February 18, 2025 • 31 mins
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Ever wondered why a moose ended up as a mascot instead of a beaver or a blue-footed booby? Join us for a hilariously quirky episode where Matt and Phil dissect the aftermath of a feast involving tater tots, dino nuggets, and a bottle of Old Forester 1924. Amidst the culinary chaos, we stumble into a serendipitous whiskey store experience, celebrate work milestones, and welcome a new whiskey-loving friend from Virginia named Brandon. Our journey is peppered with lively banter as we introduce the James E Pepper barrel-proof whiskey and share laughs over the whimsical quirks of language, pondering the wonders of "osmosis" and the eternal debate of "cups" versus "glasses."
As we toast our upcoming one-year podcast anniversary, we reflect on a recent comedy escapade at the Moose Lodge, questioning the logic behind its animal emblem while reminiscing about our podcast’s comedic roots. Season two promises even more laughter as we embrace the spontaneity of inviting intriguing personalities, including repeat guest Madigan, and crafting new whiskey tales. From microphone battles to jokes refined through whiskey-fueled conversations, our show remains a celebration of camaraderie, humor, and the absurdity of everyday life.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Matt, matt, phil, sorry about what I did before we
rolled.
If there's a fog, if it lookscloudy in here, it's not because
it's cloudy.
You know what it is.
I had pizza yesterday.
Oh, I had it for lunch todaytoo.
Also, the tater tots, oh yeah,the tots will do it.
You brought me a whole bag oftater tots today.
(00:21):
And don't forget about the dinonuggets.
And dino nuggets, I mean, Idon't know if I should be
thankful for the gift or if Ishould see it as like an act of
war or like a trojan horse kindof thing.
It's neither.
Okay thanks, neither of thoselast things.
It's definitely a gift.
Okay, thanks, and apparentlyit's the gift that keeps on
giving.
You've totted me a gift.
(00:42):
Oh, so sorry, you totted, youtotted, you totted it, he totted
it.
Welcome to whiskey bits withmatt and phil, where we sip on
everyday whiskeys and find thefunny in our everyday lives.
Speaking of totting, what arewe drinking today?
Well, phil, I happen to findthis, which you knew all about
(01:04):
it.
Oh, I've, I've known about thisone, but I was at I finally,
because work's been going good.
Great, I finally got someclients.
Congratulations, thank you.
I'm very happy for you.
Well, me too.
I'm happy for you too.
Yeah, that you're happy for me.
You know, it's like a circle ofhappiness.
Oh, yeah, yeah, it's like um,it's like a circle of happiness.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's likeum, it's like saying like, uh,
(01:27):
you're my favorite person.
Yeah, me too, wait, you're,you're also your favorite person
.
You're your favorite personthis is.
But I was at great, I was atbenny's benny's and there was a
guy.
We were standing there.
I took you that picture of allthose.
Yeah, they actually had likesome crazy, had some really good
stuff there, and Did you wantany of those?
Yes, just the 1924?
, just the old Forrester 1924.
(01:48):
They were sitting there on theshelf for $129.
That's a lot, I know it's a lot, but it's not a lot when you
think about how much it goes forin the secondary market.
There won't be a next time,won't be a next time.
No, you don't think they wouldhave that there again, bummer,
totally, you know.
(02:09):
So they had one bottle.
Well, they had two.
Anyways, I was there and thisguy was talking and I was like,
oh, and he told him about theshow.
Um, he's from the virginia dcarea, okay, and I said, oh,
listen to the show.
He wrote it down.
But I said, oh, we and he hadone of these and there were two
in the store.
I got one and he got one.
Oh, this is his.
Oh, it's a customer, yeah,customer of the store that we
(02:29):
were chatting.
Yeah, okay, his suggestion.
I think his name is brandon,okay, yeah, cool, hi, brandon,
hopefully you're listening.
Yeah, shout out from virginia,from virginia, the dc area.
He might actually want to be onthe show sometime.
Okay, because he does like allthese tastings Great.
So we'll see.
Yeah, no, that's awesome.
(02:49):
You remember, a few months ago,we had an episode where you
talked about inviting a friendover to your house to spend the
night.
Yeah, it's like everybody'syour friend.
This is another example of that.
So what we have gone from isyou're inviting everybody over
to spend the night to hi, wejust met.
Would you like to be on ourshow?
Well, no, it's together.
(03:11):
And that doesn't mean like toall of our previous guests John,
jared, matt, brooke, brookethis is not a knock on any of
you.
We're happy to have guests.
It's a knock on John, for sure.
It's a little bit of a knock onJohn.
A little bit of a knock on John.
(03:32):
Our second guest.
John was our second guest.
Matt was our first guest.
A surprise guest to me,surprise to all of us.
Second episode hey, I brought aguest.
What we're doing?
Guests.
We didn't have anything, okay,and now we've gotten to the
point where every person thatyou meet in the whiskey store,
in any whiskey store, you'reinviting them to the show.
(03:52):
Not only that, but they'regoing to spend the night and
then be on the show and then beon the show.
Great, this is great.
I love it.
What do we got?
What did I buy?
What did you buy?
What did I buy?
First of all, I got to tell youI love the bottle.
I love the presentation.
It's a very nice bottle.
Look at that cork.
You zoomed in on it here.
Oh, definitely, I've zoomed infor sure.
(04:13):
Very cool little cork there.
I almost dropped it.
Is it actual cork?
I don't know.
Or is it like that rubber fake?
Yeah, I think it's rubbery, butit looks like a real.
I'm not really sure.
It doesn't matter, it doesn'treally sit in there all that
well, but it does make a decentnoise.
So this is the James E Pepperbarrel proof.
This comes from Kentucky.
Okay, this is from the OldPepper Distillery in I'm sorry,
(04:37):
it's the James E Pepper, not OldPepper.
Right Distillery in lexington,kentucky.
I've been there.
Are those different.
This is very, very fun.
No, no, old pepper and pepper.
Yeah, camsie pepper, becausewe've done old pepper.
That's the only pepper we'vedone is old pepper.
No, no, well, the old pepperrye.
Yes, yeah, yeah, but we did the1776.
Oh, that's, it was a jamesypepper rye.
(04:59):
Yeah, right, but remember, it'smgp, unless it's in the big
bottle or this bottle.
So they source their stuff fromMGP, unless it's their smaller
batch stuff.
So that's their stuff.
So this is their single barrel.
What's unique about this one is, I mean, typically a single
barrel is going to be well over100.
(05:19):
I'm sorry, when I said singlebarrel, I meant barrel proof.
Barrel proof is going to bewell up over 100 proof and we're
talking 115, 120, you knowsomething like that.
I mean, yeah, big, big numbersthere.
This one's only 106, so it's alittle lower for a barrel proof.
(05:40):
Wonder why that is?
It's just how they batched it,right, I mean.
I mean it does come directlyfrom they don't proof it down,
so they didn't add.
Oh interesting, they didn'tproof it down, they didn't add
water to it or anything, becauseit's barrel proof, but it's a
little bit lower than a typicalbarrel proof.
Okay, so I saw this a few yearsago, so this came out probably
a year and a half ago.
(06:00):
Two years ago now, almost, okay, almost two years.
Yeah, year and a half ago.
Year and a half ago is whenthis one came out.
Saw this one when I was inKentucky, decided against
picking it up at the time, but Iwas really disappointed that I
did that.
I passed on it.
I should have just grabbed it.
You were wanting to grab it.
What was it in the store?
Because I got this $59.99.
(06:21):
$59.99.
Yeah, so it fits.
60, 50, 60 and under.
Boom, yeah, you take it.
There were two there.
I was like awesome, so I thinkit fits within.
I think it could fit within ouryeah, not regularly available.
