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Zane Lamprey is Afraid of Bombing and We Drink Offshoot Beer Co. & Marlowe Artisanal Ales

• Stu Haack & Derek Krueger / Zane Lamprey • Season 2 • Episode 17

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Zane Lamprey is a legend (he might kill me for saying that), starring in incredible shows like Three Sheets on the Travel Channel and Spike, Drinking Made Easy on AXS TV, and Have Fork, Will Travel on Food Network, not to mention his podcast and upcoming comedy and brewery tour which is almost guaranteed to be coming to a brewery in your town (seriously, just go to zanelamprey.com to see the tour). And for some very strange reason, he decided to join us on Beer Freaks to talk about his fear of bombing on stage, the sustainability of our environment and planet, his brand Adv3nture, his collaboration beer, and more while we drink some tasty beverages from Offshoot Beer Co. and Marlowe Artisanal Ales. If you don't listen to this episode, there's something wrong with you.

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Stu Haack:

And we're back. Ladies and gentlemen with another fantastic episode. Actually, we're pretty damn excited about this one.

Derek Krueger:

I mean, we're a little excited. I think a little excited.

Zane Lamprey:

You don't know it's a fantastic episode until it's done. You don't have a horrible episode. Okay,

Stu Haack:

and you're gonna learn this about us we make a lot of assumptions.

Zane Lamprey:

A lot of big claims. This is our best episode of the year. How do you know

Stu Haack:

it just wait and Zane's just gonna sign off right now is not the best episode now bitches. This is gonna be good. I

Derek Krueger:

could tell ya.

Stu Haack:

That's another assumption. But I'm gonna go so here I mean, here we are. We've got a great yesterday we really excited about it. So I don't even want to spend a whole lot of time talking to you, Derek because I see you all the time.

Derek Krueger:

You know, I'm totally okay with it, Stu. Because I'd rather talk to this guy anyway, then, so it's perfect.

Stu Haack:

Okay, well, so then let's just go ahead and roll the damn music Hi, my name is Stu Haack. And this is my podcast about all the weird, crazy spooky things that scare me and my guests. And the one thing that helps us forget all about them. Ladies and gentlemen. Beer freaks. And we're back with the one the only the legend

Derek Krueger:

Zane lamprey. Zane fuckin' Lamprey. What What's up

Zane Lamprey:

legend makes me feel old. It's not like it's not like when I was 30 people were like, Oh, you're a legend, bro. No.

Stu Haack:

I feel like there could be like some younger legends. I don't know. Yeah,

Derek Krueger:

I feel that way.

Zane Lamprey:

Listen, John. Legend was always one. So

Stu Haack:

born a legend. He wasn't you know, you had a lot to live up to.

Zane Lamprey:

That was yes. That's nice. He was happy. Right?

Stu Haack:

Can you imagine if John Legend just became mediocre?

Zane Lamprey:

There are a lot of changes that are just boring people.

Stu Haack:

That's sucks. Yeah, there were destined to fail. So Zane, dude, thank you so much, man for being on our show. You have just done some incredible work in the past. Your show three sheets. You've got a comedy tour going on? Right now you've had you've had some really amazing guests on your podcast, which we all want to get to. But first, welcome. Can you tell our guests a little bit about

Zane Lamprey:

what you're doing? God? How much time do you have? You know, it's funny, because the place that I'm often asked or not often, but like recently, okay, often but not recently asked is that same question is like, hey, what do you do? And it's like, if I'm in a plane, and and a lot of times when you're in on a flight, you kind of want to just zone out. We all have our devices these days. But before those devices, like people would actually talk to each other. And they'd be like, what do you do? What do you do and you're literally auditioning that person to see if that person is worthy of continuing the conversation you want to be like, if they're interesting, you can keep going. But if they're like, Oh, I'm an orthodontist. You're like, Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna take an app, or hey, look at this bicuspid and so we kind of talked about it, because one of the things is like, oh, okay, I've I posted five shows four of them about drinking one of them about food. Well, I've traveled around the world and drank or eaten with people to learn about their culture by, you know, bellying up to the bar. And I also have an apparel brand. I'm doing I'm a stand up I do I have a national tour coming up. So like, those things could have me sitting here talking about myself for the entire flight, and was like, What is the answer that I would give? It's like, oh, like, what do you do? Oh, I'm an accountant. You want to hear about it? Oh, no, thank you. I'm gonna I'm gonna close my eyes pick me up when we land. You know. So the sky mold

Stu Haack:

all of a sudden became very interested yesterday.

Zane Lamprey:

I you know, I did this thing, right? I go through and I pick one item from each page. And I'm kind of I'm into that right now. So you just stop talking, mister.

Stu Haack:

Yeah, that's right. Exactly.

