Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Charlie Berens is Milwaukee's Finest | Whiskey Ginger

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

Welcome to Whiskey Ginger — a Wave series. Andrew Santino sits down with comedian, writer, and Midwest legend Charlie Berens for a hilarious conversation about regional comedy, family, work ethic, and why being “nice” can still absolutely destroy on stage. They dig into Charlie’s brand-new stand-up special Neighborly, now out on YouTube, the stories behind the hour, and how leaning into where you’re from can turn into a massive comedy career. 🎥 Watch Charlie Berens’ new special Neighborly (out now on YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqv-yKgUbCA&t=44s 🎤 See Charlie Berens live & tour dates: https://www.charlieberens.com 🎧 Check out Charlie’s podcast “Cripescast.” #whiskeyginger #AndrewSantino #CharlieBerens #Neighborly #ComedyPodcast #StandUpComedy #PodcastClips #comedians SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR SQUARESPACE USE PROMO CODE: WHISKEY GET 10% OFF YOUR ORDER https://squarespace.com/whiskey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Whiskey Ginger, a wave series. Hey, there, Whiskey Ginge fans. I'm jumping around the country doing a couple of dates. Come out and see me. I'll be in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Bethlehem, PA, Hanover, Maryland, Borgat, Atlantic City, New Jersey. I know somebody who knows somebody who makes us so you know nobody. Come out. Valley Center, which is basically San Diego down at Harris. I'll be in Canyonville, Oregon. Then Bad Friends is doing one show up in Lincoln, which is basically Sacramento, give or take. and then I'll be at the win in Las Vegas, March 21st, then at the Little Roadie Fest out there in Providence, Rhode Island in March. We're going to be adding more dates before the summer, true to spring. So come see me, go to Andrew Santino.com for those tickets, Andrewsantino. com. In here, we pour whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey, Ginger. My guest is one of my favorite people on Earth. I say that for all my guests, but I meet him once again. Today, it is Charlie Barron's. 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 will bring luggage straight to the show. I do like that. That'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 one. Just one. I'm doing, and then a red eye. I don't usually do red eyes, but 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, I won't do it. Yeah, because whatever I'm doing the next day, you can see it in my eyes. Well, you ruin a day.

It's basically just like, we'll kiss that day, go by. 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 to... 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 or no? Yeah, and they do a great job. I'm the one that's... You screwed it up. Yeah. That's also true. Usually that were the ones that are like, well, I wanted to leave... I thought I thought I wanted to leave then.

Yeah. But now I don't at all. And usually it's just not even thinking about it until the day right before being like, oh, this isn't going to work. Yeah, not going to work. We don't have this many 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 Charlies 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. Just happens, it happens. Also, 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, Cedarburg. He used to live in Menominee Falls. Oh, was he a Menominee Falls guy? You got to be kidding me. No 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, dude. Wisconsin is substantially cheaper than Illinois.

I mean, you know, people like to give Milwaukee crap, especially people from Chicago. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're talking the wrong guy here. I love Milwaukee. Some of my greatest moments have come up from that place. And I'm really glad to hear you say that. 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? Oh yeah, okay. 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 frenemies. Yeah, we are.

Yeah, we need each other. We do. But, I mean, we think about Illinois all the time in Wisconsin. You guys just don't think about us that much. 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,

unfat, you're like, why? 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. Can't you care more? We have good stuff here.

We have so much parking in Milwaukee. You really? So much, dude. So much parking. But that's it. Yeah, we call you guys fibs. I was 11 years old and my uncle was taking me to six flags because he's a great uncle. Not actual uncle, he's still alive.

I'm talking about him like he's dad. But I remember him throwing change into the toll booth thing. And he said, fucking fibs, you know? And I was like, what's a fib? And he was like, fucking Illinois bastard. I was like, dude, I'm 11, you know. I don't need 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 a different. It's a different land. It's similar people, but remarkably different. There's a lot of similar qualities, but they try their best to not be.

Scannies 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. Oh, that's awesome. 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, man. Yeah, yeah. Do you get, like, did you, like, do the Milwaukee things when you went up there? Oh, yeah. My buddy, a couple of buddies of ours used to own a bar called The Bad Genie. Do you ever go over there? 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, right?

At least. Well, I mean, that was the problem. We got out of college and they bought a bar, and you could imagine, what's that? It's gone. It's gone. 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. We're young dudes with access to a bar. And we'd be like, come on in, free drink. Like, 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 at such a name? I don't know their financial sitch, but I think one of the partners had a couple of bucks and the other one got a loan. you know, maybe like a family thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they owned 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 got to 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. Dude, what a time though, to own your own bar just out of college. 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, I mean, breaking laws, which is great because Wisconsin has almost no laws. No laws when it comes to alcohol.

It's why, 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. Oh, really? Recently, I think they did, but you probably shouldn't take my word for that. No, no.

Honestly, I don't know. I don't know. But it's consistently most bars per capita. Per capita. That's great. Yeah, every year they put out that thing. Yeah. You know, that map of America showing the highest concentration bars, and it's just a big

deep red. It's you. Like 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 the... Really? Had over 30 DUI's. 30 DUIs. Because South Dakota has no, no... South Dakota. You don'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. Going to hit a pheasant? Go for it. I'm surprised, though. I'm surprised at 30 DUIs, 30. It says allegedly, so this could be like a... Oh.

See, but I like... No, no, stop there. Stop there. 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 the guy snowboard off of the Sears Tower this morning online, and I was like, this is so sick. If you weren't there, off the Sears Tower.

Yeah, of course it was... We got that much snow. It was such a great AI that I was like, I don't even care that this isn't real. I like that someone, some guy was like, what if you snowboarded off to your star? What would that look like? 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 90s, you know, I mean, 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, you would just talk to your friends for hours about like, Marilyn Manson being able to like... The rib. Yeah, with the rib.

