This particular one doesn't fit my tastes, but the occasional non-alcoholic (or at least low enough on alcohol that it wouldn't affect anyone) options would be great to see more of. Sometimes you don't want to or otherwise can't afford to get intoxicated. Being the "designed driver" is an obvious and frequent example but not the only one. Religious reasons, already having as much alcohol in your blood as you want but wanting something more interesting than water, not really liking the taste of alcohol, being underage/mixing a drink for someone who is underage, medications you can't drink on, wanting to socially participate but also engaging then or in the near future in some activity where you would prefer to have your full mental faculties, being a recovered/recovering alcoholic who wants to use mixing non-alcoholic drinks the way that people stopping smoking substitute in gum or lollipops to be able to keep the similar oral habits without the substance they've been addicted to, or generally just being fascinated by the idea of mixing drinks and liking that kind of bold but complex flavor profiles you can build with them, but not liking the taste of alcohol itself (which as odd as that sounds for someone watching these, I know I'm not the only one in the audience for which that applies) The occasional "and this is how you could make this without alcohol" sounds like a great idea!

Greg thanks for doing mudslides

Greg, see if you can get Liam O'brien ! He's from NJ too.

The fact this drink is based off of one from his mom's book, is so wholesome!

:D yes!!!!

I truly believe the world could benefit by honest insights from people behind the bar / counter.

when I see Brennan, I gotta get in the comments

I am in the comments to say that this video was great, does that count?

Evil brennan: IM WRONG! DONT GET IN THE COMMENTS

HEFTY dice

mans built like a dwarf i’m here for it

All those d20 add up

+3 strength modifier

Guy looks like a cartoon of a barkeep, honestly. Two barrels under arm.

I think a lot of it also comes from him really wanting to make the “author of Starstruck, and also me, she’s my mother” joke. He doesn’t make the joke all the time, but I definitely remember him doing it in the first episode as well as the BTS videos where he talked with his mother about the universe

Yes! He has a direct line to the work he is promoting and he handles that so professionally. I completely agree. Brennan is such a great guy and you can tell he takes being a good person very seriously

incredible showstopping author of the century and alllllso my mommy :)

but yeah! mentioning himself as like. a project of his mother is a wonderful way of acknowledging how much of the stuff he gets to create and share with us is due to his mum's influence and support.

It’s so good too because now people won’t ever be like “oh this is brennan’s mom” it’ll be about her as an author first

yeah i think hes literally just like that

As someone who is also just like that, I can confirm that it’s 100% possible to get “drunk” while completely sober from being excited or just any sufficiently silly atmosphere. I call it vibe drunk

He's drunk in dopamine

i would describe brennan as sober drunk. i have a friend who has a way worse case of sober drunk then he has as she slurs words and can't write without making like 5 million spelling errors every word. and no she is not drunk as she can not drink alcohol at all cos of a medical reasons.

And a loooot of sugar hahahaha

Agreed

Brennan 2024 👀🫣

same!!!!

This is so unexpected. Brennan doesn't even drink alcohol. I love it!

Literally

Starstruck Odyssey was pretty awesome not gonna lie

"I'm the one who wins" Oh my god you've made a terrifying hybrid between Arin Hanson and Brennan Lee Mulligan

"YOU ARE NOT GOD, THE MACHINE IS GOD!" "oh hell oh gee wizz man this is freaky"

@@StraveTube I'm the trivia boi(patent pending) I'm the one who knows

@@jaydenbuchanan8083 (Randomly drops a bird fact)

Comp versus casual

no need for excuses, just say you dont drink. if someone cant respect it then they dont really respect you

I don't drink much at all, sometimes I'll have a beer with a meal, a six-pack lasts me months! there were swathes of times when I wasn't allowed to drink. Point is, during my whole life I don't think I was ever made fun of for *not* drinking. Sometimes I say I'm the designated driver, sometimes work the next day, but always people accepted it no problem. Whether you drink or not has no bearing on your coolness!😎👍