Not regularly available, no,okay, no, it took me a while
Once I saw it in the store thatI saw it in in Kentucky.
(06:42):
Okay, which was the blind pig?
Yeah, in Bardstown, kentucky,which is just, you don't.
That's a sad thing to see ablind pig, because you know it
is rolling in the mud, but itdoesn't know what the mud looks
like.
That's right.
Do you want to know why it'scalled blind pig for real?
No, oh yeah, no, I do.
(07:02):
Oh you, blind pig for real?
No, oh yeah, no, I do, oh, youdo, do I know?
In my mind I was like do I know?
No, I don't do I want to know.
Heck, yes, I think prohibitionthat's funny now.
It's funny right now, that nowit makes sense.
Wow, that's the blind pig also.
If all the police out there youshould be offended, yes, all
(07:22):
the police out there should beoffended.
Um, okay, all right, uh, yeah.
So after I saw it there, Ididn't see it again for quite
some time.
Oh, by the way, this has beenopening up for about maybe 30
minutes now, wow, so I poured ita little early, okay, I know, I
don't know if that was a goodthing to do, but it's always a
good thing.
The the longer you can have itsit open, for it's good, yeah,
(07:45):
it's good, very sweet.
Yep, very sweet, very sweet.
I mean, this is a, this is abourbon, so it's going to be.
It's going to be pretty sweet.
Okay, it'd be pretty sweet.
We don't have any informationon the mash bill on this one, so
we just know that it comes fromthe James E Pepper distillery
itself.
(08:05):
It's interesting.
It's like almost like a I don'tknow, and so much, necessarily
floral, but like a fruity like,maybe like the flower of a fruit
, okay, like what I wouldimagine, a cherry flower, which
is that even a thing, smellinglike I don't know?
Do cherries, are they flowers?
First, you're the botanist,that's true.
(08:27):
Okay, I like the color.
Yeah, color's good.
Is this a good?
Did I do a good pour up to thehip or whatever that is?
Yeah, up to the bulge, the hip,is it up to the bulge?
I like hip better than bulge isusually lower than the hip.
Look, if your bulge is higherthan the hip, we got a problem,
(08:47):
or you just have a really weird.
I'm drinking this now.
Okay, it's weird.
Anatomy Shut up, okay, okay.
See, this is why I wasdisappointed that I didn't buy
it when I first saw it, wasdisappointed that I didn't buy
it when I first saw it.
I knew it was going to be good,because so far I haven't had
(09:08):
anything that came from thejames e pepper distillery that I
haven't liked.
Might be rivaling right upthere rivaling the heaven hill
really, just as you've said theofferings that they have just
like yeah, oh, I haven't foundanything that I am disappointed
in.
Yeah, and this to me is I'mgetting a lot of that fruit, I'm
getting a lot of that sweet,but it's that they have Just
like yeah, oh, I haven't foundanything that I am disappointed
in.
Yeah, and this to me is I'mgetting a lot of that fruit, I'm
(09:28):
getting a lot of that sweet,but it's almost like I felt like
this change that for the firstpart of the sip was a type of
fruit and then the second partkind of melded into another type
and then it has a clean, kindof cooling feeling to it.
I was going to ask if crispgreen apples was a thing that
you can smell or taste in this.
Almost like a yes, yeah,because it's not overly powerful
(09:55):
with the sweetness of the fruit, but it does have that crisp,
cooling type of feel to it.
I think, yeah, like green applefor sure.
And then what's interesting isit's not like crazy amounts of
caramel, so like, for me itthere's a bit of a an essence of
a caramel apple.
(10:16):
In essence, there's an essence,right, essence, of caramel
apple.
Yes, and I think when you saidgreen apple, the first part that
I pulled from that was thecandied apple right part.
Yeah, yeah, whereas like those,those, those suckers that I
love the green apple caramel,apple caramel, apple pie.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I lovethose.
Yes, they're the best, but justless of the caramel.
(10:37):
It's almost as if you got moreof the green apple part of it.
Yeah, exactly, it's exactlywhat I was thinking.
Am I getting corn husk?
Of course you are, of course.
Well, it's a bourbon.
There's got to be corn in it,at least 51% corn, you're right.
So we know there's 51% corn atleast.
Yeah, yeah, this is really,really tasty.
(11:00):
It makes me wonder.
So I did do a tour of the JamesE Pepper.
I've talked about it on theshow.
Was it nice?
It was lovely.
It was lovely.
I loved it.
I loved that one podcast.
Um, I just did.
You're not supposed to be likeit's freaking awesome man.
No, it was quite lovely.
I got another tattoo on my faceor neck or something.
(11:21):
Okay, look at all this hair.
I have all over myself, allright, oh, no, the whiskey burns
off the hair.
Uh, obviously no, if it's hairon your chest, oh, that's where
it all went.
That's where it all went, dude.
It takes me like an hour toshave.
It's like what happened.
Did you?
Did a yeti explode in here?
Yeah, it did.
It's called matt shaved hischest.
Oh, sorry, go ahead.
Are you allowed to tell peopleyou shaved your chest and it was
(11:43):
?
No, I'm not.
That's lovely.
I enjoyed it because we wereable to to sample directly from
the barrel, um, and it was good.
And it makes me wonder.
Put the dongle in the dongle,yeah, well, you stick the dongle
in the bunghole, the daster inthe bunghole, with the big
(12:07):
syringe.
No, it's a straw, oh, you put astraw in a bunghole, yeah, you
put a straw in there and cap thetop of it.
Oh, you thumb the straw that'sin a bunghole.
Yeah, you put a straw in thereand, like, cap the top of it.
Oh, you pull it out, the strawthat's in the bunghole, exactly,
yeah, cap it, drink it, right,good, perfect, precisely,
perfectly, normal.
Um, in fact, if we make it downto kentucky, if we ever make it
to the bourbon journal, like,let's go, I would really like to
go there again, yeah, and seewhat happens.
(12:27):
But it makes me wonder becauseof the timing of things.
Oh, if, if we didn't taste someof this Really, yeah,
interesting, yeah, because theother stuff that I know comes
from there is their singlebarrel rise and that was not
what we tried.
So you think you may have tried.
I think we may have tried stuffout of these barrels.
(12:48):
Oh, interesting, how cool.
Yeah, that's a full circlestory for you and the whiskey it
could be.
Wow, it very well should be.
I'll just say it is.
It's a way cooler story.
I'm 100% sure that's from theexact bunghole dongle that you
drank from.
I don't think that that's true.
Darn it, I don't think thatthat's true.
(13:09):
That's really cool.
I can't think that that's true.
I can't verify that.
But you're saying there's achance, but there's a chance and
I'm okay, leaving it rightthere.
Okay, I'm going to take it tothe extreme.
It's definitely the same barrelthat you.
I totally agree.
Yep, you know what else I agreewith what?
Look Again.
(13:30):
I filled these cups with water.
These are our Whiskey Bits cups, thanks.
Look again, I filled these cupswith water.
These are our Whiskey Bits cups.
Thanks, amy.
They're not cups, they'reglasses.
These are glasses, these arerocks glasses.
And I just noticed there's abubble.
There's a little bubble on thebottom right.
I love that.
Look at that.
What if it were ice.
It'd be the world's smallest,warmest ice cube.
Very good, very good, that'svery good, very good, that's
(13:58):
great water.
It's reverse osmosis, is it?
Or some call ro, because thereverse osmosis I thought
osmosis with, was with an a, itwas a silent a, okay.
So they're like eh, osmosis,osmosis, okay, all right, hot
dog, uh, I, you know, I what?
I have no idea what I was gonnatalk about, but then I was like
oh man, like you know, we thisstarted, this podcast started.