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, and I don't even know if that's true, but those were the things you were... I think that is true. He was dating a 17-year-old when Seinfeld was still erring. While it was airing. Yeah, he'd pick her up from high school. Shut up.

That's serious. And 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? It doesn't make it better. No, no, no, no, no, I'm saying, how did it even happen? That's what I mean is probably the dad brought the girl to a, you know what I mean?

Like brought her to a thing, unless he was out snooping local high schools. That's crazy. But see, that's the thing is like 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 was like, some have you swear to God, because there wasn't an internet to go, well, look at it. up. It's like, I 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, and somebody goes, he goes, you know, Mark told me that, and he's like, no. He goes, dude, swear to God. It's like, well, maybe it's got to be true. You swear to God on that. As he's drawn one of those S's 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 cry, yeah. I remember that. I don't even know what those, what was that called. I don't know, but everyone, everyone knows it, but there was no internet for everyone to know it.

Yeah, how did that get around? I don't know. But that had to been some kind of like a Satanistic thing that we just like bought into. We didn't even know. We probably were. We probably was from Illuminati stuff that leaked. And they were like. That actually makes kind of the most sense.

Yeah. Give them the S and they can have it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're like finding each kid in different places, you know, planting the kids. So all these kids know this S. Right, 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 S on something.

It'll go viral before viral happens. 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 throw in your backpack. Yeah, but or not bring it. I oftentimes wouldn't bring the things I needed because I just didn't like school. Yeah. Like I just didn't want to go. I didn't understand it. I was like, why can't we just get stone and hang out and then play basketball?

I mean, pretty logical. Dude, my dad was like, you have to go to, 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 numbers. We're going to help you here. We're going to get you through the, so C's got degrees, baby. I was a true, true C student hard. I was, teachers would be like, what do you need to get to a C?

We'll get you to C so you can walk out. That's all they wanted, dude. Because D's is almost like, they can't justify the D because D is just F. It's just F. It is just F. Why are we pretending? It should be ABCF. Right.

I mean, they do say D's get degrees and they do. They do. They do. 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 coach. No, but C's you can get in. I went to Arizona State, one of the, but one of the toughest schools to get into in the country, Harvard of the West. Did 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 love 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. The last time I played it was a couple 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. Nice.

Because they've become, like, family friends of ours now. Yeah, they're great. I love them. Everybody there, I think. It's 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 off, and 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 own and

operated by the people that invested in it financially and didn't just go pay for and then 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 immediately are like this is friendly it's good people there's not a high turnover people stay there a long time because they like the the way they're treated they're getting, you know, 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 like from a comics perspective, great green room, you know? Great green room. I like, it almost takes it up. Like, I get a little bit more nervous because I'm like, I don't want to screw it up. They treat me so good here. They had 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 got to do good. That little basketball thing in there. I love that, dude.

A little pop a shot's huge. 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 screen. Yeah, that's true. 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 a shoe closet. Is that not a, 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. I remember going on tour at the beginning and being alone, you know, 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 going to be my whole life? Like, 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're like telling jokes while people are celebrating their strikes, you know?

It's great. And the green room there was just like some dude's office with. papers all over the place. It looked like he was going through a divorce or something. It was, I got to figure out what room that was. He's like, don't touch the papers, kid. That's not for you to share it. Yeah, he wasn't even there, but it was pretty, just sit 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's theaters only, yeah? Yeah, mostly, yeah, theaters, but I'll do, like, clubs, club runs to, like, work some stuff out at the beginning. That's what I'm doing a little bit, yeah. Are you? After I put out an hour, I go back to that. a couple run of clubs and I did, it was great. 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 than you really get to iron some stuff out, you know? Yeah, you really do, and you get to, there's nothing worse than, because the theater can sometimes kind of lie to 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, you know, but it's a terrible. It's a bad joke.

Terrible joke. 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. You know that shit. 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 special. It's out now on YouTube. Exclusively on YouTube. I don't know why they say exclusively, but probably because that's the only place.

Yeah, because YouTube owns it now, right? Well, I don't... It's a partnership. I don't know. Isn't that what it's 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. 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, it's for the people.

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. you. Yeah, and we're appreciative of that. We're like, thank you, Google. Yeah, I will take the text right off. Yeah, you have to. Yeah, you should. Just roll with it. How many specials is this? Second special. Yeah, good. Yeah, yeah. You like this one. I 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're bringing in 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 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, it's not you can do.

Yeah. We should be able to log in and redo 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. Yeah, I've done this better.

I've done this better. This will be better in six months. Right, right. But this is the one you're getting. As soon as I film it and then throw it all away, you know. But 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 Atel, like precious, people being precious with material.

is he's like, just do it, just get, it's, you're going to 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 a constant. And you're like, because he's not precious for anything, so it hits harder when it's good and it's new. Ugh, 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, no, audiences know, when you beat your own joke to death, even, they can feel it. Yeah, 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 going to be ripe and then it's going to be like a black banana, you know, which is fine, you know. Yeah, you better say that for the camera, dude. We like black bananas.

We're fine with black bananas. They make great banana bread. They make the best banana bread. Yeah. Well, let's see here. A rotten apple. Is that a better? Thank you.

Rotten apple, yeah. Can I drink this, by the way? No, no, no, that's 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. No, that's insane. My birthday's in October. Oh, yeah, yeah. So stupid.

Also, I'm not going to adhere to it like, 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 going to take a month or so. whatever it takes, you know. And then I'll sneak in a 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, like, I think leading up to the special, I was just not drinking for, because I would have, like, a drink before I go on stage. Me too, yeah.