​@@when-do-we-get-a-block-button There's this like weird society expectation that when someone says they don't drink, they're given weird looks and all, and even told "just one" but the moment someone says "I'm allergic", "My body can't handle alcohol", or even "I'm the designated driver" THEN people leave ya alone; thankfully, it's lessened from before, but it still happens at times. 😓

Yes, you don’t need an excuse but social situations can be awkward. So if you want an excuse, you can say “I can’t drink because of medication” (lots and lots of meds are counterindicated for alcohol) and if you’re at a work party or a bar with casual friends just ask for a club soda/seltzer with a twist of lemon. No one will know there’s no vodka in that soda, and you don’t have to feel like you need to explain something.

@@danmakes2497 We've got a pretty heavy drinking culture where I live and a really funny exaggerated joke I've seen was giving the example of someone saying they don't drink and everyone just being confused. Like "you don't drink? But then how do you get drunk?". It's just so "foreign" of a concept when someone doesn't want to drink. I've caught myself doing the "oh come on just this once" thing a couple times in the past but nowadays I mostly just default to "good for you, it makes you feel like shit anyways" as a response

I love when Greg makes non alcoholic versions of drinks I can drink but generally prefer to only let myself drink under very specific circumstances as I do not need more bad coping mechanisms in my life

funny you said "lovely chemistry" cuz they did chemistry when they made those lovely drinks

He is just so enthusiastic about everything he does it is great

Wait they went to school together? That’s amazing because Greg is one of the few people with a life crazier then Brennans

Doesn't mean they knew each other in college though...

I actually thought that when I first started watching Dirty Laundry. He'd be such a fun addition to that show.

I was thinking the same thing!

I want this so much now omg

That was my thought too!!!! We need it

Yessssss

Bro his life is INSANE. He also was on So You Want to Be an Millionaire

And he went to college with Greg XD

I know right?!

thanks for writing teetotaler in letters so I could google it I had no idea there was a name other than abstaining/non-drinker!

Would've never imagined Brennan was a teetotaler, too much creativity to not enjoy at least the occasional alcoholism

and i cannot stress this enough...THIS! this right here(up arrow)!!!

@@itsvideotime382 :)

What all have you watched so far and do you love it love it!

Same, new to D20 and loving it. Definitely gave me the courage to try being a DM.

I started with Unsleeping City since it's in their KZfaq page. Then got incredibly curious about the other campaigns that are on Dropout. So far I've gone through Escape from the Bloodkeep, A Crown of Candy and the first season of Fantasy High. I also got started on Starstruck, but after the second episode I really wanted to read the original comic series, so I'm going through that before I retake it.

@@sxblck not bad at all! My personal favorite is starstruck but I understand if you want to read the comic first!

Me too! My partner and I screamed when we saw it

I hope your sobriety journey is going well!

Stay sober bro. Kick ass and take names

it was the exact same expression I had when my mom showed me one on Amazon a few years ago and I realized just how useful it would be for cream soups.

​@@eric_the_egggremlin I'm sorry for necroing but how do you make cream soup WITHOUT an immersion blender!?

@@ansatheatrocious6083 I assume a regular blender

potato masher and patience. needless to say, I did not make a lot of soup.

@@ansatheatrocious6083 you simply don’t 😭

Was that the same time period as Brennan living in the same building as Grant O'Brien? I want to know what kind of bacterial culture was in the water in that area to produce 3+ top-tier internet entertainers.

I know you were talking about Brennan, but I feel real called out on this one...

To summarize; Brennan Lee Mulligan is friend shaped. (I would extend this analogy to most other popular online DM/GMs tbh)

@@MrSourceMan He's friend shaped but that's how he gets you. You're just chilling having a fun game session with your friend and then suddenly your character has no face

literally the most terrifying part of EXU Calamity

What? How could this diabetes-inducing dessert drink not be keto-compliant?

And Brennan catching it immediately made it all the better.

