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Christian Yelich on Milwaukee, Chasing a World Series, Ueck Memories, Playing for Murph, the Beer Chugoff and the Home Plate Charity Concert Returns

Christian Yelich on Milwaukee, Chasing a World Series, Ueck Memories, Playing for Murph, the Beer Chugoff and the Home Plate Charity Concert Returns

When Christian Yelich got traded to Milwaukee he didn’t know what to expect. He didn’t know any players on the team and his car got…

When Christian Yelich got traded to Milwaukee he didn’t know what to expect. He didn’t know any players on the team and his car got snowed in his first week in town. A warm welcome for a California guy coming from Miami.

Since then it’s been an incredible run. He won the NL MVP his first year here, the Brewers have made the playoffs in 7 of the last 8 seasons, he’s made several all-star games and has become one of the most beloved athletes in Wisconsin. Off the field, his Home Plate Charity Concert has raised over $250,000 and is back again this May. Tickets —> https://www.yeli22concert.com/

But the job’s not finished. After experiencing the NLCS twice Yelich is still chasing bringing a World Series in Milwaukee.

On this episode we cover:

The Yelich Home Plate Charity Concert
Getting traded to Milwaukee & winning NL MVP
Memories with Bob Uecker
Blocking out the noise over a 162 game season
His famous beer chug off with Bakhitari and Aaron Rodgers
What a World Series would mean to him and the city
The Murph/Counsell transition and playing for Murph
Favorite Brewers Memories
And more

SPEAKER_00

0:00

Getting traded to to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_01

0:02

Uh I think it was snow it was a snowy April that year. The beer chug off you got into with Bakhtiari and he kind of like peer pressured me into it. He kind of just told me that this is what was happening. So what do you think of the Brewers fans? The atmospheres before those playoff games, how awesome they were, you know, before the games against the Cubs and both sides going back and forth at it, and you know, that's what you play for. We've had so many great moments as a team and with the fan base. Is that something you think about a lot? Winning a World Series? We all want to do it. You know, we've come really close, we've had some really good teams.

SPEAKER_00

0:35

Hey everyone, welcome back to Milwaukee Uncovered. Very special episode today. As you can tell, we've got the NLMVP, one of the most beloved brewers and Wisconsin athletes of all time, Christian Jellich. We went through his big event coming up at the end of May that you're not gonna want to miss. We talked about him getting traded to Milwaukee, his first impressions of the city, and winning the MVP his first year here in the run that they went on. Favorite memories with Bob Euchre, blocking out the noise over a long season, his famous beer chug off with Bakhtiari and Aaron Rodgers, what a World Series would mean to him and the city, playing for Murph, favorite Brewers memories, and more. Super nice of him to come in. Loved having him. Before diving in, I just want to thank our partners who make Milwaukee on Cup possible. We'll kick it off with Nikola, the Midwest law firm injured. Get Nikolay and Russ and the team will take great care of you. That's our friends at Nikolay Law. Drink Wisconsin Bleed Beverage Company, best vodka brandy and canned cocktails in the game, available at bars and liquor stores across the state. And if you're cheering on Christian and the Brewers this season, Drink Wisconsin Bleed Beverage Company is now available in Wright Field at their new corner bar at Amfam Field. Make sure to check them out there and grab yourself an old-fashioned Annex Wealth Management. If you're looking to get your finances together and have a goal that deals with your money, your earnings, your investments, go talk to the experts at Annex. They have an amazing team ready to listen and help you with your personal goals. Annex Wealth Management, know the difference. And if you're enjoying a beer in the parking lot at Amfam Tailgating or in the craft beer section, make sure to check out our good friends at Three Cheaps, the beer Wisconsin drinks. All right, let's dive in with Christian Jelic. Hey everyone, welcome back to Milwaukee Uncut, one of the most beloved Milwaukee brewers of all time. 2018 NLM VP, three-time All-Star. He's led the crew to the playoff seven of the last eight seasons, which um I did some research slightly better than the four playoff appearances, the 47 years before you got here, off to a good start this season. And a big event coming up Thursday, May 21st, landmark live, the Yellow Chone Plate charity concert featuring Isaac Slade, Jake Owen, Nicotine Dolls, hosted by Charlie Barron's, and Chef Adam Pollock will be there in a jolly mood, cooking up some good food. Christian, thanks so much for coming down today. You got it. Thanks for having me. Yeah. Do you want to uh you want to touch on the event coming up? Is this this the uh the fourth year you've had it?

SPEAKER_01

3:20

Yeah, fourth time we're doing it. Um, you know, it's a lot of fun. I think it's gotten better each year, you know, once you learn a little bit more about you know what you want to do or how the previous one went. And uh we're really excited about this one. Like you said, Isaac Slade, former um, you know, lead singer, the fray, Jake Owen, uh the nicotine dolls who have been there the last three years. We love having them. They're they're awesome. And um, you know, they do a great job as well. So we're really looking forward to a fun night and raising some money for some good causes and um you know just hanging with everybody that comes out.

SPEAKER_00

3:50

Yeah, you guys do a phenomenal job. Um Brie can attest to this. I usually don't like going to the the charity things where it's it's a big table with 10 people and 17 speeches and a three-hour day. You you guys do an amazing job. It's a fun pre-party concert's amazing, and uh yeah, it's just a little different.

SPEAKER_01

4:08

We like to make it a little bit different than like you said, like the typical charity event, which you know, there's nothing wrong with you know the dinner and the speeches and anything like that, but we wanted to have it be more of like a fun night out while also doing good and uh just bringing everybody together for for some good music, some good food, and uh just hanging out, having a great time.

SPEAKER_00

4:26

Yeah, and you're supporting um a number of good causes this year. We got the Heartland Farm Sanctuary, the public library, cooking for kids, which the uh the chefs involved in. So join our community foundation, visit Milwaukee. Um why is why is giving back important to you?

SPEAKER_01

4:42

Yeah, it's just it's just nice to give back to the community that you know supports us throughout the year, and you have a great platform uh in this in the city that allows you to do good and bring people together and um you know try to use your platform for good. So that's what we've tried to do. And uh, like you said, we've got a bunch of great causes this year. We we we kind of switch it up uh every year to kind of touch on a little bit of everything. But we're excited this year, we're excited for uh you know the partnerships and um you know it's just a great night all around.

SPEAKER_00

5:12

Um go going back to last season, I don't know if it was with you know every everything with you, because it seemed like it just had like a uh it's kind of a magical year and run that you guys you guys went on. Did it did it feel like it had a a different energy in the clubhouse and for you guys?

SPEAKER_01

5:30

Yeah, I mean it was a good time. We had a we had a really good team. Uh, you know, we got off to a slow start, we were injured, um, you know, a lot of guys were hurt at the beginning of the year, then we got healthy and uh kind of went on a really cool run run with a bunch of different winning streaks, and um you know the the atmosphere in the stadium was awesome. And you know, each team's different, each year's different, but you know, last year was one of those years where it was just a great group of guys that won a lot of games and we did it a bunch of different ways, good energy on the team, and um just one of those special years.

SPEAKER_00

6:02

Was that Cubs series one of the better series you've been a part of in your career? Does it make it more special when it's when it's against the Cubs?

SPEAKER_01

6:10

And yeah, I mean I'd say so. You know, I think you know, any playoff series is important, but um it just seemed like that one was important for a lot of reasons. You know, the the two cities don't like each other, uh the two fan bases don't really like each other, so there was like a little bit of extra stakes it felt like going into those games, and the atmospheres are awesome in both places. You know, here and Wrigley were um great environments to play in, a lot of fun. Um, you know, ended up being a great series. I went five games, you know, they were a good team, we were a good team, and uh just happy that we came out on top.

SPEAKER_00

6:43

So so were we. That was uh that was a fun ride to be on. Um in in the year before that, I I mean that seems special too. Um those shots of of Yuke at 90 years old celebrating with you guys in the locker room. I know you've formed a really good relationship with him. Um do you have any favorite favorite memories or anything you learned from him over the years?

SPEAKER_01

7:04

Uh yeah, but I mean Bob was awesome. You know, I I was fortunate to be pretty close with him and we became really good friends over the years. Uh I spent a lot of time together. I think it was what seven, seven years together. Um so kind of each year progressed a little bit, and uh he was going through some hard times there at the end, but he loved being around the guys and being in the locker room, and uh I kind of felt like that was always his his safe space to to tell stories, be himself. Uh you know, he didn't have to worry about being Bob Euchre, he could just be one of the guys, and he really enjoyed those times. We always enjoyed having him, getting to hear his his stories and his time throughout you know, baseball and then his life and you know, off the field, which you know, late night TV and the movies and commercials, all that stuff, all the people he knew, all the life that he got to live. So I I was fortunate to be his friend and get to hear those stories and um you know just be around him.

SPEAKER_00

7:55

Yeah. Any any main takeaways or lessons that you got from him over the years?

SPEAKER_01

8:00

Uh it was just more so about you know, it was just cool hearing his perspective and the things he got to do in his life with you know, people that you know were legends of the game or or just like cool stories of you know being on set at the movies or things he got to do and just you know, he was in the game of baseball forever. And you know, some of his best friends or guys that he would go out with and hang out with were some of the best players in the history of the sport, you know, and they were just buddies back in the day, just hanging out, being teammates, all that kind of stuff. So I I think that was just really cool to get a hangout kind of like this and listen to them tell stories or go to dinner or just whatever. And you know, anytime you went to dinner with you, it was always gonna be three, four hours because he was gonna tell stories forever, which was awesome. Nobody ever minded, and I always liked getting the opportunity to do that, and uh, you know, I never really took it for granted.

SPEAKER_00

8:50

Did anyone else get a word in at those dinners, or was it was it just youke story hour for the city? No, which doesn't sound like a bad time.

SPEAKER_01

8:56

Yeah, it'd be conversations, but um he would tell stories for sure, and you know, you just let him go and listen and laugh and all that kind of stuff. So I always really enjoyed those nights, and when we got the opportunity to do that, so um, you know, I always realized how how special that was and how fortunate I was to be there at those dinners and be able to hang out with them, be his friend. So um, yeah, something I'll remember forever.

SPEAKER_00

9:18

Yeah. Um, going back before you got to Milwaukee, you were you were in Miami in your 20s, making good money as a professional athlete, getting traded to to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, kind of a smaller market, Midwest, home of the sausage races, et cetera. What was your initial reaction? Did you know much about Milwaukee? Obviously, who had played here before, but probably hadn't spent much meaningful time here.

SPEAKER_01

9:41

Yeah, I honestly I didn't know a whole lot about Milwaukee. We'd come here three days every season, you know. Um, we'd stay at the fister, go to the stadium, play the two night games, day game, and leave. So I I I didn't really know anything about the city. Uh I it was one of the few teams in the league that I actually didn't know any players on the team either. Like didn't have any friends, didn't know a single person on the team.

SPEAKER_00

10:05

Um it's probably pretty rare with how much.

SPEAKER_01

10:07

Yeah, you kind of know each other or you've played with guys growing up and you know, just doing whatever before you even got into professional baseball. But uh, this was one of the few teams that I didn't know anyone, and you know, so had to kind of learn and make new friends and get used to a new place quick because it happened like a a week or two before spring training, and uh ended up being awesome. You know, it was a great group of guys, an awesome team to play for. I really enjoyed getting to know the city and um you know that first year was really special. We had we had a really good team and um you know got close to making it to the World Series and yeah, just just ended up being um something that was really awesome.

SPEAKER_00

10:43

Any uh any culture shock coming here and settling here in Wisconsin?

SPEAKER_01

10:48

Uh I think it was snow, it was a snowy April that year. So yes, yeah, I remember we yeah, we got back from a road trip and there was like our cars were all stuck in snow. Um, so we had to do that, which was different than being in Miami in the software.

SPEAKER_00

11:02

Did you really ever experience snow? Because you I mean you're you're not a ton up in California than in Miami, and usually it's not snowing during baseball season.

SPEAKER_01

11:09

Yeah, not a ton, no. Uh so that was a little different than from you know where I'd uh where I'd come from um in the past, being you know, growing up in California and then playing five years in Miami. There's not a whole lot of snow in other place, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

11:22

But yeah, you guys seem to like it. I mean, call Colin didn't have to move up, your brother um didn't have to move up here. He's been here for what, five-ish? Yeah, something like that. Yeah, he's been out here for a while. From California. What what do you love most about the city?

SPEAKER_01

11:35

Yeah, I'm I just enjoy, you know, it's a great summer city. I I've I've enjoyed really enjoyed playing out here. Um you know, there's the lake, summer fest, there's a lot of stuff going on um during those months when whenever we do get the rare off day or downtime or you know, have a night off after a day game or something like that. It's been it's been really nice just kind of getting away and doing your own thing and um you know just getting to decompress for a little while. So I've really enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_00

12:02

Any um any favorite spots to go to on an off day? Um I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

12:08

I've favorite restaurants, things, things like that. Uh I mean car I'm really good friends with Omar, so kind of pop in and go to carnivore all the time. Yeah, go some places with um you know Adam sometimes or uh wherever my brother wants to go or something like that. But honestly, on off days I like to do nothing because we're always doing something during the season or the day. We have you know long days off the field, so when you do get an off day, it's nice to just chill and and not do a whole lot.

SPEAKER_00

12:35

Yeah. Going um, going back to the first year, you came to Milwaukee, you win the MVP that year, you guys you make it to the NLCS um with a franchise that hadn't had mu a lot of previous success, a couple playoff appearances, you know, before that a while ago. What what was that like and was it an adjustment to all the fame coming at you for for you? It had to be a whirlwind.

SPEAKER_01

13:02

Yeah, it's definitely uh it's definitely a unique experience, you know. I think I not a lot of people can relate to it, I don't think. Um so it's uh it's weird when it's happening to you and when it happens that quickly. Um you know, but like you said, it was a it was a special season for a lot of different reasons and uh a lot of things changed in like two months for me in my whole life. So uh it was just kind of going with the flow and trying to do the best you could with you know what you had at the time. And it was just I really just enjoyed hanging out with my teammates at the time and just you know, playing every night was a great time because we were a good team. We felt like we were winning every night there at the end of the season. And like you said, we got a game away from the World Series and you know, hadn't been to the playoffs as an organization in a little while, and you know, it's now it's kind of become something that you know we've done a lot, and that's the expectation. And um, it's really hard to get to that point of where you know you expect your your team expects to win every single season, and the fan base is you know expects to win now every year because we've done it for so long, and uh you know it's something to be really proud of, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_00

14:11

Do you guys um Yeah, it again it's been crazy, like I brought up in the intro, seven of the last eight years. I remember I think I was going to Marquette in 2008 and the Brewers got CC Sabathy. I don't know if you remember that at all, but it seemed like he was pitching every other day, and it was crazy because I think that was the first time since the eighties in 2008 where they made the playoffs, and obviously smaller payroll, smaller market team. It's um yeah, it's incredible what you guys have been able to accomplish in the yeah, relatively short time you've been here.

SPEAKER_01

14:39

Yeah, well, I mean winning in Major League Baseball is not not easy, you know, winning one game is really hard to do. Um so to be able to do that consistently and and a lot of times over the years is uh and you know a testament to the organization having a lot of great players, a lot of great people. Um, you know, them just doing a great job providing us with what we need to go out and win. Um but yeah, you know, each year's its its own thing, and um it's incredibly hard to do, you know, to be a to be a postseason team and to, you know, make make a playoff run and you know, you don't take them for granted as as players, and you know, hopefully uh we're able to do it again this year.

SPEAKER_00

15:16

Was it um was it helpful that first year to have did any any guys take you under your wing? I know I know Braun was on that roster and he was an MVP at one point.

SPEAKER_01

15:26

Yeah, I mean a little bit. I think it was just kind of you know, I never really looked at it that way. I just kind of always was just approaching it the same way I did any other day throughout my career. Um, it just there's nothing you can do about it. Like it's just gonna surround the the conversations are gonna surround you. And you know, I've always been a big believer in like it doesn't matter if people say you're great, people say you're bad, like it doesn't matter. Everyone's gonna have an opinion about something, but um neither one of them's really right. You know, it's up to you to kind of determine what it's gonna be just because somebody says that you're something, um, you still have to go out and prove it one way or the other. And I I just really just dove into to playing and and try to isolate myself that way of just like focusing on the game and trying to block out everything else. Like obviously you hear it all and you're aware of kind of what's going on, but uh I I really tried hard not to get caught up into it and you know I was aware of like maybe with two weeks left of the season and being like, if I don't screw this up, my life will definitely change. Um, you know, depending on what happens here in the next two weeks, which that's always a weird like realization of like, hey, if I you know don't mess this up or I you keep playing good, like hey, your life could kind of change here in a couple weeks. And you know, after that thought it was kind of just like back to playing because we had a lot to to play for as a team and we were trying to win the division still and uh it just ended up being a really cool year.

SPEAKER_00

16:49

Yeah, have you got have you got better at controlling that mentally over over the years? Because obviously, you know, every season I'm sure you go through stretches like that.

SPEAKER_01

17:00

Yeah, I mean I just I've gotten used to it and kind of just you know gotten used to just blocking out the noise and staying to myself and trying to be um as private as possible and uh just dive into you know the process and you know your teammates and what we need to do as a team and and focus on you know the grind of the season and realize that it's six months and you know people are gonna there's gonna be opinions always. It's just part of being uh a professional athlete. So uh you never get caught up too caught up in in the good ones or the bad ones or you know, the highs and lows of you know people being on the team during the season. You know, we we win five or six in a row, you know, everybody rides a high, talks about how good we are as a team, you know, you lose three or four in a row. Everybody talks about how much you're struggling, and you know, it's slipping away. And that's just the the length of the baseball season. You're gonna have stretches like that both ways. You know, you're gonna have really good moments, you're gonna have really bad moments, and um, you know, you just have to keep trying to get better as a team and navigate those stretches um as best you can because you have to navigate the good stretches too, because you don't want to get complacent or you don't want to, you know, things can change quick in the game of baseball, you know. So even when you're going good, you still have to navigate those just as much as um you know, when you're going bad.

SPEAKER_00

18:14

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SPEAKER_01

19:12

I I just really enjoy playing with the group of guys that we have, you know, and I've I've been in the game long enough to know that, you know, these teams don't stay around forever, you know, and the guys on the team aren't going to be that way, it's not gonna be that way forever. And, you know, see seasons are sacred, so you never want to, you know, take them for granted or you know, wish them to go by quick. So I I just really like, you know, staying present, playing with the guys on the team that you know that are all friends, and and that's not really something that you experience a lot. And you know, in the game, we've been fortunate to have really great teams and clubhouses here, which is a big reason for our success, especially when it's such a long season, you got guys pulling for each other and um who care about winning, and when it's like that, it's it's special. So um you know, I I just try to stay present in that aspect of it. And um, you know, you just go play the season and uh you know you you navigate each situation each day differently, and you know, you look up in six months and and hopefully you're in a good spot.

SPEAKER_00

20:11

Yeah. Um one of the non-baseball related moments I wanted to touch on was the uh the the beer chug off you got into with bakhtiari and seven years ago. In Air Raph, just about about seven years ago. Kind of an iconic moment though when you were um yeah sitting next to Bakhtiari, which I know you're around athletic greatness quite a bit, but being able to take those down in about 0.2 seconds had to be up there with athletic feats and uh yeah, he was definitely better at it than than most people.

SPEAKER_01

20:40

Um God he's definitely better at it than myself and Aaron. Um, you know, I think I probably got second place out of the three of us. You definitely got second place. Did you know that was coming for you or did no? He kind of like peer pressured me into it. Bached it. Yeah, he kind of just told me that this is what was happening. I think I was on the I think I was on the aisle at the time, and you know, I didn't really want to do it because I was I wasn't playing, I was hurt, and it's just not a good look if you're at a basketball game while you're hurt slamming a beer with Bakhtiari. Yeah, it's just not it's not something that you probably should be doing, even though it if it it is really just it's not that big of a deal, but it just looks bad. Um but I was playing, I was coming off the aisle the next day and I was playing.

SPEAKER_00

21:24

So uh so even better slamming beers before put before playing.

SPEAKER_01

21:28

Yeah, I mean, yeah, so it ended up working out. I think I had a good game the next day, but uh I remember like not wanting to do it for that reason.

SPEAKER_00

21:35

I thought I thought you did a pretty pretty good job. Were you nervous before that? I mean not yeah, a little bit because you got a lot of eyeballs on it.

SPEAKER_01

21:42

It's been a while since I had chugged a beer, so um yeah, I wanted to make sure that I was able to do it obviously in front of a a a stadium full of people, and uh especially after he was kind of just rolling through him, no problem.

SPEAKER_00

21:55

Yeah, you've had uh you've had so many great moments in your stretch here. Do any uh do Any stand out to you as a favorite moment with the with the organization?

SPEAKER_01

22:05

Um you know, I think game 163 is always cool just because it was like the first time went in the division for for the team in a while. And my first year here, um, beating the Cubs in Wrigley Field. And, you know, last year's DS was pretty cool. Um, there's just been so many great moments though. You know, play with a lot of great players here. You know, it's definitely the the best era of Brewers baseball, you know. Um just so many talented players have come through here. Some of the best players that have ever been brewers have played during this this little stretch. So try to take it all in. I I I think it's something that I'll probably appreciate more when I'm done and you know, retired and all that stuff, kind of look back on, you know, the career and and and and what we've done. You know, it'd be nice if we could cap that with a World Series here at some point. But um, you know, still been great to play with a lot of you know really talented players and um you know we got guys that are still around right now.

SPEAKER_00

22:59

Is that uh is that something you think about a lot winning a World Series and what that would mean to the four years? Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_01

23:05

I mean we all want to do it. Um you know it's a it's a great goal to have. You know, we've come really close, we've had some really good teams, we just haven't been able to get it done, and you need a lot of stuff to go right for you in the postseason too. You know, just those short series are so quick and you have to play well right away. Um, you know, it's not like the season where you know over the course of the the year everything will even out. Like those series are you gotta go. Um, you know, you have a bad three or four days and that's it, you know, you're out and you're playing against really good teams. And um we've come close and we have we haven't gotten it all the all the way, but uh you know, I think if we were ever able to do that, uh, you know, it it'd be electric and something that you know the city would be it'd be awesome, you know. So that's definitely the main goal. It's always you know goal number one for myself for the for the entire organization and hopefully something that we're able to accomplish.

SPEAKER_00

23:58

What is it like mentally getting knocked out of the NLCS? Because it's like, as you said, so many things have to go right. There's so many variables to make it to a World Series and to win a World Series, and even like win a playoff series, and it's such a special season, but you probably a little gut-wrenching at at the same time.

SPEAKER_01

24:17

Yeah, I mean, it's just I you know, obviously it's disappointing. You know, I I don't you know there's no really other way to put it other than that. Like you're disappointed, and you know, the opportunities to be in that position are it's so hard to get there. So once you're there, you realize like these are those opportunities don't come around every single season. You know, it's just really hard to get to that point. Like I said before, it's really hard to just be a postseason team, you know, and then to get to that point, um, not only for our organization, but any team in the sport, you know, just to get to the the league championship series is is really hard, and to get to the World Series um is even harder, let alone win it. So when you're that close, obviously it sucks. And you know, we've been there twice now since I've been there. We've you know, a couple DS losses, some wildcard games. Um, you know, you gotta be healthy, you gotta be playing good. You know, you know, sometimes in baseball, like when you you just you're just not playing good as a team, you're not playing good as a player, and you know, over the course of the season that's hidden. And then when it comes to the playoffs, if that's the case, like it's obviously magnified. You have a couple days where you're just playing bad as a team or a player, like that's it, you know. So you really gotta lock in and you gotta make sure that you know everything's clicking, and that's why they say like the team that gets hot is the team that it's not always the best team, it's the team that's that's playing the best baseball at the time. Um, so the more chances you give yourself, the more times you can get to that point, you know. Hopefully you can you can get across the finish line. Yeah, it really is.

SPEAKER_00

25:40

If you if you're hot and healthy when the postseason starts. Um speak speaking of the atmosphere, what do you uh you know, what do you think of the Brewers fans? And have you had any um favorite or most memorable fan interactions in your time here?

SPEAKER_01

25:53

Yeah, I mean our fans are great, and you know, especially in the summer when we're playing well, like you said last year was was awesome when we were on those winning streaks and the place was packed out and loud, and um, you know, we're able to win a lot of games for everybody. And you know, I just you know the energy at the stadium is awesome and the team feeds on it, and you know, we we played really well at home. We're a really hard team to beat at home. Um, you know, and and just remember like the atmospheres before those playoff games, how awesome they were, you know, before uh the games against the Cubs and both sides going back and forth at it. And uh, you know, that's what you play for. That's that's the that's when it's the most fun and things that you look forward to. And like you said, we've had so many great moments as a team and with the fan base and um just being able to provide memories for people, you know, I think is a cool thing where you know you understand that it's like it's a bonding moment for for fans and people that attend the games and rally around the team and support us, you know, just as much as we're making memories as players, you know, people that are coming out as fans and and watching the game are are also making memories with their family members or their friends or um whoever they're going to the games with. So it it's just special and you know, when you have good teams and you and and you're playing um you know for a city, that that's what it's all about and and what we really enjoy.

SPEAKER_00

27:09

Yeah. Um, what did you think after Counts left and Pat Murphy got the job? And what's what's made him such a good fit?

SPEAKER_01

27:16

Yeah, I mean, Counts was great. I I really I really enjoyed playing for Counts, getting to know him. Um, you know, he was my manager for a long time with the Brewers. Um we had a lot of great moments together, won a lot of games where um, you know, he he deserves a lot of credit for the success we had early on, and you know, Murph's been around that entire time. And they're definitely different, you know. Counts' personality is different than Murph's personality. And um it was nice that Murph was the one that took over because we were all familiar with him. He knew all of us, he kind of just knew the day-to-day operations, and he's done a phenomenal job. He's he's he really has, you know, he gets the most out of people and players, and uh he's got great people skills and able to relate to people and and get them to be the best version of themselves. And uh, you know, it's no coincidence that we've played as well as we had the last two years, you know, with him as the manager, and um, you know, he he holds a high standard, he he holds people accountable and we you know while also having a lot of fun. You know, it's not always just like super strict and all that stuff, like there's a time to be serious and you understand what he expects out of you, but also uh you know, there's a fun aspect to it and and you know, guys really enjoy playing for him.

SPEAKER_00

28:26

How's how's the turtle doing?

SPEAKER_01

28:28

Uh the turtle's still in Kansas City, I think. He didn't make the trip. Uh I think I think one of the bat boys has him there who is gonna either keep him for himself or find him a new home.

SPEAKER_00

28:39

So yeah, he was there for like a he has not made the trip to Milwaukee.

SPEAKER_01

28:43

He's not no, he didn't go to Boston, didn't go to Boston, didn't come back to Milwaukee. So uh I think he's somewhere in Kansas City still.

SPEAKER_00

28:51

Sounds good. Do you have any uh any favorite ballparks to to play in? Uh Finway actually.

SPEAKER_01

28:56

Finway is one of my favorite. We were just there um a couple days ago. I just really enjoy it there. Um it was freezing this time, but it was in the 30s and windy and um, you know, not as awesome as when it's the summertime and you're playing there, but I still really enjoy playing um at Finway in Boston. Um, you know, but there's a bunch of cool stadiums, but I think I think that was probably my favorite road one.

SPEAKER_00

29:22

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[00:00:00] Charlie Berens: There was a lot of non success. I rolled pretzels at Annie Ann’s. Stocked milk. I think I had more money in my, uh, gas tank than in my bank account. I had one buddy, slept in his closet. You know, I had a minivan. And then I slept in that for a little bit. But you’re just doing it to try and figure out things.

[00:00:16] Richie Burke: You were working for MTV in college. Yeah. And got arrested and They shot

[00:00:22] Charlie Berens: tear gas at us, those flashbang grenades all day, you know. I mastered this move. I’d drive up to D. C., I had to work like the next morning. There’s this Holiday Inn, you sleep in the parking lot. And then you go in the hotel in the morning, free continental breakfast, and then you look around and you see if anyone left a key on the table.

[00:00:41] Charlie Berens: Sometimes they did. You use that key, get into the fitness center, take a pool shower. It was good. That’s how, that’s living right there.

[00:00:48] Richie Burke: Hey everyone, it’s your host Richie Burke, and welcome back to Milwaukee Uncut, sponsored by Central Standard Distillery, produced by Storymark Studios, and in partnership with On Milwaukee.

[00:00:58] Richie Burke: Very special episode today with comedian Charlie Behrens. We get into some fun light hearted fan submitted questions So if you’re wondering where to find a cougar in milwaukee what charlie’s top supper clubs in wisconsin are if he’d fight the milverine His favorite cities in the midwest the best wisconsin marriage proposals he’s ever seen And we dive into some Wisconsin trivia and plenty more fan submitted questions.

[00:01:21] Richie Burke: You’re not going to want to miss this. But before we get to that, we learn about Charlie’s backstory, which I didn’t know anything about. And he had quite the journey from when he started to his first viral Manitowoc Minute moment when he was at age 30, which is when most of us became familiar with him, so it’s a great episode.

[00:01:42] Richie Burke: And before we dive in, I do want to thank him for stopping on. It was when he was between appearances. He was nice enough to come down to the studio for an hour plus. And one of those appearances was for Feeding America, where he’s helping raise money to provide meals to those in need for this holiday season.

[00:01:57] Richie Burke: We just made a donation you can to every dollar donated buys for healthy meals for those in need in the area. So we’ve linked that in the show notes, if you feel up for helping others. So thanks again for listening to this episode of Milwaukee Uncut. And I hope you and your family have a great holiday season.

[00:02:15] Richie Burke: Now let’s dive into today’s episode with Charlie Barnes. I’ve got a Wisconsin legend here with

[00:02:20] Charlie Berens: us today. Oh, jeez. You know, that’s, it’s very kind. Well, definitely not a legend, you know. I think you could probably

[00:02:28] Richie Burke: already tell who he is. Host of Manitowoc Minute, The Bellied Up Podcast, The Kripes Cast, a Milwaukee area native, Marquette University High School graduate, and UW graduate.

[00:02:40] Richie Burke: And UW,

[00:02:41] Charlie Berens: yeah,

[00:02:41] Richie Burke: got the whole deal. Whole deal, um, former violin, woodworker, bicycle mechanic, um, flower picker. I did some of my homework, you did?

[00:02:52] Charlie Berens: I rolled pretzels at Annie Ann’s. Forgot

[00:02:54] Richie Burke: about that one in the intro. At Mayfair?

[00:02:57] Charlie Berens: Yeah. Stocked milk. At a grocery store. I did a lot of weird jobs. And look how

[00:03:01] Richie Burke: far he’s come.

[00:03:02] Richie Burke: Also one of 12 siblings. First off, um, so your first Man to Walk Minute video was released in 2017. Yeah. Went, went very viral, but there was a gap of eight years after you graduated from UW and since that really popped off, um, you worked for several networks. What, what was, what was that period like? From graduating to actually getting that first big break.

[00:03:28] Charlie Berens: Yeah, I mean, uh, you know, it was, uh, probably, uh, there was a lot of non success going on there. Um, I mean, I first, um, graduated, I worked on a film as, like, a PA for a little bit. You know, getting coffee and, like, starting out. Walkie talkies, you know, that kind of thing. And then I, um, after that, on my drive home from that, that was in Ann Arbor.

[00:03:53] Charlie Berens: It’s this film Cedar Rapids. I was working on, it was written by another Wisconsinite, Phil Johnston. Uh, he’s from, uh, Nina. So good guy. Good guy. Um, but anyway, on my ride home, Cedar Rapids? Yeah. With Ed Helms? Yeah. Yeah. You worked on that? Yeah. I was a pool boy, very out of focus, but I was a pool boy. You were in that movie?

[00:04:11] Charlie Berens: Yeah. I mean, I didn’t have any lines. It was out of focus. If you blinked, you would have missed me. But it’s like when Ed’s walking and he’s like, they even got a pool here! Um, wide shot of me, uh, in the deal. So, um, You

[00:04:22] Richie Burke: had to continue working after that? You didn’t get the windfall from Cedar Rapids?

[00:04:26] Charlie Berens: You know, you would think, but no, no.

[00:04:29] Charlie Berens: Okay. Yeah, and I was living with my, in my aunt, my aunt and uncle’s basement in Michigan while I was shooting that. You know, I had to work as a local, um, to try and, I don’t know, they had the tax credits thing or whatever. Um, so I was doing that, and then, uh, you make some money, but I, I, I had bills to pay, so I, I quickly needed another job, those gigs are only three months.

[00:04:52] Charlie Berens: Luckily on my way back, um, I got, um, I called to be a PA at this production company in Los Angeles that did like behind the scenes, you know? Um, and it was just a job. There weren’t a lot of jobs. I was kind of in the recession era. And, um, so I, I just, it was that, or go back to like being a bike mechanic.

[00:05:12] Charlie Berens: So I headed out to LA and I remember I got there. I think I had more money in my, uh, gas tank that in my bank account then. So I, I kind of, you know, um, I had a couple, I had one buddy, uh. Josh Burstein slept in his closet, but he had a real nice closet. It was like a big closet, you know? And he had a mattress in there, so that was good.

[00:05:33] Charlie Berens: Uh, or his couch, or, you know, I had a minivan that I accidentally shot with my dad’s shotgun, so he made me buy it. And, um, so that’s probably why I didn’t have any money. Um, but, um, and then I slept in that for a little bit. You know, it was kind of just like in Los Angeles at that time, you were just kind of working for not a lot of money and um, but you’re just doing it to try and figure out.

[00:05:58] Charlie Berens: So I would, uh, and I think it was good I wasn’t making a lot of money because then I, I was, I would stay late. I, I, cause I had the minivan, I was able to take the lights and the cameras and stuff to different shoots. And then I would bring them back to the office. And then I would, uh, set them up and shoot a reel, which was kind of like a comedy news type thing.

[00:06:21] Charlie Berens: You know, I was very inspired by Jon Stewart back in that day. And I wanted to do kind of, I went to school for journalism. So I wanted to do a mix of comedy and news. They had hosting positions. Got this job in South Carolina called One Minute News, which was this YouTube news organization. And so I started working for them.

[00:06:39] Charlie Berens: Uh, and then three months later, uh, you know, my salary got cut in half because we just ran out of money. It’s just weird economics.

[00:06:49] Richie Burke: So you could live off of your salary for about three months? About three

[00:06:53] Charlie Berens: months. Yeah, and then I got another job. Um, and then I was kind of working in D. C. and, uh, South Carolina at that point.

[00:07:02] Charlie Berens: And I mastered this move, dude. Where, uh, you know, I’d drive up to D. C. I had to work like the next morning. But I had to work the other day. So I like, there’s this holiday inn. You sleep in the parking lot. And then you go in the hotel in the morning, free continental breakfast. And then you look around, you see if anyone left a key on the table.

[00:07:23] Charlie Berens: Sometimes they did, you use that key. Get into the fitness center, take a pool shower. It was good. That’s how you, that’s living right there, you know? How

[00:07:32] Richie Burke: old are you at that point?

[00:07:33] Charlie Berens: Old enough to afford something else, but uh, No, I don’t know, I was 25, 24, something like that. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:07:41] Richie Burke: And then the Mantuak Minute, you were back in L.

[00:07:44] Richie Burke: A. when that happened. How did that come about?

[00:07:47] Charlie Berens: Well, after, uh, South Carolina slash D. C., I went to Dallas and worked at a, kind of in traditional news. And then I just, that gig did not really go that great toward the end. And so I moved out to L. A. Um, they just, the news organization went in a different direction where they weren’t having anchors at all.

[00:08:08] Charlie Berens: Um, so I moved out to L. A. and then I just, uh, cause I knew people out there and I wanted to do something and I didn’t know where else to go. So I went there and, uh, I got a job eventually doing a few different news gigs. Um, doing some red carpet reporting, which I, I hated. I did not care. I, I, I didn’t know who anyone I was talking to was.

[00:08:34] Richie Burke: You talked to some big names. Yeah. I like went back in your old YouTube like Selena Gomez and some of those

[00:08:42] Charlie Berens: people. Yeah. Talked to Selena Gomez, Fifth Harmony, um, who else? Uh, Johnny Depp, I think.

[00:08:49] Richie Burke: You didn’t really enjoy doing that though.

[00:08:51] Charlie Berens: Well, it’s not that I didn’t enjoy it, but a red carpet, it’s like, um, Um, it’s one of those things where like the celebrities don’t really want to be there.

[00:09:00] Charlie Berens: They’re doing the promotion, you know, and, and I, if I’m being honest, didn’t want to be there because I don’t really care that much about what any, you know, what a lot of, I don’t care about their latest film, you know, especially if I just didn’t, I didn’t have the passion, you know, and I think that’s why I was realizing.

[00:09:18] Charlie Berens: And again, that’s, I’m not saying that there’s anything wrong with them or anything wrong with their. I mean, they make great stuff, but I just didn’t want to spend my life spending a lot of time researching, um, things that I wasn’t passionate about. You know, I do a podcast now and I’m always, I’m passionate about like the topics or the people.

[00:09:40] Charlie Berens: And I enjoy that, but I was just doing things. I just need money, you know? And so to kind of keep my sanity, I started doing stand up at night. And I, I was doing this other producer gig at the time and I was like, I’m going to start making a video a week until something pops off. And so I was doing, um, videos.

[00:09:58] Charlie Berens: I did this, uh, this, uh, if Jack Dawson was really from Wisconsin where I changed the voice and that video did well, but people didn’t like follow me from it cause it was just like a voice. It wasn’t really my face. So I was trying to figure out, you know, how do I do something that people will care enough to follow me?

[00:10:16] Charlie Berens: Cause if I could get people to follow me, And then I could get people to come see me do stand up, you know, and I was doing stand up at night and there was this bit that I had about, um, you know, my time in local news where, you know, I had two jobs where, you know, I got, uh, maybe more than that, but my Wisconsin accent always came out and it was always kind of an issue.

[00:10:38] Charlie Berens: I would say some words wrong or get made fun of for it, you know, uh, and so I developed this character based off my time in local news, you know, where instead of. Doing everything people say I was doing wrong and changing it. I just doubled down on it and that was the basis for the man to walk minute And so, uh, yeah, there was this one show I did at the comedy store, uh, where it just murdered.

[00:10:59] Charlie Berens: It did really good. And I was like, oh, that felt so great. But I remember going to bed that night thinking, man, only 50 people saw that. You know, like how, and, and I was working at the comedy store. I was like, um, I was doing the DJ thing. Like I was basically playing the walk up music for. everybody just to get like five minutes, 10 minutes on stage.

[00:11:22] Charlie Berens: Or I was doing these bringer shows where you basically, you, you would make your friends pay to come, you know? Um, and I, I always bought the tickets and gave them away to them to make it easier. But then, you know, a lot of times they still didn’t come, you know, cause If you got to go to Hollywood in the, uh, you know, on a Wednesday night or some traffic sucks and you got paid for parking, it’s still a pain.

[00:11:41] Charlie Berens: So anyway, I was doing that and when that murdered, I was like, cool. But then I’m thinking like my next show is like a week and a half out, you know, I wish I could do something in the meantime. So I made that first man to walk minute and then that took off. And that’s when things really changed.

[00:11:58] Richie Burke: You had a guy in the audience from Manitowoc during

[00:12:02] Charlie Berens: that one, right?

[00:12:02] Charlie Berens: Yeah, I said, is anyone from the Midwest? Bunch of people raised their hands. I says, anyone from Wisconsin? This one guy’s got his hand up. He’s from Manitowoc. So he’s who I named the Manitowoc minute after.

[00:12:12] Richie Burke: What was it like? Did it just fire off right after you posted it? Yeah. And did you, were you like, holy shit, this is actually.

[00:12:21] Charlie Berens: Yeah, I was for it. I almost didn’t put it out initially because I thought people would think, you know, I was making fun of them, which I was, but I was making fun of me, you know, I mean, I was literally making fun of myself. So I figured, yeah, if anyone’s got an issue, like, you know, I’ve lost enough jobs from this thing, you know, so, but it was really truly behind that just embracing, you know, and that’s the thing about, that’s a great thing about comedy is We’ve all got these imperfections and most of our lives we spend hiding them.

[00:12:53] Charlie Berens: But, um, comedy is a thing where you can double down on your imperfections and, you know, kind of reveal the humanity in it. And, um, and that’s what I like about that art form.

[00:13:04] Richie Burke: Yeah. So you’re, you’re like 30 at this point, right? 30, yeah. Were you close to throwing in the towel on comedy or just trying to get into that industry?

