February 11, 2025 • 31 mins
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Have you ever found yourself giggling at the gym over the antics of fellow fitness enthusiasts? We certainly have, and in this hilarious episode of Whiskey Bits with Matt and Phil, we're thrilled to welcome Brook as our special guest. Join us as we recount the amusing tale of our meeting at the gym and sip on a Tennessee straight bourbon from Chattanooga, a delightful choice courtesy of Brook. Together, we uncover the humor in daily life and the joy of shared laughter over a good glass of whiskey—a tradition Brook has embraced so fully, he even left us a rave review!
Our whiskey-tasting adventure takes a humorous twist as we explore the peculiar world of nosing, where popcorn flavors become unexpected influencers on the palate. With a high malt whiskey in hand, we engage in a lively exchange about its grain, caramel, and honey notes. Nostalgic reflections on Indiana and the Quad Cities enhance our banter, as we humorously ponder the quirks of small-town America and the regional slogans that make us chuckle.
Finally, we journey back to small-town roots, reminiscing about the charms of places like Aledo, Illinois, and the close-knit bonds that flourish in rural communities. From the annual Rhubarb Fest to the warmth of farm life, these stories highlight the enduring friendships and values we hold dear. As we blend our love for whiskey with comedy, our aim is to recreate the spontaneous joy and creativity that fueled our beginnings—inviting you along for this whiskey-infused adventure filled with stories, humor, and heartfelt connections.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Phil, we're not alone today.
We're not alone in the universetoday.
Phil, Some would say you'renever alone.
That's true.
I don't know who that person is, but we are not alone.
We are not alone, Hi Brooke.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What's up, guys?
You're just sitting there like.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yep, they brought me on and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I don't know how long this is going to go before they
even acknowledge my, mypresence.
Welcome to whiskey bits withmatt and phil, where we sip on
everyday whiskeys and find thefunny in our everyday lives.
So this is, this is your friend, brooke?
Yeah, this is no, this is myfriend brooke.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh yeah, this is your friend, this is my friend
brooke.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Okay, tell us, how do you, how do you know?
From the gym I think I'm kindof like he just looked cool and
muscular more so than me,because when I go to the gym I'm
like I don't know what I'mdoing.
So I'm like that guy looks likehe knows what he's doing and
he's not one of those peoplethat's just doing random hip
thrusts against the wall.
So I'm gonna go talk to him andthat's.
That's how we met oh yeah, wework on the same gym.
(01:07):
Same gym, yeah, absolutely so.
Hip thrusts against the wall no, he doesn't do oh I'm sorry I
miss, I miss, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It might be, uh, might be a good idea.
Maybe I'll try that tomorrow,you should, I know you've seen,
you've seen the, the weirdpeople though, at the gym that
you do like the one guy that'sdoing like air karate.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You remember he wears ?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
yeah, no I, I'm like I don't know how you can forget
that guy.
Yeah, no, I'm not sure he'sstill there anymore.
I don't think he is, to bequite honest with you, but uh,
yeah, I mean gyms are just it'sgoing to attract all kinds of
you know, yeah, people whoactually enjoy being there
working out, and then peoplethat you know just got released
from a mental institution.
(01:46):
So it's kind of hard to tell.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Those are the two kinds of people that go yeah,
that's right.
Which one do you think I am?
We all know I'm going to saythat Mental institution.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Leaning towards that, but that's okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
You just got to make, you got to have some uh
entertainment while you're there, exactly exactly, you know,
otherwise it's uh monotony.
Well, yeah, yeah, um, butyou're our listener, you're I'm
it, man.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I mean, you know it's great though you've been
listening, though that's great.
You know, you guys uh put aconcept together.
It was awesome.
I sent it to some other buddies, oh, really started to listen a
little bit.
I don't know if they left anyreviews.
Extremely rude.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Bad ones.
They're like this sucks, but no, are they still your friends
Are?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
they still your friends as of a few months ago.
They are.
That's a good sign, but we'llsee, so you know we'll get it
out there.
Man, that's awesome dude, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Well, thank you.
I want to thank you forlistening and for subscribing
and for letting everybody knowthat what we're doing here and
uh, we're, we're having fun well, and he left a review too.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
He did, I did, yeah, yeah, it was like the first one,
I think all right, it was likegood.
Right after, like our one host,our wives were like hey, we
should jump out.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, my madison, she like did a ghost name, that's
right she created a differentaccount.
Your wife didn't even no, leavea review she doesn't care.
Madison doesn't listen or watch.
Madison created another accountso that it wouldn't come back
to her yeah, and she saidsomething about fried chicken.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I was like, what that's good, some good stuff
there, I mean.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I do like fried chicken who doesn't?
But you brought the whiskey toit.
I was going to say, speaking offried chicken, yeah, speaking
of fried chicken, kentucky friedKentucky Fried Chicken.
Kfc Kentucky is where whiskeycomes from.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, it's sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Okay, but today we're going to go a little bit
further south, oh okay, a littlebit further east.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I feel like I need an adult, and we're going to hit
Chattanooga, tennessee,chattanooga, chattanooga.
So thank you, brooke, forbringing this oh yeah, of course
, I'm really excited to try this.
I've heard a lot of stuff, alot of good stuff about the
chanel whitney uh whiskeycompany um, so this is their
(03:53):
kentucky.
I'm sorry, this is a goshtennessee.
We have a guest I'm serious, sonervous.
I know it's brooke dude likefreaking here, let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
So used to saying kentucky straight bourbon
whiskey on this podcast, butwe've got a tennessee straight
bourbon whiskey.
This is a cast strength 11'vegot a Tennessee straight bourbon
whiskey.
This is a cast strength 111proof.
This is their Tennessee highmalt, and so you said you've had
a sip of this before.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I've had a sip of that one and they have like
three or four others.
You know, shout out to our mybuddy, frank.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Frank.
He's going to be on to that.
Thanks, Frank.
Hey, we should have Frank on.
Let's get him.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
He's a tall dude.
It's not Frank Galassi, is it?
No, okay, I don't know how he'sgoing to fit through that door.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
He won't, and he won't be able to fit, do this.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, he's a former college basketball player.
Oh, that'll just be fun.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
He's a tall dude.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Fun to watch the here , no problem, yeah, he's a fun
guy um so, yeah, no, I, I wantedto bring that and, um, you know
, really appreciate y'all havingme and yeah man, I'm excited,
all right, well, let's get intothis thing.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So, all right, you know the drill time to nose.
I'm gonna move this a littlecloser to your face so that when
you're breathing heavy, I canhear it.
I'll turn it up and it'll putme to sleep at night.
Sounds good, I love it.
That was the creepiest thingI've ever heard you've just like
you're creating asmr for yeahyourself for myself, yeah, out
of brook like from yourbreathing, yeah, yeah, this is
totally that's my ploy, let'sget into this.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
All right, knows it so you know this one well they
list this as a high malt.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Okay, do you know what your dom nas, your dom
dominant nostril?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
uh, it's got to be my right.
You're right.
Yeah, I'm a righty.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You lean right, you lean to the right.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I love it A little bit Me too.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, tonight is the right.
There's a lot of.
It's not overly sweet for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
How many sniff tests do you guys do?
A lot we smell it a lot.
Okay, We's like.
What are we like?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
We're like the Biden of whiskey drinking right now.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Interesting Come here little whiskey girl.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Oh my gosh, it's the creepiest episode I've ever done
.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well, I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You bring out the creepiness in me.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I guess yeah, can you breathe a little deeper?
I'm nervous.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Into the microphone.
I'm nervous too.
I would appreciate that.
Yeah, okay, so it's Okay, wegot the Grainy.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It's a little grainy.
I just I get sweet though.
