March 7, 2025 • 10 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I didn't quite understand the whole idea of like a
(00:02):
cold chocolate drink. Really, Yeah, I don't mind it. So
you don't like cold chocolate milk, I don't like chocolate
milk at all. No, or hot chocolate not easy?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So you're all the way out on chocolate chocolate as
a liquid.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah, I mean, I don't mind eating chocolate. It's just
where do you come out on chocolate fond doo? No? No, no, no.
I don't like really like chocolate ice cream either. Wow. Yeah, good,
I prefer vanilla anyway. I'm drinking my third coffee of
the day. It's kind of lubricating my esophagus, which has
been very dry as I kind of I think it's
(00:36):
bronchitis kind of thing. I don't know. My body doesn't
feel that bad. It's just I feel like something's sitting
on my chest. It's not allowing me to get good airflow.
I guess.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So maybe you got a clog.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I don't know what's going on, but I can tell
you this. I'm working on it. I didn't do this
show yesterday, my morning show. I just have a hard
time talking. So I'm mustering the best that I can,
and I appreciate you for putting up with me. So
cheers to that, and cheers to you.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Cheers.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Three coffees is a lot in a day for me.
And uh yeah, it's iced coffee, and it's in like
these big blender bottles, so it's not just like a
cup of coffee. It's like a full on blender bottle
of coffee. Yeah. I don't know, it's weird anyway. When
I first got hired here, what was one of the
first memorable things that we talked about.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Oh, the first one that comes to my mind is
town names, funny town names.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
What would be the second one? Mmmm?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Okay. Another one that comes to mind is we talked
about check days.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. We
will be the next one. Oh boy, it's a beverage.
Oh that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
How about that? Hams.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I got an email from Mike and I'm gonna send this.
I'm just gonna read the email and then we're going
to talk about this for a second. Mike says, good
evening memory, And this just sent a couple of days
ago before I felt under the weather. He's a good
evening emory. First I listened to your show every day.
You are a very talented young man, but more importantly,
you're an extraordinarily hard working person. Second, and I just
(02:04):
wanted to put that in there because he said that,
and you know, it's good to hear compliments.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, and then when somebody gives you one and you
have a radio show, you might why keep it to yourself?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
But he said, second, I'm wondering if you have a
link to the broadcast where you announced you had taste
tested ham spear and revealed that you felt it was
quite good. We did that what like July or August
of I mean it was it was pretty early, like
it was within the first couple months of me being here.
And twenty three yeah wow. So like I mean, I
(02:34):
don't just have that ready to pull.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I could find it, I really could I just do
a quick search.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, I told him I just talk about it now,
because he says, I just lost one of my high
school buddies. He and I sampled our shriff Hams in
the seventies and eighties. I sent the attached photo, which
is a photo of Mike holding the can of Hams
to a group of my buddies toasting of Hams to
our friends and he basically said his buddy said, you know,
(03:02):
I do not want Hams and said that he needs
our support to convince his geezer friends that Hams is good,
and he wanted to link initially to our conversation. I
just said, you know what, I'm just going to talk
about how great Hams is once again. First of all, Matt,
I let you taste test it too, because you hadn't
had it before either. We're a bit younger than the
Hams demo, I think, right, but it's become just kind
(03:25):
of like my cheap beer of choice, not for any
other reason other than the fact that. And first of all, Mike,
I feel this is such a weird way to have
this conversation, but to remember a friend who probably had
his fair share of Hams, there's no better way to
remember him than to think of the memories that he
gave you while toasting to a Hams, hoisting a Hams
(03:46):
in your hand in the air, and drinking the beer,
the tasty beer from the land of sky blue Waters.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
First of all, you can get a thirty pack of
this stuff less than twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Pretty good in today's world.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I mean, can you can you beat that, Like, if
we're talking about just your volume, you can't beat that. Secondly,
is it really any that any worse than any of
these other kind of basic American beers. I feel like
it hearkens back to a simpler time when people didn't
mind that you didn't have really weird pumpkins style or
(04:26):
you know, certain IPAs in double IPAs, and all of
the bells and whistles that really good beers have craft
beers have these days. Ham's kind of takes you back
in time to the mid seventies. I'm just I wasn't
alive yet, but I'm imagining where you crack open that
beer and you just know that you're tasting something that
(04:46):
was meant to feel like you were having a good
night with the guys, or it is meant that you
were enjoying life in general. You didn't need the fancy stuff.