[00:13:15] Richie Burke: Or where, where were you in life? Cause you’re still just. Struggling along. Yeah, trying to get your front paying for tickets to try and get your friends to show up scraping by Yeah,

[00:13:25] Charlie Berens: yeah, and at that point I had had a decent producer job So okay, but I was still kidding myself into thinking I was doing what I wanted to do You know, I was always working.

[00:13:34] Charlie Berens: You know what I was always working on Something else I was working on scripts. I was working on something In my free time, you know, I just I’ve been a workaholic since I was a kid. So I just kept going and Yeah, it, it, it took off and I knew cause I put up enough videos that I spent hours and hours editing that did not take off.

[00:13:58] Charlie Berens: I think I needed to do that. So I knew the opportunity I had when this one did take off, you know,

[00:14:04] Richie Burke: And then you just kept it going week after week

[00:14:06] Charlie Berens: after week. Yep. Yep. And so that was the man to walk minute. And then eventually you, you see numbers go up. And then they plateau. Like, people have seen it. They get it.

[00:14:16] Charlie Berens: So then you gotta find something else. And it’s always that series of things go up, they plateau. You, you gotta find something else. You gotta dig deeper. Find something people haven’t seen. Surprise people. You know, inspire yourself creatively,

[00:14:31] Richie Burke: too. Was it, um Is it weird at all or what did it feel like all of a sudden you kind of just working trying to get by and make it in LA and then you become, ironically, become like a Wisconsin folk hero where you’re from and you’re doing roll out the barrel at the Packard games and all this, all this stuff, which is probably like a dream for you as a kid, I would think.

[00:14:52] Richie Burke: Yeah.

[00:14:53] Charlie Berens: I mean, it was something I could have never imagined as a kid. I mean, the, the system at play. Did not really exist until social media, um, became a leveling playing field for if you wanted to make it, um, you, you can do it on your own. You can do what you’re doing. You do your own thing, you know? And, um, that was so cool.

[00:15:19] Charlie Berens: That was so cool. And I, and so I just, yeah, I was in a place where, you know, every birthday you have, you’re like, ah, I’m this old and I haven’t done. That kind of went away of caring how old I was and caring how much I had accomplished Once I got to a place where I felt like I’m doing what I love, you know And things just changed, um, in my life, you know But Um, you know, you still go through things with that where you, you find yourself too many days, you’re doing things you don’t necessarily want to do or enjoy, and you kind of always have to keep yourself in check and keep saying, do I want to be doing X, Y, and Z and what is the reason I’m doing it for, you know, I could never imagined it, but I’m super happy and thankful that it, that it happened.

[00:16:11] Charlie Berens: Yeah. Yeah.

[00:16:12] Richie Burke: Very cool. All right. We’ll, we’ll move on to some more lighthearted. Yeah. Whatever. I mean, congrats on all you’ve done. It’s been cool to watch too as a fan and appreciate you coming down today.

[00:16:21] Charlie Berens: Thank you. Thank you. No, I really appreciate that. And honestly, like I couldn’t do any of this without the humor of Wisconsin.

[00:16:29] Charlie Berens: You know, like a lot of the stuff I’m doing is taking things that is just observing the way people act and whatever. And honestly, I’ve based a lot of it off my grandpa, you know, and then you realize other people will have that same observation. Um, I couldn’t do it without, you know, the people, uh, watching by a long shot.

[00:16:48] Charlie Berens: So, yeah, thanks to everybody out there, you know,

[00:16:51] Richie Burke: yeah, one, uh, one, one thing we glossed over. So, um, you were working for MTV in college and got arrested in, in Minneapolis. I thought that was interesting. Uh, Yeah. Welcome. Welcome to journalism.

[00:17:05] Charlie Berens: Yeah. I know. Freedom of the press. Um, what happened? What? Well, I was covering the Republican National Convention, Minneapolis, uh, 2008.

[00:17:16] Charlie Berens: And um, yeah, I mean, you know, it was protests. This was before a lot of the protests that a lot of people remember, but this was, um, this was before the Occupy Wall Street movement, but you saw sort of the beginnings of that. Um, and then it was just a bunch of people, a bunch of different causes. People protest every, uh, Republican and Democrat convention.

[00:17:37] Charlie Berens: It’s just part of what happens. But on this particular day, my job was to cover the protests. So I was out there doing it. Um, I was actually supposed to be on the convention floor that night. Cause, uh, or, you know, in there reporting, cause Sarah Palin, I think was doing a speech that night. And, uh, but I was still covering the protests, but then eventually, um.

[00:17:57] Charlie Berens: I remember there were police surrounding us or they were blocking off this one bridge and I was with this reporter from the Boston Globe and uh, I turned around and I’m like alright, enough’s enough, you know, like we’ve been I They shot tear gas at us. Those flash bang grenades all day, you know, uh, this horse, uh, police on a horse accidentally run over someone, you know, uh, I think they were fine.

[00:18:23] Charlie Berens: I don’t know. Um, but it was just an, it was a pain in the ass, you know, and people were. Lighting cars on fire, and all this and that. And it had been days of this. Days of covering protests and stuff. So you’re kind of like, alright, I get what’s going on here. But then as we turned to leave, there was a line of, uh, cops standing there.

[00:18:42] Charlie Berens: And, uh, you know, and I was like, what do we do now? He’s like, well, we get arrested now. So everyone sat down, um, uh, and the police came over. And, uh, And, you know, they looked at our credentials and people were making fake credentials. So they just arrested everyone. They arrested a taxi driver who was just stuck in traffic, you know.

[00:19:05] Charlie Berens: But that taxi driver, I tell you what, he’s a good guy because I trade him half my peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the slammer and he gave me a ride back to Dinkytown after.

[00:19:13] Richie Burke: They cuff you and take you

[00:19:14] Charlie Berens: in? Yeah. Yeah. They cuffed you, put you in a bus. The whole deal. Not real cuffs though. Uh, zip ties.

[00:19:21] Charlie Berens: Zip ties? Yeah. How scary was that? I wasn’t, I was, I was fine. I didn’t care. Um, it wasn’t. Um, scary. I don’t remember that being scary. I was just like, Oh, how am I gonna pay for this? You know, that’s what I was thinking. Um, and, uh, yeah. And then, you know, and then you’re looking, I remember seeing the big jumbotron, uh, Sarah Palin speaking on the thing.

[00:19:47] Charlie Berens: I’m like, all right, well, I’m not gonna make that whole deal. Um, but yeah, and then we went to jail for a little bit. Uh, hung out there, got my fingerprint taken, my picture, and um, Yeah, made some friends with the taxi driver. Went, went to Dinkytown later that morning, had some breakfast. Not the worst thing in

[00:20:07] Richie Burke: the world.

[00:20:08] Richie Burke: So you got to say you were arrested.

[00:20:11] Charlie Berens: Yeah, sure, we can look at it like that. Kind of, kind of.

[00:20:13] Richie Burke: Yeah, yeah. All right, let’s um, so we usually do a segment called the Standard Five, which is five, five ish quick questions sponsored by Central Standard, but we have like 20, maybe 30, if you include uh, if you include trivia.

[00:20:29] Richie Burke: Yeah, shout out

[00:20:30] Charlie Berens: to uh, Evan and Pat over at Central Standard, good guys, you know.

[00:20:33] Richie Burke: Very good guys. You’re drinking in old fashioned right now. How is that? Bree, Bree made it. Um

[00:20:40] Charlie Berens: Bree, thank you. You did a wonderful job on this Brandy Old Fashioned. It’s delicious. Thank you. I don’t know if you’re just saying that to make me feel good.

[00:20:47] Charlie Berens: No, I’m not. I would never just say that. What would you rate it? What’s that? What would you rate it? I’d rate this, um, Uh, I’ll give it a 9 out of 10. Wow. 9 out of 10. Cause I can’t give you a full 10. Then you’ll know I’m just, you know, full of it. But no, it’s a 9 of 10. Yeah. You did this professionally for a while.

[00:21:06] Charlie Berens: You did muddle it? Yeah. I can taste that. And you didn’t muddle the rind, which is fantastic. We,

[00:21:12] Richie Burke: um, I don’t know if we want to admit this. We did watch your video, instructional. We want, we wanted to make a good one for you. We got, we got some blackberry brandy from central standard.

[00:21:23] Charlie Berens: That’s awesome. That’s good stuff, man.

[00:21:25] Charlie Berens: Cause yeah. Really good. We did not know what we were doing. I love it. You did

[00:21:29] Richie Burke: a heck of a job. And I’m drinking the, uh, the ready pour, um, cherry mule. There you go.

[00:21:35] Charlie Berens: Well,

[00:21:36] Richie Burke: very good. You’re going very good. Oh yeah. All right, let’s dive in. Um, Sorry, I’ve been a little under the weather. Um, and I’m sure this chair and meals helping me on the, on the bellied up podcast recently, uh, you somehow ended up in a committed relationship with a Canadian woman who, who was looking for a quote unquote, nice log and you just voluntarily threw yourself right in there.

[00:22:01] Richie Burke: Miles really set you up as a, as a fan of the show. I just wanted to, uh, Close the loop what whatever happened with the canadian woman who I believe. Um It was recently single. She was on a date to a canadian sex show and got left Got stood up there and then I kind of fell right into your lap. Yeah, if you it seems like a great catch Are you you know, are you there?

[00:22:27] Richie Burke: Are you single right now? I think we can dive right in we

[00:22:30] Charlie Berens: never got there We never got there She and I you know, so that’s just kind of how it goes, you know Unfortunately, yeah miles did really throw me under the bus there, didn’t he? I thought he was helping you out. No, he’s

[00:22:44] Richie Burke: just, he’s a jackass. She seemed like she could have been a good time.

[00:22:47] Richie Burke: She was,

[00:22:48] Charlie Berens: uh, she was a good time, man. I forget her name, but no, we never connected after that. It’s a gosh darn

[00:22:54] Richie Burke: shame. He was probably high on the, uh, the Hot Crazy Matrix graph. Oh yeah. Maybe in the fun zone or the danger zone. If you had to choose a Mount Rushmore of your favorite Wisconsinites, who would it be?

[00:23:10] Charlie Berens: Um, oh my gosh.

[00:23:12] Richie Burke: Is the four on Mount

[00:23:14] Charlie Berens: Rushmore? Wow. Yeah. So, um, that’s very interesting. Uh, I think he, Bob Bucher just came to mind. Vince Lombardi, um, just came to mind. Oh my gosh. There’s so many great Wisconsinites. We got Liberace here, you know? Um, we, we got, uh, We got Les Paul invented the electric guitar.

[00:23:36] Charlie Berens: I mean, we don’t need, uh, we need several mounts, uh, for the Rushmores, you know, I mean, I just named four there, but there’s way more. Um,

[00:23:46] Richie Burke: top three supper clubs in Wisconsin. Oh, boy. If you want to build two mounts, you can go with six.

[00:23:52] Charlie Berens: Ah, ha, ha. Uh, there’s Wentz’s, uh, uh, Wentz’s Supper Club up there on Lake Winnebago on the, um, on the, jeez.

[00:24:05] Charlie Berens: On the west side of the lake is a great great perch fry there. Uh, old town in Westby. Uh, that’s a fantastic spot. I’ve had dinner there. Were you just there on your stop? I did stop and I was there the last time I went to. I made some old fashions over there. Um, um, let’s see here. Um, Schultz’s over there in Dickeyville, you know, um, that’s not.

[00:24:30] Charlie Berens: Not a bad place. Have you been

[00:24:32] Richie Burke: to Jake’s on Lake Tainter? No, should I?

[00:24:36] Charlie Berens: That’s a good one. Jake’s on Lake Tainter. Here we are talking about Tainter again. That’s a fantastic lake. It’s a great lake. We grew up on that lake. Lake Tainter, huh? Tainter Lake. What was the best Tainter Lake joke you heard? Nobody was joking about that?

[00:24:54] Charlie Berens: Come on. I guess you say it enough. Yeah, Tainter Lake.

[00:25:00] Richie Burke: Hey everyone, thanks again for tuning into Milwaukee Uncut. Before we get to more questions with Charlie, I just wanted to take a second to thank our sponsor, Central Standard Distillery. Charlie and I definitely enjoyed their product during this recording, so if you are looking for some amazing cocktails during this holiday season, make sure to go with Central Standard.

[00:25:17] Richie Burke: One more quick announcement, a couple weeks ago I got roped into a charity donut eating contest with my partner Joe Stanton from Three Leaf Partners to raise money. For the United Way of Milwaukee and Waukesha, and we’re auctioning off some good items, one including being part of the live audience on this Connaughton comes back on, we’re also giving away a Bucks VIP package, I’m giving away some rounds to Blue Mound Country Club, and we’ve got a calves and abs workout led by Matthew Holbrook for you and your friends if you’re looking to get shredded for Spring Break 24, so a lot of good items.

[00:25:53] Richie Burke: That is linked in the show notes if you want to bid on any. Okay, that’s all I’ve got for right now. Thanks again for tuning in. Let’s get back to the show with Charlie Dance. Alright, we got a good next question from Katie Line in Kugel.

[00:26:07] Charlie Berens: Aw, Katie,

[00:26:08] Richie Burke: she’s great. She is great. We’re about to find out how great she is.

[00:26:11] Richie Burke: She asked, Favorite line in Kugel? Human, not

[00:26:15] Charlie Berens: beer. Oh, okay. Um, you know, God. Katie. Katie’s it. There you have it. And that’s going to be really bad news with her sister. It’s going to be bad news with, uh, Dick, you know. But, uh, she asked the question, so I’m going to give it to her. I can’t play that one politically.

[00:26:34] Charlie Berens: By the way, that whole family is a blast, man. I did a show up in Eagle River, and they have a place there, and we had a fish fry before one of the shows. Um, a lot of lineys there, uh, it might have been a little loose on the tongue during that show, because they insisted on, uh, knocking a couple back. Yeah, they’re

[00:26:52] Richie Burke: professionals.

[00:26:53] Richie Burke: They are. You, you drink with them, you’re, it, it’s hard to Keep up. You can’t.

[00:26:58] Charlie Berens: Yeah, I can’t even hang. It’s just in their

[00:27:00] Richie Burke: blood. Can’t even hang. We’ll give an honorable mention to, uh, to Tony and Dick, Tony,

[00:27:05] Charlie Berens: John, Dick, the whole deal. Yeah. I, I, I

[00:27:08] Richie Burke: might push back. I think if you’re looking for a favorite leinenkugel in like a, a, a quick sprint, maybe not the whole day, but just, you know, an hour kind of.

[00:27:17] Richie Burke: I’d probably have to go with John Lyon and Kugel. The guy’s just an absolute

[00:27:22] Charlie Berens: machine of a human being. He is. He’s so, he’s a fun, he was in

[00:27:26] Richie Burke: one of our videos. He’s a fun dude. Okay, um, this, this one. This is a good, this is a good question. So, um, this one’s from, uh, P. Fett, Stephanie Fett and Michael Shepard.

[00:27:38] Richie Burke: Who is known as Sim God because he put a very expensive golf simulator in his house. Okay. Okay. They’re hosting a Packers pot roast and we’re wondering how to throw the best Packers party possible. Um, I’ll just add a little more context. So, I mean, this guy’s gone all out. He has like a putting green in the back, hot tub, balcony, projector screen.

[00:28:01] Richie Burke: And Bree and I were at their Cinco de Drinco party and they had a pinata. And they had some kids around and SimGod picked me up and spun me around, um, he played, he had a stint with the, uh, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and didn’t quite make it and then played for the Omaha Beef for a while in the AFL, but SimGod spun me around and I knocked the pinata over and there were some kids around and candy poured out, some condoms, some Jack Daniels shots, so I mean, I don’t know if they bought the wrong pinata, but then I got cracked in the head with an, uh, Egg by this guy named joe joe vilmo and he said it was good luck in mexico, even though he’s not mexican and so, um, that that’s Just to add some context.

[00:28:44] Richie Burke: So we’re dealing with uh, p fat and sim god throwing a packer’s pot roast and maybe maybe some advice That’s contextual to them and then for maybe the average human being just looking to have some people over for a low key. Oh, yeah. What

[00:28:58] Charlie Berens: are some necessities? Well, I mean, you got to have enough food for everyone, even though everyone’s going to call you and insist they bring something, you’re going to say, Oh no, just bring yourself, you know.

[00:29:08] Charlie Berens: And usually, uh, they’ll bring excess food, so you gotta have enough, uh, you know, Cool Whip containers to bring leftovers, you know, and, um, the Ziploc bags, you know, uh, that you got going there, those can be reused, by the way. So you just wash them out, and then you can send someone home with leftovers. So start stocking up on those now.

[00:29:28] Charlie Berens: And, uh, Yeah, you know, also be prepared for a lot of Midwest goodbyes. You know, if you want people out of your house at a certain time, yeah, know where your fire alarm is and set that sucker off. That’s, uh, that’s going to be the only way you’ll get people, uh, without staying over there. Um, let’s see here beyond that.

[00:29:47] Charlie Berens: Um. Yeah, if you want to get rid of any, uh, meats you got in your chest freezer, you know, make sure you insist they take them home with you, like meet them in the driveway, you know, kind of get into their door when it’s window down, uh, have them roll the window down, then lean in there and hand them the stuff.

[00:30:04] Charlie Berens: And so it’s super awkward for them. To not take it, you know, that’s a good way to unload some, maybe, uh, older moose you have in your chest freezer. So, there’s a lot of different, uh, I, I could go on and on with that one,

[00:30:17] Richie Burke: man. Yeah, I don’t know if SimGod’s got any moose over there,

[00:30:20] Charlie Berens: but Well, you know, yeah, I mean, maybe don’t pick people up at your, uh, deal, uh, cause some might get cracked in the head, you know?

[00:30:28] Charlie Berens: Don’t put condoms in your, uh, pinata when there are kids there. You know, there’s some simple ones from that standpoint, too. You

[00:30:36] Richie Burke: would think. Just kind of a wild card. Yeah. And an athlete. I’m 200 pounds. He just I mean,

[00:30:42] Charlie Berens: that’s impressive. With

[00:30:43] Richie Burke: ease. With ease. Speaking of Midwest Goodbye, what is, what is the best way to just get out of an Get out of an event, just kind of avoid the Midwest goodbye.

[00:30:53] Charlie Berens: Oh, Irish goodbye is the best way to do it. Just leave. You know, that takes a lot though. You’re going to feel guilty. Just power through the guilt and soon enough, you’ll forget you felt guilty. And then that’ll be the only move you ever do. I like

[00:31:06] Richie Burke: that. Oh, this is interesting. Uh, Jordan Kearns. What’s the most Wisconsin marriage proposal you have ever heard of?

[00:31:16] Charlie Berens: Oh, there’s a few. Um, I was actually at this bar in, was it Menomonee? Could have been Menomonee. Um, somewhere up at Chippewa Falls. It was in Chippewa Falls. And I was just sitting there at the bar talking with some buddies and I see this guy get down on his knees, spills popcorn on himself as he’s doing.

[00:31:35] Charlie Berens: And, um, And then just proposes right there, you know, and she, she didn’t even get up. She was like, Oh my gosh, yes. You know, and then he sat back down and I was like, all right, I’ll buy them a drink. You know,

[00:31:50] Richie Burke: did the bar go crazy or was it just a guy selling his popcorn? And the girl was like. Okay, okay, let’s do this.

[00:31:56] Charlie Berens: Basically, no one noticed. Yeah, it was like, the bar was just, I just, I was like, I think I just witnessed a, uh, proposal, you know? Although some people I hear, some people do that as a joke, and then they get some free drinks. That’s

[00:32:13] Richie Burke: kind of low, although just, yeah, no, but a little. I’m not

[00:32:18] Charlie Berens: a little unethical.

[00:32:19] Charlie Berens: I’m not bringing it up that it’s a good thing to do. I’m thinking maybe that’s what they did, but nobody noticed. So it’s a bummers up

[00:32:26] Richie Burke: to you apparently. Any other, any other good ones?

[00:32:28] Charlie Berens: Uh, quick trips is solid place to get engaged. Fleet Farm is not a bad way to do it. You know, you get yourself over there in the, uh, bolt aisle, you know, and then you get down on a hand in the end.

[00:32:39] Charlie Berens: You, you, you. You bring a few different bolts with you and then you say, will you marry me? You know, she says yes. And then you put the bolt on her finger, you know, and if that doesn’t fit, you use a different bolt and then, you know, you finally get the right bolt and it’s like, okay, there you go. You want that in a tungsten or you want it in a.

[00:32:58] Charlie Berens: You know, just stainless steel or should we go copper fitting? I don’t recommend that if you’re actually trying to spend the rest of your life with that person But

[00:33:07] Richie Burke: probably not but it can it can work in wisconsin in certain places. It could it could apparently. Um, Nate, nate moody. Um Currently finishing up his he’s at marquette high grad.

[00:33:20] Richie Burke: Um, currently finishing up his last semester at marquette and his I think bartending or bouncing at deer camp down in the on third street nate moody I was wondering about your Marquette High experience.

[00:33:33] Charlie Berens: Oh yeah, was he? Uh, yeah, I mean, first of all, I was very lucky to go to that school. It was, it’s a very good school.

[00:33:44] Charlie Berens: Um, what was my experience like? Honestly, I was just trying to play music at that time. So I, I was proud, I wasn’t very focused. I wasn’t a guy who really, uh, you know, fell in love with that school and did all the, um, all the things. You know, I was kind of like a bit of an outsider, I think, there. I was just trying to write and do music and stuff.

[00:34:05] Charlie Berens: That’s kind of how I spent my time, but I don’t have any, um, I did the newspaper there. I did that. I was actually the editor in chief of that, believe it or not. Um, and then, you know, there’s this great teacher there when I was there, a great guy, uh, Jim Carney, and actually he really, um, put in me, um, a really good sense of how to tell a story.

[00:34:27] Charlie Berens: He had this class called American Hero, and his book, Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell. It’s all about the cosmogonic cycle and the, the hero cycle, you know? So, um, all Western storytelling kind of is based on that. Star Wars, um, George Lucas basically read Joseph Campbell and made a book to the T to, What that book talks about in the hero’s journey, you know, so I think that’s probably one of the most influential things that happened to me.

[00:34:56] Charlie Berens: Um, they’re

[00:34:57] Richie Burke: very cool. I think Nate could probably use some advice on how to finish up strong on his last semester of college. I think he’s currently single working down on third street. Any. Any advice to Nate? Oh go out strong. I think that’s what he was really.

[00:35:12] Charlie Berens: Oh, you’re talking about Marquette University He went to

[00:35:15] Richie Burke: Marquette High now.

[00:35:16] Richie Burke: He’s at Marquette University. I see you answered the first question, right? I just want to throw in this extra extra part for the

[00:35:23] Charlie Berens: guy, you know, I mean, hey just enjoy it I think cuz you know, everyone’s trying to cram so much in and It’s tough and you know you’re kind of sad that you’re leaving school sometimes, but there’s a lot of great things I had and just take it one beer at a time.

[00:35:39] Charlie Berens: You know And try to

[00:35:41] Richie Burke: pass. Yeah, I feel like you need to have your bases covered. Yeah. Pass your classes, um, maybe take care of yourself a little bit, but other than that, just really enjoy it and soak it in. Yeah, exactly. Alright, Nate Moody, um, Devin Granger, who does all the, uh, content for Pat Connaughton, shout out to Devin.

[00:36:01] Richie Burke: Yeah! Favorite brand deal you’ve

[00:36:04] Charlie Berens: done and why? Uh, I mean it’s tough to pick, um. You do, you work with a lot of good ones. I do. I mean, Quick Trip, uh, you know, Fleet Farm, um, there’s a lot of stuff that I just use in general. But I think probably my favorite has been, you know, uh, working with the Packers, um, you know, and.

[00:36:24] Charlie Berens: We did this one during COVID, which was called Missing Lambeau and it was no one could go there obviously with COVID. So we did this video called Missing Lambeau, which is probably one of my favorite ones we made. Um, you know, it’s the sadness of not being able to go in the stadium. I’m not gonna describe it very well, but that was a very fun video.

[00:36:42] Richie Burke: Very cool. Joe Arado, um, from the Locations Unknown podcast, which has really taken off. He was wondering, Would you agree to an MMA match against Milverine,

[00:36:55] Charlie Berens: huh? No, that dude’s ripped man. No, not at all Does he do

[00:36:59] Richie Burke: pretty good? I see I see I see some roadmaps over there.

[00:37:02] Charlie Berens: Thank you. No, I Look, I know how to fight I’ve done some of that in my past, but I’m not I wouldn’t say like if somebody really knows how to fight They’re gonna kick my ass, you know but if we’re like if I’m walking in the street with somebody else or something and somebody like You know, jumps or whatever.

[00:37:21] Charlie Berens: I would be able to fight long enough for that other person to get away. That’s about how good I am at that, which is not very good. But, um, you know, I’ve, I’ve, yeah. I’m not gonna win that fight, especially if he knows how to fight.

[00:37:36] Richie Burke: Yeah, Milvarent, just on intimidation alone. I

[00:37:39] Charlie Berens: mean, the guy’s, yeah, the guy’s jacked and, yeah, he looks like a guy who knows how to do, do more than I do.

[00:37:46] Richie Burke: Favorite city or town to visit in the Midwest? Let’s do one in Wisconsin and one outside of

[00:37:52] Charlie Berens: Wisconsin. Yeah, um, I always like, uh, I like going to Fond du Lac, uh, that’s where my grandma’s zoo is, you know, so I, I enjoy going there and hanging out, um, and, uh, Fondy, Fondy. Yeah, that’s good. And then, um, outside of the Midwest, um, side of Wisconsin or outside of Wisconsin.

[00:38:13] Charlie Berens: Uh, let’s see here. Oh, the U P man. They got some, they got some great stuff going up there. City wise. Um, geez, you know, let’s see here. Oh, uh, Iron, Iron River is pretty cool, you know. Um, they’ve also got some, they’ve got some good white water rafting, um, up there, believe it or not. Um, yeah, I’m trying to think of the city that’s in.

[00:38:46] Charlie Berens: Dang. I forget.

[00:38:47] Richie Burke: I have a bad memory. The city of the UP. Um,

[00:38:50] Charlie Berens: Well, I mean, you know, I’m trying to think of the city in the UP where we stopped and we did that, but I’m not gonna think about it. But there’s a lot of great cities up there, man. Um, yeah. Jeez. Minneapolis is fun. You know, it’s a good, it’s a fun city, but that’s not a small town.

[00:39:06] Charlie Berens: That’s

[00:39:07] Richie Burke: all right.

[00:39:08] Charlie Berens: Um, oh, um, Bemidji, Minnesota is pretty cool. They got a great state park there. I know someone who’s from there. Yeah, it’s great. It’s beautiful. I went there in winter. It’s

[00:39:19] Richie Burke: just straight north of Minneapolis,

[00:39:20] Charlie Berens: right? Yeah, pretty much. Okay. Maybe a little, a little west of that. I don’t know.

[00:39:26] Charlie Berens: I’d have to look at a

[00:39:26] Richie Burke: map. Okay. Um, Jack from Tosa. Mm hmm wondering any advice on meeting a cougar in Milwaukee.

[00:39:35] Charlie Berens: Oh boy. Well, yeah. I mean, what’s that one? victors, isn’t that Our victors, that’s a quick time. Yeah, I know There’s another one I, I, you know what? I don’t know that I even get out enough to any

[00:39:51] Richie Burke: overarching advice for Jack, maybe from back in, back in the day when you used to go out

[00:39:56] Charlie Berens: for cougars.

[00:39:58] Charlie Berens: I, you know, I, I don’t come, you know, uh, come to one of my shows, you know, uh, we got a lot of, uh, a lot of, uh, good looking gals there. Nice plug. Yeah, come to one of my shows. Tickets at charliebarrons. com. No, I’m just kidding. Um, where to go? I don’t know, man. I don’t know. Where do you go?

[00:40:18] Richie Burke: I don’t know. Maybe a nice hotel bar?

[00:40:20] Richie Burke: Yeah,

[00:40:20] Charlie Berens: that’s true. Good point. Yeah, go up to the Fister.

[00:40:23] Richie Burke: Convention season’s in the fall? Yeah. For Jack?

[00:40:27] Charlie Berens: Yeah, go to the Fister. What’s the name of that rooftop bar? Blue. That’s it. Blue at

[00:40:33] Richie Burke: the Fister. Um, the trade just went in. Maybe that’s a good one. Um,

[00:40:41] Charlie Berens: the lobby of Northwestern Mutual. I don’t know. Oh,

[00:40:43] Richie Burke: I like that.

[00:40:44] Richie Burke: Yeah. That’s not a bad idea. Just stay, stand there with a sign. I don’t, I

[00:40:48] Charlie Berens: don’t know. Yeah. Lifetime fitness probably, you know, in Brookfield, uh, that’s not a bar, but it’s

[00:40:55] Richie Burke: funny you bring that up. A lot of people have, have said that. Yeah. I think that’s where you get solid talent at lifetime fitness for Jack and Tosa.

[00:41:03] Richie Burke: Yeah. Victims. Um, I hadn’t been there. I’ve not been there in a long time. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Alex Main, former employee here. Good guy. Great man bun. Favorite skit you’ve ever done?

[00:41:17] Charlie Berens: Um, that’s always such a tough one. Um, yeah, I don’t know. Uh, there, the one that’s coming to mind right now is when I played a cow and Miles played a deer.

[00:41:26] Charlie Berens: Um, that was just one of those weird ones where we’re just very random last minute. We improvised a lot of it, but it was just cow meets deer, you know, and we dressed up as a cow and a deer and just. Whatever it was super hot and I was an inflatable cow and miles was in this big old deer thing We were both just sweating terribly.

[00:41:46] Charlie Berens: Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know. That’s one that comes to mind

[00:41:49] Richie Burke: boston, john um would love a quest this isn’t really a question, but he Messaged in would love a Boston question as he has been elevating Billy Deuce Ah from Boston on his comedy tours and

[00:42:03] Charlie Berens: videos. Nice. I love that. Yeah. So what what is his question?

[00:42:06] Richie Burke: He didn’t have one. He loves that you’re doing it any comments on on Billy Deuce or just the city of Boston in

[00:42:12] Charlie Berens: general Bill is a great guy. That’s at Billy Deuce 86 on the social medias. Make sure you follow him He’s been in a lot of my videos. He’s a very very funny fella Yeah, definitely check him out.

[00:42:22] Charlie Berens: He’s got a He’s does a lot of music too. He’s going to have some more parody stuff coming

[00:42:27] Richie Burke: out. Yeah. Boston, John, just a good guy. Um, a couple of weeks ago, took down probably 10, 12 IPAs. It didn’t even feel, feel a

[00:42:37] Charlie Berens: thing. Just, you know, they, they, they know how to drink out there too. That’s for sure. They’re, they’re a bit of a different breed, you know, it’s a lot of similarities, but a lot of differences.

[00:42:48] Charlie Berens: It’s just

[00:42:49] Richie Burke: a very jolly mass hole. You’ve got to be around, but you know, mass hole comes out. Yeah. All right, you ready for some Wisconsin trivia? Yeah, yeah, let’s hit it. Okay, I got 10 questions for you. Um, what is the official state beverage of Wisconsin? Uh, brandy. Brandy old fashioned. According to Google, it’s milk, but I’ll accept that answer.

[00:43:10] Richie Burke: Um, official dance of Wisconsin. Polka. Correct. True or false, Wisconsin is home to the world’s largest six pack of beer.

[00:43:18] Charlie Berens: Uh, true. If you need a beer, go here. It’s in La Crosse, isn’t it? That is

[00:43:22] Richie Burke: correct. Yeah What city is known as the bratwurst capital of

[00:43:27] Charlie Berens: the world? Um Sheboygan correct

[00:43:31] Richie Burke: if wisconsin were its own country Where would it rank in cheese production?

[00:43:36] Richie Burke: Number one.

[00:43:39] Charlie Berens: Number four. That’s bullshit. False. According to Who? According to who? According

[00:43:45] Richie Burke: to the internet.

[00:43:47] Charlie Berens: No, it’s probably true. But that’s still pretty impressive,

[00:43:50] Richie Burke: man. It is behind the rest of the United States, which would be one. That’s hilarious. Then Germany and France. Wow. Produce more cheese than Wisconsin, according to the internet.

[00:44:01] Richie Burke: Okay. Allegedly. Okay. Who’s the leading scorer in Packers history? Mason Crosby. Correct. Interception leader in Packers history.

[00:44:11] Charlie Berens: Um, I want to say Leroy Butler.

[00:44:14] Richie Burke: No, who is it? Similar era. Maybe right after Leroy.

[00:44:20] Charlie Berens: Oh, Charles Woodson?

[00:44:21] Richie Burke: Correct. Got it. Charles Woodson. All right. It’s a big one. Who was the one quarterback or I think it was the one quarterback.

[00:44:29] Richie Burke: Anyway, one of the quarterbacks. May have only been one who shared the quarterback room with Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers during the overlap year. Some hints, he’s from Louisiana, he has career stats of 5 touchdowns, 0 interceptions, and a 123 passer rating. God, I

[00:44:48] Charlie Berens: don’t even know. No, no clue. Craig Nall. Oh, see, I still wouldn’t have gotten it, but I, if I had multiple choice.

[00:44:57] Charlie Berens: Have you

[00:44:57] Richie Burke: know who Craig Nall is? Yeah. I played golf with Craig Nall once. Did ya? In an outing. And we got into a playoff to win the outing. And Craig was probably 10 Miller Lights and 5 vodka shots deep on a Monday for it. Good for him. And he goes back in and grabs 2 Miller Lights for the one hole playoff.

[00:45:19] Richie Burke: Uh huh. And I was like, Craig, you’re grabbing 2 beers for one hole. Ha! And he looked at me like I was just an absolute idiot. Yeah. He said, Yeah, one’s for drinking, one’s for sipping and then just drove off. So I’m a huge Craig Nall fan and wanted to work Craig Nall into the podcast. I love that. I love that.

[00:45:40] Richie Burke: Shout out to Craig. I think he’s in Dallas right now and hopefully. Doing great. Nice. Um, last question on trivia, how fast can a red breasted merganser fly? I’m

[00:45:52] Charlie Berens: glad you asked. I know it’s very fast shit. I wish I, I want to say it’s something like 40 or either 45 or 65 miles an hour. 75, a hundred miles an hour, 81, 81.

[00:46:06] Charlie Berens: Shoot. I should have known that. I do. Thank you for that fact. Cause I go for a breast and Merganser’s. I should have known that I’m embarrassed. Embarrassed.

[00:46:13] Richie Burke: I think you got seven out of 10. Hell

[00:46:15] Charlie Berens: yeah. It’s a good rock and roll. Yeah, I see. It’s a pass. There were some

[00:46:19] Richie Burke: tough ones on there. All right. Uh, final question I have, why, why do you choose to live in Milwaukee and did you always want to come back

[00:46:26] Charlie Berens: here?

[00:46:26] Charlie Berens: I love Milwaukee. No, I mean, I’ve lived all over the country and I just, I mean, you know, I, I just like that we have fresh water here. That’s a big win for starters, but also the, I love Wisconsin. There’s great fishing. There’s, um, great hunting, great hiking, camping, all that stuff we got right here. And, you know, good bars, you know, and, um, yeah, my family’s close too.

[00:46:47] Charlie Berens: They’re like family. I shouldn’t have made them like 20th on that list I just put there. But no, I love Milwaukee, man. I wouldn’t live anywhere

[00:46:53] Richie Burke: else. It seems like you got a good family. I watched some of the sisters Cripe cast. Yeah,

[00:46:57] Charlie Berens: yeah. They’re a bunch of BS ers, man. Yeah. Yeah. You can’t take anything they say serious.

[00:47:02] Richie Burke: Oh, all right. Well, it was great seeing you today. Thanks for coming on. Thank you for having me, man. I appreciate you. Thank you for tuning into this episode of Milwaukee Uncut with Charlie Behrens produced by Storymark Studios, sponsored by Central Standard and in partnership with On Milwaukee. If you are not already subscribed, make sure to do so.

[00:47:19] Richie Burke: We’ve got a lot of great episodes coming up, including the Milverine, Dating Advice to Milwaukee Men with a Plethora of People, and then we got world renowned Dr. Raymond Pryor, who works with some of the top performers in the world, coming on for a series in early January, when everyone’s in self improvement mode.[00:47:38]

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SPEAKER_02
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What what happened?

SPEAKER_09
0:04

Alright, I'll give you the details. Um, he broke up with me via text during game two of the World Series while he was at the game.

SPEAKER_07
0:14

I'm not gonna judge him off that, but it is on top of the chicken parmesan, on top of the tailgating alone. I'm like, okay, this is like gonna be a really strange date for sure.

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SPEAKER_09
3:27

Hey, oh.

SPEAKER_04
3:28

Good to see you.

SPEAKER_09
3:29

Great to be back. So many stories yet again.

SPEAKER_04
3:32

Great to have you. And we got Danny, who we met at the umbrella bar when we were at Hills Has Eyes a couple weeks ago, who gave us a nice bomb of something.

SPEAKER_08
3:42

Yeah, you know, we're from Wisconsin. You gotta get those shots in there.

SPEAKER_04
3:46

North Dakota State University alum, like our good friend SimGod. Yes. Also a special ed teacher.

SPEAKER_08
3:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04
3:54

And a bartender at Rack City now.

SPEAKER_08
3:56

Yeah, Rack City, come check it out.

SPEAKER_04
3:59

Which is a just a phenomenal name by our good friend Mike Zimmerman over at the Rock Complex.

SPEAKER_08
4:05

Yeah. Come check it out.

SPEAKER_04
4:08

And Bree is here.

SPEAKER_08
4:09

Sipping a glass of wine. Hey Brie. Hey Brie.

SPEAKER_04
4:12

I just picked up from the mobile station in Walker's Point.

SPEAKER_08
4:15

It's not bad.

SPEAKER_04
4:16

I don't think it's a good one.

SPEAKER_08
4:18

I don't think so either. I just think it's drinkable. It's drinkable. The more you drink, the better it gets. It's a sipper, that's for sure. It is a sipper wine.

SPEAKER_09
4:27

Oh, for sure.

SPEAKER_04
4:29

Danny, what is the best recent dating story you got?

SPEAKER_08
4:33

Okay, so do I start off by saying I have a twin sister? Oh yeah, I do. So identical? Identical. God, okay. Really? This is how we lead into the story, you guys. Okay, obviously I'm single, so I have like those dating naps, hinge, tinder, you know, you name it. Um, so I I let myself go on a hinge date, you know. We went out to dinner, we grabbed some drinks, and we're talking, and we're, you know, you're in that get-to-know-you stage, like, hey, do you have siblings? What's your favorite color? What's your favorite color? Um, all that kind of stuff. And then I was like, Oh, yeah, I have a twin sister. And he's like, Oh, do you? And I was like, uh, yeah. And he goes, by chance is her name Allie. And I was like, Yeah. And he goes, I thought you were Allie.

SPEAKER_09
5:28

You're lying.

SPEAKER_08
5:29

I swear to God. Swear to God. And then he goes, So, like, should we finish? Oh, I go, so should we finish this day? And he goes, Well, I mean you're twins, so you're basically the same person. So it makes it oh my gosh. I know, I know.

SPEAKER_04
5:45

What a smooth line by the street. Isn't your name on the dating app?

SPEAKER_08
5:50

Yeah, yeah, my name's on the dating app. So apparently he matched with her too. Oh yes. But interesting. So he was talking to the both of you. He was talking to the both of us. This little devil trying to get both of you. And he thought it was okay just because we're twins. Apparently, we're the same person. Interesting. I know.

SPEAKER_09
6:09

I would have told the mess with him. I would have texted my sister and said, Hey, come here.

SPEAKER_08
6:12

How how did the date end then? Oh, I stayed. I wanted that free man.

unknown
6:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08
6:16

You gotta do it.

SPEAKER_04
6:17

Was there a second date?

SPEAKER_08
6:19

Oh, there was not a second date.

SPEAKER_04
6:20

How was the date going up to that point?

SPEAKER_08
6:22

Um, it was totally fine. Such a gentleman. Open the door, totally cool about it. And then we sit down, and yeah, I just should not have got to know him.

SPEAKER_09
6:32

Did your sister go on a date with him?

SPEAKER_08
6:34

Apparently they went on a date before. Oh, before.

SPEAKER_09
6:38

I was about to think you were about to drop a bomb there for a second.

SPEAKER_08
6:40

And yeah, I she should have, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_04
6:44

Wait, so he went on a date with your sister and then thought you were your sister.

SPEAKER_08
6:49

Yeah. Like, what the heck? What'd your sister say about this? I told her, and she goes, Oh yeah, I have blah blah blah's name on X, Y, and Z. It's like, okay, cool. He's fun.

