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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stump Mom never told

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Speaker 1: you from House Step works dot Com. Hi, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Kristen and I'm Molly. Molly, what

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Speaker 1: are you drinking right now? Well, Kristen, I'm having a pilsner,

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Speaker 1: the Simpler Times Pilsner, which is the Trader Joe's brand

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Speaker 1: of pilsner. Me. Do we're drinking on the job, Molly?

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Speaker 1: We are, and I want to point out this is

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Speaker 1: not something we typically do. Though, I'm gonna go ahead

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Speaker 1: and say I think it's helped the podcast we've done already. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I feel loose um and we're not just

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Speaker 1: drinking to be crazy. Today's podcast is about beer and women,

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Speaker 1: but we thought to really get in the mindset. We're

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Speaker 1: calling this research and you know what if if someone says, hey, gals,

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Speaker 1: while you drinking on the job, that's horribly irresponsible. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna blame it right back on you listeners because we're

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Speaker 1: doing this beer podcast because of responses on Facebook. I

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Speaker 1: randomly said something about how we should do something on

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Speaker 1: beer for St. Patrick's Day, and by the way, we

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Speaker 1: need to do a special St. Patrick's Day episode anyway,

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Speaker 1: because it's my mother's birthday, birthday, birthday. Nance Uh, but

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Speaker 1: people said, yes, absolutely, do a beer podcast. And what's

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Speaker 1: up here while you do it? Yeah, what's up with

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Speaker 1: these stereotypes of women and beer? Because so we're just

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Speaker 1: trying to please. So we're just drinking beers. So if

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Speaker 1: you're of age, feel free to have one with us. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I have a beer. Turn this into a drinking game.

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Speaker 1: It'll be easy if Kristen says, if you will, that's

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Speaker 1: one point. Hey, I have thanks also to listeners. I

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Speaker 1: have tried to weed out if you will. Um. Anyways,

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about beer and the stereotypes associated

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Speaker 1: with because and this was something I was never aware

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Speaker 1: as someone informed me when I was twenty seven years old,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, have been misspen um. But yes,

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Speaker 1: beer commercial. Molly very true. Yeah, it's it's a bunch

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Speaker 1: it's rarely like the ladies enjoying some buds looking at bros.

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Speaker 1: But if anyone is looking for a commercial like that,

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Speaker 1: Kristen I are available. Yes, um, we gladly give you

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Speaker 1: insight on what kind of beer commercial would would sway

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Speaker 1: us and um, so yeah, it's considered a male drink.

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Speaker 1: And you found a really interesting article Christin. I think

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Speaker 1: McLean's and uh, here's the sentence. Why is it? The beer,

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Speaker 1: as an ancient symbol of the feminine. Yes, whoa, okay A,

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