Pops on Hops

Barry Hummel and Abigail Hummel
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A podcast where we listen to some pops, drink a little hops, and Abigail Hummel gets to hang out with her pop, Barry Hummel!

  1. Fruitsours (Jimmy Buffett and Edmund’s Oast Brewing Co.)

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    Fruitsours (Jimmy Buffett and Edmund’s Oast Brewing Co.)

    Barry, Abigail, and special guest Kim Nyborg discuss Fruitcakes by Jimmy Buffett and sample Sour Lemon Lime, Sour Cranberry, and Sour Cherry Pineapple from Edmund’s Oast Brewing Co. in Charleston, South Carolina. Barry and Kim both have key memories involving Why Don’t We Get Drunk; it was the song that really made Barry understand the extent of Buffett’s influence in Florida, and it was the first song Kim ever remembers singing! Abigail’s first memories of Jimmy Buffett were of The Parakeet Album - Songs of Jimmy Buffett, a collection of family-friendly Buffett songs sung by students at the W.O. Smith Music School in Nashville, Tennessee. Abigail shouted out the backup singers in Jimmy’s Coral Reefer Band, known as the Reeferettes. Although Nicolette Larson was never an official member of the Coral Reefer Band, she appeared on three Buffett albums (including Fruitcakes!) and is considered an honorary Coral Reefer. We played a snippet of her most famous song, Lotta Love. We’ve previously spoken about Nicolette Larson in the context of her guest appearance in The Creature From the Tub from Andrew Gold's Halloween Howls: Fun and Scary Music; in fact, she and Gold were briefly engaged in the early 1980s, over a decade before the release of Halloween Howls! Listen to our review of Halloween Howls, Halloween Hops (Andrew Gold and Aardwolf Brewing). Harpoon Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts, seems to have done the most collaborating with Dunkin’ Donuts over the years. However, Abigail’s claim of donut-chain-branded lube has been debunked by Snopes. Buffett covered The Kinks’ Sunny Afternoon, which shares with Taxman by The Beatles and Exile on Main St. by The Rolling Stones a common theme in 60s and 70s British rock: the exorbitant taxes musicians faced in the UK, leading many to become “tax exiles.” Buffett covered She’s Got You, originally written (as He’s Got You) by Hank Cochran and made famous by Patsy Cline. Buffett paid tribute to both versions by switching between different gendered pronouns throughout the song. Up next… I’ve Got My Own Album to Do by Ronnie Wood Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe. Visit Anosmia Awareness for more information on Barry’s condition. Follow Barry or Abigail on Untappd to see what we’re drinking when we’re not on mic! Leave us a rating or a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Facebook | Instagram | Bluesky | YouTube | Substack | Website | Email us | Virtual Jukebox | Beer Media Group

    2 giờ 14 phút
  2. Taste (Eurythmics and Two Tides Brewing Co.)

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    Taste (Eurythmics and Two Tides Brewing Co.)

    Barry and Abigail discuss Touch by Eurythmics and sample Hawaiian Sling, Worms Don’t Have Bones, and Between Two Tides from Two Tides Brewing Co. in Savannah, Georgia. We played a sample of So Good to Be Back Home Again by The Tourists, where Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox got their start. Annie Lennox co-wrote Into the West for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and won the Oscar for it! Watch her Oscars performance of the song. Abigail took a moment to plug Billbuds, a pop music podcast with strong opinions about fadeouts at the end of songs. Barry compared Annie Lennox’s look to David Bowie’s, especially in the Let’s Dance music video. Barry plugged the music video for Who’s That Girl? Inspired by The First Cut, we went down a small rabbit hole exploring three different versions of The First Cut is the Deepest by Cat Stevens, Rod Stewart, and Sheryl Crow, respectively. Aqua reminded Barry of the sensory deprivation tanks in Altered States (1980). (The music video for Take On Me by A-ha also nods to this film!) Barry entered Paint a Rumour into the A.H.S.O.S.S.A.M. with a comparison to Popcorn by Hot Butter (featured in Hummel family home video Hot Balloon (2000)!). Up next… Fruitcakes by Jimmy Buffett Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe. Visit Anosmia Awareness for more information on Barry’s condition. Follow Barry or Abigail on Untappd to see what we’re drinking when we’re not on mic! Leave us a rating or a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Facebook | Instagram | Bluesky | YouTube | Substack | Website | Email us | Virtual Jukebox | Beer Media Group

    1 giờ 51 phút
  3. Bonus: Abigail Answers Six Questions with Matty C

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    Bonus: Abigail Answers Six Questions with Matty C