SPEAKER_09
7:05

I think this man knew exactly what he was doing. Oh, I think he just wanted some twin action. I actually went too. And I was like, uh-uh, that's not gonna happen. He's like, this is my fantasy, this is my moment. Ooh, twins.

SPEAKER_04
7:17

How many dates did your sister go on with him?

SPEAKER_08
7:20

Apparently, just one.

SPEAKER_04
7:21

Okay. Did anything happen between them or not really?

SPEAKER_08
7:24

I mean, I haven't followed up, but I think I should.

SPEAKER_04
7:27

Okay.

unknown
7:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09
7:28

Okay, we need to know Colorado. Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_04
7:31

Have have you and your sister like tricked any guys before?

SPEAKER_08
7:36

It's funny you say that.

SPEAKER_04
7:40

Have you subbed in for one another or anything?

SPEAKER_08
7:42

Oh my god. I did have a boyfriend once, and I don't reduce, reuse, recycle.

SPEAKER_09
7:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_08
7:48

But she kind of is okay with that. So like we went like the whole dating thing, like I talked to a guy, didn't fully commit, but then she dated him after. So perks of being a twin, but you know, I'm a minute older, so that's all that matters.

SPEAKER_04
8:04

But but he he knew that.

SPEAKER_08
8:05

He knew it.

SPEAKER_04
8:06

You've never like shown up for the other person on something.

SPEAKER_08
8:10

No.

SPEAKER_04
8:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_08
8:11

No. I think plot twist, we should do like a date night, and like I sit down and then go to the bathroom, she comes out and sits down.

SPEAKER_09
8:19

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking.

SPEAKER_08
8:21

I would say if the guy notices.

SPEAKER_04
8:24

I'm all for that segment.

SPEAKER_09
8:26

Can I please join you like from afar?

SPEAKER_08
8:28

You can be the waitress.

SPEAKER_09
8:29

Um my god, literally, literally. Um the man at the bar, the man at the bar bought you that. Your bread is here. Perfect. Here's some butter.

SPEAKER_03
8:38

We we could we could.

SPEAKER_09
8:39

I think we should do that. This is I'm serious.

SPEAKER_04
8:45

Any other good twin stories from you to know?

SPEAKER_08
8:50

I gotta think on that.

SPEAKER_09
8:52

That's a really good one, honestly. That is a good one. Yeah, good thing I don't have a twin though.

SPEAKER_08
8:56

Don't download uh Tin or Tinge, Tinder and Hinge and have a twin story. So she lives here too. Yeah, she's here. Yeah, yeah. So I mean, like, Milwaukee's pretty small, so we like the dating market anyway. So you probably don't know who dated.

SPEAKER_04
9:12

You're used to Fargo though.

SPEAKER_08
9:14

Yeah, a lot of fish picks, you know. Oh my god. And some mustaches and mullets.

SPEAKER_09
9:21

Literally. There you go. That's it.

SPEAKER_08
9:22

So she's on the dating apps too. I'm sure like guys see both of you. And you're like, whoa. Didn't I match with this girl earlier? Yeah, it's so funny though, because like we'll match and they'll be like, wait, do you have a sister? Uh yeah. And it's funny because one of my pictures is with my sister. Okay, so you do have that on your profile. Yeah. It's funny. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03
9:49

Did you guys go to college together?

SPEAKER_08
9:50

We did. So we started off going to college at Winona State. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_09
9:54

And then did you go to my cousin went there dancing? That's a very different conversation.

SPEAKER_08
9:58

And I love it. I lived in um the tall tower. Yeah. Yeah, I loved it. That's okay. I'm actually going there next weekend.

SPEAKER_09
10:04

Really?

SPEAKER_08
10:05

Yes. Okay, girl. And then I transferred to NDSU for a boy. Now my ex-boyfriend for a boy. Didn't date the boy. Thought he was cute. And then I worked at a bar and met my ex at the time. And yeah, now we're back in Wisconsin. Welcome back. How is it being back here? Honestly, I Wisconsin truly has like that Wisconsin nice. Like being up in North Dakota, it's like okay. I could walk into a store and people like would be like, get out of my way. But here it's like, oh, can I help you get your groceries? So I feel like there's probably a little bit more to do in Milwaukee too. Or drink a little bit more.

unknown
10:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04
10:46

That's all we do.

SPEAKER_08
10:47

That's all we do.

SPEAKER_04
10:48

They drink quite a bit in Fargo.

SPEAKER_08
10:49

Oh, I was gonna say, yeah, what is the bar ratio though? Too I wonder for in Fargo if there's more population. There is a lot of bars. Yeah. I used to work at sports bar up in Fargo. I loved it there. Everybody's super nice. And then Christian Watson on the Green Bay Packers. He went to NDSU. Yeah. A lot of trade. He was on the Packers. Yeah, it's cool. Nice. Roll herd.

SPEAKER_04
11:19

Marley, how what's up with your life?

SPEAKER_09
11:22

Oh my god, I don't even know where to begin. First of all, I also lost my voice from game two of the brewers.

SPEAKER_04
11:27

I think you sound better than me on the book.

SPEAKER_09
11:29

Early on. I had a whiteboard for two days. I'm literally not even kidding. It was that bad. I was mute.

SPEAKER_08
11:35

Were you out at a bar?

SPEAKER_09
11:37

Yes. I spent my days. Yeah, I guess. I was down by the third ward like block party.

SPEAKER_08
11:45

Oh, you went to that.

SPEAKER_09
11:46

Yes. I went, I missed the first night. I don't know exactly what I was doing, but I missed that night. Um, I didn't, I went. Never mind. I went. And then I went to Tiki. And then I would just kind of bounce between Taylors and Foys after for like a whole week. I went to Nomad, actually. That's where I my voice came back after a couple tequila shots. I just kind of kept plowing through.

SPEAKER_08
12:10

Well, at least the tequila didn't tequila.

SPEAKER_09
12:12

Dude, no, it didn't.

SPEAKER_08
12:13

No, it didn't. Where went for the Wednesday game.

SPEAKER_09
12:17

Uh yeah, okay. Oh. Tiki was when I watched the the win, and they handed out mini champagnes, and I literally laid on the bar of tiki, and people were doing body shots of me. Oh wow. Period. And that's how it's.

SPEAKER_04
12:34

Welcome back. Welcome back to being single. Body shots of the tiki bar. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09
12:40

Yeah, I have video footage of that, which I'll show you later. And I was showing people for like three days after. I was like, I honestly couldn't believe we won. And I literally did body shots off Tiki off the bar. My favorite bar. Yeah.

unknown
12:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08
12:57

It was in the streets. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09
12:59

And they were trying to round everyone up that didn't stop anyone. No. Yeah. Insane. Yeah. Because that was after the parade. Yeah, I did not make it to that. But I did make the afters.

SPEAKER_08
13:11

I feel like the afters were pretty fine. That's all that matters. Is you made it to something.

SPEAKER_09
13:18

Oh my god. Yeah, no. Um dating life back on the market. That's a whole nother story.

SPEAKER_02
13:25

What what happened?

SPEAKER_09
13:26

Alright, I'll give you the deets. Um, he broke up with me via text during game two of the World Series while he was at the game. Mind you. And he's an older guy, too. Mind you. Thought that mattered. It doesn't. Yeah. He doesn't even own any brewer's gear. Okay. Is he from Wisconsin? Put an opinion that.

SPEAKER_04
13:47

You didn't see that red flag beforehand.

SPEAKER_09
13:50

No, there were so many red flags, and I'm colorblind, so I'm like red is green, green is red. How old? How old?

SPEAKER_02
13:55

How old is he, Marley?

SPEAKER_09
13:57

Um, seven. No, he's 40. He's 40, okay. This is my second 40-year-old this year. So age does not matter, ladies and gentlemen. A man child, that's for sure. Proof in the pudding.

SPEAKER_03
14:08

Wait, so he was at game two. Yeah. What did he text you?

SPEAKER_09
14:12

Oh, he was back and forth first. It was, yeah, I'm just not happy we're done, and then okay, I'll talk to you later. And then, okay, I'm not happy we're done, and then I just blocked him.

SPEAKER_04
14:20

Did you get into a big argument right before the game, or how is this guy not? Nothing being at a World Series game with probably a $4,000.

SPEAKER_09
14:30

Well, I just didn't respond to him for four hours. And then he was mad because I didn't respond to him for four hours.

SPEAKER_02
14:36

After he was a game. There's a lot leading into it.

SPEAKER_09
14:39

Yeah. That was literally it. And then four hours after that, he DM'd one of my best friends trying to sleep with her. And then showed up last weekend on Halloween doing the same thing. So that was fun. Don't worry, she has my back, girl code, but yay!

SPEAKER_08
15:04

Man child.

SPEAKER_04
15:06

So it's we were getting body shots taken off yesterday.

SPEAKER_08
15:09

In a meanwhile, it sounds like probably I recovered quickly. What to take a little breather from?

SPEAKER_09
15:16

Yeah, I'm just back on the streets pretty usual. Yeah, do you and I was playing pool on Pinkfoot last night and I was sick. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04
15:23

Marley, what were a couple other red flags about this guy?

SPEAKER_09
15:27

Um, well, he wasn't as funny as I was. That's huge. Which is pretty rare. No, he I'm very direct in the things that I say, like communication. And he was very soft-spoken and would kind of let things build up before he would say something. And then we would talk about it, but it was more of an attack rather than a conversation. If that makes sense.

SPEAKER_04
15:52

And then he attacked you via text message from a world.

SPEAKER_09
15:55

And then they blocked him because we had a game to win. What are you doing? And you haven't spoken to him since. No, I blocked him even on my notes app. Dude, I've had that happen. I've had a shared grocery list with someone I dated for three and a half years, and I blocked them on everything.

SPEAKER_08
16:11

And all of a sudden, block people on notes appear.

SPEAKER_09
16:16

I see a little notification, and it was like, hi, can you please unblock me and call me back? And I was like, Oh my gosh, I was like, Oh, they were actually communicating. They've evolved from emailing. Wow.

SPEAKER_03
16:25

Did he does he have a good job?

SPEAKER_09
16:27

Yeah, he does. Okay. Like everything on paper is perfect, but okay.

SPEAKER_04
16:31

So he had some good qualities on paper.

SPEAKER_09
16:33

He did. And I the worst part is I knew him for 12 years. So everyone, like for the past three or four months, whoever I got to know, I do like it feels like I don't even know that person.

SPEAKER_08
16:44

Do you think it's a red flag in itself for a 40-year-old man to like have never has he been in a long-term relationship?

SPEAKER_09
16:54

Well, he was previously engaged, but that was like five or six. We both were previously engaged like years ago. Okay, so he they were only together his longest is like a year and a half, maybe two.

SPEAKER_08
17:03

That's what I mean. Is that like a red flag and ends up? A red flag with the eye.

SPEAKER_04
17:07

Are you calling out the muffin man?

SPEAKER_08
17:09

Yes. Not explicitly, like generalized of a guy.

SPEAKER_09
17:15

Well, here's what's even crazier. You know? He's the one that was leading things. Like, here's a floor plan. Let's go tour an apartment together, move in.

SPEAKER_08
17:22

Or is it like a kind of a type of guy that not necessarily like there's so many options out there, like they're not gonna settle down necessarily.

SPEAKER_09
17:33

Now I see it that way. But he's the one that spearheaded this whole thing. He's like, I've had a crush on you since the day I met you 12 years ago. Here's a floor plan, let's move in together. I can't wait to marry you, can't wait to do and I'm like, okay, but how fast how fast did this move? Not that fast. But I was like, I am looking for those things too, but like, and we see eye to eye on that, but like you gotta give me some time here, buddy. You know? And so then he's like, I thought you were different when you're in relationships. I'm like, dude, just because I'm in a relationship doesn't mean I'm gonna stop going out. Like, maybe like minimally, but I had the same problem He was with me most of the time. I don't know what the problem is.

SPEAKER_08
18:07

I had the same problem with my ex, but he was two years younger. What's with these men?

SPEAKER_09
18:12

God I told you, age does not matter. No, age does not matter. Maturity is always the same. Richie, I feel like you're an exception. I'll give you that.

SPEAKER_04
18:19

Well, I've uh we've been together for quite quite a while.

SPEAKER_09
18:22

Yeah. Yeah, maturity. Your maturity level isn't that of a seven-year-old, though. I'll give you that.

SPEAKER_04
18:27

No, very mature over here.

SPEAKER_09
18:29

Yeah. I'll give you like 14 and a half.

SPEAKER_08
18:31

Yeah. I mean, you're mature and like you can have tough conversations or like I have decent social intelligence, I would say.

SPEAKER_04
18:39

Yeah, no, you have very and spatial awareness important. Yeah, and common sense.

SPEAKER_09
18:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04
18:44

Maybe some kindness sprinkled in there, you know, just some not, I'm not gonna fire off breakup text while I'm at a brewer game.

SPEAKER_09
18:50

Dude, who doesn't like it? You're at the World Series game.

SPEAKER_04
18:55

Any anyway, breaking up over a text is like Danny, you're younger. Is that very common? Like that's just like a you you don't do that, at least to someone my age.

SPEAKER_08
19:06

No, I don't think you should do that at all. I mean, when I my ex broke up with me, it's literally we woke up one day and he's like, Oh, I just don't have feelings anymore. I was like, all right, fine, peace out, girls. Oh my god. See you another.

SPEAKER_04
19:21

Who just break it? I'd give that about two notches up for Marley's academic.

SPEAKER_08
19:29

To your face. Yeah. It's insane. I know. Uh literally, it took me 48 hours. I literally packed a singular suitcase, grabbed my dog, packed all her shit up, drove nine hours down back here to Milwaukee because Milwaukee's the best.

SPEAKER_04
19:47

You know, the burst.

SPEAKER_08
19:48

And yeah.

SPEAKER_04
19:49

So you're living with him too?

SPEAKER_08
19:50

Oh, yeah, we lived together. Okay. How long were you together? Uh, about two years. He just woke up. And he just woke up one day and went like a little bit.

SPEAKER_04
19:58

Did you did you see signs of that coming at all, or was it just completely out of the blue?

SPEAKER_08
20:03

You know, I think it's the youngerness, you know. You can't go for those younger boys.

SPEAKER_09
20:06

Dude, it's not. I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_08
20:09

Apparently, it's the older boys too.

SPEAKER_09
20:10

It's all of them. What's the wrong one?

SPEAKER_08
20:12

It's all of them, but Richie.

SPEAKER_03
20:15

There's other good guys out there.

SPEAKER_09
20:17

Okay, well, we're both singles, so they should be playing pool at 12 30 a.m. at high school.

SPEAKER_04
20:22

No, probably, probably not. I was winning that. Maybe some good younger guys.

SPEAKER_09
20:26

Um, we don't want the younger guys. I think age doesn't matter. I think that I am just going off abs for now here and now. I think wish me luck.

SPEAKER_04
20:36

Have you learned anything?

SPEAKER_09
20:38

Um, yes. I learned that I at least I healed, and that's a reflection of them and not me, not to get deep on you, Richie, but yeah. So knowing that. Also, you know it's a good decision if you feel at peace. All of it, like, obviously it sucks, but like it just feels so much better. Now you can go out and take the body shot. Oh, I was gonna do that regardnish. Yeah, period.

SPEAKER_04
21:03

Um, Danny, since you're a bartender, Marvel, you've you've bartendered too quite a bit. Yeah. Um I think our our friend Nate Moody was wondering: is there a right way and a wrong way if you're hitting on a bartender and trying to get her number?

SPEAKER_09
21:18

Yeah, don't.

SPEAKER_08
21:20

See, I I kind of like it. I like to play into it. I'll be like, um, or they'll be like, oh, can I get a shot? I'll be like, how many?

SPEAKER_04
21:28

Oh, one second. See, I'm a complete audience.

SPEAKER_09
21:31

I'm like, get away from me. Really? I'm not like that.

SPEAKER_04
21:34

Oh, great. I'll come out and get you two. All right, we have an audience member, Maddie, no last name who said, buy buy a $12 drink and give a hundred dollar bill.

SPEAKER_08
21:44

Yeah.

unknown
21:45

There you go.

SPEAKER_08
21:47

I wouldn't mind that. Yeah. I mean, if I'm going out and I see a guy with a cowboy hat on, ooh, he can have all my money. Okay, you like the cowboy hat? So A Cowboy. If you can sing.

SPEAKER_09
22:00

I'm thinking he would have been.

SPEAKER_08
22:02

I just get irritated. Or a mustache? Like a cowboy hat and a mustache.

SPEAKER_04
22:06

Okay, so you enjoy getting hit on as a bartender with cowboy hat, mustache ments.

SPEAKER_08
22:12

Is there a lot of them? Mullet or no mullet? No, it's mullets. We need them. We need a mullet.

SPEAKER_04
22:19

Why'd you leave Fargo?

SPEAKER_09
22:20

Yeah, I feel like that's actually a good one. Hey, no, you can find some walkie guys like that.

SPEAKER_08
22:24

We got like a handful of them here. We do.

SPEAKER_09
22:26

You can find them all.

SPEAKER_08
22:27

I guess if you go to the right bar, probably like they hang out. Probably your nearest dive bar. Yeah. Yeah. Probably not at 720 or no, definitely not. You need your dive bar that smells like pee and you can throw darts in play pool.

SPEAKER_09
22:42

Hell yeah, brother.

SPEAKER_08
22:43

Yeah. And there's carpeting on the floor.

SPEAKER_09
22:45

Yeah. But it's like mismatched and stained. Yeah. Scaffetes. Although I would say scaffitis is a high class dive bar. Yeah. Yeah. Pickle vodka shop. I love.

SPEAKER_08
22:56

Have you guys ever had a pickled beer? What? Yes! Put drink a beer, get a beer, and put a pickle spear in it. Oh stop. Oh my god, no. I've had a pickle beer in a can. No. So up in North Dakota, a big thing was like you get a mug of beer or whatever, and you put a pickle spear in it, and then you eat the pickle after, and it tastes like beer.

SPEAKER_09
23:17

I love pickles and I hate beer, but I would still try it.

SPEAKER_08
23:19

Would like that. It's so good. It's like candy. We should try it. That's not a thing here. No, it's maybe it's a North Dakota thing, but it's I was gonna say, like out of Jesus. That's a kind of a big thing I saw pickle beer.

SPEAKER_09
23:31

Do they have old fashions up there?

SPEAKER_08
23:33

They do, but we could call the pickles after the beer Midwest candy. Maybe we're onto something.

SPEAKER_09
23:39

Write that down, write that down. No one take the idea. Yeah. And if you do sell it to us, yeah, for real.

SPEAKER_04
23:45

Harley, you have any do's or don'ts as a bartender. Any bad episodes.

SPEAKER_09
23:50

Okay. I will say the majority of the time, if you hit on a bartender, they do a really, really good job of maintaining, like, they put the mask on and then they take the mask off. So more times than none, any guy that hits on a bartender, like, oh my gosh, I have a chance. No, you do not. Like, you definitely don't. They're just very good at what they do. Aka me. I would have to. And no, I would not like a shot. Just take your beer and go away.

SPEAKER_04
24:18

But you're being polite to get a tip.

SPEAKER_09
24:20

Correct.

SPEAKER_08
24:20

Until they put it on the body. I think the overall question is like, should you be hitting on your bartender? I feel like I mean, you can always tell, I feel like, when they're drunk, you know? Or like, or if they have a buzz. But the only thing is it's like, ooh, okay, give me your body.

SPEAKER_09
24:35

It's like a nature of the job. You're there for conversation, and people like it again depends on the atmosphere. You're either going to a place where you can't hold a conversation, or you're literally going to like a dive bar, and that's what you do. Like you're literally getting paid to be someone's like quote unquote like therapist. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08
24:51

That's what I'm saying. would you actually like give out your number if someone asked?

SPEAKER_09
24:56

No.

SPEAKER_08
24:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09
24:56

I say for every drink you buy, you get one digit.

SPEAKER_02
24:58

You've never done that before.

SPEAKER_09
25:00

No, I've literally for every drink that you buy, you get one digit.

SPEAKER_08
25:03

Oh, see, I met my ex-boyfriend in the bar. He sat in my section. He sat in my section.

SPEAKER_04
25:10

What happened?

SPEAKER_08
25:11

He sat in my section. I nobody had the musk. Okay. He was like, I was like, hey, do you want a drink? And I was, and he goes, Yeah, but can I get that number first? I was like, oh shoot.

SPEAKER_04
25:25

Yes. Oh, he went right for it. He yeah, he died.

SPEAKER_08
25:30

I did. And then we went, we went out the next day.

SPEAKER_09
25:34

I have never given my phone number out when I was working, but did have a thing for DJs. I mean, they're playing the music. I'm having a ball. Why not? You know? Horrible idea. Don't do it.

SPEAKER_08
25:50

Which DJ here in Milwaukee?

SPEAKER_09
25:52

Nope.

unknown
25:52

Nope.

SPEAKER_08
25:54

That is disclosed information.

SPEAKER_04
25:56

Might have been a couple of them. Maybe. Maybe, maybe, maybe.

SPEAKER_08
26:01

Slide out for that one. Oh, sure. I feel like DJs aren't kind of a red flag.

SPEAKER_09
26:09

Kinda. Apparently it's me though, right, guys?

SPEAKER_04
26:12

Well, you're the one selecting these guys.

SPEAKER_09
26:15

Oh, yeah, that was okay. That was five years ago. I turned a new leaf.

SPEAKER_08
26:20

Yeah, yeah, you're a new personal wife.

SPEAKER_09
26:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04
26:26

Alright. Annie, you wanna you wanna come on in? Alright, so we got a friend of the show, Annie, cut coming in today.

SPEAKER_07
26:35

Thank you. Thank you, Roundables. Wonderful to be here.

SPEAKER_04
26:39

So you had a very romantic brewer's date this past summer.

SPEAKER_07
26:43

Yeah, romantic is like definitely one way to put it. Some would put it as romantic, not myself.

SPEAKER_04
26:51

Um how did it all start?

SPEAKER_07
26:53

It was a hinge date, which is you know where it all goes wrong from the beginning, literally. Or hinge dates. Um, but I was going through a just dive in, you know, you never know when you'll meet your person, might be on hinge.

SPEAKER_04
27:09

We like the dating apps. Bree and I are together. Yeah, I feel like dating apps are actually very successful.

SPEAKER_07
27:15

Which one did you guys meet? Yeah, which one?

SPEAKER_08
27:16

We were back to the Tinder.

SPEAKER_07
27:18

We were back in the day.

SPEAKER_04
27:20

That was about 11 years ago at this point.

SPEAKER_07
27:23

Wow. Yeah, no, Tinder would not be an appropriate place to meet someone. We don't hear that too often anymore. I haven't scared.

SPEAKER_04
27:29

I've been there for a while, but um yeah.

SPEAKER_07
27:31

Me neither. I think we would hope not.

SPEAKER_04
27:34

No.

SPEAKER_07
27:34

Um, yeah, but it was hinge. It was a hinge date. Um, was just diving in. He was really nice. Like, I'll start off like right there. He was super nice, you know. He wasn't a bad guy, it was just a strange experience. Um, it was a Monday date, which like as a lawyer is really hard. Like, I am exhausted on Mondays, um, and the work I do is grueling. So I was tired already, and he suggested a brewers game, which is like a lot on top of the Monday aspect. But it's a nice date too. I was like, and he said actually, like, I already bought tickets. He didn't suggest it, I didn't consent, I didn't agree. I forgot that aspect of it.

SPEAKER_04
28:18

But he's a man of action.

SPEAKER_07
28:19

He's a man of action, and again, I'm just like going for it. Yeah, you know, like who knows? This could be the love of my life, you know? Who's to say? So, whatever, went on the date. I said, Um, I'm not off work until five. So I'm gonna meet you there, take the shuttle from Milwaukee Brathouse, shout out. Oh, yeah, carry that drink on, drink before, easy peasy, you know. Um, so I went to Brat House, chugged a drink, chopped it up with the bartenders, which was really like grounding. You know, I'm like, okay, I'm ready for this. He's like, okay, like I've been in the lot tailgating since 3 30. So just like let me know when you're here.

SPEAKER_04
29:05

On a Monday.

SPEAKER_07
29:06

On a Monday.

SPEAKER_04
29:07

What time's the first pitch?

SPEAKER_07
29:09

Oh my god, it was like 6 40.

SPEAKER_04
29:12

So he arrived when they they opened the gates like three hours before.

SPEAKER_07
29:18

He said, like, when the gates opened at 3 30, you know, like he was probably nervous. You made him nervous. I think there are different ways to handle he needed that liquid courage. Gosh.

SPEAKER_04
29:30

I think there's nothing wrong with pre-gaming a date, but three-hour tailgating.

SPEAKER_07
29:35

Alone, too. Oh no, it's self-down. Oh, of course, yeah.

SPEAKER_04
29:39

He drove?

SPEAKER_07
29:39

Yeah, he drove.

SPEAKER_04
29:40

Oh, wow, okay.

SPEAKER_07
29:41

He drove from a faraway location, I will not say, but it was outside of Milwaukee County. So he was just tailgating by him. He was tailgating by himself. He said Gasak was on the way. Exactly. Did he bring food? Oh, that's another little tidbit to it. On the way, he says, I'm grilling chicken parmesans from Sundex. Shout out to Sundex too. We love Sundex. But grilling chicken parmesans. And I was like, oh, okay. Sounds good. Like at that point, I'm on the shuttle. You know, I have my tequila soda in hand.

SPEAKER_08
30:18

And I'm like, love it.

SPEAKER_07
30:21

How about tequila soda? And I'm like, I'm I'm going, I guess, you know. Chicken Parms. Who knows?

SPEAKER_08
30:29

Again, I've never chicken parm at a Bruce Tailgate. No, it's not.

SPEAKER_04
30:35

I got a lot of Italian friends too. I haven't heard uh heard of that one before.

SPEAKER_07
30:38

But it's never been done. No. He's the first of the kind to do it.

SPEAKER_04
30:43

But when you got three hours, why not? Because you have time to make exactly why why toss a brat on there when you can make chicken parmesan.

SPEAKER_07
30:50

Yeah, he served them on white bread too. So with no sauce. Oh, no mixed like marinara or anything. No, so things are just building up to be scary as I'm on the way, you know, on the shuttle. Um and then like I'm walking to the lot and like no tea, no shade. He picks the Molleter lot, which is the farthest from the shuttle drop-off. So it's like a 20-minute walk.

SPEAKER_08
31:16

Why is that one?

SPEAKER_07
31:17

Is that I you have to cross like the big bridge.

SPEAKER_04
31:20

Or you have to go backwards because probably where we usually pop in by the shop when you are like driving or walking, but like not when you're taking the shuttle and meeting someone.

SPEAKER_07
31:32

Yeah, exactly. So I'm like, okay, 20-minute walk. And then I'm like, you know, this is a hinge date. I have no idea what you look like. Can you tell me like what you're wearing?

SPEAKER_08
31:41

You know, it could have been a serial killer.

SPEAKER_04
31:44

Wait, you saw you saw photos of him on hinge, right?

SPEAKER_07
31:47

Yes, but like, yeah, but when you're at a tailgate, exactly. And I'm like, I'm not wearing my glasses right now, but I am like blind. Like I can't, Maddie's face is like a little blurry to me, and that's like my girl. So yeah, somewhere. Exactly. So it was tough. And he just like texts back, black hat, comma, tall. And I'm like, that's very descriptive. Okay, sounds good. I'm looking for like a black baseball hat, you know.

SPEAKER_08
32:16

Did he say like what row he's in?

SPEAKER_07
32:18

Or yes, he said the row, and I was in the location, but still could not find him or his car. It's a maze at those tailgates. It's crazy. And it was a busy game, so it's just like tough circumstances for a girl that was not wearing her glasses and already just like flustered by the situation. The chicken parmesan of it all was extremely flustering. So yeah. So I've I black hat tall, like okay, baseball hat, you know, like see a bunch of brewers' hats, and just like out pops this like tall man wearing like as only I could describe as like an Amish cap with feathers in it. It like was the brewer's giveaway hat, you know, from like October like not German hat. Exactly. Okay. But more Amish. Like it had feathers and it was it was bedazzled. It was bedazzled, which is you know, cute. Um, but no, it was it was crazy. I but still, like I'm a very non-judgmental person. I'm wearing like cow shoes right now, you know. So maybe he just was maybe he's just a unique hat, like that was cool. Yeah, you know, who's to say, I'm not gonna judge him off that, but it is on top of the chicken parmesan, on top of the tailgating alone. I'm like, okay, this is like gonna be a really strange date for sure. This is gonna be strange, but like, you know, it was okay. We clearly knew pretty fast there was no spark, we're just like talking back and forth about like small talk type deal. Chicken Parmesan, this salsa from Sundix that he didn't open ever. That's just sitting on this tiny table that we're eating at. Wait, do you like bread?

SPEAKER_08
33:59

Do you have a picture that you could show us and we don't have to air it?

SPEAKER_07
34:01

Yeah. Yes, I can try to find one in my phone. Was he drinking too? Yes, he was chugging. Oh my god, like the highest IPA alcohol percentage beers.

SPEAKER_04
34:13

Hey, there's nothing wrong with that at all.

SPEAKER_07
34:14

That's because we're it's a Milwaukee thing. I hate IPAs, but like to each their own, but like it was crazy to be drinking like the heavy beer.

SPEAKER_04
34:25

That is not a summer tailgate beer, though.

SPEAKER_07
34:26

That's not a tailgate beer. And this was like you know, peak of summer, like June. Hot, yeah, yeah, toasty. Um, so like normal conversation, you know, and then time to go in, wrapping up, like packing up the stuff. Um, he's putting all the food away in the cooler, and he's like, okay, just one second. He reaches in the cooler, pulls out a carton, a whole milk. Whole milk, not 2%, not skim, and milk alone is like scary, but whole. Like a you know, like one of those papery cartons. Yeah, okay, like a coated in plastic, I think, you know. Yes, a carton. Chugs it. Carton of a paper. And I mean, like, this wasn't just like a swag, you know, like a dosage. This was like he chugged the carton of milk. Like, is this like real life? He says, hold on, like, and chugs it. I swear to God, like, I wish I have so many siblings, I wished my siblings were punking me. But no, like this was real, this was happening to me. I'm witnessing it, and he goes, sorry, I do that so I don't get too skinny. And I'm like, what?

SPEAKER_08
35:44

I mean, the IPA beer.

SPEAKER_07
35:49

Like, what?

SPEAKER_04
35:50

Okay, Annie, so this is this is a tall, tall man with a bedazzled black top hat.

SPEAKER_07
35:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04
35:57

Brewer's top hat, or just black top hat.

SPEAKER_07
36:01

Yeah, I think he said it was from like Amsterdam or something like that, you know.

SPEAKER_04
36:06

A European black top hat. Um how tall was he?

SPEAKER_07
36:10

He was pretty tall. I'll give him that.

SPEAKER_04
36:12

6'6 ish.

SPEAKER_07
36:13

One thing about he was honest. One thing about him. You know, I wish he would have told me the milk thing, but yeah, he was honest. Did you last tall? Did you last the whole game?

SPEAKER_04
36:21

Was he rail skinny?

SPEAKER_07
36:22

He was um, I don't know how I don't like like commenting on people's bodies. Like I was just wondering what the little chicken legged and had like a little bit of a beer belly. So I was very confused when he said by the like comment so I don't get skinny. And like as a woman. Okay, like it sounds good.

SPEAKER_01
36:43

Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_07
36:44

Did you last the whole game though? So I told him straight up from the beginning, like, I have court tomorrow at like 8:30 in the morning. I like I'm going by the seventh inning once the shuttles start. And like I was just weighing like the $50 Uber versus like just kind of making the most of like, you know, going to take 20 minutes to get a drink and then another 20 to get a hot dog and avoiding the seats as long as I can, you know? Um, which is basically what I did until the seventh inning. I spoke to like the really nice woman sitting next to me. And another shout out to him, he did get club level seats, which were really nice, you know, good view. Um, and again, he was a nice guy, but holy cow.

SPEAKER_08
37:29

So, what did you do like after he chugged the milk? Was it just Oh, I was silent. Fast like didn't move. I said, Okay.

SPEAKER_07
37:37

I was like, okay, time to let's go.

SPEAKER_04
37:41

Did he did he burp very loudly or was it like he's done that before?

SPEAKER_07
37:44

Yeah, what's the right thing? It gave like it was a routine for him. Yeah, he was to just chug in with drinking.

SPEAKER_04
37:51

I can't imagine chugging a carton of milk. That sounds like alone.

SPEAKER_07
37:56

Yeah, at our age, that's right. At our age, it would give me bubble guts. Oh, I would have the worst stomach ache ever after that. Yeah, my god.

SPEAKER_08
38:04

I give it to him, like it's like a wasp-muffin' thing. But like a Midwest thing to have a glass of milk when you're like older. I like that's not like meaning it's like people do have like glasses of milk for dinner and when they're older. Maybe that was just the thing where I grew up instead.

SPEAKER_07
38:25

No, I grew up drinking milk with dinner, and my dad would go, would you want to drink with milk or milk? Milk or milk.

SPEAKER_08
38:31

That that's like not totally out of the norm, but like bringing milk to a tailgate.

SPEAKER_07
38:36

Yeah, putting it in the cooler with all the IPA. To a tailgate?

SPEAKER_04
38:41

I'm so bummed we didn't run into this guy in the parking lot for our videos this year.

SPEAKER_07
38:44

Honestly, I wish he wouldn't.

SPEAKER_04
38:46

With the perfect amount of I might need his number, Annie.

SPEAKER_08
38:49

Did he know how to roll out the barrel in the seventh inning?

SPEAKER_07
38:53

Um, I think I that's when I started taking my walk, is which is so disappointing. It's one of my favorite parts of the brewer game is roll out the barrel. I love barrel man. We love the barrel man.

SPEAKER_04
39:03

Did he have more beers in the game?

SPEAKER_07
39:05

Oh, of course. And he like had a mission, which to my benefit had a mission to go get heavenly roasted nuts. And having been to millions of brewer games for my entire life here, I knew that there were no heavenly roasted nuts on the club level. I knew he would have had to go up or down, you know.

SPEAKER_08
39:23

But you didn't mention that.

SPEAKER_07
39:25

Oh, no, of course not. Like, I needed like more time with my friend I had just met next to me. Away from him, my Miller light, and like that is what got me through this entire.

SPEAKER_04
39:36

Did he message you after the and how how was how did you ultimately exit? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07
39:41

Um, he offered to give me a ride home, and I like very politely said, no, I'm gonna take the shuttle home. That was my original plan.

SPEAKER_04
39:52

You would have gotten that car bar.

SPEAKER_09
39:56

Marley, come sit down. I'll take you inside. We're back to live. No, just for entertainment purposes, I totally would just I need to see what this guy's about.

unknown
40:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_09
40:06

I'll put you on it. She's fresh. I'll put you on girl.

SPEAKER_07
40:09

I would have totally just like better than a DJ, probably.

SPEAKER_09
40:12

How old is this guy? Girl.

SPEAKER_07
40:14

Um, I think he was like 35. Oh, okay. Yeah. So older.

SPEAKER_09
40:18

Perfect snuff. A little.

SPEAKER_07
40:20

I mean, I'm pushing 30, so. I mean. Wait, should we go through?

SPEAKER_08
40:24

I'm over 30, so. Wait. I don't know why I said 35 sold. I was gonna say, and um way older. Well, we need like dude, you were younger, so I was imagining like a 20.

SPEAKER_04
40:38

Yeah, someone who's drinking eight beers and chugging some milk 20, 25.

SPEAKER_07
40:43

250%. 25.

unknown
40:46

25.

SPEAKER_07
40:47

But it ended like amicably. I'm proud of you. Um, that milk is crazy.

SPEAKER_04
40:53

And he did he message you after?

SPEAKER_07
40:55

Yes, he did. Um, he said, Did you get home safe? And I didn't respond because again, like I was tired and in shock. Um, I just wanted to like sit with my cat, have a little therapy time with her, you know, um, and then went to bed. And then the next day at like noon, he didn't even give me like 12 hours, you know. Or he gave me a little over 12 hours. Yeah, I didn't text him back, and he texted me again and said, so the date was that bad.

SPEAKER_05
41:23

No, I know. Did you respond to that?

SPEAKER_07
41:27

Yes, and I said no, like it you were really nice, like you were really funny. Um, I just don't the one for you.

SPEAKER_08
41:36

Yeah, like he needs a farmer girl, yeah, you know, someone who likes their milk. Exactly. Crazy. Yeah. Wait, so is he a cowboy? Does he wear a cowboy hat?

SPEAKER_07
41:48

No, he's like the opposite. He's the opposite. He's like a preppy boy. He like was wearing, I guess on top of it, he was wearing like business pants and like a brewer shirt tucked in with a belt. Oh, yeah. Which is cool. Again, like I'm a non-judgment mental person.

SPEAKER_04
42:07

What industry does this guy work in?

SPEAKER_07
42:11

Oh, I don't know if I want to dox him like that. I guess I'll just generally say I tried to make it broad. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04
42:16

I didn't ask what company or anything. Really?

SPEAKER_07
42:20

Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, it was very man sounds fascinating. She's like, you have to. You know, I stuck it out until the seventh inning.

SPEAKER_04
42:28

I mean, he did he doesn't he doesn't sound like uh doesn't seem like an asshole. No or like malicious in any way. He just um seemed like he took in some completely buffoonish theatrics in the in the parking lot.

SPEAKER_07
42:42

Exactly. I mean, that's a lot to pull out, I feel like, on a first date alone. Like maybe that is truly who he is and power to him, but doing all that on a first date was crazy to me. Like, keep the milk for the third date. Keep the milk.

SPEAKER_04
42:59

Question Do you do you guys like the um if a guy asks you to a brewers game or a sports game on a first date, or is that like too much of a time commitment where you can't get out of it if it's going back?

SPEAKER_08
43:10

After me and my ex broke up, yeah, I went on a so I went on a date with a guy, and then I was like, well, I was buzzed, of course. And I was like, oh my god, the brewer's play in two days, let's go to the brewer game. We were at the bubbler, and he goes, Okay, let's go. He got the tickets and we literally went. It was so cool. I love a good brewery.

SPEAKER_09
43:31

Yeah, that's cute. Because if you know more than me, I love the bubbler too. Home run!

SPEAKER_07
43:37

Touchdown.

SPEAKER_09
43:38

But I feel like first dates are awkward though, because you can't really like sit down and talk to someone. Brewers games maybe box games. You just have to like walk around.

SPEAKER_08
43:47

I think a movie date on the first date is the worst because it's like it's silent, you can't talk. It's like what's your favorite color? And we're just watching a movie and you get shut.

SPEAKER_07
44:00

Yeah, no, it is a hindrance for sure. It's a big distraction to be at a sports game. I just also feel like it's kind of a time commitment.

SPEAKER_08
44:08

Oh my god. I mean, like most sporting games are what, like three exactly till like 8 30. So you're kind of trapped too, like in a situation where totally if you were just to get like a drink or coffee or something, like you can kind of easily exit pretty quickly if you know it's going bad. But for a sporting game, you're kind of locked in. Totally.

SPEAKER_09
44:29

But Brewers, I feel like he's tailgating by himself. It's easier to do like the group date.

SPEAKER_07
44:34

Yeah. Oh, totally. Like at that point, if you're tailgating alone, you know, but yeah, that's where the trouble of like hinge and meeting strangers comes in. You can't be like, okay, I'm gonna bring my friends. You bring your friends. Let's just see how this goes, you know. Exactly. Yeah, so it was an interesting idea.

SPEAKER_04
44:58

Danny, what what kind of guy are you looking for out there?

SPEAKER_07
45:01

Oh geez. Um, I don't know. I'm like a hopeless romantic. So I'm just really looking for like it's it's so corny. Like even feels gross, but like just the person, you know? Like, I mean, obviously normal. Like, doesn't it doesn't chug at large? Future husband don't drink milk. Um, but yeah, someone with a big heart for sure. Like I said like three times now, I'm not like judgmental, so I would really hope that in my person and definitely funny. Like, I need someone to crack me up for sure, and cooking is a bonus because I don't know how to do that like quite yet. So it'd be nice.

SPEAKER_04
45:48

Was the chicken parm at least good?

SPEAKER_07
45:50

No, oh that's so disappointing. I mean, like sauceless and I'm white bread is yeah, that's insane idea.

SPEAKER_04
45:57

So it's just like dry chicken with some cheese on it on some white bread.

SPEAKER_07
46:01

Yeah, and breaded too. That's crazy, you know. Incendix makes a good chicken parm, but like they expect you to put marinade. You need the sauce with chicken parm. He was put, oh my god, it was a George Foreman girl. Just like stop. Yeah. So not a real man then. Not a griller. Not a griller, definitely not. No.