Zane Lamprey:

Very soon be out like when we go back when everyone goes back to flying is like Will the magazines on the flight really matter anymore? Because we all we get on the flight with our entertainment right based on however long that flight is, unfortunately, fewer books these days and more electronic devices. But yeah, that this will be our last reference our last SkyMall job. So

Stu Haack:

I that see That's an assumption as well, just to just to point it out. Because I like with its whole Sky Mall thing is going I

Derek Krueger:

love Sky Mall. Yeah.

Zane Lamprey:

You know what they say? Know what they say when you assume you're usually correct. Yes, whatever coaches coaches don't say that. coaches say the other one.

Stu Haack:

So we've got a couple of questions for you before we get into the crux of What this podcast is about. So first, we wanted to a acknowledge the fact that you won craft brewery marketing 2020 Man of the Year. That is fantastic. That's badass man. Going here.

Derek Krueger:

Oh, it'll, it'll be in there. Yeah.

Zane Lamprey:

Always there. Oh, it's there.

Stu Haack:

It's there. So I want to ask, is there any single brewery that you Wow think you help single handedly blow up?

Zane Lamprey:

Yes, I would say Maui Brewing Company would be nothing. Oh, nothing. Without me forget about all the awards they won before I got there are the amazing things that they're doing. No, that is that Maui Brewing Company is all me and the fact that they don't, they just did you just hand me the keys to the joint. You know, it's interesting. That's my buddy Garrett over there. But I until we started planning this tour. So I'm going on 90. It's turning into like, almost 100 city. Standup comedy tour.

Stu Haack:

I was trying to scroll through a lot. I was trying to scroll through. It took like minutes. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Imagine you got a heck of a tour.

Zane Lamprey:

Yeah. Having to actually do it. And I didn't even realize until we started talking with people that, like what an influence I have had I it's not something I would ever say like, oh, I changed, you know, the craft, brewing industry, whatever. But like, it's one industry that I definitely know that I've had an effect on. I didn't know that it was like tangible. But a lot of breweries that we talked to that, um, that we're going to said that we started a brewery because we watched your show. And we learned about brewing from your show or you know, whether it was drinking made easy or three sheets, but it's kind of it's you know, I I'll hear those stories. And now that we're talking to breweries, I hear more. There's were the shows that we're doing like Crafthouse out and Vegas where you guys are, that's like the size of the brewery that we're doing the show at anywhere from 200 to 300. People, we it doesn't really make sense to us, because of our overhead tour manager travel, all that kind of stuff to go to breweries that are smaller. So a lot of the smaller breweries that were inspired by the shows that I've done or whatever, unfortunately, we were unable to go to. But in the last year, I've talked with 1000 breweries about the tour to end up the 100 breweries that we're going to so it's just been really, really amazing just to connect and reconnect with these people, with these people in the brewing industry. And I like, I mean, I get to go out and go to my favorite breweries. Talk to people that were fans of the shows that I've done. And and like, drink beer and tell stories. You know, it's yeah, it's gonna be it's a hell on summer. Hell of a summer. Hell's summer. Yeah.

Stu Haack:

I got to imagine that, like, you know, there's so many with with your history and the fact that yes, I mean, three sheets was being filmed. While the craft beer industry was really starting to blow up. I mean, that was like, you know, the early days of like, craft beer being becoming more mainstream.

Zane Lamprey:

Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I would bet there weren't even 1000 at the time. Yeah, and then drinking made easy. We we actually visited a lot of them. You know, visited. I, I say 50 to 100. I don't know what the actual number of craft breweries. But now if we were to go do that show? Well, I'll tell you what we did. We we did a brewery crawl in Asheville. So we did an episode in Asheville, North Carolina. And we went to every single brewery in the episode. Nowadays,

Stu Haack:

that's a big beer scene. Yeah. I

Zane Lamprey:

mean, at the time, it was like 11 or 13. Like, wow. Now, I don't know what the number is. But I mean, well, who's there now New Belgium is there. Sierra Nevada, I think is there like, you know, along with the other, you know, normal size breweries. And the same thing with San Diego, there was a point where in like, the San Diego area there was like 24. You would know what that was? Yeah. Now there's like 240. I don't know if the number oh, it's crazy. Walk down a suburban neighborhood. And there's a craft brewery something like Oh, it's crazy. Yeah.

