Charlie Berens is Milwaukee's Finest | Whiskey Ginger

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest is one of my favorite people in earth. I said that for all my guests when I meet him once again today. It is Charlie Barons. Thank you for coming. Oh, thank you for having me. It's really nice. You just got off of a plane. I did. Yeah. Yeah, that's incredible. Yeah. They come straight here. We've had that a few times. People bring luggage straight to the show. I do like that. It's a classy move, isn't it? And that's a little tiny bag you got. It is a tiny bag. Because it's a one night. What are you doing two days here? Just just one. Just one. I'm doing and then a red eye. I don't usually do red eyes, but they suck. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. They suck. Yeah, and I there's not a good way to do it. I don't think. No, and there's not, I mean, honestly, unless you have a reason to do it, I avoid them. I just can't. I won't do it. Yeah, because whatever I'm doing the next day, you can see it in my eyes. Well, you ruined a day. It's basically just like, well, kiss that day. So then I always argue then why not just wait for the regular flight? Because you're already going to bounce that day no matter what? Well, I got to do something tomorrow. Oh, you got it. Yeah, it's just it's not going to be done well. Whatever it is. I can tell you I'm going to be at 50%. That's fine. And it is kind of fine, but it would be much better if I would just plan ahead in my life. Sure. I mean, do you have a tour manager that does that stuff for you? Yeah, and they do a great job. I'm the one that's used to it up. Yeah, that's also true. Usually that were the ones that are like, well, I wanted to leave. I thought I wanted to leave them. Yeah, but now I don't at all. And usually it's just not even thinking about till the day right before being like, oh, this isn't going to work. Yeah, not going to work. We don't have this may hours in the day. That was a bad idea. And you know what, now I have to suffer, get angry. I'll be late. Something will happen. I'll get screened at TSA. You know what I mean, like all the things will then happen because you were like, I shouldn't have cut the corner. Yeah, I call it like compounding Charlie's because I'll do like several bad things in a row. And now I'm like in the middle seat in the back of the plane taking a red eye back to Milwaukee. You know, just happens. It happens. Well, so I looked I looked this up because I'm supposed to go back to I'm supposed to go to Milwaukee and then go see a friend because my childhood best friend moved up there. Oh, cool. He lives out there in Cedarburg. Oh, yeah. Nice river. Cedarburg over there. Oh, yeah, you still live in Monamony Falls. Oh, was he a Monamony Falls guy? You gotta be kidding me. Yeah, kidding. Cedarburg, he moved. He left Chicago and he took his family and he said, I'm going for a better life. And I go, better life. And he said, it's cheaper man. It is much cheaper. It is. Wisconsin is substantially cheaper than Illinois. I mean, you know, people like to give Milwaukee crap, especially people from Chicago. Whoa, whoa, whoa, you're talking the wrong guy here. I love Milwaukee. So my greatest moments have come up from that place. And I'm really glad to hear. I love it. We don't give it shit. We don't give Milwaukee shit. We give one place shit up there. What's that? The Green Bay. Oh, yeah. We just don't like Green Bay outside of that. We love Milwaukee. I love Madison. Green Bay hurts us because, you know, we're, well, it's, we're frenemies. Yeah, we are. Yeah, we need each other. We do. But, but I mean, we think about Illinois all the time in Wisconsin. You guys just don't think about us that much. This is, this is a great point. This is, I've talked to that. This is what LA and San Francisco are. San Francisco cannot stand us. They hate us to a degree. That's like, unfettered. You're like, why? I don't even, I can't even wrap my head around it. We don't even think about them. We don't give a shit at all about them. And they can't stand us. No, but that's why. Yeah, that's true. I can't you care more. We have good stuff here. You know, we have so much parking in Milwaukee. You really so much. There's so much parking. And, but that's it. Yeah, we, I mean, we call you guys. Fibs. Yeah. I was 11 years old and my uncle was taking me as six flags because he's great uncle. Not actual uncle. He's still alive. I'm talking about him like he's dead. But I remember him throwing change into the toll booth thing. And he said, fucking fibs. Yeah. You know, and I was like, what's a fib? And he was like, fucking Illinois bastard. That's right. I'm 11, you know. I don't mean that yet. Yeah. No, but I think you do that shapes who you really are. It really does. And so ever since then, I knew that as soon as you cross that border, it's a different land. It is different. It's a different land. It is a, it's similar people, but remarkably different. There's, there, there's the lot of similar qualities, but they, they try their best to not be. Skonies don't want to be us and we don't want to be them. But we get on. I just have an affinity for it because my childhood best friend, he went to Marquette. I spent a lot of time in Marquette. Got some of my closest buddies from Marquette through him like lifelong friends. I went up there, you know, the first time I had fun with a little Catholic schoolgirl was up there. You know what I mean? Just really fun stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Do you get like, did you like do the Milwaukee things when you went up there? Yeah. My buddy, a couple buddies of ours used to own a bar called the Bad Genie. Do you ever go over there to Bad Genie? Oh, the Bad Genie. Yeah. I have been to the Bad Genie. I don't think it's not around anymore. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they don't own it. So I don't know what ended up happening to it. Yeah. That was like 10 years ago. Maybe at least. Well, I mean, that was that was the problem. We got out of college and they bought a bar and you could imagine what's that? It's gone. Yeah. You could imagine how stupid that was because it was like, we're not making any money. It's like, yeah, because we're all here all the time. And it was like free reign. Young cute chicks were young dudes with access to a bar and we'd be like, come on in free drink. Like what? You know, it's such a bad business model to be young and own a bar. Oh, it's terrible. How did that even happen? How do you acquire bar money? Well, they both went I don't know their financial sitch, but I think one of the partners had a couple of bucks and the other one got alone, you know, maybe a family thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They own a couple of them after that. They did from what I from what the lies would have told me that they did okay. After we had kind of you guys get your first one out of the way. You got to knock out bar one and then you get to bar two and then you really start to move. Dude, what a time though to own your own bar. It was not. And we got to just, you know, whenever we want, whatever we want. It was a little it was silly. Like I'd get behind the bar and do whatever I want. It was just that's we're breaking laws, which is great because Wisconsin has almost no laws. Oh, no laws when it comes to alcohol. It's what like unlimited DUIs. Didn't we look that up? Wasn't one of the one of the most DUIs ever in a woman in Wisconsin? For sure in Wisconsin. Now, I think they fixed some of those recently. I think they did but but you probably shouldn't take my word for that. No, honestly. I don't know. I don't know. But it's consistently most bars per per capita. That's great. Yeah. You every year they put out that thing. Yeah. You know, that map of America is showing the highest concentration bars. And it's just a big deep red. It's you. Like it's it's blood red. You know, it's like cutting an artery red right in Wisconsin. What is it? Do you look South Dakota? Oh, that's really had over 30 DUIs because South Dakota has no no South Dakota. You can't you don't have to stop up there. Yeah, no people. They're like come on dude. It's fine. It's nothing but land. Gonna hit a fessant go for it. Yeah. I'm surprised. So I'm surprised that 30 DUIs three zero. It says allegedly. So this could be like a. Oh, see, but I like no, no, stop there. Stop there. Yeah. I like lore. Can we have lore anymore? Like the internet's ruined lore where you're not allowed to have this like I heard like big fish tails are going to go away because the internet is debunking everything. Although maybe they'll go back to becoming more lore because AI is ruining everything. You can't trust anything. I watched a guy snowboard off of this year's tower this morning online. And I was like, this is so sick. If you weren't there. Yeah. Off this year's tower. Yeah, of course it was. You got that much snow. Yeah. It was such a great AI that I was like, I don't even care that this isn't real. I like that it that someone some guy was like, well, if you snowboard it off to your start. Well done. And then they made it. They did it. And it looks cool. I was like, this is kind of rad. Yeah, you're right. Though we are going back to it because it used to be you could in the in the 90s. You know, I'm I'm 38. So like in the 90s, that's where arguments early 2000s, late 90s. That's where arguments hit their peak. You know, yeah, you would just talk to your friends for hours about like Marilyn Manson being able to yeah with the rib removal. And then, you know, I think there was something about Jerry Seinfeld dating a 16 year old or something like that. You know, I don't even know if that's true, but those were the things you that is true. I think a 17 year old when Seinfeld was still airing while it was airing. Yeah, I'd pick her up from high school. Shut up. That's serious. And wasn't her dad wasn't her dad like a wasn't there a connection. He was like in the business or something like that, right? Isn't that what it was? Don't make it better. No, no, no, no. No, I'm saying how did it even happen? And I that's what I mean is probably the dad brought the girl to it's you know what I mean? Like brought her to a thing. unless he was out snooping local high schools. - That's crazy. - He'll find out. But see, that's the thing. Before that, yeah, you just said that, there's a comic, I don't know who it is. I don't want to step on their bit, but they had a, when the definitive was used to be, I swear to God. When someone's like, "Somehow you swear to God," 'cause there wasn't an internet to go, "Well, look it up." It's like, "Swear to God." He's like, "Well, that's. " - You swear to God on that? - Yeah, I swear to God, dude. 50 feet. It was 50 feet, you know, whatever it is, it's somebody go, he goes, "You