    Abigail had the pleasure of joining our friend and frequent guest Matt Carlson on the podcast portion of his project, ⁠What Am I Making⁠, back on August 10, 2025. Now 14-timer Matt is the undisputed king of the Pops on Hops multiple guest club. He is a talented musician and songwriter from East Lansing, Michigan, whom Barry met as part of an online community created by Pete Dominick, the host of the ⁠Stand Up With Pete Dominick⁠ podcast. During one of their weekly hangouts, Matt shared the name of his latest band, ⁠Harborcoat⁠. Barry caught the R.E.M. connection, which led to a ⁠Pops on Hops episode⁠ to discuss the album ⁠Joy is Elusive⁠. The outtakes alone from that conversation also led to a POH bonus episode⁠ to discuss Matt's top five R.E.M. albums. Matt has contributed songs to our Christmas bonus episodes in both ⁠2021⁠ and ⁠2022⁠, and he served as the beertender for our first live episode. Most recently, Matt and longtime collaborator Jeff Gower appeared on POH to talk about their 2018 album Ways to Hang On. So, obviously, when Matt asked Abigail to participate in Six Questions with Matty C, she jumped at the chance! Enjoy! Learn about Matty’s plans for 2026! Up next… Touch by Eurythmics Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe. Visit Anosmia Awareness for more information on Barry’s condition. Follow Barry or Abigail on Untappd to see what we’re drinking when we’re not on mic! Leave us a rating or a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Facebook | Instagram | Bluesky | YouTube | Substack | Website | Email us | Virtual Jukebox | Beer Media Group

    56 phút
  4. Bonus: Barry Answers Six Questions with Matty C

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    Bonus: Barry Answers Six Questions with Matty C

    Barry had the pleasure of joining our friend and frequent guest Matt Carlson on the podcast portion of his project, ⁠What Am I Making⁠, back on May 25, 2025. Now 13-timer Matt is the undisputed king of the Pops on Hops multiple guest club. He is a talented musician and songwriter from East Lansing, Michigan, whom Barry met as part of an online community created by Pete Dominick, the host of the ⁠Stand Up With Pete Dominick⁠ podcast. During one of their weekly hangouts, Matt shared the name of his latest band, ⁠Harborcoat⁠. Barry caught the R.E.M. connection, which led to a ⁠Pops on Hops episode⁠ to discuss the album ⁠Joy is Elusive⁠. The outtakes alone from that conversation also led to a POH bonus episode⁠ to discuss Matt's top five R.E.M. albums. Matt has contributed songs to our Christmas bonus episodes in both ⁠2021⁠ and ⁠2022⁠, and he served as the beertender for our first live episode. Most recently, Matt and longtime collaborator Jeff Gower appeared on POH to talk about their 2018 album Ways to Hang On. So, obviously, when Matt asked Barry to be the debut guest for his brand-new format, Six Questions with Matty C, he jumped at the chance! You’ll get to hear Abigail’s answers to Matty’s six music questions in two weeks! Enjoy! Learn about Matty’s plans for 2026! Up next… Touch by Eurythmics Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe. Visit Anosmia Awareness for more information on Barry’s condition. Follow Barry or Abigail on Untappd to see what we’re drinking when we’re not on mic! Leave us a rating or a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Facebook | Instagram | Bluesky | YouTube | Substack | Website | Email us | Virtual Jukebox | Beer Media Group

    45 phút
  5. Season 6 Update

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    Season 6 Update

    Dear listeners, we come to you today with a short admin update. Abigail has officially been accepted to law school and will have a busy year, to say the least. We plan to release six episodes in Season 6 - Touch by Eurythmics, 2014 Forest Hills Drive by J. Cole (submitted to our Virtual Jukebox by Alinor Mezinord), and four Phone-a-Friend episodes. We may throw in some ad hoc bonus content or experiment with some different formats along the way. Long story short, our release schedule will be erratic. We will continue to re-share our backcatalog of episodes weekly on Substack, and Barry may share some essay-format brewery reviews there as well. In the meantime, we now have an extensive backcatalog of 109 episodes and numerous bonus episodes. We hope you will revisit some of your old favorites, listen to an episode you haven’t heard before, or share us with a friend! We are excited for what 2026 will bring, and we hope you will come along on the ride with us. Happy New Year, and we’ll see you… sometime! Up next… Touch by Eurythmics Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe. Visit Anosmia Awareness for more information on Barry’s condition. Follow Barry or Abigail on Untappd to see what we’re drinking when we’re not on mic! Leave us a rating or a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Facebook | Instagram | Bluesky | YouTube | Substack | Website | Email us | Virtual Jukebox | Beer Media Group