Stu Haack:

But so let me ask you this. So how do you I mean, that's got to be tough to break the news. When you talk to 1000 breweries, right. And only 100 are going to make the list for this brewery tour. I bet a lot of them that don't make it are like Oh man, that was our shot. Zane lamprey was going to come here he was going to help us explode. You know, like that's, I mean,

Zane Lamprey:

I've never thought about it in those terms. I don't know how much of an impact that would have been But the there are some that figured out how to make it work they said well what if we if we find space and do it there and then you can you know, like Can we can we do something creative or we sponsor but we find a space or whatever so like a lot of them are making a work we're getting there's a lot of tents, there's some outdoor shows. There's shows that like the space next door there's there's, there's like brewhouse, like literally out in the warehouse shows. I mean, for me, it's exciting because every show every night is a different, a different stage. You know, it'd be it's just gonna be interesting to like, walk into those. And it's also going to be a nice baptism by fire because it's been a while since I've done the stand up. It's going to be amazing, because I will have to adapt to a lot of things. You know, you're in there and all of a sudden like the the match John starts like going in, you're like, you know, there's noise. Oh, we didn't think about the fact that that was gonna turn on at that point. Sorry. You know, but yeah, exciting all around. Now, what's

Derek Krueger:

your last Comedy Tour? The one I wouldn't sell the drinking Made Easy one when you guys were touring? It did kind of the whole like comedy tour like fun show? Yeah. You did it at the Hard Rock here. Was that like the last one?

Zane Lamprey:

I mean, it was Yeah, I mean, well, kind of we didn't want after that, right after that called sing the booze, which was like, music and stand up stories more. So. But that was right on the heels of that. And then I just been doing show to show to show like, as in TV show. I did a little bit in 2019. Getting ready for the tour that was supposed to happen in 2020. But generally speaking, yeah, that was the last one. And now my plan is to do one every year. Because, you know, there's two reasons a, this is exciting to me. And I love going out there and connecting with people and to is like, I just hate being at the whim of television networks, which there's kind of now there's like, you know, there's platforms and YouTubes and, you know, all kinds of different ways that you could be seen. And I'm always having conversations with them, but I don't want to rely on them anymore. Like I put a lot of eggs into the TV basket. I'm an entertainer, I guess I got stories to tell I got more story. I got I got three tours of stories, like, like, literally written out, like people are gonna hear 1/3 I think it's the best ones. But you know, and the tour will change along the way because I'm sure as all stand up happens, it will evolve. There are there's there's a few people that are going to the first show which is in in Los Angeles at Lal works. And then the last show, which is is it San Diego, or Los Angeles. I forget. I think it's San Diego. Yeah, I ended my tours all in San Diego. So I'm gonna end in San Diego again this time. That's a good place. Right? Yeah,

Stu Haack:

that's a good place to end.

Zane Lamprey:

I mean, it's San Diego. I mean, like, it's like, I'll end the tour and then I'll hang out there for a few days. So yeah,

Derek Krueger:

yeah. You didn't want to end in Iowa or something. Yeah.

Zane Lamprey:

Exactly.

Stu Haack:

Throw an Iowa under the bus. Sorry. I'm sure Iowa has some great brewery. Oh, my hometown. We're we're

Zane Lamprey:

doing. We're doing a brewery in Iowa. I say that the places that we're missing are like, the Dakotas. And that's

Stu Haack:

that's Derrick old stomping smiled something South Dakota man,

Zane Lamprey:

Montana. It's a tough place to do a tour through when you were growing up there. It must have been difficult because it's like it's a hike to anywhere, depending on where nothing was getting you where you were in. Where were you like,

Derek Krueger:

I was in Aberdeen, which is the northeast corner, literally to any big city was a three, four or five hour drive. Right? Right. It's crazy.

Zane Lamprey:

And that's, that's also a problem with Minneapolis. Minneapolis doesn't route very well either. Because it's like, it's like a four or five hour drive. It's like you want you know, we're doing like our route. And that run is like we're starting off in Minneapolis. Then we do. Madison, which we might not be doing Madison but Milwaukee, Chicago. And then we're going into going up to Michigan and then down into like and ending in Indianapolis. But like, you don't want to have a huge drive. Like we're not doing big tour buses like we did last time. So you went to the show. So you saw the giant tour buses last time.

Derek Krueger:

Yeah, the big one. Those those.

Zane Lamprey:

Those those expensive modes of transportation are not happening this time around. I don't think there's still possibility but I don't think so we'll be doing like we'll be crashing that night in a hotel and then doing a drive the next day. And I don't want to have like a five hour drive because I don't want to arrive someplace exhausted. So Oh, yeah, you know, that's why we most of the drives are like, three hours, hopefully three hours or less. That's like, that's manageable. Yeah, but you know

Stu Haack:

what you can, you can steal one of Derek and I's ideas. We were talking about doing a brewery tour across America, and pitching Uber on, like, literally a brewery tour sponsored by Uber, where you go from city to city, and they are using Uber drivers only. Yep. And our goal was that Uber would just pay for all of our drinks, our travel. Yeah, of course.

Zane Lamprey:

If you're in well, we reached out to him, we're still having some conversations with like, Uber and Lyft, and a bunch of other sponsors for the tour. And what's crazy, is we were like, Oh, we can tap into their, their audiences as well to fill up the venues. But now we haven't even besides a few posts in a newsletter, like, like, we haven't done any advertising. And we're over 50% sold out of tickets for the first so we list 39 What's that? Like?