know, Mark told me that." And he's like, "No," he goes, "Dude, swear to God." It's like, "Maybe it's gotta be true if you swear to God." - It's a strong one of those asses in his notebook, you know. - Where did that thing come from? - The six point, you do one, two, three, one, two, three, and then you'd crawl, yeah. I remember that. I don't even know what those, what was that called. - I don't know, but everyone knows it, but there was no internet for everyone to know it. - Yeah, how did it get around? And that had been some kind of like a satinistic thing that we just like bought into, we didn't even know. We probably were, I was from a lumenati stuff that leaked and they were like-- - That actually makes kind of a mole ass sense, you know. - Give 'em the ass and they can have it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're like finding each kid in different places. You know, planting the kid so all these kids know this ass. - Right. - And now we're talking about it. - CIA operatives are just like, we got to hire little boys to go into school and draw the ass on something. It'll go viral before viral happen. And it happened. We all drew that on your Trapper Keeper. We're close in age, I'm 42. We shared a similar experience. - We did, yeah. - You were a Trapper Keeper guy, were you like neat? - No, no. - I am neat, but I was never a Trapper Keeper guy. - School, I'm neat with everything other than education. I was really bad with education. - Just kind of throwing your backpack. - Yeah, but we're not bringing it. I oftentimes wouldn't bring the things I needed 'cause I just didn't like school. - Yeah. - Like I just didn't wanna go, I didn't understand it. I was like, why can't we just get stoned and hang out and then play basketball? - I mean, pretty logical. My dad was like, you have to go, you have to finish high school. I think at one point I was on the brink of, you know, where the counselors were like, buddy. - Oh really? - You almost didn't get it. - I don't know. They did the thing where they're like, we can't have you fail. It's bad for our number. (laughing) - We're gonna help you here. - We're gonna get you through the, so a C's got degrees, baby. I was a true C student, hard. I was, as teachers would be like, what do you need to get to a C? We'll get you the C, you can walk out. That's all they want to do. 'Cause D's is almost like, they can't justify the D, 'cause D is just F, it's just F. - It is. - D is just F, why are we pretending? It should be A, B, C, F. - Right, I mean, they do say D's get degrees and they do. - They do, they do. - They kind of, kind of. - Well. - C's are the ones where they go, okay, he'll go to college. - Yeah, right, D's are not getting you in the college. - No, but C's you can get in. I went to Arizona State, one of the toughest schools they get into in the country, Harvard of the West. Would you go to college? - I did, I went to UW, University of Wisconsin, yeah. - Madison? - Madison. - One of the best. - Yeah, you like it, you like-- - You like Madison. - Okay, cool. - I mean, you know, one of the first clubs that took a shot at me was, took a shot on me, was comedy on state. I loved going up there, and then I go, you know, I still go back. And the last time I played it was a couple of years ago, but I love going up there, man. - Did you play the club when you went there? - The last time we did the theater, but I always go back, I always go say hi to them. 'Cause they're become like family friends of ours now. - Yeah, they're really good. - No, I love them. Everybody there, I think, is just, that's, I just wish they could clone that club and make it all over the country. - I know, I don't know what it is about that room, but it's-- - Family owned, though. - It is, yeah. - It's not just the room, it's the, it starts at the top. That's such a cliche, but it's so true. If it's family owned and operated by people that give a shit, like any business, I know we're comedy talking, our faces often, sometimes the fans are like, I'm comedy talk, but like, we'll make it relative to the world. Any business, any good business, if it's owned and operated by the people that invested in it financially and didn't just go pay for it and be like, here, you guys run it. They give a shit, and I think when a business gives a shit, it's just reflective of the service, it's reflective of the culture, it does something. It like, dynamically changes the mood of the business. So you meet, they're like, this is friendly, it's good people, there's not a high turnover, people stay there a long time, 'cause they like the way they're treated, they're getting paid well, they're getting treated well, and I think that's a dying breed, you know? - Yeah. - That's the true problem. - Yeah, it really does amplify too. Even from a comics perspective, great green room. - Yeah, great. - When you have a great green room, I like, it almost takes it up, like I get a little bit more nervous, 'cause I want to screw it up, they treat me so good here. They add like a whole bowl of candy sitting in there. - Yeah, I can't mess up now. They offer me any drink. - Right, I got to play pool before I even went on stage. It's like this, I gotta do this. - They'll basketball thing, I love that too, little pop-a-shot, I just sit there and shoot those. - They did this, by the way, I know that, they did this green room, so everyone would go, it's the best green room. - Yeah, that's true. - It's the best. - They were smart about that. - And sometimes you go to green rooms around the country, and they're like, that's the green room, you're like, that's the shoe closet. Is that where you keep the brooms? And they're like, just move a broom, and just sit there, you're going on in five, and you'll just sit there in those little cold rooms. Going on to the beginning and being alone, and having local openers, and not knowing really anybody, and you'd sit in that room and be like, "God, is this a good idea or the worst idea?" Is this gonna be my whole life? Should I continue this, or should I quit now? - Yeah, I don't know. - Did you ever do that one, bowling alley in Muskegon? - No. - There's a bowling alley there, and you like telling jokes while people are celebrating their strikes, you know? (laughing) - It's great. And the green room there was just like some dudes' office with papers all over the place. It looked like he was going through a divorce or something. I got to figure out what room that was. - He's like, don't touch the paper's kid. That's not for you. - Yeah, he wasn't even there, but it was just sitting in this chair, and this, they cleared out a little area. - That's great though. But that shapes you. - It did. - But now, you know, you're beyond it. You're good. It theaters only, yeah? - Yeah, mostly, yeah, theaters, but I'll do like clubs, club runs to like work some stuff. - That's what I'm doing a little bit. - Are you? - After I put out an hour, I go back to that. I just did a couple of run of clubs, and I did, it was great, I did. - It's the best. - I do love, and then everyone's like, "Well, why don't you come to the theater?" It's like, it's a process. I'd rather do that, then you really get to iron some stuff out, you know? - Yeah, you really do, and you get to, there's nothing worse than, 'cause the theater can sometimes kind of lie on you a little bit, you know, like, it may carry a joke, if there's like a lot of people there that doesn't deserve to be carried, so you're like, "Oh, that works, that got some noise." - Right. - But it's a terrible joke. - It's a bad joke. - A terrible joke, and you know it. - You know it, they know it. - You should have just a sign behind you, where you just hit a button that goes, "Bad joke, right after you tell it." You're like, "Don't laugh, that's, you know that shit." - That's okay. - You know that shit. Plug it right now, by the way, while we're on the topic of comedy, before we move on to much more serious issues. - Yes, yeah, thank you, neighborly specialists, out now on YouTube. - YouTube, basically. - On YouTube, I don't know why they say exclusively, but probably 'cause that's seem like a place. - 'Cause they, yeah, they, 'cause YouTube owns it now, right? - Well, I don't know. - It's a partnership. - He said, I don't know. - It's not really interesting though. I'm sure once we post that shit on there, they do own a piece of it. We'd like to think, no, but I'd like to think, yes. - Yeah. - I'm sure it's ours, but no, it's not. - Well, no, but it could be like, everybody could easily rip it and steal it. I think that's the more, it belongs to the world. It belongs to, it's for everybody. - Yeah, it's for the people. - It's for the people. - Yeah. That's why YouTube is like, throw it up there. We'll make a ton of money. We'll give you a little bit of money. - Uh-huh. - And thank you for the content. - And thank you. - And we're appreciative of that. We're like, thank you, Google. - Yeah, I will take the tax right off. - Yeah, you have to. Yeah, you should. - Just roll with it. - How many specials is this? - Second, second special. - Yeah, good. - Yeah, yeah. - You like this one? - You do, I feel good about it, yeah, but you know, there's always things where like you put it out and then you're still doing, like after you shoot it, you're still doing kind of the same material for the next, you know, you bring in a new material, replacing the old stuff for your remaining shows. And then you're like, oh, that was how I was supposed to tell that joke. - Yeah, I hate that. That's why I usually try to stop doing them after I put it out because I've gotten, I've gone down that road twice of putting on a special and then saying a joke and then doing it afterwards. And being like, I wish I said it like that, and it's out, it's over, isn't that you could do. - Yeah. - We should be able to log in and re-do it. - I know, I kind of want, because I film a bunch of shows, so I know I filmed one where I did one of the takes better. I love how I'm promoting the special, being like, I've done it better, I've done it better. - That's a good name for a special one. - Yeah, I've done it better, I've done this better. - I've done this better. - This will be better in six months. - Right, but this is the one you're getting. - Yeah, as soon as I film it and then throw it all away, you know, but it's, it's hot, you try to tell yourself that, because I learned that on the last special too, it's like, throw it away more earlier, and then you can get to where you want to be. - I think I learned from guys like a tell, like, precious people being precious with material, is he's like, just do it, just get, it's, you're gonna write new shit. - Yeah. - Just keep, just, I mean, you, I've never seen a more prolific comedian in my entire life. That guy just, it's, it's a constant, and you know, like, because he's not