You didn't need a glass of wine or champagne. There
are occasions for that. Well, there's a great occasion for Hams,
and the occasion is whenever you're just trying to have
a smile on your face and think of the simpler
(05:08):
times of life. Hams is that is the representative I
think for any of those beers that didn't quite make
it out of that era. As beers got more sophisticated
and people either started like if they wanted a simple beer,
they ran to all the big brands that are bottling
it at ridiculous rates, or you know, they've started to
matriculate to more of the tasty, flavorful, locally brewed micro
(05:33):
beers or whatever you want to call it, those craft
brews that you know people love and don't get me
wrong to love as well. There's something about having that
thirty pack in that crate Lanna Sky Blue Waters that
bear on the side. It just basically says I'm here
for a good time and I don't need to mix
it up, that this beer is just a I'm about
to embark on a good night or some are grilling.
(05:56):
It reminds me of summer grilling, right, Just having a
beer like that where you can just crack it up
and just know it's there for you every single time.
There's something about it. It's some charm about it, and
there's no way, there's no way you can tell me
that there's any better way to remember a friend who
you know drank Hams back in the day then to
go and have a Ham's in his honor. And that's
how I feel about it. Here here, If only we
(06:19):
had some here, this would be this would be a
great time just to cry. Or if my throat was
you know, cooperative, just crack open one of those guys.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Could have just grabbed one of your doctor zvas and pretended,
you know, just for the just for the can opening sound.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I do have a zvia, it's a mountain zvia today,
I don't really want to drink it because I don't
think my esophagus can handle bubbles, you know what I mean.
I'm just like it's so dry, which by the way, right,
it's just my brain is just like this would be
great to just be able to crack open the Ham's
for real and just to sit kick up the feet
(06:53):
on the autumn and just watch some you know, tournament
basketball or something, and you know what, just my throat
is just like, no, no, you need some cough syrup
and some water. That's what you need. You're weirdo. Or
this is like the kind of thing where I'm not
like I don't have like flam or anything like that.
I don't have stuff like a my coughing up. Maybe
(07:14):
this is like where you get the milk and you
just like get kind of that good coat of nice
milk in your windpipe.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I just pictured you going out to eat and them
asking you what you want? Do you want the bubbly
water or the or the clear water? And you say,
I'm sorry, I don't think my esofacus could handle the
bubbles today. I've got to just have to do the
clear water.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
What does that mean? What mean what you just said?
What does it mean? Now?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That doesn't mean a thing. I just had that image
in my head. I really did.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I had I had Sissy because I don't think my
sore throat could could handle bubbles.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
No, I think I think that's a tough guy thing.
You know, you know what your throat needs. It's tough.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
It's like an NFL player trying to play on a
twisted ankle. That's how I feel right now, right right.
You wouldn't you would You would just go tell them
to go out there and you know, go one hundred
percent like I'm holding some stuff in. You also wouldn't
tell them to go try to, you know, hit a
couple of slam dunks on the other team, right you
want to nurse that ankle a little.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Bit, right, And if you're Terrell Owens, you go into
the cryo chamber before the Super Bowl, remember.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
That something like that. You know what I this is
what I'm thinking. You know, you're just like anything that
feels like it may not be a good idea to
put down your throat. And now it's not a good
time to do that.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, no, trust your body.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah that now would be a really bad time to
eat like sour gummy worms, you know what I'm saying,
Like that would scratch all the way down, or like.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
One of those sour sour Warheads.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, bad, that would be bad. That'd be bad.