Yeah, it's good, I get a littlesweet notes there.
Yeah, some, wow, that iscomplex.
You're complex.
I'm sorry, I like to think so.
(06:30):
It's kind of a it's good.
Yeah, it's not bad that,especially that first hit yeah
how, what's?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
the proof 110.
This is their cast.
110 or 111 of his guys.
Do you want to do this?
No, I see 11.
One one I thought is thatthat's fine, it's 111.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Oh jeez, I didn't I didn't bring my glasses, so
don't even ask me.
Yeah, you can't read it.
No fine, is it really 111, 111?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
yeah, oh, okay, it doesn't.
It doesn't drink like a high,like a high proof it.
Well, the burn kind of goesaway a little bit.
Yeah, like faster.
Yeah, it goes pretty quick.
Yeah, yeah, I'm wondering, with, like the second, I purposely
didn't eat too much popcornbecause I was like, oh, is it
gonna mess with?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I purposely ate a lot of popcorn, hoping that I just
you know it was really good,because it's popcorn, I was
hungry yeah, fresh popcorn, Ilike it, I, I it's.
It's not overly sweet um yeah,it also doesn't really good,
it's it's definitely not bitterum, second was much bitter,
second one's much better.
Yeah, second one's much betteryeah.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Has a little bit of a burn, but not like you know,
when you have a, you'll have asip and it's almost like the
first one is like oh my gosh,I'm having acid reflux.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And I don't know what it is Like.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, and sometimes it's not even that it's a higher
proof.
It just like kills you, yeah.
But this one is like it kind ofis smooth and sweet and yeah,
it definitely has a um, yeah,there's, there is a smoothness
and a sweetness to it.
I I like I'm getting a ton ofjust different grains, though
like I'm not getting the sweetcaramely, um, sweet uh, they
(08:02):
make a bottled and bond one too,do they?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
yeah, I think that's that's the.
Uh, that's a really good one.
They didn't have it when I uhsnagged that one.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Okay yeah, so this is uh, I've seen it, I've never
had it though mash bill theydon't.
They don't give a percentagehere, but yellow corn malted rye
, caramel malted barley andhoney malted barley.
So a lot of barley lots ofcaramel.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I taste a little bit of caramel in there, yeah, which
is I tend to pull out sweeternotes.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Just, I don't know if my palate's just like we love
everything sweet, but like Itend to get the sweeter notes
typically yeah and um, I could,yeah, I could see the honey kind
of like on the back end alittle bit.
Yeah, I, I for sure, for sure,I'm getting a lot of corn husk.
No, we're gonna do every singletime.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, we're gonna do like a special episode for our
one year.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
When it comes out, we're gonna like all the times
I've said corn husk and we'rejust gonna play it one after the
other and all the times likeI've been like corn husk are you
a closet?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
uh, corn husker fan, I guess.
I guess, like I guess you're anebr guy.
I guess?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, I must be, because I'm always tasting the
Cornhusk.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I really love.
I married a Hoosier, that'strue.
She's from Indianapolis, that'ssomething yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
They like corn down there.
That's a thing they definitelydo.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
What did you say?
Indiana, more than corn.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Isn't that what their slogan was?
Yes, that was their slogan.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's like Crystal Lake a good place to live, Not
great.
Why not great?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
That's their slogan, though I don't know, man Crystal
.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Lake a good place to live.
So, Brooke, where did you growup?
Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Shut down, so you want to talk about corn.
Yeah, I mean, I was surroundedby corn pretty much for 18 years
of my life.
Do you know where the QuadCities is at?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, rock Island.
Yeah, I never know what thatmeans.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay, which cities are the Quad Cities for once in
my life?
So it's Rock Island, illinois.
Okay, moline, illinois.
I've heard of that.
Bettendorf, iowa.
I've heard of that.
Davenport, iowa, I've heard soyou take 88 West, you run right
into East Moline and there'syour house.
Yeah, you got to keep going.
Fill up with gas, fill up withgas.
(10:10):
Keep going, we're still going,still going.
That's too metropolitan we'regoing, rural we're going rural
country man Okay.
So take that all the way.
You're going to go past theJohn Deere plant until you get
to Route 67.
Yep, you all the way gonna gopast the john deere plant to get
to route 67?
Yep, yeah, head south andthere's this little town called
aledo, illinois that's where Igrew up it's about 3500, 4000
(10:30):
people, that's a farm communityyeah, um did you grow up on a
farm?
I did yeah, that's awesome.
Yeah, yeah, did you milk cows?
Uh, I did not milk cows, but mydad had, uh some milk cows, um,
before I was born.
That's amazing.
Um, and then, uh, once he soldthem, uh went into uh, black
angus beef oh, wow, that.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So yeah oh, no way.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So they were beef farmers, and yeah, not grain
farmers, but beef, yeah, I meanwe had, we had you know for, for
that area I mean, we had like avery small, like there's some
farms down there that are justyou know massive, you know For
cattle or for corn.
Cattle, hogs, like whatever.
I mean, it's just some of thosefarms are just massive.
(11:15):
That's awesome, ours is tinycompared to a lot of those.
How many acres do you have?
Less than 150.
Okay, yeah, it was really small.
So were you in Alito proper orwere you, uh, rural?
Yeah, I was.
I literally lived at the fourmile corner, is what they called
it.
Huh, okay, yeah, you know thisplace um.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I do you grow up there, phil?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
no I mean, he's like good, he was excellent proper
excellent questions, though whatis it?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, the reason I askedspecifically, is because my wife
grew up in Joy, illinois.
Get out of here.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
No, kidding, no, get out Stop it Nope, totally
serious, 100% serious.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, that's right next door, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So you know, aledo.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, of course I do.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I spend a lot of time in Aledo.
You guys probably met eachother.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I was married in Aledo.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Really, where'd you get married at?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
We got married at the church.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Hey, phil, the one church.
Let me tell you something, phil, there's like 18 churches in
Aledo, I know.
Take your pick, the one church,take your pick.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
So I actually don't know, because her family doesn't
this is unbelievable, this guy.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I had no clue.
All this stuff out right now,yeah Huh, how about?
Or he has done some majorresearch.
How did you?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
feel?
How would I know that?
How did you feel when theyfinally put the stoplight up at
corner of 17?
And it was a big deal.
It was a big deal, yeah, yeah,I think I might've been gone.
It might've happened when I wasin, okay, but uh, I do remember
going back and seeing astoplight and was just like wow.
(12:56):
It was like, yeah, there'sthree.
It was the second one.
We finally made it.
We made it as a town.
Well, the first one was over bythe walmart and mercer market.
Oh my gosh, that, that one wasthere, this guy's, I'm gonna
help you out.
How will you?
How do?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
you, your your name in mercer market.
Now what's?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
mercer market.
This is insane.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I'm there.
You want to talk about friedchicken?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
yeah first remark incredible fried chicken.
Let's go tonight after this,tell me what.
What do you think of?
Uh, vitalis, were you a big fanof?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
vitalis.
Okay, so shout out to my buddyvinnie vitali.
Uh-huh, who owns it?
One of my best friends sincekindergarten, joey's kid um yeah
joe vitali right joe, yeah,yeah, yeah, wonderful family you
guys are very, very good people.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Could you excuse us?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I had no idea that we were going to be talking Aledo
here.
How?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
about it.
I had no idea either.
And as soon as you said theQuad Cities, I was like okay,
that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I still know where the Quad Cities are.
Yeah, it's getting closer.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You keep going and take a left on 67 and I'm like
we're doing this.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
We're going there, we're doing this, and then you
landed there and then he's likea little town called Aledo
Illinois, home of a.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
There's a semi-famous country star that came from
Aledo Illinois.
It's true, yeah.
His name is Brooke.