(14:21):
We're coming up, we're comingup on our one year anniversary
here, and this podcast startedwith some comedy stuff.
Like yeah, you know, uh,working on jokes and all this
kind of stuff, and I gotta sayI've been doing a lot of comedy
shows.
You really have been lately.
A busy little beaver I have Ihave, speaking of beavers, went
to the Moose Lodge.
(14:41):
That was one of the shows.
Yeah, oh, that sounds great.
Actually, one of my jokes thatI improvised.
Do you want to know what it was?
Did I tell you this?
You didn't tell me.
And would I like to know?
Yes, you would, sure.
So it was like I was like I'llfeed up on you.
No, no, no, yes, I would loveto know.
Matt.
I was like.
I was like, oh, I got to dosomething Because moose like.
(15:03):
The first thing I thought of waslike why the heck moose, like
of all the animals in the animalkingdom, why do you call it a
moose like?
Why did you pick the moose?
Was it like some guy's name?
And I looked some stuff up butit was like there was I don't
know.
There was like a town namedmoose something or whatever, but
really in canada.
No, well, I don't know.
Moose jaw, no, and it wasn'tmoose jaw either, it was
(15:25):
something else.
And so I feel like that's aderogatory thing, it's not.
Oh, okay, it's well, there'sanother town in Canada.
Go ahead, Moose, somethingSomebody told me later.
I was like I'm too innocent, Ididn't know about that, I don't
know about this.
Should you share it?
Nope, anyways, so I'm going todo something just as horrible.
(15:46):
So I was like why Moose?
And so I looked it up and itsaid the guy who started in like
1896 or something like that, or1888, he really liked moose
can't say mooses but he reallyliked the moose.
It's meese, right, mooses,meese is something like that.
He liked the way that they wereprotective of their young and
they took care of their family,like, yeah, that's every
(16:08):
freaking animal in the animal, alot of animals.
I'm like, so that's not a goodexcuse.
Cows, don't do that.
If they don't anyways, keepgoing.
Well, I was well, maybe not,but I was like there's got it.
I think he chose moose becausethere's not.
There's like lion's club that'staken.
Oh true, you can't do that.
Um, turtle wax, so you can't doturtle club because it's
(16:28):
teenage, mutant, ninja, turtles,turtle wax, car wash wax,
anyways.
I'm like, so he just chosemoose.
But like I think he was avoidingsome.
And then I got, oh, then I gotgold, because I walk in and
there's a pamphlet and it was abooklet for women of the moose.
So I was like, oh, yeah, and Ialready had in mind what some
(16:50):
other animals that he could havenamed it after, that wouldn't
have been a good idea.
So, in mind, what some otheranimals that he could have named
it after, that wouldn't havebeen a good idea.
So I go up on stage and I'mlike, oh, you know, I'm
explaining all this.
And I'm like look, um, I thinkhe was just avoiding some other
animals that he knew he couldn'tget away with naming moose.
You're probably pretty much inthe clear there's no weird
things.
Except there is.
There's no weird things, uh anduh.
(17:11):
But I'm like you're not gonnacall it the beaver lodge.
You can't have a, can't have abooklet saying women of the
beaver.
Okay, like no, it was.
Who are the women of the beaver?
Like, we're not gonna answerthat question, sir.
Uh, the beaver lodge, or, uh,you know, you can't have the
blue-footed booby lodge.
You can't be like, come on,kids, we're going to the booby
lodge.
Like I don't think I'm oldenough, dad like.
(17:34):
And then this one lady chimes inand she was like.
She was like.
She was like trying likeagreeing with me on the history
stuff.
I was like you're probably theone that, uh, you would be the
one that runs the beaver lodge.
But she was like 90 years old.
She's like, yeah, I would.
I was like, oh, my gosh, oh, itwas so fun, that's great, that
great.
So you did a bunch of researchfor your improv.
(17:56):
Yeah, dude, I've been doing somany shows, that's great.
Was this the one that you?
Oh, I hear what you just did.
That was funny.
You did research for yourimprov.
See it just now, hit thesynapses in my brain and went,
yeah, that was funny, synapsesin my brain and went, yeah, that
(18:16):
was funny, good job, yeah, it's, it's okay, one of us, if one
of us is a comedian, one of us,we don't.
One of us, one of us is acomedian, yes, but it's been
good.
That's, that's great.
Yeah, no, no, that's reallygood.
Was this the?
Was this the show you told meabout, where you you did like,
well, over an hour, youabsolutely crushed it and there
were 25 people.
No, that was the last, thislast show.
Okay, so that.
(18:36):
So I've had the, the bookingagent, um guy like I was, you
know, applying to applying,applying, and then, like I think
it's, he get, he has a bunch ofcomedians that he works with
and they say he sends out datesand locations, who wants what?
Okay, you say, and he'sprobably getting, let's say, 50.
I don't know sure how manycomedians he he books for, but
(18:59):
he gets a bunch of people andthen he sends those people to
the client and the client picks,is my guess, okay.
So I was like, huh, what is itlike, am I not?
You know, I just wasn't gettinganything for for months.
Then, all of a sudden, likejanuary hits and it's literally
like every weekend, like Friday,saturday, friday, saturday,
saturday, friday, and then nextthis week, as we're recording
(19:20):
this this week, I have anothershow this Friday, and so I'm
like cool, yeah, awesome,momentum, um.
But then, like so, in the midstof that, um, there was one show
that I think maybe a comediandropped out and so I ended up
getting.
That was the one in Rochelle.
(19:40):
Rochelle, yeah, it was at asenior living center and it was
awesome.
Oh, that one, yeah, yeah, yeah,it was that one.
You sang Fly Me to the Moon.
I did, I made it a show BecauseI was like, well, first of all,
I'm a little bit of an old souland then, second of all, is
like, these guys are 70s, 80s,90s some of them.
Yeah, how coherent are they?
(20:01):
It wasn't a nursing home, itwas a senior living center, but
this is kind of the stage beforea nursing home, and so I was
like there, what are they usedto?
Like what kind of entertainment?
So I was like johnny carson, um, uh, what's the guy that did
the the improv on johnny carson?
Um, I don't remember his name.
Yeah, jonathan winters, oh,yeah, and then, and then, of
(20:22):
course, I love the music fromback then.
So I was like, I'm gonna do likea variety thing.
I'm gonna do like, uh, I'mgonna sing a song, like ben
crosby would do or frank sinatra, I'm gonna do improv like old
school, like Jonathan Winters,yeah, and then I'll do my set
and that'll be thinking I mightneed a little more to fill some
time too.
Sure, I didn't.
I did probably an hour and 15minute show and it was great,
(20:45):
it's awesome.
And I was like, ah, and then Igot like another hour show which
ended up being an hour andseven minutes.
So, anyways, I've got some newstuff.
I think I have some newdirections, some new jokes, yeah
.
But I was like, oh, I broughtback some old jokes that I used
(21:06):
to do and kind of refined them alittle bit, and that worked
really well.
But, yeah, dude, it's kind ofcool, it's awesome.
So I don't know, I feel like wegot to work on some jokes again
, but some of the jokes havecome from this show.
Well, that's why we're doingthe show, is that?
No, oh, I thought we justneeded an excuse to.
(21:27):
Well, remember, it was a couplethings we wanted to do.
We wanted to drink whiskey,right, that was the main thing
we wanted to talk about whiskey.
I wanted to talk about whiskey.
I think that was your mainthing originally.
No, you wanted to hang out.
No, I wanted to hang out.
I wanted to potentially getinto what it's like to be a
(21:48):
comedian.
I would love to get into thattoo.
Have we gotten there yet?
No, I don't think we have.
No, I think the best part aboutit was that we were hoping to
replicate what we did when wefirst started doing this.