Stu Haack:

When I was scrolling the list? A lot of them were already sold out. I was like, damn, oh, yeah, thing is like this thing that going off.

Derek Krueger:

I was about to buy tickets for your Las Vegas show. But I forgot my wife is pregnant in her due date is literally like a day before your show. I'm like, I can't Damn, I can't do that. I don't think probably

Zane Lamprey:

the way so you're gonna miss it. Well, by the way, there's every hidden due date. You want to if you want to plan something on a due date, you'll be fine. Don't plan it before or after? Yeah, then you'll be in trouble. Cool. Yeah, we're, you know, it's we launched 39 cities. And then those tickets went on sale. And then we have another 50 cities that will be launched on April 15. And then and then there may be a few holes left that we need to fill up and then those tickets will come out on Cinco Demayo. And by hopefully by then we're done. But like, the point is, is that we were supposed to start doing the marketing, but we didn't even have a chance before like some of the places filled up like Boston, Newark, Minneapolis, like those tickets are gone, which is just crazy.

Stu Haack:

Yeah, who needs marketing? It's overrated. happens to be my job. But you know, yeah.

Derek Krueger:

Those guys Yeah. So Zane in honor of National beer day test today. Yes. Today. Yeah.

Stu Haack:

What a day it is.

Derek Krueger:

So what beer tickles your little logistical? What's like your favorite beer?

Stu Haack:

I think I hate. What is it?

Derek Krueger:

I don't know. What's your favorite?

Zane Lamprey:

What is i? Sorry? Yeah,

Stu Haack:

don't don't don't let him off the hook.

Derek Krueger:

Yes. Maybe don't google it.

Stu Haack:

I don't know. I wouldn't see Google image search. Well, he's searching that. Will you grab like

Zane Lamprey:

a ladder? Ladder? No, it's like, Hey, Siri, what's the definition of statistical? Okay, I found this. No. That's the nation of LETITIA. Nope, it's a woman's name notation. So okay, well, that's fine. I was gonna be very impressed. Like that's to get a word that I've never heard in our language. That's impressive. I'll tell you what I'm drinking. I am right now drinking a collaboration beer that we made. And by way my my apparel company, logo. Yeah. So we did this with fog belt brewing. We made a red wood lager. And at the time, I was like, I wanted to make a collaboration beer. Because some of the proceeds of this beer go to green force work, which is a nonprofit that plants trees and in deforested areas have deforest the forested areas of the Appalachians that have been deforested by strip mining, and you might be astounded as well, you should be to find out that the areas that they're replanting, the number of acres that they need to replant is a million nearly holy cow, that's the number of acres that it's more than more than million actually, over a million acres that need to be reinforced it a million, just think about it. Just think about what that looks like. That's so same, so we use your people so so we use some Redwood tips, which are the new growth in the spring, these little green parts, and we pulled some of those off and put it in the brew with what was the hops and forget the hop we used but a very sort of citrusy hop. And it just like it kind of like behaved like a hop which is a little bit of bitterness and it's amazing. And so this is a dark very dark you lager made with Redwood tips. And it's fantastic. That is

Stu Haack:

so so that's, that's a logger and actually I was reading your favorite beers are. I think it's loggers and porters. Is that right? Yeah,

Zane Lamprey:

yeah. I mean, I, like I've been down the whole hop train. You know what I mean? Like the West Coast like this, this double IPA right here. Yeah. green beer. You'll, you'll get to an age young man where you drink a hot beer and you will pass out. You'll just be tired. You'll need it. You'll be in there already.

Derek Krueger:

I can do the Hayes's man. I can't do that, that skunk that like,

Zane Lamprey:

well, that's like a good I like a good balance. Now look, I definitely like a nice IPA. But for me, I go less on the Ibu, you know, front. So I like loggers, but even some hot loggers, some porters stouts, some browns and reds. You know, I mean, like, those are kind of a little. I mean, we're doing a lot of collaborations on this tour. And we are going with just just lower ABV beers. So you can kind of like because I will be drinking our collaboration beer, I will be drinking while I'm on stage. And if I want to have like, for, like legit craft beers, like you'd have a hard time understanding me by the end percent. Yeah, I mean, but But honestly, even 7% You know, like, and the science behind it too is like, you know, the average like, macro brew, call it like, you know, three and a half 4% Right? That that a 7% will actually get in your bloodstream faster. So it actually acts like a 10% So like if you drink craft beer, you feel it. And the cancer Yeah.

Stu Haack:

Yeah, that's a 60 Announcer here after revision quarantine dreams we're all dealing with you know, it's a great beer it is a New England style. hazy if you want to give it a shot Derek

Derek Krueger:

the can arts beautiful can arts. We can kind of see it. But yeah.