Oh, sorry, it's not you.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
No, it's Susie Boggess, right, susie Boggess,
what bogus, bogus, bogus, bogus,suzy bogus yep from alito
illinois.
That's not a real person.
No, it is.
I don't know it is she's uh,yeah she's.
She's saying, yeah, beautifully, yeah her sign.
She got a big sign on the uh assoon as you come into alito
wait like susan boyle no, stop,oh, okay remember that lady.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
She's like oh she's, she actually sang pretty well,
yeah, so my, yeah, my wife'sfamily is all from all from
Mercer, so she went to WestmoreHigh School before it closed
down?
Yeah, they all came to Aledo,that's right.
Mercer County, that's right Nowthey're all.
Mercer County.
Screaming Eagles right, goldenEagles, golden Eagles.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Golden Eagles or screaming eagles, whatever
Doesn't matter.
It doesn't really matter, theykind of do both.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I mean the gold ones, I'm sure scream.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
They're flying up there.
They could.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, so my wife's family is from there.
There's a hunt club just southof town.
I mean, I guess it'stechnically in joy that my
father-in-law runs.
He runs a hunt club and youdidn't tell me that I love
hunting.
Dang it, Phil.
Does he still do it?
I mean, it's not, it's it'sprivately owned, and so he's
(15:21):
just there and helps out with.
But yeah, but yeah, they've got, they've got.
They've got a few acres.
You know, just South, let's see115th street.
Cool, enjoy, it's technicallySeton, it's a.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Seton yeah, yeah, absolutely those are.
Those are actual Lido kidsthere, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Great, great time growing up there.
I mean, it was just sounbelievably slow pace compared
to you know.
I mean what it, what I live now.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
But I mean, mean just incredible incredible people
back there I feel, though, likeI've, because I've driven
through I actually think I wouldlove that lifestyle.
To be honest, like, look at me,I like like I probably need it.
Um, it's like a natural shot inthe arm of like chill dude.
Yeah, um, I think my grandpalived out in like cuba city,
(16:11):
wisconsin, which was like in themiddle of nowhere, um, but I
get I get creeped out when Iwisconsin, which was like in the
middle of nowhere, um, but Iget I could get creeped out when
I drive out those ways, like inthe, in the nighttime but like
it's like an episode of childrenof the corner.
Well, just, like well, becausemy dad growing up, my dad's
always like, oh, we drivethrough barrington, oh, we saw
ufos in the sky, or we saw, youknow, or munger road.
You remember that movie thatcame out years ago, these guys
(16:34):
in St Charles, it was like arailroad track off of Munger
Road and it was like this scarymovie.
But, did you ever living out inthe cornfields?
Is that freaky?
Not cornfields, but the cowfields?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
No, not really.
I mean, you just get used to it.
It's not anything that's goingto.
You know, what are you going tobe scared of?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
UFOs.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Axe murders run around out there.
There's got to be UFOs running.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
The scariest thing is a deer that's going to pop out
of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Have you seen signs there could be a deer?
Have you seen signs there?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
could be a deer.
The other thing is a lot ofthese country roads.
They don't have traffic controldevices, so there's no stop
sign, it's just you.
You're hoping that you see aplume of of dust from the gravel
road from over the corn so thatyou don't t-bone another car or
you don't get to go in as yougo, no?
And then all the streets arenamed like a, b, no, they all
(17:28):
have numbers, but you have noidea what they are a1 I was like
it's a steak's a steak sauce?
No idea.
It's like my wife used to joke.
We would drive into Aledo andshe would say, take a left at
the bank.
And I was like okay great it'swhen I'm looking for a bank.
Right Turns out, the bank is oneblock over, but there used to
be another bank.
(17:48):
And so that's what she wouldjust say like.
And so that's what she wouldjust say like, just take a left
at the bank.
And I'm like that doesn't makeany sense, but those are the
directions that you give inthose parts, man, I mean, that's
it, you know, because, guesswhat?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Your GPS is probably not going to be working really
well, no, probably not.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I mean at least it didn't, you know, years ago.
It's a little bit better thanMapQuest.
Maybe they work now, but uh, Istill used I I think map quest
still exists.
Well, we did a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I love math.
Yeah, it was like that was likethe lifeblood to get anywhere
yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
We did a lot of uh, we did a lot of family part.
We'll get off of alito here, soyou can no, no, no, no, no, no
one more thing on uh rhubarbfest.
Yeah, tell me about rhubarbfest.
It's huge, yeah, it's huge.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
So I worked, for I remember if it was my freshman
year of college and I was backback home, but I worked for the
city of alito, okay, and so wehad to do like a lot of mowing
for the route.
There's a trolley that goesaround and, uh, like in the
field or whatever, yeah, it goeslike through.
You know, you gotta you know,you gotta make sure that the
grass looks good and it's, youknow, mowed, and you know it's a
(18:53):
mowed, and you know it's a bigdeal, man, it's a huge deal.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It's a big deal.
How many people, would you say,probably go to that?
A thousand, ten thousandthere's.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I'm not sure.
I mean there's hundreds,hundreds of people.
It's so popular that one of myfriends that grew up in Aledo he
was a few years older than me,just awesome athlete he moved to
Nashville and he liked RootbarFest so much that he drove his
mom and his daughter all the wayfrom Nashville up to the
(19:23):
Rootbar Fest this last go-around.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It's got to be what?
June, the first weekend of June.
Yeah, dude, I really kind ofwant to go to that.
Yeah, I really want to go tothat.
Yeah, it's a move kind of, it'sa really want to go to that.
That sounds a good time.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Sounds like phil has got uh vf connections over the
rest for the yeah, he's probablygot more connections than I do,
that's definitely yeah, hit himup I don't know, but well yeah,
my wife's family all stilllives there.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
We do so the train depot like we would do a ton of
parties at the train depot.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh, you're a partier, huh no, but that was always fun
, like birthday parties.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, like birthday, like big gatherings and stuff
like that, you don't have a lot,like there's not a lot of
conference centers.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Right, so you do the train depot, so you find the
train depot or the AmericanLegion Hall and all these other
spots?
Do they do?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
pie, of course.
Then that's I'm, then it'ssimilar.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It's all and it's so good everything and does that
make?
Other candles yeah and then youknow, and I want, if you go
back, I'll hook you up with my,my brother, brad.
Yeah, he has a good, you knowhe'll go down there's another
one like you out there.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
He's better, just he's better.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
He's like he's way more, he's way more fun.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Is he older or younger?
Older, he's four years older,so he's Brooke 1.0.
You're Brooke 2.0.
Yeah, he's, or are you Brad?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
2.0?
.
Who knows, he's more fun.
He'd be more fun to be around.
Yeah, you can hang out with him.
And then probably my sisterBeth is running around somewhere
there too.
You can hang out with her, brad, she was well protected.
Yeah, between you two.
Yeah, well, I mean, there's alot of us.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
How many siblings do you have?
Oh, there's nine, holy crap.
Yeah, that's a lot of Brooks,that's a lot of kids, yeah, yeah
, that's awesome.
Did your parents just not knowhow to stop?
I'm joking, you grew you grewup.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
That's amazing.
No, we're not catholic?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
no, no, they're farmers.
They've got to create thefarmhand.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, I know it's crazy close in age like no, no,
pretty wide discrepancy um.
So it's awesome it's prettyinteresting.
So I had uh, my mom and dad hadfour kids, four biological
children and then they adoptedfive children.
I was one of the ones that theyadopted.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Get out of here, yeah .
Speaker 2 (21:39):
So it's very, very wide range, amazing.
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Another freaking thing.
Yeah, wait, are you ready forthis Brooke?