SPEAKER_04
46:24

I feel like as a guy, you need to graduate from the George Foreman.

SPEAKER_07
46:28

At some point.

SPEAKER_04
46:31

Okay, well, I I don't know. I'm also not using a George Foreman, though. I haven't used one. I can cook in an air fryer.

SPEAKER_08
46:40

It's like I can buy food.

SPEAKER_04
46:42

I do that.

SPEAKER_08
46:43

Good job. You bought the wine. Yeah, you bought the gas fine. He bought the gas station wine. From the guest. The gas station wine.

SPEAKER_04
46:52

I have other qualities.

SPEAKER_08
46:53

It's slightly above $10.

SPEAKER_09
46:55

Cooking is not one. Okay, cereal. Milk before?

SPEAKER_04
47:00

Annie, before we let you go, we were we were gonna ask the question today. Do you have any um favorite date-night bars in the winter around Milwaukee to get just to get a drink at?

SPEAKER_07
47:13

Um, in the winter around Milwaukee, I feel like vendetta would be fabulous. It's my favorite espresso martini in Milwaukee, and I feel like winter is like an espresso martini season. I haven't been into them in the summer, and I'm like, oh yeah, it's because I'm into them in the winter. You know, they're a warm bevy. They're not warm, but you know what I mean. They warmly make you warm inside.

SPEAKER_03
47:39

That's a that's a cozy spot. That's a good spot.

SPEAKER_07
47:41

Yeah, and vendetta is super cozy. The one in Walker's Point specifically is just super cozy. Um, I love those house and espresso nights that they do too, or days that they do. I don't know if you guys have entered those. Fun. They're super fun. Um, so yeah, vendetta for sure.

SPEAKER_08
47:59

Yeah, that's a good spot. We like going there. It's close to the office here.

SPEAKER_07
48:03

Yes. Oh, yeah, it is literally right around the corner. Yeah, it's perfect.

SPEAKER_04
48:09

Well, that thank you so much for popping in. Yeah. Hey everyone, as you know, the holidays are coming up. You may be looking to treat yourself, or you may be looking to wow that special someone, or maybe even propose like I did to Brie coming up on a couple years ago. Need to pick up the wedding planning. But anyway, whatever the occasion, Kessler's Diamonds has got you covered. I can speak from personal experience as a very clueless guy in this realm. Whether I was just getting Brie gift over the years or the engagement ring, they could not have been more helpful. They have locations all over the state and even in Michigan. So make sure to check out our good friends at Kessler's Diamonds, led by the amazing CEO Diamond Joe. That is Kessler's Diamonds. Let's get back to the episode.

SPEAKER_00
49:02

Hello.

SPEAKER_04
49:03

Zach, it's Richie. How are you doing today? Or tonight.

SPEAKER_00
49:08

Yes, I'm doing alright. How are you doing?

SPEAKER_04
49:10

Oh, we're doing we're doing great. Just got Danny, Marley, and Brie in here.

SPEAKER_00
49:15

What's up? Great.

unknown
49:18

Great.

SPEAKER_04
49:18

What uh what do you got for us?

SPEAKER_01
49:21

Alright, so this is just like a bad date story. Perfect.

SPEAKER_09
49:26

Anyways.

SPEAKER_04
49:28

It wasn't actually a date, but it did it was I think it was a bad date because someone perceived it as a date. Did did someone chug a chug a full carton of milk on it?

unknown
49:38

No.

SPEAKER_00
49:42

Oh no.

SPEAKER_04
49:45

Alright, well, you're making progress here on the episode then. Um what happened?

SPEAKER_01
49:53

So uh so I met this woman uh at a cafe. Um she was sitting there like uh typing on a like a laptop, and uh someone and I were talking about music, and she chimed in that she really likes uh apologies. Uh she really likes the same type of music, you know. It was like, you know, kind of like heavy metal music, and I was like, oh cool. And uh so we were talking, and uh it turns out there's uh I was looking for like a heavy metal bar to listen to music at. And someone mentioned a place called Sabatic, and I was like, all right, that's kind of cool. I was like, you know. And then uh she proceeded to tell me about uh her recent experience. And she said that uh she was engaged and her fiance uh cheated on her and uh also had uh multiple sexual harassment allegations against him in his workplace.

SPEAKER_09
50:51

She told you this upon ten. Okay.

SPEAKER_01
50:53

Yeah, she's yeah, she told me this yeah, pretty good, you know, and I was and then at at that point I was like, you're still at the coffee place with this.

SPEAKER_09
51:03

So you're still sipping it. So you've known each other for ten minutes, gotta continue. Same lattes?

SPEAKER_01
51:09

Yeah, and I was like, and at that point too, I was like I was like, oh, okay. Like I like I alright. And she said it was like, I don't know, three or four months ago that this happened. And uh later she revealed that the person that he cheated on her with was actually her best friend. Yeah, so again, I was like, oh, oh, okay, you know, and I was like, I just was figured, like, okay, I get it. Like, you know, you're going through some things, that's fine. Uh but she still wanted to go to the whole city on fire. And I was like, Yeah, that's fine, whatever. We'll go there. Like, I'll I'll meet you over there, or whatever. And uh so we showed up to this place and it was like a Saturday night, and I was like, Cool, you know, they're gonna have cool music. And uh it turns out there was a reggae DJ.

SPEAKER_09
51:59

Oh yeah, hell yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04
52:02

At Sebatic.

SPEAKER_01
52:04

DJ.

SPEAKER_04
52:05

Sabatic's in Walker's Point, right?

SPEAKER_01
52:08

Let's go. And I was like, all right, that's not you know what I expected, but like whatever. Uh and uh so you know I meet her there, and uh she's she's an attorney. I don't remember what capacity of an attorney she was. I think it was something like business, like I don't know, like a state attorney, I think, or something like that.

SPEAKER_09
52:32

It's your lawyer.

unknown
52:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09
52:35

That's scary. She can defend herself for being a cuckoo head.

SPEAKER_01
52:39

So like uh I was like, oh no, whatever. And then uh so we get to this place and uh we sit down and there ends up being this uh this woman that was sitting next to us who was a judge. Oh no, it's never mind. Sorry, I skipped the part. I skipped the part. When we were when we were leaving, when we left the coffee shop, she said something that made me laugh. And I was like, I was like, ah, that's that's like you say some stuff that's pretty absurd. I said, I think it's funny. And she looks at me and she goes, That's the kind of compliment you're gonna give me? You're not gonna tell me I'm pretty?

SPEAKER_09
53:16

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01
53:18

I was like, I was like, okay, girl I met an hour ago.

SPEAKER_04
53:25

She's clearly not shy.

SPEAKER_01
53:28

Yeah, and like old Indy, you'll yeah, that'll there'll be what coffee shop was this at? It was at uh Haven Cafe.

SPEAKER_09
53:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_04
53:37

Not not pounding espresso martinis either. She was just like, I was gonna say, where did she put in her latte?

SPEAKER_09
53:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01
53:42

No, no, it was it was in the afternoon or whatever or in the evening or whatever. Um and uh yeah, and then she tells me that, and I was just kind of like, and first, first I thought, like, you know, you just got out of this thing. I didn't expect any of this. You know, I was just like, we're just gonna go hang out at sabbatic, it's whatever. Like, I didn't wasn't thinking about even being a date. But uh anyway, uh, you know, we get to sabbatic then and uh we sit down and there's a woman at the bar who turns out to be a judge for Milwaukee County or some such thing. And uh and so this woman who was an attorney is sitting next to the judge, and they just start talking like shop, I guess. Right? And like I just disappeared basically from their from her attention. Like I was just sitting there, she didn't say anything to me, or she didn't like hardly even look at me or whatever. And I was like, whatever, I didn't really care. I'm like, I'm just feeling the vibe, never been this place, just kind of checking things out. Here's some bullshit movie on TV or the TV is I'm like, whatever. I'm just hanging out and it's just like for an inordinate amount of time, like I don't know, like 20 minutes or something, she's just talking to this woman. And uh and then she finally like looks at me and gets my attention and then she grabs my arm and bites the back of my arm. She's like, that was hot, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_09
55:14

But uh so she took a bite out of you?

SPEAKER_01
55:16

Yeah, she's like, yeah, she just did like this little bite on my arm, and I was like, it's not like we were having vibes or anything. She ignored me for like 20 straight minutes.

SPEAKER_08
55:26

She just turns around and goes, okay, uh she wait, she's a piranha, nom nom nom. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01
55:34

She's like, Yeah, that was hot, right? That was like that was yeah, and then later I just how hard was the bite?

SPEAKER_04
55:44

Was it like a little nibble or was it like the bampi?

SPEAKER_09
55:47

The bruise.

SPEAKER_01
55:48

But it was, you know, she, you know, I just you could feel it.

SPEAKER_09
55:51

Okay, but what happened, like what happened after that? Like, how what happened? You were like, okay, wow.

SPEAKER_01
55:56

Yeah. Then she went back to talking to this woman, and then I just I was just like, I just left, and I was like, all right, I'll see you later.

SPEAKER_04
56:05

Wow.

SPEAKER_01
56:05

Well, good thing you got out of there.

SPEAKER_04
56:07

Wait, did this all happen in the same day?

SPEAKER_01
56:09

It did. It happened. This was like within a few, like a span of hours.

unknown
56:14

Did he did he give her a number?

SPEAKER_04
56:16

Yeah, did you get it? Do you have her number? Was there any follow-up after this? So she's just gone.

SPEAKER_01
56:24

She's out there biting someone else.

SPEAKER_09
56:28

Oh my god. Wait, so you left the cafe and went straight to the bar?

SPEAKER_01
56:34

Yeah, we were at the cafe, you know, hanging out for a while. Yeah, and then I met her at this bar.

SPEAKER_09
56:38

Minus the biting. Minus the biting.

SPEAKER_01
56:42

Yeah, and then it just led to, you know, uh you know, her her teeth on my body.

SPEAKER_08
56:48

I'm so happy you got out of that alive. Yeah, yeah, at least she didn't eat you alive. How?

SPEAKER_04
56:56

Okay, might have dodged a bullet there.

SPEAKER_01
57:00

I think so.

SPEAKER_00
57:01

I think so. Yeah, I was like, wow.

SPEAKER_01
57:06

Yeah, having all that stuff happen to you right away and then like doing that, you're kind of like, I didn't like I don't know. Some people think something they they they they really think something's going someplace when it clearly isn't.

SPEAKER_09
57:18

It's called delusion. Yes, yeah. Are you sure you don't mean delicious? Yeah, she's got those good views for you.

SPEAKER_04
57:26

When you guys just gone up and bit a guy's arm before.

SPEAKER_09
57:29

Yeah, yeah. Never.

SPEAKER_04
57:31

No. Also, uh never happened to me before.

SPEAKER_09
57:36

No, that's weird. Maybe I should start doing that. I am Marley.

SPEAKER_04
57:40

I mean, you know, maybe that's why we're both single, Marley, because we don't bite people.

SPEAKER_08
57:44

You know what?

SPEAKER_09
57:45

I'm gonna do that to my guy friends just for fun.

SPEAKER_04
57:47

I think you should and see their reaction. We can I know just what we're all about at Milwaukee, bringing the community together.

SPEAKER_09
57:54

Um bite a chance.

SPEAKER_04
57:56

I mean, the the thing is, do you know if she just went up and did that? It's definitely not the first time she's done that either. That's what that's probably her.

SPEAKER_08
58:03

But I also think like she probably had a guy that enjoyed her biting him. So she thinks that guy's well enough enough to ask for her.

SPEAKER_04
58:13

Maybe he really enjoyed the bite.

SPEAKER_08
58:15

So I think there are guys out there that enjoy some bite marks. Yeah, probably not like a full.

SPEAKER_03
58:20

Yeah, but then it's situational.

SPEAKER_09
58:22

You know what I mean? Like you can't just walk up to someone and say a crunch. Oh man.

SPEAKER_01
58:29

If this gets out, if this well, if this gets out too, other people might call in with the other people, other victims.

SPEAKER_04
58:35

Yes, if there's any other victims out there, please message Milwaukee on cut on Instagram.

SPEAKER_09
58:40

One bite wonder. I would the one bite one, one bite wonder. One bite wonder Milwaukee strikes again.

SPEAKER_04
58:47

How did how did you feel mentally after getting your arm bit? What was going through your head?

SPEAKER_09
58:51

I would have just cried laughing. I was, I was, I was confused.

SPEAKER_08
58:57

You can't take that seriously.

SPEAKER_04
58:58

You you didn't you didn't feel harassed. You didn't you also didn't think you it was funny, you were just kind of bamboozled by the situation.

SPEAKER_01
59:05

Yeah, I mean, I did it was uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_04
59:09

Yeah, I would say so.

SPEAKER_01
59:10

Yeah, it was like I wouldn't bite a woman on the arm like that.

SPEAKER_08
59:15

What if she asked though? If she asked you to bite her, would you bite her?

SPEAKER_01
59:19

If you if I was asked and give her permission, I suppose. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09
59:23

No, it would be even more weird. Just like turns around after 20 minutes not saying anything. Hey, can I bite your arm? Yeah, hey, some people like biting. Yeah, I would have said that situational boo. Situational.

SPEAKER_04
59:33

Oh man.

SPEAKER_09
59:34

This is not one of those any any anything else.

SPEAKER_04
59:37

That's that's a good one.

SPEAKER_01
59:41

Holy crap.

SPEAKER_04
59:43

No, no, I don't think that's that's uh nothing tops that one. Tough to do.

SPEAKER_01
59:51

Yeah, the bite really makes it, it really brings it together.

SPEAKER_04
59:56

The sabbatic vampire is out there somewhere. Call any other victims, please be a Milwaukee uncut. We need to hear from you.

SPEAKER_06
1:00:04

We should make t-shirts.

SPEAKER_04
1:00:07

What How old was she about ballpark?

SPEAKER_00
1:00:11

Uh she was probably 30. Probably 30.

SPEAKER_04
1:00:17

Okay, okay, so was she attractive?

SPEAKER_00
1:00:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04
1:00:23

All right. The sabbatic vampire.

SPEAKER_09
1:00:27

Yeah. Like, that was uh, she's decent. Decent enough to hang out with her.

SPEAKER_04
1:00:33

Decent enough to get bitten.

SPEAKER_09
1:00:35

To get bitten by.

SPEAKER_04
1:00:37

Gem of the week, the sabbatic vampire. Oh man. All right. Well, then, thank you so much for the calls. Good hearing from you.

SPEAKER_00
1:00:47

Yeah, likewise. Thank you very much.

SPEAKER_04
1:00:49

Absolutely. Take care.

unknown
1:00:52

Bye.

SPEAKER_09
1:00:56

That was awesome. She is a piranha. Dude, she's something.

SPEAKER_08
1:01:01

She's like cannibal. Cannibal.

SPEAKER_09
1:01:02

She might just be like a bite or aggression because sometimes I will say I'm a fan of the meet someone and just like, hey, yeah, let's go hang out and go here, kind of thing, because that's how I am.

SPEAKER_08
1:01:13

Yeah, I feel like that's like nice to be spontaneous. Yeah, like where the wind carries you, but also you don't know who you're gonna end up with or correct, but based on her story. armed or not. Yeah, you gotta stay in a public place.

SPEAKER_09
1:01:28

So she bit him right in public, too.

SPEAKER_04
1:01:30

Yeah, she just went out and got him.

SPEAKER_08
1:01:32

There's no safety. It's like a Jeffrey Dahmer, you know, like Milwaukee. Maybe she just thought he was super cute, like cuteness aggression. He's so cute, I just wanna bite something. Yeah, just but like a like sometimes I want to do it. Is that the right term? Probably not.

SPEAKER_09
1:01:50

Yeah, you know, like our dogs, like when they get excited, they like do this. Yeah, she's kind of like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04
1:01:55

Okay, before we get into uh winter winter date bars, should we get some feedback on whether or not we got propositioned on Instagram?

SPEAKER_09
1:02:04

Oh my gosh, please, let's do it. Read it.

SPEAKER_04
1:02:07

Okay, so we got uh a friendly message on a weekday last week at 10 p.m. We'll read the whole thing.

SPEAKER_09
1:02:17

At 10 p.m.

SPEAKER_04
1:02:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_09
1:02:19

Oh, that makes it even different.

SPEAKER_04
1:02:21

During the brewer's run.

SPEAKER_09
1:02:22

So they were drunk.

SPEAKER_04
1:02:23

Maybe around when you got broken up with.

SPEAKER_09
1:02:26

So was it on Snap? I didn't hear that. Yeah, I think it was. No, it was not on Snap. No, mine was answering Saturday.

SPEAKER_04
1:02:32

This this was during a different game. And I got these these people seem very nice, so I don't I'm not gonna give many details, but um multiple.

SPEAKER_08
1:02:41

It was just one person that messaged, but yeah, oh no, no, this was definitely two people.

SPEAKER_04
1:02:47

Okay. You two are the best. All caps, best exclamation point. Thanks for all your work. Let's go, brewers. Some more exclamation points. Couple a blue heart, yellow heart, heart face, kiss face. My husband and I would love to meet you two. We have a suite at a hotel. I won't name the hotel. We'll just call it hotel at hotel next Monday through Thursday, and are hoping for the parade to fall on one of those days. Feel free to join us on one or all of those days to celebrate the brewer's win. Then she sent a photo of them?

SPEAKER_09
1:03:34

Yes.

SPEAKER_04
1:03:36

I have it right here. And then and then there was another message, like shortly after.

SPEAKER_06
1:03:44

A follow-up? Yeah. This is where continuation.

SPEAKER_04
1:03:48

Oh no, this is interesting. They were separated by 37 minutes. So not like a day.

SPEAKER_09
1:03:53

She was thinking about it.

SPEAKER_04
1:03:54

But not an intro an intentional continuation. thought thought about it for a half hour once uh Didn't respond on the first one. Um also we will be staying at hotel this Thursday through Sunday. We have a okay, so they have a suite the next week. Okay, so we'll be staying at the hotel this Thursday through Sunday. We have a basic king, not a suite, but still a great place to party. Let us know if you'll be around. Or there was another sentence, but I don't want to.

SPEAKER_08
1:04:33

But they they sent a photo of the hotel room. Stop.

unknown
1:04:41

No.

SPEAKER_04
1:04:42

No, great view. No, no, no, and they look like nice normal people.

SPEAKER_09
1:04:46

She actually, yeah, like that's what always.

SPEAKER_04
1:04:49

Yeah, no, I I am not reading this out to knock them at all. I was just curious at the feedback. I appreciated the message. 100%.

SPEAKER_08
1:04:55

I initially thought she was just like friendly of the case.

SPEAKER_04
1:05:00

No, I think they're propositional. You think they're propositional? 1000%. I've never been propositioned like this before.

SPEAKER_08
1:05:08

They looked like late 30s history.

SPEAKER_04
1:05:11

Yeah, probably around my age, I would think.

SPEAKER_08
1:05:13

I like how the sheet says history in the making. That would be some history in the making right there. They're definitely suggest- Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04
1:05:21

There was there was no history in the making. I didn't uh yeah.

SPEAKER_09
1:05:24

God, so how do you guys feel about that? Are you flattered?

SPEAKER_04
1:05:27

Are you like I was flattered. I was a little confused that we we've we haven't partaken in any of uh any of any of that um before.

SPEAKER_08
1:05:35

No. she goes I don't know. Yeah, I initially thought, well, I didn't see the context of the message of like the photos in itself, like of the messages, like the beginning messages just seems like how you doing.

SPEAKER_09
1:05:52

Yeah, go brewery.

SPEAKER_08
1:05:53

Yeah, we do get a we do get a lot of messages. It'd be great to like meet you guys or like chat with you, whatever. That seems like normal, but then I guess. Yeah, maybe just like sending like a photo of the hotel room might push it over.

SPEAKER_09
1:06:06

It's a little suggested of the suites twice.

SPEAKER_08
1:06:10

Yeah, or just like messaging of a well, they had suite for one one of one of the legs and then uh but it was like two suggestions on like we're seeing. But it also like I also think it's just kind of a naive person. Maybe they're just really excited to stay at that hotel and just throw a hotel. I think you're being too nice about it. I know that's like I'm just like such a I look like for the best in people. Yeah, and I think it's not that it that's like bad. No, it's not bad at all. No, I mean, not just in any of that. I stand by what I say.

SPEAKER_04
1:06:41

You'd think we were getting props.

SPEAKER_08
1:06:44

I think, yeah, you were getting summoned into something you guys probably didn't want to get summoned into.

SPEAKER_04
1:06:49

Five against one here to bring.

SPEAKER_09
1:06:52

I always see the best in people. Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_04
1:06:54

They seem like friendly people.

SPEAKER_09
1:06:57

Yeah.

unknown
1:06:58

Like Taylor Frankie Paul.

SPEAKER_08
1:06:59

Yeah, totally fine.

unknown
1:07:00

I don't know if she's like nice.

SPEAKER_04
1:07:02

Taylor Frankie Paul.

SPEAKER_08
1:07:04

Oh my god, can we cue another wheel? Taylor Frankie Paul. What's going on with Taylor Frankie Paul?

SPEAKER_09
1:07:10

Oh my god, no one.

SPEAKER_08
1:07:11

Did you guys see her Halloween?

SPEAKER_09
1:07:13

Taylor doesn't even know.

SPEAKER_04
1:07:14

Who is Taylor Frankie Paul?

SPEAKER_09
1:07:15

She was the Mormon wives. The Mormon wives.

SPEAKER_04
1:07:17

Oh, I like some questions.

SPEAKER_08
1:07:22

She dated Dakota. Oh my gosh. She was gonna be the bachelorette.

SPEAKER_09
1:07:26

Yeah, that was fascinating. You guys shouldn't air this.

SPEAKER_03
1:07:30

Did you choose the TikTok?

SPEAKER_04
1:07:32

They should have still started it. Was she with a bunch of people?

SPEAKER_08
1:07:34

Starting what they're getting into for a little while. I think a poll should be started. Do we air the Lorette? Yes, we do. We do air the batch. Lorette. They already know what they're getting into. They took so much. Let's order the batch, Lorette.

SPEAKER_09
1:07:48

They should have just did it.

SPEAKER_08
1:07:50

It is what it is. It was aired, it's done. Let's air it. I just want to see the drama.

SPEAKER_09
1:07:55

Okay, how many places are we picking for these cocktails?

SPEAKER_04
1:07:58

Marley knows every bar in Milwaukee. Just give us your few favorites.

SPEAKER_09
1:08:02

Okay, but is it date night? Yeah, not no nice cozy. Snowing or like now. Winter.

SPEAKER_04
1:08:08

It can be November. I mean it's cold. It's cold outside.

SPEAKER_09
1:08:12

Tin Widow. Especially when they do their Christmas pop-up with the upside down hanging Christmas trees. They just have rotating cocktails top tier. Obviously, my two favorites, I always say this every time Bubberfish and Tiki. Wait, do you like that bar? Oh dude, I live there. Okay. And Taylor Spoys are live there too. But from a cocktail standpoint, um, Callegros, which is the new um cocktail bar by the San what is it called again? The pasta place I think. Calegros. Yeah. But that's the pasta place. Oh my gosh. So it used to be a dive bar. And then they bought it. The restaurant owner bought it and repurposed it, but still kept the slap machines in the back. Definitely played those. But you walk in, it's kind of like um how would you explain it? Basically, like yeah, but it's like the bar's red, but there's like a whole bunch of like old school type.

SPEAKER_08
1:09:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09
1:09:09

Yeah. Like Mob Boss. Yeah. Or their their cocktail menu is extensive. Sorry so martini is really good. They have a lot of really good cocktails on there, and they have little flatbreads just in case you drink too much. Um Lost Will has been really good too with their pop-up lately. I like it. I went to the Halloween one. They have a good winter one. Yeah. I think they do elfane. Yeah, I love that. What else is like super cute? Voyager's cute. That's his old baby. I needed to switch neighborhoods.

SPEAKER_04
1:09:41

I'll throw another baby one out there. Blackbird.

SPEAKER_09
1:09:44

Oh. Which is right by China. That's a great winter bar. Yes, it is. They have so many games. It's also good for summer at the patio.

SPEAKER_04
1:09:52

I didn't know they had one.

SPEAKER_09
1:09:53

Trailer Park Tavern? Oh, it is.

SPEAKER_04
1:09:56

Trailer Park Tavern's really romantic. Yeah. Oh, it's perfect.

SPEAKER_09
1:09:59

Wiggle room. Wiggle room. Trailer Park Tavern might be the most romantic.

SPEAKER_04
1:10:03

Yeah, you could go to Blackbird and the Playboy.

SPEAKER_08
1:10:04

Patty's Power Plant. I recently went there. Lindsay on our team. She loves that spot.

SPEAKER_04
1:10:10

That's where you're going on a date, Patty. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_09
1:10:12

They have pool darts. This weird ring toss game that I hate.

SPEAKER_04
1:10:16

I give Lindsay so much shit for no patience.

SPEAKER_09
1:10:19

Is it the one that swings? Yeah, yeah. No, you just all you have to do is boop.

SPEAKER_08
1:10:22

Yeah, and then it swings.

SPEAKER_04
1:10:23

I've never been in there, so I'm just being judgmental because I just drive by it.

SPEAKER_08
1:10:27

You need to go.

SPEAKER_04
1:10:28

Oh, you'd probably, it looks like a good dive bar for you.

SPEAKER_08
1:10:30

See, nothing beats freaking Bismarck in North Dakota. And then there's a instead of what is it? A vending machine for uh chips and stuff, it's a vending machine for cigarettes.

SPEAKER_04
1:10:41

Bree, what what bars do you have?

SPEAKER_08
1:10:44

So Bryant's? Stop at random. That's mine. Yeah, Bryant's and at random. I would say probably the best cocktails in the city. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I mean, like at Bryant's, too, they don't have a menu. So you just go in there and you describe kind of what you're looking for in a drink to the bartender, and they make amazing ones for you. And you're like, what the heck is this that you just gave me? I don't know. I drink it. I love it because they're like, Do you like sweet, spicy, like what kind of liquor? That's what I mean. It's like the best bartenders in the city that are there. That's talent. Yeah, and the vibe there, like dim lighting, old school vibe. I think that is the perfect date night at Brian's. Or at random, too, is another like old school. I love the speakeasy vibes, like the red lights and all that. It's so cool. Yeah. Another good one is agency.

SPEAKER_09
1:11:40

Yes.

SPEAKER_08
1:11:40

Uh, also another great cocktail. Um, some of the best in the city, and the vibe there, too, of just like in that old building. It's smaller.

SPEAKER_09
1:11:50

Is that the one in Double Dutch?

SPEAKER_08
1:11:52

Yes. Okay. Um, it's smaller, so only like a certain amount of people can fit in. So making reservations is recommended to go there. Uh but great place. That's a good one. Yeah. Club Garibaldi's.

SPEAKER_04
1:12:09

Dude, I'm gonna do that.

SPEAKER_09
1:12:12

Dude, they have one. Okay. There's a lot of places.

SPEAKER_04
1:12:15

Club jeez, Palomino across the street. That's that's a that's a good that's a sleeper. That's a sleeper.

SPEAKER_09
1:12:20

Literally, so good. I'm just like a die bar queen, I guess. That's not good.

SPEAKER_04
1:12:24

What about um Colonel Hearts in Tosa? Have you been there?

SPEAKER_09
1:12:28

Yes. I have. You made your way out to Tosa? I do. Yeah. Well, because my my friend Aaron lives out there now.

SPEAKER_04
1:12:36

I was gonna give two legit ones in Tosa. Do it, let's go. And like uh the barred any the bar at Eddie Martinis. Okay. That's a good one. And then Bucatabin.

SPEAKER_09
1:12:46

Yes.

SPEAKER_04
1:12:48

Nice winter supper club vibes. Tosa's cute. Tosa's so much.

SPEAKER_09
1:12:52

Like downtown Tosa is so cute, especially when it's like it's like a snow globe. Must be protected.

SPEAKER_04
1:12:57

There are a lot of snow globes out there.

SPEAKER_08
1:12:58

Outside of yeah, at Hollander and Buccatabin, they have those globes to sit out in. Correct.

SPEAKER_04
1:13:04

Danny, you got any other than at random in Rack City? I'm so sad. Cozy winter bars.

SPEAKER_08
1:13:10

I'm so sad. I've been gone for six years. Okay, can I say like the best dive bar ever? Yes. Yeah. Okay. The bubbler. You know, right down what is it? Um College, is it College Avenue or something like that? It's called The Bubbler.

SPEAKER_04
1:13:24

South Milwaukee.

SPEAKER_08
1:13:25

No, you guys have never been to the Bubbler.

SPEAKER_04
1:13:27

I've never heard of the Bubler.

SPEAKER_08
1:13:28

They literally have a sign in the bar with five stars and what it says, Would poop here again. I need to go there.

SPEAKER_04
1:13:36

It is so you two, when we're done recording, should go Thursday night at the bubbler.

SPEAKER_09
1:13:43

Marley's retiring tonight. Hey, don't tell me with a good time.

SPEAKER_04
1:13:46

You're drinking right now.

SPEAKER_08
1:13:47

Yeah, well, I can't absolutely do one at the bubbler. No, they have it because it's funny. It's like close to Bayview. Yeah, it's like South Wasaki.

SPEAKER_04
1:13:57

How does it look, Bri?

SPEAKER_08
1:13:58

It's dive bar. Total dive bar. It looks like a house. Yeah. It's funny though, because in North Dakota, nobody knows. Nobody knows what a bubbler is.

SPEAKER_04
1:14:09

Everybody thinks that p that frozen pizza looks good on Blue.

SPEAKER_09
1:14:13

Shut up. I'm going there. Should we all go, guys? To the bubbler. The fact that it's called a bubbler. Do you know how many people have to do that?

SPEAKER_04
1:14:20

I'd be down to do a video there.

SPEAKER_08
1:14:22

Oh, that's what no, I haven't seen that because we've been to Super Moon Beer Company before, and that's right across the street from it. So that's I was like, that sounds familiar. I do remember seeing the bubbler. Yeah. But it is right across from Supermoon, which is a cool place too.

SPEAKER_09
1:14:38

And they got a heavy pour, you guys. Perfect. I like tequila. Pour it up. Get tequila.

SPEAKER_04
1:14:46

Hey everyone, thank you so much for tuning in to this episode of Dating in Milwaukee. If you've got any bachelor or bachelorette recommendations that we need to shout out, send them our way on Instagram. Always looking, or date spots we should shout out as well. And I just want to thank our partners before we sign off Kessler's Diamonds, Nicolay Law, Annex Wealth Management, and Drink Wisconsin Bleed Beverage Company.

Recapping the Brewers Magical Run & Celebration w/ Carl Deffenbaugh, Mayor Tommy, Bre & Richie

Recapping the Brewers Magical Run & Celebration w/ Carl Deffenbaugh, Mayor Tommy, Bre & Richie

The Brewers won the World Series for the first time and the city…. acted like it.It was a magical October for the Brewers and we…

The Brewers won the World Series for the first time and the city…. acted like it.
It was a magical October for the Brewers and we break down what it was like to experience the run and the celebration from a fan standpoint and go over our favorite moments:

The Parade that drew 750,000
Richie and old people needed a break
The crazy watch parties at AmFam & the Deer District
Jake Bauers & Sal Frelick’s parade performances
Tommy on stage
The Brewers theme song
SNL
Yelich and Raising Canes
Trevor Megill at 720
Favorite Moments

SPEAKER_03
0:04

Hey everyone, welcome back to Milwaukee Uncut. What a week last week, what a month. I I still don't have a voice really, as you can tell, so I'm gonna make this short, but we are here to recap all of the Brewer's magic with Bree, Mayor Tommy, and Carl Deffenbaugh. Before diving in, I want to thank all our partners who make Milwaukee Uncut possible. We will kick it off with Annex Wealth Management. The end of the year is a great time to get your finances in order. Contact our good friends, the experts over at Annex Wealth Management. Annex know the difference. Nicolay Law, the Midwest law firm, injured. Get Nicola and Russ and the team will take great care of you. We actually got to see the guy yesterday. Always great seeing him. Nicola and Drink Wisconsin Bleed Beverage Company, which I may have had too much over the last month, but still highly recommend best brandy vodka and can cocktails in the game. Drink Wisconsin Bleed Beverage Company. All right, let's dive in with Bree, Mayor Tommy, and Carl Deffenbach. Welcome back to Milwaukee on Cut. We are coming off. Maybe the biggest bender in Wisconsin history. We had the uh the Brewers who played Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. It was all once in a lifetime. That's what I kept getting told to go out. Once in a lifetime, then the Packers Thursday night, then the parade, then Halloween. So we are here to just recap an amazing week in Wisconsin history. And joining us, we got 13 time, recently four-time Emmy Award winner who called himself Washed Up. We don't agree with that, though. Formerly at Fox 6, Carl Deffenba, welcome to the show.

SPEAKER_04
1:53

Currently just a stay-at-home dad who's very happy to be talking to adults again. So thank you for giving me the mic here today. That's all you came down here for.

SPEAKER_03
2:00

You just needed to talk to some adults. It's finally not Bluey, so thank you. And Bree, who didn't think she was coming on, and here she is, very excited to be on today.

SPEAKER_00
2:15

So excited.

SPEAKER_03
2:16

As always. Um Carl, what was your favorite moment from the from the week?

SPEAKER_04
2:22

Gosh, they're all blending together. I think all of Wisconsin needs a nap after that stretch. For me, it has to be the parade. Just seeing Milwaukee and the entire state kind of come alive like that. Apparently, 750,000 people packing into downtown, celebrating from the early morning hours until late at night. That was just so cool to see. And I covered the Bucks parade back in 2021. That felt like the biggest event that I had ever been around in the city of Milwaukee coming out of COVID, everything like that. And last Friday just took it to a whole nother level. It was insane.

SPEAKER_03
2:54

You looked it up. It said the Bucs had a 100,000 or a couple hundred thousand.

SPEAKER_04
2:59

I was shocked by that. I remember it being bigger than that, but I went back and the reporting at the time was about a hundred thousand people in downtown Milwaukee for the parade and for the rally that followed. This is more than seven times that. It's just crazy.

SPEAKER_01
3:14

It was unreal. There were so many people. I've I've been in Milwaukee for five years. I didn't even know that many people existed in the state. It felt like the entire state was there.

SPEAKER_04
3:24

It's more than the population of the city.

SPEAKER_01
3:28

It felt crazy. I was like, this is this is awesome. People, you see, I mean, you see all these pictures of people in like parking garages, like shoulder to shoulder, trying to get a view. I mean, it's awesome.

SPEAKER_00
3:39

I was surprised no one fell off of that parking garage too. I'm not gonna lie, I was like, pretty close to that edge.

SPEAKER_04
3:46

We were so we were downtown near the Wind Trust building where the Euchre mural is. So we were kind of in prime position with our family and some friends, but we were looking across the street at all those parking garages. Yeah, okay. People on the different levels looking over a fence is one thing. There were people on the top just sitting on the ledge. That was let's just say a little nerve-wracking considering how much beer was being consumed in the city on Friday as well.

SPEAKER_02
4:07

That's a great point.

SPEAKER_03
4:09

You had an easy time getting down here.

SPEAKER_00
4:10

Oh my gosh. I I don't know what was going through our heads too. So the day before, we were like, let's just meet at the office. Our office is in Walker's Point at 9 a.m. Get there an hour before the parade starts at 600.

SPEAKER_03
4:22

No traffic.

SPEAKER_00
4:24

I mean, fine parking around here. Totally fine. I I don't know what was going through our heads, but so I leave. So initially I said it would probably take like 28 minutes to get downtown. Kept creeping up. Five more minutes, ten more minutes, 20 more minutes. So it took probably to get from Tosa to off the interstate 40 minutes.

SPEAKER_04
4:46

You could have biked it that you probably.

SPEAKER_00
4:53

Like it was all the way down to Bayview of trying to find street parking, and even there, it was full.

SPEAKER_03
4:59

Crazy. Yeah. So then we parked in the back because Lindsay told people it was private parking and save a spot for her.

SPEAKER_00
5:06

Thank goodness. Other than I was at one point, I was like, I I might just head back. Like I'm not gonna find anything here. Um but luckily she did save a spot.

SPEAKER_03
5:16

It it comparing it to the Bucks, though, it is crazy because you look you look back and just looking at the ticket prices and things like that, the Bucks was so huge for the city and there were so many people, and it was crazy in the deer district. But the fact that standing room only $2,400 to get in the stadium for those games, it was six to eight hundred for a bucks game, which isn't maybe an apples to apples comparison, but three times and Ampham had two times the capacity as Pfizer. Like the fact that 40,000 people were willing to pay 2,500 to get in in a blue-collar small market like Milwaukee is insane.

SPEAKER_01
5:54

I mean, I saw you know, if you look at prices for like a Tampa Bay ticket, like it would actually cost most people less money to fly down to Tampa Bay and go to a game there to get a ticket. Like that's how prized these tickets were. I I also saw statistically was like the most expensive World Series ticket ever. Because I I think that's just how high of demand there was. Because I don't know, like the the the amount of times that they've been to a World Series, how many people in Wisconsin love the Brewers, and that's what it is. It's it's a it's a statewide love, you know? And so it's like it was the demand for it was crazy. And yeah, I think that again speaks to the parade. The amount of people there, it felt like the entire state was there, not just Milwaukee in a sense. So it was, I don't know, it was awesome.

SPEAKER_04
6:40

And maybe that's it. The Buck celebration was an amazing Milwaukee moment, and this was a Wisconsin moment for these generations of fans that have waited all this time. I just love all the stories about you know, parents who have waited their whole life for this, the kids getting to share it with them, the younger kids not even realizing how special this moment is, and kind of all those layers of fan devotion to this team over the decades finally paying off.

SPEAKER_03
7:04

Yeah. I sadly missed the parade, needed a break, came down with the chills.

SPEAKER_00
7:10

You would have hated it.

SPEAKER_04
7:12

I did walk into the offices today and Richie had like eight beverages laid out in front of him.

SPEAKER_03
7:16

Not alcoholic. I have not had a drink since Tuesday when Bree took me to camp bar when we thought they were gonna close out the sweep in game four. I had uh maybe too many drinks that night, was ready to celebrate, and then stayed sober. Was at the watch party for game five. But yeah, I think like a lot of you know, maybe 30 somethings in Milwaukee. I just I'm in a weird place where I still think I can drink and be fine, but that's not my reality anymore. And the amount of like not getting messed up, but the amount of five to eight drink days and nights that I've had over the last month, I think it just caught up to me. The fact that I needed a rest.

SPEAKER_04
7:55

We kicked off the week on a Monday too, didn't help. Because then everyone's working, right? And you're also doing these late nights Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

SPEAKER_03
8:02

The thing that killed me too is like we got we were very lucky we got tickets to game two on Saturday. And I wanted to be nice and fresh for game two, and then we were doing our parking lot content, you know, people are all excited, and you know, they want you to have a drink with them. So I had a few old fashions, a beer, and then we start doing the parking lot content, and I end up having a rip from some guy's fireball keg that was showering down. I had Puerto Rican moonshine. Oh my god, what? From a Milwaukee cop who's Puerto Rican, who was off duty, by the way. Good job. Amazing guy, and then an African margarita. Lex said it was like Epcot in the Ampham Park. And that that mixture just did not uh bode well the next day for me, shockingly, and then I had to get back on the on the train on Saturday to feel good again, had an amazing time at the game, and um, but yeah, I need a little break.

SPEAKER_04
9:00

What were the watch parties like? Because I was one of the many people that tried to get tickets and didn't, the site just crashed out over and over again. But you guys were there for it.

SPEAKER_00
9:08

Yeah, I was there Monday and then Wednesday. But I mean, it felt like you were at the game. It was the same atmosphere as a baseball game, but you were just watching it on the big screen.

SPEAKER_03
9:20

So people were standing up at the biggest. It was great.

SPEAKER_00
9:23

They were playing the walkout music, uh, cheerleaders were out. It was a good time.

SPEAKER_03
9:29

It was the exact same thing as a brewer game, but no one was on the field. That's kind of weird. Like literally no one.

SPEAKER_01
9:36

Yeah, yeah. Was that weird? Like you're like, you're not watching it there, but like at the same time. It's a giant screen. It's like watching a movie, I imagine, in some sense, but it's like you see this empty field kind of. It's like, was that weird?

SPEAKER_03
9:46

Never did I think we would pay hundreds of dollars to go watch something on a jumbotron, and it was worth every penny. Well, well, the uh the brewer's priced map 15. I know people made a good not pretty markup on them, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00
10:00

Well, Tuesday night, I would say that was probably the most expensive they were going for. Like the cheapest one to get in, like top side, was like 250 bucks for a ticket.

