd)

Results:

KMac:

• Lex Luthor: I got a gavel so shut up and follow parliamentary procedures.
• Gorilla Grodd: Luthor wastes my intellect on keeping these dumb human minutes. 
• Sinestro: Yellow trumps Green, Bitchz. 
• Captain Cold: Rolling 3-head deep with his Venusian homeys. 
• Black Manta: Whitey cannot take away my undersea rights.
• Scarerow: Just here to scare kids eating Fruit Loops. 
• Riddler: This scheme is great, but way better when I mess it up with clues. 

Scheme - Conquerors of the Future – The Superfriends cannot catch the LoD in the future unless that @$$hole Riddler leaves clues to find them. F’you, replacement Joker!

 Yek: 

• Solomon Grundy: Solmon Grundy tired of out of order chatter. Solomon Grundy says read By Laws!
• Bizarro: Me think bad being unpicked. 
• Braniac: Who likes short, shorts, Braniac likes short, shorts.
• Cheetah: I’m Purrfect in my animal prints. 
• Toyman: And, I scare kids while they eat cheerios. 
• Giganta: Red sexy goes to big red sexy in animal prints. 
• Dr. Natas(z?): Nox-ium going to forget I was a member of the LoD.

Scheme - The Swamp of Living Dead – The LoD now has the power to command the dead and F’ it up when LL trys to double cross Satan. Dumb@$$!

KMac: Free Drive, Coppertail Brewing Co, Tampa, FL
Style: IPA, 5.9% ABV
Rating: Double Doom: Dives like Black Manta, Beats Green ass like Sinestro!

Yek: Trial by Wombat, Thin Man Brewery, Buffalo, NY
Style: DIPA,  7% ABV.
Rating: Giganta: Long, Leggy, and Smooth in Animal Prints!

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You know KMac & Yek like beer, you know KMac & Yek like comics, but did you know KMac & Yek dig fashion??? Call us kings of haute spandx-oure ‘cause this episode we are scoring a cross universe who wears it better, Deathstroke or Taskmaster! What! You say that it should be Deadpool we are comparing? Wrong, the Merc with the Mouth doesn’t flash some fancy pirate boots like our two catwalking models. So join KMac and Yek as they swig through a play by play of character characterism for two same-year, co-creations of George Perez! For the winner we salute with fine champagnes of tasty ales, For the loser we wash away the imitation with pale alternatives. 

Categories: Origin, Powers/Abilities, Outfit, Weapons/Tools, Battles, & X-Factor.

Model #1: Deathstroke, The Terminator:

Wintergreen’s boy makes strong pushes in all categories, but only hustles out 2. But which 2?

Model #2: Taskmaster:

Deadpool’s favorite frenemy sweeps 4 categories, but that is to be expected of a good soul who has dedicated his life to educating the youth, albeit criminal, sinister, supervillain youth. 

Beers:  

KMac: Loose Boots, Roadhouse Brewing Co, Jackson Hole, WY
Style: Session IPA, 5% ABV
Rating: Worthy of a double horn Loki hat!

 Yek: This is Strata, Equilibrium Brewing, Middletown, NY
Style: DIPA, 8% ABV
Rating: 2 Gator-ki Horn, Norse on!

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Are you feeling horny and beery???? Well, we are because our favorite Norse God of Mischief, Loki, has got his horn helmet on and we’s drinking while watching him muck up the Time Variant Authority’s well laid, but oddly constantly changing plans. Must have something to do with that whole variance thing. To enjoy this one with the fan, KMac and Yek live riff Loki Episode 5 while enjoying some Ragnarök worth ales. And as always with Hot Topic live riff shows, even though KMac forgot to consult Zarrko the Tomorrow Man, Yek runs him through the Gauntlet. This time covering the history of beer and Marvel time travelerz. Can you name who invented beer in the real world and in the Marvel U? Guest what, it’s the same person!! (Actually no, but we assume no one reads all the show notes).  Crack one with us and see if you will make it as a Time Keeper or a Time Twister (or just get a T Twister)! Also watch your hand around Gator-Ki. He get’s bitey.