Yeah, are you ready for what'sto happen?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Let me guess Phil nine brothers and sisters and,
uh, adoption, no other wayaround.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
phil has nine felonies um but no, tell them
about, tell them, tell themwe're not gonna get an only
child uh, but we've adoptedthree of our own yeah, yeah,
we've adopted.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
It's a beautiful thing.
Man, you have no idea whatyou're doing for those kids man
it is a beautiful thing.
Yeah, yeah, that's awesome umVery cool.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
There are only kids, and so it's been, it's been,
it's been a fun journey.
Yeah, for sure it's been a funjourney.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And what?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
are the?
What are the ages 14, 10 andnine?
Okay, yeah.
What's weird is now key onAfrican-American.
But Same dad, same mom too,also Different from my oldest,
(22:43):
our oldest son is.
Different parents, the twolittle ones, I would have said,
oh, those are your biologicalkids.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
It was so crazy.
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
It's wild.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
We adopted all of them out of foster care.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
They were all foster kids first that came into our
houses.
Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, not on purpose at all.
We adopted all of them out offoster care.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Okay, they were all foster kids first that came into
our houses through the fostersystem and then we adopted them
from there.
Cool yeah, so kind of a coolstory.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That's a great thing, man.
Yeah, that's very cool.
So then what's?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
your story, then, are any of the nine siblings
biological to you at all?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
No, no, no, no, we're all.
No, just uh, the fourbiological, um original and then
uh, five adopted.
None of us are related.
That's awesome, dude.
As far as blood is concerned,yeah Well.
I mean, but no, yeah, it's,it's crazy.
I mean, yeah, I mean different.
You know four biological,obviously they're, they're white
, and then five of us are black.
And you know, like it's a UNconvention, you know, always,
(23:43):
always entertaining as a kid,yeah dude?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
No, I mean, that's wow.
Now do you have like?
What age were you when you wereadopted?
Do you have contact with yourbirth?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
parents.
What about that?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
That's yeah so it was about six on your first podcast
.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I was about six months.
Okay, six.
On your first podcast.
I was about six months, um, andthen, um, yeah, you know we met
.
Uh, I got a chance to meet um,or no, I'm sorry.
I got a chance to have someconversation with my biological
mother, um, and uh, you know,currently having some
conversations with my biologicalbrother.
So, um, yeah, we're just kindof taking it, you know, little
(24:22):
by little and see where thingsgo, man.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
That's awesome, that's really cool.
That's crazy.
I didn't see, I didn't knowthat.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I didn't know that.
Well, you guys have moreconnections now than I do.
I'm going to see him at the gym.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
He's like what do we have to talk about?
Really should start going tothe gym.
Oh, just kidding.
No, he's this guy's, he you'rerunning.
I feel like when I see you, I'mlike you, have he got?
Like some people, when they run, they have like all the
contraptions like you have.
Do you have like a waterbackpack or something that you?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
use nothing, no, no, just a water bottle.
Well, yeah, I got water youhave water?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
yeah, like I got some electrolytes.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Electrolytes in there , yeah, man, but you're on that
treadmill.
You're cruising man I yeah,winter time's not, uh not
enjoyable.
We kind of got to hunker downand, uh, figure out a way to get
it done, and treadmill is aboutthe only only thing you can do
is it?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
are all your siblings like besides growing up in the
farm?
So did you guys all havecertain roles um during that
point, or were they kind of donewith that by the time you?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
were Not really.
I mean, my older brother, myolder two brothers were like the
main guys that really wanted tofarm and that's kind of how it
went.
You know, me personally Iwasn't really that into it.
I mean, I helped when I couldand did some chores and stuff
like that, but it wasn'tnecessarily my cup of tea.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
The black Angus are they male cows for that?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Well, most of them are female.
Okay so there is a chance youcould milk, but you have.
Yeah, well, you don't.
They're not male cows.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Angus is strictly for beef Broke, if I can interrupt
you like.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yes, your cold hands off of me, please do you know
I'm for beef.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
All that matt was looking to do is to find out if
you've milked anything have youever?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
no, I was trying to find out.
I was just gonna say it was oh,that's a male cow, there's not
gonna be any milking going onthere trying to probe this
situation don't say probe.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
We're talking about milking cows.
I'm going to say whatever Iwant.
Did you ever have to deliver ababy?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
cow.
I've seen it done multipletimes oh isn't that horrible.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yeah, no it's great, but they kind of stick their
hand all the way up in there.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Do they ask for permission first?
It's fine, okay, I once saw avideo of a cow no.
Don Don't share it.
Oh no, I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Oh yeah, I was just Of a cow being born, but it was
breech and it was not coming out.
So they hook up a chain andcome along with it.
Why don't we do that?
Like breech babies?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
That would be way easier.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
You'll break them, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
For sure.
Does your family still livedown there in Aledo?
They do, really don't, and Ishould.
Um, that's awful.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I just want to apologize.
Come on, you know they've been,I they've been, we just happen
to have them here.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Come on in no, they've been incredible to come,
you know, see us, because youknow I've got the little kids
and we're always doing somethingsports related on the weekend.
So it's been, it's been great,it's been, it's been great you
know, um growing up there andeverything so I wouldn't, I
wouldn't trade it for anythingevery now and again when you're,
when you're there, you're like,oh my god, I wish I lived in a
(27:25):
big city, or I wish I livedsomewhere else, but then you
start thinking about it and likethere's no other place where
you're going to get those kindof roots and you know literal
values and right right plantingwork ethic all of it's right
there.
Some of my best friends in theworld grew up in the same place
and I'm still tight with thoseguys.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That's awesome.
I feel like if you come from asmall town like that, though,
the tightness lasts a lot longerthan up here, because there's
way more people, there's waymore stuff to distract you.
Yeah, I don't know, yeah, howmany people were in your
graduating class?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Just his family 91, 90.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Oh my, just his family 91, 90 oh, somewhere in
there, wow, someone's gonnawatch us and be like bro, come
on, it was 89, it was 89,whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
No, I think they counted.
I think we had like kind of abig class that is a big I think
we had like 90, like 90 yeah amyhad six that's six that ended
up finishing but that waswestmer, that was before I had
like one million, so it was alittle smaller.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
No, I think she was like 13, but there were a couple
dropouts that just went andworked on the farm.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I mean half the class dropped out.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
It happens.
That's awesome, man Well thiswas fun.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I'm glad we got to have you on.
We got to know about you alittle bit and we're going to do
this for every single one ofour listeners.
Just kidding the one guy's likeI can't wait to come on your
show.
That's great is now we're done,oh because we only have one
done torturing.
Oh, you're right.
You're right, I forgot there'llbe others.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Give it up for the list.
There will be others.
There'll be others there'sgonna be.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
You're gonna find a pocket on when you go and do the
research You're going to find apocket of Western Illinois.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I'm wondering if we'll see that.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Now that I know, I'm going to look and see if we get
some listeners In WesternIllinois.
There'll be more than, like thethree Of my family that live
there Check this thing out.
Well, thanks for coming on,dude.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
I appreciate you guys having me on.
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, anytime.
Sorry about the chair.
I mean, you know what are yougonna do, man, it's tiny, you
know I'll remember that nexttime.
Let's be close yeah, you likebring like a big self, like a.
Well, jared remember, broughtthe huge camp chair.
He brought a camp chair it was.
He was so obnoxiously large.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yeah, I don't blame him, appreciate it.
All right, cheers it was.
Thanks guys.
And thank you again forbringing the whiskey.
Yes, of course.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
And go Cubs, I don't know, go Eagles Next time on
Whiskey Bits.
Got to work on some jokes again, but some of the jokes have
come from this show.
Well, that's why we're doingthe show, is that?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Oh, I thought we an excuse to.
Well, it's, it was.
Uh, remember it was a couple itwas.