And then you're like, oh, this is going to make it better. And then you're watching it back, and you're like, I don't think that made it better, you know? So you're like, think that helped. It feels better up here. Oh, dude. Inside? You're like, oh, 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 to do? I'm going to go to the bar. I'm going to have something to eat and drink, and then that's my night. You know what I mean? Like, otherwise, I go out with locals and get absolutely hammered and then end up, you know, underneath a 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? I was like, do I? Do I? You better believe it, dude. Those whippets will sneak up on you. They really do. Especially with the altitude and billings. Yep.

People don't know that about whippets and altitude, but you got it. Yeah. You know. This is a PSA. This is a PSA for Wippis said 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, live there for a long time. Let's a tick. There's a little off. They're a little off-ups. stairs. 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 doesn't. They say it doesn't. It does. It's got some impact. Mountain people have a long term. There's a vibe. There's a craziness to mountain people. Yeah. I don't know. I can't describe it, but it's like you talk to him. You go, what is he saying? I went, I went skiing with mountain people. Oh yeah. That's the worst. Wow, because they're good. They're so good. 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 at, like, looking for my exit ramp. And I couldn't. So it was just, I went over to the trees, and I did a scocher. I'll do a scocher. Just got to do a scocher. I'll do a scocher once in a while. Yeah. A 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. Right. 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.

Put a timestamp on it. Yeah, because otherwise, dude, he's, foo! 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 my own goal like that. And he had to go backwards just to make it interesting for him.

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 that. What's the name of that little hill that we went up there? Sunburst. What's it? There's, wait.

Little Switzerland. Oh, wait, he didn't say Wisconsin? It's right. Maybe it's right on the border. There's a couple of little dumpers that are right up. Alpine? Oh, Alpine Valley. I think there's.

Don't they have a little dump hill there? I think they do. Yeah. Like a little bullshit hill, right? Don't they? Yeah. Yeah. And a lot of them are just our dumps.

Yeah, they're garbage dumps. That's midway. That's why the Midwest is the greatest. It's great. They're like, it's our old poop, ski on it. Right. It's so good. 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. It'll be a little bunny hill or a little rope lift, you know, a little rope. 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 let's go they hold on the whole time it's not going to make it better i remember watching that being like i i i learned from the first couple of times i went because 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 letting go and i'm just going to scoot down or unstrap and walk down i don't care oh yeah you don't that's deep you don't yeah exactly it's not that steep i'll just walk down the hill I don't need to fall all the way.

It's insult to injury. I don't need it. I'll just, I'll see you down there. And after a couple times, then you get the confidence. But, you know, so I'm like, I want to go this year. Like, will you go skiing this year at all or no? Usually, probably, I usually have a show in Denver or in somewhere where they have that. You'll go.

And I'll go. I 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. For white guy activities?

Yes. I do. Any pickle? ball in there? I'll do pickup ball 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 is a tough one though because, you know, you just, you work things that you didn't even know you had to be working. 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, 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 zonk, dude. It's great. It's better to do that than like midway through the day because like after a couple drinks, I now think that I can take that double-plight time and do it. And that's where bad things happen to bones, you know? That's where bad things happen to bones. That could be above one of the lifts where bad things happened to bones.

That's the name of one of the runs. Especially at a certain age. I was like, when I was younger, man, 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 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 I went 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. Did you do the waters?

It's not. It's not. Well, I do the 42. I have step-ins. 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 they were, they everyone, like legit snowboarders hated them because they didn't work well. Then Burton developed this thing called step on, 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 legit snowboards will never use those things because it's like, that ain't it, dude, you know, or whatever. 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, up and down takeoff, especially with skiers. When you're traversing on a mountain and we've got to push and I have like, oh, yeah. Oh, gun in my mouth. 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 stepping, 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 gone snowboarding is with one of those. Yeah. Well, those are, that's, I mean. Is that like the way you're looking at right now?

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 ripping. Like a seven-year-old will cut you off and be like, heads up. Yeah. A little child and you're like, I got to stop.

I should go to the lodge. I remember this one time I was with my uncle. We were actually coming out to L.A. I was driving out cross-country. First time I came out here. And we stopped in Vail. And I had gone skiing like three times in my life at this point. I'm going to fail.

And I've done the black diamonds at this point in Wisconsin, which, as you said, you can walk down their black diamonds. So my uncle was like, hey, it's a black diamond. I'm not going to go there. I was like, yeah, I'm going to take it, you know, or whatever. I find out what a mogul is when I'm like going ass over tea kettle over like five different moguls. All my sheds all over the place. Yards 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 got to. Put your toe in first, bro. And I look up, it's like this eight-year-old girl. And I'm just, thank you. Appreciate that. That's nice.

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It's like, it hits so hard now. Mr. Santino did a thing to me when I started getting it a couple years ago. I was like, fuck. Because the fans will be 24 years old. And I am Mr. Santino to that guy. God. Because I'm 20 years older than him. And that gets by my brain.

Oh shit, it hit. Like, it's over. I'm done. There's no going back. I've gotten Mr. Barron's before, but I take it, and this is self-preservation, I think, that people are just being like, they're like joking. Oh, no, no. Not with me.

They're like. Not with me, because 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 because he, I think he got held back more.

than a lot. You know, more than, you know, someone's like, he got held back. This guy was like, he was really held back. More than the normal amount. 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 carded. And I could have, I could go in once in a while to a shitty place that, like, didn't

care. Yeah. And they'd let me get away with it because at 18, I had facial hair in high school. So I looked enough where they were like, uh, the cops, no one's around. You know what I mean? Like, get out of here. Hurry up and get out of here. You could grow that full beard and, and, in, you could grow that full beard and, and,

high school? I wish I had photos. Yeah, I had a, there's probably no high school photos of me with the beard, are there? Yeah, you are beardless in most of those. And I, in my high school, in my early ones, yeah, my basketball ones, yeah. By, by junior year, yeah, I was, I loved it. Yeah. You got, 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, too. Yeah. 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 my bitch, dude.