precious when I think, so it hits harder when it's good and it's new. - Oh, there's like some shit, you, I'll see him sometimes when I'm in New York, and I'm like, my God, that's good. And I know it's just because it's fresh, because it's like he's not, he's not beat it to death. You know, comics know, audiences know, when you beat your own joke to death, even they can feel it. - Yeah, you, you stop, it's got like, I don't know, someone maybe compared it to it, but it's like fruit or something. You know, it's gonna be ripe, and then it's gonna be like a black banana, you know. - Which is fine, you know? - Yeah, you better set that for the camera, dude. - We like black bananas, we're fine with black bananas. We eat bananas. - They make grape banana bread. - They make the best banana bread. - Yeah, well, let's see here, a rotten apple. Is that it? - That's better. - Thank you. - A rotten apple, yeah. - Can I drink this by the way? - No, no, no, no, for sure. - Yeah, of course. - It's nice. - Isn't that funny if I had that as just like a prop? We usually have a sip of this, but I'm on a little break right now. - Yeah, good for you. How long are you breaking for? - As long, until I say I want it again. I don't ever do the, I don't ever do the like - Sober October. - Oh, that's insane. - Sober October. - Oh, yeah, yeah. - So stupid. Also, I'm not gonna adhere to it or like quit at New Year's. I've never done that. I've done it where I'll just decide. I'll go, all right, I'm gonna take a month or so, whatever it takes, you know? And then I'll sneak into beer. It'll like sneak in there. And then I'll go, maybe I'll have a cocktail next week. And then it'll start up again. - Yeah, it's a good reset. I've done that where I think we end up to the special. I was just not drinking for, because I would have like a drink before I go on stage. And then you're like, oh, this is gonna make it better. And then you're watching it back. And you're like, I don't think that made it better. You know what I'm saying? You don't think that helped. It feels better up here, you know? - Inside. - Yeah. - You're like, are we having the best fucking time ever? And they're just like, yeah, is he wasted? - I used to, when I first started touring, I would drink a lot more. I mean, that was just kind of it. But also, you're sitting in hotels in the middle of nowhere and you're like, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna go to the bar. I'm gonna have something to eat and drink and then that's my night. Otherwise, I go out with locals and get absolutely hammered and then end up, you know, underneath the pool table in Billings, Montana, which I've done. Shout out to Billings. - That's really. - Some guy was like, you want to do Whippets? So I was like, do I, do I? You better believe it, dude. - Those Whippets will sneak up on you. - Hey, really? Especially with the altitude in Billings. - Yep, see? - People don't know that about Whippets and Altitude, but you got it, yeah. - You know. - He's a PSA. - This is a PSA for Whippets at Altitude. By the way, tell everybody that in Denver. Why? Because every time I go to any high altitude, like when you go up to the mountains and stuff and you talk to people that are either from there or that are, you know, lived there for a long time, let's say, you know, there's a tick, there's a little off. They're a little off upstairs. - Yeah, they talk a little left of center. Like they're a little off to the side where you're like, what did he say? And they're a little slow and the altitude does them. They say it doesn't. It does. - It's got some impact. - Mountain people have a. - On-term. - There's a vibe. - So there's a craziness to mountain people. - I can't describe it, but it's like you talk to them, you go, what is he saying? - I went skiing with mountain people. And that's the worst. - Well, 'cause they're good. - They're so good. - And they're just bombing down these hills. And I was like, can you guys just let me know if there's a black coming and we went down a double black diamond and I was sitting halfway up it, like looking for my exit ramp. And I couldn't. So it was just, I went over to the trees and I did a scoocher. - I'll do a scoocher. - I just got to do a scoocher. - I'll do a scoocher once in a while. - Yeah. - Yeah, my family member of ours is a phenomenal skier. Like he's unreal. And he's like, do you want to ride? I'm like, no. Because you and I are doing two different things. So we're not actually riding together. So just, you go, how about this? We'll meet for a beer at some point and we do. - But at times stamp on it. - Yeah, because otherwise, dude, he's pho. And I'm legitimately, he'll go so fast, so straight that I won't see him, like he just disappears. And I'm like, we're not together, this is not. We're not doing the same thing. - I was going with my buddy and he's a mountain goat like that and he had to go backwards just to make it interesting for him, though. I was like, this is so demeaning right now. I'm cutting, like I didn't grow up skiing like in Wisconsin. We got these dumps. - What's the name of that little hill that we went up there? - Sunburst. - What's, there's, wait, what the-- - Little Switzerland. - Oh, wait, he said Wisconsin, it's right. Maybe it's right on the border. There's a couple of little dumpers that are right up. Alpine, Alpine. - Oh, Alpine Valley. I think there's-- - Don't they have a little dump hill there? - I think they do, yeah, it's-- - Like a little bullshit hill, right, don't they? Yeah. - Yeah, and a lot of them aren't just our dumps. - Yeah, they're garbage dumps. - Yeah, the garbage dumps. - That's mid, that's why the Midwest is the greater. - It's great. - They're like, it's our old poop, ski on it. - Right, it's great. You wipe out, you come up with a few hypodermic needles on you and you're like, it's fine, I'll get checked out after. - It is funny, every time I see a hill, back when I'm home, I'm always like, it'll be a ski hill at some point. Be a little bunny hill or a little rope lift, you know, a little rope lift. That's how you learn in the Midwest. You go to one of these little garbage dumps, you grab a rope and you see the teenage instructors that are like, don't hold on if you fall. Someone will fall and then get drug all the way up. And they're like, let go, let go, let go. And no one lets go. They hold on the whole thing. It's not gonna make it better. I remember watching that being like, I learned from the first couple of times I went 'cause a buddy of mine who was really good and he was like, just follow me. And the first guy I saw do that, I thought, if I fall, I'm let and go and I'm just gonna scoot down or unstrap and walk down. I don't care. It's not that steep. - Oh yeah. - You don't have, yeah. - That's not that steep. I'll just walk down the hill. I don't need to fall all the way down. I don't need to, it's insult to injury. I don't need it. I'll just, I'll see you down there. And after a couple of times, then you get the confidence. But, you know, so I'm like, I wanna go this year. Like, will you go skiing this year at all or no? - Usually, probably, I usually have a show in Denver or somewhere where they have that. - You'll go. - And I'll go, I'll go once a year, usually. Like, I golf once a year, I ski once a year. That's kind of my thing. - You meet the quota. - I meet the quota. - The white guy activity? - Yes. - Any pickleball in there? - I'll do pickleball once every two years just to make sure I know how to do it, you know? - Yeah. - But yeah, it's pretty much, skiing is a tough one though because, you know, you just, you work things that you didn't even know you, you had to be working. - Oh, do yeah. - And there's nothing better than taking those ski boots off, dude. Nothing better. - Well, that's when a drink tastes the best. - Oh, yeah. - When you're done and you're, and because I fall asleep immediately, almost every time. - Yeah. - Like, I'll take those boots off, I'll go sit down, I'll get a whiskey and I'm, I'm, I'm zonked, it's great. - It's better to do that than like midway through the day 'cause like after a couple of drinks, I now think that I can take that double play time and do, and that's where bad things happen to bones, you know? - That's where bad things happen to bones. That could be the above one of the lifts where bad things happen to bones. - That's the name of one of the runs. - Especially as at a certain age. I was like, when I was younger, man, I, we could rip three, four days in a row. I wouldn't even think about it. Now, in my 40s, like, I'm planning it. I'm like, I will go Wednesday. Maybe Thursday, but I doubt it. Probably just a Wednesday day. But I used to just, itch for it. I used to do first chair. I used to love that. - Oh, wow, so you were a skier, you were a skier, you were into it. - Snowboarder, snowboarder, yeah. It's embarrassing to say that. - That's pretty cool. - Well, no, it's not cool. It's just I didn't, when I was a kid, yeah. When I was a kid, I didn't love skiing. And then I got introduced to snowboarding in high school from high school kids. And I just started to love it. And then by the time I got to college, I went to college with a bunch of California kids, and they would go to Tahoe and all that stuff or mammoth. And so it just became like a thing I got into. And now it's being 42 in snowboarding, you know? - Yeah. - It's a little sad. - Do you do the waters? It's not, it's not. - Well, I do the 42, I've step in. Burton made step in bindings after all those years. So in the 90s, they had, they had step in bindings and they were terrible. Like legit snowboarders hated 'em because they didn't work well. Then Burton developed this thing called step on bindings, which are step in, same kind of thing. But the tech is so good. It feels almost as secure as a traditional binding. So they say, but I got those. I'm like, I'm never going back. You think I'm bending down ever again? It's insane. Like I know like a legit snowboarders will never use those things because it's like, that ain't it, dude, you know? Or what, I like, I don't give a shit. I'll click into those things and I'm like, this is great. I'm not doing the up and down take-off, especially with skiers. When you're traversing on a mountain and we've got a push and I have a. - Oh yeah, yeah. - Gun in my mouth, you know what I'm saying on that? That's a nightmare. We don't have polls. Forget about it, dude. I'm taking those bindings, so they're easy to click on, click off, and then it makes it so much nicer. - I thought when you said step in, you were talking about when you have your boots, your normal boots, and then you just put those in the thing and then cinch those up. That's the only time I've ever gotten snowboarding is with one of those. - Oh, it's one of those, yeah. Well, those are, that's, that's, I mean. - Is that