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40s & Stories: A Love Letter to Malt Liquor · D-constructing Topics

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What's going on, folks? And what's going on, my legendary people?
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My name is David Wu, and I'm your host of The Legit, The Legendary Podcast.
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You know, I'm going to stutter a little bit today in this episode.
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I'm not even going to say stutter. Maybe I'm going to make a couple of mistakes,
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because we have an episode that we are going to be talking about,
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none other than something that I've enjoyed.
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That how can i say to you i got
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stories and if one thing that i got story
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is my love of ice cold
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beer beer here and it's beers beers beers
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and you know but now i i want to kind of more specific because you know my my
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beer expertise i've drank over 500 different type of beers right now i'm having
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a nice little pumpkin ale beer elysian night out wait oh Oh,
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oh, punk and L, you know what I mean?
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We'll be having a nice, cold, cold, nice, cold beer.
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And I want people out there, hey, listen, if you're not a beer fan,
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by all means, you know, listen to my podcast.
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A lot of times that people who all listen to my podcast, people around the world,
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people do, hey, we have enjoyed that beer.
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You know, beer is kind of like relationships where, hey, you remember that first
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time that, you know, had that nice cold beer? Was it a stadium? A bar?
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Sneaking from your parents when you was young? High school?
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Where? You know? Talk to me. You got to hit that like, comment, all that good stuff.
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And because we have a beer and I love beer and I tasted over 500 beers,
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I said to myself, maybe I'll do a little show one more specifically.
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For my ghetto people out there in the hood, especially, you know,
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growing up in the buggy down bronze, let's go. we're talking about more of.
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See, I tell you, I'm going to get a little bit of, how can I say,
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tongue twister because I am drinking a beer. But we're going to be talking about malt liquor.
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And malt liquor, basically, my 40s, my douche douche, which the 22 ounce.
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It's those beers that are cheap then, but they come in abundance. But you know what?
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When the money was not right, when we was on a budget, those Saturdays, Sundays.
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You know, back then, my football Sundays, when I was a young man,
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you know what? And all I needed was one piece of chicken and three more more liquor, 40 ounce.
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And that's all, you know, and because of the more liquor, the 40 ounce,
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we're going to be talking about more liquor and just, you know,
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give a list of beers that I drank.
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If you are listening to somewhere, not New York City, that you might not say
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some of the beers that I've got to mention, if you have a more liquor,
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just hit that comment section and talk about.
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Ooh, all that beer Want for the homies Hey, don't drop that drop Just a little
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bit of sun on the floor And that's it Let's call it a night But let's get on with the show Once again,
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Hit the like Comment Feel free to share I'm all over I'm the YouTube I'm on Tegu's TV.
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Once again, Tegu's TV My people's out there That's where I'm at Independent
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little network going on And I'm pretty sure that I'm gonna A lot of them are gonna appreciate Oh,
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look at this This is my boy deconstructed top
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podcast talking about beers now i want to drink a
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beer now i want to drink a malt liquor but now we got a little episode of
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malt liquor once again if you ever in
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new york city gone down to a bodega money's
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tight go to the beer section you might want
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to do coronas you might want to do modelo my thing i
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prefer modelo but when the money is
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tight you do no more other than malt
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liquor and one of the malt liquors that we got there and one
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of the more underrated beers if it's
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cold is coat 45 and going up in the 80s i remember there was a billy d williams
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the beautiful billy d williams beautiful black brother actor and he was smooth
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and smooth and who else to get you to drink something that's gonna be like,
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then i'm not gonna go on coat 45 because again it for me coat 45 the double
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malt liquor for those out there they already know you got that coat 45 you can't
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miss it because you have billy d williams undercover you already know you had
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to drink that and uh and if you keep it cold.
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It's very underrated and, you know, underrated.
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And it's 5.6. And I think that if you do, and, you know, when I was doing a
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little research on this, because I basically wanted to kind of see what people think.
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Because remember, even though liquor, for some reason, people think that's like
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a black culture kind of poverty. It is.
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You know, Puerto Ricans drank it. You know, when you're young, money is tight.
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When you're in college, you know, for those in that, You know, that applies then.
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Basically, malt liquor was that thing. Again, when you're on your late teens,
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early 20s, malt liquor, if you enjoy drinking, was that thing.
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And I remember me growing up, right?
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Let's say, I'm trying to think, early 2000s.
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I kid you not, for one, for two people, I kid you not, I'm going to be straight
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up. And, you know, shout out to my brother-in-arms. You already know who he is.
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We spend a lot of time drinking malt liquor, that's for sure.
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I'm a little bit older than him, and I, you know, for the most part,
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I always had a head start on him in regards to certain things.
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And, you know, for $20, I can't tell you, now, we could buy food,
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and we could buy drinks, and we could buy whatever in between.
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Hey, listen, a pack of cigarettes, whatever.