You look good. But those guys don't look good with the beard sometimes, which I like. It's true. You got to have some on them. Plus, it's some protection. Yeah, well, and I need that like crazy. I mean, you know. Yeah, not allowed out.

Oh, I was going to say, let's go back to Skani stuff. Yeah. We would go every year to Irish Fest, which I loved. Yeah, you'd fit right in there. 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 Summerfest Grounds? Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, isn't there a name for the area? I thought there was a name of it. Yeah, I mean, usually they just say Summerfest Grounds. Do 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. It happens. 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'd say. I don't want to get up. waiting the line. No, we would go to Irish friends. 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. She was like, I'm not paying that shit. Because it was always, you know, any festival, it's, you know, it's overpriced like crazy. Oh yeah. Like a beer is 10 bucks. Yeah.

You know, and you're like, well, that's a Miller light. Yeah. This isn't a baseball game. It's a park. And she would sneak in because my grandparents always drank Manhattan's. Dude, she's sneaking in Manhattan. Well, they would sneak. Yeah, but 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 is that?

It's my computer. And it had all the ingredients for Manhattan. It'd have the vermouth and the maraschino cherries. And he only liked Canadian club, which is plastic bottle, Canadian whiskey. Yeah, he refused. Like nice whiskey to him. He was like, well, that's a waste. It's going to get mixed.

Mm-hmm. 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 Maracinos, 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 that 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 fights 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 going to be crying. I don't want to sit around for that crap. I want to have a cocktail. You want me have a good time or no? Right, right, dude. 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 going to bring my computer everywhere I go. 10 kids.

10 kids? I won at 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. Where on the lineup are you? I'm second oldest. Two of 12. Wow. Kids, dude. That's incredible.

Yeah, it's pretty wild. You have full basketball games together. Five on a football. Five, dude, and two refs. Yeah, and two reps. I mean, we have a whole, whole offensive side of the football. Or defensive, depending on the deal. So, wait, 12 kids and you're where?

In the middle? No, second oldest. Two at 12th. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the oldest is a guy? Yeah. 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. No, my mom, Malloy is my mom's last name. Okay. So, very, we've been, I used to work at Irish Fest, in fact. Oh, you did?

Yeah, pretzel roller over there. I was going to say, you'd look like those hands could roll a good sacle. Dude, I tell you, I know the exact move. Like, that's it. Right there, you see that? That's going to make you that pretzel, baby. That was good. Anti-Ans.

Oh, Annie Anns. Everybody loves an anti-ans. You ever wear a shirt that's, like, too tight? You didn't realize? I'm busting out of it. You're a growing boy. I know, I know. You're a 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 can see, you have had it for years. Those buttons are holding on for dear life.

I know, dude, look at that. Look at that. I got to get another, I got to get a support button right there, you know? It's terrible. You take it to a Taylor. You got any backup buttons? I need a couple backup buttons. I need a couple backup buttons.

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. Is it a lucky shirt that? Did you have a lucky shirt when you shot your special? Do you do that thing where you, like, I want this thing when I want this thing?

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 going to look back and be like, what? Like even Eddie Murphy, that red leather suit. I love how everyone's like, oh, sick.

It's insane. It's insane, dude. It's V-cut down to his belly button. You're like, you're telling jokes. It's crazy to wear that. Also, you brought over JP who had a spill on his shirt. JP, yeah, I saw it as it happened to. 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 going to say something. I do notice that shit. I had noticed right away. But also, he has to come in on his, like, on his defense with me. Because, you know, I'm always going to get him a little bit. Yeah. I want to 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. Made it worse. It might have made it worse. I heard that somewhere you used seltzer water. These are all these old tales like our parents told us, but you'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 says seltzer water does not remove stains as often no better than plain water. Really? What a waste of $4.95, dude. I can't believe that. Those were expensive.

Was it a lime topo or original? because the lime one is my favorite. It was original. I did drink it. Yeah, you drank it afterwards. Let him spill on himself and then give a little drink. How many years do you work at Summerfest? I think just one year.

I did a lot of weird jobs. But I was a pretzroller at Annie Anns at the mall. And because of my skills, I got recruited to the big show over there. You were so good, they were like, Charlie, we'd like to offer you something incredible. Did I... Do you want to work the fest? I was like, I want to work, I'm ready for it. The truth of it is they just need anybody they can find.

I was not, I was not, I worked at a bike shop too. Like I was a bike mechanic. And so I would then go over to the Annie Ann's after, but like I 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 ratted out for having dirty hands. Who are these rats that do that game?

They got secret shoppers. You know who these people are? They turn into those secret shoppers. They turn into parking attendants. These people offer nothing. And I mean this. I mean this. 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 of tenants, parking attendants,

not parking lot of tenants, 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 maids, meter maids, people that, or just in general, parking, in L.A., 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're going to get tickets here. You just budget that into the deal. 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. Isn't that 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 we were thinking. That was a good business investment. She talked to your bar buddies.

See if they had a, get a time machine. See if your bar buddies have like 600. buy parking lots. How much do they buy it for? And who sold it? Pritzker? Somebody sold, they sold us out. No, it was before him, I think. Well, because they sold all their lots.

This says, no, Chicago, they did not sell the parking, but leased the rights. They leased the rights. They did it in, 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 needed the money.

Yeah, that is 08. And then, but it was. 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, like, breakfast or something. I came back. It was $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. 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. Say, just keep it. It's yours. It's fine.