We first started writing stuffwhich was writing and drinking
(22:09):
whiskey and laughing and all ofthat would have been boring for
a podcast.
Yeah, except that's when wemade it.
But then we did it, but then wechanged it a little bit.
We changed it, we've, we've,we've updated it a little bit
and, um, you know, we've, we'vehad some, some small tweaks and
(22:29):
changes, small tweaks, smalltweaks, and I love that we have
a.
I love that we have a format,that we're we're doing things
that are reproducible week afterweek, week after week.
I'm just going to keep repeatinghighlight words.
Yeah, poem session, I meanguests, guests, a couple guests
(22:55):
Like three.
Yeah, we've had so much time tobook guests.
We have booked one, two, three,four.
We have done.
Four guests, four guests, one aquarter.
It's a good goal.
No, it's not bad at all, it'sachievable, it's great.
And we had two episodes with thesame guest.
That's cheating, but that wasfun.
So that ended up being.
(23:16):
It was a really good one.
We got to have madigan back on.
Hey, just kidding, I'm joking,of course.
Yeah, we should have him backon.
Yeah, we should get everybody.
That's been oh, should we dolike a reunion, but they all
have to fit in the same spot.
What if we did like?
What if we?
What if we did like our typicalepisode, but like just five
(23:38):
minutes each and they just comein.
They, they just come in, theysit down and share and the rest
of them have to stand aroundthis small room watching it all
happen?
That would be hilarious.
What do you think?
We've got some other greatguests coming up in season two.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, this guy from VirginiaCan't wait for him to be on the
show.
Yes, we've got some whiskeymakers.
(24:00):
Yeah, can't wait for him to beon the show.
Yes, we've got some whiskeymakers.
Yeah, they'll answer my emails.
And we've got some travelingwe're going to do.
Yeah, we might have a scotchnight.
Oh, we kind of have to, whichI'm getting kind of afraid of
because I can't stand scotch,but I'm hoping to maybe have
something that is going to atleast show me.
(24:22):
Sorry, I just got mad at mymicrophone stand because it was
in the way of my glass.
Yeah, well, it's been, it'skind of been.
You've done a lot of stuff overthere today with the microphone
to make it.
It's been squeaking and doingother stuff, yeah.
So I'm excited.
I'm excited for season two andsome of the some of the fun, fun
(24:43):
stuff that we've got coming.
But do some moving around, yeah, oh yeah, you know, like, yeah,
the equipment, yeah, I'd be.
Like, also, we're in adifferent space.
Also, I think we should switchsides.
Oh, should we?
No, oh no, I don't think so.
Why did my voice crack when Isaid that?
Because you were really excitedabout sitting over here, right,
what's it like over there?
Well, I have a pretty good viewof the door and the window, in
(25:09):
case you need to escape, I justgot a view of it.
Oh good, I have a good view.
There's a lot of visual stuffhappening over there, but it's
very good.
But I just see the mess that myoffice is.
I honestly like this.
We've been doing this longenough and I've been on this
side long enough.
This is almost feels like likehome, like when I'm sleeping in
(25:31):
a bed, like I only end upsleeping on the left side of the
bed because so this will alwaysbe your podcast site.
So if you're on a differentpodcast, if you're a guest on a
podcast and they're asking me tosit on that side, I would be
like this is weird.
This is my rider, that I haveto be.
I don't know that I could drinkwith my right hand.
Oh, yeah, I have to drink withmy right hand.
Oh, are you even I didn't evenask how rude After all these
(26:05):
episodes.
Are you on the left to theviewer?
You're on the right, I'm on theleft, that's right, that's left
, I'm on the left.
Yeah, but that's your good side, is it?
Yeah, because my face is kindof crooked.
My nose is like this is thelittle.
You see it?
Do you see the difference?
See how I switch Listeners.
I'm moving my head left andright.
(26:28):
No, left and right, leftDirections are hard.
It's away and towards for them.
Oh, right, right, right.
So towards Away and away.
Yeah, and towards.
Away and away.
Yeah, and towards.
Anyway, yeah, there is a alittle bit of a gosh, a little
bit of an angle.
I've never noticed it untiljust now.
It does go a little bit to yourleft, yeah, leans a little,
(26:50):
which is, which is, which isstrange, because your dom nas is
your right now.
My dom nas is right, but it'sthe bigger one.
Well, it's, it's the bigger oneit's, or more open because it's
leaning this way, so it's likeit's stretching.
Yeah, it's interesting.
Bigger one, it's more openBecause it's leaning this way,
so it's like it's stretching.
Yeah, it's interesting.
So what is your?
Okay, in all honesty, tell methe truth, and you could say no
jokes in the last two minutes ofour show.
(27:11):
What's your favorite joke thatyou've helped me do, or that
we've done, or that just thatyou've seen?
Yeah, and then, what is the oneyou wished we could work on and
figure out?
Oh, great question, you onlygave me a minute and a half to
do this.
And to me, the my favorites?
(27:32):
The easy, uh, it's easy.
For me it's, um, it's the.
What do we call it?
The work, it's, it's the workjoke, uh, yeah.
Drug testing, drug testing,yeah, drug testing With the
peeing in the cup.
Yes, I see you're Jewish, I seeyou're Jewish, me too, I'm
Jewish too, not as Jewish as you.
(27:52):
Great, I mean, it's just it's sogood, it's and comedian to be
able to kind of walk that line,for a clean comedian to be able
to walk that line and and beable to feel like, yeah, there's
nothing dirty about what I said, but like you kind of, you kind
of push the boundary a littlebit, which is fun.
But like the laugh that thatone gets, oh, every time and
(28:15):
it's it's almost a slow laugh,like people will be like, but
like, usually there's two orthree people that really get it,
oh yeah, and there's a biglaugh there.
And like, usually there's twoor three people that really get
it, oh yeah, and there's a biglaugh there.
And then, like there's a cut,like it's almost like cascades
of laughter, like, okay, it'sokay to laugh at that and and
it's like, well, oh, I get itbecause, like, why is that?
Oh, that's funny because, andso I love the, I love the, the
(28:37):
setup, the back and forth andhow that builds and how you can
do some more stuff with it.
So I think that for me, easilythat's my favorite joke, the one
I wish we could work on andreally nail down as being a
funny joke.
It just doesn't necessarily fityour whole piece.
29 minutes, we got to stop.
(28:58):
I'm just kidding.
I'm kidding.
So no, the, that I like themost.
You don't have much time.
You just wasted coffee.
The, the coffee bean, the lifeof a coffee bean.
I really wish we could turnthat into something that was a
storytelling, like it has to be,a setup.
It's a really really greatfinisher if you can find a way
(29:22):
to deliver a punchline at theend of it.
That's the hard part is findingjust that punchline at the end
of it.
The difference between coffeedrinkers and tea drinkers, I
think, is there's more there.
There's more there, for sure,than the life of the bean itself
.
But the life of the bean is somuch.
We had so much fun just comingup with a story.
It just turned out to not be ajoke.
It so much fun just coming upwith a story.
(29:44):
It just turned out to not be ajoke.
It was really more of a funny,funny story, um, but that you
know.
Goals, yeah, goals, season twogoals, let's do it coming up in
a year.
Cheers, good find here.
This is really good, thank you.
Good opening, really enjoy it.
I mean, I opened it, but yeah,of course you did.
Cheers matt, cheers phil, nexttime on whiskey bits.
Well, it's been a year, matt.
(30:04):
Uh, what a year it's been.
It has been a year of time andit's the sands of time.
It's moments like those rollthrough.
Well, cheers to a year, cheersto a year, cheers to a year.
I thought what we can do,instead of recording a full
episode yeah, oh sweet, let'sjust go back through the last
(30:27):
year.