    6 phút
  6. This Sneaky Penguin (Brushfire Records and Sneaky Penguin Brewing Company)

    25/12/2025

    This Sneaky Penguin (Brushfire Records and Sneaky Penguin Brewing Company)

    Barry and Abigail discuss This Warm December and sample März of the Penguins, No Country For Old Penguins, and Midnight Waddle from Sneaky Penguin Brewing Company in Raleigh, North Carolina. We briefly discussed Eggnogorant by friends of the pod Terry Anderson & The Olympic Ass-Kickin Team. You can listen to Eggnogorant in our first-ever Christmas bonus episode, Bonus: Greet the Hummels... and Friends! (Original Holiday Songs by Friends of the Podcast). We acquired this beer while we were in Raleigh in October, when we had the opportunity to see Brandy Clark and Mary Chapin Carpenter in concert, featuring both friend of the pod Jon Carroll and the legendary Don Dixon in Carpenter’s band. See the setlist of the show we saw! We played a sample of Stevie Wonder’s original Someday at Christmas, covered by Jack Johnson on this album. Barry mentioned that Wonder’s version should have made his personal Christmas music compilation - and he would probably remove Xmas at K-Mart by Root Boy Slim. Bruce Springsteen’s live version of Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town is the definitive version in Barry’s eyes. Barry plugged the recent Beer in Front episode 276 Fresh Wet Hopped Episode, where he learned about wet hopping, which uses freshly picked hops in the brew and is not the opposite of dry hopping - learn more here. The most famous and mass-produced wet-hopped beer is Celebration from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. Dave interviewed Bruz Beers and FlyteCo Brewing, both in Denver, Colorado, who collaborate annually on a wet-hopped beer called Hop Is My Co-Pilot. The brewing of this beer involves an airplane trip across the Rockies to collect freshly picked hops from Billy Goat Hop Farm in Montrose, Colorado. Read more about the incredible journey here! Abigail and Barry both declared that Zee Avi’s No Christmas for Me is a modern Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses (and that both of those songs are modern O. Henry stories). Abigail mentioned that Stuck at the Airport by Money Mark is thematically similar to I’ll Be Home for Christmas by Bing Crosby. This is one of the songs Abigail will frequently be compelled to listen to when her life circumstances match the lyrics of the song - the other one is It’s Only Wednesday by Crash Kings. The Man in the Santa Suit by Neil Halstead reminded Abigail of Father Christmas by The Kinks. We played a little sample of Matt Nathanson’s cover of Father Christmas, which appears on our 2022 Christmas playlist! Abigail did not recognize that Rogue Wave’s Christmas was a cover of the Who song from Tommy. She compared the lyrics to Do They Know It’s Christmas? by Band Aid. Barry compared Jack Johnson’s variant lyrics in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to many of the songs on the Straight No Chaser album we reviewed in last year’s Christmas episode, Christmas Beers (Straight No Chaser and Gifted Beers). Abigail, per usual, got Silent Night confused with O Holy Night. Listen to our 2025 Christmas playlist! Up next… Touch by Eurythmics Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe. Visit Anosmia Awareness for more information on Barry’s condition. Follow Barry or Abigail on Untappd to see what we’re drinking when we’re not on mic! Leave us a rating or a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Facebook | Instagram | Bluesky | YouTube | Substack | Website | Email us | Virtual Jukebox | Beer Media Group

    1 giờ 39 phút
  7. Carlo 8.0 (Garbage and Canadian Porters)

    12/12/2025

    Carlo 8.0 (Garbage and Canadian Porters)