Zane Lamprey:

i Yeah, that's what it's

Stu Haack:

8.1 and Z. Yeah. So you right now I am definitely feeling this way. Yeah. Not my first I'm just going to also tell you that this is my second one. Alright, let's do the pre show.

Derek Krueger:

You got to ask Zane a question. I feel like me and you both kind of saw it. We were like, Oh, so you you ask him this? Because I don't want to be here for it. But no, I'm gonna grab some beer. Yes. And then you find out about this because I'm curious.

Stu Haack:

Okay, so, Zane.

Zane Lamprey:

I thought he was gonna leave the room. He just bent he just bent over and picked up a beer. Don't worry about what he's doing right now. Ignore the math.

Stu Haack:

So we were very excited to see about your you know, winning the craft beer marketing 2020 Man of the Year. So we did a little research on your high school. Phil manliest High School, right. And they actually have a list of their honor read like alumni, their most famous alumni. And it really bummed us out to not see you on this list. Like what the hell this guy's crushing some awards. He's been all over TV all over the internet. And he's not even in the high school honoree list of alumni today. We want to go to bat for you on this. Yeah, if necessary. We're gonna call we're gonna go down there

Zane Lamprey:

that go? Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what, I there was another list, which was the most famous people related to Syracuse. So which which is way near where I grew up, which is that is the downtown right. I was in a suburb. And so I was on the top 100 of that list. So I think Syracuse magnate, maybe maybe I'm not on the list for academia, but that is pretty funny, right? Yeah. They had

Stu Haack:

they had graphic novelist on there. There was an honorable mention about a serial rapist. Oh, geez. I should know that is not true. 1850 I'm telling you right now look it up. Yes. He didn't make the list but he's off.

Derek Krueger:

I know. I saw a guy is his name. sounds super familiar. Like a Steve McKenna, I think was on there. Oh, man. It was not I don't know. Yeah. Oh, I

Zane Lamprey:

see, Steve didn't even go to my high school, which is makes it even

Stu Haack:

like, damn, I didn't even know he was there.

Zane Lamprey:

That's funny. Yeah. No, that's

Stu Haack:

we're gonna start a letter writing campaign.

Zane Lamprey:

Yes, please. So that's right. These are the important things this exactly. Writings and keep Derek and I Yeah, but by the way, that's the thing that I'm most afraid of. So you nailed that one.

Derek Krueger:

Well, dude, this is a perfect segue to our favorite part of the podcast, the beer. I think we've All right, some beer. We got a little loose. Yeah. Now we can get to the fear. Yes. So Zane, you got to tell us Zane lamprey. What is your fear?

Zane Lamprey:

You know? Do you guys know how heavy this question is? Because you guys do, okay, you can you can go, you can go light, right? You have to be funny, but you can also go pretty, pretty dark, like actual fear. I mean, what

Derek Krueger:

we like to what we'd like to ask people is like, like legit, like what not, you know, not like, Oh, I hate bugs or what? Like, no, what is something you are so afraid of that light could keep you up at night that you think about sometimes, and that just scares the crap out of you.

Zane Lamprey:

Um, I would say the two things are one is in my control. When it's not in my control. The first thing is it's funny, I just, I, I took a power nap today. And I was coming out of that nap. So if you take a power nap, but it's like, 20 minutes, you wake up and you feel amazing. If you go like, into like, 40 minutes, you wake up and you're a little groggy, you know. And so I woke up was a little groggy, and I was like, man, what if my show sucks. But if myself that, and I was telling my wife about it, she was like, well, just, you know, you have such great stories. I'm like, Well, I mean, that's what the standard is. I'm not really scared of it. To the point where I was really concerned, it was more like the Groggy guy that was coming out, it was like would have, what is my life has no meaning. I mean, like, so. I mean, there's legitimate fear about going up there. I mean, think about it, like, yeah, of course. I'm going up and giving a one hour memorized speech. And, and what if it sucks, then I gotta like, rewrite it, you know what I mean? But But, but there's enough of like, it's not going to be me that like performing against a wall, right? They'll there will be people. And there will be challenges every night that that will break up the show. So I I'm, I'm confident that it's going to be a great show. And I've been, I've been reading it for two years. I've been writing it for the last 12 years, but I've already writing it physically for two years. So that's one I mean, look, the other one is, is is is is really more. I mean, it's a much longer discussion, but it's it's, it's about the the environment and like the the natural world that it and and what is happening to it, and I've traveled around the world, I've seen a lot of shit. And I've been to a lot of developing countries. And there isn't there is such little amount of respect for the natural world. Whether it's the trees, the air, the water, the animals that we share the planet with that that we are we're fucking doomed. I'm just gonna say yes. Like we are. We are We are doomed. There is there is there is there is not any. There's just not any fixing it because there's just too many people that feel entitled and feel like that this is their world to do whatever they want. And and you know, so so there's no way really to reverse it unless the government gets really strict and then people are going to rebel against that. So I don't know, man. So Elon, get us to Mars. So

Stu Haack:

we can trash another planet, basically. That's yeah,

Zane Lamprey:

I mean, you know, we watch the movie wall E and we're just like, oh, imagine if the, if the planet went to shit, and we had to leave it. Like, really? Okay. Like, you know, yeah, well, the

Derek Krueger:

accuracy to you know, that.