When you were a kid, did you come up to Wisconsin or a lot? Did you go to Wisconsin Dells? Well, I've told some of the stories. I've done the Dells. 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 it got jealous.

I was giving one bread, and it just yacked me at the Dells. 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 real money. Yeah, yeah.

We're Lake Delavan. You know, Lake Delavan? Oh, yeah, Lake Delavan. Of course I do. Lake Delavan is Lake Geneva's a little cousin with a limp. You know what I mean? It's so sad. Dude, my buddy cut his foot open so bad.

At Delvin? Yeah. Because there's glass everywhere. Yeah, exactly. Because people drink by the beach. And they just break it. Yeah. Pigs, absolute pigs.

And then you got these duck boats driving around. Yeah. You know, these duck boats, they took our greatest generation to storm the beaches in Normandy. And then the next use is getting a bunch of, you know, fibs hammered. Yeah, and bachelor parties. Bachelor parties. Oh, God, going to cruising chubbies, you know. Gross.

Oh, man. We were dull of them. 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 at 10, and there must have been no less than 30 people inside of that house.

That's awesome. It was unreal, dude. It was great because nothing mattered back then. It wasn't like a, there wasn't like a Netflix, no phones, no, 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. 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 tents? No, it was just, we were 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 the shit about the kids?

There could be one drowning in the lake and they're like, we'll just have another one. You know what I mean? Do you any Irish twins? No, I, oh, my dad's actually an Irish twin twice. So the first three of them. But none of you and the siblings? No, no. That's kind of crazy.

It is. 12, back to back to back. 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. It's like, 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, I don't think I've met you. She goes, my husband's so-and-so. I said, oh, I know your husband. And she's like, what's your name? I said, Andrew Santino. She goes, oh, I'm a red husband. Red-headed Italian. It was like mind-blown.

And I said, well, when two people love each other very much, it's just like, it's the same gitch I've been done my whole life. I'm always like, people, they can't wrap there. They're like, how could that be? You're like, go to Chicago once. Like, that's everywhere. Go to New York. They're everywhere.

It's just everyone is mind-blown by Red-headed. You don't look like a Santina. 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, oh,

the hula hands or the hunna, the whewers, they all have at least 10 kids. Oh, yeah. It was almost like a benchmark. Like in your neighborhood, were you,

were you one of many 10 kid plus families? We, there was like one other family, but when my mom was coming out, it's one of my mom's generation. or your folks generation. And it's, because there was like 10, 12, someone had 15, I think. You know?

But this is back when, like, kids would fall off things on the farm. You lose one. It is what it is. And also the Catholic thing, people took that a lot more seriously. Dude, yeah. They really. Somehow it was more real. Yeah.

You better. Isn't that crazy? You better have more kids. Yeah. The guilt was thicker then. I still got, we still have it in my go. I still have it. Yeah, but I've learned to just go, come on, shut up.

What are you going to? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Especially because my grandfather would fall asleep in church every Sunday. Every Sunday. It was never, I don't think he ever was awake for one sermon. Never once. But he went, but just gone. It's knocked out.

But he still, he was ingesting. Yeah, it was seeping through. It doesn't matter if you listen. What matters is if you're there to receive the bread and wine, baby. That's right. And you better be there, too. And you better not complain. You better just go and sit and live.

and lull through it and then finally when they're like it's all 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 everyone in the car you know mom dad and the siblings and everyone's looking out the window and it says the on the way to church after a knock down dragout argument about being late to church and it was amazing because you know that fight I was like, we're gonna be fucking late.

If you're late, I swear to God. And it's that, get your asses in the car! And then everyone's literally just looking out the window. Nobody's looking at each other saying a word. Tears. Just dried. Dad, double fisting just like. And when we get there, I swear to it.

Jim, stop it. Just let, just please. Like we all, and Midwest kids all live that life, that exact same life. we all had that same thing and then you get there and you'd see your friend and be like, what's up? And like, what's up?

He's like, my dad's fucking pissed. We fucked around. We screwed up. It just resonates so real. And someone would be like, oh, yeah, your dad is. Hey, hi, hey! Those days were good though.

Those are the best. Those are the best, yeah. 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 really, raised by the lake in Delvin, man.

Yeah, trouble. See, what is it? Not seaweed, but like the lake kelp or whatever. So, like, Geneva would cut that. They'd shave it down. So in the summer you could swim and the boats could go out and not get stuck in the propellers. Delevin was like, nah, nah, nah, you got to swim in that shit. So you'd feel it in your legs all the time.

Yeah. And as a kid, you'd be like, go, it's down there. Swims down there. Like, dude, it was so gross, swimming through all that lake kelp shit. I hated that. It was so gross. Come out green. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. If you get there late summer, it's a problem. And I'm sure it's toxic. There is some toxicity to that sort of thing. I think it's grown by, I don't know. Some of the runoff you get, it spurs it up. But, you know, the Dells is such a great place. Oh, the Dells I love. Such a melting pot of the Midwest.

It's 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 yes. Scum trash. Yeah.

Sorry, I see what you did there. You know. You want to try it again? No, no, we got it already. All right, yeah. Just cut that to make it look like I did it. Just for a second. Just for fun.

Yeah, yeah. I know you don't like what's going on this season. Oh, yeah. Are you going to take? Let's talk about it. Is it going to be one and one? Are we going to take one? We're going to take one, you think?

Because we play Green Bay twice coming up. We do, yeah. Yeah, we play you two times. It's almost, what is it? It's like a one week gap, right? Yeah, yeah. Which we had. And then we may see each other in the playoffs.