like the way you're looking at it right now? (laughing) You're looking at me with like sympathy and pity. - You don't want to do those, yeah. - You don't want to be caught. That's more embarrassing than me with a bad back on a snowboard like an old fart, you know, like a dork on the mouth. The best thing is you'll see like a seven-year-old just ffff ripping. - That, that, that. - Like a seven-year-old will cut you off and be like, "Hey, zap!" A little child and you're like, "Nah, I gotta stop." Let's go to the lodge. - I remember this one time was with my uncle. We were actually coming out to LA for I was driving out cross-country. First time I came out here and we stopped in Vale and I had gone skiing like three times in my life at this point. I'm going to Vale and I've done the black diamonds at this point Wisconsin, which as you said, you can walk down the black diamonds. - So my uncle's like, "Hey, it's a black time. I'm not gonna go there." I was like, "Yeah, I'm gonna take it," you know, or whatever. I find out what a mogul is when I'm like going ass over to you, kettle over like five different moguls. All my. - Yard sale. - Yard sale. Yard sale. - Yard sale. And I'm trying to get myself in the binding and I can't get my ski in there. And then all of a sudden I hear, "You gotta put your toe in first, bro." And I look up, it's like this eight year old girl and I'm just like, "Thank you, appreciate that." - Thank you. - That's nice. - She's just, she's radying me in. - She's like an old stupid man fell. (laughs) - In here, we pull, whistler, whistler, whistler. - This episode of "Whiskey Jitter" is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace is the place. I've talked about Squarespace for so long now, okay? You got to know, they are the all-in-one website platform designed to help you stand out and succeed online, whether you're just starting out your business or scaling at Squarespace can give you everything you need to claim your domain. Showcase your offerings with a professional website, grow your brand and get paid all in one place. I've told you about them so much now. What are you doing? You're making your own website by yourself, DUMBO. You got to try Squarespace, they are incredible. 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I think that people are just being like, they're like joking. - Oh no. - You know, they're like, they're like, not with me. 'Cause you still look young. - Thanks. - I've looked 40 since I was 20. - No, you look really good. - Brother, when I turned 20, everyone was like, you could buy alcohol in high school. Like we had two kids. We had one dude that could buy booze, 'cause I think he got held back more than a lot. - Oh, right, yeah. - You know someone's like, he got held back. This guy was like, he was really held back. - More than the normal. - I'm sure it was four years. I felt like he was way older than us. And he could buy alcohol in high school, never got carted. And I could go in once in a while to a shitty place that like didn't care. - Yeah. - And they let me get away with it, 'cause at 18, I had facial hair in high school. So I looked enough where they were like, the cops, no one's around. Like get out of here, hurry up and get out of here. - You could grow that full beard in high school? - I wish I had photos. Yeah, I had, I had, there's probably no high school photos of me with the beard, are there? - Yeah, you are beardless in most of those. - And in my high school, in my early ones. Yeah, my basketball ones, yeah. By junior year, yeah, I was, I loved it. - Yeah. - I had to cover up what was underneath this, dude. It's a nightmare. I was like, I'm not showing my face. That's insane. Once I learned, I could cover it up. It's just like permanent makeup. - Yeah, well that's true. That's why I did it, dude. - Beards are male makeup. And when I see a guy who can clean shave and still look really good, I'm always like, you fucking son of a bitch, dude. You look good. But those guys don't look good with the beard sometimes, which I like. - It's true, you gotta have someone. Plus it's some protection. - Yeah, well, and I need that like crazy. I mean, you know, not allowed out. Oh, I was gonna say, let's go back to sciony stuff. We would go every year to Irish fest. - Oh yeah. - Which I loved. - You'd fit right in. - My grandmother, my grandparents were obsessed. And we used to go up there and for people that don't know, Irish fest, so fun. What's the name of that park? Why can't I think of that? - Like summer fest grounds? - Yeah, yeah. Isn't there a name for the area? I don't know if there was a name of it. - Yeah, I mean, usually they'd just say summer fest grounds. - Summer fest grounds, yeah. - You go to the mass. - No. - Oh, there's a mass on Sunday, dude. - I'm not allowed. - Oh, you're not. - No. - It happens. (laughing) We would go to the mass and it's like, I mean, you're talking, filling up, I don't know like 2,000 people at one mass. - Oh yeah. - Do you know how long communion takes when there's 2,000 people? - You don't need it. I already ate. - That's what I'm good. - I don't want to get up, I'm waiting the line. No, we would go to Irish fest. My grandmother loved it and my grandparents, my grandfather, my grandmother would always sneak in booze. This is why she was such a gangster, dude. Like, she was like, I'm not paying that shit. 'Cause it was always, you know, any festival, it's overpriced like crazy. - Oh yeah. - It was 10 bucks, you know, and you're like, well, that's a Miller life. I mean, this isn't a baseball game, it's a park. And she would sneak in because my grandparents always drank Manhattan's and-- - Dude, she's sneaking in Manhattan. - Yeah, my grandfather used to carry around, it looked like a little briefcase and he used to call it his computer. Mind you, this is like pre-laptop, but he would call it a computer. So people, what does that say? He says it's my computer. And it had all the ingredients for Manhattan. It had the vermouth and the maraschino cherries. And he only liked Canadian club, which is plastic bottle, Canadian whiskey. - Yes, yes. - He'd like nice whiskey to him, he was like, "Mass, so waste, it's gonna get mixed." Which I, you know, I'm the opposite. I'm like, I like good whiskey, but I like bourbon. But he just liked Canadian club and vermouth and the maraschinos, and he would bring his little computer everywhere with him. And because most time they go to a party, you know, and they wouldn't have all the ingredients so they would have one, not the other. So he's like, "I'm bringing it." - And he should, and do you think there was ever fight any fight between them? - I'm sure there was fight between them. - Like, do you have to, it's baptism. Do you have to, I'm bringing it, I'm bringing it. - Oh, the kids are gonna be crying. I don't wanna sit around for the crap. I wanna have a cocktail. - You want me to have a good time or no? - No, right. Well, also he paid his dues. The guy had 10 kids, and he was a firefighter. It's like, how much more stress could you have? He was like, "I'm gonna bring my computer everywhere I go." - 10 kids. - 10 kids. - Yeah, I want a 12, man, so. - You're one of, you? - Yeah. - You're one of 12 kids. - One of 12 kids, yeah. - Holy shit. - Yeah. - No, yeah, I did it. - Which, where on the line up are you? - I'm second oldest. - Two at 12. - One of the kids, dude. That's incredible. - Yeah, it's pretty wild. - You have full basketball games together. Five on five, dude. - And two reps. - Yeah, and two reps. I mean, we have a whole, whole offensive side of football. - Yeah, and two defensive. - Or defensive, depending on the other. - So, wait, 12 kids and you're where in the middle? - No, second oldest. - Second oldest. - Yeah. - Is the oldest and the oldest as a guy? - Yeah. - And it goes three boys, four girls, one boy, four girls. So eight girls, three, four guys. - Good, God. - I know. - Irish Catholic. No, you're German, too. - Oh, no, my mom, my mom's, my mom's his name. - Okay. - So, we've been, I used to work at Irish Fest, in fact. - Oh, you did? - Yeah, it was Pretzel Roller over there. - I was gonna say, you look like those hands could roll a goal. - These hands can't, dude. I tell you, I know the exact move. Like, that's it. Right there. You see that? That's gonna make you that pretzel, baby. - Antianz. - Oh, Antianz. Everybody loves an Antianz. - You guys, you've got to wear a shirt that's like too tight. - You're bustin' out of it. - I'm bustin' out of it. - You're growing, you're a growing boy. - I know, I know. - You're strong. - I am strong. - This is my good final, this is my church final. - Is that? - Yeah, I've had this for years. - Sunday's best. - Yeah, I know. - I picked that out. - You have that for years. Those buttons are holding on for dear life. - No, dude, look at that. Look at that. I gotta get another, I gotta get a support button right there. You know? You take it to a tailor, you got any backup buttons? I need a couple backup buttons. Second string buttons. - Can you move my buttons? Like if these buttons were moved a little closer to the edge, it looks like it might fit, you know? That's all right. - It's your favorite shirt. - It is, it is my shirt. - Is it a lucky shirt? Did you have a lucky shirt when you shot your specials? Do you do that thing where you'd like, I want this thing when I wear the thing? - I had to go buy a shirt for the special because, you know, you shoot like a couple. - Yeah. - And I am a spiller. And so there was some concern that I would spill and the consistency would be off between. - Well, you got to spill twice. That's all. Spill on the same. Spill on both shirts. - It's hard to do that though. I can tell you from my first special. That's hard to do. So yeah, I got a new shirt, which I don't know how I felt about it. - Oh, brother, I hated everything I've ever wore. It's a thing where you're always gonna look back and be like, "What?" Like even Eddie Murphy, that red leather suit. I love how everyone's like, "I'll shake." It's insane. - It is insane. - It's insane, dude. It's recut like down to his belly button. You're like, "That's the, you're telling jokes." It's crazy to wear that. Also, you brought over JP who had a spill on his shirt. - JP, I saw it as it happened, too. - Our buddy came by and he even said to you off camera. He had said, "I looked down." I said, "What is that?" Was that lunch? And he turned to you and he goes, "I knew he was gonna say something." I do notice that shit. I've noticed right away. But also, he has to come in on his defense with me. Because I'm always gonna get him a little bit. - Yeah, I wanna get him a little bit. - I could see the concern as soon as he did. I was like, "Let me go get you a seltzer water." That might help. And he was like, "You think it will?" And so I got him a topo chico. - Didn't help