We'll play some clips, we'llshow these wonderful people some
of our favorite moments fromWhiskey Bits 2024.
What do you think?
I mean, I love the idea, butthat's just going to be a lot of
work for me.
I'm going to have to actuallydo it, though.
Well, unlike my favorite moment, oh, which are all the moments
(30:49):
where you said, hey, I'm goingto edit this in, and then you
don't?
There's only one I think Iactually did.
There's only the one with Johnthat you did.
Well, yeah, that's about it.
Okay.
Well, yeah, that's about it.
Okay.
Well, then should we stuff likethat?
Yeah, absolutely Stuff likethat and other stuff, but let's
start there, okay, hey, thanksfor tuning into Whiskey Bits.
Please like, share andsubscribe wherever you watch or
(31:14):
listen to podcasts.
Matt, matt, phil, sorry about what I did before we
rolled.
If there's a fog, if it lookscloudy in here, it's not because
it's cloudy.
You know what it is.
I had pizza yesterday.
Oh, I had it for lunch todaytoo.
Also, the tater tots, oh yeah,the tots will do it.
You brought me a whole bag oftater tots today.
(00:21):
And don't forget about the dinonuggets.
And dino nuggets, I mean, Idon't know if I should be
thankful for the gift or if Ishould see it as like an act of
war or like a trojan horse kindof thing.
It's neither.
Okay thanks, neither of thoselast things.
It's definitely a gift.
Okay, thanks, and apparentlyit's the gift that keeps on
giving.
You've totted me a gift.
(00:42):
Oh, so sorry, you totted, youtotted, you totted it, he totted
it.
Welcome to whiskey bits withmatt and phil, where we sip on
everyday whiskeys and find thefunny in our everyday lives.
Speaking of totting, what arewe drinking today?
Well, phil, I happen to findthis, which you knew all about
(01:04):
it.
Oh, I've, I've known about thisone, but I was at I finally,
because work's been going good.
Great, I finally got someclients.
Congratulations, thank you.
I'm very happy for you.
Well, me too.
I'm happy for you too.
Yeah, that you're happy for me.
You know, it's like a circle ofhappiness.
Oh, yeah, yeah, it's like um,it's like a circle of happiness.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's likeum, it's like saying like, uh,
(01:27):
you're my favorite person.
Yeah, me too, wait, you're,you're also your favorite person
.
You're your favorite personthis is.
But I was at great, I was atbenny's benny's and there was a
guy.
We were standing there.
I took you that picture of allthose.
Yeah, they actually had likesome crazy, had some really good
stuff there, and Did you wantany of those?
Yes, just the 1924?
, just the old Forrester 1924.
(01:48):
They were sitting there on theshelf for $129.
That's a lot, I know it's a lot, but it's not a lot when you
think about how much it goes forin the secondary market.
There won't be a next time,won't be a next time.
No, you don't think they wouldhave that there again, bummer,
totally, you know.
(02:09):
So they had one bottle.
Well, they had two.
Anyways, I was there and thisguy was talking and I was like,
oh, and he told him about theshow.
Um, he's from the virginia dcarea, okay, and I said, oh,
listen to the show.
He wrote it down.
But I said, oh, we and he hadone of these and there were two
in the store.
I got one and he got one.
Oh, this is his.
Oh, it's a customer, yeah,customer of the store that we
(02:29):
were chatting.
Yeah, okay, his suggestion.
I think his name is brandon,okay, yeah, cool, hi, brandon,
hopefully you're listening.
Yeah, shout out from virginia,from virginia, the dc area.
He might actually want to be onthe show sometime.
Okay, because he does like allthese tastings Great.
So we'll see.
Yeah, no, that's awesome.
(02:49):
You remember, a few months ago,we had an episode where you
talked about inviting a friendover to your house to spend the
night.
Yeah, it's like everybody'syour friend.
This is another example of that.
So what we have gone from isyou're inviting everybody over
to spend the night to hi, wejust met.
Would you like to be on ourshow?
Well, no, it's together.
(03:11):
And that doesn't mean like toall of our previous guests John,
jared, matt, brooke, brookethis is not a knock on any of
you.
We're happy to have guests.
It's a knock on John, for sure.
It's a little bit of a knock onJohn.
A little bit of a knock on John.
(03:32):
Our second guest.
John was our second guest.
Matt was our first guest.
A surprise guest to me,surprise to all of us.
Second episode hey, I brought aguest.
What we're doing?
Guests.
We didn't have anything, okay,and now we've gotten to the
point where every person thatyou meet in the whiskey store,
in any whiskey store, you'reinviting them to the show.
(03:52):
Not only that, but they'regoing to spend the night and
then be on the show and then beon the show.
Great, this is great.
I love it.
What do we got?
What did I buy?
What did you buy?
What did I buy?
First of all, I got to tell youI love the bottle.
I love the presentation.
It's a very nice bottle.
Look at that cork.
You zoomed in on it here.
Oh, definitely, I've zoomed infor sure.
(04:13):
Very cool little cork there.
I almost dropped it.
Is it actual cork?
I don't know.
Or is it like that rubber fake?
Yeah, I think it's rubbery, butit looks like a real.
I'm not really sure.
It doesn't matter, it doesn'treally sit in there all that
well, but it does make a decentnoise.
So this is the James E Pepperbarrel proof.
This comes from Kentucky.
Okay, this is from the OldPepper Distillery in I'm sorry,
(04:37):
it's the James E Pepper, not OldPepper.
Right Distillery in lexington,kentucky.
I've been there.
Are those different.
This is very, very fun.
No, no, old pepper and pepper.
Yeah, camsie pepper, becausewe've done old pepper.
That's the only pepper we'vedone is old pepper.
No, no, well, the old pepperrye.
Yes, yeah, yeah, but we did the1776.
Oh, that's, it was a jamesypepper rye.
(04:59):
Yeah, right, but remember, it'smgp, unless it's in the big
bottle or this bottle.
So they source their stuff fromMGP, unless it's their smaller
batch stuff.
So that's their stuff.
So this is their single barrel.
What's unique about this one is, I mean, typically a single
barrel is going to be well over100.
(05:19):
I'm sorry, when I said singlebarrel, I meant barrel proof.
Barrel proof is going to bewell up over 100 proof and we're
talking 115, 120, you knowsomething like that.
I mean, yeah, big, big numbersthere.
This one's only 106, so it's alittle lower for a barrel proof.
(05:40):
Wonder why that is?
It's just how they batched it,right, I mean.
I mean it does come directlyfrom they don't proof it down,
so they didn't add.
Oh interesting, they didn'tproof it down, they didn't add
water to it or anything, becauseit's barrel proof, but it's a
little bit lower than a typicalbarrel proof.
Okay, so I saw this a few yearsago, so this came out probably
a year and a half ago.
(06:00):
Two years ago now, almost, okay, almost two years.
Yeah, year and a half ago.
Year and a half ago is whenthis one came out.
Saw this one when I was inKentucky, decided against
picking it up at the time, but Iwas really disappointed that I
did that.
I passed on it.
I should have just grabbed it.
You were wanting to grab it.
What was it in the store?
Because I got this $59.99.
(06:21):
$59.99.
Yeah, so it fits.
60, 50, 60 and under.
Boom, yeah, you take it.
There were two there.
I was like awesome, so I thinkit fits within.
I think it could fit within ouryeah, not regularly available.
Not regularly available, no,okay, no, it took me a while
Once I saw it in the store thatI saw it in in Kentucky.
(06:42):
Okay, which was the blind pig?
Yeah, in Bardstown, kentucky,which is just, you don't.
That's a sad thing to see ablind pig, because you know it
is rolling in the mud, but itdoesn't know what the mud looks
like.
That's right.
Do you want to know why it'scalled blind pig for real?