So we might. How do you feel, though? Like, you haven't... 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 did. Especially after the first two weeks. Well, yeah, we... Well, yeah, back to O and two right away. Yeah. I don't think anybody... Everyone, you'd be a liar if you said, I knew it, this was it. Like, just because Ben Johnson doesn't mean this was going to 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 going to 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%. 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 chubs 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 Iber Fliss was there up at his lakehouse with 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 midseason in Bears history. That's crazy. Like, if that's not proof that you go in with a big shoulder, I'm like, look, I'm going to be the shit. It's going to smack you in the face. No.

So that's why most smart Bears fans are like, yeah, this is great. They want to talk about something else. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because we're scared of the other side. I mean, this year, though, is 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. I don't want to, yeah, we'll see. You don't, you don't want to keep going. I just don't, I just know how Chicago right now is on a high, and we just, I want to 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, egregious 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 the Super Bowl? 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 to the Super Bowl. You guys were almost like, we're not going to be here again, so we got to do it now.

We got to get a top five hit. I thought it was before they played in the Super Bowl, they did that Super Bowl shuffle. I think that's, is that true or no? You got to find out. And then the next time, you know, we went to the Super Bowl was... Payton Manning. Yeah. Who 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? That would be like right now. Seven weeks before their victory. That would be next week. Next week. Yeah, that would be next week. He reported as a preemptive boast before the playoffs,

which being unexpected pop culture hit and coincided with a 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 the field. You know what I mean? Like everyone's like, we gotta go see those guys die. And then it works.

They're like, oh God. This, I can't believe it worked. Like you're almost more shocked that you're like, well, we kind of definitely thought

that wasn't going to work out. That's what this was. They just, they were like so crazy that it just, it was like, whatever, it's going to work.

And it did. And everyone was like, oh shit, 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. Shout out to my boy, Cole Commet, the guy, and Loveland. I mean, we got some great weapons. For people that don't know sports are listening to this being like, what is this ESPN now? This has turned into a McAfee show or something like that. No, I didn't think we were going to be this good.

I genuinely, I took a bad bet at the beginning of the season saying we wouldn't win eight games because I thought... Oh, you actually made that bet? I took the under, yeah, for charity. I did it for charity. I said, I'll donate to charity, you know, and I'll take the under. Because 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, but we were just waiting to see what Ben Johnson was going to do. You just wait to see what that guy's going to do. Okay, so you did have high hopes. 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, because 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 money on my car, they're gonna flip it I'm gonna get something new, I said, good for you, man. He goes, he gets a car, meets up with me that afternoon I'm like what's up are we excited he goes 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 it's not yeah I know I like it's fine I'm like that's the problem with new shit it's like you're immediately like no I see all sorts of stuff I don't like about it no it's a hundred

percent 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 you know it breaks it gives you something to talk about. Something to do something to complain about. Exactly. Like I had this old snowmobile, you know, and I, I, I fixed the carburetor on it. I'm still talking about that car. I'm still talking about that carburetor, for God's sake. But, you know, it's a 1981 Yamaha lead sled, you know, yeah. That's badass. It is badass. 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 any of it. Just trying all of it?

Yeah. Like, what are you working on now? I just, 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 that. Any time I have a lull in the touring or anything, I just You take it out on that? Yeah, I Yeah, I just take it down, you know, got to keep myself occupied a little bit. 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 my greatest escape in the world. Are you a good golfer? Yep. Really?

Yeah. It's one of the only things I'll be like honest about saying, yeah, I am pretty good. That's great. Yeah. It's so funny, you're like, oh, are you a good comic? I don't even know anymore. But golf, I'm like, yeah, dude, I know I'm good. It's literal.

I can tell, 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, like on average game, you're going 1.7 over whatever the course. 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 a 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, index, that means that at a very, very, very hard course that a pro tip would play from 73, 400 yards, I'd probably be a 4-5 handicap. So I'd shoot 5 or 4 or 5 over on average. On a very easy course, I'd probably shoot closer to like 1 or 2 over, closer to the index. But it's all for betting.

It's all for like betting and gambling. Oh, 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 gotta go 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 it. People have done that. Really? Yeah, you break into a golf course with some glow-up balls, you know? I'm thinking it's like a thing.

I'm like, oh, snow golf, no. Oh, no. You jump the fence, yeah, at night typically. Because the snow illuminates it, you know? And so, but if the snow's wrong, you're going to lose your ball and no matter what, because it's going to sink it. That happens. But it's how it goes.

I used to be a caddy. Were you ever a caddy? Yeah, I was a caddy. Yeah, I hated it so fucking much. It's like 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, 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 ate. 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. I had 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. With caddying, would you, I got yelled at for, like, I used you this in the special plug, neighborly. Like it. Neighborly. Watch Neighborly right now on YouTube the description. It's in the link to description down below. Oh, thank you. Yeah, that was like a comedic plug, but I really appreciate you. No, no, but we're going to do it. 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 cut. Yeah, you're supposed to hold them, yeah. And that dude gets up there. He misses a pot. And he was like, you know why I miss that put? All I could think of was the rattling of those clubs in my head. Shut up. You miss because you suck. That's what you need to. The caddies need to be honest. 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. 12. And he didn't even get me a Snickers at the turn. What a dick. I mean, can you believe that?

Not even a sneakers. That they kept in the freezer. Oh, the frozen Snickers is the best, dude. Then they came out with ice cream Snickers, and then I was like, whoo-o-pickers. Snickers is my number one. Yeah, my favorite candy bar. Unbeatable.

It's unbeatable. It's the most sustenance. in a candy bar that you're gonna 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? Nugget. Snickers has nougat. Caramel, nougat and peanuts. Nugget? Nugget. The hell is nougat.

By the way, what is Nuget? Nuget 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, I was today years old

when I figured out what was in that Snickers. I just thought it was nuts and caramel. Chocolate, nougat, caramel, peanuts. Yeah. Sugar, honey, roasted nuts, whipped egg whites. Wow. Sometimes with candied fruit. No, no fruit.