SPEAKER_04
10:10

For a $15 ticket to watch TV. Making money off of it.

SPEAKER_00
10:14

Sure. Yeah. That's I mean, I was like, But it was a great, it was a really good atmosphere. I was glad to be there for the winning game to uh just be with Milwaukee celebrating.

unknown
10:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03
10:24

Very cool. Some other highlights from the parade. Um, let's let's give a shout out to Jake Bowers. His wife Lauren, who extremely nice, came on the show and did a fantastic job when the wives came on, uh, described it as better than any other day we've lived in our lives, which means it narrowly edged out um his wedding day and the birth of his two children. Might have been quoted the day.

SPEAKER_01
10:50

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_03
10:51

I mean Or you're going with cells, hundred thousand beers.

SPEAKER_01
10:55

They're there, you know, it's it's whichever one you're feeling on any given day. But like, yeah, I'm at I mean, he was probably just feeling euphoria, you know, like just absolute euphoria, and just like and also if you're at the rally, you know, the sea of people there, like that's gotta get anyone amped. Like, you I mean, obviously they're playing in big stadiums and packets stadiums, but like everyone's it's a stage environment. Everyone's on stage, you're with all your teammates. That seeing that like view, you gotta be feeling like I gotta get these people like turned up. And like, it's like, this is the best day. Like, I mean, I it's gotta be, yeah, it's up.

SPEAKER_04
11:31

That one just cracked me up because you know, he went to NLCS MVP, becomes this national name because of this amazing comeback story, basically returning to baseball to get health insurance because he was having a second kid with Tian Lauren. And then he's like, you know what? Best day of my life.

SPEAKER_03
11:47

Oh, that's awesome. Tom, speaking, you were on stage.

SPEAKER_01
11:50

Yeah, yeah. So me and Frank, me and Big Frank, um, we got to perform for a little bit on one of the uh one of the stages at Summerfest, the Generac stage. Um, so that was awesome. We got to there and there were so many people just on in Summerfest grounds. Like I it felt like it was Summerfest. Like I was like, there's so many people here. And yeah, we got to dance around for a little bit, and that was awesome. The energy was great. Like it was I uh I uh sang Phonem's song for like a good 15 seconds. I just, you know, if if you want to get a crowd of people in Milwaukee to sing with you, you just gotta say, let's play some baseball and hit some home runs repeatedly, and it just it works the crowd great. So it was awesome. Yeah, it is. Yeah, it was awesome.

SPEAKER_03
12:33

Can you hit his note? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01
12:35

Uh I it's that's hard. That's a unique, that's a unique talent. Some pipes. Let me see. Uh Milwaukee brothers. You know, it's like uh it's it's hard though. He's got a unique, a unique ability to to hit a different vocal register, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03
12:48

Were you with him? Was he there for that? He was on the bus. Oh no, he was on the bus.

SPEAKER_01
12:53

I was like, give him a ring too. I mean, like, yeah, this guy is contributed. Yeah, no, he was on the bus. He loved it. He was awesome. We saw him the day after. He was like, man, that was crazy. Like, I mean, like it was just awesome. Phonem's a great guy.

SPEAKER_04
13:05

I feel like if 1982 is remembered for Milwaukee throwing a parade for the team that lost the World Series, this year is going to be remembered for Milwaukee putting this crazy song on his number one anthem.

SPEAKER_01
13:16

Absolutely. I mean, it's funny too, like, because you know, the Brewers, it's the World Series, it was you know, I'm getting people from I'm from Ohio. Originally, people from Ohio are like, what is this song? We have friends across the nation are just like, what is this song? And they, I mean, it's just it was an awesome movement at the time. And it, you know, it hit at the right time, you know, the Brewers are doing well. Get past the Dodgers. So it's like, we're in the world. Like, oh, I mean, I'm seeing like, you know, six-year-old white guys coming up to Phonem, being like, love your music, you know, big fan. I'm like, this is amazing. Like, this is just awesome.

SPEAKER_00
13:52

Well, he was cranking out a bunch of songs. Yeah. So like Milwaukee County Zoo. He was doing like MSOE, Marquette, he was going to library.

SPEAKER_01
14:00

Well, and we've known Phonem for a couple years, like, you know, he he's like got range. Like, it's funny. He makes these like songs that are super simple and catchy and like funny, and he can do like a lot of different types of sounds, which people don't realize, which I think is a good thing because now people are kind of paying attention to his other music. But yeah, he kind of just had this genius idea. And I think the Milwaukee Zoo was probably the biggest one where he's like, I'm just gonna like make really weirdly catchy, like simple songs about things that are really relevant right now. And like the Milwaukee Zoo one took off, and then the Brewers one took off. He's got a Packers one that's going crazy right now, and it's just like, yeah, that's a great it was a great idea, and he's got the ability to do it.

SPEAKER_00
14:37

And it's been like I've heard the Packer line.

SPEAKER_01
14:40

It's uh the the catch line's like he's got an admiral's one too. He's got literally everything right now. He was just them out, and like and they're you know, they're clean, they're like people can sing them everywhere, you can play them at a parade, and people know it. It's like, yeah, the Packers one's good too. I feel like you know, if they do well, it might catch all the things.

SPEAKER_03
14:57

Yeah, I said it when Murph was on the show. I th I thought it was so annoying, and then I caught myself like singing it to myself in my car two days later, and I was like, that fucker got me. And I know a lot of people felt the same just looking at the comments. Same way.

SPEAKER_01
15:12

Like people would be like, what is that song? And then they'd say that to me, and then a week later they're like, Walking bird? It's like it's that's what it's just clever.

SPEAKER_04
15:20

Isn't it in the locker room too?

SPEAKER_01
15:22

Wasn't McGill part of the McGill Freeland? I mean, I saw like they were.

SPEAKER_03
15:27

There's that viral clip of Bauer's shirtless, probably before proclaiming it was the best day ever lived, of him like, yeah, finding it on his phone and playing it on the on the bus.

SPEAKER_01
15:37

Just awesome.

SPEAKER_03
15:38

Um what else do we got? Florida's natural lost a bet to Johnsonville and sent 20 pallets of orange juice to Milwaukee.

SPEAKER_04
15:46

Apparently, the trade-off was Johnsonville would send enough sausages for the entire population of Tampa if things had gone south in the brewers. So this is a win for us and for our vitamin C intake here in the city of Milwaukee.

SPEAKER_01
15:59

For sure. We need more orange juice up here. You know, about to brace the winter, you know. That's a great trade for us.

SPEAKER_00
16:04

Are they just handing out the orange juices? They are.

SPEAKER_03
16:06

They were handing it out at the parade. There was videos of.

SPEAKER_00
16:09

I was seeing people with orange juice. Partons of orange juice. I was wondering. I thought people were literally putting like vodka or like champagne in there and drinking it.

SPEAKER_04
16:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
16:18

That's what I thought. Uh, that makes total sense now.

SPEAKER_04
16:22

They're giving some to feeding America too, so there's a nice side to it. Yeah, but it's good.

SPEAKER_03
16:25

A lot of it was good too with some other ingredients, probably. Other than everyone mixing it with vodka and champagne at the parade, we're giving some back to the city of Milwaukee. That is good news. Um, yeah, let's Tarang and Murph hit up SNL for uh a quick appearance.

SPEAKER_01
16:44

Very quick cameo.

SPEAKER_04
16:45

I was expecting so much more. I'm just gonna be honest. People told me that they were gonna be on it. Thought maybe the cold opened, you know. Murphy, as you know, has some great lines. Like, that guy's got a dry sense of humor. And then it was overlapping.

SPEAKER_01
16:58

Yeah. I I'll say, like, I'll give them like imagine you know, you do like a parade and you're talking to Mike, a bunch of people. You can't say anything wrong. Like, people will love you. You go on SNL, it's probably a different stage. They're probably just like, okay, this is a new level here. They're like, yeah, keep it, yeah. Keep it, yeah. Stick to the script. It's like, oh man, but no, that it was so fast. It was such a quick little bit.

SPEAKER_00
17:20

Oh, for sure.

SPEAKER_01
17:21

Yeah, I'm I'm not sure how much they slept. How much? I mean, maybe four hours on the road.

SPEAKER_03
17:24

Wait, wait, so that that would have been the day after the parade.

SPEAKER_00
17:26

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03
17:27

Oh, God, yeah. You you put anyone on SNL after going through that. Those guys aren't used to drinking in season that much either. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01
17:36

So many factors working against them there. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04
17:39

Yelich, let's just say, had clearly already had some by the time you got to the rally.

SPEAKER_01
17:42

So by that point, you know, the next day. Yeah, that's hilarious.

SPEAKER_03
17:47

Maybe there was a reason that appearance was very brief. But nonetheless, very cool to see those guys on SNL. And then Yelich out, Raisin Canes, too.

SPEAKER_04
17:58

I just love the connection of fried chicken and championships here in the city of Milwaukee. This was the first thing I thought of. He did this appearance, signed some autographs, served some chicken to the fans. Clearly was shooting some stuff for raisin canes as well. But it goes back to Giannis, right? He was the guy that made his order. Or ordering a 50-piece.

SPEAKER_02
18:14

It's fantastic.

SPEAKER_03
18:15

Over at Chick-fil-A. I wonder if Chick-fil-A tried to get Yelich on that one. And then, I mean, the party continued for Bree, who went to a Jonas Brothers concert on Sunday.

SPEAKER_00
18:28

I did. It was the last minute. So I was I didn't have a ticket. Um, so on Sunday, I was just looking up. Pro tip, if you ever want to go to a concert and want to get a good seat, just buy a single ticket. Go by yourself, and you'll meet new friends and have an amazing time. And that's exactly what I did at the Jonas Brothers. And I got on the Jumbotron too. I had multiple people message me about it. But I was just reliving my childhood dreams.

SPEAKER_03
18:55

And you met a friend from Madison. That's what I mean. You make new friends too.

SPEAKER_00
19:00

Yeah, one of the girls uh she said she pounded four twisted tees before coming. Those are large. So she was having the time of her life there, too.

SPEAKER_04
19:09

What's your goal for a solo concert appearance? Like, are you getting turned up or are you just there to celebrate? Okay. Yeah. I guess coming up the week we all have to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00
19:17

Um so you just, yeah, kind of show up, um, chat, chat with people around you and start dancing.

SPEAKER_01
19:25

Yeah, I love it. It's it's music, you know, it's easy. People are like, they're just trying to see an artist. Like, I like going to movie solo, but like concerts are like you're just hanging out.

SPEAKER_00
19:33

Yeah, and the two, but like what type of concert are you going to? So usually like the people around you are gonna have same interests, like same vibes, too. So totally perfect way to make new friends.

SPEAKER_04
19:45

I've heard they're pretty awesome live. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
19:47

I I've seen the Jonas Brothers multiple times before. Uh still still a big crush. Yeah. Still definitely got the flutters. Do you have a favorite brother? Joe was my favorite. Yeah, I feel like Joe's pretty popular. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03
20:00

What do you like about Joe? This is good. This is like a therapy session right in front of us here.

SPEAKER_00
20:09

You have a lot of similarities.

SPEAKER_03
20:11

Really? Let's name that way. Musical talent, hair. Um, you know, whatever you're doing.

SPEAKER_00
20:16

You actually you do have the height over them. They are actually pretty short.

SPEAKER_03
20:20

Oh, the Jonas brothers are short kings? Yeah. Short kings.

SPEAKER_00
20:23

I think they're like five, eight, nine, five, eight.

SPEAKER_01
20:26

It's always surprising to me how famous people, how short famous people are. You know, it's like, man, even people come up to me and they're like, oh, you look taller. You're taller in person. I'm like, do you think I was short? But like, not that I'm famous, but like, you know, be real famous people are like you're like 5'11, aren't you? I'm just under six foot. I do. Dude, same.

SPEAKER_04
20:42

The doctors never gave me the extra like half inch of the.

SPEAKER_01
20:45

Like 5'11 in like three eighths or something like that.

SPEAKER_00
20:49

The hair adds an inch.

SPEAKER_01
20:50

Yeah, and if I wear like uh if I wear Air Force Ones, I look six foot. Solid. Just depends on the shoe wear.

SPEAKER_04
20:55

Random story back to the brewers. You know who's a massive human being on the opposite side of Short King. Trevor McGill was out with some friends at Carnivore on Friday. Conveniently a good reservation to have as it turned out to be parade day. McGill walks through sitting at his table behind us. He is large in every sense of the word. He's big, he is tall, he is broad, obviously a big personality. That was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_02
21:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03
21:14

I didn't know he was 6'8 until you told me that was. Which makes him rapping at 720 that much better. That you gotta 6'8. He's gotta be what two 270? Roster says 250, but I'm guessing maybe we're we're nearly 280 after all the beers by the time he got to 720, and he's just being a complete buffoon rapping sexy red up there. Like, what a legend.

SPEAKER_01
21:37

Uh the goat.

unknown
21:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01
21:39

The goat. I you know, when he was closing it out, too.

SPEAKER_03
21:41

Were you there, Tom?

SPEAKER_01
21:43

No, I was not there.

SPEAKER_03
21:44

I were any of you guys? No, I think the crew or no?

SPEAKER_01
21:47

I don't know. Actually, I'm not sure. Maybe uh maybe Mondo maybe.

SPEAKER_03
21:51

Erica Finky was there, wasn't she?

SPEAKER_00
21:53

I don't know if she made it.

SPEAKER_01
21:55

I wish I was that N20. Yeah, I wish I was there. I don't usually I usually don't go out. That much late because I'm uh I'm an early sleeper, but that would have been something I would have been ecstatic to see it to see live.

SPEAKER_04
22:06

It was also a hilarious mix of Brewers fans still riding high off an entire day of celebrating, and then people getting Halloween started in costumes as well, and this misundergoing Halloween costume.

SPEAKER_01
22:18

Oh yeah, that had to have been really fun.

SPEAKER_03
22:21

What a night over there. Um and any favorite memory from the week from everyone to close this thing out.

SPEAKER_01
22:28

I guess just the closeout game. I was at the Deer District, you know.

SPEAKER_03
22:34

Well, we didn't even talk about the Deer District. Can you tell us about that?

SPEAKER_01
22:37

I went there multiple nights. Like obviously when they're playing in Tampa. And it was it was packed each time, even when the Bucs were playing, you're like, you wouldn't have you would you would have no idea that the Bucs were playing at the same time.

SPEAKER_03
22:48

Like I feel bad for the Bucs. They looked like they had 37 people in the States.

SPEAKER_01
22:53

And they got 30 balled by KD and the Rockets, so it was just like not a great night for them. But you would have no idea because there were so many people, it was packed. And you know, as we get closer and closer to, you know, like the last couple outs, you know, McGill's pitching, everyone's you you can't, you can barely even see the TVs because everyone's phones are out trying to capture the moment. And then you like, you know, you see Terrain make the throw, the last out, and it just was I got lightheaded at how much I was yelling and how it was just everyone's going crazy, and it was awesome. You're hugging people, you're high-fiving, you're just oh, it was the energy was electric, and it was just there were so many people, and yeah, it was what's the bathroom situation like? I was wondering because that's actually porta potties. I, for whatever reason, in that moment in my life didn't have to go, so I never figured out, but like I don't even know. Like, I don't think I saw many like Porta Johns or porta potties anywhere. So I was like, yeah, that's a great question, Brie. I don't know the logistics.

SPEAKER_03
23:48

Especially with all the drinking going on. I guess if you're younger, you can get away with it. Like, if I'm drinking, I have to go like every 30 minutes. Same terrible.

SPEAKER_01
23:56

I'm surprised I didn't like think about it. Yeah, no, I mean, the amount even like you couldn't you couldn't get down towards like the TV really, like at one point, because there's just so many people.

SPEAKER_04
24:05

Like it was just I was worried about that for the parade as well, honestly. We ended up, there were some porta potties set up near where we were. Yeah, but I ended up going into the federal building downtown because we had time to kill beforehand. My friends were like, Can you do that? I'm like, I I pay taxes, I think so. Maybe I should be able to. Went through security, had the entire bathroom to myself. It was lovely in there. There you go. That's it.

SPEAKER_00
24:28

The third ward beer garden porta potties were apparently like unusable because they were literally filled to the top. Gross. But people, I mean, it was just guys that were still late going at him, but meaning they've been used quite a bit.

SPEAKER_03
24:43

Yeah, and I knew I was aging pretty badly when I went to a packer game with Lex for the first time last year, who's like 20, 22, and you know, we're drinking like the same amount, and our piss ratio is probably like 10 to 1. 10 to 30 day.

SPEAKER_01
24:59

Like I gotta go back to the rest. He's like, again? You're like, yes, I do.

SPEAKER_03
25:02

Yeah, throughout the day. You care. Like the gas station stops on the way home. Like, yeah, it's it's it's it's it's rough, rough out here for me. Rough out here for me. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04
25:12

Do you have a memory break? Jonas brother. Multiple portabody steps during a Packers game. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03
25:21

Multiple being gone for me.

SPEAKER_00
25:23

I could probably hold it.

SPEAKER_03
25:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02
25:29

Yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_03
25:32

Probably flew private in and out of Milwaukee. They did that too. Yeah. Oh man.

SPEAKER_00
25:36

Having a nice beer at Estherbrook Park, too. What a guy.

SPEAKER_03
25:40

I love that they do those dragons. I enjoy a beer. Like a nice beer at a beer garden. Boom. It's on the list.

SPEAKER_00
25:49

Man, I don't know. I have a lot of good memories from the week. Definitely, I mean, a core one will be going to the actual game on Saturday.

SPEAKER_02
25:56

For sure.

SPEAKER_00
25:57

I mean, just having the opportunity to do that was awesome. But also Wednesday night, just unbelievable. Like for them, just closing it out and being in the stadium at Ampham. Streamers coming down. People were crying. It was a good time. Energy was awesome.

SPEAKER_04
26:15

This team was just undeniable throughout the postseason, right? 11 and 2, a lot of the games they came back, but it just seemed like no matter what, they were gonna win. No one ever panicked. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01
26:23

It always felt like, I mean, okay, people panicked, but it was also it was very like it. It's like, oh, it's early, we'll do it. And it just became a habit. It was like, yeah, you know, we'll start slow, but we'll finish strong, you know. And that it was, you know, for being, you know, maybe mentally or like you know, kind of like that underdog, you you know, compared to these bigger market teams, you're like, they felt unstoppable. Yeah, it felt like they just had a train pushing them, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03
26:48

It was just such a good vibe too. I then I forget who said it. It might have been Yelich where he said, like, we're like all literally best friends or something. I saw I saw some quote like that come out. And you can see it. Yeah just just watching. It seemed, and when Murph was in here, like there's no egos on the team, even with kind of Yellich as the superstar. I'm like, how rare is it to have a superstar vet getting paid that has no ego, basically. And just like in it for the good of the team. It's really rare.

SPEAKER_01
27:17

The chemistry felt awesome, you know. I mean, and you know, look at the Dodgers, you know, you feel like every every time someone comes with the bat, you're like, oh god. You know, this person could take, you know, they this person could you know go off at any given inning, you know, but like it doesn't feel like that that sense of camaraderie, that sense of community. Like the brewers kind of like embody that for Milwaukee in a sense, where it's like Milwaukee, obviously a big city, but it also feels like it's smaller, people know each other, you're you're you're you're familiar with these things. They're involved, they they went trick-or-treating in Tosa, right? It's like that you're not gonna get that many other places. That's that's what it felt like. It felt like we're all in it together, and they have that that sense of like camaraderie too, and that thing is just awesome.

SPEAKER_03
27:57

And we'll we'll see, we'll see what happens, but they're they're built for the future too. They got a lot of those guys kind of locked up for a while and good young prospects.

SPEAKER_04
28:06

More guys on the way, yeah. Yeah, yeah. The two memories for me one will have to be the parade and specifically the float of the players coming by. Garrett Mitchell, they all got out too, right? They weren't just chilling on top. They got out, they walked among the crowd, they let fans touch the trophy. Garrett Mitchell held a baby right in front of us. That was pretty cool. Wasn't my baby, unfortunately. Uh, so that just electric atmosphere, again, with all the people up in the parking garages, the entire city celebrating that team. That that'll stand out for me. And just a fun one since we haven't mentioned it. Stacy's mom at the rally from Daniel Vogelbach. No one had that on the bingo card. I'm still not sure why that happened, but it was such a random way to cap that entire celebration. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01
28:48

Yeah, he he was hammered too. He was hammered. Oh my god. That was funny. Oh man, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03
28:56

What what what an amazing rock.

SPEAKER_00
28:57

What was your favorite memory?

SPEAKER_03
29:00

Probably being at game two, being just actually being there. That was that was just crazy to see the energy of the World Series game of being being in the building, and they obviously won that one, and yeah, that was a fun night. And then just from a Milwaukee on Cut standpoint, uh I mean getting to have Murphon here going in was was amazing. He was so good, and just being able to put a bunch of those videos out, which was cool. And then just I love doing the in-the-field stuff with the fans. Um, even Puerto Rican moonshine, man. I mean, that was a good one.

SPEAKER_02
29:30

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03
29:32

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02
29:33

There's actually pretty good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03
29:36

I did not feel good the next day. But again, I don't know if that was the old fashions, the beer, the fireball. Don't blame the Puerto Rican moonsh. The African margarita, it could have, it could have been any of the above. Um, yeah, but even just yeah, going out in the parking lot and interacting with the fans, and the you know, the brewers invited us to you know a couple things which were cool to go to. Yeah, it was just very fun being being a part of and seeing everyone's reaction to that stuff. I I do want to find um Puerto Rican Moonshine's man's name just to give him a proper shout out because he he deserves one.

SPEAKER_00
30:10

He was also dressed up as um like a wrestler with a cape on. Oh okay. So he ducked out, too.

SPEAKER_01
30:18

Yeah, yeah. That's you know, it's funny. I didn't even know.

SPEAKER_03
30:20

His name's Joe. Joe. His name's Joe. Joe Jonas? Joe?

SPEAKER_01
30:26

Came in early? We actually confirmed he had a face. Maybe.

SPEAKER_03
30:33

His name's Joe. He does a fantastic job protecting the city and bringing the energy to Am Fam Field. Hell yeah. Shout out, Joe, and the 26 Milwaukee Brewers.

SPEAKER_00
30:46

Woo! Hotter Ryan.

SPEAKER_03
30:49

Hey everyone, thank you so much for tuning in to Milwaukee Uncut before signing off. Just want to thank our partners who make this possible Annex Wealth Management, Nicola, and Drink Wisconsin Bleed Beverage Company.

Pat Murphy: Why This Team is Special, Clubhouse Pranks & What a World Series Would Mean to the Brewers & Milwaukee

Pat Murphy: Why This Team is Special, Clubhouse Pranks & What a World Series Would Mean to the Brewers & Milwaukee

The Brewers advanced to their first World Series in 44 years and we got to sit down with the man at the helm, 2x NL…

The Brewers advanced to their first World Series in 44 years and we got to sit down with the man at the helm, 2x NL Manager of the Year Pat Murphy. Pat takes you behind the series of this historic run as we discuss:

Specific moment when Murph knew the team was different
Takeaways from getting swept by the Dodgers last year
Why he named Christian Yelich captain & how it happened
Best Bob Uecker story
Coming to Milwaukee
Current relationship with Craig Counsell
Favorite Milwaukee lunch & dinner spot
Favorite snack (that isn’t pocket pancakes)
Does Murph like the Brewers hype song?
Clubhouse prank on intern
Legendary Sal Frelick prank
One piece of advice to young athletes
What a World Series would mean to Murph, the Brewers & the city

SPEAKER_02
0:00

Last year you get swept by the Dodgers.

SPEAKER_00
0:02

We had an emotional series against the Cubs. This year we had just this memory in our mind, like, hey, we're gonna believe and we're gonna do this. And sure enough, they did it.

SPEAKER_02
0:14

What is the best prank that you have played or seen in the Brewers Clubhouse?

SPEAKER_00
0:21

Oh god. Please just always understand the context. There's no ill intent. So we had this intern. His last name was Schart. Do you like the Brewer's hype song? I listen to him like you gotta be kidding me, right?

SPEAKER_02
0:37

How much pressure do you feel going into this week?

SPEAKER_00
0:41

It's not about me. I want it to happen for the people of Milwaukee.

SPEAKER_02
0:46

In this 2026 Brewer Squad.

SPEAKER_00
0:48

Yeah, the best is yet to come.

SPEAKER_02
0:50

Hey everyone, thank you for tuning into Milwaukee Uncut. We've got the manager of your World Series Brewers, Pat Murphy, on the show today, and it's a great one. He pulls back the curtain and gives you an inside look to the Brewers this season. And we look ahead to the World Series. He also answers some questions like the best prank he's been a part of in the Brewers Clubhouse, his favorite spots around Milwaukee. What he thinks of the viral Brewers hype song and what a World Series would mean to him in the city. Before diving in, I want to thank our partners who make Milwaukee Uncle possible. We'll kick it off with Nikola, the Midwest Law from Injured. Get Nikola and Russ, and the team will take great care of you. They've got an office right here in the third ward and all across the Midwest. That is Nikola. Annex, know the difference. Three Sheeps brewing their chaos pattern IPA, my personal favorite, is on absolute fire right now. And whether you are relaxing with one watching the game or having about 10 in the MFM parking lot, like our good friend Nate Moody, three sheeps, the beer Wisconsin drinks. And last but not least, drink Wisconsinably beverage company best vodka brandy and canned cocktails in the game. Enjoyed a drink Wisconsin Blue Canned Old Fashion this past weekend. Available at bars and liquor stores across the state. And if you're at the games this weekend, available at the corner bar in Rightfield, the damn fame, they'll be serving up old fashions on Friday and Saturday. Go Brewers and let's dive in with Pat Murphy. We've got the man who has led Milwaukee to its first World Series in 44 years. The first brewer to win NL manager of the year he's done in the last two seasons. Um likely three, but we won't get too far ahead of ourselves. He brought the pocket pancake, mainstream, was the proud owner of a pet turtle for a bit earlier this year. Quick stint on that. Proud father of four.

unknown
3:12

Sure.

SPEAKER_02
3:12

And legendary coach at Notre Dame and ASU and once led the Netherlands national team to a historic win over Cuba in the 2000 Olympics. We'll talk rumors today. Interesting.

SPEAKER_00
3:27

If you're trying to establish I'm old, you you've done it.

SPEAKER_02
3:30

You got better hair than me. You're looking good. You're looking good. Congrats on the on the run that you guys are on. It's it's remarkable.

SPEAKER_00
3:38

Thank you, man. We got special dudes, man. They're special guys. And um I'm just really grateful that they come to play every day. And um yeah, I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.

SPEAKER_02
3:49

You've had a lot of good runs since you came to Milwaukee. Was there a um is there a specific moment that you can point to with this group where you're like, son something's different? This is the team that could break through and make it to the World Series.

SPEAKER_00
4:06

There's a couple different moments that that make sense, but um it seemed like whenever our backs were against the wall, and I think back we got swept in San Diego um uh three games and we were really banged up. Uh a lot of guys injured. Pratt was out, Tarang was out, um Bowers was out. Um, and then we went to LA right after the sweep and we had to face the Dodgers, and we won three out of four. And I just said to myself, God, this group might they they kind of in that good mode right now where, hey, let's just play ball one-on-one, me and you. And um, when that happened, that was one of the moments, you know, the the Lara walk-off with the comeback against the Cubs was a was kind of a telling moment that we've got something special. But there's been a lot of little moments, but I never felt ever that like, oh, this is the greatest team. We are the best team in baseball. I've always felt like uh, not sure about this group, but they're consistent. They just they do show up every game.

SPEAKER_02
5:12

Were there any main learning lessons from last year? Last year you get swept by the Dodgers. This year you you sweep the Dodgers. Were there any takeaways that you think benefited the squad this year?

SPEAKER_00
5:23

Yeah, I mean, people people talk like that. Like we had an emotional series against the Cubs. We win the division. We have the most wins in baseball last year. Um, we we win the division, then we got to play the Cubs who know us very well, and we have an emotional five-game series. We win the three here, they win the two down there, and it's really close. And then we got one day off, and we got to play the Dodgers. And the Dodgers were playing unbelievable. They were the at the time they were the best team ever assembled, and they were playing great, and their starting pitching was great. We lose the first game by a run, and if that doesn't happen, it might have been a different series. But they and then O'Tani has the game of his life, hitting three home runs and pitching six shutout, whatever, striking out ten. Like that doesn't happen normally. So it's not like we got swept like they crushed us. I mean, they played way better. We didn't put our best foot forward, but we faced a great team. And when you faced a hot team like that, sometimes there's nothing you can do. The playoffs can be a crapshoot. This year we followed up with the best record in baseball again, beat the Padres in a really tough series, but then we went into LA and said, we ain't gonna let that happen again. We're ready. And they that was a difference.

SPEAKER_02
6:42

I think I think Bowers was quoted saying when you lost to the Dodgers last year, they kind of acted like it was a it was a handshake line in spring training. And when you beat the Cubs, it was a big celebration. And from a fan standpoint, I mean it always feels good to good to beat Chicago. We were celebrating like we won the Super Bowl, even though there was a couple round rounds, rounds left to go. Was there some truth to truth to that?

SPEAKER_00
7:05

Yeah, for sure. I mean, I think we we uh it was such an emotional series, and we wanted so badly to do well in the postseason. Um and and we're doing it with guys that that aren't haven't been to a lot of postseasons and haven't uh some of them hadn't played in Major League Baseball ever, you know. So it was their first go-round with playoff baseball. Um but this year we had just this memory in our mind like, hey, we're gonna believe and we're gonna do this. And sure enough, they did it.

SPEAKER_02
7:35

Speaking of uh one guy who's been to a number of postseasons, Christian Yelits, you named him first captain ever in in Brewer's history in late September. He's only, I believe, one of three active captains in the MLB right now. Why why make that decision at that point in time and well as well? And what was that conversation?

SPEAKER_00
7:55

I think Yeah, I mean, that was um something that's been on my mind for a while, but um you know, everyone knows him as our leader. He had been around the most. And then the unique thing is the way he leads would never draw attention to himself. And the way he, you know, um advises people, he doesn't force himself on anybody, he doesn't use power, you know, he's just well respected. And it's funny, a guy in the locker room that doesn't even he isn't part of the staff, the coaching staff, he isn't part of the uh he's part of the clubhouse staff, suggest it. So if I listen to all your interviews, I listen to the players respond, he is the leader. Did you ever think about naming him captain? And it just hit me in the right way. And I actually called the general manager and said, Hey Matt, this is an idea. What do you think? He said, I'll meet you on it. And then I call the owner. I said, Hey, you got any problem with this? He said, No, I think it's a great idea. And they asked me my reasons and all that kind of stuff. And again, it's like I thought it was a positive thing to officially name him. And I think he takes on responsibility very, very well. And he wears his performance. He he feels indebted to this community. He's not a r a guy getting paid a lot of money thinking, hey, I deserve this. He's a guy that's saying, I am thankful, I'm grateful, and he he cares about the brewer so much. When he doesn't perform the way he wants to, and baseball's a hard game to do it in, he takes it really serious. So um I called him in the next day and I say, Hey Christian, I gotta tell you something. Um this is what I want to do, but I want you, I want to know what you think about it. And he was he was choked up. I mean, it it was emotional. He said, This is the biggest honor I've ever had. And it to me, when I saw that response, I knew it was I knew it was right. And I said, Hey man, that means wearing that C on the jersey. He said, you know, it's a huge honor. Um he said, but I think we should ask Robin Yao being the the really the captain of the brewers from how many years? And I called Robin and Robin said, Absolutely, man, it's if you believe it's good for the club, it's uh I'm on board and it's just clicked.

SPEAKER_02
10:19

How rare is it to have a superstar vet like Yelich with as low of an ego as he has?

SPEAKER_00
10:28

I mean, I again uh I've been with Yeli now 11 years, uh 10 year, 10 seasons, maybe nine seasons. Been with Yeli nine seasons, and um yeah, even when he was the best player on the on the planet, he was still uh very, very humble, uh, the same person he's always been. And that make that mean that makes it fun, you know?

SPEAKER_02
10:49

There's uh there's a lot of really good storylines to this group, whether it whether it's Bowers kind of coming back, you know, almost breaking out at a young or at an older age, Yelich being captain. Is there a single storyline on this team that stands out to you, whether it's one that we are aware of or maybe one that the fans aren't really aware of?

SPEAKER_00
11:10

Well, the thing about the team that stands out, I think, the most is like we were never on a long winning streak, and we've never been on a long losing streak. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know, our longest losing streak is like four games or something like that.

SPEAKER_02
11:23

And uh your longest winning streak is right now, too. Six or so, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
11:28

So it's like the team has just stayed pretty steady all year. And um, they don't get down for very long. You know, they hold held uh hold themselves to high standards. It's really a unique group, man. We got some great we do have some great stories. If you know the story of William Cotreris, I mean our pit bull, it's um he's been on a roll. He's beautiful, man. He's beautiful. You gotta keep him in a cage, you let him out, you know. You might scratch or nip at a few children, and then you gotta deal with the damage and then put them back in the cage. But while he's out, he does a lot of good. He does a lot of good. And uh he's a unique because a lot of what Williams does, it's it's the part of baseball that can't be measured, except if you're in the game, you know it. And if you're against him, you know it. Um so he's a great story. Jack Jack. Jack Jack is just um for 22, you just never know it. You want to talk about a cool customer, um Bryce Tarang, what he's done, Mitchell being hurt for four years. Um for four seasons. He's been out most of those four seasons, and he's played more games this year than he played in all four of the seasons. And he's doing well.

SPEAKER_02
12:50

Like seeing him hit that homer in game four.

SPEAKER_00
12:53

Yeah, he's been good for us, man. He's had a good good postseason. Um yeah, it's been fun. It's been fun watching these guys, you know, come into their own, believe in themselves. You talked about Bowers, you know, to see these guys really believe, you know. I mean, like I'm you know, and to go against all the big boys. I mean, we went against you know, San Diego and LA and uh took them down. So that's kind of fun.

SPEAKER_02
13:17

Um you were around you for I believe eight years in this organization. What's what's one favorite you story?

SPEAKER_00
13:26

Oh, I got a lot of them, man, but um I got a lot of them. I mean, he's um he's the the thing about you, you know, instead of instead of one story, let me just describe every day with you, he'd come in the clubhouse, howdy boys, he'd come in there, and you just knew this is his home. You know, 90 years old, walking in that clubhouse, you'd think he was 50. Knew all every player, and if there was a new player, he'd be lying over to him. Hey, put her in the vice, son, you know, and he'd stick his hand out and shake his hand.

SPEAKER_01
14:03

I knew your dad when your dad played at so-and-so, and I knew your cousin, and you're like, holy sh.

SPEAKER_00
14:09

I mean, it was amazing the way this guy, I'm just related to people, and you could just tell he was in his element. He wasn't, there was no cameras or nothing. He just wanted to be there. And then I'd get the lucky uh uh opportunity to sit with him for like an hour every day. We'd do our radio show three or four minutes and we'd just sit there. And the media'd be the the the media uh our media guy would be knocking on my door saying, Hey, you guys done, you guys done, and we'd be like, ah, shut the door, you know. And he'd sit there and talk. And then he would we got to the point where he we'd get into everything, everything but baseball. You know what I mean? We'd we'd get into everything. And um, yeah, I feel blessed that I had that time with him and the guy's done so much, but he loves Milwaukee, he loves the brewers. You know what I mean? He had many opportunities to make his life elsewhere a lot more lucrative. And the give back that he gave, you know, to different organizations. And there I mean, the guy was incredible. And what he endured, like you think of the surgeries he's had, open heart surgery on two occasions, pancreatic cancer and prostate cancer, and I mean the guy diabetic. I mean, the guy did so much, you know. Yeah, and he was in pain at the end, and you knew it. Um but he didn't want anybody to know. You know, you'd never know it in that locker room. You'd never know. And then you know, I get the chance to sit with him and I could tell he was in pain, I could tell he was tired. But uh yeah. He was thoughtful, you know. He cared about other people and never thought of himself as better than any common man, you know what I mean? He just I really respected that, you know. Yeah, special, special dude, man.

SPEAKER_02
15:58

Mm-hmm. Um, you talk about him loving Milwaukee. You came here about 10 years ago. Were you excited to come to Milwaukee? And what were your first impressions of the city? And did did anything surprise you?

SPEAKER_00
16:10

Yeah, it's interesting. You know, I I uh have a little history, like a small amount of history with with Milwaukee. So in 87 or 88, um, my athletic director at Notre Dame told me, hey, John Counsel used to coach at Notre Dame. His son uh is gonna work out in Milwaukee County Stadium with Sal Bandeau Jr. Um why don't you take a you know uh why don't you go take a look at him? Uh they're gonna they're gonna um work out pregame of a major league game. And um, you know, he's a kid. I think he can eat in school, blah, blah, blah, blah. So sure. My athletic director tells me to do that. It's one of my first days on the job. I drive up whatever number of hours and see uh get to uh County Stadium and uh Sal Bando's the general manager at the time, and I get to sit with him and uh I mean, just an incredible man, you know. But for a 28-year-old college coach, I'm intimidated. I'm sitting with a Hall of Famer. I remember when he played third base for for for Oakland and sitting there, and now his son and another skinny little kid named Craig Council is gonna work out in the field. So sure enough, we have a little dinner or whatever, and um I watch these kids work out in the field and like yeah, you know, and uh I'd love to recruit these guys. So I meet I meet uh all the parents and talk to them like, yeah, I'll be in touch. And that's how we got Craig Counsel to come to Notre Dame. So I had this little that was my first time in Milwaukee. Fast forward probably 20 years, and I became friendly with a guy named Rick Majoris. So Majaris was a basketball coach. Yeah, it was at Marquette, Marquette, and him and I through through college sports, uh, there was a certain contact, a guy named McBride, who was his head football coach at Utah when he was coaching in Utah. His uh McBride's son worked at ASU, got us together about some job openings with with uh college basketball that Rick might be interested in, and we just hit it off. So then Rick, fast forward a couple months, he says, Hey, come to Milwaukee. There's a 1957, this must have been 07, there's a 50-year reunion of the of the 57 team, the Milwaukee Braves. Come to this thing, please. Well, Counts was playing for the, you know, fast forward, Counts comes to play for me at Notre Dame, and then, you know, he goes to the big leagues and now he's gonna play for the Brewers or whatever. And um Rick says, Come on, you can see Counts and go to this thing. You can meet Hank Aaron someday, maybe. And because Majaris loved Hank Aaron, sure enough, I I uh I come up for it. I was on the end of a trip and I happened to be in Chicago speaking at something. And uh I was the head coach at ASU at the time. And uh I come up here to Milwaukee, stay in some hotel downtown, I don't know which one, and meet Majoris, meet Counts and uh the manager of the Pirates at the time was Jim Tracy. We met after the game, sat outside the fister till like 4 30 in the morning and had the greatest time. You know what I mean? And I'm like, God, this is a great place. Weather was perfect, didn't know anything about it. And then you know, Counts gets the job with the brewers, he calls me up and says, Hey man, come and be my bench coach. So the rest is history.

SPEAKER_02
19:28

Just came full circle. And you still you have a very close relationship with them to the other day, right? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00
19:34

I mean, we're like family.

SPEAKER_02
19:35

You guys talk a lot still.

SPEAKER_00
19:37

Uh, you know, it's fun. Yeah, you you can't there's not much to talk about. Um I mean, when Counts and I when he was going through his pro career and and even you know, uh when we worked together, I mean we were together, talked every day, you know, and then we'd have these long baseball conversations. I know his family, I'm very close to his family. And um yeah, but now since he he's there and and and and I have this same position here, yeah, it's just tougher to have uh conversations except about the family or things that are going on or joking with each other. I just text her, we texted each other the other day, um and we just laughing with each other, telling you know, telling each other funny things. But um yeah, we're we are we're like family.

SPEAKER_02
20:24

What is the best prank that you have played or seen in the Brewer's Clubhouse?

SPEAKER_00
20:30

Oh god. There's so many. Can you give us one? That's part of it's part of life. Uh so you please just always understand the context. There's no ill intent of the case. Of course not. Of course not. Oh, let's see which one I'll give you. So we had this intern. His last name was Schartz.

SPEAKER_02
20:56

Oh, that's rough for him.