It was a couple things wewanted to do.
We wanted to drink whiskeyright, that was me.
We wanted to talk about whiskeyI wanted.
I think that was your mainthing.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Originally I was like oh, you want to hang out.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
No, I wanted to hang out.
I wanted to, to you know,potentially get into um what
it's like to be a comedian.
I would love to get into thattoo.
Have we gotten?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
there yet?
No, I don't think we have.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I think the best part about it was that we were
hoping to replicate what we didwhen we first started doing this
when we first started writing.
Which was writing and drinkingwhiskey and laughing and all of
that would have been boring fora podcast, Except that's when we
(30:51):
made it.
Hey, thanks for sticking around.
That's it for this episode ofWhiskey Bits.
But if you enjoyed yourself,please like, share and subscribe
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Phil, we're not alone today.
We're not alone in the universetoday.
Phil, Some would say you'renever alone.
That's true.
I don't know who that person is, but we are not alone.
We are not alone, Hi Brooke.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What's up, guys?
You're just sitting there like.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yep, they brought me on and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I don't know how long this is going to go before they
even acknowledge my, mypresence.
Welcome to whiskey bits withmatt and phil, where we sip on
everyday whiskeys and find thefunny in our everyday lives.
So this is, this is your friend, brooke?
Yeah, this is no, this is myfriend brooke.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh yeah, this is your friend, this is my friend
brooke.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Okay, tell us, how do you, how do you know?
From the gym I think I'm kindof like he just looked cool and
muscular more so than me,because when I go to the gym I'm
like I don't know what I'mdoing.
So I'm like that guy looks likehe knows what he's doing and
he's not one of those peoplethat's just doing random hip
thrusts against the wall.
So I'm gonna go talk to him andthat's.
That's how we met oh yeah, wework on the same gym.
(01:07):
Same gym, yeah, absolutely so.
Hip thrusts against the wall no, he doesn't do oh I'm sorry I
miss, I miss, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It might be, uh, might be a good idea.
Maybe I'll try that tomorrow,you should, I know you've seen,
you've seen the, the weirdpeople though, at the gym that
you do like the one guy that'sdoing like air karate.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You remember he wears ?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
yeah, no I, I'm like I don't know how you can forget
that guy.
Yeah, no, I'm not sure he'sstill there anymore.
I don't think he is, to bequite honest with you, but uh,
yeah, I mean gyms are just it'sgoing to attract all kinds of
you know, yeah, people whoactually enjoy being there
working out, and then peoplethat you know just got released
from a mental institution.
(01:46):
So it's kind of hard to tell.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Those are the two kinds of people that go yeah,
that's right.
Which one do you think I am?
We all know I'm going to saythat Mental institution.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Leaning towards that, but that's okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
You just got to make, you got to have some uh
entertainment while you're there, exactly exactly, you know,
otherwise it's uh monotony.
Well, yeah, yeah, um, butyou're our listener, you're I'm
it, man.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I mean, you know it's great though you've been
listening, though that's great.
You know, you guys uh put aconcept together.
It was awesome.
I sent it to some other buddies, oh, really started to listen a
little bit.
I don't know if they left anyreviews.
Extremely rude.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Bad ones.
They're like this sucks, but no, are they still your friends
Are?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
they still your friends as of a few months ago.
They are.
That's a good sign, but we'llsee, so you know we'll get it
out there.
Man, that's awesome dude, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Well, thank you.
I want to thank you forlistening and for subscribing
and for letting everybody knowthat what we're doing here and
uh, we're, we're having fun well, and he left a review too.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
He did, I did, yeah, yeah, it was like the first one,
I think all right, it was likegood.
Right after, like our one host,our wives were like hey, we
should jump out.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, my madison, she like did a ghost name, that's
right she created a differentaccount.
Your wife didn't even no, leavea review she doesn't care.
Madison doesn't listen or watch.
Madison created another accountso that it wouldn't come back
to her yeah, and she saidsomething about fried chicken.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I was like, what that's good, some good stuff
there, I mean.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I do like fried chicken who doesn't?
But you brought the whiskey toit.
I was going to say, speaking offried chicken, yeah, speaking
of fried chicken, kentucky friedKentucky Fried Chicken.
Kfc Kentucky is where whiskeycomes from.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, it's sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Okay, but today we're going to go a little bit
further south, oh okay, a littlebit further east.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I feel like I need an adult, and we're going to hit
Chattanooga, tennessee,chattanooga, chattanooga.
So thank you, brooke, forbringing this oh yeah, of course
, I'm really excited to try this.
I've heard a lot of stuff, alot of good stuff about the
chanel whitney uh whiskeycompany um, so this is their
(03:53):
kentucky.
I'm sorry, this is a goshtennessee.
We have a guest I'm serious, sonervous.
I know it's brooke dude likefreaking here, let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
So used to saying kentucky straight bourbon
whiskey on this podcast, butwe've got a tennessee straight
bourbon whiskey.
This is a cast strength 11'vegot a Tennessee straight bourbon
whiskey.
This is a cast strength 111proof.
This is their Tennessee highmalt, and so you said you've had
a sip of this before.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I've had a sip of that one and they have like
three or four others.
You know, shout out to our mybuddy, frank.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Frank.
He's going to be on to that.
Thanks, Frank.
Hey, we should have Frank on.
Let's get him.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
He's a tall dude.
It's not Frank Galassi, is it?
No, okay, I don't know how he'sgoing to fit through that door.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
He won't, and he won't be able to fit, do this.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, he's a former college basketball player.
Oh, that'll just be fun.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
He's a tall dude.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Fun to watch the here , no problem, yeah, he's a fun
guy um so, yeah, no, I, I wantedto bring that and, um, you know
, really appreciate y'all havingme and yeah man, I'm excited,
all right, well, let's get intothis thing.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So, all right, you know the drill time to nose.
I'm gonna move this a littlecloser to your face so that when
you're breathing heavy, I canhear it.
I'll turn it up and it'll putme to sleep at night.
Sounds good, I love it.
That was the creepiest thingI've ever heard you've just like
you're creating asmr for yeahyourself for myself, yeah, out
of brook like from yourbreathing, yeah, yeah, this is
totally that's my ploy, let'sget into this.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
All right, knows it so you know this one well they
list this as a high malt.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Okay, do you know what your dom nas, your dom
dominant nostril?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
uh, it's got to be my right.
You're right.
Yeah, I'm a righty.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You lean right, you lean to the right.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I love it A little bit Me too.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, tonight is the right.
There's a lot of.
It's not overly sweet for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
How many sniff tests do you guys do?
A lot we smell it a lot.
Okay, We's like.
What are we like?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
We're like the Biden of whiskey drinking right now.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Interesting Come here little whiskey girl.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Oh my gosh, it's the creepiest episode I've ever done
.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well, I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You bring out the creepiness in me.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I guess yeah, can you breathe a little deeper?
I'm nervous.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Into the microphone.
I'm nervous too.
I would appreciate that.
Yeah, okay, so it's Okay, wegot the Grainy.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It's a little grainy.
I just I get sweet though.
Yeah, it's good, I get a littlesweet notes there.
Yeah, some, wow, that iscomplex.
You're complex.
I'm sorry, I like to think so.
(06:30):
It's kind of a it's good.
Yeah, it's not bad that,especially that first hit yeah
how, what's?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
the proof 110.
This is their cast.
110 or 111 of his guys.
Do you want to do this?
No, I see 11.
One one I thought is thatthat's fine, it's 111.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Oh jeez, I didn't I didn't bring my glasses, so
don't even ask me.
Yeah, you can't read it.
No fine, is it really 111, 111?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
yeah, oh, okay, it doesn't.
It doesn't drink like a high,like a high proof it.