But I think that's just if it's a Nugut. A Nuget bar. You're buying a Nuget bar. But yeah, Nuget is that bottom layer in the Snickers. That thing gives it its solidarity. Yeah, it's structured too. 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, 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, they're like, oh, you got a trot biscuit,

if you got to do one of all biscuits, we've got a crispy wibbley and you're like, oh, give me a crispy wibbley. Remember that, dude, that guy was fucking in London, the guy, they shove it in your face. Like, it's like, oh, you really have an eye chocolate. You have a chocolate in England. You're doing fine, dude.

I think I'll, I, Snickers has got it on lock, dude. Yeah. By the way, I'll rock a twix every once in a while if I'm really feeling saucy. That was an old favorite. What's a no-go? What's a no-go for you? If someone's like, hey, I got candy bars, you want to?

Yeah, that's a great question. The no-go. I kind of eat, oh, you know. Three musketeers can kick rocks. That's, get on here. 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. You know?

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 think of things by what gives you, what makes you throw up as a child. And I think at one point I ate too many Milky Wayes and threw up. Yeah, it is. Yeah, Milky Ways and Hot Dogs have, we got a bad thing. That's why I'm more of a Brock guy.

And you're not your next special Milky Way and Hot Dogs. That's a really good title. I'm sure, that sounds like Adam Ray would have that. Isn't that sound like an Adam Ray special? Milky Way and Hot Dogs? Brought Worst guy. Yeah. Love, love a good, dude, beer brats?

Oh, yeah, yeah. Love a good beer brot, man. Yeah, do 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 best, I mean, Chicago has probably, probably the most, when I go home, I don't think I eat one semi-healthy meal. 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 at, like a tailgate or something. No, no, just in general, just at my mom's house. Okay, yeah. There's bacon in everything. It's like there isn't anything that I've ever... Like my dad would be like, I was like, I kind of want 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've grilled. And she's like, no, you know, I'm grilled chicken. It's just not a part of the chemical makeup of the Midwest. Yeah, no.

You got your feeders there in the Midwest and they're not interested in feeding you anything healthy. Healthy. Unless it's coleslaw. And even that. Even that has been pickled. Does coles have mayo in it?

Isn't it slopped with mayo? Isn't that the other side of coleslaw? Am I wrong? Isn't it just cabbage and mayo and shit? I never get coleslawed. You don't like it? No, I would swap it off for extra bread. Extra bread.

See, he's still young, though. That's why. Side dish shredded raw cabbage mixed with shredded vegetables, carrots, coated in dressing, most commonly a vinaigrette or a mayonnaise. Yeah, man. There is some mayo. There is some mayo. You's fatten it up no matter what you did.

Yeah, but mayo doesn't count one in. on some shredded cabbage, for God's sake. That is true. Yeah, it's a negative calorie situation. It's like a break-even? I think so. Yeah. Yeah, but, you know, you got to get some cold.

But not too much, you know, just that little plastic jar. You want a little, the little tiny one. Yeah. Just does that much. I get it. Don't overdo it. Are you on tour right now? Yeah, on tour.

How many dates you got lined up? You know, I think, I think, probably 40 maybe. Oh, you're going, going. Yeah. Are you going to tour all that? the way up to the summer. Going to, yeah, that's what I like to do. Yeah.

And then in May, 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. Because 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, blah, blah, blah, blah, just whatever. And then, yeah, I'll probably take it. I'll probably take off May all the way till fall and then maybe tour again next fall.

Yeah. I don't know, man. I just kind of want to shake it up. Your new special is great, too. Oh, thanks. It's very nice. Oh, you're the man. 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 Timberwolves 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 in town 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 Pantagious theater down there Minnesota that's awesome and people are why do you do Minnesota where'd you shoot yours I shi actually

Napleton Wisconsin Appleton great place The first special to ever be shot in Appleton, also the last special to ever be shot in Appleton, Wisconsin. He's about to do the state theater in Minneapolis, where we did bad friends. I love state theater. Dude, that is phenomenal. Yeah, it's going to be fun.

I love Minneapolis. Such a great, great town. Great comedy town, too. Like, underrated fun town. Now, it's not Milwaukee, but it's okay. It's not party town like that. That's party city, USA. We 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 have, we have you know, just much more everything. Wow. 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 next our neighbors. Right. And these guys are just west enough where they're like, guys. And we're like, no, no, no, we got you. We have 10,000 lakes. Unfortunately, though, Wisconsin is 15,000. Yeah, because you guys categorize your lakes differently than we do.

I know 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, and I'll tell you this, I wouldn't categorize your legs the way we categorize our legs because then you've got to 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. You're like, cheese bomb lake. There you go. Who cares? Let the kids do it. No, we like you just fine.

It's Iowa. We can't stand. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Iowa. Don't get upset Iowa. We know you're there. We have wrestling.

We know. Shut up. We get it. Have you gone to Prince's house? I've 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. I never go when it's not the winter. 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, in the winter, we're inside eating and drinking. That's all we're doing. We're not, we're just having a good time getting bombed. Yeah. Endores 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 want to go do the thing? And he's like, let's go. Yeah. And we'll sneak away and go do shit while Bobby sleeps.

the rest of, you know. That's the best. Oh, dude, if I go to a city, I want to see it. Yeah. What am I doing? This is my life. So many times we just, you go into a city and you don't see anything. I don't like that.

You got to make it a point. Yeah, you have, it's your, I think you're going to look back and go, well, that was a pretty big chunk of my life. Right. That I spent inside a, Hilton. Yeah. We showed our allegiance there. Yeah.

