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… As Brett preps for Japan, Monica recaps Seattle, and everyone at the table has a story about Enchanted Rock, involving torrid degrees, bees, and … “Probably sex.” Keep up with your tour guides, and enjoy responsibly.
With Monica being out of town, I will be at Austin Eastciders at 6pm to enjoy a drink or two before helping out at Penfold Theater’s “Crime and Punishment” at the Ground Floor Theatre. Come by and have a couple, and we might even grab dinner if you are still around after 8!
We aren’t recording, but I thought we could branch out today. Come meet people and joke and drink and laugh! www.barettoatx.com
We are finally going to record at one of our favorite places.Join us Thursday around 6:30 for 2 Beers In at the Fang and Feather over at the Wizards Academy in Driftwood, Tx (Over by the original Salt Lick BBQ)Here’s the address. 16221 Crystal Hills Drive Austin, Texas Get Directions Call (512) 850-9622 if you...
Monica and I will be there around 6. Only one episode but come on out! The Aristocrat Lounge6507 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX 78757
We’ll be starting around 6:30. We have some fun stories to tell, and would also love to hear from you!
Monica and I wont be at the Aristocrat this week, but we will be there a week from now, so join us! 6507 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX 787576pm!
We went ahead and broke continuity to present these during the holidays! Brett and Monica are joined at The Brewtorium by Doug & Jessica. Jessica shares her dark suspicions about The Aristocrat Lounge and gives a blow by blow description of how someone at a church was mean to her. By the way, this whole...
Tomorrow, December 18th at 6 pm, join us at Hops and Grains, (http://www.hopsandgrain.com/) In East Austin. Here’s the address. 507 Calles St, Ste 101, Austin, TX 78702.We had such a good time at the Brewtoreum last week, and we turned the technical difficulties into something funny. We’d love to see you here!We are also going to...
Hey all! Just a quick reminder that a new episode of 2 Beers In is up.https://weightlesspod.com/the-getaway-episode I am also trying to hook up all my post centrally here so that it will go out everywhere else. I know this is short notice, but tonight at 6pm, meet us at The Brewtoreum! Afterwards, we are going...
Brett is about to leave for Japan, Monica returns from Seattle and every one of them has a story about nearby Enchanted Rock – even guest Andrew, whose encounter with bees is the stuff of horror films! Do enjoy the mayhem responsibly!
Enjoy your favorite libation as Brett & Monica recall Giving tours at the opening of a whiskey distillery where it was too hot to drink, Both learn their tolerance for socializing. Monica experiences irony during a gig at The Thinkery where you work for s’mores and flan. The 6 Things Healthy People Do Every Morning...
Brett and Monica are joined by podcast & Aristocrat regular Doug for Remembrances of our first exposure to wondrous inventions that are ordinary today. Stuff like sensor faucets, paper towel dispensers, clumping cat littler, HDTV – stuff like that! You won’t look at the commonplace in quite the same way, so come laugh with us!...
Simone, Eric, Val, and James join Brett & Monica on an episode where Marriage proposals abound: Valerie – from a Korean taxi driver AND Brett. (She was torn, let me tell ya!) We’re strapped trying to NOT talk about the weather because Val hates that, except for discussions of wildfires and sunscreen. (It’s summer, okay?)...
Welcome to Season Two! We’ve Now Officially Run Longer Than “Firefly!” (Suck it, JJ Abrams!)Eric “DeKill” (who is off mic) and Valerie (who is ALSO off mic a lot) join Brett, Monica and Andrew joins the discussion. Marching band antics and routines. High school memories includes being “in the pit”, what “7 to 5” means,...
Brett and Monica are joined by Doug and Craig Journey through fact & fiction about the Cassini Mission, the X Rocket, and we find that naysayers have been saying nay for a few, nay, many years! What caused tortilla chips to ignite – twice? Join this strange trip, but, as always, enjoy responsibly!
With no one at the guest mics, Brett & Monica have no recourse but to discuss… An impertinent email Monica received from Ibrahem Magoo. We’re schooled as to WHY the lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy. Brett confesses that in school he was bullied into...
Now with Extra Cheese! Brett, Monica & Andrew (with E.K. off mic) dig deep! Cultural appreciation of fine print on beer labels, Foreign children. Fromage, and Swiss cows, Confirming the myth that Carmelite nuns have delicious creamy centers. Listen in and enjoy responsibly!
Brett & Monica welcome Chad, Phoebe & Andrew The secret to Chad’s diet, Pickle juice slushies Getting older – which is ironic since Andrew looks like a 9 year-old wearing a beard in an Amish play. Andrew did have a brief acting career but it involved sheep. Oh, and the 90’s were a simpler time,...
Chad and Phoebe join Brett and Monica as we lump things all together. Every Gilbert & Sullivan operetta plot ever. Brett’s habit of paraphrasing every script. How every young person talks. How the Nativity story would sound with accents! Phoebe tells a joke. Monica is not the worst grandmother ever. Chad shares how grapefruit is...