    Barry, Abigail, and special guest Carlo “from Canada” Sgro discuss Carlo’s Phone-a-Friend selection, Version 2.0 by Garbage, and sample Carlo’s choice of three Canadian porters: Stranger Than Fiction from Collective Arts Brewing in Hamilton, Ontario; Clifford Porter from Clifford Brewing Co. in Hamilton, Ontario; and Vanilla Porter from Side Launch Brewing Company in Collingwood, Ontario. Abigail always gets Collective Arts confused with Untitled Art in Waunakee, Wisconsin. Barry always gets it confused with Counterpart Brewing in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Carlo told the story of Shirley Manson calling Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders to ask permission to use the lyrics “We were the talk of the town” in Special, since Manson had pulled those lyrics from The Pretenders’ Talk of the Town. Hynde agreed, and did not ask for any credit or royalties, before even having heard Special, and rumor had it she was flattered by the ask. Hammering in My Head reminded Barry of Leave by R.E.M. Barry heard elements of both The Munsters theme and The Beach Boys’ Don't Worry Baby in Push It. Unfortunately, he cannot claim credit at the AHSOSSAM for this find, as Garbage credited The Beach Boys for those lyrics and melody. Listen to our exploration of The Munsters Theme’s many different iterations in last year’s Halloween episode, New Belgium Halloween (New Wave Halloween & New Belgium Brewing)! Listen to Carlo’s cleaning playlist! The Trick Is To Keep Breathing reminded Barry of Try Not to Breathe by R.E.M. Listen to the fabulous Song Exploder episode on Try Not to Breathe! Carlo was the only one to complete the resequencing homework assignment! Listen to Carlo's resequencing of Version 2.0! Up next… This Warm December Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe. Visit Anosmia Awareness for more information on Barry’s condition. Follow Barry or Abigail on Untappd to see what we’re drinking when we’re not on mic! Leave us a rating or a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Facebook | Instagram | Bluesky | YouTube | Substack | Website | Email us | Virtual Jukebox | Beer Media Group

    2 giờ 2 phút
  8. Presents in Cans (Dire Straits and Leftover Gifts)

    28/11/2025

    Presents in Cans (Dire Straits and Leftover Gifts)

    Barry and Abigail discuss Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits and sample Wild Dog – Pale Ale and Wild Dog – Shempa Ale from Tiemann Beer in Lusaka, Zambia; Strawberry Rhubarb from New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin; Coconut Key Lime Pie Drips and Mischievous Grin from Barn Town Brewing in West Des Moines, Iowa; and Gallo / Famosa from Cervecería Centro Americana in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Read about how the Money for Nothing music video came to be, or watch the video. We first sampled New Glarus on our season 4 Christmas episode, Christmas Beers (Straight No Chaser and Gifted Beers). Barry pointed out that Walk of Life references other songs, and Abigail compared it to American Pie by Don McLean. Abigail formally retracted a fun “fact” she had previously shared on the podcast regarding artificial banana flavoring being based on the Gros Michel banana instead of the Cavendish banana, which is the most common banana cultivar eaten today. The 2013 SciShow video where she first learned this false fact has since been edited to remove any reference to this hypothesis but points to this article that explains the hypothesis. This Hank Green video first brought the debunking of this hypothesis to Abigail’s attention. We first sampled Barn Town on our season 4 episode Barntown (Phish and Barn Town Brewery). Abigail called Why Worry an “adult lullaby,” similar to Calm Down by Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons. She then entered Why Worry into the Abigail Hummel School of Speaking Smartly About Music with a comparison to Little April Shower from Bambi (1942). She also brought up Baby Genius by Eels as having instrumental similarities. Barry mentioned Rain by Hans Zimmer from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002). The “vibes” in the personnel list likely refers to the vibraphone, which could very well have produced the rain sounds in Why Worry. Abigail asked if Mischievous Grin would count as a “cream tangerine” (we have officially gone zero episodes without mentioning the White Album!). Barry had heard that the three war songs on this album were inspired by the Falklands War between Argentina and the United Kingdom that lasted for a little over two months in 1982. Abigail had always pictured the Vietnam War, partly because of the imagery in Ride Across the River, and partly because Abigail’s consumption of war media was heavily influenced by The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, a novel about the Vietnam War. While discussing The Man’s Too Strong, Abigail referenced an in-character speech by comedian and professional Dungeon Master Brennan Lee Mulligan. Up next… Version 2.0 by Garbage, Abigail’s annual Phone-a-Friend submission, this time with Carlo “from Canada” Sgro, the namesake of Carlo’s Corner! Jingles are by our friend Pete Coe. Visit Anosmia Awareness for more information on Barry’s condition. Follow Barry or Abigail on Untappd to see what we’re drinking when we’re not on mic! Leave us a rating or a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Facebook | Instagram | Bluesky | YouTube | Substack | Website | Email us | Virtual Jukebox | Beer Media Group

    2 giờ
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A podcast where we listen to some pops, drink a little hops, and Abigail Hummel gets to hang out with her pop, Barry Hummel!

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  • Nhà sáng tạo
    Barry Hummel and Abigail Hummel
  • Năm hoạt động
    2021 - 2026
  • Tập
    147
  • Xếp hạng
    Thô tục
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    © Barry Hummel and Abigail Hummel
  • Trang web chương trình
    Pops on Hops

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