at all. - No, it didn't help. It might have made it worse. I heard that somewhere you use seltzer water. - These are all these old tales like our parents told us. But they're like, "That didn't do anything." - It's like the Maryland Manson thing. - It's the same thing. Somehow it got out. It got out. And we all kind of are like, "I guess that we're. " I'm trying to think of these other things. They tell us that they do it. - Yeah, it's a seltzer water. It does not remove stains. It's often no better than plain water. - Really? - Yeah. - What a waste of $4.95, dude. Can't believe that. Those were were expensive topo chico. - Was it a lime topo or original? Because the lime one is my favorite. - It was original. You know, I did. drink it. Yeah you drank it. Let him spill on himself and then give a little drink. How many years do you work at summer fest? I think just just one year. I did a lot of weird jobs but that I was I was a pretzeler at Annie Ants at the mall. Oh yeah. And because of my skills I got recruit to the big show. You're so good. They're like Charlie. We'd like to offer you something incredible. Did I want to work the fest? I was like I want to wear I'm I'm ready for it. The truth of it is they just need anybody they can find. Right. I was not I was not I worked at bike shop too like I was a bike mechanic and so I would then go over to the Annie Ants after but like I'd bike grease on my hands because it was hard to get off because I didn't really try that hard and so I'm rolling pretzels and they got these secret shoppers you know that come by and look to buy something and so I got I got ratted out for having dirty hands. Who are these who are these rats that do that. Yeah they got secret shoppers. You know who these people are they turn into those secret shoppers they turn into parking attendants. Yeah. These people offer nothing and I mean this I mean this you they literally don't help all right. There's no you're only hurting. There's no but we're doing it for the benefit. No you're not. This is just going to ruin somebody's day. You're just going to make me pay money because I accidentally didn't put enough time or I parked the wrong way. These are bad people and I'm saying this now parking lot attendants parking attendants not parking lot attendants you're fine. Although I got a little bit of beef with you as well but parking meter people you're terrible people. Oh the meter you're talking about the meter. Meter maids. Meter maids. Yeah. People that or or just in general parking in LA we've got an entire group of subsect of police. They're not police but they work for the city that just give tickets and fines for parking because this place is they're probably making 30 million a day out here on parking. The amount of people I know that you just get it you you're going to get tickets here. You just budget. It's just going to happen. Yeah it's just going to be a part of your life. Didn't Chicago like sell all their parking. They sold all their parking. Yeah they did to like the Saudis. Yeah the Saudis bought all their parking lots. It's not crazy. For a crazy small amount of money too. Yeah it wasn't a lot. I know you and I should have bought that I don't know what you think and it was a good business to talk to your bar buddies. You've had a get a time machine to see if your bar buddies have like 600 parking lots. How much did they buy it for and who sold it? Pritzker. Somebody sold. They sold Pritzker. I know it's before him I think because they sold all their lots. This has no Chicago did not sell the parking but least the rights. They least the rights. They did it in like 2008. No this was something recently they did something a couple years ago. I thought maybe it was during like the financial crisis. They were screwed. They need the money. Yeah that is a way. But it just became a thing. I went to this one parking garage in Chicago. I parked there for two hours. I went to go get breakfast or something. I came back. It was $50.50. $50. Like my car. Just leave the car. Got a hand job or something in that two hours. How do you justify that? No you can't. But that's what you just go, keep it. Keep the car. Keep the car. I don't even like that car that much. It's not even worth it dude. $50. Just say keep it. It's yours. It's fine. When you were a kid did you come up to Wisconsin or not? Did you go to Wisconsin? Well I've told some of the stories. I've done the Delts. Got bit by a goose. Got bit by a goose. Got bit by a goose as a little kid. My dad just laughed the whole time. Yeah. I was feeding the geese and the other one came up because he got jealous. I was giving him one bread and it just yacked me at the Delts. Got me good cried. My dad laughed. You know bitch. My little bitch. Yeah. And then we would go to we weren't Geneva people. That's that's real money. Yeah. We're like Delavan. You know like Delavan. We'll cause it. That's a little like Delavan is late Geneva's a little causing with a limp. It's like the it's so sad. Dude my buddy cut his foot open so bad in like Delavan. Yeah. It's just because there's glass everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Because people drink by the beach and they just break it. Yeah. Yeah. Pigs. And then you got these duck boats driving around. Yeah. You know these duck boats they used to they took our greatest generation to storm the beaches and Normandy. And then the next use is getting a bunch of you know fibs hammered. Yeah. And bats are party bats are parties. Bats are parties. Yeah. Going to cruising chubbies. Yeah. Gross. Oh man. Yeah. We were Delavan. We went there because my grandmother's sister had I think they had shared it's so funny. It was like a two bedroom one bath and there was my mom's one a 10 and there must have been no less than 30 people inside of that house. It was unreal dude. It was great because it nothing mattered back then. It wasn't like a there wasn't like a netflix no phones no not you just literally were just outside all night long until you fell asleep either on the porch or on the floor or in the kitchen or there wasn't it just nobody cared. So good. It was just fun because it didn't mean anything. It was like you'll find a place you'll get a pillow or you won't and you roll up your sweater you'll figure it out. People bring tense. Now it was just we just everyone just kind of went where they went. The adults. The adults got their nooks and then the kids just you know well who gives a shit about the kids. There could be one in drowning in the lake and they're like we'll just have another one. You know 12. You any Irish twins? No. Oh my dad's actually an Irish twin twice. So the first three of them. But none of you in the siblings. No, no. That's kind of crazy. It is 12 back to back to back. She just she just did not stop having children. No, no they were both. Is there a photo of your mom not pregnant? Oh yeah, we have a few. Okay, like two. Yeah, yeah. That's above the fireplace. That's when I wasn't pregnant one time. 12 is insane to me. Yeah. Like that. But that's the Midwest. Like you know this game this woman said this this morning in the gym this older lady was like she's like oh my I don't think I've met you. I said she was my husband so and so I said oh I know your husband and she's like um what's your name? I said Andrew Santino. She goes red headed Italian. It was about like mind blown and I said well when two people love each other very much. It's just like it's the same getcha. I've been done my whole life. I'm always like people they can't wrap their they're like how could that be? You're like go to Chicago once. Like that's there that's everywhere. I go to New York. They're everywhere. It's just everyone is mind blown by red headed. You don't look like a Santina. That's I get that all the time. All right well what happens is my mom was mad at her father and found the biggest day go she could you know and they made me it's like it's such an easy man. But that's but all the all those old neighborhoods like my mom all their friends like you know when they'll tell you that they're all the hula hands of the hunter that are the whoever's they all have at least 10 kids. It was almost like a benchmark like in your neighborhood where you were you one of many 10 kid plus families. We there was like one other family but when my mom was come out it's one of my mom's generation type thing or your folks generation and it's out because there was like 10 12 someone have 15 I think you know but this is back when like kids would fall off things in the farm you lose one it is what it is yeah and also the Catholic thing people took that a lot more seriously. They really somehow it was more real. Yeah you better not crazy you better have more kids yeah the guilt was thicker than I still got we still have it in my go I still have it yeah but I've I've I've learned to just go come on shut up what are you yeah yeah yeah especially because my grandfather would fall asleep in church every Sunday every Sunday was never I don't think he ever was awake for one sermon not never once my but he went but just gone just knocked out but he's still he was ingesting yeah it was just seeping and it doesn't matter if you listen what matters is if you're there to receive the bread and wine that's right and you better be there too yeah and you better not complain you better just go and sit and lull through it and then finally when they're like it's what we can go yeah you can go now you can go and you did your thing yeah I saw a video on TikTok that popped up the other day it was so funny it was a car ride a quiet car ride to church and it's all everyone in the car you know mom dad in the siblings and everyone's looking out the window and it says um the the on the way to church after a knockdown drag out argument about being late to church and it was amazing because you know that fight of like we're gonna be fucking late if you're late I swear to God in a tent get your asses down and then everyone's literally just looking out the window nobody's looking at each other saying a word tears just ride that double fist and just like and when we get there I swear to and then Jim stop it just let just please like we all have Midwest kids all live that like that exact same life we all have that same thing and then you get there and you see your friend and be like what's up and like what's up it's like my dad's fucking piss we fucked around we screwed up it's like it just resonates so real and somebody like oh yeah your dad is pay hey hey hey those days are those days were good though those are the best those are the best yeah well and I was always a troublemaker too so I was always brother I couldn't wait to get into some I was always looking to get into some trouble dude you were raised by the lake and delven man yeah trouble see what is not seaweed but like the lake kelp or whatever they so like Geneva would cut would cut that they'd cut they'd shave it down so yeah in the summer you could swim and the boats could go out and not get stuck in the propellers. Sullivan was like, "Nah, nah, nah, you got to swim "and that shit." So you'd feel it in your legs all the time. - Yeah. - And as a kid, you'd be like, "Good, down there! "Subs down there!" Like, dude, it was so gross swimming through all that late-ckelps shit, I hated that. It was so gross, come out green. - Yeah, yeah, if you get their late summer, it's a problem, you know? - And I'm sure it's toxic. - There is some toxicity to that sort of thing. - I think it's grown by, yeah, I don't know. It's some of the runoff you get, it spurs it up. But, you know, the Dallas is such a great place. - Oh, the Dallas side. - Such a melting pot of the Midwest, the best. - The best, and the only people we don't like, and we'll say it on three, is people from one, two, three, Minnesota. - Minnesota is what I meant to say, yeah. - Scum trash. - Yeah, sorry, I see what you did there. - You know, yeah, you were, you were trying again. - No, no, we got it already. - All right, yeah, just cut that to make it work. - Just for a second, just for fun. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I know you don't like what's going on in this season. - Oh, yeah, let's, are you gonna take, are you-- - Let's talk about it. - Is it gonna be one in one? Are we gonna take one? We're gonna take one, do you think? 'Cause we play Green Bay twice coming up. - We do, yeah. - Yeah, we play, we play you two times. It's almost, what is it? It's like a one-week gap, right? I think it's-- - Yeah, yeah, which we had, and then we may see each other in the playoffs. - So, so, so-- - We might, how do you feel though? Like being, like you and-- - Well, look, I'm incredibly proud of them. I'm like every Chicago Bears fan. I am unbelievably shocked. Like nobody thought we'd be this right now. - Yeah. - Come on, nobody does. - Especially if it's the first two weeks. - Well, yeah, well, yeah, back to '02, right away. I don't think anybody, everyone, you'd be a liar, if you said, I knew it, this was it. Like just 'cause Ben Johnson, doesn't mean this was gonna transform this team, but it did, and we're all still like pretty cool. I mean, we can't believe it. It's not like when you go into a season. Like if you're traditionally the last couple years, like you're the Eagles, you're the Chiefs. Like they know going to the season, they're gonna be on top for most of it. So they just know that feeling. But we were like this, I don't know. - Are you having like imposter syndrome? - Yeah, 100%. - Yeah. - Are you like concerned a little? - Yeah, yeah, big time. You're like, I can tell you're like, you're sort of like happy and content, but you're not like overdoing it. Like if it were me in your position, I'd be talking so much smack right now. - I can't do it. You know why? Because the louder we get, the more shoves in our face, the more fire, karma with the bears has always been that way. We're like, when they put us on hard knocks last year and Eber Fluss was there, but his lake house was his dumb mustache or whatever. And he thought he was cool. And it just smacked him in the face so hard. He was the first coach to ever get fired mid season in bears history. That's crazy. Like if that's not proof that you go in with a big shoulder and like, look, I'm gonna be the shit. It's gonna smack you in the face. - No. - So that's why most smart bears fans are like, yeah, this is great. What up? They wanna talk about something else. 'Cause we're scared of the other side. - I mean, this year though, it's completely different. You lose two games. You go like nine out of the last 10, right? And then the shirt comes off. - We'll see. - Yeah. - I don't wanna, yeah, we'll see. - You don't wanna keep getting. - I just don't, I just don't, I just know how Chicago right now is on a high. And we just, I wanna keep riding it quietly in the background. You know, because if you start to get, look, the Super Bowl shuffle was probably the most, yeah, but it was probably the most like, a gregious thing you could do. Like no humility whatsoever. The hubris we had. We made that as we're storming to the Super Bowl. That's crazy to be like. - You did that before. - Yeah, I think they made that. - Didn't they make that while they were on the Super Bowl run? - That's incredible. - I'm almost positive. It was like while they were on the way. - You guys were almost like, we're not gonna be here again. So we gotta do it now. - We gotta get a top five. - I thought that was before they played in the Super Bowl. They did that Super Bowl shuffle. I think that's, is that true or no? You gotta find out. - I know. - And then the next time, you know, we went to the Super Bowl was paid in Manning. - Yeah. - We'll put it right in our face. - Yeah. - Anyway, I love you guys. And I respect you guys only because you're Midwest family of ours. So we did, right? - Seven weeks before. - Seven weeks. - Yeah, really? - Right now. - Seven weeks before their victory. - That would be next week. - Next week. - Yeah. - It was a preemptive boast before the playoffs. It would be my excited pop culture hit and coincided with the championship. - And let me tell you something. - Wow. - They were so insane that it worked. - It did. - It's like almost like, I'm sure like when the Wright brothers flew a plane, everybody was like, these guys are gonna fucking die. We want to go watch them die in it. Everyone was like, we gotta go see those guys die. And then it works. And they're like, oh God. This, I can't believe it. - It worked. - You're almost more shocked that you're like, well, we kind of definitely thought that wasn't gonna work out. That's what this was. They were like so crazy that it just, it was like, whatever, it's gonna work. And it did. And everyone was like, okay, good for you. - No, I mean, you guys are looking real good this year. I mean, the run game is-- - Swift is the man. - Yeah. - We got a lot of weapons. My shout out to my boy, Cole Comet, the guy in Loveland. And we got some great weapons. For people that don't know sport, are listening to this being like, what is this ESPN now? This has turned into a McAfee show or something. No, I didn't think we were gonna be this good. I genuinely, I took a bad bet at the beginning of the season saying we wouldn't win in eight games. 'Cause I thought-- - Oh, you actually made that bet. - I took the under, yeah, for charity. I did it for charity. I said, I don't need to charity, you know, and I'll take the under. 'Cause eight games seemed at the beginning of the season pretty lofty. - Yeah, usually you guys in the off season, you got pretty high hopes though. And then this year it seemed like the opposite. - No, no, this year we did have high hopes when we were just waiting to see what Ben Johnson was gonna do. You just wait to see what that guy's gonna do. - Okay, so you did have high hopes, Jack? - You do, but you're like, it's something new. It's just like when you buy something and you're like, "Ooh, and then you use it for like two weeks." And you're like, "I don't like that thing anymore." That's exactly what it feels like. You're like, "I don't really care about it anymore." Which is funny, it is a symptom of new shit. My cousin, he knows, my cousin. My cousin lives at my house. He's moving out again for like the eighth time. He comes and he goes, 'cause he leaves. He goes back to Chicago, he comes back. But he went and bought a new car. He's like, "I think I'm gonna go get a new car." I said, "Oh, seriously?" He's like, "Yeah." They said they want a money on my car. They're gonna flip it. I'm gonna get it to something new. I said, "Good for you, man." He goes, "He gets a car. He meets up with me that afternoon." I'm like, "What's up?" We excited. I don't know if I like it. I'm like, "You just got it, dude." You just got it. And he's like, "Yeah." I don't know. It's all right. Yeah, I know. I like it. It's fine. I'm like, "That's the problem with new shit." It's like, "You were me." They're like, "No, I see all sorts of stuff. I don't like about it." No, it's 100%. You find shit not to like. Yeah, you almost got to find the thing that you can like, fix up a little bit. That's smart. You take pride over time in it. It breaks, it gives you something to talk about. Something to complain about. Exactly. Look at this old snowmobile, you know, and I fix the carburetor on it. I was talking about that car. I'm still talking about that carburetor. For God's sake. But, you know, it's a 19-1 Yamaha lead slide. You know? Yeah. That's bad ass. Is that your hobby? Is fixing shit like that? No. My hobby is like dipping my toe into all kinds of like DIY type stuff and just not being good at any of it. Just trying all of it? Yeah. I just tore out half my basement. I had this duplex, you know? And there's a wall in the middle of it separating it. I was like, why is this wall here? You know? I started to feel my feelings. I had a little downtime. So I was like, you know, I'm getting rid of this wall. You know, that way I don't have to think of anything too deep. You know? So now I have a huge mess in my basement. And it just goes like the anytime I have a wall in the touring or anything. You take it out on that? Yeah, yeah. I just take it down. You know, keep myself occupied. Otherwise it goes to a bad place. Well, you know, you start figuring out some things. Well, see I got my white. I got my white. I'm a golf guy. So that's that. Oh, golf is up here. That's my greatest escape in the world. Are you a good golfer? Yep. Really? Yeah. Congratulations. It's one of the only things I'll be like honest about sale. Yeah, I am pretty good. That's great. Yeah, it's so funny. You're like, you're a good comic. I'm like, I don't even know anymore. Like golf. I'm like, yeah, dude. I know I'm good. It's literal. I know when it goes well. Do you have a handicap? Yeah, I'm a 1.7 right now. 1.7. So that means like an average game. You're going 1.7 over whatever the course is. Yeah. So it's really weird. The way that that works. The indexes work is like. This is so nerdy. But there's what's called an index. And then there's a handicap. And handicap is an adjusted adjusted amount of strokes based on your index for every course. Every course is rated. And then so if I'm a 1.7 index. That means that at a very, very, very hard course that a pro tip would play from seventy three four five hundred yards. I'd probably be a four five handicap. Okay. So I shoot five or four five over on average on a very easy course. I'd probably shoot closer to like one or two over closer to the index. But it's all for betting. It's all for like betting and gambling. Okay. Yeah, I love it so much. But I get to escape when I go play. My mind goes. That's