And it's making my mouth water just thinking about it though,
because I usually like how that tastes.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Oh really yeah, like the Warheads.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, but the throat part of it, right, you know,
like it pop and jalapeno slices. Now would be a
bad time, right, That's bad timing, right, as much as
I would just love to down a Hams for Mike
and his buddy who you know, rest in peace, I'm sorry.
I just I don't know if I can based on
my anatomy. But you know what, I'm gonna do. I'm
(09:11):
gonna get off this show tonight. I'm gonna go home
and I don't care. I'm gonna crack open one of
the fifteen Hams I still have in the fridge, and
I'm gonna drink that thing, and I'm gonna say cheers
to Mike, cheers to his buddy, cheers to all his friends.
And hopefully this segment's gonna go a long way and
talking to all those guys into going to the bar,
having a Hams, remembering their buddy and being able to
(09:36):
have a great time. And maybe we can get some
more Hams converts. How's that? Maybe maybe? And we're gonna
be responsible for that, so you know, we don't get
paid for this. We're just we're sitting here and we're
talking about the beer from the Land of Sky Blue
Waters because that's what we're here for, and that's genuine,
that's true, genuine America more than an anything else. Godspeed
(10:02):
to Mike's friend Rex three twenty seven. Now we gotta
change it to something completely in uh, the way Rocky
would say at Rocky Bullwinkle, Now here's something we hope
you really like. Gonna chat. We're gonna try to chat
with the chancellor from the University of Nebraska Omaha, and
she is on her way to from what we understand,
(10:24):
to Sioux Falls to watch the Summit League basketball tournament
where you and O was about to play. Huge men's
basketball tournament there. We'll talk about that, along with the
hockey team wrapping up their season as well, and all
the great things that are happening over there. Coming up
on news Radio eleven Tink Kfab and Where You Songer
I didn't quite understand the whole idea of like a
(00:02):
cold chocolate drink. Really, Yeah, I don't mind it. So
you don't like cold chocolate milk, I don't like chocolate
milk at all. No, or hot chocolate not easy?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So you're all the way out on chocolate chocolate as
a liquid.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah, I mean, I don't mind eating chocolate. It's just
where do you come out on chocolate fond doo? No? No, no, no.
I don't like really like chocolate ice cream either. Wow. Yeah, good,
I prefer vanilla anyway. I'm drinking my third coffee of
the day. It's kind of lubricating my esophagus, which has
been very dry as I kind of I think it's
(00:36):
bronchitis kind of thing. I don't know. My body doesn't
feel that bad. It's just I feel like something's sitting
on my chest. It's not allowing me to get good airflow.
I guess.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So maybe you got a clog.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I don't know what's going on, but I can tell
you this. I'm working on it. I didn't do this
show yesterday, my morning show. I just have a hard
time talking. So I'm mustering the best that I can,
and I appreciate you for putting up with me. So
cheers to that, and cheers to you.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Cheers.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Three coffees is a lot in a day for me.
And uh yeah, it's iced coffee, and it's in like
these big blender bottles, so it's not just like a
cup of coffee. It's like a full on blender bottle
of coffee. Yeah. I don't know, it's weird anyway. When
I first got hired here, what was one of the
first memorable things that we talked about.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Oh, the first one that comes to my mind is
town names, funny town names.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
What would be the second one? Mmmm?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Okay. Another one that comes to mind is we talked
about check days.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. We
will be the next one. Oh boy, it's a beverage.
Oh that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
How about that? Hams.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I got an email from Mike and I'm gonna send this.
I'm just gonna read the email and then we're going
to talk about this for a second. Mike says, good
evening memory, And this just sent a couple of days
ago before I felt under the weather. He's a good
evening emory. First I listened to your show every day.