Well, the burn kind of goesaway a little bit.
Yeah, like faster.
Yeah, it goes pretty quick.
Yeah, yeah, I'm wondering, with, like the second, I purposely
didn't eat too much popcornbecause I was like, oh, is it
gonna mess with?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I purposely ate a lot of popcorn, hoping that I just
you know it was really good,because it's popcorn, I was
hungry yeah, fresh popcorn, Ilike it, I, I it's.
It's not overly sweet um yeah,it also doesn't really good,
it's it's definitely not bitterum, second was much bitter,
second one's much better.
Yeah, second one's much betteryeah.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Has a little bit of a burn, but not like you know,
when you have a, you'll have asip and it's almost like the
first one is like oh my gosh,I'm having acid reflux.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And I don't know what it is Like.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, and sometimes it's not even that it's a higher
proof.
It just like kills you, yeah.
But this one is like it kind ofis smooth and sweet and yeah,
it definitely has a um, yeah,there's, there is a smoothness
and a sweetness to it.
I I like I'm getting a ton ofjust different grains, though
like I'm not getting the sweetcaramely, um, sweet uh, they
(08:02):
make a bottled and bond one too,do they?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
yeah, I think that's that's the.
Uh, that's a really good one.
They didn't have it when I uhsnagged that one.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Okay yeah, so this is uh, I've seen it, I've never
had it though mash bill theydon't.
They don't give a percentagehere, but yellow corn malted rye
, caramel malted barley andhoney malted barley.
So a lot of barley lots ofcaramel.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I taste a little bit of caramel in there, yeah, which
is I tend to pull out sweeternotes.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Just, I don't know if my palate's just like we love
everything sweet, but like Itend to get the sweeter notes
typically yeah and um, I could,yeah, I could see the honey kind
of like on the back end alittle bit.
Yeah, I, I for sure, for sure,I'm getting a lot of corn husk.
No, we're gonna do every singletime.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, we're gonna do like a special episode for our
one year.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
When it comes out, we're gonna like all the times
I've said corn husk and we'rejust gonna play it one after the
other and all the times likeI've been like corn husk are you
a closet?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
uh, corn husker fan, I guess.
I guess, like I guess you're anebr guy.
I guess?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, I must be, because I'm always tasting the
Cornhusk.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I really love.
I married a Hoosier, that'strue.
She's from Indianapolis, that'ssomething yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
They like corn down there.
That's a thing they definitelydo.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
What did you say?
Indiana, more than corn.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Isn't that what their slogan was?
Yes, that was their slogan.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's like Crystal Lake a good place to live, Not
great.
Why not great?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
That's their slogan, though I don't know, man Crystal
.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Lake a good place to live.
So, Brooke, where did you growup?
Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Shut down, so you want to talk about corn.
Yeah, I mean, I was surroundedby corn pretty much for 18 years
of my life.
Do you know where the QuadCities is at?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, rock Island.
Yeah, I never know what thatmeans.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay, which cities are the Quad Cities for once in
my life?
So it's Rock Island, illinois.
Okay, moline, illinois.
I've heard of that.
Bettendorf, iowa.
I've heard of that.
Davenport, iowa, I've heard soyou take 88 West, you run right
into East Moline and there'syour house.
Yeah, you got to keep going.
Fill up with gas, fill up withgas.
(10:10):
Keep going, we're still going,still going.
That's too metropolitan we'regoing, rural we're going rural
country man Okay.
So take that all the way.
You're going to go past theJohn Deere plant until you get
to Route 67.
Yep, you all the way gonna gopast the john deere plant to get
to route 67?
Yep, yeah, head south andthere's this little town called
aledo, illinois that's where Igrew up it's about 3500, 4000
(10:30):
people, that's a farm communityyeah, um did you grow up on a
farm?
I did yeah, that's awesome.
Yeah, yeah, did you milk cows?
Uh, I did not milk cows, but mydad had, uh some milk cows, um,
before I was born.
That's amazing.
Um, and then, uh, once he soldthem, uh went into uh, black
angus beef oh, wow, that.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So yeah oh, no way.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So they were beef farmers, and yeah, not grain
farmers, but beef, yeah, I meanwe had, we had you know for, for
that area I mean, we had like avery small, like there's some
farms down there that are justyou know massive, you know For
cattle or for corn.
Cattle, hogs, like whatever.
I mean, it's just some of thosefarms are just massive.
(11:15):
That's awesome, ours is tinycompared to a lot of those.
How many acres do you have?
Less than 150.
Okay, yeah, it was really small.
So were you in Alito proper orwere you, uh, rural?
Yeah, I was.
I literally lived at the fourmile corner, is what they called
it.
Huh, okay, yeah, you know thisplace um.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I do you grow up there, phil?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
no I mean, he's like good, he was excellent proper
excellent questions, though whatis it?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, the reason I askedspecifically, is because my wife
grew up in Joy, illinois.
Get out of here.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
No, kidding, no, get out Stop it Nope, totally
serious, 100% serious.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, that's right next door, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So you know, aledo.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, of course I do.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I spend a lot of time in Aledo.
You guys probably met eachother.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I was married in Aledo.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Really, where'd you get married at?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
We got married at the church.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Hey, phil, the one church.
Let me tell you something, phil, there's like 18 churches in
Aledo, I know.
Take your pick, the one church,take your pick.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
So I actually don't know, because her family doesn't
this is unbelievable, this guy.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I had no clue.
All this stuff out right now,yeah Huh, how about?
Or he has done some majorresearch.
How did you?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
feel?
How would I know that?
How did you feel when theyfinally put the stoplight up at
corner of 17?
And it was a big deal.
It was a big deal, yeah, yeah,I think I might've been gone.
It might've happened when I wasin, okay, but uh, I do remember
going back and seeing astoplight and was just like wow.
(12:56):
It was like, yeah, there'sthree.
It was the second one.
We finally made it.
We made it as a town.
Well, the first one was over bythe walmart and mercer market.
Oh my gosh, that, that one wasthere, this guy's, I'm gonna
help you out.
How will you?
How do?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
you, your your name in mercer market.
Now what's?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
mercer market.
This is insane.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I'm there.
You want to talk about friedchicken?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
yeah first remark incredible fried chicken.
Let's go tonight after this,tell me what.
What do you think of?
Uh, vitalis, were you a big fanof?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
vitalis.
Okay, so shout out to my buddyvinnie vitali.
Uh-huh, who owns it?
One of my best friends sincekindergarten, joey's kid um yeah
joe vitali right joe, yeah,yeah, yeah, wonderful family you
guys are very, very good people.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Could you excuse us?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I had no idea that we were going to be talking Aledo
here.
How?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
about it.
I had no idea either.
And as soon as you said theQuad Cities, I was like okay,
that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I still know where the Quad Cities are.
Yeah, it's getting closer.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You keep going and take a left on 67 and I'm like
we're doing this.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
We're going there, we're doing this, and then you
landed there and then he's likea little town called Aledo
Illinois, home of a.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
There's a semi-famous country star that came from
Aledo Illinois.
It's true, yeah.
His name is Brooke.
Oh, sorry, it's not you.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
No, it's Susie Boggess, right, susie Boggess,
what bogus, bogus, bogus, bogus,suzy bogus yep from alito
illinois.
That's not a real person.
No, it is.
I don't know it is she's uh,yeah she's.
She's saying, yeah, beautifully, yeah her sign.
She got a big sign on the uh assoon as you come into alito
wait like susan boyle no, stop,oh, okay remember that lady.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
She's like oh she's, she actually sang pretty well,
yeah, so my, yeah, my wife'sfamily is all from all from
Mercer, so she went to WestmoreHigh School before it closed
down?
Yeah, they all came to Aledo,that's right.
