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Episode 341 of the beerists podcast recorded August 20th, 2018.

Everybody Mertz. Everybody Mertz.

So, Grant, you were telling us this interesting story about something that happened on a fishing trip when you were a kid?

Rubio, let me take you back about 22 years ago.

How old were you? Like three?

I was 13.

Oh, okay.

I was a young spry man of 13. I had just had my bar mitzvah. I had become a man. I was going to sayry man of 13. I just had my bar mitzvah.

I had become a man.

I was going to say your period.

I didn't realize you were Jewish either.

I wasn't.

By the way, for those of you don't know, Jewish guys have periods.

So my dad often will go on these week-long fishing trips with his brothers.

He's got a bunch of siblings, Catholic.

And they go up for a week up into, like, Ontario, and they'll fly out on a plane to this lake,

just secluded from a lot of other people, a lot of society, and you go fish

for a week. And I went with him when I was like 13 or 14. I went a couple years in a row, but I went

this one year, and we flew out there, the plane flies you in for like an hour or so and lands

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