Zane Lamprey:

Yeah, well, yeah. 80 accuracy is more more of action. So it's a much closer one. It's because because in there, they weren't able to leave the planet need to stay and deal with it. So yeah, you know, you know, it's,

Stu Haack:

you know, what's cool about that, though, is like, that'd be one of your fears. You're actually doing something about though Yeah, like with your adventure brand and planting.

Zane Lamprey:

I'm trying like, look, we we we plant three trees with every purchase, I think will make more of an impact in just educating people that there is a problem that needs to be dealt with rather than rather than three trees that are planted making a difference. Now those trees will make a difference but like, not at the rate at which we really would like to, you know to do and then my wife and I run a pet rescue too. So we we rescue cats and dogs. I think this year alone, maybe we've had 20 dogs and 30 Cats maybe something like that. Maybe already cats I don't know I lose track. I know There's a lot of, there's a lot of walking around here. So.

Derek Krueger:

So let me ask you, so do you think a lot of people are afraid of, you know, they're like, Well, you know, I'm not gonna make a difference me, I'm like me recycling or doing whatever, you know, not like, I feel like every single person is like, well, just me can't make a difference. But then when you times that by how many people we have in the world, it's like, well, you did seven or one little thing. Yeah, you know? Yeah, I think that's kind of a big, big deal. And

Zane Lamprey:

that's the, that's the problem. And that's they can do it. That's, that is a mixture of entitlement. Right, which is like, I'll just do what I want. And feeling like you're insignificant. Right? So yeah, kind of the same thing. Like I can feel entitled, because I don't really matter. And my actions on this planet don't really matter. And so yeah, I mean, it's just, it's gonna look at, like, where you grew up, you know. And remember, like that lock down the street, there was a field and now it's no longer a field, those things are not going to turn back into fields. Like, like, it's okay, you're the parking lot of the world is just getting bigger and bigger, bigger. So, you know, I think I think Mother Nature was trying to give us a little hint this year about, hey, trying to do something we're like, you know, we'll come back to you. So those are those are fights that unfortunately, I don't think they're going to come every 100 years, at this point. So yeah,

Stu Haack:

I think I think you're right, I think it's gonna get worse. But I will say this, like the one thing before we get to the beer, because I know, Derek is very excited. We only have a couple more minutes with you, because I know you have got to run soon. But I just wanted to say this, because of the conversation we just had. Yeah, I read I read something. And I don't know if this is totally true or not. But that, you know, to your point of people being afraid that they can't actually make a difference. Something as simple as you know, people turning off their sink while they're brushing their teeth. A lot of people don't do that a lot of people leave it running. If literally, every single American made sure that they turned off their sink while they were brushing their teeth. It would save us some like illogical crazy amount of water that could actually help significantly turn around, like global warming. Yeah, then a few years, like we

Zane Lamprey:

would end up with Yeah, we would end up with like a surplus that we wouldn't, we wouldn't know what to do with. I pitched that like, pitch, like doing a Green Week. Even just starting it in Los Angeles, I talked to my agent about and he shot it down. And I wanted to just make just a week, a week where everyone makes a conscious effort to cut their use of resources, water, electricity, by 50% and fossil fuels, gasoline, that kind of thing. And gas, so and just cut it by 50% for a week. And then take measurements of the air and and you know everything but but he's like, Nah, no one really cares. That's not interesting. Yeah. Okay. So now I have to save the world. I have to like entertain you and do a little dance at the same time. Like yeah,

Stu Haack:

but but but but didn't we see what happened with COVID was like all those in Shanghai and stuff like that. They stopped driving for a couple of weeks. It was like, Whoa, look at this. We can actually make a difference quickly. We can and will

Zane Lamprey:

how soon we will forget. Yeah. It'll it'll be Yeah.

Stu Haack:

Yesterday's problems yesterday.

Zane Lamprey:

Is that a is that a cigar city? What is that?

Derek Krueger:

So So when when I texted you about your fear, you kind of said public speaking, which kind of goes to what you said before, with like your show and stuff. So to kind of pair this with your beer. I did a twofer here. I did this one and I did this one. So this one is from Marlo artisanal ales. It's called eager to share.

Zane Lamprey:

Yeah, those are handsome looking bottle. Oh, nice. Oh, funny.