You are a very talented young man, but more importantly,
you're an extraordinarily hard working person. Second, and I just
(02:04):
wanted to put that in there because he said that,
and you know, it's good to hear compliments.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, and then when somebody gives you one and you
have a radio show, you might why keep it to yourself?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
But he said, second, I'm wondering if you have a
link to the broadcast where you announced you had taste
tested ham spear and revealed that you felt it was
quite good. We did that what like July or August
of I mean it was it was pretty early, like
it was within the first couple months of me being here.
And twenty three yeah wow. So like I mean, I
(02:34):
don't just have that ready to pull.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I could find it, I really could I just do
a quick search.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, I told him I just talk about it now,
because he says, I just lost one of my high
school buddies. He and I sampled our shriff Hams in
the seventies and eighties. I sent the attached photo, which
is a photo of Mike holding the can of Hams
to a group of my buddies toasting of Hams to
our friends and he basically said his buddy said, you know,
(03:02):
I do not want Hams and said that he needs
our support to convince his geezer friends that Hams is good,
and he wanted to link initially to our conversation. I
just said, you know what, I'm just going to talk
about how great Hams is once again. First of all, Matt,
I let you taste test it too, because you hadn't
had it before either. We're a bit younger than the
Hams demo, I think, right, but it's become just kind
(03:25):
of like my cheap beer of choice, not for any
other reason other than the fact that. And first of all, Mike,
I feel this is such a weird way to have
this conversation, but to remember a friend who probably had
his fair share of Hams, there's no better way to
remember him than to think of the memories that he
gave you while toasting to a Hams, hoisting a Hams
(03:46):
in your hand in the air, and drinking the beer,
the tasty beer from the land of sky blue Waters.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
First of all, you can get a thirty pack of
this stuff less than twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Pretty good in today's world.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I mean, can you can you beat that, Like, if
we're talking about just your volume, you can't beat that. Secondly,
is it really any that any worse than any of
these other kind of basic American beers. I feel like
it hearkens back to a simpler time when people didn't
mind that you didn't have really weird pumpkins style or
(04:26):
you know, certain IPAs in double IPAs, and all of
the bells and whistles that really good beers have craft
beers have these days. Ham's kind of takes you back
in time to the mid seventies. I'm just I wasn't
alive yet, but I'm imagining where you crack open that
beer and you just know that you're tasting something that
(04:46):
was meant to feel like you were having a good
night with the guys, or it is meant that you
were enjoying life in general. You didn't need the fancy stuff.
You didn't need a glass of wine or champagne. There
are occasions for that. Well, there's a great occasion for Hams,
and the occasion is whenever you're just trying to have
a smile on your face and think of the simpler
(05:08):
times of life. Hams is that is the representative I
think for any of those beers that didn't quite make
it out of that era. As beers got more sophisticated
and people either started like if they wanted a simple beer,
they ran to all the big brands that are bottling
it at ridiculous rates, or you know, they've started to
matriculate to more of the tasty, flavorful, locally brewed micro
(05:33):
beers or whatever you want to call it, those craft
brews that you know people love and don't get me
wrong to love as well. There's something about having that
thirty pack in that crate Lanna Sky Blue Waters that
bear on the side. It just basically says I'm here
for a good time and I don't need to mix
it up, that this beer is just a I'm about
to embark on a good night or some are grilling.
(05:56):
It reminds me of summer grilling, right, Just having a
beer like that where you can just crack it up
and just know it's there for you every single time.
There's something about it. It's some charm about it, and
there's no way, there's no way you can tell me
that there's any better way to remember a friend who
you know drank Hams back in the day then to
go and have a Ham's in his honor. And that's
how I feel about it. Here here, If only we
(06:19):
had some here, this would be this would be a
great time just to cry. Or if my throat was
you know, cooperative, just crack open one of those guys.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Could have just grabbed one of your doctor zvas and pretended,
you know, just for the just for the can opening sound.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I do have a zvia, it's a mountain zvia today,
I don't really want to drink it because I don't
think my esophagus can handle bubbles, you know what I mean.