Mercer County, that's right Nowthey're all.
Mercer County.
Screaming Eagles right, goldenEagles, golden Eagles.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Golden Eagles or screaming eagles, whatever
Doesn't matter.
It doesn't really matter, theykind of do both.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I mean the gold ones, I'm sure scream.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
They're flying up there.
They could.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, so my wife's family is from there.
There's a hunt club just southof town.
I mean, I guess it'stechnically in joy that my
father-in-law runs.
He runs a hunt club and youdidn't tell me that I love
hunting.
Dang it, Phil.
Does he still do it?
I mean, it's not, it's it'sprivately owned, and so he's
(15:21):
just there and helps out with.
But yeah, but yeah, they've got, they've got.
They've got a few acres.
You know, just South, let's see115th street.
Cool, enjoy, it's technicallySeton, it's a.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Seton yeah, yeah, absolutely those are.
Those are actual Lido kidsthere, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Great, great time growing up there.
I mean, it was just sounbelievably slow pace compared
to you know.
I mean what it, what I live now.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
But I mean, mean just incredible incredible people
back there I feel, though, likeI've, because I've driven
through I actually think I wouldlove that lifestyle.
To be honest, like, look at me,I like like I probably need it.
Um, it's like a natural shot inthe arm of like chill dude.
Yeah, um, I think my grandpalived out in like cuba city,
(16:11):
wisconsin, which was like in themiddle of nowhere, um, but I
get I get creeped out when Iwisconsin, which was like in the
middle of nowhere, um, but Iget I could get creeped out when
I drive out those ways, like inthe, in the nighttime but like
it's like an episode of childrenof the corner.
Well, just, like well, becausemy dad growing up, my dad's
always like, oh, we drivethrough barrington, oh, we saw
ufos in the sky, or we saw, youknow, or munger road.
You remember that movie thatcame out years ago, these guys
(16:34):
in St Charles, it was like arailroad track off of Munger
Road and it was like this scarymovie.
But, did you ever living out inthe cornfields?
Is that freaky?
Not cornfields, but the cowfields?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
No, not really.
I mean, you just get used to it.
It's not anything that's goingto.
You know, what are you going tobe scared of?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
UFOs.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Axe murders run around out there.
There's got to be UFOs running.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
The scariest thing is a deer that's going to pop out
of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Have you seen signs there could be a deer?
Have you seen signs there?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
could be a deer.
The other thing is a lot ofthese country roads.
They don't have traffic controldevices, so there's no stop
sign, it's just you.
You're hoping that you see aplume of of dust from the gravel
road from over the corn so thatyou don't t-bone another car or
you don't get to go in as yougo, no?
And then all the streets arenamed like a, b, no, they all
(17:28):
have numbers, but you have noidea what they are a1 I was like
it's a steak's a steak sauce?
No idea.
It's like my wife used to joke.
We would drive into Aledo andshe would say, take a left at
the bank.
And I was like okay great it'swhen I'm looking for a bank.
Right Turns out, the bank is oneblock over, but there used to
be another bank.
(17:48):
And so that's what she wouldjust say like.
And so that's what she wouldjust say like, just take a left
at the bank.
And I'm like that doesn't makeany sense, but those are the
directions that you give inthose parts, man, I mean, that's
it, you know, because, guesswhat?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Your GPS is probably not going to be working really
well, no, probably not.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I mean at least it didn't, you know, years ago.
It's a little bit better thanMapQuest.
Maybe they work now, but uh, Istill used I I think map quest
still exists.
Well, we did a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I love math.
Yeah, it was like that was likethe lifeblood to get anywhere
yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
We did a lot of uh, we did a lot of family part.
We'll get off of alito here, soyou can no, no, no, no, no, no
one more thing on uh rhubarbfest.
Yeah, tell me about rhubarbfest.
It's huge, yeah, it's huge.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
So I worked, for I remember if it was my freshman
year of college and I was backback home, but I worked for the
city of alito, okay, and so wehad to do like a lot of mowing
for the route.
There's a trolley that goesaround and, uh, like in the
field or whatever, yeah, it goeslike through.
You know, you gotta you know,you gotta make sure that the
grass looks good and it's, youknow, mowed, and you know it's a
(18:53):
mowed, and you know it's a bigdeal, man, it's a huge deal.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It's a big deal.
How many people, would you say,probably go to that?
A thousand, ten thousandthere's.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I'm not sure.
I mean there's hundreds,hundreds of people.
It's so popular that one of myfriends that grew up in Aledo he
was a few years older than me,just awesome athlete he moved to
Nashville and he liked RootbarFest so much that he drove his
mom and his daughter all the wayfrom Nashville up to the
(19:23):
Rootbar Fest this last go-around.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It's got to be what?
June, the first weekend of June.
Yeah, dude, I really kind ofwant to go to that.
Yeah, I really want to go tothat.
Yeah, it's a move kind of, it'sa really want to go to that.
That sounds a good time.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Sounds like phil has got uh vf connections over the
rest for the yeah, he's probablygot more connections than I do,
that's definitely yeah, hit himup I don't know, but well yeah,
my wife's family all stilllives there.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
We do so the train depot like we would do a ton of
parties at the train depot.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh, you're a partier, huh no, but that was always fun
, like birthday parties.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, like birthday, like big gatherings and stuff
like that, you don't have a lot,like there's not a lot of
conference centers.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Right, so you do the train depot, so you find the
train depot or the AmericanLegion Hall and all these other
spots?
Do they do?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
pie, of course.
Then that's I'm, then it'ssimilar.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It's all and it's so good everything and does that
make?
Other candles yeah and then youknow, and I want, if you go
back, I'll hook you up with my,my brother, brad.
Yeah, he has a good, you knowhe'll go down there's another
one like you out there.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
He's better, just he's better.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
He's like he's way more, he's way more fun.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Is he older or younger?
Older, he's four years older,so he's Brooke 1.0.
You're Brooke 2.0.
Yeah, he's, or are you Brad?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
2.0?
.
Who knows, he's more fun.
He'd be more fun to be around.
Yeah, you can hang out with him.
And then probably my sisterBeth is running around somewhere
there too.
You can hang out with her, brad, she was well protected.
Yeah, between you two.
Yeah, well, I mean, there's alot of us.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
How many siblings do you have?
Oh, there's nine, holy crap.
Yeah, that's a lot of Brooks,that's a lot of kids, yeah, yeah
, that's awesome.
Did your parents just not knowhow to stop?
I'm joking, you grew you grewup.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
That's amazing.
No, we're not catholic?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
no, no, they're farmers.
They've got to create thefarmhand.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, I know it's crazy close in age like no, no,
pretty wide discrepancy um.
So it's awesome it's prettyinteresting.
So I had uh, my mom and dad hadfour kids, four biological
children and then they adoptedfive children.
I was one of the ones that theyadopted.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Get out of here, yeah .
Speaker 2 (21:39):
So it's very, very wide range, amazing.
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Another freaking thing.
Yeah, wait, are you ready forthis Brooke?
Yeah, are you ready for what'sto happen?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Let me guess Phil nine brothers and sisters and,
uh, adoption, no other wayaround.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
phil has nine felonies um but no, tell them
about, tell them, tell themwe're not gonna get an only
child uh, but we've adoptedthree of our own yeah, yeah,
we've adopted.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
It's a beautiful thing.
Man, you have no idea whatyou're doing for those kids man
it is a beautiful thing.
Yeah, yeah, that's awesome umVery cool.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
There are only kids, and so it's been, it's been,
it's been a fun journey.
Yeah, for sure it's been a funjourney.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And what?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
are the?
What are the ages 14, 10 andnine?
Okay, yeah.
What's weird is now key onAfrican-American.
