After 2 Beers

One draft. One decade. Way too many great picks. We set one simple rule: the show must have aired at least one episode in the 1980s, then we build our “best lineup” and talk way too much trash about it. If you love 1980s TV shows, classic sitcoms, action series, and comfort-watch reruns, you’re going to have opinions and we want all of them. The board fills up fast with heavy hitters and personal...

Everybody has a favorite mall food court spot, and apparently everybody else’s pick is wrong. This week on After 2 Beers, we draft our ultimate food court lineups and take cinnamon rolls, pretzels, and questionable mall pizza way too seriously. A duck race sets the draft order, and the live chat helps settle who built the best place to blow twenty bucks. Then we discover a Facebook group called Sc...

A concert draft sounds easy until you add one rule that changes everything: every headliner has to be alive and still active. We’re building a dream festival lineup the way real friends do it, with strong opinions, instant regret, and way too much confidence. The picks jump across genres and generations, and we end up arguing about what actually makes a great live show: famous songs, ticket demand...

A Yellowstone bison, a leafy greens outbreak, and a river full of cobras sound like three separate nightmares, but for us it’s just another night hanging out and trying to make sense of the internet. We start with control-room banter and a story from a VFW “Queen of Hearts” jackpot night, where the people watching is almost as wild as the prize money. Then we dig into the week’s headlines: the vir...

Facebook puts us in “timeout” over an old meme and it instantly raises a bigger question: what happens to your show or your small business when your entire marketing plan lives on a platform you do not own? We talk through the ugly side of content moderation, surprise enforcement, and why buying ads still does not protect you. The solution is not panic, it is infrastructure: a real website, multip...

He went to a Pride parade to support his daughter and partner, turned around for one second, and suddenly found himself leading the parade with thousands of strangers cheering him on. That story kicks off a night that swings between heartfelt and hilarious, while still landing on something real: support is not just what we believe, it is what we do for the people we love, even when we feel out of...

Somebody microwaves fish at work and a detective allegedly responds by pulling a gun. A dog fires a shotgun at a gas station. A lottery ticket looks like $100,000 until the scanner says $20. That’s the kind of night you get when After Two Beers hits episode 200, and we’re somehow still trusted with microphones. We bounce from sponsor shout-outs and drink testing into our favorite lane: odd news st...

You ever catch yourself laughing at something, then immediately wonder if you should feel bad for laughing? That’s where we start: guilty pleasures, clean sheet day, and the kind of unfiltered “bonfire talk” that only happens when the microphones are on and we’re being honest. We also shout out the people and places keeping small-town community alive, from our friends at the Moose to upcoming nigh...

One minute we’re debating whether cruise ships are just floating germ factories, and the next we’re spiraling into a surprisingly heated argument about how many eggs a chicken can actually lay in a day. That’s how this episode goes, but underneath the laughs is a real conversation about small-town life, local politics, and the struggle of keeping independent local shows alive without community sup...

You can feel a life milestone hit in real time. We’re joking around one minute, then the next we’re staring straight at a question a lot of us avoid: when did “50 is old” stop being a joke and start being a mirror? Dutch’s 48th birthday kicks off a surprisingly honest run about health, losing people too young, and why the most valuable thing you own has nothing to do with your bank account. We als...

You know that moment when a normal catch-up turns into a dead-serious debate about aliens, JFK, and who’s really pulling the strings? That’s where we live. Dutch Dalton, Kimmy Gibbler, and Michael Summers crack the seal after a couple drinks and chase the questions people only admit they have when the room feels safe: Bigfoot sightings, Area 51, 9/11 doubts, the Epstein list, and why it feels like...

What do a Super Bowl halftime show, a CIA-wired cat, and a bank robber who refuses to run have in common? They all reveal how people—and giant institutions—make baffling choices for reasons that seem obvious once you pull back the curtain. We crack open outrage culture around Bad Bunny and land on an unglamorous truth: in the NFL’s $240B world, market growth beats politics every time. When owners’...

A three-hour fishing trip turns into 438 days adrift on the Pacific. When Jose Salvador Alvarenga finally washes ashore thousands of miles away, he isn’t just a survivor—he’s a headline, a lawsuit target, and a mirror for how we treat people who outlast the impossible. We unpack what he ate, how he endured, and why the public often demands spectacle before empathy. From there, the ride gets wilder...