SPEAKER_00
20:57

Yeah. Yeah. Last name was Schartz. And he was he was a great young man, still is, I'm sure. Um Schartz. Um let's just say he doesn't have a lot of baseball experience, but he was a he was an intern in the strength, strength and conditioning. And uh he wanted to impress everybody any way he could. So we're about to go on a road trip and he's gonna go. And I'm like, Scharty, um Miley's pitching tomorrow, and if he doesn't have that box of sliders, I think we left him in the bullpen. I'm not sure. You go out there and get them. He goes, Okay, okay. So he's sprinting to the to the to the bullpen to find the box of sliders. And um hamburger sliders or sliders like the breaking ball, the chair, fastball sliders is box of sliders, which I hope I don't have to play this on you too, but there is no such thing as a box of sliders. That's why you manipulate the baseball that way. So, anyways, he's like he comes running back. I can't find them. I said, Well, here's the thing. You first have to get the key to the batter's box. Once you get the key to the batter's box, that'll open that up, and then you can get the box of sliders or the box of curveballs. And Miley happened to be sitting there. He goes, Yeah, I'll take the curveballs too. But I need them for tomorrow. If I'm going to pitch tomorrow, I need them. I mean, you want Miley to pitch without a curveball? So sure as hell he uh he is frantic going all around. Can't find the key to the batter's box. Where is it? I think it's in the dugout somewhere on the top shelf. Just check up there if there's a key. And he's running. We're all getting ready to leave on the flight. And he's trying to get dressed. He's frantic. So then I tell him, look, if you text the general manager, David Stearns at the time, you text David Stearns and ask him where the key to the batter's box is so you can get the box of sliders. I said, and it's a good way of showing, identify who you are, tell him you're an intern and say, This is, you know, this is I'm I've been instructed to do this. So he goes and he does it. Stearns picks up on it, of course, and says, Here's the here's the owner's number. I think only the owner would be able to tell you where it is. And this kept going. He texts the owner, the owner, Mark, Mark's in on it, and he's like, ask him a few questions, thanks him for introducing himself, realizes what's going on, and he says, I really think in order to get him, you're gonna have to call a commissioner of baseball. He gives him the commissioner's name and email and all this general email. And um finally his boss, the Sharts guy's boss, um Jason Meredith, had to tell him, like, okay, bro, you've been punked. He was so embarrassed. I mean, but we've had a lot of good ones, man. We've we've it's it's a constant, it's it's nonstop. We had Sal where you know, Sal does crosswords every day. And I told Sal, like, hey man, you're wasting your time doing those crosswords every day. You should be working on graduate applications. You know, I said, You're not gonna be in the league very long, you're not very good. So he'd always shake his head, whatever. I said, go to some school up in he's from Boston, you know, go to some school up there, Brandeis University. I heard they got a business school. So I let it sit. Like a month and a half later, I get the dean of stud dean of the business school at Brandeis to write him a formal letter saying, We're really interested in you, we hear great things, and blah, blah, blah. There's a few little things in there. When is this? What's that? When is this? Right during the season. Yeah, a few years ago. Uh last year. Oh, now okay. And um, so he gets a letter in the mail. Now, fast forward, I had said this to him months ago. He gets a letter in the mail from Brandeis to his parents' house. And the parents read it to him like, hey, this is a great opportunity and all this kind of stuff. And he's like, This doesn't feel right. And he goes, I can't believe it. So he comes, he brings the letter, his parents sent it to him, he brings it, he slams it on my desk. He said, Is this you? I'm like, No. He goes, You're not gonna believe this. I did get a letter from Brandeis Business School saying they they think I'd be a good candidate. I'm like, so we do that kind of stuff. It becomes you're good.

SPEAKER_02
25:21

I'm guessing you're good at keeping the straight face, too. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah, for sure. That's that's a prerequisite. Yeah. Um, we'll get into some more Milwaukee questions as well. Uh do you have any favorite restaurants or spots around the city? Where do you where do you enjoy going? I do. We can extend it if we need to go down near a scene, we could do that too. But um spots in the area.

SPEAKER_00
25:41

Well, I mean, uh I've been to two unbelievable dinners at a place called Dorsey. That's a good spot. Yeah. Um Brady Street. Yeah. But I'm not uh see, you gotta remember we play at night, usually, right? So I don't get to go out that very often here, you know. And uh there's a couple other little hole-in-the-wall spots that I've found that I really like, but um I know there's great restaurants here, and I any any good breakfast spots or whole hole-in-the-wall spots you want to give a shout out to? Yeah, I I'd say the Mad Rooster Cafe is a pretty darn good place for breakfast. Service was incredible. Um yeah, it was a good place.

SPEAKER_02
26:21

Um, other other than pancakes, do you have any favorite snack items? Are you are you a grazer like where if I get I get pissed if Bree Bit brings home a bag of chips because I just eat the whole thing if it's in front of me?

SPEAKER_00
26:34

Yeah, I do too. Yeah, that's pretty much me. I I like whatever's there I eat. Okay. And um, yeah. I have like this one bar I have every morning. It's called a perfect bar. Peanut butter perfect bar. You gotta keep them in the fridge. Some people don't like them, they think it's a little dry. I love them. I have one every single morning. It can't be healthy. If you like it that much, it can't be healthy.

SPEAKER_02
27:02

It's helped it's helped you get the team to the World Series. It's gotta be healthy. Let's just in that in that way. Let's call it healthy. Um do you like the Brewer's hype song?

unknown
27:14

You know.

SPEAKER_00
27:17

Yes, I like it. You do. I'm just gonna say I like it because I'm not gonna cause problems.

SPEAKER_02
27:23

I thought it was very annoying, and then and then a few days later I found myself like is almost singing it in my car, and it was like in my head, and then I was like, He got me.

SPEAKER_00
27:31

All right, so I don't follow the media, okay, so I have no idea what's being said or what's going on. So I didn't even know about it. And then somebody brought it to my attention and said, Hey, they you know, they got this song going, or whatever. I said, Hey, let me hear it. So somebody pulled it up on their phone, started listening. I'm like, You gotta be kidding me, right? Like, you know, they said that you know it's kind of this rap song, whatever. And I'm like, all right, let me hear it. Well, I'm expecting Biggie or Tupac or something, you know what I mean? And no offense, this guy seems great, but um well different than Biggie or Tupac. So I was like, oh, great, you know, but then I keep seeing how people are listening to it and talking about it, so I can see its value.

SPEAKER_02
28:16

You've one piece of advice to younger athletes. You got you got two kids that play baseball.

SPEAKER_00
28:23

Yeah. Yeah, I think you it depends how old, you know what I mean? You know, you can say, Oh, make sure you have fun and all that kind of stuff. I think you you let them know like if you're gonna if you love this, you're gonna have to deal with uncomfortable. It's okay to get uncomfortable. It's okay to fail. It's okay to miss a ball. It's okay, it's all about responding. You know, how quickly can you get punched in the face and bounce back? That's what it's about. If you really love this thing, you will love the failures, even though that's hard to stomach, it's uncomfortable, but then you start being way more comfortable with uncomfortable. And if you continue to do that, I think you can um you can start to really build a little edge in the game, a resiliency, it uh and understand that I create the attitude, I create the fun because of the way I approach it. I forgot the last pitch, I don't know what happened. I I'm worried about this pitch. And I think if you can get them understanding that, especially in our game, you know, that response as quickly as I can respond, the better, the better.

SPEAKER_02
29:30

And how what what would a World Series mean to to you personally and how much uh pressure do you feel going into this week?

SPEAKER_00
29:39

Yeah, you know, it's funny. So so first thing I do every single morning, first thing I do, my kids are with me, you know, and but the first thing I do is I go to my little desk out there and my little table in my house. The kids are still sleeping. I'm up way earlier than them. And um first thing I do is I open up my book and I have a thing called nine ball. I make my own little mantras, nine ball mantras, right? First thing it says on every list I make is it's not about me. So when I think of the World Series, I don't think of me. You know, I think of I'm just grateful to be part of it, but I think of the guys, you know what I mean? That's my responsibility. And so it becomes about them. So what would it mean to me? I'm already I'm already filled up, man. I don't need anything more. You know, if they if they take me, if it's my time's done, my time's done, uh, my my plate's full. It's not about achievement, it's not about that's just not what floats my boat. My floats my boat is impacting people and and and meeting people, you know, meeting people that are just like super special and and um, you know, I uh this life I live now, manager of the brewers, I get to go all these places and I see all these people I haven't seen since my childhood, or some other coaching job, or one of my former players, or you know, teammates or whatever, and it's like a living funeral, but it's beautiful. You know what I mean? I get to do that. Like how many people don't ever get to rekindle relationships or see people again? It happens every day in my life, and uh so I have nothing more uh meaning to me. I think I want it to happen and I wanted it to happen for the people of Milwaukee. You know, really, truly. I mean, you just see the passion, you see how much it means to them, you see their reaction. It wasn't like, yeah, we better win this year, we got this, and you know, we deserve this. It was just no, please, somehow, and what better way to do it than taking on the Dodgers, the greatest team ever assembled by far, and hit him right between the eyes with it and beat him with good old-fashioned uh Milwaukee Brewers baseball. Um, to me, that's what makes it special for our people of Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin. To me, that's that's the greatest achievement.

SPEAKER_02
32:01

Can can you touch on the fan base here and the uniqueness of it? I mean, just even looking at these ticket prices to get in almost signals like ticket prices? I think 2400 to get in the door right now. 2400? I think so. Last time I checked. Okay, excuse me, 2600 standing room only for game one. Which if you compare it, I think the bucks during their title run was 800 to get in, and the city went crazy, and Amphim has two and a half times the seats as Pfizer, which is wild though.

SPEAKER_00
32:37

The baseball community, and and you was a huge part of this, you know, like it connects with the past easily. You know, it's a game of history, you know, it's very, very historic game. This the way our game is, you know, monitored and kept and the statistics and the stuff that is, believe it or not, it's not as pertinent as you think, but people know this kind of stuff, you know? And there's there's uh you know, just a way of tracking it so much easier. And our sport is played throughout six months every single night. I I just think that uh you know the fan base just relates to that and the voices uh like Bob Euchre. And um, yeah, I think it it just means so much to those people. And when when they're in the stadium, we had 26, 27 sellouts this year. When they're in the stadium and it's rocking, it's like they're part of their community, they're proud of their community. They're not they're not mad at their team because they didn't win, they're not mad at their team or complain about their team because they didn't reach a certain pinnacle. They're just supportive. You know, they're the true support, they're true fans, you know, and I I think it's gonna remain that way regardless. You know, they they understand what goes on. I hope they understand how rare this is for a team with again, we got under a hundred million dollars on the field, and to to slay the dragons we've slayed, and and to to be a team that has achieved the last two years the best record in baseball. Like that's special. They're watching the special brand of winning baseball. Um four division titles in a row. It's never happened in the central. You know, you you think about those things and you're like, wow, I'm part of something really special. And the fan base is a big part of it because the guys just love playing in front of these fans. They just they love it.

SPEAKER_02
34:36

Speaking of final question, what what do you want people to remember in this city when they look back on this 2026 Brewer Squad and 10, 20 years down the road?

SPEAKER_00
34:47

Yeah, I think it marks, I think it represents. That's the biggest thing I think about is like it it's congruent. You know, it it represents what Milwaukee, what Wisconsin is as a community, as a state, it represents it well. You know what I mean? It's like straight up, no frills, here we are, take it or leave it, and there's something really, really special about us. And the stories that they can remember, the Churio walk-off. Um, if that picture isn't up in 10,000 households of Sal diving into the plate, Contreras on the ground, Yelich on the ground, who else was there? Tarang on the ground, signaling them down. If that picture isn't famous in Milwaukee, I'll I'll be shocked because it's one of the greatest moments in brewer history. It really is. And um, yeah, it wasn't the game that got us to the World Series, but it's the indication of how special 2026 is. And um yeah, the best is yet to come.

SPEAKER_02
35:56

Well, then thank you so much for coming down here and all you've done for the team and the community. It was great having you. Yeah, that's great.

SPEAKER_00
36:04

Good luck this week. Thank you, man. I really appreciate that. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02
36:08

Thank you so much to Pat for coming on the show. Go Brewers, and before signing off, just want to thank our partners who make Milwaukee on Cup possible. NX Wealth Management, Nicola, Three Sheeps, and Drink Wisconsin Bleed Beverage Company.

The Story of Steinhafels: From single location in Milwaukee to 4th Generation Furniture Superstore with 16 locations

The Story of Steinhafels: From single location in Milwaukee to 4th Generation Furniture Superstore with 16 locations

How did Steinhafel’s transform from a single furniture store in Milwaukee to having 16 locations across Wisconsin, Illinois and one in Indiana as well as…

How did Steinhafel’s transform from a single furniture store in Milwaukee to having 16 locations across Wisconsin, Illinois and one in Indiana as well as their 420k square foot warehouse in Waukesha?

It’s an amazing Wisconsin business story where we are joined by 4th generation President of the Company Andrew Steinhafel. We cover:

Steinhafels origin story
Earliest memories in the business
Why Steinhafels is successful while most family businesses fail by the 3rd generation
Why Steinhafels created an ESOP
Competing with Amazon and big box retailers
Expansion & determining new lines of business
Most underrated piece of furniture

SPEAKER_00
0:00

Biggest hurdles that the business had to overcome. Big economic shocks that have happened, the great financial crisis. And they had just opened a store in Menominee Falls in 2006. And then two years later, real estate market collapsed and we're we're tied to the housing market. Amazon and the big boxes certainly have been relatively disruptive. I think they've changed consumer expectations. So it certainly challenged us to up our game and improve our business. A lot of our success has come from the very direct conversations you have to have when it's a family business and trying to separate the family portion from the business in some of those conversations. The first generation from the second generation, all five siblings were in the business. The three brothers went off and fought in Korea and all came back to join the business with the two sisters, and they worked together for, you know, close to 40 years.

SPEAKER_01
1:05

You're going to learn how Steinhoffels transformed from a single furniture store in Milwaukee to having locations across Wisconsin and Illinois and one in Indiana, as well as their 420,000 square foot warehouse in Waukeshaw. It's an amazing story. And joining me today, we've got fourth generation president of the company, Andrew Steinhoffel, who tells the story, also gives some great insights on what makes Steinhoffel successful, especially in this day and age of Amazon and big box retailers. It's a good one. Before diving in, I just want to thank our partners who make Milwaukee Uncut possible. If you're looking to get your finances together before the new year, which is a great time to do so, reach out to the experts, our good friends over at Annex Wealth Management. Annex is a holistic wealth management firm with offices in and all around Milwaukee that helps you with everything: retirement planning, smart investing, estate planning, legacy planning, and tax strategies all under one roof. Annex know the difference. Nicola, the Midwest law firm, injured. Get Nikolain Russell, and the team will take great care of you. Great people over there at Nikola. They've got an office right here in the third ward and all across the Midwest. And last but not least, Drink Wisconsinably Beverage Company, best vodka brandy and canned cocktails in the game, available at bars and liquor stores across the state and at the DW pub, the Drink Wisconsinably Pub right across from the Pfizer. All right, let's dive in with Andrew Steinhoffel.

SPEAKER_00
2:41

In 1934, it started with my great-grandfather, who was actually uh grew up working in some furniture stores. As in the story goes that he was an elevator boy in a furniture store, talked his way onto the sales floor, became a furniture salesperson. And then he and an older gentleman by the name of Arthur Miller, both salespeople, went out to start their own uh furniture store, originally called Miller Steinofel Furniture.

SPEAKER_01
3:08

And you you grew up around the business quite a bit. What what were some of your earliest memories?

SPEAKER_00
3:13

Yeah, I remember our old uh warehouse in New Berlin where we used to hold these massive warehouse sales and we'd invite the public into the warehouse and they could uh purchase odds and ends, you know, in stock sofas, everything, everything had a go type mentality, and worked a couple of those big warehouse sales as a small kid. Uh I was uh a little bit more uh technologically inclined, so I was often the one hooking up printers, you know, under the desk, putting the computers together, things like that. Do you have any fond memories of those or what were your favorite things about doing that? I'd say the fondest memories honestly were the the people. Obviously, it's a family business. And so I remember my grandparents being active in the business, which was really fun. Um, I also remember uh one of our one of my favorite people and my brother's favorite people was Gretchen, who was the receptionist there and would always have to buzz us into the door. Uh, and she'd always have some candy for us as we walked in, and she was so kind to us as you know, little kids in the business. How many siblings do you have? I I have four brothers, but I'm the only one still in Wisconsin and working for the business.

SPEAKER_01
4:18

Are you the middle? Are you the oldest? Are you I'm second? I'm second in the line of five. Okay. What was it like? Were those guys working those sales too? Did you get did you guys fight it all over there? Were you jumping around on the furniture?

SPEAKER_00
4:29

Was it we've run around a furniture store or two, and especially uh when it was our Madison store in 94, 95 was being built. Uh, have a memory of just a giant concrete building. It was empty at the time, but they had put in the warehouse racking in the back. And so my older brother and I had the great idea of let's climb up the warehouse racking and run through the pellets uh down the down the stairwell. And we got yelled at pretty good for that.

SPEAKER_01
4:58

Started as a small store in the 30s. What was the growth trajectory like? Were there any any big moments of expansion, any failures that the company really had to make it through?

SPEAKER_00
5:09

Yeah, I I think it's a kind of a true American dream story where my great-grandfather started the business with his partner, Arthur Miller. They had one store. Uh Arthur Miller unfortunately passed away a few years after they had started the company, so he bought out his widow. Uh, and then the it was a single store operation for quite a while and it bounced around from different locations across Milwaukee. Eventually, the the second generation got involved in the business and they moved the one-store operation out to what was at the time an up-and-coming area at uh Capitol Court on 84th and Capital. And that was a big gamble at the time, I think, based on the the bank loan they had taken. They projected they had to do about a million dollars in sales just to be able to break even that first year. And it was a big move. And that was back in what year? 1959. So that's a that's a high volume of sales for a single store in the 50s. Right. Right. But they did it, and uh that store really did well for us for a long period of time. And then they they opened their first second store about 10 years after that, uh, in uh the south side of Milwaukee in Greenfield on 84th and Leighton. So that store was in that community for a long time, and we actually just uh moved that store into the 84 South uh development there with a brand new build ground up, which is just spectacular.

SPEAKER_01
6:35

And then what was the highest period of growth? Obviously, a single store was one for a while, and now there's 18.

SPEAKER_00
6:43

Yeah, the the second generation grew it to three stores, and then in the 80s, uh the 1980s, they started slowly transitioning out. There were some retirements in the family. Uh, they started bringing in the third generation. Uh my dad joined the business, and two of his cousins joined the business, Mark, Gary, and Ellen. And they were still a three-store operation with a distribution center in New Berlin. And the third generation really took it to kind of a next level over the next 20, 30 years. Uh, they had their first Madison store in in 95, uh, the Kenosha store opened in 98. And then I'd say the the next kind of really big leap happened when we opened up the Waukeshaw facility out on uh 94 and Highway F. With that was a a huge uh investment at the time to build out that facility, the distribution center, the store, uh, and that really set us up for growth into the future. What year was that? That opened in 2004, but it was it was being worked on starting in 2002. It was a 60-acre farm bought from the Graf family out there, and yeah, it it's uh a beautiful store. It's 160,000 square feet, but it's incredible to think that it's about 20 years old now, and we're talking about some updates to the store and some remodels that might need to happen. When did the first out-of-state store happen? The the first Illinois store opened in Vernon Hills, uh just north of Chicago, a northern suburb of Chicago in 2011.

SPEAKER_01
8:11

Any any biggest hurdles that the business had to overcome to get to where it's been today?

SPEAKER_00
8:17

I'd say in in recent history, it's been the big economic shocks that have happened. I remember I wasn't in the business, but I remember my dad and uh his partners and the family dealing with a great financial crisis. And they had just opened a store in Menominee Falls in 2006, and then two years later, um, you know, the real estate market collapsed and we're we're tied to the housing market. People often buy furniture when they they move or buy a new home. And business dropped all of a sudden 25 to 30 percent in one year. And so, you know, that that was a huge shock uh to the business, but they were able to survive it and grow actually, you know, eventually they were able to grow through that time period in 2009 and open up some mattress stores, and then in 2011 went into Illinois. Can you speak much on that?

SPEAKER_01
9:07

It's pretty rare that a company would a furniture company would grow during that period when the housing market has collapsed.

SPEAKER_00
9:13

Yeah, one of our core values or core principles as a company has been financial prudence. And we've always, as a small family-owned or privately held business, we've always thought that um, you know, it's it's best if we can control our own destiny and if we're not uh beholden to others, especially with a lot of debt. So during that time we had very little debt, and that's really what allowed us to um, you know, during that time that the family really streamlined the business and reduced expenses and was able to survive that period in a financially stable way and even remain somewhat profitable during those years. And then coming out of it, as we saw uh the housing market start to rebound slowly, they were able to reinvest back into the business, um, expand and expand with some stores.

SPEAKER_01
10:00

Um when you when you speak to that, have there been I'm sure there's a lot of opportunities on the table, a lot of areas that, hey, we could get into this, we could get into this, we could get into this. Are there any decisions that maybe maybe you've made or you've seen your family made that you're like, wow, I'm glad we've avoided that, or hey, maybe we should have been more aggressive here?

SPEAKER_00
10:23

That's a good question. I I think the one thing we've we've looked at a couple times in the company's history is expanding our product line. We're we're in furniture and mattresses, and that's kind of always stayed our core competency. We we feel it's pretty important to stay relatively focused. Uh, we've looked at appliances several times. Earlier, you mentioned the American TV uh going out of business, and we acquired a couple of their stores. At that time, we looked at the appliance business, and what we really walked away with was it's a very different business. And we we were not prepared to take that on. And I kind of think the families did an amazing job over the years, and that's why we've survived 92 years uh to really try to understand the business behind it, how um who the players are, how you would make money, things like that, where and we've stayed away from that specifically.

SPEAKER_01
11:21

And obviously you you have a a large variety of of products under the under furniture, but has it always been that way since the start and you've just stayed on that kind of furniture and mattresses line?

SPEAKER_00
11:33

For the most part, I you know, the family has gotten into things like uh carpeting and rugs. Uh they've been we've been in and out of different sectors, but we've always tried to, you know, we have a I think we have a culture of experimenting and testing, but keeping it a well-defined test. And and if it works, we can always do more, um, but not kind of overinvesting or getting over our skis on something. So, you know, carpeting we were in in the 80s and 90s and then got out of that business. Uh, and recently we've actually gotten back into the flooring business with a small test uh down in the Illinois market with a partner that's that's going pretty well.

SPEAKER_01
12:11

Um most family businesses collapse on the third generation, it is said. You're you're the fourth business seems to be doing well. What do you feel makes a makes a family business work over four generations? And where do you think a lot of them fall?

SPEAKER_00
12:30

I think our a lot of our success has come from the kind of very direct conversations you have to have when it's a family business and trying to separate the family portion from the business in some of those conversations. Um I I think where we've done well, it's it was not a given that people would come into the business. It was not an expectation. The expectation was actually the opposite uh for my brothers and I of you need to go get experience elsewhere, and then you need to be able to bring that experience back to the company to the benefit of the company. Uh and there is no expectation that you rejoin the company, and if it if you do, it's wonderful, and if you don't, that's great too. So you were allowed to work in the business growing up, but not right out of school. The expectation was uh after college, we would go get our own experience, our own job elsewhere in a field we were passionate in. And then if there was a uh a good time or or some sort of um again uh beneficial relationship that could happen, we could figure that out.

SPEAKER_01
13:37

Is that always been the case or was that new with your generation? And and what do you think the benefits of that were?

SPEAKER_00
13:42

I I know the second generation had that rule for the third generation of hey, go do go do your own thing. And if there's uh again, if it works out for the business and for the individual, that's that's wonderful. Um, the first generation from the second generation, all five siblings were in the business. There were three brothers and two sisters, all equal owners in the business. Um, the the three brothers went off and and fought in Korea and all came back to to join the business with the two sisters, and they worked together for you know all close to 40 years.

SPEAKER_01
14:13

So you had to, you couldn't work in the family business right out of college. What did you end up doing?

SPEAKER_00
14:18

Yeah, I actually went to school for business and computer science out in Boston, ended up working for some software companies out there for five or six years, had that IT and technology background, and um actually was getting married to my wife, uh, who's also from Wisconsin. And we had a party the night before our wedding. And my uncle Gary, uh, who was our former president, was there and gave us the hard pitch on coming back to Wisconsin, joining the family business. And wouldn't that be great? And I had to stop him and say, you know, Gary, it's we're I'm getting married tomorrow. Like one big life decision at a time. Um, you know, we'll we'll figure this out. But but it was about a year later we ended up moving back and joining the family business, and it was one of the best decisions.

SPEAKER_01
15:05

So uh Gary, your dad's brother comes cousin. Okay, your dad's cousin is at is this at the rehearsal dinner? Yes, basically. And instead of congratulating you on your wedding, he's just putting the hard hard sell on you. Hard sell.

SPEAKER_00
15:17

Move back to Wisconsin, join the family business, it'll be great. And it and it has been. That's right.

SPEAKER_01
15:27

It made moving back to Wisconsin a little easier that she was also we have you both have family here. Double sell her on that, and the pitch worked out. Um, with your IT background, did you did you see things Steinhoffels could be doing differently? And you were like, hey, I won't I want to come back. I they could use my help doing this and really think that you could add value to the business.

SPEAKER_00
15:49

Yeah, I I think uh a couple of things. One was e-commerce. We had a website, but it wasn't a real transactional e-commerce website, and thought that was an opportunity. Um then, you know, over time we've slowly upgraded our internal systems, our point of sale system to make it easier for our sales associates and stores to transact. Um, but you know, we were we were in a good spot before just kind of again helping us continue to push into the future.

SPEAKER_01
16:14

Um you mentioned having direct, candid conversations is very critical. Are are you good at that or is that difficult to do?

SPEAKER_00
16:22

You can always be better at it. Uh, but I I do think, especially when it comes to family, it's it's always um, you know, you always lead with kind of good intentions, and I I think that helps. And so uh yeah, we you know, we've had to have some very candid conversations. We've had those difficult time periods in our company's history, the the great financial crisis, COVID when we were shut down for three months. Um so yeah, we've we've had to go through some of those.

SPEAKER_01
16:48

What was what was COVID like?

SPEAKER_00
16:52

COVID was interesting. It was were you president at that point in time yet? Or were you I was vice president and took over as president shortly after about a year after that. Which COVID was still kind of going on at that point. Yeah, and it was really interesting during that time, you know, when we were closed, it was gonna be this, you know, not to rehash COVID, but it was gonna be this two-week period. Uh, and then it that turned into four weeks, and then each municipality and county and state had their own rules and regulations of you could open up, you you couldn't. And so it was just a really challenging time. We were trying to figure out how best to navigate that with our employees, how to continue to offer them health insurance during that time uh to give them some sort of stability, and then also how to make sure that we had a a functional business coming out of COVID, if and when we were allowed to reopen. Has that been the toughest stretch while you've you've been there? That was definitely the biggest challenge I've had to face, yes.

SPEAKER_01
17:55

Um I want you to speak to the culture. You got you guys are an eSOP as of somewhat recently, right? Can you touch on the decision to move to to an eSOP and how you maintain a strong culture at Steinhoffels?

SPEAKER_00
18:10

Yeah, we became an eSOP just over five years ago, uh in 20 early 2021. And you know, with the family, we were doing some succession planning, uh, had some challenges with the next generation not showing the same level of interest as the previous generations. We were also a much larger business. And one of the options we looked at was an eSop. And and as we learn more about what an ESOP is and how we think it can help uh protect and continue the family legacy, we became more interested in it. And then there's also this wonderful benefit for the employees that really you know can reward the employees in a substantial way for the value they bring to the business as well.

SPEAKER_01
18:54

Do you do you want to explain to people listening who don't know what an eSOP is and how how it works?

SPEAKER_00
19:00

Yeah, it's it's an employee stock ownership plan. And essentially the family sold the business into an employee stock ownership trust. There's a trustee that's responsible for um overseeing and providing governance for us. But we sold 100% of the company, and uh it is now 100% owned by our employees, and so it's a it's a retire of retirement plan. There's some nuance to it. Um, but the the big benefit for the employees is that as you stay, you accumulate shares, and then those vest over time, and that's uh tied to a share price and the value of the company. So as the value of the company continues to go up and you start to accumulate shares, you can have a really nice uh dollar figure in your retirement account. So it's a really great benefit for the employees.

SPEAKER_01
19:50

And then competing today, you've got, you know, obviously the rise of Amazon, people buying off there all the time, other big box retailers. How have you managed to grow and be successful in in this period? And how disruptive has Amazon been to the furniture business?

SPEAKER_00
20:06

Amazon and the big boxes certainly have been relatively disruptive. I think they've changed consumer expectations. I think consumers are expecting a you know more modern digital experience for sure. Also, they're expecting to be able to get things quicker and have more choices. Uh so it certainly challenged us to up our game and improve our business to at least match those consumer expectations, um, you know, with things like speed to market, um, delivery windows near term. So they while we might not be Amazon Prime and be at your house this afternoon, within a few days we can have uh the furniture in the home. And with, you know, I think we also continue to have a competitive advantage advantage over the online only guys when you look at the fact that our delivery teams are all employees. We own all the trucks. There are employees, there are people coming into your home to set up the furniture. Um, our our job is basically to curate the assortment to make sure that it matches the consumer preference and and then be able to deliver on some of those promises. So while it's certainly been disruptive, I think we we have enough of a differentiation that it's we've been somewhat uh protected from some of those.

SPEAKER_01
21:21

So when people make buying a new mattress, buying a table, buying a nice chair, couch, um those are higher dollar purchases for people. Are you more immune to Amazon because people want to actually physically go in the store and sit down on something before they're gonna sit down on it that thousands of times, probably?

SPEAKER_00
21:42

That's that's absolutely a factor, yes. Where if you're spending a few thousand dollars, you want to make sure you're getting the right mattress or you're getting the right sofa, to your point. Um, where we've seen maybe a little bit more uh competition from Amazon and others is at some of the lower price points where if you're buying a mattress. For uh your guest room. You you may not care or want to come in and test it out as much as you would uh for your your primary, you know, primary suite.

SPEAKER_01
22:10

Um can you speak to Stan Hoffel's charitable impact and why that's important?

SPEAKER_00
22:16

Yeah, we partner with uh uh several organizations within the community. Our big philanthropic partner is special spaces. They they do uh bedroom makeovers for children with cancer and other ailments. And uh we we've started that uh in Wisconsin and expanded it into Illinois now. And we we do things like the every time the Packers uh hit a field goal, we we donate a thousand dollars. Um so they're our large philanthropic partner, but we we certainly support a lot of our uh associate causes as well.

SPEAKER_01
22:48

Hopefully you guys will have to donate more money this year. The kicker's looking better than last year so far. Much better. Smack. Yes. Um and what uh what comes next for Steinhoffels and what are some of your future focuses?

SPEAKER_00
23:02

We've expanded pretty aggressively over the last few years into the Chicago market. There were some uh competitors that were going out of business, which opened up some opportunities for us. And so for this year, uh we spent the last two years opening three new stores down there. So this year we're we're taking a breather and taking a little pause. Um but yeah, Chicago continues to be an opportunity for us. And I also think to your earlier point, we've got to continue to improve our business to make sure we're matching consumer expectations and reinvesting, especially in our digital experience.

SPEAKER_01
23:35

How do you evaluate whether or not you should buy a store that's not doing well? That's a good question.

SPEAKER_00
23:43

Uh usually we look at everything from the actual physical building, its its shape. We put together a budget around what we think it would take in terms of dollars and timeline to make it a Steinhoffels. We we have a pretty high bar when it comes to uh our visual representation in a store. And and then we also look at the demographics and the kind of surrounding areas, and does that match our current customer?

SPEAKER_01
24:09

So it's it's obviously the location needs to be good, but you can go visit a store, see if it's underperforming, visualizing. Hey, if this is a Steinhoffels and we do everything right, the volume would be much higher there, essentially. Exactly right. What would be the biggest misconception about running a furniture business?

SPEAKER_00
24:28

I think it's that people just expect that we uh lay on mattresses and sit on sofas all day. And you know, there's actually a lot of hard work that goes on in the background. While I my wife was making fun of me because I was actually laying on some new mattresses last week that were Yeah, I I'd do that whenever we're in the store.

SPEAKER_01
24:46

Those things are comfy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
24:47

But we were looking at a new new mattress line we might want to bring in. And um, yeah, but there's there's a lot going on. And I I think number two is that uh the size and scale of our operation, a lot of people don't know that we're outside of Milwaukee, that we're in Appleton, Green Bay, the Madison, uh, and Illinois. So it's it's a little bit bigger of an operation than people expect.

SPEAKER_01
25:08

What do you what do you think the most underrated piece of furniture is or something that should be in every house?

SPEAKER_00
25:15

I I think it's your pillow and your mattress. You you spend a third of your life on your mattress. People offer often um, like you were saying, come in and test out a mattress. Well, you really need to lay on that mattress for a period of time to make sure that your body can adjust to it. You lay on it for three minutes, it's not gonna be how it feels, you know, three hours into you sleeping. Uh and the other one is is pillows. Um, I joke that we have a a significant investment in pillows in our house right now. Um and that, you know, often people just use their old pillow when really you should be considering, and not to be a salesperson, but you should really be considering a the sleep system as a whole, your your pillow, your mattress, uh, because they all impact your sleep.

SPEAKER_01
25:59

That was good advice. Has anyone ever just fallen asleep in the store on some of those mattresses? The massage chair you have in there is very nice as well.

SPEAKER_00
26:08

Many times. Yeah, many times. And and we actually welcome that. We want people to be able to try out their mattress and make sure they feel comfortable.

SPEAKER_01
26:14

Has anyone had to wake someone up like it's what time do you guys close? Nine, nine ish? Eight o'clock. Eight o'clock. Have you had to wake people up at 7.59 before? That has happened before, yes.

SPEAKER_00
26:26

Did that happen to you?

SPEAKER_01
26:27

No, not no, not me. I mean, I've had other people or around me that very well could have at one point in time. But uh no, I've I've avoided that. Um, do you have any advice for couples who are going furniture shopping? Uh that's interesting. Um, my advice would be to have you seen have you seen any you know our arguments in the in the store? Do those happen?

SPEAKER_00
26:51

It's not uncommon, but but my advice would be to work with a professional, either one of our designers or one of our great salespeople, and they should be they're used to being able to help people navigate that uh with especially with the but they they are very knowledgeable and good at what they do and can also serve as a third-party mediator.

SPEAKER_01
27:11

Absolutely. Yeah, I'm sure you have a pretty good training program for for those people. For marital counseling. Yeah. That might that might help. Um, what are what are you most proud of when it comes to Steinhoffels?

SPEAKER_00
27:26

I I'm proud of our ESOP and the the growth we've been able to sustain over the last few years. I think it was um, you know, three stores and a distribution center in about an 18-month timeline really uh stressed our company a little bit and our our team was able to execute and we've you know we're a better company for it. So the last two to three years have been uh challenging and and we're now that we're taking a breather, it it feels a little bit easier. So um yeah, that that's what I'm most proud of. That's really good.

SPEAKER_01
27:57

Uh one more thing I I wanted to ask you. How do you uh how do you figure out when you're bringing in a new line? What is that process like? Because you have a lot of different ones.

SPEAKER_00
28:07

Um yeah, the the furniture industry as a whole, we joke that it it's kind of stuck in time. Uh four times a year our our merchandising teams still go to the furniture markets. Two times a year it's in North Carolina, and two times a year it's in Vegas. And and what they're there to do is to see our current vendors, see any new product introductions, and also see potential new lines or new vendors that we want to work with. Uh and so yeah, four times a year they're traveling to go find new product and see what the latest trends, colors, etc. are in the marketplace and make sure we stay up to date. Are there any local interesting vendors in in Wisconsin that you all work with or uh a big one that's a a great solid wood dining line is is Whitmer, um, Bedroom and Dining. And they do a great job, and they're a Wisconsin company, um, and and they make beautiful furniture.

SPEAKER_01
29:04

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to this episode with Andrew Steinhoffel and just want to thank our partners quick before signing off who make Milwaukee on Cup possible. Drink Wisconsin Bleed Beverage Company, Nikola, and Annex Wealth Management.

Horrifying Wisconsin Spots, Lore, Legends & Cryptids with Badgerland Legends & 3 Sheeps

Horrifying Wisconsin Spots, Lore, Legends & Cryptids with Badgerland Legends & 3 Sheeps

Ready to get spooked? Intrigued? Downright terrified? We’ve got you covered. Hear local lore and legends that’ll have you sleeping with the lights on in…

Ready to get spooked? Intrigued? Downright terrified? We’ve got you covered.

Hear local lore and legends that’ll have you sleeping with the lights on in today’s episode. We’re joined by Jeff Finup of Badgerland Legends and Josh Aschenbach of 3 Sheeps to discuss:

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Dead by Dawn Dead and Breakfast
3 Sheeps Cryptid Series
Nomes of Fifield
The story of the Hodag
Peppy the Mississippi Monster
The Wisconsin Bat Man in Holmen
St Joan of Arc Chapel
Haunted places around Milwaukee
Little people of Muskego
The Alien encounter in Eagle River
And more!

SPEAKER_04
0:00

I want to show you this video. I'm just sitting down on the the train at the Milwaukee County Zoo and I don't hear anything. And then I listen back to the video and I'm like, what is that?

SPEAKER_00
0:13

But they have the story of this haunted railroad track, and there's a paranormal dare involved in. So you're supposed to drive and park on the tracks, put your car in neutral, and it said that ghost children are supposed to push you to safety. But what his encounter was circular craft that he described as being brighter than chrome came down, out pops a latch, and an occupant steps out, and he's making what looks like pancakes. They're very thin. People have said these are pancakes from outer space.

SPEAKER_04
0:49

Hey guys, welcome back to Milwaukee Uncut. If you love Wisconsin lore, horror stories, haunted places, encrypted. We've got a great episode for you. We've got just the absolute expert in this department. Doesn't get any better. We've got Jeff Finnup of Badgerland Legends everywhere on social media. He does a great job on those platforms, posts, posts a lot of Wisconsin lore content. And he's he's also the author of a children's book, Wisconsin Legends for Kids. And we cover a lot of ground on this one, including the most haunted places around Milwaukee and Wisconsin, many of which you're more than welcome to check out this spooky season. And topics and stories, including the hodeg, Peppy, the Mississippi monster, the little people of Moskego, a potential alien encounter that happened in Eagle River. This is like a true story. I was not aware of this, also. St. Joan of our Chapel, right over on Marquette's campus, um, and a whole lot more. This episode is also co-hosted by Josh Aschenbacher, good friend who runs marketing over at Three Sheeps. And Three Sheeps did a whole Wisconsin cryptid series this year. There were four beers total, including the Gnomes of Fitfield, which is still coming out in November. So they've done three so far. Got that one coming out in November. IPAs, you gotta get your hands on them. And they're also running that series back next year. We love Three Sheeps, great people, and great beer up in Sheboygan. By the way, Taproom up there is a great place to check out this fall. And speaking of three sheeps, I do want to thank our other partners before diving into this one as well. Annex Wealth Management. The fall is a great time to get your life together, and that means looking at your finances. Annex is a holistic wealth management firm with offices in and all around Milwaukee that helps you with everything: retirement planning, smart investing, estate planning, legacy planning, and tax strategies all under one roof. Annex know the difference. Next, we've got Nicolai Law, the Midwest Law firm. Injured, get Nicola and Russell, and the team will take great care of you, including, you know, if you get injured when the when the when the gnomes of Fifth Field are tossing rocks out of the woods at you or any legitimate injury, call our good friends over at Nicolai Law. And if you're looking for a nice canned old fashion this fall, I love a good drink. Wisconsinably beverage company, canned old fashioned, best vodka brandy and canned cocktails in the game, available at bars and liquor stores across the state, including in the corner bar in Wright Field, the damn fam perfect for hopefully a long Brewers playoff run. We were also at Sendex yesterday doing a shooting. They got they got drink Wisconsinable Beverage Company and Three Sheeps right over there. So make sure to check those out. And um, all right, let's dive in with our good friends Josh and Jeff.

SPEAKER_00
3:52

It started at a young age for me. My mom was really into this stuff growing up, and uh she kind of got hooked me hooked on it. She had a lot of stories of like angels and haunted houses where she grew up, and you know, I just kind of caught the bug at an early age. I was terrified of it at first. I never wanted to see a ghost. I didn't want to have any supernatural encounters, but it seemed to have grown on me over the years. And uh I've been doing the Badgerland Legends in an official capacity for uh going on seven years now, just trying to document all the spooky things of the Badger State, people, places, and things that make Wisconsin legendary.

SPEAKER_04
4:32

Very cool. Did your mom have any paranormal experiences?