But Same dad, same mom too,also Different from my oldest,
(22:43):
our oldest son is.
Different parents, the twolittle ones, I would have said,
oh, those are your biologicalkids.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
It was so crazy.
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
It's wild.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
We adopted all of them out of foster care.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
They were all foster kids first that came into our
houses.
Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, not on purpose at all.
We adopted all of them out offoster care.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Okay, they were all foster kids first that came into
our houses through the fostersystem and then we adopted them
from there.
Cool yeah, so kind of a coolstory.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That's a great thing, man.
Yeah, that's very cool.
So then what's?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
your story, then, are any of the nine siblings
biological to you at all?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
No, no, no, no, we're all.
No, just uh, the fourbiological, um original and then
uh, five adopted.
None of us are related.
That's awesome, dude.
As far as blood is concerned,yeah Well.
I mean, but no, yeah, it's,it's crazy.
I mean, yeah, I mean different.
You know four biological,obviously they're, they're white
, and then five of us are black.
And you know, like it's a UNconvention, you know, always,
(23:43):
always entertaining as a kid,yeah dude?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
No, I mean, that's wow.
Now do you have like?
What age were you when you wereadopted?
Do you have contact with yourbirth?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
parents.
What about that?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
That's yeah so it was about six on your first podcast
.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I was about six months.
Okay, six.
On your first podcast.
I was about six months, um, andthen, um, yeah, you know we met
.
Uh, I got a chance to meet um,or no, I'm sorry.
I got a chance to have someconversation with my biological
mother, um, and uh, you know,currently having some
conversations with my biologicalbrother.
So, um, yeah, we're just kindof taking it, you know, little
(24:22):
by little and see where thingsgo, man.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
That's awesome, that's really cool.
That's crazy.
I didn't see, I didn't knowthat.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I didn't know that.
Well, you guys have moreconnections now than I do.
I'm going to see him at the gym.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
He's like what do we have to talk about?
Really should start going tothe gym.
Oh, just kidding.
No, he's this guy's, he you'rerunning.
I feel like when I see you, I'mlike you, have he got?
Like some people, when they run, they have like all the
contraptions like you have.
Do you have like a waterbackpack or something that you?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
use nothing, no, no, just a water bottle.
Well, yeah, I got water youhave water?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
yeah, like I got some electrolytes.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Electrolytes in there , yeah, man, but you're on that
treadmill.
You're cruising man I yeah,winter time's not, uh not
enjoyable.
We kind of got to hunker downand, uh, figure out a way to get
it done, and treadmill is aboutthe only only thing you can do
is it?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
are all your siblings like besides growing up in the
farm?
So did you guys all havecertain roles um during that
point, or were they kind of donewith that by the time you?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
were Not really.
I mean, my older brother, myolder two brothers were like the
main guys that really wanted tofarm and that's kind of how it
went.
You know, me personally Iwasn't really that into it.
I mean, I helped when I couldand did some chores and stuff
like that, but it wasn'tnecessarily my cup of tea.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
The black Angus are they male cows for that?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Well, most of them are female.
Okay so there is a chance youcould milk, but you have.
Yeah, well, you don't.
They're not male cows.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Angus is strictly for beef Broke, if I can interrupt
you like.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yes, your cold hands off of me, please do you know
I'm for beef.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
All that matt was looking to do is to find out if
you've milked anything have youever?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
no, I was trying to find out.
I was just gonna say it was oh,that's a male cow, there's not
gonna be any milking going onthere trying to probe this
situation don't say probe.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
We're talking about milking cows.
I'm going to say whatever Iwant.
Did you ever have to deliver ababy?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
cow.
I've seen it done multipletimes oh isn't that horrible.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yeah, no it's great, but they kind of stick their
hand all the way up in there.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Do they ask for permission first?
It's fine, okay, I once saw avideo of a cow no.
Don Don't share it.
Oh no, I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Oh yeah, I was just Of a cow being born, but it was
breech and it was not coming out.
So they hook up a chain andcome along with it.
Why don't we do that?
Like breech babies?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
That would be way easier.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
You'll break them, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
For sure.
Does your family still livedown there in Aledo?
They do, really don't, and Ishould.
Um, that's awful.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I just want to apologize.
Come on, you know they've been,I they've been, we just happen
to have them here.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Come on in no, they've been incredible to come,
you know, see us, because youknow I've got the little kids
and we're always doing somethingsports related on the weekend.
So it's been, it's been great,it's been, it's been great you
know, um growing up there andeverything so I wouldn't, I
wouldn't trade it for anythingevery now and again when you're,
when you're there, you're like,oh my god, I wish I lived in a
(27:25):
big city, or I wish I livedsomewhere else, but then you
start thinking about it and likethere's no other place where
you're going to get those kindof roots and you know literal
values and right right plantingwork ethic all of it's right
there.
Some of my best friends in theworld grew up in the same place
and I'm still tight with thoseguys.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That's awesome.
I feel like if you come from asmall town like that, though,
the tightness lasts a lot longerthan up here, because there's
way more people, there's waymore stuff to distract you.
Yeah, I don't know, yeah, howmany people were in your
graduating class?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Just his family 91, 90.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Oh my, just his family 91, 90 oh, somewhere in
there, wow, someone's gonnawatch us and be like bro, come
on, it was 89, it was 89,whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
No, I think they counted.
I think we had like kind of abig class that is a big I think
we had like 90, like 90 yeah amyhad six that's six that ended
up finishing but that waswestmer, that was before I had
like one million, so it was alittle smaller.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
No, I think she was like 13, but there were a couple
dropouts that just went andworked on the farm.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I mean half the class dropped out.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
It happens.
That's awesome, man Well thiswas fun.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I'm glad we got to have you on.
We got to know about you alittle bit and we're going to do
this for every single one ofour listeners.
Just kidding the one guy's likeI can't wait to come on your
show.
That's great is now we're done,oh because we only have one
done torturing.
Oh, you're right.
You're right, I forgot there'llbe others.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Give it up for the list.
There will be others.
There'll be others there'sgonna be.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
You're gonna find a pocket on when you go and do the
research You're going to find apocket of Western Illinois.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I'm wondering if we'll see that.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Now that I know, I'm going to look and see if we get
some listeners In WesternIllinois.
There'll be more than, like thethree Of my family that live
there Check this thing out.
Well, thanks for coming on,dude.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
I appreciate you guys having me on.
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, anytime.
Sorry about the chair.
I mean, you know what are yougonna do, man, it's tiny, you
know I'll remember that nexttime.
Let's be close yeah, you likebring like a big self, like a.
Well, jared remember, broughtthe huge camp chair.
He brought a camp chair it was.
He was so obnoxiously large.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yeah, I don't blame him, appreciate it.
All right, cheers it was.
Thanks guys.
And thank you again forbringing the whiskey.
Yes, of course.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
And go Cubs, I don't know, go Eagles Next time on
Whiskey Bits.
Got to work on some jokes again, but some of the jokes have
come from this show.
Well, that's why we're doingthe show, is that?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Oh, I thought we an excuse to.
Well, it's, it was.
Uh, remember it was a couple itwas.
It was a couple things wewanted to do.
We wanted to drink whiskeyright, that was me.
We wanted to talk about whiskeyI wanted.
I think that was your mainthing.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Originally I was like oh, you want to hang out.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
No, I wanted to hang out.
I wanted to, to you know,potentially get into um what
it's like to be a comedian.
I would love to get into thattoo.
Have we gotten?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
there yet?
No, I don't think we have.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I think the best part about it was that we were
hoping to replicate what we didwhen we first started doing this
when we first started writing.
Which was writing and drinkingwhiskey and laughing and all of
that would have been boring fora podcast, Except that's when we
(30:51):
made it.
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