No, oh yeah, no, I do.
(07:02):
Oh you, blind pig for real?
No, oh yeah, no, I do, oh, youdo, do I know?
In my mind I was like do I know?
No, I don't do I want to know.
Heck, yes, I think prohibitionthat's funny now.
It's funny right now, that nowit makes sense.
Wow, that's the blind pig also.
If all the police out there youshould be offended, yes, all
(07:22):
the police out there should beoffended.
Um, okay, all right, uh, yeah.
So after I saw it there, Ididn't see it again for quite
some time.
Oh, by the way, this has beenopening up for about maybe 30
minutes now, wow, so I poured ita little early, okay, I know, I
don't know if that was a goodthing to do, but it's always a
good thing.
The the longer you can have itsit open, for it's good, yeah,
(07:45):
it's good, very sweet.
Yep, very sweet, very sweet.
I mean, this is a, this is abourbon, so it's going to be.
It's going to be pretty sweet.
Okay, it'd be pretty sweet.
We don't have any informationon the mash bill on this one, so
we just know that it comes fromthe James E Pepper distillery
itself.
(08:05):
It's interesting.
It's like almost like a I don'tknow, and so much, necessarily
floral, but like a fruity like,maybe like the flower of a fruit
, okay, like what I wouldimagine, a cherry flower, which
is that even a thing, smellinglike I don't know?
Do cherries, are they flowers?
First, you're the botanist,that's true.
(08:27):
Okay, I like the color.
Yeah, color's good.
Is this a good?
Did I do a good pour up to thehip or whatever that is?
Yeah, up to the bulge, the hip,is it up to the bulge?
I like hip better than bulge isusually lower than the hip.
Look, if your bulge is higherthan the hip, we got a problem,
(08:47):
or you just have a really weird.
I'm drinking this now.
Okay, it's weird.
Anatomy Shut up, okay, okay.
See, this is why I wasdisappointed that I didn't buy
it when I first saw it, wasdisappointed that I didn't buy
it when I first saw it.
I knew it was going to be good,because so far I haven't had
(09:08):
anything that came from thejames e pepper distillery that I
haven't liked.
Might be rivaling right upthere rivaling the heaven hill
really, just as you've said theofferings that they have just
like yeah, oh, I haven't foundanything that I am disappointed
in.
Yeah, and this to me is I'mgetting a lot of that fruit, I'm
getting a lot of that sweet,but it's that they have Just
like yeah, oh, I haven't foundanything that I am disappointed
in.
Yeah, and this to me is I'mgetting a lot of that fruit, I'm
(09:28):
getting a lot of that sweet,but it's almost like I felt like
this change that for the firstpart of the sip was a type of
fruit and then the second partkind of melded into another type
and then it has a clean, kindof cooling feeling to it.
I was going to ask if crispgreen apples was a thing that
you can smell or taste in this.
Almost like a yes, yeah,because it's not overly powerful
(09:55):
with the sweetness of the fruit, but it does have that crisp,
cooling type of feel to it.
I think, yeah, like green applefor sure.
And then what's interesting isit's not like crazy amounts of
caramel, so like, for me itthere's a bit of a an essence of
a caramel apple.
(10:16):
In essence, there's an essence,right, essence, of caramel
apple.
Yes, and I think when you saidgreen apple, the first part that
I pulled from that was thecandied apple right part.
Yeah, yeah, whereas like those,those, those suckers that I
love the green apple caramel,apple caramel, apple pie.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I lovethose.
Yes, they're the best, but justless of the caramel.
(10:37):
It's almost as if you got moreof the green apple part of it.
Yeah, exactly, it's exactlywhat I was thinking.
Am I getting corn husk?
Of course you are, of course.
Well, it's a bourbon.
There's got to be corn in it,at least 51% corn, you're right.
So we know there's 51% corn atleast.
Yeah, yeah, this is really,really tasty.
(11:00):
It makes me wonder.
So I did do a tour of the JamesE Pepper.
I've talked about it on theshow.
Was it nice?
It was lovely.
It was lovely.
I loved it.
I loved that one podcast.
Um, I just did.
You're not supposed to be likeit's freaking awesome man.
No, it was quite lovely.
I got another tattoo on my faceor neck or something.
(11:21):
Okay, look at all this hair.
I have all over myself, allright, oh, no, the whiskey burns
off the hair.
Uh, obviously no, if it's hairon your chest, oh, that's where
it all went.
That's where it all went, dude.
It takes me like an hour toshave.
It's like what happened.
Did you?
Did a yeti explode in here?
Yeah, it did.
It's called matt shaved hischest.
Oh, sorry, go ahead.
Are you allowed to tell peopleyou shaved your chest and it was
(11:43):
?
No, I'm not.
That's lovely.
I enjoyed it because we wereable to to sample directly from
the barrel, um, and it was good.
And it makes me wonder.
Put the dongle in the dongle,yeah, well, you stick the dongle
in the bunghole, the daster inthe bunghole, with the big
(12:07):
syringe.
No, it's a straw, oh, you put astraw in a bunghole, yeah, you
put a straw in there and cap thetop of it.
Oh, you thumb the straw that'sin a bunghole.
Yeah, you put a straw in thereand, like, cap the top of it.
Oh, you pull it out, the strawthat's in the bunghole, exactly,
yeah, cap it, drink it, right,good, perfect, precisely,
perfectly, normal.
Um, in fact, if we make it downto kentucky, if we ever make it
to the bourbon journal, like,let's go, I would really like to
go there again, yeah, and seewhat happens.
(12:27):
But it makes me wonder becauseof the timing of things.
Oh, if, if we didn't taste someof this Really, yeah,
interesting, yeah, because theother stuff that I know comes
from there is their singlebarrel rise and that was not
what we tried.
So you think you may have tried.
I think we may have tried stuffout of these barrels.
(12:48):
Oh, interesting, how cool.
Yeah, that's a full circlestory for you and the whiskey it
could be.
Wow, it very well should be.
I'll just say it is.
It's a way cooler story.
I'm 100% sure that's from theexact bunghole dongle that you
drank from.
I don't think that that's true.
Darn it, I don't think thatthat's true.
(13:09):
That's really cool.
I can't think that that's true.
I can't verify that.
But you're saying there's achance, but there's a chance and
I'm okay, leaving it rightthere.
Okay, I'm going to take it tothe extreme.
It's definitely the same barrelthat you.
I totally agree.
Yep, you know what else I agreewith what?
Look Again.
(13:30):
I filled these cups with water.
These are our Whiskey Bits cups, thanks.
Look again, I filled these cupswith water.
These are our Whiskey Bits cups.
Thanks, amy.
They're not cups, they'reglasses.
These are glasses, these arerocks glasses.
And I just noticed there's abubble.
There's a little bubble on thebottom right.
I love that.
Look at that.
What if it were ice.
It'd be the world's smallest,warmest ice cube.
Very good, very good, that'svery good, very good, that's
(13:58):
great water.
It's reverse osmosis, is it?
Or some call ro, because thereverse osmosis I thought
osmosis with, was with an a, itwas a silent a, okay.
So they're like eh, osmosis,osmosis, okay, all right, hot
dog, uh, I, you know, I what?
I have no idea what I was gonnatalk about, but then I was like
oh man, like you know, we thisstarted, this podcast started.
(14:21):
We're coming up, we're comingup on our one year anniversary
here, and this podcast startedwith some comedy stuff.
Like yeah, you know, uh,working on jokes and all this
kind of stuff, and I gotta sayI've been doing a lot of comedy
shows.
You really have been lately.
A busy little beaver I have Ihave, speaking of beavers, went
to the Moose Lodge.
(14:41):
That was one of the shows.
Yeah, oh, that sounds great.
Actually, one of my jokes thatI improvised.
