Loonacy Podcast

The guys are finally back at a brewery for the first time since March, and they talk about MLS' new tournament and MNUFC's chances in the group stage. Also, more history and how COVID is changing Soap Operas and dating in NYC.

Our first episode back in person, drinking Blue Wolf beer. We spend significant time discussing the recent tragedy in Minneapolis and hope for the future. Plus some MLS news on the CBA, their restart, other sports, poisonous frogs in Spain & the UK gets weird with COVID sex laws.

A third installment from our homes, not without glitches to talk odds and ends of MNUFC, MLS, Bundesliga, our favorite jerseys, and of course, craft beer and spirits.

Waiting for MLS & MNUFC to make a decision on this season while other sports' plan and Bundesliga starts. There are craft beverages & social distancing gone wrong.

Stay at home is in order for this episode as the guys meet via video chat (not without hiccups) and discuss how things have been going, their beers, Dr. Fauci, Mt. Rushmore going wrong, and possible plans if the season keeps getting delayed.

MLS is back and the Loons get wins in their first two road games. The guys visit Insight Brewing in Minneapolis and talk about the wins, the upcoming Home Opener against RBNY and a festival consisting of naked Japanese guys fighting over sticks.

We visit Modist Brewing to talk the Loons' 2020 season and give our predictions as we gear up for the Season Opener this weekend. See where we think they land. Then we talk a French football player's odd way of winning a fight on the pitch and dating ghosts. What could be weird about that?

The guys visit Falling Knife Brewing in Minneapolis and visit with Jimmy about the brewing, then talk the Loon's preseason and where Minnesota United sit. They get to taste a special release not yet available and talk about an employment dispute about flatulence and then learn some people want to dissolve their marriage by any means possible.

Loonacy Podcast celebrates 50 episodes by revisiting one of their favorites, Allow Brewing Co. They're joined by friends including Dave the Bartender and they talk about the most recent moves the Loons are finally making as the preseason ramps up. The guys also reminisce about passed episodes and talk some fun stories.

The guys go to HeadFlyer Brewing and are joined briefly by Head Brewer, Shaun, then hang with some friends and talk the Loons' quiet offseason, rumors at goal keeper and forward, an extension for Adrian Heath, and close out with a kitchen fire and a meth addict carjacking a truck with a goat from a porn shop.

Tony and Dave end up shorthanded when David becomes incapacitated and unable to join them at AEGIR Brewing Company in Elk River. They talk the very quiet offseason for the Loons, Holidays and other things.

The podcast visits the new Forgotten Star Brewing Co in Fridley and talk to Matt the Head Brewer about their beer and the project with a little insight into some new brews coming up. They then have some offseason discussion about Vito and Adrian before talking exercise bike controversies and stolen cars.

The guys stop off at Sociable Cider Werks in Northeast Minneapolis and invite Steve from Sociable and Bridget McDowell to talk the Loons' early offseason, expansion draft, options declined, trades, Christmas lights and a bank robber who wanted just the right amount of money. Also, the guys say goodbye to their first and top listener, Tony's father-in-law. We will all miss you, Tom. May you find peace.

The guys visit Inbound BrewCo and welcome special guest Katelyn to talk a bit about the brewery, then they discuss MNUFC's front office changes and what they may mean to the average fan, some player rumors, a little MLS Cup, and finish off with an inappropriate police officer who loves his hot dog a bit too much.

The guys travel to Golden Valley to visit Under Pressure Brewing for the first time to chat the playoff loss to LA Galaxy, a few bits of roster news, David's less-than-popular opinion on Vito's loan, a guy who likes to remodel homes he doesn't own and someone brewing beer in their stomach.

Loonacy Podcast records from the first place they ever visited when they stop by Omni Brewing to talk LAFC, Seattle, the playoffs, MLS end of year awards and fights over crab buffets. Plus the history of soccer in the US just may have started in Wisconsin.

The guys head to Pryes Brewing for a second time this season and talk the Portland draw and the Loons clinching the playoffs against Sporting KC. Also, burglars who cook and clean and getting stuck 30,000 ft up.

An unusual Tuesday podcast finds the guys at Blue Wolf Brewing with True North Elite guests as they tap the Oktoberfest and toast a massive win for MNUFC against Real Salt Lake while trying to forget the loss in Houston. They then get political over the Iron Front controversy and close it off with a story of an over-sexed French engineer who passed on leaving his employer with the bill.

The guys wrap up another short episode, this time in Sterling's bar to close out the US Open Cup Final and talk MNUFC's upset of LAFC, and they discuss expectations for the Loons for the rest of the season.

We sit down in our hotel room and chat about MNUFC's loss to SKC and our hopes for the Loons in the run-up to the end of the season, plus brief talk about the US Open Cup Final. A short episode to be continued on Labor Day.