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So, Cope 45 would have been one of those that's there.
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There's one that's called Country Club, Martin Laker. Country Club has the white letters.
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I might have come across, now, keep in mind this, with Martin Laker.
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They mostly come in these What they call 40 ounce Now if you grab what is a
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40 ounce You're basically You're looking at about half a six pack Right Because
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for the most part a six pack Each bottle is 12 ounces,
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So yeah You're looking at about Three and a half Right So if you buy two.
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Forties Obviously With two people You know you're going to do Definitely going
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to be more than A six pack But you do three You know Hey We're going crazy.
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We're going bananas. But country malt liquor is one of those ones that,
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you know, again, I might have tasted.
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And if it did, once again, in terms of malt liquor, even though malt liquor
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was a cheap thing, because me growing up, I remember one of the ones that I
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drank, obviously, Sanites with the I,
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Snoop Dogg, you know, commercials and all. I remember that 40 ounce was $1.89.
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Now, in the context of why people gravitated, keep in mind is this.
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Even at that time, if I grab a six pack of, let's say, Budweiser,
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it would have been like about five or six dollars, right?
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For six Budweiser cans or bottles, 12 ounce.
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So for $6, if you could buy three, again, three, 40-ounce, you're drinking just
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about more than a six-pack, obviously.
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So that's where why more liquor became a thing for those people in the hood,
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especially those people that didn't have the means.
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Because you get a bang for your buck, you know what I mean? Hey,
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listen, you want to hurt your liver.
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It don't matter whether you're drinking more liquor, but why is there something
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more fancy or something more crafty?
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Like Sam Adams, I got a couple of dollars to spend.
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I got too many but hey listen that's the
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one you got a hurricane high gravity
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i might have drank a hurricane this one is a
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25 ounce but why is called high gravity because it's eight percent alcohol now
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keep in mind is this because i'm a you know a beer connoisseur and i've tasted
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over 500 different beers for
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some reason sometimes i like to aim at those high bottom alcohol you know
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6.5 and so on and for me i always thought that for the most part 40s were 5
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percent 5.5 but once in a while you know they was thinking the eight eight percent
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and that's why sometimes you might see.
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In the hood you might see people that you might think that they were crackheads
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but yet there was only drinking 40s then that's the answer to that there's eight
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percent nine percent 40s you know what I mean?
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But me, that was not my thing. My thing is I'm just going to go for what I know.
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And again, St. Isaac's and Core 45 is probably my main too.
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O-E was another one. O-E, English, 800. Let's go.
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Again, O-English had different ones where 5.9% alcohol. I can see why.
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Because you got to keep in mind,
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these are 40 ounces. You're drinking that volume. It's like a little keg.
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Like, you know what I mean? To 7.5. That's O-E.
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So I take it at, you know, the O-E, 800.
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You know what I mean? Oh, my. that's another one now
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oh english is it's weird because i
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get more consistent with call 45 you know hit the like
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button comment if you uh hit me
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with a little way man with that situation because oe
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is old school but oe was a
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little bit inconsistent and sometimes i like to say
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that it's more inconsistent on the
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but they're going to how they fridge and how they stock
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these things you know what i mean cold 45 was more
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of the consistent more of the better tasting beer out
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of all of them but oe hey listen it had
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his thing it has something going on now i'll remember
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with oe is that they had a 64
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ounce with a handle and it was three
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dollars and uh 25 cents and there
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was three people drinking you know with little cups and i kitchen
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at i was twisted and i don't even thing that we that's another thing too with
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these uh oes or more liquor see you're not you're not gonna get that with alcohol
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if if you decide to like don't want to drink anymore and you throw it away you're
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not gonna feel guilty you know what i mean you see even if you buy cheap liquor,
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and you throw away you know like let's say a bottle of georgia if you throw
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out i don't want to drink anymore you know georgia's disgusting but hey you
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know you're gonna feel a little uh Ah, damn it, man.
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You know what? I should not have done that. But you know what?
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I'd be straight up with more liquor.
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If you leave half of the bottle...
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You ain't mad at it yourself, man, because you're going to wake up the next
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day like, geez, what the hell happened?
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If I kept on drinking that other half, I would have been, cool one. You know what I mean?
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You got still reserve, 2-1-1, high gravity. You got two still reserve.
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Shout out to a couple of my peoples out there. I come to the Andrew Herrera
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show. He does the still reserve.
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I didn't grow up with that one, but there's those ones that have like the 5% and 8%.
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So high gravity, still reserve by all means. I've drank it before.
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Again, not used to the flavor. So it's one of those things. I don't see myself drinking it again.
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Maybe one day I'll do a show, another beer show, more liquor on video.
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And maybe I'll do that thing.
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But not be in my list.
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Mickey's. I remember Mickey's Mort Liquor growing up when I was little.