I go whatever. You, me too. I don't, I'm not picky anymore. I used to be like, I want, I have to do this. I like, there were 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 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, it happens. I never was that way either, but yeah, now I got, I like a place with like a few extra pillows

because I like a little bit of a leg pillow, a little leg elevation. Oh, you're a leger? Yeah, I'm a huger. No, I hadn't hug. Oh, you had a hug. Yeah, does I pretend it's my wife. Oh, that's not. That's so stupid out of me.

See, what? No, I like to hug the hug pillow. I don't know why I like a side, because I'm a side sleeper, so I like big chunky one here on a neck, and then I wanted to rest my arm on. I like that. Are you always? 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, yucks me out for you. No, no, I wake up being like, where am I? I don't like it. I like that left side. But ironically, me hugging the pillow at night, when we sleep together, we couldn't be further apart.

Like, I don't want to feel anybody at night. Oh, yeah. Dude, we bought the biggest bed we could find because we were like, you go all the way over there, I go here. I don't like body touch night's sleep. I want to sleep away alone.

Yeah. What is that about, do 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. Get out of here. Let's hook up and then get out of here.

There you go away. I got a comment about that the other night from Hillary. It was like, you're still calling it hooking up? It's your wife. It's your wife. I was like, it is still hooking up. But hooking up sounds, doesn't that sound better? Hooking up, so yeah, we hooked up.

It sounds fun instead of being like, yeah. What else are you supposed to say? Well, it's, 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. Yeah, we hooked up. It was great. Yeah.

So like, yeah, yeah, we boned, you know, standard bone. Standard issue bone. You're right. Hooking up, it's more like. like dating your wife. Exactly. See? Yeah.

That's why I like you. Are you married guy? No, I'm divorced. Yeah. Oh, thanks guys. We always do that because we don't know how people feel about it. Oh yeah, no, it's, it's a home. Were you married for a long time?

I was married for like five years. Okay. That's good. 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, 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's 17 and she's rad. And I get nervous now. Like I was cool uncle, but now I know she's, you know, a young adult. So she looks at me as like, loser. Yeah.

Yeah, loser guy. Older loser guy. She doesn't, I mean, is that your car out there in the other? No. What, his car? Oh, is that your car? That's his car. Holy smokes.

Yeah, you like that? That mustache, man. 2010, Honda Accord. Oh, it's an accord. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. By the way, you should see the inside of his car.

my Christ he'll take stuff from the studio go hey there's clothes that came in like we got merch or stuff or 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 you a mobile storage unit

I get that if there's bad parking I'm like I'll do this later he never did it there's stuff I've given you two years ago that's still in there but that is nice if I need like a change of shirt or something yeah it's always there that's the Midwest in you right there he's got a full crossroads

in his backseat. He's a full thrift store in his back seat and your trunk. I could get caught a snow storm and we don't know. You see?

That's the mentality right there. You never know the weather is changing. Here's how you know that he's got too much shit in there is the the rear wheel well

is almost touching the tire now because it's so much weight in the back that it's like you can see it's the trunk has got 800 pounds of shit so it's like leaning back. He's going to and pop a wheelie at some point.

Is your whole front seat just a garbage can? The whole car is a garbage can. No, I'd throw them in the back seat because normally I'll give a ride. I love somebody in the front seats. I'll throw stuff in the back. Okay, okay. The back is pretty egregious. Okay, got it. I got to check that out now. You got to see it. We'll go, but we'll go light it

on fire at some point. We might get him a new car for Christmas. We'll see. Oh, that's really nice. He might deserve it, but we don't know. He's out. It would 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, we don't take candy grays, he's all the lakes,

this whole, he gets a little attitude and I don't fucking like it. He did hammer it. I was expecting a little good old fashioned fun ribbing about why Wisconsin's Barry in Minnesota. And no, I think you grew a mustache and an attitude, is what I think.

We categorize are 10 acres and they do 2.2 acres inside. Damn, he's shut up. He's gone down the rabbit hole on this. He's been, he's been talked about, about this 10,000 lakes thing before. All the time.

He's had this. argument for years. Yeah. But you know what you don't have that you have is Sobelmans. You ever been to Sobelmans? Oh my God. Have I been to Sobelmans? One of the best, dude.

It's so good, dude. Do I know Wisconsin? Do I know Milwaukee Metro. You love a quick trip, though. I love Quick trip. He loves a quick trip. But the reason I love Sobelmans is because they put a full burger on a Bloody Mary. I thought that was one of the coolest things I ever saw.

Full burger or chicken sandwich. On a Bloody Mary. You can, yeah, that Bloody Mary will serve you. I mean, in an apocalypse, all you need is two Sobelmans' Bloody Mary. It's the best. Shout out to Sullivan is one of the greatest. You guys really know what you're doing. They're incredible.

And shout out to the Midwest and shout out to you. Please, ladies and gentlemen at home, please watch the 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. Yeah, it's on Charlie Barron's. Okay, that's the deal. Sometimes people put him on other pages.

I'm always like, don't do that. Don't give it to somebody else. Like they'll put it on a network they sell it to. I'm like, keep it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't 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 in one place. And then Charlie Barrens.com is where they can see you live. Yes, yes, exactly. It's good that you got that too. I got that too. I was hot on it. You don't have to do like a Charlie Barrens livecom or whatever.

No, I scoop the name. You got it. 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 in an argument with McCone. Well, you're going to have to fight with this kid all night. I feel like you could take him. I think I could. Whatever you did to that wall in the basement, just do it with his 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. Unthod. In here, we pour whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk. You were that creature in the ginger beard. Sturdy and ginger.

Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse. Ginger's a fugitive. You only five dollars. for the whiskey and $75 for the horse. Ginger's our hell now. This whiskey is excellent. Ginger, I like gingers.