A century-old film clip sparks a modern gut check: a Paris tailor climbs the Eiffel Tower in 1912 wearing a parachute suit of his own design… and jumps. The crowd is ready, the cameras are rolling, and gravity answers in four seconds. We break down why this infamous moment still matters—how belief is fuel, but physics is the guardrail—and use it as a lens for the tech leaps we’re making right now....

The bow-on-the-hood moment looks great on TV, but what happens when a surprise 90,000 dollar purchase runs headfirst into real life, real budgets, and real trust? We kick things off on the back porch with the kind of money talk most people avoid. Simple rules. Honest limits. The difference between a thoughtful gift and a financial grenade. If you have ever tried to balance independence with a shar...

A chimp wanders a public path at the Indianapolis Zoo, two endangered tortoises vanish in the night...also at the Indy Zoo, and a city pulls 189 bodies from its bayous. We start with laughs and local love—bourbon drops, sweet wine, and sponsor shoutouts—then dive headlong into the gritty questions beneath the headlines: what do zoos owe the animals they exhibit, and when does education turn into c...

A marching band at a fast-food opening, a box of severed arms on a doorstep, and a “mobile clinic” promising upgrades from the backseat of a 90s Toyota—welcome to the wildest hour you’ll hear all week. We crack open some cans, tip our caps to the folks who keep our lights on, and jump into the stories that made us laugh, cringe, and question what counts as normal these days. First, we trade small-...

A small-town team name shouldn’t spark this much chaos—but “Flying Mummies” does exactly that. We kick off with Richmond’s new wooden-bat league squad and tumble into a spirited roast of the home uniform pants, why minor league branding matters, and how a clever identity can pull a whole community together. It’s fun, fast, and surprisingly tender as we weigh how design lands on real bodies and why...

A political killing, a social media pile-on, and a bigger question: how free is free speech when your boss is watching? We crack open a local tequila and dive into the week’s most volatile story with clear eyes and real talk—no shouting, no dunking, just a hard look at what the First Amendment protects, what it doesn’t, and why at‑will employment turns tweets into career risks. From the vice presi...

A dog carries home a human skull. A grand Midwestern estate hides 10,000 bone fragments. A man fakes his death with a kayak, an e‑bike, and three flights to chase a new life overseas. We follow the trail from a bizarre headline to Indiana’s haunted true‑crime map—Fox Hollow Farm, Herb Baumeister, and the overlooked victims along I‑70—then pull back to ask harder questions about how stigma and juri...

Trust issues reach new heights as we explore the controversial business of relationship loyalty testing, where one woman charges $5,000 to digitally flirt with your partner and report back the results. Would you ever consider such a test, or does the very thought of needing one signal deeper relationship problems? We dive into a heart-stopping courtroom moment when a judge mistakenly pronounced a...

What makes ordinary objects terrifying? Why do so many people believe in ghosts when science offers rational explanations? This raw, unfiltered conversation dives deep into America's most notorious haunted doll, Annabelle, recently purchased by comedian Matt Rife for his friend's museum. We unpack the psychology behind supernatural beliefs while sharing tequila and laughs. Our skeptic ho...

The infamous Coldplay concert cheating scandal sets the stage for a candid conversation about moral hypocrisy and selective outrage in today’s culture. When a man was caught on camera with a woman who wasn’t his wife—sparking public outrage and professional fallout—we had to ask: why do some personal failings ruin careers while others are brushed aside? Looking at the numbers makes it even more co...

The second you hear that first crack of a beer can, you know it’s time to dive into the weird, wild, and downright uncomfortable corners of humanity with After 2 Beers. In this episode, we’re asking the question: When should you speak up—and when should you just mind your own damn business? First, we break down a wild airline story where one nosy passenger thought they saw a death threat in a stra...

Remember when privacy meant drawing your curtains and locking your door? Those days are quickly vanishing, and in this eye-opening episode, we confront the unsettling reality of our surveillance-saturated world.  The conversation begins with a seemingly innocent debate about hotels versus Airbnbs (would you stay somewhere if the owner is sleeping downstairs?), but quickly evolves into something fa...