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People that I was surrounded with would be drinking this. When I grew up, I didn't drink it.
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So I guess it's one of those things that, you know, either Mickey's or something
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like that, because, yeah, because I think that's the one that had something under the cap.
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So that's why people remember that it had these puzzles under the cap.
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You know what I mean? This is back then, back in the 80s when there's no internet.
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You don't know the answer.
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I don't think there was a way to know the answer. I don't know. King Corbett.
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King Corbett. I don't know. So I taste the King Carbara. Now,
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again, I'm going to go and say is this.
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Even though more liquor is cheap, there's some of them that were like,
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like, example, I remember the San Ice going back was like $1.89.
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Then the Coke 45 was like $2.25, $2.50.
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So now dollars and cents here. If you're growing up in the hood,
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you're very limited to what you got. It doesn't matter if it's $0.10, $0.20, $0.30.
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If you don't got them, you don't got them. What can you do?
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So you'll be so into like the Sainteids and a King Cobra now King Cobra again.
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One of those things is six percent alcohol i don't know now
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a lot of uh those people were into her
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we call the uh crackheads a lot of them they drank king cobra you know and even
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again even if i i again i i seen what i seen but even those that might look
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like hey listen they probably taking drugs sometimes what it is that they drinking
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these king cobras all day by the time it's nighttime,
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you'll be like, oh my God, what the hell is going on?
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But once again, King Cobra is that beer. And again, I don't see that I would buy that.
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Maybe again, I'll do another beer episode and video where I'll be tasting these
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different old school beers, but hey, and just a heads up, drink responsible,
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and listen to this responsible.
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I'm not telling you to go out there and drink, but hey, do your thing.
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You know what I mean? Motion Triple X.
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Even Molson Again Molson to Braxton That means that There's more,
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Liquor The precedence of liquor So I'm like You know what I'm good You know
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But again I didn't grow up with Molson I knew people that drank Molson And I'm
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not that type of person That drank Molson,
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Natty daddy It's one of those things I don't remember,
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Being there I think it's again If you go to the store There's
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always the same colt 45 oe and
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santa ice and i think that the the colt
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45 was more on the top shelf versus you
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know the santa ice that's why maybe it tastes a little bit but the
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natty uh natty daddies i don't know they were high in alcohol
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once again that's why they were cheaper than
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some other how can i say more liquor and actually
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came in like a little bigger cans like 25 26 ounce that's another thing too
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that people gravitated to that like instead of buying a 40 ounce if I could
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buy 225 which equals to 50 ounce at a lesser price guess what I'm gonna do do
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the math you know what I mean ha ha nanny daddy,
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there's another one I've heard about this one it's called Red Horse.
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And that's self-explanatory. I don't think I had that before.
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But I might have heard something. Red horse. You had crazy horse, obviously.
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But it's not my type of sea. Not the ones that are out there.
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Now, I do remember a couple of other ones. Valentine.
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Valentine was one that it was very familiar with many folks out there.
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And, you know, San I's. San I's, I believe, was like one of the ones that because
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of being lesser than the other ones.
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It's one of the ones that I tasted. It's been, you know, San I's.
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Damn, I had a good time with San I's, but San I's, yeah, San I's is San I's, bro.
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I mean, if you drink San I's, God bless your soul.
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But it was a little bit more money than, let's say, King Cobra and a little
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bit less than the other one.
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So, you know, shout out to San I's. Hey, if you remember any other beers,
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you got the Budweiser's.
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Oh, you know, before I, you know, you got the Budweiser. You got some of the
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big dogs or more of the top dogs, name brand.
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Budweiser, I think that if I consume 3% to 5% and probably even less than that,
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Budweiser in my life, I think it's a little bit too much.
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I'm not one to gravitate to these big companies or just regular casual beers
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because I'm a crap beer type of person.
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And even, let's say, when it comes to 40s.
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Now, there was one time that I was drinking Coors Light. now
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my understanding cool's light was like 4.5 percent
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alcohol 5 percent alcohol and the price was
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there because you know even though these were bigger companies they
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still priced the 40s at a cheaper beer you know
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what i mean for whatever reason because you
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know more liquor is like the bottom of the whatever the bottom of
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the bottom you know and cause like i remember
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drinking cause like for a while a long time ago
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and i always used to get these two two bottles
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40s i mean it's 80 ounce oh
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i kid you that i remember i used to drink the first the
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first bottle i shugged it like it was nothing
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i remember on the second one halfway hey different
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story you know what i mean but once again talk to me
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let me know what you was drinking what kind of 40s you was drinking if
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i did forget anything of that nature hit me
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up hit the comment you already know just please
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please drink responsibly do your
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thing go out there just be careful what you
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drink cut down your drinking if you have to or if you must and
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i do recommend but that it's one thing
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that hey listen we're making it happen for sure and we out of here once again
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