SPEAKER_00
4:36

You know, she after her mom died, her mom died at a young age. I was probably a baby at the time, and she was cleaning some of her stuff out, and she felt a profound presence while in her house, and the smell of her perfume wafting over her. I think that was kind of a compelling story to tell me as a kid.

SPEAKER_04
4:59

And uh have have you had any? You don't or what's the most you know terrifying experience that that you've had? You do a lot of this stuff now. Probably like Willie Street on Halloween. But they shut that down, didn't they? Oh no, state that's state street, right? State street's no longer going on. I mean, that was that was a banger back in the day.

SPEAKER_00
5:19

Yes, it was wild. Um, but yeah, I get that that question all the time, and I wish I had a more profound story. So I would say that I'm still seeking out those experiences. I've had the opportunity to be in some of the most haunted places in the state. I visited across the country, uh, several haunted locations. You know, I'm looking for that one moment in the paranormal field they call the holy grail, like a full body apparition that's actually seeing the visage of like a full ghost or at least like torso up of an unidentifiable ghost. I haven't had that yet.

SPEAKER_01
5:58

So what place like gave you what what had the most like intense feeling? You know what I mean? Like what was your spookiest or scariest?

SPEAKER_00
6:06

The I would say there is a place in downtown Manitowak. It's called Dead by Dawn's. It is a scare BMB or uh Dead and Breakfast, and you can spend the night there. So the Dawn is the name of the lady that runs the place, and she was a formal former haunted attraction uh person. So she ran like haunted houses. So all of her the items that she had on display at these places are now inside of this building in downtown Manitowk. And I got to hook up with a paranormal uh investigative group and spend the evening and into the late night investigating that place, and that place is very, very active. And since we have our friend here from Sheboygan, the Sheboygan Asylum is also a very active place. And you you've been through that a number of times or before. Yeah, absolutely. I've I've gone on several tours and got to uh visit the property, uh, go with some more experienced people, and the really cool thing is the tour guides there, they have their own relationships with whatever resides there, whether it's a ghost entity, I'm not sure really sure where to put that, but it seems like when they go there, they get responses on their equipment, uh knocks on the wall, uh different lighting triggers lighting up when they ask questions. Uh very, very active place. So dead and breakfasts are a thing. It it is uh apparently in downtown Manitowak, it is.

SPEAKER_04
7:44

And people pay to stay overnight.

SPEAKER_00
7:46

People people spend the night there. They don't get paid to do it as a challenge or anything. You know, that would that would open up a new wrankle in a reality show. Maybe we can get Mr. Beast on the horn and we could get into that. But uh yeah, they have a suite in there with three different rooms that you can rent for the night. Um a friend of mine took one of the rooms. I actually slept out in the living room and just explored the place at night with the team, and it just very a lot of activity. No full body apparitions, a lot of um hits on the equipment, a lot of strange sounds, strange feelings in just kind of a strange place.

SPEAKER_04
8:27

Do you are there lights on or do you have like a headlight and what is what's the equipment setup when you're trying to find something?

SPEAKER_00
8:34

So you want to get your eyes to adjust to the surroundings, so you want to keep the lighting as low as possible. So if you have um like a tape recorder or some kind of EMF meter, that's gonna have a little bit of background light to it, so you can at least get where you are. But a lot of times people will do seances where they will just sit kind of vigil in the dark and wait for something to happen.

SPEAKER_04
8:58

Josh, have you had any paranormal experiences over there? Oh man.

SPEAKER_01
9:03

I don't I don't I can't think of anything.

SPEAKER_04
9:06

Nothing stands out. No. Okay, I wanna I wanna show you this video. Um, both you. So Bree and I were just peacefully recording uh a promo video for the Milwaukee County Zoo for their Cheers um Cheers Holiday Lights event, and I'm I'm uh on the train and then a weird sound comes up on on this thing. I'm curious if uh if you think it's it's something or or nothing. Do you think it you think it might be something, right? Or am I gonna look like a complete idiot? Okay.

SPEAKER_01
9:38

Wait, give us the background one more time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04
9:40

Bree and I are just recording a pro Milwaukee Cup promo video for Cheers, which is like a adults' night at the zoo that got the holiday. Oh, Fisher's setup. Cool. Great, great event. We're gonna do it again this year. Yep. And I'm just sitting down on the train at the Milwaukee County Zoo, and I don't hear anything. And then I listen back to the video and I'm like, what the fuck was that? Let's hear it. You can uh I think the vol the volume should be up. You can just press press play.

SPEAKER_02
10:22

Or the train. Or you can ride the train with the beer.

SPEAKER_04
10:34

What what is that?

SPEAKER_00
10:37

You're laughing at me. I'm not sure what that is. It's probably the paranormal though.

SPEAKER_04
10:49

What is that noise? It was not me farting. Oh, I'd like to make that clear. See, I thought that you I thought you were pulling our leg, Jerry.

SPEAKER_01
10:57

Or your finger. I think that's a haunted elephant, right? Okay. The haunted elephant at the monkey zoo.

SPEAKER_04
11:10

Not like that. For me to squeeze into that type position, I'm a very stiff guy. Um do you think that was something or no?

SPEAKER_01
11:20

I think it's pretty wild to air your flatulences online. Is that bad? Paranormal activity.

SPEAKER_05
11:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_04
11:28

Um anyway, Josh. So that that was not a mind-blowing encounter to either of either of you two over there. Indetermined.

SPEAKER_01
11:40

Okay, I believe.

SPEAKER_04
11:41

I was I was looking for a little clarity on what happened there. Um, mystery is still out over at the zoo. Uh haunted bowels.

SPEAKER_01
11:48

In the haunted bowels of the zoo.

SPEAKER_04
11:50

Josh, before we uh get into some stories, how how did you come up with this whole cryptid series?

SPEAKER_01
11:55

Yeah, I mean, you know, at Three Cheeps, we just we love to celebrate our Wisconsinists, and so we're always looking for creative ways to do that. And you can only talk about, you know, cheese and sausage so much, and you know, all of our great sports teams. And so this is just another angle for us to kind of lean into our Wisconsinists. And Wisconsin is just full of awesome lore and stories. Uh, you know, I think the Northwoods of Wisconsin are just full of those, like, you know, those uh uh those oral stories that have lived on for you know forever. Um and so yeah, that's that's what this is all about. It's just a fun way for us to uh celebrate all the great stories in Wisconsin. And so we have a rich history of cryptids in Wisconsin. Gotta correct you, it's not cryptic, it's cryptids. They're called cryptids. Um uh and there's I mean, there's just so many. Um, and so that's what we're trying to do. So we had four this year. Obviously, the most well-known one is the hodeg of Rhinelander. That's when you see kind of all over Wisconsin, that's Wisconsin's claim to fame. Um, but we'll have three more next year. We're gonna do the hodeg again, but we'll have three more next year. And uh so yeah, it's just it's just been a fun kind of series to to work through.

SPEAKER_00
13:10

So you got jumped off with the hodeg. Yeah, and then he followed it up with the other big guy, Bigfoot. Yep. We rounded things off with the Beast of Ray Road, yep. And now you have the launching of the gnomes.

SPEAKER_01
13:22

The gnomes of Fife Field, yeah. So we wanted to do um, you know, the gnomes was kind of this light-hearted one, uh, very uh obscure, uh, but a fun one. So the gnomes are known for hiding in the woods and throwing stones at people if they get too close to kind of scare them away. Um, so that's a fun one. But yeah, obviously, you know, Bigfoot, uh, there's a ton of uh sightings of Bigfoot in Wisconsin, um, which has been fun. And then the Beast debray Road is is one that is uh really well known as actually was a Hollywood movie created about the Beast of Bray Road. And um I drove out there and and it's a very unassuming, just kind of country road. You wouldn't really think twice about it, but there is definitely like a feeling on that road. It was, I don't know, maybe I like psyched myself out, but like just driving on that like empty road, I don't know, and there's kind of this like creepy umbrella of trees that come over the top, and then you kind of turn this blind corner, and so I could totally see like how at night you kind of go around this corner and your headlights could catch something, you know, in the uh the tall grass there. So yeah, these have been fun for us.

SPEAKER_04
14:27

And in the last one, the gnomes, that beer comes out in November.

SPEAKER_01
14:30

Yeah, that's releasing in uh the first part of November, yep.

SPEAKER_04
14:33

Jeff, what do you want to dive into the gnomes over here?

SPEAKER_00
14:37

Have you ever heard about the gnomes in Fifield? Yeah, uh in the book, it was booked by Chad Lewis, Road Guide to Haunted Places in Wisconsin. Uh, he talks about the it's kind of a paranormal nexus because there is so many legends built up just about this place. It's called Holy Cross Road in Fifield, Wisconsin. Where is Fifield for those listening and myself? It's between Park Falls and Phillips and Price County. Is that way up there? So if you take if you go up to Rhinelander, visit the Hodag, instead of going right into Rhinelander on Highway A, you take a left and you head east towards Prentice, and then you go up north towards uh Park Falls, and it's between Park Falls and Phillips. And uh tiny little town, uh very unassuming, but they have the story of this haunted railroad track, and there's a paranormal dare involved, which I love that wrinkle. Whenever there's something that you can do to try to put yourself into the story, to interact, to try to to have uh an experience. So you're supposed to drive, go to Holy Crossroads, so it's kind of got a mystical name and park on the tracks, put your car in neutral, and it said that ghost children are supposed to push you to safety because when they were alive, they weren't so fortunate and they were killed on that track. Whether there's any validity to that story, I'm not sure, but it's built up enough legend around it. So that's a long way of saying that this is the place where the gnomes visit. There is a woods along that road, and it's said that if you get out of your car and you throw a rock into that woods, something will throw a rock back at you. Now I haven't done this there yet. I hope to soon. But uh, I would love to get uh a rock whipped out my head just for confirmation. But people say that the party responsible for that rock are the notes.

SPEAKER_04
16:45

Fascinating. So you go up there, you park your car on the railroad track, put it in neutral, hopefully get pushed to safety. Yes. And then go throw a rock in the woods to see what happens.

SPEAKER_00
16:58

Okay, we're in Northwoods of Wisconsin. A lot of people are bored. You know, you really can't tip a cow, uh, you know, much to Chris Farley's sugar and Tommy Boy. It's not not quite possible. But you can at least throw a rock at a gnome if you need something to do on a Friday night.

SPEAKER_04
17:15

You can. You can.

SPEAKER_01
17:16

Do you think that the gnomes are these like grumpy old men like we have depicted on our label? Uh you know, with big long white hair and big.

SPEAKER_00
17:23

I've heard they're your traditional uh gnome garb, as you would see in a garden. But I do like the artwork on the can. I think that that fits well.

SPEAKER_04
17:34

And um since you're releasing the hodeg again next year, and that's such a popular one. Do you want to touch on that? Yeah. The hodeg of Rylander. Which they got that was in Rhylander not too long ago. They got they got hodags all over the place. They got a big one in front of the Chamber of Commerce.

SPEAKER_00
17:50

Um there. Yes, the that's the big guy, and it's right there when you drive in. So the Rhinelander is known for the hodeg, and it comes from the lumbering days of Wisconsin, back when it was just a huge pine forest. And there was a guy by the name of Eugene Shepherd, he was a Chikol timber cruiser, and he would explore the Northwoods near Rhinelander looking for cuts of timber. He did a lot of the early maps and a lot of the surveys of the area. And then he would go to companies out east that were in native timber products, and then he would facilitate uh the transaction and take his cut of that. So he really fell in love with Rhinelander and he didn't want it to be just another soddist city where everything is just cut. He wanted to make it into a resort town. So he thought, what better way to get people there than to have its own monster? So it started as a lumberjack tale of this beast of the Northwoods that lumberjacks would encounter and people would go look for this thing. Well, Gene Shepherd, he decided to actually go out and hunt it. The first expedition, he actually killed one and burnt it to a crisp. But coincidentally enough, right before the inaugural Oneida County Fair in 1896, he captured one and he brought it to the fair and he put it in a darkened tent, and people came and they paid a dime to enter the tent to see this beast. Now, what the people encountered was a darkened tent with a thin tarp between it and a lot of growling and commotion. So people came out of that tent believing that there was a wild animal in there. So he kept the roost up for several years until he finally spilled it. You know, uh it wasn't really a hodag, but the hodag's still out there in the woods of Rhinelander, so come up to Rhinelander. The fishing's great, and if you you get squirrely, you can go look for a hodag.

SPEAKER_04
19:57

So I so I was curious, because yeah, he did actually bring some set up at a fair. Yes. But later at his house. No no one could see it? Was it some other kind of animal dressed up as a hodag or what from anything?

SPEAKER_00
20:12

From my interpretation, it was his kids on the other side. Um slapping at the tarp, making growling sounds, uh clanking around. And there's a modern interpretation of of the legend now. Uh my friend Carrie and Ben from uh Carrie from the Logging Museum, Ben from the Hodag store. Did you stop at the Hodag store while you're up there?

SPEAKER_04
20:34

I did not, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_00
20:36

Yeah, next time through. But uh they have a new contraption where it is a a hodag in a crate and it makes all kinds of commotion. The kids absolutely love it. It lights up, it rumbles, smoke comes out, and he does a whole carnival barker act around it at the Hodeg Heritage Fest. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Josh, you were up there.

SPEAKER_01
21:00

Yeah, I I've experienced uh well, shout out to Ben. He uh I got to hang out with him for a couple hours and we were up there. Um, he actually put on a hoodeg costume and led me into the woods for a whole photo shoot. It was absolutely hilarious. That's great. I asked him to get into this like Burt Reynolds pose where he like laid down and like, you know. Um so that was great. Yeah, Ben is an awesome guy. But yeah, I saw the hot egg uh in the box, and it is just as frightening as uh as Jeff describes. It's pretty cool. And wall to wall, I mean hodeg, everything you can think of, wall to wall. Yes, in the shape of a hodeg or with a hodeg on it, or whatever. It was everything is pretty incredible, yeah. Great stop.

SPEAKER_04
21:39

Um, we're gonna get into some Milwaukee stuff, but Josh informed me about um Pepe. Pepe, yeah. The Lake Ma I'd never heard of the Mississippi monster. Yeah. So have you heard of this breeze?

SPEAKER_00
21:52

This is in your neck of the woods.

unknown
21:54

I think so. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
21:55

So Lake Pepin is like a backwater of of um The Mid Mississippi River.

SPEAKER_04
22:01

By like Hudson, Wisconsin?

SPEAKER_00
22:03

Near there, yeah. I think it's just south. And sorry, my geography is not that great with a map. But it's along the river, along the border, because it borders both Wisconsin and Minnesota. It was actually where water skiing was invented. Uh just to put that in your hat. But there is uh supposedly this lake monster living in Lake Pepin, and they call him Pepe. And one of the the um boat operators there, like the river boat operators, um, actually sponsored a bounty that if you could uh provide proof of Pepi, you could win fifty thousand dollars. I believe that's got gone unclaimed.

SPEAKER_01
22:42

So it's still active though to this day. Yeah, I believe so.

SPEAKER_04
22:45

When did when did he bring that up?

SPEAKER_00
22:48

I think it was the mid-2000s. Okay. When when he officially launched that. Have there ever been any sightings or supposed sightings? I I believe there's sightings every year. Whether they're um credible, that's another story. Now there was a folklorist by the name of Charles E. Brown, and one of his quotes was a and this was the 1915, 1920s, he said, uh, a resort town without a lake monster is behind the times. And he kind of you know lifted the veil on the fact that a lot of people, just like Gene Shepherd in, you know, the 1890s with Rhinelander, a lot of people were attracting people to the area with this monster tourism, uh, you know, as we do today with uh with the beer kind of celebrate the folklore of the area. Nobody owns Bigfoot, nobody owns the hodag. But you know, if a product is fine as three sheeps wants to celebrate it on their cans, more the merrier. So Pepe's kind of like the the lachness monster of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Well, the funny thing is they're for just about every lake, including all of the lakes in Madison, they have their own resident, Lake Monster. Uh Winnie, Winnebago, Jenny, Lake Geneva. Creatively named. Very creative. Nessie for Loch Ness, Peppy for Peppin. What about the Man Bat of La Crosse? You must have checked out my Instagram.

SPEAKER_01
24:21

No, but that was crazy timing. I saw, yeah.

SPEAKER_00
24:25

That's funny because I just posted about that. You did today? No, uh earlier this week. Okay. Yep. So yeah, the man-bat of lacrosse. Um, a winged humanoid creature witnessed in, I think, 2006 by a couple native gentlemen, uh, just came upon their truck while driving down Briggs Road in Holman, Wisconsin, and had a freakish encounter with something they couldn't explain. The passenger in the truck, I believe that was a younger gentleman, um, he had a fit of nausea uh right after that. So they experienced something. And uh funny story is my sister lives in Holman now, and she had moved there in 2020 from from Phoenix, and you know, she just got settled in. I'm like, oh, have you heard about the Holman man bat on Briggs Road? She's like, I drive down Brick Road all the time. Don't joke about that. So um apparently it happened, it's out there, it's in the lore.

SPEAKER_01
25:24

So that's like a modern encounter, which is pretty unique, right? Yeah. I mean, what so what do you how do you what do you attribute that to? What did those people see in 2006?

SPEAKER_00
25:32

I mean, you know, a lot of people in they happen along Lake Michigan as well. So from where we're sitting down through Chicago, along, and they call it the Lake Michigan Mothman, and that is seen along the shores of Lake Michigan. A lot of people attribute it to misidentification of large birds, you know, cranes, heron, heron. I don't know if you've run into a crane in the wild, but they are very large birds and they make a terrifying noise. And I think that could be responsible, but you know, I like to hold out hope that there's something a little beyond the strange.

SPEAKER_04
26:07

But like 2005, was that all over the news then I'm guessing?

SPEAKER_00
26:11

Yeah. I'd have to pull the actual uh I read about it in Linda Gottfried's book, Yeah, Wisconsin Monsters, but 2005, that's still pre-camera phones and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_04
26:22

Um, but like today you would think if if people see something, they're just gonna go like this, unless it's just in a flash almost.

SPEAKER_00
26:29

Yeah, in a lot of these encounters, a lot of people are stupefied and they won't have their faculties together enough to pull out their camera phone and take it. And some that do, you know, it just ends up as a blurry picture.

SPEAKER_01
26:44

It does seem like every encounter ends with a a picture that looks like it was shot on, you know, a crummy camera. Even now.

SPEAKER_00
26:54

There's there's a great Mitch Head Headberg joke about the Bigfoot just being a blurry creature walking through the woods. Rip in peace. Mitch Hedberg.

SPEAKER_04
27:05

Um, and then I mean one one more encrypted for next year, Wendigo of the North Woods.

unknown
27:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
27:14

So Chad Lewis, the guy that did the Wisconsin Guide, uh Road Guide to Haunted Places, he and his uh writing partner, Kevin Lee Nelson, they really went deep into the legend of the Wendigo. And even after writing the book, they felt like they just didn't know enough. So it is, I believe, an Algonquin tale of a large flesh-eating monster that roams the north woods of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Canada as well. And it is a winter creature. And uh Chad has done several seminars or talks on this creature, you know, showing his book. And the native people they do not like hearing that word, especially in the winter months, because they believe that just invoking its name could bring it into their presence. And there have been recent sightings really um in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, even during the summer months, uh, a couple young men at a summer camp way up in the Northwoods. Um I I can't remember the exact location at the moment, but they had what they uh thought was the Wendigo. They had seen it and then they looked into what it might be, and then the Wendigo stuff popped up and kind of confirmed it. And and Chad for the book interviewed them and he he felt like they were very credible in their story. Chad Chad believes this is real. I don't know if Chad believes it's real, but he believes that these kids experienced something they couldn't the Wendows Wendigo is kind of having its moment, huh?

SPEAKER_01
28:54

In pop culture and stuff. You see, I feel like you see more and more Wendigo's and like video games.

SPEAKER_00
28:59

The Wendigo uh amateur hockey team. Yeah as well.

SPEAKER_01
29:02

True, yeah. Is it uh is it Eagle River? I can't remember, but I know you are you are correct, yeah.

SPEAKER_04
29:10

Josh, how did you come up with these cryptids? Which ones to make beers of?

SPEAKER_01
29:15

Oh man, I mean, we tried to do some that are obviously well known, um, some that were a little more light-hearted, like the gnomes, um or like Peppy, you know, a little more lighthearted. Um, but yeah, just I don't know, just the ones that that caught my eye, I think that had um good stories behind them. Um, you know, encounter stories that people, you know, seem to be pretty legit, you know. So that's kind of how we picked them.

SPEAKER_04
29:40

Is there anything you guys do with the flavor depending on the the story?

SPEAKER_01
29:44

Yeah, so I mean, I'm just a marketing guy, so I don't get you know, I don't get into the science of brewing too much. Shout out to Dr.

SPEAKER_04
29:50

Nate over there as a fantastic name.

SPEAKER_01
29:53

Obviously, our owner, our brewmaster, Grant Polly. Um, but yeah, I mean he he's excited, especially this year, about going anywhere, you know, he's gonna fly out to Washington to Yakima Valley and pick out hops specifically for these this next set of cryptid beers, and he wants to kind of match their personalities with the hops and you know, all that kind of stuff, and kind of build it to the character that is gonna be on the label. So, yeah, he's really excited about that.

SPEAKER_04
30:17

Jeff, um, what is your favorite Milwaukee area story? Hey everyone, hope you're enjoying this episode. Just a reminder that the fall is a fantastic place to enjoy the foliage and also get your life together, and that means looking at your finances. Annex is a holistic wealth management firm with offices in and all around Milwaukee that helps you with everything retirement planning, smart investing, estate planning, legacy planning, and tax strategies all under one roof. If you need help with your finances, reach out to our good friends over at Annex Wealth Management. Know the difference. That is annexwealth.com. annexwealth.com. All right, let's get back with Josh and Jeff.

SPEAKER_00
31:04

One of my favorites is one that you can experience on any given day in Milwaukee, and that is the St. Joan of Arc Chapel on Marquette's campus. I know Richie's a Marquette alum, so I will ask you have you visited the chapel?

SPEAKER_04
31:22

I have been in the chapel, yeah, right on campus there.

SPEAKER_00
31:25

Okay, and then have you touched the Joan of Arc's stone? I've not touched the stone. You need to you need to touch the stone. Okay. So just to back up, the St. Joan of Arc's Chapel is the oldest building in Wisconsin. It is an import from France, and from that name, um, we know that it is associated with St. St. Joan of Arc by legend. It said that she visited the chapel in the Rhone Valley and she prayed to the Mother Mary. And when she was done praying, she kissed the stone that she was kneeling on. So that chapel was disassembled. It was brought to New York by a railroad magnate's daughter. Upon her death, it was acquired by a philanthropist that thought a great place for it would be right there on the Marquette campus. So they reconstructed it there, and uh they brought in that altar stone and they put it in a wall niche. Now, the interesting thing about that stone is that if you lay your hands on the St. Joan of Arc stone, it is discernibly colder than the surrounding stonework. And I've done it. I don't know if it's just a trick of the imagination. There was a very nice docent showing it off, so I didn't want to like pull out like a thermometer and being like, is this thing really colder? I'm gonna debunk this right now. I didn't do that, but uh I definitely feel like it it felt colder. So I would say to anybody to uh visit the chapel just for the historical sake, uh beautiful old chapel, and then to experience that stuff.

SPEAKER_04
33:06

I've actually not been inside of it before. Okay. I was thinking of J Zoo, which is the very old church on Marquette's campus, but the chapel is yeah, it's tucked away behind the library and in that you know, nice, nice green area.

SPEAKER_00
33:17

Yeah, nice little quad area. Yeah. It's beautiful, and it's it's kind of unexpected because you're in downtown Milwaukee, you walk through a couple buildings, and then you're in this beautiful green area. This old French chapel is just sitting there in the courtyard. And you'll have to check the hours before you go to make sure that you know it's going to be open. But uh it's something that I would say any Milwaukee or somebody visiting Milwaukee should check out.

SPEAKER_01
33:44

Richie told me that he's afraid of chapels because the possibility of bursting in the flames when he steps in.

SPEAKER_04
33:51

I'm afraid of a lot of things that was not top of mind, but uh good good to know now.

SPEAKER_00
33:57

Going to your Catholic schools and um, you know, a Catholic college definitely can develop some phobias over the years, I can say from personal experience.

SPEAKER_04
34:06

Yeah. Yeah. Um what what about the little people of Muskego? That gets some buzz around this area.

SPEAKER_00
34:12

Yes, and that is probably one of my favorites, and that's just a step outside of Milwaukee. So that is in Muskego, a neighboring uh what what would you say? A sub a Milwaukee suburb, yeah. So right by New Berlin. You know, I think this one really cropped up in the 1980s, a place called Mystic Drive in Moskegos. So it already has kind of a spooky notion. It said that if you drive down to the end of Mystic Drive, you'll be greeted by a colony of little people. Now, the story behind the little people is they were retired circus folk. Some say that they were they were disgruntled workers in the circus and they killed the ringmaster. Um, and then they moved to Mosquego, moved in, and there was a farmer on the land. They killed and hung the farmer in the barn there. So there's a lot of spookiness there. Uh at one point there was stone huts there that may have contributed to legend. I think those um those were connected to some of the Finnish settlers that came to Milwaukee um in the mid-1800s. And I think that's kind of what explains them. And then some people say, well, there's uh waist-high stop signs, and uh the best one is there was an albino uh gentleman that guards the end of Mystic Drive to the place called Haunchyville. And that's the name of the colony of little people, Haunchyville. And that's what it's known for. You know, unfortunately, over the years, Mystic Drive has been populated by large estates, uh you know, multi-acre mansions down there. So a lot of the mystique has kind of worn off, but the folklore uh still rings through. And that would probably be a cool beer as well, Josh. What what time period did this take place allegedly? So people would legend trip there in like the eighties or nineties and head down there and search around for the haunches. The first time I heard about the legend was in a book called Weird Wisconsin, and that came out in the early 2000s, and that's when it kind of really came into prominence. I know somebody who grew up in uh Big Bend, and it was well known in high school as kind of uh a place to head on a Friday night for what they called a fright night, uh, where they could go check out something spooky and maybe get a little thrill. Um, and a co-host of mine on the Wisconsin Legends podcast, we did a full one-hour episode on it. Uh, he grew up in Big Bend and he went down to the end of Mystic Drive into Haunchyville, and he went with uh I think his buddy and two girls, and while he was walking down there, uh one of those big birds, not the Mothman, but a crane, uh spooked him and he ran back to the car. And he tells it on the podcast, it's a hilarious story.

SPEAKER_04
37:24

So did they think it was still inhabited by little people then?

SPEAKER_00
37:30

I I think by that time it was well known that the little people may have moved on. Okay. But there was a lot of people that said, yeah, it's it's an abandoned colony.

SPEAKER_04
37:40

So there were no no official sightings of them? No. Okay. Not to my knowledge. What about any um you said the the rave? The rave in Milwaukee. Yeah. It's very popular venue.

SPEAKER_00
37:56

Would people know Rave, they call it the Rave or Eagles Ballroom. It was originally an Eagles Club, it had bowling alley, boxing room, gym, the swimming pool down there, which I think you can still like go into almost not full of water, but it looks cool. A lot of the bands will that visit will do like a photo shoot in the pool, and they'll sign their names along the top of top of the wall. And it's just kind of a creepy uh vibe down there. They open it up for Halloween for ghost tours. Um, the sad reality is though, a 15-year-old boy did die in that pool, and they say that his ghost still haunts it. What year did that take place? Uh, I don't have the era at all. I think it was probably the 1940s, if I had to guess.

SPEAKER_03
38:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_00
38:46

So the rave was around back then. It was yeah, it under it wasn't the rave, it was the Eagles Club. So it was a fraternal order of the Eagles who inhabited it. Interesting. And had all of the amenities as kind of a private club, and then eventually it was a music venue.

SPEAKER_01
39:08

You know what I want to hear more about? I want to hear more about the Pfister. Because I know that like sports teams, there are like people who professional athletes who will refuse to stay in that place because they've had encounters that they can't, you know.

SPEAKER_00
39:24

Now, Fister Hotel, that yeah, incredible place, beautiful old world design, Victorian era. It is gorgeous in there. 1893. Yeah, even if you don't stay there and you're in Milwaukee, just pop in and walk through the lobby. I last time I was in Milwaukee, I just popped in and just like roamed the floors until somebody asked me what I was doing.

SPEAKER_04
39:44

Yeah, and I mean Mason Street Grill's a good spot in there. You can take the elevator up all the way up to blue, maybe the best view in the city up there.

SPEAKER_00
39:51

Yeah, it's it's uh a gorgeous old hotel, but it is also in fine accommodations, and that's why it is the choice um housing for the visiting teams for both the Brewers and the Bucks, and a lot of famous uh MLB players in particular. Now, baseball players are probably your most superstitious of all athletes, maybe golfers there too, but very routine-oriented, very superstitious, very, very matter-of-fact. So the fact that they do it is is kind of um it's on par for for them. But um Bryce Harper famously uh stayed there and was spooked out enough that I believe he moved rooms. Mookie bets, he absolutely refuses to stay there and seeks other accommodations while in Milwaukee. Now, if I could ask one favor of Charles Pfister, the proprietor who said to haunt there, is if the Dodgers end up coming in the playoffs to Milwaukee, please, Mr. Pfister, why don't you give Joey Otani a hell of a night? Especially if you see it. We might need that. Because we will need that. We will need that. Let's ruin their sleep, I agree.

SPEAKER_04
41:11

Did they have any very weird encounters?

SPEAKER_00
41:14

So um Bryce Harper said that clothing and furniture was even moved around his room. And I believe when Carlos Gomez, former brewer, when he stayed there as uh a twin when he was with Minnesota before he came to Milwaukee, he also had an encounter there where um I believe stuff was moved in his room. Um a lot of times electronics glitch unexpectedly, um, footsteps in rooms, just uh lights flickering, all kinds of crazy paranormal phenomenon in the old fister.

SPEAKER_04
41:51

Yeah, it's funny. We had an episode with the brewer's wives a few weeks ago, and one of one of them refused to stay here one night before her husband got traded to the brewers when they were in town.

SPEAKER_00
42:01

Yeah. Yeah. And I wouldn't deter anybody from staying there because it's world-class accommodations, beautiful old hotel. And I guess for me, if I had a ghost encounter, it'd just be a bonus.

SPEAKER_04
42:12

You got anything on our neighbor Shakers down the street?

SPEAKER_00
42:15

Yeah, Shakers is an old cigar bar. Um it's I believe it was a barrel stave mill before it was um before prohibition um you know, barreling. And it was apparently owned by Al Capone and his brother. You know, it's unverifiable whenever a high-profile gangster owns something, it's not gonna be in his name, right? But that is at least the legend is that Capone was uh one of the owners of it. Uh apparently Jeffrey Dahmer stayed there, and then uh there is supposed to be a ghost of a little girl, and her name's Elizabeth that haunts the bathrooms there. So Brie, next time you're there, stay out of the ladies' room. They even named a martini after her, the little Elizabeth, the Elizabeth Raspberry Martini. Have people reported any any encounters with her, or it's just rumored. Knocking on the stalls while they're using them. Um some people report to actually have seen the little girl. Um, I guess take that for what it's worth. And, you know, speaking of a little girl, you know, knocking on the doors, uh seeing the little girl, but that's the main one. Apparently in the basement they have also had um activity with a malicious spirit. Somebody not so happy. Kind of activity with the malicious spirit. You know, a lot of times in paranormal, I can't speak to spit shakers, that would be being pushed, being scratched, uh, even hearing disembodied voices that um yell at you and uh Smoky apparitions actually coming with the cigar haze while people are smoking. Um wispy uh figures appearing within that smoke.

SPEAKER_04
44:10

And being in this world, do you have a lot of friends or people who have had these ghost encounters and have actually been pushed or shoved before?

SPEAKER_00
44:19

You know, I've had people that have been scratched for sure. Some people that, yeah, they say that like they were knocked off balance by something or they've had cold rushes of stuff coming through them, uh, people seeing full body apparitions. Uh yeah. So just kind of not like you're getting in a fist fight with something you can't see that doesn't really happen in real life. I don't think you're gonna get knocked out or go like 10 rounds with Tyson on with a ghost, but you know, you might have uh something push you, knock you off balance, or um a lot of people with um you know more vestibular things with something rushing through them and losing balance. Yeah. Yeah. Josh, you have any more you'd like to know about?

SPEAKER_01
45:02

I just I think that the knocking on the stalls is one of the more frightening things that you know an entity could do. Especially that just feels like it just feels like such a private moment and like you're still vulnerable. Like that always freaks me out. I mean, you that's like uh you know, that's like a cliche in horror movies, right?

SPEAKER_00
45:20

You're in the stall and then you see feet and stuff, and oh no, that's yeah, I I seek out this stuff, but the one place I don't want to encounter it, like, is in my bedroom.

SPEAKER_04
45:30

Yeah, it's like just because you could never sleep in there again, or no, it's just like that's kind of my sanctuary.

SPEAKER_00
45:36

It's where I would that's where I want to stay. I didn't want anybody up in my business while you know, trying to get disease. And uh the Maxwell Mansion, Lake Geneva. I stayed there with my wife. Um there is Is it is it a bed and breakfast, a dead and breakfast?

SPEAKER_04
45:53

What is the Maxwell Mansion?

SPEAKER_00
45:55

Maxwell Mansion is uh it was a private residence by a doctor in Maxwell, and since then it has been turned into more of a a bed and breakfast without the the breakfast. So just a uh a fancier hotel in downtown Lake Geneva, and then they have the stables in the back. Now the stables weren't part of the original structure, it used to be like a roadside motel, but they converted it and kind of um incorporated it into the main, and that's where we stayed in the the stables. And uh my wife, me and my wife were there, and the first night went to sleep. Um my wife woke up in the the middle of the night, she's laying on her side, and she felt a hand touch her back, and it was so distinct that she thought it was me. She turned you you were you were in bed with her, I'm guessing. Yeah, so she was facing, so she would have been facing left, I would have been facing right, yep, and then she rolls over to see like what's up, and turns around and I'm sound asleep facing the other direction. Nope. Yeah. Wow. But she's had more paranormal encounters than me, and she doesn't go looking for the stuff. So are you pissed off about that? A little jealous. You gotta be. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04
47:12

What else has happened to her?

SPEAKER_00
47:14

Is that the worked in she worked in a hospital? She's a she's a nurse practitioner, but she was also uh a a nurse for a while, and she it was a hospital in Madison, and she was walking through an abandoned part of uh an old pediatric unit, and she had felt something on her ankle, and when she got home, she had scratches on her ankle from something inside that hospital. Dude, no. And she was she was just scratches. This was on night on a night shift. She when we first met, she worked a lot of overnight. So she came home and said, You will not believe this. And in that same unit, uh there was a an out a door that went outside, and there was a bell from the outside to that door. So, like if somebody was making a delivery, they'd ring the bell. So several times uh that bell would ring, they would open the door immediately, and nobody would be there. Stop it. Really? Yeah. Hospitals are wild, man. You know, I think just uh the emotion coming through there, the amount of deaths, uh just a primer for spirit activity. Especially in a pediatrics area. She she was, yeah. She's she is now a nurse practitioner and pediatrics.

SPEAKER_01
48:41

The words night shift and abandoned should never be in the same sense. I don't want to go anywhere on the night shift, anything abandoned.

SPEAKER_00
48:47

And abandoned may have been a strong word. It was just like uh the decommissioned, they weren't using the space anymore for pediatrics, but yes, still pediatrics. So some people just die and their spirit hangs around. I would think that's the the most popular opinion is that yeah, they don't you know, either an impression of who they were in this life remains there, or possibly like a lost soul, which is incredibly sad when if you think of children. Other people think that uh maybe more malevolent entities like to be around death and dying. And I'm not sure what to make of that, but that's uh that is a theory.

SPEAKER_04
49:35

Any anywhere else in Milwaukee that is haunted?

SPEAKER_00
49:39

Grant Park. We talked about that as a great place to do a fall hike. Seven Bridges Trail. Seven Bridges Trail. Gorgeous. It's supposed to be haunted. So the um the entry bridge, have you ever heard the entry bridge?

SPEAKER_04
49:53

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I've I've I've been over there several times.

SPEAKER_00
49:55

Enter this wild wood and view the haunts of nature, which I just love because it kind of evokes some emotion. But apparently, each one of the bridges has their own story of some kind of entity or encounter. Unfortunately, some people have taken their lives there and may haunt that woods. I've heard uh scream, people reporting screams from the beach, and they go there thinking that they're gonna find somebody in distress, and there's absolutely no one.

SPEAKER_01
50:27

But you were there.

SPEAKER_04
50:28

Did you encounter anything? I have not. I've been I've been there several times. Grant and I had a had a beer on the beach, which is more pleasant than hearing someone screaming and walking over there and not seeing anything. So um wait for the sun to set and then go. Yeah, no, I I have not I haven't been there like at night or anything. I've just been there during during the day. Yeah, we've we've been over there. It's it's a great spot. Nice little golf course by there too, and a nice beach as well.

SPEAKER_01
50:57

Yeah. So Jeff, you've never had like this you know, mountaintop experience. Yeah. Do you feel like how do you feel like you'd really react? Because it's like one thing to like abstractly, you know, be involved in this stuff and like be curious, but like when something like that were to if something like that were to actually happen, how do you prepare yourself for that?

SPEAKER_00
51:17

You know, I've had enough encounters with this stuff that I guess I would have more, I'm I'm guessing I would have kind of a more kind of wonder, like being like, oh my God, like encountering this, and kind of maybe like not quite in your body experience, be like, is am I experiencing what I'm experiencing? Because and I've had I've had you know several encounters with you know things I couldn't explain. Like the closest thing I've had to like an apparition is like I've saw like a glimmering haze of something, and this was also in an abandoned hospital. It was a hospital, and then it was also a nursing home after that. And that was preceded by a loud metallic bang. And that was uh I was with a group of people and I thought somebody was putting putting it on, and uh there was nothing around us that would make that noise, like a like loud hollow sheet metal, like somebody kicked like a like a ductwork. Do you get terrified during any of this stuff? Or are you pretty chill? I'm pretty chill. Um, you know, there are there are times that you do get the hackles up on your neck, um, you get an uneasy feeling. But you kind of like that. You definitely go in seeking that for sure. Because you you are trying to encounter whatever is there, or else you wouldn't do this. But yeah, there are times where it's you you get a little anxious and you get a little disturbed.

SPEAKER_04
52:57

Are there like any low-hanging fruit encounters around Wisconsin where you have a higher probability of having that experience, and then some that you're kind of like, oh, this probably isn't gonna happen at all, but like let's chase it because it would be something.

SPEAKER_00
53:14

The the Sheboygan Asylum would definitely be up there just because you know it's publicly accessible. A lot of this stuff is either you know close to the public, private residence, or maybe it's not um open at night, but you know, places that have a specific, you know, aim to experience that stuff. Old Baraboo Inn in Baraboo, obviously, also has a lot of uh legends about um that was another place that was purportedly owned or at least visited by El Capone. Um a lot of murder in Mayhem, uh a lot of just kind of unbridled crime has happened in that area, and you know, back when we were the wild, wild west out here.

SPEAKER_01
54:02

So that's just downtown Baraboo. Downtown Baraboo, yeah. There's some circus law around Baraboo, too, right? Only a couple bunches.

SPEAKER_04
54:08

Yeah, it's a cute little downtown.

SPEAKER_00
54:10

Yeah, they they've done a lot. Um, they've I believe the Wisconsin Historical Society bought the theater, the Al Wrinkling Theater. Um, there is a brewery that there now, they make their own beer. Um the uh interesting story there is when they were renovating the Al Wrangling mansion, which is now the brewery, um, they found uh a box hidden beneath the floorboards that had an old Bavarian beer recipe. So now that is one of their beers that is um that that they brew. I tried just randomly in this house. But it it was yeah, the wringlings and apparently somebody left uh their beer recipe there. That's cool. I'm not sure. I can't remember exactly who they attributed to that, but it was a family beer recipe for the ringlings. And uh have you been there? I have not. Okay, but I tried the beer, it was very the old world bavarian taste. Yeah, not not really my cup of tea for beer, but you know, to some people that might be kind of kind of a stale schlitzer papst tape flavor.

SPEAKER_04
55:16

Do you have like a favorite uh true story that happened in Wisconsin?