Derek Krueger:

I pair this because you're eager to share stories, right? You're eager to get out there and tell your story. But you know, a little afraid of the public speaking so you got to bear that goes with it. Is beer by off school beer. It's called Relax.

Zane Lamprey:

Relax. Nice.

Stu Haack:

Yeah. So offshoot beer. Yeah. Give credit to the

Zane Lamprey:

right. And what? What styles are those off school?

Stu Haack:

Oh, this so the relax is

Zane Lamprey:

a hazy IPA? Yep. Nice.

Stu Haack:

I don't believe that they plant trees for every purchase. So we need you to also tell us where to buy that beer so that we can help support that? Yes,

Zane Lamprey:

yeah, this I mean, this is fog belt brewing. But anyone who's who wants to know more about it can just go to my apparel company, which is adventure. ADV three and T ura. The first E is a three because we plant three trees.

Derek Krueger:

I love and I'm I'm an investor and adventure. Nice. Fantastic. Um, yep.

Zane Lamprey:

Wait, did I the two of them. Did I meet you in Vegas?

Derek Krueger:

You took a picture with me my wife. Yeah, it was cool, man. I actually I actually interviewed you for school pa Okay, why don't you tell COVID? I don't know.

Zane Lamprey:

I didn't people. Yes, yes. I talked to when I was when I was driving from LA to San Diego.

Derek Krueger:

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Which was awesome to me. Yeah.

Zane Lamprey:

Okay, I wish that yes, I didn't. But I remember a game podcast a while back a while back we talked about that. Yes, of course. Yes.

Derek Krueger:

Yeah. But um, but yeah, the offsuit beer is versus from brew dude. Is this one offshoot, obviously, but a Eugene's? I can't read it. It's actually from Florida.

Zane Lamprey:

Yeah, it's in Florida. Whereabouts in Florida. It just says when

Derek Krueger:

it says Lakeland, Florida, Florida, it says Eugene. Oh, it says it's Eugene, Oregon and Lakeland Florida is an agreement. Yeah.

Zane Lamprey:

Well, that's why the bottles or the can is put in half. That's pretty cool.

Stu Haack:

Yeah, it's a pretty cool. It's a good looking kid. Yeah, very summery.

Derek Krueger:

And then this one's from and looks like where's this guy from? Was like to see this one's from Connecticut. North Haven. believe it's pronounced connect to cut Connecticut. But yeah, so we're gonna do these with you, man. Well, and well, I mean, we'll do it with a beer you're drinking. But

Zane Lamprey:

yeah, so So tell me tell me. Do you finish your degree?

Derek Krueger:

I finally did. Yeah, I graduated December of 2020. COVID. Cheers,

Zane Lamprey:

guys. Thank you. And now what are you doing?

Derek Krueger:

Trying to find a job, man. It's been kind of tough, especially with a lot of people on freezes, you know, because the whole COVID thing. But I graduated with journalism and media study. So

Zane Lamprey:

that world is so much different than when I first entered it 25 years ago,

Derek Krueger:

but it's talking about tick tock and it's,

Zane Lamprey:

it's it is on some level more approachable, but there's a lot of noise out there. But you know, the cream rises. Exactly. And then and so you're in marketing? Yeah, yeah, I actually work for a chocolate company here in Vegas. believe there are chocolate companies. Okay, Vegas. Zayn, would you do our podcast, please? Here is a box of chocolates and some beer. Maybe next time?

Stu Haack:

We are 100% going to send you a box of chocolates? Yes, we just need your address and we'll send it over to what is it? What

Zane Lamprey:

is the company?

Stu Haack:

So have you heard of Ethel M chocolates? I have. It is a it's okay. So you actually the funny thing is a lot of people have not heard of Flm you know, unless you're from this area. So we just launched some new packaging some new products. I do the marketing and digital for the business. oh nine my one of my best friends is the chief chocolatier, creating new flavors every day. That's why I've put on a few pounds over the last like seven years. It's it's a dangerous place to work between you know, chocolate, and then my passion being beer. It's rough. It's a rough life.

Zane Lamprey:

It's nice, but you should be doing this. You should be doing what you love. So that's important.

Stu Haack:

Yeah, well, actually, and I'll tell you this, this is actually what I love. I get to hang out with my buddy. Drink some good beer and meet some really incredible guests. Oh, and

Zane Lamprey:

I mean, when you have one?

Derek Krueger:

Oh, will tell you when Greg Koch comes on.

Stu Haack:

We got to make sure we pronounced that right. By the way. Deal. Yeah. Okay, so we got a couple more questions, and then we'll let you go. So just really quickly, Derek is hung over a lot. Okay. I do. Here's a very important question for you. Yeah.