nice. I think about nothing but that. And then that's it. I wish I could get there with golf. You know, I would come with me. I'd love to. I'll take you. You got to come out to the west coast. Okay. Because you can't do anything right now. Now you're cooped in. No. Now you're drinking and eating. Yeah, you can do snow golf though. Kind of. I've never even seen people have done that. Yeah, really? Yeah, you break into a golf course with some golf balls. Oh, break it. You know, I'm thinking it's like a thing. I'm like, oh, snow golf. No. Oh, no, you jumped the fence. Yeah. Yeah. So the snow illuminates it, you know, but if the snow's wrong, you're going to lose your ball in the mirror. What? Because it's going to sink in. It happens. But it's how it goes. I used to be a caddy, were you ever a caddy? Yeah, it was a caddy. Yeah, I hated it so fucking much. It was one of the most painful things, and I got tipped nothing because I wasn't good at it either. Because I wanted to play. My problem was, it's like, I don't want to watch you, but I want to play. Like, I'd rather go get a job at, oh, God, what was the name of the bagel shop that I worked at? My buddy Sean, my Wisconsin, he got me a job at a bagel store, I didn't do a thing. I just made pizza bagels for myself all day, and I didn't help at all. I didn't clean. I didn't do shit that I was such a bad employee. And McDonald's before that. Oh, really? So many great jobs. Yeah, I had a bunch of jobs. McDonald's was one of my favorite jobs, because I just got to give my friends free food. Oh, that's, see, I'm noticing a pattern here. I'm noticing a pattern here. With you and every business you touch, you're the bartender, you're giving out free food. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Um, with Cadi and would you, uh, I got yelled at for, like, as you this in the special, uh, plug neighborly, um, like, neighborly watch, neighborly right now on YouTube description is, it's in the link description down below. Oh, thank you. Yeah, that was like a comedic plug, but I really appreciate it. No, no, but we're going to do it. No, you guys better fucking watch it. I'll be pissed if you don't. But I was like rattling the clubs, because you know, you're supposed to hold them. Yeah. And then to get up there, he misses a pot. And he was like, you know why I miss that pot? Oh, I could think of what's the rattling of those clubs in my hat. Shut up. You miss because you suck. That's what you need to, the, you, Cadi's need to be honest. They should, they should be able to go, no, sir, it's because you suck shit. And you push the ball. And that's your fault. Yeah. I mean, that's the truth, but at that point, I'm like 12 years old. Yeah, we're a child. 12th. And he didn't even get me a snickers at the turn. What a dick. I mean, can you believe that? Not even one snickers do, that they kept in the freezer. Oh. You know, the frozen snickers is not fast, dude. Then they came out with ice cream snickers. And then I was like, woo. Snickers, snickers is my number one. Yeah. Oh, it's so too. Unbeatable. It's unbeatable. It's the most sustenance in a candy bar that you're going to find. It's got those peanuts. The nougat. Come on, dude. It's funny. When you go to Europe, too, those. The nougat. Yeah, the nougat. The nougat. What's the nougat? Nougat. Snickers has nougat. Caramel, nougat, and peanuts. Nougat. That was nougat. By the way, what is nougat? Nougat is a sweet confection made from sugar, honey, roasted nuts, and whipped egg whites. Oh, wow. I don't care what it is. It's delicious. I never. Dude, I was today years old when I figured I was in that snickers. I just thought I was nuts and caramel. Chocolate, nougat, caramel, peanuts. Yeah. Sugar, honey, roasted nuts, whipped egg whites. Wow. And sometimes we can't eat fruit. No, we know fruit. No fruit. I don't think that's as if it's a nougat. A nougat bar. A nougat bar. But yeah, nougat is that bottom layer in the snickers. That thing keeps that debt gives it its solid heritage. Yeah, it's structured. Oh, I love a snicker. But when you go to Europe and those, you know, they're always like. The chocolate in the States is, you know, they shut off. They do this thing where. I've gone over there. I've had their Weeble Wobbles or whatever the fuck they feed you. You know, like, if you go, I basically, if you go, I'll do one of all these skates. We've got a crispy wibbly and you're like, oh, give me a crispy wibbly. Remember that dude? That guy was fucking London. The guy, they shove it in your face. Like it's like, uh, you really haven't had chocolate. Do you have had chocolate in England? Yeah. We're doing fine, dude. I think I'll snickers. I snickers has got it on lock, dude. Yeah. By the way, I'll rock. I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll rock. I'll rock a twix every once in a while. I'm really feeling saucy. That was an old thing, right? What's a no go? What's a no go for you? Someone's like, hey, I got candy bars. You want to? Yeah, that's a great question. Um, the no go. Hmm. I kind of eat. Oh, you know what? Three musketeers can kick rocks. That's, that's. Yeah, that's kind of, and milky ways. I mean, I'll eat a milky way, but it's like, there's no, there's nothing I'm getting out of that. Not interested in that. No, I'm not. It's just because I'll like, chocolate or candy or whatever. I'll just go to town. Yeah. And then you, you think of things by what gives you, what makes you throw up as a child. And I think at one point, I ate two main milky ways and threw up. Yeah, it is. I mean, milky ways and hot dogs have, we got a bad thing. It's one, I'm more of a broad guy. And you're not your next special milky way and hot dogs. That's actually not bad. That's a really good title. I'm sure, that sounds like Adam Ray would have that. That's all like an Adam Ray special milky way and hot dogs. Browers guy. Yeah. Love, love a dude beer, brats. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you guys do a lot of those in Chicago. Yeah, man, we're all fat on healthy people, man. Okay, good. Yeah, some of the, I mean, Chicago has probably. Probably the most. When I go home, I don't think I eat one semi healthy meal. Mm-hmm. Now, I don't think it exists. I mean, I know it's there somewhere, but I got to go find it. Yeah, yeah, you got to go, especially if you're out like a tailgate or something. No, no, just in general, just at my mom's house. Okay. There's bacon and everything. It's like, there isn't anything that I've ever, like my dad will be like, I was like, I kind of want like a, just like a grilled chicken salad. It's like something to just like a midday, something easy. And my mom's like, do you want bacon in that? I'm like, no, I don't want bacon. She's like, it's fried chicken. I was like, no, I was grilled. And she's like, no, you know, I'm grilled. It's just not a part of the chemical makeup with the Midwest. Yeah, no. You got, you got your feeders there in the Midwest. And they're not interested in feeding you anything healthy. Healthy. Not even that. Unless it's coleslaw. And even that. Even that. It's been pickled. Yes. Does coleslaw have mayo in it? Isn't it slapped with mayo? Isn't that the other side of coleslaw? Am I wrong? Isn't it just cabbage and mayo in shit? I never get coleslaw. You don't like it? No, I swap it off for extra bread. Extra bread. See? He's still young though. That's why. So it is shredded raw cabbage and mixed with shredded vegetables carrots, coated in dressing, was commonly a vinaigrette or a mayonnaise. Yeah, man. Yeah, there is some mayo in there. You're standing up no matter what you do. Yeah, but mayo doesn't count when it's on some shredded cabbage. For god's sake. That is true. Yeah, it's a negative calorie situation. It's like a peak, it's like a break even. I think so. Yeah. No, you got to get some cold. But not too much, you know, just that little plastic jar. You want to know the little tiny one? Yeah. Yeah. Just as that much. I got it. Don't overdo it. Are you on tour right now? Yeah, on tour. Yeah. Going. How many dates you got lined up? You know, I think probably 40 maybe. Oh, you're going. Yeah. Are you going to tour all the way up to the summer? Yeah, that's what I like to do. Yeah. And then you take the summers off too? I take a lot of time. I'm taking a lot of time off. I don't know. Well, I'm kind of 50, 50. I toured, we toured for like three years straight. Yeah. Like as I did my own, then we did bad friends together. And then we did so much that now when I put out the special this year, I'm just, I don't know, I'm doing a bunch of casinos and clubs now intermittently. I'm not really doing a concentrated tour. I'm just kind of like, yep, pop up, pop up, just whatever. And then, yeah, I'll probably take off May all the way till fall. And then maybe tour again next fall. Yeah. Yeah, I got a lot of just, I just kind of want to shake it up. Well, you're, you're a new special. It's great. Oh, thanks. Very nice. Oh, you're the man. I love it. That's really nice. It was fun. I shot it, of course, in Minnesota. One of the best. And I always complain about this. And I will once again just because you haven't heard this. But my agents, good guys, some of the best guys, they booked me to shoot my special the same weekend that Shane Gillis played the Timberwolf's arena and Kevin Hart played the fieldhouse. Way to go, boys. Way to go, boys. I said to Shane, I was like, he's like, he's like, what are you doing? I was like, I'm shooting a special. He's like, oh, shit. For real? I was like, yeah, the night that you're doing the arena. I'm doing the fucking. Did you sell it out? Oh, yeah. It was nice. We sold out four shows. Oh, that's great. Four shows at the, at the Pantages Theatre down there, Minnesota. That's awesome. And people are, why do you do Minnesota? What'd you shoot yours? I shot actually N'Appleton, Wisconsin. N'Appleton, great place. The, uh, the first special, uh, to everybody shot an episode. Oh, yeah. I was like, yeah. The night that you're doing the arena. Did you, did you sell it out? It was a special, uh, to everybody shot an episode. Also, the last special, uh, N'Appleton, Wisconsin. He's not to do the state theater in Minneapolis, where we did bad friends. I love to do the state theater. Yeah. So, dude, that is phenomenal. Yeah. It's gonna be fun. I love Minneapolis. It's a great, great town. Great, great party town, too. Like underrated, fun town. Now, it's not Milwaukee, but it's okay. Yeah. It's not party town like that. That's party city. You have more art and culture. What's that? We have more art and culture. What does that even mean? Because Prince was there. Yeah, we have First Ave. We have, you know, just much more everything. Wow. Well, let me tell you. With the mustache and everything, the way you say it. He's got a lot of attitude. Yeah. That's an artsy mustache show. It really is. Well, you know what this is. You know why this is. Because we're the center of the Midwest. Yeah. And we are. We're right. We're, we're next door neighbors. Right. And these guys are just west enough where they're like, guys, guys. Yeah. And we're like, no, no, no. We, we got, yeah. We have 10,000 legs. Unfortunately, though, Wisconsin has 15,000. Yeah. You guys categorize your legs differently. Oh, no. We categorize our legs differently. That's why they fluff the numbers. Oh, we don't fluff the numbers. We just don't need to put on our license plate. All right. You know, I, and I'll tell you this, I wouldn't categorize your legs the way we categorize our legs. Because then you got a name them all. And we have a lake called Random Lake. So you're going to run out of names. At some point. And, yeah, at some point. So. You just let kids name them. They're like, cheese bomb lake. Yeah, cheese bomb lake. There you go. There you go. Who cares? Let the kids do it. With Scott. No, we, we like you just fine. It's Iowa. We can't stand. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Iowa. Iowa. Don't get upset. Iowa. We know you're there. We have wrestling. We know. Shut up. We got it. The, uh, Minnesota. Have you gone to Princess House? Not never been at Paisley Park. I want to go. I never been. You got it. And I've been to Minnesota a hundred times. I can't believe I've never done it. But every time I'm in Minnesota, it is the winner. It's not the winner. I know. Well, that's the time to do it. Because what else are you going to do? You just don't like going outside. No, no, no. Whenever we go to cities, dude, I'm Mr. Explorer. I grab him and I'm like, we're going. But in Minnesota and the winter, we're inside eating and drinking. That's all we're doing. We're just having a good time getting bombed indoors because then it's like, everyone meet up here, but when we're out on tour and it's nice, oh bro, I'm the first one to be like, hey, you wanna go do the thing and he's like, let's go. And we'll sneak away and go do shit while Bobby sleeps and the rest of the, you know. That's the best. Oh, dude, if I go to a city, I wanna see it. Yeah. What am I doing? This is my life. Sometimes we just, you go into seeing, you don't see anything, you gotta make it a point. Yeah, I think you're gonna look back and go, well, that was a pretty big chunk of my life. Right. That I spent inside of it. Marriott. Yeah. We showed our allegiance there. Yeah. I go whatever. You mean too, I'm not picky anymore. I used to be like, I have to do this. I like the points so I can save up for the, now I'm like, whatever. Man, if it's a nice hotel and I like it, it's nearby the thing, I'll just don't do it. I really don't give a shit. Yeah. No, it really doesn't matter. But I do like a nice hotel. Yeah. A little bit of a brat. Well, it happens. You know what happened? I never was that way, either, but yeah. No, I got, I like to place with like a few extra pillows, 'cause I like a little bit of like pillow. I love it. A little leg elevation. Ooh, you're a leger. Yeah. I'm a leger. No, I head and hug. Oh, you head and hug. Yeah, is that pretend it's my wife? Oh, that's not that social. Get out of that. (laughing) Say what? No, I like to hug the hug pillow. I don't know why I like a side, 'cause I'm a side sleeper, so I like big chunky one here on a neck and then one to rest my arm on. I like that. Are you always same side or are you switching up side? Same side always, brother. Really? Same side never switch. The same side of that left side of the bed at home is the left side of the bed in the hotel. I cannot be on the other side. Oh, wow. It's bad juju. There's something about it. Okay. I've tried to sleep on the other side. Yeah. You have to be up for it. No, no, no. I wake up being like, where am I? I don't like it. I like that left side. When we sleep together, we couldn't be further apart. Like, I don't want to feel anybody at night, but dude, we bought the biggest bed we could find 'cause we were like, you go all the way over there. I go here. I don't like body touch night sleep. I want to sleep away alone. Yeah. What is that? What is that about, you think? Hot. I get warm. I've run so hot. I can't have a body on me. I'm going to start sweating at night. Yeah. Get out of here. Let's hook up and then get out of here. There you go. Go away. I'm not comment about that the other night from Hillary. It was like, you're still calling and hooking up. It's your wife. It's your wife. I was like, it is still hooking up. But hooking up sounds, does that sound better? Hooking up, so yeah, we hooked up. It sounds fun. Instead of being like, yeah. Well, she's supposed to say. Well, there's no nice way to say it. But hooking up still sounds like it's like a fun and adventure. Yeah, we hooked up. It was great. Yeah. So like, yeah, yeah, we bond. Standard bond. Standard issue bond. You know, hooking up. It's more like dating your wife. Exactly. You know, that's romantic. Exactly. Yeah. That's why I like you. Are you married, guy? No. I'm divorced. Yeah. Oh, thanks, guys. Thank you. We always do that because we don't know how people feel about it. Oh, yeah. No. It's hard. We married for a long time. I was married for like five years. Okay. No, any little ones? No. No kids. Got a bunch of nieces and nephews. So that's fine. Yeah, we got no kids either. We have nieces that I'm going to go see. And they're getting older and they're cooler now. It's so scary when they get cool. I know. Like the one of them 17 and she's rad. And I get nervous now. Like I was cool uncle, but now I know she's an, you know, a young adult. So she looks at me as like loser. Yeah. Yeah, a loo-d loser guy. Older loser guy. She hasn't, I mean, is that your car out there in the other? No. What? Is that your car? That's his car. Holy smokes. You like that? That must actually be. Honda cord. Oh, it's in the cord. Yeah. Yeah. You can see the inside of his car, my Christ. He'll take stuff from the studio. I'll go, hey, there's clothes that came in like we got merch or stuff for. I was like, do you want it? Oh, yeah. It's in his car. It's never left. If it goes in his car, it stays in his car. It's like a storage, a mobile storage unit. I get that. That's bad parking. I'm like, I'll do this later. He never did it. There's stuff I've given you, given you two years ago that's still in there. But that is nice if I need like a, a change of shirt or something. Yeah, it's always there. That's the Midwest in you right there. Yeah. He's got a full crossroads in his back seat. He's a full thrift store in his back seat. I can't get out. And your trunk. No store, man. We don't know. You see? That's the mentality right there. It's not going to happen here. Right. You never know. Here's how you know that he's got too much shit in there is the, the, the, the, the, the rear wheel well is almost touching the tire now because it's so much weight in the back. It's like you can see it's the truck has got 800 pounds of shit. So it's like leaning back. He's going to pop a wheelie at some point. Is your whole front seat just a garbage can? The whole car is a garbage can. I throw them in the back seat because normally I'll give right. I love somebody in the front seats. I'll throw stuff in the back. Okay. The back is pretty egregious. Okay. Got it. I got to check that out. You got to see it. We'll go, but we'll go slide it on fire at some point. We might get him a new car for Christmas. We'll see. Oh, that's really nice. We might deserve it, but we don't know. Yeah. He's out. We just make him have him. See if he can keep this car clean first. Well, I just didn't like what he did to you just there. I was really feeling it. And then he'd the whole like move. We don't care. He's out of lakes. I mean, this whole, he gets a little attitude and I don't like it. He did, he did to hammer it. I was expecting a little good old fashioned fun ribbing about why Wisconsin's bear in Minnesota. And, and no. I think you grew a mustache and an attitude. That's what I think. We categorize our 10 acres and they do 2.2 acres in size. He's gone down the rabbit. Oh, yeah, he's a door. He's been, he's been, he's been talked about about this 10,000 lakes thing before. He's got, he's had this argument for years. Yeah. But you know what you don't have? That you have his soberments. You ever been a sober man? Oh, my God. Have I been a sober man? One of the best. It's so good. Do I know, do I know Wisconsin? Do I know walking metro? I know. I know. I love quick trip. Quick trip. Well, the reason I love soberness because they put a full burger on a bloody Mary. Oh, my God. That was one of the coolest things I ever saw. A full burger or chicken sandwich. On a bloody Mary. On a bloody Mary. You can, yeah, that bloody Mary will serve you. I mean, in an apocalypse, all you need is two sober men's bloody Mary. Shut up to soberments. One of the greatest. You guys really know what you're doing. Thank you. And shout out to the Midwest and shout out to you. Please, ladies and gentlemen at home. Please watch this special. We are putting the link in the description down below. You know where it is and you can find it on his YouTube. It's on your page. It's on Charlie Baron's. It's on your page. Sometimes people put him on other pages. I'm always like, don't say that. Don't give it to somebody else. Oh, yeah. They'll put it on a network they sell it to. I'm like, keep it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give it to Comedy Central or whatever. Just keep it on the thing. Yeah, I'm just, I'm keeping it all in one place. Keep it on. Keep it in one place. Yeah. And then CharlieBarrons.com is where they can see you live. Yes, yes, exactly. It's good that you got that. I got that too. I don't do like a CharlieBarrons live comedy.com or whatever. No, I, I scooped the name well before him. That's good. That's good. Go to the website. Go see him live. He's running around the country. He's here for a moment in time. He brought his carry on with him. He might sleep over in the studio. Is that cool? And get an argument with McCone. Well, you're going to have to fight with this kid all night. Okay. I feel like you could take him. I think I could. Whatever you did to that wall in the basement. Just do your face. We end the episode the same way. You look into that camera. You say one word or one phrase to end the episode. It's going to be cemented in time forever. So one word or a phrase. Whenever you're ready. Unthought. In here. We pour whiskey. Whisky. Whisky. Whisky. Whisky. Whisky. Oh, that creature in the ginger field. Sturdy. Ginger. Like that has. The ginger gene is good. Ginger is a fugitive. You only $5 for the whiskey. $75 for the horse. Ginger is our hell now. This whiskey means excellent. Ginger. I like ginger. Ginger. I like ginger.