I'm just like it's so dry, which by the way, right,
it's just my brain is just like this would be
great to just be able to crack open the Ham's
for real and just to sit kick up the feet
(06:53):
on the autumn and just watch some you know, tournament
basketball or something, and you know what, just my throat
is just like, no, no, you need some cough syrup
and some water. That's what you need. You're weirdo. Or
this is like the kind of thing where I'm not
like I don't have like flam or anything like that.
I don't have stuff like a my coughing up. Maybe
(07:14):
this is like where you get the milk and you
just like get kind of that good coat of nice
milk in your windpipe.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I just pictured you going out to eat and them
asking you what you want? Do you want the bubbly
water or the or the clear water? And you say,
I'm sorry, I don't think my esofacus could handle the
bubbles today. I've got to just have to do the
clear water.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
What does that mean? What mean what you just said?
What does it mean? Now?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That doesn't mean a thing. I just had that image
in my head. I really did.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I had I had Sissy because I don't think my
sore throat could could handle bubbles.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
No, I think I think that's a tough guy thing.
You know, you know what your throat needs. It's tough.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
It's like an NFL player trying to play on a
twisted ankle. That's how I feel right now, right right.
You wouldn't you would You would just go tell them
to go out there and you know, go one hundred
percent like I'm holding some stuff in. You also wouldn't
tell them to go try to, you know, hit a
couple of slam dunks on the other team, right you
want to nurse that ankle a little.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Bit, right, And if you're Terrell Owens, you go into
the cryo chamber before the Super Bowl, remember.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
That something like that. You know what I this is
what I'm thinking. You know, you're just like anything that
feels like it may not be a good idea to
put down your throat. And now it's not a good
time to do that.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, no, trust your body.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah that now would be a really bad time to
eat like sour gummy worms, you know what I'm saying,
Like that would scratch all the way down, or like.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
One of those sour sour Warheads.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, bad, that would be bad. That'd be bad.
And it's making my mouth water just thinking about it though,
because I usually like how that tastes.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Oh really yeah, like the Warheads.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, but the throat part of it, right, you know,
like it pop and jalapeno slices. Now would be a
bad time, right, That's bad timing, right, as much as
I would just love to down a Hams for Mike
and his buddy who you know, rest in peace, I'm sorry.
I just I don't know if I can based on
my anatomy. But you know what, I'm gonna do. I'm
(09:11):
gonna get off this show tonight. I'm gonna go home
and I don't care. I'm gonna crack open one of
the fifteen Hams I still have in the fridge, and
I'm gonna drink that thing, and I'm gonna say cheers
to Mike, cheers to his buddy, cheers to all his friends.
And hopefully this segment's gonna go a long way and
talking to all those guys into going to the bar,
having a Hams, remembering their buddy and being able to
(09:36):
have a great time. And maybe we can get some
more Hams converts. How's that? Maybe maybe? And we're gonna
be responsible for that, so you know, we don't get
paid for this. We're just we're sitting here and we're
talking about the beer from the Land of Sky Blue
Waters because that's what we're here for, and that's genuine,
that's true, genuine America more than an anything else. Godspeed
(10:02):
to Mike's friend Rex three twenty seven. Now we gotta
change it to something completely in uh, the way Rocky
would say at Rocky Bullwinkle, Now here's something we hope
you really like. Gonna chat. We're gonna try to chat
with the chancellor from the University of Nebraska Omaha, and
she is on her way to from what we understand,
(10:24):
to Sioux Falls to watch the Summit League basketball tournament
where you and O was about to play. Huge men's
basketball tournament there. We'll talk about that, along with the
hockey team wrapping up their season as well, and all
the great things that are happening over there. Coming up
on news Radio eleven Tink Kfab and Where You Songer
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