Beers:  

KMac: Arrogant Bastard Ale, Stone Brewing, Escondido, CA
Style: American Strong Ale, 7.2% ABV
Rating: Worthy of a double horn Loki hat!

Yek: Carlsberg, Carlsberg Group, Copenhagen, Denmark
Style: Pilsner, 5% ABV
Rating: 2 Gator-ki Horn, Norse on!

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Big Swig Pub Crawl: Secret Wars

Hey did you hear about that time in the 1980s all the major Marvel heroes & villains got phased to a Battleworld to war for the ultimate prize. Hell no you didn’t ‘cause Jim Shooter made that sh*t Secret Wars. KMac & Yek continue to swill their way through the crossovers that made comics great & taught all the kids what symbiosis is. Crack a beer at the pub with us & learn how to get a better credit score with your symbiote. 

The Team that made Battleworld at thing::

·         Writers: Jim Shooter

·         Artist: Main issues: Mike Zeck, Bob Layton, (Covers Help: John Beatty, Bob Wiacek, Bob McLeod, Terry Austin)  

·         Editor: Tom DeFalco

Breakdown: Someone called the Beyonder zaps all these heroes and villains to Battleworld to compete for the ultimate prize of whatever they want. Hijinks ensue & Dr. Doom becomes a god. 

The Hits:

·         Wasp makes sexy, sexy with Magneto to get all those mutant deets.

·         Professor X is a dick when he gets his legs back.

·         That time Spiderman beat all that X-Men @$$.

·         That time Wasp almost beat all that X-Men @ass.

·         100 & 50 Billion Tons on that Issue #4 cover.

·         Colossus falls hard for Human Torch’s chippy Zsaji. Can she heal a broken heart?

·         All those Denver suburban supers: Spiderwoman, Volcana, & peeved off Titania. 

·         Enchantress. Captain America’s shield. Splat!

·         Wolvie straight up murders Molecule Man. 

·         Spiderman “borrowing” new Spiderwoman’s trademark on that Issue #8 cover.

·         Latverian Lat Bombs on that Issue #10 cover.

·         Doom makes cold cuts of Klaw. 

·         With god like powers, comes god Doom naps!

·         Buddy Show: Klaw & Lizard

Beers:

KMac: Passion of the Heights, Florida Avenue Brewing Co., Tampa, FL
Style: Herbal Wheat/Hibiscus Wheat Ale, 4.7% ABV
Rating: 4 out 5 Doom God Naps 

 Yek: Funky Face,  Old Ox Brewery, Ashburn, VA
Style: Margarita Gose, 4.5% ABV
Rating: 100 & 50 Billon Tons of Tartness

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Big heads & flappy appendages built only for killing are K.Ma,D.O.K. & Y.E.K.O.K. talking while drinking foamy head beers and entertaining our fan this episode. Join us for a live listen and riff along with the 1st episode of Hulu’s M.O.D.O.K. Fing Fang For Me this episode be!  As a Pub-lic service we breakdown all those gibber jabbery letter salad acronyms of the Marvel-verse and Beer-verse. Bonus, find out what all those acronyms & backroynms mean when they cross back over from the Marvel-verse to the Beer-verse and vice versa. Who knew I.B.U. really means  “Iron Man Beats Ultron(s)” and that U.L.T.I.M.A.T.U.M.’s strong movement actually means “Urquell Lager to ingest my abs to ultimate mass”.  Put on your Finity Gauntlet that can only crack open beer bottles, and well, crack open a beer bottle and D.A.W.G. (Drink along with the Guys)! 

Beers:  

KMac: Sexual Manatee, Hidden Springs Ale Works, Tampa, FL
Style: Sour Ale, 5.5% ABV
Rating: I.L.S.A. - I Love Sours They're Awesome (The T is slient)

 Yek: Cicada, True Respite, Rockville, MD
Style: Maibock, 5.5% ABV
Rating: B.B.O.D. - Beautiful Bock only for Drinking!

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