I am already hooked.

the first episode where he ruined all the players one by one is fantastic

Yes. Sooooo amazing

the reveal of the fireworks was just beautiful

He’s a planeswalker

He’s like a real NPC

Been putting off subbing to Dropout due to how much I'm subbed to already, but with Chicago med going away on Netflix and Dropout being only $6, looks like I can get to it

This. It is, hands down, the streaming platform I won’t cancel. More than worth the money and so much better than I ever expected. If you like comedy and/or you like nerd stuff, this is the place for you.

I recommend also watching Total Forgiveness with Ally and Grant!

@@RoyalPieMaker I think I've watched it all the way through three times now lol. Don't stop on episode 9.

I've never heard nor seen the word teetotal What's that?

@@lag00n54 Teetotal is someone who does not drink alcohol at all.

I was going to say the same thing. The Dimension 20 stuff is gold, and the comedy shows are also amazing. Um Actually and Game Changer are worth it alone.

Good luck with aCoC. It was heavily influenced by game of thrones so it can be brutal

Crown of Candy goes hard.

Oh I just straight up stole it

@@G_Rez “Good artists copy, great artists steal,” said Picasso.

On the Critrole channel there is a sitdown between Aabria, Brennan and Matt where they have a 1hour talk about their different DMing styles. It's an absolute fountain of information to gleem between all of them.

@@Lexinoz it's my favorite thing to come out of critical role and it's not even close

@@Lexinoz and on dropout there's adventuring academy, with hours and hours of tabletop tips

I literally went with a wrestling announcer voice "Ow my GOD"!

The thing is I really like Grant as the bartender because every confession you can imagine Grant as the one who did it. But because he’s the bartender you know maybe only one will be him if that. But if he’s a contestant it could really throw it all off.

SUMMONED

Seriously it's just so specific to the things I like, Brennan Lee Mulligan is one of my favorite people, I'm so happy. :)

Couldn't agree more! BLM, Drinks, RPGs and impro comedy, all in one delicious mix!

I come back at *least* once a month to watch it. And it always puts a smile on my face.

now to see if Brennan can make it happen that a bottle of sandkeg's hide makes it onto the set of critical role

@@catlynjones8116 I'd love that

I do too but I wish they were more similar. The vanilla ice cream and mint flavor were the only similarities

@@sailorknightwing and the poprocks

Yeah, this particular one doesn't fit my tastes, but the occasional non-alcoholic (or at least low enough on alcohol that it wouldn't affect anyone) options would be great to see more of. Sometimes you don't want to or otherwise can't afford to get intoxicated. Being the "designed driver" is an obvious and frequent example but not the only one. Religious reasons, already having as much alcohol in your blood as you want but wanting something more interesting than water, not really liking the taste of alcohol, being underage/mixing a drink for someone who is underage, medications you can't drink on, wanting to socially participate but also engaging then or in the near future in some activity where you would prefer to have your full mental faculties, being a recovered/recovering alcoholic who wants to use mixing non-alcoholic drinks the way that people stopping smoking substitute in gum or lollipops to be able to keep the similar oral habits without the substance they've been addicted to, or generally just being fascinated by the idea of mixing drinks and liking that kind of bold but complex flavor profiles you can build with them, but not liking the taste of alcohol itself (which as odd as that sounds for someone watching these, I know I'm not the only one in the audience for which that applies)

@@dynamicworlds1 yeah, and some people can't consume alcohol because it would literally kill them.

Omg I'd love to see him on D20 🤩

It's true, I am humbled!

@@howtodrink Don't be, you worked great together!

Dimension 20 is SO good and I'm jealous you get to watch it for the first time!

@@QualiaRedux It was exactly the kind of thing I needed, so I'm really excited there's a lot more to see.

Check out NADD Podcast after you finish D20! Murph DMs, Emily is part of the main cast, and Brennan shows up now and then.

It just hit me that Brennan got several orders of magnitude more excited over his milkshake than Greg's four year old daughter 😂

That is the next person I hope Greg pulls up under the bar ☺️

Dont forget his #1 simp, MikeMGTV!!