SPEAKER_00
55:22

So I don't know how true it is, but my favorite story from Wisconsin is 1961, Eagle River. Now you've been up to Eagle River, uh resort community, but if you get off the beaten path, off of the main lakes, it's very rural, it's very like cabinet, resorty. Um 1961, there was a guy, he was a plumber and a chicken farmer, and he lived out in the country. His name was Joe Simonton. Real person, real person, okay. Uh you can actually see videos of this gentleman talking about his encounter. But what his encounter was, is uh it's about midday on an April day, he's outside, and a circular craft that he described as being brighter than chrome came down and landed, but not quite, just hovered on his property. Out pops a latch or a hatch, and an occupant steps out, and he's holding a jug that looks like water. And uh he's kind of waving in at Joe. Joe walks over and thinks, okay, this guy wants some water. He's not really sure what to think about this at the moment. So he retrieves the jug, fills it up, returns it to the occupant. And while he is making this exchange, Joe Simonton being a plumber, he's a mechanical guy. He looks inside the craft and he sees another occupant at what looks like a flat top grill. And he's making what looks like pancakes. And he says something to the effect of what you make in there. So the other occupant takes these off of the griddle and hands them to Joe Simonton. And uh they look like almost like coasters, they're very thin, um, but almost pancake-like. And people have said these are pancakes from outer space, and that's Joe Simonton's experience. And he actually kept the cakes, he actually tried a bite out of one, and this was back in the 1960s. So there was a lot of kind of um homebrew uh uh UFO, there's a lot of UFO settings around the Cold War um UFO societies, and somebody retrieved one of those cakes, sent it off to be tested. It seemed to be just like a regular buckwheat pancake, but uh its origins are unknown. Uh as far as Joe Simon, if you watch the the newsreel clippings of Joe Siminton, it sounds like he is forthright. He's a very soft-spoken guy, very metered, very logical. And whatever he experienced that day, I believe he experienced it. I don't know what to make of it, but it's uh one of my favorite stories from Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_04
58:20

I'm an you know about this.

SPEAKER_01
58:22

I don't know, but I'm thinking that that's either a great beer name or a great band name, Pancakes from Outer Space.

SPEAKER_00
58:27

That's that that definitely has to make it into your cryptid.

SPEAKER_04
58:30

That's a good one. So I'm I'm envisioning like a flying saucer.

SPEAKER_00
58:34

That's how he described it, almost like yeah.

SPEAKER_04
58:36

He said Did he say how big the inhabitants were? Was it tiny? Was it?

SPEAKER_00
58:41

I'm glad you asked that because he said that they were they were small men with a swarthy complexion. What is swarthy would be like a dark, he he called he referred to them as Italian-looking men. So like uh Mediterranean-looking guys, but they were they were smaller than him. If you look up Joe Simonton, he's kind of like a big burly dude that you'd see like up north Wisconsin, right? Uh real round face, he was probably mid-50s at the time, balding, heavier set guy. And these guys were a lot smaller. They were wearing jumpsuits and hats, and he he referred to them as Italian looking.

SPEAKER_01
59:23

That's pretty bold of him to walk up to these. I mean, that's that takes curves.

SPEAKER_00
59:27

The guy waved the waved the jug, and you know, it's just a Midwest courtesy. You know, would Midwest night somebody needs something, you're gonna get it for them, right? They didn't look like aliens. They didn't look like little green. And this was before the time of like the little green men trope.

SPEAKER_04
59:44

Are you thinking they were like if he's a big guy, are you thinking they were like five, five, five, or are they like two feet tall? Do you think that's a few more?

SPEAKER_00
59:51

I would say closer to because he didn't say like they looked otherworldly, he just said they were small, yeah Italian-looking guys. So I I would think probably like you know, like low fives.

SPEAKER_04
1:00:02

Interesting.

SPEAKER_00
1:00:04

And you know, I think if he experienced something, it may have been like some kind of government test craft, and these guys needed the water for something, but you know, they've since then we haven't released any craft that looks like that.

unknown
1:00:19

That we know of.

SPEAKER_00
1:00:21

Well, I mean, to the public, right? So that's probably my favorite story of this nature from Wisconsin. You get you got anything else you want to tell us before we let you go here? No, I think we covered a lot of ground. Um I would say to anybody who's interested in this stuff, Milwaukee has three ghost walks uh done by American Ghost Walks. Uh let's see, they got Third Ward, Brady Street, and City Hall or the shadows of City Hall. Uh hop on one of those, see what you have to learn. We got the Milwaukee Paracon coming up, I believe that's October 18th. That's at Kachansky's this year. So a new venue, smaller, more intimate venue. Kachansky's in Stallus, I think. I think so, yeah.

SPEAKER_04
1:01:08

I think that's wrapped by the dog shelter.

SPEAKER_00
1:01:10

Um volunteer over there anyway. My are you gonna be there? I'll be there speaking.

SPEAKER_05
1:01:14

Nice.

SPEAKER_00
1:01:15

Not sure what I'm gonna talk about, but it's it's on the agenda. Yeah, it's always always a great event. It's free to the public. So come out, you know, if you're interested in this stuff. Lots of people to talk to about this, a lot of literature, a lot of local lore that you can learn.

SPEAKER_04
1:01:29

What are what are you uh what are you chasing this fall?

SPEAKER_00
1:01:32

Or are you going anywhere? Not specifically. I just wrapped up my uh ghost paddles and my ghost pontoon and you know, just kind of gonna hit a couple. Um, there is a another event in Green Bay called Potography. I know you like the the dogs, um, that goes to uh one of the local shelters there, all the proceeds. So I'll I'll be donating my time as far as um giving a presentation and you know talking about um spooky stuff. So it's a paranormal conference slash benefit. Very photographs, yeah.

SPEAKER_04
1:02:08

Cool. Josh, when when does the gnomes of Fiftfield drop?

SPEAKER_01
1:02:13

That one is releasing uh in November. So that'll be the fourth, the fourth beer completing the set for those who have been collecting them. We'll be releasing in November, and then we'll have four more uh next year. So that's a nice label.

SPEAKER_04
1:02:28

You guys won all IPAs this year, didn't you?

SPEAKER_01
1:02:30

Yeah, I mean these these 16 ounces are usually our like our foray into um you know kind of like that premium IPA yeah um kind of thing.

SPEAKER_00
1:02:40

It's uh can you give us a teaser on the on maybe maybe a reveal or a teaser for the next cryptid in the season?

SPEAKER_01
1:02:49

Well we did them all already, actually. So next year we're doing the Wendigo of the Northigo, okay. Uh Peppy and Lake Monster. Okay. And um Running the Back Code Dag. Yep, running back code egg, and then the man bad of the cross.

SPEAKER_00
1:03:01

Oh, you are doing the man bad.

SPEAKER_01
1:03:02

Yep. Awesome. Yep, yep. So that's uh leak, we're leaking that now. Because of the first people in here. All right.

SPEAKER_04
1:03:10

That was a fun one. Hope to have you back sometime. Alright everyone, thank you so much for tuning in to this episode of Milwaukee Uncut before signing off to someone thank our partners who make Milwaukee Uncut possible. Three sheeps, the beer Wisconsin drinks, drink Wisconsin with the beverage company in ex wealth management in Nicolella.

New Zealanders Visit Wisconsin for the First Time

New Zealanders Visit Wisconsin for the First Time

What started as a disastrous trip to the Packers-Vikings game with a Packers loss and mics that didn’t work for half our interviews turned into…

What started as a disastrous trip to the Packers-Vikings game with a Packers loss and mics that didn’t work for half our interviews turned into an unexpected episode when we met Kaity and Grayson, two Packers fans who traveled all the way from New Zealand. When we found out they were heading to Milwaukee a few days later, we knew we had to get them on the podcast.

Katy and Grayson join us to talk about how two people from New Zealand became Green Bay Packers fans, what it was like seeing Lambeau Field for the first time, and their honest reactions to some of the most Wisconsin things.

On this episode, we talk about:

How Katy and Grayson became Packers fans in New Zealand
Seeing Lambeau Field for the first time
Their Packers-Vikings game experience
Their first trip to Culver’s
Experiencing Kwik Trip
Their thoughts on Wisconsin roads and potholes
Making a stop in the Wisconsin Dells
A surprise call during the episode

SPEAKER_01
0:00

Our first stop was Culver's. Unfortunately it was a Friday night so it was busy so I had to wait for an hour. And then we went to the high school football game.

SPEAKER_04
0:06

Clean bathrooms.

SPEAKER_01
0:07

The bathrooms are immaculate. That was nice. Normally you go into like a gas station bathroom and you just kind of like brace yourself.

SPEAKER_04
0:13

The food isn't that great.

SPEAKER_01
0:16

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_00
0:17

Uh oh. You're gonna anger people.

SPEAKER_04
0:19

Bumpy roads.

SPEAKER_00
0:21

Are they bumpy outside of Milwaukee or just in Milwaukee?

SPEAKER_01
0:24

I think it was kind of all over the show a little bit.

SPEAKER_04
0:26

Just through the wo Wisconsin state.

SPEAKER_01
0:28

But Milwaukee's probably worse. And I kind of have to be like, oh, coming up.

SPEAKER_00
0:32

It went through your mind in the Wisconsin Delps.

SPEAKER_04
0:36

We were kind of like, what is this place?

SPEAKER_01
0:38

Kind of like half town, half amusement park, half fair ground. Like every every store looked like it was, I think there was a store that just did like cheese croquet.

SPEAKER_00
0:50

Hey guys, welcome back to Milwaukee on Cut. Um, so Bree and I decided to make the very wise decision to go up to Minneapolis for the Vikings Packers game a couple weeks ago, which um, you know, it was a it was a disaster. Not only did the Packers lose, but we went up there to get content, and then um, you know, we go into the stadium, which by the way, very nice stadium. Need to give it to the Vikings. Doesn't have the tailgate atmosphere Lambeau does, but night, nice stadium. So we uh, you know, we get it get in and uh sit down, and then Cody, our editor, texts us about midway through the second quarter, and we, you know, we want to get those clips out as quick as possible while the motions are high during the game and uh informed us that the mics were not working well on about 60 to 70 percent of what we got. Um, so not only did that happen, then then we all know what happened in the game. I don't need to rehash any of that. Big win against the Jets last week, and hopefully we take care of business against the Falcons. But something good did happen. We we got to meet uh two Packer fans from New Zealand that were in town, Katie and Grayson, and then we found out they were coming to Milwaukee a couple days later, the Tuesday after the game. So we met up with them, took them around a little bit, and then had them on the podcast to talk all about their experience. They went to Green Bay before Minneapolis, then went to Milwaukee. They were in New York before that. They're kind of going all around, all around the country for seven weeks. So they were great to hang out with. Got to have them in here. It's a fun episode, and it was awesome. Spending time with those two. And before diving in, I just want to thank our partners who make Milwaukee Uncut possible. We'll kick it off with Annex Wealth Management. The fall is a great time to get your life together, and that means taking a hard look at your finances too and finishing the year strong. Annex is a holistic wealth management firm with offices in and all around the Milwaukee area that helps you with everything from retirement planning, smart investing, estate planning, legacy planning, and tax strategies all under one roof. That is Annex Know the Difference, AnnexWealth.com. Next, we got Nikolay Law, the Midwest Law firm injured. Get Nikolay and Russell and the team will take great care of you, including, including, but not limited to if you get injured on any of the quote bumpy roads that we have around Milwaukee and Wisconsin. That was that was a quote from uh from Katie on this episode. They're not used to to bumpy roads in New Zealand, apparently. If you end up in an accident, give Nicolay a call. And I mean, if you're looking for a nice canned old fashioned this fall, great time of year for an old-fashioned or 10, like our friend Nate Moody, drink Wisconsin Obliv Beverage Company, best vodka, brandy, and canned cocktails in the game, available at bars and liquor stores across the state. And in the corner bar and right field over at Ampham, perfect for hopefully a deep brewers playoff run that is Drink Wisconsinably Beverage Company. All right, let's dive in with our New Zealand friends, Grayson and Katie.

SPEAKER_04
3:58

Kyoda from New Zealand.

SPEAKER_00
4:01

Randomly ran into you guys. I think I I think I approached you on the street in Minneapolis. Um we don't need to rehash what happened that afternoon, but it was an honor meeting you two. You you were here. Um you've you've been in in the States for a little while. You were in Green Bay, Minneapolis, now now Milwaukee for over 24 hours. And um, yeah, I we've never had I I have personally never met anyone from New Zealand, and I don't know if we ever had any foreigners on the show. Um who have just been passing through town? Oh no, yeah, I don't think so. So well uh welcome. Yeah, I mean, first time for everything. Thank you. It's been fun. It's nice seeing you guys this morning popping by, and um yeah. We were just at Sobelman's in Great Lakes Distillery.

SPEAKER_01
4:52

Yep. It was a guy it was a great little experience. Uh thanks for taking us along.

SPEAKER_00
4:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04
4:57

I had my first Bloody Mary.

SPEAKER_00
4:59

What'd you what'd you think? Had you heard of Bloody Marys before coming over here?

SPEAKER_04
5:03

I I'd heard of them, but I've never had one. And I liked it.

SPEAKER_00
5:08

Did you think there would be a cheeseburger coming out of it?

SPEAKER_04
5:10

I didn't expect that.

SPEAKER_00
5:13

You didn't like it as much.

SPEAKER_01
5:15

No, I mean, I used to work in a bar and I've made them before and I've tried them. Uh to be fair, this one was a little bit nicer than this. I I don't really like it, but the kind of display of all the food sitting on top was pretty good, but not for me.

SPEAKER_00
5:28

We didn't get the one with the entire chicken in it. We just got the one with the cheeseburger, some celery, some shrimp, sausage, cheese. Yeah, it was like a whole meal over there at Silverman. So that was uh I think that was the lowest end one you could get to, or maybe one one above from there. Um how's the states been so far?

SPEAKER_01
5:49

Yeah, no, it's been good. It's been good. Um obviously our first couple days were in New York and that was chaotic. And then obviously we've traveled up to we traveled up to obviously Wisconsin. And uh we originally planned to go to a game at Lambo, but then the schedule came out, and then we had to kind of shift our plans, and that's when we met you guys in Minnesota.

SPEAKER_04
6:11

Um we stopped in Green Bay. We did stop in Green Bay, and we did the Lambeau Stadium tour.

SPEAKER_01
6:17

That's right, yeah.

SPEAKER_00
6:18

What was it like seeing a Lambeau? Okay, and um Grayson, you're you're a big Packer fan. Yes, very big. Yeah, and that's that's why you guys came to Wisconsin in the first place?

SPEAKER_01
6:29

Pretty much, yeah.

SPEAKER_00
6:30

Why are you a Packer fan?

SPEAKER_01
6:32

Uh I started watching football with my friends probably 10 or so years ago, and it was during the Rodgers era. Um, Aaron Jones is playing, and I just love the team, and I kind of stuck with it. So um you also don't have any outside influence when you're in New Zealand because we don't have football there at all. So you kind of just gravitate towards the team and you stick with it.

SPEAKER_00
6:53

How do you even find it or watch the games there? Um you said 17 hours ahead of the game.

SPEAKER_01
7:00

Yeah, yeah. So originally you couldn't really you'd have to like find a legal stream and watch it or something like that. Um, but now Disney Plus has everything available for like ESPN. So we can just kind of watch Red Zone. But it is awkward because it is during work hours. So I kind of just hope I'm in the office and I pull it up on my second screen.

SPEAKER_00
7:18

But I'll on Monday morning.

SPEAKER_01
7:20

On a Monday morning, yeah. Uh sometimes if we have to wake up, I wake up at like five o'clock um before my normal wake-up time, and I'll just start watching the games in bed while Caitlin's asleep.

SPEAKER_00
7:30

Yeah, and you and your friends is is your you have a podcast. Is it specifically about football, or do you guys just talk about that?

SPEAKER_01
7:37

Uh it's specifically about football, yeah. The tackle American football. Tackle for loss podcast, yeah. Um we talk about American football, and that's pretty much it.

SPEAKER_00
7:45

And for those listening, we're coming off our week one loss against against the Vikings in in your your your mates. Do you call them mates or friends or what do you want to do?

SPEAKER_05
7:54

Yeah, mates, friends, yeah.

SPEAKER_04
7:55

Bros. Burros.

SPEAKER_00
7:57

Oh, so you use you use some American term terms over there. Okay, great. Um, they rated the Packers second to last in the NFC. They did, yeah. Uh without my influence, I don't really have it. We should phone, we should see if we can get one of them on the line to explain them. That'd be funny. We should see if we can do that to have them explain themselves. Um yeah, um, so Green Bay, did you fly into Chicago and then drive up?

SPEAKER_01
8:20

Yeah, just rented a car, drove, drove up. Um, and I'll uh we drove up in the afternoon, and I kind of had a plan for a month because it was on a Friday night. Uh our first stop was Culver's after we got to ABB, so we dropped our bags off, went to Culver's. Unfortunately, it was a Friday night, so it was busy, so we had to wait for an hour. Um that's wild.

SPEAKER_00
8:40

I've never waited for more than like 30 minutes, but it was right it was right by a high school football game.

SPEAKER_01
8:45

Yeah, and then we went to the high school football game, uh Notre Dame Academy, and uh they absolutely smoked the other team 52 no. So tell the people about your first culverse experience.

SPEAKER_04
8:58

Well had you heard of had you had you guys had you guys heard of culvers before you came here? No.

SPEAKER_01
9:03

I had. Okay. I kind of she had New York all planned out, and then this portion of the trip was kind of me. She had the city of New York, and you had culvers in Notre Dame football. That's high school football. That's right, yeah. I had the big job.

SPEAKER_04
9:18

Yeah, well, I love the custard at Culver's. That was really good.

SPEAKER_00
9:24

What kind did you get?

SPEAKER_04
9:26

Just the vanilla. Vanilla, was it called concrete?

SPEAKER_01
9:30

Vanilla concrete, yeah.

SPEAKER_00
9:31

The concrete mixer. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04
9:34

Cookie dough and caramel.

SPEAKER_01
9:35

Yeah, salted caramel.

SPEAKER_00
9:36

Oh, you didn't you didn't just get vanilla then? No. So you had a how had you heard of Culver's? Just on social media? Yeah, social media. Because you get you saw some of our clips on there, right? Yes, I did, yeah. The just the Packer ones, probably circulating.

SPEAKER_01
9:51

Well, no, I saw some of your other things uh pop pop up every now and again when I was obviously looking up for stuff to do when it was my portion of the plan trip.

SPEAKER_05
9:58

So nice.

SPEAKER_00
10:00

Now you're here. Yeah, yeah, now I'm here. Crazy. Um I got the concrete mixer. You you got a butterburger.

SPEAKER_01
10:08

Yeah, it was great. It's kind of similar at home to like a Wendy's, but like ten times better.

SPEAKER_00
10:15

You're comparing Culver's to Wendy's.

SPEAKER_01
10:17

Yeah, I said it was ten times better.

SPEAKER_00
10:19

Okay, okay. Okay, what would you prefer, Culver's or Solomon's?

SPEAKER_01
10:24

Oh no, Soberwoman's is good. I like Soberman's.

SPEAKER_00
10:28

You'd go Sobleman's or something.

SPEAKER_01
10:29

Yeah, I think the atmosphere was great. Okay.

SPEAKER_04
10:32

Because they had sport playing.

SPEAKER_01
10:33

Well, they'd have sport playing. But I think the conversation was they had the brewers game on it since the conversation was great. We didn't have any conversation at Culver's. We had to wait around for an hour. So we didn't really have the basic experience.

SPEAKER_00
10:43

Yeah, I mean, Soberman's had great service. They brought out a drink with a a meal placed into the drink and another burger. And yeah, good service down there in the valley. Um, so you do that. Any other highlights from Green Bear? Do you guys just go to Minnesota the next day?

SPEAKER_01
11:00

I think that's pretty much it. Yeah, we went to the high school game. Which was great. Uh, we don't really have high school football over there or the same atmosphere for any high school sports, so um that was good to experience. So I was very hyped for that. Uh, and then the next day, yeah, we just drove to Minnesota.

SPEAKER_00
11:18

What was that drive like? That's like a four or five hour drive. Four and a half, four and a half, right across rural Wisconsin. Yeah. Was it weird seeing all the farms and stuff where you kind of do you see a little bit of that in New Zealand?

SPEAKER_04
11:31

Uh cornfield after cornfield.

SPEAKER_00
11:34

And then Red Barns. You see some animals too?

SPEAKER_04
11:38

Some horses and cows.

SPEAKER_01
11:39

Some dead raccoons.

SPEAKER_00
11:41

Saw a dead raccoon.

SPEAKER_01
11:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
11:43

You didn't run over a raccoon.

SPEAKER_01
11:45

No, no, that was good. It was dead before we got there. Um, and then yeah, I think that's when we also made our first stop at a quick trip.

unknown
11:53

Oh.

SPEAKER_01
11:53

Which was an experience.

SPEAKER_04
11:54

Yes.

SPEAKER_00
11:55

Caitlin, what did you think of Quirk Trip?

SPEAKER_04
11:56

We like Quick Trip. We like it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
12:01

What'd you like about it? Did it was it mind-blowing or was it like, oh, this is just a nice place.

SPEAKER_01
12:06

What was kind of like a gas station in New Zealand or a petrol station, as we call it. Uh you just kind of go in, you pay for your gas, you maybe grab a snack and then you leave. Um, you don't really have a whole assortment of food on display. Um, and then you don't have a whole like coffee bar at the back and um clean bathrooms. The bathrooms are immaculate. That was nice. Yeah, shout out to Quick Trip. The bathrooms are amazing. Why? Normally you go into like a gas station bathroom and you just kind of like brace yourself. But no, that was nice.

SPEAKER_00
12:41

So the the pet the petrol station bathrooms are probably similar to most American BP bathrooms or other gas stations. Yeah, we have BP. You go you go in, you you you kind of lock it and just hope you can get out.

SPEAKER_01
12:55

Yeah, then find some uh hand sanitizer afterwards.

SPEAKER_00
12:58

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Did you get any food from Quick Trip or just admire the the selection?

SPEAKER_04
13:04

The food isn't that great.

SPEAKER_00
13:07

Uh-oh. Uh-oh. You're gonna anger people. Hopefully you'll be allowed back in the state, Caitlin. What what did you try and you did not like at Quick Trip?

SPEAKER_04
13:16

A crispy chicken burger. I think it was uh maybe a day old. Maybe that's why. Uh Quick Trip.

SPEAKER_01
13:25

Uh yeah, that was the first time. Uh, and then the second time we just had like a breakfast croissant.

SPEAKER_00
13:32

Is that a little better?

SPEAKER_01
13:32

That was hex better.

SPEAKER_04
13:33

Okay, so Quick Trip redeemed itself.

SPEAKER_00
13:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04
13:37

So yeah, we carried on along the bumpy roads.

SPEAKER_00
13:42

Are they bumpy outside of Milwaukee or just in Milwaukee?

SPEAKER_01
13:46

I think it was kind of all over the show a little bit.

SPEAKER_04
13:48

Just through the Wisconsin state.

SPEAKER_01
13:50

But Milwaukee's probably worse.

SPEAKER_00
13:53

Did you run into any any they're called potholes.

SPEAKER_01
13:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
13:57

Where there's a hole in the road, hence a pothole.

SPEAKER_01
14:00

We call them potholes too.

SPEAKER_00
14:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01
14:02

Yep. Uh there's there's a couple of those here and there. Uh and then Caitlin, when we're driving kind of along the road, sometimes she's on her phone while I'm driving. And I kind of have to be like, pothole coming up, just to warn her that she doesn't just get a fright when we just hit the hit the pothole in the road. Yeah, but when it's large enough.

SPEAKER_00
14:21

Oh man, you run into some big ones in rural Wisconsin. Yeah, a couple of them.

SPEAKER_04
14:26

And not when there's cars driving way faster than we are.

SPEAKER_00
14:30

Oh yeah, you made a comment about the speed limit when we were talking here.

SPEAKER_01
14:34

Yeah. Yeah. So like back home, the speed limit's kind of the speed limit. Yeah. Like by definition of the word speed limit. Whereas here we notice that if you're going the speed limit, you look a little bit like a dick because everyone kind of just goes speeding past you.

SPEAKER_00
14:50

Yeah, we got ten ten over is the speed limit. We know that now. Yeah. Alright, you're learning. Probably just don't do that. If you get pulled over back home, you just get a a ticket and keep going.

SPEAKER_01
15:01

Pretty much. Yeah. Well, you either get a warning depending on how fast you're going, or you do get a ticket.

SPEAKER_00
15:06

No, okay, so it's nothing too bad. No, nothing too bad. What'd you think of Minneapolis?

SPEAKER_03
15:12

We liked it. We liked the city.

SPEAKER_01
15:14

It was nice.

SPEAKER_03
15:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
15:15

Yeah. Were you all just there two nights?

SPEAKER_01
15:19

Uh yeah, it was two nights.

SPEAKER_00
15:21

Um was Saturday and Sunday, probably.

SPEAKER_01
15:24

Yeah. Yeah. And then yeah, after the game, we kind of had like half a day.

SPEAKER_04
15:29

Yeah. We went to the Mall of America.

SPEAKER_00
15:31

Oh, what'd you think? A Mall of America.

SPEAKER_04
15:34

There's a theme park inside.

SPEAKER_00
15:36

We did go on the American American American. Yeah, there is a theme park inside. We grew up an hour away from there.

SPEAKER_01
15:42

Uh we did go on a couple of theme park rides, which were kind of the mall? Yeah, we're a bit more extreme than we first anticipated, but um uh it was good. It was a good experience. The mall does seem like a little bit run down. Was anyone there or was it just uh not as not as busy as you'd expect it for the size of it, I think.

SPEAKER_00
16:03

Okay. Yeah. Any other highlights from Minneapolis?

SPEAKER_01
16:08

Uh I don't know.

SPEAKER_00
16:13

What do you think of the game? Have you been to many major sporting events before?

SPEAKER_01
16:18

Just at home. Um yeah, nothing to the scale of like an NFL kind of production, I guess as they call it. Um that was insane.

SPEAKER_00
16:30

Um that stadium's massive. Yeah, like you watched. Those are those are you hadn't been there before, had you, Brie? Yeah, those are first time there. I think that was my first time ever going. It was my first time ever going to a Packer away game, too. Um the fans were really nice. At least they were to me.

SPEAKER_04
16:50

I was a little bit worried about helping. I was like, how are the Vikings fans gonna be?

SPEAKER_00
16:57

Because the Vikings fans I know around Milwaukee, like Shane Krangle, who wears Vikings overalls and paints his face, is so fucking annoying when the Vikings are doing well. At least he wasn't. I thought I thought a lot of Vikings fans would be like that. And um at least before the game, Bree and I had to leave at halftime because we had technical difficulties on the production we were doing. So um we didn't have a very good performance there, similar to the to the Packers in that sense, but we got to miss the meltdown. But so I can only speak to the the pre-game experience in the first half, but like yeah, I mean, people yelled skull at us and stuff, but in in a in a in a friendly jabbing way. And every everyone was nice. We talked to at the bars. I mean, ever mostly everyone talked to us, or they were polite. Yeah, I remember the first place we went, I think it was the crooked tap. Um, that was a good good brewery that we stopped at. Yeah, some guy like bumped me while ordering a beer and apologized, and he was a Vikings fan. I was like, they got some Midwest nice. Yeah, yeah. You're in Minneapolis. So um Minnesota nice. Yeah, shout out to the Vikings fans. I did not I did not expect that at all based on the Vikings fans I know in Milwaukee.

SPEAKER_04
18:08

So and we we joined a really nice tailgate. Yeah, most of them were Vikings fans, and yeah, they were all really nice towards us as well.

SPEAKER_01
18:20

Yeah, because we weren't too sure we wanted to tailgate, we weren't too sure where to go the day before. So Caitlin actually just posted in this Facebook group, um, the Die Hard Packers fan group or whatever. And we got so many responses, and yeah, we had I think Jill read read Jill reached out to us and said come along. So after running into you guys at at one of the uh one of the bars, we ended up going there, and yeah, we did our first shot ski.

SPEAKER_04
18:48

Um it was a pickle shot.

SPEAKER_01
18:50

The pickle and vodka shot shot ski, and that was fucking Minnesota.

SPEAKER_00
18:54

At least at least at least give the New Zealanders something nice to drink.

SPEAKER_01
18:58

Yeah, it wasn't great. Like I don't I don't dislike pickles, but I did for about a day or so after that.

SPEAKER_00
19:03

We'll give you a better shot ski at Lambeau when you come when you come back. Yeah, that'd be nice. We can do that. Probably can't get too much worse than the uh the pickle vodka shot in Minneapolis. Um but yeah, that was uh that was a cool experience going there for the first time. And uh yeah, I I think Lambo, I'm looking forward to you seeing Lambeau at some point because it's such a special place, it's like in the middle of a neighborhood which is completely foreign. Like the thing about US Bank is um really nice stadium, but it's in the middle of downtown. And there it surprised me that there was only one bar. Yeah, what seemed like around the entire stadium because that place must just print money on game days, and you'd think it would get other traffic, you know, on the off days. Um you'd think there'd be more bars around, and then they had that concert going on, which was cool, but that um shuts down when the game starts. So uh yeah, even like the Pfizer, if you go to a Bucks game, kind of very close to where you guys are staying, like yeah, you can literally walk to like 30, 40 bars within a few blocks of there where you know I was kind of surprised it wasn't like that in Minneapolis. Um but then you came back, you've spent the last 24 hours in in Milwaukee.

SPEAKER_04
20:18

Well, yeah. Where have you gone? We hit the road and came through the bumpy road and came through.

SPEAKER_01
20:23

We go we hit the bumpy road and we stopped in the Wisconsin Dells on the way to Milwaukee.

SPEAKER_00
20:27

Oh geez.

SPEAKER_01
20:28

Uh tell me about it.

SPEAKER_00
20:31

What went through your mind in the Wisconsin Dells?

SPEAKER_04
20:34

We were kind of like, what is this place?

SPEAKER_01
20:37

Yeah, because we just wanted a place to stop over on the way through, and Caitlin found a boat tour, but then we started driving into town, and it was kind of like half town, half amusement park, half like fair ground. Like every every store looked like there was I think there was a store that just did like cheese croquet. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04
21:00

Do they give you an actual cheese ball? And then you get to play croquet.

SPEAKER_01
21:04

I've never heard of cheese croquet. I can't say I have either until that point. You you you read it correctly? I I I read it a couple times just to be sure, yeah. Um but we uh then we just did the the boat tour with the rest of the old folks.

SPEAKER_00
21:19

That was the Dells boat tour.

SPEAKER_01
21:20

It was lovely, it was really nice. We went through uh the Upper Dells Tour and we went to the Witches Gulch, did the walkthrough there and to the Stand Rock. And Stand Rock, uh and I was just photographer for most of the time.

SPEAKER_04
21:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
21:37

Oh, Witches Gulch is really pretty, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01
21:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
21:40

Yeah, I've never been there.

SPEAKER_01
21:41

It's kind of a weird, surreal place to kind of walk through, and it just doesn't seem like it should be there, but it is next to all the amusement parks and Noah's Ark and And yeah, the water parks and everything else, yeah.

SPEAKER_00
21:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03
21:54

Because he said that it's the water park capital of the world.

SPEAKER_00
22:00

Yeah, I believe so. I think Noah's Ark was the largest water park at one at one point. Yeah, there's a lot of them there. Got the Kalahari Mount Mount Olympus, right? Great Wolf Lodge. Great Wolf Lodge.

SPEAKER_01
22:15

Yeah. Can't say we're in the mood to do any water parks.

SPEAKER_00
22:18

Got all sorts of them. Have you been to you guys haven't been to a supper club here, have you? No. Probably not. Okay. We'll have to do that when you get back.

SPEAKER_03
22:27

Supper club.

SPEAKER_00
22:28

How'd you describe a supper club? Usually you kind of step back in time almost. Almost kind of like you're if it's a good one. You'll feel like you're in the 60s or 70s. Get nice old fashioned. We just had one of those over at Great Lakes, so at least you got one of those. Usually a fish fry. Yep. Some steaks. You usually see taxidermy on the wall. Like, you know, just deer heads on the wall staring at you. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good time. Oh shit, we forgot to get pull tabs, Bri. There's put there's pull tabs at those places as well. Um yeah, those are good spots. How's Milwaukee been?

SPEAKER_01
23:09

Milwaukee's been great. Yeah. Kind of uh it would have been good to see a brewer's game. Uh, but just the timing obviously was off.

SPEAKER_00
23:18

Yeah, I can't believe you guys came. No, the Packers were away and the brewers were away.

SPEAKER_01
23:22

What are the what are the chances? I think it was just poor time, poor planning on my part. I'll I'll take responsibility for that one. But um, yeah, that would have been the one thing extra I would have liked have liked to see. Um, but we did uh the lakefront brewery today. Got some uh fish curds, uh some cheese curds and some beer. Uh what else did we do? We saw the market.

SPEAKER_04
23:43

Yeah, walked along the road front.

SPEAKER_00
23:44

Well the public the public market.

SPEAKER_01
23:46

Yeah, went and had a look at that. Uh and then yeah, walked along the roadfront. It was lovely.

SPEAKER_00
23:53

What did you think of the lakefront curds?

SPEAKER_04
23:56

I really like them.

SPEAKER_01
23:57

Yeah, they're the best ones we've had.

SPEAKER_04
23:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
23:58

Yeah. By far. But did you get them from Culver's? Yeah, we did. Okay.

SPEAKER_04
24:04

The Lakefront ones top the MS.

SPEAKER_00
24:05

You probably didn't have to wait an hour. No, it was back there. It was about instant. It was about a minute and a half. Yeah. Good service over at over at Lakefront. Um, yeah. Any and at public market, you go anywhere in there and just walk around. Just had a walk around. Yeah. And then did you walk around the third ward area?

SPEAKER_01
24:23

Uh unfortunately not.

SPEAKER_00
24:27

Came over here, went to Soberman's, went to Great Lakes. Or you went you went to the lake.

SPEAKER_01
24:32

Yeah, well, yeah, we stopped off at the lake before coming here.

SPEAKER_05
24:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01
24:36

Uh I think we just pulled up by the uh the art museum and just kind of had a had a brief walk along the waterfront. It was nice. It's kind of weird seeing a lake and then not being able to see the other side. Just seeing the horizon, that's about it.

SPEAKER_00
24:48

It's like an ocean, right?

SPEAKER_01
24:49

Kind of, yeah.

SPEAKER_00
24:51

How would you compare the uh Milwaukee Art Museum to the Sydney Opera House?

SPEAKER_04
24:56

You haven't seen the Opera House.

SPEAKER_00
24:58

I haven't actually seen the Opera House then. Have you seen the Opera House yet?

SPEAKER_04
25:01

Oh yeah. Uh I would go to Sydney to see yeah, the Opera House. If you want to go to Australia, go to Sydney.

SPEAKER_00
25:10

Quick Trip makes bad chicken sandwiches, and you take the Opera House over the art museum. And there's bumpy roads.

SPEAKER_01
25:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
25:20

I love the honesty. Yeah. I love the cheese curds, though. She doesn't like the cheese curds, though. Yeah. And you'll be hitting Mars Cheese Castle on the way tomorrow. Yeah. Um, do we want to try and get one of your guys on the line who just trashed the Packers? I can try.

SPEAKER_01
25:35

Yeah. Yeah. There's no he answers. You hello, boss man. How's it going? I'm good. Uh you're currently on a podcast show. What's his name? Oh, awesome. Sweet. Sweet. What's his name? His name's Cree. Crete? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
25:56

Crete, welcome to Milwaukee Uncut. Oh, Milwaukee, I hate that player. I heard you hate the I heard you gave the Packers a rough ranking this week.

SPEAKER_02
26:09

Yeah, look, I mean, when you have the loss that they had, it's hard to put them much higher than where we put them.

SPEAKER_00
26:15

It was the first game of the year. You put them second to last in the NFC.

SPEAKER_02
26:21

Yeah, I yeah, I did. I just did the perfectly hype that you guys are walking upon.

SPEAKER_04
26:30

How come you didn't have Grace and say?

SPEAKER_01
26:35

Might have why didn't you have any uh you didn't contact me for any input?

unknown
26:41

No, no, you're busy, man.

SPEAKER_02
26:42

I don't want to disrupt you. You're having a lovely time over there. I just I thought I'd better let you get on with it and you know we make the hard decisions over here.

SPEAKER_00
26:49

Is he going to Vegas? Yeah, he is going to be. Are you excited to come to America?

SPEAKER_02
26:56

Oh, yeah, absolutely. I can't wait. I'm I'm absolutely stoked for it. It's gonna be a great time.

SPEAKER_00
27:00

W what are you most looking forward to?

SPEAKER_02
27:04

Um most looking for football. I mean, we're going to bingo the Miami play, um going to Universal Studios. Um, just having a good time. I'm excited for the whole thing, really. There's not one thing that I'm kind of I'm looking forward to most. It's just gonna be a great time no matter what.

SPEAKER_00
27:24

What's your favorite NFL team?

SPEAKER_02
27:28

My team? I'm a I'm a Seahawks man.

SPEAKER_00
27:30

Oh gross. Why? Yeah, why you know you know Russell Wilson went to went to University of Wisconsin. You're a Russell Wilson guy?

unknown
27:40

He did too.

SPEAKER_02
27:41

Yeah, I was a big I'm a big Russell Wilson guy. Yeah, what he did for the team. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00
27:47

Okay, we'll we'll give you that. Yeah, you guys beat us in some NFC championship games.

SPEAKER_02
27:55

Absolutely. Uh yeah, never forget that one.

SPEAKER_00
27:58

Brian Bostick, I think, fumbled the onside kick.

unknown
28:04

It's funny if you still remember that.

SPEAKER_00
28:06

Oh, I I can't get it out of my memory, and whether how long ago did that happen? A long time ago. Green, unfortunately, I can't talk much shit to you after what the Packers did against the Bears last year and in week one in that year Seahawks fan. This this call's not going too good for me.

unknown
28:22

Yeah, you chose the wrong guy.

SPEAKER_00
28:24

That's true. We chose the wrong guy. Well, you uh yeah, you you have a what time is it down there or over there?

SPEAKER_05
28:34

Uh it's one 1 p.m.

SPEAKER_00
28:35

just about I'm sorry. 1 p.m. All right. Well, you you have a wonderful rest of the day.

unknown
28:40

Well, awesome. I appreciate you. I appreciate that call. Uh uh, thanks for the time, fellas.

SPEAKER_03
28:45

Shout out Tackle for Loss.

SPEAKER_00
28:46

Yeah, thanks, thanks to Tackle for Loss, boys.

unknown
28:48

Yeah, shout out Tackle for Loss. All right, we'll see you later.

SPEAKER_00
28:51

Thanks, Gray. Is that the name of your show? Yeah. What is it? Tackle for Loss. Tackle for Loss.

SPEAKER_01
28:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00
28:58

Love it. If you want to get some American football analysis from a New Zealand perspective, yeah.

SPEAKER_01
29:05

Uh yeah, we give some football analysis. Our our to be honest, it's a bit some unhinged thoughts and then some random betting tips. That's that's what we kind of do.

SPEAKER_00
29:15

What would you say your guys' favorite place or moment of the trip has been so far each year?

SPEAKER_04
29:21

Uh mine would be in New York. Um, at Top of the Rock. We went out for sunset, and that was pretty nice.

SPEAKER_01
29:30

Top of the Rock.

SPEAKER_04
29:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01
29:32

What is that? The Top of the Rockefeller Center. Oh, yes. Very cool.

SPEAKER_04
29:37

Beautiful views over the city.

SPEAKER_01
29:39

Uh, mine would be doing the stadium tour at Lambeau and then doing the walk out through the home team tunnel. That was that well, that that got the heart feeling things. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00
29:51

It was cool. Was your heart feeling things during the Lambeau tour?

SPEAKER_04
29:55

Just because I think Paul Grayson, I was emotional for him.

SPEAKER_00
30:00

All right.

SPEAKER_01
30:00

Well, it was uh anything else you guys want to say? No, I've I've enjoyed being here running into you guys, obviously. It's been a great time. Thanks for showing us.

SPEAKER_00
30:09

Yeah, it was so good meeting you all and showing you around a little bit this evening and bumping into you in Minneapolis. And uh, yeah, we wish you the best on your adventure to uh Disney World, Hot Springs, Arkansas, Vegas, Nashville, Chicago, and Vegas. Yeah. These guys are here for seven weeks living.

SPEAKER_04
30:30

Yeah, and we look forward to seeing you in New Zealand, hopefully.

SPEAKER_00
30:34

Yeah, we would love to come someday. Yeah. We would love to. Well, you might see Gary and Sue Barnett there. When are they going? Next next October. Next October, I think. All right. Well, thank you, guys. All right, thank you. Hey everyone, thank you so much for tuning in to Milwaukee Uncut. Just want to give our partners a shout out before signing off Annex Wealth Management, Nicola, and Drink Wisconsin Bleed Beverage Company.

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