Derek Krueger:

Oh, yeah. So, so I so granted, I loved watching all your shows and about the, you know, your hangover cures. So I want to see like, which one? Did any of them really work at all? Right. Did you find one? That worked really well? And did the monkey frog poison cure? Any kind of hangover?

Zane Lamprey:

Okay, so the monkey frog poison didn't do anything. It was just, it just makes you throw up. You don't even hallucinate? It's like, yeah, what happens is your, your body. It's put it it's, it's given to you, you know, through your skin. Your body thinks that you ingested it. And, and so makes you throw up. That's just the body's response to it. So I mean, it's poison. No, that didn't really the this is actually this is a significant part of my standup where I talk about this, but I'll cut to the chase. I've tried a lot of things haven't worked. The one thing that worked miraculously was getting an IV. So yes, so I mean, have you have you ever had a hangover and gotten an IV with vitamin

Stu Haack:

I forgot the IV you

Derek Krueger:

had a but I can totally I mean, I get it because ultimately a hangover you're just dehydrated. Like that's your body's lacking the news.

Zane Lamprey:

When you drink water. Your body has the ability to like, absorb about 10% and even even like Pedialyte, it's like your body's not. That's it. You can't, you can drink water. If you drink water. It's you nothing's happening. And it is the dehydration. It's literally like dehydration. It's like your brain is shrinking, you need to fill it back up. So, I mean, if you go and get an IV I know in Vegas, there's plenty of places to do that.

Stu Haack:

They have IVs that will drive to your house. That'll drive

Zane Lamprey:

you with. That's the problem is, is like sticking yourself with a needle is kind of it feels like a long way is like, How far have we fallen? That we? That's the

Stu Haack:

entire industry for this. Yeah.

Zane Lamprey:

And then the thing is, too, is like, it's very expensive. It's like, you know, 50 bucks, probably 99 to $200. But like, when I did it, and hangovers are worth it. Some Yeah, some some days are worth it some next days. I mean, I woke up with a horrible hangover in Miami. And my wife's like, remember, we have to go out today. I'm like, Honey, I can't do it. And she's like, You promise. She made me an appointment. I went to get an IV and I thought I would go get the IV and then go home and be done. But about 25 minutes later, I'm like, let's go get Mojito. So I was like back Damn. Yeah, okay,

Derek Krueger:

cool. Good to know. Okay.

Zane Lamprey:

Yeah. Oh, all right. All right.

Stu Haack:

Okay, let's let's finish with this one. I watched drinking made easy. Well, actually, it started with three sheets. I think you're analyzing the episode. You took a shot of JV in Jamaica. Oh, yeah. And the face that you made when you took that straight shot of JB was not good. Right. Would you rather take another shot of straight JB or eat the hottest buffalo wing you could possibly imagine. Oh, my

Zane Lamprey:

God was shot in a shot and JB and a hearts heartbeat.

Stu Haack:

Really? Because the way I mean you You seem to hate that shot.

Zane Lamprey:

No, I did hate it. But it was over in a moment. You know, I could check it Chase. Oh, in in. Okay, also in Jamaica, but not in that episode. I did a Food Network show. And I had a ghost pepper. And I took a bite of a ghost pepper. And I was out of commission. For a half an hour. I literally had to get up and walk away. I was like, wedding and angry. It hurts so much. I was so mad that I took a bite of it isn't like Oh, it's fine. Whatever. Nope. So a super hot chicken wing? No, thanks. No way.

Stu Haack:

What did the JV taste like? Oh, it

Zane Lamprey:

was just like, you know, like, 151 it was like, it was it was just very strong. The point is, like, you're you're supposed to mix it. I mean, well, you wouldn't mix it because that's fire water anyway, but like, the point is you just chase it with some water and you're done. You know, I mean, but but a hot wing can can last with you. Oh, yeah.

Derek Krueger:

So you would never do the hot wing show. The hot ones?

Zane Lamprey:

No, I would do I would do the hot ones show I would I would be very uncomfortable doing it. But would you rather Yeah, yeah.

Derek Krueger:

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, Zane, tell people where to find the information about your comedy.

Zane Lamprey:

stuff. Go to Zane lamprey.com and everything's there. Everything

Derek Krueger:

cool. Awesome. Adventure. Check out his stuff. Yeah. Oh, man kill. It's fantastic.

Zane Lamprey:

That's all linked there as well. And I'll I'll see you guys in. In Vegas. Somehow.

Stu Haack:

He's still at the hospital. Yeah,

Derek Krueger:

I might be at the hospital. If not, I'll be there.

Stu Haack:

And send us your address so that we can shoot you some chocolate and some some

Zane Lamprey:

Yeah, you're done. That's perfect. Yeah. Got it.

Derek Krueger:

Cool. Thank you so much, man. Seriously. Thank you really appreciate your time. All right, man. Cheers.

Stu Haack:

Thanks. Appreciate it, man. Got it. Thank you.