Do you want to know what it was?
Did I tell you this?
You didn't tell me.
And would I like to know?
Yes, you would, sure.
So it was like I was like I'llfeed up on you.
No, no, no, yes, I would loveto know.
Matt.
I was like.
I was like, oh, I got to dosomething Because moose like.
(15:03):
The first thing I thought of waslike why the heck moose, like
of all the animals in the animalkingdom, why do you call it a
moose like?
Why did you pick the moose?
Was it like some guy's name?
And I looked some stuff up butit was like there was I don't
know.
There was like a town namedmoose something or whatever, but
really in canada.
No, well, I don't know.
Moose jaw, no, and it wasn'tmoose jaw either, it was
(15:25):
something else.
And so I feel like that's aderogatory thing, it's not.
Oh, okay, it's well, there'sanother town in Canada.
Go ahead, Moose, somethingSomebody told me later.
I was like I'm too innocent, Ididn't know about that, I don't
know about this.
Should you share it?
Nope, anyways, so I'm going todo something just as horrible.
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So I was like why Moose?
And so I looked it up and itsaid the guy who started in like
1896 or something like that, or1888, he really liked moose
can't say mooses but he reallyliked the moose.
It's meese, right, mooses,meese is something like that.
He liked the way that they wereprotective of their young and
they took care of their family,like, yeah, that's every
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freaking animal in the animal, alot of animals.
I'm like, so that's not a goodexcuse.
Cows, don't do that.
If they don't anyways, keepgoing.
Well, I was well, maybe not,but I was like there's got it.
I think he chose moose becausethere's not.
There's like lion's club that'staken.
Oh true, you can't do that.
Um, turtle wax, so you can't doturtle club because it's
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teenage, mutant, ninja, turtles,turtle wax, car wash wax,
anyways.
I'm like, so he just chosemoose.
But like I think he was avoidingsome.
And then I got, oh, then I gotgold, because I walk in and
there's a pamphlet and it was abooklet for women of the moose.
So I was like, oh, yeah, and Ialready had in mind what some
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other animals that he could havenamed it after, that wouldn't
have been a good idea.
So, in mind, what some otheranimals that he could have named
it after, that wouldn't havebeen a good idea.
So I go up on stage and I'mlike, oh, you know, I'm
explaining all this.
And I'm like look, um, I thinkhe was just avoiding some other
animals that he knew he couldn'tget away with naming moose.
You're probably pretty much inthe clear there's no weird
things.
Except there is.
There's no weird things, uh anduh.
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But I'm like you're not gonnacall it the beaver lodge.
You can't have a, can't have abooklet saying women of the
beaver.
Okay, like no, it was.
Who are the women of the beaver?
Like, we're not gonna answerthat question, sir.
Uh, the beaver lodge, or, uh,you know, you can't have the
blue-footed booby lodge.
You can't be like, come on,kids, we're going to the booby
lodge.
Like I don't think I'm oldenough, dad like.
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And then this one lady chimes inand she was like.
She was like.
She was like trying likeagreeing with me on the history
stuff.
I was like you're probably theone that, uh, you would be the
one that runs the beaver lodge.
But she was like 90 years old.
She's like, yeah, I would.
I was like, oh, my gosh, oh, itwas so fun, that's great, that
great.
So you did a bunch of researchfor your improv.
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Yeah, dude, I've been doing somany shows, that's great.
Was this the one that you?
Oh, I hear what you just did.
That was funny.
You did research for yourimprov.
See it just now, hit thesynapses in my brain and went,
yeah, that was funny, synapsesin my brain and went, yeah, that
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was funny, good job, yeah, it's, it's okay, one of us, if one
of us is a comedian, one of us,we don't.
One of us, one of us is acomedian, yes, but it's been
good.
That's, that's great.
Yeah, no, no, that's reallygood.
Was this the?
Was this the show you told meabout, where you you did like,
well, over an hour, youabsolutely crushed it and there
were 25 people.
No, that was the last, thislast show.
Okay, so that.
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So I've had the, the bookingagent, um guy like I was, you
know, applying to applying,applying, and then, like I think
it's, he get, he has a bunch ofcomedians that he works with
and they say he sends out datesand locations, who wants what?
Okay, you say, and he'sprobably getting, let's say, 50.
I don't know sure how manycomedians he he books for, but
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he gets a bunch of people andthen he sends those people to
the client and the client picks,is my guess, okay.
So I was like, huh, what is itlike, am I not?
You know, I just wasn't gettinganything for for months.
Then, all of a sudden, likejanuary hits and it's literally
like every weekend, like Friday,saturday, friday, saturday,
saturday, friday, and then nextthis week, as we're recording
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this this week, I have anothershow this Friday, and so I'm
like cool, yeah, awesome,momentum, um.
But then, like so, in the midstof that, um, there was one show
that I think maybe a comediandropped out and so I ended up
getting.
That was the one in Rochelle.
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Rochelle, yeah, it was at asenior living center and it was
awesome.
Oh, that one, yeah, yeah, yeah,it was that one.
You sang Fly Me to the Moon.
I did, I made it a show BecauseI was like, well, first of all,
I'm a little bit of an old souland then, second of all, is
like, these guys are 70s, 80s,90s some of them.
Yeah, how coherent are they?
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It wasn't a nursing home, itwas a senior living center, but
this is kind of the stage beforea nursing home, and so I was
like there, what are they usedto?
Like what kind of entertainment?
So I was like johnny carson, um, uh, what's the guy that did
the the improv on johnny carson?
Um, I don't remember his name.
Yeah, jonathan winters, oh,yeah, and then, and then, of
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course, I love the music fromback then.
So I was like, I'm gonna do likea variety thing.
I'm gonna do like, uh, I'mgonna sing a song, like ben
crosby would do or frank sinatra, I'm gonna do improv like old
school, like Jonathan Winters,yeah, and then I'll do my set
and that'll be thinking I mightneed a little more to fill some
time too.
Sure, I didn't.
I did probably an hour and 15minute show and it was great,
(20:45):
it's awesome.
And I was like, ah, and then Igot like another hour show which
ended up being an hour andseven minutes.
So, anyways, I've got some newstuff.
I think I have some newdirections, some new jokes, yeah
.
But I was like, oh, I broughtback some old jokes that I used
(21:06):
to do and kind of refined them alittle bit, and that worked
really well.
But, yeah, dude, it's kind ofcool, it's awesome.
So I don't know, I feel like wegot to work on some jokes again
, but some of the jokes havecome from this show.
Well, that's why we're doingthe show, is that?
No, oh, I thought we justneeded an excuse to.
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Well, remember, it was a couplethings we wanted to do.
We wanted to drink whiskey,right, that was the main thing
we wanted to talk about whiskey.
I wanted to talk about whiskey.
I think that was your mainthing originally.
No, you wanted to hang out.
No, I wanted to hang out.
I wanted to potentially getinto what it's like to be a
(21:48):
comedian.
I would love to get into thattoo.
Have we gotten there yet?
No, I don't think we have.
No, I think the best part aboutit was that we were hoping to
replicate what we did when wefirst started doing this.
We first started writing stuffwhich was writing and drinking
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whiskey and laughing and all ofthat would have been boring for
a podcast.
Yeah, except that's when wemade it.
But then we did it, but then wechanged it a little bit.
We changed it, we've, we've,we've updated it a little bit
and, um, you know, we've, we'vehad some, some small tweaks and
(22:29):
changes, small tweaks, smalltweaks, and I love that we have
a.
I love that we have a format,that we're we're doing things
that are reproducible week afterweek, week after week.
I'm just going to keep repeatinghighlight words.
Yeah, poem session, I meanguests, guests, a couple guests
(22:55):
Like three.
Yeah, we've had so much time tobook guests.
We have booked one, two, three,four.
We have done.
Four guests, four guests, one aquarter.
It's a good goal.
No, it's not bad at all, it'sachievable, it's great.
And we had two episodes with thesame guest.
That's cheating, but that wasfun.
So that ended up being.
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It was a really good one.
We got to have madigan back on.
Hey, just kidding, I'm joking,of course.
Yeah, we should have him backon.
Yeah, we should get everybody.
That's been oh, should we dolike a reunion, but they all
have to fit in the same spot.
What if we did like?
What if we?
What if we did like our typicalepisode, but like just five
(23:38):
minutes each and they just comein.
They, they just come in, theysit down and share and the rest
of them have to stand aroundthis small room watching it all
happen?
That would be hilarious.
What do you think?
We've got some other greatguests coming up in season two.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, this guy from VirginiaCan't wait for him to be on the
show.
Yes, we've got some whiskeymakers.
(24:00):
Yeah, can't wait for him to beon the show.
Yes, we've got some whiskeymakers.
Yeah, they'll answer my emails.
And we've got some travelingwe're going to do.
Yeah, we might have a scotchnight.
Oh, we kind of have to, whichI'm getting kind of afraid of
because I can't stand scotch,but I'm hoping to maybe have
something that is going to atleast show me.
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Sorry, I just got mad at mymicrophone stand because it was
in the way of my glass.
Yeah, well, it's been, it'skind of been.
You've done a lot of stuff overthere today with the microphone
to make it.
It's been squeaking and doingother stuff, yeah.
So I'm excited.
I'm excited for season two andsome of the some of the fun, fun
(24:43):
stuff that we've got coming.
But do some moving around, yeah, oh yeah, you know, like, yeah,
the equipment, yeah, I'd be.
Like, also, we're in adifferent space.
Also, I think we should switchsides.
Oh, should we?
No, oh no, I don't think so.
Why did my voice crack when Isaid that?
Because you were really excitedabout sitting over here, right,
what's it like over there?
Well, I have a pretty good viewof the door and the window, in
(25:09):
case you need to escape, I justgot a view of it.
Oh good, I have a good view.
There's a lot of visual stuffhappening over there, but it's
very good.
But I just see the mess that myoffice is.
I honestly like this.
We've been doing this longenough and I've been on this
side long enough.
This is almost feels like likehome, like when I'm sleeping in
(25:31):
a bed, like I only end upsleeping on the left side of the
bed because so this will alwaysbe your podcast site.
So if you're on a differentpodcast, if you're a guest on a
podcast and they're asking me tosit on that side, I would be
like this is weird.
This is my rider, that I haveto be.
I don't know that I could drinkwith my right hand.
Oh, yeah, I have to drink withmy right hand.
Oh, are you even I didn't evenask how rude After all these
(26:05):
episodes.
Are you on the left to theviewer?
You're on the right, I'm on theleft, that's right, that's left
, I'm on the left.
Yeah, but that's your good side, is it?
Yeah, because my face is kindof crooked.
My nose is like this is thelittle.
You see it?
Do you see the difference?
See how I switch Listeners.
I'm moving my head left andright.
(26:28):
No, left and right, leftDirections are hard.
It's away and towards for them.
Oh, right, right, right.
So towards Away and away.
Yeah, and towards.
Away and away.
Yeah, and towards.
Anyway, yeah, there is a alittle bit of a gosh, a little
bit of an angle.
I've never noticed it untiljust now.
It does go a little bit to yourleft, yeah, leans a little,
(26:50):
which is, which is, which isstrange, because your dom nas is
your right now.
My dom nas is right, but it'sthe bigger one.
Well, it's, it's the bigger oneit's, or more open because it's
leaning this way, so it's likeit's stretching.
Yeah, it's interesting.
Bigger one, it's more openBecause it's leaning this way,
so it's like it's stretching.
Yeah, it's interesting.
So what is your?
Okay, in all honesty, tell methe truth, and you could say no
jokes in the last two minutes ofour show.
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What's your favorite joke thatyou've helped me do, or that
we've done, or that just thatyou've seen?
Yeah, and then, what is the oneyou wished we could work on and
figure out?
Oh, great question, you onlygave me a minute and a half to
do this.
And to me, the my favorites?
(27:32):
The easy, uh, it's easy.
For me it's, um, it's the.
What do we call it?
The work, it's, it's the workjoke, uh, yeah.
Drug testing, drug testing,yeah, drug testing With the
peeing in the cup.
Yes, I see you're Jewish, I seeyou're Jewish, me too, I'm
Jewish too, not as Jewish as you.
(27:52):
Great, I mean, it's just it's sogood, it's and comedian to be
able to kind of walk that line,for a clean comedian to be able
to walk that line and and beable to feel like, yeah, there's
nothing dirty about what I said, but like you kind of, you kind
of push the boundary a littlebit, which is fun.
But like the laugh that thatone gets, oh, every time and
(28:15):
it's it's almost a slow laugh,like people will be like, but
like, usually there's two orthree people that really get it,
oh yeah, and there's a biglaugh there.
And like, usually there's twoor three people that really get
it, oh yeah, and there's a biglaugh there.
And then, like there's a cut,like it's almost like cascades
of laughter, like, okay, it'sokay to laugh at that and and
it's like, well, oh, I get itbecause, like, why is that?
Oh, that's funny because, andso I love the, I love the, the
(28:37):
setup, the back and forth andhow that builds and how you can
do some more stuff with it.
So I think that for me, easilythat's my favorite joke, the one
I wish we could work on andreally nail down as being a
funny joke.
It just doesn't necessarily fityour whole piece.
29 minutes, we got to stop.
(28:58):
I'm just kidding.
I'm kidding.
So no, the, that I like themost.
You don't have much time.
You just wasted coffee.
The, the coffee bean, the lifeof a coffee bean.
I really wish we could turnthat into something that was a
storytelling, like it has to be,a setup.
It's a really really greatfinisher if you can find a way
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to deliver a punchline at theend of it.
That's the hard part is findingjust that punchline at the end
of it.
The difference between coffeedrinkers and tea drinkers, I
think, is there's more there.
There's more there, for sure,than the life of the bean itself
.
But the life of the bean is somuch.
We had so much fun just comingup with a story.
It just turned out to not be ajoke.
It so much fun just coming upwith a story.
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It just turned out to not be ajoke.
It was really more of a funny,funny story, um, but that you
know.
Goals, yeah, goals, season twogoals, let's do it coming up in
a year.
Cheers, good find here.
This is really good, thank you.
Good opening, really enjoy it.
I mean, I opened it, but yeah,of course you did.
Cheers matt, cheers phil, nexttime on whiskey bits.
Well, it's been a year, matt.
(30:04):
Uh, what a year it's been.
It has been a year of time andit's the sands of time.
It's moments like those rollthrough.
Well, cheers to a year, cheersto a year, cheers to a year.
I thought what we can do,instead of recording a full
episode yeah, oh sweet, let'sjust go back through the last
(30:27):
year.
We'll play some clips, we'llshow these wonderful people some
of our favorite moments fromWhiskey Bits 2024.
What do you think?
I mean, I love the idea, butthat's just going to be a lot of
work for me.
I'm going to have to actuallydo it, though.
Well, unlike my favorite moment, oh, which are all the moments
(30:49):
where you said, hey, I'm goingto edit this in, and then you
don't?
There's only one I think Iactually did.
There's only the one with Johnthat you did.
Well, yeah, that's about it.
Okay.
Well, yeah, that's about it.
Okay.
Well, then should we stuff likethat?
Yeah, absolutely Stuff likethat and other stuff, but let's
start there, okay, hey, thanksfor tuning into Whiskey Bits.
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